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Physical Review E – February 2003
Volume 67, Issue 2

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Structure and phase diagram of high-density water: The role of interstitial molecules
A. Marco Saitta and Frédéric Datchi
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
020201(R) [View PDF (436 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Phase behavior and crystallization kinetics of poly-12-hydroxystearic-coated polymethylmethacrylate colloids
S. Auer, W. C. K. Poon, and D. Frenkel
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
020401(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Two-Stage surface freezing of a single top layer in a smectic-A membrane
Wim H. de Jeu, Andrea Fera, Oleg Konovalov, and Boris I. Ostrovskii
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
020701(R) [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Field-induced switching between states of opposite chirality in a liquid-crystalline phase
A. Eremin, S. Diele, G. Pelzl, and W. Weissflog
Published 7 February 2003 (3 pages)
020702(R) [View PDF (335 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Non-Hamiltonian equilibrium statistical mechanics
Alessandro Sergi
Published 7 February 2003 (7 pages)
021101 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance for nonlinear sensors with saturation
David Rousseau, Julio Rojas Varela, and François Chapeau-Blondeau
Published 10 February 2003 (6 pages)
021102 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Some exact results for Boltzmann’s annihilation dynamics
François Coppex, Michel Droz, Jarosław Piasecki, Emmanuel Trizac, and Peter Wittwer
Published 12 February 2003 (7 pages)
021103 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance driven by two different kinds of colored noise in a bistable system
Xiaoqin Luo and Shiqun Zhu
Published 13 February 2003 (13 pages)
021104 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Homogeneous shear flow of a hard-sphere fluid: Analytic solutions
Janka Petravic and Owen G. Jepps
Published 13 February 2003 (11 pages)
021105 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Application of minimal subtraction renormalization to crossover behavior near the 3He liquid-vapor critical point
Fang Zhong, M. Barmatz, and Inseob Hahn
Published 18 February 2003 (20 pages)
021106 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Derivation of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations by means of approximations to the master equation
Evaldo M. F. Curado and Fernando D. Nobre
Published 21 February 2003 (7 pages)
021107 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Self-consistent theory of collective Brownian dynamics: Theory versus simulation
Laura Yeomans-Reyna, Heriberto Acuña-Campa, Felipe de Jesús Guevara-Rodríguez, and Magdaleno Medina-Noyola
Published 26 February 2003 (13 pages)
021108 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Long-range correlations in the electric signals that precede rupture: Further investigations
P. A. Varotsos, N. V. Sarlis, and E. S. Skordas
Published 26 February 2003 (13 pages)
021109 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion in infinite horizon billiards
Douglas N. Armstead, Brian R. Hunt, and Edward Ott
Published 26 February 2003 (7 pages)
021110 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Fractional dynamics from the ordinary Langevin equation
A. A. Stanislavsky
Published 27 February 2003 (6 pages)
021111 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Continuous-time random-walk model for financial distributions
Jaume Masoliver, Miquel Montero, and George H. Weiss
Published 27 February 2003 (10 pages)
021112 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Noise-driven mechanism for pattern formation
J. Buceta, M. Ibañes, J. M. Sancho, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 27 February 2003 (8 pages)
021113 [View PDF (287 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Symmetric linear kinetic theory
Adam Bednorz
Published 5 February 2003 (11 pages)
021201 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Local density approach for modeling fluids with density-dependent interactions
N. G. Almarza, E. Lomba, G. Ruiz, and C. F. Tejero
Published 12 February 2003 (11 pages)
021202 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Theory of the lattice Boltzmann method: Three-dimensional model for linear viscoelastic fluids
Pierre Lallemand, Dominique d’Humières, Li-Shi Luo, and Robert Rubinstein
Published 19 February 2003 (19 pages)
021203 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Heat conductivity in linear mixing systems
Baowen Li, Giulio Casati, and Jiao Wang
Published 21 February 2003 (4 pages)
021204 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Bulk viscosity in the case of the interatomic potential depending on density
Hisashi Okumura and Fumiko Yonezawa
Published 27 February 2003 (7 pages)
021205 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Granular materials

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Hard-sphere limit of soft-sphere model for granular materials: Stiffness dependence of steady granular flow
Namiko Mitarai and Hiizu Nakanishi
Published 19 February 2003 (8 pages)
021301 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Clustering transitions in vibrofluidized magnetized granular materials
Daniel L. Blair and A. Kudrolli
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
021302 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Shearing of loose granular materials: A statistical mesoscopic model
János Török, Supriya Krishnamurthy, János Kertész, and Stéphane Roux
Published 26 February 2003 (11 pages)
021303 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Shock waves in two-dimensional granular flow: Effects of rough walls and polydispersity
Sune Hørlück, Martin van Hecke, and P. Dimon
Published 26 February 2003 (10 pages)
021304 [View PDF (1,068 kB)]
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Model of coarsening and vortex formation in vibrated granular rods
Igor S. Aranson and Lev S. Tsimring
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
021305 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Onset of thermal convection in a horizontal layer of granular gas
Evgeniy Khain and Baruch Meerson
Published 27 February 2003 (6 pages)
