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Physical Review Letters – 28 October 2005
Volume 95, Issue 18

The energy landscape for an adenine molecule adsorbed on a graphite surface is calculated as a model case for the interaction between organic molecules and chemically inert surfaces. [F. Ortmann, W. G. Schmidt, and F. Bechstedt, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 186101 (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.

Formation, Manipulation, and Elasticity Measurement of a Nanometric Column of Water Molecules
H. Choe, M.-H. Hong, Y. Seo, K. Lee, G. Kim, Y. Cho, J. Ihm, and W. Jhe
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
187801 [View PDF (395 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Incoherent Matter-Wave Solitons and Pairing Instability in an Attractively Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensate
H. Buljan, M. Segev, and A. Vardi
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
180401 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Multipartite Entanglement Inequalities via Spin Vector Geometry
Gabriel A. Durkin and Christoph Simon
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
180402 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Dynamical Instability and Domain Formation in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensate
Wenxian Zhang, D. L. Zhou, M.-S. Chang, M. S. Chapman, and L. You
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
180403 [View PDF (481 kB)]
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Calculation of the One- and Two-Loop Lamb Shift for Arbitrary Excited Hydrogenic States
Andrzej Czarnecki, Ulrich D. Jentschura, and Krzysztof Pachucki
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
180404 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Quantum-Classical Correspondence in Response Theory
Maksym Kryvohuz and Jianshu Cao
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
180405 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Fault-Tolerant Quantum Dynamical Decoupling
K. Khodjasteh and D. A. Lidar
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
180501 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Spin Gases: Quantum Entanglement Driven by Classical Kinematics
J. Calsamiglia, L. Hartmann, W. Dür, and H.-J. Briegel
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
180502 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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No-Switching Quantum Key Distribution Using Broadband Modulated Coherent Light
Andrew M. Lance, Thomas Symul, Vikram Sharma, Christian Weedbrook, Timothy C. Ralph, and Ping Koy Lam
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
180503 [View PDF (1,102 kB)]
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Monte Carlo Estimates of Domain-Deformation Sensitivities
Maxime Roger, Stephane Blanco, Mouna El Hafi, and Richard Fournier
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
180601 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Fourier’s Law from Schrödinger Dynamics
Mathias Michel, Günter Mahler, and Jochen Gemmer
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
180602 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Universal Scaling of the Conductivity at the Superfluid-Insulator Phase Transition
Jurij Šmakov and Erik Sørensen
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
180603 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Relaxation of an Elastic String in a Random Potential
Alejandro B. Kolton, Alberto Rosso, and Thierry Giamarchi
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
180604 [View PDF (819 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Astrophysical Neutrinos: Flavor Ratios Depend on Energy
Tamar Kashti and Eli Waxman
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
181101 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Interoccurrence Times in the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld Sandpile Model: A Comparison with the Observed Statistics of Solar Flares
Maya Paczuski, Stefan Boettcher, and Marco Baiesi
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
181102 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Superweakly Interacting Massive Particle Solutions to Small Scale Structure Problems
Jose A. R. Cembranos, Jonathan L. Feng, Arvind Rajaraman, and Fumihiro Takayama
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
181301 [View PDF (272 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Absolute Branching Fraction Measurements of Exclusive D+ Semileptonic Decays
G. S. Huang et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
Published 24 October 2005 (5 pages)
181801 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Absolute Branching Fraction Measurements of Exclusive D0 Semileptonic Decays
T. E. Coan et al. (CLEO Collaboration)
Published 24 October 2005 (5 pages)
181802 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Near-Threshold Diffractive ϕ-Meson Photoproduction from the Proton
T. Mibe et al. (LEPS Collaboration)
Published 28 October 2005 (5 pages)
182001 [View PDF (248 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Baryon-Strangeness Correlations: A Diagnostic of Strongly Interacting Matter
V. Koch, A. Majumder, and J. Randrup
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
182301 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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First Results of the Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with the NEMO 3 Detector
R. Arnold et al.
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
182302 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Excitation Energies of Superdeformed States in 196Pb: Towards a Systematic Study of the Second Well in Pb Isotopes
