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Physical Review Letters – 12 August 2002
Volume 89, Issue 7

Numerical simulation of the merging of two carbon nanotubes. The starting configuration is shown in a top view in (a). Side views of the merging process are shown in (b) at 10 ps, (c) at 100 ps, and (d) at 220 ps. [M. Terrones, F. Banhart, N. Grobert, J.-C. Charlier, H. Terrones, and P. M. Ajayan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075505 (2002)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Structure of Intercalated Cs in Zeolite ITQ-4: An Array of Metal Ions and Correlated Electrons Confined in a Pseudo-1D Nanoporous Host
V. Petkov, S. J. L. Billinge, T. Vogt, A. S. Ichimura, and J. L. Dye
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
075502 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Existence of a Hexatic Phase in Porous Media
Ravi Radhakrishnan, Keith E. Gubbins, and Malgorzata Sliwinska-Bartkowiak
Published 25 July 2002 (4 pages)
076101 [View PDF (90 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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General Exact Solution to the Problem of the Probability Density for Sums of Random Variables
Michael I. Tribelsky
Published 25 July 2002 (4 pages)
070201 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Quantum Tweezer for Atoms
Roberto B. Diener, Biao Wu, Mark G. Raizen, and Qian Niu
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
070401 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Vortex Rings and Lieb Modes in a Cylindrical Bose-Einstein Condensate
S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
070402 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Lieb Mode in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate of Atoms
A. D. Jackson and G. M. Kavoulakis
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
070403 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Study of CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0→π+π- Decays
K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 26 July 2002 (6 pages)
071801 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Radiative Decay Width Measurements of Neutral Kaon Excitations Using the Primakoff Effect
A. Alavi-Harati et al. (KTeV Collaboration)
Published 26 July 2002 (5 pages)
072001 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Microscopic Correlation Functions for the QCD Dirac Operator with Chemical Potential
G. Akemann
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
072002 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Sigma-Nucleus Potential in A=28
H. Noumi et al.
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
072301 [View PDF (184 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Non-Born-Oppenheimer Isotope Effects on the Polarizabilities of H2
Mauricio Cafiero and Ludwik Adamowicz
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
073001 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Separation and Identification of Dominant Mechanisms in Double Photoionization
Tobias Schneider, Peter Leszek Chocian, and Jan-Michael Rost
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
073002 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Effects of Interchannel Coupling in Associative Detachment: Electron Spectra for H+Cl- and H+Br- Collisions
S. Živanov, M. Allan, M. Čížek, J. Horáček, F. A. U. Thiel, and H. Hotop
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
073201 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Giant Improvement of Time-Delayed Feedback Control by Spatio-Temporal Filtering
Nilüfer Baba, Andreas Amann, Eckehard Schöll, and Wolfram Just
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
074101 [View PDF (474 kB)]
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Development of Grain Avalanches
Jean Rajchenbach
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
074301 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Inverse Cascade Regime in Shell Models of Two-Dimensional Turbulence
Thomas Gilbert, Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
074501 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Spontaneous Formation of a Plasma Hole in a Rotating Magnetized Plasma: A Giant Burgers Vortex in a Compressible Fluid
Kenichi Nagaoka, Atsushi Okamoto, Shinji Yoshimura, Mitsuo Kono, and Masayoshi Y. Tanaka
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
075001 [View PDF (233 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Superfluid Bose Liquid with a Suppressed BEC and an Intensive Pair Coherent Condensate as a Model of 4He
E. A. Pashitskii, S. V. Mashkevich, and S. I. Vilchynskyy
Published 24 July 2002 (4 pages)
075301 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Evidence for Magnetic Field Induced Changes of the Phase of Tunneling States: Spontaneous Echoes in (KBr)1-x(KCN)x in Magnetic Fields
C. Enss and S. Ludwig
Published 24 July 2002 (4 pages)
075501 [View PDF (428 kB)]
Structure of Intercalated Cs in Zeolite ITQ-4: An Array of Metal Ions and Correlated Electrons Confined in a Pseudo-1D Nanoporous Host
V. Petkov, S. J. L. Billinge, T. Vogt, A. S. Ichimura, and J. L. Dye
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
075502 [View PDF (192 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Gamma Spectra Resulting from the Annihilation of Positrons with Electrons in a Single Core Level
A. Eshed, S. Goktepeli, A. R. Koymen, S. Kim, W. C. Chen, D. J. O’Kelly, P. A. Sterne, and A. H. Weiss
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
075503 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Sequence of Morphological Transitions in Two-Dimensional Pattern Growth from Aqueous Ascorbic Acid Solutions
A. S. Paranjpe
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
075504 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Molecular Junctions by Joining Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
M. Terrones, F. Banhart, N. Grobert, J.-C. Charlier, H. Terrones, and P. M. Ajayan
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
075505 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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The Role of the Nanoscale in Surface Reactions: CO2 on CdSe
L. G. Wang, S. J. Pennycook, and S. T. Pantelides
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
075506 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Icosahedral Short-Range Order in Deeply Undercooled Metallic Melts
T. Schenk, D. Holland-Moritz, V. Simonet, R. Bellissent, and D. M. Herlach
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
075507 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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How Well Do We Know Atomic Motions of Simple Liquids?
