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Physical Review Letters – 12 December 2003
Volume 91, Issue 24

The image (a) shows a 0.4-mm long atom laser beam, generated by extracting atoms from the Bose-Einstein condensate at the top. The atoms in the BEC and the beam are in mF = 0 spin states, making this laser (unlike earlier ones) insensitive to stray magnetic fields. The graph (b) depicts the beam's transverse spread, expected to be limited only by the uncertainty principle. [Giovanni Cennini, Gunnar Ritt, Carsten Geckeler, and Martin Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 240408 (2003)]

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Efficient Immunization Strategies for Computer Networks and Populations
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Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Averaging for Solitons with Nonlinearity Management
D. E. Pelinovsky, P. G. Kevrekidis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages)
240201 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Production of Long-Lived Ultracold Li2 Molecules from a Fermi Gas
J. Cubizolles, T. Bourdel, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and C. Salomon
Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages)
240401 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Pure Gas of Optically Trapped Molecules Created from Fermionic Atoms
S. Jochim, M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, G. Hendl, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm
Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages)
240402 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Quantum Fluctuations of a Vortex in an Optical Lattice
J.-P. Martikainen and H. T. C. Stoof
Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages)
240403 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Decoherence-Driven Cooling of a Degenerate Spinor Bose Gas
H. J. Lewandowski, J. M. McGuirk, D. M. Harber, and E. A. Cornell
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
240404 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Optically Induced Lensing Effect on a Bose-Einstein Condensate Expanding in a Moving Lattice
L. Fallani, F. S. Cataliotti, J. Catani, C. Fort, M. Modugno, M. Zawada, and M. Inguscio
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
240405 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Interference of Atomic Levels and Superfluid-Mott Insulator Phase Transitions in a Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate
K. V. Krutitsky and R. Graham
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
240406 [View PDF (194 kB)]
Gibbons-Hawking Effect in the Sonic de Sitter Space-Time of an Expanding Bose-Einstein-Condensed Gas
Petr O. Fedichev and Uwe R. Fischer
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
240407 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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All-Optical Realization of an Atom Laser
Giovanni Cennini, Gunnar Ritt, Carsten Geckeler, and Martin Weitz
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
240408 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Dynamical Robustness of Lévy Search Strategies
E. P. Raposo, Sergey V. Buldyrev, M. G. E. da Luz, M. C. Santos, H. Eugene Stanley, and G. M. Viswanathan
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
240601 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Low-Energy X-Ray Standards from Hydrogenlike Pionic Atoms
D. F. Anagnostopoulos, D. Gotta, P. Indelicato, and L. M. Simons
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
240801 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Determining Neutrino Mass from the Cosmic Microwave Background Alone
Manoj Kaplinghat, Lloyd Knox, and Yong-Seon Song
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
241301 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Constraining the Variation of Fundamental Constants using 18 cm OH Lines
Jayaram N. Chengalur and Nissim Kanekar
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Elementary Particles and Fields

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New Global Defect Structures
D. Bazeia, J. Menezes, and R. Menezes
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
241601 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Possible Supersymmetric Solution to the Discrepancy between B→ϕKS and B→η′KS CP Asymmetries
S. Khalil and E. Kou
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
241602 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Observation of a Significant Excess of π0π0 Events in B Meson Decays
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 11 December 2003 (7 pages)
241801 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Evidence for B→ϕϕK
H.-C. Huang et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 10 December 2003 (6 pages)
241802 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Midrapidity Neutral-Pion Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=200  GeV
S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)
Published 11 December 2003 (6 pages)
241803 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Measurement of Prompt Charm Meson Production Cross Sections in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV
D. Acosta et al. (CDF II Collaboration)
Published 12 December 2003 (7 pages)
241804 [View PDF (165 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Electromagnetic Meissner Effect in Spin-One Color Superconductors
Andreas Schmitt, Qun Wang, and Dirk H. Rischke
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
242301 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Phase Space Manipulation of Cold Free Radical OH Molecules
J. R. Bochinski, Eric R. Hudson, H. J. Lewandowski, Gerard Meijer, and Jun Ye
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
243001 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Precision Frequency Measurement of Visible Intercombination Lines of Strontium
G. Ferrari, P. Cancio, R. Drullinger, G. Giusfredi, N. Poli, M. Prevedelli, C. Toninelli, and G. M. Tino
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
243002 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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High-Precision Molecular Wave-Packet Interferometry with HgAr Dimers
