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Physical Review Letters – 18 March 2002
Volume 88, Issue 11

Laser light exiting a sodium vapor cell as the power (a) and frequency (b & c) are varied; c is at lower power and higher density than b. The laser beam undergoes filamentation as it passes through the vapor and breaks up into the beams shown on the left in the figures; in the far field, these beams' diffraction patterns superimpose to form the hexagonal patterns on the right. [Ryan S. Bennink, Vincent Wong, Alberto M. Marino, David L. Aronstein, Robert W. Boyd, C. R. Stroud, Svetlana Lukishova, and Daniel J. Gauthier, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 113901 (2002)]

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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.

Long Term Behavior of Lithographically Prepared In Vitro Neuronal Networks
Ronen Segev, Morris Benveniste, Eyal Hulata, Netta Cohen, Alexander Palevski, Eli Kapon, Yoash Shapira, and Eshel Ben-Jacob
Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages)
118102 [View PDF (245 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Riemannian Geometry of Irrotational Vortex Acoustics
Uwe R. Fischer and Matt Visser
Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages)
110201 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Diffraction of a Superfluid Fermi Gas by an Atomic Grating
C. P. Search, H. Pu, W. Zhang, and P. Meystre
Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages)
110401 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Abnormal Number of Nambu-Goldstone Bosons and Kaon Condensate
V. A. Miransky and I. A. Shovkovy
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
111601 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Shadows of the Planck Scale: Scale Dependence of Compactification Geometry
Keith R. Dienes and Arash Mafi
Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages)
111602 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Covariant Coordinate Transformations on Noncommutative Space
R. Jackiw and S.-Y. Pi
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
111603 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Observation of the Decay K-→π-μ+μ- and Measurements of the Branching Ratios for K±→π±μ+μ-
H. K. Park et al. (HyperCP Collaboration)
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
111801 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Can the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with Light Bottom Squark and Light Gluino Survive Z-Peak Constraints?
Junjie Cao, Zhaohua Xiong, and Jin Min Yang
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
111802 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Search for CP Violation in τ→ Kπντ Decays
G. Bonvicini et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
Published 28 February 2002 (5 pages)
111803 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Predictions for Higgs and Supersymmetry Spectra from SO(10) Yukawa Unification with μ>0
T. Blažek, R. Dermíšek, and S. Raby
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
111804 [View PDF (183 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Collective Deceleration of Ultrarelativistic Nuclei and Creation of Quark-Gluon Plasma
I. N. Mishustin and J. I. Kapusta
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
112501 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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129Xe-Xe Molecular Spin Relaxation
B. Chann, I. A. Nelson, L. W. Anderson, B. Driehuys, and T. G. Walker
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
113201 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Quantum State Preparation and Conditional Coherence
K. J. Resch, J. S. Lundeen, and A. M. Steinberg
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
113601 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Honeycomb Pattern Formation by Laser-Beam Filamentation in Atomic Sodium Vapor
Ryan S. Bennink, Vincent Wong, Alberto M. Marino, David L. Aronstein, Robert W. Boyd, C. R. Stroud, Jr., Svetlana Lukishova, and Daniel J. Gauthier
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
113901 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Rayleigh-Type Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing: Ultrafast Measurement and Field Correlation
Panming Fu, Qiang Jiang, Xin Mi, and Zuhe Yu
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
113902 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Nodal Domains Statistics: A Criterion for Quantum Chaos
Galya Blum, Sven Gnutzmann, and Uzy Smilansky
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
114101 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Percolation Model for Nodal Domains of Chaotic Wave Functions
E. Bogomolny and C. Schmit
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
114102 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Anomalous Self-Similarity in a Turbulent Rapidly Rotating Fluid
Charles N. Baroud, Brendan B. Plapp, Zhen-Su She, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
114501 [View PDF (227 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Phonon Anomalies due to Collective Stripe Modes in High Tc Cuprates
Eiji Kaneshita, Masanori Ichioka, and Kazushige Machida
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
115501 [View PDF (184 kB)]
Nearly Space-Filling Fractal Networks of Carbon Nanopores
P. Pfeifer, F. Ehrburger-Dolle, T. P. Rieker, M. T. González, W. P. Hoffman, M. Molina-Sabio, F. Rodríguez-Reinoso, P. W. Schmidt, and D. J. Voss
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
