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Physical Review Letters – 24 November 1997
Volume 79, Issue 21

LETTERS

General Physics

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Multisoliton Solutions of the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
N. N. Akhmediev, A. Ankiewicz, and J. M. Soto-Crespo
pp. 4047-4051 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Fake Instability in the Euclidean Formalism of Quantum Tunneling
Hideaki Aoyama, Toshiyuki Harano, Hisashi Kikuchi, Masatoshi Sato, and Shinya Wada
pp. 4052-4055 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Theoretical Study of the Damping of Collective Excitations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
W. Vincent Liu
pp. 4056-4059 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Optimal Path in Strong Disorder and Shortest Path in Invasion Percolation with Trapping
Markus Porto, Shlomo Havlin, Stefan Schwarzer, and Armin Bunde
pp. 4060-4062 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Critical Behavior of Random-Bond Potts Models
John Cardy and Jesper Lykke Jacobsen
pp. 4063-4066 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Invariant Field Metrics and Dynamical Scalings on Fractals
Umberto Mosco
pp. 4067-4070 [View PDF (191 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Spacetime Foam and the Cosmological Constant
S. Carlip
pp. 4071-4074 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Fermilab Tevatron Constraints on Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor
Yumian Su, Gian Franco Bonini, and Kenneth Lane
pp. 4075-4078 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Observation of the Decay K+→π+γγ
P. Kitching et al.
pp. 4079-4082 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Search for Light Gluinos via the Spontaneous Appearance of π+π- Pairs with an 800GeV/c Proton Beam at Fermilab
J. Adams et al. ((KTeV Collaboration))
pp. 4083-4087 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Higher-Order Corrections to Sirlin's Theorem in O(p6) Chiral Perturbation Theory
P. Post and K. Schilcher
pp. 4088-4091 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Chiral Sum Rules to Second Order in Quark Mass
Eugene Golowich and Joachim Kambor
pp. 4092-4095 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Anisotropy of Subthreshold K+ Emission in Heavy Ion Reactions
Z. S. Wang, Amand Faessler, C. Fuchs, V. S. Uma Maheswari, and D. Kosov
pp. 4096-4099 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Spins, Parity, Excitation Energies, and Octupole Structure of an Excited Superdeformed Band in 194Hg and Implications for Identical Bands
G. Hackman, T. L. Khoo, M. P. Carpenter, T. Lauritsen, A. Lopez-Martens, I. J. Calderin, R. V. F. Janssens, D. Ackermann, I. Ahmad, S. Agarwala, D. J. Blumenthal, S. M. Fischer, D. Nisius, P. Reiter, J. Young, H. Amro, E. F. Moore, F. Hannachi, A. Korichi, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, T. Døssing, and T. Nakatsukasa
pp. 4100-4103 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Single- and Multiphoton Infrared Laser Spectroscopy of Sb-: A Case Study
Michael Scheer, Harold K. Haugen, and Donald R. Beck
pp. 4104-4107 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Effect of Resonances on the Coherent Control of the Photoionization and Photodissociation of HI and DI
Langchi Zhu, Kunihiro Suto, Jeanette Allen Fiss, Ryuichi Wada, Tamar Seideman, and Robert J. Gordon
pp. 4108-4111 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Absence of a ``Threshold Effect'' in the Energy Loss of Slow Protons Traversing Large-Band-Gap Insulators
K. Eder, D. Semrad, P. Bauer, R. Golser, P. Maier-Komor, F. Aumayr, M. Peñalba, A. Arnau, J. M. Ugalde, and P. M. Echenique
pp. 4112-4115 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Ab Initio Calculations of Vibrationally Resolved Resonances in Electron Collisions with H2, HD, and D2
Darian T. Stibbe and Jonathan Tennyson
pp. 4116-4119 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Recoil Effects in Positronium Energy Levels to Order α6
Krzysztof Pachucki
pp. 4120-4123 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Positronic Lithium, an Electronically Stable Li-e+ Ground State
G. G. Ryzhikh and J. Mitroy
pp. 4124-4126 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Intermittency Route to Strange Nonchaotic Attractors
Awadhesh Prasad, Vishal Mehra, and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
