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Physical Review Letters – 14 May 2004
Volume 92, Issue 19

Images from a numerical simulation of turbulent fluid convection showing horizontal slices of the temperature at early time (left) and at a later time (right); rising plumes are in red and yellow, sinking plumes in blue. The simulation shows that over time the spatial distribution of the plumes changes dramatically as they cluster into disjoint groups. [Antonio Parodi, Jost von Hardenberg, Giuseppe Passoni, Antonello Provenzale, and Edward A Spiegel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 194503 (2004)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Optical Torque Wrench: Angular Trapping, Rotation, and Torque Detection of Quartz Microparticles
Arthur La Porta and Michelle D. Wang
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
190801 [View PDF (267 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Observation of Optical Precursors in Water
Seung-Ho Choi and Ulf Österberg
Published 14 May 2004 (3 pages)
193903 [View PDF (463 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Observation of Reduced Three-Body Recombination in a Correlated 1D Degenerate Bose Gas
B. Laburthe Tolra, K. M. O’Hara, J. H. Huckans, W. D. Phillips, S. L. Rolston, and J. V. Porto
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
190401 [View PDF (102 kB)]

General Physics

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Measuring a Photonic Qubit without Destroying It
G. J. Pryde, J. L. O’Brien, A. G. White, S. D. Bartlett, and T. C. Ralph
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
190402 [View PDF (210 kB)]
Optical Torque Wrench: Angular Trapping, Rotation, and Torque Detection of Quartz Microparticles
Arthur La Porta and Michelle D. Wang
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
190801 [View PDF (267 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Kerr Black Holes in Horizon-Generating Form
Sean A. Hayward
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
191101 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Structure Function Scaling in Compressible Super-Alfvénic MHD Turbulence
Paolo Padoan, Raul Jimenez, Åke Nordlund, and Stanislav Boldyrev
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
191102 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Solving the Cooling Flow Problem of Galaxy Clusters by Dark Matter Neutralino Annihilation
Tomonori Totani
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
191301 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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1+1 Dimensional Compactifications of String Theory
Naureen Goheer, Matthew Kleban, and Leonard Susskind
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
191601 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Precise Mass Measurement of 68Se, a Waiting-Point Nuclide along the rp Process
J. A. Clark, G. Savard, K. S. Sharma, J. Vaz, J. C. Wang, Z. Zhou, A. Heinz, B. Blank, F. Buchinger, J. E. Crawford, S. Gulick, J. K. P. Lee, A. F. Levand, D. Seweryniak, G. D. Sprouse, and W. Trimble
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
192501 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Density Matrix Perturbation Theory
Anders M. N. Niklasson and Matt Challacombe
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
193001 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Ab Initio Linear Scaling Response Theory: Electric Polarizability by Perturbed Projection
Valéry Weber, Anders M. N. Niklasson, and Matt Challacombe
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
193002 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Calibrating Dipolar Interaction in an Atomic Condensate
S. Yi and L. You
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
193201 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Homodyne Tomography Characterization and Nonlocality of a Dual-Mode Optical Qubit
S. A. Babichev, J. Appel, and A. I. Lvovsky
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
193601 [View PDF (452 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Controlling Fast Chaos in Delay Dynamical Systems
Jonathan N. Blakely, Lucas Illing, and Daniel J. Gauthier
Published 11 May 2004 (4 pages)
193901 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Bloch Modes Dressed by Evanescent Waves and the Generalized Goos-Hänchen Effect in Photonic Crystals
Didier Felbacq and Rafik Smaâli
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
193902 [View PDF (369 kB)]
Observation of Optical Precursors in Water
Seung-Ho Choi and Ulf Österberg
Published 14 May 2004 (3 pages)
193903 [View PDF (463 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Time Reversal of Electromagnetic Waves
G. Lerosey, J. de Rosny, A. Tourin, A. Derode, G. Montaldo, and M. Fink
Published 14 May 2004 (3 pages)
193904 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Dynamics of Drag and Force Distributions for Projectile Impact in a Granular Medium
Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Antonio H. Lara, Andrew T. Lee, Daniel I. Goldman, Inna Vishik, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
194301 [View PDF (601 kB)]
