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Physical Review Letters – 6 May 2005
Volume 94, Issue 17

Side and top views of a large stable drop floating on a bath of the same fluid. The interference fringes show the existence of an air film between the drop and the bath. [Y. Couder, E. Fort, C.-H. Gautier, and A. Boudaoud, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 177801 (2005)]

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Exons, Introns, and DNA Thermodynamics
Enrico Carlon, Mehdi Lejard Malki, and Ralf Blossey
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
178101 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Computational Complexity and Fundamental Limitations to Fermionic Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations
Matthias Troyer and Uwe-Jens Wiese
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
170201 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Fixed Points of the Dissipative Hofstadter Model
E. Novais, F. Guinea, and A. H. Castro Neto
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
170401 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Dynamics of the BCS-BEC Crossover in a Degenerate Fermi Gas
M. H. Szymańska, B. D. Simons, and K. Burnett
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
170402 [View PDF (483 kB)]
Photon Recoil Momentum in Dispersive Media
Gretchen K. Campbell, Aaron E. Leanhardt, Jongchul Mun, Micah Boyd, Erik W. Streed, Wolfgang Ketterle, and David E. Pritchard
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
170403 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Damping of a Unitary Fermi Gas
J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J. E. Thomas
Published 6 May 2005 (4 pages)
170404 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Origin of the Usefulness of the Natural-Time Representation of Complex Time Series
Sumiyoshi Abe, N. V. Sarlis, E. S. Skordas, H. K. Tanaka, and P. A. Varotsos
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
170601 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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How to Measure Subdiffusion Parameters
T. Kosztołowicz, K. Dworecki, and St. Mrówczyński
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
170602 [View PDF (225 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Gamma-Ray Constraint on Galactic Positron Production by MeV Dark Matter
John F. Beacom, Nicole F. Bell, and Gianfranco Bertone
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
171301 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Supersymmetric Dark Matter and the Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background
Dominik Elsässer and Karl Mannheim
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
171302 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Can Dark Matter Annihilation Dominate the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background?
Shin’ichiro Ando
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
171303 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Factorization-Suppressed B→χcK(*) Decays
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 4 May 2005 (7 pages)
171801 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Measurement of Charged-Particle Multiplicities in Gluon and Quark Jets in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.8   TeV
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 5 May 2005 (6 pages)
171802 [View PDF (241 kB)]
Mass of the Bc Meson in Three-Flavor Lattice QCD
Ian F. Allison, Christine T. H. Davies, Alan Gray, Andreas S. Kronfeld, Paul B. Mackenzie, and James N. Simone (HPQCD, Fermilab Lattice, and UKQCD Collaborations)
Published 6 May 2005 (4 pages)
172001 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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The Hot Nonperturbative Gluon Plasma Is an Almost Ideal Colored Liquid
A. Peshier and W. Cassing
Published 6 May 2005 (4 pages)
172301 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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“Safe” Coulomb Excitation of 30Mg
