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Physical Review Letters – 18 February 2005
Volume 94, Issue 6

The figures depict a self-running oil droplet. Drops of oil placed on glass and in a solution containing a surfactant are observed to move spontaneously, driven by a difference in surface tension between the front and back due to absorption of surfactant from the surface. Depending on the shape of the substrate, drops can execute various types of regular motion and can even climb up stairs. [Yutaka Sumino, Nobuyuki Magome, Tsutomu Hamada, and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 068301 (2005)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Self-Running Droplet: Emergence of Regular Motion from Nonequilibrium Noise
Yutaka Sumino, Nobuyuki Magome, Tsutomu Hamada, and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
068301 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Density Profiles of Strongly Interacting Trapped Fermi Gases
Jelena Stajic, Qijin Chen, and K. Levin
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
060401 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Exact Results for One-Dimensional Disordered Bosons with Strong Repulsion
A. De Martino, M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and R. Graham
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
060402 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Feshbach-Resonant Interactions in 40K and 6Li Degenerate Fermi Gases
Matt Mackie and Jyrki Piilo
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
060403 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Direct Imaging of Spatially Modulated Superfluid Phases in Atomic Fermion Systems
T. Mizushima, K. Machida, and M. Ichioka
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
060404 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Detecting Genuine Multipartite Entanglement with Two Local Measurements
Géza Tóth and Otfried Gühne
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
060501 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Random Decoupling Schemes for Quantum Dynamical Control and Error Suppression
Lorenza Viola and Emanuel Knill
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
060502 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Entropy, Entanglement, and Area: Analytical Results for Harmonic Lattice Systems
M. B. Plenio, J. Eisert, J. Dreißig, and M. Cramer
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
060503 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Nonlinear Amplification of Small Spin Precession Using Long-Range Dipolar Interactions
M. P. Ledbetter, I. M. Savukov, and M. V. Romalis
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
060801 [View PDF (205 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Cutoff Anti–de Sitter Space/Conformal-Field-Theory Duality and the Quest for Braneworld Black Holes
Paul R. Anderson, R. Balbinot, and A. Fabbri
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
061301 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Hawking Radiation in Sonic Black Holes
S. Giovanazzi
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
061302 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Inverse-Scattering Theory and the Density Perturbations from Inflation
Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann, and Gerard Jungman
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
061303 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Failure of Mean Field Theory at Large N
Shailesh Chandrasekharan and Costas G. Strouthos
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
061601 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Electroweak Baryogenesis in a Supersymmetric U(1)′ Model
Junhai Kang, Paul Langacker, Tianjun Li, and Tao Liu
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
061801 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Observation of B̅ 0→DsJ*(2317)+K- Decay
A. Drutskoy et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 16 February 2005 (6 pages)
061802 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Determining the Sign of the b→sγ Amplitude
Paolo Gambino, Ulrich Haisch, and Mikołaj Misiak
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
061803 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Pentaquarks uudds̅ with One Color Sextet Diquark
Claude Semay, Fabian Brau, and Bernard Silvestre-Brac
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
062001 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Open Charm Yields in d+Au Collisions at √sNN=200   GeV
J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Published 17 February 2005 (6 pages)
062301 [View PDF (185 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Discovery of Dumbbell-Shaped Cs*Hen Exciplexes in Solid 4He
D. Nettels, A. Hofer, P. Moroshkin, R. Müller-Siebert, S. Ulzega, and A. Weis
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
063001 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Lithium Ionization by a Strong Laser Field
Camilo Ruiz, Luis Plaja, and Luis Roso
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
063002 [View PDF (1,143 kB)]
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Theory of Electron Attachment to CO2 Clusters
Ilya I. Fabrikant and Hartmut Hotop
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
063201 [View PDF (679 kB)]
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Observation of Cold, Long-Lived Antiprotonic Helium Ions
M. Hori, J. Eades, R. S. Hayano, W. Pirkl, E. Widmann, H. Yamaguchi, H. A. Torii, B. Juhász, D. Horváth, K. Suzuki, and T. Yamazaki
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
