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Physical Review Letters – 29 April 2002
Volume 88, Issue 17

The four images show the delayed breakdown of a 'cluster' of steel beads [in the middle box in (a)] undergoing vertical shaking at a constant amplitude. After a relatively long period of stability, the cluster suddenly collapses at t = 42 s and diffuses rapidly over the other boxes. The cluster lifetime depends only on the number of boxes and one shaking parameter and can be calculated from a simple flux model. [Devaraj van der Meer, Ko van der Weele, and Detlef Lohse, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 174302 (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.

0gs+ → 21+ Excitations in the Mirror Nuclei 32Ar and 32Si
P. D. Cottle, Z. Hu, B. V. Pritychenko, J. A. Church, M. Fauerbach, T. Glasmacher, R. W. Ibbotson, K. W. Kemper, L. A. Riley, H. Scheit, and M. Steiner
Published 12 April 2002 (4 pages)
172502 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Spontaneous Branching of Anode-Directed Streamers between Planar Electrodes
Manuel Arrayás, Ute Ebert, and Willem Hundsdorfer
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
174502 [View PDF (222 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Driving Current through Single Organic Molecules
J. Reichert, R. Ochs, D. Beckmann, H. B. Weber, M. Mayor, and H. v. Löhneysen
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
176804 [View PDF (115 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Generalized Nonadditive Entropies and Quantum Entanglement
N. Canosa and R. Rossignoli
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
170401 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Entangling Many Atomic Ensembles through Laser Manipulation
L.-M. Duan
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
170402 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Stability of Continuously Pumped Atom Lasers
S. A. Haine, J. J. Hope, N. P. Robins, and C. M. Savage
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
170403 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Divergence-Free WKB Method
Tadanori Hyouguchi, Satoshi Adachi, and Masahito Ueda
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
170404 [View PDF (626 kB)]
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Bell-Type Inequalities to Detect True n-Body Nonseparability
Daniel Collins, Nicolas Gisin, Sandu Popescu, David Roberts, and Valerio Scarani
Published 12 April 2002 (4 pages)
170405 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Quantum Phases of Dipolar Bosons in Optical Lattices
K. Góral, L. Santos, and M. Lewenstein
Published 12 April 2002 (4 pages)
170406 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Exact c-Number Representation of Non-Markovian Quantum Dissipation
Jürgen T. Stockburger and Hermann Grabert
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
170407 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Quantum Tunneling of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices under Gravity
W. M. Liu, W. B. Fan, W. M. Zheng, J. Q. Liang, and S. T. Chui
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
170408 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Proof of Bose-Einstein Condensation for Dilute Trapped Gases
Elliott H. Lieb and Robert Seiringer
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
170409 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Determination of Absolute Neutrino Masses from Bursts of Z Bosons in Cosmic Rays
Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz, and A. Ringwald
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
171101 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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n- n̅ Oscillations in Models with Large Extra Dimensions
Shmuel Nussinov and Robert Shrock
Published 12 April 2002 (3 pages)
171601 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Precise Measurement of B Meson Lifetimes with Hadronic Decay Final States
K. Abe et al. ((Belle Collaboration))
Published 15 April 2002 (6 pages)
171801 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Search for the Scalar Top Quark in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
V. M. Abazov et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
Published 16 April 2002 (6 pages)
171802 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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The Hypernuclei Λ4He and Λ4H: Challenges for Modern Hyperon-Nucleon Forces
A. Nogga, H. Kamada, and W. Glöckle
Published 9 April 2002 (4 pages)
172501 [View PDF (82 kB)]
0gs+ → 21+ Excitations in the Mirror Nuclei 32Ar and 32Si
P. D. Cottle, Z. Hu, B. V. Pritychenko, J. A. Church, M. Fauerbach, T. Glasmacher, R. W. Ibbotson, K. W. Kemper, L. A. Riley, H. Scheit, and M. Steiner
Published 12 April 2002 (4 pages)
172502 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Angular Momentum and Cross Sections for Fusion with Weakly Bound Nuclei: Breakup, a Coherent Effect
Vandana Tripathi, A. Navin, K. Mahata, K. Ramachandran, A. Chatterjee, and S. Kailas
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
172701 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Tunneling Resonances and Coherence in an Optical Lattice
B. K. Teo, J. R. Guest, and G. Raithel