021306 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Velocity distribution of fluidized granular gases in the presence of gravity
J. Javier Brey and M. J. Ruiz-Montero
Published 27 February 2003 (7 pages)
021307 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Shear viscosity for a heated granular binary mixture at low density
José María Montanero and Vicente Garzó
Published 27 February 2003 (12 pages)
021308 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Diffusion-controlled growth: Theory and closure approximations
R. C. Ball and E. Somfai
Published 13 February 2003 (11 pages)
021401 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Field-induced structures in miscible ferrofluid suspensions with and without latex spheres
M. F. Islam, K. H. Lin, D. Lacoste, T. C. Lubensky, and A. G. Yodh
Published 14 February 2003 (8 pages)
021402 [View PDF (691 kB)]
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Dielectrophoresis of charged colloidal suspensions
J. P. Huang, Mikko Karttunen, K. W. Yu, and L. Dong
Published 18 February 2003 (7 pages)
021403 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Phase-separation-induced fractionation in molar mass in aqueous mixtures of gelatin and dextran
M. W. Edelman, R. H. Tromp, and E. van der Linden
Published 21 February 2003 (11 pages)
021404 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Dynamics of yielding observed in a three-dimensional aqueous dry foam
Florence Rouyer, Sylvie Cohen-Addad, Michèle Vignes-Adler, and Reinhard Höhler
Published 24 February 2003 (7 pages)
021405 [View PDF (289 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Dynamics of supercooled liquids confined to the pores of sol-gel glass: A dynamic light scattering study
A. Patkowski, T. Ruths, and E. W. Fischer
Published 19 February 2003 (8 pages)
021501 [View PDF (739 kB)]
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Effect of composition changes on the structural relaxation of a binary mixture
W. Götze and Th. Voigtmann
Published 19 February 2003 (14 pages)
021502 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Connectivity strategies to enhance the capacity of weight-bearing networks
T. M. Janaki and Neelima Gupte
Published 24 February 2003 (6 pages)
021503 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Scattering from dilute ferrofluid suspensions in soft polymer gels
Alvaro V. Teixeira, Isabelle Morfin, Françoise Ehrburger-Dolle, Cyrille Rochas, Erik Geissler, Pedro Licinio, and Pierre Panine
Published 26 February 2003 (7 pages)
021504 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Experimental studies of the ortho-toluidine glass transition
G. Pratesi, P. Bartolini, D. Senatra, M. Ricci, R. Righini, F. Barocchi, and R. Torre
Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages)
021505 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Probes of heterogeneity in rotational dynamics: Application to supercooled liquid CS2
Joohyun Kim, Wu-Xiong Li, and T. Keyes
Published 27 February 2003 (12 pages)
021506 [View PDF (1,191 kB)]
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Binary mixtures of magnetic fluids
W. Fenz and R. Folk
Published 27 February 2003 (12 pages)
021507 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Cohen-Grest model for the dynamics of supercooled liquids
M. Paluch, R. Casalini, and C. M. Roland
Published 27 February 2003 (8 pages)
021508 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Grazing-incidence x-ray diffraction study of Langmuir films of amphiphilic monodendrons
Wen-Jung Pao, Fan Zhang, Paul A. Heiney, Catherine Mitchell, Wook-Dong Cho, and Virgil Percec
Published 12 February 2003 (6 pages)
021601 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Depinning of elastic manifolds
Alberto Rosso, Alexander K. Hartmann, and Werner Krauth
Published 13 February 2003 (4 pages)
021602 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Depinning with dynamic stress overshoots: A hybrid of critical and pseudohysteretic behavior
J. M. Schwarz and Daniel S. Fisher
Published 13 February 2003 (35 pages)
021603 [View PDF (1,679 kB)]
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Influence of surface roughness on the adhesion of elastic films
G. Palasantzas and J. Th. M. De Hosson
Published 14 February 2003 (6 pages)
021604 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Nucleation probability in binary heterogeneous nucleation of water–n-propanol vapor mixtures on insoluble and soluble nanoparticles
P. E. Wagner, D. Kaller, A. Vrtala, A. Lauri, M. Kulmala, and A. Laaksonen
Published 24 February 2003 (12 pages)
021605 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Faceting of a growing crystal surface by surface diffusion
T. V. Savina, A. A. Golovin, S. H. Davis, A. A. Nepomnyashchy, and P. W. Voorhees
Published 26 February 2003 (16 pages)
021606 [View PDF (850 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium wetting transitions with short range forces
F. de los Santos, M. M. Telo da Gama, and M. A. Muñoz
Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages)
021607 [View PDF (783 kB)]
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Topological defects and nonhomogeneous melting of large two-dimensional Coulomb clusters
Minghui Kong, B. Partoens, and F. M. Peeters
Published 27 February 2003 (8 pages)
021608 [View PDF (494 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Mechanism of sign inversion of spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric SmC* liquid crystals
Yoshitaka Mieda, Hajime Hoshi, Yoichi Takanishi, Hideo Takezoe, and Boštjan Žekš
Published 13 February 2003 (6 pages)
021701 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Experimental evidence for Sm-CG→Sm-CP polymorphism in fluorinated bent-shaped mesogens
A. Eremin, S. Diele, G. Pelzl, H. Nádasi, and W. Weissflog
Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages)
021702 [View PDF (1,082 kB)]
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Effect of a quenched random field on a continuous symmetry breaking transition: Nematic to smectic-A transition in octyloxycyanobiphenyl-aerosil dispersions
P. S. Clegg, C. Stock, R. J. Birgeneau, C. W. Garland, A. Roshi, and G. S. Iannacchione
Published 26 February 2003 (13 pages)
021703 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Competition between the chiral smectic-C* and hexatic phases
I. Rychetský, M. Glogarová, and V. Novotná
Published 26 February 2003 (12 pages)
