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Physical Review Letters – 19 February 2001
Volume 86, Issue 8

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.

Submillimeter Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law: A Search for “Large” Extra Dimensions
C. D. Hoyle, U. Schmidt, B. R. Heckel, E. G. Adelberger, J. H. Gundlach, D. J. Kapner, and H. E. Swanson
pp. 1418-1421 [View PDF (278 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Multimode Dynamics of a Coupled Ultracold Atomic-Molecular System
Krzysztof Góral, Mariusz Gajda, and Kazimierz Rza̧żewski
pp. 1397-1401 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein Condensates in Standing Waves: The Cubic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with a Periodic Potential
Jared C. Bronski, Lincoln D. Carr, Bernard Deconinck, and J. Nathan Kutz
pp. 1402-1405 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Intermittent Implosion and Pattern Formation of Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates with an Attractive Interaction
Hiroki Saito and Masahito Ueda
pp. 1406-1409 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Sound Emission due to Superfluid Vortex Reconnections
M. Leadbeater, T. Winiecki, D. C. Samuels, C. F. Barenghi, and C. S. Adams
pp. 1410-1413 [View PDF (338 kB)]
Knots and Random Walks in Vibrated Granular Chains
E. Ben-Naim, Z. A. Daya, P. Vorobieff, and R. E. Ecke
pp. 1414-1417 [View PDF (185 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Submillimeter Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law: A Search for “Large” Extra Dimensions
C. D. Hoyle, U. Schmidt, B. R. Heckel, E. G. Adelberger, J. H. Gundlach, D. J. Kapner, and H. E. Swanson
pp. 1418-1421 [View PDF (278 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Gravitationally Bound Monopoles
Betti Hartmann, Burkhard Kleihaus, and Jutta Kunz
pp. 1422-1425 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Black Hole Thermodynamics from Calculations in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory
Daniel Kabat, Gilad Lifschytz, and David A. Lowe
pp. 1426-1429 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Neutrinos Produced by Ultrahigh-Energy Photons at High Redshift
Alexander Kusenko and Marieke Postma
pp. 1430-1433 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Constraints on Galaxy Bias, Matter Density, and Primordial Non-Gaussianity from the PSCz Galaxy Redshift Survey
Hume A. Feldman, Joshua A. Frieman, J. N. Fry, and Román Scoccimarro
pp. 1434-1437 [View PDF (132 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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't Hooft Loop in SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory
Philippe de Forcrand, Massimo D'Elia, and Michele Pepe
pp. 1438-1441 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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h→μτ at Hadron Colliders
Tao Han and Danny Marfatia
pp. 1442-1445 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Towards a Solution of the Charmonium Production Controversy: k⊥ Factorization versus Color-Octet Mechanism
Ph. Hägler, R. Kirschner, A. Schäfer, L. Szymanowski, and O. V. Teryaev
pp. 1446-1449 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Prompt α Decay of a Well-Deformed Band in 58Ni
D. Rudolph, C. Baktash, M. Devlin, D. R. LaFosse, L. L. Riedinger, D. G. Sarantites, and C.-H. Yu
pp. 1450-1453 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Precise Half-Life Measurement for the Superallowed 0+→0+ β Emitter 74Rb: First Results from the New Radioactive Beam Facility (ISAC) at TRIUMF
G. C. Ball, S. Bishop, J. A. Behr, G. C. Boisvert, P. Bricault, J. Cerny, J. M. D'Auria, M. Dombsky, J. C. Hardy, V. Iacob, J. R. Leslie, T. Lindner, J. A. Macdonald, H.-B. Mak, D. M. Moltz, J. Powell, G. Savard, and I. S. Towner
pp. 1454-1457 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Rotational Bands in the Proton Emitter 141Ho
D. Seweryniak, P. J. Woods, J. J. Ressler, C. N. Davids, A. Heinz, A. A. Sonzogni, J. Uusitalo, W. B. Walters, J. A. Caggiano, M. P. Carpenter, J. A. Cizewski, T. Davinson, K. Y. Ding, N. Fotiades, U. Garg, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, P. Reiter, J. Shergur, and I. Wiedenhöver
pp. 1458-1461 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Two-Wire Waveguide and Interferometer for Cold Atoms
E. A. Hinds, C. J. Vale, and M. G. Boshier
pp. 1462-1465 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Lifetime Measurements of Metastable States in Fe+
D. Rostohar, A. Derkatch, H. Hartman, S. Johansson, H. Lundberg, S. Mannervik, L.-O. Norlin, P. Royen, and A. Schmitt
pp. 1466-1469 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Post-Collision Interaction and Interference Effects in Resonant Double Photoionization Processes
S. Rioual, B. Rouvellou, L. Avaldi, G. Battera, R. Camilloni, G. Stefani, and G. Turri
pp. 1470-1473 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Manipulation of Cold Atomic Collisions by Cavity QED Effects
J. I. Kim, R. B. B. Santos, and P. Nussenzveig
pp. 1474-1477 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Observation of Completely Destructive Quantum Interference between Interacting Resonances in Molecular Predissociation
