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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.
  • Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
  • Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
  • Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.
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General Physics

•	Time-Domain Atom Interferometry across the Threshold for Bose-Einstein Condensation F. Minardi, C. Fort, P. Maddaloni, M. Modugno, and M. Inguscio Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 170401 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Creating Massive Entanglement of Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms Kristian Helmerson and Li You Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 170402 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atom Laser Divergence Y. Le Coq, J. H. Thywissen, S. A. Rangwala, F. Gerbier, S. Richard, G. Delannoy, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 170403 [View PDF (273 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Avalanches in a Bose-Einstein Condensate J. Schuster, A. Marte, S. Amtage, B. Sang, G. Rempe, and H. C. Beijerinck Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 170404 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	No-Signaling Condition and Quantum Dynamics Christoph Simon, Vladimír Bužek, and Nicolas Gisin Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 170405 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffusion with Random Distribution of Static Traps G. T. Barkema, Parthapratim Biswas, and Henk van Beijeren Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 170601 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Probing Microquasars with TeV Neutrinos Amir Levinson and Eli Waxman Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages) 171101 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	TeV Neutrinos from Successful and Choked Gamma-Ray Bursts Peter Mészáros and Eli Waxman Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 171102 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Extra Dimensions and the Strong CP Problem Masud Chaichian and Archil B. Kobakhidze Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 171601 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proposal for Detection of QED Vacuum Nonlinearities in Maxwell’s Equations by the Use of Waveguides Gert Brodin, Mattias Marklund, and Lennart Stenflo Published 4 October 2001 (3 pages) 171801 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chiral Extrapolation of Lattice Moments of Proton Quark Distributions W. Detmold, W. Melnitchouk, J. W. Negele, D. B. Renner, and A. W. Thomas Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages) 172001 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoproduction of the ρ0 Meson on the Proton at Large Momentum Transfer M. Battaglieri et al. (CLAS Collaboration) Published 8 October 2001 (5 pages) 172002 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Color-Flavor Locked Strangelets Jes Madsen Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 172003 [View PDF (345 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Relativistic Effects and Two-Body Currents in 2H(e→,e′p)n Using Out-of-Plane Detection Z.-L. Zhou et al. (The MIT-Bates OOPS Collaboration) Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages) 172301 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Partially Solvable Pair-Coupling Models with Seniority-Conserving Interactions D. J. Rowe and G. Rosensteel Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 172501 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Six-Nucleon Spectroscopy from a Realistic Nonlocal Hamiltonian P. Navrátil, J. P. Vary, W. E. Ormand, and B. R. Barrett Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 172502 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Empirical Investigation of Extreme Single-Particle Behavior of Nuclear Quadrupole Moments in Highly Collective A ∼ 150 Superdeformed Bands S. T. Clark, G. Hackman, R. V. Janssens, R. M. Clark, P. Fallon, S. N. Floor, G. J. Lane, A. O. Macchiavelli, J. Norris, S. J. Sanders, and C. E. Svensson Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 172503 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Determination of the Phase Difference between Even and Odd Continuum Wave Functions in Atoms through Quantum Interference Measurements Zheng-Min Wang and D. S. Elliott Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 173001 [View PDF (278 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision Microwave Measurement of the 23P1-23P0 Interval in Atomic Helium: A Determination of the Fine-Structure Constant M. C. George, L. D. Lombardi, and E. A. Hessels Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 173002 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition from Collisionless to Hydrodynamic Behavior in an Ultracold Fermi Gas S. D. Gensemer and D. S. Jin Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 173201 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Complete Reconstruction of the Quantum State of a Single-Photon Wave Packet Absorbed by a Doppler-Broadened Transition S. A. Moiseev and S. Kröll Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 173601 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Thermal Effects on Atomic Friction Yi Sang, Martin Dubé, and Martin Grant Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 174301 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Retardation of the Onset of Turbulence by Minor Viscosity Contrasts Rama Govindarajan, Victor S. L'vov, and Itamar Procaccia Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages) 174501 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium Defect-Unbinding Transition: Defect Trajectories and Loop Statistics Glen D. Granzow and Hermann Riecke Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 174502 [View PDF (249 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dispersion Coefficients from a Field-Theoretic Renormalization of Fluid Mechanics Michael W. Deem and Jeong-Man Park Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 174503 