Volume 89, Issue 28

31 December 2002

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Representation of the coupling matrices (a & d) and their "wavelet transforms" (b & c) for a system of 64 chaotic oscillators. A wavelet-decomposition approach is used to transform the initial "nearest-neighbor" matrix (a) into a more complex form (d); this method could provide an efficient new strategy for the control of chaos.

From the article:

Tailoring Wavelets for Chaos Control
G. W. Wei, Meng Zhan, and C.-H. Lai
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 284103 (2002)

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LETTERS

General Physics

Lowering of the Kinetic Energy in Interacting Quantum Systems

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 280401 (2002) - Published 27 December, 2002

Existence of Long-Range Order for Trapped Interacting Bosons

Uwe R. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 280402 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002

Noise-Sustained Spiral Waves: Effect of Spatial and Temporal Memory

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 280601 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Determination of Hyperfine-Induced Transition Rates from Observations of a Planetary Nebula

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 281101 (2002) - Published 26 December, 2002

Scattering of Cosmic Rays by Magnetohydrodynamic Interstellar Turbulence

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 281102 (2002) - Published 27 December, 2002

The Inflationary Perturbation Spectrum

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 281301 (2002) - Published 27 December, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

A Class of Exact Classical Solutions to String Theory

A. A. Coley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 281601 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002

Limits on Extra Dimensions and New Particle Production in the Exclusive Photon and Missing Energy Signature in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 T e V$

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 281801 (2002) - Published 27 December, 2002

Measurements of Branching Fractions and $C P$ -Violating Asymmetries in $B^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-}$ , $K^{+} π^{-}$ , $K^{+} K^{-}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 281802 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002

Measurements of Inclusive $B \to ψ$ Production

S. Anderson et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 282001 (2002) - Published 26 December, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Octupole Vibration in Superdeformed ${{}_{66}^{152}D y}_{86}$

T. Lauritsen, R. V. F. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter, P. Fallon, B. Herskind, D. G. Jenkins, T. L. Khoo, F. G. Kondev, A. Lopez-Martens, A. O. Macchiavelli, D. Ward, K. Abu Saleem, I. Ahmad, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, T. Døssing, A. M. Heinz, A. Korichi, G. Lane, C. J. Lister, and D. Seweryniak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 282501 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002

Severe Inhibition of Fusion by Quasifission in Reactions Forming ${}^{220}T h$

D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, and A. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 282701 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of Cumulative Spatial Focusing of Atoms

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283001 (2002) - Published 26 December, 2002

QED Radiative Corrections to Parity Nonconservation in Heavy Atoms

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283002 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002

Radiative Corrections and Parity Nonconservation in Heavy Atoms

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283003 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002

Rotational Quenching in Ionic Systems at Ultracold Temperatures

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283201 (2002) - Published 26 December, 2002

Feshbach Resonances in Rubidium 87: Precision Measurement and Analysis

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283202 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

State-To-State Integral Cross Section for the $H + H_{2} O \to H_{2} + O H$ Abstraction Reaction

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283203 (2002) - Published 27 December, 2002

Negative Mass Instability for Interacting Particles in a 1D Box: Theory and Application

D. Strasser, T. Geyer, H. B. Pedersen, O. Heber, S. Goldberg, B. Amarant, A. Diner, Y. Rudich, I. Sagi, M. Rappaport, D. J. Tannor, and D. Zajfman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283204 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

Nonclassicality of Quantum States: A Hierarchy of Observable Conditions

Th. Richter and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283601 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

Bragg Scattering of Free Electrons Using the Kapitza-Dirac Effect

Daniel L. Freimund and Herman Batelaan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283602 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

One-Dimensional Optically Bound Arrays of Microscopic Particles

S. A. Tatarkova, A. E. Carruthers, and K. Dholakia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283901 (2002) - Published 27 December, 2002

Unidirectional Optical Pulse Propagation Equation

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283902 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

Measuring the Electric Field of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses by Attosecond Cross Correlation

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 283903 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002

Long Time Algebraic Relaxation in Chaotic Billiards

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 284101 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

Fidelity Decay as an Efficient Indicator of Quantum Chaos

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 284102 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002

Tailoring Wavelets for Chaos Control

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 284103 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002

Vortex Statistics from Eulerian and Lagrangian Time Series

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Plasma and Beam Physics

Spallation Ultracold-Neutron Production in Superfluid Helium

Y. Masuda, T. Kitagaki, K. Hatanaka, M. Higuchi, S. Ishimoto, Y. Kiyanagi, K. Morimoto, S. Muto, and M. Yoshimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 284801 (2002) - Published 27 December, 2002

$p (2 \times 2)$ Phase of Buckled Dimers of Si(100) Observed on $n$ -Type Substrates below 40 K by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 286104 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dispersive Electron Transport in tris(8-Hydroxyquinoline) Aluminum ( ${A l q}_{3}$ ) Probed by Impedance Spectroscopy

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 286601 (2002) - Published 27 December, 2002

Ultrasharp Magnetization Steps in Perovskite Manganites

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 286602 (2002) - Published 30 December, 2002

Optical Response of Two-Dimensional Electron Fluids Beyond the Kohn Regime: Strong Nonparabolic Confinement and Intense Laser Light

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Laser Action of Trions in a Semiconductor Quantum Well

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Nonlinear Effects from Dipolar Interactions in Hyperpolarized Liquid ${}^{129}X e$

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Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Response of Spiking Neurons to Correlated Inputs

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 289903 (2002) - Published 27 December, 2002

Erratum: Onset of Glassy Dynamics in a Two-Dimensional Electron System in Silicon [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 236401 (2002)]

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 289904 (2002) - Published 31 December, 2002