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Physical Review Letters – 12 March 2001
Volume 86, Issue 11

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.

Single-Walled BN Nanostructures
E. Bengu and L. D. Marks
pp. 2385-2387 [View PDF (657 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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From Single- to Multiple-Photon Decoherence in an Atom Interferometer
David A. Kokorowski, Alexander D. Cronin, Tony D. Roberts, and David E. Pritchard
pp. 2191-2195 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Beliaev Coupling in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
E. Hodby, O. M. Maragò, G. Hechenblaikner, and C. J. Foot
pp. 2196-2199 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Analytical Method for Yrast Line States in Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates
Ying Wu, Xiaoxue Yang, and Yi Xiao
pp. 2200-2203 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Explosion of a Collapsing Bose-Einstein Condensate
R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof
pp. 2204-2207 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Fractional Transport Equations for Lévy Stable Processes
Eric Lutz
pp. 2208-2211 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Evolution of Cosmological Perturbations in a Brane-Universe
David Langlois
pp. 2212-2215 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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QCD Phase Transition in the Inhomogeneous Universe
J. Ignatius and Dominik J. Schwarz
pp. 2216-2219 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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On the Significance of the Vector Potential Squared
F. V. Gubarev, L. Stodolsky, and V. I. Zakharov
pp. 2220-2222 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Weak and Electromagnetic Nuclear Decay Signatures for Neutrino Reactions in Super-Kamiokande
Shmuel Nussinov and Robert Shrock
pp. 2223-2226 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Precise Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment
H. N. Brown et al. (Muon (g – 2) Collaboration)
pp. 2227-2231 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Measurement of the Λc+ Lifetime
A. H. Mahmood et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 2232-2236 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Moments of the Neutron Charge Form Factor and the N→Δ Quadrupole Transition
P. Grabmayr and A. J. Buchmann
pp. 2237-2240 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Investigation of the Correlation Potential from Kohn-Sham Perturbation Theory
A. Facco Bonetti, E. Engel, R. N. Schmid, and R. M. Dreizler
pp. 2241-2244 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Above-Threshold Dissociative Ionization in the Intermediate Intensity Regime
Sujatha Unny, Yan Du, Langchi Zhu, Robert J. Gordon, Akihiro Sugita, Masahiro Kawasaki, Yutaka Matsumi, and Tamar Seideman
pp. 2245-2248 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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NO Rotational Orientation Following 308 nm Photodissociation of NO2
M. Brouard, P. O'Keeffe, D. M. Joseph, and D. Minayev
pp. 2249-2252 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Resonant Coupling in the Formation of Ultracold Ground State Molecules via Photoassociation
C. M. Dion, C. Drag, O. Dulieu, B. Laburthe Tolra, F. Masnou-Seeuws, and P. Pillet
pp. 2253-2256 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Strong Correlations in the He Ground State Momentum Wave Function Observed in the Fully Differential Momentum Distributions for the p+He Transfer Ionization Process
V. Mergel, R. Dörner, Kh. Khayyat, M. Achler, T. Weber, O. Jagutzki, H. J. Lüdde, C. L. Cocke, and H. Schmidt-Böcking
pp. 2257-2260 [View PDF (567 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Stagger-and-Step Method: Detecting and Computing Chaotic Saddles in Higher Dimensions
David Sweet, Helena E. Nusse, and James A. Yorke
pp. 2261-2264 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Control of Chaos via an Unstable Delayed Feedback Controller
K. Pyragas
