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Physical Review Letters – 1 June 1998
Volume 80, Issue 22

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.

Gravitational Radiation Instability in Hot Young Neutron Stars
Lee Lindblom, Benjamin J. Owen, and Sharon M. Morsink
pp. 4843-4846 [View PDF (149 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Imaging Buried Interfacial Lattices with Quantized Electrons
I. B. Altfeder, D. M. Chen, and K. A. Matveev
pp. 4895-4898 [View PDF (400 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Field-Induced Stabilization of Activation Processes
N. G. Stocks and R. Mannella
pp. 4835-4839 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Noise-Induced Hypersensitivity to Small Time-Dependent Signals
S. L. Ginzburg and M. A. Pustovoit
pp. 4840-4842 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Radiation Instability in Hot Young Neutron Stars
Lee Lindblom, Benjamin J. Owen, and Sharon M. Morsink
pp. 4843-4846 [View PDF (149 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Structure Formation by Cosmic Strings with a Cosmological Constant
Richard A. Battye, James Robinson, and Andreas Albrecht
pp. 4847-4850 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Riemann-Einstein Structure from Volume and Gauge Symmetry
Frank Wilczek
pp. 4851-4854 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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4D Conformal Field Theories and Strings on Orbifolds
Shamit Kachru and Eva Silverstein
pp. 4855-4858 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Wilson Loops in Large N Field Theories
Juan Maldacena
pp. 4859-4862 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Subthreshold Production of Low Momentum K+ in p+C at 1.2 GeV
A. Badalà, R. Barbera, M. Bassi, A. Bonasera, M. Gulino, F. Librizzi, A. Mascali, A. Palmeri, G. S. Pappalardo, F. Riggi, A. C. Russo, G. Russo, R. Turrisi, V. Dunin, C. Ekström, G. Ericsson, B. Höistad, J. Johansson, T. Johansson, L. Westerberg, J. Zlomaczhuk, and A. Sibirtsev
pp. 4863-4866 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Outer Tangency Bifurcations of Chaotic Sets
Carl Robert, Kathleen T. Alligood, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke
pp. 4867-4870 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Nonstandard Diffusion Properties of the Standard Map
D. Bénisti and D. F. Escande
pp. 4871-4874 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Polarization Fluctuations Demonstrate Nonlinear Anisotropy of a Vertical-Cavity Semiconductor Laser
M. P. van Exter, A. Al-Remawi, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 4875-4878 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Exactly Solvable Model of Nonlinear Dynamo
S. I. Vainshtein
pp. 4879-4882 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Effect of Nonlinear Electron Landau Damping in Collisionless Drift-Wave Turbulence
Frank Jenko and Bruce D. Scott
pp. 4883-4886 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Radial Electric Field Measurements in Reversed Shear Plasmas
F. M. Levinton, R. E. Bell, S. H. Batha, E. J. Synakowski, and M. C. Zarnstorff
pp. 4887-4890 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Controlled Ionospheric Preconditioning and Stimulated Electromagnetic Radiation
P. Y. Cheung, A. Y. Wong, J. Pau, and E. Mjølhus
pp. 4891-4894 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Imaging Buried Interfacial Lattices with Quantized Electrons
I. B. Altfeder, D. M. Chen, and K. A. Matveev
pp. 4895-4898 [View PDF (400 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Dynamics of CO Molecules in Solid C60 as a Function of Cavity Size
Iwan Holleman, Gert von Helden, Ad van der Avoird, and Gerard Meijer
pp. 4899-4902 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Large Low Temperature Specific Heat in the Negative Thermal Expansion Compound ZrW2O8
A. P. Ramirez and G. R. Kowach
pp. 4903-4906 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Entropic Elasticity of Diluted Central Force Networks
Michael Plischke and Béla Joós
pp. 4907-4910 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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First-Principles Computation of the Vibrational Entropy of Ordered and Disordered Ni3Al
A. van de Walle, G. Ceder, and U. V. Waghmare
pp. 4911-4914 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Cage Effect, Local Anisotropies, and Dynamic Heterogeneities at the Glass Transition: A Computer Study of Hard Spheres
B. Doliwa and A. Heuer
pp. 4915-4918 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Mass Dependence of Diffusion in a Supercooled Metallic Melt
H. Ehmler, A. Heesemann, K. Rätzke, F. Faupel, and U. Geyer
pp. 4919-4922 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Trapped Second Sound Waves on a Nonequilibrium Superfluid-Normal Interface
Peter B. Weichman, Anoop Prasad, Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, and Jonathan Miller
pp. 4923-4926 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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“Cosmological” Scenario for A-B Phase Transition in Superfluid 3He
Yu. M. Bunkov and O. D. Timofeevskaya
