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Physical Review Letters – 2 September 2005
Volume 95, Issue 10

Multifractal analysis of 2D turbulent flows provides instantaneous ocean velocity fields from satellite images of the sea surface temperature. [Antonio Turiel, Jordi Isern-Fontanet, Emilio Garcia-Ladona, and Jordi Font, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 104502 (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.

Strain-Induced Coupling of Spin Current to Nanomechanical Oscillations
A. G. Mal’shukov, C. S. Tang, C. S. Chu, and K. A. Chao
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
107203 [View PDF (130 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Diffusion Monte Carlo Method with Lattice Regularization
Michele Casula, Claudia Filippi, and Sandro Sorella
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
100201 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Loss-Tolerant Optical Qubits
T. C. Ralph, A. J. F. Hayes, and Alexei Gilchrist
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
100501 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Nonperturbative Fixed Point in a Nonequilibrium Phase Transition
Léonie Canet, Hugues Chaté, Bertrand Delamotte, Ivan Dornic, and Miguel A. Muñoz
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
100601 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Are Direct Search Experiments Sensitive to All Spin-Independent Weakly Interacting Massive Particles?
F. Giuliani
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
101301 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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Probing the Largest Scale Structure in the Universe with Polarization Map of Galaxy Clusters
Naoki Seto and Elena Pierpaoli
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
101302 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Improved Evidence for Direct CP Violation in B0→π+π- Decays and Model-Independent Constraints on ϕ2
K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 31 August 2005 (6 pages)
101801 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Neutrino Mass Constraints on μ Decay and π0→νν̅
Gary Prézeau and Andriy Kurylov
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
101802 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Recoil Polarization for Δ Excitation in Pion Electroproduction
J. J. Kelly et al. (Jefferson Laboratory E91011 and Hall A Collaborations)
Published 29 August 2005 (6 pages)
102001 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Measurement of B(t→Wb)/B(t→Wq) at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 29 August 2005 (7 pages)
102002 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Observation of the hc(1P1) State of Charmonium
J. L. Rosner et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
Published 31 August 2005 (5 pages)
102003 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Three-Loop Mixing of Dipole Operators
Martin Gorbahn, Ulrich Haisch, and Mikołaj Misiak
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
102004 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Q Value of the Superallowed Decay of 46V and Its Influence on Vud and the Unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix
G. Savard, F. Buchinger, J. A. Clark, J. E. Crawford, S. Gulick, J. C. Hardy, A. A. Hecht, J. K. P. Lee, A. F. Levand, N. D. Scielzo, H. Sharma, K. S. Sharma, I. Tanihata, A. C. C. Villari, and Y. Wang
Published 29 August 2005 (4 pages)
102501 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Experimental Identification of Spin-Parities and Single-Particle Configurations in 257No and Its α-Decay Daughter 253Fm
M. Asai, K. Tsukada, M. Sakama, S. Ichikawa, T. Ishii, Y. Nagame, I. Nishinaka, K. Akiyama, A. Osa, Y. Oura, K. Sueki, and M. Shibata
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
102502 [View PDF (370 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Nondispersive Two-Electron Wave Packets in a Helium Atom
Matt Kalinski, Loren Hansen, and David Farrelly
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
103001 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Conformational Effects in Inner-Shell Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Ethanol
M. Abu-samha, K. J. Børve, L. J. Sæthre, and T. D. Thomas
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
103002 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Two Very Efficient Nonlinear Laser Absorption Mechanisms in Clusters
P. Mulser, M. Kanapathipillai, and D. H. H. Hoffmann
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
103401 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Experimental Demonstration of Selective Coherent Population Transfer via a Continuum
Thorsten Peters, Leonid P. Yatsenko, and Thomas Halfmann
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
103601 [View PDF (287 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Transmission of Light through a Single Rectangular Hole
F. J. García-Vidal, Esteban Moreno, J. A. Porto, and L. Martín-Moreno
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
103901 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Coupling of Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Light in Metallic Nanoslits
K. G. Lee and Q-Han Park
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
103902 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Degenerate Periodic Orbits and Homoclinic Torus Bifurcation
Thomas J. Bridges and Neil M. Donaldson
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
104301 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Interface Thermal Resistance between Dissimilar Anharmonic Lattices
Baowen Li, Jinghua Lan, and Lei Wang
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
104302 [View PDF (762 kB)]
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Anomalous Roughening of Viscous Fluid Fronts in Spontaneous Imbibition
J. Soriano, A. Mercier, R. Planet, A. Hernández-Machado, M. A. Rodríguez, and J. Ortín
