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Physical Review Letters – 2 April 2001
Volume 86, Issue 14

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Waveguiding in Surface Plasmon Polariton Band Gap Structures
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, John Erland, Kristjan Leosson, Peter M. W. Skovgaard, and Jørn M. Hvam
pp. 3008-3011 [View PDF (319 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani
pp. 3200-3203 [View PDF (98 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Universality of Decoherence
Daniel Braun, Fritz Haake, and Walter T. Strunz
pp. 2913-2917 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Dark Solitons in a Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate
P. Öhberg and L. Santos
pp. 2918-2921 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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Use of Surface-Wave Spectroscopy to Characterize Tilt Modes of a Vortex in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
P. C. Haljan, B. P. Anderson, I. Coddington, and E. A. Cornell
pp. 2922-2925 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Watching Dark Solitons Decay into Vortex Rings in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, C. A. Regal, D. L. Feder, L. A. Collins, C. W. Clark, and E. A. Cornell
pp. 2926-2929 [View PDF (702 kB)]
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Exclusion Statistics in a Trapped Two-Dimensional Bose Gas
T. H. Hansson, J. M. Leinaas, and S. Viefers
pp. 2930-2933 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Transmission of Noise Coded versus Additive Signals through a Neuronal Ensemble
Benjamin Lindner and Lutz Schimansky-Geier
pp. 2934-2937 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Nonextensive Thermostatistics and the H Theorem
J. A. S. Lima, R. Silva, and A. R. Plastino
pp. 2938-2941 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Deflection of Spacecraft Trajectories as a New Test of General Relativity
James M. Longuski, Ephraim Fischbach, and Daniel J. Scheeres
pp. 2942-2945 [View PDF (88 kB)]
From Computation to Black Holes and Space-Time Foam
Y. Jack Ng
pp. 2946-2949 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for B→τν and B→Kνν̅
T. E. Browder et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 2950-2954 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Study of the Decay D0→K+π-
J. M. Link et al. ((FOCUS Collaboration))
pp. 2955-2958 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Measurement of the Recoil Polarization in the p(e⃗,e′p⃗)π0 Reaction at the Δ(1232) Resonance
Th. Pospischil et al.
pp. 2959-2962 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Search for Quadrupole Strength in the Electroexcitation of the Δ+(1232)
C. Mertz et al.
pp. 2963-2966 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Parity Violation Observed in the Beta Decay of Magnetically Trapped 82Rb Atoms
S. G. Crane, S. J. Brice, A. Goldschmidt, R. Guckert, A. Hime, J. J. Kitten, D. J. Vieira, and X. Zhao
pp. 2967-2970 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Quantum Calculation of the Dipole Excitation in Fusion Reactions
C. Simenel, Ph. Chomaz, and G. de France
pp. 2971-2974 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Polarization Measurements in High-Energy Deuteron Photodisintegration
K. Wijesooriya et al. ((Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration))
pp. 2975-2979 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Resolving the Antibaryon-Production Puzzle in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
Ralf Rapp and Edward V. Shuryak
pp. 2980-2983 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Multicomponent Density-Functional Theory for Electrons and Nuclei
T. Kreibich and E. K. U. Gross
pp. 2984-2987 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Double-Well States of Ungerade Symmetry in H2: First Observation and Comparison with Ab Initio Calculations
A. de Lange, W. Hogervorst, W. Ubachs, and L. Wolniewicz
pp. 2988-2991 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Ag8 Fluorescence in Argon
C. Félix, C. Sieber, W. Harbich, J. Buttet, I. Rabin, W. Schulze, and G. Ertl
pp. 2992-2995 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Multiply Charged Metal Cluster Anions
Constantine Yannouleas, Uzi Landman, Alexander Herlert, and Lutz Schweikhard
