Physical Review E
– December 2002
Volume 66, Issue 6
Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics
Part 2 - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Fluid Dynamics, and Related Topics
Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Statistical physics of soft matter
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Trapping reactions with randomly moving traps: Exact asymptotic results for compact exploration
G. Oshanin, O. Bénichou, M. Coppey, and M. Moreau
Published
20 December 2002
(4 pages)
060101(R)
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Governing equations and solutions of anomalous random walk limits
Mark M. Meerschaert, David A. Benson, Hans-Peter Scheffler, and Peter Becker-Kern
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
060102(R)
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Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates
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From shear thickening to shear-induced jamming
Emanuel Bertrand, Jerome Bibette, and Véronique Schmitt
Published
11 December 2002
(3 pages)
060401(R)
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Osmotically driven shape-dependent colloidal separations
T. G. Mason
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
060402(R)
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Structured and complex fluids
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How hard is a colloidal “hard-sphere” interaction?
G. Bryant, S. R. Williams, L. Qian, I. K. Snook, E. Perez, and F. Pincet
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
060501(R)
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Liquid crystals
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Dynamics of the nematic phase of a bent-core liquid crystal
S. Stojadinovic, A. Adorjan, S. Sprunt, H. Sawade, and A. Jakli
Published
26 December 2002
(4 pages)
060701(R)
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Biological physics
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Intercalation and buckling instability of DNA linker within locked chromatin fiber
Jean-Marc Victor, Eli Ben-Haïm, and A. Lesne
Published
4 December 2002
(4 pages)
060901(R)
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ARTICLES
Statistical physics of soft matter
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Rotating unstable Langevin-type dynamics: Linear and nonlinear mean passage time distributions
J. I. Jiménez-Aquino and M. Romero-Bastida
Published
6 December 2002
(15 pages)
061101
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Fluctuation pressure of a membrane between walls through five loops
Boris Kastening
Published
16 December 2002
(14 pages)
061102
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Analytical solution for the Feynman ratchet
Karol Pesz, Barbara J. Gabryś, and Stanisław J. Bartkiewicz
Published
30 December 2002
(7 pages)
061103
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Exact asymptotic results for persistence in the Sinai model with arbitrary drift
Satya N. Majumdar and Alain Comtet
Published
30 December 2002
(12 pages)
061105
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Ground state and thermal properties of a lattice gas on a cylindrical surface
M. Mercedes Calbi, Silvina M. Gatica, Mary J. Bojan, and Milton W. Cole
Published
30 December 2002
(7 pages)
061107
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Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids
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Rotational dynamics of propane in Na-Y zeolite: A molecular dynamics and quasielastic neutron-scattering study
R. Mukhopadhyay, Ahmed Sayeed, S. Mitra, A. V. Anil Kumar, Mala N. Rao, S. Yashonath, and S. L. Chaplot
Published
4 December 2002
(8 pages)
061201
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Nonunique steady states in the disordered harmonic chain
Xin Zhou, Hu Chen, and Mitsumasa Iwamoto
Published
5 December 2002
(5 pages)
061202
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Structure of ternary additive hard-sphere fluid mixtures
Alexander Malijevský, Anatol Malijevský, Santos B. Yuste, Andrés Santos, and Mariano López de Haro
Published
30 December 2002
(10 pages)
061203
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Granular materials
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Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of frozen systems in inherent states
Annalisa Fierro, Mario Nicodemi, and Antonio Coniglio
Published
10 December 2002
(10 pages)
061301
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Velocity fluctuations in electrostatically driven granular media
I. S. Aranson and J. S. Olafsen
Published
10 December 2002
(4 pages)
061302
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Statistics of the contact network in frictional and frictionless granular packings
Leonardo E. Silbert, Gary S. Grest, and James W. Landry
Published
10 December 2002
(9 pages)
061303
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Cohesion-induced deepening transition of avalanches
Chun-Chung Chen
Published
18 December 2002
(7 pages)
061304
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Fluctuation-dissipation relations in driven granular gases
A. Puglisi, A. Baldassarri, and V. Loreto
Published
30 December 2002
(8 pages)
061305
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Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates
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Molecular dynamics simulations of crystallization of hard spheres