A. N. Wilson et al.
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
182501 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Measured Total Cross Sections of Slow Neutrons Scattered by Solid Deuterium and Implications for Ultracold Neutron Sources
F. Atchison, B. Blau, B. van den Brandt, T. Bryś, M. Daum, P. Fierlinger, P. Hautle, R. Henneck, S. Heule, K. Kirch, J. Kohlbrecher, G. Kühne, J. A. Konter, A. Pichlmaier, A. Wokaun, K. Bodek, M. Kasprzak, M. Kuźniak, P. Geltenbort, and J. Zmeskal
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
182502 [View PDF (346 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Relativistic Electron Correlation, Quantum Electrodynamics, and the Lifetime of the 1s22s22p 2P3/2o Level in Boronlike Argon
A. Lapierre, U. D. Jentschura, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, J. Braun, G. Brenner, H. Bruhns, D. Fischer, A. J. González Martínez, Z. Harman, W. R. Johnson, C. H. Keitel, V. Mironov, C. J. Osborne, G. Sikler, R. Soria Orts, V. Shabaev, H. Tawara, I. I. Tupitsyn, J. Ullrich, and A. Volotka
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
183001 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Production of Ultracold Trapped Molecular Hydrogen Ions
P. Blythe, B. Roth, U. Fröhlich, H. Wenz, and S. Schiller
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
183002 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Dielectronic Resonance Method for Measuring Isotope Shifts
R. Schuch, E. Lindroth, S. Madzunkov, M. Fogle, T. Mohamed, and P. Indelicato
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
183003 [View PDF (183 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Spontaneous Emission Enhancement of Quantum Dots in a Photonic Crystal Wire
E. Viasnoff-Schwoob, C. Weisbuch, H. Benisty, S. Olivier, S. Varoutsis, I. Robert-Philip, R. Houdré, and C. J. M. Smith
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
183901 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Optical Spatial Solitons in Soft Matter
Claudio Conti, Giancarlo Ruocco, and Stefano Trillo
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
183902 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Attractor Selection in Chaotic Dynamics
R. Meucci, E. Allaria, F. Salvadori, and F. T. Arecchi
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
184101 [View PDF (1,372 kB)]
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Experimental Verification of Fidelity Decay: From Perturbative to Fermi Golden Rule Regime
R. Schäfer, H.-J. Stöckmann, T. Gorin, and T. H. Seligman
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
184102 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Coiling, Entrainment, and Hydrodynamic Coupling of Decelerated Fluid Jets
Christopher Dombrowski, Braddon Lewellyn, Adriana I. Pesci, Juan M. Restrepo, John O. Kessler, and Raymond E. Goldstein
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
184501 [View PDF (398 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Demonstration of Radiation Pulse Shaping with Nested-Tungsten-Wire-Array Z Pinches for High-Yield Inertial Confinement Fusion
M. E. Cuneo, R. A. Vesey, D. B. Sinars, J. P. Chittenden, E. M. Waisman, R. W. Lemke, S. V. Lebedev, D. E. Bliss, W. A. Stygar, J. L. Porter, D. G. Schroen, M. G. Mazarakis, G. A. Chandler, and T. A. Mehlhorn
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
185001 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Heat Pinches in Electron-Heated Tokamak Plasmas: Theoretical Turbulence Models versus Experiments
P. Mantica, A. Thyagaraja, J. Weiland, G. M. D. Hogeweij, and P. J. Knight
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
185002 [View PDF (1,011 kB)]
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Dynamics of Mode Competition in the Gyrotron Backward-Wave Oscillator
K. F. Pao, T. H. Chang, C. T. Fan, S. H. Chen, C. F. Yu, and K. R. Chu
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
185101 [View PDF (679 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Superfluidity of Dense 4He in Vycor
Saad A. Khairallah and D. M. Ceperley
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
185301 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Quantum Systems on Carbon Nanotube Bundles
J. V. Pearce, M. A. Adams, O. E. Vilches, M. R. Johnson, and H. R. Glyde
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
185302 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Self-Organized Growth of Nanoparticles on a Surface Patterned by a Buried Dislocation Network
F. Leroy, G. Renaud, A. Letoublon, R. Lazzari, C. Mottet, and J. Goniakowski
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
185501 [View PDF (1,043 kB)]
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Pair Interaction of Dislocations in Two-Dimensional Crystals
C. Eisenmann, U. Gasser, P. Keim, G. Maret, and H. H. von Grünberg
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
185502 [View PDF (2,782 kB)]
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Filling Fraction Limit for Intrinsic Voids in Crystals: Doping in Skutterudites
X. Shi, W. Zhang, L. D. Chen, and J. Yang
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
185503 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Scaling Law in Carbon Nanotube Electromechanical Devices
R. Lefèvre, M. F. Goffman, V. Derycke, C. Miko, L. Forró, J. P. Bourgoin, and P. Hesto
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
