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Physical Review E – October 2003
Volume 68, Issue 4

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Path coalescence transition and its applications
M. Wilkinson and B. Mehlig
Published 23 October 2003 (4 pages)
040101(R) [View PDF (225 kB)]

Granular materials

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Velocity statistics in two-dimensional granular turbulence
Masaharu Isobe
Published 22 October 2003 (4 pages)
040301(R) [View PDF (477 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Contribution of the ionic adsorption phenomenon to the effective anchoring energy of a nematic liquid-crystal sample
H. A. Pereira, F. Batalioto, and L. R. Evangelista
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
040701(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Fluctuations of the winding number of a directed polymer in a random medium
Éric Brunet
Published 1 October 2003 (13 pages)
041101 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Two-dimensional array of magnetic particles: The role of an interaction cutoff
S. Fazekas, J. Kertész, and D. E. Wolf
Published 2 October 2003 (8 pages)
041102 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Long range hops and the pair annihilation reaction A+A⃗0: Renormalization group and simulation
Daniel C. Vernon
Published 10 October 2003 (4 pages)
041103 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Fluctuation analysis of stellar x-ray binary systems
M. A. Moret, G. F. Zebende, E. Nogueira, Jr., and M. G. Pereira
Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages)
041104 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Speed of reaction-diffusion fronts in spatially heterogeneous media
Vicenç Méndez, Joaquim Fort, Horacio G. Rotstein, and Sergei Fedotov
Published 13 October 2003 (11 pages)
041105 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Fluctuations of jamming coverage upon random sequential adsorption on homogeneous and heterogeneous media
Ernesto S. Loscar, Rodolfo A. Borzi, and Ezequiel V. Albano
Published 15 October 2003 (9 pages)
041106 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Langevin equation for the Rayleigh model with finite-range interactions
Alexander V. Plyukhin and Jeremy Schofield
Published 21 October 2003 (15 pages)
041107 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Generalizations of the Bruggeman equation and a concept of shape-distributed particle composites
Anatoliy V. Goncharenko
Published 27 October 2003 (13 pages)
041108 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Magnetic properties and structure of polydisperse ferrofluid models
Tamás Kristóf and István Szalai
Published 27 October 2003 (8 pages)
041109 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Relationship between dynamical heterogeneities and stretched exponential relaxation
S. I. Simdyankin and Normand Mousseau
Published 27 October 2003 (7 pages)
041110 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Drift by dichotomous Markov noise
I. Bena, C. Van den Broeck, R. Kawai, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 28 October 2003 (12 pages)
041111 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Quantumlike short-time behavior of a classical crystal
Gianluca Marcelli and Alexander Tenenbaum
Published 28 October 2003 (8 pages)
041112 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Local density fluctuations, hyperuniformity, and order metrics
Salvatore Torquato and Frank H. Stillinger
Published 29 October 2003 (25 pages)
041113 [View PDF (327 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Real space origin of temperature crossovers in supercooled liquids
Ludovic Berthier and Juan P. Garrahan
Published 14 October 2003 (13 pages)
041201 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Vortex breakdown control by adding near-axis swirl and temperature gradients
Miguel Angel Herrada and Vladimir Shtern
Published 14 October 2003 (8 pages)
041202 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Correlations and scaling in one-dimensional heat conduction
J. M. Deutsch and Onuttom Narayan
Published 14 October 2003 (6 pages)
041203 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Viscosity in molecular dynamics with periodic boundary conditions
S. Viscardy and P. Gaspard
Published 23 October 2003 (19 pages)
041204 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Viscosity in the escape-rate formalism
S. Viscardy and P. Gaspard
Published 23 October 2003 (10 pages)
041205 [View PDF (478 kB)]

Granular materials

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Inertia in the Brazil nut problem
Y. Nahmad-Molinari, G. Canul-Chay, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez
Published 8 October 2003 (6 pages)
041301 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Shear viscosity for a moderately dense granular binary mixture
Vicente Garzó and José María Montanero
Published 10 October 2003 (17 pages)
041302 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Reversible polydisperse parking lot model
Martin Wackenhut and Hans Herrmann
Published 14 October 2003 (7 pages)
041303 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Pulse dynamics in a chain of granules with friction