Igor Volkov, Marek Cieplak, Joel Koplik, and Jayanth R. Banavar
Published
10 December 2002
(9 pages)
061401
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Dynamics of an elongated magnetic droplet in a rotating field
A. Cēbers
Published
13 December 2002
(6 pages)
061402
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Relation between aggregation and phase separation: Three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations
Jean Christophe Gimel, Taco Nicolai, and Dominique Durand
Published
20 December 2002
(5 pages)
061405
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Three eras of micellization
J. C. Neu, J. A. Cañizo, and L. L. Bonilla
Published
30 December 2002
(9 pages)
061406
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Depletion potential near curved surfaces
Weihua Li and H. R. Ma
Published
30 December 2002
(7 pages)
061407
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Structured and complex fluids
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Coiling instabilities of multilamellar tubes
C. D. Santangelo and P. Pincus
Published
13 December 2002
(7 pages)
061501
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Dielectric-induced counterion partitioning and its effect on membrane rigidity
Jeremy Schmit, Rebecca Menes, and Philip A. Pincus
Published
16 December 2002
(4 pages)
061502
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Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of shear-induced alignment of amphiphilic model systems
Hongxia Guo, Kurt Kremer, and Thomas Soddemann
Published
18 December 2002
(11 pages)
061503
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Probe size effects on the microrheology of associating polymer solutions
Qiang Lu and Michael J. Solomon
Published
20 December 2002
(11 pages)
061504
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Crossover between equilibrium and shear-controlled dynamics in sheared liquids
L. Angelani, G. Ruocco, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, and F. Zamponi
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
061505
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Films, interfaces, and crystal growth
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Eutectic growth under acoustic levitation conditions
W. J. Xie, C. D. Cao, Y. J. Lü, and B. Wei
Published
10 December 2002
(10 pages)
061601
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Growth model with restricted surface relaxation
T. J. da Silva and J. G. Moreira
Published
16 December 2002
(6 pages)
061604
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Dynamics of viscoelastic membranes
Alex J. Levine and F. C. MacKintosh
Published
18 December 2002
(13 pages)
061606
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Dewetting of thin-film polymers
F. Saulnier, E. Raphaël, and P.-G. de Gennes
Published
20 December 2002
(12 pages)
061607
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Eutectic colony formation: A phase-field study
Mathis Plapp and Alain Karma
Published
30 December 2002
(17 pages)
061608
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Liquid crystals
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Dynamic and correlation properties of solid supported smectic-A films
V. P. Romanov and S. V. Ul’yanov
Published
10 December 2002
(9 pages)
061701
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Computer simulation of polar bent-core molecules
Stephen J. Johnston, Robert J. Low, and Maureen P. Neal
Published
12 December 2002
(14 pages)
061702
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Effect of enantiomeric excess on surface structures and phase sequences in free-standing liquid-crystal films
A. Cady, Z. Q. Liu, X. F. Han, S. T. Wang, M. Veum, N. Janarthanan, C. S. Hsu, D. A. Olson, and C. C. Huang
Published
19 December 2002
(6 pages)
061704
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Periodic deformations in nematic liquid crystals
A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, G. Barbero, and I. Lelidis
Published
20 December 2002
(10 pages)
061705
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Dynamical coarse-graining of highly fluctuating membranes under shear flow
Simon W. Marlow and Peter D. Olmsted
Published
26 December 2002
(14 pages)
061706
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Shear-induced instabilities in layered liquids
Günter K. Auernhammer, Helmut R. Brand, and Harald Pleiner
Published
30 December 2002
(14 pages)
061707
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Tilt plane orientation in antiferroelectric liquid crystal cells and the origin of the pretransitional effect
P. Rudquist, J. P. F. Lagerwall, J. G. Meier, K. D’havé, and S. T. Lagerwall
Published
30 December 2002
(10 pages)
061708
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Liquid-crystal–solid interface structure at the antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition
D. Coleman, S. Bardon, L. Radzihovsky, G. Danner, and N. A. Clark
Published
30 December 2002
(5 pages)
061709
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Semisoft elasticity and director reorientation in stretched sheets of nematic elastomers
Sergio Conti, Antonio DeSimone, and Georg Dolzmann
Published
31 December 2002
(8 pages)
061710
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Polymers
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Reversible negative thermal expansion of polymer films
M. Mukherjee, M. Bhattacharya, M. K. Sanyal, Th. Geue, J. Grenzer, and U. Pietsch
