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Physical Review Letters – 30 January 2004
Volume 92, Issue 4

Condensation of fermionic atom pairs near the BEC-BCS crossover regime, where Bose-Einstein condensation changes over into condensation of Cooper pairs. This novel state of matter was created by applying a magnetic field to an ultracold gas of potassium atoms and then tuning the atom-atom interactions. [C. A. Regal, M. Greiner, and D. S. Jin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040403 (2004)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Atomistic Mechanism of NaCl Nucleation from an Aqueous Solution
Dirk Zahn
Published 27 January 2004 (4 pages)
040801 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Optimal Rotations of Deformable Bodies and Orbits in Magnetic Fields
J. E. Avron, O. Gat, O. Kenneth, and U. Sivan
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
040201 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Spontaneous Soliton Formation and Modulational Instability in Bose-Einstein Condensates
L. D. Carr and J. Brand
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
040401 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Dynamics of F=2 Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
H. Schmaljohann, M. Erhard, J. Kronjäger, M. Kottke, S. van Staa, L. Cacciapuoti, J. J. Arlt, K. Bongs, and K. Sengstock
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
040402 [View PDF (311 kB)]
Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pairs
C. A. Regal, M. Greiner, and D. S. Jin
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
040403 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates in and near the Lowest Landau Level
V. Schweikhard, I. Coddington, P. Engels, V. P. Mogendorff, and E. A. Cornell
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
040404 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Canonical Bose Gas Simulations with Stochastic Gauges
P. D. Drummond, P. Deuar, and K. V. Kheruntsyan
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
040405 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Klein Paradox in Spatial and Temporal Resolution
P. Krekora, Q. Su, and R. Grobe
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
040406 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Minimal Stochastic Model for Fermi’s Acceleration
Freddy Bouchet, Fabio Cecconi, and Angelo Vulpiani
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
040601 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Atomistic Mechanism of NaCl Nucleation from an Aqueous Solution
Dirk Zahn
Published 27 January 2004 (4 pages)
040801 [View PDF (180 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Nonexistence of Conformally Flat Slices in Kerr and Other Stationary Spacetimes
Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
041101 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Chemical Evolution of Mg Isotopes versus the Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant
T. Ashenfelter, Grant J. Mathews, and Keith A. Olive
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
041102 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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BK from Quenched QCD with Exact Chiral Symmetry
Nicolas Garron, Leonardo Giusti, Christian Hoelbling, Laurent Lellouch, and Claudio Rebbi
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
042001 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Generalized Parton Distributions from Lattice QCD
M. Göckeler, R. Horsley, D. Pleiter, P. E. L. Rakow, A. Schäfer, G. Schierholz, and W. Schroers (QCDSF Collaboration)
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
042002 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Evidence for an Exotic S=-2, Q=-2 Baryon Resonance in Proton-Proton Collisions at the CERN SPS
C. Alt et al. (NA49 Collaboration)
Published 29 January 2004 (5 pages)
042003 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2=0.5 and 1.0  GeV2/c2
G. Warren et al. (Jefferson Lab E93-026 Collaboration)
Published 29 January 2004 (5 pages)
042301 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Hydrogenic Rydberg States of Molecular van der Waals Complexes: Resolved Rydberg Spectroscopy of DABCO-N2
Martin C. R. Cockett and Mark J. Watkins
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
043001 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Electromagnetically Induced Quantum Memory
A. Nazarkin, R. Netz, and R. Sauerbrey
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
043002 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Symmetry of Dipositronium Ps2
D. M. Schrader
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
043401 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Fast Light, Slow Light, and Phase Singularities: A Connection to Generalized Weak Values
D. R. Solli, C. F. McCormick, R. Y. Chiao, S. Popescu, and J. M. Hickmann
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
043601 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Generation of a Two-Photon Singlet Beam
W. A. T. Nogueira, S. P. Walborn, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
043602 [View PDF (250 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Experimental Evidence of Absolute and Convective Instabilities in Optics
Eric Louvergneaux, Christophe Szwaj, Gonzague Agez, Pierre Glorieux, and Majid Taki
Published 27 January 2004 (4 pages)
043901 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Self-Organization in Semiconductor Lasers with Ultrashort Optical Feedback
O. Ushakov, S. Bauer, O. Brox, H.-J. Wünsche, and F. Henneberger
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
043902 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Nonlinear Optics and Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Cavities
Vladimir S. Ilchenko, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Andrey B. Matsko, and Lute Maleki
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
043903 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Partially Incoherent Optical Vortices in Self-Focusing Nonlinear Media
Chien-Chung Jeng, Ming-Feng Shih, Kristian Motzek, and Yuri Kivshar
