Volume 106, Issue 13

1 April 2011

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Phase domains during the evaporative cooling of an ultracold 1D Bose gas. The transient soliton pattern dissipates during thermalization.

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Solitons as the Early Stage of Quasicondensate Formation during Evaporative Cooling
E. Witkowska, P. Deuar, M. Gajda, and K. Rzążewski
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135301 (2011)

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Search for Supersymmetry Using Final States with One Lepton, Jets, and Missing Transverse Momentum with the ATLAS Detector in $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ $p p$ Collisions

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 131802 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

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Graphene Valley Filter Using a Line Defect

D. Gunlycke and C. T. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136806 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

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Interface between Topological and Superconducting Qubits

Liang Jiang, Charles L. Kane, and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130504 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

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Topological Quantum Buses: Coherent Quantum Information Transfer between Topological and Conventional Qubits

Parsa Bonderson and Roman M. Lutchyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130505 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

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Evaluation of Doppler Shifts to Improve the Accuracy of Primary Atomic Fountain Clocks

Jocelyne Guéna, Ruoxin Li, Kurt Gibble, Sébastien Bize, and André Clairon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130801 (2011) - Published 1 April, 2011

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Spontaneous Rotational Inversion in Phycomyces

Alain Goriely and Michael Tabor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 138103 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

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Superflow in a Toroidal Bose-Einstein Condensate: An Atom Circuit with a Tunable Weak Link

A. Ramanathan, K. C. Wright, S. R. Muniz, M. Zelan, W. T. Hill, III, C. J. Lobb, K. Helmerson, W. D. Phillips, and G. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130401 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

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Results from a Low-Energy Analysis of the CDMS II Germanium Data

Z. Ahmed et al. (CDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 131302 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

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Critical Current Scaling and Anisotropy in Oxypnictide Superconductors

M. Kidszun, S. Haindl, T. Thersleff, J. Hänisch, A. Kauffmann, K. Iida, J. Freudenberger, L. Schultz, and B. Holzapfel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137001 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

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Toroidal Ferroelectricity in ${PbTiO}_{3}$ Nanoparticles

M. G. Stachiotti and M. Sepliarsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137601 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

LETTERS

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

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Superflow in a Toroidal Bose-Einstein Condensate: An Atom Circuit with a Tunable Weak Link

A. Ramanathan, K. C. Wright, S. R. Muniz, M. Zelan, W. T. Hill, III, C. J. Lobb, K. Helmerson, W. D. Phillips, and G. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130401 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

Revealing Hidden Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Nonlocality

S. P. Walborn, A. Salles, R. M. Gomes, F. Toscano, and P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130402 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Quantum Optical Waveform Conversion

D. Kielpinski, J. F. Corney, and H. M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130501 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Projection of Two Biphoton Qutrits onto a Maximally Entangled State

A. Halevy, E. Megidish, T. Shacham, L. Dovrat, and H. S. Eisenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130502 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Entanglement Cost in Practical Scenarios

Francesco Buscemi and Nilanjana Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130503 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

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Interface between Topological and Superconducting Qubits

Liang Jiang, Charles L. Kane, and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130504 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

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Topological Quantum Buses: Coherent Quantum Information Transfer between Topological and Conventional Qubits

Parsa Bonderson and Roman M. Lutchyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130505 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

14-Qubit Entanglement: Creation and Coherence

Thomas Monz, Philipp Schindler, Julio T. Barreiro, Michael Chwalla, Daniel Nigg, William A. Coish, Maximilian Harlander, Wolfgang Hänsel, Markus Hennrich, and Rainer Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130506 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Diverging Equilibration Times in Long-Range Quantum Spin Models

Michael Kastner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130601 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

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Evaluation of Doppler Shifts to Improve the Accuracy of Primary Atomic Fountain Clocks

Jocelyne Guéna, Ruoxin Li, Kurt Gibble, Sébastien Bize, and André Clairon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130801 (2011) - Published 1 April, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Results from a Search for Light-Mass Dark Matter with a $p$ -Type Point Contact Germanium Detector

