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Physical Review Letters – 4 November 2005
Volume 95, Issue 19

Three multilayered C60 nanocrystals on a gold surface. Luminescence induced by tunneling electrons can provide unambiguous chemical identification of individual C60 molecules. [Elizabeta Ćavar, Marie-Christine Blüm, Marina Pivetta, François Patthey, Majed Chergui, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196102 (2005)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experiments with a High-Density Positronium Gas
D. B. Cassidy, S. H. M. Deng, R. G. Greaves, T. Maruo, N. Nishiyama, J. B. Snyder, H. K. M. Tanaka, and A. P. Mills, Jr.
Published 4 November 2005 (4 pages)
195006 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Spin Dynamics in a Dissipative Environment: From Quantal to Classical
J. L. García-Palacios and S. Dattagupta
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
190401 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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High-Density Limit and Inflation of Matter
E. B. Manoukian and S. Sirininlakul
Published 1 November 2005 (3 pages)
190402 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Observation of Phase Defects in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates
Sabine Stock, Zoran Hadzibabic, Baptiste Battelier, Marc Cheneau, and Jean Dalibard
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
190403 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Ultracold Molecule Production via a Resonant Oscillating Magnetic Field
S. T. Thompson, E. Hodby, and C. E. Wieman
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
190404 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Coherent Collisional Spin Dynamics in Optical Lattices
Artur Widera, Fabrice Gerbier, Simon Fölling, Tatjana Gericke, Olaf Mandel, and Immanuel Bloch
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
190405 [View PDF (506 kB)]
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Local Pair Correlations in One-Dimensional Bose Gases
Toshiya Kinoshita, Trevor Wenger, and David S. Weiss
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
190406 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Beyond the Tonks-Girardeau Gas: Strongly Correlated Regime in Quasi-One-Dimensional Bose Gases
G. E. Astrakharchik, J. Boronat, J. Casulleras, and S. Giorgini
Published 4 November 2005 (4 pages)
190407 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Irreversibility for All Bound Entangled States
Dong Yang, Michał Horodecki, Ryszard Horodecki, and Barbara Synak-Radtke
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
190501 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Entropy of Classical Systems with Long-Range Interactions
T. M. Rocha Filho, A. Figueiredo, and M A. Amato
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
190601 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Thermodynamic Efficiency at Maximum Power
C. Van den Broeck
Published 2 November 2005 (3 pages)
190602 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Particle Scattering in Loop Quantum Gravity
Leonardo Modesto and Carlo Rovelli
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
191301 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Probing the Origins of Neutrino Mass with Supernova Data
Hooman Davoudiasl and Patrick Huber
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
191302 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Quantizing Open Spin Chains with Variable Length and Giant Gravitons in the Anti–de Sitter-Space/Conformal Field-Theory Correspondence
David Berenstein, Diego H. Correa, and Samuel E. Vázquez
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
191601 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Search for Lepton-Flavor and Lepton-Number Violation in the Decay τ-→ℓ∓h±h′-
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 1 November 2005 (7 pages)
191801 [View PDF (185 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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1S0 Superfluid Phase Transition in Neutron Matter with Realistic Nuclear Potentials and Modern Many-Body Theories
Adelchi Fabrocini, Stefano Fantoni, Alexei Yu. Illarionov, and Kevin E. Schmidt
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
192501 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Optical Transfer Functions of Kerr Nonlinear Cavities and Interferometers
Henning Rehbein, Jan Harms, Roman Schnabel, and Karsten Danzmann
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
193001 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Classical Effects of Laser Pulse Duration on Strong-Field Double Ionization
Phay J. Ho and J. H. Eberly
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
193002 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Superfluidity of Mesoscopic Bose Gases under Varying Confinements
Kwangsik Nho and D. Blume
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
193601 [View PDF (178 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Femtosecond Optical Vortices in Air
Antoine Vinçotte and Luc Bergé
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
193901 [View PDF (830 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of the Oscillation Frequency in an Optical-Tweezers Trap by Parametric Excitation
