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Volume 96, Issue 4

3 February 2006

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Ball lightning? Evolution of a floating fireball ejected from a molten hot spot in glass by localized microwaves.

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Fireball Ejection from a Molten Hot Spot to Air by Localized Microwaves
Vladimir Dikhtyar and Eli Jerby
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045002 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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

Self-Trapped Nonlinear Matter Waves in Periodic Potentials

Tristram J. Alexander, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 040401 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Evolution from BCS to BEC Superfluidity in $p$ -Wave Fermi Gases

M. Iskin and C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 040402 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Mott-Insulator Phase of Coupled One-Dimensional Atomic Gases in a Two-Dimensional Optical Lattice

D. M. Gangardt, P. Pedri, L. Santos, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 040403 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Vortex-Antivortex Lattice in Ultracold Fermionic Gases

S. S. Botelho and C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 040404 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Quantized Vortices in the Ideal Bose Gas: A Physical Realization of Random Polynomials

Yvan Castin, Zoran Hadzibabic, Sabine Stock, Jean Dalibard, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 040405 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Bounds on Multipartite Entangled Orthogonal State Discrimination Using Local Operations and Classical Communication

M. Hayashi, D. Markham, M. Murao, M. Owari, and S. Virmani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 040501 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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$k$ -Core Organization of Complex Networks

S. N. Dorogovtsev, A. V. Goltsev, and J. F. F. Mendes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 040601 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Scaling of a Collapsed Polymer Globule in Two Dimensions

Marco Baiesi, Enzo Orlandini, and Attilio L. Stella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 040602 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

Strange Star Surface: A Crust with Nuggets

Prashanth Jaikumar, Sanjay Reddy, and Andrew W. Steiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041101 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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${}^{40}{Ca} (α, γ) {}^{44}{Ti}$ Reaction in the Energy Regime of Supernova Nucleosynthesis

H. Nassar, M. Paul, I. Ahmad, Y. Ben-Dov, J. Caggiano, S. Ghelberg, S. Goriely, J. P. Greene, M. Hass, A. Heger, A. Heinz, D. J. Henderson, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, Y. Kashiv, B. S. Nara Singh, A. Ofan, R. C. Pardo, T. Pennington, K. E. Rehm, G. Savard, R. Scott, and R. Vondrasek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041102 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Constraining Inverse-Curvature Gravity with Supernovae

Olga Mena, José Santiago, and Jochen Weller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041103 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Exotic Axion Cosmology in Theories with Phase Transitions below the QCD Scale

David B. Kaplan and Kathryn M. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041301 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Dark Matter and the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe

Glennys R. Farrar and Gabrijela Zaharijas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041302 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Why Black Hole Production in Scattering of Cosmic Ray Neutrinos Is Generically Suppressed

Dejan Stojkovic, Glenn D. Starkman, and De-Chang Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041303 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Elementary Particles and Fields

Superconducting Vortices in Semilocal Models

Péter Forgács, Sébastien Reuillon, and Mikhail S. Volkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041601 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Decay $τ^{\pm} \to e^{\pm} γ$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041801 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Search for $Θ^{+} (1540)$ Pentaquark in High-Statistics Measurement of $γ p \to {\bar{K}}^{0} K^{+} n$ at CLAS

M. Battaglieri et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042001 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Mass and $K Λ$ Coupling of the $N^{*} (1535)$

B. C. Liu and B. S. Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042002 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Search for Charged Higgs Bosons from Top Quark Decays in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042003 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Nuclear Physics

$α ∶ 2 n ∶ α$ Molecular Band in ${}^{10}{Be}$

M. Freer, E. Casarejos, L. Achouri, C. Angulo, N. I. Ashwood, N. Curtis, P. Demaret, C. Harlin, B. Laurent, M. Milin, N. A. Orr, D. Price, R. Raabe, N. Soić, and V. A. Ziman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042501 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Correlations in Nuclear Masses

