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Physical Review Letters – 2 October 2009
Volume 103, Issue 14

Time-energy plot of the expected event rate for finding photon-converted solar axions with a germanium detector. [Z. Ahmed et al. CDMS Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141802 (2009)]

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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.

Entropy Exchange in a Mixture of Ultracold Atoms
J. Catani, G. Barontini, G. Lamporesi, F. Rabatti, G. Thalhammer, F. Minardi, S. Stringari, and M. Inguscio
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
140401 [View PDF (686 kB)]
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Absence of a Direct Superfluid to Mott Insulator Transition in Disordered Bose Systems
L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
140402 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Atomtronic Circuits of Diodes and Transistors
R. A. Pepino, J. Cooper, D. Z. Anderson, and M. J. Holland
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
140405 [View PDF (342 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide
J. R. Johansson, G. Johansson, C. M. Wilson, and Franco Nori
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
147003 [View PDF (294 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
Reduction of Viscosity in Suspension of Swimming Bacteria
Andrey Sokolov and Igor S. Aranson
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
148101 [View PDF (775 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Electrohydraulic Power Conversion in Planar Nanochannels
Douwe Jan Bonthuis, Dominik Horinek, Lydéric Bocquet, and Roland R. Netz
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
144503 [View PDF (1,310 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
Increased Brownian Force Noise from Molecular Impacts in a Constrained Volume
A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, A. Heptonstall, M. Hueller, D. Nicolodi, S. Rowan, D. Tombolato, S. Vitale, P. J. Wass, and W. J. Weber
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
140601 [View PDF (222 kB)]