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Physical Disorder and Optical Properties in the Vacuum Ultraviolet Region of Amorphous SiO2 Hideo Hosono, Yoshiaki Ikuta, Takeru Kinoshita, Kouichi Kajihara, and Masahiro Hirano Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 175501 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractal to Nonfractal Phase Transition in the Dielectric Breakdown Model M. B. Hastings Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 175502 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium Relaxation Times in Polymer Knot Groups Pik-Yin Lai, Yu-Jane Sheng, and Heng-Kwong Tsao Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 175503 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing Jump Diffusion in Crystalline Solids with Neutron Spin-Echo Spectroscopy M. Kaisermayr, C. Pappas, B. Sepiol, and G. Vogl Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 175901 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Computer Simulation Study of the Interface Width of the Liquid/Liquid Interface Sanjib Senapati and Max L. Berkowitz Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 176101 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disorder-Driven Critical Behavior of Periodic Elastic Media in a Crystal Potential Jae Dong Noh and Heiko Rieger Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 176102 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crossover from First-Order to Critical Wetting: Short-Range Tricritical Wetting David Ross, Daniel Bonn, Anna I. Posazhennikova, Joseph O. Indekeu, and Jacques Meunier Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 176103 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Images of Nanobubbles on Hydrophobic Surfaces and Their Interactions James W. Tyrrell and Phil Attard Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 176104 [View PDF (388 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Island Nucleation in a Reactive Two-Component System T. H. McDaniels, J. A. Venables, and P. A. Bennett Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 176105 [View PDF (415 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Exciton Formation in Semiconductors and the Influence of a Photonic Environment M. Kira, W. Hoyer, T. Stroucken, and S. W. Koch Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages) 176401 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermi Surface of Nanocrystalline Embedded Particles in Materials: bcc Cu in Fe Y. Nagai, T. Chiba, Z. Tang, T. Akahane, T. Kanai, M. Hasegawa, M. Takenaka, and E. Kuramoto Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 176402 [View PDF (728 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Valence-Band Hybridization and Core Level Shifts in Random Ag-Pd Alloys I. A. Abrikosov, W. Olovsson, and B. Johansson Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 176403 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excess Kondo Resonance in a Quantum Dot Device with Normal and Superconducting Leads: The Physics of Andreev-Normal Co-tunneling Qing-feng Sun, Hong Guo, and Tsung-han Lin Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 176601 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Confined Plasmons in Metallic Nanocavities S. Coyle, M. C. Netti, J. J. Baumberg, M. A. Ghanem, P. R. Birkin, P. N. Bartlett, and D. M. Whittaker Published 2 October 2001 (4 pages) 176801 [View PDF (373 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Dynamical Ordering in a Confined Wigner Crystal P. Glasson, V. Dotsenko, P. Fozooni, M. J. Lea, W. Bailey, G. Papageorgiou, S. E. Andresen, and A. Kristensen Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 176802 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Luminescence from Metallic Quantum Wells in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Germar Hoffmann, Jörg Kliewer, and Richard Berndt Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 176803 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Steps in the Negative-Differential-Conductivity Regime of a Superconductor Milind N. Kunchur, B. I. Ivlev, and J. M. Knight Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages) 177001 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective Interaction-Driven Ratchet for Transporting Flux Quanta C. J. Olson, C. Reichhardt, B. Jankó, and Franco Nori Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 177002 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic Field Dependence of the Transverse Plasmon in SmLa0.8Sr0.2CuO4-δ A. Pimenov, A. Loidl, D. Dulić, D. van der Marel, I. M. Sutjahja, and A. A. Menovsky Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 177003 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Doping and Magnetic Field Dependence of In-Plane Tunneling into YBa2Cu3O7-x: Possible Evidence for the Existence of a Quantum Critical Point Y. Dagan and G. Deutscher Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 177004 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of the Elementary Excitations in High- Tc Cuprates: Explanation of the New Energy Scale Observed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy D. Manske, I. Eremin, and K. H. Bennemann Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 177005 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for a Multiple Superconducting Gap in MgB2 from High-Resolution Photoemission Spectroscopy S. Tsuda, T. Yokoya, T. Kiss, Y. Takano, K. Togano, H. Kito, H. Ihara, and S. Shin Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 177006 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Doping and Temperature Dependence of the Mass Enhancement Observed in the Cuprate Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ P. D. Johnson, T. Valla, A. V. Fedorov, Z. Yusof, B. O. Wells, Q. Li, A. R. Moodenbaugh, G. D. Gu, N. Koshizuka, C. Kendziora, Sha Jian, and D. G. Hinks Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 177007 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-Gap State Density in MgB2: A True Bulk Property Or A Proximity Effect? F. Giubileo, D. Roditchev, W. Sacks, R. Lamy, D. X. Thanh, J. Klein, S. Miraglia, D. Fruchart, J. Marcus, and