pp. 2996-2999 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Spherical Growth and Surface-Quasifree Vibrations of Si Nanocrystallites in Er-Doped Si Nanostructures
X. L. Wu, Y. F. Mei, G. G. Siu, K. L. Wong, K. Moulding, M. J. Stokes, C. L. Fu, and X. M. Bao
pp. 3000-3003 [View PDF (306 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Saturated Amplification of a Collisionally Pumped Optical-Field-Ionization Soft X-Ray Laser at 41.8 nm
S. Sebban, R. Haroutunian, Ph. Balcou, G. Grillon, A. Rousse, S. Kazamias, T. Marin, J. P. Rousseau, L. Notebaert, M. Pittman, J. P. Chambaret, A. Antonetti, D. Hulin, D. Ros, A. Klisnick, A. Carillon, P. Jaeglé, G. Jamelot, and J. F. Wyart
pp. 3004-3007 [View PDF (164 kB)]
Waveguiding in Surface Plasmon Polariton Band Gap Structures
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, John Erland, Kristjan Leosson, Peter M. W. Skovgaard, and Jørn M. Hvam
pp. 3008-3011 [View PDF (319 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for the Existence of Absolute Acoustic Band Gaps in Two-Dimensional Solid Phononic Crystals
J. O. Vasseur, P. A. Deymier, B. Chenni, B. Djafari-Rouhani, L. Dobrzynski, and D. Prevost
pp. 3012-3015 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Convection, Heaping, and Cracking in Vertically Vibrated Granular Slurries
Johann M. Schleier-Smith and Howard A. Stone
pp. 3016-3019 [View PDF (761 kB)]
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Self-Diffusion in a Gas-Fluidized Bed of Fine Powder
Jose Manuel Valverde, Antonio Castellanos, and Miguel Angel Sanchez Quintanilla
pp. 3020-3023 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Magnetic Field Saturation in the Riga Dynamo Experiment
Agris Gailitis, Olgerts Lielausis, Ernests Platacis, Sergej Dement'ev, Arnis Cifersons, Gunter Gerbeth, Thomas Gundrum, Frank Stefani, Michael Christen, and Gotthard Will
pp. 3024-3027 [View PDF (276 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Multiple Coulomb Ordered Strings of Ions in a Storage Ring
Rainer W. Hasse
pp. 3028-3031 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Search of Self-Organized Criticality Processes in Magnetically Confined Plasmas: Hints from the Reversed Field Pinch Configuration
E. Spada, V. Carbone, R. Cavazzana, L. Fattorini, G. Regnoli, N. Vianello, V. Antoni, E. Martines, G. Serianni, M. Spolaore, and L. Tramontin
pp. 3032-3035 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Generation of Suprathermal Electrons during Magnetic Reconnection at the Sawtooth Crash and Disruption Instability in the T-10 Tokamak
P. V. Savrukhin
pp. 3036-3039 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Observation of Toroidal Flow Antiparallel to the 〈Er×Bθ〉 Drift Direction in the Hot Electron Mode Plasmas in the Compact Helical System
K. Ida, T. Minami, Y. Yoshimura, A. Fujisawa, C. Suzuki, S. Okamura, S. Nishimura, M. Isobe, H. Iguchi, K. Itoh, S. Kado, Y. Liang, I. Nomura, M. Osakabe, C. Takahashi, K. Tanaka, and K. Matsuoka
pp. 3040-3043 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Submicrometer Resolution Hard X-Ray Holography with the Asymmetric Bragg Diffraction Microscope
Richard D. Spal
pp. 3044-3047 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Reentrant Ferroelectricity in Liquid Crystals
D. Pociecha, E. Gorecka, M. Čepič, N. Vaupotič, B. Žekš, D. Kardas, and J. Mieczkowski
pp. 3048-3051 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Growth of Porous SiOx by Vapor Deposition
V. M. Burlakov, G. A. D. Briggs, A. P. Sutton, and Y. Tsukahara
pp. 3052-3055 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Novel Polygonized Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Bundles
M. J. López, A. Rubio, J. A. Alonso, L.-C. Qin, and S. Iijima
pp. 3056-3059 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Aggregation Kinetics of Thermal Double Donors in Silicon
Young Joo Lee, J. von Boehm, M. Pesola, and R. M. Nieminen
pp. 3060-3063 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Proof of the Thermodynamical Stability of the E′ Center in SiO2
Carlo Maria Carbonaro, Vincenzo Fiorentini, and Fabio Bernardini
pp. 3064-3067 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Novel γ-Phase of Titanium Metal at Megabar Pressures
Yogesh K. Vohra and Philemon T. Spencer
pp. 3068-3071 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Probing Impulsive Strain Propagation with X-Ray Pulses
