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Physical Review Letters – 25 December 2000
Volume 85, Issue 26

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Transmission of Information and Herd Behavior: An Application to Financial Markets
Víctor M. Eguíluz and Martín G. Zimmermann
pp. 5659-5662 [View PDF (303 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Beam Splitter for Guided Atoms
Donatella Cassettari, Björn Hessmo, Ron Folman, Thomas Maier, and Jörg Schmiedmayer
pp. 5483-5487 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Implications of SU(2) Symmetry on the Dynamics of Population Difference in the Two-Component Atomic Vapor
A. B. Kuklov and Joseph L. Birman
pp. 5488-5491 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Traveling Waves, Front Selection, and Exact Nontrivial Exponents in a Random Fragmentation Problem
P. L. Krapivsky and Satya N. Majumdar
pp. 5492-5495 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Grazing Collisions of Black Holes via the Excision of Singularities
Steve Brandt, Randall Correll, Roberto Gómez, Mijan Huq, Pablo Laguna, Luis Lehner, Pedro Marronetti, Richard A. Matzner, David Neilsen, Jorge Pullin, Erik Schnetter, Deirdre Shoemaker, and Jeffrey Winicour
pp. 5496-5499 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Solving the Initial Value Problem of Two Black Holes
Pedro Marronetti and Richard A. Matzner
pp. 5500-5503 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Is Equilibrium of Aligned Kerr Black Holes Possible?
Vladimir S. Manko, Eduardo Ruiz, and Olga V. Manko
pp. 5504-5506 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Entropy and Holography Constraints for Inhomogeneous Universes
Bin Wang, Elcio Abdalla, and Takeshi Osada
pp. 5507-5510 [View PDF (108 kB)]
Astronomical Constraints on the Cosmic Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant and Possible Quantum Dimensions
C. L. Carilli, K. M. Menten, J. T. Stocke, E. Perlman, R. Vermeulen, F. Briggs, A. G. de Bruyn, J. Conway, and C. P. Moore
pp. 5511-5514 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Tree Structure of a Percolating Universe
S. Colombi, D. Pogosyan, and T. Souradeep
pp. 5515-5518 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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New Source for Electroweak Baryogenesis in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
James M. Cline and Kimmo Kainulainen
pp. 5519-5522 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Noncommutative D-Brane in a Nonconstant NS-NS B Field Background
Pei-Ming Ho and Yu-Ting Yeh
pp. 5523-5526 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Kaluza-Klein Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
Tatsuo Kobayashi and Koichi Yoshioka
pp. 5527-5530 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Kaon Condensation in High-Density Quark Matter
Thomas Schäfer
pp. 5531-5534 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Non-Abelian Energy Loss at Finite Opacity
M. Gyulassy, P. Levai, and I. Vitev
pp. 5535-5538 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Measurement of π0π0 Production in the Nuclear Medium by π- Interactions at 0.408GeV/c
A. Starostin et al. (The Crystal Ball Collaboration)
pp. 5539-5542 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Cold Atom Beam Splitter Realized with Two Crossing Dipole Guides
Olivier Houde, Demascoth Kadio, and Laurence Pruvost
pp. 5543-5546 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Experimental Demonstration of Ground State Laser Cooling with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
C. F. Roos, D. Leibfried, A. Mundt, F. Schmidt-Kaler, J. Eschner, and R. Blatt
pp. 5547-5550 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Ponderomotive Optical Lattice for Rydberg Atoms
S. K. Dutta, J. R. Guest, D. Feldbaum, A. Walz-Flannigan, and G. Raithel
pp. 5551-5554 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Dynamics of Three-Body Breakup in Dissociative Recombination: H2O+
S. Datz, R. Thomas, S. Rosén, M. Larsson, A. M. Derkatch, F. Hellberg, and W. van der Zande
pp. 5555-5558 [View PDF (155 kB)]

