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Physical Review Letters – 1 April 2002
Volume 88, Issue 13

CCD image of "betatron" x rays from a 28.5-GeV electron beam propagating through a less-dense plasma. The highly relativistic beam creates an ion channel as it expels electrons from the plasma; the channel in turn causes oscillations in the beam envelope, leading to the emission of radiation. This experiment, carried out at SLAC, is the first to show that an ion channel can act in this manner to generate radiation in the keV range. [Shuoqin Wang, C. E. Clayton, B. E. Blue, E. S. Dodd, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, C. Joshi, S. Lee, P. Muggli, T. Katsouleas, F. J. Decker, M. J. Hogan, R. H. Iverson, P. Raimondi, D. Walz, R. Siemann, and R. Assmann, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 135004 (2002)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Osmium has the Lowest Experimentally Determined Compressibility
Hyunchae Cynn, John E. Klepeis, Choong-Shik Yoo, and David A. Young
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
135701 [View PDF (103 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Invariant Information and Quantum State Estimation
J. Řeháček and Z. Hradil
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
130401 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Density Modulations of Bose-Einstein Condensates via Laser-Induced Interactions
S. Giovanazzi, D. O'Dell, and G. Kurizki
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
130402 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Monte Carlo Tests of Stochastic Loewner Evolution Predictions for the 2D Self-Avoiding Walk
Tom Kennedy
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
130601 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Time-Varying α and Particle Physics
Tom Banks, Michael Dine, and Michael Douglas
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
131301 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Semileptonic b→u Decays: Lepton Invariant Mass Spectrum
Andrzej Czarnecki and Kirill Melnikov
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
131801 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Ω, J/ψ, and ψ′ Production in Nuclear Collisions and Quark-Gluon-Plasma Hadronization
M. I. Gorenstein, K. A. Bugaev, and M. Gaździcki
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
132301 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Charged and Superconducting Vortices in Dense Quark Matter
David B. Kaplan and Sanjay Reddy
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
132302 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Kinetic Equation for Gluons in the Background Gauge of QCD
Q. Wang, K. Redlich, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
132303 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Photoionization Microscopy
C. Nicole, H. L. Offerhaus, M. J. J. Vrakking, F. Lépine, and Ch. Bordas
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
133001 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Direct Probe of the Bent and Linear Geometries of the Core-Excited Renner-Teller Pair States by Means of the Triple-Ion-Coincidence Momentum Imaging Technique
Y. Muramatsu, K. Ueda, N. Saito, H. Chiba, M. Lavollée, A. Czasch, T. Weber, O. Jagutzki, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Moshammer, U. Becker, K. Kubozuka, and I. Koyano
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
133002 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Alternate Gradient Focusing and Deceleration of a Molecular Beam
Hendrick L. Bethlem, André J. A. van Roij, Rienk T. Jongma, and Gerard Meijer
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
133003 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Macrodimers: Ultralong Range Rydberg Molecules
Christophe Boisseau, Ionel Simbotin, and Robin Côté
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
133004 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Transmission of 3 keV Ne7+ Ions through Nanocapillaries Etched in Polymer Foils: Evidence for Capillary Guiding
N. Stolterfoht, J.-H. Bremer, V. Hoffmann, R. Hellhammer, D. Fink, A. Petrov, and B. Sulik
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
133201 [View PDF (181 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Controlling the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Ultrashort Light Pulses with Optical Parametric Amplifiers
Andrius Baltuška, Takao Fuji, and Takayoshi Kobayashi
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
133901 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal Optical Modulation Instability of Coherent Light in Noninstantaneous Nonlinear Media
Ming-Feng Shih, Chien-Chung Jeng, Fan-Wen Sheu, and Chao-Yin Lin
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
133902 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Brillouin Propagation Modes in Optical Lattices: Interpretation in Terms of Nonconventional Stochastic Resonance
L. Sanchez-Palencia, F.-R. Carminati, M. Schiavoni, F. Renzoni, and G. Grynberg
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
133903 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Convective and Absolute Eckhaus Instability Leading to Modulated Waves in a Finite Box
Nicolas Garnier, Arnaud Chiffaudel, and François Daviaud
Published 13 March 2002 (4 pages)