LETTERS

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

Entropy Exchange in a Mixture of Ultracold Atoms
J. Catani, G. Barontini, G. Lamporesi, F. Rabatti, G. Thalhammer, F. Minardi, S. Stringari, and M. Inguscio
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
140401 [View PDF (686 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Viewpoint
Absence of a Direct Superfluid to Mott Insulator Transition in Disordered Bose Systems
L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
140402 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Quantum Entangled Dark Solitons Formed by Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
R. V. Mishmash and L. D. Carr
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
140403 [View PDF (825 kB)]
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Analytic Thermodynamics and Thermometry of Gaudin-Yang Fermi Gases
Erhai Zhao, Xi-Wen Guan, W. Vincent Liu, M. T. Batchelor, and Masaki Oshikawa
Published 30 September 2009 (4 pages)
140404 [View PDF (166 kB)]
Atomtronic Circuits of Diodes and Transistors
R. A. Pepino, J. Cooper, D. Z. Anderson, and M. J. Holland
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
140405 [View PDF (342 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
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Experimental Demonstration of the Bosonic Commutation Relation via Superpositions of Quantum Operations on Thermal Light Fields
A. Zavatta, V. Parigi, M. S. Kim, H. Jeong, and M. Bellini
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
140406 [View PDF (752 kB)]
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Quantum Simulation of a System with Competing Two- and Three-Body Interactions
Xinhua Peng, Jingfu Zhang, Jiangfeng Du, and Dieter Suter
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
140501 [View PDF (507 kB)]
Increased Brownian Force Noise from Molecular Impacts in a Constrained Volume
A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, A. Heptonstall, M. Hueller, D. Nicolodi, S. Rowan, D. Tombolato, S. Vitale, P. J. Wass, and W. J. Weber
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
140601 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Convex Hull of N Planar Brownian Motions: Exact Results and an Application to Ecology
Julien Randon-Furling, Satya N. Majumdar, and Alain Comtet
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
140602 [View PDF (433 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Overspinning a Black Hole with a Test Body
Ted Jacobson and Thomas P. Sotiriou
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
141101 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Superconductors from Superstrings
Steven S. Gubser, Christopher P. Herzog, Silviu S. Pufu, and Tiberiu Tesileanu
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
141601 [View PDF (1,100 kB)]
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Covariant Gauge on the Lattice: A New Implementation
Attilio Cucchieri, Tereza Mendes, and Elton M. S. Santos
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
141602 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Measurement of the W Boson Mass
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)
Published 1 October 2009 (7 pages)
141801 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Search for Axions with the CDMS Experiment
Z. Ahmed et al. (CDMS Collaboration)
Published 1 October 2009 (5 pages)
141802 [View PDF (1,349 kB)]
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Measuring Lifetimes of Long-Lived Charged Massive Particles Stopped in LHC Detectors
Shoji Asai, Koichi Hamaguchi, and Satoshi Shirai
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
141803 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Charged Kaon Interferometric Probes of Space-Time Evolution in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=200  GeV
S. Afanasiev et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)
Published 30 September 2009 (6 pages)
142301 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Energy Loss for Heavy Quarks in Relation to Light Partons: Is Radiative Energy Loss for Heavy Quarks Anomalous?
Roy A. Lacey, R. Wei, N. N. Ajitanand, J. M. Alexander, X. Gong, J. Jia, A. Mawi, S. Mohapatra, D. Reynolds, S. Salnikov, and A. Taranenko
Published 30 September 2009 (4 pages)
142302 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Nuclear Spins and Magnetic Moments of 71,73,75Cu: Inversion of π2p3/2 and π1f5/2 Levels in 75Cu
K. T. Flanagan et al.
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
142501 [View PDF (345 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Absolute Cooling Rates of Freely Decaying Fullerenes
A. E. K. Sundén, M. Goto, J. Matsumoto, H. Shiromaru, H. Tanuma, T. Azuma, J. U. Andersen, S. E. Canton, and K. Hansen
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
143001 [View PDF (282 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Enhanced High Harmonic Generation from Multiply Ionized Argon above 500 eV through Laser Pulse Self-Compression
P. Arpin, T. Popmintchev, N. L. Wagner, A. L. Lytle, O. Cohen, H. C. Kapteyn, and M. M. Murnane
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
143901 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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All Optical Metamaterial Circuit Board at the Nanoscale
Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
143902 [View PDF (937 kB)]
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Quasi-Bloch Oscillations in Curved Coupled Optical Waveguides
Arash Joushaghani, Rajiv Iyer, Joyce K. S. Poon, J. Stewart Aitchison, C. Martijn de Sterke, Jun Wan, and Marc M. Dignam
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
143903 [View PDF (897 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Melting of a Crystal of Ferrofluid Spikes
François Boyer and Eric Falcon
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
144501 [View PDF (909 kB)]
