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Physical Review Letters – 10 March 1997
Volume 78, Issue 10

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Jumps as Decoherent Histories
Todd A. Brun
pp. 1833-1837 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic Modes in a Trapped Bose Gas above the Bose-Einstein Transition
A. Griffin, Wen-Chin Wu, and S. Stringari
pp. 1838-1841 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Finite Temperature Excitations of a Trapped Bose Gas
D. A. W. Hutchinson, E. Zaremba, and A. Griffin
pp. 1842-1845 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Coherent State Wave Function for Systems with Spin-Dependent Correlations
J. W. Lawson, S. A. Vitiello, K. E. Schmidt, and S. Fantoni
pp. 1846-1849 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Crossover from Isotropic to Directed Percolation
Per Fröjdh and Marcel den Nijs
pp. 1850-1853 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Duality and Zero-Point Length of Spacetime
T. Padmanabhan
pp. 1854-1857 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Understanding the Area Proposal for Extremal Black Hole Entropy
A. Ghosh and P. Mitra
pp. 1858-1860 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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What Would We Learn by Detecting a Gravitational Wave Signal in the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy?
David H. Lyth
pp. 1861-1863 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Type-IIB Instanton as a Wave in Twelve Dimensions
A. A. Tseytlin
pp. 1864-1867 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Evidence for “Magnetic Rotation” in Nuclei: Lifetimes of States in the M1 bands of 198,199Pb
R. M. Clark, S. J. Asztalos, G. Baldsiefen, J. A. Becker, L. Bernstein, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, I. M. Hibbert, H. Hübel, R. Krücken, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. MacLeod, G. Schmid, F. S. Stephens, K. Vetter, R. Wadsworth, and S. Frauendorf
pp. 1868-1871 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Spin-Density Functionals from Current-Density Functional Theory and Vice Versa:A Road towards New Approximations
K. Capelle and E. K. U. Gross
pp. 1872-1875 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Observation of an Electric Octupole Transition in a Single Ion
M. Roberts, P. Taylor, G. P. Barwood, P. Gill, H. A. Klein, and W. R. C. Rowley
pp. 1876-1879 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Collisional Stability of Double Bose Condensates
P. S. Julienne, F. H. Mies, E. Tiesinga, and C. J. Williams
pp. 1880-1883 [View PDF (1,047 kB)]
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Nonsequential Double Ionization of Helium
J. B. Watson, A. Sanpera, D. G. Lappas, P. L. Knight, and K. Burnett
pp. 1884-1887 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Collective Switching and Inversion without Fluctuation of Two-Level Atoms in Confined Photonic Systems
Sajeev John and Tran Quang
pp. 1888-1891 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Indecomposable Continua and the Characterization of Strange Sets in Nonlinear Dynamics
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán, Judy Kennedy, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke
pp. 1892-1895 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Heat Conduction in Chains of Nonlinear Oscillators
Stefano Lepri, Roberto Livi, and Antonio Politi
pp. 1896-1899 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Secondary Instabilities of Flows with Elliptic Streamlines
Bruce Fabijonas, Darryl D. Holm, and Alexander Lifschitz
pp. 1900-1903 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Probability Distribution Functions for the Random Forced Burgers Equation
Weinan E, Konstantin Khanin, Alexandre Mazel, and Yakov Sinai
pp. 1904-1907 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Vortex Dynamics in Dissipative Systems
Ola Törnkvist and Elsebeth Schröder
pp. 1908-1911 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Free Oscillations and Surfactant Studies of Superdeformed Drops in Microgravity
Robert E. Apfel, Yuren Tian, Joseph Jankovsky, Tao Shi, X. Chen, R. Glynn Holt, Eugene Trinh, Arvid Croonquist, Kathyrn C. Thornton, Albert Sacco, Jr., Catherine Coleman, Fred W. Leslie, and David H. Matthiesen
pp. 1912-1915 [View PDF (3,513 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Drift Motion of Field-Reversed-Configuration Plasma across a Curved Magnetic Field
H. Himura, H. Wada, S. Okada, S. Sugimoto, and S. Goto
pp. 1916-1919 [View PDF (1,206 kB)]
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Propagation of a Rippled Shock Wave Driven by Nonuniform Laser Ablation
R. Ishizaki and K. Nishihara
pp. 1920-1923 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Meniscus and Dislocations in Free-Standing Films of Smectic-A Liquid Crystals
Jean-Christophe Géminard, Robert Hołyst, and Patrick Oswald
pp. 1924-1927 [View PDF (620 kB)]
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Crossover from Independent to Cooperative Segmental Dynamics in Polymers: Experimental Realization in Poly(Vinyl Chloride)
J. Colmenero, A. Arbe, G. Coddens, B. Frick, C. Mijangos, and H. Reinecke
pp. 1928-1931 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Size, Shape, and Low Energy Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanotubes
C. L. Kane and E. J. Mele
pp. 1932-1935 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Evidence for “Partial” (Sublattice) Amorphization in Co(OH)2
Jeffrey H. Nguyen, Michael B. Kruger, and Raymond Jeanloz
pp. 1936-1939 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Local Scale Invariance and Strongly Anisotropic Equilibrium Critical Systems
Malte Henkel
