Volume 93, Issue 1

2 July 2004

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On the Cover

Numerical simulation of the phase-separation process for a mixture of an isotropic liquid (black areas) and a liquid crystal (colored areas, with the colors illustrating the direction of the nematic orientational field). Although the two phases occupy the same volume, the liquid-crystal phase forms into isolated droplets, breaking the morphological symmetry.

From the article:

Nematohydrodynamic Effects on the Phase Separation of a Symmetric Mixture of an Isotropic Liquid and a Liquid Crystal
Takeaki Araki and Hajime Tanaka
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015702 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

First-Principles Prediction of Icosahedral Quantum Dots for Tetravalent Semiconductors

Yufeng Zhao, Yong-Hyun Kim, Mao-Hua Du, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015502 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Scalable Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation in Decoherence-Free Subspaces

Zheng-Wei Zhou, Bo Yu, Xingxiang Zhou, Marc J. Feldman, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 010501 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Many Copies May Be Required for Entanglement Distillation

John Watrous

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 010502 (2004) - Published 1 July, 2004

Bell-Type Test of Energy-Time Entangled Qutrits

R. T. Thew, A. Acín, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 010503 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Delayed Feedback as a Means of Control of Noise-Induced Motion

N. B. Janson, A. G. Balanov, and E. Schöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 010601 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Purely Kinetic $k$ Essence as Unified Dark Matter

Robert J. Scherrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 011301 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Alternative String Theory in Twistor Space for $N = 4$ Super-Yang-Mills Theory

Nathan Berkovits

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 011601 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Effective Theory Approach to Unstable Particle Production

M. Beneke, A. P. Chapovsky, A. Signer, and G. Zanderighi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 011602 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Search for Pair Production of Light Scalar Top Quarks in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 T e V$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 011801 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

New Measurement of $Ξ^{-} \to Λ π^{-}$ Decay Parameters

M. Huang et al. (HyperCP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 011802 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Determination of the Branching Fraction for $B \to X_{c} ℓ ν$ Decays and of $| V_{c b} |$ from Hadronic-Mass and Lepton-Energy Moments

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 011803 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthally Sensitive Hanbury Brown–Twiss Interferometry in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 012301 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Influence of Nuclear Structure on Sub-Barrier Hindrance in $N i + N i$ Fusion

C. L. Jiang, K. E. Rehm, R. V. F. Janssens, H. Esbensen, I. Ahmad, B. B. Back, P. Collon, C. N. Davids, J. P. Greene, D. J. Henderson, G. Mukherjee, R. C. Pardo, M. Paul, T. O. Pennington, D. Seweryniak, S. Sinha, and Z. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 012701 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Breaking van der Waals Molecules with Magnetic Fields

R. V. Krems

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 013201 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Unraveling the Shape Transformation in Silicon Clusters

Koblar A. Jackson, Mihai Horoi, Indira Chaudhuri, Thomas Frauenheim, and Alexandre A. Shvartsburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 013401 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Positronium in Intense Laser Fields

Björn Henrich, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 013601 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Photon Statistics and Coherence in Light Emission from a Random Laser

Lucia Florescu and Sajeev John

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 013602 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Formation of Repetitively Nanosecond Spatial Solitons in a Saturable Absorber $Q$ -Switched Laser

Y. F. Chen and Y. P. Lan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 013901 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Light Scattering of Periodic $β$ -Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Pengfei Wu, B. Kimball, J. Carlson, and D. V. G. L. N. Rao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 013902 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Fermi-Ulam Accelerator Model under Scaling Analysis

Edson D. Leonel, P. V. E. McClintock, and J. Kamphorst Leal da Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 014101 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Drift Motion, Phenomenon of Resonance, and Diffusive Motion Induced by a Chaotic Signal

Jing-hui Li and Shi-gang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 014102 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Semiclassical Foundation of Universality in Quantum Chaos

Sebastian Müller, Stefan Heusler, Petr Braun, Fritz Haake, and Alexander Altland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 014103 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Interfacial Instability Triggered Coulomb Crystallization of Charged Water Droplets

Sanjay V. Kulkarni and Abhijit Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 014501 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Universal Law of Enstrophy Decay in Two-Dimensional Large-Reynolds-Number Turbulence

Victor Yakhot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 014502 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Can Low-Energy Electrons Affect High-Energy Physics Accelerators?