pp. 2265-2268 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Driven Rydberg Atoms Reveal Quartic Level Repulsion
Krzysztof Sacha and Jakub Zakrzewski
pp. 2269-2272 [View PDF (1,210 kB)]
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Collective Directional Transport in Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators without External Bias
Zhigang Zheng, Gang Hu, and Bambi Hu
pp. 2273-2276 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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X-Ray Amplification by Laser Controlled Coherent Bremsstrahlung
K. Z. Hatsagortsyan and C. H. Keitel
pp. 2277-2280 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Dynamic Soliton-Like Modes
Ming-Feng Shih and Fang-Wen Sheu
pp. 2281-2284 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Orbital and Spin Photon Angular Momentum Transfer in Liquid Crystals
B. Piccirillo, C. Toscano, F. Vetrano, and E. Santamato
pp. 2285-2288 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Confined Band Gap in an Air-Bridge Type of Two-Dimensional AlGaAs Photonic Crystal
N. Kawai, K. Inoue, N. Carlsson, N. Ikeda, Y. Sugimoto, K. Asakawa, and T. Takemori
pp. 2289-2292 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Passive Stabilization of Capillary Bridges in Air with Acoustic Radiation Pressure
Mark J. Marr-Lyon, David B. Thiessen, and Philip L. Marston
pp. 2293-2296 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Ballistic-Diffusive Heat-Conduction Equations
Gang Chen
pp. 2297-2300 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Coarsening in the Presence of Kinetic Disorders: Analogy to Granular Compaction
Satya N. Majumdar, David S. Dean, and Peter Grassberger
pp. 2301-2304 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Universal Decay of Scalar Turbulence
M. Chaves, G. Eyink, U. Frisch, and M. Vergassola
pp. 2305-2308 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Oscillatory Binary Fluid Convection in Large Aspect-Ratio Containers
O. Batiste, M. Net, I. Mercader, and E. Knobloch
pp. 2309-2312 [View PDF (1,802 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Collective Resonance Model of Energy Exchange in 3D Nonequipartitioned Beams
I. Hofmann, J. Qiang, and R. D. Ryne
pp. 2313-2316 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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MeV X Rays and Photoneutrons from Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasmas
H. Schwoerer, P. Gibbon, S. Düsterer, R. Behrens, C. Ziener, C. Reich, and R. Sauerbrey
pp. 2317-2320 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Strong “Quantum” Chaos in the Global Ballooning Mode Spectrum of Three-Dimensional Plasmas
R. L. Dewar, P. Cuthbert, and R. Ball
pp. 2321-2324 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for Gradient Length-Driven Electron Transport in Tokamaks
F. Ryter, F. Leuterer, G. Pereverzev, H.-U. Fahrbach, J. Stober, W. Suttrop, and ASDEX Upgrade Team
pp. 2325-2328 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Transient Magnetic Reconnection and Unstable Shear Layers
J. U. Brackbill and D. A. Knoll
pp. 2329-2332 [View PDF (262 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Real-Space Imaging of Atomic Structure with White X Rays
P. Korecki and G. Materlik
pp. 2333-2336 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Atomically Resolved Images from Near Node Photoelectron Holography Experiments on Al(111)
J. Wider, F. Baumberger, M. Sambi, R. Gotter, A. Verdini, F. Bruno, D. Cvetko, A. Morgante, T. Greber, and J. Osterwalder
pp. 2337-2340 [View PDF (780 kB)]
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Counterion Phase Transitions in Dilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions
Alexander Deshkovski, Sergei Obukhov, and Michael Rubinstein
pp. 2341-2344 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Decay Characteristics of Surface Mounds with Contrasting Interlayer Mass Transport Channels
Maozhi Li, J. F. Wendelken, Bang-Gui Liu, E. G. Wang, and Zhenyu Zhang
pp. 2345-2348 [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Anomalous Elastic Response of Silicon to Uniaxial Shock Compression on Nanosecond Time Scales
