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Physical Review Letters – 30 April 2001
Volume 86, Issue 18

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.

Multiple-Charge-Quanta Shot Noise in Superconducting Atomic Contacts
R. Cron, M. F. Goffman, D. Esteve, and C. Urbina
pp. 4104-4107 [View PDF (199 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

Signal Velocity, Causality, and Quantum Noise in Superluminal Light Pulse Propagation
A. Kuzmich, A. Dogariu, L. J. Wang, P. W. Milonni, and R. Y. Chiao
pp. 3925-3929 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Spatially Selective Bragg Scattering: A Signature for Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates
P. B. Blakie and R. J. Ballagh
pp. 3930-3933 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Creating Vortex Rings and Three-Dimensional Skyrmions in Bose-Einstein Condensates
J. Ruostekoski and J. R. Anglin
pp. 3934-3937 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of Damping and Frequency Shifts of the Scissors Mode of a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate
Onofrio Maragò, Gerald Hechenblaikner, Eleanor Hodby, and Christopher Foot
pp. 3938-3941 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Noise-Activated Escape from a Sloshing Potential Well
Robert S. Maier and D. L. Stein
pp. 3942-3945 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Upper Critical Dimension, Dynamic Exponent, and Scaling Functions in the Mode-Coupling Theory for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation
Francesca Colaiori and M. A. Moore
pp. 3946-3949 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Stable Operation of a 300-m Laser Interferometer with Sufficient Sensitivity to Detect Gravitational-Wave Events within Our Galaxy
Masaki Ando et al. (TAMA Collaboration)
pp. 3950-3954 [View PDF (246 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Domain Walls of High-Density QCD
D. T. Son, M. A. Stephanov, and A. R. Zhitnitsky
pp. 3955-3958 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Towards a Test of QED in Investigations of the Hyperfine Splitting in Heavy Ions
V. M. Shabaev, A. N. Artemyev, V. A. Yerokhin, O. M. Zherebtsov, and G. Soff
pp. 3959-3962 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Production of χc1 and χc2 in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 3963-3968 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Search for Rare and Forbidden Charm Meson Decays D0→Vℓ+ℓ- and hhℓℓ
E. M. Aitala et al. ((Fermilab E791 Collaboration))
pp. 3969-3972 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Implications of the ALEPH τ-Lepton Decay Data for Perturbative and Nonperturbative QCD
Thomas Schäfer and Edward V. Shuryak
pp. 3973-3976 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Observation of Exotic Meson Production in the Reaction π-p→η′π-p at 18GeV/c
E. I. Ivanov et al. (E852 Collaboration)
pp. 3977-3980 [View PDF (287 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Pion Interferometry at RHIC: Probing a Thermalized Quark-Gluon Plasma?
Sven Soff, Steffen A. Bass, and Adrian Dumitru
pp. 3981-3984 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Low-Energy Measurement of the 7Be(p,γ)8B Cross Section
F. Hammache, G. Bogaert, P. Aguer, C. Angulo, S. Barhoumi, L. Brillard, J. F. Chemin, G. Claverie, A. Coc, M. Hussonnois, M. Jacotin, J. Kiener, A. Lefebvre, C. Le Naour, S. Ouichaoui, J. N. Scheurer, V. Tatischeff, J. P. Thibaud, and E. Virassamynaïken
pp. 3985-3988 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Solitonic Fullerene Structures in Light Atomic Nuclei
Richard A. Battye and Paul M. Sutcliffe
pp. 3989-3992 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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High-Angular-Momentum States in Cold Rydberg Gases
S. K. Dutta, D. Feldbaum, A. Walz-Flannigan, J. R. Guest, and G. Raithel
pp. 3993-3996 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Vibrationally Inelastic Scattering of High- n Rydberg H Atoms from N2 and O2
Brian R. Strazisar, Cheng Lin, and H. Floyd Davis
pp. 3997-4000 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Molecular Reorientation in Collisions of OH+Ar
M. C. van Beek, G. Berden, H. L. Bethlem, and J. J. ter Meulen
pp. 4001-4004 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Rate Coefficients and Final States for the Dissociative Recombination of LiH+
S. Krohn, M. Lange, M. Grieser, L. Knoll, H. Kreckel, J. Levin, R. Repnow, D. Schwalm, R. Wester, P. Witte, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman
pp. 4005-4008 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Spatial Antibunching of Photons
W. A. T. Nogueira, S. P. Walborn, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken
