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Physical Review Letters – 30 September 2002
Volume 89, Issue 14

Simulation of crack propagation in an amorphous glassy polymer. The figures show, respectively, craze formation (A), deformation (B), and failure in front of the crack tip (C). [Jörg Rottler, Sandra Barsky, and Mark O. Robbins, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 148304 (2002)]

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LETTERS

General Physics

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Contrast Interferometry using Bose-Einstein Condensates to Measure h/m and α
S. Gupta, K. Dieckmann, Z. Hadzibabic, and D. E. Pritchard
Published 10 September 2002 (4 pages)
140401 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Decoherence due to Three-Body Loss and its Effect on the State of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Michael W. Jack
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
140402 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Bifurcation Phenomenon in Spin Relaxation
Gen Kimura, Kazuya Yuasa, and Kentaro Imafuku
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
140403 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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New Proposal for Numerical Simulations of θ-Vacuum-like Systems
V. Azcoiti, G. Di Carlo, A. Galante, and V. Laliena
Published 17 September 2002 (4 pages)
141601 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Weak Scale Supersymmetry without Weak Scale Supergravity
Markus A. Luty
Published 17 September 2002 (4 pages)
141801 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Observation of Double cc̅ Production in e+e- Annihilation at √s≈10.6  GeV
K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 16 September 2002 (6 pages)
142001 [View PDF (190 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Isovector Quadrupole Resonance Observed in the 60Ni(13C,13N)60Co Reaction at E/A=100  MeV
T. Ichihara, M. Ishihara, H. Ohnuma, T. Niizeki, Y. Satou, H. Okamura, S. Kubono, M. H. Tanaka, and Y. Fuchi
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
142501 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Isobaric Multiplet Yrast Energies and Isospin Nonconserving Forces
A. P. Zuker, S. M. Lenzi, G. Martínez-Pinedo, and A. Poves
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
142502 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Evidence for Second-Phonon Nuclear Wobbling
D. R. Jensen, G. B. Hagemann, I. Hamamoto, S. W. Ødegård, B. Herskind, G. Sletten, J. N. Wilson, K. Spohr, H. Hübel, P. Bringel, A. Neußer, G. Schönwaßer, A. K. Singh, W. C. Ma, H. Amro, A. Bracco, S. Leoni, G. Benzoni, A. Maj, C. M. Petrache, G. Lo Bianco, P. Bednarczyk, and D. Curien
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
142503 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Ab initio Approach to s-Shell Hypernuclei Λ3H, Λ4H, Λ4He, and Λ5He with a ΛN-ΣN Interaction
H. Nemura, Y. Akaishi, and Y. Suzuki
Published 17 September 2002 (4 pages)
142504 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Self-Energy Correction to the Bound-Electron g Factor in H-like Ions
V. A. Yerokhin, P. Indelicato, and V. M. Shabaev
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
143001 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Direct Method for Optimized Effective Potentials in Density-Functional Theory
Weitao Yang and Qin Wu
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
143002 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Coherent Control in the Presence of Intrinsic Decoherence: Proton Transfer in Large Molecular Systems
Victor S. Batista and Paul Brumer
Published 17 September 2002 (4 pages)
143201 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Ionization of Clusters in Strong X-Ray Laser Pulses
Ulf Saalmann and Jan-Michael Rost
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
143401 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Orbital Angular Momentum Exchange in the Interaction of Twisted Light with Molecules
M. Babiker, C. R. Bennett, D. L. Andrews, and L. C. Dávila Romero
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
143601 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Manipulating Light Pulses via Dynamically Controlled Photonic Band gap
A. André and M. D. Lukin
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
143602 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Optical Trapping of Single Fluorescent Molecules at the Detection Spots of Nanoprobes
Nils Calander and Magnus Willander
Published 18 September 2002 (4 pages)
143603 [View PDF (154 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Third-Harmonic Generation and Self-Channeling in Air Using High-Power Femtosecond Laser Pulses
N. Aközbek, A. Iwasaki, A. Becker, M. Scalora, S. L. Chin, and C. M. Bowden
Published 10 September 2002 (4 pages)
