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Physical Review Letters – 1 July 2002
Volume 89, Issue 1

Plot of the orbit of comet Oterma in a Sun-Jupiter rotating frame, showing on the right a bottleneck region near Jupiter. In a new study, a statistical method used in chemical reaction dynamics is applied to problems in celestial mechanics, suggesting a useful alternative to large-scale numerical simulations. [Charles Jaffé, Shane D. Ross, Martin W. Lo, Jerrold Marsden, David Farrelly, and T. Uzer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 011101 (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.

Statistical Theory of Asteroid Escape Rates
Charles Jaffé, Shane D. Ross, Martin W. Lo, Jerrold Marsden, David Farrelly, and T. Uzer
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
011101 [View PDF (161 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Evidence of Diffusion Regions at a Subsolar Magnetopause Crossing
F. S. Mozer, S. D. Bale, and T. D. Phan
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
015002 [View PDF (230 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Microscopic Dynamics in a Strongly Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensate
N. R. Claussen, E. A. Donley, S. T. Thompson, and C. E. Wieman
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
010401 [View PDF (258 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Statistical Theory of Asteroid Escape Rates
Charles Jaffé, Shane D. Ross, Martin W. Lo, Jerrold Marsden, David Farrelly, and T. Uzer
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
011101 [View PDF (161 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Direct Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Transformation from Neutral-Current Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Q. R. Ahmad et al.
Published 13 June 2002 (6 pages)
011301 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Measurement of Day and Night Neutrino Energy Spectra at SNO and Constraints on Neutrino Mixing Parameters
Q. R. Ahmad et al. (SNO Collaboration)
Published 13 June 2002 (5 pages)
011302 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Limit on the Detectability of the Energy Scale of Inflation
Lloyd Knox and Yong-Seon Song
Published 18 June 2002 (4 pages)
011303 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Separation of Gravitational-Wave and Cosmic-Shear Contributions to Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization
Michael Kesden, Asantha Cooray, and Marc Kamionkowski
Published 18 June 2002 (4 pages)
011304 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Electron Mass Operator in a Strong Magnetic Field and Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking
A. V. Kuznetsov and N. V. Mikheev
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
011601 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Explaining the Anomalous CDF μγ Missing- ET Events with Supersymmetry
B. C. Allanach, S. Lola, and K. Sridhar
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
011801 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Measurement of the B0 Lifetime with Partially Reconstructed B0→D*-ℓ+νℓ Decays
B. Aubert et al.
Published 13 June 2002 (7 pages)
011802 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Observation of χc2 Production in B Meson Decay
K. Abe et al.
Published 14 June 2002 (5 pages)
011803 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Search for νμ→νe and ν̅ μ→ν̅ e Oscillations at NuTeV
