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Physical Review Letters – 31 August 1998
Volume 81, Issue 9

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.

Supersoft Transition Metal Silicides
E. G. Moroni, R. Podloucky, and J. Hafner
pp. 1969-1972 [View PDF (146 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Nonadiabatic Geometric Phase and Hannay Angle: A Squeezed State Approach
Jie Liu, Bambi Hu, and Baowen Li
pp. 1749-1753 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Quantized Vortices and Collective Oscillations of a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate
Francesca Zambelli and Sandro Stringari
pp. 1754-1757 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Measuring Equilibrium Properties in Aging Systems
Silvio Franz, Marc Mézard, Giorgio Parisi, and Luca Peliti
pp. 1758-1761 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Universal Relation between the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy and the Thermodynamical Entropy in Simple Liquids
Mikhail Dzugutov, Erik Aurell, and Angelo Vulpiani
pp. 1762-1765 [View PDF (182 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Does Inflationary Particle Production Suggest Ωm < 1?
Varun Sahni and Salman Habib
pp. 1766-1769 [View PDF (203 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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D-String on Near Horizon Geometries and Infinite Conformal Symmetry
Friedemann Brandt, Joaquim Gomis, and Joan Simón
pp. 1770-1773 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Results on νμ → νe Neutrino Oscillations from the LSND Experiment
C. Athanassopoulos et al. ((LSND Collaboration))
pp. 1774-1777 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Lattice QCD Calculation of the Kaon B Parameter with the Wilson Quark Action
S. Aoki, M. Fukugita, S. Hashimoto, N. Ishizuka, Y. Iwasaki, K. Kanaya, Y. Kuramashi, M. Okawa, A. Ukawa, and T. Yoshié ((JLQCD Collaboration))
pp. 1778-1781 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Probing Partonic Structure in γ*γ→ππ near Threshold
M. Diehl, T. Gousset, B. Pire, and O. Teryaev
pp. 1782-1785 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Observation of High Momentum η′ Production in B Decays
T. E. Browder et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 1786-1790 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Searches for New Physics in Diphoton Events in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
F. Abe et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 1791-1796 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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New Measurement of Σ Beam Asymmetry for η Meson Photoproduction on the Proton
J. Ajaka et al.
pp. 1797-1800 [View PDF (184 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Spatial Variation of Nuclear Structure Functions and Heavy Quark Production
V. Emel'yanov, A. Khodinov, S. R. Klein, and R. Vogt
pp. 1801-1804 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Longitudinal and Transverse Cross Sections in the 1H(e,e′K+)Λ Reaction
G. Niculescu et al.
pp. 1805-1808 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Forward Glory Phenomenon in the Dark-Side of Heavy-Ion Nuclear Rainbow Scattering
M. Ueda, M. P. Pato, M. S. Hussein, and N. Takigawa
pp. 1809-1812 [View PDF (168 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Triple Photoionization of Lithium
R. Wehlitz, M.-T. Huang, B. D. DePaola, J. C. Levin, I. A. Sellin, T. Nagata, J. W. Cooper, and Y. Azuma
pp. 1813-1816 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Energy Transfer in Charge Exchange Collisions between Slow Ions and Rydberg Atoms
D. S. Fisher, C. W. Fehrenbach, S. R. Lundeen, E. A. Hessels, and B. D. DePaola
pp. 1817-1820 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Fragmentation Partners from Collisional Dissociation of C60
R. Vandenbosch, B. P. Henry, C. Cooper, M. L. Gardel, J. F. Liang, and D. I. Will
pp. 1821-1824 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Shedding New Light on Thermionic Electron Emission of Fullerenes
G. von Helden, I. Holleman, A. J. A. van Roij, G. M. H. Knippels, A. F. G. van der Meer, and G. Meijer
pp. 1825-1828 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Thermal Radiation and Amplified Spontaneous Emission from a Random Medium
C. W. J. Beenakker
