Physical Review Letters – 8 August 2003
(Volume 91, Issue 6)
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LETTERS
- General Physics
- Gravitation and Astrophysics
- Elementary Particles and Fields
- Nuclear Physics
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
- Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
- Plasma and Beam Physics
- Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
- Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
- Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.
- COMMENTS
LETTERS
General Physics
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Generating a Superposition of Spin States in an Atomic EnsembleS. Massar and E. S. Polzik Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 060401 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Dispersion Management for Atomic Matter WavesB. Eiermann, P. Treutlein, Th. Anker, M. Albiez, M. Taglieber, K.-P. Marzlin, and M. K. Oberthaler Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 060402 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Effect of Space Discretization on Phase Diagrams in Ionic Systems: A Field-Theoretic ApproachA. Ciach and G. Stell Published 4 August 2003 (4 pages) 060601 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Ferrofluids as Thermal RatchetsAndreas Engel, Hanns Walter Müller, Peter Reimann, and Achim Jung Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 060602 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Gravitation and Astrophysics
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Gravitational and Electromagnetic Fields near a de Sitter–Like InfinityPavel Krtouš, Jiří Podolský, and Jiří Bičák Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 061101 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Mass, Action, and Entropy of Taub-Bolt–de Sitter SpacetimesR. Clarkson, A. M. Ghezelbash, and R. B. Mann Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 061301 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Accelerating Cosmologies from CompactificationPaul K. Townsend and Mattias N. Wohlfarth Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 061302 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Accelerating Cosmologies from Spacelike BranesNobuyoshi Ohta Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 061303 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Elementary Particles and Fields
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Grand Unified Theory Precursors and Nontrivial Fixed Points in Higher-Dimensional Gauge TheoriesKeith R. Dienes, Emilian Dudas, and Tony Gherghetta Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 061601 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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All-Orders Singular Emission in Gauge TheoriesDavid A. Kosower Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 061602 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Towards a Standard Jet DefinitionD. Yu. Grigoriev, E. Jankowski, and F. V. Tkachov Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 061801 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Study of Time-Dependent CP Asymmetry in Neutral B Decays to J/ψπ0B. Aubert et al. The Published 8 August 2003 (7 pages) 061802 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Viewing the Proton through “Color” FiltersXiangdong Ji Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 062001 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Nuclear Physics
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Role of the Dirac Sea in the Quenching of Gamow-Teller StrengthHaruki Kurasawa, Toshio Suzuki, and Nguyen Van Giai Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 062501 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
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H+H2 Thermal Reaction: A Convergence of Theory and ExperimentSteven L. Mielke, Kirk A. Peterson, David W. Schwenke, Bruce C. Garrett, Donald G. Truhlar, Joe V. Michael, Meng-Chih Su, and James W. Sutherland Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 063201 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
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Measurement of the Subcycle Timing of Attosecond XUV Bursts in High-Harmonic GenerationL. C. Dinu, H. G. Muller, S. Kazamias, G. Mullot, F. Augé, Ph. Balcou, P. M. Paul, M. Kovačev, P. Breger, and P. Agostini Published 4 August 2003 (4 pages) 063901 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Observation of Three-Photon Enhanced Four-Photon AbsorptionFumiyo Yoshino, Sergey Polyakov, Mingguo Liu, and George Stegeman Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 063902 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Dynamic Nonlinear Effect on Lasing in a Random MediumB. Liu, A. Yamilov, Y. Ling, J. Y. Xu, and H. Cao Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 063903 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Arresting Wave Collapse by Wave Self-RectificationLucian-Cornel Crasovan, Juan P. Torres, Dumitru