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Physical Review Letters – 19 November 2001
Volume 87, Issue 21

Simulated free energy of a 200-monomer chain as a function of crystal thickness (L) and orientational order parameter (S), dictating spontaneous selection of polymer crystal thickness. Ordered (valley) and disordered (saddle) configurations are shown. [P. Welch and M. Muthukumar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 218302 (2001)]

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Nonlinear Micromechanical Casimir Oscillator
H. B. Chan, V. A. Aksyuk, R. N. Kleiman, D. J. Bishop, and Federico Capasso
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
211801 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Self-Guided Propagation of Ultrashort IR Laser Pulses in Fused Silica
S. Tzortzakis, L. Sudrie, M. Franco, B. Prade, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Couairon, and L. Bergé
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Bose-Fermi Variational Theory of the Bose-Einstein Condensate Crossover to the Tonks Gas
M. D. Girardeau and E. M. Wright
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
210401 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Vortex Nucleation in a Stirred Bose-Einstein Condensate
C. Raman, J. R. Abo-Shaeer, J. M. Vogels, K. Xu, and W. Ketterle
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Driving Bose-Einstein-Condensate Vorticity with a Rotating Normal Cloud
P. C. Haljan, I. Coddington, P. Engels, and E. A. Cornell
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
210403 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Classical-Field Method for Time Dependent Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases
Alice Sinatra, Carlos Lobo, and Yvan Castin
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
210404 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Solution of the Relativistic Dirac-Morse Problem
A. D. Alhaidari
Published 5 November 2001 (4 pages)
210405 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Collapse in Systems with Attractive Nonintegrable Potentials
I. Ispolatov and E. G. D. Cohen
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
210601 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Geometric CP Violation with Extra Dimensions
Darwin Chang and R. N. Mohapatra
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
211601 [View PDF (85 kB)]
Nonlinear Micromechanical Casimir Oscillator
H. B. Chan, V. A. Aksyuk, R. N. Kleiman, D. J. Bishop, and Federico Capasso
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
211801 [View PDF (145 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Bloch-Nordsieck Violation in Spontaneously Broken Abelian Theories
Marcello Ciafaloni, Paolo Ciafaloni, and Denis Comelli
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
211802 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Supersymmetric SO(10) Grand Unified Models with Yukawa Unification and a Positive μ Term
Howard Baer and Javier Ferrandis
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
211803 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Charged-Particle Multiplicity pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
Published 5 November 2001 (6 pages)
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Nuclear Physics

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Energy Dependence of Nuclear Transparency in C (p,2p) Scattering
A. Leksanov, J. Alster, G. Asryan, Y. Averichev, D. Barton, V. Baturin, N. Bukhtoyarova, A. Carroll, S. Heppelmann, T. Kawabata, Y. Makdisi, A. Malki, E. Minina, I. Navon, H. Nicholson, A. Ogawa, Yu. Panebratsev, E. Piasetzky, A. Schetkovsky, S. Shimanskiy, A. Tang, J. W. Watson, H. Yoshida, and D. Zhalov
Published 6 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Effective Charge of the πh11/2 Orbital and the Electric Field Gradient of Hg from the Yrast Structure of 206Hg
B. Fornal, R. Broda, K. H. Maier, J. Wrzesiński, G. J. Lane, M. Cromaz, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. M. Clark, K. Vetter, A. P. Byrne, G. D. Dracoulis, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens, I. Wiedenhoever, M. Rejmund, and J. Blomqvist
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Observation of a ΛΛ6He Double Hypernucleus