H. Olofsson, S. Åberg, O. Bohigas, and P. Leboeuf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042502 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Measurement of the $p$ to $s$ Wave Branching Ratio of ${}^{187}{Re}$ $β$ Decay from Beta Environmental Fine Structure

C. Arnaboldi, G. Benedek, C. Brofferio, S. Capelli, F. Capozzi, O. Cremonesi, A. Filipponi, E. Fiorini, A. Giuliani, A. Monfardini, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, M. Pedretti, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, and M. Sisti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042503 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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First Precision Mass Measurements of Refractory Fission Fragments

U. Hager, T. Eronen, J. Hakala, A. Jokinen, V. S. Kolhinen, S. Kopecky, I. Moore, A. Nieminen, M. Oinonen, S. Rinta-Antila, J. Szerypo, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042504 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Breakdown of $K$ Selection in ${}^{178}{Hf}$

A. B. Hayes, D. Cline, C. Y. Wu, J. Ai, H. Amro, C. Beausang, R. F. Casten, J. Gerl, A. A. Hecht, A. Heinz, R. Hughes, R. V. F. Janssens, C. J. Lister, A. O. Macchiavelli, D. A. Meyer, E. F. Moore, P. Napiorkowski, R. C. Pardo, Ch. Schlegel, D. Seweryniak, M. W. Simon, J. Srebrny, R. Teng, K. Vetter, and H. J. Wollersheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042505 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Continuous Nondemolition Measurement of the Cs Clock Transition Pseudospin

Souma Chaudhury, Greg A. Smith, Kevin Schulz, and Poul S. Jessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043001 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Double Excitations of Helium in Weak Static Electric Fields

Conny Såthe, Magnus Ström, Marcus Agåker, Johan Söderström, Jan-Erik Rubensson, Robert Richter, Michele Alagia, Stefano Stranges, T. W. Gorczyca, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043002 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Feedback Cooling of a Single Trapped Ion

Pavel Bushev, Daniel Rotter, Alex Wilson, François Dubin, Christoph Becher, Jürgen Eschner, Rainer Blatt, Viktor Steixner, Peter Rabl, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043003 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Diffusion-Induced Ramsey Narrowing

Yanhong Xiao, Irina Novikova, David F. Phillips, and Ronald L. Walsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043601 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Photon Echoes Produced by Switching Electric Fields

A. L. Alexander, J. J. Longdell, M. J. Sellars, and N. B. Manson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043602 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Low-Light-Level Cross-Phase-Modulation Based on Stored Light Pulses

Yong-Fan Chen, Chang-Yi Wang, Shih-Hao Wang, and Ite A. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043603 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Observation of Orbital Angular Momentum Transfer between Acoustic and Optical Vortices in Optical Fiber

Pedram Z. Dashti, Fares Alhassen, and Henry P. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043604 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Attraction between Dark Solitons

Alexander Dreischuh, Dragomir N. Neshev, Dan E. Petersen, Ole Bang, and Wieslaw Krolikowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043901 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Dynamics of Anderson Localization in Open 3D Media

S. E. Skipetrov and B. A. van Tiggelen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043902 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Doppler Radiation Emitted by an Oscillating Dipole Moving inside a Photonic Band-Gap Crystal

Chiyan Luo, Mihai Ibanescu, Evan J. Reed, Steven G. Johnson, and J. D. Joannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043903 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Medium-Term Prediction of Chaos

Christopher C. Strelioff and Alfred W. Hübler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044101 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Understanding Diffusion in Nanoporous Materials

E. Beerdsen, D. Dubbeldam, and B. Smit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044501 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Turbulent Friction in Rough Pipes and the Energy Spectrum of the Phenomenological Theory

G. Gioia and Pinaki Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044502 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Roughness-Induced Critical Phenomena in a Turbulent Flow

Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044503 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Scaling and Self-Similarity in an Unforced Flow of Inviscid Fluid Trapped Inside a Viscous Fluid in a Hele-Shaw Cell

