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Physical Review Letters – 19 August 2005
Volume 95, Issue 8

Measurements of the current through a single multiwalled carbon nanotube demonstrate a high conduction capacity, which would be important if such tubes were used in integrated circuits. [H. J. Li, W. G. Lu, J. J. Li, X. D. Bai, and C. Z. Gu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086601 (2005)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Polarity Switching and Transient Responses in Single Nanotube Nanofluidic Transistors
Rong Fan, Min Yue, Rohit Karnik, Arun Majumdar, and Peidong Yang
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
086607 [View PDF (706 kB)]
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LETTERS

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

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Simple and Surprisingly Accurate Approach to the Chemical Bond Obtained from Dimensional Scaling
Anatoly A. Svidzinsky, Marlan O. Scully, and Dudley R. Herschbach
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
080401 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Ground-State Properties of Fermi Gases in the Strongly Interacting Regime
S. Y. Chang and V. R. Pandharipande
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
080402 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Four-Body Problem and BEC-BCS Crossover in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Cold Fermion Gas
C. Mora, A. Komnik, R. Egger, and A. O. Gogolin
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
080403 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Casimir Zero-Point Radiation Pressure
Yoseph Imry
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
080404 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Lower and Upper Bounds on the Secret-Key Rate for Quantum Key Distribution Protocols Using One-Way Classical Communication
B. Kraus, N. Gisin, and R. Renner
Published 15 August 2005 (4 pages)
080501 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Nongeometric Conditional Phase Shift via Adiabatic Evolution of Dark Eigenstates: A New Approach to Quantum Computation
Shi-Biao Zheng
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
080502 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Efficient Quantum Computation with Probabilistic Quantum Gates
L.-M. Duan and R. Raussendorf
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
080503 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Quantum Algorithms without Initializing the Auxiliary Qubits
Dong Pyo Chi, Jeong San Kim, and Soojoon Lee
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
080504 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Bipartite Subspaces Having No Bases Distinguishable by Local Operations and Classical Communication
John Watrous
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
080505 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Search for Cosmic-Ray Antideuterons
H. Fuke et al.
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
081101 [View PDF (1,911 kB)]
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Core Collapse via Coarse Dynamic Renormalization
Andras Szell, David Merritt, and Ioannis G. Kevrekidis
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
081102 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Upper Limits on Gravitational-Wave Emission in Association with the 27 Dec 2004 Giant Flare of SGR1806-20
L. Baggio, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, M. De Rosa, P. Falferi, P. Fortini, M. Inguscio, N. Liguori, F. Marin, R. Mezzena, A. Mion, A. Ortolan, G. A. Prodi, S. Poggi, F. Salemi, G. Soranzo, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato, A. Vinante, S. Vitale, and J. P. Zendri (AURIGA Collaboration)
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
081103 [View PDF (307 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

Precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering
P. L. Anthony et al. (SLAC E158 Collaboration)
Published 17 August 2005 (5 pages)
081601 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Resonant τ Leptogenesis with Observable Lepton Number Violation
Apostolos Pilaftsis
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
081602 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Observation of the Decay Ξ0→Σ+μ-ν̅ μ
E. Abouzaid et al. (KTeV Collaboration)
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
081801 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Diabatic States from Nodal Structure Conservation
F. A. Ivanyuk and W. Nörenberg
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
082501 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Collisions of Halo Nuclei within a Dynamical Eikonal Approximation
D. Baye, P. Capel, and G. Goldstein
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
082502 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Inner-Shell Photodetachment Thresholds: Unexpected Long-Range Validity of the Wigner Law
R. C. Bilodeau, J. D. Bozek, N. D. Gibson, C. W. Walter, G. D. Ackerman, I. Dumitriu, and N. Berrah
