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Physical Review Letters – 14 January 2002
Volume 88, Issue 2

Comparison of yields of high-momentum particles from heavy-ion nuclear collisions. The earlier results from CERN-ISR and CERN-SPS are, respectively, for α + α collisions at 31 GeV (green) and for Pb+Pb at 17 GeV (blue; the range of uncertainty is shown). The higher-energy results from RHIC for Au+Au collisions at 130 GeV (red) show greatly reduced yields, suggesting that the hot dense nuclear matter formed in these collisions is much more opaque than 'normal' nuclear matter. [K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 022301 (2001)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Black Hole Production by Cosmic Rays
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Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Suppression of Hadrons with Large Transverse Momentum in Central Au+Au Collisions at √sNN = 130GeV
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Published 21 December 2001 (6 pages)
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Transport of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Optical Tweezers
T. L. Gustavson, A. P. Chikkatur, A. E. Leanhardt, A. Görlitz, S. Gupta, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle
Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Is Tsallis Thermodynamics Nonextensive?
Eduard Vives and Antoni Planes
Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Phenomenology of High-Energy Neutrinos in Low-Scale Quantum-Gravity Models
J. Alvarez-Muñiz, F. Halzen, T. Han, and D. Hooper
Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Cross Correlation of the Cosmic Microwave Background with Radio Sources: Constraints on an Accelerating Universe
S. P. Boughn and R. G. Crittenden
Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Black Hole Production by Cosmic Rays
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Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages)
021303 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Observation of the Decay B → Kl+l-
K. Abe et al. ((The Belle Collaboration))
Published 27 December 2001 (6 pages)
021801 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Search for Charmless B→VV Decays
R. Godang et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages)
021802 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

