Physical Review E – December 1999
Volume 60, Issue 6

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been covered by a Viewpoint in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, featured as a story in Phys. Rev. Focus, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Theoretical electroencephalogram stationary spectrum for a white-noise-driven cortex: Evidence for a general anesthetic-induced phase transition
Moira L. Steyn-Ross, D. A. Steyn-Ross, J. W. Sleigh, and D. T. J. Liley
pp. 7299-7311 [View PDF (197 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Dimensional reduction in a model with infinitely many absorbing states
Adam Lipowski
pp. R6255-R6258 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Properties of the crossover from nonclassical to classical chemical kinetics in a reversible A+B↔C reaction diffusion process
Misha Sinder and Joshua Pelleg
pp. R6259-R6262 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Spreading and shortest paths in systems with sparse long-range connections
Cristian F. Moukarzel
pp. R6263-R6266 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Dynamical renormalization group calculation of a two-phase sharp interface model
G. Caginalp
pp. R6267-R6270 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Phase transition and symmetry breaking in the minority game
Damien Challet and Matteo Marsili
pp. R6271-R6274 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium first-order phase transition induced by additive noise
A. A. Zaikin, J. García-Ojalvo, and L. Schimansky-Geier
pp. R6275-R6278 [View PDF (58 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Controlling Hamiltonian chaos via Gaussian curvature
Atta Oloumi and Denis Teychenné
pp. R6279-R6282 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Abrupt bifurcation to chaotic scattering with discontinuous change in fractal dimension
Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. R6283-R6286 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Rescaling invariance and anomalous transport in a stochastic layer
S. S. Abdullaev and K. H. Spatschek
pp. R6287-R6290 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Density-functional theory for soft interactions by dimensional crossover
Matthias Schmidt
pp. R6291-R6294 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Exit time of turbulent signals: A way to detect the intermediate dissipative range
L. Biferale, M. Cencini, D. Vergni, and A. Vulpiani
pp. R6295-R6298 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Coherent structures in random shell models for passive scalar advection
Luca Biferale, Isabelle Daumont, Thierry Dombre, and Alessandra Lanotte
pp. R6299-R6302 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Differential light scattering: Probing the sonoluminescence collapse
G. Vacca, R. D. Morgan, and R. B. Laughlin
pp. R6303-R6306 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Liquid flow through aqueous foams: From the plateau border-dominated regime to the node-dominated regime
M. Durand, G. Martinoty, and D. Langevin
pp. R6307-R6308 [View PDF (26 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Disorder effects in low concentration dispersions of small quartz spheres in cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals
F. Mercuri, A. K. Ghosh, and M. Marinelli
pp. R6309-R6312 [View PDF (241 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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High-frequency dynamics of wave localization
C. W. J. Beenakker, K. J. H. van Bemmel, and P. W. Brouwer
pp. R6313-R6315 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Large two-dimensional sonic band gaps
D. Caballero, J. Sánchez-Dehesa, C. Rubio, R. Mártinez-Sala, J. V. Sánchez-Pérez, F. Meseguer, and J. Llinares
pp. R6316-R6319 [View PDF (270 kB)]

Computational physics

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Tetrahedral global minimum for the 98-atom Lennard-Jones cluster
Robert H. Leary and Jonathan P. K. Doye
pp. R6320-R6322 [View PDF (160 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Identity of the universal repulsive-core singularity with Yang-Lee edge criticality
Youngah Park and Michael E. Fisher
pp. 6323-6328 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Noise-induced oscillation and stochastic resonance in an autonomous chemical reaction system
Zhonghuai Hou and Houwen Xin
pp. 6329-6332 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Decay of unstable equilibrium and nonequilibrium states with inverse probability current taken into account