D. A. Reis, M. F. DeCamp, P. H. Bucksbaum, R. Clarke, E. Dufresne, M. Hertlein, R. Merlin, R. Falcone, H. Kapteyn, M. M. Murnane, J. Larsson, Th. Missalla, and J. S. Wark
pp. 3072-3075 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Large Harmonic Softening of the Phonon Density of States of Uranium
M. E. Manley, B. Fultz, R. J. McQueeney, C. M. Brown, W. L. Hults, J. L. Smith, D. J. Thoma, R. Osborn, and J. L. Robertson
pp. 3076-3079 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Kelvin Waves Cascade in Superfluid Turbulence
D. Kivotides, J. C. Vassilicos, D. C. Samuels, and C. F. Barenghi
pp. 3080-3083 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Atomically Resolved Local Variation of the Barrier Height of the Flip-Flop Motion of Single Buckled Dimers of Si(100)
K. Hata, Y. Sainoo, and H. Shigekawa
pp. 3084-3087 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Evolution of Two-Dimensional Wormlike Nanoclusters on Metal Surfaces
Woei Wu Pai, John F. Wendelken, C. R. Stoldt, P. A. Thiel, J. W. Evans, and Da-Jiang Liu
pp. 3088-3091 [View PDF (857 kB)]
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Rate-Equation Approach to Island Capture Zones and Size Distributions in Epitaxial Growth
Jacques G. Amar, Mihail N. Popescu, and Fereydoon Family
pp. 3092-3095 [View PDF (229 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Electron Addition Spectrum in the Supersymmetric t-J Model with Inverse-Square Interaction
Mitsuhiro Arikawa, Yasuhiro Saiga, and Yoshio Kuramoto
pp. 3096-3099 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Temperature-Dependent Fermi Gap Opening in the c(6×4)–C60/Ag(100) Two-Dimensional Superstructure
C. Cepek, I. Vobornik, A. Goldoni, E. Magnano, G. Selvaggi, J. Kröger, G. Panaccione, G. Rossi, and M. Sancrotti
pp. 3100-3103 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Composition-Dependent Electrical Resistivity in an Al-Re-Si 1 /1-Cubic Approximant Phase: An Indication of Electron Confinement in Clusters
Ryuji Tamura, Takayuki Asao, and Shin Takeuchi
pp. 3104-3107 [View PDF (245 kB)]
High Pressure Insulator-Metal Transition in Molecular Fluid Oxygen
Marina Bastea, Arthur C. Mitchell, and William J. Nellis
pp. 3108-3111 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Frequency-Dependent Shot Noise in Long Disordered Superconductor–Normal-Metal–Superconductor Contacts
K. E. Nagaev
pp. 3112-3115 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Wannier-Stark States of a Quantum Particle in 2D Lattices
M. Glück, F. Keck, A. R. Kolovsky, and H. J. Korsch
pp. 3116-3119 [View PDF (682 kB)]
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Order-Disorder Transition in Nanoscopic Semiconductor Quantum Rings
Peter Borrmann and Jens Harting
pp. 3120-3123 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Connected Rings
W. Rabaud, L. Saminadayar, D. Mailly, K. Hasselbach, A. Benoît, and B. Etienne
pp. 3124-3127 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Current Saturation and Electrical Breakdown in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
Philip G. Collins, M. Hersam, M. Arnold, R. Martel, and Ph. Avouris
pp. 3128-3131 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Surface Transformation and Photoinduced Recovery in CdSe Nanocrystals
B. C. Hess, I. G. Okhrimenko, R. C. Davis, B. C. Stevens, Q. A. Schulzke, K. C. Wright, C. D. Bass, C. D. Evans, and S. L. Summers
pp. 3132-3135 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Vortex Glass Transition and Quantum Vortex Liquid at Low Temperature in a Thick a- MoxSi1-x Film
S. Okuma, Y. Imamoto, and M. Morita
pp. 3136-3139 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Enhancement of the Josephson Current by an Exchange Field in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Structures
F. S. Bergeret, A. F. Volkov, and K. B. Efetov
pp. 3140-3143 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Critical Spin Dynamics of the 2D Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnets Sr2CuO2Cl2 and Sr2Cu3O4Cl2
Y. J. Kim, R. J. Birgeneau, F. C. Chou, R. W. Erwin, and M. A. Kastner
pp. 3144-3147 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Spin Domains Generate Hierarchical Ground State Structure in J = ±1 Spin Glasses
Guy Hed, Alexander K. Hartmann, Dietrich Stauffer, and Eytan Domany
