• LETTERS
  • General Physics
  • Gravitation and Astrophysics
  • 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.
• COMMENTS

LETTERS

General Physics

•	Transport of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Optical Tweezers T. L. Gustavson, A. P. Chikkatur, A. E. Leanhardt, A. Görlitz, S. Gupta, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 020401 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Is Tsallis Thermodynamics Nonextensive? Eduard Vives and Antoni Planes Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 020601 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Phenomenology of High-Energy Neutrinos in Low-Scale Quantum-Gravity Models J. Alvarez-Muñiz, F. Halzen, T. Han, and D. Hooper Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 021301 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross Correlation of the Cosmic Microwave Background with Radio Sources: Constraints on an Accelerating Universe S. P. Boughn and R. G. Crittenden Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 021302 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Black Hole Production by Cosmic Rays Jonathan L. Feng and Alfred D. Shapere Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages) 021303 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Observation of the Decay B  →  Kl+l- K. Abe et al. (The Belle Collaboration) Published 27 December 2001 (6 pages) 021801 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for Charmless B → VV Decays R. Godang et al. (CLEO Collaboration) Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 021802 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Suppression of Hadrons with Large Transverse Momentum in Central Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[sNN]  =  130 GeV K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration) Published 21 December 2001 (6 pages) 022301 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy Dependence of Particle Multiplicities in Central Au+Au Collisions B. B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration) Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 022302 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Event-by-Event Analysis of Proton-Induced Nuclear Multifragmentation: Determination of the Phase Transition Universality Class in a System with Extreme Finite-Size Constraints M. Kleine Berkenbusch, W. Bauer, K. Dillman, S. Pratt, L. Beaulieu, K. Kwiatkowski, T. Lefort, W.-c. Hsi, V. E. Viola, S. J. Yennello, R. G. Korteling, and H. Breuer Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 022701 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	White-Light-Induced Fragmentation of Toluene A. M. Müller, B. Witzel, C. J. Uiterwaal, J. Wanner, and K.-L. Kompa Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 023001 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the 1s2s 1S 0-1s2p 3P 1 Intercombination Interval in Helium-like Silicon M. Redshaw and E. G. Myers Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages) 023002 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Nonclassical Photon Statistics due to Quantum Interference Y. J. Lu and Z. Y. Ou Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 023601 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Ultraslow and Stored Light Pulses in a Solid A. V. Turukhin, V. S. Sudarshanam, M. S. Shahriar, J. A. Musser, B. S. Ham, and P. R. Hemmer Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 023602 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Population Trapping in Two-Electron Three-Level Systems with Aligned Spins Jordi Mompart, Ramon Corbalan, and Luis Roso Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 023603 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Excitability of a Semiconductor Laser by a Two-Mode Homoclinic Bifurcation H. J. Wünsche, O. Brox, M. Radziunas, and F. Henneberger Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 023901 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Refractive Acoustic Devices for Airborne Sound F. Cervera, L. Sanchis, J. V. Sánchez-Pérez, R. Martínez-Sala, C. Rubio, F. Meseguer, C. López, D. Caballero, and J. Sánchez-Dehesa Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 023902 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple Nonlinear Optical Interactions with Arbitrary Wave Vector Differences Keren Fradkin-Kashi, Ady Arie, Pavel Urenski, and Gil Rosenman Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 023903 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectral Cross Correlations of Magnetic Edge States Klaus Hornberger and Uzy Smilansky Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 024101 [View PDF (426 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multibranch Entrainment and Slow Evolution among Branches in Coupled Oscillators Toru Aonishi and Masato Okada Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 024102 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stationary and Oscillatory Spatial Patterns Induced by Global Periodic Switching J. Buceta, Katja Lindenberg, and J. M. Parrondo Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 024103 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometry of Reaction Interfaces in Chaotic Flows M. Giona, S. Cerbelli, and A. Adrover Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 024501 [View PDF (385 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noise Induced Bistability of Parametric Surface Waves S. Residori, R. Berthet, B. Roman, and S. Fauve Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 024502 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition of Periodic and Homogeneous Modes in Extended Dynamical Systems B. Dressel, A. Joets, L. Pastur, W. Pesch, E. Plaut, and R. Ribotta Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 024503 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Lattice Glass Models Giulio Biroli and Marc Mézard Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 