A. Loveridge-Smith, A. Allen, J. Belak, T. Boehly, A. Hauer, B. Holian, D. Kalantar, G. Kyrala, R. W. Lee, P. Lomdahl, M. A. Meyers, D. Paisley, S. Pollaine, B. Remington, D. C. Swift, S. Weber, and J. S. Wark
pp. 2349-2352 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Discrete Solitons and Breathers with Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates
Andrea Trombettoni and Augusto Smerzi
pp. 2353-2356 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Evidence for an Instability Near Twice the Fermi Wave Vector in the Low Electronic Density Liquid Metal Li(NH3)4
C. A. Burns, P. M. Platzman, H. Sinn, A. Alatas, and E. E. Alp
pp. 2357-2360 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Theoretical Study of the Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Ge Framework Semiconductors
Jianjun Dong, Otto F. Sankey, and Charles W. Myles
pp. 2361-2364 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Novel Magnetism in 3He Nanoclusters
N. Matsunaga, V. A. Shvarts, E. D. Adams, J. S. Xia, and E. A. Schuberth
pp. 2365-2368 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Renormalization-Group Calculation of the Dependence on Gravity of the Surface Tension and Bending Rigidity of a Fluid Interface
José G. Segovia-López and Víctor Romero-Rochín
pp. 2369-2372 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Unambiguous Interpretation of Atomically Resolved Force Microscopy Images of an Insulator
A. S. Foster, C. Barth, A. L. Shluger, and M. Reichling
pp. 2373-2376 [View PDF (888 kB)]
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Evidence from the Surface Morphology for Nonlinear Growth of Epitaxial GaAs Films
A. Ballestad, B. J. Ruck, M. Adamcyk, T. Pinnington, and T. Tiedje
pp. 2377-2380 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Nature of the Stranski-Krastanow Transition during Epitaxy of InGaAs on GaAs
T. Walther, A. G. Cullis, D. J. Norris, and M. Hopkinson
pp. 2381-2384 [View PDF (591 kB)]
Single-Walled BN Nanostructures
E. Bengu and L. D. Marks
pp. 2385-2387 [View PDF (657 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Disorder and Interaction in 2D: Exact Diagonalization Study of the Anderson-Hubbard-Mott Model
R. Kotlyar and S. Das Sarma
pp. 2388-2391 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Scattering Theory of Kondo Mirages and Observation of Single Kondo Atom Phase Shift
Gregory A. Fiete, Jesse S. Hersch, Eric J. Heller, H. C. Manoharan, C. P. Lutz, and D. M. Eigler
pp. 2392-2395 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Influence of Impurities on Localized Transition Metal Surface States: Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on V(001)
M. M. J. Bischoff, C. Konvicka, A. J. Quinn, M. Schmid, J. Redinger, R. Podloucky, P. Varga, and H. van Kempen
pp. 2396-2399 [View PDF (617 kB)]
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Electron Energy Relaxation in the Presence of Magnetic Impurities
A. Kaminski and L. I. Glazman
pp. 2400-2403 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Optical Detection of Ballistic Electrons Injected by a Scanning-Tunneling Microscope
M. Kemerink, K. Sauthoff, P. M. Koenraad, J. W. Gerritsen, H. van Kempen, and J. H. Wolter
pp. 2404-2407 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Enhancement of Tunneling from a Correlated 2D Electron System by a Many-Electron Mössbauer-Type Recoil in a Magnetic Field
M. I. Dykman, T. Sharpee, and P. M. Platzman
pp. 2408-2411 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Ising Ferromagnetism and Domain Morphology in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime
J. H. Smet, R. A. Deutschmann, W. Wegscheider, G. Abstreiter, and K. von Klitzing
pp. 2412-2415 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Superconductivity in Ropes of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
M. Kociak, A. Yu. Kasumov, S. Guéron, B. Reulet, I. I. Khodos, Yu. B. Gorbatov, V. T. Volkov, L. Vaccarini, and H. Bouchiat
pp. 2416-2419 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Superconducting Mg10B2
D. K. Finnemore, J. E. Ostenson, S. L. Bud'ko, G. Lapertot, and P. C. Canfield
pp. 2420-2422 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Superconductivity in Dense MgB2 Wires
