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Physical Review Letters – 7 May 2004
Volume 92, Issue 18

Patterns produced by a model for the development of neural circuitry in the mammalian visual cortex. Neurons in the cortex surface map retinal positions (mesh) and angles (colors) of objects in the visual field. The model maps are coupled by symmetries intrinsic to their development and show agreement with observations that suggest a correlation between the two maps. [Peter J. Thomas and Jack D. Cowan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 188101 (2004)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experimental Demonstration of Single Photon Nonlocality
Björn Hessmo, Pavel Usachev, Hoshang Heydari, and Gunnar Björk
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
180401 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

Experimental Demonstration of Single Photon Nonlocality
Björn Hessmo, Pavel Usachev, Hoshang Heydari, and Gunnar Björk
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
180401 [View PDF (132 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Dissociation and Decay of Ultracold Sodium Molecules
T. Mukaiyama, J. R. Abo-Shaeer, K. Xu, J. K. Chin, and W. Ketterle
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
180402 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Stability of Macroscopic Entanglement under Decoherence
W. Dür and H.-J. Briegel
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
180403 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Coherent Matter-Wave Manipulation in the Diabatic Limit
G. Zabow, R. S. Conroy, and M. G. Prentiss
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
180404 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Localization of Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices
Elena A. Ostrovskaya and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
180405 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Current Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Diffusive Systems: An Additivity Principle
T. Bodineau and B. Derrida
Published 3 May 2004 (4 pages)
180601 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Controlling the Motion of Magnetic Flux Quanta
B. Y. Zhu, F. Marchesoni, and Franco Nori
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
180602 [View PDF (295 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Current Sheets
J. G. Kirk
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
181101 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Skewness as a Test of the Equivalence Principle
Luca Amendola and Claudia Quercellini
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
181102 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Measurement of the Total Active 8B Solar Neutrino Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with Enhanced Neutral Current Sensitivity
S. N. Ahmed et al. (SNO Collaboration)
Published 3 May 2004 (6 pages)
181301 [View PDF (180 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Topology and H-Flux of T-Dual Manifolds
Peter Bouwknegt, Jarah Evslin, and Varghese Mathai
Published 6 May 2004 (3 pages)
181601 [View PDF (78 kB)]
Observation of Parity Nonconservation in Møller Scattering
P. L. Anthony et al. (SLAC E158 Collaboration)
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
181602 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Limits on the Decay-Rate Difference of Neutral B Mesons and on CP, T, and CPT Violation in B0B̅ 0 Oscillations
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 6 May 2004 (7 pages)
181801 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Proposed Search for a00(980)-f0(980) Mixing in Polarization Phenomena
N. N. Achasov and G. N. Shestakov
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
182001 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Multistrange Baryon Production in Au-Au Collisions at √sNN=130   GeV
J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 5 May 2004 (6 pages)
182301 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Confinement versus Chiral Symmetry
Ágnes Mócsy, Francesco Sannino, and Kimmo Tuominen
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
182302 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Enhancement of Phase Space Density by Increasing Trap Anisotropy in a Magneto-Optical Trap with a Large Number of Atoms
M. Vengalattore, R. S. Conroy, and M. G. Prentiss
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
183001 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Quantum and Thermal Fluctuation Effects on the Photoabsorption Spectra of Clusters
Fabio Della Sala, Roger Rousseau, Andreas Görling, and Dominik Marx
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
183401 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Strong Influence of Hole Shape on Extraordinary Transmission through Periodic Arrays of Subwavelength Holes
K. J. Klein Koerkamp, S. Enoch, F. B. Segerink, N. F. van Hulst, and L. Kuipers
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
183901 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Spontaneous Ratchet Effect in a Granular Gas
Devaraj van der Meer, Peter Reimann, Ko van der Weele, and Detlef Lohse
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
184301 [View PDF (479 kB)]
Persistent Holes in a Fluid
Florian S. Merkt, Robert D. Deegan, Daniel I. Goldman, Erin C. Rericha, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
184501 [View PDF (972 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Harmonic Emission from the Rear Side of Thin Overdense Foils Irradiated with Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses
U. Teubner, K. Eidmann, U. Wagner, U. Andiel, F. Pisani, G. D. Tsakiris, K. Witte, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, T. Schlegel, and E. Förster
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
185001 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Dependence of Shell Mix on Feedthrough in Direct Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion
