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Physical Review Letters – 19 August 1996
Volume 77, Issue 8

LETTERS

General Physics

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Separability Criterion for Density Matrices
Asher Peres
pp. 1413-1415 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Laser-Driven Collisions between Atoms in a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
K. Burnett, P. S. Julienne, and K.-A. Suominen
pp. 1416-1419 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Survival Probability of a Gaussian Non-Markovian Process: Application to the T = 0 Dynamics of the Ising Model
Satya N. Majumdar and Clément Sire
pp. 1420-1423 [View PDF (191 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Black Hole Criticality in the Brans-Dicke Model
Steven L. Liebling and Matthew W. Choptuik
pp. 1424-1427 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Superfluidity in β-Stable Neutron Star Matter
Ø. Elgarøy, L. Engvik, M. Hjorth-Jensen, and E. Osnes
pp. 1428-1431 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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The Gravitational Constant, the Chandrasekhar Limit, and Neutron Star Masses
S. E. Thorsett
pp. 1432-1435 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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High Energy Processes in Clusters of Galaxies and the Origin of Cosmic Rays
Xinyu Chi, Enoch C. M. Young, Peter K. N. Yu, Li Zhang, and Qing-Qi Zhu
pp. 1436-1438 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measurement of the Λb0 Lifetime Using Λb0→Λc+ℓ-ν̅
F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 1439-1443 [View PDF (191 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Shell Model Monte Carlo Studies of γ-Soft Nuclei
Y. Alhassid, G. F. Bertsch, D. J. Dean, and S. E. Koonin
pp. 1444-1447 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Pre-Equilibrium Effects in the Population of Giant Dipole Resonances
S. Flibotte, Ph. Chomaz, M. Colonna, M. Cromaz, J. DeGraaf, T. E. Drake, A. Galindo-Uribarri, V. P. Janzen, J. Jonkman, S. W. Marshall, S. M. Mullins, J. M. Nieminen, D. C. Radford, J. L. Rodriguez, J. C. Waddington, D. Ward, and J. N. Wilson
pp. 1448-1451 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of Hollow Atoms or Ions above Insulator and Metal Surfaces
Briand J.-P., S. Thuriez, G. Giardino, G. Borsoni, M. Froment, M. Eddrief, and C. Sébenne
pp. 1452-1455 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Optical Activity of Anisotropic Achiral Surfaces
Thierry Verbiest, Martti Kauranen, Yves Van Rompaey, and André Persoons
pp. 1456-1459 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Long-Range Predissociation in Two-Color Photoassociation of Ultracold Na Atoms
P. A. Molenaar, P. van der Straten, and H. G. M. Heideman
pp. 1460-1463 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Measurement of the van der Waals Force in an Atomic Mirror
A. Landragin, J.-Y. Courtois, G. Labeyrie, N. Vansteenkiste, C. I. Westbrook, and A. Aspect
pp. 1464-1467 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Self-Organization, Broken Symmetry, and Lasing in an Atomic Vapor: The Interdependence of Gratings and Gain
P. R. Hemmer, N. P. Bigelow, D. P. Katz, M. S. Shahriar, L. DeSalvo, and R. Bonifacio
pp. 1468-1471 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Gutzwiller's Trace Formula and Spectral Statistics: Beyond the Diagonal Approximation
E. B. Bogomolny and J. P. Keating
pp. 1472-1475 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Energy Extraction and Achievement of the Saturation Limit in a Discharge-Pumped Table-Top Soft X-Ray Amplifier
J. J. Rocca, D. P. Clark, J. L. A. Chilla, and V. N. Shlyaptsev
pp. 1476-1479 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Couette-Taylor Flow in a Dilute Polymer Solution
Alexander Groisman and Victor Steinberg
pp. 1480-1483 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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q Divergence of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Its Gravity-Induced Frustration in a Temperature Stressed Liquid Mixture
Alberto Vailati and Marzio Giglio
pp. 1484-1487 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Asymmetry of Velocity Increments in Fully Developed Turbulence and the Scaling of Low-Order Moments
K. R. Sreenivasan, S. I. Vainshtein, R. Bhiladvala, I. San Gil, S. Chen, and N. Cao
pp. 1488-1491 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Stimulated Coherent Emission from Short Electron Bunches in Free Space
