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Physical Review Letters – 18 January 1999
Volume 82, 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.

Ground-State Band and Deformation of the Z = 102 Isotope 254No
P. Reiter et al.
pp. 509-512 [View PDF (147 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Vacancy-Assisted Halogen Reactions on Si(100)- (2 × 1)
Koji Nakayama, C. M. Aldao, and J. H. Weaver
pp. 568-571 [View PDF (282 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Renormalization of the Three-Body System with Short-Range Interactions
P. F. Bedaque, H.-W. Hammer, and U. van Kolck
pp. 463-467 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Reconstruction of a Cold Atom Cloud by Magnetic Focusing
C. V. Saba, P. A. Barton, M. G. Boshier, I. G. Hughes, P. Rosenbusch, B. E. Sauer, and E. A. Hinds
pp. 468-471 [View PDF (895 kB)]
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Universal 1/f Noise from Dissipative Self-Organized Criticality Models
Paolo De Los Rios and Yi-Cheng Zhang
pp. 472-475 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Transition Matrix Monte Carlo Reweighting and Dynamics
Jian-Sheng Wang, Tien Kiat Tay, and Robert H. Swendsen
pp. 476-479 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Absence of Local Thermal Equilibrium in Two Models of Heat Conduction
Abhishek Dhar and Deepak Dhar
pp. 480-483 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Statistical Entropy of Four-Dimensional Rotating Black Holes from Near-Horizon Geometry
Mirjam Cvetič and Finn Larsen
pp. 484-487 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Complete 2-Loop Quantum Electrodynamic Contributions to the Muon Lifetime in the Fermi Model
Timo van Ritbergen and Robin G. Stuart
pp. 488-491 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Observation of Two Narrow States Decaying into Ξc+γ and Ξc0γ
C. P. Jessop et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 492-496 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Magnetic Moment of the 1- Ground State in 18N Measured with a New β Level Mixing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Technique
G. Neyens, N. Coulier, S. Teughels, G. Georgiev, B. A. Brown, W. F. Rogers, D. L. Balabanski, R. Coussement, A. Lépine-Szily, M. Lewitowicz, W. Mittig, F. de Oliveira Santos, P. Roussel-Chomaz, S. Ternier, K. Vyvey, and D. Cortina-Gil
pp. 497-500 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Fragmentation of the Two-Octupole Phonon Multiplet in 208Pb
V. Yu. Ponomarev and P. von Neumann-Cosel
pp. 501-504 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Reexamination of the Optical Gamma Ray Decay in 229Th
S. B. Utter, P. Beiersdorfer, A. Barnes, R. W. Lougheed, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, J. A. Becker, and M. S. Weiss
pp. 505-508 [View PDF (402 kB)]
Ground-State Band and Deformation of the Z = 102 Isotope 254No
P. Reiter et al.
pp. 509-512 [View PDF (147 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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High Energy Resolution Bolometers for Nuclear Physics and X-Ray Spectroscopy
A. Alessandrello, J. W. Beeman, C. Brofferio, O. Cremonesi, E. Fiorini, A. Giuliani, E. E. Haller, A. Monfardini, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, E. Previtali, and L. Zanotti
pp. 513-515 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Nuclear-Excited Feshbach Resonances in Electron Attachment to Molecular Clusters
J. M. Weber, E. Leber, M.-W. Ruf, and H. Hotop
pp. 516-519 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy Rate versus Physical Entropy
Vito Latora and Michel Baranger
pp. 520-523 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Quantum Poincaré Recurrences
Giulio Casati, Giulio Maspero, and Dima L. Shepelyansky
pp. 524-527 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Asymptotic Statistics of Poincaré Recurrences in Hamiltonian Systems with Divided Phase Space
B. V. Chirikov and D. L. Shepelyansky
pp. 528-531 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Adaptive Method for the Experimental Detection of Instabilities
Jason S. Anderson, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, Georg Flätgen, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Ramiro Rico-Martínez, and Katharina Krischer
