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Physical Review Letters – 17 June 2002
Volume 88, Issue 24

Numerical solutions for geometry-induced twist transitions in a liquid crystal confined between a sinusoidal grating at the top and a flat surface at the bottom. The color plots are for physical (left) and unphysical (right) values of the surface elastic constant, respectively. [Pedro Patrício, M. M. Telo da Gama, and S. Dietrich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245502 (2002)]

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A Beaker without Walls: Formation of Deeply Supercooled Binary Liquid Solutions of Alcohols from Nanoscale Amorphous Solid Films
Patrick Ayotte, R. Scott Smith, Glenn Teeter, Zdenek Dohnálek, Gregory A. Kimmel, and Bruce D. Kay
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Dissipative Enhancement of the Response of a Bistable Noisy Oscillator to External Driving
M. Evstigneev, V. Pankov, and R. H. Prince
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Long-Range Magnetic Interaction due to the Casimir Effect
P. Bruno
Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Kochen-Specker Theorem for Finite Precision Spin-One Measurements
Thomas Breuer
Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Stability and Bifurcations of the Figure-8 Solution of the Three-Body Problem
J. Galán, F. J. Muñoz-Almaraz, E. Freire, E. Doedel, and A. Vanderbauwhede
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Near-Horizon Conformal Symmetry and Black Hole Entropy
S. Carlip
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Estimate of the Cosmological Bispectrum from the MAXIMA-1 Cosmic Microwave Background Map
M. G. Santos, A. Balbi, J. Borrill, P. G. Ferreira, S. Hanany, A. H. Jaffe, A. T. Lee, J. Magueijo, B. Rabii, P. L. Richards, G. F. Smoot, R. Stompor, C. D. Winant, and J. H. P. Wu
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for the Rare Decays B→Kl+l- and B→K*l+l-
B. Aubert et al. ((BABAR Collaboration))
Published 3 June 2002 (7 pages)
241801 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Centrality Dependence of π+/-, K+/-, p, and p̅ Production from √sNN = 130 GeV Au + Au Collisions at RHIC
K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)
Published 28 May 2002 (6 pages)
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Quadrupolar Transitions Evidenced by Resonant Auger Spectroscopy
J. Danger, P. Le Fèvre, H. Magnan, D. Chandesris, S. Bourgeois, J. Jupille, T. Eickhoff, and W. Drube
Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages)
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O 1s → σ* Resonance in O2: Inadequacy of Only Two Exchange-Split Components
M. N. Piancastelli, A. Kivimäki, V. Carravetta, I. Cacelli, R. Cimiraglia, C. Angeli, H. Wang, M. Coreno, M. de Simone, G. Turri, and K. C. Prince
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Time-Asymmetric Fluctuations of Light and the Breakdown of Detailed Balance
A. Denisov, H. M. Castro-Beltran, and H. J. Carmichael
Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Coherent Atom Interactions Mediated by Dark-State Polaritons
A. André, L.-M. Duan, and M. D. Lukin
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Resonant Quenching of Gas-Phase Cs Atoms Induced by Surface Polaritons
Horacio Failache, Solomon Saltiel, Alexis Fischer, Daniel Bloch, and Martial Ducloy
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Wave Equation for Dark Coherence in Three-Level Media
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Nonlinear Optical Technique for Precise Retardation Measurements
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Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Linear Superposition in Nonlinear Equations
Avinash Khare and Uday Sukhatme
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Measuring Nonstationarity by Analyzing the Loss of Recurrence in Dynamical Systems
Christoph Rieke, Karsten Sternickel, Ralph G. Andrzejak, Christian E. Elger, Peter David, and Klaus Lehnertz
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Shape of a Cracking Whip
Alain Goriely and Tyler McMillen
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Transient Vortex Events in the Initial Value Problem for Turbulence
D. D. Holm and Robert Kerr
Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages)
244501 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Asymptotic Scaling Laws for Imploding Thin Fluid Shells
M. M. Basko and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
244502 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Reentrant Hexagons in Non-Boussinesq Rayleigh-Bénard Convection: Effect of Compressibility
Arun Roy and Victor Steinberg
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Measurement of X-Ray Pulse Widths by Intensity Interferometry
M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, and T. Ishikawa
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
244801 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Compressible Sub-Alfvénic MHD Turbulence in Low- β Plasmas
Jungyeon Cho and A. Lazarian
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Criteria of Phase Transitions in a Complex Plasma
O. S. Vaulina, S. V. Vladimirov, O. F. Petrov, and V. E. Fortov
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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GeV Electrons from Ultraintense Laser Interaction with Highly Charged Ions
S. X. Hu and Anthony F. Starace
Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Universal Attractors of Reversible Aggregate-Reorganization Processes
Stefan Großkinsky, Marc Timme, and Björn Naundorf
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Geometrically-Controlled Twist Transitions in Nematic Cells
