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Physical Review Letters – 3 December 2004
Volume 93, Issue 23

Photographs of a phase transition in a new class of liquid crystals (tetrapode oligomers). The right column shows a uniaxial nematic phase in a free-standing film; as the temperature is lowered, a new biaxial nematic phase is observed (left column). The transition is accompanied by a change in the texture (top images) and by a splitting of the isogyres (bottom). [K. Merkel, A. Kocot, J. K. Vij, R. Korlacki, G. H. Mehl, and T. Meyer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 237801 (2004)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Fluctuation-Driven Molecular Transport Through an Asymmetric Membrane Channel
Ioan Kosztin and Klaus Schulten
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
238102 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Low-Acceleration Instability of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice
Yi Zheng, Marijan Kos̆trun, and Juha Javanainen
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
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Weak First-Order Superfluid-Solid Quantum Phase Transitions
Anatoly Kuklov, Nikolay Prokof'ev, and Boris Svistunov
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
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RotationalInvariance as an Additional Constraint on Local Realism
Koji Nagata, Wiesław Laskowski, Marcin Wieśniak, and Marek Żukowski
Published 3 December 2004 (4 pages)
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Emergence of Quasicondensates of Hard-Core Bosons at Finite Momentum
Marcos Rigol and Alejandro Muramatsu
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
230404 [View PDF (4,705 kB)]
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Crystalline Boson Phases in Harmonic Traps: Beyond the Gross-Pitaevskii Mean Field
Igor Romanovsky, Constantine Yannouleas, and Uzi Landman
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
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Decoherence and Multipartite Entanglement
André R. R. Carvalho, Florian Mintert, and Andreas Buchleitner
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
230501 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Mirror Inversion of Quantum States in Linear Registers
Claudio Albanese, Matthias Christandl, Nilanjana Datta, and Artur Ekert
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
230502 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Qutrit State Engineering with Biphotons
Yu. I. Bogdanov, M. V. Chekhova, S. P. Kulik, G. A. Maslennikov, A. A. Zhukov., C. H. Oh, and M. K. Tey
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
230503 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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A Family of Quantum Protocols
Igor Devetak, Aram W. Harrow, and Andreas Winter
Published 3 December 2004 (4 pages)
230504 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Temperature in Nonequilibrium Systems with Conserved Energy
Eric Bertin, Olivier Dauchot, and Michel Droz
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
230601 [View PDF (115 kB)]
Bound on Lorentz and CPT Violating Boost Effects for the Neutron
F. Canè, D. Bear, D. F. Phillips, M. S. Rosen, C. L. Smallwood, R. E. Stoner, R. L. Walsworth, and V. Alan Kostelecký
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
230801 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Nonmonotonic Velocity Dependence of Atomic Friction
Peter Reimann and Mykhaylo Evstigneev
Published 3 December 2004 (4 pages)
230802 [View PDF (201 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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A New Geometric Invariant on Initial Data for the Einstein Equations
Sergio Dain
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
231101 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Gauge-Invariant Temperature Anisotropies and Primordial Non-Gaussianity
Nicola Bartolo, Sabino Matarrese, and Antonio Riotto
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
231301 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Study of the Decay B0(B̅ 0)→ρ+ρ-, and Constraints on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Angle α
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 2 December 2004 (7 pages)
231801 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Lepton Flavor Violation
V. Cirigliano, A. Kurylov, M. J. Ramsey-Musolf, and P. Vogel
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
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Precise Determination of |Vus| from Lattice Calculations of Pseudoscalar Decay Constants
William J. Marciano
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
231803 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Measurement of the B0→ϕK*0 Decay Amplitudes
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 1 December 2004 (7 pages)
231804 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Warped Unification, Proton Stability, and Dark Matter
Kaustubh Agashe and Géraldine Servant
Published 3 December 2004 (4 pages)
231805 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Comprehensive Four-Quark Interpretation of Ds(2317), Ds(2457), and Ds(2632)
Yu-Qi Chen and Xue-Qian Li
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
232001 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Evidence for Factorization Breaking in Diffractive Low-Q2 Dijet Production
Michael Klasen and Gustav Kramer
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
232002 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Gauge Field Fluctuations and First-Order Phase Transition in Color Superconductivity
Ioannis Giannakis, Defu Hou, Hai-cang Ren, and Dirk H. Rischke
