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Physical Review Letters – 29 October 2001
Volume 87, Issue 18

Numerical simulation plot of (a) the electric field and (b) the ion density inside a 'postsoliton' formed from the interaction of a high-intensity, ultrashort laser pulse with a plasma. [N. M. Naumova, S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, D. Farina, K. Nishihara, F. Pegoraro, H. Ruhl, and A. S. Sakharov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185004 (2001)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Stick-Slip Dynamics of a Stressed Ion Crystal
T. B. Mitchell, J. J. Bollinger, W. M. Itano, and D. H. E. Dubin
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
183001 [View PDF (660 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Approximate Boost of the Relativistic Two-Body Problem in the Instantaneous Formalism
S. J. Wallace
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
180401 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Thermal vs Quantum Decoherence in Double Well Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates
L. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
180402 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Dynamical Foundations of Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics
Christian Beck
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
180601 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Spin Susceptibility of Neutron Matter at Zero Temperature
S. Fantoni, A. Sarsa, and K. E. Schmidt
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
181101 [View PDF (100 kB)]
Perturbative Finiteness in Spin-Foam Quantum Gravity
Louis Crane, Alejandro Perez, and Carlo Rovelli
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
181301 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Electron-Spin Precession in a Plane Electromagnetic Wave
V. V. Tikhomirov
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
181801 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Proton Stability in Six Dimensions
Thomas Appelquist, Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Eduardo Pontón, and Ho-Ung Yee
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
181802 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Improved Upper Limits on the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decays B→Kℓ+ℓ- and B→K*(892)ℓ+ℓ-
S. Anderson et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
Published 15 October 2001 (5 pages)
181803 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Measurement of the Beam-Spin Azimuthal Asymmetry Associated with Deeply-Virtual Compton Scattering
A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)
Published 10 October 2001 (5 pages)
182001 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Observation of Exclusive Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering in Polarized Electron Beam Asymmetry Measurements
S. Stepanyan et al. (CLAS Collaboration)
Published 10 October 2001 (5 pages)
182002 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Identified Particle Elliptic Flow in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN = 130GeV
C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 10 October 2001 (6 pages)
182301 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Explosive Decomposition in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
O. Scavenius, A. Dumitru, and A. D. Jackson
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
182302 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Collective Dipole Bremsstrahlung in Fusion Reactions
V. Baran, D. M. Brink, M. Colonna, and M. Di Toro
Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages)
182501 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Photofissility of Actinide Nuclei at Intermediate Energies
A. Deppman, O. A. P. Tavares, S. B. Duarte, E. C. de Oliveira, J. D. T. Arruda-Neto, S. R. de Pina, V. P. Likhachev, O. Rodriguez, J. Mesa, and M. Gonçalves
Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages)
182701 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Stick-Slip Dynamics of a Stressed Ion Crystal
T. B. Mitchell, J. J. Bollinger, W. M. Itano, and D. H. E. Dubin
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
183001 [View PDF (660 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Cyclic Population Transfer in Quantum Systems with Broken Symmetry
Petr Král and Moshe Shapiro
Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages)
183002 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Observation of Magnetochiral Birefringence
M. Vallet, R. Ghosh, A. Le Floch, T. Ruchon, F. Bretenaker, and J.-Y. Thépot
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
183003 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Relativistic Fine Structure and Resonance Effects in Electron-Ion Recombination and Excitation of ( e+CIV)
Anil K. Pradhan, Guo Xin Chen, Sultana N. Nahar, and Hong Lin Zhang
Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages)
183201 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Bridging the Cluster-to-Bulk Divide: Electron Attachment Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Reveals Geometrical Shell Closings in (SF6)n Clusters (n = 2–550)
Oddur Ingólfsson and Alec M. Wodtke
Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages)
183401 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Quantum Cascade of Photons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
E. Moreau, I. Robert, L. Manin, V. Thierry-Mieg, J. M. Gérard, and I. Abram
Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages)
183601 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Interferometric Signatures of Single Molecules
Taras Plakhotnik and Viktor Palm
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
183602 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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High-Order Harmonic Generation in Aligned Molecules
R. Velotta, N. Hay, M. B. Mason, M. Castillejo, and J. P. Marangos
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
183901 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Focusing versus Defocusing Nonlinearities due to Parametric Wave Mixing
P. Di Trapani, A. Bramati, S. Minardi, W. Chinaglia, C. Conti, S. Trillo, J. Kilius, and G. Valiulis
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
183902 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Selective Excitation of Localized Modes in Active Random Media
C. Vanneste and P. Sebbah
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
183903 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Acoustic Attenuation by Two-Dimensional Arrays of Rigid Cylinders
You-Yu Chen and Zhen Ye
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
184301 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Does Turbulent Convection Feel the Shape of the Container?
