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Physical Review E – January 2004
Volume 69, Issue 1

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structured and complex fluids

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Glassy behavior in systems with Kac-type step-function interaction
Kok-Kiong Loh, Kyozi Kawasaki, Alan R. Bishop, Turab Lookman, Avadh Saxena, Zohar Nussinov, and Jörg Schmalian
Published 20 January 2004 (4 pages)
010501(R) [View PDF (160 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Pinning of fluid membranes by periodic harmonic potentials
N. Gov and S. A. Safran
Published 13 January 2004 (10 pages)
011101 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Comprehensive study of phase transitions in relaxational systems with field-dependent coefficients
J. Buceta and Katja Lindenberg
Published 15 January 2004 (11 pages)
011102 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Anisotropic ballistic deposition model with links to the Ulam problem and the Tracy-Widom distribution
Satya N. Majumdar and Sergei Nechaev
Published 23 January 2004 (5 pages)
011103 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Model for striped growth
Hai Qian and Gene F. Mazenko
Published 26 January 2004 (6 pages)
011104 [View PDF (1,212 kB)]
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Dynamics of a passive sliding particle on a randomly fluctuating surface
Manoj Gopalakrishnan
Published 28 January 2004 (5 pages)
011105 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Application of Bogolyubov’s theory of weakly nonideal Bose gases to the A+A,A+B,B+B reaction-diffusion system
Zoran Konkoli
Published 29 January 2004 (16 pages)
011106 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Uncoupled continuous-time random walks: Solution and limiting behavior of the master equation
Enrico Scalas, Rudolf Gorenflo, and Francesco Mainardi
Published 30 January 2004 (8 pages)
011107 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Microscopic model of the actin-myosin interaction in muscular contractions
B. Gaveau, M. Moreau, and B. Schuman
Published 30 January 2004 (13 pages)
011108 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Residual aperiodic stochastic resonance in a bistable dynamic system transmitting a suprathreshold binary signal
Fabing Duan, David Rousseau, and François Chapeau-Blondeau
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
011109 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Thermophoresis of dissolved molecules and polymers: Consideration of the temperature-induced macroscopic pressure gradient
Semen Semenov and Martin Schimpf
Published 30 January 2004 (8 pages)
011201 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Granular materials

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Steady-state velocity distributions of an oscillated granular gas
Sung Joon Moon, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 14 January 2004 (8 pages)
011301 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Dynamics of vibrofluidized granular gases in periodic structures
U. Marini Bettolo Marconi and M. Conti
Published 27 January 2004 (8 pages)
011302 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Probabilistic ballistic annihilation with continuous velocity distributions
François Coppex, Michel Droz, and Emmanuel Trizac
Published 27 January 2004 (7 pages)
011303 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Corridors of barchan dunes: Stability and size selection
P. Hersen, K. H. Andersen, H. Elbelrhiti, B. Andreotti, P. Claudin, and S. Douady
Published 29 January 2004 (12 pages)
011304 [View PDF (702 kB)]
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Validity of the Boltzmann equation to describe low-density granular systems
J. Javier Brey and M. J. Ruiz-Montero
Published 29 January 2004 (9 pages)
011305 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Size independence of the strength of snow
H. O. K. Kirchner, H. Peterlik, and G. Michot
Published 30 January 2004 (8 pages)
011306 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Statistical mechanical description of the parking-lot model for vibrated granular materials
G. Tarjus and P. Viot
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
011307 [View PDF (523 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Dynamics in colloidal liquids near a crossing of glass- and gel-transition lines
M. Sperl
Published 15 January 2004 (13 pages)
011401 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Early sedimentation and crossover kinetics in an off-critical phase-separating liquid mixture
J. Colombani and J. Bert
Published 27 January 2004 (6 pages)
011402 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Diffusion-limited aggregation with power-law pinning
H. G. E. Hentschel, M. N. Popescu, and F. Family
Published 27 January 2004 (5 pages)
011403 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Cluster discrimination in electrostatic heteroaggregation processes
J. M. López-López, A. Schmitt, J. Callejas-Fernández, and R. Hidalgo-Álvarez
Published 29 January 2004 (7 pages)
011404 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Method for computing the three-dimensional capacity dimension from two-dimensional projections of fractal aggregates
F. Maggi and J. C. Winterwerp
Published 30 January 2004 (8 pages)
