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Physical Review Letters – 2 November 1998
Volume 81, Issue 18

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.

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atomic Hydrogen
Dale G. Fried, Thomas C. Killian, Lorenz Willmann, David Landhuis, Stephen C. Moss, Daniel Kleppner, and Thomas J. Greytak
pp. 3811-3814 [View PDF (159 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Fingering Instability in Combustion
Ory Zik, Zeev Olami, and Elisha Moses
pp. 3868-3871 [View PDF (393 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Cold Collision Frequency Shift of the 1S- 2S Transition in Hydrogen
Thomas C. Killian, Dale G. Fried, Lorenz Willmann, David Landhuis, Stephen C. Moss, Thomas J. Greytak, and Daniel Kleppner
pp. 3807-3810 [View PDF (237 kB)]
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atomic Hydrogen
Dale G. Fried, Thomas C. Killian, Lorenz Willmann, David Landhuis, Stephen C. Moss, Daniel Kleppner, and Thomas J. Greytak
pp. 3811-3814 [View PDF (159 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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O(α) Radiative Correction to the Casimir Energy for Penetrable Mirrors
M. Bordag and K. Scharnhorst
pp. 3815-3818 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Operator Expansion for the Elastic Limit
Ratindranath Akhoury, Michael G. Sotiropoulos, and George Sterman
pp. 3819-3822 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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First Search for CP Violation in Tau Lepton Decay
S. Anderson et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 3823-3827 [View PDF (192 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Universalities of Triplet Pairing in Neutron Matter
V. A. Khodel, V. V. Khodel, and J. W. Clark
pp. 3828-3831 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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25-State Calculation for e--Na2 Scattering
Alexandra P. P. Natalense, Luiz G. Ferreira, and Marco A. P. Lima
pp. 3832-3835 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Band-Gap Closure in Mercury Clusters
Ram Busani, Mareike Folkers, and Ori Cheshnovsky
pp. 3836-3839 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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In-Loop Squeezing Is Like Real Squeezing to an In-Loop Atom
H. M. Wiseman
pp. 3840-3843 [View PDF (188 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Smallest Focal Spot
Tasso R. M. Sales
pp. 3844-3847 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Clustering and Non-Gaussian Behavior in Granular Matter
A. Puglisi, V. Loreto, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, A. Petri, and A. Vulpiani
pp. 3848-3851 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Spinodal Decomposition of Binary Mixtures in Uniform Shear Flow
F. Corberi, G. Gonnella, and A. Lamura
pp. 3852-3855 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Effect of Nonlinear Gradient Terms on Breathing Localized Solutions in the Quintic Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Robert J. Deissler and Helmut R. Brand
pp. 3856-3859 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Observation of a Finite-Time Singularity in Needle Propagation in Hele-Shaw Cells
O. Greffier, A. Al kahwaji, J. Rouch, and H. Kellay
pp. 3860-3863 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Nonuniform Stationary Measure of the Invariant Unstable Foliation in Hamiltonian and Fluid Mixing Systems
M. Giona and A. Adrover
pp. 3864-3867 [View PDF (207 kB)]
Fingering Instability in Combustion
Ory Zik, Zeev Olami, and Elisha Moses
pp. 3868-3871 [View PDF (393 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Rodlike Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Brushes
P. Guenoun, F. Muller, M. Delsanti, L. Auvray, Y. J. Chen, J. W. Mays, and M. Tirrell
pp. 3872-3875 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Dynamics of Lightly Sulfonated Polystyrene Ionomers
R. H. Colby, X. Zheng, M. H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, D. G. Peiffer, S. A. Schwarz, Y. Strzhemechny, and D. Nguyen
pp. 3876-3879 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Formation of Helical States in Wormlike Polymer Chains
Josh P. Kemp and Zheng Yu Chen
pp. 3880-3883 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Theory of Strain Percolation in Metals
Robb Thomson and L. E. Levine
