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Physical Review E – May 2004
Volume 69, Issue 5

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Cooling rate, heating rate, and aging effects in glassy water
Nicolas Giovambattista, H. Eugene Stanley, and Francesco Sciortino
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
050201(R) [View PDF (218 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Microstructure in a settling suspension of hard spheres
N.-Q. Nguyen and A. J. C. Ladd
Published 26 May 2004 (4 pages)
050401(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Effect of large hydrostatic pressure on the dielectric loss spectrum of type-A glass formers
S. Hensel-Bielowka, S. Pawlus, C. M. Roland, J. Zioło, and M. Paluch
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
050501(R) [View PDF (50 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Generation, propagation, and switching of orientational waves in photoexcited liquid-crystalline monolayers
Tohru Okuzono, Yuka Tabe, and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Published 11 May 2004 (4 pages)
050701(R) [View PDF (156 kB)]

Biological physics

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Size of outbreaks near the epidemic threshold
E. Ben-Naim and P. L. Krapivsky
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
050901(R) [View PDF (53 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Diffusion of hard sphere fluids in disordered media: A molecular dynamics simulation study
Rakwoo Chang, Kamakshi Jagannathan, and Arun Yethiraj
Published 6 May 2004 (9 pages)
051101 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Thermodynamics and the glass transition in model energy landscapes
M. Scott Shell and Pablo G. Debenedetti
Published 11 May 2004 (9 pages)
051102 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Slow dynamics in gelation phenomena: From chemical gels to colloidal glasses
Emanuela Del Gado, Annalisa Fierro, Lucilla de Arcangelis, and Antonio Coniglio
Published 14 May 2004 (9 pages)
051103 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Macroscopic limit cycle via pure noise-induced phase transitions
R. Kawai, X. Sailer, L. Schimansky-Geier, and C. Van den Broeck
Published 14 May 2004 (8 pages)
051104 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Modelization of surface diffusion of a molecular dimer
A. H. Romero, A. M. Lacasta, and J. M. Sancho
Published 20 May 2004 (4 pages)
051105 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Thermalization of an anisotropic granular particle
P. Viot and J. Talbot
Published 24 May 2004 (7 pages)
051106 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Aggregation process on complex networks
Luis G. Morelli and Hilda A. Cerdeira
Published 25 May 2004 (8 pages)
051107 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Two rubber balloons: Phase diagram of air transfer
Yan Levin and Fernando L. da Silveira
Published 26 May 2004 (4 pages)
051108 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Resonant activation in discrete systems
O. Flomenbom and J. Klafter
Published 28 May 2004 (5 pages)
051109 [View PDF (584 kB)]
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Noise suppression and spectral decomposition for state-dependent noise in the presence of a stationary fluctuating input
D. Brian Walton and Koen Visscher
Published 28 May 2004 (8 pages)
051110 [View PDF (169 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Frequency dependence and equilibration of the specific heat of glass-forming liquids
Clare C. Yu and Hervé M. Carruzzo
Published 21 May 2004 (10 pages)
051201 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Structural relaxation in supercooled orthoterphenyl
S.-H. Chong and F. Sciortino
Published 24 May 2004 (15 pages)
051202 [View PDF (497 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusivity and electric conductivity for low concentration electrolytes in nanopores
S. K. Lai, C. Y. Kau, Y. W. Tang, and K. Y. Chan
Published 28 May 2004 (12 pages)
051203 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Granular materials

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Gaussian kinetic model for granular gases
James W. Dufty, Aparna Baskaran, and Lorena Zogaib
Published 4 May 2004 (21 pages)
051301 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Boundary conditions and defect lines in the Abelian sandpile model
M. Jeng
Published 11 May 2004 (6 pages)
051302 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Steady-state representation of the homogeneous cooling state of a granular gas
J. Javier Brey, M. J. Ruiz-Montero, and F. Moreno
Published 20 May 2004 (13 pages)
051303 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Screening of spherical colloids beyond mean field: A local density functional approach
Marcia C. Barbosa, Markus Deserno, Christian Holm, and René Messina
Published 25 May 2004 (9 pages)
051401 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Electrokinetic behavior of two touching inhomogeneous biological cells and colloidal particles: Effects of multipolar interactions
J. P. Huang, Mikko Karttunen, K. W. Yu, L. Dong, and G. Q. Gu
Published 25 May 2004 (6 pages)
051402 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Structural and computational depth of diffusion-limited aggregation
D. Tillberg and J. Machta
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
051403 [View PDF (257 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Depletion potential in colloidal mixtures of hard spheres and platelets