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
232301 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Hypernuclear Fine Structure in Λ16O and the ΛN Tensor Interaction
M. Ukai et al. (E930('01) Collaboration)
Published 29 November 2004 (5 pages)
232501 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Scaling Properties and Asymptotic Spectra of Finite Models of Phase Transitions as They Approach Macroscopic Limits
D. J. Rowe, P. S. Turner, and G. Rosensteel
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
232502 [View PDF (820 kB)]
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Energetics of Midvelocity Emissions in Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions at Fermi Energies
A. Mangiarotti, P. R. Maurenzig, A. Olmi, S. Piantelli, L. Bardelli, A. Bartoli, M. Bini, G. Casini, C. Coppi, A. Gobbi, G. Pasquali, G. Poggi, A. A. Stefanini, N. Taccetti, and E. Vanzi
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
232701 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Spectroscopic Observation of Resonant Electric Dipole-Dipole Interactions between Cold Rydberg Atoms
K. Afrousheh, P. Bohlouli-Zanjani, D. Vagale, A. Mugford, M. Fedorov, and J. D. D. Martin
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
233001 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Coulomb Asymmetry in Above-Threshold Ionization
S. P. Goreslavski, G. G. Paulus, S. V. Popruzhenko, and N. I. Shvetsov-Shilovski
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
233002 [View PDF (784 kB)]
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Observation of Large Quadrupolar Effects in a Slow Photoelectron Imaging Experiment
F. Lépine, S. Zamith, A. de Snaijer, Ch. Bordas, and M. J. J. Vrakking
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
233003 [View PDF (594 kB)]
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Threshold Behavior of e-H Ionizing Collisions
Philip L. Bartlett and Andris T. Stelbovics
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
233201 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Phase Control of Rotational Wave Packets and Quantum Information
Kevin F. Lee, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, and E. A. Shapiro
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
233601 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Shaping Quantum Pulses of Light Via Coherent Atomic Memory
M. D. Eisaman, L. Childress, A. André, F. Massou, A. S. Zibrov, and M. D. Lukin
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
233602 [View PDF (914 kB)]
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Observation of the Vacuum Rabi Spectrum for One Trapped Atom
A. Boca, R. Miller, K. M. Birnbaum, A. D. Boozer, J. McKeever, and H. J. Kimble
Published 3 December 2004 (4 pages)
233603 [View PDF (308 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Enhanced Mesoscopic Correlations in Dynamic Speckle Patterns
S. E. Skipetrov
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
233901 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Retrieval of a Complex-Valued Object from its Diffraction Pattern
W. McBride, N. L. O'Leary, and L. J. Allen
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
233902 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Stopping Light in a Waveguide with an All-Optical Analog of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Wonjoo Suh, Zheng Wang, and Shanhui Fan
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
233903 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Finite-Space Lyapunov Exponents and Pseudochaos
Ljupco Kocarev and Janusz Szczepanski
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
234101 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Nonlinear Evolution of Surface Gravity Waves over Highly Variable Depth
William Artiles and André Nachbin
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
234501 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Measurements of the MHD Dynamo in the Quasi-Single-Helicity Reversed-Field Pinch
P. Piovesan, D. Craig, L. Marrelli, S. Cappello, and P. Martin
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
235001 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Measurement of Asymmetric Optical Pumping of Ions Accelerating in a Magnetic-Field Gradient
Xuan Sun, Earl Scime, Mahmood Miah, Samuel Cohen, and Frederick Skiff
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
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New Regimes of Stochastic Wave Growth
P. A. Robinson, B. Li, and Iver H. Cairns
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
235003 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Inverse Energy Transfer by Near-Resonant Interactions with a Damped-Wave Spectrum
P. W. Terry
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
235004 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Coalescence of Crystalline Drops
R. Ishiguro, F. Graner, E. Rolley, and S. Balibar
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
235301 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Quantum Turbulence in Superfluid 3He Illuminated by a Beam of Quasiparticle Excitations
D. I. Bradley, S. N. Fisher, A. M. Guénault, M. R. Lowe, G. R. Pickett, A. Rahm, and R. C. V. Whitehead
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
235302 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Direct Evidence for Reversible Diffusional Phase Change in Nanometer-Sized Alloy Particles
J. G. Lee and H. Mori
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
235501 [View PDF (569 kB)]
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Glass Transition and Intermixing of Amorphous Water and Methanol
Ryutaro Souda
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