Joji Joykutty, Vaibhav Mathur, V. Venkataraman, and Vasant Natarajan
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
193902 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Complete Band Gaps in One-Dimensional Left-Handed Periodic Structures
Ilya V. Shadrivov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
193903 [View PDF (584 kB)]
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Variable Coherence Scattering Microscopy
Erwan Baleine and Aristide Dogariu
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
193904 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Quantum Chaotic Scattering in Atomic Physics: Ericson Fluctuations in Photoionization
Gernot Stania and Herbert Walther
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
194101 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Axisymmetric Bubble Pinch-Off at High Reynolds Numbers
J. M. Gordillo, A. Sevilla, J. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, and C. Martínez-Bazán
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
194501 [View PDF (546 kB)]
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Identification and Calculation of the Universal Asymptote for Drag Reduction by Polymers in Wall Bounded Turbulence
Roberto Benzi, Elisabetta De Angelis, Victor S. L’vov, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
194502 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Pair Dispersion and Doubling Time Statistics in Two-Dimensional Turbulence
M. K. Rivera and R. E. Ecke
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
194503 [View PDF (326 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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High-Harmonic Inverse-Free-Electron-Laser Interaction at 800 nm
Christopher M. S. Sears, Eric R. Colby, Benjamin M. Cowan, Robert H. Siemann, James E. Spencer, Robert L. Byer, and Tomas Plettner
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
194801 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Dynamics of Electric Fields Driving the Laser Acceleration of Multi-MeV Protons
L. Romagnani, J. Fuchs, M. Borghesi, P. Antici, P. Audebert, F. Ceccherini, T. Cowan, T. Grismayer, S. Kar, A. Macchi, P. Mora, G. Pretzler, A. Schiavi, T. Toncian, and O. Willi
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
195001 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Effects of Ion Motion in Intense Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
J. B. Rosenzweig, A. M. Cook, A. Scott, M. C. Thompson, and R. B. Yoder
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
195002 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Dynamic Acceleration Effects in Explosions of Laser-Irradiated Heteronuclear Clusters
M. Hohenberger, D. R. Symes, K. W. Madison, A. Sumeruk, G. Dyer, A. Edens, W. Grigsby, G. Hays, M. Teichmann, and T. Ditmire
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
195003 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Regularization of Moving Boundaries in a Laplacian Field by a Mixed Dirichlet-Neumann Boundary Condition: Exact Results
Bernard Meulenbroek, Ute Ebert, and Lothar Schäfer
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
195004 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Measurement of the Dispersion of Thermal Ion-Acoustic Fluctuations in High-Temperature Laser Plasmas Using Multiple-Wavelength Thomson Scattering
D. H. Froula, P. Davis, L. Divol, J. S. Ross, N. Meezan, D. Price, S. H. Glenzer, and C. Rousseaux
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
195005 [View PDF (448 kB)]
Experiments with a High-Density Positronium Gas
D. B. Cassidy, S. H. M. Deng, R. G. Greaves, T. Maruo, N. Nishiyama, J. B. Snyder, H. K. M. Tanaka, and A. P. Mills, Jr.
Published 4 November 2005 (4 pages)
195006 [View PDF (560 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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A Universal Criterion for Plastic Yielding of Metallic Glasses with a (T/Tg)2/3 Temperature Dependence
W. L. Johnson and K. Samwer
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
195501 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Organization of Complex Networks without Multiple Connections
S. N. Dorogovtsev, J. F. F. Mendes, A. M. Povolotsky, and A. N. Samukhin
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
195701 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Energy Dissipation and Stability of Propagating Surfaces
Peter Fratzl, Franz Dieter Fischer, and Jiri Svoboda
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
195702 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Universality of Ionic Criticality: Size- and Charge-Asymmetric Electrolytes
Young C. Kim, Michael E. Fisher, and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
195703 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Surface Diffusion of Cr Adatoms on Au(111) by Quantum Tunneling
P. Ohresser, H. Bulou, S. S. Dhesi, C. Boeglin, B. Lazarovits, E. Gaudry, I. Chado, J. Faerber, and F. Scheurer
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
195901 [View PDF (738 kB)]
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First-Principles Molecular-Dynamics Study of Native Oxide Growth on Si(001)
Lucio Colombi Ciacchi and Mike C. Payne
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
196101 [View PDF (545 kB)]