115502 [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Smectic Membranes in Motion: Approaching the Fast Limits of X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
Irakli Sikharulidze, Igor P. Dolbnya, Andrea Fera, Anders Madsen, Boris I. Ostrovskii, and Wim H. de Jeu
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
115503 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Structural Identification of Metcars
G. K. Gueorguiev and J. M. Pacheco
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
115504 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Stress Field in Granular Systems: Loop Forces and Potential Formulation
Robin C. Ball and Raphael Blumenfeld
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
115505 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Chemical Isomerism as a Key to Explore Free-Energy Landscapes in Disordered Matter
C. Talón, F. J. Bermejo, C. Cabrillo, G. J. Cuello, M. A. González, J. W. Richardson, Jr., A. Criado, M. A. Ramos, S. Vieira, F. L. Cumbrera, and L. M. González
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
115506 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Solution of a Multiple-Scattering Inverse Problem: Electron Diffraction from Surfaces
D. K. Saldin, A. Seubert, and K. Heinz
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
115507 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Zero-Point Vibration of Hydrogen Adsorbed on Si and Pt Surfaces
K. Fukutani, A. Itoh, M. Wilde, and M. Matsumoto
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
116101 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Mean-Field Nucleation Theory with Nonlocal Interactions
Staffan Ovesson
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
116102 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Novel Continuum Modeling of Crystal Surface Evolution
Navot Israeli and Daniel Kandel
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
116103 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Coulomb Drag Shot Noise in Coupled Luttinger Liquids
B. Trauzettel, R. Egger, and H. Grabert
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
116401 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Hall Effect Induced by a Spin-Polarized Current in Superconductors
S. Takahashi and S. Maekawa
Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages)
116601 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Optical Intersubband Transitions and Femtosecond Dynamics in Ag /Fe(100) Quantum Wells
S. Ogawa, H. Nagano, and H. Petek
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
116801 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Shot Noise through a Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime
Yigal Meir and Anatoly Golub
Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages)
116802 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Density-Induced Interchange of Anisotropy Axes at Half-Filled High Landau Levels
J. Zhu, W. Pan, H. L. Stormer, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
116803 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Stripe States with Spatially Oscillating d-Wave Superconductivity in the Two-Dimensional t-t′-J Model
A. Himeda, T. Kato, and M. Ogata
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
117001 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Superconductivity in the Two-Dimensional t-J Model
S. Sorella, G. B. Martins, F. Becca, C. Gazza, L. Capriotti, A. Parola, and E. Dagotto
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
117002 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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High Tc Superconductivity in MgB2 by Nonadiabatic Pairing
E. Cappelluti, S. Ciuchi, C. Grimaldi, L. Pietronero, and S. Strässler
Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages)
117003 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Vortex Glass Transition in a Random Pinning Model
Anders Vestergren, Jack Lidmar, and Mats Wallin
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
117004 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Small- q Phonon-Mediated Superconductivity in Organic κ-BEDT-TTF Compounds
G. Varelogiannis
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
117005 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Two Energy Scales and Slow Crossover in YbAl3
A. L. Cornelius, J. M. Lawrence, T. Ebihara, P. S. Riseborough, C. H. Booth, M. F. Hundley, P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, M. H. Jung, A. H. Lacerda, and G. H. Kwei
Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages)
117201 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Enhanced Gilbert Damping in Thin Ferromagnetic Films
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Arne Brataas, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
117601 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Biexciton Quantum Coherence in a Single Quantum Dot
Gang Chen, T. H. Stievater, E. T. Batteh, Xiaoqin Li, D. G. Steel, D. Gammon, D. S. Katzer, D. Park, and L. J. Sham
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
117901 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Spiral Breakup in an Array of Coupled Cells: The Role of the Intercellular Conductance
A. V. Panfilov
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
118101 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Long Term Behavior of Lithographically Prepared In Vitro Neuronal Networks
Ronen Segev, Morris Benveniste, Eyal Hulata, Netta Cohen, Alexander Palevski, Eli Kapon, Yoash Shapira, and Eshel Ben-Jacob
Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages)
118102 [View PDF (245 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
 
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