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REVIEW ARTICLES

Gaussian quantum information
Christian Weedbrook, Stefano Pirandola, Raúl García-Patrón, Nicolas J. Cerf, Timothy C. Ralph, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, and Seth Lloyd
Reviews of Modern Physics   84, 621-669 (2012)   
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Escape dynamics in moderately damped Josephson junctions (Review Article)
D. Massarotti, L. Longobardi, L. Galletti, D. Stornaiuolo, D. Montemurro, G. Pepe, G. Rotoli, A. Barone, and F. Tafuri
Low Temperature Physics   38, 263-272 (2012)   
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Nanoelectromechanics of superconducting weak links (Review Article)
A. V. Parafilo, I. V. Krive, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson
Low Temperature Physics   38, 273-282 (2012)   
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Multiphoton transitions in Josephson-junction qubits (Review Article)
S. N. Shevchenko, A. N. Omelyanchouk, and E. Il'ichev
Low Temperature Physics   38, 283-300 (2012)   
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STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES

Intermittent contact interaction between an atomic force microscope cantilever and a nanowire
I. Knittel, L. Ungewitter, and U. Hartmann
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 094301 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Colloidal nanocrystal quantum dot assemblies as artificial solids
Tobias Hanrath
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A   30, 030802 (2012) (28 pages)   
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Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations and cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy as tools to investigate the heteroepitaxial capping of self-assembled quantum dots
J. G. Keizer, P. M. Koenraad, P. Smereka, J. M. Ulloa, A. Guzman, and A. Hierro
Physical Review B   85, 155326 (2012) (8 pages)   
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ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT

Electron transport in suspended semiconductor structures with two-dimensional electron gas
A. G. Pogosov, M. V. Budantsev, E. Yu. Zhdanov, D. A. Pokhabov, A. K. Bakarov, and A. I. Toropov
Applied Physics Letters   100, 181902 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Local density of states in metal-topological superconductor hybrid systems
Marco Gibertini, Fabio Taddei, Marco Polini, and Rosario Fazio
Physical Review B   85, 144525 (2012) (10 pages)   
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Mesoscopic Anderson box: Connecting weak to strong coupling
Dong E. Liu, Sébastien Burdin, Harold U. Baranger, and Denis Ullmo
Physical Review B   85, 155455 (2012) (17 pages)   
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Universal line shape of the Kondo zero-bias anomaly in a quantum dot
Andrey V. Kretinin, Hadas Shtrikman, and Diana Mahalu
Physical Review B   85, 201301 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Rectification of thermal fluctuations in a chaotic cavity heat engine
Björn Sothmann, Rafael Sánchez, Andrew N. Jordan, and Markus Büttiker
Physical Review B   85, 205301 (2012) (7 pages)   
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Probing the Topological Exciton Condensate via Coulomb Drag
M. P. Mink, H. T. C. Stoof, R. A. Duine, Marco Polini, and G. Vignale
Physical Review Letters   108, 186402 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Perfect coupling of light to surface plasmons by coherent absorption
Heeso Noh, Yidong Chong, A. Douglas Stone, and Hui Cao
Physical Review Letters   108, 186805 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Electron Waiting Times in Mesoscopic Conductors
Mathias Albert, Géraldine Haack, Christian Flindt, and Markus Büttiker
Physical Review Letters   108, 186806 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Quantum Phase Slips in Superconducting Wires with Weak Inhomogeneities
Mihajlo Vanević and Yuli V. Nazarov
Physical Review Letters   108, 187002 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Interplay of bulk and edge states in transport of two-dimensional topological insulators
R. W. Reinthaler and E. M. Hankiewicz
Physical Review B   85, 165450 (2012) (9 pages)   
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Quantum point contact with large subband energy spacings
Y. J. Um, Y. H. Oh, M. Seo, S. Lee, Y. Chung, N. Kim, V. Umansky, and D. Mahalu
Applied Physics Letters   100, 183502 (2012) (3 pages)   
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NANOMAGNETISM AND SPINTRONICS

Dynamic Oscillations of Coupled Domain Walls
L. O'Brien, E. R. Lewis, A. Fernández-Pacheco, D. Petit, R. P. Cowburn, J. Sampaio, and D. E. Read
Physical Review Letters   108, 187202 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Spin-Flip Induced Magnetoresistance in Positionally Disordered Organic Solids
