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Physical Review Letters – 21 October 2005
Volume 95, Issue 17

Time evolution of a Bose-Einstein condensate scattering off a barrier of laser light. A randomized collection of such optical barriers can be used to study localization effects. [C. Fort, L. Fallani, V. Guarrera, J. E. Lye, M. Modugno, D. S. Wiersma, and M. Inguscio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 170410 (2005)]

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Signatures of Fractional Statistics in Noise Experiments in Quantum Hall Fluids
Eun-Ah Kim, Michael Lawler, Smitha Vishveshwara, and Eduardo Fradkin
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
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General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices with Random On-Site Interactions
H. Gimperlein, S. Wessel, J. Schmiedmayer, and L. Santos
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
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Optical Weak Link between Two Spatially Separated Bose-Einstein Condensates
Y. Shin, G.-B. Jo, M. Saba, T. A. Pasquini, W. Ketterle, and D. E. Pritchard
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
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Nonlinear Adiabatic Passage from Fermion Atoms to Boson Molecules
E. Pazy, I. Tikhonenkov, Y. B. Band, M. Fleischhauer, and A. Vardi
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
170403 [View PDF (1,185 kB)]
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Parametric Amplification of Matter Waves in Periodically Translated Optical Lattices
N. Gemelke, E. Sarajlic, Y. Bidel, S. Hong, and S. Chu
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
170404 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Diffraction of a Bose-Einstein Condensate from a Magnetic Lattice on a Microchip
A. Günther, S. Kraft, M. Kemmler, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, C. Zimmermann, and J. Fortágh
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
170405 [View PDF (907 kB)]
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Resonant Transmission of Cold Atoms through Subwavelength Apertures
Esteban Moreno, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, J. Ignacio Cirac, F. J. García-Vidal, and L. Martín-Moreno
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
170406 [View PDF (640 kB)]
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Quasi-Two-Dimensional Superfluid Fermionic Gases
J.-P. Martikainen and P. Törmä
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
170407 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Quantum-Degenerate Mixture of Fermionic Lithium and Bosonic Rubidium Gases
C. Silber, S. Günther, C. Marzok, B. Deh, Ph. W. Courteille, and C. Zimmermann
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
170408 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Suppression of Transport of an Interacting Elongated Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Random Potential
D. Clément, A. F. Varón, M. Hugbart, J. A. Retter, P. Bouyer, L. Sanchez-Palencia, D. M. Gangardt, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and A. Aspect
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
170409 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Effect of Optical Disorder and Single Defects on the Expansion of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a One-Dimensional Waveguide
C. Fort, L. Fallani, V. Guarrera, J. E. Lye, M. Modugno, D. S. Wiersma, and M. Inguscio
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
170410 [View PDF (1,279 kB)]
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Routes Towards Anderson-Like Localization of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Disordered Optical Lattices
T. Schulte, S. Drenkelforth, J. Kruse, W. Ertmer, J. Arlt, K. Sacha, J. Zakrzewski, and M. Lewenstein
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
170411 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Continuous-Variable Quantum State Transfer with Partially Disembodied Transport
Jing Zhang, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
170501 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Global Fluctuations and Gumbel Statistics
Eric Bertin
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
170601 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Harmonic Measure of Critical Curves
E. Bettelheim, I. Rushkin, I. A. Gruzberg, and P. Wiegmann
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
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First Passage and Cooperativity of Queuing Kinetics
Maria R. D’Orsogna and Tom Chou
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
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Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Detection of Neutrinos from Supernovae in Nearby Galaxies
Shin’ichiro Ando, John F. Beacom, and Hasan Yüksel
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
171101 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Upper Limit on the Photon Fraction in Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays from AGASA Data
M. Risse, P. Homola, R. Engel, D. Góra, D. Heck, J. Pękala, B. Wilczyńska, and H. Wilczyński
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
171102 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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The Spectral Dimension of the Universe is Scale Dependent