C. E. Aalseth, P. S. Barbeau, N. S. Bowden, B. Cabrera-Palmer, J. Colaresi, J. I. Collar, S. Dazeley, P. de Lurgio, J. E. Fast, N. Fields, C. H. Greenberg, T. W. Hossbach, M. E. Keillor, J. D. Kephart, M. G. Marino, H. S. Miley, M. L. Miller, J. L. Orrell, D. C. Radford, D. Reyna, O. Tench, T. D. Van Wechel, J. F. Wilkerson, and K. M. Yocum (CoGeNT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 131301 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

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Results from a Low-Energy Analysis of the CDMS II Germanium Data

Z. Ahmed et al. (CDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 131302 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Thermal Momentum Distribution from Path Integrals with Shifted Boundary Conditions

Leonardo Giusti and Harvey B. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 131601 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Observable $T_{7}$ Lepton Flavor Symmetry at the Large Hadron Collider

Qing-Hong Cao, Shaaban Khalil, Ernest Ma, and Hiroshi Okada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 131801 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

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Search for Supersymmetry Using Final States with One Lepton, Jets, and Missing Transverse Momentum with the ATLAS Detector in $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ $p p$ Collisions

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 131802 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

Direct Probes of Linearly Polarized Gluons inside Unpolarized Hadrons

Daniël Boer, Stanley J. Brodsky, Piet J. Mulders, and Cristian Pisano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 132001 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Search for Effects Beyond the Born Approximation in Polarization Transfer Observables in $\vec{e} p$ Elastic Scattering

M. Meziane et al. (GEp2γ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 132501 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Microscopic Calculations of Isospin-Breaking Corrections to Superallowed Beta Decay

W. Satuła, J. Dobaczewski, W. Nazarewicz, and M. Rafalski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 132502 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Brownian Shape Motion on Five-Dimensional Potential-Energy Surfaces:Nuclear Fission-Fragment Mass Distributions

Jørgen Randrup and Peter Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 132503 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electron Diffraction Self-Imaging of Molecular Fragmentation in Two-Step Double Ionization of Water

H. Sann, T. Jahnke, T. Havermeier, K. Kreidi, C. Stuck, M. Meckel, M. S. Schöffler, N. Neumann, R. Wallauer, S. Voss, A. Czasch, O. Jagutzki, Th. Weber, H. Schmidt-Böcking, S. Miyabe, D. J. Haxton, A. E. Orel, T. N. Rescigno, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 133001 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Nondestructive Fluorescent State Detection of Single Neutral Atom Qubits

Michael J. Gibbons, Christopher D. Hamley, Chung-Yu Shih, and Michael S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 133002 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Free-Space Lossless State Detection of a Single Trapped Atom

A. Fuhrmanek, R. Bourgain, Y. R. P. Sortais, and A. Browaeys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 133003 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

New Mechanism for Positronium Formation on a Silicon Surface

D. B. Cassidy, T. H. Hisakado, H. W. K. Tom, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 133401 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Conditional Spin Squeezing of a Large Ensemble via the Vacuum Rabi Splitting

Zilong Chen, Justin G. Bohnet, Shannon R. Sankar, Jiayan Dai, and James K. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 133601 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Towards the Origin of the Nonlinear Response in Hybrid Plasmonic Systems

Tobias Utikal, Thomas Zentgraf, Thomas Paul, Carsten Rockstuhl, Falk Lederer, Markus Lippitz, and Harald Giessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 133901 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Self-Synchronization of Laser Modes and Multistability in Quantum Cascade Lasers

Aleksander K. Wójcik, Nanfang Yu, Laurent Diehl, Federico Capasso, and Alexey Belyanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 133902 (2011) - Published 1 April, 2011

Radiation of Caustic Beams from a Collapsing Bullet

M. P. Kostylev, A. A. Serga, and B. Hillebrands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 134101 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Acoustically Bound Microfluidic Bubble Crystals

David Rabaud, Pierre Thibault, Mylène Mathieu, and Philippe Marmottant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 134501 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and the Optimal Path to Turbulence in Shear Flows

