Volume 102, Issue 14

10 April 2009

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Lithium ions diffuse within the pink-grey region of the ordered fulleride polymer Li₄C₆₀, allowing high ionic conductivity at room temperature. See article 145901 and the Physical Review Focus story.

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Superionic Conductivity in the ${Li}_{4} C_{60}$ Fulleride Polymer
M. Riccò, M. Belli, M. Mazzani, D. Pontiroli, D. Quintavalle, A. Jánossy, and G. Csányi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145901 (2009)

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Evidence for Universal Four-Body States Tied to an Efimov Trimer

F. Ferlaino, S. Knoop, M. Berninger, W. Harm, J. P. D’Incao, H.-C. Nägerl, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 140401 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

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Force Balance at the Transition from Selective Withdrawal to Viscous Entrainment

François Blanchette and Wendy W. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 144501 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

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Electronic Refrigeration of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

J. R. Prance, C. G. Smith, J. P. Griffiths, S. J. Chorley, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146602 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

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Polarizable Ions at Interfaces

Yan Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147803 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

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Topology of Light’s Darkness

Kevin O’Holleran, Mark R. Dennis, and Miles J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 143902 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

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Superionic Conductivity in the ${Li}_{4} C_{60}$ Fulleride Polymer

M. Riccò, M. Belli, M. Mazzani, D. Pontiroli, D. Quintavalle, A. Jánossy, and G. Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145901 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

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Evidence for a Change in the Nuclear Mass Surface with the Discovery of the Most Neutron-Rich Nuclei with $17 \leq Z \leq 25$

O. B. Tarasov, D. J. Morrissey, A. M. Amthor, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, A. Gade, T. N. Ginter, M. Hausmann, N. Inabe, T. Kubo, A. Nettleton, J. Pereira, M. Portillo, B. M. Sherrill, A. Stolz, and M. Thoennessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 142501 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

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

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Evidence for Universal Four-Body States Tied to an Efimov Trimer

F. Ferlaino, S. Knoop, M. Berninger, W. Harm, J. P. D’Incao, H.-C. Nägerl, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 140401 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Magnetic and Superfluid Transitions in the One-Dimensional Spin-1 Boson Hubbard Model

G. G. Batrouni, V. G. Rousseau, and R. T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 140402 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Negative-Index Media for Matter-Wave Optics

J. Baudon, M. Hamamda, J. Grucker, M. Boustimi, F. Perales, G. Dutier, and M. Ducloy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 140403 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and Duality

Stefan Yoshi Buhmann and Stefan Scheel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 140404 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Terahertz Bloch Oscillator with a Modulated Bias

Timo Hyart, Natalia V. Alexeeva, Jussi Mattas, and Kirill N. Alekseev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 140405 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Universally Composable Privacy Amplification from Causality Constraints

Lluís Masanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 140501 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Hydrodynamical Trigger Mechanism for Pulsar Glitches

Kostas Glampedakis and Nils Andersson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 141101 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Dark Matter from $R^{2}$ Gravity

Jose A. R. Cembranos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 141301 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Fine-Grained State Counting for Black Holes in Loop Quantum Gravity

A. Ghosh and P. Mitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 141302 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Dilatation Symmetry in Higher Dimensions and the Vanishing of the Cosmological Constant

C. Wetterich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 141303 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Proton Decay via $p \to e^{+} π^{0}$ and $p \to μ^{+} π^{0}$ in a Large Water Cherenkov Detector

H. Nishino et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 141801 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Improved Measurement of $B^{+} \to ρ^{+} ρ^{0}$ and Determination of the Quark-Mixing Phase Angle $α$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 141802 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

$J / ψ$ Production at HERA

P. Artoisenet, J. Campbell, F. Maltoni, and F. Tramontano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 142001 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Nuclear Physics

System Size, Energy, and Centrality Dependence of Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Particles in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

B. Alver et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 142301 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Test of the Conserved Vector Current Hypothesis in $T = 1 / 2$ Mirror Transitions and New Determination of $| V_{u d} |$

