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Physical Review Letters – 13 July 1998
Volume 81, Issue 2

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.

Site-Selective Reaction of Br2 with Second Layer Ga Atoms on the As-rich GaAs(001)-2×4 Surface
Yong Liu, Andrew J. Komrowski, and Andrew C. Kummel
pp. 413-416 [View PDF (277 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Dynamical Response of a Bose-Einstein Condensate to a Discontinuous Change in Internal State
M. R. Matthews, D. S. Hall, D. S. Jin, J. R. Ensher, C. E. Wieman, E. A. Cornell, F. Dalfovo, C. Minniti, and S. Stringari
pp. 243-247 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Universality in Chiral Random Matrix Theory at β = 1 and β = 4
M. K. Şener and J. J. M. Verbaarschot
pp. 248-251 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Critical Disordered Systems with Constraints and the Inequality ν>2/d
Amnon Aharony, A. Brooks Harris, and Shai Wiseman
pp. 252-255 [View PDF (212 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Statistical Origin of Black Hole Entropy in Matrix Theory
David A. Lowe
pp. 256-259 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Cosmic Topological Defects, Highest Energy Cosmic Rays, and the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
Pijushpani Bhattacharjee
pp. 260-263 [View PDF (152 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Chiral Disorder in QCD
Romuald A. Janik, Maciej A. Nowak, Gábor Papp, and Ismail Zahed
pp. 264-267 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Thouless Energy and Correlations of QCD Dirac Eigenvalues
J. C. Osborn and J. J. M. Verbaarschot
pp. 268-271 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Observation of B+→ωK+ and Search for Related B Decays Modes
T. Bergfeld et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 272-276 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Electroweak Radiative Corrections to b→sγ
Andrzej Czarnecki and William J. Marciano
pp. 277-280 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Shell Model Calculation of the β- and β+ Partial Half-Lives of 54Mn and Other Unique Second Forbidden β Decays
Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo and Petr Vogel
pp. 281-284 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Vibrorotational Structure in Asymmetric Doubly Excited States
N. V. Prudov and V. N. Ostrovsky
pp. 285-288 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Production of Purely Spin-Aligned Autoionizing States Which Decay to Orbital-Aligned Ionic States
K. W. McLaughlin, O. Yenen, and D. H. Jaecks
pp. 289-292 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Phase Control of Spontaneous Emission
E. Paspalakis and P. L. Knight
pp. 293-296 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Temporal Coherence of Ultrashort High-Order Harmonic Pulses
M. Bellini, C. Lyngå, A. Tozzi, M. B. Gaarde, T. W. Hänsch, A. L'Huillier, and C.-G. Wahlström
pp. 297-300 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Subnatural Linewidths in Core Level Excitation Spectra
A. Kivimäki, K. Maier, U. Hergenhahn, M. N. Piancastelli, B. Kempgens, A. Rüdel, and A. M. Bradshaw
pp. 301-304 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Rotationally Inelastic Cross Sections at Astrophysical and Quantum Collisional Temperatures
Christopher D. Ball and Frank C. De Lucia
pp. 305-308 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Measurement of Cross Sections for Electron Excitation out of the Metastable Levels of Argon
Garrett A. Piech, John B. Boffard, Mark F. Gehrke, L. W. Anderson, and Chun C. Lin
pp. 309-312 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Strong Relativistic Effects and Natural Linewidths Observed in Dielectronic Recombination of Lithiumlike Carbon
S. Mannervik, D. DeWitt, L. Engström, J. Lidberg, E. Lindroth, R. Schuch, and W. Zong
pp. 313-316 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Theory of Heating of the Quantum Ground State of Trapped Ions
Daniel F. V. James
pp. 317-320 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Phase Jumps near a Phase Synchronization Transition in Systems of Two Coupled Chaotic Oscillators
Kyoung J. Lee, Yongho Kwak, and Tong Kun Lim
pp. 321-324 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Singularity Confinement and Chaos in Discrete Systems
Jarmo Hietarinta and Claude Viallet
pp. 325-328 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Statistical Distribution of Intensities Reflected from Disordered Media
A. García-Martín, T. López-Ciudad, J. J. Sáenz, and M. Nieto-Vesperinas
