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Physical Review E – February 2004
Volume 69, Issue 2

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Time and length scales in supercooled liquids
Ludovic Berthier
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
020201(R) [View PDF (357 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Stochastic formulation of sampling dynamics in generalized ensemble methods
Jae Gil Kim, Yoshifumi Fukunishi, Akinori Kidera, and Haruki Nakamura
Published 10 February 2004 (10 pages)
021101 [View PDF (1,254 kB)]
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Flashing ratchet model with high efficiency
Yu. A. Makhnovskii, V. M. Rozenbaum, D.-Y. Yang, S. H. Lin, and T. Y. Tsong
Published 17 February 2004 (7 pages)
021102 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Nonclassical kinetics of an elementary A+B⃗C reaction-diffusion system showing effects of a speckled initial reactant distribution and eventual self-segregation: Experiments
Eric Monson and Raoul Kopelman
Published 19 February 2004 (12 pages)
021103 [View PDF (1,205 kB)]
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Theory of non-Markovian stochastic resonance
Igor Goychuk and Peter Hänggi
Published 20 February 2004 (15 pages)
021104 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Bimodal approximation for anomalous diffusion in a potential
Yuri P. Kalmykov, William T. Coffey, and Sergey V. Titov
Published 20 February 2004 (7 pages)
021105 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Dynamics of fluctuations in a fluid below the onset of Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Jaechul Oh, José M. Ortiz de Zárate, Jan V. Sengers, and Guenter Ahlers
Published 23 February 2004 (13 pages)
021106 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance between dissipative structures in a bistable noise-sustained dynamics
B. von Haeften, G. Izús, S. Mangioni, A. D. Sánchez, and H. S. Wio
Published 23 February 2004 (5 pages)
021107 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Heuristic segmentation of a nonstationary time series
Kensuke Fukuda, H. Eugene Stanley, and Luís A. Nunes Amaral
Published 25 February 2004 (12 pages)
021108 [View PDF (1,436 kB)]
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Generalized bracket formulation of constrained dynamics in phase space
Alessandro Sergi
Published 26 February 2004 (9 pages)
021109 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Nonuniversal atmospheric persistence: Different scaling of daily minimum and maximum temperatures
Margit Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Andrea Király, and Imre M. Jánosi
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
021110 [View PDF (999 kB)]
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Diffusion and current of Brownian particles in tilted piecewise linear potentials: Amplification and coherence
Els Heinsalu, Risto Tammelo, and Teet Örd
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
021111 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Langevin equation for the extended Rayleigh model with an asymmetric bath
Alexander V. Plyukhin and Jeremy Schofield
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
021112 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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NMR propagator measurements on flow through a random pack of porous glass beads and how they are affected by dispersion, relaxation, and internal field inhomogeneities
U. M. Scheven, J. G. Seland, and D. G. Cory
Published 20 February 2004 (9 pages)
021201 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Time correlation functions of hard sphere and soft sphere fluids
A. C. Brańka and D. M. Heyes
Published 25 February 2004 (12 pages)
021202 [View PDF (1,124 kB)]

Granular materials

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Diffusion of impurities in a granular gas
Vicente Garzó and José María Montanero
Published 23 February 2004 (13 pages)
021301 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Giant fluctuations at a granular phase separation threshold
Baruch Meerson, Thorsten Pöschel, Pavel V. Sasorov, and Thomas Schwager
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
021302 [View PDF (856 kB)]
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Friction measurements in granular media
Wolfgang Eber
Published 27 February 2004 (10 pages)
021303 [View PDF (506 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Mechanism of protein binding to spherical polyelectrolyte brushes studied in situ using two-photon excitation fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy
C. Czeslik, R. Jansen, M. Ballauff, A. Wittemann, C. A. Royer, E. Gratton, and T. Hazlett
Published 19 February 2004 (9 pages)
021401 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Combined negative dielectrophoresis and phase separation in nondilute suspensions subject to a high-gradient ac electric field
Anil Kumar, Zhiyong Qiu, Andreas Acrivos, Boris Khusid, and David Jacqmin
Published 24 February 2004 (10 pages)
021402 [View PDF (1,112 kB)]
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Optically bound microscopic particles in one dimension
D. McGloin, A. E. Carruthers, K. Dholakia, and E. M. Wright
Published 25 February 2004 (6 pages)
021403 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Dynamics of a flexible magnetic chain in a rotating magnetic field
