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Physical Review Letters – 25 June 2004
Volume 92, Issue 25

The graph on the cover shows the energy spectrum of a 2D electron system subjected to a strong perpendicular magnetic field and a weak 2D periodic electrostatic potential as a function of the applied magnetic flux. The spectrum consists of Landau bands, each of which exhibits the identical, repeating fractal pattern known as a Hofstadter butterfly. [M. C. Geisler, J. H. Smet, V. Umansky, K. von Klitzing, B. Naundorf, R. Ketzmerick, and H. Schweizer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 256801 (2004)]

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General Physics

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Nucleation and Growth in Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions from Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Mechanism of the Reconstructive Transformation of NaCl to the CsCl-Type Structure
Dirk Zahn and Stefano Leoni
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
250201 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Exact Hydrodynamics of a Trapped Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate
Duncan H. J. O’Dell, Stefano Giovanazzi, and Claudia Eberlein
Published 21 June 2004 (4 pages)
250401 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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External Time-Varying Fields and Electron Coherence
Jen-Tsung Hsiang and L. H. Ford
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
250402 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Superfluidity of Trapped Dipolar Fermi Gases
M. A. Baranov, Ł. Dobrek, and M. Lewenstein
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
250403 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Coincidence Bell Inequality for Three Three-Dimensional Systems
A. Acín, J. L. Chen, N. Gisin, D. Kaszlikowski, L. C. Kwek, C. H. Oh, and M. Żukowski
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
250404 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Diffusion on a Solid Surface: Anomalous is Normal
J. M. Sancho, A. M. Lacasta, K. Lindenberg, I. M. Sokolov, and A. H. Romero
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
250601 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Coagulation by Random Velocity Fields as a Kramers Problem
Bernhard Mehlig and Michael Wilkinson
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
250602 [View PDF (475 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Sneutrino Condensate Source for Density Perturbations, Leptogenesis, and Low Reheat Temperature
Anupam Mazumdar and Abdel Pérez-Lorenzana
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
251301 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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D-Term Inflation without Cosmic Strings
J. Urrestilla, A. Achúcarro, and A. C. Davis
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
251302 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Unified Model for Vortex-String Network Evolution
C. J. A. P. Martins, J. N. Moore, and E. P. S. Shellard
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
251601 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Measurement of Time-Dependent CP Asymmetries in B0→D(*)±π∓ Decays and Constraints on sin⁡(2β+γ)
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 22 June 2004 (7 pages)
251801 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Measurement of Time-Dependent CP Asymmetries and Constraints on sin⁡(2β+γ) with Partial Reconstruction of B0→D*∓π± Decays
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 22 June 2004 (7 pages)
251802 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Semileptonic Hyperon Decays and Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Unitarity
Nicola Cabibbo, Earl C. Swallow, and Roland Winston
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
251803 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Photoproduction of η-Mesic 3He
M. Pfeiffer et al.
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
252001 [View PDF (261 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Enhanced Stability of Superheavy Nuclei Due to High-Spin Isomerism
F. R. Xu, E. G. Zhao, R. Wyss, and P. M. Walker
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
252501 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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High-Spin Structure beyond Band Termination in 157Er
A. O. Evans, E. S. Paul, J. Simpson, M. A. Riley, D. E. Appelbe, D. B. Campbell, P. T. W. Choy, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, P. Fallon, A. Görgen, D. T. Joss, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, P. J. Nolan, A. Pipidis, D. Ward, I. Ragnarsson, and F. Sarić
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
252502 [View PDF (237 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Bloch Oscillations of Ultracold Atoms: A Tool for a Metrological Determination of h/mRb
Rémy Battesti, Pierre Cladé, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa, Catherine Schwob, Benoît Grémaud, François Nez, Lucile Julien, and François Biraben
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
253001 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Radiative Lifetime of a Bound Excited State of Te-
A. Ellmann, P. Schef, P. Lundin, P. Royen, S. Mannervik, K. Fritioff, P. Andersson, D. Hanstorp, C. Froese Fischer, F. Österdahl, D. J. Pegg, N. D. Gibson, H. Danared, and A. Källberg
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
253002 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Electron Temperature of Ultracold Plasmas
J. L. Roberts, C. D. Fertig, M. J. Lim, and S. L. Rolston
