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Physical Review Letters – 25 March 2005
Volume 94, Issue 11

STM image of a Ga2Se3 film deposited on silicon, showing wirelike nanoscale structures which alternate between vertical and horizontal orientations. The area depicted is 100 nanometers square. [Taisuke Ohta, D. A. Schmidt, Shuang Meng, A. Klust, A. Bostwick, Q. Yu, Marjorie A. Olmstead, and F. S. Ohuchi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 116102 (2005)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Control of Nanoparticles with Arbitrary Two-Dimensional Force Fields
Adam E. Cohen
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
118102 [View PDF (527 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Probing Pair-Correlated Fermionic Atoms through Correlations in Atom Shot Noise
M. Greiner, C. A. Regal, J. T. Stewart, and D. S. Jin
Published 21 March 2005 (4 pages)
110401 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Breached Superfluidity via p-Wave Coupling
E. Gubankova, E. G. Mishchenko, and F. Wilczek
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
110402 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Possibility of a First-Order Superfluid–Mott-Insulator Transition of Spinor Bosons in an Optical Lattice
Takashi Kimura, Shunji Tsuchiya, and Susumu Kurihara
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
110403 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Surface Plasmon Modes and the Casimir Energy
F. Intravaia and A. Lambrecht
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
110404 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Energy-Time Entanglement Preservation in Plasmon-Assisted Light Transmission
Sylvain Fasel, Franck Robin, Esteban Moreno, Daniel Erni, Nicolas Gisin, and Hugo Zbinden
Published 21 March 2005 (4 pages)
110501 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Robust One-Step Catalytic Machine for High Fidelity Anticloning and W-State Generation in a Multiqubit System
Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Neil F. Johnson, and Luis Quiroga
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
110502 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Observation of Flux Reversal in a Symmetric Optical Thermal Ratchet
Sang-Hyuk Lee, Kosta Ladavac, Marco Polin, and David G. Grier
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
110601 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Bounded Step Superdiffusion in an Oriented Hexagonal Phase
Yann Gambin, Gladys Massiera, Laurence Ramos, Christian Ligoure, and Wladimir Urbach
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
110602 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Ratchet Effect for Cold Atoms in an Optical Lattice
Emil Lundh and Mats Wallin
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
110603 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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String Picture for a Model of Frustrated Quantum Magnets and Dimers
Ying Jiang and Thorsten Emig
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
110604 [View PDF (172 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Ultimate Energy Density of Observable Cold Baryonic Matter
James M. Lattimer and Madappa Prakash
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
111101 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Energy Spectrum of Particles Accelerated in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks
Uri Keshet and Eli Waxman
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
111102 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Feynman Propagator for Spin Foam Quantum Gravity
Daniele Oriti
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
111301 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Absence of Preclassical Solutions in Bianchi I Loop Quantum Cosmology
Daniel Cartin and Gaurav Khanna
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
111302 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
P.  K. Kovtun, D. T. Son, and A. O. Starinets
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
111601 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Late Time Neutrino Masses, the LSND Experiment, and the Cosmic Microwave Background
Z. Chacko, Lawrence J. Hall, Steven J. Oliver, and Maxim Perelstein
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
111801 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Observation of B+→K1(1270)+γ
Heyoung Yang et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 24 March 2005 (5 pages)
111802 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Open Charm and Beauty at Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Colliders
Magdalena Djordjevic, Miklos Gyulassy, and Simon Wicks
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
112301 [View PDF (266 kB)]
Half-Life of the Doubly Magic r-Process Nucleus 78Ni
P. T. Hosmer, H. Schatz, A. Aprahamian, O. Arndt, R. R. C. Clement, A. Estrade, K.-L. Kratz, S. N. Liddick, P. F. Mantica, W. F. Mueller, F. Montes, A. C. Morton, M. Ouellette, E. Pellegrini, B. Pfeiffer, P. Reeder, P. Santi, M. Steiner, A. Stolz, B. E. Tomlin, W. B. Walters, and A. Wöhr
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
112501 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Emergence of Classical Orbits in Few-Cycle Above-Threshold Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen
D. Bauer
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
113001 [View PDF (13,937 kB)]
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Single-Particle Self-Excited Oscillator
B. D’Urso, R. Van Handel, B. Odom, D. Hanneke, and G. Gabrielse
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
113002 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Short-Time Dynamics Through Conical Intersections in Macrosystems
Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Etienne Gindensperger, and Irene Burghardt
