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Physical Review E – April 2002
Volume 65, Issue 4

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Spatiotemporal coherence resonance of phase synchronization in weakly coupled chaotic oscillators
Changsong Zhou and Jürgen Kurths
Published 3 April 2002 (4 pages)
040101(R) [View PDF (276 kB)]

Granular materials

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Driven inelastic Maxwell models with high energy tails
M. H. Ernst and R. Brito
Published 26 March 2002 (4 pages)
040301(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Rotational dynamics of hydration water in dicalcium silicate by quasielastic neutron scattering
A. Faraone, S.-H. Chen, E. Fratini, P. Baglioni, L. Liu, and C. Brown
Published 8 April 2002 (4 pages)
040501(R) [View PDF (72 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Observation of the soft-mode condensation in the Sm-A–Sm-Cα* phase transition by nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy
Hiroshi Orihara, Andika Fajar, and Valéry Bourny
Published 28 March 2002 (4 pages)
040701(R) [View PDF (74 kB)]

Biological physics

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Statistics of selectively neutral genetic variation
A. Eriksson, B. Haubold, and B. Mehlig
Published 4 April 2002 (4 pages)
040901(R) [View PDF (167 kB)]
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DNA hybridization to mismatched templates: A chip study
Felix Naef, Daniel A. Lim, Nila Patil, and Marcelo Magnasco
Published 9 April 2002 (4 pages)
040902(R) [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Role of body rotation in bacterial flagellar bundling
Thomas R. Powers
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
040903(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Random walk with memory enhancement and decay
Zhi-Jie Tan, Xian-Wu Zou, Sheng-You Huang, Wei Zhang, and Zhun-Zhi Jin
Published 25 March 2002 (5 pages)
041101 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Persistence of a continuous stochastic process with discrete-time sampling: Non-Markov processes
George C. M. A. Ehrhardt, Alan J. Bray, and Satya N. Majumdar
Published 25 March 2002 (13 pages)
041102 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Stochastic solution of space-time fractional diffusion equations
Mark M. Meerschaert, David A. Benson, Hans-Peter Scheffler, and Boris Baeumer
Published 28 March 2002 (4 pages)
041103 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Diffusion of a nearly spherical deformable body in a randomly stirred host fluid
Moshe Schwartz and Gad Frenkel
Published 28 March 2002 (8 pages)
041104 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Coherence resonance versus synchronization in a periodically forced self-sustained system
A. G. Balanov, N. B. Janson, D. E. Postnov, and P. V. E. McClintock
Published 2 April 2002 (4 pages)
041105 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Potential energy landscape and mechanisms of diffusion in liquids
T. Keyes and J. Chowdhary
Published 3 April 2002 (9 pages)
041106 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Effect of nonstationarities on detrended fluctuation analysis
Zhi Chen, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Kun Hu, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 8 April 2002 (15 pages)
041107 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Nonlinear anomalous diffusion equation and fractal dimension: Exact generalized Gaussian solution
I. T. Pedron, R. S. Mendes, L. C. Malacarne, and E. K. Lenzi
Published 10 April 2002 (6 pages)
041108 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Dispersal probability distributions and the wave-front speed problem
Vicenç Méndez, Toni Pujol, and Joaquim Fort
Published 10 April 2002 (6 pages)
041109 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Deterministic ratchets: Route to diffusive transport
M. Borromeo, G. Costantini, and F. Marchesoni
Published 10 April 2002 (5 pages)
041110 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Effects of ionization in single-bubble sonoluminescence
C. Y. Ho, L. Yuan, M.-C. Chu, P. T. Leung, and W. Wei
Published 15 March 2002 (12 pages)
041201 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Evaluation of effective ion-ion potentials in aqueous electrolytes
Alexander P. Lyubartsev and Stjepan Marčelja
Published 28 March 2002 (6 pages)
041202 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Force evaluation in the lattice Boltzmann method involving curved geometry
Renwei Mei, Dazhi Yu, Wei Shyy, and Li-Shi Luo
Published 3 April 2002 (14 pages)
041203 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Heat transfer in the transition regime: Solution of boundary value problems for Grad’s moment equations via kinetic schemes
Henning Struchtrup
Published 3 April 2002 (16 pages)
041204 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Dynamics and configurational entropy in the Lewis-Wahnström model for supercooled orthoterphenyl
S. Mossa, E. La Nave, H. E. Stanley, C. Donati, F. Sciortino, and P. Tartaglia
Published 10 April 2002 (13 pages)
041205 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Granular materials

