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Physical Review Letters – 8 July 2005
Volume 95, Issue 2

A sequence of images showing the evolution of a buoyancy-driven plume in an autocatalytic chemical reaction in solution. [Michael C. Rogers and Stephen W. Morris, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 024505 (2005)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Renormalization-Group Transformations and Correlations of Seismicity
Álvaro Corral
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
028501 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Matter-Wave Localization in Disordered Cold Atom Lattices
Uri Gavish and Yvan Castin
Published 5 July 2005 (4 pages)
020401 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Moving System of Interacting Bosons
E. Altman, A. Polkovnikov, E. Demler, B. I. Halperin, and M. D. Lukin
Published 6 July 2005 (4 pages)
020402 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Experimental Violation of a Cluster State Bell Inequality
Philip Walther, Markus Aspelmeyer, Kevin J. Resch, and Anton Zeilinger
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
020403 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Molecular Probe of Pairing in the BEC-BCS Crossover
G. B. Partridge, K. E. Strecker, R. I. Kamar, M. W. Jack, and R. G. Hulet
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
020404 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Realization of a Decoherence-Free Subspace Using Multiple Quantum Coherences
Daxiu Wei, Jun Luo, Xianping Sun, Xizhi Zeng, Mingsheng Zhan, and Maili Liu
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
020501 [View PDF (346 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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A Class of Time-Machine Solutions with a Compact Vacuum Core
Amos Ori
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
021101 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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(2+1)-Dimensional Charged Black Hole in Topologically Massive Electrodynamics
Tomás Andrade, Máximo Bañados, Rafael D. Benguria, and Andrés Gomberoff
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
021102 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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General N=1 Supersymmetric Flux Vacua of Massive Type IIA String Theory
Klaus Behrndt and Mirjam Cvetič
Published 5 July 2005 (4 pages)
021601 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Search for Anomalous Kinematics in tt̅ Dilepton Events at CDF II
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 6 July 2005 (7 pages)
022001 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Radiatively Generated Isospin Violations in the Nucleon and the NuTeV Anomaly
M. Glück, P. Jimenez-Delgado, and E. Reya
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
022002 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Measurement of the Cross Section for Prompt Diphoton Production in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 8 July 2005 (7 pages)
022003 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Production of Multiply Heavy Flavored Baryons from Quark Gluon Plasma in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
F. Becattini
Published 5 July 2005 (4 pages)
022301 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Effective Nucleon Masses in Symmetric and Asymmetric Nuclear Matter
E. N. E. van Dalen, C. Fuchs, and Amand Faessler
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
022302 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Observation of Proton Radioactivity of the (21+) High-Spin Isomer in 94Ag
I. Mukha, E. Roeckl, J. Döring, L. Batist, A. Blazhev, H. Grawe, C. R. Hoffman, M. Huyse, Z. Janas, R. Kirchner, M. La Commara, C. Mazzocchi, C. Plettner, S. L. Tabor, P. Van Duppen, and M. Wiedeking
Published 5 July 2005 (4 pages)
022501 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Quadrupole Deformation of the Self-Conjugate Nucleus 72Kr
A. Gade, D. Bazin, A. Becerril, C.  M. Campbell, J.  M. Cook, D.  J. Dean, D.-C. Dinca, T. Glasmacher, G.  W. Hitt, M.  E. Howard, W.  F. Mueller, H. Olliver, J.  R. Terry, and K. Yoneda
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
022502 [View PDF (2,762 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Direct Frequency Comb Measurements of Absolute Optical Frequencies and Population Transfer Dynamics
Adela Marian, Matthew C. Stowe, Daniel Felinto, and Jun Ye
Published 6 July 2005 (4 pages)
023001 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Ultrasoft X-Ray Bremsstrahlung Isochromatic Spectra from 300–2000 eV Electrons on Ar and Kr
E. V. Gnatchenko, A. A. Tkachenko, E. T. Verkhovtseva, and B. A. Zon