pp. 1940-1943 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Coupling to Dipole-Forbidden Modes: CO on Pt(111) Studied by Infrared Spectroscopy
U. Engström and R. Ryberg
pp. 1944-1947 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Highly Anisotropic Pressure Dependence of the Fermi Surface of CeSb
M. Takashita, H. Aoki, T. Matsumoto, C. J. Haworth, T. Terashima, A. Uesawa, and T. Suzuki
pp. 1948-1951 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Self-Similar Magnetoresistance of a Semiconductor Sinai Billiard
R. P. Taylor, R. Newbury, A. S. Sachrajda, Y. Feng, P. T. Coleridge, C. Dettmann, Ningjia Zhu, Hong Guo, A. Delage, P. J. Kelly, and Z. Wasilewski
pp. 1952-1955 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Chaos, Interactions, and Nonequilibrium Effects in the Tunneling Resonance Spectra of Ultrasmall Metallic Particles
Oded Agam, Ned S. Wingreen, Boris L. Altshuler, D. C. Ralph, and M. Tinkham
pp. 1956-1959 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Uniaxial Strain Dependence of Tc in YBa2Cu3O7: Internal Strain Induced Intralayer Charge Transfer
W. E. Pickett
pp. 1960-1963 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Stability of Elastic Glass Phases in Random Field XY Magnets and Vortex Lattices in Type-II Superconductors
Daniel S. Fisher
pp. 1964-1967 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Observation of a Field-Driven Structural Phase Transition in the Flux Line Lattice in ErNi2B2C
M. R. Eskildsen, P. L. Gammel, B. P. Barber, U. Yaron, A. P. Ramirez, D. A. Huse, D. J. Bishop, C. Bolle, C. M. Lieber, S. Oxx, S. Sridhar, N. H. Andersen, K. Mortensen, and P. C. Canfield
pp. 1968-1971 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Interlayer Phase Coherence in the Vortex State of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Probed by Josephson Plasma Resonance
Yuji Matsuda, Marat B. Gaifullin, Ken-ichi Kumagai, Makoto Kosugi, and Kazuto Hirata
pp. 1972-1975 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Anisotropy of Heat Conduction in YBa2Cu3O6.9: A Probe of Chain Superconductivity
Robert Gagnon, Song Pu, Brett Ellman, and Louis Taillefer
pp. 1976-1979 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Optical Study of the Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 System: Evidence for Hole-Doped Cu2O3 Ladders
T. Osafune, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida
pp. 1980-1983 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Magnetization Plateaus in Spin Chains: “Haldane Gap” for Half-Integer Spins
Masaki Oshikawa, Masanori Yamanaka, and Ian Affleck
pp. 1984-1987 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Quantum Spin Glass on the Bethe Lattice
T. K. Kopeć and K. D. Usadel
pp. 1988-1991 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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NMR Study of Carrier Doping Effects on Spin Gaps in the Spin Ladder Sr14-xAxCu24O41 (A = Ca, Y, and La)
Ken-ichi Kumagai, Sigenori Tsuji, Masatsune Kato, and Yoji Koike
pp. 1992-1995 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of the Two-Channel Kondo Lattice
Mark Jarrell, Hanbin Pang, and D. L. Cox
pp. 1996-1999 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance in the Two-Channel Anderson Lattice
F. B. Anders, Mark Jarrell, and D. L. Cox
pp. 2000-2003 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Observation of a Transversal Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Effect in Thin Magnetic Garnet Films
V. V. Pavlov, R. V. Pisarev, A. Kirilyuk, and Th. Rasing
pp. 2004-2007 [View PDF (284 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Solid-State Polymerization of Acetylene under Pressure: Ab Initio Simulation
M. Bernasconi, G. L. Chiarotti, P. Focher, M. Parrinello, and E. Tosatti
pp. 2008-2011 [View PDF (2,233 kB)]
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Motion of Scroll Wave Filaments in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Michael Gabbay, Edward Ott, and Parvez N. Guzdar
pp. 2012-2015 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Dipole Active Vibrational Motion in the Physisorption Well
K. Svensson and S. Andersson
pp. 2016-2019 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Rheology of Soft Glassy Materials
Peter Sollich, François Lequeux, Pascal Hébraud, and Michael E. Cates
pp. 2020-2023 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Dynamics of Adaptation and Evolutionary Branching
Stefan A. H. Geritz, J. A. J. Metz, Éva Kisdi, and Géza Meszéna
pp. 2024-2027 [View PDF (171 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Density-Polarization-Functional Theory and Long-Range Correlation in Dielectrics”
Richard M. Martin and Gerardo Ortiz
pp. 2028 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Polarization Dependence of the Exchange Energy
X. Gonze, Ph. Ghosez, and R. W. Godby
pp. 2029 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Resta Replies:
Raffaele Resta
pp. 2030 [View PDF (55 kB)]

ERRATA

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Purification of Noisy Entanglement and Faithful Teleportation via Noisy Channels[Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 722 (1996)]
Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Sandu Popescu, Benjamin Schumacher, John A. Smolin, and William K. Wootters
pp. 2031 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Fully Differential Cross Sections for Double Photoionization of He Measured by Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1024 (1996)]
R. Dörner, J. M. Feagin, C. L. Cocke, H. Bräuning, O. Jagutzki, M. Jung, E. P. Kanter, H. Khemliche, S. Kravis, V. Mergel, M. H. Prior, H. Schmidt-Böcking, L. Spielberger, J. Ullrich, M. Unversagt, and T. Vogt
pp. 2031 [View PDF (37 kB)]
 
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