H. Takahashi et al.
Published 2 November 2001 (5 pages)
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Generation of Electromagnetic Pulses from Plasma Channels Induced by Femtosecond Light Strings
Chung-Chieh Cheng, E. M. Wright, and J. V. Moloney
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
213001 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Benchmark Nonperturbative Calculations for the Electron-Impact Ionization of Li(2s) and Li(2p)
J. Colgan, M. S. Pindzola, D. M. Mitnik, D. C. Griffin, and I. Bray
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
213201 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Stochastic Resonances in an Optical Two-Order Parameter Vectorial System
Kamal P. Singh, Guy Ropars, Marc Brunel, Fabien Bretenaker, and Albert Le Floch
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
213901 [View PDF (124 kB)]
Self-Guided Propagation of Ultrashort IR Laser Pulses in Fused Silica
S. Tzortzakis, L. Sudrie, M. Franco, B. Prade, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Couairon, and L. Bergé
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
213902 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Measurement of Lagrangian Velocity in Fully Developed Turbulence
N. Mordant, P. Metz, O. Michel, and J.-F. Pinton
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
214501 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Exact Calculation of the Linear Term in the Density Expansion of the Dynamic Structure Factor of a Dilute Gas
Kunimasa Miyazaki and I. M. de Schepper
Published 5 November 2001 (4 pages)
214502 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Fast Proton Generation from Ultrashort Laser Pulse Interaction with Double-Layer Foil Targets
J. Badziak, E. Woryna, P. Parys, K. Yu. Platonov, S. Jabłoński, L. Ryć, A. B. Vankov, and J. Wołowski
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
215001 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Explosive Vaporization of Metallic Sodium Microparticles by CW Resonant Laser Radiation
S. N. Atutov, W. Baldini, V. Biancalana, R. Calabrese, V. Guidi, B. Mai, E. Mariotti, G. Mazzocca, L. Moi, S. P. Pod'yachev, and L. Tomassetti
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Finite Larmor-Radius Theory of Magnetic Island Evolution
F. L. Waelbroeck, J. W. Connor, and H. R. Wilson
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
215003 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Measurements of the Inverse Faraday Effect from Relativistic Laser Interactions with an Underdense Plasma
Z. Najmudin, M. Tatarakis, A. Pukhov, E. L. Clark, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, J. Faure, V. Malka, D. Neely, M. I. K. Santala, and K. Krushelnick
Published 5 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Transition from Cage Clathrate to Filled Ice: The Structure of Methane Hydrate III
J. S. Loveday, R. J. Nelmes, M. Guthrie, D. D. Klug, and J. S. Tse
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
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Thermal Transport Measurements of Individual Multiwalled Nanotubes
P. Kim, L. Shi, A. Majumdar, and P. L. McEuen
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
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Model for a Random Laser
A. L. Burin, M. A. Ratner, H. Cao, and R. P. H. Chang
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Neutron Investigation of the Ion Dynamics in Liquid Mercury: Evidence for Collective Excitations
L. E. Bove, F. Sacchetti, C. Petrillo, B. Dorner, F. Formisano, and F. Barocchi
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Correlation of Positron Annihilation and Other Dynamic Properties in Small Molecule Glass-Forming Substances
Kia L. Ngai, Li-Rong Bao, Albert F. Yee, and Christopher L. Soles
Published 5 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Casimir Effect in Fluids above the Isotropic-Lamellar Transition
Nariya Uchida
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
216101 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Light-Atom Location in Adsorbed Benzene by Experiment and Theory
G. Held, W. Braun, H.-P. Steinrück, S. Yamagishi, S. J. Jenkins, and D. A. King
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Kinetics of Faceting Driven by Attractive Step-Step Interactions on Vicinal Si(113)
K. Sudoh and H. Iwasaki
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Fermi Surface Nesting in Disordered Cu1-xPdx Alloys
I. Wilkinson, R. J. Hughes, Zs. Major, S. B. Dugdale, M. A. Alam, E. Bruno, B. Ginatempo, and E. S. Giuliano
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
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Charged Excitons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime
G. Yusa, H. Shtrikman, and I. Bar-Joseph
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
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Muonium Analog of Hydrogen Passivation: Observation of the Mu+-Zn- Reaction in GaAs
K. H. Chow, B. Hitti, R. F. Kiefl, R. L. Lichti, and T. L. Estle
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
216403 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Spectroscopic Indications of Polaronic Carriers in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductor (TaSe4)2I
L. Perfetti, H. Berger, A. Reginelli, L. Degiorgi, H. Höchst, J. Voit, G. Margaritondo, and M. Grioni
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
216404 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Importance of Correlation Effects on Magnetic Anisotropy in Fe and Ni
Imseok Yang, Sergej Y. Savrasov, and Gabriel Kotliar
Published 6 November 2001 (4 pages)
216405 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Kondo Effect in Real Quantum Dots
M. Pustilnik and L. I. Glazman
Published 6 November 2001 (4 pages)
216601 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Resistance Spikes and Domain Wall Loops in Ising Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
