• 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

•	Dissipative Enhancement of the Response of a Bistable Noisy Oscillator to External Driving M. Evstigneev, V. Pankov, and R. H. Prince Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages) 240201 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-Range Magnetic Interaction due to the Casimir Effect P. Bruno Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages) 240401 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kochen-Specker Theorem for Finite Precision Spin-One Measurements Thomas Breuer Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages) 240402 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Stability and Bifurcations of the Figure-8 Solution of the Three-Body Problem J. Galán, F. J. Muñoz-Almaraz, E. Freire, E. Doedel, and A. Vanderbauwhede Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 241101 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near-Horizon Conformal Symmetry and Black Hole Entropy S. Carlip Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 241301 [View PDF (83 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Estimate of the Cosmological Bispectrum from the MAXIMA-1 Cosmic Microwave Background Map M. G. Santos, A. Balbi, J. Borrill, P. G. Ferreira, S. Hanany, A. H. Jaffe, A. T. Lee, J. Magueijo, B. Rabii, P. L. Richards, G. F. Smoot, R. Stompor, C. D. Winant, and J. H. Wu Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 241302 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Search for the Rare Decays B→Kl+l- and B→K*l+l- B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration) Published 3 June 2002 (7 pages) 241801 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Centrality Dependence of π+/-, K+/-, p, and p̅ Production from sqrt[sNN]  =  130 GeV Au + Au Collisions at RHIC K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration) Published 28 May 2002 (6 pages) 242301 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Quadrupolar Transitions Evidenced by Resonant Auger Spectroscopy J. Danger, P. Le Fèvre, H. Magnan, D. Chandesris, S. Bourgeois, J. Jupille, T. Eickhoff, and W. Drube Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages) 243001 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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O 1s  →  σ* Resonance in O2: Inadequacy of Only Two Exchange-Split Components M. N. Piancastelli, A. Kivimäki, V. Carravetta, I. Cacelli, R. Cimiraglia, C. Angeli, H. Wang, M. Coreno, M. de Simone, G. Turri, and K. C. Prince Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 243002 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-Asymmetric Fluctuations of Light and the Breakdown of Detailed Balance A. Denisov, H. M. Castro-Beltran, and H. J. Carmichael Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages) 243601 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Atom Interactions Mediated by Dark-State Polaritons A. André, L.-M. Duan, and M. D. Lukin Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 243602 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Quenching of Gas-Phase Cs Atoms Induced by Surface Polaritons Horacio Failache, Solomon Saltiel, Alexis Fischer, Daniel Bloch, and Martial Ducloy Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 243603 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave Equation for Dark Coherence in Three-Level Media J. H. Eberly and V. V. Kozlov Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages) 243604 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Nonlinear Optical Technique for Precise Retardation Measurements Stefano Cattaneo, Oliver Zehnder, Peter Günter, and Martti Kauranen Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages) 243901 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linear Superposition in Nonlinear Equations Avinash Khare and Uday Sukhatme Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages) 244101 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measuring Nonstationarity by Analyzing the Loss of Recurrence in Dynamical Systems Christoph Rieke, Karsten Sternickel, Ralph G. Andrzejak, Christian E. Elger, Peter David, and Klaus Lehnertz Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 244102 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shape of a Cracking Whip Alain Goriely and Tyler McMillen Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 244301 [View PDF (230 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transient Vortex Events in the Initial Value Problem for Turbulence D. D. Holm and Robert Kerr Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages) 244501 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymptotic Scaling Laws for Imploding Thin Fluid Shells M. M. Basko and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages) 244502 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reentrant Hexagons in Non-Boussinesq Rayleigh-Bénard Convection: Effect of Compressibility Arun Roy and Victor Steinberg Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 244503 [View PDF (494 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Measurement of X-Ray Pulse Widths by Intensity Interferometry M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, and T. Ishikawa Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 244801 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Compressible Sub-Alfvénic MHD Turbulence in Low- β Plasmas Jungyeon Cho and A. Lazarian Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 245001 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Criteria of Phase Transitions in a Complex Plasma O. S. Vaulina, S. V. Vladimirov, O. F. Petrov, and V. E. Fortov Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 245002 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	GeV Electrons from Ultraintense Laser Interaction with Highly Charged Ions S. X. Hu and Anthony F. Starace Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages) 245003 [View PDF (578 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Universal Attractors of Reversible Aggregate-Reorganization Processes Stefan Großkinsky, Marc Timme, and Björn Naundorf Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages) 245501 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometrically-Controlled Twist Transitions in Nematic Cells Pedro Patrício, M. M. Telo da Gama, and S. Dietrich Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages) 245502 [View PDF (479 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotation of Molecular Hydrogen in Si: Unambiguous Identification of Ortho- H2 and Para- D2 E Elinor Chen, Michael Stavola, W. Beall Fowler, and J. Anna Zhou Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 245503 