Alexandre Rosas and Katja Lindenberg
Published 15 October 2003 (13 pages)
041304 [View PDF (171 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Structure and magnetic properties of polydisperse ferrofluids: A molecular dynamics study
Zuowei Wang and Christian Holm
Published 2 October 2003 (11 pages)
041401 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Neutron- and light-scattering studies of the liquid-to-glass and glass-to-glass transitions in dense copolymer micellar solutions
Wei-Ren Chen, Francesco Mallamace, Charles J. Glinka, Emiliano Fratini, and Sow-Hsin Chen
Published 10 October 2003 (15 pages)
041402 [View PDF (2,971 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Limit of overheating and the threshold behavior in laser ablation
Barbara J. Garrison, Tatiana E. Itina, and Leonid V. Zhigilei
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
041501 [View PDF (1,048 kB)]
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Very slow relaxation observed in the surface tension of surfactant solutions
Atumi Ozawa, Azusa Muraoka, and Akiko Minamisawa
Published 9 October 2003 (5 pages)
041502 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Microstructure evolution in magnetorheological suspensions governed by Mason number
Sonia Melle, Oscar G. Calderón, Miguel A. Rubio, and Gerald G. Fuller
Published 20 October 2003 (11 pages)
041503 [View PDF (548 kB)]
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Thermodynamically consistent fluid particle model for viscoelastic flows
Marco Ellero, Pep Español, and Eirik G. Flekkøy
Published 23 October 2003 (19 pages)
041504 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Free energy of liquid water on the basis of quasichemical theory and ab initio molecular dynamics
D. Asthagiri, Lawrence R. Pratt, and J. D. Kress
Published 23 October 2003 (7 pages)
041505 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Asymmetric fluid criticality. II. Finite-size scaling for simulations
Young C. Kim and Michael E. Fisher
Published 29 October 2003 (23 pages)
041506 [View PDF (397 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Interfacial nonequilibrium and Bénard-Marangoni instability of a liquid-vapor system
J. Margerit, P. Colinet, G. Lebon, C. S. Iorio, and J. C. Legros
Published 1 October 2003 (14 pages)
041601 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Dynamic transition in etching with poisoning
F. D. A. Aarão Reis
Published 2 October 2003 (7 pages)
041602 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Interfaces with a single growth inhomogeneity and anchored boundaries
M. D. Grynberg
Published 3 October 2003 (9 pages)
041603 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Phase-field approach for faceted solidification
Jean-Marc Debierre, Alain Karma, Franck Celestini, and Rahma Guérin
Published 8 October 2003 (13 pages)
041604 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Systematic model behavior of adsorption on flat surfaces
R. A. Trasca, M. W. Cole, and R. D. Diehl
Published 10 October 2003 (6 pages)
041605 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Wetting under nonequilibrium conditions
H. Hinrichsen, R. Livi, D. Mukamel, and A. Politi
Published 20 October 2003 (13 pages)
041606 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Convective instabilities in two superposed horizontal liquid layers heated laterally
S. Madruga, C. Pérez-García, and G. Lebon
Published 23 October 2003 (12 pages)
041607 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Transition from Knudsen to molecular diffusion in activity of absorbing irregular interfaces
J. S. Andrade, Jr., H. F. da Silva, M. Baquil, and B. Sapoval
Published 28 October 2003 (4 pages)
041608 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Hexatic-herringbone coupling at the hexatic transition in smectic liquid crystals: 4-ε renormalization group calculations revisited
Mohammad Kohandel, Michel J. P. Gingras, and Josh P. Kemp
Published 3 October 2003 (7 pages)
041701 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Simulations of helix unwinding in ferroelectric liquid crystals
Nurit Baytch, Robin L. B. Selinger, Jonathan V. Selinger, and R. Shashidhar
Published 8 October 2003 (8 pages)
041702 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Smectic blue phases: Layered systems with high intrinsic curvature
B. A. DiDonna and Randall D. Kamien
Published 13 October 2003 (11 pages)
041703 [View PDF (631 kB)]
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Optical studies of the nematic phase of an oxazole-derived bent-core liquid crystal
J. A. Olivares, S. Stojadinovic, T. Dingemans, S. Sprunt, and A. Jákli
Published 20 October 2003 (6 pages)
041704 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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NMR proton spin dynamics in thermotropic liquid crystals subject to multipulse excitation
R. H. Acosta, R. C. Zamar, and G. A. Monti
Published 22 October 2003 (7 pages)
041705 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of isotropic ferrogels
E. Jarkova, H. Pleiner, H.-W. Müller, and H. R. Brand
Published 27 October 2003 (8 pages)
041706 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Absorption effects in liquid crystal waveguides
