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Physical Review Letters – 2 July 2004
Volume 93, Issue 1

Numerical simulation of the phase-separation process for a mixture of an isotropic liquid (black areas) and a liquid crystal (colored areas, with the colors illustrating the direction of the nematic orientational field). Although the two phases occupy the same volume, the liquid-crystal phase forms into isolated droplets, breaking the morphological symmetry. [Takeaki Araki and Hajime Tanaka, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015702 (2004)]

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First-Principles Prediction of Icosahedral Quantum Dots for Tetravalent Semiconductors
Yufeng Zhao, Yong-Hyun Kim, Mao-Hua Du, and S. B. Zhang
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
015502 [View PDF (829 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Scalable Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation in Decoherence-Free Subspaces
Zheng-Wei Zhou, Bo Yu, Xingxiang Zhou, Marc J. Feldman, and Guang-Can Guo
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
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Many Copies May Be Required for Entanglement Distillation
John Watrous
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
010502 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Bell-Type Test of Energy-Time Entangled Qutrits
R. T. Thew, A. Acín, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Delayed Feedback as a Means of Control of Noise-Induced Motion
N. B. Janson, A. G. Balanov, and E. Schöll
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
010601 [View PDF (411 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Purely Kinetic k Essence as Unified Dark Matter
Robert J. Scherrer
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
011301 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Alternative String Theory in Twistor Space for N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory
Nathan Berkovits
Published 29 June 2004 (3 pages)
011601 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Effective Theory Approach to Unstable Particle Production
M. Beneke, A. P. Chapovsky, A. Signer, and G. Zanderighi
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
011602 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Search for Pair Production of Light Scalar Top Quarks in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.8  TeV
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 29 June 2004 (6 pages)
011801 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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New Measurement of Ξ-→Λπ- Decay Parameters
M. Huang et al. (HyperCP Collaboration)
Published 30 June 2004 (5 pages)
011802 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Determination of the Branching Fraction for B→Xcℓν Decays and of |Vcb| from Hadronic-Mass and Lepton-Energy Moments
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 2 July 2004 (7 pages)
011803 [View PDF (277 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Azimuthally Sensitive Hanbury Brown–Twiss Interferometry in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=200  GeV
J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 30 June 2004 (6 pages)
012301 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Influence of Nuclear Structure on Sub-Barrier Hindrance in Ni+Ni Fusion
C. L. Jiang, K. E. Rehm, R. V. F. Janssens, H. Esbensen, I. Ahmad, B. B. Back, P. Collon, C. N. Davids, J. P. Greene, D. J. Henderson, G. Mukherjee, R. C. Pardo, M. Paul, T. O. Pennington, D. Seweryniak, S. Sinha, and Z. Zhou
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
012701 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Breaking van der Waals Molecules with Magnetic Fields
R. V. Krems
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
013201 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Unraveling the Shape Transformation in Silicon Clusters
Koblar A. Jackson, Mihai Horoi, Indira Chaudhuri, Thomas Frauenheim, and Alexandre A. Shvartsburg
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
013401 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Positronium in Intense Laser Fields
Björn Henrich, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
013601 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Photon Statistics and Coherence in Light Emission from a Random Laser
Lucia Florescu and Sajeev John
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Formation of Repetitively Nanosecond Spatial Solitons in a Saturable Absorber Q-Switched Laser
Y. F. Chen and Y. P. Lan
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
013901 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Light Scattering of Periodic β-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes
Pengfei Wu, B. Kimball, J. Carlson, and D. V. G. L. N. Rao
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
013902 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Fermi-Ulam Accelerator Model under Scaling Analysis
Edson D. Leonel, P. V. E. McClintock, and J. Kamphorst Leal da Silva
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
014101 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Drift Motion, Phenomenon of Resonance, and Diffusive Motion Induced by a Chaotic Signal
Jing-hui Li and Shi-gang Chen
Published 29 June 2004 (4 pages)
014102 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Semiclassical Foundation of Universality in Quantum Chaos
Sebastian Müller, Stefan Heusler, Petr Braun, Fritz Haake, and Alexander Altland
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
014103 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Interfacial Instability Triggered Coulomb Crystallization of Charged Water Droplets
Sanjay V. Kulkarni and Abhijit Sen
Published 29 June 2004 (4 pages)
014501 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Universal Law of Enstrophy Decay in Two-Dimensional Large-Reynolds-Number Turbulence
Victor Yakhot
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
014502 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Can Low-Energy Electrons Affect High-Energy Physics Accelerators?
