• 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

•	Long-Range Nature of Feshbach Molecules in Bose-Einstein Condensates T. Köhler, T. Gasenzer, P. S. Julienne, and K. Burnett Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 230401 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization Condition for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation V. V. Konotop and P. G. Kevrekidis Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 230402 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities and without Alignments Adán Cabello Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 230403 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Zeno Subspace and Entangled Bose-Einstein Condensates M. Zhang and L. You Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 230404 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entanglement of a Mesoscopic Field with an Atom Induced by Photon Graininess in a Cavity A. Auffeves, P. Maioli, T. Meunier, S. Gleyzes, G. Nogues, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 230405 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Asymmetric Landau-Zener Tunneling in a Periodic Potential M. Jona-Lasinio, O. Morsch, M. Cristiani, N. Malossi, J. H. Müller, E. Courtade, M. Anderlini, and E. Arimondo Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 230406 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stochastic Resonance in a Non-Markovian Discrete State Model for Excitable Systems T. Prager and L. Schimansky-Geier Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 230601 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Relativistic Chaos is Coordinate Invariant Adilson E. Motter Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 231101 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Contribution to Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nuclei Gary Prézeau, Andriy Kurylov, Marc Kamionkowski, and Petr Vogel Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 231301 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Gödel’s Universe in a Supertube Shroud Nadav Drukker, Bartomeu Fiol, and Joan Simón Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 231601 [View PDF (86 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Geometric Scaling as Traveling Waves S. Munier and R. Peschanski Published 1 December 2003 (3 pages) 232001 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Understanding Pentaquark States in QCD Shi-Lin Zhu Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 232002 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diquarks and Exotic Spectroscopy Robert Jaffe and Frank Wilczek Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 232003 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Relation between Proton and Neutron Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients for Light Mirror Nuclei and its Relevance to Nuclear Astrophysics N. K. Timofeyuk, R. C. Johnson, and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 232501 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Doorway States in the Gamma Decay-Out of the Yrast Superdeformed Band in 59Cu C. Andreoiu, T. Døssing, C. Fahlander, I. Ragnarsson, D. Rudolph, S. Åberg, R. A. Austin, M. P. Carpenter, R. M. Clark, R. V. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, T. Rodinger, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, T. Steinhardt, C. E. Svensson, O. Thelen, and J. C. Waddington Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 232502 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Rovibrational-State-Selected Photoionization of Acetylene by the Two-Color IR+VUV Scheme: Observation of Rotationally Resolved Rydberg Transitions X.-M. Qian, A. H. Kung, Tao Zhang, K. C. Lau, and C. Y. Ng Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 233001 [View PDF (199 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Trapping and Manipulating Neutral Atoms with Electrostatic Fields P. Krüger, X. Luo, M. W. Klein, K. Brugger, A. Haase, S. Wildermuth, S. Groth, I. Bar-Joseph, R. Folman, and J. Schmiedmayer Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 233201 [View PDF (411 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Enhancement and Dissipation in Nonequilibrium van der Waals Forces Adam E. Cohen and Shaul Mukamel Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 233202 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing Molecular Dynamics at Attosecond Resolution with Femtosecond Laser Pulses X. M. Tong, Z. X. Zhao, and C. D. Lin Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 233203 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Xenon Clusters in Intense VUV Laser Fields Robin Santra and Chris H. Greene Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 233401 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase Control of Collective Quantum Dynamics Mihai Macovei, Jörg Evers, and Christoph H. Keitel Published 1 December 2003 (4 pages) 233601 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiperiodic Raman Technique for Ultrashort Pulse Generation D. D. Yavuz, D. R. Walker, M. Y. Shverdin, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 233602 [View PDF (459 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam R. Dorn, S. Quabis, and G. Leuchs Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 233901 [View PDF (244 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Propensity Criterion for Networking in an Array of Coupled Chaotic Systems F. T. Arecchi, E. Allaria, and I. Leyva Published 1 December 2003 (4 pages) 234101 [View PDF (483 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Internal Mode Mechanism for Collective Energy Transport in Extended Systems Luis Morales-Molina, Niurka R. Quintero, Franz G. Mertens, and Angel Sánchez Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 234102 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Secondary Instabilities and Vortex Formation in Collisionless-Fluid Magnetic Reconnection D. Del Sarto, F. Califano, and F. Pegoraro Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 235001 [View PDF (543 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Preheat Effects on Shock Propagation in Indirect-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Ablator Materials R. E. Olson, R. J. Leeper, A. Nobile, and J. A. Oertel Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 235002 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Substrate-Tuned Boson Localization in Superfluid 4He Films G. A. Csáthy, J. D. Reppy, and M. H. Chan Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 235301 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interactions between Sheets of Phonons in Liquid 4He Ruslan V. Vovk, Charles D. Williams, and Adrian F. Wyatt Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 235302 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	What Does the Potential Energy Landscape Tell Us about the Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses? B. Doliwa and A. Heuer Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 235501 [View PDF (235 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interaction of Shear Waves and Propagating Cracks D. Bonamy and K. Ravi-Chandar Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 235502 [View PDF (543 