R. Cimino, I. R. Collins, M. A. Furman, M. Pivi, F. Ruggiero, G. Rumolo, and F. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 014801 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Meter-Scale Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator Driven by a Matched Electron Beam

P. Muggli, B. E. Blue, C. E. Clayton, S. Deng, F.-J. Decker, M. J. Hogan, C. Huang, R. Iverson, C. Joshi, T. C. Katsouleas, S. Lee, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, C. L. O'Connell, P. Raimondi, R. Siemann, and D. Walz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 014802 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Production of Thermonuclear Neutrons from Deuterium-Filled Capsule Implosions Driven by $Z$ -Pinch Dynamic Hohlraums

C. L. Ruiz, G. W. Cooper, S. A. Slutz, J. E. Bailey, G. A. Chandler, T. J. Nash, T. A. Mehlhorn, R. J. Leeper, D. Fehl, A. J. Nelson, J. Franklin, and L. Ziegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015001 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Magnetic Reconnection Mediated by Lower-Hybrid Phase-Space Vortices

D. Jovanović and P. K. Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015002 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Transformations in the Intermediate-Range Structure of ${S i O}_{2}$ Glass under High Pressure and Temperature

Yasuhiro Inamura, Yoshinori Katayama, Wataru Utsumi, and Ken-ichi Funakoshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015501 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

First-Principles Prediction of Icosahedral Quantum Dots for Tetravalent Semiconductors

Yufeng Zhao, Yong-Hyun Kim, Mao-Hua Du, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015502 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Hydrogen-Bond Network Breakage as a First Step to Isopropanol Crystallization

A. Sanz, M. Jiménez-Ruiz, A. Nogales, D. Martín y Marero, and T. A. Ezquerra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015503 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Cracks in Rubber under Tension Exceed the Shear Wave Speed

Paul J. Petersan, Robert D. Deegan, M. Marder, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015504 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Regular Network of Contacting Cylinders with Implications for Materials with Negative Poisson Ratios

Peter V. Pikhitsa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015505 (2004) - Published 1 July, 2004

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a Fluid near Its Critical Point

Kamakshi Jagannathan and Arun Yethiraj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015701 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Nematohydrodynamic Effects on the Phase Separation of a Symmetric Mixture of an Isotropic Liquid and a Liquid Crystal

Takeaki Araki and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015702 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Temperature and Disorder Chaos in Low Dimensional Directed Paths

Rava A. da Silveira and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 015901 (2004) - Published 1 July, 2004

Subextensive Scaling in the Athermal, Quasistatic Limit of Amorphous Matter in Plastic Shear Flow

Craig Maloney and Anaël Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016001 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Dipole Moment of Condensing Monomers: A New Parameter Controlling the Ion-Induced Nucleation

Alexey B. Nadykto and Fangqun Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016101 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Atomic Control of Water Interaction with Biocompatible Surfaces: The Case of SiC(001)

Giancarlo Cicero, Alessandra Catellani, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016102 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Band-Gap Tunneling States in DNA

Hao Wang, James P. Lewis, and Otto F. Sankey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016401 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Spontaneous Coherence Buildup in a Polariton Laser

Fabrice P. Laussy, G. Malpuech, A. Kavokin, and P. Bigenwald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016402 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Scattering Rates and Lifetime of Exact and Boson Excitons

M. Combescot and O. Betbeder-Matibet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016403 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Resonant Inelastic Soft X-Ray Scattering at Hollow Lithium States in Solid LiCl

Marcus Agåker, Johan Söderström, Tanel Käämbre, Chris Glover, Lidia Gridneva, Thorsten Schmitt, Andreas Augustsson, Maurizio Mattesini, Rajeev Ahuja, and Jan-Erik Rubensson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016404 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Itinerant Antiferromagnets

I. Vekhter and A. V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016405 (2004) - Published 1 July, 2004

Phase Diagram of the Frustrated Hubbard Model

R. Zitzler, N.-H. Tong, Th. Pruschke, and R. Bulla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016406 (2004) - Published 1 July, 2004

