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Physical Review Letters – 17 September 2001
Volume 87, Issue 12

Surface topography (left) and derivative (right) for deliberately rough heterostructure surface. [R. L. Willett, J. W. Hsu, D. Natelson, K. W. West, and L. N. Pfeiffer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 126803 (2001)]

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Zero-Magnetization Ferromagnet Proven by Helicity-Switching Compton Scattering
H. Adachi, H. Kawata, H. Hashimoto, Y. Sato, I. Matsumoto, and Y. Tanaka
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
127202 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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BEC Transition Temperature of a Dilute Homogeneous Imperfect Bose Gas
Peter Arnold and Guy Moore
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
120401 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Critical Temperature Shift in Weakly Interacting Bose Gas
V. A. Kashurnikov, N. V. Prokof'ev, and B. V. Svistunov
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
120402 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Nonanalytic Dependence of the Transition Temperature of the Homogeneous Dilute Bose Gas on Scattering Length
Markus Holzmann, Gordon Baym, Jean-Paul Blaizot, and Franck Laloë
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
120403 [View PDF (81 kB)]
Casimir Interaction among Objects Immersed in a Fermionic Environment
Aurel Bulgac and Andreas Wirzba
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
120404 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Quantum Phases of Vortices in Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates
N. R. Cooper, N. K. Wilkin, and J. M. F. Gunn
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
120405 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Resonance Superfluidity in a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas
M. Holland, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, M. L. Chiofalo, and R. Walser
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
120406 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Monopoles in an Antiferromagnetic Bose-Einstein Condensate
H. T. C. Stoof, E. Vliegen, and U. Al Khawaja
Published 3 September 2001 (4 pages)
120407 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Ruling Out Chaos in Compact Binary Systems
J. D. Schnittman and F. A. Rasio
Published 27 August 2001 (4 pages)
121101 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Initial Data for Two Kerr-like Black Holes
Sergio Dain
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
121102 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Plunge Waveforms from Inspiralling Binary Black Holes
J. Baker, B. Brügmann, M. Campanelli, C. O. Lousto, and R. Takahashi
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
121103 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Dynamical Initial Conditions in Quantum Cosmology
Martin Bojowald
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
121301 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Production of a Higgs Boson Accompanied by Two Jets Via Gluon Fusion
V. Del Duca, W. Kilgore, C. Oleari, C. Schmidt, and D. Zeppenfeld
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
122001 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Coulomb Energy Differences in T = 1 Mirror Rotational Bands in 50Fe and 50Cr
S. M. Lenzi et al.
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
122501 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Dipole Excitation of α Clusters in 6Li and 7Li
S. Nakayama, T. Yamagata, H. Akimune, I. Daito, H. Fujimura, Y. Fujita, M. Fujiwara, K. Fushimi, M. B. Greenfield, H. Kohri, N. Koori, K. Takahisa, A. Tamii, M. Tanaka, and H. Toyokawa
Published 4 September 2001 (4 pages)
122502 [View PDF (222 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Complete Measurement of S(1D2) Photofragment Alignment from Abel-Invertible Ion Images
T. Peter Rakitzis, Peter C. Samartzis, and Theofanis N. Kitsopoulos
Published 29 August 2001 (4 pages)
123001 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Doppler Cooling and Trapping on Forbidden Transitions
T. Binnewies, G. Wilpers, U. Sterr, F. Riehle, J. Helmcke, T. E. Mehlstäubler, E. M. Rasel, and W. Ertmer
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
123002 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Boundary Conditions for the Pauli Equation: Application to Photodetachment of Cs-
C. Bahrim, I. I. Fabrikant, and U. Thumm
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
123003 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Dynamical Relativistic Effects in Photoionization: Spin-Orbit-Resolved Angular Distributions of Xenon 4d Photoelectrons near the Cooper Minimum
H. Wang, G. Snell, O. Hemmers, M. M. Sant'Anna, I. Sellin, N. Berrah, D. W. Lindle, P. C. Deshmukh, N. Haque, and S. T. Manson
Published 4 September 2001 (4 pages)
123004 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Fraunhofer Diffraction of Atomic Matter Waves: Electron Transfer Studies with a Laser Cooled Target
M. van der Poel, C. V. Nielsen, M.-A. Gearba, and N. Andersen
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
123201 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Recoil Momentum Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ion Collisions on Magneto-Optically Trapped Na
J. W. Turkstra, R. Hoekstra, S. Knoop, D. Meyer, R. Morgenstern, and R. E. Olson
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
123202 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Kinematically Complete Charge Exchange Experiment in the Cs++Rb Collision System Using a MOT Target
X. Flechard, H. Nguyen, E. Wells, I. Ben-Itzhak, and B. D. DePaola
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
123203 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Observation of a 1/t Decay Law for Hot Clusters and Molecules in a Storage Ring
K. Hansen, J. U. Andersen, P. Hvelplund, S. P. Møller, U. V. Pedersen, and V. V. Petrunin
Published 29 August 2001 (4 pages)
