• 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
• ERRATA

LETTERS

General Physics

•	Stable Skyrmions in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates Richard A. Battye, N. R. Cooper, and Paul M. Sutcliffe Published 6 February 2002 (4 pages) 080401 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Growth of Bose-Einstein Condensates from Thermal Vapor M. Köhl, M. J. Davis, C. W. Gardiner, T. W. Hänsch, and T. Esslinger Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages) 080402 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Evidence for Nearby Supernova Explosions Narciso Benítez, Jesús Maíz-Apellániz, and Matilde Canelles Published 6 February 2002 (4 pages) 081101 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Unification and Hierarchy from 5D Anti–de Sitter Space Lisa Randall and Matthew D. Schwartz Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages) 081801 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First Measurement of the Double Spin Asymmetry in e→p→→e′π+n in the Resonance Region R. De Vita et al. (CLAS Collaboration) Published 8 February 2002 (6 pages) 082001 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

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Hypernuclear Fine Structure in Λ9Be H. Akikawa, S. Ajimura, R. E. Chrien, P. M. Eugenio, G. B. Franklin, J. Franz, L. Gang, K. Imai, P. Khaustov, M. May, P. H. Pile, B. Quinn, A. Rusek, J. Sasao, R. I. Sawafta, H. Schmitt, H. Tamura, L. Tang, K. Tanida, L. Yuan, S. H. Zhou, L. H. Zhu, and X. F. Zhu Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 082501 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Symmetry-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy for the C 1s-12πu Renner-Teller Pair States in CO2 H. Yoshida, K. Nobusada, K. Okada, S. Tanimoto, N. Saito, A. De Fanis, and K. Ueda Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages) 083001 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atom Lithography with a Holographic Light Mask M. Mützel, S. Tandler, D. Haubrich, D. Meschede, K. Peithmann, M. Flaspöhler, and K. Buse Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages) 083601 [View PDF (382 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Hidden Coherence Along Space-Time Trajectories in Parametric Wave Mixing Antonio Picozzi and Marc Haelterman Published 5 February 2002 (4 pages) 083901 [View PDF (457 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Growth of Precursors in Silicon Using Pseudopotential Calculations M. P. Chichkine, M. M. De Souza, and E. M. Sankara Narayanan Published 5 February 2002 (4 pages) 085501 [View PDF (292 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic Structure of He-Ne Mixtures by Molecular Dynamics Simulation: From Hydrodynamic to Fast and Slow Sound Modes Marco Sampoli, Ubaldo Bafile, Eleonora Guarini, and Fabrizio Barocchi Published 6 February 2002 (4 pages) 085502 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crack Front Waves and the Dynamics of a Rapidly Moving Crack E. Sharon, G. Cohen, and J. Fineberg Published 6 February 2002 (4 pages) 085503 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Unusual Surface Ordering in a Uniaxial Sm-A Phase Formed by a Highly Biaxial Compound D. A. Olson, X. F. Han, A. Cady, W. Weissflog, and C. C. Huang Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages) 085504 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Pressure Photoinduced Ring Opening of Benzene Lucia Ciabini, Mario Santoro, Roberto Bini, and Vincenzo Schettino Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages) 085505 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Identification of the Atomic Structure of the Fivefold Surface of an Icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn Quasicrystal: Helium Diffraction and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies L. Barbier, D. Le Floc'h, Y. Calvayrac, and D. Gratias Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 085506 [View PDF (384 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unusual Thickness-Dependent Heat-Capacity Anomalies in Free-Standing Hexatic Liquid-Crystal Films C. Y. Chao, C. R. Lo, P. J. Wu, T. C. Pan, M. Veum, C. C. Huang, V. Surendranath, and J. T. Ho Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 085507 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nucleation in Systems with Elastic Forces W. Klein, T. Lookman, A. Saxena, and D. M. Hatch Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 085701 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical Casimir Effect near the 3He-4He Tricritical Point R. Garcia and M. H. Chan Published 6 February 2002 (4 pages) 086101 [View PDF (410 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Droplet State and the Compressibility Anomaly in Dilute 2D Electron Systems Junren Shi and X. C. Xie Published 6 February 2002 (4 pages) 086401 [View PDF (1720 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Beltlike C60- Electron Spin Density Distribution in the Organic Ferromagnet TDAE- C60 Robert Blinc, Peter Jeglič, Tomaž Apih, Janez Seliger, Denis Arčon, and Aleš Omerzu Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages) 086402 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-Principles Theory of the EPR g Tensor in Solids: Defects in Quartz Chris J. Pickard and Francesco Mauri Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 086403 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Hall Effect in a Semiconductor Superlattice Tobias Bauer, Johanna Kolb, Anne Beate Hummel, Hartmut G. Roskos, Yuriy Kosevich, and Klaus Köhler Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 086801 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconducting Gap in MgB2: Electronic Raman Scattering Measurements of Single Crystals J. W. Quilty, S. Lee, A. Yamamoto, and S. Tajima Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages) 087001 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Driven Dynamics of the Vortex-Phase Mixture near the Peak Effect: The “Vortex Capacitor” M. Marchevsky, M. J. Higgins, and S. Bhattacharya Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 087002 [View PDF (425 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aging in the Random Energy Model Gérard Ben Arous, Anton Bovier, and Véronique Gayrard Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 087201 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic Domain Confinement by Anisotropy Modulation S. P. Li, W. S. Lew, J. A. Bland, L. Lopez-Diaz, C. A. Vaz, M. Natali, and Y. Chen Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 087202 [View PDF (288 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interplay of Rabi Oscillations and Quantum Interference in Semiconductor Quantum Dots H. Htoon, T. Takagahara, D. Kulik, O. Baklenov, A. L. Holmes, and C. K. Shih Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages) 087401 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Tilt Texture Domains on a Membrane and Chirality Induced Budding Sarasij R. C. and Madan Rao Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages) 088101 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Neural Network Model for Apparent Deterministic Chaos in Spontaneously Bursting Hippocampal Slices B. Biswal and C. Dasgupta Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages) 088102 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct Optical Quantification of Backflow in a 90° Twisted Nematic Cell N. J. Smith, M. D. Tillin, and J. R. Sambles Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages) 088301 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Propagation of Hydrodynamic Interactions in Colloidal Suspensions Stuart Henderson, Steven Mitchell, and Paul Bartlett Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages) 088302 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Packet Waves in a Reaction-Diffusion System Vladimir K. Vanag and Irving R. Epstein Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages) 088303 [View PDF (966 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced Drainage and Coarsening in Aqueous Foams M. U. Vera and D. J. Durian Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages) 088304 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “A Convergent Series for the QED Effective Action” D. R. Lamm, S. R. Valluri, U. D. Jentschura, and E. J. Weniger Published 11 February 2002 (1 pages) 089101 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Novel Phase Behavior in a Two-Dimensional Network-Forming Lattice Fluid” P. Bruscolini, A. Pelizzola, and L. Casetti Published 5 February 2002 (1 pages) 089601 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Elasticity Model of a Supercoiled DNA Molecule” V. Rossetto and A. C. Maggs Published 11 February 2002 (1 pages) 089801 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bouchiat and Mézard Reply: C. Bouchiat and M. Mézard Published 11 February 2002 (1 pages) 089802 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Nagel Scaling, Relaxation, and Universality in the Kinetic Ising Model on an Alternating Isotopic Chain [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1507 (2000)] L. L. Gonçalves, M. López de Haro, J. Tagüeña-Martínez, and R. B. Stinchcombe Published 7 February 2002 (1 pages) 089901 [View PDF (70 kB) ]