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Physical Review Letters – 12 November 2004
Volume 93, Issue 20

Illustration of a simulated avalanche in a 2D cellular-automaton model. This model reproduces the power-law behavior for land, rock, and snow avalanches, suggesting a common origin for the processes that give rise to each. [Jerome Faillettaz, Francois Louchet, and Jean-Robert Grasso, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 208001 (2004)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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High-Resolution Imaging of Single Fluorescent Molecules with the Optical Near-Field of a Metal Tip
Heinrich G. Frey, Susanne Witt, Karin Felderer, and Reinhard Guckenberger
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
200801 [View PDF (1,465 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Tight Multipartite Bell's Inequalities Involving Many Measurement Settings
Wiesław Laskowski, Tomasz Paterek, Marek Żukowski, and Časlav Brukner
Published 8 November 2004 (4 pages)
200401 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Novel Superfluidity in a Trapped Gas of Fermi Atoms with Repulsive Interaction Loaded on an Optical Lattice
M. Machida, S. Yamada, Y. Ohashi, and H. Matsumoto
Published 9 November 2004 (4 pages)
200402 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Optical Realization of Optimal Unambiguous Discrimination for Pure and Mixed Quantum States
Masoud Mohseni, Aephraim M. Steinberg, and János A. Bergou
Published 9 November 2004 (4 pages)
200403 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Equation of State of a Fermi Gas in the BEC-BCS Crossover: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study
G. E. Astrakharchik, J. Boronat, J. Casulleras, and and S. Giorgini
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
200404 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Operational Representation of Quantum States Based on Interference
Alexander Wolf and Matthias Freyberger
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
200405 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Vortex Arrays in a Rotating Superfluid Fermi Gas
David L. Feder
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
200406 [View PDF (217 kB)]
High-Resolution Imaging of Single Fluorescent Molecules with the Optical Near-Field of a Metal Tip
Heinrich G. Frey, Susanne Witt, Karin Felderer, and Reinhard Guckenberger
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
200801 [View PDF (1,465 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Gravitational Baryogenesis
Hooman Davoudiasl, Ryuichiro Kitano, Graham D. Kribs, Hitoshi Murayama, and Paul J. Steinhardt
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
201301 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Large-Nc Continuum Reduction and the Thermodynamics of QCD
Thomas D. Cohen
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
201601 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Classical Physics and Quantum Loops
Barry R. Holstein and John F. Donoghue
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
201602 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Measurement of Time-Dependent CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0→K*0γ(K*0→KS0π0) Decays
B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)
Published 8 November 2004 (7 pages)
201801 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Search for CP Violation in the Decay B0→D*±D∓
T. Aushev et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 9 November 2004 (6 pages)
201802 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Dark Matter Particle Production in b→s Transitions with Missing Energy
Chris Bird, Paul Jackson, Robert Kowalewski, and Maxim Pospelov
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
201803 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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B-Factory Signals for a Warped Extra Dimension
Kaustubh Agashe, Gilad Perez, and Amarjit Soni
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
201804 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Complete Two-Loop Electroweak Fermionic Corrections to the Effective Leptonic Weak Mixing Angle sin⁡2θefflept and Indirect Determination of the Higgs Boson Mass
M. Awramik, M. Czakon, A. Freitas, and G. Weiglein
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
201805 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Multichannel Calculation of Ds* Vector States and the DsJ+(2632) Resonance
Eef van Beveren and George Rupp
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
202001 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Double Helicity Asymmetry in Inclusive Midrapidity π0 Production for Polarized p+p Collisions at √s=200  GeV
S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)
Published 11 November 2004 (6 pages)
202002 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Spin Asymmetry and Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Sum Rule for the Deuteron
Hartmuth Arenhövel, Alexander Fix, and Michael Schwamb
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
202301 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Supernova Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleus Cross Sections from High-Resolution Electron Scattering Experiments and Shell-Model Calculations
K. Langanke, G. Martínez-Pinedo, P. von Neumann-Cosel, and A. Richter
