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Physical Review Letters – 15 June 1998
Volume 80, Issue 24

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.

Sound Attenuation by a Two-Dimensional Array of Rigid Cylinders
J. V. Sánchez-Pérez, D. Caballero, R. Mártinez-Sala, C. Rubio, J. Sánchez-Dehesa, F. Meseguer, J. Llinares, and F. Gálvez
pp. 5325-5328 [View PDF (215 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Forces Measured between Hydrophobic Surfaces due to a Submicroscopic Bridging Bubble
Archie Carambassis, Louisa C. Jonker, Phil Attard, and Mark W. Rutland
pp. 5357-5360 [View PDF (102 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Mixed-State Entanglement and Distillation: Is there a “Bound” Entanglement in Nature?
Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki
pp. 5239-5242 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Real Spectra in Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians Having PT Symmetry
Carl M. Bender and Stefan Boettcher
pp. 5243-5246 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Exponential Localization of Photons
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula
pp. 5247-5250 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Energetics of a Forced Thermal Ratchet
Hideki Kamegawa, Tsuyoshi Hondou, and Fumiko Takagi
pp. 5251-5254 [View PDF (269 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Weighing Neutrinos with Galaxy Surveys
Wayne Hu, Daniel J. Eisenstein, and Max Tegmark
pp. 5255-5258 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Strong Electroweak Phase Transition up to mH ∼ 105 GeV
M. Laine and K. Rummukainen
pp. 5259-5262 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Stabilized Singlets in Supergravity as a Source of the μ Parameter
Christopher Kolda, Stefan Pokorski, and Nir Polonsky
pp. 5263-5266 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Current Algebra and Exotic Statistics in Six Dimensions
Jouko Mickelsson
pp. 5267-5270 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Kaon B Parameter from Quenched Lattice QCD
S. Aoki, M. Fukugita, S. Hashimoto, N. Ishizuka, Y. Iwasaki, K. Kanaya, Y. Kuramashi, M. Okawa, A. Ukawa, and T. Yoshié ((JLQCD Collaboration))
pp. 5271-5274 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Search for Chargino-Neutralino Associated Production at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider
F. Abe et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 5275-5280 [View PDF (171 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Multistep Production of η and Hard π0 Mesons in Subthreshold Au-Au Collisions
A. R. Wolf et al.
pp. 5281-5284 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Probing the ρ0 Mass Modification in the Subthreshold Region on 3He
G. M. Huber, G. J. Lolos, and Z. Papandreou
pp. 5285-5288 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Drastic Increase of the Nuclear Deformation in Bromine between A = 79 and 77
G. Seewald, E. Hagn, E. Zech, K. Freitag, P. Herzog, D. Forkel-Wirth, and ISOLDE Collaboration
pp. 5289-5292 [View PDF (199 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Electronic Structure Critical Parameters For the Lithium Isoelectronic Series
Pablo Serra, Juan Pablo Neirotti, and Sabre Kais
pp. 5293-5296 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Perturbed Orbital Contribution to the Two-Loop Lamb Shift in Hydrogen
S. Mallampalli and J. Sapirstein
pp. 5297-5300 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Helicity Dependence of the Photon-Induced Three-Body Coulomb Fragmentation of Helium Investigated by Cold Target Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy
V. Mergel, M. Achler, R. Dörner, Kh. Khayyat, T. Kambara, Y. Awaya, V. Zoran, B. Nyström, L. Spielberger, J. H. McGuire, J. Feagin, J. Berakdar, Y. Azuma, and H. Schmidt-Böcking
pp. 5301-5304 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Reabsorption of Light by Trapped Atoms
Y. Castin, J. I. Cirac, and M. Lewenstein
pp. 5305-5308 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Triply Differential Study of Positron Impact Ionization of H2
Á. Kövér and G. Laricchia
pp. 5309-5312 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Breakdown of Exponential Sensitivity to Initial Conditions: Role of the Range of Interactions
Celia Anteneodo and Constantino Tsallis
