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Physical Review Letters – 22 June 1998
Volume 80, Issue 25

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.

Measurement of the Amplitude and Phase of a Sculpted Rydberg Wave Packet
T. C. Weinacht, J. Ahn, and P. H. Bucksbaum
pp. 5508-5511 [View PDF (308 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Hydrodynamical Quantum State Reconstruction
Lars M. Johansen
pp. 5461-5464 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Measuring Quantum Optical Hamiltonians
G. M. D'Ariano and L. Maccone
pp. 5465-5468 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Composite Absorbing Potentials
J. P. Palao, J. G. Muga, and R. Sala
pp. 5469-5472 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Novel Interferometer in the Soft X-Ray Region
S. Dambach, H. Backe, Th. Doerk, N. Eftekhari, H. Euteneuer, F. Görgen, F. Hagenbuck, K. H. Kaiser, O. Kettig, G. Kube, W. Lauth, H. Schöpe, A. Steinhof, Th. Tonn, and Th. Walcher
pp. 5473-5476 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Vortex Formation in Two Dimensions: When Symmetry Breaks, How Big Are the Pieces?
Andrew Yates and Wojciech H. Zurek
pp. 5477-5480 [View PDF (499 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Near-Critical Gravitational Collapse and the Initial Mass Function of Primordial Black Holes
J. C. Niemeyer and K. Jedamzik
pp. 5481-5484 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Phase Transitions in Rotating Neutron Stars
Henning Heiselberg and Morten Hjorth-Jensen
pp. 5485-5488 [View PDF (171 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Narrow Technihadron Production at the First Muon Collider
Estia Eichten, Kenneth Lane, and John Womersley
pp. 5489-5492 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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First Observation of the Cabibbo Suppressed Decay B+ → D̅ 0K+
M. Athanas et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 5493-5497 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Measurement of the Shape of the Transverse Momentum Distribution of W Bosons Produced in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
B. Abbott et al. (D0 Collaboration)
pp. 5498-5503 [View PDF (185 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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First Identification of the d3/2 State and Measurements of Single Proton Transition Rates in 133Sb
M. Sanchez-Vega, B. Fogelberg, H. Mach, R. B. E. Taylor, A. Lindroth, and J. Blomqvist
pp. 5504-5507 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measurement of the Amplitude and Phase of a Sculpted Rydberg Wave Packet
T. C. Weinacht, J. Ahn, and P. H. Bucksbaum
pp. 5508-5511 [View PDF (308 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Field Dependence of Spin Relaxation in a Dense Rb Vapor
S. Kadlecek, L. W. Anderson, and T. G. Walker
pp. 5512-5515 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Optical Collisions of Cold, Metastable Helium Atoms
H. C. Mastwijk, J. W. Thomsen, P. van der Straten, and A. Niehaus
pp. 5516-5519 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Time-Dependent Thomas-Fermi Approach for Electron Dynamics in Metal Clusters
A. Domps, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud
pp. 5520-5523 [View PDF (179 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Quantum Dynamical Manifestation of Chaotic Behavior in the Process of Entanglement
K. Furuya, M. C. Nemes, and G. Q. Pellegrino
pp. 5524-5527 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Nonperturbative Renormalization Group for Chaotic Coupled Map Lattices
Anaël Lemaître and Hugues Chaté
pp. 5528-5531 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Intermittency in Passive Scalar Advection
U. Frisch, A. Mazzino, and M. Vergassola
pp. 5532-5535 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Anomalous Scaling in Passive Scalar Advection: Monte Carlo Lagrangian Trajectories
Omri Gat, Itamar Procaccia, and Reuven Zeitak
pp. 5536-5539 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Localized Langmuir Field Structures Induced by Sharp Density Gradients
M. D. McFarland and A. Y. Wong
pp. 5540-5543 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Internal Transport Barriers in JET Deuterium-Tritium Plasmas
C. Gormezano, Y. F. Baranov, C. D. Challis, I. Coffey, G. A. Cottrell, A. C. Ekedahl, C. M. Greenfield, A. C. Howman, G. T. A. Huysmans, M. Keilhacker, X. Litaudon, T. C. Luce, B. W. Rice, F. Rochard, G. J. Sadler, P. A. J. Schild, A. C. C. Sips, F. X. Söldner, E. J. Strait, B. J. D. Tubbing, M. R. Wade, and D. J. Ward
