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Physical Review Letters – 14 October 2005
Volume 95, Issue 16

Images of the coalescence of two millimeter-sized water droplets taken at 11 200 frames/sec elucidate the roles surface tension and viscosity play in this process. [Dirk G. Aarts, Henk N. Lekkerkerker, Hua Guo, Gerard H. Wegdam, and Daniel Bonn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164503 (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.

Escape of Black Holes from the Brane
Antonino Flachi and Takahiro Tanaka
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
161302 [View PDF (220 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Resonant Fermi Gases with a Large Effective Range
A. Schwenk and C. J. Pethick
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
160401 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Detecting Entanglement Using a Double-Quantum-Dot Turnstile
M. Blaauboer and D. P. DiVincenzo
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
160402 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Testing Gravity-Driven Collapse of the Wave Function via Cosmogenic Neutrinos
Joy Christian
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
160403 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Incompressible Liquid State of Rapidly Rotating Bosons at Filling Factor 3/2
E. H. Rezayi, N. Read, and N. R. Cooper
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
160404 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Generation of Atomic Cluster States through the Cavity Input-Output Process
Jaeyoon Cho and Hai-Woong Lee
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
160501 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Nondiffusive Motion of a Brownian Particle
B. Lukić, S. Jeney, C. Tischer, A. J. Kulik, L. Forró, and E.-L. Florin
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
160601 [View PDF (246 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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General Nonextremal Rotating Black Holes in Minimal Five-Dimensional Gauged Supergravity
Z.-W. Chong, M. Cvetič, H. Lü, and C. N. Pope
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
161301 [View PDF (88 kB)]
Escape of Black Holes from the Brane
Antonino Flachi and Takahiro Tanaka
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
161302 [View PDF (220 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

Relaxing to Three Dimensions
Andreas Karch and Lisa Randall
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
161601 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Search for Large Extra Spatial Dimensions in Dimuon Production with the D0 Detector
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 13 October 2005 (8 pages)
161602 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Supersymmetric SO(10) Seesaw Mechanism with Low B-L Scale
M. Malinský, J. C. Romão, and J. W. F. Valle
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
161801 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Finite-Temperature Gauge Theory from the Transverse Lattice
S. Dalley and B. van de Sande
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
162001 [View PDF (1,715 kB)]
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Quantitative Study of the Violation of k⊥ Factorization in Hadroproduction of Quarks at Collider Energies
Hirotsugu Fujii, François Gelis, and Raju Venugopalan
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
162002 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Beam-Helicity Asymmetries in Double-Charged-Pion Photoproduction on the Proton
S. Strauch et al. (CLAS Collaboration)
Published 10 October 2005 (5 pages)
162003 [View PDF (451 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Resolving the Discrepancy of 135 MeV pd Elastic Scattering Cross Sections and Relativistic Effects
K. Sekiguchi, H. Sakai, H. Witała, W. Glöckle, J. Golak, K. Hatanaka, M. Hatano, K. Itoh, H. Kamada, H. Kuboki, Y. Maeda, A. Nogga, H. Okamura, T. Saito, N. Sakamoto, Y. Sakemi, M. Sasano, Y. Shimizu, K. Suda, A. Tamii, T. Uesaka, T. Wakasa, and K. Yako
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
162301 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Nonextensive Boltzmann Equation and Hadronization
T. S. Biró and G. Purcsel
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
162302 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Fast Decision in Favor of the Slow Fission Process
V. Tishchenko, C.-M. Herbach, D. Hilscher, U. Jahnke, J. Galin, F. Goldenbaum, A. Letourneau, and W.-U. Schröder
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
162701 [View PDF (221 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Trajectory Surface Hopping in the Time-Dependent Kohn-Sham Approach for Electron-Nuclear Dynamics
Colleen F. Craig, Walter R. Duncan, and Oleg V. Prezhdo
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
163001 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic Effects in Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
F. Hennies, S. Polyutov, I. Minkov, A. Pietzsch, M. Nagasono, F. Gel’mukhanov, L. Triguero, M.-N. Piancastelli, W. Wurth, H. Ågren, and A. Föhlisch
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
163002 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Precise Calculation of Transition Frequencies of Hydrogen and Deuterium Based on a Least-Squares Analysis
Ulrich D. Jentschura, Svetlana Kotochigova, Eric-Olivier Le Bigot, Peter J. Mohr, and Barry N. Taylor
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
