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Physical Review Letters – 11 June 2004
Volume 92, Issue 23

These figures show the transformation over time of a thin layer of ice, from a disordered amorphous form to a crystalline state, as monitored through the water molecules' IR spectra. Crystallization from the amorphous state is found to begin at the surface of the ice layer; this new finding may have implications for chemical processes on interstellar and atmospheric ice particles. [Ellen H. Backus, Mihail L. Grecea, Aart W. Kleyn, and Mischa Bonn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 236101 (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.

Imaging Density Disturbances in Water with a 41.3-Attosecond Time Resolution
P. Abbamonte, K. D. Finkelstein, M. D. Collins, and S. M. Gruner
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
237401 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Mechanical Restriction versus Human Overreaction Triggering Congested Traffic States
Hyun Keun Lee, Robert Barlovic, Michael Schreckenberg, and Doochul Kim
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
238702 [View PDF (249 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Bright Bose-Einstein Gap Solitons of Atoms with Repulsive Interaction
B. Eiermann, Th. Anker, M. Albiez, M. Taglieber, P. Treutlein, K.-P. Marzlin, and M. K. Oberthaler
Published 8 June 2004 (4 pages)
230401 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Atom Interferometry with Trapped Fermi Gases
G. Roati, E. de Mirandes, F. Ferlaino, H. Ott, G. Modugno, and M. Inguscio
Published 8 June 2004 (4 pages)
230402 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Signatures of Superfluidity for Feshbach-Resonant Fermi Gases
J. Kinnunen, M. Rodríguez, and P. Törmä
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
230403 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of Coexisting Periodic Stochastic Resonance and Coherence Resonance Phenomena
Gerardo J. Escalera Santos, M. Rivera, and P. Parmananda
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
230601 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Classical and Quantum Fluctuation Theorems for Heat Exchange
Christopher Jarzynski and Daniel K. Wójcik
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
230602 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Stability of Atomic Clocks Based on Entangled Atoms
A. André, A. S. Sørensen, and M. D. Lukin
Published 7 June 2004 (4 pages)
230801 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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New Limits on the Drift of Fundamental Constants from Laboratory Measurements
M. Fischer, N. Kolachevsky, M. Zimmermann, R. Holzwarth, Th. Udem, T. W. Hänsch, M. Abgrall, J. Grünert, I. Maksimovic, S. Bize, H. Marion, F. Pereira Dos Santos, P. Lemonde, G. Santarelli, P. Laurent, A. Clairon, C. Salomon, M. Haas, U. D. Jentschura, and C. H. Keitel
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
230802 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Wess-Zumino Current and the Structure of the Decay τ-→K-π-K+ντ
T. E. Coan et al.
Published 11 June 2004 (5 pages)
232001 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Nuclear Stopping from 0.09A to 1.93A  GeV and Its Correlation to Flow
W. Reisdorf et al. (FOPI Collaboration)
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
232301 [View PDF (113 kB)]
Deformation of the N=Z Nucleus 76Sr using β-Decay Studies
E. Nácher, A. Algora, B. Rubio, J. L. Taín, D. Cano-Ott, S. Courtin, Ph. Dessagne, F. Maréchal, Ch. Miehé, E. Poirier, M. J. G. Borge, D. Escrig, A. Jungclaus, P. Sarriguren, O. Tengblad, W. Gelletly, L. M. Fraile, and G. Le Scornet
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
232501 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Analog States of 7He Observed via the 6He(p,n) Reaction
G. V. Rogachev, P. Boutachkov, A. Aprahamian, F. D. Becchetti, J. P. Bychowski, Y. Chen, G. Chubarian, P. A. DeYoung, V. Z. Goldberg, J. J. Kolata, L. O. Lamm, G. F. Peaslee, M. Quinn, B. B. Skorodumov, and A. Wöhr
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
232502 [View PDF (206 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Radiative Corrections to the Polarizability of Helium
Grzegorz Łach, Bogumił Jeziorski, and Krzysztof Szalewicz
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