S. Avvakumov et al.
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
011804 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Electron-Proton Scattering in the Δ-Excitation Region
L. D. van Buuren, D. Szczerba, R. Alarcon, D. J. Boersma, J. F. J. van den Brand, H. J. Bulten, R. Ent, M. Ferro-Luzzi, M. Harvey, P. Heimberg, D. W. Higinbotham, S. Klous, H. Kolster, J. Lang, B. L. Militsyn, D. Nikolenko, B. E. Norum, I. Passchier, H. R. Poolman, I. Rachek, M. C. Simani, E. Six, H. de Vries, and Z.-L. Zhou
Published 18 June 2002 (4 pages)
012001 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Coherent Vector-Meson Photoproduction with Nuclear Breakup in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Anthony J. Baltz, Spencer R. Klein, and Joakim Nystrand
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
012301 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Measurement of Mutual Coulomb Dissociation in √sNN = 130GeV Au+Au Collisions
Mickey Chiu, Alexei Denisov, Edmundo Garcia, Judith Katzy, Andrei Makeev, Michael Murray, and Sebastian White
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
012302 [View PDF (1,836 kB)]
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Momentum Distribution of 15B Fragments from the Breakup of 17B
T. Suzuki, Y. Ogawa, M. Chiba, M. Fukuda, N. Iwasa, T. Izumikawa, R. Kanungo, Y. Kawamura, A. Ozawa, T. Suda, I. Tanihata, S. Watanabe, T. Yamaguchi, and Y. Yamaguchi
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
012501 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Isospin Mixing between Low-Lying States of the Odd-Odd N = Z Nucleus 54Co
A. F. Lisetskiy, A. Schmidt, I. Schneider, C. Friessner, N. Pietralla, and P. von Brentano
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
012502 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Coincident Fragment Detection in Strong Field Photoionization and Dissociation of H2
H. Rottke, C. Trump, M. Wittmann, G. Korn, W. Sandner, R. Moshammer, A. Dorn, C. D. Schröter, D. Fischer, J. R. Crespo Lopez-Urrutia, P. Neumayer, J. Deipenwisch, C. Höhr, B. Feuerstein, and J. Ullrich
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
013001 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Quantum Effects in the Differential Cross Sections for the Insertion Reaction N(2D)+H2
Nadia Balucani, Laura Cartechini, Giovanni Capozza, Enrico Segoloni, Piergiorgio Casavecchia, Gian Gualberto Volpi, F. Javier Aoiz, Luis Bañares, Pascal Honvault, and Jean-Michel Launay
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
013201 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Influence of Resonances on Spectral Formation of X-Ray Lines in Fe XVII
Guo Xin Chen and Anil K. Pradhan
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
013202 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Structure Determination of Gas-Phase Niobium and Tantalum Carbide Nanocrystals via Infrared Spectroscopy
Deniz van Heijnsbergen, André Fielicke, Gerard Meijer, and Gert von Helden
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
013401 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Multiple Filamentation of Circularly Polarized Beams
G. Fibich and B. Ilan
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
013901 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Noise-Enhanced Phase Synchronization of Chaotic Oscillators
Changsong Zhou, Jürgen Kurths, István Z. Kiss, and John L. Hudson
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
014101 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Large-Scale Finite-Wavelength Modulation within Turbulent Shear Flows
Arnaud Prigent, Guillaume Grégoire, Hugues Chaté, Olivier Dauchot, and Wim van Saarloos
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
014501 [View PDF (398 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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New Advanced Operational Regime on the W7-AS Stellarator
K. McCormick et al.
Published 11 June 2002 (4 pages)
015001 [View PDF (318 kB)]
Evidence of Diffusion Regions at a Subsolar Magnetopause Crossing
F. S. Mozer, S. D. Bale, and T. D. Phan
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
015002 [View PDF (230 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Nonlinear Evolution of Stimulated Scatter in High-Temperature Plasmas
A. B. Langdon and D. E. Hinkel
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
015003 [View PDF (320 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Bose-Einstein Condensation at a Helium Surface
E. W. Draeger and D. M. Ceperley
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
015301 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Enhanced X-Ray Phase Determination by Three-Beam Diffraction
Sérgio L. Morelhão and Stefan Kycia
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
015501 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Direct Role of Hydrogen in the Staebler-Wronski Effect in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon
T. Su, P. C. Taylor, G. Ganguly, and D. E. Carlson
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
015502 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Self-Organization of a Carbide Superlattice during Deposition of Carbon on Mo
F. Tsui and P. A. Ryan
Published 18 June 2002 (4 pages)
015503 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Laponite: Aging and Shear Rejuvenation of a Colloidal Glass
Daniel Bonn, Sorin Tanase, Bérengère Abou, Hajime Tanaka, and Jacques Meunier
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
015701 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Adsorption of Selenium Wires in Silicalite-1 Zeolite: A First Order Transition in a Microporous System
