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Physical Review E – November 2005
Volume 72, Issue 5

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Light scattering enhancement in an aqueous solution of spermine-induced fractal J-aggregate composite
Norberto Micali, Valentina Villari, Luigi Monsù Scolaro, Andrea Romeo, and Maria Angela Castriciano
Published 21 November 2005 (4 pages)
050401(R) [View PDF (123 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Transport on randomly evolving trees
L. Pál
Published 7 November 2005 (10 pages)
051101 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Numerical method for accessing the universal scaling function for a multiparticle discrete time asymmetric exclusion process
Nicholas Chia and Ralf Bundschuh
Published 7 November 2005 (7 pages)
051102 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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Langevin equations for fluctuating surfaces
Alvin L.-S. Chua, Christoph A. Haselwandter, Chiara Baggio, and Dimitri D. Vvedensky
Published 8 November 2005 (15 pages)
051103 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Aggregation of inertial particles in random flows
B. Mehlig, M. Wilkinson, K. Duncan, T. Weber, and M. Ljunggren
Published 8 November 2005 (10 pages)
051104 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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Cancellation phenomenon of barrier escape driven by a non-Gaussian noise
Jing-Dong Bao, Hai-Yan Wang, Ying Jia, and Yi-Zhong Zhuo
Published 9 November 2005 (4 pages)
051105 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Volatility, persistence, and survival in financial markets
M. Constantin and S. Das Sarma
Published 14 November 2005 (11 pages)
051106 [View PDF (1,173 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Bulk viscosity of stirred xenon near the critical point
K. A. Gillis, I. I. Shinder, and M. R. Moldover
Published 11 November 2005 (20 pages)
051201 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Structure analysis methods for crystalline solids and supercooled liquids
Da-Qi Yu, Min Chen, and Xiu-Jun Han
Published 14 November 2005 (7 pages)
051202 [View PDF (775 kB)]
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Phenomenological viscous factor in the nonequilibrium distribution function for liquids
S. Morioka
Published 17 November 2005 (7 pages)
051203 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Many-body correlations versus mode-coupling effects in the dynamics of dense gases
Puneet Sharma and K. Tankeshwar
Published 23 November 2005 (7 pages)
051204 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Granular materials

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Velocity distributions in dilute granular systems
J. S. van Zon and F. C. MacKintosh
Published 11 November 2005 (10 pages)
051301 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Dilatancy, buckling, and undulations on a vertically vibrating granular layer
Osamu Sano
Published 11 November 2005 (7 pages)
051302 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Numerical tests of constitutive laws for dense granular flows
Gregg Lois, Anaël Lemaître, and Jean M. Carlson
Published 14 November 2005 (16 pages)
051303 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Granular packings sheared in an annular channel: Flow localization and grain size dependence
J.-C. Tsai and J. P. Gollub
Published 14 November 2005 (10 pages)
051304 [View PDF (701 kB)]
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Memory of the unjamming transition during cyclic tiltings of a granular pile
S. Deboeuf, O. Dauchot, L. Staron, A. Mangeney, and J.-P. Vilotte
Published 28 November 2005 (11 pages)
051305 [View PDF (1,064 kB)]
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Effects of compression on the vibrational modes of marginally jammed solids
Matthieu Wyart, Leonardo E. Silbert, Sidney R. Nagel, and Thomas A. Witten
Published 30 November 2005 (11 pages)
051306 [View PDF (396 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Time-resolved-correlation measurements of temporally heterogeneous dynamics
Agnès Duri, Hugo Bissig, Véronique Trappe, and Luca Cipelletti
Published 28 November 2005 (17 pages)
051401 [View PDF (865 kB)]
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Phase behavior of dipolar hard and soft spheres
Antti-Pekka Hynninen and Marjolein Dijkstra
Published 30 November 2005 (10 pages)
051402 [View PDF (598 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Density functional theory for the freezing of soft-core fluids
A. J. Archer
Published 8 November 2005 (7 pages)
051501 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Diffusion of benzene confined in the oriented nanochannels of chrysotile asbestos fibers
E. Mamontov, Yu. A. Kumzerov, and S. B. Vakhrushev
Published 8 November 2005 (7 pages)
051502 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Thermodynamics, structure, and dynamics of water confined between hydrophobic plates
Pradeep Kumar, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Francis W. Starr, Nicolas Giovambattista, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 11 November 2005 (12 pages)
051503 [View PDF (1,218 kB)]
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Effective interaction of charged platelets in aqueous solution: Investigations of colloid laponite suspensions by static light scattering and small-angle x-ray scattering
Li Li, L. Harnau, S. Rosenfeldt, and M. Ballauff
Published 17 November 2005 (10 pages)
051504 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Interconversion of mechanical and dielectrical relaxation measurements for dicyclohexylmethyl-2-methyl succinate
R. Díaz-Calleja, A. Garcia-Bernabé, M. J. Sanchis, and L. F. del Castillo
Published 18 November 2005 (8 pages)
051505 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Helium condensation in aerogel: Avalanches and disorder-induced phase transition
F. Detcheverry, E. Kierlik, M. L. Rosinberg, and G. Tarjus
Published 29 November 2005 (13 pages)
051506 [View PDF (1,064 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Gravity capillary waves in fluid layers under normal electric fields
