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Physical Review Letters – 17 March 1997
Volume 78, Issue 11

LETTERS

General Physics

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A No-Go Theorem for Joint Property Ascriptions in Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
Pieter E. Vermaas
pp. 2033-2037 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Diffraction of Atoms from a Measurement Induced Grating
Stefan Kunze, Kai Dieckmann, and Gerhard Rempe
pp. 2038-2041 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Toward a Statistical Thermodynamics of Steady States
Mark E. Tuckerman, Christopher J. Mundy, and Michael L. Klein
pp. 2042-2045 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Precision Rotation Measurements with an Atom Interferometer Gyroscope
T. L. Gustavson, P. Bouyer, and M. A. Kasevich
pp. 2046-2049 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Self-Consistent Wormhole Solutions of Semiclassical Gravity
David Hochberg, Arkadiy Popov, and Sergey V. Sushkov
pp. 2050-2053 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Signature of Gravity Waves in the Polarization of the Microwave Background
Uros̆ Seljak and Matias Zaldarriaga
pp. 2054-2057 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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A Probe of Primordial Gravity Waves and Vorticity
Marc Kamionkowski, Arthur Kosowsky, and Albert Stebbins
pp. 2058-2061 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Weakly First-Order Phase Transitions: The ε Expansion vs Numerical Simulations in the Cubic Anisotropy Model
Peter Arnold, Stephen R. Sharpe, Laurence G. Yaffe, and Yan Zhang
pp. 2062-2065 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Nonintercommuting Cosmic Strings
Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Pablo Laguna, and Richard A. Matzner
pp. 2066-2069 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Diphoton Events with Large Missing Transverse Energy in pp̅ Collisions at  = 1.8TeV
S. Abachi et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 2070-2074 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Improved Measurement of the Left-Right Z0 Cross Section Asymmetry
K. Abe et al. ((SLD Collaboration))
pp. 2075-2079 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Collective Expansion in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
I. G. Bearden et al. (The NA44 Collaboration)
pp. 2080-2083 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Evidence for the Decay of Nuclear Matter Toroidal Geometries in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
N. T. B. Stone, O. Bjarki, E. E. Gualtieri, S. A. Hannuschke, R. Lacey, J. Lauret, W. J. Llope, D. J. Magestro, R. Pak, A. M. Vander Molen, G. D. Westfall, and J. Yee
pp. 2084-2087 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Delta Kick Cooling: A New Method for Cooling Atoms
Hubert Ammann and Nelson Christensen
pp. 2088-2091 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Spatial Quantum Signatures in Parametric Down-Conversion
I. Marzoli, A. Gatti, and L. A. Lugiato
pp. 2092-2095 [View PDF (738 kB)]
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Observing the Position Spread of Atomic Wave Packets
A. Görlitz, M. Weidemüller, T. W. Hänsch, and A. Hemmerich
pp. 2096-2099 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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High Harmonic Generation Spectra of Neutral Helium by the Complex-Scaled ( t,t′) Method: Role of Dynamical Electron Correlation
Nimrod Moiseyev and Frank Weinhold
pp. 2100-2103 [View PDF (132 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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First Order Phase Transition Resulting from Finite Inertia in Coupled Oscillator Systems
Hisa-Aki Tanaka, Allan J. Lichtenberg, and Shin'ichi Oishi
pp. 2104-2107 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Decay of High Order Optical Vortices in Anisotropic Nonlinear Optical Media
A. V. Mamaev, M. Saffman, and A. A. Zozulya
pp. 2108-2111 [View PDF (2,152 kB)]
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Vorticity Generation in Slow Cooling Flows
Ami Glasner, Eli Livne, and Baruch Meerson
pp. 2112-2115 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Molecular Simulation of Reentrant Corner Flow
Joel Koplik and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. 2116-2119 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Gas-Film Levitated Liquids: Shape Fluctuations of Viscous Drops
M. Papoular and C. Parayre
pp. 2120-2123 [View PDF (219 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission in the Mid-Infrared in a Free-Electron Laser