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge State Dependent Jahn-Teller Distortions of the E-Center Defect in Crystalline Si Serdar Öğüt and James R. Chelikowsky Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 235503 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic Origin of the Nonexponential Dynamics in a Glassy Crystal M. Winterlich, G. Diezemann, H. Zimmermann, and R. Böhmer Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 235504 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Driven Alloys in the Athermal Limit Alan C. Lund and Christopher A. Schuh Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 235505 [View PDF (606 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Force-Extension Curve of a Polymer in a High-Frequency Electric Field Adam E. Cohen Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 235506 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Defect Structure around Two Colloids in a Liquid Crystal O. Guzmán, E. B. Kim, S. Grollau, N. L. Abbott, and J. J. de Pablo Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 235507 [View PDF (930 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Free Surfaces Cause Reductions in the Glass Transition Temperature of Thin Polystyrene Films J. S. Sharp and J. A. Forrest Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 235701 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of Transport of Long Polymer Molecules through Carbon Nanotube Channels Chenyu Wei and Deepak Srivastava Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 235901 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetic Wetting of a Moving Planar Defect by a New Phase Alexander L. Korzhenevskii, Richard Bausch, and Rudi Schmitz Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 236101 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precursor Film Controlled Wetting of Pb on Cu Edmund B. Webb, Gary S. Grest, and David R. Heine Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 236102 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Optical Conductivity of the Fröhlich Polaron A. S. Mishchenko, N. Nagaosa, N. V. Prokof’ev, A. Sakamoto, and B. V. Svistunov Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 236401 [View PDF (337 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron Field Emission Properties of Closed Carbon Nanotubes Alper Buldum and Jian Ping Lu Published 1 December 2003 (4 pages) 236801 [View PDF (838 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near-Perfect Correlation of the Resistance Components of Mesoscopic Samples at the Quantum Hall Regime E. Peled, D. Shahar, Y. Chen, E. Diez, D. L. Sivco, and A. Y. Cho Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 236802 [View PDF (226 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Eight-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect and “Octonions” Bogdan A. Bernevig, Jiangping Hu, Nicolaos Toumbas, and Shou-Cheng Zhang Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 236803 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Criticality of d-Wave Quasiparticles and Superconducting Phase Fluctuations Oskar Vafek and Zlatko Tešanović Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 237001 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Two Resonant Magnetic Modes in an Overdoped High Tc Superconductor S. Pailhès, Y. Sidis, P. Bourges, C. Ulrich, V. Hinkov, L. P. Regnault, A. Ivanov, B. Liang, C. T. Lin, C. Bernhard, and B. Keimer Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 237002 [View PDF (245 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hysteretic Spin-Density-Wave Ordering in Confined Geometries Eric E. Fullerton, J. L. Robertson, A. R. Prinsloo, H. L. Alberts, and S. D. Bader Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 237201 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Elementary Excitations in the Cyclic Molecular Nanomagnet Cr8 O. Waldmann, T. Guidi, S. Carretta, C. Mondelli, and A. L. Dearden Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 237202 [View PDF (258 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Ferromagnetism in fcc Twinned 2.4 nm Size Pd Nanoparticles B. Sampedro, P. Crespo, A. Hernando, R. Litrán, J. C. Sánchez López, C. López Cartes, A. Fernandez, J. Ramírez, J. González Calbet, and M. Vallet Published 4 December 2003 (4 pages) 237203 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetism in All-Carbon Nanostructures with Negative Gaussian Curvature Noejung Park, Mina Yoon, Savas Berber, Jisoon Ihm, Eiji Osawa, and David Tománek Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 237204 [View PDF (695 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetostrictive Domain Walls in Antiferromagnetic NiO N. B. Weber, H. Ohldag, H. Gomonaj, and F. U. Hillebrecht Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 237205 [View PDF (397 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interband Impact Ionization and Nonlinear Absorption of Terahertz Radiation in Semiconductor Heterostructures J. C. Cao Published 1 December 2003 (4 pages) 237401 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Hydrogen Bond Dynamics Probed with Ultrafast Infrared Heterodyne-Detected Multidimensional Vibrational Stimulated Echoes John B. Asbury, Tobias Steinel, C. Stromberg, K. J. Gaffney, I. R. Piletic, Alexi Goun, and M. D. Fayer Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 237402 [View PDF (665 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Quantum Logic Approach to Wave Packet Control E. A. Shapiro, Michael Spanner, and Misha Yu. Ivanov Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 237901 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noise-Controlled Self-Replicating Patterns Felipe Lesmes, David Hochberg, Federico Morán, and Juan Pérez-Mercader Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 238301 [View PDF (424 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hysteresis in One-Dimensional Reaction-Diffusion Systems A. Rákos, M. Paessens, and G. M. Schütz Published 3 December 2003 (4 pages) 238302 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ergodic Dynamics in a Natural Threshold System K. F. Tiampo, J. B. Rundle, W. Klein, J. S. Martins, and C. D. Ferguson Published 5 December 2003 (4 pages) 238501 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Network Information and Connected Correlations Elad Schneidman, Susanne Still, Michael J. Berry, and William Bialek Published 2 December 2003 (4 pages) 238701 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Probable Langevin-Like Director Reorientation in an Interface-Induced Disordered SmC*-Like State of Liquid Crystals Characterized by Frustration between Ferro- and Antiferroelectricity” Byoungchoo Park, C. H. Oh, W. J. Choi, J. W. Wu, and H. Takezoe Published 5 December 2003 (1 pages) 239601 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hayashi et al. Reply: Naoki Hayashi, Tatsuhisa Kato, Takayuki Aoki, Tomohiro Ando, Atsuo Fukuda, and San-Seong Seomun Published 5 December 2003 (1 pages) 239602 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Publisher’s Note: Critical Resistance in the AlAs Quantum Hall Ferromagnet [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 216802 (2003)] E. P. De Poortere, E. Tutuc, and M. Shayegan Published 5 December 2003 (1 pages) 239901 [View PDF (22 kB) ]