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Physical Review Letters – 22 October 2001
Volume 87, Issue 17

Experimental band structure map of bismuth measured by photoemission spectroscopy. [Christian R. Ast and Hartmut Höchst, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 177602 (2001)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Proposal for Detection of QED Vacuum Nonlinearities in Maxwell’s Equations by the Use of Waveguides
Gert Brodin, Mattias Marklund, and Lennart Stenflo
Published 4 October 2001 (3 pages)
171801 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Observation of Dynamical Ordering in a Confined Wigner Crystal
P. Glasson, V. Dotsenko, P. Fozooni, M. J. Lea, W. Bailey, G. Papageorgiou, S. E. Andresen, and A. Kristensen
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
176802 [View PDF (310 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Time-Domain Atom Interferometry across the Threshold for Bose-Einstein Condensation
F. Minardi, C. Fort, P. Maddaloni, M. Modugno, and M. Inguscio
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
170401 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Creating Massive Entanglement of Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms
Kristian Helmerson and Li You
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
170402 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Atom Laser Divergence
Y. Le Coq, J. H. Thywissen, S. A. Rangwala, F. Gerbier, S. Richard, G. Delannoy, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
170403 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Avalanches in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
J. Schuster, A. Marte, S. Amtage, B. Sang, G. Rempe, and H. C. W. Beijerinck
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
170404 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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No-Signaling Condition and Quantum Dynamics
Christoph Simon, Vladimír Bužek, and Nicolas Gisin
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
170405 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Diffusion with Random Distribution of Static Traps
G. T. Barkema, Parthapratim Biswas, and Henk van Beijeren
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
170601 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Probing Microquasars with TeV Neutrinos
Amir Levinson and Eli Waxman
Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages)
171101 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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TeV Neutrinos from Successful and Choked Gamma-Ray Bursts
Peter Mészáros and Eli Waxman
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
171102 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Extra Dimensions and the Strong CP Problem
Masud Chaichian and Archil B. Kobakhidze
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
171601 [View PDF (80 kB)]
Proposal for Detection of QED Vacuum Nonlinearities in Maxwell’s Equations by the Use of Waveguides
Gert Brodin, Mattias Marklund, and Lennart Stenflo
Published 4 October 2001 (3 pages)
171801 [View PDF (72 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Chiral Extrapolation of Lattice Moments of Proton Quark Distributions
W. Detmold, W. Melnitchouk, J. W. Negele, D. B. Renner, and A. W. Thomas
Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages)
172001 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Photoproduction of the ρ0 Meson on the Proton at Large Momentum Transfer
M. Battaglieri et al. ((CLAS Collaboration))
Published 8 October 2001 (5 pages)
172002 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Color-Flavor Locked Strangelets
Jes Madsen
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
172003 [View PDF (345 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Relativistic Effects and Two-Body Currents in 2H(e⃗,e′p)n Using Out-of-Plane Detection
Z.-L. Zhou et al. ((The MIT-Bates OOPS Collaboration))
Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages)
172301 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Partially Solvable Pair-Coupling Models with Seniority-Conserving Interactions
D. J. Rowe and G. Rosensteel
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
172501 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Six-Nucleon Spectroscopy from a Realistic Nonlocal Hamiltonian
P. Navrátil, J. P. Vary, W. E. Ormand, and B. R. Barrett
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
172502 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Empirical Investigation of Extreme Single-Particle Behavior of Nuclear Quadrupole Moments in Highly Collective A∼150 Superdeformed Bands
S. T. Clark, G. Hackman, R. V. F. Janssens, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, S. N. Floor, G. J. Lane, A. O. Macchiavelli, J. Norris, S. J. Sanders, and C. E. Svensson
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
172503 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Determination of the Phase Difference between Even and Odd Continuum Wave Functions in Atoms through Quantum Interference Measurements
Zheng-Min Wang and D. S. Elliott
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
173001 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Precision Microwave Measurement of the 23P1-23P0 Interval in Atomic Helium: A Determination of the Fine-Structure Constant
M. C. George, L. D. Lombardi, and E. A. Hessels
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
173002 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Transition from Collisionless to Hydrodynamic Behavior in an Ultracold Fermi Gas
S. D. Gensemer and D. S. Jin
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
173201 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Complete Reconstruction of the Quantum State of a Single-Photon Wave Packet Absorbed by a Doppler-Broadened Transition
S. A. Moiseev and S. Kröll
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
173601 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Thermal Effects on Atomic Friction
Yi Sang, Martin Dubé, and Martin Grant
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
174301 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Retardation of the Onset of Turbulence by Minor Viscosity Contrasts
Rama Govindarajan, Victor S. L'vov, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages)
174501 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Defect-Unbinding Transition: Defect Trajectories and Loop Statistics
