Physical Review E
– May 2003
Volume 67, Issue 5
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
HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES
Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in
Physics,
selected as an Editors' Suggestion,
or are of special interest for other reasons.
Cell surface fluctuations studied with defocusing microscopy
U. Agero, C. H. Monken, C. Ropert, R. T. Gazzinelli, and O. N. Mesquita
Published
7 May 2003
(9 pages)
051904
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Statistical physics of soft matter
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Directed random walks on directed percolation clusters
Xiao-Hong Wang, Ehud Perlsman, and Shlomo Havlin
Published
14 May 2003
(4 pages)
050101(R)
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Granular materials
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Pattern formation in a rotating suspension of non-Brownian settling particles
W. R. Matson, B. J. Ackerson, and P. Tong
Published
14 May 2003
(4 pages)
050301(R)
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Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates
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Asphaltene nanoparticle aggregation in mixtures of incompatible crude oils
T. G. Mason and M. Y. Lin
Published
21 May 2003
(4 pages)
050401(R)
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Self-diffusion in dilute colloidal suspensions with attractive potential interactions
Kurt F. Seefeldt and Michael J. Solomon
Published
27 May 2003
(4 pages)
050402(R)
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Effective pair potential between confined charged colloidal particles
Angeles Ramírez-Saito, Martín Chávez-Páez, Jesús Santana-Solano, and José Luis Arauz-Lara
Published
27 May 2003
(4 pages)
050403(R)
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Liquid crystals
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Magnetic-field-induced changes of the isotropic-nematic phase transition in side-chain polymer liquid crystals
M. I. Boamfǎ, K. Viertler, A. Wewerka, F. Stelzer, P. C. M. Christianen, and J. C. Maan
Published
15 May 2003
(4 pages)
050701(R)
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Annihilation of nematic point defects: Postcollision scenarios
Zlatko Bradač, Samo Kralj, Milan Svetec, and Slobodan Žumer
Published
21 May 2003
(4 pages)
050702(R)
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Structures and transitions in thin hybrid nematic films: A Monte Carlo study
C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, A. Šarlah, C. Zannoni, and S. Žumer
Published
29 May 2003
(4 pages)
050703(R)
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Biological physics
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Preferential adsorption of hydrophobic-polar model proteins on patterned surfaces
N.-K. Lee and T. A. Vilgis
Published
28 May 2003
(4 pages)
050901(R)
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ARTICLES
Statistical physics of soft matter
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Granular fluid thermostated by a bath of elastic hard spheres
Andrés Santos
Published
1 May 2003
(16 pages)
051101
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Noise-induced failures of chaos stabilization: Large fluctuations and their control
I. A. Khovanov, N. A. Khovanova, and P. V. E. McClintock
Published
6 May 2003
(11 pages)
051102
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Kinetics of random aggregation-fragmentation processes with multiple components
I. J. Laurenzi and S. L. Diamond
Published
9 May 2003
(15 pages)
051103
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Structural information in two-dimensional patterns: Entropy convergence and excess entropy
David P. Feldman and James P. Crutchfield
Published
19 May 2003
(9 pages)
051104
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Brownian particles in supramolecular polymer solutions
J. van der Gucht, N. A. M. Besseling, W. Knoben, L. Bouteiller, and M. A. Cohen Stuart
Published
19 May 2003
(10 pages)
051106
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Depinning of semiflexible polymers
P. Benetatos and E. Frey
Published
27 May 2003
(7 pages)
051108
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Exact solutions to nonlinear nonautonomous space-fractional diffusion equations with absorption
E. K. Lenzi, G. A. Mendes, R. S. Mendes, L. R. da Silva, and L. S. Lucena
Published
27 May 2003
(7 pages)
051109
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Moments of vicious walkers and Möbius graph expansions
Makoto Katori and Naoaki Komatsuda
Published
27 May 2003
(10 pages)
051110
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Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids
