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  • 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
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General Physics

•	Entangling Macroscopic Oscillators Exploiting Radiation Pressure Stefano Mancini, Vittorio Giovannetti, David Vitali, and Paolo Tombesi Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 120401 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Instability of a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interaction G. P. Berman, A. Smerzi, and A. R. Bishop Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 120402 [View PDF (215 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Photoassociation of Sodium in a Bose-Einstein Condensate C. McKenzie, J. Hecker Denschlag, H. Häffner, A. Browaeys, Luís E. de Araujo, F. K. Fatemi, K. M. Jones, J. E. Simsarian, D. Cho, A. Simoni, E. Tiesinga, P. S. Julienne, K. Helmerson, P. D. Lett, S. L. Rolston, and W. D. Phillips Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 120403 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Correlations with Spacelike Separated Beam Splitters in Motion: Experimental Test of Multisimultaneity André Stefanov, Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Gisin, and Antoine Suarez Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 120404 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	All-Optical Production of a Degenerate Fermi Gas S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, K. M. O'Hara, and J. E. Thomas Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 120405 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuations and Decoherence in Chaos-Assisted Tunneling Daniel A. Steck, Windell H. Oskay, and Mark G. Raizen Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 120406 [View PDF (668 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation Spectrum of a Bose-Einstein Condensate J. Steinhauer, R. Ozeri, N. Katz, and N. Davidson Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 120407 [View PDF (187 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Source of Reaction-Diffusion Coupling in Confined Systems due to Temperature Inhomogeneities A. V. Anil Kumar, S. Yashonath, and G. Ananthakrishna Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 120601 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	New Mechanism of Pulsar Radio Emission M. Gedalin, E. Gruman, and D. B. Melrose Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 121101 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	On the Penrose Inequality for General Horizons Edward Malec, Marc Mars, and Walter Simon Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 121102 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Brownian Motion in Gravitationally Interacting Systems Pinaki Chatterjee, Lars Hernquist, and Abraham Loeb Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 121103 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measuring the Speed of Sound of Quintessence Joel K. Erickson, R. R. Caldwell, Paul J. Steinhardt, C. Armendariz-Picon, and V. Mukhanov Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 121301 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vacuum Decay Constraints on a Cosmological Scalar Field Jeremy S. Heyl and Abraham Loeb Published 8 March 2002 (3 pages) 121302 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Bound States of String Networks and D-branes Alok Kumar, Rashmi Rekha Nayak, and Kamal Lochan Panigrahi Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 121601 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	M-Theory Conifolds M. Cvetič, G. W. Gibbons, H. Lü, and C. N. Pope Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 121602 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Q2 Dependence of Quadrupole Strength in the γ*p  →  Δ+(1232)  →  pπ0 Transition K. Joo et al. (The CLAS Collaboration) Published 6 March 2002 (5 pages) 122001 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solution of the Multi-Reggeon Compound State Problem in Multicolor QCD G. P. Korchemsky, J. Kotański, and A. N. Manashov Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 122002 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-Jet Cross Sections in Hadron-Hadron Collisions at Next-To-Leading Order Zoltán Nagy Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 122003 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