011405 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Methods for Stokesian dynamics simulations of nonspherical particles and chains
Ramzi Kutteh
Published 30 January 2004 (16 pages)
011406 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Interaction model for magnetic holes in a ferrofluid layer
Renaud Toussaint, Jørgen Akselvoll, Geir Helgesen, Arne T. Skjeltorp, and Eirik G. Flekkøy
Published 30 January 2004 (15 pages)
011407 [View PDF (389 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Nature of double critical points in binary solutions
A. I. Fisenko, V. L. Kulinskii, and N. P. Malomuzh
Published 26 January 2004 (12 pages)
011501 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Density and temperature effects on the orientational and dielectric properties of supercritical water
E. Guàrdia and J. Martí
Published 27 January 2004 (11 pages)
011502 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Glasses in hard spheres with short-range attraction
K. N. Pham, S. U. Egelhaaf, P. N. Pusey, and W. C. K. Poon
Published 28 January 2004 (13 pages)
011503 [View PDF (2,003 kB)]
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Concentration dependence of droplet deformation in a phase separation process under an electric field
A. O. Volchek, A. I. Gusarov, A. V. Dotsenko, and V. A. Tsekhomsky
Published 29 January 2004 (7 pages)
011504 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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α-relaxation processes in binary hard-sphere mixtures
G. Foffi, W. Götze, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, and Th. Voigtmann
Published 30 January 2004 (17 pages)
011505 [View PDF (299 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Mound formation and coarsening from a nonlinear instability in surface growth
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti and Chandan Dasgupta
Published 13 January 2004 (18 pages)
011601 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Growth of a tensionless interface in anisotropic random media
Kwangho Park, Aeran Ji, Jae Hwan Lee, and In-mook Kim
Published 16 January 2004 (4 pages)
011602 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Asymptotic solutions for the equilibrium crystal shape with small corner energy regularization
Brian J. Spencer
Published 20 January 2004 (10 pages)
011603 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Interplay of impurities and solution flow as determinants of step pattern dynamics
Nicholas A. Booth, Alexander A. Chernov, and Peter G. Vekilov
Published 28 January 2004 (7 pages)
011604 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Lattice-gas Monte Carlo study of adsorption in pores
Raluca A. Trasca, M. Mercedes Calbi, Milton W. Cole, and Jose L. Riccardo
Published 30 January 2004 (6 pages)
011605 [View PDF (622 kB)]
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Energy balance in feedback synchronization of chaotic systems
C. Sarasola, F. J. Torrealdea, A. d’Anjou, A. Moujahid, and M. Graña
Published 30 January 2004 (12 pages)
011606 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Macroscopic diffusion on rough surfaces
P. M. Adler, A. E. Malevich, and V. Mityushev
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
011607 [View PDF (693 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Smectic layer displacement fluctuations in solid substrate supported smectic-A films
L. V. Mirantsev
Published 27 January 2004 (9 pages)
011701 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Three-dimensional orientational order in the bulk and on the surface of polymer films and its effect on liquid-crystal alignment
O. Yaroshchuk, Yu. Zakrevskyy, Satyendra Kumar, J. Kelly, L.-C. Chien, and J. Lindau
Published 27 January 2004 (7 pages)
011702 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Electric-field-induced B1-B2 transition in bent-core mesogens
J. Ortega, M. R. de la Fuente, J. Etxebarria, C. L. Folcia, S. Díez, J. A. Gallastegui, N. Gimeno, M. B. Ros, and M. A. Pérez-Jubindo
Published 27 January 2004 (7 pages)
011703 [View PDF (887 kB)]
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Effect of silica aerosils on the nematic to isotropic transition: A theoretical treatment
A. V. Zakharov and J. Thoen
Published 29 January 2004 (5 pages)
011704 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Defect dynamics in a smectic Grandjean-Cano wedge
Christophe Blanc, Nadia Zuodar, Ioannis Lelidis, Maurice Kleman, and Jean-Luc Martin
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
011705 [View PDF (680 kB)]
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Chiral front propagation in liquid-crystalline materials: Formation of the planar monodomain twisted plywood architecture of biological fibrous composites
Gino De Luca and Alejandro D. Rey
Published 30 January 2004 (13 pages)
011706 [View PDF (1,194 kB)]

Polymers

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Neutral polymer slow mode may signify an incipient growth-frustrated domain-forming glass
George D. J. Phillies
Published 22 January 2004 (9 pages)
011801 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Biological physics

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Semiphenomenological model for the dispersion of DNA during electrophoresis in a microfluidic array of posts
Kevin D. Dorfman and Jean-Louis Viovy
Published 12 January 2004 (6 pages)
