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Physical Review Letters – 30 July 2004
Volume 93, Issue 5

Photomicrograph of a stage in the melting of a colloidal suspension composed of rods of fd virus and a polymer. The system melts from a lamellar phase to a nematic phase of aligned rods. At the stage depicted, the growing nematic background phase has expelled polymer into the lamellar phase, which forms into elongated stripes consisting of single lamellae (white lines) separated by isotropic phase (dark areas). [A. M. Alsayed, Z. Dogic, and A. G. Yodh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 057801 (2004)]

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Amplified Extended Modes in Random Lasers
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Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Unpinning and Removal of a Rotating Wave in Cardiac Muscle
S. Takagi, A. Pumir, D. Pazó, I. Efimov, V. Nikolski, and V. Krinsky
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
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LETTERS

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

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Experimental Study of the BEC-BCS Crossover Region in Lithium 6
T. Bourdel, L. Khaykovich, J. Cubizolles, J. Zhang, F. Chevy, M. Teichmann, L. Tarruell, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, and C. Salomon
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Interacting Fermions in Highly Elongated Harmonic Traps
G. E. Astrakharchik, D. Blume, S. Giorgini, and L. P. Pitaevskii
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
050402 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Exactly Solvable Models for Atom-Molecule Hamiltonians
J. Dukelsky, G. G. Dussel, C. Esebbag, and S. Pittel
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Absorption and Emission in the Non-Poissonian Case
Gerardo Aquino, Luigi Palatella, and Paolo Grigolini
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
050601 [View PDF (470 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Baryogenesis from the Kobayashi-Maskawa Phase
Micha Berkooz, Yosef Nir, and Tomer Volansky
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
051301 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Conjugate 18 cm OH Satellite Lines at a Cosmological Distance
Nissim Kanekar, Jayaram N. Chengalur, and Tapasi Ghosh
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
051302 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Entropy, Holography, and the Second Law
Daniel R. Terno
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
051303 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Constraining the Neutrino Magnetic Moment with Antineutrinos from the Sun
O. G. Miranda, T. I. Rashba, A. I. Rez, and J. W. F. Valle
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
051304 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance in a 250 km Long-Baseline Experiment
M. H. Ahn et al. (K2K Collaboration)
Published 27 July 2004 (5 pages)
051801 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Measurement of Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries in B±→ρ±π0 and B±→ρ0π± Decays, and Search for B0→ρ0π0
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 28 July 2004 (7 pages)
051802 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Observation of B+→ψ(3770)K+
R. Chistov et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 29 July 2004 (6 pages)
051803 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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New Method of Measuring Electric Dipole Moments in Storage Rings
F. J. M. Farley, K. Jungmann, J. P. Miller, W. M. Morse, Y. F. Orlov, B. L. Roberts, Y. K. Semertzidis, A. Silenko, and E. J. Stephenson
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Nuclear Physics