123401 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Squeezed Light from Spin-Squeezed Atoms
Uffe V. Poulsen and Klaus Mølmer
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
123601 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Role of Entanglement in Two-Photon Imaging
Ayman F. Abouraddy, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Alexander V. Sergienko, and Malvin C. Teich
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
123602 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Nonlinear Optics with Less Than One Photon
K. J. Resch, J. S. Lundeen, and A. M. Steinberg
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
123603 [View PDF (220 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Revivals and Oscillations of the Momentum of Light in a Planar Multimode Waveguide
Yuri B. Ovchinnikov and Tilman Pfau
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
123901 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Computational Aberration Correction for an Arbitrary Linear Imaging System
L. J. Allen, M. P. Oxley, and D. Paganin
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
123902 [View PDF (784 kB)]
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Nonstationary Time-Series Analysis: Accurate Reconstruction of Driving Forces
P. F. Verdes, P. M. Granitto, H. D. Navone, and H. A. Ceccatto
Published 4 September 2001 (4 pages)
124101 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Inverse Statistics of Smooth Signals: The Case of Two Dimensional Turbulence
L. Biferale, M. Cencini, A. Lanotte, D. Vergni, and A. Vulpiani
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
124501 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Experimental Determination of Critical Threshold in Electron Transport on Tore Supra
G. T. Hoang, C. Bourdelle, X. Garbet, G. Giruzzi, T. Aniel, M. Ottaviani, W. Horton, P. Zhu, and R. V. Budny
Published 4 September 2001 (4 pages)
125001 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Pressure-Induced Quenching of the Jahn-Teller Distortion and Insulator-to-Metal Transition in LaMnO3
I. Loa, P. Adler, A. Grzechnik, K. Syassen, U. Schwarz, M. Hanfland, G. Kh. Rozenberg, P. Gorodetsky, and M. P. Pasternak
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
125501 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Smallest Nanotube: Breaking the Symmetry of sp3 Bonds in Tubular Geometries
Dragan Stojkovic, Peihong Zhang, and Vincent H. Crespi
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
125502 [View PDF (600 kB)]
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Roughness of Crack Interfaces in Two-Dimensional Beam Lattices
Bjørn Skjetne, Torbjørn Helle, and Alex Hansen
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
125503 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Bonse-Hart Angular Profiles Realized for Multiply Bragg Reflected Neutrons
Apoorva G. Wagh, Veer Chand Rakhecha, and Wolfgang Treimer
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
125504 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Effects of Surface Roughness on Self- and Transport Diffusion in Porous Media in the Knudsen Regime
Kourosh Malek and Marc-Olivier Coppens
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
125505 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Anisotropic Interactions of Hydrogen Molecules from the Pressure Dependence of the Rotational Spectrum in the Ar(H2)2 Compound
Francesco Grazzi, Mario Santoro, Massimo Moraldi, and Lorenzo Ulivi
Published 4 September 2001 (4 pages)
125506 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Binary Separation in Very Thin Nematic Films: Thickness and Phase Coexistence
D. van Effenterre, R. Ober, M. P. Valignat, and A. M. Cazabat
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
125701 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Anisotropic Scaling and Generalized Conformal Invariance at Lifshitz Points
Michel Pleimling and Malte Henkel
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
125702 [View PDF (781 kB)]
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Hexatic Order and Surface Ripples in Spherical Geometries
Peter Lenz and David R. Nelson
Published 3 September 2001 (4 pages)
125703 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Ge Self-Diffusion in Epitaxial Si1-xGex Layers
N. R. Zangenberg, J. Lundsgaard Hansen, J. Fage-Pedersen, and A. Nylandsted Larsen
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
125901 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Closing the Gap between Experiment and Theory: Crystal Growth by Temperature Accelerated Dynamics
F. Montalenti, M. R. Sørensen, and A. F. Voter
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
126101 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Adsorption-Induced Step Formation
P. Thostrup, E. Christoffersen, H. T. Lorensen, K. W. Jacobsen, F. Besenbacher, and J. K. Nørskov
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
126102 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Self-Assembly of Two-Dimensional Islands via Strain-Mediated Coarsening
Feng Liu, Adam H. Li, and M. G. Lagally
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
126103 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Negative Resistance and Local Charge-Density-Wave Dynamics
H. S. J. van der Zant, E. Slot, S. V. Zaitsev-Zotov, and S. N. Artemenko
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
126401 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Exact Results for the Crossover from Gaussian to Non-Gaussian Order Parameter Fluctuations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Electronic Systems
Hartmut Monien
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
126402 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Polarity Inversion in Polar-Nonpolar-Polar Heterostructures
Sunglae Cho, Suk J. Youn, Yunki Kim, Antonio DiVenere, George K. L. Wong, Authur J. Freeman, and J. B. Ketterson
Published 3 September 2001 (4 pages)
126403 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Nature of Charge Carriers in Disordered Molecular Solids: Are Polarons Compatible with Observations?
