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Physical Review Letters – 29 July 2005
Volume 95, Issue 5

Energy spectrum of a relativistic electron beam before and after propagation through a plasma, showing the multi-GeV wakefield acceleration of particles. [M. J. Hogan, C. D. Barnes, C. E. Clayton, F. J. Decker, S. Deng, P. Emma, C. Huang, R. H. Iverson, D. K. Johnson, C. Joshi, T. Katsouleas, P. Krejcik, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, C. L. O’Connell, E. Oz, R. H. Siemann, and D. Walz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 054802 (2005)]

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LETTERS

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

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Direct Nondestructive Imaging of Magnetization in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Gas
J. M. Higbie, L. E. Sadler, S. Inouye, A. P. Chikkatur, S. R. Leslie, K. L. Moore, V. Savalli, and D. M. Stamper-Kurn
Published 26 July 2005 (4 pages)
050401 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Large-N Scaling Behavior of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model
F. Leyvraz and W. D. Heiss
Published 26 July 2005 (4 pages)
050402 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Fully Three Dimensional Breather Solitons Can Be Created Using Feshbach Resonances
M. Matuszewski, E. Infeld, B. A. Malomed, and M. Trippenbach
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
050403 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Phase Coherence of an Atomic Mott Insulator
Fabrice Gerbier, Artur Widera, Simon Fölling, Olaf Mandel, Tatjana Gericke, and Immanuel Bloch
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
050404 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Uniform Approximation for the Coherent-State Propagator Using a Conjugate Application of the Bargmann Representation
A. D. Ribeiro, M. Novaes, and M. A. M. de Aguiar
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
050405 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Geometric Phase in Eigenspace Evolution of Invariant and Adiabatic Action Operators
Jeffrey C. Y. Teo and Z. D. Wang
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
050406 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Analytically Solving the Relativistic Dirac-Coulomb Equation for Atoms and Molecules
Hiroshi Nakatsuji and Hiroyuki Nakashima
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
050407 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Fast Quantum Algorithm for Numerical Gradient Estimation
Stephen P. Jordan
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
050501 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Strong Hyperon-Nucleon Pairing in Neutron Stars
Xian-Rong Zhou, H.-J. Schulze, Feng Pan, and J. P. Draayer
Published 26 July 2005 (4 pages)
051101 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Exact Quantization of Einstein-Rosen Waves Coupled to Massless Scalar Matter
J. Fernando Barbero G., Iñaki Garay, and Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
051301 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Kertész Line in the Three-Dimensional Compact U(1) Lattice Higgs Model
Sandro Wenzel, Elmar Bittner, Wolfhard Janke, Adriaan M. J. Schakel, and Arwed Schiller
Published 26 July 2005 (4 pages)
051601 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying into bb̅ and Produced in Association with a Vector Boson in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.8  TeV
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 25 July 2005 (6 pages)
051801 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Study of Zγ Events and Limits on Anomalous ZZγ and Zγγ Couplings in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 27 July 2005 (7 pages)
051802 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Critical Opacity: A Possible Explanation of the Fast Thermalization Times Seen in BNL RHIC Experiments
F. Gastineau, E. Blanquier, and J. Aichelin
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
052001 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Accurate Determinations of αs from Realistic Lattice QCD
Q. Mason, H. D. Trottier, C. T. H. Davies, K. Foley, A. Gray, G. P. Lepage, M. Nobes, and J. Shigemitsu
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
052002 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Measurement of the Ds+ Lifetime
J. M. Link et al. (FOCUS Collaboration)
Published 29 July 2005 (5 pages)
052003 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Evidence for the Two-Pole Structure of the Λ(1405) Resonance
V. K. Magas, E. Oset, and A. Ramos
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
052301 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Structure Functions in Nuclear Matter and the Polarized EMC Effect
I. C. Cloët, W. Bentz, and A. W. Thomas
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
052302 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Simultaneous Measurement of β- Decay to Bound and Continuum Electron States
T. Ohtsubo et al.
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
052501 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Interpretation of the Processes 3He(e,e′p)2H and 3He(e,e′p)(pn) at High Missing Momenta
C. Ciofi degli Atti and L. P. Kaptari
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
052502 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Dynamic Supersymmetries of Differential Equations with Applications to Nuclear Spectroscopy
F. Iachello
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
052503 [View PDF (227 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Magnetic Trapping of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms
Igor Lesanovsky and Peter Schmelcher
Published 26 July 2005 (4 pages)
053001 [View PDF (1,236 kB)]
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Fully Relativistic Theory of the Ponderomotive Force in an Ultraintense Standing Wave
A. E. Kaplan and A. L. Pokrovsky
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
053601 [View PDF (3,079 kB)]
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Enhancing the Capacity and Performance of Collective Atomic Quantum Memory
Tomáš Opatrný and Jaromír Fiurášek
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
053602 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Two Dimensional Counterpropagating Spatial Solitons in Photorefractive Crystals