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boundary Lubrication Properties of Materials with Expansive Freezing E. A. Jagla Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 245504 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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A Beaker without Walls: Formation of Deeply Supercooled Binary Liquid Solutions of Alcohols from Nanoscale Amorphous Solid Films Patrick Ayotte, R. Scott Smith, Glenn Teeter, Zdenek Dohnálek, Gregory A. Kimmel, and Bruce D. Kay Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 245505 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nematics with Quenched Disorder: How Long Will It Take to Heal? T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia, C. Chiccoli, F. Mantegazza, P. Pasini, and C. Zannoni Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages) 245506 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modeling Elasticity in Crystal Growth K. R. Elder, Mark Katakowski, Mikko Haataja, and Martin Grant Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages) 245701 [View PDF (604 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solvation Forces in Branched Molecular Liquids Roderick Lim and S. J. O'Shea Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages) 246101 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement of Long-Range Repulsive Forces between Charged Particles at an Oil-Water Interface R. Aveyard, B. P. Binks, J. H. Clint, P. D. Fletcher, T. S. Horozov, B. Neumann, V. N. Paunov, J. Annesley, S. W. Botchway, D. Nees, A. W. Parker, A. D. Ward, and A. N. Burgess Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 246102 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-Dimensional Oxide on Pd(111) E. Lundgren, G. Kresse, C. Klein, M. Borg, J. N. Andersen, M. De Santis, Y. Gauthier, C. Konvicka, M. Schmid, and P. Varga Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 246103 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Coupling of the Lattice and Superlattice Deformations and Hysteresis in Thermal Expansion for the Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductor TaS3 A. V. Golovnya, V. Ya. Pokrovskii, and P. M. Shadrin Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages) 246401 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Conductance in Semimetallic Bismuth Nanocontacts J. G. Rodrigo, A. García-Martín, J. J. Sáenz, and S. Vieira Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages) 246801 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition of Static Stripe and Superconducting Phases in La1.48Nd0.4Sr0.12CuO4 Controlled by Pressure S. Arumugam, N. Môri, N. Takeshita, H. Takashima, T. Noda, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida Published 29 May 2002 (4 pages) 247001 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unraveling the Symmetry of the Hole States near the Fermi Level in the MgB2 Superconductor Y. Zhu, A. R. Moodenbaugh, G. Schneider, J. W. Davenport, T. Vogt, Q. Li, G. Gu, D. A. Fischer, and J. Tafto Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 247002 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Order and Mobility of Solid Vortex Matter in Oscillatory Driving Currents S. O. Valenzuela Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 247003 [View PDF (403 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mode Locking of Vortex Matter Driven through Mesoscopic Channels N. Kokubo, R. Besseling, V. M. Vinokur, and P. H. Kes Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 247004 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence of Electromagnetic Absorption by Collective Modes in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor UBe13 J. R. Feller, C.-C. Tsai, J. B. Ketterson, J. L. Smith, and Bimal K. Sarma Published 4 June 2002 (4 pages) 247005 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coordination-Number Dependence of Magnetic Hyperfine Fields at 111Cd on Ni Surfaces K. Potzger, A. Weber, H. H. Bertschat, W.-D. Zeitz, and M. Dietrich Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 247201 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polaron Percolation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors A. Kaminski and S. Das Sarma Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 247202 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of a Tunneling Magnetic Impurity: Kondo Effect Induced Incoherence L. Borda and G. Zaránd Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 247203 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-Polarized Transport across Sharp Antiferromagnetic Boundaries W. Eerenstein, T. T. Palstra, S. S. Saxena, and T. Hibma Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 247204 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of the MX-Chain Compound [Ni(chxn)2Br]Br2: Spin-Charge Separation in Hybridized d-p Chains Shin-ichi Fujimori, Akihiro Ino, Testuo Okane, Atsushi Fujimori, Kozo Okada, Toshio Manabe, Masahiro Yamashita, Hideo Kishida, and Hiroshi Okamoto Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages) 247601 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Activating Distillation with an Infinitesimal Amount of Bound Entanglement Karl Gerd Vollbrecht and Michael M. Wolf Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 247901 [View PDF (92 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bridging Rate Coding and Temporal Spike Coding by Effect of Noise Naoki Masuda and Kazuyuki Aihara Published 30 May 2002 (4 pages) 248101 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotational Drag on DNA: A Single Molecule Experiment Philippe Thomen, Ulrich Bockelmann, and François Heslot Published 3 June 2002 (4 pages) 248102 [View PDF (460 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Novel Colloidal Crystalline States on Two-Dimensional Periodic Substrates C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 248301 [View PDF (872 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase Behavior of Colloidal Molecular Crystals on Triangular Light Lattices Matthias Brunner and Clemens Bechinger Published 31 May 2002 (4 pages) 248302 [View PDF (517 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Simple One-Dimensional Model of Heat Conduction which Obeys Fourier’s Law” Abhishek Dhar Published 3 June 2002 (1 pages) 249401 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Garrido and Hurtado Reply: P. L. Garrido and P. I. Hurtado Published 3 June 2002 (1 pages) 249402 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Constructing Parton Convolution in Effective Field Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 152002 (2001)] Jiunn-Wei Chen and Xiangdong Ji Published 31 May 2002 (1 pages) 249901 [View PDF (30 kB) ]