O. Naviliat-Cuncic and N. Severijns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 142302 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

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Evidence for a Change in the Nuclear Mass Surface with the Discovery of the Most Neutron-Rich Nuclei with $17 \leq Z \leq 25$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 142501 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Large $β$ -Delayed Neutron Emission Probabilities in the ${}^{78}{Ni}$ Region

J. A. Winger, S. V. Ilyushkin, K. P. Rykaczewski, C. J. Gross, J. C. Batchelder, C. Goodin, R. Grzywacz, J. H. Hamilton, A. Korgul, W. Królas, S. N. Liddick, C. Mazzocchi, S. Padgett, A. Piechaczek, M. M. Rajabali, D. Shapira, E. F. Zganjar, and I. N. Borzov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 142502 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Isoscaling as a Measure of Symmetry Energy in the Lattice Gas Model

G. Lehaut, F. Gulminelli, and O. Lopez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 142503 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Separation of Two-Electron Photoexcited Atomic Processes near the Inner-Shell Threshold

M. Kavčič, M. Žitnik, K. Bučar, A. Mihelič, M. Štuhec, J. Szlachetko, W. Cao, R. Alonso Mori, and P. Glatzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 143001 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Geometrical Phase Driven Predissociation: Lifetimes of $2^{2} A^{'}$ Levels of $H_{3}$

Juan Blandon and Viatcheslav Kokoouline

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 143002 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Novel Phenomena in Very-Low-Frequency Strong Fields

H. R. Reiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 143003 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Origin, Evolution, and Imaging of Vortices in Atomic Processes

J. H. Macek, J. B. Sternberg, S. Y. Ovchinnikov, Teck-Ghee Lee, and D. R. Schultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 143201 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Collective Lamb Shift in Single Photon Dicke Superradiance

Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 143601 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Generation of an Axially Asymmetric Bessel-Like Beam from a Metallic Subwavelength Aperture

Zhaofeng Li, Kamil Boratay Alici, Humeyra Caglayan, and Ekmel Ozbay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 143901 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

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Topology of Light’s Darkness

Kevin O’Holleran, Mark R. Dennis, and Miles J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 143902 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Dissipation-Induced Coherent Structures in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Valeriy A. Brazhnyi, Vladimir V. Konotop, Víctor M. Pérez-García, and Herwig Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 144101 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Angle-Dependent Ultrasonic Transmission through Plates with Subwavelength Hole Arrays

Héctor Estrada, F. Javier García de Abajo, Pilar Candelas, Antonio Uris, Francisco Belmar, and Francisco Meseguer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 144301 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

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Force Balance at the Transition from Selective Withdrawal to Viscous Entrainment

François Blanchette and Wendy W. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 144501 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Mesoscopic Void Structures in Cobalt Nanocrystal Films Formed from Drying Concentrated Colloidal Solutions

C. Salzemann, J. Richardi, I. Lisiecki, J.-J. Weis, and M. P. Pileni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 144502 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Simple Mechanism for Reversals of Earth’s Magnetic Field

François Pétrélis, Stéphan Fauve, Emmanuel Dormy, and Jean-Pierre Valet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 144503 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Rarefaction Acceleration and Kinetic Effects in Thin-Foil Expansion into a Vacuum

P. Mora and T. Grismayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145001 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Stable GeV Ion-Beam Acceleration from Thin Foils by Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses

B. Qiao, M. Zepf, M. Borghesi, and M. Geissler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145002 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Use of a Linear Paul Trap to Study Random Noise-Induced Beam Degradation in High-Intensity Accelerators

Moses Chung, Erik P. Gilson, Ronald C. Davidson, Philip C. Efthimion, and Richard Majeski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145003 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Nonlinear Development of Streaming Instabilities in Strongly Magnetized Plasma

H. Che, J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, and P. H. Yoon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145004 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Analytically Solvable Model of Nonlinear Oscillations in a Cold but Viscous and Resistive Plasma

