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STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES

A nano-cheese-cutter to directly measure interfacial adhesion of freestanding nano-fibers
Xin Wang, Johnny F. Najem, Shing-Chung Wong, and Kai-tak Wan
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 024315 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Quantitative x-ray phase nanotomography
Ana Diaz, Pavel Trtik, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Andreas Menzel, Pierre Thibault, and Oliver Bunk
Physical Review B   85, 020104 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Size effects on elasticity, yielding, and fracture of silver nanowires: In situ experiments
Yong Zhu, Qingquan Qin, Feng Xu, Fengru Fan, Yong Ding, Tim Zhang, Benjamin J. Wiley, and Zhong Lin Wang
Physical Review B   85, 045443 (2012) (7 pages)   
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Mechanism of stress relaxation in nanocrystalline Fe-N thin films
Ranjeeta Gupta, Ajay Gupta, W. Leitenberger, and R. Rüffer
Physical Review B   85, 075401 (2012) (7 pages)   
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Surface Nanocrystallization of an Ionic Liquid
Yoonnam Jeon, David Vaknin, Wei Bu, Jaeho Sung, Yukio Ouchi, Woongmo Sung, and Doseok Kim
Physical Review Letters   108, 055502 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Formation of Ge Nanoripples on Vicinal Si (1110): From Stranski-Krastanow Seeds to a Perfectly Faceted Wetting Layer
G. Chen, B. Sanduijav, D. Matei, G. Springholz, D. Scopece, M. J. Beck, F. Montalenti, and L. Miglio
Physical Review Letters   108, 055503 (2012) (5 pages)   
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High-temperature annealing of thin Au films on Si: Growth of SiO₂ nanowires or Au dendritic nanostructures?
F. Ruffino, L. Romano, G. Pitruzzello, and M. G. Grimaldi
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053102 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Position-controlled [100] InP nanowire arrays
Jia Wang, Sébastien Plissard, Moïra Hocevar, Thuy T. T. Vu, Tilman Zehender, George G. W. Immink, Marcel A. Verheijen, Jos Haverkort, and Erik P. A. M. Bakkers
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053107 (2012) (3 pages)   
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ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT

Room-temperature single molecular memory
Shinya Kano, Yasuyuki Yamada, Kentaro Tanaka, and Yutaka Majima
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053101 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Time scales in the dynamics of an interacting quantum dot
L. Debora Contreras-Pulido, Janine Splettstoesser, Michele Governale, Jürgen König, and Markus Büttiker
Physical Review B   85, 075301 (2012) (11 pages)   
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Resonance-hybrid states in a triple quantum dot
S. Amaha, T. Hatano, H. Tamura, S. Teraoka, T. Kubo, Y. Tokura, D. G. Austing, and S. Tarucha
Physical Review B   85, 081301 (2012) (6 pages)   
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X-Ray Diagnosis of the Pressure Induced Mott Nonmetal-Metal Transition
A. Lévy, F. Dorchies, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, A. Ravasio, F. Festa, V. Recoules, O. Peyrusse, N. Amadou, E. Brambrink, T. Hall, M. Koenig, and S. Mazevet
Physical Review Letters   108, 055002 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Convergence of Energy Scales on the Approach to a Local Quantum Critical Point
Y. Nishikawa, D. J. G. Crow, and A. C. Hewson
Physical Review Letters   108, 056402 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Spectral properties of Luttinger liquids: A comparative analysis of regular, helical, and spiral Luttinger liquids
Bernd Braunecker, Cristina Bena, and Pascal Simon
Physical Review B   85, 035136 (2012) (16 pages)   
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NANOMAGNETISM AND SPINTRONICS

