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Physical Review Letters – 27 January 1997
Volume 78, Issue 4

LETTERS

General Physics

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Relations between Markov Processes via Local Time and Coordinate Transformations
A. Pelster and H. Kleinert
pp. 565-569 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Solutions to the Time Dependent Schrödinger and the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equations
Mark J. Ablowitz and Javier Villarroel
pp. 570-573 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Inseparable Two Spin- 1/2 Density Matrices Can Be Distilled to a Singlet Form
Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki
pp. 574-577 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Semiclassical Description of Nonadiabatic Quantum Dynamics
Gerhard Stock and Michael Thoss
pp. 578-581 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms
M.-O. Mewes, M. R. Andrews, D. M. Kurn, D. S. Durfee, C. G. Townsend, and W. Ketterle
pp. 582-585 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Production of Two Overlapping Bose-Einstein Condensates by Sympathetic Cooling
C. J. Myatt, E. A. Burt, R. W. Ghrist, E. A. Cornell, and C. E. Wieman
pp. 586-589 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Tight Binding Hamiltonians and Quantum Turing Machines
Paul Benioff
pp. 590-593 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Virtual Top-Quark Effects on the H→bb̅ Decay at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD
K. G. Chetyrkin, B. A. Kniehl, and M. Steinhauser
pp. 594-597 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Which Chiral Symmetry is Restored in High Temperature Quantum Chromodynamics?
Claude Bernard, Tom Blum, Carleton DeTar, Steven Gottlieb, Urs M. Heller, James E. Hetrick, K. Rummukainen, R. Sugar, D. Toussaint, and Matthew Wingate
pp. 598-601 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Static Quark-Antiquark Potential in QCD to Three Loops
Markus Peter
pp. 602-605 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Measurement of the E2/M1 Ratio in the N→Δ Transition using the reaction p(γ⃗,p)πo
R. Beck, H. P. Krahn, J. Ahrens, H. J. Arends, G. Audit, A. Braghieri, N. d'Hose, S. J. Hall, V. Isbert, J. D. Kellie, I. J. D. MacGregor, P. Pedroni, T. Pinelli, G. Tamas, Th. Walcher, and S. Wartenberg
pp. 606-609 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Gauge-Invariant Decomposition of Nucleon Spin
Xiangdong Ji
pp. 610-613 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Interband Transitions between Superdeformed Bands in 87Nb: Evidence for a Superintruder Orbital
D. R. LaFosse, M. Devlin, M. Korolija, F. Lerma, D. G. Sarantites, Y. A. Akovali, C. Baktash, C. J. Gross, D. W. Stracener, J. Döring, G. D. Johns, S. L. Tabor, F. E. Durham, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, and W. Rathbun
pp. 614-617 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Search for Monoenergetic Positron Emission from Heavy-Ion Collisions at Coulomb-Barrier Energies
I. Ahmad et al. ((APEX Collaboration))
pp. 618-621 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Experimental Verification of the Shift of the Cesium Hyperfine Transition Frequency due to Blackbody Radiation
Andreas Bauch and Roland Schröder
pp. 622-625 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Measurement of the Initial Condition of Electrons Ionized by a Linearly Polarized, High-Intensity Laser
S. J. McNaught, J. P. Knauer, and D. D. Meyerhofer
pp. 626-629 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Cooling and Localization Dynamics in Optical Lattices
G. Raithel, G. Birkl, A. Kastberg, W. D. Phillips, and S. L. Rolston
pp. 630-633 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Quantum Nondemolition Measurements using Cold Trapped Atoms
J.-F. Roch, K. Vigneron, Ph. Grelu, A. Sinatra, J.-Ph. Poizat, and Ph. Grangier
pp. 634-637 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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High Harmonic Generation from Ultrafast Pump Lasers
Kenneth J. Schafer and Kenneth C. Kulander
pp. 638-641 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Failure of the Quasimonochromatic Approximation for Ultrashort Pulse Propagation in a Dispersive, Attenuative Medium
Kurt E. Oughstun and Hong Xiao
pp. 642-645 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Theory of Incoherent Self-Focusing in Biased Photorefractive Media
Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Tamer H. Coskun, Matthew Mitchell, and Mordechai Segev
pp. 646-649 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Layer-Mean Quantities, Local Conservation Laws, and Vorticity
Roberto Camassa and C. David Levermore
pp. 650-653 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Waiting-Time Behavior for Large Angle Wedges of Viscous Liquids
L. P. Thomas, B. M. Marino, and R. Gratton
pp. 654-657 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Absolute and Convective Secondary Instabilities in Spatially Periodic Shear Flows
P. Brancher and J. M. Chomaz
pp. 658-661 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Turbulent Convection in a Spectral Model
V. M. Canuto, M. S. Dubovikov, and A. Dienstfrey
pp. 662-665 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Physical Regimes and Dimensional Structure of Rotating Turbulence
V. M. Canuto and M. S. Dubovikov
