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  • General Physics
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
  • Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
  • Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
  • Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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General Physics

•	Riemannian Geometry of Irrotational Vortex Acoustics Uwe R. Fischer and Matt Visser Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 110201 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffraction of a Superfluid Fermi Gas by an Atomic Grating C. P. Search, H. Pu, W. Zhang, and P. Meystre Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 110401 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Abnormal Number of Nambu-Goldstone Bosons and Kaon Condensate V. A. Miransky and I. A. Shovkovy Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 111601 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shadows of the Planck Scale: Scale Dependence of Compactification Geometry Keith R. Dienes and Arash Mafi Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 111602 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Covariant Coordinate Transformations on Noncommutative Space R. Jackiw and S.-Y. Pi Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages) 111603 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of the Decay K- → π-μ+μ- and Measurements of the Branching Ratios for K± → π±μ+μ- H. K. Park et al. (HyperCP Collaboration) Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 111801 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Can the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with Light Bottom Squark and Light Gluino Survive Z-Peak Constraints? Junjie Cao, Zhaohua Xiong, and Jin Min Yang Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 111802 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for CP Violation in τ→  Kπντ Decays G. Bonvicini et al. (CLEO Collaboration) Published 28 February 2002 (5 pages) 111803 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Predictions for Higgs and Supersymmetry Spectra from SO(10) Yukawa Unification with μ > 0 T. Blažek, R. Dermíšek, and S. Raby Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages) 111804 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Collective Deceleration of Ultrarelativistic Nuclei and Creation of Quark-Gluon Plasma I. N. Mishustin and J. I. Kapusta Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages) 112501 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	129Xe-Xe Molecular Spin Relaxation B. Chann, I. A. Nelson, L. W. Anderson, B. Driehuys, and T. G. Walker Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 113201 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum State Preparation and Conditional Coherence K. J. Resch, J. S. Lundeen, and A. M. Steinberg Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages) 113601 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Honeycomb Pattern Formation by Laser-Beam Filamentation in Atomic Sodium Vapor Ryan S. Bennink, Vincent Wong, Alberto M. Marino, David L. Aronstein, Robert W. Boyd, C. R. Stroud, Svetlana Lukishova, and Daniel J. Gauthier Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages) 113901 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rayleigh-Type Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing: Ultrafast Measurement and Field Correlation Panming Fu, Qiang Jiang, Xin Mi, and Zuhe Yu Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages) 113902 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nodal Domains Statistics: A Criterion for Quantum Chaos Galya Blum, Sven Gnutzmann, and Uzy Smilansky Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages) 114101 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Percolation Model for Nodal Domains of Chaotic Wave Functions E. Bogomolny and C. Schmit Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages) 114102 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous Self-Similarity in a Turbulent Rapidly Rotating Fluid Charles N. Baroud, Brendan B. Plapp, Zhen-Su She, and Harry L. Swinney Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 114501 [View PDF (227 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Phonon Anomalies due to Collective Stripe Modes in High Tc Cuprates Eiji Kaneshita, Masanori Ichioka, and Kazushige Machida Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 115501 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Nearly Space-Filling Fractal Networks of Carbon Nanopores P. Pfeifer, F. Ehrburger-Dolle, T. P. Rieker, M. T. González, W. P. Hoffman, M. Molina-Sabio, F. Rodríguez-Reinoso, P. W. Schmidt, and D. J. Voss Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 115502 [View PDF (499 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Smectic Membranes in Motion: Approaching the Fast Limits of X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Irakli Sikharulidze, Igor P. Dolbnya, Andrea Fera, Anders Madsen, Boris I. Ostrovskii, and Wim H. de Jeu Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 115503 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural Identification of Metcars G. K. Gueorguiev and J. M. Pacheco Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 115504 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stress Field in Granular Systems: Loop Forces and Potential Formulation Robin C. Ball and Raphael Blumenfeld Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 115505 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Chemical Isomerism as a Key to Explore Free-Energy Landscapes in Disordered Matter C. Talón, F. J. Bermejo, C. Cabrillo, G. J. Cuello, M. A. González, J. W. Richardson, A. Criado, M. A. Ramos, S. Vieira, F. L. Cumbrera, and L. M. González Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages) 115506 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solution of a Multiple-Scattering Inverse Problem: Electron Diffraction from Surfaces D. K. Saldin, A. Seubert, and K. Heinz Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages) 115507 [View PDF (337 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Zero-Point Vibration of Hydrogen Adsorbed on Si and Pt Surfaces K. Fukutani, A. Itoh, M. Wilde, and M. Matsumoto Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 116101 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mean-Field Nucleation Theory with Nonlocal Interactions Staffan Ovesson Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 116102 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Novel Continuum Modeling of Crystal Surface Evolution Navot Israeli and Daniel Kandel Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages) 116103 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Coulomb Drag Shot Noise in Coupled Luttinger Liquids B. Trauzettel, R. Egger, and H. Grabert Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 116401 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hall Effect Induced by a Spin-Polarized Current in Superconductors S. Takahashi and S. Maekawa Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 116601 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical Intersubband Transitions and Femtosecond Dynamics in Ag /Fe(100) Quantum Wells S. Ogawa, H. Nagano, and H. Petek Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 116801 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shot Noise through a Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime Yigal Meir and Anatoly Golub Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 116802 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-Induced Interchange of Anisotropy Axes at Half-Filled High Landau Levels J. Zhu, W. Pan, H. L. Stormer, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages) 116803 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stripe States with Spatially Oscillating d-Wave Superconductivity in the Two-Dimensional t-t′-J Model A. Himeda, T. Kato, and M. Ogata Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages) 117001 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconductivity in the Two-Dimensional t-J Model S. Sorella, G. B. Martins, F. Becca, C. Gazza, L. Capriotti, A. Parola, and E. Dagotto Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 117002 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Tc Superconductivity in MgB2 by Nonadiabatic Pairing E. Cappelluti, S. Ciuchi, C. Grimaldi, L. Pietronero, and S. Strässler Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 117003 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex Glass Transition in a Random Pinning Model Anders Vestergren, Jack Lidmar, and Mats Wallin Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages) 117004 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Small- q Phonon-Mediated Superconductivity in Organic κ-BEDT-TTF Compounds G. Varelogiannis Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages) 117005 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Two Energy Scales and Slow Crossover in YbAl3 A. L. Cornelius, J. M. Lawrence, T. Ebihara, P. S. Riseborough, C. H. Booth, M. F. Hundley, P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, M. H. Jung, A. H. Lacerda, and G. H. Kwei Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 117201 [View PDF (461 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced Gilbert Damping in Thin Ferromagnetic Films Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Arne Brataas, and Gerrit E. Bauer Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 117601 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Biexciton Quantum Coherence in a Single Quantum Dot Gang Chen, T. H. Stievater, E. T. Batteh, Xiaoqin Li, D. G. Steel, D. Gammon, D. S. Katzer, D. Park, and L. J. Sham Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages) 117901 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spiral Breakup in an Array of Coupled Cells: The Role of the Intercellular Conductance A. V. Panfilov Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages) 118101 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long Term Behavior of Lithographically Prepared In Vitro Neuronal Networks Ronen Segev, Morris Benveniste, Eyal Hulata, Netta Cohen, Alexander Palevski, Eli Kapon, Yoash Shapira, and Eshel Ben-Jacob Published 4 March 2002 (4 pages) 118102 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]