Antonios Monokrousos, Alessandro Bottaro, Luca Brandt, Andrea Di Vita, and Dan S. Henningson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 134502 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Laminar Superlayer at the Turbulence Boundary

M. Holzner and B. Lüthi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 134503 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

5.5–7.5 MeV Proton Generation by a Moderate-Intensity Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Interaction with $H_{2} O$ Nanowire Targets

A. Zigler, T. Palchan, N. Bruner, E. Schleifer, S. Eisenmann, M. Botton, Z. Henis, S. A. Pikuz, A. Y. Faenov, Jr., D. Gordon, and P. Sprangle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 134801 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Coherent Vortices in Strongly Coupled Liquids

Ashwin J. and R. Ganesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135001 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Nonlinear Pulse Propagation and Phase Velocity of Laser-Driven Plasma Waves

C. B. Schroeder, C. Benedetti, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135002 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Solitons as the Early Stage of Quasicondensate Formation during Evaporative Cooling

E. Witkowska, P. Deuar, M. Gajda, and K. Rzążewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135301 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Thermal Expansion of Supported and Freestanding Graphene: Lattice Constant versus Interatomic Distance

Monica Pozzo, Dario Alfè, Paolo Lacovig, Philip Hofmann, Silvano Lizzit, and Alessandro Baraldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135501 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

$β − tin \to I m m a \to sh$ Phase Transitions of Germanium

Xiao-Jia Chen, Chao Zhang, Yue Meng, Rui-Qin Zhang, Hai-Qing Lin, Viktor V. Struzhkin, and Ho-kwang Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135502 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Structural Signature of Plastic Deformation in Metallic Glasses

H. L. Peng, M. Z. Li, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135503 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Heat Pumping in Nanomechanical Systems

Claudio Chamon, Eduardo R. Mucciolo, Liliana Arrachea, and Rodrigo B. Capaz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135504 (2011) - Published 1 April, 2011

Finite-Temperature Critical Behavior of Mutual Information

Rajiv R. P. Singh, Matthew B. Hastings, Ann B. Kallin, and Roger G. Melko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135701 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Microscopic Mean-Field Theory of the Jamming Transition

Hugo Jacquin, Ludovic Berthier, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 135702 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Toggling Bistable Atoms via Mechanical Switching of Bond Angle

Adam Sweetman, Sam Jarvis, Rosanna Danza, Joseph Bamidele, Subhashis Gangopadhyay, Gordon A. Shaw, Lev Kantorovich, and Philip Moriarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136101 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

Contact Angle Hysteresis at the Nanometer Scale

Mathieu Delmas, Marc Monthioux, and Thierry Ondarçuhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136102 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

$f$ Electron Contribution to the Change of Electronic Structure in ${CeRu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ with Temperature: A Compton Scattering Study

A. Koizumi, G. Motoyama, Y. Kubo, T. Tanaka, M. Itou, and Y. Sakurai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136401 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

Twisted Hubbard Model for ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$ : Magnetism and Possible High Temperature Superconductivity

Fa Wang and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136402 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Unconventional High-Temperature Superconductivity from Repulsive Interactions: Theoretical Constraints

A. S. Alexandrov and V. V. Kabanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136403 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Signatures of Non-Abelian Statistics in Nonlinear Coulomb Blockade Transport

Roni Ilan, Bernd Rosenow, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136801 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

Ordering of Magnetic Impurities and Tunable Electronic Properties of Topological Insulators

D. A. Abanin and D. A. Pesin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136802 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

First-Principles Modeling of Electrostatically Doped Perovskite Systems

Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136803 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Extended States in a Lifshitz Tail Regime for Random Schrödinger Operators on Trees

Michael Aizenman and Simone Warzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136804 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Exciton Hierarchies in Gapped Carbon Nanotubes

Robert M. Konik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136805 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

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Graphene Valley Filter Using a Line Defect

D. Gunlycke and C. T. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136806 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

Resonant Vibrations, Peak Broadening, and Noise in Single Molecule Contacts: The Nature of the First Conductance Peak

