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  • 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

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General Physics

•	Fiftyfold Improvement in the Number of Quantum Degenerate Fermionic Atoms Z. Hadzibabic, S. Gupta, C. A. Stan, C. H. Schunck, M. W. Zwierlein, K. Dieckmann, and W. Ketterle Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 160401 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact Dynamics of a Continuous Time Random Walker in the Presence of a Boundary: Beyond the Intuitive Boundary Condition Approach Jaeyoung Sung and Robert J. Silbey Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages) 160601 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Yang-Lee Zeros for an Urn Model for the Separation of Sand I. Bena, F. Coppex, M. Droz, and A. Lipowski Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 160602 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Inflation versus Cyclic Predictions for Spectral Tilt Justin Khoury, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Neil Turok Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 161301 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Measurements of CP-Violating Asymmetries and Branching Fractions in B Meson Decays to η′K B. Aubert et al. BABAR Collaboration Published 13 October 2003 (7 pages) 161801 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Bolometric Bounds on the Antineutrino Mass C. Arnaboldi, C. Brofferio, O. Cremonesi, E. Fiorini, C. Lo Bianco, L. Martensson, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, M. Sisti, A. Giuliani, B. Margesin, and M. Zen Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 161802 [View PDF (591 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Seesaw Neutrino Masses with Large Mixings from Dimensional Deconstruction K. R. Balaji, Manfred Lindner, and Gerhart Seidl Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 161803 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isospin Violation in ϵ′ V. Cirigliano, A. Pich, G. Ecker, and H. Neufeld Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 162001 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Comparison of Source Images for Protons, π-’s, and Λ’s in 6A  GeV Au+Au Collisions P. Chung et al. E895 Collaboration Published 14 October 2003 (5 pages) 162301 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evidence for a New Type of Shears Mechanism in 106Cd A. J. Simons, R. Wadsworth, D. G. Jenkins, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, G. J. Lane, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, F. S. Stephens, C. E. Svensson, K. Vetter, D. Ward, and S. Frauendorf Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 162501 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Phase Transitions in the Interacting Boson Model: Integrability, Level Repulsion, and Level Crossing J. M. Arias, J. Dukelsky, and J. E. García-Ramos Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 162502 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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N=82 Shell Quenching of the Classical r-Process “Waiting-Point” Nucleus 130Cd I. Dillmann, K.-L. Kratz, A. Wöhr, O. Arndt, B. A. Brown, P. Hoff, M. Hjorth-Jensen, U. Köster, A. N. Ostrowski, B. Pfeiffer, D. Seweryniak, J. Shergur, and W. B. Walters the ISOLDE Collaboration Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 162503 [View PDF (281 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	The t+n+n System and 5H M. Meister et al. Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 162504 [View PDF (344 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Shape-Resonance-Enhanced Vibrational Effects in the Angular Distributions of C 1s Photoelectrons from Fixed-in-Space CO Molecules J. Adachi, K. Hosaka, S. Furuya, K. Soejima, M. Takahashi, A. Yagishita, S. K. Semenov, and N. A. Cherepkov Published 15 October 2003 (4 pages) 163001 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rescattering Double Ionization of D2 and H2 by Intense Laser Pulses A. S. Alnaser, T. Osipov, E. P. Benis, A. Wech, B. Shan, C. L. Cocke, X. M. Tong, and C. D. Lin Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 163002 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atom-Atom Scattering under Cylindrical Harmonic Confinement: Numerical and Analytic Studies of the Confinement Induced Resonance T. Bergeman, M. G. Moore, and M. Olshanii Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 163201 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectroscopic Studies of Quantum Solvation in 4HeN-N2O Clusters Yunjie Xu, Wolfgang Jäger, Jian Tang, and A. R. McKellar Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 163401 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetic Wave Collapse in a Radiation Background Mattias Marklund, Gert Brodin, and Lennart Stenflo Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 163601 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mode-Locked Two-Photon States Y. J. Lu, R. L. Campbell, and Z. Y. Ou Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 163602 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	High-Order Harmonic Generation Yielding Tunable Extreme-Ultraviolet Radiation of High Spectral Purity F. Brandi, D. Neshev, and W. Ubachs Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 163901 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Shock Transverse Waves in Elastic Media S. Catheline, J.