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Physical Review Letters – 21 May 2001
Volume 86, Issue 21

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.

Spectrum of Luminescence from Laser-Created Bubbles in Water
Ohan Baghdassarian, Han-Ching Chu, Bernd Tabbert, and Gary A. Williams
pp. 4934-4937 [View PDF (189 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Optical Analogy to Electronic Quantum Corrals
Gérard Colas des Francs, Christian Girard, Jean-Claude Weeber, Cédric Chicane, Thierry David, Alain Dereux, and David Peyrade
pp. 4950-4953 [View PDF (744 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Measuring the Quantum State of a Large Angular Momentum
G. Klose, G. Smith, and P. S. Jessen
pp. 4721-4724 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Superfluid Gyroscope with Cold Atomic Gases
S. Stringari
pp. 4725-4728 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Quasicontinuous Atom Laser in the Presence of Gravity
F. Gerbier, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect
pp. 4729-4732 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Uniting Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Resonators
D. Jaksch, S. A. Gardiner, K. Schulze, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 4733-4736 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Coherence Resonance in Coupled Chaotic Oscillators
Zonghua Liu and Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. 4737-4740 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Solving N-Body Problems with Neural Networks
Marcelino Quito, Jr., Christopher Monterola, and Caesar Saloma
pp. 4741-4744 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Plasmoid Impacts on Neutron Stars and Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
C. Litwin and R. Rosner
pp. 4745-4748 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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E10, BE10 and Arithmetical Chaos in Superstring Cosmology
Thibault Damour and Marc Henneaux
pp. 4749-4752 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Beta Function for Anisotropic Current Interactions in 2D
B. Gerganov, A. LeClair, and M. Moriconi
pp. 4753-4756 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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(De)Constructing Dimensions
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Andrew G. Cohen, and Howard Georgi
pp. 4757-4761 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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On Some Positivity Properties of the Interquark Potential in QCD
Shmuel Nussinov
pp. 4762-4763 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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In-Medium Properties of the D13(1520) Nucleon Resonance
B. Krusche, J. Ahrens, R. Beck, I. J. D. MacGregor, J. C. McGeorge, V. Metag, and H. Ströher
pp. 4764-4767 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of the Pion Valence-Quark Momentum Distribution, the Pion Light-Cone Wave Function Squared
E. M. Aitala et al. ((Fermilab E791 Collaboration))
pp. 4768-4772 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Observation of Color-Transparency in Diffractive Dissociation of Pions
E. M. Aitala et al. ((Fermilab E791 Collaboration))
pp. 4773-4777 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Midrapidity Antiproton-to-Proton Ratio from Au+Au Collisions at √sNN = 130GeV
C. Adler et al.
pp. 4778-4782 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Flow at the SPS and RHIC as a Quark-Gluon Plasma Signature
D. Teaney, J. Lauret, and E. V. Shuryak
pp. 4783-4786 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Three- and Four-Nucleon Systems from Chiral Effective Field Theory
E. Epelbaum, H. Kamada, A. Nogga, H. Witała, W. Glöckle, and Ulf-G. Meißner
pp. 4787-4790 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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New Mechanism for the Enhancement of sd Dominance in Interacting Boson Models
J. Dukelsky and S. Pittel
pp. 4791-4794 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Sharp Spectral Lines Observed in γ-Ray Ionized Parahydrogen Crystals
Takamasa Momose, C. Michael Lindsay, Yu Zhang, and Takeshi Oka
pp. 4795-4798 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Motional Effect in Surface Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy
Xing Wei and Y. R. Shen
pp. 4799-4802 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Charge Transfer and Elastic Scattering in Very Slow H++D(1s) Half Collisions
E. Wells, K. D. Carnes, B. D. Esry, and I. Ben-Itzhak
pp. 4803-4806 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Electron Delocalization in Magnesium Clusters Grown in Supercold Helium Droplets
Thomas Diederich, Tilo Döppner, Jenny Braune, Josef Tiggesbäumker, and Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer
pp. 4807-4810 [View PDF (173 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Effect of Stacking Faults on the Optical Properties of Inverted Opals
