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Physical Review Letters – 3 October 2003
Volume 91, Issue 14

Illustration of a proposed structure of a filamentous actin bundle at a branching site, showing how the protein α-actinin (red) induces a networklike structure in the F-actin protein by forming cross links between its filaments. The model is based on a synchrotron x-ray scattering study which indicates that the α-actinin forms a disordered square lattice within the bundle. [O. Pelletier, E. Pokidysheva, L. S. Hirst, N. Bouxsein, Y. Li, and C. R. Safinya, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 148102 (2003)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Model for Gravitational Interaction between Dark Matter and Baryons
Federico Piazza and Christian Marinoni
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
141301 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Proposal for Production and Detection of Entangled Electron-Hole Pairs in a Degenerate Electron Gas
C. W. J. Beenakker, C. Emary, M. Kindermann, and J. L. van Velsen
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
147901 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Energy Gaps and Roton Structure above the ν=1/2 Laughlin State of a Rotating Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate
Tatsuya Nakajima and Masahito Ueda
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
140401 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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Equilibrium Free Energies from Nonequilibrium Measurements Using Maximum-Likelihood Methods
Michael R. Shirts, Eric Bair, Giles Hooker, and Vijay S. Pande
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
140601 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Model for Gravitational Interaction between Dark Matter and Baryons
Federico Piazza and Christian Marinoni
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
141301 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Cross-Correlation Tomography: Measuring Dark Energy Evolution with Weak Lensing
Bhuvnesh Jain and Andy Taylor
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
141302 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Vorton Existence and Stability
Y. Lemperiere and E. P. S. Shellard
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
141601 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Unity of Elementary Particles and Forces in Higher Dimensions
Ilia Gogoladze, Yukihiro Mimura, and S. Nandi
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
141801 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Electroweak Production of Hybrid Mesons in a Flux-Tube Simulation of Lattice QCD
F. E. Close and J. J. Dudek
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
142001 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Inhomogeneous Shadowing Effects on J/ψ Production in dA Collisions
S. R. Klein and R. Vogt
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
142301 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Observation of the Charge Symmetry Breaking d+d→4He+π0 Reaction Near Threshold
E. J. Stephenson, A. D. Bacher, C. E. Allgower, A. Gårdestig, C. M. Lavelle, G. A. Miller, H. Nann, J. Olmsted, P. V. Pancella, M. A. Pickar, J. Rapaport, T. Rinckel, A. Smith, H. M. Spinka, and U. van Kolck
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
142302 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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How to Reconcile the Rosenbluth and the Polarization Transfer Methods in the Measurement of the Proton Form Factors
P. A. M. Guichon and M. Vanderhaeghen
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
142303 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Two-Photon Exchange and Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering
P. G. Blunden, W. Melnitchouk, and J. A. Tjon
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
142304 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Evidence for Subthermal Rotational Populations in Stored Molecular Ions through State-Dependent Dissociative Recombination
L. Lammich, D. Strasser, H. Kreckel, M. Lange, H. B. Pedersen, S. Altevogt, V. Andrianarijaona, H. Buhr, O. Heber, P. Witte, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
143201 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Shock Shells in Coulomb Explosions of Nanoclusters
A. E. Kaplan, B. Y. Dubetsky, and P. L. Shkolnikov
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
143401 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Microscopic Origin of Surface-Plasmon Radiation in Plasmonic Band-Gap Nanostructures
D. S. Kim, S. C. Hohng, V. Malyarchuk, Y. C. Yoon, Y. H. Ahn, K. J. Yee, J. W. Park, J. Kim, Q. H. Park, and C. Lienau
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
143901 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Cherenkov Effect as a Probe of Photonic Nanostructures
F. J. García de Abajo, A. G. Pattantyus-Abraham, N. Zabala, A. Rivacoba, M. O. Wolf, and P. M. Echenique
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
143902 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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Stable Embedded Solitons
Jianke Yang
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
143903 [View PDF (584 kB)]
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Optical Multistability in Three-Level Atoms inside an Optical Ring Cavity
Amitabh Joshi and Min Xiao
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
143904 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Spatial versus Temporal Deterministic Wave Breakup of Nonlinearly Coupled Light Waves
