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Physical Review E – July 2003
Volume 68, Issue 1

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Soft depletion in binary fluids
V. I. Kalikmanov
Published 23 July 2003 (4 pages)
010101(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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One-dimensional heat conductivity exponent from a random collision model
J. M. Deutsch and Onuttom Narayan
Published 18 July 2003 (3 pages)
010201(R) [View PDF (36 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Crossover and universality in the Wolf-Villain model
Dimitri D. Vvedensky
Published 25 July 2003 (4 pages)
010601(R) [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Towards a quantitative phase-field model of two-phase solidification
R. Folch and M. Plapp
Published 30 July 2003 (4 pages)
010602(R) [View PDF (76 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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One-dimensional transport with dynamic disorder
Valeri Barsegov, Yonathan Shapir, and Shaul Mukamel
Published 11 July 2003 (14 pages)
011101 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Average size of random polygons with fixed knot topology
Hiroshi Matsuda, Akihisa Yao, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Tetsuo Deguchi, Ko Furuta, and Takeo Inami
Published 18 July 2003 (4 pages)
011102 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Spatial patterns induced purely by dichotomous disorder
J. Buceta and Katja Lindenberg
Published 23 July 2003 (13 pages)
011103 [View PDF (792 kB)]
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Properties of isolated systems in external fields
Janka Petravic
Published 23 July 2003 (9 pages)
011104 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Mechanism of hypersensitive transport in tilted sharp ratchets
Romi Mankin, Astrid Haljas, Risto Tammelo, and Dmitri Martila
Published 29 July 2003 (5 pages)
011105 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Shear viscosity of liquid mixtures: Mass dependence
Rohan Kaushal and K. Tankeshwar
Published 3 July 2003 (7 pages)
011201 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Determination of the interaction potential from the pair distribution function: An inverse Monte Carlo technique
N. G. Almarza and E. Lomba
Published 3 July 2003 (6 pages)
011202 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Bulk and interfacial properties of a dipolar-quadrupolar fluid in a uniform electric field: A density-functional approach
V. B. Warshavsky and X. C. Zeng
Published 14 July 2003 (17 pages)
011203 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Temperature and pressure study of Brillouin transverse modes in the organic glass-forming liquid orthoterphenyl
C. Dreyfus, A. Aouadi, J. Gapinski, M. Matos-Lopes, W. Steffen, A. Patkowski, and R. M. Pick
Published 15 July 2003 (11 pages)
011204 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Shear viscosity relaxation of a critical binary liquid
Ralph Behrends and Udo Kaatze
Published 25 July 2003 (4 pages)
011205 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Granular materials

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Mechanical analog of temperature for the description of force distribution in static granular packings
A. H. W. Ngan
Published 11 July 2003 (10 pages)
011301 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Kinetics of inhomogeneous cooling in granular fluids
Subir K. Das and Sanjay Puri
Published 14 July 2003 (11 pages)
011302 [View PDF (879 kB)]
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Geometrical analysis of sand piles on small platforms
John M. H. Barton and Steven G. Buchberger
Published 18 July 2003 (11 pages)
011303 [View PDF (1,118 kB)]
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Shear with comminution of a granular material: Microscopic deformations outside the shear band
G. Chambon, J. Schmittbuhl, A. Corfdir, J. P. Vilotte, and S. Roux
Published 23 July 2003 (8 pages)
011304 [View PDF (732 kB)]
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Exact steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation: A driven one-dimensional inelastic Maxwell gas
A. Santos and M. H. Ernst
Published 25 July 2003 (11 pages)
011305 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder
Corey S. O’Hern, Leonardo E. Silbert, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Published 25 July 2003 (19 pages)
011306 [View PDF (377 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Lattice Boltzmann simulation of a single charged particle in a Newtonian fluid
Rong-zhen Wan, Hai-ping Fang, Zhifang Lin, and Shiyi Chen
Published 8 July 2003 (5 pages)
011401 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Adsorption and diffusion in a one-dimensional potential well
L. E. Helseth, H. Z. Wen, T. M. Fischer, and T. H. Johansen
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
011402 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Effect of the range of attractive interactions on crystallization, metastable phase transition, and percolation in colloidal dispersions
Dong Fu, Yigui Li, and Jianzhong Wu
Published 14 July 2003 (12 pages)
011403 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Modeling the aggregation of partially covered particles: Theory and simulation