pp. 4009-4012 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Entanglement in Cascaded-Crystal Parametric Down-Conversion
Mete Atatüre, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
pp. 4013-4016 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Experimental Observation of Superpersistent Chaotic Transients
Liqiang Zhu, Arvind Raghu, and Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. 4017-4020 [View PDF (907 kB)]
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Degenerate Parametric Light Scattering in Periodically Poled LiNbO3:Y:Fe
M. Goul'kov, S. Odoulov, I. Naumova, F. Agulló-López, G. Calvo, E. Podivilov, B. Sturman, and V. Pruneri
pp. 4021-4024 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Quantum-Noise-Induced Order in Lasers Placed in Chaotic Oscillation by Frequency-Shifted Feedback
Jing-Yuan Ko, Kenju Otsuka, and Tamaki Kubota
pp. 4025-4028 [View PDF (887 kB)]
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Fermi-Pasta-Ulam β Model: Boundary Jumps, Fourier's Law, and Scaling
Kenichiro Aoki and Dimitri Kusnezov
pp. 4029-4032 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Finite-Mode Spectral Model of Homogeneous and Isotropic Navier-Stokes Turbulence: A Rapidly Depleted Energy Cascade
E. Lévêque and C. R. Koudella
pp. 4033-4036 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic Waves in Regions with Smooth Loss of Convexity of Isentropes: General Phenomenological Theory
Michael I. Tribelsky and Sergei I. Anisimov
pp. 4037-4040 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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First Staging of Two Laser Accelerators
W. D. Kimura, A. van Steenbergen, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, L. P. Campbell, D. B. Cline, C. E. Dilley, J. C. Gallardo, S. C. Gottschalk, P. He, K. P. Kusche, Y. Liu, R. H. Pantell, I. V. Pogorelsky, D. C. Quimby, J. Skaritka, L. C. Steinhauer, and V. Yakimenko
pp. 4041-4043 [View PDF (165 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Anomalous Viscoelastic Response of Nematic Elastomers
S. M. Clarke, A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev, and M. Warner
pp. 4044-4047 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Unusual Thickness-Dependent Thermal Behavior and Anticlinic Coupling in Chiral Smectic Free-Standing Liquid-Crystal Films
C. Y. Chao, C. R. Lo, P. J. Wu, Y. H. Liu, D. R. Link, J. E. Maclennan, N. A. Clark, M. Veum, C. C. Huang, and J. T. Ho
pp. 4048-4051 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Electro-optic Behavior of Liquid-Crystal-Filled Silica Opal Photonic Crystals: Effect of Liquid-Crystal Alignment
Daeseung Kang, Joseph E. Maclennan, Noel A. Clark, Anvar A. Zakhidov, and Ray H. Baughman
pp. 4052-4055 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Nonstoichiometry and the Electrical Activity of Grain Boundaries in SrTiO3
Miyoung Kim, Gerd Duscher, Nigel D. Browning, Karl Sohlberg, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Stephen J. Pennycook
pp. 4056-4059 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Coherent External and Internal Phonons in Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Molecular Crystals
T. Hasche, T. W. Canzler, R. Scholz, M. Hoffmann, K. Schmidt, Th. Frauenheim, and K. Leo
pp. 4060-4063 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Surface Fluctuations of Normal and Superfluid 3He Probed by Wigner Solid Dynamics
O. I. Kirichek, M. Saitoh, K. Kono, and F. I. B. Williams
pp. 4064-4067 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Local Atomic Environment of Si Suboxides at the SiO2/Si(111) Interface Determined by Angle-Scanned Photoelectron Diffraction
S. Dreiner, M. Schürmann, C. Westphal, and H. Zacharias
pp. 4068-4071 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Observation of Cation Reordering during the Olivine-Spinel Transition in Fayalite by In Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction at High Pressure and Temperature
Jiuhua Chen, Donald J. Weidner, John B. Parise, Michael T. Vaughan, and Paul Raterron
pp. 4072-4075 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Power-Law Statistics for Avalanches in a Martensitic Transformation
Rajeev Ahluwalia and G. Ananthakrishna
pp. 4076-4079 [View PDF (230 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Ferroelectric Mott-Hubbard Phase of Organic (TMTTF)2X Conductors
P. Monceau, F. Ya. Nad, and S. Brazovskii
pp. 4080-4083 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Re-Integerization of Fractional Charges in the Correlated Quarter-Filled Band
R. T. Clay, S. Mazumdar, and D. K. Campbell
pp. 4084-4087 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Is the Quantum Dot at Large Bias a Weak-Coupling Problem?
