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Physical Review Letters – 4 March 2002
Volume 88, Issue 9

Electron-microscope dark-field image from superlattice reflections of the praseodymium compound Pr5/8 Ca3/8 MnO3. The insert shows the electron-diffraction pattern of this crystal. [T. Asaka, S. Yamada, S. Tsutsumi, C. Tsuruta, K. Kimoto, T. Arima, and Y. Matsui, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097201 (2002)]

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Controlling the Energy Flow in Nonlinear Lattices: A Model for a Thermal Rectifier
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Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Charge and Spin Structure in YBa2Cu3O6.35
H. A. Mook, Pengcheng Dai, and F. Doğan
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Communication with Dynamically Fluctuating States of Light Polarization
Gregory D. VanWiggeren and Rajarshi Roy
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Periodically Dressed Bose-Einstein Condensate: A Superfluid with an Anisotropic and Variable Critical Velocity
J. Higbie and D. M. Stamper-Kurn
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Signatures of Resonance Superfluidity in a Quantum Fermi Gas
M. L. Chiofalo, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, J. N. Milstein, and M. J. Holland
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Rate Limit for Photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Juha Javanainen and Matt Mackie
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
090403 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Creation of a Monopole in a Spinor Condensate
J.-P. Martikainen, A. Collin, and K.-A. Suominen
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
090404 [View PDF (175 kB)]
Clock-Comparison Tests of Lorentz and CPT Symmetry in Space
Robert Bluhm, V. Alan Kostelecký, Charles D. Lane, and Neil Russell
Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages)
090801 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Calculating the Gravitational Self-Force in Schwarzschild Spacetime
Leor Barack, Yasushi Mino, Hiroyuki Nakano, Amos Ori, and Misao Sasaki
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
091101 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Tachyon Condensation and Black Hole Entropy
Atish Dabholkar
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
091301 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Probing the Dark Energy with Quasar Clustering
M. O. Calvão, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, and I. Waga
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
091302 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Changing α with Time: Implications for Fifth-Force-Type Experiments and Quintessence
Gia Dvali and Matias Zaldarriaga
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
091303 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Thermally Generated Gauge Singlet Scalars as Self-Interacting Dark Matter
John McDonald
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
091304 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Recoil Correction to the Bound-Electron g Factor in H-Like Atoms to All Orders in αZ
V. M. Shabaev and V. A. Yerokhin
Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages)
091801 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering
G. P. Zeller et al.
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
091802 [View PDF (158 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Measurement of GEp/GMp in e⃗p→ep⃗ to Q2 = 5.6GeV2
O. Gayou et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)
Published 12 February 2002 (5 pages)
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2868Ni40: Magicity versus Superfluidity
O. Sorlin et al.
Published 15 February 2002 (5 pages)
092501 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Nuclear Masses: Evidence of Order-Chaos Coexistence
O. Bohigas and P. Leboeuf
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
092502 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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K-Shell Photodetachment of He-: Experiment and Theory
N. Berrah, J. D. Bozek, G. Turri, G. Akerman, B. Rude, H.-L Zhou, and S. T. Manson
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
093001 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Strong Electron Correlation in Photoionization of Spin-Orbit Doublets
M. Ya. Amusia, L. V. Chernysheva, S. T. Manson, A. M. Msezane, and V. Radojević
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
093002 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Feedback Control of Atomic Motion in an Optical Lattice
N. V. Morrow, S. K. Dutta, and G. Raithel
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
093003 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Magnetic Slowing Down of Spin Relaxation due to Binary Collisions of Alkali-Metal Atoms with Buffer-Gas Atoms
D. K. Walter, W. M. Griffith, and W. Happer
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
093004 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Interisotope Determination of Ultracold Rubidium Interactions from Three High-Precision Experiments
E. G. M. van Kempen, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, D. J. Heinzen, and B. J. Verhaar
