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Physical Review Letters – 20 July 1998
Volume 81, Issue 3

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.

Structure of Liquid Boron
S. Krishnan, S. Ansell, J. J. Felten, K. J. Volin, and D. L. Price
pp. 586-589 [View PDF (96 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Complex Broadband Millimeter Wave Response of a Double Quantum Dot: Rabi Oscillations in an Artificial Molecule
Robert H. Blick, Daniel W. van der Weide, Rolf J. Haug, and Karl Eberl
pp. 689-692 [View PDF (651 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Separated-Path Ramsey Atom Interferometer
P. D. Featonby, G. S. Summy, C. L. Webb, R. M. Godun, M. K. Oberthaler, A. C. Wilson, C. J. Foot, and K. Burnett
pp. 495-499 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Collisionless and Hydrodynamic Excitations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
D. M. Stamper-Kurn, H.-J. Miesner, S. Inouye, M. R. Andrews, and W. Ketterle
pp. 500-503 [View PDF (475 kB)]
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Intersecting Loop Model as a Solvable Super Spin Chain
M. J. Martins, B. Nienhuis, and R. Rietman
pp. 504-507 [View PDF (171 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Head-On Collision of Two Unequal Mass Black Holes
Peter Anninos and Steven Brandt
pp. 508-511 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Possibility of Spontaneous Parity Violation in Hot QCD
Dmitri Kharzeev, Robert D. Pisarski, and Michel H. G. Tytgat
pp. 512-515 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Gauge Unification and the Supersymmetric Light Higgs Mass
Jose Ramón Espinosa and Mariano Quirós
pp. 516-519 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Measurement of the Energy Spectrum of νe from Muon Decay and Implications for the Lorentz Structure of the Weak Interaction
B. Armbruster et al.
pp. 520-523 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Search for Heavy Pointlike Dirac Monopoles
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 524-529 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Polarized Λ-Baryon Production in pp Collisions
D. de Florian, M. Stratmann, and W. Vogelsang
pp. 530-533 [View PDF (152 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Measurement of the Target Asymmetry of η and π0 Photoproduction on the Proton
A. Bock, G. Anton, W. Beulertz, Chr. Bradtke, H. Dutz, R. Gehring, S. Goertz, K. Helbing, J. Hey, W. Meyer, M. Plückthun, G. Reicherz, L. Sözüer, M. Breuer, J. P. Didelez, and P. Hoffmann-Rothe
pp. 534-537 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Nucleon Decay from Deformed Nuclei
E. Maglione, L. S. Ferreira, and R. J. Liotta
pp. 538-541 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Scaling Properties of the Giant Dipole Resonance Width in Hot Rotating Nuclei
Dimitri Kusnezov, Y. Alhassid, and K. A. Snover
pp. 542-545 [View PDF (234 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Rotational Branching Ratios in N2 +: Observation of Photon Energy Dependence by Photoelectron Spectroscopy
G. Öhrwall, P. Baltzer, and J. Bozek
pp. 546-549 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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New Molecular Collisional Interaction Effect in Low-Energy Sputtering
Y. Yao, Z. Hargitai, M. Albert, R. G. Albridge, A. V. Barnes, J. M. Gilligan, B. Pratt Ferguson, G. Lüpke, V. D. Gordon, N. H. Tolk, J. C. Tully, G. Betz, and W. Husinsky
pp. 550-553 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Intermittent Synchronization in a Pair of Coupled Chaotic Pendula
Gregory L. Baker, James A. Blackburn, and H. J. T. Smith
pp. 554-557 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Identifying and Modeling Delay Feedback Systems
Rainer Hegger, Martin J. Bünner, Holger Kantz, and Antonino Giaquinta
pp. 558-561 [View PDF (952 kB)]
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Delayed Feedback Control of Periodic Orbits in Autonomous Systems
Wolfram Just, Dirk Reckwerth, Johannes Möckel, Ekkehard Reibold, and Hartmut Benner
pp. 562-565 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Energy Conservation and the Manley-Rowe Relations in Surface Nonlinear-Optical Spectroscopy
A. V. Petukhov, Vera L. Brudny, W. Luis Mochán, Jesús A. Maytorena, Bernardo S. Mendoza, and Th. Rasing
pp. 566-569 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Observation of Temporal Solitons in Second-Harmonic Generation with Tilted Pulses
P. Di Trapani, D. Caironi, G. Valiulis, A. Dubietis, R. Danielius, and A. Piskarskas
