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Physical Review Letters – 28 October 2002
Volume 89, Issue 18

Calculated strain energy distributions for two icosadeltahedral arrangements of particles that interact via a repulsive potential and are confined to the surface of a sphere; high strain: red; low strain: blue. [M. Bowick, A. Cacciuto, D. R. Nelson, and A. Travesset, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 185502 (2002)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evolution of Nuclear Spectra with Nuclear Forces
R. B. Wiringa and Steven C. Pieper
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
182501 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Fractal Scattering of Microwaves from Soils
K. Oleschko, G. Korvin, A. S. Balankin, R. V. Khachaturov, L. Flores, B. Figueroa, J. Urrutia, and F. Brambila
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
188501 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Ramsey Fringes in a Bose-Einstein Condensate between Atoms and Molecules
S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans and M. J. Holland
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
180401 [View PDF (552 kB)]
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Thermodynamical Approach to Quantifying Quantum Correlations
Jonathan Oppenheim, Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
180402 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Mean-Field Theory of Feshbach-Resonant Interactions in 85Rb Condensates
Matt Mackie, Kalle-Antti Suominen, and Juha Javanainen
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
180403 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Heat Conduction and Entropy Production in a One-Dimensional Hard-Particle Gas
Peter Grassberger, Walter Nadler, and Lei Yang
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
180601 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Theory of a Systematic Computational Error in Free Energy Differences
Daniel M. Zuckerman and Thomas B. Woolf
Published 15 October 2002 (4 pages)
180602 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Broken Quantum Symmetry and Confinement Phases in Planar Physics
F. A. Bais, B. J. Schroers, and J. K. Slingerland
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
181601 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Approximate Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield States
J. R. Hiller, S. S. Pinsky, and U. Trittmann
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
181602 [View PDF (190 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

Evolution of Nuclear Spectra with Nuclear Forces
R. B. Wiringa and Steven C. Pieper
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
182501 [View PDF (116 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Triple Point of Nuclear Deformations
J. Jolie, P. Cejnar, R. F. Casten, S. Heinze, A. Linnemann, and V. Werner
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
182502 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Perturbative Effective Theory in an Oscillator Basis?
W. C. Haxton and T. Luu
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
182503 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Coherent Rayleigh-Brillouin Scattering
Xingguo Pan, Mikhail N. Shneider, and Richard B. Miles
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
183001 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Molecular Photodetachment Microscopy
Christian Delsart, Fabienne Goldfarb, and Christophe Blondel
Published 15 October 2002 (4 pages)
183002 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Barkas Effect for Antiproton Stopping in H2
E. Lodi Rizzini et al.
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
183201 [View PDF (797 kB)]
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Very Fast Hollow-Atom Decay Processes in Xe30+-C60 Collisions
S. Martin, R. Brédy, J. Bernard, J. Désesquelles, and L. Chen
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
183401 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Charge Transfer and Dissociation in Collisions of Metal Clusters with Atoms
C. Bréchignac, Ph. Cahuzac, B. Concina, J. Leygnier, L. F. Ruiz, B. Zarour, P. A. Hervieux, J. Hanssen, M. F. Politis, and F. Martín
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
183402 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Direct Experimental Evidence for a Negative Heat Capacity in the Liquid-to-Gas Phase Transition in Hydrogen Cluster Ions: Backbending of the Caloric Curve
F. Gobet, B. Farizon, M. Farizon, M. J. Gaillard, J. P. Buchet, M. Carré, P. Scheier, and T. D. Märk
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
183403 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Atomic-Vapor-Based High Efficiency Optical Detectors with Photon Number Resolution
Daniel F. V. James and Paul G. Kwiat
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
183601 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Left-Handed-Media Simulation and Transmission of EM Waves in Subwavelength Split-Ring-Resonator-Loaded Metallic Waveguides
R. Marqués, J. Martel, F. Mesa, and F. Medina
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
183901 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Pattern Formation in a Cavity Longer than the Coherence Length of the Light in It
Tal Carmon, Marin Soljačić, and Mordechai Segev
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
183902 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Shadowability of Statistical Averages in Chaotic Systems
Ying-Cheng Lai, Zonghua Liu, Guo-Wei Wei, and Choy-Heng Lai
