• 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

•	Delay Time and the Hartman Effect in Quantum Tunneling Herbert G. Winful Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 260401 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition Radiation by Matter-Wave Solitons in Optical Lattices A. V. Yulin, D. V. Skryabin, and P. St. Russell Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 260402 [View PDF (274 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of an Ensemble of Noisy Bistable Elements with Global Time Delayed Coupling D. Huber and L. S. Tsimring Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 260601 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wide-Band Direct Measurement of Thermal Fluctuations in an Interferometer Kenji Numata, Masaki Ando, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Shigemi Otsuka, and Kimio Tsubono Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 260602 [View PDF (400 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Masses of 32Ar and 33Ar for Fundamental Tests K. Blaum, G. Audi, D. Beck, G. Bollen, F. Herfurth, A. Kellerbauer, H.-J. Kluge, E. Sauvan, and S. Schwarz Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 260801 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Flexible Magnetic Filaments as Micromechanical Sensors C. Goubault, P. Jop, M. Fermigier, J. Baudry, E. Bertrand, and J. Bibette Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages) 260802 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Re/Os Constraint on the Time Variability of the Fine-Structure Constant Yasunori Fujii and Akira Iwamoto Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 261101 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Observation of B→K*ℓ+ℓ- A. Ishikawa et al. Belle Collaboration Published 24 December 2003 (6 pages) 261601 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of Time-Dependent CP-Violating Asymmetries in B0→ϕKS0, K+K-KS0, and η′KS0 Decays K. Abe et al. Belle Collaboration Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages) 261602 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for B0→π0π0 S. H. Lee et al. Belle Collaboration Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages) 261801 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Statistics Measurement of the K+→π0e+ν (Ke3+) Branching Ratio A. Sher et al. Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 261802 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of a Narrow Charmoniumlike State in Exclusive B±→K±π+π-J/ψ Decays S.-K. Choi et al. Belle Collaboration Published 23 December 2003 (6 pages) 262001 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of the DsJ(2317) and DsJ(2457) in B Decays P. Krokovny et al. Belle Collaboration Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages) 262002 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Three-Pion Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions from the STAR Experiment J. Adams et al. STAR Collaboration Published 24 December 2003 (6 pages) 262301 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pion-Kaon Correlations in Central Au+Au Collisions at sqrt[sNN]=130  GeV J. Adams et al. STAR Collaboration Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages) 262302 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin Symmetry in the Antinucleon Spectrum Shan-Gui Zhou, Jie Meng, and P. Ring Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 262501 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-Isospin Resonances and the Neutron Skin of Nuclei D. Vretenar, N. Paar, T. Nikšić, and P. Ring Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 262502 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Accurate Rydberg Excitations from the Local Density Approximation Adam Wasserman, Neepa T. Maitra, and Kieron Burke Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 263001 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Reevaluation of the Use of Photoelectron Angular Distributions as a Probe of Dynamical Processes: Strong Dependence of Such Distributions from S1 Paradifluorobenzene on Photoelectron Kinetic Energy Susan M. Bellm and Katharine L. Reid Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages) 263002 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for CPT-Odd Decays of Positronium P. A. Vetter and S. J. Freedman Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 263401 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical Description of Chaos-Assisted Tunneling Viktor A. Podolskiy and Evgenii E. Narimanov Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 263601 [View PDF (332 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Magnetoelectric Jones Dichroism in Atoms D. Budker and J. E. Stalnaker Published 22 December 2003 (3 pages) 263901 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical Analogue of Electronic Bloch Oscillations Riccardo Sapienza, Paola Costantino, Diederik Wiersma, Mher Ghulinyan, Claudio J. Oton, and Lorenzo Pavesi Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 263902 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molding and Stretched Evolution of Optical Solitons in Cumulative Nonlinearities Cesare Dari-Salisburgo, Eugenio DelRe, and Elia Palange Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 263903 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superstable Granular Heap in a Thin Channel Nicolas Taberlet, Patrick Richard, Alexandre Valance, Wolfgang Losert, José Miguel Pasini, James T. Jenkins, and Renaud Delannay Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 264301 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Speed of Sound in Periodic Elastic Composites A. A. Krokhin, J. Arriaga, and L. N. Gumen Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 264302 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Distribution of Injected Power Fluctuations in Electroconvection