021704 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Order parameter measurements of dichroic dyes dissolved in smectic liquid crystals that tilt without layer contraction
Peter J. Collings, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar
Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages)
021705 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Dynamics of electro-optical switching in the antiferroelectric B2 phase of an achiral bent-core shape compound
Lev M. Blinov, Mikhail I. Barnik, E. Soto Bustamante, Gerhard Pelzl, and Wolfgang Weissflog
Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages)
021706 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Dependence of film tension on the thickness of smectic films
R. Jaquet and F. Schneider
Published 26 February 2003 (7 pages)
021707 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Interfaces of semi-infinite smectic liquid crystals and equations of state of infinite smectic stacks of semiflexible manifolds
Lianghui Gao and Leonardo Golubović
Published 27 February 2003 (13 pages)
021708 [View PDF (296 kB)]

Polymers

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Effect of confinement on phase-separation processes in a polymer blend observed by laser scanning confocal microscopy
Hiroshi Jinnai, Hitoshi Kitagishi, Kazuki Hamano, Yukihiro Nishikawa, and Masaoki Takahashi
Published 5 February 2003 (7 pages)
021801 [View PDF (820 kB)]
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Relaxation of a rubbed polystyrene surface
Alexander D. Schwab and Ali Dhinojwala
Published 10 February 2003 (10 pages)
021802 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Probing polyelectrolyte elasticity using radial distribution function
Roya Zandi, Joseph Rudnick, and Ramin Golestanian
Published 13 February 2003 (14 pages)
021803 [View PDF (588 kB)]
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Fast growth in phase-separating A-B-copolymer ternary mixtures with a chemical reaction
Yue-jin Zhu and Yu-qiang Ma
Published 14 February 2003 (7 pages)
021804 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Compact phases of polymers with hydrogen bonding
Antonio Trovato, Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg, and Mogens H. Jensen
Published 26 February 2003 (6 pages)
021805 [View PDF (696 kB)]
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Intramolecular caging in polybutadiene due to rotational barriers
S. Krushev and W. Paul
Published 27 February 2003 (7 pages)
021806 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Dual-resolution coarse-grained simulation of the bisphenol-A-polycarbonate/nickel interface
Cameron F. Abrams, Luigi Delle Site, and Kurt Kremer
Published 27 February 2003 (12 pages)
021807 [View PDF (415 kB)]

Biological physics

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Robustness and enhancement of neural synchronization by activity-dependent coupling
V. P. Zhigulin, M. I. Rabinovich, R. Huerta, and H. D. I. Abarbanel
Published 6 February 2003 (4 pages)
021901 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Nonlinear dependence of the delayed luminescence yield on the intensity of irradiation in the framework of a correlated soliton model
Larissa Brizhik, Francesco Musumeci, Agata Scordino, Maurizio Tedesco, and Antonio Triglia
Published 12 February 2003 (7 pages)
021902 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Modeling oscillatory microtubule polymerization
Martin Hammele and Walter Zimmermann
Published 14 February 2003 (19 pages)
021903 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Energy resolution and dynamical heterogeneity effects on elastic incoherent neutron scattering from molecular systems
Torsten Becker and Jeremy C. Smith
Published 18 February 2003 (8 pages)
021904 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Enhanced migration and ionic transport through membranes
Wilson Barros, Jr. and M. Engelsberg
Published 19 February 2003 (5 pages)
021905 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Solution of epidemic models with quenched transients
J. A. N. Filipe and C. A. Gilligan
Published 19 February 2003 (8 pages)
021906 [View PDF (418 kB)]
Role of photonic-crystal-type structures in the thermal regulation of a Lycaenid butterfly sister species pair
L. P. Biró, Zs. Bálint, K. Kertész, Z. Vértesy, G. I. Márk, Z. E. Horváth, J. Balázs, D. Méhn, I. Kiricsi, V. Lousse, and J.-P. Vigneron
Published 19 February 2003 (7 pages)
021907 [View PDF (657 kB)]
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Piecewise linear differential equations and integrate-and-fire neurons: Insights from two-dimensional membrane models
Arnaud Tonnelier and Wulfram Gerstner
Published 19 February 2003 (16 pages)
021908 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Size exclusion and diffusion of fluoresceinated probes within collagen fibrils
A. Ekani-Nkodo and D. Kuchnir Fygenson
Published 21 February 2003 (7 pages)
021909 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Theory of ac electrokinetic behavior of spheroidal cell suspensions with an intrinsic dispersion
Lei Gao, J. P. Huang, and K. W. Yu
Published 24 February 2003 (10 pages)
021910 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Interstrand distance distribution of DNA near melting
M. Baiesi, E. Carlon, Y. Kafri, D. Mukamel, E. Orlandini, and A. L. Stella
Published 24 February 2003 (6 pages)
021911 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Automated detection of a preseizure state based on a decrease in synchronization in intracranial electroencephalogram recordings from epilepsy patients
Florian Mormann, Ralph G. Andrzejak, Thomas Kreuz, Christoph Rieke, Peter David, Christian E. Elger, and Klaus Lehnertz
Published 26 February 2003 (10 pages)
021912 [View PDF (1,101 kB)]
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Evolution equation of population genetics: Relation to the density-matrix theory of quasiparticles with general dispersion laws
V. Bezák
Published 27 February 2003 (10 pages)
021913 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Statistical physics of RNA folding
M. Müller
Published 27 February 2003 (17 pages)
021914 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Modeling postshock evolution of large electropores
John C. Neu and Wanda Krassowska
Published 27 February 2003 (12 pages)
