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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

•	Unbiased Global Optimization of Lennard-Jones Clusters for N≤201 Using the Conformational Space Annealing Method Julian Lee, In-Ho Lee, and Jooyoung Lee Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 080201 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin Coupling between Cold Atoms and the Thermal Fluctuations of a Metal Surface M. P. Jones, C. J. Vale, D. Sahagun, B. V. Hall, and E. A. Hinds Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages) 080401 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intensity Dependence of Photoassociation in a Quantum Degenerate Atomic Gas Ionut D. Prodan, Marin Pichler, Mark Junker, Randall G. Hulet, and John L. Bohn Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 080402 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomic Bose and Anderson Glasses in Optical Lattices B. Damski, J. Zakrzewski, L. Santos, P. Zoller, and M. Lewenstein Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 080403 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Creation of a Fully Inseparable Tripartite Continuous-Variable State Takao Aoki, Nobuyuki Takei, Hidehiro Yonezawa, Kentaro Wakui, Takuji Hiraoka, Akira Furusawa, and Peter van Loock Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 080404 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Modulational Instability and Complex Dynamics of Confined Matter-Wave Solitons L. Salasnich, A. Parola, and L. Reatto Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 080405 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Long-Lived Molecular Bose Gas Kevin E. Strecker, Guthrie B. Partridge, and Randall G. Hulet Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 080406 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffusion of Asymmetric Swimmers Andrew D. Rutenberg, Andrew J. Richardson, and Claire J. Montgomery Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages) 080601 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonperturbative Flow Equations from Running Expectation Values F. G. Scholtz, B. H. Bartlett, and H. B. Geyer Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 080602 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Fluctuating Dimension in a Discrete Model for Quantum Gravity Based on the Spectral Principle Luiz C. de Albuquerque, Jorge L. deLyra, and Paulo Teotonio-Sobrinho Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 081301 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Large-N Reduction in the Continuum Three-Dimensional Yang-Mills Theory R. Narayanan and H. Neuberger Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 081601 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Back-to-Back Correlations of High-pT Hadrons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Tetsufumi Hirano and Yasushi Nara Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 082301 [View PDF (124 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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High Precision Measurement of the Superallowed 0+→0+β Decay of 22Mg J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob, M. Sanchez-Vega, R. G. Neilson, A. Azhari, C. A. Gagliardi, V. E. Mayes, X. Tang, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages) 082501 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Clarification of the Three-Body Decay of 12C (12.71 MeV) H. O. Fynbo, Y. Prezado, U. C. Bergmann, M. J. Borge, P. Dendooven, W. X. Huang, J. Huikari, H. Jeppesen, P. Jones, B. Jonson, M. Meister, G. Nyman, K. Riisager, O. Tengblad, I. S. Vogelius, Y. Wang, L. Weissman, K. Wilhelmsen Rolander, and J. Äystö Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 082502 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Demonstration of Dispersion-Canceled Quantum-Optical Coherence Tomography Magued B. Nasr, Bahaa E. Saleh, Alexander V. Sergienko, and Malvin C. Teich Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 083601 [View PDF (189 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•	Cavity Solitons in Two-Level Lasers with Dense Amplifying Medium V. Ahufinger, J. García-Ojalvo, J. Mompart, M. C. Torrent, R. Corbalán, and R. Vilaseca Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 083901 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Light Pulse Slowing Down up to 0.025 cm/s by Photorefractive Two-Wave Coupling E. Podivilov, B. Sturman, A. Shumelyuk, and S. Odoulov Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 083902 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Synchronization and Oscillator Death in Oscillatory Media with Stirring Zoltán Neufeld, István Z. Kiss, Changsong Zhou, and Jürgen Kurths Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 084101 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Estimating Good Discrete Partitions from Observed Data: Symbolic False Nearest Neighbors Matthew B. Kennel and Michael Buhl Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 084102 [View PDF (811 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nusselt Number Measurements for Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Alexei Nikolaenko and Guenter Ahlers Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 084501 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interaction Potential