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Physical Review Letters – 10 December 1990
Volume 65, Issue 24

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.

Spatiotemporal concentration patterns in a surface reaction: Propagating and standing waves, rotating spirals, and turbulence
S. Jakubith, H. H. Rotermund, W. Engel, A. von Oertzen, and G. Ertl
pp. 3013-3016 [View Page Images or PDF (1,365 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Convexity and exponent inequalities for conduction near percolation
K. Golden
pp. 2923-2926 [View Page Images or PDF (629 kB)]
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Quantum tunneling and chaos in a driven anharmonic oscillator
W. A. Lin and L. E. Ballentine
pp. 2927-2930 [View Page Images or PDF (578 kB)]
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Test of the linearity of quantum mechanics in optically pumped 201Hg
P. K. Majumder, B. J. Venema, S. K. Lamoreaux, B. R. Heckel, and E. N. Fortson
pp. 2931-2934 [View Page Images or PDF (716 kB)]
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Transition to chaos for random dynamical systems
Lei Yu, Edward Ott, and Qi Chen
pp. 2935-2938 [View Page Images or PDF (651 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Weak-scale effective supersymmetry
L. J. Hall and L. Randall
pp. 2939-2942 [View Page Images or PDF (740 kB)]
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Effects of an anomalous ZWW vertex on Z decays
G. Bélanger, F. Boudjema, and D. London
pp. 2943-2946 [View Page Images or PDF (549 kB)]
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Hyperfine splitting of B mesons and Bs production at the Υ(5S)
J. Lee-Franzini, U. Heintz, D. M. J. Lovelock, M. Narain, R. D. Schamberger, J. Willins, C. Yanagisawa, P. Franzini, and P. M. Tuts
pp. 2947-2950 [View Page Images or PDF (632 kB)]
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Factorization test using B¯0→D*+π- and an estimate of fDs using B→DDs-
Daniela Bortoletto and Sheldon Stone
pp. 2951-2954 [View Page Images or PDF (537 kB)]
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Two-component approach to the ‘‘proton spin’’ puzzle in generalized Skyrme models
J. Schechter, V. Soni, A. Subbaraman, and H. Weigel
pp. 2955-2958 [View Page Images or PDF (711 kB)]
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Light-front Tamm-Dancoff field theory
Robert J. Perry, Avaroth Harindranath, and Kenneth G. Wilson
pp. 2959-2962 [View Page Images or PDF (741 kB)]
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Atomic parity violation as a probe of new physics
William J. Marciano and Jonathan L. Rosner
pp. 2963-2966 [View Page Images or PDF (698 kB)]
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Precision electroweak experiments and heavy physics: A global analysis
D. C. Kennedy and Paul Langacker
pp. 2967-2970 [View Page Images or PDF (694 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Chaos in the low-lying collective states of even-even nuclei
Y. Alhassid, A. Novoselsky, and N. Whelan
pp. 2971-2974 [View Page Images or PDF (706 kB)]
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New look at α decay of heavy nuclei
B. Buck, A. C. Merchant, and S. M. Perez
pp. 2975-2977 [View Page Images or PDF (387 kB)]
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Low-lying magnetic dipole excitations in actinide nuclei
Amand Faessler, Dao Tien Khoa, M. Grigorescu, and R. Nojarov
pp. 2978-2981 [View Page Images or PDF (570 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Nonadiabatic behavior of the polarization of electric-field-induced Lyman-α radiation
O. Plotzke, U. Wille, R. Hippler, and H. O. Lutz
pp. 2982-2985 [View Page Images or PDF (664 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Exact solutions for the Saffman-Taylor problem with surface tension
Leo P. Kadanoff
pp. 2986-2988 [View Page Images or PDF (328 kB)]
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High-gain X-band dielectric Cherenkov maser
W. Peter, E. Garate, W. Main, and A. Fisher
pp. 2989-2992 [View Page Images or PDF (703 kB)]
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Nonlinear analysis of high-power Cherenkov masers
H. P. Freund