N. V. Agudov and A. N. Malakhov
pp. 6333-6342 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Effective action for stochastic partial differential equations
David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, Juan Pérez-Mercader, and Matt Visser
pp. 6343-6360 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Percolation thresholds, critical exponents, and scaling functions on planar random lattices and their duals
H.-P. Hsu and M.-C. Huang
pp. 6361-6370 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Purity and decoherence in the theory of a damped harmonic oscillator
A. Isar, A. Sandulescu, and W. Scheid
pp. 6371-6381 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Two-particle problem in a nonequilibrium many-particle system
Th. Bornath, D. Kremp, and M. Schlanges
pp. 6382-6394 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Stabilization and enhancement of traffic flow by the next-nearest-neighbor interaction
Takashi Nagatani
pp. 6395-6401 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium noise in coupled phase oscillators
P. Reimann, C. Van den Broeck, and R. Kawai
pp. 6402-6406 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Coherence resonance in excitable and oscillatory systems: The essential role of slow and fast dynamics
Joël R. Pradines, Grigory V. Osipov, and James J. Collins
pp. 6407-6410 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Bosonization, vicinal surfaces, and hydrodynamic fluctuation theory
Herbert Spohn
pp. 6411-6420 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Mobility and stochastic resonance in spatially inhomogeneous systems
Debasis Dan, M. C. Mahato, and A. M. Jayannavar
pp. 6421-6428 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Interacting spiral waves in the Oregonator model of the light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction
I. Schebesch and H. Engel
pp. 6429-6434 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Lévy diffusion as an effect of sporadic randomness
Mauro Bologna, Paolo Grigolini, and Juri Riccardi
pp. 6435-6442 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Escape over a fluctuating barrier with additive and multiplicative noise
J. H. Li, B. Hu, D. Y. Xing, and J. M. Dong
pp. 6443-6448 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Fracture patterns induced by desiccation in a thin layer
So Kitsunezaki
pp. 6449-6464 [View PDF (1,183 kB)]
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Exactly solvable two-way traffic model with ordered sequential update
M. E. Fouladvand and H.-W. Lee
pp. 6465-6479 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Single-vehicle data of highway traffic: A statistical analysis
L. Neubert, L. Santen, A. Schadschneider, and M. Schreckenberg
pp. 6480-6490 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Geometry, thermodynamics, and finite-size corrections in the critical Potts model
Chin-Kun Hu, Jau-Ann Chen, N. Sh. Izmailian, and P. Kleban
pp. 6491-6495 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Percolation threshold of correlated two-dimensional lattices
Kenneth S. Mendelson
pp. 6496-6498 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Thermally activated escape rates of uniaxial spin systems with transverse field: Uniaxial crossovers
D. A. Garanin, E. C. Kennedy, D. S. F. Crothers, and W. T. Coffey
pp. 6499-6502 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Sorting single events: Mean arrival times of N random walkers
Julia Dräger and Joseph Klafter
pp. 6503-6506 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Potential energy landscape of a model glass former: Thermodynamics, anharmonicities, and finite size effects
Stephan Büchner and Andreas Heuer
pp. 6507-6518 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Scaling of the distribution of price fluctuations of individual companies
Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Martin Meyer, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 6519-6529 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Long-range electrostatic interactions between like-charged colloids: Steric and confinement effects
Emmanuel Trizac and Jean-Luc Raimbault
pp. 6530-6533 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Universal renormalization of saddle-point integrals for condensed Bose gases
Martin Holthaus and Eva Kalinowski
pp. 6534-6537 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Cyclotron resonance line shape function from the equilibrium density projection operator technique
