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  • 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

LETTERS

General Physics

•	Approximate Boost of the Relativistic Two-Body Problem in the Instantaneous Formalism S. J. Wallace Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 180401 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal vs Quantum Decoherence in Double Well Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates L. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 180402 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical Foundations of Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics Christian Beck Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 180601 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Spin Susceptibility of Neutron Matter at Zero Temperature S. Fantoni, A. Sarsa, and K. E. Schmidt Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 181101 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perturbative Finiteness in Spin-Foam Quantum Gravity Louis Crane, Alejandro Perez, and Carlo Rovelli Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 181301 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Electron-Spin Precession in a Plane Electromagnetic Wave V. V. Tikhomirov Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 181801 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton Stability in Six Dimensions Thomas Appelquist, Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Eduardo Pontón, and Ho-Ung Yee Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 181802 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improved Upper Limits on the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decays B → Kℓ+ℓ- and B → K*(892)ℓ+ℓ- S. Anderson et al. (CLEO Collaboration) Published 15 October 2001 (5 pages) 181803 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the Beam-Spin Azimuthal Asymmetry Associated with Deeply-Virtual Compton Scattering A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration) Published 10 October 2001 (5 pages) 182001 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Exclusive Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering in Polarized Electron Beam Asymmetry Measurements S. Stepanyan et al. (CLAS Collaboration) Published 10 October 2001 (5 pages) 182002 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Identified Particle Elliptic Flow in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[sNN]  =  130 GeV C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration) Published 10 October 2001 (6 pages) 182301 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Explosive Decomposition in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions O. Scavenius, A. Dumitru, and A. D. Jackson Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 182302 [View PDF (260 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective Dipole Bremsstrahlung in Fusion Reactions V. Baran, D. M. Brink, M. Colonna, and M. Di Toro Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages) 182501 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Photofissility of Actinide Nuclei at Intermediate Energies A. Deppman, O. A. Tavares, S. B. Duarte, E. C. de Oliveira, J. D. Arruda-Neto, S. R. de Pina, V. P. Likhachev, O. Rodriguez, J. Mesa, and M. Gonçalves Published 9 October 2001 (4 pages) 182701 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Stick-Slip Dynamics of a Stressed Ion Crystal T. B. Mitchell, J. J. Bollinger, W. M. Itano, and D. H. Dubin Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 183001 [View PDF (660 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cyclic Population Transfer in Quantum Systems with Broken Symmetry Petr Král and Moshe Shapiro Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages) 183002 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Magnetochiral Birefringence M. Vallet, R. Ghosh, A. Le Floch, T. Ruchon, F. Bretenaker, and J.-Y. Thépot Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 183003 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic Fine Structure and Resonance Effects in Electron-Ion Recombination and Excitation of ( e + C IV) Anil K. Pradhan, Guo Xin Chen, Sultana N. Nahar, and Hong Lin Zhang Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages) 183201 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bridging the Cluster-to-Bulk Divide: Electron Attachment Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Reveals Geometrical Shell Closings in (SF6) n Clusters (n  =  2 – 550) Oddur Ingólfsson and Alec M. Wodtke Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages) 183401 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Cascade of Photons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots E. Moreau, I. Robert, L. Manin, V. Thierry-Mieg, J. M. Gérard, and I. Abram Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages) 183601 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interferometric Signatures of Single Molecules Taras Plakhotnik and Viktor Palm Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 183602 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	High-Order Harmonic Generation in Aligned Molecules R. Velotta, N. Hay, M. B. Mason, M. Castillejo, and J. P. Marangos Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 183901 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Focusing versus Defocusing Nonlinearities due to Parametric Wave Mixing P. Di Trapani, A. Bramati, S. Minardi, W. Chinaglia, C. Conti, S. Trillo, J. Kilius, and G. Valiulis Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 183902 