• 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

•	Phase Conjugation of a Quantum-Degenerate Atomic Fermion Beam Chris P. Search and Pierre Meystre Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages) 100401 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Tkachenko Oscillations in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates I. Coddington, P. Engels, V. Schweikhard, and E. A. Cornell Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 100402 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Observation of Geometric Phases for Mixed States using NMR Interferometry Jiangfeng Du, Ping Zou, Mingjun Shi, Leong Chuan Kwek, Jian-Wei Pan, C. H. Oh, Artur Ekert, Daniel K. Oi, and Marie Ericsson Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 100403 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Constraining Hadronic Superfluidity with Neutron Star Precession Bennett Link Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages) 101101 [View PDF (304 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Renormalization-Group Evolution of the B-Meson Light-Cone Distribution Amplitude Björn O. Lange and Matthias Neubert Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 102001 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	An Infrared Renormalization Group Limit Cycle in QCD Eric Braaten and H.-W. Hammer Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 102002 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proton-Number Fluctuation as a Signal of the QCD Critical End Point Y. Hatta and M. A. Stephanov Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 102003 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Dynamics of the π-p→π0π0n Reaction for pπ-<750  MeV/c K. Craig et al. Crystal Ball Collaboration Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages) 102301 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-Energy Coexisting Band in 154Gd W. D. Kulp, J. L. Wood, K. S. Krane, J. Loats, P. Schmelzenbach, C. J. Stapels, R.-M. Larimer, and E. B. Norman Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages) 102501 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	How to Measure the Spreading Width for the Decay of Superdeformed Nuclei D. M. Cardamone, C. A. Stafford, and B. R. Barrett Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages) 102502 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Wave Packet Movements near the Conical Intersection between Two Excited Potential Surfaces May Create Observable Molecular Oscillations S. Sorgues, J. M. Mestdagh, J. P. Visticot, and B. Soep Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 103001 [View PDF (283 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarization Squeezing with Cold Atoms V. Josse, A. Dantan, L. Vernac, A. Bramati, M. Pinard, and E. Giacobino Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages) 103601 [View PDF (362 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Free-Space Propagation of Diffuse Light: Theory and Experiments Jorge Ripoll, Ralf B. Schulz, and Vasilis Ntziachristos Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages) 103901 [View PDF (286 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating of Femtosecond Pulses in the Extreme Ultraviolet Taro Sekikawa, Teruto Kanai, and Shuntaro Watanabe Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 103902 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Morphology and Scaling of Impact Craters in Granular Media Amanda M. Walsh, Kristi E. Holloway, Piotr Habdas, and John R. de Bruyn Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 104301 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Granular Medium under Vertical Tapping: Change of Compaction and Convection Dynamics around the Liftoff Threshold P. Philippe and D. Bideau Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 104302 [View PDF (660 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entrainment of a Spatially Extended Nonlinear Structure under Selective Forcing Michel Henriot, Javier Burguete, and Roland Ribotta Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 104501 [View PDF (453 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anatomy of a Bathtub Vortex A. Andersen, T. Bohr, B. Stenum, J. Juul Rasmussen, and B. Lautrup Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 104502 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Evidence of Ultrashort Electron Bunches in Laser-Plasma Interactions at Relativistic Intensities S. D. Baton, J. J. Santos, F. Amiranoff, H. Popescu, L. Gremillet, M. Koenig, E. Martinolli, O. Guilbaud, C. Rousseaux, M. Rabec Le Gloahec, T. Hall, D. Batani, E. Perelli, F. Scianitti, and T. E. Cowan Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 105001 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Instability of the 2S Electron Bubbles Pavel Grinfeld and Haruo Kojima Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 105301 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing Vortices in 4He Nanodroplets Francesco Ancilotto, Manuel Barranco, and Martí Pi Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 105302 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal Conductivity of Liquid 3He in Aerogel: A Gapless Superfluid S. N. Fisher, A. M. Guénault, N. Mulders, and G. R. Pickett Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 105303 [View PDF (334 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field-Induced Structural Aging in Glasses at Ultralow Temperatures S. Ludwig and D. D. Osheroff Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 105501 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chemically Active Substitutional Nitrogen Impurity in Carbon Nanotubes Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Gábor Csányi, and Michael C. Payne Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 105502 [View PDF (925 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Atomic-Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Imaging in Aberration Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy L. J. Allen, S. D. Findlay, A. R. Lupini, M. P. Oxley, and S. J. Pennycook Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 105503 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of Pressure Relaxation on the Mechanisms of Short-Pulse Laser Melting Dmitriy S. Ivanov and Leonid V. Zhigilei Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 105701 [View PDF (825 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanisms and Rates of Interstitial H2 Diffusion in Crystalline C60 Blas P. Uberuaga, Arthur F. Voter, Kurt Ken Sieber, and David S. Sholl Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 105901 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Photon Tunneling Enhancement of the van der Waals Friction A. I. Volokitin and B. N. Persson Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 106101 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Higher Surface Energy of Free Nanoparticles K. K. Nanda, A. Maisels, F. E. Kruis, H. Fissan, and S. Stappert Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 106102 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Layer Ordering and Faulting in (GaAs)n/(AlAs)n Ultrashort-Period Superlattices J. H. Li, S. C. Moss, Y. Zhang, A. Mascarenhas, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, W. K. Ge, and J. Bai Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 