B. R. Lewis, S. T. Gibson, P. O'Keeffe, T. Ridley, K. P. Lawley, and R. J. Donovan
pp. 1478-1481 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Giant Barkas Effect Observed for Light Ions Channeling in Si
G. de M. Azevedo, P. L. Grande, M. Behar, J. F Dias, and G. Schiwietz
pp. 1482-1485 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Resolution of the Frozen-Charge Paradox in Stopping of Channeled Heavy Ions
Peter Sigmund and Andreas Schinner
pp. 1486-1489 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Two-Photon Evanescent-Volume Wave Spectroscopy: A New Account of Gas-Solid Dynamics in the Boundary Layer
V. G. Bordo, J. Loerke, and H.-G. Rubahn
pp. 1490-1493 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Excitation of Molecular Vibrations by Positron Impact
J. P. Sullivan, S. J. Gilbert, and C. M. Surko
pp. 1494-1497 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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O(α3lnα) Corrections to Muonium and Positronium Hyperfine Splitting
Kirill Melnikov and Alexander Yelkhovsky
pp. 1498-1501 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Triggered Single Photons from a Quantum Dot
Charles Santori, Matthew Pelton, Glenn Solomon, Yseulte Dale, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 1502-1505 [View PDF (254 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Fractality of the Hydrodynamic Modes of Diffusion
P. Gaspard, I. Claus, T. Gilbert, and J. R. Dorfman
pp. 1506-1509 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Generalized Splay State in Coupled Chaotic Oscillators Induced by Weak Mutual Resonant Interactions
Meng Zhan, Gang Hu, Ying Zhang, and Daihai He
pp. 1510-1513 [View PDF (2,551 kB)]
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Optical Billiards for Atoms
V. Milner, J. L. Hanssen, W. C. Campbell, and M. G. Raizen
pp. 1514-1517 [View PDF (582 kB)]
Observation of Chaotic and Regular Dynamics in Atom-Optics Billiards
Nir Friedman, Ariel Kaplan, Dina Carasso, and Nir Davidson
pp. 1518-1521 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Random Laser above Threshold
Gijs van Soest, Frank J. Poelwijk, Rudolf Sprik, and Ad Lagendijk
pp. 1522-1525 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Optical Trirefringence in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
M. C. Netti, A. Harris, J. J. Baumberg, D. M. Whittaker, M. B. D. Charlton, M. E. Zoorob, and G. J. Parker
pp. 1526-1529 [View PDF (455 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Long-Pulse Improved Central Electron Confinement in the TCV Tokamak with Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive
Z. A. Pietrzyk, C. Angioni, R. Behn, S. Coda, T. P. Goodman, M. A. Henderson, F. Hofmann, and O. Sauter
pp. 1530-1533 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Complex γ-Ray Hologram: Solution to Twin Images Problem in Atomic Resolution Imaging
P. Korecki, G. Materlik, and J. Korecki
pp. 1534-1537 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Pairing Interactions and Gibbs Adsorption at the Liquid Bi-In Surface: A Resonant X-Ray Reflectivity Study
E. DiMasi, H. Tostmann, O. G. Shpyrko, P. Huber, B. M. Ocko, P. S. Pershan, M. Deutsch, and L. E. Berman
pp. 1538-1541 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Chemical Ordering in Al72Ni20Co8 Decagonal Quasicrystals
Yanfa Yan and Stephen J. Pennycook
pp. 1542-1545 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Calculation of Quantum Tunneling for a Spatially Extended Defect: The Dislocation Kink in Copper Has a Low Effective Mass
Tejs Vegge, James P. Sethna, Siew-Ann Cheong, K. W. Jacobsen, Christopher R. Myers, and Daniel C. Ralph
pp. 1546-1549 [View PDF (4,041 kB)]
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Convective Cahn-Hilliard Models: From Coarsening to Roughening
A. A. Golovin, A. A. Nepomnyashchy, S. H. Davis, and M. A. Zaks
pp. 1550-1553 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Surface Vibrational Spectroscopic Study of Surface Melting of Ice
Xing Wei, Paulo B. Miranda, and Y. R. Shen
pp. 1554-1557 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Superfluid Fraction of 3He-4He Mixtures Confined at 0.0483μm between Silicon Wafers
Mark O. Kimball and Francis M. Gasparini
pp. 1558-1561 [View PDF (265 kB)]
Nothing Moves a Surface: Vacancy Mediated Surface Diffusion
R. van Gastel, E. Somfai, S. B. van Albada, W. van Saarloos, and J. W. M. Frenken
pp. 1562-1565 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Novel Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy: Infrared-Infrared-Visible Sum-Frequency Generation
Mischa Bonn, Christian Hess, James H. Miners, Tony F. Heinz, Huib J. Bakker, and Minhaeng Cho
pp. 1566-1569 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Difference in the Dynamic Scaling Behavior of Droplet Size Distribution for Coalescence under Pulsed and Continuous Vapor Delivery
R. D. Narhe, M. D. Khandkar, K. P. Adhi, A. V. Limaye, S. R. Sainkar, and S. B. Ogale
pp. 1570-1573 [View PDF (283 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Simple Analytical Particle and Kinetic Energy Densities for a Dilute Fermionic Gas in a d-Dimensional Harmonic Trap