pp. 532-535 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Photonic Quantum Ring
J. C. Ahn, K. S. Kwak, B. H. Park, H. Y. Kang, J. Y. Kim, and O'Dae Kwon
pp. 536-539 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Three Dimensional Trajectories of Interacting Incoherent Photorefractive Solitons
A. Stepken, M. R. Belić, F. Kaiser, W. Królikowski, and B. Luther-Davies
pp. 540-543 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Spiraling Behavior of Photorefractive Screening Solitons
M. R. Belić, A. Stepken, and F. Kaiser
pp. 544-547 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Quasi-Two-Dimensional MHD Turbulence in Three-Dimensional Flows
D. Aaron Roberts, Melvyn L. Goldstein, Anil E. Deane, and Sanjoy Ghosh
pp. 548-551 [View PDF (668 kB)]
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Temporal and Angular Resolution of the Ionization-Induced Refraction of a Short Laser Pulse in Helium Gas
P. Chessa, E. De Wispelaere, F. Dorchies, V. Malka, J. R. Marquès, G. Hamoniaux, P. Mora, and F. Amiranoff
pp. 552-555 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Secondary-Electron-Emission Instability in a Plasma
M. C. Griskey and R. L. Stenzel
pp. 556-559 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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High Core Electron Confinement Regimes in FTU Plasmas with Low- or Reversed-Magnetic Shear and High Power Density Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Heating
P. Buratti et al.
pp. 560-563 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Measurement of the Plasma Density Using the Intensification of z-Mode Waves at the Electron Plasma Frequency
Iver H. Cairns
pp. 564-567 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Vacancy-Assisted Halogen Reactions on Si(100)- (2 × 1)
Koji Nakayama, C. M. Aldao, and J. H. Weaver
pp. 568-571 [View PDF (282 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Self-Diffusion in Icosahedral Al72.4Pd20.5Mn7.1 and Phason Percolation at Low Temperatures Studied by 27Al NMR
J. Dolinšek, T. Apih, M. Simsič, and J. M. Dubois
pp. 572-575 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Ferroelectricity in NH⋯N Hydrogen Bonded Crystals
Andrzej Katrusiak and Marek Szafrański
pp. 576-579 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Change of Compressiblity at the Glass Transition and Prigogine-Defay Ratio in ZrTiCuNiBe Alloys
K. Samwer, R. Busch, and W. L. Johnson, Ph.D.
pp. 580-583 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Unusual Doppler Effect in the B Phase of Superfluid 3He
A. M. Kenis, Y. A. Nepomnyashchy, A. Mann, and M. Revzen
pp. 584-587 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Tunable Surface Phases in Alcohol-Diol Melts
O. Gang, B. M. Ocko, X. Z. Wu, E. B. Sirota, and M. Deutsch
pp. 588-591 [View PDF (354 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Effective Mass and g Factor of Four-Flux-Quanta Composite Fermions
A. S. Yeh, H. L. Stormer, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West
pp. 592-595 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Composite-Fermion Edge States in Fractional Quantum Hall Systems
H.-S. Sim, K. J. Chang, and G. Ihm
pp. 596-599 [View PDF (169 kB)]
Covalency of the Hydrogen Bond in Ice: A Direct X-Ray Measurement
E. D. Isaacs, A. Shukla, P. M. Platzman, D. R. Hamann, B. Barbiellini, and C. A. Tulk
pp. 600-603 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Anderson Localization due to a Random Magnetic Field in Two Dimensions
Akira Furusaki
pp. 604-607 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Mechanism of Adiabatic Charge Transport
F. Zhou, B. Spivak, and B. Altshuler
pp. 608-611 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Surface Defect Level Distribution Associated with GaAs Antiphase Boundaries
Q. Xu and J. W. P. Hsu
pp. 612-615 [View PDF (734 kB)]
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Inversion of Spin Polarization and Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Spin-Dependent Tunneling Junctions
Manish Sharma, Shan X. Wang, and Janice H. Nickel
pp. 616-619 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Solitons on the Edge of a Two-Dimensional Electron System
C. Wexler and Alan T. Dorsey
