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Physical Review Letters – 9 December 2005
Volume 95, Issue 24

Electrically and laser-heated diamond anvil cell is used to demonstrate that high pressure promotes solubility of magnesium in iron. [N. Dubrovinskaia, L. Dubrovinsky, I. Kantor, W. A. Crichton, V. Dmitriev, V. Prakapenka, G. Shen, L. Vitos, R. Ahuja, B. Johansson, and I. A. Abrikosov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245502 (2005)]

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LETTERS

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

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Realization of an Optimally Distinguishable Multiphoton Quantum Superposition
Francesco De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino, and Veronica Secondi
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
240401 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Confinement and Superfluidity in One-Dimensional Degenerate Fermionic Cold Atoms
P. Lecheminant, E. Boulat, and P. Azaria
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
240402 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Zero-Temperature Phases of Many-Atom Bose Systems
Bo Gao
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
240403 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of Spin-1 Bosons on One-Dimensional Lattices
Matteo Rizzi, Davide Rossini, Gabriele De Chiara, Simone Montangero, and Rosario Fazio
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
240404 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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All-Versus-Nothing Nonlocality Test of Quantum Mechanics by Two-Photon Hyperentanglement
C. Cinelli, M. Barbieri, R. Perris, P. Mataloni, and F. De Martini
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
240405 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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All-Versus-Nothing Violation of Local Realism by Two-Photon, Four-Dimensional Entanglement
Tao Yang, Qiang Zhang, Jun Zhang, Juan Yin, Zhi Zhao, Marek Żukowski, Zeng-Bing Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
240406 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Nonlinear Properties of Bipartite Quantum States
Fabio Antonio Bovino, Giuseppe Castagnoli, Artur Ekert, Paweł Horodecki, Carolina Moura Alves, and Alexander Vladimir Sergienko
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
240407 [View PDF (808 kB)]
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Experimental Demonstration of Fractional Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement of Two Photons
S. S. R. Oemrawsingh, X. Ma, D. Voigt, A. Aiello, E. R. Eliel, G. W. ’t Hooft, and J. P. Woerdman
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
240501 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Bethe Ansatz Solution of the Asymmetric Exclusion Process with Open Boundaries
Jan de Gier and Fabian H. L. Essler
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
240601 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Clustering by Mixing Flows
Kevin Duncan, Bernhard Mehlig, Stellan Östlund, and Michael Wilkinson
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
240602 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Local Control of Periodic Pattern Formation in Binary Fluids within Microchannels
Olga Kuksenok, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
240603 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Breaking of Ergodicity and Long Relaxation Times in Systems with Long-Range Interactions
D. Mukamel, S. Ruffo, and N. Schreiber
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
240604 [View PDF (1,885 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Gamma Rays from Heavy Neutralino Dark Matter
Lars Bergström, Torsten Bringmann, Martin Eriksson, and Michael Gustafsson
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
241301 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Mapping Dark Matter with Cosmic Magnification
Pengjie Zhang and Ue-Li Pen
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
241302 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Determination of |Vub| from Measurements of the Inclusive Charmless Semileptonic Partial Rates of B Mesons using Full Reconstruction Tags
I. Bizjak et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 8 December 2005 (6 pages)
241801 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Measurement of the Tensor Structure Function b1 of the Deuteron
A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)
Published 5 December 2005 (6 pages)
242001 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Bimodality as a Signal of a Liquid-Gas Phase Transition in Nuclei?