Kenji Ohmori, Yukinori Sato, Evgueni E. Nikitin, and Stuart A. Rice
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
243003 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Enhancing Acceleration Radiation from Ground-State Atoms via Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
Marlan O. Scully, Vitaly V. Kocharovsky, Alexey Belyanin, Edward Fry, and Federico Capasso
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
243004 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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State Selective Charge Transfer Cross Sections for Na+ with Excited Rubidium: A Unique Diagnostic of the Population Dynamics of a Magneto-Optical Trap
X. Flechard, H. Nguyen, R. Bredy, S. R. Lundeen, M. Stauffer, H. A. Camp, C. W. Fehrenbach, and B. D. DePaola
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
243005 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Oxygen and Silver Clusters: Transition from Chemisorption to Oxidation
M. Schmidt, A. Masson, and C. Bréchignac
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
243401 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Optical Control of the Rotational Angular Momentum of a Molecular Rydberg Wave Packet
R. S. Minns, R. Patel, J. R. R. Verlet, and H. H. Fielding
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
243601 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Characterization of a Chaotic Optical Field Using a High-Gain, Self-Amplified Free-Electron Laser
Yuelin Li, Samuel Krinsky, John W. Lewellen, Kwang-Je Kim, Vadim Sajaev, and Stephen V. Milton
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
243602 [View PDF (334 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Ultrahigh Harmonics from Laser-Assisted Ion-Atom Collisions
Manfred Lein and Jan M. Rost
Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages)
243901 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Inhibiting the Onset of the Three-Photon Destructive Interference in Ultraslow Propagation-Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing with Dual Induced Transparency
L. Deng and M. G. Payne
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
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New Parametric Scattering in Photorefractive Sr0.61Ba0.39Nb2O6∶Cr
M. Goulkov, O. Shinkarenko, L. Ivleva, P. Lykov, T. Granzow, Th. Woike, M. Imlau, and M. Wöhlecke
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
243903 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Green Function Retrieval and Time Reversal in a Disordered World
B. A. van Tiggelen
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
243904 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Multifrequency Patterns in Arrays of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators
Visarath In, Andy Kho, Joseph D. Neff, Antonio Palacios, Patrick Longhini, and Brian K. Meadows
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
244101 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Dynamics of Axial Segregation and Coarsening of Dry Granular Materials and Slurries in Circular and Square Tubes
S. J. Fiedor and J. M. Ottino
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Pseudo Angular Momentum and Topological Charge Conservation for Nonlinear Acoustical Vortices
Jean-Louis Thomas and Régis Marchiano
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
244302 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Anisotropy and Universality: The Oslo Model, the Rice Pile Experiment, and the Quenched Edwards-Wilkinson Equation
Gunnar Pruessner and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Drifting Convection Cells in Rotating Fluid Layers Heated from Below
F. H. Busse
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Scaling of the Turbulence Transition Threshold in a Pipe
B. Hof, A. Juel, and T. Mullin
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of Helicity-Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes in Large-Helical-Device Plasmas Heated by Neutral-Beam Injection
S. Yamamoto, K. Toi, N. Nakajima, S. Ohdachi, S. Sakakibara, K. Y. Watanabe, M. Goto, K. Ikeda, O. Kaneko, K. Kawahata, S. Masuzaki, T. Morisaki, S. Morita, S. Murakami, K. Narihara, Y. Oka, M. Osakabe, Y. Takeiri, K. Tanaka, T. Tokuzawa, K. Tsumori, H. Yamada, I. Yamada, and K. Yamazaki (LHD Experimental Group)
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Observations of Electron Diffusion Regions at the Subsolar Magnetopause
F. S. Mozer, S. D. Bale, T. D. Phan, and J. A. Osborne
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
245002 [View PDF (336 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Unusual Thermal Diffusion in Polymer Solutions
Berend-Jan de Gans, Rio Kita, Simone Wiegand, and Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
245501 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Radiation Enhanced Silicon Self-Diffusion and the Silicon Vacancy at High Temperatures
H. Bracht, J. Fage Pedersen, N. Zangenberg, A. Nylandsted Larsen, E. E. Haller, G. Lulli, and M. Posselt
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Instabilities in Complex Mixtures with a Large Number of Components
Richard P. Sear and José A. Cuesta
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
245701 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Excitonic Absorption above the Mott Transition in Si
P. Grivickas, V. Grivickas, and J. Linnros
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Nontrivial Fixed Point in a Twofold Orbitally Degenerate Anderson Impurity Model
Michele Fabrizio, Andrew F. Ho, Lorenzo De Leo, and Giuseppe E. Santoro
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Diluted II-VI Oxide Semiconductors with Multiple Band Gaps
K. M. Yu, W. Walukiewicz, J. Wu, W. Shan, J. W. Beeman, M. A. Scarpulla, O. D. Dubon, and P. Becla
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
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Indium √7×√3 on Si(111): A Nearly Free Electron Metal in Two Dimensions
Eli Rotenberg, H. Koh, K. Rossnagel, H. W. Yeom, J. Schäfer, B. Krenzer, M. P. Rocha, and S. D. Kevan
