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Physical Review Letters – 28 August 2000
Volume 85, Issue 9

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.

Observation of Nuclear Excitation by Electron Transition in 197Au with Synchrotron X Rays and an Avalanche Photodiode
S. Kishimoto, Y. Yoda, M. Seto, Y. Kobayashi, S. Kitao, R. Haruki, T. Kawauchi, K. Fukutani, and T. Okano
pp. 1831-1834 [View PDF (105 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Feasible “Kochen-Specker” Experiment with Single Particles
Christoph Simon, Marek Żukowski, Harald Weinfurter, and Anton Zeilinger
pp. 1783-1786 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Supercriticality and Transmission Resonances in the Dirac Equation
Norman Dombey, Piers Kennedy, and A. Calogeracos
pp. 1787-1790 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein Condensation in Trapped Dipolar Gases
L. Santos, G. V. Shlyapnikov, P. Zoller, and M. Lewenstein
pp. 1791-1794 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Stable 85Rb Bose-Einstein Condensates with Widely Tunable Interactions
S. L. Cornish, N. R. Claussen, J. L. Roberts, E. A. Cornell, and C. E. Wieman
pp. 1795-1798 [View PDF (111 kB)]
Extraction of Work from a Single Thermal Bath in the Quantum Regime
A. E. Allahverdyan and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
pp. 1799-1802 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Universality Class of Absorbing Phase Transitions with a Conserved Field
Michela Rossi, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, and Alessandro Vespignani
pp. 1803-1806 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Extracting Weak Phase Information from B→V1V2 Decays
David London, Nita Sinha, and Rahul Sinha
pp. 1807-1810 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Casimir Scaling as a Test of QCD Vacuum Models
Vladimir Shevchenko and Yuri Simonov
pp. 1811-1814 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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KARMEN Time Anomaly: Search for a Neutral Particle of Mass 33.9 MeV in Pion Decay
M. Daum, M. Janousch, P.-R. Kettle, J. Koglin, D. Poc̆anić, J. Schottmüller, C. Wigger, and Z. G. Zhao
pp. 1815-1818 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Excitation Functions of the Analyzing Power in pp⃗ Scattering from 0.45 to 2.5 GeV
M. Altmeier et al. ((EDDA Collaboration))
pp. 1819-1822 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Barrier-Wave–Internal-Wave Interference and Airy Minima in 16O16+O Elastic Scattering
F. Michel, F. Brau, G. Reidemeister, and S. Ohkubo
pp. 1823-1826 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Electromagnetic Cross Sections of Double Giant Dipole Resonances in 136Xe and 208Pb within the Phonon Damping Model
Nguyen Dinh Dang, Vuong Kim Au, and Akito Arima
pp. 1827-1830 [View PDF (83 kB)]
Observation of Nuclear Excitation by Electron Transition in 197Au with Synchrotron X Rays and an Avalanche Photodiode
S. Kishimoto, Y. Yoda, M. Seto, Y. Kobayashi, S. Kitao, R. Haruki, T. Kawauchi, K. Fukutani, and T. Okano
pp. 1831-1834 [View PDF (105 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Breakdown of Stabilization of Atoms Interacting with Intense, High-Frequency Laser Pulses
N. J. Kylstra, R. A. Worthington, A. Patel, P. L. Knight, J. R. Vázquez de Aldana, and L. Roso
pp. 1835-1838 [View PDF (778 kB)]
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Instabilities in a Magneto-optical Trap: Noise-Induced Dynamics in an Atomic System
David Wilkowski, Jean Ringot, Daniel Hennequin, and Jean Claude Garreau
pp. 1839-1842 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Phase Control of Photoabsorption in Optically Dense Media
David Petrosyan and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 1843-1846 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Observation of Ionization in a Crystal Interferometer
M. Nelhiebel, P. Schattschneider, and B. Jouffrey
pp. 1847-1850 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Effects of Local Fields on Spontaneous Emission in Dielectric Media
Michael E. Crenshaw and Charles M. Bowden
pp. 1851-1854 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Giant Violations of Classical Inequalities through Conditional Homodyne Detection of the Quadrature Amplitudes of Light
H. J. Carmichael, H. M. Castro-Beltran, G. T. Foster, and L. A. Orozco
pp. 1855-1858 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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New Mechanisms for Lack of Equipartition of Energy
