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Physical Review Letters – 26 November 2004
Volume 93, Issue 22

Full-sky map of the quadrupole-plus-octopole contribution to the cosmic microwave backgound anisotropy. The map shows an unexpected correlation of the CMB with solar system physics, exemplified here by the threading of the ecliptic (dashed line) between a hot spot (left) and a cold spot (right). [Dominik J. Schwarz, Glenn D. Starkman, Dragan Huterer, and Craig J. Copi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 221301 (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.

Unusual Low-Energy Phonon Dynamics in the Negative Thermal Expansion Compound ZrW2O8
Jason N. Hancock, Chandra Turpen, Zack Schlesinger, Glen R. Kowach, and Arthur P. Ramirez
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
225501 [View PDF (471 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Objective Properties from Subjective Quantum States: Environment as a Witness
Harold Ollivier, David Poulin, and Wojciech H. Zurek
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
220401 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Emergence of Bloch Bands in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate
Hiroki Saito and Masahito Ueda
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
220402 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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High Sensitivity Phonon Spectroscopy of Bose-Einstein Condensates using Matter-Wave Interference
N. Katz, R. Ozeri, J. Steinhauer, N. Davidson, C. Tozzo, and F. Dalfovo
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
220403 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Robust Quantum Communication Using a Polarization-Entangled Photon Pair
J.-C. Boileau, R. Laflamme, M. Laforest, and C. R. Myers
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
220501 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Ensemble Quantum Computation with Atoms in Periodic Potentials
K. G. H. Vollbrecht, E. Solano, and J. I. Cirac
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
220502 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Separable Multipartite Mixed States: Operational Asymptotically Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Fernando G. S. L. Brandão and Reinaldo O. Vianna
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
220503 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Quantification and Scaling of Multipartite Entanglement in Continuous Variable Systems
Gerardo Adesso, Alessio Serafini, and Fabrizio Illuminati
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
220504 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic and Brownian Fluctuations in Sedimenting Suspensions
J. T. Padding and A. A. Louis
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
220601 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Shear Banding in Mesoscopic Dusty Plasma Liquids
Chia-Ling Chan, Wei-Yen Woon, and Lin I
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
220602 [View PDF (355 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Disorder Resistivity of Solid Neutron-Star Matter
P. B. Jones
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
221101 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Is the Low-ℓ Microwave Background Cosmic?
Dominik J. Schwarz, Glenn D. Starkman, Dragan Huterer, and Craig J. Copi
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
221301 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Possible Connection between the Location of the Cutoff in the Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum and the Equation of State of Dark Energy
Kari Enqvist and Martin S. Sloth
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
221302 [View PDF (215 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Proposal for a Precision Measurement of |Vub|
Stefan W. Bosch, Björn O. Lange, Matthias Neubert, and Gil Paz
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
221801 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying to Dileptons in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 23 November 2004 (7 pages)
221802 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Universal Results from an Alternate Random-Matrix Model for QCD with a Baryon Chemical Potential
James C. Osborn
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
222001 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Effective Charges in the fp Shell
R. du Rietz, J. Ekman, D. Rudolph, C. Fahlander, A. Dewald, O. Möller, B. Saha, M. Axiotis, M. A. Bentley, C. Chandler, G. de Angelis, F. Della Vedova, A. Gadea, G. Hammond, S. M. Lenzi, N. Mărginean, D. R. Napoli, M. Nespolo, C. Rusu, and D. Tonev
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
222501 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Evidence for Rescattering in Intense, Femtosecond Laser Interactions with a Negative Ion
J. Pedregosa-Gutierrez, P. A. Orr, J. B. Greenwood, A. Murphy, J. T. Costello, K. Zrost, T. Ergler, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
223001 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Atoms in Double-δ-Kicked Periodic Potentials: Chaos with Long-Range Correlations
P. H. Jones, M. M. Stocklin, G. Hur, and T. S. Monteiro
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
223002 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Laser-Induced Interference, Focusing, and Diffraction of Rescattering Molecular Photoelectrons
