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Physical Review Letters – 26 August 2002
Volume 89, Issue 9

Dynamics of avalanches in wet granular media in a rotating drum. Time increases downward in each row and the images increase in wetness to the right; avalanches propagate downward and to the left. The top row displays the rates of change of the local height; bottom, the local fluxes (the white lines are the points of maximum current). [P. Tegzes, T. Vicsek, and P. Schiffer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 094301 (2002)]

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Mesoscopic Molecular Ions in Bose-Einstein Condensates
R. Côté, V. Kharchenko, and M. D. Lukin
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
093001 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Macroscopic Spin Tunneling and Quantum Critical Behavior of a Condensate in a Double-Well Potential
Han Pu, Weiping Zhang, and Pierre Meystre
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
090401 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Spatial Resolution of Spin Waves in an Ultracold Gas
J. M. McGuirk, H. J. Lewandowski, D. M. Harber, T. Nikuni, J. E. Williams, and E. A. Cornell
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
090402 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Directional “Superradiant” Collisions: Bosonic Amplification of Atom Pairs Emitted from an Elongated Bose-Einstein Condensate
A. Vardi and M. G. Moore
Published 12 August 2002 (4 pages)
090403 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Producing Bose-Einstein Condensates Using Optical Lattices
Maxim Olshanii and David Weiss
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
090404 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Broken Ergodicity in a Stochastic Model with Condensation
Frank Zielen and Andreas Schadschneider
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
090601 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Reheating as a Surface Effect
Kari Enqvist, Shinta Kasuya, and Anupam Mazumdar
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
091301 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Production of Massive Stable Particles in Inflaton Decay
Rouzbeh Allahverdi and Manuel Drees
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
091302 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Light Bottom Squark and Gluino Confront Electroweak Precision Measurements
Gi-Chol Cho
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
091801 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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ρ0 Meson Production in the pp→ppπ+π- Reaction at 3.67   GeV/c
F. Balestra et al. (DISTO Collaboration)
Published 12 August 2002 (4 pages)
092001 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Midrapidity Λ and Λ̅ Production in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=130  GeV
C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 12 August 2002 (6 pages)
092301 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Measurement of Λ and Λ̅ Particles in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=130  GeV
K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)
Published 12 August 2002 (6 pages)
092302 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Dynamical Scaling Law for Jet Tomography
Carlos. A Salgado and Urs Achim Wiedemann
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
092303 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Mesoscopic Molecular Ions in Bose-Einstein Condensates
R. Côté, V. Kharchenko, and M. D. Lukin
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
093001 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Oscillations in the Double-Photoionization Cross Section of Li near Threshold
R. Wehlitz, J. B. Bluett, and S. B. Whitfield
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
093002 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Axialization of Laser Cooled Magnesium Ions in a Penning Trap
H. F. Powell, D. M. Segal, and R. C. Thompson
Published 12 August 2002 (4 pages)
093003 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Longitudinal Focusing and Cooling of a Molecular Beam
Floris M. H. Crompvoets, Rienk T. Jongma, Hendrick L. Bethlem, André J. A. van Roij, and Gerard Meijer
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
093004 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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Giant Resonances in Cold Electron Scattering by CS2
N. C. Jones, D. Field, J.-P. Ziesel, and T. A. Field
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
093201 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Excitation in Ion-Atom Collisions Inside Subfemtosecond Laser Pulses
L. B. Madsen, J. P. Hansen, and L. Kocbach
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
093202 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Manipulating Ion-Atom Collisions with Coherent Electromagnetic Radiation
Tom Kirchner
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
093203 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Centrifugal Electron-Ion Recombination
J. G. Zeibel and R. R. Jones
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
093204 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Primary Populations of Metastable Antiprotonic 4He and 3He Atoms
M. Hori, J. Eades, R. S. Hayano, T. Ishikawa, J. Sakaguchi, T. Tasaki, E. Widmann, H. Yamaguchi, H. A. Torii, B. Juhász, D. Horváth, and T. Yamazaki
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
093401 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of the Photon Statistics of a Triggered Single Photon Source
