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Physical Review Letters – 28 February 2003
Volume 90, Issue 8

Phase-space plots of the electrons in an electron-positron plasma expanding under the action of a diamagnetic relativistic pulse; the colors show the distributions at successive times. Numerical simulations suggest that this mechanism can efficiently convert magnetic energy into the directed, ultrarelativistic motion of some of the plasma surface particles. [Edison Liang, Kazumi Nishimura, Hui Li, and S. Peter Gary, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085001 (2003)]

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LETTERS

General Physics

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Classifying N-Qubit Entanglement via Bell’s Inequalities
Sixia Yu, Zeng-Bing Chen, Jian-Wei Pan, and Yong-De Zhang
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
080401 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Cyclization of a Polymer: First-Passage Problem for a Non-Markovian Process
I. M. Sokolov
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
080601 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Quasinormal Modes, the Area Spectrum, and Black Hole Entropy
Olaf Dreyer
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
081301 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Experimental Limit on the Photon Rest Mass with a Rotating Torsion Balance
Jun Luo, Liang-Cheng Tu, Zhong-Kun Hu, and En-Jie Luan
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
081801 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Search for a W′ Boson Decaying to a Top and Bottom Quark Pair in 1.8 TeV pp̅ Collisions
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 28 February 2003 (6 pages)
081802 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Light from Cascading Partons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Steffen A. Bass, Berndt Müller, and Dinesh K. Srivastava
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
082301 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Disappearance of Back-To-Back High-pT Hadron Correlations in Central Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=200  GeV
C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 26 February 2003 (6 pages)
082302 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for the Existence of 7H and for a Specific Structure of 8He
A. A. Korsheninnikov, E. Yu. Nikolskii, E. A. Kuzmin, A. Ozawa, K. Morimoto, F. Tokanai, R. Kanungo, I. Tanihata, N. K. Timofeyuk, M. S. Golovkov, A. S. Fomichev, A. M. Rodin, M. L. Chelnokov, G. M. Ter-Akopian, W. Mittig, P. Roussel-Chomaz, H. Savajols, E. Pollacco, A. A. Ogloblin, and M. V. Zhukov
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
082501 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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New Shape Isomer in the Self-Conjugate Nucleus 72Kr
E. Bouchez, I. Matea, W. Korten, F. Becker, B. Blank, C. Borcea, A. Buta, A. Emsallem, G. de France, J. Genevey, F. Hannachi, K. Hauschild, A. Hürstel, Y. Le Coz, M. Lewitowicz, R. Lucas, F. Negoita, F. de Oliveira Santos, D. Pantelica, J. Pinston, P. Rahkila, M. Rejmund, M. Stanoiu, and Ch. Theisen
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
082502 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Controlling the Orientation of Polar Molecules with Combined Electrostatic and Pulsed, Nonresonant Laser Fields
Hirofumi Sakai, Shinichirou Minemoto, Hiroshi Nanjo, Haruka Tanji, and Takayuki Suzuki
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
083001 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Reaction and Scattering in Cold Electron Collisions
J. P. Ziesel, N. C. Jones, D. Field, and L. B. Madsen
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
083201 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Ultracold Atom-Atom Collisions in a Nonresonant Laser Field
V. S. Melezhik and Chi-Yu Hu
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
083202 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Auger Recombination and Charge-Carrier Thermalization in Hgn--Cluster Photoelectron Studies
R. Busani, R. Giniger, T. Hippler, and O. Cheshnovsky
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
083401 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Quantum Locking of Mirrors in Interferometers
Jean-Michel Courty, Antoine Heidmann, and Michel Pinard
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
083601 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Photonic Band Gap from a Stack of Positive and Negative Index Materials
Jensen Li, Lei Zhou, C. T. Chan, and P. Sheng
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
083901 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Defect Mode Emission of a Dye Doped Cholesteric Polymer Network
Jürgen Schmidtke, Werner Stille, and Heino Finkelmann
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
083902 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Dynamic Self-Assembly of Rings of Charged Metallic Spheres
Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Jason A. Wiles, and George M. Whitesides
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
083903 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Fano Resonances with Discrete Breathers
S. Flach, A. E. Miroshnichenko, V. Fleurov, and M. V. Fistul
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
084101 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Statistics of Lagrangian Velocities in Turbulent Flows
R. Friedrich
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
084501 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Particle Energization in an Expanding Magnetized Relativistic Plasma