M. Petrović, D. Jović, M. Belić, J. Schröder, Ph. Jander, and C. Denz
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
053901 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Discrete Talbot Effect in Waveguide Arrays
Robert Iwanow, Daniel A. May-Arrioja, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, George I. Stegeman, Yoohong Min, and Wolfgang Sohler
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
053902 [View PDF (854 kB)]
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Curvilinear Motion of Multivortex Laser-Soliton Complexes with Strong and Weak Coupling
Nikolay N. Rosanov, Sergey V. Fedorov, and Anatoly N. Shatsev
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
053903 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Observation of Second-Band Vortex Solitons in 2D Photonic Lattices
Guy Bartal, Ofer Manela, Oren Cohen, Jason W. Fleischer, and Mordechai Segev
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
053904 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Observation of Spontaneous Self-Channeling of Light in Air below the Collapse Threshold
C. Ruiz, J. San Román, C. Méndez, V. Díaz, L. Plaja, I. Arias, and L. Roso
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
053905 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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Conformation Statistics of a Deformable Material Line in Two-Dimensional Turbulence
Y. Amarouchene and H. Kellay
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
054501 [View PDF (228 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of Anomalously Large Spectral Bandwidth in a High-Gain Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission Free-Electron Laser
G. Andonian, A. Murokh, J. B. Rosenzweig, R. Agustsson, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, P. Frigola, J. Y. Huang, L. Palumbo, C. Pellegrini, S. Reiche, G. Travish, C. Vicario, and V. Yakimenko
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
054801 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Multi-GeV Energy Gain in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator
M. J. Hogan, C. D. Barnes, C. E. Clayton, F. J. Decker, S. Deng, P. Emma, C. Huang, R. H. Iverson, D. K. Johnson, C. Joshi, T. Katsouleas, P. Krejcik, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, C. L. O’Connell, E. Oz, R. H. Siemann, and D. Walz
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
054802 [View PDF (575 kB)]
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Experimental Measurements of Velocity Dissipation and Neutral-Drag Effects during the Formation of a Dusty Plasma
Edward Thomas, Jr. and Jeremiah Williams
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
055001 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Giant Electron Tails and Passing Electron Pinch Effects in Tokamak-Core Turbulence
K. Hallatschek and W. Dorland
Published 26 July 2005 (4 pages)
055002 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Experimental Verification of the Hall Effect during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma
Yang Ren, Masaaki Yamada, Stefan Gerhardt, Hantao Ji, Russell Kulsrud, and Aleksey Kuritsyn
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
055003 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Global Minimum Determination of the Born-Oppenheimer Surface within Density Functional Theory
Stefan Goedecker, Waldemar Hellmann, and Thomas Lenosky
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
055501 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Commensurate One-Dimensional Bosonic System with Off-Diagonal Disorder
Karén G. Balabanyan, Nikolay Prokof’ev, and Boris Svistunov
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
055701 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Glassy Aging Dynamics
P. Lunkenheimer, R. Wehn, U. Schneider, and A. Loidl
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
055702 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Transient Topographies of Ion Patterned Si(111)
Ari-David Brown, Jonah Erlebacher, Wai-Lun Chan, and Eric Chason
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
056101 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of Low Energy Excitations in Polymer Thin Films
Rintaro Inoue, Toshiji Kanaya, Koji Nishida, Itaru Tsukushi, and Kaoru Shibata
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
056102 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Surface Rheology of Two-Dimensional Percolating Networks: Langmuir Films of Polymer Pancakes
Francisco Monroy, Francisco Ortega, Ramón G. Rubio, Hernán Ritacco, and Dominique Langevin
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
056103 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Kinetics of Water-Assisted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Synthesis Revealed by a Time-Evolution Analysis
Don N. Futaba, Kenji Hata, Takeo Yamada, Kohei Mizuno, Motoo Yumura, and Sumio Iijima
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
056104 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Self-Assembly of Polymer-Tethered Nanorods
Mark A. Horsch, Zhenli Zhang, and Sharon C. Glotzer
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
056105 [View PDF (1,293 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Interaction-Induced Adiabatic Cooling and Antiferromagnetism of Cold Fermions in Optical Lattices
F. Werner, O. Parcollet, A. Georges, and S. R. Hassan
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
056401 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Two-Point Versus Multipartite Entanglement in Quantum Phase Transitions
Alberto Anfossi, Paolo Giorda, Arianna Montorsi, and Fabio Traversa
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
056402 [View PDF (3,103 kB)]
Origin of the Anomalous Absence of Hydride Formation by ZrPd2
Michèle Gupta, Raju P. Gupta, and David J. Singh
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
056403 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Generation of Spin Currents via Raman Scattering
Ali Najmaie, E. Ya. Sherman, and J. E. Sipe
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
056601 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Scaling and Decoherence in the Nonequilibrium Kondo Model
Stefan Kehrein
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
056602 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Full Counting Statistics of Strongly Non-Ohmic Transport through Single Molecules
