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Thermal Convection and Emergence of Isolated Vortices in Soap Bubbles
F. Seychelles, Y. Amarouchene, M. Bessafi, and H. Kellay
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 144501 (2008)

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

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Exact Solution for a Trapped Fermi Gas with Population Imbalance and BCS Pairing

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Renormalization Group Theory for the Imbalanced Fermi Gas

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Differences between Mean-Field Dynamics and N-Particle Quantum Dynamics as a Signature of Entanglement

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Do Mixtures of Bosonic and Fermionic Atoms Adiabatically Heat Up in Optical Lattices?

M. Cramer, S. Ospelkaus, C. Ospelkaus, K. Bongs, K. Sengstock, and J. Eisert

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Spin Based Heat Engine: Demonstration of Multiple Rounds of Algorithmic Cooling

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Generalized Information Theoretic Measure to Discern the Quantumness of Correlations

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Pathways of Maximum Likelihood for Rare Events in Nonequilibrium Systems: Application to Nucleation in the Presence of Shear

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Evidence for Fisher Renormalization in the Compressible ϕ4 Model

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New Limits on Coupling of Fundamental Constants to Gravity Using Sr87 Optical Lattice Clocks

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Quark and Lepton Masses from Gaussian Landscapes

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Observation of a Resonancelike Structure in the π+ψ Mass Distribution in Exclusive BKπ+ψ Decays

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Measurement of the Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry in Top-Quark Pair Production

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Nuclear Physics

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Experimental Retrieval of Target Structure Information from Laser-Induced Rescattered Photoelectron Momentum Distributions

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Large-Angle Electron Diffraction Structure in Laser-Induced Rescattering from Rare Gases

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Two-Electron Photodetachment of Negative Ions in a Strong Laser Field

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Collisional Stability of Fermionic Feshbach Molecules

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Generation of Spatially Broadband Twin Beams for Quantum Imaging

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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Quantum Path Interferences in High-Order Harmonic Generation

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High-Order Harmonic Transient Grating Spectroscopy in a Molecular Jet

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Disorder Induced Control of Discrete Soliton Ratchets

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Clustered Chimera States in Delay-Coupled Oscillator Systems

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Kernel Method for Nonlinear Granger Causality

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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Radiation Energetics of ICF-Relevant Wire-Array Z Pinches

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Right Handed or Left Handed? Forbidden X-Ray Diffraction Reveals Chirality

Yoshikazu Tanaka, Tomoyuki Takeuchi, Stephen W. Lovesey, Kevin S. Knight, Ashish Chainani, Yasutaka Takata, Masaki Oura, Yasunori Senba, Haruhiko Ohashi, and Shik Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 145502 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Self-Trapped Interstitial-Type Defects in Iron

D. A. Terentyev, T. P. C. Klaver, P. Olsson, M.-C. Marinica, F. Willaime, C. Domain, and L. Malerba

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Phonon Mechanisms and Transformation Paths in Pu

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AsS Melt Under Pressure: One Substance, Three Liquids

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Layering and Position-Dependent Diffusive Dynamics of Confined Fluids

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Anomalous Hall Effect for the Phonon Heat Conductivity in Paramagnetic Dielectrics

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Microrheology of the Liquid-Solid Transition during Gelation

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Buried Ni/Cu(001) Interface at the Atomic Scale

H. L. Meyerheim, D. Sander, N. N. Negulyaev, V. S. Stepanyuk, R. Popescu, I. Popa, and J. Kirschner

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Asymmetric Chiral Growth of Micron-Size NaClO3 Crystals in Water Aerosols

S. Osuna-Esteban, M.-P. Zorzano, C. Menor-Salván, M. Ruiz-Bermejo, and S. Veintemillas-Verdaguer

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Hopping Domain Wall Induced by Paired Adatoms on an Atomic Wire: Si(111)(5×2)Au

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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Localization and Delocalization Errors in Density Functional Theory and Implications for Band-Gap Prediction

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Novel Dynamical Effects and Glassy Response in a Strongly Correlated Electronic System

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Robust d-Wave Pairing Correlations in the Heisenberg Kondo Lattice Model

J. C. Xavier and E. Dagotto

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Density Waves and Cooper Pairing on the Honeycomb Lattice

Carsten Honerkamp

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Defect-Induced Photoconductivity in Layered Manganese Oxides: A Density Functional Theory Study

