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Physical Review Letters – 26 March 2001
Volume 86, Issue 13

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.

Intermittent Distribution of Inertial Particles in Turbulent Flows
E. Balkovsky, G. Falkovich, and A. Fouxon
pp. 2790-2793 [View PDF (93 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Extreme Damping in Composite Materials with a Negative Stiffness Phase
R. S. Lakes
pp. 2897-2900 [View PDF (220 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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From the Quantum Zeno to the Inverse Quantum Zeno Effect
P. Facchi, H. Nakazato, and S. Pascazio
pp. 2699-2703 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Structure and Stability of Vortices in Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates at Ultralow Temperatures
S. M. M. Virtanen, T. P. Simula, and M. M. Salomaa
pp. 2704-2707 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order in Bose Liquids: Irrotational Flow and Quantization of Circulation
Gang Su and Masuo Suzuki
pp. 2708-2711 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Critical Dimensions of the Diffusion Equation
T. J. Newman and Will Loinaz
pp. 2712-2715 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Hydrogen Atom Spectrum and the Lamb Shift in Noncommutative QED
M. Chaichian, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, and A. Tureanu
pp. 2716-2719 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Measuring the CP Violating Phase γ Using B±→π±π+π- and B±→K±π+π- Decays
R. E. Blanco, C. Göbel, and R. Méndez-Galain
pp. 2720-2723 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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QCD Prediction for Heavy Boson Transverse Momentum Distributions
Jianwei Qiu and Xiaofei Zhang
pp. 2724-2727 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Phenomenological Consequences of Right-Handed Down Squark Mixings
Chun-Khiang Chua and Wei-Shu Hou
pp. 2728-2731 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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First Observation of the Decays B0→D*-pp̅ π+ and B0→D*-pn̅
S. Anderson et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 2732-2736 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Measurement of the Relative Branching Fraction of ϒ(4S) to Charged and Neutral B-Meson Pairs
J. P. Alexander et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 2737-2741 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Measurements of F2 and xF3ν - xF3ν̅ from CCFR νμ-Fe and ν̅ μ-Fe Data in a Physics Model-Independent Way
U. K. Yang et al. ((CCFR/NuTeV Collaboration))
pp. 2742-2745 [View PDF (273 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Linear Polarization Measurement of Interband Transitions in Superdeformed 190Hg: Model-Independent Evidence for Octupole Vibrational Structures
A. Korichi et al.
pp. 2746-2749 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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S17(0) Determined from the Coulomb Breakup of 83 MeV /Nucleon 8B
B. Davids, D. W. Anthony, T. Aumann, Sam M. Austin, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, R. R. C. Clement, C. N. Davids, H. Esbensen, P. A. Lofy, T. Nakamura, B. M. Sherrill, and J. Yurkon
pp. 2750-2753 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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In-Plane Elliptic Flow of Resonance Particles in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Tetsufumi Hirano
pp. 2754-2757 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of Triplet Doubly Excited States in Single Photon Excitation from Ground State Helium
F. Penent, P. Lablanquie, R. I. Hall, M. Žitnik, K. Bučar, S. Stranges, R. Richter, M. Alagia, P. Hammond, and J. G. Lambourne
pp. 2758-2761 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Electron Energy Spectra from Intense Laser Double Ionization of Helium
R. Lafon, J. L. Chaloupka, B. Sheehy, P. M. Paul, P. Agostini, K. C. Kulander, and L. F. DiMauro
pp. 2762-2765 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Atom Symmetry Break and Metastable Level Coupling in Rare Gas Atom-Surface van der Waals Interaction
M. Boustimi, B. Viaris de Lesegno, J. Baudon, J. Robert, and M. Ducloy
pp. 2766-2769 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Entanglement, Interference, and Measurement in a Degenerate Parametric Oscillator
Hua Deng, Daniel Erenso, Reeta Vyas, and Surendra Singh
pp. 2770-2773 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Modification of Self-Induced Transparency by a Coherent Control Field
Q-Han Park and Robert W. Boyd
pp. 2774-2777 [View PDF (297 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Output Functions and Fractal Dimensions in Dynamical Systems
Alessandro P. S. de Moura and Celso Grebogi
pp. 2778-2781 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Anticipation in the Synchronization of Chaotic Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback
C. Masoller
pp. 2782-2785 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Photon Statistics of a Laser with Slow Inversion
Y. Lien, S. M. de Vries, N. J. van Druten, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 2786-2789 [View PDF (102 kB)]
Intermittent Distribution of Inertial Particles in Turbulent Flows
E. Balkovsky, G. Falkovich, and A. Fouxon
pp. 2790-2793 [View PDF (93 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Turbulent Conductivity Measurements in a Spherical Liquid Sodium Flow
A. B. Reighard and M. R. Brown
pp. 2794-2797 [View PDF (192 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Simultaneous Acceleration of Multiply Charged Ions through a Superconducting Linac
P. N. Ostroumov, R. C. Pardo, G. P. Zinkann, K. W. Shepard, and J. A. Nolen
pp. 2798-2801 [View PDF (276 kB)]