A. Cēbers and I. Javaitis
Published 26 February 2004 (7 pages)
021404 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Assembly of colloidal aggregates by electrohydrodynamic flow: Kinetic experiments and scaling analysis
W. D. Ristenpart, I. A. Aksay, and D. A. Saville
Published 27 February 2004 (8 pages)
021405 [View PDF (302 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Nature of slow dynamics in a minimal model of frustration-limited domains
Phillip L. Geissler and David R. Reichman
Published 4 February 2004 (9 pages)
021501 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Origin of the excess wing and slow β relaxation of glass formers: A unified picture of local orientational fluctuations
Hajime Tanaka
Published 17 February 2004 (10 pages)
021502 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Mobility of extended bodies in viscous films and membranes
Alex J. Levine, T. B. Liverpool, and F. C. MacKintosh
Published 19 February 2004 (10 pages)
021503 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Shear-induced formation of vesicles in membrane phases: Kinetics and size selection mechanisms, elasticity versus surface tension
L. Courbin and P. Panizza
Published 23 February 2004 (12 pages)
021504 [View PDF (1,176 kB)]
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Mapping molecular models to continuum theories for partially miscible fluids
Colin Denniston and Mark O. Robbins
Published 25 February 2004 (19 pages)
021505 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Bulk and interfacial properties of binary hard-platelet fluids
M. Bier, L. Harnau, and S. Dietrich
Published 26 February 2004 (7 pages)
021506 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Critical role of flow-modified permittivity in electrorheology: Model and computer simulation
Ujitha M. Dassanayake, Stella S. R. Offner, and Yue Hu
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
021507 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Using triaxial magnetic fields to create high susceptibility particle composites
James E. Martin, Eugene Venturini, Gerald L. Gulley, and Jonathan Williamson
Published 27 February 2004 (15 pages)
021508 [View PDF (1,762 kB)]
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Structural changes and viscoplastic behavior of a generic embedded-atom model metal in steady shear flow
Igor Stankovic, Siegfried Hess, and Martin Kröger
Published 27 February 2004 (15 pages)
021509 [View PDF (1,042 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Phase-field model of island growth in epitaxy
Yan-Mei Yu and Bang-Gui Liu
Published 23 February 2004 (6 pages)
021601 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Linear dependence of surface drag on surface viscosity
Coralie Alonso and Joseph A. Zasadzinski
Published 24 February 2004 (6 pages)
021602 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Phase field modeling of electrochemistry. I. Equilibrium
J. E. Guyer, W. J. Boettinger, J. A. Warren, and G. B. McFadden
Published 27 February 2004 (13 pages)
021603 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Phase field modeling of electrochemistry. II. Kinetics
J. E. Guyer, W. J. Boettinger, J. A. Warren, and G. B. McFadden
Published 27 February 2004 (12 pages)
021604 [View PDF (808 kB)]
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Electrochemical growth of iron and cobalt arborescences under a magnetic field
S. Bodea, R. Ballou, and P. Molho
Published 27 February 2004 (12 pages)
021605 [View PDF (1,059 kB)]
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Realistic kinetic Monte Carlo study of the surface phase reconstruction
M. I. Monine and L. M. Pismen
Published 27 February 2004 (10 pages)
021606 [View PDF (963 kB)]
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Spontaneous formation of periodic nanostructured film by electrodeposition: Experimental observations and modeling
Yuan Wang, Yu Cao, Mu Wang, Sheng Zhong, Ming-Zhe Zhang, Yan Feng, Ru-Wen Peng, Xi-Ping Hao, and Nai-Ben Ming
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
021607 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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Growth model with a finite number of orientations on a linear substrate
W. Cavalcanti, M. Santos, and W. Figueiredo
Published 27 February 2004 (5 pages)
021608 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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External noise imposed on the reaction-diffusion system CO+O2→CO2 on Ir(111) surfaces: Experiment and theory
Yumino Hayase, Stefan Wehner, Jürgen Küppers, and Helmut R. Brand
Published 27 February 2004 (15 pages)
021609 [View PDF (601 kB)]
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Universality in two-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth
F. D. A. Aarão Reis
Published 27 February 2004 (8 pages)
021610 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Retardation of ice growth in glass capillaries: Measurement of the critical capillary radius
Zhihong Liu, Ken Muldrew, Richard G. Wan, and Janet A. W. Elliott
Published 27 February 2004 (8 pages)
021611 [View PDF (541 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Optically induced dynamics in nematic liquid crystals: The role of finite beam size
E. Brasselet, B. Doyon, T. V. Galstian, and L. J. Dubé
Published 10 February 2004 (12 pages)
