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Physical Review Letters – 9 January 2004
Volume 92, Issue 1

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. [L. Scheck, T. Plewa, H.-Th. Janka, K. Kifonidis, and E. Müller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 011103 (2004)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Thermoelastic Properties of MgSiO3-Perovskite: Insights on the Nature of the Earth’s Lower Mantle
R. M. Wentzcovitch, B. B. Karki, M. Cococcioni, and S. de Gironcoli
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
018501 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization of Spin Hamiltonians
Anupam Garg and Michael Stone
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
010401 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Quantum Reversibility: Is there an Echo?
Moritz Hiller, Tsampikos Kottos, Doron Cohen, and Theo Geisel
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
010402 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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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
Published 5 January 2004 (4 pages)
011101 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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The First Law for Slowly Evolving Horizons
Ivan Booth and Stephen Fairhurst
Published 6 January 2004 (4 pages)
011102 [View PDF (92 kB)]
Pulsar Recoil by Large-Scale Anisotropies in Supernova Explosions
L. Scheck, T. Plewa, H.-Th. Janka, K. Kifonidis, and E. Müller
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
011103 [View PDF (794 kB)]
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Baryogenesis in a Flat Direction with Neither Baryon nor Lepton Charge
Takeshi Chiba, Fuminobu Takahashi, and Masahide Yamaguchi
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
011301 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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J/ψ and ηc in the Deconfined Plasma from Lattice QCD
M. Asakawa and T. Hatsuda
Published 5 January 2004 (4 pages)
012001 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Measurements of the DsJ Resonance Properties
Y. Mikami et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Published 6 January 2004 (6 pages)
012002 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Probing Quark-Distribution Amplitudes through Generalized Parton Distributions at Large Momentum Transfer
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Xiangdong Ji, and Feng Yuan
Published 6 January 2004 (4 pages)
012003 [View PDF (112 kB)]
Precision Measurement of the Neutron Spin AsymmetryA1n and Spin-Flavor Decomposition in the Valence Quark Region
X. Zheng et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)
Published 7 January 2004 (5 pages)
012004 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Flavor Decomposition of the Sea-Quark Helicity Distributions in the Nucleon from Semiinclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering
A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)
Published 9 January 2004 (5 pages)
012005 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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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
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
013001 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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How to Use Lasers for Imaging Attosecond Dynamics of Nuclear Processes
Nenad Milosevic, Paul B. Corkum, and Thomas Brabec
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
013002 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Corrugating and Anticorrugating Static Interactions in Helium-Atom Scattering from Metal Surfaces
N. Jean, M. I. Trioni, G. P. Brivio, and V. Bortolani
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
013201 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Formation and Stability of High-Spin Alkali Clusters
C. P. Schulz, P. Claas, D. Schumacher, and F. Stienkemeier
Published 6 January 2004 (4 pages)
013401 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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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
Published 5 January 2004 (4 pages)
013601 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Discrete Entanglement Distribution with Squeezed Light
B. Kraus and J. I. Cirac
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
013602 [View PDF (182 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Pointwise Dimensions of the Lorenz Attractor
Sam Gratrix and John N. Elgin
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
014101 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Self-Affine Fronts in Self-Affine Fractures: Large and Small-Scale Structure
G. Drazer, H. Auradou, J. Koplik, and J. P. Hulin
Published 6 January 2004 (4 pages)
014501 [View PDF (182 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of Odd Toroidal Alfvén Eigenmodes
G. J. Kramer, S. E. Sharapov, R. Nazikian, N. N. Gorelenkov, and R. V. Budny
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
015001 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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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
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
015002 [View PDF (366 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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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
Published 5 January 2004 (4 pages)
015501 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Identification of the Carbon Dangling Bond Center at the 4H-SiC/SiO2 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
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
015502 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal Behavior of Void Collapse in Shocked Solids
Takahiro Hatano
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
015503 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Role of Mobile Interstitial Oxygen Atoms in Defect Processes in Oxides: Interconversion between Oxygen-Associated Defects in SiO2 Glass
Koichi Kajihara, Linards Skuja, Masahiro Hirano, and Hideo Hosono
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
015504 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Nucleation in a Kinetic Ising Model with Soft Stochastic Dynamics
Kyungwha Park, Per Arne Rikvold, Gloria M. Buendía, and M. A. Novotny
Published 6 January 2004 (4 pages)
015701 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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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
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
015702 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Superfluid-Insulator Transition in Commensurate Disordered Bosonic Systems: Large-Scale Worm Algorithm Simulations
Nikolay Prokof’ev and Boris Svistunov
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