N. J. Harmon and M. E. Flatté
Physical Review Letters   108, 186602 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Experimental observation of the optical spin transfer torque
P. Nmec, E. Rozkotov, N. Tesaov, F. Trojnek, E. De Ranieri, K. Olejnk, J. Zemen, V. Novk, M. Cukr, P. Mal, and T. Jungwirth
Nature Physics   8, 411-415 (2012)   
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Photoinduced helical metal and magnetization in two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling
Teemu Ojanen and Takuya Kitagawa
Physical Review B   85, 161202 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Thermal switching rate of a ferromagnetic material with uniaxial anisotropy
Tomohiro Taniguchi and Hiroshi Imamura
Physical Review B   85, 184403 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Spin conduction in anisotropic three-dimensional topological insulators
Vincent E. Sacksteder, Stefan Kettemann, QuanSheng Wu, Xi Dai, and Zhong Fang
Physical Review B   85, 205303 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Gate-Controlled Spin Injection at LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ Interfaces
N. Reyren, M. Bibes, E. Lesne, J.-M. George, C. Deranlot, S. Collin, A. Barthélémy, and H. Jaffrès
Physical Review Letters   108, 186802 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Thin-Film Magnetization Dynamics on the Surface of a Topological Insulator
Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and Daniel Loss
Physical Review Letters   108, 187201 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Spin-Torque Switching with the Giant Spin Hall Effect of Tantalum
Luqiao Liu, Chi-Feng Pai, Y. Li, H. W. Tseng, D. C. Ralph, and R. A. Buhrman
Science   336, 555-558 (2012)   
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Spin-Orbital Short-Range Order on a Honeycomb-Based Lattice
S. Nakatsuji, K. Kuga, K. Kimura, R. Satake, N. Katayama, E. Nishibori, H. Sawa, R. Ishii, M. Hagiwara, F. Bridges, T. U. Ito, W. Higemoto, Y. Karaki, M. Halim, A. A. Nugroho, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, M. A. Green, and C. Broholm
Science   336, 559-563 (2012)   
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Investigation of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of CoFeB by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
W. C. Tsai, S. C. Liao, H. C. Hou, C. T. Yen, Y. H. Wang, H. M. Tsai, F. H. Chang, H. J. Lin, and Chih-Huang Lai
Applied Physics Letters   100, 172414 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Spin-transfer switching in full-Heusler Co₂FeAl-based magnetic tunnel junctions
Hiroaki Sukegawa, Zhenchao Wen, Kouta Kondou, Shinya Kasai, Seiji Mitani, and Koichiro Inomata
Applied Physics Letters   100, 182403 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Room-temperature ferromagnetism in epitaxial Mg-doped SnO₂ thin films
Ping Wu, Baozeng Zhou, and Wei Zhou
Applied Physics Letters   100, 182405 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Modulation of domain wall dynamics in TbFeCo single layer nanowire
Duc-The Ngo, Kotaro Ikeda, and Hiroyuki Awano
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 083921 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Magnetic properties of ZnO nanoclusters
X. G. Zhao and Z. Tang
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 084321 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Quantum depinning of the magnetic vortex core in micron-size permalloy disks
Ricardo Zarzuela, Saül Vélez, Joan Manel Hernandez, Javier Tejada, and Valentyn Novosad
Physical Review B   85, 180401 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Measurement and simulation of anisotropic magnetoresistance in single GaAs/MnAs core/shell nanowires
J. Liang, J. Wang, A. Paul, B. J. Cooley, D. W. Rench, N. S. Dellas, S. E. Mohney, R. Engel-Herbert, and N. Samarth
Applied Physics Letters   100, 182402 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Resonant microwave-to-spin-wave transducer
Y. Au, E. Ahmad, O. Dmytriiev, M. Dvornik, T. Davison, and V. V. Kruglyak
Applied Physics Letters   100, 182404 (2012) (5 pages)   
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IMAGING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Controlling waves in space and time for imaging and focusing in complex media
Allard P. Mosk, Ad Lagendijk, Geoffroy Lerosey, and Mathias Fink
Nature Photonics   6, 283-292 (2012)   
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Unified picture of cantilever frequency shift measurements of magnetic resonance
SangGap Lee, Eric W. Moore, and John A. Marohn
Physical Review B   85, 165447 (2012) (7 pages)   
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OPTICAL PROPERTIES AND QUANTUM OPTICS

Direct generation of multiple excitons in adjacent silicon nanocrystals revealed by induced absorption
M. Tuan Trinh, Rens Limpens, Wieteke D. A. M. de Boer, Juleon M. Schins, Laurens D. A. Siebbeles, and Tom Gregorkiewicz
