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Physical Review Letters – 9 July 2001
Volume 87, Issue 2

High sensitivity image of an unstained epithelial cell in an aqueous environment made via epidetected coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy. [Andreas Volkmer, Ji-Xin Cheng, and X. Sunney Xie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 023901 (2001)]

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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.

Direct Observation of Surface Chemistry Using Ultrafast Soft-X-Ray Pulses
M. Bauer, C. Lei, K. Read, R. Tobey, J. Gland, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
025501 [View PDF (90 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Noise-Induced Scenario for Inverted Phase Diagrams
M. Ibañes, J. García-Ojalvo, R. Toral, and J. M. Sancho
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
020601 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Structure and the Reflectionless/Refractionless Nature of Parabolic Diffusion-Wave Fields
Andreas Mandelis, Lena Nicolaides, and Yan Chen
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
020801 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Strange Star Heating Events as a Model for Giant Flares of Soft-Gamma-Ray Repeaters
V. V. Usov
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
021101 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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First Observation of the Decay KL→π0e+e-γ
A. Alavi-Harati et al. ((The KTeV Collaboration))
Published 25 June 2001 (5 pages)
021801 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Soft-Pion Theorem for Hard Near-Threshold Pion Production
P. V. Pobylitsa, M. V. Polyakov, and M. Strikman
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
022001 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Polarizations of J/ψ and ψ′ in Hadroproduction at the Tevatron in the kt Factorization Approach
Feng Yuan and Kuang-Ta Chao
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
022002 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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First Measurement of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Integral for 1H from 200 to 800 MeV
J. Ahrens et al. (GDH and A2 Collaborations)
Published 22 June 2001 (5 pages)
022003 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Forward K+ Production in Subthreshold pA Collisions at 1.0 GeV
V. Koptev et al.
Published 21 June 2001 (4 pages)
022301 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Signature of a Pairing Transition in the Heat Capacity of Finite Nuclei
S. Liu and Y. Alhassid
Published 25 June 2001 (4 pages)
022501 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Coexistence of Superdeformed Shapes in 154Er
K. Lagergren, B. Cederwall, T. Bäck, R. Wyss, E. Ideguchi, A. Johnson, A. Ataç, A. Axelsson, F. Azaiez, A. Bracco, J. Cederkäll, Zs. Dombrádi, C. Fahlander, A. Gadea, B. Million, C. M. Petrache, C. Rossi-Alvarez, J. A. Sampson, D. Sohler, and M. Weiszflog
Published 25 June 2001 (4 pages)
022502 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Evidence for Thermal Equilibration in Multifragmentation Reactions Probed with Bremsstrahlung Photons
D. G. d'Enterria, L. Aphecetche, A. Chbihi, H. Delagrange, J. Díaz, M. J. van Goethem, M. Hoefman, A. Kugler, H. Löhner, G. Martínez, M. J. Mora, R. Ortega, R. W. Ostendorf, S. Schadmand, Y. Schutz, R. H. Siemssen, D. Stracener, P. Tlusty, R. Turrisi, M. Volkerts, V. Wagner, H. W. Wilschut, and N. Yahlali
Published 21 June 2001 (4 pages)
022701 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Dramatic Structure in the Photodetachment of Inner Shells of Negative Ions: Li-
H.-L. Zhou, S. T. Manson, L. VoKy, N. Feautrier, and A. Hibbert
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
023001 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Feasibility of Cooling and Trapping Metastable Alkaline-Earth Atoms
Andrei Derevianko
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
023002 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Evidence for Interference Effects in Electron Emission from H2 Colliding with 60MeV/u Kr34+ Ions
N. Stolterfoht, B. Sulik, V. Hoffmann, B. Skogvall, J. Y. Chesnel, J. Rangama, F. Frémont, D. Hennecart, A. Cassimi, X. Husson, A. L. Landers, J. A. Tanis, M. E. Galassi, and R. D. Rivarola
Published 21 June 2001 (4 pages)
023201 [View PDF (201 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Vibrational Imaging with High Sensitivity via Epidetected Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy
Andreas Volkmer, Ji-Xin Cheng, and X. Sunney Xie
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
023901 [View PDF (268 kB)]
Observation of the Dynamical Inversion of the Topological Charge of an Optical Vortex
Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Jaume Recolons, Juan P. Torres, Lluis Torner, and Ewan M. Wright
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
023902 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Collective Dynamics of Two-Mode Stochastic Oscillators