pp. 4127-4130 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Exponentially Rapid Decoherence of Quantum Chaotic Systems
Arjendu K. Pattanayak and Paul Brumer
pp. 4131-4134 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Evidence of X-Shaped Propagation-Invariant Localized Light Waves
Peeter Saari and Kaido Reivelt
pp. 4135-4138 [View PDF (2,580 kB)]
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Modulational Instability Induced by Cavity Boundary Conditions in a Normally Dispersive Optical Fiber
S. Coen and M. Haelterman
pp. 4139-4142 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Phase Transitions and the Internal Noise Structure of Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation Solitons
M. J. Werner and S. R. Friberg
pp. 4143-4146 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Quantitative Measurement of Transmission, Reflection, and Diffraction of Two-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Structures at Near-Infrared Wavelengths
D. Labilloy, H. Benisty, C. Weisbuch, T. F. Krauss, R. M. De La Rue, V. Bardinal, R. Houdré, U. Oesterle, D. Cassagne, and C. Jouanin
pp. 4147-4150 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Experimental Detection of Forces Produced by the Flow of Heat
C. Albanese, P. Dell'Aversana, and F. S. Gaeta
pp. 4151-4154 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Long-Wave Instability in Marginally Stable Shear Flows
N. J. Balmforth and W. R. Young
pp. 4155-4158 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Single-Point Velocity Distribution in Turbulence
G. Falkovich and V. Lebedev
pp. 4159-4161 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of the Two-Dimensional Inverse Energy Cascade
Jérôme Paret and Patrick Tabeling
pp. 4162-4165 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Direct Numerical Simulations of the Kraichnan Model: Scaling Exponents and Fusion Rules
Adrienne L. Fairhall, Barak Galanti, Victor S. L'vov, and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 4166-4169 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Variational Bound on Energy Dissipation in Turbulent Shear Flow
Rolf Nicodemus, Siegfried Grossmann, and Martin Holthaus
pp. 4170-4173 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Instability and Stretching of Vortex Lines in the Three-Dimensional Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
I. S. Aranson and A. R. Bishop
pp. 4174-4177 [View PDF (1,764 kB)]
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Surface Gravity Waves due to a Moving Body: Onset of Wave Resistance as a Critical Phenomenon
Mark I. Shliomis and Victor Steinberg
pp. 4178-4181 [View PDF (184 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Deflection and Extraction of Pb Ions up to 33TeV/c by a Bent Silicon Crystal
G. Arduini, C. Biino, M. Clément, K. Cornelis, N. Doble, K. Elsener, G. Ferioli, G. Fidecaro, L. Gatignon, P. Grafström, M. Gyr, W. Herr, J. Klem, U. Mikkelsen, E. Weisse, S. P. Møller, E. Uggerhøj, A. Taratin, A. Freund, P. Keppler, and J. Major
pp. 4182-4185 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Observation of Toroidicity-Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes in Ohmically Heated Plasmas by Drift Wave Excitation
M. Maraschek, S. Günter, T. Kass, B. Scott, H. Zohm, and ASDEX Upgrade Team
pp. 4186-4189 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Gyro-Bohm Scaling of Ion Thermal Transport from Global Numerical Simulations of Ion-Temperature-Gradient-Driven Turbulence
G. Manfredi and M. Ottaviani
pp. 4190-4193 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Radiation from Cerenkov Wakes in a Magnetized Plasma
J. Yoshii, C. H. Lai, T. Katsouleas, C. Joshi, and W. B. Mori
pp. 4194-4197 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Nanocontacts: Probing Electronic Structure under Extreme Uniaxial Strains
Daniel Sánchez-Portal, Carlos Untiedt, José M. Soler, Juan J. Sáenz, and Nicolás Agraït
pp. 4198-4201 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Atom-Resolved Image of the TiO2(110) Surface by Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy
Ken-ichi Fukui, Hiroshi Onishi, and Yasuhiro Iwasawa
pp. 4202-4205 [View PDF (1,314 kB)]
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Breakdown of Dynamic Scaling of Disclination Loop Decay Biased by Electrohydrodynamic Convection in a Nematic Liquid Crystal
H. M. Shehadeh and J. P. McClymer
pp. 4206-4209 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Photodilatation Effect of Undoped a-Si:H Films
