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Physical Review Letters – 15 April 2005
Volume 94, Issue 14

Electronic charge density of cubic BC2N in several crystallographic planes (horizontal rows) at equilibrium (left column) and under large tensile strains (middle and right columns). A sequential bond-breaking pattern is seen in this simulation which can explain the large disparity between the shear and the tensile strengths of this superhard solid. [Yi Zhang, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145505 (2005)]

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Thermal Conductance of Andreev Interferometers
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Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
147002 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Structure of a Quantized Vortex near the BCS-BEC Crossover in an Atomic Fermi Gas
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Published 12 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Geometric Phase for Adiabatic Evolutions of General Quantum States
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Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Secure Deterministic Communication without Entanglement
Marco Lucamarini and Stefano Mancini
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
140501 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Renormalization-Group Transformations on Quantum States
F. Verstraete, J. I. Cirac, J. I. Latorre, E. Rico, and M. M. Wolf
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
140601 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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R Parity from the Heterotic String
Mary K. Gaillard
Published 11 April 2005 (4 pages)
141601 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Measurement of Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries for Exclusive B Decays to Charmonium
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 14 April 2005 (7 pages)
141801 [View PDF (255 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Precision Rosenbluth Measurement of the Proton Elastic Form Factors
I. A. Qattan et al.
Published 15 April 2005 (5 pages)
142301 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Scalar Interaction Limits from the β-ν Correlation of Trapped Radioactive Atoms
A. Gorelov, D. Melconian, W. P. Alford, D. Ashery, G. Ball, J. A. Behr, P. G. Bricault, J. M. D’Auria, J. Deutsch, J. Dilling, M. Dombsky, P. Dubé, J. Fingler, U. Giesen, F. Glück, S. Gu, O. Häusser, K. P. Jackson, B. K. Jennings, M. R. Pearson, T. J. Stocki, T. B. Swanson, and M. Trinczek
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
142501 [View PDF (236 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Resonant Activation in a Nonadiabatically Driven Optical Lattice
R. Gommers, P. Douglas, S. Bergamini, M. Goonasekera, P. H. Jones, and F. Renzoni
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
143001 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Field-Free Three Dimensional Molecular Axis Alignment
Jonathan G. Underwood, Benjamin J. Sussman, and Albert Stolow
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
143002 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Exact Time-Dependent Exchange-Correlation Potentials for Strong-Field Electron Dynamics
Manfred Lein and Stephan Kümmel
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
143003 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Accumulation of Three-Body Resonances above Two-Body Thresholds
Z. Papp, J. Darai, J. Zs. Mezei, Z. T. Hlousek, and C-. Y. Hu
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
143201 [View PDF (264 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Dynamics of Traveling Waves in the Transverse Section of a Laser
Eamonn O’Neill, John Houlihan, John G. McInerney, and Guillaume Huyet
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
143901 [View PDF (467 kB)]
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Complete Modal Decomposition for Optical Waveguides
Ofer Shapira, Ayman F. Abouraddy, John D. Joannopoulos, and Yoel Fink
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Nanoscale Resolution in the Focal Plane of an Optical Microscope
Volker Westphal and Stefan W. Hell
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Direct Processes in Chaotic Microwave Cavities in the Presence of Absorption
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Magnetically Controlled Convection in a Diamagnetic Fluid
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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of the Acceleration of a Single Bunch by Using the Induction Device in the KEK Proton Synchrotron
Ken Takayama, Kunio Koseki, Kota Torikai, Akira Tokuchi, Eiji Nakamura, Yoshio Arakida, Yoshito Shimosaki, Masayoshi Wake, Tadaaki Kouno, Kazuhiko Horioka, Susumu Igarashi, Taiki Iwashita, Atsushi Kawasaki, Jun-ichi Kishiro, Makoto Sakuda, Hikaru Sato, Makoto Shiho, Masashi Shirakata, Tsuyoshi Sueno, Takeshi Toyama, Masao Watanabe, and Isao Yamane
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
144801 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Dominant Electrostatic Nature of the Reversed Field Pinch Dynamo
D. Bonfiglio, S. Cappello, and D. F. Escande
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Global Gyrokinetic Stability of Pressure-Gradient-Driven Electromagnetic Modes in Tokamaks with Regions of Low Shear
R. Ganesh and J. Vaclavik
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
145002 [View PDF (3,010 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Electronic-Enthalpy Functional for Finite Systems Under Pressure
Matteo Cococcioni, Francesco Mauri, Gerbrand Ceder, and Nicola Marzari
Published 11 April 2005 (4 pages)
145501 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Slow Energy Relaxation of Macromolecules and Nanoclusters in Solution
F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, and Y.-H. Sanejouand
Published 12 April 2005 (4 pages)
145502 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Strong dc Electric Field Applied to Supersaturated Aqueous Glycine Solution Induces Nucleation of the γ Polymorph
