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Focus issues

• Nano-microfluidics
• High Energy Cosmic Rays
• Plasma Medicine
• Advanced Semiconductor Heterostructures for Optoelectronics
• Advances in Surface and Interface Science 2009
• Dynamics and Thermalization in Isolated Quantum Many-Body Systems
• Extra Space Dimensions
• Laser-and Beam-Driven Plasma Accelerators
• Quantum Information and Many-Body Theory

Regular articles

• Regular Papers

Focus issues: Nano-microfluidics

Fundamentals and applications of nanofluidic transport
W Sparreboom, Albert van den Berg and Jan C T Eijkel

Focus issues: High Energy Cosmic Rays

The northern site of the Pierre Auger observatory
Johannes Bluemer and the Pierre Auger Collaboration

Focus issues: Plasma Medicine

Designing plasmas for chronic wound disinfection
Tetyana Nosenko, Tetsuji Shimizu and Gregor Morfill

Cell permeabilization using a non-thermal plasma
Mathieu Leduc, David Guay, Richard L Leask and Sylvain Coulombe

A novel plasma source for sterilization of living tissues
Emilo Martines, Matteo Zuin, Roberto Cavazzana, E Gazza, Gianluigi Serianni, Silvia Spagnolo, Monica Spolaore, Andrea Leonardi, Velika Deligianni, Paola Brun, M Aragona, I Castagliuolo and P Brun

Removal and sterilization of the biofilms and planktonic bacteria by microwave-induced argon plasma at atmospheric pressure
Mi Hee Lee, Bong Joo Park, Soo Chang Jin, Dohyun Kim, Inho Han, Jeongsung Kim, Soon O Hyun, Kie-Hyung Chung and Jong-Chul Park

Generation and transport mechanisms of chemical species by a post-discharge flow for inactivation of bacteria
Takehiko Sato, Shiroh Ochiai and Takuya Urayama

Inactivation factors of spore forming bacteria using low-pressure microwave plasmas in N₂ and O₂ gas mixtures
M K Singh, Akihisa Ogino and Masaaki Nagatsu

Effect of low-temperature plasma on bacteria observed by repeated AFM-imaging
Rene Pompl, F Jamitzky, Tetsuji Shimizu, Bernd Steffes, Wolfram Bunk, Hans Schmidt, Matthias Georgi, Katrin Ramrath, Wilhelm Stolz, Robert W Stark, Takuya Urayama, Shuitsu Fujii and Gregor Morfill

Low pressure plasma discharges for the sterilization and decontamination of surfaces
Francois Rossi, Ondrej Kylian, Hubert Rauscher, M Hasiwa and Douglas Gilliland

Application of epifluorescence scanning for monitoring the efficacy of protein removal by RF gas-plasma decontamination
Helen C Baxter, Patricia R Richardson, Gaynor A Campbell, Valeri I Kovalev, Robert Maier, Jim S Barton, Anita C Jones, Greg DeLarge, Mark Casey and Robert L Baxter

Physical and biological mechanisms of direct plasma interaction with living tissue
Danil Dobrynin, Gregory Fridman, Gary Friedman and Alexander Fridman

Portable air plasma torch contributes to rapid blood coagulation as a method of preventing bleeding
Spencer P Kuo, Olga Tarasenko, Jenghwa Chang, Svetozar Popovic, C Y Chen, H W Fan, A Scott, M Lahiani, P Alusta, J D Drake and M Nikolic

Acidification of lipid film surfaces by non-thermal DBD at atmospheric pressure in air
Andreas Helmke, Dennis Hoffmeister, Nina Mertens, Steffen Emmert, Jan Schuette and Wolfgang Vioel

Plasma medicine: an introductory review
Michael G Kong, G M W Kroesen, Gregor Morfill, Tetyana Nosenko, Tetsuji Shimizu, Jan van Dijk and Julia Zimmermann

Degradation of adhesion molecules of G361 melanoma cells by a nonthermal atmospheric pressure microplasma
Hae June Lee, C H Shon, Y S Kim, S Kim, Gyoo-Cheon Kim and Michael G Kong

Nosocomial Infections – a new approach towards preventive medicine using plasmas
Gregor Morfill, Tetsuji Shimizu, Bernd Steffes and H U Schmidt

Reduction and degradation of amyloid aggregates by a pulsed radio-frequency cold atmospheric plasma jet
D L Bayliss, J L Walsh, G Shama, Felipe Iza and Michael G Kong

A two-dimensional cold atmospheric plasma jet array for uniform treatment of large-area surfaces for plasma medicine
QY Nie, Z Cao, Chun-sheng Ren, DZ Wang and Michael G Kong

