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Physical Review Letters – 26 March 2004
Volume 92, Issue 12

Color map (showing the phases) of a simulated vortex soliton in stable propagation through a 2D nonlinear photonic lattice. The experimental observation of such a soliton is reported by 2 independent groups. [Jason W. Fleischer, Guy Bartal, Oren Cohen, Ofer Manela, Mordechai Segev, Jared Hudock, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 123904 (2004)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Limits on the Time Variation of the Electromagnetic Fine-Structure Constant in the Low Energy Limit from Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Distant Quasars
R. Srianand, H. Chand, P. Petitjean, and B. Aracil
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
121302 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Superlubricity of Graphite
Martin Dienwiebel, Gertjan S. Verhoeven, Namboodiri Pradeep, Joost W. M. Frenken, Jennifer A. Heimberg, and Henny W. Zandbergen
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
126101 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Crossover from a Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate to a Degenerate Fermi Gas
M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, S. Riedl, S. Jochim, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm
Published 23 March 2004 (4 pages)
120401 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Determining a Quantum State by Means of a Single Apparatus
A. E. Allahverdyan, R. Balian, and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
120402 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Condensation of Pairs of Fermionic Atoms near a Feshbach Resonance
M. W. Zwierlein, C. A. Stan, C. H. Schunck, S. M. F. Raupach, A. J. Kerman, and W. Ketterle
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
120403 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Nonspreading Wave Packets in Three Dimensions Formed by an Ultracold Bose Gas in an Optical Lattice
Claudio Conti and Stefano Trillo
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
120404 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Universal Decoherence in Solids
Eugene M. Chudnovsky
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
120405 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Quantum Random Walks and Piecewise Deterministic Evolutions
Ph. Blanchard and M.-O. Hongler
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
120601 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Flat Histogram Version of the Pruned and Enriched Rosenbluth Method
Thomas Prellberg and Jarosław Krawczyk
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
120602 [View PDF (595 kB)]
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Numerical Study of Metastable States in Ising Spin Glasses
Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, and Giorgio Parisi
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
120603 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Measurement of the Solar Gravitational Deflection of Radio Waves using Geodetic Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Data, 1979–1999
S. S. Shapiro, J. L. Davis, D. E. Lebach, and J. S. Gregory
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
121101 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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What Do We (Not) Know Theoretically about Solar Neutrino Fluxes?
John N. Bahcall and M. H. Pinsonneault
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
121301 [View PDF (83 kB)]
Limits on the Time Variation of the Electromagnetic Fine-Structure Constant in the Low Energy Limit from Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Distant Quasars
R. Srianand, H. Chand, P. Petitjean, and B. Aracil
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
121302 [View PDF (234 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Lepton-Flavor Violation in the Decay τ-→ℓ-ℓ+ℓ-
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 26 March 2004 (7 pages)
121801 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Search for Kaluza-Klein Graviton Emission in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.8   TeV Using the Missing Energy Signature
D. Acosta et al. (The CDF Collaboration)
Published 26 March 2004 (7 pages)
121802 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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QCD Hard Scattering and the Sign of the Spin Asymmetry ALLπ
Barbara Jäger, Marco Stratmann, Stefan Kretzer, and Werner Vogelsang
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
121803 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Spinodal Decomposition during the Hadronization Stage at RHIC?
Jørgen Randrup
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
122301 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Many-Electron Dynamics of a Xe Atom in Strong and Superstrong Laser Fields
K. Yamakawa, Y. Akahane, Y. Fukuda, M. Aoyama, N. Inoue, H. Ueda, and T. Utsumi
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
123001 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Femtosecond Coincidence Imaging of Multichannel Multiphoton Dynamics
Anouk M. Rijs, Maurice H. M. Janssen, Engelene t. H. Chrysostom, and Carl C. Hayden
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
123002 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Continuous Variable Entanglement using Cold Atoms
V. Josse, A. Dantan, A. Bramati, M. Pinard, and E. Giacobino
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
123601 [View PDF (276 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Polaritonic and Photonic Gap Interactions in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal
Andreas Rung and Carl G. Ribbing
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
123901 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Discrete Solitons and Soliton-Induced Dislocations in Partially Coherent Photonic Lattices
Hector Martin, Eugenia D. Eugenieva, Zhigang Chen, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
123902 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Observation of Discrete Vortex Solitons in Optically Induced Photonic Lattices