021915 [View PDF (307 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Markovian approximation and dynamic density functional theory for classical dense liquids
Toyonori Munakata
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
022101 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Biological physics

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Stationary transmission distribution of random spike trains by dynamical synapses
Richard H. R. Hahnloser
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
022901 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Electromagnetic optimization of light-harvesting proteins
P. Etchegoin and R. C. Maher
Published 13 February 2003 (4 pages)
022902 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Correlated noise in a logistic growth model
Bao-Quan Ai, Xian-Ju Wang, Guo-Tao Liu, and Liang-Gang Liu
Published 27 February 2003 (3 pages)
022903 [View PDF (42 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Cylindrical phase of block copolymers: Stability of circular configuration to elliptical distortions and thin film morphologies”
M. W. Matsen
Published 27 February 2003 (2 pages)
023801 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Cylindrical phase of block copolymers: Stability of circular configuration to elliptical distortions and thin film morphologies’ ”
G. G. Pereira
Published 27 February 2003 (3 pages)
023802 [View PDF (40 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Truncation and reset process on the dynamics of Parrondo’s games
Cheng-Hung Chang and Tian Yow Tsong
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
025101(R) [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Edwards-Wilkinson equation from lattice transition rules
Dimitri D. Vvedensky
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
025102(R) [View PDF (51 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Non-Gaussian random-matrix ensembles with banded spectra
Saugata Ghosh, Akhilesh Pandey, Sanjay Puri, and Rajdeep Saha
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
025201(R) [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Parametric statistics of individual energy levels in random Hamiltonians
I. E. Smolyarenko and B. D. Simons
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
025202(R) [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Self-organized superlattice patterns with two slightly differing wave numbers
E. Große Westhoff, R. Herrero, T. Ackemann, and W. Lange
Published 19 February 2003 (4 pages)
025203(R) [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Hypersensitivity to perturbations of quantum-chaotic wave-packet dynamics
P. G. Silvestrov, J. Tworzydło, and C. W. J. Beenakker
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
025204(R) [View PDF (80 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Structural transitions in one-dimensionally confined one-component plasmas
O. Bystrenko
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
025401(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Dark and gray strong dispersion-managed solitons
Mark J. Ablowitz and Ziad H. Musslimani
Published 12 February 2003 (4 pages)
025601(R) [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Electromagnetic waves focused by a negative-index planar lens
P. F. Loschialpo, D. L. Smith, D. W. Forester, F. J. Rachford, and J. Schelleng
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
025602(R) [View PDF (1,351 kB)]
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Modulational instability arising from collective Rayleigh scattering
G. R. M. Robb and B. W. J. McNeil
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
025603(R) [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Hilbert phase analysis of the dynamics of a semiconductor laser with optical feedback
Wing-Shun Lam, Parvez N. Guzdar, and Rajarshi Roy
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
025604(R) [View PDF (81 kB)]

Computational physics

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Lattice Boltzmann model for photonic band gap materials
Zhifang Lin, Haiping Fang, Jianjun Xu, Jian Zi, and Xiangdong Zhang
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
025701(R) [View PDF (193 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Rejection-free Monte Carlo algorithms for models with continuous degrees of freedom
J. D. Muñoz, M. A. Novotny, and S. J. Mitchell
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
026101 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Competing tunneling trajectories in a two-dimensional potential with variable topology as a model for quantum bifurcations
V. A. Benderskii, E. V. Vetoshkin, E. I. Kats, and H. P. Trommsdorff
Published 5 February 2003 (10 pages)
026102 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Fractal dimension of 3-blocks in four-, five-, and six-dimensional percolation systems
Gerald Paul and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
026103 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Small-world effects in the majority-vote model
Paulo R. A. Campos, Viviane M. de Oliveira, and F. G. Brady Moreira
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
026104 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Exotic trees
Z. Burda, J. Erdmann, B. Petersson, and M. Wattenberg
Published 6 February 2003 (15 pages)
026105 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Constructing a statistical mechanics for Beck-Cohen superstatistics
Constantino Tsallis and Andre M. C. Souza
Published 6 February 2003 (5 pages)
026106 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Network-induced nonequilibrium phase transition in the “game of Life”
Sheng-You Huang, Xian-Wu Zou, Zhi-Jie Tan, and Zhun-Zhi Jin
Published 10 February 2003 (6 pages)
026107 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Slow relaxation due to optimization and restructuring: Solution on a hierarchical lattice
János Török, Supriya Krishnamurthy, János Kertész, and Stéphane Roux
Published 10 February 2003 (11 pages)
026108 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Self-similar factor approximants
S. Gluzman, V. I. Yukalov, and D. Sornette
Published 12 February 2003 (13 pages)
026109 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Scaling properties in the packing of crumpled wires
C. C. Donato, M. A. F. Gomes, and R. E. de Souza
Published 13 February 2003 (8 pages)
026110 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Duality relation for frustrated spin models