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
043904 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Photonic Band Gap Architectures for Holographic Lithography
Ovidiu Toader, Timothy Y. M. Chan, and Sajeev John
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
043905 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Space-Filling Bearings in Three Dimensions
R. Mahmoodi Baram, H. J. Herrmann, and N. Rivier
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
044301 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Warm Cascades and Anomalous Scaling in a Diffusion Model of Turbulence
Colm Connaughton and Sergey Nazarenko
Published 27 January 2004 (4 pages)
044501 [View PDF (211 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Divergence of Neighboring Magnetic-Field Lines and Fast-Particle Diffusion in Strong Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, with Application to Thermal Conduction in Galaxy Clusters
Jason Maron, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, and Eric Blackman
Published 27 January 2004 (4 pages)
045001 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Electrostatic Shocks Excited by Velocity Modulation of an Ion Beam in a Plasma
Takuma Gohda, Seiji Ishiguro, Satoru Iizuka, and Noriyoshi Sato
Published 27 January 2004 (4 pages)
045002 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Low-Frequency Sheath Instability in a Non-Maxwellian Plasma with Energetic Ions
Mikhail Starodubtsev, Md. Kamal-Al-Hassan, Hiroaki Ito, Noboru Yugami, and Yasushi Nishida
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
045003 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Complexity of Small Silicon Self-Interstitial Defects
D. A. Richie, Jeongnim Kim, Stephen A. Barr, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Richard Hennig, and John W. Wilkins
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
045501 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Flory-Huggins Model of Equilibrium Polymerization and Phase Separation in the Stockmayer Fluid
Jacek Dudowicz, Karl F. Freed, and Jack F. Douglas
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
045502 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Observation of Many Coherent Oscillations for MeV Protons Transmitted through Stacking Faults
M. B. H. Breese, E. J. Teo, M. A. Rana, L. Huang, J. A. van Kan, F. Watt, and P. J. C. King
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
045503 [View PDF (690 kB)]
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Crossover (or Kovacs) Effect in an Aging Molecular Liquid
Stefano Mossa and Francesco Sciortino
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
045504 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Kinetic Hindrance during the Initial Oxidation of Pd(100) at Ambient Pressures
E. Lundgren, J. Gustafson, A. Mikkelsen, J. N. Andersen, A. Stierle, H. Dosch, M. Todorova, J. Rogal, K. Reuter, and M. Scheffler
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
046101 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Hydrogen Bonding in Mixed OH+H2O Overlayers on Pt(111)
C. Clay, S. Haq, and A. Hodgson
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
046102 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Intramolecular Diffusive Motion in Alkane Monolayers Studied by High-Resolution Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
F. Y. Hansen, L. Criswell, D. Fuhrmann, K. W. Herwig, A. Diama, R. M. Dimeo, D. A. Neumann, U. G. Volkmann, and H. Taub
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
046103 [View PDF (244 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Electrical Nanoprobing of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes Using an Atomic Force Microscope
Y. Yaish, J.-Y. Park, S. Rosenblatt, V. Sazonova, M. Brink, and P. L. McEuen
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
046401 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Spin-Polarized Electron Scattering at Single Oxygen Adsorbates on a Magnetic Surface
K. von Bergmann, M. Bode, A. Kubetzka, M. Heide, S. Blügel, and R. Wiesendanger
Published 27 January 2004 (4 pages)
046801 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Quantum Confinement in Phosphorus-Doped Silicon Nanocrystals
Dmitriy V. Melnikov and James R. Chelikowsky
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
046802 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Symmetry of Two-Terminal Nonlinear Electric Conduction
A. Löfgren, C. A. Marlow, I. Shorubalko, R. P. Taylor, P. Omling, L. Samuelson, and H. Linke
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
046803 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Single-Electron-Phonon Interaction in a Suspended Quantum Dot Phonon Cavity
E. M. Weig, R. H. Blick, T. Brandes, J. Kirschbaum, W. Wegscheider, M. Bichler, and J. P. Kotthaus
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
046804 [View PDF (717 kB)]
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Thermal Conductivity of Pr1.3-xLa0.7CexCuO4 Single Crystals and Signatures of Stripes in an Electron-Doped Cuprate
X. F. Sun, Y. Kurita, T. Suzuki, Seiki Komiya, and Yoichi Ando
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
047001 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Gap Structure of the Spin-Triplet Superconductor Sr2RuO4 Determined from the Field-Orientation Dependence of the Specific Heat
K. Deguchi, Z. Q. Mao, H. Yaguchi, and Y. Maeno
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
047002 [View PDF (504 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous Electronic Structure Probed by Spin-Echo Experiments in the Electron Doped High-Tc Superconductor Pr1.85Ce0.15CuO4-y
F. Zamborszky, G. Wu, J. Shinagawa, W. Yu, H. Balci, R. L. Greene, W. G. Clark, and S. E. Brown
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
047003 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Unconventional Superconductivity and Electron Correlations in the Cobalt Oxyhydrate Na0.35CoO2·yH2O from Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
Tatsuya Fujimoto, Guo-qing Zheng, Y. Kitaoka, R. L. Meng, J. Cmaidalka, and C. W. Chu