143901 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Hamilton-Jacobi Formulation of Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy for Classical and Quantum Dynamics
M. Hossein Partovi
Published 18 September 2002 (4 pages)
144101 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Freely Decaying Weak Turbulence for Sea Surface Gravity Waves
M. Onorato, A. R. Osborne, M. Serio, D. Resio, A. Pushkarev, V. E. Zakharov, and C. Brandini
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
144501 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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First Experimental Measurements of the Plasma Potential throughout the Presheath and Sheath at a Boundary in a Weakly Collisional Plasma
L. Oksuz and N. Hershkowitz
Published 16 September 2002 (3 pages)
145001 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Energy Spectrum of Superfluid Turbulence with No Normal-Fluid Component
Tsunehiko Araki, Makoto Tsubota, and Sergey K. Nemirovskii
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
145301 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Reassigning Hydrogen-Bond Centering in Dense Ice
Magali Benoit, Aldo H. Romero, and Dominik Marx
Published 10 September 2002 (4 pages)
145501 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Elusiveness of Fluid-Fluid Demixing in Additive Hard-Core Mixtures
Luis Lafuente and José A. Cuesta
Published 10 September 2002 (4 pages)
145701 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Dipole Orientational Order at Liquid/Vapor Surfaces
Jae-Hie J. Cho and Bruce M. Law
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
146101 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Step Edge Selection during Ion Erosion of Cu(001)
Peter Broekmann, Agnes Mewe, Herbert Wormeester, and Bene Poelsema
Published 12 September 2002 (4 pages)
146102 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Island Shape Selection in Pt(111) Submonolayer Homoepitaxy with or without CO as an Adsorbate
Jing Wu, E. G. Wang, K. Varga, B. G. Liu, S. T. Pantelides, and Zhenyu Zhang
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
146103 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Interplay between Nonlinearity, Scan Speed, Damping, and Electronics in Frequency Modulation Atomic-Force Microscopy
Michel Gauthier, Ruben Pérez, Toyoko Arai, Masahiko Tomitori, and Masaru Tsukada
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
146104 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Influence of Carbon Curvature on Molecular Adsorptions in Carbon-Based Materials: A Force Field Approach
M. K. Kostov, H. Cheng, A. C. Cooper, and G. P. Pez
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
146105 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Highly Strained Structure of a Four-Layer Deposit of Pd on Ni(110): A Coupled Theoretical and Experimental Study
J.-S. Filhol, M.-C. Saint-Lager, M. De Santis, P. Dolle, D. Simon, R. Baudoing-Savois, J. C. Bertolini, and P. Sautet
Published 17 September 2002 (4 pages)
146106 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Folding Langmuir Monolayers
Weixing Lu, Charles M. Knobler, Robijn F. Bruinsma, Michael Twardos, and Michael Dennin
Published 17 September 2002 (4 pages)
146107 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Optical Orientation and Femtosecond Relaxation of Spin-Polarized Holes in GaAs
D. J. Hilton and C. L. Tang
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
146601 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Quantum Ratchets with Few Bands below the Barrier
M. Grifoni, M. S. Ferreira, J. Peguiron, and J. B. Majer
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
146801 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Adiabatic Quantum Pump of Spin-Polarized Current
Eduardo R. Mucciolo, Claudio Chamon, and Charles M. Marcus
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
146802 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Tunneling Spectroscopy of a Two-Dimensionally Periodic Electron System
K. R. Zolleis, C. J. B. Ford, B. Kardynal, D. A. Ritchie, E. H. Linfield, P. D. Rose, and G. A. C. Jones
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
146803 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Evidence for Weak Itinerant Long-Range Magnetic Correlations in UGe2
A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, P. C. M. Gubbens, C. T. Kaiser, A. A. Menovsky, M. Mihalik, and S. P. Cottrell
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
147001 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in the Vortex State of the Pyrochlore Superconductor, Cd2Re2O7
M. D. Lumsden, S. R. Dunsiger, J. E. Sonier, R. I. Miller, R. F. Kiefl, R. Jin, J. He, D. Mandrus, S. T. Bramwell, and J. S. Gardner
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
147002 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Heat Transport in a Strongly Overdoped Cuprate: Fermi Liquid and a Pure d-Wave BCS Superconductor