015703 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Thermal Contraction of Carbon Fullerenes and Nanotubes
Young-Kyun Kwon, Savas Berber, and David Tománek
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
015901 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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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
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
016101 [View PDF (802 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Two Fluid Description of the Kondo Lattice
Satoru Nakatsuji, David Pines, and Zachary Fisk
Published 6 January 2004 (4 pages)
016401 [View PDF (785 kB)]
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Predicted Electric Field near Small Superconducting Ellipsoids
J. E. Hirsch
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
016402 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Fibrillar Templates and Soft Phases in Systems with Short-Range Dipolar and Long-Range Interactions
C. J. Olson Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt, and A. R. Bishop
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
016801 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Topological Oscillations of the Magnetoconductance in Disordered GaAs Layers
S. S. Murzin, A. G. M. Jansen, and I. Claus
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
016802 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Step-Lattice-Induced Band-Gap Opening at the Fermi Level
F. Baumberger, M. Hengsberger, M. Muntwiler, M. Shi, J. Krempasky, L. Patthey, J. Osterwalder, and T. Greber
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
016803 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Decoherence in d-Wave Superconducting Qubits
M. H. S. Amin and A. Yu. Smirnov
Published 6 January 2004 (4 pages)
017001 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Effects of a Collective Spin Resonance Mode on the Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Spectra of d-Wave Superconductors
Jian-Xin Zhu, Jun Sun, Qimiao Si, and A. V. Balatsky
Published 7 January 2004 (4 pages)
017002 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Proximity Effect in Gold-Coated YBa2Cu3O7-δ Films Studied by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
Amos Sharoni, Itay Asulin, Gad Koren, and Oded Millo
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
017003 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Superconductor-Proximity Effect in Hybrid Structures: Fractality versus Chaos
Alexander Ossipov and Tsampikos Kottos
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
017004 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Three-Dimensional Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic Order in Single-Crystalline FeMn Ultrathin Films
Wolfgang Kuch, Liviu I. Chelaru, Francesco Offi, Jing Wang, Masato Kotsugi, and Jürgen Kirschner
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
017201 [View PDF (905 kB)]
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Quantum Theory of Spin Dynamics of Exciton-Polaritons in Microcavities
K. V. Kavokin, I. A. Shelykh, A. V. Kavokin, G. Malpuech, and P. Bigenwald
Published 6 January 2004 (4 pages)
017401 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Shallow Donors in Diamond: Chalcogens, Pnictogens, and their Hydrogen Complexes
S. J. Sque, R. Jones, J. P. Goss, and P. R. Briddon
Published 7 January 2004 (4 pages)
017402 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Excitons in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
O. J. Korovyanko, C.-X. Sheng, Z. V. Vardeny, A. B. Dalton, and R. H. Baughman
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
017403 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Surface Miller Index Dependence of Auger Neutralization of Ions on Surfaces
Yu. Bandurin, V. A. Esaulov, L. Guillemot, and R. C. Monreal
Published 6 January 2004 (4 pages)
017601 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Dome-Shaped Magnetic Phase Diagram of Thermoelectric Layered Cobaltites
J. Sugiyama, J. H. Brewer, E. J. Ansaldo, H. Itahara, T. Tani, M. Mikami, Y. Mori, T. Sasaki, S. Hébert, and A. Maignan
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
017602 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Robust Polarization-Based Quantum Key Distribution over a Collective-Noise Channel
J.-C. Boileau, D. Gottesman, R. Laflamme, D. Poulin, and R. W. Spekkens
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
017901 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Experimental Nonlinear Sign Shift for Linear Optics Quantum Computation
Kaoru Sanaka, Thomas Jennewein, Jian-Wei Pan, Kevin Resch, and Anton Zeilinger
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
017902 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Understanding Visual Map Formation through Vortex Dynamics of Spin Hamiltonian Models
Myoung Won Cho and Seunghwan Kim
Published 5 January 2004 (4 pages)
018101 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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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
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
018102 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Shear Melting of a Hexagonal Columnar Crystal by Proliferation of Dislocations
Laurence Ramos and François Molino
Published 7 January 2004 (4 pages)
018301 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Molecular Origin and Dynamic Behavior of Slip in Sheared Polymer Films
Nikolai V. Priezjev and Sandra M. Troian
Published 7 January 2004 (4 pages)
018302 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Quantum-Limited Sensitivity of Single-Electron-Transistor-Based Displacement Detectors
D. Mozyrsky, I. Martin, and M. B. Hastings
Published 8 January 2004 (4 pages)
018303 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Global Control of Spiral Wave Dynamics in an Excitable Domain of Circular and Elliptical Shape
V. S. Zykov, G. Bordiougov, H. Brandtstädter, I. Gerdes, and H. Engel
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
018304 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Observation of Droplet Size Oscillations in a Two-Phase Fluid under Shear Flow
Laurent Courbin, Pascal Panizza, and Jean-Baptiste Salmon
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
018305 [View PDF (644 kB)]
Thermoelastic Properties of MgSiO3-Perovskite: Insights on the Nature of the Earth’s Lower Mantle
R. M. Wentzcovitch, B. B. Karki, M. Cococcioni, and S. de Gironcoli
Published 9 January 2004 (4 pages)
018501 [View PDF (142 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

ERRATA

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Erratum: Resonant Escape over an Oscillating Barrier in Underdamped Josephson Tunnel Junctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 127003 (2003)]
Yang Yu and Siyuan Han
Published 5 January 2004 (1 page)
019901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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