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Physical Review Letters – 14 May 2001
Volume 86, Issue 20

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.

Dynamics of Coarsening Foams: Accelerated and Self-Limiting Drainage
Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Stephan A. Koehler, and Howard A. Stone
pp. 4704-4707 [View PDF (156 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Simultaneous Minimum-Uncertainty Measurement of Discrete-Valued Complementary Observables
Alexei Trifonov, Gunnar Björk, and Jonas Söderholm
pp. 4423-4426 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Hidden-Variable Theorems for Real Experiments
Christoph Simon, Časlav Brukner, and Anton Zeilinger
pp. 4427-4430 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Entanglement and Extreme Spin Squeezing
Anders S. Sørensen and Klaus Mølmer
pp. 4431-4434 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Experimental Demonstration of Four-Photon Entanglement and High-Fidelity Teleportation
Jian-Wei Pan, Matthew Daniell, Sara Gasparoni, Gregor Weihs, and Anton Zeilinger
pp. 4435-4438 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Quantum Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Boson Systems: Atomic Beam Splitters and Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates
N. M. Bogoliubov, A. G. Izergin, N. A. Kitanine, A. G. Pronko, and J. Timonen
pp. 4439-4442 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Stationary States of a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate: Routes to Vortex Nucleation
K. W. Madison, F. Chevy, V. Bretin, and J. Dalibard
pp. 4443-4446 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Superfluid and Dissipative Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Periodic Optical Potential
S. Burger, F. S. Cataliotti, C. Fort, F. Minardi, M. Inguscio, M. L. Chiofalo, and M. P. Tosi
pp. 4447-4450 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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BPS States in M Theory and Twistorial Constituents
Igor A. Bandos, José A. de Azcárraga, José M. Izquierdo, and Jerzy Lukierski
pp. 4451-4454 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Numerical Analysis of the Double Scaling Limit in the String Type IIB Matrix Model
S. Horata and H. S. Egawa
pp. 4455-4458 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Metastable Ringlike Semitopological Solitons
M. Axenides, E. Floratos, S. Komineas, and L. Perivolaropoulos
pp. 4459-4462 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Do Electroweak Precision Data and Higgs-Mass Constraints Rule Out a Scalar Bottom Quark with Mass of Order 5 GeV?
M. Carena, S. Heinemeyer, C. E. M. Wagner, and G. Weiglein
pp. 4463-4466 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Study of τ Decays to Six Pions and a Neutrino
A. Anastassov et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 4467-4471 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Search for Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 4472-4478 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Observation of New States Decaying into Λc+π-π+
M. Artuso et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
pp. 4479-4482 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Energy Loss of Fast Quarks in Nuclei
M. B. Johnson, B. Z. Kopeliovich, I. K. Potashnikova, P. L. McGaughey, J. M. Moss, J. C. Peng, G. T. Garvey, M. J. Leitch, M. R. Adams, D. M. Alde, H. W. Baer, M. L. Barlett, C. N. Brown, W. E. Cooper, T. A. Carey, G. Danner, G. W. Hoffmann, Y. B. Hsiung, D. M. Kaplan, A. Klein, C. Lee, J. W. Lillberg, R. L. McCarthy, C. S. Mishra, and M. J. Wang (FNAL E772 Collaboration)
pp. 4483-4487 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Rotations in Isospace: A Doorway to the Understanding of Neutron-Proton Superfluidity in N = Z Nuclei
Wojciech Satuła and Ramon Wyss
pp. 4488-4491 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Nuclear Fragmentation: Sampling the Instabilities of Binary Systems
V. Baran, M. Colonna, M. Di Toro, and V. Greco
pp. 4492-4495 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Alternative to the Hyperfine-Change-Collision Interpretation for the Behavior of Magneto-optical-Trap Losses at Low Light Intensity
G. D. Telles, V. S. Bagnato, and L. G. Marcassa