Christophe Bichara, Jean Yves Raty, and Roland J.-M. Pellenq
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
016101 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Adsorbate-Oxide Interactions during the NO+CO Reaction on MgO(100) Supported Pd Monolayer Films
B. Hammer
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
016102 [View PDF (223 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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“Intrinsic” Acceptor Ground State Splitting in Silicon: An Isotopic Effect
D. Karaiskaj, M. L. W. Thewalt, T. Ruf, M. Cardona, and M. Konuma
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
016401 [View PDF (86 kB)]
Gapless Spin-1 Neutral Collective Mode Branch for Graphite
G. Baskaran and S. A. Jafari
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
016402 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Spin-Orbital Pattern Dependent Polaron Absorption in Manganites
M. W. Kim, J. H. Jung, K. H. Kim, H. J. Lee, Jaejun Yu, T. W. Noh, and Y. Moritomo
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
016403 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Weak-Localization-Like Temperature-Dependent Conductivity of a Dilute Two-Dimensional Hole Gas in a Parallel Magnetic Field
Xuan P. A. Gao, Allen P. Mills, Jr., Arthur P. Ramirez, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Kenneth W. West
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
016801 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Random Resonators and Prelocalized Modes in Disordered Dielectric Films
V. M. Apalkov, M. E. Raikh, and B. Shapiro
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
016802 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Magic Numbers in Metallo-Inorganic Clusters: Chromium Encapsulated in Silicon Cages
S. N. Khanna, B. K. Rao, and P. Jena
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
016803 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Rectifiers Based on Ballistic Transport
Ragnar Fleischmann and Theo Geisel
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
016804 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Frictional Drag between Two Dilute Two-Dimensional Hole Layers
R. Pillarisetty, Hwayong Noh, D. C. Tsui, E. P. De Poortere, E. Tutuc, and M. Shayegan
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
016805 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Superconductivity and Magnetic Fluctuations in Cd2Re2O7 via Cd Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Re Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
O. Vyaselev, K. Arai, K. Kobayashi, J. Yamazaki, K. Kodama, M. Takigawa, M. Hanawa, and Z. Hiroi
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
017001 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Spontaneous Formation of a π Soliton in a Superconducting Wire with an Odd Number of Electrons
Hyok-Jon Kwon and Victor M. Yakovenko
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
017002 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Proximity of Pseudogapped Superconductor and Commensurate Antiferromagnet in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Organic System
K. Miyagawa, A. Kawamoto, and K. Kanoda
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
017003 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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London Theory for Superconducting Phase Transitions in External Magnetic Fields: Application to UPt3
D. F. Agterberg and Matthew J. W. Dodgson
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
017004 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Tunneling between Dissimilar High- Tc Oxide Superconductors
T. Imaizumi, T. Kawai, T. Uchiyama, and I. Iguchi
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
017005 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Magneto-optics in the Ultrafast Regime: Thermalization of Spin Populations in Ferromagnetic Films
Luca Guidoni, Eric Beaurepaire, and Jean-Yves Bigot
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
017401 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Large Four-Wave Mixing of Spatially Extended Excitonic States in Thin GaAs Layers
Hajime Ishihara, Kikuo Cho, Koichi Akiyama, Nobuyuki Tomita, Yoshinori Nomura, and Toshiro Isu
Published 18 June 2002 (4 pages)
017402 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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All-Silicon Quantum Computer
T. D. Ladd, J. R. Goldman, F. Yamaguchi, Y. Yamamoto, E. Abe, and K. M. Itoh
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
017901 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Model of Inversion of DNA Charge by a Positive Polymer: Fractionalization of the Polymer Charge
T. T. Nguyen and B. I. Shklovskii
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
018101 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Quantum-Classical Transition Induced by Electrical Measurement
D. Mozyrsky and I. Martin
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
018301 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Dynamics of Folding in Semiflexible Filaments
P. Ranjith and P. B. Sunil Kumar
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
018302 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Phase Behavior of Columnar DNA Assemblies
H. M. Harreis, A. A. Kornyshev, C. N. Likos, H. Löwen, and G. Sutmann
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
018303 [View PDF (114 kB)]
 
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