Physical Review Letters – 13 April 1998
Volume 80, Issue 15

LETTERS
COMMENTS

LETTERS

General Physics

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Observation of Scalar Aharonov-Bohm Effect with Longitudinally Polarized Neutrons

W.-T. Lee, O. Motrunich, B. E. Allman, and S. A. Werner

pp. 3165-3168 [View PDF (164 kB)]

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Contradiction of Quantum Mechanics with Local Hidden Variables for Quadrature Phase Amplitude Measurements

A. Gilchrist, P. Deuar, and M. D. Reid

pp. 3169-3172 [View PDF (358 kB)]

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Sub-Kilohertz Optical Spectroscopy with a Time Domain Atom Interferometer

F. Ruschewitz, J. L. Peng, H. Hinderthür, N. Schaffrath, K. Sengstock, and W. Ertmer

pp. 3173-3176 [View PDF (211 kB)]

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Four-Particle Condensate in Strongly Coupled Fermion Systems

G. Röpke, A. Schnell, P. Schuck, and P. Nozières

pp. 3177-3180 [View PDF (146 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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High Power Interferometric Phase Measurement Limited by Quantum Noise and Application to Detection of Gravitational Waves

P. Fritschel, G. González, B. Lantz, P. Saha, and M. Zucker

pp. 3181-3184 [View PDF (197 kB)]

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Experimental Signatures of Supersymmetric Dark-Matter Q-Balls

Alexander Kusenko, Vadim Kuzmin, Mikhail Shaposhnikov, and P. G. Tinyakov

pp. 3185-3188 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Non-Abelian Dipole Radiation and the Heavy Quark Expansion

Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Nikolai Uraltsev

pp. 3189-3192 [View PDF (174 kB)]

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Measurement of B(D⁰ → K^-π⁺) Using Partial Reconstruction of B̅ → D^*+Xℓ^-ν̅

M. Artuso et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))

pp. 3193-3197 [View PDF (161 kB)]

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Effective QCD Coupling and Power Corrections to Photon-Photon Scattering

F. Hautmann

pp. 3198-3201 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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η^′ Production in Proton-Proton Scattering Close to Threshold

P. Moskal et al.

pp. 3202-3205 [View PDF (165 kB)]

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Ultraviolet Photon Emission Observed in the Search for the Decay of the ²²⁹Th Isomer

D. S. Richardson, D. M. Benton, D. E. Evans, J. A. R. Griffith, and G. Tungate

pp. 3206-3208 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Hyperspherical Symmetry of Hydrogenic Orbitals and Recoupling Coefficients among Alternative Bases

Vincenzo Aquilanti, Simonetta Cavalli, and Cecilia Coletti

pp. 3209-3212 [View PDF (153 kB)]

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Excitation and Relaxation in Atom-Cluster Collisions

U. Saalmann and R. Schmidt

pp. 3213-3216 [View PDF (158 kB)]

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Measurement of the Rotational Frequency Shift Imparted to a Rotating Light Beam Possessing Orbital Angular Momentum

J. Courtial, K. Dholakia, D. A. Robertson, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett

pp. 3217-3219 [View PDF (395 kB)]

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Formation of Negative Ions upon Irradiation of Molecules by Intense Laser Fields

V. R. Bhardwaj, D. Mathur, and F. A. Rajgara

pp. 3220-3223 [View PDF (96 kB)]

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Quenching of H₂ Vibrations in Ultracold ³He and ⁴He Collisions

N. Balakrishnan, R. C. Forrey, and A. Dalgarno

pp. 3224-3227 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Importance of Local Pattern Properties in Spiral Defect Chaos

David A. Egolf, Ilarion V. Melnikov, and Eberhard Bodenschatz

pp. 3228-3231 [View PDF (157 kB)]

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Microwave Realization of the Hofstadter Butterfly

U. Kuhl and H.-J. Stöckmann

pp. 3232-3235 [View PDF (9,802 kB)]

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Coherent 0.5-keV X-Ray Emission from Helium Driven by a Sub-10-fs Laser

M. Schnürer, Ch. Spielmann, P. Wobrauschek, C. Streli, N. H. Burnett, C. Kan, K. Ferencz, R. Koppitsch, Z. Cheng, T. Brabec, and F. Krausz

pp. 3236-3239 [View PDF (143 kB)]

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Anomalous Interaction of Spatial Solitons in Photorefractive Media

Wiesław Królikowski, M. Saffman, Barry Luther-Davies, and Cornelia Denz

pp. 3240-3243 [View PDF (1,624 kB)]

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Multiscale Velocity Correlations in Turbulence

R. Benzi, L. Biferale, and F. Toschi

pp. 3244-3247 [View PDF (115 kB)]

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Percolation with Two Invaders and Two Defenders: Volatile Clusters, Oscillations, and Scaling

Mehrdad Hashemi, Muhammad Sahimi, and Bahram Dabir

pp. 3248-3251 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Wave-Particle Resonance in Magnetized Plasma