Published
3 December 2002
(4 pages)
061801
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Semiflexible polymer in the cactus approximation
M. Pretti
Published
30 December 2002
(9 pages)
061802
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Shear-induced shift of spinodal line in entangled polymer blends
M. Criado-Sancho, D. Jou, J. Casas-Vázquez, and L. F. del Castillo
Published
30 December 2002
(6 pages)
061803
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Biological physics
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Statistical model for receptor-ligand binding thermodynamics
Marc Thilo Figge
Published
6 December 2002
(13 pages)
061901
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Stages of spike time variability during neuronal responses to transient inputs
Hugh P. C. Robinson and Annette Harsch
Published
10 December 2002
(9 pages)
061902
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Termination of reentry in an inhomogeneous ring of model cardiac cells
Sitabhra Sinha and David J. Christini
Published
16 December 2002
(7 pages)
061903
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Estimating the strength of bone using linear response
Gemunu H. Gunaratne
Published
16 December 2002
(5 pages)
061904
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Wave-number spectrum of electroencephalographic signals
S. C. O’Connor, P. A. Robinson, and A. K. I. Chiang
Published
16 December 2002
(12 pages)
061905
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Multifractal analysis of DNA walks and trails
Alexandre Rosas, Edvaldo Nogueira, Jr., and José F. Fontanari
Published
18 December 2002
(6 pages)
061906
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Bimodal oscillations in nephron autoregulation
O. V. Sosnovtseva, A. N. Pavlov, E. Mosekilde, and N.-H. Holstein-Rathlou
Published
20 December 2002
(7 pages)
061909
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Storage capacity of attractor neural networks with depressing synapses
Joaquín J. Torres, Lovorka Pantic, and Hilbert J. Kappen
Published
20 December 2002
(5 pages)
061910
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Design of lattice proteins with explicit solvent
G. Salvi, S. Mölbert, and P. De Los Rios
Published
30 December 2002
(5 pages)
061911
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Model of elastic responses of single DNA molecules in collapsing transition
Hirofumi Wada, Yoshihiro Murayama, and Masaki Sano
Published
30 December 2002
(10 pages)
061912
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Surface relaxation in protein crystals
S. Boutet, I. K. Robinson, Z. W. Hu, B. R. Thomas, and A. A. Chernov
Published
30 December 2002
(7 pages)
061914
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Dynamic phase separation of fluid membranes with rigid inclusions
Thomas R. Weikl
Published
30 December 2002
(6 pages)
061915
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BRIEF REPORTS
Statistical physics of soft matter
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Kinetics of the catalysis-driven aggregation processes
Jianhong Ke and Zhenquan Lin
Published
19 December 2002
(4 pages)
062101
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Granular materials
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Exponential velocity tails in a driven inelastic Maxwell model
T. Antal, Michel Droz, and Adam Lipowski
Published
18 December 2002
(3 pages)
062301
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Biological physics
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Reaction-diffusion wave fronts: Multigeneration biological species under climate change
Daniel Campos, Joaquim Fort, and Josep Enric Llebot
Published
12 December 2002
(4 pages)
062901
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Correlation differences in heartbeat fluctuations during rest and exercise
Roman Karasik, Nir Sapir, Yosef Ashkenazy, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Itzhak Dvir, Peretz Lavie, and Shlomo Havlin
Published
12 December 2002
(4 pages)
062902
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Evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma games with voluntary participation
György Szabó and Christoph Hauert
Published
18 December 2002
(4 pages)
062903
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Error threshold transition in the random-energy model
Paulo R. A. Campos
Published
18 December 2002
(4 pages)
062904
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Resealing dynamics of a cell membrane after electroporation
Martin Bier, Wei Chen, T. R. Gowrishankar, R. Dean Astumian, and Raphael C. Lee
Published
26 December 2002
(4 pages)
062905
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Part 2 - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Fluid Dynamics, and Related Topics
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
General methods of statistical physics
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Metastability and weak mixing in classical long-range many-rotator systems
Benedito J. C. Cabral and Constantino Tsallis
Published
18 December 2002
(4 pages)
065101(R)
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Cascade-based attacks on complex networks
Adilson E. Motter and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published
20 December 2002
(4 pages)
065102(R)
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Range-based attack on links in scale-free networks: Are long-range links responsible for the small-world phenomenon?
