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Physical Review Letters – 5 March 2001
Volume 86, Issue 10

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.

Measurement of the B(E2) of Λ7Li and Shrinkage of the Hypernuclear Size
K. Tanida et al.
pp. 1982-1985 [View PDF (137 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Stereoscopic Microscopy of Atomic Arrangement by Circularly Polarized-Light Photoelectron Diffraction
H. Daimon
pp. 2034-2037 [View PDF (272 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Bell's Theorem without Inequalities and without Probabilities for Two Observers
Adán Cabello
pp. 1911-1914 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Formation of Pairing Fields in Resonantly Coupled Atomic and Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates
M. Holland, J. Park, and R. Walser
pp. 1915-1918 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Search for Exchange-Antisymmetric States for Spin-0 Particles at the 10-11 Level
D. Mazzotti, P. Cancio, G. Giusfredi, M. Inguscio, and P. De Natale
pp. 1919-1922 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Noise- and Force-Induced Resonances in Noisy Rotary Oscillations of Classical Spins
Yu. L. Raikher and V. I. Stepanov
pp. 1923-1926 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Quantum Approach to a Derivation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Jochen Gemmer, Alexander Otte, and Günter Mahler
pp. 1927-1930 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Radiation Reaction and the Self-Force for a Point Mass in General Relativity
Steven Detweiler
pp. 1931-1934 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Simulation of the Spherically Symmetric Stellar Core Collapse, Bounce, and Postbounce Evolution of a Star of 13 Solar Masses with Boltzmann Neutrino Transport, and Its Implications for the Supernova Mechanism
Anthony Mezzacappa, Matthias Liebendörfer, O. E. Bronson Messer, W. Raphael Hix, Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, and Stephen W. Bruenn
pp. 1935-1938 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Opportunities for Future Supernova Studies of Cosmic Acceleration
Jochen Weller and Andreas Albrecht
pp. 1939-1942 [View PDF (202 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Deconfinement and the Hagedorn Transition in String Theory
Shyamoli Chaudhuri
pp. 1943-1946 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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A Convergent Series for the QED Effective Action
Y. M. Cho and D. G. Pak
pp. 1947-1950 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Renormalization-Group Improved Calculation of Top-Quark Production Near Threshold
A. H. Hoang, A. V. Manohar, I. W. Stewart, and T. Teubner
pp. 1951-1954 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Ratios of Multijet Cross Sections in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 1955-1960 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Criticality in Quark-Gluon Systems Far Beyond Thermal and Chemical Equilibrium
Fu Jinghua, Meng Ta-chung, R. Rittel, and K. Tabelow
pp. 1961-1964 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Event-by-Event Fluctuations of the Kaon-to-Pion Ratio in Central Pb+Pb Collisions at 158 GeV per Nucleon
S. V. Afanasiev et al. (NA49 Collaboration)
pp. 1965-1969 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Baryon Rapidity Loss in Relativistic Au+Au Collisions
B. B. Back et al. (E917 Collaboration)
pp. 1970-1973 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Probing the Nuclear Equation of State by K+ Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions
C. Fuchs, Amand Faessler, E. Zabrodin, and Yu-Ming Zheng
pp. 1974-1977 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Limits on the Existence of Heavy Neutrinos in the Range 50–1000 eV from the Study of the 187Re Beta Decay
M. Galeazzi, F. Fontanelli, F. Gatti, and S. Vitale
pp. 1978-1981 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Measurement of the B(E2) of Λ7Li and Shrinkage of the Hypernuclear Size