Joung Young Sug, Sang Gyu Jo, and Sang Don Choi
pp. 6538-6548 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Electrolytic depletion interactions
M. N. Tamashiro and P. Pincus
pp. 6549-6559 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Loss of lag synchronization in coupled chaotic systems
O. V. Sosnovtseva, A. G. Balanov, T. E. Vadivasova, V. V. Astakhov, and E. Mosekilde
pp. 6560-6565 [View PDF (684 kB)]
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Coupling of low-frequency modes with the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation: Generalized Zakharov equations
R. Erichsen, L. G. Brunnet, and F. B. Rizzato
pp. 6566-6570 [View PDF (768 kB)]
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Frozen spatial chaos induced by boundaries
Víctor M. Eguíluz, Emilio Hernández-García, Oreste Piro, and Salvador Balle
pp. 6571-6579 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Excitability and coherence resonance in lasers with saturable absorber
Johan L. A. Dubbeldam, Bernd Krauskopf, and Daan Lenstra
pp. 6580-6588 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Chaotic alternation of waves in ring lasers
M. Clerc and P. Coullet
pp. 6589-6594 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Recovery process of low-frequency fluctuations in laser diodes with external optical feedback
Yun Liu, Peter Davis, and Yoshiro Takiguchi
pp. 6595-6601 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Numerical evidence for the existence of a low-dimensional attractor and its implications in the rheology of dilute suspensions of periodically forced slender bodies
K. Radhakrishnan, K. Asokan, J. Dasan, C. Chandrashekara Bhat, and T. R. Ramamohan
pp. 6602-6609 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Dependence of thermal conductivity on discrete breathers in lattices
G. P. Tsironis, A. R. Bishop, A. V. Savin, and A. V. Zolotaryuk
pp. 6610-6613 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Computation of the Lyapunov spectrum for continuous-time dynamical systems and discrete maps
T. M. Janaki, Govindan Rangarajan, Salman Habib, and Robert D. Ryne
pp. 6614-6626 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Phase synchronization in the forced Lorenz system
Eun-Hyoung Park, Michael A. Zaks, and Jürgen Kurths
pp. 6627-6638 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Escape from intermittent repellers: Periodic orbit theory for crossover from exponential to algebraic decay
Per Dahlqvist
pp. 6639-6644 [View PDF (291 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Kinetic and transport equations for localized excitations in the sine-Gordon model
I. V. Baryakhtar, V. G. Baryakhtar, and E. N. Economou
pp. 6645-6655 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Continued fraction representation of temporal multiscaling in turbulence
David Daems, Siegfried Grossmann, Victor S. L’vov, and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 6656-6662 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Shell model for time-correlated random advection of passive scalars
K. H. Andersen and P. Muratore-Ginanneschi
pp. 6663-6681 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Structure of gaseous Kr in the low-q region by neutron scattering and interaction potentials
E. Guarini, G. Casanova, U. Bafile, and F. Barocchi
pp. 6682-6690 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Anomalous scaling regimes of a passive scalar advected by the synthetic velocity field
N. V. Antonov
pp. 6691-6707 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Capillary waves at liquid-vapor interfaces: A molecular dynamics simulation
Scott W. Sides, Gary S. Grest, and Martin-D. Lacasse
pp. 6708-6713 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Waterlike anomalies for core-softened models of fluids: One dimension
M. Reza Sadr-Lahijany, Antonio Scala, Sergey V. Buldyrev, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 6714-6721 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Corresponding-states approach to small-angle scattering from polydisperse ionic colloidal fluids
Domenico Gazzillo, Achille Giacometti, and Flavio Carsughi
pp. 6722-6733 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Pair dispersion in synthetic fully developed turbulence
G. Boffetta, A. Celani, A. Crisanti, and A. Vulpiani
pp. 6734-6741 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Percolation in ionic fluids and formation of a fractal structure
Tetsuo Kaneko
pp. 6742-6756 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Dynamics of simulated water under pressure