pp. 4496-4499 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Photoelectron Imaging on Time-Dependent Molecular Alignment Created by a Femtosecond Laser Pulse
Masaaki Tsubouchi, Benjamin J. Whitaker, Li Wang, Hiroshi Kohguchi, and Toshinori Suzuki
pp. 4500-4503 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Anionic Photofragmentation of CO: A Selective Probe of Core-Level Resonances
W. C. Stolte, D. L. Hansen, M. N. Piancastelli, I. Dominguez Lopez, A. Rizvi, O. Hemmers, H. Wang, A. S. Schlachter, M. S. Lubell, and D. W. Lindle
pp. 4504-4507 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Quantum-Mechanical Analysis of a Longitudinal Stern-Gerlach Effect
G. A. Gallup, H. Batelaan, and T. J. Gay
pp. 4508-4511 [View PDF (89 kB)]
Polarization Instabilities in a Two-Photon Laser
Olivier Pfister, William J. Brown, Michael D. Stenner, and Daniel J. Gauthier
pp. 4512-4515 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Entangled-State Lithography: Tailoring Any Pattern with a Single State
Gunnar Björk, Luis L. Sánchez-Soto, and Jonas Söderholm
pp. 4516-4519 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Phase Transition in a Radiation-Matter Interaction with Recoil and Collisions
M. Perrin, G. L. Lippi, and A. Politi
pp. 4520-4523 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Photon Statistics of Random Lasers with Resonant Feedback
H. Cao, Y. Ling, J. Y. Xu, C. Q. Cao, and Prem Kumar
pp. 4524-4527 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Measurement of Modulational Instability Gain of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Eigenmodes in a One-Dimensional System
R. Schiek, H. Fang, R. Malendevich, and G. I. Stegeman
pp. 4528-4531 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Microscopic Selection of Fluid Fingering Patterns
David A. Kessler and Herbert Levine
pp. 4532-4535 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Templating of Thin Films Induced by Dewetting on Patterned Surfaces
Kajari Kargupta and Ashutosh Sharma
pp. 4536-4539 [View PDF (360 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Vertical Pairing of Identical Particles Suspended in the Plasma Sheath
V. Steinberg, R. Sütterlin, A. V. Ivlev, and G. Morfill
pp. 4540-4543 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Quiescent Double Barrier Regime in the DIII-D Tokamak
C. M. Greenfield, K. H. Burrell, J. C. DeBoo, E. J. Doyle, B. W. Stallard, E. J. Synakowski, C. Fenzi, P. Gohil, R. J. Groebner, L. L. Lao, M. A. Makowski, G. R. McKee, R. A. Moyer, C. L. Rettig, T. L. Rhodes, R. I. Pinsker, G. M. Staebler, W. P. West, and the DIII-D Team
pp. 4544-4547 [View PDF (568 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Coexisting Nematic and Smectic- A Phases in a Twisted Liquid-Crystal Cell
L. Z. Ruan, M. A. Osipov, and J. R. Sambles
pp. 4548-4551 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Martensitic fcc-to-hcp Transformation Observed in Xenon at High Pressure
H. Cynn, C. S. Yoo, B. Baer, V. Iota-Herbei, A. K. McMahan, M. Nicol, and S. Carlson
pp. 4552-4555 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of C Incorporation on Si(100) from ab initio Calculations
I. N. Remediakis, Efthimios Kaxiras, and P. C. Kelires
pp. 4556-4559 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Structure and Generation Mechanism of the Peroxy-Radical Defect in Amorphous Silica
T. Uchino, M. Takahashi, and T. Yoko
pp. 4560-4563 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Oxygen Self-Diffusion in α-Quartz
Guido Roma, Yves Limoge, and Stefano Baroni
pp. 4564-4567 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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High-Pressure Elastic Properties of Solid Argon to 70 GPa
Hiroyasu Shimizu, Hideyuki Tashiro, Tetsuji Kume, and Shigeo Sasaki
pp. 4568-4571 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Peierls Transition with Acoustic Phonons and Solitwistons in Carbon Nanotubes
Marc Thilo Figge, Maxim Mostovoy, and Jasper Knoester
pp. 4572-4575 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Anisotropic Domain Growth of the Axial Next-Nearest-Neighbor Ising Model at Low Temperatures
Mookyung Cheon and Iksoo Chang
pp. 4576-4579 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of the A and B Phases of Superfluid 3He in Aerogel
P. Brussaard, S. N. Fisher, A. M. Guénault, A. J. Hale, N. Mulders, and G. R. Pickett
