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Physical Review Letters – 27 June 2003
Volume 90, Issue 25

Evolution of a model population in 2D "ideological space" under the competing influences of "conformity" and "dissent". In the model, nonconformist members reproduce more, with offspring replacing other random members. The image shows a population initially made up of 2 close groups (red) which splits up due to "dissent"; as the tendency to conform comes into play it regroups, eventually forming 3 distinct opinion clusters (mauve). [Arne Soulier and Tim Halpin-Healy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 258103 (2003)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Brillouin Study of the Quantization of Acoustic Modes in Nanospheres
M. H. Kuok, H. S. Lim, S. C. Ng, N. N. Liu, and Z. K. Wang
Published 24 June 2003 (4 pages)
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Experimental Test of the Kochen-Specker Theorem with Single Photons
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Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Dimer State of Spin-1 Bosons in an Optical Lattice
S. K. Yip
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Roton-Maxon Spectrum and Stability of Trapped Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates
L. Santos, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and M. Lewenstein
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Proposal for Translational Entanglement of Dipole-Dipole Interacting Atoms in Optical Lattices
Tomáš Opatrný, Bimalendu Deb, and Gershon Kurizki
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Near-Field Short Range Correlation in Optical Waves Transmitted through Random Media
V. Emiliani, F. Intonti, M. Cazayous, D. S. Wiersma, M. Colocci, F. Aliev, and A. Lagendijk
Published 24 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Limits on Diffuse Fluxes of High Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 Detector
J. Ahrens et al.
Published 24 June 2003 (5 pages)
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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark in Dilepton Events from pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.8   TeV
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 24 June 2003 (7 pages)
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Search for Large Extra Dimensions in the Monojet+E̸T Channel with the DØ Detector
V. M. Abazov et al. (DØ Collaboration)
Published 24 June 2003 (6 pages)
251802 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Resonance-Continuum Interference in the Diphoton Higgs Signal at the LHC
Lance Dixon and M. Stewart Siu
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
252001 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Relativistic Kinetic Equations for Finite Domains and the Freeze-Out Problem
K. A. Bugaev
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Can Modern Nuclear Hamiltonians Tolerate a Bound Tetraneutron?
Steven C. Pieper
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Selective Addressing of High-Rank Atomic Polarization Moments
V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, W. Gawlik, D. F. Kimball, Yu. P. Malakyan, and S. M. Rochester
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Multichannel Cold Collisions between Metastable Sr Atoms
Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Robin Santra, and Chris H. Greene
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Efficient Engineering of Multiatom Entanglement through Single-Photon Detections
L.-M. Duan and H. J. Kimble
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Strongly Localized Mode at the Intersection of the Phase Slips in a Photonic Crystal without Band Gap
V. M. Apalkov and M. E. Raikh
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Observation of Mutually Trapped Multiband Optical Breathers in Waveguide Arrays
D. Mandelik, H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, and J. S. Aitchison
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Stable Dissipative Solitons in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
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Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Information Flow in Chaos Synchronization: Fundamental Tradeoffs in Precision, Delay, and Anticipation
Shawn D. Pethel, Ned J. Corron, Quitisha R. Underwood, and Krishna Myneni
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Collisions of Two Solitons in an Arbitrary Number of Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Marin Soljac̆ić, Ken Steiglitz, Suzanne M. Sears, Mordechai Segev, Mariusz H. Jakubowski, and Richard Squier
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
254102 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Order Parameter Description of Stationary Partially Fluidized Shear Granular Flows
Dmitri Volfson, Lev S. Tsimring, and Igor S. Aranson
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
254301 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Coda-Wave Interferometry in Finite Solids: Recovery of P-to-S Conversion Rates in an Elastodynamic Billiard
