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Physical Review Letters – 19 March 2004
Volume 92, Issue 11

Experimental structure of a negative-refractive-index lens capable of better than 1/2-wavelength resolution. The lens consists of a mesh of printed metal strips loaded with capacitors and inductors (inset) which both focus microwaves from the source (a small dipole) and amplify the weak evanescent waves that carry the details of its subwavelength features. [Anthony Grbic and George V. Eleftheriades, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117403 (2004)]

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Highly Directional Emission from Photonic Crystal Waveguides of Subwavelength Width
P. Kramper, M. Agio, C. M. Soukoulis, A. Birner, F. Müller, R. B. Wehrspohn, U. Gösele, and V. Sandoghdar
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
113903 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Pairing Fluctuation Effects on the Single-Particle Spectra for the Superconducting State
P. Pieri, L. Pisani, and G. C. Strinati
Published 15 March 2004 (4 pages)
110401 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Phase Transitions Driven by State-Dependent Poisson Noise
Amilcare Porporato and Paolo D’Odorico
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
110601 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Intense, Narrow Atomic-Clock Resonances
Y.-Y. Jau, A. B. Post, N. N. Kuzma, A. M. Braun, M. V. Romalis, and W. Happer
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
110801 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Neutrino-Induced Fission of Neutron-Rich Nuclei
E. Kolbe, K. Langanke, and G. M. Fuller
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
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Gamma Rays from the Galactic Bulge and Large Extra Dimensions
Michel Cassé, Jacques Paul, Gianfranco Bertone, and Günter Sigl
Published 19 March 2004 (3 pages)
111102 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Effects of the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream on Dark Matter Detectors
Katherine Freese, Paolo Gondolo, Heidi Jo Newberg, and Matthew Lewis
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
111301 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Nonquasinormal Modes and Black Hole Physics
Danny Birmingham and S. Carlip
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
111302 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for the Radiative Decays B→ργ and B0→ωγ
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 18 March 2004 (7 pages)
111801 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Identified Particle Distributions in pp and Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=200  GeV
J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 18 March 2004 (6 pages)
112301 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Unambiguous Identification of Three β-Decaying Isomers in 70Cu
J. Van Roosbroeck et al.
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
112501 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Evidence for Multiphonon Giant Resonances in Electromagnetic Fission of 238U
S. Ilievski, T. Aumann, K. Boretzky, Th. W. Elze, H. Emling, A. Grünschloß, J. Holeczek, R. Holzmann, C. Kozhuharov, J. V. Kratz, R. Kulessa, A. Leistenschneider, E. Lubkiewicz, T.  Ohtsuki, P. Reiter, H. Simon, K. Stelzer, J. Stroth, K. Sümmerer, E. Wajda, and W. Waluś (LAND Collaboration)
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
112502 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Algebraic Solutions of an Extended Pairing Model for Well Deformed Nuclei
Feng Pan, V. G. Gueorguiev, and J. P. Draayer
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
112503 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Gouy Phase Shift for Few-Cycle Laser Pulses
F. Lindner, G. G. Paulus, H. Walther, A. Baltuška, E. Goulielmakis, M. Lezius, and F. Krausz
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
113001 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Coherent Control of Photofragment Separation in the Dissociative Ionization of IBr
Hideki Ohmura, Taisuke Nakanaga, and M. Tachiya
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
113002 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Complete Control of Population Transfer between Clusters of Degenerate States
Ioannis Thanopulos, Petr Král, and Moshe Shapiro
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
113003 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Control of Trapped-Ion Quantum States with Optical Pulses
C. Rangan, A. M. Bloch, C. Monroe, and P. H. Bucksbaum
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
113004 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Observation of Antinormally Ordered Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations
Koji Usami, Yoshihiro Nambu, Bao-Sen Shi, Akihisa Tomita, and Kazuo Nakamura
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
113601 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Nonclassical Photon Statistics in Parametric Down-Conversion
Edo Waks, Eleni Diamanti, Barry C. Sanders, Stephen D. Bartlett, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
113602 [View PDF (470 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Dynamics of Weakly Localized Waves
S. E. Skipetrov and B. A. van Tiggelen
Published 15 March 2004 (4 pages)
113901 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Observation of Optical Spatial Solitons in a Highly Nonlocal Medium
Claudio Conti, Marco Peccianti, and Gaetano Assanto
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
113902 [View PDF (148 kB)]
Highly Directional Emission from Photonic Crystal Waveguides of Subwavelength Width
P. Kramper, M. Agio, C. M. Soukoulis, A. Birner, F. Müller, R. B. Wehrspohn, U. Gösele, and V. Sandoghdar
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
113903 [View PDF (570 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Observation of Carrier-Envelope Phase Phenomena in the Multi-Optical-Cycle Regime
G. Sansone, C. Vozzi, S. Stagira, M. Pascolini, L. Poletto, P. Villoresi, G. Tondello, S. De Silvestri, and M. Nisoli
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
113904 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Spectral Properties and Transport Mechanisms of Partially Chaotic Bounded Flows in the Presence of Diffusion
