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Physical Review Letters – 23 December 2002
Volume 89, Issue 26

The figure is a 2-dimensional slice of a chaotic 3-dimensional fluid flow showing the 'temperature amplitude' of small neutral-buoyancy particles in the flow. [Julyan H. Cartwright, Marcelo O. Magnasco, Oreste Piro, and Idan Tuval., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 264501 (2002)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Dynamical Horizons: Energy, Angular Momentum, Fluxes, and Balance Laws
Abhay Ashtekar and Badri Krishnan
Published 11 December 2002 (4 pages)
261101 [View PDF (98 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Relevant Length Scale of Barchan Dunes
Pascal Hersen, Stéphane Douady, and Bruno Andreotti
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
264301 [View PDF (380 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Multifunctional Composites: Optimizing Microstructures for Simultaneous Transport of Heat and Electricity
S. Torquato, S. Hyun, and A. Donev
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
266601 [View PDF (359 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Configuration of Separability and Tests for Multipartite Entanglement in Bell-Type Experiments
Koji Nagata, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
260401 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Nucleation, Growth, and Stabilization of Bose-Einstein Condensate Vortex Lattices
A. A. Penckwitt, R. J. Ballagh, and C. W. Gardiner
Published 11 December 2002 (4 pages)
260402 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dynamical Horizons: Energy, Angular Momentum, Fluxes, and Balance Laws
Abhay Ashtekar and Badri Krishnan
Published 11 December 2002 (4 pages)
261101 [View PDF (98 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Inflation from Quantum Geometry
Martin Bojowald
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
261301 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Holography and String Dynamics in Time-Dependent Backgrounds
Akikazu Hashimoto and Savdeep Sethi
Published 11 December 2002 (4 pages)
261601 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Search for the Production of Single Sleptons through R-Parity Violation in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.8  TeV
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 12 December 2002 (6 pages)
261801 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Strength of the 18F(p,α)15O Resonance at Ec.m.=330  keV
D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Batchelder, J. C. Blackmon, A. E. Champagne, T. Davinson, R. Fitzgerald, W. R. Hix, C. Iliadis, R. L. Kozub, Z. Ma, S. Parete-Koon, P. D. Parker, N. Shu, M. S. Smith, and P. J. Woods
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
262501 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Exact Level Densities for the Harmonic Oscillator
P. Van Isacker
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
262502 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Multiphoton π Pulses
George N. Gibson
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
263001 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Low-Energy Monopole Modes of a Trapped Atomic Fermi Gas
G. M. Bruun
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
263002 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Competition Among Molecular Fragmentation Channels Described with Siegert Channel Pseudostates
Edward L. Hamilton and Chris H. Greene
Published 11 December 2002 (4 pages)
263003 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Controlling the Angular Momentum Composition of a Rydberg Electron Wave Packet
J. R. R. Verlet, V. G. Stavros, R. S. Minns, and H. H. Fielding
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
263004 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Velocity Scaling of Ion Neutralization in Low Energy Ion Scattering
M. Draxler, R. Gruber, H. H. Brongersma, and P. Bauer
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
263201 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Decay Rates and Survival Probabilities in Open Quantum Systems
Sandro Wimberger, Andreas Krug, and Andreas Buchleitner
Published 6 December 2002 (4 pages)
263601 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Superfluorescence-Stimulated Photon Echoes
A. I. Lvovsky, S. R. Hartmann, and F. Moshary
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
263602 [View PDF (235 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Chirped Femtosecond Solitonlike Laser Pulse Form with Self-Frequency Shift
Zhonghao Li, Lu Li, Huiping Tian, Guosheng Zhou, and Karl H. Spatschek
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
263901 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Optimal Identification of Hamiltonian Information by Closed-Loop Laser Control of Quantum Systems
J. M. Geremia and Herschel Rabitz
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
263902 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Harmonic Measure and Winding of Conformally Invariant Curves
Bertrand Duplantier and Ilia A. Binder
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
264101 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Locking-Based Frequency Measurement and Synchronization of Chaotic Oscillators with Complex Dynamics
Michael G. Rosenblum, Arkady S. Pikovsky, Jürgen Kurths, Grigory V. Osipov, István Z. Kiss, and John L. Hudson
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
264102 [View PDF (156 kB)]
Relevant Length Scale of Barchan Dunes
Pascal Hersen, Stéphane Douady, and Bruno Andreotti
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
264301 [View PDF (380 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Epitaxial Growth of Granular Single Crystals
Y. Nahmad-Molinari and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez
Published 11 December 2002 (4 pages)
264302 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Bailout Embeddings and Neutrally Buoyant Particles in Three-Dimensional Flows
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Marcelo O. Magnasco, Oreste Piro, and Idan Tuval.
