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Physical Review Letters – 5 November 2004
Volume 93, Issue 19

Photographs of two identical films on a sapphire substrate: 200 nm of Mg2Ni capped by 5 nm of Pd. On the left the view is through the substrate; on the right we see the Pd layer. Initially, both sides are reflective (a). Upon exposure to hydrogen, the Mg2Ni film forms a black absorbing state [(b), left side]. This switching is reversible and has possible applications to, e.g., smart coatings in solar collectors. [W. Lohstroh, R. J. Westerwaal, B. Noheda, S. Enache, I. A. Giebels, B. Dam, and R. Griessen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197404 (2004)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Topological Relaxation of a Shear-Induced Lamellar Phase to Sponge Equilibrium and the Energetics of Membrane Fusion
L. Porcar, W. A. Hamilton, P. D. Butler, and G. G. Warr
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
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LETTERS

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

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Landau Levels and the Thomas-Fermi Structure of Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates
Gentaro Watanabe, Gordon Baym, and C. J. Pethick
Published 2 November 2004 (4 pages)
190401 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Towards Quantum Entanglement in Nanoelectromechanical Devices
J. Eisert, M. B. Plenio, S. Bose, and J. Hartley
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
190402 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Collective Modes and Ballistic Expansion of a Fermi Gas in the BCS-BEC Crossover
Hui Hu, A. Minguzzi, Xia-Ji Liu, and M. P. Tosi
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
190403 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Density Profile of a Harmonically Trapped Ideal Fermi Gas in Arbitrary Dimension
Erich J. Mueller
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
190404 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous Atomic Bose-Fermi Mixtures in Cubic Lattices
M. Cramer, J. Eisert, and F. Illuminati
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
190405 [View PDF (524 kB)]
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Bound Entanglement Provides Convertibility of Pure Entangled States
Satoshi Ishizaka
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
190501 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Quantum Phase Control of Entanglement
Vladimir S. Malinovsky and Ignacio R. Sola
Published 3 November 2004 (4 pages)
190502 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Aperiodic Quantum Random Walks
P. Ribeiro, P. Milman, and R. Mosseri
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
190503 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Superscaling of Percolation on Rectangular Domains
Hiroshi Watanabe, Satoshi Yukawa, Nobuyasu Ito, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 2 November 2004 (4 pages)
190601 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Power-Law Tail Distributions and Nonergodicity
Eric Lutz
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
190602 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Anomalous Critical Exponents in the Anisotropic Ashkin-Teller Model
A. Giuliani and V. Mastropietro
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
190603 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Current Relaxation in Nonlinear Random Media
Tsampikos Kottos and Matthias Weiss
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
190604 [View PDF (675 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Lorentz Invariance and Quantum Gravity: An Additional Fine-Tuning Problem?
John Collins, Alejandro Perez, Daniel Sudarsky, Luis Urrutia, and Héctor Vucetich
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
191301 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current and Lepton-Flavor Violating Decays of D0→l+l-
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 4 November 2004 (7 pages)
191801 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Evidence for Direct CP Violation in B0→K+π-Decays
Y. Chao et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 5 November 2004 (6 pages)
191802 [View PDF (188 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Proton Source Size Measurements in the eA→e′ppX Reaction
A. V. Stavinsky et al. (CLAS Collaboration)
Published 4 November 2004 (6 pages)
192301 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Microscopic Nature of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance: The Stable Ca Isotopes
T. Hartmann, M. Babilon, S. Kamerdzhiev, E. Litvinova, D. Savran, S. Volz, and A. Zilges
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
192501 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Photoexcitation of He- Hollow-Ion Resonances: Observation of the 2s2p2 4P State
R. C. Bilodeau, J. D. Bozek, A. Aguilar, G. D. Ackerman, G. Turri, and N. Berrah
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
193001 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Quantum Suppression of Microwave Ionization of Rydberg Atoms at High Scaled Frequency
H. Maeda and T. F. Gallagher
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
193002 [View PDF (1,020 kB)]
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Engineering Mixed States in a Degenerate Four-State System
A. Karpati, Z. Kis, and P. Adam
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
193003 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Multiple Photofragmentation Pathways with Different Recoil Anisotropy from a Metal-Ion–Ligand Complex