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Selective Excitation of Localized Modes in Active Random Media C. Vanneste and P. Sebbah Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 183903 [View PDF (530 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Acoustic Attenuation by Two-Dimensional Arrays of Rigid Cylinders You-Yu Chen and Zhen Ye Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 184301 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Does Turbulent Convection Feel the Shape of the Container? Z. A. Daya and R. E. Ecke Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 184501 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Bunched Crystalline Ion Beams U. Schramm, T. Schätz, and D. Habs Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages) 184801 [View PDF (470 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Suppression of Transport Cross Phase by Strongly Sheared Flow P. W. Terry, D. E. Newman, and A. S. Ware Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages) 185001 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical Interpretation of Alfvén Cascades in Tokamaks with Nonmonotonic q Profiles H. L. Berk, D. N. Borba, B. N. Breizman, S. D. Pinches, and S. E. Sharapov Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 185002 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-Frequency Responses and Wave Dispersion in Dusty Plasmas V. N. Tsytovich, U. de Angelis, and R. Bingham Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 185003 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of Electromagnetic Postsolitons in Plasmas N. M. Naumova, S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, D. Farina, K. Nishihara, F. Pegoraro, H. Ruhl, and A. S. Sakharov Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 185004 [View PDF (611 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Evolutions of Competition of Multiple-Spin-Exchange Interactions and Structure in Submonolayer Solid 3He Film Adsorbed on Grafoil Masashi Morishita and Takeo Takagi Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 185301 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Roton Excitation Spectrum in Liquid Helium II V. I. Kruglov and M. J. Collett Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 185302 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ion Fluctuations within an Aqueous Microdroplet in an Apolar Medium Yu-Jane Sheng and Heng-Kwong Tsao Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 185501 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of Hydrogen Platelets in Silicon Determined by Polarized Raman Spectroscopy E. V. Lavrov and J. Weber Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 185502 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sharp Rigid to Floppy Phase Transition Induced by Dangling Ends in a Network Glass Y. Wang, J. Wells, D. G. Georgiev, P. Boolchand, Koblar Jackson, and M. Micoulaut Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 185503 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dewetting of Highly Elastic Thin Polymer Films Günter Reiter Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 186101 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Step Dynamics in 3D Crystal Shape Relaxation K. Thürmer, J. E. Reutt-Robey, Ellen D. Williams, M. Uwaha, A. Emundts, and H. P. Bonzel Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 186102 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Copper/Diamond Adhesion and Hydrogen Termination Xiao-Gang Wang and John R. Smith Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 186103 [View PDF (646 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Cellular Dynamical Mean Field Approach to Strongly Correlated Systems Gabriel Kotliar, Sergej Y. Savrasov, Gunnar Pálsson, and Giulio Biroli Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 186401 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diagrammatic Quantum Monte Carlo for Two-Body Problems: Applied to Excitons E. A. Burovski, A. S. Mishchenko, N. V. Prokof'ev, and B. V. Svistunov Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 186402 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interaction-Induced Restoration of Phase Coherence A. A. Clerk, P. W. Brouwer, and V. Ambegaokar Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 186801 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractional Surface Doping by Topological Neutral Wall Intersections on Ge(111) G. Ballabio, A. Goldoni, S. Modesti, and E. Tosatti Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages) 186802 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modeling Two-Roton Bound State Formation in the Fractional Quantum Hall System Tarun Kanti Ghosh and G. Baskaran Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages) 186803 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling Analysis of Magnetic-Field-Tuned Phase Transitions in One-Dimensional Josephson Junction Arrays Watson Kuo and C. D. Chen Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages) 186804 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical Offset Charges in Single-Electron Transistors D. E. Grupp, T. Zhang, G. J. Dolan, and Ned S. Wingreen Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages) 186805 [View PDF (449 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermi Liquid to Luttinger Liquid Transition at the Edge of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas M. Hilke, D. C. Tsui, M. Grayson, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 186806 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic Transport in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays: The Effect of Structural Disorder on Scaling Behavior Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Xiao-Min Lin, and Heinrich M. Jaeger Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 186807 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant Magnetoresistance by Exchange Springs in DyFe2/YFe2 Superlattices S. N. Gordeev, J.