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Solution of the Percus-Yevick equation for square well spherocylinders
B. Martínez-Haya, A. Cuetos, and S. Lago
Published
19 May 2003
(7 pages)
051201
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Collective dynamics near fluid phase transitions
Martin Schoen and Fabien Porcheron
Published
27 May 2003
(11 pages)
051202
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Granular materials
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Random packings of spheres and spherocylinders simulated by mechanical contraction
S. R. Williams and A. P. Philipse
Published
7 May 2003
(9 pages)
051301
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Two-dimensional packing in prolate granular materials
K. Stokely, A. Diacou, and Scott V. Franklin
Published
7 May 2003
(6 pages)
051302
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Development of correlations in the dynamics of wet granular avalanches
P. Tegzes, T. Vicsek, and P. Schiffer
Published
14 May 2003
(17 pages)
051303
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Aeolian sand ripples around plants
Qian-Hua Zhang and Tian-De Miao
Published
16 May 2003
(4 pages)
051304
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Effect of particle size and interparticle force on the fluidization behavior of gas-fluidized beds
J. M. Valverde, A. Castellanos, P. Mills, and M. A. S. Quintanilla
Published
23 May 2003
(6 pages)
051305
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Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates
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Selective counterion condensation in ionic micellar solutions
V. K. Aswal and P. S. Goyal
Published
9 May 2003
(8 pages)
051401
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Nonlinear stress and fluctuation dynamics of sheared disordered wet foam
Ethan Pratt and Michael Dennin
Published
9 May 2003
(6 pages)
051402
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Magnetization of concentrated polydisperse ferrofluids: Cluster expansion
B. Huke and M. Lücke
Published
15 May 2003
(11 pages)
051403
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Nonmonotonic variation with salt concentration of the second virial coefficient in protein solutions
E. Allahyarov, H. Löwen, J. P. Hansen, and A. A. Louis
Published
16 May 2003
(13 pages)
051404
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Electrorotation in graded colloidal suspensions
J. P. Huang, K. W. Yu, G. Q. Gu, and Mikko Karttunen
Published
19 May 2003
(5 pages)
051405
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Shear- and magnetic-field-induced ordering in magnetic nanoparticle dispersion from small-angle neutron scattering
V. V. Krishnamurthy, A. S. Bhandar, M. Piao, I. Zoto, A. M. Lane, D. E. Nikles, J. M. Wiest, G. J. Mankey, L. Porcar, and C. J. Glinka
Published
23 May 2003
(6 pages)
051406
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Structured and complex fluids
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Compressions of electrorheological fluids under different initial gap distances
Yu Tian, Shizhu Wen, and Yonggang Meng
Published
14 May 2003
(6 pages)
051501
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Continuous freezing in an infinite-range one-dimensional model
Carlo Carraro
Published
22 May 2003
(5 pages)
051502
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Diffusion and viscosity in a supercooled polydisperse system
Rajesh K. Murarka and Biman Bagchi
Published
23 May 2003
(8 pages)
051504
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Tagged particle motion in a dense liquid: Feedback effects from the collective dynamics
Charanbir Kaur and Shankar P. Das
Published
23 May 2003
(11 pages)
051505
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Films, interfaces, and crystal growth
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Pore-level modeling of drainage: Crossover from invasion percolation fingering to compact flow
M. Ferer, Grant S. Bromhal, and Duane H. Smith
Published
12 May 2003
(12 pages)
051601
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Liquid crystals
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Time-resolved measurements of the dynamics of the photoinduced smectic-Cα*–smectic-A transition
S. Krishna Prasad, K. L. Sandhya, D. S. Shankar Rao, and Y. S. Negi
Published
1 May 2003
(5 pages)
051701
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Liquid crystal fibers of bent-core molecules
Antal Jákli, Daniel Krüerke, and Geetha G. Nair
Published
7 May 2003
(6 pages)
051702
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Dynamic interaction between suspended particles and defects in a nematic liquid crystal
