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Physical Review Letters – 24 September 2004
Volume 93, Issue 13

The image is the projection onto a screen of a conical light beam, generated by a polarized incident beam scattering from a photonic crystal. The conical structure of the beam shows up as the rings on the screen. [P. Xu, S. H. Ji, S. N. Zhu, X. Q. Yu, J. Sun, H. T. Wang, J. L. He, Y. Y. Zhu, and N. B. Ming, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 133904 (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.

Emergence of a 4D World from Causal Quantum Gravity
J. Ambjørn, J. Jurkiewicz, and R. Loll
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
131301 [View PDF (196 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Determination of a Wave Function Functional
Xiao-Yin Pan, Viraht Sahni, and Lou Massa
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
130401 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Thermodynamics of a Degenerate Fermi Gas Across a Feshbach Resonance
A. V. Andreev, V. Gurarie, and L. Radzihovsky
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
130402 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Atom-Molecule Coexistence and Collective Dynamics Near a Feshbach Resonance of Cold Fermions
R.  A. Barankov and L.  S. Levitov
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
130403 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Relaxation and Dephasing in a Many-Fermion Generalization of the Caldeira-Leggett Model
Florian Marquardt and D. S. Golubev
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
130404 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Dual Kinetic Balance Approach to Basis-Set Expansions for the Dirac Equation
V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, V. A. Yerokhin, G. Plunien, and G. Soff
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
130405 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Unified Theory of Dynamically Suppressed Qubit Decoherence in Thermal Baths
A. G. Kofman and G. Kurizki
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
130406 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Generalizing Tsirelson's Bound on Bell Inequalities Using a Min-Max Principle
Stefan Filipp and Karl Svozil
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
130407 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Parametric Driving of Dark Solitons in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates
N. P. Proukakis, N. G. Parker, C. F. Barenghi, and and C. S. Adams
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
130408 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Proposal for a Loophole-Free Bell Test Using Homodyne Detection
R. García-Patrón, J. Fiurášek, N. J. Cerf, J. Wenger, R. Tualle-Brouri, and Ph. Grangier
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
130409 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Observation of Coherent Oscillation of a Single Nuclear Spin and Realization of a Two-Qubit Conditional Quantum Gate
F. Jelezko, T. Gaebel, I. Popa, M. Domhan, A. Gruber, and J. Wrachtrup
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
130501 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Quantum Circuits for General Multiqubit Gates
Mikko Möttönen, Juha J. Vartiainen, Ville Bergholm, and Martti M. Salomaa
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
130502 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Demonstration of Conditional Quantum Phase Shift Between Ions in a Solid
J. J. Longdell, M. J. Sellars, and N. B. Manson
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
130503 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Maximum Renyi Entropy Principle for Systems with Power-Law Hamiltonians
A. G. Bashkirov
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
130601 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Autocorrelation Exponent of Conserved Spin Systems in the Scaling Regime Following a Critical Quench
Clément Sire
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
130602 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Density Functional Theory for General Hard-Core Lattice Gases
Luis Lafuente and José A. Cuesta
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
130603 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Yang-Lee Zeros of the Antiferromagnetic Ising Model
Seung-Yeon Kim
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
130604 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Critical Collapse of a Complex Scalar Field with Angular Momentum
Matthew W. Choptuik, Eric W. Hirschmann, Steven L. Liebling, and Frans Pretorius
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
131101 [View PDF (171 kB)]
Emergence of a 4D World from Causal Quantum Gravity
J. Ambjørn, J. Jurkiewicz, and R. Loll
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
131301 [View PDF (196 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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New Limit on the T-Violating Transverse Muon Polarization in K+→π0μ+ν Decays
M. Abe et al. (KEK-E246 Collaboration)
Published 21 September 2004 (5 pages)
131601 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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All Conjugate-Maximal-Helicity-Violating Amplitudes from Topological Open String Theory in Twistor Space
Radu Roiban and Anastasia Volovich
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
131602 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Direct CP Violating Asymmetry in B0→K+π- Decays
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 20 September 2004 (7 pages)
131801 [View PDF (774 kB)]