Kong Guanglin, Zhang Dianlin, Yue Guozhen, and Liao Xianbo
pp. 4210-4213 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Nematic–to–Smectic- A Transition in Aerogel
Leo Radzihovsky and John Toner
pp. 4214-4217 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Wigner Solid on the Free Surface of Superfluid 3He
Keiya Shirahama, Oleg I. Kirichek, and Kimitoshi Kono
pp. 4218-4221 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Defect Structure of Nonstoichiometric CeO2(111) Surfaces Studied by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
H. Nörenberg and G. A. D. Briggs
pp. 4222-4225 [View PDF (964 kB)]
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Step Faceting at the (001) Surface of Boron Doped Silicon
J. B. Hannon, N. C. Bartelt, B. S. Swartzentruber, J. C. Hamilton, and G. L. Kellogg
pp. 4226-4229 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Faceting Induced by Ultrathin Metal Films: A First Principles Study
J. G. Che, C. T. Chan, C. H. Kuo, and T. C. Leung
pp. 4230-4233 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Diffusion of Large Surface Clusters: Direct Observations on Ir(111)
S. C. Wang and Gert Ehrlich
pp. 4234-4237 [View PDF (4,934 kB)]
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Selection of the Scaling Solution in a Cluster Coalescence Model
Daniel Kandel
pp. 4238-4241 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Tunneling Anomaly in a Superconductor above the Paramagnetic Limit
I. L. Aleiner and B. L. Altshuler
pp. 4242-4245 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Measurements at Zero g Factor
D. R. Leadley, R. J. Nicholas, D. K. Maude, A. N. Utjuzh, J. C. Portal, J. J. Harris, and C. T. Foxon
pp. 4246-4249 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Phonon Anomalies Induced by Superconductivity
Hae-Young Kee and C. M. Varma
pp. 4250-4253 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Disorder Driven Destruction of a Phase Transition in the Vortex System of a Superconductor
N. K. Wilkin and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
pp. 4254-4257 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Forced Entanglement vs Anisotropic Dissipation in a Vortex Line Liquid
D. López, L. Krusin-Elbaum, H. Safar, V. M. Vinokur, A. D. Marwick, J. Z. Sun, and C. Feild
pp. 4258-4261 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Superconducting Tc and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Nb to 132 GPa: Magnetic Susceptibility at Megabar Pressures
Viktor V. Struzhkin, Yuri A. Timofeev, Russell J. Hemley, and Ho-kwang Mao
pp. 4262-4265 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Nonlinear Response in Quantum Spin Glasses
T. K. Kopeć
pp. 4266-4269 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Long-Range Exchange Bias across a Spacer Layer
N. J. Gökemeijer, T. Ambrose, and C. L. Chien
pp. 4270-4273 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Intrinsic EPR in La2-xSrxCuO4: Manifestation of Three-Spin Polarons
B. I. Kochelaev, J. Sichelschmidt, B. Elschner, W. Lemor, and A. Loidl
pp. 4274-4277 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of 55Mn NMR in Pr0.7Ca0.15Sr0.15MnO3 and Pr0.7Ba0.3MnO3 Ferromagnetic Manganites
M. M. Savosta, P. Novák, Z. Jirák, J. Hejtmánek, and M. Maryško
pp. 4278-4281 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Atomic Structure of the Passive Oxide Film Formed on Iron
Michael F. Toney, Alison J. Davenport, Lucy J. Oblonsky, Mary P. Ryan, and Carissima M. Vitus
pp. 4282-4285 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Fractal Morphogenesis and Interacting Processes in Gelation
M. Manno and M. U. Palma
pp. 4286-4289 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Unicellular Algal Growth: A Biomechanical Approach to Cell Wall Dynamics
Royce Kam and Herbert Levine
pp. 4290-4293 [View PDF (152 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ``Scaling Laws, Shell Effects, and Transient Times in Fission Probabilities''
B. B. Back, D. J. Hofman, and V. Nanal
pp. 4294 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Moretto et al. Reply:
L. G. Moretto, K. X. Jing, R. Gatti, Th. Rubehn, G. J. Wozniak, and R. P. Schmitt
pp. 4295 [View PDF (51 kB)]

ERRATA

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Induced Parity-Breaking Term at Finite Temperature [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1980 (1997)]
C. D. Fosco, G. L. Rossini, and F. A. Schaposnik
pp. 4296 [View PDF (12 kB)]
 
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