Physical Review Letters – 14 November 2003
(Volume 91, Issue 20)

LETTERS
COMMENTS
ERRATA

LETTERS

General Physics

•	Subharmonics and Aperiodicity in Hysteresis Loops J. M. Deutsch and Onuttom Narayan Published 12 November 2003 (4 pages) 200601 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	New Measurements of G Using the Measurement Standards Laboratory Torsion Balance T. R. Armstrong and M. P. Fitzgerald Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 201101 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Consequences of Nuclear Electron Capture in Core Collapse Supernovae W. R. Hix, O. E. Messer, A. Mezzacappa, M. Liebendörfer, J. Sampaio, K. Langanke, D. J. Dean, and G. Martínez-Pinedo Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 201102 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Millisecond Pulsars with r-Modes as Steady Gravitational Radiators Andreas Reisenegger and Axel Bonačić Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 201103 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	N=1 / 2 Wess-Zumino Model Is Renormalizable Ruth Britto and Bo Feng Published 12 November 2003 (3 pages) 201601 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	*Measurement of Branching Fractions and Polarization in B→φK^() Decays** K.-F. Chen et al. Belle Collaboration Published 10 November 2003 (6 pages) 201801 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of Branching Fractions and CP-Violating Asymmetries in B⁰→ρ^±h^∓ Decays B. Aubert et al. BABAR Collaboration Published 13 November 2003 (7 pages) 201802 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nuclear Shadowing and Extraction of F₂^p-F₂ⁿ at Small x from Deuteron Collider Data L. Frankfurt, V. Guzey, and M. Strikman Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 202001 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric Scaling in Inclusive Charm Production V. P. Gonçalves and M. V. Machado Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 202002 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Near-Threshold Production of the Multistrange Ξ^- Hyperon P. Chung et al. E895 Collaboration Published 14 November 2003 (5 pages) 202301 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of the Coulomb Interaction on the Liquid-Gas Phase Transition and Nuclear Multifragmentation F. Gulminelli, Ph. Chomaz, Al. H. Raduta, and Ad. R. Raduta Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 202701 [View PDF (990 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Observation of Collective Friction Forces due to Spatial Self-Organization of Atoms: From Rayleigh to Bragg Scattering Adam T. Black, Hilton W. Chan, and Vladan Vuletić Published 11 November 2003 (4 pages) 203001 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-Domain Investigation of Electron Recapture via Post-Collision Interaction in a Double Photoionization Continuum S. N. Pisharody and R. R. Jones Published 11 November 2003 (4 pages) 203002 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fingerprint IR Spectroscopy to Probe Amino Acid Conformations in the Gas Phase Joost M. Bakker, Luke Mac Aleese, Gerard Meijer, and Gert von Helden Published 12 November 2003 (4 pages) 203003 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Internal Laser-Induced Dipole Force at Work in C₆₀ Molecule V. R. Bhardwaj, P. B. Corkum, and D. M. Rayner Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 203004 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Information Capacity of Optical Fiber Channels with Zero Average Dispersion K. S. Turitsyn, S. A. Derevyanko, I. V. Yurkevich, and S. K. Turitsyn Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 203901 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unique Phase Recovery for Nonperiodic Objects K. A. Nugent, A. G. Peele, H. N. Chapman, and A. P. Mancuso Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 203902 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of Local Field Effects of the Host on the Lifetimes of Embedded Emitters G. Manoj Kumar, D. Narayana Rao, and G. S. Agarwal Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 203903 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Global Nature of Dilute-to-Dense Transition of Granular Flows in a 2D Channel M. Hou, W. Chen, T. Zhang, K. Lu, and C. K. Chan Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 204301 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Focusing X-Ray Beams to Nanometer Dimensions C. Bergemann, H. Keymeulen, and J. F. van der Veen Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 204801 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Demonstration of a Collisionally Excited Optical-Field-Ionization XUV Laser Driven in a Plasma Waveguide
A. Butler, A. J. Gonsalves, C. M. McKenna, D. J. Spence, S. M. Hooker, S. Sebban, T. Mocek, I. Bettaibi, and B. Cros
Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages)
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Investigation of Current-Density Modification during Magnetic Reconnection by Analysis of Hydrogen-Pellet Deflection
V. Waller, B. Pégourié, G. Giruzzi, G. T. Huysmans, L. Garzotti, and A. Géraud
Published 12 November 2003 (4 pages)
