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Physical Review Letters – 30 April 2004
Volume 92, Issue 17

Particle-in-cell simulation of relativistic ions being ejected from a foil target by an ultraintense ("exawatt") laser pulse. The laser ionizes the target and pushes electrons forward; the ions are then accelerated by the charge separation. Shown is an ion-density isosurface; the black curve shows the ion density along the laser axis. [T. Esirkepov, M. Borghesi, S. V. Bulanov, G. Mourou, and T. Tajima, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 175003 (2004)]

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LETTERS

General Physics

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Anomalies of Weakened Decoherence Criteria for Quantum Histories
Lajos Diósi
Published 26 April 2004 (3 pages)
170401 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Excitation Spectroscopy of Vortex Lattices in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate
S. J. Woo, L. O. Baksmaty, S. Choi, and N. P. Bigelow
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
170402 [View PDF (720 kB)]
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Ultracold Fermions and the SU(N) Hubbard Model
Carsten Honerkamp and Walter Hofstetter
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
170403 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Reconstructing the Density of States by History-Dependent Metadynamics
Cristian Micheletti, Alessandro Laio, and Michele Parrinello
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
170601 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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New Nucleosynthesis Constraint on the Variation of G
Craig J. Copi, Adam N. Davis, and Lawrence M. Krauss
Published 27 April 2004 (3 pages)
171301 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Charged-Particle Decay and Suppression of Primordial Power on Small Scales
Kris Sigurdson and Marc Kamionkowski
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
171302 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Cross Sections and Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in Forward Neutral-Pion Production from Proton Collisions at √s=200  GeV
J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 29 April 2004 (6 pages)
171801 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Upper Bound on the Decay τ→μγ from the Belle Detector
K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 29 April 2004 (6 pages)
171802 [View PDF (191 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Evidence for M1 Scissors Resonances Built on the Levels in the Quasicontinuum of 163Dy
M. Krtička, F. Bečvář, J. Honzátko, I. Tomandl, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, R. Reifarth, F. Voss, and K. Wisshak
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
172501 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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New Approach for Measuring Properties of rp-Process Nuclei
R. R. C. Clement, D. Bazin, W. Benenson, B. A. Brown, A. L. Cole, M. W. Cooper, P. A. DeYoung, A. Estrade, M. A. Famiano, N. H. Frank, A. Gade, T. Glasmacher, P. T. Hosmer, W. G. Lynch, F. Montes, W. F. Mueller, G. F. Peaslee, P. Santi, H. Schatz, B. M. Sherrill, M-J. van Goethem, and M. S. Wallace
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
172502 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Influence of Molecular Structure on Double Ionization of N2 and O2 by High Intensity Ultrashort Laser Pulses
E. Eremina, X. Liu, H. Rottke, W. Sandner, M. G. Schätzel, A. Dreischuh, G. G. Paulus, H. Walther, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich
Published 26 April 2004 (4 pages)
173001 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Slowing Heavy, Ground-State Molecules using an Alternating Gradient Decelerator
M. R. Tarbutt, H. L. Bethlem, J. J. Hudson, V. L. Ryabov, V. A. Ryzhov, B. E. Sauer, G. Meijer, and E. A. Hinds
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
173002 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Surface Trap
D. Rychtarik, B. Engeser, H.-C. Nägerl, and R. Grimm
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
173003 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Observation of Enhanced Field-Free Molecular Alignment by Two Laser Pulses
Christer Z. Bisgaard, Mikael D. Poulsen, Emmanuel Péronne, Simon S. Viftrup, and Henrik Stapelfeldt
Published 28 April 2004 (4 pages)
173004 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Coupling of Electron Orbital Motion with Rotation in the High Rydberg States of BH
A. T. Gilkison, C. R. Viteri, and E. R. Grant
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
173005 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Evaporative Cooling of Helium Nanodroplets with Angular Momentum Conservation
Kevin K. Lehmann and Adriaan M. Dokter
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
173401 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Crossed Beam Pump and Probe Dynamics in Metal Clusters
K. Andrae, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
173402 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Excited-State Relaxation of Ag8 Clusters Embedded in Helium Droplets
Paul Radcliffe, Andreas Przystawik, Thomas Diederich, Tilo Döppner, Josef Tiggesbäumker, and Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
173403 [View PDF (214 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Mesoscopic Correlation with Polarization Rotation of Electromagnetic Waves
A. A. Chabanov, N. P. Trégourès, B. A. van Tiggelen, and A. Z. Genack
Published 28 April 2004 (4 pages)
173901 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Impact of Weak Localization in the Time Domain
S. K. Cheung, X. Zhang, Z. Q. Zhang, A. A. Chabanov, and A. Z. Genack
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
173902 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Reactive Particles in Random Flows
György Károlyi, Tamás Tél, Alessandro P. S. de Moura, and Celso Grebogi
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
174101 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Diffusion and Mixing in Gravity-Driven Dense Granular Flows
Jaehyuk Choi, Arshad Kudrolli, Rodolfo R. Rosales, and Martin Z. Bazant
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
174301 [View PDF (827 kB)]
