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Physical Review Letters – 31 December 2003
Volume 91, Issue 26

Calculated light-intensity distribution inside a "tilted" optical superlattice made up of coupled microcavities. The dark regions are photonic band gaps. A new study reports the observation of optical Bloch oscillations (the analogue of electronic Bloch oscillations in crystals) in a short laser pulse passing through such a superlattice. [Riccardo Sapienza, Paola Costantino, Diederik Wiersma, Mher Ghulinyan, Claudio J. Oton, and Lorenzo Pavesi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263902 (2003)]

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Behavior of Complex Knots in Single DNA Molecules
Xiaoyan R. Bao, Heun Jin Lee, and Stephen R. Quake
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
265506 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Delay Time and the Hartman Effect in Quantum Tunneling
Herbert G. Winful
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
260401 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Transition Radiation by Matter-Wave Solitons in Optical Lattices
A. V. Yulin, D. V. Skryabin, and P. St. J. Russell
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
260402 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Dynamics of an Ensemble of Noisy Bistable Elements with Global Time Delayed Coupling
D. Huber and L. S. Tsimring
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
260601 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Wide-Band Direct Measurement of Thermal Fluctuations in an Interferometer
Kenji Numata, Masaki Ando, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Shigemi Otsuka, and Kimio Tsubono
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
260602 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Masses of 32Ar and 33Ar for Fundamental Tests
K. Blaum, G. Audi, D. Beck, G. Bollen, F. Herfurth, A. Kellerbauer, H.-J. Kluge, E. Sauvan, and S. Schwarz
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
260801 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Flexible Magnetic Filaments as Micromechanical Sensors
C. Goubault, P. Jop, M. Fermigier, J. Baudry, E. Bertrand, and J. Bibette
Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages)
260802 [View PDF (197 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Re/Os Constraint on the Time Variability of the Fine-Structure Constant
Yasunori Fujii and Akira Iwamoto
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
261101 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Observation of B→K*ℓ+ℓ-
A. Ishikawa et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 24 December 2003 (6 pages)
261601 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Measurement of Time-Dependent CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0→ϕKS0, K+K-KS0, and η′KS0 Decays
K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages)
261602 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Evidence for B0→π0π0
S. H. Lee et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages)
261801 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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High Statistics Measurement of the K+→π0e+ν (Ke3+) Branching Ratio
A. Sher et al.
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
261802 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Observation of a Narrow Charmoniumlike State in Exclusive B±→K±π+π-J/ψ Decays
S.-K. Choi et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 23 December 2003 (6 pages)
262001 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Observation of the DsJ(2317) and DsJ(2457) in B Decays
P. Krokovny et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages)
262002 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Three-Pion Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions from the STAR Experiment
J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 24 December 2003 (6 pages)
262301 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Pion-Kaon Correlations in Central Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=130  GeV
J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages)
262302 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Spin Symmetry in the Antinucleon Spectrum
Shan-Gui Zhou, Jie Meng, and P. Ring
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
262501 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Spin-Isospin Resonances and the Neutron Skin of Nuclei
D. Vretenar, N. Paar, T. Nikšić, and P. Ring
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
262502 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Accurate Rydberg Excitations from the Local Density Approximation
Adam Wasserman, Neepa T. Maitra, and Kieron Burke
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
263001 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Reevaluation of the Use of Photoelectron Angular Distributions as a Probe of Dynamical Processes: Strong Dependence of Such Distributions from S1 Paradifluorobenzene on Photoelectron Kinetic Energy
Susan M. Bellm and Katharine L. Reid
Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages)
263002 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Search for CPT-Odd Decays of Positronium
P. A. Vetter and S. J. Freedman
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
263401 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Semiclassical Description of Chaos-Assisted Tunneling
Viktor A. Podolskiy and Evgenii E. Narimanov
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
263601 [View PDF (331 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Magnetoelectric Jones Dichroism in Atoms
D. Budker and J. E. Stalnaker
Published 22 December 2003 (3 pages)
263901 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Optical Analogue of Electronic Bloch Oscillations
Riccardo Sapienza, Paola Costantino, Diederik Wiersma, Mher Ghulinyan, Claudio J. Oton, and Lorenzo Pavesi
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
263902 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Molding and Stretched Evolution of Optical Solitons in Cumulative Nonlinearities
Cesare Dari-Salisburgo, Eugenio DelRe, and Elia Palange
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
