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Physical Review Letters – 14 December 1998
Volume 81, Issue 24

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.

Simultaneous Imaging of Individual Molecules Aligned Both Parallel and Perpendicular to the Optic Axis
Robert M. Dickson, D. J. Norris, and W. E. Moerner
pp. 5322-5325 [View PDF (203 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Spins Mixing in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
C. K. Law, H. Pu, and N. P. Bigelow
pp. 5257-5261 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Decoherence of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Traps at Finite Temperature
Robert Graham
pp. 5262-5265 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Quantum Kinetic Theory of Condensate Growth: Comparison of Experiment and Theory
C. W. Gardiner, M. D. Lee, R. J. Ballagh, M. J. Davis, and P. Zoller
pp. 5266-5269 [View PDF (256 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Do Naked Singularities Generically Occur in Generalized Theories of Gravity?
Kengo Maeda, Takashi Torii, and Makoto Narita
pp. 5270-5273 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer Constraints on an Inflation Model with Nonminimal Scalar Field
Jai-chan Hwang and Hyerim Noh
pp. 5274-5277 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Events with a Rapidity Gap between Jets in p̅ p Collisions at √s = 630GeV
F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 5278-5283 [View PDF (308 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Unified Description of Freeze-Out Parameters in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
J. Cleymans and K. Redlich
pp. 5284-5286 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Calculation of the Σ4He Bound State in the 4He(K-,π-) Reaction at 600MeV/c
Toru Harada
pp. 5287-5290 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Variation after Angular Momentum Projection for the Study of Excited States Based on Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics
Y. Kanada-En'yo
pp. 5291-5293 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Relationship between Quantum Decoherence Times and Solvation Dynamics in Condensed Phase Chemical Systems
Oleg V. Prezhdo and Peter J. Rossky
pp. 5294-5297 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Quasi-2D Gas of Laser Cooled Atoms in a Planar Matter Waveguide
H. Gauck, M. Hartl, D. Schneble, H. Schnitzler, T. Pfau, and J. Mlynek
pp. 5298-5301 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Doubly Charged Negative Ions of B2 and C2
H. B. Pedersen, N. Djurić, M. J. Jensen, D. Kella, C. P. Safvan, L. Vejby-Christensen, and L. H. Andersen
pp. 5302-5305 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Large Variations in the Magnetization of Co Clusters Induced by Noble-Metal Coating
Javier Guevara, Ana Maria Llois, and Mariana Weissmann
pp. 5306-5309 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Miniaturized Wire Trap for Neutral Atoms
J. Fortagh, A. Grossmann, C. Zimmermann, and T. W. Hänsch
pp. 5310-5313 [View PDF (234 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Hopf Bifurcation from Chaos and Generalized Winding Numbers of Critical Modes
G. Hu, J. Z. Yang, W. Q. Ma, and J. H. Xiao
pp. 5314-5317 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Phase Slips and Phase Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators
Zhigang Zheng, Gang Hu, and Bambi Hu
pp. 5318-5321 [View PDF (152 kB)]
Simultaneous Imaging of Individual Molecules Aligned Both Parallel and Perpendicular to the Optic Axis
Robert M. Dickson, D. J. Norris, and W. E. Moerner
pp. 5322-5325 [View PDF (203 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Non-Markovian Dynamics of the Vibrations of Ions in Water from Femtosecond Infrared Three-Pulse Photon Echoes
Peter Hamm, Manho Lim, and Robin M. Hochstrasser
pp. 5326-5329 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Extraction of Anisotropic Contributions in Turbulent Flows
Itai Arad, Brindesh Dhruva, Susan Kurien, Victor S. L'vov, Itamar Procaccia, and K. R. Sreenivasan