Focus issues: Advanced Semiconductor Heterostructures for Optoelectronics

AlGaN based laser diodes for the short wavelength ultraviolet region
Harumasa Yoshida, Yoji Yamashita, Masakazu Kuwabara, Yasufumi Takagi, Kazuya Uchiyama and Hirofumi Kan

Mid-infrared interband cascade lasers operating at ambient temperatures
I Vurgaftman, Chadwick Canedy, Chulsoo Kim, Mijin Kim, William Bewley, J R Lindle, Joshua Abell and J R Meyer

Single-mode electrically pumped GaSb-based VCSELs emitting continuous-waves at 2.4 and 2.6 μm
Alexander Bachmann, Shamsul Arafin and Kaveh Kashani-Shirazi

Deformed microcavity quantum cascade lasers with directional emission
Qi Jie Wang, Changling Yan, Laurent Diehl, Martina Hentschel, Jan Wiersig, Nanfang Yu, Christian Pflugl, Mikhail A Belkin, Tadataka Edamura, Masamichi Yamanishi, Hirofumi Kan and Federico Capasso

Silicon evanescent lasers for optical interconnects
Daoxin Dai, Alex Fang and John E Bowers

High power quantum cascade lasers
Manijeh Razeghi, Steven Slivken, Yanbo Bai, Burc Gokden and Shaban Darvish

High-power disk lasers based on dilute nitride heterostructures
Mircea Guina, Antti Harkonen, Tomi Leinonen and Markus Pessa

Zinc oxide nanorods based heterostructures on solid and soft substrates for white light emitting diode applications
Magnus Willander, Omer Nur, Nargis Bano and Kishwar Sultana

Structural and optical characteristics of GaN/ZnO coaxial nanotube heterostructure arrays for light-emitting device applications
Y J Hong, J-M Jeon, Miyoung Kim, Seong-ran Jeon, K H Park and Gyu-Chul Yi

Bound-to-continuum terahertz quantum cascade laser with a single quantum well phonon extraction/injection stage
Maria Amanti, Giacomo Scalari, Romain Terazzi, Milan Fischer, Mattias Beck, Jerome Faist and Eli Kapon

GaN/AlGaN intersubband optoelectronic devices
H Machhadani, P Kandaswamy, S Sakr, A Vardi, A Wirtmueller, L Nevou, F Guillot, G Pozzovivo, M Tchernycheva, A Lupu, L Vivien, P Crozat, E Warde, C Bougerol, S Schacham, G Strasser, G Bahir, E Monroy and Francois H Julien

Focus issues: Advances in Surface and Interface Science 2009

Introducing artificial length scales to tailor magnetic properties
Juergen Fassbender, Thomas Strache, Maciej Oskar Liedke, Daniel Marko, Sebastian Wintz, Kilian Lenz, Adrian Keller, S Fackso, Ingolf Monch and J McCord

Properties of metal-water interfaces studied from first principles
Sebastian Schnur and Axel Gross

Adsorption of cobalt(II) octaethylporphyrin and 2H-octaethylporphyrin on Ag(111): new insight into the surface coordinative bond
Yun Bai, Florian Buchner, Ina Kellner, Martin Schmid, Florian Vollnhals, Hans-Peter Steinrueck, Hubertus Marbach and J Michael Gottfried

Electron-phonon coupling at surfaces and interfaces
Philip Hofmann, I Yu Sklyadneva, E D L Rienks and Evgueni V Chulkov

Single-atom contacts with a scanning tunnelling microscope
Joerg Kroeger, Nicolas Neel, A Sperl, Yongfeng Wang and Richard Berndt

Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of oxide hybrid and heterostructures: A new method for the study of buried interfaces
R Claessen, M Sing, M Paul, G Berner, A Wetscherek, A Mueller and W Drube

Measuring spin polarization vectors in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
F Meier, Jan Hugo Dil and Juerg Osterwalder

Searching for Si-based spintronics by first principles calculations
Mahbube Hortamani, L M Sandratskii, Peter Kratzer and Ingrid Mertig

The role of polymorphism in organic thin films: oligoacenes investigated from first principles
Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl, Dmitrii Nabok, Peter Puschnig and Christian Meisenbichler

Self-organized atomic nanowires of noble metals on Ge(001): atomic structure and electronic properties
Joerg Schaefer, S Meyer, C Blumenstein, K Roensch, R Claessen, S Mietke, M Klinke, T Podlich, R Matzdorf, A A Stekolnikov, S Sauer and Friedhelm Bechstedt