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Evidence for B0→ρ0π0
J. Dragic et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 22 September 2004 (6 pages)
131802 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Evidence for B+→ωl+ν
C. Schwanda et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 23 September 2004 (5 pages)
131803 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Search for B±→[K∓π±]DK± and Upper Limit on the b→u Amplitude in B±→DK±
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 23 September 2004 (7 pages)
131804 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Measurements of CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0→Ks0π0 Decays
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 23 September 2004 (7 pages)
131805 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Melting Pattern of Diquark Condensates in Quark Matter
K. Iida, T. Matsuura, M. Tachibana, and T. Hatsuda
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
132001 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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QCD Vacuum as a Disordered Medium: A Simplified Model for the QCD Dirac Operator
Antonio M. García-García and James C. Osborn
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
132002 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Measurement of the Exclusive 3He(e,e′p) Reaction Below the Quasielastic Peak
A. Kozlov et al. (A1 Collaboration)
Published 22 September 2004 (5 pages)
132301 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Experimental Confirmation of the Alhassid-Whelan Arc of Regularity
J. Jolie, R. F. Casten, P. Cejnar, S. Heinze, E. A. McCutchan, and N. V. Zamfir
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
132501 [View PDF (270 kB)]
Quark Structure and Nuclear Effective Forces
P. A. M. Guichon and A. W. Thomas
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
132502 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Distribution of Spectral Widths and Preponderance of Spin-0 Ground States in Nuclei
T. Papenbrock and H. A. Weidenmüller
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
132503 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Breakup Densities of Hot Nuclei
V. E. Viola, K. Kwiatkowski, J. B. Natowitz, and S. J. Yennello
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
132701 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Caloric Curve for Mononuclear Configurations
L. G. Sobotka, R. J. Charity, J. Tõke, and W. U. Schröder
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
132702 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Measurement of the Electric Quadrupole Moment of the 4d 2D5/2 Level in 88Sr+
G. P. Barwood, H. S. Margolis, G. Huang, P. Gill, and H. A. Klein
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
133001 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Alternative Low-Symmetry Structure for 13-Atom Metal Clusters
C. M. Chang and M. Y. Chou
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
133401 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Collective Polarization Exchanges in Collisions of Photon Clouds
R. F. Sawyer
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
133601 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Waveguide Directional Couplers
Po Dong and Andrew G. Kirk
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
133901 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Whispering Gallery Modes Inside Asymmetric Resonant Cavities
Yuliy Baryshnikov, Pascal Heider, Wolfgang Parz, and Vadim Zharnitsky
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
133902 [View PDF (692 kB)]
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Phase-Coupling-Induced Ultraslow Light Propagation in Solids at Room Temperature
Guoquan Zhang, Fang Bo, Rong Dong, and Jingjun Xu
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
133903 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Conical Second Harmonic Generation in a Two-Dimensional χ(2) Photonic Crystal: A Hexagonally Poled LiTaO3 Crystal
P. Xu, S. H. Ji, S. N. Zhu, X. Q. Yu, J. Sun, H. T. Wang, J. L. He, Y. Y. Zhu, and N. B. Ming
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
133904 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Phase Synchronization in Ensembles of Bursting Oscillators
Mikhail V. Ivanchenko, Grigory V. Osipov, Vladimir D. Shalfeev, and Jürgen Kurths
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
134101 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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First Experimental Evidence for Quantum Echoes in Scattering Systems
C. Dembowski, B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H.-D. Gräf, A. Heine, C. Mejía-Monasterio, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and T. H. Seligman
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
134102 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Transient Structures in a Granular Gas
Nikolai Brilliantov, Clara Salueña, Thomas Schwager, and Thorsten Pöschel
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
134301 [View PDF (801 kB)]
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Lagrangian Tracers on a Surface Flow: The Role of Time Correlations
Guido Boffetta, Jahanshah Davoudi, Bruno Eckhardt, and Jörg Schumacher
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
134501 [View PDF (183 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Dynamics in a Multicomponent Plasma Near the Low-Frequency Cutoff
Gurudas Ganguli and Leonid Rudakov
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