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
113003 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Nonthermal Power Law Decay of Metal Dimer Anions
J. Fedor, K. Hansen, J. U. Andersen, and P. Hvelplund
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
113201 [View PDF (496 kB)]
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Quenching of the Magnetic Moment of a Transition Metal Dopant in Silver Clusters
E. Janssens, S. Neukermans, H. M. T. Nguyen, M. T. Nguyen, and P. Lievens
Published 21 March 2005 (4 pages)
113401 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Nondestructive Rydberg Atom Counting with Mesoscopic Fields in a Cavity
P. Maioli, T. Meunier, S. Gleyzes, A. Auffeves, G. Nogues, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
113601 [View PDF (359 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Femtosecond Light Transmission and Subradiant Damping in Plasmonic Crystals
C. Ropers, D. J. Park, G. Stibenz, G. Steinmeyer, J. Kim, D. S. Kim, and C. Lienau
Published 21 March 2005 (4 pages)
113901 [View PDF (1,006 kB)]
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Necklacelike Solitons in Optically Induced Photonic Lattices
J. Yang, I. Makasyuk, P. G. Kevrekidis, H. Martin, B. A. Malomed, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and Zhigang Chen
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
113902 [View PDF (633 kB)]
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Optical Necklace States in Anderson Localized 1D Systems
Jacopo Bertolotti, Stefano Gottardo, Diederik S. Wiersma, Mher Ghulinyan, and Lorenzo Pavesi
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
113903 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic Landau-Zener Tunneling in Waveguide Arrays with a Step in the Refractive Index
Ramaz Khomeriki and Stefano Ruffo
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
113904 [View PDF (1,275 kB)]
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Second Order Autocorrelation of an XUV Attosecond Pulse Train
L. A. A. Nikolopoulos, E. P. Benis, P. Tzallas, D. Charalambidis, K. Witte, and G. D. Tsakiris
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
113905 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Enhanced High Harmonic Generation from an Optically Prepared Excited Medium
P. M. Paul, T. O. Clatterbuck, C. Lyngå, P. Colosimo, L. F. DiMauro, P. Agostini, and K. C. Kulander
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
113906 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Local Observation and Spectroscopy of Optical Modes in an Active Photonic-Crystal Microcavity
N. Louvion, D. Gérard, J. Mouette, F. de Fornel, C. Seassal, X. Letartre, A. Rahmani, and S. Callard
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
113907 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Universal Decay of the Classical Loschmidt Echo of Neutrally Stable Mixing Dynamics
Giulio Casati, Tomaž Prosen, Jinghua Lan, and Baowen Li
Published 21 March 2005 (4 pages)
114101 [View PDF (1,706 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Clocking Femtosecond X Rays
A. L. Cavalieri et al.
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
114801 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Dynamics of Zonal Flows in Helical Systems
H. Sugama and T.-H. Watanabe
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
115001 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Characterization of the Initial Filamentation of a Relativistic Electron Beam Passing through a Plasma
A. Bret, M.-C. Firpo, and C. Deutsch
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
115002 [View PDF (777 kB)]
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Spatially Localized Self-Injection of Electrons in a Self-Modulated Laser-Wakefield Accelerator by Using a Laser-Induced Transient Density Ramp
T.-Y. Chien, C.-L. Chang, C.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
115003 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Photoluminescence and Terahertz Emission from Femtosecond Laser-Induced Plasma Channels
W. Hoyer, A. Knorr, J. V. Moloney, E. M. Wright, M. Kira, and S.  W. Koch
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
115004 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Hypersonic Phononic Crystals
T. Gorishnyy, C. K. Ullal, M. Maldovan, G. Fytas, and E. L. Thomas
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
115501 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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First-Order Isostructural Mott Transition in Highly Compressed MnO
C. S. Yoo, B. Maddox, J.-H. P. Klepeis, V. Iota, W. Evans, A. McMahan, M. Y. Hu, P. Chow, M. Somayazulu, D. Häusermann, R. T. Scalettar, and W. E. Pickett
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
115502 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Anomalous Nucleation Far from Equilibrium
I. T. Georgiev, B. Schmittmann, and R. K. P. Zia
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
115701 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Spreading and Two-Dimensional Mobility of Long-Chain Alkanes at Solid/Gas Interfaces
Paul Lazar, H. Schollmeyer, and H. Riegler
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
116101 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Intrinsic Vacancy-Induced Nanoscale Wire Structure in Heteroepitaxial Ga2Se3/Si(001)
Taisuke Ohta, D. A. Schmidt, Shuang Meng, A. Klust, A. Bostwick, Q. Yu, Marjorie A. Olmstead, and F. S. Ohuchi
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
116102 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Hydrogen-Induced Surface Metallization of β-SiC(100)-(3×2) Revisited by Density Functional Theory Calculations
R. Di Felice, C. M. Bertoni, C. A. Pignedoli, and A. Catellani
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
116103 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Ion-Induced Nucleation: The Importance of Chemistry