106103 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Quantum Charge Fluctuations and the Polarizability of the Single-Electron Box K. W. Lehnert, B. A. Turek, K. Bladh, L. F. Spietz, D. Gunnarsson, P. Delsing, and R. J. Schoelkopf Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 106801 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Coherence of Image-Potential States P. Wahl, M. A. Schneider, L. Diekhöner, R. Vogelgesang, and K. Kern Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 106802 [View PDF (412 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin Liquid State in an Organic Mott Insulator with a Triangular Lattice Y. Shimizu, K. Miyagawa, K. Kanoda, M. Maesato, and G. Saito Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 107001 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Driven Depinning of Strongly Disordered Media and Anisotropic Mean-Field Limits M. Cristina Marchetti, A. Alan Middleton, Karl Saunders, and J. M. Schwarz Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 107002 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-Classical Reentrant Relaxation Crossover in Dy2Ti2O7 Spin Ice J. Snyder, B. G. Ueland, J. S. Slusky, H. Karunadasa, R. J. Cava, Ari Mizel, and P. Schiffer Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 107201 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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In situ Photoemission Study of the Room Temperature Ferromagnet ZnGeP2∶Mn Y. Ishida, D. D. Sarma, K. Okazaki, J. Okabayashi, J. I. Hwang, H. Ott, A. Fujimori, G. A. Medvedkin, T. Ishibashi, and K. Sato Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 107202 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wave-Vector-Dependent Exciton Exchange Interaction G. Dasbach, D. Fröhlich, H. Stolz, R. Klieber, D. Suter, and M. Bayer Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 107401 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Control of Polariton Parametric Scattering in Semiconductor Microcavities S. Kundermann, M. Saba, C. Ciuti, T. Guillet, U. Oesterle, J. L. Staehli, and B. Deveaud Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 107402 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Midinfrared Optical Breakdown in Transparent Dielectrics D. M. Simanovskii, H. A. Schwettman, H. Lee, and A. J. Welch Published 4 September 2003 (4 pages) 107601 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Origin of the “Waterfall” Effect in Phonon Dispersion of Relaxor Perovskites J. Hlinka, S. Kamba, J. Petzelt, J. Kulda, C. A. Randall, and S. J. Zhang Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 107602 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Entanglement of Formation for Symmetric Gaussian States G. Giedke, M. M. Wolf, O. Krüger, R. F. Werner, and J. I. Cirac Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages) 107901 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Computation with a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice Jiannis K. Pachos and Peter L. Knight Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages) 107902 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiparticle Entanglement Purification for Graph States W. Dür, H. Aschauer, and H.-J. Briegel Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 107903 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sequence Dependent DNA-Mediated Conduction Stephan Roche Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages) 108101 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Deformation of Cross-Linked Semiflexible Polymer Networks David A. Head, Alex J. Levine, and F. C. MacKintosh Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 108102 [View PDF (269 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elasticity of Stiff Polymer Networks Jan Wilhelm and Erwin Frey Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 108103 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Membranes with Rotating Motors Peter Lenz, Jean-François Joanny, Frank Jülicher, and Jacques Prost Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 108104 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Small Polarons in Dry DNA Simone S. Alexandre, Emilio Artacho, José M. Soler, and H. Chacham Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 108105 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Activated Bond-Breaking Processes Preempt the Observation of a Sharp Glass-Glass Transition in Dense Short-Ranged Attractive Colloids Emanuela Zaccarelli, Giuseppe Foffi, Francesco Sciortino, and Piero Tartaglia Published 2 September 2003 (4 pages) 108301 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Doppler Effect of Nonlinear Waves and Superspirals in Oscillatory Media Lutz Brusch, Alessandro Torcini, and Markus Bär Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 108302 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Periodic Droplet Formation in Chemically Patterned Microchannels Olga Kuksenok, David Jasnow, Julia Yeomans, and Anna C. Balazs Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 108303 [View PDF (524 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of Extremely Nanosized and Confined In-O Species in Ordered Porous Materials J. M. Ramallo-López, M. Rentería, E. E. Miró, F. G. Requejo, and A. Traverse Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages) 108304 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Tidal Effects on Gravity Experiments with a Balance T. Datta, Ming Yin, Andreea Dimofte, M. Bleiweiss, A. Lungu, Jafar Amirzadeh, and W. E. Sharp Published 2 September 2003 (1 pages) 109001 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kündig and Schlamminger Reply: W. Kündig and St. Schlamminger Published 2 September 2003 (1 pages) 109002 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Universality of Small Scale Turbulence” Iwao Hosokawa Published 5 September 2003 (1 pages) 109401 [View PDF (35 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Identification of Lattice Vacancies on the Two Sublattices of SiC” J. W. Steeds Published 2 September 2003 (1 pages) 109601 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rempel et al. Reply: A. A. Rempel, W. Sprengel, K. Blaurock, K. J. Reichle, J. Major, and H.-E. Schaefer Published 2 September 2003 (1 pages) 109602 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	The “Ping-Pong” Protocol Can Be Attacked without Eavesdropping Qing-yu Cai Published 2 September 2003 (1 pages) 109801 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Insulator, Conductor, and Commensurability: A Topological Approach [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 236401 (2003)] Masaki Oshikawa Published 2 September 2003 (1 pages) 109901 [View PDF (30 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Correlation Energy and Spin Polarization in the 2D Electron Gas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 256601 (2002)] Claudio Attaccalite, Saverio Moroni, Paola Gori-Giorgi, and Giovanni B. Bachelet Published 5 September 2003 (1 pages) 109902 [View PDF (29 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Fermi-Liquid Ground State in the n-Type Pr0.91LaCe0.09CuO4-y Copper-Oxide Superconductor [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 197005 (2003)] Guo-qing Zheng, T. Sato, Y. Kitaoka, M. Fujita, and K. Yamada Published 5 September 2003 (1 pages) 109903 [View PDF (31 kB) ]