Janice E. Aber, Stephen Arnold, Bruce A. Garetz, and Allan S. Myerson
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
145503 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Real-Time Evolution of the Distribution of Nanoparticles in an Ultrathin-Polymer-Film-Based Waveguide
Suresh Narayanan, Dong Ryeol Lee, Rodney S. Guico, Sunil K. Sinha, and Jin Wang
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
145504 [View PDF (870 kB)]
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Atomistic Deformation Modes in Strong Covalent Solids
Yi Zhang, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
145505 [View PDF (587 kB)]
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Modeling the Phase Diagram of Carbon
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Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
145701 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Asymmetrically Coupled Directed Percolation Systems
Jae Dong Noh and Hyunggyu Park
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
145702 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Compressive Stress in Polycrystalline Volmer-Weber Films
R. Koch, Dongzhi Hu, and A. K. Das
Published 12 April 2005 (4 pages)
146101 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Columnar AlGaN/GaN Nanocavities with AlN/GaN Bragg Reflectors Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on Si(111)
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Published 12 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Patterning Multilayers of Molecules via Self-Organization
Wei Lu and David Salac
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Bond Breaking Coupled with Translation in Rolling of Covalently Bound Molecules
D. L. Keeling, M. J. Humphry, R. H. J. Fawcett, P. H. Beton, C. Hobbs, and L. Kantorovich
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Strain Relief in Cu-Pd Heteroepitaxy
Yafeng Lu, M. Przybylski, O. Trushin, W. H. Wang, J. Barthel, E. Granato, S. C. Ying, and T. Ala-Nissila
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Ab Initio Design of High-k Dielectrics: LaxY1-xAlO3
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Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Orbital Symmetry and Electron Correlation in NaxCoO2
W. B. Wu, D. J. Huang, J. Okamoto, A. Tanaka, H.-J. Lin, F. C. Chou, A. Fujimori, and C. T. Chen
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Magnetism on the Surface of the Bulk Paramagnetic Intermetallic Compound YCo2
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Effects of Inversion Asymmetry on Electron-Nuclear Spin Coupling in Semiconductor Heterostructures: Possible Role of Spin-Orbit Interactions
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Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Half-Metallicity and Efficient Spin Injection in AlN/GaN∶Cr (0001) Heterostructure
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Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Tilt-Induced Localization and Delocalization in the Second Landau Level
G. A. Csáthy, J. S. Xia, C. L. Vicente, E. D. Adams, N. S. Sullivan, H. L. Stormer, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 11 April 2005 (4 pages)
146801 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Dwell-Time-Limited Coherence in Open Quantum Dots
B. Hackens, S. Faniel, C. Gustin, X. Wallart, S. Bollaert, A. Cappy, and V. Bayot
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
146802 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Density Functional Theory of the Electrical Conductivity of Molecular Devices
Kieron Burke, Roberto Car, and Ralph Gebauer
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
146803 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Observation of Collapse of Pseudospin Order in Bilayer Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
Stefano Luin, Vittorio Pellegrini, Aron Pinczuk, Brian S. Dennis, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
146804 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Numerical Evidences of Fractionalization in an Easy-Axis Two-Spin Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
D. N. Sheng and Leon Balents
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
146805 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Novel neutron resonance mode in dx2-y2-wave superconductors
I. Eremin, D. K. Morr, A. V. Chubukov, K. H. Bennemann, and M. R. Norman
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Thermal Conductance of Andreev Interferometers
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Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
147002 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Charged Particles on a Two-Dimensional Lattice Subject to Anisotropic Jahn-Teller Interactions
T. Mertelj, V. V. Kabanov, and D. Mihailovic
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
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Delocalized Fermions in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors
Mike Sutherland, S. Y. Li, D. G. Hawthorn, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, M. A. Tanatar, J. Paglione, H. Zhang, Louis Taillefer, J. DeBenedictis, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
147004 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic Fluctuation and Possible Triplet Superconductivity in NaxCoO2·yH2O: Fluctuation-Exchange Study of the Multiorbital Hubbard Model
Masahito Mochizuki, Youichi Yanase, and Masao Ogata
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
147005 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of the Two-Channel Kondo Lattice Model in One Dimension
T. Schauerte, D. L. Cox, R. M. Noack, P. G. J. van Dongen, and C. D. Batista
Published 11 April 2005 (4 pages)
147201 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Spatial Chemical Inhomogeneity and Local Electronic Structure of Mn-Doped Ge Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
J.-S. Kang, G. Kim, S. C. Wi, S. S. Lee, S. Choi, Sunglae Cho, S. W. Han, K. H. Kim, H. J. Song, H. J. Shin, A. Sekiyama, S. Kasai, S. Suga, and B. I. Min
Published 11 April 2005 (4 pages)
147202 [View PDF (643 kB)]
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Mixed Magnetic Phases in (Ga,Mn)As Epilayers