Observation of the Askaryan Effect: Coherent Microwave Cherenkov Emission from Charge Asymmetry in High-Energy Particle Cascades
David Saltzberg, Peter Gorham, Dieter Walz, Clive Field, Richard Iverson, Allen Odian, George Resch, Paul Schoessow, and Dawn Williams
pp. 2802-2805 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Conversion of Electrostatic to Electromagnetic Waves by Superluminous Ionization Fronts
D. Hashimshony, A. Zigler, and K. Papadopoulos
pp. 2806-2809 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Backscatter Reduction Using Combined Spatial, Temporal, and Polarization Beam Smoothing in a Long-Scale-length Laser Plasma
J. D. Moody, B. J. MacGowan, J. E. Rothenberg, R. L. Berger, L. Divol, S. H. Glenzer, R. K. Kirkwood, E. A. Williams, and P. E. Young
pp. 2810-2813 [View PDF (200 kB)]
Sandpile Model with Tokamaklike Enhanced Confinement Phenomenology
S. C. Chapman, R. O. Dendy, and B. Hnat
pp. 2814-2817 [View PDF (352 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Structure Determination of the Si3N4/Si(111)- (8×8) Surface: A Combined Study of Kikuchi Electron Holography, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, and ab initio Calculations
H. Ahn, C.-L. Wu, S. Gwo, C. M. Wei, and Y. C. Chou
pp. 2818-2821 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Fréedericksz Transition in Confined Liquid Crystals: Concentration and Microgeometry Effects
Ohad Levy
pp. 2822-2825 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Amorphous Structures in the Immiscible Ag-Ni System
J. H. He, H. W. Sheng, P. J. Schilling, C.-L. Chien, and E. Ma
pp. 2826-2829 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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On the Constitution of Sodium at Higher Densities
J. B. Neaton and N. W. Ashcroft
pp. 2830-2833 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Hole Trapping at Al impurities in Silica: A Challenge for Density Functional Theories
J. Lægsgaard and K. Stokbro
pp. 2834-2837 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Evidence for a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Proton Glass State in Cs5H3(SO4)4 ̇ xH2O Crystals
S. G. Lushnikov, S. N. Gvasaliya, A. I. Fedoseev, V. H. Schmidt, G. F. Tuthill, and L. A. Shuvalov
pp. 2838-2841 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Atomic Wire Oxidation of H-Terminated Si(100)-( 2×1): Domino Reaction via Oxidation and H Migration
Koichi Kato, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Seiji Heike, Tomihiro Hashizume, and Tsuyoshi Uda
pp. 2842-2845 [View PDF (1,180 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Electronic Band Structure of Gd: A Consistent Description
K. Maiti, M. C. Malagoli, E. Magnano, A. Dallmeyer, and C. Carbone
pp. 2846-2849 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Resonant Tunneling Mediated by Resonant Emission of Intersubband Plasmons
K. Kempa, E. Gornik, K. Unterrainer, M. Kast, and G. Strasser
pp. 2850-2853 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Detecting the Kondo Screening Cloud Around a Quantum Dot
Ian Affleck and Pascal Simon
pp. 2854-2857 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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In-Plane Magnetic Field-Induced Spin Polarization and Transition to Insulating Behavior in Two-Dimensional Hole Systems
E. Tutuc, E. P. De Poortere, S. J. Papadakis, and M. Shayegan
pp. 2858-2861 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Nonlinear Electron Current through a Short Molecular Wire
Elmar G. Petrov and Peter Hänggi
pp. 2862-2865 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Nesting Induced Precursor Effects: A Renormalization Group Approach
F. Vistulo de Abreu and Benoit Douçot
pp. 2866-2869 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Magnetic-Flux Penetration and Critical Currents in Superconducting Strips with Slits
Yasunori Mawatari and John R. Clem
pp. 2870-2873 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Magnetic Dissipation and Fluctuations in Individual Nanomagnets Measured by Ultrasensitive Cantilever Magnetometry
B. C. Stipe, H. J. Mamin, T. D. Stowe, T. W. Kenny, and D. Rugar
pp. 2874-2877 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Spin Reorientation at the Antiferromagnetic NiO(001) Surface in Response to an Adjacent Ferromagnet
H. Ohldag, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, S. Anders, F. U. Hillebrecht, and J. Stöhr
pp. 2878-2881 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Strong Anisotropy of Superexchange in the Copper-Oxygen Chains of La14-xCaxCu24O41
V. Kataev, K.-Y. Choi, M. Grüninger, U. Ammerahl, B. Büchner, A. Freimuth, and A. Revcolevschi
pp. 2882-2885 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Photoinduced Phase Transition to a New Macroscopic Spin-Crossover-Complex Phase
Takeshi Tayagaki and Koichiro Tanaka
pp. 2886-2889 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Exponential Gain in Quantum Computing of Quantum Chaos and Localization
B. Georgeot and D. L. Shepelyansky
pp. 2890-2893 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy Quantum Computer with Tellurium Donors in Silicon
G. P. Berman, G. D. Doolen, P. C. Hammel, and V. I. Tsifrinovich
pp. 2894-2896 [View PDF (64 kB)]
Extreme Damping in Composite Materials with a Negative Stiffness Phase
R. S. Lakes
pp. 2897-2900 [View PDF (220 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Sensory Coding and the Second Spectra of Natural Signals
M. G. A. Thomson
pp. 2901-2904 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Fast Voltage Transients in Capacitive Silicon-to-Cell Stimulation Detected with a Luminescent Molecular Electronic Probe
Dieter Braun and Peter Fromherz
pp. 2905-2908 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Small World Effect in an Epidemiological Model
Marcelo Kuperman and Guillermo Abramson
pp. 2909-2912 [View PDF (102 kB)]
 
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