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Physical Review Letters – 16 February 1998
Volume 80, Issue 7

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.

Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of Heartbeat Intervals Discriminates Healthy Patients from Those with Cardiac Pathology
Stefan Thurner, Markus C. Feurstein, and Malvin C. Teich
pp. 1544-1547 [View PDF (2,016 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Thermodynamics of Global Optimization
Jonathan P. K. Doye and David J. Wales
pp. 1357-1360 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Resonance Phenomena of a Solitonlike Extended Object in a Bistable Potential
J. A. González, B. A. Mello, L. I. Reyes, and L. E. Guerrero
pp. 1361-1364 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Projected Free Energies for Polydisperse Phase Equilibria
Peter Sollich and Michael E. Cates
pp. 1365-1368 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Combinatorial Entropy and the Statistical Mechanics of Polydispersity
Patrick B. Warren
pp. 1369-1372 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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From Quantum Dynamics to the Canonical Distribution: General Picture and a Rigorous Example
Hal Tasaki
pp. 1373-1376 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Brownian Ratchets: Transport Controlled by Thermal Noise
J. Kula, T. Czernik, and J. Łuczka
pp. 1377-1380 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Signal Enhancement in a Nonlinear Transfer Characteristic
M. E. Inchiosa, A. R. Bulsara, A. D. Hibbs, and B. R. Whitecotton
pp. 1381-1384 [View PDF (2,259 kB)]
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Power Law Scaling for a System of Interacting Units with Complex Internal Structure
Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, Michael A. Salinger, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 1385-1388 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Infrared Stable Supersymmetry in Chern-Simons Theories with Matter and Quenched Disorder
H. Hamidian
pp. 1389-1392 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Measurement of the Form-Factor Ratios for D+ → K̅ *0e+νe
E. M. Aitala et al. ((Fermilab E791 Collaboration))
pp. 1393-1397 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Multiple-Quantum Filtered Xenon-131 NMR as a Surface Probe
Thomas Meersmann, Scott A. Smith, and Geoffrey Bodenhausen
pp. 1398-1401 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Effect of Interacting Resonances on Dielectronic Recombination in Static Fields
F. Robicheaux, M. S. Pindzola, and D. C. Griffin
pp. 1402-1405 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Molecular “ π Pulse” for Total Inversion of Electronic State Population
Jianshu Cao, Christopher J. Bardeen, and Kent R. Wilson
pp. 1406-1409 [View PDF (330 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Predicting Chaos Most of the Time from Embeddings with Self-Intersections
Christian G. Schroer, Tim Sauer, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke
pp. 1410-1413 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Phase Space Caustics in Multicomponent Systems
Atushi Tanaka
pp. 1414-1417 [View PDF (573 kB)]
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Quantum State Holography
C. Leichtle, W. P. Schleich, I. Sh. Averbukh, and M. Shapiro
pp. 1418-1421 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Big Incoherent Solitons
Allan W. Snyder and D. John Mitchell
pp. 1422-1424 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Optical Solitons in N-Coupled Higher Order Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
K. Nakkeeran, K. Porsezian, P. Shanmugha Sundaram, and A. Mahalingam
pp. 1425-1428 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Breakdown of Scale Invariance in the Coarsening of Phase-Separating Binary Fluids
Alexander J. Wagner and J. M. Yeomans
pp. 1429-1432 [View PDF (1,043 kB)]
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Non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw Flow and the Saffman-Taylor Instability
Ljubinko Kondic, Michael J. Shelley, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
pp. 1433-1436 [View PDF (204 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Positron Production in Tungsten Crystals by 1.2-GeV Channeling Electrons
K. Yoshida, K. Goto, T. Isshiki, I. Endo, T. Kondo, K. Matsukado, T. Takahashi, Y. Takashima, A. Potylitsin, C. Yu. Amosov, B. Kalinin, G. Naumenko, V. Verzilov, I. Vnukov, H. Okuno, and K. Nakayama
pp. 1437-1440 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Simultaneous Observation of Multiple Nonlocal Eigenmodes of an Inhomogeneity-Driven Plasma Instability
M. E. Koepke, J. J. Carroll, III, M. W. Zintl, C. A. Selcher, and V. Gavrishchaka, Ph.D.
pp. 1441-1444 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Size Scaling of Strength in Heterogeneous Materials
W. A. Curtin
pp. 1445-1448 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Reorientation in Random Potential: A Model for Glasslike Dynamics in Confined Liquid Crystals
M. Čopič and A. Mertelj
pp. 1449-1452 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Scaling Laws in Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Experimental Evidence of Main-Chain Layer Hopping in the Smectic Phase
L. Noirez, C. Boeffel, and A. Daoud-Aladine
pp. 1453-1456 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Expansion Around the Mean-Field Solution of the Bak-Sneppen Model
Matteo Marsili, Paolo De Los Rios, and Sergei Maslov
pp. 1457-1460 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Superfluid Transition of 4He in Ultralight Aerogel
Jongsoo Yoon, Dmitri Sergatskov, Jian Ma, Norbert Mulders, and Moses H. W. Chan