A. Moncho-Jordá, G. Odriozola, M. Tirado-Miranda, A. Schmitt, and R. Hidalgo-Álvarez
Published 15 July 2003 (12 pages)
011404 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Dynamic equivalence between soft- and hard-core Brownian fluids
F. de J. Guevara-Rodríguez and Magdaleno Medina-Noyola
Published 21 July 2003 (8 pages)
011405 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Structural changes of poly(butadiene)-poly(ethyleneoxide) diblock-copolymer micelles induced by a cationic surfactant: Scattering and cryogenic transmission electron microscopy studies
Anette Nordskog, Holger Egger, Gerhard H. Findenegg, Thomas Hellweg, Helmut Schlaad, Hans von Berlepsch, and Christoph Böttcher
Published 24 July 2003 (14 pages)
011406 [View PDF (868 kB)]
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Local field effects on reorientation in suspensions of anisotropic particles
Ohad Levy
Published 24 July 2003 (11 pages)
011407 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Crossover behavior in micellar solutions with lower critical demixing point: Broadband ultrasonic spectrometry of the isobutoxyethanol-water system
K. Menzel, S. Z. Mirzaev, and U. Kaatze
Published 9 July 2003 (11 pages)
011501 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Simulating the dynamic behavior of immiscible binary fluids in three-dimensional chemically patterned microchannels
Olga Kuksenok and Anna C. Balazs
Published 11 July 2003 (8 pages)
011502 [View PDF (1,143 kB)]
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Spontaneous ferromagnetic ordering in magnetic fluids
Alexey O. Ivanov
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
011503 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Reexamination of the evolution of the dynamic susceptibility of the glass former glycerol
S. Adichtchev, T. Blochowicz, C. Tschirwitz, V. N. Novikov, and E. A. Rössler
Published 14 July 2003 (10 pages)
011504 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Possible resolution of the Kauzmann paradox in supercooled liquids
Hajime Tanaka
Published 18 July 2003 (8 pages)
011505 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Dynamics and melting of a thin confined film
O. M. Braun and M. Peyrard
Published 23 July 2003 (11 pages)
011506 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Shear yielding of amorphous glassy solids: Effect of temperature and strain rate
Jörg Rottler and Mark O. Robbins
Published 25 July 2003 (10 pages)
011507 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Analytical solution of a one-dimensional lattice gas model with an infinite number of multiatom interactions
V. I. Tokar and H. Dreyssé
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
011601 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Effect of the ratio of solid to liquid conductivity on the stability parameter of dendrites within a phase-field model of solidification
A. M. Mullis
Published 11 July 2003 (6 pages)
011602 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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High-resolution measurements of pressure solution creep
Dag Kristian Dysthe, Francois Renard, Jens Feder, Bjørn Jamtveit, Paul Meakin, and Torstein Jøssang
Published 14 July 2003 (13 pages)
011603 [View PDF (1,172 kB)]
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Mean-field kinetic lattice gas model of electrochemical cells
Marc-Olivier Bernard, Mathis Plapp, and Jean-François Gouyet
Published 25 July 2003 (14 pages)
011604 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Surface kinetics and generation of different terms in a conservative growth equation
S. V. Ghaisas
Published 28 July 2003 (12 pages)
011605 [View PDF (190 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Molecular reorientation by photoinduced modulation of rotational mobility
M. Kreuzer, E. Benkler, D. Paparo, G. Casillo, and L. Marrucci
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
011701 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Intrinsic aspect of V-shaped switching in ferroelectric liquid crystals: Biaxial anchoring arising from peculiar short axis biasing in the molecular rotation around the long axis
Naoki Hayashi, Tatsuhisa Kato, Tomohiro Ando, Atsuo Fukuda, Sachiko Kawada, and Shinya Kondoh
Published 11 July 2003 (9 pages)
011702 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Reentrant synclinic phase in an electric-field–temperature-phase diagram for enantiomeric mixtures of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal
Neha M. Patel, Charles Rosenblatt, and Yi-kuo Yu
Published 14 July 2003 (5 pages)
011703 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Liquid crystal behavior of the Kihara fluid
A. Cuetos, B. Martínez-Haya, S. Lago, and L. F. Rull
Published 15 July 2003 (4 pages)
011704 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Agreements and disagreements between theories and experiments in nematoviscosity
M. Simões and S. M. Domiciano
Published 18 July 2003 (7 pages)
011705 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Local layer structures in circular domains of an achiral bent-core mesogen observed by x-ray microbeam diffraction
Yoichi Takanishi, Toyokazu Ogasawara, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe, Junji Watanabe, Yumiko Takahashi, and Atsuo Iida
Published 21 July 2003 (5 pages)
011706 [View PDF (774 kB)]