C. Cabrillo, F. J. Bermejo, M. Alvarez, P. Verkerk, A. Maira-Vidal, S. M. Bennington, and D. Martín
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
075508 [View PDF (201 kB)]
Existence of a Hexatic Phase in Porous Media
Ravi Radhakrishnan, Keith E. Gubbins, and Malgorzata Sliwinska-Bartkowiak
Published 25 July 2002 (4 pages)
076101 [View PDF (90 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Line Tension Behavior of a First-Order Wetting System
T. Pompe
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
076102 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Strain-Driven Mesoscopic Reconstruction of the As/Ge(111) Surface
W. E. McMahon, Iskander G. Batyrev, J. M. Olson, and S. B. Zhang
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
076103 [View PDF (309 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Robustness of the Van Hove Scenario for High-Tc Superconductors
V. Yu. Irkhin, A. A. Katanin, and M. I. Katsnelson
Published 24 July 2002 (4 pages)
076401 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Anisotropy and Interplane Interactions in the Dielectric Response of Graphite
A. G. Marinopoulos, Lucia Reining, Valerio Olevano, Angel Rubio, T. Pichler, X. Liu, M. Knupfer, and J. Fink
Published 25 July 2002 (4 pages)
076402 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Critical Local-Moment Fluctuations, Anomalous Exponents, and ω/T Scaling in the Kondo Problem with a Pseudogap
Kevin Ingersent and Qimiao Si
Published 25 July 2002 (4 pages)
076403 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Anomalously Broad Raman Scattering Spectrum due to Two-Magnon Excitation in Hexagonal YMnO3
Jun-ichi Takahashi, Katsumi Hagita, Keiichiro Kohn, Yukito Tanabe, and Eiichi Hanamura
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
076404 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Configurational Entropy of Network-Forming Materials
R. L. C. Vink and G. T. Barkema
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
076405 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Hole-Hole Interaction Effect in the Conductance of the Two-Dimensional Hole Gas in the Ballistic Regime
Y. Y. Proskuryakov, A. K. Savchenko, S. S. Safonov, M. Pepper, M. Y. Simmons, and D. A. Ritchie
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
076406 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Theoretical Characterization of the Ground and Optically Excited States of α′-NaV2O5
L. Hozoi, A. H. de Vries, A. B. van Oosten, R. Broer, J. Cabrero, and C. de Graaf
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
076407 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Critical Fluctuations in a Mesoscopic Superconducting Ring
A. I. Buzdin and A. A. Varlamov
Published 24 July 2002 (4 pages)
076601 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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New Spin-Orbit-Induced Universality Class in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime
Yshai Avishai and Yigal Meir
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
076602 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Zener Tunneling Between Landau Orbits in a High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
C. L. Yang, J. Zhang, R. R. Du, J. A. Simmons, and J. L. Reno
Published 24 July 2002 (4 pages)
076801 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Chemical Design of Direct-Gap Light-Emitting Silicon
Xuan Luo, S. B. Zhang, and Su-Huai Wei
Published 25 July 2002 (4 pages)
076802 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Is the Onset of High-Temperature Superconductivity Associated with a Dimensional Crossover?