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Deeply Bound 1s and 2p Pionic States in 205Pb and Determination of the s-Wave Part of the Pion-Nucleus Interaction H. Geissel, H. Gilg, A. Gillitzer, R. S. Hayano, S. Hirenzaki, K. Itahashi, M. Iwasaki, P. Kienle, M. Münch, G. Münzenberg, W. Schott, K. Suzuki, D. Tomono, H. Weick, T. Yamazaki, and T. Yoneyama Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 122301 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Suppression of Soft Nuclear Bremsstrahlung in Proton-Nucleus Collisions M. J. van Goethem, L. Aphecetche, J. C. Bacelar, H. Delagrange, J. Díaz, D. d'Enterria, M. Hoefman, R. Holzmann, H. Huisman, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, A. Kugler, H. Löhner, G. Martínez, J. G. Messchendorp, R. W. Ostendorf, S. Schadmand, R. H. Siemssen, R. S. Simon, Y. Schutz, R. Turrisi, M. Volkerts, V. Wagner, and H. W. Wilschut Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 122302 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Revalidation of the Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation M. C. Pyle, A. García, E. Tatar, J. Cox, B. K. Nayak, S. Triambak, B. Laughman, A. Komives, L. O. Lamm, J. E. Rolon, T. Finnessy, L. D. Knutson, and P. A. Voytas Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 122501 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanical and Chemical Spinodal Instabilities in Finite Quantum Systems M. Colonna, Ph. Chomaz, and S. Ayik Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 122701 [View PDF (446 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Interaction Induced Localization in a Gas of Pyramidal Molecules Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, Carlo Presilla, and Cristina Toninelli Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 123001 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical Detection of Nonradiating Alkali Atoms in Solid Helium T. Eichler, R. Müller-Siebert, D. Nettels, S. Kanorsky, and A. Weis Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 123002 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of Relativistic Many-Electron Interactions on Photoelectron Partial Wave Probabilities K. W. McLaughlin, O. Yenen, D. H. Jaecks, T. J. Gay, M. M. Sant'Anna, D. Calabrese, and B. Thaden-Jordan Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 123003 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Transient Enhancement of Optically Induced Resonant Transitions Nirit Dudovich, Dan Oron, and Yaron Silberberg Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 123004 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reflection-Type Hologram for Atoms Fujio Shimizu and Jun-ichi Fujita Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 123201 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Efficient Generation of Flexible-Monomer Intermolecular Potential Energy Surfaces Garold Murdachaew, Krzysztof Szalewicz, and Robert Bukowski Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 123202 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	HF Dimer in Small Helium Clusters: Interchange-Tunneling Dynamics in a Quantum Environment Antonio Sarsa, Zlatko Bačić, Jules W. Moskowitz, and Kevin E. Schmidt Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 123401 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Nano-objects with an Apertureless Probe Patrick C. Chaumet, Adel Rahmani, and Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 123601 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Spatial-Field Correlation: The Building Block of Mesoscopic Fluctuations P. Sebbah, B. Hu, A. Z. Genack, R. Pnini, and B. Shapiro Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 123901 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Degree of Polarization in Near Fields of Thermal Sources: Effects of Surface Waves Tero Setälä, Matti Kaivola, and Ari T. Friberg Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 123902 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition to Chaos in Continuous-Time Random Dynamical Systems Zonghua Liu, Ying-Cheng Lai, Lora Billings, and Ira B. Schwartz Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 124101 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational Approach to Hard Sphere Segregation under Gravity Joseph A. Both and Daniel C. Hong Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 124301 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Single-Shot Electron-Beam Bunch Length Measurements I. Wilke, A. M. MacLeod, W. A. Gillespie, G. Berden, G. M. Knippels, and A. F. van der Meer Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 124801 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hosing and Sloshing of Short-Pulse GeV-Class Wakefield Drivers E. S. Dodd, R. G. Hemker, C.-K. Huang, S. Wang, C. Ren, W. B. Mori, S. Lee, and T. Katsouleas Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 125001 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition between Two Forms of Ordering in Finite Coulomb Clusters Hiroo Totsuji, Tokunari Kishimoto, Chieko Totsuji, and Kenji Tsuruta Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 125002 [View PDF (1568 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Laser-Generated Waves and Wakes in Rotating Ion Crystals J. M. Kriesel, J. J. Bollinger, T. B. Mitchell, L. B. King, and D. H. Dubin Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 125003 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Suppression of MHD Fluctuations Leading to Improved Confinement in a Gun-Driven Spheromak H. S. McLean, S. Woodruff, E. B. Hooper, R. H. Bulmer, D. N. Hill, C. Holcomb, J. Moller, B. W. Stallard, R. D. Wood, and