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Physical Review E – June 2002
Volume 65, Issue 6

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Two reaction zones in a competing reactions system with initially separated components
Misha Sinder and Joshua Pelleg
Published 25 June 2002 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Lyapunov exponent pairing for a thermostatted hard-sphere gas under shear in the thermodynamic limit
Debabrata Panja and Ramses van Zon
Published 28 June 2002 (4 pages)
060102(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Time and length scales for diffusion in liquids
A. M. Berezhkovskii and G. Sutmann
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
060201(R) [View PDF (346 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Scaling behavior of the surface in ballistic deposition
Jianguo Yu and Jacques G. Amar
Published 24 June 2002 (4 pages)
060601(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Effect of director distortions on morphologies of phase separation in liquid crystals
D. Voloschenko, O. P. Pishnyak, S. V. Shiyanovskii, and O. D. Lavrentovich
Published 10 June 2002 (4 pages)
060701(R) [View PDF (467 kB)]

Polymers

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Interaction potential between two spheres mediated by excluded volume polymers
R. Tuinier, H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, and D. G. A. L. Aarts
Published 20 June 2002 (3 pages)
060801(R) [View PDF (68 kB)]

Biological physics

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Physics of psychophysics: Stevens and Weber-Fechner laws are transfer functions of excitable media
Mauro Copelli, Antônio C. Roque, Rodrigo F. Oliveira, and Osame Kinouchi
Published 26 June 2002 (4 pages)
060901(R) [View PDF (91 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Stochastic resonance for motion of flexible macromolecules in solution
Igor E. Dikshtein, Dmitri V. Kuznetsov, and Lutz Schimansky-Geier
Published 10 June 2002 (10 pages)
061101 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Generalized Langevin equation approach to higher-order classical response: Second-order-response time-resolved Raman experiment in CS2
Joohyun Kim and T. Keyes
Published 12 June 2002 (7 pages)
061102 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Tightness of slip-linked polymer chains
Ralf Metzler, Andreas Hanke, Paul G. Dommersnes, Yacov Kantor, and Mehran Kardar
Published 12 June 2002 (9 pages)
061103 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Half-width of intensity profiles of light scattered from self-affine fractal random surfaces and simulational verifications
Chuanfu Cheng, Chunxiang Liu, Shuyun Teng, Ningyu Zhang, and Man Liu
Published 12 June 2002 (5 pages)
061104 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Up and down cascades: Three-dimensional magnetic field model
E. M. Blanter, M. G. Shnirman, and J. L. Le Mouël
Published 17 June 2002 (11 pages)
061105 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Excitation of rotational modes in two-dimensional systems of driven Brownian particles
Udo Erdmann, Werner Ebeling, and Vadim S. Anishchenko
Published 18 June 2002 (9 pages)
061106 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Role of long jumps in surface diffusion
O. M. Braun and R. Ferrando
Published 21 June 2002 (11 pages)
061107 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Pulse propagation sustained by noise in arrays of bistable electronic circuits
R. Báscones, J. García-Ojalvo, and J. M. Sancho
Published 21 June 2002 (5 pages)
061108 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Exactly solvable model with an absorbing state and multiplicative colored Gaussian noise
S. I. Denisov and Werner Horsthemke
Published 21 June 2002 (10 pages)
061109 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Neutrality condition and response law for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations, with application to population genetics
Marcel Ovidiu Vlad, Federico Moran, Masa Tsuchiya, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Peter J. Oefner, and John Ross
Published 25 June 2002 (17 pages)
061110 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Morphological instability and dynamics of fronts in bacterial growth models with nonlinear diffusion
Judith Müller and Wim van Saarloos
Published 28 June 2002 (18 pages)
061111 [View PDF (259 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Quasi-two-dimensional dipolar fluid at low densities: Monte Carlo simulations and theory
J. M. Tavares, J. J. Weis, and M. M. Telo da Gama
Published 20 June 2002 (11 pages)
061201 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Mutual diffusion in a binary Ar-Kr mixture confined within zeolite NaY
C. R. Kamala, K. G. Ayappa, and S. Yashonath
Published 21 June 2002 (12 pages)
061202 [View PDF (367 kB)]

Granular materials

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Fine cohesive powders in rotating drums: Transition from rigid-plastic flow to gas-fluidized regime
A. Castellanos, J. M. Valverde, and M. A. S. Quintanilla
Published 12 June 2002 (7 pages)
061301 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Transversal inhomogeneities in dilute vibrofluidized granular fluids
J. Javier Brey, M. J. Ruiz-Montero, F. Moreno, and R. García-Rojo
Published 21 June 2002 (10 pages)
061302 [View PDF (666 kB)]
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Continuum theory of partially fluidized granular flows
Igor S. Aranson and Lev S. Tsimring
Published 21 June 2002 (20 pages)
061303 [View PDF (739 kB)]
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Two-dimensional percolation and cluster structure of the random packing of binary disks
D. He, N. N. Ekere, and L. Cai
Published 25 June 2002 (6 pages)
061304 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Elastic behavior in contact dynamics of rigid particles
T. Unger, L. Brendel, D. E. Wolf, and J. Kertész
Published 25 June 2002 (7 pages)
061305 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Simulational studies of axial granular segregation in a rotating cylinder
D. C. Rapaport
Published 25 June 2002 (11 pages)
061306 [View PDF (957 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Surface tension and nucleation rate of phases of a charged colloidal suspension
Michael Knott and Ian J. Ford
Published 7 June 2002 (13 pages)
061401 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Volume-term theories, Sogami-Ise potential, and the Langmuir model for phase separation in macroion systems: A resolution
Kenneth S. Schmitz
Published 10 June 2002 (8 pages)
061402 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Electrostatic interaction between two aqueous microdroplets in an apolar medium
Heng-Kwong Tsao, Yu-Jane Sheng, and Shing-Bor Chen
Published 11 June 2002 (10 pages)
061403 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Foam drainage: A film contribution?
