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Physical Review Letters – 11 July 2003
Volume 91, Issue 2

Diagram of a modern high-precision Michelson-Morley experiment to test for variations in the speed of light with direction. The resonant frequencies of two cryogenic optical resonators (COREs) were compared over a period of more than a year; an anisotropy in c would cause the beat frequency to vary as the apparatus rotates with the Earth. [Holger Müller, Sven Herrmann, Claus Braxmaier, Stephan Schiller, and Achim Peters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 020401 (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.

Disordered Nanocrystalline Superconducting PbMo6S8 with a Very Large Upper Critical Field
H. J. Niu and D. P. Hampshire
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
027002 [View PDF (449 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Ion Multivalence and Like-Charge Polyelectrolyte Attraction
John C. Butler, Thomas Angelini, Jay X. Tang, and Gerard C. L. Wong
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
028301 [View PDF (254 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Modern Michelson-Morley Experiment using Cryogenic Optical Resonators
Holger Müller, Sven Herrmann, Claus Braxmaier, Stephan Schiller, and Achim Peters
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
020401 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Measurement of the Interaction Energy near a Feshbach Resonance in a 6Li Fermi Gas
T.  Bourdel, J.  Cubizolles, L.  Khaykovich, K.  M.  F.  Magalhães, S.  J.  J.  M.  F.  Kokkelmans, G.  V.  Shlyapnikov, and C.  Salomon
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
020402 [View PDF (200 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Gravitational Waves from Sub-Lunar-Mass Primordial Black-Hole Binaries: A New Probe of Extradimensions
Kaiki Taro Inoue and Takahiro Tanaka
Published 9 July 2003 (4 pages)
021101 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Primordial Gravity Waves and Weak Lensing
Scott Dodelson, Eduardo Rozo, and Albert Stebbins
Published 9 July 2003 (4 pages)
021301 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Black Holes in Gödel Universes and pp Waves
Eric Gimon and Akikazu Hashimoto
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
021601 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Observation of the Decay B±→π±π0, Study of B±→K±π0, and Search for B0→π0π0
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 7 July 2003 (7 pages)
021801 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Observation of a Near-Threshold Enhancement in the pp̅ Mass Spectrum from Radiative J/ψ→γpp̅ Decays
J. Z. Bai et al. (BES Collaboration)
Published 10 July 2003 (5 pages)
022001 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Measurement of ep→e′pπ+π- and Baryon Resonance Analysis
M. Ripani et al. (CLAS Collaboration)
Published 11 July 2003 (6 pages)
022002 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Cross-Section Measurement of Charged-Pion Photoproduction from Hydrogen and Deuterium
L. Y. Zhu et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
022003 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Locality of Quark-Hadron Duality and Deviations from Quark Counting Rules Above the Resonance Region
Qiang Zhao and Frank E. Close
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
022004 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Ion-Induced Quark-Gluon Implosion
L. Frankfurt and M. Strikman
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
022301 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Enhanced Production of Neutron-Rich Rare Isotopes in Peripheral Collisions at Fermi Energies
G. A. Souliotis, M. Veselsky, G. Chubarian, L. Trache, A. Keksis, E. Martin, D. V. Shetty, and S. J. Yennello
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
022701 [View PDF (192 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Parity-Violation Effects in the C-F Stretching Mode of Heavy-Atom Methyl Fluorides
Radovan Bast and Peter Schwerdtfeger
Published 7 July 2003 (3 pages)
023001 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Autler-Townes Splitting in the Multiphoton Resonance Ionization Spectrum of Molecules Produced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Zhigang Sun and Nanquan Lou
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
023002 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Increasing Spatial Complexity toward Near-Resonant Regimes of Quadratic Media
Mustapha Tlidi and Majid Taki
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
023901 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Polarization-Independent Linear Waveguides in 3D Photonic Crystals
E. Lidorikis, M. L. Povinelli, S. G. Johnson, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
023902 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Three Types of Transitions to Phase Synchronization in Coupled Chaotic Oscillators
Grigory V. Osipov, Bambi Hu, Changsong Zhou, Mikhail V. Ivanchenko, and Jürgen Kurths
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
024101 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Close-Packed Floating Clusters: Granular Hydrodynamics Beyond the Freezing Point?