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
202501 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Rotational Correlation Functions of Single Molecules
G. Hinze, G. Diezemann, and Th. Basché
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
203001 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Electron Scattering on Centrosymmetric Molecular Dianions Pt(CN)42- and Pt(CN)62-
M. O. A. El Ghazaly, A. Svendsen, H. Bluhme, A. B. Nielsen, S. Brøndsted Nielsen, and L. H. Andersen
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
203201 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Multiple Grains in Nanocrystals: Effect of Initial Shape and Size on Transformed Structures Under Pressure
Sanjay Kodiyalam, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, and Priya Vashishta
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
203401 [View PDF (617 kB)]
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Dynamic Polarization in the Strong-Field Ionization of Small Metal Clusters
Marc Smits, C. A. de Lange, Albert Stolow, and D. M. Rayner
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
203402 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Cavity Light Bullets: Three-Dimensional Localized Structures in a Nonlinear Optical Resonator
Massimo Brambilla, Tommaso Maggipinto, Giuseppe Patera, and Lorenzo Columbo
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
203901 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Superluminal Group Velocity and Signal Velocity in an Optical Fiber
Nicolas Brunner, Valerio Scarani, Mark Wegmüller, Matthieu Legré, and Nicolas Gisin
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
203902 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Intrinsic Pulse-Width Dependence of Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility in the Femtosecond Regime
Min-su Kim and Choon Sup Yoon
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
203903 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Web-Assisted Tunneling In The Kicked Harmonic Oscillator
André R. R. Carvalho and Andreas Buchleitner
Published 8 November 2004 (4 pages)
204101 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Classical Projected Phase Space Density of Billiards and Its Relation to the Quantum Neumann Spectrum
Debabrata Biswas
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
204102 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Robustness of the Noise-Induced Phase Synchronization in a General Class of Limit Cycle Oscillators
Jun-nosuke Teramae and Dan Tanaka
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
204103 [View PDF (838 kB)]
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Encapsulated Drop Breakup in Shear Flow
K. A. Smith, J. M. Ottino, and M. Olvera de la Cruz
Published 8 November 2004 (4 pages)
204501 [View PDF (307 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Generating Ultralow-Emittance Ion Beams in a Storage Ring
Y. Yuri and H. Okamoto
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
204801 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Nonlinear Current Helicity Fluxes in Turbulent Dynamos and Alpha Quenching
Kandaswamy Subramanian and Axel Brandenburg
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
205001 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Increasing the Magnetic Helicity Content of a Plasma by Pulsing a Magnetized Source
S. Woodruff, B. W. Stallard, H. S. McLean, E. B. Hooper, R. Bulmer, B. I. Cohen, D. N. Hill, C. T. Holcomb, J. Moller, and R. D. Wood
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
205002 [View PDF (270 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Dissipative Currents in Superfluid 3He Weak Links
J. K. Viljas and E. V. Thuneberg
Published 9 November 2004 (4 pages)
205301 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Vibrations of Micro-eV Energies in Nanocrystalline Microstructures
A. F. Yue, A. B. Papandrew, O. Delaire, B. Fultz, Z. Chowdhuri, R. M. Dimeo, and D. A. Neumann
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
205501 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Structural Complexity in Gallium under High Pressure: Relation to Alkali Elements
O. Degtyareva, M. I. McMahon, D. R. Allan, and R. J. Nelmes
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
205502 [View PDF (709 kB)]
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Linear Carbon Dioxide in the High-Pressure High-Temperature Crystalline Phase IV
Federico A. Gorelli, Valentina M. Giordano, Pier R. Salvi, and Roberto Bini
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
205503 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Atomistic Configurations and Energetics of Crack Extension in Silicon
Ting Zhu, Ju Li, and Sidney Yip
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
205504 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Quasidislocation Stoneley Wave and Eshelby Dislocation Scholte Wave
Johannes Weertman
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
205505 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Glassy State
Moshe Schwartz
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
205701 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Shape Deformation and Circle Instability in Two-Dimensional Lipid Domains by Dipolar Force: A Shape- and Size-Dependent Line Tension Model
Mitsumasa Iwamoto and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