Focus issues: Dynamics and Thermalization in Isolated Quantum Many-Body Systems

Dynamics of an inhomogeneous quantum phase transition
J Dziarmaga and Marek Rams

Focus issues: Extra Space Dimensions

Soft-wall stabilization
Joan A Cabrer, Gero von Gersdorff and Mariano Quiros

Focus issues: Laser-and Beam-Driven Plasma Accelerators

Laser driven particle and photon beams and some applications
Ken W D Ledingham and W Galster

Focus issues: Quantum Information and Many-Body Theory

Entanglement vs gap for one-dimensional spin systems
Daniel Gottesman and Matthew B Hastings

Implementing quantum gates using the ferromagnetic spin-J XXZ chain with kink boundary conditions
Tom Michoel, Jaideep Mulherkar and Bruno Nachtergaele

Concatenated tensor network states
Robert Huebener, Volckmar Nebendahl and Wolfgang Duer

Exact matrix product solutions in the Heisenberg picture of an open quantum spin chain
S Clark, J Prior, Michael Hartmann, Dieter Jaksch and Martin Bodo Plenio

Entanglement spectra of critical and near-critical systems in one dimension
Frank Pollmann and Joel E Moore

Entanglement renormalization in free bosonic systems: real-space versus momentum-space renormalization group transforms
G Evenbly and Guifre Vidal

Finite-size geometric entanglement from tensor network algorithms
Qian-Qian Shu, Roman Orus, John Ove Fjaerestad and Huan-Qiang Zhou

Entropic uncertainty relations -- a survey
Stephanie Wehner and Andreas J Winter

Characterizing symmetries in PEPS
Garcia D Perez, M Sanz, C E Gonzalez-Guillen, Michael Marc Wolf and J Ignacio Cirac

Macroscopic bound entanglement in thermal graph states
Daniel Cavalcanti, Leandro Aolita, Alessandro Ferraro, A Garcia-Saez and Antonio Acin

Matrix product operator representations
V Murg, B Pirvu, J Ignacio Cirac and Frank Verstraete

Thermodynamic stability criteria for a quantum memory based on stabilizer and subsystem codes
Stefano Chesi, Daniel Loss, Sergey Bravyi and Barbara M Terhal

Time-dependent currents of 1D bosons in an optical lattice
Johannes Schachenmayer, Guido Pupillo and Andrew J Daley

Exact solution of Markovian master equations for quadratic fermi systems: thermal baths, open XY spin chains, and non-equilibrium phase transition
Tomaz Prosen and Bojan Zunkovic

Multipartite entanglement and frustration
Paolo Facchi, Giuseppe Florio, Ugo Marzolino, Giorgio Parisi and Saverio Pascazio

Focus issues: Extra Space Dimensions

Holographic methods and Gauge-Higgs unification in flat extra dimensions
M Serone

Regular Papers

E1 and E2 contributions to the L₃ resonance line shape in antiferromagnetic holmium
L Bouchenoire, A Mirone, Simon D Brown, Paul Strange, T Wood, P Thompson, D Fort and J Fernández-Rodríguez
Provisionally scheduled for November 2009

Logical independence and quantum randomness
Tomasz Paterek, Johannes Kofler, Robert Prevedel, Peter Klimek, Markus Aspelmeyer, Anton Zeilinger and Caslav Brukner
Provisionally scheduled for November 2009

Slave nodes and the controllability of metabolic networks
Dong-Hee Kim and Adilson E Motter
Provisionally scheduled for November 2009

Structure and magnetism of self- assembled Fe nanowires on faceted Cu(332) surface: influence of oxygen-induced
reconstruction
Carlos Eduardo ViolBarbosa, Jun Fujii, G Panaccione and G Rossi
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Control of the polarization of attosecond pulses using a two-color field
Camilo Ruiz, David J Hoffman, Ricardo Torres, Luke E Chipperfield and Jonathan P Marangos
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Blind spots between quantum states
Eduardo Zambrano and de Almeida A M Ozorio
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Plasmonic candle: towards efficient nanofocusing with channel plasmon polaritons
V S Volkov, J Gosciniak, Sergey I Bozhevolnyi, S G Rodrigo, Luis Martin-Moreno, Francisco J Garcia-Vidal, E Devaux and Thomas W Ebbesen
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Waveguide-based OPO source of entangled photon pairs
Enrico Pomarico, Bruno Sanguinetti, Nicolas Gisin, Robert Thew, Hugo Zbinden, Gerhard Schreiber, Abu Thomas and Wolfgang Sohler
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Dust capture experiment in HT-7
Gregor Morfill, Christoph Rath, Yang-fang Li, Jiansheng Hu, B L Ling, Xiang Gao and Mihaly Horanyi
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Study of axial strain induced torsion of single wall carbon nanotubes by 2D continuum anharmonic anisotropic elastic model
Weihua Mu, Ming Li, Wei Wang and Zhong-can Ou-Yang
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

