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Physical Review Letters – 4 July 2003
Volume 91, Issue 1

The image depicts measurements of a quantum dot's "nonlocal resistance", a measure of the spin polarization of current from the dot. The dot is set up in a focusing geometry and the effect of focusing, as a function of the applied magnetic field (horizontal axis), is shown by the increased signal in the center. [R. M. Potok, J. A. Folk, C. M. Marcus, V. Umansky, M. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 016802 (2003)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Hardness of Covalent Crystals
Faming Gao, Julong He, Erdong Wu, Shimin Liu, Dongli Yu, Dongchun Li, Siyuan Zhang, and Yongjun Tian
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
015502 [View PDF (97 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Fresnel Representation of the Wigner Function: An Operational Approach
P. Lougovski, E. Solano, Z. M. Zhang, H. Walther, H. Mack, and W. P. Schleich
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
010401 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Entanglement Generation and Multiparticle Interferometry with Neutral Atoms
Artem M. Dudarev, Roberto B. Diener, Biao Wu, Mark G. Raizen, and Qian Niu
Published 1 July 2003 (4 pages)
010402 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Energetically Stable Particlelike Skyrmions in a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate
C. M. Savage and J. Ruostekoski
Published 1 July 2003 (4 pages)
010403 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Quantum Nonlocality in the Presence of Superselection Rules and Data Hiding Protocols
F. Verstraete and J. I. Cirac
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
010404 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Momentum Spectroscopy of 1D Phase Fluctuations in Bose-Einstein Condensates
S. Richard, F. Gerbier, J. H. Thywissen, M. Hugbart, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
010405 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Measurement of the Spatial Correlation Function of Phase Fluctuating Bose-Einstein Condensates
D. Hellweg, L. Cacciapuoti, M. Kottke, T. Schulte, K. Sengstock, W. Ertmer, and J. J. Arlt
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
010406 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Coherent Transport of Neutral Atoms in Spin-Dependent Optical Lattice Potentials
Olaf Mandel, Markus Greiner, Artur Widera, Tim Rom, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Immanuel Bloch
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
010407 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Controlling Transport in Mixtures of Interacting Particles using Brownian Motors
Sergey Savel’ev, F. Marchesoni, and Franco Nori
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
010601 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Fractional Diffusion in the Multiple-Trapping Regime and Revision of the Equivalence with the Continuous-Time Random Walk
Juan Bisquert
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
010602 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Methods for Constraining Fine Structure Constant Evolution with OH Microwave Transitions
Jeremy Darling
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
011301 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Superweakly Interacting Massive Particles
Jonathan L. Feng, Arvind Rajaraman, and Fumihiro Takayama
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
011302 [View PDF (234 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Left-Right Model of Quark and Lepton Masses without a Scalar Bidoublet
Biswajoy Brahmachari, Ernest Ma, and Utpal Sarkar
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
011801 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Central Pseudorapidity Gaps in Events with a Leading Antiproton at the Fermilab Tevatron p̅ p Collider
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 3 July 2003 (6 pages)
011802 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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New Relations for Excited Baryons in Large-Nc QCD
Thomas D. Cohen and Richard F. Lebed
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
012001 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Evidence for a Narrow S=+1 Baryon Resonance in Photoproduction from the Neutron
T. Nakano et al.
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
012002 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Observed Ds(2317) and Tentative D(2100–2300) as the Charmed Cousins of the Light Scalar Nonet
Eef van Beveren and George Rupp
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
012003 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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New Direct Reaction: Two-Proton Knockout from Neutron-Rich Nuclei
D. Bazin, B.  A. Brown, C.  M. Campbell, J.  A. Church, D.  C. Dinca, J. Enders, A. Gade, T. Glasmacher, P.  G. Hansen, W. F. Mueller, H. Olliver, B.  C. Perry, B.  M. Sherrill, J. R. Terry, and J.  A. Tostevin
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
012501 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Neutrino-12C Scattering in the Ab Initio Shell Model with a Realistic Three-Body Interaction
A. C. Hayes, P. Navrátil, and J. P. Vary
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
012502 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Differential Cross Sections from Quantum Calculations on Coupled Ab Initio Potential Energy Surfaces and Scattering Experiments for Cl(2P)+H2 Reactions
N. Balucani, D. Skouteris, L. Cartechini, G. Capozza, E. Segoloni, P. Casavecchia, M. H. Alexander, G. Capecchi, and H.-J. Werner
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
013201 [View PDF (210 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Heterogeneity in Oscillator Networks: Are Smaller Worlds Easier to Synchronize?
