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Physical Review Letters – 11 November 2002
Volume 89, Issue 20

Lattice Monte Carlo simulation of the growth of a gyroid cubic phase in a triblock copolymer melt; the three different polymers making up the melt are indicated by the blue, red, and yellow areas, respectively. [Tomonari Dotera, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 205502 (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.

Observation of Depression Solitary Surface Waves on a Thin Fluid Layer
Éric Falcon, Claude Laroche, and Stéphan Fauve
Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages)
204501 [View PDF (340 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Efficiency of Mesoscopic Detectors
S. Pilgram and M. Büttiker
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
200401 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of the Wigner Function of a One-Photon Fock State in a Cavity
P. Bertet, A. Auffeves, P. Maioli, S. Osnaghi, T. Meunier, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
200402 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Single Vortex Line in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
P. Rosenbusch, V. Bretin, and J. Dalibard
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
200403 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Bright Soliton Trains of Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates
U. Al Khawaja, H. T. C. Stoof, R. G. Hulet, K. E. Strecker, and G. B. Partridge
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
200404 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Elimination of Body-Frame Singularities in the Separation of Three Collective Angles in Quantum N-Body Problems
A. V. Meremianin and J. S. Briggs
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
200405 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Glory Oscillations in the Index of Refraction for Matter Waves
Tony D. Roberts, Alexander D. Cronin, David A. Kokorowski, and David E. Pritchard
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
200406 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Anomalous Heat Conduction in One-Dimensional Momentum-Conserving Systems
Onuttom Narayan and Sriram Ramaswamy
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
200601 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Cosmological Higgs Fields
J. W. van Holten
Published 24 October 2002 (3 pages)
201301 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Benchmarks for the Forward Observables at RHIC, the Tevatron-Run II, and the LHC
J. R. Cudell, V. V. Ezhela, P. Gauron, K. Kang, Yu. V. Kuyanov, S. B. Lugovsky, E. Martynov, B. Nicolescu, E. A. Razuvaev, and N. P. Tkachenko (COMPETE Collaboration)
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
201801 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Measurement of the CP Asymmetry Amplitude sin⁡2β with B0 Mesons
B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)
Published 29 October 2002 (7 pages)
201802 [View PDF (184 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Centrality Dependence of High-pT Hadron Suppression in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=130  GeV
C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 28 October 2002 (6 pages)
202301 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Flavor Ordering of Elliptic Flows at High Transverse Momentum
Zi-wei Lin and C. M. Ko
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
202302 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Conversion Electron Cascades in 102254No
P. A. Butler et al.
Published 25 October 2002 (4 pages)
202501 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of a Motional Stark Effect to Determine the Second-Order Doppler Effect
G. Hagel, R. Battesti, F. Nez, L. Julien, and F. Biraben
Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages)
203001 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Fluorescence Quenching of Dye Molecules near Gold Nanoparticles: Radiative and Nonradiative Effects
E. Dulkeith, A. C. Morteani, T. Niedereichholz, T. A. Klar, J. Feldmann, S. A. Levi, F. C. J. M. van Veggel, D. N. Reinhoudt, M. Möller, and D. I. Gittins
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
203002 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Realization of a Time-Domain Fresnel Lens with Coherent Control
Jérôme Degert, Wendel Wohlleben, Béatrice Chatel, Marcus Motzkus, and Bertrand Girard
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
203003 [View PDF (473 kB)]
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Decay of an Ultracold Fermionic Lithium Gas near a Feshbach Resonance
K. Dieckmann, C. A. Stan, S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, C. H. Schunck, and W. Ketterle
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
203201 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Rotational Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Molecular Collisions
J. L. Bohn, A. V. Avdeenkov, and M. P. Deskevich
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
203202 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Caloric Curves of Small Fragmenting Clusters