G. R. M. Robb, N. S. Ginzburg, A. D. R. Phelps, and A. S. Sergeev
pp. 1492-1495 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Observation of Two Ion-Acoustic Waves in a Two-Species Laser-Produced Plasma with Thomson Scattering
S. H. Glenzer, C. A. Back, K. G. Estabrook, R. Wallace, K. Baker, B. J. MacGowan, B. A. Hammel, R. E. Cid, and J. S. De Groot
pp. 1496-1499 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Double-Cross Instability: An Absolute Instability Caused by Counter-Propagating Positive- and Negative-Energy Waves
A. J. Brizard, J. J. Morehead, A. N. Kaufman, and E. R. Tracy
pp. 1500-1503 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Equilibrium and Fluctuations in a Plasma Confined in a Pure Toroidal Field
R. Singh, S. Mahajan, and K. Avinash
pp. 1504-1507 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Polarized X-ray Fluorescence as a Probe of Ground State Properties
Michel van Veenendaal, J. B. Goedkoop, and B. T. Thole
pp. 1508-1511 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Phase Separation in Nearly Symmetric Polymer Mixtures
Sanat K. Kumar and Jeffrey D. Weinhold
pp. 1512-1515 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Structure, Barriers, and Relaxation Mechanisms of Kinks in the 90° Partial Dislocation in Silicon
R. W. Nunes, J. Bennetto, and David Vanderbilt
pp. 1516-1519 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Elastic Theory Has Zero Radius of Convergence
Alex Buchel and James P. Sethna
pp. 1520-1523 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Critical Diffusivity in Restricted Geometry: Decoupled Mode Approximation
J. K. Bhattacharjee
pp. 1524-1527 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Microscopic Explanation of the Non-Arrhenius Conductivity in Glassy Fast Ionic Conductors
Philipp Maass, Martin Meyer, Armin Bunde, and Wolfgang Dieterich
pp. 1528-1531 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Critical Wetting
Karine Ragil, Jacques Meunier, Daniel Broseta, Joseph O. Indekeu, and Daniel Bonn
pp. 1532-1535 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Dewetting Modes of Thin Metallic Films: Nucleation of Holes and Spinodal Dewetting
J. Bischof, D. Scherer, S. Herminghaus, and P. Leiderer
pp. 1536-1539 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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hcp and bcc Cu and Pd Films
H. Wormeester, E. Hüger, and E. Bauer
pp. 1540-1543 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Studies of Charged Excitations in π-Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers by Optical Modulation
P. A. Lane, X. Wei, and Z. V. Vardeny
pp. 1544-1547 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Electron-Exchange Processes in the Excitations of NiO(100) Surface d States
B. Fromme, M. Möller, Th. Anschütz, C. Bethke, and E. Kisker
pp. 1548-1551 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Crossover from Critical Orthogonal to Critical Unitary Statistics at the Anderson Transition
M. Batsch, L. Schweitzer, I. Kh. Zharekeshev, and B. Kramer
pp. 1552-1555 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Level Statistics and Localization for Two Interacting Particles in a Random Potential
Dietmar Weinmann and Jean-Louis Pichard
pp. 1556-1559 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Local Isoelectronic Reactivity of Solid Surfaces
Steffen Wilke, Morrel H. Cohen, and Matthias Scheffler
pp. 1560-1563 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Charged “Few-Electron–Single Spatially Separated Hole” Complexes in a Double Quantum Well near a Metal Plate
V. I. Yudson
pp. 1564-1567 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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A First-Landau-Level Laughlin/Jain Wave Function for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Joseph N. Ginocchio and W. C. Haxton
pp. 1568-1571 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Internal Excitations and Dissipative Damping of Quantum Hall Skyrmions
H. A. Fertig, L. Brey, R. Côté, and A. H. MacDonald
pp. 1572-1575 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Quantized Hall Currents in the High Field Phase of α-(BEDT-TTF)2TlHg(SCN)4
N. Harrison, A. House, M. V. Kartsovnik, A. V. Polisski, J. Singleton, F. Herlach, W. Hayes, and N. D. Kushch
pp. 1576-1579 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Giant Magnetoresistive Effects in a Single Element Magnetic Thin Film
J. F. Gregg, W. Allen, K. Ounadjela, M. Viret, M. Hehn, S. M. Thompson, and J. M. D. Coey