Adilson E. Motter, Takashi Nishikawa, and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
065103(R)
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Chaos and pattern formation
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Irreversible quantum baker map
Artur Łoziński, Prot Pakoński, and Karol Życzkowski
Published
11 December 2002
(4 pages)
065201(R)
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Chaos-based secure communications in a large community
Shihong Wang, Jinyu Kuang, Jinghua Li, Yunlun Luo, Huaping Lu, and Gang Hu
Published
11 December 2002
(4 pages)
065202(R)
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Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence
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Spectral theory for the failure of linear control in a nonlinear stochastic system
Roman O. Grigoriev and Andreas Handel
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
065301(R)
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Plasma physics
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Vibrational modes in plasma crystals due to nonlinear temperature distribution in gas discharge plasmas
V. V. Yaroshenko, G. E. Morfill, and S. V. Vladimirov
Published
3 December 2002
(3 pages)
065401(R)
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ARTICLES
General methods of statistical physics
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Secure key-exchange protocol with an absence of injective functions
R. Mislovaty, Y. Perchenok, I. Kanter, and W. Kinzel
Published
4 December 2002
(5 pages)
066102
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First-order transition of tethered membranes in three-dimensional space
J.-Ph. Kownacki and H. T. Diep
Published
9 December 2002
(5 pages)
066105
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Oscillations and dynamics in a two-dimensional prey-predator system
Małgorzata Kowalik, Adam Lipowski, and Antonio L. Ferreira
Published
9 December 2002
(5 pages)
066107
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Nonequilibrium velocity distributions in liquids: Systems under shear
T. Croteau and D. Ronis
Published
10 December 2002
(8 pages)
066109
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Cluster Monte Carlo simulation of the transverse Ising model
Henk W. J. Blöte and Youjin Deng
Published
10 December 2002
(8 pages)
066110
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Dynamics of ballistic annihilation
Jarosław Piasecki, Emmanuel Trizac, and Michel Droz
Published
10 December 2002
(14 pages)
066111
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Kinks of arbitrary width
T. Dobrowolski
Published
11 December 2002
(6 pages)
066112
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Relaxation and overlap-probability function in the spherical and mean-spherical models
Nicola Fusco and Marco Zannetti
Published
11 December 2002
(8 pages)
066113
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Modulated scale-free network in Euclidean space
S. S. Manna and Parongama Sen
Published
12 December 2002
(4 pages)
066114
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Numerical study of the development of bulk scale-free structures upon growth of self-affine aggregates
Federico Romá, Claudio M. Horowitz, and Ezequiel V. Albano
Published
12 December 2002
(8 pages)
066115
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Kang-Redner small-mass anomaly in cluster-cluster aggregation
Supriya Krishnamurthy, R. Rajesh, and Oleg Zaboronski
Published
16 December 2002
(11 pages)
066118
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Quantum hydrodynamic equations and quantum-hierarchy decoupling scheme
F. A. Buot, Y. Jiang, and A. I. Fedoseyev
Published
16 December 2002
(21 pages)
066119
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Stable spiral structures and their interaction in two-dimensional excitable media
Roman M. Zaritski and Arkady M. Pertsov
Published
16 December 2002
(6 pages)
066120
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General formalism for inhomogeneous random graphs
Bo Söderberg
Published
18 December 2002
(6 pages)
066121
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Quasistatic brittle fracture in inhomogeneous media and iterated conformal maps: Modes I, II, and III
Felipe Barra, Anders Levermann, and Itamar Procaccia
Published
18 December 2002
(11 pages)
066122
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Diffusion of the magnetization profile in the XX model
Yoshiko Ogata
Published
18 December 2002
(7 pages)
066123
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Products of random matrices
A. D. Jackson, B. Lautrup, P. Johansen, and M. Nielsen
Published
18 December 2002
(5 pages)
066124
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Duality relations for elastic constants of the classical Gaussian core model
Frank H. Stillinger
Published
18 December 2002
(6 pages)
066125
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Statistical mechanics of lossy data compression using a nonmonotonic perceptron
Tadaaki Hosaka, Yoshiyuki Kabashima, and Hidetoshi Nishimori
Published
18 December 2002
(8 pages)
066126
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Stability of shortest paths in complex networks with random edge weights
Jae Dong Noh and Heiko Rieger
Published
19 December 2002
(8 pages)
066127
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Approximation for directed percolation in d=1+1