L. Harnau and S. Dietrich
Published 20 May 2004 (7 pages)
051501 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Structure of a soft-sphere fluid at a soft repulsive wall: A comparison of weighted density-functional theories
Rachel Sibug-Aga and Brian B. Laird
Published 26 May 2004 (7 pages)
051502 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Polystyrene thin films in CO2
Luciana Meli, Joseph Q. Pham, Keith P. Johnston, and Peter F. Green
Published 4 May 2004 (8 pages)
051601 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Epitaxial growth of a colloidal hard-sphere hcp crystal and the effects of epitaxial mismatch on crystal structure
J. P. Hoogenboom, A. K. van Langen-Suurling, J. Romijn, and A. van Blaaderen
Published 13 May 2004 (18 pages)
051602 [View PDF (1,432 kB)]
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Spatial persistence and survival probabilities for fluctuating interfaces
M. Constantin, S. Das Sarma, and C. Dasgupta
Published 13 May 2004 (10 pages)
051603 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Pattern formation in crystal growth under parabolic shear flow. II
K. Ueno
Published 19 May 2004 (8 pages)
051604 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Kinetic control of surface patterning by laser-induced photochemical deposition in liquid solutions. I. Theoretical developments
Emmanuel Hugonnot and Jean-Pierre Delville
Published 27 May 2004 (12 pages)
051605 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Kinetic control of surface patterning by laser-induced photochemical deposition in liquid solutions. II. Experimental investigations
Emmanuel Hugonnot, Alexandru Popescu, Sylvie Hanifi-Kadi, and Jean-Pierre Delville
Published 27 May 2004 (14 pages)
051606 [View PDF (804 kB)]
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Phase-field modeling of binary alloy solidification with coupled heat and solute diffusion
J. C. Ramirez, C. Beckermann, A. Karma, and H.-J. Diepers
Published 28 May 2004 (16 pages)
051607 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Linear morphological stability analysis of the solid-liquid interface in rapidsolidification of a binary system
P. K. Galenko and D. A. Danilov
Published 28 May 2004 (14 pages)
051608 [View PDF (216 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Anisotropy and nonequilibrium effects on the light scattered from suspension in a nematic solvent
H. Híjar and R. F. Rodríguez
Published 11 May 2004 (8 pages)
051701 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Isotropic-nematic phase transition in suspensions of filamentous virus and the neutral polymer Dextran
Zvonimir Dogic, Kirstin R. Purdy, Eric Grelet, Marie Adams, and Seth Fraden
Published 14 May 2004 (9 pages)
051702 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Structural transitions in holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals
I. Drevenšek-Olenik, M. Jazbinšek, M. E. Sousa, A. K. Fontecchio, G. P. Crawford, and M. Čopič
Published 18 May 2004 (10 pages)
051703 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Splayed polarization in the ferroelectric phase of a bent-core liquid crystal as studied by optical second-harmonic generation
Fumito Araoka, Hajime Hoshi, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 20 May 2004 (4 pages)
051704 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Mapping molecular conformation and orientation of polyimide surfaces for homeotropicliquid crystal alignment by nonlinear optical spectroscopy
Masahito Oh-e, Hiroshi Yokoyama, and Doseok Kim
Published 21 May 2004 (11 pages)
051705 [View PDF (750 kB)]
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X-ray and dielectric measurements of the smectic-A–hexatic-B transitionin bulk and confined geometries
Chethan V. Lobo, S. Krishna Prasad, and D. S. Shankar Rao
Published 21 May 2004 (8 pages)
051706 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Anomalous intensity dependence of optical reorientation in azo-dye-doped nematic liquid crystals
M. Becchi, I. Janossy, D. S. Shankar Rao, and D. Statman
Published 25 May 2004 (6 pages)
051707 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Influence of the ions on the dynamical response of a nematic cell submitted to a dc voltage
M. Scalerandi, P. Pagliusi, G. Cipparrone, and G. Barbero
Published 26 May 2004 (10 pages)
051708 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Pretransitional anomalies in the shear flow near a second-order nematic–smectic-A phase change
A. V. Zakharov and J. Thoen
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
051709 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Polymers

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Dynamics of nematic elastomers
Olaf Stenull and T. C. Lubensky
Published 11 May 2004 (13 pages)
051801 [View PDF (199 kB)]

Biological physics

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Energy-landscape-model analysis for irreversibility and its pulse-width dependence in cells subjected to a high-intensity ultrashort electric pulse
R. P. Joshi, Q. Hu, K. H. Schoenbach, and S. J. Beebe
Published 4 May 2004 (10 pages)
051901 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Elastic deformations of grafted layers with surface stress
A. Nicolas and S. A. Safran
Published 6 May 2004 (7 pages)
051902 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Models to analyze small-angle neutron scattering from unilamellar lipid vesicles
Norbert Kučerka, John F. Nagle, Scott E. Feller, and Pavol Balgavý