pp. 3884-3887 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Charge Glass in Two-Dimensional Arrays of Capacitively Coupled Grains with Random Offset Charges
Enzo Granato and J. M. Kosterlitz
pp. 3888-3891 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Differences in the Detachment of Electron Bubbles from Superfluid 4He Droplets versus Nonsuperfluid 3He Droplets
Michal Fárník, Ulrich Henne, Björn Samelin, and J. Peter Toennies
pp. 3892-3895 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Liquid 3He in Aerogel: Crossover from Drude's to Hagen-Poiseuille's Law
Dietrich Einzel and Jeevak M. Parpia
pp. 3896-3899 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Coupling between Phase Separation and Surface Deformation Modes in Self-Organizing Polymer Blend Films
Brett D. Ermi, Giovanni Nisato, Jack F. Douglas, John A. Rogers, and Alamgir Karim
pp. 3900-3903 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Distortion of a Substrate Induced by Adsorption at Solid-Liquid Interfaces
E. V. Vakarin, A. E. Filippov, and J. P. Badiali
pp. 3904-3907 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Silicon Epoxide: Unexpected Intermediate during Silicon Oxide Formation
Boris B. Stefanov, Alejandra B. Gurevich, Marcus K. Weldon, Krishnan Raghavachari, and Yves. J. Chabal
pp. 3908-3911 [View PDF (358 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Density of States near the Mott-Hubbard Transition in the Limit of Large Dimensions
Stefan Kehrein
pp. 3912-3915 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Finite Temperature Transport at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Disordered Systems
Igor F. Herbut
pp. 3916-3919 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Stimulation of Polariton Photoluminescence in Semiconductor Microcavity
Le Si Dang, D. Heger, R. André, F. Bœuf, and R. Romestain
pp. 3920-3923 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Are Directed Waves Multifractal?
Yi-Kuo Yu and H. Mathur
pp. 3924-3927 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Magnetic Control of Electric-Field Domains in Semiconductor Superlattices
T. Schmidt, A. G. M. Jansen, R. J. Haug, K. v. Klitzing, and K. Eberl
pp. 3928-3931 [View PDF (537 kB)]
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Coulomb Drag at ν = 1/2: Composite Fermion Pairing Fluctuations
Iddo Ussishkin and Ady Stern
pp. 3932-3935 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Bad Metals Made with Good-Metal Components
S. B. Arnason, S. P. Herschfield, and A. F. Hebard
pp. 3936-3939 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Role of Spatial Amplitude Fluctuations in Highly Disordered s-Wave Superconductors
Amit Ghosal, Mohit Randeria, and Nandini Trivedi
pp. 3940-3943 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Transport Properties of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 Crystals with and without Surface Barriers
D. T. Fuchs, R. A. Doyle, E. Zeldov, S. F. W. R. Rycroft, T. Tamegai, S. Ooi, M. L. Rappaport, and Y. Myasoedov
pp. 3944-3947 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Anisotropic Rescaling of a Splayed Pinning Landscape in Hg Cuprates: Strong Vortex Pinning and Recovery of Variable Range Hopping
L. Krusin-Elbaum, G. Blatter, J. R. Thompson, D. K. Petrov, R. Wheeler, J. Ullmann, and C. W. Chu
pp. 3948-3951 [View PDF (312 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Dynamic Vortex Mass in Clean Fermi Superfluids and Superconductors
N. B. Kopnin and V. M. Vinokur
pp. 3952-3955 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Peierls Dimerization with Nonadiabatic Spin-Phonon Coupling
G. Wellein, H. Fehske, and A. P. Kampf
pp. 3956-3959 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Pd/Cu Site Interchange and Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in UCu4Pd
C. H. Booth, D. E. MacLaughlin, R. H. Heffner, R. Chau, M. B. Maple, and G. H. Kwei
pp. 3960-3963 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Neutron Scattering Investigation of Magnetic Bilayer Correlations in La1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7: Evidence of Canting above TC
R. Osborn, S. Rosenkranz, D. N. Argyriou, L. Vasiliu-Doloc, J. W. Lynn, S. K. Sinha, J. F. Mitchell, K. E. Gray, and S. D. Bader
pp. 3964-3967 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Lateral Quantization of Spin Waves in Micron Size Magnetic Wires
C. Mathieu, J. Jorzick, A. Frank, S. O. Demokritov, A. N. Slavin, B. Hillebrands, B. Bartenlian, C. Chappert, D. Decanini, F. Rousseaux, and E. Cambril
