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Physical Review Letters – 6 July 1998
Volume 81, Issue 1

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.

Electrically Induced Morphological Instabilities in Free Dendrite Growth
Kenneth G. Libbrecht and Victoria M. Tanusheva
pp. 176-179 [View PDF (325 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Quantized Thermal Conductance of Dielectric Quantum Wires
Luis G. C. Rego and George Kirczenow
pp. 232-235 [View PDF (420 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Noncyclic Geometric Phase Shift for Quantal Revivals
Gonzalo Garcia de Polavieja
pp. 1-5 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Maximum Entropy Principle for Lattice Kinetic Equations
Iliya V. Karlin, Alexander N. Gorban, S. Succi, and V. Boffi
pp. 6-9 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Discrete Quantum Motors
R. Roncaglia and G. P. Tsironis
pp. 10-13 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Stochastic Resonance in Noisy Nondynamical Systems
J. M. G. Vilar, G. Gomila, and J. M. Rubí
pp. 14-17 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Metastable State Selection in One-Dimensional Systems with a Time-Ramped Control Parameter
Martin B. Tarlie and K. R. Elder
pp. 18-21 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Finite-Size Scaling and Lack of Self-Averaging in Critical Disordered Systems
Shai Wiseman and Eytan Domany
pp. 22-25 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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New Phenomena in Propagation of Radio Polarizations due to Magnetic Fields on Cosmological Scales
John P. Ralston, Pankaj Jain, and Borge Nodland
pp. 26-29 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Dynamical Generation of Fermion Mass and Magnetic Field in Three-Dimensional QED with Chern-Simons Term
Taichi Itoh and Hiroshi Kato
pp. 30-33 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Phenomenology of Massive Vectorlike Doublet Leptons
Scott Thomas and James D. Wells
pp. 34-37 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Search for Charge-1/3 Third-Generation Leptoquarks in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 38-43 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Search for the Pentaquark via the Pcs̅ 0→φπp Decay
E. M. Aitala et al. (Fermilab E791 Collaboration)
pp. 44-48 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Charge Asymmetry in Hadroproduction of Heavy Quarks
J. H. Kühn and G. Rodrigo
pp. 49-52 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Diquark Bose Condensates in High Density Matter and Instantons
R. Rapp, T. Schäfer, E. Shuryak, and M. Velkovsky
pp. 53-56 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Inadequacies of the Nonrelativistic 3N Hamiltonian in Describing the n+d Total Cross Section
W. P. Abfalterer, F. B. Bateman, F. S. Dietrich, Ch. Elster, R. W. Finlay, W. Glöckle, J. Golak, R. C. Haight, D. Hüber, G. L. Morgan, and H. Witala
pp. 57-60 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Breakup of 11Be: Prompt or Delayed?