Arkady Vilenkin, Baruch Meerson, and Pavel V. Sasorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044504 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Slip, Immiscibility, and Boundary Conditions at the Liquid-Liquid Interface

Joel Koplik and Jayanth R. Banavar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044505 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Competition between Traveling Fluid Waves of Left and Right Spiral Vortices and Their Different Amplitude Combinations

A. Pinter, M. Lücke, and Ch. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044506 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Demonstration of Relativistic Electron Cooling

Sergei Nagaitsev, Daniel Broemmelsiek, Alexey Burov, Kermit Carlson, Consolato Gattuso, Martin Hu, Thomas Kroc, Lionel Prost, Stanley Pruss, Mary Sutherland, Charles W. Schmidt, Alexander Shemyakin, Vitali Tupikov, Arden Warner, Grigory Kazakevich, and Sergey Seletskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044801 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Hose Instability and Wake Generation by an Intense Electron Beam in a Self-Ionized Gas

S. Deng, C. D. Barnes, C. E. Clayton, C. O’Connell, F. J. Decker, R. A. Fonseca, C. Huang, M. J. Hogan, R. Iverson, D. K. Johnson, C. Joshi, T. Katsouleas, P. Krejcik, W. Lu, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, E. Oz, F. Tsung, D. Walz, and M. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045001 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Fireball Ejection from a Molten Hot Spot to Air by Localized Microwaves

Vladimir Dikhtyar and Eli Jerby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045002 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Beat-Wave Resonant Down Scattering of Diocotron and Kelvin Modes

Nathan Mattor, B. T. Chang, and T. B. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045003 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Giant Oscillations of Electron Temperature during Steady-State Operation on Tore Supra

F. Imbeaux, G. Giruzzi, P. Maget, J. L. Ségui, V. S. Udintsev, J. F. Artaud, D. Elbèze, G. Huysmans, E. Joffrin, D. Mazon, R. Sabot, and A. Sirinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045004 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Very High Mach-Number Electrostatic Shocks in Collisionless Plasmas

G. Sorasio, M. Marti, R. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045005 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Local Waiting Time Fluctuations along a Randomly Pinned Crack Front

Knut Jørgen Måløy, Stéphane Santucci, Jean Schmittbuhl, and Renaud Toussaint

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045501 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Glass-Specific Behavior in the Damping of Acousticlike Vibrations

B. Rufflé, G. Guimbretière, E. Courtens, R. Vacher, and G. Monaco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045502 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Coherent Light Scattering from Semicontinuous Silver Nanoshells near the Percolation Threshold

C. A. Rohde, K. Hasegawa, and Miriam Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045503 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Direct Observation of Nitrogen Location in Molecular Beam Epitaxy Grown Nitrogen-Doped ZnO

Paul Fons, Hiroshi Tampo, Alexander V. Kolobov, Masataka Ohkubo, Shigeru Niki, Junji Tominaga, Roberta Carboni, Federico Boscherini, and Stephan Friedrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045504 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Evidence of a fcc-hcp Transition in Aluminum at Multimegabar Pressure

Y. Akahama, M. Nishimura, K. Kinoshita, H. Kawamura, and Y. Ohishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045505 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Formation of Polymorphic Cluster Phases for a Class of Models of Purely Repulsive Soft Spheres

Bianca M. Mladek, Dieter Gottwald, Gerhard Kahl, Martin Neumann, and Christos N. Likos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045701 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Effect of Stress on Melting and Freezing in Nanopores

J. J. Hoyt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045702 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Jahn-Teller Solitons, Structural Phase Transitions, and Phase Separation

Dennis P. Clougherty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045703 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Exact Characterization of $O (n)$ Tricriticality in Two Dimensions

Wenan Guo, Bernard Nienhuis, and Henk W. J. Blöte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045704 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Origin of the Verwey Transition in Magnetite