Z. A. Daya and R. E. Ecke
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
184501 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Bunched Crystalline Ion Beams
U. Schramm, T. Schätz, and D. Habs
Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages)
184801 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Suppression of Transport Cross Phase by Strongly Sheared Flow
P. W. Terry, D. E. Newman, and A. S. Ware
Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages)
185001 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Theoretical Interpretation of Alfvén Cascades in Tokamaks with Nonmonotonic q Profiles
H. L. Berk, D. N. Borba, B. N. Breizman, S. D. Pinches, and S. E. Sharapov
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
185002 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Low-Frequency Responses and Wave Dispersion in Dusty Plasmas
V. N. Tsytovich, U. de Angelis, and R. Bingham
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
185003 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Formation of Electromagnetic Postsolitons in Plasmas
N. M. Naumova, S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, D. Farina, K. Nishihara, F. Pegoraro, H. Ruhl, and A. S. Sakharov
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
185004 [View PDF (610 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Evolutions of Competition of Multiple-Spin-Exchange Interactions and Structure in Submonolayer Solid 3He Film Adsorbed on Grafoil
Masashi Morishita and Takeo Takagi
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
185301 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Roton Excitation Spectrum in Liquid Helium II
V. I. Kruglov and M. J. Collett
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
185302 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Ion Fluctuations within an Aqueous Microdroplet in an Apolar Medium
Yu-Jane Sheng and Heng-Kwong Tsao
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
185501 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Evolution of Hydrogen Platelets in Silicon Determined by Polarized Raman Spectroscopy
E. V. Lavrov and J. Weber
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
185502 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Sharp Rigid to Floppy Phase Transition Induced by Dangling Ends in a Network Glass
Y. Wang, J. Wells, D. G. Georgiev, P. Boolchand, Koblar Jackson, and M. Micoulaut
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
185503 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Dewetting of Highly Elastic Thin Polymer Films
Günter Reiter
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
186101 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Step Dynamics in 3D Crystal Shape Relaxation
K. Thürmer, J. E. Reutt-Robey, Ellen D. Williams, M. Uwaha, A. Emundts, and H. P. Bonzel
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
186102 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Copper/Diamond Adhesion and Hydrogen Termination
Xiao-Gang Wang and John R. Smith
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
186103 [View PDF (645 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Cellular Dynamical Mean Field Approach to Strongly Correlated Systems
Gabriel Kotliar, Sergej Y. Savrasov, Gunnar Pálsson, and Giulio Biroli
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
186401 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Diagrammatic Quantum Monte Carlo for Two-Body Problems: Applied to Excitons
E. A. Burovski, A. S. Mishchenko, N. V. Prokof'ev, and B. V. Svistunov
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
186402 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Interaction-Induced Restoration of Phase Coherence
A. A. Clerk, P. W. Brouwer, and V. Ambegaokar
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
186801 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Fractional Surface Doping by Topological Neutral Wall Intersections on Ge(111)
G. Ballabio, A. Goldoni, S. Modesti, and E. Tosatti
Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages)
186802 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Modeling Two-Roton Bound State Formation in the Fractional Quantum Hall System
Tarun Kanti Ghosh and G. Baskaran
Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages)
186803 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Scaling Analysis of Magnetic-Field-Tuned Phase Transitions in One-Dimensional Josephson Junction Arrays
Watson Kuo and C. D. Chen
Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages)
186804 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Dynamical Offset Charges in Single-Electron Transistors
D. E. Grupp, T. Zhang, G. J. Dolan, and Ned S. Wingreen
Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages)
186805 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Fermi Liquid to Luttinger Liquid Transition at the Edge of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
M. Hilke, D. C. Tsui, M. Grayson, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
186806 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Electronic Transport in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays: The Effect of Structural Disorder on Scaling Behavior
Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Xiao-Min Lin, and Heinrich M. Jaeger
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
186807 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Giant Magnetoresistance by Exchange Springs in DyFe2/YFe2 Superlattices