pp. 666-669 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Transient Filamentation of a Laser Beam in a Thermal Force Dominated Plasma
A. K. Lal, K. A. Marsh, C. E. Clayton, C. Joshi, C. J. McKinstrie, J. S. Li, and T. W. Johnston
pp. 670-673 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Helical Plasma Confinement Devices with Good Confinement Properties
John R. Cary and Svetlana G. Shasharina
pp. 674-677 [View PDF (197 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Role of Covalent Tip-Surface Interactions in Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy on Reactive Surfaces
Rubén Pérez, Michael C. Payne, Ivan Štich, and Kiyoyuki Terakura
pp. 678-681 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Fluctuations in Confined Liquid Crystals above Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transition Temperature
P. Ziherl and S. Z̆umer
pp. 682-685 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Dimensions of Polymer Chains in Critical Semidilute Solutions
Yu. B. Melnichenko and G. D. Wignall
pp. 686-688 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Morphology of Pores and Interfaces and Mechanical Behavior of Nanocluster-Assembled Silicon Nitride Ceramic
Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Kenji Tsuruta, and Priya Vashishta
pp. 689-692 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Lattice Dynamics of Icosahedral α-Boron under Pressure
N. Vast, S. Baroni, G. Zerah, J. M. Besson, A. Polian, M. Grimsditch, and J. C. Chervin
pp. 693-696 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Activation Volume for Hf Diffusion in an Amorphous Ni0.54Zr0.46 Alloy
A. Grandjean, P. Blanchard, and Y. Limoge
pp. 697-700 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Nonuniversal Corrections to the Level Curvature Distribution beyond Random Matrix Theory
I. V. Yurkevich and V. E. Kravtsov
pp. 701-704 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Suppression of Conductance in Surface Superlattices by Temperature and Electric Field
A. Messica, A. Soibel, U. Meirav, Ady Stern, Hadas Shtrikman, V. Umansky, and D. Mahalu
pp. 705-708 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Interaction-Induced Oscillations of the Tunneling Density of States in a Nonquantizing Magnetic Field
A. M. Rudin, I. L. Aleiner, and L. I. Glazman
pp. 709-712 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Superconductivity-Induced Anomalies in the Spin Excitation Spectra of Underdoped YBa2Cu3 O6+x
H. F. Fong, B. Keimer, D. L. Milius, and I. A. Aksay
pp. 713-716 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Single Hole Dynamics in the CuO2 Plane at Half Filling
J. J. M. Pothuizen, R. Eder, N. T. Hien, M. Matoba, A. A. Menovsky, and G. A. Sawatzky
pp. 717-720 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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NMR Evidence for a d-Wave Normal-State Pseudogap
G. V. M. Williams, J. L. Tallon, E. M. Haines, R. Michalak, and R. Dupree
pp. 721-724 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Empty 4f1-State Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy in LaSe
R. Pittini, J. Schoenes, F. Hulliger, and P. Wachter
pp. 725-728 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Cooperative Emission in π-Conjugated Polymer Thin Films
S. V. Frolov, W. Gellermann, M. Ozaki, K. Yoshino, and Z. V. Vardeny
pp. 729-732 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Factors Influencing Stimulated Emission from Poly( p-phenylenevinylene)
G. J. Denton, N. Tessler, N. T. Harrison, and R. H. Friend
pp. 733-736 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Heavy-Light Hole Quantum Beats in the Band-to-Band Continuum of GaAs Observed in 20 Femtosecond Pump-Probe Experiments
Markus Joschko, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser, Eberhard Binder, Tilmann Kuhn, R. Hey, H. Kostial, and K. Ploog
pp. 737-740 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Fluctuation-Dominated Kinetics under Stirring
R. Reigada, F. Sagués, I. M. Sokolov, J. M. Sancho, and A. Blumen
pp. 741-744 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Excitation Waves on Cylindrical Surfaces: Rotor Competition and Vortex Drift
Oliver Steinbock
pp. 745-748 [View PDF (199 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Electron Correlation in Multiple Excitation of Atoms by High-Energy Ions”
J. F. Reading, T. Bronk, and A. L. Ford
pp. 749 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Martín and Salin Reply:
F. Martín and A. Salin
pp. 750 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Comment on “Moving Glass Phase of Driven Lattices”
Leon Balents, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Leo Radzihovsky
pp. 751 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Giamarchi and Le Doussal Reply:
T. Giamarchi and Pierre Le Doussal
pp. 752 [View PDF (44 kB)]

ERRATA

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Giant K Doubling in the Infrared Spectrum of CH3OH: A Sensitive Probe for CH3-Rock/CO-Stretch/OH-Bend Vibrational Coupling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3645 (1995)]
R. M. Lees
pp. 753 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Dendritic Growth[Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4050 (1996)]
Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel
pp. 753 [View PDF (41 kB)]
 
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