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Interpretation of unusual textures in the B2 phase of a liquid crystal composed of bent-core molecules
J. Ortega, C. L. Folcia, J. Etxebarria, N. Gimeno, and M. B. Ros
Published 24 July 2003 (4 pages)
011707 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Capillary forces in a confined isotropic-nematic liquid crystal
A. Borštnik Bračič, K. Kočevar, I. Muševič, and S. Žumer
Published 28 July 2003 (9 pages)
011708 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Structure and texture of anisotropic nematic gels
P. Gautier, M. Brunet, J. Grupp, L. Noirez, and E. Anglaret
Published 31 July 2003 (12 pages)
011709 [View PDF (1,224 kB)]

Polymers

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Growth, microstructure, and failure of crazes in glassy polymers
Jörg Rottler and Mark O. Robbins
Published 3 July 2003 (18 pages)
011801 [View PDF (1,762 kB)]
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Lattice mean-field method for stationary polymer diffusion
S. M. Scheinhardt-Engels, F. A. M. Leermakers, and G. J. Fleer
Published 15 July 2003 (15 pages)
011802 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Photoinduced three-dimensional orientational order in side chain liquid crystalline azopolymers
O. V. Yaroshchuk, A. D. Kiselev, Yu. Zakrevskyy, T. Bidna, J. Kelly, L.-C. Chien, and J. Lindau
Published 24 July 2003 (15 pages)
011803 [View PDF (643 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulations of branched polymer surfaces without bending elasticity
Hiroshi Koibuchi, Atsusi Nidaira, Takumi Morita, and Komei Suzuki
Published 25 July 2003 (6 pages)
011804 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Electrical conductivity of polyelectrolyte solutions in the presence of added salt: The role of the solvent quality factor in light of a scaling approach
F. Bordi, C. Cametti, and T. Gili
Published 29 July 2003 (12 pages)
011805 [View PDF (303 kB)]

Biological physics

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Dynamical mechanisms underlying contrast gain control in single neurons
Yuguo Yu and Tai Sing Lee
Published 8 July 2003 (7 pages)
011901 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Comparison of asymptotics of heart and nerve excitability
Rebecca Suckley and Vadim N. Biktashev
Published 11 July 2003 (15 pages)
011902 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Effective pair potentials between protein amino acids
P. Pliego-Pastrana and M. D. Carbajal-Tinoco
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
011903 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Thermodynamic instability in supersaturated lysozyme solutions: Effect of salt and role of concentration fluctuations
Mauro Manno, Caide Xiao, Donatella Bulone, Vincenzo Martorana, and Pier Luigi San Biagio
Published 14 July 2003 (11 pages)
011904 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Effects of DNA-distorting proteins on DNA elastic response
Jie Yan and John F. Marko
Published 15 July 2003 (12 pages)
011905 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Solving the riddle of the bright mismatches: Labeling and effective binding in oligonucleotide arrays
Felix Naef and Marcelo O. Magnasco
Published 16 July 2003 (4 pages)
011906 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy of glutamate dehydrogenase: Integrated behavior and deconvolution analysis
P. P. Pompa, R. Cingolani, and R. Rinaldi
Published 18 July 2003 (9 pages)
011907 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Spatial representation of temporal information through spike-timing-dependent plasticity
Thomas Nowotny, Misha I. Rabinovich, and Henry D. I. Abarbanel
Published 18 July 2003 (12 pages)
011908 [View PDF (1,174 kB)]
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Perimeter growth of a branched structure: Application to crackle sounds in the lung
Adriano M. Alencar, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Arnab Majumdar, H. Eugene Stanley, and Béla Suki
Published 21 July 2003 (12 pages)
011909 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Synthetic nanopores with fixed charges: An electrodiffusion model for ionic transport
P. Ramírez, S. Mafé, V. M. Aguilella, and A. Alcaraz
Published 25 July 2003 (8 pages)
011910 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Optimal noise-aided signal transmission through populations of neurons
Thomas Hoch, Gregor Wenning, and Klaus Obermayer
Published 29 July 2003 (11 pages)
011911 [View PDF (182 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Anisotropic thermally activated diffusion in percolation systems
S. Bustingorry and G. L. Insua
Published 21 July 2003 (4 pages)
012101 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Granular materials

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Air-driven Brazil nut effect
M. A. Naylor, Michael R. Swift, and P. J. King
Published 21 July 2003 (4 pages)
012301 [View PDF (193 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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General stability criterion for wetting
Riccardo Rosso and Epifanio G. Virga
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
012601 [View PDF (64 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Topology of the world trade web
Ma Ángeles Serrano and Marián Boguñá
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
015101(R) [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Random graphs with hidden color
