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Physical Review Letters – 29 August 2003
Volume 91, Issue 9

Phase-space Wigner functions of I+ ions at 2 picoseconds (a) and 5 picoseconds (b) after dissociation of an I2 molecule by a femtosecond laser pulse. Each Wigner function give a complete characterization of the internuclear quantum state at that time; they were obtained using quantum state tomography from momentum and position measurements (the open circles on the side panels). [Esben Skovsen, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Søren Juhl, and Klaus Mølmer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090406 (2003)]

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LETTERS

General Physics

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Short-Distance Correlation Properties of the Lieb-Liniger System and Momentum Distributions of Trapped One-Dimensional Atomic Gases
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Controlling Spin Exchange Interactions of Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
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Experimental Observation of a Superfluid Gyroscope in a Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate
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Berry Phase for a Spin 1/2 Particle in a Classical Fluctuating Field
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Published 28 August 2003 (4 pages)
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Mixed State Geometric Phases, Entangled Systems, and Local Unitary Transformations
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Quantum State Tomography of Dissociating Molecules
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Dissipative Flow and Vortex Shedding in the Painlevé Boundary Layer of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
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Wave Nature of Biomolecules and Fluorofullerenes
Lucia Hackermüller, Stefan Uttenthaler, Klaus Hornberger, Elisabeth Reiger, Björn Brezger, Anton Zeilinger, and Markus Arndt
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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Interference Study of the χc0(13P0) in the Reaction p̅ p→π0π0
M. Andreotti et al. (Fermilab E835 Collaboration)
Published 28 August 2003 (4 pages)
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Beam-Polarization Asymmetries for the p(γ⃗,K+)Λ and p(γ⃗,K+)Σ0 Reactions for Eγ=1.5–2.4  GeV
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ηπ and η′π Spectra and Interpretation of Possible Exotic JPC=1-+ Mesons
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Perturbative QCD Analysis of the Nucleon’s Pauli Form Factor F2(Q2)
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Critical Behavior of Non-Order-Parameter Fields
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Positivity Constraints on Initial Spin Observables in Inclusive Reactions
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Nuclear Physics

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Elliptic Flow at Large Transverse Momenta from Quark Coalescence
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Chronology of Particle Emission from the E/A=61  MeV 36Ar+27Al Reaction
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Relativistic Linear Response Wave Functions and Dynamic Scattering Tensor for the ns1/2 States in Hydrogenlike Atoms
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Time-Resolved Double Ionization with Few Cycle Laser Pulses
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Observation of Large Kerr Nonlinearity at Low Light Intensities
Hoonsoo Kang and Yifu Zhu
Published 26 August 2003 (4 pages)
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Observation of the Transfer of the Local Angular Momentum Density of a Multiringed Light Beam to an Optically Trapped Particle
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Spatial Correlations in the Near Field of Random Media
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Breakdown of Wave Diffusion in 2D due to Loops
Matthew Haney and Roel Snieder
Published 27 August 2003 (4 pages)
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Photon Antibunching and Collective Effects in the Fluorescence of Single Bichromophoric Molecules
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Spontaneously Generated X-Shaped Light Bullets
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Two-Beam Modulation Instability in Noninstantaneous Nonlinear Media
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Distributed Delays Facilitate Amplitude Death of Coupled Oscillators
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Thermal-Noise Effect on the Transition to Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Efficiency Enhancement in Free-Electron Lasers by Means of Concurrent rf Acceleration
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Synergy of Anomalous Transport and Radiation in the Density Limit
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Observation of a Structural Transition for Coulomb Crystals in a Linear Paul Trap
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Time-Dependent Electron Thermal Flux Inhibition in Direct-Drive Laser Implosions
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Nanowires and Nanorings at the Atomic Level
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Quantum Magnetic Impurities in Magnetically Ordered Systems
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Evidence for Spontaneous Spin-Polarized Transport in Magnetic Nanowires
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Observation of Microwave-Induced Zero-Conductance State in Corbino Rings of a Two-Dimensional Electron System
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Amorphous Vortex Glass Phase in Strongly Disordered Superconductors
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Vortex Lattice Structural Transitions: A Ginzburg-Landau Model Approach
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Electronic Model for CoO2 Layer Based Systems: Chiral Resonating Valence Bond Metal and Superconductivity
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Temperature Chaos, Rejuvenation, and Memory in Migdal-Kadanoff Spin Glasses
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Effective Hamiltonian for Ga1-xMnxAs in the Dilute Limit
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Magnetic Tuning of Biquadratic Exchange Coupling in Magnetic Thin Films
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Interplay of Collective Excitations in Quantum-Well Intersubband Resonances
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Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Tomographic Quantum Cryptography: Equivalence of Quantum and Classical Key Distillation
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Entanglement of Indistinguishable Particles Shared between Two Parties
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Entanglement Constrained by Superselection Rules
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Dressed Qubits
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097904 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Measurement Induced Entanglement and Quantum Computation with Atoms in Optical Cavities
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Published 28 August 2003 (4 pages)
097905 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Continuous Monitoring of Rabi Oscillations in a Josephson Flux Qubit
E. Il’ichev, N. Oukhanski, A. Izmalkov, Th. Wagner, M. Grajcar, H.-G. Meyer, A. Yu. Smirnov, Alec Maassen van den Brink, M. H. S. Amin, and A. M. Zagoskin
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097906 [View PDF (488 kB)]
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Deformation and Collapse of Microtubules on the Nanometer Scale
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Published 27 August 2003 (4 pages)
098101 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Cholesterol-Induced Modulated Phase in Phospholipid Membranes
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Shock Waves in High-Energy Materials: The Initial Chemical Events in Nitramine RDX
Alejandro Strachan, Adri C. T. van Duin, Debashis Chakraborty, Siddharth Dasgupta, and William A. Goddard, III
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098301 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Mean-Field and Anomalous Behavior on a Small-World Network
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Published 27 August 2003 (4 pages)
098701 [View PDF (96 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Energies of Strained Surfaces and Barrierless Formation of Strained Islands
V. M. Kaganer and K. H. Ploog
Published 27 August 2003 (1 page)
099601 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Tersoff et al. Reply: Comparison of Continuum and Step Models for SiGe Islands:
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Published 27 August 2003 (1 page)
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Comment on “Left-Handed Materials Do Not Make a Perfect Lens”
J. B. Pendry
Published 26 August 2003 (1 page)
099701 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Nieto-Vesperinas and Garcia Reply:
M. Nieto-Vesperinas and N. Garcia
Published 26 August 2003 (1 page)
099702 [View PDF (47 kB)]
 
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