Cyril Proust, Etienne Boaknin, R. W. Hill, Louis Taillefer, and A. P. Mackenzie
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
147003 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Singular Current Response from Isolated Impurities in d-Wave Superconductors
Shan-Wen Tsai and P. J. Hirschfeld
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
147004 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Pressure Dependence of the Magnetization in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UGe2
C. Pfleiderer and A. D. Huxley
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
147005 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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STM Imaging of Flux Line Arrangements in the Peak Effect Regime
A. M. Troyanovski, M. van Hecke, N. Saha, J. Aarts, and P. H. Kes
Published 17 September 2002 (4 pages)
147006 [View PDF (846 kB)]
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Magnetic Correlations and the Anisotropic Kondo Effect in Ce1-xLaxAl3
E. A. Goremychkin, R. Osborn, B. D. Rainford, T. A. Costi, A. P. Murani, C. A. Scott, and P. J. C. King
Published 12 September 2002 (4 pages)
147201 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Local Ferroelectricity in SrTiO3 Thin Films
Oleg Tikhomirov, Hua Jiang, and Jeremy Levy
Published 10 September 2002 (4 pages)
147601 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Electric-Field-Induced Ion Evaporation from Dielectric Liquid
Manuel Gamero-Castaño
Published 13 September 2002 (4 pages)
147602 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Nonlocality, Asymmetry, and Distinguishing Bipartite States
Jonathan Walgate and Lucien Hardy
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
147901 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Universal Quantum Computation with Spin-1/2 Pairs and Heisenberg Exchange
Jeremy Levy
Published 17 September 2002 (3 pages)
147902 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Complementarity and Diversity in a Soluble Model Ecosystem
Viviane M. de Oliveira and J. F. Fontanari
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
148101 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Enhanced Kinetics and Free-Volume Universality in Dense Aggregating Systems
D. Fry, Tomàs Sintes, A. Chakrabarti, and C. M. Sorensen
Published 10 September 2002 (4 pages)
148301 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Mesoscale Simulations of Surfactant Dissolution and Mesophase Formation
P. Prinsen, P. B. Warren, and M. A. J. Michels
Published 11 September 2002 (4 pages)
148302 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Morphological Diversity of DNA-Colloidal Self-Assembly
Alexei V. Tkachenko
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
148303 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Cracks and Crazes: On Calculating the Macroscopic Fracture Energy of Glassy Polymers from Molecular Simulations
Jörg Rottler, Sandra Barsky, and Mark O. Robbins
Published 16 September 2002 (4 pages)
148304 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Instability of a Lamellar Phase under Shear Flow: Formation of Multilamellar Vesicles
L. Courbin, J. P. Delville, J. Rouch, and P. Panizza
Published 17 September 2002 (4 pages)
148305 [View PDF (850 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Indispensable Finite Time Corrections for Fokker-Planck Equations from Time Series Data”
R. Friedrich, Ch. Renner, M. Siefert, and J. Peinke
Published 16 September 2002 (1 page)
149401 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Ragwitz and Kantz Reply:
Mario Ragwitz and Holger Kantz
Published 16 September 2002 (1 page)
149402 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Comment on “Phase Diagram of an Asymmetric Spin Ladder”
Luca Capriotti, Federico Becca, Sandro Sorella, and Alberto Parola
Published 12 September 2002 (1 page)
149701 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Chen, Büttner, and Voit Reply
Shu Chen, H. Büttner, and J. Voit
Published 12 September 2002 (1 page)
149702 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “Loss of Superconducting Phase Coherence in YBa2Cu3O7 films: Vortex-Loop Unbinding and Kosterlitz-Thouless Phenomena”
Kateryna Medvedyeva, Beom Jun Kim, and Petter Minnhagen
Published 16 September 2002 (1 page)
149703 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Kötzler et al. Reply:
J. Kötzler, D. Görlitz, S. Skwirblies, and A. Wriedt
Published 16 September 2002 (1 page)
149704 [View PDF (62 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Transparency of Magnetized Plasma at the Cyclotron Frequency [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 115003 (2002)]
G. Shvets and J. S. Wurtele
Published 12 September 2002 (1 page)
149901(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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