pp. 570-573 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Support for Faraday's View of Circulation in a Fine-Powder Chladni Heap
Benku Thomas and Arthur M. Squires
pp. 574-577 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Dynamics of Two-Phase Fluid Interfaces in Random Porous Media
Venkat Ganesan and Howard Brenner
pp. 578-581 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Resonant X-Ray Scattering from Orbital Ordering in LaMnO3
Y. Murakami, J. P. Hill, D. Gibbs, M. Blume, I. Koyama, M. Tanaka, H. Kawata, T. Arima, Y. Tokura, K. Hirota, and Y. Endoh
pp. 582-585 [View PDF (171 kB)]
Structure of Liquid Boron
S. Krishnan, S. Ansell, J. J. Felten, K. J. Volin, and D. L. Price
pp. 586-589 [View PDF (96 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Dynamics of Glass-Forming Polymers: “Homogeneous” versus “Heterogeneous” Scenario
A. Arbe, J. Colmenero, M. Monkenbusch, and D. Richter
pp. 590-593 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced Compatibility in a Model Polymer Blend
M. Beiner, G. Fytas, G. Meier, and S. K. Kumar
pp. 594-597 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Ternary Model of an Al-Cu-Co Decagonal Quasicrystal
Eric Cockayne and Mike Widom
pp. 598-601 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Back-Face Bragg Diffraction from a Perfect and Ultralightly Deformed Thick Crystal
M. Agamalian, E. Iolin, L. Rusevich, C. J. Glinka, and G. D. Wignall
pp. 602-605 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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First-Principles Prediction of Vacancy Order-Disorder and Intercalation Battery Voltages in LixCoO2
C. Wolverton and Alex Zunger
pp. 606-609 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Wetting Transition and Divergence of the Extrapolation Length near the Nematic-Isotropic Transition
F. Vandenbrouck, S. Bardon, M. P. Valignat, and A. M. Cazabat
pp. 610-613 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Evidence of Defect-Mediated Zirconium Self-Diffusion in Amorphous Co92Zr8
P. Klugkist, K. Rätzke, and F. Faupel
pp. 614-617 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Thermodynamic Magnetization Discontinuity at the A- B Transition in Superfluid 3He
Inseob Hahn, S. T. P. Boyd, H. M. Bozler, and C. M. Gould
pp. 618-621 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Nucleation, Growth, and Aggregation of Ag Clusters on Liquid Surfaces
Gao-Xiang Ye, Thomas Michely, Volker Weidenhof, Inés Friedrich, and Matthias Wuttig
pp. 622-625 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Surface Structure of α- Ga(010)
D. A. Walko, I. K. Robinson, Ch. Grütter, and J. H. Bilgram
pp. 626-629 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Macroscopic Equation for the Roughness of Growing Interfaces in Quenched Disordered Media
L. A. Braunstein and R. C. Buceta
pp. 630-632 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Island Nucleation and Growth on Reconstructed GaAs(001) Surfaces
M. Itoh, G. R. Bell, A. R. Avery, T. S. Jones, B. A. Joyce, and D. D. Vvedensky
pp. 633-636 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Low-Symmetry Diffusion Barriers in Homoepitaxial Growth of Al(111)
Alexander Bogicevic, Johan Strömquist, and Bengt I. Lundqvist
pp. 637-640 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Molecular-Dynamics Study of the Fundamental Processes Involved in Subplantation of Diamondlike Carbon
S. Uhlmann, Th. Frauenheim, and Y. Lifshitz
pp. 641-644 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Photochemical Hydrogen Desorption from H-Terminated Silicon(111) by VUV Photons
A. Pusel, U. Wetterauer, and P. Hess
pp. 645-648 [View PDF (184 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Nonadiabatic Quantum Brownian Rectifiers
Igor Goychuk, Milena Grifoni, and Peter Hänggi
pp. 649-652 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Current Drag in Capacitively Coupled Luttinger Constrictions
Yuli V. Nazarov and D. V. Averin
pp. 653-656 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Manifestation of Spin-Charge Separation in the Dynamic Dielectric Response of One-Dimensional Sr2CuO3
R. Neudert, M. Knupfer, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, W. Stephan, K. Penc, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida
pp. 657-660 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Suppressed Polariton Scattering in Semiconductor Microcavities
J. J. Baumberg, A. Armitage, M. S. Skolnick, and J. S. Roberts