R. Prazeres, J. M. Ortega, F. Glotin, D. A. Jaroszynski, and O. Marcouillé
pp. 2124-2127 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Test Particle Transport due to Long Range Interactions
F. Anderegg, X.-P. Huang, C. F. Driscoll, E. M. Hollmann, T. M. O'Neil, and D. H. E. Dubin
pp. 2128-2131 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Electron Parametric Instabilities of Ultraintense Short Laser Pulses Propagating in Plasmas
B. Quesnel, P. Mora, J. C. Adam, S. Guérin, A. Héron, and G. Laval
pp. 2132-2135 [View PDF (233 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Small-Angle Excess Scattering: Glassy Freezing or Local Orientational Ordering?
H. Weber, W. Paul, W. Kob, and K. Binder
pp. 2136-2139 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Tricritical Behavior in Rupture Induced by Disorder
Jørgen Vitting Andersen, Didier Sornette, and Kwan-tai Leung
pp. 2140-2143 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Role of Ultrafine Microstructures in Dynamic Fracture in Nanophase Silicon Nitride
Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Andrey Omeltchenko, Kenji Tsuruta, and Priya Vashishta
pp. 2144-2147 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Crack Front Propagation and Fracture in a Graphite Sheet: A Molecular-Dynamics Study on Parallel Computers
Andrey Omeltchenko, Jin Yu, Rajiv K. Kalia, and Priya Vashishta
pp. 2148-2151 [View PDF (936 kB)]
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Low-Frequency Phason and Amplitudon Dynamics in the Incommensurate Phase of Rb2ZnCl4
P. Mischo, F. Decker, U. Häcker, K.-P. Holzer, J. Petersson, and D. Michel
pp. 2152-2155 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Kinetics of Crossover in Phase-Separating Liquid Mixtures Induced by Finite-Size Effects
C. Lalaude, J. P. Delville, S. Buil, and A. Ducasse
pp. 2156-2159 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Carrier Concentrations and Relaxation Spectroscopy: New Information from Scaling Properties of Conductivity Spectra in Ionically Conducting Glasses
B. Roling, A. Happe, K. Funke, and M. D. Ingram
pp. 2160-2163 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Transition from Island Growth to Step-Flow Growth for Si/Si(100) Epitaxy
Bert Voigtländer, Thomas Weber, Pavel Šmilauer, and Dietrich E. Wolf
pp. 2164-2167 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Droplet Fluctuations in the Morphology and Kinetics of Martensites
Madan Rao and Surajit Sengupta
pp. 2168-2171 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Etching of Silica Glass under Electric Fields
B. Lesche, F. C. Garcia, E. N. Hering, W. Margulis, I. C. S. Carvalho, and F. Laurell
pp. 2172-2175 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Anomalous Drude Model
Hermann Schulz-Baldes
pp. 2176-2179 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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One-Dimensional Kondo Lattice at Partial Band Filling
Graeme Honner and Miklós Gulácsi
pp. 2180-2183 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Fast Hole Transport in a New Calamitic Liquid Crystal of 2-(4′-Heptyloxyphenyl)-6-Dodecylthiobenzothiazole
Masahiro Funahashi and Jun-ichi Hanna
pp. 2184-2187 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Hopf Term and the Effective Lagrangian for the Skyrmions in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas at Small g Factor
W. Apel and Yu. A. Bychkov
pp. 2188-2191 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Optically Induced Damping of the Surface Plasmon Resonance in Gold Colloids
M. Perner, P. Bost, U. Lemmer, G. von Plessen, J. Feldmann, U. Becker, M. Mennig, M. Schmitt, and H. Schmidt
pp. 2192-2195 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Fractional Pumping of Energy into a Ballistic Quantum Ring
L. Gorelik, S. Kulinich, Yu. Galperin, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson
pp. 2196-2199 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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New Universality at the Magnetic Field Driven Insulator to Integer Quantum Hall Effect Transitions
S.-H. Song, D. Shahar, D. C. Tsui, Y. H. Xie, and Don Monroe
pp. 2200-2203 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Correlation Effects on the Coupled Plasmon Modes of a Double Quantum Well
N. P. R. Hill, J. T. Nicholls, E. H. Linfield, M. Pepper, D. A. Ritchie, G. A. C. Jones, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and Karsten Flensberg
pp. 2204-2207 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Precision Ginzburg-Landau Solution of Ideal Vortex Lattices for Any Induction and Symmetry