S. Grollau, N. L. Abbott, and J. J. de Pablo
Published
13 May 2003
(9 pages)
051703
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Hydrodynamics of domain growth in nematic liquid crystals
Géza Tóth, Colin Denniston, and J. M. Yeomans
Published
21 May 2003
(11 pages)
051705
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Dynamic local-layer response of surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals to a high electric field by time-resolved x-ray microdiffraction
Yumiko Takahashi, Atsuo Iida, Yoichi Takanishi, Toyokazu Ogasawara, Michi Nakata, Ken Ishikawa, and Hideo Takezoe
Published
23 May 2003
(10 pages)
051706
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Second-harmonic generation from rubbed ferroelectric liquid crystal mesogenic monolayer surfaces
C. S. Park, T. E. Furtak, N. A. Clark, C. A. Liberko, and D. M. Walba
Published
27 May 2003
(5 pages)
051707
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Spontaneous periodic distortions in nematic liquid crystals: Dependence on the tilt angle
G. Barbero, L. R. Evangelista, and I. Lelidis
Published
27 May 2003
(4 pages)
051708
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Comparison of the characteristics of the chiral analog of the de Vries type of smectic-A* phase
O. E. Panarina, Yu. P. Panarin, J. K. Vij, M. S. Spector, and R. Shashidhar
Published
28 May 2003
(6 pages)
051709
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Biaxial melting of the nematic order under a strong electric field
Ph. Martinot-Lagarde, H. Dreyfus-Lambez, and I. Dozov
Published
28 May 2003
(4 pages)
051710
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Polymers
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Influence of density and temperature on the microscopic structure and the segmental relaxation of polybutadiene
B. Frick, C. Alba-Simionesco, K. H. Andersen, and L. Willner
Published
9 May 2003
(15 pages)
051801
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Experimental evidence by neutron scattering of a crossover from Gaussian to non-Gaussian behavior in the α relaxation of polyisoprene
A. Arbe, J. Colmenero, F. Alvarez, M. Monkenbusch, D. Richter, B. Farago, and B. Frick
Published
9 May 2003
(16 pages)
051802
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Conformational properties of bottle-brush polymers
N. A. Denesyuk
Published
27 May 2003
(10 pages)
051803
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Biological physics
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Conformation-dependent evolution of copolymer sequences
Pavel G. Khalatur, Viktor V. Novikov, and Alexei R. Khokhlov
Published
2 May 2003
(10 pages)
051901
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Continuum of weakly coupled oscillatory McKean neurons
M. Denman-Johnson and S. Coombes
Published
6 May 2003
(4 pages)
051903
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Cell surface fluctuations studied with defocusing microscopy
U. Agero, C. H. Monken, C. Ropert, R. T. Gazzinelli, and O. N. Mesquita
Published
7 May 2003
(9 pages)
051904
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Theory of high-force DNA stretching and overstretching
C. Storm and P. C. Nelson
Published
9 May 2003
(12 pages)
051906
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Lattice model for the kinetics of rupture of fluid bilayer membranes
Luc Fournier and Béla Joós
Published
14 May 2003
(11 pages)
051908
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Role of bulk and of interface contacts in the behavior of lattice model dimeric proteins
G. Tiana, D. Provasi, and R. A. Broglia
Published
14 May 2003
(9 pages)
051909
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Transverse fluctuations of single DNA molecules attached at both extremities to a surface
A. Crut, D. Lasne, J.-F. Allemand, M. Dahan, and P. Desbiolles
Published
15 May 2003
(6 pages)
051910
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Diffusion coefficients of two-dimensional viral DNA walks
Tai-Hsin Hsu and Su-Long Nyeo
Published
15 May 2003
(8 pages)
051911
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Wave-number spectrum of electrocorticographic signals
S. C. O’Connor and P. A. Robinson
Published
16 May 2003
(13 pages)
051912
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Self-organization and mechanical properties of active filament bundles
Karsten Kruse and Frank Jülicher
Published
19 May 2003
(16 pages)
051913
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Morphology transitions induced by chemotherapy in carcinomas in situ
S. C. Ferreira, Jr., M. L. Martins, and M. J. Vilela
Published
19 May 2003
(9 pages)
051914
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Firing-rate resonance in a generalized integrate-and-fire neuron with subthreshold resonance
