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Physical Review Letters – 14 September 1998
Volume 81, Issue 11

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.

Scale-Independent Measures and Pathologic Cardiac Dynamics
Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Ary L. Goldberger, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 2388-2391 [View PDF (210 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Transitions in Quantum Networks
Päivi Törmä
pp. 2185-2189 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Quantum Limitations on Superluminal Propagation
Yakir Aharonov, Benni Reznik, and Ady Stern
pp. 2190-2193 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Reversible Formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
D. M. Stamper-Kurn, H.-J. Miesner, A. P. Chikkatur, S. Inouye, J. Stenger, and W. Ketterle
pp. 2194-2197 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Gapless Finite- T Theory of Collective Modes of a Trapped Gas
D. A. W. Hutchinson, R. J. Dodd, and K. Burnett
pp. 2198-2200 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Thermodynamics of Black Holes: An Analogy with Glasses
Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
pp. 2201-2204 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Observation of Partial UA(1) Restoration from Two-Pion Bose-Einstein Correlations
S. E. Vance, T. Csörgö, and D. Kharzeev
pp. 2205-2208 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Measurement of E2 Transitions in the Coulomb Dissociation of 8B
B. Davids, D. W. Anthony, Sam M. Austin, D. Bazin, B. Blank, J. A. Caggiano, M. Chartier, H. Esbensen, P. Hui, C. F. Powell, H. Scheit, B. M. Sherrill, M. Steiner, P. Thirolf, J. Yurkon, and A. Zeller
pp. 2209-2212 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Signatures for Short-Range Correlations in 16O Observed in the Reaction 16O(e,e′pp)14C
C. J. G. Onderwater et al.
pp. 2213-2216 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Metastable Triply Charged Diatomic Molecules Produced with Femtosecond Pulses
Hirofumi Sakai, H. Stapelfeldt, E. Constant, M. Yu. Ivanov, Daniel R. Matusek, James S. Wright, and P. B. Corkum
pp. 2217-2220 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Fingerprints of Broad Overlapping Resonances in the e+H2 Cross Section
Edvardas Narevicius and Nimrod Moiseyev
pp. 2221-2224 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Photoelectron Imaging Spectroscopy of Small Clusters: Evidence for Non-Boltzmannian Kinetic-Energy Distribution in Thermionic Emission
J. C. Pinaré, B. Baguenard, C. Bordas, and M. Broyer
pp. 2225-2228 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Adaptive Frequency Model for Phase-Frequency Synchronization in Large Populations of Globally Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators
J. A. Acebrón and R. Spigler
pp. 2229-2232 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Observation of the Goos-Hänchen Effect in a Phase-Conjugate Mirror
Bradley M. Jost, Abdul-Azeez R. Al-Rashed, and Bahaa E. A. Saleh
pp. 2233-2235 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Pattern Formation and Localized Structures in Degenerate Optical Parametric Mixing
V. B. Taranenko, K. Staliunas, and C. O. Weiss
pp. 2236-2239 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Power-Law Spectra of Incipient Gas-Curtain Turbulence
Peter Vorobieff, Paul M. Rightley, and Robert F. Benjamin
pp. 2240-2243 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Forced 2D Turbulence: Experimental Evidence of Simultaneous Inverse Energy and Forward Enstrophy Cascades
Maarten A. Rutgers
pp. 2244-2247 [View PDF (402 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of Energy Transfer between Identical-Frequency Laser Beams in a Flowing Plasma
K. B. Wharton, R. K. Kirkwood, S. H. Glenzer, K. G. Estabrook, B. B. Afeyan, B. I. Cohen, J. D. Moody, and C. Joshi
pp. 2248-2251 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Increased Saturated Levels of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering of a Laser by Seeding a Plasma with an External Light Source
Juan C. Fernández, B. S. Bauer, K. S. Bradley, J. A. Cobble, D. S. Montgomery, R. G. Watt, B. Bezzerides, K. G. Estabrook, R. Focia, S. R. Goldman, D. B. Harris, E. L. Lindman, H. A. Rose, J. Wallace, and B. H. Wilde
pp. 2252-2255 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Discovery of Electric Pulsation in a Toroidal Helical Plasma
