• LETTERS
  • General Physics
  • 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.
  • Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

LETTERS

General Physics

•	Quantum Backreaction through the Bohmian Particle Oleg V. Prezhdo and Craig Brooksby pp. 3215-3219 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Superchemistry: Dynamical Quantum Effects in Coupled Atomic and Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates J. J. Hope and M. K. Olsen pp. 3220-3223 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Grand Unification Signal from Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays? Z. Fodor and S. D. Katz pp. 3224-3227 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Measurement of Bd0-B̅ d0 Mixing Rate from the Time Evolution of Dilepton Events at the ϒ(4S) K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration) pp. 3228-3232 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First Measurement of the Ratio B(t → Wb)/B(t → Wq) and Associated Limit on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Element |Vtb| T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration) pp. 3233-3238 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the Branching Ratio and Asymmetry of the Decay Ξ°→Σ°γ A. Alavi-Harati et al. (KTeV Collaboration) pp. 3239-3243 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	12C(α,γ)16O: The Key Reaction in Stellar Nucleosynthesis R. Kunz, M. Jaeger, A. Mayer, J. W. Hammer, G. Staudt, S. Harissopulos, and T. Paradellis pp. 3244-3247 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Predicting Total Reaction Cross Sections for Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering P. K. Deb, K. Amos, S. Karataglidis, M. B. Chadwick, and D. G. Madland pp. 3248-3251 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for Spinodal Decomposition in Nuclear Multifragmentation B. Borderie et al. (INDRA Collaboration) pp. 3252-3255 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Exchange Forces in Dispersion Relations Investigated Using Circuit Relations D. Vrinceanu, A. Z. Msezane, D. Bessis, and A. Temkin pp. 3256-3259 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-Accuracy Calculation of 6s → 7s Parity-Nonconserving Amplitude in Cs M. G. Kozlov, S. G. Porsev, and I. I. Tupitsyn pp. 3260-3263 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy Transport in High-Density Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping Cells D. K. Walter, W. M. Griffith, and W. Happer pp. 3264-3267 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic-Field-Induced Quadrupole Splitting in Gaseous and Liquid 131Xe NMR: Quadratic and Quartic Field Dependence Juha Vaara and Pekka Pyykkö pp. 3268-3271 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Direct Dissociative Ionization in Molecular Hydrogen B. L. Bakker, D. H. Parker, and W. J. van der Zande pp. 3272-3275 [View PDF (317 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Triplet Scattering Lengths for Rubidium and their Role in Bose-Einstein Condensation S. Geltman and A. Bambini pp. 3276-3279 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Value of mμ/me from Muonium Hyperfine Splitting Richard J. Hill pp. 3280-3283 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	First Experimental Test of a Trace Formula for Billiard Systems Showing Mixed Dynamics C. Dembowski, H.-D. Gräf, A. Heine, T. Hesse, H. Rehfeld, and A. Richter pp. 3284-3287 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stabilization of Femtosecond Lasers for Optical Frequency Metrology and Direct Optical to Radio Frequency Synthesis R. Jason Jones and Jean-Claude Diels pp. 3288-3291 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extreme Midinfrared Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors Alan H. Chin, Oscar G. Calderón, and Junichiro Kono pp. 3292-3295 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-Focusing and Defocusing in Waveguide Arrays R. Morandotti, H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, M. Sorel, and J. S. Aitchison pp. 3296-3299 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Settling Statistics of Hard Sphere Particles X. Lei, B. J. Ackerson, and P. Tong pp. 3300-3303 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Convection in Highly Fluidized Three-Dimensional Granular Beds R. D. Wildman, J. M. Huntley, and D. J. Parker pp. 3304-3307 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Green's Function Probe of a Static Granular Piling Guillaume Reydellet and Eric Clément pp. 3308-3311 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static Friction between Elastic Solids due to Random Asperities J. B. Sokoloff pp. 3312-3315 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal Convection for Large Prandtl Numbers Siegfried Grossmann and Detlef Lohse pp. 3316-3319 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Prandtl-Number Dependence of Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Guenter Ahlers and Xiaochao Xu pp. 3320-3323 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	New Mechanism of X-Ray Radiation from a Relativistic Charged Particle in a Dielectric Random Medium Zh. S. Gevorkian, C. P. Chen, and Chin-Kun Hu pp. 3324-3327 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parametric Excitations of Fast Plasma Waves by Counterpropagating Laser Beams G. Shvets and N. J. Fisch pp. 3328-3331 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Plasma Ions Dynamics in the Wake of a Short Laser Pulse L. M. Gorbunov, P. Mora, and A. A. Solodov pp. 3332-3335 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stagnation Pressure of Imploding Shells and Ignition Energy Scaling of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets A. Kemp, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, and S. Atzeni pp. 3336-3339 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Observation of a Topological Relaxation Mode in Microemulsions U. Peter, D. Roux, and A. K. Sood pp. 3340-3343 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Velocity Correlations and the Structure of Nonequilibrium Hard-Core Fluids James F. Lutsko pp. 3344-3347 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacancy Hardening and Softening in Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides Seung-Hoon Jhi, Steven