134501 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Analytical Model of Nonlinear, Single-Mode, Classical Rayleigh-Taylor Instability at Arbitrary Atwood Numbers
V. N. Goncharov
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
134502 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Universal Behavior of Entrainment due to Coherent Structures in Turbulent Shear Flow
Rama Govindarajan
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
134503 [View PDF (322 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of Shear-Wave Mach Cones in a 2D Dusty-Plasma Crystal
V. Nosenko, J. Goree, Z. W. Ma, and A. Piel
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
135001 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Macroscopic Evidence of Soliton Formation in Multiterawatt Laser-Plasma Interaction
M. Borghesi, S. Bulanov, D. H. Campbell, R. J. Clarke, T. Zh. Esirkepov, M. Galimberti, L. A. Gizzi, A. J. MacKinnon, N. M. Naumova, F. Pegoraro, H. Ruhl, A. Schiavi, and O. Willi
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
135002 [View PDF (711 kB)]
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Light Filaments in Air for Ultraviolet and Infrared Wavelengths
A. Couairon and L. Bergé
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
135003 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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X-Ray Emission from Betatron Motion in a Plasma Wiggler
Shuoqin Wang, C. E. Clayton, B. E. Blue, E. S. Dodd, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, C. Joshi, S. Lee, P. Muggli, T. Katsouleas, F. J. Decker, M. J. Hogan, R. H. Iverson, P. Raimondi, D. Walz, R. Siemann, and R. Assmann
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
135004 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Structure-Dependent Vibrational Lifetimes of Hydrogen in Silicon
G. Lüpke, X. Zhang, B. Sun, A. Fraser, N. H. Tolk, and L. C. Feldman
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
135501 [View PDF (161 kB)]
Osmium has the Lowest Experimentally Determined Compressibility
Hyunchae Cynn, John E. Klepeis, Choong-Shik Yoo, and David A. Young
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
135701 [View PDF (103 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Energetics and Vibrational States for Hydrogen on Pt(111)
Ş. C. Bădescu, P. Salo, T. Ala-Nissila, S. C. Ying, K. Jacobi, Y. Wang, K. Bedürftig, and G. Ertl
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
136101 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Geometry of the Valence Transition Induced Surface Reconstruction of Sm(0001)
E. Lundgren, J. N. Andersen, R. Nyholm, X. Torrelles, J. Rius, A. Delin, A. Grechnev, O. Eriksson, C. Konvicka, M. Schmid, and P. Varga
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
136102 [View PDF (252 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Lattice-Spin Mechanism in Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites
J. A. Vergés, V. Martín-Mayor, and L. Brey
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
136401 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Effects of a Parallel Magnetic Field on the Metal-Insulator Transition in a Dilute Two-Dimensional Electron System
Kevin Eng, X. G. Feng, Dragana Popović, and S. Washburn
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
136402 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Thermopower of an Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer: Theoretical Studies of Quantum Dots in the Kondo Regime
Tae-Suk Kim and S. Hershfield
Published 13 March 2002 (4 pages)
136601 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Dephasing Times in Closed Quantum Dots
Eli Eisenberg, Karsten Held, and Boris L. Altshuler
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
136801 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Photoinduced Changes of Reflectivity in Single Crystals of YBa2Cu3O6.5 (Ortho II)
G. P. Segre, N. Gedik, J. Orenstein, D. A. Bonn, Ruixing Liang, and W. N. Hardy
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
137001 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Evidence for Static Magnetism in the Vortex Cores of Ortho-II YBa2Cu3O6.50
R. I. Miller, R. F. Kiefl, J. H. Brewer, J. E. Sonier, J. Chakhalian, S. Dunsiger, G. D. Morris, A. N. Price, D. A. Bonn, W. H. Hardy, and R. Liang
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
137002 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Common Energy Scale for Magnetism and Superconductivity in Underdoped Cuprates: A Muon Spin Resonance Investigation of (CaxLa1-x)(Ba1.75-xLa0.25+x)Cu3Oy
Amit Kanigel, Amit Keren, Yaakov Eckstein, Arkady Knizhnik, James S. Lord, and Alex Amato
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
137003 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Critical Dynamics of Gauge Systems: Spontaneous Vortex Formation in 2D Superconductors
G. J. Stephens, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, and W. H. Zurek
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
137004 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Electrical Resistivity Anisotropy from Self-Organized One Dimensionality in High-Temperature Superconductors
Yoichi Ando, Kouji Segawa, Seiki Komiya, and A. N. Lavrov
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
