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Physical Review Letters – 16 May 2003
Volume 90, Issue 19

Simulation of a TE state magnetic field in a polaritonic photonic crystal for six closely-spaced frequencies. The nodal structure of the field mutates from one pattern to another. [Kerwyn Casey Huang, Peter Bienstman, John D. Joannopoulos, Keith A. Nelson, and Shanhui Fan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 196402 (2003)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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MHD Shocks and the Origin of the Solar Transition Region
Margarita Ryutova and Theodore Tarbell
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
191101 [View PDF (664 kB)]
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Low-Speed Impact Craters in Loose Granular Media
J. S. Uehara, M. A. Ambroso, R. P. Ojha, and D. J. Durian
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
194301 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Nanoengineered Magnetic-Field-Induced Superconductivity
Martin Lange, Margriet J. Van Bael, Yvan Bruynseraede, and Victor V. Moshchalkov
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197006 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Kochen-Specker Theorem for a Single Qubit using Positive Operator-Valued Measures
Adán Cabello
Published 12 May 2003 (4 pages)
190401 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Berry Phase in a Nonisolated System
Robert S. Whitney and Yuval Gefen
Published 16 May 2003 (4 pages)
190402 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Phase Transition in the 2D Random Potts Model in the Large-q Limit
J-Ch. Anglès d’Auriac and F. Iglói
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
190601 [View PDF (491 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

MHD Shocks and the Origin of the Solar Transition Region
Margarita Ryutova and Theodore Tarbell
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
191101 [View PDF (664 kB)]
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Neutrinos from Pulsar Wind Bubbles as Precursors to Gamma-Ray Bursts
Jonathan Granot and Dafne Guetta
Published 16 May 2003 (4 pages)
191102 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays, Cosmological Constant, and θ Vacua
Prashanth Jaikumar and Anupam Mazumdar
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
191301 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Compton Scattering from the Deuteron and Extracted Neutron Polarizabilities
M. Lundin, J.-O. Adler, M. Boland, K. Fissum, T. Glebe, K. Hansen, L. Isaksson, O. Kaltschmidt, M. Karlsson, K. Kossert, M. I. Levchuk, P. Lilja, B. Lindner, A. I. L’vov, B. Nilsson, D. E. Oner, C. Poech, S. Proff, A. Sandell, B. Schröder, M. Schumacher, and D. A. Sims
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
192501 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Precision Neutron Interferometric Measurement of the nd Coherent Neutron Scattering Length and Consequences for Models of Three-Nucleon Forces
T.  C. Black, P.  R. Huffman, D.  L. Jacobson, W.  M. Snow, K. Schoen, M. Arif, H. Kaiser, S.  K. Lamoreaux, and S.  A. Werner
Published 16 May 2003 (4 pages)
192502 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Double Incoherent Raman Scattering Induced by Molecular Interactions in Gases
Yves Le Duff
Published 12 May 2003 (4 pages)
193001 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Single-Stage Sub-Doppler Cooling of Alkaline Earth Atoms
Xinye Xu, Thomas H. Loftus, Josh W. Dunn, Chris H. Greene, John L. Hall, Alan Gallagher, and Jun Ye
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
193002 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Resonant Neutral-Particle Emission in Collisions of Electrons with Peptide Ions in a Storage Ring
T. Tanabe, K. Noda, M. Saito, S. Lee, Y. Ito, and H. Takagi
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
193201 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of the Parapositronium Lifetime in α-SiO2
Haruo Saito and Toshio Hyodo
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
193401 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Ancilla-Assisted Quantum Process Tomography
J. B. Altepeter, D. Branning, E. Jeffrey, T. C. Wei, P. G. Kwiat, R. T. Thew, J. L. O’Brien, M. A. Nielsen, and A. G. White
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
193601 [View PDF (664 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Global Optimization of High Harmonic Generation
S. Kazamias, D. Douillet, F. Weihe, C. Valentin, A. Rousse, S. Sebban, G. Grillon, F. Augé, D. Hulin, and Ph. Balcou
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
193901 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Early Dynamics of Guest-Host Interaction in Dye-Doped Liquid Crystalline Materials
Thai V. Truong, Lei Xu, and Y. R. Shen
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
193902 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Experimental Verification of Anticipated and Retarded Synchronization in Chaotic Semiconductor Lasers
S. Tang and J. M. Liu
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
194101 [View PDF (645 kB)]
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Ray-Splitting Correction to the Weyl Formula: Experiment versus Theory
Corrie Vaa, Peter M. Koch, and Reinhold Blümel
Published 16 May 2003 (4 pages)
194102 [View PDF (202 kB)]
Low-Speed Impact Craters in Loose Granular Media
J. S. Uehara, M. A. Ambroso, R. P. Ojha, and D. J. Durian
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
