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Physical Review Letters – 1 October 2004
Volume 93, Issue 14

Computed vorticity field along the path of a tumbling plate (in white) falling through a fluid. The plate's center of mass briefly rises as it completes its turn, in a manner similar to that of falling leaves, due to an aerodynamic force from the coupling of translational and rotational motions. [Umberto Pesavento and Z. Jane Wang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 144501 (2004)]

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LETTERS

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

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Coherent Classical-Path Description of Deep Tunneling
Dong H. Zhang and Eli Pollak
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
140401 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Locality in Quantum and Markov Dynamics on Lattices and Networks
M. B. Hastings
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
140402 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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The Second Law, Maxwell's Demon, and Work Derivable from Quantum Heat Engines
Tien D. Kieu
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
140403 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Finite-Time Disentanglement Via Spontaneous Emission
Ting Yu and J. H. Eberly
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
140404 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Molecular Matter-Wave Amplifier
Chris P. Search and Pierre Meystre
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
140405 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Observation of Dynamical Instability for a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Moving 1D Optical Lattice
L. Fallani, L. De Sarlo, J. E. Lye, M. Modugno, R. Saers, C. Fort, and M. Inguscio
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
140406 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Gisin's Theorem for Three Qubits
Jing-Ling Chen, Chunfeng Wu, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
140407 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Single Atom Transistor in a 1D Optical Lattice
A. Micheli, A. J. Daley, D. Jaksch, and P. Zoller
Published 1 October 2004 (4 pages)
140408 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Universal Quantum Computation through Control of Spin-Orbit Coupling
D. Stepanenko and N. E. Bonesteel
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
140501 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Measurement of Gravitational Spin-Orbit Coupling in a Binary-Pulsar System
I. H. Stairs, S. E. Thorsett, and Z. Arzoumanian
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
141101 [View PDF (299 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Inclusive Double-Pomeron Exchange at the Fermilab Tevatron p̅ p Collider
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 28 September 2004 (7 pages)
141601 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Decay to μ+μ+μ-μ- in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 27 September 2004 (8 pages)
141801 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Measurement of the tt̅ Production Cross Section in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV Using Dilepton Events
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 27 September 2004 (7 pages)
142001 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Prethermalization
J. Berges, Sz. Borsányi, and C. Wetterich
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
142002 [View PDF (178 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

Laser Spectroscopic Determination of the 6He Nuclear Charge Radius
L.-B. Wang, P. Mueller, K. Bailey, G. W. F. Drake, J. P. Greene, D. Henderson, R. J. Holt, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, Z.-T. Lu, T. P. O'Connor, R. C. Pardo, K. E. Rehm, J. P. Schiffer, and X. D. Tang
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
142501 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Effective-Range Approach and Scaling Laws for Electromagnetic Strength in Neutron-Halo Nuclei
S. Typel and G. Baur
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
142502 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Magnetic Moment of the Fragmentation-Aligned 61Fe (9/2+) Isomer
I. Matea, G. Georgiev, J. M. Daugas, M. Hass, G. Neyens, R. Astabatyan, L. T. Baby, D. L. Balabanski, G. Bélier, D. Borremans, G. Goldring, H. Goutte, P. Himpe, M. Lewitowicz, S. Lukyanov, V. Méot, F. de Oliveira Santos, Yu. E. Penionzhkevich, O. Roig, and M. Sawicka
Published 1 October 2004 (4 pages)
142503 [View PDF (183 kB)]
Large Enhancement of Radiative Strength for Soft Transitions in the Quasicontinuum
A. Voinov, E. Algin, U. Agvaanluvsan, T. Belgya, R. Chankova, M. Guttormsen, G. E. Mitchell, J. Rekstad, A. Schiller, and S. Siem
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
142504 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of Feshbach Resonances between Two Different Atomic Species
C. A. Stan, M. W. Zwierlein, C. H. Schunck, S. M. F. Raupach, and W. Ketterle
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
143001 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Three-Boson Problem near a Narrow Feshbach Resonance
D. S. Petrov
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
143201 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Determination of the Number of Atoms Trapped in an Optical Cavity
J. McKeever, J. R. Buck, A. D. Boozer, and H. J. Kimble
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
143601 [View PDF (246 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Generalized Sagnac Effect
