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Physical Review Letters – 23 March 1998
Volume 80, Issue 12

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.

Boosted Three-Dimensional Black-Hole Evolutions with Singularity Excision
G. B. Cook et al. ((Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance))
pp. 2512-2516 [View PDF (159 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Three-Laboratory Measurement of the 44Ti Half-Life
I. Ahmad, G. Bonino, G. Cini Castagnoli, S. M. Fischer, W. Kutschera, and M. Paul
pp. 2550-2553 [View PDF (96 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Half-Life of 44Ti as a Probe for Supernova Models
J. Görres, J. Meißner, H. Schatz, E. Stech, P. Tischhauser, M. Wiescher, D. Bazin, R. Harkewicz, M. Hellström, B. Sherrill, M. Steiner, R. N. Boyd, L. Buchmann, D. H. Hartmann, and J. D. Hinnefeld
pp. 2554-2557 [View PDF (291 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Measurement of the Vortex Pair Interaction Potential in a Type-II Superconductor
Chorng-Haur Sow, Ken Harada, Akira Tonomura, George Crabtree, and David G. Grier
pp. 2693-2696 [View PDF (496 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Role of Coincidental Nonlinear Events in the Saturation of Moderately Damped Modes
R. Paul Drake
pp. 2499-2503 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Ground State Energy of the Low Density Bose Gas
Elliott H. Lieb and Jakob Yngvason
pp. 2504-2507 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Spacetime Foam as a Quantum Thermal Bath
Luis J. Garay
pp. 2508-2511 [View PDF (146 kB)]
Boosted Three-Dimensional Black-Hole Evolutions with Singularity Excision
G. B. Cook et al. ((Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance))
pp. 2512-2516 [View PDF (159 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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't Hooft Anomaly Matching for QCD
John Terning
pp. 2517-2520 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Combining Real and Virtual Higgs Boson Mass Constraints
Michael S. Chanowitz
pp. 2521-2524 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decays of the Top Quark in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV
F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 2525-2530 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Two-Loop QCD Corrections to the Heavy Quark Pair Production Cross Section in e+e- Annihilation near Threshold
Andrzej Czarnecki and Kirill Melnikov
pp. 2531-2534 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Two-Loop Corrections to the Leptonic Decays of Quarkonium
M. Beneke, A. Signer, and V. A. Smirnov
pp. 2535-2538 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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KN Scattering and the Nucleon Strangeness Radius
M. J. Ramsey-Musolf and H.-W. Hammer
pp. 2539-2542 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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High-Missing-Momentum Components in the 4He(e,e′p)3H Reaction
J. J. van Leeuwe, H. P. Blok, J. F. J. van den Brand, H. J. Bulten, G. E. Dodge, R. Ent, W. H. A. Hesselink, E. Jans, W. J. Kasdorp, J. M. Laget, L. Lapikás, S. I. Nagorny, C. J. G. Onderwater, A. R. Pellegrino, C. M. Spaltro, J. J. M. Steijger, R. Schiavilla, J. A. Templon, and O. Unal
pp. 2543-2546 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Momentum Transformation Connecting a NN Potential in the Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Two-Nucleon Schrödinger Equation
H. Kamada and W. Glöckle
pp. 2547-2549 [View PDF (104 kB)]
Three-Laboratory Measurement of the 44Ti Half-Life
I. Ahmad, G. Bonino, G. Cini Castagnoli, S. M. Fischer, W. Kutschera, and M. Paul
pp. 2550-2553 [View PDF (96 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Half-Life of 44Ti as a Probe for Supernova Models
J. Görres, J. Meißner, H. Schatz, E. Stech, P. Tischhauser, M. Wiescher, D. Bazin, R. Harkewicz, M. Hellström, B. Sherrill, M. Steiner, R. N. Boyd, L. Buchmann, D. H. Hartmann, and J. D. Hinnefeld
pp. 2554-2557 [View PDF (291 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Smooth Termination of Rotational Bands in 62Zn: Evidence for a Loss of Collectivity