D.-H. Lee and F. Y. Wu
Published 13 February 2003 (5 pages)
026111 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Hierarchical organization in complex networks
Erzsébet Ravasz and Albert-László Barabási
Published 14 February 2003 (7 pages)
026112 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Time-dependent fluctuation theorem
Emil Mittag and Denis J. Evans
Published 14 February 2003 (5 pages)
026113 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Generic features of fluctuations in critical systems
B. Zheng
Published 14 February 2003 (4 pages)
026114 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Persistence in q-state Potts model: A mean-field approach
G. Manoj
Published 18 February 2003 (9 pages)
026115 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Metastable configurations on the Bethe lattice
A. Pagnani, G. Parisi, and M. Ratiéville
Published 19 February 2003 (10 pages)
026116 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Interface dynamics and solute trapping in alloy solidification with density change
Massimo Conti and Marco Fermani
Published 21 February 2003 (12 pages)
026117 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Star-graph expansions for bond-diluted Potts models
Meik Hellmund and Wolfhard Janke
Published 24 February 2003 (9 pages)
026118 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Magnetization reversal times in the two-dimensional Ising model
Kevin Brendel, G. T. Barkema, and Henk van Beijeren
Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages)
026119 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium transitions in complex networks: A model of social interaction
Konstantin Klemm, Víctor M. Eguíluz, Raúl Toral, and Maxi San Miguel
Published 26 February 2003 (6 pages)
026120 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Measuring nonequilibrium temperature of forced oscillators
Takahiro Hatano and David Jou
Published 26 February 2003 (6 pages)
026121 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Phase behavior of confined symmetric binary mixtures
Dirk Woywod and Martin Schoen
Published 26 February 2003 (12 pages)
026122 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Critical phenomena in networks
A. V. Goltsev, S. N. Dorogovtsev, and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 27 February 2003 (5 pages)
026123 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Random series and discrete path integral methods: The Lévy-Ciesielski implementation
Cristian Predescu and J. D. Doll
Published 27 February 2003 (19 pages)
026124 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Introducing small-world network effects to critical dynamics
Jian-Yang Zhu and Han Zhu
Published 27 February 2003 (12 pages)
026125 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Mixing patterns in networks
M. E. J. Newman
Published 27 February 2003 (13 pages)
026126 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Classical nucleation theory revisited
Yannis Drossinos and Panayotis G. Kevrekidis
Published 27 February 2003 (12 pages)
026127 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Subdiffusion and localization in the one-dimensional trap model
E. M. Bertin and J.-P. Bouchaud
Published 27 February 2003 (20 pages)
026128 [View PDF (281 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Controlling chaos to solutions with complex eigenvalues
Oh-Jong Kwon and Hoyun Lee
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
026201 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Synchronization and desynchronization under the influence of quasiperiodic forcing
Eireen Neumann, Irina Sushko, Yuri Maistrenko, and Ulrike Feudel
Published 5 February 2003 (15 pages)
026202 [View PDF (1,978 kB)]
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Statistics and characteristics of spatiotemporally rare intense events in complex Ginzburg-Landau models
Jong-Won Kim and Edward Ott
Published 5 February 2003 (6 pages)
026203 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Exceptional points and double poles of the S matrix
I. Rotter
Published 7 February 2003 (5 pages)
026204 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Estimating topological entropy via a symbolic data compression technique
Yoshito Hirata and Alistair I. Mees
Published 12 February 2003 (13 pages)
026205 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Stadium billiard with moving walls
Doron Cohen and Diego A. Wisniacki
Published 13 February 2003 (14 pages)
026206 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Chaotic communications that are difficult to detect
T. L. Carroll
Published 13 February 2003 (6 pages)
026207 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Measuring billiard eigenfunctions with arbitrary trajectories
Debabrata Biswas
Published 13 February 2003 (4 pages)
026208 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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General stability analysis of synchronized dynamics in coupled systems
Yonghong Chen, Govindan Rangarajan, and Mingzhou Ding
Published 18 February 2003 (4 pages)
026209 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Noise-induced unstable dimension variability and transition to chaos in random dynamical systems
Ying-Cheng Lai, Zonghua Liu, Lora Billings, and Ira B. Schwartz
Published 19 February 2003 (17 pages)
026210 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Density of states for vibrations of fractal drums
Steven Homolya, Charles F. Osborne, and Imants D. Svalbe
Published 19 February 2003 (13 pages)
026211 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Chaotic-time-series reconstruction by the Bayesian paradigm: Right results by wrong methods
Kevin Judd
Published 19 February 2003 (6 pages)
026212 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Chaotic sound waves in a regular billiard
K. Schaadt, A. P. B. Tufaile, and C. Ellegaard
Published 24 February 2003 (7 pages)
026213 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Optimization and stability boundaries for the synchronization of semiconductor lasers with external optical feedback
Y. Chembo Kouomou and P. Woafo
Published 26 February 2003 (6 pages)
026214 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Is the concept of the non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonian relevant in the case of potential scattering?