Takashi Nishikawa, Adilson E. Motter, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Frank C. Hoppensteadt
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
014101 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Fluctuating Particle Motion during Shear Induced Granular Compaction
O. Pouliquen, M. Belzons, and M. Nicolas
Published 1 July 2003 (4 pages)
014301 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Effects of Air on the Segregation of Particles in a Shaken Granular Bed
X. Yan, Q. Shi, M. Hou, K. Lu, and C. K. Chan
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
014302 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Sandpile Formation by Revolving Rivers
E. Altshuler, O. Ramos, E. Martínez, A. J. Batista-Leyva, A. Rivera, and K. E. Bassler
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
014501 [View PDF (461 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Is the Electron Radiation Length Constant at High Energies?
H. D. Hansen, U. I. Uggerhøj, C. Biino, S. Ballestrero, A. Mangiarotti, P. Sona, T. J. Ketel, and Z. Z. Vilakazi
Published 1 July 2003 (4 pages)
014801 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Cohesive Acceleration and Focusing of Relativistic Electrons in Overdense Plasma
V. Yakimenko, I. V. Pogorelsky, I. V. Pavlishin, I. Ben-Zvi, K. Kusche, Yu. Eidelman, T. Hirose, T. Kumita, Y. Kamiya, J. Urakawa, B. Greenberg, and A. Zigler
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
014802 [View PDF (889 kB)]
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High-Intensity Laser Induced Ion Acceleration from Heavy-Water Droplets
S. Karsch, S. Düsterer, H. Schwoerer, F. Ewald, D. Habs, M. Hegelich, G. Pretzler, A. Pukhov, K. Witte, and R. Sauerbrey
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
015001 [View PDF (468 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Inert Gas Clusters Ejected from Bursting Bubbles during Sputtering
Klaus Franzreb and Peter Williams
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
015501 [View PDF (116 kB)]
Hardness of Covalent Crystals
Faming Gao, Julong He, Erdong Wu, Shimin Liu, Dongli Yu, Dongchun Li, Siyuan Zhang, and Yongjun Tian
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
015502 [View PDF (97 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Collapsing Cristobalitelike Structures in Silica Analogues at High Pressure
J. Haines, C. Chateau, J. M. Léger, C. Bogicevic, S. Hull, D. D. Klug, and J. S. Tse
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
015503 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Gas Adsorption on Heterogeneous Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles
Wei Shi and J. Karl Johnson
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
015504 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Electron- or Hole-Assisted Reactions of H Defects in Hydrogen-Bonded KDP
C. S. Liu, Nicholas Kioussis, S. G. Demos, and H. B. Radousky
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
015505 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Surface-Directed Spinodal Decomposition on a Macroscopic Scale in a Nitrogen and Carbon Alloyed Steel
Barbara Aichmayer, Peter Fratzl, Sanjay Puri, and Gabriele Saller
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
015701 [View PDF (723 kB)]
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Pressure Evolution of the Excess Wing in a Type-B Glass Former
Riccardo Casalini and C. Michael Roland
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
015702 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Line Tension Controls Wall-Induced Crystal Nucleation in Hard-Sphere Colloids
S. Auer and D. Frenkel
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
015703 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Entropic Phase Separation in Polymer-Microemulsion Networks
A. Zilman, J. Kieffer, F. Molino, G. Porte, and S. A. Safran
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
015901 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Surface Strain versus Substrate Interaction in Heteroepitaxial Metal Layers: Pt on Ru(0001)
A. Schlapka, M. Lischka, A. Groß, U. Käsberger, and P. Jakob
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
016101 [View PDF (279 kB)]
Nanocrystal Formation and Faceting Instability in Al(110) Homoepitaxy: True Upward Adatom Diffusion at Step Edges and Island Corners
Francesco Buatier de Mongeot, Wenguang Zhu, A. Molle, R. Buzio, C. Boragno, U. Valbusa, E. G. Wang, and Zhenyu Zhang
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
016102 [View PDF (2,975 kB)]
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Phonon Softening, Chaotic Motion, and Order-Disorder Transition in Sn/Ge(111)
D. Farías, W. Kamiński, J. Lobo, J. Ortega, E. Hulpke, R. Pérez, F. Flores, and E. G. Michel
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
016103 [View PDF (537 kB)]
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Direct Imaging of Nanoparticle Embedding to Probe Viscoelasticity of Polymer Surfaces
J. H. Teichroeb and J. A. Forrest
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
016104 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Pinch-Off Transition in Marangoni-Driven Thin Films
Andreas Münch
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
016105 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Step Line Tension on a Metal Electrode
H. Ibach and W. Schmickler
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