P. Coleman, C. Hooley, and O. Parcollet
pp. 4088-4091 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Simulation of Flux Lines with Columnar Pins: Bose Glass and Entangled Liquids
Prasenjit Sen, Nandini Trivedi, and D. M. Ceperley
pp. 4092-4095 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Long-Range Proximity Effects in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Structures
F. S. Bergeret, A. F. Volkov, and K. B. Efetov
pp. 4096-4099 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Antiferromagnetic Ordering in Superconducting YBa2Cu3O6.5
Y. Sidis, C. Ulrich, P. Bourges, C. Bernhard, C. Niedermayer, L. P. Regnault, N. H. Andersen, and B. Keimer
pp. 4100-4103 [View PDF (194 kB)]
Multiple-Charge-Quanta Shot Noise in Superconducting Atomic Contacts
R. Cron, M. F. Goffman, D. Esteve, and C. Urbina
pp. 4104-4107 [View PDF (199 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Aharonov-Bohm Effect for Quasiparticles around a Vortex Line in a d-Wave Superconductor
A. S. Mel'nikov
pp. 4108-4111 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Mode Locking in ac-Driven Vortex Lattices with Random Pinning
Alejandro B. Kolton, Daniel Domínguez, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen
pp. 4112-4115 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Persistence of Li Induced Kondo Moments in the Superconducting State of Cuprates
J. Bobroff, H. Alloul, W. A. MacFarlane, P. Mendels, N. Blanchard, G. Collin, and J.-F. Marucco
pp. 4116-4119 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Critical Behavior of the Two-Dimensional Ising Susceptibility
W. P. Orrick, B. G. Nickel, A. J. Guttmann, and J. H. H. Perk
pp. 4120-4123 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Spontaneous Plaquette Formation in the SU(4) Spin-Orbital Ladder
Mathias van den Bossche, Patrick Azaria, Philippe Lecheminant, and Frédéric Mila
pp. 4124-4127 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Resonant Enhancements at Nonmagnetic Ions: New Possibilities for Magnetic X-Ray Scattering
D. Mannix, A. Stunault, N. Bernhoeft, L. Paolasini, G. H. Lander, C. Vettier, F. de Bergevin, D. Kaczorowski, and A. Czopnik
pp. 4128-4131 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Resolving Complex Atomic-Scale Spin Structures by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
D. Wortmann, S. Heinze, Ph. Kurz, G. Bihlmayer, and S. Blügel
pp. 4132-4135 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Charge Dynamics of 2H- TaSe2 along the Less-Conducting c-Axis
B. Ruzicka, L. Degiorgi, H. Berger, R. Gaál, and L. Forró
pp. 4136-4139 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Transverse Josephson Plasma Mode in T* Cuprate Superconductors
T. Kakeshita, S. Uchida, K. M. Kojima, S. Adachi, S. Tajima, B. Gorshunov, and M. Dressel
pp. 4140-4143 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Observation of the Transverse Optical Plasmon in SmLa0.8Sr0.2CuO4-δ
Diana Dulić, A. Pimenov, D. van der Marel, D. M. Broun, Saeid Kamal, W. N. Hardy, A. A. Tsvetkov, I. M. Sutjaha, Ruixing Liang, A. A. Menovsky, A. Loidl, and S. S. Saxena
pp. 4144-4147 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Coherent Control of Optical Emission from a Conjugated Polymer
S. P. Kennedy, N. Garro, and R. T. Phillips
pp. 4148-4151 [View PDF (613 kB)]
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Spin-Polarized Electrons in Collisions of Multicharged Nitrogen Ions with a Magnetized Fe(001) Surface
R. Pfandzelter, T. Bernhard, and H. Winter
pp. 4152-4155 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Measurement of Persistence in 1D Diffusion
Glenn P. Wong, Ross W. Mair, Ronald L. Walsworth, and David G. Cory
pp. 4156-4159 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Entangled Quantum States as Direction Indicators
Asher Peres and Petra F. Scudo
pp. 4160-4162 [View PDF (71 kB)]
Dynamic Pattern Formation in a Vesicle-Generating Microfluidic Device
Todd Thorsen, Richard W. Roberts, Frances H. Arnold, and Stephen R. Quake
pp. 4163-4166 [View PDF (673 kB)]
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Exciton Delocalization Probed by Excitation Annihilation in the Light-Harvesting Antenna LH2
G. Trinkunas, J. L. Herek, T. Polívka, V. Sundström, and T. Pullerits
pp. 4167-4170 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Viscoelasticity of Solutions of Motile Polymers
T. B. Liverpool, A. C. Maggs, and A. Ajdari
pp. 4171-4174 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Existence and Stability of Persistent States in Large Neuronal Networks
D. Hansel and G. Mato
pp. 4175-4178 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Bistability in Pulse Propagation in Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Populations
David Golomb and G. Bard Ermentrout
pp. 4179-4182 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Population Dynamics: Poisson Approximation and Its Relation to the Langevin Process
Juan P. Aparicio and Hernán G. Solari
pp. 4183-4186 [View PDF (78 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Double Diffusive Convection in Freely Suspended Soap Films”
R. Stannarius and J. Birnstock
pp. 4187 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Wu Replies:
Xiao-Lun Wu
pp. 4188 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Comment on “Efimov States for 4He Trimers?”
B. D. Esry, C. D. Lin, Chris H. Greene, and D. Blume
pp. 4189 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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González-Lezana et al. Reply:
T. González-Lezana, J. Rubayo-Soneira, S. Miret-Artés, F. A. Gianturco, G. Delgado-Barrio, and P. Villarreal
pp. 4190 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Comment on “Measurement of the Intrinsic Dissipation of a Macroscopic System in the Quantum Regime”
Siyuan Han and R. Rouse
pp. 4191 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Cosmelli Replies:
C. Cosmelli
pp. 4192 [View PDF (36 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Optical Frequency Measurement of the 2S-12D Transitions in Hydrogen and Deuterium: Rydberg Constant and Lamb Shift Determinations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4960 (1999)]
C. Schwob, L. Jozefowski, B. de Beauvoir, L. Hilico, F. Nez, L. Julien, F. Biraben, O. Acef, J.-J. Zondy, and A. Clairon
pp. 4193 [View PDF (27 kB)]
 
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