pp. 2993-2996 [View Page Images or PDF (609 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Measurement of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in targets driven by optically smoothed laser beams
M. Desselberger, O. Willi, M. Savage, and M. J. Lamb
pp. 2997-3000 [View Page Images or PDF (689 kB)]
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Pressure-driven sound turbulence in a high-β plasma
R. L. Stenzel
pp. 3001-3004 [View Page Images or PDF (572 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Very thin films of 3He: A new phase
J. Xu and B. C. Crooker
pp. 3005-3008 [View Page Images or PDF (678 kB)]
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Interfacial Velocity in Electrochemical Deposition and the Hecker Transition
J. R. Melrose, D. B. Hibbert, and R. C. Ball
pp. 3009-3012 [View Page Images or PDF (764 kB)]
Spatiotemporal concentration patterns in a surface reaction: Propagating and standing waves, rotating spirals, and turbulence
S. Jakubith, H. H. Rotermund, W. Engel, A. von Oertzen, and G. Ertl
pp. 3013-3016 [View Page Images or PDF (1,365 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Microscopic theory for dilute quadrupole glasses
Michael W. Klein
pp. 3017-3020 [View Page Images or PDF (763 kB)]
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Interaction of the Pt(111) surface with adsorbed Xe atoms
J. E. Müller
pp. 3021-3024 [View Page Images or PDF (722 kB)]
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Domain-wall pinning in uniaxial phases of Pb adlayers on a Cu(110) surface
K. S. Liang, K. L. D’Amico, C. H. Lee, and E. Y. Sheu
pp. 3025-3028 [View Page Images or PDF (658 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Partial densities of states of alloys measured with x-ray-photoelectron diffraction: AuCu3(001)
A. Stuck, J. Osterwalder, T. Greber, S. Hüfner, and L. Schlapbach
pp. 3029-3032 [View Page Images or PDF (744 kB)]
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Femtosecond dynamics of excitons under extreme magnetic confinement
J. B. Stark, W. H. Knox, D. S. Chemla, W. Schäfer, S. Schmitt-Rink, and C. Stafford
pp. 3033-3036 [View Page Images or PDF (692 kB)]
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Observation of macroscopic quantum tunneling through the Coulomb energy barrier
L. J. Geerligs, D. V. Averin, and J. E. Mooij
pp. 3037-3040 [View Page Images or PDF (675 kB)]
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Spin polarization of thermoemitted electrons from cesiated Ni and Fe
A. Vaterlaus, F. Milani, and F. Meier
pp. 3041-3043 [View Page Images or PDF (435 kB)]
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Magnetic-moment formation and spin dynamics of isolated 4d ions in palladium
K. D. Gross, D. Riegel, and R. Zeller
pp. 3044-3047 [View Page Images or PDF (789 kB)]
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Resonant Raman scattering in YBa2Cu3O7: Band theory and experiment
E. T. Heyen, S. N. Rashkeev, I. I. Mazin, O. K. Andersen, R. Liu, M. Cardona, and O. Jepsen
pp. 3048-3051 [View Page Images or PDF (801 kB)]
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Ultrasonic attenuation by the vortex lattice of high-Tc superconductors
J. Pankert, G. Marbach, A. Comberg, P. Lemmens, P. Fröning, and S. Ewert
pp. 3052-3055 [View Page Images or PDF (642 kB)]
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Angle-resolved-photoemission study of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ: Metallicity of the Bi-O plane
B. O. Wells, Z.-X. Shen, D. S. Dessau, W. E. Spicer, C. G. Olson, D. B. Mitzi, A. Kapitulnik, R. S. List, and A. Arko
pp. 3056-3059 [View Page Images or PDF (779 kB)]
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Pinning by oxygen vacancies in high-Tc superconductors
E. M. Chudnovsky
pp. 3060-3062 [View Page Images or PDF (472 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Twisted boundary conditions and effective mass in Heisenberg-Ising and Hubbard rings’’
Norio Kawakami and Sung-Kil Yang
pp. 3063 [View Page Images or PDF (173 kB)]
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Comment on ‘‘Physical mechanisms underlying neurite outgrowth: A quantitative analysis of neuronal shape’’
D. Kleinfeld, F. Raccuia-Behling, and G. E. Blonder
pp. 3064 [View Page Images or PDF (189 kB)]
 
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