Volume 88, Issue 14

8 April 2002

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Calculated potential contours for a model of a heterostructure with a triple-quantum-dot Coulomb blockade rectifier pattern. Tunnel junctions connect the quantum dots to each other and to the source & drain; tunneling is forbidden between dots 2 & 3, but they can interact capacitively. The current in this model is strongly blocked in the forward-bias direction by electron trapping in dot 3.

From the article:

Rectifying Behavior in Coulomb Blockades: Charging Rectifiers
M. Stopa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 146802 (2002)

LETTERS

Elementary Particles and Fields

Simple Method to Make Asymptotic Series of Feynman Diagrams Converge

Y. Meurice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 141601 (2002) - Published 22 March, 2002

Critical Phenomena of Thick Branes in Warped Spacetimes

Antonio Campos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 141602 (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002

Sneutrino-Antisneutrino Mixing and Neutrino Mass in Anomaly-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking Scenario

Kiwoon Choi, Kyuwan Hwang, and Wan Young Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 141801 (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002

Measurement of the Beam-Helicity Asymmetry in the $p (\vec{e}, e^{'} p) π^{0}$ Reaction at the Energy of the $Δ (1232)$ Resonance

P. Bartsch et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 142001 (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Rotational Damping in Ytterbium Nuclei

F. S. Stephens, M. A. Deleplanque, I. Y. Lee, D. Ward, P. Fallon, M. Cromaz, R. M. Clark, R. M. Diamond, A. O. Macchiavelli, and K. Vetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 142501 (2002) - Published 20 March, 2002

Experimental Evidence of Core Modification in the Near Drip-Line Nucleus ${}^{23}O$

Rituparna Kanungo, Masami Chiba, Naohito Iwasa, Shunji Nishimura, Akira Ozawa, Chhanda Samanta, Toshimi Suda, Takeshi Suzuki, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Tao Zheng, and Isao Tanihata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 142502 (2002) - Published 22 March, 2002

Exact Stochastic Mean-Field Approach to the Fermionic Many-Body Problem

O. Juillet and Ph. Chomaz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 142503 (2002) - Published 22 March, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Solvated Electrons in Very Small Clusters of Polar Molecules: $(HF)_{3}^{-}$

M. Gutowski, C. S. Hall, L. Adamowicz, J. H. Hendricks, H. L. de Clercq, S. A. Lyapustina, J. M. Nilles, S.-J. Xu, and K. H. Bowen, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 143001 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

rf Spectroscopy with a Single ${Ba}^{+}$ Ion

T. W. Koerber, M. H. Schacht, K. R. G. Hendrickson, W. Nagourney, and E. N. Fortson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 143002 (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002

Charge Localization in Collision-Induced Multiple Ionization of van der Waals Clusters with Highly Charged Ions

W. Tappe, R. Flesch, E. Rühl, R. Hoekstra, and T. Schlathölter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 143401 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Generating and Probing a Two-Photon Fock State with a Single Atom in a Cavity

P. Bertet, S. Osnaghi, P. Milman, A. Auffeves, P. Maioli, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 143601 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Finite-Size Effects on Intensity Correlations in Random Media

A. García-Martín, F. Scheffold, M. Nieto-Vesperinas, and J. J. Sáenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 143901 (2002) - Published 20 March, 2002

Opening Optical Four-Wave Mixing Channels with Giant Enhancement Using Ultraslow Pump Waves

L. Deng, M. Kozuma, E. W. Hagley, and M. G. Payne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 143902 (2002) - Published 20 March, 2002

Broadband Fivefold Reduction of Vacuum Fluctuations Probed by Dyes in Photonic Crystals

A. Femius Koenderink, Lydia Bechger, H. P. Schriemer, Ad Lagendijk, and Willem L. Vos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 143903 (2002) - Published 20 March, 2002

Autonomous Bursting in a Homoclinic System

R. Meucci, A. Di Garbo, E. Allaria, and F. T. Arecchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 144101 (2002) - Published 22 March, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Superbunch Hadron Colliders

Ken Takayama, Junichi Kishiro, Makoto Sakuda, Yoshito Shimosaki, and Masayoshi Wake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 144801 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Discharges in the JET Tokamak Where the Safety Factor Profile Is Identified as the Critical Factor for Triggering Internal Transport Barriers

L.-G. Eriksson, C. Fourment, V. Fuchs, X. Litaudon, C. D. Challis, F. Crisanti, B. Esposito, X. Garbet, C. Giroud, N. Hawkes, P. Maget, D. Mazon, and G. Tresset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 145001 (2002) - Published 20 March, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Landau’s Quasiparticle Mapping: Fermi Liquid Approach and Luttinger Liquid Behavior

Caspar P. Heidbrink and Götz S. Uhrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 146401 (2002) - Published 22 March, 2002

Anomalous Conductance Distribution in Quasi-One-Dimensional Gold Wires: Possible Violation of the One-Parameter Scaling Hypothesis

Pritiraj Mohanty and Richard A. Webb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 146601 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Novel Anisotropy in the Superconducting Gap Structure of ${{Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O}_{8 + δ}$ Probed by Quasiparticle Heat Transport

Yoichi Ando, J. Takeya, Yasushi Abe, X. F. Sun, and A. N. Lavrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 147004 (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002