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Physical Review Letters – 27 August 2001
Volume 87, Issue 9

Simulated electric field (left) and ion density (right) showing the development in time (downward) of a current sheet instability. [I. Shinohara, H. Suzuki, M. Fujimoto, and M. Hoshino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 095001 (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.

Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant
J. K. Webb, M. T. Murphy, V. V. Flambaum, V. A. Dzuba, J. D. Barrow, C. W. Churchill, J. X. Prochaska, and A. M. Wolfe
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
091301 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Proposed Source of Gravitational Radiation from a Torus around a Black Hole
Maurice H. P. M. van Putten
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
091101 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant
J. K. Webb, M. T. Murphy, V. V. Flambaum, V. A. Dzuba, J. D. Barrow, C. W. Churchill, J. X. Prochaska, and A. M. Wolfe
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
091301 [View PDF (86 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Lorentz Invariance and Origin of Symmetries
J. L. Chkareuli, C. D. Froggatt, and H. B. Nielsen
Published 14 August 2001 (4 pages)
091601 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Observation of CP Violation in the B0 Meson System
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 14 August 2001 (8 pages)
091801 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Observation of Large CP Violation in the Neutral B Meson System
K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 14 August 2001 (7 pages)
091802 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

Superheavy Hydrogen 5H
A. A. Korsheninnikov, M. S. Golovkov, I. Tanihata, A. M. Rodin, A. S. Fomichev, S. I. Sidorchuk, S. V. Stepantsov, M. L. Chelnokov, V. A. Gorshkov, D. D. Bogdanov, R. Wolski, G. M. Ter-Akopian, Yu. Ts. Oganessian, W. Mittig, P. Roussel-Chomaz, H. Savajols, E. A. Kuzmin, E. Yu. Nikolskii, and A. A. Ogloblin
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
092501 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Kohn-Sham Theory for Ground-State Ensembles
C. A. Ullrich and W. Kohn
Published 14 August 2001 (4 pages)
093001 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Theory of Molecule-Surface Scattering at Thermal and Hyperthermal Energies
Ileana Iftimia and J. R. Manson
Published 10 August 2001 (4 pages)
093201 [View PDF (119 kB)]
Sub-ppm Laser Spectroscopy of Antiprotonic Helium and a CPT-Violation Limit on the Antiprotonic Charge and Mass
M. Hori, J. Eades, R. S. Hayano, T. Ishikawa, J. Sakaguchi, E. Widmann, H. Yamaguchi, H. A. Torii, B. Juhász, D. Horváth, and T. Yamazaki
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
093401 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Conditional Large Fock State Preparation and Field State Reconstruction in Cavity QED
M. França Santos, E. Solano, and R. L. de Matos Filho
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
093601 [View PDF (488 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Distribution of Proper Delay Times in Quantum Chaotic Scattering: A Crossover from Ideal to Weak Coupling
Hans-Jürgen Sommers, Dmitry V. Savin, and Valentin V. Sokolov
Published 8 August 2001 (4 pages)
094101 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Onset of Coherent Oscillations in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
X.-L. Qiu and P. Tong
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
094501 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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High-Gradient Millimeter-Wave Accelerator on a Planar Dielectric Substrate
Marc E. Hill, Chris Adolphsen, W. Baumgartner, Richard S. Callin, Xintian E. Lin, Mike Seidel, Tim Slaton, and David H. Whittum
Published 10 August 2001 (4 pages)
094801 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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High-Efficiency Beam Extraction and Collimation Using Channeling in Very Short Bent Crystals
A. G. Afonin, V. T. Baranov, V. M. Biryukov, M. B. H. Breese, V. N. Chepegin, Yu. A. Chesnokov, V. Guidi, Yu. M. Ivanov, V. I. Kotov, G. Martinelli, W. Scandale, M. Stefancich, V. I. Terekhov, D. Trbojevic, E. F. Troyanov, and D. Vincenzi
Published 14 August 2001 (4 pages)
094802 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Rapid Large-Scale Magnetic-Field Dissipation in a Collisionless Current Sheet via Coupling between Kelvin-Helmholtz and Lower-Hybrid Drift Instabilities
I. Shinohara, H. Suzuki, M. Fujimoto, and M. Hoshino
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
095001 [View PDF (379 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Hydrogen-Enhanced Local Plasticity in Aluminum: An Ab Initio Study
Gang Lu, Qing Zhang, Nicholas Kioussis, and Efthimios Kaxiras
Published 8 August 2001 (4 pages)
095501 [View PDF (561 kB)]
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Nature of eg Electron Order in La1-xSr1+xMnO4
S. Larochelle, A. Mehta, N. Kaneko, P. K. Mang, A. F. Panchula, L. Zhou, J. Arthur, and M. Greven
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
095502 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Ab Initio Design of Perovskite Alloys with Predetermined Properties: The Case of Pb(Sc0.5Nb0.5)O3
Jorge Íñiguez and L. Bellaiche
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
095503 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Electronic Structure and Field-Emission Characteristics of Open-Ended Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Gang Zhou, Wenhui Duan, and Binglin Gu
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
095504 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Size-Dependent Melting of Self-Assembled Indium Nanostructures
M. Dippel, A. Maier, V. Gimple, H. Wider, W. E. Evenson, R. L. Rasera, and G. Schatz
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
095505 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Morphological Instability of Liquid Metallic Nuclei Condensing on Charged Inhomogeneities
Pavel Grinfeld
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
095701 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Correlation of Supramolecular Chirality in One-Dimensional Hydrogen-Bonded Assemblies
J. Weckesser, A. De Vita, J. V. Barth, C. Cai, and K. Kern