135001 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Measurement of the Resistive-Wall-Mode Stability in a Rotating Plasma Using Active MHD Spectroscopy
H. Reimerdes, M. S. Chu, A. M. Garofalo, G. L. Jackson, R. J. La Haye, G. A. Navratil, M. Okabayashi, J. T. Scoville, and E. J. Strait
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
135002 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Parametric Dependence of Turbulent Particle Transport in Tore Supra Plasmas
G. T. Hoang, C. Bourdelle, X. Garbet, J. F. Artaud, V. Basiuk, J. Bucalossi, F. Clairet, C. Fenzi-Bonizec, C. Gil, J. L. Ségui, J. M. Travère, E. Tsitrone, and L. Vermare
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
135003 [View PDF (673 kB)]
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X-ray Generation in Strongly Nonlinear Plasma Waves
S. Kiselev, A. Pukhov, and I. Kostyukov
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
135004 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Production of a keV X-Ray Beam from Synchrotron Radiation in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction
Antoine Rousse, Kim Ta Phuoc, Rahul Shah, Alexander Pukhov, Eric Lefebvre, Victor Malka, Sergey Kiselev, Fréderic Burgy, Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Donald Umstadter, and Daniéle Hulin
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
135005 [View PDF (355 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Modeling Phase Separation in Nonstoichiometric Silica
V. M. Burlakov, G. A. D. Briggs, A. P. Sutton, Angelo Bongiorno, and Alfredo Pasquarello
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
135501 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Network Rigidity and Properties of SiO2 and GeO2 Glasses under Pressure
Kostya Trachenko, Martin T. Dove, Vadim Brazhkin, and F. S. El'kin
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
135502 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Dynamical Self-Assembly of Nanocrystal Superlattices during Colloidal Droplet Evaporation by in situ Small Angle X-Ray Scattering
Suresh Narayanan, Jin Wang, and Xiao-Min Lin
Published 24 September 2004 (4 pages)
135503 [View PDF (1,077 kB)]
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How Reproducible Are Dynamic Heterogeneities in a Supercooled Liquid?
Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Peter Harrowell, and H. Fynewever
Published 24 September 2004 (4 pages)
135701 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Rheothermodynamics of the Doi-Edwards Reptation Model
Jean-François Palierne
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
136001 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Atomic-Resolution Dynamic Force Microscopy and Spectroscopy of a Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube: Characterization of Interatomic van der Waals Forces
Makoto Ashino, Alexander Schwarz, Timo Behnke, and Roland Wiesendanger
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
136101 [View PDF (843 kB)]
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Rule for Structures of Open Metal Surfaces
Y. Y. Sun, H. Xu, Y. P. Feng, A. C. H. Huan, and A. T. S. Wee
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
136102 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Phonon Spectromicroscopy of Carbon Nanostructures with Atomic Resolution
L. Vitali, M. Burghard, M. A. Schneider, Lei Liu, S. Y. Wu, C. S. Jayanthi, and K. Kern
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
136103 [View PDF (644 kB)]
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Long-Range Surface Reconstruction: Si(110)-(16×2)
A. A. Stekolnikov, J. Furthmüller, and F. Bechstedt
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
136104 [View PDF (473 kB)]
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Formation of Nanostructures by the Activated Stranski-Krastanow Transition Method
C.-h. Chiu, Z. Huang, and C. T. Poh
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
136105 [View PDF (409 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Raman Study of the Orbital-Phonon Coupling in LaCoO3
A. Ishikawa, J. Nohara, and S. Sugai
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
136401 [View PDF (694 kB)]
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Angle Resolved Photoemission from Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4 using High Energy Photons: A Fermi Surface Investigation
T. Claesson, M. Månsson, C. Dallera, F. Venturini, C. De Nadaï, N. B. Brookes, and O. Tjernberg
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
136402 [View PDF (524 kB)]
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Quantum Percolation in Granular Metals
M. V. Feigel’man, A. S. Ioselevich, and M. A. Skvortsov
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
136403 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Ab-initio Electron Transport Calculations of Carbon Based String Structures
S. Tongay, R. T. Senger, S. Dag, and S. Ciraci
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
136404 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Projective Quantum Monte Carlo Method for the Anderson Impurity Model and its Application to Dynamical Mean Field Theory
M. Feldbacher, K. Held, and F. F. Assaad
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
136405 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Transport in Molecular Tunnel Junctions
J. R. Petta, S. K. Slater, and D. C. Ralph
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
136601 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Asymmetric Quantum Shot Noise in Quantum Dots
Hans-Andreas Engel and Daniel Loss
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