Ph. Monod Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 177008 [View PDF (391 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of Fluctuations on Vortex Lattice Structural Transitions in Superconductors A. Gurevich and V. G. Kogan Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 177009 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tc Suppression in Co-Doped Striped Cuprates C. Morais Smith, A. H. Castro Neto, and A. V. Balatsky Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 177010 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Frustration Driven Lattice Distortion: An NMR Investigation of Y2Mo2O7 Amit Keren and Jason S. Gardner Published 3 October 2001 (4 pages) 177201 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Partially Disordered Antiferromagnetic Phase in Ca3CoRhO6 S. Niitaka, K. Yoshimura, K. Kosuge, M. Nishi, and K. Kakurai Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 177202 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Excitations of the Field-Induced Quantum Soliton Lattice in CuGeO3 M. Enderle, H. M. Rønnow, D. F. McMorrow, L.-P. Regnault, G. Dhalenne, A. Revcholevschi, P. Vorderwisch, H. Schneider, P. Smeibidl, and M. Meißner Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 177203 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	139La NMR Investigation of Quasistatic Orbital Ordering in La1-xCaxMnO3 G. Papavassiliou, M. Belesi, M. Fardis, and C. Dimitropoulos Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 177204 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical Exponents at the Ferromagnetic Transition in Tetrakis(dimethylamino)ethylene- C60 (TDAE- C60) Aleš Omerzu, Madoka Tokumoto, Bosiljka Tadić, and Dragan Mihailovic Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 177205 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spinon-Holon Attraction in the Supersymmetric t-J Model with 1/r2 Interaction B. A. Bernevig, D. Giuliano, and R. B. Laughlin Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 177206 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Large Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity of Cu-O Chains Investigated by Third-Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy H. Kishida, M. Ono, K. Miura, H. Okamoto, M. Izumi, T. Manako, M. Kawasaki, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, T. Tohyama, K. Tsutsui, and S. Maekawa Published 8 October 2001 (4 pages) 177401 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total Energy Distribution of Field-Emitted Electrons from Al(100) Surface with Single-Atom Terminated Protrusion Y. Gohda and S. Watanabe Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 177601 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermi Surface of Bi(111) Measured by Photoemission Spectroscopy Christian R. Ast and Hartmut Höchst Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 177602 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Statistical Distinguishability between Unitary Operations A. Acín Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 177901 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	From Macroscopic Adhesion Energy to Molecular Bonds: A Test of the Theory Frédéric Pincet, Eric Perez, Jean-Christophe Loudet, and Luc Lebeau Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 178101 [View PDF (541 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Lattice-Boltzmann Model for Magnetic Fluids Miki Hirabayashi, Yu Chen, and Hirotada Ohashi Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 178301 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular and Continuum Boundary Conditions for a Miscible Binary Fluid Colin Denniston and Mark O. Robbins Published 4 October 2001 (4 pages) 178302 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Avalanche Behavior in the Dynamics of Chemical Reactions J. R. Claycomb, K. E. Bassler, J. H. Miller, M. Nersesyan, and D. Luss Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 178303 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Double Emulsions: A Tool for Probing Thin-Film Metastability K. Pays, J. Giermanska-Kahn, B. Pouligny, J. Bibette, and F. Leal-Calderon Published 5 October 2001 (4 pages) 178304 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deformation and Flow of a Two-Dimensional Foam under Continuous Shear G. Debrégeas, H. Tabuteau, and J.-M di Meglio Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 178305 [View PDF (341 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Interfacial Properties of Polymeric Liquids” Sanat K. Kumar and Ronald L. Jones Published 3 October 2001 (1 pages) 179601 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aubouy, Manghi, and Raphaël Reply: Miguel Aubouy, Manoel Manghi, and Elie Raphaël Published 3 October 2001 (1 pages) 179602 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Half-Polarized Quantum Hall States” Ganpathy Murthy Published 3 October 2001 (1 pages) 179701 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Abrupt Appearance of the Domain Pattern and Fatigue of Thin Ferroelectric Films” Alexander K. Tagantsev Published 3 October 2001 (1 pages) 179702 [View PDF (34 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bratkovsky and Levanyuk Reply: A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk Published 3 October 2001 (1 pages) 179703 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Mesoscopic Kondo Effect in an Aharonov-Bohm Ring” A. A. Zvyagin Published 8 October 2001 (1 pages) 179704 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kang and Cho Reply: Kicheon Kang and Sam Young Cho Published 8 October 2001 (1 pages) 179705 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Reversible, Nanometer-Scale Conductance Transitions in an Organic Complex” Yanming Zhao, Asa Fein, Charles A. Peterson, and Dror Sarid Published 9 October 2001 (1 pages) 179706 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gao et al. Reply: H. J. Gao, K. Sohlberg, Z. Q. Xue, H. Y. Chen, S. M. Hou, L. P. Ma, X. W. Fang, and S. J. Pennycook Published 9 October 2001 (1 pages) 179707 [View PDF (28 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]