194301 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Sheared Poloidal Flow Driven by Mode Conversion in Tokamak Plasmas
E. F. Jaeger, L. A. Berry, J. R. Myra, D. B. Batchelor, E. D’Azevedo, P. T. Bonoli, C. K. Phillips, D. N. Smithe, D. A. D’Ippolito, M. D. Carter, R. J. Dumont, J. C. Wright, and R. W. Harvey
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
195001 [View PDF (512 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Sound Propagation in Coexistent Bose and Fermi Superfluids in Aerogel
G. Lawes, A. I. Golov, E. Nazaretski, N. Mulders, and J. M. Parpia
Published 12 May 2003 (4 pages)
195301 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Memory Effects in Amorphous Solids below 20 mK
D. Rosenberg, P. Nalbach, and D. D. Osheroff
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
195501 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Diffusion in a Metallic Melt at the Critical Temperature of Mode Coupling Theory
Volker Zöllmer, Klaus Rätzke, Franz Faupel, and Andreas Meyer
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
195502 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Water Alignment and Proton Conduction inside Carbon Nanotubes
David J. Mann and Mathew D. Halls
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
195503 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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First X-Ray Scattering Studies on Electrostatically Levitated Metallic Liquids: Demonstrated Influence of Local Icosahedral Order on the Nucleation Barrier
K. F. Kelton, G. W. Lee, A. K. Gangopadhyay, R. W. Hyers, T. J. Rathz, J. R. Rogers, M. B. Robinson, and D. S. Robinson
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
195504 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Continuous Freezing in Three Dimensions
Richard P. Sear and Daan Frenkel
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
195701 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Wetting in a Colloidal Liquid-Gas System
W. K. Wijting, N. A. M. Besseling, and M. A. Cohen Stuart
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
196101 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Probing the Lateral Composition Profile of Self-Assembled Islands
U. Denker, M. Stoffel, and O. G. Schmidt
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
196102 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Distance Dependence of the Interaction between Single Atoms: Gold Dimers on NiAl(110)
N. Nilius, T. M. Wallis, M. Persson, and W. Ho
Published 14 May 2003 (4 pages)
196103 [View PDF (211 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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One-Dimensional Instability in BaVS3
Sebastien Fagot, Pascale Foury-Leylekian, Sylvain Ravy, Jean-Paul Pouget, and Helmuth Berger
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
196401 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Field Expulsion and Reconfiguration in Polaritonic Photonic Crystals
Kerwyn Casey Huang, Peter Bienstman, John D. Joannopoulos, Keith A. Nelson, and Shanhui Fan
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
196402 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Ferromagnetism and Metal-Insulator Transition in the Disordered Hubbard Model
Krzysztof Byczuk, Martin Ulmke, and Dieter Vollhardt
Published 16 May 2003 (4 pages)
196403 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Failure of Russell-Saunders Coupling in the 5f States of Plutonium
K. T. Moore, M. A. Wall, A. J. Schwartz, B. W. Chung, D. K. Shuh, R. K. Schulze, and J. G. Tobin
Published 16 May 2003 (4 pages)
196404 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Kondo Effect in a Few-Electron Quantum Ring
U. F. Keyser, C. Fühner, S. Borck, R. J. Haug, M. Bichler, G. Abstreiter, and W. Wegscheider
Published 14 May 2003 (4 pages)
196601 [View PDF (975 kB)]
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Spin Chirality Fluctuations and Anomalous Hall Effect in Itinerant Ferromagnets
Shigeki Onoda and Naoto Nagaosa
Published 14 May 2003 (4 pages)
196602 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Vertical Friedel Oscillations in Interface-Induced Surface Charge Modulations of Ultrathin Quantum Islands
W. B. Jian, W. B. Su, C. S. Chang, and T. T. Tsong
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
196603 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Exact Microscopic Wave Function for a Topological Quantum Membrane
Shou-Cheng Zhang
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
196801 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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“Fingered” Patterns in Electron Droplets in Nonuniform Magnetic Fields
Taylor L. Hughes, A. D. Klironomos, and Alan T. Dorsey
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
196802 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Metal-Induced Gap States at Well Defined Alkali-Halide/Metal Interfaces
Manabu Kiguchi, Ryotaro Arita, Genki Yoshikawa, Yoshiaki Tanida, Masao Katayama, Koichiro Saiki, Atsushi Koma, and Hideo Aoki
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
196803 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Electronic Structure of the YH3 Phase from Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
J. Hayoz, C. Koitzsch, M. Bovet, D. Naumović, L. Schlapbach, and P. Aebi
Published 16 May 2003 (4 pages)
196804 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Search for E2g Phonon Modes in MgB2 Single Crystals by Point-Contact Spectroscopy
Yu. G. Naidyuk, I. K. Yanson, O. E. Kvitnitskaya, S. Lee, and S. Tajima
Published 12 May 2003 (4 pages)