M. Sarfaty, S. De Souza-Machado, and F. Skiff

pp. 3252-3255 [View PDF (203 kB)]

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Experimental Test of the Sweet-Parker Model of Magnetic Reconnection

Hantao Ji, Masaaki Yamada, Scott Hsu, and Russell Kulsrud

pp. 3256-3259 [View PDF (222 kB)]

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Laser-Induced Fluorescence Observation of Self-Organized Ion Structures Induced by Electrostatic Perturbations

G. Bachet, F. Skiff, M. Dindelegan, F. Doveil, and R. A. Stern

pp. 3260-3263 [View PDF (260 kB)]

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Experimental Evidence of Collisionless Power Absorption in Inductively Coupled Plasmas

V. A. Godyak, R. B. Piejak, B. M. Alexandrovich, and V. I. Kolobov

pp. 3264-3267 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Solving the Phase Problem Using Reference-Beam X-Ray Diffraction

Qun Shen

pp. 3268-3271 [View PDF (1,872 kB)]

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Nondestructive Resolution of Higher Harmonics of Light-Induced Volume Gratings in PMMA with Cold Neutrons

Frank Havermeyer, Sergei F. Lyuksyutov, Romano A. Rupp, Helmut Eckerlebe, Peter Staron, and Jürgen Vollbrandt

pp. 3272-3275 [View PDF (1,615 kB)]

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Reaction-Induced Phase Separation Dynamics: A Polymer in a Liquid Crystal Solvent

J. B. Nephew, T. C. Nihei, and S. A. Carter

pp. 3276-3279 [View PDF (912 kB)]

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Growth Mechanism and Cross-Sectional Structure of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Thin Films

C. A. Davis, G. A. J. Amaratunga, and K. M. Knowles

pp. 3280-3283 [View PDF (102 kB)]

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Quantum Breathers in Electron-Phonon Systems

W. Z. Wang, A. R. Bishop, J. T. Gammel, and R. N. Silver

pp. 3284-3287 [View PDF (182 kB)]

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Activation Volume of ⁵⁷Co Diffusion in Amorphous Co₈₁Zr₁₉

P. Klugkist, K. Rätzke, S. Rehders, P. Troche, and F. Faupel

pp. 3288-3291 [View PDF (133 kB)]

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Measurements of the Solubility and Diffusion Coefficient of ⁴He in Liquid ³He in the Fermi-Liquid Region

Jizhong He, T. G. Culman, H. H. Hjort, and D. O. Edwards

pp. 3292-3295 [View PDF (183 kB)]

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Dewetting at Soft Interfaces

Pascal Martin and Françoise Brochard-Wyart, Ph.D.

pp. 3296-3299 [View PDF (573 kB)]

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Profile Scaling in Decay of Nanostructures

Navot Israeli and Daniel Kandel

pp. 3300-3303 [View PDF (138 kB)]

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Local Chemical Environments and the Phonon Partial Densities of States of ⁵⁷Fe in ⁵⁷Fe₃Al

B. Fultz, T. A. Stephens, W. Sturhahn, T. S. Toellner, and E. E. Alp

pp. 3304-3307 [View PDF (154 kB)]

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Efficient Computation of Dendritic Microstructures Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Nikolas Provatas, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Jonathan Dantzig

pp. 3308-3311 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Quantum Oscillations of Electrons and of Composite Fermions in Two Dimensions: Beyond the Luttinger Expansion

S. Curnoe and P. C. E. Stamp

pp. 3312-3315 [View PDF (151 kB)]

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Electronic Structure of a Novel Class of Nanoporous Materials

F. Starrost, E. E. Krasovskii, W. Schattke, J. Jockel, U. Simon, X. Wang, and F. Liebau

pp. 3316-3319 [View PDF (315 kB)]

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Excitonic Effects and the Optical Absorption Spectrum of Hydrogenated Si Clusters

Michael Rohlfing and Steven G. Louie

pp. 3320-3323 [View PDF (130 kB)]

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New Liquid Phase and Metal-Insulator Transition in Si MOSFETs

Song He and X. C. Xie

pp. 3324-3327 [View PDF (125 kB)]

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Plasmon Excitation by Multiply Charged Ne^q+ Ions Interacting with an Al Surface

D. Niemann, M. Grether, M. Rösler, and N. Stolterfoht

pp. 3328-3331 [View PDF (110 kB)]

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Electron Confinement to Nanoscale Ag Islands on Ag(111): A Quantitative Study

Jiutao Li, Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Richard Berndt, and S. Crampin

pp. 3332-3335 [View PDF (404 kB)]

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Spontaneous Magnetization of Simple Metal Nanowires

N. Zabala, M. J. Puska, and R. M. Nieminen

pp. 3336-3339 [View PDF (143 kB)]

