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Physical Review Letters – 19 December 2003
Volume 91, Issue 25

The figure is an atomically resolved STM image of the topmost oxygen layer in a Al2O3 film on a NaAl substrate. The unit cell is illustrated in the upper right corner; atoms with the largest apparent height are indicated by the filled-in gray circles. The zigzag pattern seen in the image is thought to result from every second oxygen atom sticking out a bit from the surface. [M. Kulawik, N. Nilius, H.-P. Rust, and H.-J. Freund, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 256101 (2003)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Are Cluster Magnetic Fields Primordial?
Robi Banerjee and Karsten Jedamzik
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
251301 [View PDF (161 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules
M. W. Zwierlein, C. A. Stan, C. H. Schunck, S. M. F. Raupach, S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, and W. Ketterle
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
250401 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Exciting Collective Oscillations in a Trapped 1D Gas
Henning Moritz, Thilo Stöferle, Michael Köhl, and Tilman Esslinger
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
250402 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Quantitative Test of Thermal Field Theory for Bose-Einstein Condensates
S. A. Morgan, M. Rusch, D. A. W. Hutchinson, and K. Burnett
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
250403 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Spectroscopic Insensitivity to Cold Collisions in a Two-State Mixture of Fermions
Martin W. Zwierlein, Zoran Hadzibabic, Subhadeep Gupta, and Wolfgang Ketterle
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
250404 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Quantum Kalman Filtering and the Heisenberg Limit in Atomic Magnetometry
JM Geremia, John K. Stockton, Andrew C. Doherty, and Hideo Mabuchi
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
250801 [View PDF (225 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Are Cluster Magnetic Fields Primordial?
Robi Banerjee and Karsten Jedamzik
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
251301 [View PDF (161 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Revisited
V. Elias, R. B. Mann, D. G. C. McKeon, and T. G. Steele
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
251601 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Planar Amplitudes in Maximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
C. Anastasiou, L. Dixon, Z. Bern, and D. A. Kosower
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
251602 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Leptogenesis from Supersymmetry Breaking
Yuval Grossman, Tamar Kashti, Yosef Nir, and Esteban Roulet
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
251801 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Observation of an Exotic S=+1 Baryon in Exclusive Photoproduction from the Deuteron
S. Stepanyan et al. (CLAS Collaboration)
Published 19 December 2003 (5 pages)
252001 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Determination of the 8B Neutrino Spectrum
W. T. Winter, S. J. Freedman, K. E. Rehm, I. Ahmad, J. P. Greene, A. Heinz, D. Henderson, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, E. F. Moore, G. Mukherjee, R. C. Pardo, T. Pennington, G. Savard, J. P. Schiffer, D. Seweryniak, G. Zinkann, and M. Paul
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
252501 [View PDF (208 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Quantum Coherence in the Time-Resolved Auger Measurement
Olga Smirnova, Vladislav S. Yakovlev, and Armin Scrinzi
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
253001 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Interaction-Induced Decoherence of Atomic Bloch Oscillations
Andreas Buchleitner and Andrey R. Kolovsky
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
253002 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Chaotic Filtering of Moving Atoms in Pulsed Optical Lattices by Control of Dynamical Localization
T. Jonckheere, M. R. Isherwood, and T. S. Monteiro
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
253003 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Measurement of the Phase of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses
G. G. Paulus, F. Lindner, H. Walther, A. Baltuška, E. Goulielmakis, M. Lezius, and F. Krausz
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
253004 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Probing Scattering Wave Functions Close to the Nucleus
D. H. Madison, D. Fischer, M. Foster, M. Schulz, R. Moshammer, S. Jones, and J. Ullrich
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
253201 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Integral Representation for the Electron-Atom Ionization Amplitude which is Free of Ambiguity and Divergence Problems
A. S. Kadyrov, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, A. T. Stelbovics, and I. Bray
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
253202 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Lamb Shift of Laser-Dressed Atomic States
Ulrich D. Jentschura, Jörg Evers, Martin Haas, and Christoph H. Keitel
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
253601 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Second Harmonic Generation due to Quadrupole Interaction in a Photonic Crystal Slab: Angle Dependence and Symmetry of the Unit Cell
Teruya Ishihara, Kazuki Koshino, and Hisashi Nakashima
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
253901 [View PDF (621 kB)]
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Resonant Behavior of Dielectric Objects (Electrostatic Resonances)
D. R. Fredkin and I. D. Mayergoyz
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
253902 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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New Method for Computing Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponents
T. Okushima
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
254101 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Quantum Necking in Stressed Metallic Nanowires
J. Bürki, Raymond E. Goldstein, and C. A. Stafford