263903 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Superstable Granular Heap in a Thin Channel
Nicolas Taberlet, Patrick Richard, Alexandre Valance, Wolfgang Losert, José Miguel Pasini, James T. Jenkins, and Renaud Delannay
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
264301 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Speed of Sound in Periodic Elastic Composites
A. A. Krokhin, J. Arriaga, and L. N. Gumen
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
264302 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Distribution of Injected Power Fluctuations in Electroconvection
Tibor Tóth-Katona and J. T. Gleeson
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
264501 [View PDF (452 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Fluctuations Do Matter: Large Noise-Enhanced Halos in Charged-Particle Beams
Courtlandt L. Bohn and Ioannis V. Sideris
Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages)
264801 [View PDF (643 kB)]
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New Benchmarks from Tokamak Experiments for Theoretical Calculations of the Dielectronic Satellite Spectra of Heliumlike Ions
M. Bitter, M. F. Gu, L. A. Vainshtein, P. Beiersdorfer, G. Bertschinger, O. Marchuk, R. Bell, B. LeBlanc, K. W. Hill, D. Johnson, and L. Roquemore
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
265001 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Self-Compression of Laser Pulses in Plasma
O. Shorokhov, A. Pukhov, and I. Kostyukov
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
265002 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Direct Excitation of High-Amplitude Chirped Bucket-BGK Modes
W. Bertsche, J. Fajans, and L. Friedland
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
265003 [View PDF (874 kB)]
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Density-Transition Scale at Quasiperpendicular Collisionless Shocks
S. D. Bale, F. S. Mozer, and T. S. Horbury
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
265004 [View PDF (547 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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In situ Synchrotron Study of Phase Transformation Behaviors in Bulk Metallic Glass by Simultaneous Diffraction and Small Angle Scattering
X.-L. Wang, J. Almer, C. T. Liu, Y. D. Wang, J. K. Zhao, A. D. Stoica, D. R. Haeffner, and W. H. Wang
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
265501 [View PDF (784 kB)]
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Crossover of Microscopic Dynamics in Metallic Supercooled Liquid Observed by NMR
Lilong Li, Jan Schroers, and Yue Wu
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
265502 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Structure and Bonding of Dense Liquid Oxygen from First Principles Simulations
Burkhard Militzer, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
265503 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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In situ Transmission-Electron-Microscopy Investigation of Melting in Submicron Al-Si Alloy Particles under Electron-Beam Irradiation
Takeshi Yokota, M. Murayama, and J. M. Howe
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
265504 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Semisharp Phase Field Method for Quantitative Phase Change Simulations
Gustav Amberg
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
265505 [View PDF (357 kB)]
Behavior of Complex Knots in Single DNA Molecules
Xiaoyan R. Bao, Heun Jin Lee, and Stephen R. Quake
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
265506 [View PDF (297 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Heat-Induced Transformation of Nanodiamond into a Tube-Shaped Fullerene: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Gun-Do Lee, C. Z. Wang, Jaejun Yu, Euijoon Yoon, and K. M. Ho
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
265701 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Correct Height Measurement in Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy
Sascha Sadewasser and Martha Ch. Lux-Steiner
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
266101 [View PDF (624 kB)]
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Catalytic Role of Metal Oxides in Gold-Based Catalysts: A First Principles Study of CO Oxidation on TiO2 Supported Au
Zhi-Pan Liu, Xue-Qing Gong, Jorge Kohanoff, Cristián Sanchez, and P. Hu
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
266102 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Competition between Diffusion and Fragmentation: An Important Evolutionary Process of Nature
Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg, Mogens H. Jensen, Joachim Mathiesen, Poul Olesen, and Kim Sneppen
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
266103 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Enhanced Ionic Conductivity of Polymer Electrolytes Containing Nanocomposite SiO2 Particles
Ce-Wen Nan, Lizhen Fan, Yuanhua Lin, and Qiang Cai
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
266104 [View PDF (242 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Anomalous Grain Boundary Physics in Polycrystalline CuInSe2: The Existence of a Hole Barrier
Clas Persson and Alex Zunger
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
266401 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Oscillatory Nonlinear Conductance of an Interacting Quantum Wire with an Impurity
Fabrizio Dolcini, Hermann Grabert, Inès Safi, and Björn Trauzettel
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
266402 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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New Mixed Alkali Effect in the ac Conductivity of Ion-Conducting Glasses
C. Cramer, S. Brunklaus, E. Ratai, and Y. Gao
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
266601 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Fermi-Edge Singularity in a Nonequilibrium System
B. Muzykantskii, N. d’Ambrumenil, and B. Braunecker
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
266602 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Coulomb Blockade and Kondo Effect in a Quantum Hall Antidot