163003 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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In Search of the Electron Electric Dipole Moment: Relativistic Correlation Calculations of the P,T-Violating Effect in the Ground State of HI+
T. A. Isaev, A. N. Petrov, N. S. Mosyagin, and A. V. Titov
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
163004 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Evanescent-Wave Mirror for Ultracold Diatomic Polar Molecules
S. Kallush, B. Segev, and R. Côté
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
163005 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Rydberg Transition Frequencies from the Local Density Approximation
Adam Wasserman and Kieron Burke
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
163006 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Engineering Very-High-n Polarized Rydberg States Using Tailored Half-Cycle-Pulse Sequences
W. Zhao, J. J. Mestayer, J. C. Lancaster, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, S. Yoshida, and J. Burgdörfer
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
163007 [View PDF (3,493 kB)]
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Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Doped Helium Nanodroplets
Evgeniy Loginov, Dominic Rossi, and Marcel Drabbels
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
163401 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of Cold Antihydrogen Formation in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas
S. X. Hu, D. Vrinceanu, S. Mazevet, and L. A. Collins
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
163402 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Non-Markovian Dynamics in a Dense Potassium Vapor
V. O. Lorenz and S. T. Cundiff
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
163601 [View PDF (333 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Amplification of Femtosecond Laser Filaments in Ti:Sapphire
J. Philip, C. D’Amico, G. Chériaux, A. Couairon, B. Prade, and A. Mysyrowicz
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
163901 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Dissipative Quantum Chaos: Transition from Wave Packet Collapse to Explosion
Gabriel G. Carlo, Giuliano Benenti, and Dima L. Shepelyansky
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
164101 [View PDF (894 kB)]
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Flow-Induced Transverse Electrical Potential across an Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles
Chandramouli Subramaniam, T. Pradeep, and J. Chakrabarti
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
164501 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Origin of Non-Gaussian Statistics in Hydrodynamic Turbulence
Yi Li and Charles Meneveau
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
164502 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of Droplet Coalescence
Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker, Hua Guo, Gerard H. Wegdam, and Daniel Bonn
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
164503 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Droplet Detachment and Satellite Bead Formation in Viscoelastic Fluids
C. Wagner, Y. Amarouchene, Daniel Bonn, and J. Eggers
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
164504 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Molecular Understanding of Diffusion in Confinement
E. Beerdsen, D. Dubbeldam, and B. Smit
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
164505 [View PDF (552 kB)]
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Large-Scale Streamers in the Sedimentation of a Dilute Fiber Suspension
Bloen Metzger, Élisabeth Guazzelli, and Jason E. Butler
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
164506 [View PDF (489 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Ultracold Electron Source
B. J. Claessens, S. B. van der Geer, G. Taban, E. J. D. Vredenbregt, and O. J. Luiten
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
164801 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Mechanism of Branching in Negative Ionization Fronts
Manuel Arrayás, Marco A. Fontelos, and José L. Trueba
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
165001 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Superradiant Linear Raman Amplification in Plasma Using a Chirped Pump Pulse
B. Ersfeld and D. A. Jaroszynski
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
165002 [View PDF (474 kB)]
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Total Absorption of an Electromagnetic Wave by an Overdense Plasma
Yury P. Bliokh, Joshua Felsteiner, and Yakov Z. Slutsker
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
165003 [View PDF (218 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Why Twins Do Not Grow at the Speed of Sound All the Time
Paul G. Oberson and Sreeramamurthy Ankem
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
165501 [View PDF (1,031 kB)]
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Controlled Growth of Silicon Nanocrystals in a Plasma Reactor
Holger Vach and Quentin Brulin
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
165502 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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New Cubic Phase of Li3N: Stability of the N3- Ion to 200 GPa
A. Lazicki, B. Maddox, W. J. Evans, C.-S Yoo, A. K. McMahan, W. E. Pickett, R. T. Scalettar, M. Y. Hu, and P. Chow
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
165503 [View PDF (812 kB)]
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Universality and Finite-Size Scaling of the Specific Heat of 3He-4He Mixtures
