• LETTERS
  • General Physics
  • 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

•	Topological Phases near a Triple Degeneracy Joseph Samuel and Abhishek Dhar Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages) 260401 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing the Strong Boundary Shape Dependence of the Casimir Force Thorsten Emig, Andreas Hanke, Ramin Golestanian, and Mehran Kardar Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 260402 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	d̅ and 3He̅ Production in sqrt[sNN]  =  130  GeV  Au+Au Collisions C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration) Published 7 December 2001 (6 pages) 262301 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of Inclusive Antiprotons from Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[sNN]  =  130 GeV C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration) Published 7 December 2001 (6 pages) 262302 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Single Rotational Product Propensity in the Photodissociation of HOD S. A. Harich, X. F. Yang, X. Yang, R. van Harrevelt, and M. C. van Hemert Published 4 December 2001 (4 pages) 263001 [View PDF (279 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement of Ultrafast Ionization Dynamics of Gases by Multipulse Interferometric Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating Craig W. Siders, George Rodriguez, Jennifer L. Siders, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, and Antoinette J. Taylor Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages) 263002 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Manifestation of Charge-Density Fluctuations in Metal Clusters: Suppression of the Ionization Channel Oleg Kidun and Jamal Berakdar Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 263401 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Onset of Convection near a Point Source of Heat and Gravity Vladimir Shtern and Fazle Hussain Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages) 264301 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Direct Observation of Mass Oscillations Due to Ablative Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Plastic Targets Y. Aglitskiy, A. L. Velikovich, M. Karasik, V. Serlin, C. J. Pawley, A. J. Schmitt, S. P. Obenschain, A. N. Mostovych, J. H. Gardner, and N. Metzler Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 265001 [View PDF (540 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Direct Observation of Feedout-Related Mass Oscillations in Plastic Targets Y. Aglitskiy, A. L. Velikovich, M. Karasik, V. Serlin, C. J. Pawley, A. J. Schmitt, S. P. Obenschain, A. N. Mostovych, J. H. Gardner, and N. Metzler Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 265002 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling of Collisionless Forced Reconnection Xiaogang Wang, A. Bhattacharjee, and Z. W. Ma Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages) 265003 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Dissociation of Water under Pressure Eric Schwegler, Giulia Galli, François Gygi, and Randolph Q. Hood Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages) 265501 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy Dissipation in Atomic Force Microscopy and Atomic Loss Processes Peter M. Hoffmann, Steve Jeffery, John B. Pethica, H. Özgür Özer, and Ahmet Oral Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 265502 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aging, Phase Ordering, and Conformal Invariance Malte Henkel, Michel Pleimling, Claude Godrèche, and Jean-Marc Luck Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages) 265701 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-Consistent Mode-Coupling Theory for Self-Diffusion in Quantum Liquids David R. Reichman and Eran Rabani Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 265702 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chain Formation of Metal Atoms Sune R. Bahn and Karsten W. Jacobsen Published 4 December 2001 (4 pages) 266101 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Common Origin for Surface Reconstruction and the Formation of Chains of Metal Atoms R. H. Smit, C. Untiedt, A. I. Yanson, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek Published 4 December 2001 (4 pages) 266102 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Imaging Water Dissociation on TiO2(110) I. M. Brookes, C. A. Muryn, and G. Thornton Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 266103 [View PDF (586 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxygen Vacancies as Active Sites for Water Dissociation on Rutile TiO2(110) R. Schaub, P. Thostrup, N. Lopez, E. Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, J. K. Nørskov, and F. Besenbacher Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 266104 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stress-Driven Reconstruction of an Oxide Surface: The Anatase TiO2(001)-(1 × 4) Surface Michele Lazzeri and Annabella Selloni Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages) 266105 [View PDF (338 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Long Range Charge Ordering in Magnetite Below the Verwey Transition J. P. Wright, J. P. Attfield, and P. G. Radaelli Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 266401 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metal-Insulator Transition in a 2D Electron Gas: Equivalence of Two Approaches for Determining the Critical Point A. A. Shashkin, S. V. Kravchenko, and T. M. Klapwijk Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 266402 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Saturation of Electrical Resistivity in Metals at Large Temperatures M. Calandra and O. Gunnarsson Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages) 266601 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Studies of Spin-Orbit Scattering in Noble-Metal Nanoparticles Using Energy-Level Tunneling Spectroscopy J. R. Petta and D. C. Ralph Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 266801 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear and Field-Independent Relation between Vortex Core State Energy and Gap in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ B. W. Hoogenboom, K. Kadowaki, B. Revaz, M. Li, Ch. Renner, and Ø. Fischer Published 4 December 2001 (4 pages) 267001 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deroughening of a 1D Domain Wall in an Ultrathin Magnetic Film by a Correlated Defect T. Shibauchi, L. Krusin-Elbaum, V. M. Vinokur, B. Argyle, D. Weller, and B. D. Terris Published 5 December 2001 (4 pages) 267201 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab Initio Transport Theory for Digital Ferromagnetic Heterostructures Stefano Sanvito and Nicola A. Hill Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 267202 [View PDF (775 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Metallic Polymers of C60 Inside Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes T. Pichler, H. Kuzmany, H. Kataura, and Y. Achiba Published 4 December 2001 (4 pages) 267401 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Anisotropy of Quasiparticle Lifetimes and the Role of Disorder in Graphite from Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy Gunnar Moos, Cornelius Gahl, Roman Fasel, Martin Wolf, and Tobias Hertel Published 6 December 2001 (4 pages) 267402 [View PDF (317 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Teleportation as a Depolarizing Quantum Channel, Relative Entropy, and Classical Capacity Garry Bowen and Sougato Bose Published 4 December 2001 (4 pages) 267901 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Description of Double Giant Dipole Resonances within the Phonon Damping Model C. A. Bertulani, P. F. Bortignon, V. Yu. Ponomarev, and V. V. Voronov Published 6 December 2001 (1 pages) 269201 [View PDF (34 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dinh Dang, Kim Au, and Arima Reply: N. Dinh Dang, V. Kim Au, and A. Arima Published 6 December 2001 (1 pages) 269202 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “First-Principles Calculation of Transport Properties of a Molecular Device” Eldon G. Emberly and George Kirczenow Published 6 December 2001 (1 pages) 269701 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Publisher's Note: Comment on “Local Observations of Phase Singularities in Optical Fields in Waveguide Structures” [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 259401 (2001)] Brian Vohnsen and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi Published 7 December 2001 (1 pages) 269901 [View PDF (21 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Colloidal Interactions in Suspensions of Rods [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 088301 (2001)] Keng-hui Lin, John C. Crocker, Ana C. Zeri, and A. G. Yodh Published 7 December 2001 (1 pages) 269902 [View PDF (19 kB) ]