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Physical Review Letters – 18 March 2005
Volume 94, Issue 10

Self-assembled structures formed by magnetic microparticles in an oscillating magnetic field. The ring structure on the left is energetically more favorable than a chain (right) for more than four particles, but requires overcoming a potential barrier associated with chain bending. Clusters (middle) can form from two parallel chains with opposite polarizations. [A. Snezhko, I. S. Aranson, and W.-K. Kwok, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 108002 (2005)]

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Universal Power-Law Decay of the Impulse Energy in Granular Protectors
Jongbae Hong
Published 14 March 2005 (4 pages)
108001 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Open Circular Billiards and the Riemann Hypothesis
L. A. Bunimovich and C. P. Dettmann
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
100201 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Exact Ground State and Finite-Size Scaling in a Supersymmetric Lattice Model
M. Beccaria and G. F. De Angelis
Published 14 March 2005 (4 pages)
100401 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Oscillations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate Rotating in a Harmonic Plus Quartic Trap
M. Cozzini, A. L. Fetter, B. Jackson, and S. Stringari
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
100402 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Generation of Entangled States of Qudits using Twin Photons
Leonardo Neves, G. Lima, J. G. Aguirre Gómez, C. H. Monken, C. Saavedra, and S. Pádua
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
100501 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Geometric Quantum Computation and Multiqubit Entanglement with Superconducting Qubits inside a Cavity
Shi-Liang Zhu, Z. D. Wang, and Paolo Zanardi
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
100502 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Integration of Langevin Equations with Multiplicative Noise and the Viability of Field Theories for Absorbing Phase Transitions
Ivan Dornic, Hugues Chaté, and Miguel A. Muñoz
Published 14 March 2005 (4 pages)
100601 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Breakdown of an Electric-Field Driven System: A Mapping to a Quantum Walk
Takashi Oka, Norio Konno, Ryotaro Arita, and Hideo Aoki
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
100602 [View PDF (275 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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511 keV Photons from Color Superconducting Dark Matter
David H. Oaknin and Ariel R. Zhitnitsky
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
101301 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Consistent Discretization and Loop Quantum Geometry
Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
101302 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for the Decay B+→K+νν̅
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 14 March 2005 (7 pages)
101801 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Search for Excited and Exotic Electrons in the eγ Decay Channel in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 16 March 2005 (7 pages)
101802 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Measurement of the Lifetime Difference between Bs Mass Eigenstates
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 16 March 2005 (7 pages)
101803 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Search for ΔS=2 Nonleptonic Hyperon Decays
C. G. White et al. (HyperCP Collaboration)
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
101804 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Measurement of the Michel Parameter ρ in Muon Decay
J. R. Musser et al. (TWIST Collaboration)
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
101805 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Measurement of the Λb0 Lifetime in the Decay Λb0→J/ψΛ0 with the D0 Detector
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 16 March 2005 (7 pages)
102001 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Dissolving N=4 Loop Amplitudes into QCD Tree Amplitudes
Radu Roiban, Marcus Spradlin, and Anastasia Volovich
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
102002 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Magnetic Moment of the Δ(1232) Resonance in Chiral Effective-Field Theory
Vladimir Pascalutsa and Marc Vanderhaeghen
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
102003 [View PDF (132 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Globally Polarized Quark-Gluon Plasma in Noncentral A+A Collisions
Zuo-Tang Liang and Xin-Nian Wang
Published 14 March 2005 (4 pages)
102301 [View PDF (143 kB)]
Quantum Opacity, the RHIC Hanbury Brown–Twiss Puzzle, and the Chiral Phase Transition
John G. Cramer, Gerald A. Miller, Jackson M. S. Wu, and Jin-Hee Yoon
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
102302 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Hard-Loop Dynamics of Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities
Anton Rebhan, Paul Romatschke, and Michael Strickland
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
102303 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Nuclear Masses Set Bounds on Quantum Chaos
José Barea, Alejandro Frank, Jorge G. Hirsch., and Piet Van Isacker
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
102501 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Fluctuations in the Level Density of a Fermi Gas
P. Leboeuf, A. G. Monastra, and A. Relaño
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
102502 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Systematics of Quadrupolar Correlation Energies
M. Bender, G. F. Bertsch, and P.-H. Heenen
Published 17 March 2005 (4 pages)
102503 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Precise Determination of 6Li Cold Collision Parameters by Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy on Weakly Bound Molecules
M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, S. Riedl, R. Geursen, S. Jochim, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, R. Grimm, A. Simoni, E. Tiesinga, C. J. Williams, and P. S. Julienne
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
103201 [View PDF (261 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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High-Repetition-Rate Grazing-Incidence Pumped X-Ray Laser Operating at 18.9 nm
R. Keenan, J. Dunn, P. K. Patel, D. F. Price, R. F. Smith, and V. N. Shlyaptsev
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
103901 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Experimental Investigation of Local Properties and Statistics of Optical Vortices in Random Wave Fields
Wei Wang, Steen G. Hanson, Yoko Miyamoto, and Mitsuo Takeda
Published 17 March 2005 (4 pages)
103902 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Coherent Focusing of High Harmonics: A New Way Towards the Extreme Intensities
S. Gordienko, A. Pukhov, O. Shorokhov, and T. Baeva
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
103903 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Design and Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals with Predetermined Nonlinear Optical Properties
Shin-ichiro Inoue and Yoshinobu Aoyagi
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
103904 [View PDF (444 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Nonlinear Dynamics of Transport Barrier Relaxations in Tokamak Edge Plasmas
P. Beyer, S. Benkadda, G. Fuhr-Chaudier, X. Garbet, Ph. Ghendrih, and Y. Sarazin
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
105001 [View PDF (1,630 kB)]
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Inductive Current Density Perturbations to Probe Electron Internal Transport Barriers in Tokamaks
O. Sauter, S. Coda, T. P. Goodman, M. A. Henderson, R. Behn, A. Bottino, E. Fable, An. Martynov, P. Nikkola, C. Zucca, and the TCV Team
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
105002 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Influence of the Dynamic Ergodic Divertor on the Density Limit in TEXTOR
Y. Liang, H. R. Koslowski, F. A. Kelly, M. Z. Tokar, X. Loozen, G. Bertschinger, W. Biel, K. H. Finken, M. W. Jakubowski, A. Krämer-Flecken, O. Zimmermann, M. Lehnen, G. Sergienko, and R. C. Wolf (TEXTOR Team)
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
105003 [View PDF (481 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Theoretical Support for Buckyonions as Carriers of the UV Interstellar Extinction Feature
A. Ruiz, J. Bretón, and J. M. Gomez Llorente
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
105501 [View PDF (2,720 kB)]
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Solidification of Gold Nanoparticles in Carbon Nanotubes
S. Arcidiacono, J. H. Walther, D. Poulikakos, D. Passerone, and P. Koumoutsakos
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
105502 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Microrheology from Rotational Diffusion of Colloidal Particles
Efrén Andablo-Reyes, Pedro Díaz-Leyva, and José Luis Arauz-Lara
Published 14 March 2005 (4 pages)
106001 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Bonding Configurations and Collective Patterns of Ge Atoms Adsorbed on Si(111)-(7×7)
Y. L. Wang, H.-J. Gao, H. M. Guo, Sanwu Wang, and Sokrates T. Pantelides
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
106101 [View PDF (558 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Charge-Order Pattern of the Low-Temperature Phase from a Monoclinic Single Domain of NaV2O5 Uniquely Determined by Resonant X-Ray Scattering
Kenji Ohwada, Yasuhiko Fujii, Yuya Katsuki, Jiro Muraoka, Hironori Nakao, Youichi Murakami, Hiroshi Sawa, Emi Ninomiya, Masahiko Isobe, and Yutaka Ueda
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
106401 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Self-Energy Correction to Momentum-Density Distribution of Positron-Electron Pairs
Z. Tang, Y. Nagai, K. Inoue, T. Toyama, T. Chiba, M. Saito, and M. Hasegawa
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
106402 [View PDF (1,747 kB)]
