Volume 96, Issue 20

26 May 2006

Browse Issues:

On the Cover

Gravitational-wave energy density as a function of frequency (vertical) and time after a supernova core bounce (horizontal). Gravitational-wave bursts (purple) start about a half a second after the bounce, and may be detectable via LIGO.

From the article:

A New Mechanism for Gravitational-Wave Emission in Core-Collapse Supernovae
Christian D. Ott, Adam Burrows, Luc Dessart, and Eli Livne
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 201102 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Detectability of Dissipative Motion in Quantum Vacuum via Superradiance

Woo-Joong Kim, James Hayden Brownell, and Roberto Onofrio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 200402 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

LETTERS

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

Identification and Distance Measures of Measurement Apparatus

Zhengfeng Ji, Yuan Feng, Runyao Duan, and Mingsheng Ying

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 200401 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Detectability of Dissipative Motion in Quantum Vacuum via Superradiance

Woo-Joong Kim, James Hayden Brownell, and Roberto Onofrio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 200402 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Universal Measurement of Quantum Correlations of Radiation

E. Shchukin and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 200403 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Signatures of Quantum Behavior in Single-Qubit Weak Measurements

Rusko Ruskov, Alexander N. Korotkov, and Ari Mizel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 200404 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Phase Separation of a Fast Rotating Boson-Fermion Mixture in the Lowest-Landau-Level Regime

Rina Kanamoto and Makoto Tsubota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 200405 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Experimental Test of Two-Way Quantum Key Distribution in the Presence of Controlled Noise

Alessandro Cerè, Marco Lucamarini, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, and Paolo Tombesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 200501 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Limits on Lorentz Violation from Synchrotron and Inverse Compton Sources

B. Altschul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 201101 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

A New Mechanism for Gravitational-Wave Emission in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Christian D. Ott, Adam Burrows, Luc Dessart, and Eli Livne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 201102 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Hadronic Spectra and Light-Front Wave Functions in Holographic QCD

Stanley J. Brodsky and Guy F. de Téramond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 201601 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Gravitational Instantons from Gauge Theory

Hyun Seok Yang and Mario Salizzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 201602 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Direct Search for Dirac Magnetic Monopoles in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 201801 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Measurement of Bottom-Quark Hadron Masses in Exclusive $J / ψ$ Decays with the CDF Detector

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 202001 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Measurement of the $t \bar{t}$ Production Cross Section in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ Using Missing $E_{T} + jets$ Events with Secondary Vertex $b$ Tagging

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 202002 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Common Suppression Pattern of $η$ and $π^{0}$ Mesons at High Transverse Momentum in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 202301 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Elliptic Flow of Thermal Photons in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Rupa Chatterjee, Evan S. Frodermann, Ulrich Heinz, and Dinesh K. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 202302 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

High-Order Harmonic Generation from Ions in a Capillary Discharge

David M. Gaudiosi, Brendan Reagan, Tenio Popmintchev, Michael Grisham, Mark Berrill, Oren Cohen, Barry C. Walker, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Jorge J. Rocca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 203001 (2006) - Published 25 May, 2006

Narrow Line Photoassociation in an Optical Lattice

T. Zelevinsky, M. M. Boyd, A. D. Ludlow, T. Ido, J. Ye, R. Ciuryło, P. Naidon, and P. S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 203201 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Nonlinear Interferometry via Fock-State Projection

G. Khoury, H. S. Eisenberg, E. J. S. Fonseca, and D. Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 203601 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Measurement of Pressure and Density Inside a Single Sonoluminescing Bubble

David J. Flannigan, Stephen D. Hopkins, Carlos G. Camara, Seth J. Putterman, and Kenneth S. Suslick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 204301 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Homogenization of Two-Dimensional Clusters of Rigid Rods in Air

Daniel Torrent, Andreas Håkansson, Francisco Cervera, and José Sánchez-Dehesa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 204302 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Momentum Conserving Model with Anomalous Thermal Conductivity in Low Dimensional Systems

Giada Basile, Cédric Bernardin, and Stefano Olla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 204303 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Direct Numerical Simulation of Downshift and Inverse Cascade for Water Wave Turbulence