233001 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Dynamically and Quasiforbidden Transitions in Photoionization of Open-Shell Atoms: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study
D. Cubaynes, M. Meyer, A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo, J.-M. Bizau, E. T. Kennedy, J. Bozek, M. Martins, S. Canton, B. Rude, N. Berrah, and F. J. Wuilleumier
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
233002 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Identifying Entanglement Using Quantum Ghost Interference and Imaging
Milena D’Angelo, Yoon-Ho Kim, Sergei P. Kulik, and Yanhua Shih
Published 8 June 2004 (4 pages)
233601 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Inadequacy of Perfect-Reflector Models in Cavity QED for Systems with Low-Frequency Excitations
Claudia Eberlein and Dieter Robaschik
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
233602 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Theory of the Kapitza-Dirac Diffraction Effect
Xiaofeng Li, Jingtao Zhang, Zhizhan Xu, Panming Fu, Dong-Sheng Guo, and R. R. Freeman
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
233603 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Escaping from Nonhyperbolic Chaotic Attractors
Suso Kraut and Celso Grebogi
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
234101 [View PDF (734 kB)]
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Theory of Pattern Formation of Metallic Microparticles in Poorly Conducting Liquids
I. S. Aranson and M. V. Sapozhnikov
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
234301 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Blue Sky Catastrophe in Double-Diffusive Convection
Esteban Meca, Isabel Mercader, Oriol Batiste, and Laureano Ramírez-Piscina
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
234501 [View PDF (202 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Plasma Rotation Induced by Directed Waves in the Ion-Cyclotron Range of Frequencies
L.-G. Eriksson, T. Johnson, T. Hellsten, C. Giroud, V. G. Kiptily, K. Kirov, J. Brzozowski, M. DeBaar, J. DeGrassie, M. Mantsinen, A. Meigs, J.-M. Noterdaeme, A. Staebler, D. Testa, A. Tuccillo, and K.-D. Zastrow
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
235001 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Guiding of Intense Laser Beams in Highly Ionized Plasma Columns Generated by a Fast Capillary Discharge
B. M. Luther, Y. Wang, M. C. Marconi, J. L. A. Chilla, M. A. Larotonda, and J. J. Rocca
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
235002 [View PDF (677 kB)]
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Suppression of Large Edge-Localized Modes in High-Confinement DIII-D Plasmas with a Stochastic Magnetic Boundary
T. E. Evans, R. A. Moyer, P. R. Thomas, J. G. Watkins, T. H. Osborne, J. A. Boedo, E. J. Doyle, M. E. Fenstermacher, K. H. Finken, R. J. Groebner, M. Groth, J. H. Harris, R. J. La Haye, C. J. Lasnier, S. Masuzaki, N. Ohyabu, D. G. Pretty, T. L. Rhodes, H. Reimerdes, D. L. Rudakov, M. J. Schaffer, G. Wang, and L. Zeng
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
235003 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Destabilization of Fast-Ion-Induced Long Sawteeth by Localized Current Drive in the JET Tokamak
L.-G. Eriksson, A. Mueck, O. Sauter, S. Coda, M. J. Mantsinen, M.-L. Mayoral, E. Westerhof, R. J. Buttery, D. McDonald, T. Johnson, J.-M. Noterdaeme, and P. de Vries
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
235004 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Validation of Neoclassical Bootstrap Current Models in the Edge of an H-Mode Plasma
M. R. Wade, M. Murakami, and P. A. Politzer
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
235005 [View PDF (388 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Phonon-Roton Excitations in Liquid 4He at Negative Pressures
Francesco Albergamo, Jacques Bossy, Pierre Averbuch, Helmut Schober, and Henry R. Glyde
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
235301 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Stochastic Dynamics of Nanoscale Mechanical Oscillators Immersed in a Viscous Fluid
M. R. Paul and M. C. Cross
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
235501 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Density-of-States Monte Carlo Simulation of a Binary Glass
Qiliang Yan, Tushar S. Jain, and Juan J. de Pablo
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
