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Physical Review Letters – 30 November 1998
Volume 81, Issue 22

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.

Signatures of the Tricritical Point in QCD
M. Stephanov, K. Rajagopal, and E. Shuryak
pp. 4816-4819 [View PDF (144 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Unitary Integration of Quantum Liouville-Bloch Equations
A. R. P. Rau
pp. 4785-4789 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Search for Small Violations of the Symmetrization Postulate for Spin-0 Particles
G. Modugno, M. Inguscio, and G. M. Tino
pp. 4790-4793 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Phase Transition in a Model Gravitating System
Bruce N. Miller and Paige Youngkins
pp. 4794-4797 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Knots as Stable Soliton Solutions in a Three-Dimensional Classical Field Theory
Richard A. Battye and P. M. Sutcliffe
pp. 4798-4801 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Zeta Functions, Renormalization Group Equations, and the Effective Action
David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, Juan Pérez-Mercader, and Matt Visser
pp. 4802-4805 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Search for Second Generation Leptoquarks in the Dimuon Plus Dijet Channel of pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
F. Abe et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 4806-4811 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Lattice Determination of Heavy-Light Decay Constants
C. Bernard, T. DeGrand, C. DeTar, Steven Gottlieb, Urs M. Heller, J. E. Hetrick, N. Ishizuka, C. McNeile, R. Sugar, D. Toussaint, and M. Wingate
pp. 4812-4815 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

Signatures of the Tricritical Point in QCD
M. Stephanov, K. Rajagopal, and E. Shuryak
pp. 4816-4819 [View PDF (144 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Calculation of Proton-Deuteron Elastic Scattering at 10 MeV with a Realistic Potential
E. O. Alt, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, and A. I. Sattarov
pp. 4820-4823 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Ground State Hyperfine Splitting of Hydrogenlike 207Pb81+ by Laser Excitation of a Bunched Ion Beam in the GSI Experimental Storage Ring
P. Seelig, S. Borneis, A. Dax, T. Engel, S. Faber, M. Gerlach, C. Holbrow, G. Huber, T. Kühl, D. Marx, K. Meier, P. Merz, W. Quint, F. Schmitt, M. Tomaselli, L. Völker, H. Winter, M. Würtz, K. Beckert, B. Franzke, F. Nolden, H. Reich, M. Steck, and T. Winkler
pp. 4824-4827 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Rotational Frequency Shift of a Light Beam
J. Courtial, D. A. Robertson, K. Dholakia, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett
pp. 4828-4830 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Threshold in the Stopping of Slow Protons Scattered from the Surface of a Wide-Band-Gap Insulator
C. Auth, A. Mertens, H. Winter, and A. Borisov
pp. 4831-4834 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Approximating the Mapping between Systems Exhibiting Generalized Synchronization
Reggie Brown
pp. 4835-4838 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Quasiperiodic Motion in the Hamiltonian Systems of the Billiard Type
Vadim Zharnitsky
pp. 4839-4842 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Observation of the Transition to Chaos in the Level Statistics of Diamagnetic Helium
K. Karremans, W. Vassen, and W. Hogervorst
pp. 4843-4846 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Coupled Microwave Billiards as a Model for Symmetry Breaking
H. Alt, C. I. Barbosa, H.-D. Gräf, T. Guhr, H. L. Harney, R. Hofferbert, H. Rehfeld, and A. Richter
pp. 4847-4850 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Self-Trapping of “Necklace” Beams in Self-Focusing Kerr Media
Marin Soljačić, Suzanne Sears, and Mordechai Segev
pp. 4851-4854 [View PDF (883 kB)]
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Nonlocal Bottleneck Effect in Two-Dimensional Turbulence
D. Biskamp, E. Schwarz, and A. Celani
pp. 4855-4858 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Transfer at Rough Sheared Interfaces
Emmanuel Villermaux
pp. 4859-4862 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Double Curl Beltrami Flow: Diamagnetic Structures
S. M. Mahajan and Z. Yoshida
pp. 4863-4866 [View PDF (172 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Measurements of Gain Larger than 105 at 12μm in a Self-Amplified Spontaneous-Emission Free-Electron Laser
M. J. Hogan, C. Pellegrini, J. Rosenzweig, S. Anderson, P. Frigola, A. Tremaine, C. Fortgang, D. C. Nguyen, R. L. Sheffield, J. Kinross-Wright, A. Varfolomeev, A. A. Varfolomeev, S. Tolmachev, and Roger Carr
