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Physical Review Letters – 21 December 1998
Volume 81, Issue 25

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.

Extremely High Energy Neutrinos, Neutrino Hot Dark Matter, and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Shigeru Yoshida, Günter Sigl, and Sangjin Lee
pp. 5505-5508 [View PDF (159 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Observation of Large Differences in the Diffraction of Normal- and Para- H2 from LiF(001)
M. F. Bertino, A. L. Glebov, J. P. Toennies, F. Traeger, E. Pijper, G. J. Kroes, and R. C. Mowrey
pp. 5608-5611 [View PDF (205 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Detection of Vorticity in Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases by Matter-Wave Interference
Eric L. Bolda and Dan F. Walls
pp. 5477-5480 [View PDF (1,024 kB)]
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Coarsening Dynamics of Crystalline Thin Films
Martin Siegert
pp. 5481-5484 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Density of Bloch Waves after a Quench
Jacek Dziarmaga
pp. 5485-5488 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Random Walks and Quantum Gravity in Two Dimensions
Bertrand Duplantier
pp. 5489-5492 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Experimental Demonstration of a Suspended Dual Recycling Interferometer for Gravitational Wave Detection
G. Heinzel, K. A. Strain, J. Mizuno, K. D. Skeldon, B. Willke, W. Winkler, R. Schilling, A. Rüdiger, and K. Danzmann
pp. 5493-5496 [View PDF (750 kB)]
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Gravitational Waves from Collapsing Vacuum Domains
Marcelo Gleiser and Ronald Roberts
pp. 5497-5500 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Unambiguous Probabilities in an Eternally Inflating Universe
Alexander Vilenkin
pp. 5501-5504 [View PDF (120 kB)]
Extremely High Energy Neutrinos, Neutrino Hot Dark Matter, and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Shigeru Yoshida, Günter Sigl, and Sangjin Lee
pp. 5505-5508 [View PDF (159 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Signals for CP Violation in Scalar Tau Pair Production at Muon Colliders
Seong-Youl Choi and Manuel Drees
pp. 5509-5512 [View PDF (144 kB)]
Measurement of the CP-Violation Parameter sin(2β) in Bd0/B̅ d0 → J/ψKS0 Decays
F. Abe et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 5513-5518 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Flavor Asymmetry of the Light Quark Sea from Semi-inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering
K. Ackerstaff et al. (HERMES Collaboration)
pp. 5519-5523 [View PDF (317 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Theoretical Estimation of the Importance of Two-Electron Collisions for Relaxation in Metal Clusters
A. Domps, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud
pp. 5524-5527 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Efficient Scheme for the Deterministic Maximal Entanglement of N Trapped Ions
J. Steinbach and C. C. Gerry
pp. 5528-5531 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Finsler Geometric Local Indicator of Chaos for Single Orbits in the Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonian
P. Cipriani and M. Di Bari
pp. 5532-5535 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Temporal Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback
G. Vaschenko, M. Giudici, J. J. Rocca, C. S. Menoni, J. R. Tredicce, and S. Balle
pp. 5536-5539 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Observation of Localized Electromagnetic Waves in Three-Dimensional Networks Of Waveguides
Z. Q. Zhang, C. C. Wong, K. K. Fung, Y. L. Ho, W. L. Chan, S. C. Kan, T. L. Chan, and N. Cheung
pp. 5540-5543 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Temporal and Spectral Tailoring of High-Order Harmonics
Pascal Salières, Philippe Antoine, Armelle de Bohan, and Maciej Lewenstein
pp. 5544-5547 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Time-Resolved Investigation of Photoinduced Birefringence in Azobenzene Side-Chain Polyester Films
Ralf Hildebrandt, Manuel Hegelich, Hans-Martin Keller, Gerd Marowsky, Søren Hvilsted, Niels Christian Rømer Holme, and P. S. Ramanujam
pp. 5548-5551 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Controlling Turbulence in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Jinghua Xiao, Gang Hu, Junzhong Yang, and Jihua Gao
pp. 5552-5555 [View PDF (274 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Ion Structure Factors and Electron Transport in Dense Coulomb Plasmas
