• 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

•	Energy Gaps and Roton Structure above the ν=1/2 Laughlin State of a Rotating Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate Tatsuya Nakajima and Masahito Ueda Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 140401 [View PDF (557 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Equilibrium Free Energies from Nonequilibrium Measurements Using Maximum-Likelihood Methods Michael R. Shirts, Eric Bair, Giles Hooker, and Vijay S. Pande Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 140601 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Model for Gravitational Interaction between Dark Matter and Baryons Federico Piazza and Christian Marinoni Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 141301 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cross-Correlation Tomography: Measuring Dark Energy Evolution with Weak Lensing Bhuvnesh Jain and Andy Taylor Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 141302 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Vorton Existence and Stability Y. Lemperiere and E. P. Shellard Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 141601 [View PDF (299 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unity of Elementary Particles and Forces in Higher Dimensions Ilia Gogoladze, Yukihiro Mimura, and S. Nandi Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 141801 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electroweak Production of Hybrid Mesons in a Flux-Tube Simulation of Lattice QCD F. E. Close and J. J. Dudek Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 142001 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Inhomogeneous Shadowing Effects on J/ψ Production in dA Collisions S. R. Klein and R. Vogt Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 142301 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Observation of the Charge Symmetry Breaking d+d→4He+π0 Reaction Near Threshold E. J. Stephenson, A. D. Bacher, C. E. Allgower, A. Gårdestig, C. M. Lavelle, G. A. Miller, H. Nann, J. Olmsted, P. V. Pancella, M. A. Pickar, J. Rapaport, T. Rinckel, A. Smith, H. M. Spinka, and U. van Kolck Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 142302 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	How to Reconcile the Rosenbluth and the Polarization Transfer Methods in the Measurement of the Proton Form Factors P. A. Guichon and M. Vanderhaeghen Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 142303 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-Photon Exchange and Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering P. G. Blunden, W. Melnitchouk, and J. A. Tjon Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 142304 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Evidence for Subthermal Rotational Populations in Stored Molecular Ions through State-Dependent Dissociative Recombination L. Lammich, D. Strasser, H. Kreckel, M. Lange, H. B. Pedersen, S. Altevogt, V. Andrianarijaona, H. Buhr, O. Heber, P. Witte, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 143201 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shock Shells in Coulomb Explosions of Nanoclusters A. E. Kaplan, B. Y. Dubetsky, and P. L. Shkolnikov Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 143401 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Microscopic Origin of Surface-Plasmon Radiation in Plasmonic Band-Gap Nanostructures D. S. Kim, S. C. Hohng, V. Malyarchuk, Y. C. Yoon, Y. H. Ahn, K. J. Yee, J. W. Park, J. Kim, Q. H. Park, and C. Lienau Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 143901 [View PDF (331 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cherenkov Effect as a Probe of Photonic Nanostructures F. J. García de Abajo, A. G. Pattantyus-Abraham, N. Zabala, A. Rivacoba, M. O. Wolf, and P. M. Echenique Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 143902 [View PDF (558 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stable Embedded Solitons Jianke Yang Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 143903 [View PDF (584 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical Multistability in Three-Level Atoms inside an Optical Ring Cavity Amitabh Joshi and Min Xiao Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 143904 [View PDF (507 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Spatial versus Temporal Deterministic Wave Breakup of Nonlinearly Coupled Light Waves D. Salerno, S. Minardi, J. Trull, A. Varanavicius, G. Tamosauskas, G. Valiulis, A. Dubietis, D. Caironi, S. Trillo, A. Piskarskas, and P. Di Trapani Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 143905 [View PDF (530 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Demonstration of Superluminal Effects in an Absorptionless, Nonreflective System D. R. Solli, C. F. McCormick, C. Ropers, J. J. Morehead, R. Y. Chiao, and J. M. Hickmann Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 143906 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Discrete Vector Solitons in Kerr Nonlinear Waveguide Arrays Joachim Meier, Jared Hudock, Demetrios Christodoulides, George