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Noise, Coherent Fluctuations, and the Onset of Order in an Oscillated Granular Fluid
Daniel I. Goldman, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
174302 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Cavitation Inception on Microparticles: A Self-Propelled Particle Accelerator
Manish Arora, Claus-Dieter Ohl, and Knud Aage Mørch
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
174501 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Ordering Phenomena in Cooling Granular Mixtures
C. Cattuto and Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
174502 [View PDF (399 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Space-Charge Driven Emittance Growth in a 3D Mismatched Anisotropic Beam
Ji Qiang, Robert D. Ryne, and Ingo Hofmann
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
174801 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Strong Reduction of the Degree of Spatial Coherence of a Laser Beam Propagating through a Preformed Plasma
P. Michel, C. Labaune, H. C. Bandulet, K. Lewis, S. Depierreux, S. Hulin, G. Bonnaud, V. T. Tikhonchuk, S. Weber, G. Riazuelo, H. A. Baldis, and A. Michard
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
175001 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Modeling of a Lower-Hybrid Current Drive by Including Spectral Broadening Induced by Parametric Instability in Tokamak Plasmas
R. Cesario, A. Cardinali, C. Castaldo, F. Paoletti, and D. Mazon
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
175002 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Highly Efficient Relativistic-Ion Generation in the Laser-Piston Regime
T. Esirkepov, M. Borghesi, S. V. Bulanov, G. Mourou, and T. Tajima
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
175003 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Highly Resolved Fluid Flows: “Liquid Plasmas” at the Kinetic Level
Gregor E. Morfill, Milenko Rubin-Zuzic, Hermann Rothermel, Alexei V. Ivlev, Boris A. Klumov, Hubertus M. Thomas, Uwe Konopka, and Victor Steinberg
Published 28 April 2004 (4 pages)
175004 [View PDF (600 kB)]
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Bifurcation and Lorentz-Factor Scaling of Relativistic Magnetized Plasma Expansion
Edison Liang and Kazumi Nishimura
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
175005 [View PDF (711 kB)]
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Theory for Explosive Ideal Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities in Plasmas
H. R. Wilson and S. C. Cowley
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
175006 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Amplification of Ultrashort Laser Pulses by a Resonant Raman Scheme in a Gas-Jet Plasma
Yuan Ping, Weifeng Cheng, Szymon Suckewer, Daniel S. Clark, and Nathaniel J. Fisch
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
175007 [View PDF (285 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Excitations of the Orbital Order in RMnO3 Manganites: Light Scattering Experiments
L. Martín-Carrón and A. de Andrés
Published 28 April 2004 (4 pages)
175501 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Mechanical Properties of Nanosprings
Alexandre F. da Fonseca and Douglas S. Galvão
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
175502 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Stability and Mobility of Mono- and Di-Interstitials in α-Fe
Chu-Chun Fu, F. Willaime, and P. Ordejón
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
175503 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Driving Force of Stacking-Fault Formation in SiC p-i-n Diodes
S. Ha, M. Skowronski, J. J. Sumakeris, M. J. Paisley, and M. K. Das
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
175504 [View PDF (773 kB)]
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Metal-to-Semimetal Transition in Supercooled Liquid Silicon
S. S. Ashwin, U. V. Waghmare, and Srikanth Sastry
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
175701 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Bridging the Gap between Macro- and Nanotribology: A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of Tricresylphosphate Uptake on Metal and Oxide Surfaces
M. Abdelmaksoud, J. W. Bender, and J. Krim
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
176101 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Nanotube Wires on Commensurate InAs Surfaces: Binding Energies, Band Alignments, and Bipolar Doping by the Surfaces
Yong-Hyun Kim, M. J. Heben, and S. B. Zhang
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
176102 [View PDF (1,014 kB)]
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Surfactant-Induced Surface Freezing at the Alkane-Water Interface
Qunfang Lei and Colin D. Bain
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
176103 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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“Hot-Atom” O2 Dissociation and Oxide Nucleation on Al(111)
Lucio Colombi Ciacchi and Mike C. Payne
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
176104 [View PDF (915 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Nonunitary Spin-Charge Separation in a One-Dimensional Fermion Gas
Vadim V. Cheianov and M. B. Zvonarev
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
176401 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Angular Distribution of Photoluminescence as a Probe of Bose Condensation of Trapped Excitons
Jonathan Keeling, L. S. Levitov, and P. B. Littlewood
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
176402 [View PDF (503 kB)]
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Mott Transition and Suppression of Orbital Fluctuations in Orthorhombic 3d1 Perovskites
E. Pavarini, S. Biermann, A. Poteryaev, A. I. Lichtenstein, A. Georges, and O. K. Andersen
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
176403 [View PDF (828 kB)]
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Transition between Quantum States in a Parallel-Coupled Double Quantum Dot
J. C. Chen, A. M. Chang, and M. R. Melloch
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
176801 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Observation of “Partial Coherence” in an Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer with a Quantum Dot
Hisashi Aikawa, Kensuke Kobayashi, Akira Sano, Shingo Katsumoto, and Yasuhiro Iye
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
