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Physical Review Letters – 21 August 2000
Volume 85, Issue 8

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.

Resonant Formation of dμt Molecules in Deuterium: An Atomic Beam Measurement of Muon Catalyzed dt Fusion
M. C. Fujiwara, A. Adamczak, J. M. Bailey, G. A. Beer, J. L. Beveridge, M. P. Faifman, T. M. Huber, P. Kammel, S. K. Kim, P. E. Knowles, A. R. Kunselman, M. Maier, V. E. Markushin, G. M. Marshall, C. J. Martoff, G. R. Mason, F. Mulhauser, A. Olin, C. Petitjean, T. A. Porcelli, J. Wozniak, and J. Zmeskal ((TRIUMF Muonic Hydrogen Collaboration))
pp. 1642-1645 [View PDF (155 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Observation of Thermally Fluctuating Phasons in Decagonal Al-Cu-Co
Keiichi Edagawa, Kunio Suzuki, and Shin Takeuchi
pp. 1674-1677 [View PDF (697 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Geometric Phases and Multiple Degeneracies in Harmonic Resonators
F. Pistolesi and Nicola Manini
pp. 1585-1589 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Renormalization of the Inverse Square Potential
Horacio E. Camblong, Luis N. Epele, Huner Fanchiotti, and Carlos A. García Canal
pp. 1590-1593 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Generation of Spin Squeezing via Continuous Quantum Nondemolition Measurement
A. Kuzmich, L. Mandel, and N. P. Bigelow
pp. 1594-1597 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Motional Dressed States in a Bose-Einstein Condensate: Superfluidity at Supersonic Speed
C. K. Law, C. M. Chan, P. T. Leung, and M.-C. Chu
pp. 1598-1601 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Particles Sliding on a Fluctuating Surface: Phase Separation and Power Laws
Dibyendu Das and Mustansir Barma
pp. 1602-1605 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Entropy Production, Fractals, and Relaxation to Equilibrium
T. Gilbert, J. R. Dorfman, and P. Gaspard
pp. 1606-1609 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Probable Values of the Cosmological Constant in a Holographic Theory
Petr Hořava and Djordje Minic
pp. 1610-1613 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at Infinite Momentum without P+ Zero Modes
Joel S. Rozowsky and Charles B. Thorn
pp. 1614-1617 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Reconciliation of the Measurement of Parity Nonconservation in Cs with the Standard Model
A. Derevianko
pp. 1618-1621 [View PDF (79 kB)]
Measurement and Cancellation of the Cold Collision Frequency Shift in an 87Rb Fountain Clock
Chad Fertig and Kurt Gibble
pp. 1622-1625 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Steering an Eigenstate to a Destination
A. Emmanouilidou, X.-G. Zhao, P. Ao, and Q. Niu
pp. 1626-1629 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Selection Rules and Isotope Effects in the Full Fragmentation of the Hydrogen Molecule
M. Walter and J. S. Briggs
pp. 1630-1633 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Electrons Ejected with Half the Projectile Velocity and the Saddle Point Mechanism in Ion-Atom Collisions
Emil Y. Sidky, Clara Illescas, and C. D. Lin
pp. 1634-1637 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Spin Anisotropy for Excitation in Collisions between Two One-Electron Atoms
J. B. Wang, J. P. Hansen, and A. Dubois
pp. 1638-1641 [View PDF (241 kB)]
Resonant Formation of dμt Molecules in Deuterium: An Atomic Beam Measurement of Muon Catalyzed dt Fusion
M. C. Fujiwara, A. Adamczak, J. M. Bailey, G. A. Beer, J. L. Beveridge, M. P. Faifman, T. M. Huber, P. Kammel, S. K. Kim, P. E. Knowles, A. R. Kunselman, M. Maier, V. E. Markushin, G. M. Marshall, C. J. Martoff, G. R. Mason, F. Mulhauser, A. Olin, C. Petitjean, T. A. Porcelli, J. Wozniak, and J. Zmeskal ((TRIUMF Muonic Hydrogen Collaboration))
pp. 1642-1645 [View PDF (155 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Thermoacoustic Separation of a He-Ar Mixture
P. S. Spoor and G. W. Swift
pp. 1646-1649 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Experimental Studies on Long-Wavelength Instability and Spiral Breakup in a Reaction-Diffusion System
Lu Qun Zhou and Qi Ouyang
pp. 1650-1653 [View PDF (542 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Energetic Heavy-Ion and Proton Generation from Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions with Solids
E. L. Clark, K. Krushelnick, M. Zepf, F. N. Beg, M. Tatarakis, A. Machacek, M. I. K. Santala, I. Watts, P. A. Norreys, and A. E. Dangor
pp. 1654-1657 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Enhanced Forward Scattering in the Case of Two Crossed Laser Beams Interacting with a Plasma
C. Labaune, H. A. Baldis, E. Schifano, B. S. Bauer, A. Maximov, I. Ourdev, W. Rozmus, and D. Pesme
pp. 1658-1661 [View PDF (623 kB)]
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Quasi-Single-Helicity Reversed-Field-Pinch Plasmas
D. F. Escande, P. Martin, S. Ortolani, A. Buffa, P. Franz, L. Marrelli, E. Martines, G. Spizzo, S. Cappello, A. Murari, R. Pasqualotto, and P. Zanca
pp. 1662-1665 [View PDF (165 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Spectroscopic Evidence for the Tricapped Trigonal Prism Structure of Semiconductor Clusters
Jürgen Müller, Bei Liu, Alexandre A. Shvartsburg, Serdar Ogut, James R. Chelikowsky, K. W. Michael Siu, Kai-Ming Ho, and Gerd Gantefor
pp. 1666-1669 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Critical Behavior of Layer Compression Modulus near the Smectic- A–Smectic- Cα* Transition
Seiji Shibahara, Jun Yamamoto, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe, and Hajime Tanaka
pp. 1670-1673 [View PDF (122 kB)]
High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Observation of Thermally Fluctuating Phasons in Decagonal Al-Cu-Co