F. Treussart, R. Alléaume, V. Le Floc’h, L. T. Xiao, J.-M. Courty, and J.-F. Roch
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
093601 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Electrodynamics of Metallic Photonic Crystals and the Problem of Left-Handed Materials
A. L. Pokrovsky and A. L. Efros
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
093901 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Avalanche Dynamics in Wet Granular Materials
P. Tegzes, T. Vicsek, and P. Schiffer
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
094301 [View PDF (171 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Standard Radiation Spectrum of Relativistic Electrons: Beyond the Synchrotron Approximation
M. Kh. Khokonov and H. Nitta
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
094801 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Experimental Study of Isotope Scaling of Ion Thermal Transport
V. Sokolov and A. K. Sen
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
095001 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Hall Magnetic Shocks in Plasma Current Layers
L. I. Rudakov and J. D. Huba
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
095002 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Axial Magnetic Fields in Relativistic Self-Focusing Channels
A. Kim, M. Tushentsov, D. Anderson, and M. Lisak
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
095003 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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X-Ray Imaging Measurements of Capsule Implosions Driven by a Z-Pinch Dynamic Hohlraum
J. E. Bailey, G. A. Chandler, S. A. Slutz, G. R. Bennett, G. Cooper, J. S. Lash, S. Lazier, R. Lemke, T. J. Nash, D. S. Nielsen, T. C. Moore, C. L. Ruiz, D. G. Schroen, R. Smelser, J. Torres, and R. A. Vesey
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
095004 [View PDF (577 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Interaction of First and Second Sound in Solid 4He: Properties of a Possible Bose Condensate
John M. Goodkind
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
095301 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Impulsive Fracture of Silicon by Elastic Surface Pulses with Shocks
A. M. Lomonosov and P. Hess
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
095501 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Nonuniversal Ordering of Spin and Charge in Stripe Phases
Frank Krüger and Stefan Scheidl
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
095701 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Shearing a Glassy Material: Numerical Tests of Nonequilibrium Mode-Coupling Approaches and Experimental Proposals
Ludovic Berthier and Jean-Louis Barrat
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
095702 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Effective Temperatures of a Driven System Near Jamming
Ian K. Ono, Corey S. O’Hern, D. J. Durian, Stephen A. Langer, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
095703 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Properties of Cage Rearrangements Observed near the Colloidal Glass Transition
Eric R. Weeks and D. A. Weitz
Published 12 August 2002 (4 pages)
095704 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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What Controls the Thickness of Wetting Layers near Bulk Criticality?
Denis Fenistein, Daniel Bonn, Salima Rafaï, Gerard H. Wegdam, Jacques Meunier, Andrew O. Parry, and Margarida M. Telo da Gama
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
096101 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Spontaneous Roughening: Fundamental Limits in Si(100) Halogen Etch Processing
Cari F. Herrmann, Dongxue Chen, and John J. Boland
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
096102 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Role of Subsurface Oxygen in Oxide Formation at Transition Metal Surfaces
M. Todorova, W. X. Li, M. V. Ganduglia-Pirovano, C. Stampfl, K. Reuter, and M. Scheffler
Published 12 August 2002 (4 pages)
096103 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Exchangelike Effects for Closed-Shell Adsorbates: Interface Dipole and Work Function
Paul S. Bagus, Volker Staemmler, and Christof Wöll
Published 12 August 2002 (4 pages)
096104 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Mixed Quantum Classical Ensembles: Application to Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy
L. N. Kantorovich
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
096105 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Laser Ablation Condensation of α-PbO2-Type TiO2
Shuei-Yuan Chen and Pouyan Shen
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
096106 [View PDF (554 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Role of Surface Plasmons in the Decay of Image-Potential States on Silver Surfaces
A. García-Lekue, J. M. Pitarke, E. V. Chulkov, A. Liebsch, and P. M. Echenique
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
096401 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Excitonic Optical Spectrum of Semiconductors Obtained by Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory with the Exact-Exchange Kernel
Yong-Hoon Kim and Andreas Görling
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
096402 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Relevance of Inter-Composite-Fermion Interaction to the Edge Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid
Sudhansu S. Mandal and Jainendra K. Jain
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
096801 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Persistent Current in Superconducting Nanorings