O. Niedermaier et al.
Published 4 May 2005 (5 pages)
172501 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Dipole-Dipole Excitation and Ionization in an Ultracold Gas of Rydberg Atoms
Wenhui Li, Paul J. Tanner, and T. F. Gallagher
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
173001 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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High-Accuracy Optical Clock via Three-Level Coherence in Neutral Bosonic 88Sr
Robin Santra, Ennio Arimondo, Tetsuya Ido, Chris H. Greene, and Jun Ye
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
173002 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Electron Collisions with Laser Cooled and Trapped Metastable Helium Atoms: Total Scattering Cross Sections
L. J. Uhlmann, R. G. Dall, A. G. Truscott, M. D. Hoogerland, K. G. H. Baldwin, and S. J. Buckman
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
173201 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Melting, Premelting, and Structural Transitions in Size-Selected Aluminum Clusters with around 55 Atoms
Gary A. Breaux, Colleen M. Neal, Baopeng Cao, and Martin F. Jarrold
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
173401 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Classical Subwavelength Interference with a Pseudothermal Light Source
Jun Xiong, De-Zhong Cao, Feng Huang, Hong-Guo Li, Xu-Juan Sun, and Kaige Wang
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
173601 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Computable Measure of Nonclassicality for Light
János K. Asbóth, John Calsamiglia, and Helmut Ritsch
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
173602 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Complete destructive interference of partially coherent sources of acoustic waves
Lorenzo Basano and Pasquale Ottonello
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
173901 [View PDF (2,408 kB)]
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Frequency Bistability of a Semiconductor Laser under a Frequency-Dependent Feedback
B. Farias, T. Passerat de Silans, M. Chevrollier, and M. Oriá
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
173902 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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High Harmonic XUV Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-Field Reconstruction
Y. Mairesse, O. Gobert, P. Breger, H. Merdji, P. Meynadier, P. Monchicourt, M. Perdrix, P. Salières, and B. Carré
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
173903 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Coherent Plasmonic Enhanced Terahertz Transmission through Random Metallic Media
K. J. Chau, G. D. Dice, and A. Y. Elezzabi
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
173904 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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Spontaneous Optical Fractal Pattern Formation
J. G. Huang and G. S. McDonald
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
174101 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Phase Compactons in Chains of Dispersively Coupled Oscillators
Philip Rosenau and Arkady Pikovsky
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
174102 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Ballistic and Localized Transport for the Atom Optics Kicked Rotor in the Limit of a Vanishing Kicking Period
Mark Sadgrove, Sandro Wimberger, Scott Parkins, and Rainer Leonhardt
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
174103 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Transitions to Electrochemical Turbulence
Hamilton Varela, Carsten Beta, Antoine Bonnefont, and Katharina Krischer
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
174104 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Second Mode of Recycling together with Period Doubling Links Single-Bubble and Multibubble Sonoluminescence
Jeppe Seidelin Dam and Mogens T. Levinsen
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
174301 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Theoretical and Numerical Approach to “Magic Angle” of Stone Skipping
Shin-ichiro Nagahiro and Yoshinori Hayakawa
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
174501 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Drag Reduction by Microbubbles in Turbulent Flows: The Limit of Minute Bubbles
Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, Itamar Procaccia, and Vasil Tiberkevich
Published 6 May 2005 (4 pages)
174502 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Density Fluctuations in Strongly Stratified Two-Dimensional Turbulence
Jie Zhang, X. L. Wu, and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
174503 [View PDF (851 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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X-Ray Resonance in Crystal Cavities: Realization of Fabry-Perot Resonator for Hard X Rays
S.-L. Chang, Yu. P. Stetsko, M.-T. Tang, Y.-R. Lee, W.-H. Sun, M. Yabashi, and T. Ishikawa
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
174801 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Mechanism of Stabilization of Ballooning Modes by Toroidal Rotation Shear in Tokamaks
M. Furukawa and S. Tokuda
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
175001 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Observation of Centrifugally Driven Interchange Instabilities in a Plasma Confined by a Magnetic Dipole
