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Physical Review Letters – 8 February 1999
Volume 82, Issue 6

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.

Friction and Molecular Deformation in the Tensile Regime
A. R. Burns, J. E. Houston, R. W. Carpick, and T. A. Michalske
pp. 1181-1184 [View PDF (151 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Design and Preparation of a Novel Magnet Exhibiting Two Compensation Temperatures Based on Molecular Field Theory
Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Yukinori Abe, Akira Fujishima, and Kazuhito Hashimoto
pp. 1285-1288 [View PDF (139 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Coherent Output, Stimulated Quantum Evaporation, and Pair Breaking in a Trapped Atomic Bose Gas
Y. Japha, S. Choi, K. Burnett, and Y. B. Band
pp. 1079-1083 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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No-Lose Theorem for Higgs Boson Searches at a Future Linear Collider
Jose R. Espinosa and John F. Gunion
pp. 1084-1087 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Glueball Calculations in Large- Nc Gauge Theory
S. Dalley and B. van de Sande
pp. 1088-1091 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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A Solution of the Odderon Problem
R. A. Janik and J. Wosiek
pp. 1092-1095 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Measurement of the neutral weak form factors of the proton
K. A. Aniol et al. (HAPPEX Collaboration)
pp. 1096-1100 [View PDF (152 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Effects of Isospin-Symmetry Violation on Tests of the Standard Model Using Parity-Violating Electron Scattering
W. E. Ormand
pp. 1101-1104 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Spin and Orbital Magnetic Quadrupole Resonances in 48Ca and 90Zr from 180° Electron Scattering
P. von Neumann-Cosel, F. Neumeyer, S. Nishizaki, V. Yu. Ponomarev, C. Rangacharyulu, B. Reitz, A. Richter, G. Schrieder, D. I. Sober, T. Waindzoch, and J. Wambach
pp. 1105-1108 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Spontaneous Ultraviolet Emission from 233Uranium/229Thorium Samples
R. W. Shaw, J. P. Young, S. P. Cooper, and O. F. Webb
pp. 1109-1111 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Measurement of the Helium 23P0-23P1 Fine Structure Interval
F. Minardi, G. Bianchini, P. Cancio Pastor, G. Giusfredi, F. S. Pavone, and M. Inguscio
pp. 1112-1115 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Magneto-Optical Trapping and Cooling of Strontium Atoms down to the Photon Recoil Temperature
Hidetoshi Katori, Tetsuya Ido, Yoshitomo Isoya, and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami
pp. 1116-1119 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Photon Energy Dependence of the 1σu/1σg Intensity Ratio in Carbon 1s Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Ethyne
T. D. Thomas, N. Berrah, J. Bozek, T. X. Carroll, J. Hahne, T. Karlsen, E. Kukk, and L. J. Sæthre
pp. 1120-1123 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Photoassociative Ionization of Heteronuclear Molecules in a Novel Two-Species Magneto-optical Trap
J. P. Shaffer, W. Chalupczak, and N. P. Bigelow
pp. 1124-1127 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Spin Asymmetries in Low-Energy Electron Scattering from Cesium Atoms
G. Baum, W. Raith, B. Roth, M. Tondera, K. Bartschat, I. Bray, S. Ait-Tahar, I. P. Grant, and P. H. Norrington
pp. 1128-1131 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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When Can Noise Induce Chaos?
