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Physical Review Letters – 7 May 2001
Volume 86, Issue 19

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.

Conversion of Spin into Directed Electric Current in Quantum Wells
S. D. Ganichev, E. L. Ivchenko, S. N. Danilov, J. Eroms, W. Wegscheider, D. Weiss, and W. Prettl
pp. 4358-4361 [View PDF (136 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Tomography for Measuring Experimentally the Matrix Elements of an Arbitrary Quantum Operation
G. M. D'Ariano and P. Lo Presti
pp. 4195-4198 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Atomic Four-Wave Mixing: Fermions versus Bosons
M. G. Moore and P. Meystre
pp. 4199-4202 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Does Matter Wave Amplification Work for Fermions?
Wolfgang Ketterle and Shin Inouye
pp. 4203-4206 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Condensate Fragmentation in a New Exactly Solvable Model for Confined Bosons
J. Dukelsky and P. Schuck
pp. 4207-4210 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Controlled Collapse of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
J. L. Roberts, N. R. Claussen, S. L. Cornish, E. A. Donley, E. A. Cornell, and C. E. Wieman
pp. 4211-4214 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Scale Dependent Dimension of Luminous Matter in the Universe
Per Bak and Kan Chen
pp. 4215-4218 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Signature Change on the Brane
Marc Mars, José M. M. Senovilla, and Raül Vera
pp. 4219-4222 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Randall-Sundrum Model for Self-Tuning the Cosmological Constant
Jihn E. Kim, Bumseok Kyae, and Hyun Min Lee
pp. 4223-4226 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Flavor-Dependent Supersymmetric Phases and CP Asymmetry in B→Xsγ Decays
D. Bailin and S. Khalil
pp. 4227-4230 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Low-Energy Supersymmetry and the Tevatron Bottom-Quark Cross Section
E. L. Berger, B. W. Harris, D. E. Kaplan, Z. Sullivan, T. M. P. Tait, and C. E. M. Wagner
pp. 4231-4234 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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TeV Strings and the Neutrino-Nucleon Cross Section at Ultrahigh Energies
F. Cornet, J. I. Illana, and M. Masip
pp. 4235-4238 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Measuring the P-Odd Pion-Nucleon Coupling hπNN(1) in π+-Photoproton Production near Threshold
Jiunn-Wei Chen and Xiangdong Ji
pp. 4239-4242 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Evidence of New States Decaying into Ξc*π
S. E. Csorna et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 4243-4246 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Pathways to Rare Baryonic B Decays
Wei-Shu Hou and A. Soni
pp. 4247-4250 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Is Anomalous Production of Ω and Ω̅ Evidence for Disoriented Chiral Condensates?
J. I. Kapusta and S. M. H. Wong
pp. 4251-4254 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Observation of Spin-Orbit Splitting in Λ Single-Particle States
S. Ajimura et al.
pp. 4255-4258 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Determination of the 76Ge Double Beta Decay Q Value
Guilhem Douysset, Tomas Fritioff, Conny Carlberg, Ingmar Bergström, and Mikael Björkhage
pp. 4259-4262 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Event-by-Event Analysis of Collision-Induced Cluster-Ion Fragmentation: Sequential Monomer Evaporation versus Fission Reactions
F. Gobet, B. Farizon, M. Farizon, M. J. Gaillard, S. Louc, N. Gonçalves, M. Barbatti, H. Luna, G. Jalbert, N. V. de Castro Faria, M. C. Bacchus-Montabonel, J. P. Buchet, M. Carré, and T. D. Märk
pp. 4263-4266 [View PDF (644 kB)]
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Generation of Continuous Variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement via the Kerr Nonlinearity in an Optical Fiber
Ch. Silberhorn, P. K. Lam, O. Weiß, F. König, N. Korolkova, and G. Leuchs
pp. 4267-4270 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Inhibition of Decoherence due to Decay in a Continuum
G. S. Agarwal, M. O. Scully, and H. Walther