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Interaction-Induced Beats of Friedel Oscillations in Quantum Wires

D. F. Urban and A. Komnik

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Edge States and Magnetism in Carbon Nanotubes with Line Defects

Simone S. Alexandre, Mário S. C. Mazzoni, and Hélio Chacham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 146801 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

Geometrical Dependence of Decoherence by Electronic Interactions in a GaAs/GaAlAs Square Network

M. Ferrier, A. C. H. Rowe, S. Guéron, H. Bouchiat, C. Texier, and G. Montambaux

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Intrinsic Gap of the ν=5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State

C. R. Dean, B. A. Piot, P. Hayden, S. Das Sarma, G. Gervais, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

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Electron Polarizability of Crystalline Solids in Quantizing Magnetic Fields and Topological Gap Numbers

Pavel Středa, Thibaut Jonckheere, and Thierry Martin

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Crossed Andreev Reflection in a Graphene Bipolar Transistor

J. Cayssol

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Easy-Axis Kagome Antiferromagnet: Local-Probe Study of Nd3Ga5SiO14

A. Zorko, F. Bert, P. Mendels, P. Bordet, P. Lejay, and J. Robert

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Reflectionless Tunneling at the Interface between Nanoparticles and Superconductors

J. L. Dunford and A.-A. Dhirani

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Classical Dimers and Dimerized Superstructure in an Orbitally Degenerate Honeycomb Antiferromagnet

G. Jackeli and D. I. Khomskii

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Variational Wave-Function Study of the Triangular Lattice Supersolid

Arnab Sen, Prasenjit Dutt, Kedar Damle, and R. Moessner

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Depth-Dependent Spin Dynamics of Canonical Spin-Glass Films: A Low-Energy Muon-Spin-Rotation Study

E. Morenzoni, H. Luetkens, T. Prokscha, A. Suter, S. Vongtragool, F. Galli, M. B. S. Hesselberth, N. Garifianov, and R. Khasanov

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Dielectric Properties of Ice and Liquid Water from First-Principles Calculations

Deyu Lu, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli

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Antiferromagnetic d-Electron Exchange via a Spin-Singlet π-Electron Ground State in an Organic Conductor

T. Tokumoto, J. S. Brooks, Y. Oshima, E. S. Choi, L. C. Brunel, H. Akutsu, T. Kaihatsu, J. Yamada, and J. van Tol

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Melting of Branched RNA Molecules

Ralf Bundschuh and Robijn Bruinsma

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Shape Deformation of Ternary Vesicles Coupled with Phase Separation

Miho Yanagisawa, Masayuki Imai, and Takashi Taniguchi

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Abrupt Buckling Transition Observed during the Plectoneme Formation of Individual DNA Molecules

Scott Forth, Christopher Deufel, Maxim Y. Sheinin, Bryan Daniels, James P. Sethna, and Michelle D. Wang

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Scroll Wave Instabilities in an Excitable Chemical Medium

Chaiya Luengviriya, Ulrich Storb, Gert Lindner, Stefan C. Müller, Markus Bär, and Marcus J. B. Hauser

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Hierarchical Assembly of Nanoparticle Superstructures from Block Copolymer-Nanoparticle Composites

Huiman Kang, François A. Detcheverry, Andrew N. Mangham, Mark P. Stoykovich, Kostas Ch. Daoulas, Robert J. Hamers, Marcus Müller, Juan J. de Pablo, and Paul F. Nealey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 148303 (2008) - Published 9 April, 2008

Colloidal Assembly on Magnetically Vibrated Stripes

Pietro Tierno, Thomas M. Fischer, Tom H. Johansen, and Francesc Sagués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 148304 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Stochastic Contributions to Global Temperature Changes

Robert K. Adair

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Routes to Thermodynamic Limit on Scale-Free Networks

Claudio Castellano and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 148701 (2008) - Published 8 April, 2008

COMMENTS

Comment on “Typicality for Generalized Microcanonical Ensembles”

Dorje C. Brody

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 148901 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Reimann replies:

Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 148902 (2008) - Published 10 April, 2008

Comment on “Elastic Stabilization of a Single-Domain Ferroelectric State in Nanoscale Capacitors and Tunnel Junctions”

A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 149701 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

Pertsev and Kohlstedt Reply:

N. A. Pertsev and H. Kohlstedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 149702 (2008) - Published 11 April, 2008

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