Ruyong Wang, Yi Zheng, and Aiping Yao
Published 27 September 2004 (3 pages)
143901 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Soliton Eigenvalue Control in Optical Lattices
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lucian-Cornel Crasovan, Anna S. Zelenina, Victor A. Vysloukh, Anna Sanpera, Maciej Lewenstein, and Lluis Torner
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
143902 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Field Inside a Random Distribution of Parallel Dipoles
Janus H. Wesenberg and Klaus Mølmer
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
143903 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Ultraslow Optical Solitons in a Cold Four-State Medium
Ying Wu and L. Deng
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
143904 [View PDF (457 kB)]
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Control of the Refractive Index in Photopolymerizable Materials for (2+1)D Solitary Wave Guide Formation
K. D. Dorkenoo, F. Gillot, O. Crégut, Y. Sonnefraud, A. Fort, and H. Leblond
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
143905 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Magnetic Field Enhanced Coherence Length in Cold Atomic Gases
O. Sigwarth, G. Labeyrie, T. Jonckheere, D. Delande, R. Kaiser, and C. Miniatura
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
143906 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Effective Kerr Nonlinearity and Two-Color Solitons in Photonic Band-Gap Fibers Filled with a Raman Active Gas
D. V. Skryabin, F. Biancalana, D. M. Bird, and F. Benabid
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
143907 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Experimental Deterministic Coherence Resonance
Jhon F. Martinez Avila, Hugo L. D. de S. Cavalcante, and J. R. Rios Leite
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
144101 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Model for Heat Conduction in Nanofluids
D. Hemanth Kumar, Hrishikesh E. Patel, V. R. Rajeev Kumar, T. Sundararajan, T. Pradeep, and Sarit K. Das
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
144301 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Falling Paper: Navier-Stokes Solutions, Model of Fluid Forces, and Center of Mass Elevation
Umberto Pesavento and Z. Jane Wang
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
144501 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Convective Roll Dynamics in Liquid 4He near the Onset of Convection
Matthew J. Lees, Michael S. Thurlow, James R. T. Seddon, and Peter G. J. Lucas
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
144502 [View PDF (461 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Particle-Transport Analysis in Reversed Field Pinch Helical States
I. Predebon, L. Marrelli, R. B. White, and P. Martin
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
145001 [View PDF (606 kB)]
Mass-Profile and Instability-Growth Measurements for 300-Wire Z-Pinch Implosions Driven by 14–18 MA
D. B. Sinars, M. E. Cuneo, E. P. Yu, D. E. Bliss, T. J. Nash, J. L. Porter, C. Deeney, M. G. Mazarakis, G. S. Sarkisov, and D. F. Wenger
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
145002 [View PDF (1,979 kB)]
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Trapped-Particle Instability Leading to Bursting in Stimulated Raman Scattering Simulations
S. Brunner and E. J. Valeo
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
145003 [View PDF (1,447 kB)]
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Fast-Ion Production from Short-Pulse Irradiation of Ethanol Microdroplets
D. R. Symes, A. J. Comley, and R. A. Smith
Published 1 October 2004 (4 pages)
145004 [View PDF (329 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Specific Heat of Disordered Superfluid 3He
H. Choi, K. Yawata, T. M. Haard, J. P. Davis, G. Gervais, N. Mulders, P. Sharma, J. A. Sauls, and W. P. Halperin
Published 1 October 2004 (4 pages)
145301 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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A1 and A2 Transitions in Superfluid 3He in 98% Porosity Aerogel
H. C. Choi, A. J. Gray, C. L. Vicente, J. S. Xia, G. Gervais, W. P. Halperin, N. Mulders, and Y. Lee
Published 1 October 2004 (4 pages)
145302 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Excitations of Metastable Superfluid 4He at Pressures Up to 40 Bars
J. V. Pearce, J. Bossy, H. Schober, H. R. Glyde, D. R. Daughton, and and N. Mulders
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
145303 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Structural Stability of Complex Hydrides: LiBH4 Revisited
Zbigniew Łodziana and Tejs Vegge
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
145501 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Crystal-Like Nature of Acoustic Excitations in Glassy Ethanol
A. Matic, C. Masciovecchio, D. Engberg, G. Monaco, L. Börjesson, S. C. Santucci, and R. Verbeni
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
145502 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Symmetric-to-Asymmetric Transition in Triblock Copolymer-Homopolymer Blends
P. Falus, H. Xiang, M. A. Borthwick, T. P. Russell, and S. G. J. Mochrie
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
145701 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Nanopipettes for Metal Transport
K. Svensson, H. Olin, and E. Olsson
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
145901 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Resonant Oscillators with Carbon-Nanotube Torsion Springs
S. J. Papadakis, A. R. Hall, P. A. Williams, L. Vicci, M. R. Falvo, R. Superfine, and S. Washburn
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