H.-S. Sim, M. Kataoka, Hangmo Yi, N. Y. Hwang, M.-S. Choi, and S.-R. Eric Yang
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
266801 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Andreev States in the Kondo Regime
A. Levy Yeyati, A. Martín-Rodero, and E. Vecino
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
266802 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Josephson Behavior of Phase-Slip Lines in Wide Superconducting Strips
A. G. Sivakov, A. M. Glukhov, A. N. Omelyanchouk, Y. Koval, P. Müller, and A. V. Ustinov
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
267001 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Pair-Breaking and Superconducting State Recovery Dynamics in MgB2
J. Demsar, R. D. Averitt, A. J. Taylor, V. V. Kabanov, W. N. Kang, H. J. Kim, E. M. Choi, and S. I. Lee
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
267002 [View PDF (460 kB)]
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Dynamical Coulomb Blockade and Spin-Entangled Electrons
Patrik Recher and Daniel Loss
Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages)
267003 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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New Magnetic Order in Buried Native Iron Oxide Layers
G. S. D. Beach, F. T. Parker, David J. Smith, P. A. Crozier, and A. E. Berkowitz
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
267201 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Direct Imaging and Determination of the Uncompensated Spin Density in Exchange-Biased CoO/(CoPt) Multilayers
P. Kappenberger, S. Martin, Y. Pellmont, H. J. Hug, J. B. Kortright, O. Hellwig, and Eric E. Fullerton
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
267202 [View PDF (640 kB)]
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Spin Dependence in the Survival Probability of Metastable He (23S) Atoms during the Scattering from Ferromagnetic Surfaces
M. Kurahashi, T. Suzuki, X. Ju, and Y. Yamauchi
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
267203 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Range of Magnetic Correlations in Nanocrystalline Soft Magnets
A. Michels, R. N. Viswanath, J. G. Barker, R. Birringer, and J. Weissmüller
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
267204 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Nominal Thermodynamic Temperature in Nonequilibrium Kinetic Ising Models
Francisco Sastre, Ivan Dornic, and Hugues Chaté
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
267205 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Exciton Dephasing in Quantum Dot Molecules
P. Borri, W. Langbein, U. Woggon, M. Schwab, M. Bayer, S. Fafard, Z. Wasilewski, and P. Hawrylak
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
267401 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Infinite-Order Excitonic Bloch Equations for Asymmetric Nanostructures
M. Hawton and M. M. Dignam
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
267402 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Linewidth-Limited Energy Transfer in Single Conjugated Polymer Molecules
J. G. Müller, U. Lemmer, G. Raschke, M. Anni, U. Scherf, J. M. Lupton, and J. Feldmann
Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages)
267403 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Dielectric Discontinuity at Interfaces in the Atomic-Scale Limit: Permittivity of Ultrathin Oxide Films on Silicon
Feliciano Giustino, Paolo Umari, and Alfredo Pasquarello
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
267601 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Spontaneous Oscillations of Dressed Neurons: A New Mechanism for Epilepsy?
Suhita Nadkarni and Peter Jung
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
268101 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Evidence of a Higher-Order Singularity in Dense Short-Ranged Attractive Colloids
Francesco Sciortino, Piero Tartaglia, and Emanuela Zaccarelli
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
268301 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Relaxation Dynamics of Langmuir Polymer Films: A Power-Law Analysis
Francisco Monroy, Hani M. Hilles, Francisco Ortega, and Ramón G. Rubio
Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages)
268302 [View PDF (274 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Nonclassical Paths in the Recurrence Spectrum of Diamagnetic Atoms”
A. Matzkin
Published 22 December 2003 (1 page)
269301 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Granger and Greene Reply:
B. E. Granger and C. H. Greene
Published 22 December 2003 (1 page)
269302 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “Algebraic Fermi Liquid from Phase Fluctuations: ‘Topological’ Fermions, Vortex ‘Berryons,’ and QED3 Theory of Cuprate Superconductor”
D. V. Khveshchenko
Published 31 December 2003 (1 page)
269701 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Franz and Tešanović Reply:
M. Franz and Z. Tešanović
Published 31 December 2003 (1 page)
269702 [View PDF (49 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Shear-Excited Sound in Magnetic Fluid [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 067201 (2002)]
H. W. Müller and M. Liu
Published 23 December 2003 (1 page)
269901(E) [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Magnetic-Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point and Competing Order Parameters in URu2Si2 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 256401 (2003)]
K. H. Kim, N. Harrison, M. Jaime, G. S. Boebinger, and J. A. Mydosh
Published 29 December 2003 (1 page)
269902(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Magnetic Neutron Scattering Study of YVO3: Evidence for an Orbital Peierls State [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 257202 (2003)]
C. Ulrich, G. Khaliullin, J. Sirker, M. Reehuis, M. Ohl, S. Miyasaka, Y. Tokura, and B. Keimer
Published 29 December 2003 (1 page)
269903(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Erratum: Reaction and Scattering in Cold Electron Collisions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083201 (2003)]
J. P. Ziesel, N. C. Jones, D. Field, and L. B. Madsen
Published 31 December 2003 (1 page)
269904(E) [View PDF (27 kB)]
 
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