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Fluorescence and Phosphorescence from Individual C60 Molecules Excited by Local Electron Tunneling
Elizabeta Ćavar, Marie-Christine Blüm, Marina Pivetta, François Patthey, Majed Chergui, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
196102 [View PDF (793 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Breaking the Phonon Bottleneck in Semiconductor Nanocrystals via Multiphonon Emission Induced by Intrinsic Nonadiabatic Interactions
Richard D. Schaller, Jeffrey M. Pietryga, Serguei V. Goupalov, Melissa A. Petruska, Sergei A. Ivanov, and Victor I. Klimov
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
196401 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Coexistence of Two Different Peierls Distortions within an Atomic Scale Wire: Si(553)-Au
J. R. Ahn, P. G. Kang, K. D. Ryang, and H. W. Yeom
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
196402 [View PDF (1,439 kB)]
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Nonempirical Construction of Current-Density Functionals from Conventional Density-Functional Approximations
Jianmin Tao and John P. Perdew
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
196403 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Orbital-Assisted Metal-Insulator Transition in VO2
M. W. Haverkort, Z. Hu, A. Tanaka, W. Reichelt, S. V. Streltsov, M. A. Korotin, V. I. Anisimov, H. H. Hsieh, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, D. I. Khomskii, and L. H. Tjeng
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
196404 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Doped Mott Insulators Are Insulators: Hole Localization in the Cuprates
Ting-Pong Choy and Philip Phillips
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
196405 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Entanglement Scaling in the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model at Criticality
Daniel Larsson and Henrik Johannesson
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
196406 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Severe Fermi Surface Reconstruction at a Metamagnetic Transition in Ca2-xSrxRuO4 (for 0.2≤x≤0.5)
L. Balicas, S. Nakatsuji, D. Hall, T. Ohnishi, Z. Fisk, Y. Maeno, and D. J. Singh
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
196407 [View PDF (869 kB)]
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Real-Time Dynamics in Quantum-Impurity Systems: A Time-Dependent Numerical Renormalization-Group Approach
Frithjof B. Anders and Avraham Schiller
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
196801 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Four-Point Resistance of Individual Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
B. Gao, Y. F. Chen, M. S. Fuhrer, D. C. Glattli, and A. Bachtold
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
196802 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Physical Origin of Hydrogen-Adsorption-Induced Metallization of the SiC Surface: n-Type Doping via Formation of Hydrogen Bridge Bond
Hao Chang, Jian Wu, Bing-Lin Gu, Feng Liu, and Wenhui Duan
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
196803 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Ferroelectricity of Perovskites under Pressure
Igor A. Kornev, L. Bellaiche, P. Bouvier, P.-E. Janolin, B. Dkhil, and J. Kreisel
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
196804 [View PDF (1,260 kB)]
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Electron Localization in the Quantum Hall Regime
Raffaele Resta
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
196805 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Field Dependence of the Vortex Core Size in a Multiband Superconductor
F. D. Callaghan, M. Laulajainen, C. V. Kaiser, and J. E. Sonier
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
197001 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Giant Oscillations of Energy Levels in Mesoscopic Superconductors
N. B. Kopnin, A. S. Mel’nikov, V. I. Pozdnyakova, D. A. Ryzhov, I. A. Shereshevskii, and V. M. Vinokur
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
197002 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Possible Observation of Phase Separation near a Quantum Phase Transition in Doubly Connected Ultrathin Superconducting Cylinders of Aluminum
H. Wang, M. M. Rosario, N. A. Kurz, B. Y. Rock, M. Tian, P. T. Carrigan, and Y. Liu
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
197003 [View PDF (1,980 kB)]
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Shot-Noise-Driven Escape in Hysteretic Josephson Junctions
J. P. Pekola, T. E. Nieminen, M. Meschke, J. M. Kivioja, A. O. Niskanen, and J. J. Vartiainen
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
197004 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Coexistence and Coupling of Superconductivity and Magnetism in Thin Film Structures
A. J. Drew, S. L. Lee, D. Charalambous, A. Potenza, C. Marrows, H. Luetkens, A. Suter, T. Prokscha, R. Khasanov, E. Morenzoni, D. Ucko, and E. M. Forgan
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
197201 [View PDF (846 kB)]
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Magnetic-Field Switching of Crystal Structure in an Orbital-Spin-Coupled System: MnV2O4
K. Adachi, T. Suzuki, K. Kato, K. Osaka, M. Takata, and T. Katsufuji