Oleg I. Lobkis and Richard L. Weaver
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Kolmogorov’s Third Hypothesis and Turbulent Sign Statistics
Qiaoning Chen, Shiyi Chen, Gregory L. Eyink, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Modification of the Current Profile in High-Performance Plasmas using Off-Axis Electron-Cyclotron-Current Drive in DIII-D
M. Murakami, M. R. Wade, C. M. Greenfield, T. C. Luce, M. A. Makowski, C. C. Petty, J. C. DeBoo, J. R. Ferron, R. J. Jayakumar, L. L. Lao, J. Lohr, P. A. Politzer, R. Prater, and H. E. St. John
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Reduction of Electron Heating in the Low-Frequency Anomalous-Skin-Effect Regime
Yu. O. Tyshetskiy, A. I. Smolyakov, and V. A. Godyak
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Large Difference in the Elastic Properties of fcc and hcp Hard-Sphere Crystals
Sander Pronk and Daan Frenkel
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
255501 [View PDF (98 kB)]
Brillouin Study of the Quantization of Acoustic Modes in Nanospheres
M. H. Kuok, H. S. Lim, S. C. Ng, N. N. Liu, and Z. K. Wang
Published 24 June 2003 (4 pages)
255502 [View PDF (208 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Fourier-Expansion Solution of Atom Distributions in a Crystal Using X-Ray Standing Waves
L. Cheng, P. Fenter, M. J. Bedzyk, and N. C. Sturchio
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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In Situ Observation of the Formation of Fe3O4 in Fe4N (001) due to Electron Irradiation
Z. Q. Liu, H. Hashimoto, E. Sukedai, M. Song, K. Mitsuishi, and K. Furuya
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Nature of the First-Order Phase Transition in Fluid Phosphorus at High Temperature and Pressure
G. Monaco, S. Falconi, W. A. Crichton, and M. Mezouar
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Observation of a Smecticlike Crystalline Structure in Polydisperse Colloids
Stephen Martin, Gary Bryant, and William van Megen
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Seeing the Atomic Orbital: First-Principles Study of the Effect of Tip Termination on Atomic Force Microscopy
Minghuang Huang, Martin Čuma, and Feng Liu
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Why is a Noble Metal Catalytically Active? The Role of the O-Ag Interaction in the Function of Silver as an Oxidation Catalyst
Wei-Xue Li, Catherine Stampfl, and Matthias Scheffler
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Cluster-Doping Approach for Wide-Gap Semiconductors: The Case of p-Type ZnO
L. G. Wang and Alex Zunger
Published 24 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Unconventional Charge-Density Wave in the Organic Conductor α-(BEDT-TTF)2KHg(SCN)4
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Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Antisymmetric Spin Filtering in One-Dimensional Electron Systems with Uniform Spin-Orbit Coupling
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Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Focusing of Spin Polarization in Semiconductors by Inhomogeneous Doping
Yuriy V. Pershin and Vladimir Privman
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Optical Detection of Hot-Electron Spin Injection into GaAs from a Magnetic Tunnel Transistor Source
X. Jiang, R. Wang, S. van Dijken, R. Shelby, R. Macfarlane, G. S. Solomon, J. Harris, and S. S. P. Parkin
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Quantum Shuttle in Phase Space
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Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Disorder-Driven Collapse of the Mobility Gap and Transition to an Insulator in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
D. N. Sheng, Xin Wan, E. H. Rezayi, Kun Yang, R. N. Bhatt, and F. D. M. Haldane
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
256802 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanostripes
A. M. Shikin, S. A. Gorovikov, V. K. Adamchuk, W. Gudat, and O. Rader
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
256803 [View PDF (847 kB)]
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Thermally Activated Spontaneous Fluxoid Formation in Superconducting Thin Film Rings
J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, and F. Tafuri
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
257001 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Suppression of the Charge-Density-Wave State in Sr14Cu24O41 by Calcium Doping
T. Vuletić, B. Korin-Hamzić, S. Tomić, B. Gorshunov, P. Haas, T. Rõõm, M. Dressel, J. Akimitsu, T. Sasaki, and T. Nagata
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
257002 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Exchange-Induced Anisotropies at Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Interfaces above and below the Néel Temperature
M. Grimsditch, A. Hoffmann, P. Vavassori, Hongtao Shi, and D. Lederman
Published 24 June 2003 (4 pages)
257201 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Magnetic Field Induced Sign Reversal of the Anomalous Hall Effect in a Pyrochlore Ferromagnet Nd2Mo2O7: Evidence for a Spin Chirality Mechanism
