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Alternating layers of air and photonic crystal with 360-nm airholes. The negative refractive index of the material cancels that of the air and can be used to collimate a light beam.

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Self-Collimation of Light over Millimeter-Scale Distance in a Quasi-Zero-Average-Index Metamaterial
V. Mocella, S. Cabrini, A. S. P. Chang, P. Dardano, L. Moretti, I. Rendina, D. Olynick, B. Harteneck, and S. Dhuey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 133902 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Persistent Currents in Normal Metal Rings

Hendrik Bluhm, Nicholas C. Koshnick, Julie A. Bert, Martin E. Huber, and Kathryn A. Moler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136802 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Uniform Light-Induced Vector Potential

Y.-J. Lin, R. L. Compton, A. R. Perry, W. D. Phillips, J. V. Porto, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130401 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Topological Anderson Insulator

Jian Li, Rui-Lin Chu, J. K. Jain, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136806 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Universality of Efficiency at Maximum Power

Massimiliano Esposito, Katja Lindenberg, and Christian Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130602 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Excited-State Positronium Formation from Helium, Argon, and Xenon

D. J. Murtagh, D. A. Cooke, and G. Laricchia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 133202 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Precursors to Splashing of Liquid Droplets on a Solid Surface

Shreyas Mandre, Madhav Mani, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 134502 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Origin of Intrinsic Gilbert Damping

M. C. Hickey and J. S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137601 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

LETTERS

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

Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Uniform Light-Induced Vector Potential

Y.-J. Lin, R. L. Compton, A. R. Perry, W. D. Phillips, J. V. Porto, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130401 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Protocols Over Noisy Channels

Raúl García-Patrón and Nicolas J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130501 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Local Transformation of Two Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Photon Pairs into a Three-Photon W State

Toshiyuki Tashima, Tetsuroh Wakatsuki, Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130502 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Preparing Ground States of Quantum Many-Body Systems on a Quantum Computer

David Poulin and Pawel Wocjan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130503 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Aging and Effective Temperatures Near a Critical Point

S. Joubaud, B. Percier, A. Petrosyan, and S. Ciliberto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130601 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Universality of Efficiency at Maximum Power

Massimiliano Esposito, Katja Lindenberg, and Christian Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130602 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Relaxation of Antiferromagnetic Order in Spin-1/2 Chains Following a Quantum Quench

Peter Barmettler, Matthias Punk, Vladimir Gritsev, Eugene Demler, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130603 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Steering Bose-Einstein Condensates despite Time Symmetry

Dario Poletti, Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, Peter Hänggi, and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130604 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Statistics of Temperature Fluctuations in an Electron System out of Equilibrium

T. T. Heikkilä and Yuli V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130605 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dynamics of Quantum Vorticity in a Random Potential

Bennett Link

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 131101 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Model-Independent Test for Scale-Dependent Non-Gaussianities in the Cosmic Microwave Background

C. Räth, G. E. Morfill, G. Rossmanith, A. J. Banday, and K. M. Górski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 131301 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Can Stochastic Quantization Evade the Sign Problem? The Relativistic Bose Gas at Finite Chemical Potential

Gert Aarts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 131601 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Evidence for X(3872)ψ(2S)γ in B±X(3872)K± Decays and a Study of Bcc¯γK

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 132001 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Structure of Meson-Baryon Interaction Vertices

T. Melde, L. Canton, and W. Plessas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 132002 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Nuclear Physics

rp Process and Masses of NZ34 Nuclides

J. Savory, P. Schury, C. Bachelet, M. Block, G. Bollen, M. Facina, C. M. Folden, III, C. Guénaut, E. Kwan, A. A. Kwiatkowski, D. J. Morrissey, G. K. Pang, A. Prinke, R. Ringle, H. Schatz, S. Schwarz, and C. S. Sumithrarachchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 132501 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Two-Nucleon Knockout Spectroscopy at the Limits of Nuclear Stability

E. C. Simpson, J. A. Tostevin, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, and A. Gade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 132502 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Efimov Trimer Formation via Ultracold Four-Body Recombination

Yujun Wang and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 133201 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Excited-State Positronium Formation from Helium, Argon, and Xenon