S. P. Regan, J. A. Delettrez, V. N. Goncharov, F. J. Marshall, J. M. Soures, V. A. Smalyuk, P. B. Radha, B. Yaakobi, R. Epstein, V. Yu. Glebov, P. A. Jaanimagi, D. D. Meyerhofer, T. C. Sangster, W. Seka, S. Skupsky, C. Stoeckl, D. A. Haynes, Jr., J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, and F. H. Séguin
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
185002 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Influence of Asymmetric Energetic Ion Distributions on Sawtooth Stabilization
Jonathan P. Graves
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
185003 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Diffraction of Neutral Helium Clusters: Evidence for “Magic Numbers”
Rüdiger Brühl, Rafael Guardiola, Anton Kalinin, Oleg Kornilov, Jesús Navarro, Tim Savas, and J. Peter Toennies
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
185301 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Anisotropic Interparticle Forces in Nematic Colloids with Optical Tweezers
Makoto Yada, Jun Yamamoto, and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Published 3 May 2004 (4 pages)
185501 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Four-Well Tunneling States and Elastic Response of Clathrates
I. Zerec, V. Keppens, M. A. McGuire, D. Mandrus, B. C. Sales, and P. Thalmeier
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
185502 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Vibrational Lifetimes and Isotope Effects of Interstitial Oxygen in Silicon and Germanium
B. Sun, Q. Yang, R. C. Newman, B. Pajot, N. H. Tolk, L. C. Feldman, and G. Lüpke
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
185503 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Spatial Structures and Dynamics of Kinetically Constrained Models of Glasses
Cristina Toninelli, Giulio Biroli, and Daniel S. Fisher
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
185504 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Concentrated Point Defects in and Order-Disorder Transition Temperature of Intermetallic Compounds
Q. M. Hu, R. Yang, Y. L. Hao, D. S. Xu, and D. Li
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
185505 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Jamming, Two-Fluid Behavior, and “Self-Filtration” in Concentrated Particulate Suspensions
M. D. Haw
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
185506 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Atomic Dynamics in Liquids with Competing Interactions
Sandro Jahn and Jens-Boie Suck
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
185507 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Surface-Induced Ordering of Nematics in an External Field: The Strong Influence of Tilted Walls
T. G. Sokolovska, R. O. Sokolovskii, and G. N. Patey
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
185508 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of Random Heteropolymers
A. Montanari, M. Müller, and M. Mézard
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
185509 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Structure of Liquid Iron at Pressures up to 58 GPa
Guoyin Shen, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Mark L. Rivers, and Stephen R. Sutton
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
185701 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Density-Functional Calculations of α, β, γ, δ, δ′, and ϵ Plutonium
Per Söderlind and Babak Sadigh
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
185702 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Discretization Dependence of Criticality in Model Fluids: A Hard-Core Electrolyte
Young C. Kim and Michael E. Fisher
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
185703 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Breakdown of Dynamic Scaling in Thin Film Binary Liquids Undergoing Phase Separation
Hyun-joong Chung and Russell J. Composto
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
185704 [View PDF (835 kB)]
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Dynamic Criticality in Glass-Forming Liquids
Stephen Whitelam, Ludovic Berthier, and Juan P. Garrahan
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
185705 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Strain, Size, and Composition of InAs Quantum Sticks Embedded in InP Determined via Grazing Incidence X-Ray Anomalous Diffraction
A. Létoublon, V. Favre-Nicolin, H. Renevier, M. G. Proietti, C. Monat, M. Gendry, O. Marty, and C. Priester
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
186101 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Self-Assembled Periodical Polycrystalline-ZnO/a-C Nanolayers on Zn Nanowire
Quan Li, K. W. Kwong, D. Ozkaya, and D. J. H. Cockayne
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
186102 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Static and Dynamic Wetting Measurements of Single Carbon Nanotubes
Asa H. Barber, Sidney R. Cohen, and H. Daniel Wagner
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
186103 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Direct Extraction of the Eliashberg Function for Electron-Phonon Coupling: A Case Study of Be(101̅ 0)
Junren Shi, S.-J. Tang, Biao Wu, P. T. Sprunger, W. L. Yang, V. Brouet, X. J. Zhou, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, Zhenyu Zhang, and E. W. Plummer
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
186401 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Ab Initio Calculations in a Uniform Magnetic Field Using Periodic Supercells
Wei Cai and Giulia Galli
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
186402 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Metal-Insulator Transition in Two- and Three-Dimensional Logarithmic Plasmas
S. Kragset, A. Sudbø, and F. S. Nogueira
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
186403 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Realization of an Interacting Two-Valley AlAs Bilayer System
K. Vakili, Y. P. Shkolnikov, E. Tutuc, E. P. De Poortere, and M. Shayegan