J. Ambjørn, J. Jurkiewicz, and R. Loll
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
171301 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Balance of Dark and Luminous Mass in Rotating Galaxies
Stacy S. McGaugh
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
171302 [View PDF (278 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measurement of the Lifetime Difference in the Bs0 System
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 17 October 2005 (7 pages)
171801 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Measurements of Branching Fractions and Dalitz Distributions for B0→D(*)±K0π∓ Decays
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 18 October 2005 (7 pages)
171802 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Measurement of Semileptonic Branching Fractions of B Mesons to Narrow D** States
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 18 October 2005 (7 pages)
171803 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Top Compositeness and Precision Unification
Kaustubh Agashe, Roberto Contino, and Raman Sundrum
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
171804 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Chiral Suppression of Scalar-Glueball Decay
Michael S. Chanowitz
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
172001 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Quasifree π0 and π- Electroproduction on 4He in the Δ-Resonance Region
M. F. M. Steenbakkers, M. F. van Batenburg, Th. S. Bauer, H. P. Blok, T. Botto, G. E. Dodge, D. L. Groep, P. Heimberg, W. H. A. Hesselink, D. W. Higinbotham, E. Jans, Y. Jun, T. J. Ketel, L. Lapikás, D. J. J. de Lange, B. E. Norum, I. Passchier, R. Starink, L. Todor, and H. de Vries
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
172501 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Surprises in Threshold Antikaon-Nucleon Physics
José A. Oller, Joaquim Prades, and Michela Verbeni
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
172502 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Δ Resonance Contribution to Two-Photon Exchange in Electron-Proton Scattering
S. Kondratyuk, P. G. Blunden, W. Melnitchouk, and J. A. Tjon
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
172503 [View PDF (188 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Origins of Nonexponential Decay in Single Molecule Measurements of Rotational Dynamics
Chia-Yin J. Wei, Yeon Ho Kim, Richard K. Darst, Peter J. Rossky, and David A. Vanden Bout
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
173001 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Continuous Loading of an Electrostatic Trap for Polar Molecules
T. Rieger, T. Junglen, S. A. Rangwala, P. W. H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
173002 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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High-Flux Beam Source for Cold, Slow Atoms or Molecules
S. E. Maxwell, N. Brahms, R. deCarvalho, D. R. Glenn, J. S. Helton, S. V. Nguyen, D. Patterson, J. Petricka, D. DeMille, and J. M. Doyle
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
173201 [View PDF (660 kB)]
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Vortex Phase Qubit: Generating Arbitrary, Counterrotating, Coherent Superpositions in Bose-Einstein Condensates via Optical Angular Momentum Beams
Kishore T. Kapale and Jonathan P. Dowling
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
173601 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Submicron Positioning of Single Atoms in a Microcavity
Stefan Nußmann, Markus Hijlkema, Bernhard Weber, Felix Rohde, Gerhard Rempe, and Axel Kuhn
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
173602 [View PDF (424 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Spatial Quantum Correlations in Multiple Scattered Light
P. Lodahl, A. P. Mosk, and A. Lagendijk
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
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Absolute Time-Resolved X-Ray Laser Gain Measurement
T. Mocek, S. Sebban, G. Maynard, Ph. Zeitoun, G. Faivre, A. Hallou, M. Fajardo, S. Kazamias, B. Cros, D. Aubert, G. de Lachèze-Murel, J. P. Rousseau, and J. Dubau
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
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Mechanics of the Turbulent-Nonturbulent Interface of a Jet
J. Westerweel, C. Fukushima, J. M. Pedersen, and J. C. R. Hunt
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observations of Improved Stability and Confinement in a High-β Self-Organized Spherical-Torus-Like Field-Reversed Configuration
H. Y. Guo, A. L. Hoffman, L. C. Steinhauer, and K. E. Miller
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
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Laser-Accelerated Protons with Energy-Dependent Beam Direction
F. Lindau, O. Lundh, A. Persson, P. McKenna, K. Osvay, D. Batani, and C.-G. Wahlström
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
175002 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Electrostatic Waves in a Paired Fullerene-Ion Plasma
W. Oohara, D. Date, and R. Hatakeyama
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
175003 [View PDF (265 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Delayed Fracture in Porous Media
Noushine Shahidzadeh-Bonn, Philippe Vié, Xavier Chateau, Jean-Noël Roux, and Daniel Bonn
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
