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Physical Review Letters – 9 December 2002
Volume 89, Issue 24

Plot of the optical potential in the region around two closely spaced Ag nanoparticles in water due to an EM wave. Electrodynamic calculations show that the force from even relatively weak incident intensities can be enhanced locally by surface plasmon resonances, becoming strong enough to deform the nanoparticles and to trap single molecules. [Hongxing Xu and Mikael Käll, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 246802 (2002)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Density-Dependent Spin Polarization in Ultra-Low-Disorder Quantum Wires
D. J. Reilly, T. M. Buehler, J. L. O’Brien, A. R. Hamilton, A. S. Dzurak, R. G. Clark, B. E. Kane, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
246801 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Complex Probabilities on RN as Real Probabilities on CN and an Application to Path Integrals
Don Weingarten
Published 26 November 2002 (4 pages)
240201 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Experimental Two-Photon, Three-Dimensional Entanglement for Quantum Communication
Alipasha Vaziri, Gregor Weihs, and Anton Zeilinger
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
240401 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Dynamical Transition from a Quasi-One-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate to a Tonks-Girardeau Gas
P. Öhberg and L. Santos
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
240402 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Are the Laws of Entanglement Theory Thermodynamical?
Michał Horodecki, Jonathan Oppenheim, and Ryszard Horodecki
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
240403 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Complete Two Loop Bosonic Contributions to the Muon Lifetime in the Standard Model
M. Awramik and M. Czakon
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
241801 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Higgs-Mediated τ→3μ in the Supersymmetric Seesaw Model
K. S. Babu and Christopher Kolda
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
241802 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Δ→Nγ in Large-Nc QCD
Elizabeth Jenkins, Xiangdong Ji, and Aneesh V. Manohar
Published 20 November 2002 (3 pages)
242001 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Q2 Evolution of the Generalized Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Integral for the Neutron using a 3He Target
M. Amarian et al. (Jefferson Lab E94010 Collaboration)
Published 26 November 2002 (6 pages)
242301 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Coulomb Excitation Paths of High-K Isomer Bands in 178Hf
A. B. Hayes, D. Cline, C. Y. Wu, M. W. Simon, R. Teng, J. Gerl, Ch. Schlegel, H. J. Wollersheim, A. O. Macchiavelli, K. Vetter, P. Napiorkowski, and J. Srebrny
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
242501 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Interference Effects in the Resonant Photoemission Channels to the Ne+ 2p4(1D2)3p 2P, 2D, and 2F States in the Ne 1s Excitation Region
A. De Fanis, N. Saito, H. Yoshida, Y. Senba, Y. Tamenori, H. Ohashi, H. Tanaka, and K. Ueda
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
243001 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Size-Selective Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy of Free Selenium Clusters
K. Nagaya, M. Yao, T. Hayakawa, Y. Ohmasa, Y. Kajihara, M. Ishii, and Y. Katayama
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
243401 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Hyperfine Structure of Antiprotonic Helium Revealed by a Laser-Microwave-Laser Resonance Method
E. Widmann, J. Eades, T. Ishikawa, J. Sakaguchi, T. Tasaki, H. Yamaguchi, R. S. Hayano, M. Hori, H. A. Torii, B. Juhász, D. Horváth, and T. Yamazaki
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
243402 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Anisotropic Diffusion of Light in a Strongly Scattering Material
Patrick M. Johnson, Boris P. J. Bret, Jaime Gómez Rivas, John J. Kelly, and Ad Lagendijk
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
243901 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Measuring the Phase of Spatially Coherent Polychromatic Fields
Aristide Dogariu and Gabriel Popescu
Published 25 November 2002 (2 pages)
243902 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Steady Stokes Flow with Long-Range Correlations, Fractal Fourier Spectrum, and Anomalous Transport
Michael A. Zaks and Arthur V. Straube
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
244101 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Quantum Chaos and 1/f Noise
A. Relaño, J. M. G. Gómez, R. A. Molina, J. Retamosa, and E. Faleiro
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
244102 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Stabilizing and Tracking Unknown Steady States of Dynamical Systems
K. Pyragas, V. Pyragas, I. Z. Kiss, and J. L. Hudson
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
244103 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Granular Segregation as a Critical Phenomenon
Pedro M. Reis and Tom Mullin
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
244301 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Adsorption Phenomena in the Transport of a Colloidal Particle through a Nanochannel Containing a Partially Wetting Fluid
German Drazer, Joel Koplik, Andreas Acrivos, and Boris Khusid
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
244501 [View PDF (394 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Trapped-Particle Modes and Asymmetry-Induced Transport in Single-Species Plasmas
A. A. Kabantsev and C. F. Driscoll