K. A. Matveev, A. I. Larkin, and L. I. Glazman
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
096802 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Classical Properties of Low-Dimensional Conductors: Giant Capacitance and Non-Ohmic Potential Drop
Boris Korenblum and Emmanuel I. Rashba
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
096803 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Strain-Induced Quantum Ring Hole States in a Gated Vertical Quantum Dot
Jun Liu, A. Zaslavsky, and L. B. Freund
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
096804 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Zero-Field Satellites of a Zero-Bias Anomaly
V. M. Apalkov and M. E. Raikh
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
096805 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Magneto-Optical Study of the Superconducting Gap of MgB2 Single Crystals
A. Perucchi, L. Degiorgi, J. Jun, M. Angst, and J. Karpinski
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
097001 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Peak Effect in Single Crystal MgB2 Superconductor for H∥c-Axis
M. Pissas, S. Lee, A. Yamamoto, and S. Tajima
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
097002 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Symmetrical Temperature-Chaos Effect with Positive and Negative Temperature Shifts in a Spin Glass
P. E. Jönsson, H. Yoshino, and P. Nordblad
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
097201 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Fourth-Order Magnetic Anisotropy and Tunnel Splittings in Mn12 from Spin-Orbit-Vibron Interactions
Mark R. Pederson, Noam Bernstein, and Jens Kortus
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
097202 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Infrared Probe of Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Ga1-xMnxAs
E. J. Singley, R. Kawakami, D. D. Awschalom, and D. N. Basov
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
097203 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Replica Field Theory and Renormalization Group for the Ising Spin Glass in an External Magnetic Field
T. Temesvári and C. De Dominicis
Published 12 August 2002 (4 pages)
097204 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Zener Polaron Ordering in Half-Doped Manganites
A. Daoud-Aladine, J. Rodríguez-Carvajal, L. Pinsard-Gaudart, M. T. Fernández-Díaz, and A. Revcolevschi
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
097205 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Coherence Length of Excitons in a Semiconductor Quantum Well
Hui Zhao, Sebastian Moehl, and Heinz Kalt
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
097401 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Conformational Dynamics of Photoexcited Conjugated Molecules
S. Tretiak, A. Saxena, R. L. Martin, and A. R. Bishop
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
097402 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Domain Wall Creep in Epitaxial Ferroelectric Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 Thin Films
T. Tybell, P. Paruch, T. Giamarchi, and J.-M. Triscone
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
097601 [View PDF (268 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Conditions for the Local Manipulation of Gaussian States
Jens Eisert and Martin B. Plenio
Published 6 August 2002 (4 pages)
097901 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Implementation of Universal Quantum Gates Based on Nonadiabatic Geometric Phases
Shi-Liang Zhu and Z. D. Wang
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
097902 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Micro-optical Realization of Arrays of Selectively Addressable Dipole Traps: A Scalable Configuration for Quantum Computation with Atomic Qubits
R. Dumke, M. Volk, T. Müther, F. B. J. Buchkremer, G. Birkl, and W. Ertmer
Published 8 August 2002 (4 pages)
097903 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Quantum Information is Incompressible Without Errors
Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto
Published 9 August 2002 (4 pages)
097904 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Hiding Classical Data in Multipartite Quantum States
T. Eggeling and R. F. Werner
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
097905 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Quantitative Study of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in a dc SQUID: A System with Two Degrees of Freedom
Shao-Xiong Li, Yang Yu, Yu Zhang, Wei Qiu, Siyuan Han, and Zhen Wang
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
098301 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Nonlinear Spin-Polarized Transport through a Ferromagnetic Domain Wall
G. Vignale and M. E. Flatté
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
098302 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Shear-Induced Stress Relaxation in a Two-Dimensional Wet Foam
John Lauridsen, Michael Twardos, and Michael Dennin
Published 13 August 2002 (4 pages)
098303 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Option Pricing Formulas Based on a Non-Gaussian Stock Price Model
Lisa Borland
Published 7 August 2002 (4 pages)
098701 [View PDF (107 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Origin of a Repose Angle: Kinetics of Rearrangement for Granular Materials [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 064303 (2002)]
Anaël Lemaître
Published 13 August 2002 (1 page)
099901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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