S. N. Gordeev, J.-M. L. Beaujour, G. J. Bowden, B. D. Rainford, P. A. J. de Groot, R. C. C. Ward, M. R. Wells, and A. G. M. Jansen
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
186808 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Superconductivity at 1 K in Cd2Re2O7
M. Hanawa, Y. Muraoka, T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara, J. Yamaura, and Z. Hiroi
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
187001 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Origin of the Roughness Exponent in Elastic Strings at the Depinning Threshold
Alberto Rosso and Werner Krauth
Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages)
187002 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance of Proximity-Coupled Au Wires
D. A. Dikin, M. J. Black, and V. Chandrasekhar
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
187003 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Magnetic and Superconducting Instabilities of the Hubbard Model at the Van Hove Filling
Carsten Honerkamp and Manfred Salmhofer
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
187004 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Anomalous Thermal Hysteresis in Magnetization and Resistivity of La1-xSrxMnO3
Joonghoe Dho, W. S. Kim, and N. H. Hur
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
187201 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Dissipationless Spin Transport in Thin Film Ferromagnets
Jürgen König, Martin Chr. Bønsager, and A. H. MacDonald
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
187202 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Spin Tunneling via Dislocations in Mn12 Acetate Crystals
E. M. Chudnovsky and D. A. Garanin
Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages)
187203 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Nature of the Ordering in the Three-Dimensional XY Spin Glass
Hikaru Kawamura and Mai Suan Li
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
187204 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Far-Infrared Optical Response of Neutral-Ionic Phase Transition in an Organic Charge-Transfer Complex
Y. Okimoto, S. Horiuchi, E. Saitoh, R. Kumai, and Y. Tokura
Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages)
187401 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Triplet-Exciton Generation Mechanism in a New Soluble (Red-Phase) Polydiacetylene
G. Lanzani, G. Cerullo, M. Zavelani-Rossi, S. De Silvestri, Davide Comoretto, Gianfranco Musso, and Giovanna Dellepiane
Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages)
187402 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Infrared Photoemission from a Pure Gold Surface: Validation of the Lucky-Electron Model
F. Pisani, J. L. Fabre, S. Guizard, P. Palianov, Ph. Martin, F. Glotin, and J. M. Ortega
Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages)
187403 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Dislocation Related Photoluminescence in Silicon
A. T. Blumenau, R. Jones, S. Öberg, P. R. Briddon, and T. Frauenheim
Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages)
187404 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Surrogate Test for Pseudoperiodic Time Series Data
Michael Small, Dejin Yu, and Robert G. Harrison
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
188101 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Vibrational Energy Transfer in Helices
David M. Leitner
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
188102 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Gelation in Physically Associating Polymer Solutions
Sanat K. Kumar and Jack F. Douglas
Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages)
188301 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Transition from Self-Replicating Behavior to Stationary Patterns Induced by Concentration-Dependent Diffusivities
Marc R. Roussel and Jichang Wang
Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages)
188302 [View PDF (194 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Universal Fluctuations in Correlated Systems”
B. Zheng and S. Trimper
Published 11 October 2001 (1 page)
188901 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Bramwell et al. Reply:
S. T. Bramwell, K. Christensen, J.-Y. Fortin, P. C. W. Holdsworth, H. J. Jensen, S. Lise, J. M. López, M. Nicodemi, J.-F. Pinton, and M. Sellitto
Published 11 October 2001 (1 page)
188902 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Superlattice, Rhombus, Square, and Hexagonal Standing Waves in Magnetically Driven Ferrofluid Surface”
C. Wagner and H. W. Müller
Published 15 October 2001 (1 page)
189401 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Comment on “X-Ray Anomalous Scattering Study of a Charge-Ordered State in NaV2O5”
Joaquin Garcia and Maurizio Benfatto
Published 10 October 2001 (1 page)
189701 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Comment on “X-Ray Anomalous Scattering Study of a Charge-Ordered State in NaV2O5”
J. E. Lorenzo, S. Bos, S. Grenier, H. Renevier, and S. Ravy
Published 10 October 2001 (1 page)
189702 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Nakao et al. Reply:
H. Nakao, K. Ohwada, N. Takesue, Y. Fujii, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda, M. v. Zimmermann, J. P. Hill, D. Gibbs, J. C. Woicik, I. Koyama, and Y. Murakami
Published 10 October 2001 (1 page)
189703 [View PDF (48 kB)]
 
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