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Physical Review Letters – 28 March 2003
Volume 90, Issue 12

Illustration of a proposed micron-scale waveguide, showing nearly perfect, diffractionless transmission of an EM signal through a right angle. The electric field intensity, vectors, and equal-intensity contours are shown in light colors; the inset shows the calculated transmission and reflection properties of the bend. [Alongkarn Chutinan, Sajeev John, and Ovidiu Toader, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 123901 (2003)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Twisted Protein Aggregates and Disease: The Stability of Sickle Hemoglobin Fibers
M. S. Turner, R. W. Briehl, F. A. Ferrone, and R. Josephs
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
128103 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Flat Histogram Methods for Quantum Systems: Algorithms to Overcome Tunneling Problems and Calculate the Free Energy
Matthias Troyer, Stefan Wessel, and Fabien Alet
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
120201 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Measuring the Condensate Fraction of Rapidly Rotating Trapped Boson Systems: Off-Diagonal Order from the Density Profile
Jairo Sinova, C. B. Hanna, and A. H. MacDonald
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
120401 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Lattice Models with N=2 Supersymmetry
Paul Fendley, Kareljan Schoutens, and Jan de Boer
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
120402 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Ring Dark Solitons and Vortex Necklaces in Bose-Einstein Condensates
G. Theocharis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
120403 [View PDF (973 kB)]
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Environment-Assisted Invariance, Entanglement, and Probabilities in Quantum Physics
Wojciech Hubert Zurek
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
120404 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Statistical Aging and Nonergodicity in the Fluorescence of Single Nanocrystals
X. Brokmann, J.-P. Hermier, G. Messin, P. Desbiolles, J.-P. Bouchaud, and M. Dahan
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
120601 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Activity Driven Adaptive Stochastic Resonance
G. Wenning and K. Obermayer
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
120602 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Black-Hole Singularities: A New Critical Phenomenon
Lior M. Burko
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
121101 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Strangelets as Cosmic Rays beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff
Jes Madsen and Jonas Møller Larsen
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
121102 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Relativistic Turbulence: A Long Way from Preheating to Equilibrium
Raphael Micha and Igor I. Tkachev
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
121301 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Light Sheets and Bekenstein’s Entropy Bound
Raphael Bousso
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
121302 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Gauge Coupling Unification in Grand Unified Theories with Anomalous U(1) Symmetry
Nobuhiro Maekawa and Toshifumi Yamashita
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
121801 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Observation of the Decay B̅ 0→Λc+p̅
N. Gabyshev et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 26 March 2003 (5 pages)
121802 [View PDF (132 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Final State Three-Body Coulomb Effects in the 208Pb(8B,7Bep)208Pb Coulomb Breakup Reaction
E. O. Alt, B. F. Irgaziev, and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
122701 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Quantal Density Functional Theory of Degenerate States
Viraht Sahni and Xiao-Yin Pan
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
123001 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Diffractionless Flow of Light in All-Optical Microchips
Alongkarn Chutinan, Sajeev John, and Ovidiu Toader
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
123901 [View PDF (695 kB)]
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Light Bullets in Quadratic Media with Normal Dispersion at the Second Harmonic
I. N. Towers, B. A. Malomed, and F. W. Wise
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
123902 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Superfluorescent Rayleigh Scattering from Suspensions of Dielectric Particles
G. R. M. Robb and B. W. J. McNeil
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
123903 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Mechanism of Standing Wave Patterns in Cardiac Muscle
Seiji Takagi, Alain Pumir, Lorenz Kramer, and Valentin Krinsky
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
124101 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of High-Order Quantum Accelerator Modes
S. Schlunk, M. B. d’Arcy, S. A. Gardiner, and G. S. Summy
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
124102 [View PDF (758 kB)]
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Self-Induced Hysteresis for Nonlinear Acoustic Waves in Cracked Material
Alexei Moussatov, Vitalyi Gusev, and Bernard Castagnède
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
124301 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Mean Effects of Turbulence on Elliptic Instability in Fluids
Bruce R. Fabijonas and Darryl D. Holm
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
124501 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Discrete Boltzmann Equation for Microfluidics
Baoming Li and Daniel Y. Kwok
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
124502 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Thermal Transpiration at the Microscale: A Crookes Cantilever
A. Passian, R. J. Warmack, T. L. Ferrell, and T. Thundat
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
124503 [View PDF (214 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Drift-Wave Instability Excited by Field-Aligned Ion Flow Velocity Shear in the Absence of Electron Current
T. Kaneko, H. Tsunoyama, and R. Hatakeyama
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
125001 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Turbulent Transport Reduction and Randomization of Coherent Fluctuations by Zonal Flows in Toroidal Plasma
M. G. Shats, W. M. Solomon, and H. Xia
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
125002 [View PDF (289 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Hafnium Nitride with Thorium Phosphide Structure: Physical Properties and an Assessment of the Hf-N, Zr-N, and Ti-N Phase Diagrams at High Pressures and Temperatures
Peter Kroll
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
125501 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Origin of Network Connectivity and Structural Units in Amorphous SiSe2
Massimo Celino and Carlo Massobrio
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
125502 [View PDF (170 kB)]
Kinetics of Moisture Expansion in Fired Clay Ceramics: A (Time)1/4 Law
Moira A. Wilson, William D. Hoff, Christopher Hall, Bernard McKay, and Anna Hiley
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
125503 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Polyelectrolytes in the Presence of Multivalent Ions: Gelation Versus Segregation