Edison Liang, Kazumi Nishimura, Hui Li, and S. Peter Gary
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
085001 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Slow Magnetosonic Solitons Detected by the Cluster Spacecraft
K. Stasiewicz, P. K. Shukla, G. Gustafsson, S. Buchert, B. Lavraud, B. Thidé, and Z. Klos
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
085002 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Fluctuations of the Phase Difference across an Array of Josephson Junctions in Superfluid 4He near the Lambda Transition
Talso Chui, Warren Holmes, and Konstantin Penanen
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
085301 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Excitation Energies and Radiative Lifetimes of Ge1-xSix Nanocrystals: Alloying Versus Confinement Effects
H.-Ch. Weissker, J. Furthmüller, and F. Bechstedt
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
085501 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Chemical- or Radiation-Assisted Selective Dealloying in Bimetallic Nanoclusters
G. Mattei, G. De Marchi, C. Maurizio, P. Mazzoldi, C. Sada, V. Bello, and G. Battaglin
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
085502 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Anchoring-Mediated Interaction of Edge Dislocations with Bounding Surfaces in Confined Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
I. I. Smalyukh and O. D. Lavrentovich
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
085503 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Quantum Friction of Micromechanical Resonators at Low Temperatures
Kang-Hun Ahn and Pritiraj Mohanty
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
085504 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Microscopic Theory of Network Glasses
Randall W. Hall and Peter G. Wolynes
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
085505 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Connection between Adam-Gibbs Theory and Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics
Nicolas Giovambattista, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Francis W. Starr, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
085506 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Viscosity of a Liquid Crystal near the Nematic–Smectic A Phase Transition
Anders Madsen, Jens Als-Nielsen, and Gerhard Grübel
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
085701 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Crystal Nucleation in the Hard Sphere System
Brendan O’Malley and Ian Snook
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
085702 [View PDF (590 kB)]
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Water in Contact with Extended Hydrophobic Surfaces: Direct Evidence of Weak Dewetting
Torben R. Jensen, Morten Østergaard Jensen, Niels Reitzel, Konstantin Balashev, Günther H. Peters, Kristian Kjaer, and Thomas Bjørnholm
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
086101 [View PDF (572 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Electronic Properties of Polymer Crystals: The Effect of Interchain Interactions
Andrea Ferretti, Alice Ruini, Elisa Molinari, and Marilia J. Caldas
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
086401 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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First-Principles Approach to the Electronic Structure of Strongly Correlated Systems: Combining the GW Approximation and Dynamical Mean-Field Theory
S. Biermann, F. Aryasetiawan, and A. Georges
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
086402 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Oxidation of Carbon Nanotubes by Singlet O2
Siu-Pang Chan, Gang Chen, X. G. Gong, and Zhi-Feng Liu
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
086403 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Fine Structure of Excitons in InAs/GaAs Coupled Quantum Dots: A Sensitive Test of Electronic Coupling
G. Ortner, M. Bayer, A. Larionov, V. B. Timofeev, A. Forchel, Y. B. Lyanda-Geller, T. L. Reinecke, P. Hawrylak, S. Fafard, and Z. Wasilewski
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
086404 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Phase Coexistence in Driven One-Dimensional Transport
A. Parmeggiani, T. Franosch, and E. Frey
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
086601 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Frictional Drag in Dilute Bilayer 2D Hole Systems
E. H. Hwang, S. Das Sarma, V. Braude, and Ady Stern
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
086801 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Vortex Liquid Crystals in Anisotropic Type II Superconductors
E. W. Carlson, A. H. Castro Neto, and D. K. Campbell
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
087001 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Distribution of Transport Current in a Type-II Superconductor Studied by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
A. Pautrat, C. Goupil, Ch. Simon, D. Charalambous, E. M. Forgan, G. Lazard, P. Mathieu, and A. Brûlet
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
087002 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Andreev Level Qubit
A. Zazunov, V. S. Shumeiko, E. N. Bratus’, J. Lantz, and G. Wendin
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
087003 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Melting of “Porous” Vortex Matter
S. S. Banerjee, A. Soibel, Y. Myasoedov, M. Rappaport, E. Zeldov, M. Menghini, Y. Fasano, F. de la Cruz, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, and T. Tamegai
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
087004 [View PDF (487 kB)]
