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Physical Review E – December 2005
Volume 72, Issue 6

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Direct observation of spatiotemporal dependence of anomalous diffusion in inhomogeneous fluid by sampling-volume-controlled fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Akiko Masuda, Kiminori Ushida, and Takayuki Okamoto
Published 8 December 2005 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Microscopic description of the equality between violation of fluctuation-dissipation relation and energy dissipation
Hiroshi Teramoto and Shin-ichi Sasa
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
060102(R) [View PDF (72 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Monovalent counterion distributions at highly charged water interfaces: Proton-transfer and Poisson-Boltzmann theory
Wei Bu, David Vaknin, and Alex Travesset
Published 1 December 2005 (4 pages)
060501(R) [View PDF (452 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Paraelectric-antiferroelectric phase transition in achiral liquid crystals
Damian Pociecha, Ewa Gorecka, Mojca Čepič, Nataša Vaupotič, Kinga Gomola, and Jozef Mieczkowski
Published 21 December 2005 (4 pages)
060701(R) [View PDF (225 kB)]

Biological physics

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Nematic and polar order in active filament solutions
A. Ahmadi, T. B. Liverpool, and M. C. Marchetti
Published 12 December 2005 (4 pages)
060901(R) [View PDF (175 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Hopping models of charge transfer in a complex environment: Coupled memory continuous-time random walk approach
Ewa Gudowska-Nowak, Kinga Bochenek, Agnieszka Jurlewicz, and Karina Weron
Published 8 December 2005 (11 pages)
061101 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Generalized Green-Kubo formulas for fluids with impulsive, dissipative, stochastic, and conservative interactions
M. H. Ernst and R. Brito
Published 9 December 2005 (11 pages)
061102 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Trapping reactions with subdiffusive traps and particles characterized by different anomalous diffusion exponents
S. B. Yuste and Katja Lindenberg
Published 9 December 2005 (8 pages)
061103 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion in a self-similar random advection field
Alexander M. Dykhne, Ilya L. Dranikov, Petr S. Kondratenko, and Leonid V. Matveev
Published 14 December 2005 (5 pages)
061104 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Classical and quantum diffusion in the presence of velocity-dependent coupling
Zhan-Wu Bai, Jing-Dong Bao, and Yan-Li Song
Published 14 December 2005 (9 pages)
061105 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Relaxation of the distribution function tails for systems described by Fokker-Planck equations
Pierre-Henri Chavanis and Mohammed Lemou
Published 16 December 2005 (16 pages)
061106 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Non-Markovian Brownian dynamics and nonergodicity
Jing-Dong Bao, Peter Hänggi, and Yi-Zhong Zhuo
Published 20 December 2005 (5 pages)
061107 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Exact diffusion coefficient for a chain of beads in one dimension using the Einstein relation
G. Terranova, H. O. Mártin, and C. M. Aldao
Published 22 December 2005 (4 pages)
061108 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Self-propelled nonlinearly diffusing particles: Aggregation and continuum description
Cristóbal López
Published 22 December 2005 (5 pages)
061109 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Signatures of noise-enhanced stability in metastable states
A. Fiasconaro, B. Spagnolo, and S. Boccaletti
Published 27 December 2005 (5 pages)
061110 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Interplay of entropic and memory effects in diffusion of methane in silicalite zeolites
Floralba López, Rafael Pérez, Fernando Ruette, and Ernesto Medina
Published 27 December 2005 (9 pages)
061111 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Towards a unification of the hierarchical reference theory and the self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation
A. Reiner and J. S. Høye
Published 30 December 2005 (9 pages)
061112 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Nonisothermal Brownian motion: Thermophoresis as the macroscopic manifestation of thermally biased molecular motion
Howard Brenner
Published 5 December 2005 (16 pages)
061201 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Progression of phase behavior for a sequence of model core-softened potentials
D. Quigley and M. I. J. Probert
Published 13 December 2005 (10 pages)
061202 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Extended Fick-Jacobs equation: Variational approach
P. Kalinay and J. K. Percus
Published 14 December 2005 (10 pages)
061203 [View PDF (295 kB)]