pp. 620-623 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Evidence for Field-Induced Excitations in Low-Temperature Thermal Conductivity of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
Hervé Aubin, Kamran Behnia, Shuuichi Ooi, and Tsuyoshi Tamegai
pp. 624-627 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Anomalous Dispersion of LO Phonons in La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 at Low Temperatures
R. J. McQueeney, Y. Petrov, T. Egami, M. Yethiraj, G. Shirane, and Y. Endoh
pp. 628-631 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Vortex Pinning due to Strong Quasiparticle Scattering at Antiphase Boundaries in YBa2Cu3O7-δ
Ch. Jooss, R. Warthmann, H. Kronmüller, T. Haage, H.-U. Habermeier, and J. Zegenhagen
pp. 632-635 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Spin Gap in the Hole-Doped Spin Ladder System (Sr2.5Ca11.5)Cu24O41: Neutron Inelastic Scattering Study
S. Katano, T. Nagata, J. Akimitsu, M. Nishi, and K. Kakurai
pp. 636-639 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Magnetic Linear X-Ray Dichroism as a Probe of the Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy
Gerrit van der Laan
pp. 640-643 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Translational Energy Distribution of Si Atoms Desorbed by Laser-Induced Electronic Bond Breaking of Adatoms on Si(111)-(7×7)
J. Kanasaki, K. Iwata, and K. Tanimura
pp. 644-647 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Time Delay in the Kuramoto Model of Coupled Oscillators
M. K. Stephen Yeung and Steven H. Strogatz
pp. 648-651 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Environmental Changes, Coextinction, and Patterns in the Fossil Record
Luís A. Nunes Amaral and Martin Meyer
pp. 652-655 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Protein Folding in Contact Map Space
M. Vendruscolo, R. Najmanovich, and E. Domany
pp. 656-659 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Synchronization of the Noisy Electrosensitive Cells in the Paddlefish
Alexander Neiman, Xing Pei, David Russell, Winfried Wojtenek, Lon Wilkens, Frank Moss, H. A. Braun, M. T. Huber, and K. Voigt
pp. 660-663 [View PDF (2,517 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Physical Reality of Light-Induced Atomic States”
P. Schlagheck, K. Hornberger, and A. Buchleitner
pp. 664 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Wells, Simbotin, and Gavrila Reply:
J. C. Wells, I. Simbotin, and M. Gavrila
pp. 665 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Comment on “Nondipole Resonant X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy: Polarized Inelastic Scattering at the K Edge of Cl2”
Faris Gel'mukhanov and Hans Ågren
pp. 666 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Mills et al. Reply:
J. D. Mills, J. A. Sheehy, T. A. Ferrett, S. H. Southworth, R. Mayer, D. W. Lindle, and P. W. Langhoff
pp. 667 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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What is the Right Form of the Probability Distribution of the Conductance at the Mobility Edge?
C. M. Soukoulis, Xiaosha Wang, Qiming Li, and M. M. Sigalas
pp. 668 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Slevin and Ohtsuki Reply:
Keith Slevin and Tomi Ohtsuki
pp. 669 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Comment on “New Metastable Nonmetallic Phase of Europium”
R. Wahl, W. Schneider, S. L. Molodtsov, S. Danzenbächer, C. Laubschat, M. Richter, and E. Weschke
pp. 670 [View PDF (599 kB)]
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Olson and Lynch Reply:
C. G. Olson and D. W. Lynch
pp. 671 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Comment on “Nonlocal In-Plane Resistance due to Vortex-Antivortex Dynamics in High- Tc Superconducting Films”
L. Miu, G. Jakob, and H. Adrian
pp. 672 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Kopelevich and Esquinazi Reply:
Y. Kopelevich and P. Esquinazi
pp. 673 [View PDF (66 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Weak Synchronization of Chaotic Coupled Map Lattices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3639 (1998)]
F. S. de San Roman, S. Boccaletti, D. Maza, and H. Mancini
pp. 674 [View PDF (315 kB)]
 
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