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Physical Review Letters – 11 June 2001
Volume 86, Issue 24

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.

Magnetic Tension and the Geometry of the Universe
Christos G. Tsagas
pp. 5421-5424 [View PDF (77 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Photonic-Band-Gap Resonator Gyrotron
J. R. Sirigiri, K. E. Kreischer, J. Machuzak, I. Mastovsky, M. A. Shapiro, and R. J. Temkin
pp. 5628-5631 [View PDF (175 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Pauli Blocking of Collisions in a Quantum Degenerate Atomic Fermi Gas
B. DeMarco, S. B. Papp, and D. S. Jin
pp. 5409-5412 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Bosons in Cigar-Shaped Traps: Thomas-Fermi Regime, Tonks-Girardeau Regime, and In Between
V. Dunjko, V. Lorent, and M. Olshanii
pp. 5413-5416 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Coupled Normal Heat and Matter Transport in a Simple Model System
C. Mejía-Monasterio, H. Larralde, and F. Leyvraz
pp. 5417-5420 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Magnetic Tension and the Geometry of the Universe
Christos G. Tsagas
pp. 5421-5424 [View PDF (77 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measurements of the Rare Decay KL → e+e-e+e-
A. Alavi-Harati et al. ((KTeV Collaboration))
pp. 5425-5429 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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First Measurement of the Low- x, Low- Q2 Structure Function F2 in Neutrino Scattering
B. T. Fleming et al. ((CCFR/NuTeV Collaboration))
pp. 5430-5433 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Does the D-/D+ Production Asymmetry Decrease at Large xF?
F. Carvalho, F. O. Durães, F. S. Navarra, and M. Nielsen
pp. 5434-5437 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Kinetic Equation with Exact Charge Conservation
C. M. Ko, V. Koch, Zi-wei Lin, K. Redlich, M. Stephanov, and Xin-Nian Wang
pp. 5438-5441 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Photoneutron Cross Sections for Unstable Neutron-Rich Oxygen Isotopes
A. Leistenschneider et al.
pp. 5442-5445 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Measurement of the Elastic Magnetic Form Factor of 3He at High Momentum Transfer
I. Nakagawa, J. Shaw, S. Churchwell, X. Jiang, B. Asavapibhop, M. C. Berisso, P. E. Bosted, K. Burchesky, F. Casagrande, A. Cichocki, R. S. Hicks, A. Hotta, T. Kobayashi, R. A. Miskimen, G. A. Peterson, S. E. Rock, T. Suda, T. Tamae, W. Turchinetz, and K. Wang
pp. 5446-5449 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Stability of Negatively Charged Ions Moving in a Magnetic Field
Victor G. Bezchastnov, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, and Peter Schmelcher
pp. 5450-5453 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Ab Initio Investigation of the Phase Lag in Coherent Control of H2
Amalia Apalategui, Alejandro Saenz, and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 5454-5457 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Attosecond Time-Scale Intra-atomic Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation
I. P. Christov, R. Bartels, H. C. Kapteyn, and M. M. Murnane
pp. 5458-5461 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Nonlinear Optics with Phase-Controlled Pulses in the Sub-Two-Cycle Regime
U. Morgner, R. Ell, G. Metzler, T. R. Schibli, F. X. Kärtner, J. G. Fujimoto, H. A. Haus, and E. P. Ippen
pp. 5462-5465 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Electromagnetic Wave Chaos in Gradient Refractive Index Optical Cavities
P. B. Wilkinson, T. M. Fromhold, R. P. Taylor, and A. P. Micolich
pp. 5466-5469 [View PDF (780 kB)]
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Breakup and Fusion of Self-Guided Femtosecond Light Pulses in Air
S. Tzortzakis, L. Bergé, A. Couairon, M. Franco, B. Prade, and A. Mysyrowicz
pp. 5470-5473 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Self-Trapping and Stable Localized Modes in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals
Serge F. Mingaleev and Yuri S. Kivshar
pp. 5474-5477 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Impenetrable Barriers in Phase-Space
S. Wiggins, L. Wiesenfeld, C. Jaffé, and T. Uzer
pp. 5478-5481 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Breakdown of Universality in Transitions to Spatiotemporal Chaos