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Frictional properties of bidisperse granular matter: Effect of mixing ratio
J.-C. Géminard and W. Losert
Published 20 March 2002 (5 pages)
041301 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Voronoi tessellation of the packing of fine uniform spheres
R. Y. Yang, R. P. Zou, and A. B. Yu
Published 3 April 2002 (8 pages)
041302 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Thermodynamic limit in the elastic triangle: Padé approximants
A. H. Opie and J. Grindlay
Published 11 April 2002 (12 pages)
041303 [View PDF (193 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Time evolution of dynamic shear moduli in a physical gelation process of 1,3:2,4-bis-O-(p-methylbenzylidene)-D-sorbitol in polystyrene melt: Critical exponent and gel strength
Mikihito Takenaka, Toshiaki Kobayashi, Takeji Hashimoto, and Masaoki Takahashi
Published 1 April 2002 (7 pages)
041401 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Transport of solutes undergoing a Freundlich type nonlinear and nonequilibrium adsorption process
Uwe Jaekel and Harry Vereecken
Published 2 April 2002 (9 pages)
041402 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Dangling bond deflection model: Growth of gel network with loop structure
Hang-Shing Ma, Rémi Jullien, and George W. Scherer
Published 3 April 2002 (10 pages)
041403 [View PDF (671 kB)]
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Dynamic light scattering from colloidal fractal monolayers
Pietro Cicuta and Ian Hopkinson
Published 8 April 2002 (5 pages)
041404 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Nature of the divergence in low shear viscosity of colloidal hard-sphere dispersions
Zhengdong Cheng, Jixiang Zhu, Paul M. Chaikin, See-Eng Phan, and William B. Russel
Published 8 April 2002 (8 pages)
041405 [View PDF (371 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Self-assembling morphology induced by nanoscale rods in a phase-separating mixture
Kang Chen and Yu-qiang Ma
Published 15 March 2002 (8 pages)
041501 [View PDF (741 kB)]
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Transitions between inherent structures in water
Nicolas Giovambattista, Francis W. Starr, Francesco Sciortino, Sergey V. Buldyrev, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 18 March 2002 (6 pages)
041502 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Idealized glass transitions for a system of dumbbell molecules
S.-H. Chong and W. Götze
Published 3 April 2002 (17 pages)
041503 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Spatially resolved microrheology using localized coherence volumes
G. Popescu, A. Dogariu, and R. Rajagopalan
Published 3 April 2002 (8 pages)
041504 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Normal stresses at the gelation transition
Kurt Broderix, Peter Müller, and Annette Zippelius
Published 4 April 2002 (6 pages)
041505 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Model for the rotational contribution to quasielastic neutron scattering spectra from supercooled water
Li Liu, Antonio Faraone, and Sow-Hsin Chen
Published 8 April 2002 (8 pages)
041506 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Ion-exchange funneling in thin-film coating modification of heterogeneous electrodialysis membranes
Isaak Rubinstein, Boris Zaltzman, and Tamara Pundik
Published 8 April 2002 (10 pages)
041507 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Anisotropic ordering in sheared binary fluids with viscous asymmetry: Experiment and computer simulation
H. S. Jeon, Z. Shou, A. Chakrabarti, and E. K. Hobbie
Published 11 April 2002 (7 pages)
041508 [View PDF (1,048 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Statistical substantiation of the van der Waals theory of inhomogeneous fluids
V. G. Baidakov, S. P. Protsenko, G. G. Chernykh, and G. Sh. Boltachev
Published 25 March 2002 (16 pages)
041601 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Decoration lattices of colloids adsorbed on stripe-patterned substrates
H. M. Harreis, M. Schmidt, and H. Löwen
Published 26 March 2002 (8 pages)
041602 [View PDF (634 kB)]
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Cavitation of Langmuir monolayers
Z. Khattari, E. Hatta, P. Heinig, P. Steffen, Th. M. Fischer, and R. Bruinsma
Published 2 April 2002 (11 pages)
041603 [View PDF (876 kB)]
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Singular self-preserving regimes of coagulation processes
A. A. Lushnikov and M. Kulmala
Published 2 April 2002 (12 pages)
041604 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Measuring kinetic coefficients by molecular dynamics simulation of zone melting
Franck Celestini and Jean-Marc Debierre
Published 3 April 2002 (7 pages)
041605 [View PDF (830 kB)]
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Interface relaxation in electrophoretic deposition of polymer chains: Effects of segmental dynamics, molecular weight, and field
Frank W. Bentrem, Jun Xie, and R. B. Pandey
Published 4 April 2002 (4 pages)
041606 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Experimental investigation of the initial regime in fingering electrodeposition: Dispersion relation and velocity measurements
Matthias Schröter, Klaus Kassner, Ingo Rehberg, Josep Claret, and Francesc Sagués
Published 8 April 2002 (10 pages)
041607 [View PDF (610 kB)]
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Stability analysis of branched silver electrodeposits: Solid phase growth under a marginally stable regime
M. A. Pasquale, S. L. Marchiano, P. L. Schilardi, R. C. Salvarezza, and A. J. Arvia
Published 8 April 2002 (5 pages)
041608 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Relaxation of particles in the sloped region in a conserved growth model
Yup Kim and S. Y. Yoon
Published 8 April 2002 (5 pages)
041609 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Complex dynamics of isotropic 4-cyano-4-n-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) in linear and nonlinear dielectric relaxation studies
A. Drozd-Rzoska and S. J. Rzoska
Published 15 March 2002 (9 pages)
041701 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Defect structures and torque on an elongated colloidal particle immersed in a liquid crystal host
Denis Andrienko, Michael P. Allen, Gregor Skačej, and Slobodan Žumer
Published 15 March 2002 (7 pages)
041702 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Behavior of mesogenic molecules deposited at the alumina-air interface: A deuteron NMR study
Boštjan Zalar, Robert Blinc, Slobodan Žumer, Tao Jin, and Daniele Finotello
Published 26 March 2002 (16 pages)
041703 [View PDF (1,465 kB)]
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Nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy in the smectic-A–smectic-Cα* phase transition
Andika Fajar, Hidetoshi Murai, and Hiroshi Orihara
Published 28 March 2002 (9 pages)
041704 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Interlayer structures of the chiral smectic liquid crystal phases revealed by resonant x-ray scattering
L. S. Hirst, S. J. Watson, H. F. Gleeson, P. Cluzeau, P. Barois, R. Pindak, J. Pitney, A. Cady, P. M. Johnson, C. C. Huang, A-M. Levelut, G. Srajer, J. Pollmann, W. Caliebe, A. Seed, M. R. Herbert, J. W. Goodby, and M. Hird
Published 2 April 2002 (10 pages)
041705 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Phase behavior and free interfaces of a lattice-gas nematic-liquid-crystal model
Martin A. Bates
Published 2 April 2002 (8 pages)
041706 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Structure and elastic properties of smectic liquid crystalline elastomer films
R. Stannarius, R. Köhler, U. Dietrich, M. Lösche, C. Tolksdorf, and R. Zentel
Published 3 April 2002 (11 pages)
041707 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Coil-globule transition for regular, random, and specially designed copolymers: Monte Carlo simulation and self-consistent field theory
J. M. P. van den Oever, F. A. M. Leermakers, G. J. Fleer, V. A. Ivanov, N. P. Shusharina, A. R. Khokhlov, and P. G. Khalatur
Published 3 April 2002 (13 pages)
041708 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Defect structure of a nematic liquid crystal around a spherical particle: Adaptive mesh refinement approach
Jun-ichi Fukuda, Makoto Yoneya, and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Published 4 April 2002 (4 pages)
041709 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Statistical theory of the compensating effect when anchoring with two orthogonal photoaligned polymers
Andrei Th. Ionescu, Emil S. Barna, Giovanni Barbero, and Anca-Luiza Alexe-Ionescu
Published 8 April 2002 (10 pages)
041710 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Annihilation of point defects on a line
Robert Holyst and Patrick Oswald
Published 8 April 2002 (5 pages)
041711 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Dynamic light scattering measurements of azimuthal and zenithal anchoring of nematic liquid crystals
Mojca Vilfan, Alenka Mertelj, and Martin Čopič
Published 8 April 2002 (7 pages)
041712 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Nature of the liquid crystalline phase transitions in the cesium pentadecafluorooctanoate–water system: The nematic–to–smectic-A transition
K. W. Jolley, N. Boden, D. Parker, and J. R. Henderson
Published 10 April 2002 (10 pages)
041713 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Orientational distributions in smectic liquid crystals showing V-shaped switching investigated by polarized Raman scattering
Naoki Hayashi, Tatsuhisa Kato, Takayuki Aoki, Tomohiro Ando, Atsuo Fukuda, and S. S. Seomun
Published 10 April 2002 (11 pages)
041714 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Electronic transport in smectic liquid crystals
I. Shiyanovskaya, K. D. Singer, R. J. Twieg, L. Sukhomlinova, and V. Gettwert
Published 10 April 2002 (13 pages)
041715 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Deuterium NMR relaxation in the smectic-A phase of a chiral smectogen
Ronald Y. Dong, L. Chiezzi, and C. A. Veracini
Published 10 April 2002 (7 pages)
041716 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Shear-induced structural changes of a smectic-A phase: A computer simulation study
G. R. Luckhurst, G. Saielli, and T. J. Sluckin
Published 11 April 2002 (12 pages)
041717 [View PDF (842 kB)]
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Disruption of surface-induced smectic order by periodic surface corrugations
Ghanshyam P. Sinha, Charles Rosenblatt, and Leonid V. Mirantsev
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
041718 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Photomanipulation of the anchoring strength of a photochromic nematic liquid crystal
G. Barbero, L. R. Evangelista, and L. Komitov
Published 11 April 2002 (6 pages)
041719 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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uv manipulation of order and macroscopic shape in nematic elastomers
P. M. Hogan, A. R. Tajbakhsh, and E. M. Terentjev
Published 12 April 2002 (10 pages)
041720 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Polymers