025501 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Organization of Two-Dimensional Phospholipid Monolayers on a Gel-Forming Substrate Bernd Struth, François Rieutord, Oleg Konovalov, Gerald Brezesinski, Gerhard Grübel, and Pierre Terech Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 025502 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nanocrystalline Zirconia Can Be Amorphized by Ion Irradiation A. Meldrum, L. A. Boatner, and R. C. Ewing Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 025503 [View PDF (466 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Patterns of Striped Order in the Classical Lattice Coulomb Gas Sung Jong Lee, Jong-Rim Lee, and Bongsoo Kim Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 025701 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cooperative Dynamics in Unentangled Polymer Fluids M. Guenza Published 21 December 2001 (4 pages) 025901 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Superconductivity near Ferromagnetism in MgCNi3 H. Rosner, R. Weht, M. D. Johannes, W. E. Pickett, and E. Tosatti Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 027001 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconducting Gap Structure of κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 Probed by Thermal Conductivity Tensor K. Izawa, H. Yamaguchi, T. Sasaki, and Yuji Matsuda Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 027002 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Far-Infrared Optical Conductivity Gap in Superconducting MgB2 Films Robert A. Kaindl, Marc A. Carnahan, Joseph Orenstein, Daniel S. Chemla, Hans M. Christen, Hong-Ying Zhai, Mariappan Paranthaman, and Doug H. Lowndes Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages) 027003 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Spin Systems with Orbital Degeneracy Shun-Qing Shen, X. C. Xie, and F. C. Zhang Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 027201 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interface, Volume, and Thermal Attenuation of Hot-Electron Spins in Ni80Fe20 and Co R. Vlutters, O. M. van 't Erve, S. D. Kim, R. Jansen, and J. C. Lodder Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 027202 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interaction of Frustrated Magnetic Sublattices in ErMnO3 M. Fiebig, C. Degenhardt, and R. V. Pisarev Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 027203 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giant Electric Field Modulation of Double Exchange Ferromagnetism at Room Temperature in the Perovskite Manganite/Titanate p-n Junction Hidekazu Tanaka, Jun Zhang, and Tomoji Kawai Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 027204 [View PDF (293 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing Phonon Dispersion Relations of Graphite by Double Resonance Raman Scattering R. Saito, A. Jorio, A. G. Souza Filho, G. Dresselhaus, M. S. Dresselhaus, and M. A. Pimenta Published 20 December 2001 (4 pages) 027401 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical Spin Response in Semimagnetic Quantum Dots J. Seufert, G. Bacher, M. Scheibner, A. Forchel, S. Lee, M. Dobrowolska, and J. K. Furdyna Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 027402 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Auger Resonant Raman Scattering in Itinerant Electron Systems: Continuum Excitation in Cu A. Föhlisch, O. Karis, M. Weinelt, J. Hasselström, A. Nilsson, and N. Mårtensson Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages) 027601 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Distillability, Bell Inequalities, and Multiparticle Bound Entanglement A. Acín Published 20 December 2001 (3 pages) 027901 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum State of an Ideal Propagating Laser Field S. J. van Enk and Christopher A. Fuchs Published 26 December 2001 (4 pages) 027902 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exchange in Silicon-Based Quantum Computer Architecture Belita Koiller, Xuedong Hu, and S. Das Sarma Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages) 027903 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scroll Waves in the Presence of Slowly Varying Anisotropy with Application to the Heart S. Setayeshgar and Andrew J. Bernoff Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 028101 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical Scaling of the DNA Unzipping Transition D. Marenduzzo, Somendra M. Bhattacharjee, A. Maritan, E. Orlandini, and F. Seno Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages) 028102 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Novel Mechanism for Molecular Self-Assembly on Metal Substrates: Unidirectional Rows of Pentacene on Cu(110) Produced by a Substrate-Mediated Repulsion S. Lukas, G. Witte, and Ch. Wöll Published 28 December 2001 (4 pages) 028301 [View PDF (579 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spontaneous Structure Formation in a Network of Chaotic Units with Variable Connection Strengths Junji Ito and Kunihiko Kaneko Published 27 December 2001 (4 pages) 028701 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Observation of Inhomogeneous Spectral Broadening of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in an Optical Fiber” Stéphane Randoux and Jaouad Zemmouri Published 26 December 2001 (1 pages) 029401 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kovalev and Harrison Reply: Valeri I. Kovalev and Robert G. Harrison Published 26 December 2001 (1 pages) 029402 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interface Conductance of Ballistic Ferromagnetic-Metal-2DEG Hybrid Systems with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling U. Zülicke and C. Schroll Published 21 December 2001 (1 pages) 029701 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Grundler Replies: Dirk Grundler Published 21 December 2001 (1 pages) 029702 [View PDF (29 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]