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Physical Review Letters – 28 May 2001
Volume 86, Issue 22

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.

Orientation of Benzene in Supersonic Expansions, Probed by IR-Laser Absorption and by Molecular Beam Scattering
F. Pirani, D. Cappelletti, M. Bartolomei, V. Aquilanti, M. Scotoni, M. Vescovi, D. Ascenzi, and D. Bassi
pp. 5035-5038 [View PDF (137 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Mathematical Analysis of Coupled Parallel Simulations
Michael R. Shirts and Vijay S. Pande
pp. 4983-4987 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Decoherence, Pointer Engineering, and Quantum State Protection
A. R. R. Carvalho, P. Milman, R. L. de Matos Filho, and L. Davidovich
pp. 4988-4991 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Supersymmetric Ratchets
Peter Reimann
pp. 4992-4995 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Absolute Frequency Measurements of the Hg+ and Ca Optical Clock Transitions with a Femtosecond Laser
Th. Udem, S. A. Diddams, K. R. Vogel, C. W. Oates, E. A. Curtis, W. D. Lee, W. M. Itano, R. E. Drullinger, J. C. Bergquist, and L. Hollberg
pp. 4996-4999 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Bounds on the CP Asymmetry in Like-Sign Dileptons from B0B̅ 0 Meson Decays
D. E. Jaffe et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 5000-5003 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Implications of Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment for Supersymmetric Dark Matter
E. A. Baltz and P. Gondolo
pp. 5004-5007 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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The Quark Condensate from Ke4 Decays
G. Colangelo, J. Gasser, and H. Leutwyler
pp. 5008-5010 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Chiral Symmetry and the Intrinsic Structure of the Nucleon
D. B. Leinweber, A. W. Thomas, and R. D. Young
pp. 5011-5014 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Isospin Asymmetry in the Pseudospin Dynamical Symmetry
P. Alberto, M. Fiolhais, M. Malheiro, A. Delfino, and M. Chiapparini
pp. 5015-5018 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Observation of ρ/ω Meson Modification in Nuclear Matter
K. Ozawa, H. En'yo, H. Funahashi, M. Kitaguchi, M. Ishino, H. Kanda, S. Mihara, T. Miyashita, T. Murakami, R. Muto, M. Naruki, F. Sakuma, H. D. Sato, T. Tabaru, S. Yamada, S. Yokkaichi, Y. Yoshimura, J. Chiba, M. Ieiri, M. Nomachi, O. Sasaki, M. Sekimoto, K. H. Tanaka, and H. Hamagaki
pp. 5019-5022 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Isotopic Scaling in Nuclear Reactions
M. B. Tsang, W. A. Friedman, C. K. Gelbke, W. G. Lynch, G. Verde, and H. S. Xu
pp. 5023-5026 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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QED Effects in Cu-Like Pb Recombination Resonances Near Threshold
E. Lindroth, H. Danared, P. Glans, Z. Pešić, M. Tokman, G. Vikor, and R. Schuch
pp. 5027-5030 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Pseudotime Schrödinger Equation with Absorbing Potential for Quantum Scattering Calculations
Arnold Neumaier and Vladimir A. Mandelshtam
pp. 5031-5034 [View PDF (88 kB)]
Orientation of Benzene in Supersonic Expansions, Probed by IR-Laser Absorption and by Molecular Beam Scattering
F. Pirani, D. Cappelletti, M. Bartolomei, V. Aquilanti, M. Scotoni, M. Vescovi, D. Ascenzi, and D. Bassi
pp. 5035-5038 [View PDF (137 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Reaction Imaging with Interferometry
James M. Feagin and Si-ping Han
pp. 5039-5042 [View PDF (691 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Exact Soliton Solutions, Shape Changing Collisions, and Partially Coherent Solitons in Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
T. Kanna and M. Lakshmanan
pp. 5043-5046 [View PDF (423 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Single-Particle Dynamics in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
J. Egedal and A. Fasoli
pp. 5047-5050 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Phase Mixing and Island Saturation in Hamiltonian Reconnection
D. Grasso, F. Califano, F. Pegoraro, and F. Porcelli
pp. 5051-5054 [View PDF (1,135 kB)]
