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Physical Review Letters – 9 April 2001
Volume 86, Issue 15

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 Equipartition of Seismic Waves
R. Hennino, N. Trégourès, N. M. Shapiro, L. Margerin, M. Campillo, B. A. van Tiggelen, and R. L. Weaver
pp. 3447-3450 [View PDF (179 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Backreaction through the Bohmian Particle
Oleg V. Prezhdo and Craig Brooksby
pp. 3215-3219 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Quantum Superchemistry: Dynamical Quantum Effects in Coupled Atomic and Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates
J. J. Hope and M. K. Olsen
pp. 3220-3223 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Grand Unification Signal from Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays?
Z. Fodor and S. D. Katz
pp. 3224-3227 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measurement of Bd0-B̅ d0 Mixing Rate from the Time Evolution of Dilepton Events at the ϒ(4S)
K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)
pp. 3228-3232 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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First Measurement of the Ratio B(t→Wb)/B(t→Wq) and Associated Limit on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Element |Vtb|
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 3233-3238 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Measurement of the Branching Ratio and Asymmetry of the Decay Ξ°→Σ°γ
A. Alavi-Harati et al. ((KTeV Collaboration))
pp. 3239-3243 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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12C(α,γ)16O: The Key Reaction in Stellar Nucleosynthesis
R. Kunz, M. Jaeger, A. Mayer, J. W. Hammer, G. Staudt, S. Harissopulos, and T. Paradellis
pp. 3244-3247 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Predicting Total Reaction Cross Sections for Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering
P. K. Deb, K. Amos, S. Karataglidis, M. B. Chadwick, and D. G. Madland
pp. 3248-3251 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Evidence for Spinodal Decomposition in Nuclear Multifragmentation
B. Borderie et al. (INDRA Collaboration)
pp. 3252-3255 [View PDF (284 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Exchange Forces in Dispersion Relations Investigated Using Circuit Relations
D. Vrinceanu, A. Z. Msezane, D. Bessis, and A. Temkin
pp. 3256-3259 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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High-Accuracy Calculation of 6s→7s Parity-Nonconserving Amplitude in Cs
M. G. Kozlov, S. G. Porsev, and I. I. Tupitsyn
pp. 3260-3263 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Energy Transport in High-Density Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping Cells
D. K. Walter, W. M. Griffith, and W. Happer
pp. 3264-3267 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Magnetic-Field-Induced Quadrupole Splitting in Gaseous and Liquid 131Xe NMR: Quadratic and Quartic Field Dependence
Juha Vaara and Pekka Pyykkö
pp. 3268-3271 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Observation of Direct Dissociative Ionization in Molecular Hydrogen
B. L. G. Bakker, D. H. Parker, and W. J. van der Zande
pp. 3272-3275 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Triplet Scattering Lengths for Rubidium and their Role in Bose-Einstein Condensation
S. Geltman and A. Bambini
pp. 3276-3279 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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New Value of mμ/me from Muonium Hyperfine Splitting
Richard J. Hill
pp. 3280-3283 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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First Experimental Test of a Trace Formula for Billiard Systems Showing Mixed Dynamics
C. Dembowski, H.-D. Gräf, A. Heine, T. Hesse, H. Rehfeld, and A. Richter
pp. 3284-3287 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Stabilization of Femtosecond Lasers for Optical Frequency Metrology and Direct Optical to Radio Frequency Synthesis
R. Jason Jones and Jean-Claude Diels
pp. 3288-3291 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Extreme Midinfrared Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors
Alan H. Chin, Oscar G. Calderón, and Junichiro Kono
pp. 3292-3295 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Self-Focusing and Defocusing in Waveguide Arrays
