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Physical Review Letters – 7 February 2003
Volume 90, Issue 5

Representation of a proposed nano-oscillator capable of gigahertz oscillations; both sealed and "presealed" versions are depicted. In the device, an inner carbon nanotube (yellow) oscillates inside a larger tube under the influence of the van der Waals force between them; the sealing would help to prevent contamination. [S. B. Legoas, V. R. Coluci, S. F. Braga, P. Z. Coura, S. O. Dantas, and D. S. Galvão, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055504 (2003)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Shadowing High-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems: The Gravitational N-body Problem
Wayne B. Hayes
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
054104 [View PDF (98 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Theoretical Study of the Optical Manipulation of Semiconductor Nanoparticles under an Excitonic Resonance Condition
Takuya Iida and Hajime Ishihara
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
057403 [View PDF (286 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Classical Correlations and Entanglement in Quantum Measurements
V. Vedral
Published 3 February 2003 (4 pages)
050401 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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When is Quantum Decoherence Dynamics Classical?
Jiangbin Gong and Paul Brumer
Published 3 February 2003 (4 pages)
050402 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Off-Diagonal Geometric Phase for Mixed States
Stefan Filipp and Erik Sjöqvist
Published 3 February 2003 (4 pages)
050403 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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Dynamical Instability in a Trimeric Chain of Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates
P. Buonsante, R. Franzosi, and V. Penna
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
050404 [View PDF (275 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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B0→D*-a1+: Chirality Tests and Resolving an Ambiguity in the CP Violation Parameter 2β+γ
Michael Gronau, Dan Pirjol, and Daniel Wyler
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
051801 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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b-τ Unification and Large Atmospheric Mixing: A Case for a Noncanonical Seesaw Mechanism
Borut Bajc, Goran Senjanović, and Francesco Vissani
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
051802 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Q2 Dependence of Nuclear Transparency for Exclusive ρ0 Production
A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)
Published 6 February 2003 (6 pages)
052501 [View PDF (309 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Experiments with a 3D Double Optical Lattice
Harald Ellmann, Johan Jersblad, and Anders Kastberg
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
053001 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Above Threshold Ionization in Tightly Focused, Strongly Relativistic Laser Fields
A. Maltsev and T. Ditmire
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
053002 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Complete Two-Electron Spectra in Double Photoionization: The Rare Gases Ar, Kr, and Xe
J. H. D. Eland, O. Vieuxmaire, T. Kinugawa, P. Lablanquie, R. I. Hall, and F. Penent
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
053003 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Tuning p-Wave Interactions in an Ultracold Fermi Gas of Atoms
C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
053201 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Recombination of Three Ultracold Fermionic Atoms
H. Suno, B. D. Esry, and Chris H. Greene
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
053202 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Cluster Growing Process and a Sequence of Magic Numbers
Ilia A. Solov’yov, Andrey V. Solov’yov, Walter Greiner, Andrey Koshelev, and Andrey Shutovich
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
053401 [View PDF (280 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Temporal Shaping of Femtosecond Solitary Pulses in Photoionized Media
Hélène Ward and Luc Bergé
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
053901 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Band-Gap Structure of Waveguide Arrays and Excitation of Floquet-Bloch Solitons
D. Mandelik, H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, and J. S. Aitchison
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
053902 [View PDF (623 kB)]
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New Type of Polariton in a Piezoelectric Superlattice
Yong-yuan Zhu, Xue-jin Zhang, Yan-qing Lu, Yan-feng Chen, Shi-ning Zhu, and Nai-ben Ming
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
053903 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Observation of Vector Vortex Lattices in Polarization States of an Isotropic Microcavity Laser
Y. F. Chen, K. F. Huang, H. C. Lai, and Y. P. Lan
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
053904 [View PDF (632 kB)]
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Signatures of Quantum Stability in a Classically Chaotic System
S. Schlunk, M. B. d’Arcy, S. A. Gardiner, D. Cassettari, R. M. Godun, and G. S. Summy
Published 3 February 2003 (4 pages)
054101 [View PDF (677 kB)]
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Coherent Regimes of Globally Coupled Dynamical Systems
Silvia De Monte, Francesco d’Ovidio, and Erik Mosekilde
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
054102 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Parametrically Driven Dark Solitons
I. V. Barashenkov, S. R. Woodford, and E. V. Zemlyanaya
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
054103 [View PDF (247 kB)]
Shadowing High-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems: The Gravitational N-body Problem
Wayne B. Hayes
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
054104 [View PDF (98 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Reconnection of Colliding Vortex Rings
Philippe Chatelain, Demosthenes Kivotides, and Anthony Leonard
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