Pedro Patrício, M. M. Telo da Gama, and S. Dietrich
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Rotation of Molecular Hydrogen in Si: Unambiguous Identification of Ortho- H2 and Para- D2
E Elinor Chen, Michael Stavola, W. Beall Fowler, and J. Anna Zhou
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Boundary Lubrication Properties of Materials with Expansive Freezing
E. A. Jagla
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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A Beaker without Walls: Formation of Deeply Supercooled Binary Liquid Solutions of Alcohols from Nanoscale Amorphous Solid Films
Patrick Ayotte, R. Scott Smith, Glenn Teeter, Zdenek Dohnálek, Gregory A. Kimmel, and Bruce D. Kay
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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See accompanying Physics Focus
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Nematics with Quenched Disorder: How Long Will It Take to Heal?
T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia, C. Chiccoli, F. Mantegazza, P. Pasini, and C. Zannoni
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Modeling Elasticity in Crystal Growth
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Solvation Forces in Branched Molecular Liquids
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Measurement of Long-Range Repulsive Forces between Charged Particles at an Oil-Water Interface
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Two-Dimensional Oxide on Pd(111)
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Coupling of the Lattice and Superlattice Deformations and Hysteresis in Thermal Expansion for the Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductor TaS3
A. V. Golovnya, V. Ya. Pokrovskii, and P. M. Shadrin
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Quantum Conductance in Semimetallic Bismuth Nanocontacts
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Competition of Static Stripe and Superconducting Phases in La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4 Controlled by Pressure
S. Arumugam, N. Môri, N. Takeshita, H. Takashima, T. Noda, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida
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Unraveling the Symmetry of the Hole States near the Fermi Level in the MgB2 Superconductor
Y. Zhu, A. R. Moodenbaugh, G. Schneider, J. W. Davenport, T. Vogt, Q. Li, G. Gu, D. A. Fischer, and J. Tafto
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Order and Mobility of Solid Vortex Matter in Oscillatory Driving Currents
S. O. Valenzuela
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Mode Locking of Vortex Matter Driven through Mesoscopic Channels
N. Kokubo, R. Besseling, V. M. Vinokur, and P. H. Kes
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Evidence of Electromagnetic Absorption by Collective Modes in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor UBe13
J. R. Feller, C.-C. Tsai, J. B. Ketterson, J. L. Smith, and Bimal K. Sarma
Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Coordination-Number Dependence of Magnetic Hyperfine Fields at 111Cd on Ni Surfaces
K. Potzger, A. Weber, H. H. Bertschat, W.-D. Zeitz, and M. Dietrich
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Polaron Percolation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
A. Kaminski and S. Das Sarma
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Dynamics of a Tunneling Magnetic Impurity: Kondo Effect Induced Incoherence
L. Borda and G. Zaránd
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Spin-Polarized Transport across Sharp Antiferromagnetic Boundaries
W. Eerenstein, T. T. M. Palstra, S. S. Saxena, and T. Hibma
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of the MX-Chain Compound [Ni(chxn)2Br]Br2: Spin-Charge Separation in Hybridized d-p Chains
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Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Activating Distillation with an Infinitesimal Amount of Bound Entanglement
Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht and Michael M. Wolf
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Bridging Rate Coding and Temporal Spike Coding by Effect of Noise
Naoki Masuda and Kazuyuki Aihara
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
248101 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Rotational Drag on DNA: A Single Molecule Experiment
Philippe Thomen, Ulrich Bockelmann, and François Heslot
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
248102 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Novel Colloidal Crystalline States on Two-Dimensional Periodic Substrates
C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
248301 [View PDF (872 kB)]
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Phase Behavior of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on Triangular Light Lattices
Matthias Brunner and Clemens Bechinger
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
248302 [View PDF (516 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Simple One-Dimensional Model of Heat Conduction which Obeys Fourier’s Law”
Abhishek Dhar
Published 3 June 2002 (1 page)
249401 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Garrido and Hurtado Reply:
P. L. Garrido and P. I. Hurtado
Published 3 June 2002 (1 page)
249402 [View PDF (162 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Constructing Parton Convolution in Effective Field Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 152002 (2001)]
Jiunn-Wei Chen and Xiangdong Ji
Published 31 May 2002 (1 page)
249901(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
 
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