E. Infeld, G. Rowlands, and A. A. Skorupski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145005 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantitative Radiography of Magnetic Fields Using Neutron Spin Phase Imaging

F. M. Piegsa, B. van den Brandt, P. Hautle, J. Kohlbrecher, and J. A. Konter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145501 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Influence of Pressure on Quasielastic Scattering in Glasses: Relationship to the Boson Peak

L. Hong, B. Begen, A. Kisliuk, S. Pawlus, M. Paluch, and A. P. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145502 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Two-Dimensional Heterogeneous Dynamics at the Surface of a Colloidal Suspension

A. Duri, T. Autenrieth, L.-M. Stadler, O. Leupold, Y. Chushkin, G. Grübel, and C. Gutt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145701 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Semiflexible Fully Packed Loop Model and Interacting Rhombus Tilings

Jesper Lykke Jacobsen and Fabien Alet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145702 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

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Superionic Conductivity in the ${Li}_{4} C_{60}$ Fulleride Polymer

M. Riccò, M. Belli, M. Mazzani, D. Pontiroli, D. Quintavalle, A. Jánossy, and G. Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145901 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Mixed Barrier Model for the Mixed Glass Former Effect in Ion Conducting Glasses

Michael Schuch, Christian R. Müller, Philipp Maass, and Steve W. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 145902 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Theory of Nanocluster Size Distributions from Ion Beam Synthesis

C. W. Yuan, D. O. Yi, I. D. Sharp, S. J. Shin, C. Y. Liao, J. Guzman, J. W. Ager, III, E. E. Haller, and D. C. Chrzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146101 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Shape Transitions of Epitaxial Islands during Strained Layer Growth: Anatase ${TiO}_{2} (001)$ on ${SrTiO}_{3} (001)$

Matthew S. J. Marshall and Martin R. Castell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146102 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Rapid Coarsening of Ion Beam Ripple Patterns by Defect Annihilation

Henri Hansen, Alex Redinger, Sebastian Messlinger, Georgiana Stoian, Joachim Krug, and Thomas Michely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146103 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dense Low-Coordination Phases of Lithium

Chris J. Pickard and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146401 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Pressure-Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in Hematite from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory

J. Kuneš, Dm. M. Korotin, M. A. Korotin, V. I. Anisimov, and P. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146402 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Competition between Anderson Localization and Antiferromagnetism in Correlated Lattice Fermion Systems with Disorder

Krzysztof Byczuk, Walter Hofstetter, and Dieter Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146403 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Fractional Statistics and Quantum Scaling Properties of the Hubbard Chain with Bond-Charge Interaction

Carlindo Vitoriano and M. D. Coutinho-Filho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146404 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Hole–Nuclear Spin Interaction in Quantum Dots

B. Eble, C. Testelin, P. Desfonds, F. Bernardot, A. Balocchi, T. Amand, A. Miard, A. Lemaître, X. Marie, and M. Chamarro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146601 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

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Electronic Refrigeration of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

J. R. Prance, C. G. Smith, J. P. Griffiths, S. J. Chorley, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146602 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Vibrational Nonequilibrium Effects in the Conductance of Single Molecules with Multiple Electronic States

R. Härtle, C. Benesch, and M. Thoss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146801 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Quantitative Estimation of Exchange Interaction Energy Using Two-Electron Vertical Double Quantum Dots

T. Kodera, K. Ono, Y. Kitamura, Y. Tokura, Y. Arakawa, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146802 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Exact Scattering Eigenstates, Many-Body Bound States, and Nonequilibrium Current in an Open Quantum Dot System

Akinori Nishino, Takashi Imamura, and Naomichi Hatano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146803 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Quantum Goos-Hänchen Effect in Graphene

C. W. J. Beenakker, R. A. Sepkhanov, A. R. Akhmerov, and J. Tworzydło

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146804 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Magnetoelectric Polarizability and Axion Electrodynamics in Crystalline Insulators