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
245001 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Symmetric Inertial-Confinement-Fusion-Capsule Implosions in a Double-Z-Pinch-Driven Hohlraum
G. R. Bennett, M. E. Cuneo, R. A. Vesey, J. L. Porter, R. G. Adams, R. A. Aragon, J. A. Caird, O. L. Landen, P. K. Rambo, D. C. Rovang, L. E. Ruggles, W. W. Simpson, I. C. Smith, and D. F. Wenger
Published 26 November 2002 (4 pages)
245002 [View PDF (338 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Microwave Saturation of the Rydberg States of Electrons on Helium
E. Collin, W. Bailey, P. Fozooni, P. G. Frayne, P. Glasson, K. Harrabi, M. J. Lea, and G. Papageorgiou
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
245301 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Equation of State and Pressure Induced Amorphization of β-Boron from X-Ray Measurements up to 100 GPa
Delia Nieto Sanz, Paul Loubeyre, and Mohamed Mezouar
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
245501 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Adhesion between Elastic Bodies with Randomly Rough Surfaces
B. N. J. Persson
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
245502 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Universality in Lattice Models of Dynamic Arrest: Introduction of an Order Parameter
Aonghus Lawlor, Dan Reagan, Gavin D. McCullagh, Paolo De Gregorio, Piero Tartaglia, and Kenneth A. Dawson
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
245503 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced Structural Changes in Liquid SiO2 from Ab Initio Simulations
Andrea Trave, Paul Tangney, Sandro Scandolo, Alfredo Pasquarello, and Roberto Car
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
245504 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Non-Gaussian Nature of the α Relaxation of Glass-Forming Polyisoprene
A. Arbe, J. Colmenero, F. Alvarez, M. Monkenbusch, D. Richter, B. Farago, and B. Frick
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
245701 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Reversible Dynamic Behavior in Catalyst Systems: Oscillations of Structure and Morphology
S. Surnev, J. Schoiswohl, G. Kresse, M. G. Ramsey, and F. P. Netzer
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
246101 [View PDF (504 kB)]
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Universal Scaling in Transient Creep
Dag Kristian Dysthe, Yuri Podladchikov, Francois Renard, Jens Feder, and Bjørn Jamtveit
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
246102 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Materials Science of the Gel to Fluid Phase Transition in a Supported Phospholipid Bilayer
Anne Feng Xie, Ryo Yamada, Andrew A. Gewirth, and Steve Granick
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
246103 [View PDF (720 kB)]
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Effect of an Electric Field on the Surface Tension of a Dipolar-Quadrupolar Fluid and Its Implication for Sign Preference in Droplet Nucleation
V. B. Warshavsky and X. C. Zeng
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
246104 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Self-Assembly of Three-Dimensional Metal Islands: Nonstrained versus Strained Islands
Feng Liu
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
246105 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Higher Coverage Gas Adsorption on the Surface of Carbon Nanotubes: Evidence for a Possible New Phase in the Second Layer
S. Talapatra, V. Krungleviciute, and A. D. Migone
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
246106 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Butterfly Hysteresis Loop at Nonzero Bias Field in Antiferromagnetic Molecular Rings: Cooling by Adiabatic Magnetization
O. Waldmann, R. Koch, S. Schromm, P. Müller, I. Bernt, and R. W. Saalfrank
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
246401 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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d Orbital Doping into π Charge-Ordered Molecular Insulator
T. Itou, K. Hiraki, H. Taniguchi, K. Kanoda, and T. Takahashi
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
246402 [View PDF (813 kB)]
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Conductance Distributions in Quasi-One-Dimensional Disordered Wires
L. S. Froufe-Pérez, P. García-Mochales, P. A. Serena, P. A. Mello, and J. J. Sáenz
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
246403 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Electrodynamics of a Coulomb Glass in n-Type Silicon
E. Helgren, N. P. Armitage, and G. Grüner
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
246601 [View PDF (120 kB)]
Density-Dependent Spin Polarization in Ultra-Low-Disorder Quantum Wires
D. J. Reilly, T. M. Buehler, J. L. O’Brien, A. R. Hamilton, A. S. Dzurak, R. G. Clark, B. E. Kane, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
246801 [View PDF (222 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Optical Forces in Silver Nanoaggregates
Hongxing Xu and Mikael Käll
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
246802 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Current-Driven Resonances in Magnetic Multilayers
M. Tsoi, V. Tsoi, J. Bass, A. G. M. Jansen, and P. Wyder
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
246803 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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NMR Investigation of How Free Composite Fermions Are at ν=1/2
N. Freytag, M. Horvatić, C. Berthier, M. Shayegan, and L. P. Lévy
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
246804 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Origin of the Oscillator Strength of the Triplet State of a Trion in a Magnetic Field