Bo Söderberg
Published 15 July 2003 (4 pages)
015102(R) [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Power-law behavior in the power spectrum induced by Brownian motion of a domain wall
Shinji Takesue, Tetsuya Mitsudo, and Hisao Hayakawa
Published 18 July 2003 (4 pages)
015103(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Phase transitions towards frequency entrainment in large oscillator lattices
Per Östborn, Sven Åberg, and Gunnar Ohlén
Published 22 July 2003 (4 pages)
015104(R) [View PDF (631 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Interaction of two modulational instabilities in a semiconductor resonator
G. Kozyreff, S. J. Chapman, and M. Tlidi
Published 15 July 2003 (4 pages)
015201(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Weak inertial-wave turbulence theory
Sébastien Galtier
Published 15 July 2003 (4 pages)
015301(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Continued fraction matrix representation of response functions in multicomponent systems
Jérôme Daligault and Michael S. Murillo
Published 23 July 2003 (4 pages)
015401(R) [View PDF (145 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Near-field optical investigation of three-dimensional photonic crystals
E. Flück, N. F. van Hulst, W. L. Vos, and L. Kuipers
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
015601(R) [View PDF (631 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission in a photonic crystal near the band edge: Field versus population dynamics
Yaping Yang, M. Fleischhauer, and Shi-Yao Zhu
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
015602(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Two-dimensional cnoidal waves in Kerr-type saturable nonlinear media
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
Published 28 July 2003 (4 pages)
015603(R) [View PDF (262 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Quantum four-stroke heat engine: Thermodynamic observables in a model with intrinsic friction
Tova Feldmann and Ronnie Kosloff
Published 3 July 2003 (18 pages)
016101 [View PDF (1,011 kB)]
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Emerging behavior in electronic bidding
I. Yang, H. Jeong, B. Kahng, and A.-L. Barabási
Published 3 July 2003 (5 pages)
016102 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Asymmetric bistable systems subject to periodic and stochastic forcing in the strongly nonlinear regime: Switching time distributions
A. Nikitin, N. G. Stocks, and A. R. Bulsara
Published 11 July 2003 (18 pages)
016103 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Escaping from cycles through a glass transition
Sebastian Risau-Gusman, Alexandre S. Martinez, and Osame Kinouchi
Published 11 July 2003 (11 pages)
016104 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and Fisher information: Sound wave propagation in a dilute gas
S. P. Flego, B. R. Frieden, A. Plastino, A. R. Plastino, and B. H. Soffer
Published 11 July 2003 (11 pages)
016105 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Learning curves for mutual information maximization
R. Urbanczik
Published 11 July 2003 (6 pages)
016106 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Critical behavior of efficiency dynamics in small-world networks
Sheng-You Huang, Xian-Wu Zou, Zhi-Jie Tan, Zhi-Gang Shao, and Zhun-Zhi Jin
Published 11 July 2003 (6 pages)
016107 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Thermodynamics with long-range interactions: From Ising models to black holes
Jonathan Oppenheim
Published 11 July 2003 (17 pages)
016108 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Equilibrium properties of a monomer-monomer catalytic reaction on a one-dimensional chain
G. Oshanin, M. N. Popescu, and S. Dietrich
Published 11 July 2003 (10 pages)
016109 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Dynamic structure factor of the three-dimensional Ising model with purely relaxational dynamics
Pasquale Calabrese, Victor Martín-Mayor, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari
Published 11 July 2003 (11 pages)
016110 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Brosilow-Ziff model for the CO-NO surface reaction on disordered two- and three-dimensional substrates
Joaquín Cortés and Eliana Valencia
Published 11 July 2003 (8 pages)
016111 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Random walks on finite lattice tubes
B. I. Henry and M. T. Batchelor
Published 14 July 2003 (8 pages)
016112 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Self-consistent equation for an interacting Bose gas
Philippe A. Martin and Jaroslaw Piasecki
Published 14 July 2003 (14 pages)
016113 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Epidemic spreading with immunization and mutations
Stephan M. Dammer and Haye Hinrichsen
Published 14 July 2003 (8 pages)
016114 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Dynamic mean-field models from a nonequilibrium thermodynamics perspective
Markus Hütter, Iliya V. Karlin, and Hans Christian Öttinger
Published 15 July 2003 (9 pages)
016115 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Fluctuation-dissipation relations in the nonequilibrium critical dynamics of Ising models
Peter Mayer, Ludovic Berthier, Juan P. Garrahan, and Peter Sollich
Published 21 July 2003 (21 pages)