Nature Photonics   6, 316-321 (2012)   
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Loss-Enabled Sub-Poissonian Light Generation in a Bimodal Nanocavity
Arka Majumdar, Michal Bajcsy, Armand Rundquist, and Jelena Vučković
Physical Review Letters   108, 183601 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Intrinsic Spin Fluctuations Reveal the Dynamical Response Function of Holes Coupled to Nuclear Spin Baths in (In,Ga)As Quantum Dots
Yan Li, N. Sinitsyn, D. L. Smith, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, D. R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer, and S. A. Crooker
Physical Review Letters   108, 186603 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Persistent Narrowing of Nuclear-Spin Fluctuations in InAs Quantum Dots Using Laser Excitation
Bo Sun, Colin Ming Earn Chow, Duncan G. Steel, Allan S. Bracker, Daniel Gammon, and L. J. Sham
Physical Review Letters   108, 187401 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Transformation optics description of touching metal nanospheres
A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, S. A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry
Physical Review B   85, 165148 (2012) (13 pages)   
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Phonon-mediated coupling between quantum dots through an off-resonant microcavity
Arka Majumdar, Michal Bajcsy, Armand Rundquist, Erik Kim, and Jelena Vučković
Physical Review B   85, 195301 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Excitation energy dependence of the exciton inner ring
Y. Y. Kuznetsova, J. R. Leonard, L. V. Butov, J. Wilkes, E. A. Muljarov, K. L. Campman, and A. C. Gossard
Physical Review B   85, 165452 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Enhancement in light emission efficiency of Si nanocrystal light-emitting diodes by a surface plasmon coupling
Chul Huh, Chel-Jong Choi, Wanjoong Kim, Bong Kyu Kim, Byoung-Jun Park, Eun-Hye Jang, Sang-Hyeob Kim, and Gun Yong Sung
Applied Physics Letters   100, 181108 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Partially disordered photonic-crystal thin films for enhanced and robust photovoltaics
Ardavan Oskooi, Pedro A. Favuzzi, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hiroaki Shigeta, Yoichi Kawakami, and Susumu Noda
Applied Physics Letters   100, 181110 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Cascaded plasmon resonant field enhancement in nanoparticle dimers in the point dipole limit
Seyfollah Toroghi and Pieter G. Kik
Applied Physics Letters   100, 183105 (2012) (4 pages)   
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MICRO AND NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS / NEMS)

Phonon-cavity electromechanics
I. Mahboob, K. Nishiguchi, H. Okamoto, and H. Yamaguchi
Nature Physics   8, 387-392 (2012)   
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High-Q silicon optomechanical microdisk resonators at gigahertz frequencies
Xiankai Sun, Xufeng Zhang, and Hong X. Tang
Applied Physics Letters   100, 173116 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Frequency and phase noise of ultrahigh Q silicon nitride nanomechanical resonators
King Y. Fong, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, and Hong X. Tang
Physical Review B   85, 161410 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Ultrahigh-Q mechanical oscillators through optical trapping
D Chang, K-K Ni, O Painter, and H Kimble
New Journal of Physics   14, 45002- (2012)   
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MICROFLUIDICS AND NANOFLUIDICS

Manipulating single annealed polyelectrolyte under alternating current electric fields: Collapse versus accumulation
Shengqin Wang and Yingxi Zhu
Biomicrofluidics   6, 024116 (2012) (12 pages)   
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Electronic detection of dielectrophoretic forces exerted on particles flowing over interdigitated electrodes
Marija Nikolic-Jaric, Sean F. Romanuik, Graham A. Ferrier, Tim Cabel, Elham Salimi, David B. Levin, Greg E. Bridges, and Douglas J. Thomson
Biomicrofluidics   6, 024117 (2012) (15 pages)   
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Microfluidic approach to genotyping human platelet antigens
C. Lim, D.P. Manage, A. Atrazhev, G. Denomme, C.J. Backhouse, and J.P. Acker
IET Nanobiotechnology   6, 33-39 (2012)   
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Synthetic routes toward MOF nanomorphologies
Erik A. Flügel, Annekathrin Ranft, Frederik Haase, and Bettina V. Lotsch
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 10119-10133 (2012)   
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Erythrocyte deformation in high-throughput optical stretchers
Ihab Sraj, Alex C. Szatmary, Sanjay A. Desai, David W. M. Marr, and Charles D. Eggleton
Physical Review E   85, 041923 (2012) (9 pages)   
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How does water-nanotube interaction influence water flow through the nanochannel?
