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Physical Review Letters – 20 February 2004
Volume 92, Issue 7

The color plot shows upper limits for the northern-hemisphere flux of extraterrestrial neutrinos from one year of data from the AMANDA-II Cherenkov detector, part of the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array. AMANDA-II views the northern hemisphere by using the Earth to filter out background muons produced by cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere. [J. Ahrens et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 071102 (2004)]

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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.

Computational Irreducibility and the Predictability of Complex Physical Systems
Navot Israeli and Nigel Goldenfeld
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
074105 [View PDF (119 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Robust Dangerous Border-Collision Bifurcations in Piecewise Smooth Systems
Munther A. Hassouneh, Eyad H. Abed, and Helena E. Nusse
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
070201 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Rotational States of Bose Gases with Attractive Interactions in Anharmonic Traps
Emil Lundh, Anssi Collin, and Kalle-Antti Suominen
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
070401 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Casimir Effect and Geometric Optics
R. L. Jaffe and A. Scardicchio
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
070402 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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There Exist Nonorthogonal Quantum Measurements that are Perfectly Repeatable
F. Buscemi, G. M. D’Ariano, and P. Perinotti
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
070403 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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The Effect of a Magnetic Flux Line in Quantum Theory
Y. Aharonov and T. Kaufherr
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
070404 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Palatini Form of 1/R Gravity
Éanna É. Flanagan
Published 17 February 2004 (4 pages)
071101 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Search for Extraterrestrial Point Sources of Neutrinos with AMANDA-II
J. Ahrens et al.
Published 19 February 2004 (5 pages)
071102 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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High Sensitivity Search for ν̅ e’s from the Sun and Other Sources at KamLAND
K. Eguchi et al. (KamLAND Collaboration)
Published 20 February 2004 (5 pages)
071301 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Quantum Suppression of the Generic Chaotic Behavior Close to Cosmological Singularities
Martin Bojowald and Ghanashyam Date
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
071302 [View PDF (398 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Grand Unification of Quark and Lepton Flavor Changing Neutral Currents
M. Ciuchini, A. Masiero, L. Silvestrini, S. K. Vempati, and O. Vives
Published 17 February 2004 (4 pages)
071801 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Measurement of the Inclusive Charmless Semileptonic Branching Ratio of B Mesons and Determination of |Vub|
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 18 February 2004 (7 pages)
071802 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Novel Mechanism of H0 Dibaryon Production in Proton-Proton Interactions from Parton-Based Gribov-Regge Theory
M. Bleicher, F. M. Liu, J. Aichelin, H. J. Drescher, S. Ostapchenko, T. Pierog , and K. Werner
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
072301 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Precision Spectroscopy of Pionic 1s States of Sn Nuclei and Evidence for Partial Restoration of Chiral Symmetry in the Nuclear Medium
K. Suzuki, M. Fujita, H. Geissel, H. Gilg, A. Gillitzer, R. S. Hayano, S. Hirenzaki, K. Itahashi, M. Iwasaki, P. Kienle, M. Matos, G. Münzenberg, T. Ohtsubo, M. Sato, M. Shindo, T. Suzuki, H. Weick, M. Winkler, T. Yamazaki, and T. Yoneyama
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
072302 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Azimuthal Dependence of Collective Expansion for Symmetric Heavy-Ion Collisions
G. Stoicea et al. (FOPI Collaboration)
Published 20 February 2004 (5 pages)
072303 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Five-Dimensional Fission-Barrier Calculations from 70Se to 252Cf
Peter Möller, Arnold J. Sierk, and Akira Iwamoto
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
072501 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Lowest Excitations in 56Ti and the Predicted N=34 Shell Closure
S. N. Liddick, P. F. Mantica, R. V. F. Janssens, R. Broda, B. A. Brown, M. P. Carpenter, B. Fornal, M. Honma, T. Mizusaki, A. C. Morton, W. F. Mueller, T. Otsuka, J. Pavan, A. Stolz, S. L. Tabor, B. E. Tomlin, and M. Wiedeking
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
072502 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Chaos-Induced Pulse Trains in the Ionization of Hydrogen
K. A. Mitchell, J. P. Handley, B. Tighe, A. Flower, and J. B. Delos
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
073001 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Maps of Nonadiabatic Coupling in Triatomic Hydrogen
Ulrich Galster, Ulrich Müller, and Hanspeter Helm
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
073002 [View PDF (930 kB)]
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Influence of Buried Hydrogen-Bonding Groups within Monolayer Films on Gas-Surface Energy Exchange and Accommodation
M. K. Ferguson, J. R. Lohr, B. S. Day, and J. R. Morris
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
073201 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Modulational and Filamentational Instabilities of Intense Photon Pulses and Their Dynamics in a Photon Gas