D. J. Murtagh, D. A. Cooke, and G. Laricchia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 133202 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

All-Dielectric Rod-Type Metamaterials at Optical Frequencies

K. Vynck, D. Felbacq, E. Centeno, A. I. Căbuz, D. Cassagne, and B. Guizal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 133901 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Self-Collimation of Light over Millimeter-Scale Distance in a Quasi-Zero-Average-Index Metamaterial

V. Mocella, S. Cabrini, A. S. P. Chang, P. Dardano, L. Moretti, I. Rendina, D. Olynick, B. Harteneck, and S. Dhuey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 133902 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Power-Dependent Reflection, Transmission, and Trapping Dynamics of Lattice Solitons at Interfaces

Y. Kominis and K. Hizanidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 133903 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Oscillatory Neck Instability of Spatial Bright Solitons in Hyperbolic Systems

S.-P. Gorza, P. Kockaert, Ph. Emplit, and M. Haelterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 134101 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Shifted Feedback Suppression of Turbulent Behavior in Advection-Diffusion Systems

C. Evain, C. Szwaj, S. Bielawski, M. Hosaka, A. Mochihashi, M. Katoh, and M.-E. Couprie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 134501 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Precursors to Splashing of Liquid Droplets on a Solid Surface

Shreyas Mandre, Madhav Mani, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 134502 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

New Flow Regimes Generated by Mode Coupling in Buoyant-Thermocapillary Convection

V. Shevtsova, D. E. Melnikov, and A. Nepomnyashchy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 134503 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Fluid Mixing in Stratified Gravity Currents: The Prandtl Mixing Length

P. Odier, J. Chen, M. K. Rivera, and R. E. Ecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 134504 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Dynamical Model for the Buoyancy-Driven Zigzag Motion of Oblate Bodies

Patricia Ern, Frédéric Risso, Pedro C. Fernandes, and Jacques Magnaudet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 134505 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Kinetic Effects of Energetic Particles on Resistive MHD Stability

R. Takahashi, D. P. Brennan, and C. C. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135001 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Dissipative Dark Soliton in a Complex Plasma

R. Heidemann, S. Zhdanov, R. Sütterlin, H. M. Thomas, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135002 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

One-Dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell Equilibrium for the Force-Free Harris Sheet

Michael G. Harrison and Thomas Neukirch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135003 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Polaritons and Pairing Phenomena in Bose-Hubbard Mixtures

M. J. Bhaseen, M. Hohenadler, A. O. Silver, and B. D. Simons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135301 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Discerning Incompressible and Compressible Phases of Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices

V. W. Scarola, L. Pollet, J. Oitmaa, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135302 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Symmetry Breaking of Graphene Monolayers by Molecular Decoration

Xiaochen Dong, Yumeng Shi, Yang Zhao, Dongmeng Chen, Jun Ye, Yugui Yao, Fang Gao, Zhenhua Ni, Ting Yu, Zexiang Shen, Yinxi Huang, Peng Chen, and Lain-Jong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135501 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Resonant Interaction between Hydrogen Vibrational Modes in AlSb:Se

M. D. McCluskey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135502 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Fluctuation Dissipation Relations in Stationary States of Interacting Brownian Particles under Shear

Matthias Krüger and Matthias Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135701 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Topology-Induced Anomalous Defect Production by Crossing a Quantum Critical Point

A. Bermudez, D. Patanè, L. Amico, and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135702 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Observation of Surface Self-Diffusion on Ice

S. Nie, N. C. Bartelt, and K. Thürmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136101 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Temperature-Induced Enhancement of Nanoscale Friction

Z. Tshiprut, S. Zelner, and M. Urbakh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136102 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Imaging of the Hydrogen Subsurface Site in Rutile TiO2

Georg H. Enevoldsen, Henry P. Pinto, Adam S. Foster, Mona C. R. Jensen, Werner A. Hofer, Bjørk Hammer, Jeppe V. Lauritsen, and Flemming Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136103 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Magic-Sized Diamond Nanocrystals

I. B. Altfeder, J. J. Hu, A. A. Voevodin, and J. Krim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136104 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Interface Structures of Gold Nanoparticles on TiO2 (110)