pp. 5544-5547 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Observation of Alpha Heating in JET DT Plasmas
P. R. Thomas, P. Andrew, B. Balet, D. Bartlett, J. Bull, B. de Esch, A. Gibson, C. Gowers, H. Guo, G. Huysmans, T. Jones, M. Keilhacker, R. Koenig, M. Lennholm, P. Lomas, A. Maas, F. Marcus, F. Nave, V. Parail, F. Rimini, J. Strachan, K-D. Zastrow, and N. Zornig
pp. 5548-5551 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Trapping and Acceleration in Self-Modulated Laser Wakefields
E. Esarey, B. Hafizi, R. Hubbard, and A. Ting
pp. 5552-5555 [View PDF (206 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Position of K Atoms in Doped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Crystals
Guanghua Gao, Tahir Çağin, and William A. Goddard, III
pp. 5556-5559 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Reversible Intercalation of Charged Iodine Chains into Carbon Nanotube Ropes
L. Grigorian, K. A. Williams, S. Fang, G. U. Sumanasekera, A. L. Loper, E. C. Dickey, S. J. Pennycook, and P. C. Eklund
pp. 5560-5563 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Observation of a Simple-Cubic Phase of GaAs with a 16-Atom Basis (SC16)
M. I. McMahon, R. J. Nelmes, D. R. Allan, S. A. Belmonte, and T. Bovornratanaraks
pp. 5564-5567 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Effects of Dislocation Interactions: Application to the Period-Doubled Core of the 90° Partial in Silicon
Niklas Lehto and Sven Öberg
pp. 5568-5571 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Phonon Dispersion of Diamond Measured by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
M. Schwoerer-Böhning, A. T. Macrander, and D. A. Arms
pp. 5572-5575 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Role of Electronic Correlation on the Equation of State of Lithium Hydrides
L. Bellaiche, J. M. Besson, K. Kunc, and B. Lévy
pp. 5576-5579 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of the Glassy State: Effective Temperature as an Additional System Parameter
Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
pp. 5580-5583 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Diffusion of Single Hydrogen Atoms on Si(111)-( 7×7) Surfaces
Rong-Li Lo, Ing-Shouh Hwang, Mon-Shu Ho, and Tien T. Tsong
pp. 5584-5587 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Hydrogen-Induced Enhancement of Interdiffusion in Cu-Ni Diffusion Couples
E. Hayashi, Y. Kurokawa, and Y. Fukai
pp. 5588-5590 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Tricritical Point and Superfluid Transition in 3He-4He Mixtures in Silica Aerogel
Mark Paetkau and J. R. Beamish
pp. 5591-5594 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Self-Tuning Behavior of Vibrating Smectic Films
M. Brazovskaia and P. Pieranski
pp. 5595-5598 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Nanoscale Electrochemistry
R. Schuster, V. Kirchner, X. H. Xia, A. M. Bittner, and G. Ertl
pp. 5599-5602 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Routes to Self-Assembling Stable Photonic Band-Gap Phases in Emulsions of Chiral Nematics With Isotropic Fluids
Chien-Yueh Huang, Jonathan J. Stott, and Rolfe G. Petschek
pp. 5603-5606 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Phase Diagram of the One-Dimensional Holstein Model of Spinless Fermions
Robert J. Bursill, Ross H. McKenzie, and Chris J. Hamer
pp. 5607-5610 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Anomalous Thermal Transport in Quantum Wires
Rosario Fazio, F. W. J. Hekking, and D. E. Khmelnitskii
pp. 5611-5614 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Unusual Structural Relaxation for Rare-Earth Impurities in Sapphire: Ab Initio Study of Lanthanum
C. Verdozzi, D. R. Jennison, P. A. Schultz, M. P. Sears, J. C. Barbour, and B. G. Potter
pp. 5615-5618 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Electronic Properties of the Trellis-Lattice Hubbard Model: Pseudogap and Superconductivity
Hiroshi Kontani and Kazuo Ueda
pp. 5619-5622 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Scaling of Magnetic Fluctuations near a Quantum Phase Transition
A. Schröder, G. Aeppli, E. Bucher, R. Ramazashvili, and P. Coleman
pp. 5623-5626 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Fluctuations at the Quantum-Critical Point of CeCu6-xAux
O. Stockert, H. v. Löhneysen, A. Rosch, N. Pyka, and M. Loewenhaupt
pp. 5627-5630 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Charge Density Wave Current Conversion by Spatially Resolved Synchrotron X-Ray Studies in NbSe3
H. Requardt, F. Ya. Nad, P. Monceau, R. Currat, J. E. Lorenzo, S. Brazovskii, N. Kirova, G. Grübel, and Ch. Vettier