M. Giona, A. Adrover, S. Cerbelli, and V. Vitacolonna
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
114101 [View PDF (237 kB)]
Controlling Synchronization in an Ensemble of Globally Coupled Oscillators
Michael G. Rosenblum and Arkady S. Pikovsky
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
114102 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Vibration-Induced Granular Segregation: A Phenomenon Driven by Three Mechanisms
D. A. Huerta and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
114301 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Hindered and Enhanced Coalescence of Drops in Stokes Flows
M. B. Nemer, X. Chen, D. H. Papadopoulos, J. Bławzdziewicz, and M. Loewenberg
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
114501 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Electromagnetic Fluctuations during Fast Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma
Hantao Ji, Stephen Terry, Masaaki Yamada, Russell Kulsrud, Aleksey Kuritsyn, and Yang Ren
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
115001 [View PDF (285 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Three-Dimensional Critical Behavior with 2D, 1D, and 0D Dimensionality Crossover: Surface and Edge Specific Heats
M. O. Kimball, K. P. Mooney, and F. M. Gasparini
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
115301 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Collective Dynamics of an End-Grafted Polymer Brush in Solvents of Varying Quality
G. E. Yakubov, B. Loppinet, H. Zhang, J. Rühe, R Sigel, and G. Fytas
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
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Elastic and Vibrational Properties of Cobalt to 120 GPa
Alexander F. Goncharov, Jonathan Crowhurst, and Joseph M. Zaug
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
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Tunable Metastability of Surface Nanostructure Arrays
D. E. Jesson, T. P. Munt, V. A. Shchukin, and D. Bimberg
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
115503 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Ab Initio Studies of Polarization and Piezoelectricity in Vinylidene Fluoride and BN-Based Polymers
S. M. Nakhmanson, M. Buongiorno Nardelli, and J. Bernholc
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
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Structure and Mobility of Defects Formed from Collision Cascades in MgO
B. P. Uberuaga, R. Smith, A. R. Cleave, F. Montalenti, G. Henkelman, R. W. Grimes, A. F. Voter, and K. E. Sickafus
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
115505 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Argon Nanobubbles in Al(111): A Photoemission Study
C. Biswas, A. K. Shukla, S. Banik, S. R. Barman, and Aparna Chakrabarti
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
115506 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Size- and Temperature-Dependent Structural Transitions in Gold Nanoparticles
Kenji Koga, Tamio Ikeshoji, and Ko-ichi Sugawara
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
115507 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Chain Length Dependencies of the Bending Modulus of Surfactant Monolayers
Live Rekvig, Bjørn Hafskjold, and Berend Smit
Published 15 March 2004 (4 pages)
116101 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Strain Relief through Heterophase Interface Reconstruction: Ag(111)/Ru(0001)
W. L. Ling, J. de la Figuera, N. C. Bartelt, R. Q. Hwang, A. K. Schmid, G. E. Thayer, and J. C. Hamilton
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
116102 [View PDF (640 kB)]
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Atomic Structure of a (2×1) Reconstructed NiSi2/Si(001) Interface
Uwe Falke, Andrew Bleloch, Meiken Falke, and Steffen Teichert
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
116103 [View PDF (804 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Spin and Orbital Frustration in MnSc2S4 and FeSc2S4
V. Fritsch, J. Hemberger, N. Büttgen, E.-W. Scheidt, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, A. Loidl, and V. Tsurkan
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
116401 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Possible Evidence of a Spontaneous Spin Polarization in Mesoscopic Two-Dimensional Electron Systems
A. Ghosh, C. J. B. Ford, M. Pepper, H. E. Beere, and D. A. Ritchie
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
116601 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Breakdown of Universality in Quantum Chaotic Transport: The Two-Phase Dynamical Fluid Model
Ph. Jacquod and E. V. Sukhorukov
Published 16 March 2004 (4 pages)
116801 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Spatially Correlated Charge Transport in Organic Thin Film Transistors
Franco Dinelli, Mauro Murgia, Pablo Levy, Massimiliano Cavallini, Fabio Biscarini, and Dago M. de Leeuw
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
116802 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Intrinsic Josephson Effects in the Magnetic Superconductor RuSr2GdCu2O8
T. Nachtrab, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, C. Bernhard, and C. T. Lin
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
117001 [View PDF (543 kB)]
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Critical Currents at the Bragg Glass to Vortex Glass Transition
Alexander D. Hernández and Daniel Domínguez
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
117002 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Disordered RKKY Lattice Mean Field Theory for Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
D. J. Priour, Jr., E. H. Hwang, and S. Das Sarma
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
117201 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Critical Thermodynamics of the Two-Dimensional ±J Ising Spin Glass
J. Lukic, A. Galluccio, E. Marinari, O. C. Martin, and G. Rinaldi
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
117202 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Self-Generation of Two-Dimensional Spin-Wave Bullets
A. A. Serga, S. O. Demokritov, B. Hillebrands, and A. N. Slavin
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
117203 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Selective Cap Opening in Carbon Nanotubes Driven by Laser-Induced Coherent Phonons