pp. 661-664 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Surface Shape Resonances in Lamellar Metallic Gratings
T. López-Rios, D. Mendoza, F. J. García-Vidal, J. Sánchez-Dehesa, and B. Pannetier
pp. 665-668 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Evidence for Interactions in Nonergodic Electronic Transport
A. Vaknin, Z. Ovadyahu, and M. Pollak
pp. 669-672 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Optically Pumped Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements of the Electron Spin Polarization in GaAs Quantum Wells near Landau Level Filling Factor ν = 1/3
P. Khandelwal, N. N. Kuzma, S. E. Barrett, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
pp. 673-676 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Coulomb Blockade Peak Spacing Fluctuations in Deformable Quantum Dots: A Further Test of Random Matrix Theory
Raúl O. Vallejos, Caio H. Lewenkopf, and Eduardo R. Mucciolo
pp. 677-680 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Spin Splitting and Even-Odd Effects in Carbon Nanotubes
David H. Cobden, Marc Bockrath, Paul L. McEuen, Andrew G. Rinzler, and Richard E. Smalley
pp. 681-684 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Charge Fluctuations in the Coulomb Blockade Regime
A. Kaminski, I. L. Aleiner, and L. I. Glazman
pp. 685-688 [View PDF (210 kB)]
Complex Broadband Millimeter Wave Response of a Double Quantum Dot: Rabi Oscillations in an Artificial Molecule
Robert H. Blick, Daniel W. van der Weide, Rolf J. Haug, and Karl Eberl
pp. 689-692 [View PDF (651 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Magnetic-Field-Induced Triple-Layer to Bilayer Transition
S. P. Shukla, Y. W. Suen, and M. Shayegan
pp. 693-696 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Electron-Phonon Interactions in Solid C36
Michel Côté, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie
pp. 697-700 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Evidence of Vortices on the Insulating Side of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
N. Marković, A. M. Mack, G. Martinez-Arizala, C. Christiansen, and A. M. Goldman
pp. 701-704 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of Itinerant Electron Junction Magnetoresistance
A. H. MacDonald, T. Jungwirth, and M. Kasner
pp. 705-708 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Absence of Hysteresis in the Heat Capacity of the Three-Dimensional Random-Field Ising Model
J. Satooka, H. Aruga Katori, A. Tobo, and K. Katsumata
pp. 709-712 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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New Kind of Magneto-Optical Resonance Observed in the Organic Metal α-(BEDT-TTF)2KHg(SCN)4
A. Ardavan, J. M. Schrama, S. J. Blundell, J. Singleton, W. Hayes, M. Kurmoo, P. Day, and P. Goy
pp. 713-716 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Resolving the Sonoluminescence Pulse Shape with a Streak Camera
R. Pecha, B. Gompf, G. Nick, Z. Q. Wang, and W. Eisenmenger
pp. 717-720 [View PDF (970 kB)]
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Reflectance Anisotropy of GaAs(100): Theory and Experiment
A. I. Shkrebtii, N. Esser, W. Richter, W. G. Schmidt, F. Bechstedt, B. O. Fimland, A. Kley, and R. Del Sole
pp. 721-724 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Reptation and Contour-Length Fluctuations in Melts of Linear Polymers
S. T. Milner and T. C. B. McLeish
pp. 725-728 [View PDF (148 kB)]
Indication of a Universal Persistence Law Governing Atmospheric Variability
Eva Koscielny-Bunde, Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, H. Eduardo Roman, Yair Goldreich, and Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber
pp. 729-732 [View PDF (133 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Local Electronic and Magnetic Structure of Ni below and above Tc: A Spin-Resolved Circularly Polarized Resonant Photoemission Study”
G. van der Laan
pp. 733 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Tjeng et al. Reply:
L. H. Tjeng, F. M. F. de Groot, G. A. Sawatzky, B. Sinkovic, N. B. Brookes, J. B. Goedkoop, R. Hesper, S. Altieri, E. Pellegrin, and S. L. Hulbert
pp. 734 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “Macroscopic Resonant Tunneling of Magnetization in Ferritin”
M. Hanson, C. Johansson, and S. Mørup
pp. 735 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Tejada et al. Reply:
J. Tejada, X. X. Zhang, E. del Barco, J. M. Hernández, and E. M. Chudnovsky
pp. 736 [View PDF (42 kB)]
 
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