Y. Taguchi, T. Sasaki, S. Awaji, Y. Iwasa, T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara, S. Iguchi, T. Ito, and Y. Tokura
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
257202 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Magnetism of Transition-Metal/Carbon-Nanotube Hybrid Structures
Chih-Kai Yang, Jijun Zhao, and Jian Ping Lu
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
257203 [View PDF (910 kB)]
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X-Ray Mass Attenuation Coefficient of Silicon: Theory versus Experiment
C. Q. Tran, C. T. Chantler, and Z. Barnea
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Coherent Spectroscopy of Optically Gated Charged Single InGaAs Quantum Dots
L. Besombes, J. J. Baumberg, and J. Motohisa
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
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Chemically Doped Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Cylindrical Molecular Capacitors
Gugang Chen, S. Bandow, E. R. Margine, C. Nisoli, A. N. Kolmogorov, Vincent H. Crespi, R. Gupta, G. U. Sumanasekera, S. Iijima, and P. C. Eklund
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
257403 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of the Luminescence Lifetime of Single CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots
Olivier Labeau, Philippe Tamarat, and Brahim Lounis
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
257404 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced Suppression of the Diffuse Scattering in the Model Relaxor Ferroelectric PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3
B. Chaabane, J. Kreisel, B. Dkhil, P. Bouvier, and M. Mezouar
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
257601 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Strained Hexagonal ScN: A Material with Unusual Structural and Optical Properties
V. Ranjan, L. Bellaiche, and Eric J. Walter
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
257602 [View PDF (325 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Filtering and Discrimination between Sets of Boolean Functions
János A. Bergou, Ulrike Herzog, and Mark Hillery
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
257901 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Imperfection Effects for Multiple Applications of the Quantum Wavelet Transform
M. Terraneo and D. L. Shepelyansky
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
257902 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Time-Dependent Density-Functional Approach for Biological Chromophores: The Case of the Green Fluorescent Protein
Miguel A. L. Marques, Xabier López, Daniele Varsano, Alberto Castro, and Angel Rubio
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
258101 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Self-Organized Pattern Formation of a Bacteria Colony Modeled by a Reaction Diffusion System and Nucleation Theory
Joe Y. Wakano, Shinya Maenosono, Atsushi Komoto, Noriko Eiha, and Yukio Yamaguchi
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
258102 [View PDF (991 kB)]
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The Dynamics of Multidimensional Secession: Fixed Points and Ideological Condensation
Arne Soulier and Tim Halpin-Healy
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
258103 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Origins of Chevron Rollovers in Non-Two-State Protein Folding Kinetics
Hüseyin Kaya and Hue Sun Chan
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
258104 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Evolutionary Stability of Ecological Hierarchy
Taksu Cheon
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
258105 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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A Spin Cell for Spin Current
Qing-feng Sun, Hong Guo, and Jian Wang
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
258301 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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High-Power 140-GHz Quasioptical Gyrotron Traveling-Wave Amplifier
J. R. Sirigiri, M. A. Shapiro, and R. J. Temkin
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
258302 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Local Stress Relaxation and Shear Banding in a Dry Foam under Shear
Alexandre Kabla and Georges Debrégeas
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
258303 [View PDF (302 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities and without Probabilities for Two Observers”
Luca Marinatto
Published 23 June 2003 (1 page)
258901 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Cabello Replies:
Adán Cabello
Published 23 June 2003 (1 page)
258902 [View PDF (38 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Instability of Thin Liquid Films by Density Variations: A New Mechanism that Mimics Spinodal Dewetting [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 186101 (2002)]
Ashutosh Sharma and Jeetain Mittal
Published 23 June 2003 (1 page)
259901(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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