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Nanoflares and MHD Turbulence in Coronal Loops: A Hybrid Shell Model
Giuseppina Nigro, Francesco Malara, Vincenzo Carbone, and Pierluigi Veltri
Published 11 May 2004 (4 pages)
194501 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Plume Motion and Large-Scale Circulation in a Cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard Cell
Denis Funfschilling and Guenter Ahlers
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
194502 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Clustering of Plumes in Turbulent Convection
Antonio Parodi, Jost von Hardenberg, Giuseppe Passoni, Antonello Provenzale, and Edward A Spiegel
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
194503 [View PDF (267 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Suppression of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability due to Self-Radiation in a Multiablation Target
Shinsuke Fujioka, Atsushi Sunahara, Katsunobu Nishihara, Naofumi Ohnishi, Tomoyuki Johzaki, Hiroyuki Shiraga, Keisuke Shigemori, Mitsuo Nakai, Tadashi Ikegawa, Masakatsu Murakami, Keiji Nagai, Takayoshi Norimatsu, Hiroshi Azechi, and Tatsuhiko Yamanaka
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
195001 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Electronic and Positronic Guiding-Center Drift Ions
Daniel H. E. Dubin
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
195002 [View PDF (304 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Dissipation Mechanisms near the Superfluid 3He Transition in Aerogel
A. I. Golov, D. Einzel, G. Lawes, K. Matsumoto, and J. M. Parpia
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
195301 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Fluctuating Lattice Constants of Indium under High Pressure
A. S. Mikhaylushkin, U. Häussermann, B. Johansson, and S. I. Simak
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
195501 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Direct Evidence for Negative Grain Boundary Potential in Ca-Doped and Undoped YBa2Cu3O7-x
Marvin A. Schofield, Marco Beleggia, Yimei Zhu, Karsten Guth, and Christian Jooss
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
195502 [View PDF (467 kB)]
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First-Principles-Based Surface Phase Diagram of Fully Relaxed Binary Alloy Surfaces
O. Wieckhorst, S. Müller, L. Hammer, and K. Heinz
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
195503 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Universal Nuclear Spin Relaxation and Long-Range Order in Nematics Strongly Confined in Mass Fractal Silica Gels
N. León, J.-P. Korb, I. Bonalde, and P. Levitz
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
195504 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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High-Pressure Melting of Molybdenum
A. B. Belonoshko, S. I. Simak, A. E. Kochetov, B. Johansson, L. Burakovsky, and D. L. Preston
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
195701 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Reentrant Surface Melting of Colloidal Hard Spheres
Roel P. A. Dullens and Willem K. Kegel
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
195702 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Nonperturbative Renormalization-Group Study of Reaction-Diffusion Processes
Léonie Canet, Bertrand Delamotte, Olivier Deloubrière, and Nicolas Wschebor
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
195703 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Capillary Condensation in Linear Mesopores of Different Shape
D. Wallacher, N. Künzner, D. Kovalev, N. Knorr, and K. Knorr
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
195704 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Pokrovsky-Talapov Critical Behavior and Rough-to-Rough Ridges of the Σ3 Coincidence Tilt Boundary in Mo
Boris B. Straumal, Valery N. Semenov, Olga A. Kogtenkova, and Tadao Watanabe
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
196101 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Surface Reconstruction and Decahedral Structure of Bimetallic Nanoparticles
J. L. Rodríguez-López, J. M. Montejano-Carrizales, U. Pal, J. F. Sánchez-Ramírez, H. E. Troiani, D. García, M. Miki-Yoshida, and M. José-Yacamán
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
196102 [View PDF (931 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes: An Ab Initio Symmetry-Based Approach
Eric Chang, Giovanni Bussi, Alice Ruini, and Elisa Molinari
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
196401 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Many-Body Approximation Scheme beyond GW
Ping Sun and Gabriel Kotliar
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
196402 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of the Energy Gap of Semiconductors in the Low-Temperature Limit
Manuel Cardona, T. A. Meyer, and M. L. W. Thewalt
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
196403 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Commensurate-Incommensurate Crossover of Charge Stripe in La2-xSrxNiO4 (x∼1/3)
K. Ishizaka, T. Arima, Y. Murakami, R. Kajimoto, H. Yoshizawa, N. Nagaosa, and Y. Tokura
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
