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Physical Review Letters – 7 April 1997
Volume 78, Issue 14

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.

Nonequilibrium Equality for Free Energy Differences
C. Jarzynski
pp. 2690-2693 [View PDF (137 kB)]

LETTERS

General Physics

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Possible Global Minimum Lattice Configurations for Thomson's Problem of Charges on a Sphere
Eric Lewin Altschuler, Timothy J. Williams, Edward R. Ratner, Robert Tipton, Richard Stong, Farid Dowla, and Frederick Wooten
pp. 2681-2685 [View PDF (4,648 kB)]
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Fluctuations of Bose-Einstein Condensate
Mariusz Gajda and Kazimierz Rza̧żewski
pp. 2686-2689 [View PDF (118 kB)]
Nonequilibrium Equality for Free Energy Differences
C. Jarzynski
pp. 2690-2693 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Neutrino-Induced Nucleosynthesis and the Site of the r Process
W. C. Haxton, K. Langanke, Y.-Z. Qian, and P. Vogel
pp. 2694-2697 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Observation of Diffractive W-Boson Production at the Fermilab Tevatron
F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 2698-2703 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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New 142,144Nd (n,γ) Cross Sections and the s-process Origin of the Nd Anomalies in Presolar Meteoric Silicon Carbide Grains
K. H. Guber, R. R. Spencer, P. E. Koehler, and R. R. Winters
pp. 2704-2707 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Suppression of Core Polarization in Halo Nuclei
T. T. S. Kuo, F. Krmpotić, and Y. Tzeng
pp. 2708-2711 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Energy-Exchange Effects in Few-Particle Coulomb Scattering
Jamal Berakdar
pp. 2712-2715 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Temporal Coherent Control in Two-Photon Transitions: From Optical Interferences to Quantum Interferences
Valérie Blanchet, Céline Nicole, Mohamed-Aziz Bouchene, and Bertrand Girard
pp. 2716-2719 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Analysis of Unexplained Oscillations in Intermediate-Energy Ion-Atom Collisions
D. R. Schultz, C. O. Reinhold, and P. S. Krstić
pp. 2720-2723 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Spin-Orbit and Exchange Effects in Neon 3p States
D. H. Yu, P. A. Hayes, J. E. Furst, and J. F. Williams
pp. 2724-2727 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Hydrogen Formation by Proton Impact on Positronium
J. P. Merrison, H. Bluhme, J. Chevallier, B. I. Deutch, P. Hvelplund, L. V. Jørgensen, H. Knudsen, M. R. Poulsen, and M. Charlton
pp. 2728-2731 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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High Energy Ion Explosion of Atomic Clusters: Transition from Molecular to Plasma Behavior
T. Ditmire, J. W. G. Tisch, E. Springate, M. B. Mason, N. Hay, J. P. Marangos, and M. H. R. Hutchinson
pp. 2732-2735 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Dominance of Milnor Attractors and Noise-Induced Selection in a Multiattractor System
Kunihiko Kaneko
pp. 2736-2739 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Broadband Free Electron Laser by the Use of Prebunched Electron Beam
Yukio Shibata, Kimihiro Ishi, Shuichi Ono, Yuta Inoue, Satoshi Sasaki, Mikihiko Ikezawa, Toshiharu Takahashi, Tomochika Matsuyama, Katsuhei Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Fujita, and Evgueni G. Bessonov
pp. 2740-2743 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Dynamics of Multisoliton Interactions in Parametrically Resonant Systems
Xinlong Wang and Rongjue Wei
pp. 2744-2747 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Short Pulse X-Ray Laser at 32.6 nm Based on Transient Gain in Ne-like Titanium
P. V. Nickles, V. N. Shlyaptsev, M. Kalachnikov, M. Schnürer, I. Will, and W. Sandner
pp. 2748-2751 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Experimental Realization of Second Harmonic Generation in a Fibonacci Optical Superlattice of LiTaO3
Shi-ning Zhu, Yong-yuan Zhu, Yi-qiang Qin, Hai-feng Wang, Chuan-zhen Ge, and Nai-ben Ming
pp. 2752-2755 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Spatial Modulational Instability and Multisolitonlike Generation in a Quadratically Nonlinear Optical Medium
R. A. Fuerst, D.-M. Baboiu, B. Lawrence, W. E. Torruellas, G. I. Stegeman, Stefano Trillo, and Stefan Wabnitz
pp. 2756-2759 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Light-Driven Molecular Motor
T. V. Galstyan and V. Drnoyan
pp. 2760-2763 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Thermodynamic Theory of Weakly Excited Granular Systems
Hisao Hayakawa and Daniel C. Hong
pp. 2764-2767 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Density Expansion for Transport Coefficients: Long-Wavelength versus Fermi Surface Nonanalyticities
F. Evers, D. Belitz, and Wansoo Park
pp. 2768-2771 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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First Observation of a Snake Depolarizing Resonance
R. A. Phelps, V. A. Anferov, B. B. Blinov, D. A. Crandell, S. V. Koutin, A. D. Krisch, T. J. Liu, L. G. Ratner, V. K. Wong, C. M. Chu, S. Y. Lee, T. Rinckel, P. Schwandt, F. Sperisen, E. J. Stephenson, B. von Przewoski, and H. Sato
pp. 2772-2774 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Selective Study of Fe Atoms at the Interfaces of an Fe/Ir(100) Superlattice by means of Diffraction Anomalous Fine Structure
