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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.
• ERRATA

LETTERS

General Physics

•	Superfluid-to-Solid Crossover in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate David L. Feder and Charles W. Clark Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 190401 [View PDF (589 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic Instability of a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate Subhasis Sinha and Yvan Castin Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 190402 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Constraining Isocurvature Perturbations with Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Martin Bucher, Kavilan Moodley, and Neil Turok Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 191301 [View PDF (319 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Determination of the Quadratic Slope Parameter in η→3π0 Decay W. B. Tippens et al. (Crystal Ball Collaboration) Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 192001 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Revealing the Black-Body Regime of Small- x Deep-Inelastic Scattering through Final-State Signals L. Frankfurt, V. Guzey, M. McDermott, and M. Strikman Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 192301 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Gluon Production in Very-High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions Alex Krasnitz, Yasushi Nara, and Raju Venugopalan Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 192302 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Alpha Cluster Condensation in 12C and 16O A. Tohsaki, H. Horiuchi, P. Schuck, and G. Röpke Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 192501 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Field-Free Orientation of Molecules Mette Machholm and Niels E. Henriksen Published 19 October 2001 (4 pages) 193001 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Ultrafast Time-Resolved Soft X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Dissociating Br2 Lora Nugent-Glandorf, Michael Scheer, David A. Samuels, Anneliese M. Mulhisen, Edward R. Grant, Xueming Yang, Veronica M. Bierbaum, and Stephen R. Leone Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 193002 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ionization Potential of the Helium Atom Vladimir Korobov and Alexander Yelkhovsky Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 193003 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Bridges of Periodic Solutions and Tori in Semiconductor Lasers Subject to Delay D. Pieroux, T. Erneux, B. Haegeman, K. Engelborghs, and D. Roose Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 193901 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pair Creation and an X-Ray Free Electron Laser R. Alkofer, M. B. Hecht, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt, and D. V. Vinnik Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 193902 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stable Droplets and Growth Laws Close to the Modulational Instability of a Domain Wall Damià Gomila, Pere Colet, Gian-Luca Oppo, and Maxi San Miguel Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 194101 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Hermitian Random Matrices and the Calogero-Sutherland Model Pragya Shukla Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 194102 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Looking for Self-Organized Critical Behavior in Avalanches of Slightly Cohesive Powders M. A. Quintanilla, J. M. Valverde, A. Castellanos, and R. E. Viturro Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 194301 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	An Integrable Shallow Water Equation with Linear and Nonlinear Dispersion Holger R. Dullin, Georg A. Gottwald, and Darryl D. Holm Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 194501 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Quasistationary Magnetic Fluctuation Control in the Reversed Field Pinch: A Proof of Principle Experiment T. Bolzonella, P. Martin, S. Martini, L. Marrelli, R. Pasqualotto, and D. Terranova Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 195001 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Merging of Plasma Currents J. Bergmans and T. J. Schep Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 195002 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonambipolarity of Fluctuation-Driven Fluxes and Its Effect on the Radial Electric Field W. M. Solomon and M. G. Shats Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 195003 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of Dispersive Waves in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection B. N. Rogers, R. E. Denton, J. F. Drake, and M. A. Shay Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 195004 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Direct Observation of Amorphous to Amorphous Apparently First-Order Phase Transition in Fused Quartz G. D. Mukherjee, S. N. Vaidya, and V. Sugandhi Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 195501 [View PDF (240 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deviations from Dynamic