P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson
Published 17 February 2004 (4 pages)
073601 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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Entanglement and the Phase Transition in Single-Mode Superradiance
Neill Lambert, Clive Emary, and Tobias Brandes
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
073602 [View PDF (163 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Thermo-Optical “Canard Orbits” and Excitable Limit Cycles
Francesco Marino, Gustau Catalán, Pedro Sánchez, Salvador Balle, and Oreste Piro
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
073901 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Observation of Light-Phase-Sensitive Photoemission from a Metal
A. Apolonski, P. Dombi, G. G. Paulus, M. Kakehata, R. Holzwarth, Th. Udem, Ch. Lemell, K. Torizuka, J. Burgdörfer, T. W. Hänsch, and F. Krausz
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
073902 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Topological Speed Limits to Network Synchronization
Marc Timme, Fred Wolf, and Theo Geisel
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
074101 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Strange Nonchaotic Attractors in Random Dynamical Systems
Xingang Wang, Meng Zhan, Choy-Heng Lai, and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
074102 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Breaking Synchrony by Heterogeneity in Complex Networks
Michael Denker, Marc Timme, Markus Diesmann, Fred Wolf, and Theo Geisel
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
074103 [View PDF (885 kB)]
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Enhancement of Neural Synchrony by Time Delay
Mukeshwar Dhamala, Viktor K. Jirsa, and Mingzhou Ding
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
074104 [View PDF (644 kB)]
Computational Irreducibility and the Predictability of Complex Physical Systems
Navot Israeli and Nigel Goldenfeld
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
074105 [View PDF (119 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Heat Conduction in a One-Dimensional Chain of Hard Disks with Substrate Potential
O. V. Gendelman and A. V. Savin
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
074301 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Intriguing Heat Conduction of a Chain with Transverse Motions
Jian-Sheng Wang and Baowen Li
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
074302 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Ligament-Mediated Spray Formation
E. Villermaux, Ph. Marmottant, and J. Duplat
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
074501 [View PDF (598 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Femtosecond and Subfemtosecond X-Ray Pulses from a Self-Amplified Spontaneous-Emission–Based Free-Electron Laser
P. Emma, K. Bane, M. Cornacchia, Z. Huang, H. Schlarb, G. Stupakov, and D. Walz
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
074801 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Stability of Internal Transport Barriers to Ideal MHD Ballooning Modes
J. W. Connor and R. J. Hastie
Published 17 February 2004 (4 pages)
075001 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Laser-Driven Plasma Loader for Shockless Compression and Acceleration of Samples in the Solid State
J. Edwards, K. T. Lorenz, B. A. Remington, S. Pollaine, J. Colvin, D. Braun, B. F. Lasinski, D. Reisman, J. M. McNaney, J. A. Greenough, R. Wallace, H. Louis, and D. Kalantar
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
075002 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Optically Controlled Seeding of Raman Forward Scattering and Injection of Electrons in a Self-Modulated Laser-Wakefield Accelerator
W.-T. Chen, T.-Y. Chien, C.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
075003 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Zonal-Flow Dynamics and Size Scaling of Anomalous Transport
Liu Chen, Roscoe B. White, and F. Zonca
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
075004 [View PDF (233 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Phonon Dispersion in Graphite
J. Maultzsch, S. Reich, C. Thomsen, H. Requardt, and P. Ordejón
Published 17 February 2004 (4 pages)
075501 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Universal Features of Quantized Thermal Conductance of Carbon Nanotubes
Takahiro Yamamoto, Satoshi Watanabe, and Kazuyuki Watanabe
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
075502 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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First Principles Prediction of the Gas-Phase Precursors for AlN Sublimation Growth
Yanxin Li and Donald W. Brenner
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
075503 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Zipper Mechanism of Nanotube Fusion: Theory and Experiment
Mina Yoon, Seungwu Han, Gunn Kim, Sang Bong Lee, Savas Berber, Eiji Osawa, Jisoon Ihm, Mauricio Terrones, Florian Banhart, Jean-Christophe Charlier, Nicole Grobert, Humberto Terrones, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and David Tománek
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
075504 [View PDF (723 kB)]
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Electronic Transport in a Controllably Grown Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Heterojunction Array
M. Tzolov, B. Chang, A. Yin, D. Straus, J. M. Xu, and G. Brown
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
075505 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Shear-Induced Smectic Ordering in the Melt of Isotactic Polypropylene
Liangbin Li and Wim H. de Jeu
Published 20 February 2004 (3 pages)
075506 [View PDF (475 kB)]
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Laser Cooling of a Nanomechanical Resonator Mode to its Quantum Ground State
I. Wilson-Rae, P. Zoller, and A. Imamoḡlu
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
