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Physical Review Letters – 6 August 2001
Volume 87, Issue 6

Solar-activity plot showing areas and latitudes of sunspots since 1874. A new statistical analysis finds that the irregularities in the solar cycle are the result of the superposition of two constant-amplitude and -phase oscillations on a stochastic background, and are not a manifestation of low-dimensional chaos as had been thought. [Antonis N. Andriotis, Madhu Menon, Deepak Srivastava, and Leonid Chernozatonskii, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 066802 (2001)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Lifetime Measurements with a Scanning Positron Microscope
A. David, G. Kögel, P. Sperr, and W. Triftshäuser
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
067402 [View PDF (865 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Identification of the Radiative and Nonradiative Parts of a Wave Field
B. J. Hoenders and H. A. Ferwerda
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
060401 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Superpositions of Vibronic Collective States of N Trapped Ions
E. Solano, R. L. de Matos Filho, and N. Zagury
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
060402 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein Condensates with Large Number of Vortices
Tin-Lun Ho
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
060403 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Constraints on the Interaction between Dark Matter and Baryons from Cooling Flow Clusters
Bo Qin and Xiang-Ping Wu
Published 19 July 2001 (3 pages)
061301 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Localized Gravity in String Theory
Andreas Karch and Lisa Randall
Published 23 July 2001 (3 pages)
061601 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Experimental Investigation of the Two-Photon Widths of the χc0 and the χc2 Mesons
B. I. Eisenstein et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
Published 24 July 2001 (5 pages)
061801 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Search for Heavy Particles Decaying into Electron-Positron Pairs in pp̅ Collisions
V. M. Abazov et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
Published 23 July 2001 (6 pages)
061802 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Asymptotic Deconfinement in High-Density QCD
D. H. Rischke, D. T. Son, and M. A. Stephanov
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
062001 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Random versus Realistic Interactions for Low-Lying Nuclear Spectra
Mihai Horoi, B. Alex Brown, and Vladimir Zelevinsky
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
062501 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Magic Nucleus 132Sn and Its One-Neutron-Hole Neighbor 131Sn
P. Bhattacharyya, P. J. Daly, C. T. Zhang, Z. W. Grabowski, S. K. Saha, R. Broda, B. Fornal, I. Ahmad, D. Seweryniak, I. Wiedenhöver, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, P. Reiter, and J. Blomqvist
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
062502 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Nuclear Quadrupole Moment of 57Fe from Microscopic Nuclear and Atomic Calculations
Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo, Peter Schwerdtfeger, Etienne Caurier, Karlheinz Langanke, Witold Nazarewicz, and Tilo Söhnel
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
062701 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Elastic Positronium-Atom Scattering Using the Stochastic Variational Method
I. A. Ivanov, J. Mitroy, and K. Varga
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
063201 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Charge-Induced Fragmentation of Sodium Clusters
P. Blaise, S. A. Blundell, C. Guet, and Rajendra R. Zope
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
063401 [View PDF (345 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Resonance-Assisted Tunneling in Near-Integrable Systems
Olivier Brodier, Peter Schlagheck, and Denis Ullmo
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
064101 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Scaling Properties of the Temperature Field in Convective Turbulence
Sheng-Qi Zhou and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
064501 [View PDF (319 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Slow Group Velocity and Cherenkov Radiation
I. Carusotto, M. Artoni, G. C. La Rocca, and F. Bassani
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
064801 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Characterization of Stationary and Nonstationary Behavior in Gyrotron Oscillators
T. H. Chang, S. H. Chen, L. R. Barnett, and K. R. Chu
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
064802 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of Intermittent Convection in the Edge of Magnetic Confinement Devices
G. Y. Antar, S. I. Krasheninnikov, P. Devynck, R. P. Doerner, E. M. Hollmann, J. A. Boedo, S. C. Luckhardt, and R. W. Conn
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
065001 [View PDF (237 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Microscopic Kinetics and Time-Dependent Structure Factors
T. Aspelmeier, B. Schmittmann, and R. K. P. Zia
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
065701 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Bulk and Boundary Zero-Bias Anomaly in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes
R. Egger and A. O. Gogolin
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
066401 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Glassy Spin Dynamics in Non-Fermi-Liquid UCu5-xPdx, x =  1.0 and 1.5
D. E. MacLaughlin, O. O. Bernal, R. H. Heffner, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, M. S. Rose, J. E. Sonier, B. Andraka, R. Chau, and M. B. Maple
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
066402 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Class of Exactly Solvable Pairing Models
J. Dukelsky, C. Esebbag, and P. Schuck
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
066403 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Spin, Charge, and Orbital Ordering in La0.5Sr1.5MnO4
Priya Mahadevan, K. Terakura, and D. D. Sarma
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
066404 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Dimer Decimation and Intricately Nested Localized-Ballistic Phases of a Kicked Harper Model
Tomaž Prosen, Indubala I. Satija, and Nausheen Shah
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
066601 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Dissociation of Vertical Semiconductor Diatomic Artificial Molecules
M. Pi, A. Emperador, M. Barranco, F. Garcias, K. Muraki, S. Tarucha, and D. G. Austing
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
066801 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Rectification Properties of Carbon Nanotube “Y-Junctions”
Antonis N. Andriotis, Madhu Menon, Deepak Srivastava, and Leonid Chernozatonskii
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
066802 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Spin Injection Across a Heterojunction: A Ballistic Picture
C.-M. Hu and T. Matsuyama
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
066803 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Anomalous Finite-Size Effect in Superconducting Josephson Junction Arrays
Qing-Hu Chen, Lei-Han Tang, and Peiqing Tong
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
067001 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Superconductivity in an Organic Insulator at Very High Magnetic Fields
L. Balicas, J. S. Brooks, K. Storr, S. Uji, M. Tokumoto, H. Tanaka, H. Kobayashi, A. Kobayashi, V. Barzykin, and L. P. Gor'kov
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
067002 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Vortex Avalanches and Magnetic Flux Fragmentation in Superconductors
Igor Aranson, Alex Gurevich, and Valerii Vinokur
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
067003 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Time-Resolved Measurements of Thermodynamic Fluctuations of the Particle Number in a Nondegenerate Fermi Gas
C. M. Wilson, L. Frunzio, and D. E. Prober
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
067004 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Correlation of Tunneling Spectra in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ with the Resonance Spin Excitation
J. F. Zasadzinski, L. Ozyuzer, N. Miyakawa, K. E. Gray, D. G. Hinks, and C. Kendziora
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
067005 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Full Current Statistics in Diffusive Normal-Superconductor Structures
W. Belzig and Yu. V. Nazarov
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
067006 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Do Superconductors Have Zero Resistance in a Magnetic Field?