Glen D. Granzow and Hermann Riecke
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
174502 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Dispersion Coefficients from a Field-Theoretic Renormalization of Fluid Mechanics
Michael W. Deem and Jeong-Man Park
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
174503 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Physical Disorder and Optical Properties in the Vacuum Ultraviolet Region of Amorphous SiO2
Hideo Hosono, Yoshiaki Ikuta, Takeru Kinoshita, Kouichi Kajihara, and Masahiro Hirano
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
175501 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Fractal to Nonfractal Phase Transition in the Dielectric Breakdown Model
M. B. Hastings
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
175502 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Relaxation Times in Polymer Knot Groups
Pik-Yin Lai, Yu-Jane Sheng, and Heng-Kwong Tsao
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
175503 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Probing Jump Diffusion in Crystalline Solids with Neutron Spin-Echo Spectroscopy
M. Kaisermayr, C. Pappas, B. Sepiol, and G. Vogl
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
175901 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Computer Simulation Study of the Interface Width of the Liquid/Liquid Interface
Sanjib Senapati and Max L. Berkowitz
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
176101 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Disorder-Driven Critical Behavior of Periodic Elastic Media in a Crystal Potential
Jae Dong Noh and Heiko Rieger
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
176102 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Crossover from First-Order to Critical Wetting: Short-Range Tricritical Wetting
David Ross, Daniel Bonn, Anna I. Posazhennikova, Joseph O. Indekeu, and Jacques Meunier
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
176103 [View PDF (112 kB)]
Images of Nanobubbles on Hydrophobic Surfaces and Their Interactions
James W. G. Tyrrell and Phil Attard
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
176104 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Island Nucleation in a Reactive Two-Component System
T. H. McDaniels, J. A. Venables, and P. A. Bennett
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
176105 [View PDF (414 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Exciton Formation in Semiconductors and the Influence of a Photonic Environment
M. Kira, W. Hoyer, T. Stroucken, and S. W. Koch
Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages)
176401 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Fermi Surface of Nanocrystalline Embedded Particles in Materials: bcc Cu in Fe
Y. Nagai, T. Chiba, Z. Tang, T. Akahane, T. Kanai, M. Hasegawa, M. Takenaka, and E. Kuramoto
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
176402 [View PDF (728 kB)]
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Valence-Band Hybridization and Core Level Shifts in Random Ag-Pd Alloys
I. A. Abrikosov, W. Olovsson, and B. Johansson
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
176403 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Excess Kondo Resonance in a Quantum Dot Device with Normal and Superconducting Leads: The Physics of Andreev-Normal Co-tunneling
Qing-feng Sun, Hong Guo, and Tsung-han Lin
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
176601 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Confined Plasmons in Metallic Nanocavities
S. Coyle, M. C. Netti, J. J. Baumberg, M. A. Ghanem, P. R. Birkin, P. N. Bartlett, and D. M. Whittaker
Published 2 October 2001 (4 pages)
176801 [View PDF (373 kB)]
Observation of Dynamical Ordering in a Confined Wigner Crystal
P. Glasson, V. Dotsenko, P. Fozooni, M. J. Lea, W. Bailey, G. Papageorgiou, S. E. Andresen, and A. Kristensen
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
176802 [View PDF (310 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Luminescence from Metallic Quantum Wells in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Germar Hoffmann, Jörg Kliewer, and Richard Berndt
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
176803 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Steps in the Negative-Differential-Conductivity Regime of a Superconductor
Milind N. Kunchur, B. I. Ivlev, and J. M. Knight
Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages)
177001 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Collective Interaction-Driven Ratchet for Transporting Flux Quanta
C. J. Olson, C. Reichhardt, B. Jankó, and Franco Nori
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
177002 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Magnetic Field Dependence of the Transverse Plasmon in SmLa0.8Sr0.2CuO4-δ
A. Pimenov, A. Loidl, D. Dulić, D. van der Marel, I. M. Sutjahja, and A. A. Menovsky
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
177003 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Doping and Magnetic Field Dependence of In-Plane Tunneling into YBa2Cu3O7-x: Possible Evidence for the Existence of a Quantum Critical Point
Y. Dagan and G. Deutscher
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
177004 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Analysis of the Elementary Excitations in High- Tc Cuprates: Explanation of the New Energy Scale Observed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
D. Manske, I. Eremin, and K. H. Bennemann
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
177005 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Evidence for a Multiple Superconducting Gap in MgB2 from High-Resolution Photoemission Spectroscopy
S. Tsuda, T. Yokoya, T. Kiss, Y. Takano, K. Togano, H. Kito, H. Ihara, and S. Shin
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
177006 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Doping and Temperature Dependence of the Mass Enhancement Observed in the Cuprate Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
P. D. Johnson, T. Valla, A. V. Fedorov, Z. Yusof, B. O. Wells, Q. Li, A. R. Moodenbaugh, G. D. Gu, N. Koshizuka, C. Kendziora, Sha Jian, and D. G. Hinks
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
177007 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Two-Gap State Density in MgB2: A True Bulk Property Or A Proximity Effect?