Demetrios T. Papageorgiou, Peter G. Petropoulos, and Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck
Published 1 November 2005 (9 pages)
051601 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of the disjoining pressure of a planar film
J. R. Henderson
Published 11 November 2005 (12 pages)
051602 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Effect of diffusion on nucleation of two-dimensional nanoislands
M. V. Sorokin and A. E. Volkov
Published 30 November 2005 (8 pages)
051603 [View PDF (228 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Origin of shear-induced phase transitions in melts of liquid-crystal polymers
Laurence Noirez
Published 1 November 2005 (5 pages)
051701 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Biaxial nematic phases and V-shaped molecules: A Monte Carlo simulation study
Martin A. Bates and Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
Published 3 November 2005 (15 pages)
051702 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Interlayer jump diffusion in the smectic-CA* phase by angular-dependent 2H NMR study
J. Xu, C. A. Veracini, and Ronald Y. Dong
Published 3 November 2005 (8 pages)
051703 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Nematic-nematic phase separation in binary mixtures of thick and thin hard rods: Results from Onsager-like theories
Szabolcs Varga, Kirstin Purdy, Amparo Galindo, Seth Fraden, and George Jackson
Published 7 November 2005 (19 pages)
051704 [View PDF (702 kB)]
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Geometrical analysis of the electro-optical effect in nematic droplets
L. Jiménez, Carlos I. Mendoza, and J. A. Reyes
Published 9 November 2005 (7 pages)
051705 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Orientational instabilities in nematic liquid crystals with weak anchoring under combined action of steady flow and external fields
I. Sh. Nasibullayev, O. S. Tarasov, A. P. Krekhov, and L. Kramer
Published 9 November 2005 (10 pages)
051706 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Density functional theory and simulation of the columnar phase of a system of parallel hard ellipsoids with attractive interactions
Elvira Martín del Río, Amparo Galindo, and Enrique de Miguel
Published 10 November 2005 (12 pages)
051707 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Strong azimuthal anchoring energy at a nematic-polyimide interface
S. Faetti and P. Marianelli
Published 14 November 2005 (9 pages)
051708 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Dynamics of the guest-host orientational interaction in dye-doped liquid-crystalline materials
Thai V. Truong, Lei Xu, and Y. R. Shen
Published 14 November 2005 (15 pages)
051709 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Dielectric spectroscopy of aerosil-dispersed liquid crystal embedded in Anopore membranes
G. Sinha, J. Leys, C. Glorieux, and J. Thoen
Published 16 November 2005 (10 pages)
051710 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Test of clock model in ellipsometric study of thin and thick free-standing films of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal
M. Conradi, M. Čepič, M. Čopič, and I. Muševič
Published 16 November 2005 (9 pages)
051711 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Numerical study of optically induced director oscillations in nematic liquid crystals: Transition to chaos via homoclinic gluings and the role of backflow
G. Demeter, D. O. Krimer, and L. Kramer
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
051712 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Transformation from walls to disclination lines: Statics and dynamics of the pincement transition
Alberto de Lózar, Wolfgang Schöpf, Ingo Rehberg, Daniel Svenšek, and Lorenz Kramer
Published 17 November 2005 (11 pages)
051713 [View PDF (643 kB)]
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Poisson bracket approach to the dynamics of nematic liquid crystals: The role of spin angular momentum
H. Stark and T. C. Lubensky
Published 17 November 2005 (9 pages)
051714 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Electro-optics and structural peculiarities of liquid crystal–nanoparticle-polymer composites
Oleg V. Yaroshchuk, Leonid O. Dolgov, and Alexei D. Kiselev
Published 21 November 2005 (11 pages)
051715 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Calorimetric study of the nematic to smectic-A and smectic-A to smectic-C phase transitions in liquid-crystal–aerosil dispersions
A. Roshi, G. S. Iannacchione, P. S. Clegg, R. J. Birgeneau, and M. E. Neubert
Published 23 November 2005 (10 pages)
051716 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Orientational correlations and the effect of spatial gradients in the equilibrium steady state of hard rods in two dimensions: A study using deposition-evaporation kinetics
Mahendra D. Khandkar and Mustansir Barma
Published 28 November 2005 (12 pages)
051717 [View PDF (1,022 kB)]
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Chiral-mechanical transitions in topologically imprinted elastomers
D. J. Burridge, Y. Mao, and M. Warner
Published 28 November 2005 (8 pages)
051718 [View PDF (227 kB)]

Polymers

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Evidence for vertical phase separation in densely grafted, high-molecular-weight poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes in water
H. Yim, M. S. Kent, S. Satija, S. Mendez, S. S. Balamurugan, S. Balamurugan, and G. P. Lopez
Published 2 November 2005 (7 pages)
051801 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Phase behavior of physically cross-linked asymmetric random heteropolymers
Simcha Srebnik
Published 2 November 2005 (9 pages)
051802 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Unzipping an adsorbed polymer in a dirty or random environment
Rajeev Kapri and Somendra M. Bhattacharjee
Published 2 November 2005 (14 pages)
051803 [View PDF (1,342 kB)]
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Reentrant ordering transition of asymmetric copolymer solution film confined between polymer-grafted surfaces
Chun-lai Ren and Yu-qiang Ma