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Self-Sustaining Process through Streak Generation in a Flat-Plate Boundary Layer
Thomas Duriez, Jean-Luc Aider, and José Eduardo Wesfreid
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
144502 [View PDF (1,807 kB)]
Electrohydraulic Power Conversion in Planar Nanochannels
Douwe Jan Bonthuis, Dominik Horinek, Lydéric Bocquet, and Roland R. Netz
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
144503 [View PDF (1,310 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Narrow Spin Resonance Width and Spin Flip with an rf-Bunched Deuteron Beam
V. S. Morozov, A. W. Chao, A. D. Krisch, M. A. Leonova, R. S. Raymond, D. W. Sivers, V. K. Wong, and A. M. Kondratenko
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
144801 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Transverse-Longitudinal Coupling Effect in Laser Bunch Slicing
M. Shimada, M. Katoh, M. Adachi, T. Tanikawa, S. Kimura, M. Hosaka, N. Yamamoto, Y. Takashima, and T. Takahashi
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
144802 [View PDF (478 kB)]
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Nonlinear Dynamics of Magnetic Islands Imbedded in Small-Scale Turbulence
M. Muraglia, O. Agullo, S. Benkadda, X. Garbet, P. Beyer, and A. Sen
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
145001 [View PDF (577 kB)]
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Mass-Dependent Ion Heating during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma
G. Fiksel, A. F. Almagri, B. E. Chapman, V. V. Mirnov, Y. Ren, J. S. Sarff, and P. W. Terry
Published 30 September 2009 (4 pages)
145002 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Hohlraum-Driven Mid-Z (SiO2) Double-Shell Implosions on the Omega Laser Facility and Their Scaling to NIF
H. F. Robey, P. A. Amendt, J. L. Milovich, H.-S. Park, A. V. Hamza, and M. J. Bono
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
145003 [View PDF (1,413 kB)]
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Breakdown of a Space Charge Limited Regime of a Sheath in a Weakly Collisional Plasma Bounded by Walls with Secondary Electron Emission
D. Sydorenko, I. Kaganovich, Y. Raitses, and A. Smolyakov
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
145004 [View PDF (395 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Defects in Compound Semiconductors Caused by Molecular Nitrogen
N. H. Nickel and M. A. Gluba
Published 30 September 2009 (4 pages)
145501 [View PDF (1,453 kB)]
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Microstructure and a Nucleation Mechanism for Nanoprecipitates in PbTe-AgSbTe2
Xuezhi Ke, Changfeng Chen, Jihui Yang, Lijun Wu, Juan Zhou, Qiang Li, Yimei Zhu, and P. R. C. Kent
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
145502 [View PDF (2,122 kB)]
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Exact Solution of the Anisotropic Special Transition in the O(n) Model in Two Dimensions
Jérôme Dubail, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, and Hubert Saleur
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
145701 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Cationic Disorder and Phase Segregation in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterointerfaces Evidenced by Medium-Energy Ion Spectroscopy
A. S. Kalabukhov, Yu. A. Boikov, I. T. Serenkov, V. I. Sakharov, V. N. Popok, R. Gunnarsson, J. Börjesson, N. Ljustina, E. Olsson, D. Winkler, and T. Claeson
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
146101 [View PDF (658 kB)]
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Microstructural Study of the Polymorphic Transformation in Pentacene Thin Films
Yosuke Murakami, Shigetaka Tomiya, Naoki Koshitani, Yoshihiro Kudo, Kotaro Satori, Masao Itabashi, Norihito Kobayashi, and Kazumasa Nomoto
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
146102 [View PDF (932 kB)]
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From Electronic Structure to Catalytic Activity: A Single Descriptor for Adsorption and Reactivity on Transition-Metal Carbides
A. Vojvodic, A. Hellman, C. Ruberto, and B. I. Lundqvist
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
146103 [View PDF (211 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Observation of Time-Reversal-Protected Single-Dirac-Cone Topological-Insulator States in Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3
D. Hsieh, Y. Xia, D. Qian, L. Wray, F. Meier, J. H. Dil, J. Osterwalder, L. Patthey, A. V. Fedorov, H. Lin, A. Bansil, D. Grauer, Y. S. Hor, R. J. Cava, and M. Z. Hasan
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
146401 [View PDF (2,891 kB)]
Towards Bose-Einstein Condensation of Semiconductor Excitons: The Biexciton Polarization Effect
D. Hägele, S. Pfalz, and M. Oestreich
Published 30 September 2009 (4 pages)
146402 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Discovery of Ferromagnetic-Half-Metal–to–Insulator Transition in K2Cr8O16
Kunihiro Hasegawa, Masahiko Isobe, Touru Yamauchi, Hiroaki Ueda, Jun-Ichi Yamaura, Hirotada Gotou, Takehiko Yagi, Hirohiko Sato, and Yutaka Ueda
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
146403 [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Correlation-Dependent Coherent to Incoherent Transitions in Resonant Energy Transfer Dynamics
Ahsan Nazir
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
146404 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Anomalous Metallic State in the Vicinity of Metal to Valence-Bond Solid Insulator Transition in LiVS2
N. Katayama, M. Uchida, D. Hashizume, S. Niitaka, J. Matsuno, D. Matsumura, Y. Nishihata, J. Mizuki, N. Takeshita, A. Gauzzi, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
146405 [View PDF (1,162 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance in Hybrid Organic Spin Valves at the Onset of Multiple-Step Tunneling
J. J. H. M. Schoonus, P. G. E. Lumens, W. Wagemans, J. T. Kohlhepp, P. A. Bobbert, H. J. M. Swagten, and B. Koopmans
