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Physical Review Letters – 20 August 2001
Volume 87, Issue 8

Front and back polarized light images of two strained SrTiO3 crystals indicating shear bands on which intense plastic deformation occurred. [P. Gumbsch, S. Taeri-Baghbadrani, D. Brunner, W. Sigle, and M. Rühle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 085505 (2001)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Neutron Density Distributions Deduced from Antiprotonic Atoms
A. Trzcińska, J. Jastrzȩbski, P. Lubiński, F. J. Hartmann, R. Schmidt, T. von Egidy, and B. Kłos
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
082501 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Recording Intramolecular Mechanics during the Manipulation of a Large Molecule
Francesca Moresco, Gerhard Meyer, Karl-Heinz Rieder, Hao Tang, André Gourdon, and Christian Joachim
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
088302 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Spin Correlation and Discrete Symmetry in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
Fei Zhou
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
080401 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Observation of Vortex Phase Singularities in Bose-Einstein Condensates
S. Inouye, S. Gupta, T. Rosenband, A. P. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz, T. L. Gustavson, A. E. Leanhardt, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
080402 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Quasipure Bose-Einstein Condensate Immersed in a Fermi Sea
F. Schreck, L. Khaykovich, K. L. Corwin, G. Ferrari, T. Bourdel, J. Cubizolles, and C. Salomon
Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages)
080403 [View PDF (306 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Auger Test of the Cen A Model of Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, and Thomas J. Weiler
Published 31 July 2001 (4 pages)
081101 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Position-Space Description of the Cosmic Microwave Background and Its Temperature Correlation Function
Sergei Bashinsky and Edmund Bertschinger
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
081301 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Shear Viscosity of Strongly Coupled N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Plasma
G. Policastro, D. T. Son, and A. O. Starinets
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
081601 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron through d⃗(e⃗,e′n)p at Q2 = 0.5(GeV/c)2
H. Zhu et al.
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
081801 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Multijet Cross Sections in Deep Inelastic Scattering at Next-to-Leading Order
Zoltán Nagy and Zoltán Trócsányi
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
082001 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Diffractively Produced Charm Final States in 800-GeV/c pp Collisions
M. H. L. S. Wang, M. C. Berisso, D. C. Christian, J. Félix, A. Gara, E. Gottschalk, G. Gutiérrez, E. P. Hartouni, B. C. Knapp, M. N. Kreisler, S. Lee, K. Markianos, G. Moreno, M. A. Reyes, M. Sosa, A. Wehmann, and D. Wesson
Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages)
082002 [View PDF (203 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Pion Interferometry of √sNN = 130GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC
C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 3 August 2001 (6 pages)
082301 [View PDF (134 kB)]
Neutron Density Distributions Deduced from Antiprotonic Atoms
A. Trzcińska, J. Jastrzȩbski, P. Lubiński, F. J. Hartmann, R. Schmidt, T. von Egidy, and B. Kłos
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
082501 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Magic Numbers in Exotic Nuclei and Spin-Isospin Properties of the NN Interaction
Takaharu Otsuka, Rintaro Fujimoto, Yutaka Utsuno, B. Alex Brown, Michio Honma, and Takahiro Mizusaki
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
082502 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Displacing Rydberg Electrons: The Mono-Cycle Nature of Half-Cycle Pulses
C. Wesdorp, F. Robicheaux, and L. D. Noordam
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
083001 [View PDF (234 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Nonlinear Localized Waves in a Periodic Medium
Andrey A. Sukhorukov and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
083901 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Two-Photon Cavity Solitons in Active Optical Media
R. Vilaseca, M. C. Torrent, J. García-Ojalvo, M. Brambilla, and M. San Miguel
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
083902 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Inwards Propagating Waves in a Limit Cycle Medium
A. Rabinovitch, M. Gutman, and I. Aviram
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
084101 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Exact Phase Diagram for an Asymmetric Avalanche Process
V. B. Priezzhev, E. V. Ivashkevich, A. M. Povolotsky, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
084301 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Particle Segregation in Vibrofluidized Beds Due to Buoyant Forces
Nagendra Shishodia and Carl R. Wassgren
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
084302 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Transition from Symmetric to Asymmetric Scaling Function before Drop Pinch-Off
Alexander Rothert, Reinhard Richter, and Ingo Rehberg
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
084501 [View PDF (291 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Second Harmonic FEL Oscillation
George R. Neil, S. V. Benson, G. Biallas, J. Gubeli, K. Jordan, S. Myers, and M. D. Shinn
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
084801 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Quasisteady High-Confinement Reversed Shear Plasma with Large Bootstrap Current Fraction under Full Noninductive Current Drive Condition in JT-60U
