Volume 92, Issue 10

12 March 2004

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On the Cover

Photomicrograph of a hexagonal-close-packed layer of nematic liquid crystal droplets. The droplets are between two crossed polarizers, which show the change in their optical properties as the result of an applied electric field.

From the article:

Electro-Optics of Bipolar Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets
A. Fernández-Nieves, D. R. Link, D. Rudhardt, and D. A. Weitz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 105503 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Capacity of Oscillatory Associative-Memory Networks with Error-Free Retrieval

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LETTERS

General Physics

Collisions in Zero Temperature Fermi Gases

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 100401 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

MeV Dark Matter: Has It Been Detected?

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 101301 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

Highly Accurate $H_{2}$ Lyman and Werner Band Laboratory Measurements and an Improved Constraint on a Cosmological Variation of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 101302 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

Late Reheating, Hadronic Jets, and Baryogenesis

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 101303 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Type of Seesaw Mechanism for Neutrino Masses

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 101601 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

QCD Axion from a Higher Dimensional Gauge Field Theory

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Measurement of $| V_{u b} |$ Using Inclusive $B \to X_{u} ℓ ν$ Decays with a Novel $X_{u}$ -Reconstruction Method

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 101801 (2004) - Published 10 March, 2004

Towards a Realistic Model of Higgsless Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 101802 (2004) - Published 10 March, 2004

Observation of the Radiative Decay $D^{0} \to φ γ$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 101803 (2004) - Published 11 March, 2004

$B \to π π$ , New Physics in $B \to π K$ , and Implications for Rare $K$ and $B$ Decays

Andrzej J. Buras, Robert Fleischer, Stefan Recksiegel, and Felix Schwab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 101804 (2004) - Published 11 March, 2004

Nature of Light Scalar Mesons from their Large- $N_{c}$ Behavior

J. R. Peláez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 102001 (2004) - Published 9 March, 2004

QCD Dirac Operator at Nonzero Chemical Potential: Lattice Data and Matrix Model

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 102002 (2004) - Published 10 March, 2004

Parity-Violating Electron Deuteron Scattering and the Proton’s Neutral Weak Axial Vector Form Factor

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 102003 (2004) - Published 10 March, 2004

Constraints on Nucleon Decay via Invisible Modes from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 102004 (2004) - Published 10 March, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherent Electronic Coupling versus Localization in Individual Molecular Dimers

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Electron-Proton Correlation for Hydrogen Tunneling Systems

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 103002 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

Quantum Control of the Angular Momentum Distribution in Multiphoton Absorption Processes

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Reactive Resonance in a Polyatomic Reaction

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Quantum Reflection Times for Attractive Potential Tails

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Anomalous Doppler-Effect and Polariton-Mediated Cooling of Two-Level Atoms

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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Condensation in Hamiltonian Parametric Wave Interaction

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Energy Thresholds for Discrete Breathers

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Structures of a Continuously Fed Two-Dimensional Viscous Film under a Destabilizing Gravitational Force

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Geometric Constant Defining Shape Transitions of Carbon Nanotubes under Pressure

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Anomalous Pressure-Induced Transition(s) in Ice XI

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 105502 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

Electro-Optics of Bipolar Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 105503 (2004) - Published 12 March, 2004

Nature of Single Vacancy in Achiral Carbon Nanotubes

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In situ ESR Observation of Interface Dangling Bond Formation Processes During Ultrathin ${SiO}_{2}$ Growth On Si(111)

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Nearly Logarithmic Decay of Correlations in Glass-Forming Liquids

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Role of the Lattice in the $γ \to α$ Phase Transition of Ce: A High-Pressure Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction Study

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Self-Assembly via Adsorbate-Driven Dislocation Reactions

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Adatom Ascending at Step Edges and Faceting on fcc Metal (110) Surfaces

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Improved Thermoelectric Power Factor in Metal-Based Superlattices

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Building Pb Nanomesas with Atomic-Layer Precision

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Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Their Role in the Enhanced Transmission of Light through Periodic Arrays of Subwavelength Holes in a Metal Film

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Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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COMMENTS

Comment on “X-Ray Studies of the Structure and Electronic Behavior of Alkanethiolate-Capped Gold Nanoparticles: The Interplay of Size and Surface Effects”

Philip Moriarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 109601 (2004) - Published 10 March, 2004

ERRATA

Erratum: Long Range Correlations in DNA: Scaling Properties and Charge Transfer Efficiency [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 228101 (2003)

Stephan Roche, Dominique Bicout, Enrique Maciá, and Efim Kats

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 109901 (2004) - Published 9 March, 2004