021701 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Optical Fréedericksz transition in liquid crystals and transfer of the orbital angular momentum of light
Bruno Piccirillo, Angela Vella, and Enrico Santamato
Published 17 February 2004 (7 pages)
021702 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Antiferroelectric ordering of amphiphilic glycolipids in bent-core liquid crystals
Sugat Abeygunaratne, Antal Jákli, Götz Milkereit, Hans Sawade, and Volkmar Vill
Published 24 February 2004 (6 pages)
021703 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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First-order liquid crystal orientation transition on inhomogeneous substrates
Ophelia K. C. Tsui, Fuk Kay Lee, Baoshe Zhang, and Ping Sheng
Published 24 February 2004 (7 pages)
021704 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Theory of the acoustic realignment of nematic liquid crystals
A. P. Malanoski, V. A. Greanya, B. T. Weslowski, M. S. Spector, J. V. Selinger, and R. Shashidhar
Published 26 February 2004 (8 pages)
021705 [View PDF (831 kB)]
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Interaction of colloids with a nematic-isotropic interface
D. Andrienko, M. Tasinkevych, P. Patrício, and M. M. Telo da Gama
Published 26 February 2004 (7 pages)
021706 [View PDF (638 kB)]
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Glass forming banana-shaped compounds: Vitrified liquid crystal states
S. Rauch, C. Selbmann, P. Bault, H. Sawade, G. Heppke, O. Morales-Saavedra, M. Y. M. Huang, and A. Jákli
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
021707 [View PDF (763 kB)]
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Influence of a long-chain alkane on the photoinduced nematic-isotropic transition
Geetha G. Nair, S. Krishna Prasad, and Gurumurthy Hegde
Published 27 February 2004 (6 pages)
021708 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation of the nematic-isotropic transition in an isothermal-isobaric ensemble
Abhijit Pal and Soumen Kumar Roy
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
021709 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Swelling dynamics of liquid crystal elastomers swollen with low molecular weight liquid crystals
Yusril Yusuf, Yukitada Ono, Yusuke Sumisaki, P. E. Cladis, Helmut R. Brand, Heino Finkelmann, and Shoichi Kai
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
021710 [View PDF (643 kB)]
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Observation of thermal fluctuations of disclination lines in a nematic liquid crystal
A. Mertelj and M. Čopič
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
021711 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Optical tuning of nonlinear dynamics induced by light in nematic liquid crystals
E. Brasselet
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
021712 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Influence of the bias-voltage on the anchoring energy for nematic liquid crystals
G. Barbero, D. Olivero, N. Scaramuzza, G. Strangi, and C. Versace
Published 27 February 2004 (8 pages)
021713 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Wetting of a spherical particle by a nematic liquid crystal
Jun-ichi Fukuda, Holger Stark, and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
021714 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Polymers

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Transverse fluctuations of grafted polymers
G. Lattanzi, T. Munk, and E. Frey
Published 9 February 2004 (4 pages)
021801 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Influence of polymer architecture and polymer-wall interaction on the adsorption of polymers into a slit-pore
Zhong Chen and Fernando A. Escobedo
Published 17 February 2004 (10 pages)
021802 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Supersymmetry theory of microphase separation in homopolymer-oligomer mixtures
Alexander Olemskoi, Ivan Krakovsky, and Alexey Savelyev
Published 17 February 2004 (13 pages)
021803 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Rotational and translational diffusion of fluorocarbon tracer spheres in semidilute xanthan solutions
Gijsberta H. Koenderink, Stefano Sacanna, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, and A. P. Philipse
Published 23 February 2004 (12 pages)
021804 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Chiral molecule adsorption on helical polymers
Maria R. D’Orsogna and Tom Chou
Published 26 February 2004 (8 pages)
021805 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Anomalous dynamics of forced translocation
Yacov Kantor and Mehran Kardar
Published 26 February 2004 (12 pages)
021806 [View PDF (709 kB)]
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Anomalous elasticity of nematic and critically soft elastomers
Olaf Stenull and T. C. Lubensky
Published 27 February 2004 (25 pages)
021807 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Stationary dynamics approach to analytical approximations for polymer coexistence curves
S. M. Scheinhardt-Engels, F. A. M. Leermakers, and G. J. Fleer
Published 27 February 2004 (13 pages)
021808 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Biological physics

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Absolute interfacial distance measurements by dual-wavelength reflection interference contrast microscopy
