Volume 88, Issue 24

17 June 2002

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On the Cover

Numerical solutions for geometry-induced twist transitions in a liquid crystal confined between a sinusoidal grating at the top and a flat surface at the bottom. The color plots are for physical (left) and unphysical (right) values of the surface elastic constant, respectively.

From the article:

Geometrically-Controlled Twist Transitions in Nematic Cells
Pedro Patrício, M. M. Telo da Gama, and S. Dietrich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245502 (2002)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

A Beaker without Walls: Formation of Deeply Supercooled Binary Liquid Solutions of Alcohols from Nanoscale Amorphous Solid Films

Patrick Ayotte, R. Scott Smith, Glenn Teeter, Zdenek Dohnálek, Gregory A. Kimmel, and Bruce D. Kay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245505 (2002) - Published 3 June, 2002

LETTERS

General Physics

Dissipative Enhancement of the Response of a Bistable Noisy Oscillator to External Driving

M. Evstigneev, V. Pankov, and R. H. Prince

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 240201 (2002) - Published 4 June, 2002

Long-Range Magnetic Interaction due to the Casimir Effect

P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 240401 (2002) - Published 29 May, 2002

Kochen-Specker Theorem for Finite Precision Spin-One Measurements

Thomas Breuer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 240402 (2002) - Published 29 May, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Stability and Bifurcations of the Figure-8 Solution of the Three-Body Problem

J. Galán, F. J. Muñoz-Almaraz, E. Freire, E. Doedel, and A. Vanderbauwhede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 241101 (2002) - Published 31 May, 2002

Near-Horizon Conformal Symmetry and Black Hole Entropy

S. Carlip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 241301 (2002) - Published 31 May, 2002

Estimate of the Cosmological Bispectrum from the MAXIMA-1 Cosmic Microwave Background Map

M. G. Santos, A. Balbi, J. Borrill, P. G. Ferreira, S. Hanany, A. H. Jaffe, A. T. Lee, J. Magueijo, B. Rabii, P. L. Richards, G. F. Smoot, R. Stompor, C. D. Winant, and J. H. P. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 241302 (2002) - Published 3 June, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for the Rare Decays $B \to {Kl}^{+} l^{-}$ and $B \to K^{*} l^{+} l^{-}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 241801 (2002) - Published 3 June, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Centrality Dependence of $π^{+ / -}$ , $K^{+ / -}$ , $p$ , and $\bar{p}$ Production from $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV$ Au + Au Collisions at RHIC

K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 242301 (2002) - Published 28 May, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quadrupolar Transitions Evidenced by Resonant Auger Spectroscopy

J. Danger, P. Le Fèvre, H. Magnan, D. Chandesris, S. Bourgeois, J. Jupille, T. Eickhoff, and W. Drube

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 243001 (2002) - Published 29 May, 2002

O $1 s \to σ^{*}$ Resonance in $O_{2}$ : Inadequacy of Only Two Exchange-Split Components

M. N. Piancastelli, A. Kivimäki, V. Carravetta, I. Cacelli, R. Cimiraglia, C. Angeli, H. Wang, M. Coreno, M. de Simone, G. Turri, and K. C. Prince

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 243002 (2002) - Published 3 June, 2002

Time-Asymmetric Fluctuations of Light and the Breakdown of Detailed Balance

A. Denisov, H. M. Castro-Beltran, and H. J. Carmichael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 243601 (2002) - Published 29 May, 2002

Coherent Atom Interactions Mediated by Dark-State Polaritons

A. André, L.-M. Duan, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 243602 (2002) - Published 31 May, 2002

Resonant Quenching of Gas-Phase Cs Atoms Induced by Surface Polaritons

Horacio Failache, Solomon Saltiel, Alexis Fischer, Daniel Bloch, and Martial Ducloy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 243603 (2002) - Published 31 May, 2002

Wave Equation for Dark Coherence in Three-Level Media

J. H. Eberly and V. V. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 243604 (2002) - Published 4 June, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Optical Technique for Precise Retardation Measurements