Xiaoyi Li, Yanchao Shi, Yuling Yang, Huailiang Du, Ruhong Zhou, and Yuliang Zhao
The Journal of Chemical Physics   136, 175101 (2012) (6 pages)   
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GRAPHENE, CARBON NANOTUBES, C60, AND RELATED STUDIES

Effect of charge-transfer complex on the energy level alignment between graphene and organic molecules
Giyeol Bae, Hyun Jung, Noejung Park, Jinwoo Park, Suklyun Hong, and Wanjun Park
Applied Physics Letters   100, 183102 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Emergence of superlattice Dirac points in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride
Matthew Yankowitz, Jiamin Xue, Daniel Cormode, Javier D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Philippe Jacquod, and Brian J. LeRoy
Nature Physics   8, 382-386 (2012)   
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Orbital magnetic susceptibility of finite-sized graphene
Yuya Ominato and Mikito Koshino
Physical Review B   85, 165454 (2012) (9 pages)   
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N-channel carbon nanotube enabled vertical field effect transistors with solution deposited ZnO nanoparticle based channel layers
Po-Hsiang Wang, Bo Liu, Yu Shen, Ying Zheng, Mitchell A. McCarthy, Paul Holloway, and Andrew G. Rinzler
Applied Physics Letters   100, 173514 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Nonlinear graphene metamaterial
Andrey E. Nikolaenko, Nikitas Papasimakis, Evangelos Atmatzakis, Zhiqiang Luo, Ze Xiang Shen, Francesco De Angelis, Stuart A. Boden, Enzo Di Fabrizio, and Nikolay I. Zheludev
Applied Physics Letters   100, 181109 (2012) (3 pages)   
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Exceptional high Seebeck coefficient and gas-flow-induced voltage in multilayer graphene
Xuemei Li, Jun Yin, Jianxin Zhou, Qin Wang, and Wanlin Guo
Applied Physics Letters   100, 183108 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Modification in electrical transport with a change in geometry from a nanowire to a nanotube of copper: effect of the extra surface
M Venkata Kamalakar and A Raychaudhuri
New Journal of Physics   14, 43032- (2012)   
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Absence of dynamical gap generation in suspended graphene
Jing-Rong Wang and Guo-Zhu Liu
New Journal of Physics   14, 043036 (2012)   
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Nonlinear resistivity and heat dissipation in monolayer graphene
A. S. Price, S. M. Hornett, A. V. Shytov, E. Hendry, and D. W. Horsell
Physical Review B   85, 161411 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Tunable quantum dots in monolayer graphene
G. Giavaras and Franco Nori
Physical Review B   85, 165446 (2012) (9 pages)   
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Silicon intercalation into the graphene-SiC interface
F. Wang, K. Shepperd, J. Hicks, M. S. Nevius, H. Tinkey, A. Tejeda, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, F. Bertran, P. Le Fèvre, D. B. Torrance, P. N. First, W. A. de Heer, A. A. Zakharov, and E. H. Conrad
Physical Review B   85, 165449 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Quantum interference corrections to magnetoconductivity in graphene
S. Pezzini, C. Cobaleda, E. Diez, and V. Bellani
Physical Review B   85, 165451 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Graphene under spatially varying external potentials: Landau levels, magnetotransport, and topological modes
Si Wu, Matthew Killi, and Arun Paramekanti
Physical Review B   85, 195404 (2012) (17 pages)   
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Coherent radial-breathing-like phonons in graphene nanoribbons
G. D. Sanders, A. R. T. Nugraha, R. Saito, and C. J. Stanton
Physical Review B   85, 205401 (2012) (17 pages)   
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Ab initio studies of hydrogen adatoms on bilayer graphene
R. E. Mapasha, A. M. Ukpong, and N. Chetty
Physical Review B   85, 205402 (2012) (12 pages)   
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Theoretical study of the charge transport through C₆₀-based single-molecule junctions
