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  • Elementary Particles and Fields
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  • 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.
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General Physics

•	Tests of Relativity Using a Cryogenic Optical Resonator C. Braxmaier, H. Müller, O. Pradl, J. Mlynek, A. Peters, and S. Schiller Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 010401 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rigorous Approach to the Problem of Ultraviolet Divergencies in Dilute Bose Gases Maxim Olshanii and Ludovic Pricoupenko Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 010402 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipation, Noise, and Vacuum Decay in Quantum Field Theory Esteban Calzetta, Albert Roura, and Enric Verdaguer Published 18 December 2001 (4 pages) 010403 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modified J-Matrix Method for Scattering Wim Vanroose, Jan Broeckhove, and Frans Arickx Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 010404 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex Nucleation in Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Oblate, Purely Magnetic Potential E. Hodby, G. Hechenblaikner, S. A. Hopkins, O. M. Maragò, and C. J. Foot Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 010405 [View PDF (314 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noise Induced Propagation in Monostable Media A. A. Zaikin, J. García-Ojalvo, L. Schimansky-Geier, and J. Kurths Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 010601 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Generation of Magnetic Fields and Gravitational Waves at Neutrino Decoupling Alexander D. Dolgov and Dario Grasso Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 011301 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unknowns after the SNO Charged-Current Measurement V. Barger, D. Marfatia, and K. Whisnant Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 011302 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Shape versus Volume: Making Large Flat Extra Dimensions Invisible Keith R. Dienes Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 011601 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of Gauge Bosons from Strong Quantum Correlations Xiao-Gang Wen Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 011602 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Determination of the Electron’s Mass Thomas Beier, Hartmut Häffner, Nikolaus Hermanspahn, Savely G. Karshenboim, H.-Jürgen Kluge, Wolfgang Quint, Stefan Stahl, José Verdú, and Günther Werth Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 011603 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross Section of e+e- Annihilation into Hadrons of Order αs4nf2 in Perturbative QCD P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin, and J. H. Kühn Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 012001 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Properties of the Λ(1670)1 / 2- Resonance D. M. Manley et al. (Crystal Ball Collaboration) Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 012002 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Predictions for Inclusive Heavy-Quarkonium P-Wave Decays Nora Brambilla, Dolors Eiras, Antonio Pineda, Joan Soto, and Antonio Vairo Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 012003 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Neutral Pion Threshold Production at Q2  =  0.05 GeV2/c2 and Chiral Perturbation Theory H. Merkel et al. (A1 Collaboration) Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 012301 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Direct Measurement of the L/K Ratio in 7Be Electron Capture P. A. Voytas, C. Ternovan, M. Galeazzi, D. McCammon, J. J. Kolata, P. Santi, D. Peterson, V. Guimarães, F. D. Becchetti, M. Y. Lee, T. W. O'Donnell, D. A. Roberts, and S. Shaheen Published 18 December 2001 (4 pages) 012501 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Parity Measurements of Nuclear Levels Using a Free-Electron-Laser Generated γ-Ray Beam N. Pietralla, Z. Berant, V. N. Litvinenko, S. Hartman, F. F. Mikhailov, I. V. Pinayev, G. Swift, M. W. Ahmed, J. H. Kelley, S. O. Nelson, R. Prior, K. Sabourov, A. P. Tonchev, and H. R. Weller Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 012502 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Observation of Coherent Wave Packets in a Heavy Rydberg System E. Reinhold and W. Ubachs Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 013001 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective Strength of the Electron-Electron Interaction in Simultaneous Projectile and Target Ionization E. C. Montenegro, A. C. Santos, W. S. Melo, M. M. Sant'Anna, and G. M. Sigaud Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 013201 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Management of the Angular Momentum of Light: Preparation of Photons in Multidimensional Vector States of Angular Momentum Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Juan P. Torres, and Lluis Torner Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages) 013601 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Anomalous Behavior of Spectra near Phase Singularities of Focused Waves G. Gbur, T. D. Visser, and E. Wolf Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 013901 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large Deuterium Isotope Effect in the Optical Nonlinearity of Dye-Doped Liquid Crystals M. Kreuzer, F. Hanisch, R. Eidenschink, D. Paparo, and L. Marrucci Published 18 December 2001 (4 pages) 013902 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase Modulation of Ultrashort Light Pulses using Molecular Rotational Wave Packets R. A. Bartels, T. C. Weinacht, N. Wagner, M. Baertschy, Chris H. Greene, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 013903 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Learning Phase Synchronization