An optical parametric oscillator as a high-flux source of two-mode light for quantum lithography
Hugo Cable, Reeta Vyas, Surendra Singh and Jonathan P Dowling
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Vortex-antivortex pair dynamics in an exciton-polariton condensate
M D Fraser, G Roumpos and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Epitaxial growth and stress relaxation of vapor-deposited Fe-Pd magnetic shape memory films
Lisa Kuehnemund, Tobias Edler, Iris Kock, Michael Seibt and Stefan G Mayr
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Reducing quantum control for spin-spin entanglement distribution
Francesco Ciccarello, Mauro Paternostro, G Massimo Palma and Michelangelo Zarcone
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

The meta book and size-dependent properties of written language
Sebastian Bernhardsson, Luis Enrique Correa da Rocha and Petter Minnhagen
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Statistical inference from imperfect photon detection
Koenraad M R Audenaert and Stefan Scheel
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Potential energy landscape of metallic Moire patterns
Jakob Bork, Peter Wahl, Lars Diekhoener and Klaus Kern
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Triangulation of gravitational wave sources with a network of detectors
Stephen Fairhurst
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Private quantum decoupling
Francesco Buscemi
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Crystallographic and electronic contribution to the apparent step height in nanometer-thin Pb(111) films grown on Cu(111)
F Calleja, de Parga A L Vazquez, Eduardo Anglada, J.J Hinarejos, Rodolfo Miranda and F Yndurain
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Relaxation of compressive strain in epitaxial graphene through wrinkle formation
Alpha T N'Diaye, Raoul van Gastel, Antonio J Martinez-Galera, Johann Coraux, Hichem Hattab, Dirk Wall, Heringdorf Frank-J zu Meyer, Hoegen Michael von Horn, Jose-M Gomez-Rodriguez, Bene Poelsema, Carsten Busse and Thomas Michely
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

The IR-completion of gravity: what happens at Hubble scales?
Federico Piazza
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Parallel pumping of electrons
V F Maisi, Yu A Pashkin, S Kafanov, Jaw-Shen Tsai and Jukka Pekola
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

The structure of an active acoustic metamaterial with tunable effective density
Amr Baz
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Transport properties of quantum dots in the Wigner molecule regime
F Cavaliere, U De Giovannini, M Sassetti and B Kramer
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Entanglement detection with bounded reference frames
Fabio Costa, Nicholas Harrigan, Terry Rudolph and Caslav Brukner
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Accurate and diverse recommendations via eliminating redundant correlations
Tao Zhou, Ri-Qi Su, Run-Ran Liu, Luo-Luo Jiang, Bing-Hong Wang and Yi-Cheng Zhang
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Transitions in heat transport by turbulent convection for Pr = 0.8 and 10¹¹ ≤ Ra ≤ 2 × 10¹⁵
Guenter Ahlers, Denis Funfschilling and Eberhard Bodenschatz
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

On the indistinguishability of Raman photons
Charles M Santori, David Fattal, Kai-Mei C Fu, Paul E Barclay and Raymond G Beausoleil
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Quantum computation with graphene nanoribbon
Guo-Ping Guo, Zhi-Rong Lin, Tao Tu, Gang Cao, Xiao-Peng Li and Guang-Can Guo
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Damping in 2D and 3D dilute Bose gases
Ming-Chiang Chung and Aranya B Bhattacherjee
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Light transmission properties of holey metal films in the metamaterial limit: effective medium theory and subwavelength imaging
Jesper Jung, Luis Martin-Moreno and Francisco J Garcia-Vidal
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Time-resolved ion spectrometry on xenon with jitter-compensated soft-X-ray pulses of a free-electron laser
Maria Krikunova, Theophilos Maltezopoulos, Armin Azima, Moritz Schlie, Ulrike Frühling, Harald Redlin, Roland Kalms, Stefan Cunovic, Nikolai M Kabachnik, Marek Wieland and Markus Drescher
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Edge states and the integer quantum Hall effect of spin-chiral ferromagnetic kagome lattice with a general spin coupling
Zhigang Wang and Ping Zhang
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009

Immunization of networks with community structure
Naoki Masuda
Provisionally scheduled for December 2009