011901 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Error and repair catastrophes: A two-dimensional phase diagram in the quasispecies model
Emmanuel Tannenbaum and Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Published 15 January 2004 (11 pages)
011902 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Sequence variability of proteins evolutionarily constrained by solution-thermodynamic function
F. N. Braun
Published 16 January 2004 (8 pages)
011903 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of stochastic neural networks: Relationship between the self-consistent signal-to-noise analysis, Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equation, and replica symmetric calculation approaches
Masatoshi Shiino and Michiko Yamana
Published 16 January 2004 (13 pages)
011904 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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General fractal-discrete scheme for high-frequency lung sound production
L. P. L. de Oliveira, B. E. J. Bodmann, and D. Faistauer
Published 20 January 2004 (5 pages)
011905 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Steady to unsteady dynamics of a vesicle in a flow
J. Beaucourt, F. Rioual, T. Séon, T. Biben, and C. Misbah
Published 26 January 2004 (17 pages)
011906 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Analysis of the intraspinal calcium dynamics and its implications for the plasticity of spiking neurons
Luk C. Yeung, Gastone C. Castellani, and Harel Z. Shouval
Published 26 January 2004 (12 pages)
011907 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Directed molecular transport in an oscillating symmetric channel
D. Fleishman, A. E. Filippov, and M. Urbakh
Published 29 January 2004 (6 pages)
011908 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Impact of spatially correlated noise on neuronal firing
Sentao Wang, Feng Liu, Wei Wang, and Yuguo Yu
Published 29 January 2004 (7 pages)
011909 [View PDF (492 kB)]
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Regulation of spontaneous rhythmic activity and organization of pacemakers as memory traces by spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity in a hippocampal model
Motoharu Yoshida and Hatsuo Hayashi
Published 29 January 2004 (15 pages)
011910 [View PDF (1,953 kB)]
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DNA-protein interactions under random jump conditions
R. Murugan
Published 29 January 2004 (7 pages)
011911 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Stretching of proteins in the entropic limit
Marek Cieplak, Trinh Xuan Hoang, and Mark O. Robbins
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
011912 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Pressure-induced ordering in mixed-lipid bilayers
Andre Brown, Ian Skanes, and Michael R. Morrow
Published 30 January 2004 (9 pages)
011913 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Orientation tuning and synchronization in the hypercolumn model
Sang-Gui Lee, Shigeru Tanaka, and Seunghwan Kim
Published 30 January 2004 (11 pages)
011914 [View PDF (223 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Transition events in one dimension
Ramon Crehuet, Martin J. Field, and Eric Pellegrini
Published 12 January 2004 (4 pages)
012101 [View PDF (272 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Quantum corrections for the liquid-gas transition of Lennard-Jones particles in two dimensions
S. Haase, H. L. Frisch, and P. Nielaba
Published 14 January 2004 (3 pages)
012501 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Biological physics

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Motor protein with nonequilibrium potential: Its thermodynamics and efficiency
Hong Qian
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
012901 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Kinetics of ligand equilibration between tubular and vesicular parts of the endosome
Leonardo Dagdug, Alexander M. Berezhkovskii, and George H. Weiss
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
012902 [View PDF (49 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Novel universality classes of coupled driven diffusive systems
Abhik Basu and Erwin Frey
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
015101(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Oscillatory axial banding of particles suspended in a rotating fluid
G. Seiden, S. G. Lipson, and J. Franklin
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
015301(R) [View PDF (593 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Critical dynamics of the kinetic Glauber-Ising model on hierarchical lattices
Xiang-Mu Kong and Z. R. Yang
Published 13 January 2004 (8 pages)
016101 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Dilatation symmetry of the Fokker-Planck equation and anomalous diffusion
Sumiyoshi Abe
Published 14 January 2004 (4 pages)
016102 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Unidirectional drift of fronts under zero-mean force, and broken symmetries of the rate function
R. Bakanas
Published 16 January 2004 (10 pages)
016103 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Fluctuations and correlations in sandpiles and interfaces with boundary pinning
Mikko J. Alava and Amit K. Chattopadhyay
Published 20 January 2004 (5 pages)
016104 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Resonant activation in the presence of nonequilibrated baths