Stegeman, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, and J. S. Aitchison Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 143907 [View PDF (577 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal Early-Time Response in High-Contrast Electromagnetic Scattering Peter B. Weichman Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 143908 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Granular Elasticity without the Coulomb Condition Yimin Jiang and Mario Liu Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages) 144301 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Richardson’s Pair Diffusion and the Stagnation Point Structure of Turbulence J. Dávila and J. C. Vassilicos Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 144501 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Carbon Nanotube “T Junctions”: Formation Pathways and Conductivity Madhu Menon, Antonis N. Andriotis, Deepak Srivastava, Inna Ponomareva, and Leonid A. Chernozatonskii Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 145501 [View PDF (589 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantitative Phase Radiography with Polychromatic Neutrons P. J. McMahon, B. E. Allman, D. L. Jacobson, M. Arif, S. A. Werner, and K. A. Nugent Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 145502 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Discrete Dislocation Dynamics Study of Strained-Layer Relaxation K. W. Schwarz Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 145503 [View PDF (330 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear Structural Mechanics Based Modeling of Carbon Nanotube Deformation Antonio Pantano, Mary C. Boyce, and David M. Parks Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 145504 [View PDF (464 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Speed Microtribology with Quartz Crystal Resonators S. Berg and D. Johannsmann Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 145505 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reentrant Transitions in Colloidal or Dusty Plasma Bilayers René Messina and Hartmut Löwen Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 146101 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxidation of the Si(001) Surface: Lateral Growth and Formation of Pb0 Centers Takahiro Yamasaki, Koichi Kato, and Tsuyoshi Uda Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 146102 [View PDF (843 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase Manipulation between c(4×2) and p(2×2) on the Si(100) Surface at 4.2 K Keisuke Sagisaka, Daisuke Fujita, and Giyuu Kido Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 146103 [View PDF (759 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Climbing the Density Functional Ladder: Nonempirical Meta–Generalized Gradient Approximation Designed for Molecules and Solids Jianmin Tao, John P. Perdew, Viktor N. Staroverov, and Gustavo E. Scuseria Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 146401 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In-Plane Thermal Conductivity of Nd2CuO4: Evidence for Magnon Heat Transport R. Jin, Y. Onose, Y. Tokura, D. Mandrus, P. Dai, and B. C. Sales Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 146601 [View PDF (326 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Four-Atom Period in the Conductance of Monatomic Al Wires K. S. Thygesen and K. W. Jacobsen Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 146801 [View PDF (290 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetism in Transition-Metal-Doped Silicon Nanotubes Abhishek Kumar Singh, Tina M. Briere, Vijay Kumar, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 146802 [View PDF (248 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Current-Driven Magnetic Excitations in Permalloy-Based Multilayer Nanopillars S. Urazhdin, Norman O. Birge, W. P. Pratt, and J. Bass Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 146803 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization of Small Lead Particles S. Reich, G. Leitus, R. Popovitz-Biro, and M. Schechter Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages) 147001 [View PDF (403 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Superconductivity and Field-Induced Magnetism in Pr2-xCexCuO4 Single Crystals J. E. Sonier, K. F. Poon, G. M. Luke, P. Kyriakou, R. I. Miller, R. Liang, C. R. Wiebe, P. Fournier, and R. L. Greene Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages) 147002 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic Instability in Strongly Correlated Superconductors Bogdan A. Bernevig, Robert B. Laughlin, and David I. Santiago Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 147003 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-Polarized Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of High Energy, Large Wave Vector Spin Waves in Ultrathin fcc Co Films on Cu(001) R. Vollmer, M. Etzkorn, P. S. Kumar, H. Ibach, and J. Kirschner Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages) 147201 [View PDF (490 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic Phase Transition in Co/Cu/Ni/Cu(100) and