R. Morandotti, H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, M. Sorel, and J. S. Aitchison
pp. 3296-3299 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Settling Statistics of Hard Sphere Particles
X. Lei, B. J. Ackerson, and P. Tong
pp. 3300-3303 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Convection in Highly Fluidized Three-Dimensional Granular Beds
R. D. Wildman, J. M. Huntley, and D. J. Parker
pp. 3304-3307 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Green's Function Probe of a Static Granular Piling
Guillaume Reydellet and Eric Clément
pp. 3308-3311 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Static Friction between Elastic Solids due to Random Asperities
J. B. Sokoloff
pp. 3312-3315 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Thermal Convection for Large Prandtl Numbers
Siegfried Grossmann and Detlef Lohse
pp. 3316-3319 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Prandtl-Number Dependence of Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Guenter Ahlers and Xiaochao Xu
pp. 3320-3323 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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New Mechanism of X-Ray Radiation from a Relativistic Charged Particle in a Dielectric Random Medium
Zh. S. Gevorkian, C. P. Chen, and Chin-Kun Hu
pp. 3324-3327 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Parametric Excitations of Fast Plasma Waves by Counterpropagating Laser Beams
G. Shvets and N. J. Fisch
pp. 3328-3331 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Plasma Ions Dynamics in the Wake of a Short Laser Pulse
L. M. Gorbunov, P. Mora, and A. A. Solodov
pp. 3332-3335 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Stagnation Pressure of Imploding Shells and Ignition Energy Scaling of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets
A. Kemp, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, and S. Atzeni
pp. 3336-3339 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Observation of a Topological Relaxation Mode in Microemulsions
U. Peter, D. Roux, and A. K. Sood
pp. 3340-3343 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Velocity Correlations and the Structure of Nonequilibrium Hard-Core Fluids
James F. Lutsko
pp. 3344-3347 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Vacancy Hardening and Softening in Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides
Seung-Hoon Jhi, Steven G. Louie, Marvin L. Cohen, and Jisoon Ihm
pp. 3348-3351 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Microstructural Stability of the Kirkendall Plane in Solid-State Diffusion
M. J. H. van Dal, A. M. Gusak, C. Cserháti, A. A. Kodentsov, and F. J. J. van Loo
pp. 3352-3355 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Adsorption and Two-Body Recombination of Atomic Hydrogen on 3He-4He Mixture Films
A. I. Safonov, S. A. Vasilyev, A. A. Kharitonov, S. T. Boldarev, I. I. Lukashevich, and S. Jaakkola
pp. 3356-3359 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Helium in One-Dimensional Nanopores: Free Dispersion, Localization, and Commensurate/Incommensurate Transitions with Nonrigid Orbitals
Massimo Boninsegni, Seung-Yeop Lee, and Vincent H. Crespi
pp. 3360-3363 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Commensurate Water Monolayer at the RuO2(110)/Water Interface
Y. S. Chu, T. E. Lister, W. G. Cullen, H. You, and Z. Nagy
pp. 3364-3367 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Temperature-Dependent Etching of Diamond (100) by Atomic Hydrogen
R. E. Stallcup, II and J. M. Perez
pp. 3368-3371 [View PDF (341 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Polarons in Carbon Nanotubes
M. Verissimo-Alves, R. B. Capaz, Belita Koiller, Emilio Artacho, and H. Chacham
pp. 3372-3375 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Radio-Frequency Single-Electron Transistor as Readout Device for Qubits: Charge Sensitivity and Backaction
A. Aassime, G. Johansson, G. Wendin, R. J. Schoelkopf, and P. Delsing
pp. 3376-3379 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Conductance Peak Motion due to a Magnetic Field in Weakly Coupled Chaotic Quantum Dots
Ilya L. Kurland, Richard Berkovits, and Boris L. Altshuler
pp. 3380-3383 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Imaging of Friedel Oscillation Patterns of Two-Dimensionally Accumulated Electrons at Epitaxially Grown InAs(111) A Surfaces
K. Kanisawa, M. J. Butcher, H. Yamaguchi, and Y. Hirayama