V. Yannopapas, N. Stefanou, and A. Modinos
pp. 4811-4814 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Anomalous Coherent Backscattering of Light from Opal Photonic Crystals
J. Huang, N. Eradat, M. E. Raikh, Z. V. Vardeny, A. A. Zakhidov, and R. H. Baughman
pp. 4815-4818 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Spiraling Bubbles: How Acoustic and Hydrodynamic Forces Compete
Judith Rensen, Dennis Bosman, Jacques Magnaudet, Claus-Dieter Ohl, Andrea Prosperetti, Rüdiger Tögel, Michel Versluis, and Detlef Lohse
pp. 4819-4822 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Critical Behavior of a Heavy Particle in a Granular Fluid
Andrés Santos and James W. Dufty
pp. 4823-4826 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Passive Scalar Intermittency in Low Temperature Helium Flows
F. Moisy, H. Willaime, J. S. Andersen, and P. Tabeling
pp. 4827-4830 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Anisotropic Homogeneous Turbulence: Hierarchy and Intermittency of Scaling Exponents in the Anisotropic Sectors
Luca Biferale and Federico Toschi
pp. 4831-4834 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Signature of Turbulent Zonal Flows Observed in the DIII-D Tokamak
S. Coda, M. Porkolab, and K. H. Burrell
pp. 4835-4838 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Liquid Alumina: Detailed Atomic Coordination Determined from Neutron Diffraction Data Using Empirical Potential Structure Refinement
C. Landron, L. Hennet, T. E. Jenkins, G. N. Greaves, J. P. Coutures, and A. K. Soper
pp. 4839-4842 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Effect of a Rippling Mode on Resonances of Carbon Nanotubes
Jefferson Z. Liu, Quanshui Zheng, and Qing Jiang
pp. 4843-4846 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Soft Acoustic Modes in the Two-Dimensional Spin System SrCu2(BO3)2
B. Wolf, S. Zherlitsyn, S. Schmidt, B. Lüthi, H. Kageyama, and Y. Ueda
pp. 4847-4850 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced Invar Effect in Fe-Ni Alloys
Leonid Dubrovinsky, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Igor A. Abrikosov, Marie Vennström, Frank Westman, Stefan Carlson, Mark van Schilfgaarde, and Börje Johansson
pp. 4851-4854 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Particle Excursions in Colloidal Crystals
Mischa Megens and Willem L. Vos
pp. 4855-4858 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Freezing of Dynamical Exponents in Low Dimensional Random Media
Horacio E. Castillo and Pierre Le Doussal
pp. 4859-4862 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Self-Similarity and Pattern Selection in the Roughening of Binary Liquid Films
Harald Hoppe, Marcus Heuberger, and Jacob Klein
pp. 4863-4866 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Observation of a Metastable Periodic Structure for the (001) Surface of KTaO3 after Cleaving In Situ
Jaime A. Li, E. A. Akhadov, Jeff Baker, L. A. Boatner, D. Bonart, F. A. Flaherty, J. Fritsch, S. A. Safron, U. Schröder, J. G. Skofronick, T. W. Trelenberg, and D. H. Van Winkle
pp. 4867-4870 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Phase Coexistence during Surface Phase Transitions
J. B. Hannon, F.-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, J. Tersoff, and R. M. Tromp
pp. 4871-4874 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Novel Layered Superstructures in Mixed Ultralong n-Alkanes
X. B. Zeng and G. Ungar
pp. 4875-4878 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Epitaxial Growth of a Low-Density Framework Form of Crystalline Silicon: A Molecular-Dynamics Study
Shinji Munetoh, Koji Moriguchi, Kazuhito Kamei, Akira Shintani, and Teruaki Motooka
pp. 4879-4882 [View PDF (331 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Fluorescence Intermittency in Self-Assembled InP Quantum Dots
Mitsuru Sugisaki, Hong-Wen Ren, Kenichi Nishi, and Yasuaki Masumoto
pp. 4883-4886 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Coulomb Interaction and Quantum Transport through a Coherent Scatterer
Dmitrii S. Golubev and Andrei D. Zaikin
pp. 4887-4890 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Surface Soft Phonon and the √3×√3↔3×3 Phase Transition in Sn/Ge(111) and Sn/Si(111)
Rubén Pérez, José Ortega, and Fernando Flores
pp. 4891-4894 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Fermi-Liquid Behavior of the Low-Density 2D Hole Gas in a GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructure at Large Values of rs
Y. Y. Proskuryakov, A. K. Savchenko, S. S. Safonov, M. Pepper, M. Y. Simmons, and D. A. Ritchie
pp. 4895-4898 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Isotope Effects in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors: A Quantum Critical Phenomenon
T. Schneider and H. Keller
pp. 4899-4902 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Theory of Equilibrium Flux Lattice in UPt3 under Magnetic Field Parallel to Hexagonal Crystal Axis
T. Champel and V. P. Mineev