Àlex Haro and Rafael de la Llave
pp. 1859-1862 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Diffraction Management
H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, and J. S. Aitchison
pp. 1863-1866 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Critical Enhancement of Photorefractive Beam Coupling
E. V. Podivilov, B. I. Sturman, H. C. Pedersen, and P. M. Johansen
pp. 1867-1870 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Transverse Instability of Optical Spatiotemporal Solitons in Quadratic Media
Xiang Liu, Kale Beckwitt, and Frank Wise
pp. 1871-1874 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Tunable Photonic Crystals with Semiconducting Constituents
P. Halevi and F. Ramos-Mendieta
pp. 1875-1878 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Observation of Inhomogeneous Spectral Broadening of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in an Optical Fiber
Valeri I. Kovalev and Robert G. Harrison
pp. 1879-1882 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Inward Transport and Compression of a Positron Plasma by a Rotating Electric Field
R. G. Greaves and C. M. Surko
pp. 1883-1886 [View PDF (810 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Compressibility and Polygonization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes under Hydrostatic Pressure
Jie Tang, Lu-Chang Qin, Taizo Sasaki, Masako Yudasaka, Akiyuki Matsushita, and Sumio Iijima
pp. 1887-1889 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Path Integral Monte Carlo Calculation of the Deuterium Hugoniot
B. Militzer and D. M. Ceperley
pp. 1890-1893 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Melting Process and Interface Instability of Highly Magnetized Solid 3He: Role of the Magnetization Gradient
H. Akimoto, R. van Rooijen, R. Jochemsen, G. Frossati, and W. van Saarloos
pp. 1894-1897 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Nature of Metal-Ceramic Adhesion: Computational Experiments with Co on TiC
S. V. Dudiy, J. Hartford, and B. I. Lundqvist
pp. 1898-1901 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Spontaneous Formation of Indium-Rich Nanostructures on InGaN(0001) Surfaces
Huajie Chen, R. M. Feenstra, J. E. Northrup, T. Zywietz, and J. Neugebauer
pp. 1902-1905 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Five Wave Mixing: Surface-Specific Transient Grating Spectroscopy as a Probe of Low Frequency Intermolecular Adsorbate Motion
Tanya Kikteva, Dmitry Star, Anthony M. D. Lee, Gary W. Leach, and John M. Papanikolas
pp. 1906-1909 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Nature, Strength, and Consequences of Indirect Adsorbate Interactions on Metals
A. Bogicevic, S. Ovesson, P. Hyldgaard, B. I. Lundqvist, H. Brune, and D. R. Jennison
pp. 1910-1913 [View PDF (378 kB)]
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Electronic Resonance and Symmetry in Single-Molecule Inelastic Electron Tunneling
J. R. Hahn, H. J. Lee, and W. Ho
pp. 1914-1917 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Vibrationally Mediated Negative Differential Resistance in a Single Molecule
J. Gaudioso, L. J. Lauhon, and W. Ho
pp. 1918-1921 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Equilibrium Shape of Two-Dimensional Islands under Stress
Adam Li, Feng Liu, and M. G. Lagally
pp. 1922-1925 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Temperature-Dependent Interfacial Stiffness of the Disorder Layer in a Thin Cu3Au Alloy Film
C. Ern, W. Donner, H. Dosch, B. Adams, and D. Nowikow
pp. 1926-1929 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Three-Phase Contact Line Energetics from Nanoscale Liquid Surface Topographies
T. Pompe and S. Herminghaus
pp. 1930-1933 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Density Functional for a Model Colloid-Polymer Mixture
Matthias Schmidt, Hartmut Löwen, Joseph M. Brader, and Robert Evans
pp. 1934-1937 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Pressure Induced Quantum Critical Point and Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in BaVS3
L. Forró, R. Gaál, H. Berger, P. Fazekas, K. Penc, I. Kézsmárki, and G. Mihály
pp. 1938-1941 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Missing 2kF Response for Composite Fermions in Phonon Drag
S. Zelakiewicz, H. Noh, T. J. Gramila, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
pp. 1942-1945 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Out-of-Equilibrium Kondo Effect in Double Quantum Dots