175501 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Theory of the Dynamics of First-Order Phase Transitions: Unstable Fixed Points, Exponents, and Dynamical Scaling
Fan Zhong and Qizhou Chen
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
175701 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Oxygen-Induced Symmetrization and Structural Coherency in Fe/MgO/Fe(001) Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
C. Tusche, H. L. Meyerheim, N. Jedrecy, G. Renaud, A. Ernst, J. Henk, P. Bruno, and J. Kirschner
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
176101 [View PDF (407 kB)]
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Surface Transport in Premelted Films with Application to Grain-Boundary Grooving
Robert W. Style and M. Grae Worster
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
176102 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Dynamical Steric Effect in the Decomposition of Methyl Chloride on a Silicon Surface
Michio Okada, Seishiro Goto, and Toshio Kasai
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
176103 [View PDF (323 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Spin-Charge Separation in Cold Fermi Gases: A Real Time Analysis
C. Kollath, U. Schollwöck, and W. Zwerger
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
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Signatures of Fractional Statistics in Noise Experiments in Quantum Hall Fluids
Eun-Ah Kim, Michael Lawler, Smitha Vishveshwara, and Eduardo Fradkin
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
176402 [View PDF (139 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Spectroscopic Observation of Bipolaronic Point Defects in Ba1-xKxBiO3
Taichiro Nishio, Javed Ahmad, and Hiromoto Uwe
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
176403 [View PDF (1,616 kB)]
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Variation of the Electronic Structure in Systematically Synthesized Sr2MO4 (M=Ti, V, Cr, Mn, and Co)
J. Matsuno, Y. Okimoto, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
176404 [View PDF (552 kB)]
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Electronic Structure of Strongly Correlated Systems Emerging from Combining Path-Integral Renormalization Group with the Density-Functional Approach
Yoshiki Imai, Igor Solovyev, and Masatoshi Imada
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
176405 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Quantum Electrodynamics in 2+1 Dimensions, Confinement, and the Stability of U(1) Spin Liquids
Flavio S. Nogueira and Hagen Kleinert
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
176406 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Fermions without Fermion Fields
R. C. Ball
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
176407 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Dynamics of Magnetic Defects in Heavy Fermion LiV2O4 from Stretched Exponential 7Li NMR Relaxation
D. C. Johnston, S.-H. Baek, X. Zong, F. Borsa, J. Schmalian, and S. Kondo
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
176408 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Measurement of Counting Statistics of Electron Transport in a Tunnel Junction
Yu. Bomze, G. Gershon, D. Shovkun, L.  S. Levitov, and M. Reznikov
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
176601 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Thermopower of a Kondo Spin-Correlated Quantum Dot
R. Scheibner, H. Buhmann, D. Reuter, M. N. Kiselev, and L. W. Molenkamp
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
176602 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Electron-Hole Asymmetry in GdBaCo2O5+x: Evidence for Spin Blockade of Electron Transport in a Correlated Electron System
A. A. Taskin and Yoichi Ando
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
176603 [View PDF (773 kB)]
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Shot Noise Suppression in Avalanche Photodiodes
Feng Ma, Shuling Wang, and Joe C. Campbell
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
176604 [View PDF (623 kB)]
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Surface Trapped Excess Electrons on Ice
Francesca Baletto, Carlo Cavazzoni, and Sandro Scandolo
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
176801 [View PDF (651 kB)]
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Role of Elastic Scattering in Electron Dynamics at Ordered Alkali Overlayers on Cu(111)
C. Corriol, V. M. Silkin, D. Sánchez-Portal, A. Arnau, E. V. Chulkov, P. M. Echenique, T. von Hofe, J. Kliewer, J. Kröger, and R. Berndt
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
176802 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Evidence of Hole-Electron Quasiparticle Interference in ErSi2 Semimetal by Fourier-Transform Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
F. Vonau, D. Aubel, G. Gewinner, S. Zabrocki, J. C. Peruchetti, D. Bolmont, and L. Simon
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
176803 [View PDF (847 kB)]
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Switching Between One and Two Dimensions: Conductivity of Pb-Induced Chain Structures on Si(557)
C. Tegenkamp, Z. Kallassy, H. Pfnür, H.-L. Günter, V. Zielasek, and M. Henzler
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
176804 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Mott Transition from a Spin Liquid to a Fermi Liquid in the Spin-Frustrated Organic Conductor κ-(ET)2Cu2(CN)3
Y. Kurosaki, Y. Shimizu, K. Miyagawa, K. Kanoda, and G. Saito
