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Physical Review Letters – 18 November 2005
Volume 95, Issue 21

The phase diagram of a two-dimensional electron system with two energy levels reveals intriguing topology due to electron spin interactions. [X. C. Zhang, D. R. Faulhaber, and H. W. Jiang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216801 (2005)]

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LETTERS

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

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Stronger Two-Observer All-Versus-Nothing Violation of Local Realism
Adán Cabello
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
210401 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Optimal Bell Tests Do Not Require Maximally Entangled States
Antonio Acín, Richard Gill, and Nicolas Gisin
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
210402 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Entanglement of Formation of Bipartite Quantum States
Kai Chen, Sergio Albeverio, and Shao-Ming Fei
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
210501 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Experimental Analysis of a Four-Qubit Photon Cluster State
Nikolai Kiesel, Christian Schmid, Ulrich Weber, Géza Tóth, Otfried Gühne, Rupert Ursin, and Harald Weinfurter
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
210502 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Decoherence in Josephson Qubits from Dielectric Loss
John M. Martinis, K. B. Cooper, R. McDermott, Matthias Steffen, Markus Ansmann, K. D. Osborn, K. Cicak, Seongshik Oh, D. P. Pappas, R. W. Simmonds, and Clare C. Yu
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
210503 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Demonstration of a Simple Entangling Optical Gate and Its Use in Bell-State Analysis
N. K. Langford, T. J. Weinhold, R. Prevedel, K. J. Resch, A. Gilchrist, J. L. O’Brien, G. J. Pryde, and A. G. White
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
210504 [View PDF (955 kB)]
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Linear Optics Controlled-Phase Gate Made Simple
Nikolai Kiesel, Christian Schmid, Ulrich Weber, Rupert Ursin, and Harald Weinfurter
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
210505 [View PDF (542 kB)]
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Demonstration of an Optical Quantum Controlled-NOT Gate without Path Interference
Ryo Okamoto, Holger F. Hofmann, Shigeki Takeuchi, and Keiji Sasaki
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
210506 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Maximum Elastic Deformations of Compact Stars with Exotic Equations of State
Benjamin J. Owen
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
211101 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Demonstration of a Squeezed-Light-Enhanced Power- and Signal-Recycled Michelson Interferometer
Henning Vahlbruch, Simon Chelkowski, Boris Hage, Alexander Franzen, Karsten Danzmann, and Roman Schnabel
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
211102 [View PDF (841 kB)]
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Difficulty of Detecting Minihalos via γ Rays from Dark Matter Annihilation
Lidia Pieri, Enzo Branchini, and Stefan Hofmann
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
211301 [View PDF (1,663 kB)]
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Looking for Light Pseudoscalar Bosons in the Binary Pulsar System J0737-3039
Arnaud Dupays, Carlo Rizzo, Marco Roncadelli, and Giovanni F. Bignami
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
211302 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Cosmic 21 cm Delensing of Microwave Background Polarization and the Minimum Detectable Energy Scale of Inflation
Kris Sigurdson and Asantha Cooray
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
211303 [View PDF (267 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Describing Oscillations of High Energy Neutrinos in Matter Precisely
E. Kh. Akhmedov, M. Maltoni, and A. Yu. Smirnov
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
211801 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Solar Mass-Varying Neutrino Oscillations
V. Barger, Patrick Huber, and Danny Marfatia
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
211802 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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B-Meson Decay Constant from Unquenched Lattice QCD
Alan Gray, Matthew Wingate, Christine T. H. Davies, Emel Gulez, G. Peter Lepage, Quentin Mason, Matthew Nobes, and Junko Shigemitsu (HPQCD Collaboration)
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
212001 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Gamow-Teller Strengths in Proton-Rich Exotic Nuclei Deduced in the Combined Analysis of Mirror Transitions
Y. Fujita, T. Adachi, P. von Brentano, G. P. A. Berg, C. Fransen, D. De Frenne, H. Fujita, K. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, E. Jacobs, K. Nakanishi, A. Negret, N. Pietralla, L. Popescu, B. Rubio, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimbara, Y. Shimizu, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, M. Yosoi, and K. O. Zell
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
212501 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Coherent Single Photon Transport in a One-Dimensional Waveguide Coupled with Superconducting Quantum Bits
Jung-Tsung Shen and Shanhui Fan
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
213001 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Control of Diabatic versus Adiabatic Field Dissociation in a Heavy Rydberg System