Traian Dumitrică, Martin E. Garcia, Harald O. Jeschke, and Boris I. Yakobson
Published 16 March 2004 (4 pages)
117401 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Interband Recombination Dynamics in Resonantly Excited Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
G. N. Ostojic, S. Zaric, J. Kono, M. S. Strano, V. C. Moore, R. H. Hauge, and R. E. Smalley
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
117402 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Overcoming the Diffraction Limit with a Planar Left-Handed Transmission-Line Lens
Anthony Grbic and George V. Eleftheriades
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
117403 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Formation Mechanism and Low-Temperature Instability of Exciton Rings
L. V. Butov, L. S. Levitov, A. V. Mintsev, B. D. Simons, A. C. Gossard, and D. S. Chemla
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
117404 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Charge Separation of Dense Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Gases: Mechanism for Exciton Ring Pattern Formation
R. Rapaport, Gang Chen, D. Snoke, Steven H. Simon, Loren Pfeiffer, Ken West, Y. Liu, and S. Denev
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
117405 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Low Energy Electronic Excitations in the Layered Cuprates Studied by Copper L3 Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
G. Ghiringhelli, N. B. Brookes, E. Annese, H. Berger, C. Dallera, M. Grioni, L. Perfetti, A. Tagliaferri, and L. Braicovich
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
117406 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Mie Resonances, Infrared Emission, and the Band Gap of InN
T. V. Shubina, S. V. Ivanov, V. N. Jmerik, D. D. Solnyshkov, V. A. Vekshin, P. S. Kop’ev, A. Vasson, J. Leymarie, A. Kavokin, H. Amano, K. Shimono, A. Kasic, and B. Monemar
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
117407 [View PDF (578 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Practical Limitation for Continuous-Variable Quantum Cryptography using Coherent States
Ryo Namiki and Takuya Hirano
Published 16 March 2004 (4 pages)
117901 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Quantum Information Transfer and Entanglement with SQUID Qubits in Cavity QED: A Dark-State Scheme with Tolerance for Nonuniform Device Parameter
Chui-Ping Yang, Shih-I Chu, and Siyuan Han
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
117902 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Characterizing Entanglement via Uncertainty Relations
Otfried Gühne
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
117903 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Energy Relaxation Time between Macroscopic Quantum Levels in a Superconducting Persistent-Current Qubit
Yang Yu, D. Nakada, Janice C. Lee, Bhuwan Singh, D. S. Crankshaw, T. P. Orlando, Karl K. Berggren, and William D. Oliver
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
117904 [View PDF (713 kB)]
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Dynamical Suppression of 1/f Noise Processes in Qubit Systems
Lara Faoro and Lorenza Viola
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
117905 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Rheology of Active-Particle Suspensions
Yashodhan Hatwalne, Sriram Ramaswamy, Madan Rao, and R. Aditi Simha
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
118101 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Hidden Neuronal Correlations in Cultured Networks
Ronen Segev, Itay Baruchi, Eyal Hulata, and Eshel Ben-Jacob
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
118102 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Compression of Frequency-Modulated Pulses using Helically Corrugated Waveguides and Its Potential for Generating Multigigawatt rf Radiation
S. V. Samsonov, A. D. R. Phelps, V. L. Bratman, G. Burt, G. G. Denisov, A. W. Cross, K. Ronald, W. He, and H. Yin
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
118301 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Random Walks on Complex Networks
Jae Dong Noh and Heiko Rieger
Published 18 March 2004 (4 pages)
118701 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Two-Peak and Three-Peak Optimal Complex Networks
André X. C. N. Valente, Abhijit Sarkar, and Howard A. Stone
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
118702 [View PDF (138 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Strangelets as Cosmic Rays beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff”
Shmuel Balberg
Published 18 March 2004 (1 page)
119001 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Madsen Replies:
Jes Madsen
Published 18 March 2004 (1 page)
119002 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Comment on “Left-Right Model of Quark and Lepton Masses without a Scalar Bidoublet”
Fabio Siringo
Published 18 March 2004 (1 page)
119101 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Pokrovsky and Efros Reply:
A. L. Pokrovsky and A. L. Efros
Published 18 March 2004 (1 page)
119401 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Comment on “Magnetization Process of Single Molecule Magnets at Low Temperatures”
I. S. Tupitsyn and P. C. E. Stamp
Published 18 March 2004 (1 page)
119701 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Fernández and Alonso Reply:
J. F. Fernández and J. J. Alonso
Published 18 March 2004 (1 page)
119702 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Mechanism for Spiral Wave Breakup in Excitable and Oscillatory Media
Markus Bär, Lutz Brusch, and Michal Or-Guil
Published 18 March 2004 (1 page)
119801 [View PDF (44 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Dramatic Reduction of the Effect of Nanoconfinement on the Glass Transition of Polymer Films via Addition of Small-Molecule Diluent [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 095702 (2004)]
Christopher J. Ellison, Robert L. Ruszkowski, Nathaniel J. Fredin, and John M. Torkelson
Published 17 March 2004 (1 page)
119901(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Erratum: Complex Extension of Quantum Mechanics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 270401 (2002)]
Carl M. Bender, Dorje C. Brody, and Hugh F. Jones
Published 18 March 2004 (1 page)
119902(E) [View PDF (31 kB)]
 
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