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Physical Review Letters – 22 August 2003
Volume 91, Issue 8

Successive images of a soliton train in a Bose-Einstein condensate of 7Li atoms, from a numerical simulation. The BEC is moving in an harmonic-oscillator potential along the horizontal axis; the train spreads out in the center and bunches at the turning points, in good agreement with recent experimental results. [L. Salasnich, A. Parola, and L. Reatto, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 080405 (2003)]

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LETTERS

General Physics

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Unbiased Global Optimization of Lennard-Jones Clusters for N≤201 Using the Conformational Space Annealing Method
Julian Lee, In-Ho Lee, and Jooyoung Lee
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
080201 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Spin Coupling between Cold Atoms and the Thermal Fluctuations of a Metal Surface
M. P. A. Jones, C. J. Vale, D. Sahagun, B. V. Hall, and E. A. Hinds
Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages)
080401 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Intensity Dependence of Photoassociation in a Quantum Degenerate Atomic Gas
Ionut D. Prodan, Marin Pichler, Mark Junker, Randall G. Hulet, and John L. Bohn
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
080402 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Atomic Bose and Anderson Glasses in Optical Lattices
B. Damski, J. Zakrzewski, L. Santos, P. Zoller, and M. Lewenstein
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
080403 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Experimental Creation of a Fully Inseparable Tripartite Continuous-Variable State
Takao Aoki, Nobuyuki Takei, Hidehiro Yonezawa, Kentaro Wakui, Takuji Hiraoka, Akira Furusawa, and Peter van Loock
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
080404 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Modulational Instability and Complex Dynamics of Confined Matter-Wave Solitons
L. Salasnich, A. Parola, and L. Reatto
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
080405 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Long-Lived Molecular Bose Gas
Kevin E. Strecker, Guthrie B. Partridge, and Randall G. Hulet
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
080406 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Diffusion of Asymmetric Swimmers
Andrew D. Rutenberg, Andrew J. Richardson, and Claire J. Montgomery
Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages)
080601 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Nonperturbative Flow Equations from Running Expectation Values
F. G. Scholtz, B. H. Bartlett, and H. B. Geyer
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
080602 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Fluctuating Dimension in a Discrete Model for Quantum Gravity Based on the Spectral Principle
Luiz C. de Albuquerque, Jorge L. deLyra, and Paulo Teotonio-Sobrinho
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
081301 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Large-N Reduction in the Continuum Three-Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory
R. Narayanan and H. Neuberger
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
081601 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Back-to-Back Correlations of High-pT Hadrons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Tetsufumi Hirano and Yasushi Nara
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
082301 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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High Precision Measurement of the Superallowed 0+→0+β Decay of 22Mg
J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob, M. Sanchez-Vega, R. G. Neilson, A. Azhari, C. A. Gagliardi, V. E. Mayes, X. Tang, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble
Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages)
082501 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Clarification of the Three-Body Decay of 12C (12.71 MeV)
H. O. U. Fynbo, Y. Prezado, U. C. Bergmann, M. J. G. Borge, P. Dendooven, W. X. Huang, J. Huikari, H. Jeppesen, P. Jones, B. Jonson, M. Meister, G. Nyman, K. Riisager, O. Tengblad, I. S. Vogelius, Y. Wang, L. Weissman, K. Wilhelmsen Rolander, and J. Äystö
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
082502 [View PDF (265 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Demonstration of Dispersion-Canceled Quantum-Optical Coherence Tomography
Magued B. Nasr, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Alexander V. Sergienko, and Malvin C. Teich
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
083601 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Cavity Solitons in Two-Level Lasers with Dense Amplifying Medium
V. Ahufinger, J. García-Ojalvo, J. Mompart, M. C. Torrent, R. Corbalán, and R. Vilaseca
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
083901 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Light Pulse Slowing Down up to 0.025 cm/s by Photorefractive Two-Wave Coupling
E. Podivilov, B. Sturman, A. Shumelyuk, and S. Odoulov
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
083902 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Synchronization and Oscillator Death in Oscillatory Media with Stirring
Zoltán Neufeld, István Z. Kiss, Changsong Zhou, and Jürgen Kurths
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
084101 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Estimating Good Discrete Partitions from Observed Data: Symbolic False Nearest Neighbors