Mark O. Kimball and Francis M. Gasparini
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
165701 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Small Angle Neutron Scattering Observation of Chain Retraction after a Large Step Deformation
A. Blanchard, R. S. Graham, M. Heinrich, W. Pyckhout-Hintzen, D. Richter, A. E. Likhtman, T. C. B. McLeish, D. J. Read, E. Straube, and J. Kohlbrecher
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
166001 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Arm Retraction Potential of Branched Polymers in the Absence of Dynamic Dilution
Daniel A. Vega, Leopoldo R. Gómez, Leandro E. Roth, Jorge A. Ressia, Marcelo A. Villar, and Enrique M. Vallés
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
166002 [View PDF (1,032 kB)]
Unidirectional Adsorbate Motion on a High-Symmetry Surface: “Walking” Molecules Can Stay the Course
Ki-Young Kwon, Kin L. Wong, Greg Pawin, Ludwig Bartels, Sergey Stolbov, and Talat S. Rahman
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
166101 [View PDF (468 kB)]
Crystalline Ice Growth on Pt(111): Observation of a Hydrophobic Water Monolayer
Greg A. Kimmel, Nikolay G. Petrik, Zdenek Dohnálek, and Bruce D. Kay
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
166102 [View PDF (477 kB)]
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Charging and Interaction of Individual Impurities in a Monolayer Organic Crystal
G. V. Nazin, X. H. Qiu, and W. Ho
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
166103 [View PDF (755 kB)]
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Quasi-Ice Monolayer on Atomically Smooth Amorphous SiO2 at Room Temperature Observed with a High-Finesse Optical Resonator
I. M. P. Aarts, A. C. R. Pipino, J. P. M. Hoefnagels, W. M. M. Kessels, and M. C. M. van de Sanden
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
166104 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Twin Boundaries Can Be Moved by Step Edges During Film Growth
W. L. Ling, N. C. Bartelt, K. F. McCarty, and C. B. Carter
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
166105 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Anion Adsorption Induced Reversal of Coherency Strain
T. Trimble, L. Tang, N. Vasiljevic, N. Dimitrov, M. van Schilfgaarde, C. Friesen, C. V. Thompson, S. C. Seel, J. A. Floro, and K. Sieradzki
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
166106 [View PDF (548 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Experimental Observation and Theoretical Description of the Pure Fano Effect in the Valence-Band Photoemission of Ferromagnets
J. Minár, H. Ebert, C. De Nadaï, N. B. Brookes, F. Venturini, G. Ghiringhelli, L. Chioncel, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. I. Lichtenstein
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
166401 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Paired Gap States in a Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube: Deep and Shallow Levels
Sungjun Lee, Gunn Kim, Hajin Kim, Byoung-Young Choi, Jhinhwan Lee, Byoung Wook Jeong, Jisoon Ihm, Young Kuk, and Se-Jong Kahng
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
166402 [View PDF (711 kB)]
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Kondo Effect of Molecular Complexes at Surfaces: Ligand Control of the Local Spin Coupling
P. Wahl, L. Diekhöner, G. Wittich, L. Vitali, M. A. Schneider, and K. Kern
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
166601 [View PDF (856 kB)]
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Role of Molecular Conformations in Rubrene Thin Film Growth
D. Käfer, L. Ruppel, G. Witte, and Ch. Wöll
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
166602 [View PDF (583 kB)]
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Field Dependence of the Electron Spin Relaxation in Quantum Dots
Carlos Calero, E. M. Chudnovsky, and D. A. Garanin
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
166603 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Non-Ohmic Variable-Range Hopping Transport in One-Dimensional Conductors
M. M. Fogler and R. S. Kelley
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
166604 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Theory of Spin Hall Conductivity in n-Doped GaAs
Hans-Andreas Engel, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Emmanuel I. Rashba
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
166605 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Macroscopic Channel-Size Effect of Nonequilibrium Electron Distributions in Quantum Hall Conductors
Y. Kawano and T. Okamoto
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
166801 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Effect of Electron-Phonon Scattering on Shot Noise in Nanoscale Junctions
Yu-Chang Chen and Massimiliano Di Ventra
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
166802 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Orbital Response Of Evanescent Cooper Pairs in Paramagnetically Limited Al Films
X. S. Wu, P. W. Adams, and G. Catelani
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
167001 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Geometrical Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Superconductors by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
G. Karapetrov, J. Fedor, M. Iavarone, D. Rosenmann, and W. K. Kwok
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
167002 [View PDF (1,716 kB)]
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Field-Induced Superconductivity with an Enhanced and Tunable Paramagnetic Limit