Quantitative modeling of spin relaxation in quantum dots
J. P. Hansen, S. A. Sørngård, M. Førre, and E. Räsänen
Physical Review B   85, 035326 (2012) (7 pages)   
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Doppler velocimetry of spin propagation in a two-dimensional electron gas
Luyi Yang, J. D. Koralek, J. Orenstein, D. R. Tibbetts, J. L. Reno, and M. P. Lilly
Nature Physics   8, 153-157 (2011)   
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All-metallic lateral spin valves using Co₂Fe(Ge_0.5Ga_0.5) Heusler alloy with a large spin signal
Y. K. Takahashi, S. Kasai, S. Hirayama, S. Mitani, and K. Hono
Applied Physics Letters   100, 052405 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Spin transport in poly(metalarenylsilane)
Yukihito Matsuura
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053303 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Thermal equilibration and thermally induced spin currents in a thin-film ferromagnet on a substrate
Matthew R. Sears and Wayne M. Saslow
Physical Review B   85, 035446 (2012) (12 pages)   
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Quantum anomalous Hall effect with tunable Chern number in magnetic topological insulator film
Hua Jiang, Zhenhua Qiao, Haiwen Liu, and Qian Niu
Physical Review B   85, 045445 (2012) (8 pages)   
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Atomistic Spin Dynamic Method with both Damping and Moment of Inertia Effects Included from First Principles
Satadeep Bhattacharjee, Lars Nordström, and Jonas Fransson
Physical Review Letters   108, 057204 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Spin Coupling and Orbital Angular Momentum Quenching in Free Iron Clusters
M. Niemeyer, K. Hirsch, V. Zamudio-Bayer, A. Langenberg, M. Vogel, M. Kossick, C. Ebrecht, K. Egashira, A. Terasaki, T. Möller, B. v. Issendorff, and J. T. Lau
Physical Review Letters   108, 057201 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Optically Engineering the Topological Properties of a Spin Hall Insulator
Balázs Dóra, Jérôme Cayssol, Ferenc Simon, and Roderich Moessner
Physical Review Letters   108, 056602 (2012) (5 pages)   
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IMAGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tapping-mode force spectroscopy using cantilevers with interferometric high-bandwidth force sensors
A. Fatih Sarioglu, Sergei Magonov, and Olav Solgaard
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053109 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Self-driving capacitive cantilevers for high-frequency atomic force microscopy
Keith A. Brown, Benjamin H. Yang, and R. M. Westervelt
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053110 (2012) (4 pages)   
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OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND QUANTUM OPTICS

Strongly correlated photons on a chip
Andreas Reinhard, Thomas Volz, Martin Winger, Antonio Badolato, Kevin J. Hennessy, Evelyn L. Hu, and Ata Imamolu
Nature Photonics   6, 93-96 (2011)   
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Coaxial multishell nanowires with high-quality electronic interfaces and tunable optical cavities for ultrathin photovoltaics
Thomas J. Kempa, James F. Cahoon, Sun-Kyung Kim, Robert W. Day, David C. Bell, Hong-Gyu Park, and Charles M. Lieber
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   109, 1407-1412 (2012)   
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Optically Gated Resonant Emission of Single Quantum Dots
H. S. Nguyen, G. Sallen, C. Voisin, Ph. Roussignol, C. Diederichs, and G. Cassabois
Physical Review Letters   108, 057401 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Bloch-Wave Engineering of Quantum Dot Micropillars for Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Experiments
M. Lermer, N. Gregersen, F. Dunzer, S. Reitzenstein, S. Höfling, J. Mørk, L. Worschech, M. Kamp, and A. Forchel
Physical Review Letters   108, 057402 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Greatly enhanced continuous-wave terahertz emission by nano-electrodes in a photoconductive photomixer
H. Tanoto, J. H. Teng, Q. Y. Wu, M. Sun, Z. N. Chen, S. A. Maier, B. Wang, C. C. Chum, G. Y. Si, A. J. Danner, and S. J. Chua
Nature Photonics   6, 121-126 (2012)   
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Plasmonic crystals for ultrafast nanophotonics: Optical switching of surface plasmon polaritons
M. Pohl, V. I. Belotelov, I. A. Akimov, S. Kasture, A. S. Vengurlekar, A. V. Gopal, A. K. Zvezdin, D. R. Yakovlev, and M. Bayer
Physical Review B   85, 081401 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Boosting optical nonlinearities in -near-zero plasmonic channels
Christos Argyropoulos, Pai-Yen Chen, Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Nader Engheta, and Andrea Alù
Physical Review B   85, 045129 (2012) (5 pages)   
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High-frequency electrical charge and spin control in a single InGaAs quantum dot
J. Nannen, W. Quitsch, S. Eliasson, T. Kümmell, and G. Bacher
Physical Review B   85, 035325 (2012) (9 pages)   
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MICRO AND NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS / NEMS)