Granular materials

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Plug flow and the breakdown of Bagnold scaling in cohesive granular flows
Robert Brewster, Gary S. Grest, James W. Landry, and Alex J. Levine
Published 21 December 2005 (8 pages)
061301 [View PDF (258 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Colloidal stabilization via nanoparticle halo formation
Jiwen Liu and Erik Luijten
Published 6 December 2005 (10 pages)
061401 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Strain hardening in liquid-particle suspensions
J. Hyväluoma, P. Raiskinmäki, A. Koponen, M. Kataja, and J. Timonen
Published 9 December 2005 (6 pages)
061402 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Attraction-limited cluster-cluster aggregation of Ising dipolar particles
Naoki Yoshioka, Imre Varga, Ferenc Kun, Satoshi Yukawa, and Nobuyasu Ito
Published 13 December 2005 (6 pages)
061403 [View PDF (828 kB)]
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Laser-induced reentrant freezing in two-dimensional attractive colloidal systems
Pinaki Chaudhuri, Chinmay Das, Chandan Dasgupta, H. R. Krishnamurthy, and A. K. Sood
Published 20 December 2005 (11 pages)
061404 [View PDF (1,109 kB)]
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Steric interaction between spherical colloidal particles
Aileen Lozsán, Máximo García-Sucre, and German Urbina-Villalba
Published 22 December 2005 (13 pages)
061405 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Orientational kinetics of dipolar particles in a Maxwell fluid matrix: Inertialess limit for the rotary microrheology
Yu. L. Raikher and V. V. Rusakov
Published 23 December 2005 (13 pages)
061406 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Interface-mediated interactions between particles: A geometrical approach
Martin Michael Müller, Markus Deserno, and Jemal Guven
Published 29 December 2005 (17 pages)
061407 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Simulated annealing study of gyroid formation in diblock copolymer solutions
Pingchuan Sun, Yuhua Yin, Baohui Li, Tiehong Chen, Qinghua Jin, Datong Ding, and An-Chang Shi
Published 30 December 2005 (6 pages)
061408 [View PDF (606 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Charge inversion by multivalent ions: Dependence on dielectric constant and surface-charge density
K. Besteman, M. A. G. Zevenbergen, and S. G. Lemay
Published 1 December 2005 (9 pages)
061501 [View PDF (773 kB)]
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Bulk electroconvection in electrolyte
Tamara Pundik, Isaak Rubinstein, and Boris Zaltzman
Published 1 December 2005 (8 pages)
061502 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Exactly solvable model of the two-dimensional electrical double layer
L. Šamaj and Z. Bajnok
Published 15 December 2005 (14 pages)
061503 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Elastic neutron scattering study of water dynamics in ion-exchanged type-A zeolites
C. Corsaro, V. Crupi, F. Longo, D. Majolino, V. Venuti, and U. Wanderlingh
Published 20 December 2005 (7 pages)
061504 [View PDF (163 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Surface roughness and adsorption isotherms of molecularly thin liquid films: An x-ray reflectivity study
M. Paulus, C. Gutt, and M. Tolan
Published 6 December 2005 (7 pages)
061601 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Diffusive motion of molecules in submonolayer liquid films on a solid surface
Kenji Fukuzawa, Shintaro Itoh, Kenta Suzuki, Yusuke Kawai, Hedong Zhang, and Yasunaga Mitsuya
Published 7 December 2005 (7 pages)
061602 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Kinetics of phase separation in thin films: Simulations for the diffusive case
Subir K. Das, Sanjay Puri, Jürgen Horbach, and K. Binder
Published 14 December 2005 (13 pages)
061603 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Discrete model for laser driven etching and microstructuring of metallic surfaces
Alejandro Mora, Maria Haase, Thomas Rabbow, and Peter Jörg Plath
Published 23 December 2005 (10 pages)
061604 [View PDF (956 kB)]
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Contact line motion for partially wetting fluids
Jens Eggers
Published 29 December 2005 (6 pages)
061605 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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13C NMR study of orientational ordering in the chiral-C phase of partially deuterated smectic liquid crystals
Ronald Y. Dong, J. Xu, J. Zhang, and C. A. Veracini
Published 9 December 2005 (8 pages)
061701 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Field-cycling NMR relaxometry of a liquid crystal above TNI in mesoscopic confinement
P. J. Sebastião, D. Sousa, A. C. Ribeiro, M. Vilfan, G. Lahajnar, J. Seliger, and S. Žumer
Published 14 December 2005 (11 pages)
061702 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Photoinduced ordering and anchoring properties of azo-dye films
Alexei D. Kiselev, Vladimir Chigrinov, and Dan Ding Huang
Published 14 December 2005 (12 pages)
061703 [View PDF (670 kB)]
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Swollen lamellar phases confined in capillarylike pores
M. Tasinkevych and A. Ciach
Published 20 December 2005 (10 pages)
061704 [View PDF (478 kB)]
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Determination of azimuthal anchoring energy in a twisted nematic liquid crystal
Seo Hern Lee, Tae-Hoon Yoon, and Jae Chang Kim
Published 23 December 2005 (6 pages)
061705 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Density functional theory of liquid crystals and surface anchoring
M. Moradi, Richard J. Wheatley, and A. Avazpour
Published 23 December 2005 (7 pages)
061706 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transition and three-dimensional director structures in homeotropic cells
I. I. Smalyukh, B. I. Senyuk, P. Palffy-Muhoray, O. D. Lavrentovich, H. Huang, E. C. Gartland, Jr., V. H. Bodnar, T. Kosa, and B. Taheri
Published 30 December 2005 (16 pages)
061707 [View PDF (2,130 kB)]

