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Volume 103, Issue 21

20 November 2009
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A contour plot of the nuclear potential energy surface for 23Kr along with the shapes corresponding to the marked points which include two minima: the ground state (blue) and a metastable state (green).

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Global Calculation of Nuclear Shape Isomers
Peter Möller, Arnold J. Sierk, Ragnar Bengtsson, Hiroyuki Sagawa, and Takatoshi Ichikawa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 212501 (2009)

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Perfect Distinguishability of Quantum Operations

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

Magnetic Fluctuation Power Near Proton Temperature Anisotropy Instability Thresholds in the Solar Wind

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Supersoft Symmetry Energy Encountering Non-Newtonian Gravity in Neutron Stars

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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Quark Structure of the Nucleon and Angular Asymmetry of Proton-Neutron Hard Elastic Scattering

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Nuclear Physics

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Finding Stationary Subspaces in Multivariate Time Series

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Electric-Field-Enhanced Neutralization of Deep Centers in GaAs

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Diffusion and Ballistic Transport in One-Dimensional Quantum Systems

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Field-Induced Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in the N=0 Landau Level of Graphene

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Evidence for Two Competing Order Parameters in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors from a Model Analysis of Fermi-Arc Effects

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Dissipative Enhancement of the Supercurrent in Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8 Intrinsic Josephson Junctions

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Local Current Injection into Mesoscopic Superconductors for the Manipulation of Quantum States

M. V. Milošević, A. Kanda, S. Hatsumi, F. M. Peeters, and Y. Ootuka

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Charging Effects in the Inductively Shunted Josephson Junction

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 217004 (2009) - Published 19 November, 2009

Model of Quasiparticles Coupled to a Frequency-Dependent Charge-Density-Wave Order Parameter in Cuprate Superconductors

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Magnetically Hindered Chain Formation in Transition-Metal Break Junctions

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Angular Momentum Conservation for Coherently Manipulated Spin Polarization in Photoexcited NiO: An Ab Initio Calculation

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Creating Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs from a Semiconductor Quantum Dot Using the Optical Stark Effect

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Dynamic Length-Scale Characterization and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Transport in Open-Cell Foams

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Dynamical Origin of the Effective Storage Capacity in the Brain’s Working Memory

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Tetrahydrofuran Clathrate Hydrate Formation

Heiko Conrad, Felix Lehmkühler, Christian Sternemann, Arto Sakko, Dietmar Paschek, Laura Simonelli, Simo Huotari, Omid Feroughi, Metin Tolan, and Keijo Hämäläinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 218301 (2009) - Published 19 November, 2009

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Zipf’s Law in the Popularity Distribution of Chess Openings

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Observation of a Push Force on the End Face of a Nanometer Silica Filament Exerted by Outgoing Light”

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