Clément Sire
Published
20 December 2002
(4 pages)
066128
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Critical temperature estimates for higher-spin Ising and Potts models
James L. Monroe
Published
20 December 2002
(5 pages)
066129
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Polygonal billiards and transport: Diffusion and heat conduction
Daniel Alonso, A. Ruiz, and I. de Vega
Published
26 December 2002
(15 pages)
066131
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Paradoxical motion of a single Brownian particle: Absolute negative mobility
Ralf Eichhorn, Peter Reimann, and Peter Hänggi
Published
26 December 2002
(14 pages)
066132
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Local variational principle
Cristian Predescu
Published
26 December 2002
(19 pages)
066133
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Percolation in models of thin film depositions
N. I. Lebovka, S. S. Manna, S. Tarafdar, and N. Teslenko
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
066134
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Mutual learning in a tree parity machine and its application to cryptography
Michal Rosen-Zvi, Einat Klein, Ido Kanter, and Wolfgang Kinzel
Published
30 December 2002
(13 pages)
066135
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Cluster approximation solution of a two-species annihilation model
F. Tabatabaee and A. Aghamohammadi
Published
30 December 2002
(5 pages)
066136
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Finite-size effects of avalanche dynamics
Christian W. Eurich, J. Michael Herrmann, and Udo A. Ernst
Published
31 December 2002
(15 pages)
066137
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Chaos and pattern formation
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Front instabilities in a forced oscillatory medium with global coupling
D. Battogtokh
Published
6 December 2002
(6 pages)
066202
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Front and pulse solutions for the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with higher-order terms
Huiping Tian, Zhonghao Li, Jinping Tian, and Guosheng Zhou
Published
10 December 2002
(8 pages)
066204
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Characterization of the stretched-exponential trap-time distributions in one-dimensional coupled map lattices
S. I. Simdyankin, Normand Mousseau, and E. R. Hunt
Published
12 December 2002
(8 pages)
066205
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Autocatalytic model of oscillatory zoning in experimentally grown (Ba,Sr)SO4 solid solution
Sergei Katsev and Ivan L’Heureux
Published
12 December 2002
(12 pages)
066206
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Statistics of finite-time Lyapunov exponents in a random time-dependent potential
H. Schomerus and M. Titov
Published
12 December 2002
(11 pages)
066207
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Excitable media in open and closed chaotic flows
Zoltán Neufeld, Cristóbal López, Emilio Hernández-García, and Oreste Piro
Published
16 December 2002
(12 pages)
066208
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Signature of on-off intermittency in measured signals
Chiara Toniolo, Antonello Provenzale, and Edward A. Spiegel
Published
18 December 2002
(12 pages)
066209
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Wave chaos in the elastic disk
Niels Sondergaard and Gregor Tanner
Published
19 December 2002
(12 pages)
066211
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Pinning stationary planar fronts in diffusion-convection-reaction systems
Moshe Sheintuch, Yelena Smagina, and Olga Nekhamkina
Published
20 December 2002
(13 pages)
066213
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On-off intermittency and intermingledlike basins in a granular medium
Malte Schmick, Eric Goles, and Mario Markus
Published
20 December 2002
(4 pages)
066214
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Low symmetry patterns on magnetic fluids
René Friedrichs
Published
20 December 2002
(7 pages)
066215
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Time-modulated oscillatory structures in phase-separating reactive mixtures
Singo Sugiura, Tohru Okuzono, and Takao Ohta
Published
30 December 2002
(7 pages)
066216
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Fluctuation formula for nonreversible dynamics in the thermostated Lorentz gas
M. Dolowschiák and Z. Kovács
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
066217
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Dynamics of “leaking” Hamiltonian systems
Judit Schneider, Tamás Tél, and Zoltán Neufeld
Published
30 December 2002
(6 pages)
066218
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Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence
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Single-bubble sonoluminescence from noble gas mixtures
J. da Graça and H. Kojima
Published
6 December 2002
(4 pages)
066301
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Realizability of stationary spherically symmetric transonic accretion
Arnab K. Ray and J. K. Bhattacharjee
Published
10 December 2002
(4 pages)
066303
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Venusian “hot spots”: Physical phenomenon and its quantification
V. P. Goncharov, V. M. Gryanik, and V. I. Pavlov
Published
12 December 2002
(11 pages)
066304
