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Physical Review Letters – 21 November 1988
Volume 61, Issue 21

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.

Giant Magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr Magnetic Superlattices
M. N. Baibich, J. M. Broto, A. Fert, F. Nguyen Van Dau, F. Petroff, P. Etienne, G. Creuzet, A. Friederich, and J. Chazelas
pp. 2472-2475 [View Page Images or PDF (528 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Ising Model with Adjustable Boundary Conditions: Exact Results for Finite Lattice Mass Gaps
D. B. Abraham, L. F. Ko, and N. M. Švrakić
pp. 2393-2396 [View Page Images or PDF (554 kB)]
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Asymptotic Behavior of Densities in Diffusion-Dominated Annihilation Reactions
Maury Bramson and Joel L. Lebowitz
pp. 2397-2400 [View Page Images or PDF (588 kB)]
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Boundary Conditions from Path Integrals
T. Jaroszewicz
pp. 2401-2404 [View Page Images or PDF (596 kB)]
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Exact Solution for Diffusion in a Random Potential
R. Tao
pp. 2405-2408 [View Page Images or PDF (455 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Constraints of Proposed Spin-0 and Spin-1 Partners of the Graviton
C. W. Stubbs, E. G. Adelberger, and E. C. Gregory
pp. 2409-2411 [View Page Images or PDF (457 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Monte Carlo Study of Fermion-Number Fractionization on a Lattice
J. Casahorrán, J. G. Esteve, and A. Tarancón
pp. 2412-2415 [View Page Images or PDF (525 kB)]
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On the Existence of Quantum Electrodynamics
John B. Kogut, Elbio Dagotto, and A. Kocić
pp. 2416-2419 [View Page Images or PDF (585 kB)]
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Spontaneous Lepton-Number Breaking at Electroweak Scale
Darwin Chang, W. -Y. Keung, and Palash B. Pal
pp. 2420-2423 [View Page Images or PDF (579 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Local Deviations from the Grodzins Systematics: Enhanced Collectivity in the Transitional Ra-Th Nuclei
Moshe Gai
pp. 2424-2427 [View Page Images or PDF (638 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of the Difference between e--e- and e+-e- Interactions
W. N. Lennard, Peter J. Schultz, G. R. Massoumi, and L. R. Logan
pp. 2428-2430 [View Page Images or PDF (551 kB)]
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rf Spectroscopy of Trapped Neutral Atoms
A. G. Martin, K. Helmerson, V. S. Bagnato, G. P. Lafyatis, and D. E. Pritchard
pp. 2431-2434 [View Page Images or PDF (677 kB)]
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Twofold Symmetric Angular Distributions in Multiphoton Ionization with Elliptically Polarized Light
S. Basile, F. Trombetta, and G. Ferrante
pp. 2435-2437 [View Page Images or PDF (377 kB)]
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Scaled-Energy Spectroscopy and Its Relation with Periodic Orbits
U. Eichmann, K. Richter, D. Wintgen, and W. Sandner
pp. 2438-2441 [View Page Images or PDF (777 kB)]
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Quantum Limits to Light Amplifiers
M. J. Collett and D. F. Walls
pp. 2442-2444 [View Page Images or PDF (353 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of the Fundamental Dark Soliton in Optical Fibers
A. M. Weiner, J. P. Heritage, R. J. Hawkins, R. N. Thurston, E. M. Kirschner, D. E. Leaird, and W. J. Tomlinson
pp. 2445-2448 [View Page Images or PDF (651 kB)]

Fundamental Phenomenology and Applications

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Temporal Modulation of Traveling Waves
I. Rehberg, S. Rasenat, J. Fineberg, M. de la Torre Juarez, and V. Steinberg
pp. 2449-2452 [View Page Images or PDF (736 kB)]

