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Physical Review Letters – 27 May 2005
Volume 94, Issue 20

Channel electron distribution of a helical gold nanowire sandwiched between electrodes. Calculations show that such wires can be good candidates for nanometer-scale solenoids. [Tomoya Ono and Kikuji Hirose, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 206806 (2005)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Constraining Nuclear Equations of State Using Gravitational Waves from Hypermassive Neutron Stars
Masaru Shibata
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
201101 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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“Work-Hardenable” Ductile Bulk Metallic Glass
Jayanta Das, Mei Bo Tang, Ki Buem Kim, Ralf Theissmann, Falko Baier, Wei Hua Wang, and Jürgen Eckert
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
205501 [View PDF (744 kB)]
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Amorphous Metallic Plastic
B. Zhang, D. Q. Zhao, M. X. Pan, W. H. Wang, and A. L. Greer
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
205502 [View PDF (776 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Quantum Multimode Model of Elastic Scattering from Bose-Einstein Condensates
P. Ziń, J. Chwedeńczuk, A. Veitia, K. Rza̧żewski, and M. Trippenbach
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
200401 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Ultracold Collisions Involving Heteronuclear Alkali Metal Dimers
Marko T. Cvitaš, Pavel Soldán, Jeremy M. Hutson, Pascal Honvault, and Jean-Michel Launay
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
200402 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Multiple-Time Correlation Functions for Non-Markovian Interaction: Beyond the Quantum Regression Theorem
Daniel Alonso and Inés de Vega
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
200403 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Locking Entanglement with a Single Qubit
Karol Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Jonathan Oppenheim
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
200501 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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High-Temperature Expansion for Nonequilibrium Steady States in Driven Lattice Gases
Raphael Lefevere and Hal Tasaki
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
200601 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Phase Transition with the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Singularity in the Ising Model on a Growing Network
M. Bauer, S. Coulomb, and S. N. Dorogovtsev
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
200602 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraining Nuclear Equations of State Using Gravitational Waves from Hypermassive Neutron Stars
Masaru Shibata
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
201101 [View PDF (114 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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The Flatness Problem and Λ
Kayll Lake
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
201102 [View PDF (249 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Hadronic Spectrum of a Holographic Dual of QCD
Guy F. de Téramond and Stanley J. Brodsky
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
201601 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Chiral Symmetry Breaking and the Dirac Spectrum at Nonzero Chemical Potential
J. C. Osborn, K. Splittorff, and J. J. M. Verbaarschot
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
202001 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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First Measurement of the Transverse Spin Asymmetries of the Deuteron in Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering
V. Yu. Alexakhin et al. (COMPASS Collaboration)
Published 26 May 2005 (6 pages)
202002 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Interpretation of Correlations between Nuclear Observables in Rare-Earth Nuclei
B. Buck, A. C. Merchant, and S. M. Perez
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
202501 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Fully Coupled Channel Approach to Doubly Strange s-Shell Hypernuclei
H. Nemura, S. Shinmura, Y. Akaishi, and Khin Swe Myint
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
202502 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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The Complement: A Solution to Liquid Drop Finite Size Effects in Phase Transitions
L. G. Moretto, K. A. Bugaev, J. B. Elliott, R. Ghetti, J. Helgesson, and L. Phair
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
202701 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Optical Production of Ultracold Polar Molecules
Jeremy M. Sage, Sunil Sainis, Thomas Bergeman, and David DeMille
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
203001 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Suppression of Spin Projection Noise in Broadband Atomic Magnetometry
JM Geremia, John K. Stockton, and Hideo Mabuchi
Published 24 May 2005 (4 pages)
203002 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Phase Dependence of Enhanced Ionization in Asymmetric Molecules
G. Lagmago Kamta and A. D. Bandrauk
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