B. Levitt, D. Maslovsky, and M. E. Mauel
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
175002 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Observation of a Transition from Fluid to Kinetic Nonlinearities for Langmuir Waves Driven by Stimulated Raman Backscatter
J. L. Kline, D. S. Montgomery, B. Bezzerides, J. A. Cobble, D. F. DuBois, R. P. Johnson, H. A. Rose, L. Yin, and H. X. Vu
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
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Exact Energy Principle in Magnetic Reconnection for Current-Sheet Models
Peter H. Yoon and Anthony T. Y. Lui
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
175004 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Modified Jeans Instability for Dust Grains in a Plasma
G. L. Delzanno and G. Lapenta
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
175005 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Effective Lagrangian and Topological Interactions in Supersolids
D. T. Son
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
175301 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Titanium-Decorated Carbon Nanotubes as a Potential High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage Medium
T. Yildirim and S. Ciraci
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
175501 [View PDF (792 kB)]
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Radial Elasticity of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
I. Palaci, S. Fedrigo, H. Brune, C. Klinke, M. Chen, and E. Riedo
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
175502 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Dynamic Model of Super-Arrhenius Relaxation Rates in Glassy Materials
J. S. Langer and Anaël Lemaître
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
175701 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Superheating and Induced Melting at Semiconductor Interfaces
Kerwyn Casey Huang, Tairan Wang, and John D. Joannopoulos
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
175702 [View PDF (1,794 kB)]
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Strain Phase Diagram and Domain Orientation in SrTiO3 Thin Films
Feizhou He, B. O. Wells, and S. M. Shapiro
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
176101 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Role of Strain-Dependent Surface Energies in Ge/Si(100) Island Formation
O. E. Shklyaev, M. J. Beck, M. Asta, M. J. Miksis, and P. W. Voorhees
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
176102 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Towards Quantitative Understanding of Formation and Stability of Ge Hut Islands on Si(001)
Guang-Hong Lu and Feng Liu
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
176103 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Single Cu, Ag, and Au Atoms Adsorbed on Si(111)-(7×7)
Chun Zhang, Gang Chen, Kedong Wang, Hongwei Yang, Tao Su, C. T. Chan, M. M. T. Loy, and Xudong Xiao
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
176104 [View PDF (1,428 kB)]
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Why Are Alkali Halide Surfaces Not Wetted by Their Own Melt?
T. Zykova-Timan, D. Ceresoli, U. Tartaglino, and E. Tosatti
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
176105 [View PDF (308 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Observation of Two-Dimensional Classical Wave Localization: Third Sound on Superfluid 4He Films on a Disordered Substrate
D. R. Luhman, J. C. Herrmann, and R. B. Hallock
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
176401 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Resistivity at Transitions between Integer Quantum Hall States
K. Vakili, Y. P. Shkolnikov, E. Tutuc, N. C. Bishop, E. P. De Poortere, and M. Shayegan
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
176402 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Phase-Space Dynamics of Semiclassical Spin-1/2 Bloch Electrons
W. C. Kerr, M. J. Rave, and Ł. A. Turski
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
176403 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Pattern Formation as a Signature of Quantum Degeneracy in a Cold Exciton System
L.  S. Levitov, B.  D. Simons, and L.  V. Butov
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
176404 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Temperature-Dependent Asymmetry of the Nonlocal Spin-Injection Resistance: Evidence for Spin Nonconserving Interface Scattering
Samir Garzon, Igor Žutić, and Richard A. Webb
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
176601 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Vibrational Sidebands and the Kondo Effect in Molecular Transistors
Jens Paaske and Karsten Flensberg
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
176801 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Charge and Spin Dynamics of Interacting Fermions in a One-Dimensional Harmonic Trap
Lars Kecke, Hermann Grabert, and Wolfgang Häusler
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
176802 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Electric Field Modulation of Galvanomagnetic Properties of Mesoscopic Graphite
Yuanbo Zhang, Joshua P. Small, Michael E. S. Amori, and Philip Kim
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
176803 [View PDF (1,495 kB)]
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Vortices, Tunneling, and Deconfinement in Bilayer Quantum Hall Excitonic Superfluid
