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Physical Review Letters – 26 August 2005
Volume 95, Issue 9

Simulations describe the early stages of carbon nanotube growth on metal nanoparticle catalysts. [Jean-Yves Raty, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096103 (2005)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Strange-Quark Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Forward G0 Electron-Proton Scattering Experiment
D. S. Armstrong et al. (G0 Collaboration)
Published 26 August 2005 (5 pages)
092001 [View PDF (142 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

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

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Detection of Macroscopic Entanglement by Correlation of Local Observables
Akira Shimizu and Tomoyuki Morimae
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
090401 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Density and Spin Response Functions in Ultracold Fermionic Atom Gases
Bogdan Mihaila, Sergio Gaudio, Krastan B. Blagoev, Alexander V. Balatsky, Peter B. Littlewood, and Darryl L. Smith
Published 25 August 2005 (4 pages)
090402 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Drag Effect and Topological Complexes in Strongly Interacting Two-Component Lattice Superfluids
V. M. Kaurov, A. B. Kuklov, and A. E. Meyerovich
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
090403 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Correlations and Counting Statistics of an Atom Laser
Anton Öttl, Stephan Ritter, Michael Köhl, and Tilman Esslinger
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
090404 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Inverting Quantum Decoherence by Classical Feedback from the Environment
Francesco Buscemi, Giulio Chiribella, and Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
090501 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Charge-Qubit Operation of an Isolated Double Quantum Dot
J. Gorman, D. G. Hasko, and D. A. Williams
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
090502 [View PDF (986 kB)]
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Logarithmic Negativity: A Full Entanglement Monotone That is not Convex
M. B. Plenio
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
090503 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Separating the Classical and Quantum Information via Quantum Cloning
M. Ricci, F. Sciarrino, N. J. Cerf, R. Filip, J. Fiurášek, and F. De Martini
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
090504 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Theory of Metastability in Simple Metal Nanowires
J. Bürki, C. A. Stafford, and D. L. Stein
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
090601 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Infinite Average Lifetime of an Unstable Bright State in the Green Fluorescent Protein
P. Didier, L. Guidoni, and F. Bardou
Published 25 August 2005 (4 pages)
090602 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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High-Efficiency Deterministic Josephson Vortex Ratchet
M. Beck, E. Goldobin, M. Neuhaus, M. Siegel, R. Kleiner, and D. Koelle
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
090603 [View PDF (1,330 kB)]
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Unexpected Density Fluctuations in Jammed Disordered Sphere Packings
Aleksandar Donev, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
090604 [View PDF (340 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Uniqueness and Nonuniqueness in the Einstein Constraints
Harald P. Pfeiffer and James W. York, Jr.
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
091101 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Quantum Cosmology of the Brane Universe
A. Boyarsky, A. Neronov, and I. Tkachev
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
091301 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Black Hole Mass Threshold from Nonsingular Quantum Gravitational Collapse
Martin Bojowald, Rituparno Goswami, Roy Maartens, and Parampreet Singh
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
091302 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Evolution of Nonlinear Cosmological Perturbations
David Langlois and Filippo Vernizzi
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
091303 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Results of a Search for Cold Flows of Dark Matter Axions
L. Duffy, P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner, S. Asztalos, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, L. J Rosenberg, K. van Bibber, D. Yu, and R. F. Bradley
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
091304 [View PDF (182 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Studies of CP Violation in B→J/ψK* Decays
R. Itoh et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 26 August 2005 (6 pages)
091601 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons in Dilepton and Diphoton Final States
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 26 August 2005 (7 pages)
091801 [View PDF (146 kB)]
Strange-Quark Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Forward G0 Electron-Proton Scattering Experiment