N. Shibata, A. Goto, K. Matsunaga, T. Mizoguchi, S. D. Findlay, T. Yamamoto, and Y. Ikuhara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136105 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Theoretical Description of Time-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy: Application to Pump-Probe Experiments

J. K. Freericks, H. R. Krishnamurthy, and Th. Pruschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136401 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Large Electric Field Effect in Electrolyte-Gated Manganites

Anoop Singh Dhoot, Casey Israel, Xavier Moya, Neil D. Mathur, and Richard Henry Friend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136402 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Stimulated Scattering and Lasing of Intersubband Cavity Polaritons

Simone De Liberato and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136403 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Inhomogeneous Magnetic Phases: A Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Like Phase in Sr3Ru2O7

A. M. Berridge, A. G. Green, S. A. Grigera, and B. D. Simons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136404 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Correlated Electrons in Fe-As Compounds: A Quantum Chemical Perspective

L. Hozoi and P. Fulde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136405 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Observation of Exciton-Phonon Sideband in Individual Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Hualing Zeng, Hongbo Zhao, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Xiaodong Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136406 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Emergence of a Diffusive Metal State with No Magnetic Order near the Mott Transition in Frustrated Pyrochlore-Type Molybdates

S. Iguchi, N. Hanasaki, M. Kinuhara, N. Takeshita, C. Terakura, Y. Taguchi, H. Takagi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136407 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Morphology of the Superconducting Vortex Lattice in Ultrapure Niobium

S. Mühlbauer, C. Pfleiderer, P. Böni, M. Laver, E. M. Forgan, D. Fort, U. Keiderling, and G. Behr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136408 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Bright and Grey States in CdSe-CdS Nanocrystals Exhibiting Strongly Reduced Blinking

P. Spinicelli, S. Buil, X. Quélin, B. Mahler, B. Dubertret, and J.-P. Hermier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136801 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Persistent Currents in Normal Metal Rings

Hendrik Bluhm, Nicholas C. Koshnick, Julie A. Bert, Martin E. Huber, and Kathryn A. Moler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136802 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Coherent Electronic Transport through Graphene Constrictions: Subwavelength Regime and Optical Analogy

Pierre Darancet, Valerio Olevano, and Didier Mayou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136803 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Pinning Mode Resonances of 2D Electron Stripe Phases: Effect of an In-Plane Magnetic Field

Han Zhu, G. Sambandamurthy, L. W. Engel, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136804 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Quantum Criticality Perspective on the Charging of Narrow Quantum-Dot Levels

V. Kashcheyevs, C. Karrasch, T. Hecht, A. Weichselbaum, V. Meden, and A. Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136805 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Topological Anderson Insulator

Jian Li, Rui-Lin Chu, J. K. Jain, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136806 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Conservation of the Lateral Electron Momentum at a Metal-Semiconductor Interface Studied by Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy

C. A. Bobisch, A. Bannani, Yu. M. Koroteev, G. Bihlmayer, E. V. Chulkov, and R. Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136807 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

High-Mobility Few-Layer Graphene Field Effect Transistors Fabricated on Epitaxial Ferroelectric Gate Oxides

X. Hong, A. Posadas, K. Zou, C. H. Ahn, and J. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136808 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Chemical versus van der Waals Interaction: The Role of the Heteroatom in the Flat Absorption of Aromatic Molecules C6H6, C5NH5, and C4N2H4 on the Cu(110) Surface

N. Atodiresei, V. Caciuc, P. Lazić, and S. Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136809 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Giant Magnetoresistance in Ultrasmall Graphene Based Devices

F. Muñoz-Rojas, J. Fernández-Rossier, and J. J. Palacios

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136810 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Electron-Spin Dynamics in Strongly Correlated Metals

Balázs Dóra and Ferenc Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137001 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Superconductivity Induced by Phosphorus Doping and Its Coexistence with Ferromagnetism in EuFe2(As0.7P0.3)2

Zhi Ren, Qian Tao, Shuai Jiang, Chunmu Feng, Cao Wang, Jianhui Dai, Guanghan Cao, and Zhu’an Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137002 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Formula for the Critical Temperature of Superconductors Based on the Electronic Density of States and the Effective Mass