G. Louie, Marvin L. Cohen, and Jisoon Ihm pp. 3348-3351 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microstructural Stability of the Kirkendall Plane in Solid-State Diffusion M. J. van Dal, A. M. Gusak, C. Cserháti, A. A. Kodentsov, and F. J. van Loo pp. 3352-3355 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adsorption and Two-Body Recombination of Atomic Hydrogen on 3He-4He Mixture Films A. I. Safonov, S. A. Vasilyev, A. A. Kharitonov, S. T. Boldarev, I. I. Lukashevich, and S. Jaakkola pp. 3356-3359 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Helium in One-Dimensional Nanopores: Free Dispersion, Localization, and Commensurate/Incommensurate Transitions with Nonrigid Orbitals Massimo Boninsegni, Seung-Yeop Lee, and Vincent H. Crespi pp. 3360-3363 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Commensurate Water Monolayer at the RuO2(110)/Water Interface Y. S. Chu, T. E. Lister, W. G. Cullen, H. You, and Z. Nagy pp. 3364-3367 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Temperature-Dependent Etching of Diamond (100) by Atomic Hydrogen R. E. Stallcup and J. M. Perez pp. 3368-3371 [View PDF (341 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Polarons in Carbon Nanotubes M. Verissimo-Alves, R. B. Capaz, Belita Koiller, Emilio Artacho, and H. Chacham pp. 3372-3375 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radio-Frequency Single-Electron Transistor as Readout Device for Qubits: Charge Sensitivity and Backaction A. Aassime, G. Johansson, G. Wendin, R. J. Schoelkopf, and P. Delsing pp. 3376-3379 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conductance Peak Motion due to a Magnetic Field in Weakly Coupled Chaotic Quantum Dots Ilya L. Kurland, Richard Berkovits, and Boris L. Altshuler pp. 3380-3383 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Imaging of Friedel Oscillation Patterns of Two-Dimensionally Accumulated Electrons at Epitaxially Grown InAs(111) A Surfaces K. Kanisawa, M. J. Butcher, H. Yamaguchi, and Y. Hirayama pp. 3384-3387 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radio-Frequency Bloch-Transistor Electrometer A. B. Zorin pp. 3388-3391 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spinon Attraction in Spin- 1/2 Antiferromagnetic Chains B. A. Bernevig, D. Giuliano, and R. B. Laughlin pp. 3392-3395 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nagaoka Ferromagnetism in the Two-Dimensional Infinite- U Hubbard Model Federico Becca and Sandro Sorella pp. 3396-3399 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hamiltonian of the V15 Spin System from First-Principles Density-Functional Calculations Jens Kortus, C. Stephen Hellberg, and Mark R. Pederson pp. 3400-3403 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant Dielectric Permittivity Observed in Pb-Based Perovskite Ferroelectrics Bog-Gi Kim, Seong M. Cho, Tea-Yong Kim, and Hyun M. Jang pp. 3404-3406 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy of α- and γ-Phase Cerium J. W. van der Eb, A. B. Kuz'menko, and D. van der Marel pp. 3407-3410 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Standing Optical Phonons in Finite Semiconductor Superlattices Studied by Resonant Raman Scattering in a Double Microcavity A. Fainstein, M. Trigo, D. Oliva, B. Jusserand, T. Freixanet, and V. Thierry-Mieg pp. 3411-3414 [View PDF (2078 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-Ray Magneto-optics in Lanthanides K. Starke, F. Heigl, A. Vollmer, M. Weiss, G. Reichardt, and G. Kaindl pp. 3415-3418 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic Moments at the Surface of Antiferromagnetic NiO(100) F. U. Hillebrecht, H. Ohldag, N. B. Weber, C. Bethke, U. Mick, M. Weiss, and J. Bahrdt pp. 3419-3422 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Reverse Brazil Nut Problem: Competition between Percolation and Condensation Daniel C. Hong, Paul V. Quinn, and Stefan Luding pp. 3423-3426 [View PDF (526 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Evidence for a Kinetic Transition in Reversible Reactions Kyril M. Solntsev, Dan Huppert, and Noam Agmon pp. 3427-3430 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spiking Behavior in a Noise-Driven System Combining Oscillatory and Excitatory Properties V. A. Makarov, V. I. Nekorkin, and M. G. Velarde pp. 3431-3434 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Voltage-Driven DNA Translocations through a Nanopore Amit Meller, Lucas Nivon, and Daniel Branton pp. 3435-3438 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Coherent Dynamics of Photoexcited Green Fluorescent Proteins Riccardo A. Cinelli, Valentina Tozzini, Vittorio Pellegrini, Fabio Beltram, Giulio Cerullo, Margherita Zavelani-Rossi, Sandro De Silvestri, Mudit Tyagi, and Mauro Giacca pp. 3439-3442 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic Biperiodic Oscillations in the Electroreceptors of Paddlefish Alexander Neiman and David F. Russell pp. 3443-3446 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Equipartition of Seismic Waves R. Hennino, N. Trégourès, N. M. Shapiro, L. Margerin, M. Campillo, B. A. van Tiggelen, and R. L. Weaver pp. 3447-3450 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Anisotropy of the Superconducting Order Parameter in κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 S. Hill, N. Harrison, M. Mola, and J. Wosnitza pp. 3451 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Millimeter-Wave Magneto-Optical Determination of the Anisotropy of the Superconducting Order Parameter in the Molecular Superconductor κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2” T. Shibauchi, Yuji Matsuda, M. B. Gaifullin, and T. Tamegai pp. 3452 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schrama et al. Reply: J. Marije Schrama and John Singleton pp. 3453-3454 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Stripe Glasses: Self-Generated Randomness in a Uniformly Frustrated System” M. Grousson, G. Tarjus, and P. Viot pp. 3455 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schmalian and Wolynes Reply: Jörg Schmalian and Peter G. Wolynes pp. 3456 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron Thermalization in Gold [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1638 (2001)] Chunlei Guo, George Rodriguez, Mark A. Hoffbauer, and Antoinette J. Taylor pp. 3457 [View PDF (24 kB) ]