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Physical Review Letters – 5 September 2003
Volume 91, Issue 10

The image shows a 2-dimensional model of a stiff polymer network; colors indicate the distribution of stress in the network. Systems such as this are thought to mimic the behavior of a biological cell's cytoskeleton, a rigid but flexible network of protein fibers that gives a cell its shape. [Jan Wilhelm and Erwin Frey, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 108103 (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.

Morphology and Scaling of Impact Craters in Granular Media
Amanda M. Walsh, Kristi E. Holloway, Piotr Habdas, and John R. de Bruyn
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
104301 [View PDF (169 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Phase Conjugation of a Quantum-Degenerate Atomic Fermion Beam
Chris P. Search and Pierre Meystre
Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages)
100401 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Observation of Tkachenko Oscillations in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates
I. Coddington, P. Engels, V. Schweikhard, and E. A. Cornell
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
100402 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Observation of Geometric Phases for Mixed States using NMR Interferometry
Jiangfeng Du, Ping Zou, Mingjun Shi, Leong Chuan Kwek, Jian-Wei Pan, C. H. Oh, Artur Ekert, Daniel K. L. Oi, and Marie Ericsson
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
100403 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Constraining Hadronic Superfluidity with Neutron Star Precession
Bennett Link
Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages)
101101 [View PDF (304 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Renormalization-Group Evolution of the B-Meson Light-Cone Distribution Amplitude
Björn O. Lange and Matthias Neubert
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
102001 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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An Infrared Renormalization Group Limit Cycle in QCD
Eric Braaten and H.-W. Hammer
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
102002 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Proton-Number Fluctuation as a Signal of the QCD Critical End Point
Y. Hatta and M. A. Stephanov
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
102003 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Dynamics of the π-p→π0π0n Reaction for pπ-<750  MeV/c
K. Craig et al. (Crystal Ball Collaboration)
Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages)
102301 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Low-Energy Coexisting Band in 154Gd
W. D. Kulp, J. L. Wood, K. S. Krane, J. Loats, P. Schmelzenbach, C. J. Stapels, R.-M. Larimer, and E. B. Norman
Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages)
102501 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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How to Measure the Spreading Width for the Decay of Superdeformed Nuclei
D. M. Cardamone, C. A. Stafford, and B. R. Barrett
Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages)
102502 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Wave Packet Movements near the Conical Intersection between Two Excited Potential Surfaces May Create Observable Molecular Oscillations
S. Sorgues, J. M. Mestdagh, J. P. Visticot, and B. Soep
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
103001 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Polarization Squeezing with Cold Atoms
V. Josse, A. Dantan, L. Vernac, A. Bramati, M. Pinard, and E. Giacobino
Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages)
103601 [View PDF (361 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Free-Space Propagation of Diffuse Light: Theory and Experiments
Jorge Ripoll, Ralf B. Schulz, and Vasilis Ntziachristos
Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages)
103901 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating of Femtosecond Pulses in the Extreme Ultraviolet
Taro Sekikawa, Teruto Kanai, and Shuntaro Watanabe
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
103902 [View PDF (208 kB)]
Morphology and Scaling of Impact Craters in Granular Media
Amanda M. Walsh, Kristi E. Holloway, Piotr Habdas, and John R. de Bruyn
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
104301 [View PDF (169 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Granular Medium under Vertical Tapping: Change of Compaction and Convection Dynamics around the Liftoff Threshold
P. Philippe and D. Bideau
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
104302 [View PDF (660 kB)]
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Entrainment of a Spatially Extended Nonlinear Structure under Selective Forcing
Michel Henriot, Javier Burguete, and Roland Ribotta
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
104501 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Anatomy of a Bathtub Vortex
A. Andersen, T. Bohr, B. Stenum, J. Juul Rasmussen, and B. Lautrup
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
104502 [View PDF (211 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Evidence of Ultrashort Electron Bunches in Laser-Plasma Interactions at Relativistic Intensities