Published 6 May 2004 (9 pages)
051903 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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Phase transition of traveling waves in bacterial colony pattern
Joe Yuichiro Wakano, Atsushi Komoto, and Yukio Yamaguchi
Published 12 May 2004 (9 pages)
051904 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Dynamics of the minimally frustrated helices determine the hierarchical folding of small helical proteins
M. Compiani, E. Capriotti, and R. Casadio
Published 12 May 2004 (8 pages)
051905 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Dynamics of biological molecules irradiated by short x-ray pulses
Stefan P. Hau-Riege, Richard A. London, and Abraham Szoke
Published 18 May 2004 (12 pages)
051906 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Polymer-induced bundling of F actin and the depletion force
M. Hosek and J. X. Tang
Published 18 May 2004 (9 pages)
051907 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Sampling tissue volumes using frequency-domain photon migration
Frédéric Bevilacqua, Joon S. You, Carole K. Hayakawa, and Vasan Venugopalan
Published 24 May 2004 (10 pages)
051908 [View PDF (611 kB)]
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Transmission of stimulus-locked responses in two coupled phase oscillators
Peter A. Tass
Published 24 May 2004 (24 pages)
051909 [View PDF (1,872 kB)]
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Percolation and Burgers’ dynamics in a model of capillary formation
A. Coniglio, A. de Candia, S. Di Talia, and A. Gamba
Published 24 May 2004 (10 pages)
051910 [View PDF (664 kB)]
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Analytical study of the effect of recombination on evolution via DNA shuffling
Weiqun Peng, Herbert Levine, Terence Hwa, and David A. Kessler
Published 24 May 2004 (15 pages)
051911 [View PDF (665 kB)]
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Role of evolution by natural selection in population dynamics
Michel Droz and Andrzej Pȩkalski
Published 24 May 2004 (6 pages)
051912 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Adaptation and enslavement in endosymbiont-host associations
Marcus R. Frean and Edward R. Abraham
Published 24 May 2004 (6 pages)
051913 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Adaptive time-frequency parametrization of epileptic spikes
Piotr J. Durka
Published 25 May 2004 (5 pages)
051914 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Patterns in syntactic dependency networks
Ramon Ferrer i Cancho, Ricard V. Solé, and Reinhard Köhler
Published 26 May 2004 (8 pages)
051915 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Discerning aggregation in homogeneous ensembles: A general description of photon counting spectroscopy in diffusing systems
Hai-Cang Ren, Noel L. Goddard, Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, and Albert Libchaber
Published 27 May 2004 (12 pages)
051916 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Folding and form: Insights from lattice simulations
P. F. N. Faisca, M. M. Telo da Gama, and R. C. Ball
Published 28 May 2004 (8 pages)
051917 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Effects of synaptic conductance on the voltage distribution and firing rate of spiking neurons
Magnus J. E. Richardson
Published 28 May 2004 (8 pages)
051918 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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Hierarchical structure in healthy and diseased human heart rate variability
Emily S. C. Ching, D. C. Lin, and C. Zhang
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
051919 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Theoretical and computational methods for the noninvasive detection of gastric electrical source coupling
Andrei Irimia and L. Alan Bradshaw
Published 28 May 2004 (7 pages)
051920 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Effect of intracrystalline water on longitudinal sound velocity in tetragonal hen-egg-white lysozyme crystals
M. Tachibana, H. Koizumi, and K. Kojima
Published 28 May 2004 (5 pages)
051921 [View PDF (99 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Granular materials

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Clusters in a magnetic toy model for binary granular piles
K. Trojan and M. Ausloos
Published 11 May 2004 (4 pages)
052301 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Structure of nonuniform polymer melts: Density functional perturbation approach
Soon-Chul Kim and Song Hi Lee
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
052501 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Generalized survival in equilibrium step fluctuations
M. Constantin and S. Das Sarma
Published 11 May 2004 (4 pages)
052601 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Equilibrium of anchored interfaces with quenched disordered growth
M. D. Grynberg
Published 26 May 2004 (4 pages)
052602 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Numerical evidence for stretched exponential relaxations in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
Eytan Katzav and Moshe Schwartz
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
052603 [View PDF (59 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Mechanical analog of temperature for the description of force distribution in static granular packings”
Philip T. Metzger
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
053301 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on mechanical analog of temperature for the description of force distribution in static granular packings”