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
254501 [View PDF (241 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Transport and Reconnection in Tokamak Sawteeth
K. W. Gentle, M. E. Austin, and P. E. Phillips
Published 16 December 2003 (3 pages)
255001 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Spatial Uniformity of Laser-Accelerated Ultrahigh-Current MeV Electron Propagation in Metals and Insulators
J. Fuchs, T. E. Cowan, P. Audebert, H. Ruhl, L. Gremillet, A. Kemp, M. Allen, A. Blazevic, J.-C. Gauthier, M. Geissel, M. Hegelich, S. Karsch, P. Parks, M. Roth, Y. Sentoku, R. Stephens, and E. M. Campbell
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
255002 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Transverse Optical Mode in a One-Dimensional Yukawa Chain
Bin Liu, K. Avinash, and J. Goree
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
255003 [View PDF (193 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Bogoliubov Shadow Bands in the Normal State of Superconducting Systems with Strong Pair Fluctuations
T. Domanski and J. Ranninger
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
255301 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Electronic Structure of a Polydiacetylene Nanowire Fabricated on Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite
M. Akai-Kasaya, K. Shimizu, Y. Watanabe, A. Saito, M. Aono, and Y. Kuwahara
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
255501 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Charge Transfer in Double-Perovskite-Like RbMn[Fe(CN)6]
K. Kato, Y. Moritomo, M. Takata, M. Sakata, M. Umekawa, N. Hamada, S. Ohkoshi, H. Tokoro, and K. Hashimoto
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
255502 [View PDF (743 kB)]
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Transition from Kardar-Parisi-Zhang to Tilted Interface Critical Behavior in a Solvable Asymmetric Avalanche Model
A. M. Povolotsky, V. B. Priezzhev, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
255701 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Atomic Structure of Antiphase Domain Boundaries of a Thin Al2O3 Film on NiAl(110)
M. Kulawik, N. Nilius, H.-P. Rust, and H.-J. Freund
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
256101 [View PDF (708 kB)]
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Vibrational Characterization of the Oxidation Products on Si(111)-(7×7)
H. Okuyama, T. Aruga, and M. Nishijima
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
256102 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Formation Mechanism of H2Ti3O7 Nanotubes
S. Zhang, L.-M. Peng, Q. Chen, G. H. Du, G. Dawson, and W. Z. Zhou
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
256103 [View PDF (408 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Magnetic-Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point and Competing Order Parameters in URu2Si2
K. H. Kim, N. Harrison, M. Jaime, G. S. Boebinger, and J. A. Mydosh
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
256401 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Bound Excitons in Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Optical and Energy-Loss Spectra
Andrea Marini, Rodolfo Del Sole, and Angel Rubio
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
256402 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Dynamical Mean-Field Theory of Transport of Small Polarons
S. Fratini and S. Ciuchi
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
256403 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Ta 5d Band Symmetry of 1T-TaS1.2Se0.8 in the Commensurate Charge-Density-Wave Phase
Y. Aiura, I. Hase, H. Bando, K. Yagi-Watanabe, K. Ozawa, T. Iwase, Y. Nishihara, O. Shiino, M. Oshima, M. Kubota, and K. Ono
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
256404 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Exact Duality Relations in Correlated Electron Systems
Tsutomu Momoi and Toshiya Hikihara
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
256405 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Modulation of Thermoelectric Power of Individual Carbon Nanotubes
Joshua P. Small, Kerstin M. Perez, and Philip Kim
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
256801 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Image States and Excitons at Insulator Surfaces with Negative Electron Affinity
Michael Rohlfing, Neng-Ping Wang, Peter Krüger, and Johannes Pollmann
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
256802 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Interplay of Rayleigh and Peierls Instabilities in Metallic Nanowires
D. F. Urban and Hermann Grabert
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
256803 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Avoided Antiferromagnetic Order and Quantum Critical Point in CeCoIn5
A. Bianchi, R. Movshovich, I. Vekhter, P. G. Pagliuso, and J. L. Sarrao
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
257001 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Thermodynamics and Phase Diagram of High Temperature Superconductors
Philippe Curty and Hans Beck
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
257002 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Electronic State of a CoO2 Layer with Hexagonal Structure: A Kagomé Lattice Structure in a Triangular Lattice
W. Koshibae and S. Maekawa
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
257003 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Quantum Dissociation of a Vortex-Antivortex Pair in a Long Josephson Junction
M. V. Fistul, A. Wallraff, Y. Koval, A. Lukashenko, B. A. Malomed, and A. V. Ustinov
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
257004 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Chiral Spin Liquid Wave Function and the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem
Sandro Sorella, Luca Capriotti, Federico Becca, and Alberto Parola
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
257005 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Possible Spin Triplet Superconductivity in NaxCoO2·yH2O
Akihiro Tanaka and Xiao Hu
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
257006 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Photoinduced Emission of Cooper Pairs from Superconductors
Konstantin A. Kouzakov and Jamal Berakdar
