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Physical Review Letters – 22 July 2005
Volume 95, Issue 4

Time sequence showing a laboratory simulation of an astrophysical jet. Eight filamentary plasma-filled flux tubes merge to form a collimated jet. [S. You, G. S. Yun, and P. M. Bellan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 045002 (2005)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Dynamic and Stagnating Plasma Flow Leading to Magnetic-Flux-Tube Collimation
S. You, G. S. Yun, and P. M. Bellan
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
045002 [View PDF (514 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Attosecond Double-Slit Experiment
F. Lindner, M. G. Schätzel, H. Walther, A. Baltuška, E. Goulielmakis, F. Krausz, D. B. Milošević, D. Bauer, W. Becker, and G. G. Paulus
Published 19 July 2005 (4 pages)
040401 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Atomic Quantum Simulator for Lattice Gauge Theories and Ring Exchange Models
H. P. Büchler, M. Hermele, S. D. Huber, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and P. Zoller
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
040402 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Atomic Gases at Negative Kinetic Temperature
A. P. Mosk
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
040403 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Test of Lorentz Invariance in Electrodynamics Using Rotating Cryogenic Sapphire Microwave Oscillators
Paul L. Stanwix, Michael E. Tobar, Peter Wolf, Mohamad Susli, Clayton R. Locke, Eugene N. Ivanov, John Winterflood, and Frank van Kann
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
040404 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Entanglement of a Photon and a Collective Atomic Excitation
D. N. Matsukevich, T. Chanelière, M. Bhattacharya, S.-Y. Lan, S. D. Jenkins, T. A. B. Kennedy, and A. Kuzmich
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
040405 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Quantum Key Distribution with Blind Polarization Bases
Won-Ho Kye, Chil-Min Kim, M. S. Kim, and Young-Jai Park
Published 20 July 2005 (4 pages)
040501 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Optimizing Linear Optics Quantum Gates
J. Eisert
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
040502 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Faithful Qubit Distribution Assisted by One Additional Qubit against Collective Noise
T. Yamamoto, J. Shimamura, Ş. K. Özdemir, M. Koashi, and N. Imoto
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
040503 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Concurrence of Arbitrary Dimensional Bipartite Quantum States
Kai Chen, Sergio Albeverio, and Shao-Ming Fei
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
040504 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Delay-Induced Excitability
Tomasz Piwonski, John Houlihan, Thomas Busch, and Guillaume Huyet
Published 20 July 2005 (4 pages)
040601 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Entropy Production along a Stochastic Trajectory and an Integral Fluctuation Theorem
Udo Seifert
Published 20 July 2005 (4 pages)
040602 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Histogram Reweighting Method for Dynamic Properties
Carlos Nieto-Draghi, Javier Pérez-Pellitero, and Josep Bonet Avalos
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
040603 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Limits on Variations in Fundamental Constants from 21-cm and Ultraviolet Quasar Absorption Lines
P. Tzanavaris, J. K. Webb, M. T. Murphy, V. V. Flambaum, and S. J. Curran
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
041301 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Escaping the Large Fine-Tuning and Little Hierarchy Problems in the Next to Minimal Supersymmetric Model and h→aa Decays
Radovan Dermíšek and John F. Gunion
Published 18 July 2005 (4 pages)
041801 [View PDF (654 kB)]
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Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Decay τ±→μ±γ
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 19 July 2005 (7 pages)
041802 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Evidence for B0→D+D- and Observation of B-→D0D- and B-→D0D*- Decays
G. Majumder et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 20 July 2005 (5 pages)
041803 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Search for the Rare Leptonic Decay B-→τ-ν̅ τ
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 20 July 2005 (7 pages)
041804 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Improved Measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Angle α Using B0(B̅ )→ρ+ρ- Decays
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 21 July 2005 (7 pages)
041805 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Measurement of the Branching Fraction of Υ(4S)→B0B̅ 0
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 20 July 2005 (7 pages)
042001 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Search for Strange-Pentaquark Production in e+e- Annihilation at √s=10.58  GeV
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 21 July 2005 (7 pages)
042002 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Isospin Dependence in the Odd-Even Staggering of Nuclear Binding Energies
Yu. A. Litvinov et al.