Andrew M. Essin, Joel E. Moore, and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146805 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Hamiltonian Decomposition for Bulk and Surface States

Ken-ichi Sasaki, Yuji Shimomura, Yositake Takane, and Katsunori Wakabayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146806 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Shaping the Fluorescent Emission by Lattice Resonances in Plasmonic Crystals of Nanoantennas

G. Vecchi, V. Giannini, and J. Gómez Rivas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 146807 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Evidence for a Nodal-Line Superconducting State in LaFePO

J. D. Fletcher, A. Serafin, L. Malone, J. G. Analytis, J.-H. Chu, A. S. Erickson, I. R. Fisher, and A. Carrington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147001 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Observation of the Josephson Effect in $Pb / {Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Single Crystal Junctions

Xiaohang Zhang, Yoon Seok Oh, Yong Liu, Liqin Yan, Kee Hoon Kim, Richard L. Greene, and Ichiro Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147002 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Role of Fluorine in the Iron Pnictides: Phonon Softening and Effective Hole Doping

Jesse Noffsinger, Feliciano Giustino, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147003 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Low-Temperature Magnetothermal Transport Investigation of a Ni-Based Superconductor ${BaNi}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : Evidence for Fully Gapped Superconductivity

N. Kurita, F. Ronning, Y. Tokiwa, E. D. Bauer, A. Subedi, D. J. Singh, J. D. Thompson, and R. Movshovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147004 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Magnetoelectric Memory Effect of the Nonpolar Phase with Collinear Spin Structure in Multiferroic ${MnWO}_{4}$

K. Taniguchi, N. Abe, S. Ohtani, and T. Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147201 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Current-Induced Control of Spin-Wave Attenuation

Soo-Man Seo, Kyung-Jin Lee, Hyunsoo Yang, and Teruo Ono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147202 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Zero Temperature Phase Diagram of the Kitaev Model

Charles Nash and Denjoe O’Connor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147203 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Direct Observation of Stochastic Domain-Wall Depinning in Magnetic Nanowires

Mi-Young Im, Lars Bocklage, Peter Fischer, and Guido Meier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147204 (2009) - Published 10 April, 2009

Continuous Voltage Tunability of Intersubband Relaxation Times in Coupled SiGe Quantum Well Structures Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy

P. Rauter, T. Fromherz, N. Q. Vinh, B. N. Murdin, G. Mussler, D. Grützmacher, and G. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147401 (2009) - Published 6 April, 2009

Universal Properties of Ferroelectric Domains

Igor A. Luk’yanchuk, Laurent Lahoche, and Anaïs Sené

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147601 (2009) - Published 9 April, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Coexistence of Melting and Growth during Heating of a Semicrystalline Polymer

Chuanfu Luo and Jens-Uwe Sommer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147801 (2009) - Published 7 April, 2009

Unusual Dielectric and Electrical Switching Behavior in the de Vries Smectic $A$ Phase of Two Organosiloxane Derivatives

S. Krishna Prasad, D. S. Shankar Rao, S. Sridevi, Chethan V. Lobo, B. R. Ratna, Jawad Naciri, and R. Shashidhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 147802 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

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Erratum: Dynamics of Lane Formation in Driven Binary Complex Plasmas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 085003 (2009)]

K. R. Sütterlin, A. Wysocki, A. V. Ivlev, C. Räth, H. M. Thomas, M. Rubin-Zuzic, W. J. Goedheer, V. E. Fortov, A. M. Lipaev, V. I. Molotkov, O. F. Petrov, G. E. Morfill, and H. Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 149901 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Erratum: Lattice Study of the Conformal Window in QCD-Like Theories [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171607 (2008)]

Thomas Appelquist, George T. Fleming, and Ethan T. Neil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 149902 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Inhomogeneous Magnetic Phases: A Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Like Phase in ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136404 (2009)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 149903 (2009) - Published 8 April, 2009

Volume 102, Issue 14

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

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.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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