Francis W. Starr, Francesco Sciortino, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 6757-6768 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Critical behavior of vorticity in two-dimensional turbulence
Denis Boyer
pp. 6769-6775 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Model for dynamics in supercooled water
C. Y. Liao, F. Sciortino, and S. H. Chen
pp. 6776-6787 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Slow mode of the smectic-A–smectic-Cα* phase transition
Abbas Rastegar, Theo Rasing, Igor Muševič, and Gerd Heppke
pp. 6788-6792 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Structures of chiral smectic-C mesophases revealed by polarization-analyzed resonant x-ray scattering
P. Mach, R. Pindak, A.-M. Levelut, P. Barois, H. T. Nguyen, H. Baltes, M. Hird, K. Toyne, A. Seed, J. W. Goodby, C. C. Huang, and L. Furenlid
pp. 6793-6802 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Tensorial x-ray structure factor in smectic liquid crystals
Anne-Marie Levelut and Brigitte Pansu
pp. 6803-6815 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Structure of the chiral smectic-Cα* phase
D. Schlauf, Ch. Bahr, and H. T. Nguyen
pp. 6816-6825 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Microscopic origins of heliclinic phases in smectic liquid crystals
Jonathan J. Stott and Rolfe G. Petschek
pp. 6826-6830 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Phase-ordering dynamics of the Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal
Jeffrey L. Billeter, Alexander M. Smondyrev, George B. Loriot, and Robert A. Pelcovits
pp. 6831-6840 [View PDF (618 kB)]
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Material-independent determination of anchoring properties on rubbed polyimide surfaces
Bharat R. Acharya, Jae-Hoon Kim, and Satyendra Kumar
pp. 6841-6846 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Surface breaking in lyotropic nematic liquid crystals induced by a magnetic field
A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, L. M. Vega, J. J. Bonvent, and E. A. Oliveira
pp. 6847-6851 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Photonic defect modes of cholesteric liquid crystals
Young-Chol Yang, Chul-Sik Kee, Jae-Eun Kim, Hae Yong Park, Jong-Cheon Lee, and Young-Jae Jeon
pp. 6852-6854 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Molecular theory of ferroelectric ordering in enantiomeric mixtures of smectic-C* liquid crystals
M. A. Osipov and D. Guillon
pp. 6855-6863 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Complex fluids and polymers

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Eutectic colony formation: A stability analysis
Mathis Plapp and Alain Karma
pp. 6865-6889 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Rigidity phase transition in granular packings
Einat Aharonov and David Sparks
pp. 6890-6896 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Influence of charge fluctuations on the critical behavior of electrolyte solutions
V. L. Koulinskii, N. P. Malomuzh, and V. A. Tolpekin
pp. 6897-6905 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Compression of a polymer chain by a small obstacle: The effect of fluctuations on the escape transition
J. Ennis, E. M. Sevick, and D. R. M. Williams
pp. 6906-6918 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Wetting films on chemically heterogeneous substrates
C. Bauer and S. Dietrich
pp. 6919-6941 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Self-motion in glass-forming polymers: A molecular dynamics study
A. van Zon and S. W. de Leeuw
pp. 6942-6950 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Coupling between a first-order gas-liquid phase transition and a second-order orientational transition in Langmuir monolayers
J. Wang, D. Y. Xing, M. Jiang, Jinming Dong, and Fan Zhong
pp. 6951-6955 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Transient rheology of a polyethylene melt under shear
J. D. Moore, S. T. Cui, H. D. Cochran, and P. T. Cummings
pp. 6956-6959 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Theory of creeping gravity currents of a non-Newtonian liquid
Julio Gratton, Fernando Minotti, and Swadesh M. Mahajan
pp. 6960-6967 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Two-dimensional model of phase segregation in liquid binary mixtures
Natalia Vladimirova, Andrea Malagoli, and Roberto Mauri
pp. 6968-6977 [View PDF (881 kB)]
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Rate-and-state theory of plastic deformation near a circular hole
J. S. Langer and Alexander E. Lobkovsky
