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Physical Review Letters – 12 August 2005
Volume 95, Issue 7

Investigations of the cosmic microwave background indicate the presence of a preferred axis, which would have implications for the standard model of cosmology. [Kate Land and João Magueijo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 071301 (2005)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Allosteric Control through Mechanical Tension
Brian Choi, Giovanni Zocchi, Yim Wu, Sum Chan, and L. Jeanne Perry
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
078102 [View PDF (923 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Random Potential
J. E. Lye, L. Fallani, M. Modugno, D. S. Wiersma, C. Fort, and M. Inguscio
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
070401 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Large Spin with Strong Dissipation
Till Vorrath and Tobias Brandes
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
070402 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Creation Dynamics of Bound States in Supercritical Fields
P. Krekora, K. Cooley, Q. Su, and R. Grobe
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
070403 [View PDF (873 kB)]
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Anisotropic Fermi Superfluid via p-Wave Feshbach Resonance
Chi-Ho Cheng and S.-K. Yip
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
070404 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Non-Gaussian Cloning of Quantum Coherent States is Optimal
N. J. Cerf, O. Krüger, P. Navez, R. F. Werner, and M. M. Wolf
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
070501 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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New Einstein-Sasaki Spaces in Five and Higher Dimensions
M. Cvetič, H. Lü, Don N. Page, and C. N. Pope
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
071101 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Critical Behavior in Vacuum Gravitational Collapse in 4+1 Dimensions
Piotr Bizoń, Tadeusz Chmaj, and Bernd G. Schmidt
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
071102 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Examination of Evidence for a Preferred Axis in the Cosmic Radiation Anisotropy
Kate Land and João Magueijo
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
071301 [View PDF (423 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Long-Lived Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons in pp̅ Collisions at √s=1.96  TeV
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)
Published 11 August 2005 (7 pages)
071801 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Precision Model Independent Determination of |Vub| from B→πlν
Christian M. Arnesen, Benjamin Grinstein, Ira Z. Rothstein, and Iain W. Stewart
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
071802 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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ss̅ Component of the Proton and the Strangeness Magnetic Moment
B. S. Zou and D. O. Riska
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
072001 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Theory of Tunnel Ionization in Complex Systems
Thomas Brabec, Michel Côté, Paul Boulanger, and Lora Ramunno
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
073001 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Dissociation and Ionization of H2+ by Ultrashort Intense Laser Pulses Probed by Coincidence 3D Momentum Imaging
I. Ben-Itzhak, P. Q. Wang, J. F. Xia, A. M. Sayler, M. A. Smith, K. D. Carnes, and B. D. Esry
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
073002 [View PDF (2,051 kB)]
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Dissipation-Induced Symmetry Breaking in a Driven Optical Lattice
R. Gommers, S. Bergamini, and F. Renzoni
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
073003 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Vibrational Excitation of Diatomic Molecular Ions in Strong Field Ionization of Diatomic Molecules
Thomas K. Kjeldsen and Lars Bojer Madsen
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
073004 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Anomalous Quantum Reflection of Bose-Einstein Condensates from a Silicon Surface: The Role of Dynamical Excitations
R. G. Scott, A. M. Martin, T. M. Fromhold, and F. W. Sheard
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
073201 [View PDF (366 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Modulational Instability in Systems with Integrating Nonlinearity
U. Streppel, D. Michaelis, R. Kowarschik, and A. Bräuer
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
073901 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Nonlinearly Induced Relaxation to the Ground State in a Two-Level System
D. Mandelik, Y. Lahini, and Y. Silberberg
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
073902 [View PDF (478 kB)]
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Giant Excess Noise and Transient Gain in Misaligned Laser Cavities
William J Firth and Alison M Yao
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
073903 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Weak Localization and Time Reversal of Ultrasound in a Rotational Flow
Julien de Rosny, Arnaud Tourin, Arnaud Derode, Philippe Roux, and Mathias Fink
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
074301 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Evidence of the k1-1 Law in a High-Reynolds-Number Turbulent Boundary Layer
T. B. Nickels, I. Marusic, S. Hafez, and M. S. Chong
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
074501 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Azimuthal Symmetry, Flow Dynamics, and Heat Transport in Turbulent Thermal Convection in a Cylinder with an Aspect Ratio of 0.5
Chao Sun, Heng-Dong Xi, and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
074502 [View PDF (670 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

Demonstration of a 17-GHz, High-Gradient Accelerator with a Photonic-Band-Gap Structure
Evgenya I. Smirnova, Amit S. Kesar, Ivan Mastovsky, Michael A. Shapiro, and Richard J. Temkin
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
074801 [View PDF (553 kB)]
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Current Clamp at Zero Level in JT-60U Current Hole Plasmas
T. Fujita, T. Suzuki, T. Oikawa, A. Isayama, T. Hatae, O. Naito, Y. Sakamoto, N. Hayashi, K. Hamamatsu, S. Ide, and H. Takenaga