K. Tanida et al.
pp. 1982-1985 [View PDF (137 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Reaction Mechanisms for Two-Neutron Halo Breakup
E. Garrido, D. V. Fedorov, A. S. Jensen, and K. Riisager
pp. 1986-1989 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Leading Logarithmic Contribution to the Second-Order Lamb Shift Induced by the Loop-After-Loop Diagram
Vladimir A. Yerokhin
pp. 1990-1993 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Structural Properties of Two-Component Coulomb Crystals in Linear Paul Traps
L. Hornekær, N. Kjærgaard, A. M. Thommesen, and M. Drewsen
pp. 1994-1997 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Fine Structure Continuum Cross Section Ratios in the Two-Photon Ionization of Rubidium Using Elliptically Polarized Light
J. Colgan and M. S. Pindzola
pp. 1998-2001 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Doppler-Free Two-Photon Millimeter Wave Transitions in OCS and CHF3
L. A. Surin, B. S. Dumesh, F. S. Rusin, G. Winnewisser, and I. Pak
pp. 2002-2005 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Anomalous Stimulated Brillouin Scattering via Ultraslow Light
A. B. Matsko, Y. V. Rostovtsev, M. Fleischhauer, and M. O. Scully
pp. 2006-2009 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Parametric Three-Wave Soliton Generated from Incoherent Light
Antonio Picozzi and Marc Haelterman
pp. 2010-2013 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Phase Separation in a Chaotic Flow
Ludovic Berthier, Jean-Louis Barrat, and Jorge Kurchan
pp. 2014-2017 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Ordered and Self-Disordered Dynamics of Holes and Defects in the One-Dimensional Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Martin van Hecke and Martin Howard
pp. 2018-2021 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Curing Coupled-Bunch Instabilities with Uneven Fills
S. Prabhakar, J. D. Fox, and D. Teytelman
pp. 2022-2025 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Anomalous Dispersion Behavior of Multiple-Wave X-Ray Diffraction at Absorption Edges: Determination of Phase Change at Resonance
Yuri P. Stetsko, Gong-Yih Lin, Yi-Shan Huang, Chun-Hsiung Chao, and Shih-Lin Chang
pp. 2026-2029 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Picosecond X-Ray Diffraction Probed Transient Structural Changes in Organic Solids
S. Techert, F. Schotte, and M. Wulff
pp. 2030-2033 [View PDF (152 kB)]
Stereoscopic Microscopy of Atomic Arrangement by Circularly Polarized-Light Photoelectron Diffraction
H. Daimon
pp. 2034-2037 [View PDF (272 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Evidence of Double Criticality in a Fluid Model with Density-Dependent Interactions
N. G. Almarza, E. Lomba, G. Ruiz, and C. F. Tejero
pp. 2038-2041 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Equilibrium Dynamics in the Nondiffusive Regime of an Entangled Polymer Blend
D. Lumma, M. A. Borthwick, P. Falus, L. B. Lurio, and S. G. J. Mochrie
pp. 2042-2045 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Novel Structures and Properties of Gold Nanowires
Baolin Wang, Shuangye Yin, Guanghou Wang, Alper Buldum, and Jijun Zhao
pp. 2046-2049 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Efficient, Multiple-Range Random Walk Algorithm to Calculate the Density of States
Fugao Wang and D. P. Landau
pp. 2050-2053 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Phase Equilibria of Size-Asymmetric Primitive Model Electrolytes
Qiliang Yan and Juan J. de Pablo
pp. 2054-2057 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Entropy-Vanishing Transition and Glassy Dynamics in Frustrated Spins
Hui Yin and Bulbul Chakraborty
pp. 2058-2061 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Heterogeneities in Supercooled Liquids: A Density-Functional Study
Charanbir Kaur and Shankar P. Das
pp. 2062-2065 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Liquid/Vapor Surface Tension of Metals: Embedded Atom Method with Charge Gradient Corrections
Edmund B. Webb, III and Gary S. Grest
pp. 2066-2069 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Critical Adsorption in the Weak Surface Field Limit
J.-H. J. Cho and B. M. Law
pp. 2070-2073 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Validity of the Quasiharmonic Analysis for Surface Thermal Expansion of Ag(111)
Ahlam N. Al-Rawi, Abdelkader Kara, Pavlin Staikov, Chandana Ghosh, and Talat S. Rahman
pp. 2074-2077 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Many-Body Diagrammatic Expansion in a Kohn-Sham Basis: Implications for Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory of Excited States
I. V. Tokatly and O. Pankratov
pp. 2078-2081 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Localized 4f States and Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effect in PrO2
A. T. Boothroyd, C. H. Gardiner, S. J. S. Lister, P. Santini, B. D. Rainford, L. D. Noailles, D. B. Currie, R. S. Eccleston, and R. I. Bewley
pp. 2082-2085 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Origin of Giant Optical Nonlinearity in Charge-Transfer–Mott Insulators: A New Paradigm for Nonlinear Optics
G. P. Zhang
pp. 2086-2089 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Kondo Tunneling through Real and Artificial Molecules
Konstantin Kikoin and Yshai Avishai
pp. 2090-2093 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Point-Contact Conductances from Density Correlations
Rochus Klesse and Martin R. Zirnbauer
pp. 2094-2097 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Geometrical Magnetothermopower in Semiconductors
Joseph P. Heremans, Christopher M. Thrush, and Donald T. Morelli
pp. 2098-2101 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Spin Degeneracy and Conductance Fluctuations in Open Quantum Dots