J. B. Gao, S. K. Hwang, and J. M. Liu
pp. 1132-1135 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Quantum Lévy Processes and Fractional Kinetics
Dimitri Kusnezov, Aurel Bulgac, and Giu Do Dang
pp. 1136-1139 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Phase Ordering and Onset of Collective Behavior in Chaotic Coupled Map Lattices
Anaël Lemaître and Hugues Chaté
pp. 1140-1143 [View PDF (812 kB)]
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Construction of Symbolic Dynamics from Experimental Time Series
K. Mischaikow, M. Mrozek, J. Reiss, and A. Szymczak
pp. 1144-1147 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Bifurcation Cascade in a Semiconductor Laser Subject to Optical Feedback
Angela Hohl and Athanasios Gavrielides
pp. 1148-1151 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Solitary Waves for N Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
F. T. Hioe
pp. 1152-1155 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Flow Regimes in Fine Cohesive Powders
Antonio Castellanos, José Manuel Valverde, Alberto T. Pérez, Antonio Ramos, and P. Keith Watson
pp. 1156-1159 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Alternative Scenarios of Spiral Breakup in a Reaction-Diffusion Model with Excitable and Oscillatory Dynamics
Markus Bär and Michal Or-Guil
pp. 1160-1163 [View PDF (292 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Beam-Induced Nuclear Depolarization in a Gaseous Polarized-Hydrogen Target
K. Ackerstaff et al. ((The HERMES Collaboration))
pp. 1164-1168 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Enhanced Axial Loss of Electrons from a Tandem Mirror Induced by an Alfvén Ion Cyclotron Wave
T. Saito, M. Ichimura, Y. Kiwamoto, A. Mase, Y. Tatematsu, H. Abe, K. Kajiwara, Y. Kogi, M. Nakamura, S. Umehara, Y. Yoshimura, and K. Yatsu
pp. 1169-1172 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Dynamics of Short Laser Pulses Propagating in Plasma Channels
P. Sprangle, B. Hafizi, and P. Serafim
pp. 1173-1176 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Multimode Analysis of the Hollow Plasma Channel Wakefield Accelerator
C. B. Schroeder, D. H. Whittum, and J. S. Wurtele
pp. 1177-1180 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Friction and Molecular Deformation in the Tensile Regime
A. R. Burns, J. E. Houston, R. W. Carpick, and T. A. Michalske
pp. 1181-1184 [View PDF (151 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Direct Measurement of Ion-Influenced Surface Diffusion
R. Ditchfield and E. G. Seebauer
pp. 1185-1188 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Wetting-Driven Casimir Force in Nematic Liquid Crystals
P. Ziherl, R. Podgornik, and S. Žumer
pp. 1189-1192 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Quantitative Evaluation of Anharmonic and Disorder Effects on Glassy Dynamics
H. E. Fischer, F. J. Bermejo, G. J. Cuello, M. T. Fernández-Díaz, J. Dawidowski, M. A. González, H. Schober, and M. Jimenez-Ruiz
pp. 1193-1196 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Crystal Structure of the High-Pressure Phase Silicon VI
M. Hanfland, U. Schwarz, K. Syassen, and K. Takemura
pp. 1197-1200 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Vortex-Loop Phase Transitions in Liquid Helium, Cosmic Strings, and High- Tc Superconductors
Gary A. Williams
pp. 1201-1204 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Roughening Transition in a Model for Dimer Adsorption and Desorption
Haye Hinrichsen and Géza Ódor
pp. 1205-1208 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Ab Initio Based Tight-Binding Hamiltonian for the Dissociation of Molecules at Surfaces
Axel Gross, Matthias Scheffler, Michael J. Mehl, and Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos
pp. 1209-1212 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Dynamic Measurement of the HMX β- δ Phase Transition by Second Harmonic Generation
B. F. Henson, B. W Asay, R. K. Sander, S. F. Son, J. M. Robinson, and P. M. Dickson
pp. 1213-1216 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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d-Wave Pairing in the Presence of Long-Range Coulomb Interactions
Gökhan Esirgen, H.-B. Schüttler, and N. E. Bickers
pp. 1217-1220 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Band Anticrossing in GaInNAs Alloys
W. Shan, W. Walukiewicz, J. W. Ager, III, E. E. Haller, J. F. Geisz, D. J. Friedman, J. M. Olson, and S. R. Kurtz
pp. 1221-1224 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Electronic Density of States of Atomically Resolved Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Van Hove Singularities and End States
Philip Kim, Teri W. Odom, Jin-Lin Huang, and Charles M. Lieber
