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Physical Review Letters – 23 September 2005
Volume 95, Issue 13

Damage produced in silica glass under dynamic compression is evinced by a wing crack (gray) and nanocavities (color) in these snapshots from a molecular dynamics simulation. [Zhen Lu, Ken-ichi Nomura, Ashish Sharma, Weiqiang Wang, Cheng Zhang, Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv Kalia, Priya Vashishta, Elisabeth Bouchaud, and Cindy Rountree, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135501 (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.

Observation of a Metallic Superfluid in a Numerical Experiment
E. Smørgrav, E. Babaev, J. Smiseth, and A. Sudbø
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
135301 [View PDF (536 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Quantum Decoupling Transition in a One-Dimensional Feshbach-Resonant Superfluid
Daniel E. Sheehy and Leo Radzihovsky
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
130401 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Atom-Molecule Coherence in a One-Dimensional System
R. Citro and E. Orignac
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
130402 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Propagation of a Dark Soliton in a Disordered Bose-Einstein Condensate
Nicolas Bilas and Nicolas Pavloff
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
130403 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Holonomic Quantum Computation in Decoherence-Free Subspaces
L.-A. Wu, P. Zanardi, and D. A. Lidar
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
130501 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic Electron Pumping: Maximal Current with Minimal Noise
Michael Strass, Peter Hänggi, and Sigmund Kohler
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
130601 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Equality Connecting Energy Dissipation with a Violation of the Fluctuation-Response Relation
Takahiro Harada and Shin-ichi Sasa
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
130602 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Coarse Nonlinear Dynamics and Metastability of Filling-Emptying Transitions: Water in Carbon Nanotubes
Saravanapriyan Sriraman, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, and Gerhard Hummer
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
130603 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Structural Order for One-Scale and Two-Scale Potentials
Zhenyu Yan, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Nicolas Giovambattista, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
130604 [View PDF (292 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for New Physics Using High-Mass Tau Pairs from 1.96 TeV pp̅ Collisions
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 21 September 2005 (7 pages)
131801 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Measurement of Time-Dependent CP Asymmetries in B0→D(*)±D∓ Decays
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 23 September 2005 (7 pages)
131802 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Measurement of Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries in B+ Decays to ηπ+, ηK+, ηρ+, and η′π+, and Search for B0 Decays to ηK0 and ηω
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 23 September 2005 (7 pages)
131803 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Monoenergetic Neutrino Beam for Long-Baseline Experiments
Joe Sato
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
131804 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

Evidence for Pygmy and Giant Dipole Resonances in 130Sn and 132Sn
P. Adrich, A. Klimkiewicz, M. Fallot, K. Boretzky, T. Aumann, D. Cortina-Gil, U. Datta Pramanik, Th. W. Elze, H. Emling, H. Geissel, M. Hellström, K. L. Jones, J. V. Kratz, R. Kulessa, Y. Leifels, C. Nociforo, R. Palit, H. Simon, G. Surówka, K. Sümmerer, and W. Waluś (LAND-FRS Collaboration)
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
132501 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Doppler Shift as a Tool for Studies of Isobaric Analog States of Neutron-Rich Nuclei: Application to 7He
P. Boutachkov, G. V. Rogachev, V. Z. Goldberg, A. Aprahamian, F. D. Becchetti, J. P. Bychowski, Y. Chen, G. Chubarian, P. A. DeYoung, J. J. Kolata, L. O. Lamm, G. F. Peaslee, M. Quinn, B. B. Skorodumov, and A. Wöhr
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
132502 [View PDF (262 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Violation of the Franck-Condon Principle due to Recoil Effects in High Energy Molecular Core-Level Photoionization
E. Kukk, K. Ueda, U. Hergenhahn, X.-J. Liu, G. Prümper, H. Yoshida, Y. Tamenori, C. Makochekanwa, T. Tanaka, M. Kitajima, and H. Tanaka
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
