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Physical Review Letters

Volume 85, Issue 9

28 August 2000

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Nuclear Excitation by Electron Transition in $^{197} Au$ with Synchrotron X Rays and an Avalanche Photodiode

S. Kishimoto, Y. Yoda, M. Seto, Y. Kobayashi, S. Kitao, R. Haruki, T. Kawauchi, K. Fukutani, and T. Okano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1831 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

LETTERS

General Physics

Feasible “Kochen-Specker” Experiment with Single Particles

Christoph Simon, Marek Żukowski, Harald Weinfurter, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1783 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Supercriticality and Transmission Resonances in the Dirac Equation

Norman Dombey, Piers Kennedy, and A. Calogeracos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1787 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Trapped Dipolar Gases

L. Santos, G. V. Shlyapnikov, P. Zoller, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1791 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Stable $^{85} Rb$ Bose-Einstein Condensates with Widely Tunable Interactions

S. L. Cornish, N. R. Claussen, J. L. Roberts, E. A. Cornell, and C. E. Wieman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1795 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Extraction of Work from a Single Thermal Bath in the Quantum Regime

A. E. Allahverdyan and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1799 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Universality Class of Absorbing Phase Transitions with a Conserved Field

Michela Rossi, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, and Alessandro Vespignani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1803 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Elementary Particles and Fields

Extracting Weak Phase Information from $B \to V_{1} V_{2}$ Decays

David London, Nita Sinha, and Rahul Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1807 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Casimir Scaling as a Test of QCD Vacuum Models

Vladimir Shevchenko and Yuri Simonov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1811 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

KARMEN Time Anomaly: Search for a Neutral Particle of Mass 33.9 MeV in Pion Decay

M. Daum, M. Janousch, P.-R. Kettle, J. Koglin, D. Poc̆anić, J. Schottmüller, C. Wigger, and Z. G. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1815 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Nuclear Physics

Excitation Functions of the Analyzing Power in $p \vec{p}$ Scattering from 0.45 to 2.5 GeV

M. Altmeier et al. (EDDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1819 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Barrier-Wave–Internal-Wave Interference and Airy Minima in ${}^{16}O {}^{16}{+ O}$ Elastic Scattering

F. Michel, F. Brau, G. Reidemeister, and S. Ohkubo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1823 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Electromagnetic Cross Sections of Double Giant Dipole Resonances in $^{136} Xe$ and $^{208} Pb$ within the Phonon Damping Model

Nguyen Dinh Dang, Vuong Kim Au, and Akito Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1827 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Nuclear Excitation by Electron Transition in $^{197} Au$ with Synchrotron X Rays and an Avalanche Photodiode

S. Kishimoto, Y. Yoda, M. Seto, Y. Kobayashi, S. Kitao, R. Haruki, T. Kawauchi, K. Fukutani, and T. Okano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1831 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Breakdown of Stabilization of Atoms Interacting with Intense, High-Frequency Laser Pulses

N. J. Kylstra, R. A. Worthington, A. Patel, P. L. Knight, J. R. Vázquez de Aldana, and L. Roso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1835 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Instabilities in a Magneto-optical Trap: Noise-Induced Dynamics in an Atomic System

David Wilkowski, Jean Ringot, Daniel Hennequin, and Jean Claude Garreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1839 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Phase Control of Photoabsorption in Optically Dense Media

David Petrosyan and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1843 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Observation of Ionization in a Crystal Interferometer

M. Nelhiebel, P. Schattschneider, and B. Jouffrey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1847 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Effects of Local Fields on Spontaneous Emission in Dielectric Media

Michael E. Crenshaw and Charles M. Bowden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1851 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Giant Violations of Classical Inequalities through Conditional Homodyne Detection of the Quadrature Amplitudes of Light

H. J. Carmichael, H. M. Castro-Beltran, G. T. Foster, and L. A. Orozco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1855 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