from Nonsynchronized Chaotic Regimes Isao Tokuda, Jürgen Kurths, and Epaminondas Rosa Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 014101 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light Scarring in an Optical Fiber Valérie Doya, Olivier Legrand, Fabrice Mortessagne, and Christian Miniatura Published 18 December 2001 (4 pages) 014102 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sequential Synchronization of Chaotic Systems with an Application to Communication Chil-Min Kim, Sunghwan Rim, and Won-Ho Kye Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 014103 [View PDF (695 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of Grain Avalanches Jean Rajchenbach Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 014301 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shocks in Supersonic Sand Erin C. Rericha, Chris Bizon, Mark D. Shattuck, and Harry L. Swinney Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 014302 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Instability, Chaos, and “Memory” in Acoustic-Wave–Crack Interaction Igor Yu. Solodov and Boris A. Korshak Published 19 December 2001 (3 pages) 014303 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oscillating Fracture Paths in Rubber Robert D. Deegan, Paul J. Petersan, M. Marder, and Harry L. Swinney Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 014304 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling and Similarity in Rough Channel Flows G. Gioia and F. A. Bombardelli Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 014501 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Path Instability of a Rising Bubble Guillaume Mougin and Jacques Magnaudet Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 014502 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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99.6% Spin-Flip Efficiency in the Presence of a Strong Siberian Snake B. B. Blinov, Z. B. Etienne, A. D. Krisch, M. A. Leonova, W. Lorenzon, V. S. Morozov, C. C. Peters, V. K. Wong, K. Yonehara, V. A. Anferov, P. Schwandt, E. J. Stephenson, B. von Przewoski, and H. Sato Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 014801 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bunch Self-Focusing Regime of Laser Wakefield Acceleration with Reduced Emittance Growth A. J. Reitsma, V. V. Goloviznin, L. P. Kamp, and T. J. Schep Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 014802 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of Lower-Hybrid Drift Turbulence in a Reconnecting Current Sheet T. A. Carter, H. Ji, F. Trintchouk, M. Yamada, and R. M. Kulsrud Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 015001 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Observation of Plasma Flow at the Magnetic Island in the Large Helical Device K. Ida, N. Ohyabu, T. Morisaki, Y. Nagayama, S. Inagaki, K. Itoh, Y. Liang, K. Narihara, A. Yu. Kostrioukov, B. J. Peterson, K. Tanaka, T. Tokuzawa, K. Kawahata, H. Suzuki, and A. Komori LHD Experimental Group Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 015002 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Crystallization Kinetics of Hard Spheres in Microgravity in the Coexistence Regime: Interactions between Growing Crystallites Zhengdong Cheng, P. M. Chaikin, Jixiang Zhu, W. B. Russel, and W. V. Meyer Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 015501 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lithium Intercalation into Opened Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Storage Capacity and Electronic Properties H. Shimoda, B. Gao, X. P. Tang, A. Kleinhammes, L. Fleming, Y. Wu, and O. Zhou Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 015502 [View PDF (374 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	When Boundaries Dominate: Dislocation Dynamics in Smectic Films Patrick Oswald, Paweł Pierański, Frédéric Picano, and Robert Hołyst Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 015503 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band Structure Approach to Resonant X-Ray Scattering I. S. Elfimov, N. A. Skorikov, V. I. Anisimov, and G. A. Sawatzky Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 015504 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab Initio Study of Phase Equilibria in TiCx P. A. Korzhavyi, L. V. Pourovskii, H. W. Hugosson, A. V. Ruban, and B. Johansson Published 18 December 2001 (4 pages) 015505 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultralow Compressibility Silicate without Highly Coordinated Silicon Henry P. Scott, Quentin Williams, and Elise Knittle Published 18 December 2001 (4 pages) 015506 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nanoscale Dislocation Patterning in PbTe/PbSe(001) Lattice-Mismatched Heteroepitaxy G. Springholz and K. Wiesauer Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 015507 [View PDF (485 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-Dimensional Photonic “Molecules” from Sequentially Attached Polymer-Blend Microparticles M. D. Barnes, S. M. Mahurin, A. Mehta, B. G. Sumpter, and D. W. Noid Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 015508 [View PDF (365 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of the Pinned Modulation Wave in Incommensurate bis (4-chlorophenyl) sulfone (BCPS) R. Blinc, U. Mikac, T. Apih, J. Dolinšek, J. Seliger, J. Slak, S. Žumer, L. Guibe, and David C. Ailion Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 015701 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Antiferrodistortive Reconstruction of the PbTiO3(001) Surface A. Munkholm, S. K. Streiffer, M. V. Ramana Murty, J. A. Eastman, Carol Thompson, O. Auciello, L. Thompson, J. F. Moore, and G. B. Stephenson Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 016101 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantitative Determination of the Metastability of Flat Ag Overlayers on GaAs(110) Hongbin Yu, C. S. Jiang, Ph. Ebert, X. D. Wang, J. M. White, Qian Niu, Zhenyu Zhang, and