D. S. Armstrong et al. (G0 Collaboration)
Published 26 August 2005 (5 pages)
092001 [View PDF (142 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Nuclear Physics

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Calculation of Proton-Deuteron Breakup Reactions including the Coulomb Interaction between the Two Protons
A. Deltuva, A. C. Fonseca, and P. U. Sauer
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
092301 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Time-Resolved Imaging and Manipulation of H2 Fragmentation in Intense Laser Fields
Th. Ergler, A. Rudenko, B. Feuerstein, K. Zrost, C. D. Schröter, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
093001 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Strong Orientation Effects in Ionization of H2+ by Short, Intense, High-Frequency Light Pulses
S. Selstø, M. Førre, J. P. Hansen, and L. B. Madsen
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
093002 [View PDF (669 kB)]
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Bond- and Site-Selective Loss of H- from Pyrimidine Bases
Sylwia Ptasińska, Stephan Denifl, Verena Grill, Tilmann D. Märk, Eugen Illenberger, and Paul Scheier
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
093201 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Sensitive Measurement of Forces at the Micron Scale Using Bloch Oscillations of Ultracold Atoms
I. Carusotto, L. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari, G. Modugno, and M. Inguscio
Published 25 August 2005 (4 pages)
093202 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Nanoscopic Ultrafast Space-Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
T. Brixner, F. J. García de Abajo, J. Schneider, and W. Pfeiffer
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
093901 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Chaos in an Electromagnetically Induced Transparent Medium Inside an Optical Cavity
Wenge Yang, Amitabh Joshi, and Min Xiao
Published 25 August 2005 (4 pages)
093902 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Poincaré Recurrence and Measure of Hyperbolic and Nonhyperbolic Chaotic Attractors
Murilo S. Baptista, Suso Kraut, and Celso Grebogi
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
094101 [View PDF (5,717 kB)]
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Heat Conduction in a Two-Dimensional Harmonic Crystal with Disorder
Lik Wee Lee and Abhishek Dhar
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
094302 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Three-Dimensional Evolution of a Relativistic Current Sheet: Triggering of Magnetic Reconnection by the Guide Field
S. Zenitani and M. Hoshino
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
095001 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Observation of Nonlinear Coupling between Small-Poloidal Wave-Number Potential Fluctuations and Turbulent Potential Fluctuations in Ohmically Heated Plasmas in the JFT-2M Tokamak
Y. Nagashima, K. Hoshino, A. Ejiri, K. Shinohara, Y. Takase, K. Tsuzuki, K. Uehara, H. Kawashima, H. Ogawa, T. Ido, Y. Kusama, and Y. Miura
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
095002 [View PDF (846 kB)]
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Resonant Scattering of Ions on Charged Dust Particles
U. de Angelis, C. Marmolino, and V. N. Tsytovich
Published 26 August 2005 (3 pages)
095003 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Oscillations in the Expansion of Solid 4He into Vacuum
Giorgio Benedek, Franco Dalfovo, Robert E. Grisenti, Manuel Käsz, and J. Peter Toennies
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
095301 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Persistent Step-Flow Growth of Strained Films on Vicinal Substrates
Wei Hong, Ho Nyung Lee, Mina Yoon, Hans M. Christen, Douglas H. Lowndes, Zhigang Suo, and Zhenyu Zhang
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
095501 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Strain Localization and Percolation of Stable Structure in Amorphous Solids
Yunfeng Shi and Michael L. Falk
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
095502 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Explosive Fragmentation of a Thin Ceramic Tube Using Pulsed Power
Hiroaki Katsuragi, Satoshi Ihara, and Haruo Honjo
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
095503 [View PDF (246 kB)]
Circuit Elements at Optical Frequencies: Nanoinductors, Nanocapacitors, and Nanoresistors
Nader Engheta, Alessandro Salandrino, and Andrea Alù
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
095504 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half
Basile Audoly and Sébastien Neukirch
Published 25 August 2005 (4 pages)
095505 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Simulations of Spinodal Nucleation in Systems with Elastic Interactions
C. J. Gagne, Harvey Gould, W. Klein, T. Lookman, and A. Saxena
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
095701 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Suppression of Capillary Wave Broadening of Interfaces in Binary Alloys due to Elastic Interactions
B. J. Schulz, B. Dünweg, K. Binder, and M. Müller
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