016116 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Cellular automata model simulating complex spatiotemporal structure of wide jams
Xiao-Bai Li, Rui Jiang, and Qing-Song Wu
Published 21 July 2003 (5 pages)
016117 [View PDF (736 kB)]
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Global dissipativity of continuous-time recurrent neural networks with time delay
Xiaoxin Liao and Jun Wang
Published 23 July 2003 (7 pages)
016118 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Power-law relaxation in a complex system: Omori law after a financial market crash
F. Lillo and R. N. Mantegna
Published 23 July 2003 (5 pages)
016119 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Exact representation of crossover of transitions from first order to second order in the Potts model for rumor transmission
C. G. Shao, Z. Z. Liu, J. F. Wang, and J. Luo
Published 24 July 2003 (14 pages)
016120 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Fisher, bound, and extreme physical information for dissipative processes
Ferenc Márkus and Katalin Gambár
Published 25 July 2003 (3 pages)
016121 [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Reduction of the sign problem using the meron-cluster approach
Sara Bergkvist, Patrik Henelius, and Anders Rosengren
Published 25 July 2003 (8 pages)
016122 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Power-law tail probabilities of drainage areas in river basins
Seth A. Veitzer, Brent M. Troutman, and Vijay K. Gupta
Published 25 July 2003 (9 pages)
016123 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Quantum games of asymmetric information
Jiangfeng Du, Hui Li, and Chenyong Ju
Published 28 July 2003 (5 pages)
016124 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Kinetic friction and atomistic instabilities in boundary-lubricated systems
Martin Aichele and Martin H. Müser
Published 29 July 2003 (14 pages)
016125 [View PDF (169 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Time-phase bispectral analysis
Janez Jamšek, Aneta Stefanovska, Peter V. E. McClintock, and Igor A. Khovanov
Published 3 July 2003 (12 pages)
016201 [View PDF (1,629 kB)]
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Identification of nonlinear spatiotemporal systems via partitioned filtering
A. Sitz, J. Kurths, and H. U. Voss
Published 8 July 2003 (9 pages)
016202 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Level statistics and eigenfunctions of pseudointegrable systems: Dependence on energy and genus number
Yuriy Hlushchuk and Stefanie Russ
Published 11 July 2003 (10 pages)
016203 [View PDF (721 kB)]
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Statistics of transmitted power in multichannel dissipative ergodic structures
Igor Rozhkov, Yan V. Fyodorov, and Richard L. Weaver
Published 11 July 2003 (12 pages)
016204 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Realization of the fundamental NOR gate using a chaotic circuit
K. Murali, Sudeshna Sinha, and William L. Ditto
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
016205 [View PDF (779 kB)]
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Ordered quantization and the Ehrenfest time scale
R. M. Angelo, L. Sanz, and K. Furuya
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
016206 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Nonlinear polarization dynamics in directly modulated vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
M. Sciamanna, A. Valle, P. Mégret, M. Blondel, and K. Panajotov
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
016207 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Spiral waves in a coupled network of sine-circle maps
Sung-Jae Woo, Jysoo Lee, and Kyoung J. Lee
Published 14 July 2003 (4 pages)
016208 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Direct measurement of multiple instability regions via a Fourier filtering method in an optical pattern forming system
M. Pesch, E. Große Westhoff, T. Ackemann, and W. Lange
Published 14 July 2003 (6 pages)
016209 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Experimental realization of chaos control by thresholding
K. Murali and Sudeshna Sinha
Published 14 July 2003 (6 pages)
016210 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Effective Hamiltonian and unitarity of the S matrix
I. Rotter
Published 15 July 2003 (13 pages)
016211 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Critical behavior in an atomistic model for a bistable surface reaction: CO oxidation with rapid CO diffusion
N. Pavlenko, R. Imbihl, J. W. Evans, and Da-Jiang Liu
Published 15 July 2003 (8 pages)
016212 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Localized solutions in parametrically driven pattern formation
Tae-Chang Jo and Dieter Armbruster
Published 16 July 2003 (12 pages)
016213 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Periodic forcing and feedback control of nonlinear lumped oscillators and meandering spiral waves
V S. Zykov, G. Bordiougov, H. Brandtstädter, I. Gerdes, and H. Engel
Published 16 July 2003 (11 pages)
016214 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Generalized synchronization of chaos in He-Ne lasers
A. Uchida, K. Higa, T. Shiba, S. Yoshimori, F. Kuwashima, and H. Iwasawa
Published 18 July 2003 (7 pages)
016215 [View PDF (669 kB)]
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Stochastic multiresonance due to interplay between noise and fractals
S. Matyjaśkiewicz, A. Krawiecki, J. A. Hołyst, and L. Schimansky-Geier
Published 21 July 2003 (7 pages)
016216 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Bubbling and on-off intermittency in bailout embeddings
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Marcelo O. Magnasco, Oreste Piro, and Idan Tuval
Published 21 July 2003 (7 pages)
016217 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Stability of knots in excitable media
Paul M. Sutcliffe and Arthur T. Winfree
Published 23 July 2003 (5 pages)
016218 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Statistical crossover characterization of the heterotic localized-extended transition
Ryuichi Ugajin
Published 23 July 2003 (7 pages)
016219 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Multimodal map and complex basin of attraction of a simple hopper
C. K. Reddy and R. Pratap
Published 24 July 2003 (8 pages)
016220 [View PDF (982 kB)]
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Slow relaxation in weakly open rational polygons
Valery B. Kokshenev and Eduardo Vicentini
Published 31 July 2003 (8 pages)
016221 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Redshift of acoustic waves in acoustic streaming
Masanori Sato, Tsuyoshi Matsuo, and Toshitaka Fujii
Published 11 July 2003 (7 pages)
016301 [View PDF (629 kB)]
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Inverted velocity profile in the cylindrical Couette flow of a rarefied gas
Kazuo Aoki, Hiroaki Yoshida, Toshiyuki Nakanishi, and Alejandro L. Garcia
Published 11 July 2003 (11 pages)
016302 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann model for compressible flows
Chenghai Sun and Andrew T. Hsu
Published 11 July 2003 (14 pages)
016303 [View PDF (1,005 kB)]
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Ion evaporation from the surface of a Taylor cone
F. J. Higuera
Published 14 July 2003 (10 pages)
016304 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Theoretical study of flow coupling mechanisms in two-layer Rayleigh-Bénard convection
M. Petry and F. H. Busse
Published 16 July 2003 (9 pages)
016305 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Molecular scale contact line hydrodynamics of immiscible flows
Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng
Published 17 July 2003 (15 pages)
016306 [View PDF (1,283 kB)]
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Integrable version of Burgers equation in magnetohydrodynamics
P. Olesen
Published 23 July 2003 (6 pages)
016307 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Shell model for drag reduction with polymer additives in homogeneous turbulence
Roberto Benzi, Elisabetta De Angelis, Rama Govindarajan, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 23 July 2003 (10 pages)
016308 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Water vapor diffusion effects on gas dynamics in a sonoluminescing bubble
Ning Xu, Robert E. Apfel, Anthony Khong, Xiwei Hu, and Long Wang
Published 23 July 2003 (7 pages)
016309 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Tangent double Hopf bifurcation in a differentially rotating cylinder flow
F. Marques, A. Yu. Gelfgat, and J. M. Lopez
Published 24 July 2003 (13 pages)
016310 [View PDF (639 kB)]
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Generation of large-scale vorticity in a homogeneous turbulence with a mean velocity shear
Tov Elperin, Nathan Kleeorin, and Igor Rogachevskii
Published 25 July 2003 (8 pages)
016311 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Complex magnetohydrodynamic low-Reynolds-number flows
Yu Xiang and Haim H. Bau
Published 28 July 2003 (11 pages)
016312 [View PDF (1,076 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Two-dimensional nonlocal model of axially and radially inhomogeneous plasma of cylindrical magnetron discharge
I. A. Porokhova, Yu. B. Golubovskii, M. Holík, P. Kudrna, M. Tichý, C. Wilke, and J. F. Behnke
Published 3 July 2003 (9 pages)
016401 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Experimental and calculated Stark widths within the Kr I spectrum
V. Milosavljević, S. Djeniže, and M. S. Dimitrijević
Published 3 July 2003 (8 pages)
016402 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Dynamic probe of dust wakefield interactions using constrained collisions
G. A. Hebner, M. E. Riley, and B. M. Marder
Published 11 July 2003 (5 pages)
016403 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Formation of a vortex crystal cell assisted by a background vorticity distribution
A. Sanpei, Y. Kiwamoto, K. Ito, and Y. Soga
Published 11 July 2003 (6 pages)
016404 [View PDF (541 kB)]
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Properties and control of anode double layer oscillations and related phenomena
Valentin Pohoaţǎ, Gheorghe Popa, Roman Schrittwieser, Codrina Ioniţǎ, and Milan Čerček
Published 11 July 2003 (8 pages)
016405 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Resonant quasiparticles in plasma turbulence
J. T. Mendonça, R. Bingham, and P. K. Shukla
Published 11 July 2003 (6 pages)
016406 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Chaos-induced resistivity in the magnetic null region: A nonlinear mechanism of collisionless dissipation
Ryusuke Numata and Zensho Yoshida
Published 14 July 2003 (7 pages)
016407 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Positive-column plasma studied by fast-flow glow discharge mass spectrometry:  Could it be a “Rydberg gas?”