Dilution in the Terminal Relaxation of Star Polymers S. Shanbhag, R. G. Larson, J. Takimoto, and M. Doi Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 195502 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	A New Vogel-Like Law: Ionic Conductivity, Dielectric Relaxation, and Viscosity near the Glass Transition John T. Bendler, John J. Fontanella, and Michael F. Shlesinger Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 195503 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab Initio Simulations of Photoinduced Interconversions of Oxygen Deficient Centers in Amorphous Silica Davide Donadio, Marco Bernasconi, and Mauro Boero Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 195504 [View PDF (401 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reconstruction of the Shapes of Gold Nanocrystals Using Coherent X-Ray Diffraction I. K. Robinson, I. A. Vartanyants, G. J. Williams, M. A. Pfeifer, and J. A. Pitney Published 19 October 2001 (4 pages) 195505 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of a Stable Decagonal Quasicrystalline Al-Pd-Mn Surface Layer D. Naumović, P. Aebi, L. Schlapbach, C. Beeli, K. Kunze, T. A. Lograsso, and D. W. Delaney Published 19 October 2001 (4 pages) 195506 [View PDF (523 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Patterns in Hybrid Nematic Liquid-Crystal Films: Topography and Topology Darren R. Link, Michi Nakata, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, and Hideo Takezoe Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 195507 [View PDF (560 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Visualizing Photochemical Dynamics in Solution through Picosecond X-Ray Scattering Richard Neutze, Remco Wouts, Simone Techert, Jan Davidsson, Menhard Kocsis, Adam Kirrander, Friedrich Schotte, and Michael Wulff Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 195508 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Athermal Character of Structural Phase Transitions Francisco J. Pérez-Reche, Eduard Vives, Lluís Mañosa, and Antoni Planes Published 24 October 2001 (4 pages) 195701 [View PDF (300 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is the Particle Current a Relevant Feature in Driven Lattice Gases? A. Achahbar, Pedro L. Garrido, J. Marro, and Miguel A. Muñoz Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 195702 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intrinsic Quantum Excitations of Low Temperature Glasses Vassiliy Lubchenko and Peter G. Wolynes Published 19 October 2001 (4 pages) 195901 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shape of a Liquid Front upon Dewetting R. Seemann, S. Herminghaus, and K. Jacobs Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 196101 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single Molecule Imaging and Vibrational Spectroscopy with a Chemically Modified Tip of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope J. R. Hahn and W. Ho Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 196102 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal Phase Boundary Shifts for Corner Wetting and Filling A. O. Parry, A. J. Wood, E. Carlon, and A. Drzewiński Published 19 October 2001 (4 pages) 196103 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Distinct Reaction Mechanisms in the Catalytic Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide on Rh(110): Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Density Functional Theory Studies C. Castellarin Cudia, Saw Wai Hla, G. Comelli, Ž. Šljivančanin, B. Hammer, A. Baraldi, K. C. Prince, and R. Rosei Published 19 October 2001 (4 pages) 196104 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adsorption Isotherms of Hydrogen: The Role of Thermal Fluctuations Jens Vorberg, Stephan Herminghaus, and Klaus Mecke Published 19 October 2001 (4 pages) 196105 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface Smoothing of Rough Amorphous Films by Irradiation-Induced Viscous Flow S. G. Mayr and R. S. Averback Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 196106 [View PDF (753 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Correlation Induced Paramagnetic Ground State in FeAl P. Mohn, C. Persson, P. Blaha, K. Schwarz, P. Novák, and H. Eschrig Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 196401 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	29Si NMR and Hidden Order in URu2Si2 O. O. Bernal, C. Rodrigues, A. Martinez, H. G. Lukefahr, D. E. MacLaughlin, A. A. Menovsky, and J. A. Mydosh Published 19 October 2001 (4 pages) 196402 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-Temperature Symmetry Breaking in the Electronic Band Structure of the Quasi-One-Dimensional Solid NbSe3 J. Schäfer, Eli Rotenberg, S. D. Kevan, P. Blaha, R. Claessen, and R. E. Thorne Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 196403 [View PDF (697 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge Excitations in Easy-Axis and Easy-Plane Quantum Hall Ferromagnets Koji Muraki, Tadashi Saku, and Yoshiro Hirayama Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 196801 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is there a dc Josephson Effect in Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems? Yogesh N. Joglekar and Allan