Z. Wang Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 125004 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neoclassical Tearing Physics in the Spherical Tokamak MAST R. J. Buttery, O. Sauter, R. Akers, M. Gryaznevich, R. Martin, C. D. Warrick, H. R. Wilson, and the MAST Team Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 125005 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Topology of Electronic Charge Density and Energetics of Planar Faults in fcc Metals Nicholas Kioussis, M. Herbranson, E. Collins, and M. E. Eberhart Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 125501 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of Sodium in Sodium Disilicate: Channel Relaxation and Sodium Diffusion Jürgen Horbach, Walter Kob, and Kurt Binder Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 125502 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiscale Modeling of Precipitate Microstructure Evolution V. Vaithyanathan, C. Wolverton, and L. Q. Chen Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 125503 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Novel Pathway to the Growth of Diamond on Cubic β-SiC(001) K. Kong, M. Han, H. W. Yeom, Y. Miyamoto, O. Sugino, T. Sasaki, T. Ohno, and B. D. Yu Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 125504 [View PDF (613 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Computer Simulation of Displacement Cascades in Nanocrystalline Ni M. Samaras, P. M. Derlet, H. Van Swygenhoven, and M. Victoria Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 125505 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrogen Vibration Modes in GaP:N: The Pivotal Role of Nitrogen in Stabilizing the H2* Complex A. Janotti, S. B. Zhang, and Su-Huai Wei Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 125506 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Outstanding Magnetic Properties of Nematic Suspensions of Goethite ( α-FeOOH) Nanorods B. J. Lemaire, P. Davidson, J. Ferré, J. P. Jamet, P. Panine, I. Dozov, and J. P. Jolivet Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 125507 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface Modification without Desorption: Recycling of Cl on Si(100)-(2×1) Koji S. Nakayama, E. Graugnard, and J. H. Weaver Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 125508 [View PDF (407 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Marginal Scaling Scenario and Analytic Results for a Glassy Compaction Model Robin Stinchcombe and Martin Depken Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 125701 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxygen Diffusion through the Disordered Oxide Network during Silicon Oxidation Angelo Bongiorno and Alfredo Pasquarello Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 125901 [View PDF (79 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cation Mass Dependence of the Nearly Constant Dielectric Loss in Alkali Triborate Glasses A. Rivera, C. León, C. P. Varsamis, G. D. Chryssikos, K. L. Ngai, C. M. Roland, and L. J. Buckley Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 125902 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Overlayer Strain Relief on Surfaces with Square Symmetry: Phase Diagram for a 2D Frenkel-Kontorova Model J. C. Hamilton Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 126101 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Freezing of a Stripe Liquid S.-H. Lee, J. M. Tranquada, K. Yamada, D. J. Buttrey, Q. Li, and S.-W. Cheong Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 126401 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct Observation of Charge Order in an Epitaxial NdNiO3 Film U. Staub, G. I. Meijer, F. Fauth, R. Allenspach, J. G. Bednorz, J. Karpinski, S. M. Kazakov, L. Paolasini, and F. d'Acapito Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 126402 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-Order Pairing Transition and Single-Particle Spectral Function in the Attractive Hubbard Model M. Capone, C. Castellani, and M. Grilli Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 126403 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of Ferromagnetism in Ca1-xLaxB6 Shuichi Murakami, Ryuichi Shindou, Naoto Nagaosa, and Andrei S. Mishchenko Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 126404 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-Filter Device Based on the Rashba Effect Using a Nonmagnetic Resonant Tunneling Diode Takaaki Koga, Junsaku Nitta, Hideaki Takayanagi, and Supriyo Datta Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 126601 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shell Filling and Exchange Coupling in Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Wenjie Liang, Marc Bockrath, and Hongkun Park Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 126801 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dominance of Fermi-Surface Holes in p-Type Tunneling Y. C. Chung, T. Reker, A. R. Glanfield, P. C. Klipstein, and