pp. 3148-3151 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Absolute Spin Magnetic Moment of FeF2 from High Energy Photon Diffraction
J. Strempfer, U. Rütt, and W. Jauch
pp. 3152-3155 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic Phase Transition in a Heisenberg Fluid: Monte Carlo Simulations and Fisher Corrections to Scaling
I. M. Mryglod, I. P. Omelyan, and R. Folk
pp. 3156-3159 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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13C NMR Chemical Shift of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Sylvain Latil, Luc Henrard, Christophe Goze Bac, Patrick Bernier, and Angel Rubio
pp. 3160-3163 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Two-Photon Resonant Third-Harmonic Generation in La2CuO4
A. Schülzgen, Y. Kawabe, E. Hanamura, A. Yamanaka, P.-A. Blanche, J. Lee, H. Sato, M. Naito, N. T. Dan, S. Uchida, Y. Tanabe, and N. Peyghambarian
pp. 3164-3167 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Inhibition and Enhancement of the Spontaneous Emission of Quantum Dots in Structured Microresonators
M. Bayer, T. L. Reinecke, F. Weidner, A. Larionov, A. McDonald, and A. Forchel
pp. 3168-3171 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Photon Beats from a Single Semiconductor Quantum Dot
T. Flissikowski, A. Hundt, M. Lowisch, M. Rabe, and F. Henneberger
pp. 3172-3175 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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State-Specific Enhancement of Cl+ and Cl- Desorption for SiCl4 Adsorbed on a Si(100) Surface Following Cl 2 p and Si 2 p Core-Level Excitations
J. M. Chen and K. T. Lu
pp. 3176-3179 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Matter-Wave Entanglement and Teleportation by Molecular Dissociation and Collisions
T. Opatrný and G. Kurizki
pp. 3180-3183 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Prediction of Chaotic Dynamics in Sheared Liquid Crystalline Polymers
M. Grosso, R. Keunings, S. Crescitelli, and P. L. Maffettone
pp. 3184-3187 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Translocation of a Confined Polymer through a Hole
M. Muthukumar
pp. 3188-3191 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Dynamic Concentration of Motors in Microtubule Arrays
François Nédélec, Thomas Surrey, and A. C. Maggs
pp. 3192-3195 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Communication in Networks with Hierarchical Branching
A. Arenas, A. Díaz-Guilera, and R. Guimerà
pp. 3196-3199 [View PDF (89 kB)]
Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani
pp. 3200-3203 [View PDF (98 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Complete One-Loop Analysis of the Nucleon's Spin Polarizabilities”
Michael C. Birse, Xiangdong Ji, and Judith A. McGovern
pp. 3204 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Gellas, Hemmert, and Meißner Reply:
George C. Gellas, Thomas R. Hemmert, and Ulf-G. Meißner
pp. 3205 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “First-Order Amorphous-Amorphous Transformation in Silica”
E. A. Jagla
pp. 3206 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Lacks Replies:
Daniel J. Lacks
pp. 3207 [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Wetting of Alkanes on Water
E. Bertrand, D. Bonn, J. Meunier, and D. Segal
pp. 3208 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Comment on “Quantum Phase Transition of the Randomly Diluted Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on a Square Lattice”
Anders W. Sandvik
pp. 3209 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Todo, Takayama, and Kawashima Reply:
Synge Todo, Hajime Takayama, and Naoki Kawashima
pp. 3210 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Comment on “Photonic Band Gaps: Noncommuting Limits and the `Acoustic Band' ”
P. Halevi, A. A. Krokhin, and J. Arriaga
pp. 3211 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Nicorovici, McPhedran, and Botten Reply:
N. A. Nicorovici, R. C. McPhedran, and L. C. Botten
pp. 3212 [View PDF (35 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Experimental Phase Synchronization of a Chaotic Convective Flow [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5567 (2000)]
D. Maza, A. Vallone, H. Mancini, and S. Boccaletti
pp. 3213 [View PDF (104 kB)]
 
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