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Structure Formation and Tearing of an MeV Cylindrical Electron Beam in a Laser-Produced Plasma
Toshihiro Taguchi, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr., Chuan S. Liu, and Kunioki Mima
pp. 5055-5058 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Error Field Amplification and Rotation Damping in Tokamak Plasmas
Allen H. Boozer
pp. 5059-5061 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Dilation-Induced Phases of Gases Absorbed within a Bundle of Carbon Nanotubes
M. Mercedes Calbi, Flavio Toigo, and Milton W. Cole
pp. 5062-5065 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Quantitative Atomic-Scale Analysis of Interface Structures: Transmission Electron Microscopy and Local Density Functional Theory
S. Nufer, A. G. Marinopoulos, T. Gemming, C. Elsässer, W. Kurtz, S. Köstlmeier, and M. Rühle
pp. 5066-5069 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Controlling Crystal Surface Termination by Cleavage Direction
M. Plomp, W. J. P. van Enckevort, and E. Vlieg
pp. 5070-5072 [View PDF (591 kB)]
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Simple “Kink” Model of Melt Intercalation in Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites
Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Oleg V. Gendelman, and Leonid I. Manevitch
pp. 5073-5075 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Minimum Spanning Trees on Random Networks
R. Dobrin and P. M. Duxbury
pp. 5076-5079 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Nucleation of Water and Methanol Droplets on Cations and Anions: The Sign Preference
K. J. Oh, G. T. Gao, and X. C. Zeng
pp. 5080-5083 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Solidification of a Supercooled Liquid in a Narrow Channel
Mohsen Sabouri-Ghomi, Nikolas Provatas, and Martin Grant
pp. 5084-5087 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Spatial Variation of Au Coverage as the Driving Force for Nanoscopic Pattern Formation
Frank-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, Th. Schmidt, S. Heun, R. Hild, P. Zahl, B. Ressel, E. Bauer, and M. Horn-von Hoegen
pp. 5088-5091 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Quantum Diffusion of H/Ni(111) through a Monte Carlo Wave Function Formalism
S. C. Badescu, S. C. Ying, and T. Ala-Nissila
pp. 5092-5095 [View PDF (476 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Ladder Operator for the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model
Jon Links, Huan-Qiang Zhou, Ross H. McKenzie, and Mark D. Gould
pp. 5096-5099 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Ab Initio Fermi Surface Calculation for Charge-Density Wave Instability in Transition Metal Oxide Bronzes
Eric Sandre, Pascale Foury-Leylekian, Sylvain Ravy, and Jean-Paul Pouget
pp. 5100-5103 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Aharonov-Bohm Cages in 2D Normal Metal Networks
Cécile Naud, Giancarlo Faini, and Dominique Mailly
pp. 5104-5107 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Quantum Well Behavior without Confining Barrier Observed via Dynamically Screened Photon Field
S. R. Barman, P. Häberle, K. Horn, J. A. Maytorena, and A. Liebsch
pp. 5108-5111 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Indirect Interaction of Solid-State Qubits via Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Dima Mozyrsky, Vladimir Privman, and M. Lawrence Glasser
pp. 5112-5115 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Correlation between Quantized Electronic States and Oscillatory Thickness Relaxations of 2D Pb Islands on Si(111)-( 7×7) Surfaces
W. B. Su, S. H. Chang, W. B. Jian, C. S. Chang, L. J. Chen, and Tien T. Tsong
pp. 5116-5119 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Coulomb Blockade and Coherent Single-Cooper-Pair Tunneling in Single Josephson Junctions
Michio Watanabe and David B. Haviland
pp. 5120-5123 [View PDF (599 kB)]
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High Frequency Conductivity in the Quantum Hall Regime
F. Hohls, U. Zeitler, and R. J. Haug
pp. 5124-5127 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Fano and Kondo Resonance in Electronic Current through Nanodevices
Bogdan R. Bułka and Piotr Stefański
pp. 5128-5131 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Vortex Collisions: Crossing or Recombination?