Polymers

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Activated barrier crossing of macromolecules at a submicron-size entropic trap
Alok K. R. Paul
Published 14 December 2005 (11 pages)
061801 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Effect of equilibration on primitive path analyses of entangled polymers
Robert S. Hoy and Mark O. Robbins
Published 16 December 2005 (6 pages)
061802 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Limits of analogy between self-avoidance and topology-driven swelling of polymer loops
N. T. Moore and A. Y. Grosberg
Published 21 December 2005 (10 pages)
061803 [View PDF (392 kB)]

Biological physics

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Rugged fitness landscapes of Kauffman models with a scale-free network
Kazumoto Iguchi, Shuichi Kinoshita, and Hiroaki Yamada
Published 1 December 2005 (6 pages)
061901 [View PDF (542 kB)]
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Protein-mediated DNA loops: Effects of protein bridge size and kinks
Nicolas Douarche and Simona Cocco
Published 2 December 2005 (10 pages)
061902 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Structural and energetic model of the mechanisms for reduced self-diffusion in a lipid bilayer with increasing ionic strength
Malgorzata Kotulska and Krystian Kubica
Published 6 December 2005 (6 pages)
061903 [View PDF (103 kB)]
Natural layer-by-layer photonic structure in the squamae of Hoplia coerulea (Coleoptera)
Jean Pol Vigneron, Jean-François Colomer, Nathalie Vigneron, and Virginie Lousse
Published 12 December 2005 (6 pages)
061904 [View PDF (581 kB)]
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Quantification of the differences between quenched and annealed averaging for RNA secondary structures
Tsunglin Liu and Ralf Bundschuh
Published 12 December 2005 (9 pages)
061905 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Bona fide stochastic resonance and multimodality in the stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley neuron
Sang-Gui Lee and Seunghwan Kim
Published 12 December 2005 (8 pages)
061906 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Mechanical resonances of bacteria cells
P. V. Zinin, J. S. Allen, III, and V. M. Levin
Published 12 December 2005 (10 pages)
061907 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Pressure-dependent transition in protein dynamics at about 4 kbar revealed by molecular dynamics simulation
Lars Meinhold and Jeremy C. Smith
Published 13 December 2005 (5 pages)
061908 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Electron-molecular-vibration coupling for small polarons in DNAs
Masateru Taniguchi and Tomoji Kawai
Published 14 December 2005 (5 pages)
061909 [View PDF (540 kB)]
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Proposed mechanism for learning and memory erasure in a white-noise-driven sleeping cortex
Moira L. Steyn-Ross, D. A. Steyn-Ross, J. W. Sleigh, M. T. Wilson, and Lara C. Wilcocks
Published 16 December 2005 (11 pages)
061910 [View PDF (868 kB)]
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Enhancement of specific absorption rate in lossy dielectric objects using a slab of left-handed material
Lei Zhao and Tie Jun Cui
Published 19 December 2005 (8 pages)
061911 [View PDF (824 kB)]
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Membrane-bound Turing patterns
Herbert Levine and Wouter-Jan Rappel
Published 19 December 2005 (5 pages)
061912 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Strength of thermal undulations of phospholipid membranes
V. I. Gordeliy, V. Cherezov, and J. Teixeira
Published 20 December 2005 (16 pages)
061913 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Mechanical response of semiflexible networks to localized perturbations
D. A. Head, A. J. Levine, and F. C. MacKintosh
Published 20 December 2005 (14 pages)
061914 [View PDF (539 kB)]
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Conservation of statistical results under the reduction of pair-contact interactions to solvation interactions
N. Hamedani Radja, R. R. Farzami, and M. R. Ejtehadi
Published 23 December 2005 (9 pages)
061915 [View PDF (747 kB)]
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Viscoelasticity of entangled actin networks studied by long-pulse magnetic bead microrheometry
Jorg Uhde, Nikita Ter-Oganessian, David A. Pink, Erich Sackmann, and Alexei Boulbitch
Published 23 December 2005 (10 pages)
061916 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Score statistics of global sequence alignment from the energy distribution of a modified directed polymer and directed percolation problem
Mihaela E. Sardiu, Gelio Alves, and Yi-Kuo Yu
Published 23 December 2005 (21 pages)
061917 [View PDF (1,771 kB)]
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First passage times and asymmetry of DNA translocation
Rhonald C. Lua and Alexander Y. Grosberg
Published 23 December 2005 (8 pages)
061918 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Theory of oscillatory firing induced by spatially correlated noise and delayed inhibitory feedback
Benjamin Lindner, Brent Doiron, and André Longtin
Published 29 December 2005 (14 pages)
061919 [View PDF (757 kB)]
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Precise domain specification in the developing Drosophila embryo
B. Houchmandzadeh, E. Wieschaus, and S. Leibler
Published 30 December 2005 (7 pages)
061920 [View PDF (390 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Granular materials