G. Kh. Rozenberg, M. P. Pasternak, W. M. Xu, Y. Amiel, M. Hanfland, M. Amboage, R. D. Taylor, and R. Jeanloz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045705 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Thermal Conductivity Reduction and Thermoelectric Figure of Merit Increase by Embedding Nanoparticles in Crystalline Semiconductors

Woochul Kim, Joshua Zide, Arthur Gossard, Dmitri Klenov, Susanne Stemmer, Ali Shakouri, and Arun Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045901 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Probing the Nanohydrodynamics at Liquid-Solid Interfaces Using Thermal Motion

L. Joly, C. Ybert, and L. Bocquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046101 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Theoretical Evidence for a Dense Fluid Precursor to Crystallization

James F. Lutsko and Grégoire Nicolis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046102 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Chemically Resolved Structure of the $Sn / Ge (111)$ Surface

Tien-Lin Lee, Samantha Warren, Bruce C. C. Cowie, and Jörg Zegenhagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046103 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Viscosity and Lubricity of Aqueous NaCl Solution Confined between Mica Surfaces Studied by Shear Resonance Measurement

Hiroshi Sakuma, Kenshiro Otsuki, and Kazue Kurihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046104 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Shear Modulus and Plasticity of a Driven Charge Density Wave

A. F. Isakovic, P. G. Evans, J. Kmetko, K. Cicak, Z. Cai, B. Lai, and R. E. Thorne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046401 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Giant Dielectric Response in the One-Dimensional Charge-Ordered Semiconductor $({NbSe}_{4})_{3} I$

D. Starešinić, P. Lunkenheimer, J. Hemberger, K. Biljaković, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046402 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Neutron Scattering Study of Novel Magnetic Order in ${Na}_{0.5} {CoO}_{2}$

G. Gašparović, R. A. Ott, J.-H. Cho, F. C. Chou, Y. Chu, J. W. Lynn, and Y. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046403 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Modeling of Exciton Diffusion in Amorphous Organic Thin Films

Conor Madigan and Vladimir Bulović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046404 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Anomalous Pressure Dependence of the Kadowaki-Woods Ratio and Crystal-Field Effects in Mixed-Valence ${YbInCu}_{4}$

Tuson Park, V. A. Sidorov, J. L. Sarrao, and J. D. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046405 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Observation of a Strongly Nested Fermi Surface in the Shape-Memory Alloy ${Ni}_{0.62} {Al}_{0.38}$

S. B. Dugdale, R. J. Watts, J. Laverock, Zs. Major, M. A. Alam, M. Samsel-Czekała, G. Kontrym-Sznajd, Y. Sakurai, M. Itou, and D. Fort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046406 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Quasiparticle Dynamics in the Vicinity of Metal-Insulator Phase Transition in ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$

D. Qian, L. Wray, D. Hsieh, D. Wu, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, A. Kuprin, A. Fedorov, R. J. Cava, L. Viciu, and M. Z. Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046407 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Anomalous Electronic State in ${CaCrO}_{3}$ and ${SrCrO}_{3}$

J.-S. Zhou, C.-Q. Jin, Y.-W. Long, L.-X. Yang, and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046408 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Magnetization of a Strongly Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron System in Perpendicular Magnetic Fields

S. Anissimova, A. Venkatesan, A. A. Shashkin, M. R. Sakr, S. V. Kravchenko, and T. M. Klapwijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046409 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Role of Strong Electronic Correlations in the Metal-To-Insulator Transition in Disordered ${LiAl}_{y} {Ti}_{2 - y} O_{4}$

F. Fazileh, R. J. Gooding, W. A. Atkinson, and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046410 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Fermi Surface and Anisotropic Spin-Orbit Coupling of Sb(111) Studied by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

K. Sugawara, T. Sato, S. Souma, T. Takahashi, M. Arai, and T. Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046411 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Magnetically Tunable Kondo–Aharonov-Bohm Effect in a Triangular Quantum Dot

T. Kuzmenko, K. Kikoin, and Y. Avishai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046601 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Bulk Electronic Structure of Metals Resolved with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