Jörg Schilling, Kheya Sengupta, Stefanie Goennenwein, Andreas R. Bausch, and Erich Sackmann
Published 12 February 2004 (9 pages)
021901 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Anomalous self-assembly of gelatin in ethanol-water marginal solvent
H. B. Bohidar and B. Mohanty
Published 19 February 2004 (9 pages)
021902 [View PDF (595 kB)]
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Evolutionary model with genetics, aging, and knowledge
Armando Ticona Bustillos and Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira
Published 20 February 2004 (8 pages)
021903 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Simulation of the kinetics of a sphere attached to a fluctuating polymer: Implications for target search by DNA-binding proteins
J. Chakrabarti and S. Roy
Published 24 February 2004 (5 pages)
021904 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Spiking neural network for recognizing spatiotemporal sequences of spikes
Dezhe Z. Jin
Published 26 February 2004 (13 pages)
021905 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Outbreaks of Hantavirus induced by seasonality
J. Buceta, C. Escudero, F. J. de la Rubia, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 26 February 2004 (8 pages)
021906 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Model study of protein unfolding by interfaces
S. D. Chakarova and A. E. Carlsson
Published 26 February 2004 (9 pages)
021907 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Extinction in population dynamics
C. Escudero, J. Buceta, F. J. de la Rubia, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 26 February 2004 (9 pages)
021908 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Phase diagram of aggregation of oppositely charged colloids in salty water
R. Zhang and B. I. Shklovskii
Published 26 February 2004 (10 pages)
021909 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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From a discrete to a continuous model of biological cell movement
Stephen Turner, Jonathan A. Sherratt, Kevin J. Painter, and Nicholas J. Savill
Published 27 February 2004 (10 pages)
021910 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Elastic interactions of active cells with soft materials
I. B. Bischofs, S. A. Safran, and U. S. Schwarz
Published 27 February 2004 (17 pages)
021911 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Cooperative effects on the kinetics of ATP hydrolysis in collective molecular motors
Yaogen Shu and Hualin Shi
Published 27 February 2004 (5 pages)
021912 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Eigen model as a quantum spin chain: Exact dynamics
David Saakian and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 27 February 2004 (5 pages)
021913 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in a biological motor under complex fluctuations
Cheng-Hung Chang and Tian Yow Tsong
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
021914 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Constant-pH molecular dynamics study of protonation-structure relationship in a heptapeptide derived from ovomucoid third domain
Maciej Długosz, Jan M. Antosiewicz, and Andrew D. Robertson
Published 27 February 2004 (10 pages)
021915 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Collapse of a semiflexible polymer in poor solvent
Alberto Montesi, Matteo Pasquali, and F. C. MacKintosh
Published 27 February 2004 (10 pages)
021916 [View PDF (873 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Survival in equilibrium step fluctuations
C. Dasgupta, M. Constantin, S. Das Sarma, and Satya N. Majumdar
Published 12 February 2004 (4 pages)
022101 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Drifting diffusion on a circle as continuous limit of a multiurn Ehrenfest model
Pi-Gang Luan and Yee-Mou Kao
Published 26 February 2004 (4 pages)
022102 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Advection flow effects in the growth of a free dendrite
Massimo Conti
Published 17 February 2004 (4 pages)
022601 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Static and dynamic dielectric behavior of mesogenic compounds of different polarity in the vicinity of the isotropic to nematic phase transition
Margarita Ginovska, Horst Kresse, Danuta Bauman, Grzegorz Czechowski, and Jan Jadżyn
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
022701 [View PDF (47 kB)]

Polymers

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Contraction and reexpansion of polymer thin films
T. Miyazaki, K. Nishida, and T. Kanaya
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
022801 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Biological physics

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Interspike interval statistics of neurons driven by colored noise
Benjamin Lindner
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
022901 [View PDF (196 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Estimate of the vibrational frequencies of spherical virus particles”
Lucien Saviot, Daniel B. Murray, Alain Mermet, and Eugène Duval
Published 25 February 2004 (1 page)
023901 [View PDF (11 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Distribution of epicenters in the Olami-Feder-Christensen model
Tiago P. Peixoto and Carmen P. C. Prado
Published 25 February 2004 (4 pages)
025101(R) [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Adiabatic theory for the population distribution in the evolutionary minority game