Published 18 July 2005 (4 pages)
042501 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Shell Model Description of the Decay Out of the Superdeformed Band of 36Ar
E. Caurier, F. Nowacki, and A. Poves
Published 19 July 2005 (4 pages)
042502 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Microscopic Theory of the Two-Proton Radioactivity
J. Rotureau, J. Okołowicz, and M. Płoszajczak
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
042503 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Control of Population Flow in Coherently Driven Quantum Ladders
Ruth Garcia-Fernandez, Aigars Ekers, Leonid P. Yatsenko, Nikolay V. Vitanov, and Klaas Bergmann
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
043001 [View PDF (2,528 kB)]
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Exact Nondipole Kramers-Henneberger Form of the Light-Atom Hamiltonian: An Application to Atomic Stabilization and Photoelectron Energy Spectra
M. Førre, S. Selstø, J. P. Hansen, and L. B. Madsen
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
043601 [View PDF (864 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Vorticity Cutoff in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals
Albert Ferrando, Mario Zacarés, and Miguel-Ángel García-March
Published 18 July 2005 (4 pages)
043901 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Effects of Spatial Nonuniformity on Laser Dynamics
L. I. Deych
Published 20 July 2005 (4 pages)
043902 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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From Flow to Map in an Experimental High-Dimensional Electro-Optic Nonlinear Delay Oscillator
Laurent Larger, Pierre-Ambroise Lacourt, Stéphane Poinsot, and Marc Hanna
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
043903 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Eikonal Method for Calculation of Coherence Functions
Adam M. Zysk, P. Scott Carney, and John C. Schotland
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
043904 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Bouncing Dimer
S. Dorbolo, D. Volfson, L. Tsimring, and A. Kudrolli
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
044101 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Plasma Line Emission during Single-Bubble Cavitation
David J. Flannigan and Kenneth S. Suslick
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
044301 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Understanding the Loading Dependence of Self-Diffusion in Carbon Nanotubes
S. Jakobtorweihen, M. G. Verbeek, C. P. Lowe, F. J. Keil, and B. Smit
Published 18 July 2005 (4 pages)
044501 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Unstable Fingering Patterns of Hele-Shaw Flows as a Dispersionless Limit of the Kortweg–de Vries Hierarchy
Razvan Teodorescu, Paul Wiegmann, and Anton Zabrodin
Published 18 July 2005 (4 pages)
044502 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Nonlinear Dynamics of Inviscid Reduced MHD Plasmas: The Appearance of Quasi-Single-Helicity States
Sergio Servidio and Vincenzo Carbone
Published 18 July 2005 (4 pages)
045001 [View PDF (2,120 kB)]
Dynamic and Stagnating Plasma Flow Leading to Magnetic-Flux-Tube Collimation
S. You, G. S. Yun, and P. M. Bellan
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
045002 [View PDF (514 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Suppression of Hall-Term Effects by Gyroviscous Cancellation in Steady Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
A. Ishizawa and R. Horiuchi
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
045003 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Influence of Indenter Tip Geometry on Elastic Deformation during Nanoindentation
H. Bei, E. P. George, J. L. Hay, and G. M. Pharr
Published 19 July 2005 (4 pages)
045501 [View PDF (1,056 kB)]
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Single C59N Molecule as a Molecular Rectifier
Jin Zhao, Changgan Zeng, Xin Cheng, Kedong Wang, Guanwu Wang, Jinlong Yang, J. G. Hou, and Qingshi Zhu
Published 20 July 2005 (4 pages)
045502 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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First Principles Calculations of Mechanical Properties of 4,4′-Bipyridine Attached to Au Nanowires
P. Vélez, S. A. Dassie, and E. P. M. Leiva
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
045503 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Microscopic Mechanism of Water Diffusion in Glucose Glasses
Valeria Molinero and William A. Goddard, III
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
045701 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Forced Chemical Mixing in Alloys Driven by Plastic Deformation
S. Odunuga, Y. Li, P. Krasnochtchekov, P. Bellon, and R. S. Averback
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
045901 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Disorder in DNA-Linked Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies
Nolan C. Harris and Ching-Hwa Kiang
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
046101 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Intertwined Electronic and Structural Phase Transitions in the In/Si(111) Interface
Jiandong Guo, Geunseop Lee, and E. W. Plummer
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
046102 [View PDF (229 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Optical Study of Interactions in a d-Electron Kondo Lattice with Ferromagnetism
K. S. Burch, A. Schafgans, N. P. Butch, T. A. Sayles, M. B. Maple, B. C. Sales, D. Mandrus, and D. N. Basov
Published 19 July 2005 (4 pages)
046401 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Universal Scaling and a Novel Quantum Critical Behavior of CeRhSb1-xSnx
Andrzej Ślebarski and Jozef Spałek
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
046402 [View PDF (1,494 kB)]
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Exact Results for Strongly Correlated Fermions in 2+1 Dimensions
Paul Fendley and Kareljan Schoutens
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
046403 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Dephasing and Weak Localization in Disordered Luttinger Liquid
I. V. Gornyi, A. D. Mirlin, and D. G. Polyakov
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
046404 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Spin Hall Accumulation in Ballistic Semiconductor Nanostructures