O. Lopez, D. Lacroix, and E. Vient
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
242701 [View PDF (210 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Magnetic Trapping of Long-Lived Cold Rydberg Atoms
J.-H. Choi, J. R. Guest, A. P. Povilus, E. Hansis, and G. Raithel
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
243001 [View PDF (539 kB)]
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Experimental Confirmation of Quantum Monodromy: The Millimeter Wave Spectrum of Cyanogen Isothiocyanate NCNCS
Brenda P. Winnewisser, Manfred Winnewisser, Ivan R. Medvedev, Markus Behnke, Frank C. De Lucia, Stephen C. Ross, and Jacek Koput
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
243002 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Partial Photoionization Cross Sections and Angular Distributions for Double Excitation of Helium up to the N=13 Threshold
A. Czasch, M. Schöffler, M. Hattass, S. Schössler, T. Jahnke, Th. Weber, A. Staudte, J. Titze, C. Wimmer, S. Kammer, M. Weckenbrock, S. Voss, R. E. Grisenti, O. Jagutzki, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Dörner, J. M. Rost, T. Schneider, Chien-Nan Liu, I. Bray, A. S. Kheifets, and K. Bartschat
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
243003 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Enhancement of Low Energy Electron-Ion Recombination in a Magnetic Field: Influence of Transient Field Effects
Maria Hörndl, Shuhei Yoshida, Andreas Wolf, Gerald Gwinner, and Joachim Burgdörfer
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
243201 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Effective Hamiltonian for Fermions in an Optical Lattice across a Feshbach Resonance
L.-M. Duan
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
243202 [View PDF (223 kB)]
Radial Confinement of Light in an Ultracold Anisotropic Medium
Mukund Vengalattore and Mara Prentiss
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
243601 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Superradiance and Subradiance in an Inhomogeneously Broadened Ensemble of Two-Level Systems Coupled to a Low-Q Cavity
Vasily V. Temnov and Ulrike Woggon
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
243602 [View PDF (1,067 kB)]
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Generation of Bright Two-Color Continuous Variable Entanglement
A. S. Villar, L. S. Cruz, K. N. Cassemiro, M. Martinelli, and P. Nussenzveig
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
243603 [View PDF (452 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Reconstruction of Attosecond Pulse Trains Using an Adiabatic Phase Expansion
K. Varjú, Y. Mairesse, P. Agostini, P. Breger, B. Carré, L. J. Frasinski, E. Gustafsson, P. Johnsson, J. Mauritsson, H. Merdji, P. Monchicourt, A. L’Huillier, and P. Salières
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
243901 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Topological Dragging of Solitons
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
243902 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Field-Free Alignment of Molecules Observed with High-Order Harmonic Generation
K. Miyazaki, M. Kaku, G. Miyaji, A. Abdurrouf, and F. H. M. Faisal
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
243903 [View PDF (1,189 kB)]
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Information Transfer between Dynamical System Components
X. San Liang and Richard Kleeman
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
244101 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Simulations of Localized States of Stationary Convection in 3He-4He Mixtures
Oriol Batiste and Edgar Knobloch
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
244501 [View PDF (2,725 kB)]
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Decaying Two-Dimensional Turbulence in a Circular Container
Kai Schneider and Marie Farge
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
244502 [View PDF (547 kB)]
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Measurement of the Decay Rate of Single-Frequency Perturbations on Blast Waves
A. D. Edens, T. Ditmire, J. F. Hansen, M. J. Edwards, R. G. Adams, P. K. Rambo, L. Ruggles, I. C. Smith, and J. L. Porter
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
244503 [View PDF (641 kB)]
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Singularities of the Hele-Shaw Flow and Shock Waves in Dispersive Media
Eldad Bettelheim, Oded Agam, Anton Zabrodin, and Paul Wiegmann
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
244504 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Spreading of Viscous Fluid Drops on a Solid Substrate Assisted by Thermal Fluctuations
Benny Davidovitch, Esteban Moro, and Howard A. Stone
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
244505 [View PDF (204 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Collisionless Reconnection in an Electron-Positron Plasma
N. Bessho and A. Bhattacharjee
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
245001 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Electron Hole Generation and Propagation in an Inhomogeneous Collisionless Plasma
F. Califano and M. Lontano
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
245002 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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Nonlinear Spectral Signatures and Spatiotemporal Behavior of Stimulated Raman Scattering from Single Laser Speckles
H. X. Vu, L. Yin, D. F. DuBois, B. Bezzerides, and E. S. Dodd
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
245003 [View PDF (1,045 kB)]
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Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal Modes in a Three-Dimensional Plasma
C. S. Ng and A. Bhattacharjee
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
245004 [View PDF (265 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Microstructure of Fragile Metallic Glasses Inferred from Ultrasound-Accelerated Crystallization in Pd-Based Metallic Glasses
T. Ichitsubo, E. Matsubara, T. Yamamoto, H. S. Chen, N. Nishiyama, J. Saida, and K. Anazawa
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
245501 [View PDF (780 kB)]
