• 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

•	Signal Velocity, Causality, and Quantum Noise in Superluminal Light Pulse Propagation A. Kuzmich, A. Dogariu, L. J. Wang, P. W. Milonni, and R. Y. Chiao pp. 3925-3929 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spatially Selective Bragg Scattering: A Signature for Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates P. B. Blakie and R. J. Ballagh pp. 3930-3933 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Creating Vortex Rings and Three-Dimensional Skyrmions in Bose-Einstein Condensates J. Ruostekoski and J. R. Anglin pp. 3934-3937 [View PDF (302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature Dependence of Damping and Frequency Shifts of the Scissors Mode of a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate Onofrio Maragò, Gerald Hechenblaikner, Eleanor Hodby, and Christopher Foot pp. 3938-3941 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noise-Activated Escape from a Sloshing Potential Well Robert S. Maier and D. L. Stein pp. 3942-3945 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Upper Critical Dimension, Dynamic Exponent, and Scaling Functions in the Mode-Coupling Theory for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation Francesca Colaiori and M. A. Moore pp. 3946-3949 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Stable Operation of a 300-m Laser Interferometer with Sufficient Sensitivity to Detect Gravitational-Wave Events within Our Galaxy Masaki Ando et al. (TAMA Collaboration) pp. 3950-3954 [View PDF (246 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Domain Walls of High-Density QCD D. T. Son, M. A. Stephanov, and A. R. Zhitnitsky pp. 3955-3958 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Towards a Test of QED in Investigations of the Hyperfine Splitting in Heavy Ions V. M. Shabaev, A. N. Artemyev, V. A. Yerokhin, O. M. Zherebtsov, and G. Soff pp. 3959-3962 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production of χc1 and χc2 in pp̅ Collisions at sqrt[s]  =  1.8 TeV T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration) pp. 3963-3968 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for Rare and Forbidden Charm Meson Decays D0 → Vℓ+ℓ- and hhℓℓ E. M. Aitala et al. (Fermilab E791 Collaboration) pp. 3969-3972 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Implications of the ALEPH τ-Lepton Decay Data for Perturbative and Nonperturbative QCD Thomas Schäfer and Edward V. Shuryak pp. 3973-3976 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Exotic Meson Production in the Reaction π-p → η′π-p at 18 GeV/c E. I. Ivanov et al. (E852 Collaboration) pp. 3977-3980 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Pion Interferometry at RHIC: Probing a Thermalized Quark-Gluon Plasma? Sven Soff, Steffen A. Bass, and Adrian Dumitru pp. 3981-3984 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Low-Energy Measurement of the 7Be(p,γ)8B Cross Section F. Hammache, G. Bogaert, P. Aguer, C. Angulo, S. Barhoumi, L. Brillard, J. F. Chemin, G. Claverie, A. Coc, M. Hussonnois, M. Jacotin, J. Kiener, A. Lefebvre, C. Le Naour, S. Ouichaoui, J. N. Scheurer, V. Tatischeff, J. P. Thibaud, and E. Virassamynaïken pp. 3985-3988 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solitonic Fullerene Structures in Light Atomic Nuclei Richard A. Battye and Paul M. Sutcliffe pp. 3989-3992 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	High-Angular-Momentum States in Cold Rydberg Gases S. K. Dutta, D. Feldbaum, A. Walz-Flannigan, J. R. Guest, and G. Raithel pp. 3993-3996 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrationally Inelastic Scattering of High- n Rydberg H Atoms from N2 and O2 Brian R. Strazisar, Cheng Lin, and H. Floyd Davis pp. 3997-4000 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular Reorientation in Collisions of OH+Ar M. C. van Beek, G. Berden, H. L. Bethlem, and J. J. ter Meulen pp. 4001-4004 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rate Coefficients and Final States for the Dissociative Recombination of LiH+ S. Krohn, M. Lange, M. Grieser, L. Knoll, H. Kreckel, J. Levin, R. Repnow, D. Schwalm, R. Wester, P. Witte, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman pp. 4005-4008 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Observation of Spatial Antibunching of Photons W. A. Nogueira, S. P. Walborn, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken pp. 4009-4012 [View PDF (257 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entanglement in Cascaded-Crystal Parametric Down-Conversion Mete Atatüre, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich pp. 4013-4016 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Experimental Observation of Superpersistent Chaotic Transients Liqiang Zhu, Arvind Raghu, and Ying-Cheng Lai pp. 4017-4020 [View PDF (907 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Degenerate Parametric Light Scattering in Periodically Poled LiNbO3:Y:Fe M. Goul'kov, S. Odoulov, I. Naumova, F. Agulló-López, G. Calvo, E. Podivilov, B. Sturman, and V. Pruneri pp. 4021-4024 [View PDF (420 