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
047004 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Multiband Tight-Binding Model of Local Magnetism in Ga1-xMnxAs
Jian-Ming Tang and Michael E. Flatté
Published 27 January 2004 (4 pages)
047201 [View PDF (589 kB)]
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Quantum Spins and Quasiperiodicity: A Real Space Renormalization Group Approach
A. Jagannathan
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
047202 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Magnetization-Induced Second Harmonic Generation in a Polar Ferromagnet
Y. Ogawa, Y. Kaneko, J. P. He, X. Z. Yu, T. Arima, and Y. Tokura
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
047401 [View PDF (809 kB)]
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Phase-Resolved Nonlinear Response of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas under Femtosecond Intersubband Excitation
C. W. Luo, K. Reimann, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser, R. Hey, and K. H. Ploog
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
047402 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Simultaneous Ejection of Two Molecular Ions from keV Gold Atomic and Polyatomic Projectile Impacts
R. D. Rickman, S. V. Verkhoturov, E. S. Parilis, and E. A. Schweikert
Published 27 January 2004 (4 pages)
047601 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Overhauser Effect of 67Zn Nuclear Spins in ZnO via Cross Relaxation Induced by the Zero-Point Fluctuations of the Phonon Field
Hubert Blok, Serguei B. Orlinski, Jan Schmidt, and Pavel G. Baranov
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
047602 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Probing the Wave Function of Shallow Li and Na Donors in ZnO Nanoparticles
Serguei B. Orlinskii, Jan Schmidt, Pavel G. Baranov, Detlev M. Hofmann, Celso de Mello Donegá, and Andries Meijerink
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
047603 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Distinctive Contributions from Organic Filler and Relaxorlike Polymer Matrix to Dielectric Response of CuPc-P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) Composite
V. Bobnar, A. Levstik, C. Huang, and Q. M. Zhang
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
047604 [View PDF (315 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Teleportation Scheme Implementing the Universal Optimal Quantum Cloning Machine and the Universal NOT Gate
M. Ricci, F. Sciarrino, C. Sias, and F. De Martini
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
047901 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Optimal Quantum Cloning on a Beam Splitter
William T. M. Irvine, Antía Lamas Linares, Michiel J. A. de Dood, and Dirk Bouwmeester
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
047902 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Remote Preparation of a Single-Mode Photonic Qubit by Measuring Field Quadrature Noise
S. A. Babichev, B. Brezger, and A. I. Lvovsky
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
047903 [View PDF (614 kB)]
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Long Distance Quantum Teleportation in a Quantum Relay Configuration
H. de Riedmatten, I. Marcikic, W. Tittel, H. Zbinden, D. Collins, and N. Gisin
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
047904 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Continuous-Variable Quantum Cryptography is Secure against Non-Gaussian Attacks
Frédéric Grosshans and Nicolas J. Cerf
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
047905 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Tunneling Versus Thermionic Emission in One-Dimensional Semiconductors
J. Appenzeller, M. Radosavljević, J. Knoch, and Ph. Avouris
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
048301 [View PDF (208 kB)]
Elastic Flow Instability in Nanotube Suspensions
S. Lin-Gibson, J. A. Pathak, E. A. Grulke, H. Wang, and E. K. Hobbie
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
048302 [View PDF (473 kB)]
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Monomer Dynamics in Double- and Single-Stranded DNA Polymers
Roman Shusterman, Sergey Alon, Tatyana Gavrinyov, and Oleg Krichevsky
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
048303 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Fragment-Asperity Interaction Model for Earthquakes
Oscar Sotolongo-Costa and A. Posadas
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
048501 [View PDF (337 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Laser-Induced Hydrodynamic Instability of Fluid Interfaces”
H. M. Lai
Published 26 January 2004 (1 page)
049401 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Casner and Delville Reply:
Alexis Casner and Jean-Pierre Delville
Published 26 January 2004 (1 page)
049402 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “Roughness of Interfacial Crack Fronts: Stress-Weighted Percolation in the Damage Zone”
M. J. Alava and S. Zapperi
Published 27 January 2004 (1 page)
049601 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Schmittbuhl, Hansen, and Batrouni Reply:
Jean Schmittbuhl, Alex Hansen, and G. George Batrouni
Published 27 January 2004 (1 page)
049602 [View PDF (113 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Gibbons-Hawking Effect in the Sonic de Sitter Space-Time of an Expanding Bose-Einstein-Condensed Gas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 240407 (2003)]
Petr O. Fedichev and Uwe R. Fischer
Published 27 January 2004 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Observation of an Exotic Baryon with S=+1 in Photoproduction from the Proton [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 032001 (2004)]
V. Kubarovsky et al. (CLAS Collaboration)
Published 30 January 2004 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Erratum: Large Hadron Collider Tests of the Little Higgs Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 241802 (2003)]
Gustavo Burdman, Maxim Perelstein, and Aaron Pierce
Published 30 January 2004 (1 page)
049903(E) [View PDF (31 kB)]
 
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