V. Carrier, S. Destouesse, and A. Colin
Published 12 June 2002 (9 pages)
061404 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Energy and symmetry of self-assembled two-dimensional dipole clusters in magnetic confinement
M. Golosovsky, Y. Saado, and D. Davidov
Published 12 June 2002 (8 pages)
061405 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Theory of structural transformations in ferrofluids: Chains and “gas-liquid” phase transitions
A. Yu Zubarev and L. Yu. Iskakova
Published 13 June 2002 (11 pages)
061406 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Effective forces in colloidal mixtures: From depletion attraction to accumulation repulsion
A. A. Louis, E. Allahyarov, H. Löwen, and R. Roth
Published 13 June 2002 (11 pages)
061407 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Viscosity of bimodal and polydisperse colloidal suspensions
Robert A. Lionberger
Published 21 June 2002 (11 pages)
061408 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Electrically induced interactions between colloidal particles in the vicinity of a conducting plane
François Nadal, Françoise Argoul, Patrick Hanusse, Bernard Pouligny, and Armand Ajdari
Published 25 June 2002 (8 pages)
061409 [View PDF (960 kB)]
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Demixing of colloid-polymer mixtures in poor solvents
Matthias Schmidt and Alan R. Denton
Published 26 June 2002 (6 pages)
061410 [View PDF (181 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Phase separation in two-dimensional binary fluid mixtures: Spontaneous pinning effect
Yan-li Tang and Yu-qiang Ma
Published 7 June 2002 (5 pages)
061501 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Delocalization transitions of semiflexible manifolds
Ralf Bundschuh and Michael Lässig
Published 17 June 2002 (7 pages)
061502 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Kinetic bottleneck to the self-organization of bidisperse hard disk monolayers formed by random sequential adsorption
R. Christopher Doty, Roger T. Bonnecaze, and Brian A. Korgel
Published 19 June 2002 (6 pages)
061503 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Phase diagram of symmetric binary fluid mixtures: First-order or second-order demixing
Ostap Antonevych, Frank Forstmann, and Enrique Diaz-Herrera
Published 21 June 2002 (7 pages)
061504 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Coherent scattering function in the reptation model: Analysis beyond asymptotic limits
Lothar Schäfer, Ute Ebert, and Artur Baumgärtner
Published 21 June 2002 (30 pages)
061505 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Critical behavior of ionic liquids
V. L. Kulinskii and N. P. Malomuzh
Published 21 June 2002 (8 pages)
061506 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Concentration fluctuations in the binary mixture hexane-nitrobenzene with static and dynamic x-ray scattering
Eric M. Dufresne, Teamour Nurushev, Roy Clarke, and Steven B. Dierker
Published 21 June 2002 (9 pages)
061507 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Brownian dynamics analysis of negative viscosity induced in a magnetic fluid subjected to both ac magnetic and shear flow fields
Hisao Morimoto, Toru Maekawa, and Yoichiro Matsumoto
Published 24 June 2002 (8 pages)
061508 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Faraday instability on viscous ferrofluids in a horizontal magnetic field: Oblique rolls of arbitrary orientation
V. V. Mekhonoshin and Adrian Lange
Published 26 June 2002 (7 pages)
061509 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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H-function representations for stretched exponential relaxation and non-Debye susceptibilities in glassy systems
R. Hilfer
Published 28 June 2002 (5 pages)
061510 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Intermembrane spacing and velocity profiling of a lamellar lyotropic complex fluid under flow using x-ray diffraction
Sarah E. Welch, MacKenzie R. Stetzer, Gang Hu, Eric B. Sirota, and Stefan H. J. Idziak
Published 28 June 2002 (6 pages)
061511 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Adaptive phase field simulation of dendritic growth in a forced flow at various supercoolings
C. W. Lan, C. M. Hsu, C. C. Liu, and Y. C. Chang
Published 13 June 2002 (11 pages)
061601 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of the elastic interaction in heteroepitaxial growth
B. M. T. Gonçalves and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
061602 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Electrostatic fluctuations in soap films
D. S. Dean and R. R. Horgan
Published 17 June 2002 (14 pages)
061603 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Solid-liquid interface of a 2-propanol–perfluoromethylcyclohexane mixture: From adsorption to wetting
Anton Plech, Uwe Klemradt, Markus Aspelmeyer, Marcus Huber, and Johann Peisl
Published 18 June 2002 (8 pages)
061604 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Simple model of capillary condensation in porous media
S. M. Gatica, M. M. Calbi, and M. W. Cole
Published 21 June 2002 (4 pages)
061605 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Roughness-induced filling
K. Rejmer
Published 21 June 2002 (17 pages)