pp. 5330-5333 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Dynamics and Selection of Giant Spirals in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Brendan B. Plapp, David A. Egolf, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Werner Pesch
pp. 5334-5337 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Camassa-Holm Equations as a Closure Model for Turbulent Channel and Pipe Flow
Shiyi Chen, Ciprian Foias, Darryl D. Holm, Eric Olson, Edriss S. Titi, and Shannon Wynne
pp. 5338-5341 [View PDF (214 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Saturation of the Rayleigh-Taylor Growth of Broad-Bandwidth Laser-Imposed Nonuniformities in Planar Targets
V. A. Smalyuk, T. R. Boehly, D. K. Bradley, V. N. Goncharov, J. A. Delettrez, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. Oron, and D. Shvarts
pp. 5342-5345 [View PDF (226 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Plastic Deformations of Carbon Nanotubes
Peihong Zhang, Paul E. Lammert, and Vincent H. Crespi
pp. 5346-5349 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Atomic Arrangement of a Z-Shape Faulted Dipole within Deformed GaAs
S.-H. Lim, D. Shindo, I. Yonenaga, P. D. Brown, and C. J. Humphreys
pp. 5350-5353 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Fluctuations with Cubic Symmetry in a Hexagonal Copolymer Microstructure
Chang Yeol Ryu, Martin E. Vigild, and Timothy P. Lodge
pp. 5354-5357 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Slow Atomic Motion in Zr-Ti-Cu-Ni-Be Metallic Glasses Studied by NMR
X.-P. Tang, Ralf Busch, William L. Johnson, and Y. Wu
pp. 5358-5361 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Deposition of Hydrogenated Si Clusters on Si(111)- (7 × 7) Surfaces
M. O. Watanabe, T. Miyazaki, and T. Kanayama
pp. 5362-5365 [View PDF (244 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Structural Stability and Adatom Diffusion at Steps on Hydrogenated Si(100) Surfaces
Sukmin Jeong and Atsushi Oshiyama
pp. 5366-5369 [View PDF (557 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Confinement of Surface State Electrons in Fabry-Pérot Resonators
L. Bürgi, O. Jeandupeux, A. Hirstein, H. Brune, and K. Kern
pp. 5370-5373 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Ab Initio Calculation of Self-Energy Effects on Optical Properties of GaAs(110)
Olivia Pulci, Giovanni Onida, Rodolfo Del Sole, and Lucia Reining
pp. 5374-5377 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Electronic Structure of Small Fullerenes: Evidence for the High Stability of C32
H. Kietzmann, R. Rochow, G. Ganteför, W. Eberhardt, K. Vietze, G. Seifert, and P. W. Fowler
pp. 5378-5381 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Continuous-Time Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithm for the Lattice Polaron
P. E. Kornilovitch
pp. 5382-5385 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Coherence of Four-Particle Correlations in Semiconductors
P. Kner, W. Schäfer, R. Lövenich, and D. S. Chemla
pp. 5386-5389 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Statistics of the Lyapunov Exponent in 1D Random Periodic-on-Average Systems
Lev I. Deych, D. Zaslavsky, and A. A. Lisyansky
pp. 5390-5393 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Nonlinear Response of a Kondo System: Direct and Alternating Tunneling Currents
Y. Goldin and Y. Avishai
pp. 5394-5397 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Hall Magnetocapacitance in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems
A. M. C. Valkering, P. K. H. Sommerfeld, R. A. M. van de Ven, R. W. van der Heijden, F. A. P. Blom, M. J. Lea, and F. M. Peeters
pp. 5398-5401 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Hole Dynamics of the One-Dimensional Supersymmetric t-J Model with a Long-Range Interaction: An Exact Result
Yusuke Kato
pp. 5402-5405 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Alternating Spin and Orbital Dimerization and Spin-Gap Formation in Coupled Spin-Orbital Systems
Swapan K. Pati, Rajiv R. P. Singh, and Daniel I. Khomskii
pp. 5406-5409 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for Kaplan–Shekhtman–Entin-Wohlman–Aharony Interactions in Ba2CuGe2O7