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
253003 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Sagnac Interferometry Based on Ultraslow Polaritons in Cold Atomic Vapors
F. Zimmer and M. Fleischhauer
Published 21 June 2004 (4 pages)
253201 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Dynamic Nonlinear X Waves for Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Water
M. Kolesik, E. M. Wright, and J. V. Moloney
Published 21 June 2004 (4 pages)
253901 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Incomplete Photonic Band Gap as Inferred from the Speckle Pattern of Scattered Light Waves
V. M. Apalkov, M. E. Raikh, and B. Shapiro
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
253902 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Light Filaments without Self-Channeling
Audrius Dubietis, Eugenijus Gaižauskas, Gintaras Tamošauskas, and Paolo Di Trapani
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
253903 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Photonic Band-Gap Inhibition of Modulational Instabilities
Damià Gomila, Roberta Zambrini, and Gian-Luca Oppo
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
253904 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Ultralow Loss, High Q, Four Port Resonant Couplers for Quantum Optics and Photonics
H. Rokhsari and K. J. Vahala
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
253905 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Noise-Induced Macroscopic Bifurcations in Globally Coupled Chaotic Units
Silvia De Monte, Francesco d’Ovidio, Hugues Chaté, and Erik Mosekilde
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
254101 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Logarithmic Periodicities in the Bifurcations of Type-I Intermittent Chaos
Hugo L. D. de S. Cavalcante and J. R. Rios Leite
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
254102 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Fourier Law in the Alternate-Mass Hard-Core Potential Chain
Baowen Li, Giulio Casati, Jiao Wang, and Tomaž Prosen
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
254301 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Standing-Wave Oscillations in Binary Mixture Convection: From the Onset via Symmetry Breaking to Period Doubling into Chaos
P. Matura, D. Jung, and M. Lücke
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
254501 [View PDF (550 kB)]
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Patterns in Melting Snow and Vapor Deposited Layers
Ravi Mehrotra and Deepak Kumar
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
254502 [View PDF (478 kB)]
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Fluid Invasion in Porous Media: Viscous Gradient Percolation
Chi-Hang Lam
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
254503 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Soliton Synchrotron Afterglow in a Laser Plasma
Timur Esirkepov, Sergei V. Bulanov, Katsunobu Nishihara, and Toshiki Tajima
Published 21 June 2004 (4 pages)
255001 [View PDF (972 kB)]
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Excitation of Localized Rotating Waves in Plasma Density Cavities by Scattering of Fast Magnetosonic Waves
J. O. Hall, A. I. Eriksson, and T. B. Leyser
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
255002 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Instability Versus Equilibrium Propagation of a Laser Beam in Plasma
Pavel M. Lushnikov and Harvey A. Rose
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
255003 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Shock Melting of a Two-Dimensional Complex (Dusty) Plasma
D. Samsonov, S. K. Zhdanov, R. A. Quinn, S. I. Popel, and G. E. Morfill
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
255004 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Confinement of Pure-Electron Plasmas in a Toroidal Magnetic-Surface Configuration
H. Saitoh, Z. Yoshida, C. Nakashima, H. Himura, J. Morikawa, and M. Fukao
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
255005 [View PDF (401 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Interfacial Friction of Thin 3He Slabs in the Knudsen Limit
A. Casey, J. Parpia, R. Schanen, B. Cowan, and J. Saunders
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
255301 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Crystallization of Micelles at Chemically Terminated Interfaces
Max Wolff, Uwe Scholz, Rainer Hock, Andreas Magerl, Vincent Leiner, and Hartmut Zabel
Published 21 June 2004 (4 pages)
255501 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Continuous Depinning Transition with an Unusual Hysteresis Effect
Ron Maimon and J. M. Schwarz
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
255502 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Long-Time Relaxation Dynamics of Langmuir Films of a Glass-Forming Polymer: Evidence of Glasslike Dynamics in Two Dimensions
Hani M. Hilles, Francisco Ortega, Ramón G. Rubio, and Francisco Monroy
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
255503 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Stable Fourfold Configurations for Small Vacancy Clusters in Silicon from ab initio Calculations
D. V. Makhov and Laurent J. Lewis
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
255504 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Optimal Bounds on the Trapping Constant and Permeability of Porous Media
S. Torquato and D. C. Pham
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
255505 [View PDF (160 kB)]
Unusually Dense Crystal Packings of Ellipsoids
Aleksandar Donev, Frank H. Stillinger, P. M. Chaikin, and Salvatore Torquato
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
255506 [View PDF (536 kB)]