Rod S. Mason, Pat D. Miller, Ifor Mortimer, David J. Mitchell, and Neil A. Dash
Published 23 July 2003 (14 pages)
016408 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Angular momenta creation in relativistic electron-positron plasma
T. Tatsuno, V. I. Berezhiani, M. Pekker, and S. M. Mahajan
Published 23 July 2003 (8 pages)
016409 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Induced potential of a dust particle in a collisional radio-frequency sheath
Lu-Jing Hou, You-Nian Wang, and Z. L. Mišković
Published 24 July 2003 (7 pages)
016410 [View PDF (424 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Numerical analysis of an injection-locked gyrotron backward-wave oscillator with tapered sections
A. Grudiev and K. Schünemann
Published 9 July 2003 (10 pages)
016501 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Dipole-mode wakefields in dielectric-loaded rectangular waveguide accelerating structures
Chunguang Jing, Wanming Liu, Liling Xiao, Wei Gai, P. Schoessow, and Thomas Wong
Published 21 July 2003 (6 pages)
016502 [View PDF (293 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Fractal dynamics of electric discharges in a thundercloud
D. I. Iudin, V. Y. Trakhtengerts, and M. Hayakawa
Published 3 July 2003 (11 pages)
016601 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Signal velocity and group velocity for an optical pulse propagating through a GaAs cavity
Marco Centini, Mark Bloemer, Krishna Myneni, Michael Scalora, Concita Sibilia, Mario Bertolotti, and Giuseppe D’Aguanno
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
016602 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Optical properties of tungsten thin films perforated with a bidimensional array of subwavelength holes
Michaël Sarrazin and Jean-Pol Vigneron
Published 11 July 2003 (4 pages)
016603 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Time-resolved pulse propagation in a strongly scattering material
Patrick M. Johnson, Arnout Imhof, Boris P. J. Bret, Jaime Gómez Rivas, and Ad Lagendijk
Published 11 July 2003 (9 pages)
016604 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Long-time dynamics of modulated waves in a nonlinear discrete LC transmission line
David Yemélé, Patrick Marquié, and Jean Marie Bilbault
Published 14 July 2003 (11 pages)
016605 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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X-wave-mediated instability of plane waves in Kerr media
Claudio Conti
Published 14 July 2003 (4 pages)
016606 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Collisionless Boltzmann equation with an external periodic traveling force: Analytical solution and application to molecular optics
Guangjiong Dong, Weiping Lu, and P. F. Barker
Published 14 July 2003 (9 pages)
016607 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Two-dimensional solitons in quasi-phase-matched quadratic crystals
N.-C. Panoiu, D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, F. Lederer, and R. M. Osgood, Jr.
Published 14 July 2003 (13 pages)
016608 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Photonic crystal horn and array antennas
Andrew R. Weily, Karu P. Esselle, and Barry C. Sanders
Published 16 July 2003 (6 pages)
016609 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Stability of screening solitons in photorefractive media
M. Facão and D. F. Parker
Published 18 July 2003 (7 pages)
016610 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Influence of the dispersive properties of metals on the transmission characteristics of left-handed materials
N.-C. Panoiu and R. M. Osgood, Jr.