Dmitry V. Savin, Valentin V. Sokolov, and Hans-Jürgen Sommers
Published 26 February 2003 (16 pages)
026215 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Synchronization of coupled rotators: Josephson junction ladders and the locally coupled Kuramoto model
B. C. Daniels, S. T. M. Dissanayake, and B. R. Trees
Published 26 February 2003 (14 pages)
026216 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Information capacity and pattern formation in a tent map network featuring statistical periodicity
C. Hauptmann, H. Touchette, and M. C. Mackey
Published 26 February 2003 (5 pages)
026217 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Parametrically forced surface wave with a nonmonotonic dispersion relation
Hee-kyoung Ko, Kyoung J. Lee, and Jysoo Lee
Published 26 February 2003 (5 pages)
026218 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Two-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian for the time-symmetric two-body problem of the relativistic action-at-a-distance electrodynamics
Efrain Buksman Hollander and Jayme De Luca
Published 27 February 2003 (15 pages)
026219 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Dual synchronization of chaos in one-way coupled microchip lasers
A. Uchida, S. Kinugawa, T. Matsuura, and S. Yoshimori
Published 27 February 2003 (8 pages)
026220 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Wave-particle dualism of spiral waves dynamics
I. V. Biktasheva and V. N. Biktashev
Published 27 February 2003 (9 pages)
026221 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Improvement of time-delayed feedback control by periodic modulation: Analytical theory of Floquet mode control scheme
Wolfram Just, Svitlana Popovich, Andreas Amann, Nilüfer Baba, and Eckehard Schöll
Published 27 February 2003 (10 pages)
026222 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Detecting generalized synchrony: An improved approach
Daihai He, Zhigang Zheng, and Lewi Stone
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
026223 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Diffusive transport and self-consistent dynamics in coupled maps
Guido Boffetta, Diego del-Castillo-Negrete, Cristóbal López, Giuseppe Pucacco, and Angelo Vulpiani
Published 27 February 2003 (11 pages)
026224 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Simple potential-flow model of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities for all density ratios
Sung-Ik Sohn
Published 5 February 2003 (5 pages)
026301 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Surface roughness and effective stick-slip motion
I. V. Ponomarev and A. E. Meyerovich
Published 5 February 2003 (12 pages)
026302 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Stable nonspherical bubble collapse including period doubling in sonoluminescence
Jeppe Seidelin Dam, Mogens T. Levinsen, and Martin Skogstad
Published 5 February 2003 (14 pages)
026303 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Large-scale features of rotating forced turbulence
José Gaite, David Hochberg, and Carmen Molina-París
Published 10 February 2003 (10 pages)
026304 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Intermittency and exponent field dynamics in developed turbulence
Hirokazu Fujisaka and Yasuya Nakayama
Published 10 February 2003 (10 pages)
026305 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Competition of spiral-defect chaos and rolls in Rayleigh-Bénard convection under shear flow
Y. Shiwa
Published 10 February 2003 (7 pages)
026306 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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High initial amplitude and high Mach number effects on the evolution of the single-mode Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
A. Rikanati, D. Oron, O. Sadot, and D. Shvarts
Published 13 February 2003 (8 pages)
026307 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Experiment and simulation of laminar and turbulent ferrofluid pipe flow in an oscillating magnetic field
Kristopher R. Schumacher, Inga Sellien, G. Stuart Knoke, Tahir Cader, and Bruce A. Finlayson
Published 13 February 2003 (11 pages)
026308 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann simulation of fluid flow in fracture networks with rough, self-affine surfaces
Mahyar Madadi and Muhammad Sahimi
Published 14 February 2003 (12 pages)
026309 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Stabilization of hydrodynamic flows by small viscosity variations
Rama Govindarajan, Victor S. L’vov, Itamar Procaccia, and A. Sameen
Published 18 February 2003 (11 pages)
026310 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Dynamics of low-energy helium vapor pulses
A. Wynveen, K. A. Lidke, M. C. Williams, C. F. Giese, and J. W. Halley
Published 19 February 2003 (12 pages)
026311 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Scaling exponents in anisotropic hydrodynamic turbulence
Victor S. L’vov, Itamar Procaccia, and Vasil Tiberkevich
Published 19 February 2003 (9 pages)
026312 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Mode-coupling approach to non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw flow
Magdalena Constantin, Michael Widom, and José A. Miranda
Published 19 February 2003 (9 pages)
026313 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Anomalous transport of particle tracers in multidimensional cellular flows
W. L. Vargas, L. E. Palacio, and D. M. Dominguez
Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages)
026314 [View PDF (953 kB)]
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Simulations of two-dimensional turbulent convection in a density-stratified fluid
Tamara M. Rogers, Gary A. Glatzmaier, and S. E. Woosley
Published 26 February 2003 (6 pages)
026315 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Roles of convection, pressure, and dissipation in three-dimensional turbulence
Tohru Nakano, Toshiyuki Gotoh, and Daigen Fukayama
Published 27 February 2003 (14 pages)
026316 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Spectral intermode coupling in a model of isotropic turbulence
T. Nakano, W. D. McComb, and B. J. Geurts
Published 27 February 2003 (18 pages)
026317 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Spiral and Taylor vortex fronts and pulses in axial through flow
A. Pinter, M. Lücke, and Ch. Hoffmann
Published 27 February 2003 (15 pages)
026318 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Explicit expressions for the evolution of single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities at arbitrary Atwood numbers
Karnig O. Mikaelian
Published 27 February 2003 (7 pages)
026319 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Alternative method to deduce bubble dynamics in single-bubble sonoluminescence experiments
G. Simon and M. T. Levinsen
Published 27 February 2003 (7 pages)
026320 [View PDF (642 kB)]