F. Giubileo, D. Roditchev, W. Sacks, R. Lamy, D. X. Thanh, J. Klein, S. Miraglia, D. Fruchart, J. Marcus, and Ph. Monod
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
177008 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Effect of Fluctuations on Vortex Lattice Structural Transitions in Superconductors
A. Gurevich and V. G. Kogan
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
177009 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Tc Suppression in Co-Doped Striped Cuprates
C. Morais Smith, A. H. Castro Neto, and A. V. Balatsky
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
177010 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Frustration Driven Lattice Distortion: An NMR Investigation of Y2Mo2O7
Amit Keren and Jason S. Gardner
Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages)
177201 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Partially Disordered Antiferromagnetic Phase in Ca3CoRhO6
S. Niitaka, K. Yoshimura, K. Kosuge, M. Nishi, and K. Kakurai
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
177202 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Excitations of the Field-Induced Quantum Soliton Lattice in CuGeO3
M. Enderle, H. M. Rønnow, D. F. McMorrow, L.-P. Regnault, G. Dhalenne, A. Revcholevschi, P. Vorderwisch, H. Schneider, P. Smeibidl, and M. Meißner
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
177203 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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139La NMR Investigation of Quasistatic Orbital Ordering in La1-xCaxMnO3
G. Papavassiliou, M. Belesi, M. Fardis, and C. Dimitropoulos
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
177204 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Critical Exponents at the Ferromagnetic Transition in Tetrakis(dimethylamino)ethylene- C60 (TDAE- C60)
Aleš Omerzu, Madoka Tokumoto, Bosiljka Tadić, and Dragan Mihailovic
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
177205 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Spinon-Holon Attraction in the Supersymmetric t-J Model with 1/r2 Interaction
B. A. Bernevig, D. Giuliano, and R. B. Laughlin
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
177206 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Large Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity of Cu-O Chains Investigated by Third-Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy
H. Kishida, M. Ono, K. Miura, H. Okamoto, M. Izumi, T. Manako, M. Kawasaki, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, T. Tohyama, K. Tsutsui, and S. Maekawa
Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages)
177401 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Total Energy Distribution of Field-Emitted Electrons from Al(100) Surface with Single-Atom Terminated Protrusion
Y. Gohda and S. Watanabe
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
177601 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Fermi Surface of Bi(111) Measured by Photoemission Spectroscopy
Christian R. Ast and Hartmut Höchst
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
177602 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Statistical Distinguishability between Unitary Operations
A. Acín
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
177901 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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From Macroscopic Adhesion Energy to Molecular Bonds: A Test of the Theory
Frédéric Pincet, Eric Perez, Jean-Christophe Loudet, and Luc Lebeau
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
178101 [View PDF (541 kB)]
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New Lattice-Boltzmann Model for Magnetic Fluids
Miki Hirabayashi, Yu Chen, and Hirotada Ohashi
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
178301 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Molecular and Continuum Boundary Conditions for a Miscible Binary Fluid
Colin Denniston and Mark O. Robbins
Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages)
178302 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Avalanche Behavior in the Dynamics of Chemical Reactions
J. R. Claycomb, K. E. Bassler, J. H. Miller, Jr., M. Nersesyan, and D. Luss
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
178303 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Double Emulsions: A Tool for Probing Thin-Film Metastability
K. Pays, J. Giermanska-Kahn, B. Pouligny, J. Bibette, and F. Leal-Calderon
Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages)
178304 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Deformation and Flow of a Two-Dimensional Foam under Continuous Shear
G. Debrégeas, H. Tabuteau, and J.-M di Meglio
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
178305 [View PDF (340 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Interfacial Properties of Polymeric Liquids”
Sanat K. Kumar and Ronald L. Jones
Published 3 October 2001 (1 page)
179601 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Aubouy, Manghi, and Raphaël Reply:
Miguel Aubouy, Manoel Manghi, and Elie Raphaël
Published 3 October 2001 (1 page)
179602 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Comment on “Half-Polarized Quantum Hall States”
Ganpathy Murthy
Published 3 October 2001 (1 page)
179701 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Comment on “Abrupt Appearance of the Domain Pattern and Fatigue of Thin Ferroelectric Films”
Alexander K. Tagantsev
Published 3 October 2001 (1 page)
179702 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Bratkovsky and Levanyuk Reply:
A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk
Published 3 October 2001 (1 page)
179703 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Comment on “Mesoscopic Kondo Effect in an Aharonov-Bohm Ring”
A. A. Zvyagin
Published 8 October 2001 (1 page)
179704 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Kang and Cho Reply:
Kicheon Kang and Sam Young Cho
Published 8 October 2001 (1 page)
179705 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Comment on “Reversible, Nanometer-Scale Conductance Transitions in an Organic Complex”
Yanming Zhao, Asa Fein, Charles A. Peterson, and Dror Sarid
Published 9 October 2001 (1 page)
179706 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Gao et al. Reply:
H. J. Gao, K. Sohlberg, Z. Q. Xue, H. Y. Chen, S. M. Hou, L. P. Ma, X. W. Fang, and S. J. Pennycook
Published 9 October 2001 (1 page)
179707 [View PDF (27 kB)]
 
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