Physical Review Letters – 20 August 2001
(Volume 87, Issue 8)
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LETTERS
- General Physics
- 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.
- Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.
LETTERS
General Physics
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Spin Correlation and Discrete Symmetry in Spinor Bose-Einstein CondensatesFei Zhou Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 080401 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Observation of Vortex Phase Singularities in Bose-Einstein CondensatesS. Inouye, S. Gupta, T. Rosenband, A. P. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz, T. L. Gustavson, A. E. Leanhardt, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 080402 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Quasipure Bose-Einstein Condensate Immersed in a Fermi SeaF. Schreck, L. Khaykovich, K. L. Corwin, G. Ferrari, T. Bourdel, J. Cubizolles, and C. Salomon Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages) 080403 [View PDF (307 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Gravitation and Astrophysics
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Auger Test of the Cen A Model of Highest Energy Cosmic RaysLuis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, and Thomas J. Weiler Published 31 July 2001 (4 pages) 081101 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Position-Space Description of the Cosmic Microwave Background and Its Temperature Correlation FunctionSergei Bashinsky and Edmund Bertschinger Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 081301 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Elementary Particles and Fields
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Shear Viscosity of Strongly Coupled N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills PlasmaG. Policastro, D. T. Son, and A. O. Starinets Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 081601 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron through d→(e→,e′n)p at Q2 = 0.5 (GeV/c)2H. Zhu et al. Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 081801 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Multijet Cross Sections in Deep Inelastic Scattering at Next-to-Leading OrderZoltán Nagy and Zoltán Trócsányi Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 082001 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Diffractively Produced Charm Final States in 800-GeV/c pp CollisionsM. H. Wang, M. C. Berisso, D. C. Christian, J. Félix, A. Gara, E. Gottschalk, G. Gutiérrez, E. P. Hartouni, B. C. Knapp, M. N. Kreisler, S. Lee, K. Markianos, G. Moreno, M. A. Reyes, M. Sosa, A. Wehmann, and D. Wesson Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages) 082002 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Nuclear Physics
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Pion Interferometry of sqrt[sNN] = 130 GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHICC. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration) Published 3 August 2001 (6 pages) 082301 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Neutron Density Distributions Deduced from Antiprotonic AtomsA. Trzcińska, J. Jastrzȩbski, P. Lubiński, F. J. Hartmann, R. Schmidt, T. von Egidy, and B. Kłos Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 082501 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Magic Numbers in Exotic Nuclei and Spin-Isospin Properties of the NN InteractionTakaharu Otsuka, Rintaro Fujimoto, Yutaka Utsuno, B. Alex Brown, Michio Honma, and Takahiro Mizusaki Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 082502 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
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Displacing Rydberg Electrons: The Mono-Cycle Nature of Half-Cycle PulsesC. Wesdorp, F. Robicheaux, and L. D. Noordam Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 083001 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
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Nonlinear Localized Waves in a Periodic MediumAndrey A. Sukhorukov and Yuri S. Kivshar Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 083901 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Two-Photon Cavity Solitons in Active Optical MediaR. Vilaseca, M. C. Torrent, J. García-Ojalvo, M. Brambilla, and M. San Miguel Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 083902 [View PDF (415 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Inwards Propagating Waves in a Limit Cycle MediumA. Rabinovitch, M. Gutman, and I. Aviram Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 084101 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Exact Phase Diagram for an Asymmetric Avalanche ProcessV. B. Priezzhev, E. V. Ivashkevich, A. M. Povolotsky, and Chin-Kun Hu Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 084301 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Particle Segregation in Vibrofluidized Beds Due to Buoyant ForcesNagendra Shishodia and Carl R. Wassgren Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 084302 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Transition from Symmetric to Asymmetric Scaling Function before Drop Pinch-OffAlexander Rothert, Reinhard Richter, and Ingo Rehberg Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 084501 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Plasma and Beam Physics
