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Volume 101, Issue 6

8 August 2008
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Target design for laser-driven ramp compression of a preheated bismuth foil to sample paths in Px-T space.

From the article:

Ultrafast Dynamic Compression Technique to Study the Kinetics of Phase Transformations in Bismuth
R. F. Smith, J. H. Eggert, M. D. Saculla, A. F. Jankowski, M. Bastea, D. G. Hicks, and G. W. Collins
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 065701 (2008)

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LETTERS

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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Observation of Charge-Density-Wave Excitations in Manganites

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Spin-Torque Shot Noise in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

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Nonadiabatic Charge Pumping in a Hybrid Single-Electron Transistor

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Steady-State Currents through Nanodevices: A Scattering-States Numerical Renormalization-Group Approach to Open Quantum Systems

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Scattering of Electrons from an Interacting Region

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Near-Edge X-Ray Absorption Fine-Structure Investigation of Graphene

D. Pacilé, M. Papagno, A. Fraile Rodríguez, M. Grioni, L. Papagno, Ç. Ö. Girit, J. C. Meyer, G. E. Begtrup, and A. Zettl

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Fully Band-Resolved Scattering Rate in MgB2 Revealed by the Nonlinear Hall Effect and Magnetoresistance Measurements

Huan Yang, Yi Liu, Chenggang Zhuang, Junren Shi, Yugui Yao, Sandro Massidda, Marco Monni, Ying Jia, Xiaoxing Xi, Qi Li, Zi-Kui Liu, Qingrong Feng, and Hai-Hu Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067001 (2008) - Published 7 August, 2008

Origin of Hysteresis in a Proximity Josephson Junction

H. Courtois, M. Meschke, J. T. Peltonen, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067002 (2008) - Published 8 August, 2008

Atomic Scale Design and Control of Cation Distribution in Hexagonal Ferrites

Anton L. Geiler, Aria Yang, Xu Zuo, Soack Dae Yoon, Yajie Chen, Vincent G. Harris, and Carmine Vittoria

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Vibrating Superconducting Island in a Josephson Junction

J. Fransson, Jian-Xin Zhu, and A. V. Balatsky

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Interfaces in Driven Ising Models: Shear Enhances Confinement

Thomas H. R. Smith, Oleg Vasilyev, Douglas B. Abraham, Anna Maciołek, and Matthias Schmidt

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Spin-Driven Ferroelectricity in Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnets ACrO2 (A=Cu, Ag, Li, or Na)

S. Seki, Y. Onose, and Y. Tokura

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Electric Field Switching of Antiferromagnetic Domains in YMn2O5: A Probe of the Multiferroic Mechanism

P. G. Radaelli, L. C. Chapon, A. Daoud-Aladine, C. Vecchini, P. J. Brown, T. Chatterji, S. Park, and S-W. Cheong

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Magnetic States at the Oxygen Surfaces of ZnO and Co-Doped ZnO

N. Sanchez, S. Gallego, and M. C. Muñoz

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Output Characteristics of Pulsed and Continuous-Wave-Excited Quantum-Dot Microcavity Lasers

Christopher Gies, Jan Wiersig, and Frank Jahnke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067401 (2008) - Published 5 August, 2008

Non-Markovian Decoherence of Localized Nanotube Excitons by Acoustic Phonons

Christophe Galland, Alexander Högele, Hakan E. Türeci, and Ataç Imamoğlu

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Photoinduced Change in the Charge Order Pattern in the Quarter-Filled Organic Conductor (EDO−TTF)2PF6 with a Strong Electron-Phonon Interaction

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Intrinsic Decoherence Mechanisms in the Microcavity Polariton Condensate

A. P. D. Love, D. N. Krizhanovskii, D. M. Whittaker, R. Bouchekioua, D. Sanvitto, S. Al Rizeiqi, R. Bradley, M. S. Skolnick, P. R. Eastham, R. André, and Le Si Dang

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Exciton Gas Compression and Metallic Condensation in a Single Semiconductor Quantum Wire

B. Alén, D. Fuster, G. Muñoz-Matutano, J. Martínez-Pastor, Y. González, J. Canet-Ferrer, and L. González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 067405 (2008) - Published 8 August, 2008

Universal Long-Time Behavior of Nuclear Spin Decays in a Solid

S. W. Morgan, B. V. Fine, and B. Saam

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Projectile Interactions in Granular Impact Cratering

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Morphogenesis of Growing Soft Tissues

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Shearing Active Gels Close to the Isotropic-Nematic Transition

M. E. Cates, S. M. Fielding, D. Marenduzzo, E. Orlandini, and J. M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 068102 (2008) - Published 8 August, 2008

New Dynamics in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells: Torus Canards

Mark A. Kramer, Roger D. Traub, and Nancy J. Kopell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 068103 (2008) - Published 8 August, 2008

Insensitivity to Salt of Assembly of a Rigid Biopolymer Aggrecan

Ferenc Horkay, Peter J. Basser, Anne-Marie Hecht, and Erik Geissler

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ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Dragging of Polarizable Nanodroplets by Distantly Solvated Ions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046103 (2008)]

Boyang Wang and Petr Král

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 069901 (2008) - Published 4 August, 2008

Erratum: Proposal for Direct Measurement of a Pure Spin Current by a Polarized Light Beam [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 086603 (2008)]

Jing Wang, Bang-Fen Zhu, and Ren-Bao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 069902 (2008) - Published 8 August, 2008

Erratum: Magnetic Anisotropies of Late Transition Metal Atomic Clusters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183401 (2007)]

L. Fernández-Seivane and J. Ferrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 069903 (2008) - Published 8 August, 2008

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