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
173001 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Core-Excited Resonance Enhancement in the Two-Photon Complete Fragmentation of Helium
J. Colgan and M. S. Pindzola
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
173002 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Measurement of Transition Dipole Moments in Lithium Dimers Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
J. Qi, F. C. Spano, T. Kirova, A. Lazoudis, J. Magnes, L. Li, L. M. Narducci, R. W. Field, and A. M. Lyyra
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
173003 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Time-Dependent Close-Coupling Calculations of Dielectronic Capture in He
D. M. Mitnik, D. C. Griffin, and M. S. Pindzola
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
173004 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Resonant Control of Elastic Collisions in an Optically Trapped Fermi Gas of Atoms
T. Loftus, C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin
Published 12 April 2002 (4 pages)
173201 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Experimental Evidence for Supercontinuum Generation by Fission of Higher-Order Solitons in Photonic Fibers
J. Herrmann, U. Griebner, N. Zhavoronkov, A. Husakou, D. Nickel, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, P. St. J. Russell, and G. Korn
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
173901 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Superfluidity versus Disorder in the Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
A. Trombettoni, A. Smerzi, and A. R. Bishop
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
173902 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Attosecond Streak Camera
J. Itatani, F. Quéré, G. L. Yudin, M. Yu. Ivanov, F. Krausz, and P. B. Corkum
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
173903 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Quantum Theory of Attosecond XUV Pulse Measurement by Laser Dressed Photoionization
Markus Kitzler, Nenad Milosevic, Armin Scrinzi, Ferenc Krausz, and Thomas Brabec
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
173904 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Synchronization of Chaotic Semiconductor Laser Systems: A Vectorial Coupling-Dependent Scenario
Michael Peil, Tilmann Heil, Ingo Fischer, and Wolfgang Elsäßer
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
174101 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Permutation Entropy: A Natural Complexity Measure for Time Series
Christoph Bandt and Bernd Pompe
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
174102 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Collisional Granular Flow as a Micropolar Fluid
Namiko Mitarai, Hisao Hayakawa, and Hiizu Nakanishi
Published 12 April 2002 (4 pages)
174301 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Sudden Collapse of a Granular Cluster
Devaraj van der Meer, Ko van der Weele, and Detlef Lohse
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
174302 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Computational and Experimental Analysis of Pinch-Off and Scaling
Alvin U. Chen, Patrick K. Notz, and Osman A. Basaran
Published 12 April 2002 (4 pages)
174501 [View PDF (371 kB)]
Spontaneous Branching of Anode-Directed Streamers between Planar Electrodes
Manuel Arrayás, Ute Ebert, and Willem Hundsdorfer
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
174502 [View PDF (222 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Model and Observations of Schottky-Noise Suppression in a Cold Heavy-Ion Beam
H. Danared, A. Källberg, K.-G. Rensfelt, and A. Simonsson
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
174801 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Experimental Observations of Transverse Shear Waves in Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas
J. Pramanik, G. Prasad, A. Sen, and P. K. Kaw
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
175001 [View PDF (169 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Avalanche Behavior in Yield Stress Fluids
Philippe Coussot, Q. D. Nguyen, H. T. Huynh, and Daniel Bonn
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
175501 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Quantum Antidot Formation and Correlation to Optical Shift of Gold Nanoparticles Embedded in MgO
Jun Xu, J. Moxom, S. H. Overbury, C. W. White, A. P. Mills, Jr., and R. Suzuki
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
175502 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Origin of the Stability of Ge(105) on Si: A New Structure Model and Surface Strain Relaxation
Y. Fujikawa, K. Akiyama, T. Nagao, T. Sakurai, M. G. Lagally, T. Hashimoto, Y. Morikawa, and K. Terakura
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
176101 [View PDF (268 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Anharmonic Raman Spectra in High-Pressure Ice from Ab Initio Simulations
Anna Putrino and Michele Parrinello
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
176401 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Electrically Controlled Nuclear Spin Polarization and Relaxation by Quantum-Hall States
K. Hashimoto, K. Muraki, T. Saku, and Y. Hirayama
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