pp. 4867-4870 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Nonlinear Diffusion of the Magnetic Field in Weakly Ionized Plasmas
A. I. Smolyakov and I. Khabibrakhmanov
pp. 4871-4874 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Rotating Field Confinement of Pure Electron Plasmas Using Trivelpiece-Gould Modes
F. Anderegg, E. M. Hollmann, and C. F. Driscoll
pp. 4875-4878 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Superradiant Amplification of an Ultrashort Laser Pulse in a Plasma by a Counterpropagating Pump
G. Shvets, N. J. Fisch, A. Pukhov, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn
pp. 4879-4882 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Enhancement of X-Ray Power from a Z Pinch Using Nested-Wire Arrays
C. Deeney, M. R. Douglas, R. B. Spielman, T. J. Nash, D. L. Peterson, P. L'Eplattenier, G. A. Chandler, J. F. Seamen, and K. W. Struve
pp. 4883-4886 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Pair Production by Ultraintense Lasers
Edison P. Liang, Scott C. Wilks, and Max Tabak
pp. 4887-4890 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Cyclic Ozone Identified in Magnesium Oxide (111) Surface Reconstructions
Richard Plass, Kenneth Egan, Chris Collazo-Davila, Daniel Grozea, Eric Landree, Laurence D. Marks, and Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska
pp. 4891-4894 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Liquid-State Anomalies and the Stell-Hemmer Core-Softened Potential
M. Reza Sadr-Lahijany, Antonio Scala, Sergey V. Buldyrev, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 4895-4898 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Properties of a Continuous-Random-Network Model for Amorphous Systems
Yuhai Tu, J. Tersoff, G. Grinstein, and David Vanderbilt
pp. 4899-4902 [View PDF (696 kB)]
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First Principles Simulations of the Structure, Formation, and Migration Energies of Kinks on the 90° Partial Dislocation in Silicon
Alexander Valladares, J. A. White, and A. P. Sutton
pp. 4903-4906 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Extended Fractons and Localized Phonons on Percolation Clusters
Jan W. Kantelhardt, Armin Bunde, and Ludwig Schweitzer
pp. 4907-4910 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Order-Parameter Profiles and Casimir Amplitudes in Critical Slabs
Z. Borjan and P. J. Upton
pp. 4911-4914 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Heterogeneous Diffusion in Highly Supercooled Liquids
Ryoichi Yamamoto and Akira Onuki
pp. 4915-4918 [View PDF (574 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of a Gaussian Roughness at Si(111)/SiO2 Interfaces
Xidong Chen and J. M. Gibson
pp. 4919-4922 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Surface Diffusion of Compact and Other Clusters: Irx on Ir(111)
S. C. Wang, Ulrike Kürpick, and Gert Ehrlich
pp. 4923-4926 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Submonolayer Island Nucleation and Growth Kinetics during Self-Assembled Monolayer Formation
Ivo Doudevski, William A. Hayes, and Daniel K. Schwartz
pp. 4927-4930 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Unstable Growth on Rough Surfaces
Mark F. Gyure, Jennifer J. Zinck, Christian Ratsch, and Dimitri D. Vvedensky
pp. 4931-4934 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Textures and the Shapes of Domains in Langmuir Monolayers
Kok-Kiong Loh and Joseph Rudnick
pp. 4935-4938 [View PDF (163 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Temperature-Induced Gap Formation in Dynamic Correlation Functions of the One-Dimensional Kondo Insulator: Finite-Temperature Density-Matrix Renormalization-Group Study
Tetsuya Mutou, Naokazu Shibata, and Kazuo Ueda
pp. 4939-4942 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Absolute Band Mapping by Combined Angle-Dependent Very-Low-Energy Electron Diffraction and Photoemission: Application to Cu
V. N. Strocov, R. Claessen, G. Nicolay, S. Hüfner, A. Kimura, A. Harasawa, S. Shin, A. Kakizaki, P. O. Nilsson, H. I. Starnberg, and P. Blaha
pp. 4943-4946 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced Local Moment Magnetism in the Nonmagnetic Heavy Fermion Compound Yb2Ni2Al
H. Winkelmann, M. M. Abd-Elmeguid, H. Micklitz, J. P. Sanchez, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich
pp. 4947-4950 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Metal-Insulator Transition of Disordered Interacting Electrons
Qimiao Si and C. M. Varma
pp. 4951-4954 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Effects of Pressure on the Zn Vacancy in ZnSe: Essential Role of Lattice Relaxation for a Basic C3v Defect