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Unexpected X-Ray Emission due to Formation of Bound Doubly Excited States
R. Schuch, S. Madzunkov, E. Lindroth, and D. Fry
pp. 5559-5562 [View PDF (212 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Vanishing of Energy Transport Velocity and Diffusion Constant of Electromagnetic Waves in Disordered Magnetic Media
F. A. Pinheiro, A. S. Martinez, and L. C. Sampaio
pp. 5563-5566 [View PDF (487 kB)]
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Experimental Phase Synchronization of a Chaotic Convective Flow
D. Maza, A. Vallone, H. Mancini, and S. Boccaletti
pp. 5567-5570 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Chaotic Dynamics of Coupled Transverse-Longitudinal Plasma Oscillations in Magnetized Plasmas
D. Teychenné, E. Bésuelle, A. Oloumi, and R. R. E. Salomaa
pp. 5571-5574 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Stability of Muon Beams to Langmuir Waves during Ionization Cooling
V. M. Malkin and N. J. Fisch
pp. 5575-5578 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Electron Temperature Gradient Turbulence
W. Dorland, F. Jenko, M. Kotschenreuther, and B. N. Rogers
pp. 5579-5582 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of Hydrogen Bonding in Aqueous Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Solutions
Grant D. Smith, Dmitry Bedrov, and Oleg Borodin
pp. 5583-5586 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Evolution of the Lamellar Structure during Crystallization of a Semicrystalline-Amorphous Polymer Blend: Time-Resolved Hot-Stage SPM Study
Charlotte Basire and Dimitri A. Ivanov
pp. 5587-5590 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Anomalous Isotope Dependence of Tunnel Splitting of OH- and OD- Defects in KCl and NaCl Crystals
S. Ludwig, A. Brederek, C. Enss, C. P. An, and F. Luty
pp. 5591-5594 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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New Ortho-Para Conversion Mechanism in Dense Solid Hydrogen
Mikhail A. Strzhemechny and Russell J. Hemley
pp. 5595-5598 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Negative Excess Interfacial Entropy between Free and End-Grafted Chemically Identical Polymers
Günter Reiter and Rajesh Khanna
pp. 5599-5602 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Unique Dynamic Appearance of a Ge-Si Ad-dimer on Si(001)
Zhong-Yi Lu, Feng Liu, Cai-Zhuang Wang, X. R. Qin, B. S. Swartzentruber, M. G. Lagally, and Kai-Ming Ho
pp. 5603-5606 [View PDF (275 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Nonperturbative Saddle Point for the Effective Action of Disordered and Interacting Electrons in 2D
Claudio Chamon and Eduardo R. Mucciolo
pp. 5607-5610 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Efficient Total Energy Calculations from Self-Energy Models
Paula Sánchez-Friera and R. W. Godby
pp. 5611-5614 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Wigner-Dyson Statistics from the Keldysh σ-Model
Alexander Altland and Alex Kamenev
pp. 5615-5618 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Kondo Effect in an Aharonov-Bohm Ring
Kicheon Kang and Sung-Chul Shin
pp. 5619-5622 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Theory of Tunneling Spectroscopy in Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles
C. M. Canali and A. H. MacDonald
pp. 5623-5626 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Magnetic-Field-Induced Low-Energy Spin Excitations in YBa2Cu4O8 Measured by High Field Gd3+ Electron Spin Resonance
Titusz Fehér, András Jánossy, Gábor Oszlányi, Ferenc Simon, Bogdan Dabrowski, Piotr W. Klamut, Mladen Horvatić, and Grant V. M. Williams
pp. 5627-5630 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Schwinger-Keldysh Semionic Approach for Quantum Spin Systems
M. N. Kiselev and R. Oppermann
pp. 5631-5634 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Key Distribution in the Holevo Limit
Adán Cabello
pp. 5635-5638 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Atomic Quantum State Teleportation and Swapping
A. Kuzmich and E. S. Polzik
pp. 5639-5642 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Quantum Communication between Atomic Ensembles Using Coherent Light
Lu-Ming Duan, J. I. Cirac, P. Zoller, and E. S. Polzik
pp. 5643-5646 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Quantum Information Processing with Semiconductor Macroatoms
Eliana Biolatti, Rita C. Iotti, Paolo Zanardi, and Fausto Rossi
pp. 5647-5650 [View PDF (1,348 kB)]
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DNA Electrophoresis on a Flat Surface
N. Pernodet, V. Samuilov, K. Shin, J. Sokolov, M. H. Rafailovich, D. Gersappe, and B. Chu
pp. 5651-5654 [View PDF (575 kB)]
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Enhanced Diffusion in Active Intracellular Transport
Avi Caspi, Rony Granek, and Michael Elbaum
pp. 5655-5658 [View PDF (261 kB)]
Transmission of Information and Herd Behavior: An Application to Financial Markets
Víctor M. Eguíluz and Martín G. Zimmermann
pp. 5659-5662 [View PDF (303 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Determining the Cascade of Passive Scalar Variance in the Lower Stratosphere
Erik Lindborg and John Y. N. Cho
pp. 5663-5666 [View PDF (92 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Giant Absorption Cross Section of Ultracold Neutrons in Gadolinium”
J. Felber, R. Gähler, and R. Golub
pp. 5667 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Rauch et al. Reply:
H. Rauch, M. Zawisky, Ch. Stellmach, and P. Geltenbort
pp. 5668 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Comment on “Experimental Evidence for Fast Heterogeneous Collective Stuctural Relaxation in a Supercooled Liquid near the Glass Transition”
W. Schmidt, M. Ohl, and U. Buchenau
pp. 5669 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Russina et al. Reply:
M. Russina, F. Mezei, R. Lechner, S. Longeville, and B. Urban
pp. 5670 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Comment on “New Metallic Crystalline Carbon: Three Dimensionally Polymerized C60 Fullerite”
V. V. Brazhkin and A. G. Lyapin
pp. 5671 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Okada, Saito, and Oshiyama Reply:
Susumu Okada, Susumu Saito, and Atsushi Oshiyama
pp. 5672 [View PDF (31 kB)]
 
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