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
246404 [View PDF (790 kB)]
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Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point in CeCoIn5
Johnpierre Paglione, M. A. Tanatar, D. G. Hawthorn, Etienne Boaknin, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, M. Sutherland, Louis Taillefer, C. Petrovic, and P. C. Canfield
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
246405 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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High Temperature Gate Control of Quantum Well Spin Memory
O. Z. Karimov, G. H. John, R. T. Harley, W. H. Lau, M. E. Flatté, M. Henini, and R. Airey
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
246601 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous Ferromagnetism and Unconventional Charge Dynamics in Disordered Double Exchange Magnets
Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
246602 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Electrical Detection of Spin Coherence in Silicon
Christoph Boehme and Klaus Lips
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
246603 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Transport Properties of Granular Metals at Low Temperatures
I. S. Beloborodov, K. B. Efetov, A. V. Lopatin, and V. M. Vinokur
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
246801 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Controlling a Mesoscopic Spin Environment by Quantum Bit Manipulation
J. M. Taylor, A. Imamoglu, and M. D. Lukin
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
246802 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Imaging Fractal Conductance Fluctuations and Scarred Wave Functions in a Quantum Billiard
R. Crook, C. G. Smith, A. C. Graham, I. Farrer, H. E. Beere, and D. A. Ritchie
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
246803 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Photocurrent, Rectification, and Magnetic Field Symmetry of Induced Current through Quantum Dots
L. DiCarlo, C. M. Marcus, and J. S. Harris, Jr.
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
246804 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Superconductivity in Doped sp3 Semiconductors: The Case of the Clathrates
D. Connétable, V. Timoshevskii, B. Masenelli, J. Beille, J. Marcus, B. Barbara, A. M. Saitta, G.-M. Rignanese, P. Mélinon, S. Yamanaka, and X. Blase
Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages)
247001 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Phase Separation in Asymmetrical Fermion Superfluids
Paulo F. Bedaque, Heron Caldas, and Gautam Rupak
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
247002 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Probing the Superconducting Gap Symmetry of PrOs4Sb12: A Penetration Depth Study
Elbert E. M. Chia, M. B. Salamon, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
247003 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Reentrant Behavior of the Phase Stiffness in Josephson Junction Arrays
Luca Capriotti, Alessandro Cuccoli, Andrea Fubini, Valerio Tognetti, and Ruggero Vaia
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
247004 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Tunable Magnetic Relaxation Mechanism in Magnetic Nanoparticles
Xavier Waintal and Piet W. Brouwer
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
247201 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Kondo Effect in the Presence of Itinerant-Electron Ferromagnetism Studied with the Numerical Renormalization Group Method
J. Martinek, M. Sindel, L. Borda, J. Barnaś, J. König, G. Schön, and J. von Delft
Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages)
247202 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Superradiance in Molecular H Aggregates
F. Meinardi, M. Cerminara, A. Sassella, R. Bonifacio, and R. Tubino
Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages)
247401 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Real-Time Capturing of the Nuclear Wave-Packet Shape in Self-Trapped Excitons
Taira Matsuoka, Jun Takeda, Susumu Kurita, and Tohru Suemoto
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
247402 [View PDF (695 kB)]
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Solid State Solvation in Amorphous Organic Thin Films
Conor F. Madigan and Vladimir Bulović
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
247403 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Broken Time Reversal of Light Interaction with Planar Chiral Nanostructures
A. S. Schwanecke, A. Krasavin, D. M. Bagnall, A. Potts, A. V. Zayats, and N. I. Zheludev
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
247404 [View PDF (517 kB)]
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Self-Organized Nanogratings in Glass Irradiated by Ultrashort Light Pulses
Yasuhiko Shimotsuma, Peter G. Kazansky, Jiarong Qiu, and Kazuoki Hirao
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
247405 [View PDF (631 kB)]
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Field Cooled and Zero Field Cooled 207Pb NMR and the Local Structure of Relaxor PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3
Robert Blinc, Valentin Laguta, and Boštjan Zalar
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
247601 [View PDF (208 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Efficient Immunization Strategies for Computer Networks and Populations
Reuven Cohen, Shlomo Havlin, and Daniel ben-Avraham
Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages)
247901 [View PDF (94 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Depletion Forces in Nonequilibrium
J. Dzubiella, H. Löwen, and C. N. Likos
Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages)
248301 [View PDF (207 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Left-Handed-Media Simulation and Transmission of EM Waves in Subwavelength Split-Ring-Resonator-Loaded Metallic Waveguides”
I. G. Kondrat’ev and A. I. Smirnov
Published 8 December 2003 (1 page)
249401 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Marqués et al. Reply:
R. Marqués, J. Martel, F. Mesa, and F. Medina
Published 8 December 2003 (1 page)
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