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  • Gravitation and Astrophysics
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.
  • Plasma and Beam Physics
  • Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.
  • Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Physics
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

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General Physics

•	Optimized Perturbation Theory for Wave Functions of Quantum Systems T. Hatsuda, T. Kunihiro, and T. Tanaka pp. 3229-3232 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Statistical Mechanics of an Ideal Gas with Fractional Exclusion Statistics in Arbitrary Dimensions Kazumoto Iguchi pp. 3233-3236 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cluster Heat Bath Algorithm in Monte Carlo Simulations of Ising Models F. Matsubara, A. Sato, O. Koseki, and T. Shirakura pp. 3237-3240 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Performance Bounds for a Finite-Time Carnot Refrigerator S. Velasco, J. M. Roco, A. Medina, and A. Calvo Hernández pp. 3241-3244 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	q-analysis of Fractal Sets Ayşe Erzan and Jean-Pierre Eckmann pp. 3245-3248 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Spinning Down a Black Hole with Scalar Fields Chris M. Chambers, William A. Hiscock, and Brett Taylor pp. 3249-3251 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Search for Light Supersymmetric Baryons I. F. Albuquerque et al. (E761 Collaboration) pp. 3252-3256 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced CP Violation with B→KD0(D̅ 0) Modes and Extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Angle γ David Atwood, Isard Dunietz, and Amarjit Soni pp. 3257-3260 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analyses of D+→KS0K+ and D+ → KS0π+ M. Bishai et al. (CLEO Collaboration) pp. 3261-3265 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	T  =  0 versus T  =  1 Pairing in the Interacting Boson Model P. Van Isacker and D. D. Warner pp. 3266-3269 [View PDF (650 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pauli Nonlocality in Heavy-Ion Rainbow Scattering: A Further Test of the Folding Model M. A. Cândido Ribeiro, L. C. Chamon, D. Pereira, M. S. Hussein, and D. Galetti pp. 3270-3273 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Spectral Analysis of Time Correlation Function for a Dissipative Dynamical System Using Filter Diagonalization: Application to Calculation of Unimolecular Decay Rates Vladimir A. Mandelshtam and Howard S. Taylor pp. 3274-3277 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

•	Quantum Chaotic Attractor in a Dissipative System W. Vincent Liu and William C. Schieve pp. 3278-3281 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear Optical Pulse Propagation in the Single-Cycle Regime Thomas Brabec and Ferenc Krausz pp. 3282-3285 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multistability of Three-Wave Parametric Self-Trapping Alexander V. Buryak and Yuri S. Kivshar pp. 3286-3289 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization Evolution and Polarization Instability of Solitons in a Birefringent Optical Fiber Y. Barad and Y. Silberberg pp. 3290-3293 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Extraction Efficiency of Spontaneous Emission from Slabs of Photonic Crystals Shanhui Fan, Pierre R. Villeneuve, J. D. Joannopoulos, and E. F. Schubert pp. 3294-3297 [View PDF (4572 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possible Stratification Mechanism in Granular Mixtures Hernán A. Makse, Pierre Cizeau, and H. Eugene Stanley pp. 3298-3301 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermodynamical Approach for Small-Scale Parametrization in 2D Turbulence Pierre-Henri Chavanis and Joël Sommeria pp. 3302-3305 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Suppression of Cross-Field Turbulent Transport of Passive Scalar Concentration in Two Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamics P. H. Diamond and A. V. Gruzinov pp. 3306-3309 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Coherent Electron Acceleration by Subcycle Laser Pulses Bernhard Rau, T. Tajima, and H. Hojo pp. 3310-3313 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Observation of Electrons Accelerated in Vacuum to Relativistic Energies by a High-Intensity Laser G. Malka, E. Lefebvre, and J. L. Miquel pp. 3314-3317 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement of a Dispersion Curve for Linear-Regime Rayleigh-Taylor Growth Rates in Laser-Driven Planar Targets S. G. Glendinning, S. N. Dixit, B. A. Hammel, D. H. Kalantar, M. H. Key, J. D. Kilkenny, J. P. Knauer, D. M. Pennington, B. A. Remington, R. J. Wallace, and S. V. Weber pp. 3318-3321 [View PDF (479 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characterization of Laser Driven Shocks in Low Density Foam Targets D. Hoarty, A. Iwase, C. Meyer, J. Edwards, and O. Willi pp. 3322-3325 [View PDF (946 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