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Dynamics of a projectile penetrating in granular systems
M. Hou, Z. Peng, R. Liu, K. Lu, and C. K. Chan
Published 12 December 2005 (4 pages)
062301 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Scaling properties of a one-dimensional sandpile model with grain dissipation
Espen Jettestuen and Anders Malthe-Sørenssen
Published 19 December 2005 (4 pages)
062302 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Comparative x-ray measurements of a de Vries smectic-A material in bulk and confined geometries
Chethan V. Lobo, S. Krishna Prasad, and D. S. Shankar Rao
Published 15 December 2005 (4 pages)
062701 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Biological physics

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Helices in biomolecules
Kevin Cahill
Published 1 December 2005 (4 pages)
062901 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Analysis of angiogenesis using in vitro experiments and stochastic growth models
Antti Niemistö, Valerie Dunmire, Olli Yli-Harja, Wei Zhang, and Ilya Shmulevich
Published 16 December 2005 (4 pages)
062902 [View PDF (92 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Performance of different synchronization measures in real data: A case study on electroencephalographic signals”
N. Nicolaou and S. J. Nasuto
Published 13 December 2005 (2 pages)
063901 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Performance of different synchronization measures in real data: A case study on electroencephalographic signals’ ”
R. Quian Quiroga, A. Kraskov, and P. Grassberger
Published 13 December 2005 (2 pages)
063902 [View PDF (133 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Intrinsically anomalous roughness of admissible crack traces in concrete
Alexander S. Balankin, Orlando Susarrey, Rafael García Paredes, Leobardo Morales, Didier Samayoa, and José Alfredo López
Published 1 December 2005 (4 pages)
065101(R) [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium transition induced by mass media in a model for social influence
J. C. González-Avella, M. G. Cosenza, and K. Tucci
Published 1 December 2005 (4 pages)
065102(R) [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Discontinuities in self-affine functions lead to multiaffinity
S. J. Mitchell
Published 12 December 2005 (4 pages)
065103(R) [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Preferential urn model and nongrowing complex networks
Jun Ohkubo, Muneki Yasuda, and Kazuyuki Tanaka
Published 15 December 2005 (4 pages)
065104(R) [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Dynamic critical approach to self-organized criticality
Karina Laneri, Alejandro F. Rozenfeld, and Ezequiel V. Albano
Published 15 December 2005 (4 pages)
065105(R) [View PDF (85 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Interference patterns in spiral wave drift induced by a two-point feedback
V. S. Zykov, H. Brandtstädter, G. Bordiougov, and H. Engel
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
065201(R) [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Interconnected Turing patterns in three dimensions
Hiroto Shoji, Kohtaro Yamada, and Takao Ohta
Published 20 December 2005 (4 pages)
065202(R) [View PDF (222 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Determining the spectral signature of spatial coherent structures in an open cavity flow
L. R. Pastur, F. Lusseyran, Y. Fraigneau, and B. Podvin
Published 12 December 2005 (4 pages)
065301(R) [View PDF (660 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Circular polarization memory of light
Min Xu and R. R. Alfano
Published 16 December 2005 (4 pages)
065601(R) [View PDF (84 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Random quantum Ising chains with competing interactions
David Carpentier, Pierre Pujol, and Kay-Uwe Giering
Published 1 December 2005 (6 pages)
066101 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Optimizing on-ramp entries to exploit the capacity of a road
M. Pica Ciamarra
Published 1 December 2005 (8 pages)
066102 [View PDF (1,175 kB)]
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Universality class of one-dimensional directed sandpile models
Matthew Stapleton and Kim Christensen
Published 1 December 2005 (4 pages)
066103 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Roughness of time series in a critical interface model
S. L. A. de Queiroz
Published 5 December 2005 (7 pages)
066104 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Dynamic rewiring in small world networks
J. P. L. Hatchett, N. S. Skantzos, and T. Nikoletopoulos
Published 5 December 2005 (11 pages)
066105 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Extremal dynamics on complex networks: Analytic solutions
N. Masuda, K.-I. Goh, and B. Kahng
Published 6 December 2005 (6 pages)
066106 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Uncovering collective listening habits and music genres in bipartite networks
R. Lambiotte and M. Ausloos
Published 7 December 2005 (11 pages)
066107 [View PDF (773 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal oscillations and clustering in the Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model with surface reconstruction
A. Provata and V. K. Noussiou
Published 8 December 2005 (6 pages)
066108 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Culling avalanches in bootstrap percolation
C. Farrow, P. M. Duxbury, and Cristian F. Moukarzel
Published 8 December 2005 (7 pages)
066109 [View PDF (638 kB)]
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Distribution of current in nonequilibrium diffusive systems and phase transitions
T. Bodineau and B. Derrida
Published 9 December 2005 (8 pages)
066110 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Pattern recognition using asymmetric attractor neural networks
Tao Jin and Hong Zhao
Published 9 December 2005 (7 pages)