Optical cavity cooling of mechanical modes of a semiconductor nanomembrane
K. Usami, A. Naesby, T. Bagci, B. Melholt Nielsen, J. Liu, S. Stobbe, P. Lodahl, and E. S. Polzik
Nature Physics   8, 168-172 (2012)   
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Mode shape and dispersion relation of bending waves in thin silicon membranes
Reimar Waitz, Stephan Nößner, Michael Hertkorn, Olivier Schecker, and Elke Scheer
Physical Review B   85, 035324 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Pulsed contact resonance for atomic force microscopy nanomechanical measurements
Jason P. Killgore and Donna C. Hurley
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053104 (2012) (4 pages)   
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MICROFLUIDICS AND NANOFLUIDICS

DNA Transport and Delivery in Thermal Gradients near Optofluidic Resonators
Xavier Serey, Sudeep Mandal, Yih-Fan Chen, and David Erickson
Physical Review Letters   108, 048102 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Realization of a micrometre-sized stochastic heatengine
Valentin Blickle and Clemens Bechinger
Nature Physics   8, 143-146 (2011)   
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GRAPHENE, CARBON NANOTUBES, C60, AND RELATED STUDIES

Electrical transport across metal/two-dimensional carbon junctions: Edge versus side contacts
Yihong Wu, Ying Wang, Jiayi Wang, Miao Zhou, Aihua Zhang, Chun Zhang, Yanjing Yang, Younan Hua, and Baoxi Xu
AIP Advances   2, 012132 (2012) (12 pages)   
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Effect of uni-axial strain on THz/far-infrared response of graphene
JooYoun Kim, Chul Lee, Sukang Bae, Sang Jin Kim, Keun Soo Kim, Byung Hee Hong, and E. J. Choi
Applied Physics Letters   100, 041910 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Beam-scanning planar lens based on graphene
Hong Ju Xu, Wei Bing Lu, Yun Jiang, and Zheng Gao Dong
Applied Physics Letters   100, 051903 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Quantum Hall effect in bottom-gated epitaxial graphene grown on the C-face of SiC
B. Jouault, N. Camara, B. Jabakhanji, A. Caboni, C. Consejo, P. Godignon, D. K. Maude, and J. Camassel
Applied Physics Letters   100, 052102 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Effect of electric field on the band structure of graphene/boron nitride and boron nitride/boron nitride bilayers
Radhakrishnan Balu, Xiaoliang Zhong, Ravindra Pandey, and Shashi P. Karna
Applied Physics Letters   100, 052104 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Electronic transport anisotropy of buckling graphene under uniaxial compressive strain: Ab initio study
Yang Xu, Haiyuan Gao, Huabin Chen, You Yuan, Kaicheng Zhu, Hongsheng Chen, Zhonghe Jin, and Bin Yu
Applied Physics Letters   100, 052111 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Negative differential spin conductance in doped zigzag graphene nanoribbons
Ting-Ting Wu, Xue-Feng Wang, Ming-Xing Zhai, Hua Liu, Liping Zhou, and Yong-Jin Jiang
Applied Physics Letters   100, 052112 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Plasma enables edge-to-center-oriented graphene nanoarrays on Si nanograss
S. Kumar, I. Levchenko, Q. J. Cheng, J. Shieh, and K. Ostrikov
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053115 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Angular distribution of field emitted electrons from vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays
S. Iacobucci, M. Fratini, A. Rizzo, F. Scarinci, Y. Zhang, M. Mann, C. Li, W. I. Milne, M. M. El Gomati, S. Lagomarsino, and G. Stefani
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053116 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Extremely efficient flexible organic light-emitting diodes with modified graphene anode
Tae-Hee Han, Youngbin Lee, Mi-Ri Choi, Seong-Hoon Woo, Sang-Hoon Bae, Byung Hee Hong, Jong-Hyun Ahn, and Tae-Woo Lee
Nature Photonics   6, 105-110 (2012)   
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Phonon-mediated superconductivity in graphene by lithium deposition
Gianni Profeta, Matteo Calandra, and Francesco Mauri
Nature Physics   8, 131-134 (2012)   
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Chiral superconductivity from repulsive interactions in doped graphene
Rahul Nandkishore, L. S. Levitov, and A. V. Chubukov
Nature Physics   8, 158-163 (2012)   
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Dirac cones reshaped by interaction effects in suspended graphene
D. C. Elias, R. V. Gorbachev, A. S. Mayorov, S. V. Morozov, A. A. Zhukov, P. Blake, L. A. Ponomarenko, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, F. Guinea, and A. K. Geim
Nature Physics   8, 172 (2012)   
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Graphene on SiC as a Q-switcher for a 2 µm laser
Qing Wang, Hao Teng, Yuwan Zou, Zhiguo Zhang, Dehua Li, Ran Wang, Chunqing Gao, Jingjing Lin, Liwei Guo, and Zhiyi Wei
Optics Letters   37, 395-397 (2012)   
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Electronic properties and STM images of doped bilayer graphene
Stéphane-Olivier Guillaume, Bing Zheng, Jean-Christophe Charlier, and Luc Henrard
Physical Review B   85, 035444 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Single-wall carbon nanotubes as coherent plasmon generators
I. V. Bondarev
Physical Review B   85, 035448 (2012) (7 pages)   
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Role of intermolecular charge delocalization on electron transport in fullerene aggregates
Hiroyuki Tamura and Masaru Tsukada
Physical Review B   85, 054301 (2012) (8 pages)   
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Complete Optical Absorption in Periodically Patterned Graphene
Sukosin Thongrattanasiri, Frank H. L. Koppens, and F. Javier García de Abajo
Physical Review Letters   108, 047401 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Direct Observation of Sub-100 fs Mobile Charge Generation in a Polymer-Fullerene Film
D. G. Cooke, F. C. Krebs, and P. U. Jepsen
Physical Review Letters   108, 056603 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Time-Resolved Two-Photon Photoemission of Unoccupied Electronic States of Periodically Rippled Graphene on Ru(0001)
N. Armbrust, J. Güdde, P. Jakob, and U. Höfer
Physical Review Letters   108, 056801 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Electrically Tunable Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Graphene Decorated by 5d Transition-Metal Adatoms
Hongbin Zhang, Cesar Lazo, Stefan Blügel, Stefan Heinze, and Yuriy Mokrousov
Physical Review Letters   108, 056802 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Fabrication and magnetic properties of free-standing Ni nanotube arrays with controllable wall thickness
Y. L. Li, S. L. Tang, R. Xie, Y. Wang, M. Yang, J. L. Gao, W. B. Xia, and Y. W. Du
Applied Physics Letters   100, 052402 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Structural phase transition of graphene caused by GaN epitaxy
Y. Gohda and S. Tsuneyuki
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053111 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Mapping the electronic properties of individual graphene grain boundaries
Levente Tapasztó, Péter Nemes-Incze, Gergely Dobrik, Kwon Jae Yoo, Chanyong Hwang, and László P Biró
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053114 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Spin-inversion in nanoscale graphene sheets with a Rashba spin-orbit barrier
Somaieh Ahmadi, Mahdi Esmaeilzadeh, Esmaeil Namvar, and Genhua Pan
AIP Advances   2, 012130 (2012) (9 pages)   
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Short circuit current improvement in planar heterojunction organic solar cells by multijunction charge transfer
J. C. Wang, S. Q. Shi, C. W. Leung, S. P. Lau, K. Y. Wong, and P. K. L. Chan
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053301 (2012) (3 pages)   
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QUANTUM COHERENCE, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION STORAGE