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Second Harmonic FEL OscillationGeorge R. Neil, S. V. Benson, G. Biallas, J. Gubeli, K. Jordan, S. Myers, and M. D. Shinn Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 084801 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Quasisteady High-Confinement Reversed Shear Plasma with Large Bootstrap Current Fraction under Full Noninductive Current Drive Condition in JT-60UT. Fujita, S. Ide, Y. Kamada, T. Suzuki, T. Oikawa, S. Takeji, Y. Sakamoto, Y. Koide, A. Isayama, T. Hatae, H. Kubo, S. Higashijima, O. Naito, H. Shirai, and T. Fukuda Published 31 July 2001 (4 pages) 085001 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Reaching High Poloidal Beta at Greenwald Density with Internal Transport Barrier Close to Full Noninductive Current DriveJ. Hobirk, R. C. Wolf, O. Gruber, A. Gude, S. Günter, B. Kurzan, M. Maraschek, P. J. McCarthy, H. Meister, A. G. Peeters, G. V. Pereverzev, J. Stober, W. Treutterer, and ASDEX Upgrade Team Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 085002 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Adiabatic Electron Thermal Pressure Fluctuations in Tokamak PlasmasMark A. Meier, Roger D. Bengtson, Gary A. Hallock, and Alan J. Wootton Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 085003 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Investigation of Ultrafast Laser-Driven Radiative Blast WavesM. J. Edwards, A. J. MacKinnon, J. Zweiback, K. Shigemori, D. Ryutov, A. M. Rubenchik, K. A. Keilty, E. Liang, B. A. Remington, and T. Ditmire Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 085004 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Asymmetric High-Energy Ion Emission from Argon Clusters in Intense Laser FieldsV. Kumarappan, M. Krishnamurthy, and D. Mathur Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 085005 [View PDF (406 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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On the Validity of the Independent Hot-Spot ModelPhilippe Mounaix Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages) 085006 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
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Flexoelectricity and Piezoelectricity: The Reason for the Rich Variety of Phases in Antiferroelectric Smectic Liquid CrystalsMojca Čepič and Boštjan Žekš Published 31 July 2001 (4 pages) 085501 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Vibrational Spectrum of Topologically Disordered SystemsT. S. Grigera, V. Martín-Mayor, G. Parisi, and P. Verrocchio Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 085502 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Two-Stage Rotational Disordering of a Molecular Crystal Surface: C60C. Laforge, D. Passerone, A. B. Harris, P. Lambin, and E. Tosatti Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 085503 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Observation of a Reentrant Twist Grain Boundary PhaseD. S. Shankar Rao, S. Krishna Prasad, V. N. Raja, C. V. Yelamaggad, and S. Anitha Nagamani Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 085504 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Plasticity and an Inverse Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Strontium TitanateP. Gumbsch, S. Taeri-Baghbadrani, D. Brunner, W. Sigle, and M. Rühle Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 085505 [View PDF (1023 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Atomic Structure of Icosahedral B4C Boron Carbide from a First Principles Analysis of NMR SpectraFrancesco Mauri, Nathalie Vast, and Chris J. Pickard Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 085506 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Directed Polymers with Tilted Columnar Disorder and Burgers-like TurbulenceRoya Mohayaee, Attilio L. Stella, and Carlo Vanderzande Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 085701 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Ionic Conduction in Glass: New Information on the Interrelation between the “Jonscher Behavior” and the “Nearly Constant-Loss Behavior” from Broadband Conductivity SpectraB. Roling, C. Martiny, and S. Murugavel Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages) 085901 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Molecular Adsorption Bond Lengths at Metal Oxide Surfaces: Failure of Current Theoretical MethodsJ.-T. Hoeft, M. Kittel, M. Polcik, S. Bao, R. L. Toomes, J.-H. Kang, D. P. Woodruff, M. Pascal, and C. L. Lamont Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 086101 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Novel Interface-Mediated Metastable Oxide Phases: Vanadium Oxides on Pd(111)S. Surnev, G. Kresse, M. G. Ramsey, and F. P. Netzer Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 086102 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Crystallographic Structure of Ultrathin Fe Films on Cu(100)Albert Biedermann, Rupert Tscheließnig, Michael Schmid, and Peter Varga Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 086103 [View PDF (552 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Coupling Length Scales for Multiscale Atomistics-Continuum Simulations: Atomistically Induced Stress Distributions in Si/Si3N4 NanopixelsElefterios Lidorikis, Martina E. Bachlechner, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta, and George Z. Voyiadjis Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 086104 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