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Unwinding globules under tension and polymer collapse
Thomas Frisch and Alberto Verga
Published 2 April 2002 (5 pages)
041801 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Determination of the structure of the organized phase of the block copolymer PEO-PPO-PEO in aqueous solutions under flow by small-angle neutron scattering
Christelle Perreur, Jean-Pierre Habas, Jeanne François, Jean Peyrelasse, and Alain Lapp
Published 3 April 2002 (7 pages)
041802 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Elastic critical behavior in a three-dimensional model for polymer gels
Emanuela Del Gado, Lucilla de Arcangelis, and Antonio Coniglio
Published 3 April 2002 (5 pages)
041803 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Self-motion and the α relaxation in a simulated glass-forming polymer: Crossover from Gaussian to non-Gaussian dynamic behavior
J. Colmenero, F. Alvarez, and A. Arbe
Published 4 April 2002 (12 pages)
041804 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Conformation of a polyelectrolyte complexed to a like-charged colloid
René Messina, Christian Holm, and Kurt Kremer
Published 8 April 2002 (4 pages)
041805 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Efficient computation of the structural phase behavior of block copolymers
G. Tzeremes, K. Ø. Rasmussen, T. Lookman, and A. Saxena
Published 10 April 2002 (5 pages)
041806 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Computer simulation study on the swelling of a model polymer network by a chainlike solvent
Z.-Y. Lu and R. Hentschke
Published 12 April 2002 (7 pages)
041807 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Biological physics

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Fluid-membrane tethers: Minimal surfaces and elastic boundary layers
Thomas R. Powers, Greg Huber, and Raymond E. Goldstein
Published 13 March 2002 (11 pages)
041901 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Dynamical properties of discrete breathers in curved chains with first and second neighbor interactions
M. Ibañes, J. M. Sancho, and G. P. Tsironis
Published 15 March 2002 (13 pages)
041902 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Performance of different synchronization measures in real data: A case study on electroencephalographic signals
R. Quian Quiroga, A. Kraskov, T. Kreuz, and P. Grassberger
Published 15 March 2002 (14 pages)
041903 [View PDF (919 kB)]
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Statistical properties of contact vectors
A. Kabakçioǧlu, I. Kanter, M. Vendruscolo, and E. Domany
Published 18 March 2002 (7 pages)
041904 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Analysis of symbolic sequences using the Jensen-Shannon divergence
Ivo Grosse, Pedro Bernaola-Galván, Pedro Carpena, Ramón Román-Roldán, Jose Oliver, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 25 March 2002 (16 pages)
041905 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Plasticity and learning in a network of coupled phase oscillators
Philip Seliger, Stephen C. Young, and Lev S. Tsimring
Published 26 March 2002 (7 pages)
041906 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Force and kinetic barriers to initiation of DNA unzipping
Simona Cocco, Rémi Monasson, and John F. Marko
Published 28 March 2002 (23 pages)
041907 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Dynamics of rumor propagation on small-world networks
Damián H. Zanette
Published 28 March 2002 (9 pages)
041908 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Identification of coupling direction: Application to cardiorespiratory interaction
Michael G. Rosenblum, Laura Cimponeriu, Anastasios Bezerianos, Andreas Patzak, and Ralf Mrowka
Published 28 March 2002 (11 pages)
041909 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Atomic force microscopy of height fluctuations of fibroblast cells
Bálint Szabó, Dávid Selmeczi, Zsuzsanna Környei, Emília Madarász, and Noémi Rozlosnik
Published 28 March 2002 (6 pages)
041910 [View PDF (661 kB)]
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Grouping of residues based on their contact interactions
Jun Wang and Wei Wang
Published 28 March 2002 (5 pages)
041911 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Analytical characterization of adhering vesicles
C. Tordeux, J.-B. Fournier, and P. Galatola
Published 28 March 2002 (9 pages)
041912 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Precision and reliability of periodically and quasiperiodically driven integrate-and-fire neurons
P. H. E. Tiesinga
Published 2 April 2002 (14 pages)
041913 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Morphological ordering in biopolymers: Informational statistical thermodynamic approach
Sergio A. Hassan, Marcus V. Mesquita, Aurea R. Vasconcellos, and Roberto Luzzi
Published 3 April 2002 (11 pages)
041914 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Noise-induced resonances in the Hindmarsh-Rose neuronal model
J. P. Baltanás and J. M. Casado
Published 3 April 2002 (6 pages)
041915 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Coupling parameter in synchronization of diluted neural networks
Qi Li, Yong Chen, and Ying Hai Wang
Published 3 April 2002 (4 pages)
041916 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Measurements of brain activity complexity for varying mental loads
Mukeshwar Dhamala, Giuseppe Pagnoni, Kurt Wiesenfeld, and Gregory S. Berns
Published 4 April 2002 (7 pages)
041917 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Replica symmetric evaluation of the information transfer in a two-layer network in the presence of continuous and discrete stimuli
Valeria Del Prete and Alessandro Treves
Published 4 April 2002 (11 pages)
041918 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Zero-temperature properties of RNA secondary structures
Enzo Marinari, Andrea Pagnani, and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi
Published 8 April 2002 (7 pages)
041919 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Improved energy model for membrane electroporation in biological cells subjected to electrical pulses
R. P. Joshi, Q. Hu, K. H. Schoenbach, and H. P. Hjalmarson
Published 9 April 2002 (8 pages)
041920 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Dynamic light scattering from an optically trapped microsphere
N. B. Viana, R. T. S. Freire, and O. N. Mesquita
Published 10 April 2002 (11 pages)
041921 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Modeling of spiking-bursting neural behavior using two-dimensional map
Nikolai F. Rulkov
Published 10 April 2002 (9 pages)
041922 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Geometric and statistical properties of the mean-field hydrophobic-polar model, the large-small model, and real protein sequences
C. T. Shih, Z. Y. Su, J. F. Gwan, B. L. Hao, C. H. Hsieh, J. L. Lo, and H. C. Lee
Published 11 April 2002 (11 pages)
041923 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Dynamics of large-scale brain activity in normal arousal states and epileptic seizures
P. A. Robinson, C. J. Rennie, and D. L. Rowe
Published 11 April 2002 (9 pages)
041924 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Kinetic transition in model proteins with a denatured native spinodal
Jun Wang, Ke Fan, and Wei Wang
Published 11 April 2002 (5 pages)
041925 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Memory beyond memory in heart beating, a sign of a healthy physiological condition
P. Allegrini, P. Grigolini, P. Hamilton, L. Palatella, and G. Raffaelli
Published 11 April 2002 (5 pages)
041926 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Separation quality of a geometric ratchet
C. Keller, Florian Marquardt, and C. Bruder
Published 11 April 2002 (10 pages)
041927 [View PDF (679 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Finding transition paths and rate coefficients through accelerated Langevin dynamics
L. Y. Chen, S. C. Ying, and T. Ala-Nissila
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
042101 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Granular materials

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Adhesion between weakly rough beads
F. Restagno, J. Crassous, C. Cottin-Bizonne, and E. Charlaix
Published 5 April 2002 (4 pages)
042301 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Critical behavior in broad-band dielectric relaxation on approaching the critical consolute point in ethanol-dodecane mixture
S. J. Rzoska, K. Orzechowski, and A. Drozd-Rzoska
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
042501 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Cluster persistence of two-dimensional soap froth
Wing Yim Tam and Kwok Yip Szeto
Published 20 March 2002 (4 pages)
042601 [View PDF (331 kB)]

Polymers

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Two-dimensional copolymers and multifractality: Comparing perturbative expansions, Monte Carlo simulations, and exact results
C. von Ferber and Yu. Holovatch
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
042801 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium pattern formation in the crystallization of polymer blend films
Vincent Ferreiro, Jack F. Douglas, James A. Warren, and Alamgir Karim
Published 2 April 2002 (4 pages)
042802 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Analysis of diffusion in a solid polymer electrolyte in the context of a phase-separated system
Ludvig Edman, Anders Ferry, and Greger Orädd
Published 2 April 2002 (4 pages)
042803 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Part 2 - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Fluid Dynamics, and Related Topics

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.