203003 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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State-Selective Quantum Interference Observed in the Recombination of Highly Charged Hg75+⋯78+ Mercury Ions in an Electron Beam Ion Trap
A. J. González Martínez, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, J. Braun, G. Brenner, H. Bruhns, A. Lapierre, V. Mironov, R. Soria Orts, H. Tawara, M. Trinczek, J. Ullrich, and J. H. Scofield
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
203201 [View PDF (726 kB)]
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Application of Radiative Electron Capture for the Diagnostics of Spin-Polarized Ion Beams at Storage Rings
Andrey Surzhykov, Stephan Fritzsche, Thomas Stöhlker, and Stanislav Tashenov
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
203202 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Photon Number Squeezing of Ultrabroadband Laser Pulses Generated by Microstructure Fibers
Kenichi Hirosawa, Hiroto Furumochi, Atsushi Tada, Fumihiko Kannari, Masahiro Takeoka, and Masahide Sasaki
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
203601 [View PDF (311 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Lattices: From Oblique Vortices and Octupoles to Discrete Diamonds and Vortex Cubes
R. Carretero-González, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
203901 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Explanation of the Inverse Doppler Effect Observed in Nonlinear Transmission Lines
Alexander B. Kozyrev and Daniel W. van der Weide
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
203902 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Dynamics of Periodic Pulse Collisions in a Strongly Dissipative-Dispersive System
Vincent Roy, Michel Olivier, François Babin, and Michel Piché
Published 24 May 2005 (4 pages)
203903 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Long-Distance Frequency Dissemination with a Resolution of 10-17
C. Daussy, O. Lopez, A. Amy-Klein, A. Goncharov, M. Guinet, C. Chardonnet, F. Narbonneau, M. Lours, D. Chambon, S. Bize, A. Clairon, G. Santarelli, M. E. Tobar, and A. N. Luiten
Published 24 May 2005 (4 pages)
203904 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Heavy Photon States in Photonic Chains of Resonantly Coupled Cavities with Supermonodispersive Microspheres
Yoshiko Hara, Takashi Mukaiyama, Kenji Takeda, and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
203905 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Nonlocality in Imaging
M. P. Oxley, E. C. Cosgriff, and L. J. Allen
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
203906 [View PDF (699 kB)]
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Complex Oscillations and Chaos in Electrostatic Microelectromechanical Systems under Superharmonic Excitations
Sudipto K. De and N. R. Aluru
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
204101 [View PDF (963 kB)]
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Gravity Waves at the Interface between Miscible Fluids and at the Top of a Settling Suspension
Georges Gauthier, Jérôme Martin, and Dominique Salin
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
204501 [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Compressibility in Solar Wind Plasma Turbulence
Bogdan Hnat, Sandra C. Chapman, and George Rowlands
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
204502 [View PDF (272 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Role of Kinetic Effects on the Polarization Current around a Magnetic Island
E. Poli, A. Bergmann, and A. G. Peeters
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
205001 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Ion Cyclotron Production by a Four-Wave Interaction with a Helicon Pump
O. Sutherland, M. Giles, and R. Boswell
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
205002 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Relaxation to Nonequilibrium in Expanding Ultracold Neutral Plasmas
T. Pohl, T. Pattard, and J. M. Rost
Published 24 May 2005 (4 pages)
205003 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Guiding of Intense Laser Pulses in Plasma Waveguides Produced from Efficient, Femtosecond End-Pumped Heating of Clustered Gases
V. Kumarappan, K. Y. Kim, and H. M. Milchberg
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
205004 [View PDF (401 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

“Work-Hardenable” Ductile Bulk Metallic Glass
Jayanta Das, Mei Bo Tang, Ki Buem Kim, Ralf Theissmann, Falko Baier, Wei Hua Wang, and Jürgen Eckert
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
205501 [View PDF (744 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Amorphous Metallic Plastic
B. Zhang, D. Q. Zhao, M. X. Pan, W. H. Wang, and A. L. Greer
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
205502 [View PDF (776 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Widening of Phononic Transmission Gaps via Anderson Localization
R. Sainidou, N. Stefanou, and A. Modinos
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
205503 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Evidence for a Magnetic Collapse in the Epsilon Phase of Solid Oxygen
Igor N. Goncharenko
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
205701 [View PDF (274 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Electron Correlation and Fermi Surface Topology of NaxCoO2