205002 [View PDF (561 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Anomalous Momentum Transport in Tokamak Plasmas with No Momentum Input W. D. Lee, J. E. Rice, E. S. Marmar, M. J. Greenwald, I. H. Hutchinson, and J. A. Snipes Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 205003 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current Drive in a Ponderomotive Potential with Sign Reversal N. J. Fisch, J. M. Rax, and I. Y. Dodin Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 205004 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pair-Ion Plasma Generation using Fullerenes Wataru Oohara and Rikizo Hatakeyama Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 205005 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Transformations in the Medium-Range Order of Fused Silica under High Pressure
Lílian P. Dávila, Maria-José Caturla, Alison Kubota, Babak Sadigh, Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, James F. Shackelford, Subhash H. Risbud, and Stephen H. Garofalini
Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages)
205501 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence of the Zn Vacancy Acting as the Dominant Acceptor in n-Type ZnO F. Tuomisto, V. Ranki, K. Saarinen, and D C. Look Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 205502 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Helical Gold Nanotube Synthesized at 150 K Yoshifumi Oshima, Akiko Onga, and Kunio Takayanagi Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 205503 [View PDF (331 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coarsening of Fractal Viscous Fingering Patterns Eran Sharon, Mitchell G. Moore, William D. McCormick, and Harry L. Swinney Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 205504 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Experimental Electronic Heat Capacities of α- and δ-Plutonium: Heavy-Fermion Physics in an Element
J. C. Lashley, J. Singleton, A. Migliori, J. B. Betts, R. A. Fisher, J. L. Smith, and R. J. McQueeney
Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages)
205901 [View PDF (360 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-Doping of Gold Chains on Silicon: A New Structural Model for Si(111)-(5×2)-Au Steven C. Erwin Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 206101 [View PDF (614 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Site Determination and Thermally Assisted Tunneling in Homogenous Nucleation Jascha Repp, Gerhard Meyer, Karl-Heinz Rieder, and Per Hyldgaard Published 12 November 2003 (4 pages) 206102 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of Strain on the Dissociation Dynamics of O₂ on Si(001) Masanori Yata, Yuki Uesugi-Saitow, Masahiro Kitajima, Atsushi Kubo, and Vyacheslav E. Korsukov Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 206103 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Changing the Diffusion Mechanism of Ge-Si Dimers on Si(001) using an Electric Field L. M. Sanders, R. Stumpf, T. R. Mattsson, and B. S. Swartzentruber Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 206104 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	E^′ Centers in α Quartz in the Absence of Oxygen Vacancies: A First-Principles Molecular-Dynamics Study Mauro Boero, Atsushi Oshiyama, and Pier Luigi Silvestrelli Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 206401 [View PDF (677 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational Cluster Approach to Correlated Electron Systems in Low Dimensions M. Potthoff, M. Aichhorn, and C. Dahnken Published 11 November 2003 (4 pages) 206402 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Junctions of Three Quantum Wires and the Dissipative Hofstadter Model Claudio Chamon, Masaki Oshikawa, and Ian Affleck Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 206403 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hopping between Localized Floquet States in Periodically Driven Quantum Dots D. M. Basko Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 206801 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Singlet-Triplet Transition Tuned by Asymmetric Gate Voltages in a Quantum Ring A. Fuhrer, T. Ihn, K. Ensslin, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 206802 [View PDF (724 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Magnetic-Field-Induced Finite-Size Effect in the High-Temperature Superconductor YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ: A Comparison with Rotating Superfluid ⁴He
R. Lortz, C. Meingast, A. I. Rykov, and S. Tajima
Published 11 November 2003 (4 pages)
207001 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic Excitations in the Ferromagentic Superconductor UGe₂ A. D. Huxley, S. Raymond, and E. Ressouche Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 207201 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Pressure-Induced Three-Dimensional Ferromagnetic Correlations in the Giant Magnetocaloric Compound Gd₅Ge₄
C. Magen, Z. Arnold, L. Morellon, Y. Skorokhod, P. A. Algarabel, M. R. Ibarra, and J. Kamarad
Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages)