Published 2 November 2005 (7 pages)
051804 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Conformational statistics of ribbonlike semiflexible polymer chains
A. E. Arinstein
Published 9 November 2005 (7 pages)
051805 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Uniaxial ordering and rotator phase of ribbonlike polymers
A. E. Arinstein
Published 10 November 2005 (12 pages)
051806 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Flow-induced correlation effects within a linear chain in a polymer melt
R. Stepanyan, J. J. M. Slot, J. Molenaar, and M. Tchesnokov
Published 30 November 2005 (12 pages)
051807 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Biological physics

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Rotary motor powered by stochastic uncorrelated dipoles
Cheng-Hung Chang and Tian Yow Tsong
Published 1 November 2005 (6 pages)
051901 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Dynamical model based on finite stacking enthalpies for homogeneous and inhomogeneous DNA thermal denaturation
Marc Joyeux and Sahin Buyukdagli
Published 1 November 2005 (5 pages)
051902 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Entropy reduction effect imposed by hydrogen bond formation on protein folding cooperativity: Evidence from a hydrophobic minimalist model
Marco Aurélio A. Barbosa, Leandro G. Garcia, and Antônio F. Pereira de Araújo
Published 1 November 2005 (7 pages)
051903 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Adsorption-induced conformational changes in protein diffusion-aggregation surface assemblies
Delphine Pellenc, Olivier Gallet, and Hugues Berry
Published 2 November 2005 (9 pages)
051904 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Glucose metabolism and oscillatory behavior of pancreatic islets
H. Kang, J. Jo, H. J. Kim, M. Y. Choi, S. W. Rhee, and D. S. Koh
Published 2 November 2005 (12 pages)
051905 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Signal buffering in random networks of spiking neurons: Microscopic versus macroscopic phenomena
Julien Mayor and Wulfram Gerstner
Published 3 November 2005 (5 pages)
051906 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Self-regulating gene: An exact solution
J. E. M. Hornos, D. Schultz, G. C. P. Innocentini, J. Wang, A. M. Walczak, J. N. Onuchic, and P. G. Wolynes
Published 4 November 2005 (5 pages)
051907 [View PDF (701 kB)]
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Laser photothermoacoustic heterodyned lock-in depth profilometry in turbid tissue phantoms
Ying Fan, Andreas Mandelis, Gloria Spirou, I. Alex Vitkin, and William M. Whelan
Published 4 November 2005 (11 pages)
051908 [View PDF (428 kB)]
Nonlinear dynamics of homeothermic temperature control in skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus
Takanori Ito and Kikukatsu Ito
Published 7 November 2005 (6 pages)
051909 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Predictions and simulations of cortical dynamics during natural sleep using a continuum approach
M. T. Wilson, M. L. Steyn-Ross, D. A. Steyn-Ross, and J. W. Sleigh
Published 7 November 2005 (14 pages)
051910 [View PDF (1,747 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in the mechanoelectrical transduction of hair cells
John F. Lindner, Matthew Bennett, and Kurt Wiesenfeld
Published 7 November 2005 (4 pages)
051911 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Ventricular dilation as an instability of intracranial dynamics
R. Bouzerar, K. Ambarki, O. Balédent, G. Kongolo, J. C. Picot, and M. E. Meyer
Published 8 November 2005 (13 pages)
051912 [View PDF (675 kB)]
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Lubricating bacteria model for the growth of bacterial colonies exposed to ultraviolet radiation
Shengli Zhang, Lei Zhang, Run Liang, Erhu Zhang, Yachao Liu, and Shumin Zhao
Published 8 November 2005 (8 pages)
051913 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Dynamic instability of microtubules: Effect of catastrophe-suppressing drugs
Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Ambarish Kunwar, Sutapa Mukherji, and Debashish Chowdhury
Published 9 November 2005 (14 pages)
051914 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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One-dimensional model of yeast prion aggregation
K. C. Kunes, D. L. Cox, and R. R. P. Singh
Published 9 November 2005 (8 pages)
051915 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Topographic voltage and coherence mapping of brain potentials by means of the symbolic resonance analysis
Peter beim Graben, Stefan Frisch, Andrew Fink, Douglas Saddy, and Jürgen Kurths
Published 11 November 2005 (6 pages)
051916 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Delayed excitatory and inhibitory feedback shape neural information transmission
Maurice J. Chacron, André Longtin, and Leonard Maler
Published 14 November 2005 (11 pages)
051917 [View PDF (540 kB)]
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Speeding up a single-molecule DNA device with a simple catalyst
Yufang Wang, Y. Zhang, and N. P. Ong
Published 15 November 2005 (6 pages)
051918 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Improvement on a simplified model for protein folding simulation
Ming Zhang, Changjun Chen, Yi He, and Yi Xiao
Published 16 November 2005 (6 pages)
051919 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Fast heat propagation in living tissue caused by branching artery network
V. V. Gafiychuk, I. A. Lubashevsky, and B. Y. Datsko
Published 18 November 2005 (5 pages)
051920 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Generation of dynamic structures in nonequilibrium reactive bilayers
Ramon Reigada, Javier Buceta, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 18 November 2005 (11 pages)
051921 [View PDF (545 kB)]
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Block structured dynamics and neuronal coding
J. M. González-Miranda
Published 18 November 2005 (8 pages)
051922 [View PDF (1,028 kB)]
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Elasticity theory and shape transitions of viral shells
T. T. Nguyen, Robijn F. Bruinsma, and William M. Gelbart