R. Cimino, I. R. Collins, M. A. Furman, M. Pivi, F. Ruggiero, G. Rumolo, and F. Zimmermann
Published 29 June 2004 (4 pages)
014801 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Meter-Scale Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator Driven by a Matched Electron Beam
P. Muggli, B. E. Blue, C. E. Clayton, S. Deng, F.-J. Decker, M. J. Hogan, C. Huang, R. Iverson, C. Joshi, T. C. Katsouleas, S. Lee, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, C. L. O'Connell, P. Raimondi, R. Siemann, and D. Walz
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
014802 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Production of Thermonuclear Neutrons from Deuterium-Filled Capsule Implosions Driven by Z-Pinch Dynamic Hohlraums
C. L. Ruiz, G. W. Cooper, S. A. Slutz, J. E. Bailey, G. A. Chandler, T. J. Nash, T. A. Mehlhorn, R. J. Leeper, D. Fehl, A. J. Nelson, J. Franklin, and L. Ziegler
Published 29 June 2004 (4 pages)
015001 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Magnetic Reconnection Mediated by Lower-Hybrid Phase-Space Vortices
D. Jovanović and P. K. Shukla
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
015002 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Transformations in the Intermediate-Range Structure of SiO2 Glass under High Pressure and Temperature
Yasuhiro Inamura, Yoshinori Katayama, Wataru Utsumi, and Ken-ichi Funakoshi
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
015501 [View PDF (137 kB)]
First-Principles Prediction of Icosahedral Quantum Dots for Tetravalent Semiconductors
Yufeng Zhao, Yong-Hyun Kim, Mao-Hua Du, and S. B. Zhang
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
015502 [View PDF (829 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Hydrogen-Bond Network Breakage as a First Step to Isopropanol Crystallization
A. Sanz, M. Jiménez-Ruiz, A. Nogales, D. Martín y Marero, and T. A. Ezquerra
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Cracks in Rubber under Tension Exceed the Shear Wave Speed
Paul J. Petersan, Robert D. Deegan, M. Marder, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
015504 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Regular Network of Contacting Cylinders with Implications for Materials with Negative Poisson Ratios
Peter V. Pikhitsa
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
015505 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Fluid near Its Critical Point
Kamakshi Jagannathan and Arun Yethiraj
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
015701 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Nematohydrodynamic Effects on the Phase Separation of a Symmetric Mixture of an Isotropic Liquid and a Liquid Crystal
Takeaki Araki and Hajime Tanaka
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
015702 [View PDF (751 kB)]
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Temperature and Disorder Chaos in Low Dimensional Directed Paths
Rava A. da Silveira and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
015901 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Subextensive Scaling in the Athermal, Quasistatic Limit of Amorphous Matter in Plastic Shear Flow
Craig Maloney and Anaël Lemaître
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Dipole Moment of Condensing Monomers: A New Parameter Controlling the Ion-Induced Nucleation
Alexey B. Nadykto and Fangqun Yu
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
016101 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Atomic Control of Water Interaction with Biocompatible Surfaces: The Case of SiC(001)
Giancarlo Cicero, Alessandra Catellani, and Giulia Galli
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
016102 [View PDF (420 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Band-Gap Tunneling States in DNA
Hao Wang, James P. Lewis, and Otto F. Sankey
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
016401 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Spontaneous Coherence Buildup in a Polariton Laser
Fabrice P. Laussy, G. Malpuech, A. Kavokin, and P. Bigenwald
Published 29 June 2004 (4 pages)
016402 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Scattering Rates and Lifetime of Exact and Boson Excitons
M. Combescot and O. Betbeder-Matibet
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
016403 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Resonant Inelastic Soft X-Ray Scattering at Hollow Lithium States in Solid LiCl
Marcus Agåker, Johan Söderström, Tanel Käämbre, Chris Glover, Lidia Gridneva, Thorsten Schmitt, Andreas Augustsson, Maurizio Mattesini, Rajeev Ahuja, and Jan-Erik Rubensson
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
016404 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Itinerant Antiferromagnets
I. Vekhter and A. V. Chubukov
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
016405 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of the Frustrated Hubbard Model
R. Zitzler, N.-H. Tong, Th. Pruschke, and R. Bulla
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
016406 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Dynamical Symmetry Enlargement versus Spin-Charge Decoupling in the One-Dimensional SU(4) Hubbard Model
R. Assaraf, P. Azaria, E. Boulat, M. Caffarel, and P. Lecheminant
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
016407 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Electronic Structure and Light-Induced Conductivity of a Transparent Refractory Oxide
J. E. Medvedeva, A. J. Freeman, M. I. Bertoni, and T. O. Mason
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
016408 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Phonon-Induced Decay of the Electron Spin in Quantum Dots
Vitaly N. Golovach, Alexander Khaetskii, and Daniel Loss
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
016601 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Scaling of the Anomalous Hall Effect in Sr1-xCaxRuO3
R. Mathieu, A. Asamitsu, H. Yamada, K. S. Takahashi, M. Kawasaki, Z. Fang, N. Nagaosa, and Y. Tokura
Published 29 June 2004 (4 pages)
016602 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Surface-State Electrical Conductivity at a Metal-Insulator Transition On Silicon
Takehiro Tanikawa, Iwao Matsuda, Taizo Kanagawa, and Shuji Hasegawa
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
016801 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Conductance of Pd-H Nanojunctions