R. C. Shiell, E. Reinhold, F. Magnus, and W. Ubachs
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
213002 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Anomalous Decline of Molecular Ion Mobility in Cooled Helium Gas
Kazumasa Ohtsuki, Masatoshi Hananoe, and Michio Matsuzawa
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
213201 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Ultrafast Dynamics of All-trans-β-Carotene Explored by Resonant and Nonresonant Photoexcitations
D. Kosumi, M. Komukai, H. Hashimoto, and M. Yoshizawa
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
213601 [View PDF (448 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Random Walk of Polarized Light in Turbid Media
M. Xu and R. R. Alfano
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
213901 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Interaction of an Optical Soliton with a Dispersive Wave
A. Efimov, A. V. Yulin, D. V. Skryabin, J. C. Knight, N. Joly, F. G. Omenetto, A. J. Taylor, and P. Russell
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
213902 [View PDF (881 kB)]
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Stokes Amplification Regimes in Quasi-cw Pumped Hydrogen-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber
F. Benabid, G. Antonopoulos, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russell
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
213903 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Solitons in Nonlinear Media with an Infinite Range of Nonlocality: First Observation of Coherent Elliptic Solitons and of Vortex-Ring Solitons
Carmel Rotschild, Oren Cohen, Ofer Manela, Mordechai Segev, and Tal Carmon
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
213904 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Theory of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves and Selection of the Ground State
A. Soffer and M. I. Weinstein
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
213905 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Identifying Turbulent Energy Distributions in Real, Rather than Fourier, Space
P. A. Davidson and B. R. Pearson
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
214501 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Turbulence Regeneration in Pipe Flow at Moderate Reynolds Numbers
Björn Hof, Casimir W. H. van Doorne, Jerry Westerweel, and Frans T. M. Nieuwstadt
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
214502 [View PDF (796 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Fourier-Space Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor Growth Measurements of 3D Laser-Imprinted Modulations in Planar Targets
V. A. Smalyuk, O. Sadot, J. A. Delettrez, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. P. Regan, and T. C. Sangster
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
215001 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Anomalously High Near-Wall Sheath Potential Drop in a Plasma with Nonlocal Fast Electrons
V. I. Demidov, C. A. DeJoseph, Jr., and A. A. Kudryavtsev
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
215002 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Self-Consistent Generation of Superthermal Electrons by Beam-Plasma Interaction
Peter H. Yoon, Tongnyeol Rhee, and Chang-Mo Ryu
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
215003 [View PDF (244 kB)]
Radiation-Driven Hydrodynamics of High-Z Hohlraums on the National Ignition Facility
E. L. Dewald et al.
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
215004 [View PDF (880 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

High-Resolution Spectroscopy of NO in Helium Droplets: A Prototype for Open Shell Molecular Interactions in a Quantum Solvent
K. von Haeften, A. Metzelthin, S. Rudolph, V. Staemmler, and M. Havenith
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
215301 [View PDF (635 kB)]
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Measurement of the Normal-Fluid Velocity in Superfluids
Demosthenes Kivotides, Carlo F. Barenghi, and Yuri A. Sergeev
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
215302 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Direct Evidence of Nanometric Invasionlike Grain Boundary Penetration in the Al/Ga System
E. Pereiro-López, W. Ludwig, D. Bellet, P. Cloetens, and C. Lemaignan
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
215501 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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Structural Organization of π Conjugated Highly Luminescent Molecular Material
B. Toudic, P. Limelette, G. Froyer, F. Le Gac, A. Moréac, and P. Rabiller
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
215502 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Direct Evidence for As as a Zn-Site Impurity in ZnO
U. Wahl, E. Rita, J. G. Correia, A. C. Marques, E. Alves, and J. C. Soares (ISOLDE Collaboration)
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
215503 [View PDF (3,913 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Hydrogen Adsorption Sites and Nanocage Formation in Metal-Organic Frameworks
T. Yildirim and M. R. Hartman
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
215504 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Observation of a Wurtzite Form of Gallium Arsenide
M. I. McMahon and R. J. Nelmes
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
215505 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Simulation of Screw Dislocation Motion in Iron by Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Christophe Domain and Ghiath Monnet