Fuminori Misaizu, Ari Furuya, Hironori Tsunoyama, and Koichi Ohno
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
193401 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Resonant Cavity Photon Creation via the Dynamical Casimir Effect
Michael Uhlmann, Günter Plunien, Ralf Schützhold, and Gerhard Soff
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
193601 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Transfer and Storage of Vortex States in Light and Matter Waves
Zachary Dutton and Janne Ruostekoski
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
193602 [View PDF (391 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Quantum Entanglement of a Large Number of Photons
H. S. Eisenberg, G. Khoury, G. A. Durkin, C. Simon, and D. Bouwmeester
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
193901 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Universal Spectral Statistics in Quantum Graphs
Sven Gnutzmann and Alexander Altland
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
194101 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Exact Analysis of Soliton Dynamics in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
Jun'ichi Ieda, Takahiko Miyakawa, and Miki Wadati
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
194102 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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From Red Cells to Snowboarding: A New Concept for a Train Track
Qianhong Wu, Yiannis Andreopoulos, and Sheldon Weinbaum
Published 3 November 2004 (4 pages)
194501 [View PDF (273 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Electron-Beam Conditioning by Thomson Scattering
C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
194801 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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New Scheme for Positron Accumulation in Ultrahigh Vacuum
N. Oshima, T. M. Kojima, M. Niigaki, A. Mohri, K. Komaki, and Y. Yamazaki
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
195001 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Dust-Free Regions around Langmuir Probes in Complex Plasmas under Microgravity
M. Klindworth, A. Piel, A. Melzer, U. Konopka, H. Rothermel, K. Tarantik, and G. E. Morfill
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
195002 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Attosecond Electron Bunches
N. Naumova, I. Sokolov, J. Nees, A. Maksimchuk, V. Yanovsky, and G. Mourou
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
195003 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Beat-Wave Excitation of Plasma Waves Based on Relativistic Bistability
Gennady Shvets
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
195004 [View PDF (680 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Intrinsic Pinning of Vorticity by Domain Walls of l̂ Texture in Superfluid 3He-A
P. M. Walmsley, I. J. White, and A. I. Golov
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
195301 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Universal Breakdown of Elasticity at the Onset of Material Failure
Craig Maloney and Anaël Lemaître
Published 2 November 2004 (4 pages)
195501 [View PDF (518 kB)]
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Migration Processes of the 30° Partial Dislocation in Silicon
Norihisa Oyama and Takahisa Ohno
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
195502 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Phonon Density of States and Compression Behavior in Iron Sulfide under Pressure
Hisao Kobayashi, Takashi Kamimura, Dario Alfè, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Jiyong Zhao, and Esen E. Alp
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
195503 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Superhard Cubic BC2N Compared to Diamond
Yi Zhang, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
195504 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Section Method for Projected Structures of Icosahedral Quasicrystals and Its Application to Electron-Microscopy-Image and Surface Analyses
Akiji Yamamoto
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
195505 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Shock Compressing Diamond to a Conducting Fluid
D. K Bradley, J. H. Eggert, D. G. Hicks, P. M. Celliers, S. J. Moon, R. C. Cauble, and G. W. Collins
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
195506 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Self-Affine Surface Morphology of Plastically Deformed Metals
Michael Zaiser, Frederic Madani Grasset, Vasileios Koutsos, and Elias C. Aifantis
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
195507 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Driving Rate Effects in Avalanche-Mediated First-Order Phase Transitions
Francisco-José Pérez-Reche, Bosiljka Tadić, Lluís Mañosa, Antoni Planes, and Eduard Vives
Published 3 November 2004 (4 pages)
195701 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Water Dissociation on Ru(001): An Activated Process
K. Andersson, A. Nikitin, L. G. M. Pettersson, A. Nilsson, and H. Ogasawara
Published 3 November 2004 (4 pages)
196101 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for a Partially Dissociated Water Bilayer on Ru{0001}
Jonas Weissenrieder, Anders Mikkelsen, Jesper N. Andersen, Peter J. Feibelman, and Georg Held
Published 3 November 2004 (4 pages)
196102 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Tuning Surface Reactivity via Electron Quantum Confinement
L. Aballe, A. Barinov, A. Locatelli, S. Heun, and M. Kiskinova
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
