• 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

•	Local Vortex Generation and the Surface Mode Spectrum of Large Bose-Einstein Condensates J. R. Anglin Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages) 240401 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inequivalence of Pure State Ensembles for Open Quantum Systems: The Preferred Ensembles Are Those That Are Physically Realizable H. M. Wiseman and John A. Vaccaro Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages) 240402 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Degenerate Fermion Gas Heating by Hole Creation Eddy Timmermans Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages) 240403 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	1/f Noise and Extreme Value Statistics T. Antal, M. Droz, G. Györgyi, and Z. Rácz Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 240601 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-Time Green's Functions and the Spectral Density Method in Nonextensive Classical Statistical Mechanics A. Cavallo, F. Cosenza, and L. De Cesare Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 240602 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Probing Neutron-Star Superfluidity with Gravitational-Wave Data N. Andersson and G. L. Comer Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 241101 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Measurement of the B →  J/ψK*(892) Decay Amplitudes B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration) Published 20 November 2001 (7 pages) 241801 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Diffractive J/ψ Production at the Fermilab Tevatron T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration) Published 21 November 2001 (6 pages) 241802 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for the Decay B0 →γγ B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration) Published 27 November 2001 (7 pages) 241803 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Flavor-Spin Symmetry Estimate of the Nucleon Tensor Charge Leonard Gamberg and Gary R. Goldstein Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 242001 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Top-Quark Spin Correlations at Hadron Colliders: Predictions at Next-to-Leading Order QCD W. Bernreuther, A. Brandenburg, Z. G. Si, and P. Uwer Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 242002 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Antilambda Production in Au+Au Collisions at 11.7A GeV/c B. B. Back et al. (The E917 Collaboration) Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 242301 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision Measurement of the Spin-Dependent Asymmetry in the Threshold Region of 3H→e(e→, e′) F. Xiong et al. Published 27 November 2001 (5 pages) 242501 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Photodetachment of H- in a Strong Infrared Laser Field Rainer Reichle, Hanspeter Helm, and Igor Yu. Kiyan Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 243001 [View PDF (192 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Photoionization of Metastable O+ Ions: Experiment and Theory A. M. Covington, A. Aguilar, I. R. Covington, M. Gharaibeh, C. A. Shirley, R. A. Phaneuf, I. Álvarez, C. Cisneros, G. Hinojosa, J. D. Bozek, I. Dominguez, M. M. Sant'Anna, A. S. Schlachter, N. Berrah, S. N. Nahar, and B. M. McLaughlin Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 243002 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of the Isomer Effect on Charge Transfer from C3H4 Molecules (Allene and Propyne) at keV Energies T. Kusakabe, S. Satoh, H. Tawara, and M. Kimura Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 243201 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers Subject to Delayed Optical Feedback: The Short Cavity Regime T. Heil, I. Fischer, W. Elsäßer, and A. Gavrielides Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 243901 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Control of High-Order Harmonics with Chirped Femtosecond Laser Pulses Dong Gun Lee, Jung-Hoon Kim, Kyung-Han Hong, and Chang Hee Nam Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages) 243902 [View PDF (767 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effects of Interparticle Force on the Packing of Spherical Granular Material A. J. Forsyth, S. R. Hutton, C. F. Osborne, and M. J. Rhodes Published 26 November 2001 (3 pages) 244301 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pattern-Dislocation-Type Dynamical Instability in 1D Optical Feedback Kerr Media with Gaussian Transverse Pumping E. Louvergneaux Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 244501 [View PDF (716 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy Budget in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection R. M. Kerr Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 244502 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of Plasma Focusing of a 28.5 GeV Positron Beam J. S. Ng, P. Chen, H. Baldis, P. Bolton, D. Cline, W. Craddock, C. Crawford, F. J. Decker, C. Field, Y. Fukui, V. Kumar, R. Iverson, F. King, R. E. Kirby, K. Nakajima, R. Noble, A. Ogata, P. Raimondi, D. Walz, and A. W. Weidemann Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 244801 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Plasma Equilibrium and Confinement in a