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  • 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.
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General Physics

•	Averaging for Solitons with Nonlinearity Management D. E. Pelinovsky, P. G. Kevrekidis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages) 240201 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production of Long-Lived Ultracold Li2 Molecules from a Fermi Gas J. Cubizolles, T. Bourdel, S. J. Kokkelmans, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and C. Salomon Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages) 240401 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pure Gas of Optically Trapped Molecules Created from Fermionic Atoms S. Jochim, M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, G. Hendl, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages) 240402 [View PDF (231 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Fluctuations of a Vortex in an Optical Lattice J.-P. Martikainen and H. T. Stoof Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages) 240403 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decoherence-Driven Cooling of a Degenerate Spinor Bose Gas H. J. Lewandowski, J. M. McGuirk, D. M. Harber, and E. A. Cornell Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 240404 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optically Induced Lensing Effect on a Bose-Einstein Condensate Expanding in a Moving Lattice L. Fallani, F. S. Cataliotti, J. Catani, C. Fort, M. Modugno, M. Zawada, and M. Inguscio Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 240405 [View PDF (190 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interference of Atomic Levels and Superfluid-Mott Insulator Phase Transitions in a Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate K. V. Krutitsky and R. Graham Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 240406 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gibbons-Hawking Effect in the Sonic de Sitter Space-Time of an Expanding Bose-Einstein-Condensed Gas Petr O. Fedichev and Uwe R. Fischer Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 240407 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	All-Optical Realization of an Atom Laser Giovanni Cennini, Gunnar Ritt, Carsten Geckeler, and Martin Weitz Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages) 240408 [View PDF (250 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical Robustness of Lévy Search Strategies E. P. Raposo, Sergey V. Buldyrev, M. G. da Luz, M. C. Santos, H. Eugene Stanley, and G. M. Viswanathan Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages) 240601 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-Energy X-Ray Standards from Hydrogenlike Pionic Atoms D. F. Anagnostopoulos, D. Gotta, P. Indelicato, and L. M. Simons Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 240801 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Determining Neutrino Mass from the Cosmic Microwave Background Alone Manoj Kaplinghat, Lloyd Knox, and Yong-Seon Song Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 241301 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constraining the Variation of Fundamental Constants using 18 cm OH Lines Jayaram N. Chengalur and Nissim Kanekar Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 241302 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	New Global Defect Structures D. Bazeia, J. Menezes, and R. Menezes Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 241601 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Possible Supersymmetric Solution to the Discrepancy between B→ϕKS and B→η′KS CP Asymmetries S. Khalil and E. Kou Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 241602 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of a Significant Excess of π0π0 Events in B Meson Decays B. Aubert et al. BABAR Collaboration Published 11 December 2003 (7 pages) 241801 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for B→ϕϕK H.-C. Huang et al. Belle Collaboration Published 10 December 2003 (6 pages) 241802 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Midrapidity Neutral-Pion Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt[s]=200  GeV S. S. Adler et al. PHENIX Collaboration Published 11 December 2003 (6 pages) 241803 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of Prompt Charm Meson Production Cross Sections in pp̅ Collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV D. Acosta et al. CDF II Collaboration Published 12 December 2003 (7 pages) 241804 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Electromagnetic Meissner Effect in Spin-One Color Superconductors Andreas Schmitt, Qun Wang, and Dirk H. Rischke Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages) 242301 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Phase Space Manipulation of Cold Free Radical OH Molecules J. R. Bochinski, Eric R. Hudson, H. J. Lewandowski, Gerard Meijer, and Jun Ye Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 243001 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision Frequency Measurement of Visible Intercombination Lines of Strontium G. Ferrari, P. Cancio, R. Drullinger, G. Giusfredi, N. Poli, M. Prevedelli, C. Toninelli, and G. M. Tino Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 243002 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-Precision Molecular Wave-Packet Interferometry with HgAr Dimers Kenji Ohmori, Yukinori Sato, Evgueni E. Nikitin, and Stuart A. Rice Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 243003 [View PDF (276 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhancing Acceleration Radiation from Ground-State Atoms via Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Marlan O. Scully, Vitaly V. Kocharovsky, Alexey Belyanin, Edward Fry, and Federico Capasso Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 243004 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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State Selective Charge Transfer Cross