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
075001 [View PDF (334 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Observation of Surface Andreev Bound States of Superfluid 3He by Transverse Acoustic Impedance Measurements
Y. Aoki, Y. Wada, M. Saitoh, R. Nomura, Y. Okuda, Y. Nagato, M. Yamamoto, S. Higashitani, and K. Nagai
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
075301 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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EXAFS Measurement of Iron bcc-to-hcp Phase Transformation in Nanosecond-Laser Shocks
B. Yaakobi, T. R. Boehly, D. D. Meyerhofer, T. J. B. Collins, B. A. Remington, P. G. Allen, S. M. Pollaine, H. E. Lorenzana, and J. H. Eggert
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
075501 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the α-ε Transition in Shock-Compressed Iron via Nanosecond X-Ray Diffraction
D. H. Kalantar, J. F. Belak, G. W. Collins, J. D. Colvin, H. M. Davies, J. H. Eggert, T. C. Germann, J. Hawreliak, B. L. Holian, K. Kadau, P. S. Lomdahl, H. E. Lorenzana, M. A. Meyers, K. Rosolankova, M. S. Schneider, J. Sheppard, J. S. Stölken, and J. S. Wark
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
075502 [View PDF (766 kB)]
Time-of-Flight Flow Imaging Using NMR Remote Detection
J. Granwehr, E. Harel, S. Han, S. Garcia, A. Pines, P. N. Sen, and Y.-Q. Song
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
075503 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Average Shape of Transport-Limited Aggregates
Benny Davidovitch, Jaehyuk Choi, and Martin Z. Bazant
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
075504 [View PDF (1,432 kB)]
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Medium-Range Structural Properties of Vitreous Germania Obtained through First-Principles Analysis of Vibrational Spectra
Luigi Giacomazzi, P. Umari, and Alfredo Pasquarello
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
075505 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Complete Elastic Tensor through the First-Order Transformation in U2Rh3Si5
R. G. Leisure, S. Kern, F. R. Drymiotis, H. Ledbetter, A. Migliori, and J. A. Mydosh
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
075506 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Crystal-Amorphous and Crystal-Crystal Phase Transformations via Virtual Melting
Valery I. Levitas
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
075701 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Classical Many-Body Potential for Concentrated Alloys and the Inversion of Order in Iron-Chromium Alloys
A. Caro, D. A. Crowson, and M. Caro
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
075702 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Isoenergetic Jamming Transition in Particle-Filled Systems
Christopher G. Robertson and Xiaorong Wang
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
075703 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulations of Polymer Chains: Scaling Laws and Shearing Response Compared to DNA Experiments
Vasileios Symeonidis, George Em Karniadakis, and Bruce Caswell
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
076001 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Impact of Substrate Corrugation on the Sliding Friction Levels of Adsorbed Films
T. Coffey and J. Krim
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
076101 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Self-Assembled Superlattice by Spinodal Decomposition during Growth
I. Daruka and J. Tersoff
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
076102 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Atomic Structure of a Thin Silica Film on a Mo(112) Substrate: A Two-Dimensional Network of SiO4 Tetrahedra
J. Weissenrieder, S. Kaya, J.-L. Lu, H.-J. Gao, S. Shaikhutdinov, H.-J. Freund, M. Sierka, T. K. Todorova, and J. Sauer
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
076103 [View PDF (296 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Experimental Evidence of Dislocation Related Shallow States in p-Type Si
A. Castaldini, D. Cavalcoli, A. Cavallini, and S. Pizzini
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
076401 [View PDF (432 kB)]
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Quantum Hydrodynamics, the Quantum Benjamin-Ono Equation, and the Calogero Model
Alexander G. Abanov and Paul B. Wiegmann
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
076402 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Identifying Contact Effects in Electronic Conduction through C60 on Silicon
G.-C. Liang and A. W. Ghosh
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
076403 [View PDF (543 kB)]
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Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in Nanowires
A. S. Alexandrov and V. V. Kabanov
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
076601 [View PDF (740 kB)]
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Maxwell Equation for Coupled Spin-Charge Wave Propagation
B. Andrei Bernevig, Xiaowei Yu, and Shou-Cheng Zhang
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
076602 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Anisotropy of Spin Splitting and Spin Relaxation in Lateral Quantum Dots
Vladimir I. Fal’ko, B. L. Altshuler, and O. Tsyplyatyev
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
076603 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Dephasing of Mesoscopic Interferences from Electron Fractionalization
Karyn Le Hur
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
076801 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Suppression of Superconductivity in Zinc Nanowires by Bulk Superconductors
Mingliang Tian, Nitesh Kumar, Shengyong Xu, Jinguo Wang, James S. Kurtz, and M. H. W. Chan
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
076802 [View PDF (1,399 kB)]
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Quantum Dephasing in Carbon Nanotubes due to Electron-Phonon Coupling
Stephan Roche, Jie Jiang, François Triozon, and Riichiro Saito
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
076803 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Band Structure and Quantum Conductance of Nanostructures from Maximally Localized Wannier Functions: The Case of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes
Young-Su Lee, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, and Nicola Marzari
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