-L. Gennisson, M. Tanter, and M. Fink Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 164301 [View PDF (313 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Polarimetry of Short-Pulse Gamma Rays Produced through Inverse Compton Scattering of Circularly Polarized Laser Beams M. Fukuda, T. Aoki, K. Dobashi, T. Hirose, T. Iimura, Y. Kurihara, T. Okugi, T. Omori, I. Sakai, J. Urakawa, and M. Washio Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 164801 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb Bicrystals of Species with Identical Charge-to-Mass Ratios T. Matthey, J. P. Hansen, and M. Drewsen Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 165001 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Superfluid Avalanches in Nuclepore: Constrained versus Free-Boundary Experiments and Simulations A. H. Wootters and R. B. Hallock Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 165301 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of Oxygen at Screw Dislocations in GaN I. Arslan and N. D. Browning Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 165501 [View PDF (913 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Transient Strain Driven by a Dense Electron-Hole Plasma M. F. DeCamp, D. A. Reis, A. Cavalieri, P. H. Bucksbaum, R. Clarke, R. Merlin, E. M. Dufresne, D. A. Arms, A. M. Lindenberg, A. G. MacPhee, Z. Chang, B. Lings, J. S. Wark, and S. Fahy Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 165502 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bonding and Energy Dissipation in a Nanohook Assembly Savas Berber, Young-Kyun Kwon, and David Tománek Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 165503 [View PDF (354 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface and Bulk Elasticity Determined Fluctuation Regimes in Smectic Membranes Irakli Sikharulidze, Bela Farago, Igor P. Dolbnya, Anders Madsen, and Wim H. de Jeu Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 165504 [View PDF (498 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ion Hydration under Pressure Adriano Filipponi, Simone De Panfilis, Cecilia Oliva, Maria Antonietta Ricci, Paola D’Angelo, and Daniel T. Bowron Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 165505 [View PDF (314 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	An Interfacial Complex in ZnO and Its Influence on Charge Transport Johan M Carlsson, Helder S. Domingos, Paul D. Bristowe, and Bo Hellsing Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 165506 [View PDF (320 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface Freezing and a Two-Step Pathway of the Isotropic-Smectic Phase Transition in Colloidal Rods Zvonimir Dogic Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 165701 [View PDF (991 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Confinement-Induced Relaxation Process in Thin Films of Cis-Polyisoprene A. Serghei and F. Kremer Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 165702 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adatom-Vacancy Mechanisms for the C60/Al(111)-(6×6) Reconstruction M. Stengel, A. De Vita, and A. Baldereschi Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 166101 [View PDF (455 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiflexible Polymer Confined to a Spherical Surface Andrew J. Spakowitz and Zhen-Gang Wang Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 166102 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intrinsic Profiles beyond the Capillary Wave Theory: A Monte Carlo Study E. Chacón and P. Tarazona Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 166103 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nanofluidics: Viscous Dissipation in Layered Liquid Films Thomas Becker and Frieder Mugele Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 166104 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Charge Distributions in Metallic Alloys: A Charge-Excess Functional Theory Approach Ezio Bruno, Leon Zingales, and Yang Wang Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 166401 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling Density of States of the Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Jörg Rollbühler and Hermann Grabert Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 166402 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetoelectronic Spin Echo Arne Brataas, Gergely Zaránd, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, and Gerrit E. Bauer Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 166601 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mesoscopic Effects in Adiabatic Spin Pumping Prashant Sharma and Piet W. Brouwer Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 166801 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First-Principles Calculations of Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbed on Si(001) W. Orellana, R. H. Miwa, and A. Fazzio Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 166802 [View PDF (471 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron-Phonon Interaction at the Be(0001) Surface A. Eiguren, S. de Gironcoli, E. V. Chulkov, P. M. Echenique, and E. Tosatti Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 166803 [View PDF (234 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconducting Phase Diagram of Li Metal in Nearly Hydrostatic Pressures up to 67 GPa Shanti Deemyad and James S. Schilling Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 167001 