J. A. Reyes and R. F. Rodríguez
Published 27 October 2003 (10 pages)
041707 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Thermal and optical study of the kinetics of the nematic-isotropic transition in octylcyanobiphenyl
F. Mercuri, U. Zammit, F. Scudieri, and M. Marinelli
Published 27 October 2003 (12 pages)
041708 [View PDF (1,085 kB)]
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External and intrinsic anchoring in nematic liquid crystals: A Monte Carlo study
N. V. Priezjev, G. Skačej, R. A. Pelcovits, and S. Žumer
Published 28 October 2003 (6 pages)
041709 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Blue phases induced by doping chiral nematic liquid crystals with nonchiral molecules
Michi Nakata, Yoichi Takanishi, Junji Watanabe, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 29 October 2003 (6 pages)
041710 [View PDF (980 kB)]

Polymers

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Dynamics of polymer chain collapse into compact states
D. C. Rapaport
Published 27 October 2003 (11 pages)
041801 [View PDF (729 kB)]
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Validity of the scaling functional approach for polymer interfaces as a variational theory
Manoel Manghi and Miguel Aubouy
Published 28 October 2003 (7 pages)
041802 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Biological physics

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Food-web based unified model of macro- and microevolution
Debashish Chowdhury and Dietrich Stauffer
Published 1 October 2003 (6 pages)
041901 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Hofmeister effects in membrane biology: The role of ionic dispersion potentials
M. Boström, D. R. M. Williams, P. R. Stewart, and B. W. Ninham
Published 3 October 2003 (6 pages)
041902 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Speciation in multidimensional evolutionary space
A. Vukics, J. Asbóth, and G. Meszéna
Published 7 October 2003 (10 pages)
041903 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of RNA folding: Importance of alphabet size
Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Eldon Emberly, Chao Tang, and Ned S. Wingreen
Published 7 October 2003 (5 pages)
041904 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Existence of high-order correlations in cortical activity
Andrea Benucci, Paul F. M. J. Verschure, and Peter König
Published 8 October 2003 (9 pages)
041905 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Measurements and modeling of water transport and osmoregulation in a single kidney cell using optical tweezers and videomicroscopy
A. D. Lúcio, R. A. S. Santos, and O. N. Mesquita
Published 10 October 2003 (6 pages)
041906 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Finite-size thermomechanical effects in smectic liquid crystals: The vapor pressure paradox as an anharmonic phenomenon
Lianghui Gao and Leonardo Golubović
Published 13 October 2003 (26 pages)
041907 [View PDF (506 kB)]
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Experimental support for a model of birdsong production
G. B. Mindlin, T. J. Gardner, F. Goller, and R. Suthers
Published 13 October 2003 (5 pages)
041908 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Dynamical mean-field theory of noisy spiking neuron ensembles: Application to the Hodgkin-Huxley model
Hideo Hasegawa
Published 14 October 2003 (13 pages)
041909 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Single stranded DNA translocation through a nanopore: A master equation approach
O. Flomenbom and J. Klafter
Published 14 October 2003 (7 pages)
041910 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Helix versus sheet formation in a small peptide
Yong Peng and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann
Published 20 October 2003 (7 pages)
041911 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Generating neural circuits that implement probabilistic reasoning
M. J. Barber, J. W. Clark, and C. H. Anderson
Published 21 October 2003 (11 pages)
041912 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Synchronization between main rhythmic processes in the human cardiovascular system
M. D. Prokhorov, V. I. Ponomarenko, V. I. Gridnev, M. B. Bodrov, and A. B. Bespyatov
Published 22 October 2003 (10 pages)
041913 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Time scale and other invariants of integrative mechanical behavior in living cells
Ben Fabry, Geoffrey N. Maksym, James P. Butler, Michael Glogauer, Daniel Navajas, Nathan A. Taback, Emil J. Millet, and Jeffrey J. Fredberg
Published 27 October 2003 (18 pages)
041914 [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Evaluation of entrainment of a nonlinear neural oscillator to white noise
Jason Ritt
Published 29 October 2003 (7 pages)
041915 [View PDF (265 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Adiabatic heating and convection caused by a fixed-heat-flux source in a near-critical fluid
E. B. Soboleva
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
042201 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Granular materials

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Microdisplacements induced by a local perturbation inside a granular packing