D. Salerno, S. Minardi, J. Trull, A. Varanavicius, G. Tamosauskas, G. Valiulis, A. Dubietis, D. Caironi, S. Trillo, A. Piskarskas, and P. Di Trapani
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
143905 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Demonstration of Superluminal Effects in an Absorptionless, Nonreflective System
D. R. Solli, C. F. McCormick, C. Ropers, J. J. Morehead, R. Y. Chiao, and J. M. Hickmann
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
143906 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Discrete Vector Solitons in Kerr Nonlinear Waveguide Arrays
Joachim Meier, Jared Hudock, Demetrios Christodoulides, George Stegeman, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, and J. S. Aitchison
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
143907 [View PDF (577 kB)]
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Universal Early-Time Response in High-Contrast Electromagnetic Scattering
Peter B. Weichman
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
143908 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Granular Elasticity without the Coulomb Condition
Yimin Jiang and Mario Liu
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
144301 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Richardson’s Pair Diffusion and the Stagnation Point Structure of Turbulence
J. Dávila and J. C. Vassilicos
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
144501 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Carbon Nanotube “T Junctions”: Formation Pathways and Conductivity
Madhu Menon, Antonis N. Andriotis, Deepak Srivastava, Inna Ponomareva, and Leonid A. Chernozatonskii
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
145501 [View PDF (588 kB)]
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Quantitative Phase Radiography with Polychromatic Neutrons
P. J. McMahon, B. E. Allman, D. L. Jacobson, M. Arif, S. A. Werner, and K. A. Nugent
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
145502 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Discrete Dislocation Dynamics Study of Strained-Layer Relaxation
K. W. Schwarz
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
145503 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Nonlinear Structural Mechanics Based Modeling of Carbon Nanotube Deformation
Antonio Pantano, Mary C. Boyce, and David M. Parks
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
145504 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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High Speed Microtribology with Quartz Crystal Resonators
S. Berg and D. Johannsmann
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
145505 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Reentrant Transitions in Colloidal or Dusty Plasma Bilayers
René Messina and Hartmut Löwen
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
146101 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Oxidation of the Si(001) Surface: Lateral Growth and Formation of Pb0 Centers
Takahiro Yamasaki, Koichi Kato, and Tsuyoshi Uda
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
146102 [View PDF (842 kB)]
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Phase Manipulation between c(4×2) and p(2×2) on the Si(100) Surface at 4.2 K
Keisuke Sagisaka, Daisuke Fujita, and Giyuu Kido
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
146103 [View PDF (758 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Climbing the Density Functional Ladder: Nonempirical Meta–Generalized Gradient Approximation Designed for Molecules and Solids
Jianmin Tao, John P. Perdew, Viktor N. Staroverov, and Gustavo E. Scuseria
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
146401 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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In-Plane Thermal Conductivity of Nd2CuO4: Evidence for Magnon Heat Transport
R. Jin, Y. Onose, Y. Tokura, D. Mandrus, P. Dai, and B. C. Sales
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
146601 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Four-Atom Period in the Conductance of Monatomic Al Wires
K. S. Thygesen and K. W. Jacobsen
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
146801 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Magnetism in Transition-Metal-Doped Silicon Nanotubes
Abhishek Kumar Singh, Tina M. Briere, Vijay Kumar, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
146802 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Current-Driven Magnetic Excitations in Permalloy-Based Multilayer Nanopillars
S. Urazhdin, Norman O. Birge, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and J. Bass
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
146803 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Magnetization of Small Lead Particles
S. Reich, G. Leitus, R. Popovitz-Biro, and M. Schechter
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
147001 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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Superconductivity and Field-Induced Magnetism in Pr2-xCexCuO4 Single Crystals
J. E. Sonier, K. F. Poon, G. M. Luke, P. Kyriakou, R. I. Miller, R. Liang, C. R. Wiebe, P. Fournier, and R. L. Greene
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
147002 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Magnetic Instability in Strongly Correlated Superconductors
Bogdan A. Bernevig, Robert B. Laughlin, and David I. Santiago
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