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Coulomb Charging Effect in Self-Assembled Ge Quantum Dots Studied by Admittance Spectroscopy

S. K. Zhang, H. J. Zhu, F. Lu, Z. M. Jiang, and Xun Wang

pp. 3340-3343 [View PDF (151 kB)]

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Electron-Electron Interactions in Emission from a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in Quantizing Magnetic Fields

L. Gravier, M. Potemski, P. Hawrylak, and B. Etienne

pp. 3344-3347 [View PDF (137 kB)]

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Microscopic Theory of Quantum-Transport Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems: A Monte Carlo Approach

Fausto Rossi, Aldo Di Carlo, and Paolo Lugli

pp. 3348-3351 [View PDF (1,442 kB)]

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Transport through Quantum Melts

Efrat Shimshoni, Assa Auerbach, and Aharon Kapitulnik

pp. 3352-3355 [View PDF (133 kB)]

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Duality Transformation in a Three Dimensional Conducting Medium with Two Dimensional Heterogeneity and an In-Plane Magnetic Field

David J. Bergman and Yakov M. Strelniker

pp. 3356-3359 [View PDF (2,403 kB)]

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de Haas–van Alphen Effect in Anisotropic Superconductors in Magnetic Fields Well Below H_c2

L. P. Gor'kov and J. R. Schrieffer

pp. 3360-3363 [View PDF (169 kB)]

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d-Wave Scaling Relations in the Mixed-State Specific Heat of YBa₂Cu₃O₇

B. Revaz, J.-Y. Genoud, A. Junod, K. Neumaier, A. Erb, and E. Walker

pp. 3364-3367 [View PDF (168 kB)]

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Bethe Ansatz Approach to the Thermodynamics of Superconducting Magnetic Alloys

Valery I. Rupasov

pp. 3368-3371 [View PDF (143 kB)]

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Cherenkov Radiation of Vortices in a Two-Dimensional Annular Josephson Junction

V. V. Kurin, A. V. Yulin, I. A. Shereshevskii, and N. K. Vdovicheva

pp. 3372-3375 [View PDF (134 kB)]

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Collective Dynamics of Intrinsic Josephson Junctions in High- T_c Superconductors

Dmitry A. Ryndyk

pp. 3376-3379 [View PDF (147 kB)]

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Phase Transitions in the Gd_0.5Ba_0.5CoO₃ Perovskite

I. O. Troyanchuk, N. V. Kasper, D. D. Khalyavin, H. Szymczak, R. Szymczak, and M. Baran

pp. 3380-3383 [View PDF (130 kB)]

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Projection Method for Statics and Dynamics of Lattice Spin Systems

M. Kolesik, M. A. Novotny, and P. A. Rikvold

pp. 3384-3387 [View PDF (155 kB)]

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NMR Chemical Shifts in Hard Carbon Nitride Compounds

Young-Gui Yoon, Bernd G. Pfrommer, Francesco Mauri, and Steven G. Louie

pp. 3388-3391 [View PDF (268 kB)]

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Absence of Carrier Hopping in Porous Silicon

I. Mihalcescu, J. C. Vial, and R. Romestain

pp. 3392-3395 [View PDF (155 kB)]

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Photoluminescence of Tensile Strained, Exactly Strain Compensated, and Compressively Strained Si_1-x-yGe_xC_y Layers on Si

O. G. Schmidt and K. Eberl

pp. 3396-3399 [View PDF (175 kB)]

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X-Ray Resonant Scattering as a Direct Probe of Orbital Ordering in Transition-Metal Oxides

Michele Fabrizio, Massimo Altarelli, and Maurizio Benfatto

pp. 3400-3403 [View PDF (183 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Understanding the Electroporation of Cells and Artificial Bilayer Membranes

Hervé Isambert

pp. 3404-3407 [View PDF (144 kB)]

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Experimental Implementation of Fast Quantum Searching

Isaac L. Chuang, Neil Gershenfeld, and Mark Kubinec

pp. 3408-3411 [View PDF (3,503 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Understanding the Area Proposal for Extremal Black Hole Entropy”

O. B. Zaslavskii

pp. 3412 [View PDF (76 kB)]

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Ghosh and Mitra Reply:

A. Ghosh and P. Mitra

pp. 3413 [View PDF (58 kB)]

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Comment on “Measurements of Rayleigh-Taylor Growth Rate of Planar Targets Irradiated Directly by Partially Coherent Light”

R. H. Lehmberg, C. J. Pawley, and A. J. Schmitt

pp. 3414 [View PDF (44 kB)]

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Shigemori et al. Reply:

K. Shigemori, H. Azechi, M. Nakai, H. Takabe, and K. Mima

pp. 3415 [View PDF (45 kB)]

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Comment on “Peierls Gap in a Mesoscopic Ring Threaded by a Magnetic Flux”

B. Nathanson, O. Entin-Wohlman, and B. Mühlschlegel

pp. 3416 [View PDF (64 kB)]

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