and Hopping Dynamics Governing Sliding Friction E. Riedo, E. Gnecco, R. Bennewitz, E. Meyer, and H. Brune Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 084502 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superstatistical Mechanics of Tracer-Particle Motions in Turbulence A. M. Reynolds Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 084503 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Light Intensification towards the Schwinger Limit Sergei V. Bulanov, Timur Esirkepov, and Toshiki Tajima Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages) 085001 [View PDF (458 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Space-Charge-Limited 2D Electron Flow between Two Flat Electrodes in a Strong Magnetic Field A. Rokhlenko and J. L. Lebowitz Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 085002 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Characteristics of Electron Heat Transport of Plasma with an Electron Internal-Transport Barrier in the Large Helical Device K. Ida, T. Shimozuma, H. Funaba, K. Narihara, S. Kubo, S. Murakami, A. Wakasa, M. Yokoyama, Y. Takeiri, K. Y. Watanabe, K. Tanaka, M. Yoshinuma, Y. Liang, and N. Ohyabu LHD experimental group Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 085003 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tokamak Equilibria with Reversed Current Density A. A. Martynov, S. Yu. Medvedev, and L. Villard Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 085004 [View PDF (684 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous Transmission of an Ultrashort Ionizing Laser Pulse through a Thin Foil G. Ferrante, M. Zarcone, and S. A. Uryupin Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 085005 [View PDF (88 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•	Quantum Transmission of Atoms through a Slab of Superfluid Helium C. D. Williams and A. F. Wyatt Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages) 085301 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effective Mass of Two-Dimensional 3He J. Boronat, J. Casulleras, V. Grau, E. Krotscheck, and J. Springer Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 085302 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific Raman Signatures of a Dimetallofullerene Peapod A. Débarre, R. Jaffiol, C. Julien, D. Nutarelli, A. Richard, and P. Tchénio Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 085501 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multilayer Adsorption and Wetting of Acetone on Graphite F. Kruchten and K. Knorr Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 085502 [View PDF (576 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stereo-Selective Swelling of Imprinted Cholesteric Networks S. Courty, A. R. Tajbakhsh, and E. M. Terentjev Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 085503 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generation of Coherent Zone Boundary Phonons by Impulsive Excitation of Molecules M. Gühr, M. Bargheer, and N. Schwentner Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 085504 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mixing Effects for the Structural Relaxation in Binary Hard-Sphere Liquids G. Foffi, W. Götze, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, and Th. Voigtmann Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages) 085701 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Driving Rate Effects on Crackling Noise Robert A. White and Karin A. Dahmen Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 085702 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Glass Transition in Ultrathin Polymer Films: Calorimetric Study Mikhail Yu. Efremov, Eric A. Olson, Ming Zhang, Zishu Zhang, and Leslie H. Allen Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 085703 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuation Mediated Interaction and Phase Separation of Nanoparticles in a Liquid Crystal Solvent T. Bellini, M. Caggioni, N. A. Clark, F. Mantegazza, A. Maritan, and A. Pelizzola Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 085704 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interface Profiles near Three-Phase Contact Lines in Electric Fields Juergen Buehrle, Stephan Herminghaus, and Frieder Mugele Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages) 086101 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Novel Surface Tension Isotherm for Surfactants Based on Local Density Functional Theory Simeon D. Stoyanov, Heinz Rehage, and Vesselin N. Paunov Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 086102 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infinite Family of Persistence Exponents for Interface Fluctuations M. Constantin, S. Das Sarma, C. Dasgupta, O. Bondarchuk, D. B. Dougherty, and E. D. Williams Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 086103 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Imaging the Internal Electronic Structure of a Surface Adsorbate with Low Energy Ions Jory A. Yarmoff, Ye Yang, and Zdenek Sroubek Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 086104 [View PDF (185 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-Similar Structures near Boundaries in Strained Systems B. Audoly and A. Boudaoud Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 086105 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•	Radiation-Induced “Zero-Resistance State” and the Photon-Assisted Transport Junren Shi and X. C. Xie Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 086801 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin Excitations of the Spin-Polarized Electron Gas in Semimagnetic Quantum Wells B. Jusserand, F. Perez, D. R. Richards, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, C. Testelin, D. Wolverson, and J. J. Davies Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 086802 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas Adam C. Durst, Subir Sachdev, N. Read, and S. M. Girvin Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 086803 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic Penetration Depth Measurements of Pr2-xCexCuO4-δ Films on Buffered Substrates: Evidence for a Nodeless Gap Mun-Seog Kim, John A. Skinta, Thomas R. Lemberger, A. Tsukada, and M. Naito Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 087001 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density Functional Study of the Phase Diagram and Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in P: Implication for Spintronics S. Ostanin, V. Trubitsin, J. B. Staunton, and S. Y. Savrasov Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 087002 [View PDF (221 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scalings of Domain Wall Energies in Two Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses C. Amoruso, E. Marinari, O. C. Martin, and A. Pagnani Published 18 August 2003 (4 pages) 087201 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Extended versus Local Fluctuations in Quantum Critical Ce(Ru1-xFex)2Ge2 (x=xc=0.76) W. Montfrooij, M. C. Aronson, B. D. Rainford, J. A. Mydosh, A. P. Murani, P. Haen, and T. Fukuhara Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 087202 [View PDF (552 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ferromagnetism of MnAs Studied by Heteroepitaxial Films on GaAs(001) A. K. Das, C. Pampuch, A. Ney, T. Hesjedal, L. Däweritz, R. Koch, and K. H. Ploog Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 087203 [View PDF (232 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	String Order in Half-Integer-Spin Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chains Jizhong Lou, Shaojin Qin, and Changfeng Chen Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 087204 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probing Hole-Induced Ferromagnetic Exchange in Magnetic Semiconductors by Inelastic Neutron Scattering H. Kępa, Van Khoi Le, C. M. Brown, M. Sawicki, J. K. Furdyna, T. M. Giebultowicz, and T. Dietl Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 087205 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unusual Symmetries in the Kugel-Khomskii Hamiltonian A. B. Harris, Taner Yildirim, Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and I. Ya. Korenblit Published 21 August 2003 (4 pages) 087206 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective Density-Wave Excitations in Two-Leg Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 Ladders A. Gozar, G. Blumberg, P. B. Littlewood, B. S. Dennis, N. Motoyama, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 087401 [View PDF (817 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-Energy Phonon Branches of an Individual Metallic Carbon Nanotube J. Maultzsch, S. Reich, U. Schlecht, and C. Thomsen Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 087402 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•	Decoherence-Free Subspaces in Quantum Key Distribution Zachary D. Walton, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages) 087901 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Operationally Invariant Measure of the Distance between Quantum States by Complementary Measurements Jinhyoung Lee, M. S. Kim, and Časlav Brukner Published 20 August 2003 (4 pages) 087902 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lower Bound for Electron Spin Entanglement from Beam Splitter Current Correlations Guido Burkard and Daniel Loss Published 22 August 2003 (4 pages) 087903 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electrical Manipulation of Nanomagnets L. Y. Gorelik, R. I. Shekhter, V. M. Vinokur, D. E. Feldman, V. I. Kozub, and M. Jonson Published 19 August 2003 (4 pages) 088301 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Quasicrystal-Crystal Transformation in Zn-Mg–Rare-Earth Alloys” Eckhard Uhrig, Roland Sterzel, Stefan Brühne, and Wolf Assmus Published 21 August 2003 (1 pages) 089601 [View PDF (44 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Abe and Tsai Reply: A. P. Tsai and E. Abe Published 21 August 2003 (1 pages) 089602 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Ground-State Phase Diagram of a Half-Filled One-Dimensional Extended Hubbard Model” Anders W. Sandvik, Pinaki Sengupta, and David K. Campbell Published 20 August 2003 (1 pages) 089701 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Jeckelmann Replies: Eric Jeckelmann Published 20 August 2003 (1 pages) 089702 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Conservative Quantum Computing” Daniel A. Lidar Published 22 August 2003 (1 pages) 089801 [View PDF (43 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ozawa Replies: Masanao Ozawa Published 22 August 2003 (1 pages) 089802 [View PDF (40 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]