Nicolas Brunel, Vincent Hakim, and Magnus J. E. Richardson
Published
19 May 2003
(23 pages)
051916
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Nonlinear dynamical model of human gait
Bruce J. West and Nicola Scafetta
Published
20 May 2003
(10 pages)
051917
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DNA electrophoresis in dilute polymer solutions: A nonbinary mechanism
Axel Ekani-Nkodo and Bernard Tinland
Published
21 May 2003
(4 pages)
051920
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Applicability of the Fisher equation to bacterial population dynamics
V. M. Kenkre and M. N. Kuperman
Published
23 May 2003
(5 pages)
051921
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Simulation of protonic fluctuations in hydrated protein powders
Giorgio Careri and Edoardo Milotti
Published
23 May 2003
(9 pages)
051923
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Quantum morphogenesis: A variation on Thom’s catastrophe theory
Diederik Aerts, Marek Czachor, Liane Gabora, Maciej Kuna, Andrzej Posiewnik, Jarosław Pykacz, and Monika Syty
Published
27 May 2003
(13 pages)
051926
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Distances and classification of amino acids for different protein secondary structures
Xin Liu, Li-mei Zhang, Shan Guan, and Wei-Mou Zheng
Published
27 May 2003
(7 pages)
051927
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Periodic forcing of a model sensory neuron
Carlo R. Laing and André Longtin
Published
27 May 2003
(7 pages)
051928
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BRIEF REPORTS
Granular materials
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Shear-induced solid-fluid transition in a wet granular medium
Michael Schulz, Beatrix M. Schulz, and Stephan Herminghaus
Published
7 May 2003
(4 pages)
052301
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Structured and complex fluids
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Shear-enhanced yield stress in electrorheological fluids
Kai Chi Lau, Lihong Shi, Wing Yim Tam, and Ping Sheng
Published
14 May 2003
(4 pages)
052502
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Polymers
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Early stages of polymer interdiffusion
E. Sivaniah, R. A. L. Jones, and M. Sferrazza
Published
15 May 2003
(4 pages)
052801
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Biological physics
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Simple model of the aging effect in heart interbeat time series
L. Guzmán-Vargas and F. Angulo-Brown
Published
1 May 2003
(4 pages)
052901
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Wavelet analysis of epileptic spikes
Miroslaw Latka, Ziemowit Was, Andrzej Kozik, and Bruce J. West
Published
19 May 2003
(4 pages)
052902
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Part 2 - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Fluid Dynamics, and Related Topics
ARTICLES
General methods of statistical physics
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Structural transitions in scale-free networks
Gábor Szabó, Mikko Alava, and János Kertész
Published
6 May 2003
(5 pages)
056102
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Phase-separating binary fluids under oscillatory shear
Aiguo Xu, G. Gonnella, and A. Lamura
Published
9 May 2003
(14 pages)
056105
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Transport on percolation clusters with power-law distributed bond strengths
Mikko Alava and Cristian F. Moukarzel
Published
9 May 2003
(8 pages)
056106
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Splitting the voter Potts model critical point
Michel Droz, Antonio L. Ferreira, and Adam Lipowski
Published
13 May 2003
(4 pages)
056108
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Breaking of general rotational symmetries by multidimensional classical ratchets
A. W. Ghosh and S. V. Khare
Published
14 May 2003
(11 pages)
056110
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Time-reversed dielectric-breakdown model for erosion phenomena
Yup Kim and S. Y. Yoon
Published
19 May 2003
(5 pages)
056111
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Stochastic resonance in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers based on a multiple time-scale analysis
Bob Nagler, Michael Peeters, Irina Veretennicoff, and Jan Danckaert
Published
19 May 2003
(7 pages)
056112
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Critical properties of loop percolation models with optimization constraints
Frank O. Pfeiffer and Heiko Rieger
Published
19 May 2003
(8 pages)
056113
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Does the transverse electric zero mode contribute to the Casimir effect for a metal?
