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Physical Review Letters – 28 September 1998
Volume 81, Issue 13

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.

Diffraction of Fast Electrons on the Fullerene C60 Molecule
Leonid G. Gerchikov, Peotr V. Efimov, Valerii M. Mikoushkin, and Andrey V. Solov'yov
pp. 2707-2710 [View PDF (123 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Collisional Transitory Enhancement of the High Momentum Components of a Quantum Wave Packet
S. Brouard and J. G. Muga
pp. 2621-2625 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Persistence with Partial Survival
Satya N. Majumdar and Alan J. Bray
pp. 2626-2629 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Inflationary Reheating in Grand Unified Theories
Bruce A. Bassett and Fabrizio Tamburini
pp. 2630-2633 [View PDF (238 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Electroweak Symmetry Breaking via a Top Condensation Seesaw Mechanism
Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Christopher T. Hill
pp. 2634-2637 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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QCD Calculations by Numerical Integration
Davison E. Soper
pp. 2638-2641 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Evidence for Parton kT Effects in High- pT Particle Production
L. Apanasevich et al. ((Fermilab E706 Collaboration))
pp. 2642-2645 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Approach to Perturbative Results in the N-Δ Transition
Carl E. Carlson and Nimai C. Mukhopadhyay
pp. 2646-2649 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Antiproton Production in Au+Au Collisions at 11.7AGeV/c
L. Ahle et al. ((E-802 Collaboration))
pp. 2650-2654 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Where Is the Jet Quenching in Pb+Pb Collisions at 158AGeV?
Xin-Nian Wang
pp. 2655-2658 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Rotational Quadrupole Moment of Thermally Excited High Spin States in 164Yb
S. Frattini, A. Bracco, S. Leoni, P. Bosetti, B. Herskind, T. Døssing, M. Bergström, G. B. Hagemann, H. Ryde, J. P. Vivien, A. Bagshow, D. Smalley, and A. G. Smith
pp. 2659-2662 [View PDF (590 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Tunneling Ionization Rates from Arbitrary Potential Wells
G. N. Gibson, G. Dunne, and K. J. Bergquist
pp. 2663-2666 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Probing the Potential Barriers and Intramolecular Electrostatic Interactions in Free Doubly Charged Anions
Lai-Sheng Wang, Chuan-Fan Ding, Xue-Bin Wang, and John B. Nicholas
pp. 2667-2670 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Blackbody Excitation of an Atom Controlled by a Tunable Cavity
K. S. Lai and E. A. Hinds
pp. 2671-2674 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Resonant Enhancement of Parametric Processes via Radiative Interference and Induced Coherence
M. D. Lukin, P. R. Hemmer, M. Löffler, and M. O. Scully
pp. 2675-2678 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Rabi Resonances of a Single Molecule Driven by rf and Laser Fields
Ch. Brunel, B. Lounis, Ph. Tamarat, and M. Orrit
pp. 2679-2682 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Radiation Transfer Model of Self-Trapping Spatially Incoherent Radiation by Nonlinear Media
Vladimir V. Shkunov and Dana Z. Anderson
pp. 2683-2686 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Multiscaling in Models of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
Abhik Basu, Anirban Sain, Sujan K. Dhar, and Rahul Pandit
pp. 2687-2690 [View PDF (303 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Exact Solution of Vlasov Equations for Quasineutral Expansion of Plasma Bunch into Vacuum
D. S. Dorozhkina and V. E. Semenov
pp. 2691-2694 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Reflection High Energy Positron Diffraction from a Si(111) Surface
A. Kawasuso and S. Okada
