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Physical Review Letters – 25 April 2003
Volume 90, Issue 16

Microphotograph of in vitro neuron cells after 7 days of growth and self-organization. At low cell densities (not shown), the cells are distributed uniformly over the substrate; at the higher cell density depicted, the cells spontaneously migrate to form a network of clusters connected by bundles of axons. (White scale bar = 500 microns.) [Ronen Segev, Morris Benveniste, Yoash Shapira, and Eshel Ben-Jacob, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 168101 (2003)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

First Observation of Atomic Levels for the Element Fermium (Z=100)
M. Sewtz, H. Backe, A. Dretzke, G. Kube, W. Lauth, P. Schwamb, K. Eberhardt, C. Grüning, P. Thörle, N. Trautmann, P. Kunz, J. Lassen, G. Passler, C. Z. Dong, S. Fritzsche, and R. G. Haire
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
163002 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Theory of Highly Directional Emission from a Single Subwavelength Aperture Surrounded by Surface Corrugations
L. Martín-Moreno, F. J. García-Vidal, H. J. Lezec, A. Degiron, and T. W. Ebbesen
Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages)
167401 [View PDF (488 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Collisional Decoherence Observed in Matter Wave Interferometry
Klaus Hornberger, Stefan Uttenthaler, Björn Brezger, Lucia Hackermüller, Markus Arndt, and Anton Zeilinger
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
160401 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Geometric Phase in Open Systems
A. Carollo, I. Fuentes-Guridi, M. França Santos, and V. Vedral
Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages)
160402 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Forces between Conducting Surfaces due to Spatial Variations of Surface Potential
C. C. Speake and C. Trenkel
Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages)
160403 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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New Features of the Thermal Casimir Force at Small Separations
F. Chen, G. L. Klimchitskaya, U. Mohideen, and V. M. Mostepanenko
Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages)
160404 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Amplification of Local Instabilities in a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interactions
J. K. Chin, J. M. Vogels, and W. Ketterle
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
160405 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Atoms and Molecules in Lattices: Bose-Einstein Condensates Built on a Shared Vacuum
Tilman Esslinger and Klaus Mølmer
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
160406 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Matter-Wave Gap Solitons in Atomic Band-Gap Structures
Elena A. Ostrovskaya and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
160407 [View PDF (750 kB)]
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All-Versus-Nothing Violation of Local Realism for Two Entangled Photons
Zeng-Bing Chen, Jian-Wei Pan, Yong-De Zhang, Časlav Brukner, and Anton Zeilinger
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
160408 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Spatial Structure of a Vortex in Low Density Neutron Matter
Yongle Yu and Aurel Bulgac
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
161101 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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d-Dimensional Black Hole Entropy Spectrum from Quasinormal Modes
G. Kunstatter
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
161301 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Fine Structure of the QCD String Spectrum
K. Jimmy Juge, Julius Kuti, and Colin Morningstar
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
161601 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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e+e- Annihilation into J/ψ+J/ψ
Geoffrey T. Bodwin, Jungil Lee, and Eric Braaten
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
162001 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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21Na(p,γ)22Mg Reaction and Oxygen-Neon Novae