Tibor Tóth-Katona and J. T. Gleeson Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 264501 [View PDF (453 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Fluctuations Do Matter: Large Noise-Enhanced Halos in Charged-Particle Beams Courtlandt L. Bohn and Ioannis V. Sideris Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages) 264801 [View PDF (643 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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New Benchmarks from Tokamak Experiments for Theoretical Calculations of the Dielectronic Satellite Spectra of Heliumlike Ions M. Bitter, M. F. Gu, L. A. Vainshtein, P. Beiersdorfer, G. Bertschinger, O. Marchuk, R. Bell, B. LeBlanc, K. W. Hill, D. Johnson, and L. Roquemore Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 265001 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-Compression of Laser Pulses in Plasma O. Shorokhov, A. Pukhov, and I. Kostyukov Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 265002 [View PDF (216 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct Excitation of High-Amplitude Chirped Bucket-BGK Modes W. Bertsche, J. Fajans, and L. Friedland Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 265003 [View PDF (875 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-Transition Scale at Quasiperpendicular Collisionless Shocks S. D. Bale, F. S. Mozer, and T. S. Horbury Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages) 265004 [View PDF (547 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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In situ Synchrotron Study of Phase Transformation Behaviors in Bulk Metallic Glass by Simultaneous Diffraction and Small Angle Scattering X.-L. Wang, J. Almer, C. T. Liu, Y. D. Wang, J. K. Zhao, A. D. Stoica, D. R. Haeffner, and W. H. Wang Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 265501 [View PDF (784 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crossover of Microscopic Dynamics in Metallic Supercooled Liquid Observed by NMR Lilong Li, Jan Schroers, and Yue Wu Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 265502 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structure and Bonding of Dense Liquid Oxygen from First Principles Simulations Burkhard Militzer, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 265503 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In situ Transmission-Electron-Microscopy Investigation of Melting in Submicron Al-Si Alloy Particles under Electron-Beam Irradiation Takeshi Yokota, M. Murayama, and J. M. Howe Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 265504 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semisharp Phase Field Method for Quantitative Phase Change Simulations Gustav Amberg Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages) 265505 [View PDF (357 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Behavior of Complex Knots in Single DNA Molecules Xiaoyan R. Bao, Heun Jin Lee, and Stephen R. Quake Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages) 265506 [View PDF (298 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heat-Induced Transformation of Nanodiamond into a Tube-Shaped Fullerene: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Gun-Do Lee, C. Z. Wang, Jaejun Yu, Euijoon Yoon, and K. M. Ho Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 265701 [View PDF (251 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correct Height Measurement in Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy Sascha Sadewasser and Martha Ch. Lux-Steiner Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 266101 [View PDF (624 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Catalytic Role of Metal Oxides in Gold-Based Catalysts: A First Principles Study of CO Oxidation on TiO2 Supported Au Zhi-Pan Liu, Xue-Qing Gong, Jorge Kohanoff, Cristián Sanchez, and P. Hu Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 266102 [View PDF (532 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition between Diffusion and Fragmentation: An Important Evolutionary Process of Nature Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg, Mogens H. Jensen, Joachim Mathiesen, Poul Olesen, and Kim Sneppen Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 266103 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Enhanced Ionic Conductivity of Polymer Electrolytes Containing Nanocomposite SiO2 Particles Ce-Wen Nan, Lizhen Fan, Yuanhua Lin, and Qiang Cai Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages) 266104 [View PDF (242 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Anomalous Grain Boundary Physics in Polycrystalline CuInSe2: The Existence of a Hole Barrier Clas Persson and Alex Zunger Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 266401 [View PDF (414 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oscillatory Nonlinear Conductance of an Interacting Quantum Wire with an Impurity Fabrizio Dolcini, Hermann Grabert, Inès Safi, and Björn Trauzettel Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages) 266402 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Mixed Alkali Effect in the ac Conductivity of Ion-Conducting Glasses C. Cramer, S. Brunklaus, E. Ratai, and Y. Gao Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 266601 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fermi-Edge Singularity in a Nonequilibrium System B. Muzykantskii, N. d’Ambrumenil, and B. Braunecker Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 266602 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb Blockade and Kondo Effect in a Quantum Hall Antidot H.-S. Sim, M. Kataoka, Hangmo Yi, N. Y. Hwang, M.-S. Choi, and S.