Published 21 November 2005 (19 pages)
051923 [View PDF (952 kB)]
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Analytical theory of the stochastic dynamics of the power stroke in nonprocessive motor proteins
H. J. Woo and Christopher L. Moss
Published 28 November 2005 (10 pages)
051924 [View PDF (413 kB)]
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Gompertz mortality law and scaling behavior of the Penna model
J. B. Coe and Y. Mao
Published 28 November 2005 (5 pages)
051925 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Synthesizing bird song
D. Zysman, J. M. Méndez, B. Pando, J. Aliaga, F. Goller, and G. B. Mindlin
Published 28 November 2005 (8 pages)
051926 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Multistability of reentrant rhythms in an ionic model of a two-dimensional annulus of cardiac tissue
Philippe Comtois and Alain Vinet
Published 29 November 2005 (11 pages)
051927 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Unfolding dynamics of the protein ubiquitin: Insight from simulation
Shubhra Ghosh Dastidar and Chaitali Mukhopadhyay
Published 29 November 2005 (10 pages)
051928 [View PDF (665 kB)]
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Exploring the energy landscape of model proteins: A metric criterion for the determination of dynamical connectivity
Lorenzo Bongini, Roberto Livi, Antonio Politi, and Alessandro Torcini
Published 29 November 2005 (8 pages)
051929 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Surface charge relaxation and the pearling instability of charged surfactant tubes
T. T. Nguyen, A. Gopal, K. Y. C. Lee, and T. A. Witten
Published 30 November 2005 (7 pages)
051930 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Approximate solution to the bidomain equations for electrocardiogram problems
Salil G. Patel and Bradley J. Roth
Published 30 November 2005 (7 pages)
051931 [View PDF (265 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Biological physics

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Force-induced conformational transition in a system of interacting stiff polymers: Application to unfolding
Sanjay Kumar and Debaprasad Giri
Published 2 November 2005 (4 pages)
052901 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Diffusing wave spectroscopy with a small number of scattering events: An implication to microflow diagnostics
Sergey Ulyanov
Published 3 November 2005 (4 pages)
052902 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Dynamic transitions in small world networks: Approach to equilibrium limit
Prashant M. Gade and Sudeshna Sinha
Published 28 November 2005 (4 pages)
052903 [View PDF (144 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Stable and unstable attractors in Boolean networks
Konstantin Klemm and Stefan Bornholdt
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
055101(R) [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Scale-free network hidden in a collapsing polymer
A. Kabakçıoğlu and A. L. Stella
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
055102(R) [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Nonuniversality in microbranching instabilities in rapid fracture
Eran Bouchbinder and Itamar Procaccia
Published 21 November 2005 (4 pages)
055103(R) [View PDF (228 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Testing for nonlinearity in time series without the Fourier transform
Tomomichi Nakamura, Xiaodong Luo, and Michael Small
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Stable stationary and breathing holes at the onset of a weakly inverted instability
Orazio Descalzi and Helmut R. Brand
Published 28 November 2005 (4 pages)
055202(R) [View PDF (193 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Warm wave breaking of nonlinear plasma waves with arbitrary phase velocities
C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and B. A. Shadwick
Published 22 November 2005 (4 pages)
055401(R) [View PDF (85 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Formation and propagation of matched and coupled ultraslow optical soliton pairs in a four-level double-Λ system
L. Deng, M. G. Payne, Guoxiang Huang, and E. W. Hagley
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
055601(R) [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Statistics of the mesoscopic field
A. A. Chabanov and A. Z. Genack
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
055602(R) [View PDF (198 kB)]

Computational physics

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Maximally fast coarsening algorithms
Mowei Cheng and Andrew D. Rutenberg
Published 16 November 2005 (4 pages)
055701(R) [View PDF (112 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Scaling and data collapse for the mean exit time of asset prices
Miquel Montero, Josep Perelló, Jaume Masoliver, Fabrizio Lillo, Salvatore Miccichè, and Rosario N. Mantegna
Published 2 November 2005 (10 pages)
056101 [View PDF (576 kB)]
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Mean-field limit of systems with multiplicative noise
Miguel A. Muñoz, Francesca Colaiori, and Claudio Castellano
Published 3 November 2005 (9 pages)
056102 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Correction to scaling in the response function of the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model
Federico Corberi, Eugenio Lippiello, and Marco Zannetti
Published 3 November 2005 (13 pages)
056103 [View PDF (545 kB)]
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Molecular-field theory method for evaluating critical points of the Ising model
K. K. Zhuravlev
Published 3 November 2005 (5 pages)
056104 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Lorentz-Lorenz coefficient, critical point constants, and coexistence curve of 1,1-difluoroethylene
Nicola Fameli and David A. Balzarini
Published 7 November 2005 (6 pages)
056105 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Random Lindblad equations from complex environments
Adrián A. Budini
Published 7 November 2005 (11 pages)
056106 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Local modularity measure for network clusterizations
Stefanie Muff, Francesco Rao, and Amedeo Caflisch
Published 7 November 2005 (4 pages)