C. E. Svensson et al.
pp. 2558-2561 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Negative Ion of Boron: An Experimental Study of the 3P Ground State
Michael Scheer, René C. Bilodeau, and Harold K. Haugen
pp. 2562-2565 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Electric Linear Dichroism with a Simple Interpretation in Terms of Molecular Pendular States
A. Slenczka
pp. 2566-2569 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Dimer Destruction in a Cs Vapor by a Laser Close to Atomic Resonance
M. Lintz and M. A. Bouchiat
pp. 2570-2573 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Fluctuations and Bonding in Lithium Clusters
Roger Rousseau and Dominik Marx
pp. 2574-2577 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Structure and Spectra of Three-Dimensional (H2O)n Clusters, n = 8,9,10
Udo Buck, Ingo Ettischer, Mario Melzer, Victoria Buch, and Joanna Sadlej
pp. 2578-2581 [View PDF (238 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Wave Function Intensity Statistics from Unstable Periodic Orbits
L. Kaplan
pp. 2582-2585 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Noninterferometric Phase Imaging with Partially Coherent Light
D. Paganin and K. A. Nugent
pp. 2586-2589 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Propagation of Acoustic Waves through a System of Many Vortex Rings
Maurizio Baffico, Denis Boyer, and Fernando Lund
pp. 2590-2593 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Noncircular Triangularity and Ellipticity-Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes Observed in JT-60U
G. J. Kramer, M. Saigusa, T. Ozeki, Y. Kusama, H. Kimura, T. Oikawa, K. Tobita, G. Y. Fu, and C. Z. Cheng
pp. 2594-2597 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Tunable Radiation Source through Upshifting without Ionization
G. Shvets, N. J. Fisch, and J.-M. Rax
pp. 2598-2601 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Potential Structure Modified by Electron Cyclotron Resonance in a Plasma Flow along Magnetic Field Lines with Mirror Configuration
T. Kaneko, R. Hatakeyama, and N. Sato
pp. 2602-2605 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Necessary Conditions for Attaining a Crystalline Beam
Jie Wei, Hiromi Okamoto, and Andrew M. Sessler
pp. 2606-2609 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Evolution of a Plasma Waveguide Created during Relativistic-Ponderomotive Self-Channeling of an Intense Laser Pulse
S.-Y. Chen, G. S. Sarkisov, A. Maksimchuk, R. Wagner, and D. Umstadter
pp. 2610-2613 [View PDF (789 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Phase Determination in Spin-Polarized Neutron Specular Reflection
J. Kasper, H. Leeb, and R. Lipperheide
pp. 2614-2617 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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STM-Induced Hydrogen Desorption via a Hole Resonance
K. Stokbro, C. Thirstrup, M. Sakurai, U. Quaade, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, F. Perez-Murano, and F. Grey
pp. 2618-2621 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Dynamics of Local Substructures in Water Observed by Ultrafast Infrared Hole Burning
R. Laenen, C. Rauscher, and A. Laubereau
pp. 2622-2625 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Vacancies and Self-Interstitials in Germanium Observed by Perturbed Angular Correlation Spectroscopy
Helmut Haesslein, Rainer Sielemann, and Christian Zistl, Ph.D.
pp. 2626-2629 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Fractional Stokes-Einstein Law for Ionic Transport in Liquids
A. Voronel, E. Veliyulin, V. Sh. Machavariani, A. Kisliuk, and D. Quitmann
pp. 2630-2633 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Coalescence of Spheres by Surface Diffusion
Jens Eggers
pp. 2634-2637 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Structure and Phonons of the Ice Surface
J. Braun, A. Glebov, A. P. Graham, A. Menzel, and J. P. Toennies
pp. 2638-2641 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Island Shape Transition in Heteroepitaxial Metal Growth on Square Lattices
Bert Müller, Lorenz Nedelmann, Bjørn Fischer, Harald Brune, Johannes V. Barth, and Klaus Kern
pp. 2642-2645 [View PDF (4,883 kB)]
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Spiral Motion in a Noisy Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Igor S. Aranson, Hugues Chaté, and Lei-Han Tang
pp. 2646-2649 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Island Size Scaling in InAs/GaAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
Y. Ebiko, S. Muto, D. Suzuki, S. Itoh, K. Shiramine, T. Haga, Y. Nakata, and N. Yokoyama
pp. 2650-2653 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Increased Stability in Crystal Growth Kinetics in Response to Bulk Transport Enhancement
Peter G. Vekilov and Franz Rosenberger
pp. 2654-2656 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Dynamical Simulation of Current Fluctuations in a Dissipative Two-State System
Jürgen T. Stockburger and C. H. Mak