A. H. W. Ngan
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
053302 [View PDF (207 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Efficiency and reliability of epidemic data dissemination in complex networks
Yamir Moreno, Maziar Nekovee, and Alessandro Vespignani
Published 21 May 2004 (4 pages)
055101(R) [View PDF (42 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Quantum dissipation due to the interaction with chaos
Doron Cohen and Tsampikos Kottos
Published 25 May 2004 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Characteristics of a delayed system with time-dependent delay time
Won-Ho Kye, Muhan Choi, Sunghwan Rim, M. S. Kurdoglyan, Chil-Min Kim, and Young-Jai Park
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
055202(R) [View PDF (387 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Bernstein–Greene–Kruskal solitary waves in three-dimensional magnetized plasma
Li-Jen Chen, David J. Thouless, and Jian-Ming Tang
Published 25 May 2004 (4 pages)
055401(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Prediction of simultaneously large and opposite generalized Goos-Hänchen shifts for TE and TM light beams in an asymmetric double-prism configuration
Chun-Fang Li and Qi Wang
Published 12 May 2004 (4 pages)
055601(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Controlling light by light in a one-dimensional resonant photonic crystal
B. I. Mantsyzov, I. V. Mel’nikov, and J. Stewart Aitchison
Published 20 May 2004 (4 pages)
055602(R) [View PDF (266 kB)]

Computational physics

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Improved extremal optimization for the Ising spin glass
A. Alan Middleton
Published 14 May 2004 (4 pages)
055701(R) [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Entropy of pseudo-random-number generators
Stephan Mertens and Heiko Bauke
Published 21 May 2004 (4 pages)
055702(R) [View PDF (217 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Scaling law in target-hunting processes
Shi-Jie Yang
Published 4 May 2004 (4 pages)
056101 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Random matrix approach to multivariate correlations: Some limiting cases
M. S. Santhanam and Holger Kantz
Published 4 May 2004 (10 pages)
056102 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Fcc-bcc transition for Yukawa interactions determined by applied strain deformation
Robert S. Hoy and Mark O. Robbins
Published 6 May 2004 (9 pages)
056103 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Thermodynamic properties of He-H2 fluid mixtures over a wide range of temperatures and pressures
I. Ali, S. M. Osman, N. Sulaiman, and R. N. Singh
Published 11 May 2004 (11 pages)
056104 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Traffic behavior near an off ramp in the cellular automaton traffic model
Bin Jia, Rui Jiang, and Qing-Song Wu
Published 11 May 2004 (7 pages)
056105 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Wave formation by time delays in randomly coupled oscillators
Tae-Wook Ko, Seong-Ok Jeong, and Hie-Tae Moon
Published 11 May 2004 (5 pages)
056106 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Common scaling patterns in intertrade times of U. S. stocks
Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Ainslie Yuen, Boris Podobnik, and Youngki Lee
Published 17 May 2004 (7 pages)
056107 [View PDF (881 kB)]
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Small numerators cancelling small denominators of the high-temperature scaling variables: A systematic explanation in arbitrary dimensions
Y. Meurice
Published 18 May 2004 (10 pages)
056108 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Scaling of the linear response in simple aging systems without disorder
Malte Henkel, Matthias Paessens, and Michel Pleimling
Published 19 May 2004 (10 pages)
056109 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Vortex velocity probability distributions in phase-ordering kinetics
Gene F. Mazenko
Published 19 May 2004 (10 pages)
056110 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Entropy and information in neural spike trains: Progress on the sampling problem
Ilya Nemenman, William Bialek, and Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck
Published 24 May 2004 (6 pages)
056111 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Disorder-induced rounding of the phase transition in the large-q-state Potts model
M. T. Mercaldo, J-Ch. Anglès d’Auriac, and F. Iglói
Published 24 May 2004 (11 pages)
056112 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Glassy phase in the Hamiltonian mean-field model
Alessandro Pluchino, Vito Latora, and Andrea Rapisarda
Published 24 May 2004 (4 pages)
056113 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Approach to equilibrium in adiabatically evolving potentials
H. S. Samanta, J. K. Bhattacharjee, and R. Ramaswamy
Published 25 May 2004 (5 pages)
056114 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics, rectification, and phase locking for particles on symmetrical two-dimensional periodic substrates with dc and circular ac drives
C. Reichhardt, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, and M. B. Hastings
Published 26 May 2004 (12 pages)
056115 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Biased growth processes and the “rich-get-richer” principle
Alessandro P. S. de Moura
Published 27 May 2004 (5 pages)
056116 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Stable method for the calculation of partition functions in the superconfiguration approach