Tokamak with Nearly Zero Central Current Density in JT-60U T. Fujita, T. Oikawa, T. Suzuki, S. Ide, Y. Sakamoto, Y. Koide, T. Hatae, O. Naito, A. Isayama, N. Hayashi, and H. Shirai Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages) 245001 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	MHD Stability of Advanced Tokamak Scenarios with Reversed Central Current: An Explanation of the “Current Hole” G. T. Huysmans, T. C. Hender, N. C. Hawkes, and X. Litaudon Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 245002 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetry-Breaking Induced Transport in the Vicinity of a Magnetic Island K. C. Shaing Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 245003 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Transition between Orbital Orderings in YVO3 G. R. Blake, T. T. Palstra, Y. Ren, A. A. Nugroho, and A. A. Menovsky Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 245501 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuation and Dissipation in Liquid-Crystal Electroconvection Walter I. Goldburg, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt, and Hamid Kellay Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 245502 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultraslow Dynamics and Stress Relaxation in the Aging of a Soft Glassy System Laurence Ramos and Luca Cipelletti Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 245503 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal Scaling Laws of Diffusion in a Binary Fluid Mixture Alok Samanta, Sk. Musharaf Ali, and Swapan K. Ghosh Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 245901 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanism of the Poisoning Action Of Sulfur on Catalytically Active Pd(100) M. Rutkowski, D. Wetzig, and H. Zacharias Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 246101 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct Observation of Surface Alloying and Interface Roughening: Growth of Au on Fe(001) M. M. Bischoff, T. Yamada, A. J. Quinn, R. G. van der Kraan, and H. van Kempen Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages) 246102 [View PDF (537 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxygen Abstraction from Dioxygen on the Al(111) Surface Andrew J. Komrowski, Jonathan Z. Sexton, Andrew C. Kummel, Marcello Binetti, Olaf Weiße, and Eckart Hasselbrink Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 246103 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous Nanoscale Corrugation of Ion-Eroded SiO2: The Role of Ion-Irradiation-Enhanced Viscous Flow Christopher C. Umbach, Randall L. Headrick, and Kee-Chul Chang Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 246104 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Exciton Rabi Oscillation in a Single Quantum Dot H. Kamada, H. Gotoh, J. Temmyo, T. Takagahara, and H. Ando Published 16 November 2001 (4 pages) 246401 [View PDF (272 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of the Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior of SrRuO3 M. S. Laad and E. Müller-Hartmann Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 246402 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Restrictions on the Coherence of the Ultrafast Optical Emission from an Electron-Hole-Pair Condensate A. Olaya-Castro, F. J. Rodríguez, L. Quiroga, and C. Tejedor Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 246403 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Close Correlation between the Magnetic Moments, Lattice Distortions, and Hybridization in LaMnO3 and La1-xSrxMnO3+δ: Doping-Dependent Magnetic Circular X-Ray Dichroism Study T. Koide, H. Miyauchi, J. Okamoto, T. Shidara, T. Sekine, T. Saitoh, A. Fujimori, H. Fukutani, M. Takano, and Y. Takeda Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 246404 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous Quasiparticle Lifetime in Graphite: Band Structure Effects Catalin D. Spataru, Miguel A. Cazalilla, Angel Rubio, Lorin X. Benedict, Pedro M. Echenique, and Steven G. Louie Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages) 246405 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear-Scaling Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations A. J. Williamson, Randolph Q. Hood, and J. C. Grossman Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 246406 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rabi Oscillations in a Josephson-Junction Charge Two-Level System Y. Nakamura, Yu. A. Pashkin, and J. S. Tsai Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 246601 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero-Bias Anomaly in Disordered Wires E. G. Mishchenko, A. V. Andreev, and L. I. Glazman Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 246801 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ghost Excitonic Insulator Transition in Layered Graphite D. V. Khveshchenko Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages) 246802 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoresistance of Carbon Nanotubes: From Molecular to Mesoscopic Fingerprints Stephan Roche and Riichiro Saito Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 246803 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Implications of Reflectance Measurements on the Mechanism for Superconductivity in MgB2 