S. Bilan, L. A. Zotti, F. Pauly, and J. C. Cuevas
Physical Review B   85, 205403 (2012) (9 pages)   
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Zero-bias conductance peak and Josephson effect in graphene-NbTiN junctions
M. Popinciuc, V. E. Calado, X. L. Liu, A. R. Akhmerov, T. M. Klapwijk, and L. M. K. Vandersypen
Physical Review B   85, 205404 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Acoustic Analogue of Graphene: Observation of Dirac Cones in Acoustic Surface Waves
Daniel Torrent and José Sánchez-Dehesa
Physical Review Letters   108, 174301 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Distinguishing Spontaneous Quantum Hall States in Bilayer Graphene
Fan Zhang and A. H. MacDonald
Physical Review Letters   108, 186804 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Designing biomimetic pores based on carbon nanotubes
Rebeca García-Fandiño and Mark S. P. Sansom
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   109, 6939-6944 (2012)   
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Transmission of electron through monolayer graphene laser barrier
C. Sinha and R. Biswas
Applied Physics Letters   100, 183107 (2012) (5 pages)   
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QUANTUM COHERENCE, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION STORAGE

Electric field tuning of spin splitting in a quantum dot coupled to a semimagnetic quantum dot
Y. Lyanda-Geller, T. L. Reinecke, and G. Bacher
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 093705 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Electrically driven single-photon source at room temperature in diamond
N. Mizuochi, T. Makino, H. Kato, D. Takeuchi, M. Ogura, H. Okushi, M. Nothaft, P. Neumann, A. Gali, F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup, and S. Yamasaki
Nature Photonics   6, 299-303 (2012)   
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Symmetry and localization of quantum walks induced by an extra link in cycles
Xin-Ping Xu, Yusuke Ide, and Norio Konno
Physical Review A   85, 042327 (2012) (13 pages)   
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Coherent optimal control of photosynthetic molecules
F. Caruso, S. Montangero, T. Calarco, S. F. Huelga, and M. B. Plenio
Physical Review A   85, 042331 (2012) (12 pages)   
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Complete entanglement witness for quantum teleportation
Ming-Jing Zhao, Shao-Ming Fei, and Xianqing Li-Jost
Physical Review A   85, 054301 (2012) (2 pages)   
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Classification of General n-Qubit States under Stochastic Local Operations and Classical Communication in Terms of the Rank of Coefficient Matrix
Xiangrong Li and Dafa Li
Physical Review Letters   108, 180502 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Variational Monte Carlo with the multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz
Andrew J. Ferris and Guifre Vidal
Physical Review B   85, 165147 (2012) (10 pages)   
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Driven Dynamics and Rotary Echo of a Qubit Tunably Coupled to a Harmonic Oscillator
S. Gustavsson, J. Bylander, F. Yan, P. Forn-Díaz, V. Bolkhovsky, D. Braje, G. Fitch, K. Harrabi, D. Lennon, J. Miloshi, P. Murphy, R. Slattery, S. Spector, B. Turek, T. Weir, P. B. Welander, F. Yoshihara, D. G. Cory, Y. Nakamura, T. P. Orlando, and W. D. Oliver
Physical Review Letters   108, 170503 (2012) (6 pages)   
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Towards Practical Classical Processing for the Surface Code
Austin G. Fowler, Adam C. Whiteside, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Physical Review Letters   108, 180501 (2012) (4 pages)   
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General quantum-state swap: An XY-model analysis
Ben-Qiong Liu, Lian-Ao Wu, Bin Shao, and Jian Zou
Physical Review A   85, 042328 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Perfect sampling with unitary tensor networks
Andrew J. Ferris and Guifre Vidal
Physical Review B   85, 165146 (2012) (10 pages)   