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Structural Relaxation in Liquid Water by Inelastic UV Scattering
C. Masciovecchio, S. C. Santucci, A. Gessini, S. Di Fonzo, G. Ruocco, and F. Sette
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
255507 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Kinking Nonlinear Elastic Solids, Nanoindentations, and Geology
M. W. Barsoum, A. Murugaiah, S. R. Kalidindi, and T. Zhen
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
255508 [View PDF (811 kB)]
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Homogeneous Crystallization of Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Confined to Droplets: The Dependence of the Crystal Nucleation Rate on Length Scale and Temperature
Michael V. Massa and Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
255509 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of Water from Computer Simulation
E. Sanz, C. Vega, J. L. F. Abascal, and L. G. MacDowell
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
255701 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Reliable First-Principles Alloy Thermodynamics via Truncated Cluster Expansions
Nikolai A. Zarkevich and D. D. Johnson
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
255702 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Quantitative Phase Diagrams of Branching and Annihilating Random Walks
Léonie Canet, Hugues Chaté, and Bertrand Delamotte
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
255703 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics and Dynamic Facilitation in a Model of Viscous Silica
Michael Vogel and Sharon C. Glotzer
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
255901 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Influence of Step-Edge Barriers on the Morphological Relaxation of Nanoscale Ripples on Crystal Surfaces
V. B. Shenoy, A. Ramasubramaniam, H. Ramanarayan, D. T. Tambe, W-L. Chan, and E. Chason
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
256101 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Evidence for Power-Law Dominated Noise in Vacuum Deposited CaF2
D. R. Luhman and R. B. Hallock
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
256102 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Ordering of a Thin Lubricant Film due to Sliding
O. M. Braun, M. Paliy, and S. Consta
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
256103 [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Revisiting Elastic Interactions between Steps on Vicinal Surfaces: The Buried Dipole Model
G. Prévot and B. Croset
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
256104 [View PDF (174 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Spectral Function of the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model away from Half Filling
H. Benthien, F. Gebhard, and E. Jeckelmann
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
256401 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Cavity Polaritons in InGaN Microcavities at Room Temperature
T. Tawara, H. Gotoh, T. Akasaka, N. Kobayashi, and T. Saitoh
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
256402 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Experimental Separation of Rashba and Dresselhaus Spin Splittings in Semiconductor Quantum Wells
S. D. Ganichev, V. V. Bel’kov, L. E. Golub, E. L. Ivchenko, Petra Schneider, S. Giglberger, J. Eroms, J. De Boeck, G. Borghs, W. Wegscheider, D. Weiss, and W. Prettl
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
256601 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Fano Resonance for Anderson Impurity Systems
H. G. Luo, T. Xiang, X. Q. Wang, Z. B. Su, and L. Yu
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
256602 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Resonant Spin Hall Conductance in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems with a Rashba Interaction in a Perpendicular Magnetic Field
Shun-Qing Shen, Michael Ma, X. C Xie, and Fu Chun Zhang
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
256603 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Detection of a Landau Band-Coupling-Induced Rearrangement of the Hofstadter Butterfly
M. C. Geisler, J. H. Smet, V. Umansky, K. von Klitzing, B. Naundorf, R. Ketzmerick, and H. Schweizer
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
256801 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Violation of the Electric-Dipole Selection Rules in Indirect Multiphoton Excitation of Image-Potential States on Ag(100)
Gabriele Ferrini, Claudio Giannetti, Gianluca Galimberti, Stefania Pagliara, Daniele Fausti, Francesco Banfi, and Fulvio Parmigiani
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
256802 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Nuclear-Spin-Induced Oscillatory Current in Spin-Blockaded Quantum Dots
Keiji Ono and Seigo Tarucha
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
256803 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Possible Observation of Phase Coexistence of the ν=1/3 Fractional Quantum Hall Liquid and a Solid
G. A. Csáthy, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
256804 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Transport in Chemically Doped Carbon Nanotubes
Sylvain Latil, Stephan Roche, Didier Mayou, and Jean-Christophe Charlier
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
256805 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Novel Phase Separation and Spin Dynamics of Lightly Doped La2-xSr2CuO4 Probed by La-Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
K. Ishida, H. Aya, Y. Tokunaga, H. Kotegawa, Y. Kitaoka, M. Fujita, and K. Yamada
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