River meandering dynamics
Boyd F. Edwards and Duane H. Smith
Published 26 March 2002 (12 pages)
046303 [View PDF (214 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Quasistatic fractures in brittle media and iterated conformal maps
Felipe Barra, H. George E. Hentschel, Anders Levermann, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 25 March 2002 (4 pages)
045101(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Functional form of the Parisi overlap distribution for the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass
Bernd A. Berg, Alain Billoire, and Wolfhard Janke
Published 2 April 2002 (4 pages)
045102(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Jamming coverage in competitive random sequential adsorption of a binary mixture
M. Kamrul Hassan, Jürgen Schmidt, Bernd Blasius, and Jürgen Kurths
Published 4 April 2002 (4 pages)
045103(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Multifractal current distribution in random-diode networks
Haye Hinrichsen, Olaf Stenull, and Hans-Karl Janssen
Published 5 April 2002 (4 pages)
045104(R) [View PDF (182 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Coupled map networks as communication schemes
P. García, A. Parravano, M. G. Cosenza, J. Jiménez, and A. Marcano
Published 28 March 2002 (4 pages)
045201(R) [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Rhythmic bursting in a cluster of microbeads driven by a continuous-wave laser beam
Nobuyuki Magome, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Masatoshi Ichikawa, Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 1 April 2002 (4 pages)
045202(R) [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Bailout embeddings, targeting of invariant tori, and the control of Hamiltonian chaos
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Marcelo O. Magnasco, and Oreste Piro
Published 3 April 2002 (4 pages)
045203(R) [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Information transfer and nontrivial collective behavior in chaotic coupled map networks
L. Cisneros, J. Jiménez, M. G. Cosenza, and A. Parravano
Published 3 April 2002 (4 pages)
045204(R) [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Non-Hermiticity in a kicked model: Decoherence and the semiclassical limit
Indubala I. Satija and Arjendu K. Pattanayak
Published 3 April 2002 (4 pages)
045205(R) [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Decoherence as decay of the Loschmidt echo in a Lorentz gas
F. M. Cucchietti, H. M. Pastawski, and D. A. Wisniacki
Published 8 April 2002 (4 pages)
045206(R) [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Global quantitative predictions of complex laser dynamics
Sebastian Wieczorek, Thomas B. Simpson, Bernd Krauskopf, and Daan Lenstra
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
045207(R) [View PDF (83 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Flow of thin films on patterned surfaces: Controlling the instability
L. Kondic and J. Diez
Published 8 April 2002 (4 pages)
045301(R) [View PDF (231 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Perturbation transfer from the front to rear surface of laser-irradiated targets
K. Shigemori, H. Azechi, M. Nakai, T. Endo, T. Nagaya, and T. Yamanaka
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
045401(R) [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Polarization effects and anisotropy in three-dimensional relativistic self-focusing
N. M. Naumova, S. V. Bulanov, K. Nishihara, T. Zh. Esirkepov, and F. Pegoraro
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
045402(R) [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Dynamic Mach cone as a diagnostic method in reactive dusty plasma experiments
O. Havnes, T. W. Hartquist, A. Brattli, G. M. W. Kroesen, and G. Morfill
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
045403(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Generalized emissivity inverse problem
DengMing Ming, Tao Wen, XianXi Dai, JiXin Dai, and William E. Evenson
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
045601(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Experimental observation of superluminal pulse reflection in a double-Lorentzian photonic band gap
S. Longhi, M. Marano, P. Laporta, M. Belmonte, and P. Crespi
Published 26 March 2002 (4 pages)
045602(R) [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Fresnel laws at curved dielectric interfaces of microresonators
Martina Hentschel and Henning Schomerus
Published 3 April 2002 (4 pages)
045603(R) [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Amplitude coda of classical waves in disordered media
Mauro S. Ferreira and Gerrit E. W. Bauer
Published 10 April 2002 (4 pages)
045604(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Probabilistic approach to the Bak-Sneppen model
G. Caldarelli, M. Felici, A. Gabrielli, and L. Pietronero
Published 18 March 2002 (7 pages)
046101 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Quantum decoherence, Zeno process, and time symmetry breaking
T. Petrosky and V. Barsegov
Published 18 March 2002 (21 pages)
046102 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Highway on-ramp control
Ding-wei Huang
Published 18 March 2002 (5 pages)
046103 [View PDF (956 kB)]
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Simple absorbing-state transition
Olivier Deloubrière and Frédéric van Wijland
Published 18 March 2002 (9 pages)
046104 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Trapped interacting Bose gas in nonextensive statistical mechanics
B. Tanatar
Published 18 March 2002 (5 pages)
046105 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Ensemble-based control of evolutionary optimization algorithms
Axel Reimann and Werner Ebeling
Published 20 March 2002 (6 pages)
046106 [View PDF (578 kB)]
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Quantification of heart rate variability by discrete nonstationary non-Markov stochastic processes
Renat Yulmetyev, Peter Hänggi, and Fail Gafarov
Published 25 March 2002 (15 pages)
046107 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation of the transmission of measles: Beyond the mass action principle
Nouredine Zekri and Jean Pierre Clerc
Published 25 March 2002 (6 pages)
046108 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Multifractal structure of the harmonic measure of diffusion-limited aggregates
Mogens H. Jensen, Anders Levermann, Joachim Mathiesen, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 25 March 2002 (8 pages)
046109 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Critical behavior of nonequilibrium phase transitions to magnetically ordered states
Thomas Birner, Karen Lippert, Reinhard Müller, Adolf Kühnel, and Ulrich Behn
Published 25 March 2002 (5 pages)
046110 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Finite-size scaling in the steady state of the fully asymmetric exclusion process
Jordan Brankov
Published 28 March 2002 (6 pages)
046111 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Dynamical response of an excitatory-inhibitory neural network to external stimulation: An application to image segmentation
Sitabhra Sinha and Jayanta Basak
Published 28 March 2002 (6 pages)
046112 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Multiscale dynamics and robust critical scaling in a continuum current sheet model
V. M. Uritsky, A. J. Klimas, and D. Vassiliadis
Published 28 March 2002 (5 pages)
046113 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Off-equilibrium response function in the one-dimensional random-field Ising model
F. Corberi, A. de Candia, E. Lippiello, and M. Zannetti
Published 1 April 2002 (7 pages)
046114 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Critical structure factors of bilinear fields in O(N) vector models
Pasquale Calabrese, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari
Published 2 April 2002 (16 pages)
046115 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Classical kinetical Bose gas
Michael Schulz, Steffen Trimper, and Simone Artz
Published 2 April 2002 (7 pages)
046116 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Phase ordering with a global conservation law: Ostwald ripening and coalescence
Massimo Conti, Baruch Meerson, Avner Peleg, and Pavel V. Sasorov
Published 2 April 2002 (13 pages)
046117 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Upper bound for the time derivative of entropy for nonequilibrium stochastic processes
Bidhan Chandra Bag
Published 2 April 2002 (6 pages)
046118 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Grain boundary pinning and glassy dynamics in stripe phases
Denis Boyer and Jorge Viñals
Published 2 April 2002 (12 pages)
046119 [View PDF (833 kB)]
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Correlated disordered interactions on Potts models
P. T. Muzy, A. P. Vieira, and S. R. Salinas
Published 2 April 2002 (7 pages)
046120 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Correlation functions near modulated and rough surfaces
Andreas Hanke and Mehran Kardar
Published 3 April 2002 (14 pages)
046121 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Targeted free energy perturbation
C. Jarzynski