Kan Chen, Bing-Hong Wang, and Baosheng Yuan
Published 26 February 2004 (4 pages)
025102(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Structural vulnerability of the North American power grid
Réka Albert, István Albert, and Gary L. Nakarado
Published 26 February 2004 (4 pages)
025103(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Stability of quantum motion: Beyond Fermi-golden-rule and Lyapunov decay
Wen-ge Wang, G. Casati, and Baowen Li
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
025201(R) [View PDF (323 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Terahertz radiation from the vacuum-plasma interface driven by ultrashort intense laser pulses
Zheng-Ming Sheng, Hui-Chun Wu, Kun Li, and Jie Zhang
Published 25 February 2004 (4 pages)
025401(R) [View PDF (501 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Features of modulational instability of partially coherent light: Importance of the incoherence spectrum
D. Anderson, L. Helczynski-Wolf, M. Lisak, and V. Semenov
Published 26 February 2004 (4 pages)
025601(R) [View PDF (205 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Scale-free and stable structures in complex ad hoc networks
Nima Sarshar and Vwani Roychowdhury
Published 4 February 2004 (6 pages)
026101 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Absence of a tough-brittle transition in the statistical fracture of unidirectional composite tapes under local load sharing
S. Mahesh and S. L. Phoenix
Published 9 February 2004 (23 pages)
026102 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Nonlinear response of the trap model in the aging regime: Exact results in the strong-disorder limit
Cécile Monthus
Published 10 February 2004 (20 pages)
026103 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Density of states for almost-diagonal random matrices
Oleg Yevtushenko and Vladimir E. Kravtsov
Published 17 February 2004 (6 pages)
026104 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Analysis of clusters formed by the moving average of a long-range correlated time series
A. Carbone, G. Castelli, and H. E. Stanley
Published 19 February 2004 (4 pages)
026105 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Network transitivity and matrix models
Z. Burda, J. Jurkiewicz, and A. Krzywicki
Published 20 February 2004 (10 pages)
026106 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Calculation of the transition matrix and of the occupation probabilities for the states of the Oslo sandpile model
Álvaro Corral
Published 23 February 2004 (12 pages)
026107 [View PDF (740 kB)]
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Growing networks with geographical attachment preference: Emergence of small worlds
Jonathan Ozik, Brian R. Hunt, and Edward Ott
Published 23 February 2004 (5 pages)
026108 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Reexamination of the long-range Potts model: A multicanonical approach
S. Reynal and H. T. Diep
Published 24 February 2004 (17 pages)
026109 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau-type approach to quantum dissipation
José L. López
Published 24 February 2004 (16 pages)
026110 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Statistical properties of two particle systems in a rectangular box: Molecular dynamics simulations
Soong-Hyuck Suh and Soon-Chul Kim
Published 24 February 2004 (6 pages)
026111 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Functional renormalization group and the field theory of disordered elastic systems
Pierre Le Doussal, Kay Jörg Wiese, and Pascal Chauve
Published 25 February 2004 (42 pages)
026112 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Finding and evaluating community structure in networks
M. E. J. Newman and M. Girvan
Published 26 February 2004 (15 pages)
026113 [View PDF (1,750 kB)]
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Backbone exponents of the two-dimensional q-state Potts model: A Monte Carlo investigation
Youjin Deng, Henk W. J. Blöte, and Bernard Nienhuis
Published 26 February 2004 (9 pages)
026114 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Quantum version of free-energy–irreversible-work relations
Wojciech De Roeck and Christian Maes
Published 26 February 2004 (6 pages)
026115 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Generation of spatiotemporal correlated noise in 1+1 dimensions
Arne Traulsen, Karen Lippert, and Ulrich Behn
Published 26 February 2004 (9 pages)
026116 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Grain-boundary free energy in an assembly of elastic disks
Mark T. Lusk and Paul D. Beale
Published 27 February 2004 (11 pages)
026117 [View PDF (3,038 kB)]
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Corrections to scaling in random resistor networks and diluted continuous spin models near the percolation threshold
Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull
Published 27 February 2004 (18 pages)
026118 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Weak limits for quantum random walks
Geoffrey Grimmett, Svante Janson, and Petra F. Scudo
Published 27 February 2004 (6 pages)
026119 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Variational procedure for time-dependent processes
R. Englman and A. Yahalom
Published 27 February 2004 (10 pages)
026120 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Analytical approach to localized structures in a simple reaction-diffusion system