Dragomir N. Neshev, Tristram J. Alexander, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, Yuri S. Kivshar, Hector Martin, Igor Makasyuk, and Zhigang Chen
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
123903 [View PDF (735 kB)]
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Observation of Vortex-Ring “Discrete” Solitons in 2D Photonic Lattices
Jason W. Fleischer, Guy Bartal, Oren Cohen, Ofer Manela, Mordechai Segev, Jared Hudock, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
123904 [View PDF (718 kB)]
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Nonlinear Interferometric Vibrational Imaging
Daniel L. Marks and Stephen A. Boppart
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
123905 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Lasing Action due to the Two-Dimensional Quasiperiodicity of Photonic Quasicrystals with a Penrose Lattice
M. Notomi, H. Suzuki, T. Tamamura, and K. Edagawa
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
123906 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Sonoluminescence from a Single Bubble Driven at 1 Megahertz
Carlos Camara, Seth Putterman, and Emil Kirilov
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
124301 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Oscillatory Rise of Bubbles in Wormlike Micellar Fluids with Different Microstructures
Nestor Z. Handzy and Andrew Belmonte
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
124501 [View PDF (403 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observations of Multiple Magnetic Islands in the Core of a Reversed Field Pinch
P. Franz, L. Marrelli, P. Piovesan, B. E. Chapman, P. Martin, I. Predebon, G. Spizzo, R. B. White, and C. Xiao
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
125001 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Single-State Measurement of Electrical Conductivity of Warm Dense Gold
K. Widmann, T. Ao, M. E. Foord, D. F. Price, A. D. Ellis, P. T. Springer, and A. Ng
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
125002 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Generalized Randomly Amplified Linear System Driven by Gaussian Noises: Extreme Heavy Tail and Algebraic Correlation Decay in Plasma Turbulence
György Steinbrecher and B. Weyssow
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
125003 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Biaxial Nematic Phase in a Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Side-Chain Polymer
Kirsten Severing and Kay Saalwächter
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
125501 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Smallest Carbon Nanotube Is 3  Å in Diameter
X. Zhao, Y. Liu, S. Inoue, T. Suzuki, R. O. Jones, and Y. Ando
Published 23 March 2004 (3 pages)
125502 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Elongation and Fluctuations of Semiflexible Polymers in a Nematic Solvent
Z. Dogic, J. Zhang, A. W. C. Lau, H. Aranda-Espinoza, P. Dalhaimer, D. E. Discher, P. A. Janmey, Randall D. Kamien, T. C. Lubensky, and A. G. Yodh
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
125503 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Low Energy Electron Irradiation Induced Deep Level Defects in 6H-SiC: The Implication for the Microstructure of the Deep Levels E1/E2
X. D. Chen, C. L. Yang, M. Gong, W. K. Ge, S. Fung, C. D. Beling, J. N. Wang, M. K. Lui, and C. C. Ling
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
125504 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Visualizing Chemical Reactions in Solution by Picosecond X-Ray Diffraction
Anton Plech, Michael Wulff, Savo Bratos, Fabien Mirloup, Rodolphe Vuilleumier, Friedrich Schotte, and Philip A. Anfinrud
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
125505 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Effect of Pressure on the Secondary Relaxation in a Simple Glass Former
A. Reiser, G. Kasper, and S. Hunklinger
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
125701 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Thermal Diffusion in a Sinusoidal Temperature Field
Walter L. Craig, Sorasak Danworaphong, and Gerald J. Diebold
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
125901 [View PDF (169 kB)]
Superlubricity of Graphite
Martin Dienwiebel, Gertjan S. Verhoeven, Namboodiri Pradeep, Joost W. M. Frenken, Jennifer A. Heimberg, and Henny W. Zandbergen
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
126101 [View PDF (452 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Self-Limited Growth of a Thin Oxide Layer on Rh(111)
J. Gustafson, A. Mikkelsen, M. Borg, E. Lundgren, L. Köhler, G. Kresse, M. Schmid, P. Varga, J. Yuhara, X. Torrelles, C. Quirós, and J. N. Andersen
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
126102 [View PDF (832 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Hot Spots and Pseudogaps for Hole- and Electron-Doped High-Temperature Superconductors
David Sénéchal and A.-M. S. Tremblay
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
126401 [View PDF (815 kB)]
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Aharonov-Bohm Signature for Neutral Polarized Excitons in Type-II Quantum Dot Ensembles
E. Ribeiro, A. O. Govorov, W. Carvalho, Jr., and G. Medeiros-Ribeiro
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
126402 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Dynamic Ferromagnetic Proximity Effect in Photoexcited Semiconductors
Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Arne Brataas, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Bertrand I. Halperin, Maciej Zwierzycki, and Paul J. Kelly
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
126601 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Nanoscale Phase Coexistence and Percolative Quantum Transport
Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar
Published 23 March 2004 (4 pages)
126602 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Universal Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect
Jairo Sinova, Dimitrie Culcer, Q. Niu, N. A. Sinitsyn, T. Jungwirth, and A. H. MacDonald