061606 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Lattice model of gas condensation within nanopores
Raluca A. Trasca, M. Mercedes Calbi, and Milton W. Cole
Published 24 June 2002 (9 pages)
061607 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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X-ray scattering of thin liquid films: Beyond the harmonic approximation
Ming Li and Mark L. Schlossman
Published 25 June 2002 (6 pages)
061608 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Anisotropic self-diffusion in thermotropic liquid crystals studied by 1H and 2H pulse-field-gradient spin-echo NMR
S. V. Dvinskikh, I. Furó, H. Zimmermann, and A. Maliniak
Published 10 June 2002 (9 pages)
061701 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Liquid correlation across the walls in a slit pore: Effect on the wetting and drying transition
Wilmer Olivares, Léo Degrève, Juan C. Villegas, and Marcelo Lozada-Cassou
Published 12 June 2002 (3 pages)
061702 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Enantiomeric excess dependence of the phase diagram of antiferroelectric liquid crystals
E. Gorecka, D. Pociecha, M. Čepič, B. Žekš, and R. Dabrowski
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
061703 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Electroclinic effect and modulated phases in smectic liquid crystals
Robert B. Meyer and Robert A. Pelcovits
Published 18 June 2002 (6 pages)
061704 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Structure and dynamics of freely suspended film of the smectic-Cα* phase in an external transverse electric field
M. Conradi, I. Muševič, and M. Čepič
Published 21 June 2002 (8 pages)
061705 [View PDF (214 kB)]

Polymers

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Detailed analysis of the induction period of polymer crystallization by depolarized light scattering
Go Matsuba, Keisuke Kaji, Toshiji Kanaya, and Koji Nishida
Published 10 June 2002 (7 pages)
061801 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Universal aspects of macromolecules in polymer blends, solutions, and supercritical mixtures
Y. B. Melnichenko, G. D. Wignall, and D. Schwahn
Published 19 June 2002 (5 pages)
061802 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Metastable lattice of droplets in phase separating polymer blends
Sergey Panyukov and Yitzhak Rabin
Published 21 June 2002 (12 pages)
061803 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Biological physics

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Quantum computation in brain microtubules: Decoherence and biological feasibility
S. Hagan, S. R. Hameroff, and J. A. Tuszyński
Published 10 June 2002 (11 pages)
061901 [View PDF (681 kB)]
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Self-trapping versus trapping: Application to hole transport in DNA
D. M. Basko and E. M. Conwell
Published 11 June 2002 (7 pages)
061902 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Electrical characterization of gel collected from shark electrosensors
Brandon R. Brown, John C. Hutchison, Mary E. Hughes, Douglas R. Kellogg, and Royce W. Murray
Published 12 June 2002 (5 pages)
061903 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Metastable intermediates in the condensation of semiflexible polymers
B. Schnurr, F. Gittes, and F. C. MacKintosh
Published 14 June 2002 (13 pages)
061904 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Effects of intrinsic base-pair fluctuations on charge transport in DNA
S. Komineas, G. Kalosakas, and A. R. Bishop
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
061905 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Thermal diffusion and chemical kinetics in laminar biomaterial due to heating by a free-electron laser
M. Shane Hutson, Susanne A. Hauger, and Glenn Edwards
Published 17 June 2002 (6 pages)
061906 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Classification of amino acids based on statistical results of known structures and cooperativity of protein folding
Hu Chen, Xin Zhou, and Zhong-Can Ou-Yang
Published 20 June 2002 (7 pages)
061907 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Information space dynamics for neural networks
R. M. C. de Almeida and M. A. P. Idiart
Published 21 June 2002 (13 pages)
061908 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Class of self-limiting growth models in the presence of nonlinear diffusion
Sandip Kar, Suman Kumar Banik, and Deb Shankar Ray
Published 21 June 2002 (5 pages)
061909 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Small-world view of the amino acids that play a key role in protein folding
M. Vendruscolo, N. V. Dokholyan, E. Paci, and M. Karplus
Published 25 June 2002 (4 pages)
061910 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Slow excitation supports propagation of slow pulses in networks of excitatory and inhibitory populations
David Golomb and G. Bard Ermentrout
Published 25 June 2002 (16 pages)
061911 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Stability of oscillatory retrieval solutions in the oscillator neural network without Lyapunov functions
Satoki Uchiyama and Hirokazu Fujisaka
Published 25 June 2002 (9 pages)
061912 [View PDF (685 kB)]