D. A. Baiko, A. D. Kaminker, A. Y. Potekhin, and D. G. Yakovlev
pp. 5556-5559 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Feedout and Rayleigh-Taylor Seeding Induced by Long Wavelength Perturbations in Accelerated Planar Foils
R. Betti, V. Lobatchev, and R. L. McCrory
pp. 5560-5563 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Nonlinear Splitting of Fast Particle Driven Waves in a Plasma: Observation and Theory
A. Fasoli, B. N. Breizman, D. Borba, R. F. Heeter, M. S. Pekker, and S. E. Sharapov
pp. 5564-5567 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Accuracy of Stark Broadening Calculations for Ionic Emitters
L. Godbert-Mouret, T. Meftah, A. Calisti, R. Stamm, B. Talin, M. Gigosos, V. Cardenoso, S. Alexiou, R. W. Lee, and L. Klein
pp. 5568-5571 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Field-Induced Deformation as a Mechanism for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Based Nanofabrication
O. Hansen, J. T. Ravnkilde, U. Quaade, K. Stokbro, and F. Grey
pp. 5572-5575 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Molecular-Level Mechanical Instabilities and Enhanced Self-Diffusion in Flowing Liquids
Dennis L. Malandro and Daniel J. Lacks
pp. 5576-5579 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Concentration Fluctuations in a Polymer Solution under a Temperature Gradient
W. B. Li, K. J. Zhang, J. V. Sengers, R. W. Gammon, and J. M. Ortiz de Zárate
pp. 5580-5583 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Associating Polymers: From “Flowers” to Transient Networks
Y. Séréro, R. Aznar, G. Porte, J.-F. Berret, D. Calvet, A. Collet, and M. Viguier
pp. 5584-5587 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Tight-Binding Computation of the STM Image of Carbon Nanotubes
V. Meunier and Ph. Lambin
pp. 5588-5591 [View PDF (946 kB)]
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Step-Edge Barriers on Pt(111): An Atomistic View
Kentaro Kyuno and Gert Ehrlich
pp. 5592-5595 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Highly Site-Specific H2 Adsorption on Vicinal Si(001) Surfaces
P. Kratzer, E. Pehlke, M. Scheffler, M. B. Raschke, and U. Höfer
pp. 5596-5599 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Activated Si-H Exchange at Si-Island Edges on Si(001)
Pavel Šmilauer, Kazuki Mizushima, and Dimitri D. Vvedensky
pp. 5600-5603 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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“Flux” State in the Double-Exchange Model
Masanori Yamanaka, Wataru Koshibae, and Sadamichi Maekawa
pp. 5604-5607 [View PDF (158 kB)]
Observation of Large Differences in the Diffraction of Normal- and Para- H2 from LiF(001)
M. F. Bertino, A. L. Glebov, J. P. Toennies, F. Traeger, E. Pijper, G. J. Kroes, and R. C. Mowrey
pp. 5608-5611 [View PDF (205 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Phase Separation Induced by Orbital Degrees of Freedom in Models for Manganites with Jahn-Teller Phonons
S. Yunoki, A. Moreo, and E. Dagotto
pp. 5612-5615 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Scattering States of Ionized Dopants Probed by Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
Chr. Wittneven, R. Dombrowski, M. Morgenstern, and R. Wiesendanger
pp. 5616-5619 [View PDF (473 kB)]
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Evidence for a Common Physical Description of Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Chemically Substituted f-Electron Systems
M. C. de Andrade, R. Chau, R. P. Dickey, N. R. Dilley, E. J. Freeman, D. A. Gajewski, M. B. Maple, R. Movshovich, A. H. Castro Neto, G. Castilla, and B. A. Jones
pp. 5620-5623 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Spin Relaxation of Conduction Electrons in Polyvalent Metals: Theory and a Realistic Calculation
J. Fabian and S. Das Sarma
pp. 5624-5627 [View PDF (811 kB)]
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Detection of Spin-Flip Relaxation Using Quantum Point Contacts
B. W. Alphenaar, H. O. Müller, and K. Tsukagoshi
pp. 5628-5631 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Lifetime in Macroscopically Uniform Ag/Fe(100) Quantum Wells
J. J. Paggel, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang
pp. 5632-5635 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Normal-State Resistivity Anisotropy in Underdoped RBa2Cu3O6+x Crystals
A. N. Lavrov, M. Yu. Kameneva, and L. P. Kozeeva
pp. 5636-5639 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Is the Nonlinear Meissner Effect Unobservable?