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Medium Modifications of Kaons in Pion Matter
B. V. Martemyanov, Amand Faessler, C. Fuchs, and M. I. Krivoruchenko
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
052301 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Critical Frequency in Nuclear Chiral Rotation
P. Olbratowski, J. Dobaczewski, J. Dudek, and W. Płóciennik
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Simultaneous Magneto-Optical Trapping of a Boson-Fermion Mixture of Metastable Helium Atoms
R. J. W. Stas, J. M. McNamara, W. Hogervorst, and W. Vassen
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Spin Asymmetry in an Intense-Field Ionization Process
F. H. M. Faisal and S. Bhattacharyya
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
053002 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Lattice Calculations of the Photoionization of Li
J. Colgan, M. S. Pindzola, and F. Robicheaux
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
053201 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Role of Boson-Fermion Statistics on the Raman Spectra of Br2(X) in Helium Clusters
D. López-Durán, M. P. de Lara-Castells, G. Delgado-Barrio, P. Villarreal, C. Di Paola, F. A. Gianturco, and J. Jellinek
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
053401 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Measuring Entangled Qutrits and Their Use for Quantum Bit Commitment
N. K. Langford, R. B. Dalton, M. D. Harvey, J. L. O’Brien, G. J. Pryde, A. Gilchrist, S. D. Bartlett, and A. G. White
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
053601 [View PDF (310 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Nonlinearity and Disorder in Fiber Arrays
Thomas Pertsch, Ulf Peschel, Jens Kobelke, Kay Schuster, Hartmut Bartelt, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, and Falk Lederer
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
053901 [View PDF (649 kB)]
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Negative-Refractive Bicrystal with Broken Symmetry Produces Asymmetric Electromagnetic Fields in Guided-Wave Heterostructures
Clifford M. Krowne
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
053902 [View PDF (613 kB)]
Amplified Extended Modes in Random Lasers
Sushil Mujumdar, Marilena Ricci, Renato Torre, and Diederik S. Wiersma
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
053903 [View PDF (105 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Acoustical Klein-Gordon Equation: A Time-Independent Perturbation Analysis
Barbara J. Forbes and E. Roy Pike
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
054301 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Classical Dynamics near the Triple Collision in a Three-Body Coulomb Problem
Nark Nyul Choi, Min-Ho Lee, and Gregor Tanner
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
054302 [View PDF (500 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Robust Autoresonant Excitation in the Plasma Beat-Wave Accelerator
R. R. Lindberg, A. E. Charman, J. S. Wurtele, and L. Friedland
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
055001 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Charge-State Distribution and Doppler Effect in an Expanding Photoionized Plasma
M. E. Foord, R. F. Heeter, P. A. M. van Hoof, R. S. Thoe, J. E. Bailey, M. E. Cuneo, H.-K. Chung, D. A. Liedahl, K. B. Fournier, G. A. Chandler, V. Jonauskas, R. Kisielius, L. P. Mix, C. Ramsbottom, P. T. Springer, F. P. Keenan, S. J. Rose, and W. H. Goldstein
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
055002 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Overlapping of Resonances and Stochasticity of Electron Trajectories in Cyclotron Masers
G. S. Nusinovich, R. Ngogang, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., and V. L. Granatstein
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
055101 [View PDF (557 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Interfacial Pinning in the Superfluid 3He A-B Transition in Aerogel
J. E. Baumgardner, Y. Lee, D. D. Osheroff, L. W. Hrubesh, and J. F. Poco
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
055301 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Chain “Melting” in the Composite Rb-IV Structure
M. I. McMahon and R. J. Nelmes
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
055501 [View PDF (779 kB)]
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Direct Determination of the Magnetic Structure of the Delta Phase of Oxygen
I. N. Goncharenko, O. L. Makarova, and L. Ulivi
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
055502 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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High Density Amorphous Form and Polyamorphic Transformations of Silicon
Tetsuya Morishita
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
055503 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Degradation of Boron-Doped Czochralski-Grown Silicon Solar Cells
J. Adey, R. Jones, D. W. Palmer, P. R. Briddon, and S. Öberg
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
055504 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Ga Sublattice Defects in (Ga,Mn)As: Thermodynamical and Kinetic Trends
F. Tuomisto, K. Pennanen, K. Saarinen, and J. Sadowski
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
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Long Lived Acoustic Vibrational Modes of an Embedded Nanoparticle
Lucien Saviot and Daniel B. Murray
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
055506 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Equilibrium Cluster Phases and Low-Density Arrested Disordered States: The Role of Short-Range Attraction and Long-Range Repulsion
Francesco Sciortino, Stefano Mossa, Emanuela Zaccarelli, and Piero Tartaglia
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
055701 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Room Temperature Migration of Boron in Crystalline Silicon
E. Napolitani, D. De Salvador, R. Storti, A. Carnera, S. Mirabella, and F. Priolo
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
055901 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Nonstationary Rotational Diffusion in Room Temperature Liquids Measured by Femtosecond Three-Pulse Transient Anisotropy
Kevin M. Gaab and Christopher J. Bardeen
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
056001 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Visualization of Diamond Nucleation and Growth from Energetic Species
Y. Lifshitz, X. M. Meng, S. T. Lee, R. Akhveldiany, and A. Hoffman
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
056101 [View PDF (591 kB)]
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Direct Imaging of Cu Dimer Formation, Motion, and Interaction with Cu Atoms on Ag(111)
Karina Morgenstern, Kai-Felix Braun, and Karl-Heinz Rieder
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