Mihalache, and Lluis Torner Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 063904 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Classical Decays in Decoherent Quantum MapsIgnacio García-Mata, Marcos Saraceno, and María Elena Spina Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 064101 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Ordering Chaos by Random ShortcutsFeng Qi, Zhonghuai Hou, and Houwen Xin Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 064102 [View PDF (374 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Asymmetric Coupling Effects in the Synchronization of Spatially Extended Chaotic SystemsJ. Bragard, S. Boccaletti, and H. Mancini Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 064103 [View PDF (983 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Internal Granular Dynamics, Shear-Induced Crystallization, and Compaction StepsJ.-C. Tsai, G. A. Voth, and J. P. Gollub Published 6 August 2003 (4 pages) 064301 [View PDF (992 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Structure and Kinematics in Dense Free-Surface Granular FlowK. M. Hill, G. Gioia, and V. V. Tota Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 064302 [View PDF (440 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Large Scale Structures in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection at High Rayleigh NumbersT. Hartlep, A. Tilgner, and F. H. Busse Published 4 August 2003 (4 pages) 064501 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Observation of Sommerfeld Precursors on a Fluid SurfaceÉric Falcon, Claude Laroche, and Stéphan Fauve Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 064502 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Plasma and Beam Physics
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Experimental Investigation of Dynamical Coupling between Turbulent Transport and Parallel Flows in the JET Plasma-Boundary RegionC. Hidalgo, B. Gonçalves, C. Silva, M. A. Pedrosa, K. Erents, M. Hron, and G. F. Matthews Published 4 August 2003 (3 pages) 065001 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
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High-Pressure Molecular Phases of Solid Carbon DioxideS. A. Bonev, F. Gygi, T. Ogitsu, and G. Galli Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 065501 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Precise Simulation of Near-Critical Fluid CoexistenceYoung C. Kim, Michael E. Fisher, and Erik Luijten Published 6 August 2003 (4 pages) 065701 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Two-Dimensional Nanoscale Self-Assembly on a Gold Surface by Spinodal DecompositionRolf Schuster, Dominik Thron, Marcello Binetti, Xinghua Xia, and Gerhard Ertl Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 066101 [View PDF (547 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Self-Limiting Growth of Pt Nanoparticles from MeCpPtMe3 Adsorbed on TiO2(110) Studied by Scanning Tunneling MicroscopySatoru Takakusagi, Ken-ichi Fukui, Ryugo Tero, Fumito Nariyuki, and Yasuhiro Iwasawa Published 6 August 2003 (4 pages) 066102 [View PDF (256 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
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Unusual Spectral Behavior of Charge-Density Waves with Imperfect Nesting in a Quasi-One-Dimensional MetalJ. Schäfer, M. Sing, R. Claessen, Eli Rotenberg, X. J. Zhou, R. E. Thorne, and S. D. Kevan Published 4 August 2003 (4 pages) 066401 [View PDF (897 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Soft Fermi Surfaces and Breakdown of Fermi-Liquid BehaviorW. Metzner, D. Rohe, and S. Andergassen Published 4 August 2003 (4 pages) 066402 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Evidence for Jahn-Teller Distortions at the Antiferromagnetic Transition in LaTiO3J. Hemberger, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, V. Fritsch, J. Deisenhofer, S. Lobina, T. Rudolf, P. Lunkenheimer, F. Lichtenberg, A. Loidl, D. Bruns, and B. Büchner Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 066403 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Universally Diverging Grüneisen Parameter and the Magnetocaloric Effect Close to Quantum Critical PointsLijun Zhu, Markus Garst, Achim Rosch, and Qimiao Si Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 066404 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Divergence of the Grüneisen Ratio at Quantum Critical Points in Heavy Fermion MetalsR. Küchler, N. Oeschler, P. Gegenwart, T. Cichorek, K. Neumaier, O. Tegus, C. Geibel, J. A. Mydosh, F. Steglich, L. Zhu, and Q. Si Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 066405 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Breakdown of a Mott Insulator: A Nonadiabatic Tunneling MechanismTakashi Oka, Ryotaro Arita, and Hideo Aoki Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 066406 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Hybrid Model for Chaotic Front Dynamics: From Semiconductors to Water TanksA. Amann, K. Peters, U. Parlitz, A. Wacker, and E. Schöll Published 4 August 2003 (4 