H. Renevier, J. L. Hodeau, P. Wolfers, S. Andrieu, J. Weigelt, and R. Frahm
pp. 2775-2778 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Spin Effects in Plasticity
M. Molotskii and V. Fleurov
pp. 2779-2782 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Solid Molecular Hydrogen: The Broken Symmetry Phase
Jorge Kohanoff, Sandro Scandolo, Guido L. Chiarotti, and Erio Tosatti
pp. 2783-2786 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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X-ray Scattering Study of Early Stage Spinodal Decomposition in Al0.62Zn0.38
J. Mainville, Y. S. Yang, K. R. Elder, M. Sutton, K. F. Ludwig, Jr., and G. B. Stephenson
pp. 2787-2790 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Evolution of Mound Morphology in Reversible Homoepitaxy on Cu(100)
J.-K. Zuo and J. F. Wendelken
pp. 2791-2794 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Ripple Structure on Ag(110) Surface Induced by Ion Sputtering
S. Rusponi, C. Boragno, and U. Valbusa
pp. 2795-2798 [View PDF (3,707 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Quantum Melting of Magnetic Order due to Orbital Fluctuations
Louis Felix Feiner, Andrzej M. Oleś, and Jan Zaanen
pp. 2799-2802 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Lifetime in a Finite System: A Nonperturbative Approach
Boris L. Altshuler, Yuval Gefen, Alex Kamenev, and Leonid S. Levitov
pp. 2803-2806 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Overlayer Test of Surface Photoemission Effect in Cu(100)
E. D. Hansen, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang
pp. 2807-2810 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Electronic Structure and Localized States at Carbon Nanotube Tips
D. L. Carroll, P. Redlich, P. M. Ajayan, J. C. Charlier, X. Blase, A. De Vita, and R. Car
pp. 2811-2814 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Electron Fringes on a Quantum Wedge
I. B. Altfeder, K. A. Matveev, and D. M. Chen
pp. 2815-2818 [View PDF (2,092 kB)]
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Million-Atom Pseudopotential Calculation of γ- X Mixing in GaAs/AlAs Superlattices and Quantum Dots
Lin-Wang Wang, Alberto Franceschetti, and Alex Zunger
pp. 2819-2822 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Micro-Optics of Surface Plasmons
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi and Fedor A. Pudonin
pp. 2823-2826 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Decay Free Microwave Magnetic Envelope Soliton Pulse Trains in Yttrium Iron Garnet Thin Films
Boris A. Kalinikos, Nikolai G. Kovshikov, and Carl E. Patton
pp. 2827-2830 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Metal-Insulator Transitions in the Kondo Insulator FeSi and Classic Semiconductors Are Similar
J. F. DiTusa, K. Friemelt, E. Bucher, G. Aeppli, and A. P. Ramirez
pp. 2831-2834 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Muonium Formation via Electron Transport in Silicon
V. Storchak, S. F. J. Cox, S. P. Cottrell, J. H. Brewer, G. D. Morris, D. J. Arseneau, and B. Hitti
pp. 2835-2838 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Excitons and Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in Graphite
Michel van Veenendaal and Paolo Carra
pp. 2839-2842 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Momentum Transfer Dependence of Inelastic X-Ray Scattering from the Li K Edge
M. H. Krisch, F. Sette, C. Masciovecchio, and R. Verbeni
pp. 2843-2846 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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An Atom-Specific Look at the Surface Chemical Bond
A. Nilsson, M. Weinelt, T. Wiell, P. Bennich, O. Karis, N. Wassdahl, J. Stöhr, and M. G. Samant
pp. 2847-2850 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Atomic Theory of Electron Energy Loss from Transition Metal Oxides
J. J. M. Michiels, J. E. Inglesfield, C. J. Noble, V. M. Burke, and P. G. Burke
pp. 2851-2854 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Two Dimensional Ice Adsorbed on Mica Surface
M. Odelius, M. Bernasconi, and M. Parrinello
pp. 2855-2858 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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Freezing Flexible Vesicles
G. Gompper and D. M. Kroll
pp. 2859-2862 [View PDF (229 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Static Freezing Transition at a Finite Temperature in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Deuteron Glass”
Bog-Gi Kim and Jong-Jean Kim
pp. 2863 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Hemberger et al. Reply: 
J. Hemberger, H. Ries, A. Loidl, and R. Böhmer
pp. 2864 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Comment on “Precursors and Transition to Chaos in a Quantum Well in a Tilted Magnetic Field”
T. M. Fromhold, P. B. Wilkinson, F. W. Sheard, and L. Eaves
pp. 2865 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Boebinger et al. Reply:
G. S. Boebinger, E. E. Narimanov, and A. Douglas Stone
pp. 2866 [View PDF (59 kB)]

ERRATA

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Casimir Interaction of Spheres in a Fluid at the Critical Point [Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3189 (1995)]
Theodore W. Burkhardt and Erich Eisenriegler
pp. 2867 [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Microscopic Origin of Cholesteric Pitch [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1476 (1997)]
A. B. Harris, Randall D. Kamien, and T. C. Lubensky
pp. 2867 [View PDF (53 kB)]
 
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