Matthew B. Kennel and Michael Buhl
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
084102 [View PDF (810 kB)]
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Nusselt Number Measurements for Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Alexei Nikolaenko and Guenter Ahlers
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
084501 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Interaction Potential and Hopping Dynamics Governing Sliding Friction
E. Riedo, E. Gnecco, R. Bennewitz, E. Meyer, and H. Brune
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
084502 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Superstatistical Mechanics of Tracer-Particle Motions in Turbulence
A. M. Reynolds
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
084503 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Light Intensification towards the Schwinger Limit
Sergei V. Bulanov, Timur Esirkepov, and Toshiki Tajima
Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages)
085001 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Space-Charge-Limited 2D Electron Flow between Two Flat Electrodes in a Strong Magnetic Field
A. Rokhlenko and J. L. Lebowitz
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
085002 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Characteristics of Electron Heat Transport of Plasma with an Electron Internal-Transport Barrier in the Large Helical Device
K. Ida, T. Shimozuma, H. Funaba, K. Narihara, S. Kubo, S. Murakami, A. Wakasa, M. Yokoyama, Y. Takeiri, K. Y. Watanabe, K. Tanaka, M. Yoshinuma, Y. Liang, and N. Ohyabu (LHD experimental group)
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
085003 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Tokamak Equilibria with Reversed Current Density
A. A. Martynov, S. Yu. Medvedev, and L. Villard
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
085004 [View PDF (684 kB)]
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Anomalous Transmission of an Ultrashort Ionizing Laser Pulse through a Thin Foil
G. Ferrante, M. Zarcone, and S. A. Uryupin
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
085005 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Quantum Transmission of Atoms through a Slab of Superfluid Helium
C. D. H. Williams and A. F. G. Wyatt
Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages)
085301 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Effective Mass of Two-Dimensional 3He
J. Boronat, J. Casulleras, V. Grau, E. Krotscheck, and J. Springer
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
085302 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Specific Raman Signatures of a Dimetallofullerene Peapod
A. Débarre, R. Jaffiol, C. Julien, D. Nutarelli, A. Richard, and P. Tchénio
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
085501 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Multilayer Adsorption and Wetting of Acetone on Graphite
F. Kruchten and K. Knorr
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
085502 [View PDF (576 kB)]
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Stereo-Selective Swelling of Imprinted Cholesteric Networks
S. Courty, A. R. Tajbakhsh, and E. M. Terentjev
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
085503 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Generation of Coherent Zone Boundary Phonons by Impulsive Excitation of Molecules
M. Gühr, M. Bargheer, and N. Schwentner
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
085504 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Mixing Effects for the Structural Relaxation in Binary Hard-Sphere Liquids
G. Foffi, W. Götze, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, and Th. Voigtmann
Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages)
085701 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Driving Rate Effects on Crackling Noise
Robert A. White and Karin A. Dahmen
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
085702 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Glass Transition in Ultrathin Polymer Films: Calorimetric Study
Mikhail Yu. Efremov, Eric A. Olson, Ming Zhang, Zishu Zhang, and Leslie H. Allen
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
085703 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Fluctuation Mediated Interaction and Phase Separation of Nanoparticles in a Liquid Crystal Solvent
T. Bellini, M. Caggioni, N. A. Clark, F. Mantegazza, A. Maritan, and A. Pelizzola
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
085704 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Interface Profiles near Three-Phase Contact Lines in Electric Fields
Juergen Buehrle, Stephan Herminghaus, and Frieder Mugele
Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages)
086101 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Novel Surface Tension Isotherm for Surfactants Based on Local Density Functional Theory
Simeon D. Stoyanov, Heinz Rehage, and Vesselin N. Paunov
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
086102 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Infinite Family of Persistence Exponents for Interface Fluctuations
M. Constantin, S. Das Sarma, C. Dasgupta, O. Bondarchuk, D. B. Dougherty, and E. D. Williams
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
086103 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Imaging the Internal Electronic Structure of a Surface Adsorbate with Low Energy Ions
Jory A. Yarmoff, Ye Yang, and Zdenek Sroubek
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
086104 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Self-Similar Structures near Boundaries in Strained Systems