Published 15 August 2005 (4 pages)
083001 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Multielectron Spectroscopy: The Xenon 4d Hole Double Auger Decay
F. Penent, J. Palaudoux, P. Lablanquie, L. Andric, R. Feifel, and J. H. D. Eland
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
083002 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Observation and Absolute Frequency Measurements of the 1S0-3P0 Optical Clock Transition in Neutral Ytterbium
C. W. Hoyt, Z. W. Barber, C. W. Oates, T. M. Fortier, S. A. Diddams, and L. Hollberg
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
083003 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Solvation beyond the Linear Response Regime
Jens Bredenbeck, Jan Helbing, and Peter Hamm
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
083201 [View PDF (1,054 kB)]
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Universality of Quantum Critical Dynamics in a Planar Optical Parametric Oscillator
Peter D. Drummond and Kaled Dechoum
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
083601 [View PDF (184 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Quasiregular Concentric Waves in Heterogeneous Lattices of Coupled Oscillators
Bernd Blasius and Ralf Tönjes
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
084101 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Efficient Procedure to Compute the Microcanonical Volume of Initial Conditions that Lead to Escape Trajectories from a Multidimensional Potential Well
Holger Waalkens, Andrew Burbanks, and Stephen Wiggins
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
084301 [View PDF (477 kB)]
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Causodynamics of Autowave Patterns
V. N. Biktashev
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
084501 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Wind Reversals in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Francisco Fontenele Araujo, Siegfried Grossmann, and Detlef Lohse
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
084502 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Reorientation of the Large-Scale Circulation in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Eric Brown, Alexei Nikolaenko, and Guenter Ahlers
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
084503 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Kinetic Boundary Condition at a Vapor-Liquid Interface
Tatsuya Ishiyama, Takeru Yano, and Shigeo Fujikawa
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
084504 [View PDF (278 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Experimental Study of Trapped-Electron-Mode Properties in Tokamaks: Threshold and Stabilization by Collisions
F. Ryter, C. Angioni, A. G. Peeters, F. Leuterer, H.-U. Fahrbach, and W. Suttrop (ASDEX Upgrade Team)
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
085001 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Ab-Initio Simulations of the Optical Properties of Warm Dense Gold
S. Mazevet, J. Clérouin, V. Recoules, P. M. Anglade, and G. Zerah
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
085002 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Effect of Ion Skin Depth on Relaxation of Merging Spheromaks to a Field-Reversed Configuration
Eiichirou Kawamori and Yasushi Ono
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
085003 [View PDF (316 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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In situ High-Energy X-Ray Diffraction Study of the Local Structure of Supercooled Liquid Si
T. H. Kim, G. W. Lee, B. Sieve, A. K. Gangopadhyay, R. W. Hyers, T. J. Rathz, J. R. Rogers, D. S. Robinson, K. F. Kelton, and A. I. Goldman
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
085501 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Phase Measurement for Accurate Mapping of Chemical Bonds in Acentric Space Groups
M. A. Spackman, B. Jiang, T. L. Groy, H. He, A. E. Whitten, and J. C. H. Spence
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
085502 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Quantitative Image Reconstruction of GaN Quantum Dots from Oversampled Diffraction Intensities Alone
Jianwei Miao, Yoshinori Nishino, Yoshiki Kohmura, Bart Johnson, Changyong Song, Subhash H. Risbud, and Tetsuya Ishikawa
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
085503 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Microstructure of Ferroelectric Domains in BaTiO3 Observed via X-Ray Microdiffraction
M. Holt, Kh. Hassani, and M. Sutton
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
085504 [View PDF (315 kB)]
Freezing Transition of Interfacial Water at Room Temperature under Electric Fields
Eun-Mi Choi, Young-Hwan Yoon, Sangyoub Lee, and Heon Kang
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
085701 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Step-Controlled Strain Relaxation in the Vicinal Surface Epitaxy of Nitrides
X. R. Huang, J. Bai, M. Dudley, B. Wagner, R. F. Davis, and Y. Zhu
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
086101 [View PDF (528 kB)]