A. Zheludev, S. Maslov, I. Tsukada, I. Zaliznyak, L. P. Regnault, T. Masuda, K. Uchinokura, R. Erwin, and G. Shirane
pp. 5410-5413 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Configurational Anisotropy in Nanomagnets
R. P. Cowburn, A. O. Adeyeye, and M. E. Welland
pp. 5414-5417 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Universal Critical Temperature for Kosterlitz-Thouless Transitions in Bilayer Quantum Magnets
Matthias Troyer and Subir Sachdev
pp. 5418-5421 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Magnetic Domain Dependent Quantum Transport through a Ferromagnetic Dot Embedded in a Semiconductor Quantum Wire
Syoji Yamada, Tomoyuki Kikutani, Nobuyuki Aoki, Hidenobu Hori, and Gen Tatara
pp. 5422-5425 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Piezoelectric Coefficients of mNA Organic Nonlinear Optical Material Using Synchrotron X-Ray Multiple Diffraction
L. H. Avanci, L. P. Cardoso, S. E. Girdwood, D. Pugh, J. N. Sherwood, and K. J. Roberts
pp. 5426-5429 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Sonoluminescence: Proton-Tunneling Radiation
John R. Willison
pp. 5430-5433 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Shock Wave Emissions of a Sonoluminescing Bubble
Joachim Holzfuss, Matthias Rüggeberg, and Andreas Billo
pp. 5434-5437 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Enhancement of the Secondary-Electron Production Process in Front of Insulator Surfaces
Kenji Kimura, Gou Andou, and Kaoru Nakajima
pp. 5438-5441 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Limit on the Speed of Quantum Computation in Determining Parity
Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann, and Michael Sipser
pp. 5442-5444 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Self-Organized Criticality in a Mixed Hierarchical System
M. G. Shnirman and E. M. Blanter
pp. 5445-5448 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Isotope Effects and Fermi Resonance in Hydrogen Bonds: A New Model
Susumu Ikeda, Hidehiko Sugimoto, and Yasusada Yamada
pp. 5449-5452 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Tunable Pinning of Burst Waves in Extended Systems with Discrete Sources
Igor Mitkov, Konstantin Kladko, and John E. Pearson
pp. 5453-5456 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Shear Banding in a Micellar Solution under Transient Flow
S. Lerouge, J. P. Decruppe, and C. Humbert
pp. 5457-5460 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Natural Gradient Descent for On-Line Learning
Magnus Rattray, David Saad, and Shun-ichi Amari
pp. 5461-5464 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Electrostatically Induced Polyelectrolyte Association of Rodlike Virus Particles
Alexander P. Lyubartsev, Jay X. Tang, Paul A. Janmey, and Lars Nordenskiöld
pp. 5465-5468 [View PDF (140 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “New Performance Bounds for a Finite-Time Carnot Refrigerator”
Zijun Yan and Jincan Chen
pp. 5469 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Velasco, Roco, Medina, and Calvo Hernández Reply:
S. Velasco, J. M. M. Roco, A. Medina, and A. Calvo Hernández
pp. 5470 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Comment on “Nonuniversal Exponents in Interface Growth”
Hugues Chaté, Qing-Hu Chen, and Lei-Han Tang
pp. 5471 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Newman and Swift Reply:
T. J. Newman and M. R. Swift
pp. 5472 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Comment on “Step Faceting at the (001) Surface of Boron Doped Silicon”
J. P. Pelz, C. Ebner, D. E. Jones, Y. Hong, E. Bauer, and I. S. T. Tsong
pp. 5473 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Hannon et al. Reply:
J. B. Hannon, N. C. Bartelt, B. S. Swartzentruber, J. C. Hamilton, and G. L. Kellogg
pp. 5474 [View PDF (83 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Demonstration of the Casimir Force in the 0.6 to 6 μm Range [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 5 (1997)]
S. K. Lamoreaux
pp. 5475-5476 [View PDF (76 kB)]
 
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