pp. 6978-6983 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Polyelectrolyte brushes: Counterion distribution and complexation properties
Y. Tran, P. Auroy, L-T. Lee, and M. Stamm
pp. 6984-6990 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Mechanical and structural model of fractal networks of fat crystals at low deformations
Suresh S. Narine and Alejandro G. Marangoni
pp. 6991-7000 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Dissipation in ferrofluids: Mesoscopic versus hydrodynamic theory
Hanns Walter Müller and Andreas Engel
pp. 7001-7009 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Different statistical mechanical ensembles for a stretched polymer
J. T. Titantah, C. Pierleoni, and J.-P. Ryckaert
pp. 7010-7021 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Transitions in the horizontal transport of vertically vibrated granular layers
Z. Farkas, P. Tegzes, A. Vukics, and T. Vicsek
pp. 7022-7031 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Negative electrostatic contribution to the bending rigidity of charged membranes and polyelectrolytes screened by multivalent counterions
T. T. Nguyen, I. Rouzina, and B. I. Shklovskii
pp. 7032-7039 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Exact Poisson-Boltzmann solution for the interaction of dissimilar charge-regulating surfaces
Sven Holger Behrens and Michal Borkovec
pp. 7040-7048 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Application of liquid dynamics theory to the glass transition
Duane C. Wallace
pp. 7049-7056 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Interfacial free energy of hard-sphere fluids and solids near a hard wall
Martin Heni and Hartmut Löwen
pp. 7057-7065 [View PDF (473 kB)]
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Self-diffusion of grains in a two-dimensional vibrofluidized bed
R. D. Wildman, J. M. Huntley, and J.-P. Hansen
pp. 7066-7075 [View PDF (864 kB)]
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Interaction and percolation in the L64 triblock copolymer micellar system
Laurent Lobry, Norberto Micali, Francesco Mallamace, Ciya Liao, and Sow-Hsin Chen
pp. 7076-7087 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Lattice model results for lamellar phases in slits
M. Tasinkevych and A. Ciach
pp. 7088-7097 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Computer simulation of random packing of unequal particles
D. He, N. N. Ekere, and L. Cai
pp. 7098-7104 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Effects of confinement on critical adsorption: Absence of critical depletion for fluids in slit pores
A. Maciołek, R. Evans, and N. B. Wilding
pp. 7105-7119 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Pattern formation in the instability of a vicinal surface by the drift of adatoms
Masahide Sato and Makio Uwaha
pp. 7120-7125 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Dynamics of a shallow fluidized bed
Lev S. Tsimring, Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, and Philip Sherman
pp. 7126-7130 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Single-particle dynamics of water molecules confined in a lecithin-based gel
F. Aliotta, M. E. Fontanella, R. E. Lechner, M. Pieruccini, B. Ruffle, and C. Vasi
pp. 7131-7136 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Granular collapse as a percolation transition
Jan Tobochnik
pp. 7137-7142 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Size distribution effect on the power law regime of the structure factor of fractal aggregates
C. M. Sorensen and G. M. Wang
pp. 7143-7148 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Stress fluctuations in continuously sheared dense granular materials
Piroz Zamankhan, Tero Tynjälä, William Polashenski, Jr., Parsa Zamankhan, and Pertti Sarkomaa
pp. 7149-7156 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Crystallization in quasi-two-dimensional colloidal systems at an air-water interface
Takamichi Terao and Tsuneyoshi Nakayama
pp. 7157-7162 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Negative effective surface viscosities in insoluble fatty acid monolayers: Effect of phase transitions on dilational viscoelasticity
Joanna Giermanska-Kahn, Francisco Monroy, and Dominique Langevin
pp. 7163-7173 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Brownian motion in a granular gas
J. Javier Brey, M. J. Ruiz-Montero, R. García-Rojo, and James W. Dufty
pp. 7174-7181 [View PDF (107 kB)]
Shell structures with “magic numbers” of spheres in a swirled dish
Karsten Kötter, Eric Goles, and Mario Markus
