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

LETTERS

General Physics

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

Add to article collection 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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Add to article collection Near-Horizon Conformal Symmetry and Black Hole Entropy
S. Carlip
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
241301 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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. Wu
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
241302 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

Add to article collection Search for the Rare Decays BKl+l- and BK*l+l-
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 3 June 2002 (7 pages)
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Nuclear Physics

Add to article collection Centrality Dependence of π+/-, K+/-, p, and p̅ Production from sqrt[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

Add to article collection 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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Add to article collection 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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Add to article collection 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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Add to article collection 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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Add to article collection 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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Add to article collection Wave Equation for Dark Coherence in Three-Level Media
J. H. Eberly and V. V. Kozlov
Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Add to article collection Nonlinear Optical Technique for Precise Retardation Measurements
Stefano Cattaneo, Oliver Zehnder, Peter Günter, and Martti Kauranen
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Linear Superposition in Nonlinear Equations
Avinash Khare and Uday Sukhatme
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection 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
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Shape of a Cracking Whip
Alain Goriely and Tyler McMillen
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Transient Vortex Events in the Initial Value Problem for Turbulence
D. D. Holm and Robert Kerr
Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Asymptotic Scaling Laws for Imploding Thin Fluid Shells
M. M. Basko and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection 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

Add to article collection Measurement of X-Ray Pulse Widths by Intensity Interferometry
M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, and T. Ishikawa
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Compressible Sub-Alfvénic MHD Turbulence in Low- β Plasmas
Jungyeon Cho and A. Lazarian
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection 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)
245002 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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.

Add to article collection Universal Attractors of Reversible Aggregate-Reorganization Processes
Stefan Großkinsky, Marc Timme, and Björn Naundorf
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
245501 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Geometrically-Controlled Twist Transitions in Nematic Cells
Pedro Patrício, M. M. Telo da Gama, and S. Dietrich
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
245502 [View PDF (479 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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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Add to article collection Boundary Lubrication Properties of Materials with Expansive Freezing
E. A. Jagla
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
245504 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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)
245505 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Nematics with Quenched Disorder: How Long Will It Take to Heal?
T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia, C. Chiccoli, F. Mantegazza, P. Pasini, and C. Zannoni
Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages)
245506 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Modeling Elasticity in Crystal Growth
K. R. Elder, Mark Katakowski, Mikko Haataja, and Martin Grant
Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages)
245701 [View PDF (604 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Solvation Forces in Branched Molecular Liquids
Roderick Lim and S. J. O'Shea
Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages)
246101 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Measurement of Long-Range Repulsive Forces between Charged Particles at an Oil-Water Interface
R. Aveyard, B. P. Binks, J. H. Clint, P. D. Fletcher, T. S. Horozov, B. Neumann, V. N. Paunov, J. Annesley, S. W. Botchway, D. Nees, A. W. Parker, A. D. Ward, and A. N. Burgess
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
246102 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Two-Dimensional Oxide on Pd(111)
E. Lundgren, G. Kresse, C. Klein, M. Borg, J. N. Andersen, M. De Santis, Y. Gauthier, C. Konvicka, M. Schmid, and P. Varga
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Add to article collection 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
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Quantum Conductance in Semimetallic Bismuth Nanocontacts
J. G. Rodrigo, A. García-Martín, J. J. Sáenz, and S. Vieira
Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection 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
Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages)
247001 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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)
247002 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Order and Mobility of Solid Vortex Matter in Oscillatory Driving Currents
S. O. Valenzuela
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection 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)
247004 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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)
247005 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 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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Add to article collection Polaron Percolation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
A. Kaminski and S. Das Sarma
Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Dynamics of a Tunneling Magnetic Impurity: Kondo Effect Induced Incoherence
L. Borda and G. Zaránd
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Spin-Polarized Transport across Sharp Antiferromagnetic Boundaries
W. Eerenstein, T. T. Palstra, S. S. Saxena, and T. Hibma
Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages)
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Add to article collection Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of the MX-Chain Compound [Ni(chxn)2Br]Br2: Spin-Charge Separation in Hybridized d-p Chains
Shin-ichi Fujimori, Akihiro Ino, Testuo Okane, Atsushi Fujimori, Kozo Okada, Toshio Manabe, Masahiro Yamashita, Hideo Kishida, and Hiroshi Okamoto
Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages)
247601 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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

Add to article collection Garrido and Hurtado Reply:
P. L. Garrido and P. I. Hurtado
Published 3 June 2002 (1 pages)
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ERRATA

Add to article collection 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 pages)
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