A. Fujisawa et al.
pp. 2256-2259 [View PDF (273 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Interactions of Carbon-Nanotubule Proximal Probe Tips with Diamond and Graphene
Ajay Garg, Jie Han, and Susan B. Sinnott
pp. 2260-2263 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Structure Analysis of a Graphitic Boron Layer at the TaB2(0001) Surface
H. Kawanowa, R. Souda, S. Otani, and Y. Gotoh
pp. 2264-2267 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Phase Behavior and Structure of Binary Hard-Sphere Mixtures
Marjolein Dijkstra, René van Roij, and Robert Evans
pp. 2268-2271 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Critical Behavior of Antiphase Boundaries in Fe3Al close to the DO3→B2 Phase Transition
D. Le Floc'h, A. Loiseau, Ch. Ricolleau, C. Barreteau, R. Caudron, F. Ducastelle, and J. M. Pénisson
pp. 2272-2275 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Two Length Scales and Crossover Behavior in the Critical Diffuse Scattering from V2H
J. Trenkler, P. C. Chow, P. Wochner, H. Abe, K. E. Bassler, R. Paniago, H. Reichert, D. Scarfe, T. H. Metzger, J. Peisl, J. Bai, and S. C. Moss
pp. 2276-2279 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Exact Partition Functions for the Primitive Droplet Nucleation Model in Two and Three Dimensions
H. A. Kastrup
pp. 2280-2283 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Membranes with Fluctuating Topology: Monte Carlo Simulations
G. Gompper and D. M. Kroll
pp. 2284-2287 [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Modification of Si(100) Substrate Bonding by Adsorbed Ge or Si Dimer Islands
X. R. Qin, Feng Liu, B. S. Swartzentruber, and M. G. Lagally
pp. 2288-2291 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Missing-Row Asymmetric-Dimer Reconstruction of SiC(001)-c(4×2)
Wenchang Lu, Peter Krüger, and Johannes Pollmann
pp. 2292-2295 [View PDF (719 kB)]
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Theory of the “Honeycomb Chain-Channel” Reconstruction of M/Si(111)- (3×1)
Steven C. Erwin and Hanno H. Weitering
pp. 2296-2299 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Fluids Against Hard Walls and Surface Critical Behavior
P. J. Upton
pp. 2300-2303 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Transport through a 1D Mott-Hubbard Insulator of Finite Length
V. V. Ponomarenko and N. Nagaosa
pp. 2304-2307 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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From the Fermi Glass towards the Mott Insulator in One Dimension: Delocalization and Strongly Enhanced Persistent Currents
Peter Schmitteckert, Rodolfo A. Jalabert, Dietmar Weinmann, and Jean-Louis Pichard
pp. 2308-2311 [View PDF (921 kB)]
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Electron-Hole Excitations in Semiconductors and Insulators
Michael Rohlfing and Steven G. Louie
pp. 2312-2315 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Large Enhancement of Boron Carbides' Seebeck Coefficients through Vibrational Softening
T. L. Aselage, D. Emin, S. S. McCready, and R. V. Duncan
pp. 2316-2319 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Identification of the Si 2p Surface Core Level Shifts on the Sb/Si(001)-(2×1) Interface
P. De Padova, R. Larciprete, C. Quaresima, C. Ottaviani, B. Ressel, and P. Perfetti
pp. 2320-2323 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Effect of Tunneling Conductance on the Coulomb Staircase
Georg Göppert, Hermann Grabert, Nikolai V. Prokof'ev, and Boris V. Svistunov
pp. 2324-2327 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Magnetic Anisotropy in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
T. Jungwirth, S. P. Shukla, L. Smrčka, M. Shayegan, and A. H. MacDonald
pp. 2328-2331 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Effects of Nanodomain Formation on the Electronic Structure of Doped Carbon Nanotubes
D. L. Carroll, Ph. Redlich, X. Blase, J.-C. Charlier, S. Curran, P. M. Ajayan, S. Roth, and M. Rühle