Sen Zhou, Meng Gao, Hong Ding, Patrick A. Lee, and Ziqiang Wang
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
206401 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Unified Description of Charge-Carrier Mobilities in Disordered Semiconducting Polymers
W. F. Pasveer, J. Cottaar, C. Tanase, R. Coehoorn, P. A. Bobbert, P. W. M. Blom, D. M. de Leeuw, and M. A. J. Michels
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
206601 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Zitterbewegung of Electronic Wave Packets in III-V Zinc-Blende Semiconductor Quantum Wells
John Schliemann, Daniel Loss, and R. M. Westervelt
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
206801 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Supersymmetric Quantum-Hall Effect on a Fuzzy Supersphere
Kazuki Hasebe
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
206802 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Quantum Confinement Effects at Metal to Quantum-Well Nanocontacts
C. Tivarus, J. P. Pelz, M. K. Hudait, and S. A. Ringel
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
206803 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Franck-Condon Blockade and Giant Fano Factors in Transport through Single Molecules
Jens Koch and Felix von Oppen
Published 24 May 2005 (4 pages)
206804 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Cotunneling-Mediated Transport through Excited States in the Coulomb-Blockade Regime
R. Schleser, T. Ihn, E. Ruh, K. Ensslin, M. Tews, D. Pfannkuche, D. C. Driscoll, and A. C. Gossard
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
206805 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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First-Principles Study of Electron-Conduction Properties of Helical Gold Nanowires
Tomoya Ono and Kikuji Hirose
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
206806 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Scaling and Universality of Integer Quantum Hall Plateau-to-Plateau Transitions
Wanli Li, G. A. Csáthy, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
206807 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Optical Experimental Evidence for a Universal Length Scale for the Dynamic Charge Inhomogeneity of Cuprate Superconductors
D. Mihailovic
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
207001 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Evidence for Line Nodes in the Superconducting Energy Gap of Noncentrosymmetric CePt3Si from Magnetic Penetration Depth Measurements
Ismardo Bonalde, Werner Brämer-Escamilla, and Ernst Bauer
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
207002 [View PDF (581 kB)]
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Momentum Dependence of Charge Excitations in the Electron-Doped Superconductor Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4: A Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Study
K. Ishii, K. Tsutsui, Y. Endoh, T. Tohyama, S. Maekawa, M. Hoesch, K. Kuzushita, M. Tsubota, T. Inami, J. Mizuki, Y. Murakami, and K. Yamada
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
207003 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Magic Doping Fractions for High-Temperature Superconductors
Seiki Komiya, Han-Dong Chen, Shou-Cheng Zhang, and Yoichi Ando
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
207004 [View PDF (600 kB)]
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Mn Distribution and Spin Polarization in Ga1-xMnxAs
Ruqian Wu
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
207201 [View PDF (760 kB)]
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Supersolids versus Phase Separation in Two-Dimensional Lattice Bosons
Pinaki Sengupta, Leonid P. Pryadko, Fabien Alet, Matthias Troyer, and Guido Schmid
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
207202 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Metamagnetic Phase Transition of the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Icosahedron
Christian Schröder, Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt, Jürgen Schnack, and Marshall Luban
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
207203 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Zero-Temperature Criticality in the Two-Dimensional Gauge Glass Model
Lei-Han Tang and Peiqing Tong
Published 24 May 2005 (4 pages)
207204 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Possible Quantum Critical Point in La2/3Ca1/3Mn1-xGaxO3
J. M. De Teresa, P. A. Algarabel, C. Ritter, J. Blasco, M. R. Ibarra, L. Morellon, J. I. Espeso, and J. C. Gómez-Sal
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
207205 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Cooperative Density Wave and Giant Spin Gap in the Quarter-Filled Zigzag Electron Ladder
R. T. Clay and S. Mazumdar
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
207206 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Analytic Relations between Localizable Entanglement and String Correlations in Spin Systems
L. Campos Venuti and M. Roncaglia
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
207207 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Molecular Engineering of Antiferromagnetic Rings for Quantum Computation
F. Troiani, A. Ghirri, M. Affronte, S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, S. Piligkos, G. Timco, and R. E. P. Winpenny