pp. 4271-4274 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Resonant Radiation Pressure on Neutral Particles in a Waveguide
R. Gómez-Medina, P. San José, A. García-Martín, M. Lester, M. Nieto-Vesperinas, and J. J. Sáenz
pp. 4275-4277 [View PDF (370 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Phase Diagram for the Winfree Model of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators
Joel T. Ariaratnam and Steven H. Strogatz
pp. 4278-4281 [View PDF (100 kB)]
Ultrasonic Wedges for Elastic Wave Bending and Splitting without Requiring a Full Band Gap
M. Torres, F. R. Montero de Espinosa, and J. L. Aragón
pp. 4282-4285 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Dynamic Sand Dunes
Y. Amarouchene, J. F. Boudet, and H. Kellay
pp. 4286-4289 [View PDF (973 kB)]
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Air Entrainment through Free-Surface Cusps
Jens Eggers
pp. 4290-4293 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Generalized Hydrodynamic Theory of Shock Waves: Mach-Number Dependence of Inverse Shock Width for Nitrogen Gas
Mazen Al-Ghoul and Byung Chan Eu
pp. 4294-4297 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Synchronized Chaos in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Gregory S. Duane and Joseph J. Tribbia
pp. 4298-4301 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Rayleigh-Bénard Percolation Transition Study of Thermal Convection in Porous Media: Numerical Simulation and NMR Experiments
Markus Weber, Andreas Klemm, and Rainer Kimmich
pp. 4302-4305 [View PDF (1,745 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Transient Enhancement and Detuning of Laser-Driven Parametric Instabilities by Particle Trapping
H. X. Vu, D. F. DuBois, and B. Bezzerides
pp. 4306-4309 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Generalized Scaling Laws of the Formation and Effects of Plasma-Confining Potentials for Tandem-Mirror Operations in GAMMA 10
T. Cho, J. Kohagura, T. Numakura, M. Hirata, H. Hojo, M. Ichimura, K. Ishii, A. Itakura, I. Katanuma, Y. Nakashima, T. Saito, Y. Tatematsu, M. Yoshikawa, R. Minami, S. Nagashima, M. Yoshida, T. Tamano, K. Yatsu, and S. Miyoshi
pp. 4310-4313 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Lithium Dynamics in LiMn2O4 Probed Directly by Two-Dimensional 7Li NMR
V. W. J. Verhoeven, I. M. de Schepper, G. Nachtegaal, A. P. M. Kentgens, E. M. Kelder, J. Schoonman, and F. M. Mulder
pp. 4314-4317 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Heat Transfer in Nanowires
B. A. Glavin
pp. 4318-4321 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Helium-4 Bose Fluids Formed in One-Dimensional 18 Å Diameter Pores
Nobuo Wada, Junko Taniguchi, Hiroki Ikegami, Shinji Inagaki, and Yoshiaki Fukushima
pp. 4322-4325 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Capillary Force on Colloidal Particles in a Freely Suspended Liquid Thin Film
Jeanman Sur and Hyuk Kyu Pak
pp. 4326-4329 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Structure and Dynamics of Dense Monolayers of NO Adsorbed on Rh(111) in Equilibrium with the Gas Phase in the Torr Pressure Range
Keith B. Rider, Kevin S. Hwang, Miquel Salmeron, and Gabor A. Somorjai
pp. 4330-4333 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Atomic Resolution Noncontact Atomic Force and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of TiO2(110)-(1×1) and - (1×2): Simultaneous Imaging of Surface Structures and Electronic States
M. Ashino, Y. Sugawara, S. Morita, and M. Ishikawa
pp. 4334-4337 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Kinetics and Energetics of Oligomer Desorption from Surfaces
Kris R. Paserba and Andrew J. Gellman
pp. 4338-4341 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Atomic Scale Oxidation of a Complex System: O2/α-SiC(0001)-( 3×3)
F. Amy, H. Enriquez, P. Soukiassian, P.-F. Storino, Y. J. Chabal, A. J. Mayne, G. Dujardin, Y. K. Hwu, and C. Brylinski
pp. 4342-4345 [View PDF (362 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Metal-Insulator and Structural Phase Transition Observed by ESR Spectroscopy and X-Ray Diffraction in KC60
C. Coulon, A. Pénicaud, R. Clérac, R. Moret, P. Launois, and J. Hone