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Beating the Miscibility Barrier between Iron Group Elements and Magnesium by High-Pressure Alloying
N. Dubrovinskaia, L. Dubrovinsky, I. Kantor, W. A. Crichton, V. Dmitriev, V. Prakapenka, G. Shen, L. Vitos, R. Ahuja, B. Johansson, and I. A. Abrikosov
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
245502 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition: Exact Solution of the Quantum Ising Model
Jacek Dziarmaga
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
245701 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Quantum Effect Induced Reverse Kinetic Molecular Sieving in Microporous Materials
A. V. Anil Kumar and Suresh K. Bhatia
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
245901 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Stress Tensor of a Dilute Suspension of Spheres in a Viscoelastic Liquid
F. Greco, G. D’Avino, and P. L. Maffettone
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
246001 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Evolution of Terrace-Width Distributions on Vicinal Surfaces: Fokker-Planck Derivation of the Generalized Wigner Surmise
Alberto Pimpinelli, Hailu Gebremariam, and T. L. Einstein
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
246101 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Excitation of Molecular Vibrational Modes with Inelastic Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Processes: Examination through Action Spectra of cis-2-Butene on Pd(110)
Yasuyuki Sainoo, Yousoo Kim, Toshiro Okawa, Tadahiro Komeda, Hidemi Shigekawa, and Maki Kawai
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
246102 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Diffusion of Palladium Clusters on Magnesium Oxide
G. Barcaro, A. Fortunelli, F. Nita, and R. Ferrando
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
246103 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Generation and Propagation of a Picosecond Acoustic Pulse at a Buried Interface: Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction Measurements
S. H. Lee, A. L. Cavalieri, D. M. Fritz, M. C. Swan, R. S. Hegde, M. Reason, R. S. Goldman, and D. A. Reis
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
246104 [View PDF (464 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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X-Ray Photoemission Study of CuIr2S4:  Ir3+-Ir4+ Charge Ordering and the Effect of Light Illumination
K. Takubo, S. Hirata, J.-Y. Son, J. W. Quilty, T. Mizokawa, N. Matsumoto, and S. Nagata
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
246401 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Temperature-Dependent Luttinger Surfaces
T. Ito, A. Chainani, T. Haruna, K. Kanai, T. Yokoya, S. Shin, and R. Kato
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
246402 [View PDF (613 kB)]
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Deterministic Weak Localization in Periodic Structures
C. Tian and A. Larkin
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
246601 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Ion-Nanotube Terahertz Oscillator
Deyu Lu, Yan Li, Umberto Ravaioli, and Klaus Schulten
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
246801 [View PDF (552 kB)]
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Aharonov-Bohm Superperiod in a Laughlin Quasiparticle Interferometer
F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
246802 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Adiabatic Pumping through Interacting Quantum Dots
Janine Splettstoesser, Michele Governale, Jürgen König, and Rosario Fazio
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
246803 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Electronic Phase Diagrams of Carriers in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots: Violation of Hund’s Rule and the Aufbau Principle for Holes
Lixin He, Gabriel Bester, and Alex Zunger
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
246804 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Triplet Superconducting Pairing and Density-Wave Instabilities in Organic Conductors
J. C. Nickel, R. Duprat, C. Bourbonnais, and N. Dupuis
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
247001 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Field-Enhanced Diamagnetism in the Pseudogap State of the Cuprate Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Superconductor in an Intense Magnetic Field
Yayu Wang, Lu Li, M. J. Naughton, G. D. Gu, S. Uchida, and N. P. Ong
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
247002 [View PDF (675 kB)]
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Quantum Limit in a Parallel Magnetic Field in Layered Conductors
A. G. Lebed
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
247003 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Noncentrosymmetric Heavy-Fermion CeRhSi3
N. Kimura, K. Ito, K. Saitoh, Y. Umeda, H. Aoki, and T. Terashima
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
247004 [View PDF (558 kB)]
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Quantum Size Effects on the Perpendicular Upper Critical Field in Ultrathin Lead Films
Xin-Yu Bao, Yan-Feng Zhang, Yupeng Wang, Jin-Feng Jia, Qi-Kun Xue, X. C. Xie, and Zhong-Xian Zhao
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
247005 [View PDF (673 kB)]
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Ohmic and Step Noise from a Single Trapping Center Hybridized with a Fermi Sea
Rogerio de Sousa, K. Birgitta Whaley, Frank K. Wilhelm, and Jan von Delft
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
247006 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Spin-Orbit Coupling-Induced Magnetic Phase in the d-Density-Wave Phase of La2-xBaxCuO4 Superconductors
Congjun Wu, Jan Zaanen, and Shou-Cheng Zhang
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
247007 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Direct Study of the Proximity Effect in the Normal Layer inside of the Stacked SINIS Device
I. P. Nevirkovets, O. Chernyashevskyy, and J. B. Ketterson
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
247008 [View PDF (799 kB)]
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Negative Refraction in Ferromagnet-Superconductor Superlattices