Franck Gilleron and Jean-Christophe Pain
Published 28 May 2004 (11 pages)
056117 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in biological nonlinear evolution models
Jörn Dunkel, Stefan Hilbert, Lutz Schimansky-Geier, and Peter Hänggi
Published 28 May 2004 (13 pages)
056118 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Quantum spherical spin models
R. Serral Gracià and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
Published 28 May 2004 (17 pages)
056119 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Dynamics of the adaptive natural gradient descent method for soft committee machines
Masato Inoue, Hyeyoung Park, and Masato Okada
Published 28 May 2004 (14 pages)
056120 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Extended heat-fluctuation theorems for a system with deterministic and stochastic forces
R. van Zon and E. G. D. Cohen
Published 28 May 2004 (14 pages)
056121 [View PDF (529 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Transient characteristics of chaos synchronization in a semiconductor laser subject to optical feedback
A. Uchida, N. Shibasaki, S. Nogawa, and S. Yoshimori
Published 4 May 2004 (9 pages)
056201 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal chaos control with a target wave in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation system
Minxi Jiang, Xiaonan Wang, Qi Ouyang, and Hong Zhang
Published 11 May 2004 (4 pages)
056202 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Chemical waves with line defects in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Hongyu Guo, Liang Li, Hongli Wang, and Qi Ouyang
Published 11 May 2004 (5 pages)
056203 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Macroscopic detection of the strong stochasticity threshold in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chainsof oscillators
M. Romero-Bastida
Published 11 May 2004 (5 pages)
056204 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Experimental simulation of quantum graphs by microwave networks
Oleh Hul, Szymon Bauch, Prot Pakoński, Nazar Savytskyy, Karol Życzkowski, and Leszek Sirko
Published 11 May 2004 (7 pages)
056205 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Topological aspects of the structure of chaotic attractors in R3
Tsvetelin D. Tsankov and Robert Gilmore
Published 12 May 2004 (11 pages)
056206 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Design and robustness of delayed feedback controllers for discrete systems
Ilan Harrington and Joshua E. S. Socolar
Published 12 May 2004 (8 pages)
056207 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Testing time symmetry in time series using data compression dictionaries
Matthew B. Kennel
Published 14 May 2004 (9 pages)
056208 [View PDF (925 kB)]
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Domain of attraction for stabilized orbits in time delayed feedback controlled Duffing systems
Kohei Yamasue and Takashi Hikihara
Published 17 May 2004 (8 pages)
056209 [View PDF (1,813 kB)]
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Resonant patterns in noisy active media
Changsong Zhou and Jürgen Kurths
Published 18 May 2004 (6 pages)
056210 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Spectral properties and classical decays in quantum open systems
Ignacio García-Mata and Marcos Saraceno
Published 18 May 2004 (14 pages)
056211 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Maturation of crack patterns
E. A. Jagla
Published 18 May 2004 (6 pages)
056212 [View PDF (642 kB)]
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Control of Hamiltonian chaos as a possible tool to control anomalous transport in fusion plasmas
Guido Ciraolo, Françoise Briolle, Cristel Chandre, Elena Floriani, Ricardo Lima, Michel Vittot, Marco Pettini, Charles Figarella, and Philippe Ghendrih
Published 18 May 2004 (16 pages)
056213 [View PDF (571 kB)]
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Random Boolean network model exhibiting deterministic chaos
Mihaela T. Matache and Jack Heidel
Published 19 May 2004 (10 pages)
056214 [View PDF (1,302 kB)]
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Embeddings of a strange attractor into R3
Tsvetelin D. Tsankov, Arunasri Nishtala, and Robert Gilmore
Published 20 May 2004 (8 pages)
056215 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Encircling an exceptional point
C. Dembowski, B. Dietz, H.-D. Gräf, H. L. Harney, A. Heine, W. D. Heiss, and A. Richter
Published 24 May 2004 (7 pages)
056216 [View PDF (712 kB)]
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Phase-locked patterns and amplitude death in a ring of delay-coupled limit cycle oscillators
Ramana Dodla, Abhijit Sen, and George L. Johnston
Published 24 May 2004 (12 pages)
056217 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Amplification of noise in a cascade chemical reaction
Tatsuo Shibata
Published 24 May 2004 (7 pages)
056218 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Universal spectral statistics in Wigner-Dyson, chiral, and Andreev star graphs. I. Construction and numerical results
Sven Gnutzmann and Burkhard Seif
Published 25 May 2004 (16 pages)
056219 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Universal spectral statistics in Wigner-Dyson, chiral, and Andreev star graphs. II. Semiclassical approach
Sven Gnutzmann and Burkhard Seif
Published 25 May 2004 (16 pages)
056220 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Dynamics of two mutually coupled semiconductor lasers: Instantaneous coupling limit