T. Fujita, S. Ide, Y. Kamada, T. Suzuki, T. Oikawa, S. Takeji, Y. Sakamoto, Y. Koide, A. Isayama, T. Hatae, H. Kubo, S. Higashijima, O. Naito, H. Shirai, and T. Fukuda
Published 31 July 2001 (4 pages)
085001 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Reaching High Poloidal Beta at Greenwald Density with Internal Transport Barrier Close to Full Noninductive Current Drive
J. Hobirk, R. C. Wolf, O. Gruber, A. Gude, S. Günter, B. Kurzan, M. Maraschek, P. J. McCarthy, H. Meister, A. G. Peeters, G. V. Pereverzev, J. Stober, W. Treutterer, and ASDEX Upgrade Team
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
085002 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Adiabatic Electron Thermal Pressure Fluctuations in Tokamak Plasmas
Mark A. Meier, Roger D. Bengtson, Gary A. Hallock, and Alan J. Wootton
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
085003 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Investigation of Ultrafast Laser-Driven Radiative Blast Waves
M. J. Edwards, A. J. MacKinnon, J. Zweiback, K. Shigemori, D. Ryutov, A. M. Rubenchik, K. A. Keilty, E. Liang, B. A. Remington, and T. Ditmire
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
085004 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Asymmetric High-Energy Ion Emission from Argon Clusters in Intense Laser Fields
V. Kumarappan, M. Krishnamurthy, and D. Mathur
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
085005 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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On the Validity of the Independent Hot-Spot Model
Philippe Mounaix
Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages)
085006 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Flexoelectricity and Piezoelectricity: The Reason for the Rich Variety of Phases in Antiferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystals
Mojca Čepič and Boštjan Žekš
Published 31 July 2001 (4 pages)
085501 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Vibrational Spectrum of Topologically Disordered Systems
T. S. Grigera, V. Martín-Mayor, G. Parisi, and P. Verrocchio
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
085502 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Two-Stage Rotational Disordering of a Molecular Crystal Surface: C60
C. Laforge, D. Passerone, A. B. Harris, P. Lambin, and E. Tosatti
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
085503 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Observation of a Reentrant Twist Grain Boundary Phase
D. S. Shankar Rao, S. Krishna Prasad, V. N. Raja, C. V. Yelamaggad, and S. Anitha Nagamani
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
085504 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Plasticity and an Inverse Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Strontium Titanate
P. Gumbsch, S. Taeri-Baghbadrani, D. Brunner, W. Sigle, and M. Rühle
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
085505 [View PDF (1,023 kB)]
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Atomic Structure of Icosahedral B4C Boron Carbide from a First Principles Analysis of NMR Spectra
Francesco Mauri, Nathalie Vast, and Chris J. Pickard
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
085506 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Directed Polymers with Tilted Columnar Disorder and Burgers-like Turbulence
Roya Mohayaee, Attilio L. Stella, and Carlo Vanderzande
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
085701 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Ionic Conduction in Glass: New Information on the Interrelation between the “Jonscher Behavior” and the “Nearly Constant-Loss Behavior” from Broadband Conductivity Spectra
B. Roling, C. Martiny, and S. Murugavel
Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages)
085901 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Molecular Adsorption Bond Lengths at Metal Oxide Surfaces: Failure of Current Theoretical Methods
J.-T. Hoeft, M. Kittel, M. Polcik, S. Bao, R. L. Toomes, J.-H. Kang, D. P. Woodruff, M. Pascal, and C. L. A. Lamont
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
086101 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Novel Interface-Mediated Metastable Oxide Phases: Vanadium Oxides on Pd(111)
S. Surnev, G. Kresse, M. G. Ramsey, and F. P. Netzer
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
086102 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Crystallographic Structure of Ultrathin Fe Films on Cu(100)
Albert Biedermann, Rupert Tscheließnig, Michael Schmid, and Peter Varga
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
086103 [View PDF (552 kB)]
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Coupling Length Scales for Multiscale Atomistics-Continuum Simulations: Atomistically Induced Stress Distributions in Si/Si3N4 Nanopixels
Elefterios Lidorikis, Martina E. Bachlechner, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta, and George Z. Voyiadjis
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
086104 [View PDF (205 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Scaling of the Magnetoconductivity of Silicon MOSFETs: Evidence for a Quantum Phase Transition in Two Dimensions
S. A. Vitkalov, H. Zheng, K. M. Mertes, M. P. Sarachik, and T. M. Klapwijk
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
086401 [View PDF (1,449 kB)]
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“Devil’s Staircase”-Type Phase Transition in NaV2O5 under High Pressure
K. Ohwada, Y. Fujii, N. Takesue, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda, H. Nakao, Y. Wakabayashi, Y. Murakami, K. Ito, Y. Amemiya, H. Fujihisa, K. Aoki, T. Shobu, Y. Noda, and N. Ikeda
Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages)
086402 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Voltage-Modulated Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy on a Polymer Diode: Mesoscopic Charge Transport in Conjugated Polymers