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
184101 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Gap Bifurcations in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
F. B. Rizzato and R. Pakter
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
184102 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Statistics of Branched Flow in a Weak Correlated Random Potential
Lev Kaplan
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
184103 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic Model for a Dynamical Jammed-to-Flowing Transition in Gravity Driven Granular Media
Lydéric Bocquet, Jalal Errami, and T. C. Lubensky
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
184301 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Energy Spectrum of Quasigeostrophic Turbulence
Peter Constantin
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
184501 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Plume Statistics in Thermal Turbulence: Mixing of an Active Scalar
Sheng-Qi Zhou and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 15 October 2002 (4 pages)
184502 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Soliton Modulation of the Turbulence Envelope and Plasma Rotation
F. Spineanu and M. Vlad
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
185001 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Nonlinear Dynamics of a Zonal Flow near Marginal Stability
V. S. Marchenko
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
185002 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Guiding of High-Intensity Laser Pulses with a Hydrogen-Filled Capillary Discharge Waveguide
A. Butler, D. J. Spence, and S. M. Hooker
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
185003 [View PDF (398 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Spin-Zero Sound in One- and Quasi-One-Dimensional 3He
E. S. Hernández
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
185301 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Identification of Lattice Vacancies on the Two Sublattices of SiC
A. A. Rempel, W. Sprengel, K. Blaurock, K. J. Reichle, J. Major, and H.-E. Schaefer
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
185501 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Crystalline Order on a Sphere and the Generalized Thomson Problem
M. Bowick, A. Cacciuto, D. R. Nelson, and A. Travesset
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
185502 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Acoustic Emission from Paper Fracture
L. I. Salminen, A. I. Tolvanen, and M. J. Alava
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
185503 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Giant Magnetic Moments of Nitrogen-Doped Mn Clusters and their Relevance to Ferromagnetism in Mn-Doped GaN
B. K. Rao and P. Jena
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
185504 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Enhancement by Polydispersity of the Biaxial Nematic Phase in a Mixture of Hard Rods and Plates
Yuri Martínez-Ratón and José A. Cuesta
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
185701 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Rapid Transport of Gases in Carbon Nanotubes
Anastasios I. Skoulidas, David M. Ackerman, J. Karl Johnson, and David S. Sholl
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
185901 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Instability of Thin Liquid Films by Density Variations: A New Mechanism that Mimics Spinodal Dewetting
Ashutosh Sharma and Jeetain Mittal
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
186101 [View PDF (129 kB)]
Evidence of Registry at the Interface during Inorganic Nucleation at an Organic Template
Jan Kmetko, Chungjong Yu, Guennadi Evmenenko, Sumit Kewalramani, and Pulak Dutta
Published 15 October 2002 (4 pages)
186102 [View PDF (165 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Spin Coherence and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency via Exciton Correlations
Mark Phillips and Hailin Wang
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
186401 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Pulling Monatomic Gold Wires with Single Molecules: An Ab Initio Simulation
Daniel Krüger, Harald Fuchs, Roger Rousseau, Dominik Marx, and Michele Parrinello
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
186402 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior of Electron-Spin Fluctuations in an Elemental Paramagnet
J. R. Stewart, B. D. Rainford, R. S. Eccleston, and R. Cywinski
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
186403 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Femtosecond Laser-Induced Damage and Filamentary Propagation in Fused Silica
L. Sudrie, A. Couairon, M. Franco, B. Lamouroux, B. Prade, S. Tzortzakis, and A. Mysyrowicz
Published 15 October 2002 (4 pages)
186601 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Localization and Waveguiding of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Random Nanostructures
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Valentyn S. Volkov, and Kristjan Leosson
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
186801 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Spectrally Resolved Dynamics of Energy Transfer in Quantum-Dot Assemblies: Towards Engineered Energy Flows in Artificial Materials
S. A. Crooker, J. A. Hollingsworth, S. Tretiak, and V. I. Klimov
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
186802 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Metastability and Uniqueness of Vortex States at Depinning