Sections for Na+ with Excited Rubidium: A Unique Diagnostic of the Population Dynamics of a Magneto-Optical Trap X. Flechard, H. Nguyen, R. Bredy, S. R. Lundeen, M. Stauffer, H. A. Camp, C. W. Fehrenbach, and B. D. DePaola Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 243005 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oxygen and Silver Clusters: Transition from Chemisorption to Oxidation M. Schmidt, A. Masson, and C. Bréchignac Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 243401 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical Control of the Rotational Angular Momentum of a Molecular Rydberg Wave Packet R. S. Minns, R. Patel, J. R. Verlet, and H. H. Fielding Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 243601 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characterization of a Chaotic Optical Field Using a High-Gain, Self-Amplified Free-Electron Laser Yuelin Li, Samuel Krinsky, John W. Lewellen, Kwang-Je Kim, Vadim Sajaev, and Stephen V. Milton Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 243602 [View PDF (334 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Ultrahigh Harmonics from Laser-Assisted Ion-Atom Collisions Manfred Lein and Jan M. Rost Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages) 243901 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inhibiting the Onset of the Three-Photon Destructive Interference in Ultraslow Propagation-Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing with Dual Induced Transparency L. Deng and M. G. Payne Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 243902 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Parametric Scattering in Photorefractive Sr0.61Ba0.39Nb2O6∶Cr M. Goulkov, O. Shinkarenko, L. Ivleva, P. Lykov, T. Granzow, Th. Woike, M. Imlau, and M. Wöhlecke Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages) 243903 [View PDF (301 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Green Function Retrieval and Time Reversal in a Disordered World B. A. van Tiggelen Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages) 243904 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Observation of Multifrequency Patterns in Arrays of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators Visarath In, Andy Kho, Joseph D. Neff, Antonio Palacios, Patrick Longhini, and Brian K. Meadows Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 244101 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of Axial Segregation and Coarsening of Dry Granular Materials and Slurries in Circular and Square Tubes S. J. Fiedor and J. M. Ottino Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 244301 [View PDF (277 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudo Angular Momentum and Topological Charge Conservation for Nonlinear Acoustical Vortices Jean-Louis Thomas and Régis Marchiano Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 244302 [View PDF (441 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropy and Universality: The Oslo Model, the Rice Pile Experiment, and the Quenched Edwards-Wilkinson Equation Gunnar Pruessner and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 244303 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Drifting Convection Cells in Rotating Fluid Layers Heated from Below F. H. Busse Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 244501 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling of the Turbulence Transition Threshold in a Pipe B. Hof, A. Juel, and T. Mullin Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages) 244502 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of Helicity-Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes in Large-Helical-Device Plasmas Heated by Neutral-Beam Injection S. Yamamoto, K. Toi, N. Nakajima, S. Ohdachi, S. Sakakibara, K. Y. Watanabe, M. Goto, K. Ikeda, O. Kaneko, K. Kawahata, S. Masuzaki, T. Morisaki, S. Morita, S. Murakami, K. Narihara, Y. Oka, M. Osakabe, Y. Takeiri, K. Tanaka, T. Tokuzawa, K. Tsumori, H. Yamada, I. Yamada, and K. Yamazaki LHD Experimental Group Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 245001 [View PDF (506 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observations of Electron Diffusion Regions at the Subsolar Magnetopause F. S. Mozer, S. D. Bale, T. D. Phan, and J. A. Osborne Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 245002 [View PDF (336 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Unusual Thermal Diffusion in Polymer Solutions Berend-Jan de Gans, Rio Kita, Simone Wiegand, and Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 245501 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiation Enhanced Silicon Self-Diffusion and the Silicon Vacancy at High Temperatures H. Bracht, J. Fage Pedersen, N. Zangenberg, A. Nylandsted Larsen, E. E. Haller, G. Lulli, and M. Posselt Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 245502 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Instabilities in Complex Mixtures with a Large Number of Components Richard P. Sear and José A. Cuesta Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 245701 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Excitonic Absorption above the Mott Transition in Si P. Grivickas, V. Grivickas, and J. Linnros Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 246401 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nontrivial Fixed Point in a Twofold Orbitally Degenerate Anderson Impurity Model Michele Fabrizio, Andrew F. Ho, Lorenzo De Leo, and Giuseppe E. Santoro Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 246402 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diluted II-VI Oxide Semiconductors with Multiple Band Gaps K. M. Yu, W. Walukiewicz, J. Wu, W. Shan, J. W. Beeman, M. A. Scarpulla, O. D. Dubon, and P. Becla Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 246403 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Indium sqrt[7]×sqrt[3] on Si(111): A Nearly Free Electron Metal in Two Dimensions Eli Rotenberg, H. Koh, K. Rossnagel, H. W. Yeom, J. Schäfer, B. Krenzer, M. P. Rocha, and