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
126603 [View PDF (704 kB)]
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Dynamics of Exciton Formation at the Si(100) c(4×2) Surface
Martin Weinelt, Michael Kutschera, Thomas Fauster, and Michael Rohlfing
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
126801 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Phase-Controlled Force and Magnetization Oscillations in Superconducting Ballistic Nanowires
I. V. Krive, I. A. Romanovsky, E. N. Bogachek, and Uzi Landman
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
126802 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Scattering of Hot Electrons by Adatoms at Metal Surfaces
Klaus Boger, Martin Weinelt, and Thomas Fauster
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
126803 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Point-Contact Tunneling Involving Low-Dimensional Spin-Triplet Superconductors
C. J. Bolech and T. Giamarchi
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
127001 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Domain Wall Scattering in Patterned Ni80Fe20 and Ni Nanowires by Current-Voltage Measurements
S. Lepadatu and Y. B. Xu
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
127201 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Continuous Charge Modulated Diagonal Phase in Manganites
Luis Brey
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
127202 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Spin-Glass Complexity
A. Crisanti, L. Leuzzi, G. Parisi, and T. Rizzo
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
127203 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Negative Refraction and Left-Handed Electromagnetism in Microwave Photonic Crystals
P. V. Parimi, W. T. Lu, P. Vodo, J. Sokoloff, J. S. Derov, and S. Sridhar
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
127401 [View PDF (501 kB)]
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Photoluminescence of Tetrahedral Quantum-Dot Quantum Wells
Vladimir A. Fonoberov, Evghenii P. Pokatilov, Vladimir M. Fomin, and Jozef T. Devreese
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
127402 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Study of an Order-Disorder Phase Transition on an Atomic Scale: The Example of Decagonal Al-Ni-Co Quasicrystals
K. Sato, F. Baier, W. Sprengel, R. Würschum, and H.-E. Schaefer
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
127403 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Rabi Flopping in a Two-Level System with a Time-Dependent Energy Renormalization: Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells
Adriano A. Batista and D. S. Citrin
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
127404 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Five-Wave-Mixing Spectroscopy of Ultrafast Electron Dynamics at a Si(001) Surface
C. Voelkmann, M. Reichelt, T. Meier, S. W. Koch, and U. Höfer
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
127405 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Multielectron Ionization of CdSe Quantum Dots in Intense Femtosecond Ultraviolet Light
Dong Hee Son, Joshua S. Wittenberg, and A. Paul Alivisatos
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
127406 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Bell’s Inequalities and Quantum Communication Complexity
Časlav Brukner, Marek Żukowski, Jian-Wei Pan, and Anton Zeilinger
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
127901 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Scalable Photonic Quantum Computation through Cavity-Assisted Interactions
L.-M. Duan and H. J. Kimble
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
127902 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Analysis and Interpretation of High Transverse Entanglement in Optical Parametric Down Conversion
C. K. Law and J. H. Eberly
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
127903 [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Enhancement of the Stability of Genetic Switches by Overlapping Upstream Regulatory Domains
Patrick B. Warren and Pieter Rein ten Wolde
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
128101 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Crystallization of a Globular Protein in Lipid Cubic Phase
S. Tanaka, S. U. Egelhaaf, and W. C. K. Poon
Published 26 March 2004 (4 pages)
128102 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Stationary and Oscillatory Localized Patterns, and Subcritical Bifurcations
Vladimir K. Vanag and Irving R. Epstein
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
128301 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Energy Spectra of the Ocean’s Internal Wave Field: Theory and Observations
Yuri V. Lvov, Kurt L. Polzin, and Esteban G. Tabak
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
128501 [View PDF (116 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Metallization of Fluid Nitrogen and the Mott Transition in Highly Compressed Low-Z Fluids”
Marina Bastea
Published 26 March 2004 (1 page)
129601 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Chau et al. Reply:
R. Chau, A. C. Mitchell, R. W. Minich, and W. J. Nellis
Published 26 March 2004 (1 page)
129602 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Comment on “Strain and High Temperature Superconductivity: Unexpected Results from Direct Electronic Structure Measurements in Thin Films”
Ivana Mrkonjić and Slaven Barišić
Published 26 March 2004 (1 page)
129701 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Abrecht et al. Reply:
M. Abrecht, D. Ariosa, D. Cloetta, S. Mitrovic, M. Onellion, X. X. Xi, G. Margaritondo, and D. Pavuna
Published 26 March 2004 (1 page)
129702 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “Power-Law Time Distribution of Large Earthquakes”
A. Helmstetter and D. Sornette
Published 25 March 2004 (1 page)
129801 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Mega et al. Reply:
M. S. Mega, P. Allegrini, P. Grigolini, V. Latora, L. Palatella, A. Rapisarda, and S. Vinciguerra
Published 25 March 2004 (1 page)
129802 [View PDF (78 kB)]
 
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