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Physical Review Letters

Volume 91, Issue 18

31 October 2003

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On the Cover

Scanning electron microscope image of double-sided "nanocombs" grown by a solid-vapor process.

From the article:

Induced Growth of Asymmetric Nanocantilever Arrays on Polar Surfaces
Z. L. Wang, X. Y. Kong, and J. M. Zuo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 185502 (2003)

LETTERS

General Physics

Experimental Violation of Local Realism by Four-Photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Entanglement

Zhi Zhao, Tao Yang, Yu-Ao Chen, An-Ning Zhang, Marek Żukowski, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 180401 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Optical Telecom Networks as Weak Quantum Measurements with Postselection

Nicolas Brunner, Antonio Acín, Daniel Collins, Nicolas Gisin, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 180402 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Wigner-Yanase Skew Information and Uncertainty Relations

Shunlong Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 180403 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Teleportation with a Uniformly Accelerated Partner

Paul M. Alsing and G. J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 180404 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Noise-Induced Excitability in Oscillatory Media

E. Ullner, A. Zaikin, J. García-Ojalvo, and J. Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 180601 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Open-Closed String Duality at Tree Level

Ashoke Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 181601 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Evidence for Instanton-Induced Dynamics from Lattice QCD

Pietro Faccioli and Thomas A. DeGrand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 182001 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Dilepton Rapidity Distribution in the Drell-Yan Process at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Charalampos Anastasiou, Lance Dixon, Kirill Melnikov, and Frank Petriello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 182002 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Elliptic Flow of Identified Hadrons in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 182301 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Multiphonon Vibrations at High Angular Momentum in ${}^{182}{O s}$

L. K. Pattison, D. M. Cullen, J. F. Smith, A. M. Fletcher, P. M. Walker, H. M. El-Masri, Zs. Podolyák, R. J. Wood, C. Scholey, C. Wheldon, G. Mukherjee, D. Balabanski, M. Djongolov, Th. Dalsgaard, H. Thisgaard, G. Sletten, F. Kondev, D. Jenkins, G. J. Lane, I.-Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, S. Frauendorf, and D. Almehed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 182501 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

High Precision Wavelength Measurements of QED-Sensitive Forbidden Transitions in Highly Charged Argon Ions

I. Draganić, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, R. DuBois, S. Fritzsche, V. M. Shabaev, R. Soria Orts, I. I. Tupitsyn, Y. Zou, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 183001 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Long-Range Molecular Resonances in a Cold Rydberg Gas

S. M. Farooqi, D. Tong, S. Krishnan, J. Stanojevic, Y. P. Zhang, J. R. Ensher, A. S. Estrin, C. Boisseau, R. Côté, E. E. Eyler, and P. L. Gould

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 183002 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Quantum State Control via Trap-Induced Shape Resonance in Ultracold Atomic Collisions

René Stock, Ivan H. Deutsch, and Eric L. Bolda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 183201 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Observation of Lasing Mediated by Collective Atomic Recoil

D. Kruse, C. von Cube, C. Zimmermann, and Ph. W. Courteille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 183601 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Semiconductors via Biexciton Coherence

Mark C. Phillips, Hailin Wang, I. Rumyantsev, N. H. Kwong, R. Takayama, and R. Binder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 183602 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Waveguide-Plasmon Polaritons: Strong Coupling of Photonic and Electronic Resonances in a Metallic Photonic Crystal Slab

A. Christ, S. G. Tikhodeev, N. A. Gippius, J. Kuhl, and H. Giessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 183901 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Experimental Simulation of Supersonic Superboom in a Water Tank: Nonlinear Focusing of Weak Shock Waves at a Fold Caustic

Régis Marchiano, Jean-Louis Thomas, and François Coulouvrat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 184301 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Mixing as an Aggregation Process

E. Villermaux and J. Duplat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 184501 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Implosion of Indirectly Driven Reentrant-Cone Shell Target

R. B. Stephens, S. P. Hatchett, R. E. Turner, K. A. Tanaka, and R. Kodama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 185001 (2003) - Published 27 October, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Ferroelectric Mesophase with Randomized Interlayer Structure

Damian Pociecha, Mojca Čepič, Ewa Gorecka, and Jozef Mieczkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 185501 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Induced Growth of Asymmetric Nanocantilever Arrays on Polar Surfaces

Z. L. Wang, X. Y. Kong, and J. M. Zuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 185502 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Methods of Calculation of a Friction Coefficient: Application to Nanotubes

J. Servantie and P. Gaspard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 185503 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Unveiling Metal-Cage Hybrid States in a Single Endohedral Metallofullerene

Kedong Wang, Jin Zhao, Shangfeng Yang, Lan Chen, Qunxiang Li, Bing Wang, Shihe Yang, Jinlong Yang, J. G. Hou, and Qingshi Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 185504 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Site-Specific Phonon Density of States Discerned using Electronic States

Makoto Seto, Shinji Kitao, Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Rie Haruki, Yoshitaka Yoda, Takaya Mitsui, and Tatsuo Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 185505 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Nonlinear Dependence of the Contact Angle of Nanodroplets on Contact Line Curvature

Antonio Checco, Patrick Guenoun, and Jean Daillant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186101 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Exact Insulating and Conducting Ground States of a Periodic Anderson Model in Three Dimensions

Zsolt Gulácsi and Dieter Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186401 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Exact SO(5) Symmetry in the Spin- $3 / 2$ Fermionic System