056107 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Continuous approach for the random-field Ising chain
R. Zillmer and A. Pikovsky
Published 7 November 2005 (7 pages)
056108 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Energetics of a simple microscopic heat engine
Mesfin Asfaw and Mulugeta Bekele
Published 7 November 2005 (7 pages)
056109 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Quantum heat engine with multilevel quantum systems
H. T. Quan, P. Zhang, and C. P. Sun
Published 9 November 2005 (10 pages)
056110 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Critical behavior of the two-dimensional randomly driven lattice gas
Sergio Caracciolo, Andrea Gambassi, Massimiliano Gubinelli, and Andrea Pelissetto
Published 9 November 2005 (4 pages)
056111 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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One-dimensional three-state quantum walk
Norio Inui, Norio Konno, and Etsuo Segawa
Published 10 November 2005 (7 pages)
056112 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Variational principles and the shift in the front speed due to a cutoff
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, and Evgeny P. Zemskov
Published 10 November 2005 (7 pages)
056113 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Universality of fluctuation-dissipation ratios: The ferromagnetic model
A. Garriga, P. Sollich, I. Pagonabarraga, and F. Ritort
Published 11 November 2005 (13 pages)
056114 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Implications of the detailed fluctuation theorem for the sources of irreversibility in interfacial charge transfer processes
Juan Bisquert
Published 11 November 2005 (8 pages)
056115 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Transition from smooth sliding to stick-slip motion in a single frictional contact
O. M. Braun, M. Peyrard, V. Bortolani, A. Franchini, and A. Vanossi
Published 14 November 2005 (15 pages)
056116 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of the XY vector Blume-Emery-Griffiths model for 3He4He mixtures in three dimensions
R. T. S. Freire, S. J. Mitchell, J. A. Plascak, and D. P. Landau
Published 15 November 2005 (8 pages)
056117 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Cooperation, social networks, and the emergence of leadership in a prisoner’s dilemma with adaptive local interactions
Martín G. Zimmermann and Víctor M. Eguíluz
Published 16 November 2005 (15 pages)
056118 [View PDF (850 kB)]
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Traversal times for random walks on small-world networks
Paul E. Parris and V. M. Kenkre
Published 16 November 2005 (7 pages)
056119 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Three mechanisms for power laws on the Cayley tree
Ted Brookings, J. M. Carlson, and John Doyle
Published 16 November 2005 (18 pages)
056120 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Integral equation study of an ideal Ising mixture
W. Fenz, I. P. Omelyan, and R. Folk
Published 16 November 2005 (10 pages)
056121 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Vere-Jones’ self-similar branching model
A. Saichev and D. Sornette
Published 17 November 2005 (13 pages)
056122 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Stationary and dynamical properties of a zero-range process on scale-free networks
Jae Dong Noh
Published 17 November 2005 (8 pages)
056123 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Predicting failure using conditioning on damage history: Demonstration on percolation and hierarchical fiber bundles
J. V. Andersen and D. Sornette
Published 18 November 2005 (9 pages)
056124 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Zero-range model of traffic flow
J. Kaupužs, R. Mahnke, and R. J. Harris
Published 21 November 2005 (9 pages)
056125 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Spectral properties of disordered fully connected graphs
S. N. Taraskin
Published 21 November 2005 (14 pages)
056126 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Cycles and clustering in bipartite networks
Pedro G. Lind, Marta C. González, and Hans J. Herrmann
Published 22 November 2005 (9 pages)
056127 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Epidemic spreading and cooperation dynamics on homogeneous small-world networks
F. C. Santos, J. F. Rodrigues, and J. M. Pacheco
Published 23 November 2005 (5 pages)
056128 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Directed and undirected multiurn models in a one-dimensional ring
Jan Nagler
Published 23 November 2005 (5 pages)
056129 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Resilience of complex networks to random breakdown
Gerald Paul, Sameet Sreenivasan, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 23 November 2005 (6 pages)
056130 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Possible connection between the optimal path and flow in percolation clusters
Eduardo López, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Lidia A. Braunstein, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 28 November 2005 (6 pages)
056131 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Dilute Potts model in two dimensions
Xiaofeng Qian, Youjin Deng, and Henk W. J. Blöte
Published 29 November 2005 (15 pages)
056132 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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From time series to superstatistics
Christian Beck, Ezechiel G. D. Cohen, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 29 November 2005 (8 pages)
056133 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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The mean-field φ4 model: Entropy, analyticity, and configuration space topology
Ingo Hahn and Michael Kastner
Published 29 November 2005 (9 pages)
056134 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Finding instabilities in the community structure of complex networks
David Gfeller, Jean-Cédric Chappelier, and Paolo De Los Rios
Published 29 November 2005 (6 pages)
056135 [View PDF (686 kB)]
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Nonlinear amplifier and frequency shifter using a tunable periodic drive