pp. 1829-1832 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Quantum Electrodynamic Treatment of Harmonic Generation in Intense Optical Fields
J. Gao, F. Shen, and J. G. Eden
pp. 1833-1836 [View PDF (186 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Phase-Dependent Harmonic Emission with Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Armelle de Bohan, Philippe Antoine, Dejan B. Milošević, and Bernard Piraux
pp. 1837-1840 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Jamming, Force Chains, and Fragile Matter
M. E. Cates, J. P. Wittmer, J.-P. Bouchaud, and P. Claudin
pp. 1841-1844 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Multiparticle Lattice Gas Model for a Fluid: Application to Ballistic Annihilation
Bastien Chopard, Alexandre Masselot, and Michel Droz
pp. 1845-1848 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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From Bubbles to Clusters in Fluidized Beds
B. J. Glasser, S. Sundaresan, and I. G. Kevrekidis
pp. 1849-1852 [View PDF (222 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Persistent Spiral-Arm Structure of a Rotating Plasma in a Stationary Gas
T. Ikehata, H. Tanaka, N. Y. Sato, and H. Mase
pp. 1853-1856 [View PDF (336 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Photon Emission from Si(111)- (7×7) Induced by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Atomic Scale and Material Contrast
A. Downes and M. E. Welland
pp. 1857-1860 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Fractal Hole Growth in Strained Block Copolymer Films
Nagraj Koneripalli, Frank S. Bates, and Glenn H. Fredrickson
pp. 1861-1864 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Identification of Relaxation and Diffusion Mechanisms in Amorphous Silicon
G. T. Barkema and Normand Mousseau
pp. 1865-1868 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Size Effects in Carbon Nanotubes
C.-H. Kiang, M. Endo, P. M. Ajayan, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus
pp. 1869-1872 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Quantum Distributions of Muonium and Hydrogen in Crystalline Silicon
Takashi Miyake, Tadashi Ogitsu, and Shinji Tsuneyuki
pp. 1873-1876 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Atomic Force Microscopy Study of an Ideally Hard Contact: The Diamond(111)/Tungsten Carbide Interface
M. Enachescu, R. J. A. van den Oetelaar, R. W. Carpick, D. F. Ogletree, C. F. J. Flipse, and M. Salmeron
pp. 1877-1880 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Melting of Two-Dimensional Solids on Disordered Substrates
David Carpentier and Pierre Le Doussal
pp. 1881-1884 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Critical Casimir Forces between Spherical Particles in Fluids
A. Hanke, F. Schlesener, E. Eisenriegler, and S. Dietrich
pp. 1885-1888 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for Universality of Acoustic Emission Avalanche Distributions during Structural Transitions
Lluís Carrillo, Lluís Mañosa, Jordi Ortín, Antoni Planes, and Eduard Vives
pp. 1889-1892 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Shot Noise Acoustic Radiation Generated by Phase Slippage in Superfluid 4He
Scott Backhaus and Richard E. Packard
pp. 1893-1896 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Self-Assembled Lateral Multilayers from Thin Film Alloys of Immiscible Metals
E. D. Tober, R. F. C. Farrow, R. F. Marks, G. Witte, K. Kalki, and D. D. Chambliss
pp. 1897-1900 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Island Size and Environment Dependence of Adatom Capture: Cu/Co Islands on Ru(0001)
M. C. Bartelt, A. K. Schmid, J. W. Evans, and R. Q. Hwang
pp. 1901-1904 [View PDF (264 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Core Level Chemical Shifts in Metallic Alloys
J. S. Faulkner, Yang Wang, and G. M. Stocks
pp. 1905-1908 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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s- p Hybridization and Electron Shell Structures in Aluminum Clusters: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study
Xi Li, Hongbin Wu, Xue-Bin Wang, and Lai-Sheng Wang
pp. 1909-1912 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Critical Spectral Statistics at the Metal-Insulator Transition in Interacting Fermionic Systems
Philippe Jacquod
pp. 1913-1916 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Distributions of the Conductance and its Parametric Derivatives in Quantum Dots