133001 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Observation of Atom Wave Phase Shifts Induced by Van Der Waals Atom-Surface Interactions
John D. Perreault and Alexander D. Cronin
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
133201 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Ionization of Hydrogen Rydberg Molecules at a Metal Surface
G. R. Lloyd, S. R. Procter, and T. P. Softley
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
133202 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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On-Demand Superradiant Conversion of Atomic Spin Gratings into Single Photons with High Efficiency
Adam T. Black, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletić
Published 20 September 2005 (4 pages)
133601 [View PDF (300 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Photonic Quasicrystals for Nonlinear Optical Frequency Conversion
Ron Lifshitz, Ady Arie, and Alon Bahabad
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
133901 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Linear Instability of Planar Shear Banded Flow
S. M. Fielding
Published 20 September 2005 (4 pages)
134501 [View PDF (280 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Visible-Laser Acceleration of Relativistic Electrons in a Semi-Infinite Vacuum
T. Plettner, R. L. Byer, E. Colby, B. Cowan, C. M. S. Sears, J. E. Spencer, and R. H. Siemann
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
134801 [View PDF (588 kB)]
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Effect of Radial-Electric-Field Polarity on Wire-Array Z-Pinch Dynamics
S. N. Bland, S. V. Lebedev, J. P. Chittenden, D. J. Ampleford, S. C. Bott, J. A. Gómez, M. G. Haines, G. N. Hall, D. A. Hammer, I. H. Mitchell, and J. B. A. Palmer
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
135001 [View PDF (1,185 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of a Metallic Superfluid in a Numerical Experiment
E. Smørgrav, E. Babaev, J. Smiseth, and A. Sudbø
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
135301 [View PDF (536 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Dynamics of Wing Cracks and Nanoscale Damage in Glass
Zhen Lu, Ken-ichi Nomura, Ashish Sharma, Weiqiang Wang, Cheng Zhang, Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv Kalia, Priya Vashishta, Elisabeth Bouchaud, and Cindy Rountree
Published 20 September 2005 (4 pages)
135501 [View PDF (594 kB)]
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Nucleation Time of Nanoscale Water Bridges
Robert Szoszkiewicz and Elisa Riedo
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
135502 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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How Multivalency Controls Ionic Criticality
Michael E. Fisher, Jean-Noël Aqua, and Shubho Banerjee
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
135701 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Fractal Structure of High-Temperature Graphs of O(N) Models in Two Dimensions
Wolfhard Janke and Adriaan M. J. Schakel
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
135702 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Dynamical Zero-Temperature Phase Transitions and Cosmic Inflation or Deflation
Ralf Schützhold
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
135703 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Sublimation of a Vibrated Granular Monolayer: Coexistence of Gas and Solid
Andreas Götzendorfer, Jennifer Kreft, Christof A. Kruelle, and Ingo Rehberg
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
135704 [View PDF (518 kB)]
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Observation of the Dynamical Change in a Water Monolayer Adsorbed on a ZnO Surface
Olga Dulub, Bernd Meyer, and Ulrike Diebold
Published 20 September 2005 (4 pages)
136101 [View PDF (1,346 kB)]
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1D Lattice Distortions as the Origin of the (2×2)p4gm Reconstruction in γ′-Fe4N(100): A Magnetism-Induced Surface Reconstruction
J. M. Gallego, D. O. Boerma, R. Miranda, and Felix Ynduráin
Published 20 September 2005 (4 pages)
136102 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Reversible Self-Propelled Droplet Movement: A New Driving Mechanism
Paul Lazar and Hans Riegler
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
136103 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Evolution of Topological Order in Xe Films on a Quasicrystal Surface
Stefano Curtarolo, Wahyu Setyawan, Nicola Ferralis, Renee D. Diehl, and Milton W. Cole
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
136104 [View PDF (825 kB)]
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Dissociation of Water on Defective Carbon Substrates
M. K. Kostov, E. E. Santiso, A. M. George, K. E. Gubbins, and M. Buongiorno Nardelli
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