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
215506 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Structural Origin of Negative Thermal Expansion in High-Temperature Silica Polymorphs
Liping Huang and John Kieffer
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
215901 [View PDF (610 kB)]
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New Types of Unstable Step-Flow Growth on Si(111)-(7×7) during Molecular Beam Epitaxy: Scaling and Universality
Hiroo Omi, Yoshikazu Homma, Vesselin Tonchev, and Alberto Pimpinelli
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
216101 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Surface Smoothening Mechanism of Amorphous Silicon Thin Films
Mayur S. Valipa, Tamas Bakos, Eray S. Aydil, and Dimitrios Maroudas
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
216102 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Probing Nanotube-Nanopore Interactions
G. M. King and J. A. Golovchenko
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
216103 [View PDF (322 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Bayesian Error Estimation in Density-Functional Theory
J. J. Mortensen, K. Kaasbjerg, S. L. Frederiksen, J. K. Nørskov, J. P. Sethna, and K. W. Jacobsen
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
216401 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Interaction of the Ground State of Quarter-Filled One-Dimensional Strongly Correlated Electronic System with Localized Spins
Chisa Hotta, Masao Ogata, and Hidetoshi Fukuyama
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
216402 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Negative Spin Polarization and Large Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial Co|SrTiO3|Co Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
J. P. Velev, K. D. Belashchenko, D. A. Stewart, M. van Schilfgaarde, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
216601 [View PDF (747 kB)]
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Electrical Switching in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes
Young-Woo Son, Jisoon Ihm, Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie, and Hyoung Joon Choi
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
216602 [View PDF (632 kB)]
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Spin Noise Spectroscopy in GaAs
M. Oestreich, M. Römer, R. J. Haug, and D. Hägele
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
216603 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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Multiple Phases with the Same Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Subband System
X. C. Zhang, D. R. Faulhaber, and H. W. Jiang
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
216801 [View PDF (767 kB)]
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Dark-State Luminescence of Macroatoms at the Near Field
Ulrich Hohenester, Guido Goldoni, and Elisa Molinari
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
216802 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Spiral Spin State in High-Temperature Copper-Oxide Superconductors: Evidence from Neutron Scattering Measurements
Per-Anker Lindgård
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
217001 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Novel Coexistence of Superconductivity with Two Distinct Magnetic Orders
A. Llobet, A. D. Christianson, Wei Bao, J. S. Gardner, I. P. Swainson, J. W. Lynn, J.-M. Mignot, K. Prokes, P. G. Pagliuso, N. O. Moreno, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, and A. H. Lacerda
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
217002 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Charge-Transfer Excitations in the Model Superconductor HgBa2CuO4+δ
L. Lu, G. Chabot-Couture, X. Zhao, J. N. Hancock, N. Kaneko, O. P. Vajk, G. Yu, S. Grenier, Y. J. Kim, D. Casa, T. Gog, and M. Greven
Published 17 November 2005 (5 pages)
217003 [View PDF (601 kB)]
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Phase-Sensitive Tests of the Pairing State Symmetry in Sr2RuO4
Igor Žutić and Igor Mazin
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
217004 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Why Spin Ice Obeys the Ice Rules
S. V. Isakov, R. Moessner, and S. L. Sondhi
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
217201 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Anomalous Magnetic Properties Near the Spin-Flop Bicritical Point in Mn2AS4 (A=Si and Ge)
K. Ohgushi and Y. Ueda
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
217202 [View PDF (637 kB)]
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Negligible Magnetism in Excellent Structural Quality CrxTi1-xO2 Anatase: Contrast with High-TC Ferromagnetism in Structurally Defective CrxTi1-xO2
T. C. Kaspar, S. M. Heald, C. M. Wang, J. D. Bryan, T. Droubay, V. Shutthanandan, S. Thevuthasan, D. E. McCready, A. J. Kellock, D. R. Gamelin, and S. A. Chambers
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
217203 [View PDF (597 kB)]
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Spin Reorientation Transition in Single-Domain (Ga,Mn)As
K.-Y. Wang, M. Sawicki, K. W. Edmonds, R. P. Campion, S. Maat, C. T. Foxon, B. L. Gallagher, and T. Dietl
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
217204 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Quantum Magnetic Deflagration in Mn12 Acetate
A. Hernández-Mínguez, J. M. Hernandez, F. Macià, A. García-Santiago, J. Tejada, and P. V. Santos
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
