• 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

•	Storage Ring for Neutral Atoms J. A. Sauer, M. D. Barrett, and M. S. Chapman Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages) 270401 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical Point of a Weakly Interacting Two-Dimensional Bose Gas Nikolay Prokof'ev, Oliver Ruebenacker, and Boris Svistunov Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 270402 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low Energy Collective Modes of a Superfluid Trapped Atomic Fermi Gas G. M. Bruun and B. R. Mottelson Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 270403 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Using Entanglement Improves the Precision of Quantum Measurements G. Mauro D'Ariano, Paoloplacido Lo Presti, and Matteo G. Paris Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 270404 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal Dynamical Control of Quantum Mechanical Decay: Modulation of the Coupling to the Continuum A. G. Kofman and G. Kurizki Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 270405 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Droplet Nucleation and Domain Wall Motion in a Bounded Interval Robert S. Maier and D. L. Stein Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 270601 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular Iodine Clock Jun Ye, Long Sheng Ma, and John L. Hall Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 270801 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Antiproton-to-Proton Abundance Ratio between 4 and 50 GeV A. S. Beach, J. J. Beatty, A. Bhattacharyya, C. Bower, S. Coutu, M. A. DuVernois, A. W. Labrador, S. McKee, S. A. Minnick, D. Müller, J. Musser, S. Nutter, M. Schubnell, S. Swordy, G. Tarlé, and A. Tomasch Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 271101 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymptotic Normalization Coefficient of 8B from Breakup Reactions and the S17 Astrophysical Factor L. Trache, F. Carstoiu, C. A. Gagliardi, and R. E. Tribble Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 271102 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	3D Grazing Collision of Two Black Holes Miguel Alcubierre, Werner Benger, Bernd Brügmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Lars Nerger, Edward Seidel, and Ryoji Takahashi Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 271103 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Natural Quintessence with Gauge Coupling Unification A. de la Macorra and C. Stephan-Otto Published 13 December 2001 (3 pages) 271301 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Manifestation of a Nontrivial Vacuum in Discrete Light-Cone Quantization Takanori Sugihara and Masa-aki Taniguchi Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 271601 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for the Familon via B± → π±X0, B± → K±X0, and B0 → KS0X0 Decays R. Ammar et al. (CLEO Collaboration) Published 11 December 2001 (5 pages) 271801 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Parity Violation in Proton-Proton Scattering at 221 MeV A. R. Berdoz et al. (TRIUMF E497 Collaboration) Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 272301 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Description of the RHIC p⊥ Spectra in a Thermal Model with Expansion Wojciech Broniowski and Wojciech Florkowski Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 272302 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy of Multiply Ionized Atoms: Natural Radiative Lifetimes in Ce IV Z. G. Zhang, S. Svanberg, P. Quinet, P. Palmeri, and E. Biémont Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 273001 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Absolute Measurements and Theoretical Calculations of Photoionization Cross Sections along the Isonuclear Sequence of Multiply Charged Barium Ions J.-M. Bizau, D. Cubaynes, J.-M. Esteva, F. J. Wuilleumier, C. Blancard, J. Bruneau, J.-P. Champeaux, A. Compant La Fontaine, C. Couillaud, R. Marmoret, C. Rémond, D. Hitz, M. Delaunay, N. Haque, P. C. Deshmukh, H. L. Zhou, and S. T. Manson Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 273002 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Large Nondipole Effects in the Angular Distributions of K-Shell Photoelectrons from Molecular Nitrogen O. Hemmers, H. Wang, P. Focke, I. A. Sellin, D. W. Lindle, J. C. Arce, J. A. Sheehy, and P. W. Langhoff Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 273003 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic Imaging of Nuclear Wave Functions with Ultrashort UV Laser Pulses André D. Bandrauk and Szczepan Chelkowski Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 273004 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation of Rydberg Series in C60 M. Boyle, K. Hoffmann, C. P. Schulz, I. V. Hertel, R. D. Levine, and E. E. Campbell Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 273401 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Observation of Islands of Stability in Soft Wall Atom-Optics Billiards Ariel Kaplan, Nir Friedman, Mikkel Andersen, and Nir Davidson Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 274101 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Evidence for Detuning Induced Pattern Selection in Nonlinear Optics U. Bortolozzo, P. Villoresi, and P. L. Ramazza Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 274102 [View PDF (287 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sensitivity to Perturbations of a Time-Reversed