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Hydration dynamics of human fingernails: An ellipsometric study
B. Schulz, D. Chan, J. Bäckström, M. Rübhausen, K. P. Wittern, S. Wessel, R. Wepf, and S. Williams
Published 25 June 2002 (7 pages)
061913 [View PDF (336 kB)]
Constitutive property of the local organization of leaf venation networks
S. Bohn, B. Andreotti, S. Douady, J. Munzinger, and Y. Couder
Published 28 June 2002 (12 pages)
061914 [View PDF (1,021 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Fokker-Planck equation for bistable potential in the optimized expansion
Anna Okopińska
Published 25 June 2002 (4 pages)
062101 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Interfacial tension and nucleation in mixtures of colloids and long ideal polymer coils
Richard P. Sear
Published 20 June 2002 (4 pages)
062401 [View PDF (45 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Transition to ordered intercalated columns in columnar liquid crystals
Jean-Guy Demers and Alain Caillé
Published 20 June 2002 (4 pages)
062701 [View PDF (377 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Optimization of congested traffic by controlling stop-and-go waves
Elad Tomer, Leonid Safonov, Nilly Madar, and Shlomo Havlin
Published 25 June 2002 (4 pages)
065101(R) [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Topology of the conceptual network of language
Adilson E. Motter, Alessandro P. S. de Moura, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Partha Dasgupta
Published 25 June 2002 (4 pages)
065102(R) [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Evidence for “fragile” glass-forming behavior in the relaxation of Coulomb frustrated three-dimensional systems
M. Grousson, G. Tarjus, and P. Viot
Published 26 June 2002 (4 pages)
065103(R) [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Critical exponents and percolation thresholds in two-dimensional systems with a finite interplane coupling
C. Thomsen
Published 28 June 2002 (4 pages)
065104(R) [View PDF (66 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Cusp-scaling behavior in fractal dimension of chaotic scattering
Adilson E. Motter and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 11 June 2002 (4 pages)
065201(R) [View PDF (127 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Internal modes of sine-Gordon solitons in the presence of spatiotemporal perturbations
J. A. González, A. Bellorín, and L. E. Guerrero
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
065601(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Feedback stabilization of unstable propagating waves
Eugene Mihaliuk, Tatsunari Sakurai, Florin Chirila, and Kenneth Showalter
Published 26 June 2002 (4 pages)
065602(R) [View PDF (172 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Numerical study of a first-order irreversible phase transition in a CO+NO catalyzed reaction model
Ernesto S. Loscar and Ezequiel V. Albano
Published 11 June 2002 (8 pages)
066101 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Dynamical random graphs with memory
Tatyana S. Turova
Published 12 June 2002 (9 pages)
066102 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Critical behavior of semi-infinite random systems at the special surface transition
Z. Usatenko and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 13 June 2002 (9 pages)
066103 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of two hard disks in a rectangular box
Toyonori Munakata and Gang Hu
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
066104 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Fractal behavior of the shortest path between two lines in percolation systems
Gerald Paul, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 13 June 2002 (8 pages)
066105 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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First-order transition in a particle deposition-evaporation model
Kwangho Park and In-mook Kim
Published 14 June 2002 (5 pages)
066106 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Excitability transitions and wave dynamics under spatiotemporal structured noise
S. Alonso, F. Sagués, and J. M. Sancho
Published 14 June 2002 (11 pages)
066107 [View PDF (907 kB)]
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Jamming transitions and avalanches in the game of Dots-and-Boxes
Richard Metzler and Andreas Engel
Published 14 June 2002 (6 pages)
066108 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Vertex overload breakdown in evolving networks
Petter Holme and Beom Jun Kim
Published 18 June 2002 (8 pages)
066109 [View PDF (502 kB)]
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Ising model in small-world networks
Carlos P. Herrero
Published 18 June 2002 (6 pages)
066110 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Generalized contact process on random environments
György Szabó, Hajnalka Gergely, and Beáta Oborny
Published 19 June 2002 (5 pages)
066111 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Kinetics in one-dimensional lattice gas and Ising models from time-dependent density-functional theory
M. Kessler, W. Dieterich, H. L. Frisch, J. F. Gouyet, and P. Maass
Published 20 June 2002 (8 pages)