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SUPRAMOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL ASSEMBLY

A vapoluminescent Eu-based metallo-supramolecular polymer
Takashi Sato and Masayoshi Higuchi
Chemical Communications   48, 4947-4949 (2012)   
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Intrinsic disorder modulates protein self-assembly and aggregation
Alfonso De Simone, Craig Kitchen, Ann H. Kwan, Margaret Sunde, Christopher M. Dobson, and Daan Frenkel
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   109, 6951-6956 (2012)   
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A novel method for preparing silver nanoparticle–hydrogel nanocomposites via pH-induced self-assembly
Ju Young Yook, Gwang-Ho Choi, and Dong Hack Suh
Chemical Communications   48, 5001-5003 (2012)   
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Tailoring ordered taper-nanopore arrays by combined nanosphere self-assembling, imprinting, anodizing and etching
Congshan Li, Juan Li, Cheng Chen, Jie Zhu, and Xuefeng Gao
Chemical Communications   48, 5100-5102 (2012)   
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Modular self-assembled multiporphyrin cages with tunable shape
Enzo Alessio, Massimo Casanova, Ennio Zangrando, and Elisabetta Iengo
Chemical Communications   48, 5112-5114 (2012)   
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Metal-mediated self-assembly of tetrapyridyl porphyrins by Na⁺ ions
Mariachiara Trapani, Maria Rosaria Plutino, Giuseppe Sabatino, Ilaria Occhiuto, Anna Borriello, Giovanna De Luca, and Luigi Monsù Scolaro
Chemical Communications   48, 5136-5138 (2012)   
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Unique nanoscale {Cu^II ₃₆Ln^III ₂₄} (Ln = Dy and Gd) metallo-rings
Ji-Dong Leng, Jun-Liang Liu, and Ming-Liang Tong
Chemical Communications   48, 5286-5288 (2012)   
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New monoacylhydrazidate-coordinated Mn²⁺ and Pb²⁺ compounds
Juan Jin, Fu-Quan Bai, Ming-Jun Jia, Jie-Hui Yu, and Ji-Qing Xu
Dalton Transactions   41, 6137-6147 (2012)   
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Light emission and spin-polarised hole injection in InAs/GaAs quantum dot heterostructures with Schottky contact
N. Baidus, M. Vasilevskiy, S. Khazanova, B. Zvonkov, H. van der Meulen, J. Calleja, and L. Via
Europhysics Letters   98, 27012- (2012)   
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Crystal morphology-directed framework orientation in porous coordination polymer films and freestanding membranes via Langmuir–Blodgettry
Manuel Tsotsalas, Ayako Umemura, Franklin Kim, Yoko Sakata, Julien Reboul, Susumu Kitagawa, and Shuhei Furukawa
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 10159-10165 (2012)   
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Liquid-crystal-mediated self-assembly at nanodroplet interfaces
J. A. Moreno-Razo, E. J. Sambriski, N. L. Abbott, J. P. Hernndez-Ortiz, and J. J. de Pablo
Nature   485, 86-89 (2012)   
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The formation and magnetism of iron nanostructures on ordered polymer templates
K Schlage, S Couet, S Roth, U Vainio, R Rffer, M Abul Kashem, P Mller-Buschbaum, and R Rhlsberger
New Journal of Physics   14, 43007- (2012)   
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Tetraferrocenylporphyrins as active components of self-assembled monolayers on gold surface
Andrea Vecchi, Emanuela Gatto, Barbara Floris, Valeria Conte, Mariano Venanzi, Victor N. Nemykin, and Pierluca Galloni
Chemical Communications   48, 5145-5147 (2012)   
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Programmable self-assembly of homo- or hetero-metallomacrocycles using 4-(1H-pyrazolyl-4-yl)pyridine
Jin Tong, Shu-Yan Yu, and Hui Li
Chemical Communications   48, 5343-5345 (2012)   
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Waveguide terahertz time-domain spectroscopy of ammonium nitrate polycrystalline films
Ani Khachatrian, Joseph S. Melinger, and Syed B. Qadri
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 093103 (2012) (8 pages)   
