Volume 92, Issue 6

13 February 2004

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On the Cover

The cubical structure shown is a Kitaoka model of a human subacinus, the terminal diffusion cell in the lung. This model reproduces the topological complexity of real subacini and is used in a numerical study of the concentration and diffusion of oxygen (red through blue areas) to show that only about 1/3 of the total alveolar surface is active in normal breathing.

From the article:

Renormalized Random Walk Study of Oxygen Absorption in the Human Lung
M. Felici, M. Filoche, and B. Sapoval
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 068101 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Nanotube Surface Arrays: Weaving, Bending, and Assembling on Patterned Silicon

Vladimir V. Tsukruk, Hyunhyub Ko, and Sergiy Peleshanko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065502 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

LETTERS

General Physics

Giant Vortex Lattice Deformations in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. P. Simula, A. A. Penckwitt, and R. J. Ballagh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 060401 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Quantum Tensor Product Structures are Observable Induced

Paolo Zanardi, Daniel A. Lidar, and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 060402 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Proposed Experiment to Test the Bounds of Quantum Correlations

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 060403 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Experimental Evidence for Bounds on Quantum Correlations

F. A. Bovino, G. Castagnoli, I. P. Degiovanni, and S. Castelletto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 060404 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Dispersion Compensation for Atom Interferometry

Tony D. Roberts, Alexander D. Cronin, Martin V. Tiberg, and David E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 060405 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Optimal Topological Test for Degeneracies of Real Hamiltonians

Niklas Johansson and Erik Sjöqvist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 060406 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Collective Oscillations of Vortex Lattices in Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. Mizushima, Y. Kawaguchi, K. Machida, T. Ohmi, T. Isoshima, and M. M. Salomaa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 060407 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Theorem on the Origin of Phase Transitions

Roberto Franzosi and Marco Pettini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 060601 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

On the “Causality Argument” in Bouncing Cosmologies

Jérôme Martin and Patrick Peter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 061301 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Horizon State, Hawking Radiation, and Boundary Liouville Model

Sergey N. Solodukhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 061302 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Coherent Baryogenesis

Björn Garbrecht, Tomislav Prokopec, and Michael G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 061303 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Observation of $B^{0} \to ω K^{0}$ , $B^{+} \to η π^{+}$ , and $B^{+} \to η K^{+}$ and Study of Related Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 061801 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Anisotropy at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: The First and Fourth Harmonics

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 062301 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Anomalously Hindered $E 2$ Strength $B (E 2; 2_{1}^{+} \to 0^{+})$ in ${}^{16}C$

N. Imai et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 062501 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Evidence for the Existence of the $[2 0 2] 3 / 2$ Deformed Band in Mirror Nuclei ${}^{25}{M g}$ and ${}^{25}{A l}$

Y. Fujita, I. Hamamoto, H. Fujita, Y. Shimbara, T. Adachi, G. P. A. Berg, K. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, J. Kamiya, K. Nakanishi, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimizu, M. Uchida, T. Wakasa, and M. Yosoi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 062502 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Isospin Diffusion and the Nuclear Symmetry Energy in Heavy Ion Reactions

M. B. Tsang, T. X. Liu, L. Shi, P. Danielewicz, C. K. Gelbke, X. D. Liu, W. G. Lynch, W. P. Tan, G. Verde, A. Wagner, H. S. Xu, W. A. Friedman, L. Beaulieu, B. Davin, R. T. de Souza, Y. Larochelle, T. Lefort, R. Yanez, V. E. Viola, Jr., R. J. Charity, and L. G. Sobotka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 062701 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coulomb Explosion of Large Polyatomic Molecules Assisted by Nonadiabatic Charge Localization

Alexei N. Markevitch, Dmitri A. Romanov, Stanley M. Smith, and Robert J. Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063001 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Nondipole Effects in Photo-Double-Ionization of He by a vuv Photon

Andrei Y. Istomin, N. L. Manakov, A. V. Meremianin, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063002 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Capacitive Coupling of Atomic Systems to Mesoscopic Conductors

Anders S. Sørensen, Caspar H. van der Wal, Lilian I. Childress, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063601 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Carrier Phase Dependence in the Ionization of Rydberg Atoms by Short Radio-Frequency Pulses: A Model System for High Order Harmonic Generation

A. Gürtler, F. Robicheaux, M. J. J. Vrakking, W. J. van der Zande, and L. D. Noordam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063901 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Relativistic Generation of Isolated Attosecond Pulses in a $λ^{3}$ Focal Volume

N. M. Naumova, J. A. Nees, I. V. Sokolov, B. Hou, and G. A. Mourou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063902 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Anomalous Dispersion Relations by Symmetry Breaking in Axially Uniform Waveguides

M. Ibanescu, S. G. Johnson, D. Roundy, C. Luo, Y. Fink, and J. D. Joannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063903 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Anomalous Propagation Loss in Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Zhi-Yuan Li and Kai-Ming Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063904 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Nonlinear Band Gap Transmission in Optical Waveguide Arrays

Ramaz Khomeriki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063905 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Self-Similar Turbulent Dynamo

Alexander A. Schekochihin, Steven C. Cowley, Jason L. Maron, and James C. McWilliams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 064501 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Two-Dimensional Yukawa Liquids: Correlation and Dynamics

G. J. Kalman, P. Hartmann, Z. Donkó, and M. Rosenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065001 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Complete Spectrum of Kinetic Eigenmodes for Plasma Oscillations in a Weakly Collisional Plasma

C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee, and F. Skiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065002 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

Defect Turbulence in Quasi-2D Creeping Dusty-Plasma Liquids

Wei-Yen Woon and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065003 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Radial Convection of Plasma Structures in a Turbulent Rotating Magnetized-Plasma Column

Th. Pierre, A. Escarguel, D. Guyomarc’h, R. Barni, and C. Riccardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065004 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Three-Dimensional Annihilation Imaging of Trapped Antiprotons

M. C. Fujiwara et al. (ATHENA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065005 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Connecting Shock Velocities to Electron-Injection Mechanisms

M. E. Dieckmann, B. Eliasson, A. Stathopoulos, and A. Ynnerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065006 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Metallic “Ferroelectricity” in the Pyrochlore ${C d}_{2} {R e}_{2} O_{7}$

I. A. Sergienko, V. Keppens, M. McGuire, R. Jin, J. He, S. H. Curnoe, B. C. Sales, P. Blaha, D. J. Singh, K. Schwarz, and D. Mandrus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065501 (2004) - Published 10 February, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Nanotube Surface Arrays: Weaving, Bending, and Assembling on Patterned Silicon

Vladimir V. Tsukruk, Hyunhyub Ko, and Sergiy Peleshanko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065502 (2004) - Published 12 February, 2004

Hugoniot Data for Carbon at Megabar Pressures

D. Batani, F. Strati, H. Stabile, M. Tomasini, G. Lucchini, A. Ravasio, M. Koenig, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, H. Nishimura, Y. Ochi, J. Ullschmied, J. Skala, B. Kralikova, M. Pfeifer, Ch. Kadlec, T. Mocek, A. Präg, T. Hall, P. Milani, E. Barborini, and P. Piseri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 065503 (2004) - Published 13 February, 2004