D. Bonamy, S. Bernard-Bernardet, F. Daviaud, and L. Laurent
Published 28 October 2003 (4 pages)
042301 [View PDF (408 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Particle interactions near the contact line in liquid drops
L. E. Helseth and T. M. Fischer
Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages)
042601 [View PDF (183 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Nonlinear dynamics in laser polarization conversion by stimulated scattering in nematic liquid crystal films
I. C. Khoo and A. Diaz
Published 10 October 2003 (4 pages)
042701 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals in Hele-Shaw cells
Jong-Hoon Huh and Shoichi Kai
Published 23 October 2003 (4 pages)
042702 [View PDF (562 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Survival probability of a ballistic tracer particle in the presence of diffusing traps
Satya N. Majumdar and Alan J. Bray
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
045101(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Coupling-induced oscillations in overdamped bistable systems
Visarath In, Adi R. Bulsara, Antonio Palacios, Patrick Longhini, Andy Kho, and Joseph D. Neff
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
045102(R) [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Dynamic force spectroscopy: Optimized data analysis
Mykhaylo Evstigneev and Peter Reimann
Published 22 October 2003 (4 pages)
045103(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Characterization of topological structure on complex networks
Ikuo Nakamura
Published 28 October 2003 (4 pages)
045104(R) [View PDF (318 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Wigner-Dyson statistics for a class of integrable models
L. Benet, F. Leyvraz, and T. H. Seligman
Published 21 October 2003 (3 pages)
045201(R) [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Analytical results for coupled-map lattices with long-range interactions
Celia Anteneodo, Sandro E. de S. Pinto, Antônio M. Batista, and Ricardo L. Viana
Published 23 October 2003 (4 pages)
045202(R) [View PDF (68 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Role of inertia in two-dimensional deformation and breakdown of a droplet
A. J. Wagner, L. M. Wilson, and M. E. Cates
Published 1 October 2003 (4 pages)
045301(R) [View PDF (204 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Vortices in dust clouds under microgravity: A simple explanation
W. J. Goedheer and M. R. Akdim
Published 9 October 2003 (4 pages)
045401(R) [View PDF (234 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Instabilities in the two-dimensional cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation
John D. Carter and Harvey Segur
Published 22 October 2003 (4 pages)
045601(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Exact multilocal renormalization of the effective action: Application to the random sine Gordon model statics and nonequilibrium dynamics
Gregory Schehr and Pierre Le Doussal
Published 2 October 2003 (37 pages)
046101 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Absolute transverse mobility and ratchet effect on periodic two-dimensional symmetric substrates
C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt
Published 2 October 2003 (7 pages)
046102 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Persistence properties of a system of coagulating and annihilating random walkers
Supriya Krishnamurthy, R. Rajesh, and Oleg Zaboronski
Published 3 October 2003 (12 pages)
046103 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Stability of the iterative solutions of integral equations as one phase freezing criterion
R. Fantoni and G. Pastore
Published 8 October 2003 (4 pages)
046104 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Scaling of impact fragmentation near the critical point
Hiroaki Katsuragi, Daisuke Sugino, and Haruo Honjo
Published 8 October 2003 (6 pages)
046105 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Majority versus minority dynamics: Phase transition in an interacting two-state spin system
M. Mobilia and S. Redner
Published 9 October 2003 (11 pages)
046106 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Criticality versus q in the (2+1)-dimensional Zq clock model
J. Hove and A. Sudbø
Published 9 October 2003 (5 pages)
046107 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Nonlinear stochastic equations with calculable steady states
Rava A. da Silveira and Mehran Kardar
Published 10 October 2003 (9 pages)
046108 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Spectra of complex networks
S. N. Dorogovtsev, A. V. Goltsev, J. F. F. Mendes, and A. N. Samukhin
Published 10 October 2003 (10 pages)
046109 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Quantum iterated function systems
Artur Łoziński, Karol Życzkowski, and Wojciech Słomczyński
Published 13 October 2003 (9 pages)
046110 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Phase transition in a swarm algorithm for self-organized construction
Henri Leung, Ravi Kothari, and Ali A. Minai
Published 13 October 2003 (9 pages)
046111 [View PDF (549 kB)]
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Analytical results for a three-phase traffic model
Ding-wei Huang
Published 14 October 2003 (6 pages)