pp. 1461-1464 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Defect Formation in Quench-Cooled Superfluid Phase Transition
V. M. Ruutu, V. B. Eltsov, M. Krusius, Yu. G. Makhlin, B. Plaçais, and G. E. Volovik
pp. 1465-1468 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Observation of an Electronic Superlattice at the Surface of Clean Gold
W. Chen, V. Madhavan, T. Jamneala, and M. F. Crommie
pp. 1469-1472 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Ratchet Effect in Surface Electromigration: Smoothing Surfaces by an ac Field
Imre Derényi, Choongseop Lee, and Albert-László Barabási
pp. 1473-1476 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Long Jumps in Surface Diffusion: A Microscopic Derivation of the Jump Frequencies
M. Azzouz, H. J. Kreuzer, and M. R. A. Shegelski
pp. 1477-1480 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Adsorption of Thiophene on the Catalytically Active Surface of MoS2: An Ab Initio Local-Density-Functional Study
P. Raybaud, J. Hafner, G. Kresse, and H. Toulhoat
pp. 1481-1484 [View PDF (1,612 kB)]
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Resonant Raman Scattering by Collective Modes of the One-Dimensional Electron Gas
Maura Sassetti and Bernhard Kramer
pp. 1485-1488 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Electron Exchange Interaction in S  = 1 Defects Observed by Level Crossing Spin Dependent Microwave Photoconductivity in Irradiated Silicon
R. Laiho, M. M. Afanasjev, M. P. Vlasenko, and L. S. Vlasenko
pp. 1489-1492 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Raman Scattering of the Charge-Spin Stripes in La1.67Sr0.33NiO4
K. Yamamoto, T. Katsufuji, T. Tanabe, and Y. Tokura
pp. 1493-1496 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Electronic Structure of Self-Organized Lateral Superlattices on a Metal Surface: O/Cu(110)
E. Bertel and J. Lehmann
pp. 1497-1500 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Magnetic Edge States in a Magnetic Quantum Dot
Heung-Sun Sim, K.-H. Ahn, K. J. Chang, G. Ihm, N. Kim, and S. J. Lee
pp. 1501-1504 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Transition from Quantum Hall to Compressible States in the Second Landau Level: New Light on the ν = 5/2 Enigma
R. H. Morf
pp. 1505-1508 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Dynamical Scaling at the Quantum Hall Transition: Coulomb Blockade versus Phase Breaking
D. G. Polyakov and K. V. Samokhin
pp. 1509-1512 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Charge- Versus Spin-Driven Stripe Order: Role of Transversal Spin Fluctuations
C. N. A. van Duin and J. Zaanen
pp. 1513-1516 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Nonlocal Effects and Vortex Lattice Transitions in YNi2B2C
D. McK. Paul, C. V. Tomy, C. M. Aegerter, R. Cubitt, S. H. Lloyd, E. M. Forgan, S. L. Lee, and M. Yethiraj
pp. 1517-1520 [View PDF (626 kB)]
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Landau Levels and Quasiparticle Spectrum of Extreme Type-II Superconductors
Zlatko Tes̆anović and Pedro D. Sacramento
pp. 1521-1524 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Nontrivial Response of Nanoscale Uniaxial Magnets to an Alternating Field
Seiji Miyashita, Keiji Saito, and Hans De Raedt
pp. 1525-1528 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic Resonance in TDAE- C60
D. Arc̆on, P. Cevc, A. Omerzu, and R. Blinc
pp. 1529-1532 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Surface-Induced Ferroelectric Ice on Pt(111)
Xingcai Su, L. Lianos, Y. Ron Shen, and Gabor A. Somorjai
pp. 1533-1536 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Optical Measurement of Narrow Band Rare-Earth 4f Levels with Energies Greater than the Band Gap of the Host
T. Schweizer, P. E.-A. Möbert, J. R. Hector, D. W. Hewak, W. S. Brocklesby, D. N. Payne, and G. Huber
pp. 1537-1540 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Quarter-Wave Plate in Near-Edge Soft X-Ray Region Based on the Total External Reflection Principle
V. Sh. Machavariani
pp. 1541-1543 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of Heartbeat Intervals Discriminates Healthy Patients from Those with Cardiac Pathology
Stefan Thurner, Markus C. Feurstein, and Malvin C. Teich
pp. 1544-1547 [View PDF (2,016 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Lateral Separation of Macromolecules and Polyelectrolytes in Microlithographic Arrays
Deniz Ertaş
pp. 1548-1551 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Microfabricated Sieve for the Continuous Sorting of Macromolecules
T. A. J. Duke and R. H. Austin
pp. 1552-1555 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Elasticity Model of a Supercoiled DNA Molecule
C. Bouchiat and M. Mézard
pp. 1556-1559 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Charge-Fluctuation Forces between Rodlike Polyelectrolytes: Pairwise Summability Reexamined
R. Podgornik and V. A. Parsegian
pp. 1560-1563 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Spontaneous Helix Hand Reversal and Tendril Perversion in Climbing Plants
Alain Goriely and Michael Tabor
pp. 1564-1567 [View PDF (284 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Oscillation of the Fe and Co Magnetic Moments near the Sharp (1-10) Fe/Co Interface”
Željko V. Šljivančanin and Filip R. Vukajlović
pp. 1568 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Swinnen et al. Reply:
B. Swinnen, J. Meersschaut, J. Dekoster, G. Langouche, S. Cottenier, S. Demuynck, and M. Rots
pp. 1569 [View PDF (38 kB)]

ERRATA

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Is There a Pronounced Giant Dipole Resonance in 4He? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4015 (1997)]
Victor D. Efros, Winfried Leidemann, and Giuseppina Orlandini
pp. 1570 [View PDF (50 kB)]
 
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