Serhiy Yanchuk, Klaus R. Schneider, and Lutz Recke
Published 25 May 2004 (12 pages)
056221 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Universal instabilities of radio-frequency traps
I. Garrick-Bethell, Th. Clausen, and R. Blümel
Published 26 May 2004 (15 pages)
056222 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Attraction of spiral waves by localized inhomogeneities with small-world connections in excitable media
Xiaonan Wang, Ying Lu, Minxi Jiang, and Qi Ouyang
Published 27 May 2004 (5 pages)
056223 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Phase-dependent output of scattering process for traveling breathers
Takashi Teramoto, Kei-Ichi Ueda, and Yasumasa Nishiura
Published 27 May 2004 (8 pages)
056224 [View PDF (1,222 kB)]
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Noise-induced coherence in bistable systems with multiple time delays
Yu Jiang, Shi-Hai Dong, and M. Lozada-Cassou
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
056225 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Effect of parameter mismatch on the synchronization of chaotic semiconductor lasers with electro-optical feedback
Y. Chembo Kouomou, Pere Colet, Nicolas Gastaud, and Laurent Larger
Published 28 May 2004 (15 pages)
056226 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Classical, semiclassical, and quantum investigations of the four-sphere scattering system
Jörg Main, Erdinç Atilgan, Howard S. Taylor, and Günter Wunner
Published 28 May 2004 (11 pages)
056227 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Irrational phase synchronization
M. S. Baptista, S. Boccaletti, K. Josić, and I. Leyva
Published 28 May 2004 (5 pages)
056228 [View PDF (383 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Traveling waves in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Wooyoung Choi, Dilip Prasad, Roberto Camassa, and Robert E. Ecke
Published 12 May 2004 (9 pages)
056301 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Probability density functions of decaying passive scalars in periodic domains: An application of Sinai-Yakhot theory
Jai Sukhatme
Published 18 May 2004 (8 pages)
056302 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Self-similar scaling in decaying numerical turbulence
Tarek A. Yousef, Nils Erland L. Haugen, and Axel Brandenburg
Published 18 May 2004 (7 pages)
056303 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Micromanipulation of sonoluminescing bubbles
Joachim Holzfuss and Matthias Rüggeberg
Published 18 May 2004 (8 pages)
056304 [View PDF (826 kB)]
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Dependence of turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor instability on initial perturbations
Guy Dimonte
Published 19 May 2004 (14 pages)
056305 [View PDF (496 kB)]
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Coherent structures in boundary layers of Rayleigh-Bénard convection
T. Haramina and A. Tilgner
Published 21 May 2004 (4 pages)
056306 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Generation of streamwise vortices in square sudden-expansion flows
Amalendu Sau
Published 24 May 2004 (10 pages)
056307 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Turbulent transition of thermocapillary flow induced by water evaporation
C. A. Ward and Fei Duan
Published 25 May 2004 (10 pages)
056308 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Spiral vortices and Taylor vortices in the annulus between rotating cylinders and the effect of an axial flow
Ch. Hoffmann, M. Lücke, and A. Pinter
Published 25 May 2004 (14 pages)
056309 [View PDF (1,830 kB)]
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Falling films and the Marangoni effect
V. Ya. Shkadov, M. G. Velarde, and V. P. Shkadova
Published 25 May 2004 (15 pages)
056310 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Comparison between theoretical predictions and direct numerical simulation results for a decaying turbulent suspension
G. Ooms and C. Poelma
Published 26 May 2004 (8 pages)
056311 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Breakup of a fluid thread in a confined geometry: droplet-plug transition, perturbation sensitivity, and kinetic stabilization with confinement
John G. Hagedorn, Nicos S. Martys, and Jack F. Douglas
Published 27 May 2004 (18 pages)
056312 [View PDF (1,282 kB)]
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Initial-value-problem solution for isolated rippled shock fronts in arbitrary fluid media
Jason W. Bates
Published 28 May 2004 (16 pages)
056313 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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“Clusterization” and intermittency of temperature fluctuations in turbulent convection
A. Bershadskii, J. J. Niemela, A. Praskovsky, and K. R. Sreenivasan
Published 28 May 2004 (5 pages)
056314 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Long-term behavior of cooling fluid in a rectangular container
Wenxian Lin and S. W. Armfield
Published 28 May 2004 (12 pages)
056315 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Log-stable laws as asymptotic solutions to a fragmentation equation:Application to the distribution of droplets in a high Weber-number spray
Nicolas Rimbert and Olivier Séro-Guillaume
Published 28 May 2004 (7 pages)
056316 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Formulation of turbulence mechanics
J. Heinloo
Published 28 May 2004 (8 pages)
056317 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Relaxation towards localized vorticity states in drift plasma and geostrophic flows