217205 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Magnetic Exchange Interactions in Quantum Dots Containing Electrons and Magnetic Ions
Fanyao Qu and Pawel Hawrylak
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
217206 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Atomic Origin of Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Nd2Fe14B
D. Haskel, J. C. Lang, Z. Islam, A. Cady, G. Srajer, M. van Veenendaal, and P. C. Canfield
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
217207 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Raman Modes of Index-Identified Freestanding Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Jannik C. Meyer, Matthieu Paillet, Thierry Michel, Alain Moréac, Anita Neumann, Georg S. Duesberg, Siegmar Roth, and Jean-Louis Sauvajol
Published 14 November 2005 (4 pages)
217401 [View PDF (772 kB)]
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Transmission Resonances of Metallic Compound Gratings with Subwavelength Slits
Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
217402 [View PDF (838 kB)]
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Strain-Induced Interference Effects on the Resonance Raman Cross Section of Carbon Nanotubes
A. G. Souza Filho, N. Kobayashi, J. Jiang, A. Grüneis, R. Saito, S. B. Cronin, J. Mendes Filho, Ge. G. Samsonidze, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
217403 [View PDF (921 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Liquids on Topologically Nanopatterned Surfaces
Oleg Gang, Kyle J. Alvine, Masafumi Fukuto, Peter S. Pershan, Charles T. Black, and Benjamin M. Ocko
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
217801 [View PDF (503 kB)]
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Computer Simulation of Nematic Reentrance in a Simple Molecular Model
Enrique de Miguel and Elvira Martín del Río
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
217802 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Spontaneous and Reversible Switch from Amphiphilic to Oil-Like Structures
Frédéric Pincet, David Tareste, Martine Ben Amar, and Éric Perez
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
218101 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Coarse-Grained Model of Proteins Incorporating Atomistic Detail of the Active Site
Marilisa Neri, Claudio Anselmi, Michele Cascella, Amos Maritan, and Paolo Carloni
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
218102 [View PDF (745 kB)]
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Correlated Dynamics Determining X-Ray Diffuse Scattering from a Crystalline Protein Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Lars Meinhold and Jeremy C. Smith
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
218103 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Can One Predict DNA Transcription Start Sites by Studying Bubbles?
Titus S. van Erp, Santiago Cuesta-Lopez, Johannes-Geert Hagmann, and Michel Peyrard
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
218104 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Long-Ranged Attraction between Charged Polystyrene Spheres at Aqueous Interfaces
Wei Chen, Susheng Tan, Tai-Kai Ng, Warren T. Ford, and Penger Tong
Published 15 November 2005 (4 pages)
218301 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Model for the Distribution of Aftershock Interoccurrence Times
Robert Shcherbakov, Gleb Yakovlev, Donald L. Turcotte, and John B. Rundle
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
218501 [View PDF (426 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Novel Superfluidity in a Trapped Gas of Fermi Atoms with Repulsive Interaction Loaded on an Optical Lattice”
M. Rigol, S. R. Manmana, A. Muramatsu, R. T. Scalettar, R. R. P. Singh, and S. Wessel
Published 14 November 2005 (1 page)
218901 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Machida et al. Reply:
M. Machida, S. Yamada, Y. Ohashi, and H. Matsumoto
Published 14 November 2005 (1 page)
218902 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Realization and Detection of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superfluid Phases in Trapped Atomic Fermion Systems
Kun Yang
Published 17 November 2005 (1 page)
218903 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Comment on “Critical Branching Captures Activity in Living Neural Networks and Maximizes the Number of Metastable States”
Dietmar Plenz
Published 14 November 2005 (1 page)
219801 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Beggs and Haldeman Reply:
John M. Beggs and Clayton Haldeman
Published 14 November 2005 (1 page)
219802 [View PDF (28 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Importance of Quantum Tunneling in Vacancy-Hydrogen Complexes in Diamond [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 105502 (2005)]
M. J. Shaw, P. R. Briddon, J. P. Goss, M. J. Rayson, A. Kerridge, A. H. Harker, and A. M. Stoneham
Published 14 November 2005 (1 page)
219901(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Doping Evolution of the Electronic Properties of Hole- and Electron-Doped High-Tc Cuprates: Role of Density Wave Correlations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 207003 (2005)]
F. Onufrieva and P. Pfeuty
Published 16 November 2005 (1 page)
219902(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Precision Measurement of the Three 23PJ Helium Fine Structure Intervals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 203001 (2005)]
T. Zelevinsky, D. Farkas, and G. Gabrielse
Published 17 November 2005 (1 page)
219903(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
 
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