Dynamical Symmetry Enlargement versus Spin-Charge Decoupling in the One-Dimensional SU(4) Hubbard Model

R. Assaraf, P. Azaria, E. Boulat, M. Caffarel, and P. Lecheminant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016407 (2004) - Published 1 July, 2004

Electronic Structure and Light-Induced Conductivity of a Transparent Refractory Oxide

J. E. Medvedeva, A. J. Freeman, M. I. Bertoni, and T. O. Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016408 (2004) - Published 1 July, 2004

Phonon-Induced Decay of the Electron Spin in Quantum Dots

Vitaly N. Golovach, Alexander Khaetskii, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016601 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Scaling of the Anomalous Hall Effect in ${S r}_{1 - x} {C a}_{x} {R u O}_{3}$

R. Mathieu, A. Asamitsu, H. Yamada, K. S. Takahashi, M. Kawasaki, Z. Fang, N. Nagaosa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016602 (2004) - Published 29 June, 2004

Surface-State Electrical Conductivity at a Metal-Insulator Transition On Silicon

Takehiro Tanikawa, Iwao Matsuda, Taizo Kanagawa, and Shuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016801 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Conductance of Pd-H Nanojunctions

Sz. Csonka, A. Halbritter, G. Mihály, O. I. Shklyarevskii, S. Speller, and H. van Kempen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016802 (2004) - Published 30 June, 2004

Landau-Level Hybridization and the Quantum Hall Effect in $I n A s / (A l S b) / G a S b$ Electron-Hole Systems

K. Suzuki, K. Takashina, S. Miyashita, and Y. Hirayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 016803 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Metallic Phase in Lightly Doped ${L a}_{2 - x} {S r}_{x} {C u O}_{4}$ Observed by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

A. Shengelaya, M. Bruun, B. I. Kochelaev, A. Safina, K. Conder, and K. A. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 017001 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Shrinking Magnetic Vortices in $V_{3} S i$ due to Delocalized Quasiparticle Core States: Confirmation of the Microscopic Theory for Interacting Vortices

J. E. Sonier, F. D. Callaghan, R. I. Miller, E. Boaknin, L. Taillefer, R. F. Kiefl, J. H. Brewer, K. F. Poon, and J. D. Brewer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 017002 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Frustrated Antiferromagnets at High Fields: Bose-Einstein Condensation in Degenerate Spectra

G. Jackeli and M. E. Zhitomirsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 017201 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Antiferromagnetic Resonance in ${L a M n O}_{3}$ at Low Temperature

Diyar Talbayev, László Mihály, and Jianshi Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 017202 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Anisotropy-Induced Ordering in the Quantum $J_{1} − J_{2}$ Antiferromagnet

Tommaso Roscilde, Adrian Feiguin, Alexander L. Chernyshev, Shiu Liu, and Stephan Haas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 017203 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Bound Spinons in an Antiferromagnetic $S = 1 / 2$ Chain with a Staggered Field

M. Kenzelmann, Y. Chen, C. Broholm, D. H. Reich, and Y. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 017204 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Enhanced Kondo Effect via Tuned Orbital Degeneracy in a Spin $1 / 2$ Artificial Atom

S. Sasaki, S. Amaha, N. Asakawa, M. Eto, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 017205 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

Dynamical Symmetry Breaking under Core Excitation in Graphite: Polarization Correlation in Soft X-Ray Recombination Emission

Y. Harada, T. Tokushima, Y. Takata, T. Takeuchi, Y. Kitajima, S. Tanaka, Y. Kayanuma, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 017401 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Statistical Mechanics Model for the Interaction between the Neurotransmitter $γ$ -Aminobutyric acid and ${G A B A}_{A}$ Receptors

Sufi Zafar, Nina C. Saxena, Kevin A. Conrad, and Arif Hussain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 018103 (2004) - Published 2 July, 2004

COMMENTS

Comment on “Field-Induced Magnetic Circular X-Ray Dichroism in Paramagnetic Solids: A New Magneto-Optical Effect”

A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, and G. van der Laan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 019701 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004

Ebert and Man'kovsky Reply:

H. Ebert and S. Man'kovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 019702 (2004) - Published 28 June, 2004