S. N. Yurchenko, S. Patchkovskii, I. V. Litvinyuk, P. B. Corkum, and G. L. Yudin
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
223003 [View PDF (1,075 kB)]
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Quantum Reflection from a Solid Surface at Normal Incidence
T. A. Pasquini, Y. Shin, C. Sanner, M. Saba, A. Schirotzek, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
223201 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Phase Correlation of Laser Waves with Arbitrary Frequency Spacing
A. F. Huss, R. Lammegger, C. Neureiter, E. A. Korsunsky, and L. Windholz
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
223601 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Control of Localization and Suppression of Tunneling by Adiabatic Passage
N. Sangouard, S. Guérin, M. Amniat-Talab, and H. R. Jauslin
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
223602 [View PDF (413 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Spontaneous Pattern Formation with Incoherent White Light
Tal Schwartz, Tal Carmon, Hrvoje Buljan, and Mordechai Segev
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
223901 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Synchronization by Nonlinear Frequency Pulling
M. C. Cross, A. Zumdieck, Ron Lifshitz, and J. L. Rogers
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
224101 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Radial Segregation Patterns in Rotating Granular Mixtures: Waviness Selection
K. M. Hill, G. Gioia, and D. Amaravadi
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
224301 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Collective Diffusion Model for Water Permeation through Microscopic Channels
Fangqiang Zhu, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
224501 [View PDF (756 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Achieving 99.9% Proton Spin-Flip Efficiency At Higher Energy With A Small rf Dipole
M. A. Leonova, A. D. Krisch, V. S. Morozov, R. S. Raymond, V. K. Wong, R. Gebel, A. Lehrach, B. Lorentz, R. Maier, D. Prasuhn, A. Schnase, H. Stockhorst, D. Eversheim, F. Hinterberger, and K. Ulbrich
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
224801 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Feedback Stabilization of Multiple Resistive Wall Modes
P. R. Brunsell, D. Yadikin, D. Gregoratto, R. Paccagnella, T. Bolzonella, M. Cavinato, M. Cecconello, J. R. Drake, A. Luchetta, G. Manduchi, G. Marchiori, L. Marrelli, P. Martin, A. Masiello, F. Milani, S. Ortolani, G. Spizzo, and P. Zanca
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
225001 [View PDF (378 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Unusual Low-Energy Phonon Dynamics in the Negative Thermal Expansion Compound ZrW2O8
Jason N. Hancock, Chandra Turpen, Zack Schlesinger, Glen R. Kowach, and Arthur P. Ramirez
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
225501 [View PDF (471 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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First Principles Analysis of the Stability and Diffusion of Oxygen Vacancies in Metal Oxides
J. Carrasco, N. Lopez, and F. Illas
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
225502 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Scaling of Entropic Shear Rigidity
Xiangjun Xing, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, and Paul M. Goldbart
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
225701 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Phonon Dispersion of Ice under Pressure
Th. Strässle, A. M. Saitta, S. Klotz, and M. Braden
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
225901 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Reduction of Cu2O Islands Grown on a Cu(100) Surface through Vacuum Annealing
Guangwen Zhou and Judith C. Yang
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
226101 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Phosphine Dissociation on the Si(001) Surface
H. F. Wilson, O. Warschkow, N. A. Marks, S. R. Schofield, N. J. Curson, P. V. Smith, M. W. Radny, D. R. McKenzie, and M. Y. Simmons
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
226102 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Surface Relaxation Influenced by Surface States
Vasile Chis and Bo Hellsing
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
226103 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Structure and Energetics of Si Nanocrystals Embedded in a-SiO2
G. Hadjisavvas and P. C. Kelires
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
226104 [View PDF (412 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Green's Function for Magnetically Incoherent Interacting Electrons in One Dimension
Gregory A. Fiete and Leon Balents
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
226401 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Impurities in Noncubic Crystals: Stabilization Mechanisms for Jahn-Teller Ions in Layered Perovskites
J. M. García-Lastra, J. A. Aramburu, M. T. Barriuso, and M. Moreno
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
226402 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Polariton Condensation with Localized Excitons and Propagating Photons
Jonathan Keeling, P. R. Eastham, M. H. Szymanska, and P. B. Littlewood
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
226403 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Anomalous Hall Heat Current and Nernst Effect in the CuCr2Se4-xBrx Ferromagnet