Published 3 April 2002 (5 pages)
046122 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium dynamics of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation: Numerical results in two and three dimensions
Subir K. Das and Sanjay Puri
Published 3 April 2002 (9 pages)
046123 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Estimating probabilities from experimental frequencies
Inés Samengo
Published 4 April 2002 (9 pages)
046124 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Geometrical properties of avalanches in self-organized critical models of solar flares
Scott W. McIntosh, Paul Charbonneau, Thomas J. Bogdan, Han-Li Liu, and James P. Norman
Published 4 April 2002 (12 pages)
046125 [View PDF (757 kB)]
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Flow properties of driven-diffusive lattice gases: Theory and computer simulation
Debashish Chowdhury and Jian-Sheng Wang
Published 4 April 2002 (11 pages)
046126 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Exact multipoint and multitime correlation functions of a one-dimensional model of adsorption and evaporation of dimers
Mauro Mobilia
Published 4 April 2002 (6 pages)
046127 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Adaptation and survivors in a random Boolean network
Ikuo Nakamura
Published 4 April 2002 (4 pages)
046128 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Statistics of level spacing of geometric resonances in random binary composites
Y. Gu, K. W. Yu, and Z. R. Yang
Published 4 April 2002 (5 pages)
046129 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Finite-size effect in the Eguíluz and Zimmermann model of herd formation and information transmission
Yanbo Xie, Bing-Hong Wang, Hongjun Quan, Weisong Yang, and P. M. Hui
Published 5 April 2002 (6 pages)
046130 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Average entropy of a subsystem from its average Tsallis entropy
L. C. Malacarne, R. S. Mendes, and E. K. Lenzi
Published 5 April 2002 (5 pages)
046131 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Variational theory for thermodynamics of thermal waves
Stanislaw Sieniutycz and R. Stephen Berry
Published 8 April 2002 (11 pages)
046132 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Kink production in the presence of random distributed impurities
T. Dobrowolski
Published 8 April 2002 (4 pages)
046133 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Remarks about the Tsallis formalism
L. Velazquez and F. Guzmán
Published 8 April 2002 (5 pages)
046134 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Relaxation of nonspherical sessile drops towards equilibrium
Vadim S. Nikolayev and Daniel A. Beysens
Published 10 April 2002 (8 pages)
046135 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Slow relaxation in the large-N model for phase ordering
Federico Corberi, Eugenio Lippiello, and Marco Zannetti
Published 10 April 2002 (11 pages)
046136 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Analysis of the ∞-replica symmetry breaking solution of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
A. Crisanti and T. Rizzo
Published 10 April 2002 (9 pages)
046137 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Empirical macroscopic features of spatial-temporal traffic patterns at highway bottlenecks
Boris S. Kerner
Published 10 April 2002 (30 pages)
046138 [View PDF (3,188 kB)]
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Universal pulse shape scaling function and exponents: Critical test for avalanche models applied to Barkhausen noise
Amit P. Mehta, Andrea C. Mills, Karin A. Dahmen, and James P. Sethna
Published 10 April 2002 (6 pages)
046139 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Roughness distributions for 1/fα signals
T. Antal, M. Droz, G. Györgyi, and Z. Rácz
Published 10 April 2002 (12 pages)
046140 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Self-organized criticality: Robustness of scaling exponents
Jozef Černák
Published 10 April 2002 (6 pages)
046141 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Solvable Markov random field model in color image restoration
Kazuyuki Tanaka and Tsuyoshi Horiguchi
Published 11 April 2002 (18 pages)
046142 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Effect of angular momentum on equilibrium properties of a self-gravitating system
Olivier Fliegans and D. H. E. Gross
Published 11 April 2002 (13 pages)
046143 [View PDF (789 kB)]
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Iterated conformal dynamics and Laplacian growth
Felipe Barra, Benny Davidovitch, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 11 April 2002 (12 pages)
046144 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic relations in systems with aging and slow relaxation
Mitsuhiro Kawasaki
Published 11 April 2002 (15 pages)
046145 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Critical behavior of a strain percolation model for metals
Y. Shim, L. E. Levine, and R. Thomson
Published 11 April 2002 (10 pages)
046146 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Stable propagation of an ordered array of cracks during directional drying
E. A. Jagla
Published 11 April 2002 (7 pages)
046147 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Fracture model with variable range of interaction
Raul Cruz Hidalgo, Yamir Moreno, Ferenc Kun, and Hans J. Herrmann
Published 11 April 2002 (8 pages)
046148 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Autoregressive processes with exponentially decaying probability distribution functions: Applications to daily variations of a stock market index
Markus Porto and H. Eduardo Roman
Published 11 April 2002 (6 pages)
046149 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Scaling behavior of the order parameter and its conjugated field in an absorbing phase transition around the upper critical dimension
S. Lübeck
Published 12 April 2002 (7 pages)
046150 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Collective motions in globally coupled tent maps with stochastic updating
Satoru Morita and Tsuyoshi Chawanya
Published 15 March 2002 (6 pages)
046201 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Stabilization of stationary excitation pulses in an open flow without long-range inhibition
Mads Kærn and Michael Menzinger
Published 15 March 2002 (10 pages)
046202 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Diffusion entropy and waiting time statistics of hard-x-ray solar flares
Paolo Grigolini, Deborah Leddon, and Nicola Scafetta
Published 25 March 2002 (13 pages)
046203 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Chaotic scattering in deformed optical microlasing cavities
Zonghua Liu and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 26 March 2002 (5 pages)
046204 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Lorenz-like systems and classical dynamical equations with memory forcing: An alternate point of view for singling out the origin of chaos
R. Festa, A. Mazzino, and D. Vincenzi
Published 28 March 2002 (15 pages)
046205 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Effect of colored noises on spatiotemporal chaos in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
Hongli Wang and Qi Ouyang
Published 28 March 2002 (5 pages)
046206 [View PDF (413 kB)]
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Unusual spiral wave tip trajectories in a parametrically forced nonequilibrium system
Jysoo Lee, Jinha Kim, Goen-hee Yi, and Kyoung J. Lee
Published 28 March 2002 (6 pages)
046207 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Harmonic forcing of an extended oscillatory system: Homogeneous and periodic solutions
Jeenu Kim, Jysoo Lee, and Byungnam Kahng
Published 28 March 2002 (6 pages)
046208 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Measuring the Lyapunov exponent using quantum mechanics
F. M. Cucchietti, C. H. Lewenkopf, E. R. Mucciolo, H. M. Pastawski, and R. O. Vallejos
Published 1 April 2002 (9 pages)
046209 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Synchronizing chaotic dynamics with uncertainties based on a sliding mode control design
Tao Yang and Hui He Shao
Published 2 April 2002 (7 pages)
046210 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Anderson localized state as a predissipative state: Irreversible emission of thermalized quanta from a dynamically delocalized state
Hiroaki Yamada and Kensuke S. Ikeda
Published 2 April 2002 (17 pages)
046211 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Neural networks for estimating intrinsic dimension
A. Potapov and M. K. Ali
Published 2 April 2002 (7 pages)
046212 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Synchronization of coupled assemblies of relaxation oscillatory electrode pairs
Antonis Karantonis, Yasuyuki Miyakita, and Seiichiro Nakabayashi
Published 2 April 2002 (9 pages)
046213 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Diffusion in a periodically driven damped and undamped pendulum
R. Harish, S. Rajasekar, and K. P. N. Murthy
Published 3 April 2002 (9 pages)
046214 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Lyapunov exponents, noise-induced synchronization, and Parrondo’s paradox