pages) 066601 [View PDF (725 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Ambipolar Nernst Effect in NbSe2Romain Bel, Kamran Behnia, and Helmuth Berger Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 066602 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Disorder Screening in Strongly Correlated SystemsD. Tanasković, V. Dobrosavljević, E. Abrahams, and G. Kotliar Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 066603 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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High-Field Measurements of Electron Decoherence Time in Metallic Nanowires: Switching off Magnetic Impurity SpinsP. Mohanty and R. A. Webb Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 066604 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Relaxation and the Zeno Effect in Qubit MeasurementsS. A. Gurvitz, L. Fedichkin, D. Mozyrsky, and G. P. Berman Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 066801 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Spin-Density Response Function in a 2D Electron System under a Magnetic FieldKanako Yoshizawa, Natsuko Hirano, and Kazuo Takayanagi Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 066802 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Enhancement of the Quantum-Liquid Phase by Increased Resistivity in Thick a-MoxSi1-x FilmsS. Okuma, S. Togo, and M. Morita Published 4 August 2003 (4 pages) 067001 [View PDF (401 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Novel In-Gap Spin State in Zn-Doped La1.85Sr0.15CuO4H. Kimura, M. Kofu, Y. Matsumoto, and K. Hirota Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 067002 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Time-Reversal Symmetry-Breaking Superconductivity in Heavy-Fermion PrOs4Sb12 Detected by Muon-Spin RelaxationY. Aoki, A. Tsuchiya, T. Kanayama, S. R. Saha, H. Sugawara, H. Sato, W. Higemoto, A. Koda, K. Ohishi, K. Nishiyama, and R. Kadono Published 6 August 2003 (4 pages) 067003 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Inertial Mass of the Abrikosov VortexE. M. Chudnovsky and A. B. Kuklov Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 067004 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Valence-Bond Spin-Liquid State in Two-Dimensional Frustrated Spin-1/2 Heisenberg AntiferromagnetsGuang-Ming Zhang, Hui Hu, and Lu Yu Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 067201 [View PDF (495 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Tetramerization of a Frustrated Spin-1/2 ChainFederico Becca, Frédéric Mila, and Didier Poilblanc Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 067202 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Current-Induced Magnetization Reversal in High Magnetic Fields in Co/Cu/Co NanopillarsB. Özyilmaz, A. D. Kent, D. Monsma, J. Z. Sun, M. J. Rooks, and R. H. Koch Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 067203 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Enhancement of SQUID-Detected NMR Signals with Hyperpolarized Liquid 129Xe in a 1 μT Magnetic FieldJ. J. Heckman, M. P. Ledbetter, and M. V. Romalis Published 5 August 2003 (4 pages) 067601 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Huge Enhancement of Electromechanical Responses in Compositionally Modulated Pb(Zr1-x Tix)O3Ningdong Huang, Zhirong Liu, Zhongqing Wu, Jian Wu, Wenhui Duan, Bing-Lin Gu, and Xiao-Wen Zhang Published 6 August 2003 (4 pages) 067602 [View PDF (270 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.
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Robust Creation of Entanglement between Ions in Spatially Separate CavitiesDaniel E. Browne, Martin B. Plenio, and Susana F. Huelga Published 4 August 2003 (4 pages) 067901 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Interference of Quantum ChannelsDaniel K. Oi Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 067902 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Sequence Space Localization in the Immune System Response to Vaccination and DiseaseMichael W. Deem and Ha Youn Lee Published 7 August 2003 (4 pages) 068101 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Inability of Lyapunov Exponents to Predict Epileptic SeizuresYing-Cheng Lai, Mary Ann F. Harrison, Mark G. Frei, and Ivan Osorio Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 068102 [View PDF (456 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Equilibrium Phase Behavior of Polydisperse Hard SpheresMoreno Fasolo and Peter Sollich Published 8 August 2003 (4 pages) 068301 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
COMMENTS
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Is There a Ferromagnet to Ferromagnetic s-Wave Superconductor Phase Transition?Yuan Zhou, Jun Li, and Chang-De Gong Published 4 August 2003 (1 pages) 069701 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Is There Coexistence of Itinerant Ferromagnetism and s-Wave Superconductivity?R. Shen, Z. M. Zheng, and D. Y. Xing Published 4 August 2003 (1 pages) 069702 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |



