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Physical Review Letters – 5 December 2003
Volume 91, Issue 23

The image shown is from a numerical study of magnetic-field-line reconnection in a two-dimensional plasma. [D. Del Sarto, F. Califano, and F. Pegoraro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235001 (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.

Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam
R. Dorn, S. Quabis, and G. Leuchs
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
233901 [View PDF (244 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Long-Range Nature of Feshbach Molecules in Bose-Einstein Condensates
T. Köhler, T. Gasenzer, P. S. Julienne, and K. Burnett
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
230401 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization Condition for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
V. V. Konotop and P. G. Kevrekidis
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
230402 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities and without Alignments
Adán Cabello
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
230403 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Quantum Zeno Subspace and Entangled Bose-Einstein Condensates
M. Zhang and L. You
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
230404 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Entanglement of a Mesoscopic Field with an Atom Induced by Photon Graininess in a Cavity
A. Auffeves, P. Maioli, T. Meunier, S. Gleyzes, G. Nogues, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
230405 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Asymmetric Landau-Zener Tunneling in a Periodic Potential
M. Jona-Lasinio, O. Morsch, M. Cristiani, N. Malossi, J. H. Müller, E. Courtade, M. Anderlini, and E. Arimondo
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
230406 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Stochastic Resonance in a Non-Markovian Discrete State Model for Excitable Systems
T. Prager and L. Schimansky-Geier
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
230601 [View PDF (236 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Relativistic Chaos is Coordinate Invariant
Adilson E. Motter
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
231101 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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New Contribution to Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nuclei
Gary Prézeau, Andriy Kurylov, Marc Kamionkowski, and Petr Vogel
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
231301 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Gödel’s Universe in a Supertube Shroud
Nadav Drukker, Bartomeu Fiol, and Joan Simón
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
231601 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Geometric Scaling as Traveling Waves
S. Munier and R. Peschanski
Published 1 December 2003 (3 pages)
232001 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Understanding Pentaquark States in QCD
Shi-Lin Zhu
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
232002 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Diquarks and Exotic Spectroscopy
Robert Jaffe and Frank Wilczek
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
232003 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Relation between Proton and Neutron Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients for Light Mirror Nuclei and its Relevance to Nuclear Astrophysics
N. K. Timofeyuk, R. C. Johnson, and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
232501 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Doorway States in the Gamma Decay-Out of the Yrast Superdeformed Band in 59Cu
C. Andreoiu, T. Døssing, C. Fahlander, I. Ragnarsson, D. Rudolph, S. Åberg, R. A. E. Austin, M. P. Carpenter, R. M. Clark, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, T. Rodinger, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, T. Steinhardt, C. E. Svensson, O. Thelen, and J. C. Waddington
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
232502 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Rovibrational-State-Selected Photoionization of Acetylene by the Two-Color IR+VUV Scheme: Observation of Rotationally Resolved Rydberg Transitions
X.-M. Qian, A. H. Kung, Tao Zhang, K. C. Lau, and C. Y. Ng
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
233001 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Trapping and Manipulating Neutral Atoms with Electrostatic Fields
P. Krüger, X. Luo, M. W. Klein, K. Brugger, A. Haase, S. Wildermuth, S. Groth, I. Bar-Joseph, R. Folman, and J. Schmiedmayer
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
233201 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Resonant Enhancement and Dissipation in Nonequilibrium van der Waals Forces
Adam E. Cohen and Shaul Mukamel
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
233202 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Probing Molecular Dynamics at Attosecond Resolution with Femtosecond Laser Pulses
X. M. Tong, Z. X. Zhao, and C. D. Lin
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
233203 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Xenon Clusters in Intense VUV Laser Fields
Robin Santra and Chris H. Greene
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
233401 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Phase Control of Collective Quantum Dynamics
Mihai Macovei, Jörg Evers, and Christoph H. Keitel
Published 1 December 2003 (4 pages)
233601 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Quasiperiodic Raman Technique for Ultrashort Pulse Generation
D. D. Yavuz, D. R. Walker, M. Y. Shverdin, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
233602 [View PDF (458 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam
R. Dorn, S. Quabis, and G. Leuchs
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
233901 [View PDF (244 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Propensity Criterion for Networking in an Array of Coupled Chaotic Systems
F. T. Arecchi, E. Allaria, and I. Leyva
Published 1 December 2003 (4 pages)
234101 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Internal Mode Mechanism for Collective Energy Transport in Extended Systems
Luis Morales-Molina, Niurka R. Quintero, Franz G. Mertens, and Angel Sánchez
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
234102 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Secondary Instabilities and Vortex Formation in Collisionless-Fluid Magnetic Reconnection
D. Del Sarto, F. Califano, and F. Pegoraro
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
235001 [View PDF (542 kB)]
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Preheat Effects on Shock Propagation in Indirect-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Ablator Materials
R. E. Olson, R. J. Leeper, A. Nobile, and J. A. Oertel
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
235002 [View PDF (226 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Substrate-Tuned Boson Localization in Superfluid 4He Films
G. A. Csáthy, J. D. Reppy, and M. H. W. Chan
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
235301 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Interactions between Sheets of Phonons in Liquid 4He
Ruslan V. Vovk, Charles D. H. Williams, and Adrian F. G. Wyatt
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
235302 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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What Does the Potential Energy Landscape Tell Us about the Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses?
B. Doliwa and A. Heuer
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
235501 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Interaction of Shear Waves and Propagating Cracks
D. Bonamy and K. Ravi-Chandar
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
235502 [View PDF (543 kB)]
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Charge State Dependent Jahn-Teller Distortions of the E-Center Defect in Crystalline Si
Serdar Öğüt and James R. Chelikowsky
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
235503 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Microscopic Origin of the Nonexponential Dynamics in a Glassy Crystal
M. Winterlich, G. Diezemann, H. Zimmermann, and R. Böhmer
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
235504 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Driven Alloys in the Athermal Limit
Alan C. Lund and Christopher A. Schuh
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
235505 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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Force-Extension Curve of a Polymer in a High-Frequency Electric Field
Adam E. Cohen
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
235506 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Defect Structure around Two Colloids in a Liquid Crystal
O. Guzmán, E. B. Kim, S. Grollau, N. L. Abbott, and J. J. de Pablo
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
235507 [View PDF (930 kB)]
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Free Surfaces Cause Reductions in the Glass Transition Temperature of Thin Polystyrene Films
J. S. Sharp and J. A. Forrest
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
235701 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Theory of Transport of Long Polymer Molecules through Carbon Nanotube Channels
Chenyu Wei and Deepak Srivastava
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
235901 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Kinetic Wetting of a Moving Planar Defect by a New Phase
Alexander L. Korzhenevskii, Richard Bausch, and Rudi Schmitz
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
236101 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Precursor Film Controlled Wetting of Pb on Cu
Edmund B. Webb, III, Gary S. Grest, and David R. Heine
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
236102 [View PDF (208 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Optical Conductivity of the Fröhlich Polaron
A. S. Mishchenko, N. Nagaosa, N. V. Prokof’ev, A. Sakamoto, and B. V. Svistunov
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
236401 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Electron Field Emission Properties of Closed Carbon Nanotubes
Alper Buldum and Jian Ping Lu
Published 1 December 2003 (4 pages)
236801 [View PDF (837 kB)]
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Near-Perfect Correlation of the Resistance Components of Mesoscopic Samples at the Quantum Hall Regime
E. Peled, D. Shahar, Y. Chen, E. Diez, D. L. Sivco, and A. Y. Cho
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
236802 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Eight-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect and “Octonions”
Bogdan A. Bernevig, Jiangping Hu, Nicolaos Toumbas, and Shou-Cheng Zhang
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
236803 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Quantum Criticality of d-Wave Quasiparticles and Superconducting Phase Fluctuations
Oskar Vafek and Zlatko Tešanović
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
237001 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Two Resonant Magnetic Modes in an Overdoped High Tc Superconductor
S. Pailhès, Y. Sidis, P. Bourges, C. Ulrich, V. Hinkov, L. P. Regnault, A. Ivanov, B. Liang, C. T. Lin, C. Bernhard, and B. Keimer
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
237002 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Hysteretic Spin-Density-Wave Ordering in Confined Geometries
Eric E. Fullerton, J. L. Robertson, A. R. E. Prinsloo, H. L. Alberts, and S. D. Bader
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
237201 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Elementary Excitations in the Cyclic Molecular Nanomagnet Cr8
O. Waldmann, T. Guidi, S. Carretta, C. Mondelli, and A. L. Dearden
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
237202 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Ferromagnetism in fcc Twinned 2.4 nm Size Pd Nanoparticles
B. Sampedro, P. Crespo, A. Hernando, R. Litrán, J. C. Sánchez López, C. López Cartes, A. Fernandez, J. Ramírez, J. González Calbet, and M. Vallet
Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages)
237203 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Magnetism in All-Carbon Nanostructures with Negative Gaussian Curvature
Noejung Park, Mina Yoon, Savas Berber, Jisoon Ihm, Eiji Osawa, and David Tománek
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
237204 [View PDF (694 kB)]
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Magnetostrictive Domain Walls in Antiferromagnetic NiO
N. B. Weber, H. Ohldag, H. Gomonaj, and F. U. Hillebrecht
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
237205 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Interband Impact Ionization and Nonlinear Absorption of Terahertz Radiation in Semiconductor Heterostructures
J. C. Cao
Published 1 December 2003 (4 pages)
237401 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Hydrogen Bond Dynamics Probed with Ultrafast Infrared Heterodyne-Detected Multidimensional Vibrational Stimulated Echoes
John B. Asbury, Tobias Steinel, C. Stromberg, K. J. Gaffney, I. R. Piletic, Alexi Goun, and M. D. Fayer
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
237402 [View PDF (665 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Logic Approach to Wave Packet Control
E. A. Shapiro, Michael Spanner, and Misha Yu. Ivanov
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
237901 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Noise-Controlled Self-Replicating Patterns
Felipe Lesmes, David Hochberg, Federico Morán, and Juan Pérez-Mercader
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
238301 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Hysteresis in One-Dimensional Reaction-Diffusion Systems
A. Rákos, M. Paessens, and G. M. Schütz
Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages)
238302 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Ergodic Dynamics in a Natural Threshold System
K. F. Tiampo, J. B. Rundle, W. Klein, J. S. Sá Martins, and C. D. Ferguson
Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages)
238501 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Network Information and Connected Correlations
Elad Schneidman, Susanne Still, Michael J. Berry, II, and William Bialek
Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages)
238701 [View PDF (178 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Probable Langevin-Like Director Reorientation in an Interface-Induced Disordered SmC*-Like State of Liquid Crystals Characterized by Frustration between Ferro- and Antiferroelectricity”
Byoungchoo Park, C. H. Oh, W. J. Choi, J. W. Wu, and H. Takezoe
Published 5 December 2003 (1 page)
239601 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Hayashi et al. Reply:
Naoki Hayashi, Tatsuhisa Kato, Takayuki Aoki, Tomohiro Ando, Atsuo Fukuda, and San-Seong Seomun
Published 5 December 2003 (1 page)
239602 [View PDF (44 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Critical Resistance in the AlAs Quantum Hall Ferromagnet [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 216802 (2003)]
E. P. De Poortere, E. Tutuc, and M. Shayegan
Published 5 December 2003 (1 page)
239901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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