Baruch Meerson, Thorsten Pöschel, and Yaron Bromberg
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
024301 [View PDF (328 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Generation of a Self-Chirped Few-Cycle Optical Pulse in a FEL Oscillator
Ryoichi Hajima and Ryoji Nagai
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
024801 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Continuum Self-Organized-Criticality Model of Turbulent Heat Transport in Tokamaks
Varun Tangri, Amita Das, Predhiman Kaw, and Raghvendra Singh
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
025001 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Lattice Trapping Barriers to Brittle Fracture
N. Bernstein and D. W. Hess
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
025501 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Monolayer Ice
Ronen Zangi and Alan E. Mark
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
025502 [View PDF (665 kB)]
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Anomalous Dislocation Multiplication in FCC Metals
Maurice de Koning, Wei Cai, and Vasily V. Bulatov
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
025503 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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First One-Dimensional Stress-Strain Experiments inside an Aperiodic Inclusion Compound: Evidence of Depinning Effects
Lydie Bourgeois, Claude Ecolivet, Bertrand Toudic, Philippe Bourges, and Tomaz Breczewski
Published 9 July 2003 (4 pages)
025504 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Metastable Frenkel Pair Defect in Graphite: Source of Wigner Energy?
C. P. Ewels, R. H. Telling, A. A. El-Barbary, M. I. Heggie, and P. R. Briddon
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
025505 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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New Mechanism for the α to ω Martensitic Transformation in Pure Titanium
D. R. Trinkle, R. G. Hennig, S. G. Srinivasan, D. M. Hatch, M. D. Jones, H. T. Stokes, R. C. Albers, and J. W. Wilkins
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
025701 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Critical Behavior of Thermal Relaxation near a Breakdown Point
C. D. Mukherjee and K. K. Bardhan
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
025702 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Evidence of 1D Behavior of He4 Confined within Carbon-Nanotube Bundles
J. C. Lasjaunias, K. Biljaković, J. L. Sauvajol, and P. Monceau
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
025901 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Grains, Growth, and Grooving
M. J. Rost, D. A. Quist, and J. W. M. Frenken
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
026101 [View PDF (569 kB)]
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Knudsen Diffusivity of a Hard Sphere in a Rough Slit Pore
Gaurav Arya, Hsueh-Chia Chang, and Edward J. Maginn
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
026102 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Nucleation and Growth of Molecular Organic Crystals in a Liquid Film under Vapor Deposition
M. Voigt, S. Dorsfeld, A. Volz, and M. Sokolowski
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
026103 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Doping of Magic Nanoclusters in the Submonolayer In/Si(100) System
V.  G. Kotlyar, A.  V. Zotov, A.  A. Saranin, E.  N. Chukurov, T.  V. Kasyanova, M.  A. Cherevik, I.  V. Pisarenko, H. Okado, M. Katayama, K. Oura, and V.  G. Lifshits
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
026104 [View PDF (395 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Locally Critical Point in an Anisotropic Kondo Lattice
D. R. Grempel and Qimiao Si
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
026401 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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How Irrelevant Operators Affect the Determination of Fractional Charge
A. Koutouza, H. Saleur, and B. Trauzettel
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
026801 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Ionic Shell and Subshell Structures in Aluminum and Gold Nanocontacts
E. Medina, M. Díaz, N. León, C. Guerrero, A. Hasmy, P. A. Serena, and J. L. Costa-Krämer
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
026802 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Spin-Blockade Spectroscopy of a Two-Level Artificial Molecule
M. Pioro-Ladrière, M. Ciorga, J. Lapointe, P. Zawadzki, M. Korkusiński, P. Hawrylak, and A. S. Sachrajda
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
026803 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Even-Odd Effect in Spontaneously Coherent Bilayer Quantum Hall Droplets
K. Park, V. W. Scarola, and S. Das Sarma
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