063401 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Two-Photon Imaging with Thermal Light
Alejandra Valencia, Giuliano Scarcelli, Milena D’Angelo, and Yanhua Shih
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
063601 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Terahertz Response of a Microfabricated Rod–Split-Ring-Resonator Electromagnetic Metamaterial
H. O. Moser, B. D. F. Casse, O. Wilhelmi, and B. T. Saw
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
063901 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Nonlinear Optics with Stationary Pulses of Light
A. André, M. Bajcsy, A. S. Zibrov, and M. D. Lukin
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
063902 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Color-Tunable Organic Microcavity Laser Array Using Distributed Feedback
Giuseppe Strangi, Valentin Barna, Roberto Caputo, Antonio De Luca, Carlo Versace, Nicola Scaramuzza, Cesare Umeton, Roberto Bartolino, and Gabriel Noam Price
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
063903 [View PDF (837 kB)]
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Coherence Controlled Soliton Interactions
Ting-Sen Ku, Ming-Feng Shih, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
063904 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Excitability Mediated by Localized Structures in a Dissipative Nonlinear Optical Cavity
Damià Gomila, Manuel A. Matías, and Pere Colet
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
063905 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Scaling Behavior for the Onset of Convection in a Colloidal Suspension
Roberto Cerbino, Stefano Mazzoni, Alberto Vailati, and Marzio Giglio
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
064501 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Nonlinear Evolution of q=1 Triple Tearing Modes in a Tokamak Plasma
Andreas Bierwage, Satoshi Hamaguchi, Masahiro Wakatani, Sadruddin Benkadda, and Xavier Leoncini
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
065001 [View PDF (2,446 kB)]
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Localization of Intense Electromagnetic Waves in a Relativistically Hot Plasma
P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
065002 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Nondiffusive Transport in Plasma Turbulence: A Fractional Diffusion Approach
D. del-Castillo-Negrete, B. A. Carreras, and V. E. Lynch
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
065003 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Hohlraum-Driven Ignitionlike Double-Shell Implosions on the Omega Laser Facility
Peter A. Amendt, Harry F. Robey, H.-S. Park, R. E. Tipton, R. E. Turner, J. L. Milovich, M. Bono, R. Hibbard, H. Louis, R. Wallace, and V. Yu. Glebov
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
065004 [View PDF (800 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Possible One-Dimensional 3He Quantum Fluid Formed in Nanopores
Junko Taniguchi, Akira Yamaguchi, Hidehiko Ishimoto, Hiroki Ikegami, Taku Matsushita, Nobuo Wada, Silvina M. Gatica, Milton W. Cole, Francesco Ancilotto, Shinji Inagaki, and Yoshiaki Fukushima
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
065301 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Kolmogorov Spectrum of Superfluid Turbulence: Numerical Analysis of the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation with a Small-Scale Dissipation
Michikazu Kobayashi and Makoto Tsubota
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
065302 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Universal Octahedral-Site Distortion in Orthorhombic Perovskite Oxides
J.-S. Zhou and J. B. Goodenough
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
065501 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Elastic Self-Healing during Shear Accommodation in Crystalline Nanotube Ropes
Haiyi Liang and Moneesh Upmanyu
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
065502 [View PDF (243 kB)]
Photoexcitation of a Volume Plasmon in C60 Ions
S. W. J. Scully, E. D. Emmons, M. F. Gharaibeh, R. A. Phaneuf, A. L. D. Kilcoyne, A. S. Schlachter, S. Schippers, A. Müller, H. S. Chakraborty, M. E. Madjet, and J. M. Rost
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
065503 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Chiral Symmetry Breaking During Crystallization: Complete Chiral Purity Induced by Nonlinear Autocatalysis and Recycling
Cristobal Viedma
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
065504 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Polymerization of Formic Acid under High Pressure
Alexander F. Goncharov, M. Riad Manaa, Joseph M. Zaug, Richard H. Gee, Laurence E. Fried, and Wren B. Montgomery
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
065505 [View PDF (863 kB)]
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High Pressure Raman Study of Bromine and Iodine: Soft Phonon in the Incommensurate Phase
Tetsuji Kume, Takashi Hiraoka, Yasuhisa Ohya, Shigeo Sasaki, and Hiroyasu Shimizu
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
065506 [View PDF (647 kB)]
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Driven Pair Contact Process with Diffusion
Su-Chan Park and Hyunggyu Park
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
065701 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Clustering and Cooperative Dynamics in a Reactive System
S. Corezzi, D. Fioretto, and J. M. Kenny
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
065702 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Liquid-Glass Transition of a Fluid Confined in a Disordered Porous Matrix: A Mode-Coupling Theory