-M. L. Beaujour, G. J. Bowden, B. D. Rainford, P. A. de Groot, R. C. Ward, M. R. Wells, and A. G. Jansen Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 186808 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconductivity at 1 K in Cd2Re2O7 M. Hanawa, Y. Muraoka, T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara, J. Yamaura, and Z. Hiroi Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 187001 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of the Roughness Exponent in Elastic Strings at the Depinning Threshold Alberto Rosso and Werner Krauth Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages) 187002 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoresistance of Proximity-Coupled Au Wires D. A. Dikin, M. J. Black, and V. Chandrasekhar Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 187003 [View PDF (464 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic and Superconducting Instabilities of the Hubbard Model at the Van Hove Filling Carsten Honerkamp and Manfred Salmhofer Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 187004 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous Thermal Hysteresis in Magnetization and Resistivity of La1-xSrxMnO3 Joonghoe Dho, W. S. Kim, and N. H. Hur Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 187201 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipationless Spin Transport in Thin Film Ferromagnets Jürgen König, Martin Chr. Bønsager, and A. H. MacDonald Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 187202 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin Tunneling via Dislocations in Mn12 Acetate Crystals E. M. Chudnovsky and D. A. Garanin Published 15 October 2001 (4 pages) 187203 [View PDF (363 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nature of the Ordering in the Three-Dimensional XY Spin Glass Hikaru Kawamura and Mai Suan Li Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 187204 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Far-Infrared Optical Response of Neutral-Ionic Phase Transition in an Organic Charge-Transfer Complex Y. Okimoto, S. Horiuchi, E. Saitoh, R. Kumai, and Y. Tokura Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages) 187401 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Triplet-Exciton Generation Mechanism in a New Soluble (Red-Phase) Polydiacetylene G. Lanzani, G. Cerullo, M. Zavelani-Rossi, S. De Silvestri, Davide Comoretto, Gianfranco Musso, and Giovanna Dellepiane Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages) 187402 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infrared Photoemission from a Pure Gold Surface: Validation of the Lucky-Electron Model F. Pisani, J. L. Fabre, S. Guizard, P. Palianov, Ph. Martin, F. Glotin, and J. M. Ortega Published 11 October 2001 (4 pages) 187403 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dislocation Related Photoluminescence in Silicon A. T. Blumenau, R. Jones, S. Öberg, P. R. Briddon, and T. Frauenheim Published 12 October 2001 (4 pages) 187404 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Surrogate Test for Pseudoperiodic Time Series Data Michael Small, Dejin Yu, and Robert G. Harrison Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 188101 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vibrational Energy Transfer in Helices David M. Leitner Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 188102 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gelation in Physically Associating Polymer Solutions Sanat K. Kumar and Jack F. Douglas Published 10 October 2001 (4 pages) 188301 [View PDF (324 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition from Self-Replicating Behavior to Stationary Patterns Induced by Concentration-Dependent Diffusivities Marc R. Roussel and Jichang Wang Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 188302 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Universal Fluctuations in Correlated Systems” B. Zheng and S. Trimper Published 11 October 2001 (1 pages) 188901 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bramwell et al. Reply: S. T. Bramwell, K. Christensen, J.-Y. Fortin, P. C. Holdsworth, H. J. Jensen, S. Lise, J. M. López, M. Nicodemi, J.-F. Pinton, and M. Sellitto Published 11 October 2001 (1 pages) 188902 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Superlattice, Rhombus, Square, and Hexagonal Standing Waves in Magnetically Driven Ferrofluid Surface” C. Wagner and H. W. Müller Published 15 October 2001 (1 pages) 189401 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “X-Ray Anomalous Scattering Study of a Charge-Ordered State in NaV2O5” Joaquin Garcia and Maurizio Benfatto Published 10 October 2001 (1 pages) 189701 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “X-Ray Anomalous Scattering Study of a Charge-Ordered State in NaV2O5” J. E. Lorenzo, S. Bos, S. Grenier, H. Renevier, and S. Ravy Published 10 October 2001 (1 pages) 189702 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nakao et al. Reply: H. Nakao, K. Ohwada, N. Takesue, Y. Fujii, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda, M. v. Zimmermann, J. P. Hill, D. Gibbs, J. C. Woicik, I. Koyama, and Y. Murakami Published 10 October 2001 (1 pages) 189703 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]