016106 [View PDF (191 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Mott Transition and Transport Crossovers in the Organic Compound κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Cl
P. Limelette, P. Wzietek, S. Florens, A. Georges, T. A. Costi, C. Pasquier, D. Jérome, C. Mézière, and P. Batail
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
016401 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Microwave Resonance of the 2D Wigner Crystal around Integer Landau Fillings
Yong Chen, R. M. Lewis, L. W. Engel, D. C. Tsui, P. D. Ye, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
016801 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Spin and Polarized Current from Coulomb Blockaded Quantum Dots
R. M. Potok, J. A. Folk, C. M. Marcus, V. Umansky, M. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
016802 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Enhancement of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling by Landau-Zener Transitions
Joachim Ankerhold and Hermann Grabert
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
016803 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Fermi Surface Topology and the Upper Critical Field in Two-Band Superconductors: Application to MgB2
T. Dahm and N. Schopohl
Published 1 July 2003 (4 pages)
017001 [View PDF (262 kB)]
Pseudogap in Doped Mott Insulators is the Near-Neighbor Analogue of the Mott Gap
Tudor D. Stanescu and Philip Phillips
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
017002 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Symmetry Breaking in the Collinear Phase of the J1-J2 Heisenberg Model
R. R. P. Singh, W. Zheng, J. Oitmaa, O. P. Sushkov, and C. J. Hamer
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
017201 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Magnetic Properties and Diffusion of Adatoms on a Graphene Sheet
P. O. Lehtinen, A. S. Foster, A. Ayuela, A. Krasheninnikov, K. Nordlund, and R. M. Nieminen
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
017202 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Correlation between Exchange Bias and Pinned Interfacial Spins
H. Ohldag, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, E. Arenholz, S. Maat, A. T. Young, M. Carey, and J. Stöhr
Published 1 July 2003 (4 pages)
017203 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Observation of the Conduction Electron Spin Polarization in the Ag Spacer of a Fe/Ag/Fe Trilayer
H. Luetkens, J. Korecki, E. Morenzoni, T. Prokscha, M. Birke, H. Glückler, R. Khasanov, H.-H. Klauss, T. Ślezak, A. Suter, E. M. Forgan, Ch. Niedermayer, and F. J. Litterst
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
017204 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Persistent Spin Currents in Mesoscopic Heisenberg Rings
Florian Schütz, Marcus Kollar, and Peter Kopietz
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
017205 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Time-Resolved Auger Decay in CsBr Using High Harmonics
Toshihiko Shimizu, Taro Sekikawa, Teruto Kanai, Shuntaro Watanabe, and Minoru Itoh
Published 1 July 2003 (4 pages)
017401 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Optical Pumping of Quantum-Dot Nuclear Spins
A. Imamoḡlu, E. Knill, L. Tian, and P. Zoller
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
017402 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Photoinduced Phase Transition in an Organic Radical Crystal with Room-Temperature Optical and Magnetic Bistability
H. Matsuzaki, W. Fujita, K. Awaga, and H. Okamoto
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
017403 [View PDF (240 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Scalable Quantum Processor with Trapped Electrons
G. Ciaramicoli, I. Marzoli, and P. Tombesi
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
017901 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Entanglement Capabilities in Infinite Dimensions: Multidimensional Entangled Coherent States
S. J. van Enk
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
017902 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Optimal Control of Neuronal Activity
Jianfeng Feng and Henry C. Tuckwell
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
018101 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Adherence of Packing Defects in Soluble Proteins
Ariel Fernández and L. Ridgway Scott
Published 1 July 2003 (4 pages)
018102 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Lamellar Phase of Stacked Two-Dimensional Rafts of Actin Filaments
Gerard C. L. Wong, Alison Lin, Jay X. Tang, Youli Li, Paul A. Janmey, and Cyrus R. Safinya
Published 2 July 2003 (4 pages)
018103 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Growth of Walled Cells: From Shells to Vesicles
Arezki Boudaoud
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
018104 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Monte Carlo Simulation of a Coarse-Grained Model of Polyelectrolyte Networks
Qiliang Yan and Juan J. de Pablo
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
018301 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Front Dynamics in Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Levy Flights: A Fractional Diffusion Approach
D. del-Castillo-Negrete, B. A. Carreras, and V. E. Lynch
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
018302 [View PDF (211 kB)]
 
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