pp. 1225-1228 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Tunneling Spectroscopy in AlNiCo Decagonal Quasicrystals
Li Guohong, He Haifeng, Wang Yunping, Lu Li, Li Shanlin, Jing Xiunian, and Zhang Dianlin
pp. 1229-1232 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Nonlinear Emission of Microcavity Polaritons in the Low Density Regime
P. Senellart and J. Bloch
pp. 1233-1236 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Dislocation Scattering in GaN
D. C. Look and J. R. Sizelove
pp. 1237-1240 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Visible Light Emission from Atomic Scale Patterns Fabricated by the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
C. Thirstrup, M. Sakurai, K. Stokbro, and M. Aono
pp. 1241-1244 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Coulomb Blockade without Tunnel Junctions
Yuli V. Nazarov
pp. 1245-1248 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Phase Diagram for the Breakdown of the Quantum Hall Effect
L. B. Rigal, D. K. Maude, M. Potemski, J. C. Portal, L. Eaves, Z. R. Wasilewski, G. Hill, and M. A. Pate
pp. 1249-1252 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Hall Resistivity and Dephasing in the Quantum Hall Insulator
Leonid P. Pryadko and Assa Auerbach
pp. 1253-1256 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Strong Nonlinear Response of Superconducting Tunnel Junctions due to Localized Traps
A. Poelaert, A. G. Kozorezov, A. Peacock, and J. K. Wigmore
pp. 1257-1260 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Magnetic Skyrmion Lattices in Heavy Fermion Superconductor UPt3
A. Knigavko and B. Rosenstein
pp. 1261-1264 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium ac Josephson Effect in Mesoscopic Nb-InAs-Nb Junctions
K. W. Lehnert, N. Argaman, H.-R. Blank, K. C. Wong, S. J. Allen, E. L. Hu, and H. Kroemer
pp. 1265-1268 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Competition between Zero Bias Anomaly and Proximity Effect in Disordered Systems
Yuval Oreg, P. W. Brouwer, B. D. Simons, and Alexander Altland
pp. 1269-1272 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Reduction of the Superfluid Density in the Vortex-Liquid Phase of Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy
Tetsuo Hanaguri, Takashi Tsuboi, Yoshishige Tsuchiya, Ken-ichi Sasaki, and Atsutaka Maeda
pp. 1273-1276 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Spatially Resolved Dynamic Correlation in the Vortex State of High Temperature Superconductors
Daniel López, W. K. Kwok, H. Safar, R. J. Olsson, A. M. Petrean, L. Paulius, and G. W. Crabtree
pp. 1277-1280 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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ESR Study of the Opening and Closing of the Field-Induced Gap in NH4CuCl3
B. Kurniawan, H. Tanaka, K. Takatsu, W. Shiramura, T. Fukuda, H. Nojiri, and M. Motokawa
pp. 1281-1284 [View PDF (138 kB)]
Design and Preparation of a Novel Magnet Exhibiting Two Compensation Temperatures Based on Molecular Field Theory
Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, Yukinori Abe, Akira Fujishima, and Kazuhito Hashimoto
pp. 1285-1288 [View PDF (139 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Lattice Relaxation Driven Reorientation Transition in Nin/Cu(100)
C. Uiberacker, J. Zabloudil, P. Weinberger, L. Szunyogh, and C. Sommers
pp. 1289-1292 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Non-Fermi-Liquid Effects at Ambient Pressure in a Stoichiometric Heavy-Fermion Compound with Very Low Disorder: CeNi2Ge2
P. Gegenwart, F. Kromer, M. Lang, G. Sparn, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich
pp. 1293-1296 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Critical Behavior of Susceptibility at the Nuclear Ordering Transition in PrCu6
K. Akashi, K. Kawabata, A. Matsubara, O. Ishikawa, T. Hata, H. Ishii, T. Kodama, A. Koyanagi, R. Settai, and Y. O¯nuki
pp. 1297-1300 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Superparamagnetic Fluctuations in Monodomain Fe Particles via Neutron Spin-Echo Spectroscopy
H. Casalta, P. Schleger, C. Bellouard, M. Hennion, I. Mirebeau, G. Ehlers, B. Farago, J.-L. Dormann, M. Kelsch, M. Linde, and F. Phillipp
pp. 1301-1304 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Enhanced Coercivity in Submicrometer-Sized Ultrathin Epitaxial Dots with In-Plane Magnetization
O. Fruchart, J.-P. Nozières, W. Wernsdorfer, D. Givord, F. Rousseaux, and D. Decanini
pp. 1305-1308 [View PDF (735 kB)]
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Interplane Electronic Spin Polarization Transfer in the Superconducting State of Y2Ba4Cu7O15 as revealed by NQR Spin-Echo Double Resonance