Orazio Descalzi, Yumino Hayase, and Helmut R. Brand
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
026121 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Information metric on instanton moduli spaces in nonlinear σ models
Shigeaki Yahikozawa
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
026122 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Geometric properties of two-dimensional critical and tricritical Potts models
Youjin Deng, Henk W. J. Blöte, and Benard Nienhuis
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
026123 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Principal-component-analysis eigenvalue spectra from data with symmetry-breaking structure
D. C. Hoyle and M. Rattray
Published 27 February 2004 (13 pages)
026124 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Dynamics of an unbounded interface between ordered phases
P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner, and J. Tailleur
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
026125 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Dimensional crossover and universal roughness distributions in Barkhausen noise
S. L. A. de Queiroz
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
026126 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Stress field around arbitrarily shaped cracks in two-dimensional elastic materials
Eran Bouchbinder, Joachim Mathiesen, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
026127 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Observability of Rényi’s entropy
Petr Jizba and Toshihico Arimitsu
Published 27 February 2004 (12 pages)
026128 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Time-varying synchronization of chaotic systems in the presence of system mismatch
Henry Leung and Zhiwen Zhu
Published 17 February 2004 (5 pages)
026201 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Noisy FitzHugh-Nagumo model: From single elements to globally coupled networks
J. A. Acebrón, A. R. Bulsara, and W.-J. Rappel
Published 24 February 2004 (9 pages)
026202 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Deterministic stochastic resonance in a Rössler oscillator
Kenichi Arai, Shin Mizutani, and Kazuyuki Yoshimura
Published 24 February 2004 (12 pages)
026203 [View PDF (949 kB)]
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Periodic orbit spectrum in terms of Ruelle-Pollicott resonances
P. Leboeuf
Published 25 February 2004 (13 pages)
026204 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Influence of noise on chaos in nearly Hamiltonian systems
P. V. Elyutin
Published 25 February 2004 (10 pages)
026205 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Robust measure for characterizing generalized synchronization
Xiao Hu and Valeriy Nenov
Published 26 February 2004 (7 pages)
026206 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Critical dynamic events at the crisis of transition to spatiotemporal chaos
Kaifen He and Abraham C.-L. Chian
Published 27 February 2004 (6 pages)
026207 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Amplitude death through a Hopf bifurcation in coupled electrochemical oscillators: Experiments and simulations
Yumei Zhai, István Z. Kiss, and John L. Hudson
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
026208 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Inducing coherence in networks of bistable maps by varying the interaction range
Pedro G. Lind, João Corte-Real, and Jason A. C. Gallas
Published 27 February 2004 (11 pages)
026209 [View PDF (544 kB)]
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Excitable dynamics and threshold sets in nonlinear systems
Michal Voslař and Igor Schreiber
Published 27 February 2004 (7 pages)
026210 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Symmetric, asymmetric, and antiphase Turing patterns in a model system with two identical coupled layers
Lingfa Yang and Irving R. Epstein
Published 27 February 2004 (6 pages)
026211 [View PDF (629 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Selection rules for the tip-splitting instability
A. Pereira and J. Elezgaray
Published 23 February 2004 (10 pages)
026301 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Effect of inertia in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
M. Breuer, S. Wessling, J. Schmalzl, and U. Hansen
Published 24 February 2004 (10 pages)
026302 [View PDF (957 kB)]
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Solar turbulence in earth’s global and regional temperature anomalies
Nicola Scafetta, Paolo Grigolini, Timothy Imholt, Jim Roberts, and Bruce J. West
Published 26 February 2004 (13 pages)
026303 [View PDF (647 kB)]
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Low-dimensional model of a supersonic rectangular jet
D. Moreno, A. Krothapalli, M. B. Alkislar, and L. M. Lourenco
Published 27 February 2004 (12 pages)
026304 [View PDF (3,156 kB)]
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One-dimensional Langevin models of fluid particle acceleration in developed turbulence
A. K. Aringazin and M. I. Mazhitov
Published 27 February 2004 (17 pages)
026305 [View PDF (1,207 kB)]
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Intermittency as a consequence of turbulent transport in nonlinear systems
Benno Rumpf and Alan C. Newell
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