S. Y. Annenkov and V. I. Shrira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 204501 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Cluster Size Distribution and Scaling for Spherical Particles and Red Blood Cells in Pressure-Driven Flows at Small Reynolds Number

E-Jiang Ding and Cyrus K. Aidun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 204502 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Influence of Turbulence on the Dynamo Threshold

J-P. Laval, P. Blaineau, N. Leprovost, B. Dubrulle, and F. Daviaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 204503 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Collisionless Heating in Capacitive Discharges Enhanced by Dual-Frequency Excitation

M. M. Turner and P. Chabert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 205001 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Probing “Cosmological” Defects in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$ with a Vibrating-Wire Resonator

C. B. Winkelmann, J. Elbs, Yu. M. Bunkov, and H. Godfrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 205301 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Grain-Boundary Physics in Polycrystalline ${CuInSe}_{2}$ Revisited: Experiment and Theory

Yanfa Yan, R. Noufi, and M. M. Al-Jassim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 205501 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

Density of Vibrational States of a Hyperquenched Glass

A. Monaco, A. I. Chumakov, Y.-Z. Yue, G. Monaco, L. Comez, D. Fioretto, W. A. Crichton, and R. Rüffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 205502 (2006) - Published 22 May, 2006

One-Dimensional Fluctuating Nanodomains in the Charge-Transfer Molecular System TTF-CA and their First-Order Crystallization

M. Buron-Le Cointe, M. H. Lemée-Cailleau, H. Cailleau, S. Ravy, J. F. Bérar, S. Rouzière, E. Elkaïm, and E. Collet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 205503 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

First-Principles Study of the Diffusion of Hydrogen in ZnO

M. G. Wardle, J. P. Goss, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 205504 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Magnetically Induced Phonon Anisotropy in ${ZnCr}_{2} O_{4}$ from First Principles

Craig J. Fennie and Karin M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 205505 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Full Recovery of Electron Damage in Glass at Ambient Temperatures

K. A. Mkhoyan, J. Silcox, A. Ellison, D. Ast, and R. Dieckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 205506 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Controlling Density Fluctuations in Wall-Bounded Dissipative Particle Dynamics Systems

Igor V. Pivkin and George Em Karniadakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 206001 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Gas Enrichment at Liquid-Wall Interfaces

Stephan M. Dammer and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 206101 (2006) - Published 24 May, 2006

Crystal Bridge Formation Marks the Transition to Rigidity in a Thin Lubrication Film

A. Jabbarzadeh, Peter Harrowell, and R. I. Tanner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 206102 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonlocal Magnetic Field-Tuned Quantum Criticality in Cubic ${CeIn}_{3 - x} {Sn}_{x}$ ( $x = 0.25$ )

A. V. Silhanek, Takao Ebihara, N. Harrison, M. Jaime, Koji Tezuka, V. Fanelli, and C. D. Batista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 206401 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Symmetry and Stability of $δ$ Plutonium: The Influence of Electronic Structure

K. T. Moore, P. Söderlind, A. J. Schwartz, and D. E. Laughlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 206402 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006

Electron Transport through Single ${Mn}_{12}$ Molecular Magnets

H. B. Heersche, Z. de Groot, J. A. Folk, H. S. J. van der Zant, C. Romeike, M. R. Wegewijs, L. Zobbi, D. Barreca, E. Tondello, and A. Cornia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 206801 (2006) - Published 23 May, 2006

Asymmetry of Nonlinear Transport and Electron Interactions in Quantum Dots

D. M. Zumbühl, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 206802 (2006) - Published 25 May, 2006

Size Effects under a Strong Magnetic Field: Hall Effect Induced by Electron-Surface Scattering on Thin Gold Films Deposited onto Mica Substrates under High Vacuum

Raúl C. Munoz, Juan Pablo García, Ricardo Henríquez, Ana María Moncada, Andrés Espinosa, Marcelo Robles, Germán Kremer, Luis Moraga, Simón Cancino, José Roberto Morales, Adán Ramírez, Simón Oyarzún, Marco Antonio Suárez, David Chen, Ernesto Zumelzu, and Claudio Lizama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 206803 (2006) - Published 26 May, 2006