066111 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Work distribution functions for hysteresis loops in a single-spin system
Rahul Marathe and Abhishek Dhar
Published 12 December 2005 (9 pages)
066112 [View PDF (885 kB)]
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Scale invariant forces in one-dimensional shuffled lattices
Andrea Gabrielli
Published 13 December 2005 (11 pages)
066113 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Random matrix theory within superstatistics
A. Y. Abul-Magd
Published 13 December 2005 (9 pages)
066114 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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Elastic properties of small-world spring networks
A. Ramezanpour and S. M. Vaez Allaei
Published 14 December 2005 (7 pages)
066115 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Improved site percolation threshold universal formula for two-dimensional matching lattices
John C. Wierman, Dora Passen Naor, and Rulian Cheng
Published 14 December 2005 (4 pages)
066116 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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N-body decomposition of bipartite author networks
R. Lambiotte and M. Ausloos
Published 15 December 2005 (8 pages)
066117 [View PDF (865 kB)]
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Autonomous quantum thermodynamic machines
Friedemann Tonner and Günter Mahler
Published 16 December 2005 (15 pages)
066118 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Fluctuations of composite observables and stability of statistical systems
V. I. Yukalov
Published 20 December 2005 (18 pages)
066119 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Entropic sampling via Wang-Landau random walks in dominant energy subspaces
A. Malakis, S. S. Martinos, I. A. Hadjiagapiou, N. G. Fytas, and P. Kalozoumis
Published 22 December 2005 (11 pages)
066120 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Effect of spatially correlated noise on coherence resonance in a network of excitable cells
Okyu Kwon, Hang-Hyun Jo, and Hie-Tae Moon
Published 22 December 2005 (4 pages)
066121 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Scaling of spreading in models unidirectionally coupled to source particles
Sungchul Kwon and Yup Kim
Published 22 December 2005 (6 pages)
066122 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Localization transition on complex networks via spectral statistics
M. Sade, T. Kalisky, S. Havlin, and R. Berkovits
Published 23 December 2005 (6 pages)
066123 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Stability of the car-following model on two lanes
Tie-Qiao Tang, Hai-Jun Huang, and Zi-You Gao
Published 23 December 2005 (7 pages)
066124 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Non-Hamiltonian commutators in quantum mechanics
Alessandro Sergi
Published 29 December 2005 (9 pages)
066125 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Front propagation up a reaction rate gradient
Elisheva Cohen, David A. Kessler, and Herbert Levine
Published 29 December 2005 (11 pages)
066126 [View PDF (616 kB)]
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Cavity approach for real variables on diluted graphs and application to synchronization in small-world lattices
Nikos S. Skantzos, Isaac Pérez Castillo, and Jonathan P. L. Hatchett
Published 29 December 2005 (8 pages)
066127 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Search in weighted complex networks
Hari P. Thadakamalla, R. Albert, and S. R. T. Kumara
Published 30 December 2005 (8 pages)
066128 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Site-bond percolation of polyatomic species
M. Dolz, F. Nieto, and A. J. Ramirez-Pastor
Published 30 December 2005 (5 pages)
066129 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Correlations in interacting systems with a network topology
S. N. Dorogovtsev, A. V. Goltsev, and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 30 December 2005 (5 pages)
066130 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Chaotic desynchronization of multistrain diseases
Ira B. Schwartz, Leah B. Shaw, Derek A. T. Cummings, Lora Billings, Marie McCrary, and Donald S. Burke
Published 1 December 2005 (6 pages)
066201 [View PDF (636 kB)]
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Pattern formation in parametric sound generation
Isabel Pérez-Arjona and Víctor J. Sánchez-Morcillo
Published 1 December 2005 (8 pages)
066202 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Unusual Liénard-type nonlinear oscillator
V. K. Chandrasekar, M. Senthilvelan, and M. Lakshmanan
Published 2 December 2005 (8 pages)
066203 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Scar intensity statistics in the position representation
K. Damborsky and L. Kaplan
Published 5 December 2005 (8 pages)
066204 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Origin of bursting pH oscillations in an enzyme model reaction system
Ronny Straube, Dietrich Flockerzi, Stefan C. Müller, and Marcus J. B. Hauser
Published 6 December 2005 (12 pages)
066205 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Bifurcation to large period oscillations in physical systems controlled by delay
Thomas Erneux and Hans-Otto Walther
Published 9 December 2005 (5 pages)
066206 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Spontaneous scroll ring creation and scroll instability in oscillatory medium with gradients
Chen Wang, Shen Wang, Chunxia Zhang, and Qi Ouyang
Published 12 December 2005 (7 pages)
066207 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Pattern selection and control via localized feedback
Andreas Handel and Roman O. Grigoriev
Published 14 December 2005 (14 pages)
066208 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Signatures of chaoticlike and nonchaoticlike behavior in a nonlinear quantum oscillator through photon detection