pp. 5631-5634 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Magnetoconductance Noise and Irreversibilities in Submicron Wires of Spin-Glass n+-Cd1-xMnxTe
J. Jaroszyński, J. Wróbel, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, and T. Dietl
pp. 5635-5638 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Negative Domain Wall Contribution to the Resistivity of Microfabricated Fe Wires
U. Ruediger, J. Yu, S. Zhang, A. D. Kent, and S. S. P. Parkin
pp. 5639-5642 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Interrelation between the Pseudogap and the Incoherent Quasiparticle Features of High- Tc Superconductors
J. Ranninger and A. Romano
pp. 5643-5646 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Superconducting Glass State in Disordered Thin Films in a Parallel Magnetic Field
F. Zhou and B. Spivak
pp. 5647-5650 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Instability of Charge Ordered States in Doped Antiferromagnets
Leonid P. Pryadko, Steven Kivelson, and Daniel W. Hone
pp. 5651-5654 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Thermally Activated Relaxation Time of a Single Domain Ferromagnetic Particle Subjected to a Uniform Field at an Oblique Angle to the Easy Axis: Comparison with Experimental Observations
W. T. Coffey, D. S. F. Crothers, J. L. Dormann, Yu. P. Kalmykov, E. C. Kennedy, and W. Wernsdorfer
pp. 5655-5658 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Time Dependent Specific Heat of a Magnetic Quantum Tunneling System
Julio F. Fernández, Fernando Luis, and Juan Bartolomé
pp. 5659-5662 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Enhanced Dipole-Dipole Interaction between Elementary Radiators Near a Surface
Howard R. Stuart and Dennis G. Hall
pp. 5663-5666 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Stationary Surface Plasmons on a Zero-Order Metal Grating
M. B. Sobnack, W. C. Tan, N. P. Wanstall, T. W. Preist, and J. R. Sambles
pp. 5667-5670 [View PDF (314 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Coiling and Supercoiling of Vortex Filaments in Oscillatory Media
Guillaume Rousseau, Hugues Chaté, and Raymond Kapral
pp. 5671-5674 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Class of Exactly Solvable Models of Excitable Media
Yuri B. Chernyak, Joseph M. Starobin, and Richard J. Cohen
pp. 5675-5678 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Flow-Induced Nematic String Phase in Semidilute Wormlike Micelle Solutions
Ignatius A. Kadoma and Jan W. van Egmond
pp. 5679-5682 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Steric Constraints in Model Proteins
Cristian Micheletti, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan, and Flavio Seno
pp. 5683-5686 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Statistical Mechanics of Membrane Protein Conformation: A Homopolymer Model
Pyeong Jun Park and W. Sung
pp. 5687-5690 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Helix-Coil Transition and 1/f Fluctuation in a Polypeptide
Mitsunori Takano, Takuya Takahashi, and Kuniaki Nagayama
pp. 5691-5694 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Quantum Privacy and Quantum Coherence
Benjamin Schumacher and Michael D. Westmoreland
pp. 5695-5697 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Why Earthquakes Stop: Growth and Arrest in Stochastic Fields
John Rundle, Eric Preston, Seth McGinnis, and W. Klein
pp. 5698-5701 [View PDF (129 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Dissipative Quantum Dynamics with a Lindblad Functional”
H. M. Wiseman and W. J. Munro
pp. 5702 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Gao Replies:
Shiwu Gao
pp. 5703 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Comment on “Photodilatation Effect of Undoped a-Si:H Films”
B. Pashmakov and H. Fritzsche
pp. 5704 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Kong et al. Reply:
Kong Guanglin, Zhang Dianlin, Yue Guozhen, and Liao Xianbo
pp. 5705 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Comment on “Kinetic Roughening in Slow Combustion of Paper”
Luís A. Nunes Amaral and Hernán A. Makse
pp. 5706 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Maunuksela et al. Reply:
J. Maunuksela, M. Myllys, J. Timonen, M. Kuittu, T. Ala-Nissila, M. J. Alava, and N. Provatas
pp. 5707 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Comment on “Clustering of Granular Assemblies with Temperature Dependent Restitution under Keplerian Differential Rotation”
Thorsten Pöschel and Thomas Schwager
pp. 5708 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Spahn et al. reply:
Frank Spahn, Udo Schwarz, Jürgen Kurths, and Olaf Petzschmann
pp. 5709 [View PDF (70 kB)]
 
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