S. Bishop et al.
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
162501 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Effects of Symmetry Energy on Two-Nucleon Correlation Functions in Heavy-Ion Collisions Induced by Neutron-Rich Nuclei
Lie-Wen Chen, Vincenzo Greco, Che Ming Ko, and Bao-An Li
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
162701 [View PDF (193 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Asymptotic Properties of Self-Energy Coefficients
Ulrich D. Jentschura, Eric-Olivier Le Bigot, Peter J. Mohr, Paul Indelicato, and Gerhard Soff
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
163001 [View PDF (200 kB)]
First Observation of Atomic Levels for the Element Fermium (Z=100)
M. Sewtz, H. Backe, A. Dretzke, G. Kube, W. Lauth, P. Schwamb, K. Eberhardt, C. Grüning, P. Thörle, N. Trautmann, P. Kunz, J. Lassen, G. Passler, C. Z. Dong, S. Fritzsche, and R. G. Haire
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
163002 [View PDF (221 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Triple Ionization of Lithium by Electron Impact
M.-T. Huang, W. W. Wong, M. Inokuti, S. H. Southworth, and L. Young
Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages)
163201 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Magnetic Control of the Interaction in Ultracold K-Rb Mixtures
A. Simoni, F. Ferlaino, G. Roati, G. Modugno, and M. Inguscio
Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages)
163202 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Experimental Characterization of Transition to Chaos in the Presence of Noise
Bin Xu, Ying-Cheng Lai, Liqiang Zhu, and Younghae Do
Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages)
164101 [View PDF (310 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Controlled Optimization of Mode Conversion from Electron Bernstein Waves to Extraordinary Mode in Magnetized Plasma
B. Jones, P. C. Efthimion, G. Taylor, T. Munsat, J. R. Wilson, J. C. Hosea, R. Kaita, R. Majeski, R. Maingi, S. Shiraiwa, J. Spaleta, and A. K. Ram
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
165001 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Spatial Distribution of High-Energy Electron Emission from Water Plasmas Produced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Y. T. Li, J. Zhang, Z. M. Sheng, H. Teng, T. J. Liang, X. Y. Peng, X. Lu, Y. J. Li, and X. W. Tang
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
165002 [View PDF (467 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Chiral and Antichiral Order in Bent-Core Liquid Crystals
Jonathan V. Selinger
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
165501 [View PDF (370 kB)]
Energy-Filtered Scanning Tunneling Microscopy using a Semiconductor Tip
P. Sutter, P. Zahl, E. Sutter, and J. E. Bernard
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
166101 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Electron-Stimulated Reactions at the Interfaces of Amorphous Solid Water Films Driven by Long-Range Energy Transfer from the Bulk
Nikolay G. Petrik and Greg A. Kimmel
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
166102 [View PDF (171 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Spectroscopic Signatures of a Bandwidth-Controlled Mott Transition at the Surface of 1T-TaSe2
L. Perfetti, A. Georges, S. Florens, S. Biermann, S. Mitrovic, H. Berger, Y. Tomm, H. Höchst, and M. Grioni
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
166401 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Phase Transition between Hidden and Antiferromagnetic Order in URu2Si2
Gaku Motoyama, Takashi Nishioka, and Noriaki K. Sato
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
166402 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Fano Resonance in Crossed Carbon Nanotubes
Jinhee Kim, Jae-Ryoung Kim, Jeong-O Lee, Jong Wan Park, Hye Mi So, Nam Kim, Kicheon Kang, Kyung-Hwa Yoo, and Ju-Jin Kim
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
166403 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Dependence of the Effective Masses in YbAl3 on Magnetic Field and Disorder
T. Ebihara, E. D. Bauer, A. L. Cornelius, J. M. Lawrence, N. Harrison, J. D. Thompson, J. L. Sarrao, M. F. Hundley, and S. Uji
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
166404 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Electrical Detection of Spin Accumulation in a p-Type GaAs Quantum Well
R. Mattana, J.-M. George, H. Jaffrès, F. Nguyen Van Dau, A. Fert, B. Lépine, A. Guivarc’h, and G. Jézéquel
Published 21 April 2003 (4 pages)
166601 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Interaction-Driven Spin Precession in Quantum-Dot Spin Valves
Jürgen König and Jan Martinek
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
166602 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Confined Shockley Surface States on the (111) Facets of Gold Clusters
I. Barke and H. Hövel
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
166801 [View PDF (596 kB)]
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Current Detection of Superradiance and Induced Entanglement of Double Quantum Dot Excitons
Y. N. Chen, D. S. Chuu, and T. Brandes
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
166802 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Spin-Entangled Currents Created by a Triple Quantum Dot
Daniel S. Saraga and Daniel Loss
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
166803 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Phase Sensitive Experiments in Ferromagnetic-Based Josephson Junctions
W. Guichard, M. Aprili, O. Bourgeois, T. Kontos, J. Lesueur, and P. Gandit
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
167001 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Proximity of the Layered Organic Conductors α-(BEDT-TTF)2MHg(SCN)4 (M=K,NH4) to a Charge-Ordering Transition
M. Dressel, N. Drichko, J. Schlueter, and J. Merino
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
167002 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Circuit Theory of Unconventional Superconductor Junctions