J. S. Høye, I. Brevik, J. B. Aarseth, and K. A. Milton
Published
22 May 2003
(17 pages)
056116
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Star-unitary transformations: From dynamics to irreversibility and stochastic behavior
Sungyun Kim and Gonzalo Ordonez
Published
22 May 2003
(25 pages)
056117
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Size of quantum networks
Ginestra Bianconi
Published
23 May 2003
(6 pages)
056119
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Critical dynamics of the Gaussian model with multispin transitions
Xiang-Mu Kong and Z. R. Yang
Published
23 May 2003
(12 pages)
056121
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Friction effects and clogging in a cellular automaton model for pedestrian dynamics
Ansgar Kirchner, Katsuhiro Nishinari, and Andreas Schadschneider
Published
23 May 2003
(10 pages)
056122
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Traffic signal synchronization
Ding-wei Huang and Wei-neng Huang
Published
23 May 2003
(7 pages)
056124
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Effect of quantum fluctuations in an Ising system on small-world networks
Hangmo Yi and Mahn-Soo Choi
Published
23 May 2003
(5 pages)
056125
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Winning combinations of history-dependent games
Roland J. Kay and Neil F. Johnson
Published
27 May 2003
(6 pages)
056128
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Magnetization distribution in the transverse Ising chain with energy flux
V. Eisler, Z. Rácz, and F. van Wijland
Published
27 May 2003
(8 pages)
056129
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Simulation of hysteresis in magnetic nanoparticles with Nosé thermostating
Daniel T. Robb, Linda E. Reichl, and Eshel Faraggi
Published
28 May 2003
(14 pages)
056130
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Chaos and pattern formation
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Limit of small exits in open Hamiltonian systems
Jacobo Aguirre and Miguel A. F. Sanjuán
Published
1 May 2003
(7 pages)
056201
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Disclinations in square and hexagonal patterns
A. A. Golovin and A. A. Nepomnyashchy
Published
2 May 2003
(7 pages)
056202
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Mechanism for the intermittent route to strange nonchaotic attractors
Sang-Yoon Kim, Woochang Lim, and Edward Ott
Published
7 May 2003
(5 pages)
056203
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Dynamical properties of the synchronization transition
Michel Droz and Adam Lipowski
Published
13 May 2003
(8 pages)
056204
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Analytical and numerical investigations of the phase-locked loop with time delay
Michael Schanz and Axel Pelster
Published
14 May 2003
(8 pages)
056205
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Mean flow and spiral defect chaos in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
K.-H. Chiam, M. R. Paul, M. C. Cross, and H. S. Greenside
Published
14 May 2003
(13 pages)
056206
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Noise-sustained structures in differential-flow reactors with autocatalytic kinetics
Bernardo von Haeften and Gonzalo Izús
Published
19 May 2003
(7 pages)
056207
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Mode transitions and wave propagation in a driven-dissipative Toda-Rayleigh ring
E. del Río, V. A. Makarov, M. G. Velarde, and W. Ebeling
Published
19 May 2003
(9 pages)
056208
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Scattering and separators in dissipative systems
Yasumasa Nishiura, Takashi Teramoto, and Kei-Ichi Ueda
Published
19 May 2003
(7 pages)
056210
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Traveling waves in phase-separating reactive mixtures
Tohru Okuzono and Takao Ohta
Published
21 May 2003
(10 pages)
056211
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Phase synchronization in the perturbed Chua circuit
Murilo S. Baptista, Tiago P. Silva, José C. Sartorelli, Iberê L. Caldas, and Epaminondas Rosa, Jr.