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
093201 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Polarization Squeezing of Continuous Variable Stokes Parameters
Warwick P. Bowen, Roman Schnabel, Hans-A. Bachor, and Ping Koy Lam
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
093601 [View PDF (673 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Anomalous Refraction and Diffraction in Discrete Optical Systems
T. Pertsch, T. Zentgraf, U. Peschel, A. Bräuer, and F. Lederer
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
093901 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Decay Distribution of Spontaneous Emission from an Assembly of Atoms in Photonic Crystals with Pseudogaps
Xue-Hua Wang, Rongzhou Wang, Ben-Yuan Gu, and Guo-Zhen Yang
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
093902 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Autonomous Swinging of a Lipid Tubule under Stationary Irradiation by a Nd3+:YAG Laser
Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, Takahiro Harada, and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
093903 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Random Laser in One Dimension
A. L. Burin, Mark A. Ratner, H. Cao, and S. H. Chang
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
093904 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Numerical Characterization of High Harmonic Attosecond Pulses
Nenad Milosevic, Armin Scrinzi, and Thomas Brabec
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
093905 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Quantum Dissipative Chaos in the Statistics of Excitation Numbers
Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan and Suren B. Manvelyan
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
094101 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Fresnel Filtering in Lasing Emission from Scarred Modes of Wave-Chaotic Optical Resonators
N. B. Rex, H. E. Tureci, H. G. L. Schwefel, R. K. Chang, and A. Douglas Stone
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
094102 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Finite Heat Conduction in a 2D Disorder Lattice
Lei Yang
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
094301 [View PDF (766 kB)]
Controlling the Energy Flow in Nonlinear Lattices: A Model for a Thermal Rectifier
M. Terraneo, M. Peyrard, and G. Casati
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
094302 [View PDF (145 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Relative Dispersion in Fully Developed Turbulence: The Richardson’s Law and Intermittency Corrections
G. Boffetta and I. M. Sokolov
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
094501 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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On-Line Ion Cooling and Bunching for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy
A. Nieminen, P. Campbell, J. Billowes, D. H. Forest, J. A. R. Griffith, J. Huikari, A. Jokinen, I. D. Moore, R. Moore, G. Tungate, and J. Äystö
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
094801 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Variational Principles and Self-Organization in Two-Fluid Plasmas
Z. Yoshida and S. M. Mahajan
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
095001 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Electron Cyclotron Resonance in a Weakly Magnetized Radio-Frequency Inductive Discharge
ChinWook Chung, S. S. Kim, and H. Y. Chang
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
095002 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Ensembles of Classical Oscillators
A. G. Litvak and M. D. Tokman
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
095003 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Dissipative Longitudinal Solitons in a Two-Dimensional Strongly Coupled Complex (Dusty) Plasma
D. Samsonov, A. V. Ivlev, R. A. Quinn, G. Morfill, and S. Zhdanov
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
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Electron Acceleration by a Tightly Focused Laser Beam
Yousef I. Salamin and Christoph H. Keitel
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
095005 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Instability-Triggered Phase Transition to a Dusty-Plasma Condensate
Glenn Joyce, Martin Lampe, and Gurudas Ganguli
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
095006 [View PDF (179 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Origins of Coexistence of Conductivity and Transparency in SnO2
Çetin Kılıç and Alex Zunger
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
095501 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Spiral Cracks in Drying Precipitates
Z. Néda, K.-t. Leung, L. Józsa, and M. Ravasz
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
095502 [View PDF (810 kB)]
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Beyond Flory-Huggins Theory: New Classes of Blend Miscibility Associated with Monomer Structural Asymmetry
Jacek Dudowicz, Karl F. Freed, and Jack F. Douglas
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
095503 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Phase Equilibria of Charge-, Size-, and Shape-Asymmetric Model Electrolytes