Published 21 July 2003 (12 pages)
016611 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Scattering of dipole-mode vector solitons: Theory and experiment
Wieslaw Krolikowski, Glen McCarthy, Yuri S. Kivshar, Carsten Weilnau, Cornelia Denz, Juan J. García-Ripoll, and Víctor M. Pérez-García
Published 21 July 2003 (8 pages)
016612 [View PDF (669 kB)]
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Unified description of Bessel X waves with cone dispersion and tilted pulses
Miguel A. Porras, Gintaras Valiulis, and Paolo Di Trapani
Published 24 July 2003 (11 pages)
016613 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Sasa-Satsuma higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation and its bilinearization and multisoliton solutions
C. Gilson, J. Hietarinta, J. Nimmo, and Y. Ohta
Published 25 July 2003 (10 pages)
016614 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Group delay, stored energy, and the tunneling of evanescent electromagnetic waves
Herbert G. Winful
Published 28 July 2003 (9 pages)
016615 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Cavity pattern formation with incoherent light
Hrvoje Buljan, Marin Soljačić, Tal Carmon, and Mordechai Segev
Published 29 July 2003 (6 pages)
016616 [View PDF (113 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Soliton molecules in trapped vector nonlinear Schrödinger systems [Phys. Rev. E 67, 061804 (2003)]
Víctor Pérez-García and Vadym Vekslerchik
Published 31 July 2003 (1 page)
016617(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]

ARTICLES

Computational physics

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Lattice Boltzmann method on unstructured grids: Further developments
S. Ubertini, G. Bella, and S. Succi
Published 11 July 2003 (10 pages)
016701 [View PDF (826 kB)]
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Isospectral shapes with Neumann and alternating boundary conditions
T. A. Driscoll and H. P. W. Gottlieb
Published 15 July 2003 (6 pages)
016702 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Summation of perturbation series of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of anharmonic oscillators
Marco A. Núñez
Published 25 July 2003 (13 pages)
016703 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Generalized dynamical thermostating technique
Brian B. Laird and Benedict J. Leimkuhler
Published 29 July 2003 (6 pages)
016704 [View PDF (66 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Information flow dynamics and timing patterns in the arrival of email viruses
Larry S. Liebovitch and Ira B. Schwartz
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
017101 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Signatures of small-world and scale-free properties in large computer programs
Alessandro P. S. de Moura, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Adilson E. Motter
Published 15 July 2003 (4 pages)
017102 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Long-memory analysis of time series with missing values
P. S. Wilson, A. C. Tomsett, and R. Toumi
Published 21 July 2003 (4 pages)
017103 [View PDF (48 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Spiking patterns emerging from wave instabilities in a one-dimensional neural lattice
V. B. Kazantsev, V. I. Nekorkin, S. Binczak, and J. M. Bilbault
Published 8 July 2003 (4 pages)
017201 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Manifestation of riddling in the presence of a small parameter mismatch between coupled systems
Serhiy Yanchuk and Tomasz Kapitaniak
Published 22 July 2003 (4 pages)
017202 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Estimation of screening length and electric charge on particles in single-layered dusty plasma crystals
Chieko Totsuji, M. Sanusi Liman, Kenji Tsuruta, and Hiroo Totsuji
Published 3 July 2003 (4 pages)
017401 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Periodic solutions for systems of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations with three and four components
K. W. Chow and D. W. C. Lai
Published 25 July 2003 (4 pages)
017601 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Computational physics

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Smooth-particle boundary conditions
Oyeon Kum, William G. Hoover, and Carol G. Hoover
Published 15 July 2003 (4 pages)
017701 [View PDF (109 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Asymptotic distributions of periodically driven stochastic systems [Phys. Rev. E 67, 061111 (2003)]
Sreedhar B. Dutta and Mustansir Barma
Published 3 July 2003 (1 page)
019901(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Erratum: Geometric approach to Lyapunov analysis in Hamiltonian dynamics [Phys. Rev. E 64, 066206 (2001)]
Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi and Toshihiro Iwai
Published 11 July 2003 (1 page)
019902(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
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Erratum: Decay of passive scalars under the action of single scale smooth velocity fields in bounded two-dimensional domains: From non-self-similar probability distribution functions to self-similar eigenmodes [Phys. Rev. E 66, 056302 (2002)]
Jai Sukhatme and Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Published 18 July 2003 (1 page)
019903(E) [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Erratum: Instantaneous frequency and amplitude identification using wavelets: Application to glass structure [Phys. Rev. E 66, 026703 (2002)]
J. D. Harrop, S. N. Taraskin, and S. R. Elliott
Published 23 July 2003 (1 page)
019904(E) [View PDF (13 kB)]
 
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