026306 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Experimental study of surface waves scattering by a single vortex and a vortex dipole
Francisco Vivanco and Francisco Melo
Published 27 February 2004 (12 pages)
026307 [View PDF (1,492 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Ion generation in a low-density plastic foam by interaction with intense femtosecond laser pulses
S. Okihara, T. Zh. Esirkepov, K. Nagai, S. Shimizu, F. Sato, M. Hashida, T. Iida, K. Nishihara, T. Norimatsu, Y. Izawa, and S. Sakabe
Published 9 February 2004 (4 pages)
026401 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Complete characterization of a plasma mirror for the production of high-contrast ultraintense laser pulses
G. Doumy, F. Quéré, O. Gobert, M. Perdrix, Ph. Martin, P. Audebert, J. C. Gauthier, J.-P. Geindre, and T. Wittmann
Published 9 February 2004 (12 pages)
026402 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Model for computing superconfiguration temperatures in nonlocal-thermodynamic-equilibrium hot plasmas
J. Bauche, C. Bauche-Arnoult, and K. B. Fournier
Published 17 February 2004 (10 pages)
026403 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Nonresonant beat-wave excitation of relativistic plasma waves with constant phase velocity for charged-particle acceleration
C. V. Filip, R. Narang, S. Ya. Tochitsky, C. E. Clayton, P. Musumeci, R. B. Yoder, K. A. Marsh, J. B. Rosenzweig, C. Pellegrini, and C. Joshi
Published 17 February 2004 (8 pages)
026404 [View PDF (658 kB)]
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Structure of the ion wakefield in dusty plasmas
G. A. Hebner and M. E. Riley
Published 23 February 2004 (6 pages)
026405 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Numerical investigation of ion-energy-distribution functions in single and dual frequency capacitively coupled plasma reactors
V. Georgieva, A. Bogaerts, and R. Gijbels
Published 23 February 2004 (11 pages)
026406 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Origin of the curved nature of Mach cone wings in complex plasmas
S. K. Zhdanov, G. E. Morfill, D. Samsonov, M. Zuzic, and O. Havnes
Published 24 February 2004 (8 pages)
026407 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Origin of fluctuations in atmospheric pressure arc plasma devices
S. Ghorui and A. K. Das
Published 26 February 2004 (7 pages)
026408 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Electron trapping and acceleration across a parabolic plasma density profile
J. U. Kim, N. Hafz, and H. Suk
Published 26 February 2004 (5 pages)
026409 [View PDF (652 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of a dusty plasma
B. P. Pandey
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
026410 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Charge separation effects in solid targets and ion acceleration with a two-temperature electron distribution
M. Passoni, V. T. Tikhonchuk, M. Lontano, and V. Yu. Bychenkov
Published 27 February 2004 (11 pages)
026411 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Transport properties of local thermodynamic equilibrium hydrogen plasmas including electronically excited states
M. Capitelli, R. Celiberto, C. Gorse, A. Laricchiuta, D. Pagano, and P. Traversa
Published 27 February 2004 (10 pages)
026412 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Confinement and dynamics of laser-produced plasma expanding across a transverse magnetic field
S. S. Harilal, M. S. Tillack, B. O’Shay, C. V. Bindhu, and F. Najmabadi
Published 27 February 2004 (11 pages)
026413 [View PDF (1,130 kB)]
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Energetic electrons emitted from ethanol droplets irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses
X. Y. Peng, J. Zhang, Z. Jin, T. J. Liang, Z. M. Sheng, Y. T. Li, Q. Z. Yu, Z. Y. Zheng, Z. H. Wang, Z. L. Chen, J. Y. Zhong, X. W. Tang, J. Yang, and C. J. Sun
Published 27 February 2004 (5 pages)
026414 [View PDF (482 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Transmission properties of a single metallic slit: From the subwavelength regime to the geometrical-optics limit
J. Bravo-Abad, L. Martín-Moreno, and F. J. García-Vidal
Published 4 February 2004 (6 pages)
026601 [View PDF (544 kB)]
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Plane waves with negative phase velocity in Faraday chiral mediums
Tom G. Mackay and Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Published 10 February 2004 (9 pages)
026602 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Energy funneling in a bent chain of Morse oscillators with long-range coupling
P. V. Larsen, P. L. Christiansen, O. Bang, J. F. R. Archilla, and Yu. B. Gaididei
Published 17 February 2004 (6 pages)
026603 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Refraction of electromagnetic energy for wave packets incident on a negative-index medium is always negative
W. T. Lu, J. B. Sokoloff, and S. Sridhar
Published 23 February 2004 (5 pages)
026604 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Probing Anderson localization of light via decay rate statistics
F. A. Pinheiro, M. Rusek, A. Orlowski, and B. A. van Tiggelen
Published 23 February 2004 (4 pages)
026605 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Mie scattering of magnetic spheres
R.-J. Tarento, K.-H. Bennemann, P. Joyes, and J. Van de Walle
Published 25 February 2004 (5 pages)