Daniel Secker, Stefan Wagner, Stefan Ballmann, Rainer Härtle, Michael Thoss, and Heiko B. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136807 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Effect of Measurement Backaction on Adiabatic Coherent Electron Transport

Jérôme Rech and Stefan Kehrein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136808 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Phase Diagram of Electrostatically Doped ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Yeonbae Lee, Colin Clement, Jack Hellerstedt, Joseph Kinney, Laura Kinnischtzke, Xiang Leng, S. D. Snyder, and A. M. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 136809 (2011) - Published 1 April, 2011

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Critical Current Scaling and Anisotropy in Oxypnictide Superconductors

M. Kidszun, S. Haindl, T. Thersleff, J. Hänisch, A. Kauffmann, K. Iida, J. Freudenberger, L. Schultz, and B. Holzapfel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137001 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Zeeman-Driven Lifshitz Transition: A Model for the Experimentally Observed Fermi-Surface Reconstruction in ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

Andreas Hackl and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137002 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Vortex Core Deformation and Stepper-Motor Ratchet Behavior in a Superconducting Aluminum Film Containing an Array of Holes

J. Van de Vondel, V. N. Gladilin, A. V. Silhanek, W. Gillijns, J. Tempere, J. T. Devreese, and V. V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137003 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Evolution of Paramagnetic Quasiparticle Excitations Emerged in the High-Field Superconducting Phase of ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

K. Kumagai, H. Shishido, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137004 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Coupled Vortex Oscillations in Spatially Separated Permalloy Squares

Andreas Vogel, Thomas Kamionka, Michael Martens, André Drews, Kang Wei Chou, Tolek Tyliszczak, Hermann Stoll, Bartel Van Waeyenberge, and Guido Meier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137201 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Distribution of NMR Relaxations in a Random Heisenberg Chain

T. Shiroka, F. Casola, V. Glazkov, A. Zheludev, K. Prša, H.-R. Ott, and J. Mesot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137202 (2011) - Published 1 April, 2011

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Toroidal Ferroelectricity in ${PbTiO}_{3}$ Nanoparticles

M. G. Stachiotti and M. Sepliarsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137601 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

Properties of Hydrogen Terminated Diamond as a Photocathode

J. D. Rameau, J. Smedley, E. M. Muller, T. E. Kidd, and P. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137602 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Unifying Interfacial Self-Assembly and Surface Freezing

B. M. Ocko, H. Hlaing, P. N. Jepsen, S. Kewalramani, A. Tkachenko, D. Pontoni, H. Reichert, and M. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137801 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

In-Plane Correlations in a Polymer-Supported Lipid Membrane Measured by Off-Specular Neutron Scattering

Michael S. Jablin, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Boris P. Toperverg, Manish Dubey, Hillary L. Smith, Ajay Vidyasagar, Ryan Toomey, Alan J. Hurd, and Jaroslaw Majewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 138101 (2011) - Published 28 March, 2011

Compaction and Tensile Forces Determine the Accuracy of Folding Landscape Parameters from Single Molecule Pulling Experiments

Greg Morrison, Changbong Hyeon, Michael Hinczewski, and D. Thirumalai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 138102 (2011) - Published 29 March, 2011

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ERRATA

Erratum: Structural Preablation Dynamics of Graphite Observed by Ultrafast Electron Crystallography [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 035501 (2008)]

Fabrizio Carbone, Peter Baum, Petra Rudolf, and Ahmed H. Zewail

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 139901 (2011) - Published 30 March, 2011

Publisher’s Note: Nonlinear Quantum Optics in a Waveguide: Distinct Single Photons Strongly Interacting at the Single Atom Level [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 113601 (2011)]

Pavel Kolchin, Rupert F. Oulton, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 139902 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Erratum: Highly Anisotropic Dirac Cones in Epitaxial Graphene Modulated by an Island Superlattice [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 246803 (2010)]

S. Rusponi, M. Papagno, P. Moras, S. Vlaic, M. Etzkorn, P. M. Sheverdyaeva, D. Pacilé, H. Brune, and C. Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 139903 (2011) - Published 31 March, 2011

Volume 106, Issue 13

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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