pp. 2657-2660 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Density Matrix Approach to Local Hilbert Space Reduction
Chunli Zhang, Eric Jeckelmann, and Steven R. White
pp. 2661-2664 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Phonon-Assisted Double Exchange in Perovskite Manganites
J.-S. Zhou and J. B. Goodenough
pp. 2665-2668 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Spontaneous dc Current Generation in a Resistively Shunted Semiconductor Superlattice Driven by a Terahertz Field
Kirill N. Alekseev, Ethan H. Cannon, Jonathan C. McKinney, Feodor V. Kusmartsev, and David K. Campbell
pp. 2669-2672 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Quasiatomic Fine Structure and Selection Rules in Quantum Dots
C. Schüller, K. Keller, G. Biese, E. Ulrichs, L. Rolf, C. Steinebach, D. Heitmann, and K. Eberl
pp. 2673-2676 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Resonant Tunneling and Band Mixing in Multichannel Superlattices
Pedro Pereyra
pp. 2677-2680 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Quantization of the Hall Conductance in a Three-Dimensional Layer
S. S. Murzin, A. G. M. Jansen, and P. v. d. Linden
pp. 2681-2684 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Temperature-Independent Photoconductivity in Thin Films of Semiconducting Polymers: Photocarrier Sweep-Out Prior to Deep Trapping
D. Moses, J. Wang, G. Yu, and A. J. Heeger
pp. 2685-2688 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Asymmetric Magnetic Interference Patterns in 0- π Josephson Junctions
D. F. Agterberg and M. Sigrist
pp. 2689-2692 [View PDF (138 kB)]
Measurement of the Vortex Pair Interaction Potential in a Type-II Superconductor
Chorng-Haur Sow, Ken Harada, Akira Tonomura, George Crabtree, and David G. Grier
pp. 2693-2696 [View PDF (496 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Restoration of Superconductivity in High Parallel Magnetic Fields in Layered Superconductors
A. G. Lebed and K. Yamaji
pp. 2697-2700 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Incommensurate Modulation in Phase-Separated Cu-Rich La2CuO4.003
X. L. Dong, Z. F. Dong, B. R. Zhao, Z. X. Zhao, X. F. Duan, L.-M. Peng, W. W. Huang, B. Xu, Y. Z. Zhang, S. Q. Guo, L. H. Zhao, and L. Li
pp. 2701-2704 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Low Temperature Behavior and Crossovers of the Square Lattice Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
Jae-Kwon Kim and Matthias Troyer
pp. 2705-2708 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Non-Haldane Spin-Liquid Models with Exact Ground States
A. K. Kolezhuk and H.-J. Mikeska
pp. 2709-2712 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the S = 1/2 Heisenberg Ladder Cu2(C5H12N2)2Cl4: Quantum Phase Transition and Critical Dynamics
G. Chaboussant, Y. Fagot-Revurat, M.-H. Julien, M. E. Hanson, C. Berthier, M. Horvatić, L. P. Lévy, and O. Piovesana
pp. 2713-2716 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Symmetry of Magnetically Ordered Quasicrystals
Ron Lifshitz
pp. 2717-2720 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Static Magnetic Hyperfine Fields in Magnetically Polarized Pd
H. H. Bertschat, H.-H. Blaschek, H. Granzer, K. Potzger, S. Seeger, W.-D. Zeitz, H. Niehus, A. Burchard, D. Forkel-Wirth, and ISOLDE Collaboration
pp. 2721-2724 [View PDF (481 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Direct Observation of Shear-Induced Structures in Wormlike Micellar Solutions by Freeze-Fracture Electron Microscopy
S. L. Keller, P. Boltenhagen, D. J. Pine, and J. A. Zasadzinski
pp. 2725-2728 [View PDF (918 kB)]
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Confinement of Polysoaps in Membrane Lyotropic Phases
Y. Yang, R. Prudhomme, K. M. McGrath, P. Richetti, and C. M. Marques
pp. 2729-2732 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Vibrational Dynamics of Folded Proteins: Significance of Slow and Fast Motions in Relation to Function and Stability
Ivet Bahar, Ali Rana Atilgan, Melik C. Demirel, and Burak Erman
pp. 2733-2736 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Electrohydrodynamic Stretching of DNA in Confined Environments
O. B. Bakajin, T. A. J. Duke, C. F. Chou, S. S. Chan, R. H. Austin, and E. C. Cox
pp. 2737-2740 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Interacting Individuals Leading to Zipf's Law
Matteo Marsili and Yi-Cheng Zhang
pp. 2741-2744 [View PDF (120 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quantum Action-Angle Variables for the Harmonic Oscillator”
T. B. Smith and John A. Vaccaro
pp. 2745 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Lewis, Lawrence, and Harris Reply:
H. Ralph Lewis, Walter E. Lawrence, and Joseph D. Harris
pp. 2746 [View PDF (52 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Laser Cooling of Electron Beams for Linear Colliders [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4757 (1997)]
Valery Telnov
pp. 2747 [View PDF (38 kB)]
 
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