197001 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Magnon Heat Transport in Doped La2CuO4
C. Hess, B. Büchner, U. Ammerahl, L. Colonescu, F. Heidrich-Meisner, W. Brenig, and A. Revcolevschi
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
197002 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Antiferromagnetic Vortex Core in Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
K. Kakuyanagi, K. Kumagai, Y. Matsuda, and M. Hasegawa
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197003 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Field-Induced Thermal Metal-to-Insulator Transition in Underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4+δ
D. G. Hawthorn, R. W. Hill, C. Proust, F. Ronning, Mike Sutherland, Etienne Boaknin, C. Lupien, M. A. Tanatar, Johnpierre Paglione, S. Wakimoto, H. Zhang, Louis Taillefer, T. Kimura, M. Nohara, H. Takagi, and N. E. Hussey
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197004 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Fermi-Liquid Ground State in the n-Type Pr0.91LaCe0.09CuO4-y Copper-Oxide Superconductor
Guo-qing Zheng, T. Sato, Y. Kitaoka, M. Fujita, and K. Yamada
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197005 [View PDF (292 kB)]
Nanoengineered Magnetic-Field-Induced Superconductivity
Martin Lange, Margriet J. Van Bael, Yvan Bruynseraede, and Victor V. Moshchalkov
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197006 [View PDF (357 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Mott Insulator to High Tc Superconductor via Pressure: Resonating Valence Bond Theory and Prediction of New Systems
G. Baskaran
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197007 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Colossal Magnetoresistance in Manganites as a Multicritical Phenomenon
Shuichi Murakami and Naoto Nagaosa
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
197201 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Drude Weight at Finite Temperatures for Some Nonintegrable Quantum Systems in One Dimension
Satoshi Fujimoto and Norio Kawakami
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197202 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Nonmonotonic Bias Voltage Dependence of the Magnetocurrent in GaAs-Based Magnetic Tunnel Transistors
Sebastiaan van Dijken, Xin Jiang, and Stuart S. P. Parkin
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197203 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of a Nearly Logarithmic Decay of the Orientational Correlation Function in Supercooled Liquids on the Picosecond-to-Nanosecond Time Scales
Hu Cang, V. N. Novikov, and M. D. Fayer
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
197401 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Hydrogen Local Vibrational Modes in Zinc Oxide
N. H. Nickel and K. Fleischer
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197402 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Localized Second-Harmonic Enhancement in Random Metal Nanostructures
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Jonas Beermann, and Victor Coello
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197403 [View PDF (307 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Optimal Multiqubit Operations for Josephson Charge Qubits
Antti O. Niskanen, Juha J. Vartiainen, and Martti M. Salomaa
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
197901 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Polarization Qubit Phase Gate in Driven Atomic Media
Carlo Ottaviani, David Vitali, Maurizio Artoni, Francesco Cataliotti, and Paolo Tombesi
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
197902 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Stochastic Modeling Approach to the Incubation Time of Prionic Diseases
A. S. Ferreira, M. A. A. da Silva, and J. C. Cressoni
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
198101 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Possible Test of the Thermodynamic Approach to Granular Media
David S. Dean and Alexandre Lefèvre
Published 13 May 2003 (4 pages)
198301 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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What Is the Origin of Chirality in the Cholesteric Phase of Virus Suspensions?
Eric Grelet and Seth Fraden
Published 16 May 2003 (4 pages)
198302 [View PDF (237 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Electron Spectral Function and Algebraic Spin Liquid for the Normal State of Underdoped High Tc Superconductors”
D. V. Khveshchenko
Published 13 May 2003 (1 page)
199701 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Rantner and Wen Reply:
Walter Rantner and Xiao-Gang Wen
Published 13 May 2003 (1 page)
199702 [View PDF (40 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Electronic Ferroelectricity in the Falicov-Kimball Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 166403 (2002)]
C. D. Batista
Published 12 May 2003 (1 page)
199901(E) [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Erratum: A Convergent Series for the QED Effective Action [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1947 (2001)]
Y. M. Cho and D. G. Pak
Published 13 May 2003 (1 page)
199902(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Erratum: Time-Resolved Phase Measurement of a Self-Amplified Free-Electron Laser [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 234801 (2002)]
Yuelin Li, John Lewellen, Zhirong Huang, Vadim Sajaev, and Stephen V. Milton
Published 14 May 2003 (1 page)
199903(E) [View PDF (50 kB)]
 
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