Suppression of Hadrons with Large Transverse Momentum in Central Au+Au Collisions at √sNN = 130GeV
K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)
Published 21 December 2001 (6 pages)
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Energy Dependence of Particle Multiplicities in Central Au+Au Collisions
B. B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration)
Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages)
022302 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Event-by-Event Analysis of Proton-Induced Nuclear Multifragmentation: Determination of the Phase Transition Universality Class in a System with Extreme Finite-Size Constraints
M. Kleine Berkenbusch, W. Bauer, K. Dillman, S. Pratt, L. Beaulieu, K. Kwiatkowski, T. Lefort, W.-c. Hsi, V. E. Viola, S. J. Yennello, R. G. Korteling, and H. Breuer
Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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White-Light-Induced Fragmentation of Toluene
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Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Measurement of the 1s2s 1S0-1s2p3P1 Intercombination Interval in Helium-like Silicon
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Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Observation of Nonclassical Photon Statistics due to Quantum Interference
Y. J. Lu and Z. Y. Ou
Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Observation of Ultraslow and Stored Light Pulses in a Solid
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Coherent Population Trapping in Two-Electron Three-Level Systems with Aligned Spins
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Excitability of a Semiconductor Laser by a Two-Mode Homoclinic Bifurcation
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Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Refractive Acoustic Devices for Airborne Sound
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Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages)
023902 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Multiple Nonlinear Optical Interactions with Arbitrary Wave Vector Differences
Keren Fradkin-Kashi, Ady Arie, Pavel Urenski, and Gil Rosenman
Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
023903 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Spectral Cross Correlations of Magnetic Edge States
Klaus Hornberger and Uzy Smilansky
Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
024101 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Multibranch Entrainment and Slow Evolution among Branches in Coupled Oscillators
Toru Aonishi and Masato Okada
Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages)
024102 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Stationary and Oscillatory Spatial Patterns Induced by Global Periodic Switching
J. Buceta, Katja Lindenberg, and J. M. R. Parrondo
Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Geometry of Reaction Interfaces in Chaotic Flows
M. Giona, S. Cerbelli, and A. Adrover
Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages)
024501 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Noise Induced Bistability of Parametric Surface Waves
S. Residori, R. Berthet, B. Roman, and S. Fauve
Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Competition of Periodic and Homogeneous Modes in Extended Dynamical Systems
B. Dressel, A. Joets, L. Pastur, W. Pesch, E. Plaut, and R. Ribotta
Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Lattice Glass Models
Giulio Biroli and Marc Mézard
Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
025501 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Organization of Two-Dimensional Phospholipid Monolayers on a Gel-Forming Substrate
Bernd Struth, François Rieutord, Oleg Konovalov, Gerald Brezesinski, Gerhard Grübel, and Pierre Terech
Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Nanocrystalline Zirconia Can Be Amorphized by Ion Irradiation
A. Meldrum, L. A. Boatner, and R. C. Ewing
Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Patterns of Striped Order in the Classical Lattice Coulomb Gas
Sung Jong Lee, Jong-Rim Lee, and Bongsoo Kim
Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Cooperative Dynamics in Unentangled Polymer Fluids
M. Guenza
Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Superconductivity near Ferromagnetism in MgCNi3
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Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Superconducting Gap Structure of κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 Probed by Thermal Conductivity Tensor
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Far-Infrared Optical Conductivity Gap in Superconducting MgB2 Films
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High Spin Systems with Orbital Degeneracy
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Interface, Volume, and Thermal Attenuation of Hot-Electron Spins in Ni80Fe20 and Co
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Interaction of Frustrated Magnetic Sublattices in ErMnO3
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Giant Electric Field Modulation of Double Exchange Ferromagnetism at Room Temperature in the Perovskite Manganite/Titanate p-n Junction
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Probing Phonon Dispersion Relations of Graphite by Double Resonance Raman Scattering
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Dynamical Spin Response in Semimagnetic Quantum Dots
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Auger Resonant Raman Scattering in Itinerant Electron Systems: Continuum Excitation in Cu
A. Föhlisch, O. Karis, M. Weinelt, J. Hasselström, A. Nilsson, and N. Mårtensson
Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages)
027601 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Distillability, Bell Inequalities, and Multiparticle Bound Entanglement
A. Acín
Published 20 December 2001 (3 pages)
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Quantum State of an Ideal Propagating Laser Field
S. J. van Enk and Christopher A. Fuchs
Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages)
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Exchange in Silicon-Based Quantum Computer Architecture
Belita Koiller, Xuedong Hu, and S. Das Sarma
Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages)
027903 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Scroll Waves in the Presence of Slowly Varying Anisotropy with Application to the Heart
S. Setayeshgar and Andrew J. Bernoff
Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages)
028101 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Dynamical Scaling of the DNA Unzipping Transition
D. Marenduzzo, Somendra M. Bhattacharjee, A. Maritan, E. Orlandini, and F. Seno
Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages)
028102 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Novel Mechanism for Molecular Self-Assembly on Metal Substrates: Unidirectional Rows of Pentacene on Cu(110) Produced by a Substrate-Mediated Repulsion
S. Lukas, G. Witte, and Ch. Wöll
Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages)
028301 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Spontaneous Structure Formation in a Network of Chaotic Units with Variable Connection Strengths
Junji Ito and Kunihiko Kaneko
Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages)
028701 [View PDF (200 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Observation of Inhomogeneous Spectral Broadening of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in an Optical Fiber”
Stéphane Randoux and Jaouad Zemmouri
Published 26 December 2001 (1 page)
029401 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Kovalev and Harrison Reply:
Valeri I. Kovalev and Robert G. Harrison
Published 26 December 2001 (1 page)
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Interface Conductance of Ballistic Ferromagnetic-Metal-2DEG Hybrid Systems with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling
U. Zülicke and C. Schroll
Published 21 December 2001 (1 page)
029701 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Grundler Replies:
Dirk Grundler
Published 21 December 2001 (1 page)
029702 [View PDF (29 kB)]
 
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