K. Hamaya, T. Taniyama, Y. Kitamoto, T. Fujii, and Y. Yamazaki
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
147203 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Hysteresis Loops and Adiabatic Landau-Zener-Stückelberg Transitions in the Magnetic Molecule {V6}
I. Rousochatzakis, Y. Ajiro, H. Mitamura, P. Kögerler, and M. Luban
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
147204 [View PDF (1,039 kB)]
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Line of Critical Points in 2+1 Dimensions: Quantum Critical Loop Gases and Non-Abelian Gauge Theory
Michael Freedman, Chetan Nayak, and Kirill Shtengel
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
147205 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Lamellar Phase Separation and Dynamic Competition in La0.23Ca0.77MnO3
J. Tao, D. Niebieskikwiat, M. B. Salamon, and J. M. Zuo
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
147206 [View PDF (1,271 kB)]
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Electrically Induced Raman Emission from Planar Spin Oscillator
A. Nogaret
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
147207 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Entanglement and Factorized Ground States in Two-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets
Tommaso Roscilde, Paola Verrucchi, Andrea Fubini, Stephan Haas, and Valerio Tognetti
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
147208 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Chemical Manipulation of High-TC Ferromagnetism in ZnO Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
Kevin R. Kittilstved, Nick S. Norberg, and Daniel R. Gamelin
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
147209 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Extension of the Bloch T3/2 Law to Magnetic Nanostructures: Bose-Einstein Condensation
E. Della Torre, L. H. Bennett, and R. E. Watson
Published 15 April 2005 (3 pages)
147210 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Electrical Control of Hole Spin Relaxation in Charge Tunable InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots
S. Laurent, B. Eble, O. Krebs, A. Lemaître, B. Urbaszek, X. Marie, T. Amand, and P. Voisin
Published 12 April 2005 (4 pages)
147401 [View PDF (555 kB)]
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Phase Coherent Photorefractivity in ZnSe Single Quantum Wells
H. P. Wagner, S. Tripathy, H.-P. Tranitz, and W. Langbein
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
147402 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Mott Transition in an Optically Excited Semiconductor Quantum Well
L. Kappei, J. Szczytko, F. Morier-Genoud, and B. Deveaud
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
147403 [View PDF (757 kB)]
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Order-Disorder Component in the Phase Transition Mechanism of 18O Enriched Strontium Titanate
Robert Blinc, Boštjan Zalar, Valentin V. Laguta, and Mitsuru Itoh
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
147601 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Formation of Polar Nanoregions in Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 Using Neutron Pair Distribution Function Analysis
I.-K. Jeong, T. W. Darling, J. K. Lee, Th. Proffen, R. H. Heffner, J. S. Park, K. S. Hong, W. Dmowski, and T. Egami
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
147602 [View PDF (1,169 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Elegance of Disordered Granular Packings: A Validation of Edward’s Hypothesis
Philip T. Metzger and Carly M. Donahue
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
148001 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Miscibility Phase Diagrams of Giant Vesicles Containing Sphingomyelin
Sarah L. Veatch and Sarah L. Keller
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
148101 [View PDF (1,444 kB)]
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Bumps, Breathers, and Waves in a Neural Network with Spike Frequency Adaptation
S. Coombes and M. R. Owen
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
148102 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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DNA in Nanopores: Counterion Condensation and Coion Depletion
Yitzhak Rabin and Motohiko Tanaka
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
148103 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic Induced Deformation and Orientation of a Microscopic Elastic Filament
M. Cosentino Lagomarsino, I. Pagonabarraga, and C. P. Lowe
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
148104 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Bridging the Gap between Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Models: The Case of Multicellular Tumor Spheroids
P. P. Delsanto, M. Griffa, C. A. Condat, S. Delsanto, and L. Morra
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
148105 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Separation-Independent Attractive Force between Like Particles Mediated by Nematic-Liquid-Crystal Distortions
Jun-ichi Fukuda and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
148301 [View PDF (692 kB)]
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Additive Noise Induces Front Propagation
M. G. Clerc, C. Falcon, and E. Tirapegui
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
148302 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Noise-Enhanced Performance of Ratchet Cellular Automata
Dušan Babič and Clemens Bechinger
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
148303 [View PDF (148 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Energy-Time Entanglement Preservation in Plasmon-Assisted Light Transmission [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110501 (2005)]
Sylvain Fasel, Franck Robin, Esteban Moreno, Daniel Erni, Nicolas Gisin, and Hugo Zbinden
Published 12 April 2005 (1 page)
149901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Kim et al. Reply [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 139602 (2005)]
et al.
Published 14 April 2005 (1 page)
149902(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
 
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