Co/Fe/Ni/Cu(100) C. Won, Y. Z. Wu, A. Scholl, A. Doran, N. Kurahashi, H. W. Zhao, and Z. Q. Qiu Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 147202 [View PDF (293 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetologic with α-MnAs Thin Films C. Pampuch, A. K. Das, A. Ney, L. Däweritz, R. Koch, and K. H. Ploog Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 147203 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipative Dynamics of an Extended Magnetic Nanostructure: Spin Necklace in a Metallic Environment N. Shah and A. J. Millis Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 147204 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbital Domain State and Finite Size Scaling in Ferromagnetic Insulating Manganites G. Papavassiliou, M. Pissas, M. Belesi, M. Fardis, J. Dolinsek, C. Dimitropoulos, and J. P. Ansermet Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 147205 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Proposal for Production and Detection of Entangled Electron-Hole Pairs in a Degenerate Electron Gas C. W. Beenakker, C. Emary, M. Kindermann, and J. L. van Velsen Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 147901 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Efficient Classical Simulation of Slightly Entangled Quantum Computations Guifré Vidal Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 147902 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasi-Spin-Wave Quantum Memories with a Dynamical Symmetry C. P. Sun, Y. Li, and X. F. Liu Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 147903 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Length and Statistical Weight of Bubbles in DNA Melting Yan Zeng, Awrasa Montrichok, and Giovanni Zocchi Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 148101 [View PDF (363 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure of Actin Cross-Linked with α-Actinin: A Network of Bundles O. Pelletier, E. Pokidysheva, L. S. Hirst, N. Bouxsein, Y. Li, and C. R. Safinya Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages) 148102 [View PDF (563 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chromatin Dynamics: Nucleosomes go Mobile through Twist Defects I. M. Kulić and H. Schiessel Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 148103 [View PDF (345 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Processive Motor Protein as an Overdamped Brownian Stepper Martin Bier Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 148104 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermoelectric Efficiency and Compatibility G. Jeffrey Snyder and Tristan S. Ursell Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages) 148301 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanism for Spiral Wave Breakup in Excitable and Oscillatory Media Junzhong Yang, Fagen Xie, Zhilin Qu, and Alan Garfinkel Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 148302 [View PDF (538 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electric Fields that “Arrive” before the Time Derivative of the Magnetic Field prior to Major Earthquakes P. A. Varotsos, N. V. Sarlis, and E. S. Skordas Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages) 148501 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sandpile on Scale-Free Networks K.-I. Goh, D.-S. Lee, B. Kahng, and D. Kim Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages) 148701 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Problems with the Rotating-Torsion-Balance Limit on the Photon Mass Alfred Scharff Goldhaber and Michael Martin Nieto Published 3 October 2003 (1 pages) 149101 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Luo et al. Reply: Jun Luo, Liang-Cheng Tu, Zhong-Kun Hu, and En-Jie Luan Published 3 October 2003 (1 pages) 149102 [View PDF (41 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Evidence for Suppression of Superconductivity by Spin Imbalance in Co-Al-Co Single-Electron Transistors” J. Johansson, M. Urech, D. Haviland, and V. Korenivski Published 1 October 2003 (1 pages) 149701 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Chen et al. Reply: C. D. Chen, Watson Kuo, D. S. Chung, J. H. Shyu, and C. S. Wu Published 1 October 2003 (1 pages) 149702 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Brillouin Study of the Quantization of Acoustic Modes in Nanospheres [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255502 (2003)] M. H. Kuok, H. S. Lim, S. C. Ng, N. N. Liu, and Z. K. Wang Published 2 October 2003 (1 pages) 149901 [View PDF (60 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Low-Speed Impact Craters in Loose Granular Media [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 194301 (2003)] J. S. Uehara, M. A. Ambroso, R. P. Ojha, and D. J. Durian Published 3 October 2003 (1 pages) 149902 [View PDF (51 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Second-Harmonic Rayleigh Scattering from a Sphere of Centrosymmetric Material [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 004045 (1999)] J. I. Dadap, J. Shan, K. B. Eisenthal, and T. F. Heinz Published 3 October 2003 (1 pages) 149903 [View PDF (23 kB) ]