Mahesh Chandran, R. T. Scalettar, and G. T. Zimányi
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
187001 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Two-Band Superconductivity in MgB2
M. Iavarone, G. Karapetrov, A. E. Koshelev, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, D. G. Hinks, W. N. Kang, Eun-Mi Choi, Hyun Jung Kim, Hyeong-Jin Kim, and S. I. Lee
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
187002 [View PDF (489 kB)]
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Vortex Imaging in the π Band of Magnesium Diboride
M. R. Eskildsen, M. Kugler, S. Tanaka, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, and Ø. Fischer
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
187003 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Oscillations of the Superconducting Critical Current in Nb-Cu-Ni-Cu-Nb Junctions
Y. Blum, A. Tsukernik, M. Karpovski, and A. Palevski
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
187004 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Skyrmion Strings and the Anomalous Hall Effect in CrO2
H. Yanagihara and M. B. Salamon
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
187201 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Triple-q⃗ Octupolar Ordering in NpO2
J. A. Paixão, C. Detlefs, M. J. Longfield, R. Caciuffo, P. Santini, N. Bernhoeft, J. Rebizant, and G. H. Lander
Published 15 October 2002 (4 pages)
187202 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Relaxation and Dephasing of Multiexcitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
P. Borri, W. Langbein, S. Schneider, U. Woggon, R. L. Sellin, D. Ouyang, and D. Bimberg
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
187401 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Cyclic Cluster Growth in Ferroelectric Perovskites
Doru C. Lupascu and Ute Rabe
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
187601 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Ferroelectricity and Isotope Effects in Hydrogen-Bonded KDP Crystals
S. Koval, J. Kohanoff, R. L. Migoni, and E. Tosatti
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
187602 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Single Photon Quantum Cryptography
Alexios Beveratos, Rosa Brouri, Thierry Gacoin, André Villing, Jean-Philippe Poizat, and Philippe Grangier
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
187901 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Deterministic Secure Direct Communication Using Entanglement
Kim Boström and Timo Felbinger
Published 11 October 2002 (4 pages)
187902 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Quantum Computation with Trapped Ions in an Optical Cavity
Jiannis Pachos and Herbert Walther
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
187903 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Evolution of Protein Synthesis in a Lattice Model of Replicators
A. Rosas, C. P. Ferreira, and J. F. Fontanari
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
188101 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Noise-Driven Manifestation of Learning in Mature Neural Networks
Christopher Monterola and Caesar Saloma
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
188102 [View PDF (694 kB)]
Trapping of DNA by Thermophoretic Depletion and Convection
Dieter Braun and Albert Libchaber
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
188103 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Quantum Computing by an Optimal Control Algorithm for Unitary Transformations
José P. Palao and Ronnie Kosloff
Published 14 October 2002 (4 pages)
188301 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Screened Hydrodynamic Interaction in a Narrow Channel
Bianxiao Cui, Haim Diamant, and Binhua Lin
Published 15 October 2002 (4 pages)
188302 [View PDF (351 kB)]
Fractal Scattering of Microwaves from Soils
K. Oleschko, G. Korvin, A. S. Balankin, R. V. Khachaturov, L. Flores, B. Figueroa, J. Urrutia, and F. Brambila
Published 10 October 2002 (4 pages)
188501 [View PDF (525 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

COMMENTS

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Does the Reverse Brazil Nut Problem Exist?
G. A. Canul-Chay, P. A. Belmont, Y. Nahmad-Molinari, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez
Published 9 October 2002 (1 page)
189601 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Quinn, Hong, and Luding Reply:
Paul V. Quinn, Daniel C. Hong, and Stefan Luding
Published 9 October 2002 (1 page)
189602 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Comment on “Reverse Brazil Nut Problem: Competition between Percolation and Condensation”
H. Walliser
Published 9 October 2002 (1 page)
189603 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Quinn, Hong, and Luding Reply:
Paul V. Quinn, Daniel C. Hong, and Stefan Luding
Published 9 October 2002 (1 page)
189604 [View PDF (34 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Diffusion and Reactions of Hydrogen in F2-Laser-Irradiated SiO2 Glass [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 135507 (2002)]
Koichi Kajihara, Linards Skuja, Masahiro Hirano, and Hideo Hosono
Published 9 October 2002 (1 page)
189901(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Interlayer Magnetic Coupling Interactions of Two Ferromagnetic Layers by Spin Polarized Tunneling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 107206 (2002)]
J. Faure-Vincent, C. Tiusan, C. Bellouard, E. Popova, M. Hehn, F. Montaigne, and A. Schuhl
Published 11 October 2002 (1 page)
189902(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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