F. Marsiglio Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages) 247001 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proximity Effects and Quantum Dissipation in the Chains of YBa2Cu3O6+x Dirk K. Morr and Alexander V. Balatsky Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages) 247002 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Superconductivity in the Filled Cage Compounds Ba6Ge25 and Ba4Na2Ge25 F. M. Grosche, H. Q. Yuan, W. Carrillo-Cabrera, S. Paschen, C. Langhammer, F. Kromer, G. Sparn, M. Baenitz, Yu. Grin, and F. Steglich Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages) 247003 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations and Superconductivity in Ferromagnetic ZrZn2 from Ab Initio Calculations G. Santi, S. B. Dugdale, and T. Jarlborg Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 247004 [View PDF (363 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrodynamic Instability of the Flux-Antiflux Interface in Type-II Superconductors L. M. Fisher, P. E. Goa, M. Baziljevich, T. H. Johansen, A. L. Rakhmanov, and V. A. Yampol'skii Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 247005 [View PDF (766 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase Diagram of a Disordered Boson Hubbard Model in Two Dimensions Ji-Woo Lee, Min-Chul Cha, and Doochul Kim Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 247006 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shapiro Step Response in the Coherent Josephson Flux Flow State of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Yu. I. Latyshev, M. B. Gaifullin, T. Yamashita, M. Machida, and Yuji Matsuda Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 247007 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectroscopic Identification and Direct Imaging of Interfacial Magnetic Spins H. Ohldag, T. J. Regan, J. Stöhr, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, J. Lüning, C. Stamm, S. Anders, and R. L. White Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 247201 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	17O NMR Study of q  =  0 Spin Excitations in a Nearly Ideal S  =  1 / 2 1D Heisenberg Antiferromagnet, Sr2CuO3, up to 800 K K. R. Thurber, A. W. Hunt, T. Imai, and F. C. Chou Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 247202 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Telecloning of Continuous Quantum Variables P. van Loock and Samuel L. Braunstein Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 247901 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherence-Preserving Quantum Bits Dave Bacon, Kenneth R. Brown, and K. Birgitta Whaley Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 247902 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Cloning Machines with Phase-Conjugate Input Modes N. J. Cerf and S. Iblisdir Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 247903 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temporal Map Formation in the Barn Owl’s Brain Christian Leibold, Richard Kempter, and J. Leo van Hemmen Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 248101 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Picometer-Scale Dynamical X-Ray Imaging of Single DNA Molecules Yuji C. Sasaki, Yasuaki Okumura, Shinichi Adachi, Hitoshi Suda, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Naoto Yagi Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages) 248102 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extracting Hidden Information from Knowledge Networks Sergei Maslov and Yi-Cheng Zhang Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages) 248701 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals by Liquid Crystals” Byoungchoo Park, J. W. Wu, and Hideo Takezoe Published 27 November 2001 (1 pages) 249601 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reznikov et al. Reply: Yuriy Reznikov, Oksana Ostroverkhova, Kenneth D. Singer, Jae-Hoon Kim, Satyendra Kumar, Oleg Lavrentovich, Bin Wang, and John L. West Published 27 November 2001 (1 pages) 249602 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens” G. W. 't Hooft Published 20 November 2001 (1 pages) 249701 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pendry Replies: John Pendry Published 20 November 2001 (1 pages) 249702 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Some Problems with Negative Refraction John Michael Williams Published 20 November 2001 (1 pages) 249703 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pendry Replies: John Pendry Published 20 November 2001 (1 pages) 249704 [View PDF (31 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Publisher's Note: Solution of the Relativistic Dirac-Morse Problem[Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 210405 (2001)] A. D. Alhaidari Published 19 November 2001 (1 pages) 249901 [View PDF (20 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Shape of a Liquid Front upon Dewetting [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 196101 (2001)] R. Seemann, S. Herminghaus, and K. Jacobs Published 21 November 2001 (1 pages) 249902 [View PDF (24 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Fermi-Edge Singularities in AlxGa1-xAs Quantum Wells: Extrinsic Versus Many-Body Scattering Processes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 852 (2000)] T. Mélin and F. Laruelle Published 26 November 2001 (1 pages) 249903 [View PDF (38 kB) ]