146101 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Atomic Structure of the GaAs(001)-c(4×4) Surface: First-Principles Evidence For Diversity of Heterodimer Motifs
E. Penev, P. Kratzer, and M. Scheffler
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
146102 [View PDF (697 kB)]
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When Langmuir Is Too Simple: H2 Dissociation on Pd(111) at High Coverage
Nuria Lopez, Zbigniew Łodziana, Francesc Illas, and Miquel Salmeron
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
146103 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Oxidation of Pt(110)
W. X. Li, L. Österlund, E. K. Vestergaard, R. T. Vang, J. Matthiesen, T. M. Pedersen, E. Lægsgaard, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
146104 [View PDF (536 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Mechanism of Hopping Transport in Disordered Mott Insulators
S. Nakatsuji, V. Dobrosavljević, D. Tanasković, M. Minakata, H. Fukazawa, and Y. Maeno
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
146401 [View PDF (664 kB)]
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Coupled Electron-Ion Monte Carlo Calculations of Dense Metallic Hydrogen
Carlo Pierleoni, David M. Ceperley, and Markus Holzmann
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
146402 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Resonant States in the Electronic Structure of the High Performance Thermoelectrics AgPbmSbTe2+m: The Role of Ag-Sb Microstructures
Daniel Bilc, S. D. Mahanti, Eric Quarez, Kuei-Fang Hsu, Robert Pcionek, and M. G. Kanatzidis
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
146403 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Charge and Orbital Order in Fe3O4
I. Leonov, A. N. Yaresko, V. N. Antonov, M. A. Korotin, and V. I. Anisimov
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
146404 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Electronic Correlations in Oligo-acene and -Thiopene Organic Molecular Crystals
Geert Brocks, Jeroen van den Brink, and Alberto F. Morpurgo
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
146405 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Electron-Vibron Coupling in High-Resolution X-Ray Absorption Spectra of Organic Materials: NTCDA on Ag(111)
A. Schöll, Y. Zou, L. Kilian, D. Hübner, D. Gador, C. Jung, S. G. Urquhart, Th. Schmidt, R. Fink, and E. Umbach
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
146406 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Spin Separation in Cyclotron Motion
L. P. Rokhinson, V. Larkina, Y. B. Lyanda-Geller, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
146601 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Magnetic-Field-Induced Suppression of Electronic Conduction in a Superlattice
A. Patanè, N. Mori, D. Fowler, L. Eaves, M. Henini, D. K. Maude, C. Hamaguchi, and R. Airey
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
146801 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Photoemission from Stepped W(110): Initial or Final State Effect?
A. M. Shikin, A. Varykhalov, G. V. Prudnikova, V. K. Adamchuk, W. Gudat, and O. Rader
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
146802 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Role of Spin-Orbit Splitting and Dynamical Fluctuations in the Si(557)-Au Surface
Daniel Sánchez-Portal, Sampsa Riikonen, and Richard M. Martin
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
146803 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Imaging of Cyclotron Emission from Edge Channels in Quantum Hall Conductors
K. Ikushima, H. Sakuma, S. Komiyama, and K. Hirakawa
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
146804 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Scanning-Tunneling Spectroscopy of Surface-State Electrons Scattered by a Slightly Disordered Two-Dimensional Dilute “Solid”: Ce on Ag(111)
Markus Ternes, Cédric Weber, Marina Pivetta, François Patthey, Jonathan P. Pelz, Thierry Giamarchi, Frédéric Mila, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
146805 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Field-Dependent Diamagnetic Transition in Magnetic Superconductor Sm1.85Ce0.15CuO4-y
R. Prozorov, D. D. Lawrie, I. Hetel, P. Fournier, and R. W. Giannetta
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
147001 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Dispersive Excitations in the High-Temperature Superconductor La2-xSrxCuO4
N. B. Christensen, D. F. McMorrow, H. M. Rønnow, B. Lake, S. M. Hayden, G. Aeppli, T. G. Perring, M. Mangkorntong, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
147002 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Magnetic Field Effect on the Static Antiferromagnetism of the Electron-Doped Superconductor Pr1-xLaCexCuO4 (x=0.11 and 0.15)
M. Fujita, M. Matsuda, S. Katano, and K. Yamada
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
147003 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Pseudogap and Spin Fluctuations in the Normal State of the Electron-Doped Cuprates
B. Kyung, V. Hankevych, A.-M. Daré, and A.-M. S. Tremblay
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
147004 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Structural Tuning of Unconventional Superconductivity in PuMGa5 (M=Co,Rh)
E. D. Bauer, J. D. Thompson, J. L. Sarrao, L. A. Morales, F. Wastin, J. Rebizant, J. C. Griveau, P. Javorsky, P. Boulet, E. Colineau, G. H. Lander, and G. R. Stewart
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
147005 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Enhancement of the Superconducting Transition Temperature of MgB2 by a Strain-Induced Bond-Stretching Mode Softening
