• LETTERS
  • General Physics
  • Gravitation and Astrophysics
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • 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

•	Minimal Brownian Ratchet: An Exactly Solvable Model Youngki Lee, Andrew Allison, Derek Abbott, and H. Eugene Stanley Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 220601 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Evidence of “Vibrational Resonance” in an Optical System V. N. Chizhevsky, E. Smeu, and G. Giacomelli Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 220602 [View PDF (411 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal Thermal Radiation Drag on Neutral Objects Vanik Mkrtchian, V. Adrian Parsegian, Rudi Podgornik, and Wayne M. Saslow Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 220801 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropies in Brane Worlds Kazuya Koyama Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 221301 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Can Cosmic Shear Shed Light on Low Cosmic Microwave Background Multipoles? Michael Kesden, Marc Kamionkowski, and Asantha Cooray Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 221302 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Observation of B∓→ρ∓ρ0 Decays J. Zhang et al. The Belle Collaboration Published 24 November 2003 (5 pages) 221801 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for the Rare Decay B→K*ℓ+ℓ- and Measurement of the B→Kℓ+ℓ- Branching Fraction B. Aubert et al. BABAR Collaboration Published 25 November 2003 (7 pages) 221802 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Functional Integrals for QCD at Nonzero Chemical Potential and Zero Density Thomas D. Cohen Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 222001 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the Proton Spin Structure Function g1(x,Q2) for Q2 from 0.15 to 1.6  GeV2 with CLAS R. Fatemi et al. The CLAS Collaboration Published 25 November 2003 (6 pages) 222002 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Differential Cross Sections for Higgs Boson Production at Tevatron Collider Energies Edmond L. Berger and Jianwei Qiu Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 222003 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Spectroscopy of the 1S0-3P0 Clock Transition of 87Sr in an Optical Lattice Masao Takamoto and Hidetoshi Katori Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 223001 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Direct Measurement of the Thermal Rate Coefficient for Electron Attachment to Ozone in the Gas Phase, 300–550 K: Implications for the Ionosphere Jane M. Van Doren, Thomas M. Miller, Skip Williams, and A. A. Viggiano Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 223201 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ionization of Clusters in Intense Laser Pulses through Collective Electron Dynamics Ulf Saalmann and Jan-Michael Rost Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 223401 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear Bound-Free Pair Creation in the Strong Electromagnetic Fields of a Heavy Nucleus and an Intense X-Ray Laser C.  Müller, A.  B.  Voitkiv, and N.  Grün Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 223601 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Strong Spatiotemporal Localization in a Silica Nonlinear Waveguide Array D. Cheskis, S. Bar-Ad, R. Morandotti, J. S. Aitchison, H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, and D. Ross Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 223901 [View PDF (343 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Attosecond Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy S. A. Aseyev, Y. Ni, L. J. Frasinski, H. G. Muller, and M. J. Vrakking Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 223902 [View PDF (880 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supermodes of Chiral Photonic Filters with Combined Twist and Layer Defects Ian J. Hodgkinson, Qi hong Wu, Lakshman De Silva, Matthew Arnold, Martin W. McCall, and Akhlesh Lakhtakia Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 223903 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Slow Diffusion of Light in a Cold Atomic Cloud G. Labeyrie, E. Vaujour, C. A. Müller, D. Delande, C. Miniatura, D. Wilkowski, and R. Kaiser Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 223904 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superpersistent Chaotic Transients in Physical Space: Advective Dynamics of Inertial Particles in Open Chaotic Flows under Noise Younghae Do and Ying-Cheng Lai Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 224101 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Flow and Fracture in Drying Nanoparticle Suspensions E. R. Dufresne, E. I. Corwin, N. A. Greenblatt, J. Ashmore, D. Y. Wang, A. D. Dinsmore, J. X. Cheng, X. S. Xie, J. W. Hutchinson, and D. A. Weitz Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 224501 [View PDF (302 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Traveling