J. I. Pascual, A. Dick, M. Hansmann, H.-P. Rust, J. Neugebauer, and K. Horn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046801 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Probing a Kondo-Correlated Quantum Dot with Spin Spectroscopy

D. Kupidura, M. C. Rogge, M. Reinwald, W. Wegscheider, and R. J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046802 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Hydrogen Dissociation over Au Nanowires and the Fractional Conductance Quantum

Pavel Jelínek, Rubén Pérez, José Ortega, and Fernando Flores

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046803 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Positive Cross Correlations in a Normal-Conducting Fermionic Beam Splitter

S. Oberholzer, E. Bieri, C. Schönenberger, M. Giovannini, and J. Faist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046804 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Thermal Conductivity of a Granular Metal

V. Tripathi and Y. L. Loh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046805 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Structural, Electronic, and Chemical Properties of Nanoporous Carbon

Johan M. Carlsson and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046806 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Quantum Two Level Systems and Kondo-Like Traps as Possible Sources of Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits

Lara Faoro and Lev B. Ioffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047001 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Weak Magnetic Order in the Normal State of the High- $T_{c}$ Superconductor ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

C. Panagopoulos, M. Majoros, T. Nishizaki, and H. Iwasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047002 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Superconductivity in Lithium, Potassium, and Aluminum under Extreme Pressure: A First-Principles Study

G. Profeta, C. Franchini, N. N. Lathiotakis, A. Floris, A. Sanna, M. A. L. Marques, M. Lüders, S. Massidda, E. K. U. Gross, and A. Continenza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047003 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Superconductivity and Lattice Instability in Compressed Lithium from Fermi Surface Hot Spots

Deepa Kasinathan, J. Kuneš, A. Lazicki, H. Rosner, C. S. Yoo, R. T. Scalettar, and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047004 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Structure of the Pairing Interaction in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

T. A. Maier, M. S. Jarrell, and D. J. Scalapino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047005 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Four-Qubit Device with Mixed Couplings

M. Grajcar, A. Izmalkov, S. H. W. van der Ploeg, S. Linzen, T. Plecenik, Th. Wagner, U. Hübner, E. Il’ichev, H.-G. Meyer, A. Yu. Smirnov, Peter J. Love, Alec Maassen van den Brink, M. H. S. Amin, S. Uchaikin, and A. M. Zagoskin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047006 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Superfluid Density of Strongly Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors from a Four-Dimensional $X Y$ Model

M. Franz and A. P. Iyengar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047007 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Non-Fermi Liquid States in the Pressurized ${CeCu}_{2} ({Si}_{1 - x} {Ge}_{x})_{2}$ System: Two Critical Points

H. Q. Yuan, F. M. Grosche, M. Deppe, G. Sparn, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047008 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Novel Josephson Effect in Triplet-Superconductor–Ferromagnet–Triplet-Superconductor Junctions

Boris Kastening, Dirk K. Morr, Dirk Manske, and Karl Bennemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047009 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Order by Disorder and Gaugelike Degeneracy in a Quantum Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet

Christopher L. Henley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047201 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Coherent Single Electron Spin Control in a Slanting Zeeman Field

Yasuhiro Tokura, Wilfred G. van der Wiel, Toshiaki Obata, and Seigo Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047202 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Laser Microscopy of Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Manganite Grain-Boundary Junctions

M. Wagenknecht, H. Eitel, T. Nachtrab, J. B. Philipp, R. Gross, R. Kleiner, and D. Koelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047203 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Evolution of Spin-Wave Excitations in Ferromagnetic Metallic Manganites

F. Ye, Pengcheng Dai, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, Hao Sha, J. W. Lynn, H. Kawano-Furukawa, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, and Jiandi Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047204 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Orbital and Bonding Anisotropy in a Half-Filled ${GaFeO}_{3}$ Magnetoelectric Ferrimagnet