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One-Dimensional Multiband Correlated Conductors and Anderson Impurity Physics
Michele Fabrizio and Erio Tosatti
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
106403 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Landau Quantization Effects in the Charge-Density-Wave System (Per)2M(mnt)2 (where M=Au and Pt)
R. D. McDonald, N. Harrison, J. Singleton, A. Bangura, P. A. Goddard, A. P. Ramirez, and X. Chi
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
106404 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Electron-Hole Duality and Vortex Rings in Quantum Dots
M. Manninen, S. M. Reimann, M. Koskinen, Y. Yu, and M. Toreblad
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
106405 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Controlled and Reproducible Domain Wall Displacement by Current Pulses Injected into Ferromagnetic Ring Structures
M. Kläui, C. A. F. Vaz, J. A. C. Bland, W. Wernsdorfer, G. Faini, E. Cambril, L. J. Heyderman, F. Nolting, and U. Rüdiger
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
106601 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Spin Hall Current Driven by Quantum Interferences in Mesoscopic Rashba Rings
Satofumi Souma and Branislav K. Nikolić
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
106602 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Conductance of a Perfect Thin Film with Diffuse Surface Scattering
Gerd Bergmann
Published 18 March 2005 (3 pages)
106801 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Susceptibility of the Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor CePt3Si
D. P. Young, M. Moldovan, X. S. Wu, P. W. Adams, and Julia Y. Chan
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
107001 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Pronounced Enhancement of the Lower Critical Field and Critical Current Deep in the Superconducting State of PrOs4Sb12
T. Cichorek, A. C. Mota, F. Steglich, N. A. Frederick, W. M. Yuhasz, and M. B. Maple
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
107002 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Orbital Dependence of the Fermi Liquid State in Sr2RuO4
T. E. Kidd, T. Valla, A. V. Fedorov, P. D. Johnson, R. J. Cava, and M. K. Haas
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
107003 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Relaxation in the Vortex State of La2-xSrxCuO4
G. Bianchi, C. Chen, M. Nohara, H. Takagi, and J. F. Ryan
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
107004 [View PDF (587 kB)]
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Spectroscopic Evidence for Multiple Order Parameter Components in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5
P. M. C. Rourke, M. A. Tanatar, C. S. Turel, J. Berdeklis, C. Petrovic, and J. Y. T. Wei
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
107005 [View PDF (1,667 kB)]
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Magnetic Fluctuations of Stripes in the High Temperature Cuprate Superconductors
G. Seibold and J. Lorenzana
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
107006 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Effect of Vortex-Antivortex Fluctuations on the Heat Capacity of a Type-II Superconducting Film
Yu. N. Ovchinnikov and A. A. Varlamov
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
107007 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Possible Field-Tuned Superconductor-Insulator Transition in High-Tc Superconductors: Implications for Pairing at High Magnetic Fields
M. A. Steiner, G. Boebinger, and A. Kapitulnik
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
107008 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Large Magnetic Field-Induced Spectral Weight Enhancement of High-Energy Spin Excitations in La1.88Sr0.12CuO4
L. H. Machtoub, B. Keimer, and K. Yamada
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
107009 [View PDF (890 kB)]
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Helimagnetism of Fe: High Pressure Study of an Y2Fe17 Single Crystal
O. Prokhnenko, J. Kamarád, K. Prokeš, Z. Arnold, and A. V. Andreev
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
107201 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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ac-Driven Double Quantum Dots as Spin Pumps and Spin Filters
Ernesto Cota, Ramón Aguado, and Gloria Platero
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
107202 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Direct Imaging of Asymmetric Magnetization Reversal in Exchange-Biased Fe/MnPd Bilayers by X-Ray Photoemission Electron Microscopy
P. Blomqvist, Kannan M. Krishnan, and H. Ohldag
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
107203 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Shape of Temperature Dependence of Spontaneous Magnetization of Ferromagnets: Quantitative Analysis
M. D. Kuz’min
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