P. E. Parris, V. M. Kenkre, and D. H. Dunlap
Published 29 August 2001 (4 pages)
126601 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Quantum Loop Current in a C60 Molecular Bridge
Shousuke Nakanishi and Masaru Tsukada
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
126801 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Metallic Behavior in Dilute Two-Dimensional Hole Systems
A. R. Hamilton, M. Y. Simmons, M. Pepper, E. H. Linfield, and D. A. Ritchie
Published 29 August 2001 (4 pages)
126802 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Anisotropic Disorder in High-Mobility 2D Heterostructures and Its Correlation to Electron Transport
R. L. Willett, J. W. P. Hsu, D. Natelson, K. W. West, and L. N. Pfeiffer
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
126803 [View PDF (809 kB)]
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Coulomb Blockade of Tunneling between Disordered Conductors
Jörg Rollbühler and Hermann Grabert
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
126804 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Quasiclassical Negative Magnetoresistance of a 2D Electron Gas: Interplay of Strong Scatterers and Smooth Disorder
A. D. Mirlin, D. G. Polyakov, F. Evers, and P. Wölfle
Published 4 September 2001 (4 pages)
126805 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Evidence for Strong-Coupling s-Wave Superconductivity in MgB2: 11B NMR Study
H. Kotegawa, K. Ishida, Y. Kitaoka, T. Muranaka, and J. Akimitsu
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
127001 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Observation of Two-Magnon Bound States in the Two-Leg Ladders of (Ca,La)14Cu24O41
M. Windt, M. Grüninger, T. Nunner, C. Knetter, K. P. Schmidt, G. S. Uhrig, T. Kopp, A. Freimuth, U. Ammerahl, B. Büchner, and A. Revcolevschi
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
127002 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Strong Enhancement of Superconducting Tc in Ferromagnetic Phases
T. R. Kirkpatrick, D. Belitz, Thomas Vojta, and R. Narayanan
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
127003 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Critical State Theory for Nonparallel Flux Line Lattices in Type-II Superconductors
A. Badía and C. López
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
127004 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Loss of Superconducting Phase Coherence in YBa2Cu3O7 Films: Vortex-Loop Unbinding and Kosterlitz-Thouless Phenomena
Jürgen Kötzler, Detlef Görlitz, Sven Skwirblies, and Axel Wriedt
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
127005 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Parity-Forbidden Excitations of Sr2CuO2Cl2 Revealed by Optical Third-Harmonic Spectroscopy
A. B. Schumacher, J. S. Dodge, M. A. Carnahan, R. A. Kaindl, D. S. Chemla, and L. L. Miller
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
127006 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Atomic-Scale Magnetic Domain Walls in Quasi-One-Dimensional Fe Nanostripes
M. Pratzer, H. J. Elmers, M. Bode, O. Pietzsch, A. Kubetzka, and R. Wiesendanger
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
127201 [View PDF (281 kB)]
Zero-Magnetization Ferromagnet Proven by Helicity-Switching Compton Scattering
H. Adachi, H. Kawata, H. Hashimoto, Y. Sato, I. Matsumoto, and Y. Tanaka
Published 28 August 2001 (4 pages)
127202 [View PDF (88 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Two-Stage Spin-Flop Transitions in the S = 1/2 Antiferromagnetic Spin Chain BaCu2Si2O7
I. Tsukada, J. Takeya, T. Masuda, and K. Uchinokura
Published 29 August 2001 (4 pages)
127203 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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High Resolution Study of Permanent Photoinduced Reflectivity Changes and Charge-Order Domain Switching in Bi0.3Ca0.7MnO3
I. I. Smolyaninov, V. N. Smolyaninova, C. C. Davis, B.-G. Kim, S.-W. Cheong, and R. L. Greene
Published 29 August 2001 (4 pages)
127204 [View PDF (667 kB)]
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Non-Gaussian Noise in Quantum Spin Glasses and Interacting Two-Level Systems
A. K. Nguyen and S. M. Girvin
Published 29 August 2001 (4 pages)
127205 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Ultraslow Polaron Dynamics in Low-Doped Manganites from 139La NMR-NQR and Muon Spin Rotation
G. Allodi, M. Cestelli Guidi, R. De Renzi, A. Caneiro, and L. Pinsard