176601 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Variable Range Hopping in Two-Dimensional Systems of Interacting Electrons
D. N. Tsigankov and A. L. Efros
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
176602 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Localization of Optically Excited States by Self-Trapping
Michael Rohlfing and Johannes Pollmann
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
176801 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Transition from an Electron Solid to the Sequence of Fractional Quantum Hall States at Very Low Landau Level Filling Factor
W. Pan, H. L. Stormer, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
176802 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Distribution Induced by Kondo Defects
J. Kroha and A. Zawadowski
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
176803 [View PDF (216 kB)]
Driving Current through Single Organic Molecules
J. Reichert, R. Ochs, D. Beckmann, H. B. Weber, M. Mayor, and H. v. Löhneysen
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
176804 [View PDF (115 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Charge Distribution in a Kondo-Correlated Quantum Dot
D. Sprinzak, Yang Ji, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu, and Hadas Shtrikman
Published 12 April 2002 (4 pages)
176805 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Field-Induced Spin-Density-Wave Phases in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors: Theory versus Experiments
A. G. Lebed
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
177001 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Dual Neutral Variables and Knot Solitons in Triplet Superconductors
Egor Babaev
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
177002 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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d-Wave Induced Zero-Field Resonances in dc π-Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices
B. Chesca, R. R. Schulz, B. Goetz, C. W. Schneider, H. Hilgenkamp, and J. Mannhart
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
177003 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Anomalous Magnetic Field Dependence of the Thermodynamic Transition Line in the Isotropic Superconductor (K,Ba)BiO3
S. Blanchard, T. Klein, J. Marcus, I. Joumard, A. Sulpice, P. Szabo, P. Samuely, A. G. M. Jansen, and C. Marcenat
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
177201 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Critical Exponents of the Random-Field O(N) Model
D. E. Feldman
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
177202 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Evidence for Two Distinct Energy Scales in the Raman Spectra of YBa2(Cu1-xNix)3O6.95
Y. Gallais, A. Sacuto, P. Bourges, Y. Sidis, A. Forget, and D. Colson
Published 9 April 2002 (4 pages)
177401 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Long Polaron Lifetime in InAs/GaAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
S. Sauvage, P. Boucaud, R. P. S. M. Lobo, F. Bras, G. Fishman, R. Prazeres, F. Glotin, J. M. Ortega, and J.-M. Gérard
Published 12 April 2002 (4 pages)
177402 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Momentum-Resolved Charge Excitations in a Prototype One-Dimensional Mott Insulator
M. Z. Hasan, P. A. Montano, E. D. Isaacs, Z.-X. Shen, H. Eisaki, S. K. Sinha, Z. Islam, N. Motoyama, and S. Uchida
Published 16 April 2002 (4 pages)
177403 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Laser Phase Modulation Approaches towards Ensemble Quantum Computing
Debabrata Goswami
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
177901 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Tracer Diffusion in a Dislocated Lamellar System
Victor Gurarie and Alexander E. Lobkovsky
Published 15 April 2002 (4 pages)
178301 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes
Per Bak, Kim Christensen, Leon Danon, and Tim Scanlon
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
178501 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Optimizing Searches via Rare Events
Andrea Montanari and Riccardo Zecchina
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
178701 [View PDF (105 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Feynman Effective Classical Potential in the Schrödinger Formulation”
G. Andronico, V. Branchina, and D. Zappalà
Published 10 April 2002 (1 page)
178901 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Ramírez and López-Ciudad Reply:
Rafael Ramírez and Telesforo López-Ciudad
Published 10 April 2002 (1 page)
178902 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Comment on “Intrinsic Ferroelectric Coercive Field”
R. L. Moreira
Published 10 April 2002 (1 page)
179701 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Ducharme and Fridkin Reply:
Stephen Ducharme and V. M. Fridkin
Published 10 April 2002 (1 page)
179702 [View PDF (36 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Nonadiabatic Conditional Geometric Phase Shift with NMR [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 097901 (2001)]
Wang Xiang-Bin and Matsumoto Keiji
Published 15 April 2002 (1 page)
179901(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
 
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