Ljupco Kocarev and Zarko Tasev
Published 3 April 2002 (4 pages)
046215 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Jets, stickiness, and anomalous transport
Xavier Leoncini and George M. Zaslavsky
Published 4 April 2002 (16 pages)
046216 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Spectral properties of quantized barrier billiards
Jan Wiersig
Published 4 April 2002 (8 pages)
046217 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Traveling concentric-roll patterns in Rayleigh-Bénard convection with modulated rotation
Kim L. Thompson, Kapil M. S. Bajaj, and Guenter Ahlers
Published 5 April 2002 (4 pages)
046218 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Rotating convection in an anisotropic system
Alex Roxin and Hermann Riecke
Published 5 April 2002 (6 pages)
046219 [View PDF (574 kB)]
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Dynamic separation of chaotic signals in the presence of noise
Yuri V. Andreyev, Alexander S. Dmitriev, and Elena V. Efremova
Published 5 April 2002 (6 pages)
046220 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Skew-orthogonal polynomials and random-matrix ensembles
Saugata Ghosh and Akhilesh Pandey
Published 8 April 2002 (21 pages)
046221 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Exact, convergent periodic-orbit expansions of individual energy eigenvalues of regular quantum graphs
R. Blümel, Y. Dabaghian, and R. V. Jensen
Published 8 April 2002 (10 pages)
046222 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Acceleration effect of coupled oscillator systems
Toru Aonishi, Koji Kurata, and Masato Okada
Published 8 April 2002 (18 pages)
046223 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Shock structures and bunching fronts in excitable reaction-diffusion systems
Chad T. Hamik and Oliver Steinbock
Published 8 April 2002 (7 pages)
046224 [View PDF (647 kB)]
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Limits to the experimental detection of nonlinear synchrony
Paul So, Ernest Barreto, Krešimir Josić, Evelyn Sander, and Steven J. Schiff
Published 9 April 2002 (5 pages)
046225 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Decoherence for classically chaotic quantum maps
Pablo Bianucci, Juan Pablo Paz, and Marcos Saraceno
Published 10 April 2002 (12 pages)
046226 [View PDF (773 kB)]
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Mode locking of spatiotemporally periodic orbits in coupled sine circle map lattices
Gauri R. Pradhan, Nandini Chatterjee, and Neelima Gupte
Published 10 April 2002 (13 pages)
046227 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Bifurcations of a semiclassical atom in a periodic field
Thomas Pohl, Ulrike Feudel, and Werner Ebeling
Published 10 April 2002 (12 pages)
046228 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Fundamental scaling laws of on-off intermittency in a stochastically driven dissipative pattern-forming system
Thomas John, Ulrich Behn, and Ralf Stannarius
Published 10 April 2002 (13 pages)
046229 [View PDF (635 kB)]
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Spatial control of a classical electron state in a Rydberg atom by adiabatic synchronization
E. Grosfeld and L. Friedland
Published 10 April 2002 (8 pages)
046230 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Generic two-variable model of excitability
A. C. Ventura, G. B. Mindlin, and S. Ponce Dawson
Published 10 April 2002 (7 pages)
046231 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Multirhythmicity generated by slow variable diffusion in a ring of relaxation oscillators and noise-induced abnormal interspike variability
E. I. Volkov and D. V. Volkov
Published 10 April 2002 (13 pages)
046232 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Slow time evolution of two-time-scale reaction-diffusion systems: The physical origin of nondiffusive transport
Damián E. Strier, Ariel Chernomoretz, and Silvina Ponce Dawson
Published 11 April 2002 (14 pages)
046233 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Deriving exact energy solutions to the symmetrized q-difference Harper equation
E. Papp and C. Micu
Published 11 April 2002 (8 pages)
046234 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Scroll waves in isotropic excitable media: Linear instabilities, bifurcations, and restabilized states
Hervé Henry and Vincent Hakim
Published 11 April 2002 (21 pages)
046235 [View PDF (752 kB)]
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Dynamical localization in quasiperiodic driven systems
G. Abal, R. Donangelo, A. Romanelli, A. C. Sicardi Schifino, and R. Siri
Published 11 April 2002 (7 pages)
046236 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Delayed self-synchronization in homoclinic chaos
F. T. Arecchi, R. Meucci, E. Allaria, A. Di Garbo, and L. S. Tsimring
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
046237 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Probabilistic formalism and hierarchy of models for polydispersed turbulent two-phase flows
Eric Peirano and Jean-Pierre Minier
Published 13 March 2002 (18 pages)
046301 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Oscillation mode conversion and energy confinement of acoustically agitated bubbles
Masanori Sato, Nobunaga Shibuya, Nagaya Okada, Tonshaku Tou, and Toshitaka Fujii
Published 20 March 2002 (7 pages)
046302 [View PDF (412 kB)]
River meandering dynamics
Boyd F. Edwards and Duane H. Smith
Published 26 March 2002 (12 pages)
046303 [View PDF (214 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Numerical study of comparison of vorticity and passive vectors in turbulence and inviscid flows
Koji Ohkitani
Published 28 March 2002 (12 pages)
046304 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Lattice-gas model based on field mediators for immiscible fluids
L. O. E. dos Santos and P. C. Philippi
Published 1 April 2002 (8 pages)
046305 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Energy-conserving low-order models for three-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Christopher Tong and Alexander Gluhovsky
Published 4 April 2002 (11 pages)
046306 [View PDF (705 kB)]
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Scaling hypothesis leading to generalized extended self-similarity in turbulence
Hirokazu Fujisaka, Yasuya Nakayama, Takeshi Watanabe, and Siegfried Grossmann
Published 10 April 2002 (16 pages)
046307 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Discrete lattice effects on the forcing term in the lattice Boltzmann method
Zhaoli Guo, Chuguang Zheng, and Baochang Shi
Published 10 April 2002 (6 pages)
046308 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Light emission of sonoluminescent bubbles containing a rare gas and water vapor
Dominik Hammer and Lothar Frommhold
Published 11 April 2002 (14 pages)
046309 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Effect of surfactants, polymers, and alcohol on single bubble dynamics and sonoluminescence
Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Jingfeng Guan, Rohan Tronson, Thomas J. Matula, John W. Nuske, and Franz Grieser
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
046310 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Nonlocal electron kinetics and excited state densities in a magnetron discharge in argon
I. A. Porokhova, Yu. B. Golubovskii, C. Csambal, V. Helbig, C. Wilke, and J. F. Behnke
Published 13 March 2002 (10 pages)
046401 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Non-neutral plasma column in an asymmetric trapping field
Sh. Amiranashvili, M. Y. Yu, and L. Stenflo
Published 14 March 2002 (7 pages)
046402 [View PDF (745 kB)]
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Magnetic field generation through angular momentum exchange between circularly polarized radiation and charged particles
G. Shvets, N. J. Fisch, and J.-M. Rax
Published 15 March 2002 (5 pages)
046403 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Self-consistent kinetic theory of a plasma sheath
Aleksey V. Vasenkov and Bernie D. Shizgal
Published 25 March 2002 (9 pages)
046404 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Spheromak as a relaxed state with minimum dissipation
B. Dasgupta, M. S. Janaki, R. Bhattacharyya, P. Dasgupta, T. Watanabe, and T. Sato
Published 25 March 2002 (6 pages)
046405 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Influence of Ar2+ in an argon collisional-radiative model
Arnaud Bultel, Bruno van Ootegem, Anne Bourdon, and Pierre Vervisch
Published 25 March 2002 (16 pages)
046406 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Electrical conductivity of nonideal carbon and zinc plasmas: Experimental and theoretical results
J. Haun, H.-J. Kunze, S. Kosse, M. Schlanges, and R. Redmer
Published 26 March 2002 (11 pages)
046407 [View PDF (669 kB)]
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Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of energetic electron generation and transport with relativistic laser pulses in overdense plasmas
Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, Z. M. Sheng, P. Kaw, K. Nishihara, and K. Nishikawa
Published 28 March 2002 (7 pages)