A. Pimenov, A. Loidl, P. Przyslupski, and B. Dabrowski
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
247009 [View PDF (761 kB)]
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Breakdown of Weak-Field Magnetotransport at a Metallic Quantum Critical Point
J. Fenton and A. J. Schofield
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
247201 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Shot Noise in the Current of a Surface Acoustic-Wave-Driven Single-Electron Pump
A. M. Robinson and V. I. Talyanskii
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
247202 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Algebraic Vortex Liquid in Spin-1/2 Triangular Antiferromagnets: Scenario for Cs2CuCl4
Jason Alicea, Olexei I. Motrunich, and Matthew P. A. Fisher
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
247203 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Statics and Dynamics of Incommensurate Spin Order in a Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnet CdCr2O4
J.-H. Chung, M. Matsuda, S.-H. Lee, K. Kakurai, H. Ueda, T. J. Sato, H. Takagi, K.-P. Hong, and S. Park
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
247204 [View PDF (1,097 kB)]
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Direct Experimental Evidence of Exciton-Phonon Bound States in Carbon Nanotubes
Flávio Plentz, Henrique B. Ribeiro, Ado Jorio, Michael S. Strano, and Marcos A. Pimenta
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
247401 [View PDF (518 kB)]
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Theory and Ab Initio Calculation of Radiative Lifetime of Excitons in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes
Catalin D. Spataru, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Rodrigo B. Capaz, and Steven G. Louie
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
247402 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Probing the Ground State Electronic Structure of a Correlated Electron System by Quantum Well States: Ag/Ni(111)
A. Varykhalov, A. M. Shikin, W. Gudat, P. Moras, C. Grazioli, C. Carbone, and O. Rader
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
247601 [View PDF (592 kB)]
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Spontaneous Polarization in One-Dimensional Pb(ZrTi)O3 Nanowires
Ivan I. Naumov and Huaxiang Fu
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
247602 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Depletion Layers and Domain Walls in Semiconducting Ferroelectric Thin Films
Yu Xiao, Vivek B. Shenoy, and Kaushik Bhattacharya
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
247603 [View PDF (702 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Physics of Size Selectivity
Roland Roth and Dirk Gillespie
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
247801 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Percolation Transition of Hydration Water: From Planar Hydrophilic Surfaces to Proteins
Alla Oleinikova, Ivan Brovchenko, Nikolai Smolin, Aliaksei Krukau, Alfons Geiger, and Roland Winter
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
247802 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Equilibrium Glassy Phase in a Polydisperse Hard-Sphere System
Pinaki Chaudhuri, Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta, H. R. Krishnamurthy, and A. K. Sood
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
248301 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Simulation of the Burridge-Knopoff Model of Earthquakes with Variable Range Stress Transfer
Junchao Xia, Harvey Gould, W. Klein, and J. B. Rundle
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
248501 [View PDF (1,017 kB)]
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Exact Results for the Barabási Model of Human Dynamics
Alexei Vázquez
Published 6 December 2005 (4 pages)
248701 [View PDF (176 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Evidence for Quantized Displacement in Macroscopic Nanomechanical Oscillators”
K. C. Schwab, M. P. Blencowe, M. L. Roukes, A. N. Cleland, S. M. Girvin, G. J. Milburn, and K. L. Ekinci
Published 5 December 2005 (1 page)
248901 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Gaidarzhy et al. Reply:
A. Gaidarzhy, G. Zolfagharkhani, R. L. Badzey, and P. Mohanty
Published 5 December 2005 (1 page)
248902 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Comment on “Röntgen Quantum Phase Shift: A Semiclassical Local Electrodynamical Effect?”
S. C. Tiwari
Published 8 December 2005 (1 page)
248903 [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Horsley and Babiker Reply:
S. A. R. Horsley and M. Babiker
Published 8 December 2005 (1 page)
248904 [View PDF (37 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Electron Transport and Hot Phonons in Carbon Nanotubes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236802 (2005)]
Michele Lazzeri, S. Piscanec, Francesco Mauri, A. C. Ferrari, and J. Robertson
Published 9 December 2005 (1 page)
249901(E) [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Erratum: Kinematic Approach to the Mixed State Geometric Phase in Nonunitary Evolution [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 080405 (2004)]
D. M. Tong, E. Sjöqvist, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh
Published 8 December 2005 (1 page)
249902(E) [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Erratum: Mayer Sampling: Calculation of Cluster Integrals Using Free-Energy Perturbation Methods [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 220601 (2004)]
Jayant K. Singh and David A. Kofke
Published 8 December 2005 (1 page)
249903(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Inseparability Criteria for Continuous Bipartite Quantum States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230502 (2005)]
E. Shchukin and W. Vogel
Published 8 December 2005 (1 page)
249904(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Search for Bs0→μ+μ- and Bd0→μ+μ- Decays in pp̅ Collisions with CDF II [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221805 (2005)]
A. Abulencia et al.
Published 9 December 2005 (2 pages)
249905(E) [View PDF (42 kB)]
 
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