Volume 92, Issue 1

9 January 2004

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On the Cover

Snapshot of a 15-solar-mass supernova explosion 1 second after shock formation, from a 2-dimensional model. The newly formed neutron star has been accelerated to a recoil velocity of 520 km/s by the asymmetry of the ejected mass, which grew from small random fluctuations as a result of hydrodynamic instabilities.

From the article:

Pulsar Recoil by Large-Scale Anisotropies in Supernova Explosions
L. Scheck, T. Plewa, H.-Th. Janka, K. Kifonidis, and E. Müller
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 011103 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermoelastic Properties of ${M g S i O}_{3}$ -Perovskite: Insights on the Nature of the Earth’s Lower Mantle

R. M. Wentzcovitch, B. B. Karki, M. Cococcioni, and S. de Gironcoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 018501 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

LETTERS

General Physics

Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization of Spin Hamiltonians

Anupam Garg and Michael Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 010401 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

Quantum Reversibility: Is there an Echo?

Moritz Hiller, Tsampikos Kottos, Doron Cohen, and Theo Geisel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 010402 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Pseudo-Dirac Neutrinos: A Challenge for Neutrino Telescopes

John F. Beacom, Nicole F. Bell, Dan Hooper, John G. Learned, Sandip Pakvasa, and Thomas J. Weiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 011101 (2004) - Published 5 January, 2004

The First Law for Slowly Evolving Horizons

Ivan Booth and Stephen Fairhurst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 011102 (2004) - Published 6 January, 2004

Pulsar Recoil by Large-Scale Anisotropies in Supernova Explosions

L. Scheck, T. Plewa, H.-Th. Janka, K. Kifonidis, and E. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 011103 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

Baryogenesis in a Flat Direction with Neither Baryon nor Lepton Charge

Takeshi Chiba, Fuminobu Takahashi, and Masahide Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 011301 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

$J / ψ$ and $η_{c}$ in the Deconfined Plasma from Lattice QCD

M. Asakawa and T. Hatsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 012001 (2004) - Published 5 January, 2004

Measurements of the $D_{s J}$ Resonance Properties

Y. Mikami et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 012002 (2004) - Published 6 January, 2004

Probing Quark-Distribution Amplitudes through Generalized Parton Distributions at Large Momentum Transfer

Pervez Hoodbhoy, Xiangdong Ji, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 012003 (2004) - Published 6 January, 2004

Precision Measurement of the Neutron Spin Asymmetry $A_{1}^{n}$ and Spin-Flavor Decomposition in the Valence Quark Region

X. Zheng et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 012004 (2004) - Published 7 January, 2004

Flavor Decomposition of the Sea-Quark Helicity Distributions in the Nucleon from Semiinclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering

A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 012005 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Probing the Molecular Environment Using Spin-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy

G. Turri, G. Snell, B. Langer, M. Martins, E. Kukk, S. E. Canton, R. C. Bilodeau, N. Cherepkov, J. D. Bozek, A. L. Kilcoyne, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 013001 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

How to Use Lasers for Imaging Attosecond Dynamics of Nuclear Processes

Nenad Milosevic, Paul B. Corkum, and Thomas Brabec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 013002 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

Corrugating and Anticorrugating Static Interactions in Helium-Atom Scattering from Metal Surfaces

N. Jean, M. I. Trioni, G. P. Brivio, and V. Bortolani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 013201 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

Formation and Stability of High-Spin Alkali Clusters

C. P. Schulz, P. Claas, D. Schumacher, and F. Stienkemeier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 013401 (2004) - Published 6 January, 2004

Interferometric Methods to Measure Orbital and Spin, or the Total Angular Momentum of a Single Photon

Jonathan Leach, Johannes Courtial, Kenneth Skeldon, Stephen M. Barnett, Sonja Franke-Arnold, and Miles J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 013601 (2004) - Published 5 January, 2004

Discrete Entanglement Distribution with Squeezed Light

B. Kraus and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 013602 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Pointwise Dimensions of the Lorenz Attractor

Sam Gratrix and John N. Elgin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 014101 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

Self-Affine Fronts in Self-Affine Fractures: Large and Small-Scale Structure

G. Drazer, H. Auradou, J. Koplik, and J. P. Hulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 014501 (2004) - Published 6 January, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Odd Toroidal Alfvén Eigenmodes

G. J. Kramer, S. E. Sharapov, R. Nazikian, N. N. Gorelenkov, and R. V. Budny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015001 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

Proton Shock Acceleration in Laser-Plasma Interactions

Luís O. Silva, Michael Marti, Jonathan R. Davies, Ricardo A. Fonseca, Chuang Ren, Frank S. Tsung, and Warren B. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015002 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Twist Elasticity and Anchoring in a Lamellar Nematic Phase

Neha M. Patel, M. R. Dodge, Min Hua Zhu, Rolfe G. Petschek, Charles Rosenblatt, Marko Prehm, and Carsten Tschierske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015501 (2004) - Published 5 January, 2004

Identification of the Carbon Dangling Bond Center at the $4 H − S i C / {S i O}_{2}$ Interface by an EPR Study in Oxidized Porous SiC

J. L. Cantin, H. J. von Bardeleben, Y. Shishkin, Y. Ke, R. P. Devaty, and W. J. Choyke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015502 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

Spatiotemporal Behavior of Void Collapse in Shocked Solids

Takahiro Hatano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015503 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

Role of Mobile Interstitial Oxygen Atoms in Defect Processes in Oxides: Interconversion between Oxygen-Associated Defects in ${S i O}_{2}$ Glass

Koichi Kajihara, Linards Skuja, Masahiro Hirano, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015504 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

Low-Temperature Nucleation in a Kinetic Ising Model with Soft Stochastic Dynamics

Kyungwha Park, Per Arne Rikvold, Gloria M. Buendía, and M. A. Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015701 (2004) - Published 6 January, 2004

Rigorous Analysis of Singularities and Absence of Analytic Continuation at First-Order Phase-Transition Points in Lattice-Spin Models

Sacha Friedli and Charles-Édouard Pfister

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015702 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

Superfluid-Insulator Transition in Commensurate Disordered Bosonic Systems: Large-Scale Worm Algorithm Simulations

Nikolay Prokof’ev and Boris Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015703 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004

Thermal Contraction of Carbon Fullerenes and Nanotubes

Young-Kyun Kwon, Savas Berber, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 015901 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

Creation of an Atomic Superlattice by Immersing Metallic Adatoms in a Two-Dimensional Electron Sea

Fabien Silly, Marina Pivetta, Markus Ternes, François Patthey, Jonathan P. Pelz, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 016101 (2004) - Published 9 January, 2004

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Fluctuation Spectrum of Fluid Membranes Coupled to an Elastic Meshwork: Jump of the Effective Surface Tension at the Mesh Size

Jean-Baptiste Fournier, David Lacoste, and Elie Raphaël

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 018102 (2004) - Published 8 January, 2004