Tomas Bohr, Martin van Hecke, René Mikkelsen, and Mads Ipsen
pp. 5482-5485 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Simple One-Dimensional Model of Heat Conduction which Obeys Fourier’s Law
P. L. Garrido, P. I. Hurtado, and B. Nadrowski
pp. 5486-5489 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Avalanches in One-Dimensional Piles with Different Types of Bases
E. Altshuler, O. Ramos, C. Martínez, L. E. Flores, and C. Noda
pp. 5490-5493 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Translation Drag Coefficient of a Self-Similar Assembly of Spheres Immersed in an Incompressible Fluid
Chin-Yao Tseng, Heng-Kwong Tsao, and Shing Bor Chen
pp. 5494-5497 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Experimental Characterization of the Electron Heat Transport in Low-Density ASDEX Upgrade Plasmas
F. Ryter, F. Imbeaux, F. Leuterer, H.-U. Fahrbach, W. Suttrop, and ASDEX Upgrade Team
pp. 5498-5501 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Nonlocal Power Deposition in Inductively Coupled Plasmas
John D. Evans and Francis F. Chen
pp. 5502-5505 [View PDF (274 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Acoustic Crystallization and Heterogeneous Nucleation
X. Chavanne, S. Balibar, and F. Caupin
pp. 5506-5509 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Atomic String Holography
J. C. H. Spence and C. Koch
pp. 5510-5513 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Absence of an Abrupt Phase Change from Polycrystalline to Amorphous in Silicon with Deposition Temperature
P. M. Voyles, J. E. Gerbi, M. M. J. Treacy, J. M. Gibson, and J. R. Abelson
pp. 5514-5517 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Entropically Favored Ordering: The Metallurgy of Al2Cu Revisited
C. Wolverton and V. Ozoliņš
pp. 5518-5521 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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E′ Centers in Amorphous SiO2 Revisited: A New Look at an Old Problem
T. Uchino, M. Takahashi, and T. Yoko
pp. 5522-5525 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Microscopic Theory of Heterogeneity and Nonexponential Relaxations in Supercooled Liquids
Xiaoyu Xia and Peter G. Wolynes
pp. 5526-5529 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Method for Computing the Anisotropy of the Solid-Liquid Interfacial Free Energy
J. J. Hoyt, Mark Asta, and Alain Karma
pp. 5530-5533 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Dewetting Patterns and Molecular Forces: A Reconciliation
R. Seemann, S. Herminghaus, and K. Jacobs
pp. 5534-5537 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Unstable Step Meandering with Elastic Interactions
S. Paulin, F. Gillet, O. Pierre-Louis, and C. Misbah
pp. 5538-5541 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Simulations of Atomic Level Stresses in Systems of Buried Ge /Si Islands
Maxim A. Makeev and Anupam Madhukar
pp. 5542-5545 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Nonuniqueness of the Potentials of Spin-Density-Functional Theory
Klaus Capelle and G. Vignale
pp. 5546-5549 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Bilayer Splitting in the Electronic Structure of Heavily Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
D. L. Feng, N. P. Armitage, D. H. Lu, A. Damascelli, J. P. Hu, P. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, F. Ronning, K. M. Shen, H. Eisaki, C. Kim, Z.-X. Shen, J.-i. Shimoyama, and K. Kishio
pp. 5550-5553 [View PDF (457 kB)]
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Spin Fluctuations in a Magnetically Frustrated Metal LiV2O4
S.-H. Lee, Y. Qiu, C. Broholm, Y. Ueda, and J. J. Rush
pp. 5554-5557 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Kondo Screening Effect in a Single-Electron Transistor Embedded in a Metallic Ring
Hui Hu, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Lu Yu
pp. 5558-5561 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Giant Hall Effect in Nonmagnetic Granular Metal Films
X. X. Zhang, Chuncheng Wan, H. Liu, Z. Q. Li, Ping Sheng, and J. J. Lin
pp. 5562-5565 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Quantization of the Hall Conductivity Well Beyond the Adiabatic Limit in Pulsed Magnetic Fields
V. T. Dolgopolov, A. A. Shashkin, J. M. Broto, H. Rakoto, and S. Askenazy