Y. Tanaka, Yu. V. Nazarov, and S. Kashiwaya
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
167003 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Theory of the Vortex Matter Transformations in High-Tc Superconductor YBCO
Dingping Li and Baruch Rosenstein
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
167004 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic Superconductivity Driven by Changing Fermi Surface Topology
K. G. Sandeman, G. G. Lonzarich, and A. J. Schofield
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
167005 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Strong Superconductivity with Local Jahn-Teller Phonons in C60 Solids
J. E. Han, O. Gunnarsson, and V. H. Crespi
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
167006 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Charge-Order-Induced Sharp Raman Peak in Sr14Cu24O41
K. P. Schmidt, C. Knetter, M. Grüninger, and G. S. Uhrig
Published 21 April 2003 (4 pages)
167201 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Low-Dimensional Spin S=1/2 System at the Quantum Critical Limit: Na2V3O7
J. L. Gavilano, D. Rau, S. Mushkolaj, H. R. Ott, P. Millet, and F. Mila
Published 21 April 2003 (4 pages)
167202 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Intrinsic Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Relaxation in Thin Metallic Films
A. Yu. Dobin and R. H. Victora
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
167203 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Magnetization Transport and Quantized Spin Conductance
Florian Meier and Daniel Loss
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
167204 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Detection of XY Behavior in Weakly Anisotropic Quantum Antiferromagnets on the Square Lattice
Alessandro Cuccoli, Tommaso Roscilde, Ruggero Vaia, and Paola Verrucchi
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
167205 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Magnetic Domain Structure and Magnetic Anisotropy in Ga1-xMnxAs
U. Welp, V. K. Vlasko-Vlasov, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, and T. Wojtowicz
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
167206 [View PDF (342 kB)]
Theory of Highly Directional Emission from a Single Subwavelength Aperture Surrounded by Surface Corrugations
L. Martín-Moreno, F. J. García-Vidal, H. J. Lezec, A. Degiron, and T. W. Ebbesen
Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages)
167401 [View PDF (488 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Influence of Synthesis Conditions on the Structural and Optical Properties of Passivated Silicon Nanoclusters
Erik W. Draeger, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Andrew J. Williamson, and Giulia Galli
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
167402 [View PDF (843 kB)]
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Reversible Valence Tautomerism Induced by a Single-Shot Laser Pulse in a Cobalt-Iron Prussian Blue Analog
H. W. Liu, K. Matsuda, Z. Z. Gu, K. Takahashi, A. L. Cui, R. Nakajima, A. Fujishima, and O. Sato
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
167403 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Breakdown Transients in Ultrathin Gate Oxides: Transition in the Degradation Rate
S. Lombardo, J. H. Stathis, and B. P. Linder
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
167601 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Measuring Quantum Entanglement without Prior State Reconstruction
Paweł Horodecki
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
167901 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Power of Entanglement in Quantum Communication
Seth Lloyd
Published 22 April 2003 (4 pages)
167902 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Experimental Demonstration of Tripartite Entanglement and Controlled Dense Coding for Continuous Variables
Jietai Jing, Jing Zhang, Ying Yan, Fagang Zhao, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng
Published 23 April 2003 (4 pages)
167903 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Unconditionally Secure Key Distribution Based on Two Nonorthogonal States
Kiyoshi Tamaki, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
167904 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Entanglement Measure for Composite Systems
V. I. Yukalov
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
167905 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Exceeding the Classical Capacity Limit in a Quantum Optical Channel
Mikio Fujiwara, Masahiro Takeoka, Jun Mizuno, and Masahide Sasaki
Published 24 April 2003 (4 pages)
167906 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Formation of Electrically Active Clusterized Neural Networks
Ronen Segev, Morris Benveniste, Yoash Shapira, and Eshel Ben-Jacob
Published 21 April 2003 (4 pages)
168101 [View PDF (724 kB)]
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Motion of an Adhesive Gel in a Swelling Gradient: A Mechanism for Cell Locomotion
Jean-François Joanny, Frank Jülicher, and Jacques Prost
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
168102 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Fast Chain Contraction during Protein Folding: “Foldability” and Collapse Dynamics
Linlin Qiu, Cherian Zachariah, and Stephen J. Hagen
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
168103 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Universal Elasticity and Fluctuations of Nematic Gels
Xiangjun Xing and Leo Radzihovsky
Published 21 April 2003 (4 pages)
168301 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Flow-Induced Twist-Compression in a Twisted Nematic Cell
L. Z. Ruan and J. R. Sambles
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
168701 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Mixing and Condensation in a Wet Granular Medium
Dimitrios Geromichalos, Mika M. Kohonen, Frieder Mugele, and Stephan Herminghaus
Published 25 April 2003 (4 pages)
168702 [View PDF (156 kB)]
 
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