196103 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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Ultrathin Films of Ferroelectric Solid Solutions under a Residual Depolarizing Field
Igor Kornev, Huaxiang Fu, and L. Bellaiche
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
196104 [View PDF (469 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Strain Induced Deep Electronic States around Threading Dislocations in GaN
L. Lymperakis, J. Neugebauer, M. Albrecht, T. Remmele, and H. P. Strunk
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
196401 [View PDF (544 kB)]
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Unification of the Band Anticrossing and Cluster-State Models of Dilute Nitride Semiconductor Alloys
A. Lindsay and E. P. O'Reilly
Published 2 November 2004 (4 pages)
196402 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Signatures of Spin-Charge Separation in Scanning Probe Microscopy
Iddo Ussishkin and Leonid I. Glazman
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
196403 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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One-Dimensional Transport in Polymer Nanofibers
A. N. Aleshin, H. J. Lee, Y. W. Park, and K. Akagi
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
196601 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Observation of an Interedge Magnetoplasmon Mode in a Degenerate Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
G. Sukhodub, F. Hohls, and R. J. Haug
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
196801 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Role of Spin in Quasiparticle Interference
J. I. Pascual, G. Bihlmayer, Yu. M. Koroteev, H.-P. Rust, G. Ceballos, M. Hansmann, K. Horn, E. V. Chulkov, S. Blügel, P. M. Echenique, and Ph. Hofmann
Published 2 November 2004 (4 pages)
196802 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Identifying Defects in Nanoscale Materials
Masa Ishigami, Hyoung Joon Choi, Shaul Aloni, Steven G. Louie, Marvin L. Cohen, and A. Zettl
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
196803 [View PDF (584 kB)]
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Observation of a New Type of THz Resonance of Surface Plasmons Propagating on Metal-Film Hole Arrays
Dongxia Qu and D. Grischkowsky
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
196804 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Band-to-Band Tunneling in Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors
J. Appenzeller, Y.-M. Lin, J. Knoch, and Ph. Avouris
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
196805 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Mechanisms of Reversible Conformational Transitions in a Single Molecule
X. H. Qiu, G. V. Nazin, and W. Ho
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
196806 [View PDF (832 kB)]
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Chiral Single-Wall Gold Nanotubes
R. T. Senger, S. Dag, and S. Ciraci
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
196807 [View PDF (736 kB)]
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Coulomb-Blockade-Induced Bound Quasiparticle States in a Double-Island Structure
D. A. Pesin and A. V. Andreev
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
196808 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Observation of the Nonlinear Meissner Effect in YBCO Thin Films: Evidence for a d-Wave Order Parameter in the Bulk of the Cuprate Superconductors
D. E. Oates, S.-H. Park, and G. Koren
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
197001 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Observation of Shot-Noise-Induced Asymmetry in the Coulomb Blockaded Josephson Junction
R. K. Lindell, J. Delahaye, M. A. Sillanpää, T. T. Heikkilä, E. B. Sonin, and P. J. Hakonen
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
197002 [View PDF (512 kB)]
Evidence for Crossed Andreev Reflection in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrid Structures
D. Beckmann, H. B. Weber, and H. v. Löhneysen
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
197003 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Runaway “Fingerlike” Instability of Magnetic Walls in Ultrathin Layers
B. G. Elmegreen, L. Krusin-Elbaum, T. Shibauchi, and B. Argyle
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
197201 [View PDF (633 kB)]
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Nuclear Spin Dynamics in the Quantum Regime of a Single-Molecule Magnet
A. Morello, O. N. Bakharev, H. B. Brom, R. Sessoli, and L. J. de Jongh
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
197202 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Half-Magnetization Plateau Stabilized by Structural Distortion in the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on a Pyrochlore Lattice
Karlo Penc, Nic Shannon, and Hiroyuki Shiba
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
197203 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Enhanced Pairing in Doped Quantum Magnets with Frustrated Hole Motion
Didier Poilblanc
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
197204 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Babinet Principle Applied to the Design of Metasurfaces and Metamaterials
F. Falcone, T. Lopetegi, M. A. G. Laso, J. D. Baena, J. Bonache, M. Beruete, R. Marqués, F. Martín, and M. Sorolla
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
197401 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Electron Interactions and Scaling Relations for Optical Excitations in Carbon Nanotubes
C. L. Kane and E. J. Mele