pp. 5566-5569 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Opto-Thermionic Refrigeration in Semiconductor Heterostructures
A. G. Mal'shukov and K. A. Chao
pp. 5570-5573 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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From Favorable Atomic Configurations to Supershell Structures: A New Interpretation of Conductance Histograms
A. Hasmy, E. Medina, and P. A. Serena
pp. 5574-5577 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Dual Nature of the Electronic Structure of (La2-x-yNdySrx)CuO4 and La1.85Sr0.15CuO4
X. J. Zhou, T. Yoshida, S. A. Kellar, P. V. Bogdanov, E. D. Lu, A. Lanzara, M. Nakamura, T. Noda, T. Kakeshita, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, A. Fujimori, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen
pp. 5578-5581 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Tunneling Spectroscopy in Small Grains of Superconducting MgB2
G. Rubio-Bollinger, H. Suderow, and S. Vieira
pp. 5582-5584 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Determination of the Spin Polarization of Half-Metallic CrO2 by Point Contact Andreev Reflection
Y. Ji, G. J. Strijkers, F. Y. Yang, C. L. Chien, J. M. Byers, A. Anguelouch, Gang Xiao, and A. Gupta
pp. 5585-5588 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Study of the eg Orbitals in the Bilayer Manganite La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 by Using Magnetic Compton-Profile Measurement
Akihisa Koizumi, Satoru Miyaki, Yukinobu Kakutani, Hiroyasu Koizumi, Nozomu Hiraoka, Kenji Makoshi, Nobuhiko Sakai, Kazuma Hirota, and Yoichi Murakami
pp. 5589-5592 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Ferromagnetism in Magnetically Doped III-V Semiconductors
V. I. Litvinov and V. K. Dugaev
pp. 5593-5596 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Perpendicular Spin Orientation in Ultrasmall Fe Islands on W(110)
R. Röhlsberger, J. Bansmann, V. Senz, K. L. Jonas, A. Bettac, O. Leupold, R. Rüffer, E. Burkel, and K. H. Meiwes-Broer
pp. 5597-5600 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Optical Resonance in a Narrow Slit in a Thick Metallic Screen
Y. Takakura
pp. 5601-5603 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Control of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Semiconductor Quantum Wells
Ümit Özgür, Chang-Won Lee, and Henry O. Everitt
pp. 5604-5607 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Stimulated Scattering of Indirect Excitons in Coupled Quantum Wells: Signature of a Degenerate Bose-Gas of Excitons
L. V. Butov, A. L. Ivanov, A. Imamoglu, P. B. Littlewood, A. A. Shashkin, V. T. Dolgopolov, K. L. Campman, and A. C. Gossard
pp. 5608-5611 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Doppler Broadening of In-Flight Positron Annihilation Radiation due to Electron Momentum
A. W. Hunt, D. B. Cassidy, P. A. Sterne, T. E. Cowan, R. H. Howell, K. G. Lynn, and J. A. Golovchenko
pp. 5612-5615 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Energy Transport Induced by an External Alternating Field in Strongly Disordered Media
Alexander L. Burin, Yuri Kagan, and Il'ya Ya. Polishchuk
pp. 5616-5619 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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New High-Efficiency Source of Photon Pairs for Engineering Quantum Entanglement
Kaoru Sanaka, Karin Kawahara, and Takahiro Kuga
pp. 5620-5623 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Facilitated Substrate Transport through Membrane Proteins
C. Hilty and M. Winterhalter
pp. 5624-5627 [View PDF (129 kB)]
Photonic-Band-Gap Resonator Gyrotron
J. R. Sirigiri, K. E. Kreischer, J. Machuzak, I. Mastovsky, M. A. Shapiro, and R. J. Temkin
pp. 5628-5631 [View PDF (175 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Bose-Einstein Condensation in Complex Networks
Ginestra Bianconi and Albert-László Barabási
pp. 5632-5635 [View PDF (105 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Theory of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Ferromagnetism”
Min-Fong Yang, Shih-Jye Sun, and Ming-Che Chang
pp. 5636 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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König, Lin, and MacDonald Reply:
J. König, H. H. Lin, and A. H. MacDonald
pp. 5637 [View PDF (41 kB)]
 
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