A. Nikitin, Z. Néda, and T. Vicsek
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
024101 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Skew-Orthogonal Polynomials and Universality of Energy-Level Correlations
Akhilesh Pandey and Saugata Ghosh
Published 21 June 2001 (4 pages)
024102 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Direct Observation of Surface Chemistry Using Ultrafast Soft-X-Ray Pulses
M. Bauer, C. Lei, K. Read, R. Tobey, J. Gland, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
025501 [View PDF (90 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Rapid Entropy Drop, Kauzmann Catastrophe, and an Apparent Mode-Coupling Transition in Polymers: An Exact Model Calculation on a Husimi Cactus
P. D. Gujrati and Andrea Corsi
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
025701 [View PDF (138 kB)]
Mechanical Properties and Formation Mechanisms of a Wire of Single Gold Atoms
G. Rubio-Bollinger, S. R. Bahn, N. Agraït, K. W. Jacobsen, and S. Vieira
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
026101 [View PDF (284 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Screening Breakdown on the Route toward the Metal-Insulator Transition in Modulation Doped Si /SiGe Quantum Wells
Z. Wilamowski, N. Sandersfeld, W. Jantsch, D. Többen, and F. Schäffler
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
026401 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance of Half-Metallic Oxide Nanocontacts
J. J. Versluijs, M. A. Bari, and J. M. D. Coey
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
026601 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Large Tunneling Magnetoresistance in GaMnAs /AlAs /GaMnAs Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Tunnel Junctions
M. Tanaka and Y. Higo
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
026602 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Transport through Quasiballistic Quantum Wires: The Role of Contacts
Siddhartha Lal, Sumathi Rao, and Diptiman Sen
Published 21 June 2001 (4 pages)
026801 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Surface Conductance near the Order-Disorder Phase Transition on Si(100)
Kwonjae Yoo and H. H. Weitering
Published 21 June 2001 (4 pages)
026802 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Devil's Staircase in the Magnetoresistance of a Periodic Array of Scatterers
Jan Wiersig and Kang-Hun Ahn
Published 21 June 2001 (4 pages)
026803 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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“Soft” Anharmonic Vortex Glass in Ferromagnetic Superconductors
Leo Radzihovsky, A. M. Ettouhami, Karl Saunders, and John Toner
Published 21 June 2001 (4 pages)
027001 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Density of States below the Thouless Gap in a Mesoscopic SNS Junction
P. M. Ostrovsky, M. A. Skvortsov, and M. V. Feigel'man
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
027002 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Probing the Magnetic Forces in fcc-Fe(001) Films by Means of Surface Phonon Spectroscopy
G. Benedek, E. Hulpke, and W. Steinhögl
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
027201 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Ultrafast Vibrational Dephasing of Liquid Water
Jens Stenger, Dorte Madsen, Peter Hamm, Erik T. J. Nibbering, and Thomas Elsaesser
Published 20 June 2001 (4 pages)
027401 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Evidence of Nonperturbative Continuum Correlations in Two-Dimensional Exciton Systems in Semiconductor Microcavities
N. H. Kwong, R. Takayama, I. Rumyantsev, M. Kuwata-Gonokami, and R. Binder
Published 22 June 2001 (4 pages)
027402 [View PDF (103 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Completely Positive Quantum Dissipation”
R. F. O'Connell
Published 20 June 2001 (1 page)
028901 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Vacchini Replies:
Bassano Vacchini
Published 20 June 2001 (1 page)
028902 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Comment on “Do Semiclassical Zero Temperature Black Holes Exist”
David A. Lowe
Published 21 June 2001 (1 page)
029001 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Anderson, Hiscock, and Taylor Reply:
Paul R. Anderson, William A. Hiscock, and Brett E. Taylor
Published 21 June 2001 (1 page)
029002 [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Comment on “Two-Body Random Ensembles: From Nuclear Spectra to Random Polynomials”
R. Bijker and A. Frank
Published 26 June 2001 (1 page)
029201 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Kusnezov Replies:
Dimitri Kusnezov
Published 26 June 2001 (1 page)
029202 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Gas-Liquid Transition in a Two-Dimensional System of Millimeter-Sized Like-Charged Metal Balls”
Noel A. Clark and David A. Coleman
Published 20 June 2001 (1 page)
029601 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Tata Replies:
B. V. R. Tata
Published 20 June 2001 (1 page)
029602 [View PDF (65 kB)]
 
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