235701 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Solid-Solid Phase Transformation via Virtual Melting Significantly Below the Melting Temperature
Valery I. Levitas, Bryan F. Henson, Laura B. Smilowitz, and Blaine W. Asay
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
235702 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Surface Crystallization of Amorphous Solid Water
Ellen H. G. Backus, Mihail L. Grecea, Aart W. Kleyn, and Mischa Bonn
Published 8 June 2004 (4 pages)
236101 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Anomalous Dielectric Behavior of Water in Ionic Newton Black Films
Jordi Faraudo and Fernando Bresme
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
236102 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Circular Dichroism in Core Level Photoemission from an Adsorbed Chiral Molecule
M. Polcik, F. Allegretti, D. I. Sayago, G. Nisbet, C. L. A. Lamont, and D. P. Woodruff
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
236103 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Persistent Droplet Motion in Liquid-Liquid Dewetting
Matti Oron, Tobias Kerle, Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen, and Jacob Klein
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
236104 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Kinetics in Surface Reconstructions on GaAs(001)
Akihiro Ohtake, Pavel Kocán, Jun Nakamura, Akiko Natori, and Nobuyuki Koguchi
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
236105 [View PDF (290 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Ground State Phases of the Half-Filled One-Dimensional Extended Hubbard Model
Anders W. Sandvik, Leon Balents, and David K. Campbell
Published 7 June 2004 (4 pages)
236401 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Influence of the Incommensurability in Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 Family Compounds
Alain Gellé and Marie-Bernadette Lepetit
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
236402 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Charge Order in Layered 2-1-4 Perovskite Oxides
Shigeki Onoda, Yukitoshi Motome, and Naoto Nagaosa
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
236403 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Spin-Charge Separation in Two-Dimensional Frustrated Quantum Magnets
Andreas Läuchli and Didier Poilblanc
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
236404 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Effects of Nitridation on the Characteristics of Silicon Dioxide: Dielectric and Structural Properties from ab initio Calculations
Dominik Fischer, Alessandro Curioni, Salomon Billeter, and Wanda Andreoni
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
236405 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Ultrafast Dynamic Control of Spin and Charge Density Oscillations in a GaAs Quantum Well
J. M. Bao, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and R. Merlin
Published 8 June 2004 (4 pages)
236601 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Theory of Plasmon-Assisted Transmission of Entangled Photons
Esteban Moreno, F. J. García-Vidal, Daniel Erni, J. Ignacio Cirac, and L. Martín-Moreno
Published 8 June 2004 (4 pages)
236801 [View PDF (752 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Liquid in Single Si Quantum Wells with Large Electronic and Dielectric Confinement
N. Pauc, V. Calvo, J. Eymery, F. Fournel, and N. Magnea
Published 8 June 2004 (4 pages)
236802 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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New Type of B-Periodic Magneto-Oscillations in a Two-Dimensional Electron System Induced by Microwave Irradiation
I. V. Kukushkin, M. Yu. Akimov, J. H. Smet, S. A. Mikhailov, K. von Klitzing, I. L. Aleiner, and V. I. Falko
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
236803 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Carbon Nanotube Electromechanical Coupling
A. Z. Hartman, M. Jouzi, R. L. Barnett, and J. M. Xu
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
236804 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Quantum Confinement and Electronic Properties of Silicon Nanowires
Xinyuan Zhao, C. M. Wei, L. Yang, and M. Y. Chou
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
236805 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Long-Range Nonlocal Flow of Vortices in Narrow Superconducting Channels
