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Physical Review Letters – 16 November 1998
Volume 81, Issue 20

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.

Reverse Buoyancy in Shaken Granular Beds
Troy Shinbrot and Fernando J. Muzzio
pp. 4365-4368 [View PDF (197 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Phase Transition in the Number Partitioning Problem
Stephan Mertens
pp. 4281-4284 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Characterizing Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Correlations in Nondegenerate Parametric Oscillation via Phase Measurements
W. J. Munro and G. J. Milburn
pp. 4285-4288 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Fractals at T = Tc due to Instantonlike Configurations
N. G. Antoniou, Y. F. Contoyiannis, F. K. Diakonos, and C. G. Papadopoulos
pp. 4289-4292 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Bohr's Correspondence Principle and the Area Spectrum of Quantum Black Holes
Shahar Hod
pp. 4293-4296 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Quantum Structure of Spacetime and Entropy of Schwarschild Black Holes
T. Padmanabhan
pp. 4297-4300 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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γ-Ray Bursts and Afterglows from Rotating Strange Stars and Neutron Stars
Z. G. Dai and T. Lu
pp. 4301-4304 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Tau Neutrino Appearance with a 1000 Megaparsec Baseline
F. Halzen and D. Saltzberg
pp. 4305-4308 [View PDF (1,099 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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First Observation of the Rare Decay Mode KL0→e+e-
D. Ambrose et al. ((BNL E871 Collaboration))
pp. 4309-4312 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Searching for New Physics in b→ssd̅ Decays
Katri Huitu, Cai-Dian Lü, Paul Singer, and Da-Xin Zhang
pp. 4313-4316 [View PDF (169 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Microscopic Calculation of 6Li Elastic and Transition Form Factors
R. B. Wiringa and R. Schiavilla
pp. 4317-4320 [View PDF (757 kB)]
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Lifetime Measurement of Λ12C, Λ28Si, and ΛFe Hypernuclei
H. Bhang, S. Ajimura, K. Aoki, T. Hasegawa, O. Hashimoto, H. Hotchi, Y. D. Kim, T. Kishimoto, K. Maeda, H. Noumi, Y. Ohta, K. Omata, H. Outa, H. Park, Y. Sato, M. Sekimoto, T. Shibata, T. Takahashi, and M. Youn
pp. 4321-4324 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Excited States of 11Li
M. G. Gornov, Yu. Gurov, S. Lapushkin, P. Morokhov, V. Pechkurov, T. K. Pedlar, Kamal K. Seth, J. Wise, and D. Zhao
pp. 4325-4328 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Nuclear-Electronic Wave-Packet Dynamics in Perturbed Rydberg States of Molecular Hydrogen
F. Texier and Ch. Jungen
pp. 4329-4332 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Double and Triple Photoionization of Ground-State Lithium
Hugo W. van der Hart and Chris H. Greene
pp. 4333-4336 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Ultralow-Energy Electrons from Fast Heavy-Ion Helium Collisions: The “Target Cusp”
W. Schmitt, R. Moshammer, F. S. C. O'Rourke, H. Kollmus, L. Sarkadi, R. Mann, S. Hagmann, R. E. Olson, and J. Ullrich
pp. 4337-4340 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Spurious Lyapunov Exponents in Attractor Reconstruction
Timothy D. Sauer, Joshua A. Tempkin, and James A. Yorke
pp. 4341-4344 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Smoothness Implies Determinism in Time Series: A Measure Based Approach
Guillermo J. Ortega and Enrique Louis
pp. 4345-4348 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Systematic Computation of the Least Unstable Periodic Orbits in Chaotic Attractors
Fotis K. Diakonos, Peter Schmelcher, and Ofer Biham
pp. 4349-4352 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Stability of Walking Vector Solitons
Dumitru Mihalache, Dumitru Mazilu, and Lluis Torner
pp. 4353-4356 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Excitation of Solitons by Adiabatic Multiresonant Forcing
L. Friedland and A. G. Shagalov
pp. 4357-4360 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Emergence of Structural Anisotropy in Optical Glasses Treated to Support Second Harmonic Generation
C. Cabrillo, G. J. Cuello, P. García-Fernández, F. J. Bermejo, V. Pruneri, P. G. Kazansky, S. M. Bennington, and W. S. Howells
pp. 4361-4364 [View PDF (135 kB)]
Reverse Buoyancy in Shaken Granular Beds
Troy Shinbrot and Fernando J. Muzzio
pp. 4365-4368 [View PDF (197 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Clustering, Order, and Collapse in a Driven Granular Monolayer