075507 [View PDF (183 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Observation of Coherent Oscillations in a Single Electron Spin
F. Jelezko, T. Gaebel, I. Popa, A. Gruber, and J. Wrachtrup
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
076401 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Pure Spin Currents and the Associated Electrical Voltage
T. P. Pareek
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
076601 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Percolating through Networks of Random Thresholds: Finite Temperature Electron Tunneling in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays
Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Xiao-Min Lin, Klara Elteto, T. F. Rosenbaum, and Heinrich M. Jaeger
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
076801 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Disordered Bose-Einstein Condensates in Quasi-One-Dimensional Magnetic Microtraps
Daw-Wei Wang, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Eugene Demler
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
076802 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Generalized Bose-Einstein Phase Transition in Large-m Component Spin Glasses
T. Aspelmeier and M. A. Moore
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
077201 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Random Fields and the Partially Paramagnetic State of CsCo0.83Mg0.17Br3: Critical Scattering Study
J. van Duijn, B. D. Gaulin, M. A. Lumsden, J. P. Castellan, and W. J. L. Buyers
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
077202 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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States of Local Moment Induced by Nonmagnetic Impurities in Cuprate Superconductors
Yan Chen and C. S. Ting
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
077203 [View PDF (578 kB)]
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Replica Symmetry Breaking Transition of the Weakly Anisotropic Heisenberg Spin Glass in Magnetic Fields
Daisuke Imagawa and Hikaru Kawamura
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
077204 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Real-Space Observation of Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion in Submicron Magnetic Wires
A. Yamaguchi, T. Ono, S. Nasu, K. Miyake, K. Mibu, and T. Shinjo
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
077205 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Visualization of the Barkhausen Effect by Magnetic Force Microscopy
Alexander Schwarz, Marcus Liebmann, Uwe Kaiser, Roland Wiesendanger, Tae Won Noh, and Dong Wook Kim
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
077206 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Domain Wall Orientation in Magnetic Nanowires
E. Y. Vedmedenko, A. Kubetzka, K. von Bergmann, O. Pietzsch, M. Bode, J. Kirschner, H. P. Oepen, and R. Wiesendanger
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
077207 [View PDF (670 kB)]
Near-Perfect Imaging in a Focusing System Based on a Left-Handed-Material Plate
A. N. Lagarkov and V. N. Kissel
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
077401 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Excitonic Effects and Optical Spectra of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Catalin D. Spataru, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Lorin X. Benedict, and Steven G. Louie
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
077402 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Method of Extending Hyperfine Coherence Times in Pr3+∶Y2SiO5
E. Fraval, M. J. Sellars, and J. J. Longdell
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
077601 [View PDF (235 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Experimental Realization of a Three-Qubit Entangled W State
Manfred Eibl, Nikolai Kiesel, Mohamed Bourennane, Christian Kurtsiefer, and Harald Weinfurter
Published 18 February 2004 (4 pages)
077901 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Quantum Key Distribution with Two-Qubit Quantum Codes
Xiang-Bin Wang
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
077902 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Three- and Four-Body Interactions in Spin-Based Quantum Computers
Ari Mizel and Daniel A. Lidar
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
077903 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Universal Measure of Entanglement
M. Hossein Partovi
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
077904 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Asters, Vortices, and Rotating Spirals in Active Gels of Polar Filaments
K. Kruse, J. F. Joanny, F. Jülicher, J. Prost, and K. Sekimoto
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
078101 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Three-Body Interactions amongst Charged Colloids
Matthias Brunner, Jure Dobnikar, Hans-Hennig von Grünberg, and Clemens Bechinger
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
078301 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Theory of Concentration Dependence in Drag Reduction by Polymers and of the Maximum Drag Reduction Asymptote
Roberto Benzi, Emily S. C. Ching, Nizan Horesh, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
078302 [View PDF (111 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Interface Localization-Delocalization in a Double Wedge: A New Universality Class with Strong Fluctuations and Anisotropic Scaling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136101 (2003)]
A. Milchev, M. Müller, K. Binder, and D. P. Landau
Published 19 February 2004 (1 page)
079901(E) [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Erratum: Strongly Correlated Fractional Quantum Hall Line Junctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 026802 (2003)]
U. Zülicke and E. Shimshoni
Published 20 February 2004 (1 page)
079902(E) [View PDF (38 kB)]
 
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