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
207208 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Method for Analyzing Second-Order Phase Transitions: Application to the Ferromagnetic Transition of a Polaronic System
J. A. Souza, Yi-Kuo Yu, J. J. Neumeier, H. Terashita, and R. F. Jardim
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
207209 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Resonant Tunneling through Quantum-Well States in Magnetic Metallic Thin Films
Zhong-Yi Lu, X.-G. Zhang, and Sokrates T. Pantelides
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
207210 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Deroughening of Domain Wall Pairs by Dipolar Repulsion
M. Bauer, A. Mougin, J. P. Jamet, V. Repain, J. Ferré, R. L. Stamps, H. Bernas, and C. Chappert
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
207211 [View PDF (738 kB)]
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Intersubband Exciton Relaxation Dynamics in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
C. Manzoni, A. Gambetta, E. Menna, M. Meneghetti, G. Lanzani, and G. Cerullo
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
207401 [View PDF (555 kB)]
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Microscale Localized Spectroscopy with a Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope
C. L. Degen, Q. Lin, A. Hunkeler, U. Meier, M. Tomaselli, and B. H. Meier
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
207601 [View PDF (375 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Two Scenarios for Avalanche Dynamics in Inclined Granular Layers
Tamás Börzsönyi, Thomas C. Halsey, and Robert E. Ecke
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
208001 [View PDF (592 kB)]
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How White Noise Generates Power-Law Switching in Bacterial Flagellar Motors
Yuhai Tu and G. Grinstein
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
208101 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Dynamical Arrest in Attractive Colloids: The Effect of Long-Range Repulsion
Andrew I. Campbell, Valerie J. Anderson, Jeroen S. van Duijneveldt, and Paul Bartlett
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
208301 [View PDF (741 kB)]
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Orthorhombic Fddd Network in Triblock and Diblock Copolymer Melts
Christopher A. Tyler and David C. Morse
Published 24 May 2005 (4 pages)
208302 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Comparative Study of C-H Stretch and Bend Vibrations in Methane Activation on Ni(100) and Ni(111)
L. B. F. Juurlink, R. R. Smith, D. R. Killelea, and A. L. Utz
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
208303 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Adaptability and “Intermediate Phase” in Randomly Connected Networks
J. Barré, A. R. Bishop, T. Lookman, and A. Saxena
Published 23 May 2005 (4 pages)
208701 [View PDF (234 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Temperature in Nonequilibrium Systems with Conserved Energy”
Yair Srebro and Dov Levine
Published 25 May 2005 (1 page)
208901 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Bertin, Dauchot, and Droz Reply:
E. Bertin, O. Dauchot, and M. Droz
Published 25 May 2005 (1 page)
208902 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “Dynamical Role of Anyonic Excitation Statistics in Rapidly Rotating Bose Gases”
Pijush K. Ghosh
Published 26 May 2005 (1 page)
208903 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Fischer Replies:
Uwe R. Fischer
Published 26 May 2005 (1 page)
208904 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Comment on “Thermal Contraction of Carbon Fullerenes and Nanotubes”
P. Keblinski and P. K. Schelling
Published 24 May 2005 (1 page)
209701 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Kwon, Berber, and Tománek Reply:
Young-Kyun Kwon, Savas Berber, and David Tománek
Published 24 May 2005 (1 page)
209702 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Momentum-Dependent Energy Losses in Core Level Photoemission Spectra of Poorly Conducting Metals”
Ph. Hofmann, G. Zampieri, L. Petaccia, S. Lizzit, and A. Baraldi
Published 26 May 2005 (1 page)
209703 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Ast and Höchst Reply:
Christian R. Ast and Hartmut Höchst
Published 26 May 2005 (1 page)
209704 [View PDF (314 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Control of Raman Lasing in the Nonimpulsive Regime [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 243003 (2004)]
B. J. Pearson and P. H. Bucksbaum
Published 23 May 2005 (1 page)
209901(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Erratum: Dirty, Skewed, and Backwards: The Smectic A-C Phase Transition in Aerogel [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 137803 (2005)]
Leiming Chen and John Toner
Published 23 May 2005 (1 page)
209902(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Erratum: Local Observation and Spectroscopy of Optical Modes in an Active Photonic-Crystal Microcavity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113907 (2005)]
N. Louvion, D. Gérard, J. Mouette, F. de Fornel, C. Seassal, X. Letartre, A. Rahmani, and S. Callard
Published 25 May 2005 (1 page)
209903(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
 
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