Published
21 May 2003
(5 pages)
056212
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Receptors as a master key for synchronization of rhythms
Seido Nagano
Published
23 May 2003
(4 pages)
056215
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Direct observation of homoclinic orbits in human heart rate variability
J. J. Żebrowski and R. Baranowski
Published
23 May 2003
(6 pages)
056216
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Loschmidt echo and Lyapunov exponent in a quantum disordered system
Y. Adamov, I. V. Gornyi, and A. D. Mirlin
Published
27 May 2003
(10 pages)
056217
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Noise-covered drift bifurcation of dissipative solitons in a planar gas-discharge system
H. U. Bödeker, M. C. Röttger, A. W. Liehr, T. D. Frank, R. Friedrich, and H.-G. Purwins
Published
28 May 2003
(12 pages)
056220
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Control of chaos by capture and release
John Starrett
Published
28 May 2003
(5 pages)
056221
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Stochastic resonance on two-dimensional arrays of bistable oscillators in a nonlinear optical system
J. P. Sharpe, N. Sungar, M. Swaney, K. Carrigan, and S. Wheeler
Published
28 May 2003
(5 pages)
056222
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Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence
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Brightened single-bubble sonoluminescence by phase-adjusted high-frequency acoustic pulse
Hirotsugu Ogi, Atsushi Matsuda, Kayo Wada, and Masahiko Hirao
Published
1 May 2003
(4 pages)
056301
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Pumping of liquids with ac voltages applied to asymmetric pairs of microelectrodes
A. Ramos, A. González, A. Castellanos, N. G. Green, and H. Morgan
Published
9 May 2003
(11 pages)
056302
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Flow in a rotating curved circular pipe
Jinsuo Zhang, Ning Li, and Benzhao Zhang
Published
12 May 2003
(10 pages)
056303
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Onset of turbulence in accelerated high-Reynolds-number flow
Ye Zhou, Harry F. Robey, and Alfred C. Buckingham
Published
14 May 2003
(11 pages)
056305
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Velocity fluctuations and dispersion in a simple porous medium
Fabrizio Capuani, Daan Frenkel, and Christopher P. Lowe
Published
19 May 2003
(8 pages)
056306
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Experimental studies of occupation times in turbulent flows
J. Mann, S. Ott, H. L. Pécseli, and J. Trulsen
Published
19 May 2003
(4 pages)
056307
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Anomalous roughening in experiments of interfaces in Hele-Shaw flows with strong quenched disorder
Jordi Soriano, Jordi Ortín, and A. Hernández-Machado
Published
21 May 2003
(12 pages)
056308
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Screw dynamo in a time-dependent pipe flow
Wolfgang Dobler, Peter Frick, and Rodion Stepanov
Published
21 May 2003
(10 pages)
056309
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Harmonic enhancement of single-bubble sonoluminescence
Xiaozhen Lu, Andrea Prosperetti, Ruediger Toegel, and Detlef Lohse
Published
22 May 2003
(9 pages)
056310
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Tolman’s nonlinearity of capillary waves
Anton V. Dolgikh, Dmitry L. Dorofeev, and Boris A. Zon
Published
22 May 2003
(5 pages)
056311
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Drag reduction by polymers in turbulent channel flows: Energy redistribution between invariant empirical modes
Elisabetta De Angelis, Carlo M. Casciola, Victor S. L’vov, Renzo Piva, and Itamar Procaccia
Published
27 May 2003
(11 pages)
056312
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Flow profile near a wall measured by double-focus fluorescence cross-correlation
D. Lumma, A. Best, A. Gansen, F. Feuillebois, J. O. Rädler, and O. I. Vinogradova
Published
27 May 2003
(10 pages)
056313
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Postbreakthrough behavior in flow through porous media
Eduardo López, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Leo Goldmakher, Shlomo Havlin, Peter R. King, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published
28 May 2003
(16 pages)
056314