•	Paracyanogenlike Structures in High-Density Amorphous Carbon Nitride F. Weich, J. Widany, and Th. Frauenheim pp. 3326-3329 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of Endohedral Dimetallofullerene Sc2@C84 Masaki Takata, Eiji Nishibori, Buntaro Umeda, Makoto Sakata, Etsuji Yamamoto, and Hisanori Shinohara pp. 3330-3333 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identification and Quantification of Defects in Highly Si-Doped GaAs by Positron Annihilation and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy J. Gebauer, R. Krause-Rehberg, C. Domke, Ph. Ebert, and K. Urban pp. 3334-3337 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous Size Dependence of Relaxational Processes Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, Joseph Klafter, Gernot Gräff, and Arkady Shehter pp. 3338-3341 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Step Permeability and the Relaxation of Biperiodic Gratings on Si(001) S. Tanaka, N. C. Bartelt, C. C. Umbach, R. M. Tromp, and J. M. Blakely pp. 3342-3345 [View PDF (1338 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

•	Generalized Density Functional Theory A. Khein and N. W. Ashcroft pp. 3346-3349 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Monte Carlo Investigation of Exchange and Correlation in Silicon Randolph Q. Hood, M. Y. Chou, A. J. Williamson, G. Rajagopal, R. J. Needs, and W. M. Foulkes pp. 3350-3353 [View PDF (314 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasilocalized States in Disordered Metals and Nonanalyticity of the Level Curvature Distribution Function V. E. Kravtsov and I. V. Yurkevich pp. 3354-3357 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrafast Acoustic Phonon Ballistics in Semiconductor Heterostructures J. J. Baumberg, D. A. Williams, and K. Köhler pp. 3358-3361 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Angular Dependence of Universal Conductance Fluctuations in Noble-Metal Nanowires E. Scheer, H. v. Löhneysen, A. D. Mirlin, P. Wölfle, and H. Hein pp. 3362-3365 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intrinsic Decoherence in Mesoscopic Systems P. Mohanty, E. M. Jariwala, and R. A. Webb pp. 3366-3369 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Frequency Dependence of Shot Noise in a Diffusive Mesoscopic Conductor R. J. Schoelkopf, P. J. Burke, A. A. Kozhevnikov, D. E. Prober, and M. J. Rooks pp. 3370-3373 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbital Dependent Superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 D. F. Agterberg, T. M. Rice, and M. Sigrist pp. 3374-3377 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex Dynamics and Instabilities in Layered and Homogeneous Ta/Ge Superconductors B. J. Ruck, J. C. Abele, H. J. Trodahl, S. A. Brown, and P. Lynam pp. 3378-3381 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coexistence of Antiferromagnetism and Dimerization in a Disordered Spin-Peierls Model: Exact Results Michele Fabrizio and Régis Mélin pp. 3382-3385 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of a Band Jahn-Teller System with Strong Electron Correlations: Application to Yb4As3 Y. M. Li, N. d'Ambrumenil, and P. Fulde pp. 3386-3389 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intramolecular Antiferromagnetic Coupling in Supramolecular Grid Structures with Co2+ Metal Centers O. Waldmann, J. Hassmann, P. Müller, G. S. Hanan, D. Volkmer, U. S. Schubert, and J.-M. Lehn pp. 3390-3393 [View PDF (696 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Emergence of Fast Local Dynamics on Cooling toward the Ising Spin Glass Transition Peter H. Poole, Sharon C. Glotzer, Antonio Coniglio, and Naeem Jan pp. 3394-3397 [View PDF (1527 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

•	Controlling Spiral Waves in Confined Geometries by Global Feedback V. S. Zykov, A. S. Mikhailov, and S. C. Müller pp. 3398-3401 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monodisperse Vesicles Stabilized by Grafted Polymers R. Joannic, L. Auvray, and D. D. Lasic pp. 3402-3405 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple Exciton Effects in Molecular Aggregates: Application to a Photosynthetic Antenna Complex Thomas Renger and Volkhard May pp. 3406-3409 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is Quantum Bit Commitment Really Possible? Hoi-Kwong Lo and H. F. Chau pp. 3410-3413 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unconditionally Secure Quantum Bit Commitment is Impossible Dominic Mayers pp. 3414-3417 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	p̅ Annihilation in Au+Au at 11 GeV/c Y. Pang, D. E. Kahana, and S. H. Kahana pp. 3418 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Beavis et al. Reply D. Beavis et al. E878 Collaboration pp. 3419 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Limits on Models of the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays Based on Topological Defects [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3708 (1996)] R. J. Protheroe and Todor Stanev pp. 3420 [View PDF (28 kB) ]