107204 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Selective Photoswitching of the Binuclear Spin Crossover Compound {[Fe(bt)(NCS)2]2(bpm)} into Two Distinct Macroscopic Phases
N. Ould Moussa, G. Molnár, S. Bonhommeau, A. Zwick, S. Mouri, K. Tanaka, J. A. Real, and A. Bousseksou
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
107205 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Teleportation of Electronic Many-Qubit States Encoded in the Electron Spin of Quantum Dots via Single Photons
Michael N. Leuenberger, Michael E. Flatté, and D. D. Awschalom
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
107401 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Chain Conformations and Photoluminescence of Poly(di-n-octylfluorene)
W. Chunwaschirasiri, B. Tanto, D. L. Huber, and M. J. Winokur
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
107402 [View PDF (956 kB)]
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Smearing of Phase Transition due to a Surface Effect or a Bulk Inhomogeneity in Ferroelectric Nanostructures
A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk
Published 14 March 2005 (4 pages)
107601 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Surface-Stimulated Nucleation of Reverse Domains in Ferroelectrics
G. Gerra, A. K. Tagantsev, and N. Setter
Published 16 March 2005 (4 pages)
107602 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Enhanced Elasticity and Soft Glassy Rheology of a Smectic in a Random Porous Environment
Ranjini Bandyopadhyay, Dennis Liang, Ralph H. Colby, James L. Harden, and Robert L. Leheny
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
107801 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Deuterium NMR Investigation of the Biaxial Nematic Phase in an Organosiloxane Tetrapode
J. L. Figueirinhas, C. Cruz, D. Filip, G. Feio, A. C. Ribeiro, Y. Frère, T. Meyer, and G. H. Mehl
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
107802 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Relation between the High Density Phase and the Very-High Density Phase of Amorphous Solid Water
Nicolas Giovambattista, H. Eugene Stanley, and Francesco Sciortino
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
107803 [View PDF (126 kB)]
Universal Power-Law Decay of the Impulse Energy in Granular Protectors
Jongbae Hong
Published 14 March 2005 (4 pages)
108001 [View PDF (443 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Structure Formation in Electromagnetically Driven Granular Media
A. Snezhko, I. S. Aranson, and W.-K. Kwok
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
108002 [View PDF (724 kB)]
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Short-Range Spectroscopic Ruler Based on a Single-Molecule Optical Switch
Mark Bates, Timothy R. Blosser, and Xiaowei Zhuang
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
108101 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Filament Depolymerization by Motor Molecules
Gernot A. Klein, Karsten Kruse, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, and Frank Jülicher
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
108102 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Preference of Sensory Neural Coding for 1/f Signals
Yuguo Yu, Richard Romero, and Tai Sing Lee
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
108103 [View PDF (1,719 kB)]
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Theory of Mitotic Spindle Oscillations
Stephan W. Grill, Karsten Kruse, and Frank Jülicher
Published 18 March 2005 (4 pages)
108104 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Earthquakes Descaled: On Waiting Time Distributions and Scaling Laws
Mattias Lindman, Kristin Jonsdottir, Roland Roberts, Björn Lund, and Reynir Bödvarsson
Published 15 March 2005 (4 pages)
108501 [View PDF (165 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Dissociation of Vortex Stacks into Fractional-Flux Vortices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097001 (2005)]
A. De Col, V. B. Geshkenbein, and G. Blatter
Published 14 March 2005 (1 page)
109901(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Erratum: Distribution of Film Orientations in Free and Strained Foams [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 278302 (2002)]
M. A. Fortes, P. I. C. Teixeira, and M. Fátima Vaz
Published 14 March 2005 (1 page)
109902(E) [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Erratum: TeV Neutrinos from Core Collapse Supernovae and Hypernovae [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 181101 (2004)]
Soebur Razzaque, Peter Mészáros, and Eli Waxman
Published 17 March 2005 (2 pages)
109903(E) [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Neutron Spectroscopic Factors in 9Li from 2H(8Li,p)9Li [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082502 (2005)]
A. H. Wuosmaa, K. E. Rehm, J. P. Greene, D. J. Henderson, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, L. Jisonna, E. F. Moore, R. C. Pardo, M. Paul, D. Peterson, Steven C. Pieper, G. Savard, J. P. Schiffer, R. E. Segel, S. Sinha, X. Tang, and R. B. Wiringa
Published 18 March 2005 (1 page)
109904(E) [View PDF (31 kB)]
 
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