Branislav K. Nikolić, Satofumi Souma, Liviu P. Zârbo, and Jairo Sinova
Published 20 July 2005 (4 pages)
046601 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Lifetimes of Stark-Shifted Image States
S. Crampin
Published 19 July 2005 (4 pages)
046801 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Channel Plasmon-Polariton Guiding by Subwavelength Metal Grooves
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Valentyn S. Volkov, Eloïse Devaux, and Thomas W. Ebbesen
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
046802 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Noise as a Probe of the Kondo Effect in Mesoscopic Wires
Eran Lebanon and P. Coleman
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
046803 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Metal Work-Function Changes Induced by Organic Adsorbates: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study
V. De Renzi, R. Rousseau, D. Marchetto, R. Biagi, S. Scandolo, and U. del Pennino
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
046804 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Models of Environment and T1 Relaxation in Josephson Charge Qubits
Lara Faoro, Joakim Bergli, Boris L. Altshuler, and Y. M. Galperin
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
046805 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Depth Profile of Uncompensated Spins in an Exchange Bias System
S. Roy, M. R. Fitzsimmons, S. Park, M. Dorn, O. Petracic, Igor V. Roshchin, Zhi-Pan Li, X. Batlle, R. Morales, A. Misra, X. Zhang, K. Chesnel, J. B. Kortright, S. K. Sinha, and Ivan K. Schuller
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
047201 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Finite Tunneling Spin Polarization at the Compensation Point of Rare-Earth-Metal–Transition-Metal Alloys
Christian Kaiser, Alex F. Panchula, and Stuart S. P. Parkin
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
047202 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Magnetic Density of States at Low Energy in Geometrically Frustrated Systems
A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, V. Glazkov, C. Marin, P. Bonville, J. A. Hodges, P. C. M. Gubbens, S. Sakarya, and C. Baines
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
047203 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Optical High Harmonic Generation in C60
G. P. Zhang
Published 19 July 2005 (4 pages)
047401 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Femtosecond Photomagnetic Switching of Spins in Ferrimagnetic Garnet Films
Fredrik Hansteen, Alexey Kimel, Andrei Kirilyuk, and Theo Rasing
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
047402 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Geometrical Effects on the Optical Properties of Quantum Dots Doped with a Single Magnetic Atom
Y. Léger, L. Besombes, L. Maingault, D. Ferrand, and H. Mariette
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
047403 [View PDF (1,051 kB)]
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Photoemission Electron Microscopy as a Tool for the Investigation of Optical Near Fields
M. Cinchetti, A. Gloskovskii, S. A. Nepjiko, G. Schönhense, H. Rochholz, and M. Kreiter
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
047601 [View PDF (284 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Surface-Assisted Monodomain Formation of an Ordered Phase of Soft Matter via the First-Order Phase Transition
Yasutaka Iwashita and Hajime Tanaka
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
047801 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Axial Segregation of a Settling Suspension in a Rotating Cylinder
Jonghoon Lee and Anthony J. C. Ladd
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
048001 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Electrostatically Driven Spatial Patterns in Lipid Membrane Composition
Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Paul A. Cripe, and Jay T. Groves
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
048101 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Mechanical Shear Can Accelerate the Gelation of Actin Filament Networks
Osigwe Esue, Yiider Tseng, and Denis Wirtz
Published 21 July 2005 (4 pages)
048301 [View PDF (714 kB)]
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Time-Dependent Strength of Colloidal Gels
S. Manley, Benny Davidovitch, Neil R. Davies, L. Cipelletti, A. E. Bailey, R. J. Christianson, U. Gasser, V. Prasad, P. N. Segre, M. P. Doherty, S. Sankaran, A. L. Jankovsky, B. Shiley, J. Bowen, J. Eggers, C. Kurta, T. Lorik, and D. A. Weitz
Published 22 July 2005 (4 pages)
048302 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Dynamics of Critical Kauffman Networks under Asynchronous Stochastic Update
Florian Greil and Barbara Drossel
Published 19 July 2005 (4 pages)
048701 [View PDF (84 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Measuring a Photonic Qubit without Destroying It”
Pieter Kok and William J. Munro
Published 18 July 2005 (1 page)
048901 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Pryde et al. Reply:
G. J. Pryde, J. L. O’Brien, A. G. White, S. D. Bartlett, and T. C. Ralph
Published 18 July 2005 (1 page)
048902 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Comment on “Constraints on Proton Structure from Precision Atomic-Physics Measurements”
J. L. Friar and I. Sick
Published 18 July 2005 (1 page)
049101 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Brodsky et al. Reply:
Stanley J. Brodsky, Carl E. Carlson, John R. Hiller, and Dae Sung Hwang
Published 18 July 2005 (1 page)
049102 [View PDF (48 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Macroscopic Tunnel Splittings in Superconducting Phase Qubits [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 187004 (2005)]
Philip R. Johnson, William T. Parsons, Frederick W. Strauch, J. R. Anderson, Alex J. Dragt, C. J. Lobb, and F. C. Wellstood
Published 21 July 2005 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Electrostatic Tuning of the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 197004 (2005)]
Kevin A. Parendo, K. H. Sarwa B. Tan, A. Bhattacharya, M. Eblen-Zayas, N. E. Staley, and A. M. Goldman
Published 21 July 2005 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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