066112 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Hierarchical reference theory study of the lattice restricted primitive model
A. Brognara, A. Parola, and L. Reatto
Published 20 June 2002 (11 pages)
066113 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Universality of the off-equilibrium response function in the kinetic Ising chain
Federico Corberi, Claudio Castellano, Eugenio Lippiello, and Marco Zannetti
Published 20 June 2002 (10 pages)
066114 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Scale-free network model of node and connection diversity
Xiang Cheng, Hongli Wang, and Qi Ouyang
Published 21 June 2002 (5 pages)
066115 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Extrapolation and the Bulirsch-Stoer algorithm
James L. Monroe
Published 21 June 2002 (8 pages)
066116 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Role of pointlike topological excitations at criticality: From vortices to global monopoles
Nuno D. Antunes, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, and Martin Kunz
Published 21 June 2002 (13 pages)
066117 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Nonextensive entropies derived from form invariance of pseudoadditivity
Hiroki Suyari
Published 21 June 2002 (7 pages)
066118 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Resistance and resistance fluctuations in random resistor networks under biased percolation
C. Pennetta, L. Reggiani, Gy. Trefán, and E. Alfinito
Published 24 June 2002 (10 pages)
066119 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Aging in ferromagnetic systems at criticality near four dimensions
Pasquale Calabrese and Andrea Gambassi
Published 25 June 2002 (6 pages)
066120 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Dielectric breakdown model at small η: Pole dynamics
M. B. Hastings
Published 25 June 2002 (5 pages)
066121 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Pseudofractal scale-free web
S. N. Dorogovtsev, A. V. Goltsev, and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 25 June 2002 (4 pages)
066122 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Spin dephasing in the extended strong collision approximation
Wolfgang R. Bauer and Walter Nadler
Published 25 June 2002 (15 pages)
066123 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Evolution and structure formation of the distribution of partition function zeros: Triangular type Ising lattices with cell decoration
Tsong-Ming Liaw, Ming-Chang Huang, Yen-Liang Chou, and Simon C. Lin
Published 25 June 2002 (8 pages)
066124 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Probabilistic description of traffic breakdowns
Reinhart Kühne, Reinhard Mahnke, Ihor Lubashevsky, and Jevgenijs Kaupužs
Published 26 June 2002 (13 pages)
066125 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Random matrix approach to cross correlations in financial data
Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Bernd Rosenow, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Thomas Guhr, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 27 June 2002 (18 pages)
066126 [View PDF (573 kB)]
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25th-order high-temperature expansion results for three-dimensional Ising-like systems on the simple-cubic lattice
Massimo Campostrini, Andrea Pelissetto, Paolo Rossi, and Ettore Vicari
Published 27 June 2002 (19 pages)
066127 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Variational perturbation theory for Markov processes
Hagen Kleinert, Axel Pelster, and Mihai V. Putz
Published 28 June 2002 (7 pages)
066128 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Localization of thermal packets and metastable states in the Sinai model
Cécile Monthus and Pierre Le Doussal
Published 28 June 2002 (18 pages)
066129 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Large-scale topological and dynamical properties of the Internet
Alexei Vázquez, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, and Alessandro Vespignani
Published 28 June 2002 (12 pages)
066130 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Fragility of the free-energy landscape of a directed polymer in random media
Marta Sales and Hajime Yoshino
Published 28 June 2002 (24 pages)
066131 [View PDF (1,397 kB)]
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Classical-to-critical crossovers from field theory
C. Bagnuls and C. Bervillier
Published 28 June 2002 (12 pages)
066132 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Characteristic features of symmetry breaking in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Jae Gil Kim and Eok Kyun Lee
Published 7 June 2002 (6 pages)
066201 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Investigation of the quantum cantori regime in quarter-stadium billiards
Nazar Savytskyy and Leszek Sirko
Published 10 June 2002 (6 pages)
066202 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Chaos and the continuum limit in the gravitational N-body problem. II. Nonintegrable potentials
Ioannis V. Sideris and Henry E. Kandrup
Published 11 June 2002 (14 pages)
066203 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Tailoring the profile and interactions of optical localized structures
P. L. Ramazza, E. Benkler, U. Bortolozzo, S. Boccaletti, S. Ducci, and F. T. Arecchi