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
096101 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Unusual Multilayer Surface Alloy: Al(100)-c(2x2)-2Li
A. Mikkelsen, M. Borg, J. H. Petersen, J. N. Andersen, and D. L. Adams
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
096102 [View PDF (807 kB)]
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Coexistence of Atomic and Molecular Chemisorption States: H2/Pd(210)
Pia K. Schmidt, Klaus Christmann, Georg Kresse, Jürgen Hafner, Markus Lischka, and Axel Groß
Published 10 August 2001 (4 pages)
096103 [View PDF (782 kB)]
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Viscosity of Interfacial Water
Yingxi Zhu and Steve Granick
Published 10 August 2001 (4 pages)
096104 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Rate-Dependent Slip of Newtonian Liquid at Smooth Surfaces
Yingxi Zhu and Steve Granick
Published 10 August 2001 (4 pages)
096105 [View PDF (180 kB)]
Nanomechanical Resonator Shuttling Single Electrons at Radio Frequencies
A. Erbe, C. Weiss, W. Zwerger, and R. H. Blick
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
096106 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Depinning with Dynamic Stress Overshoots: Mean Field Theory
J. M. Schwarz and Daniel S. Fisher
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
096107 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Quantum Pump for Spin and Charge Transport in a Luttinger Liquid
Prashant Sharma and Claudio Chamon
Published 10 August 2001 (4 pages)
096401 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Noncontact Friction and Force Fluctuations between Closely Spaced Bodies
B. C. Stipe, H. J. Mamin, T. D. Stowe, T. W. Kenny, and D. Rugar
Published 10 August 2001 (4 pages)
096801 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Exclusion of Quantum Coherence as the Origin of the 2D Metallic State in High-Mobility Silicon Inversion Layers
G. Brunthaler, A. Prinz, G. Bauer, and V. M. Pudalov
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
096802 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Even-Odd Behavior of Conductance in Monatomic Sodium Wires
H.-S. Sim, H.-W. Lee, and K. J. Chang
Published 14 August 2001 (4 pages)
096803 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Josephson Effect in MgB2 Break Junctions
R. S. Gonnelli, A. Calzolari, D. Daghero, G. A. Ummarino, V. A. Stepanov, G. Giunchi, S. Ceresara, and G. Ripamonti
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
097001 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Scaling near the Quantum-Critical Point in the SO(5) Theory of the High- Tc Superconductivity
T. K. Kopeć and T. A. Zaleski
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
097002 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Optical Conductivity and Penetration Depth in MgB2
A. V. Pronin, A. Pimenov, A. Loidl, and S. I. Krasnosvobodtsev
Published 14 August 2001 (4 pages)
097003 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Fluctuation Dominated Josephson Tunneling with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
O. Naaman, W. Teizer, and R. C. Dynes
Published 14 August 2001 (4 pages)
097004 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Resonating Valence Bond Wave Functions for Strongly Frustrated Spin Systems
Luca Capriotti, Federico Becca, Alberto Parola, and Sandro Sorella
Published 8 August 2001 (4 pages)
097201 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Multichannel Pseudogap Kondo Model: Large- N Solution and Quantum-Critical Dynamics
Matthias Vojta
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
097202 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Magnetization Plateaus of SrCu2(BO3)2 from a Chern-Simons Theory
G. Misguich, Th. Jolicoeur, and S. M. Girvin
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
097203 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Electronic and Magnetic Structures of Sr2FeMoO6
Sugata Ray, Ashwani Kumar, D. D. Sarma, R. Cimino, S. Turchini, S. Zennaro, and N. Zema
Published 14 August 2001 (4 pages)
097204 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Tunnel Window's Imprint on Dipolar Field Distributions
Juan José Alonso and Julio F. Fernández
Published 14 August 2001 (4 pages)
097205 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Nonadiabatic Conditional Geometric Phase Shift with NMR
Wang Xiang-Bin and Matsumoto Keiji
Published 8 August 2001 (4 pages)
097901 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Solid-State Quantum Computer Based on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
G. P. Berman, G. W. Brown, M. E. Hawley, and V. I. Tsifrinovich
Published 13 August 2001 (3 pages)
097902 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Array-Enhanced Coherence Resonance: Nontrivial Effects of Heterogeneity and Spatial Independence of Noise
Changsong Zhou, Jürgen Kurths, and Bambi Hu
Published 8 August 2001 (4 pages)
098101 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Shear-Induced Nano-Macro Structural Transition in a Polymeric Bicontinuous Microemulsion
Kasiraman Krishnan, Kristoffer Almdal, Wesley R. Burghardt, Timothy P. Lodge, and Frank S. Bates
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
098301 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Phase-Morphology Map of Polymer-Blend Thin Films Confined to Narrow Strips
B. Zhang Newby and R. J. Composto
Published 9 August 2001 (4 pages)
098302 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Equilibrium Configurations and Energetics of Point Defects in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals
Alexandros Pertsinidis and X. S. Ling
Published 13 August 2001 (4 pages)
098303 [View PDF (497 kB)]
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Droplet Growth by Coalescence in Binary Fluid Mixtures
Brian E. Burkhart, Prasad V. Gopalkrishnan, Steven D. Hudson, Alex M. Jamieson, Michael A. Rother, and Robert H. Davis
Published 14 August 2001 (4 pages)
098304 [View PDF (150 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Silicon Clathrate with an f-Electron System”
V. Pacheco, W. Carrillo-Cabrera, V. H. Tran, S. Paschen, and Y. Grin
Published 9 August 2001 (1 page)
099601 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Kawaguchi, Tanigaki, and Yasukawa Reply:
Tetsuji Kawaguchi, Katsumi Tanigaki, and Masahiro Yasukawa
Published 9 August 2001 (1 page)
099602 [View PDF (33 kB)]
 
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