A. Suter, M. Mali, J. Roos, and D. Brinkmann, Ph.D.
pp. 1309-1312 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Pseudogap and Collective Mode in the Optical Conductivity Spectra of Hole-Doped Ladders in Sr14-xCaxCu24O41
T. Osafune, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and S. Tajima
pp. 1313-1316 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Magneto-optical Sum Rules Close to the Mott Transition
Ekkehard Lange and Gabriel Kotliar
pp. 1317-1320 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Hot Exciton Dissociation in a Conjugated Polymer
V. I. Arkhipov, E. V. Emelianova, and H. Bässler
pp. 1321-1324 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Spatial and Kinetic Separation of Eley-Rideal Plus Primary Hot Atom and Secondary Hot Atom Mechanisms in H Atom Abstraction of Adsorbed D Atoms on Pt(111)
Jae-Young Kim and Jihwa Lee
pp. 1325-1328 [View PDF (158 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Identification of the Precursor State in the Initial Stages of Si(111)-(7×7) Oxidation
K.-Y. Kim, T.-H. Shin, S.-J. Han, and H. Kang
pp. 1329-1332 [View PDF (140 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “No-Slip Condition for a Mixture of Two Liquids”
Venkat Ganesan and Howard Brenner
pp. 1333 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Koplik and Banavar Reply:
Joel Koplik and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. 1334 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Comment on “Dynamics of Glass-Forming Polymers: `Homogeneous' versus `Heterogeneous' Scenario”
A. Heuer and H. W. Spiess
pp. 1335 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Arbe et al. Reply:
A. Arbe, J. Colmenero, M. Monkenbusch, and D. Richter
pp. 1336 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Comment on “Macroscopic Equation for the Roughness of Growing Interfaces in Quenched Disordered Media”
Juan M. López, José J. Ramasco, and Miguel A. Rodríguez
pp. 1337 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Braunstein, Buceta, and Giovambattista Reply:
L. A. Braunstein, R. C. Buceta, and N. Giovambattista
pp. 1338 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Importance of the Microscopic Wave Function in Envelope-Function Theory
Bradley A. Foreman
pp. 1339 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Krebs and Voisin Reply:
O. Krebs and P. Voisin
pp. 1340 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Monte Carlo Simulations on Polymer Network Deformation”
Ralf Everaers and Kurt Kremer
pp. 1341 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Hölzl, Trautenberg, and Göritz Reply:
Thomas Hölzl, Hans L. Trautenberg, and Dietmar Göritz
pp. 1342 [View PDF (57 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Two Interacting Modes in Parametrically Driven Surface Waves [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4384 (1998)]
H. Arbell and J. Fineberg
pp. 1343 [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Erratum: Structure and Stability of an Amorphous Metal [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3159 (1998)]
Oscar Rodríguez de la Fuente and José M. Soler
pp. 1344 [View PDF (43 kB)]
 
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