B. Audoly and A. Boudaoud
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
086105 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Radiation-Induced “Zero-Resistance State” and the Photon-Assisted Transport
Junren Shi and X. C. Xie
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
086801 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Spin Excitations of the Spin-Polarized Electron Gas in Semimagnetic Quantum Wells
B. Jusserand, F. Perez, D. R. Richards, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, C. Testelin, D. Wolverson, and J. J. Davies
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
086802 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas
Adam C. Durst, Subir Sachdev, N. Read, and S. M. Girvin
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
086803 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Magnetic Penetration Depth Measurements of Pr2-xCexCuO4-δ Films on Buffered Substrates: Evidence for a Nodeless Gap
Mun-Seog Kim, John A. Skinta, Thomas R. Lemberger, A. Tsukada, and M. Naito
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
087001 [View PDF (168 kB)]
Density Functional Study of the Phase Diagram and Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in P: Implication for Spintronics
S. Ostanin, V. Trubitsin, J. B. Staunton, and S. Y. Savrasov
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
087002 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Scalings of Domain Wall Energies in Two Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses
C. Amoruso, E. Marinari, O. C. Martin, and A. Pagnani
Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages)
087201 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Extended versus Local Fluctuations in Quantum Critical Ce(Ru1-xFex)2Ge2 (x=xc=0.76)
W. Montfrooij, M. C. Aronson, B. D. Rainford, J. A. Mydosh, A. P. Murani, P. Haen, and T. Fukuhara
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
087202 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Ferromagnetism of MnAs Studied by Heteroepitaxial Films on GaAs(001)
A. K. Das, C. Pampuch, A. Ney, T. Hesjedal, L. Däweritz, R. Koch, and K. H. Ploog
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
087203 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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String Order in Half-Integer-Spin Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chains
Jizhong Lou, Shaojin Qin, and Changfeng Chen
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
087204 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Probing Hole-Induced Ferromagnetic Exchange in Magnetic Semiconductors by Inelastic Neutron Scattering
H. Kępa, Van Khoi Le, C. M. Brown, M. Sawicki, J. K. Furdyna, T. M. Giebultowicz, and T. Dietl
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
087205 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Unusual Symmetries in the Kugel-Khomskii Hamiltonian
A. B. Harris, Taner Yildirim, Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and I. Ya. Korenblit
Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages)
087206 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Collective Density-Wave Excitations in Two-Leg Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 Ladders
A. Gozar, G. Blumberg, P. B. Littlewood, B. S. Dennis, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
087401 [View PDF (817 kB)]
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High-Energy Phonon Branches of an Individual Metallic Carbon Nanotube
J. Maultzsch, S. Reich, U. Schlecht, and C. Thomsen
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
087402 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Decoherence-Free Subspaces in Quantum Key Distribution
Zachary D. Walton, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages)
087901 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Operationally Invariant Measure of the Distance between Quantum States by Complementary Measurements
Jinhyoung Lee, M. S. Kim, and Časlav Brukner
Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages)
087902 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Lower Bound for Electron Spin Entanglement from Beam Splitter Current Correlations
Guido Burkard and Daniel Loss
Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages)
087903 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Electrical Manipulation of Nanomagnets
L. Y. Gorelik, R. I. Shekhter, V. M. Vinokur, D. E. Feldman, V. I. Kozub, and M. Jonson
Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages)
088301 [View PDF (131 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quasicrystal-Crystal Transformation in Zn-Mg–Rare-Earth Alloys”
Eckhard Uhrig, Roland Sterzel, Stefan Brühne, and Wolf Assmus
Published 21 August 2003 (1 page)
089601 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Abe and Tsai Reply:
A. P. Tsai and E. Abe
Published 21 August 2003 (1 page)
089602 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Ground-State Phase Diagram of a Half-Filled One-Dimensional Extended Hubbard Model”
Anders W. Sandvik, Pinaki Sengupta, and David K. Campbell
Published 20 August 2003 (1 page)
089701 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Jeckelmann Replies:
Eric Jeckelmann
Published 20 August 2003 (1 page)
089702 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Comment on “Conservative Quantum Computing”
Daniel A. Lidar
Published 22 August 2003 (1 page)
089801 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Ozawa Replies:
Masanao Ozawa
Published 22 August 2003 (1 page)
089802 [View PDF (40 kB)]
 
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