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-Noise-Induced Order in Lasers Placed in Chaotic Oscillation by Frequency-Shifted Feedback Jing-Yuan Ko, Kenju Otsuka, and Tamaki Kubota pp. 4025-4028 [View PDF (887 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermi-Pasta-Ulam β Model: Boundary Jumps, Fourier's Law, and Scaling Kenichiro Aoki and Dimitri Kusnezov pp. 4029-4032 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Finite-Mode Spectral Model of Homogeneous and Isotropic Navier-Stokes Turbulence: A Rapidly Depleted Energy Cascade E. Lévêque and C. R. Koudella pp. 4033-4036 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrodynamic Waves in Regions with Smooth Loss of Convexity of Isentropes: General Phenomenological Theory Michael I. Tribelsky and Sergei I. Anisimov pp. 4037-4040 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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First Staging of Two Laser Accelerators W. D. Kimura, A. van Steenbergen, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, L. P. Campbell, D. B. Cline, C. E. Dilley, J. C. Gallardo, S. C. Gottschalk, P. He, K. P. Kusche, Y. Liu, R. H. Pantell, I. V. Pogorelsky, D. C. Quimby, J. Skaritka, L. C. Steinhauer, and V. Yakimenko pp. 4041-4043 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Anomalous Viscoelastic Response of Nematic Elastomers S. M. Clarke, A. R. Tajbakhsh, E. M. Terentjev, and M. Warner pp. 4044-4047 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Unusual Thickness-Dependent Thermal Behavior and Anticlinic Coupling in Chiral Smectic Free-Standing Liquid-Crystal Films C. Y. Chao, C. R. Lo, P. J. Wu, Y. H. Liu, D. R. Link, J. E. Maclennan, N. A. Clark, M. Veum, C. C. Huang, and J. T. Ho pp. 4048-4051 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electro-optic Behavior of Liquid-Crystal-Filled Silica Opal Photonic Crystals: Effect of Liquid-Crystal Alignment Daeseung Kang, Joseph E. Maclennan, Noel A. Clark, Anvar A. Zakhidov, and Ray H. Baughman pp. 4052-4055 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonstoichiometry and the Electrical Activity of Grain Boundaries in SrTiO3 Miyoung Kim, Gerd Duscher, Nigel D. Browning, Karl Sohlberg, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Stephen J. Pennycook pp. 4056-4059 [View PDF (426 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent External and Internal Phonons in Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Molecular Crystals T. Hasche, T. W. Canzler, R. Scholz, M. Hoffmann, K. Schmidt, Th. Frauenheim, and K. Leo pp. 4060-4063 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface Fluctuations of Normal and Superfluid 3He Probed by Wigner Solid Dynamics O. I. Kirichek, M. Saitoh, K. Kono, and F. I. Williams pp. 4064-4067 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local Atomic Environment of Si Suboxides at the SiO2/Si(111) Interface Determined by Angle-Scanned Photoelectron Diffraction S. Dreiner, M. Schürmann, C. Westphal, and H. Zacharias pp. 4068-4071 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Observation of Cation Reordering during the Olivine-Spinel Transition in Fayalite by In Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction at High Pressure and Temperature Jiuhua Chen, Donald J. Weidner, John B. Parise, Michael T. Vaughan, and Paul Raterron pp. 4072-4075 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Power-Law Statistics for Avalanches in a Martensitic Transformation Rajeev Ahluwalia and G. Ananthakrishna pp. 4076-4079 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Ferroelectric Mott-Hubbard Phase of Organic (TMTTF)2X Conductors P. Monceau, F. Ya. Nad, and S. Brazovskii pp. 4080-4083 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Re-Integerization of Fractional Charges in the Correlated Quarter-Filled Band R. T. Clay, S. Mazumdar, and D. K. Campbell pp. 4084-4087 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is the Quantum Dot at Large Bias a Weak-Coupling Problem? P. Coleman, C. Hooley, and O. Parcollet pp. 4088-4091 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simulation of Flux Lines with Columnar Pins: Bose Glass and Entangled Liquids Prasenjit Sen, Nandini Trivedi, and D. M. Ceperley pp. 4092-4095 [View PDF (616 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-Range Proximity Effects in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Structures F. S. Bergeret, A. F. Volkov, and K. B. Efetov pp. 4096-4099 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Antiferromagnetic Ordering in Superconducting YBa2Cu3O6.5 Y. Sidis, C. Ulrich, P. Bourges, C. Bernhard, C. Niedermayer, L. P. Regnault, N. H. Andersen, and B. Keimer pp. 4100-4103 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple-Charge-Quanta Shot Noise in Superconducting Atomic Contacts R. Cron, M. F. Goffman, D. Esteve, and C. Urbina pp. 4104-4107 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aharonov-Bohm Effect for Quasiparticles around a Vortex Line in a d-Wave Superconductor A. S. Mel'nikov pp. 4108-4111 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mode Locking in ac-Driven Vortex Lattices with Random Pinning Alejandro B. Kolton, Daniel Domínguez, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen pp. 4112-4115 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Persistence of Li Induced Kondo Moments in the Superconducting State of Cuprates J. Bobroff, H. Alloul, W. A. MacFarlane, P. Mendels, N. Blanchard, G. Collin, and J.