Fluids, Plasmas, and Electric Discharges

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Two-Dimensional Nonlocal Electron Transport in Laser-Produced Plasmas
E. M. Epperlein, G. J. Rickard, and A. R. Bell
pp. 2453-2456 [View Page Images or PDF (512 kB)]
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Evidence for a Pressure-Driven Instability in the CTX Spheromak
F. J. Wysocki, J. C. Fernández, I. Henins, T. R. Jarboe, and G. J. Marklin
pp. 2457-2460 [View Page Images or PDF (673 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Density-Functional Theory for Nematic and Smectic-A Ordering of Hard Spherocylinders
A. Poniewierski and R. Hołyst
pp. 2461-2464 [View Page Images or PDF (486 kB)]
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Neutron-Spin-Echo Investigation on the Dynamics of Polybutadiene near the Glass Transition
D. Richter, B. Frick, and B. Farago
pp. 2465-2468 [View Page Images or PDF (664 kB)]
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Si(100) Surface under an Externally Applied Stress
F. K. Men, W. E. Packard, and M. B. Webb
pp. 2469-2471 [View Page Images or PDF (493 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Giant Magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr Magnetic Superlattices
M. N. Baibich, J. M. Broto, A. Fert, F. Nguyen Van Dau, F. Petroff, P. Etienne, G. Creuzet, A. Friederich, and J. Chazelas
pp. 2472-2475 [View Page Images or PDF (528 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Critical Currents in [001] Grains and across Their Tilt Boundaries in YBa2Cu3O7 Films
J. Mannhart, P. Chaudhari, D. Dimos, C. C. Tsuei, and T. R. McGuire
pp. 2476-2479 [View Page Images or PDF (641 kB)]
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Fermi Surface, Ground-State Electronic Structure, and Positron Experiments in YBa2Cu3O7
A. Bansil, R. Pankaluoto, R. S. Rao, P. E. Mijnarends, W. Długosz, R. Prasad, and L. C. Smedskjaer
pp. 2480-2483 [View Page Images or PDF (639 kB)]
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Ground States of Low-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets
Rajiv R. P. Singh, Martin P. Gelfand, and David A. Huse
pp. 2484-2487 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Identification of the s-derived Valence-Electron Level in Photoemission from Alkali-Metal Adlayers on Aluminum
K. Horn, A. Hohlfeld, J. Somers, Th. Lindner, P. Hollins, and A. M. Bradshaw
pp. 2488-2491 [View Page Images or PDF (686 kB)]
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Observation of a Monolayer Phase Transition on the Meniscus in a Langmuir-Blodgett Transfer Configuration
J. E. Riegler and J. D. LeGrange
pp. 2492-2495 [View Page Images or PDF (714 kB)]
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Diffusion-Controlled Reactions with Mobile Traps
Attila Szabo, Robert Zwanzig, and Noam Agmon
pp. 2496-2499 [View Page Images or PDF (501 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Critical Properties of Elasticity at Percolation
Stéphane Ty̆c
pp. 2500 [View Page Images or PDF (130 kB)]
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Comment on "Percolation in Isotropic Elastic Media"
Stéphane Roux, Alex Hansen, and E. Guyon
pp. 2501 [View Page Images or PDF (155 kB)]
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Comment on "Percolation in Isotropic Elastic Media"
A. R. Day and M. F. Thorpe
pp. 2502 [View Page Images or PDF (164 kB)]
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Garcia-Molina, Guinea, and Louis Reply
R. Garcia-Molina, F. Guinea, and E. Louis
pp. 2503 [View Page Images or PDF (148 kB)]
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Comment on "Discrepancy between Theory and Experiment for Λc+→Λe+ν: Possible Evidence for a Fourth Generation"
H. Høgaasen and Ø. Lie-Svendsen
pp. 2504 [View Page Images or PDF (162 kB)]
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García, Huerta, and Kielanowski Reply
A. García, R. Huerta, and P. Kielanowski
pp. 2505 [View Page Images or PDF (87 kB)]
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Comment on "Asymmetries in Above-Threshold Ionization"
P. Lambropoulos and X. Tang
pp. 2506 [View Page Images or PDF (183 kB)]
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Comment on "Asymmetries in Above-Threshold Ionization"
H. G. Muller, G. Petite, and P. Agostini
pp. 2507 [View Page Images or PDF (163 kB)]
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Vortex Behavior in High-Tc Superconductors with Disorder
Thomas Nattermann and Reinhard Lipowsky
pp. 2508 [View Page Images or PDF (175 kB)]

ERRATA

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Measurement of the Electric Polarizability of the Neutron
J. Schmiedmayer, H. Rauch, and P. Riehs
pp. 2509 [View Page Images or PDF (30 kB)]
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Cascade Focusing in the Beat-Wave Accelerator
P. Gibbon and A. R. Bell
pp. 2509 [View Page Images or PDF (30 kB)]
 
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