A. Buzdin, S. Tollis, and J. Cayssol
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
167003 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Anomalous Pressure Dependence of the Superconducting Transition Temperature of β-Pyrochlore AOs2O6 Oxides
T. Muramatsu, N. Takeshita, C. Terakura, H. Takagi, Y. Tokura, S. Yonezawa, Y. Muraoka, and Z. Hiroi
Published 11 October 2005 (4 pages)
167004 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Interactions of Spin Waves with a Magnetic Vortex
J. P. Park and P. A. Crowell
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
167201 [View PDF (796 kB)]
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Ferromagnetism in Mn-Doped GaN Nanowires
Q. Wang, Q. Sun, and P. Jena
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
167202 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Semiclassical Ordering in the Large-N Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet
U. Hizi, Prashant Sharma, and C. L. Henley
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
167203 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Spin-Liquid Behavior in Electronic Griffiths Phases
D. Tanasković, V. Dobrosavljević, and E. Miranda
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
167204 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Quantum Nonlinear σ Model for Arbitrary Spin Heisenberg Antiferromagnets
Jianhui Dai and Wei-Min Zhang
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
167205 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Ultrafast Quenching of Ferromagnetism in InMnAs Induced by Intense Laser Irradiation
J. Wang, C. Sun, J. Kono, A. Oiwa, H. Munekata, Ł. Cywiński, and L. J. Sham
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
167401 [View PDF (1,118 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Melting of Copper and Nickel at High Pressure: The Role of d Electrons
Stefanie Japel, Beate Schwager, Reinhard Boehler, and Marvin Ross
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
167801 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Relating Airway Diameter Distributions to Regular Branching Asymmetry in the Lung
Arnab Majumdar, Adriano M. Alencar, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Zoltán Hantos, Kenneth R. Lutchen, H. Eugene Stanley, and Béla Suki
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
168101 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Stiffness of Optical Traps: Quantitative Agreement between Experiment and Electromagnetic Theory
Alexander Rohrbach
Published 13 October 2005 (4 pages)
168102 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Raftlike Membrane Domains under Continuous Recycling
Matthew S. Turner, Pierre Sens, and Nicholas D. Socci
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
168301 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Probing Protein-Protein Interactions by Dynamic Force Correlation Spectroscopy
V. Barsegov and D. Thirumalai
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
168302 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Anti-Inertial Lift in Foams: A Signature of the Elasticity of Complex Fluids
Benjamin Dollet, Miguel Aubouy, and François Graner
Published 10 October 2005 (4 pages)
168303 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Coupling between Helix-Coil and Coil-Globule Transitions in Helical Polymers
Vikas Varshney and Gustavo A. Carri
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
168304 [View PDF (1,049 kB)]
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Mechanisms in Adaptive Feedback Control: Photoisomerization in a Liquid
Kunihito Hoki and Paul Brumer
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
168305 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Phase Behavior of Triblock Copolymers Varying in Molecular Asymmetry
Mark W. Hamersky, Steven D. Smith, Arif O. Gozen, and Richard J. Spontak
Published 14 October 2005 (4 pages)
168306 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Analysis of Evolution through Competitive Selection
Morten Kloster
Published 12 October 2005 (4 pages)
168701 [View PDF (253 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Contaminants in Suspended Gold Chains: An Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study”
Edwin Hobi, Jr., Antônio J. R. da Silva, Frederico D. Novaes, E. Z. da Silva, and A. Fazzio
Published 14 October 2005 (1 page)
169601 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Legoas et al. Reply:
S. B. Legoas, V. Rodrigues, D. Ugarte, and D. S. Galvão
Published 14 October 2005 (1 page)
169602 [View PDF (115 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Amorphouslike Diffraction Pattern in Solid Metallic Titanium [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 155501 (2005)]
Y. Wang, Y. Z. Fang, T. Kikegawa, C. Lathe, K. Saksl, H. Franz, J. R. Schneider, L. Gerward, F. M. Wu, J. F. Liu, and J. Z. Jiang
Published 10 October 2005 (1 page)
169901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Erratum: Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in Nanowires [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076601 (2005)]
A. S. Alexandrov and V. V. Kabanov
Published 11 October 2005 (1 page)
169902(E) [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Berry Phase Correction to Electron Density of States in Solids [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137204 (2005)]
Di Xiao, Junren Shi, and Qian Niu
Published 13 October 2005 (1 page)
169903(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
 
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