Jens Koch, M. E. Raikh, and Felix von Oppen
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
056801 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Electrical Readout of the Local Nuclear Polarization in the Quantum Hall Effect: A Hyperfine Battery
A. Würtz, T. Müller, A. Lorke, D. Reuter, and A. D. Wieck
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
056802 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Electrical Pump-and-Probe Study of Spin Singlet-Triplet Relaxation in a Quantum Dot
S. Sasaki, T. Fujisawa, T. Hayashi, and Y. Hirayama
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
056803 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Dynamical Coulomb Blockade of Multiple Andreev Reflections
A. Levy Yeyati, J. C. Cuevas, and A. Martín-Rodero
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
056804 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Electronic Structure of Metal-Semiconductor Nanojunctions in Gold CdSe Nanodumbbells
D. Steiner, T. Mokari, U. Banin, and O. Millo
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
056805 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Ehrenfest-Time Dependence of Weak Localization in Open Quantum Dots
Saar Rahav and Piet W. Brouwer
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
056806 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Resonances in Ferromagnetic Gratings Detected by Microwave Photoconductivity
Y. S. Gui, S. Holland, N. Mecking, and C. -M. Hu
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
056807 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Composite-Fermion Spin Excitations as ν Approaches 1/2: Interactions in the Fermi Sea
Irene Dujovne, A. Pinczuk, Moonsoo Kang, B. S. Dennis, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
056808 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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New Mean-Field Theory of the tt′t′′J Model Applied to High-Tc Superconductors
Tiago C. Ribeiro and Xiao-Gang Wen
Published 26 July 2005 (4 pages)
057001 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Superconductivity in Disordered Thin Films: Giant Mesoscopic Fluctuations
M. A. Skvortsov and M. V. Feigel’man
Published 26 July 2005 (4 pages)
057002 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Gaplike Excitations in the Superconducting State of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 Studied by Resonant Raman Scattering
D. Budelmann, B. Schulz, M. Rübhausen, M. V. Klein, M. S. Williamsen, and P. Guptasarma
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
057003 [View PDF (583 kB)]
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Percolation Transition in the Heterogeneous Vortex State of NbSe2
O. Dogru, E. Y. Andrei, M. J. Higgins, and S. Bhattacharya
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
057004 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Coexistence of Long-Range Order and Spin Fluctuation in Geometrically Frustrated Clinoatacamite Cu2Cl(OH)3
X. G. Zheng, H. Kubozono, K. Nishiyama, W. Higemoto, T. Kawae, A. Koda, and C. N. Xu
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Néel-Vector Tunneling in Antiferromagnetic Molecular Clusters
O. Waldmann, C. Dobe, H. Mutka, A. Furrer, and H. U. Güdel
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (1,880 kB)]
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Spintronics of a Nanoelectromechanical Shuttle
D. Fedorets, L. Y. Gorelik, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
057203 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Origin of the Asymmetric Magnetization Reversal Behavior in Exchange-Biased Systems: Competing Anisotropies
Julio Camarero, Jordi Sort, Axel Hoffmann, Jose Miguel García-Martín, Bernard Dieny, Rodolfo Miranda, and Josep Nogués
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
057204 [View PDF (4,299 kB)]
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Spin Current and Magnetoelectric Effect in Noncollinear Magnets
Hosho Katsura, Naoto Nagaosa, and Alexander V. Balatsky
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
057205 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Efficient Evaluation of Partition Functions of Inhomogeneous Many-Body Spin Systems
V. Murg, F. Verstraete, and J. I. Cirac
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
057206 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Ultrafast All Optical Switching via Tunable Fano Interference
Jin-Hui Wu, Jin-Yue Gao, Ji-Hua Xu, L. Silvestri, M. Artoni, G. C. La Rocca, and F. Bassani
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
057401 [View PDF (565 kB)]
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In situ Brillouin Spectroscopy of a Pressure-Induced Apparent Second-Order Transition in a Silicate Glass
S. N. Tkachev, M. H. Manghnani, and Q. Williams
Published 27 July 2005 (4 pages)
057402 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Solenoids and Plectonemes in Stretched and Twisted Elastomeric Filaments
A. Ghatak and L. Mahadevan
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
057801 [View PDF (558 kB)]
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Phase Transition in a Healthy Human Heart Rate
Ken Kiyono, Zbigniew R. Struzik, Naoko Aoyagi, Fumiharu Togo, and Yoshiharu Yamamoto
Published 28 July 2005 (4 pages)
058101 [View PDF (1,145 kB)]
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Conformational Transitions of Nongrafted Polymers near an Absorbing Substrate
Michael Bachmann and Wolfhard Janke
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
058102 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Transition State in a Noisy Environment
Thomas Bartsch, Rigoberto Hernandez, and T. Uzer
Published 25 July 2005 (4 pages)
058301 [View PDF (1,307 kB)]
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Wavelength Halving in a Transition between Standing Waves and Traveling Waves
Akiko Kaminaga, Vladimir K. Vanag, and Irving R. Epstein
Published 29 July 2005 (4 pages)
058302 [View PDF (452 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Ambiguities in the Up-Quark Mass”
Mark Srednicki
Published 28 July 2005 (1 page)
059101 [View PDF (41 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Brane-Induced-Gravity Shock Waves [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 181601 (2005)]
Nemanja Kaloper
Published 28 July 2005 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (41 kB)]
 
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