Creating quantum correlations through local nonunitary memoryless channels
Francesco Ciccarello and Vittorio Giovannetti
Physical Review A   85, 010102 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Trapping a particle of a quantum walk on the line
Antoni Wójcik, Tomasz uczak, Pawe Kurzyński, Andrzej Grudka, Tomasz Gdala, and Magorzata Bednarska-Bzdga
Physical Review A   85, 012329 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Quantum privacy witness
Konrad Banaszek, Karol Horodecki, and Pawe Horodecki
Physical Review A   85, 012330 (2012) (8 pages)   
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Photon-assisted conditionality for double-dot charge qubits in a single-mode cavity
Alexander V. Tsukanov
Physical Review A   85, 012331 (2012) (11 pages)   
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Method for measuring the entanglement of formation for arbitrary-dimensional pure states
Ming Li and Shao-Ming Fei
Physical Review A   85, 014304 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Spin dynamics in the frozen state of the dipolar spin ice material Dy₂Ti₂O₇
L. R. Yaraskavitch, H. M. Revell, S. Meng, K. A. Ross, H. M. L. Noad, H. A. Dabkowska, B. D. Gaulin, and J. B. Kycia
Physical Review B   85, 020410 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Storage and retrieval of a microwave field in a spin ensemble
Y. Kubo, I. Diniz, A. Dewes, V. Jacques, A. Dréau, J.-F. Roch, A. Auffeves, D. Vion, D. Esteve, and P. Bertet
Physical Review A   85, 012333 (2012) (7 pages)   
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Matrix product state based algorithm for determining dispersion relations of quantum spin chains with periodic boundary conditions
B. Pirvu, J. Haegeman, and F. Verstraete
Physical Review B   85, 035130 (2012) (13 pages)   
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Chiral-mediated entanglement in an Aharonov-Bohm ring
Bruno Rizzo, Liliana Arrachea, and Juan Pablo Paz
Physical Review B   85, 045442 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Entanglement spectra of coupled S= spin chains in a ladder geometry
Andreas M. Läuchli and John Schliemann
Physical Review B   85, 054403 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Indistinguishable Entangled Photons Generated by a Light-Emitting Diode
R. M. Stevenson, C. L. Salter, J. Nilsson, A. J. Bennett, M. B. Ward, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, and A. J. Shields
Physical Review Letters   108, 040503 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Local Unitary Classification of Arbitrary Dimensional Multipartite Pure States
Bin Liu, Jun-Li Li, Xikun Li, and Cong-Feng Qiao
Physical Review Letters   108, 050501 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Characterization of a Two-Transmon Processor with Individual Single-Shot Qubit Readout
A. Dewes, F. R. Ong, V. Schmitt, R. Lauro, N. Boulant, P. Bertet, D. Vion, and D. Esteve
Physical Review Letters   108, 057002 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Fast generation of multiparticle entangled state for flux qubits in a circle array of transmission line resonators with tunable coupling
Z. H. Peng, Yu-xi Liu, Y. Nakamura, and J. S. Tsai
Physical Review B   85, 024537 (2012) (10 pages)   
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SUPRAMOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL ASSEMBLY