P. C. Canfield, D. K. Finnemore, S. L. Bud'ko, J. E. Ostenson, G. Lapertot, C. E. Cunningham, and C. Petrovic
pp. 2423-2426 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Coupling of Two Superconductors through a Ferromagnet: Evidence for a π Junction
V. V. Ryazanov, V. A. Oboznov, A. Yu. Rusanov, A. V. Veretennikov, A. A. Golubov, and J. Aarts
pp. 2427-2430 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Depinning of a Metastable Disordered Vortex Lattice
Z. L. Xiao, E. Y. Andrei, P. Shuk, and M. Greenblatt
pp. 2431-2434 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Cu Valency Change Induced by O Doping in YBCO
W. M. Temmerman, H. Winter, Z. Szotek, and A. Svane
pp. 2435-2438 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Staggered Field Effect on the One-Dimensional S = 1/2 Antiferromagnet Yb4As3
Masahumi Kohgi, Kazuaki Iwasa, Jean-Michel Mignot, Björn Fåk, Philipp Gegenwart, Michael Lang, Akira Ochiai, Hidekazu Aoki, and Takashi Suzuki
pp. 2439-2442 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Finding Universal Correlations between Cationic Disorder and Low Field Magnetoresistance in FeMo Double Perovskite Series
M. García-Hernández, J. L. Martínez, M. J. Martínez-Lope, M. T. Casais, and J. A. Alonso
pp. 2443-2446 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Quantum Frustration in the “Spin Liquid” Phase of Two-Dimensional 3He
E. Collin, S. Triqueneaux, R. Harakaly, M. Roger, C. Bäuerle, Yu. M. Bunkov, and H. Godfrin
pp. 2447-2450 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Quantum-Kinetic Theory of Hot Luminescence from Pulse-Excited Semiconductors
K. Hannewald, S. Glutsch, and F. Bechstedt
pp. 2451-2454 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Master Equation for Retrodiction of Quantum Communication Signals
Stephen M. Barnett, David T. Pegg, John Jeffers, and Ottavia Jedrkiewicz
pp. 2455-2458 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Transitions Induced by the Discreteness of Molecules in a Small Autocatalytic System
Yuichi Togashi and Kunihiko Kaneko
pp. 2459-2462 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Green's Function Approach to Nonclassical Reaction Kinetics in Fractal Media
Jaeyoung Sung, Hwangseo Park, and Sangyoub Lee
pp. 2463-2466 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Continuous Current Flow through a Model Biological Membrane Channel
Paul S. Crozier, Richard L. Rowley, Nathan B. Holladay, Douglas Henderson, and David D. Busath
pp. 2467-2470 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Long-Range Correlations in Genomic DNA: A Signature of the Nucleosomal Structure
B. Audit, C. Thermes, C. Vaillant, Y. d'Aubenton-Carafa, J. F. Muzy, and A. Arneodo
pp. 2471-2474 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Solitons in the One-Dimensional Forest Fire Model
Per Bak, Kan Chen, and Maya Paczuski
pp. 2475-2477 [View PDF (87 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Charge-Orbital Stripe Structure in La1-xCaxMnO3 ( x = 1/2,2/3)”
T. Hotta, E. Dagotto, H. Koizumi, and Y. Takada
pp. 2478 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Mutou and Kontani Reply:
Tetsuya Mutou and Hiroshi Kontani
pp. 2479 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Comment on “Low Temperature Acoustic Properties of Amorphous Silica and the Tunneling Model”
J. Classen, C. Enss, and S. Hunklinger
pp. 2480 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Thomas et al. Reply:
E. Thompson, G. Lawes, J. M. Parpia, and R. O. Pohl
pp. 2481 [View PDF (47 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Observation of Predicted Resonance Structure in the H+D2→HD(v′ = 0,j′ = 7)+D Reaction at a Collision Energy of 0.94 eV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4325 (2000)]
Brian K. Kendrick, Lalith Jayasinghe, Steven Moser, Marcis Auzinsh, and Neil Shafer-Ray
pp. 2482 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Erratum: Non-Fermi-Liquid Scaling in Ce(Ru0.5Rh0.5)2Si2 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 524 (2001)]
Y. Tabata, D. R. Grempel, M. Ocio, T. Taniguchi, and Y. Miyako
pp. 2483 [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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