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Electronic structures of one-dimensional metal–molecule hybrid chains studied using scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory
Kyung-Hoon Chung, Bon-Gil Koo, Howon Kim, Jong Keon Yoon, Ji-Hoon Kim, Young-Kyun Kwon, and Se-Jong Kahng
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics   14, 7304-7308 (2012)   
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Pseudorotaxanes from self-assembly of two crown ether-based cryptands and a 1,2-bis(pyridinium) ethane derivative
Xuzhou Yan, Peifa Wei, Binyuan Xia, Feihe Huang, and Qizhong Zhou
Chemical Communications   48, 4968-4970 (2012)   
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ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES

Highly biocompatible, hollow coordination polymer nanoparticles as cisplatin carriers for efficient intracellular drug delivery
Hong-Yuan Lian, Ming Hu, Chia-Hung Liu, Yusuke Yamauchi, and Kevin C.-W. Wu
Chemical Communications   48, 5151-5153 (2012)   
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Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate)-derived amphiphilic graft copolymers for the design of polymersomes
Julien Babinot, Jean-Michel Guigner, Estelle Renard, and Valérie Langlois
Chemical Communications   48, 5364-5366 (2012)   
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Nanosponges for hydrogen storage
Maurice Schlichtenmayer and Michael Hirscher
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 10134-10143 (2012)   
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Surface-induced phase behavior of polymer/nanoparticle blends with attractions
Amalie L. Frischknecht, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Michael E. Mackay
The Journal of Chemical Physics   136, 164904 (2012) (13 pages)   
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Time evolution of the structure of organoclay/polypropylene nanocomposites and application of the time-temperature superposition principle
R. Zouari, T. Domenech, B. Vergnes, and E. Peuvrel-Disdier
Journal of Rheology   56, 725-742 (2012)   
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Electrochemical Capacitances of a Nanowire-Structured MnO₂ in Polyacrylate-Based Gel Electrolytes
Ho-Seong Nam, Nae-Lih Wu, Kuang-Tsin Lee, Kwang Man Kim, Chul Gi Yeom, Lovely Rose Hepowit, Jang Myoun Ko, and Jong-Duk Kim
Journal of The Electrochemical Society   159, A899-A903 (2012)   
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Photoresponse of PbS nanoparticles–quaterthiophene films prepared by gaseous deposition as probed by XPS
Michael W. Majeski, F. Douglas Pleticha, Igor L. Bolotin, Luke Hanley, Eda Yilmaz, and Sefik Suzer
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A   30, 04D109 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Nonvolatile floating gate organic memory device based on pentacene/CdSe quantum dot heterojuction
Ik-Soo Shin, Jung-Min Kim, Jun-Ho Jeun, Seok-Hyun Yoo, Ziyi Ge, Jong-In Hong, Jin Ho Bang, and Yong-Sang Kim
Applied Physics Letters   100, 183307 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Facile synthesis of metal–organic framework films via in situ seeding of nanoparticles
Dongmei Jiang, Andrew D. Burrows, Robben Jaber, and Karen J. Edler
Chemical Communications   48, 4965-4967 (2012)   
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Comparison of scattering and reflection SFG: a question of phase-matching
Hilton B. de Aguiar, Rüdiger Scheu, Kailash C. Jena, Alex G. F. de Beer, and Sylvie Roke
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics   14, 6826-6832 (2012)   
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Nanocrystalline hybrid inorganic–organic one-dimensional chain systems tailored with 2- and 3-phenyl ring monocarboxylic acids
Igor Djerdj, Jasminka Popović, Jernej Stare, Gabriela AmbroŽič, Srečo D. Škapin, Bojan Kozlevčar, Damir Pajić, Zvonko Jagličić, and Zorica Crnjak Orel
Journal of Materials Chemistry   22, 10255-10265 (2012)   
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SURFACE AND INTERFACE PROPERTIES