S. D. Baton, J. J. Santos, F. Amiranoff, H. Popescu, L. Gremillet, M. Koenig, E. Martinolli, O. Guilbaud, C. Rousseaux, M. Rabec Le Gloahec, T. Hall, D. Batani, E. Perelli, F. Scianitti, and T. E. Cowan
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
105001 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Instability of the 2S Electron Bubbles
Pavel Grinfeld and Haruo Kojima
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
105301 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Probing Vortices in 4He Nanodroplets
Francesco Ancilotto, Manuel Barranco, and Martí Pi
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
105302 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Thermal Conductivity of Liquid 3He in Aerogel: A Gapless Superfluid
S. N. Fisher, A. M. Guénault, N. Mulders, and G. R. Pickett
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
105303 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Field-Induced Structural Aging in Glasses at Ultralow Temperatures
S. Ludwig and D. D. Osheroff
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
105501 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Chemically Active Substitutional Nitrogen Impurity in Carbon Nanotubes
Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Gábor Csányi, and Michael C. Payne
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
105502 [View PDF (924 kB)]
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Atomic-Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Imaging in Aberration Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
L. J. Allen, S. D. Findlay, A. R. Lupini, M. P. Oxley, and S. J. Pennycook
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
105503 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Effect of Pressure Relaxation on the Mechanisms of Short-Pulse Laser Melting
Dmitriy S. Ivanov and Leonid V. Zhigilei
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
105701 [View PDF (824 kB)]
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Mechanisms and Rates of Interstitial H2 Diffusion in Crystalline C60
Blas P. Uberuaga, Arthur F. Voter, Kurt Ken Sieber, and David S. Sholl
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
105901 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Resonant Photon Tunneling Enhancement of the van der Waals Friction
A. I. Volokitin and B. N. J. Persson
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
106101 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Higher Surface Energy of Free Nanoparticles
K. K. Nanda, A. Maisels, F. E. Kruis, H. Fissan, and S. Stappert
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
106102 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Layer Ordering and Faulting in (GaAs)n/(AlAs)n Ultrashort-Period Superlattices
J. H. Li, S. C. Moss, Y. Zhang, A. Mascarenhas, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, W. K. Ge, and J. Bai
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
106103 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Quantum Charge Fluctuations and the Polarizability of the Single-Electron Box
K. W. Lehnert, B. A. Turek, K. Bladh, L. F. Spietz, D. Gunnarsson, P. Delsing, and R. J. Schoelkopf
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
106801 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Quantum Coherence of Image-Potential States
P. Wahl, M. A. Schneider, L. Diekhöner, R. Vogelgesang, and K. Kern
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
106802 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Spin Liquid State in an Organic Mott Insulator with a Triangular Lattice
Y. Shimizu, K. Miyagawa, K. Kanoda, M. Maesato, and G. Saito
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
107001 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Driven Depinning of Strongly Disordered Media and Anisotropic Mean-Field Limits
M. Cristina Marchetti, A. Alan Middleton, Karl Saunders, and J. M. Schwarz
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
107002 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Quantum-Classical Reentrant Relaxation Crossover in Dy2Ti2O7 Spin Ice
J. Snyder, B. G. Ueland, J. S. Slusky, H. Karunadasa, R. J. Cava, Ari Mizel, and P. Schiffer
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
107201 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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In situ Photoemission Study of the Room Temperature Ferromagnet ZnGeP2∶Mn
Y. Ishida, D. D. Sarma, K. Okazaki, J. Okabayashi, J. I. Hwang, H. Ott, A. Fujimori, G. A. Medvedkin, T. Ishibashi, and K. Sato
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
107202 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Wave-Vector-Dependent Exciton Exchange Interaction
G. Dasbach, D. Fröhlich, H. Stolz, R. Klieber, D. Suter, and M. Bayer
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
107401 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Coherent Control of Polariton Parametric Scattering in Semiconductor Microcavities
S. Kundermann, M. Saba, C. Ciuti, T. Guillet, U. Oesterle, J. L. Staehli, and B. Deveaud
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
107402 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Midinfrared Optical Breakdown in Transparent Dielectrics