pp. 7182-7185 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Phase-field model for binary alloys
Seong Gyoon Kim, Won Tae Kim, and Toshio Suzuki
pp. 7186-7197 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Phase transitions of colloid-polymer systems in two dimensions
J.-T. Lee and M. Robert
pp. 7198-7202 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Size segregation of granular matter in silo discharges
Azadeh Samadani, A. Pradhan, and A. Kudrolli
pp. 7203-7209 [View PDF (977 kB)]
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Linear stability analysis of a vertically oscillated granular layer
C. Bizon, M. D. Shattuck, and J. B. Swift
pp. 7210-7216 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Experimental measurements of sidebranching in thermal dendrites under terrestrial-gravity and microgravity conditions
D. P. Corrigan, M. B. Koss, J. C. LaCombe, K. D. de Jager, L. A. Tennenhouse, and M. E. Glicksman
pp. 7217-7223 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Competition between correlated buoyancy and uncorrelated capillary effects during drainage
Harold Auradou, Knut Jørgen Måløy, Jean Schmittbuhl, Alex Hansen, and Daniel Bideau
pp. 7224-7234 [View PDF (681 kB)]

Biological physics

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Response of an ensemble of noisy neuron models to a single input
Seiji Tanabe, Shunsuke Sato, and K. Pakdaman
pp. 7235-7238 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Conformations of closed DNA
Boris Fain and Joseph Rudnick
pp. 7239-7252 [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Chemically driven traveling waves in DNA
Tomasz Lipniacki
pp. 7253-7261 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Dynamics of lattice spins as a model of arrhythmia
S. Khlebnikov
pp. 7262-7269 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Analytical approach to the stochastic FitzHugh-Nagumo system and coherence resonance
B. Lindner and L. Schimansky-Geier
pp. 7270-7276 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Proteins in vacuo: A molecular dynamics study of the unfolding behavior of highly charged disulfide-bond-intact lysozyme subjected to a temperature pulse
C. T. Reimann, I. Velázquez, M. Bittner, and O. Tapia
pp. 7277-7284 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Specular and diffuse scattering of highly aligned phospholipid membranes
T. Salditt, C. Münster, J. Lu, M. Vogel, W. Fenzl, and A. Souvorov
pp. 7285-7289 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Simple model to study insertion of a protein into a membrane
Riccardo Bonaccini and Flavio Seno
pp. 7290-7298 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Theoretical electroencephalogram stationary spectrum for a white-noise-driven cortex: Evidence for a general anesthetic-induced phase transition
Moira L. Steyn-Ross, D. A. Steyn-Ross, J. W. Sleigh, and D. T. J. Liley
pp. 7299-7311 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Independent statistical observables for ultrametric disordered populations
B. G. Giraud
pp. 7312-7320 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Categorization in fully connected multistate neural network models
R. Erichsen, , Jr. and, W. K. Theumann, and D. R. C. Dominguez
pp. 7321-7331 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Scaling and percolation in the small-world network model
M. E. J. Newman and D. J. Watts
pp. 7332-7342 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Statistical analysis of ionic current fluctuations in membrane channels
Szymon Mercik, Karina Weron, and Zuzanna Siwy
pp. 7343-7348 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Role of soft and hard aggregates in the thermodynamics of lipid dispersions
Carla Goldman, Karin A. Riske, and M. Teresa Lamy-Freund
pp. 7349-7353 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Power-law fluctuations in phase-separated lipid membranes
R. Winter, A. Gabke, C. Czeslik, and P. Pfeifer
pp. 7354-7359 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Electron kinetic effects in atmosphere breakdown by an intense electromagnetic pulse
A. A. Solovyev, V. A. Terekhin, V. T. Tikhonchuk, and L. L. Altgilbers
pp. 7360-7368 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Equilibrium and oscillations of grains in the dust-plasma crystal
S. V. Vladimirov, N. F. Cramer, and P. V. Shevchenko
pp. 7369-7373 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Absorption of subpicosecond uv laser pulses during interaction with solid targets