136105 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Critical Epinucleation on Reconstructured Surfaces and First-Principle Calculation of Homonucleation on Si(100)
Raj Ganesh S. Pala and Feng Liu
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
136106 [View PDF (1,377 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Orbital Ordering Transition in Ca2RuO4 Observed with Resonant X-Ray Diffraction
I. Zegkinoglou, J. Strempfer, C. S. Nelson, J. P. Hill, J. Chakhalian, C. Bernhard, J. C. Lang, G. Srajer, H. Fukazawa, S. Nakatsuji, Y. Maeno, and B. Keimer
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
136401 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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All-Electron Exact Exchange Treatment of Semiconductors: Effect of Core-Valence Interaction on Band-Gap and d-Band Position
S. Sharma, J. K. Dewhurst, and C. Ambrosch-Draxl
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
136402 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Optical Spin Hall Effect
Alexey Kavokin, Guillaume Malpuech, and Mikhail Glazov
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
136601 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Nondissipative Spin Hall Effect via Quantized Edge Transport
L. Sheng, D. N. Sheng, C. S. Ting, and F. D. M. Haldane
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
136602 [View PDF (540 kB)]
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Optical Signatures of Spin-Orbit Interaction Effects in a Parabolic Quantum Dot
Tapash Chakraborty and Pekka Pietiläinen
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
136603 [View PDF (1,631 kB)]
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Link between Adatom Resonances and the Cu(111) Shockley Surface State
Jérôme Lagoute, Xi Liu, and Stefan Fölsch
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
136801 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Sensing Dipole Fields at Atomic Steps with Combined Scanning Tunneling and Force Microscopy
Jeong Young Park, G. M. Sacha, M. Enachescu, D. F. Ogletree, R. A. Ribeiro, P. C. Canfield, C. J. Jenks, P. A. Thiel, J. J. Sáenz, and M. Salmeron
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
136802 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Tunneling through a Barrier in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime
Elad Shopen, Yuval Gefen, and Yigal Meir
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
136803 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Imaging Transport Resonances in the Quantum Hall Effect
G. A. Steele, R. C. Ashoori, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
136804 [View PDF (1,031 kB)]
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Particle-Hole Asymmetry in Doped Mott Insulators: Implications for Tunneling and Photoemission Spectroscopies
Mohit Randeria, Rajdeep Sensarma, Nandini Trivedi, and Fu-Chun Zhang
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
137001 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Correlation between Superfluid Density and TC of Underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x Near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Yuri Zuev, Mun Seog Kim, and Thomas R. Lemberger
Published 20 September 2005 (4 pages)
137002 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Scattering in Multilayered Magnetic Rings
F. J. Castaño, D. Morecroft, W. Jung, and C. A. Ross
Published 20 September 2005 (4 pages)
137201 [View PDF (2,416 kB)]
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Interface Magnetization Reversal and Anisotropy in Fe/AlGaAs(001)
H. B. Zhao, D. Talbayev, G. Lüpke, A. T. Hanbicki, C. H. Li, M. J. van’t Erve, G. Kioseoglou, and B. T. Jonker
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
137202 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Spin-Polarized Tunneling Spectroscopy in Tunnel Junctions with Half-Metallic Electrodes
M. Bowen, A. Barthélémy, M. Bibes, E. Jacquet, J.-P. Contour, A. Fert, F. Ciccacci, L. Duò, and R. Bertacco
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
137203 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Berry Phase Correction to Electron Density of States in Solids
Di Xiao, Junren Shi, and Qian Niu
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
137204 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Orbital Magnetization in Periodic Insulators
T. Thonhauser, Davide Ceresoli, David Vanderbilt, and R. Resta
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
137205 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Two-Step Restoration of SU(2) Symmetry in a Frustrated Ring-Exchange Magnet
A. Läuchli, J. C. Domenge, C. Lhuillier, P. Sindzingre, and M. Troyer
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
137206 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Peierls Transition in the Quantum Spin-Peierls Model
William Barford and Robert J. Bursill