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
023002 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Resonant Light Scattering by Optical Solitons
S. Flach, V. Fleurov, A. V. Gorbach, and A. E. Miroshnichenko
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
023901 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Stable Spatiotemporal Solitons in Bessel Optical Lattices
D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, F. Lederer, B. A. Malomed, Y. V. Kartashov, L.-C. Crasovan, and L. Torner
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
023902 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Soliton as Strange Attractor: Nonlinear Synchronization and Chaos
J. M. Soto-Crespo and Nail Akhmediev
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
024101 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Subcritical Finite-Amplitude Solutions for Plane Couette Flow of Viscoelastic Fluids
Alexander N. Morozov and Wim van Saarloos
Published 5 July 2005 (4 pages)
024501 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Flow Reversal in a Simple Dynamical Model of Turbulence
Roberto Benzi
Published 5 July 2005 (4 pages)
024502 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Scaling Properties in the Production Range of Shear Dominated Flows
C. M. Casciola, P. Gualtieri, B. Jacob, and R. Piva
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
024503 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Transport Mechanisms of Falling Crystals Detached from the Freezing Front during Solidification of a Hypereutectic Binary Mixture
Suman Chakraborty and Aloke Kumar
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
024504 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Buoyant Plumes and Vortex Rings in an Autocatalytic Chemical Reaction
Michael C. Rogers and Stephen W. Morris
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
024505 [View PDF (228 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Probing Hot and Dense Laser-Induced Plasmas with Ultrafast XUV Pulses
S. Dobosz, G. Doumy, H. Stabile, P. D’Oliveira, P. Monot, F. Réau, S. Hüller, and Ph. Martin
Published 5 July 2005 (4 pages)
025001 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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New Source of Dense, Cryogenic Positron Plasmas
L. V. Jørgensen et al. (ATHENA Collaboration)
Published 7 July 2005 (5 pages)
025002 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Heat Transfer in a Two-Dimensional Crystalline Complex (Dusty) Plasma
S. Nunomura, D. Samsonov, S. Zhdanov, and G. Morfill
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
025003 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Observations of Ion-Beam Formation in a Current-Free Double Layer
Xuan Sun, Amy M. Keesee, Costel Biloiu, Earl E. Scime, Albert Meige, Christine Charles, and Rod W. Boswell
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
025004 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Laser-Pulse-Induced Second-Harmonic and Hard X-Ray Emission: Role of Plasma-Wave Breaking
A. S. Sandhu, G. R. Kumar, S. Sengupta, A. Das, and P. K. Kaw
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
025005 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Effect of Strain on the Appearance of Subcritical Nuclei of Ge Nanohuts on Si(001)
I. Goldfarb
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
025501 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Cracks in Thin Sheets: When Geometry Rules the Fracture Path
B. Audoly, P. M. Reis, and B. Roman
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
025502 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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General Rules for Predicting Phase Transitions in Perovskites due to Octahedral Tilting
R. J. Angel, J. Zhao, and N. L. Ross
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
025503 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Probing Slow Dynamics in Supported Thin Polymer Films
Zahra Fakhraai and James A. Forrest
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
025701 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Melting Transition Observed in a Block Copolymer
D. E. Angelescu, C. K. Harrison, M. L. Trawick, R. A. Register, and P. M. Chaikin
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
025702 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Ab Initio Identification of the Nitrogen Diffusion Mechanism in Silicon
Nathan Stoddard, Peter Pichler, Gerd Duscher, and Wolfgang Windl
Published 6 July 2005 (4 pages)
025901 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Adhesion of Polymer Vesicles
John J. Lin, Frank S. Bates, Daniel A. Hammer, and James A. Silas