A. G. Huibers, S. R. Patel, C. M. Marcus, P. W. Brouwer, C. I. Duruöz, and J. S. Harris, Jr.
pp. 1917-1920 [View PDF (632 kB)]
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Driven Electrons on the Fermi Surface
A. Iomin and S. Fishman
pp. 1921-1924 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Interaction Constants and Dynamic Conductance of a Gated Wire
Ya. M. Blanter, F. W. J. Hekking, and M. Büttiker
pp. 1925-1928 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Exclusion Statistics for Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States
Kareljan Schoutens
pp. 1929-1932 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Time of Nucleation of Phase-Slip Centers in YBa2Cu3O7 Superconducting Bridges
F. S. Jelila, J-P Maneval, F-R Ladan, F. Chibane, A. Marie-de-Ficquelmont, L. Méchin, J-C Villégier, M. Aprili, and J. Lesueur
pp. 1933-1936 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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(C2H5NH3)2CuCl4: A Physical System for the Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Localized Modes
R. Lai and A. J. Sievers
pp. 1937-1940 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Bound States of Magnons in the S = 1/2 Quantum Spin Ladder
O. P. Sushkov and V. N. Kotov
pp. 1941-1944 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Correlations and Néel Order of Randomly Diluted Quantum Spin Ladders
M. Greven and R. J. Birgeneau
pp. 1945-1948 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Anomalous Thermal Conductivity of NaV2O5 as Compared to Conventional Spin-Peierls System CuGeO3
A. N. Vasil'ev, V. V. Pryadun, D. I. Khomskii, G. Dhalenne, A. Revcolevschi, M. Isobe, and Y. Ueda
pp. 1949-1952 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Magnetic Properties at Surface Boundary of a Half-Metallic Ferromagnet La0.7Sr0.3MnO3
J.-H. Park, E. Vescovo, H.-J. Kim, C. Kwon, R. Ramesh, and T. Venkatesan
pp. 1953-1956 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Liquidlike Spatial Distribution of Magnetic Droplets Revealed by Neutron Scattering in La1-xCaxMnO3
M. Hennion, F. Moussa, G. Biotteau, J. Rodríguez-Carvajal, L. Pinsard, and A. Revcolevschi
pp. 1957-1960 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Boosting Sonoluminescence
Joachim Holzfuss, Matthias Rüggeberg, and Robert Mettin
pp. 1961-1964 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Multicharged Ion Impact on Clean Au(111): Suppression of Kinetic Electron Emission in Glancing Angle Scattering
C. Lemell, J. Stöckl, J. Burgdörfer, G. Betz, HP. Winter, and F. Aumayr
pp. 1965-1968 [View PDF (839 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Supersoft Transition Metal Silicides
E. G. Moroni, R. Podloucky, and J. Hafner
pp. 1969-1972 [View PDF (146 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Frequency Modulation in a Submillimeter-Wave Gyrotron
T. Idehara, M. Pereyaslavets, N. Nishida, K. Yoshida, and I. Ogawa
pp. 1973-1976 [View PDF (667 kB)]
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Theory of Electrodynamic Instabilities in Biological Cells
Marc Léonetti and Elisabeth Dubois-Violette
pp. 1977-1980 [View PDF (141 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Consistent Sets Yield Contrary Inferences in Quantum Theory”
Robert B. Griffiths and James B. Hartle
pp. 1981 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Kent Replies:
Adrian Kent
pp. 1982 [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Comment on “Signal of Quark Deconfinement in the Timing Structure of Pulsar Spin-Down”
Feng Ma
pp. 1983 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Glendenning Replies:
Norman K. Glendenning
pp. 1984 [View PDF (43 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Cumulative Parity Violation in Supernovae [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3694 (1998)]
C. J. Horowitz and Gang Li
pp. 1985 [View PDF (27 kB)]
 
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