-F. Marucco pp. 4116-4119 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical Behavior of the Two-Dimensional Ising Susceptibility W. P. Orrick, B. G. Nickel, A. J. Guttmann, and J. H. Perk pp. 4120-4123 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous Plaquette Formation in the SU(4) Spin-Orbital Ladder Mathias van den Bossche, Patrick Azaria, Philippe Lecheminant, and Frédéric Mila pp. 4124-4127 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Enhancements at Nonmagnetic Ions: New Possibilities for Magnetic X-Ray Scattering D. Mannix, A. Stunault, N. Bernhoeft, L. Paolasini, G. H. Lander, C. Vettier, F. de Bergevin, D. Kaczorowski, and A. Czopnik pp. 4128-4131 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resolving Complex Atomic-Scale Spin Structures by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy D. Wortmann, S. Heinze, Ph. Kurz, G. Bihlmayer, and S. Blügel pp. 4132-4135 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge Dynamics of 2H- TaSe2 along the Less-Conducting c-Axis B. Ruzicka, L. Degiorgi, H. Berger, R. Gaál, and L. Forró pp. 4136-4139 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transverse Josephson Plasma Mode in T* Cuprate Superconductors T. Kakeshita, S. Uchida, K. M. Kojima, S. Adachi, S. Tajima, B. Gorshunov, and M. Dressel pp. 4140-4143 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Observation of the Transverse Optical Plasmon in SmLa0.8Sr0.2CuO4-δ Diana Dulić, A. Pimenov, D. van der Marel, D. M. Broun, Saeid Kamal, W. N. Hardy, A. A. Tsvetkov, I. M. Sutjaha, Ruixing Liang, A. A. Menovsky, A. Loidl, and S. S. Saxena pp. 4144-4147 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Control of Optical Emission from a Conjugated Polymer S. P. Kennedy, N. Garro, and R. T. Phillips pp. 4148-4151 [View PDF (614 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-Polarized Electrons in Collisions of Multicharged Nitrogen Ions with a Magnetized Fe(001) Surface R. Pfandzelter, T. Bernhard, and H. Winter pp. 4152-4155 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Measurement of Persistence in 1D Diffusion Glenn P. Wong, Ross W. Mair, Ronald L. Walsworth, and David G. Cory pp. 4156-4159 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entangled Quantum States as Direction Indicators Asher Peres and Petra F. Scudo pp. 4160-4162 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic Pattern Formation in a Vesicle-Generating Microfluidic Device Todd Thorsen, Richard W. Roberts, Frances H. Arnold, and Stephen R. Quake pp. 4163-4166 [View PDF (674 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exciton Delocalization Probed by Excitation Annihilation in the Light-Harvesting Antenna LH2 G. Trinkunas, J. L. Herek, T. Polívka, V. Sundström, and T. Pullerits pp. 4167-4170 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Viscoelasticity of Solutions of Motile Polymers T. B. Liverpool, A. C. Maggs, and A. Ajdari pp. 4171-4174 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Existence and Stability of Persistent States in Large Neuronal Networks D. Hansel and G. Mato pp. 4175-4178 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bistability in Pulse Propagation in Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Populations David Golomb and G. Bard Ermentrout pp. 4179-4182 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Population Dynamics: Poisson Approximation and Its Relation to the Langevin Process Juan P. Aparicio and Hernán G. Solari pp. 4183-4186 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Double Diffusive Convection in Freely Suspended Soap Films” R. Stannarius and J. Birnstock pp. 4187 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wu Replies: Xiao-Lun Wu pp. 4188 [View PDF (32 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Efimov States for 4He Trimers?” B. D. Esry, C. D. Lin, Chris H. Greene, and D. Blume pp. 4189 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	González-Lezana et al. Reply: T. González-Lezana, J. Rubayo-Soneira, S. Miret-Artés, F. A. Gianturco, G. Delgado-Barrio, and P. Villarreal pp. 4190 [View PDF (41 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Measurement of the Intrinsic Dissipation of a Macroscopic System in the Quantum Regime” Siyuan Han and R. Rouse pp. 4191 [View PDF (46 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cosmelli Replies: C. Cosmelli pp. 4192 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Optical Frequency Measurement of the 2S-12D Transitions in Hydrogen and Deuterium: Rydberg Constant and Lamb Shift Determinations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4960 (1999)] C. Schwob, L. Jozefowski, B. de Beauvoir, L. Hilico, F. Nez, L. Julien, F. Biraben, O. Acef, J.-J. Zondy, and A. Clairon pp. 4193 [View PDF (28 kB) ]