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Physical Review Letters – 18 April 2003
Volume 90, Issue 15

Conduction pathways for Li ions in LiPO3 from a structural model of this alkali glass. Similar images for the mixed glass LixRb1-xPO3 at different Li concentrations show that the Rb and Li ions tend to block each other's pathways. This effect explains how the high conductivity of single alkali glasses is dramatically decreased by addition of a second alkali. [Jan Swenson and Stefan Adams, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 155507 (2003)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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From Cooper Pairs to Luttinger Liquids with Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices
B. Paredes and J. I. Cirac
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
150402 [View PDF (111 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Tuning Carbon Nanotube Band Gaps with Strain
E. D. Minot, Yuval Yaish, Vera Sazonova, Ji-Yong Park, Markus Brink, and Paul L. McEuen
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
156401 [View PDF (339 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Probing States in the Mott Insulator Regime in the Case of Coherent Bosons Trapped in an Optical Lattice
D. C. Roberts and K. Burnett
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
150401 [View PDF (206 kB)]
From Cooper Pairs to Luttinger Liquids with Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices
B. Paredes and J. I. Cirac
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
150402 [View PDF (111 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Search for Variations of Fundamental Constants using Atomic Fountain Clocks
H. Marion, F. Pereira Dos Santos, M. Abgrall, S. Zhang, Y. Sortais, S. Bize, I. Maksimovic, D. Calonico, J. Grünert, C. Mandache, P. Lemonde, G. Santarelli, Ph. Laurent, A. Clairon, and C. Salomon
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
150801 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Testing the Stability of Fundamental Constants with the 199Hg+ Single-Ion Optical Clock
S. Bize, S. A. Diddams, U. Tanaka, C. E. Tanner, W. H. Oskay, R. E. Drullinger, T. E. Parker, T. P. Heavner, S. R. Jefferts, L. Hollberg, W. M. Itano, and J. C. Bergquist
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
150802 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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New Experimental Constraints on Non-Newtonian Forces below 100  μm
J. Chiaverini, S. J. Smullin, A. A. Geraci, D. M. Weld, and A. Kapitulnik
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
151101 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Inflationary Spacetimes Are Incomplete in Past Directions
Arvind Borde, Alan H. Guth, and Alexander Vilenkin
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
151301 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Relating a Gluon Mass Scale to an Infrared Fixed Point in Pure Gauge QCD
A. C. Aguilar, A. A. Natale, and P. S. Rodrigues da Silva
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
152001 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Saturation of Nuclear Matter and Short-Range Correlations
Y. Dewulf, W. H. Dickhoff, D. Van Neck, E. R. Stoddard, and M. Waroquier
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
152501 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Signature for Vibrational to Rotational Evolution Along the Yrast Line
P. H. Regan, C. W. Beausang, N. V. Zamfir, R. F. Casten, Jing-ye Zhang, A. D. Yamamoto, M. A. Caprio, G. Gürdal, A. A. Hecht, C. Hutter, R. Krücken, S. D. Langdown, D. A. Meyer, and J. J. Ressler
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
152502 [View PDF (146 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Entanglement between an Electron and a Nuclear Spin 1/2
M. Mehring, J. Mende, and W. Scherer
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
153001 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Measurement of Vacuum-Assisted Photoionization at 1 GeV for Au and Ag Targets
D. Dauvergne, A. Belkacem, F. Barrué, J. P. Bocquet, M. Chevallier, B. Feinberg, R. Kirsch, J. C. Poizat, C. Ray, and D. Rebreyend
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
153002 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Auger Electron Emission from Fixed-in-Space CO
Th. Weber, M. Weckenbrock, M. Balser, L. Schmidt, O. Jagutzki, W. Arnold, O. Hohn, M. Schöffler, E. Arenholz, T. Young, T. Osipov, L. Foucar, A. De Fanis, R. Díez Muiño, H. Schmidt-Böcking, C. L. Cocke, M. H. Prior, and R. Dörner
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
153003 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Experimental Determination of the Lifetime for the 2p3d(1P0) Helium Doubly Excited State
J. G. Lambourne, F. Penent, P. Lablanquie, R. I. Hall, M. Ahmad, M. Žitnik, K. Bučar, M. K. Odling-Smee, J. R. Harries, P. Hammond, D. K. Waterhouse, S. Stranges, R. Richter, M. Alagia, M. Coreno, and M. Ferianis
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
153004 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Doppler-Free Resonant Raman Auger Spectroscopy of Ne+ 2s2p53p Excited States
K. Ueda, M. Kitajima, A. De Fanis, Y. Tamenori, H. Yamaoka, H. Shindo, T. Furuta, T. Tanaka, H. Tanaka, H. Yoshida, R. Sankari, S. Aksela, S. Fritzsche, and N. M. Kabachnik
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
153005 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Ultrahot Electron Formation under Excess Electron Drift through Solid Xe
A. Usenko, G. Frossati, and E. B. Gordon
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
153201 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Coulombic Energy Transfer and Triple Ionization in Clusters