pp. 4927-4930 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Hydrogen-Surfactant Mediated Growth of Ge on Si(001)
S.-J. Kahng, Y. H. Ha, J.-Y. Park, S. Kim, D. W. Moon, and Y. Kuk
pp. 4931-4934 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Origin of Electron Diffraction Oscillations during Crystal Growth
W. Braun, L. Däweritz, and K. H. Ploog
pp. 4935-4938 [View PDF (215 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Structural and Electronic Properties of a Wide-Gap Quaternary Solid Solution: \(Zn, Mg\) \(S, Se\)
A. M. Saitta, S. de Gironcoli, and S. Baroni
pp. 4939-4942 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Density Dependence of the Exciton Energy in Semiconductors
G. Manzke, Q. Y. Peng, K. Henneberger, U. Neukirch, K. Hauke, K. Wundke, J. Gutowski, and D. Hommel
pp. 4943-4946 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Lifetimes of Image-Potential States on Copper Surfaces
E. V. Chulkov, I. Sarría, V. M. Silkin, J. M. Pitarke, and P. M. Echenique
pp. 4947-4950 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Changes in the Magnetization of a Double Quantum Dot
T. H. Oosterkamp, S. F. Godijn, M. J. Uilenreef, Y. V. Nazarov, N. C. van der Vaart, and L. P. Kouwenhoven
pp. 4951-4954 [View PDF (778 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Sign Reversals of ac Magnetoconductance in Isolated Quantum Dots
Yves Noat, Hélène Bouchiat, Bertrand Reulet, and Dominique Mailly
pp. 4955-4958 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Universality of Shot Noise in Multiterminal Diffusive Conductors
Eugene V. Sukhorukov and Daniel Loss
pp. 4959-4962 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Transport Properties of d-Wave Superconductors in the Vortex State
C. Kübert and P. J. Hirschfeld
pp. 4963-4966 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in Nd2CuO4
J. P. Hill, C.-C. Kao, W. A. L. Caliebe, M. Matsubara, A. Kotani, J. L. Peng, and R. L. Greene
pp. 4967-4970 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Possible New Vortex Matter Phases in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
D. T. Fuchs, E. Zeldov, T. Tamegai, S. Ooi, M. Rappaport, and H. Shtrikman
pp. 4971-4974 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Integrable Two-Impurity Kondo Model
P. Schlottmann
pp. 4975-4978 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Quantum Aging in Mean-Field Models
Leticia F. Cugliandolo and Gustavo Lozano
pp. 4979-4982 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Antiferromagnetic Interlayer Exchange Coupling across an Amorphous Metallic Spacer Layer
D. E. Bürgler, D. M. Schaller, C. M. Schmidt, F. Meisinger, J. Kroha, J. McCord, A. Hubert, and H.-J. Güntherodt
pp. 4983-4986 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Measurements of Sonoluminescence Temporal Pulse Shape
Michael J. Moran and Daren Sweider
pp. 4987-4990 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Multiexciton Spectroscopy of a Single Self-Assembled Quantum Dot
E. Dekel, D. Gershoni, E. Ehrenfreund, D. Spektor, J. M. Garcia, and P. M. Petroff
pp. 4991-4994 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Strong Exciton Binding in Quantum Structures through Remote Dielectric Confinement
Guido Goldoni, Fausto Rossi, and Elisa Molinari
pp. 4995-4998 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Probabilistic Cloning and Identification of Linearly Independent Quantum States
Lu-Ming Duan and Guang-Can Guo
pp. 4999-5002 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Inclusion-Dissociation Transition in the Complex Formation between Molecular Nanotubes and Linear Polymer Chains in Solutions
Yasushi Okumura, Kohzo Ito, and Reinosuke Hayakawa
pp. 5003-5006 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Phase Front Instability in Periodically Forced Oscillatory Systems
Christian Elphick, Aric Hagberg, and Ehud Meron
pp. 5007-5010 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Quantum Mechanical Treatment of Biological Macromolecules in Solution Using Linear-Scaling Electronic Structure Methods
Darrin M. York, Tai-Sung Lee, and Weitao Yang
pp. 5011-5014 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Non-Markovian Configurational Diffusion and Reaction Coordinates for Protein Folding
Steven S. Plotkin and Peter G. Wolynes
pp. 5015-5018 [View PDF (724 kB)]
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Can Epileptic Seizures be Predicted? Evidence from Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Brain Electrical Activity
Klaus Lehnertz and Christian E. Elger
pp. 5019-5022 [View PDF (122 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Conductance Fluctuations in Mesoscopic Normal-Metal/Superconductor Samples”
S. G. den Hartog and B. J. van Wees
pp. 5023 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Hecker et al. Reply:
Klaus Hecker, Helmut Hegger, Alexander Altland, and Klaus Fiegle
pp. 5024 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Invalidity of Classes of Approximate Hall Effect Calculations
P. Ao
pp. 5025 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Kopnin and Volovik Reply:
N. B. Kopnin and G. E. Volovik
pp. 5026 [View PDF (46 kB)]
 
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