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Island, Pit, and Groove Formation in Strained Heteroepitaxy
M. T. Lung, Chi-Hang Lam, and Leonard M. Sander
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
086102 [View PDF (273 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Time-Dependent Kohn-Sham Theory with Memory
H. O. Wijewardane and C. A. Ullrich
Published 15 August 2005 (4 pages)
086401 [View PDF (1,782 kB)]
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Phase Bifurcation and Quantum Fluctuations in Sr3Ru2O7
A. G. Green, S. A. Grigera, R. A. Borzi, A. P. Mackenzie, R. S. Perry, and B. D. Simons
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
086402 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Magnetic-Field-Induced Band-Structure Change in CeBiPt
N. Kozlova, J. Hagel, M. Doerr, J. Wosnitza, D. Eckert, K.-H. Müller, L. Schultz, I. Opahle, S. Elgazzar, Manuel Richter, G. Goll, H. v. Löhneysen, G. Zwicknagl, T. Yoshino, and T. Takabatake
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
086403 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Local Structure of Isolated Positively Charged Muonium as an Analog for the Hydrogen Ion in p-Type GaAs
B. E. Schultz, K. H. Chow, B. Hitti, R. F. Kiefl, R. L. Lichti, and S. F. J. Cox
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
086404 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Magnetic Ordering in CuO from First Principles: A Cuprate Antiferromagnet with Fully Three-Dimensional Exchange Interactions
Alessio Filippetti and Vincenzo Fiorentini
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
086405 [View PDF (1,806 kB)]
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Hidden Caldeira-Leggett Dissipation in a Bose-Fermi Kondo Model
Mei-Rong Li, Karyn Le Hur, and Walter Hofstetter
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
086406 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Multichannel Ballistic Transport in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes
H. J. Li, W. G. Lu, J. J. Li, X. D. Bai, and C. Z. Gu
Published 15 August 2005 (4 pages)
086601 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Tunneling in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with a Layered Antiferromagnetic Cr(001) Spacer: Role of Band Structure and Interface Scattering
T. Nagahama, S. Yuasa, E. Tamura, and Y. Suzuki
Published 15 August 2005 (4 pages)
086602 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Orbital ac Spin-Hall Effect in the Hopping Regime
O. Entin-Wohlman, A. Aharony, Y. M. Galperin, V. I. Kozub, and V. Vinokur
Published 15 August 2005 (4 pages)
086603 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Origin of the Tunnel Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Ga1-xMnxAs/ZnSe/Ga1-xMnxAs Magnetic Tunnel Junctions of II-VI/III-V Heterostructures
H. Saito, S. Yuasa, and K. Ando
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
086604 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Numerical Study of the Spin-Hall Conductance in the Luttinger Model
W. Q. Chen, Z. Y. Weng, and D. N. Sheng
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
086605 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Microscopic Analysis of the Coherent Optical Generation and the Decay of Charge and Spin Currents in Semiconductor Heterostructures
Huynh Thanh Duc, T. Meier, and S. W. Koch
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
086606 [View PDF (423 kB)]
Polarity Switching and Transient Responses in Single Nanotube Nanofluidic Transistors
Rong Fan, Min Yue, Rohit Karnik, Arun Majumdar, and Peidong Yang
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
086607 [View PDF (706 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Spin Current due to Spinlike Andreev Reflection
Baigeng Wang, Ju Peng, D. Y. Xing, and Jian Wang
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
086608 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Density of States Measured by Scanning-Tunneling Spectroscopy Sheds New Light on the Optical Transitions in PbSe Nanocrystals
Peter Liljeroth, Pedro A. Zeijlmans van Emmichoven, Stephen G. Hickey, Horst Weller, Bruno Grandidier, Guy Allan, and Daniël Vanmaekelbergh
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
086801 [View PDF (974 kB)]
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Pseudospin Ferromagnetism in Double-Quantum-Wire Systems
D.-W. Wang, E. G. Mishchenko, and E. Demler
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
086802 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Optical Selection Rules and Phase-Dependent Adiabatic State Control in a Superconducting Quantum Circuit
Yu-xi Liu, J. Q. You, L. F. Wei, C. P. Sun, and Franco Nori
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
087001 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Rectified Motion of Vortices in a Niobium Superconductor
Yoshihiko Togawa, Ken Harada, Tetsuya Akashi, Hiroto Kasai, Tsuyoshi Matsuda, Franco Nori, Atsutaka Maeda, and Akira Tonomura
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
087002 [View PDF (1,663 kB)]