H. MacDonald Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 196802 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-Dimensional Metallic Edge States in MoS2 M. V. Bollinger, J. V. Lauritsen, K. W. Jacobsen, J. K. Nørskov, S. Helveg, and F. Besenbacher Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 196803 [View PDF (392 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local Density of States in Zero-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures K. Kanisawa, M. J. Butcher, Y. Tokura, H. Yamaguchi, and Y. Hirayama Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 196804 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current-Path Properties of the Transport Anisotropy at Filling Factor 9/2 R. L. Willett, K. W. West, and L. N. Pfeiffer Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 196805 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle States around a Nonmagnetic Impurity in a d-Density-Wave State of High- Tc Cuprates Jian-Xin Zhu, Wonkee Kim, C. S. Ting, and J. P. Carbotte Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 197001 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Limits on Spin-Charge Separation from h/2e Fluxoids in Very Underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x J. C. Wynn, D. A. Bonn, B. W. Gardner, Yu-Ju Lin, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, J. R. Kirtley, and K. A. Moler Published 16 October 2001 (4 pages) 197002 [View PDF (329 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical Dynamics of a Vortex-Loop Model for the Superconducting Transition Vivek Aji and Nigel Goldenfeld Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 197003 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Insight into Enhanced Superconductivity in Metals near the Metal-Insulator Transition M. S. Osofsky, R. J. Soulen, J. H. Claassen, G. Trotter, H. Kim, and J. S. Horwitz Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 197004 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hysteretic Dynamics of Domain Walls at Finite Temperatures T. Nattermann, V. Pokrovsky, and V. M. Vinokur Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 197005 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Full Counting Statistics of Electron Transfer between Superconductors W. Belzig and Yu. V. Nazarov Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 197006 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conductivity of Underdoped YBa2Cu3O7-δ: Evidence for Incoherent Pair Correlations in the Pseudogap Regime B. Leridon, A. Défossez, J. Dumont, J. Lesueur, and J. P. Contour Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 197007 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin Currents in Magnetic Films C. Heide Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 197201 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin Dynamics of Sr14Cu24O41 Two-Leg Ladder Studied by Raman Spectroscopy A. Gozar, G. Blumberg, B. S. Dennis, B. S. Shastry, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 197202 [View PDF (265 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Electron Transmission through a Finite Quantum Spin Chain Y. Avishai and Y. Tokura Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 197203 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero-Temperature Responses of a 3D Spin Glass in a Magnetic Field F. Krzakala, J. Houdayer, E. Marinari, O. C. Martin, and G. Parisi Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 197204 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic Correlations and the Quantum Critical Point of UCu5-xPdx (x  =  1,1.5) M. C. Aronson, R. Osborn, R. Chau, M. B. Maple, B. D. Rainford, and A. P. Murani Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 197205 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Low-Entanglement Remote State Preparation Igor Devetak and Toby Berger Published 22 October 2001 (4 pages) 197901 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diversity of Vegetation Patterns and Desertification J. von Hardenberg, E. Meron, M. Shachak, and Y. Zarmi Published 18 October 2001 (4 pages) 198101 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical Conduction through Poly(dA)-Poly(dT) and Poly(dG)-Poly(dC) DNA Molecules K.-H. Yoo, D. H. Ha, J.-O. Lee, J. W. Park, Jinhee Kim, J. J. Kim, H.-Y. Lee, T. Kawai, and Han Yong Choi Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 198102 [View PDF (780 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	How Many Conformations Can a Protein Remember? Thomas M. Fink and Robin C. Ball Published 23 October 2001 (4 pages) 198103 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Instability of Elastic Filaments in Shear Flow Yields First-Normal-Stress Differences Leif E. Becker and Michael J. Shelley Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 198301 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Efficient Behavior of Small-World Networks Vito Latora and Massimo Marchiori Published 17 October 2001 (4 pages) 198701 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Deconfinement and the Hagedorn Transition in String Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1943 (2001)] Shyamoli Chaudhuri Published 17 October 2001 (1 pages) 199901 [View PDF (26 kB) ]