Acoustic Wave in a Multiple Scattering Medium Arnaud Tourin, Arnaud Derode, and Mathias Fink Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 274301 [View PDF (259 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Perfectly Monodisperse Microbubbling by Capillary Flow Focusing Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo and José M. Gordillo Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 274501 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Low-Current, Vertical Blowup in a Stored Laser-Cooled Ion Beam N. Madsen, P. Bowe, J. S. Nielsen, L. E. Siegfried, and J. S. Hangst Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 274801 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-Confinement Regime at High βN Values Due to a Changed Behavior of the Neoclassical Tearing Modes S. Günter, A. Gude, M. Maraschek, S. Sesnic, H. Zohm, ASDEX Upgrade Team, and D. F. Howell Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 275001 [View PDF (517 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic Energy Penetration in the Self-Induced Transparency Regime of Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions M. Tushentsov, A. Kim, F. Cattani, D. Anderson, and M. Lisak Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 275002 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Efficient Multi-keV Underdense Laser-Produced Plasma Radiators C. A. Back, J. Grun, C. Decker, L. J. Suter, J. Davis, O. L. Landen, R. Wallace, W. W. Hsing, J. M. Laming, U. Feldman, M. C. Miller, and C. Wuest Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 275003 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Effect of Pressure on Statics, Dynamics, and Stability of Multielectron Bubbles J. Tempere, Isaac F. Silvera, and J. T. Devreese Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages) 275301 [View PDF (334 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Signature of Superfluid Turbulence D. Kivotides, J. C. Vassilicos, C. F. Barenghi, M. A. Khan, and D. C. Samuels Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 275302 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Experimental and Theoretical Identification of a New High-Pressure TiO2 Polymorph Natalia A. Dubrovinskaia, Leonid S. Dubrovinsky, Rajeev Ahuja, Vitaly B. Prokopenko, V. Dmitriev, H.-P. Weber, J. M. Osorio-Guillen, and Börje Johansson Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages) 275501 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of a Deuterium Double Shock Hugoniot from Ab Initio Simulations B. Militzer, D. M. Ceperley, J. D. Kress, J. D. Johnson, L. A. Collins, and S. Mazevet Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 275502 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New δ (Distorted-bcc) Titanium to 220 GPa Yuichi Akahama, Haruki Kawamura, and Tristan Le Bihan Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 275503 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Root-Growth Mechanism for Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes J. Gavillet, A. Loiseau, C. Journet, F. Willaime, F. Ducastelle, and J.-C. Charlier Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 275504 [View PDF (371 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Flexoelectric Surface Switching of Bistable Nematic Devices Colin Denniston and J. M. Yeomans Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 275505 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Confined Molecules under Shear: From a Microscopic Description to Phenomenology A. E. Filippov, J. Klafter, and M. Urbakh Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 275506 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Identifying and Indexing Icosahedral Quasicrystals from Powder Diffraction Patterns Peter J. Lu, Kenneth Deffeyes, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Nan Yao Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 275507 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origins of Nonstoichiometry and Vacancy Ordering in Sc1-x□xS Gus L. Hart and Alex Zunger Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 275508 [View PDF (449 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of Steps and of Terrace Width in Gas-Surface Interaction: O2/Ag(410) L. Savio, L. Vattuone, and M. Rocca Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 276101 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Chemically Induced Metal-to-Insulator Transition in Au55 Clusters: Effect of Stabilizing Ligands on the Electronic Properties of Nanoparticles H.-G. Boyen, G. Kästle, F. Weigl, P. Ziemann, G. Schmid, M. G. Garnier, and P. Oelhafen Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 276401 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Level Ab Initio Calculations of the Optical Gap of Small Silicon Quantum Dots C. S. Garoufalis, Aristides D. Zdetsis, and Stefan Grimme Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 276402 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral and Magnetic Properties of α- and γ-Ce from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory and Local Density Approximation M. B. Zölfl, I. A. Nekrasov, Th. Pruschke, V. I. Anisimov, and J. Keller Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 276403 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cerium Volume Collapse: Results from the Merger of Dynamical Mean-Field Theory and Local Density Approximation K. Held, A. K. McMahan, and R. T. Scalettar Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 276404 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deconfinement