Bartłomiej Dybiec and Ewa Gudowska-Nowak
Published 22 January 2004 (7 pages)
016105 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Persistence exponents and the statistics of crossings and occupation times for Gaussian stationary processes
G. C. M. A. Ehrhardt, Satya N. Majumdar, and Alan J. Bray
Published 22 January 2004 (22 pages)
016106 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Condensation transitions in a two-species zero-range process
T. Hanney and M. R. Evans
Published 22 January 2004 (8 pages)
016107 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Multilane simulations of traffic phases
L. C. Davis
Published 23 January 2004 (6 pages)
016108 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Solution of voter model dynamics on annealed small-world networks
Daniele Vilone and Claudio Castellano
Published 26 January 2004 (8 pages)
016109 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Minimization of the Renyi entropy production in the stationary states of the Brownian process with matched death and birth rates
Olgierd Cybulski, Volodymyr Babin, and Robert Hołyst
Published 28 January 2004 (10 pages)
016110 [View PDF (703 kB)]
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Physical analogy between continuum thermodynamics and classical mechanics
Alex Umantsev
Published 28 January 2004 (7 pages)
016111 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Oscillatory epidemic prevalence in growing scale-free networks
Yukio Hayashi, Masato Minoura, and Jun Matsukubo
Published 28 January 2004 (8 pages)
016112 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Topology of large-scale engineering problem-solving networks
Dan Braha and Yaneer Bar-Yam
Published 28 January 2004 (7 pages)
016113 [View PDF (481 kB)]
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Response functions in phase-ordering kinetics
Gene F. Mazenko
Published 28 January 2004 (11 pages)
016114 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Pattern formation in a metastable, gradient-driven sandpile
Lucian Anton and Hendrik B. Geyer
Published 28 January 2004 (7 pages)
016115 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion and collapse of self-gravitating Langevin particles in D dimensions
Pierre-Henri Chavanis and Clément Sire
Published 29 January 2004 (29 pages)
016116 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Direct test of the critical exponents at the sol-gel transition
Demet Kaya, Önder Pekcan, and Yaşar Yılmaz
Published 29 January 2004 (10 pages)
016117 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Steady-state solutions of hydrodynamic traffic models
H. K. Lee, H.-W. Lee, and D. Kim
Published 29 January 2004 (8 pages)
016118 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Fast and slow degrees of freedom coupling two different reservoirs
O. M. Ritter, P. C. T. D’Ajello, and W. Figueiredo
Published 29 January 2004 (6 pages)
016119 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Nonextensivity of the cyclic lattice Lotka-Volterra model
G. A. Tsekouras, A. Provata, and C. Tsallis
Published 30 January 2004 (7 pages)
016120 [View PDF (959 kB)]
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Dynamics of traffic flow with real-time traffic information
Yasushi Yokoya
Published 30 January 2004 (11 pages)
016121 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Universality class of absorbing transitions with continuously varying critical exponents
Jae Dong Noh and Hyunggyu Park
Published 30 January 2004 (12 pages)
016122 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Dielectric breakdown model for conductor-loaded and insulator-loaded composite materials
P. Bergero, F. Peruani, G. Solovey, I. M. Irurzun, J. L. Vicente, and E. E. Mola
Published 30 January 2004 (6 pages)
016123 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Anomalous transport in unbound and ratchet potentials
Jing-Dong Bao
Published 30 January 2004 (7 pages)
016124 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Logarithmic corrections in directed percolation
Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
016125 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Field-theoretic approach to metastability in the contact process
Christophe Deroulers and Rémi Monasson
Published 30 January 2004 (16 pages)
016126 [View PDF (437 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Entanglement production in coupled chaotic systems: Case of the kicked tops
Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay and Arul Lakshminarayan
Published 14 January 2004 (18 pages)
016201 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Onset of collective oscillation in chemical turbulence under global feedback
Yoji Kawamura and Yoshiki Kuramoto
Published 16 January 2004 (5 pages)
016202 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Controlling chaotic transients: Yorke’s game of survival
Jacobo Aguirre, Francesco d’Ovidio, and Miguel A. F. Sanjuán
Published 20 January 2004 (5 pages)
016203 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Symplectic evolution of Wigner functions in Markovian open systems
O. Brodier and A. M. Ozorio de Almeida
Published 23 January 2004 (11 pages)
016204 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Coarse-grained entropy and information dimension of dynamical systems: The driven Lorentz gas
László Mátyás, Tamás Tél, and J. Vollmer