136602 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Chemical Tuning of Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces
D. A. Ricci, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
136801 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Single-Electron Tunneling with Strong Mechanical Feedback
Ya. M. Blanter, O. Usmani, and and Yu. V. Nazarov
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
136802 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Superconducting Proximity Effect at the Paramagnetic-Ferromagnetic Transition
T. Kontos, M. Aprili, J. Lesueur, X. Grison, and L. Dumoulin
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
137001 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Magneto-optical Evidence for a Gapped Fermi Surface in Underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x
L. B. Rigal, D. C. Schmadel, H. D. Drew, B. Maiorov, E. Osquiguil, J. S. Preston, R. Hughes, and G. D. Gu
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
137002 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Pressure Enhancement of the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect in Tb5Si2Ge2
L. Morellon, Z. Arnold, C. Magen, C. Ritter, O. Prokhnenko, Y. Skorokhod, P. A. Algarabel, M. R. Ibarra, and J. Kamarad
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
137201 [View PDF (599 kB)]
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Magnetic Percolation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
L. Bergqvist, O. Eriksson, J. Kudrnovský, V. Drchal, P. Korzhavyi, and I. Turek
Published 24 September 2004 (4 pages)
137202 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Determination of the Exciton Formation in Quantum Wells from Time-Resolved Interband Luminescence
J. Szczytko, L. Kappei, J. Berney, F. Morier-Genoud, M. T. Portella-Oberli, and B. Deveaud
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
137401 [View PDF (555 kB)]
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Resonant Enhancement of Inelastic Light Scattering in Strongly Correlated Materials
A. M. Shvaika, O. Vorobyov, J. K. Freericks, and T. P. Devereaux
Published 21 September 2004 (4 pages)
137402 [View PDF (649 kB)]
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Fullerene Quantum Gyroscope
M. Krause, M. Hulman, H. Kuzmany, O. Dubay, G. Kresse, K. Vietze, G. Seifert, C. Wang, and H. Shinohara
Published 22 September 2004 (4 pages)
137403 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Nanofocusing of Optical Energy in Tapered Plasmonic Waveguides
Mark I. Stockman
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
137404 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Enhanced Diffraction from a Grating on the Surface of a Negative-Index Metamaterial
D. R. Smith, P. M. Rye, J. J. Mock, D. C. Vier, and A. F. Starr
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
137405 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Kinetic Electron Excitation in Atomic Collision Cascades
S. Meyer, D. Diesing, and A. Wucher
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
137601 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Tuning the Surface State Dimensionality of Cu Nanostripes
J. Lobo, E. G. Michel, A. R. Bachmann, S. Speller, J. Kuntze, and J. E. Ortega
Published 24 September 2004 (4 pages)
137602 [View PDF (341 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Time Resolved Experimental Analysis of the Electric Field Induced Biaxial Order Reconstruction in Nematics
R. Barberi, F. Ciuchi, G. Lombardo, R. Bartolino, and G. E. Durand
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
137801 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Peeling, Healing, and Bursting in a Lubricated Elastic Sheet
A. E. Hosoi and L. Mahadevan
Published 24 September 2004 (4 pages)
137802 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Attractive Instability of Oppositely Charged Membranes Induced by Charge Density Fluctuations
Guy Hed and S. A. Safran
Published 23 September 2004 (4 pages)
138101 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Liouville Dynamics and the Conservation of Classical Information
A. R. Plastino and A. Daffertshofer
Published 20 September 2004 (4 pages)
138701 [View PDF (92 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Collective Excitations of a Degenerate Gas at the BEC-BCS Crossover”
R. Combescot and X. Leyronas
Published 20 September 2004 (1 page)
138901 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Comment on “Memory Effects in an Interacting Magnetic Nanoparticle System”
M. Sasaki, P. E. Jönsson, H. Takayama, and P. Nordblad
Published 21 September 2004 (1 page)
139701 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Comment on “Memory Effects in an Interacting Magnetic Nanoparticle System”
R. K. Zheng, Hongwei Gu, and X. X. Zhang
Published 21 September 2004 (1 page)
139702 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Sun et al. Reply:
Young Sun, M. B. Salamon, K. Garnier, and R. S. Averback
Published 21 September 2004 (1 page)
139703 [View PDF (66 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Time Reversal and Charge Echo in an Electron Gas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100601 (2004)]
Richard J. Creswick
Published 21 September 2004 (1 page)
139901(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Phase-Space Invariants as Indicators of the Critical Behavior of Nanoaggregates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 113402 (2004)]
Vincenzo Aquilanti, Andrea Lombardi, Mikhail B. Sevryuk, and Ersin Yurtsever
Published 22 September 2004 (1 page)
139902(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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