Published 6 July 2005 (4 pages)
026101 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Incommensurability of a Confined System under Shear
O. M. Braun, A. Vanossi, and E. Tosatti
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
026102 [View PDF (1,097 kB)]
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Kinetic Evolution and Equilibrium Morphology of Strained Islands
A. Rastelli, M. Stoffel, J. Tersoff, G. S. Kar, and O. G. Schmidt
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
026103 [View PDF (711 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Ferro-Type Orbital State in the Mott Transition System Ca2-xSrxRuO4 Studied by the Resonant X-Ray Scattering Interference Technique
M. Kubota, Y. Murakami, M. Mizumaki, H. Ohsumi, N. Ikeda, S. Nakatsuji, H. Fukazawa, and Y. Maeno
Published 5 July 2005 (4 pages)
026401 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of a Fermi Liquid beyond the Low-Energy Limit
Andrey V. Chubukov , Dmitrii L. Maslov, Suhas Gangadharaiah, and Leonid I. Glazman
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
026402 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Quantum Critical 5f Electrons Avoid Singularities in U(Ru,Rh)2Si2
A. V. Silhanek, N. Harrison, C. D. Batista, M. Jaime, A. Lacerda, H. Amitsuka, and J. A. Mydosh
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
026403 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Domain-Wall Configurations Transformed by Spin Currents
M. Kläui, P.-O. Jubert, R. Allenspach, A. Bischof, J. A. C. Bland, G. Faini, U. Rüdiger, C. A. F. Vaz, L. Vila, and C. Vouille
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
026601 [View PDF (1,408 kB)]
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Sample-Specific and Ensemble-Averaged Magnetoconductance of Individual Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
H. T. Man and A. F. Morpurgo
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
026801 [View PDF (639 kB)]
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Theoretical Evidence for Equivalence between the Ground States of the Strong Coupling BCS Hamiltonian and the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model
K. Park
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
027001 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Bias-Dependent Nonlocal Andreev Reflection
S. Russo, M. Kroug, T. M. Klapwijk, and A. F. Morpurgo
Published 8 July 2005 (4 pages)
027002 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Frozen Low-Spin Interface in Ultrathin Fe Films on Cu(111)
M. A. Torija, Z. Gai, N. Myoung, E. W. Plummer, and J. Shen
Published 5 July 2005 (4 pages)
027201 [View PDF (385 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Backflow-Induced Asymmetric Collapse of Disclination Lines in Liquid Crystals
Patrick Oswald and Jordi Ignés-Mullol
Published 6 July 2005 (4 pages)
027801 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Light-Induced Layer by Layer Thickening in Photosensitive Liquid Crystal Membranes
Fatiha Bougrioua, Philipe Cluzeau, Pavel Dolganov, Gilles Joly, Huu Tinh Nguyen, and Vladimir Dolganov
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
027802 [View PDF (705 kB)]
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A Horizontal Brazil-Nut Effect and Its Reverse
T. Schnautz, R. Brito, C. A. Kruelle, and I. Rehberg
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
028001 [View PDF (974 kB)]
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Experimental Study of Granular Compaction Dynamics at Different Scales: Grain Mobility, Hexagonal Domains, and Packing Fraction
G. Lumay and N. Vandewalle
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
028002 [View PDF (426 kB)]
Renormalization-Group Transformations and Correlations of Seismicity
Álvaro Corral
Published 7 July 2005 (4 pages)
028501 [View PDF (121 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Molecular Chemisorption as the Theoretically Preferred Pathway for Water Adsorption on Ideal Rutile TiO2(110)”
Philip J. D. Lindan and Changjun Zhang
Published 7 July 2005 (1 page)
029601 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Harris and Quong Reply:
Leonard A. Harris and Andrew A. Quong
Published 7 July 2005 (1 page)
029602 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Phase Coherence Length and Quantum Interference Patterns at Step Edges
S. Crampin, J. Kröger, H. Jensen, and R. Berndt
Published 7 July 2005 (1 page)
029701 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Wahl et al. Reply:
P. Wahl, M. A. Schneider, L. Diekhöner, R. Vogelgesang, and K. Kern
Published 7 July 2005 (1 page)
029702 [View PDF (46 kB)]
 
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