V. Iota and B. A. Weinstein
pp. 4955-4958 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Liquid CdTe and GaAs: Semiconducting versus Metallic Behavior
Vitaliy V. Godlevsky, Jeffrey J. Derby, and James R. Chelikowsky
pp. 4959-4962 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy on CoSi2/Si(111) Interfaces: Band Structure Induced Atomic-Scale Resolution and Role of Localized Surface States
K. Reuter, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, P. L. de Andres, F. Flores, and K. Heinz
pp. 4963-4966 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Absence of Scaling in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect
N. Q. Balaban, U. Meirav, and I. Bar-Joseph
pp. 4967-4970 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Photoinduced Multistable Phenomena in the Tunneling Current through Doped Superlattices
Ramón Aguado and Gloria Platero
pp. 4971-4974 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Exact Thermodynamics of Disordered Impurities in Quantum Spin Chains
A. Klümper and A. A. Zvyagin
pp. 4975-4978 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Helical and Incommensurate Spin-Density Waves in Fe /Cr Multilayers with Interfacial Steps
R. S. Fishman
pp. 4979-4982 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Scaling Behavior of Spectral Weight Changes in Perovskite Manganites La0.7-yPryCa0.3MnO3
K. H. Kim, J. H. Jung, D. J. Eom, T. W. Noh, Jaejun Yu, and E. J. Choi
pp. 4983-4986 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Aging in K1-xLixTaO3: A Domain Growth Interpretation
F. Alberici-Kious, J. P. Bouchaud, L. F. Cugliandolo, P. Doussineau, and A. Levelut
pp. 4987-4990 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Experimental Validation of the Dissociation Hypothesis for Single Bubble Sonoluminescence
Jeffrey A. Ketterling and Robert E. Apfel
pp. 4991-4994 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Interatomic Resonant Photoemission from Quantum-Well States in Ultrathin Films of Ag on V(100)
P. Pervan, M. Milun, and D. P. Woodruff
pp. 4995-4998 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Matrix Games, Mixed Strategies, and Statistical Mechanics
J. Berg and A. Engel
pp. 4999-5002 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Universal Optimal Cloning of Arbitrary Quantum States: From Qubits to Quantum Registers
Vladimír Bužek and Mark Hillery
pp. 5003-5006 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Resolving an Experimental Paradox in Open Spatial Reactors: The Role of Spatial Bistability
P. Blanchedeau and J. Boissonade
pp. 5007-5010 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Extinction Events and Species Lifetimes in a Simple Ecological Model
Barbara Drossel
pp. 5011-5014 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Observation of a Rectangular Columnar Phase in Condensed Lamellar Cationic Lipid-DNA Complexes
F. Artzner, R. Zantl, G. Rapp, and J. O. Rädler
pp. 5015-5018 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Red Blood Cell Lipids Form Immiscible Liquids
S. L. Keller, W. H. Pitcher, III, W. H. Huestis, and H. M. McConnell
pp. 5019-5022 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Sign Singularity in the Secular Acceleration of the Geomagnetic Field
P. De Michelis, G. Consolini, and A. Meloni
pp. 5023-5026 [View PDF (136 kB)]
Influence of Cosmic Rays on Earth's Climate
Henrik Svensmark
pp. 5027-5030 [View PDF (198 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Theorem for Nonrotating Singularity-Free Universes”
Alberto Saa
pp. 5031 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Comment on “Theorem for Nonrotating Singularity-Free Universes”
José M. M. Senovilla
pp. 5032 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Raychaudhuri Replies:
A. K. Raychaudhuri
pp. 5033 [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Comment on “Absence of Abelian Higgs Hair for Extreme Black Holes”
Filipe Bonjour and Ruth Gregory
pp. 5034 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Comment on “Current-Loop Model for the Intermediate State of Type-I Superconductors”
Onuttom Narayan
pp. 5035 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Goldstein and Dorsey Reply:
Raymond E. Goldstein and Alan T. Dorsey
pp. 5036 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Comment on “Quantized Thermal Conductance of Dielectric Quantum Wires”
A. Greiner, L. Reggiani, and T. Kuhn
pp. 5037 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Rego and Kirczenow Reply:
Luis G. C. Rego and George Kirczenow
pp. 5038 [View PDF (53 kB)]
 
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