026606 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal three-dimensional mapping of nonlinear X waves
J. Trull, O. Jedrkiewicz, P. Di Trapani, A. Matijosius, A. Varanavicius, G. Valiulis, R. Danielius, E. Kucinskas, A. Piskarskas, and S. Trillo
Published 26 February 2004 (4 pages)
026607 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Optical breathers in anisotropic media
G. T. Adamashvili
Published 27 February 2004 (13 pages)
026608 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Radiation in transition of charged particles through rough interfaces
R. A. Baghiyan
Published 27 February 2004 (10 pages)
026609 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Computational physics

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Constraining the topology of neural networks to ensure dynamics with symmetry properties
Luis Antonio Aguirre, Rafael A. M. Lopes, Gleison F. V. Amaral, and Christophe Letellier
Published 9 February 2004 (11 pages)
026701 [View PDF (779 kB)]
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Reduced formulation and efficient algorithm for the determination of equilibrium composition and partition functions of ideal and nonideal complex plasma mixtures
Mofreh R. Zaghloul
Published 26 February 2004 (7 pages)
026702 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Metropolis simulations of Met-Enkephalin with solvent-accessible area parametrizations
Bernd A. Berg and Hsiao-Ping Hsu
Published 27 February 2004 (9 pages)
026703 [View PDF (121 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Scaling properties of self-expanding surfaces
Yup Kim and S. Y. Yoon
Published 17 February 2004 (4 pages)
027101 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Statistical properties of a discrete version of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
Hernán Larralde
Published 20 February 2004 (4 pages)
027102 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Poincaré cycle of an Ehrenfest multiurn model in a one-dimensional ring
Yee-Mou Kao
Published 23 February 2004 (4 pages)
027103 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Clustering of correlated networks
S. N. Dorogovtsev
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
027104 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Multiple dynamic transitions in an anisotropic Heisenberg ferromagnet driven by polarized magnetic field
Muktish Acharyya
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
027105 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Decoherence as a probe of coherent quantum dynamics
Michael B. d’Arcy, Rachel M. Godun, Gil S. Summy, Italo Guarneri, Sandro Wimberger, Shmuel Fishman, and Andreas Buchleitner
Published 26 February 2004 (4 pages)
027201 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Perfectly monodisperse microbubbling by capillary flow focusing: An alternate physical description and universal scaling
Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo
Published 27 February 2004 (3 pages)
027301 [View PDF (297 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Unexpected behavior of crossing microwave beams
A. Ranfagni, D. Mugnai, and R. Ruggeri
Published 23 February 2004 (4 pages)
027601 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Localized X-shaped field generated by a superluminal electric charge
Erasmo Recami, Michel Zamboni-Rached, and César A. Dartora
Published 27 February 2004 (4 pages)
027602 [View PDF (223 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Highly nonlinear, sign-varying shift of hydrogen spectral lines in dense plasmas”
Jacek Halenka
Published 27 February 2004 (3 pages)
028401 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Highly nonlinear, sign-varying shift of hydrogen spectral lines in dense plasmas’ ”
Eugene Oks
Published 27 February 2004 (2 pages)
028402 [View PDF (23 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Self-stabilization of high-frequency oscillations in semiconductor superlattices by time-delay autosynchronization [Phys. Rev. E 68, 066208 (2003)]
J. Schlesner, A. Amann, N. B. Janson, W. Just, and E. Scholl
Published 9 February 2004 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Erratum: Nonlinear relaxation field in charged systems under high electric fields [Phys. Rev. E 62, 6135 (2000)]
K. Morawetz
Published 17 February 2004 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Universality class of absorbing transitions with continuously varying critical exponents [Phys. Rev. E 69, 016122 (2004)]
Jae Dong Noh and Hyunggyu Park
Published 23 February 2004 (1 page)
029903(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Erratum: Analytical results for coupled-map lattices with long-range interactions [Phys. Rev. E 68, 045202(R) (2003)]
Celia Anteneodo, Sandro E. de S. Pinto, Antônio M. Batista, and Ricardo L. Viana
Published 23 February 2004 (1 page)
029904(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Generalizations of the Bruggeman equation and a concept of shape-distributed particle composites [Phys. Rev. E 68, 041108 (2003)]
Anatoliy V. Goncharenko
Published 23 February 2004 (1 page)
029905(E) [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Erratum: Theoretical analysis of the focusing of acoustic waves by two-dimensional sonic crystals [Phys. Rev. E 67, 036603 (2003)]
Bikash C. Gupta and Zhen Ye
Published 27 February 2004 (1 page)
029906(E) [View PDF (12 kB)]
 
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