257001 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Lattice Theory for Low Energy Fermions at Nonzero Chemical Potential
Jiunn-Wei Chen and David B. Kaplan
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
257002 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Electron Transport through YBa2Cu3O7-δ Grain Boundary Interfaces between 4.2 and 300 K
C.  W. Schneider, S. Hembacher, G. Hammerl, R. Held, A. Schmehl, A. Weber, T. Kopp, and J. Mannhart
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
257003 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Growth of a Vortex Polycrystal in Type II Superconductors
Paolo Moretti, M.-Carmen Miguel, Michael Zaiser, and Stefano Zapperi
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
257004 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Half-Integer Shapiro Steps at the 0-π Crossover of a Ferromagnetic Josephson Junction
Hermann Sellier, Claire Baraduc, François Lefloch, and Roberto Calemczuk
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
257005 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Manifestation of the Magnetic Resonance Mode in the Nodal Quasiparticle Lifetime of the Superconducting Cuprates
A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, A. Koitzsch, J. Fink, M. Knupfer, B. Büchner, H. Berger, G. Margaritondo, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, S. Ono, and Yoichi Ando
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
257006 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Muon Spin Relaxation Measurements of NaxCoO2·yH2O
A. Kanigel, A. Keren, L. Patlagan, K. B. Chashka, P. King, and A. Amato
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
257007 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Ferroelectricity and Giant Magnetocapacitance in Perovskite Rare-Earth Manganites
T. Goto, T. Kimura, G. Lawes, A. P. Ramirez, and Y. Tokura
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
257201 [View PDF (637 kB)]
Origin of Higher Order Magnetic Exchange: Evidence for Local Dimer Exchange Striction in CsMn0.28Mg0.72Br3 Probed by Inelastic Neutron Scattering
Th. Strässle, F. Juranyi, M. Schneider, S. Janssen, A. Furrer, K. W. Krämer, and H. U. Güdel
Published 23 June 2004 (4 pages)
257202 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Phase Transitions in a Disordered System in and out of Equilibrium
Francesca Colaiori, Mikko J. Alava, Gianfranco Durin, Alessandro Magni, and Stefano Zapperi
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
257203 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Surface Roughness Induced Extrinsic Damping in Thin Magnetic Films
A. Yu. Dobin and R. H. Victora
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
257204 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Displacement Profile of Charge Density Waves and Domain Walls at Critical Depinning
Andreas Glatz and Thomas Nattermann
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
257205 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Unusual Oscillation in Tunneling Magnetoresistance near a Quantum Critical Point in Sr3Ru2O7
Joe Hooper, Zhiqiang Mao, Robin Perry, and Yoshiteru Maeno
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
257206 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Interchange of the Quantum States of Confined Excitons Caused by Radiative Corrections in CuCl Films
A. Syouji, B. P. Zhang, Y. Segawa, J. Kishimoto, H. Ishihara, and K. Cho
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
257401 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Scaling of Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes
Vasili Perebeinos, J. Tersoff, and Phaedon Avouris
Published 25 June 2004 (4 pages)
257402 [View PDF (486 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Experimental Demonstration of Entanglement-Enhanced Classical Communication over a Quantum Channel with Correlated Noise
Konrad Banaszek, Andrzej Dragan, Wojciech Wasilewski, and Czesław Radzewicz
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
257901 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Anomalous Hydrodynamic Interaction in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Suspension
Bianxiao Cui, Haim Diamant, Binhua Lin, and Stuart A. Rice
Published 21 June 2004 (4 pages)
258301 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Relaxation to Equilibrium Can Be Hindered by Transient Dissipative Structures
Akinori Awazu and Kunihiko Kaneko
Published 22 June 2004 (4 pages)
258302 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Jamming Threshold of Dry Fine Powders
J. M. Valverde, M. A. S. Quintanilla, and A. Castellanos
Published 24 June 2004 (4 pages)
258303 [View PDF (252 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Positivity of Quasilocal Mass”
N. Ó Murchadha, L. B. Szabados, and K. P. Tod
Published 25 June 2004 (1 page)
259001 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Liu and Yau Reply:
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu and Shing-Tung Yau
Published 25 June 2004 (1 page)
259002 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Intrinsic Tunneling or Joule Heating?
V. N. Zavaritsky
Published 22 June 2004 (1 page)
259701 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Yurgens et al. Reply:
A. Yurgens, D. Winkler, T. Claeson, S. Ono, and Yoichi Ando
Published 22 June 2004 (1 page)
259702 [View PDF (77 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Blue Sky Catastrophe in Double-Diffusive Convection [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 234501 (2004)]
Esteban Meca, Isabel Mercader, Oriol Batiste, and Laureano Ramirez-Piscina
Published 22 June 2004 (1 page)
259901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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