J. E. Bush, P. A. Hausladen, D. P. Balamuth, K. R. Pohl, D. Bazin, J. A. Brown, J. A. Caggiano, L. L. Chen, B. S. Davids, D. J. Morrissey, B. M. Sherrill, and M. Thoennessen
pp. 61-64 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Self-Induced Dipole Force and Filamentation Instability of a Matter Wave
M. Saffman
pp. 65-68 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Observation of a Feshbach Resonance in Cold Atom Scattering
Ph. Courteille, R. S. Freeland, D. J. Heinzen, F. A. van Abeelen, and B. J. Verhaar
pp. 69-72 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Strong Suppression of the Positronium Channel in Double Ionization of Noble Gases by Positron Impact
H. Bluhme, H. Knudsen, J. P. Merrison, and M. R. Poulsen
pp. 73-76 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Spontaneous Emission of Organic Molecules Embedded in a Photonic Crystal
E. P. Petrov, V. N. Bogomolov, I. I. Kalosha, and S. V. Gaponenko
pp. 77-80 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Three-Dimensional Turing Structures and Spatial Solitons in Optical Parametric Oscillators
K. Staliunas
pp. 81-84 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Stability, Multistability, and Wobbling of Optical Gap Solitons
Alfredo De Rossi, Claudio Conti, and Stefano Trillo
pp. 85-88 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Parametrically Excited Surface Waves in Magnetic Fluids: Observation of Domain Structures
Thomas Mahr and Ingo Rehberg
pp. 89-92 [View PDF (1,402 kB)]
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Bobylev-Krook-Wu Modes for Multicomponent Gas Mixtures
Yu. N. Grigoryev and S. V. Meleshko
pp. 93-95 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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rms Envelope Equations in the Presence of Space Charge and Dispersion
Marco Venturini and Martin Reiser
pp. 96-99 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Plasma Wave Generation in a Self-Focused Channel of a Relativistically Intense Laser Pulse
C. E. Clayton, K.-C. Tzeng, D. Gordon, P. Muggli, W. B. Mori, C. Joshi, V. Malka, Z. Najmudin, A. Modena, D. Neely, and A. E. Dangor
pp. 100-103 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Suppression of Electron Ponderomotive Blowout and Relativistic Self-Focusing by the Occurrence of Raman Scattering and Plasma Heating
K.-C. Tzeng and W. B. Mori
pp. 104-107 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Hohlraum Symmetry Experiments with Multiple Beam Cones on the Omega Laser Facility
T. J. Murphy et al.
pp. 108-111 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Plasma Jet Formation on Solid Targets Irradiated by an Ultraintense Picosecond Laser Pulse
M. Borghesi, A. J. MacKinnon, A. R. Bell, R. Gaillard, and O. Willi
pp. 112-115 [View PDF (326 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Birefringent Bragg Diffraction of Evanescent Neutron States in Magnetic Films
R. Günther, W. Donner, B. P. Toperverg, and H. Dosch
pp. 116-119 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Origin of the Difference in the Temperature Dependences of Diffusion and Structural Relaxation in a Supercooled Liquid
Donna N. Perera and Peter Harrowell
pp. 120-123 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Clear Evidence of Reptation in Polyethylene from Neutron Spin-Echo Spectroscopy
P. Schleger, B. Farago, C. Lartigue, A. Kollmar, and D. Richter
pp. 124-127 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Exponential Decay of Correlations in a Model for Strongly Disordered 2D Nematic Elastomers
Y.-K. Yu, P. L. Taylor, and E. M. Terentjev
pp. 128-131 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Atomic Configurations and Energetics of Arsenic Impurities in a Silicon Grain Boundary
M. F. Chisholm, A. Maiti, S. J. Pennycook, and S. T. Pantelides
pp. 132-135 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Harmonic Vibrational Excitations in Disordered Solids and the “Boson Peak”
Walter Schirmacher, Gregor Diezemann, and Carl Ganter
pp. 136-139 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Optically Reversed Peierls Transition in Crystals of Cu(dicyanoquinonediimine)2
F. O. Karutz, J. U. von Schütz, H. Wachtel, and H. C. Wolf
pp. 140-143 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic and Nonhydrodynamic Behavior of Layer-Compression Modulus B at the Nematic–Smectic- A Phase Transition in 8 OCB
P. Martinoty, J. L. Gallani, and D. Collin
pp. 144-147 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Incommensurate Phase of CuGeO3: From Solitons to Sinusoidal Modulation