pp. 2332-2335 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Relationship between the Superconducting Energy Gap and the Critical Temperature in High- Tc Superconductors
Christos Panagopoulos and Tao Xiang
pp. 2336-2339 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Measurement of Indirect Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling Frequencies in YBa2Cu3O7
K. R. Gorny, O. M. Vyaselev, S. Yu, C. H. Pennington, W. L. Hults, and J. L. Smith
pp. 2340-2343 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Magnetization Controlled Superconductivity in a Film with Magnetic Dots
Igor F. Lyuksyutov and Valery Pokrovsky
pp. 2344-2347 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Bose-Glass Phase in Twinned YBa2Cu3O7-δ
S. A. Grigera, E. Morré, E. Osquiguil, C. Balseiro, G. Nieva, and F. de la Cruz
pp. 2348-2351 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Plastic Motion of a Vortex Lattice Driven by Alternating Current
W. Henderson, E. Y. Andrei, and M. J. Higgins
pp. 2352-2355 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Low-Energy Sector of the S  = 1/2 Kagome Antiferromagnet
F. Mila
pp. 2356-2359 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Observation of a Ferromagnetic-to-Paramagnetic Phase Transition on a Ferromagnetic Surface Using Spin-Polarized Photoelectron Diffraction: Gd(0001)
E. D. Tober, F. J. Palomares, R. X. Ynzunza, R. Denecke, J. Morais, Z. Wang, G. Bino, J. Liesegang, Z. Hussain, and C. S. Fadley
pp. 2360-2363 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Anisotropic Spin Correlations in the Zn-Mg-Ho Icosahedral Quasicrystal
Taku J. Sato, Hiroyuki Takakura, An Pang Tsai, and Kaoru Shibata
pp. 2364-2367 [View PDF (660 kB)]
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Two Susceptibility Maxima and Element Specific Magnetizations in Indirectly Coupled Ferromagnetic Layers
U. Bovensiepen, F. Wilhelm, P. Srivastava, P. Poulopoulos, M. Farle, A. Ney, and K. Baberschke
pp. 2368-2371 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Femtosecond Spectral Interferometry of Resonant Secondary Emission from Quantum Wells: Resonance Rayleigh Scattering in the Nonergodic Regime
D. Birkedal and J. Shah
pp. 2372-2375 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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The Role of Molecular State and Orientation in Harpooning Reactions: N2O on Cs/Pt(111)
M. Brandt, T. Greber, N. Böwering, and U. Heinzmann
pp. 2376-2379 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Evolution of Random Networks
Kim Christensen, Raul Donangelo, Belita Koiller, and Kim Sneppen
pp. 2380-2383 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Spike Train Dynamics Underlying Pattern Formation in Integrate-and-Fire Oscillator Networks
P. C. Bressloff and S. Coombes
pp. 2384-2387 [View PDF (162 kB)]
Scale-Independent Measures and Pathologic Cardiac Dynamics
Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Ary L. Goldberger, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 2388-2391 [View PDF (210 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quantum Statistical Mechanics of an Ideal Gas with Fractional Exclusion Statistics in Arbitrary Dimension”
Wung-Hong Huang
pp. 2392 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Iguchi Replies:
Kazumoto Iguchi
pp. 2393 [View PDF (43 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Stringent New Bounds on Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons from Existing Tevatron Data [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2047 (1998)]
Manuel Drees, Monoranjan Guchait, and Probir Roy
pp. 2394 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Erratum: Dephasing Rate in Dielectric Glasses at Ultralow Temperatures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2945 (1998)]
A. L. Burin, Yu. Kagan, L. A. Maksimov, and I. Ya. Polishchuk
pp. 2395 [View PDF (61 kB)]
 
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