185504 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Columnar-to-Disk Structural Transition in Nanoscale (SiO2)N Clusters
Stefan T. Bromley and Edwin Flikkema
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
185505 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Anisotropic Packing and One-Dimensional Fluctuations of C60 Molecules in Carbon Nanotubes
K. H. Michel, B. Verberck, and A. V. Nikolaev
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
185506 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Carbon Phase Diagram from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics
Xiaofei Wang, Sandro Scandolo, and Roberto Car
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
185701 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Exact Order-Parameter Distribution for Critical Mean-Field Percolation and Critical Aggregation
Robert Botet and Marek Płoszajczak
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
185702 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Counterions at Charged Cylinders: Criticality and Universality beyond Mean-Field Theory
Ali Naji and Roland R. Netz
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
185703 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Attracted by Long-Range Electron Correlation: Adenine on Graphite
F. Ortmann, W. G. Schmidt, and F. Bechstedt
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
186101 [View PDF (845 kB)]
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Surface-Mediated Liquid Transport through Molecularly Thin Liquid Films on Nanotubes
Kyungsuk Yum and Min-Feng Yu
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
186102 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Self-Assembly of Paired Nanoribbons
R. V. Kukta, N. Vasiljevic, N. Dimitrov, and K. Sieradzki
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
186103 [View PDF (793 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Nature of Magnetism in Ca3Co2O6
Hua Wu, M. W. Haverkort, Z. Hu, D. I. Khomskii, and L. H. Tjeng
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
186401 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Quasi-One-Dimensional Li0.9Mo6O17
J. Hager, R. Matzdorf, J. He, R. Jin, D. Mandrus, M. A. Cazalilla, and E. W. Plummer
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
186402 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Crossover from the Luttinger-Liquid to Coulomb-Blockade Regime in Carbon Nanotubes
S. Bellucci, J. González, and P. Onorato
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
186403 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Crossed Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Chains as a Quantum Impurity Problem
S. A. Reyes and A. M. Tsvelik
Published 27 October 2005 (3 pages)
186404 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Nonmagnetic Insulator State in Na1CoO2 and Phase Separation of Na Vacancies
C. de Vaulx, M.-H. Julien, C. Berthier, M. Horvatić, P. Bordet, V. Simonet, D. P. Chen, and C. T. Lin
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
186405 [View PDF (822 kB)]
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Spin-Induced Forbidden Evanescent States in III-V Semiconductors
N. Rougemaille, H.-J. Drouhin, S. Richard, G. Fishman, and A. K. Schmid
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
186406 [View PDF (1,027 kB)]
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How to Detect the Fourth-Order Cumulant of Electrical Noise
Joachim Ankerhold and Hermann Grabert
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
186601 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Spectroscopy of Phonons and Spin Torques in Magnetic Point Contacts
I. K. Yanson, Yu. G. Naidyuk, D. L. Bashlakov, V. V. Fisun, O. P. Balkashin, V. Korenivski, A. Konovalenko, and R. I. Shekhter
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
186602 [View PDF (422 kB)]
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Current Jets, Disorder, and Linear Magnetoresistance in the Silver Chalcogenides
Jingshi Hu, T. F. Rosenbaum, and J. B. Betts
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
186603 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Spin-Independent Effective Mass in a Valley-Degenerate Electron System
Suhas Gangadharaiah and Dmitrii L. Maslov
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
186801 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Electromigration Forces on Ions in Carbon Nanotubes
S. Heinze, Neng-Ping Wang, and J. Tersoff
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
186802 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Resonant Nernst Effect in the Metallic and Field-Induced Spin Density Wave States of (TMTSF)2ClO4
E. S. Choi, J. S. Brooks, H. Kang, Y. J. Jo, and W. Kang
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
187001 [View PDF (734 kB)]
Surface Josephson Plasma Waves in Layered Superconductors
Sergey Savel’ev, Valery Yampol’skii, and Franco Nori
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
187002 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Interplay of Magnetic and Superconducting Proximity Effects in Ferromagnet-Superconductor-Ferromagnet Trilayers
Tomas Löfwander, Thierry Champel, Johannes Durst, and Matthias Eschrig
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