J.-Y. Kim, T. Y. Koo, and J.-H. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047205 (2006) – Published 30 January 2006

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Half-Metallic Exchange Bias Ferromagnetic/Antiferromagnetic Interfaces in Transition-Metal Chalcogenides

Kohji Nakamura, Yoshinori Kato, Toru Akiyama, Tomonori Ito, and A. J. Freeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047206 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Blue Quantum Fog: Chiral Condensation in Quantum Helimagnets

Sumanta Tewari, D. Belitz, and T. R. Kirkpatrick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047207 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Tunable Conductance of Magnetic Nanowires with Structured Domain Walls

V. K. Dugaev, J. Berakdar, and J. Barnaś

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047208 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Magnetic Structure of MnO at 10 K from Total Neutron Scattering Data

Andrew L. Goodwin, Matthew G. Tucker, Martin T. Dove, and David A. Keen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047209 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Dynamics of Composite Haldane Spin Chains in $IPA − {CuCl}_{3}$

T. Masuda, A. Zheludev, H. Manaka, L.-P. Regnault, J.-H. Chung, and Y. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047210 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Systematic Derivation of Order Parameters through Reduced Density Matrices

Shunsuke Furukawa, Grégoire Misguich, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047211 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Observation of Stripe Mobility in a Dipolar Frustrated Ferromagnet

O. Portmann, A. Vaterlaus, and D. Pescia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047212 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Coherent Inelastic Light Scattering from a Microwave-Excited Array of Magnetic Particles

M. Grimsditch, F. Y. Fradin, Y. Ji, A. Hoffmann, R. E. Camley, V. Metlushko, and V. Novosad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047401 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Measurement of the Surface Strain Induced by Reconstructed Surfaces of GaAs (001) Using Photoreflectance and Reflectance-Difference Spectroscopies

L. F. Lastras-Martínez, J. M. Flores-Camacho, A. Lastras-Martínez, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, and M. Cardona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047402 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Determination of the Exciton Binding Energy in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Zhenjia Wang, Hermen Pedrosa, Todd Krauss, and Lewis Rothberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047403 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Domain Instability during Magnetization Precession

A. Kashuba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047601 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Adhesion of Membranes with Active Stickers

Bartosz Różycki, Reinhard Lipowsky, and Thomas R. Weikl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048101 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Transition from Unilamellar to Bilamellar Vesicles Induced by an Amphiphilic Biopolymer

Jae-Ho Lee, Vivek Agarwal, Arijit Bose, Gregory F. Payne, and Srinivasa R. Raghavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048102 (2006) – Published 31 January 2006

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Brownian Motion of Nucleated Cell Envelopes Impedes Adhesion

Alexandra Zidovska and Erich Sackmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048103 (2006) – Published 1 February 2006

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Osmotically Driven Shape Transformations in Axons

Pramod A. Pullarkat, Paul Dommersnes, Pablo Fernández, Jean-François Joanny, and Albrecht Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048104 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Branching of Colloidal Chains in Capillary-Confined Nematics

Pavel Kossyrev, Miha Ravnik, and Slobodan Žumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048301 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Density Functional Theory for Polyelectrolytes near Oppositely Charged Surfaces

Zhidong Li and Jianzhong Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048302 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions of Hydrophobically Solvated Block-Copolymer Solutions

Noboru Osaka and Mitsuhiro Shibayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048303 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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Effect of Axial Growth on Turing Pattern Formation

David G. Míguez, Milos Dolnik, Alberto P. Muñuzuri, and Lorenz Kramer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048304 (2006) – Published 3 February 2006

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ERRATA

Erratum: Incommensurate Magnetic Ordering in ${Cu}_{2} {Te}_{2} O_{5} X_{2}$ $X = Cl, Br$ Studied by Neutron Diffraction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 217206 (2004)]

O. Zaharko, A. Daoud-Aladine, S. Streule, J. Mesot, P.-J. Brown, and H. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 049901 (2006) – Published 2 February 2006

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