J. S. Olafsen and J. S. Urbach
pp. 4369-4372 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Structures and Multipoint Correlators for Turbulent Advection: Predictions and Experiments
Laurent Mydlarski, Alain Pumir, Boris I. Shraiman, Eric D. Siggia, and Zellman Warhaft
pp. 4373-4376 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Turbulence and Multiscaling in the Randomly Forced Navier-Stokes Equation
Anirban Sain, Manu, and Rahul Pandit
pp. 4377-4380 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Vortex Heating in Superfluid Helium at Low Temperatures
David C. Samuels and Carlo F. Barenghi
pp. 4381-4383 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Two Interacting Modes in Parametrically Driven Surface Waves
H. Arbell and J. Fineberg
pp. 4384-4387 [View PDF (419 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Direct Observation of the Fast Beam-Ion Instability
J. Y. Huang, M. Kwon, T.-Y. Lee, I. S. Ko, Y. H. Chin, and H. Fukuma
pp. 4388-4391 [View PDF (768 kB)]
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Rapid Inward Impurity Transport during Impurity Pellet Injection on the DIII-D Tokamak
D. G. Whyte, T. E. Evans, A. W. Hyatt, T. C. Jernigan, R. L. Lee, A. G. Kellman, P. B. Parks, R. Stockdale, and P. L. Taylor
pp. 4392-4395 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Phase Space of Tokamak Edge Turbulence, the L-H Transition, and the Formation of the Edge Pedestal
B. N. Rogers, J. F. Drake, and A. Zeiler
pp. 4396-4399 [View PDF (235 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Roles of Repulsive and Attractive Forces in Determining the Structure of Nonuniform Liquids: Generalized Mean Field Theory
John D. Weeks, Kirill Katsov, and Katharina Vollmayr
pp. 4400-4403 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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How Does the Relaxation of a Supercooled Liquid Depend on Its Microscopic Dynamics?
Tobias Gleim, Walter Kob, and Kurt Binder
pp. 4404-4407 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Antiferroelectricity and Chiral Order in New Liquid Crystals of Nonchiral Molecules Studied by Optical Second Harmonic Generation
R. Macdonald, F. Kentischer, P. Warnick, and G. Heppke
pp. 4408-4411 [View PDF (606 kB)]
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Localization Transition of Random Copolymers at Interfaces
Semjon Stepanow, Jens-Uwe Sommer, and Igor Ya. Erukhimovich
pp. 4412-4415 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Pressure Effects on Hydrogen Bonding in the Disordered Phase of Solid HBr
Takashi Ikeda, Michiel Sprik, Kiyoyuki Terakura, and Michele Parrinello
pp. 4416-4419 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Evidence for Distinct Polymer Chain Orientations in KC60 and RbC60
P. Launois, R. Moret, J. Hone, and A. Zettl
pp. 4420-4423 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Effect of Surface Steps on the Plastic Threshold in Nanoindentation
J. D. Kiely, R. Q. Hwang, and J. E. Houston
pp. 4424-4427 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Evidence for the Role of Propagating Stress Waves during Fracture
L. C. Krysac and J. D. Maynard
pp. 4428-4431 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Collective Excitations in Crystals Composed of Disparate Mass Particles
E. Enciso, N. G. Almarza, M. A. Gonzalez, F. J. Bermejo, R. Fernández-Perea, and F. Bresme
pp. 4432-4435 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Slow Stress Relaxation in Randomly Disordered Nematic Elastomers and Gels
S. M. Clarke and E. M. Terentjev
pp. 4436-4439 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Optical Excitation of Atomic Hydrogen Bound to the Surface of Liquid Helium
A. P. Mosk, M. W. Reynolds, T. W. Hijmans, and J. T. M. Walraven
pp. 4440-4443 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Spiral Surface Growth without Desorption
Alain Karma and Mathis Plapp
pp. 4444-4447 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Atomic Process of Point Contact in Gold Studied by Time-Resolved High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy
Tokushi Kizuka
pp. 4448-4451 [View PDF (704 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Polarization and Strong Infrared Activity in Compressed Solid Hydrogen
Ivo Souza and Richard M. Martin
pp. 4452-4455 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Extending Linear Response: Inferences from Electron-Ion Structure Factors
A. A. Louis and N. W. Ashcroft