C. Bréchignac, Ph Cahuzac, B. Concina, and J. Leygnier
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
203401 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Dynamics of Freely Cooling Granular Gases
Xiaobo Nie, Eli Ben-Naim, and Shiyi Chen
Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages)
204301 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Preavalanche Instabilities in a Granular Pile
Lydie Staron, Jean-Pierre Vilotte, and Farhang Radjai
Published 25 October 2002 (4 pages)
204302 [View PDF (679 kB)]
Observation of Depression Solitary Surface Waves on a Thin Fluid Layer
Éric Falcon, Claude Laroche, and Stéphan Fauve
Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages)
204501 [View PDF (340 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Nonlinear Damping of Plasma Zonal Flows Excited by Inverse Spectral Transfer
P. W. Terry, R. Gatto, and D. A. Baver
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
205001 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Structure-Driven Nonlinear Instability of Double Tearing Modes and the Abrupt Growth after Long-Time-Scale Evolution
Yasutomo Ishii, Masafumi Azumi, and Yasuaki Kishimoto
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
205002 [View PDF (324 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Evolution of Percolating Force Chains in Compressed Granular Media
Raúl Cruz Hidalgo, Christian U. Grosse, Ferenc Kun, Hans W. Reinhardt, and Hans J. Herrmann
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
205501 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Tricontinuous Cubic Structures in ABC/A/C Copolymer and Homopolymer Blends
Tomonari Dotera
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
205502 [View PDF (327 kB)]
Structure of a New Dense Amorphous Ice
J. L. Finney, D. T. Bowron, A. K. Soper, T. Loerting, E. Mayer, and A. Hallbrucker
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
205503 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Nature of the High-Pressure Transition in Fe2O3 Hematite
James Badro, Guillaume Fiquet, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Maddury Somayazulu, Ho-kwang Mao, Guoyin Shen, and Tristan Le Bihan
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
205504 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Perturbation-Induced Compositional Instability in Epitaxial Binary-Alloy Films
S. R. Lee and N. A. Modine
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
205701 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Scaling Behavior of Grain-Rotation-Induced Grain Growth
Dorel Moldovan, Vesselin Yamakov, Dieter Wolf, and Simon R. Phillpot
Published 25 October 2002 (4 pages)
206101 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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New Structure Model for the GaAs(001)-c(4×4) Surface
Akihiro Ohtake, Jun Nakamura, Shiro Tsukamoto, Nobuyuki Koguchi, and Akiko Natori
Published 25 October 2002 (4 pages)
206102 [View PDF (235 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Ordered Charge Asphericity around Dysprosium and Structural Deformation in DyB2C2
H. Adachi, H. Kawata, M. Mizumaki, T. Akao, M. Sato, N. Ikeda, Y. Tanaka, and H. Miwa
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
206401 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Dynamics of Photoexcited States in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Akira Takahashi, Hiroki Gomi, and Masaki Aihara
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
206402 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Quantum Transport in Parallel Magnetic Fields: A Realization of the Berry-Robnik Symmetry Phenomenon
Julia S. Meyer, Alexander Altland, and B. L. Altshuler
Published 25 October 2002 (4 pages)
206601 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Finite-Size Effects in Conductance Measurements on Quantum Dots
Pascal Simon and Ian Affleck
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
206602 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Semiclassical Theory of Chaotic Quantum Transport
Klaus Richter and Martin Sieber
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
206801 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Quantum Dots with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling
M. Governale
Published 25 October 2002 (4 pages)
206802 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Diamagnetic Orbital Response of Mesoscopic Silver Rings
R. Deblock, R. Bel, B. Reulet, H. Bouchiat, and D. Mailly
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
206803 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Dephasing by Extremely Dilute Magnetic Impurities Revealed by Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations
F. Pierre and Norman O. Birge
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
206804 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Hyperfine Structure of the Electron Spin Resonance of Phosphorus-Doped Si Nanocrystals
Minoru Fujii, Atsushi Mimura, Shinji Hayashi, Yoshiaki Yamamoto, and Kouichi Murakami
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
206805 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Intrinsic d-Wave Effects in YBa2Cu3O7-δ Grain Boundary Josephson Junctions
