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Europhysics Letters

Vol. 74, No. 6 (June 2006)



-  General
Stochastic resonance vs. resonant activation    p. 937
C. Schmitt, B. Dybiec, P. Hänggi and C. Bechinger
Published online: 12 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10052-6
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Adaptation in stochastic tunneling global optimization of complex potential energy landscapes    p. 944
K. Hamacher
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10058-0
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Friction of the QED vacuum on spinning matter    p. 951
Y. Pomeau
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10595-x
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Geometric phase in open two-level system    p. 958
Z. S. Wang, L. C. Kwek, C. H. Lai and C. H. Oh
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10057-1
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Dynamics of a Tonks-Girardeau gas released from a hard-wall trap    p. 965
A. del Campo and J. G. Muga
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10061-5
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-  The physics of elementary particles and fields
Gauge invariance and fractional statistics    p. 972
A. R. P. Lima and R. R. Landim
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10594-y
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Gravitoelectromagnetically induced transitions in charged boson nebulae    p. 978
M. A. Dariescu, C. Dariescu and G. Murariu
Published online: 26 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10063-3
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-  Atomic and molecular physics
High formation yields of negative ions in multicharged fluorine - collisions    p. 985
S. Martin, L. Chen, J. Bernard, R. Brédy, M. C. Buchet-Poulizac, X. Ma and B. Wei
Published online: 24 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10055-3
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Identification of distinct two-electron transfer processes in collisions    p. 992
S. Knoop, V. G. Hasan, R. Morgenstern and R. Hoekstra
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10056-2
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-  Electromagnetism, optics, acoustics, heat transfer, classical mechanics, and fluid dynamics
Role of mean free path in spatial phase correlation and nodal screening    p. 999
B. A. van Tiggelen, D. Anache and A. Ghysels
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10059-y
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Gap solitons in Bragg gratings with a harmonic superlattice    p. 1006
K. Yagasaki, I. M. Merhasin, B. A. Malomed, T. Wagenknecht and A. R. Champneys
Published online: 12 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10593-0
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Indeterminacy of amplitude and phase variables in classical dynamical systems: The harmonic oscillator    p. 1013
M. Fernández-Guasti
Published online: 12 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10592-1
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Critical bursting    p. 1020
K. Kumar, P. Pal and S. Fauve
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10051-7
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-  Physics of gases, plasmas and electric discharges
Oblique electromagnetic instabilities for an ultra relativistic electron beam passing through a plasma    p. 1027
A. Bret
Published online: 10 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10045-5
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-  Condensed matter: structural, mechanical and thermal properties
Polarization-dependent resonant anomalous surface X-ray scattering of    p. 1032
A. Menzel, Y. V. Tolmachev, K.-C. Chang, V. Komanicky, Y. S. Chu, J. J. Rehr and H. You
Published online: 12 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10050-8
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Hard colloidal rods near a soft wall: Wetting, drying, and symmetry breaking    p. 1039
K. Shundyak and R. van Roij
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10062-4
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Induced order and re-entrant melting in classical two-dimensional binary clusters    p. 1046
K. Nelissen, B. Partoens, I. Schweigert and F. M. Peeters
Published online: 12 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10044-6
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-  Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties
Kondo lattice without Nozières exhaustion effect    p. 1053
K. Kikoin and M. N. Kiselev
Published online: 12 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10591-2
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Quantum-transport simulations with the Wigner-function formalism: Failure of conventional boundary-condition schemes    p. 1060
D. Taj, L. Genovese and F. Rossi
Published online: 12 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10047-3
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Spin-wave interactions in quantum antiferromagnets    p. 1067
N. Hasselmann and P. Kopietz
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10060-6
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Magnetic properties of free clusters at finite temperatures from first principles    p. 1074
S. Polesya, O. Šipr, S. Bornemann, J. Minár and H. Ebert
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10053-5
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Superluminal group velocity in an anisotropic metamaterial    p. 1081
Hailu Luo, Wei Hu, Weixing Shu, Fei Li and Zhongzhou Ren
Published online: 12 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10046-4
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-  Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology
Tunable coupling of qubits: Nonadiabatic corrections    p. 1088
Carsten Hutter, Alexander Shnirman, Yuriy Makhlin and Gerd Schön
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10054-4
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Long-term correlations in the surface behavior of dolphins    p. 1095
R. Ferrer i Cancho and D. Lusseau
Published online: 26 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10596-9
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Searching complex networks efficiently with minimal information    p. 1102
S. Carmi, R. Cohen and D. Dolev
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10049-1
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Self-assembly of information in networks    p. 1109
M. Rosvall and K. Sneppen
Published online: 17 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10064-2
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-  Geophysics, astronomy, and astrophysics
Broad distribution of stick-slip events in Slowly Sheared Granular Media: Table-top production of a Gutenberg-Richter-like distribution    p. 1116
Michael Bretz, Russell Zaretzki, Stuart B. Field, Namiko Mitarai and Franco Nori
Published online: 24 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10048-2
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Erratum
Erratum: The 2D Ising square lattice with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor interactions    p. 1123
H. J. W. Zandvliet
Published online: 26 May 2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2006-10073-1
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