pp. 4346-4349 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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High Performance Thermoelectric Tl9BiTe6 with an Extremely Low Thermal Conductivity
Bernd Wölfing, Christian Kloc, Jens Teubner, and Ernst Bucher
pp. 4350-4353 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Moving Wigner Glasses and Smectics: Dynamics of Disordered Wigner Crystals
C. Reichhardt, C. J. Olson, N. Grønbech-Jensen, and Franco Nori
pp. 4354-4357 [View PDF (598 kB)]
Conversion of Spin into Directed Electric Current in Quantum Wells
S. D. Ganichev, E. L. Ivchenko, S. N. Danilov, J. Eroms, W. Wegscheider, D. Weiss, and W. Prettl
pp. 4358-4361 [View PDF (136 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Evidence of Electron Fractionalization from Photoemission Spectra in the High Temperature Superconductors
D. Orgad, S. A. Kivelson, E. W. Carlson, V. J. Emery, X. J. Zhou, and Z. X. Shen
pp. 4362-4365 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Superconductivity of MgB2: Covalent Bonds Driven Metallic
J. M. An and W. E. Pickett
pp. 4366-4369 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Superconducting Gap and Strong In-Plane Anisotropy in Untwinned YBa2Cu3O7-δ
D. H. Lu, D. L. Feng, N. P. Armitage, K. M. Shen, A. Damascelli, C. Kim, F. Ronning, Z.-X. Shen, D. A. Bonn, R. Liang, W. N. Hardy, A. I. Rykov, and S. Tajima
pp. 4370-4373 [View PDF (1,885 kB)]
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Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy in MgB2
G. Karapetrov, M. Iavarone, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, and D. G. Hinks
pp. 4374-4377 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Creep of Superconducting Vortices in the Limit of Vanishing Temperature: A Fingerprint of Off-Equilibrium Dynamics
Mario Nicodemi and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
pp. 4378-4381 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Charge Density Wave, Superconductivity, and Anomalous Metallic Behavior in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
A. H. Castro Neto
pp. 4382-4385 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Field Induced Biquadratic Exchange in Hard/Soft Ferromagnetic Bilayers
V. K. Vlasko-Vlasov, U. Welp, J. S. Jiang, D. J. Miller, G. W. Crabtree, and S. D. Bader
pp. 4386-4389 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Spin Dynamics in a Frustrated Magnet
J. van Lierop and D. H. Ryan
pp. 4390-4393 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Two-Stage Magnetization Reversal in Exchange Biased Bilayers
C. Leighton, M. R. Fitzsimmons, P. Yashar, A. Hoffmann, J. Nogués, J. Dura, C. F. Majkrzak, and Ivan K. Schuller
pp. 4394-4397 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Strong Phonon Replicas in Be 1s Photoemission Spectra
J. N. Andersen, T. Balasubramanian, C.-O. Almbladh, L. I. Johansson, and R. Nyholm
pp. 4398-4401 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Stabilizing Distinguishable Qubits against Spontaneous Decay by Detected-Jump Correcting Quantum Codes
G. Alber, Th. Beth, Ch. Charnes, A. Delgado, M. Grassl, and M. Mussinger
pp. 4402-4405 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Self-Organized Stable Pacemakers near the Onset of Birhythmicity
Michael Stich, Mads Ipsen, and Alexander S. Mikhailov
pp. 4406-4409 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Universal Learning Curves of Support Vector Machines
M. Opper and R. Urbanczik
pp. 4410-4413 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Polymer Reptation and Nucleosome Repositioning
H. Schiessel, J. Widom, R. F. Bruinsma, and W. M. Gelbart
pp. 4414-4417 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Shape of Ecological Networks
Michael Lässig, Ugo Bastolla, Susanna C. Manrubia, and Angelo Valleriani
pp. 4418-4421 [View PDF (94 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Robustness of Wave Functions of Interacting Many Bosons in a Leaky Box [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 688 (2000)]
Akira Shimizu and Takayuki Miyadera
pp. 4422 [View PDF (26 kB)]
 
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