056102 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Scattering of Surface State Electrons at Large Organic Molecules
Leo Gross, Francesca Moresco, Letizia Savio, André Gourdon, Christian Joachim, and Karl-Heinz Rieder
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
056103 [View PDF (907 kB)]
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Correlation of Stress and Atomic-Scale Surface Roughness Evolution during Intermittent Homoepitaxial Growth of (111)-Oriented Ag and Cu
C. Friesen and C. V. Thompson
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
056104 [View PDF (160 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Giant Electron-Electron Scattering in the Fermi-Liquid State of Na0.7CoO2
S. Y. Li, Louis Taillefer, D. G. Hawthorn, M. A. Tanatar, Johnpierre Paglione, M. Sutherland, R. W. Hill, C. H. Wang, and X. H. Chen
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
056401 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Three-Spin Interactions in Optical Lattices and Criticality in Cluster Hamiltonians
Jiannis K. Pachos and Martin B. Plenio
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
056402 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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In-Plane Electric Current Is Induced by Tunneling of Spin-Polarized Carriers
S. A. Tarasenko, V. I. Perel', and I. N. Yassievich
Published 30 July 2004 (3 pages)
056601 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations to Probe the Population Statistics of GHz Photons Emitted by Conductors
J. Gabelli, L.-H. Reydellet, G. Fève, J.-M. Berroir, B. Plaçais, P. Roche, and D. C. Glattli
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
056801 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Rashba-Effect-Induced Localization in Quantum Networks
Dario Bercioux, Michele Governale, Vittorio Cataudella, and Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
056802 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Quadratic Quantum Measurements
Wenjin Mao, Dmitri V. Averin, Rusko Ruskov, and Alexander N. Korotkov
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
056803 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Dynamic Localization and the Coulomb Blockade in Quantum Dots under ac Pumping
D. M. Basko and V. E. Kravtsov
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
056804 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Decoherence in Superconducting Quantum Bits by Phonon Radiation
L. B. Ioffe, V. B. Geshkenbein, Ch. Helm, and G. Blatter
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
057001 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Enhancement of the Superconducting Transition Temperature in Nb/Permalloy Bilayers by Controlling the Domain State of the Ferromagnet
A. Yu. Rusanov, M. Hesselberth, J. Aarts, and A. I. Buzdin
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
057002 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Vortex States of a Superconducting Film from a Magnetic Dot Array
D. J. Priour, Jr. and H. A. Fertig
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
057003 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Atomically Resolved Spin-Dependent Tunneling on the Oxygen-Terminated Fe3O4(111)
N. Berdunov, S. Murphy, G. Mariotto, and I. V. Shvets
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Atomically Sharp Magnetic Domain Wall in Thin Film Fe(110): A First Principles Noncollinear Magnetism Study
Kohji Nakamura, Yoshifumi Takeda, Toru Akiyama, Tomonori Ito, and A. J. Freeman
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Dynamics of Coherent and Incoherent Spin Polarizations in Ensembles of Quantum Dots
A. I. Tartakovskii, J. Cahill, M. N. Makhonin, D. M. Whittaker, J-P. R. Wells, A. M. Fox, D. J. Mowbray, M. S. Skolnick, K. M. Groom, M. J. Steer, and M. Hopkinson
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
057401 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Critical Temperature Shift in Pure Fluid SF6 Caused by an Electric Field
John Hegseth and Kamel Amara
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
057402 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Melting of Lamellar Phases in Temperature Sensitive Colloid-Polymer Suspensions
A. M. Alsayed, Z. Dogic, and A. G. Yodh
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
057801 [View PDF (768 kB)]
Unpinning and Removal of a Rotating Wave in Cardiac Muscle
S. Takagi, A. Pumir, D. Pazó, I. Efimov, V. Nikolski, and V. Krinsky
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
058101 [View PDF (399 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Electrophoretic Collision of a DNA Molecule with an Insulating Post
Greg C. Randall and Patrick S. Doyle
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
058102 [View PDF (341 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Universal Thermal Radiation Drag on Neutral Objects”
P. A. Maia Neto and C. Farina
Published 27 July 2004 (1 page)
059001 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Mkrtchian et al. Reply
Vanik Mkrtchian, V. Adrian Parsegian, Rudi Podgornik, and Wayne M. Saslow
Published 27 July 2004 (1 page)
059002 [View PDF (27 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Study of CP Violating Effects in Time Dependent B0(B̅ 0)→D(*)∓π± Decays [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 031802 (2004)]
T. R. Sarangi et al.
Published 26 July 2004 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Erratum: Current Drive in a Ponderomotive Potential with Sign Reversal [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 205004 (2003)]
N. J. Fisch, J. M. Rax, and I. Y. Dodin
Published 27 July 2004 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Monocrystal Elastic Constants of the Negative-Thermal-Expansion Compound Zirconium Tungstate (ZrW2O8) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 025502 (2004)]
F. R. Drymiotis, H. Ledbetter, J. B. Betts, T. Kimura, J. C. Lashley, A. Migliori, A. P. Ramirez, G. R. Kowach, and J. Van Duijn
Published 28 July 2004 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Erratum: Noise Shaping by Interval Correlations Increases Information Transfer [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 080601 (2004)]
Maurice J. Chacron, Benjamin Lindner, and André Longtin
Published 28 July 2004 (1 page)
059904(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Erratum: Quasicontinuous Atom Laser in the Presence of Gravity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4729 (2001)]
F. Gerbier, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect
Published 29 July 2004 (1 page)
059905(E) [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Erratum: Deposition of Hydrogenated Si Clusters on Si(111)-(7×7) Surfaces [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 005362 (1998)]
M. O. Watanabe, T. Miyazaki, and T. Kanayama
Published 29 July 2004 (1 page)
059906(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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