206101 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Atomic Structure of Defects in GaN:Mg Grown with Ga Polarity
Z. Liliental-Weber, T. Tomaszewicz, D. Zakharov, J. Jasinski, and M. A. O'Keefe
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
206102 [View PDF (924 kB)]
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Molecular Motion in a Spreading Precursor Film
Hui Xu, David Shirvanyants, Kathryn Beers, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Michael Rubinstein, and Sergei S. Sheiko
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
206103 [View PDF (412 kB)]
Driving Force and Mechanism for Spontaneous Metal Whisker Formation
M. W. Barsoum, E. N. Hoffman, R. D. Doherty, S. Gupta, and A. Zavaliangos
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
206104 [View PDF (254 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Effects of Nonmagnetic Impurities on Spin-Fluctuation Induced Superconductivity
S. Dusuel and D. Zanchi
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
206401 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Nexus between Quantum Criticality and Phase Formation in U(Ru1-xRhx)2Si2
K. H. Kim, N. Harrison, H. Amitsuka, G. A. Jorge, M. Jaime, and J. A. Mydosh
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
206402 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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New Probe of the Electronic Structure of Amorphous Materials
Maria Strømme, Rajeev Ahuja, and Gunnar A. Niklasson
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
206403 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Josephson Junction as a Detector of Poissonian Charge Injection
J. P. Pekola
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
206601 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Berry Curvature on the Fermi Surface: Anomalous Hall Effect as a Topological Fermi-Liquid Property
F. D. M. Haldane
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
206602 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Pseudoentanglement of Spin States in the Multilevel 15N@C60 System
M. Mehring, W. Scherer, and A. Weidinger
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
206603 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Origin of Schottky Barriers in Gold Contacts on GaAs(110)
T. C. G. Reusch, M. Wenderoth, L. Winking, N. Quaas, and R. G. Ulbrich
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
206801 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Selectivity of Auger Decays to the Local Surface Environment
M. I. Trioni, S. Caravati, G. P. Brivio, L. Floreano, F. Bruno, and A. Morgante
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
206802 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Localization of the Cu(111) Surface State by Single Cu Adatoms
F. E. Olsson, M. Persson, A. G. Borisov, J.-P. Gauyacq, J. Lagoute, and S. Fölsch
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
206803 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Goldstone-Mode Relaxation in a Quantized Hall Ferromagnet
S. Dickmann
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
206804 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Evidence for Two Different Solid Phases of Two-Dimensional Electrons in High Magnetic Fields
Yong P. Chen, R. M. Lewis, L. W. Engel, D. C. Tsui, P. D. Ye, Z. H. Wang, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
206805 [View PDF (501 kB)]
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Pairing of Spin Excitations in Lateral Quantum Dots
Marek Korkusiński, Pawel Hawrylak, Mariusz Ciorga, Michel Pioro-Ladrière, and Andrew S. Sachrajda
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
206806 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Nanoscopic Coexistence of Magnetism and Superconductivity in YBa2Cu3O6+x Detected by Muon Spin Rotation
S. Sanna, G. Allodi, G. Concas, A. D. Hillier, and R. De Renzi
Published 8 November 2004 (4 pages)
207001 [View PDF (542 kB)]
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RF-Driven Josephson Bifurcation Amplifier for Quantum Measurement
I. Siddiqi, R. Vijay, F. Pierre, C. M. Wilson, M. Metcalfe, C. Rigetti, L. Frunzio, and M. H. Devoret
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
207002 [View PDF (763 kB)]
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Dispersion of Magnetic Excitations in Optimally Doped Superconducting YBa2Cu3O6.95
D. Reznik, P. Bourges, L. Pintschovius, Y. Endoh, Y. Sidis, T. Masui, and S. Tajima
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
207003 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Competing Orders and Superconductivity in the Doped Mott Insulator on the Shastry-Sutherland Lattice
Chung-Hou Chung and Yong Baek Kim
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
207004 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Directional Ordering of Fluctuations in a Two-Dimensional Compass Model
Anup Mishra, Michael Ma, Fu-Chun Zhang, Siegfried Guertler, Lei-Han Tang, and Shaolong Wan
Published 9 November 2004 (4 pages)
207201 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Magnetic Response of Nonmagnetic Impurities in Cuprates
P. Prelovšek and I. Sega
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
207202 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Absence of an Almeida-Thouless Line in Three-Dimensional Spin Glasses
A. P. Young and Helmut G. Katzgraber
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