F. Lombardi, F. Tafuri, F. Ricci, F. Miletto Granozio, A. Barone, G. Testa, E . Sarnelli, J. R. Kirtley, and C. C. Tsuei
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
207001 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Transition from the Conventional Superconducting State to the π State in a Controllable Josephson Junction
J. J. A. Baselmans, T. T. Heikkilä, B. J. van Wees, and T. M. Klapwijk
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
207002 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Viscous Behavior in a Quasi-1D Fractal Cluster Glass
S. J. Etzkorn, Wendy Hibbs, Joel S. Miller, and A. J. Epstein
Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages)
207201 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Microphase Separation in Pr0.67Ca0.33MnO3 by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
Ch. Simon, S. Mercone, N. Guiblin, C. Martin, A. Brûlet, and G. André
Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages)
207202 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic Domain Structures and Nanoclusters in Nd1/2Sr1/2MnO3
T. Asaka, Y. Anan, T. Nagai, S. Tsutsumi, H. Kuwahara, K. Kimoto, Y. Tokura, and Y. Matsui
Published 23 October 2002 (4 pages)
207203 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Optically Driven Spin Memory in n-Doped InAs-GaAs Quantum Dots
S. Cortez, O. Krebs, S. Laurent, M. Senes, X. Marie, P. Voisin, R. Ferreira, G. Bastard, J-M. Gérard, and T. Amand
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
207401 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Quantum Information Processing with Large Nuclear Spins in GaAs Semiconductors
Michael N. Leuenberger, Daniel Loss, M. Poggio, and D. D. Awschalom
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
207601 [View PDF (381 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Almost Every Pure State of Three Qubits Is Completely Determined by Its Two-Particle Reduced Density Matrices
N. Linden, S. Popescu, and W. K. Wootters
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
207901 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Scalable Solid-State Quantum Processor Using Subradiant Two-Atom States
David Petrosyan and Gershon Kurizki
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
207902 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Efficient Classical Simulation of Optical Quantum Information Circuits
Stephen D. Bartlett and Barry C. Sanders
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
207903 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Lack of Self-Averaging in Neutral Evolution of Proteins
Ugo Bastolla, Markus Porto, H. Eduardo Roman, and Michele Vendruscolo
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
208101 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Fast Convergence of Spike Sequences to Periodic Patterns in Recurrent Networks
Dezhe Z. Jin
Published 25 October 2002 (4 pages)
208102 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Toward a Structural Understanding of Turbulent Drag Reduction: Nonlinear Coherent States in Viscoelastic Shear Flows
Philip A. Stone, Fabian Waleffe, and Michael D. Graham
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
208301 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Polymer-Mediated Melting in Ultrasoft Colloidal Gels
E. Stiakakis, D. Vlassopoulos, C. N. Likos, J. Roovers, and G. Meier
Published 24 October 2002 (4 pages)
208302 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Entropic Wetting and Many-Body Induced Layering in a Model Colloid-Polymer Mixture
Marjolein Dijkstra and René van Roij
Published 29 October 2002 (4 pages)
208303 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Assortative Mixing in Networks
M. E. J. Newman
Published 28 October 2002 (4 pages)
208701 [View PDF (95 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Universal Fluctuations in Correlated Systems”
N. W. Watkins, S. C. Chapman, and G. Rowlands
Published 25 October 2002 (1 page)
208901 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Bramwell et al. Reply:
S. T. Bramwell, K. Christensen, J.-Y. Fortin, P. C. W. Holdsworth, H. J. Jensen, S. Lise, J. M. López, M. Nicodemi, J.-F. Pinton, and M. Sellitto
Published 25 October 2002 (1 page)
208902 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Comment on “Generation of Electromagnetic Pulses from Plasma Channels Induced by Femtosecond Light Strings”
V. T. Tikhonchuk
Published 29 October 2002 (1 page)
209301 [View PDF (37 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Formation and Interaction of Membrane Tubes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 238101 (2002)]
Imre Derényi, Frank Jülicher, and Jacques Prost
Published 29 October 2002 (1 page)
209901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Erratum: Limit on Lorentz and CPT Violation of the Neutron Using a Two-Species Noble-Gas Maser [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5038 (2000)]
D. Bear, R. E. Stoner, R. L. Walsworth, V. Alan Kostelecký, and Charles D. Lane
Published 29 October 2002 (1 page)
209902(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
 
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