pp. 5313-5316 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Characteristic Relations of Type-III Intermittency in an Electronic Circuit
Chil-Min Kim, Geo-Su Yim, Jung-Wan Ryu, and Young-Jai Park
pp. 5317-5320 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Monte Carlo Approach to Modeling of Boundary Conditions for the Diffusion Equation
Nan Guang Chen and Jing Bai
pp. 5321-5324 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Sound Attenuation by a Two-Dimensional Array of Rigid Cylinders
J. V. Sánchez-Pérez, D. Caballero, R. Mártinez-Sala, C. Rubio, J. Sánchez-Dehesa, F. Meseguer, J. Llinares, and F. Gálvez
pp. 5325-5328 [View PDF (215 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Forced Symmetry Breaking as a Mechanism for Bursting
J. Moehlis and E. Knobloch
pp. 5329-5332 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Analytic Multivariate Generating Function for Random Multiplicative Cascade Processes
Martin Greiner, Hans C. Eggers, and Peter Lipa
pp. 5333-5336 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Taylor-Couette Vortex Formation
D. Hirshfeld and D. C. Rapaport
pp. 5337-5340 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Zigzag Destabilized Spirals and Targets
Yu. A. Astrov, I. Müller, E. Ammelt, and H.-G. Purwins
pp. 5341-5344 [View PDF (318 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Plasma Crystal Melting: A Nonequilibrium Phase Transition
V. A. Schweigert, I. V. Schweigert, A. Melzer, A. Homann, and A. Piel
pp. 5345-5348 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Interaction of Intense Laser Pulses with Preformed Density Channels
A. J. Mackinnon, M. Borghesi, A. Iwase, and O. Willi
pp. 5349-5352 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Theory of Enhanced Reversed Shear Mode in Tokamaks
K. C. Shaing, A. Y. Aydemir, W. A. Houlberg, and M. C. Zarnstorff
pp. 5353-5356 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Forces Measured between Hydrophobic Surfaces due to a Submicroscopic Bridging Bubble
Archie Carambassis, Louisa C. Jonker, Phil Attard, and Mark W. Rutland
pp. 5357-5360 [View PDF (102 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Evidence for a Phase Transition in Glasses at Very Low Temperature: A Macroscopic Quantum State of Tunneling Systems?
P. Strehlow, C. Enss, and S. Hunklinger
pp. 5361-5364 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Synthesis and Structure of Silicon-doped Heterofullerenes
C. Ray, M. Pellarin, J. L. Lermé, J. L. Vialle, M. Broyer, X. Blase, P. Mélinon, P. Kéghélian, and A. Perez
pp. 5365-5368 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Surface Structural Transitions on the Icosahedral Quasicrystal Al70Pd20Mn10
B. Bolliger, M. Erbudak, D. D. Vvedensky, M. Zurkirch, and A. R. Kortan
pp. 5369-5372 [View PDF (561 kB)]
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Long-Range-Interaction Induced Ordered Structures in Deposition Processes
R. Pastor-Satorras and J. M. Rubí
pp. 5373-5376 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Molecular Weight Dependence of Spreading Rates of Ultrathin Polymeric Films
M. P. Valignat, G. Oshanin, S. Villette, A. M. Cazabat, and M. Moreau
pp. 5377-5380 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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“Electronic Growth” of Metallic Overlayers on Semiconductor Substrates
Zhenyu Zhang, Qian Niu, and Chih-Kang Shih
pp. 5381-5384 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Localized Mechanical Instabilities and Structural Transformations in Silica Glass under High Pressure
Daniel J. Lacks
pp. 5385-5388 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Strong-Coupling Expansion for the Hubbard Model
Stéphane Pairault, David Sénéchal, and A.-M. S. Tremblay
pp. 5389-5392 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Phase-Coherent Transport through a Mesoscopic System: A New Probe of Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior
Michael R. Geller
pp. 5393-5396 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Quantum-Size Effects on the Pressure-Induced Direct-to-Indirect Band-Gap Transition in InP Quantum Dots
Huaxiang Fu and Alex Zunger
pp. 5397-5400 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Bosonic Resonating-Valence-Bond Description of a Doped Antiferromagnet
Z. Y. Weng, D. N. Sheng, and C. S. Ting
