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Physical Review Letters – 6 February 2004
Volume 92, Issue 5

Magnetic-field strength and direction of a simulated 5-GHz EM wave propagating into the plane, guided by a metal microstrip. The microstrip has been given a substrate of left-handed optical material (below the yellow bands); in this region, the magnetic field has circulation opposite to the field in the right-handed material above. [Clifford M. Krowne, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 053901 (2004)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Geometrically Mediated Breakup of Drops in Microfluidic Devices
D. R. Link, S. L. Anna, D. A. Weitz, and H. A. Stone
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
054503 [View PDF (557 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Quantum Teleportation by Particle-Hole Annihilation in the Fermi Sea
C. W. J. Beenakker and M. Kindermann
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
056801 [View PDF (154 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Atomic Bose-Fermi Mixtures in an Optical Lattice
M. Lewenstein, L. Santos, M. A. Baranov, and H. Fehrmann
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
050401 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Commensurate Two-Component Bosons in an Optical Lattice: Ground State Phase Diagram
Anatoly Kuklov, Nikolay Prokof’ev, and Boris Svistunov
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
050402 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Fast Rotation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Vincent Bretin, Sabine Stock, Yannick Seurin, and Jean Dalibard
Published 4 February 2004 (4 pages)
050403 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Impact of the Casimir-Polder Potential and Johnson Noise on Bose-Einstein Condensate Stability Near Surfaces
Yu-ju Lin, Igor Teper, Cheng Chin, and Vladan Vuletić
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
050404 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Atom Interferometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Double-Well Potential
Y. Shin, M. Saba, T. A. Pasquini, W. Ketterle, D. E. Pritchard, and A. E. Leanhardt
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
050405 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Experimental Investigation of a Bistable System in the Presence of Noise and Delay
J. Houlihan, D. Goulding, Th. Busch, C. Masoller, and G. Huyet
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
050601 [View PDF (460 kB)]
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Boltzmann Entropy for Dense Fluids Not in Local Equilibrium
P. L. Garrido, S. Goldstein, and J. L. Lebowitz
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
050602 [View PDF (634 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Galactic Potentials
Kayll Lake
Published 5 February 2004 (4 pages)
051101 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Observation of Radiative B→ϕKγ Decays
A. Drutskoy et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 3 February 2004 (5 pages)
051801 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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J/ψ Production from Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=200  GeV
S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)
Published 5 February 2004 (6 pages)
051802 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Search for Pair Production of Scalar Top Quarks in R-Parity Violating Decay Modes in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.8  TeV
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 5 February 2004 (7 pages)
051803 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Observation of the Decay ψ(2S)→KS0KL0
J. Z. Bai et al. (BES Collaboration)
Published 5 February 2004 (5 pages)
052001 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Differential Freeze-Out and Pion Interferometry at RHIC from Covariant Transport Theory
Dénes Molnár and Miklos Gyulassy
Published 2 February 2004 (4 pages)
052301 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Particle-Type Dependence of Azimuthal Anisotropy and Nuclear Modification of Particle Production in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=200  GeV
J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 2 February 2004 (6 pages)
052302 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Two-Nucleon Momentum Distributions Measured in 3He(e,e′pp)n
R. A. Niyazov et al. (CLAS Collaboration)
Published 6 February 2004 (5 pages)
052303 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Absorption Enhancement of an Electric Quadrupole Transition of Cesium Atoms in an Evanescent Field
Satoshi Tojo, Masahiro Hasuo, and Takashi Fujimoto
Published 5 February 2004 (4 pages)
053001 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Threshold Vibrational Excitation of CO2 by Slow Electrons
Wim Vanroose, Zhiyong Zhang, C. W. McCurdy, and T. N. Rescigno
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
053201 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Microscopic Theory of Modified Spontaneous Emission in a Dielectric
P. R. Berman and P. W. Milonni
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
053601 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Physics of Propagation in Left-Handed Guided Wave Structures at Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Frequencies
Clifford M. Krowne
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
053901 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Transition to Instability in a Kicked Bose-Einstein Condensate
Chuanwei Zhang, Jie Liu, Mark G. Raizen, and Qian Niu
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
054101 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Ratcheting of Granular Materials
F. Alonso-Marroquín and H. J. Herrmann
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
054301 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Force Network Ensemble: A New Approach to Static Granular Matter
Jacco H. Snoeijer, Thijs J. H. Vlugt, Martin van Hecke, and Wim van Saarloos
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
054302 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Nonlinear Saffman-Taylor Instability
E. Álvarez-Lacalle, J. Ortín, and J. Casademunt
Published 2 February 2004 (4 pages)
054501 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Critical Magnetic Prandtl Number for Small-Scale Dynamo
Alexander A. Schekochihin, Steven C. Cowley, Jason L. Maron, and James C. McWilliams
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
054502 [View PDF (180 kB)]
Geometrically Mediated Breakup of Drops in Microfluidic Devices
D. R. Link, S. L. Anna, D. A. Weitz, and H. A. Stone
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
054503 [View PDF (557 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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A Nonuniformly Stretched Vortex
M. Rossi, F. Bottausci, A. Maurel, and P. Petitjeans
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
054504 [View PDF (672 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Demonstration of High-Trapping Efficiency and Narrow Energy Spread in a Laser-Driven Accelerator
W. D. Kimura, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, L. P. Campbell, D. B. Cline, C. E. Dilley, J. C. Gallardo, S. C. Gottschalk, K. P. Kusche, R. H. Pantell, I. V. Pogorelsky, D. C. Quimby, J. Skaritka, L. C. Steinhauer, V. Yakimenko, and F. Zhou
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
054801 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Achievement of Ultralow Emittance Beam in the Accelerator Test Facility Damping Ring