pp. 4903-4906 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Transport Anomalies and the Role of Pseudogap in the 60-K Phase of YBa2Cu3O7-δ
Kouji Segawa and Yoichi Ando
pp. 4907-4910 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ: New Evidence for the Common Origin of the Pseudogap and Superconductivity
M. Kugler, Ø. Fischer, Ch. Renner, S. Ono, and Yoichi Ando
pp. 4911-4914 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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High-Resolution Photoemission Study of MgB2
T. Takahashi, T. Sato, S. Souma, T. Muranaka, and J. Akimitsu
pp. 4915-4917 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Reversal of Momentum Relaxation
G. A. Melkov, Yu. V. Kobljanskyj, A. A. Serga, V. S. Tiberkevich, and A. N. Slavin
pp. 4918-4921 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Stripes Induced by Orbital Ordering in Layered Manganites
Takashi Hotta, Adrian Feiguin, and Elbio Dagotto
pp. 4922-4925 [View PDF (1,065 kB)]
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Chaotic Domain Patterns in Periodic Inhomogeneous Magnetic Films
N. García, V. V. Osipov, E. V. Ponizovskaya, and A. del Moral
pp. 4926-4929 [View PDF (475 kB)]
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Observation of Phonon Bottleneck in Quantum Dot Electronic Relaxation
J. Urayama, T. B. Norris, J. Singh, and P. Bhattacharya
pp. 4930-4933 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Spectrum of Luminescence from Laser-Created Bubbles in Water
Ohan Baghdassarian, Han-Ching Chu, Bernd Tabbert, and Gary A. Williams
pp. 4934-4937 [View PDF (189 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Optimal Cloning of Coherent States with a Linear Amplifier and Beam Splitters
Samuel L. Braunstein, Nicolas J. Cerf, Sofyan Iblisdir, Peter van Loock, and Serge Massar
pp. 4938-4941 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Optical Implementation of Continuous-Variable Quantum Cloning Machines
Jaromír Fiurášek
pp. 4942-4945 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Heavy-Atom Skeleton Quantization and Proton Tunneling in “Intermediate-Barrier” Hydrogen Bonds
Mark E. Tuckerman and Dominik Marx
pp. 4946-4949 [View PDF (215 kB)]
Optical Analogy to Electronic Quantum Corrals
Gérard Colas des Francs, Christian Girard, Jean-Claude Weeber, Cédric Chicane, Thierry David, Alain Dereux, and David Peyrade
pp. 4950-4953 [View PDF (744 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Clustering of Arrays of Chaotic Chemical Oscillators by Feedback and Forcing
Wen Wang, István Z. Kiss, and John L. Hudson
pp. 4954-4957 [View PDF (645 kB)]
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Mutual Information of Population Codes and Distance Measures in Probability Space
K. Kang and H. Sompolinsky
pp. 4958-4961 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Time Resolved Collapse of a Folding Protein Observed with Small Angle X-Ray Scattering
L. Pollack, M. W. Tate, A. C. Finnefrock, C. Kalidas, S. Trotter, N. C. Darnton, L. Lurio, R. H. Austin, C. A. Batt, S. M. Gruner, and S. G. J. Mochrie
pp. 4962-4965 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Long-Range Reactive Dynamics in Myoglobin
J. Timothy Sage, Stephen M. Durbin, Wolfgang Sturhahn, David C. Wharton, Paul M. Champion, Philip Hession, John Sutter, and E. Ercan Alp
pp. 4966-4969 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Effective-Area Elasticity and Tension of Micromanipulated Membranes
J.-B. Fournier, A. Ajdari, and L. Peliti
pp. 4970-4973 [View PDF (118 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Antiferroelectricity in Liquid Crystals
Helmut R. Brand, P. E. Cladis, and Harald Pleiner
pp. 4974 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Link, Maclennan, and Clark Reply:
Darren R. Link, Joseph E. Maclennan, and Noel A. Clark
pp. 4975 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Comment on “High Pressure Behavior of ZrW2O8: Grüneisen Parameter and Thermal Properties”
S. L. Chaplot and R. Mittal
pp. 4976 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Ravindran and Arora Reply:
T. R. Ravindran and Akhilesh K. Arora
pp. 4977 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Invalidation of the Kelvin Force in Ferrofluids”
A. Engel
pp. 4978 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Liu replies
Mario Liu
pp. 4979 [View PDF (41 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Structural Principles and Amorphouslike Thermal Conductivity of Na-Doped Si Clathrates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 114 (2000)]
J. S. Tse, K. Uehara, R. Rousseau, A. Ker, C. I. Ratcliffe, M. A. White, and G. MacKay
pp. 4980 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Measurement of the Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Strength Distributions up to 10 MeV in the Doubly Magic Nuclei 40Ca and 48Ca [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 274 (2000)]
T. Hartmann, J. Enders, P. Mohr, K. Vogt, S. Volz, and A. Zilges
pp. 4981 [View PDF (31 kB)]
 
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