Matthias Brack and Brandon P. van Zyl
pp. 1574-1577 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Anomalous Temperature Dependence of the Magnetic Field Induced Antiferromagnetic Moment in the Antiferroquadrupolar Ordered State of CeB6
M. Sera, H. Ichikawa, T. Yokoo, J. Akimitsu, M. Nishi, K. Kakurai, and S. Kunii
pp. 1578-1581 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Local Density of States of a Three-Dimensional Conductor in the Extreme Quantum Limit
D. Haude, M. Morgenstern, I. Meinel, and R. Wiesendanger
pp. 1582-1585 [View PDF (947 kB)]
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Field-Induced Dynamic Diamagnetism in a Charge-Density-Wave System
N. Harrison, C. H. Mielke, A. D. Christianson, J. S. Brooks, and M. Tokumoto
pp. 1586-1589 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Electrodynamic Dip in the Local Density of States of a Metallic Wire
F. Pierre, H. Pothier, P. Joyez, Norman O. Birge, D. Esteve, and M. H. Devoret
pp. 1590-1593 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Diamagnetic Persistent Current in Diffusive Normal-Metal Rings
E. M. Q. Jariwala, P. Mohanty, M. B. Ketchen, and R. A. Webb
pp. 1594-1597 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Two-Component Interference Effect: Model of a Spin-Polarized Transport
P. Šeba, P. Exner, K. N. Pichugin, A. Vyhnal, and P. Středa
pp. 1598-1601 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Paramagnetic Reentrant Effect in Mesoscopic Cylinders Made of a Normal Metal in Proximity with a Superconductor
M. Lisowski and E. Zipper
pp. 1602-1605 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Phase Fluctuations and the Pseudogap in YBa2Cu3Ox
C. Meingast, V. Pasler, P. Nagel, A. Rykov, S. Tajima, and P. Olsson
pp. 1606-1609 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Resonant Spin Excitation in an Overdoped High Temperature Superconductor
H. He, Y. Sidis, P. Bourges, G. D. Gu, A. Ivanov, N. Koshizuka, B. Liang, C. T. Lin, L. P. Regnault, E. Schoenherr, and B. Keimer
pp. 1610-1613 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Anomalous Peak in the Superconducting Condensate Density of Cuprate High- Tc Superconductors at a Unique Doping State
C. Bernhard, J. L. Tallon, Th. Blasius, A. Golnik, and Ch. Niedermayer
pp. 1614-1617 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Field-Induced Three- and Two-Dimensional Freezing in a Quantum Spin Liquid
Y. Chen, Z. Honda, A. Zheludev, C. Broholm, K. Katsumata, and S. M. Shapiro
pp. 1618-1621 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Time Reparametrization Group and the Long Time Behavior in Quantum Glassy Systems
Malcolm P. Kennett and Claudio Chamon
pp. 1622-1625 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Nature of Spin Excitations in Two-Dimensional Mott Insulators: Undoped Cuprates and Other Materials
Chang-Ming Ho, V. N. Muthukumar, Masao Ogata, and P. W. Anderson
pp. 1626-1629 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Mechanisms for the Generation of Coherent Longitudinal-Optical Phonons in GaAs /AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Wells
K. J. Yee, Y. S. Lim, T. Dekorsy, and D. S. Kim
pp. 1630-1633 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Spin Relaxation Quenching in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
M. Paillard, X. Marie, P. Renucci, T. Amand, A. Jbeli, and J. M. Gérard
pp. 1634-1637 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron Thermalization in Gold
Chunlei Guo, George Rodriguez, and Antoinette J. Taylor
pp. 1638-1641 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Effect of Hydrogen Adsorption on the X-Ray Absorption Spectra of Small Pt Clusters
A. L. Ankudinov, J. J. Rehr, John Low, and Simon R. Bare
pp. 1642-1645 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Wave Propagation in Subexcitable Media with Periodically Modulated Excitability
Irene Sendiña-Nadal, Eugene Mihaliuk, Jichang Wang, Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri, and Kenneth Showalter
pp. 1646-1649 [View PDF (477 kB)]
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Modeling Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Humans: A Turbulence Analogy
D. C. Lin and R. L. Hughson
pp. 1650-1653 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Trajectories in Phase Diagrams, Growth Processes, and Computational Complexity: How Search Algorithms Solve the 3-Satisfiability Problem
Simona Cocco and Rémi Monasson
pp. 1654-1657 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Typical Solution Time for a Vertex-Covering Algorithm on Finite-Connectivity Random Graphs
Martin Weigt and Alexander K. Hartmann
pp. 1658-1661 [View PDF (95 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Creation of Magnetic Energy in the Solar Atmosphere”
M. Swisdak and M. Shay
pp. 1662 [View PDF (34 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Fine Structure in Magnetization of Individual Fluxoid States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1528 (2000)]
A. K. Geim, S. V. Dubonos, J. J. Palacios, I. V. Grigorieva, M. Henini, and J. J. Schermer
pp. 1663 [View PDF (23 kB)]
 
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