D. R. Strachan, M. C. Sullivan, P. Fournier, S. P. Pai, T. Venkatesan, and C. J. Lobb
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
067007 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Anisotropic Spin-Orbit Coupling and Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Vicinal Co Films
Sarnjeet S. Dhesi, Gerrit van der Laan, Esther Dudzik, and Alexander B. Shick
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
067201 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Spin-Ordering Quantum Transitions of Superconductors in a Magnetic Field
Eugene Demler, Subir Sachdev, and Ying Zhang
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
067202 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Long-Range Order at Low Temperatures in Dipolar Spin Ice
Roger G. Melko, Byron C. den Hertog, and Michel J. P. Gingras
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
067203 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Quantum Decoherence in the Spectral Functions of Undoped LaMnO3
Jan Bała, George A. Sawatzky, Andrzej M. Oleś, and Alexandru Macridin
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
067204 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Finite-Temperature Magnetism of Transition Metals: An ab initio Dynamical Mean-Field Theory
A. I. Lichtenstein, M. I. Katsnelson, and G. Kotliar
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
067205 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Hybridized Nature of Pseudogap in Kondo Insulators CeRhSb and CeRhAs
H. Kumigashira, T. Takahashi, S. Yoshii, and M. Kasaya
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
067206 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Selective-Resputtering-Induced Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy in Amorphous TbFe Films
Vincent G. Harris and Taras Pokhil
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
067207 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Realization of a Large Magnetic Moment in the Ferromagnetic CoPt Bulk Phase
G. S. Chang, Y. P. Lee, J. Y. Rhee, J. Lee, K. Jeong, and C. N. Whang
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
067208 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Long-Range Order and Low-Energy Spectrum of Diluted 2D Quantum Antiferromagnet
A. L. Chernyshev, Y. C. Chen, and A. H. Castro Neto
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
067209 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Nanoscale Multiphase Separation at La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces
M. Bibes, Ll. Balcells, S. Valencia, J. Fontcuberta, M. Wojcik, E. Jedryka, and S. Nadolski
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
067210 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Control of Exciton Dynamics in Nanodots for Quantum Operations
Pochung Chen, C. Piermarocchi, and L. J. Sham
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
067401 [View PDF (180 kB)]
Lifetime Measurements with a Scanning Positron Microscope
A. David, G. Kögel, P. Sperr, and W. Triftshäuser
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
067402 [View PDF (865 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Transverse Spin Relaxation in Liquid 129Xe in the Presence of Large Dipolar Fields
M. V. Romalis and M. P. Ledbetter
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
067601 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Probabilistic Quantum Memories
C. A. Trugenberger
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
067901 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Resetting Wave Forms in Dictyostelium Territories
Kyoung J. Lee, Raymond E. Goldstein, and Edward C. Cox
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
068101 [View PDF (314 kB)]
Dynamical Encoding by Networks of Competing Neuron Groups: Winnerless Competition
M. Rabinovich, A. Volkovskii, P. Lecanda, R. Huerta, H. D. I. Abarbanel, and G. Laurent
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
068102 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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The Future is Noisy: The Role of Spatial Fluctuations in Genetic Switching
Ralf Metzler
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
068103 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Noise Effects on the Complex Patterns of Abnormal Heartbeats
Verena Schulte-Frohlinde, Yosef Ashkenazy, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Leon Glass, Ary L. Goldberger, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
068104 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Strong Explosive Interaction of Hydrogenated Porous Silicon with Oxygen at Cryogenic Temperatures
D. Kovalev, V. Yu. Timoshenko, N. Künzner, E. Gross, and F. Koch
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
068301 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Communication Networks with an Emergent Dynamical Structure
Olga V. Kirillova
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
068701 [View PDF (128 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Can Disorder Induce a Finite Thermal Conductivity in 1D Lattices?”
Abhishek Dhar
Published 24 July 2001 (1 page)
069401 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Li, Zhao, and Hu Reply:
B. Li, H. Zhao, and B. Hu
Published 24 July 2001 (1 page)
069402 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Comment on “Quantum Games and Quantum Strategies''
Simon C. Benjamin and Patrick M. Hayden
Published 19 July 2001 (1 page)
069801 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Eisert, Wilkens, and Lewenstein Reply:
Jens Eisert, Martin Wilkens, and Maciej Lewenstein
Published 19 July 2001 (1 page)
069802 [View PDF (23 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Local Measurement of Nonclassical Ion Heating during Magnetic Reconnection [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3859 (2000)]
S. C. Hsu, G. Fiksel, T. A. Carter, H. Ji, R. M. Kulsrud, and M. Yamada
Published 18 July 2001 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
 
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