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
177001 [View PDF (866 kB)]
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Evidence for Suppressed Screening on the Surface of High Temperature La2-xSrxCuO4 and Nd2-xCexCuO4 Superconductors
M. Taguchi, A. Chainani, K. Horiba, Y. Takata, M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, Y. Nishino, D. Miwa, T. Ishikawa, T. Takeuchi, K. Yamamoto, M. Matsunami, S. Shin, T. Yokoya, E. Ikenaga, K. Kobayashi, T. Mochiku, K. Hirata, J. Hori, K. Ishii, F. Nakamura, and T. Suzuki
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
177002 [View PDF (613 kB)]
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Dopant-Modulated Pair Interaction in Cuprate Superconductors
Tamara S. Nunner, Brian M. Andersen, Ashot Melikyan, and P. J. Hirschfeld
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
177003 [View PDF (1,209 kB)]
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Melting of the Nanocrystalline Vortex Matter in Highly Anisotropic High-Temperature Superconductors
Yadin Y. Goldschmidt and Eduardo Cuansing
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
177004 [View PDF (1,401 kB)]
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Peak Effect and Dynamic Melting of Vortex Matter in NbSe2 Crystals
N. Kokubo, K. Kadowaki, and K. Takita
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
177005 [View PDF (636 kB)]
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Three-Junction SQUID Rocking Ratchet
A. Sterck, R. Kleiner, and D. Koelle
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
177006 [View PDF (1,212 kB)]
Critical Currents in Quasiperiodic Pinning Arrays: Chains and Penrose Lattices
Vyacheslav Misko, Sergey Savel’ev, and Franco Nori
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
177007 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Quantum Phase Transition in Itinerant Electron Systems
D. E. Feldman
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
177201 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Propagation of Femtosecond Surface Plasmon Polariton Pulses on the Surface of a Nanostructured Metallic Film: Space-Time Complex Amplitude Characterization
R. Rokitski, K. A. Tetz, and Y. Fainman
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
177401 [View PDF (1,003 kB)]
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Decoherence of Excitons in Multichromophore Systems: Thermal Line Broadening and Destruction of Superradiant Emission
D. J. Heijs, V. A. Malyshev, and J. Knoester
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
177402 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Polarized Fine Structure in the Photoluminescence Excitation Spectrum of a Negatively Charged Quantum Dot
M. E. Ware, E. A. Stinaff, D. Gammon, M. F. Doty, A. S. Bracker, D. Gershoni, V. L. Korenev, Ş. C. Bădescu, Y. Lyanda-Geller, and T. L. Reinecke
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
177403 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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Localization-Dependent Photoluminescence Spectrum of Biexcitons in Semiconductor Quantum Wires
A. Feltrin, F. Michelini, J. L. Staehli, B. Deveaud, V. Savona, J. Toquant, X. L. Wang, and M. Ogura
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
177404 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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Phonon-Induced Exciton Dephasing in Quantum Dot Molecules
E. A. Muljarov, T. Takagahara, and R. Zimmermann
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
177405 [View PDF (1,111 kB)]
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Unusual Behavior of the Ferroelectric Polarization in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 Superlattices
M. Dawber, C. Lichtensteiger, M. Cantoni, M. Veithen, P. Ghosez, K. Johnston, K. M. Rabe, and J.-M. Triscone
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
177601 [View PDF (550 kB)]
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Field Emission Patterns from First-Principles Electronic Structures: Application to Pristine and Cesium-Doped Carbon Nanotubes
Mohammad Khazaei, Amir A. Farajian, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
177602 [View PDF (516 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Microsphere Manipulation Using Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
Yoshitaka Mieda and Katsushi Furutani
Published 20 October 2005 (4 pages)
177801 [View PDF (524 kB)]
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Microviscoelastic Moduli of Biomimetic Cell Envelopes
Laurent Limozin, Alexander Roth, and Erich Sackmann
Published 17 October 2005 (4 pages)
178101 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Alternative Explanation of Stiffening in Cross-Linked Semiflexible Networks
P. R. Onck, T. Koeman, T. van Dillen, and E. van der Giessen
Published 18 October 2005 (4 pages)
178102 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Molecular Communication through Stochastic Synchronization Induced by Extracellular Fluctuations
Tianshou Zhou, Luonan Chen, and Kazuyuki Aihara
Published 19 October 2005 (4 pages)
178103 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Role of Physical Mechanisms in Biological Self-Organization
Adrian Neagu, Karoly Jakab, Richard Jamison, and Gabor Forgacs
Published 21 October 2005 (4 pages)
178104 [View PDF (499 kB)]
 
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