pp. 5401-5404 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Luminescence of Individual Porous Si Chromophores
M. D. Mason, G. M. Credo, K. D. Weston, and S. K. Buratto
pp. 5405-5408 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Coulomb Interactions at Quantum Hall Critical Points of Systems in a Periodic Potential
Jinwu Ye and Subir Sachdev
pp. 5409-5412 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Effect of Spatial Variations of the Superconducting Gap on Suppression of the Transition Temperature by Impurities
M. E. Zhitomirsky and M. B. Walker
pp. 5413-5416 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Superconducting Energy Gap Observed in the Magnetic Excitation Spectra of a Heavy Fermion Superconductor UPd2Al3
Naoto Metoki, Yoshinori Haga, Yoshihiro Koike, and Yoshichika O¯nuki
pp. 5417-5420 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Dynamical Simulation of Spin-Glass and Chiral-Glass Orderings in Three-Dimensional Heisenberg Spin Glasses
Hikaru Kawamura
pp. 5421-5424 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Distant-Neighbor Exchange Constants in Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors
V. Bindilatti, E. ter Haar, N. F. Oliveira, Jr., Y. Shapira, and M. T. Liu
pp. 5425-5428 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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13CNMR Measurements of the High-Magnetic-Field, Low-Temperature Phases of (TMTTF)2PF6
S. E. Brown, W. G. Clark, F. Zamborszky, B. J. Klemme, G. Kriza, B. Alavi, C. Merlic, P. Kuhns, and W. Moulton
pp. 5429-5432 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Giant Metal Sputtering Yields Induced by 20–5000 keV/atom Gold Clusters
H. H. Andersen, A. Brunelle, S. Della-Negra, J. Depauw, D. Jacquet, Y. Le Beyec, J. Chaumont, and H. Bernas
pp. 5433-5436 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Wave Propagation in a Medium with Disordered Excitability
I. Sendiña-Nadal, A. P. Muñuzuri, D. Vives, V. Pérez-Muñuzuri, J. Casademunt, L. Ramírez-Piscina, J. M. Sancho, and F. Sagués
pp. 5437-5440 [View PDF (589 kB)]
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Rheological Response from Phase-Separated Domains as Studied by Shear Microscopy
Katsuo Matsuzaka, Tsuyoshi Koga, and Takeji Hashimoto
pp. 5441-5444 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Self-Averaging and On-Line Learning
G. Reents and R. Urbanczik
pp. 5445-5448 [View PDF (151 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ` “Lozenge” Contour Plots in Scattering from Polymer Networks'
S. Westermann, V. Urban, W. Pyckhout-Hintzen, D. Richter, and E. Straube
pp. 5449 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Read and McLeish Reply:
D. J. Read and T. C. B. McLeish
pp. 5450 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Comment on “Infinite-Cluster Geometry in Central-Force Networks”
D. J. Jacobs and M. F. Thorpe
pp. 5451 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Duxbury, Moukarzel and Leath Reply:
P. M. Duxbury, C. Moukarzel, and P. L. Leath
pp. 5452 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Comment on “Anomalous Size Dependence of Relaxational Processes”
J. C. Phillips, J. C. Rasaiah, and J. B. Hubbard
pp. 5453 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Bunde et al. Reply:
Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, and Joseph Klafter
pp. 5454 [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Comment on “Non-Arrhenius Behavior of Surface Diffusion near a Phase Transition Boundary”
C. Uebing and V. P. Zhdanov
pp. 5455 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Vattulainen et al. Reply:
I. Vattulainen, J. Merikoski, T. Ala-Nissila, and S. C. Ying
pp. 5456 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Comment on “Towards a Field Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall States”
B. I. Halperin and Ady Stern
pp. 5457 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Murthy and Shankar Reply:
Ganpathy Murthy and R. Shankar
pp. 5458 [View PDF (67 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Comment on “Upper Critical Dimension of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation” [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 887 (1998)]
T. Ala-Nissila
pp. 5459 [View PDF (36 kB)]
 
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