235502 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Origin of the Fragile-to-Strong Crossover in Liquid Silica as Expressed by its Potential-Energy Landscape
A. Saksaengwijit, J. Reinisch, and A. Heuer
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
235701 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Unusually Strong Orbit-Lattice Interactions in the RVO3Perovskites
J.-Q. Yan, J.-S. Zhou, and J. B. Goodenough
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
235901 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Strain Relief of Heteroepitaxial bcc-Fe(001) Films
G. Wedler, C. M. Schneider, A. Trampert, and R. Koch
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
236101 [View PDF (1,587 kB)]
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General Theory of Microscopic Dynamical Response in Surface Probe Microscopy: From Imaging to Dissipation
L. N. Kantorovich and T. Trevethan
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
236102 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Trapping, Molecular Adsorption, and Precursors for Nonactivated Chemisorption
H. F. Busnengo, W. Dong, and A. Salin
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
236103 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Kinetic Limitations in Electronic Growth of Ag Films on Fe(100)
K. L. Man, Z. Q. Qiu, and M. S. Altman
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
236104 [View PDF (575 kB)]
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How Confined Lubricants Diffuse During Shear
Ashis Mukhopadhyay, Sung Chul Bae, Jiang Zhao, and Steve Granick
Published 3 December 2004 (4 pages)
236105 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Nature of the Well Screened State in Hard X-Ray Mn 2p Core-Level Photoemission Measurements of La1-xSrxMnO3 Films
K. Horiba, M. Taguchi, A. Chainani, Y. Takata, E. Ikenaga, D. Miwa, Y. Nishino, K. Tamasaku, M. Awaji, A. Takeuchi, M. Yabashi, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, H. Kumigashira, M. Oshima, M. Lippmaa, M. Kawasaki, H. Koinuma, K. Kobayashi, T. Ishikawa, and S. Shin
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
236401 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Fermi Surface of NaxCoO2
Peihong Zhang, Weidong Luo, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
236402 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Kondo Resonance for Orbitally Degenerate Systems
A. K. Zhuravlev, V. Yu. Irkhin, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. I. Lichtenstein
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
236403 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Single Molecule Photobleaching Probes the Exciton Wave Function in a Multichromophoric System
J. Hernando, J. P. Hoogenboom, E. M. H. P. van Dijk, J. J. García-López, M. Crego-Calama, D. N. Reinhoudt, N. F. van Hulst, and M. F. García-Parajó
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
236404 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Electrical Resistance of a Monatomic Step on a Crystal Surface
Iwao Matsuda, Masashi Ueno, Toru Hirahara, Rei Hobara, Harumo Morikawa, Canhua Liu, and Shuji Hasegawa
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
236801 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Control of Relative Tunneling Rates in Single Molecule Bipolar Electron Transport
S. W. Wu, G. V. Nazin, X. Chen, X. H. Qiu, and W. Ho
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
236802 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Full Current Statistics of Incoherent “Cold Electrons”
Dmitry A. Bagrets
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
236803 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Entangled and Disentangled Decoherence of Intermediate Electron-Hole Pairs in Two-Photon Photoemission from Surface Bands: Beyond the Adiabatic Approximation
F. El-Shaer and B. Gumhalter
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
236804 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Apparent Electron-Phonon Interaction in Strongly Correlated Systems
O. Rösch and O. Gunnarsson
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
237001 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Three-Dimensional MgB2-Type Superconductivity in Hole-Doped Diamond
Lilia Boeri, Jens Kortus, and O. K. Andersen
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
237002 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Superconductivity in Boron-Doped Diamond
K.-W. Lee and W. E. Pickett
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
237003 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Role of the Dopant in the Superconductivity of Diamond
X. Blase, Ch. Adessi, and D. Connétable
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
237004 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Dependence of the Superconducting Transition Temperature on the Doping Level in Single-Crystalline Diamond Films
E. Bustarret, J. Kačmarčik, C. Marcenat, E. Gheeraert, C. Cytermann, J. Marcus, and T. Klein
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
237005 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Taming Chaotic Solitons in Frenkel-Kontorova Chains by Weak Periodic Excitations
Pedro J. Martínez and Ricardo Chacón
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
237006 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Infrared Probe of the Electronic Structure and Charge Dynamics of Na0.7CoO2
N. L. Wang, P. Zheng, D. Wu, Y. C. Ma, T. Xiang, R. Y. Jin, and D. Mandrus
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
237007 [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Spin Dynamics in the Carrier-Doped S=1/2 Triangular Lattice of NaxCoO2·yH2O
F. L. Ning, T. Imai, B. W. Statt, and F. C. Chou
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
237201 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced Colossal Magnetocaloric Effect in MnAs