Ordering Mechanisms in Epitaxial SiGe Nanoislands
G. Vantarakis, I. N. Remediakis, and P. C. Kelires
Physical Review Letters   108, 176102 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Impurity-assisted Andreev reflection at a spin-active half metal-superconductor interface
Francis B. Wilken and Piet W. Brouwer
Physical Review B   85, 134531 (2012) (10 pages)   
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CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS METHODS

Thermally stable polymer composites with improved transparency by using colloidal mesoporous silica nanoparticles as inorganic fillers
Norihiro Suzuki, Mohamed B. Zakaria, Ya-Dong Chiang, Kevin C.-W. Wu, and Yusuke Yamauchi
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics   14, 7427-7432 (2012)   
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A microfluidics approach towards high-throughput pathogen removal from blood using margination
Han Wei Hou, Hiong Yap Gan, Ali Asgar S. Bhagat, Leon D. Li, Chwee Teck Lim, and Jongyoon Han
Biomicrofluidics   6, 024115 (2012) (13 pages)   
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Observing the localization of light in space and time by ultrafast second-harmonic microscopy
Manfred Mascheck, Slawa Schmidt, Martin Silies, Takashi Yatsui, Kokoro Kitamura, Motoichi Ohtsu, David Leipold, Erich Runge, and Christoph Lienau
Nature Photonics   6, 293-298 (2012)   
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Ultralow-refractive-index optical thin films through nanoscale etching of ordered mesoporous silica films
Fangting Chi, Lianghong Yan, Hongwei Yan, Bo Jiang, Haibing Lv, and Xiaodong Yuan
Optics Letters   37, 1406-1408 (2012)   
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MISCELLANEOUS

Comparative analysis of photoluminescence and Raman enhancement by metal nanoparticles
Greg Sun, Jacob B. Khurgin, and Din Ping Tsai
Optics Letters   37, 1583-1585 (2012)   
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Influence of retardation in the scattering of ultracold atoms by conducting nanowires
Martin Fink, Johannes Eiglsperger, Javier Madroñero, and Harald Friedrich
Physical Review A   85, 040702 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Engineering surface waves in flat phononic plates
Héctor Estrada, Pilar Candelas, Francisco Belmar, Antonio Uris, F. Javier García de Abajo, and Francisco Meseguer
Physical Review B   85, 174301 (2012) (5 pages)   
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Experiment and theoretical modeling of the luminescence of silver nanoclusters dispersed in oxyfluoride glass
Ngo T. Cuong, Victor K. Tikhomirov, Liviu F. Chibotaru, Andre Stesmans, Vicente D. Rodríguez, Minh T. Nguyen, and Victor V. Moshchalkov
The Journal of Chemical Physics   136, 174108 (2012) (9 pages)   
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Dynamic observations of dislocation behavior in SrTiO₃ by in situ nanoindentation in a transmission electron microscope
Shun Kondo, Naoya Shibata, Tasuku Mitsuma, Eita Tochigi, and Yuichi Ikuhara
Applied Physics Letters   100, 181906 (2012) (4 pages)   
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Chemisorption on semiconductors: The role of quantum corrections on the space charge regions in multiple dimensions
Francesco Ciucci, Carlo de Falco, Marcelo I. Guzman, Sara Lee, and Tomonori Honda
Applied Physics Letters   100, 183106 (2012) (4 pages)   
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The photoionization cross section of a hydrogenic impurity in a multi-layered spherical quantum dot
Mehmet Şahin, Firdes Tek, and Ahmet Erdinç
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 084317 (2012) (8 pages)   
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Monte Carlo studies of the intrinsic time-domain response of nanoscale three-branch junctions
I. Iñiguez-de-la-Torre, H. Rodilla, J. Mateos, T. González, H. Irie, and Roman Sobolewski
Journal of Applied Physics   111, 084511 (2012) (4 pages)   
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