Ernst Helmut Brandt
pp. 2208-2211 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Evidence for Two-Component High-Temperature Superconductivity in the Femtosecond Optical Response of YBa2Cu3O7-δ
C. J. Stevens, D. Smith, C. Chen, J. F. Ryan, B. Podobnik, D. Mihailovic, G. A. Wagner, and J. E. Evetts
pp. 2212-2215 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Schwinger-Boson Approach to Quantum Spin Systems: Gaussian Fluctuations in the “Natural” Gauge
A. E. Trumper, L. O. Manuel, C. J. Gazza, and H. A. Ceccatto
pp. 2216-2219 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Low Temperature Relaxational Dynamics of the Ising Chain in a Transverse Field
Subir Sachdev and A. P. Young
pp. 2220-2223 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Soliton and 2D Domains in Ultrathin Magnetic Films
S. T. Chui and V. N. Ryzhov
pp. 2224-2227 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Resonant Femtosecond Emission from Quantum Well Excitons: The Role of Rayleigh Scattering and Luminescence
S. Haacke, R. A. Taylor, R. Zimmermann, I. Bar-Joseph, and B. Deveaud
pp. 2228-2231 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Excitonic Emission of THz Radiation: Experimental Evidence of the Shortcomings of the Bloch Equation Method
P. Haring Bolivar, F. Wolter, A. Müller, H. G. Roskos, H. Kurz, and K. Köhler
pp. 2232-2235 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Anisotropy in the Positron 2D Angular Correlation of Annihilation Radiation for Singly Negative Divacancies in Si
Z. Tang, M. Hasegawa, T. Chiba, M. Saito, A. Kawasuso, Z. Q. Li, R. T. Fu, T. Akahane, Y. Kawazoe, and S. Yamaguchi
pp. 2236-2239 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Evidence of an Elastic Instability between the Amorphous and the Microcrystalline State of Ca-modified Lead Titanate as revealed by Brillouin Spectroscopy
J. K. Krüger, C. Ziebert, H. Schmitt, B. Jiménez, and C. Bruch
pp. 2240-2243 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Kinetics of Trapping Reactions with a Time Dependent Density of Traps
Alejandro D. Sánchez, Ernesto M. Nicola, and Horacio S. Wio
pp. 2244-2247 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Curvature Determination of Spinodal Interface in a Condensed Matter System
Hiroshi Jinnai, Tsuyoshi Koga, Yukihiro Nishikawa, Takeji Hashimoto, and Stephen T. Hyde
pp. 2248-2251 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Active Stabilization, Quantum Computation, and Quantum State Synthesis
A. M. Steane
pp. 2252-2255 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Security of Quantum Cryptography against Collective Attacks
Eli Biham and Tal Mor
pp. 2256-2259 [View PDF (152 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Dispersion Velocity of Galactic Dark Matter Particles”
N. W. Evans
pp. 2260 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Comment on “Dispersion Velocity of Galactic Dark Matter Particles”
Evalyn Gates, Marc Kamionkowski, and Michael S. Turner
pp. 2261 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Cowsik et al. Reply:
R. Cowsik, Charu Ratnam, and P. Bhattacharjee
pp. 2262-2264 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Critical Exponents of the Classical Heisenberg Ferromagnet
Christian Holm and Wolfhard Janke
pp. 2265 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Brown and Ciftan Reply:
Robert G. Brown and Mikael Ciftan
pp. 2266 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Comment on “Sonoluminescence as Quantum Vacuum Radiation”
Astrid Lambrecht, Marc-Thierry Jaekel, and Serge Reynaud
pp. 2267 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Comment on “Sonoluminescence as Quantum Vacuum Radiation”
N. García and A. P. Levanyuk
pp. 2268 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Eberlein Replies:
Claudia Eberlein
pp. 2269-2270 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Comment on “Extended Van Hove Singularity in a Noncuprate Layered Superconductor Sr2RuO4”
A. P. Mackenzie, S. R. Julian, G. G. Lonzarich, Y. Maeno, and T. Fujita
pp. 2271 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Yokoya et al. Reply:
T. Yokoya, A. Chainani, T. Takahashi, H. Katayama-Yoshida, M. Kasai, and Y. Tokura
pp. 2272 [View PDF (79 kB)]

ERRATA

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The Rosseland Mean Opacity of a Mixture of Gold and Gadolinium at High Temperatures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3545 (1996)]
T. J. Orzechowski, M. D. Rosen, H. N. Kornblum, J. L. Porter, L. J. Suter, A. R. Thiessen, and R. J. Wallace
pp. 2273 [View PDF (13 kB)]
 
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