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Scaling of the Magnetoconductivity of Silicon MOSFETs: Evidence for a Quantum Phase Transition in Two DimensionsS. A. Vitkalov, H. Zheng, K. M. Mertes, M. P. Sarachik, and T. M. Klapwijk Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 086401 [View PDF (1449 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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“Devil’s Staircase”-Type Phase Transition in NaV2O5 under High PressureK. Ohwada, Y. Fujii, N. Takesue, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda, H. Nakao, Y. Wakabayashi, Y. Murakami, K. Ito, Y. Amemiya, H. Fujihisa, K. Aoki, T. Shobu, Y. Noda, and N. Ikeda Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages) 086402 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Voltage-Modulated Millimeter-Wave Spectroscopy on a Polymer Diode: Mesoscopic Charge Transport in Conjugated PolymersH. C. Martens, O. Hilt, H. B. Brom, P. W. Blom, and J. N. Huiberts Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 086601 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Indication of the Ferromagnetic Instability in a Dilute Two-Dimensional Electron SystemA. A. Shashkin, S. V. Kravchenko, V. T. Dolgopolov, and T. M. Klapwijk Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 086801 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Strong Friction Limit in Quantum Mechanics: The Quantum Smoluchowski EquationJoachim Ankerhold, Philip Pechukas, and Hermann Grabert Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 086802 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Disorder and Quantum Fluctuations in Superconducting Films in Strong Magnetic FieldsV. M. Galitski and A. I. Larkin Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 087001 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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High Current-Carrying Capability in c-Axis-Oriented Superconducting MgB2 Thin FilmsHyeong-Jin Kim, W. N. Kang, Eun-Mi Choi, Mun-Seog Kim, Kijoon H. Kim, and Sung-Ik Lee Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 087002 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Evidence of Doping-Dependent Pairing Symmetry in Cuprate SuperconductorsN.-C. Yeh, C.-T. Chen, G. Hammerl, J. Mannhart, A. Schmehl, C. W. Schneider, R. R. Schulz, S. Tajima, K. Yoshida, D. Garrigus, and M. Strasik Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 087003 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Role of Boron p-Electrons and Holes in Superconducting MgB2, and Other Diborides: A Fully Relaxed, Full-Potential Electronic Structure StudyPrabhakar P. Singh Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 087004 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Beyond Eliashberg Superconductivity in MgB2: Anharmonicity, Two-Phonon Scattering, and Multiple GapsAmy Y. Liu, I. I. Mazin, and Jens Kortus Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages) 087005 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Phase Separation in Mixtures of Hard Core BosonsMassimo Boninsegni Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 087201 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Perpendicular Exchange Bias of Co/Pt MultilayersS. Maat, K. Takano, S. S. Parkin, and Eric E. Fullerton Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 087202 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Spatially Inhomogeneous Development of Antiferromagnetism in URu2Si2: Evidence from 29Si NMR under PressureK. Matsuda, Y. Kohori, T. Kohara, K. Kuwahara, and H. Amitsuka Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 087203 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Real-Space Application of the Mean-Field Description of Spin-Glass DynamicsAlain Barrat and Ludovic Berthier Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 087204 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Phase Diagram of an Asymmetric Spin LadderShu Chen, H. Büttner, and J. Voit Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 087205 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Emission of a Single Conjugated Polymer Chain Isolated in Its Single Crystal Monomer MatrixT. Guillet, J. Berréhar, R. Grousson, J. Kovensky, C. Lapersonne-Meyer, M. Schott, and V. Voliotis Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 087401 [View PDF (262 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Coupling of Nonlocal Potentials to Electromagnetic FieldsSohrab Ismail-Beigi, Eric K. Chang, and Steven G. Louie Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 087402 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.
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Avalanche Dynamics of Crackle Sound in the LungAdriano M. Alencar, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Arnab Majumdar, H. Eugene Stanley, and Béla Suki Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 088101 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Conformations of Proteins in EquilibriumCristian Micheletti, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Amos Maritan Published 3 August 2001 (4 pages) 088102 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Buckling of Actin-Coated Membranes under Application of a Local ForceE. Helfer, S. Harlepp, L. Bourdieu, J. Robert, F. C. MacKintosh, and D. Chatenay Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 088103 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Electrophoretic Microrheology in a Dilute Lamellar Phase of a Nonionic SurfactantDaisuke Mizuno, Yasuyuki Kimura, and Reinosuke Hayakawa Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages) 088104 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Colloidal Interactions in Suspensions of RodsKeng-hui Lin, John C. Crocker, Ana C. Zeri, and A. G. Yodh Published 1 August 2001 (4 pages) 088301 [View PDF (371 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Recording Intramolecular Mechanics during the Manipulation of a Large MoleculeFrancesca Moresco, Gerhard Meyer, Karl-Heinz Rieder, Hao Tang, André Gourdon, and Christian Joachim Published 2 August 2001 (4 pages) 088302 [View PDF (323 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Spatial Symmetry Breaking in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction with Light-Induced Remote CommunicationM. Hildebrand, H. Skødt, and K. Showalter Published 6 August 2001 (4 pages) 088303 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Interfacial Premelting and the Thermomolecular Force: Thermodynamic BuoyancyA. W. Rempel, J. S. Wettlaufer, and M. G. Worster Published 7 August 2001 (4 pages) 088501 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |