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
104501 [View PDF (1,384 kB)]
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Multifractal Method for the Instantaneous Evaluation of the Stream Function in Geophysical Flows
Antonio Turiel, Jordi Isern-Fontanet, Emilio Garcia-Ladona, and Jordi Font
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
104502 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Transition to Chaos in a Confined Two-Dimensional Fluid Flow
D. Molenaar, H. J. H. Clercx, and G. J. F. van Heijst
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
104503 [View PDF (692 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Efficient Radiation Production in Long Implosions of Structured Gas-Puff Z Pinch Loads from Large Initial Radius
H. Sze, J. Banister, B. H. Failor, J. S. Levine, N. Qi, A. L. Velikovich, J. Davis, D. Lojewski, and P. Sincerny
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
105001 [View PDF (864 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Observability of a Projected New State of Matter: A Metallic Superfluid
E. Babaev, A. Sudbø, and N. W. Ashcroft
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
105301 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Size Dependence of the Thin-Shell Model for Carbon Nanotubes
Lifeng Wang, Quanshui Zheng, Jefferson Z. Liu, and Qing Jiang
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
105501 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Importance of Quantum Tunneling in Vacancy-Hydrogen Complexes in Diamond
M. J. Shaw, P. R. Briddon, J. P. Goss, M. J. Rayson, A. Kerridge, A. H. Harker, and A. M. Stoneham
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
105502 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Diffuse Scattering and Phason Fluctuations in the Zn-Mg-Sc Icosahedral Quasicrystal and Its Zn-Sc Periodic Approximant
M. de Boissieu, S. Francoual, Y. Kaneko, and T. Ishimasa
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
105503 [View PDF (578 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition
Wojciech H. Zurek, Uwe Dorner, and Peter Zoller
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
105701 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Velocity and Strain-Rate Profiles in Materials Subjected to Unlubricated Sliding
S. Karthikeyan, H. J. Kim, and D. A. Rigney
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
106001 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Self-Assembly of Parallel Atomic Wires and Periodic Clusters of Silicon on a Vicinal Si(111) Surface
Takeharu Sekiguchi, Shunji Yoshida, and Kohei M. Itoh
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
106101 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Water-Enhanced Catalysis of CO Oxidation on Free and Supported Gold Nanoclusters
Angelo Bongiorno and Uzi Landman
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
106102 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Atomic-Scale Surface Demixing in a Eutectic Liquid BiSn Alloy
Oleg G. Shpyrko, Alexei Yu. Grigoriev, Reinhard Streitel, Diego Pontoni, Peter S. Pershan, Moshe Deutsch, Ben Ocko, Mati Meron, and Binhua Lin
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
106103 [View PDF (580 kB)]
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When Smoothening Makes It Rough: Unhindered Step-Edge Diffusion and the Meandering Instability on Metal Surfaces
F. Nita and A. Pimpinelli
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
106104 [View PDF (426 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Universal Relationship between Magnetization and Changes in the Local Structure of La1-xCaxMnO3: Evidence for Magnetic Dimers
L. Downward, F. Bridges, S. Bushart, J. J. Neumeier, N. Dilley, and L. Zhou
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
106401 [View PDF (626 kB)]
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Dynamical Breakup of the Fermi Surface in a Doped Mott Insulator
M. Civelli, M. Capone, S. S. Kancharla, O. Parcollet, and G. Kotliar
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
106402 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Spin Current and Accumulation Generated by the Spin Hall Insulator
Masaru Onoda and Naoto Nagaosa
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
106601 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Population Inversion of a Driven Two-Level System in a Structureless Bath
T. M. Stace, A. C. Doherty, and S. D. Barrett
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
106801 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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First-Principles Mobility Calculations and Atomic-Scale Interface Roughness in Nanoscale Structures
M. H. Evans, X.-G. Zhang, J. D. Joannopoulos, and S. T. Pantelides
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
106802 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Andreev Reflection at High Magnetic Fields: Evidence for Electron and Hole Transport in Edge States
J. Eroms, D. Weiss, J. De Boeck, G. Borghs, and U. Zülicke
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
107001 [View PDF (540 kB)]
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Breakdown of One-Parameter Scaling in Quantum Critical Scenarios for High-Temperature Copper-Oxide Superconductors
Philip Phillips and Claudio Chamon
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
107002 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Quadrupolar Excitons in the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor PrOs4Sb12
K. Kuwahara, K. Iwasa, M. Kohgi, K. Kaneko, N. Metoki, S. Raymond, M.-A. Méasson, J. Flouquet, H. Sugawara, Y. Aoki, and H. Sato
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
107003 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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Multiband Superconductivity in the Heavy Fermion Compound Pr⁡Os4Sb12
G. Seyfarth, J. P. Brison, M.-A. Méasson, J. Flouquet, K. Izawa, Y. Matsuda, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