pp. 4580-4583 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Deep-Inelastic Neutron Scattering Determination of the Single-Particle Kinetic Energy in Solid and Liquid 3He
R. Senesi, C. Andreani, D. Colognesi, A. Cunsolo, and M. Nardone
pp. 4584-4587 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Diffusion Kinetics in the Pd/Cu(001) Surface Alloy
M. L. Grant, B. S. Swartzentruber, N. C. Bartelt, and J. B. Hannon
pp. 4588-4591 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Nanoadhesion between Rough Surfaces
T. S. Chow
pp. 4592-4595 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Modified Critical Correlations Close to Modulated and Rough Surfaces
Andreas Hanke and Mehran Kardar
pp. 4596-4599 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Growth of Au Clusters on Amorphous Al2O3: Evidence of Cluster Mobility above a Critical Size
J. Carrey, J.-L. Maurice, F. Petroff, and A. Vaurès
pp. 4600-4603 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Alternating Tip Splitting in Directional Solidification
B. Utter, R. Ragnarsson, and E. Bodenschatz
pp. 4604-4607 [View PDF (943 kB)]
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Kinetic Physical Etching for Versatile Novel Design of Well Ordered Self-Affine Nanogrooves
Sebastiaan van Dijken, Dennis de Bruin, and Bene Poelsema
pp. 4608-4611 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Dynamical Mean-Field Theory for Pairing and Spin Gap in the Attractive Hubbard Model
M. Keller, W. Metzner, and U. Schollwöck
pp. 4612-4615 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Fermi Surface and Magnetic Structure of TmGa3
M. Biasini, G. Kontrym-Sznajd, M. A. Monge, M. Gemmi, A. Czopnik, and A. Jura
pp. 4616-4619 [View PDF (457 kB)]
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Influence of Two-Pair Continuum Correlations Following Resonant Excitation of Excitons
V. M. Axt, B. Haase, and U. Neukirch
pp. 4620-4623 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Quasidegenerate Self-Trapping in One-Dimensional Charge Transfer Exciton
Andrei S. Mishchenko and Naoto Nagaosa
pp. 4624-4627 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Partition Noise and Statistics in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
I. Safi, P. Devillard, and T. Martin
pp. 4628-4631 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Band Splitting for Si(557)-Au: Is It Spin-Charge Separation?
R. Losio, K. N. Altmann, A. Kirakosian, J.-L. Lin, D. Y. Petrovykh, and F. J. Himpsel
pp. 4632-4635 [View PDF (719 kB)]
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Fano Resonances as a Probe of Phase Coherence in Quantum Dots
A. A. Clerk, X. Waintal, and P. W. Brouwer
pp. 4636-4639 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Landau Diamagnetism and Magnetization of Interacting Disordered Conductors
Gilles Montambaux
pp. 4640-4643 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Magnetization Measurements of Magnetic Two-Dimensional Electron Gases
J. G. E. Harris, R. Knobel, K. D. Maranowski, A. C. Gossard, N. Samarth, and D. D. Awschalom
pp. 4644-4647 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Detection of Single Spin Decoherence in a Quantum Dot via Charge Currents
Hans-Andreas Engel and Daniel Loss
pp. 4648-4651 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Effective Lorentz Force due to Small-Angle Impurity Scattering: Magnetotransport in High- Tc Superconductors
C. M. Varma and Elihu Abrahams
pp. 4652-4655 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Superconductivity of Metallic Boron in MgB2
J. Kortus, I. I. Mazin, K. D. Belashchenko, V. P. Antropov, and L. L. Boyer
pp. 4656-4659 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Effects of Vortex Pinning and Thermal Fluctuations on the Josephson Plasma Resonance in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 and YBa2Cu3O6.5
Diana Dulić, S. J. Hak, D. van der Marel, W. N. Hardy, A. E. Koshelev, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and B. A. Willemsen
pp. 4660-4663 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Unique Spin Dynamics and Unconventional Superconductivity in the Layered Heavy Fermion Compound CeIrIn5: NQR Evidence
G.-q. Zheng, K. Tanabe, T. Mito, S. Kawasaki, Y. Kitaoka, D. Aoki, Y. Haga, and Y. Onuki
pp. 4664-4667 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Interacting Random Dirac Fermions in Superconducting Cuprates
D. V. Khveshchenko, A. G. Yashenkin, and I. V. Gornyi