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
257007 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Spin Correlations among the Charge Carriers in an Ordered Stripe Phase
A. T. Boothroyd, P. G. Freeman, D. Prabhakaran, A. Hiess, M. Enderle, J. Kulda, and F. Altorfer
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
257201 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Magnetic Neutron Scattering Study of YVO3: Evidence for an Orbital Peierls State
C. Ulrich, G. Khaliullin, J. Sirker, M. Reehuis, M. Ohl, S. Miyasaka, Y. Tokura, and B. Keimer
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
257202 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Dimerization versus Orbital-Moment Ordering in a Mott Insulator YVO3
Peter Horsch, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Andrzej M. Oleś
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
257203 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Quantum Dynamics of Atomic Magnets: Cotunneling and Dipolar-Biased Tunneling
R. Giraud, A. M. Tkachuk, and B. Barbara
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
257204 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Interference of Magnetic and Anisotropic Tensor Susceptibility Reflections in Resonant X-Ray Scattering of GdB4
S. Ji, C. Song, J. Koo, K.-B. Lee, Y. J. Park, J. Y. Kim, J.-H. Park, H. J. Shin, J. S. Rhyee, B. H. Oh, and B. K. Cho
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
257205 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Interplay between Disorder and Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations in Ferromagnetic Alloys: The case of UCu2Si2-xGex
M. B. Silva Neto, A. H. Castro Neto, D. Mixson, J. S. Kim, and G. R. Stewart
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
257206 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Vortex Flux Channeling in Magnetic Nanoparticle Chains
Martin J. Hÿtch, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Michael R. Scheinfein, Johan Moulin, Cécilie Duhamel, Frédéric Mazaleyrat, and Yannick Champion
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
257207 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Magnetodielectric Effects from Spin Fluctuations in Isostructural Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Systems
G. Lawes, A. P. Ramirez, C. M. Varma, and M. A. Subramanian
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
257208 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Current-Induced Two-Level Fluctuations in Pseudo-Spin-Valve (Co/Cu/Co) Nanostructures
A. Fábián, C. Terrier, S. Serrano Guisan, X. Hoffer, M. Dubey, L. Gravier, J.-Ph. Ansermet, and J.-E. Wegrowe
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
257209 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Spectroscopy of Few-Electron Collective Excitations in Charge-Tunable Artificial Atoms
T. Brocke, M.-T. Bootsmann, M. Tews, B. Wunsch, D. Pfannkuche, Ch. Heyn, W. Hansen, D. Heitmann, and C. Schüller
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
257401 [View PDF (645 kB)]
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Local Chiral-Symmetry Breaking in Globally Centrosymmetric Crystals
S. Di Matteo, Y. Joly, A. Bombardi, L. Paolasini, F. de Bergevin, and C. R. Natoli
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
257402 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Ferroelectricity in Barium Titanate Quantum Dots and Wires
Huaxiang Fu and L. Bellaiche
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
257601 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Accuracy of Circular Polarization as a Measure of Spin Polarization in Quantum Dot Qubits
C. E. Pryor and M. E. Flatté
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
257901 [View PDF (617 kB)]
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Eigenvector Approximation Leading to Exponential Speedup of Quantum Eigenvalue Calculation
Peter Jaksch and Anargyros Papageorgiou
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
257902 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Teleportation in a Noisy Environment: A Quantum Trajectories Approach
Gabriel G. Carlo, Giuliano Benenti, and Giulio Casati
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
257903 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Sheet Excitability and Nonlinear Wave Propagation
Bernardo Pando, John E. Pearson, and Silvina Ponce Dawson
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
258101 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Effective Interactions Cannot Replace Solvent Effects in a Lattice Model of Proteins
G. Salvi and P. De Los Rios
Published 16 December 2003 (4 pages)
258102 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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A Motor that Makes Its Own Track: Helicase Unwinding of DNA
M. D. Betterton and Frank Jülicher
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
258103 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Highly Structured Duets in the Song of the South American Hornero
Rodrigo Laje and Gabriel B. Mindlin
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
258104 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Experimental Realization of a Quantum Spin Pump
Susan K. Watson, R. M. Potok, C. M. Marcus, and V. Umansky
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
258301 [View PDF (918 kB)]
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Vibrational Sum Frequency Scattering from a Submicron Suspension
Sylvie Roke, Wim G. Roeterdink, Judith E. G. J. Wijnhoven, Andrei V. Petukhov, Aart W. Kleyn, and Mischa Bonn
Published 19 December 2003 (4 pages)
258302 [View PDF (278 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Twist Defect in Chiral Photonic Structures”
C. Oldano
Published 16 December 2003 (1 page)
259401 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Kopp and Genack Reply:
Victor I. Kopp and Azriel Z. Genack
Published 16 December 2003 (1 page)
259402 [View PDF (30 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Proton Breakup in High-Energy pA Collisions from Perturbative QCD [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 092301 (2003)]
A. Dumitru, L. Gerland, and M. Strikman
Published 15 December 2003 (1 page)
259901(E) [View PDF (52 kB)]
 
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