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•	Spin Dynamics from Majorana Fermions W. Mao, P. Coleman, C. Hooley, and D. Langreth Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 207203 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-Spin Correlators in the Majorana Representation Alexander Shnirman and Yuriy Makhlin Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 207204 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoupling of the Magnetic and Structural Transformations in Er₅Si₄ V. K. Pecharsky, A. O. Pecharsky, Y. Mozharivskyj, K. A. Gschneidner, and G. J. Miller Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 207205 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Subwavelength Resolution in a Two-Dimensional Photonic-Crystal-Based Superlens E. Cubukcu, K. Aydin, E. Ozbay, S. Foteinopolou, and C. M. Soukoulis Published 11 November 2003 (4 pages) 207401 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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One-Way Optoelectronic Switching of Photochromic Molecules on Gold
Diana Dulić, S. J. van der Molen, T. Kudernac, H. T. Jonkman, J. J. de Jong, T. N. Bowden, J. van Esch, B. L. Feringa, and B. J. van Wees
Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages)
207402 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Response of Disordered Matter to Electromagnetic Fields P. Lunkenheimer and A. Loidl Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 207601 [View PDF (359 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local Manipulation of Nuclear Spin in a Semiconductor Quantum Well M. Poggio, G. M. Steeves, R. C. Myers, Y. Kato, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom Published 12 November 2003 (4 pages) 207602 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Muon Spin Relaxation and Susceptibility Studies of the Pure and Diluted Spin 1 / 2 Kagomé-Like Lattice System (Cu_xZn_1-x)₃V₂O₇(OH₂) 2H₂O
A. Fukaya, Y. Fudamoto, I. M. Gat, T. Ito, M. I. Larkin, A. T. Savici, Y. J. Uemura, P. P. Kyriakou, G. M. Luke, M. T. Rovers, K. M. Kojima, A. Keren, M. Hanawa, and Z. Hiroi
Published 12 November 2003 (4 pages)
207603 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Detection and Manipulation of Statistical Polarization in Small Spin Ensembles H. J. Mamin, R. Budakian, B. W. Chui, and D. Rugar Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 207604 [View PDF (490 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Quantum Communication through an Unmodulated Spin Chain Sougato Bose Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 207901 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective Membrane Model of the Immunological Synapse Subhadip Raychaudhuri, Arup K. Chakraborty, and Mehran Kardar Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 208101 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transient Activation in a Network of Coupled Map Neurons J. M. Casado Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 208102 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic Resonance Driven by Time-Modulated Neurotransmitter Random Point Trains Long Zhangcai and Qin Youguo Published 11 November 2003 (4 pages) 208103 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Damped Propagation in Excitable Cardiac Tissue
Veniamin Y. Sidorov, Rubin R. Aliev, Marcella C. Woods, Franz Baudenbacher, Petra Baudenbacher, and John P. Wikswo
Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages)
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•	Multicanonical Chain-Growth Algorithm Michael Bachmann and Wolfhard Janke Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 208105 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Principal Components of the Protein Dynamical Transition Alexander L. Tournier and Jeremy C. Smith Published 14 November 2003 (4 pages) 208106 [View PDF (377 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Manipulation of Self-Aggregation Patterns and Waves in a Reaction-Diffusion System by Optimal Boundary Control Strategies Dirk Lebiedz and Ulrich Brandt-Pollmann Published 10 November 2003 (4 pages) 208301 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Domain Wall Tip for Manipulation of Magnetic Particles L. E. Helseth, T. M. Fischer, and T. H. Johansen Published 12 November 2003 (4 pages) 208302 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Scaling of Child-Langmuir Law in the Quantum Regime L. K. Ang, T. J. Kwan, and Y. Y. Lau Published 12 November 2003 (4 pages) 208303 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Silver Atom in Water: Evidence for a Dipolar Excitonic State Riccardo Spezia, Cédric Nicolas, Anne Boutin, and Rodolphe Vuilleumier Published 13 November 2003 (4 pages) 208304 [View PDF (482 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Unusual Nature of Ferromagnetism Coexisting with Superconductivity in UGe₂” E. Lhotel, C. Paulsen, and A. D. Huxley Published 11 November 2003 (1 pages) 209701 [View PDF (60 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nishioka et al. Reply: Takashi Nishioka, Noriaki K. Sato, and Gaku Motoyama Published 11 November 2003 (1 pages) 209702 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Probabilistic Quantum Memories” T. Brun, H. Klauck, A. Nayak, M. Rötteler, and Ch. Zalka Published 13 November 2003 (1 pages) 209801 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trugenberger Replies: Carlo A. Trugenberger Published 13 November 2003 (1 pages) 209802 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Nucleation of Solids in Solids: Ferrites and Martensites [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 045502 (2003)] Madan Rao and Surajit Sengupta Published 10 November 2003 (1 pages) 209901 [View PDF (35 kB) ]