046408 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Plasma instability of a vacuum arc centrifuge
M. J. Hole, R. S. Dallaqua, S. W. Simpson, and E. Del Bosco
Published 28 March 2002 (15 pages)
046409 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Electron cooling of high-energy protons in a multiring trap with a tank circuit monitoring the electron-plasma oscillations
H. Higaki, N. Kuroda, T. Ichioka, K. Yoshiki Franzen, Z. Wang, K. Komaki, Y. Yamazaki, M. Hori, N. Oshima, and A. Mohri
Published 2 April 2002 (5 pages)
046410 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Analysis of Thomson scattered light from an arc plasma jet
G. Gregori, U. Kortshagen, J. Heberlein, and E. Pfender
Published 2 April 2002 (8 pages)
046411 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Time-resolved ion flux measurements in pulsed, electron-beam-generated plasmas
S. G. Walton, D. Leonhardt, D. D. Blackwell, R. F. Fernsler, D. P. Murphy, and R. A. Meger
Published 2 April 2002 (4 pages)
046412 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Rotational kinetics of absorbing dust grains in neutral gas
A. M. Ignatov, S. A. Trigger, S. A. Maiorov, and W. Ebeling
Published 3 April 2002 (9 pages)
046413 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Possibility of an unequivocal test of different models of the equation of state of aluminum in the coupling regime Γ∼1–50
François Perrot, M. W. C. Dharma-wardana, and John Benage
Published 3 April 2002 (4 pages)
046414 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Dynamics of self-trapped singular beams in an underdense plasma
V. I. Berezhiani, S. M. Mahajan, Z. Yoshida, and M. Pekker
Published 4 April 2002 (6 pages)
046415 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Stability of particle arrangements in a complex plasma
S. V. Vladimirov and A. A. Samarian
Published 4 April 2002 (4 pages)
046416 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Statistical effects in the multistream model for quantum plasmas
Dan Anderson, Björn Hall, Mietek Lisak, and Mattias Marklund
Published 4 April 2002 (5 pages)
046417 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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X-ray emission of a xenon gas jet plasma diagnosed with Thomson scattering
C. Chenais-Popovics, V. Malka, J.-C. Gauthier, S. Gary, O. Peyrusse, M. Rabec-Le Gloahec, I. Matsushima, C. Bauche-Arnoult, A. Bachelier, and J. Bauche
Published 10 April 2002 (5 pages)
046418 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Parameters and equilibrium profiles for large-area surface-wave sustained plasmas
I. B. Denysenko, A. V. Gapon, N. A. Azarenkov, K. N. Ostrikov, and M. Y. Yu
Published 11 April 2002 (11 pages)
046419 [View PDF (173 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Nonlinear electrostatic emittance compensation in kA, fs electron bunches
S. B. van der Geer, M. J. de Loos, J. I. M. Botman, O. J. Luiten, and M. J. van der Wiel
Published 15 March 2002 (7 pages)
046501 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Acceleration element for femtosecond electron pulse compression
Bao-Liang Qian and Hani E. Elsayed-Ali
Published 2 April 2002 (7 pages)
046502 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Self-amplified coherent spontaneous emission in the planar wiggler free-electron laser
B. W. J. McNeil and G. R. M. Robb
Published 3 April 2002 (10 pages)
046503 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Trapping, compression, and acceleration of an electron bunch in the nonlinear laser wakefield
Arsen G. Khachatryan
Published 11 April 2002 (9 pages)
046504 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Nonlinear quantum regime of the x-ray Compton laser
H. K. Avetissian and G. F. Mkrtchian
Published 11 April 2002 (8 pages)
046505 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Canonical Hamiltonian formulation of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in a one-dimensional, periodic Kerr medium
Suresh Pereira and J. E. Sipe
Published 15 March 2002 (10 pages)
046601 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Transition between ground state and metastable states in classical two-dimensional atoms
Minghui Kong, B. Partoens, and F. M. Peeters
Published 18 March 2002 (13 pages)
046602 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Speckle experiments in random lasers
Gijs van Soest, Frank J. Poelwijk, and Ad Lagendijk
Published 18 March 2002 (5 pages)
046603 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Orientational discrete breathers in hydrogen-bonded chains
Julia M. Khalack and M. J. Velgakis
Published 18 March 2002 (10 pages)
046604 [View PDF (1,044 kB)]
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Classical versus quantum structure of the scattering probability matrix: Chaotic waveguides
G. A. Luna-Acosta, J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez, P. Šeba, and K. N. Pichugin
Published 25 March 2002 (8 pages)
046605 [View PDF (801 kB)]
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Two-dimensional clusters of solitary structures in driven optical cavities
Andrei G. Vladimirov, John M. McSloy, Dmitry V. Skryabin, and William J. Firth
Published 25 March 2002 (11 pages)
046606 [View PDF (567 kB)]
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Superluminal pulse propagation through one-dimensional photonic crystals with a dispersive defect
Nian-hua Liu, Shi-Yao Zhu, Hong Chen, and Xiang Wu
Published 25 March 2002 (8 pages)
046607 [View PDF (1,123 kB)]
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Self-interference between forward and backward propagating parts of a single acoustic plate mode
M. Germano, A. Alippi, M. Angelici, and A. Bettucci
Published 28 March 2002 (3 pages)
046608 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Exact calculation of the angular momentum loss, recoil force, and radiation intensity for an arbitrary source in terms of electric, magnetic, and toroid multipoles
E. E. Radescu and G. Vaman
Published 1 April 2002 (47 pages)
046609 [View PDF (564 kB)]
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Measurement of superluminal optical tunneling times in double-barrier photonic band gaps
S. Longhi, P. Laporta, M. Belmonte, and E. Recami
Published 2 April 2002 (6 pages)
046610 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Diffraction by a small aperture in conical geometry: Application to metal-coated tips used in near-field scanning optical microscopy
A. Drezet, J. C. Woehl, and S. Huant
Published 2 April 2002 (8 pages)
046611 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Local optical density of states in finite crystals of plane scatterers
Martijn Wubs and A. Lagendijk
Published 2 April 2002 (12 pages)
046612 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Continuum approach to discreteness
P. G. Kevrekidis, I. G. Kevrekidis, A. R. Bishop, and E. S. Titi
Published 4 April 2002 (13 pages)
046613 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Interaction of N solitons in the massive Thirring model and optical gap system: The complex Toda chain model
V. S. Shchesnovich
Published 8 April 2002 (10 pages)
046614 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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X-ray diffraction study of Anodisc filters
Michael R. Fisch, Andrew Primak, and Satyendra Kumar
Published 8 April 2002 (7 pages)
046615 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-induced control of breather dynamics in a single plaquette of Josephson junctions
M. V. Fistul, S. Flach, and A. Benabdallah
Published 8 April 2002 (4 pages)
046616 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Two-frequency mutual coherence function and pulse propagation in random media
Gregory Samelsohn and Valentin Freilikher
Published 10 April 2002 (11 pages)
046617 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Self-interaction near dielectrics
Lior M. Burko
Published 10 April 2002 (5 pages)
046618 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Exact discrete compactlike traveling kinks and pulses in φ4 nonlinear lattices
J. C. Comte
Published 11 April 2002 (5 pages)
046619 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Patterns arising from the interaction between scalar and vectorial instabilities in two-photon resonant Kerr cavities
Miguel Hoyuelos, Daniel Walgraef, Pere Colet, and Maxi San Miguel
Published 11 April 2002 (9 pages)
046620 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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Symmetry broken motion of a periodically driven Brownian particle: Nonadiabatic regime
M. V. Fistul
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
046621 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Optically realizable localized wave solutions of the homogeneous scalar wave equation
Kaido Reivelt and Peeter Saari
Published 11 April 2002 (7 pages)
046622 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Theory of critical enhancement of photorefractive beam coupling
E. V. Podivilov, B. I. Sturman, M. V. Gorkunov, V. P. Kamenov, and K. H. Ringhofer
Published 12 April 2002 (11 pages)
046623 [View PDF (355 kB)]

