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Physical Review Letters – 12 March 2004
Volume 92, Issue 10

Photomicrograph of a hexagonal-close-packed layer of nematic liquid crystal droplets. The droplets are between two crossed polarizers, which show the change in their optical properties as the result of an applied electric field. [A. Fernández-Nieves, D. R. Link, D. Rudhardt, and D. A. Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 105503 (2004)]

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LETTERS

General Physics

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Collisions in Zero Temperature Fermi Gases
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Gravitation and Astrophysics

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MeV Dark Matter: Has It Been Detected?
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Highly Accurate H2 Lyman and Werner Band Laboratory Measurements and an Improved Constraint on a Cosmological Variation of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio
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Late Reheating, Hadronic Jets, and Baryogenesis
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Elementary Particles and Fields

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New Type of Seesaw Mechanism for Neutrino Masses
S. M. Barr
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QCD Axion from a Higher Dimensional Gauge Field Theory
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Measurement of |Vub| Using Inclusive B→Xuℓν Decays with a Novel Xu-Reconstruction Method
H. Kakuno et al. (Belle Collaboration)
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Towards a Realistic Model of Higgsless Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
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Observation of the Radiative Decay D0→φγ
O. Tajima et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 11 March 2004 (5 pages)
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B→ππ, New Physics in B→πK, and Implications for Rare K and B Decays
Andrzej J. Buras, Robert Fleischer, Stefan Recksiegel, and Felix Schwab
Published 11 March 2004 (4 pages)
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Nature of Light Scalar Mesons from their Large-Nc Behavior
J. R. Peláez
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QCD Dirac Operator at Nonzero Chemical Potential: Lattice Data and Matrix Model
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Parity-Violating Electron Deuteron Scattering and the Proton’s Neutral Weak Axial Vector Form Factor
T. M. Ito et al. (SAMPLE Collaboration)
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Constraints on Nucleon Decay via Invisible Modes from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
S. N. Ahmed et al. (SNO Collaboration)
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Coherent Electronic Coupling versus Localization in Individual Molecular Dimers
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Electron-Proton Correlation for Hydrogen Tunneling Systems
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Quantum Control of the Angular Momentum Distribution in Multiphoton Absorption Processes
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Reactive Resonance in a Polyatomic Reaction
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Quantum Reflection Times for Attractive Potential Tails
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Condensation in Hamiltonian Parametric Wave Interaction
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Energy Thresholds for Discrete Breathers
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Structures of a Continuously Fed Two-Dimensional Viscous Film under a Destabilizing Gravitational Force
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Geometric Constant Defining Shape Transitions of Carbon Nanotubes under Pressure
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Anomalous Pressure-Induced Transition(s) in Ice XI
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Electro-Optics of Bipolar Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets
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Nature of Single Vacancy in Achiral Carbon Nanotubes
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In situ ESR Observation of Interface Dangling Bond Formation Processes During Ultrathin SiO2 Growth On Si(111)
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Nearly Logarithmic Decay of Correlations in Glass-Forming Liquids
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Role of the Lattice in the γ→α Phase Transition of Ce: A High-Pressure Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction Study
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Self-Assembly via Adsorbate-Driven Dislocation Reactions
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Adatom Ascending at Step Edges and Faceting on fcc Metal (110) Surfaces
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Improved Thermoelectric Power Factor in Metal-Based Superlattices
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Building Pb Nanomesas with Atomic-Layer Precision
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Phase Separation Close to the Density-Driven Mott Transition in the Hubbard-Holstein Model
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Spin-Current Shot Noise as a Probe of Interactions in Mesoscopic Systems
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Conductance of a Quantum Wire in the Wigner-Crystal Regime
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Probing Individual Localization Centers in an InGaN/GaN Quantum Well
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Quantum-Mechanical Investigation of Field-Emission Mechanism of a Micrometer-Long Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube
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High-Field Quasiballistic Transport in Short Carbon Nanotubes
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Novel Spin Dynamics in a Josephson Junction
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Quantitative Test of SO(5) Symmetry in the Vortex State of Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4
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Direct Observation of the Multisheet Fermi Surface in the Strongly Correlated Transition Metal Compound ZrZn2
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Energy Dependence of Current Noise in Superconducting/Normal Metal Junctions
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Superconductivity-Related Insulating Behavior
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Quantum Corrals, Eigenmodes, and Quantum Mirages in s-Wave Superconductors
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Odd-Parity Triplet Pair Induced by Hund’s Rule Coupling
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Why Magnesium Diboride Is Not Described by Anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau Theory
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Large Quantum Nonlinear Dynamic Susceptibility of Single-Molecule Magnets
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Domain Wall Creep in Magnetic Wires
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Step-Induced Frustration of Antiferromagnetic Order in Mn on Fe(001)
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Dynamic Properties of a Diluted Pyrochlore Cooperative Paramagnet (TbpY1-p)2Ti2O7
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Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Their Role in the Enhanced Transmission of Light through Periodic Arrays of Subwavelength Holes in a Metal Film
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Exciton Delocalization and Superradiance in Tetracene Thin Films and Nanoaggregates
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Fröhlich Mass in GaAs-Based Structures
C. Faugeras, G. Martinez, A. Riedel, R. Hey, K. J. Friedland, and Yu. Bychkov
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Finite-Size Effects of a Left-Handed Material Slab on the Image Quality
Long Chen, Sailing He, and Linfang Shen
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Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Decoherence-Free Quantum Information Processing with Four-Photon Entangled States
Mohamed Bourennane, Manfred Eibl, Sascha Gaertner, Christian Kurtsiefer, Adán Cabello, and Harald Weinfurter
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A Subsystem-Independent Generalization of Entanglement
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Multipartite Bound Information Exists and Can Be Activated
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Published 12 March 2004 (4 pages)
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Capacity of Oscillatory Associative-Memory Networks with Error-Free Retrieval
Takashi Nishikawa, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Frank C. Hoppensteadt
Published 10 March 2004 (4 pages)
108101 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Stability of Adhesion Clusters under Constant Force
T. Erdmann and U. S. Schwarz
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Rheology of Giant Vesicles: A Micropipette Study
N. Fa, C. M. Marques, E. Mendes, and A. P. Schröder
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Local Melting and Drag for a Particle Driven through a Colloidal Crystal
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Long-Term Clustering, Scaling, and Universality in the Temporal Occurrence of Earthquakes
Álvaro Corral
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Roughness Scaling for Edwards-Wilkinson Relaxation in Small-World Networks
B. Kozma, M. B. Hastings, and G. Korniss
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COMMENTS

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Comment on “X-Ray Studies of the Structure and Electronic Behavior of Alkanethiolate-Capped Gold Nanoparticles: The Interplay of Size and Surface Effects”
Philip Moriarty
Published 10 March 2004 (1 page)
109601 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Zhang and Sham Reply:
P. Zhang and T. K. Sham
Published 10 March 2004 (1 page)
109602 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Comment on “Linguistic Analysis of the Human Heartbeat Using Frequency and Rank Order Statistics”
Alexander Kraskov, Walter Nadler, Harald Stögbauer, and Peter Grassberger
Published 11 March 2004 (1 page)
109801 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Yang et al. Reply:
Albert C.-C. Yang, Shu-Shya Hseu, Huey-Wen Yien, Ary L. Goldberger, and C.-K. Peng
Published 11 March 2004 (1 page)
109802 [View PDF (41 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Long Range Correlations in DNA: Scaling Properties and Charge Transfer Efficiency [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 228101 (2003)
Stephan Roche, Dominique Bicout, Enrique Maciá, and Efim Kats
Published 9 March 2004 (1 page)
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