Olivier Agullo and Alberto Verga
Published 28 May 2004 (17 pages)
056318 [View PDF (1,342 kB)]
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Horizontal thermocapillary convection of succinonitrile:Steady state, instabilities, and transition to chaos
Edoardo Bucchignani and Daniela Mansutti
Published 28 May 2004 (9 pages)
056319 [View PDF (745 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Treatment of compounds and alloys in radiation hydrodynamics simulations of ablative laser loading
Damian C. Swift, J. Tinka Gammel, and Samuel M. Clegg
Published 6 May 2004 (9 pages)
056401 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Parametric instabilities in magnetized multicomponent plasmas
M. P. Hertzberg, N. F. Cramer, and S. V. Vladimirov
Published 13 May 2004 (14 pages)
056402 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Thermalization of a UV laser ablation plume in a background gas: From a directed to a diffusionlike flow
Salvatore Amoruso, Bo Toftmann, and Jørgen Schou
Published 14 May 2004 (6 pages)
056403 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Ion temperature gradient instability in a dusty plasma
J. Vranjes, H. Saleem, and S. Poedts
Published 14 May 2004 (5 pages)
056404 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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X-ray line polarization of He-like Si satellite spectra in plasmas driven by high-intensity ultrashort pulsed lasers
Peter Hakel, Roberto C. Mancini, Jean-Claude Gauthier, Emilio Mínguez, Jacques Dubau, and Marguerite Cornille
Published 18 May 2004 (11 pages)
056405 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Radiation reaction and relativistic hydrodynamics
V. I. Berezhiani, R. D. Hazeltine, and S. M. Mahajan
Published 18 May 2004 (8 pages)
056406 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Magnetic helicity evolution in a periodic domain with imposed field
Axel Brandenburg and William H. Matthaeus
Published 20 May 2004 (7 pages)
056407 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Parametric study of ion acceleration in a one-dimensional plasma expansionusing the particle-in-cell simulation
Tudor Nedelea and Herbert M. Urbassek
Published 24 May 2004 (8 pages)
056408 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Numerical investigation of particle formation mechanisms in silane discharges
Kathleen De Bleecker, Annemie Bogaerts, Renaat Gijbels, and Wim Goedheer
Published 26 May 2004 (16 pages)
056409 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Electron acceleration by an intense short pulse laser in a static magnetic field in vacuum
K. P. Singh
Published 28 May 2004 (5 pages)
056410 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Finding a nonlinear lattice with improved integrability using Lie transform perturbation theory
Kiran G. Sonnad and John. R. Cary
Published 12 May 2004 (10 pages)
056501 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Electron bunch trapping and compression by an intense focused pulse laser
Q. Kong, S. Miyazaki, S. Kawata, K. Miyauchi, K. Sakai, Y. K. Ho, K. Nakajima, N. Miyanaga, J. Limpouch, and A. A. Andreev
Published 13 May 2004 (11 pages)
056502 [View PDF (191 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Collisional dynamics of vortices in light condensates
María J. Paz-Alonso, David Olivieri, Humberto Michinel, and José R. Salgueiro
Published 4 May 2004 (6 pages)
056601 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Passive system with tunable group velocity for propagating electrical pulses from sub- to superluminal velocities
Alain Haché and Sophie Essiambre
Published 6 May 2004 (4 pages)
056602 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Gap maps and intrinsic diffraction losses in one-dimensional photonic crystal slabs
Dario Gerace and Lucio Claudio Andreani
Published 11 May 2004 (9 pages)
056603 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Finite-size effect on one-dimensional coupled-resonator optical waveguides
Yong-Hong Ye, J. Ding, D.-Y. Jeong, I. C. Khoo, and Q. M. Zhang
Published 11 May 2004 (6 pages)
056604 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Three-wave solitons and continuous waves in media with competing quadratic and cubic nonlinearities
Min Chen, D. J. Kaup, and Boris A. Malomed
Published 12 May 2004 (17 pages)
056605 [View PDF (616 kB)]
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Range of validity of the Rayleigh hypothesis
T. Watanabe, Y. Choyal, K. Minami, and V. L. Granatstein
Published 14 May 2004 (5 pages)
056606 [View PDF (1,210 kB)]
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Dynamics of the Ablowitz-Ladik soliton train
E. V. Doktorov, N. P. Matsuka, and V. M. Rothos
Published 20 May 2004 (7 pages)
056607 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Ray and wave instabilities in twisted graded-index optical fibers
S. Longhi, G. Della Valle, and D. Janner
Published 20 May 2004 (9 pages)
056608 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Breather statics and dynamics in Klein-Gordon chains with a bend
J. Cuevas and P. G. Kevrekidis
Published 20 May 2004 (13 pages)
056609 [View PDF (1,872 kB)]
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Rolling and slipping motion of Euler’s disk
H. Caps, S. Dorbolo, S. Ponte, H. Croisier, and N. Vandewalle
Published 21 May 2004 (6 pages)
056610 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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One-dimensional nondiffracting pulses
Alessandro Ciattoni and Paolo Di Porto