Transition and Luttinger to Fermi Liquid Crossover in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems S. Biermann, A. Georges, A. Lichtenstein, and T. Giamarchi Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 276405 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport and Lifetime Enhancement of Photoexcited Spins in GaAs by Surface Acoustic Waves T. Sogawa, P. V. Santos, S. K. Zhang, S. Eshlaghi, A. D. Wieck, and K. H. Ploog Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 276601 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Insulator at the Ultrathin Limit: MgO on Ag(001) Silvia Schintke, Stéphane Messerli, Marina Pivetta, François Patthey, Laurent Libioulle, Massimiliano Stengel, Alessandro De Vita, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages) 276801 [View PDF (373 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantized Adiabatic Charge Transport in a Carbon Nanotube V. I. Talyanskii, D. S. Novikov, B. D. Simons, and L. S. Levitov Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 276802 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Counting Statistics for Arbitrary Cycles in Quantum Pumps Yuriy Makhlin and Alexander D. Mirlin Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 276803 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Optical Properties of c-Axis Oriented Superconducting MgB2 Films J. J. Tu, G. L. Carr, V. Perebeinos, C. C. Homes, M. Strongin, P. B. Allen, W. N. Kang, Eun-Mi Choi, Hyeong-Jin Kim, and Sung-Ik Lee Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 277001 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density of States in High- Tc Superconductor Vortices C. Berthod and B. Giovannini Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 277002 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disorder Induced Cross-Over Effects at Quantum Critical Points Enrico Carlon, Péter Lajkó, and Ferenc Iglói Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 277201 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Colossal Effects in Transition Metal Oxides Caused by Intrinsic Inhomogeneities J. Burgy, M. Mayr, V. Martin-Mayor, A. Moreo, and E. Dagotto Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 277202 [View PDF (1203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical Mean-Field Theory of Resonating-Valence-Bond Antiferromagnets Antoine Georges, Rahul Siddharthan, and Serge Florens Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 277203 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near-Field Magnetophotoluminescence Spectroscopy of Composition Fluctuations in InGaAsN A. M. Mintairov, T. H. Kosel, J. L. Merz, P. A. Blagnov, A. S. Vlasov, V. M. Ustinov, and R. E. Cook Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 277401 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Soft Mode Dynamics above and below the Burns Temperature in the Relaxor Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 P. M. Gehring, S. Wakimoto, Z.-G. Ye, and G. Shirane Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 277601 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron Spin Relaxation Near a Micron-Size Ferromagnet B. C. Stipe, H. J. Mamin, C. S. Yannoni, T. D. Stowe, T. W. Kenny, and D. Rugar Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 277602 [View PDF (280 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Impurity Scattering Induced Entanglement of Ballistic Electrons A. T. Costa and S. Bose Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages) 277901 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Distinguishability of Bell States Sibasish Ghosh, Guruprasad Kar, Anirban Roy, Aditi Sen(De), and Ujjwal Sen Published 13 December 2001 (2 pages) 277902 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tension-Induced Straightening Transition of Self-Assembled Helical Ribbons Brice Smith, Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, and George B. Benedek Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 278101 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic Compartmentalization of Bacteria: Accurate Division in E. Coli Martin Howard, Andrew D. Rutenberg, and Simon de Vet Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages) 278102 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simple Theory for the Two-Dimensional Child-Langmuir Law Y. Y. Lau Published 10 December 2001 (3 pages) 278301 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal Behavior of Load Distribution in Scale-Free Networks K.-I. Goh, B. Kahng, and D. Kim Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages) 278701 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Effect of Substrate Roughness on Wetting and Absorption D. Bonn, J. Meunier, E. Rolley, R. Bausch, R. Blossey, D. Bonn, J. Meunier, E. Rolley, R. Bausch, and R. Blossey Published 11 December 2001 (1 pages) 279601 [View PDF (41 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wyatt and Klier reply: Adrian Wyatt and Jürgen Klier Published 11 December 2001 (1 pages) 279602 [View PDF (37 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Subsystem Purity as an Enforcer of Entanglement [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 050401 (2001)] S. Bose, I. Fuentes-Guridi, P. L. Knight, and V. Vedral Published 13 December 2001 (1 pages) 279901 [View PDF (40 kB) ]

•	Publisher's Note: d̅ and 3He̅ Production in √sNN  =  130 GeV Au+Au Collisions[Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 262301 (2001)] C. Adler et al. Published 13 December 2001 (1 pages) 279902 [View PDF (35 kB) ]