M. J. Everitt, T. D. Clark, P. B. Stiffell, J. F. Ralph, A. R. Bulsara, and C. J. Harland
Published 19 December 2005 (6 pages)
066209 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Classical singularities and semi-Poisson statistics in disordered systems
Antonio M. García-García
Published 20 December 2005 (5 pages)
066210 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Pattern formation in stiff oscillatory media with nonlocal coupling: A numerical study of the hydrogen oxidation reaction on Pt electrodes in the presence of poisons
F. Plenge, H. Varela, and K. Krischer
Published 21 December 2005 (11 pages)
066211 [View PDF (921 kB)]
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Investigation of nodal domains in the chaotic microwave ray-splitting rough billiard
Oleh Hul, Nazar Savytskyy, Oleg Tymoshchuk, Szymon Bauch, and Leszek Sirko
Published 21 December 2005 (7 pages)
066212 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Parallels between the dynamics at the noise-perturbed onset of chaos in logistic maps and the dynamics of glass formation
F. Baldovin and A. Robledo
Published 22 December 2005 (7 pages)
066213 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Nodal domain distribution for a nonintegrable two-dimensional anharmonic oscillator
Hirokazu Aiba and Toru Suzuki
Published 22 December 2005 (16 pages)
066214 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Classical dynamics of two-electron atoms at zero energy
Min-Ho Lee, Nark Nyul Choi, and Gregor Tanner
Published 22 December 2005 (7 pages)
066215 [View PDF (629 kB)]
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Anomalous phase synchronization in two asymmetrically coupled oscillators in the presence of noise
Bernd Blasius
Published 23 December 2005 (12 pages)
066216 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Steady-state stabilization due to random delays in maps with self-feedback loops and in globally delayed-coupled maps
Arturo C. Martí, Marcelo Ponce, and C. Masoller
Published 29 December 2005 (10 pages)
066217 [View PDF (1,141 kB)]
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Fundamental relations between the symmetry of excitation and the existence of spatiotemporal subharmonic structures in a pattern-forming dynamic system
Ralf Stannarius, Jana Heuer, and Thomas John
Published 29 December 2005 (14 pages)
066218 [View PDF (841 kB)]
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Correlation structure of the δn statistic for chaotic quantum systems
A. Relaño, J. Retamosa, E. Faleiro, and J. M G. Gómez
Published 29 December 2005 (8 pages)
066219 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Stability of parallel flows in a microchannel after a T junction
Pierre Guillot and Annie Colin
Published 5 December 2005 (4 pages)
066301 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Application of non-Newtonian models to thin film flow
T. G. Myers
Published 7 December 2005 (11 pages)
066302 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Numerical modeling of quasiplanar giant water waves
Victor P. Ruban and Jürgen Dreher
Published 9 December 2005 (9 pages)
066303 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Droplet motion with phase change in a temperature gradient
Akira Onuki and Kentaro Kanatani
Published 9 December 2005 (11 pages)
066304 [View PDF (635 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics study of the effect of surfactants on droplet deformation in shear flows
W. Li, G. H Ko, and D. Gersappe
Published 12 December 2005 (4 pages)
066305 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic resistance of close-approached slip surfaces with a nanoasperity or an entrapped nanobubble
Tai-Hsi Fan and Olga I. Vinogradova
Published 13 December 2005 (9 pages)
066306 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Impinging laminar jets at moderate Reynolds numbers and separation distances
Jeffrey M. Bergthorson, Kazuo Sone, Trent W. Mattner, Paul E. Dimotakis, David G. Goodwin, and Dan I. Meiron
Published 14 December 2005 (12 pages)
066307 [View PDF (866 kB)]
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Critical fluctuation of wind reversals in convective turbulence
Rudolph C. Hwa, C. B. Yang, S. Bershadskii, J. J. Niemela, and K. R. Sreenivasan
Published 20 December 2005 (5 pages)
066308 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Unsteady natural convection on an evenly heated vertical plate for Prandtl number Pr<1
Wenxian Lin and S. W. Armfield
Published 21 December 2005 (17 pages)
066309 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Properties of luminescence from laser-created bubbles in pressurized water
Emil A. Brujan, David S. Hecht, Frank Lee, and Gary A. Williams
Published 21 December 2005 (6 pages)
066310 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Linear stability of acoustic streaming flows in microchannels
A. Kwang-Hua Chu
Published 22 December 2005 (6 pages)
066311 [View PDF (245 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Strongly coupled copper plasma generated by underwater electrical wire explosion
A. Grinenko, V. Tz. Gurovich, A. Saypin, S. Efimov, Ya. E. Krasik, and V. I. Oreshkin
Published 5 December 2005 (7 pages)
066401 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Shock-wave-induced enhancement of optical emission in nitrogen afterglow plasma
N. Siefert, B. N. Ganguly, and P. Bletzinger
Published 6 December 2005 (6 pages)
066402 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Dopant radiative cooling effects in indirect-drive Ar-doped capsule implosion experiments
J. J. MacFarlane, I. E. Golovkin, R. C. Mancini, L. A. Welser, J. E. Bailey, J. A. Koch, T. A. Mehlhorn, G. A. Rochau, P. Wang, and P. Woodruff
Published 9 December 2005 (14 pages)
066403 [View PDF (759 kB)]
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Demonstration of bulk acceleration of ions in ultraintense laser interactions with low-density foams