B. J. Taylor and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137003 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Quantum Stabilization of the 1/3-Magnetization Plateau in Cs2CuBr4

Jason Alicea, Andrey V. Chubukov, and Oleg A. Starykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137201 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Domain Wall Spin Torquemeter

I. M. Miron, P.-J. Zermatten, G. Gaudin, S. Auffret, B. Rodmacq, and A. Schuhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137202 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Scaling Theory of Magnetoresistance and Carrier Localization in Ga1xMnxAs

C. P. Moca, B. L. Sheu, N. Samarth, P. Schiffer, B. Janko, and G. Zarand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137203 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Ferromagnetism and Electronic Structures of Nonstoichiometric Heusler-Alloy Fe3xMnxSi Epilayers Grown on Ge(111)

K. Hamaya, H. Itoh, O. Nakatsuka, K. Ueda, K. Yamamoto, M. Itakura, T. Taniyama, T. Ono, and M. Miyao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137204 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Electron-Hole Asymmetry of Spin Injection and Transport in Single-Layer Graphene

Wei Han, W. H. Wang, K. Pi, K. M. McCreary, W. Bao, Yan Li, F. Miao, C. N. Lau, and R. K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137205 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Highly Sensitive Determination of the Polaron-Induced Optical Absorption of Organic Charge-Transport Materials

T. Rabe, P. Görrn, M. Lehnhardt, M. Tilgner, T. Riedl, and W. Kowalsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137401 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

Origin of Intrinsic Gilbert Damping

M. C. Hickey and J. S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 137601 (2009) - Published 31 March, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Critical Scaling and Aging in Cooling Systems Near the Jamming Transition

David A. Head

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138001 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Prediction of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Neural Activity from Pairwise Correlations

O. Marre, S. El Boustani, Y. Frégnac, and A. Destexhe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138101 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Hybrid Elastic and Discrete-Particle Approach to Biomembrane Dynamics with Application to the Mobility of Curved Integral Membrane Proteins

Ali Naji, Paul J. Atzberger, and Frank L. H. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138102 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Simulation of Elastic Rupture in Extension of Entangled Monodisperse Polymer Melts

Anders Lyhne, Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen, and Ole Hassager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138301 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Granular Character of Particle Rafts

Pietro Cicuta and Dominic Vella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138302 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Core-Hole Screening as a Probe for a Metal-to-Nonmetal Transition in Lead Clusters

V. Senz, T. Fischer, P. Oelßner, J. Tiggesbäumker, J. Stanzel, C. Bostedt, H. Thomas, M. Schöffler, L. Foucar, M. Martins, J. Neville, M. Neeb, Th. Möller, W. Wurth, E. Rühl, R. Dörner, H. Schmidt-Böcking, W. Eberhardt, G. Ganteför, R. Treusch, P. Radcliffe, and K.-H. Meiwes-Broer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138303 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Emergence and Size of the Giant Component in Clustered Random Graphs with a Given Degree Distribution

Yakir Berchenko, Yael Artzy-Randrup, Mina Teicher, and Lewi Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138701 (2009) - Published 30 March, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Violation of the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics in Systems with Negative Specific Heat”

K. Michaelian, I. Santamaría-Holek, and A. Pérez-Madrid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138901 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Ramírez-Hernández, Larralde, and Leyvraz Reply:

A. Ramírez-Hernández, H. Larralde, and F. Leyvraz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 138902 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Comment on “Dynamic Scaling of Non-Euclidean Interfaces”

Joachim Krug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 139601 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

Escudero Replies:

Carlos Escudero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 139602 (2009) - Published 3 April, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Coordinated Chemomechanical Cycles: A Mechanism for Autonomous Molecular Motion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 238101 (2008)]

S. J. Green, J. Bath, and A. J. Turberfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 139901 (2009) - Published 1 April, 2009

Erratum: Current Noise through a Kondo Quantum Dot in a SU(N) Fermi Liquid State [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 036604 (2008)]

Christophe Mora, Xavier Leyronas, and Nicolas Regnault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 139902 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

Erratum: Resonant Sum Frequency Generation with Time-Energy Entangled Photons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 053602 (2009)]

S. Sensarn, Irfan Ali-Khan, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 139903 (2009) - Published 2 April, 2009

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