137005 [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Noncollinear Ferromagnetism in (III,Mn)V Semiconductors
John Schliemann and A. H. MacDonald
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
137201 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Effect of Optical Spin Injection on Ferromagnetically Coupled Mn Spins in the III-V Magnetic Alloy Semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As
A. Oiwa, Y. Mitsumori, R. Moriya, T. Słupinski, and H. Munekata
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
137202 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of the Spin Hamiltonian and Observation of Condensation of Magnons in the 2D Frustrated Quantum Magnet Cs2CuCl4
R. Coldea, D. A. Tennant, K. Habicht, P. Smeibidl, C. Wolters, and Z. Tylczynski
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
137203 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Collapse of Valence Transition in Yb0.8Y0.2InCu4: Pressure-Induced Weak Ferromagnetism
A. Mitsuda, T. Goto, K. Yoshimura, W. Zhang, N. Sato, K. Kosuge, and H. Wada
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
137204 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Fluorescence Decay Time of Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Germar Schlegel, Jolanta Bohnenberger, Inga Potapova, and Alf Mews
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
137401 [View PDF (549 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Implementation of Quantum Search Algorithm using Classical Fourier Optics
N. Bhattacharya, H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell, and R. J. C. Spreeuw
Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages)
137901 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Experimental Realization of Quantum Games on a Quantum Computer
Jiangfeng Du, Hui Li, Xiaodong Xu, Mingjun Shi, Jihui Wu, Xianyi Zhou, and Rongdian Han
Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages)
137902 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Role of Protein-Water Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in the Protein Dynamical Transition
M. Tarek and D. J. Tobias
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
138101 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Helfrich Repulsion and Dynamical Phase Separation of Multicomponent Lipid Bilayers
Stefanie Marx, Jörg Schilling, Erich Sackmann, and Robijn Bruinsma
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
138102 [View PDF (1,494 kB)]
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Synchronization of Noise-Induced Bursts in Noncoupled Sensory Neurons
Alexander B. Neiman and David F. Russell
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
138103 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Experimental and Numerical Studies of Noise-Induced Coherent Patterns in a Subexcitable System
L. Q. Zhou, X. Jia, and Q. Ouyang
Published 19 March 2002 (4 pages)
138301 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Universal Topological Properties of Two-Dimensional Trivalent Cellular Patterns
K. Y. Szeto, Xiujun Fu, and W. Y. Tam
Published 19 March 2002 (3 pages)
138302 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Truncation of Power Law Behavior in “Scale-Free” Network Models due to Information Filtering
Stefano Mossa, Marc Barthélémy, H. Eugene Stanley, and Luís A. Nunes Amaral
Published 14 March 2002 (4 pages)
138701 [View PDF (164 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Kondo Resonance in a Mesoscopic Ring Coupled to a Quantum Dot: Exact Results for the Aharonov-Bohm-Casher Effects”
Ian Affleck and Pascal Simon
Published 13 March 2002 (1 page)
139701 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Eckle et al. Reply:
Hans-Peter Eckle, Henrik Johannesson, and Charles A. Stafford
Published 13 March 2002 (1 page)
139702 [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Comment on “Strong Vortex Liquid Correlation from Multiterminal Measurements on Untwinned YBa2Cu3O7-δ Single Crystals”
B. Maiorov, A. V. Silhanek, F. de la Cruz, and E. Osquiguil
Published 19 March 2002 (1 page)
139703 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Rydh and Rapp Reply:
A. Rydh and Ö. Rapp
Published 19 March 2002 (1 page)
139704 [View PDF (39 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Single Hole Motion in LaMnO3 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 047204 (2001)]
Wei-Guo Yin, Hai-Qing Lin, and Chang-De Gong
Published 13 March 2002 (1 page)
139901(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Erratum: From Computation to Black Holes and Space-Time Foam [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2946 (2001)]
Y. Jack Ng
Published 14 March 2002 (1 page)
139902(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Erratum: Effective Lorentz Force due to Small-Angle Impurity Scattering: Magnetotransport in High- Tc Superconductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4652 (2001)]
C. M. Varma and Elihu Abrahams
Published 14 March 2002 (1 page)
139903(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Erratum: Bose-Einstein Condensation in Trapped Dipolar Gases [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1791 (2000)]
L. Santos, G. V. Shlyapnikov, P. Zoller, and M. Lewenstein
Published 19 March 2002 (1 page)
139904(E) [View PDF (36 kB)]
 
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