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Physical Review Letters – 5 January 1998
Volume 80, Issue 1

LETTERS

General Physics

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Output of a Pulsed Atom Laser
H. Steck, M. Naraschewski, and H. Wallis
pp. 1-5 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Solvable Dynamics in a System of Interacting Random Tops
Felix Ritort
pp. 6-9 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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General Criteria for the Stability of Uniaxially Ordered States of Incommensurate-Commensurate Systems
V. Dananić and A. Bjeliš
pp. 10-13 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Canonical Quantization of Cylindrical Gravitational Waves with Two Polarizations
D. Korotkin and H. Samtleben
pp. 14-17 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Are Soft γ-Ray Repeaters Strange Stars?
K. S. Cheng and Z. G. Dai
pp. 18-21 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Primordial Magnetic Fields, Anomalous Matter-Antimatter Fluctuations, and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
M. Giovannini and M. E. Shaposhnikov
pp. 22-25 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Coexistence of Vortices and Antivortices in an Abelian Gauge Theory
Yisong Yang
pp. 26-29 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Abelian Monopoles in SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory as Physical Objects
B. L. G. Bakker, M. N. Chernodub, and M. I. Polikarpov
pp. 30-32 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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High-Resolution Measurement of Fine Structure in the Photoabsorption Cross Section of 18O
H. Harada, Y. Shigetome, H. Ohgaki, T. Noguchi, and T. Yamazaki
pp. 33-36 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Stability of Bubble Nuclei through Shell Effects
Klaus Dietrich and Krzysztof Pomorski
pp. 37-40 [View PDF (184 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Cumulative Reaction Probability without Absorbing Potentials
Oleg I. Tolstikhin, Valentin N. Ostrovsky, and Hiroki Nakamura
pp. 41-44 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Size-Dependent Plasmon Lifetimes and Electron-Phonon Coupling Time Constants for Surface Bound Na Clusters
J.-H. Klein-Wiele, P. Simon, and H.-G. Rubahn
pp. 45-48 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Origin of Strong Scarring of Wave Functions in Quantum Wells in a Tilted Magnetic Field
E. E. Narimanov and A. Douglas Stone
pp. 49-52 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Nonextensivity and Multifractality in Low-Dimensional Dissipative Systems
M. L. Lyra and C. Tsallis
pp. 53-56 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Patterns in 3D Vertically Oscillated Granular Layers: Simulation and Experiment
C. Bizon, M. D. Shattuck, J. B. Swift, W. D. McCormick, and Harry L. Swinney
pp. 57-60 [View PDF (799 kB)]
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Bimodal Character of Stress Transmission in Granular Packings
Farhang Radjai, Dietrich E. Wolf, Michel Jean, and Jean-Jacques Moreau
pp. 61-64 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Discretization of the Velocity Space in the Solution of the Boltzmann Equation
Xiaowen Shan and Xiaoyi He
pp. 65-68 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Effect of Chemical Reactions and Phase Transitions on Turbulent Transport of Particles and Gases
Tov Elperin, Nathan Kleeorin, and Igor Rogachevskii
pp. 69-72 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Phase-Locked Rotation of Crystallized Non-neutral Plasmas by Rotating Electric Fields
X.-P. Huang, J. J. Bollinger, T. B. Mitchell, and Wayne M. Itano
pp. 73-76 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Ion Acoustic Shocks Formed in a Collisionless Plasma with Negative Ions
Takami Takeuchi, Satoru Iizuka, and Noriyoshi Sato
pp. 77-80 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Propagation of Short Electron Pulses in a Plasma Channel
N. Barov, M. E. Conde, W. Gai, and J. B. Rosenzweig
pp. 81-84 [View PDF (202 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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How Fast Do Fluids Squeeze through Microscopic Single-File Pores?
Tom Chou
pp. 85-88 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Mean-Field Theory of Photoinduced Formation of Surface Reliefs in Side-Chain Azobenzene Polymers
Thomas Garm Pedersen, Per Michael Johansen, Niels Christian Rømer Holme, P. S. Ramanujam, and Søren Hvilsted
pp. 89-92 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of the Oxygen Dimer in Silicon
L. I. Murin, T. Hallberg, V. P. Markevich, and J. L. Lindström
pp. 93-96 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Dissipative Structure Formation in Cold-Rolled Fe and Ni during Heavy Ion Irradiation
P. Sen, G. Aggarwal, and U. Tiwari
pp. 97-100 [View PDF (552 kB)]
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New High-Pressure Excitations in Parahydrogen
Alexander F. Goncharov, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao, and Jinfu Shu
pp. 101-104 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Glassiness versus Order in Densely Frustrated Josephson Arrays
Pramod Gupta, S. Teitel, and Michel J. P. Gingras
pp. 105-108 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Statistical Topography of Glassy Interfaces
Chen Zeng, Jané Kondev, D. McNamara, and A. A. Middleton
pp. 109-112 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Fluctuation of Local Order and Connectivity of Water Molecules in Two Phases of Supercooled Water
Hideki Tanaka
pp. 113-116 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Influence of Thermal Barriers on Heat Flow in High Quality Chemical Vapor Deposited Diamond