Tripeptide self-assembled hydrogels: unexpected twists of chirality
Silvia Marchesan, Christopher D. Easton, Firdawosia Kushkaki, Lynne Waddington, and Patrick G. Hartley
Chemical Communications   48, 2195-2197 (2012)   
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Interplay between hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions in the self-assembly of a gemini amphiphilic pseudopeptide: from nano-spheres to hydrogels
Jenifer Rubio, Ignacio Alfonso, M. Isabel Burguete, and Santiago V. Luis
Chemical Communications   48, 2210-2212 (2012)   
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Pillar height dependent formation of unprecedented Pd₈ molecular swing and Pd₆ molecular boat via multicomponent self-assembly
Dipak Samanta, Sankarasekaran Shanmugaraju, Sachin A. Joshi, Yogesh P. Patil, Munirathinam Nethaji, and Partha Sarathi Mukherjee
Chemical Communications   48, 2298-2300 (2012)   
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Electroless deposition of Cu nanostructures on molecular patterns prepared by dip-pen nanolithography
Yu-Hsu Chang and Chia-Hsin Wang
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 3377-3382 (2012)   
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Partitioned cooperative self-assembly process: taking the mesopore swelling strategy one step further for the preparation of mesocellular foams
Wei Wang, Weijun Shan, Xinyan Yue, and Hongqiang Ru
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 3462-3470 (2012)   
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Luminescent Au₁₁ nanocluster superlattices with high thermal stability
Zhijiang Wang, Lina Wu, Wei Cai, and Zhaohua Jiang
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 3632-3636 (2012)   
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Mirror symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in foldamer-based supramolecular helical aggregates
Simon Azeroual, Jamie Surprenant, Thomas D. Lazzara, Marta Kocun, Ye Tao, Louis A. Cuccia, and Jean-Marie Lehn
Chemical Communications   48, 2292-2294 (2012)   
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Unidirectionally aligned line patterns driven by entropic effects on faceted surfaces
Sung Woo Hong, June Huh, Xiaodan Gu, Dong Hyun Lee, Won Ho Jo, Soojin Park, Ting Xu, and Thomas P. Russell
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   109, 1402-1406 (2012)   
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Self-assembly of coarse-grained ionic surfactants accelerated by graphics processing units
David N. LeBard, Benjamin G. Levine, Philipp Mertmann, Stephen A. Barr, Arben Jusufi, Samantha Sanders, Michael L. Klein, and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Soft Matter   8, 2385-2397 (2012)   
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Three-dimensional complex-shaped photopolymerized microparticles at liquid crystal interfaces
Angel Martinez, Taewoo Lee, Theodor Asavei, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, and Ivan I. Smalyukh
Soft Matter   8, 2432-2437 (2012)   
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Self-assembly of alkoxysilanized humic substances into multidomain adlayers at the water–solid interface: linking surface morphology to the molecular structure of the adsorbate
Leonid A. Karpiouk, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Ahmed Mourran, Dmitry Bochkariov, Aziz M. Muzafarov, Kirk Hatfield, and Irina V. Perminova
Soft Matter   8, 2452-2459 (2012)   
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Fluorine-containing block copolymer particles with surface and internal hierarchical microphase separation structures
Shan Qin, Hong Li, Wang Zhang Yuan, and Yongming Zhang
Soft Matter   8, 2471-2476 (2012)   
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Supercapacitive Behaviors of Hierarchically Porous Carbons Prepared by Metal Oxide/Surfactant Templates
Xiaoyan Zhang, Xianyou Wang, Yansong Bai, Xingyan Wang, and Jingcang Su
Journal of The Electrochemical Society   159, A431-A437 (2012)   
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ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES

Temperature and humidity effects on superhydrophobicity of nanocomposite coatings
Yong Han Yeong, Adam Steele, Eric Loth, Ilker Bayer, Guillaume De Combarieu, and Charles Lakeman
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053112 (2012) (4 pages)   
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ZnS-nanocrystals/polypyrrole nanocomposite film based immunosensor
Sujeet K. Mishra, Renu Pasricha, Ashok M Biradar, and Rajesh
Applied Physics Letters   100, 053701 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Micro- and nanocrystals of the iron(iii) spin-transition material [Fe^III(3-MeO-SalEen)₂]PF₆
Antoine Tissot, Lionel Rechignat, Azzedine Bousseksou, and Marie-Laure Boillot
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 3411-3419 (2012)   
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Bio-inspired nanoreactor based on a miniemulsion system to create organic–inorganic hybrid nanoparticles and nanofilms
Yuuka Fukui and Keiji Fujimoto
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 3493-3499 (2012)   
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Templateless nanostructuration of polymer surfaces
Juan P. Fernández-Blázquez and Aránzazu del Campo
Soft Matter   8, 2503-2508 (2012)   
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High-efficiency inverted dithienogermolethienopyrrolodione-based polymer solar cells
Cephas E. Small, Song Chen, Jegadesan Subbiah, Chad M. Amb, Sai-Wing Tsang, Tzung-Han Lai, John R. Reynolds, and Franky So
Nature Photonics   6, 115-120 (2011)   
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Modified double emulsion process as a new route to prepare submicron biodegradable magnetic/polycaprolactone particles for in vivo theranostics
Naveed Ahmed, Millán Michelin-Jamois, Hatem Fessi, and Abdelhamid Elaissari
Soft Matter   8, 2554-2564 (2012)   
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Coherently controlled molecular junctions
Uri Peskin and Michael Galperin
The Journal of Chemical Physics   136, 044107 (2012) (7 pages)   
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Dynamics of fibers in a wide microchannel
Agnieszka M. Sowicka, Maria L. Ekiel-Jeewska, Krzysztof Sadlej, and Eligiusz Wajnryb
The Journal of Chemical Physics   136, 044904 (2012) (8 pages)   
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Enhanced gas sensing properties by SnO₂ nanosphere functionalized TiO₂ nanobelts
Wen Zeng, Tianmo Liu, and Zhongchang Wang
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 3544-3548 (2012)   
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Segregation at a small scale: synthesis of core–shell bimetallic RuPt nanoparticles, characterization and solid state NMR studies
Patricia Lara, Marie-José Casanove, Pierre Lecante, Pier-Francesco Fazzini, Karine Philippot, and Bruno Chaudret
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 3578-3584 (2012)   
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Rapidly switchable water-sensitive shape-memory cellulose/elastomer nano-composites
Yong Zhu, Jinlian Hu, Hongsheng Luo, Robert J. Young, Libo Deng, Shen Zhang, Ying Fan, and Guangdou Ye
Soft Matter   8, 2509-2517 (2012)   
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SURFACE AND INTERFACE PROPERTIES