Published 11 June 2002 (4 pages)
066204 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Quantum-classical correspondence in perturbed chaotic systems
Giuliano Benenti and Giulio Casati
Published 18 June 2002 (4 pages)
066205 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Empirical bifurcation analysis of optical pattern formation
R. Neubecker and E. Benkler
Published 18 June 2002 (13 pages)
066206 [View PDF (693 kB)]
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Localization in band random matrix models with and without increasing diagonal elements
Wen-ge Wang
Published 19 June 2002 (8 pages)
066207 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Current and vortex statistics in microwave billiards
Michael Barth and Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann
Published 20 June 2002 (7 pages)
066208 [View PDF (544 kB)]
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Torus fractalization and intermittency
Sergey P. Kuznetsov
Published 24 June 2002 (13 pages)
066209 [View PDF (779 kB)]
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Multioscillatory patterns in a hybrid semiconductor gas-discharge system
C. Strümpel, Yu. A. Astrov, and H.-G. Purwins
Published 25 June 2002 (5 pages)
066210 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Effective Hamiltonian for a microwave billiard with attached waveguide
H.-J. Stöckmann, E. Persson, Y.-H. Kim, M. Barth, U. Kuhl, and I. Rotter
Published 25 June 2002 (10 pages)
066211 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Synchronization of chaos in microchip lasers by using incoherent feedback
A. Uchida, T. Matsuura, S. Kinugawa, and S. Yoshimori
Published 25 June 2002 (6 pages)
066212 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Transition among synchronized states mediated by attractor-repeller collision crisis
Bambi Hu and H. L. Yang
Published 26 June 2002 (4 pages)
066213 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Transition at dissipative scales in large-Reynolds-number turbulence
Patrick Tabeling and Herve Willaime
Published 13 June 2002 (5 pages)
066301 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Second-order structure function scaling derivation from the Euler and magnetohydrodynamic equations
Kamen N. Beronov
Published 13 June 2002 (10 pages)
066302 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Extended self-similarity and hierarchical structure in turbulence
Emily S. C. Ching, Zhen-Su She, Weidong Su, and Zhengping Zou
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
066303 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Phase relaxation of Faraday surface waves
A.V. Kityk, C. Wagner, K. Knorr, and H. W. Müller
Published 18 June 2002 (4 pages)
066304 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Dissipation of kinetic energy in two-dimensional bounded flows
H. J. H. Clercx and G. J. F. van Heijst
Published 21 June 2002 (4 pages)
066305 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Prandtl number dependence of the viscous boundary layer and the Reynolds numbers in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Siu Lam, Xiao-Dong Shang, Sheng-Qi Zhou, and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 24 June 2002 (8 pages)
066306 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Tunable front interaction and localization of periodically forced waves
Catherine Crawford and Hermann Riecke
Published 28 June 2002 (11 pages)
066307 [View PDF (293 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Theoretical investigation of the increase in the Rosseland mean opacity for hot dense mixtures
Jun Yan and Ze-Qing Wu
Published 10 June 2002 (6 pages)
066401 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Dispersion relations of longitudinal and transverse waves in two-dimensional screened Coulomb crystals
S. Nunomura, J. Goree, S. Hu, X. Wang, and A. Bhattacharjee
Published 12 June 2002 (11 pages)
066402 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Measurements of anomalous particle and energy fluxes in a magnetized plasma
S. V. Ratynskaia, V. I. Demidov, and K. Rypdal
Published 12 June 2002 (9 pages)
066403 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Interaction of soft-x-ray thermal radiation with foam-layered targets
D. Batani, T. Desai, Th. Löwer, T. A. Hall, W. Nazarov, M. Koenig, and A. Benuzzi-Mounaix
Published 13 June 2002 (5 pages)
066404 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Stability of a mass accreting shell expanding in a plasma
S. V. Bulanov and F. Pegoraro
Published 13 June 2002 (8 pages)
066405 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Interaction of a relativistic soliton with a nonuniform plasma
M. R. Rouhani, H. Abbasi, H. Hakimi Pajouh, P. K. Shukla, and N. L. Tsintsadze
Published 19 June 2002 (8 pages)
066406 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Analytic solution for low-frequency rf sheaths in pulsed discharges
F. L. Waelbroeck
Published 19 June 2002 (11 pages)
066407 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Nonlinear development of electron-beam-driven weak turbulence in an inhomogeneous plasma
E. P. Kontar and H. L. Pécseli
Published 24 June 2002 (11 pages)