Keiichi Edagawa, Kunio Suzuki, and Shin Takeuchi
pp. 1674-1677 [View PDF (697 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Scaling of Crack Surfaces and Implications for Fracture Mechanics
Stéphane Morel, Jean Schmittbuhl, Elisabeth Bouchaud, and Gérard Valentin
pp. 1678-1681 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Does Hard Core Interaction Change Absorbing-Type Critical Phenomena?
Sungchul Kwon, Jysoo Lee, and Hyunggyu Park
pp. 1682-1685 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Interface and Contact Line Motion in a Two Phase Fluid under Shear Flow
Hsuan-Yi Chen, David Jasnow, and Jorge Viñals
pp. 1686-1689 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Elastic Modulus of Polypyrrole Nanotubes
Stéphane Cuenot, Sophie Demoustier-Champagne, and Bernard Nysten
pp. 1690-1693 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Nanometer-Scale Resolution of Strain and Interdiffusion in Self-Assembled InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots
I. Kegel, T. H. Metzger, A. Lorke, J. Peisl, J. Stangl, G. Bauer, J. M. García, and P. M. Petroff
pp. 1694-1697 [View PDF (605 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Charge Ordering in the TMTTF Family of Molecular Conductors
D. S. Chow, F. Zamborszky, B. Alavi, D. J. Tantillo, A. Baur, C. A. Merlic, and S. E. Brown
pp. 1698-1701 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Electron Correlation in C4N+2 Carbon Rings: Aromatic versus Dimerized Structures
Tommaso Torelli and Lubos Mitas
pp. 1702-1705 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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First-Principles Study of Li-Intercalated Carbon Nanotube Ropes
Jijun Zhao, Alper Buldum, Jie Han, and Jian Ping Lu
pp. 1706-1709 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Electronic Properties of Oxidized Carbon Nanotubes
Seung-Hoon Jhi, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen
pp. 1710-1713 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Orbitally Degenerate Spin-1 Model for Insulating V2O3
F. Mila, R. Shiina, F.-C. Zhang, A. Joshi, M. Ma, V. Anisimov, and T. M. Rice
pp. 1714-1717 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Hot-Electron Effects in Two-Dimensional Hopping with a Large Localization Length
M. E. Gershenson, Yu. B. Khavin, D. Reuter, P. Schafmeister, and A. D. Wieck
pp. 1718-1721 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Anomalous Magnetic Splitting of the Kondo Resonance
Joel E. Moore and Xiao-Gang Wen
pp. 1722-1725 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Collective and Independent-Particle Motion in Two-Electron Artificial Atoms
Constantine Yannouleas and Uzi Landman
pp. 1726-1729 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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2D-1D Coupling in Cleaved Edge Overgrowth
R. de Picciotto, H. L. Stormer, A. Yacoby, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West
pp. 1730-1733 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Spin-Density and Charge-Density Excitations in the Paramagnetic Phase of Semiconductor Double Quantum Well Systems
P. G. Bolcatto and C. R. Proetto
pp. 1734-1737 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Local Magnetic Order vs Superconductivity in a Layered Cuprate
N. Ichikawa, S. Uchida, J. M. Tranquada, T. Niemöller, P. M. Gehring, S.-H. Lee, and J. R. Schneider
pp. 1738-1741 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Charge Order in NaV2O5 Studied by EPR
M. Lohmann, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, M. V. Eremin, A. Loidl, G. Obermeier, and S. Horn
pp. 1742-1745 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Visualizing Spin-Dependent Electronic Collisions In Ferromagnets
S. N. Samarin, J. Berakdar, O. Artamonov, and J. Kirschner
pp. 1746-1749 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Self-Consistent Density Functional Calculation of Field Emission Currents from Metals
Y. Gohda, Y. Nakamura, K. Watanabe, and S. Watanabe
pp. 1750-1753 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Cloning of Continuous Quantum Variables
N. J. Cerf, A. Ipe, and X. Rottenberg
pp. 1754-1757 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation on Decoherence-Free Subspaces
D. Bacon, J. Kempe, D. A. Lidar, and K. B. Whaley
pp. 1758-1761 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Quantum Computing Using Dissipation to Remain in a Decoherence-Free Subspace
Almut Beige, Daniel Braun, Ben Tregenna, and Peter L. Knight
pp. 1762-1765 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal Structure of Traffic Flow in a System with an Open Boundary
Namiko Mitarai and Hiizu Nakanishi
pp. 1766-1769 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Entropically Driven Colloidal Crystallization on Patterned Surfaces
Keng-hui Lin, John C. Crocker, Vikram Prasad, Andrew Schofield, D. A. Weitz, T. C. Lubensky, and A. G. Yodh
pp. 1770-1773 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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One- and Two-Particle Microrheology
Alex J. Levine and T. C. Lubensky
pp. 1774-1777 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Actively Contracting Bundles of Polar Filaments
K. Kruse and F. Jülicher
pp. 1778-1781 [View PDF (109 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Atomic-Scale Mechanisms of Oxygen Precipitation and Thin-Film Oxidation of SiC [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1624 (1999)]
Massimiliano Di Ventra and Sokrates T. Pantelides
pp. 1782 [View PDF (18 kB)]
 
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