076804 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Spin Relaxation and Decoherence of Holes in Quantum Dots
Denis V. Bulaev and Daniel Loss
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
076805 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Multiple Cotunneling in Large Quantum Dot Arrays
T. B. Tran, I. S. Beloborodov, X. M. Lin, T. P. Bigioni, V. M. Vinokur, and H. M. Jaeger
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
076806 [View PDF (674 kB)]
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Fermi Surface and Quasiparticle Excitations of Overdoped Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ
M. Platé, J. D. F. Mottershead, I. S. Elfimov, D. C. Peets, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, S. Chiuzbaian, M. Falub, M. Shi, L. Patthey, and A. Damascelli
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
077001 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Vortices and Quasiparticles near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Thin Films
Victor M. Galitski, G. Refael, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and T. Senthil
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
077002 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Computation of Dynamical Correlation Functions of Heisenberg Chains in a Magnetic Field
Jean-Sébastien Caux and Jean Michel Maillet
Published 8 August 2005 (3 pages)
077201 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Exotic Kondo Effect from Magnetic Trimers
B. Lazarovits, P. Simon, G. Zaránd, and L. Szunyogh
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
077202 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Lattice Distortion Effects on the Magnetostructural Phase Transition of MnAs
F. Iikawa, M. J. S. P. Brasil, C. Adriano, O. D. D. Couto, C. Giles, P. V. Santos, L. Däweritz, I. Rungger, and S. Sanvito
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
077203 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Spin-Glass-Like Behavior in CoO Nanoparticles and the Origin of Exchange Bias in Layered CoO/Ferromagnet Structures
M. Gruyters
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
077204 [View PDF (912 kB)]
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Ab Initio Treatment of Optical Second Harmonic Generation in NiO
G. Lefkidis and W. Hübner
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
077401 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Exciton Resonances Quench the Photoluminescence of Zigzag Carbon Nanotubes
Stephanie Reich, Christian Thomsen, and John Robertson
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
077402 [View PDF (597 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Observation of a Hexatic Columnar Liquid Crystal of Polydisperse Colloidal Disks
A. V. Petukhov, D. van der Beek, R. P. A. Dullens, I. P. Dolbnya, G. J. Vroege, and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
077801 [View PDF (1,325 kB)]
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Size Segregation in Granular Media Induced by Phase Transition
M. Tarzia, A. Fierro, M. Nicodemi, M. Pica Ciamarra, and A. Coniglio
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
078001 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Time-Resolved Reflectance at Null Source-Detector Separation: Improving Contrast and Resolution in Diffuse Optical Imaging
Alessandro Torricelli, Antonio Pifferi, Lorenzo Spinelli, Rinaldo Cubeddu, Fabrizio Martelli, Samuele Del Bianco, and Giovanni Zaccanti
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
078101 [View PDF (186 kB)]
Allosteric Control through Mechanical Tension
Brian Choi, Giovanni Zocchi, Yim Wu, Sum Chan, and L. Jeanne Perry
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
078102 [View PDF (923 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Viscoelastic Phase Separation of Protein Solutions
Hajime Tanaka and Yuya Nishikawa
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
078103 [View PDF (626 kB)]
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Entropic Compression of Interacting DNA Loops
Sumithra Sankararaman and John F. Marko
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
078104 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Link between Population Dynamics and Dynamics of Darwinian Evolution
Géza Meszéna, Mats Gyllenberg, Frans J. Jacobs, and Johan A. J. Metz
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
078105 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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How a Frog Can Learn What Is Where in the Dark
Jan-Moritz P. Franosch, Martin Lingenheil, and J. Leo van Hemmen
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
078106 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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High-Order Mode-Coupling Theory for the Colloidal Glass Transition
Jianlan Wu and Jianshu Cao
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
078301 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Shear-Induced Collapse in a Lyotropic Lamellar Phase
L. Porcar, G. G. Warr, W. A. Hamilton, and P. D. Butler
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
078302 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Model for Brownian Motion in Soft-Jammed Systems
P. Coussot
Published 12 August 2005 (4 pages)
078303 [View PDF (82 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Interference Effect in Electron Emission in Heavy Ion Collisions with H2 Detected by Comparison with the Measured Electron Spectrum from Atomic Hydrogen”
J. A. Tanis, S. Hossain, B. Sulik, and N. Stolterfoht
Published 10 August 2005 (1 page)
079301 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Misra et al. Reply:
D. Misra, U. Kadhane, Y. P. Singh, L. C. Tribedi, P. D. Fainstein, and P. Richard
Published 10 August 2005 (1 page)
079302 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Comment on “Quantum Tunneling at Zero Temperature in the Strong Friction Regime”
Joachim Ankerhold, Hermann Grabert, and Philip Pechukas
Published 12 August 2005 (1 page)
079801 [View PDF (48 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Electronic Transport in Fullerene C20 Bridge Assisted by Molecular Vibrations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 065501 (2005)]
Takahiro Yamamoto, Kazuyuki Watanabe, and Satoshi Watanabe
Published 9 August 2005 (1 page)
079901(E) [View PDF (28 kB)]
 
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