107004 [View PDF (710 kB)]
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Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in a d-Wave High-TC Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Superconductor
K. Inomata, S. Sato, Koji Nakajima, A. Tanaka, Y. Takano, H. B. Wang, M. Nagao, H. Hatano, and S. Kawabata
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
107005 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Thermal Conductivity of Superconductors with Gap Nodes
Tomas Löfwander and Mikael Fogelström
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
107006 [View PDF (567 kB)]
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Quantum Phase Slips in the Presence of Finite-Range Disorder
Sergei Khlebnikov and Leonid P. Pryadko
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
107007 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Na2V3O7: A Frustrated Nanotubular System with Spin-1/2 Diamond Ring Geometry
T. Saha-Dasgupta, Roser Valentí, F. Capraro, and C. Gros
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
107201 [View PDF (422 kB)]
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Checking for Optimal Solutions in Some NP-Complete Problems
Michel Bauer and Henri Orland
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
107202 [View PDF (76 kB)]
Strain-Induced Coupling of Spin Current to Nanomechanical Oscillations
A. G. Mal’shukov, C. S. Tang, C. S. Chu, and K. A. Chao
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
107203 [View PDF (130 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Current-Spin Coupling for Ferromagnetic Domain Walls in Fine Wires
S. E. Barnes and S. Maekawa
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
107204 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Diffusion-Controlled Electron Transfer Processes and Power-Law Statistics of Fluorescence Intermittency of Nanoparticles
Jau Tang and R. A. Marcus
Published 29 August 2005 (4 pages)
107401 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Electron Dynamics in Front of a Ferromagnetic Surface
Anke B. Schmidt, Martin Pickel, Martin Wiemhöfer, Markus Donath, and Martin Weinelt
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
107402 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Atom-Specific Identification of Adsorbed Chiral Molecules by Photoemission
J. W. Kim, M. Carbone, J. H. Dil, M. Tallarida, R. Flammini, M. P. Casaletto, K. Horn, and M. N. Piancastelli
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
107601 [View PDF (375 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Surface Wetting of Liquid Nanodroplets: Droplet-Size Effects
David R. Heine, Gary S. Grest, and Edmund B. Webb, III
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
107801 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Layer-Scale Optical Chirality of Liquid-Crystalline Phases
L. E. Hough and N. A. Clark
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
107802 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Kinetic Model for Sheared Granular Flows in the High Knudsen Number Limit
V. Kumaran
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
108001 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Scattering of Solitary Waves from Interfaces in Granular Media
Lautaro Vergara
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
108002 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Fermi-Like Behavior of Weakly Vibrated Granular Matter
Jorge E. Fiscina and Manuel O. Cáceres
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
108003 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Discrete Modeling of the Mechanics of Entangled Materials
David Rodney, Marc Fivel, and Rémy Dendievel
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
108004 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Nature Optimizes the Swirling Flow in the Human Left Ventricle
Gianni Pedrizzetti and Federico Domenichini
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
108101 [View PDF (744 kB)]
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Internal Stress in a Model Elastoplastic Fluid
Ooshida Takeshi and Ken Sekimoto
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
108301 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Structure and Stability of Self-Assembled Actin-Lysozyme Complexes in Salty Water
Lori K. Sanders, Camilo Guáqueta, Thomas E. Angelini, Jae-Wook Lee, Scott C. Slimmer, Erik Luijten, and Gerard C. L. Wong
Published 1 September 2005 (4 pages)
108302 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Annihilation of Limit-Cycle Oscillations by Identification of Critical Perturbing Stimuli via Mixed-Integer Optimal Control
D. Lebiedz, S. Sager, H. G. Bock, and P. Lebiedz
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
108303 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Threshold Effects for Two Pathogens Spreading on a Network
M. E. J. Newman
Published 2 September 2005 (4 pages)
108701 [View PDF (122 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Physical Limits on Electronic Nonlinear Molecular Susceptibilities”
Benoît Champagne and Bernard Kirtman
Published 1 September 2005 (1 page)
109401 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Kuzyk Replies:
Mark G. Kuzyk
Published 1 September 2005 (1 page)
109402 [View PDF (39 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Chern Numbers for Spin Models of Transition Metal Nanomagnets [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 046805 (2003)]
C. M. Canali, A. Cehovin, and A. H. MacDonald
Published 2 September 2005 (1 page)
109901(E) [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Erratum: Van der Waals Density Functional for General Geometries [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004)]
M. Dion, H. Rydberg, E. Schröder, D. C. Langreth, and B. I. Lundqvist
Published 2 September 2005 (1 page)
109902(E) [View PDF (50 kB)]
 
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