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Superconductivity of Bulk CaC6
N. Emery, C. Hérold, M. d’Astuto, V. Garcia, Ch. Bellin, J. F. Marêché, P. Lagrange, and G. Loupias
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
087003 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Stable Solution of the Simplest Spin Model for Inverse Freezing
Andrea Crisanti and Luca Leuzzi
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
087201 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Kinetic Antiferromagnetism in the Triangular Lattice
Jan O. Haerter and B. Sriram Shastry
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
087202 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Ground State of the Kagomé-Like S=1/2 Antiferromagnet Volborthite Cu3V2O7(OH)2·2H2O
F. Bert, D. Bono, P. Mendels, F. Ladieu, F. Duc, J.-C. Trombe, and P. Millet
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
087203 [View PDF (711 kB)]
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Thermodynamic Properties in the Approach to the Quantum Critical Point of the Spin-Ladder Material Na2Co2(C2O4)3(H2O)2
Z. Honda, K. Katsumata, A. Kikkawa, and K. Yamada
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
087204 [View PDF (800 kB)]
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Magnetically Driven Ferroelectric Order in Ni3V2O8
G. Lawes, A. B. Harris, T. Kimura, N. Rogado, R. J. Cava, A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman, T. Yildirim, M. Kenzelmann, C. Broholm, and A. P. Ramirez
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
087205 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Magnetic Inversion Symmetry Breaking and Ferroelectricity in TbMnO3
M. Kenzelmann, A. B. Harris, S. Jonas, C. Broholm, J. Schefer, S. B. Kim, C. L. Zhang, S.-W. Cheong, O. P. Vajk, and J. W. Lynn
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
087206 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Spin Waves in Paramagnetic bcc Iron: Spin Dynamics Simulations
Xiuping Tao, D. P. Landau, T. C. Schulthess, and G. M. Stocks
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
087207 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Excitons and a Continuum of One-Dimensional Mott Insulators: A Reflection-Type Third-Harmonic-Generation Study of Ni-Halogen Chain Compounds
M. Ono, H. Kishida, and H. Okamoto
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
087401 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Surface Structure of Ultrathin Fe Films on Cu(001) Revisited
T. Bernhard, M. Baron, M. Gruyters, and H. Winter
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
087601 [View PDF (723 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Dielectric Torque and Orientation Dynamics of Liquid Crystals with Dielectric Dispersion
Y. Yin, S. V. Shiyanovskii, A. B. Golovin, and O. D. Lavrentovich
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
087801 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Multiscaling at Point J: Jamming is a Critical Phenomenon
J. A. Drocco, M. B. Hastings, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, and C. Reichhardt
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
088001 [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Model for Codon Position Bias in RNA Editing
Tsunglin Liu and Ralf Bundschuh
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
088101 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Structuring Sedimentation in a Shear-Thinning Fluid
S. Mora, L. Talini, and C. Allain
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
088301 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Melting of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on Triangular Lattices
A. Šarlah, T. Franosch, and E. Frey
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
088302 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Influence of Aspect Ratio on Barrier Properties of Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites
Chunsheng Lu and Yiu-Wing Mai
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
088303 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Tiling a Plane in a Dynamical Process and its Applications to Arrays of Quantum Dots, Drums, and Heat Transfer
O. Cybulski and R. Hołyst
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
088304 [View PDF (863 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Stability of Soap Films: Hysteresis and Nucleation of Black Films”
Cosima Stubenrauch, Dominique Langevin, and Dotchi Exerowa
Published 16 August 2005 (1 page)
088901 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Bonn and Meunier Reply:
Daniel Bonn and Jacques Meunier
Published 16 August 2005 (1 page)
088902 [View PDF (35 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Origin of Spontaneous Electric Dipoles in Homonuclear Niobium Clusters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 246105 (2004)]
Kristopher E. Andersen, Vijay Kumar, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, and Warren E. Pickett
Published 18 August 2005 (1 page)
089901(E) [View PDF (271 kB)]
 
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