Waves in Pipe Flow Holger Faisst and Bruno Eckhardt Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 224502 [View PDF (916 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vortex-Pair Dynamics in Anisotropic Bistable Media: A Kinematic Approach Aric Hagberg and Ehud Meron Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 224503 [View PDF (558 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Laser-Energy Transfer and Enhancement of Plasma Waves and Electron Beams by Interfering High-Intensity Laser Pulses P. Zhang, N. Saleh, S. Chen, Z. M. Sheng, and D. Umstadter Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 225001 [View PDF (797 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Critical Velocity of Continuous Vortex Nucleation in a Slab of Superfluid 3He-A P. M. Walmsley, D. J. Cousins, and A. I. Golov Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 225301 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Layer- and Bulk-Roton Excitations of 4He in Porous Media V. Apaja and E. Krotscheck Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 225302 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of Phason Fluctuations in the i-AlPdMn Quasicrystal S. Francoual, F. Livet, M. de Boissieu, F. Yakhou, F. Bley, A. Létoublon, R. Caudron, and J. Gastaldi Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 225501 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Short-Pulse Laser Ablation of Solids: From Phase Explosion to Fragmentation Patrick Lorazo, Laurent J. Lewis, and Michel Meunier Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 225502 [View PDF (611 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic Analysis and Regeneration of Rough Surfaces G. R. Jafari, S. M. Fazeli, F. Ghasemi, S. M. Allaei, M. Reza Tabar, A. Iraji zad, and G. Kavei Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 226101 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic Excitation and Dynamic Promotion of a Surface Reaction D. N. Denzler, C. Frischkorn, C. Hess, M. Wolf, and G. Ertl Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 226102 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	From Meandering to Faceting, Is Step Flow Growth Ever Stable? N. Néel, T. Maroutian, L. Douillard, and H.-J. Ernst Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 226103 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic Roughening of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon C. Casiraghi, A. C. Ferrari, R Ohr, A. J. Flewitt, D. P. Chu, and J. Robertson Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 226104 [View PDF (553 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous Threshold Laws in Quantum Sticking Dennis P. Clougherty Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 226105 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic Stability of Magnetic Fe/Co Superlattices with Monatomic Layer Alternation G. A. Farnan, C. L. Fu, Z. Gai, M. Krcmar, A. P. Baddorf, Zhenyu Zhang, and J. Shen Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 226106 [View PDF (377 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-Ordering of Nanofacets on Vicinal SiC Surfaces Hiroshi Nakagawa, Satoru Tanaka, and Ikuo Suemune Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 226107 [View PDF (478 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Mott Transitions in Multiorbital Systems A. Liebsch Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 226401 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of Electronic versus Atomic Relaxations in Stokes Shifts at Defects in Solids T. Bakos, S. N. Rashkeev, and S. T. Pantelides Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 226402 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noninteracting Electrons and the Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions with Correlated Impurities M. Hilke Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 226403 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fine Structure of Effective Mass Acceptors in Gallium Nitride R. Stȩpniewski, A. Wysmołek, M. Potemski, K. Pakuła, J. M. Baranowski, I. Grzegory, S. Porowski, G. Martinez, and P. Wyder Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 226404 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Oscillations in the Layer Structure of Thin Metal Films P. Czoschke, Hawoong Hong, L. Basile, and T.