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Effect of rotation on a developed turbulent stratified convection: The hydrodynamic helicity, the α effect, and the effective drift velocity
Nathan Kleeorin and Igor Rogachevskii
Published 27 February 2003 (19 pages)
026321 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Convective heat transport in a rotating fluid layer of infinite Prandtl number: Optimum fields and upper bounds on Nusselt number
Nikolay K. Vitanov
Published 27 February 2003 (11 pages)
026322 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Contributions to the theory of a two-scale homogeneous dynamo experiment
Karl-Heinz Rädler and Axel Brandenburg
Published 5 February 2003 (11 pages)
026401 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Two-dimensional solitons and vortices in normal and anomalous dispersive media
T. A. Davydova, A. I. Yakimenko, and Yu. A. Zaliznyak
Published 5 February 2003 (16 pages)
026402 [View PDF (700 kB)]
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Origin of protons accelerated by an intense laser and the dependence of their energy on the plasma density
Takashi Nakamura and Shigeo Kawata
Published 6 February 2003 (10 pages)
026403 [View PDF (1,175 kB)]
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Saturation and postsaturation phenomena of Rayleigh-Taylor instability with adjacent modes
Tadashi Ikegawa and Katsunobu Nishihara
Published 6 February 2003 (11 pages)
026404 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Vlasov-Maxwell kinetic simulations of radio-frequency-driven ion flows in magnetized plasmas
Chiara Marchetto, Francesco Califano, and Maurizio Lontano
Published 7 February 2003 (9 pages)
026405 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Magnetic line trapping and effective transport in stochastic magnetic fields
M. Vlad, F. Spineanu, J. H. Misguich, and R. Balescu
Published 7 February 2003 (12 pages)
026406 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Quasilinear theory of Cherenkov-drift instability
David Shapakidze, George Machabeli, George Melikidze, and David Khechinashvili
Published 7 February 2003 (8 pages)
026407 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Propagation of hot electrons through high-density plasmas
H. Teng, J. Zhang, Z. L. Chen, Y. T. Li, K. Li, X. Y. Peng, and J. X. Ma
Published 10 February 2003 (6 pages)
026408 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Advanced spectroscopic analysis of 0.8—1.0-MA Mo x pinches and the influence of plasma electron beams on L-shell spectra of Mo ions
A. S. Shlyaptseva, S. B. Hansen, V. L. Kantsyrev, D. A. Fedin, N. Ouart, K. B. Fournier, and U. I. Safronova
Published 13 February 2003 (9 pages)
026409 [View PDF (859 kB)]
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Interchange mode in the presence of dust
J. Vranješ, M. Y. Tanaka, M. Kono, and S. Poedts
Published 18 February 2003 (11 pages)
026410 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Energy loss of ions in a magnetized plasma: Conformity between linear response and binary collision treatments
H. B. Nersisyan, G. Zwicknagel, and C. Toepffer
Published 19 February 2003 (11 pages)
026411 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Theoretical model of x-ray scattering as a dense matter probe
G. Gregori, S. H. Glenzer, W. Rozmus, R. W. Lee, and O. L. Landen
Published 19 February 2003 (10 pages)
026412 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Random walk through fractal environments
H. Isliker and L. Vlahos
Published 26 February 2003 (21 pages)
026413 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Neutral-plasma oscillations at zero temperature
S. D. Bergeson and R. L. Spencer
Published 26 February 2003 (5 pages)
026414 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Direction-selective free expansion of laser-produced plasmas from planar targets
Th. Müller, B. K. Sinha, and K. P. Rohr
Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages)
026415 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Electron acceleration by few-cycle laser pulses with single-wavelength spot size
G. I. Dudnikova, V. Yu. Bychenkov, A. Maksimchuk, G. Mourou, J. Nees, S. G. Bochkarev, and V. A. Vshivkov
Published 27 February 2003 (7 pages)
026416 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Steady state of a fully detuned storage-ring free-electron laser
G. De Ninno, C. Bruni, D. Nutarelli, D. Garzella, C. Thomas, and M. E. Couprie
Published 13 February 2003 (8 pages)
026501 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Relativistic nonlinear Thomson scattering as attosecond x-ray source
K. Lee, Y. H. Cha, M. S. Shin, B. H. Kim, and D. Kim
Published 13 February 2003 (7 pages)
026502 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Chaotic behavior of the radiation field in the magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator
Hao Jianhong and Ding Wu
Published 27 February 2003 (6 pages)
026503 [View PDF (406 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Resonant phenomena in classical dynamics of three-body Coulomb systems
A. P. Itin
Published 5 February 2003 (9 pages)
026601 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Influence of higher-order dispersion on modulational instability and pulse broadening of partially incoherent light
L. Helczynski, M. Lisak, and D. Anderson
Published 7 February 2003 (5 pages)
026602 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Modulation instability and solitons on a cw background in an optical fiber with higher-order effects
Zhiyong Xu, Lu Li, Zhonghao Li, and Guosheng Zhou
Published 10 February 2003 (7 pages)
026603 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Excitation of phase patterns and spatial solitons via two-frequency forcing of a 1:1 resonance
Germán J. de Valcárcel and Kestutis Staliunas
Published 10 February 2003 (4 pages)
026604 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Minkowskian description of polarized light and polarizers
Juan Antonio Morales and Emilio Navarro
Published 12 February 2003 (8 pages)
026605 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Discrete Ginzburg-Landau solitons
Nikolaos K. Efremidis and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Published 12 February 2003 (5 pages)
026606 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Gap solitons and soliton trains in finite-sized two-dimensional periodic and quasiperiodic photonic crystals
Ping Xie, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and Xiangdong Zhang
Published 13 February 2003 (5 pages)
026607 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Interaction of a soliton with a localized gain in a fiber Bragg grating
William C. K. Mak, Boris A. Malomed, and Pak L. Chu
Published 18 February 2003 (15 pages)
026608 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Soliton dynamics in a random Toda chain
J. Garnier and F. Kh. Abdullaev
Published 19 February 2003 (10 pages)