A. V. Pogrebnyakov, J. M. Redwing, S. Raghavan, V. Vaithyanathan, D. G. Schlom, S. Y. Xu, Qi Li, D. A. Tenne, A. Soukiassian, X. X. Xi, M. D. Johannes, D. Kasinathan, W. E. Pickett, J. S. Wu, and J. C. H. Spence
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
147006 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Many-Body Effects on the Transport Properties of Single-Molecule Devices
P. S. Cornaglia, H. Ness, and D. R. Grempel
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
147201 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Double Exchange Model for Magnetic Hexaborides
Vitor M. Pereira, J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos, Eduardo V. Castro, and A. H. Castro Neto
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
147202 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Percolation and the Colossal Magnetoresistance of Eu-Based Hexaboride
G. A. Wigger, C. Beeli, E. Felder, H. R. Ott, A. D. Bianchi, and Z. Fisk
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
147203 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Spin-Controlled Mott-Hubbard Bands in LaMnO3 Probed by Optical Ellipsometry
N. N. Kovaleva, A. V. Boris, C. Bernhard, A. Kulakov, A. Pimenov, A. M. Balbashov, G. Khaliullin, and B. Keimer
Published 1 October 2004 (4 pages)
147204 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Controlling Vibrational Excitations in C60 by Laser Pulse Durations
G. P. Zhang and Thomas F. George
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
147401 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Quantum Mechanical Single-Gold-Nanocluster Electroluminescent Light Source at Room Temperature
Jose I. Gonzalez, Tae-Hee Lee, Michael D. Barnes, Yasuko Antoku, and Robert M. Dickson
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
147402 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Infrared Spectroscopy of the Charge Ordering Transition of Na0.5CoO2
N. L. Wang, Dong Wu, G. Li, X. H. Chen, C. H. Wang, and X. G. Luo
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
147403 [View PDF (632 kB)]
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Strongly Enhanced Magnetic Fluctuations in a Large-Mass Layered Ruthenate
O. Friedt, P. Steffens, M. Braden, Y. Sidis, S. Nakatsuji, and Y. Maeno
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
147404 [View PDF (584 kB)]
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Anomalous Spin Dephasing in (110) GaAs Quantum Wells: Anisotropy and Intersubband Effects
S. Döhrmann, D. Hägele, J. Rudolph, M. Bichler, D. Schuh, and M. Oestreich
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
147405 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Optical Transition Energies for Carbon Nanotubes from Resonant Raman Spectroscopy: Environment and Temperature Effects
C. Fantini, A. Jorio, M. Souza, M. S. Strano, M. S. Dresselhaus, and M. A. Pimenta
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
147406 [View PDF (433 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Long Range Bond-Bond Correlations in Dense Polymer Solutions
J. P. Wittmer, H. Meyer, J. Baschnagel, A. Johner, S. Obukhov, L. Mattioni, M. Müller, and A. N. Semenov
Published 29 September 2004 (4 pages)
147801 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Energetic Instability Unjams Sand and Suspension
Yimin Jiang and Mario Liu
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
148001 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Image Series Expansion for Electrical Impedance Tomography
M. Dolgin and P. D. Einziger
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
148101 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Thickness and Density Profiles of Polyelectrolyte Brushes: Dependence on Grafting Density and Salt Concentration
G. Romet-Lemonne, J. Daillant, P. Guenoun, J. Yang, and J. W. Mays
Published 27 September 2004 (4 pages)
148301 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Ultrafast Molecular Dissociation of Water in Ice
B. Brena, D. Nordlund, M. Odelius, H. Ogasawara, A. Nilsson, and L. G. M. Pettersson
Published 30 September 2004 (4 pages)
148302 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Stable Ammonium Bisulfate Clusters in the Atmosphere
Hanna Vehkamäki, Ismo Napari, Markku Kulmala, and Madis Noppel
Published 28 September 2004 (4 pages)
148501 [View PDF (139 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Collapse of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes is Diameter Dependent”
X. H. Zhang, Z. F. Liu, and X. G. Gong
Published 27 September 2004 (1 page)
149601 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Elliott et al. Reply:
James A. Elliott, Jan K. W. Sandler, Alan H. Windle, Robert J. Young, and Milo S. P. Shaffer
Published 27 September 2004 (1 page)
149602 [View PDF (35 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Complexity of Random Energy Landscapes, Glass Transition, and Absolute Value of Spectral Determinant of Random Matrices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 240601 (2004)]
Yan V. Fyodorov
Published 28 September 2004 (1 page)
149901(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Quantifying Self-Organization with Optimal Predictors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 118701 (2004)]
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, Kristina Lisa Shalizi, and Robert Haslinger
Published 28 September 2004 (1 page)
149902(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Erratum: What Determines the K- Multiplicity at Energies around (1–2)A   GeV? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 102302 (2003)]
Ch. Hartnack, H. Oeschler, and J. Aichelin
Published 29 September 2004 (2 pages)
149903(E) [View PDF (63 kB)]
 
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