Sergey Savel’ev, A. L. Rakhmanov, and Franco Nori
Published 30 November 2005 (6 pages)
056136 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Wave patterns in frequency-entrained oscillator lattices
Jan Eric Sträng and Per Östborn
Published 30 November 2005 (14 pages)
056137 [View PDF (575 kB)]
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Phase transition in the link weight structure of networks
Piet Van Mieghem and Serena M. Magdalena
Published 30 November 2005 (7 pages)
056138 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Synchronizations in small-world networks of spiking neurons: Diffusive versus sigmoid couplings
Hideo Hasegawa
Published 30 November 2005 (8 pages)
056139 [View PDF (387 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Control of multilevel voltage states in a hysteretic superconducting-quantum-interference-device ring-resonator system
P. Stiffell, M. J. Everitt, T. D. Clark, and J. F. Ralph
Published 1 November 2005 (8 pages)
056201 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Graphical interpretation of observability in terms of feedback circuits
Christophe Letellier and Luis A. Aguirre
Published 1 November 2005 (6 pages)
056202 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Chaos, coherence, and the double-slit experiment
Philippe Jacquod
Published 2 November 2005 (8 pages)
056203 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Amplitude death in coupled chaotic oscillators
Awadhesh Prasad
Published 7 November 2005 (10 pages)
056204 [View PDF (1,060 kB)]
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Effect of inhomogeneities on spiral wave dynamics in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Linda B. Smolka, Bradley Marts, and Anna L. Lin
Published 8 November 2005 (6 pages)
056205 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Distribution of the spacing between two adjacent avoided crossings
Manabu Machida and Keiji Saito
Published 11 November 2005 (5 pages)
056206 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Reliability of the 0-1 test for chaos
Jing Hu, Wen-wen Tung, Jianbo Gao, and Yinhe Cao
Published 14 November 2005 (5 pages)
056207 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Two-mode chaos and its synchronization properties
D. E. Postnov, A. V. Shishkin, O. V. Sosnovtseva, and E. Mosekilde
Published 14 November 2005 (5 pages)
056208 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Persistence of strong correlations in the energy spectrum of a separable Hamiltonian system: The rectangular box
J. M. A. S. P. Wickramasinghe, B. Goodman, and R. A. Serota
Published 15 November 2005 (10 pages)
056209 [View PDF (536 kB)]
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Quantum signatures of nonlinear resonances in mesoscopic systems: Efficient extension of localized wave functions
Y. F. Chen, T. H. Lu, K. W. Su, and K. F. Huang
Published 16 November 2005 (7 pages)
056210 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Weyl formula: Experimental test of ray splitting and corner corrections
C. Vaa, P. M. Koch, and R. Blümel
Published 17 November 2005 (31 pages)
056211 [View PDF (2,112 kB)]
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Weakly nonlinear analysis of impulsively-forced Faraday waves
Anne Catllá, Jeff Porter, and Mary Silber
Published 17 November 2005 (10 pages)
056212 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Bifurcation and chaos in coupled ratchets exhibiting synchronized dynamics
U. E. Vincent, A. Kenfack, A. N. Njah, and O. Akinlade
Published 17 November 2005 (8 pages)
056213 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Fast high-quality numerical shadowing of chaotic maps using synchronization
Mitrajit Dutta
Published 22 November 2005 (14 pages)
056214 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Spectral correlations of individual quantum graphs
Sven Gnutzmann and Alexander Altland
Published 23 November 2005 (14 pages)
056215 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Small-shuffle surrogate data: Testing for dynamics in fluctuating data with trends
Tomomichi Nakamura and Michael Small
Published 23 November 2005 (6 pages)
056216 [View PDF (710 kB)]
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Patterns and localized structures in population dynamics
M. G. Clerc, D. Escaff, and V. M. Kenkre
Published 28 November 2005 (5 pages)
056217 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Pair of excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo elements: Synchronization, multistability, and chaos
T. Yanagita, T. Ichinomiya, and Y. Oyama
Published 28 November 2005 (6 pages)
056218 [View PDF (411 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Gas slippage effect on microscale porous flow using the lattice Boltzmann method
G. H. Tang, W. Q. Tao, and Y. L. He
Published 1 November 2005 (8 pages)
056301 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Surface excess properties from energy transport measurements during water evaporation
Fei Duan and C. A. Ward
Published 2 November 2005 (11 pages)
056302 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Thermocapillary transport of energy during water evaporation
Fei Duan, V. K. Badam, F. Durst, and C. A. Ward
Published 2 November 2005 (11 pages)
056303 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Surface-thermal capacity of D2O from measurements made during steady-state evaporation
Fei Duan and C. A. Ward
Published 2 November 2005 (13 pages)
056304 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Scaling laws and dispersion equations for Lévy particles in one-dimensional fractal porous media
Moongyu Park, Natalie Kleinfelter, and John H. Cushman
Published 2 November 2005 (7 pages)
056305 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Application of the finite-size Lyapunov exponent to particle tracking velocimetry in fluid mechanics experiments
Natalie Kleinfelter, Monica Moroni, and John H. Cushman
Published 2 November 2005 (12 pages)
056306 [View PDF (1,370 kB)]
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Structural studies of decaying fluid turbulence: Effect of initial conditions