pp. 4456-4459 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Exciton-Exciton Interactions in AlAs /GaAs Coupled Quantum Wire Arrays
T. Mélin and F. Laruelle
pp. 4460-4463 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Surface-State Lifetime Measured by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
Jiutao Li, Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Richard Berndt, O. R. Bryant, and S. Crampin
pp. 4464-4467 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Level Statistics of Quantum Dots Coupled to Reservoirs
Jürgen König, Yuval Gefen, and Gerd Schön
pp. 4468-4471 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Essential Role of Correlations in Governing Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Materials
S. V. Novikov, D. H. Dunlap, V. M. Kenkre, P. E. Parris, and A. V. Vannikov
pp. 4472-4475 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Revision of the Phase Diagram of Superconducting U1-xThxBe13
F. Kromer, R. Helfrich, M. Lang, F. Steglich, C. Langhammer, A. Bach, T. Michels, J. S. Kim, and G. R. Stewart
pp. 4476-4479 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Femtosecond Time-Resolved Study of the Energy and Temperature Dependence of Hot-Electron Lifetimes in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
W. Nessler, S. Ogawa, H. Nagano, H. Petek, J. Shimoyama, Y. Nakayama, and K. Kishio
pp. 4480-4483 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Haldane Gap and Fractional Oscillations in Gated Josephson Arrays
Ehud Altman and Assa Auerbach
pp. 4484-4487 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Ground State Properties of Fluxlines in a Disordered Environment
Heiko Rieger
pp. 4488-4491 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Incoherent Interlayer Transport and Angular-Dependent Magnetoresistance Oscillations in Layered Metals
Ross H. McKenzie and Perez Moses
pp. 4492-4495 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Liquid-Gas Critical Behavior in a Frustrated Pyrochlore Ferromagnet
M. J. Harris, S. T. Bramwell, P. C. W. Holdsworth, and J. D. M. Champion
pp. 4496-4499 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Magnetically Ordered fcc Structure at the Relaxed Grain Boundaries of Pure Nanocrystalline Fe
L. Del Bianco, C. Ballesteros, J. M. Rojo, and A. Hernando
pp. 4500-4503 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Infrared Absorption from Charge Density Waves in Magnetic Manganites
P. Calvani, G. De Marzi, P. Dore, S. Lupi, P. Maselli, F. D'Amore, S. Gagliardi, and S-W. Cheong
pp. 4504-4507 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Shell Effect in Exchange Coupling of Transition Metal Dots and Their Arrays
V. N. Kondratyev and H. O. Lutz
pp. 4508-4511 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Magnetization Reversal in Micron-Sized Magnetic Thin Films
R. H. Koch, J. G. Deak, D. W. Abraham, P. L. Trouilloud, R. A. Altman, Yu Lu, W. J. Gallagher, R. E. Scheuerlein, K. P. Roche, and S. S. P. Parkin
pp. 4512-4515 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Consequences of Spin-Flop Coupling in Exchange Biased Films
T. C. Schulthess and W. H. Butler
pp. 4516-4519 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Long-Lived Dynamic Heterogeneity in a Relaxor Ferroelectric
O. Kircher, B. Schiener, and R. Böhmer
pp. 4520-4523 [View PDF (159 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Chain Deformation for a Polymer Melt under Shear
P. T. Callaghan, M. L. Kilfoil, and E. T. Samulski
pp. 4524-4527 [View PDF (232 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Selection of the Saffman-Taylor Finger Width in the Absence of Surface Tension: An Exact Result”
Armand Sarkissian and Herbert Levine
pp. 4528 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Mineev-Weinstein Replies:
M. Mineev-Weinstein
pp. 4529 [View PDF (48 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: What is a Gauge Transformation in Quantum Mechanics? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4613 (1998)]
Carlo Rovelli
pp. 4530 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Dynamics of Component Separation in a Binary Mixture of Bose-Einstein Condensates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1539 (1998)]
D. S. Hall, M. R. Matthews, J. R. Ensher, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell
pp. 4531 [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Measurements of Relative Phase in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1543 (1998)]
D. S. Hall, M. R. Matthews, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell
pp. 4532 [View PDF (12 kB)]
 
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