Congjun Wu, Jiang-ping Hu, and Shou-cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186402 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Measuring Luttinger Liquid Correlations from Charge Fluctuations in a Nanoscale Structure

Paata Kakashvili and Henrik Johannesson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186403 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Tailor-Made Electronic and Magnetic Properties in One-Dimensional Pure and Y-Substituted ${C a}_{3} {C o}_{2} O_{6}$

R. Vidya, P. Ravindran, H. Fjellvåg, A. Kjekshus, and O. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186404 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Polaron Crossover and Bipolaronic Metal-Insulator Transition in the Half-Filled Holstein Model

M. Capone and S. Ciuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186405 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Electron-Phonon Coupling and its Evidence in the Photoemission Spectra of Lead

F. Reinert, B. Eltner, G. Nicolay, D. Ehm, S. Schmidt, and S. Hüfner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186406 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Single-Particle Spectrum in the Electron-Doped Cuprates

Hiroaki Kusunose and T. M. Rice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186407 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Zero-Dimensional Spin Accumulation and Spin Dynamics in a Mesoscopic Metal Island

M. Zaffalon and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186601 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Fluctuations of $g$ Factors in Metal Nanoparticles: Effects of Electron-Electron Interaction and Spin-Orbit Scattering

Denis A. Gorokhov and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186602 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Semiclassical Analysis and the Magnetization of the Hofstadter Model

O. Gat and J. E. Avron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186801 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Crossover and Coexistence of Quasiparticle Excitations in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime at $ν \leq 1 / 3$

C. F. Hirjibehedin, A. Pinczuk, B. S. Dennis, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186802 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Gauge Fields, Geometric Phases, and Quantum Adiabatic Pumps

Huan-Qiang Zhou, Sam Young Cho, and Ross H. McKenzie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186803 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Full Counting Statistics of Multiple Andreev Reflections

J. C. Cuevas and W. Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187001 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Full Counting Statistics of Multiple Andreev Reflection

Göran Johansson, Peter Samuelsson, and Åke Ingerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187002 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Interference Commensurate Oscillations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors

A. G. Lebed and M. J. Naughton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187003 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Possible Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superconducting State in ${C e C o I n}_{5}$

A. Bianchi, R. Movshovich, C. Capan, P. G. Pagliuso, and J. L. Sarrao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187004 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Asymmetric Reversal Modes in Ferromagnetic/Antiferromagnetic Multilayers

B. Beckmann, U. Nowak, and K. D. Usadel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187201 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Enhanced Asymmetric Magnetization Reversal in Nanoscale $C o / C o O$ Arrays: Competition between Exchange Bias and Magnetostatic Coupling

E. Girgis, R. D. Portugal, H. Loosvelt, M. J. Van Bael, I. Gordon, M. Malfait, K. Temst, C. Van Haesendonck, L. H. A. Leunissen, and R. Jonckheere

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187202 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Element Resolved Spin Configuration in Ferromagnetic Manganese-Doped Gallium Arsenide

D. J. Keavney, D. Wu, J. W. Freeland, E. Johnston-Halperin, D. D. Awschalom, and J. Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187203 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Role of Interactions in the Far-Infrared Spectrum of a Lateral Quantum-Dot Molecule

M. Marlo, A. Harju, and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187401 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Dynamics of Entanglement in Quantum Computers with Imperfections

Simone Montangero, Giuliano Benenti, and Rosario Fazio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187901 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Unconventional Geometric Quantum Computation

Shi-Liang Zhu and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187902 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

Experimental Application of Decoherence-Free Subspaces in an Optical Quantum-Computing Algorithm

M. Mohseni, J. S. Lundeen, K. J. Resch, and A. M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187903 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Communication Cost of Simulating Bell Correlations

B. F. Toner and D. Bacon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 187904 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

Structure and Dynamics of Annexin 12 Bound to a Planar Lipid Bilayer

T. Risse, W. L. Hubbell, J. M. Isas, and H. T. Haigler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 188101 (2003) - Published 29 October, 2003

Insights into the Molecular Mechanism of Membrane Fusion from Simulation: Evidence for the Association of Splayed Tails

Mark J. Stevens, Jan H. Hoh, and Thomas B. Woolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 188102 (2003) - Published 30 October, 2003

The Smallest Molecular Switch

Eldon G. Emberly and George Kirczenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 188301 (2003) - Published 27 October, 2003

Topological Methods for Searching Barriers and Reaction Paths

Sorin Tănase-Nicola and Jorge Kurchan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 188302 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Relaxing in Foam

A. D. Gopal and D. J. Durian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 188303 (2003) - Published 31 October, 2003

COMMENTS

Charge Density Variation in ${Y B a}_{2} {C u}_{3} O_{6 + y}$

J. Haase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 189701 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Bobroff et al. Reply:

J. Bobroff, H. Alloul, S. Ouazi, P. Mendels, and A. Mahajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 189702 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Comment on “Self-Segregation versus Clustering in the Evolutionary Minority Game”

E. Burgos, Horacio Ceva, and R. P. J. Perazzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 189801 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Hod and Nakar Reply:

Shahar Hod and Ehud Nakar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 189802 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Comment on “Universal Behavior of Load Distribution in Scale-Free Networks”

Marc Barthélemy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 189803 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003

Goh et al. Reply:

K.-I. Goh, C.-M. Ghim, B. Kahng, and D. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 189804 (2003) - Published 28 October, 2003