M.-R. Li, P. J. Hirschfeld, and P. Wölfle
pp. 5640-5643 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Density of Zeros on the Lee-Yang Circle Obtained from Magnetization Data of a Two-Dimensional Ising Ferromagnet
Ch. Binek
pp. 5644-5647 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of EuB6
J. L. Gavilano, B. Ambrosini, P. Vonlanthen, H. R. Ott, D. P. Young, and Z. Fisk
pp. 5648-5651 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Magnetic Hardening of Sm2Fe17N3 by Radiation Damage
N. M. Dempsey, M. Ghidini, J. P. Nozières, P. A. I. Smith, B. Gervais, and J. M. D. Coey
pp. 5652-5655 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Magnetization Reversal in Arrays of Perpendicularly Magnetized Ultrathin Dots Coupled by Dipolar Interaction
T. Aign, P. Meyer, S. Lemerle, J. P. Jamet, J. Ferré, V. Mathet, C. Chappert, J. Gierak, C. Vieu, F. Rousseaux, H. Launois, and H. Bernas
pp. 5656-5659 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions in the Presence of a Nonmagnetic Layer
S. Zhang and P. M. Levy
pp. 5660-5663 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Silicon: A Two-Color Transient Reflection Grating Study on a (111) Surface
Theodore Sjodin, Hrvoje Petek, and Hai-Lung Dai
pp. 5664-5667 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Teleportation with Bright Squeezed Light
T. C. Ralph and P. K. Lam
pp. 5668-5671 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Power of One Bit of Quantum Information
E. Knill and R. Laflamme
pp. 5672-5675 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Driving, Conservation, and Absorbing States in Sandpiles
Alessandro Vespignani, Ronald Dickman, Miguel A. Muñoz, and Stefano Zapperi
pp. 5676-5679 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Gyrotron Traveling Wave Amplifier with a Helical Interaction Waveguide
G. G. Denisov, V. L. Bratman, A. W. Cross, W. He, A. D. R. Phelps, K. Ronald, S. V. Samsonov, and C. G. Whyte
pp. 5680-5683 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Autocatalytic Sets and the Growth of Complexity in an Evolutionary Model
Sanjay Jain and Sandeep Krishna
pp. 5684-5687 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Receiver-Operating-Characteristic Analysis Reveals Superiority of Scale-Dependent Wavelet and Spectral Measures for Assessing Cardiac Dysfunction
Stefan Thurner, Markus C. Feurstein, Steven B. Lowen, and Malvin C. Teich
pp. 5688-5691 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Synchronous Behavior of Two Coupled Biological Neurons
Robert C. Elson, Allen I. Selverston, Ramon Huerta, Nikolai F. Rulkov, Mikhail I. Rabinovich, and Henry D. I. Abarbanel
pp. 5692-5695 [View PDF (846 kB)]
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Analytical Theory of Susceptibility Induced NMR Signal Dephasing in a Cerebrovascular Network
V. G. Kiselev and S. Posse
pp. 5696-5699 [View PDF (196 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Maximum of the Local Entropy Production Becomes Minimal in Stationary Processes”
V. M. Castillo and Wm. G. Hoover
pp. 5700 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Struchtrup and Weiss Reply:
Henning Struchtrup and Wolf Weiss
pp. 5701 [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Comment on “Shape Phase Transitions in the Absorption Spectra of Atomic Clusters”
Vitaly V. Kresin
pp. 5702 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Pacheco and Schöne Reply:
J. M. Pacheco and W.-D. Schöne
pp. 5703 [View PDF (70 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Fluctuations of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Smectics Intercalated between Membranes in Multilamellar Phases of DNA-Cationic Lipid Complexes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4341 (1998)]
Leonardo Golubović and Mirjana Golubović
pp. 5704 [View PDF (56 kB)]
 
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