pp. 1580-1583 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Hall Voltage Fluctuations as a Diagnostic of Internal Magnetic Field Fluctuations in High Temperature Superconductors and the Half-Filled Landau Level
L. B. Ioffe, G. B. Lesovik, and A. J. Millis
pp. 1584-1587 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Effect of Disorder on the Vortex-Lattice Melting Transition
E. A. Jagla and C. A. Balseiro
pp. 1588-1591 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Vortex-Loop Unbinding and Flux-Line Lattice Melting in Superconductors
Anh Kiet Nguyen, A. Sudbø, and R. E. Hetzel
pp. 1592-1595 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Plastic Vortex Creep in YBa2Cu3O7-x Crystals
Y. Abulafia, A. Shaulov, Y. Wolfus, R. Prozorov, L. Burlachkov, Y. Yeshurun, D. Majer, E. Zeldov, H. Wühl, V. B. Geshkenbein, and V. M. Vinokur
pp. 1596-1599 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Evidence for Extreme Gap Anisotropy in Ho0.1Y0.9Ba2Cu3O7 from Neutron Spectroscopy of Ho3+
A. T. Boothroyd, A. Mukherjee, and A. P. Murani
pp. 1600-1603 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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New Magnetic Coherence Effect in Superconducting La2-xSrxCuO4
T. E. Mason, A. Schröder, G. Aeppli, H. A. Mook, and S. M. Hayden
pp. 1604-1607 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Tricritical Behavior of Ising Spin Glasses with Charge Fluctuations
B. Rosenow and R. Oppermann
pp. 1608-1611 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Two-Channel Kondo Lattice: An Incoherent Metal
Mark Jarrell, Hanbin Pang, D. L. Cox, and K. H. Luk
pp. 1612-1615 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of a Haldane Gap in an S = 2 Quasi-Linear-Chain Antiferromagnet
G. E. Granroth, M. W. Meisel, M. Chaparala, Th. Jolicœur, B. H. Ward, and D. R. Talham
pp. 1616-1619 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Braids Plaited by Magnetic Holes
P. Pieranski, S. Clausen, G. Helgesen, and A. T. Skjeltorp
pp. 1620-1623 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Magnetic Frustration Induced Formation of the Spin-Peierls Phase in CuGeO3: Experimental Evidence
B. Büchner, U. Ammerahl, T. Lorenz, W. Brenig, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi
pp. 1624-1627 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Giant Permittivity in Epitaxial Ferroelectric Heterostructures
A. Erbil, Y. Kim, and R. A. Gerhardt
pp. 1628-1631 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Observation of Interband Two-Photon Absorption Saturation in CdS
J.-F. Lami, P. Gilliot, and C. Hirlimann
pp. 1632-1635 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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New Evidence for Localized Electronic States on Atomically Sharp Field Emitters
Ming L. Yu, Norton D. Lang, Brian W. Hussey, T. H. Philip Chang, and William A. Mackie
pp. 1636-1639 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Competing Reactions with Initially Separated Components
Haim Taitelbaum, Baruch Vilensky, Anna Lin, Andrew Yen, Yong-Eun Lee Koo, and Raoul Kopelman
pp. 1640-1643 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Power-Law Distributions in Some Random Boolean Networks
Amartya Bhattacharjya and Shoudan Liang
pp. 1644-1647 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Vibrational Echo Studies of Protein Dynamics
C. W. Rella, Alfred Kwok, Kirk Rector, Jeffrey R. Hill, H. A. Schwettman, Dana D. Dlott, and M. D. Fayer
pp. 1648-1651 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Adhesion of Membranes via Anchored Stickers
Reinhard Lipowsky
pp. 1652-1655 [View PDF (149 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quantum Phase of Induced Dipoles Moving in a Magnetic Field”
C. R. Hagen
pp. 1656 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Wei et al. Reply:
Haiqing Wei, Xiuqing Wei, and Rushan Han
pp. 1657 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Comment on “Fixed-Point Structure of Scalar Fields”
Tim R. Morris
pp. 1658 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Halpern and Huang Reply:
Kenneth Halpern and Kerson Huang
pp. 1659 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Comment on “Raman Modes of 6H Polytype of Silicon Carbide to Ultrahigh Pressures”
Krystian Karch and Friedhelm Bechstedt
pp. 1660 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Liu and Vohra Reply:
Jun Liu and Yogesh K. Vohra
pp. 1661 [View PDF (38 kB)]

ERRATA

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Salty Water Cerenkov Detectors for Solar Neutrinos
W. C. Haxton
pp. 1662 [View PDF (38 kB)]
 
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