Y. T. Li, Z. M. Sheng, Y. Y. Ma, Z. Jin, J. Zhang, Z. L. Chen, R. Kodama, T. Matsuoka, M. Tampo, K. A. Tanaka, T. Tsutsumi, T. Yabuuchi, K. Du, H. Q. Zhang, L. Zhang, and Y. J. Tang
Published 12 December 2005 (7 pages)
066404 [View PDF (834 kB)]
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Measurement and analysis of x-ray absorption in Al and MgF2 plasmas heated by Z-pinch radiation
Gregory A. Rochau, J. E. Bailey, and J. J. MacFarlane
Published 14 December 2005 (11 pages)
066405 [View PDF (1,688 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Attosecond and zeptosecond x-ray pulses via nonlinear Thomson backscattering
Pengfei Lan, Peixiang Lu, Wei Cao, and Xinlin Wang
Published 14 December 2005 (7 pages)
066501 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Lévy-Student distributions for halos in accelerator beams
Nicola Cufaro Petroni, Salvatore De Martino, Silvio De Siena, and Fabrizio Illuminati
Published 21 December 2005 (17 pages)
066502 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Polarizing mechanisms for stored p and p̅ beams interacting with a polarized target
A. I. Milstein and V. M. Strakhovenko
Published 29 December 2005 (5 pages)
066503 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Pulse propagation, dispersion, and energy in magnetic materials
Michael Scalora, Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Neset Akozbek, Mark J. Bloemer, Marco Centini, Concita Sibilia, and Mario Bertolotti
Published 5 December 2005 (8 pages)
066601 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Doppler effects in heterogeneous media with applications to ocean acoustic modeling
Peter B. Weichman
Published 6 December 2005 (21 pages)
066602 [View PDF (1,066 kB)]
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Mobility of discrete cavity solitons
O. Egorov, U. Peschel, and F. Lederer
Published 6 December 2005 (7 pages)
066603 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Vector solitons with an embedded domain wall
P. G. Kevrekidis, H. Susanto, R. Carretero-González, B. A. Malomed, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 9 December 2005 (11 pages)
066604 [View PDF (731 kB)]
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Reordering of the ridge patterns of a stochastic electromagnetic field by diffraction due to an ideal slit
J. Avendaño and L. de la Peña
Published 12 December 2005 (10 pages)
066605 [View PDF (474 kB)]
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Resonator mode in chains of silver spheres and its possible application
C. R. Simovski, A. J. Viitanen, and S. A. Tretyakov
Published 13 December 2005 (10 pages)
066606 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Near-field imaging of nonlinear pulse propagation in planar silica waveguides
Y. Linzon, I. Ilsar, D. Cheskis, R. Morandotti, J. S. Aitchison, and S. Bar-Ad
Published 14 December 2005 (5 pages)
066607 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Discrete light localization in one-dimensional nonlinear lattices with arbitrary nonlocality
Andrea Fratalocchi and Gaetano Assanto
Published 16 December 2005 (6 pages)
066608 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Dispersive tristability in microring resonators
Yannick Dumeige and Patrice Féron
Published 16 December 2005 (8 pages)
066609 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Multiple wavelengths filtering of light through inner resonances
Didier Felbacq, Maria Cristina Larciprete, Concita Sibilia, Mario Bertolotti, and Michael Scalora
Published 19 December 2005 (6 pages)
066610 [View PDF (729 kB)]
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Theory of nonlocal soliton interaction in nematic liquid crystals
Per Dalgaard Rasmussen, Ole Bang, and Wieslaw Królikowski
Published 20 December 2005 (7 pages)
066611 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Second-harmonic generation from a positive-negative index material heterostructure
Nadia Mattiucci, Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Mark J. Bloemer, and Michael Scalora
Published 21 December 2005 (8 pages)
066612 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Time-dependent entropy evolution in microscopic and macroscopic electromagnetic relaxation
James Baker-Jarvis
Published 22 December 2005 (7 pages)
066613 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Spatial solitons and modulational instability in the presence of large birefringence: The case of highly nonlocal liquid crystals
Claudio Conti, Marco Peccianti, and Gaetano Assanto
Published 22 December 2005 (4 pages)
066614 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Analysis of a four-mirror-cavity enhanced Michelson interferometer
André Thüring, Harald Lück, and Karsten Danzmann
Published 23 December 2005 (8 pages)
066615 [View PDF (868 kB)]
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Chains of temporal dark solitons in dispersion-managed fiber
M. Stratmann and F. Mitschke
Published 28 December 2005 (6 pages)
066616 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Higher order harmonics of modulational instability
David Amans, Edouard Brainis, and Serge Massar
Published 28 December 2005 (9 pages)
066617 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Localization of phonon polaritons in disordered polar media
Arkady M. Satanin, Yong S. Joe, Chang Sub Kim, and Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy
Published 29 December 2005 (11 pages)
066618 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Nonaffine correlations in random elastic media
B. A. DiDonna and T. C. Lubensky
Published 29 December 2005 (23 pages)
066619 [View PDF (1,179 kB)]
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Complex light: Dynamic phase transitions of a light beam in a nonlinear nonlocal disordered medium
Claudio Conti
Published 30 December 2005 (10 pages)
066620 [View PDF (435 kB)]