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Formation of large-scale semiorganized structures in turbulent convection
Tov Elperin, Nathan Kleeorin, Igor Rogachevskii, and Sergej Zilitinkevich
Published
19 December 2002
(15 pages)
066305
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Large-scale spiral structures in turbulent thermal convection between two vertical plates
Minghao Wang, Song Fu, and Guanghua Zhang
Published
19 December 2002
(8 pages)
066306
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Lagrangian statistics and temporal intermittency in a shell model of turbulence
G. Boffetta, F. De Lillo, and S. Musacchio
Published
19 December 2002
(4 pages)
066307
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Weak fountains in a stratified fluid
Wenxian Lin and S. W. Armfield
Published
26 December 2002
(10 pages)
066308
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Scenarios for the onset of convection close to the critical point
Laurence El Khouri and Pierre Carlès
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
066309
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Stochastic analysis of a non-normal dynamical system mimicking a laminar-to-turbulent subcritical transition
Sergei Fedotov, Irina Bashkirtseva, and Lev Ryashko
Published
30 December 2002
(6 pages)
066310
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Plasma physics
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Gas heating in low-pressure microwave argon discharges
A. Palmero, J. Cotrino, C. Lao, and A. R. González-Elipe
Published
3 December 2002
(10 pages)
066401
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Relativistic electron generation in interactions of a 30 TW laser pulse with a thin foil target
G. Malka, M. M. Aleonard, J. F. Chemin, G. Claverie, M. R. Harston, J. N. Scheurer, V. Tikhonchuk, S. Fritzler, V. Malka, P. Balcou, G. Grillon, S. Moustaizis, L. Notebaert, E. Lefebvre, and N. Cochet
Published
6 December 2002
(8 pages)
066402
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Experimental and theoretical Stark broadening studies of the hydrogen Paschen β line
T. Wujec, W. Olchawa, J. Halenka, and J. Musielok
Published
10 December 2002
(11 pages)
066403
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Spectroscopy of heliumlike argon resonance and satellite lines for plasma temperature diagnostics
C. Biedermann, R. Radtke, and K. B. Fournier
Published
11 December 2002
(9 pages)
066404
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Hydrodynamic flow of ions and atoms in partially ionized plasmas
R. A. Nemirovsky, D. R. Fredkin, and A. Ron
Published
11 December 2002
(12 pages)
066405
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Laser-generated plasma plume expansion: Combined continuous-microscopic modeling
Tatiana E. Itina, Jörg Hermann, Philippe Delaporte, and Marc Sentis
Published
12 December 2002
(12 pages)
066406
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Temperature-dependent pseudopotential between two pointlike electrical charges
Marie-Madeleine Gombert
Published
12 December 2002
(9 pages)
066407
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Metamorphosis of plasma turbulence–shear-flow dynamics through a transcritical bifurcation
R. Ball, R. L. Dewar, and H. Sugama
Published
16 December 2002
(9 pages)
066408
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Temporal evolution of drift Alfvén waves and instabilities in an inhomogeneous plasma with homogeneous shear flow
Vladimir S. Mikhailenko, Vladimir V. Mikhailenko, Martin F. Heyn, and Swadesh M. Mahajan
Published
16 December 2002
(12 pages)
066409
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Time-resolved plasma spectroscopy of thin foils heated by a relativistic-intensity short-pulse laser
P. Audebert, R. Shepherd, K. B. Fournier, O. Peyrusse, D. Price, R. W. Lee, P. Springer, J.-C. Gauthier, and L. Klein
Published
19 December 2002
(10 pages)
066412
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Complex atomic spectral line shapes in the presence of an external magnetic field
M. L. Adams, R. W. Lee, H. A. Scott, H. K. Chung, and L. Klein
Published
20 December 2002
(12 pages)
066413
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Fluid modeling of the laser ablation depth as a function of the pulse duration for conductors
S. Laville, F. Vidal, T. W. Johnston, O. Barthélemy, M. Chaker, B. Le Drogoff, J. Margot, and M. Sabsabi
Published
26 December 2002
(7 pages)
066415
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Physics of beams
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Subluminous phase velocity of a focused laser beam and vacuum laser acceleration
J. Pang, Y. K. Ho, X. Q. Yuan, N. Cao, Q. Kong, P. X. Wang, L. Shao, E. H. Esarey, and A. M. Sessler
Published
10 December 2002
(4 pages)
066501
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Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials
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Induced modulation instability of partially spatially incoherent light with varying perturbation periods
Zhigang Chen, Jill Klinger, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Published
3 December 2002
(5 pages)
066601
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Existence of multibreathers in chains of coupled one-dimensional Hamiltonian oscillators
Vassilis Koukouloyannis and Simos Ichtiaroglou
Published
10 December 2002
(8 pages)
066602