pp. 3384-3387 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Radio-Frequency Bloch-Transistor Electrometer
A. B. Zorin
pp. 3388-3391 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Spinon Attraction in Spin- 1/2 Antiferromagnetic Chains
B. A. Bernevig, D. Giuliano, and R. B. Laughlin
pp. 3392-3395 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Nagaoka Ferromagnetism in the Two-Dimensional Infinite- U Hubbard Model
Federico Becca and Sandro Sorella
pp. 3396-3399 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Hamiltonian of the V15 Spin System from First-Principles Density-Functional Calculations
Jens Kortus, C. Stephen Hellberg, and Mark R. Pederson
pp. 3400-3403 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Giant Dielectric Permittivity Observed in Pb-Based Perovskite Ferroelectrics
Bog-Gi Kim, Seong M. Cho, Tea-Yong Kim, and Hyun M. Jang
pp. 3404-3406 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy of α- and γ-Phase Cerium
J. W. van der Eb, A. B. Kuz'menko, and D. van der Marel
pp. 3407-3410 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Standing Optical Phonons in Finite Semiconductor Superlattices Studied by Resonant Raman Scattering in a Double Microcavity
A. Fainstein, M. Trigo, D. Oliva, B. Jusserand, T. Freixanet, and V. Thierry-Mieg
pp. 3411-3414 [View PDF (2,078 kB)]
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X-Ray Magneto-optics in Lanthanides
K. Starke, F. Heigl, A. Vollmer, M. Weiss, G. Reichardt, and G. Kaindl
pp. 3415-3418 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Magnetic Moments at the Surface of Antiferromagnetic NiO(100)
F. U. Hillebrecht, H. Ohldag, N. B. Weber, C. Bethke, U. Mick, M. Weiss, and J. Bahrdt
pp. 3419-3422 [View PDF (238 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Reverse Brazil Nut Problem: Competition between Percolation and Condensation
Daniel C. Hong, Paul V. Quinn, and Stefan Luding
pp. 3423-3426 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for a Kinetic Transition in Reversible Reactions
Kyril M. Solntsev, Dan Huppert, and Noam Agmon
pp. 3427-3430 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Spiking Behavior in a Noise-Driven System Combining Oscillatory and Excitatory Properties
V. A. Makarov, V. I. Nekorkin, and M. G. Velarde
pp. 3431-3434 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Voltage-Driven DNA Translocations through a Nanopore
Amit Meller, Lucas Nivon, and Daniel Branton
pp. 3435-3438 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Coherent Dynamics of Photoexcited Green Fluorescent Proteins
Riccardo A. G. Cinelli, Valentina Tozzini, Vittorio Pellegrini, Fabio Beltram, Giulio Cerullo, Margherita Zavelani-Rossi, Sandro De Silvestri, Mudit Tyagi, and Mauro Giacca
pp. 3439-3442 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Stochastic Biperiodic Oscillations in the Electroreceptors of Paddlefish
Alexander Neiman and David F. Russell
pp. 3443-3446 [View PDF (200 kB)]
Observation of Equipartition of Seismic Waves
R. Hennino, N. Trégourès, N. M. Shapiro, L. Margerin, M. Campillo, B. A. van Tiggelen, and R. L. Weaver
pp. 3447-3450 [View PDF (179 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

COMMENTS

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Anisotropy of the Superconducting Order Parameter in κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2
S. Hill, N. Harrison, M. Mola, and J. Wosnitza
pp. 3451 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Comment on “Millimeter-Wave Magneto-Optical Determination of the Anisotropy of the Superconducting Order Parameter in the Molecular Superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2”
T. Shibauchi, Yuji Matsuda, M. B. Gaifullin, and T. Tamegai
pp. 3452 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Schrama et al. Reply:
J. Marije Schrama and John Singleton
pp. 3453-3454 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Comment on “Stripe Glasses: Self-Generated Randomness in a Uniformly Frustrated System”
M. Grousson, G. Tarjus, and P. Viot
pp. 3455 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Schmalian and Wolynes Reply:
Jörg Schmalian and Peter G. Wolynes
pp. 3456 [View PDF (39 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron Thermalization in Gold [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1638 (2001)]
Chunlei Guo, George Rodriguez, Mark A. Hoffbauer, and Antoinette J. Taylor
pp. 3457 [View PDF (24 kB)]
 
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