Computational physics

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One-point boundary condition for the lattice Boltzmann method
Michael Junk and Zhaoxia Yang
Published 5 December 2005 (8 pages)
066701 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Advanced information feedback in intelligent traffic systems
Wen-Xu Wang, Bing-Hong Wang, Wen-Chen Zheng, Chuan-Yang Yin, and Tao Zhou
Published 5 December 2005 (6 pages)
066702 [View PDF (872 kB)]
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Adomian’s decomposition method for electromagnetically induced transparency
Yee-Mou Kao, T. F. Jiang, and Ite A. Yu
Published 6 December 2005 (8 pages)
066703 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Calculation of local pressure tensors in systems with many-body interactions
Hendrik Heinz, Wolfgang Paul, and Kurt Binder
Published 12 December 2005 (10 pages)
066704 [View PDF (572 kB)]
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Phase-field lattice kinetic scheme for the numerical simulation of dendritic growth
I. Rasin, W. Miller, and S. Succi
Published 28 December 2005 (10 pages)
066705 [View PDF (394 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Small-world properties emerge in highly compartmentalized networks with intermediate group sizes and numbers
Louie H. Yang and Matthew D. Holland
Published 1 December 2005 (4 pages)
067101 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Analytically solvable model of probabilistic network dynamics
M. A. M. de Aguiar, Irving R. Epstein, and Yaneer Bar-Yam
Published 7 December 2005 (4 pages)
067102 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Toward an improvement over Kerner-Klenov-Wolf three-phase cellular automaton model
Rui Jiang and Qing-Song Wu
Published 14 December 2005 (4 pages)
067103 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Geometry explains the large difference in the elastic properties of fcc and hcp crystals of hard spheres
Nazar Sushko and Paul van der Schoot
Published 22 December 2005 (4 pages)
067104 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Fragmentation instability of a liquid drop falling inside a heavier miscible fluid
Paul K. Buah-Bassuah, René Rojas, Stefania Residori, and F. T. Arecchi
Published 9 December 2005 (4 pages)
067301 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Scaling of the Reynolds number in turbulent thermal convection
Chao Sun and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 14 December 2005 (4 pages)
067302 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Stable stationary vortices and traveling oscillatory vortices in a stenotic fluid-flow channel
David W. Pravica, Martin Bier, Robert S. Brock, and Orville W. Day, Jr.
Published 20 December 2005 (4 pages)
067303 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Hysteresis and mode coupling in capillary bridge oscillations: Observations
Wei Wei, David B. Thiessen, and Philip L. Marston
Published 29 December 2005 (4 pages)
067304 [View PDF (178 kB)]

Computational physics

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Numerical simulation of generalized Langevin equation with arbitrary correlated noise
Kun Lü and Jing-Dong Bao
Published 14 December 2005 (4 pages)
067701 [View PDF (81 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Nonuniversality in microbranching instabilities in rapid fracture [Phys. Rev. E 72, 055103 (2005)]
Eran Bouchbinder and Itamar Procaccia
Published 2 December 2005 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (17 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Interference patterns in spiral wave drift induced by a two-point feedback [Phys. Rev. E 72, 065201 (2005)]
V. S. Zykov, H. Brandtstädter, G. Bordiougov, and H. Engel
Published 22 December 2005 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Erratum: Synaptic plasticity with discrete state synapses [Phys. Rev. E 72, 031914 (2005)]
Henry D. I. Abarbanel, Sachin S. Talathi, Leif Gibb, and M. I. Rabinovich
Published 23 December 2005 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (17 kB)]
 
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