196404 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Role of Hybridization in NaxCoO2 and the Effect of Hydration
C. A. Marianetti, G. Kotliar, and G. Ceder
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
196405 [View PDF (687 kB)]
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Efficiency of Exciton and Charge Carrier Photogeneration in a Semiconducting Polymer
E. Hendry, J. M. Schins, L. P. Candeias, L. D. A. Siebbeles, and M. Bonn
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
196601 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Quantum Control of Electron-Phonon Scatterings in Artificial Atoms
Ulrich Hohenester and Georg Stadler
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
196801 [View PDF (627 kB)]
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Resonant Crossover of Terahertz Loss to the Gain of a Bloch Oscillating InAs/AlSb Superlattice
P. G. Savvidis, B. Kolasa, G. Lee, and S. J. Allen
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
196802 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Magnetic Bloch Oscillations in Nanowire Superlattice Rings
D. S. Citrin
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
196803 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Coulomb Blockade of a Noisy Metallic Box: A Realization of Bose-Fermi Kondo Models
Karyn Le Hur
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
196804 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Localization of Surface States in Disordered Step Lattices
F. Baumberger, M. Hengsberger, M. Muntwiler, M. Shi, J. Krempasky, L. Patthey, J. Osterwalder, and T. Greber
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
196805 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Microscopic Origin of the Next-Generation Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
C.-C Chang and J. K. Jain
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
196806 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Andreev Reflection Eigenvalue Density in Mesoscopic Conductors
P. Samuelsson, W. Belzig, and Yu. V. Nazarov
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
196807 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Evolution of the Hall Coefficient and the Peculiar Electronic Structure of the Cuprate Superconductors
Yoichi Ando, Y. Kurita, Seiki Komiya, S. Ono, and Kouji Segawa
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
197001 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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de Haas–van Alphen Effect in ZrZn2 under Pressure: Crossover between Two Magnetic States
N. Kimura, M. Endo, T. Isshiki, S. Minagawa, A. Ochiai, H. Aoki, T. Terashima, S. Uji, T. Matsumoto, and G. G. Lonzarich
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
197002 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Vortex Fluctuations in the Critical Casimir Effect of Superfluid and Superconducting Films
Gary A. Williams
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
197003 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Kohn Anomaly in MgB2 by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
A. Q. R. Baron, H. Uchiyama, Y. Tanaka, S. Tsutsui, D. Ishikawa, S. Lee, R. Heid, K.-P. Bohnen, S. Tajima, and T. Ishikawa
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
197004 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Softening of Cu-O Bond Stretching Phonons in Tetragonal HgBa2CuO4+δ
H. Uchiyama, A. Q. R. Baron, S. Tsutsui, Y. Tanaka, W.-Z. Hu, A. Yamamoto, S. Tajima, and Y. Endoh
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
197005 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic In-Plane Spin Fluctuations in NaxCoO2 Observed by Neutron Inelastic Scattering
A. T. Boothroyd, R. Coldea, D. A. Tennant, D. Prabhakaran, L. M. Helme, and C. D. Frost
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
197201 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Magnetoelastic Instability in Molecular Antiferromagnetic Rings
Leonardo Spanu and Alberto Parola
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
197202 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Origin of Magnetic and Magnetoelastic Tweedlike Precursor Modulations in Ferroic Materials
A. Saxena, T. Castán, A. Planes, M. Porta, Y. Kishi, T. A. Lograsso, D. Viehland, M. Wuttig, and M. De Graef
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
197203 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Observation of an Amplitude Collapse and Revival of Chirped Coherent Phonons in Bismuth
O. V. Misochko, Muneaki Hase, K. Ishioka, and M. Kitajima
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
197401 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Surface Plasmon Dynamics of Simple Metal Clusters Excited with Femtosecond Optical Pulses
P.-A. Hervieux and J.-Y. Bigot
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
197402 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Complete Conditions for Entanglement Transfer
M. Paternostro, W. Son, and M. S. Kim
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
197901 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Self-Sustained Activity in a Small-World Network of Excitable Neurons