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
137207 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Ground States and Thermal States of the Random Field Ising Model
Yong Wu and Jonathan Machta
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
137208 [View PDF (578 kB)]
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Fraction of Boroxol Rings in Vitreous Boron Oxide from a First-Principles Analysis of Raman and NMR Spectra
P. Umari and Alfredo Pasquarello
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
137401 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Femtosecond Electron and Spin Dynamics in Gd(0001) Studied by Time-Resolved Photoemission and Magneto-optics
M. Lisowski, P. A. Loukakos, A. Melnikov, I. Radu, L. Ungureanu, M. Wolf, and U. Bovensiepen
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
137402 [View PDF (643 kB)]
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Photon Statistics from Coupled Quantum Dots
Brian D. Gerardot, Stefan Strauf, Michiel J. A. de Dood, Andrey M. Bychkov, Antonio Badolato, Kevin Hennessy, Evelyn L. Hu, Dirk Bouwmeester, and Pierre M. Petroff
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
137403 [View PDF (651 kB)]
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Experimental Demonstration of Near-Infrared Negative-Index Metamaterials
Shuang Zhang, Wenjun Fan, N. C. Panoiu, K. J. Malloy, R. M. Osgood, and S. R. J. Brueck
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
137404 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Ground-State Decay Rate for the Zener Breakdown in Band and Mott Insulators
Takashi Oka and Hideo Aoki
Published 21 September 2005 (4 pages)
137601 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Structural and Electronic Properties of the Interface between the High-k Oxide LaAlO3 and Si(001)
Clemens J. Först, Karlheinz Schwarz, and Peter E. Blöchl
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
137602 [View PDF (1,464 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Shear Stress Fluctuations in the Granular Liquid and Solid Phases
F. Dalton, F. Farrelly, A. Petri, L. Pietronero, L. Pitolli, and G. Pontuale
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
138001 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Symmetry-Breaking Motility
Allen Lee, Ha Youn Lee, and Mehran Kardar
Published 19 September 2005 (4 pages)
138101 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Efficient Sampling of Protein Structures by Model Hopping
Wooseop Kwak and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann
Published 22 September 2005 (4 pages)
138102 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Neuronal Oscillators in Aplysia californica that Demonstrate Weak Coupling In Vitro
Amanda J. Preyer and Robert J. Butera
Published 23 September 2005 (4 pages)
138103 [View PDF (379 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Acoustical Klein-Gordon Equation: A Time-Independent Perturbation Analysis”
Hans Werner Strube
Published 22 September 2005 (1 page)
139401 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Forbes and Pike Reply:
Barbara J. Forbes and E. Roy Pike
Published 22 September 2005 (1 page)
139402 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Comment on “a/[110] Stacking Fault Model for Platelets in Diamond”
R. Jones, M. I. Heggie, and J. P. Goss
Published 21 September 2005 (1 page)
139601 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Miranda, Antonelli, and Nunes Reply:
C. R. Miranda, A. Antonelli, and R. W. Nunes
Published 21 September 2005 (1 page)
139602 [View PDF (36 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Quantum Opacity, the RHIC Hanbury Brown–Twiss Puzzle, and the Chiral Phase Transition [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 102302 (2005)]
John G. Cramer, Gerald A. Miller, Jackson M. S. Wu, and Jin-Hee Yoon
Published 19 September 2005 (2 pages)
139901(E) [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Erratum: Observation of Shock Transverse Waves in Elastic Media [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 164301 (2003)]
S. Catheline, J.-L. Gennisson, M. Tanter, and M. Fink
Published 21 September 2005 (1 page)
139902(E) [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Erratum: Upper Limits on Gravitational-Wave Emission in Association with the 27 Dec 2004 Giant Flare of SGR1806-20 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 081103 (2005)]
L. Baggio, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, M. De Rosa, P. Falferi, P. Fortini, M. Inguscio, N. Liguori, F. Marin, R. Mezzena, A. Mion, A. Ortolan, G. A. Prodi, S. Poggi, F. Salemi, G. Soranzo, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato, A. Vinante, S. Vitale, and J. P. Zendri (AURIGA Collaboration)
Published 23 September 2005 (1 page)
139903(E) [View PDF (30 kB)]
 
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