Published 26 January 2004 (8 pages)
016205 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor lasers with active optical feedback
S. Bauer, O. Brox, J. Kreissl, B. Sartorius, M. Radziunas, J. Sieber, H.-J. Wünsche, and F. Henneberger
Published 27 January 2004 (10 pages)
016206 [View PDF (811 kB)]
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Statistics of finite-time Lyapunov exponents in the Ulam map
Celia Anteneodo
Published 27 January 2004 (6 pages)
016207 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Frequency entrainment of nonautonomous chaotic oscillators
Italo Bove, S. Boccaletti, J. Bragard, J. Kurths, and H. Mancini
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
016208 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Defect production behind the shock wave front of an inhomogeneous quench
P. Tatrocki and T. Dobrowolski
Published 28 January 2004 (6 pages)
016209 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Transition to space-time chaos in an optical loop with translational transport
L. Pastur, U. Bortolozzo, and P. L. Ramazza
Published 28 January 2004 (6 pages)
016210 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Pseudoreflection from interface between two oscillatory media: Extended driver
M. Gutman, I. Aviram, and A. Rabinovitch
Published 29 January 2004 (8 pages)
016211 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Global superdiffusion of weak chaos
Itzhack Dana
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
016212 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Statistics of shadowing time in nonhyperbolic chaotic systems with unstable dimension variability
Younghae Do and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
016213 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Chaos in an exact relativistic three-body self-gravitating system
F. Burnell, J. J. Malecki, R. B. Mann, and T. Ohta
Published 30 January 2004 (30 pages)
016214 [View PDF (2,950 kB)]
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Pattern formation capacity of spatially extended systems
Serguei Vakulenko, Bogdan Kazmierczak, and Stéphane Génieys
Published 30 January 2004 (8 pages)
016215 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Data-driven optimal filtering for phase and frequency of noisy oscillations: Application to vortex flow metering
A. G. Rossberg, K. Bartholomé, and J. Timmer
Published 30 January 2004 (11 pages)
016216 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Variational method for finding periodic orbits in a general flow
Yueheng Lan and Predrag Cvitanović
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
016217 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Spontaneously excited pulses in an optically driven semiconductor laser
Sebastian Wieczorek and Daan Lenstra
Published 30 January 2004 (5 pages)
016218 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Noise-induced enhancement of fluctuation and spurious synchronization in uncoupled type-I intermittent chaotic systems
Hiromichi Suetani, Takehiko Horita, and Shin Mizutani
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
016219 [View PDF (169 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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First steps in the spreading of a liquid droplet
Anne-Laure Biance, Christophe Clanet, and David Quéré
Published 14 January 2004 (4 pages)
016301 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Conductive and dielectric defects, and anisotropic and isotropic turbulence in liquid crystals: Electric power fluctuation measurements
Tibor Tóth-Katona and James T. Gleeson
Published 15 January 2004 (10 pages)
016302 [View PDF (1,425 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Linear instability of magnetic Taylor-Couette flow with Hall effect
Günther Rüdiger and Dima Shalybkov
Published 22 January 2004 (7 pages)
016303 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Nonlinear theory of pattern formation in ferrofluid films at high field strengths
J. Richardi and M. P. Pileni
Published 26 January 2004 (9 pages)
016304 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Similarity solution of temperature structure functions in decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence
R. A. Antonia, R. J. Smalley, T. Zhou, F. Anselmet, and L. Danaila
Published 26 January 2004 (11 pages)
016305 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Generalized Onsager relations for electrokinetic effects in anisotropic and heterogeneous geometries
Edouard Brunet and Armand Ajdari
Published 26 January 2004 (9 pages)
016306 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Effect of substance properties on the appearance and characteristics of repeated surface tension auto-oscillation driven by Marangoni force
N. M. Kovalchuk and D. Vollhardt
Published 28 January 2004 (13 pages)
016307 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Dependence of domain wall dynamics on background wave number
Carina Kamaga, Denis Funfschilling, and Michael Dennin
Published 28 January 2004 (7 pages)
016308 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Dual multifractal spectra
Stéphane Roux and Mogens H. Jensen
Published 29 January 2004 (6 pages)
016309 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Free surface Hele-Shaw flows around an obstacle: A random walk simulation