046112 [View PDF (490 kB)]
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Self-consistent expansion results for the nonlocal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
Eytan Katzav
Published 14 October 2003 (8 pages)
046113 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Self-organization from structural refrigeration
Eric Smith
Published 14 October 2003 (23 pages)
046114 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Exchange anisotropy and the dynamic phase transition in thin ferromagnetic Heisenberg films
Hyunbum Jang, Malcolm J. Grimson, and Carol K. Hall
Published 15 October 2003 (5 pages)
046115 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Software systems as complex networks: Structure, function, and evolvability of software collaboration graphs
Christopher R. Myers
Published 20 October 2003 (15 pages)
046116 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Martingale integrals over Poissonian processes and the Ito-type equations with white shot noise
Ryszard Zygadło
Published 20 October 2003 (4 pages)
046117 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Higher correlations, universal distributions, and finite size scaling in the field theory of depinning
Pierre Le Doussal and Kay Jörg Wiese
Published 21 October 2003 (15 pages)
046118 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Memory effects in microscopic traffic models and wide scattering in flow-density data
Martin Treiber and Dirk Helbing
Published 21 October 2003 (8 pages)
046119 [View PDF (966 kB)]
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Corrections to scaling in two-dimensional dynamic XY and fully frustrated XY models
B. Zheng, F. Ren, and H. Ren
Published 21 October 2003 (9 pages)
046120 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Reaction-controlled diffusion: Monte Carlo simulations
Beth A. Reid, Uwe C. Täuber, and Jason C. Brunson
Published 21 October 2003 (19 pages)
046121 [View PDF (876 kB)]
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Dynamical model and nonextensive statistical mechanics of a market index on large time windows
M. Ausloos and K. Ivanova
Published 22 October 2003 (13 pages)
046122 [View PDF (1,967 kB)]
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Multicanonical Monte Carlo study and analysis of tails for the order-parameter distribution of the two-dimensional Ising model
R. Hilfer, B. Biswal, H. G. Mattutis, and W. Janke
Published 22 October 2003 (9 pages)
046123 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Level curvature distribution in a model of two uncoupled chaotic subsystems
Güler Ergün and Yan V. Fyodorov
Published 22 October 2003 (11 pages)
046124 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Adiabatic rocking ratchets: Optimum-performance regimes
N. Sánchez Salas and A. Calvo Hernández
Published 23 October 2003 (7 pages)
046125 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Mean-field theory for clustering coefficients in Barabási-Albert networks
Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak, and Janusz A. Hołyst
Published 23 October 2003 (4 pages)
046126 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Diffusion in channeled structures: Xenon in a crystalline sodalite
Benoit Palmieri and David Ronis
Published 27 October 2003 (20 pages)
046127 [View PDF (1,489 kB)]
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Edge distribution method for solving elliptic boundary value problems with boundary singularities
James A. Given and Chi-Ok Hwang
Published 27 October 2003 (6 pages)
046128 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Minimal model for tag-based cooperation
Arne Traulsen and Heinz Georg Schuster
Published 27 October 2003 (8 pages)
046129 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Topology of correlation-based minimal spanning trees in real and model markets
Giovanni Bonanno, Guido Caldarelli, Fabrizio Lillo, and Rosario N. Mantegna
Published 28 October 2003 (4 pages)
046130 [View PDF (537 kB)]
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Scaling of the linear response function from zero-field-cooled and thermoremanent magnetization in phase-ordering kinetics
Federico Corberi, Eugenio Lippiello, and Marco Zannetti
Published 28 October 2003 (15 pages)
046131 [View PDF (750 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium transitions induced by the cross-correlation of white noises
S. I. Denisov, A. N. Vitrenko, and Werner Horsthemke
Published 28 October 2003 (5 pages)
046132 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Power-law persistence and trends in the atmosphere: A detailed study of long temperature records
J. F. Eichner, E. Koscielny-Bunde, A. Bunde, S. Havlin, and H.-J. Schellnhuber
Published 28 October 2003 (5 pages)
046133 [View PDF (228 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Chaos and its quantization in dynamical Jahn-Teller systems
Hisatsugu Yamasaki, Yuhei Natsume, Akira Terai, and Katsuhiro Nakamura
Published 2 October 2003 (8 pages)
046201 [View PDF (1,585 kB)]
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Quantum diffusion in a biased kicked Harper system
A. R. Kolovsky and H. J. Korsch
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