Computational physics

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Implementation of the hierarchical reference theory for simple one-component fluids
Albert Reiner and Gerhard Kahl
Published 3 April 2002 (13 pages)
046701 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Latent heat calculation of the three-dimensional q=3, 4, and 5 Potts models by the tensor product variational approach
A. Gendiar and T. Nishino
Published 10 April 2002 (7 pages)
046702 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Three-body bound-state calculations by the Lagrange-mesh method: Selection of a coordinate system
M. Hesse
Published 11 April 2002 (12 pages)
046703 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Modeling continuous processes from data
Michael Small, Kevin Judd, and Alistair Mees
Published 11 April 2002 (11 pages)
046704 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Bound state properties of the ground states in the DT+ and T2+ ions
Alexei M. Frolov
Published 11 April 2002 (7 pages)
046705 [View PDF (86 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Influence of extended dynamics on phase transitions in a driven lattice gas
Attila Szolnoki and György Szabó
Published 18 March 2002 (3 pages)
047101 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Noncollapsing solution below rc for a randomly forced particle
L. Anton
Published 28 March 2002 (3 pages)
047102 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Improved stability bound for steady-state flow in a car-following model of road traffic on a circular route
H. J. C. Huijberts
Published 3 April 2002 (3 pages)
047103 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Phase ordering on small-world networks with nearest-neighbor edges
H. Hong, M. Y. Choi, and Beom Jun Kim
Published 8 April 2002 (4 pages)
047104 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Computing with excitable systems in a noisy environment
M. C. Eguia, S. Ponce Dawson, and G. B. Mindlin
Published 28 March 2002 (4 pages)
047201 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Generalized synchronization in directionally coupled systems with identical individual dynamics
J. M. González-Miranda
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
047202 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Quantum dispersion and its exponential growth of a wave packet in chaotic systems
Li Junqing, Liu Fang, Xing YongZhong, Zuo Wei, and W. D. Heiss
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
047203 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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ħ⃗0 and classical-quantum correspondence in the kicked Harper model
Indubala I. Satija and Tomaž Prosen
Published 11 April 2002 (4 pages)
047204 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Time behavior of the secondary flow between time-periodically corotating cylinders: A two-frequency forcing case
P. Ern and J.-E. Wesfreid
Published 15 March 2002 (4 pages)
047301 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Wavy stripes and squares in zero-Prandtl-number convection
Pinaki Pal and Krishna Kumar
Published 25 March 2002 (4 pages)
047302 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Current-sheet formation in incompressible electron magnetohydrodynamics
V. P. Ruban
Published 2 April 2002 (4 pages)
047401 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Self-trapping of strong electromagnetic beams in relativistic plasmas
V. I. Berezhiani, S. M. Mahajan, Z. Yoshida, and M. Ohhashi
Published 4 April 2002 (4 pages)
047402 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Space- and time-resolved density measurements of a high-intensity laser-produced plasma for x-ray laser studies
S. Dobosz, P. D’Oliveira, S. Hulin, P. Monot, F. Réau, and T. Auguste
Published 5 April 2002 (4 pages)
047403 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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β factor in a random laser
Gijs van Soest and Ad Lagendijk
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
047601 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Newton’s laws of motion in the form of a Riccati equation
Marek Nowakowski and Haret C. Rosu
Published 18 March 2002 (4 pages)
047602 [View PDF (53 kB)]

Computational physics

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Numerical analysis of the master equation
Ronald Dickman
Published 28 March 2002 (4 pages)
047701 [View PDF (56 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Scaling behavior in explosive fragmentation”
J. A. Åström, R. P Linna, and J. Timonen
Published 8 April 2002 (1 page)
048101 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Scaling behavior in explosive fragmentation’ ”
A. Diehl, J. S. Andrade, Jr., and G. A. Farias
Published 8 April 2002 (2 pages)
048102 [View PDF (34 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Generalization of super-transition-array methods to hot dense plasmas by using optimum independent particle reference systems [Phys. Rev. E. 65, 016403 (2002)]
G. Faussurier, Brian G. Wilson, and Mau Hsiung Chen
Published 3 April 2002 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (17 kB)]
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Erratum: Population coding in neuronal systems with correlated noise [Phys. Rev. E 64, 051904 (2001)]
Haim Sompolinsky, Hyoungsoo Yoon, Kukjin Kang, and Maoz Shamir
Published 4 April 2002 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
 
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