Y. Honda et al.
Published 6 February 2004 (5 pages)
054802 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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rf Electrode Sheath Formation near a Concave Electrode
K E Orlov, D A Malik, T V Chernoiziumskaya, and A S Smirnov
Published 2 February 2004 (3 pages)
055001 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Observation of Reduced Heat Transport inside the Magnetic Island O Point in the Large Helical Device
S. Inagaki, N. Tamura, K. Ida, Y. Nagayama, K. Kawahata, S. Sudo, T. Morisaki, K. Tanaka, and T. Tokuzawa (the LHD Experimental Group)
Published 5 February 2004 (4 pages)
055002 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Multi-MeV Proton Source Investigations in Ultraintense Laser-Foil Interactions
M. Borghesi, A. J. Mackinnon, D. H. Campbell, D. G. Hicks, S. Kar, P. K. Patel, D. Price, L. Romagnani, A. Schiavi, and O. Willi
Published 5 February 2004 (4 pages)
055003 [View PDF (534 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Spatiotemporal Rheochaos in Nematic Hydrodynamics
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Moumita Das, Chandan Dasgupta, Sriram Ramaswamy, and A. K. Sood
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
055501 [View PDF (547 kB)]
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Imaging the Evolution of Lateral Composition Modulation in Strained Alloy Superlattices
Chris Pearson, C. Dorin, J. Mirecki Millunchick, and B. G. Orr
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
056101 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Multiphonon Resonances in the Debye-Waller Factor of Atom Surface Scattering
W. Brenig
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
056102 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Temperature and Pressure Effects on the Bending Modulus of Monolayers in a Ternary Microemulsion
Y. Kawabata, M. Nagao, H. Seto, S. Komura, T. Takeda, D. Schwahn, N. L. Yamada, and H. Nobutou
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
056103 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Does the Self-Trapped Magnetic Polaron Exist in Electron-Doped Manganites?
H. Meskine, T. Saha-Dasgupta, and S. Satpathy
Published 5 February 2004 (4 pages)
056401 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Spin Singlet Formation in MgTi2O4: Evidence of a Helical Dimerization Pattern
M. Schmidt, W. Ratcliff, II, P. G. Radaelli, K. Refson, N. M. Harrison, and S. W. Cheong
Published 5 February 2004 (4 pages)
056402 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Unraveling Orbital Ordering in La0.5Sr1.5MnO4
S. S. Dhesi, A. Mirone, C. De Nadaï, P. Ohresser, P. Bencok, N. B. Brookes, P. Reutler, A. Revcolevschi, A. Tagliaferri, O. Toulemonde, and G. van der Laan
Published 5 February 2004 (4 pages)
056403 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Kondo Effect in a Quantum Dot Coupled to Ferromagnetic Leads: A Numerical Renormalization Group Analysis
Mahn-Soo Choi, David Sánchez, and Rosa López
Published 4 February 2004 (4 pages)
056601 [View PDF (380 kB)]
Quantum Teleportation by Particle-Hole Annihilation in the Fermi Sea
C. W. J. Beenakker and M. Kindermann
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
056801 [View PDF (154 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Cascade of Quantum Phase Transitions in Tunnel-Coupled Edge States
I. Yang, W. Kang, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 4 February 2004 (4 pages)
056802 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Quantum Confinement in Monatomic Cu Chains on Cu(111)
S. Fölsch, P. Hyldgaard, R. Koch, and K. H. Ploog
Published 5 February 2004 (4 pages)
056803 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Limitations in Cooling Electrons using Normal-Metal-Superconductor Tunnel Junctions
J. P. Pekola, T. T. Heikkilä, A. M. Savin, J. T. Flyktman, F. Giazotto, and F. W. J. Hekking
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
056804 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Influence of Dephasing on Shot Noise in an Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
Florian Marquardt and C. Bruder
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
056805 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Rectification in Mesoscopic Systems with Broken Symmetry: Quasiclassical Ballistic Versus Classical Transport
S. de Haan, A. Lorke, J. P. Kotthaus, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
056806 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Anisotropies of the Lower and Upper Critical Fields in MgB2 Single Crystals
L. Lyard, P. Szabó, T. Klein, J. Marcus, C. Marcenat, K. H. Kim, B. W. Kang, H. S. Lee, and S. I. Lee
Published 2 February 2004 (4 pages)
057001 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Nodal Quasiparticles and Classical Phase Fluctuations in d-Wave Superconductors
K. V. Samokhin and B. Mitrović