046202 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Localized behavior in the Lyapunov vectors for quasi-one-dimensional many-hard-disk systems
Tooru Taniguchi and Gary P. Morriss
Published 13 October 2003 (22 pages)
046203 [View PDF (1,372 kB)]
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Weyl formulas for annular ray-splitting billiards
Yves Décanini and Antoine Folacci
Published 14 October 2003 (9 pages)
046204 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Wave function statistics in open chaotic billiards
Piet W. Brouwer
Published 21 October 2003 (6 pages)
046205 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Unstable periodic orbits and discretization cycles
P.-M. Binder and Nicholas H. Okamoto
Published 22 October 2003 (3 pages)
046206 [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Classical scattering for a driven inverted Gaussian potential in terms of the chaotic invariant set
A. Emmanouilidou, C. Jung, and L. E. Reichl
Published 27 October 2003 (8 pages)
046207 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Ray chaos in optical cavities based upon standard laser mirrors
A. Aiello, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman
Published 28 October 2003 (4 pages)
046208 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Estimation of interaction strength and direction from short and noisy time series
Dmitry A. Smirnov and Boris P. Bezruchko
Published 29 October 2003 (10 pages)
046209 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Experimental observation of dramatic differences in the dynamic response of Newtonian and Maxwellian fluids
J. R. Castrejón-Pita, J. A. del Río, A. A. Castrejón-Pita, and G. Huelsz
Published 2 October 2003 (5 pages)
046301 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Dynamo effect in a driven helical flow
F. Feudel, M. Gellert, S. Rüdiger, A. Witt, and N. Seehafer
Published 8 October 2003 (9 pages)
046302 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Turbulence anisotropy and the SO(3) description
Adrian Staicu, Bart Vorselaars, and Willem van de Water
Published 20 October 2003 (12 pages)
046303 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Intermittency in turbulence: Computing the scaling exponents in shell models
Roberto Benzi, Luca Biferale, Mauro Sbragaglia, and Federico Toschi
Published 22 October 2003 (9 pages)
046304 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Stability of acoustic streaming flows in plane channels
A. Kwang-Hua Chu
Published 23 October 2003 (6 pages)
046305 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Turbulence with pressure: Anomalous scaling of a passive vector field
N. V. Antonov, Michal Hnatich, Juha Honkonen, and Marian Jurčišin
Published 27 October 2003 (25 pages)
046306 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Parametric dependence of single-bubble sonoluminescence spectra
G. Simon and M. T. Levinsen
Published 27 October 2003 (5 pages)
046307 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Multizone shell model for turbulent wall bounded flows
Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, and Vasil Tiberkevich
Published 28 October 2003 (26 pages)
046308 [View PDF (1,357 kB)]
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Inertial particle segregation by turbulence
J. C. H. Fung and J. C. Vassilicos
Published 28 October 2003 (7 pages)
046309 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Phase-field model of Hele-Shaw flows in the high-viscosity contrast regime
A. Hernández-Machado, A. M. Lacasta, E. Mayoral, and E. Corvera Poiré
Published 29 October 2003 (6 pages)
046310 [View PDF (554 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Measurement of attractive interactions produced by the ion wakefield in dusty plasmas using a constrained collision geometry
G. A. Hebner and M. E. Riley
Published 2 October 2003 (11 pages)
046401 [View PDF (513 kB)]
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Nonlinear compressional waves in a two-dimensional Yukawa lattice
K. Avinash, P. Zhu, V. Nosenko, and J. Goree
Published 8 October 2003 (8 pages)
046402 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Dispersion properties of the out-of-plane transverse wave in a two-dimensional Coulomb crystal
K. Qiao and T. W. Hyde
Published 22 October 2003 (5 pages)
046403 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Optical activity in an isotropic gas of electrons with a preferred helicity
D. B. Melrose and J. I. Weise
Published 22 October 2003 (5 pages)
046404 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Solutions of complete jump relations at discontinuities in a two-and-half-dimensional reconnection model
Marina Skender, Bojan Vršnak, and Mladen Martinis
Published 22 October 2003 (9 pages)
046405 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Negative ion motion in the mixtures of SF6 with CF4 and CH4-Ar
J. de Urquijo and F. B. Yousif
Published 28 October 2003 (5 pages)
046406 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Ponderomotive acceleration of electrons by a tightly focused intense laser beam
Feng He, Wei Yu, Peixiang Lu, Han Xu, Liejia Qian, Baifei Shen, Xiao Yuan, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu
Published 28 October 2003 (5 pages)
