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Physical Review Letters – 21 September 1998
Volume 81, Issue 12

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.

Quantization of AdS3 Black Holes in External Fields: Semiclassical Results from Pure Gravity
Roberto Emparan and Ivo Sachs
pp. 2408-2411 [View PDF (145 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Optical Modes in Photonic Molecules
M. Bayer, T. Gutbrod, J. P. Reithmaier, A. Forchel, T. L. Reinecke, P. A. Knipp, A. A. Dremin, and V. D. Kulakovskii
pp. 2582-2585 [View PDF (245 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Unified Approach to Hamiltonian Systems, Poisson Systems, Gradient Systems, and Systems with Lyapunov Functions or First Integrals
Robert I. McLachlan, G. R. W. Quispel, and Nicolas Robidoux
pp. 2399-2403 [View PDF (166 kB)]
Accurate Measurement of the Planck Constant
Edwin R. Williams, Richard L. Steiner, David B. Newell, and Paul T. Olsen
pp. 2404-2407 [View PDF (597 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Quantization of AdS3 Black Holes in External Fields: Semiclassical Results from Pure Gravity
Roberto Emparan and Ivo Sachs
pp. 2408-2411 [View PDF (145 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Pulsar Velocities without Neutrino Mass
D. Grasso, H. Nunokawa, and J. W. F. Valle
pp. 2412-2415 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Search for Strange Matter by Heavy Ion Activation
M. C. Perillo Isaac, Y. D. Chan, R. Clark, M. A. Deleplanque, M. R. Dragowsky, P. Fallon, I. D. Goldman, R-M. Larimer, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. MacLeod, K. Nishiizumi, E. B. Norman, L. S. Schroeder, and F. S. Stephens
pp. 2416-2419 [View PDF (310 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Complete Wetting in Supersymmetric QCD: Why QCD Strings Can End on Domain Walls
A. Campos, K. Holland, and U.-J. Wiese
pp. 2420-2423 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Plasmon Damping Rate for T→TC
Massimo Pietroni
pp. 2424-2427 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Measurement of the Running of Effective QED Coupling at Large Momentum Transfer in the Spacelike Region
S. Odaka et al. ((VENUS Collaboration))
pp. 2428-2431 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Observation of the Bc Meson in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV
F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 2432-2437 [View PDF (250 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Disappearance of Elliptic Flow: A New Probe for the Nuclear Equation of State
P. Danielewicz, Roy A. Lacey, P.-B. Gossiaux, C. Pinkenburg, P. Chung, J. M. Alexander, and R. L. McGrath
pp. 2438-2441 [View PDF (512 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Spectral Properties of Nonhydrogenic Atoms in Weak External Fields
Thibaut Jonckheere, Benoît Grémaud, and Dominique Delande
pp. 2442-2445 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Photon-Number Squeezed Solitons from an Asymmetric Fiber-Optic Sagnac Interferometer
S. Schmitt, J. Ficker, M. Wolff, F. König, A. Sizmann, and G. Leuchs
pp. 2446-2449 [View PDF (947 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Nonlinear Competition between Small and Large Hexagonal Patterns
Mary Silber and Michael R. E. Proctor
pp. 2450-2453 [View PDF (342 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Unifying Role of Radial Electric Field Shear in the Confinement Trends of TFTR Supershot Plasmas
D. R. Ernst, B. Coppi, S. D. Scott, M. Porkolab, and TFTR Group
pp. 2454-2457 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Anomalous Resistance Induced by Chaos of Electron Motion and its Application to Plasma Production
Z. Yoshida, H. Asakura, H. Kakuno, J. Morikawa, K. Takemura, S. Takizawa, and T. Uchida
pp. 2458-2461 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Phonon Symmetry Selection Rules for Inelastic Neutron Scattering
J. M. Perez-Mato, M. Aroyo, J. Hlinka, M. Quilichini, and R. Currat
pp. 2462-2465 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Anomalous Isostructural Transformation in Ice VIII
J. S. Tse and D. D. Klug
pp. 2466-2469 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Fractal Dislocation Patterning During Plastic Deformation
Peter Hähner, Karlheinz Bay, and Michael Zaiser
pp. 2470-2473 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Breakdown of Fourier's Law near the Superfluid Transition in 4He
Peter K. Day, William A. Moeur, Steven S. McCready, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, Feng-Chuan Liu, and Robert V. Duncan
pp. 2474-2477 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Competition of Multiple Spin Exchanges in Submonolayer Solid 3He
Hiroki Ikegami, Ken Obara, Daisuke Ito, and Hidehiko Ishimoto
pp. 2478-2481 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Kinetics of Rapid Heterogeneous Reactions Accompanied by the Reshaping of Supported Catalyst Crystallites
V. P. Zhdanov and B. Kasemo
pp. 2482-2485 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Stable and Metastable InGaAs/GaAs Island Shapes and Surfactantlike Suppression of the Wetting Transformation
R. Leon, C. Lobo, J. Zou, T. Romeo, and D. J. H. Cockayne
pp. 2486-2489 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Stability of Solid State Reaction Fronts
G. Grinstein, Yuhai Tu, and J. Tersoff
pp. 2490-2493 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Stacked 2D Crystalline Sheets of the Membrane-Protein Bacteriorhodopsin: A Specular and Diffuse Reflectivity Study
I. Koltover, T. Salditt, J.-L. Rigaud, and C. R. Safinya
pp. 2494-2497 [View PDF (272 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior of SrRuO3: Evidence from Infrared Conductivity
P. Kostic, Y. Okada, N. C. Collins, Z. Schlesinger, J. W. Reiner, L. Klein, A. Kapitulnik, T. H. Geballe, and M. R. Beasley
pp. 2498-2501 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Extended Moment Formation and Second Neighbor Coupling in Li2CuO2