Chirag Kalelkar
Published 2 November 2005 (9 pages)
056307 [View PDF (751 kB)]
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Acceleration- and deceleration-phase nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor growth at spherical interfaces
Daniel S. Clark and Max Tabak
Published 4 November 2005 (11 pages)
056308 [View PDF (937 kB)]
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Fine structure generation in a double-diffusive system
S. B. Kozitskiy
Published 7 November 2005 (6 pages)
056309 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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MRI measurements of an acoustically cavitated fluid in a standing wave
Igor V. Mastikhin and Benedict Newling
Published 8 November 2005 (12 pages)
056310 [View PDF (900 kB)]
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Spiral vortices traveling between two rotating defects in the Taylor-Couette system
Ch. Hoffmann, M. Lücke, and A. Pinter
Published 8 November 2005 (9 pages)
056311 [View PDF (1,506 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal resonances in a microfluidic system
A. Dodge, A. Hountondji, M. C. Jullien, and P. Tabeling
Published 9 November 2005 (5 pages)
056312 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Rayleigh-Taylor instability in elastic solids
A. R. Piriz, J. J. López Cela, O. D. Cortázar, N. A. Tahir, and D. H. H. Hoffmann
Published 9 November 2005 (10 pages)
056313 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Enstrophy dissipation in two-dimensional turbulence
Marco Baiesi and Christian Maes
Published 11 November 2005 (7 pages)
056314 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Scaling laws for rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
J. D. Scheel and M. C. Cross
Published 14 November 2005 (10 pages)
056315 [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Field theory of the inverse cascade in two-dimensional turbulence
Jackson R. Mayo
Published 14 November 2005 (15 pages)
056316 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Nuclear-magnetic-resonance diffusion simulations in two phases in porous media
A. Valfouskaya and P. M. Adler
Published 15 November 2005 (11 pages)
056317 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Scale dependence of the coarse-grained velocity derivative tensor structure in turbulence
Aurore Naso and Alain Pumir
Published 17 November 2005 (9 pages)
056318 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Fluid permeabilities of triply periodic minimal surfaces
Y. Jung and S. Torquato
Published 17 November 2005 (8 pages)
056319 [View PDF (1,571 kB)]
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Low magnetic Prandtl number dynamos with helical forcing
Pablo D. Mininni and David C. Montgomery
Published 18 November 2005 (9 pages)
056320 [View PDF (1,114 kB)]
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Reversing and nonreversing modulated Taylor-Couette flow at finite aspect ratio
Anthony J. Youd and Carlo F. Barenghi
Published 29 November 2005 (11 pages)
056321 [View PDF (387 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Thin-foil expansion into a vacuum
P. Mora
Published 15 November 2005 (5 pages)
056401 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Influence of electron recapture by the cathode upon the discharge characteristics in dc planar magnetrons
Ivan Kolev, Annemie Bogaerts, and Renaat Gijbels
Published 18 November 2005 (11 pages)
056402 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Analytic expressions for optimal inertial-confinement-fusion hohlraum wall density and wall loss
Mordecai D. Rosen and James H. Hammer
Published 23 November 2005 (5 pages)
056403 [View PDF (364 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Closed orbit change induced by nonzero dispersion rf cavities
Weiming Guo, Katherine Harkay, and Michael Borland
Published 18 November 2005 (10 pages)
056501 [View PDF (561 kB)]
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Pulsed-laser nonlinear Thomson scattering for general scattering geometries
G. A. Krafft, A. Doyuran, and J. B. Rosenzweig
Published 23 November 2005 (10 pages)
056502 [View PDF (1,051 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Propagation and localization of electromagnetic waves in quasiperiodic serial loop structures
H. Aynaou, E. H. El Boudouti, Y. El Hassouani, A. Akjouj, B. Djafari-Rouhani, J. Vasseur, A. Benomar, and V. R. Velasco
Published 3 November 2005 (15 pages)
056601 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Dynamical mode locking in commensurate structures with an asymmetric deformable substrate potential
Bambi Hu and Jasmina Tekić
Published 4 November 2005 (4 pages)
056602 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Nonlinear-optical spectral transformation of few-cycle laser pulses in photonic-crystal fibers
E. E. Serebryannikov, A. M. Zheltikov, N. Ishii, C. Y. Teisset, S. Köhler, T. Fuji, T. Metzger, F. Krausz, and A. Baltuška
Published 4 November 2005 (6 pages)
056603 [View PDF (901 kB)]
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Effect of absorption on the spatial coherence in scalar fields generated by statistically homogeneous and isotropic sources
Kasimir Blomstedt, Tero Setälä, and Ari T. Friberg
Published 8 November 2005 (10 pages)
056604 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Slow light in periodic superstructure Bragg gratings
D. Janner, G. Galzerano, G. Della Valle, P. Laporta, S. Longhi, and M. Belmonte
Published 8 November 2005 (8 pages)
056605 [View PDF (592 kB)]
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Exact solution to line source scattering by an ideal left-handed wedge
Cesar Monzon, Donald W. Forester, and Peter Loschialpo
Published 8 November 2005 (5 pages)
056606 [View PDF (780 kB)]
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Compactlike discrete breathers in systems with nonlinear and nonlocal dispersive terms
A. V. Gorbach and S. Flach
Published 8 November 2005 (9 pages)
056607 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Solitons for the rotating reduced Maxwell-Bloch equations with anisotropy
H. Steudel, A. A. Zabolotskii, and R. Meinel