C. K. Shih Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 016102 [View PDF (303 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Irreversible Growth of a Binary Mixture Confined in a Thin Film Geometry with Competing Walls Julián Candia and Ezequiel V. Albano Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 016103 [View PDF (408 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Desorption Behavior of Quench-Condensed Argon-Neon Mixtures J. Meier, G. Wittich, J. Classen, and S. Hunklinger Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 016104 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Fluctuations of the Correlation Dimension at Metal-Insulator Transitions E. Cuevas, M. Ortuño, V. Gasparian, and A. Pérez-Garrido Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 016401 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bulk Excitonic Effects in Surface Optical Spectra P. H. Hahn, W. G. Schmidt, and F. Bechstedt Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 016402 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle Electronic Structure of Copper in the GW Approximation Andrea Marini, Giovanni Onida, and Rodolfo Del Sole Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 016403 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cooling of Electrons in a Silicon Inversion Layer O. Prus, M. Reznikov, U. Sivan, and V. Pudalov Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 016801 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dilute Electron Gas near the Metal-Insulator Transition: Role of Valleys in Silicon Inversion Layers Alexander Punnoose and Alexander M. Finkel'stein Published 18 December 2001 (4 pages) 016802 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Phase Transition in a Multilevel Dot Walter Hofstetter and Herbert Schoeller Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 016803 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Topological Textures in a Ferromagnet-Superconductor Bilayer Serkan Erdin, Igor F. Lyuksyutov, Valery L. Pokrovsky, and Valeri M. Vinokur Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 017001 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Soliton in Two-Band Superconductor Y. Tanaka Published 17 December 2001 (3 pages) 017002 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Cooper Pair Tunneling through a Double-Island Qubit E. Bibow, P. Lafarge, and L. P. Lévy Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 017003 [View PDF (656 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Triplet Superconductivity in an Organic Superconductor Probed by NMR Knight Shift I. J. Lee, S. E. Brown, W. G. Clark, M. J. Strouse, M. J. Naughton, W. Kang, and P. M. Chaikin Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 017004 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Prediction of Orbital Ordering in Single-Layered Ruthenates Takashi Hotta and Elbio Dagotto Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 017201 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical Slowing Down in Polynomial Time Algorithms A. Alan Middleton Published 17 December 2001 (4 pages) 017202 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Barkhausen Noise in a Relaxor Ferroelectric Eugene V. Colla, Lambert K. Chao, and M. B. Weissman Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 017601 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Quantum Discord: A Measure of the Quantumness of Correlations Harold Ollivier and Wojciech H. Zurek Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 017901 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Predictability of Large Future Changes in a Competitive Evolving Population D. Lamper, S. D. Howison, and N. F. Johnson Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 017902 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Nonlocality Proof of Quantum Teleportation and Entanglement Swapping Thomas Jennewein, Gregor Weihs, Jian-Wei Pan, and Anton Zeilinger Published 18 December 2001 (4 pages) 017903 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Computing Without Local Control of Qubit-Qubit Interactions Simon C. Benjamin Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 017904 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reducing Constraints on Quantum Computer Design by Encoded Selective Recoupling D. A. Lidar and L.-A. Wu Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 017905 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Motor-Driven Dynamics in Actin-Myosin Networks Loïc Le Goff, François Amblard, and Eric M. Furst Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 018101 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excited-State Lifetimes of Far-Infrared Collective Modes in Proteins Aihua Xie, Alexander F. van der Meer, and Robert H. Austin Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 018102 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conformations and Interactions of Star-Branched Polyelectrolytes A. Jusufi, C. N. Likos, and H. Löwen Published 14 December 2001 (4 pages) 018301 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Glass Transition and Dynamical Heterogeneities in Charged Colloidal Suspensions under Pressure B. V. Tata, P. S. Mohanty, and M. C. Valsakumar Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 018302 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	A Complexity View of Rainfall Ole Peters, Christopher Hertlein, and Kim Christensen Published 19 December 2001 (4 pages) 018701 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Algorithm for Data Clustering in Pattern Recognition Problems Based on Quantum Mechanics David Horn and Assaf Gottlieb Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 018702 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Damping Mechanism in Dynamic Force Microscopy” H. Hölscher, B. Gotsmann, W. Allers, U. D. Schwarz, H. Fuchs, and R. Wiesendanger Published 17 December 2001 (1 pages) 019601 [View PDF (68 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]