054501 [View PDF (460 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Barriers for Transport in Turbulent Plasmas
Vincenzo Carbone, Fabio Lepreti, and Pierluigi Veltri
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
055001 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Backscattering of an Intense Laser Beam by an Electron
Fei He, Y. Y. Lau, Donald P. Umstadter, and Richard Kowalczyk
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
055002 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Decharging of Complex Plasmas: First Kinetic Observations
A. V. Ivlev, M. Kretschmer, M. Zuzic, G. E. Morfill, H. Rothermel, H. M. Thomas, V. E. Fortov, V. I. Molotkov, A. P. Nefedov, A. M. Lipaev, O. F. Petrov, Yu. M. Baturin, A. I. Ivanov, and J. Goree
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
055003 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Supersonic Plume Moving along a Magnetized Plasma
F. S. Tsung, G. J. Morales, and J. N. Leboeuf
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
055004 [View PDF (394 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Light Transport through the Band-Edge States of Fibonacci Quasicrystals
Luca Dal Negro, Claudio J. Oton, Zeno Gaburro, Lorenzo Pavesi, Patrick Johnson, Ad Lagendijk, Roberto Righini, Marcello Colocci, and Diederik S. Wiersma
Published 3 February 2003 (4 pages)
055501 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Hydrogenated Silicon Fullerenes: Effects of H on the Stability of Metal-Encapsulated Silicon Clusters
Vijay Kumar and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
055502 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Scaling Relations for Implantation of Size-Selected Au, Ag, and Si Clusters into Graphite
S. Pratontep, P. Preece, C. Xirouchaki, R. E. Palmer, C. F. Sanz-Navarro, S. D. Kenny, and R. Smith
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
055503 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of Carbon Nanotubes as Gigahertz Oscillators
S. B. Legoas, V. R. Coluci, S. F. Braga, P. Z. Coura, S. O. Dantas, and D. S. Galvão
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
055504 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Mechanisms of Radiation-Induced Viscous Flow: Role of Point Defects
S. G. Mayr, Y. Ashkenazy, K. Albe, and R. S. Averback
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
055505 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Direct Imaging of Sc2@C84 Molecules Encapsulated Inside Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by High Resolution Electron Microscopy with Atomic Sensitivity
K. Suenaga, T. Okazaki, C.-R. Wang, S. Bandow, H. Shinohara, and S. Iijima
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
055506 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Photorefractivity in Nanostructured Tin-Silicate Glass Ceramics: A Radiation-Induced Nanocluster Size Effect
N. Chiodini, A. Paleari, and G. Spinolo
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
055507 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Infrared-Phonon–Polariton Resonance of the Nonlinear Susceptibility in GaAs
T. Dekorsy, V. A. Yakovlev, W. Seidel, M. Helm, and F. Keilmann
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
055508 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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C60 Molecular Bearings
K. Miura, S. Kamiya, and N. Sasaki
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
055509 [View PDF (542 kB)]
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Dispersive Phonon Linewidths: The E2 Phonons of ZnO
J. Serrano, F. J. Manjón, A. H. Romero, F. Widulle, R. Lauck, and M. Cardona
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
055510 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Relation between Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Glass-Forming Liquids
Hajime Tanaka
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
055701 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Adatom Kinetics On and Below the Surface: The Existence of a New Diffusion Channel
Jörg Neugebauer, Tosja K. Zywietz, Matthias Scheffler, John E. Northrup, Huajie Chen, and R. M. Feenstra
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
056101 [View PDF (636 kB)]
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Potential-Induced Strain Relaxation in Au Mono- and Bilayer Films on Pt(111) Electrode Surfaces
E. Sibert, F. Ozanam, F. Maroun, O. M. Magnussen, and R. J. Behm
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
056102 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Irreversibility and Polymer Adsorption
Ben O’Shaughnessy and Dimitrios Vavylonis
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
056103 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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New (√3×√3)R30° Phase of Pb on Ge(111) and Its Consequence for the Melting Transition
M. F. Reedijk, J. Arsic, D. Kaminski, P. Poodt, J. W. M van Kessel, W. J. Szweryn, H. Knops, and E. Vlieg
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
056104 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Linear Response Calculations of Lattice Dynamics in Strongly Correlated Systems
S. Y. Savrasov and G. Kotliar
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
056401 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Anomalous Temperature Dependence of the Dephasing Time in Mesoscopic Kondo Wires
Félicien Schopfer, Christopher Bäuerle, Wilfried Rabaud, and Laurent Saminadayar
Published 3 February 2003 (4 pages)
056801 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Quantum Ratchet Effect for Vortices
J. B. Majer, J. Peguiron, M. Grifoni, M. Tusveld, and J. E. Mooij
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
056802 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Observation of Spin-Polarized Surface States on Ultrathin bct Mn(001) Films by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
T. K. Yamada, M. M. J. Bischoff, G. M. M. Heijnen, T. Mizoguchi, and H. van Kempen
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
056803 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Real-Space Observation of Drift States in a Two-Dimensional Electron System at High Magnetic Fields
M. Morgenstern, J. Klijn, Chr. Meyer, and R. Wiesendanger
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