Malek Bou-Diab, Matthew J. W. Dodgson, and Gianni Blatter
pp. 5132-5135 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Defect-Unbinding and the Bose-Glass Transition in Layered Superconductors
C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, A. V. Samoilov, N. Chikumoto, S. Bouffard, and M. V. Feigel'man
pp. 5136-5139 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Effects of Point Defects on the Phase Diagram of Vortex States in High- Tc Superconductors in the B ‖ c Axis
Yoshihiko Nonomura and Xiao Hu
pp. 5140-5143 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Asymmetric Field Profile in Bose Glass Phase of Irradiated YBa2Cu3O7-δ: Loss of Interlayer Coherence around 1/3 of Matching Field
K. Itaka, T. Shibauchi, M. Yasugaki, T. Tamegai, and S. Okayasu
pp. 5144-5147 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of the Flux Line Lattice Transition into Square Symmetry in Superconducting LuNi2B2C
M. R. Eskildsen, A. B. Abrahamsen, V. G. Kogan, P. L. Gammel, K. Mortensen, N. H. Andersen, and P. C. Canfield
pp. 5148-5151 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Unconventional Superconductivity in CeIrIn5 and CeCoIn5: Specific Heat and Thermal Conductivity Studies
R. Movshovich, M. Jaime, J. D. Thompson, C. Petrovic, Z. Fisk, P. G. Pagliuso, and J. L. Sarrao
pp. 5152-5155 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Direct Evidence for Block-by-Block Growth in High-Temperature Superconductor Ultrathin Films
M. Varela, W. Grogger, D. Arias, Z. Sefrioui, C. León, C. Ballesteros, K. M. Krishnan, and J. Santamaría
pp. 5156-5159 [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Exact Universal Amplitude Ratios for Two-Dimensional Ising Models and a Quantum Spin Chain
N. Sh. Izmailian and Chin-Kun Hu
pp. 5160-5163 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Simulations on Infinite-Size Lattices
H. G. Evertz and W. von der Linden
pp. 5164-5167 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Magnetic Spin Ladder (C5H12N)2CuBr4: High-Field Magnetization and Scaling near Quantum Criticality
B. C. Watson, V. N. Kotov, M. W. Meisel, D. W. Hall, G. E. Granroth, W. T. Montfrooij, S. E. Nagler, D. A Jensen, R. Backov, M. A. Petruska, G. E. Fanucci, and D. R. Talham
pp. 5168-5171 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Dynamical Response of Quantum Spin-Glass Models at T = 0
L. Arrachea and M. J. Rozenberg
pp. 5172-5175 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Electron and Nuclear Spin Interactions in the Optical Spectra of Single GaAs Quantum Dots
D. Gammon, Al. L. Efros, T. A. Kennedy, M. Rosen, D. S. Katzer, D. Park, S. W. Brown, V. L. Korenev, and I. A. Merkulov
pp. 5176-5179 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Ponderomotive Acceleration of Photoelectrons in Surface-Plasmon-Assisted Multiphoton Photoelectric Emission
J. Kupersztych, P. Monchicourt, and M. Raynaud
pp. 5180-5183 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Separable States Are More Disordered Globally than Locally
M. A. Nielsen and J. Kempe
pp. 5184-5187 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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A One-Way Quantum Computer
Robert Raussendorf and Hans J. Briegel
pp. 5188-5191 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Limits to Error Correction in Quantum Chaos
P. G. Silvestrov, H. Schomerus, and C. W. J. Beenakker
pp. 5192-5195 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Autocatalytic Polymerization Generates Persistent Random Walk of Crawling Cells
R. Sambeth and A. Baumgaertner
pp. 5196-5199 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Direct Evidence of Multifractal Atmospheric Cascades from Planetary Scales down to 1 km
S. Lovejoy, D. Schertzer, and J. D. Stanway
pp. 5200-5203 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal Communication with Synchronized Optical Chaos
J. García-Ojalvo and Rajarshi Roy
pp. 5204-5207 [View PDF (320 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Orbital and Intrinsic Angular Momentum of Single Photons and Entangled Pairs of Photons Generated by Parametric Down-Conversion”
E. R. Eliel, S. M. Dutra, G. Nienhuis, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 5208 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Arnaut and Barbosa Reply:
H. H. Arnaut and G. A. Barbosa
pp. 5209 [View PDF (39 kB)]
 
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