pp. 4668-4671 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Incipient Nodal Pairing in Planar d-wave Superconductors
D. V. Khveshchenko and J. Paaske
pp. 4672-4675 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Magnetic Anisotropy of a Single Cobalt Nanocluster
M. Jamet, W. Wernsdorfer, C. Thirion, D. Mailly, V. Dupuis, P. Mélinon, and A. Pérez
pp. 4676-4679 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Role of Dynamic Jahn-Teller Distortions in Na2C60 and Na2CsC60 Studied by NMR
V. Brouet, H. Alloul, Thien-Nga Le, S. Garaj, and L. Forró
pp. 4680-4683 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Subthreshold Carrier-LO Phonon Dynamics in Semiconductors with Intermediate Polaron Coupling: A Purely Quantum Kinetic Relaxation Channel
M. Betz, G. Göger, A. Laubereau, P. Gartner, L. Bányai, H. Haug, K. Ortner, C. R. Becker, and A. Leitenstorfer
pp. 4684-4687 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Controlling the Interaction between Light and Gold Nanoparticles: Selective Suppression of Extinction
S. Linden, J. Kuhl, and H. Giessen
pp. 4688-4691 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Origin of Negative Thermal Expansion in Cubic ZrW2O8 Revealed by High Pressure Inelastic Neutron Scattering
R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot, H. Schober, and T. A. Mary
pp. 4692-4695 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Phase Separation in Mixtures of Colloids and Long Ideal Polymer Coils
Richard P. Sear
pp. 4696-4699 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Bubble Dynamics Relaxation in Aqueous Foam Probed by Multispeckle Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy
Sylvie Cohen-Addad and Reinhard Höhler
pp. 4700-4703 [View PDF (95 kB)]
Dynamics of Coarsening Foams: Accelerated and Self-Limiting Drainage
Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Stephan A. Koehler, and Howard A. Stone
pp. 4704-4707 [View PDF (156 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Low-Dimensional Bose Liquids: Beyond the Gross-Pitaevskii Approximation”
R. K. Bhaduri and Diptiman Sen
pp. 4708 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Kolomeisky, Newman, Straley, and Qi Reply:
Eugene B. Kolomeisky, T. J. Newman, J. P. Straley, and Xiaoya Qi
pp. 4709 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Comment on “Dispersion-Independent High-Visibility Quantum Interference in Ultrafast Parametric Down-Conversion”
Yoon-Ho Kim, Sergei P. Kulik, Morton H. Rubin, and Yanhua Shih
pp. 4710 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Comment on “Radial-Fluctuation-Induced Stabilization of the Ordered State in Two-Dimensional Classical Clusters”
Bernd Rinn and Philipp Maass
pp. 4711 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Schweigert, Schweigert, and Peeters Reply:
I. V. Schweigert, V. A. Schweigert, and F. M. Peeters
pp. 4712 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Comment on “Atomic Transport and Chemical Stability during Annealing of Ultrathin Al2O3 Films on Si”
M. Copel
pp. 4713 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Krug et al. Reply:
C. Krug, E. B. O. da Rosa, R. M. C. de Almeida, J. Morais, I. J. R. Baumvol, T. D. M. Salgado, and F. C. Stedile
pp. 4714 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Comment on “Analytic Structure of One-Dimensional Localization Theory: Reexamining Mott's Law”
Michael M. Fogler and Ziqiang Wang
pp. 4715 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Comment on “Two Time Scales and Violation of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in a Finite Dimensional Model for Structural Glasses”
A. de Candia and A. Coniglio
pp. 4716 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Ricci-Tersenghi et al. Reply:
F. Ricci-Tersenghi, G. Parisi, D. A. Stariolo, and J. J. Arenzon
pp. 4717 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Interplay of Genetic and Actual Lifespans
Hiroki Sayama and Yaneer Bar-Yam
pp. 4718 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Hwang, Krapivsky, and Redner Reply:
W. Hwang, P. L. Krapivsky, and S. Redner
pp. 4719 [View PDF (24 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Frequency Locking in Spatially Extended Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1130 (2001)]
Hwa-Kyun Park
pp. 4720 [View PDF (70 kB)]
 
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