096101 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Electronic Origin of Disorder and Diffusion at a Molecule-Metal Interface: Self-Assembled Monolayers Of CH3S on Cu(111)
Martin Konôpka, Roger Rousseau, Ivan Štich, and Dominik Marx
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
096102 [View PDF (501 kB)]
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Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Metal Nanoparticles: A Microscopic Mechanism from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Jean-Yves Raty, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
096103 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Morphological Instability in InAs/GaSb Superlattices due to Interfacial Bonds
J. H. Li, D. W. Stokes, O. Caha, S. L. Ammu, J. Bai, K. E. Bassler, and S. C. Moss
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
096104 [View PDF (697 kB)]
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Carbon Nanotube Ballistic Thermal Conductance and Its Limits
N. Mingo and D. A. Broido
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
096105 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Intermediate Phase of the One Dimensional Half-Filled Hubbard-Holstein Model
R. T. Clay and R. P. Hardikar
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
096401 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Electron Emission from Diamondoids: A Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo Study
N. D. Drummond, A. J. Williamson, R. J. Needs, and G. Galli
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
096801 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Band Structure and Oscillatory Electron-Phonon Coupling of Pb Thin Films Determined by Atomic-Layer-Resolved Quantum-Well States
Yan-Feng Zhang, Jin-Feng Jia, Tie-Zhu Han, Zhe Tang, Quan-Tong Shen, Yang Guo, Z. Q. Qiu, and Qi-Kun Xue
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
096802 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Superconducting π Qubit with a Ferromagnetic Josephson Junction
T. Yamashita, K. Tanikawa, S. Takahashi, and S. Maekawa
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
097001 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of the Optical Spectral Weight in the Cuprates: Role of Electron Correlations
A. Toschi, M. Capone, M. Ortolani, P. Calvani, S. Lupi, and C. Castellani
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
097002 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Superconducting Spin Valve Effect of a V Layer Coupled to an Antiferromagnetic [Fe/V] Superlattice
K. Westerholt, D. Sprungmann, H. Zabel, R. Brucas, B. Hjörvarsson, D. A. Tikhonov, and I. A. Garifullin
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
097003 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Observation of Vortex Coalescence in the Anisotropic Spin-Triplet Superconductor Sr2RuO4
V. O. Dolocan, C. Veauvy, F. Servant, P. Lejay, K. Hasselbach, Y. Liu, and D. Mailly
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
097004 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Temperature-Dependent Anisotropy of the Penetration Depth and Coherence Length of MgB2
J. D. Fletcher, A. Carrington, O. J. Taylor, S. M. Kazakov, and J. Karpinski
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
097005 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Effect of Disorder Outside the CuO2 Planes on Tc of Copper Oxide Superconductors
K. Fujita, T. Noda, K. M. Kojima, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
097006 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Irradiation-Induced Magnetism in Carbon Nanostructures
S. Talapatra, P. G. Ganesan, T. Kim, R. Vajtai, M. Huang, M. Shima, G. Ramanath, D. Srivastava, S. C. Deevi, and P. M. Ajayan
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
097201 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Finite-Temperature Transitions in Dipolar Spin Ice in a Large Magnetic Field
Jacob P. C. Ruff, Roger G. Melko, and Michel J. P. Gingras
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
097202 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Zero-Field Incommensurate Spin-Peierls Phase with Interchain Frustration in TiOCl
R. Rückamp, J. Baier, M. Kriener, M. W. Haverkort, T. Lorenz, G. S. Uhrig, L. Jongen, A. Möller, G. Meyer, and M. Grüninger
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
097203 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Cooling Mechanism for a Nanomechanical Resonator by Periodic Coupling to a Cooper Pair Box
P. Zhang, Y. D. Wang, and C. P. Sun
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
097204 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Power-Law-Distributed Dark States are the Main Pathway for Photobleaching of Single Organic Molecules
Jacob P. Hoogenboom, Erik M. H. P. van Dijk, Jordi Hernando, Niek F. van Hulst, and María F. García-Parajó
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
097401 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Accelerating the Spontaneous Emission of X Rays from Atoms in a Cavity
R. Röhlsberger, K. Schlage, T. Klein, and O. Leupold
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
097601 [View PDF (287 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Rheology of Cholesteric Blue Phases