026609 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Duality relation for the Maxwell system
F. Zolla and S. Guenneau
Published 24 February 2003 (8 pages)
026610 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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(2+1)-dimensional soliton formation in photorefractive Bi12SiO20 crystals
E. Fazio, W. Ramadan, A. Belardini, A. Bosco, M. Bertolotti, A. Petris, and V. I. Vlad
Published 26 February 2003 (8 pages)
026611 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Degeneracy analysis for a supercell of a photonic crystal and its application to the creation of band gaps
Liang Wu, Fie Zhuang, and Sailing He
Published 27 February 2003 (10 pages)
026612 [View PDF (852 kB)]
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Universality of electromagnetic-field correlations within homogeneous and isotropic sources
T. Setälä, K. Blomstedt, M. Kaivola, and A. T. Friberg
Published 27 February 2003 (9 pages)
026613 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Computational physics

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Numerical simulation of natural convection in a concentric annulus between a square outer cylinder and a circular inner cylinder using the Taylor-series-expansion and least-squares-based lattice Boltzmann method
Y. Peng, Y. T. Chew, and C. Shu
Published 5 February 2003 (6 pages)
026701 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium relaxation analysis of Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition
Yukiyasu Ozeki, Keita Ogawa, and Nobuyasu Ito
Published 14 February 2003 (5 pages)
026702 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Numerical approximation of breathers in lattices with nearest-neighbor interactions
J. M. Bergamin
Published 21 February 2003 (10 pages)
026703 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Vlasov model using kinetic phase point trajectories
F. Kazeminezhad, S. Kuhn, and A. Tavakoli
Published 26 February 2003 (16 pages)
026704 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Smoothed dissipative particle dynamics
Pep Español and Mariano Revenga
Published 26 February 2003 (12 pages)
026705 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Convergence of reinforcement learning algorithms and acceleration of learning
A. Potapov and M. K. Ali
Published 26 February 2003 (12 pages)
026706 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Simulation of wave packet tunneling of interacting identical particles
Yu. E. Lozovik, A. V. Filinov, and A. S. Arkhipov
Published 27 February 2003 (9 pages)
026707 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Bilinear diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods
F. Arias de Saavedra and M. H. Kalos
Published 27 February 2003 (10 pages)
026708 [View PDF (110 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Computational complexity arising from degree correlations in networks
Alexei Vázquez and Martin Weigt
Published 7 February 2003 (4 pages)
027101 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Statistics of the critical percolation backbone with spatial long-range correlations
A. D. Araújo, A. A. Moreira, R. N. Costa Filho, and J. S. Andrade, Jr.
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
027102 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Morphologies resulting from the directional propagation of fractures
L. Pauchard, M. Adda-Bedia, C. Allain, and Y. Couder
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
027103 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Equivalence of ensembles in creation-annihilation nonequilibrium models
Mário J. de Oliveira
Published 28 February 2003 (4 pages)
027104 [View PDF (47 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Noise-induced synchronization in realistic models
Daihai He, Pengliang Shi, and Lewi Stone
Published 6 February 2003 (3 pages)
027201 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Saddle-node ghost-induced low-frequency fluctuations in an external-cavity laser diode
F. Rogister, P. Mégret, and M. Blondel
Published 18 February 2003 (4 pages)
027202 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Breaking time for the quantum chaotic attractor
A. Iomin and G. M. Zaslavsky
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
027203 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Synchronization-based approach for estimating all model parameters of chaotic systems
Rahul Konnur
Published 24 February 2003 (4 pages)
027204 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Correlation between Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and self-diffusion coefficient in simple fluids
Dongchul Ihm, Young-Han Shin, Jae-Weon Lee, and Eok Kyun Lee
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
027205 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Direct measurements of the energy of intense vorticity filaments in turbulence
J. H. C. Titon and O. Cadot
Published 18 February 2003 (4 pages)
027301 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Oscillatory mean-field dynamos with a spherically symmetric, isotropic helical turbulence parameter α
Frank Stefani and Gunter Gerbeth
Published 18 February 2003 (4 pages)
027302 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Oscillatory Rayleigh-Marangoni convection in a layer heated from above: Numerical simulations with an undeformable free surface
Thomas Boeck, Matthias Jurgk, and Ute Bahr
Published 27 February 2003 (4 pages)
027303 [View PDF (249 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Octupolar perturbation of a single ion in a Penning trap
Martín Lara and J. Pablo Salas
Published 13 February 2003 (4 pages)
027401 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Model of nonlinear kinetic Alfvén waves with dissipation and acceleration of energetic electrons
D. J. Wu
Published 26 February 2003 (4 pages)
027402 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Rice’s ansatz for overdamped φ4 kinks at finite temperature
Grant Lythe and Franz G. Mertens
Published 5 February 2003 (4 pages)
027601 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Josephson junction coupled to a transmission line: A comparison of different approaches
A. Agresti, A. Ranfagni, R. Ruggeri, and P. Sandri
Published 26 February 2003 (3 pages)
027602 [View PDF (39 kB)]

ERRATA

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Retraction: Optical solitons in resonant and nonresonant nonlinear media in the presence of perturbations [Phys. Rev. E 61, 880 (2000)]
Mihai Piscureanu and Doina Manaila-Maximean
Published 27 February 2003 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Fast growth in phase-separating A-B-copolymer ternary mixtures with a chemical reaction [Phys. Rev. E 67, 021804 (2003)]
Yue-jin Zhu and Yu-qiang Ma
Published 28 February 2003 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
 
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