Vladislav A. Bogoyavlenskiy and Eric J. Cotts
Published 29 January 2004 (8 pages)
016310 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Shear-induced effects in confined non-Newtonian fluids under tension
José A. Miranda
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
016311 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Hysteresis and precession of a swirling jet normal to a wall
V. Shtern and J. Mi
Published 30 January 2004 (11 pages)
016312 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Long-wavelength thermocapillary instability with the Soret effect
A. Oron and A. A. Nepomnyashchy
Published 30 January 2004 (17 pages)
016313 [View PDF (168 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Eigenmodes and growth rates of relativistic current filamentation instability in a collisional plasma
M. Honda
Published 12 January 2004 (17 pages)
016401 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Large-amplitude dust waves excited by the gas-dynamic impact in a dc glow discharge plasma
V. E. Fortov, O. F. Petrov, V. I. Molotkov, M. Y. Poustylnik, V. M. Torchinsky, A. G. Khrapak, and A. V. Chernyshev
Published 26 January 2004 (5 pages)
016402 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Head-on collision of dust-acoustic solitary waves
Ju-Kui Xue
Published 26 January 2004 (5 pages)
016403 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Relativistic effects in hydrogenlike atoms embedded in Debye plasmas
D. Bielińska-Wa̧ż, J. Karwowski, B. Saha, and P. K. Mukherjee
Published 28 January 2004 (6 pages)
016404 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Thermal conductivity of strongly coupled Yukawa liquids
Z. Donkó and P. Hartmann
Published 28 January 2004 (6 pages)
016405 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Experimental measurement of the electron energy distribution function in the radio frequency electron cyclotron resonance inductive discharge
ChinWook Chung, S. S. Kim, and H. Y. Chang
Published 29 January 2004 (6 pages)
016406 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Efficient acceleration of electrons with counterpropagating intense laser pulses in vacuum and underdense plasma
Zheng-Ming Sheng, Kunioki Mima, Jie Zhang, and Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn
Published 29 January 2004 (12 pages)
016407 [View PDF (1,935 kB)]
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Thomson scattering diagnostics of thermal plasmas:  Laser heating of electrons and the existence of local thermodynamic equilibrium
A. B. Murphy
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
016408 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Equation of state and transport coefficients for dense plasmas
C. Blancard and G. Faussurier
Published 30 January 2004 (15 pages)
016409 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Vertical oscillations of paramagnetic particles in complex plasmas
V. V. Yaroshenko, G. E. Morfill, and D. Samsonov
Published 30 January 2004 (5 pages)
016410 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Theory of coherent transition radiation generated at a plasma-vacuum interface
C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, J. van Tilborg, and W. P. Leemans
Published 26 January 2004 (12 pages)
016501 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Analysis of orbital decay time for the classical hydrogen atom interacting with circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation
Daniel C. Cole and Yi Zou
Published 14 January 2004 (12 pages)
016601 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Large phase shift of nonlocal optical spatial solitons
Qi Guo, Boren Luo, Fahuai Yi, Sien Chi, and Yiqun Xie
Published 14 January 2004 (8 pages)
016602 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Nonlinear optics in a birefringent optical fiber
Theodoros P. Horikis and John N. Elgin
Published 15 January 2004 (11 pages)
016603 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Effective field theory for the nonlinear optical properties of photonic crystals
J. E. Sipe, Navin A. R. Bhat, Philip Chak, and Suresh Pereira
Published 20 January 2004 (20 pages)
016604 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Tunable photonic band gaps in two-dimensional photonic crystals by temporal modulation based on the Pockels effect
Hiroyuki Takeda and Katsumi Yoshino
Published 27 January 2004 (5 pages)
016605 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Parametric amplification of spatiotemporal localized envelope waves
Stefano Longhi
Published 28 January 2004 (10 pages)
016606 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Reference-wave solution for the two-frequency propagator in a statistically homogeneous random medium
Alexander Bronshtein, I-Tai Lu, and Reuven Mazar
Published 28 January 2004 (8 pages)
016607 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Symmetry analysis of self-written waveguides in bulk photosensitive media
L. Poladian, M. Senthilvelan, J. A. Besley, and C. Martijn de Sterke
Published 28 January 2004 (13 pages)
016608 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Density of states functions for photonic crystals
R. C. McPhedran, L. C. Botten, J. McOrist, A. A. Asatryan, C. M. de Sterke, and N. A. Nicorovici
Published 29 January 2004 (16 pages)
016609 [View PDF (733 kB)]
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Linear dispersive dielectrics as limits of Drude-Lorentz systems