T. Lorenz, B. Büchner, P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, F. Schönfeld, G. Chouteau, A. Revcolevschi, and G. Dhalenne
pp. 148-151 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Superfluidity of Atomically Layered 4He Films
J. Nyéki, R. Ray, B. Cowan, and J. Saunders
pp. 152-155 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of Second Layer of 4He Adsorbed on Graphite
Marlon Pierce and Efstratios Manousakis
pp. 156-159 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Long Range Hydration Effects in Electrolytic Free Suspended Black Films
D. Sentenac and J. J. Benattar
pp. 160-163 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Two Dimensional Magic Clusters
M. Y. Lai and Y. L. Wang
pp. 164-167 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Interlayer Self-Diffusion on Stepped Pt(111)
Peter J. Feibelman
pp. 168-171 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Al Dimer Dynamics on Al(111)
Alexander Bogicevic, Per Hyldgaard, Göran Wahnström, and Bengt I. Lundqvist
pp. 172-175 [View PDF (213 kB)]
Electrically Induced Morphological Instabilities in Free Dendrite Growth
Kenneth G. Libbrecht and Victoria M. Tanusheva
pp. 176-179 [View PDF (325 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Dynamic Approach to the Fully Frustrated XY Model
H. J. Luo, L. Schülke, and B. Zheng
pp. 180-183 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Coulomb Drag of Luttinger Liquids and Quantum Hall Edges
Karsten Flensberg
pp. 184-187 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Ordered Phases in Cu2NiZn: A First-Principles Monte Carlo Study
S. I. Simak, A. V. Ruban, I. A. Abrikosov, H. L. Skriver, and B. Johansson
pp. 188-191 [View PDF (661 kB)]
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k-Dependent Electronic Structure, a Large “Ghost” Fermi Surface, and a Pseudogap in a Layered Magnetoresistive Oxide
D. S. Dessau, T. Saitoh, C.-H. Park, Z.-X. Shen, P. Villella, N. Hamada, Y. Moritomo, and Y. Tokura
pp. 192-195 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Finite-Size Bosonization of 2-Channel Kondo Model: A Bridge between Numerical Renormalization Group and Conformal Field Theory
Jan von Delft, Gergely Zaránd, and Michele Fabrizio
pp. 196-199 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Dephasing in Open Quantum Dots
A. G. Huibers, M. Switkes, C. M. Marcus, K. Campman, and A. C. Gossard
pp. 200-203 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Length-Scale Dependence of the Superconductor-to-Insulator Quantum Phase Transition in One Dimension
Edmond Chow, Per Delsing, and David B. Haviland
pp. 204-207 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Magnetic Anisotropy of One-Dimensional Nanostructures of Transition Metals
J. Dorantes-Dávila and G. M. Pastor
pp. 208-211 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Longitudinal Relaxation of Ferromagnetic Grains
Alois Würger
pp. 212-215 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Periodic Instantons and Quantum-Classical Transitions in Spin Systems
J.-Q. Liang, H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten, D. K. Park, and F. Zimmerschied
pp. 216-219 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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17O and 63Cu NMR in Undoped and Hole Doped Cu2O3 Two-Leg Spin Ladder A14Cu24O41 (A14 = La6Ca8,Sr14,Sr11Ca3)
T. Imai, K. R. Thurber, K. M. Shen, A. W. Hunt, and F. C. Chou
pp. 220-223 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Transient States of Matter during Short Pulse Laser Ablation
K. Sokolowski-Tinten, J. Bialkowski, A. Cavalleri, D. von der Linde, A. Oparin, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, and S. I. Anisimov
pp. 224-227 [View PDF (275 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Self-Diffusion in Wormlike Micelles Networks with Electrostatic Interactions: A Universal Behavior?
Janaky Narayanan, W. Urbach, D. Langevin, C. Manohar, and R. Zana
pp. 228-231 [View PDF (105 kB)]
Quantized Thermal Conductance of Dielectric Quantum Wires
Luis G. C. Rego and George Kirczenow
pp. 232-235 [View PDF (420 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Neutral Mutations and Punctuated Equilibrium in Evolving Genetic Networks
Stefan Bornholdt and Kim Sneppen
pp. 236-239 [View PDF (197 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Semiquantum Chaos”
L. Faccioli, F. Finelli, G. P. Vacca, and G. Venturi
pp. 240 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Cooper et al. Reply:
Fred Cooper, J. F. Dawson, D. Meredith, and H. Shepard
pp. 241 [View PDF (66 kB)]
 
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