New Mechanisms for Lack of Equipartition of Energy

Àlex Haro and Rafael de la Llave

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1859 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Diffraction Management

H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, and J. S. Aitchison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1863 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Critical Enhancement of Photorefractive Beam Coupling

E. V. Podivilov, B. I. Sturman, H. C. Pedersen, and P. M. Johansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1867 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Transverse Instability of Optical Spatiotemporal Solitons in Quadratic Media

Xiang Liu, Kale Beckwitt, and Frank Wise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1871 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Tunable Photonic Crystals with Semiconducting Constituents

P. Halevi and F. Ramos-Mendieta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1875 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Observation of Inhomogeneous Spectral Broadening of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in an Optical Fiber

Valeri I. Kovalev and Robert G. Harrison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1879 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Plasma and Beam Physics

Inward Transport and Compression of a Positron Plasma by a Rotating Electric Field

R. G. Greaves and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1883 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Compressibility and Polygonization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes under Hydrostatic Pressure

Jie Tang, Lu-Chang Qin, Taizo Sasaki, Masako Yudasaka, Akiyuki Matsushita, and Sumio Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1887 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Path Integral Monte Carlo Calculation of the Deuterium Hugoniot

B. Militzer and D. M. Ceperley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1890 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Melting Process and Interface Instability of Highly Magnetized Solid $^{3} He$ : Role of the Magnetization Gradient

H. Akimoto, R. van Rooijen, R. Jochemsen, G. Frossati, and W. van Saarloos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1894 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Nature of Metal-Ceramic Adhesion: Computational Experiments with Co on TiC

S. V. Dudiy, J. Hartford, and B. I. Lundqvist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1898 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Spontaneous Formation of Indium-Rich Nanostructures on InGaN(0001) Surfaces

Huajie Chen, R. M. Feenstra, J. E. Northrup, T. Zywietz, and J. Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1902 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Five Wave Mixing: Surface-Specific Transient Grating Spectroscopy as a Probe of Low Frequency Intermolecular Adsorbate Motion

Tanya Kikteva, Dmitry Star, Anthony M. D. Lee, Gary W. Leach, and John M. Papanikolas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1906 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Nature, Strength, and Consequences of Indirect Adsorbate Interactions on Metals

A. Bogicevic, S. Ovesson, P. Hyldgaard, B. I. Lundqvist, H. Brune, and D. R. Jennison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1910 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Electronic Resonance and Symmetry in Single-Molecule Inelastic Electron Tunneling

J. R. Hahn, H. J. Lee, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1914 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Vibrationally Mediated Negative Differential Resistance in a Single Molecule

J. Gaudioso, L. J. Lauhon, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1918 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Equilibrium Shape of Two-Dimensional Islands under Stress

Adam Li, Feng Liu, and M. G. Lagally

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1922 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Temperature-Dependent Interfacial Stiffness of the Disorder Layer in a Thin ${Cu}_{3} Au$ Alloy Film

C. Ern, W. Donner, H. Dosch, B. Adams, and D. Nowikow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1926 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Three-Phase Contact Line Energetics from Nanoscale Liquid Surface Topographies

T. Pompe and S. Herminghaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1930 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Density Functional for a Model Colloid-Polymer Mixture

Matthias Schmidt, Hartmut Löwen, Joseph M. Brader, and Robert Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1934 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Pressure Induced Quantum Critical Point and Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in ${BaVS}_{3}$

L. Forró, R. Gaál, H. Berger, P. Fazekas, K. Penc, I. Kézsmárki, and G. Mihály

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1938 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Missing $2 k_{F}$ Response for Composite Fermions in Phonon Drag

S. Zelakiewicz, H. Noh, T. J. Gramila, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1942 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Out-of-Equilibrium Kondo Effect in Double Quantum Dots

Ramón Aguado and David C. Langreth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1946 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Evidence of a Reentrant Peierls Distortion in Liquid GeTe