Temperature dependence of microwave voltage emission associated to spin-transfer induced vortex oscillation in magnetic tunnel junction
P. Bortolotti, A. Dussaux, J. Grollier, V. Cros, A. Fukushima, H. Kubota, K. Yakushiji, S. Yuasa, K. Ando, and A. Fert
Applied Physics Letters   100, 042408 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Rolling and sliding of a nanorod between two planes: Tribological regimes and control of friction
Mykhaylo Evstigneev and Peter Reimann
Physical Review B   85, 035447 (2012) (8 pages)   
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Micromagnetic analysis of the Rashba field on current-induced domain wall propagation
Eduardo Martinez
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 033901 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Relations between the diffusion anomaly and cooperative rearranging regions in a hydrophobically nanoconfined water monolayer
Francisco de los Santos and Giancarlo Franzese
Physical Review E   85, 010602 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Newton black films as wetting systems
Pedro Tarazona, Hector Martínez, Enrique Chacón, and Fernando Bresme
Physical Review B   85, 085402 (2012) (10 pages)   
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CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS METHODS

Boundary-enhanced momentum relaxation of longitudinal optical phonons in GaN
N. Ma, B. Shen, L. W. Lu, F. J. Xu, L. Guo, X. Q. Wang, F. Lin, Z. H. Feng, S. B. Dun, and B. Liu
Applied Physics Letters   100, 052109 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Transmission enhancement in a non-adiabatic tapered nano-aperture waveguide
Yongzhu Chen, Xiangsheng Xie, Yongyao Li, and Jianying Zhou
Applied Physics Letters   100, 051104 (2012) (4 pages)   
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MISCELLANEOUS

Formation of a disordered solid via a shock-induced transition in a dense particle suspension
Oren E. Petel, David L. Frost, Andrew J. Higgins, and Simon Ouellet
Physical Review E   85, 021401 (2012) (6 pages)   
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A tapered channel microfluidic device for comprehensive cell adhesion analysis, using measurements of detachment kinetics and shear stress-dependent motion
Peter Rupprecht, Laurent Golé, Jean-Paul Rieu, Cyrille Vézy, Rosaria Ferrigno, Hichem C. Mertani, and Charlotte Rivière
Biomicrofluidics   6, 014107 (2012) (12 pages)   
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Mesoporous MnO₂ and Its Capacitive Behavior
S. Devaraj, G. S. Gabriel, S. R. Gajjela, and P. Balaya
Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters   15, A57-A59 (2012)   
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Modeling of silicon nanocrystals based down-shifter for enhanced silicon solar cell performance
F. Sgrignuoli, G. Paternoster, A. Marconi, P. Ingenhoven, A. Anopchenko, G. Pucker, and L. Pavesi
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 034303 (2012) (7 pages)   
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Electrically Rearranged Birnessite-Type MnO₂ by Repetitive Potential Steps and Its Pseudocapacitive Properties
Ryota Inoue, Yumiko Nakashima, Kazuaki Tomono, and Masaharu Nakayama
Journal of The Electrochemical Society   159, A445-A451 (2012)   
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Oxygen Electroreduction on PtCo₃, PtCo and Pt₃Co Alloy Nanoparticles for Alkaline and Acidic PEM Fuel Cells
Mehtap Oezaslan, Frédéric Hasché, and Peter Strasser
Journal of The Electrochemical Society   159, B394-B405 (2012)   
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Effects of pH on Dissolution and Surface Area Loss of Platinum Due to Potential Cycling
Amar Prasad Yadav, Takayashi Okayasu, Yu Sugawara, Atsushi Nishikata, and Tooru Tsuru
Journal of The Electrochemical Society   159, C190-C194 (2012)   
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Enhanced downconversion of UV light by resonant scattering of aluminum nanoparticles
Rajeshkumar Mupparapu, Kevin Vynck, Iacopo Malfanti, Silvia Vignolini, Matteo Burresi, Petra Scudo, Roberto Fusco, and Diederik S Wiersma
Optics Letters   37, 368-370 (2012)   
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Response of the electric conductivity of double-stranded DNA on moderate mechanical stretching stresses
Mario Wolter, P. Benjamin Woiczikowski, Marcus Elstner, and Tomáš Kubař
Physical Review B   85, 075101 (2012) (7 pages)   
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Mesoscopic approach to granular crystal dynamics
Marcial Gonzalez, Jinkyu Yang, Chiara Daraio, and Michael Ortiz
Physical Review E   85, 016604 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Shape Dynamics and Rheology of Soft Elastic Particles in a Shear Flow
Tong Gao, Howard H. Hu, and Pedro Ponte Castañeda
Physical Review Letters   108, 058302 (2012) (4 pages)   
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