J. A. Folk, S. R. Patel, K. M. Birnbaum, C. M. Marcus, C. I. Duruöz, and J. S. Harris, Jr.
pp. 2102-2105 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Spin-Orbit Effects in a GaAs Quantum Dot in a Parallel Magnetic Field
B. I. Halperin, Ady Stern, Yuval Oreg, J. N. H. J. Cremers, J. A. Folk, and C. M. Marcus
pp. 2106-2109 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Effects on Tunneling Currents: A Study of C2H4 Adsorbed on the Si(001)- (2×1) Surface
G.-M. Rignanese, X. Blase, and S. G. Louie
pp. 2110-2113 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Shot Noise by Quantum Scattering in Chaotic Cavities
S. Oberholzer, E. V. Sukhorukov, C. Strunk, C. Schönenberger, T. Heinzel, and M. Holland
pp. 2114-2117 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Signatures of Spin Pairing in Chaotic Quantum Dots
S. Lüscher, T. Heinzel, K. Ensslin, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler
pp. 2118-2121 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Transverse Josephson Plasma Mode in T* Phase SmLa1-xSrxCuO4-δ Single Crystals
H. Shibata
pp. 2122-2125 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Depinning Transition of a Two-Dimensional Vortex Lattice in a Commensurate Periodic Potential
Violeta Gotcheva and S. Teitel
pp. 2126-2129 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Quantum Melting of the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Vortex Lattice in κ- (ET)2Cu(NCS)2
M. M. Mola, S. Hill, J. S. Brooks, and J. S. Qualls
pp. 2130-2133 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Finite-Size Scaling for the Ising Model on the Möbius Strip and the Klein Bottle
Kazuhisa Kaneda and Yutaka Okabe
pp. 2134-2137 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Magnetic Behavior of Na Films with Fe, Co, and Ni Impurities
G. Bergmann and M. Hossain
pp. 2138-2141 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for Intra-Atomic Noncollinear Magnetism at Thin Film Probe Tips
M. Bode, O. Pietzsch, A. Kubetzka, S. Heinze, and R. Wiesendanger
pp. 2142-2145 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Strongly Enhanced Orbital Moments and Anisotropies of Adatoms on the Ag(001) Surface
B. Nonas, I. Cabria, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, T. Huhne, and H. Ebert
pp. 2146-2149 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Gateable Suppression of Spin Relaxation in Semiconductors
J. S. Sandhu, A. P. Heberle, J. J. Baumberg, and J. R. A. Cleaver
pp. 2150-2153 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Vibrational Anharmonicities Revealed by Coherent Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy
O. Golonzka, M. Khalil, N. Demirdöven, and A. Tokmakoff
pp. 2154-2157 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Wave Packet Dynamics in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Metal-Halogen Complex Studied by Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
A. Sugita, T. Saito, H. Kano, M. Yamashita, and T. Kobayashi
pp. 2158-2161 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Computing of Quantum Chaos and Imperfection Effects
Pil Hun Song and Dima L. Shepelyansky
pp. 2162-2165 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Efficiently Learning Multilayer Perceptrons
C. Bunzmann, M. Biehl, and R. Urbanczik
pp. 2166-2169 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Transitions between Orbits of Resonance Attractors for Spiral Waves
On-Uma Kheowan, Vladimir S. Zykov, Orapin Rangsiman, and Stefan C. Müller
pp. 2170-2173 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Retarded Learning: Rigorous Results from Statistical Mechanics
Didier Herschkowitz and Manfred Opper
pp. 2174-2177 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Hairpin Formation and Elongation of Biomolecules
Andrea Montanari and Marc Mézard
pp. 2178-2181 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Elastically Driven Linker Aggregation between Two Semiflexible Polyelectrolytes
Itamar Borukhov, Robijn F. Bruinsma, William M. Gelbart, and Andrea J. Liu
pp. 2182-2185 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Effects of Synaptic Noise and Filtering on the Frequency Response of Spiking Neurons
Nicolas Brunel, Frances S. Chance, Nicolas Fourcaud, and L. F. Abbott
pp. 2186-2189 [View PDF (129 kB)]
 
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