I. V. Grigorieva, A. K. Geim, S. V. Dubonos, K. S. Novoselov, D. Y. Vodolazov, F. M. Peeters, P. H. Kes, and M. Hesselberth
Published 8 June 2004 (4 pages)
237001 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Evidence for the Coexistence of an Anisotropic Superconducting Gap and Nonlocal Effects in the Nonmagnetic Superconductor LuNi2B2C
Tuson Park, Elbert E. M. Chia, M. B. Salamon, E. D. Bauer, I. Vekhter, J. D. Thompson, Eun Mi Choi, Heon Jung Kim, Sung-Ik Lee, and P. C. Canfield
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
237002 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Universal Conductance of Nanowires near the Superconductor-Metal Quantum Transition
Subir Sachdev, Philipp Werner, and Matthias Troyer
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
237003 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Flux-Line Vortex Glass Phase in a Type II Superconductor
U. Divakar, A. J. Drew, S. L. Lee, R. Gilardi, J. Mesot, F. Y. Ogrin, D. Charalambous, E. M. Forgan, G. I. Menon, N. Momono, M. Oda, C. D. Dewhurst, and C. Baines
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
237004 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic Stability in Fe Nanodot Assemblies on Cu(111) Induced by Indirect Coupling through the Substrate
J. P. Pierce, M. A. Torija, Z. Gai, Junren Shi, T. C. Schulthess, G. A. Farnan, J. F. Wendelken, E. W. Plummer, and J. Shen
Published 9 June 2004 (4 pages)
237201 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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First-Principles Study of Ferromagnetism in Epitaxial Si-Mn Thin Films on Si(001)
Hua Wu, Mahbube Hortamani, Peter Kratzer, and Matthias Scheffler
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
237202 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Picosecond Dynamics of the Photoinduced Spin Polarization in Epitaxial (Ga,Mn)As Films
A. V. Kimel, G. V. Astakhov, G. M. Schott, A. Kirilyuk, D. R. Yakovlev, G. Karczewski, W. Ossau, G. Schmidt, L. W. Molenkamp, and Th. Rasing
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
237203 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Soft X-Ray Resonant Diffraction Study of Magnetic and Orbital Correlations in a Manganite Near Half Doping
K. J. Thomas, J. P. Hill, S. Grenier, Y-J. Kim, P. Abbamonte, L. Venema, A. Rusydi, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, D. F. McMorrow, G. Sawatzky, and M. van Veenendaal
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
237204 [View PDF (221 kB)]
Imaging Density Disturbances in Water with a 41.3-Attosecond Time Resolution
P. Abbamonte, K. D. Finkelstein, M. D. Collins, and S. M. Gruner
Published 11 June 2004 (4 pages)
237401 [View PDF (426 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Pinning of Tumoral Growth by Enhancement of the Immune Response
A. Brú, S. Albertos, J. A. López García-Asenjo, and I. Brú
Published 7 June 2004 (4 pages)
238101 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Structure of Autocatalytically Branched Actin Solutions
A. E. Carlsson
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
238102 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Dynamical Motifs: Building Blocks of Complex Dynamics in Sparsely Connected Random Networks
Valentin P. Zhigulin
Published 8 June 2004 (4 pages)
238701 [View PDF (149 kB)]
Mechanical Restriction versus Human Overreaction Triggering Congested Traffic States
Hyun Keun Lee, Robert Barlovic, Michael Schreckenberg, and Doochul Kim
Published 10 June 2004 (4 pages)
238702 [View PDF (249 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

COMMENTS

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Can Low-Lying Roper States be Explained as Antidecuplet Members?
L. Ya. Glozman
Published 8 June 2004 (1 page)
239101 [View PDF (44 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Elastic Flow Instability in Nanotube Suspensions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 048302 (2004)]
S. Lin-Gibson, J. A. Pathak, E. A. Grulke, H. Wang, and E. K. Hobbie
Published 11 June 2004 (1 page)
239901(E) [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Measurement of Cu K-Shell and Ag L-Shell Ionization Cross Sections by Low-Energy Positron Impact [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 223201 (2004)]
Yasuyuki Nagashima, Fuminori Saito, Yoshiko Itoh, Akira Goto, and Toshio Hyodo
Published 11 June 2004 (1 page)
239902(E) [View PDF (27 kB)]
 
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