J. Hartmann, M. Costello, and M. Reichling
pp. 117-120 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Damping of Molecular Motion on a Solid Substrate: Evidence for Electron-Hole Pair Creation
G. Witte, K. Weiss, P. Jakob, J. Braun, K. L. Kostov, and Ch. Wöll
pp. 121-124 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Observation of a Zone-Center Gap in the Longitudinal Mode of an Adsorbate Overlayer: Xenon on Cu(111)
J. Braun, D. Fuhrmann, A. Šiber, B. Gumhalter, and Ch. Wöll
pp. 125-128 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Wetting near Triple Points
K. G. Sukhatme, J. E. Rutledge, and P. Taborek
pp. 129-132 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Novel Dynamic Behavior of CeC82 at Low Temperature
W. Sato, K. Sueki, K. Kikuchi, K. Kobayashi, S. Suzuki, Y. Achiba, H. Nakahara, Y. Ohkubo, F. Ambe, and K. Asai
pp. 133-136 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Avoided Band Crossings: Tuning Metal-Insulator Transitions in Chaotic Systems
R. Ketzmerick, K. Kruse, and T. Geisel
pp. 137-140 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Tunneling into the Edge of a Compressible Quantum Hall State
A. V. Shytov, L. S. Levitov, and B. I. Halperin
pp. 141-144 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Interpretation of the Neutron Scattering Data on Flux Lattices of Superconductors
D. Chang, C.-Y. Mou, B. Rosenstein, and C. L. Wu
pp. 145-148 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Pseudogap Precursor of the Superconducting Gap in Under- and Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
Ch. Renner, B. Revaz, J.-Y. Genoud, K. Kadowaki, and Ø. Fischer
pp. 149-152 [View PDF (951 kB)]
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Unusual Strong-Coupling Effects in the Tunneling Spectroscopy of Optimally Doped and Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
Y. DeWilde, N. Miyakawa, P. Guptasarma, M. Iavarone, L. Ozyuzer, J. F. Zasadzinski, P. Romano, D. G. Hinks, C. Kendziora, G. W. Crabtree, and K. E. Gray
pp. 153-156 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Strong Dependence of the Superconducting Gap on Oxygen Doping from Tunneling Measurements on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8-δ
N. Miyakawa, P. Guptasarma, J. F. Zasadzinski, D. G. Hinks, and K. E. Gray
pp. 157-160 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Extremely Strong Dependence of Superconductivity on Disorder in Sr2RuO4
A. P. Mackenzie, R. K. W. Haselwimmer, A. W. Tyler, G. G. Lonzarich, Y. Mori, S. Nishizaki, and Y. Maeno
pp. 161-164 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Scaling and Thermal Conductivity in Unconventional Superconductors: The Case of UPt3
H. Suderow, J. P. Brison, A. Huxley, and J. Flouquet
pp. 165-168 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in Molecular Magnets
Alain Chiolero and Daniel Loss
pp. 169-172 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic Mixed-Valence and Kondo-Lattice State in TmTe at High Pressure
P. Link, I. N. Goncharenko, J. M. Mignot, T. Matsumura, and T. Suzuki
pp. 173-176 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Blocking and Freezing of Magnetic Moments for Iron Nitride Fine Particle Systems
H. Mamiya, I. Nakatani, and T. Furubayashi
pp. 177-180 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Low Temperature Surface Spin-Glass Transition in γ- Fe2O3 Nanoparticles
B. Martínez, X. Obradors, Ll. Balcells, A. Rouanet, and C. Monty
pp. 181-184 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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GaAs under Intense Ultrafast Excitation: Response of the Dielectric Function
Li Huang, J. Paul Callan, Eli N. Glezer, and Eric Mazur
pp. 185-188 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Sonoluminescence as a Cooperative Many Body Phenomenon
P. Mohanty and S. V. Khare
pp. 189-192 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Multipactor Discharge on a Dielectric
R. A. Kishek and Y. Y. Lau
pp. 193-196 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Entropy and Information in Neural Spike Trains
S. P. Strong, Roland Koberle, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, and William Bialek
pp. 197-200 [View PDF (163 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Stability of Ordered Phases in Weakly Segregated Diblock Copolymer Systems”
M. W. Matsen
pp. 201 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Laradji, Shi, Desai, and Noolandi Reply:
M. Laradji, R. C. Desai, A.-C. Shi, and J. Noolandi
pp. 202 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Comment on “Role of Lattice Vibrations in Adatom Diffusion”
G. Boisvert, N. Mousseau, and L. J. Lewis
pp. 203 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Kürpick et al. Reply:
Ulrike Kürpick, Abdelkader Kara, and Talat S. Rahman
pp. 204 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Comment on “Muon Spin Relaxation Studies of Zn-Substitution Effects in High- Tc Cuprate Superconductors”
C. Bernhard, J. L. Tallon, C. Bucci, R. DeRenzi, G. Guidi, G. V. M. Williams, and Ch. Niedermayer
pp. 205 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Nachumi et al. Reply:
B. Nachumi,, A. Keren, K. H. Kojima, M. Larkin, G. M. Luke, J. Merrin, O. Techernyshöv, Y. J. Uemura, N. Ichikawa, M. Goto, and S. Uchida
pp. 206 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Comment on “Chain Length Scaling of Protein Folding Time”
Carlos J. Camacho
pp. 207 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Gutin, Abkevich, and Shakhnovich Reply:
A. Gutin, V. Abkevich, and E. Shakhnovich
pp. 208 [View PDF (44 kB)]
 
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