pp. 2695-2698 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Appearance of Ferrielectric Phases in a Confined Liquid Crystal Investigated by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
Yuri P. Panarin, Charles Rosenblatt, and Fouad M. Aliev
pp. 2699-2702 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Anisotropy-Induced Liquid-Crystal Configurational Transitions
Huairen Zeng and Daniele Finotello
pp. 2703-2706 [View PDF (111 kB)]
Diffraction of Fast Electrons on the Fullerene C60 Molecule
Leonid G. Gerchikov, Peotr V. Efimov, Valerii M. Mikoushkin, and Andrey V. Solov'yov
pp. 2707-2710 [View PDF (123 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Crystal Structure of Cesium-V
U. Schwarz, K. Takemura, M. Hanfland, and K. Syassen
pp. 2711-2714 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Scaling Theory of the Hall-Petch Relation for Multilayers
Lawrence H. Friedman and D. C. Chrzan
pp. 2715-2718 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Multisite Disordered Structure of Ice VII to 20 GPa
R. J. Nelmes, J. S. Loveday, W. G. Marshall, G. Hamel, J. M. Besson, and S. Klotz
pp. 2719-2722 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Sevenfold Coordinated MgSe: Experimental Internal Atom Position Determination to 146 GPa, Diffraction Studies to 202 GPa, and Theoretical Studies to 500 GPa
Arthur L. Ruoff, Ting Li, Allen C. Ho, Min-Fan Pai, Huan Luo, Ray G. Greene, Chandrabhas Narayana, Jay C. Molstad, Steven S. Trail, Francis J. DiSalvo, Jr., and P. E. van Camp
pp. 2723-2726 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Length Scale of Dynamic Heterogeneities at the Glass Transition Determined by Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
U. Tracht, M. Wilhelm, A. Heuer, H. Feng, K. Schmidt-Rohr, and H. W. Spiess
pp. 2727-2730 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Evidence for Capillary Waves on Dewetted Polymer Film Surfaces: A Combined X-ray and Atomic Force Microscopy Study
M. Tolan, O. H. Seeck, J.-P. Schlomka, W. Press, J. Wang, S. K. Sinha, Z. Li, M. H. Rafailovich, and J. Sokolov
pp. 2731-2734 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Ripple Wave Vector Rotation in Anisotropic Crystal Sputtering
S. Rusponi, G. Costantini, C. Boragno, and U. Valbusa
pp. 2735-2738 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Hexagonally Reconstructed Islands and Anisotropic Diffusion for Au/Au(100)
Miki Nomura and Xiao-Qian Wang
pp. 2739-2742 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Current-Induced Step Bending Instability on Vicinal Surfaces
Da-Jiang Liu, John D. Weeks, and Daniel Kandel
pp. 2743-2746 [View PDF (224 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Layered Ruthenium Oxides: From Band Metal to Mott Insulator
A. V. Puchkov, M. C. Schabel, D. N. Basov, T. Startseva, G. Cao, T. Timusk, and Z.-X. Shen
pp. 2747-2750 [View PDF (781 kB)]
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Hidden Kondo Effect in a Correlated Electron Chain
A. A. Zvyagin and H. Johannesson
pp. 2751-2754 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Metal-Insulator Crossover in the Boson-Fermion Model in Infinite Dimensions
J. M. Robin, A. Romano, and J. Ranninger
pp. 2755-2758 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Nonlinear Nano-Optics: Probing One Exciton at a Time
N. H. Bonadeo, Gang Chen, D. Gammon, D. S. Katzer, D. Park, and D. G. Steel
pp. 2759-2762 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Quantum Shot Noise at Local Tunneling Contacts on Mesoscopic Multiprobe Conductors
Thomas Gramespacher and Markus Büttiker
pp. 2763-2766 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Conductance Correlations near Integer Quantum Hall Transitions
Božidar Jovanović and Ziqiang Wang
pp. 2767-2770 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Substrate Mediated Suppression of Postcollision Interaction Effects
B. Kassühlke, R. Romberg, P. Averkamp, and P. Feulner
pp. 2771-2774 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Evolution of the Density of States Gap in a Disordered Superconductor