Alex Roxin, Hermann Riecke, and Sara A. Solla
Published 11 May 2004 (4 pages)
198101 [View PDF (968 kB)]
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Single Molecule Diffraction
J. C. H. Spence and R. B. Doak
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
198102 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Regular and Alternant Spiral Waves of Contractile Motion on Rat Ventricle Cell Cultures
Seong-min Hwang, Kwon-hae Yea, and Kyoung J. Lee
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
198103 [View PDF (517 kB)]
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Optical Microrheology Using Rotating Laser-Trapped Particles
Alexis I. Bishop, Timo A. Nieminen, Norman R. Heckenberg, and Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
198104 [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Self-Regulated Complexity in Cultured Neuronal Networks
Eyal Hulata, Itay Baruchi, Ronen Segev, Yoash Shapira, and Eshel Ben-Jacob
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
198105 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Mathematical Analysis and Simulations of the Neural Circuit for Locomotion in Lampreys
Li Zhaoping, Alex Lewis, and Silvia Scarpetta
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
198106 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Charge Inversion and Flow Reversal in a Nanochannel Electro-osmotic Flow
R. Qiao and N. R. Aluru
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
198301 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Slip and Flow in Soft Particle Pastes
Steven P. Meeker, Roger T. Bonnecaze, and Michel Cloitre
Published 11 May 2004 (4 pages)
198302 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Stable Squares and Other Oscillatory Turing Patterns in a Reaction-Diffusion Model
Lingfa Yang, Anatol M. Zhabotinsky, and Irving R. Epstein
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
198303 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Molecular Mechanism of Peptide-Induced Pores in Membranes
Huey W. Huang, Fang-Yu Chen, and Ming-Tao Lee
Published 13 May 2004 (4 pages)
198304 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Promoter-Induced Reactive Phase Separation in Surface Reactions
Y. De Decker, H. Marbach, M. Hinz, S. Günther, M. Kiskinova, A. S. Mikhailov, and R. Imbihl
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
198305 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Helium Diffusion through H2O and D2O Amorphous Ice: Observation of a Lattice Inverse Isotope Effect
John L. Daschbach, Gregory K. Schenter, Patrick Ayotte, R. Scott Smith, and Bruce D. Kay
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
198306 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Network Structures from Selection Principles
Vittoria Colizza, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan, and Andrea Rinaldo
Published 10 May 2004 (4 pages)
198701 [View PDF (265 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Millennium Scale Sunspot Number Reconstruction: Evidence for an Unusually Active Sun Since the 1940s”
G. M. Raisbeck and F. Yiou
Published 14 May 2004 (1 page)
199001 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Usoskin et al. Reply:
Ilya G. Usoskin, Sami K. Solanki, Manfred Schüssler, and Kalevi Mursula
Published 14 May 2004 (1 page)
199002 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Comment on “Exact Self-Similar Solutions of the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Distributed Coefficients”
V. N. Serkin, Akira Hasegawa, and T. L. Belyaeva
Published 14 May 2004 (1 page)
199401 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Kruglov et al. Reply:
V. I. Kruglov, A. C. Peacock, and J. D. Harvey
Published 14 May 2004 (1 page)
199402 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Comment on “Gapless Spin-1 Neutral Collective Mode Branch for Graphite”
N. M. R. Peres, M. A. N. Araújo, and A. H. Castro Neto
Published 12 May 2004 (1 page)
199701 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Baskaran and Jafari Reply:
G. Baskaran and S. A. Jafari
Published 12 May 2004 (1 page)
199702 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Comment on “Absence of Compressible Edge Channel Rings in Quantum Antidots”
M. Kataoka and C. J. B. Ford
Published 14 May 2004 (1 page)
199703 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Goldman Replies:
V. J. Goldman
Published 14 May 2004 (1 page)
199704 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “Coexistence of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Ferromagnetic Metals”
Yogesh N. Joglekar and Allan H. MacDonald
Published 14 May 2004 (1 page)
199705 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Blagoev et al. Reply:
Krastan B. Blagoev, Kevin S. Bedell, and Peter B. Littlewood
Published 14 May 2004 (1 page)
199706 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Comment on “Monitoring the Transitions of the Charge-Induced Reconstruction of Au(110) by Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy”
P. Weightman, C. I. Smith, D. S. Martin, C. A. Lucas, R. J. Nichols, and S. D. Barrett
Published 14 May 2004 (1 page)
199707 [View PDF (40 kB)]
 
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