026804 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Metallic Behavior of Lightly Doped La2-xSrxCuO4 with a Fermi Surface Forming an Arc
T. Yoshida, X. J. Zhou, T. Sasagawa, W. L. Yang, P. V. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, Z. Hussain, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, H. Eisaki, Z.-X. Shen, T. Kakeshita, and S. Uchida
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
027001 [View PDF (328 kB)]
Disordered Nanocrystalline Superconducting PbMo6S8 with a Very Large Upper Critical Field
H. J. Niu and D. P. Hampshire
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
027002 [View PDF (449 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Perpendicular Interlayer Coupling in Ni80Fe20/NiO/Co Trilayers
J. Camarero, Y. Pennec, J. Vogel, M. Bonfim, S. Pizzini, F. Ernult, F. Fettar, F. Garcia, F. Lançon, L. Billard, B. Dieny, A. Tagliaferri, and N. B. Brookes
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
027201 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Local Magnetic Susceptibility of the Positive Muon in the Quasi-One-Dimensional S=1/2 Antiferromagnet Dichlorobis (Pyridine) Copper (II)
J. A. Chakhalian, R. F. Kiefl, R. Miller, J. Brewer, S. R. Dunsiger, G. Morris, W. A. MacFarlane, J. E. Sonier, S. Eggert, I. Affleck, A. Keren, and M. Verdaguer
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
027202 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Exchange Interaction Effects on the Optical Properties of LuMnO3
A. B. Souchkov, J. R. Simpson, M. Quijada, H. Ishibashi, N. Hur, J. S. Ahn, S. W. Cheong, A. J. Millis, and H. D. Drew
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
027203 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Relaxation Dynamics in Heavy Fermion Compounds
J. Demsar, R. D. Averitt, K. H. Ahn, M. J. Graf, S. A. Trugman, V. V. Kabanov, J. L. Sarrao, and A. J. Taylor
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
027401 [View PDF (233 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Classical and Quantum Communication without a Shared Reference Frame
Stephen D. Bartlett, Terry Rudolph, and Robert W. Spekkens
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
027901 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Programmable Networks for Quantum Algorithms
Norbert Schuch and Jens Siewert
Published 7 July 2003 (4 pages)
027902 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Exact Two-Qubit Universal Quantum Circuit
Jun Zhang, Jiri Vala, Shankar Sastry, and K. Birgitta Whaley
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
027903 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Discontinuous Unbinding of Lipid Multibilayers
B. Pozo-Navas, V. A. Raghunathan, J. Katsaras, M. Rappolt, K. Lohner, and G. Pabst
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
028101 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Saltatory Waves in the Spike-Diffuse-Spike Model of Active Dendritic Spines
S. Coombes and P. C. Bressloff
Published 9 July 2003 (4 pages)
028102 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Protein-DNA Interactions by Unzipping DNA
Steven J. Koch and Michelle D. Wang
Published 10 July 2003 (4 pages)
028103 [View PDF (135 kB)]
Ion Multivalence and Like-Charge Polyelectrolyte Attraction
John C. Butler, Thomas Angelini, Jay X. Tang, and Gerard C. L. Wong
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
028301 [View PDF (254 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Does a Single Zealot Affect an Infinite Group of Voters?
Mauro Mobilia
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
028701 [View PDF (98 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Repulsive Casimir Forces”
Davide Iannuzzi and Federico Capasso
Published 11 July 2003 (1 page)
029101 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Kenneth et al. Reply:
O. Kenneth, I. Klich, A. Mann, and M. Revzen
Published 11 July 2003 (1 page)
029102 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Comment on “Transverse NMR Relaxation as a Probe of Mesoscopic Structure”
Y.-Q. Song and P. N. Sen
Published 11 July 2003 (1 page)
029801 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Kiselev and Novikov Reply:
Valerij G. Kiselev and Dmitry S. Novikov
Published 11 July 2003 (1 page)
029802 [View PDF (41 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Edge Dislocations in Crystal Structures Considered as Traveling Waves in Discrete Models [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135502 (2003)]
A. Carpio and L. L. Bonilla
Published 7 July 2003 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Erratum: Ion-trap Quantum Logic Using Long-Wavelength Radiation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 257904 (2001)]
Florian Mintert and Christof Wunderlich
Published 9 July 2003 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (27 kB)]
 
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