T. Jungwirth and A. H. MacDonald
Published 30 October 2001 (4 pages)
216801 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Metallic Phase in Quantum Hall Systems due to Inter-Landau-Band Mixing
Gang Xiong, Shi-Dong Wang, Qian Niu, De-Cheng Tian, and X. R. Wang
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
216802 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Tunneling through a Quantum Dot in Local Spin Singlet-Triplet Crossover Region with Kondo Effect
Wataru Izumida, Osamu Sakai, and Seigo Tarucha
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
216803 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Observation of Magnetically Induced Effective-Mass Enhancement of Quasi-2D Excitons
L. V. Butov, C. W. Lai, D. S. Chemla, Yu. E. Lozovik, K. L. Campman, and A. C. Gossard
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
216804 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Crossover from Electronic to Atomic Shell Structure in Alkali Metal Nanowires
A. I. Yanson, I. K. Yanson, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
216805 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Photoinduced Anisotropy of Photoconductivity in Amorphous As50Se50 Films
V. Lyubin, M. Klebanov, and V. K. Tikhomirov
Published 2 November 2001 (3 pages)
216806 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Shot-Noise in Transport and Beam Experiments
U. Gavish, Y. Levinson, and Y. Imry
Published 6 November 2001 (4 pages)
216807 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Resonant Transport in Nb /GaAs /AlGaAs Heterostructures: Realization of the de Gennes–Saint-James Model
Francesco Giazotto, Pasqualantonio Pingue, Fabio Beltram, Marco Lazzarino, Daniela Orani, Silvia Rubini, and Alfonso Franciosi
Published 6 November 2001 (4 pages)
216808 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Doping Dependence of Pseudogap and Related Charge Dynamics in Nd2-xCexCuO4
Y. Onose, Y. Taguchi, K. Ishizaka, and Y. Tokura
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
217001 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Projected Wave Functions and High Temperature Superconductivity
Arun Paramekanti, Mohit Randeria, and Nandini Trivedi
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
217002 [View PDF (144 kB)]
Quantum Phase Slips in Superconducting Nanowires
C. N. Lau, N. Markovic, M. Bockrath, A. Bezryadin, and M. Tinkham
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
217003 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Quantized Thermal Hall Effect in the Mixed State of d-Wave Superconductors
Ashvin Vishwanath
Published 5 November 2001 (4 pages)
217004 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Spectacular Doping Dependence of Interlayer Exchange and Other Results on Spin Waves in Bilayer Manganites
T. G. Perring, D. T. Adroja, G. Chaboussant, G. Aeppli, T. Kimura, and Y. Tokura
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
217201 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Orbital Excitations in LaMnO3
Jeroen van den Brink
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
217202 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Spin-Wave Instabilities in Large-Scale Nonlinear Magnetization Dynamics
Giorgio Bertotti, Isaak D. Mayergoyz, and Claudio Serpico
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
217203 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Gilbert Damping in Single and Multilayer Ultrathin Films: Role of Interfaces in Nonlocal Spin Dynamics
R. Urban, G. Woltersdorf, and B. Heinrich
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
217204 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Hopping Transport of Positrons in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon
D. T. Britton, A. Hempel, and W. Triftshäuser
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
217401 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Evidence for Pb-O Covalency in Tetragonal PbTiO3
Yoshihiro Kuroiwa, Shinobu Aoyagi, Akikatsu Sawada, Jimpei Harada, Eiji Nishibori, Masaki Takata, and Makoto Sakata
Published 6 November 2001 (4 pages)
217601 [View PDF (362 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Solution to the Byzantine Agreement Problem
Matthias Fitzi, Nicolas Gisin, and Ueli Maurer
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
217901 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Asymptotic Relative Entropy of Entanglement
K. Audenaert, J. Eisert, E. Jané, M. B. Plenio, S. Virmani, and B. De Moor
Published 6 November 2001 (4 pages)
217902 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Positional, Reorientational, and Bond Orientational Order in DNA Mesophases
V. Lorman, R. Podgornik, and B. Žekš
Published 1 November 2001 (4 pages)
218101 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Nonstationary Phenomena in Tapered Gyro-Backward-Wave Oscillators
G. S. Nusinovich, A. N. Vlasov, and T. M. Antonsen, Jr.
Published 31 October 2001 (4 pages)
218301 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Molecular Mechanisms of Polymer Crystallization from Solution
P. Welch and M. Muthukumar
Published 2 November 2001 (4 pages)
218302 [View PDF (212 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Superfluidity at Supersonic Speed?
Mourad Haddad and Vincent Hakim
Published 2 November 2001 (1 page)
218901 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Law et al. Reply:
C. K. Law, C. M. Chan, P. T. Leung, and M. C. Chu
Published 2 November 2001 (1 page)
218902 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Comment on “Breakdown of the Internet under Intentional Attack”
S. N. Dorogovtsev and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 31 October 2001 (1 page)
219801 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Cohen, Erez, ben-Avraham, and Havlin Reply:
Reuven Cohen, Keren Erez, Daniel ben-Avraham, and Shlomo Havlin
Published 31 October 2001 (1 page)
219802 [View PDF (39 kB)]
 
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