147003 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Spin-Polarized Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of High Energy, Large Wave Vector Spin Waves in Ultrathin fcc Co Films on Cu(001)
R. Vollmer, M. Etzkorn, P. S. Anil Kumar, H. Ibach, and J. Kirschner
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
147201 [View PDF (489 kB)]
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Magnetic Phase Transition in Co/Cu/Ni/Cu(100) and Co/Fe/Ni/Cu(100)
C. Won, Y. Z. Wu, A. Scholl, A. Doran, N. Kurahashi, H. W. Zhao, and Z. Q. Qiu
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
147202 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Magnetologic with α-MnAs Thin Films
C. Pampuch, A. K. Das, A. Ney, L. Däweritz, R. Koch, and K. H. Ploog
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
147203 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Dissipative Dynamics of an Extended Magnetic Nanostructure: Spin Necklace in a Metallic Environment
N. Shah and A. J. Millis
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
147204 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Orbital Domain State and Finite Size Scaling in Ferromagnetic Insulating Manganites
G. Papavassiliou, M. Pissas, M. Belesi, M. Fardis, J. Dolinsek, C. Dimitropoulos, and J. P. Ansermet
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
147205 [View PDF (212 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Proposal for Production and Detection of Entangled Electron-Hole Pairs in a Degenerate Electron Gas
C. W. J. Beenakker, C. Emary, M. Kindermann, and J. L. van Velsen
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
147901 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Efficient Classical Simulation of Slightly Entangled Quantum Computations
Guifré Vidal
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
147902 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Quasi-Spin-Wave Quantum Memories with a Dynamical Symmetry
C. P. Sun, Y. Li, and X. F. Liu
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
147903 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Length and Statistical Weight of Bubbles in DNA Melting
Yan Zeng, Awrasa Montrichok, and Giovanni Zocchi
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
148101 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Structure of Actin Cross-Linked with α-Actinin: A Network of Bundles
O. Pelletier, E. Pokidysheva, L. S. Hirst, N. Bouxsein, Y. Li, and C. R. Safinya
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
148102 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Chromatin Dynamics: Nucleosomes go Mobile through Twist Defects
I. M. Kulić and H. Schiessel
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
148103 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Processive Motor Protein as an Overdamped Brownian Stepper
Martin Bier
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
148104 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Thermoelectric Efficiency and Compatibility
G. Jeffrey Snyder and Tristan S. Ursell
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
148301 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Mechanism for Spiral Wave Breakup in Excitable and Oscillatory Media
Junzhong Yang, Fagen Xie, Zhilin Qu, and Alan Garfinkel
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
148302 [View PDF (537 kB)]
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Electric Fields that “Arrive” before the Time Derivative of the Magnetic Field prior to Major Earthquakes
P. A. Varotsos, N. V. Sarlis, and E. S. Skordas
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
148501 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Sandpile on Scale-Free Networks
K.-I. Goh, D.-S. Lee, B. Kahng, and D. Kim
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
148701 [View PDF (111 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Problems with the Rotating-Torsion-Balance Limit on the Photon Mass
Alfred Scharff Goldhaber and Michael Martin Nieto
Published 3 October 2003 (1 page)
149101 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Luo et al. Reply:
Jun Luo, Liang-Cheng Tu, Zhong-Kun Hu, and En-Jie Luan
Published 3 October 2003 (1 page)
149102 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Comment on “Evidence for Suppression of Superconductivity by Spin Imbalance in Co-Al-Co Single-Electron Transistors”
J. Johansson, M. Urech, D. Haviland, and V. Korenivski
Published 1 October 2003 (1 page)
149701 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Chen et al. Reply:
C. D. Chen, Watson Kuo, D. S. Chung, J. H. Shyu, and C. S. Wu
Published 1 October 2003 (1 page)
149702 [View PDF (44 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Brillouin Study of the Quantization of Acoustic Modes in Nanospheres [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255502 (2003)]
M. H. Kuok, H. S. Lim, S. C. Ng, N. N. Liu, and Z. K. Wang
Published 2 October 2003 (1 page)
149901(E) [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Erratum: Low-Speed Impact Craters in Loose Granular Media [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 194301 (2003)]
J. S. Uehara, M. A. Ambroso, R. P. Ojha, and D. J. Durian
Published 3 October 2003 (1 page)
149902(E) [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Erratum: Second-Harmonic Rayleigh Scattering from a Sphere of Centrosymmetric Material [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 004045 (1999)]
J. I. Dadap, J. Shan, K. B. Eisenthal, and T. F. Heinz
Published 3 October 2003 (1 page)
149903(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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