Stefano Cattaneo, Oliver Zehnder, Peter Günter, and Martti Kauranen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 243901 (2002) - Published 30 May, 2002

Linear Superposition in Nonlinear Equations

Avinash Khare and Uday Sukhatme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 244101 (2002) - Published 30 May, 2002

Measuring Nonstationarity by Analyzing the Loss of Recurrence in Dynamical Systems

Christoph Rieke, Karsten Sternickel, Ralph G. Andrzejak, Christian E. Elger, Peter David, and Klaus Lehnertz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 244102 (2002) - Published 31 May, 2002

Shape of a Cracking Whip

Alain Goriely and Tyler McMillen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 244301 (2002) - Published 3 June, 2002

Transient Vortex Events in the Initial Value Problem for Turbulence

D. D. Holm and Robert Kerr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 244501 (2002) - Published 29 May, 2002

Asymptotic Scaling Laws for Imploding Thin Fluid Shells

M. M. Basko and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 244502 (2002) - Published 30 May, 2002

Reentrant Hexagons in Non-Boussinesq Rayleigh-Bénard Convection: Effect of Compressibility

Arun Roy and Victor Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 244503 (2002) - Published 31 May, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurement of X-Ray Pulse Widths by Intensity Interferometry

M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, and T. Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 244801 (2002) - Published 31 May, 2002

Compressible Sub-Alfvénic MHD Turbulence in Low- $β$ Plasmas

Jungyeon Cho and A. Lazarian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245001 (2002) - Published 31 May, 2002

Criteria of Phase Transitions in a Complex Plasma

O. S. Vaulina, S. V. Vladimirov, O. F. Petrov, and V. E. Fortov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245002 (2002) - Published 3 June, 2002

GeV Electrons from Ultraintense Laser Interaction with Highly Charged Ions

S. X. Hu and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245003 (2002) - Published 4 June, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Universal Attractors of Reversible Aggregate-Reorganization Processes

Stefan Großkinsky, Marc Timme, and Björn Naundorf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245501 (2002) - Published 30 May, 2002

Geometrically-Controlled Twist Transitions in Nematic Cells

Pedro Patrício, M. M. Telo da Gama, and S. Dietrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245502 (2002) - Published 30 May, 2002

Rotation of Molecular Hydrogen in Si: Unambiguous Identification of Ortho- $H_{2}$ and Para- $D_{2}$

E Elinor Chen, Michael Stavola, W. Beall Fowler, and J. Anna Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245503 (2002) - Published 31 May, 2002

Boundary Lubrication Properties of Materials with Expansive Freezing

E. A. Jagla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245504 (2002) - Published 3 June, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

A Beaker without Walls: Formation of Deeply Supercooled Binary Liquid Solutions of Alcohols from Nanoscale Amorphous Solid Films

Patrick Ayotte, R. Scott Smith, Glenn Teeter, Zdenek Dohnálek, Gregory A. Kimmel, and Bruce D. Kay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245505 (2002) - Published 3 June, 2002

Nematics with Quenched Disorder: How Long Will It Take to Heal?

T. Bellini, M. Buscaglia, C. Chiccoli, F. Mantegazza, P. Pasini, and C. Zannoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245506 (2002) - Published 4 June, 2002

Modeling Elasticity in Crystal Growth

K. R. Elder, Mark Katakowski, Mikko Haataja, and Martin Grant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 245701 (2002) - Published 4 June, 2002

Solvation Forces in Branched Molecular Liquids

Roderick Lim and S. J. O'Shea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 246101 (2002) - Published 29 May, 2002

Measurement of Long-Range Repulsive Forces between Charged Particles at an Oil-Water Interface

R. Aveyard, B. P. Binks, J. H. Clint, P. D. I. Fletcher, T. S. Horozov, B. Neumann, V. N. Paunov, J. Annesley, S. W. Botchway, D. Nees, A. W. Parker, A. D. Ward, and A. N. Burgess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 246102 (2002) - Published 3 June, 2002