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Doping Dependence of the Mass Enhancement in (Pb,Bi)2Sr2CaCu2O8 at the Antinodal Point in the Superconducting and Normal States T. K. Kim, A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, A. Koitzsch, M. Knupfer, H. Berger, and J. Fink Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 167002 [View PDF (270 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fate of the Peak Effect in a Type-II Superconductor: Multicriticality in the Bragg-Glass Transition S. R. Park, S. M. Choi, D. C. Dender, J. W. Lynn, and X. S. Ling Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167003 [View PDF (320 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb and Liquid Dimer Models in Three Dimensions David A. Huse, Werner Krauth, R. Moessner, and S. L. Sondhi Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167004 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Logic Gates for Coupled Superconducting Phase Qubits Frederick W. Strauch, Philip R. Johnson, Alex J. Dragt, C. J. Lobb, J. R. Anderson, and F. C. Wellstood Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167005 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Absence of Magnetic Order in Yb3Ga5O12: Relation between Phase Transition and Entropy in Geometrically Frustrated Materials P. Dalmas de Réotier, A. Yaouanc, P. C. Gubbens, C. T. Kaiser, C. Baines, and P. J. King Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 167201 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Presence of 3d Quadrupole Moment in LaTiO3 Studied by   47,49Ti NMR Takashi Kiyama and Masayuki Itoh Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167202 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbital-Spin Structure and Lattice Coupling in RTiO3 where R=La, Pr, Nd, and Sm Masahito Mochizuki and Masatoshi Imada Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167203 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competing Orders and Disorder-Induced Insulator to Metal Transition in Manganites Yukitoshi Motome, Nobuo Furukawa, and Naoto Nagaosa Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167204 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct Observation of Orbital Ordering in La0.5Sr1.5MnO4 Using Soft X-ray Diffraction S. B. Wilkins, P. D. Spencer, P. D. Hatton, S. P. Collins, M. D. Roper, D. Prabhakaran, and A. T. Boothroyd Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167205 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Memory Effects in an Interacting Magnetic Nanoparticle System Young Sun, M. B. Salamon, K. Garnier, and R. S. Averback Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167206 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Uniaxial Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanostructured Co/Cu(001): From Surface Ripples to Nanowires R. Moroni, D. Sekiba, F. Buatier de Mongeot, G. Gonella, C. Boragno, L. Mattera, and U. Valbusa Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 167207 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Josephson Plasmon and Inhomogeneous Superconducting State in La2-xSrxCuO4 S. V. Dordevic, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, and D. N. Basov Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages) 167401 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Equivalence between Two-Qubit Entanglement and Secure Key Distribution Antonio Acín, Lluis Masanes, and Nicolas Gisin Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages) 167901 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Measurement of the Degree of Polarization of a Light Beam M. Legré, M. Wegmüller, and N. Gisin Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167902 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudospin Quantum Computation in Semiconductor Nanostructures V. W. Scarola, K. Park, and S. Das Sarma Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 167903 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Electron Transfer in Collisions between Two Fullerene Ions H. Bräuning, R. Trassl, A. Diehl, A. Theiß, E. Salzborn, A. A. Narits, and L. P. Presnyakov Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages) 168301 [View PDF (237 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimal Paths in Disordered Complex Networks Lidia A. Braunstein, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Reuven Cohen, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages) 168701 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Photoinduced Changes of Reflectivity in Single Crystals of YBa2Cu3O6.5 (Ortho II)” Jure Demsar, Richard D. Averitt, Viktor V. Kabanov, and Dragan Mihailovic Published 14 October 2003 (1 pages) 169701 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gedik et al. Reply: N. Gedik, J. Orenstein, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy Published 14 October 2003 (1 pages) 169702 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Comment on “Staircase in the Electron Mobility of a ZnO Quantum Dot Assembly due to Shell Filling” and “Optical Transitions in Artificial Few-Electron Atoms Strongly Confined inside ZnO Nanocrystals” Moonsub Shim and P. Guyot-Sionnest Published 14 October 2003 (1 pages) 169703 [View PDF (41 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vanmaekelbergh et al. Reply D. Vanmaekelbergh, A. L. Roest, A. Germeau, J. J. Kelly, E. A. Meulenkamp, G. Allan, and C. Delerue Published 14 October 2003 (1 pages) 169704 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]