Volume 93, Issue 16

15 October 2004

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Calculated field intensity plot of a "quasiscarred" resonance in a spiral-shaped dielectric microcavity. Unlike the scarred resonances which occur in many different chaotic systems, here there is no unstable periodic orbit underlying the pattern of localization.

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Quasiscarred Resonances in a Spiral-Shaped Microcavity
Soo-Young Lee, Sunghwan Rim, Jung-Wan Ryu, Tae-Yoon Kwon, Muhan Choi, and Chil-Min Kim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 164102 (2004)

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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Spin Chains and String Theory

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Nuclear Physics

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Identification of Zonal Flows in a Toroidal Plasma

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Effects of a Vertical Magnetic Field on Particle Confinement in a Magnetized Plasma Torus

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Dust Coulomb Balls: Three-Dimensional Plasma Crystals

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Bayesian Ensemble Approach to Error Estimation of Interatomic Potentials

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Effective Temperatures in Driven Systems: Static Versus Time-Dependent Relations

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Kinetic Step Pairing

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Enhanced Self-Diffusion on Cu(111) by Trace Amounts of S: Chemical-Reaction-Limited Kinetics

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Etchant Anisotropy Controls the Step Bunching Instability in KOH Etching of Silicon

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Systematic Study of the Effect of Disorder on Nanotribology of Self-Assembled Monolayers

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Monolayer Pattern Evolution via Substrate Strain-Mediated Spinodal Decomposition

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Breakdown of Classical Nucleation Theory near Isostructural Phase Transitions

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Proximity Effects in Self-Organized Binary Particle–Block Copolymer Blends

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Nonstochastic Behavior of Atomic Surface Diffusion on Cu(111) down to Low Temperatures

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Single-Molecule Measurements of Gold-Quenched Quantum Dots

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