066408 [View PDF (1,058 kB)]
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Inhibition in the propagation of fast electrons in plastic foams by resistive electric fields
D. Batani, A. Antonicci, F. Pisani, T. A. Hall, D. Scott, F. Amiranoff, M. Koenig, L. Gremillet, S. Baton, E. Martinolli, C. Rousseaux, and W. Nazarov
Published 24 June 2002 (6 pages)
066409 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Time evolution of Lyman-α fine-structure components for Al XIII
J. M. A. Ashbourn, I. M. Melnick, and N. J. Peacock
Published 25 June 2002 (9 pages)
066410 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Optimization of Kα bursts for photon energies between 1.7 and 7 keV produced by femtosecond-laser-produced plasmas of different scale length
Ch. Ziener, I. Uschmann, G. Stobrawa, Ch. Reich, P. Gibbon, T. Feurer, A. Morak, S. Düsterer, H. Schwoerer, E. Förster, and R. Sauerbrey
Published 26 June 2002 (8 pages)
066411 [View PDF (233 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Structure of electromagnetic field excited by an electron bunch in a semi-infinite dielectric-filled waveguide
I. N. Onishchenko, D. Yu. Sidorenko, and G. V. Sotnikov
Published 10 June 2002 (11 pages)
066501 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Ferrite-guided cyclotron-resonance maser
Eli Jerby, A. Kesar, A. Aharony, and G. Breitmeier
Published 10 June 2002 (8 pages)
066502 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Amplified-spontaneous-emission power oscillation in a beam-wave interaction
A. Bakhtyari, J. E. Walsh, and J. H. Brownell
Published 11 June 2002 (4 pages)
066503 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Coherent synchrotron radiation transient effects in the energy-dependent region
Gianluca Geloni, Jan Botman, Vladimir Goloviznin, and Marnix van der Wiel
Published 18 June 2002 (7 pages)
066504 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Quadrupole-mode transfer function and the nonlinear Mathieu instability
Weiming Guo and S. Y. Lee
Published 19 June 2002 (11 pages)
066505 [View PDF (209 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Evolution of separate screening soliton pairs in a biased series photorefractive crystal circuit
Jinsong Liu and Zhonghua Hao
Published 7 June 2002 (12 pages)
066601 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Effect of dielectric responses on localization in one-dimensional random periodic-on-average layered systems
Cheng-Ching Wang and Pi-Gang Luan
Published 11 June 2002 (6 pages)
066602 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Controlling the anisotropy of holographic polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal gratings
Michael E. Holmes and Michelle S. Malcuit
Published 11 June 2002 (4 pages)
066603 [View PDF (51 kB)]
Liquid light condensates
H. Michinel, J. Campo-Táboas, R. García-Fernández, J. R. Salgueiro, and M. L. Quiroga-Teixeiro
Published 11 June 2002 (7 pages)
066604 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Diffusing acoustic wave spectroscopy
M. L. Cowan, I. P. Jones, J. H. Page, and D. A. Weitz
Published 12 June 2002 (11 pages)
066605 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Singular and regular gap solitons between three dispersion curves
Roger Grimshaw, Boris A. Malomed, and Georg A. Gottwald
Published 14 June 2002 (14 pages)
066606 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Symmetries and invariant solutions of the planar paraxial wave equation in photosensitive media
M. Senthilvelan, L. Poladian, and C. Martijn de Sterke
Published 17 June 2002 (9 pages)
066607 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Direct perturbation theory for solitons of the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Xiang-Jun Chen and Jianke Yang
Published 17 June 2002 (12 pages)
066608 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Photon migration in turbid media using a cumulant approximation to radiative transfer
M. Xu, W. Cai, M. Lax, and R. R. Alfano
Published 18 June 2002 (10 pages)
066609 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Isotropic versus anisotropic modeling of photorefractive solitons
M. R. Belić, D. Vujić, A. Stepken, F. Kaiser, G. F. Calvo, F. Agulló-López, and M. Carrascosa
Published 18 June 2002 (7 pages)
066610 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Perturbation theory for Maxwell’s equations with shifting material boundaries
Steven G. Johnson, M. Ibanescu, M. A. Skorobogatiy, O. Weisberg, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Y. Fink
Published 20 June 2002 (7 pages)
066611 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Designing localized electromagnetic fields in a source-free space
George N. Borzdov
Published 21 June 2002 (16 pages)
066612 [View PDF (2,303 kB)]
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Partial-differential-equation-based approach to classical phase-space deformations
Emmanuel Tannenbaum
Published 21 June 2002 (10 pages)
066613 [View PDF (475 kB)]
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Bright compact breathers
P. G. Kevrekidis and V. V. Konotop
Published 24 June 2002 (9 pages)
066614 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Accelerating solitons for sliding-frequency filter systems