Sz. Csonka, A. Halbritter, G. Mihály, O. I. Shklyarevskii, S. Speller, and H. van Kempen
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
016802 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Landau-Level Hybridization and the Quantum Hall Effect in InAs/(AlSb)/GaSb Electron-Hole Systems
K. Suzuki, K. Takashina, S. Miyashita, and Y. Hirayama
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
016803 [View PDF (948 kB)]
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Metallic Phase in Lightly Doped La2-xSrxCuO4 Observed by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
A. Shengelaya, M. Bruun, B. I. Kochelaev, A. Safina, K. Conder, and K. A. Müller
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
017001 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Shrinking Magnetic Vortices in V3Si due to Delocalized Quasiparticle Core States: Confirmation of the Microscopic Theory for Interacting Vortices
J. E. Sonier, F. D. Callaghan, R. I. Miller, E. Boaknin, L. Taillefer, R. F. Kiefl, J. H. Brewer, K. F. Poon, and J. D. Brewer
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
017002 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Frustrated Antiferromagnets at High Fields: Bose-Einstein Condensation in Degenerate Spectra
G. Jackeli and M. E. Zhitomirsky
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
017201 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Antiferromagnetic Resonance in LaMnO3 at Low Temperature
Diyar Talbayev, László Mihály, and Jianshi Zhou
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
017202 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Anisotropy-Induced Ordering in the Quantum J1-J2 Antiferromagnet
Tommaso Roscilde, Adrian Feiguin, Alexander L. Chernyshev, Shiu Liu, and Stephan Haas
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
017203 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Bound Spinons in an Antiferromagnetic S=1/2 Chain with a Staggered Field
M. Kenzelmann, Y. Chen, C. Broholm, D. H. Reich, and Y. Qiu
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
017204 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Enhanced Kondo Effect via Tuned Orbital Degeneracy in a Spin 1/2 Artificial Atom
S. Sasaki, S. Amaha, N. Asakawa, M. Eto, and S. Tarucha
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
017205 [View PDF (1,009 kB)]
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Dynamical Symmetry Breaking under Core Excitation in Graphite: Polarization Correlation in Soft X-Ray Recombination Emission
Y. Harada, T. Tokushima, Y. Takata, T. Takeuchi, Y. Kitajima, S. Tanaka, Y. Kayanuma, and S. Shin
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
017401 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Efficient Visible Photoluminescence from Carbon Nanotubes in Zeolite Templates
Jiandong Guo, Chunlei Yang, Z. M. Li, Ming Bai, H. J. Liu, G. D. Li, E. G. Wang, C. T. Chan, Z. K. Tang, W. K. Ge, and Xudong Xiao
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
017402 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Ultrafast Ground-State Recovery of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Libai Huang, Hermeneglido N. Pedrosa, and Todd D. Krauss
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
017403 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Structure-Dependent Hydrostatic Deformation Potentials of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
J. Wu, W. Walukiewicz, W. Shan, E. Bourret-Courchesne, J. W. Ager, III, K. M. Yu, E. E. Haller, Kyle Kissell, Sergei M. Bachilo, R. Bruce Weisman, and Richard E. Smalley
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
017404 [View PDF (293 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Polymer Surface Melting Mediated by Capillary Waves
Stephan Herminghaus, Ralf Seemann, and Katharina Landfester
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
017801 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Skin Layer at the Actin-Gel Surface: Quenched Protein Membranes form Flat, Crumpled, and Tubular Morphologies
L. S. Hirst and C. R. Safinya
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
018101 [View PDF (719 kB)]
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CO Vibration as a Probe of Ligand Dissociation and Transfer in Myoglobin
T. Polack, J. P. Ogilvie, S. Franzen, M. H. Vos, M. Joffre, J.-L. Martin, and A. Alexandrou
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
018102 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Statistical Mechanics Model for the Interaction between the Neurotransmitter γ-Aminobutyric acid and GABAA Receptors
Sufi Zafar, Nina C. Saxena, Kevin A. Conrad, and Arif Hussain
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
018103 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Wormlike Micelles under Shear
Lydiane Bécu, Sébastien Manneville, and Annie Colin
Published 28 June 2004 (4 pages)
018301 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Patterns, Forces, and Metastable Pathways in Debonding of Elastic Films
Jayati Sarkar, Vijay Shenoy, and Ashutosh Sharma
Published 30 June 2004 (4 pages)
018302 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Velocity Profiles in Slowly Sheared Bubble Rafts
John Lauridsen, Gregory Chanan, and Michael Dennin
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
018303 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Theory of Orientational Ordering in Colloidal Molecular Crystals
R. Agra, F. van Wijland, and E. Trizac
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
018304 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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From Ballistic to Brownian Vortex Motion in Complex Oscillatory Media
Jörn Davidsen, Ronaldo Erichsen, Raymond Kapral, and Hugues Chaté
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
018305 [View PDF (468 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Field-Induced Magnetic Circular X-Ray Dichroism in Paramagnetic Solids: A New Magneto-Optical Effect”
A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, and G. van der Laan
Published 28 June 2004 (1 page)
019701 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Ebert and Man'kovsky Reply:
H. Ebert and S. Man'kovsky
Published 28 June 2004 (1 page)
019702 [View PDF (41 kB)]
 
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