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Discrete kink dynamics in hydrogen-bonded chains: The one-component model
V. M. Karpan, Y. Zolotaryuk, P. L. Christiansen, and A. V. Zolotaryuk
Published
11 December 2002
(13 pages)
066603
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Hybrid discrete solitons
T. Pertsch, U. Peschel, and F. Lederer
Published
11 December 2002
(5 pages)
066604
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Noether’s theorem and Lie symmetries for time-dependent Hamilton-Lagrange systems
Jürgen Struckmeier and Claus Riedel
Published
12 December 2002
(12 pages)
066605
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Inverse-problem approach to designing photonic crystals for cavity QED experiments
J. M. Geremia, Jon Williams, and Hideo Mabuchi
Published
16 December 2002
(12 pages)
066606
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Path-averaged optical soliton in double-periodic dispersion-managed systems
Sergei B. Medvedev, Olga V. Shtyrina, Semen L. Musher, and Michail P. Fedoruk
Published
16 December 2002
(6 pages)
066607
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Adiabatic theorem and continuous coupled-mode theory for efficient taper transitions in photonic crystals
Steven G. Johnson, Peter Bienstman, M. A. Skorobogatiy, Mihai Ibanescu, Elefterios Lidorikis, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Published
18 December 2002
(15 pages)
066608
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Influence of stochasticity on multiple four-wave-mixing processes in an optical fiber
Bhaskar Khubchandani, Parvez N. Guzdar, and Rajarshi Roy
Published
18 December 2002
(8 pages)
066609
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Ring dark solitary waves: Experiment versus theory
A. Dreischuh, D. Neshev, G. G. Paulus, F. Grasbon, and H. Walther
Published
26 December 2002
(7 pages)
066611
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Alternative paradigm for physical computing
Ian Appelbaum, J. D. Joannopoulos, and V. Narayanamurti
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
066612
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Precursor forms of cavity solitons in nonlinear semiconductor microresonators
Isabelle Ganne, Gintas Slekys, Isabelle Sagnes, and Robert Kuszelewicz
Published
30 December 2002
(10 pages)
066613
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Field statistics of two vectorially superposed wave populations
Iver H. Cairns, P. A. Robinson, and P. Das
Published
30 December 2002
(9 pages)
066614
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Generic features of modulational instability in nonlocal Kerr media
John Wyller, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Ole Bang, and Jens Juul Rasmussen
Published
31 December 2002
(13 pages)
066615
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Computational physics
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Minimum description length neural networks for time series prediction
Michael Small and C. K. Tse
Published
6 December 2002
(12 pages)
066701
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Statistical mechanics of the Bayesian image restoration under spatially correlated noise
Jun Tsuzurugi and Masato Okada
Published
18 December 2002
(8 pages)
066704
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Transient behavior in single-file systems
S. V. Nedea, A. P. J. Jansen, J. J. Lukkien, and P. A. J. Hilbers
Published
30 December 2002
(16 pages)
066705
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Exact and efficient discrete random walk method for time-dependent two-dimensional environments
J. Asikainen, J. Heinonen, and T. Ala-Nissila
Published
30 December 2002
(10 pages)
066706
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BRIEF REPORTS
General methods of statistical physics
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Pinwheel-like structures resulting from interaction of plane pulses of excitation
Jakub Sielewiesiuk and Jerzy Górecki
Published
12 December 2002
(4 pages)
067101
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Chaos and pattern formation
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Non-normality and the localized control of extended systems
Roman O. Grigoriev and Andreas Handel
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
067201
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Plasma physics
Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials
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Resonant interaction of modulational instability with a periodic soliton in the Davey-Stewartson equation
Masayoshi Tajiri, Hiroyuki Miura, and Takahito Arai
Published
19 December 2002
(4 pages)
067601
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Nonlinearity measurements of thin films by third-harmonic-generation microscopy
R. Barille, L. Canioni, L. Sarger, and G. Rivoire
Published
19 December 2002
(4 pages)
067602
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Goos-Hänchen shift in negatively refractive media
P. R. Berman
Published
20 December 2002
(3 pages)
067603
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Anomalous delay in wave propagation and tunneling: A transition-elements analysis of the traversal time
A. Agresti, P. Sandri, C. Ranfagni, A. Ranfagni, and R. Ruggeri
Published
30 December 2002
(4 pages)
067604
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