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
197202 [View PDF (542 kB)]
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Scaling and Renormalization Group in Replica-Symmetry-Breaking Space: Evidence for a Simple Analytical Solution of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model at Zero Temperature
R. Oppermann and D. Sherrington
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
197203 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Fractional Vortices and Composite Domain Walls in Flat Nanomagnets
Oleg Tchernyshyov and Gia-Wei Chern
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
197204 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Stiffness of the Edwards-Anderson Model in all Dimensions
Stefan Boettcher
Published 4 November 2005 (4 pages)
197205 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Exponential Decay Lifetimes of Excitons in Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Axel Hagen, Mathias Steiner, Markus B. Raschke, Christoph Lienau, Tobias Hertel, Huihong Qian, Alfred J. Meixner, and Achim Hartschuh
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
197401 [View PDF (1,019 kB)]
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Localized Electronic Excitations in NiO Studied with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering at the Ni M Threshold: Evidence of Spin Flip
S. G. Chiuzbăian, G. Ghiringhelli, C. Dallera, M. Grioni, P. Amann, X. Wang, L. Braicovich, and L. Patthey
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
197402 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Resistance Anomaly at SrTiO3 Grain Boundaries: Evidence for an Interface-Induced Phase Transition
Rui Shao, Matthew F. Chisholm, Gerd Duscher, and Dawn A. Bonnell
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
197601 [View PDF (490 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Universal Power Law in the Orientational Relaxation in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals
Dwaipayan Chakrabarti, Prasanth P. Jose, Suman Chakrabarty, and Biman Bagchi
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
197801 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Relation between Dielectric and Low-Frequency Raman Spectra of Hydrogen-Bond Liquids
Toshiko Fukasawa, Takaaki Sato, Junji Watanabe, Yoshimasa Hama, Werner Kunz, and Richard Buchner
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
197802 [View PDF (951 kB)]
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Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy of the Dilute Wet Granular Gas
Axel Fingerle, Stephan Herminghaus, and Vasily Zaburdaev
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
198001 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Jamming as a Critical Phenomenon: A Field Theory of Zero-Temperature Grain Packings
Silke Henkes and Bulbul Chakraborty
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
198002 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Alternative Mechanisms of Structuring Biomembranes: Self-Assembly versus Self-Organization
Karin John and Markus Bär
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
198101 [View PDF (655 kB)]
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Broken Asymmetry of the Human Heartbeat: Loss of Time Irreversibility in Aging and Disease
Madalena Costa, Ary L. Goldberger, and C.-K. Peng
Published 4 November 2005 (4 pages)
198102 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Allostery in a Coarse-Grained Model of Protein Dynamics
Dengming Ming and Michael E. Wall
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
198103 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Short-Time Dynamics in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Colloidal Suspensions
Jesús Santana-Solano, Angeles Ramírez-Saito, and José Luis Arauz-Lara
Published 31 October 2005 (4 pages)
198301 [View PDF (620 kB)]
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Adsorption Kinetics in Micellar Solutions of Nonionic Surfactants
Daniel M. Colegate and Colin D. Bain
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
198302 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Controlling Bending and Twisting of Conjugated Polymers via Solitons
Xi Lin, Ju Li, and Sidney Yip
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
198303 [View PDF (455 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Behavior of Complex Knots in Single DNA Molecules [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265506 (2003)]
Xiaoyan R. Bao, Heun Jin Lee, and Stephen R. Quake
Published 31 October 2005 (1 page)
199901(E) [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Mechanics of the Turbulent-Nonturbulent Interface of a Jet [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 174501 (2005)]
J. Westerweel, C. Fukushima, J. M. Pedersen, and J. C. R. Hunt
Published 31 October 2005 (1 page)
199902(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Calculation of the One- and Two-Loop Lamb Shift for Arbitrary Excited Hydrogenic States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 180404 (2005)]
Andrzej Czarnecki, Ulrich D. Jentschura, and Krzysztof Pachucki
Published 4 November 2005 (1 page)
199903(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
 
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