V. Krakoviack
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
065703 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Roughening Rates of Strained-Layer Instabilities
Fumiya Watanabe, David G. Cahill, and J. E. Greene
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
066101 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Detection and Quantized Conductance of Neutral Atoms Near a Charged Carbon Nanotube
Trygve Ristroph, Anne Goodsell, J. A. Golovchenko, and Lene Vestergaard Hau
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
066102 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Evolution of Multilevel Order in Supramolecular Assemblies
F. Vonau, D. Suhr, D. Aubel, L. Bouteiller, G. Reiter, and L. Simon
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
066103 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Observations of the Spontaneous Growth of Tin Whiskers on Tin-Manganese Alloy Electrodeposits
Keming Chen and Geoffrey D. Wilcox
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
066104 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Quantitative Analysis of WC Grain Shape in Sintered WC-Co Cemented Carbides
Mikael Christensen, Göran Wahnström, Colette Allibert, and Sabine Lay
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
066105 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Electrocompression of the Au(111) Surface Layer during Au Electrodeposition
A. H. Ayyad, J. Stettner, and O. M. Magnussen
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
066106 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Extended Hubbard Model with Ring Exchange: A Route to a Non-Abelian Topological Phase
Michael Freedman, Chetan Nayak, and Kirill Shtengel
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
066401 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Fractionalization and Fermi-Surface Volume in Heavy-Fermion Compounds: The Case of YbRh2Si2
Catherine Pépin
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
066402 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Hydrogenation-Induced Insulating State in the Intermetallic Compound LaMg2Ni
K. Yvon, G. Renaudin, C. M. Wei, and M. Y. Chou
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
066403 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Pumped Spin-Current and Shot-Noise Spectra of a Single Quantum Dot
Bing Dong, H. L. Cui, and X. L. Lei
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
066601 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Intrinsic Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum Hall Effect
S. Zhang and Z. Yang
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
066602 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Electron Delocalization and Dimerization in Solid C59N Doped C60 Fullerene
A. Rockenbauer, Gábor Csányi, F. Fülöp, S. Garaj, L. Korecz, R. Lukács, F. Simon, L. Forró, S. Pekker, and A. Jánossy
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
066603 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Gate-Dependent Magnetoresistance Phenomena in Carbon Nanotubes
G. Fedorov, B. Lassagne, M. Sagnes, B. Raquet, J.-M. Broto, F. Triozon, S. Roche, and E. Flahaut
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
066801 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Phonon-Induced Resistivity of Electron Liquids in Quantum Wires
Georg Seelig, K. A. Matveev, and A. V. Andreev
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
066802 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Spontaneous Relaxation of a Charge Qubit under Electrical Measurement
Xin-Qi Li, Ping Cui, and YiJing Yan
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
066803 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Tilt of Pancake Vortex Stacks in Layered Superconductors in the Crossing Lattice Regime
A. N. Grigorenko, S. J. Bending, I. V. Grigorieva, A. E. Koshelev, T. Tamegai, and S. Ooi
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
067001 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Frequency-Dependent Thermal Response of the Charge System and the Restricted Sum Rules of La2-xSrxCuO4
M. Ortolani, P. Calvani, and S. Lupi
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
067002 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Magnetic Fluctuations of Filled Skutterudites Emerging in the Transition Region between Singlet and Triplet States
Takashi Hotta
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
067003 [View PDF (544 kB)]
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Appearance of Topological Phases in Superconducting Nanocircuits
Mateusz Cholascinski
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
067004 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Gossamer Superconductivity near Antiferromagnetic Mott Insulator in Layered Organic Conductors
J. Y. Gan, Yan Chen, Z. B. Su, and F. C. Zhang
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
067005 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Fermi-Liquid-Based Theory for the In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy in Untwinned High-Tc Superconductors
I. Eremin and D. Manske
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
067006 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Anisotropic Diamagnetic Response in Type-II Superconductors with Gap and Fermi-Surface Anisotropies
H. Adachi, P. Miranović, M. Ichioka, and K. Machida
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
067007 [View PDF (119 kB)]
Efficient Single Photon Detection by Quantum Dot Resonant Tunneling Diodes
J. C. Blakesley, P. See, A. J. Shields, B. E. Kardynał, P. Atkinson, I. Farrer, and D. A. Ritchie