046407 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Ion mobilities in Xe/Ne and other rare-gas mixtures
D. Piscitelli, A. V. Phelps, J. de Urquijo, E. Basurto, and L. C. Pitchford
Published 29 October 2003 (10 pages)
046408 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Drift-wave turbulence and zonal flow generation
R. Balescu
Published 29 October 2003 (13 pages)
046409 [View PDF (158 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Vector and tensor polarization lifetimes for a stored deuteron beam
B. v. Przewoski, V. A. Anferov, H. O. Meyer, P. Schwandt, E. J. Stephenson, V. S. Morozov, Z. B. Etienne, M. C. Kandes, M. A. Leonova, D. W. Sivers, and K. Yonehara
Published 2 October 2003 (5 pages)
046501 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Explicit symplectic integrator for s-dependent static magnetic field
Y. K. Wu, E. Forest, and D. S. Robin
Published 13 October 2003 (9 pages)
046502 [View PDF (692 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Construction of one-dimensional photonic crystals based on the incident angle domain
Biqin Huang, Peifu Gu, and Ligong Yang
Published 7 October 2003 (5 pages)
046601 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Coupling of the TE and TM modes of electromagnetic waves in two-dimensional photonic crystals with surface defects of liquid crystals
Hiroyuki Takeda and Katsumi Yoshino
Published 10 October 2003 (5 pages)
046602 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Four-wave mixing instabilities in photonic-crystal and tapered fibers
F. Biancalana, D. V. Skryabin, and P. St. J. Russell
Published 13 October 2003 (8 pages)
046603 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Soliton collisions in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation
I. E. Papacharalampous, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 13 October 2003 (9 pages)
046604 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Exact soliton solutions for the core of dispersion-managed solitons
Zhiyong Xu, Lu Li, Zhonghao Li, Guosheng Zhou, and K. Nakkeeran
Published 14 October 2003 (8 pages)
046605 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Optical bistability involving photonic crystal microcavities and Fano line shapes
A. R. Cowan and Jeff F. Young
Published 20 October 2003 (16 pages)
046606 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Blueprint for wafer-scale three-dimensional photonic band-gap synthesis by photoelectrochemical etching
Timothy Y. M. Chan and Sajeev John
Published 21 October 2003 (6 pages)
046607 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Diffusive and localization behavior of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random medium
Ken Kang-Hsin Wang and Zhen Ye
Published 22 October 2003 (10 pages)
046608 [View PDF (1,194 kB)]
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Metastability of dark snoidal-type waves in quadratic nonlinear media
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Alexey A. Egorov, Anna S. Zelenina, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
Published 23 October 2003 (5 pages)
046609 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Averaged dynamics of optical pulses described by a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with periodic coefficients
Andreas Wingen, Karl H. Spatschek, and Serguei B. Medvedev
Published 23 October 2003 (11 pages)
046610 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Electric potential for a resistive toroidal conductor carrying a steady azimuthal current
J. A. Hernandes and A. K. T. Assis
Published 27 October 2003 (10 pages)
046611 [View PDF (596 kB)]
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Robust soliton clusters in media with competing cubic and quintic nonlinearities
D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, L.-C. Crasovan, B. A. Malomed, F. Lederer, and L. Torner
Published 27 October 2003 (8 pages)
046612 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Slowing light in χ(2) photonic crystals
G. D’Aguanno, M. Centini, M. Scalora, C. Sibilia, M. Bertolotti, E. Fazio, C. M. Bowden, and M. J. Bloemer
Published 28 October 2003 (4 pages)
046613 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Bridging the microscopic and macroscopic theories for light reflected from disordered plane-parallel dielectric slabs
S. Menon, Q. Su, and R. Grobe
Published 28 October 2003 (8 pages)
046614 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Computational physics

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Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of gas-mixtures transport in carbon-nanopore membranes
I. V. Kaganov and M. Sheintuch
Published 2 October 2003 (7 pages)
046701 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Dissipative particle dynamics: A useful thermostat for equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations
Thomas Soddemann, Burkhard Dünweg, and Kurt Kremer
Published 8 October 2003 (8 pages)
046702 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Designing refoldable model molecules
I. Coluzza, H. G. Muller, and D. Frenkel
Published 13 October 2003 (9 pages)
046703 [View PDF (1,146 kB)]