056804 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Spin Susceptibility of an Ultra-Low-Density Two-Dimensional Electron System
J. Zhu, H. L. Stormer, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
056805 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Resistivity of Dilute 2D Electrons in an Undoped GaAs Heterostructure
M. P. Lilly, J. L. Reno, J. A. Simmons, I. B. Spielman, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, E. H. Hwang, and S. Das Sarma
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
056806 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Specific Heat of the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor Pr⁡Os4Sb12
R. Vollmer, A. Faißt, C. Pfleiderer, H. v. Löhneysen, E. D. Bauer, P.-C. Ho, V. Zapf, and M. B. Maple
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
057001 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Berry Phase in Magnetic Superconductors
Shuichi Murakami and Naoto Nagaosa
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
057002 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Heavy Quasiparticles in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor ZrZn2
S. J. C. Yates, G. Santi, S. M. Hayden, P. J. Meeson, and S. B. Dugdale
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
057003 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Magnetic-Field Dependence of the Maximum Supercurrent of La2-xCexCuO4-y Interferometers: Evidence for a Predominant dx2-y2 Superconducting Order Parameter
B. Chesca, K. Ehrhardt, M. Mößle, R. Straub, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, and A. Tsukada
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
057004 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Magnetic Ground State of Pure and Doped CeFe2
L. Paolasini, B. Ouladdiaf, N. Bernhoeft, J-P. Sanchez, P. Vulliet, G. H. Lander, and P. Canfield
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Optical Properties of Gold Nanorings
J. Aizpurua, P. Hanarp, D. S. Sutherland, M. Käll, Garnett W. Bryant, and F. J. García de Abajo
Published 3 February 2003 (4 pages)
057401 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Electron-Hole Capture Kinetics in Luminescent Conjugated Polymers
Stoyan Karabunarliev and Eric R. Bittner
Published 3 February 2003 (4 pages)
057402 [View PDF (191 kB)]
Theoretical Study of the Optical Manipulation of Semiconductor Nanoparticles under an Excitonic Resonance Condition
Takuya Iida and Hajime Ishihara
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
057403 [View PDF (286 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
J-S. Lauret, C. Voisin, G. Cassabois, C. Delalande, Ph. Roussignol, O. Jost, and L. Capes
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
057404 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Optimal Remote State Preparation
Dominic W. Berry and Barry C. Sanders
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
057901 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Secure Quantum Key Distribution with an Uncharacterized Source
Masato Koashi and John Preskill
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
057902 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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A Wave Traveling over a Hopf Instability Shapes the Cochlear Tuning Curve
Marcelo O. Magnasco
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
058101 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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New Interpretation of Local Dynamics of Poly(Dimethyl Siloxane) Observed by Quasielastic Neutron Scattering
Valeria Arrighi, Fabio Ganazzoli, Chuhong Zhang, and Simona Gagliardi
Published 3 February 2003 (4 pages)
058301 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Transition from Free to Constrained Single-Segment Motion in Entangled Polymer Melts
A. Wischnewski, M. Monkenbusch, L. Willner, D. Richter, and G. Kali
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
058302 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Stochastic Resonance in Geomagnetic Polarity Reversals
Giuseppe Consolini and Paola De Michelis
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
058501 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Scale-Free Networks Are Ultrasmall
Reuven Cohen and Shlomo Havlin
Published 4 February 2003 (4 pages)
058701 [View PDF (90 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Reevaluation of the Crossover from Elastic to Capillary Surface Waves on Soft Gels
Yuriy A. Kosevich, Keunho Ahn, and Mahn Won Kim
Published 6 February 2003 (1 page)
059601 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Monroy and Langevin Reply:
Francisco Monroy and Dominique Langevin
Published 6 February 2003 (1 page)
059602 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Comment on “Symmetrical Temperature-Chaos Effect with Positive and Negative Temperature Shifts in a Spin Glass”
Ludovic Berthier and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Published 6 February 2003 (1 page)
059701 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Jönsson, Yoshino, and Nordblad Reply:
P. E. Jönsson, H. Yoshino, and P. Nordblad
Published 6 February 2003 (1 page)
059702 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Comment on “Universal Intermediate Phases of Dilute Electronic and Molecular Glasses”
T. G. Castner
Published 6 February 2003 (1 page)
059703 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Phillips Replies:
J. C. Phillips
Published 6 February 2003 (1 page)
059704 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Comment on “Magnetic Relaxation of Interacting Co Clusters: Crossover from Two- to Three-Dimensional Lattices”
Mikkel F. Hansen and Steen Mørup
Published 7 February 2003 (1 page)
059705 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Luis et al. Reply:
F. Luis, F. Petroff, J. M. Torres, L. M. García, J. Bartolomé, J. Carrey, and A. Vaurès
Published 7 February 2003 (1 page)
059706 [View PDF (56 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Dalitz Analysis of D0→KS0π+π- [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 251802 (2002)]
H. Muramatsu et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
Published 6 February 2003 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (35 kB)]
 
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