S. D. Kevan Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 246404 [View PDF (791 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point in CeCoIn5 Johnpierre Paglione, M. A. Tanatar, D. G. Hawthorn, Etienne Boaknin, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, M. Sutherland, Louis Taillefer, C. Petrovic, and P. C. Canfield Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages) 246405 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Temperature Gate Control of Quantum Well Spin Memory O. Z. Karimov, G. H. John, R. T. Harley, W. H. Lau, M. E. Flatté, M. Henini, and R. Airey Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 246601 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inhomogeneous Ferromagnetism and Unconventional Charge Dynamics in Disordered Double Exchange Magnets Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 246602 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical Detection of Spin Coherence in Silicon Christoph Boehme and Klaus Lips Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 246603 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transport Properties of Granular Metals at Low Temperatures I. S. Beloborodov, K. B. Efetov, A. V. Lopatin, and V. M. Vinokur Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 246801 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Controlling a Mesoscopic Spin Environment by Quantum Bit Manipulation J. M. Taylor, A. Imamoglu, and M. D. Lukin Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 246802 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Imaging Fractal Conductance Fluctuations and Scarred Wave Functions in a Quantum Billiard R. Crook, C. G. Smith, A. C. Graham, I. Farrer, H. E. Beere, and D. A. Ritchie Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 246803 [View PDF (436 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photocurrent, Rectification, and Magnetic Field Symmetry of Induced Current through Quantum Dots L. DiCarlo, C. M. Marcus, and J. S. Harris Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 246804 [View PDF (222 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Superconductivity in Doped sp3 Semiconductors: The Case of the Clathrates D. Connétable, V. Timoshevskii, B. Masenelli, J. Beille, J. Marcus, B. Barbara, A. M. Saitta, G.-M. Rignanese, P. Mélinon, S. Yamanaka, and X. Blase Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages) 247001 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase Separation in Asymmetrical Fermion Superfluids Paulo F. Bedaque, Heron Caldas, and Gautam Rupak Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 247002 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing the Superconducting Gap Symmetry of PrOs4Sb12: A Penetration Depth Study Elbert E. Chia, M. B. Salamon, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 247003 [View PDF (631 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reentrant Behavior of the Phase Stiffness in Josephson Junction Arrays Luca Capriotti, Alessandro Cuccoli, Andrea Fubini, Valerio Tognetti, and Ruggero Vaia Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages) 247004 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunable Magnetic Relaxation Mechanism in Magnetic Nanoparticles Xavier Waintal and Piet W. Brouwer Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 247201 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Kondo Effect in the Presence of Itinerant-Electron Ferromagnetism Studied with the Numerical Renormalization Group Method J. Martinek, M. Sindel, L. Borda, J. Barnaś, J. König, G. Schön, and J. von Delft Published 10 December 2003 (4 pages) 247202 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superradiance in Molecular H Aggregates F. Meinardi, M. Cerminara, A. Sassella, R. Bonifacio, and R. Tubino Published 8 December 2003 (4 pages) 247401 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Real-Time Capturing of the Nuclear Wave-Packet Shape in Self-Trapped Excitons Taira Matsuoka, Jun Takeda, Susumu Kurita, and Tohru Suemoto Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 247402 [View PDF (696 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solid State Solvation in Amorphous Organic Thin Films Conor F. Madigan and Vladimir Bulović Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 247403 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Broken Time Reversal of Light Interaction with Planar Chiral Nanostructures A. S. Schwanecke, A. Krasavin, D. M. Bagnall, A. Potts, A. V. Zayats, and N. I. Zheludev Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 247404 [View PDF (517 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-Organized Nanogratings in Glass Irradiated by Ultrashort Light Pulses Yasuhiko Shimotsuma, Peter G. Kazansky, Jiarong Qiu, and Kazuoki Hirao Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 247405 [View PDF (631 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Field Cooled and Zero Field Cooled 207Pb NMR and the Local Structure of Relaxor PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 Robert Blinc, Valentin Laguta, and Boštjan Zalar Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages) 247601 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Efficient Immunization Strategies for Computer Networks and Populations Reuven Cohen, Shlomo Havlin, and Daniel ben-Avraham Published 9 December 2003 (4 pages) 247901 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Depletion Forces in Nonequilibrium J. Dzubiella, H. Löwen, and C. N. Likos Published 12 December 2003 (4 pages) 248301 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Left-Handed-Media Simulation and Transmission of EM Waves in Subwavelength Split-Ring-Resonator-Loaded Metallic Waveguides” I. G. Kondrat’ev and A. I. Smirnov Published 8 December 2003 (1 pages) 249401 [View PDF (49 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Marqués et al. Reply: R. Marqués, J. Martel, F. Mesa, and F. Medina Published 8 December 2003 (1 pages) 249402 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]