-R. Eric Yang Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 266801 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Andreev States in the Kondo Regime A. Levy Yeyati, A. Martín-Rodero, and E. Vecino Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 266802 [View PDF (168 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Josephson Behavior of Phase-Slip Lines in Wide Superconducting Strips A. G. Sivakov, A. M. Glukhov, A. N. Omelyanchouk, Y. Koval, P. Müller, and A. V. Ustinov Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 267001 [View PDF (429 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pair-Breaking and Superconducting State Recovery Dynamics in MgB2 J. Demsar, R. D. Averitt, A. J. Taylor, V. V. Kabanov, W. N. Kang, H. J. Kim, E. M. Choi, and S. I. Lee Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 267002 [View PDF (460 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamical Coulomb Blockade and Spin-Entangled Electrons Patrik Recher and Daniel Loss Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages) 267003 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Magnetic Order in Buried Native Iron Oxide Layers G. S. Beach, F. T. Parker, David J. Smith, P. A. Crozier, and A. E. Berkowitz Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 267201 [View PDF (364 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Direct Imaging and Determination of the Uncompensated Spin Density in Exchange-Biased CoO/(CoPt) Multilayers P. Kappenberger, S. Martin, Y. Pellmont, H. J. Hug, J. B. Kortright, O. Hellwig, and Eric E. Fullerton Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 267202 [View PDF (641 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin Dependence in the Survival Probability of Metastable He (23S) Atoms during the Scattering from Ferromagnetic Surfaces M. Kurahashi, T. Suzuki, X. Ju, and Y. Yamauchi Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 267203 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Range of Magnetic Correlations in Nanocrystalline Soft Magnets A. Michels, R. N. Viswanath, J. G. Barker, R. Birringer, and J. Weissmüller Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages) 267204 [View PDF (285 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nominal Thermodynamic Temperature in Nonequilibrium Kinetic Ising Models Francisco Sastre, Ivan Dornic, and Hugues Chaté Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages) 267205 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exciton Dephasing in Quantum Dot Molecules P. Borri, W. Langbein, U. Woggon, M. Schwab, M. Bayer, S. Fafard, Z. Wasilewski, and P. Hawrylak Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages) 267401 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infinite-Order Excitonic Bloch Equations for Asymmetric Nanostructures M. Hawton and M. M. Dignam Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 267402 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Linewidth-Limited Energy Transfer in Single Conjugated Polymer Molecules J. G. Müller, U. Lemmer, G. Raschke, M. Anni, U. Scherf, J. M. Lupton, and J. Feldmann Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages) 267403 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dielectric Discontinuity at Interfaces in the Atomic-Scale Limit: Permittivity of Ultrathin Oxide Films on Silicon Feliciano Giustino, Paolo Umari, and Alfredo Pasquarello Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 267601 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Spontaneous Oscillations of Dressed Neurons: A New Mechanism for Epilepsy? Suhita Nadkarni and Peter Jung Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages) 268101 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence of a Higher-Order Singularity in Dense Short-Ranged Attractive Colloids Francesco Sciortino, Piero Tartaglia, and Emanuela Zaccarelli Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 268301 [View PDF (138 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relaxation Dynamics of Langmuir Polymer Films: A Power-Law Analysis Francisco Monroy, Hani M. Hilles, Francisco Ortega, and Ramón G. Rubio Published 29 December 2003 (4 pages) 268302 [View PDF (275 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Nonclassical Paths in the Recurrence Spectrum of Diamagnetic Atoms” A. Matzkin Published 22 December 2003 (1 pages) 269301 [View PDF (48 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Granger and Greene Reply: B. E. Granger and C. H. Greene Published 22 December 2003 (1 pages) 269302 [View PDF (41 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Algebraic Fermi Liquid from Phase Fluctuations: ‘Topological’ Fermions, Vortex ‘Berryons,’ and QED3 Theory of Cuprate Superconductor” D. V. Khveshchenko Published 31 December 2003 (1 pages) 269701 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Franz and Tešanović Reply: M. Franz and Z. Tešanović Published 31 December 2003 (1 pages) 269702 [View PDF (50 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Shear-Excited Sound in Magnetic Fluid [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 067201 (2002)] H. W. Müller and M. Liu Published 23 December 2003 (1 pages) 269901 [View PDF (32 kB) ]

•	Publisher’s Note: Magnetic-Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point and Competing Order Parameters in URu2Si2 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 256401 (2003)] K. H. Kim, N. Harrison, M. Jaime, G. S. Boebinger, and J. A. Mydosh Published 29 December 2003 (1 pages) 269902 [View PDF (26 kB) ]

•	Publisher’s Note: Magnetic Neutron Scattering Study of YVO3: Evidence for an Orbital Peierls State [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 257202 (2003)] C. Ulrich, G. Khaliullin, J. Sirker, M. Reehuis, M. Ohl, S. Miyasaka, Y. Tokura, and B. Keimer Published 29 December 2003 (1 pages) 269903 [View PDF (24 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Reaction and Scattering in Cold Electron Collisions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083201 (2003)] J. P. Ziesel, N. C. Jones, D. Field, and L. B. Madsen Published 31 December 2003 (1 pages) 269904 [View PDF (27 kB) ]