Carey Huscroft and Richard T. Scalettar
pp. 2775-2778 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Order from Disorder: Nonmagnetic Impurities in the Spin-Gap Phase of the Cuprates
Catherine Pépin and Patrick A. Lee
pp. 2779-2782 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Vortex Phase Diagram for Mesoscopic Superconducting Disks
V. A. Schweigert, F. M. Peeters, and P. Singha Deo
pp. 2783-2786 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Order Parameter for a Diamagnetic Phase Transition
A. Gordon, M. A. Itskovsky, I. D. Vagner, and P. Wyder
pp. 2787-2790 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Suppression of Antiferromagnetic Order by Light Hole Doping in La2Cu1-xLixO4: A 139La NQR Study
B. J. Suh, P. C. Hammel, Y. Yoshinari, J. D. Thompson, J. L. Sarrao, and Z. Fisk
pp. 2791-2794 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Exchange Coupling in Ferromagnet/Antiferromagnet Bilayers with Comparable TC and TN
X. W. Wu and C. L. Chien
pp. 2795-2798 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Enhanced Magnetoresistance in Insulating Granular Systems: Evidence for Higher-Order Tunneling
S. Mitani, S. Takahashi, K. Takanashi, K. Yakushiji, S. Maekawa, and H. Fujimori
pp. 2799-2802 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Breakdown of the k-Conservation Rule in Si Nanocrystals
D. Kovalev, H. Heckler, M. Ben-Chorin, G. Polisski, M. Schwartzkopff, and F. Koch
pp. 2803-2806 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Lifetime of Negative Ion Resonances and the Density of Free Electron States: O2 Isolated in an Argon Matrix
M. Michaud, M. Lepage, and L. Sanche
pp. 2807-2810 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Wave Instabilities in Excitable Media with Fast Inhibitor Diffusion
V. S. Zykov, A. S. Mikhailov, and S. C. Müller
pp. 2811-2814 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Excitation Wave Breaking in Excitable Media with Linear Shear Flow
V. N. Biktashev, A. V. Holden, M. A. Tsyganov, J. Brindley, and N. A. Hill
pp. 2815-2818 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Effect of Strain on the Reactivity of Metal Surfaces
M. Mavrikakis, B. Hammer, and J. K. Nørskov
pp. 2819-2822 [View PDF (937 kB)]
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Surfactant Curvilinear Diffusion in Giant Wormlike Micelles
R. Angelico, U. Olsson, G. Palazzo, and A. Ceglie
pp. 2823-2826 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Effect of Correlated Fluctuations of Synapses in the Performance of Neural Networks
J. Marro, P. L. Garrido, and J. J. Torres
pp. 2827-2830 [View PDF (145 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Comparison of Polarization Observables in Electron Scattering from the Proton and Deuteron”
F. Klein, E. W. Otten, H. Schmieden, and Th. Walcher
pp. 2831 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Lourie et al. Reply:
R. W. Lourie, J. M. Finn, J. I. McIntyre, B. D. Milbrath, C. F. Perdrisat, and P. E. Ulmer
pp. 2832 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Comment on “Strongly Interacting Photons in a Nonlinear Cavity”
Philippe Grangier, Daniel F. Walls, and Klaus M. Gheri
pp. 2833 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Comment on “Magnetospectroscopy of Bound Phonons in High Purity GaAs”
M. L. Sadowski, G. Martinez, and M. Grynberg
pp. 2834 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Chen, Liu, and Shen Reply:
Zhonghui Chen, Pulin Liu, and S. C. Shen
pp. 2835 [View PDF (36 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Strongly Interacting Photons in a Nonlinear Cavity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1467 (1997)]
A. Imamoǧlu, H. Schmidt, G. Woods, and M. Deutsch
pp. 2836 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Erratum: Nonadiabatic Quantum Brownian Rectifiers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 649 (1998)]
Igor Goychuk, Milena Grifoni, and Peter Hänggi
pp. 2837 [View PDF (29 kB)]
 
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