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
197402 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Ultrafast Generation of Ferromagnetic Order via a Laser-Induced Phase Transformation in FeRh Thin Films
Ganping Ju, Julius Hohlfeld, Bastiaan Bergman, René J. M. van de Veerdonk, Oleg N. Mryasov, Jai-Young Kim, Xiaowei Wu, Dieter Weller, and Bert Koopmans
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
197403 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Self-Organized Layered Hydrogenation in Black Mg2NiHx Switchable Mirrors
W. Lohstroh, R. J. Westerwaal, B. Noheda, S. Enache, I. A. M. E. Giebels, B. Dam, and R. Griessen
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
197404 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Orientation-Dependent C60 Electronic Structures Revealed by Photoemission Spectroscopy
V. Brouet, W. L. Yang, X. J. Zhou, H. J. Choi, S. G. Louie, M. L. Cohen, A. Goldoni, F. Parmigiani, Z. Hussain, and Z. X. Shen
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
197601 [View PDF (456 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Intruders in the Dust: Air-Driven Granular Size Separation
Matthias E. Möbius, Xiang Cheng, Greg S. Karczmar, Sidney R. Nagel, and Heinrich M. Jaeger
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
198001 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Segregation in Fluidized versus Tapped Packs
Marco Tarzia, Annalisa Fierro, Mario Nicodemi, and Antonio Coniglio
Published 2 November 2004 (4 pages)
198002 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Impact on Soft Sand: Void Collapse and Jet Formation
Detlef Lohse, Raymond Bergmann, René Mikkelsen, Christiaan Zeilstra, Devaraj van der Meer, Michel Versluis, Ko van der Weele, Martin van der Hoef, and Hans Kuipers
Published 3 November 2004 (4 pages)
198003 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Clustered Bottlenecks in mRNA Translation and Protein Synthesis
Tom Chou and Greg Lakatos
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
198101 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Dynamics of Force-Induced DNA Slippage
Richard A. Neher and Ulrich Gerland
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
198102 [View PDF (816 kB)]
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Anomalous Fluid Transport in Porous Media Induced by Biofilm Growth
Joseph D. Seymour, Justin P. Gage, Sarah L. Codd, and Robin Gerlach
Published 3 November 2004 (4 pages)
198103 [View PDF (710 kB)]
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Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Microtubules Buckling and Bundling under Osmotic Stress: A Probe of Interprotofilament Interactions
Daniel J. Needleman, Miguel A. Ojeda-Lopez, Uri Raviv, Kai Ewert, Jayna B. Jones, Herbert P. Miller, Leslie Wilson, and Cyrus R. Safinya
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
198104 [View PDF (688 kB)]
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Dynamics of Domain Growth in Self-Assembled Fluid Vesicles
Mohamed Laradji and P. B. Sunil Kumar
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
198105 [View PDF (451 kB)]
Optimizing the Vertebrate Vestibular Semicircular Canal: Could We Balance Any Better?
Todd M. Squires
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
198106 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Extracting DNA Twist Rigidity from Experimental Supercoiling Data
Sébastien Neukirch
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
198107 [View PDF (192 kB)]
Topological Relaxation of a Shear-Induced Lamellar Phase to Sponge Equilibrium and the Energetics of Membrane Fusion
L. Porcar, W. A. Hamilton, P. D. Butler, and G. G. Warr
Published 1 November 2004 (4 pages)
198301 [View PDF (807 kB)]
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From Sol to Gel Exactly
A. A. Lushnikov
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
198302 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Reconstruction of Shared Nonlinear Dynamics in a Network
Timothy D. Sauer
Published 4 November 2004 (4 pages)
198701 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Error Correction on a Tree: An Instanton Approach
V. Chernyak, M. Chertkov, M. G. Stepanov, and B. Vasic
Published 5 November 2004 (4 pages)
198702 [View PDF (147 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Low-Dimensional Models for Vertically Falling Viscous Films”
Christian Ruyer-Quil and Paul Manneville
Published 5 November 2004 (1 page)
199401 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Balakotaiah and Mudunuri Reply:
V. Balakotaiah and R. R. Mudunuri
Published 5 November 2004 (1 page)
199402 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Comment on “New Pseudophase Structure for α-Pu”
P. Söderlind, B. Sadigh, and K. T. Moore
Published 4 November 2004 (1 page)
199601 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Bouchet et al. Reply
J. Bouchet, R. C. Albers, M. D. Jones, and G. Jomard
Published 4 November 2004 (1 page)
199602 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Entropy Scaling Laws for Diffusion
Sorin Bastea
Published 4 November 2004 (1 page)
199603 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Samanta, Ali, and Ghosh Reply:
Alok Samanta, Sk. Musharaf Ali, and Swapan K. Ghosh
Published 4 November 2004 (1 page)
199604 [View PDF (61 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Local Duality Predictions for x∼1 Structure Functions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 35 (2001)]
W. Melnitchouk
Published 3 November 2004 (1 page)
199901(E) [View PDF (35 kB)]
 
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