H. C. F. Martens, O. Hilt, H. B. Brom, P. W. M. Blom, and J. N. Huiberts
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
086601 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Indication of the Ferromagnetic Instability in a Dilute Two-Dimensional Electron System
A. A. Shashkin, S. V. Kravchenko, V. T. Dolgopolov, and T. M. Klapwijk
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
086801 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Strong Friction Limit in Quantum Mechanics: The Quantum Smoluchowski Equation
Joachim Ankerhold, Philip Pechukas, and Hermann Grabert
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
086802 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Disorder and Quantum Fluctuations in Superconducting Films in Strong Magnetic Fields
V. M. Galitski and A. I. Larkin
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
087001 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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High Current-Carrying Capability in c-Axis-Oriented Superconducting MgB2 Thin Films
Hyeong-Jin Kim, W. N. Kang, Eun-Mi Choi, Mun-Seog Kim, Kijoon H. P. Kim, and Sung-Ik Lee
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
087002 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Evidence of Doping-Dependent Pairing Symmetry in Cuprate Superconductors
N.-C. Yeh, C.-T. Chen, G. Hammerl, J. Mannhart, A. Schmehl, C. W. Schneider, R. R. Schulz, S. Tajima, K. Yoshida, D. Garrigus, and M. Strasik
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
087003 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Role of Boron p-Electrons and Holes in Superconducting MgB2, and Other Diborides: A Fully Relaxed, Full-Potential Electronic Structure Study
Prabhakar P. Singh
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
087004 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Beyond Eliashberg Superconductivity in MgB2: Anharmonicity, Two-Phonon Scattering, and Multiple Gaps
Amy Y. Liu, I. I. Mazin, and Jens Kortus
Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages)
087005 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Phase Separation in Mixtures of Hard Core Bosons
Massimo Boninsegni
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
087201 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Perpendicular Exchange Bias of Co/Pt Multilayers
S. Maat, K. Takano, S. S. P. Parkin, and Eric E. Fullerton
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
087202 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Spatially Inhomogeneous Development of Antiferromagnetism in URu2Si2: Evidence from 29Si NMR under Pressure
K. Matsuda, Y. Kohori, T. Kohara, K. Kuwahara, and H. Amitsuka
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
087203 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Real-Space Application of the Mean-Field Description of Spin-Glass Dynamics
Alain Barrat and Ludovic Berthier
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
087204 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of an Asymmetric Spin Ladder
Shu Chen, H. Büttner, and J. Voit
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
087205 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Emission of a Single Conjugated Polymer Chain Isolated in Its Single Crystal Monomer Matrix
T. Guillet, J. Berréhar, R. Grousson, J. Kovensky, C. Lapersonne-Meyer, M. Schott, and V. Voliotis
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
087401 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Coupling of Nonlocal Potentials to Electromagnetic Fields
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Eric K. Chang, and Steven G. Louie
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
087402 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Avalanche Dynamics of Crackle Sound in the Lung
Adriano M. Alencar, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Arnab Majumdar, H. Eugene Stanley, and Béla Suki
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
088101 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Conformations of Proteins in Equilibrium
Cristian Micheletti, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Amos Maritan
Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages)
088102 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Buckling of Actin-Coated Membranes under Application of a Local Force
E. Helfer, S. Harlepp, L. Bourdieu, J. Robert, F. C. MacKintosh, and D. Chatenay
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
088103 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Electrophoretic Microrheology in a Dilute Lamellar Phase of a Nonionic Surfactant
Daisuke Mizuno, Yasuyuki Kimura, and Reinosuke Hayakawa
Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages)
088104 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Colloidal Interactions in Suspensions of Rods
Keng-hui Lin, John C. Crocker, Ana C. Zeri, and A. G. Yodh
Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages)
088301 [View PDF (370 kB)]
Recording Intramolecular Mechanics during the Manipulation of a Large Molecule
Francesca Moresco, Gerhard Meyer, Karl-Heinz Rieder, Hao Tang, André Gourdon, and Christian Joachim
Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages)
088302 [View PDF (323 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Spatial Symmetry Breaking in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction with Light-Induced Remote Communication
M. Hildebrand, H. Skødt, and K. Showalter
Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages)
088303 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Interfacial Premelting and the Thermomolecular Force: Thermodynamic Buoyancy
A. W. Rempel, J. S. Wettlaufer, and M. G. Worster
Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages)
088501 [View PDF (83 kB)]
 
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