Qiliang Yan and Juan J. de Pablo
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
095504 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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From Strong to Fragile Glass Formers: Secondary Relaxation in Polyalcohols
A. Döß, M. Paluch, H. Sillescu, and G. Hinze
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
095701 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Singularity in the Thermal Boundary Resistance between Superfluid 4He and a Solid Surface
Kerry Kuehn, Sarabjit Mehta, Haiying Fu, Edgar Genio, Daniel Murphy, Fengchuan Liu, Yuanming Liu, and Guenter Ahlers
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
095702 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Magnetic Field Enhancement of Heat Transport in the 2D Heisenberg Antiferromagnet K2V3O8
B. C. Sales, M. D. Lumsden, S. E. Nagler, D. Mandrus, and R. Jin
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
095901 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Ionic Self-Diffusion in Concentrated Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions
J.-F. Dufrêche, O. Bernard, P. Turq, A. Mukherjee, and B. Bagchi
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
095902 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Elastic Relaxations in Ultrathin Epitaxial Alloy Films
V. Ozoliņš, M. Asta, and J. J. Hoyt
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
096101 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Transition from Stick-Slip to Smooth Sliding: An Earthquakelike Model
O. M. Braun and J. Röder
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
096102 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Thickness Induced Structural Transition in Suspended fcc Metal Nanofilms
Anwar Hasmy and Ernesto Medina
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
096103 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Structure of Quantum Wires in Au/Si(557)
I. K. Robinson, P. A. Bennett, and F. J. Himpsel
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
096104 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Self-Organized Nanoscale Pattern Formation on Vicinal Si(111) Surfaces via a Two-Stage Faceting Transition
F. K. Men, Feng Liu, P. J. Wang, C. H. Chen, D. L. Cheng, J. L. Lin, and F. J. Himpsel
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
096105 [View PDF (525 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Evidence for Insulating Behavior in the Electric Conduction of (NH3)K3C60 Systems
H. Kitano, R. Matsuo, K. Miwa, A. Maeda, T. Takenobu, Y. Iwasa, and T. Mitani
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
096401 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Spectroscopic Signatures of Spin-Charge Separation in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Conductor TTF-TCNQ
R. Claessen, M. Sing, U. Schwingenschlögl, P. Blaha, M. Dressel, and C. S. Jacobsen
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
096402 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Spectral Function of a Quarter-Filled One-Dimensional Charge Density Wave Insulator
Fabian H. L. Essler and Alexei M. Tsvelik
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
096403 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Nonuniversal Behavior of Scattering between Fractional Quantum Hall Edges
Bernd Rosenow and Bertrand I. Halperin
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
096404 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Engineering Electronic Lifetimes in Artificial Atomic Structures
K.-F. Braun and K.-H. Rieder
Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages)
096801 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Electron Scattering at Steps: Image-Potential States on Cu(119)
Manfred Roth, Martin Pickel, Wang Jinxiong, Martin Weinelt, and Thomas Fauster
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
096802 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Real-Space Measurement of the Potential Distribution Inside Organic Semiconductors
M. Kemerink, P. Offermans, J. K. J. van Duren, P. M. Koenraad, R. A. J. Janssen, H. W. M. Salemink, and J. H. Wolter
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
096803 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Kondo Effect of Single Co Adatoms on Cu Surfaces
Nikolaus Knorr, M. Alexander Schneider, Lars Diekhöner, Peter Wahl, and Klaus Kern
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
096804 [View PDF (819 kB)]
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Flux Flow of Abrikosov-Josephson Vortices along Grain Boundaries in High-Temperature Superconductors
A. Gurevich, M. S. Rzchowski, G. Daniels, S. Patnaik, B. M. Hinaus, F. Carillo, F. Tafuri, and D. C. Larbalestier
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
097001 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Nanoscale One-Dimensional Scattering Resonances in the CuO Chains of YBa2Cu3O6+x
D. J. Derro, E. W. Hudson, K. M. Lang, S. H. Pan, J. C. Davis, J. T. Markert, and A. L. de Lozanne
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
097002 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Impurity States and Interlayer Tunneling in High Temperature Superconductors