A. Tip
Published 29 January 2004 (5 pages)
016610 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Soliton of modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation with random perturbations
V. M. Lashkin
Published 29 January 2004 (11 pages)
016611 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Semiclassical coupled-wave theory and its application to TE waves in one-dimensional photonic crystals
G. V. Morozov, D. W. L. Sprung, and J. Martorell
Published 29 January 2004 (11 pages)
016612 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Dynamical features of reaction-diffusion fronts in fractals
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, and Joaquim Fort
Published 29 January 2004 (7 pages)
016613 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Perturbation theory for kinks and its application for multisoliton interactions in hydrodynamics
K. A. Gorshkov, L. A. Ostrovsky, I. A. Soustova, and V. G. Irisov
Published 30 January 2004 (9 pages)
016614 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Pulse propagation in chains with nonlinear interactions
Alexandre Rosas and Katja Lindenberg
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
016615 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Spontaneous-emission rates in finite photonic crystals of plane scatterers
Martijn Wubs, L. G. Suttorp, and A. Lagendijk
Published 30 January 2004 (17 pages)
016616 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Nonlinear surface waves in left-handed materials
Ilya V. Shadrivov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Yuri S. Kivshar, Alexander A. Zharov, Allan D. Boardman, and Peter Egan
Published 30 January 2004 (9 pages)
016617 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Simple statistical explanation for the localization of energy in nonlinear lattices with two conserved quantities
Benno Rumpf
Published 30 January 2004 (5 pages)
016618 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Electromagnetic scattering by spherical negative-refractive-index particles: Low-frequency resonance and localization parameters
Zheng Liu, Zhifang Lin, and S. T. Chui
Published 30 January 2004 (6 pages)
016619 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Computational physics

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Lattice models for large-scale simulations of coherent wave scattering
Shumin Wang and Fernando L. Teixeira
Published 27 January 2004 (10 pages)
016701 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Smooth-particle applied mechanics: Conservation of angular momentum with tensile stability and velocity averaging
Wm. G. Hoover, Carol G. Hoover, and Elizabeth C. Merritt
Published 30 January 2004 (10 pages)
016702 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Lattice kinetic scheme for the incompressible viscous thermal flows on arbitrary meshes
Y. Peng, C. Shu, Y. T. Chew, and T. Inamuro
Published 30 January 2004 (8 pages)
016703 [View PDF (174 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Exploratory behavior, trap models, and glass transitions
Alexandre S. Martinez, Osame Kinouchi, and Sebastian Risau-Gusman
Published 20 January 2004 (4 pages)
017101 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Scale-free network on a vertical plane
S. S. Manna, G. Mukherjee, and Parongama Sen
Published 20 January 2004 (4 pages)
017102 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Equivalence of linear response among extended optimal velocity models
Katsuya Hasebe, Akihiro Nakayama, and Yūki Sugiyama
Published 26 January 2004 (3 pages)
017103 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Fluctuation-dissipation dispersion relation and quality factor for slow processes
V. V. Belyi
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
017104 [View PDF (49 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Analytical coupling detection in the presence of noise and nonlinearity
Theoden I. Netoff, Louis M. Pecora, and Steven J. Schiff
Published 26 January 2004 (4 pages)
017201 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Diffusion in a two-dimensional anisotropic web map by extrinsic noise applied to the intrinsically perturbed quantity
Sanghee Hahn, Gunyoung Park, C. S. Chang, and Chi-Kyu Choi
Published 29 January 2004 (4 pages)
017202 [View PDF (54 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Contribution of the E2 transitions to the opacity of hot and dense plasmas of heavy elements by an average-atom approach
Jinsong Miao and Jianmin Yuan
Published 20 January 2004 (4 pages)
017401 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Variational approach to the modulational instability
Z. Rapti, P. G. Kevrekidis, A. Smerzi, and A. R. Bishop
Published 30 January 2004 (4 pages)
017601 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Computational physics

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Improving search algorithms by using intelligent coordinates
David Wolpert, Kagan Tumer, and Esfandiar Bandari
Published 28 January 2004 (4 pages)
017701 [View PDF (63 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Rotating convection in an anisotropic system [Phys. Rev. E 65, 046219 (2002)]
Alex Roxin and Hermann Riecke
Published 16 January 2004 (1 page)
019901(E) [View PDF (84 kB)]
 
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