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
186404 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Kondo Scaling in the Optical Response of YbIn1-xAgxCu4
Jason N. Hancock, Tim McKnew, Zack Schlesinger, John L. Sarrao, and Zach Fisk
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
186405 [View PDF (141 kB)]
High Efficiency Carrier Multiplication in PbSe Nanocrystals: Implications for Solar Energy Conversion
R. D. Schaller and V. I. Klimov
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
186601 [View PDF (501 kB)]
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Weak Localization in Multiterminal Networks of Diffusive Wires
Christophe Texier and Gilles Montambaux
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
186801 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Spin Splitting of s and p States in Single Atoms and Magnetic Coupling in Dimers on a Surface
H. J. Lee, W. Ho, and M. Persson
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
186802 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Electronic-Structure Dependence of the Electron-Phonon Interaction in Ag
J. J. Paggel, D.-A. Luh, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
186803 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Quantum Depinning Transition of Quantum Hall Stripes
M.-R. Li, H. A. Fertig, R. Côté, and Hangmo Yi
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
186804 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Single- and Multigrain Nanojunctions with a Self-Assembled Monolayer of Conjugated Molecules
N. B. Zhitenev, A. Erbe, and Z. Bao
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
186805 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Dichotomy between Nodal and Antinodal Quasiparticles in Underdoped (La2-xSrx)CuO4 Superconductors
X. J. Zhou, T. Yoshida, D.-H. Lee, W. L. Yang, V. Brouet, F. Zhou, W. X. Ti, J. W. Xiong, Z. X. Zhao, T. Sasagawa, T. Kakeshita, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, A. Fujimori, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
187001 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Hydrogen Dominant Metallic Alloys: High Temperature Superconductors?
N. W. Ashcroft
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
187002 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Localization and Interaction Effects in Strongly Underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4
Marta Z. Cieplak, A. Malinowski, S. Guha, and M. Berkowski
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
187003 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced Hole Doping of the Hg-Based Cuprate Superconductors
C. Ambrosch-Draxl, E. Ya. Sherman, H. Auer, and T. Thonhauser
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
187004 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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High Resolution Study of Magnetic Ordering at Absolute Zero
M. Lee, A. Husmann, T. F. Rosenbaum, and G. Aeppli
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
187201 [View PDF (922 kB)]
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Unified Model for the Free-Electron Avalanche in Laser-Irradiated Dielectrics
B. Rethfeld
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
187401 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Excitonic Energy Shell Structure of Self-Assembled InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots
S. Raymond, S. Studenikin, A. Sachrajda, Z. Wasilewski, S. J. Cheng, W. Sheng, P. Hawrylak, A. Babinski, M. Potemski, G. Ortner, and M. Bayer
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
187402 [View PDF (716 kB)]
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Intermediate Coupling Theory of Electronic Ferroelectricity
C. D. Batista, J. E. Gubernatis, J. Bonča, and H. Q. Lin
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
187601 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Stimulated Desorption of Cations from Pristine and Acidic Low-Temperature Water Ice Surfaces
Janine Herring, Alex Aleksandrov, and Thomas M. Orlando
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
187602 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Superdense Coding of Quantum States
Aram Harrow, Patrick Hayden, and Debbie Leung
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
187901 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Perfect State Transfer in Quantum Spin Networks
Matthias Christandl, Nilanjana Datta, Artur Ekert, and Andrew J. Landahl
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
187902 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Symmetry Induced Coupling of Cortical Feature Maps
Peter J. Thomas and Jack D. Cowan
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
188101 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Permeative Flows in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
D. Marenduzzo, E. Orlandini, and J. M. Yeomans
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
188301 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Dissociation of a Product of a Surface Reaction in the Gas Phase: XeF2 Reaction with Si
R. C. Hefty, J. R. Holt, M. R. Tate, D. B. Gosalvez, M. F. Bertino, and S. T. Ceyer
Published 5 May 2004 (4 pages)
188302 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Prototypical Single-Molecule Chemical-Field-Effect Transistor with Nanometer-Sized Gates
F. Jäckel, M. D. Watson, K. Müllen, and J. P. Rabe
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
188303 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Networks, Dynamics, and Modularity
Evan A. Variano, Jonathan H. McCoy, and Hod Lipson
Published 7 May 2004 (4 pages)
188701 [View PDF (109 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Ferrofluids as Thermal Ratchets”
M. I. Shliomis
Published 7 May 2004 (1 page)
188901 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Engel et al. Reply:
Andreas Engel and Peter Reimann
Published 7 May 2004 (1 page)
188902 [View PDF (35 kB)]
 
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