pp. 3968-3971 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Paired and Unpaired Charge Stripes in the Ferromagnetic Phase of La0.5Ca0.5MnO3
S. Mori, C. H. Chen, and S-W. Cheong
pp. 3972-3975 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Static Scaling on an Interacting Magnetic Nanoparticle System
T. Jonsson, P. Svedlindh, and M. F. Hansen
pp. 3976-3979 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Spin Dependent Hopping and Colossal Negative Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial Nd0.52Sr0.48MnO3 Films in Fields up to 50 T
P. Wagner, I. Gordon, L. Trappeniers, J. Vanacken, F. Herlach, V. V. Moshchalkov, and Y. Bruynseraede
pp. 3980-3983 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Singular Behavior in the Pressure-Tuned Competition between Spin-Peierls and Antiferromagnetic Ground States of (TMTTF)2PF6
D. S. Chow, P. Wzietek, D. Fogliatti, B. Alavi, D. J. Tantillo, C. A. Merlic, and S. E. Brown
pp. 3984-3987 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Nuclear Spin Polarization Transfer with a Single Radio-Frequency Field in Optically Pumped Indium Phosphide
Carl A. Michal and Robert Tycko
pp. 3988-3991 [View PDF (198 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics Implies Polynomial-Time Solution for NP-Complete and # P Problems
Daniel S. Abrams and Seth Lloyd
pp. 3992-3995 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Metastability and Depletion-Driven Aggregation
Erik K. Hobbie
pp. 3996-3999 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Universal Statistical Behavior of Neural Spike Trains
Naama Brenner, Oded Agam, William Bialek, and Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck
pp. 4000-4003 [View PDF (745 kB)]
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Entropic Colloidal Interactions in Concentrated DNA Solutions
Ritu Verma, J. C. Crocker, T. C. Lubensky, and A. G. Yodh
pp. 4004-4007 [View PDF (418 kB)]
Super-Rough Dynamics on Tumor Growth
Antonio Brú, Juan Manuel Pastor, Isabel Fernaud, Isabel Brú, Sonia Melle, and Carolina Berenguer
pp. 4008-4011 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Stochastic and Deterministic Resonances for Excitable Systems
André Longtin and Dante R. Chialvo
pp. 4012-4015 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Robust “Topological” Codes by Keeping Control of Internal Redundancy
M. Haft
pp. 4016-4019 [View PDF (295 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “New Limits to the Infrared Background: Bounds on Radiative Neutrino Decay and on Contributions of Very Massive Objects to the Dark Matter Problem”
Georg G. Raffelt
pp. 4020 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Evidence for Dynamical Fragment Production?
L. Phair, L. Beaulieu, L. G. Moretto, and G. J. Wozniak
pp. 4021 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Comment on “Is There an Electronic Topological Transition in Zinc under High Pressure?”
A. W. Overhauser
pp. 4022 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Comment on “ T Dependence of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in Unconventional Superconductors at Low Temperatures: Can It Be Linear?”
G. E. Volovik
pp. 4023 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Comment on “ T Dependence of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in Unconventional Superconductors at Low Temperatures: Can It Be Linear?”
P. J. Hirschfeld, M.-R. Li, and P. Wölfle
pp. 4024 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Schopohl and Dolgov Reply:
N. Schopohl and O. V. Dolgov
pp. 4025-4026 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Low-Energy Physics of Hole Doped Y2BaNiO5
C. D. Batista, A. A. Aligia, and J. Eroles
pp. 4027 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Dagotto and Riera Reply:
Elbio Dagotto and José Riera
pp. 4028 [View PDF (51 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Ideal Brittle Fracture of Silicon Studied with Molecular Dynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 746 (1998)]
Dominic Holland and M. Marder
pp. 4029 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Erratum: X-Ray Resonant Scattering as a Direct Probe of Orbital Ordering in Transition-Metal Oxides [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3400 (1998)]
Michele Fabrizio, Massimo Altarelli, and Maurizio Benfatto
pp. 4030 [View PDF (57 kB)]
 
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