Sergio Gama, Adelino A. Coelho, Ariana de Campos, A. Magnus G. Carvalho, Flávio C. G. Gandra, Pedro J. von Ranke, and Nilson A. de Oliveira
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
237202 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Anisotropy of the Magnetoresistance in Gd5Si2Ge2
H. Tang, V. K. Pecharsky, G. D. Samolyuk, M. Zou, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., V. P. Antropov, D. L. Schlagel, and T. A. Lograsso
Published 30 November 2004 (4 pages)
237203 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Finite-Size Scaling Exponents of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model
Sébastien Dusuel and Julien Vidal
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
237204 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Universality in the Entanglement Structure of Ferromagnets
J. S. Pratt
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
237205 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Dephasing in Quantum Dots: Quadratic Coupling to Acoustic Phonons
E. A. Muljarov and R. Zimmermann
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
237401 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Quantum Features in Atomic Nanofabrication using Exactly Resonant Standing Waves
Dirk Jürgens, Alexander Greiner, Ralf Stützle, Anja Habenicht, Edwin te Sligte, and Markus K. Oberthaler
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
237402 [View PDF (662 kB)]
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Terahertz Emission from Quantum Cascade Lasers in the Quantum Hall Regime: Evidence for Many Body Resonances and Localization Effects
Giacomo Scalari, Stéphane Blaser, Jérôme Faist, Harvey Beere, Edmund Linfield, David Ritchie, and Giles Davies
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
237403 [View PDF (439 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Thermotropic Biaxial Nematic Phase in Liquid Crystalline Organo-Siloxane Tetrapodes
K. Merkel, A. Kocot, J. K. Vij, R. Korlacki, G. H. Mehl, and T. Meyer
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
237801 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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The Song of Dunes as a Wave-Particle Mode Locking
B. Andreotti
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
238001 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Diffusion and Mobility in a Stirred Dense Granular Material
Junfei Geng and R. P. Behringer
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
238002 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Lattice Tube Model of Proteins
Jayanth R. Banavar, Marek Cieplak, and Amos Maritan
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
238101 [View PDF (153 kB)]
Fluctuation-Driven Molecular Transport Through an Asymmetric Membrane Channel
Ioan Kosztin and Klaus Schulten
Published 29 November 2004 (4 pages)
238102 [View PDF (254 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Electronic Structure of Regular Bacterial Surface Layers
Denis V. Vyalikh, Steffen Danzenbächer, Michael Mertig, Alexander Kirchner, Wolfgang Pompe, Yuriy S. Dedkov, and Serguei L. Molodtsov
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
238103 [View PDF (407 kB)]
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Reproducible Sequence Generation In Random Neural Ensembles
Ramón Huerta and Mikhail Rabinovich
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
238104 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Reversible Temperature and Pressure Denaturation of a Protein Fragment: A Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study
Dietmar Paschek and Angel E. García
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
238105 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Evaporation-Driven Assembly of Colloidal Particles
Eric Lauga and Michael P. Brenner
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
238301 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Roughness of Stylolites: Implications of 3D High Resolution Topography Measurements
J. Schmittbuhl, F. Renard, J. P. Gratier, and R. Toussaint
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
238501 [View PDF (254 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Yang-Lee Zeros for an Urn Model for the Separation of Sand”
R. L. Greenblatt and J. L. Lebowitz
Published 3 December 2004 (1 page)
238901 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Comment on “Nature of the Isotope Effect on Transport in Tokamaks”
R. E. Waltz
Published 1 December 2004 (1 page)
239501 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Tokar Replies:
M. Z. Tokar
Published 1 December 2004 (1 page)
239502 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Comment on “Insulating Behavior of λ-DNA on the Micron Scale”
John Bechhoefer and Dipankar Sen
Published 1 December 2004 (1 page)
239801 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Zhang et al. Reply
Y. Zhang, R. H. Austin, E. C. Cox, and N. P. Ong
Published 1 December 2004 (1 page)
239802 [View PDF (93 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Exceptional Ideal Strength of Carbon Clathrates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 215505 (2004)]
X. Blase, Philippe Gillet, A. San Miguel, and P. Mélinon
Published 29 November 2004 (1 page)
239901(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Erratum: Paul Trap Simulator Experiment to Model Intense-Beam Propagation in Alternating-Gradient Transport Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155002 (2004)]
Erik P. Gilson, Ronald C. Davidson, Philip C. Efthimion, and Richard Majeski
Published 30 November 2004 (1 page)
239902(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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