I. Martin, A. V. Balatsky, and J. Zaanen
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
097003 [View PDF (147 kB)]
Charge and Spin Structure in YBa2Cu3O6.35
H. A. Mook, Pengcheng Dai, and F. Doğan
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
097004 [View PDF (212 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Absence of a Loss of In-Plane Infrared Spectral Weight in the Pseudogap Regime of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
A. F. Santander-Syro, R. P. S. M. Lobo, N. Bontemps, Z. Konstantinovic, Z. Li, and H. Raffy
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
097005 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Charge/Orbital Ordering Structure of Pr1-xCaxMnO3 ( x = 3/8) Examined by Low-Temperature Transmission Electron Microscopy
T. Asaka, S. Yamada, S. Tsutsumi, C. Tsuruta, K. Kimoto, T. Arima, and Y. Matsui
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
097201 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Surface Chemistry of Silicon Nanoclusters
Aaron Puzder, A. J. Williamson, Jeffrey C. Grossman, and Giulia Galli
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
097401 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Imaging the Local Density of States of Optical Corrals
C. Chicanne, T. David, R. Quidant, J. C. Weeber, Y. Lacroute, E. Bourillot, A. Dereux, G. Colas des Francs, and C. Girard
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
097402 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Antiferroelectric Behavior in Symmetric KNbO3/KTaO3 Superlattices
J. Sigman, D. P. Norton, H. M. Christen, P. H. Fleming, and L. A. Boatner
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
097601 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Spin-Lattice Relaxation Enhancement in Liquid Gallium Confined within Nanoporous Matrices
E. V. Charnaya, T. Loeser, D. Michel, C. Tien, D. Yaskov, and Yu. A. Kumzerov
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
097602 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Surface Charging and Impulsive Ion Ejection during Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Ablation
R. Stoian, A. Rosenfeld, D. Ashkenasi, I. V. Hertel, N. M. Bulgakova, and E. E. B. Campbell
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
097603 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Optimizing the Encounter Rate in Biological Interactions: Lévy versus Brownian Strategies
F. Bartumeus, J. Catalan, U. L. Fulco, M. L. Lyra, and G. M. Viswanathan
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
097901 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Experimental Simulation of Two-Particle Quantum Entanglement using Classical Fields
K. F. Lee and J. E. Thomas
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
097902 [View PDF (90 kB)]
Communication with Dynamically Fluctuating States of Light Polarization
Gregory D. VanWiggeren and Rajarshi Roy
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
097903 [View PDF (351 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Efficient Classical Simulation of Continuous Variable Quantum Information Processes
Stephen D. Bartlett, Barry C. Sanders, Samuel L. Braunstein, and Kae Nemoto
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
097904 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Thermalizing Quantum Machines: Dissipation and Entanglement
Valerio Scarani, Mário Ziman, Peter Štelmachovič, Nicolas Gisin, and Vladimír Bužek
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
097905 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Characterizing the Structure of Small-World Networks
E. Almaas, R. V. Kulkarni, and D. Stroud
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
098101 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Effect of Solvation on Hole Motion in DNA
D. M. Basko and E. M. Conwell
Published 14 February 2002 (4 pages)
098102 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Comparative Simulation Study of Colloidal Gels And Glasses
Antonio M. Puertas, Matthias Fuchs, and Michael E. Cates
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
098301 [View PDF (191 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Cabello’s Nonlocality and Linear Optics
A. I. Lvovsky
Published 14 February 2002 (1 page)
098901 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Rigorous Bounds to Retarded Learning
Arnaud Buhot, Mirta B. Gordon, and Jean-Pierre Nadal
Published 12 February 2002 (1 page)
099801 [View PDF (59 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: “Two-Time Green's Functions and the Spectral Density Method in Nonextensive Classical Statistical Mechanics”[Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 240602 (2001)]
A. Cavallo, F. Cosenza, and L. De Cesare
Published 11 February 2002 (1 page)
099901(E) [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Erratum: Remote State Preparation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 077902 (2001)]
Charles H. Bennett, David P. DiVincenzo, Peter W. Shor, John A. Smolin, Barbara M. Terhal, and William K. Wootters
Published 15 February 2002 (1 page)
099902(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
 
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