Ruben Weht and W. E. Pickett
pp. 2502-2505 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Universal Density of States for Carbon Nanotubes
J. W. Mintmire and C. T. White
pp. 2506-2509 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Reentrant Behavior and Strong Anisotropy of the Phase Boundary between Antiferro-Quadrupolar Ordered and Paramagnetic Phases in CexLa1-xB6 in High Magnetic Fields
M. Hiroi, S. Kobayashi, M. Sera, N. Kobayashi, and S. Kunii
pp. 2510-2513 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Polaron Problem by Diagrammatic Quantum Monte Carlo
Nikolai V. Prokof'ev and Boris V. Svistunov
pp. 2514-2517 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Self-Duality in Quantum Impurity Problems
P. Fendley and H. Saleur
pp. 2518-2521 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Hysteresis and Spin Transitions in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
H. Cho, J. B. Young, W. Kang, K. L. Campman, A. C. Gossard, M. Bichler, and W. Wegscheider
pp. 2522-2525 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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New Resistance Maxima in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Regime
S. Kronmüller, W. Dietsche, J. Weis, K. von Klitzing, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler
pp. 2526-2529 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Hall Anomaly and Vortex-Lattice Melting in Superconducting Single Crystal YBa2Cu3O7-δ
G. D'Anna, V. Berseth, L. Forró, A. Erb, and E. Walker
pp. 2530-2533 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Origin of the Extended Van Hove region in Cuprate Superconductors
Wei-Guo Yin, Chang-De Gong, and P. W. Leung
pp. 2534-2537 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Superconducting Single-Mode Contact as a Microwave-Activated Quantum Interferometer
L. Y. Gorelik, N. I. Lundin, V. S. Shumeiko, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson
pp. 2538-2541 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Directional Tunneling and Andreev Reflection on YBa2Cu3O7-δ Single Crystals: Predominance of d-Wave Pairing Symmetry Verified with the Generalized Blonder, Tinkham, and Klapwijk Theory
J. Y. T. Wei, N.-C. Yeh, D. F. Garrigus, and M. Strasik
pp. 2542-2545 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Nonlinear Current Flow around Defects in Superconductors
A. Gurevich and J. McDonald
pp. 2546-2549 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Dynamics of the Infinite-Range Ising Spin-Glass Model in a Transverse Field
M. J. Rozenberg and D. R. Grempel
pp. 2550-2553 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Droplet Phenomenology and Mean Field in a Frustrated Disordered System
J. Houdayer and O. C. Martin
pp. 2554-2557 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Disordered XY Models and Coulomb Gases: Renormalization via Traveling Waves
David Carpentier and Pierre Le Doussal
pp. 2558-2561 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Structural and Magnetic Ordering of Chromium in Ag/Cr Multilayers
S. Demuynck, J. Meersschaut, J. Dekoster, B. Swinnen, R. Moons, A. Vantomme, S. Cottenier, and M. Rots
pp. 2562-2565 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Magnetic Field versus Temperature Phase Diagram of a Quasi-One-Dimensional S = 1 Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
Z. Honda, H. Asakawa, and K. Katsumata
pp. 2566-2569 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Linear Response Calculations of Spin Fluctuations
S. Y. Savrasov
pp. 2570-2573 [View PDF (829 kB)]
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Large Absolute Band Gap in 2D Anisotropic Photonic Crystals
Zhi-Yuan Li, Ben-Yuan Gu, and Guo-Zhen Yang
pp. 2574-2577 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Exciton Formation and Relaxation Dynamics in Quantum Wires
Rajesh Kumar, A. S. Vengurlekar, A. Venu Gopal, T. Mélin, F. Laruelle, B. Etienne, and J. Shah
pp. 2578-2581 [View PDF (239 kB)]
Optical Modes in Photonic Molecules
M. Bayer, T. Gutbrod, J. P. Reithmaier, A. Forchel, T. L. Reinecke, P. A. Knipp, A. A. Dremin, and V. D. Kulakovskii
pp. 2582-2585 [View PDF (245 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Exciton Spin Relaxation in Semiconductor Quantum Wells: The Role of Disorder
H. Nickolaus, H.-J. Wünsche, and F. Henneberger
pp. 2586-2589 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Ablation of GaAs by Intense, Ultrafast Electronic Excitation from Highly Charged Ions
T. Schenkel, A. V. Hamza, A. V. Barnes, D. H. Schneider, J. C. Banks, and B. L. Doyle
pp. 2590-2593 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Decoherence-Free Subspaces for Quantum Computation
D. A. Lidar, I. L. Chuang, and K. B. Whaley
pp. 2594-2597 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Optimal Universal Quantum Cloning and State Estimation
Dagmar Bruss, Artur Ekert, and Chiara Macchiavello
pp. 2598-2601 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Traveling Nanoscale Structures in Reactive Adsorbates with Attractive Lateral Interactions
M. Hildebrand, A. S. Mikhailov, and G. Ertl
pp. 2602-2605 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Experimental Study of Laser-Induced Melting in Two-Dimensional Colloids
Q.-H. Wei, C. Bechinger, D. Rudhardt, and P. Leiderer
pp. 2606-2609 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Simulations of Interacting Membranes in the Soft Confinement Regime
Nikolai Gouliaev and John F. Nagle
pp. 2610-2613 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Entanglement, Elasticity, and Viscous Relaxation of Actin Solutions
B. Hinner, M. Tempel, E. Sackmann, K. Kroy, and E. Frey
pp. 2614-2617 [View PDF (131 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Degenerate Wannier Theory for Multiple Ionization [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 5081 (1998)]
Thomas Pattard and Jan M. Rost
pp. 2618 [View PDF (64 kB)]
 
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