pp. 329-332 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Localization of Waves without Bistability: Worms in Nematic Electroconvection
Hermann Riecke and Glen D. Granzow
pp. 333-336 [View PDF (741 kB)]
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Stable Steady Flows in Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
S. I. Abarzhi
pp. 337-340 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Asymmetric Squares as an Attracting Set in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
F. H. Busse and R. M. Clever
pp. 341-344 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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From Flutter to Tumble: Inertial Drag and Froude Similarity in Falling Paper
Andrew Belmonte, Hagai Eisenberg, and Elisha Moses
pp. 345-348 [View PDF (1,089 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Intergrain Coupling in Dusty-Plasma Coulomb Crystals
U. Mohideen, H. U. Rahman, M. A. Smith, M. Rosenberg, and D. A. Mendis
pp. 349-352 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Resonant Particle Heating of an Electron Plasma by Oscillating Sheaths
B. P. Cluggish, J. R. Danielson, and C. F. Driscoll
pp. 353-356 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Frequency Selective Tunnel Coupling to the Plasma Fiber
T. R. Clark and H. M. Milchberg
pp. 357-360 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Influence of a Prepulse Current on a Fiber Z Pinch
A. Lorenz, F. N. Beg, J. Ruiz-Camacho, J. Worley, and A. E. Dangor
pp. 361-364 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Measurements of Suprathermal Electrons in Hohlraum Plasmas with X-Ray Spectroscopy
S. H. Glenzer, F. B. Rosmej, R. W. Lee, C. A. Back, K. G. Estabrook, B. J. MacGowan, T. D. Shepard, and R. E. Turner
pp. 365-368 [View PDF (542 kB)]
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Effect of Collisionless Heating on Electron Energy Distribution in an Inductively Coupled Plasma
Valery A. Godyak and Vladimir I. Kolobov
pp. 369-372 [View PDF (217 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Spinodal-Assisted Crystallization in Polymer Melts
P. D. Olmsted, W. C. K. Poon, T. C. B. McLeish, N. J. Terrill, and A. J. Ryan
pp. 373-376 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Optical Absorption and Nonradiative Decay Mechanism of E′ Center in Silica
Gianfranco Pacchioni, Gianluigi Ieranò, and Antonio M. Márquez
pp. 377-380 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Floating Stacking Fault during Homoepitaxial Growth of Ag(111)
S. A. de Vries, W. J. Huisman, P. Goedtkindt, M. J. Zwanenburg, S. L. Bennett, and E. Vlieg
pp. 381-384 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Simulation Evidence of Critical Behavior of Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition in a Porous Medium
J. Chakrabarti
pp. 385-388 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Spontaneous Double Phase Separation Induced by Rapid Hydrodynamic Coarsening in Two-Dimensional Fluid Mixtures
Hajime Tanaka and Takeaki Araki
pp. 389-392 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Silicon Self-Diffusion in Isotope Heterostructures
H. Bracht, E. E. Haller, and R. Clark-Phelps
pp. 393-396 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Theory and Data Analysis for Excitations in Liquid 4He Beyond the Roton Minimum
F. Pistolesi
pp. 397-400 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Quadrupolar Deformations of Atomic Bubbles in Solid 4He
S. Kanorsky, S. Lang, T. Eichler, K. Winkler, and A. Weis
pp. 401-404 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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High Transient Mobility of Chlorine on TiO2(110): Evidence for ``Cannon-Ball'' Trajectories of Hot Adsorbates
Ulrike Diebold, Wilhelm Hebenstreit, Georg Leonardelli, Michael Schmid, and Peter Varga
pp. 405-408 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Dendritic Array Stability
W. Losert, O. N. Mesquita, J. M. A. Figueiredo, and H. Z. Cummins
pp. 409-412 [View PDF (269 kB)]
Site-Selective Reaction of Br2 with Second Layer Ga Atoms on the As-rich GaAs(001)-2×4 Surface
Yong Liu, Andrew J. Komrowski, and Andrew C. Kummel
pp. 413-416 [View PDF (277 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Femtosecond Dynamics of the Exciton Self-Trapping Process in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Halogen-Bridged Platinum Complex
S. Tomimoto, H. Nansei, S. Saito, T. Suemoto, J. Takeda, and S. Kurita