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Nonideal gas flow and heat transfer in micro- and nanochannels using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method
Moran Wang and Zhixin Li
Published 14 October 2003 (6 pages)
046704 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Update statistics in conservative parallel-discrete-event simulations of asynchronous systems
A. Kolakowska, M. A. Novotny, and Per Arne Rikvold
Published 14 October 2003 (14 pages)
046705 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Near-optimal configurations in mean-field disordered systems
A. Pagnani, G. Parisi, and M. Ratiéville
Published 14 October 2003 (8 pages)
046706 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Backflow correlations for the electron gas and metallic hydrogen
M. Holzmann, D. M. Ceperley, C. Pierleoni, and K. Esler
Published 20 October 2003 (15 pages)
046707 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for softcore boson systems
Jurij Šmakov, Kenji Harada, and Naoki Kawashima
Published 21 October 2003 (5 pages)
046708 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Numerical viscosity and resolution of high-order weighted essentially nonoscillatory schemes for compressible flows with high Reynolds numbers
Yong-Tao Zhang, Jing Shi, Chi-Wang Shu, and Ye Zhou
Published 23 October 2003 (16 pages)
046709 [View PDF (379 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Quantitative description and modeling of real networks
Andrea Capocci, Guido Caldarelli, and Paolo De Los Rios
Published 2 October 2003 (4 pages)
047101 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Topology and computational performance of attractor neural networks
Patrick N. McGraw and Michael Menzinger
Published 10 October 2003 (4 pages)
047102 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Scale-free networks from a Hamiltonian dynamics
M. Baiesi and S. S. Manna
Published 10 October 2003 (4 pages)
047103 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Growth behavior of helical cellular automata
Daimu Wang, Xia Sun, and Ziqin Wu
Published 29 October 2003 (4 pages)
047104 [View PDF (370 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Phase synchronization of chaotic attractors with prescribed periodic signals
Romulus Breban
Published 28 October 2003 (4 pages)
047201 [View PDF (2,169 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Bursting and large-scale intermittency in turbulent convection with differential rotation
O. E. Garcia and N. H. Bian
Published 3 October 2003 (4 pages)
047301 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Variational principle for frozen-in vorticity interacting with sound waves
V. P. Ruban
Published 8 October 2003 (4 pages)
047302 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Plasma wakefield acceleration in self-ionized gas or plasmas
S. Deng, C. D. Barnes, C. E. Clayton, C. O’Connell, F. J. Decker, O. Erdem, R. A. Fonseca, C. Huang, M. J. Hogan, R. Iverson, D. K. Johnson, C. Joshi, T. Katsouleas, P. Krejcik, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, and F. Tsung
Published 14 October 2003 (3 pages)
047401 [View PDF (250 kB)]

Computational physics

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Breather lattice and its stabilization for the modified Korteweg–de Vries equation
P. G. Kevrekidis, Avinash Khare, and A. Saxena
Published 28 October 2003 (4 pages)
047701 [View PDF (719 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Wealth condensation in Pareto macroeconomies”
Ding-wei Huang
Published 8 October 2003 (2 pages)
048101 [View PDF (76 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Estimation of screening length and electric charge on particles in single-layered dusty plasma crystals [Phys. Rev. E 68, 017401 (2003)]
Chieko Totsuji, M. Sanusi Liman, Kenji Tsuruta, and Hiroo Totsuji
Published 7 October 2003 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Erratum: Monte Carlo simulation of O(2) φ4 field theory in three dimensions [Phys. Rev. E 64, 066113 (2001)]
Peter Arnold and Guy D. Moore
Published 10 October 2003 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (15 kB)]
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Erratum: Relaxation in kinetic models on alternating linear chains [Phys. Rev. E 63, 026114 (2001)]
L. L. Gonçalves, M. López de Haro, and J. Tagüeña-Martínez
Published 13 October 2003 (2 pages)
049903(E) [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Erratum: Counterion penetration and effective electrostatic interactions in solutions of polyelectrolyte stars and microgels [Phys. Rev. E 67, 011804 (2003)]
A. R. Denton
Published 21 October 2003 (1 page)
049904(E) [View PDF (16 kB)]
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Erratum: Foam analogy in charged colloidal crystals [Phys. Rev. E 65, 050401(R) (2002)]
William Kung, P. Ziherl, and Randall D. Kamien
Published 22 October 2003 (1 page)
049905(E) [View PDF (13 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Bursting and large-scale intermittency in turbulent convection with differential rotation [Phys. Rev. E 68, 047301 (2003)]
O.E. Garcia and N.H. Bian
Published 29 October 2003 (1 page)
049906(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
 
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