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
067401 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Vibrational Dynamics of Ions in Glass from Fifth-Order Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy
Eric C. Fulmer, Feng Ding, Prabuddha Mukherjee, and Martin T. Zanni
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
067402 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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Femtosecond Transfer Dynamics of Photogenerated Electrons at a Surface Resonance of Reconstructed InP(100)
L. Töben, L. Gundlach, R. Ernstorfer, R. Eichberger, T. Hannappel, F. Willig, A. Zeiser, J. Förstner, A. Knorr, P. H. Hahn, and W. G. Schmidt
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
067601 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Scaling Laws for Diffusion Coefficients in Mixtures of Alkanes
Denise E. Freed, Lauren Burcaw, and Yi-Qiao Song
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
067602 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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One Nanosecond Photon Correlation Spectroscopy on Smectic Liquid Crystal Films
S. Sharma, K. Neupane, A. Adorjan, A. R. Baldwin, and S. Sprunt
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
067801 [View PDF (3,000 kB)]
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Force Barriers for Membrane Tube Formation
Gerbrand Koster, Angelo Cacciuto, Imre Derényi, Daan Frenkel, and Marileen Dogterom
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
068101 [View PDF (709 kB)]
Self-Running Droplet: Emergence of Regular Motion from Nonequilibrium Noise
Yutaka Sumino, Nobuyuki Magome, Tsutomu Hamada, and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
068301 [View PDF (290 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Wave Front Interaction Model of Stabilized Propagating Wave Segments
Vladimir S. Zykov and Kenneth Showalter
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
068302 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Lévy Statistics of Vibrational Mode Fluctuations of Single Molecules from Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
Anna Rita Bizzarri and Salvatore Cannistraro
Published 15 February 2005 (4 pages)
068303 [View PDF (1,490 kB)]
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Significant Magnetoresistance Enhancement due to a Cotunneling Process in a Double Tunnel Junction with Single Discontinuous Ferromagnetic Layer Insertion
H. Sukegawa, S. Nakamura, A. Hirohata, N. Tezuka, and K. Inomata
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
068304 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Optimal Control of Photoisomerization
G. Vogt, G. Krampert, P. Niklaus, P. Nuernberger, and G. Gerber
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
068305 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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New Insights into the Melting Behavior of MgO from Molecular Dynamics Simulations: The Importance of Premelting Effects
Andrés Aguado and Paul A. Madden
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
068501 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Different Ocular Dominance Map Formation Influenced by Orientation Preference Columns in Visual Cortices
Myoung Won Cho and Seunghwan Kim
Published 16 February 2005 (4 pages)
068701 [View PDF (738 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Fluid near Its Critical Point”
J. V. Sengers and M. R. Moldover
Published 17 February 2005 (1 page)
069601 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Jagannathan and Yethiraj Reply:
Kamakshi Jagannathan and Arun Yethiraj
Published 17 February 2005 (1 page)
069602 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Comment on “Continuous Quantum Measurement: Inelastic Tunneling and Lack of Current Oscillations”
Dmitri V. Averin and Alexander N. Korotkov
Published 16 February 2005 (1 page)
069701 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Stace and Barrett Reply:
T. M. Stace and S. D. Barrett
Published 16 February 2005 (1 page)
069702 [View PDF (38 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: First-Principles Study of Piezoelectricity in PbTiO3 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 004321 (1998)]
Zhigang Wu, Gotthard Sághi-Szabó, Ronald E. Cohen, and Henry Krakauer
Published 17 February 2005 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Erratum: Fluidity of Hydration Layers Nanoconfined between Mica Surfaces [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 026101 (2005)]
Yongsheng Leng and Peter T. Cummings
Published 17 February 2005 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Quantum Fluctuations of the Refractive Index near the Interface Between a Metal and a Nonlinear Dielectric [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 057403 (2005)]
Igor I. Smolyaninov
Published 18 February 2005 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Attojoule Calorimetry of Mesoscopic Superconducting Loops [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 057007 (2005)]
O. Bourgeois, S. E. Skipetrov, F. Ong, and J. Chaussy
Published 18 February 2005 (1 page)
069904(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Entangled and Disentangled Evolution for a Single Atom in a Driven Cavity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 053603 (2005)]
J. Gea-Banacloche, T. C. Burt, P. R. Rice, and L. Orozco
Published 18 February 2005 (1 page)
069905(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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