Shawn M. Kathmann, Gregory K. Schenter, and Bruce C. Garrett
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
116104 [View PDF (247 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Catastrophic Fermi Surface Reconstruction in the Shape-Memory Alloy AuZn
P. A. Goddard, J. Singleton, R. D. McDonald, N. Harrison, J. C. Lashley, H. Harima, and M.-T. Suzuki
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
116401 [View PDF (781 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Electron Spin Relaxation Induced by Nuclei in Quantum Dots
P.-F. Braun, X. Marie, L. Lombez, B. Urbaszek, T. Amand, P. Renucci, V. K. Kalevich, K. V. Kavokin, O. Krebs, P. Voisin, and Y. Masumoto
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
116601 [View PDF (790 kB)]
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Microscopic Theory for the Quantum to Classical Crossover in Chaotic Transport
Robert S. Whitney and Ph. Jacquod
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
116801 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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First-Principles Theory of Correlated Transport through Nanojunctions
A. Ferretti, A. Calzolari, R. Di Felice, F. Manghi, M. J. Caldas, M. Buongiorno Nardelli, and E. Molinari
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
116802 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Quantum-to-Classical Crossover in Full Counting Statistics
Eugene V. Sukhorukov and Oleg M. Bulashenko
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
116803 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Many-Body Effects in Finite Metallic Carbon Nanotubes
F. Guinea
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
116804 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Lower Critical Field and Superfluid Density of Highly Underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x Single Crystals
Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, and David Broun
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
117001 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Tailoring Size Effects on the Exchange Bias in Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic <100  nm Nanostructures
V. Baltz, J. Sort, S. Landis, B. Rodmacq, and B. Dieny
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
117201 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Magnetic and Transport Properties of the Magnetic Polaron: Application to Eu1-xLaxB6 System
Unjong Yu and B. I. Min
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
117202 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Magnetoelectric Switching of Exchange Bias
Pavel Borisov, Andreas Hochstrat, Xi Chen, Wolfgang Kleemann, and Christian Binek
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
117203 [View PDF (1,757 kB)]
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Piezoelectric-Induced Polariton Coupling in a Superlattice
Cheng-ping Huang and Yong-yuan Zhu
Published 21 March 2005 (4 pages)
117401 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Ultrafast Intrachain Photoexcitation of Polymeric Semiconductors
T. Virgili, D. Marinotto, C. Manzoni, G. Cerullo, and G. Lanzani
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
117402 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Creep and Relaxation Dynamics of Domain Walls in Periodically Poled KTiOPO4
Th. Braun, W. Kleemann, J. Dec, and P. A. Thomas
Published 24 March 2005 (4 pages)
117601 [View PDF (1,051 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Ginzburg Number of a Homopolymer–Diblock Copolymer Mixture Covering the 3D-Ising, Isotropic Lifshitz, and Brasovskiĭ Classes of Critical Universality
Vitaliy Pipich, Dietmar Schwahn, and Lutz Willner
Published 21 March 2005 (4 pages)
117801 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Unexpected Shish-Kebab Structure in a Sheared Polyethylene Melt
Benjamin S. Hsiao, Ling Yang, Rajesh H. Somani, Carlos A. Avila-Orta, and Lei Zhu
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
117802 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Theory for Shock Dynamics in Particle-Laden Thin Films
Junjie Zhou, B. Dupuy, A. L. Bertozzi, and A. E. Hosoi
Published 23 March 2005 (4 pages)
117803 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Mechanics of Binding of a Single Integration-Host-Factor Protein to DNA
Sanhita Dixit, Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Jeungphill Hanne, and Giovanni Zocchi
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
118101 [View PDF (382 kB)]
Control of Nanoparticles with Arbitrary Two-Dimensional Force Fields
Adam E. Cohen
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
118102 [View PDF (527 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Prewetting and Layering in Athermal Polymer Solutions
Jan Forsman and Clifford E. Woodward
Published 22 March 2005 (4 pages)
118301 [View PDF (96 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Dynamics in a Multicomponent Plasma near the Low-Frequency Cutoff”
P. K. Shukla, I. Kourakis, and L. Stenflo
Published 22 March 2005 (1 page)
119501 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Ganguli and Rudakov Reply
Gurudas Ganguli and Leonid Rudakov
Published 22 March 2005 (1 page)
119502 [View PDF (36 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Crack Street: The Cycloidal Wake of a Cylinder Tearing through a Thin Sheet [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 215507 (2003)]
A. Ghatak and L. Mahadevan
Published 23 March 2005 (1 page)
119901(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Lifetimes of Excited Electrons in Fe and Ni: First-Principles GW and the T-Matrix Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096401 (2004)]
V. P. Zhukov, E. V. Chulkov, and and P. M. Echenique
Published 24 March 2005 (1 page)
119902(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
 
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