176802 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Are Current-Induced Forces Conservative?
M. Di Ventra, Y.-C. Chen, and T. N. Todorov
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
176803 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Frequency Scales for Current Statistics of Mesoscopic Conductors
K. E. Nagaev, S. Pilgram, and M. Büttiker
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
176804 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Coulomb Blockade of Proximity Effect at Large Conductance
P. M. Ostrovsky, M. A. Skvortsov, and M. V. Feigel’man
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
176805 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Nondemolition Measurements of a Single Quantum Spin using Josephson Oscillations
L. Bulaevskii, M. Hruška, A. Shnirman, D. Smith, and Yu. Makhlin
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
177001 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Staggered Flux Vortices and the Superconducting Transition in the Layered Cuprates
Carsten Honerkamp and Patrick A. Lee
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
177002 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Test of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in an Optimally Doped Cuprate
Romain Bel, Kamran Behnia, Cyril Proust, Peter van der Linden, Duncan Maude, and Sergey I. Vedeneev
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
177003 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Thermopower Induced by a Supercurrent in Superconductor–Normal-Metal Structures
Pauli Virtanen and Tero T. Heikkilä
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
177004 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Competition between Helimagnetism and Commensurate Quantum Spin Correlations in LiCu2O2
T. Masuda, A. Zheludev, A. Bush, M. Markina, and A. Vasiliev
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
177201 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Ordering and Excitations in the Field-Induced Magnetic Phase of Cs3Cr2Br9
B. Grenier, Y. Inagaki, L. P. Regnault, A. Wildes, T. Asano, Y. Ajiro, E. Lhotel, C. Paulsen, T. Ziman, and J. P. Boucher
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
177202 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Griffiths Phase in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
V. M. Galitski, A. Kaminski, and S. Das Sarma
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
177203 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Time-Resolved Fluorescence of Carbon Nanotubes and Its Implication for Radiative Lifetimes
Feng Wang, Gordana Dukovic, Louis E. Brus, and Tony F. Heinz
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
177401 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Femtosecond Study of the Interplay between Excitons, Trions, and Carriers in (Cd,Mn)Te Quantum Wells
P. Płochocka, P. Kossacki, W. Maślana, J. Cibert, S. Tatarenko, C. Radzewicz, and J. A. Gaj
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
177402 [View PDF (266 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Generation and Characterization of Werner States and Maximally Entangled Mixed States by a Universal Source of Entanglement
M. Barbieri, F. De Martini, G. Di Nepi, and P. Mataloni
Published 28 April 2004 (4 pages)
177901 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Efficient Decomposition of Quantum Gates
Juha J. Vartiainen, Mikko Möttönen, and Martti M. Salomaa
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
177902 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Tripartite Quantum State Sharing
Andrew M. Lance, Thomas Symul, Warwick P. Bowen, Barry C. Sanders, and Ping Koy Lam
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
177903 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Magnetic Phase Shifter for Superconducting Qubits
D. S. Golubović, W. V. Pogosov, M. Morelle, and V. V. Moshchalkov
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
177904 [View PDF (676 kB)]
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Distinguishability and Indistinguishability by Local Operations and Classical Communication
Heng Fan
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
177905 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Exponential Speedup with a Single Bit of Quantum Information: Measuring the Average Fidelity Decay
David Poulin, Robin Blume-Kohout, Raymond Laflamme, and Harold Ollivier
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
177906 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Anomalous Diffusion Probes Microstructure Dynamics of Entangled F-Actin Networks
I. Y. Wong, M. L. Gardel, D. R. Reichman, Eric R. Weeks, M. T. Valentine, A. R. Bausch, and D. A. Weitz
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
178101 [View PDF (588 kB)]
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Dephasing of Solid-State Qubits at Optimal Points
Yuriy Makhlin and Alexander Shnirman
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
178301 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Nonvolatile Memory with Multilevel Switching: A Basic Model
M. J. Rozenberg, I. H. Inoue, and M. J. Sánchez
Published 30 April 2004 (4 pages)
178302 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Velocity and Hierarchical Spread of Epidemic Outbreaks in Scale-Free Networks
Marc Barthélemy, Alain Barrat, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, and Alessandro Vespignani
Published 27 April 2004 (4 pages)
178701 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Hierarchy Measures in Complex Networks
Ala Trusina, Sergei Maslov, Petter Minnhagen, and Kim Sneppen
Published 29 April 2004 (4 pages)
178702 [View PDF (139 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Higher Surface Energy of Free Nanoparticles”
H. M. Lu and Q. Jiang
Published 29 April 2004 (1 page)
179601 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Nanda et al. Reply:
K. K. Nanda, A. Maisels, F. E. Kruis, H. Fissan, and S. Stappert
Published 29 April 2004 (1 page)
179602 [View PDF (44 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Electron and Orbital Correlations in Ca2-xSrxRuO4 Probed by Optical Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 257402 (2002)]
J. S. Lee, Y. S. Lee, T. W. Noh, S.-J. Oh, Jaejun Yu, S. Nakatsuji, H. Fukazawa, and Y. Maeno
Published 29 April 2004 (1 page)
179901(E) [View PDF (30 kB)]
 
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