A. Menzel, R. Beer, and E. Bertel
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
076803 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Zinc Impurities in d-Wave Superconductors
Th. A. Maier and M. Jarrell
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
077001 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Topological Origin of Zero-Energy Edge States in Particle-Hole Symmetric Systems
Shinsei Ryu and Yasuhiro Hatsugai
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
077002 [View PDF (724 kB)]
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Origin of the Peak-Dip-Hump Line Shape in the Superconducting-State (π,0) Photoemission Spectra of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, T. K. Kim, K. A. Nenkov, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, M. S. Golden, H. Berger, and R. Follath
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
077003 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Exchange Bias in Spin-Engineered Double Superlattices
P. Steadman, M. Ali, A. T. Hindmarch, C. H. Marrows, B. J. Hickey, Sean Langridge, R. M. Dalgliesh, and S. Foster
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
077201 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Magnetic Structure, Phase Diagram, and a New Type of Spin-Flop Transition Dominated by Higher Order Interaction in a Localized 5f System U3Pd20Si6
Y. Koike, N. Metoki, Y. Haga, K. A. McEwen, M. Kohgi, R. Yamamoto, N. Aso, N. Tateiwa, T. Komatsubara, N. Kimura, and H. Aoki
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
077202 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Magnon Dispersion in the Field-Induced Magnetically Ordered Phase of TlCuCl3
Masashige Matsumoto, B. Normand, T. M. Rice, and Manfred Sigrist
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
077203 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Order Parameter to Characterize Valence-Bond-Solid States in Quantum Spin Chains
Masaaki Nakamura and Synge Todo
Published 30 July 2002 (4 pages)
077204 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Hybridization and Bond-Orbital Components in Site-Specific X-Ray Photoelectron Spectra of Rutile TiO2
J. C. Woicik, E. J. Nelson, Leeor Kronik, Manish Jain, James R. Chelikowsky, D. Heskett, L. E. Berman, and G. S. Herman
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
077401 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Polarization Control of the Nonlinear Emission of Semiconductor Microcavities
M. D. Martín, G. Aichmayr, L. Viña, and R. André
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
077402 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Random Piezoelectric Field in Real [001]-Oriented Strain-Relaxed Semiconductor Heterostructures
Doan Nhat Quang, Vu Ngoc Tuoc, Nguyen Huyen Tung, and Tran Doan Huan
Published 29 July 2002 (4 pages)
077601 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Rippling Patterns in Aggregates of Myxobacteria Arise from Cell-Cell Collisions
Uwe Börner, Andreas Deutsch, Hans Reichenbach, and Markus Bär
Published 26 July 2002 (4 pages)
078101 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Colloidal Dynamics on Disordered Substrates
C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson
Published 24 July 2002 (4 pages)
078301 [View PDF (545 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Simple One-Dimensional Model of Heat Conduction which Obeys Fourier’s Law”
Haibin Li, Yinghai Wang, and Hong Zhao
Published 31 July 2002 (1 page)
079401 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Garrido and Hurtado Reply:
P. L. Garrido and P. I. Hurtado
Published 31 July 2002 (1 page)
079402 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Comment on “Fragmented Condensate Ground State of Trapped Weakly Interacting Bosons in Two Dimensions”
G. M. Kavoulakis, S. M. Reimann, and B. Mottelson
Published 30 July 2002 (1 page)
079403 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Comment on “Ionic Conduction in Glass: New Information on the Interrelation between the ̀Jonscher Behavior’ and the ̀Nearly Constant-Loss Behavior’ from Broadband Conductivity Spectra”
C. León, A. Rivera, J. Santamaría, C. T. Moynihan, and K. L. Ngai
Published 30 July 2002 (1 page)
079601 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Roling, Martiny, and Murugavel Reply:
B. Roling, C. Martiny, and S. Murugavel
Published 30 July 2002 (1 page)
079602 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Comment on “Spin Dynamics of the 2D Spin 1/2 Quantum Antiferromagnet Copper Deuteroformate Tetradeuterate (CFTD)”
Peter Kopietz and Ivan Spremo
Published 30 July 2002 (1 page)
079701 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Rønnow et al. Reply:
H. M. Rønnow, D. F. McMorrow, R. Coldea, A. Harrison, I. D. Youngson, T. G. Perring, G. Aeppli, O. Syljuåsen, K. Lefmann, and C. Rischel
Published 30 July 2002 (1 page)
079702 [View PDF (53 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Direct Observation of the Quantum Tunneling of Single Hydrogen Atoms with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4566 (2000)]
L. J. Lauhon and W. Ho
Published 26 July 2002 (1 page)
079901(E) [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Erratum: Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects on Quantum Transport in Lateral Semiconductor Dots [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 256801 (2001)]
I. L. Aleiner and Vladimir I. Fal’ko
Published 26 July 2002 (1 page)
079902(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
 
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