Published 9 November 2005 (7 pages)
056608 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission in one-dimensional photonic crystals
Adán S. Sánchez and P. Halevi
Published 16 November 2005 (11 pages)
056609 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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Radiation torque on a birefringent sphere caused by an electromagnetic wave
Mengkun Liu, Nian Ji, Zhifang Lin, and S. T. Chui
Published 23 November 2005 (13 pages)
056610 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Engineering Fano resonances in discrete arrays
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 23 November 2005 (7 pages)
056611 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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(2+1)-dimensional X-shaped localized waves
Ioannis M. Besieris and Amr M. Shaarawi
Published 29 November 2005 (9 pages)
056612 [View PDF (859 kB)]
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Planar electromagnetic metamaterial with a fish scale structure
V. A. Fedotov, P. L. Mladyonov, S. L. Prosvirnin, and N. I. Zheludev
Published 30 November 2005 (4 pages)
056613 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Group delay tuning in active fiber Bragg gratings: From superluminal to subluminal pulse reflection
Stefano Longhi
Published 30 November 2005 (5 pages)
056614 [View PDF (212 kB)]

Computational physics

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Exact numerical simulation of power-law noises
Edoardo Milotti
Published 1 November 2005 (10 pages)
056701 [View PDF (572 kB)]
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Efficient integral-equation-based method for accurate analysis of scattering from periodically arranged nanostructures
G. Kobidze, B. Shanker, and D. P. Nyquist
Published 8 November 2005 (17 pages)
056702 [View PDF (1,392 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann scheme for crystal growth in external flows
Dmitry Medvedev and Klaus Kassner
Published 9 November 2005 (10 pages)
056703 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Linear embedding via Green’s operators: A modeling technique for finite electromagnetic band-gap structures
A. M. van de Water, B. P. de Hon, M. C. van Beurden, A. G. Tijhuis, and P. de Maagt
Published 10 November 2005 (11 pages)
056704 [View PDF (636 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann interface capturing method for incompressible flows
H. W. Zheng, C. Shu, and Y. T. Chew
Published 11 November 2005 (10 pages)
056705 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Reducing stochasticity in the North Atlantic Oscillation index with coupled Langevin equations
Pedro G. Lind, Alejandro Mora, Jason A. C. Gallas, and Maria Haase
Published 11 November 2005 (12 pages)
056706 [View PDF (1,506 kB)]
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Boundary conditions for equilibrating incommensurate periodic patterns
Hiroto Ogawa and Nariya Uchida
Published 15 November 2005 (7 pages)
056707 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Generating uniformly distributed random networks
Yael Artzy-Randrup and Lewi Stone
Published 16 November 2005 (7 pages)
056708 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Moments of spectral functions: Monte Carlo evaluation and verification
Cristian Predescu
Published 16 November 2005 (12 pages)
056709 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Fast flat-histogram method for generalized spin models
S. Reynal and H. T. Diep
Published 28 November 2005 (18 pages)
056710 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Inferring the time-dependent complex Ginzburg-Landau equation from modulus data
Rotha P. Yu, David M. Paganin, and Michael J. Morgan
Published 30 November 2005 (13 pages)
056711 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Statistical field estimators for multiscale simulations
Jacob Eapen, Ju Li, and Sidney Yip
Published 30 November 2005 (16 pages)
056712 [View PDF (2,898 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Relativity, nonextensivity, and extended power law distributions
R. Silva and J. A. S. Lima
Published 11 November 2005 (4 pages)
057101 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Enhanced synchronizability by structural perturbations
Ming Zhao, Tao Zhou, Bing-Hong Wang, and Wen-Xu Wang
Published 18 November 2005 (4 pages)
057102 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Entropy production in the majority-vote model
Leonardo Crochik and Tânia Tomé
Published 28 November 2005 (4 pages)
057103 [View PDF (200 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Partial amplitude death in coupled chaotic oscillators
Weiqing Liu, Jinghua Xiao, and Junzhong Yang
Published 8 November 2005 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Adaptive approximation method for joint parameter estimation and identical synchronization of chaotic systems
Inés P. Mariño and Joaquín Míguez
Published 17 November 2005 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Galilean invariance and homogeneous anisotropic randomly stirred flows
Arjun Berera and David Hochberg
Published 1 November 2005 (4 pages)
057301 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Time reversal invariance and the arrow of time in classical electrodynamics
Fritz Rohrlich
Published 23 November 2005 (3 pages)
057601 [View PDF (57 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Statistics of loop formation along double helix DNAs [Phys. Rev. E 71, 061905 (2005)]
Jie Yan, Ryo Kawamura, and John F. Marko
Published 4 November 2005 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Reexamination of the Helfrich-Hurault effect in smectic-A liquid crystals [Phys. Rev. E 72, 041708 (2005)]
G. Bevilacqua and G. Napoli
Published 11 November 2005 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Lorentz-Lorenz coefficient, critical point constants, and coexistence curve of 1,1-difluoroethylene [Phys. Rev. E 72, 056105 (2005)]
Nicola Fameli and David A. Balzarini
Published 18 November 2005 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
 
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