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
057002 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Theory of Doped Mott insulators: Duality between Pairing and Magnetism
Qiang-Hua Wang
Published 4 February 2004 (4 pages)
057003 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Effect of Measurement on the Periodicity of the Coulomb Staircase of a Superconducting Box
J. Männik and J. E. Lukens
Published 5 February 2004 (4 pages)
057004 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Dynamics of Semifluxons in Nb Long Josephson 0-π Junctions
E. Goldobin, A. Sterck, T. Gaber, D. Koelle, and R. Kleiner
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
057005 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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Magnetism in Atomic-Size Palladium Contacts and Nanowires
A. Delin, E. Tosatti, and R. Weht
Published 2 February 2004 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Cobalt Islands on Cu(111)
O. Pietzsch, A. Kubetzka, M. Bode, and R. Wiesendanger
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (652 kB)]
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Electron Spin Resonance in the Spin-1/2 Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction BaCu2Ge2O7
S. Bertaina, V. A. Pashchenko, A. Stepanov, T. Masuda, and K. Uchinokura
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
057203 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Direct Time-Domain Observation of Ultrafast Dephasing in Adsorbate-Substrate Vibration under the Influence of a Hot Electron Bath: Cs Adatoms on Pt(111)
Kazuya Watanabe, Noriaki Takagi, and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
057401 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation by Metal Surfaces with Nanoscale Roughness: Nanoscale Dephasing, Depolarization, and Correlations
Mark I. Stockman, David J. Bergman, Cristelle Anceau, Sophie Brasselet, and Joseph Zyss
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
057402 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Bonding, Energies, and Band Offsets of Si-ZrO2 and HfO2 Gate Oxide Interfaces
P. W. Peacock and J. Robertson
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
057601 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Oxygen Isotope Effect on the In-Plane Magnetic Field Penetration Depth in Optimally Doped YBa2Cu3O7-δ
R. Khasanov, D. G. Eshchenko, H. Luetkens, E. Morenzoni, T. Prokscha, A. Suter, N. Garifianov, M. Mali, J. Roos, K. Conder, and H. Keller
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
057602 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Cryptography Protocols Robust against Photon Number Splitting Attacks for Weak Laser Pulse Implementations
Valerio Scarani, Antonio Acín, Grégoire Ribordy, and Nicolas Gisin
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
057901 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Nature of an Electric-Field-Induced Colloidal Martensitic Transition
Anand Yethiraj, Alan Wouterse, Benito Groh, and Alfons van Blaaderen
Published 3 February 2004 (4 pages)
058301 [View PDF (668 kB)]
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Electric-Field Induced Capillary Interaction of Charged Particles at a Polar Interface
Lionel Foret and Alois Würger
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
058302 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Vorticity Alignment and Negative Normal Stresses in Sheared Attractive Emulsions
Alberto Montesi, Alejandro A. Peña, and Matteo Pasquali
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
058303 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Competition-Driven Network Dynamics: Emergence of a Scale-Free Leadership Structure and Collective Efficiency
M. Anghel, Zoltán Toroczkai, Kevin E. Bassler, and G. Korniss
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
058701 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Extremal Dynamics and the Approach to the Critical State: Experiments on a Three Dimensional Pile of Rice
C. M. Aegerter, K. A. Lőrincz, M. S. Welling, and R. J. Wijngaarden
Published 6 February 2004 (4 pages)
058702 [View PDF (104 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Electrodynamics of Metallic Photonic Crystals and the Problem of Left-Handed Materials”
R. Marqués and D. R. Smith
Published 4 February 2004 (1 page)
059401 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Triplet-to-Singlet Exciton Formation in poly(p-phenylene-vinylene) Light-Emitting Diodes”
M. Schott
Published 5 February 2004 (1 page)
059701 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Lin et al. Reply:
L. C. Lin, H. F. Meng, J. T. Shy, S. F. Horng, L. S. Yu, C. H. Chen, H. H. Liaw, C. C. Huang, K. Y. Peng, and S. A. Chen
Published 5 February 2004 (1 page)
059702 [View PDF (36 kB)]
 
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