Robin Santra and Lorenz S. Cederbaum
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
153401 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Postpulse Molecular Alignment Measured by a Weak Field Polarization Technique
V. Renard, M. Renard, S. Guérin, Y. T. Pashayan, B. Lavorel, O. Faucher, and H. R. Jauslin
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
153601 [View PDF (212 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Scaling Properties of Simple Limiter Control
R. Stoop and C. Wagner
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
154101 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Low-Dimensional Models for Vertically Falling Viscous Films
Mohan K. R. Panga and Vemuri Balakotaiah
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
154501 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Anomalous Resistivity Resulting from MeV-Electron Transport in Overdense Plasma
Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, P. Kaw, and K. Nishikawa
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
155001 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Particle Pinch with Fully Noninductive Lower Hybrid Current Drive in Tore Supra
G. T. Hoang, C. Bourdelle, B. Pégourié, B. Schunke, J. F. Artaud, J. Bucalossi, F. Clairet, C. Fenzi-Bonizec, X. Garbet, C. Gil, R. Guirlet, F. Imbeaux, J. Lasalle, T. Loarer, C. Lowry, J. M. Travère, and E. Tsitrone (Tore Supra Team)
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
155002 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Stimulated-Brillouin-Scattering Detuning by a Velocity Gradient
D. H. Froula, L. Divol, A. MacKinnon, G. Gregori, and S. H. Glenzer
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
155003 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Experimental Observations of Mode-Converted Ion Cyclotron Waves in a Tokamak Plasma by Phase Contrast Imaging
E. Nelson-Melby, M. Porkolab, P. T. Bonoli, Y. Lin, A. Mazurenko, and S. J. Wukitch
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
155004 [View PDF (236 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Hydrodynamics of Pair-Annihilating Disclinations in SmC Films
D. Svenšek and S. Žumer
Published 14 April 2003 (4 pages)
155501 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Definition and Properties of Ideal Amorphous Solids
Zbigniew H. Stachurski
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
155502 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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High-Pressure Raman Study of Ba Doped Silicon Clathrate
Tetsuji Kume, Hiroshi Fukuoka, Toshihiro Koda, Shigeo Sasaki, Hiroyasu Shimizu, and Shoji Yamanaka
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
155503 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Carbon Onions: Carriers of the 217.5 nm Interstellar Absorption Feature
Manish Chhowalla, H. Wang, N. Sano, K. B. K. Teo, S. B. Lee, and G. A. J. Amaratunga
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
155504 [View PDF (575 kB)]
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Responsive Solids from Cross-Linked Block Copolymers
Hyeok Hahn, Hany B. Eitouni, Nitash P. Balsara, and John A. Pople
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
155505 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Elastic Properties of 2D Colloidal Crystals from Video Microscopy
K. Zahn, A. Wille, G. Maret, S. Sengupta, and P. Nielaba
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
155506 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Mixed Alkali Effect in Glasses
Jan Swenson and Stefan Adams
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
155507 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Crystal-Amorphous Polymer Interface Studied by Neutron and X-Ray Scattering on Labeled Binary Ultralong Alkanes
X. B. Zeng, G. Ungar, S. J. Spells, G. M. Brooke, C. Farren, and A. Harden
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
155508 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Fluorine in Silicon: Diffusion, Trapping, and Precipitation
X. D. Pi, C. P. Burrows, and P. G. Coleman
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
155901 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Dopant-Pair Structures Segregated on a Hydrogen-Terminated Si(100) Surface
Yuji Suwa, S. Matsuura, M. Fujimori, S. Heike, T. Onogi, H. Kajiyama, T. Hitosugi, K. Kitazawa, T. Uda, and T. Hashizume
Published 14 April 2003 (4 pages)
156101 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Adatom Transport on Strained Cu(001): Surface Crowdions
Wei Xiao, P. Alex Greaney, and D. C. Chrzan
Published 14 April 2003 (4 pages)
156102 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Water Condensation Kinetics on a Hydrophobic Surface
Trolle R. Linderoth, Vladimir P. Zhdanov, and Bengt Kasemo
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
156103 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Capillary Force on a Nanoscale Tip in Dip-Pen Nanolithography
Joonkyung Jang, George C. Schatz, and Mark A. Ratner
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
156104 [View PDF (154 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Tuning Carbon Nanotube Band Gaps with Strain
E. D. Minot, Yuval Yaish, Vera Sazonova, Ji-Yong Park, Markus Brink, and Paul L. McEuen
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
156401 [View PDF (339 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Reentrant Metallic Behavior of Graphite in the Quantum Limit
Y. Kopelevich, J. H. S. Torres, R. R. da Silva, F. Mrowka, H. Kempa, and P. Esquinazi
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
156402 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Metal-to-Semiconductor Transition in Squashed Armchair Carbon Nanotubes