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Unconventional Magnetic Correlations in DyB2C and HoB2C
J. van Duijn, J. P. Attfield, R. Watanuki, K. Suzuki, and R. K. Heenan
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
087201 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Structure of End States for a Haldane Spin Chain
M. Kenzelmann, G. Xu, I. A. Zaliznyak, C. Broholm, J. F. DiTusa, G. Aeppli, T. Ito, K. Oka, and H. Takagi
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
087202 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Barkhausen Avalanche in Co Thin Films
Dong-Hyun Kim, Sug-Bong Choe, and Sung-Chul Shin
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
087203 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Spin-Chirality Duality in a Spin Ladder with Four-Spin Cyclic Exchange
Toshiya Hikihara, Tsutomu Momoi, and Xiao Hu
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
087204 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Exchange Interaction Parameters and Adiabatic Spin-Wave Spectra of Ferromagnets: A “Renormalized Magnetic Force Theorem”
P. Bruno
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
087205 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Nanoscale Fourier-Transform Imaging with Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
J. G. Kempf and J. A. Marohn
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
087601 [View PDF (319 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Hydrogenic Spin Quantum Computing in Silicon: A Digital Approach
A. J. Skinner, M. E. Davenport, and B. E. Kane
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
087901 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Substituting a Qubit for an Arbitrarily Large Number of Classical Bits
Ernesto F. Galvão and Lucien Hardy
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
087902 [View PDF (86 kB)]
Synchronization Tomography: A Method for Three-Dimensional Localization of Phase Synchronized Neuronal Populations in the Human Brain using Magnetoencephalography
P. A. Tass, T. Fieseler, J. Dammers, K. Dolan, P. Morosan, M. Majtanik, F. Boers, A. Muren, K. Zilles, and G. R. Fink
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
088101 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Zipf’s Law in Gene Expression
Chikara Furusawa and Kunihiko Kaneko
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
088102 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Dynamics of Competitive Evolution on a Smooth Landscape
Weiqun Peng, Ulrich Gerland, Terence Hwa, and Herbert Levine
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
088103 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Second Order Phase Transition in Neural Rate Coding: Binary Encoding is Optimal for Rapid Signal Transmission
Matthias Bethge, David Rotermund, and Klaus Pawelzik
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
088104 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Stretching of a Polymer below the θ Point
D. Marenduzzo, A. Maritan, A. Rosa, and F. Seno
Published 25 February 2003 (4 pages)
088301 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Antispiral Waves in Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Yunfan Gong and David J. Christini
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
088302 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Euler-Lagrange Correspondence of Cellular Automaton for Traffic-Flow Models
Junta Matsukidaira and Katsuhiro Nishinari
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
088701 [View PDF (87 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Electron Mass Operator in a Strong Magnetic Field and Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking”
V. P. Gusynin, V. A. Miransky, and I. A. Shovkovy
Published 28 February 2003 (1 page)
089101 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Kuznetsov and Mikheev Reply:
A. V. Kuznetsov and N. V. Mikheev
Published 28 February 2003 (1 page)
089102 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Comment on “Néel Order in Doped Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets”
A. A. Zvyagin
Published 25 February 2003 (1 page)
089701 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Eggert, Affleck, and Horton Reply:
Sebastian Eggert, Ian Affleck, and Matthew D. P. Horton
Published 25 February 2003 (1 page)
089702 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Comment on “Anomalous Proximity Effect in Underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x Josephson Junctions”
J. Quintanilla, K. Capelle, and L. N. Oliveira
Published 27 February 2003 (1 page)
089703 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Comment on “Action-Derived Molecular Dynamics in the Study of Rare Events”
Ramon Crehuet and Martin J. Field
Published 26 February 2003 (1 page)
089801 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Passerone and Parrinello Reply:
Daniele Passerone and Michele Parrinello
Published 26 February 2003 (1 page)
089802 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Comment on “Language Trees and Zipping”
Dmitry V. Khmelev and William J. Teahan
Published 27 February 2003 (1 page)
089803 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Benedetto, Caglioti, and Loreto Reply:
Dario Benedetto, Emanuele Caglioti, and Vittorio Loreto
Published 27 February 2003 (1 page)
089804 [View PDF (37 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Optical Clock with Ultracold Neutral Atoms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 230801 (2002)]
G. Wilpers, T. Binnewies, C. Degenhardt, U. Sterr, J. Helmcke, and F. Riehle
Published 28 February 2003 (1 page)
089901(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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