A. V. Ermoshkin and M. Olvera de la Cruz
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
125504 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Absorbing Phase Transitions of Branching-Annihilating Random Walks
Julien Kockelkoren and Hugues Chaté
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
125701 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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InP(001)-(2×1) Surface: A Hydrogen Stabilized Structure
W. G. Schmidt, P. H. Hahn, F. Bechstedt, N. Esser, P. Vogt, A. Wange, and W. Richter
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
126101 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Vacancy-Mediated and Exchange Diffusion in a Pb/Cu(111) Surface Alloy: Concurrent Diffusion on Two Length Scales
M. L. Anderson, M. J. D’Amato, P. J. Feibelman, and B. S. Swartzentruber
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
126102 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Linear versus Nonlinear Coupling Effects in Single- and Multiphonon Atom-Surface Scattering
A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
126103 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Shear Viscosity of Langmuir Monolayers in the Low-Density Limit
Manuel Sickert and Francis Rondelez
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
126104 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Reverse Undercompressive Shock Structures in Driven Thin Film Flow
Jeanman Sur, Andrea L. Bertozzi, and Robert P. Behringer
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
126105 [View PDF (363 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Finite Temperature Spectral Function of Mott Insulators and Charge Density Wave States
Fabian H. L. Essler and Alexei M. Tsvelik
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
126401 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Scaling in the One-Dimensional Anderson Localization Problem in the Region of Fluctuation States
L. I. Deych, M. V. Erementchouk, and A. A. Lisyansky
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
126601 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Density of States in a Superconductor Carrying a Supercurrent
A. Anthore, H. Pothier, and D. Esteve
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
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Mott Transition, Compressibility Divergence, and the P-T Phase Diagram of Layered Organic Superconductors: An Ultrasonic Investigation
D. Fournier, M. Poirier, M. Castonguay, and K. D. Truong
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
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Corrections to Scaling are Large for Droplets in Two-Dimensional Spin Glasses
A. K. Hartmann and M. A. Moore
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
127201 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Interface Energies in Ising Spin Glasses
T. Aspelmeier, M. A. Moore, and A. P. Young
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
127202 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Ab Initio Calculations for Large Dielectric Matrices of Confined Systems
Serdar Öğüt, Russ Burdick, Yousef Saad, and James R. Chelikowsky
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
127401 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Electrophosphorescence and Delayed Electroluminescence from Pristine Polyfluorene Thin-Film Devices at Low Temperature
S. Sinha, C. Rothe, R. Güntner, U. Scherf, and A. P. Monkman
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
127402 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Tunable Coupling of Superconducting Qubits
Alexandre Blais, Alexander Maassen van den Brink, and Alexandre M. Zagoskin
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
127901 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Quantum Computation with Unknown Parameters
J. J. García-Ripoll and J. I. Cirac
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
127902 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Probabilistic Generation of Entanglement in Optical Cavities
Anders S. Sørensen and Klaus Mølmer
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
127903 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Quantification of Entanglement by Means of Convergent Iterations
Jaroslav Řeháček and Zdeněk Hradil
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
127904 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Oblivious Remote State Preparation
Debbie W. Leung and Peter W. Shor
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
127905 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Vibrational Spectroscopic Investigation of the Phase Diagram of a Biomimetic Lipid Monolayer
Sylvie Roke, Juleon Schins, Michiel Müller, and Mischa Bonn
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
128101 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Pattern Formation inside Bacteria: Fluctuations due to the Low Copy Number of Proteins
Martin Howard and Andrew D. Rutenberg
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
128102 [View PDF (142 kB)]
Twisted Protein Aggregates and Disease: The Stability of Sickle Hemoglobin Fibers
M. S. Turner, R. W. Briehl, F. A. Ferrone, and R. Josephs
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
128103 [View PDF (418 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Nonequilibrium Unfolding of Polyelectrolyte Condensates in Electric Fields
R. R. Netz
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
128104 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Dynamics of Turing Patterns under Spatiotemporal Forcing
S. Rüdiger, D. G. Míguez, A. P. Muñuzuri, F. Sagués, and J. Casademunt
Published 26 March 2003 (4 pages)
128301 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Pattern of Reaction Diffusion Fronts in Laminar Flows
M. Leconte, J. Martin, N. Rakotomalala, and D. Salin
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
128302 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Electrically Guided Assembly of Planar Superlattices in Binary Colloidal Suspensions
W. D. Ristenpart, I. A. Aksay, and D. A. Saville
Published 27 March 2003 (4 pages)
128303 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Line Thermodynamics: Adsorption at a Membrane Edge
P.-H. Puech, N. Borghi, E. Karatekin, and F. Brochard-Wyart
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
128304 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Time-Dependent Random Walks and the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems
Shahar Hod
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
128701 [View PDF (90 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Band Structure Approach to Resonant X-Ray Scattering”
V. E. Dmitrienko and K. Ishida
Published 25 March 2003 (1 page)
129601 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Elfimov et al. Reply:
I. S. Elfimov, N. A. Skorikov, V. I. Anisimov, and G. A. Sawatzky
Published 25 March 2003 (1 page)
129602 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Systematics of the Induced Magnetic Moments in 5d Layers and the Violation of the Third Hund’s Rule”
R. Tyer, G. van der Laan, W. M. Temmerman, and Z. Szotek
Published 26 March 2003 (1 page)
129701 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Wilhelm et al. Reply:
F. Wilhelm, P. Poulopoulos, H. Wende, A. Scherz, K. Baberschke, M. Angelakeris, N. K. Flevaris, and A. Rogalev
Published 26 March 2003 (1 page)
129702 [View PDF (41 kB)]
 
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