Wei-Li Lee, S. Watauchi, V. L. Miller, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
226601 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Spin Current and Polarization in Impure Two-Dimensional Electron Systems with Spin-Orbit Coupling
E. G. Mishchenko, A. V. Shytov, and B. I. Halperin
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
226602 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Signature of the Electron-Electron Interaction in the Magnetic-Field Dependence of Nonlinear I-V Characteristics in Mesoscopic Systems
B. Spivak and A. Zyuzin
Published 23 November 2004 (3 pages)
226801 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Local Optical Properties, Electron Densities, and London Dispersion Energies of Atomically Structured Grain Boundaries
Klaus van Benthem, Guolong Tan, Linda K. DeNoyer, Roger H. French, and Manfred Rühle
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
227201 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Colossal Magnetoresistance without Phase Separation: Disorder-Induced Spin Glass State and Nanometer Scale Orbital-Charge Correlation in Half Doped Manganites
R. Mathieu, D. Akahoshi, A. Asamitsu, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
227202 [View PDF (432 kB)]
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Entanglement in a Valence-Bond Solid State
Heng Fan, Vladimir Korepin, and Vwani Roychowdhury
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
227203 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Structure of Magnetic Noise in Dynamic Fracture
F. Kun, Gy. B. Lenkey, N. Takács, and D. L. Beke
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
227204 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Density Matrix Renormalization Group and Periodic Boundary Conditions: A Quantum Information Perspective
F. Verstraete, D. Porras, and J. I. Cirac
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
227205 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Resonant Transmission of Light Through Finite Chains of Subwavelength Holes in a Metallic Film
J. Bravo-Abad, F. J. García-Vidal, and L. Martín-Moreno
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
227401 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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How Does Water Boil?
Dirk Zahn
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
227801 [View PDF (1,877 kB)]
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Structures and Phase Transitions in Thin Free Standing Films of an Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal
M. Conradi, M. Čepič, M. Čopič, and I. Muševič
Published 24 November 2004 (4 pages)
227802 [View PDF (971 kB)]
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Hidden Dynamics of Vesicle Adhesion Induced by Specific Stickers
Damien Cuvelier and Pierre Nassoy
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
228101 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Stochastic Lattice Model for Bone Remodeling and Aging
Richard Weinkamer, Markus A. Hartmann, Yves Brechet, and Peter Fratzl
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
228102 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Pattern Formation within Escherichia coli: Diffusion, Membrane Attachment, and Self-Interaction of MinD Molecules
Rahul V. Kulkarni, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Morten Kloster, and Ned S. Wingreen
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
228103 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Dielectric Modulation of Biological Water
Florin Despa, Ariel Fernández, and R. Stephen Berry
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
228104 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Percolation Model for Enzyme Gel Degradation
T. Abete, A. de Candia, D. Lairez, and A. Coniglio
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
228301 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Evolution of Particle-Scale Dynamics in an Aging Clay Suspension
R. Bandyopadhyay, D. Liang, H. Yardimci, D. A. Sessoms, M. A. Borthwick, S. G. J. Mochrie, J. L. Harden, and R. L. Leheny
Published 23 November 2004 (4 pages)
228302 [View PDF (166 kB)]
Endogenous Versus Exogenous Shocks in Complex Networks: An Empirical Test Using Book Sale Rankings
D. Sornette, F. Deschâtres, T. Gilbert, and Y. Ageon
Published 22 November 2004 (4 pages)
228701 [View PDF (198 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Transitions to Synchrony in Coupled Bursting Neurons”
Yu Jiang
Published 24 November 2004 (1 page)
229801 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Dhamala et al. Reply:
Mukeshwar Dhamala, Viktor K. Jirsa, and Mingzhou Ding
Published 24 November 2004 (1 page)
229802 [View PDF (466 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Vortex-Lattice Dynamics in Rotating Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 210403 (2004)]
V. Schweikhard, I. Coddington, P. Engels, S. Tung, and E. A. Cornell
Published 23 November 2004 (1 page)
229901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Erratum: Dynamic Critical Behavior Near the Superfluid Transition in 3He-4He Mixtures in Two Loop Order [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125301 (2002)]
R. Folk and G. Moser
Published 23 November 2004 (1 page)
229902(E) [View PDF (37 kB)]
 
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