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
127206 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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High-Temperature Electron Paramagnetic Resonance in Magnets with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
J. Choukroun, J.-L. Richard, and A. Stepanov
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
127207 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Rigorous Results for a Hierarchy of Generalized Heisenberg Models
You-Quan Li
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
127208 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Exact Solutions for Diluted Spin Glasses and Optimization Problems
Silvio Franz, Michele Leone, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, and Riccardo Zecchina
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
127209 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Polarized Absorption Spectra of Single-Walled 4 Å Carbon Nanotubes Aligned in Channels of an AlPO4-5 Single Crystal
Z. M. Li, Z. K. Tang, H. J. Liu, N. Wang, C. T. Chan, R. Saito, S. Okada, G. D. Li, J. S. Chen, N. Nagasawa, and S. Tsuda
Published 29 August 2001 (4 pages)
127401 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Magnetotransverse Scattering of Surface Plasmon Polaritons
G. Düchs, G. L. J. A. Rikken, T. Grenet, and P. Wyder
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
127402 [View PDF (534 kB)]
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Parametric Polariton Amplification in Semiconductor Microcavities
G. Messin, J. Ph. Karr, A. Baas, G. Khitrova, R. Houdré, R. P. Stanley, U. Oesterle, and E. Giacobino
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
127403 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Surface Temperature Dependence of Rotational Excitation of H2 Scattered from Pd(111)
H. F. Busnengo, W. Dong, P. Sautet, and A. Salin
Published 30 August 2001 (4 pages)
127601 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Light-Shift-Induced Quantum Gates for Ions in Thermal Motion
Daniel Jonathan and Martin B. Plenio
Published 4 September 2001 (4 pages)
127901 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Active Fusion and Fission Processes on a Fluid Membrane
Madan Rao and Sarasij R. C.
Published 31 August 2001 (4 pages)
128101 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Emergence of Taxis and Synergy in Angiogenesis
B. Capogrosso Sansone, M. Scalerandi, and C. A. Condat
Published 4 September 2001 (4 pages)
128102 [View PDF (337 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Hole-Burning Experiments within Glassy Models with Infinite Range Interactions”
R. V. Chamberlin and R. Richert
Published 31 August 2001 (1 page)
129601 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Comment on “Hole-Burning Experiments within Glassy Models with Infinite Range Interactions”
Gregor Diezemann and Roland Böhmer
Published 31 August 2001 (1 page)
129602 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Cugliandolo and Iguain Reply:
Leticia F. Cugliandolo and José Luis Iguain
Published 31 August 2001 (1 page)
129603 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Comment on “Scaling of the Conductivity with Temperature and Uniaxial Stress in Si:B at the Metal-Insulator Transition”
T. G. Castner
Published 28 August 2001 (1 page)
129701 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Bhatt, Bogdanovich, and Sarachik Reply:
R. N. Bhatt, S. Bogdanovich, and M. P. Sarachik
Published 28 August 2001 (1 page)
129702 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Low Temperature Magnetic Instabilities in Triply Charged Fulleride Polymers”
Ferenc Simon, Slaven Garaj, and László Forró
Published 29 August 2001 (1 page)
129703 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Arčon et al. Reply:
D. Arčon, K. Prassides, A. L. Maniero, and L. C. Brunel
Published 29 August 2001 (1 page)
129704 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Comment on “Quantum Clock Synchronization Based on Shared Prior Entanglement”
Eric A. Burt, Christopher R. Ekstrom, and Thomas B. Swanson
Published 29 August 2001 (1 page)
129801 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Jozsa et al. Reply:
Richard Jozsa, Danial S. Abrams, Jonathan P. Dowling, and Colin P. Williams
Published 29 August 2001 (1 page)
129802 [View PDF (30 kB)]
 
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