Ramón Aguado and David C. Langreth
pp. 1946-1949 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Evidence of a Reentrant Peierls Distortion in Liquid GeTe
J. Y. Raty, V. Godlevsky, Ph. Ghosez, C. Bichara, J. P. Gaspard, and James R. Chelikowsky
pp. 1950-1953 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Hall Crystal States at ν = 2 and Moderate Landau Level Mixing
Ganpathy Murthy
pp. 1954-1957 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Metal-Semiconductor Nanocontacts: Silicon Nanowires
Uzi Landman, Robert N. Barnett, Andrew G. Scherbakov, and Phaedon Avouris
pp. 1958-1961 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Quantum Dot as Spin Filter and Spin Memory
Patrik Recher, Eugene V. Sukhorukov, and Daniel Loss
pp. 1962-1965 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Photoemission Spectroscopy of the Strong-Coupling Superconducting Transitions in Lead and Niobium
A. Chainani, T. Yokoya, T. Kiss, and S. Shin
pp. 1966-1969 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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BCS-like Density of States in Superconducting A3C60 Surfaces
R. Hesper, L. H. Tjeng, A. Heeres, and G. A. Sawatzky
pp. 1970-1973 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Superconductor-Insulator Transition in a Two-Dimensional Array of Resistively Shunted Small Josephson Junctions
Yamaguchi Takahide, Ryuta Yagi, Akinobu Kanda, Youiti Ootuka, and Shun-ichi Kobayashi
pp. 1974-1977 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Local Magnetism of Isolated Mo Atoms at Substitutional and Interstitial Sites in Yb Metal: Experiment and Theory
A. A. Tulapurkar, S. N. Mishra, R. G. Pillay, H. G. Salunke, G. P. Das, and S. Cottenier
pp. 1978-1981 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Crossover from Dilute to Majority Spin Freezing in Two Leg Ladder System Sr(Cu,Zn)2O3
M. I. Larkin, Y. Fudamoto, I. M. Gat, A. Kinkhabwala, K. M. Kojima, G. M. Luke, J. Merrin, B. Nachumi, Y. J. Uemura, M. Azuma, T. Saito, and M. Takano
pp. 1982-1985 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Ultrafast Spin Dynamics and Critical Behavior in Half-Metallic Ferromagnet: Sr2FeMoO6
T. Kise, T. Ogasawara, M. Ashida, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, and M. Kuwata-Gonokami
pp. 1986-1989 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Magnetic Correlations in Nanostructured Ferromagnets
Jörg F. Löffler, Hans-Benjamin Braun, and Werner Wagner
pp. 1990-1993 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Photoinduced Magnetism, Dynamics, and Cluster Glass Behavior of a Molecule-Based Magnet
Dušan A. Pejaković, Jamie L. Manson, Joel S. Miller, and Arthur J. Epstein
pp. 1994-1997 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Microwave Dispersion in Ferroelectric Thin Films
Charles Hubert, Jeremy Levy, E. J. Cukauskas, and Steven W. Kirchoefer
pp. 1998-2001 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Demonstration of Sixth-Order Coulomb Correlations in a Semiconductor Single Quantum Well
S. R. Bolton, U. Neukirch, L. J. Sham, D. S. Chemla, and V. M. Axt
pp. 2002-2005 [View PDF (205 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Algorithm for Distributed Clock Synchronization
Isaac L. Chuang
pp. 2006-2009 [View PDF (81 kB)]
Quantum Clock Synchronization Based on Shared Prior Entanglement
Richard Jozsa, Daniel S. Abrams, Jonathan P. Dowling, and Colin P. Williams
pp. 2010-2013 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Sophisticated Quantum Search Without Entanglement
David A. Meyer
pp. 2014-2017 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Relating the Microscopic and Macroscopic Response of a Polymeric Fluid in a Shearing Flow
Hazen P. Babcock, Douglas E. Smith, Joe S. Hur, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, and Steven Chu
pp. 2018-2021 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Model of Convergent Extension in Animal Morphogenesis
Mark Zajac, Gerald L. Jones, and James A. Glazier
pp. 2022-2025 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Time Delay Effect in a Living Coupled Oscillator System with the Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum
Atsuko Takamatsu, Teruo Fujii, and Isao Endo
pp. 2026-2029 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Turbulence and Wave Breaking Effects on Air-Water Gas Exchange
Evelyn J. Boettcher, Jay Fineberg, and Daniel P. Lathrop
pp. 2030-2033 [View PDF (391 kB)]
 
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