J. Y. Raty, V. Godlevsky, Ph. Ghosez, C. Bichara, J. P. Gaspard, and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1950 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Hall Crystal States at $ν = 2$ and Moderate Landau Level Mixing

Ganpathy Murthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1954 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Metal-Semiconductor Nanocontacts: Silicon Nanowires

Uzi Landman, Robert N. Barnett, Andrew G. Scherbakov, and Phaedon Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1958 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Quantum Dot as Spin Filter and Spin Memory

Patrik Recher, Eugene V. Sukhorukov, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1962 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Photoemission Spectroscopy of the Strong-Coupling Superconducting Transitions in Lead and Niobium

A. Chainani, T. Yokoya, T. Kiss, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1966 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

BCS-like Density of States in Superconducting $A_{3} C_{60}$ Surfaces

R. Hesper, L. H. Tjeng, A. Heeres, and G. A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1970 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Superconductor-Insulator Transition in a Two-Dimensional Array of Resistively Shunted Small Josephson Junctions

Yamaguchi Takahide, Ryuta Yagi, Akinobu Kanda, Youiti Ootuka, and Shun-ichi Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1974 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Local Magnetism of Isolated Mo Atoms at Substitutional and Interstitial Sites in Yb Metal: Experiment and Theory

A. A. Tulapurkar, S. N. Mishra, R. G. Pillay, H. G. Salunke, G. P. Das, and S. Cottenier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1978 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Crossover from Dilute to Majority Spin Freezing in Two Leg Ladder System $Sr (C u, Z n)_{2} O_{3}$

M. I. Larkin, Y. Fudamoto, I. M. Gat, A. Kinkhabwala, K. M. Kojima, G. M. Luke, J. Merrin, B. Nachumi, Y. J. Uemura, M. Azuma, T. Saito, and M. Takano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1982 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Ultrafast Spin Dynamics and Critical Behavior in Half-Metallic Ferromagnet: ${Sr}_{2} {FeMoO}_{6}$

T. Kise, T. Ogasawara, M. Ashida, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, and M. Kuwata-Gonokami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1986 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Magnetic Correlations in Nanostructured Ferromagnets

Jörg F. Löffler, Hans-Benjamin Braun, and Werner Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1990 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Photoinduced Magnetism, Dynamics, and Cluster Glass Behavior of a Molecule-Based Magnet

Dušan A. Pejaković, Jamie L. Manson, Joel S. Miller, and Arthur J. Epstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1994 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Mesoscopic Microwave Dispersion in Ferroelectric Thin Films

Charles Hubert, Jeremy Levy, E. J. Cukauskas, and Steven W. Kirchoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1998 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Demonstration of Sixth-Order Coulomb Correlations in a Semiconductor Single Quantum Well

S. R. Bolton, U. Neukirch, L. J. Sham, D. S. Chemla, and V. M. Axt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2002 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Quantum Algorithm for Distributed Clock Synchronization

Isaac L. Chuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2006 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Quantum Clock Synchronization Based on Shared Prior Entanglement

Richard Jozsa, Daniel S. Abrams, Jonathan P. Dowling, and Colin P. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2010 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Sophisticated Quantum Search Without Entanglement

David A. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2014 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Relating the Microscopic and Macroscopic Response of a Polymeric Fluid in a Shearing Flow

Hazen P. Babcock, Douglas E. Smith, Joe S. Hur, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, and Steven Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2018 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Model of Convergent Extension in Animal Morphogenesis

Mark Zajac, Gerald L. Jones, and James A. Glazier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2022 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Time Delay Effect in a Living Coupled Oscillator System with the Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum

Atsuko Takamatsu, Teruo Fujii, and Isao Endo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2026 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000

Turbulence and Wave Breaking Effects on Air-Water Gas Exchange

Evelyn J. Boettcher, Jay Fineberg, and Daniel P. Lathrop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2030 (2000) - Published 28 August, 2000