D. M. Simanovskii, H. A. Schwettman, H. Lee, and A. J. Welch
Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages)
107601 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Origin of the “Waterfall” Effect in Phonon Dispersion of Relaxor Perovskites
J. Hlinka, S. Kamba, J. Petzelt, J. Kulda, C. A. Randall, and S. J. Zhang
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
107602 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Entanglement of Formation for Symmetric Gaussian States
G. Giedke, M. M. Wolf, O. Krüger, R. F. Werner, and J. I. Cirac
Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages)
107901 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Quantum Computation with a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice
Jiannis K. Pachos and Peter L. Knight
Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages)
107902 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Multiparticle Entanglement Purification for Graph States
W. Dür, H. Aschauer, and H.-J. Briegel
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
107903 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Sequence Dependent DNA-Mediated Conduction
Stephan Roche
Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages)
108101 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Deformation of Cross-Linked Semiflexible Polymer Networks
David A. Head, Alex J. Levine, and F. C. MacKintosh
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
108102 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Elasticity of Stiff Polymer Networks
Jan Wilhelm and Erwin Frey
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
108103 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Membranes with Rotating Motors
Peter Lenz, Jean-François Joanny, Frank Jülicher, and Jacques Prost
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
108104 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Small Polarons in Dry DNA
Simone S. Alexandre, Emilio Artacho, José M. Soler, and H. Chacham
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
108105 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Activated Bond-Breaking Processes Preempt the Observation of a Sharp Glass-Glass Transition in Dense Short-Ranged Attractive Colloids
Emanuela Zaccarelli, Giuseppe Foffi, Francesco Sciortino, and Piero Tartaglia
Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages)
108301 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Doppler Effect of Nonlinear Waves and Superspirals in Oscillatory Media
Lutz Brusch, Alessandro Torcini, and Markus Bär
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
108302 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Periodic Droplet Formation in Chemically Patterned Microchannels
Olga Kuksenok, David Jasnow, Julia Yeomans, and Anna C. Balazs
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
108303 [View PDF (524 kB)]
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Structure of Extremely Nanosized and Confined In-O Species in Ordered Porous Materials
J. M. Ramallo-López, M. Rentería, E. E. Miró, F. G. Requejo, and A. Traverse
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
108304 [View PDF (162 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Tidal Effects on Gravity Experiments with a Balance
T. Datta, Ming Yin, Andreea Dimofte, M. Bleiweiss, A. Lungu, Jafar Amirzadeh, and W. E. Sharp
Published 2 September 2003 (1 page)
109001 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Kündig and Schlamminger Reply:
W. Kündig and St. Schlamminger
Published 2 September 2003 (1 page)
109002 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Comment on “Universality of Small Scale Turbulence”
Iwao Hosokawa
Published 5 September 2003 (1 page)
109401 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Comment on “Identification of Lattice Vacancies on the Two Sublattices of SiC”
J. W. Steeds
Published 2 September 2003 (1 page)
109601 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Rempel et al. Reply:
A. A. Rempel, W. Sprengel, K. Blaurock, K. J. Reichle, J. Major, and H.-E. Schaefer
Published 2 September 2003 (1 page)
109602 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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The “Ping-Pong” Protocol Can Be Attacked without Eavesdropping
Qing-yu Cai
Published 2 September 2003 (1 page)
109801 [View PDF (43 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Insulator, Conductor, and Commensurability: A Topological Approach [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 236401 (2003)]
Masaki Oshikawa
Published 2 September 2003 (1 page)
109901(E) [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Erratum: Correlation Energy and Spin Polarization in the 2D Electron Gas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 256601 (2002)]
Claudio Attaccalite, Saverio Moroni, Paola Gori-Giorgi, and Giovanni B. Bachelet
Published 5 September 2003 (1 page)
109902(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Erratum: Fermi-Liquid Ground State in the n-Type Pr0.91LaCe0.09CuO4-y Copper-Oxide Superconductor [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 197005 (2003)]
Guo-qing Zheng, T. Sato, Y. Kitaoka, M. Fujita, and K. Yamada
Published 5 September 2003 (1 page)
109903(E) [View PDF (31 kB)]
 
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