Jun-Qiang Lu, Jian Wu, Wenhui Duan, Feng Liu, Bang-Fen Zhu, and Bing-Lin Gu
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
156601 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Observation of Retardation Effects in the Spectrum of Two-Dimensional Plasmons
I. V. Kukushkin, J. H. Smet, S. A. Mikhailov, D. V. Kulakovskii, K. von Klitzing, and W. Wegscheider
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
156801 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Measuring the Transmission Phase of a Quantum Dot in a Closed Interferometer
Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and Yoseph Imry
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
156802 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Superconductivity Caused by the Pairing of Plutonium 5f Electrons in PuCoGa5
I. Opahle and P. M. Oppeneer
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
157001 [View PDF (970 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for Anisotropic Double-Gap Behavior in MgB2
R. Cubitt, S. Levett, S. L. Bud’ko, N. E. Anderson, and P. C. Canfield
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
157002 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Topological Gauge Structure and Phase Diagram for Weakly Doped Antiferromagnets
Su-Peng Kou and Zheng-Yu Weng
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
157003 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Field Dependence of the Muon Spin Relaxation Rate in MnSi
I. M. Gat-Malureanu, A. Fukaya, M. I. Larkin, A. J. Millis, P. L. Russo, A. T. Savici, Y. J. Uemura, P. P. Kyriakou, G. M. Luke, C. R. Wiebe, Y. V. Sushko, R. H. Heffner, D. E. MacLaughlin, D. Andreica, and G. M. Kalvius
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
157201 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Doped Coupled Frustrated Spin-1/2 Chains with Four-Spin Exchange
Nicolas Laflorencie and Didier Poilblanc
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
157202 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Pseudogap Fermi-Bose Kondo Model
Matthias Vojta and Marijana Kirćan
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
157203 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Origin of the Fine Structure of the Raman D Band in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
V. Zólyomi, J. Kürti, A. Grüneis, and H. Kuzmany
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
157401 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Electromechanical Properties of Metallic, Quasimetallic, and Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes under Stretching
Jien Cao, Qian Wang, and Hongjie Dai
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
157601 [View PDF (576 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Eavesdropping on the “Ping-Pong” Quantum Communication Protocol
Antoni Wójcik
Published 15 April 2003 (4 pages)
157901 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Fiber-Optics Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa and Bernstein-Vazirani Quantum Algorithms with Three Qubits
E. Brainis, L.-P. Lamoureux, N. J. Cerf, Ph. Emplit, M. Haelterman, and S. Massar
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
157902 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Symmetric Extensions of Quantum States and Local Hidden Variable Theories
Barbara M. Terhal, Andrew C. Doherty, and David Schwab
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
157903 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Bell Inequalities with Auxiliary Communication
D. Bacon and B. F. Toner
Published 18 April 2003 (4 pages)
157904 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Active Traveling Wave in the Cochlea
Thomas Duke and Frank Jülicher
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
158101 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Potts Ferromagnets on Coexpressed Gene Networks: Identifying Maximally Stable Partitions
Himanshu Agrawal and Eytan Domany
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
158102 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Phase Transitions in Sexual Populations Subject to Stabilizing Selection
A. Rogers
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
158103 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Nucleation of Crystalline Phases of Water in Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Environments
Ravi Radhakrishnan and Bernhardt L. Trout
Published 16 April 2003 (4 pages)
158301 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Phase Transitions of Colloidal Monolayers in Periodic Pinning Arrays
Konrad Mangold, Paul Leiderer, and Clemens Bechinger
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
158302 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Phase Transition in Multiprocessor Scheduling
Heiko Bauke, Stephan Mertens, and Andreas Engel
Published 17 April 2003 (4 pages)
158701 [View PDF (126 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Experimental Evidence of Core Modification in the Near Drip-Line Nucleus 23O”
B. A. Brown, P. G. Hansen, and J. A. Tostevin
Published 17 April 2003 (1 page)
159201 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Kanungo et al. Reply
R. Kanungo, M. Chiba, N. Iwasa, S. Nishimura, A. Ozawa, C. Samanta, T. Suda, T. Suzuki, T. Yamaguchi, T. Zheng, and I. Tanihata
Published 17 April 2003 (1 page)
159202 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Comment on “Why is the DNA Denaturation Transition First Order?”
Andreas Hanke and Ralf Metzler
Published 18 April 2003 (1 page)
159801 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Kafri, Mukamel, and Peliti Reply:
Y. Kafri, D. Mukamel, and L. Peliti
Published 18 April 2003 (1 page)
159802 [View PDF (45 kB)]
 
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