187003 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Universal Relaxational Dynamics of Gapped One-Dimensional Models in the Quantum Sine-Gordon Universality Class
Kedar Damle and Subir Sachdev
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
187201 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Magnetic Anisotropies and Coupling Mechanisms in Fe/Mo(110) Nanostripes
J. Prokop, A. Kukunin, and H. J. Elmers
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
187202 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Spin Transverse Force on Spin Current in an Electric Field
Shun-Qing Shen
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
187203 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Hysteresis in the de Haas–van Alphen Effect
R. B. G. Kramer, V. S. Egorov, A. G. M. Jansen, and W. Joss
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
187204 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Controlling Orbital Moment and Spin Orientation in CoO Layers by Strain
S. I. Csiszar, M. W. Haverkort, Z. Hu, A. Tanaka, H. H. Hsieh, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, T. Hibma, and L. H. Tjeng
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
187205 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Nanomechanical Measurement of Magnetostriction and Magnetic Anisotropy in (Ga,Mn)As
S. C. Masmanidis, H. X. Tang, E. B. Myers, Mo Li, K. De Greve, G. Vermeulen, W. Van Roy, and M. L. Roukes
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
187206 [View PDF (760 kB)]
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Intermolecular Dynamical Charge Fluctuations in Water: A Signature of the H-Bond Network
Manu Sharma, Raffaele Resta, and Roberto Car
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
187401 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Infrared Spectra at Surfaces and Interfaces from First Principles: Evolution of the Spectra across the Si(100)-SiO2 Interface
Feliciano Giustino and Alfredo Pasquarello
Published 25 October 2005 (4 pages)
187402 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Strongly Coupled Optical Phonons in the Ultrafast Dynamics of the Electronic Energy and Current Relaxation in Graphite
Tobias Kampfrath, Luca Perfetti, Florian Schapper, Christian Frischkorn, and Martin Wolf
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
187403 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Coherent Control of a V-Type Three-Level System in a Single Quantum Dot
Q. Q. Wang, A. Muller, M. T. Cheng, H. J. Zhou, P. Bianucci, and C. K. Shih
Published 26 October 2005 (4 pages)
187404 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Coherent Population Trapping of Electron Spins in a High-Purity n-Type GaAs Semiconductor
Kai-Mei C. Fu, Charles Santori, Colin Stanley, M. C. Holland, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
187405 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Determination of Optical Isomers for Left-Handed or Right-Handed Chiral Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Zheng Liu, Kazu Suenaga, Hiromichi Yoshida, Toshiki Sugai, Hisanori Shinohara, and Sumio Iijima
Published 27 October 2005 (4 pages)
187406 [View PDF (960 kB)]
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Remarkable Zeroth-Order Resonant Transmission of Microwaves through a Single Subwavelength Metal Slit
J. R. Suckling, J. R. Sambles, and C. R. Lawrence
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
187407 [View PDF (374 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Formation, Manipulation, and Elasticity Measurement of a Nanometric Column of Water Molecules
H. Choe, M.-H. Hong, Y. Seo, K. Lee, G. Kim, Y. Cho, J. Ihm, and W. Jhe
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
187801 [View PDF (395 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Log-Rolling Micelles in Sheared Amphiphilic Thin Films
Gaurav Arya and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Published 28 October 2005 (4 pages)
188301 [View PDF (3,630 kB)]
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Entangled Networks, Synchronization, and Optimal Network Topology
Luca Donetti, Pablo I. Hurtado, and Miguel A. Muñoz
Published 24 October 2005 (4 pages)
188701 [View PDF (267 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Topological Oscillations of the Magnetoconductance in Disordered GaAs Layers”
A. M. M. Pruisken and I. S. Burmistrov
Published 25 October 2005 (1 page)
189701 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Murzin and Jansen Reply:
S. S. Murzin and A. G. M. Jansen
Published 25 October 2005 (1 page)
189702 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Comment on “Intrinsic Low Temperature Paramagnetism in B-DNA”
Evgeni B. Starikov
Published 25 October 2005 (1 page)
189801 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Nakamae et al. Reply:
S. Nakamae, M. Cazayous, A. Sacuto, P. Monod, and H. Bouchiat
Published 25 October 2005 (1 page)
189802 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Comment on “Percolation Theory for the Distribution and Abundance of Species”
Edith Perrier, Mohammed Altaj, Henri Laurie, and Gareth Witten
Published 28 October 2005 (1 page)
189803 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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He and Hubbell Reply:
Fangliang He and Stephen P. Hubbell
Published 28 October 2005 (1 page)
189804 [View PDF (40 kB)]
 
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