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Marangoni instability of a thin liquid film resting on a locally heated horizontal wall
Leslie Y. Yeo, Richard V. Craster, and Omar K. Matar
Published
28 May 2003
(14 pages)
056315
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Plasma physics
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Vlasov-Maxwell simulations of high-frequency longitudinal waves in a magnetized plasma
Francesco Califano and Maurizio Lontano
Published
8 May 2003
(5 pages)
056401
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Weakly dissipative dust-ion-acoustic solitons
S. I. Popel, A. P. Golub’, T. V. Losseva, A. V. Ivlev, S. A. Khrapak, and G. Morfill
Published
9 May 2003
(5 pages)
056402
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Blast waves produced by interactions of femtosecond laser pulses with water
Y. T. Li, J. Zhang, H. Teng, K. Li, X. Y. Peng, Z. Jin, X. Lu, Z. Y. Zheng, and Q. Z. Yu
Published
12 May 2003
(5 pages)
056403
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Modeling of self-excited dust vortices in complex plasmas under microgravity
M. R. Akdim and W. J. Goedheer
Published
23 May 2003
(6 pages)
056405
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Equation-of-state measurements of polyimide at pressures up to 5.8 TPa using low-density foam with laser-driven shock waves
K. Takamatsu, N. Ozaki, K. A. Tanaka, T. Ono, K. Nagai, M. Nakai, T. Watari, A. Sunahara, M. Nakano, T. Kataoka, H. Takenaka, M. Yoshida, K. Kondo, and T. Yamanaka
Published
23 May 2003
(5 pages)
056406
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Electron distribution function in short-pulse photoionization
B. Hafizi, P. Sprangle, J. R. Peñano, and D. F. Gordon
Published
23 May 2003
(7 pages)
056407
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Low-pressure diffusion equilibrium of electronegative complex plasmas
K. Ostrikov, I. B. Denysenko, S. V. Vladimirov, S. Xu, H. Sugai, and M. Y. Yu
Published
27 May 2003
(13 pages)
056408
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Two-dimensional effects in laser-created plasmas measured with soft-x-ray laser interferometry
J. Filevich, J. J. Rocca, E. Jankowska, E. C. Hammarsten, K. Kanizay, M. C. Marconi, S. J. Moon, and V. N. Shlyaptsev
Published
29 May 2003
(6 pages)
056409
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Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials
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Lens optics as an optical computer for group contractions
S. Başkal and Y. S. Kim
Published
1 May 2003
(8 pages)
056601
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Numerical simulations of self-focusing of ultrafast laser pulses
Gadi Fibich, Weiqing Ren, and Xiao-Ping Wang
Published
7 May 2003
(9 pages)
056603
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Enhanced mobility of strongly localized modes in waveguide arrays by inversion of stability
Michael Öster, Magnus Johansson, and Anders Eriksson
Published
9 May 2003
(8 pages)
056606
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Stable spatiotemporal spinning solitons in a bimodal cubic-quintic medium
D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, I. Towers, B. A. Malomed, and F. Lederer
Published
14 May 2003
(9 pages)
056608
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Nondiffracting waves in anisotropic media
J. Salo and M. M. Salomaa
Published
14 May 2003
(9 pages)
056609
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Interaction of pulses in the nonlinear Schrödinger model
E. N. Tsoy and F. Kh. Abdullaev
Published
14 May 2003
(6 pages)
056610
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Plasmon localization and local field distribution in metal-dielectric films
Dentcho A. Genov, Andrey K. Sarychev, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
Published
15 May 2003
(10 pages)
056611
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Propagation of partially coherent pulsed beams in the spatiotemporal domain
Li-gang Wang, Qiang Lin, Hong Chen, and Shi-yao Zhu
Published
19 May 2003
(7 pages)
056613
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Light scattering from a randomly occupied optical lattice. I. Born approximation
Wei Guo and Sudhakar Prasad
Published
19 May 2003
(11 pages)
056614
