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Optical micrograph of wrinkle patterns formed on a metal and polymer multilayer after immersion in solvent vapors. The diffusion wavefront of the solvent determines the pattern, with parallel or radial formations originating at localized defects.

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Wrinkling of Stimuloresponsive Surfaces: Mechanical Instability Coupled to Diffusion
Hugues Vandeparre and Pascal Damman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 124301 (2008)

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Strong Upper Limits on Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter

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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Determining Horizontal Symmetry from Neutrino Mixing

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Incommensurate Superfluidity of Bosons in a Double-Well Optical Lattice

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Atomistic Wear in a Single Asperity Sliding Contact

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Crumpling under an Ambient Pressure

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Multifractality of Self-Avoiding Walks on Percolation Clusters

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Unraveling the “Pressure Effect” in Nucleation

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Quantum Delocalization of Molecular Hydrogen in Alkali-Graphite Intercalates

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Theory of the Magnetic Moment in Iron Pnictides

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Uncompensated Moments in the MnPd/Fe Exchange Bias System

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Screening of Magnetic Moments in PuAm Alloy: Local Density Approximation and Dynamical Mean Field Theory Study

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Frustration-Induced Valence Bond Crystal and Its Melting in Mo3Sb7

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Weak Localization of Dirac Fermions in Graphene

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Nonequilibrium Luttinger Liquid: Zero-Bias Anomaly and Dephasing

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Adiabatic Charge Pumping in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots

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New Generation of Massless Dirac Fermions in Graphene under External Periodic Potentials

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Theoretical Design of Coupled Organic-Inorganic Systems

G. Mattioli, F. Filippone, P. Giannozzi, R. Caminiti, and A. Amore Bonapasta

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Universal Critical Exponent in Class D Superconductors

Victor Kagalovsky and Demitry Nemirovsky

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Shape Waves in 2D Josephson Junctions: Exact Solutions and Time Dilation

D. R. Gulevich, F. V. Kusmartsev, Sergey Savel’ev, V. A. Yampol’skii, and Franco Nori

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Surface Bound States and Spin Currents in Noncentrosymmetric Superconductors

A. B. Vorontsov, I. Vekhter, and M. Eschrig

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Spin-Polarized Two-Dimensional Electron Gas at Oxide Interfaces

B. R. K. Nanda and S. Satpathy

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Evidence for an Unconventional Universality Class from a Two-Dimensional Dimerized Quantum Heisenberg Model

Sandro Wenzel, Leszek Bogacz, and Wolfhard Janke

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Pressure-Induced Valence Anomaly in TmTe Probed by Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

I. Jarrige, J.-P. Rueff, S. R. Shieh, M. Taguchi, Y. Ohishi, T. Matsumura, C.-P. Wang, H. Ishii, N. Hiraoka, and Y. Q. Cai

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Selective Aggregation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using the Large Optical Field Gradient of a Focused Laser Beam

Thomas Rodgers, Satoru Shoji, Zouheir Sekkat, and Satoshi Kawata

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Optical Microcavities Formed by Semiconductor Microtubes Using a Bottlelike Geometry

Ch. Strelow, H. Rehberg, C. M. Schultz, H. Welsch, Ch. Heyn, D. Heitmann, and T. Kipp

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Sodium Ion Ordering and Vacancy Cluster Formation in NaxCoO2 (x=0.71 and 0.84) Single Crystals by Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction

F. C. Chou, M. -W. Chu, G. J. Shu, F.-T. Huang, Woei Wu Pai, H. S. Sheu, and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 127404 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Direct Evidence for Dynamic Broadening of the Energy Spectra Associated with the Later Steps of an Auger Cascade

R. Sundaramoorthy, A. H. Weiss, S. L. Hulbert, and R. A. Bartynski

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Random Very Loose Packings

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Self Assembly Modulated by Interactions of Two Heterogeneously Charged Surfaces

R. Brewster, P. A. Pincus, and S. A. Safran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 128101 (2008) - Published 16 September, 2008

Actin Bundling: Initiation Mechanisms and Kinetics

Pavel Kraikivski, Boris M. Slepchenko, and Igor L. Novak

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Fluctuation Analysis of Mechanochemical Coupling Depending on the Type of Biomolecular Motors

Masatoshi Nishikawa, Hiroaki Takagi, Tatsuo Shibata, Atsuko H. Iwane, and Toshio Yanagida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 128103 (2008) - Published 19 September, 2008

Cluster Formation of Transmembrane Proteins Due to Hydrophobic Mismatching

Ulrich Schmidt, Gernot Guigas, and Matthias Weiss

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Influence of Nonconservative Optical Forces on the Dynamics of Optically Trapped Colloidal Spheres: The Fountain of Probability

Yohai Roichman, Bo Sun, Allan Stolarski, and David G. Grier

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Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks: Efficiency and Optimality Control

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Weak Localization in Ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As Nanostructures”

V. K. Dugaev, P. Bruno, and J. Barnaś

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 129701 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

Neumaier et al. Reply:

D. Neumaier, K. Wagner, S. Geißler, U. Wurstbauer, J. Sadowski, W. Wegscheider, and D. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 129702 (2008) - Published 17 September, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: NaV2O4: A Quasi-1D Metallic Antiferromagnet with Half-Metallic Chains [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196601 (2007)]

K. Yamaura, M. Arai, A. Sato, A. B. Karki, D. P. Young, R. Movshovich, S. Okamoto, D. Mandrus, and E. Takayama-Muromachi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 129901 (2008) - Published 15 September, 2008

Erratum: Solvable Model for Chimera States of Coupled Oscillators [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084103 (2008)]

Daniel M. Abrams, Rennie Mirollo, Steven H. Strogatz, and Daniel A. Wiley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 129902 (2008) - Published 18 September, 2008

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E. Cubukcu, K. Aydin, E. Ozbay, S. Foteinopoulou, and C. M. Soukoulis

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N. Taniguchi et al. (Belle Collaboration)

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