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
264501 [View PDF (734 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Heating of Thin Foils with a Relativistic-Intensity Short-Pulse Laser
P. Audebert, R. Shepherd, K. B. Fournier, O. Peyrusse, D. Price, R. Lee, P. Springer, J.-C. Gauthier, and L. Klein
Published 11 December 2002 (4 pages)
265001 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Analytical Description of a Neutral-Induced Tripole Vortex in a Plasma
J. Vranješ, A. Okamoto, S. Yoshimura, S. Poedts, M. Kono, and M. Y. Tanaka
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
265002 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Observation of Coherent Sheared Turbulence Flows in the DIII-D Tokamak
M. Jakubowski, R. J. Fonck, and G. R. McKee
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
265003 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Comparison of a Low- to High-Confinement Transition Theory with Experimental Data from DIII-D
P. N. Guzdar, R. G. Kleva, R. J. Groebner, and P. Gohil
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
265004 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Generation of Noninductive Current by Electron-Bernstein Waves on the COMPASS-D Tokamak
V. Shevchenko, Y. Baranov, M. O’Brien, and A. Saveliev
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
265005 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Anomalous Capacitive Sheath with Deep Radio-Frequency Electric-Field Penetration
Igor D. Kaganovich
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
265006 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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New Dynamical Mean-Field Dynamo Theory and Closure Approach
Eric G. Blackman and George B. Field
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
265007 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Theoretical Evaluation of Zirconia and Hafnia as Gate Oxides for Si Microelectronics
Vincenzo Fiorentini and Gianluca Gulleri
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
266101 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Segregation in Strongly Ordering Compounds: A Key Role of Constitutional Defects
V. Blum, L. Hammer, Ch. Schmidt, W. Meier, O. Wieckhorst, S. Müller, and K. Heinz
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
266102 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Influence of Supersaturation on Surface Structure
J. B. Hannon, J. Tersoff, M. C. Reuter, and R. M. Tromp
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
266103 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Epitaxial Growth and Erosion on (110) Crystal Surfaces: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial States
Leonardo Golubović, Artem Levandovsky, and Dorel Moldovan
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
266104 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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High Resolution Atomic Force Microscopic Imaging of the Si(111)-(7×7) Surface: Contribution of Short-Range Force to the Images
Toyoaki Eguchi and Y. Hasegawa
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
266105 [View PDF (1,002 kB)]
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Tunneling Electron Induced Bromine Hopping on Si(100)-(2×1)
Koji S. Nakayama, E. Graugnard, and J. H. Weaver
Published 11 December 2002 (4 pages)
266106 [View PDF (1,003 kB)]
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The Diffusion-Control Limit Revisited
E. Yariv and I. Frankel
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
266107 [View PDF (152 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Exchange Monte Carlo for Molecular Simulations with Monoelectronic Hamiltonians
F. Calvo and F. Spiegelman
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
266401 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Hybrid Density-Functional Theory and the Insulating Gap of UO2
Konstantin N. Kudin, Gustavo E. Scuseria, and Richard L. Martin
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
266402 [View PDF (115 kB)]
Multifunctional Composites: Optimizing Microstructures for Simultaneous Transport of Heat and Electricity
S. Torquato, S. Hyun, and A. Donev
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
266601 [View PDF (359 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Detecting Spin-Polarized Currents in Ballistic Nanostructures
R. M. Potok, J. A. Folk, C. M. Marcus, and V. Umansky
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
266602 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Crossover from Symplectic to Orthogonal Class in a Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Lattice
Hidekatsu Suzuura and Tsuneya Ando
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
266603 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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From Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism to Huge Longitudinal Resistance at the 2/3 Fractional Quantum Hall State
S. Kraus, O. Stern, J. G. S. Lok, W. Dietsche, K. von Klitzing, M. Bichler, D. Schuh, and W. Wegscheider
Published 6 December 2002 (4 pages)
266801 [View PDF (634 kB)]
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Ising Quantum Hall Ferromagnet in Magnetically Doped Quantum Wells
J. Jaroszyński, T. Andrearczyk, G. Karczewski, J. Wróbel, T. Wojtowicz, E. Papis, E. Kamińska, A. Piotrowska, Dragana Popović, and T. Dietl
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
266802 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Using Single Quantum States as Spin Filters to Study Spin Polarization in Ferromagnets
Mandar M. Deshmukh and D. C. Ralph
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
266803 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Anomalous Low-Field Classical Magnetoresistance in Two Dimensions
Alexander Dmitriev, Michel Dyakonov, and Rémi Jullien
Published 11 December 2002 (4 pages)
266804 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Nanoscale Imaging of Electronic Surface Transport Probed by Atom Movements Induced by Scanning Tunneling Microscope Current
Yoshiaki Nakamura, Yutaka Mera, and Koji Maeda
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
266805 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Magnetization-Orientation Dependence of the Superconducting Transition Temperature in the Ferromagnet-Superconductor-Ferromagnet System: CuNi/Nb/CuNi
J. Y. Gu, C.-Y. You, J. S. Jiang, J. Pearson, Ya. B. Bazaliy, and S. D. Bader
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
267001 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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LiV2O4: Frustration Induced Heavy Fermion Metal
J. Hopkinson and P. Coleman
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
267201 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Absence of an Equilibrium Ferromagnetic Spin-Glass Phase in Three Dimensions
F. Krzakala and O. C. Martin
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
267202 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Uniaxial Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy of Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces: Fe/ZnSe(001)
Elisabeth Sjöstedt, Lars Nordström, Fredrik Gustavsson, and Olle Eriksson
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
267203 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Stimulated Light Emission in Dense Fog Confined inside a Porous Glass Matrix
E. Gross, D. Kovalev, N. Künzner, J. Diener, F. Koch, and M. Fujii
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
267401 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Experimental Demonstration of a Controlled-NOT Wave-Packet Gate
B. DeMarco, A. Ben-Kish, D. Leibfried, V. Meyer, M. Rowe, B. M. Jelenković, W. M. Itano, J. Britton, C. Langer, T. Rosenband, and D. J. Wineland
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
267901 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Organization in Lipid Membranes Containing Cholesterol
Sarah L. Veatch and Sarah L. Keller
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
268101 [View PDF (598 kB)]
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Macroion-Induced Compositional Instability of Binary Fluid Membranes
Sylvio May, Daniel Harries, and Avinoam Ben-Shaul
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
268102 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Stretching and Collapse of Neutral Polymer Layers under Association with Ionic Surfactants
John Philip, G. Gnana Prakash, T. Jaykumar, P. Kalyanasundaram, and Baldev Raj
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
268301 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Efficient Eley-Rideal Reactions of H Atoms with Single Cl Adsorbates on Au(111)
Didier Lemoine, Joseph G. Quattrucci, and Bret Jackson
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
268302 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Linear and Time-Dependent Behavior of the Gyrotron Backward-Wave Oscillator
S. H. Chen, T. H. Chang, K. F. Pao, C. T. Fan, and K. R. Chu
Published 10 December 2002 (4 pages)
268303 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Coloring Random Graphs
R. Mulet, A. Pagnani, M. Weigt, and R. Zecchina
Published 9 December 2002 (4 pages)
268701 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Extreme Self-Organization in Networks Constructed from Gene Expression Data
Himanshu Agrawal
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
268702 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Extremum Statistics in Scale-Free Network Models
André Auto Moreira, José S. Andrade, Jr., and Luís A. Nunes Amaral
Published 12 December 2002 (4 pages)
268703 [View PDF (113 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Singularities of the Mixed State Phase
Rajendra Bhandari
Published 12 December 2002 (1 page)
268901 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Anandan et al. Reply:
Jeeva Anandan, Erik Sjöqvist, Arun K. Pati, Artur Ekert, Marie Ericsson, Daniel K. L. Oi, and Vlatko Vedral
Published 12 December 2002 (1 page)
268902 [View PDF (48 kB)]
 
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