A. Dupuis, D. Marenduzzo, E. Orlandini, and J. M. Yeomans
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
097801 [View PDF (1,206 kB)]
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Dynamics of Nematic Liquid Crystal Disclinations: The Role of the Backflow
C. Blanc, D. Svenšek, S. Žumer, and M. Nobili
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
097802 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Energy Partition and Segregation for an Intruder in a Vibrated Granular System under Gravity
J. Javier Brey, M. J. Ruiz-Montero, and F. Moreno
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
098001 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Melting Far from Equilibrium in a Granular Monolayer
J. S. Olafsen and J. S. Urbach
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
098002 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Spatial Scaling in Model Plant Communities
Tommaso Zillio, Igor Volkov, Jayanth R. Banavar, Stephen P. Hubbell, and Amos Maritan
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
098101 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Molecular Model of the Contractile Ring
D. Biron, E. Alvarez-Lacalle, T. Tlusty, and E. Moses
Published 25 August 2005 (4 pages)
098102 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Form of Growing Strings
D. Marenduzzo, T. X. Hoang, F. Seno, M. Vendruscolo, and A. Maritan
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
098103 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Scale-Free Networks Provide a Unifying Framework for the Emergence of Cooperation
F. C. Santos and J. M. Pacheco
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
098104 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Closed-Form Solutions for Continuous Time Random Walks on Finite Chains
Ophir Flomenbom and Joseph Klafter
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
098105 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Fractons in Proteins: Can They Lead to Anomalously Decaying Time Autocorrelations?
Rony Granek and Joseph Klafter
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
098106 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Vibrations and Diverging Length Scales Near the Unjamming Transition
Leonardo E. Silbert, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
098301 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Asymmetric Bound States of Spiral Pairs in Excitable Media
Christian Zemlin, Karthik Mukund, Marcel Wellner, Roman Zaritsky, and Arkady Pertsov
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
098302 [View PDF (276 kB)]
Trading Interactions for Topology in Scale-Free Networks
C. V. Giuraniuc, J. P. L. Hatchett, J. O. Indekeu, M. Leone, I. Pérez Castillo, B. Van Schaeybroeck, and C. Vanderzande
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
098701 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Novel Public Key Encryption Technique Based on Multiple Chaotic Systems
Ranjan Bose
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
098702 [View PDF (121 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Cross Section of e+e- Annihilation into Hadrons of Order αs4nf2 in Perturbative QCD”
F. A. Chishtie, V. Elias, and T. G. Steele
Published 26 August 2005 (1 page)
099101 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Comment on “Three-Species Collisionless Reconnection: Effect of O+ on Magnetotail Reconnection”
P. K. Shukla and L. Stenflo
Published 26 August 2005 (1 page)
099501 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Shay and Swisdak Reply:
M. A. Shay and M. Swisdak
Published 26 August 2005 (1 page)
099502 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “Band Filling and Interband Scattering Effects in MgB2: Carbon versus Aluminium Doping”
P. Samuely, P. Szabó, P. C. Canfield, and S. L. Bud’ko
Published 25 August 2005 (1 page)
099701 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Kortus et al. Reply:
J. Kortus, O. V. Dolgov, R. K. Kremer, and A. A. Golubov
Published 25 August 2005 (1 page)
099702 [View PDF (132 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Coherence Properties and Quantum State Transportation in an Optical Conveyor Belt [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 213002 (2003)]
S. Kuhr, W. Alt, D. Schrader, I. Dotsenko, Y. Miroshnychenko, W. Rosenfeld, M. Khudaverdyan, V. Gomer, A. Rauschenbeutel, and D. Meschede
Published 22 August 2005 (1 page)
099901(E) [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Erratum: Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation in the Presence of Spontaneous Emission and Collective Dephasing [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 197904 (2002)]
K. Khodjasteh and D. A. Lidar
Published 25 August 2005 (1 page)
099902(E) [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Erratum: Orientation-Dependent C60 Electronic Structures Revealed by Photoemission Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197601 (2004)]
V. Brouet, W. L. Yang, X. J. Zhou, H. J. Choi, S. G. Louie, M. L. Cohen, A. Goldoni, F. Parmigiani, Z. Hussain, and Z. X. Shen
Published 26 August 2005 (1 page)
099903(E) [View PDF (154 kB)]
 
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