R. Grey Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 126802 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-Stage Kondo Effect in a Quantum Dot at a High Magnetic Field W. G. van der Wiel, S. De Franceschi, J. M. Elzerman, S. Tarucha, L. P. Kouwenhoven, J. Motohisa, F. Nakajima, and T. Fukui Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 126803 [View PDF (523 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Quantized Hall Drag in a Strongly Correlated Bilayer Electron System M. Kellogg, I. B. Spielman, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 126804 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic Transport through Carbon Nanotubes: Effects of Structural Deformation and Tube Chirality Amitesh Maiti, Alexei Svizhenko, and M. P. Anantram Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 126805 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Prediction of High Tc Superconductivity in Hole-Doped LiBC H. Rosner, A. Kitaigorodsky, and W. E. Pickett Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 127001 [View PDF (387 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for Two-Band Superconductivity from Break-Junction Tunneling on MgB2 H. Schmidt, J. F. Zasadzinski, K. E. Gray, and D. G. Hinks Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 127002 [View PDF (1979 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact Correlation Functions of the BCS Model in the Canonical Ensemble Luigi Amico and Andreas Osterloh Published 11 March 2002 (4 pages) 127003 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantal Phases, Disorder Effects, and Superconductivity in Spin-Peierls Systems Akihiro Tanaka and Xiao Hu Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 127004 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Magnetic Oscillation in the Spin Ladder System α′- NaV2O5 H. Kamioka, S. Saito, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda, and T. Suemoto Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 127201 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gate-Induced Band Ferromagnetism in an Organic Polymer Ryotaro Arita, Yuji Suwa, Kazuhiko Kuroki, and Hideo Aoki Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 127202 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evolution of Magnetic Polarons and Spin-Carrier Interactions through the Metal-Insulator Transition in Eu1-xGdxO H. Rho, C. S. Snow, S. L. Cooper, Z. Fisk, A. Comment, and J-Ph Ansermet Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 127401 [View PDF (312 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab Initio Study of Field Emission from Graphitic Ribbons K. Tada and K. Watanabe Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 127601 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Optimal Eavesdropping in Cryptography with Three-Dimensional Quantum States D. Bruß and C. Macchiavello Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 127901 [View PDF (82 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Security of Quantum Key Distribution Using d-Level Systems Nicolas J. Cerf, Mohamed Bourennane, Anders Karlsson, and Nicolas Gisin Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 127902 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhancement of Steric Repulsion with Temperature in Oriented Lipid Multilayers G. Pabst, J. Katsaras, and V. A. Raghunathan Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages) 128101 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Undulation Instability of Lipid Membranes under an Electric Field Pierre Sens and H. Isambert Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages) 128102 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Confinement-Induced Entropic Recoil of Single DNA Molecules in a Nanofluidic Structure S. W. Turner, M. Cabodi, and H. G. Craighead Published 12 March 2002 (4 pages) 128103 [View PDF (293 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Emergence of a Small World from Local Interactions: Modeling Acquaintance Networks Jörn Davidsen, Holger Ebel, and Stefan Bornholdt Published 8 March 2002 (4 pages) 128701 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Nanoadhesion between Rough Surfaces” B. N. Persson Published 11 March 2002 (1 pages) 129601 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Controlling Wake Turbulence [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 054502 (2002)] B. S. Patnaik and G. W. Wei Published 6 March 2002 (1 pages) 129901 [View PDF (22 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Polymer Reptation and Nucleosome Repositioning [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4414 (2001)] H. Schiessel, J. Widom, R. F. Bruinsma, and W. M. Gelbart Published 7 March 2002 (1 pages) 129902 [View PDF (27 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Nuclear Masses: Evidence of Order-Chaos Coexistence [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 092502 (2002)] O. Bohigas and P. Leboeuf Published 12 March 2002 (1 pages) 129903 [View PDF (20 kB) ]