Published 24 May 2004 (6 pages)
056611 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Soliton ratchets induced by excitation of internal modes
C. R. Willis and M. Farzaneh
Published 25 May 2004 (6 pages)
056612 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Light angular momentum flux and forces in birefringent inhomogeneous media
Bruno Piccirillo and Enrico Santamato
Published 27 May 2004 (7 pages)
056613 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Electromagnetic scattering by optically anisotropic magnetic particle
Zhifang Lin and S. T. Chui
Published 28 May 2004 (14 pages)
056614 [View PDF (506 kB)]

Computational physics

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Existence of short-time approximations of any polynomial order for the computation of density matrices by path integral methods
Cristian Predescu
Published 4 May 2004 (18 pages)
056701 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann method for the compressible Euler equations
Takeshi Kataoka and Michihisa Tsutahara
Published 18 May 2004 (14 pages)
056702 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Magnetization curves as probes of Monte Carlo simulation of nonequilibrium states
J. P. Pereira Nunes, M. Bahiana, and C. S. M. Bastos
Published 24 May 2004 (7 pages)
056703 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Adaptive integration method for Monte Carlo simulations
Marc Fasnacht, Robert H. Swendsen, and John M. Rosenberg
Published 24 May 2004 (15 pages)
056704 [View PDF (280 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Heisenberg-Fisher thermal uncertainty measure
F. Pennini and A. Plastino
Published 21 May 2004 (4 pages)
057101 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Density fluctuations near the liquid-gas critical point of a confined fluid
Y. B. Melnichenko, G. D. Wignall, D. R. Cole, and H. Frielinghaus
Published 24 May 2004 (4 pages)
057102 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Wealth accumulation with random redistribution
Ding-wei Huang
Published 25 May 2004 (4 pages)
057103 [View PDF (272 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Cellular automata on high-dimensional hypercubes
Leonardo G. Brunnet and Hugues Chaté
Published 18 May 2004 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Statistics of active versus passive advections in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Thomas Gilbert and Dhrubaditya Mitra
Published 24 May 2004 (4 pages)
057301 [View PDF (50 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Electromagnetic density of modes for a finite-size three-dimensional structure
Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Marco Centini, Michael Scalora, and Mark J. Bloemer
Published 24 May 2004 (4 pages)
057601 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Plane-wave diffraction at the periodically corrugated boundary of vacuum and a negative-phase-velocity material
Ricardo A. Depine and Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Published 24 May 2004 (4 pages)
057602 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Real-time analysis of the telegrapher’s equation for tunneling processes
A. Ranfagni, D. Mugnai, and M. A. Vitali
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
057603 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Computational physics

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Random phase vector for calculating the trace of a large matrix
Toshiaki Iitaka and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki
Published 25 May 2004 (4 pages)
057701 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Using overlap and funnel sampling to obtain accurate free energies from nonequilibrium work measurements
Nandou Lu, Di Wu, Thomas B. Woolf, and David A. Kofke
Published 28 May 2004 (4 pages)
057702 [View PDF (126 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Control of laser-beam propagation and absorption in a nanoplasma gas by programming of a transient complex refractive index with a prepulse [Phys. Rev. E 69, 035403 (2004)]
H.-H. Chu, H.-E. Tsai, Y.-F. Xiao, C.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Published 6 May 2004 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Effects of additive noise on vibrational resonance in a bistable system[Phys. Rev. E 69, 046108 (2004)]
J. Casado-Pascual and J. P. Baltanás
Published 19 May 2004 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Thermodynamic modeling of donor splice site recognition in pre-mRNA [Phys. Rev. E 69, 041903 (2004)]
Jeffrey A. Garland and Daniel P. Aalberts
Published 19 May 2004 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
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Erratum: Continuum analysis of an avalanche model for solar flares [Phys. Rev. E 66, 056111 (2002)]
Han-Li Liu, Paul Charbonneau, Annick Pouquet, Thomas Bogdan, and Scott McIntosh
Published 27 May 2004 (1 page)
059904(E) [View PDF (15 kB)]
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Erratum: Giant fluctuations at a granular phase separation threshold [Phys. Rev. E 69, 021302 (2004)]
Baruch Meerson, Thorsten Pöschel, Pavel V. Sasorov, and Thomas Schwager
Published 27 May 2004 (1 page)
059905(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Testing time symmetry in time series using data compression dictionaries [Phys. Rev. E 69, 056208 (2004)]
Matthew B. Kennel
Published 28 May 2004 (1 page)
059906(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
 
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