207203 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Matrix Product Density Operators: Simulation of Finite-Temperature and Dissipative Systems
F. Verstraete, J. J. García-Ripoll, and J. I. Cirac
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
207204 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Mixed-State Dynamics in One-Dimensional Quantum Lattice Systems: A Time-Dependent Superoperator Renormalization Algorithm
Michael Zwolak and Guifré Vidal
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
207205 [View PDF (2,430 kB)]
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Temperature-Dependent Orbital Degree of Freedom of a Bilayer Manganite by Magnetic Compton Scattering
Yinwan Li, P. A. Montano, J. F. Mitchell, B. Barbiellini, P. E. Mijnarends, S. Kaprzyk, and A. Bansil
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
207206 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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High-Order Raman Scattering of X Rays by Optical Phonons and Generation of Ultrafast X-Ray Transients
A. Nazarkin, I. Uschmann, E. Förster, and R. Sauerbrey
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
207401 [View PDF (955 kB)]
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Polarized Optical Gain and Polarization-Narrowing of Heavily Oxidized Porous Silicon
Massimo Cazzanelli, Dmitri Kovalev, Luca Dal Negro, Zeno Gaburro, and Lorenzo Pavesi
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
207402 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Probing the Spin State of a Single Magnetic Ion in an Individual Quantum Dot
L. Besombes, Y. Léger, L. Maingault, D. Ferrand, H. Mariette, and J. Cibert
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
207403 [View PDF (411 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Ab Initio Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of Short-Range Order in Liquid Al80Mn20 and Al80Ni20 Alloys
N. Jakse, O. Lebacq, and A. Pasturel
Published 9 November 2004 (4 pages)
207801 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Two-Threshold Model for Scaling Laws of Noninteracting Snow Avalanches
Jerome Faillettaz, Francois Louchet, and Jean-Robert Grasso
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
208001 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Are Brazil Nuts Attractive?
Duncan A. Sanders, Michael R. Swift, R. M. Bowley, and P. J. King
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
208002 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Dynamics of Human Walking at Steady Speeds
Valery B. Kokshenev
Published 10 November 2004 (4 pages)
208101 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Variations in Substitution Rate in Human and Mouse Genomes
H. H. von Grünberg, M. Peifer, J. Timmer, and M. Kollmann
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
208102 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Ordered Self-Assembled Monolayers of Peptide Nucleic Acids with DNA Recognition Capability
C. Briones, E. Mateo-Marti, C. Gómez-Navarro, V. Parro, E. Román, and J. A. Martín-Gago
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
208103 [View PDF (1,228 kB)]
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Stability Analysis of Asynchronous States in Neuronal Networks with Conductance-Based Inhibition
Christian Leibold
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
208104 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Protein Folding Rates Correlate with Heterogeneity of Folding Mechanism
B. Öztop, M. R. Ejtehadi, and S. S. Plotkin
Published 12 November 2004 (4 pages)
208105 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Structure of Random Foam
Andrew M. Kraynik, Douglas A. Reinelt, and Frank van Swol
Published 9 November 2004 (4 pages)
208301 [View PDF (719 kB)]
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Controlled Low-Temperature Molecular Manipulation of Sexiphenyl Molecules on Ag(111) Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Saw-Wai Hla, Kai-Felix Braun, Bernhard Wassermann, and Karl-Heinz Rieder
Published 11 November 2004 (4 pages)
208302 [View PDF (2,486 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Chudnovsky Replies:
E. M. Chudnovsky
Published 12 November 2004 (1 page)
208901 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Comment on “Radiative Recombination Enhancement of Bare Ions in Storage Rings with Electron Cooling”
M. Hörndl, S. Yoshida, K. Tőkési, and J. Burgdörfer
Published 8 November 2004 (1 page)
209301 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Heerlein, Zwicknagel, and Toepffer Reply:
C. Heerlein, G. Zwicknagel, and C. Toepffer
Published 8 November 2004 (1 page)
209302 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Comment on “Magnetic Response of Disordered Metallic Rings: Large Contributions of Far Levels”
U. Eckern, P. Schwab, and V. Ambegaokar
Published 10 November 2004 (1 page)
209701 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Schechter et al. Reply:
Moshe Schechter, Yuval Oreg, Yoseph Imry, and Yehoshua Levinson
Published 10 November 2004 (1 page)
209702 [View PDF (43 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Radiative Recombination Enhancement of Bare Ions in Storage Rings with Electron Cooling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 083202 (2002)]
C. Heerlein, G. Zwicknagel, and C. Toepffer
Published 8 November 2004 (1 page)
209901(E) [View PDF (26 kB)]
 
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