D. Sanvitto, D. M. Whittaker, A. J. Shields, M. Y. Simmons, D. A. Ritchie, and M. Pepper
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
246805 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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New Josephson Plasma Modes in Underdoped YBa2Cu3O6.6 Induced by a Parallel Magnetic Field
K. M. Kojima, S. Uchida, Y. Fudamoto, and S. Tajima
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
247001 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Periodic Oscillations of Josephson-Vortex Flow Resistance in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y
S. Ooi, T. Mochiku, and K. Hirata
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
247002 [View PDF (502 kB)]
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Detection and Implications of a Time-Reversal Breaking State in Underdoped Cuprates
M. E. Simon and C. M. Varma
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
247003 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Direct Evidence for Two-Band Superconductivity in MgB2 Single Crystals from Directional Point-Contact Spectroscopy in Magnetic Fields
R. S. Gonnelli, D. Daghero, G. A. Ummarino, V. A. Stepanov, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, and J. Karpinski
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
247004 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Striped Phase in a Quantum XY Model with Ring Exchange
A. W. Sandvik, S. Daul, R. R. P. Singh, and D. J. Scalapino
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
247201 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Fluctuation-Driven Quantum Phase Transitions in Clean Itinerant Ferromagnets
D. Belitz and T. R. Kirkpatrick
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
247202 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Local Symmetry Breaking by Impurities and Mode Splitting in Doped SmS
R. S. Fishman and S. H. Liu
Published 26 November 2002 (4 pages)
247203 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator: Experimental Application to Nonlinear Interferometers
D. Leibfried, B. DeMarco, V. Meyer, M. Rowe, A. Ben-Kish, J. Britton, W. M. Itano, B. Jelenković, C. Langer, T. Rosenband, and D. J. Wineland
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
247901 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Practical Scheme for Quantum Computation with Any Two-Qubit Entangling Gate
Michael J. Bremner, Christopher M. Dawson, Jennifer L. Dodd, Alexei Gilchrist, Aram W. Harrow, Duncan Mortimer, Michael A. Nielsen, and Tobias J. Osborne
Published 25 November 2002 (3 pages)
247902 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Nanomechanics of Microtubules
A. Kis, S. Kasas, B. Babić, A. J. Kulik, W. Benoît, G. A. D. Briggs, C. Schönenberger, S. Catsicas, and L. Forró
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
248101 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Stretching Single Stranded DNA, a Model Polyelectrolyte
M.-N. Dessinges, B. Maier, Y. Zhang, M. Peliti, D. Bensimon, and V. Croquette
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
248102 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Simple Approach for Charge Renormalization in Highly Charged Macroions
Emmanuel Trizac, Lydéric Bocquet, and Miguel Aubouy
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
248301 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Dynamics of Spiral Waves under Phase Feedback Control in a Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
Chih-kuan Tung and C. K. Chan
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
248302 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Nanostructured Cellular Networks
P. Moriarty, M. D. R. Taylor, and M. Brust
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
248303 [View PDF (690 kB)]
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Theory of Nonlinear Rheology and Yielding of Dense Colloidal Suspensions
Matthias Fuchs and Michael E. Cates
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
248304 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Optimal Network Topologies for Local Search with Congestion
R. Guimerà, A. Díaz-Guilera, F. Vega-Redondo, A. Cabrales, and A. Arenas
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
248701 [View PDF (98 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Excitonic and Quasiparticle Gaps in Si Nanocrystals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2457 (2000)]
C. Delerue, M. Lannoo, and G. Allan
Published 21 November 2002 (1 page)
249901(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Erratum: Crystalline Order on a Sphere and the Generalized Thomson Problem [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 185502 (2002)]
M. Bowick, A. Cacciuto, D. R. Nelson, and A. Travesset
Published 21 November 2002 (1 page)
249902(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Erratum: Coherent Control in the Presence of Intrinsic Decoherence: Proton Transfer in Large Molecular Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 143201 (2002)]
Victor S. Batista and Paul Brumer
Published 21 November 2002 (1 page)
249903(E) [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: η Photoproduction on the Proton for Photon Energies from 0.75 to 1.95 GeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 222002 (2002)]
M. Dugger et al.
Published 26 November 2002 (1 page)
249904(E) [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Erratum: Origin of Anomalous Lattice Expansion in Oxide Nanoparticles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3440 (2000)]
S. Tsunekawa, K. Ishikawa, Z.-Q. Li, Y. Kawazoe, and A. Kasuya
Published 26 November 2002 (1 page)
249905(E) [View PDF (27 kB)]
 
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