D. F. Parker, Ch. Radha, and Margarida Facão
Published 24 June 2002 (6 pages)
066615 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Different approach for evaluating dissipation in macroscopic quantum tunneling
A. Agresti, M. Barilli, A. Ranfagni, R. Ruggeri, and C. Susini
Published 25 June 2002 (7 pages)
066616 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Reference-wave solutions for the high-frequency field in random media
Reuven Mazar and Alexander Bronshtein
Published 26 June 2002 (8 pages)
066617 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Computational physics

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Steady-state properties of single-file systems with conversion
S. V. Nedea, A. P. J. Jansen, J. J. Lukkien, and P. A. J. Hilbers
Published 13 June 2002 (14 pages)
066701 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Cluster hybrid Monte Carlo simulation algorithms
J. A. Plascak, Alan M. Ferrenberg, and D. P. Landau
Published 13 June 2002 (8 pages)
066702 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Artificial neural networks for automation of Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy experiments and data analysis
N. P. Barradas, A. Vieira, and R. Patrício
Published 17 June 2002 (12 pages)
066703 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Path-integral study of a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones glass
P. Ballone and B. Montanari
Published 20 June 2002 (14 pages)
066704 [View PDF (819 kB)]
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Higher-order unconditionally stable algorithms to solve the time-dependent Maxwell equations
J. S. Kole, M. T. Figge, and H. De Raedt
Published 26 June 2002 (12 pages)
066705 [View PDF (342 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Gap structure of the local field in symmetric Q Ising neural networks
D. Bollé and G. M. Shim
Published 7 June 2002 (4 pages)
067101 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Fracture statistics of brittle materials: Weibull or normal distribution
Chunsheng Lu, Robert Danzer, and Franz Dieter Fischer
Published 13 June 2002 (4 pages)
067102 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Shnirelman peak in level spacing statistics of Calogero-like three-body problem
Barnali Chakrabarti and Bambi Hu
Published 14 June 2002 (4 pages)
067103 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Hierarchic trees with branching number close to one: Noiseless Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with additional linear term for imitating two-dimensional and three-dimensional phase transitions
D. B. Saakian
Published 28 June 2002 (3 pages)
067104 [View PDF (43 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Chaotic diffusion of particles with finite mass in oscillating convection flows
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
Published 11 June 2002 (3 pages)
067201 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Slower speed and stronger coupling: Adaptive mechanisms of chaos synchronization
Xiao Fan Wang
Published 12 June 2002 (4 pages)
067202 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Resonances via deterministic and stochastic perturbations: A comparative study
Gerardo J. Escalera Santos and P. Parmananda
Published 19 June 2002 (4 pages)
067203 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Localized perturbations of integrable quantum billiards
Saar Rahav and Shmuel Fishman
Published 26 June 2002 (4 pages)
067204 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Rhines scale and spectra of the β-plane turbulence with bottom drag
Sergey Danilov and David Gurarie
Published 17 June 2002 (3 pages)
067301 [View PDF (46 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Laser-plasma electron-density measurement using x-ray interferometry
Xiquan Fu and Hong Guo
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
067401 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Exact discrete breather compactons in nonlinear Klein-Gordon lattices
J. C. Comte
Published 17 June 2002 (4 pages)
067601 [View PDF (103 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Energy and pressure of shearing fluids at different state points [Phys. Rev. E 64, 021201 (2001)]
Jialin Ge, Gianluca Marcelli, B. D. Todd, and Richard J. Sadus
Published 24 June 2002 (2 pages)
069901(E) [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Bailout embeddings, targeting of invariant tori, and the control of Hamiltonian chaos [Phys. Rev. E 65, 045203 (2002)]
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Marcelo O. Magnasco, and Oreste Piro
Published 24 June 2002 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Numerical method for complex moving boundary problems in a Cartesian fixed grid [Phys. Rev. E 65, 055701 (2002)]
Kensuke Yokoi
Published 25 June 2002 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Energy and symmetry of self-assembled two-dimensional dipole clusters in magnetic confinement [Phys. Rev. E 65, 061405 (2002)]
M. Golosovsky, Y. Saado, and D. Davidov
Published 28 June 2002 (1 page)
069904(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
 
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