-C. Chiang Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 226801 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cyclotron-Resonance Harmonics in the ac Response of a 2D Electron Gas with Smooth Disorder I. A. Dmitriev, A. D. Mirlin, and D. G. Polyakov Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 226802 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-Dimensional Gapless Magnons in a Single Anisotropic Ferromagnetic Nanolayer A. Villares Ferrer, P. F. Farinas, and A. O. Caldeira Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 226803 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coherent Manipulation of Electronic States in a Double Quantum Dot T. Hayashi, T. Fujisawa, H. D. Cheong, Y. H. Jeong, and Y. Hirayama Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 226804 [View PDF (267 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillation in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in Faraday Geometry X. L. Lei and S. Y. Liu Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 226805 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical Disorder and Phase Transitions in Random Diode Arrays V. G. Karpov Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 226806 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Induced Magnetic Ordering by Proton Irradiation in Graphite P. Esquinazi, D. Spemann, R. Höhne, A. Setzer, K.-H. Han, and T. Butz Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 227201 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxygen Stripes in La0.5Ca0.5MnO3 from Ab Initio Calculations V. Ferrari, M. Towler, and P. B. Littlewood Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 227202 [View PDF (458 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin Quantum Tunneling via Entangled States in a Dimer of Exchange-Coupled Single-Molecule Magnets R. Tiron, W. Wernsdorfer, D. Foguet-Albiol, N. Aliaga-Alcalde, and G. Christou Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages) 227203 [View PDF (662 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of Zero- to One-Dimensional Transformation on Multiparticle Auger Recombination in Semiconductor Quantum Rods H. Htoon, J. A. Hollingsworth, R. Dickerson, and V. I. Klimov Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 227401 [View PDF (550 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-Similar Chain of Metal Nanospheres as an Efficient Nanolens Kuiru Li, Mark I. Stockman, and David J. Bergman Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 227402 [View PDF (444 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Coherent Optical Phonons and Parametrically Coupled Magnons Induced by Femtosecond Laser Excitation of the Gd(0001) Surface A. Melnikov, I. Radu, U. Bovensiepen, O. Krupin, K. Starke, E. Matthias, and M. Wolf Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 227403 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Detection of Entanglement with Polarized Photons: Experimental Realization of an Entanglement Witness M. Barbieri, F. De Martini, G. Di Nepi, P. Mataloni, G. M. D’Ariano, and C. Macchiavello Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages) 227901 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Concentration of Higher Dimensional Entanglement: Qutrits of Photon Orbital Angular Momentum Alipasha Vaziri, Jian-Wei Pan, Thomas Jennewein, Gregor Weihs, and Anton Zeilinger Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 227902 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long Range Correlations in DNA: Scaling Properties and Charge Transfer Efficiency Stephan Roche, Dominique Bicout, Enrique Maciá, and Efim Kats Published 26 November 2003 (4 pages) 228101 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Unexpected Behavior of Heavy-Ion Fusion Cross Sections at Extreme Sub-Barrier Energies” C. J. Lin Published 25 November 2003 (1 pages) 229201 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Jiang et al. Reply C. L. Jiang, H. Esbensen, K. E. Rehm, B. B. Back, R. V. Janssens, J. A. Caggiano, P. Collon, J. Greene, A. M. Heinz, D. J. Henderson, I. Nishinaka, T. O. Pennington, and D. Seweryniak Published 25 November 2003 (1 pages) 229202 [View PDF (38 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Universal Scaling Laws of Diffusion in a Binary Fluid Mixture” Upendra Harbola, Charanbir Kaur, and Shankar P. Das Published 26 November 2003 (1 pages) 229601 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Samanta, Ali, and Ghosh Reply: Alok Samanta, Sk. Musharaf Ali, and Swapan K. Ghosh Published 26 November 2003 (1 pages) 229602 [View PDF (42 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Disorder Induced Quantum Phase Transition in Random-Exchange Spin-1/2 Chains” Nicolas Laflorencie and Heiko Rieger Published 26 November 2003 (1 pages) 229701 [View PDF (58 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Morphological and Compositional Evolution of the Ge/Si(001) Surface During Exposure to a Si Flux [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 216104 (2003)] A. Rastelli, H. von Känel, G. Albini, P. Raiteri, D. B. Migas, and Leo Miglio Published 24 November 2003 (1 pages) 229901 [View PDF (39 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Sequence Space Localization in the Immune System Response to Vaccination and Disease [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 068101 (2003) Michael W. Deem and Ha Youn Lee Published 25 November 2003 (1 pages) 229902 [View PDF (22 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Direct Detection Constraints on Superheavy Dark Matter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 221301 (2003)] Ivone F. Albuquerque and Laura Baudis Published 25 November 2003 (1 pages) 229903 [View PDF (35 kB) ]