Ziqiang Wang
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
176804 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Wedge-Shaped Potential and Airy-Function Electron Localization in Oxide Superlattices
Z. S. Popovic and S. Satpathy
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
176805 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Bimolecular Recombination Coefficient as a Sensitive Testing Parameter for Low-Mobility Solar-Cell Materials
A. Pivrikas, G. Juška, A. J. Mozer, M. Scharber, K. Arlauskas, N. S. Sariciftci, H. Stubb, and R. Österbacka
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
176806 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Vortex Motion Rectification in Josephson Junction Arrays with a Ratchet Potential
D. E. Shalóm and H. Pastoriza
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
177001 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous Level Splitting in Pr2-xBixRu2O7
J. van Duijn, K. H. Kim, N. Hur, D. Adroja, M. A. Adams, Q. Z. Huang, M. Jaime, S.-W. Cheong, C. Broholm, and T. G. Perring
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
177201 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Spin Excitations in an Anisotropic Bond-Alternating Quantum S=1 Chain in a Magnetic Field: Contrast to Haldane Spin Chains
M. Hagiwara, L. P. Regnault, A. Zheludev, A. Stunault, N. Metoki, T. Suzuki, S. Suga, K. Kakurai, Y. Koike, P. Vorderwisch, and J.-H. Chung
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
177202 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Orbital Correlations in the Pseudocubic O and Rhombohedral R Phases of LaMnO3
Xiangyun Qiu, Th. Proffen, J. F. Mitchell, and S. J. L. Billinge
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
177203 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Stimulated Emission of Surface Plasmons at the Interface between a Silver Film and an Optically Pumped Dye Solution
J. Seidel, S. Grafström, and L. Eng
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
177401 [View PDF (158 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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From Bouncing to Floating: Noncoalescence of Drops on a Fluid Bath
Y. Couder, E. Fort, C.-H. Gautier, and A. Boudaoud
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
177801 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Force Indeterminacy in the Jammed State of Hard Disks
Tamás Unger, János Kertész, and Dietrich E. Wolf
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
178001 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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How Hertzian Solitary Waves Interact with Boundaries in a 1D Granular Medium
Stéphane Job, Francisco Melo, Adam Sokolow, and Surajit Sen
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
178002 [View PDF (162 kB)]
Exons, Introns, and DNA Thermodynamics
Enrico Carlon, Mehdi Lejard Malki, and Ralf Blossey
Published 2 May 2005 (4 pages)
178101 [View PDF (129 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Optical Conductivity of Wet DNA
A. Hübsch, R. G. Endres, D. L. Cox, and R. R. P. Singh
Published 3 May 2005 (4 pages)
178102 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Divergence and Shannon Information in Genomes
Hong-Da Chen, Chang-Heng Chang, Li-Ching Hsieh, and Hoong-Chien Lee
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
178103 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy in Subdiffraction Focal Volumes
Lars Kastrup, Hans Blom, Christian Eggeling, and Stefan W. Hell
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
178104 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Miscibility Gap in the Microbial Fitness Landscape
F. N. Braun, S. Paulsen, R. P. Sear, and P. B. Warren
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
178105 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Anomalous Slowing Down of the Vibrational Relaxation of Liquid Water upon Nanoscale Confinement
Adriaan M. Dokter, Sander Woutersen, and Huib J. Bakker
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
178301 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Voter Model on Heterogeneous Graphs
V. Sood and S. Redner
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
178701 [View PDF (121 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Do Intradot Electron-Electron Interactions Induce Dephasing?”
Jürgen König, Yuval Gefen, and Alessandro Silva
Published 5 May 2005 (1 page)
179701 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Jiang et al. Reply:
Z.-T. Jiang, Q.-F. Sun, X. C. Xie, and Y. P. Wang
Published 5 May 2005 (1 page)
179702 [View PDF (43 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: First-Principles Theory of Correlated Transport through Nanojunctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 116802 (2005)]
A. Ferretti, A. Calzolari, R. Di Felice, F. Manghi, M. J. Caldas, M. Buongiorno Nardelli, and E. Molinari
Published 3 May 2005 (1 page)
179901(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Phase-Sensitive Order Parameter Symmetry Test Experiments Utilizing Nd2-xCexCuO4-y/Nb Zigzag Junctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 167001 (2005)]
Ariando, D. Darminto, H.-J. H. Smilde, V. Leca, D. H. A. Blank, H. Rogalla, and H. Hilgenkamp
Published 4 May 2005 (1 page)
179902(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
 
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