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Discrete vector solitons in two-dimensional nonlinear waveguide arrays: Solutions, stability, and dynamics
J. Hudock, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, and D. N. Christodoulides
Published
21 May 2003
(16 pages)
056618
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Effects of polarization on laser holography for microstructure fabrication
Hui Min Su, Y. C. Zhong, X. Wang, X. G. Zheng, J. F. Xu, and H. Z. Wang
Published
21 May 2003
(6 pages)
056619
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Cylinder gratings in conical incidence with applications to woodpile structures
G. H. Smith, L. C. Botten, R. C. McPhedran, and N. A. Nicorovici
Published
21 May 2003
(10 pages)
056620
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Oscillatory wave fronts in chains of coupled nonlinear oscillators
A. Carpio and L. L. Bonilla
Published
22 May 2003
(11 pages)
056621
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Example of bianisotropic electromagnetic crystals: The spiral medium
P. A. Belov, C. R. Simovski, and S. A. Tretyakov
Published
23 May 2003
(6 pages)
056622
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Solution of the time-dependent diffusion equation for layered diffusive media by the eigenfunction method
Fabrizio Martelli, Angelo Sassaroli, Samuele Del Bianco, Yukio Yamada, and Giovanni Zaccanti
Published
27 May 2003
(14 pages)
056623
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Twist defects in helical sonic structures
C. Oldano, J. A. Reyes, and S. Ponti
Published
27 May 2003
(7 pages)
056624
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Computational physics
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Phase transition and landscape statistics of the number partitioning problem
Peter F. Stadler, Wim Hordijk, and José F. Fontanari
Published
2 May 2003
(6 pages)
056701
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Efficient scheme for numerical simulations of the spin-bath decoherence
V. V. Dobrovitski and H. A. De Raedt
Published
8 May 2003
(7 pages)
056702
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Macrostate data clustering
Daniel Korenblum and David Shalloway
Published
15 May 2003
(12 pages)
056704
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One-step finite-difference time-domain algorithm to solve the Maxwell equations
H. De Raedt, K. Michielsen, J. S. Kole, and M. T. Figge
Published
19 May 2003
(12 pages)
056706
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General methods of statistical physics
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Two-dimensional projections of a hypercube
Guillermo Abramson and Damián H. Zanette
Published
19 May 2003
(3 pages)
057101
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Global persistence exponent of the two-dimensional Blume-Capel model
Roberto da Silva, Nelson A. Alves, and J. R. Drugowich de Felício
Published
21 May 2003
(4 pages)
057102
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Depinning transition at the upper critical dimension
Andrei A. Fedorenko and Semjon Stepanow
Published
23 May 2003
(4 pages)
057104
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Lattice glass model with no tendency to crystallize
M. Pica Ciamarra, M. Tarzia, A. de Candia, and A. Coniglio
Published
28 May 2003
(4 pages)
057105
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Plasma physics
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Nonlinear drift waves in electron-positron-ion plasmas
H. Saleem, Q. Haque, and J. Vranjes̆
Published
19 May 2003
(4 pages)
057402
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Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials
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Classical acoustic waves in damped media
E. L. Albuquerque and P. W. Mauriz
Published
14 May 2003
(4 pages)
057601
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Guided modes in negative-refractive-index waveguides
Ilya V. Shadrivov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published
19 May 2003
(4 pages)
057602
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Directional photon transfer between two wires
L. Dobrzynski, A. Akjouj, B. Djafari-Rouhani, J. O. Vasseur, M. Bouazaoui, J. P. Vilcot, A. Beaurain, and S. McMurtry
Published
28 May 2003
(4 pages)
057603
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