pp. 417-420 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Raman Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Molecules in Crystalline Silicon
A. W. R. Leitch, V. Alex, and J. Weber
pp. 421-424 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Analytical Envelope-Function Theory of Interface Band Mixing
Bradley A. Foreman
pp. 425-428 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Electron Affinity of the Bare and Hydrogen Covered Single Crystal Diamond (111) Surface
J. B. Cui, J. Ristein, and L. Ley
pp. 429-432 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Experimental and Theoretical Constraints of Bipolaronic Superconductivity in High Tc Materials: An Impossibility
B. K. Chakraverty, J. Ranninger, and D. Feinberg
pp. 433-436 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Phase Dependent Thermopower in Andreev Interferometers
Jonghwa Eom, Chen-Jung Chien, and Venkat Chandrasekhar
pp. 437-440 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Coulomb Suppression of NMR Coherence Peak in Fullerene Superconductors
Han-Yong Choi
pp. 441-444 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of Frustrated Quantum Spin Chains
K. Maisinger and U. Schollwöck
pp. 445-448 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Brillouin Light Scattering and Magnon Wave Vector Distributions for Microwave-Magnetic-Envelope Solitons in Yttrium-Iron-Garnet Thin Films
Hua Xia, Pavel Kabos, Hong Yan Zhang, Pavel A. Kolodin, and Carl E. Patton
pp. 449-452 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Dynamics of Correlated Two-Dimensional Materials: The 2H-TaSe2 Case
V. Vescoli, L. Degiorgi, H. Berger, and L. Forró
pp. 453-456 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Excitonic Dynamical Franz-Keldysh Effect
K. B. Nordstrom, K. Johnsen, S. J. Allen, A.-P. Jauho, B. Birnir, J. Kono, T. Noda, H. Akiyama, and H. Sakaki
pp. 457-460 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Atomic Scattering from Single Adsorbates: What Can We Learn from the Gas Phase?
Didier Lemoine
pp. 461-464 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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In Situ Observation of Charge Exchange and Surface Segregation of Hydrogen during Low Energy H+ and H2+ Scattering from Semiconductor Surfaces
R. Souda, E. Asari, T. Suzuki, T. Tanaka, and T. Aizawa
pp. 465-468 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Stability of Colloidal Quasicrystals
A. R. Denton and H. Löwen
pp. 469-472 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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High- and Low-Pitch Helical Structures of Tilted Chiral Lipid Bilayers
Shigeyuki Komura and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
pp. 473-476 [View PDF (930 kB)]
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Angular Forces Around Transition Metals in Biomolecules
A. E. Carlsson
pp. 477-480 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Fiber-Rotation-Induced Vortex Turbulence in Thick Myocardium
Flavio Fenton and Alain Karma
pp. 481-484 [View PDF (553 kB)]
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Microtubule Dynamics and the Positioning of Microtubule Organizing Centers
Marileen Dogterom and Bernard Yurke
pp. 485-488 [View PDF (142 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Generalization of a Fermi Liquid to a Liquid with Fractional Exclusion Statistics in Arbitrary Dimensions: Theory of a Haldane Liquid”
J. M. P. Carmelo, P. Horsch, A. A. Ovchinnikov, D. K. Campbell, A. H. Castro Neto, and N. M. R. Peres
pp. 489 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Comment on “Geometric Phase in Jahn-Teller Crystals”
J. Lorenzana
pp. 490 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Koizumi Replies:
Hiroyasu Koizumi
pp. 491 [View PDF (75 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Unusual Strong-Coupling Effects in the Tunneling Spectroscopy of Optimally Doped and Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ[Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 153 (1998)]
Y. DeWilde, N. Miyakawa, P. Guptasarma, M. Iavarone, L. Ozyuzer, J. F. Zasadzinski, P. Romano, D. G. Hinks, C. Kendziora, G. W. Crabtree, and K. E. Gray
pp. 492 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Erratum: Excitation of a Magnetic Multilayer by an Electric Current [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4281 (1998)]
M. Tsoi, A. G. M. Jansen, J. Bass, W.-C. Chiang, M. Seck, V. Tsoi, and P. Wyder
pp. 493 [View PDF (12 kB)]
 
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