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
146601 [View PDF (629 kB)]
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Spin-Orbit-Mediated Spin Relaxation in Graphene
D. Huertas-Hernando, F. Guinea, and Arne Brataas
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
146801 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Diameter Dependence of the Dielectric Constant for the Excitonic Transition Energy of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
P. T. Araujo, A. Jorio, M. S. Dresselhaus, K. Sato, and R. Saito
Published 30 September 2009 (4 pages)
146802 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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0-π Transition in Magnetic Triplet Superconductor Josephson Junctions
P. M. R. Brydon and Dirk Manske
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
147001 [View PDF (460 kB)]
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Superfluid Density and Energy Gap Function of Superconducting PrPt4Ge12
A. Maisuradze, M. Nicklas, R. Gumeniuk, C. Baines, W. Schnelle, H. Rosner, A. Leithe-Jasper, Yu. Grin, and R. Khasanov
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
147002 [View PDF (563 kB)]
Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide
J. R. Johansson, G. Johansson, C. M. Wilson, and Franco Nori
Published 28 September 2009 (4 pages)
147003 [View PDF (294 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
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Anomalous Josephson Current through a Spin-Orbit Coupled Quantum Dot
A. Zazunov, R. Egger, T. Jonckheere, and T. Martin
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
147004 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Electric-Field Switching of a Magnetic Propagation Vector in a Helimagnet
H. Murakawa, Y. Onose, and Y. Tokura
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
147201 [View PDF (874 kB)]
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Spin Amplitude Modulation Driven Magnetoelectric Coupling in the New Multiferroic FeTe2O5Br
M. Pregelj, O. Zaharko, A. Zorko, Z. Kutnjak, P. Jeglič, P. J. Brown, M. Jagodič, Z. Jagličić, H. Berger, and D. Arčon
Published 30 September 2009 (4 pages)
147202 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Direct Evidence of a Nonorthogonal Magnetization Configuration in Single Crystalline Fe1-xCox/Rh/Fe/Rh(001) System
F. Yildiz, M. Przybylski, and J. Kirschner
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
147203 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Magnetic Ground State of Single and Coupled Permalloy Rectangles
S. Hankemeier, R. Frömter, N. Mikuszeit, D. Stickler, H. Stillrich, S. Pütter, E. Y. Vedmedenko, and H. P. Oepen
Published 1 October 2009 (4 pages)
147204 [View PDF (1,344 kB)]
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Kondo Resonance Narrowing in d- and f-Electron Systems
Andriy H. Nevidomskyy and P. Coleman
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
147205 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Reconfigurable Terahertz Metamaterials
Hu Tao, A. C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, W. J. Padilla, X. Zhang, and R. D. Averitt
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
147401 [View PDF (1,025 kB)]
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Li Diffusion in LixCoO2 Probed by Muon-Spin Spectroscopy
Jun Sugiyama, Kazuhiko Mukai, Yutaka Ikedo, Hiroshi Nozaki, Martin Månsson, and Isao Watanabe
Published 30 September 2009 (4 pages)
147601 [View PDF (1,257 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Reduction of Viscosity in Suspension of Swimming Bacteria
Andrey Sokolov and Igor S. Aranson
Published 29 September 2009 (4 pages)
148101 [View PDF (775 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Gated Narrow Escape Time for Molecular Signaling
Jürgen Reingruber and David Holcman
Published 30 September 2009 (4 pages)
148102 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Thermodynamic Limit of a Nonequilibrium Steady State: Maxwell-Type Construction for a Bistable Biochemical System
Hao Ge and Hong Qian
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
148103 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Anomalously Slow Attrition Times for Asymmetric Populations with Internal Group Dynamics
Zhenyuan Zhao, Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Alex Dixon, and Neil F. Johnson
Published 2 October 2009 (4 pages)
148701 [View PDF (688 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Nondispersing Bohr Wave Packets”
S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgdörfer, and F. B. Dunning
Published 29 September 2009 (1 page)
149301 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Maeda et al. Reply:
H. Maeda, J. H. Gurian, and T. F. Gallagher
Published 29 September 2009 (1 page)
149302 [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Comment on “Spatial Symmetry and Conservation of Orbital Angular Momentum in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion”
Geraldo A. Barbosa
Published 2 October 2009 (1 page)
149303 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Feng and Kumar Reply:
Sheng Feng and Prem Kumar
Published 2 October 2009 (1 page)
149304 [View PDF (45 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Thermal Conductivity of Isolated and Interacting Carbon Nanotubes: Comparing Results from Molecular Dynamics and the Boltzmann Transport Equation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 255502 (2007)]
Davide Donadio and Giulia Galli
Published 28 September 2009 (1 page)
149901(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Erratum: Quantum Noise Interference and Backaction Cooling in Cavity Nanomechanics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 207209 (2009)]
Florian Elste, A. A. Clerk, and S. M. Girvin
Published 30 September 2009 (1 page)
149902(E) [View PDF (38 kB)]
 
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