M. Borghesi, A. J. Mackinnon, R. Gaillard, O. Willi, and D. Riley
pp. 7374-7381 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Space-dependent aspects of electron degradation
A. V. Vasenkov
pp. 7382-7390 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Theory of beam-plasma instability in a periodic plasma-filled waveguide
G. I. Zaginaylov, A. A. Rozhkov, and J.-Y. Raguin
pp. 7391-7399 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Quasilinear theory of collisionless Fermi acceleration in a multicusp magnetic confinement geometry
R. L. Dewar and C. I. Ciubotariu
pp. 7400-7411 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Kinetic theory of Jeans instability of a dusty plasma
B. P. Pandey, G. S. Lakhina, and Vinod Krishan
pp. 7412-7419 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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High negative charge of a dust particle in a hot cathode discharge
C. Arnas, M. Mikikian, and F. Doveil
pp. 7420-7425 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Self-organization in a dissipative three-wave interaction
M. M. Škorić, T. Sato, A. Maluckov, and M. S. Jovanović
pp. 7426-7434 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Stationary periodic and solitary waves induced by a strong short laser pulse
L. N. Tsintsadze, K. Nishikawa, T. Tajima, and J. T. Mendonca
pp. 7435-7440 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Laser-assisted stopping power of a hot plasma for a system of correlated ions
C. A. B. Silva and R. M. O. Galvão
pp. 7441-7448 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Ion-molecule reactions and ion energies in a CF4 discharge
B. L. Peko, I. V. Dyakov, R. L. Champion, M. V. V. S. Rao, and J. K. Olthoff
pp. 7449-7456 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Nonconservative charged-particle swarms in ac electric fields
R. D. White, R. E. Robson, and K. F. Ness
pp. 7457-7472 [View PDF (231 kB)]

Physics of beams

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High-intensity laser-induced electron acceleration in vacuum
J. X. Wang, Y. K. Ho, L. Feng, Q. Kong, P. X. Wang, Z. S. Yuan, and W. Scheid
pp. 7473-7478 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Effects of resonances on halo formation in high-intensity storage rings
D. Jeon, J. A. Holmes, V. V. Danilov, J. D. Galambos, and D. K. Olsen
pp. 7479-7483 [View PDF (152 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Dissipative lattice model with exact traveling discrete kink-soliton solutions: Discrete breather generation and reaction diffusion regime
J. C. Comte, P. Marquié, and M. Remoissenet
pp. 7484-7489 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Dynamics of a misaligned astigmatic twisted Gaussian beam in a Kerr-nonlinear parabolic waveguide
L. A. Melnikov, V. L. Derbov, and A. I. Bychenkov
pp. 7490-7496 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Matrix formulation for the propagation of light beams with orbital and spin angular momenta
L. Allen, J. Courtial, and M. J. Padgett
pp. 7497-7503 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Linear stability analysis of walking vector solitons
Dumitru Mihalache, Dumitru Mazilu, and Lucian-Cornel Crasovan
pp. 7504-7510 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Role of internal and continuum modes in modulational instability of quadratic solitons
Dmitry V. Skryabin
pp. 7511-7517 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Modulational instability of multiple-charged optical vortex solitons under saturation of the nonlinearity
A. Dreischuh, G. G. Paulus, F. Zacher, F. Grasbon, D. Neshev, and H. Walther
pp. 7518-7524 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Motion of compactonlike kinks
P. Tchofo Dinda, T. C. Kofane, and M. Remoissenet
pp. 7525-7532 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Computational physics

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Group theory used to improve the efficiency of transfer-matrix computations
A. Mayer and J.-P. Vigneron
pp. 7533-7540 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulations of non-Fickian water transport in a saturated porous gel
P. Loureiro de Sousa and M. Engelsberg
pp. 7541-7549 [View PDF (227 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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van der Waals type loop in microcanonical caloric curves of finite systems
I. H. Umirzakov
pp. 7550-7553 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Surface restructuring and kinetic oscillations in heterogeneous catalytic reactions
V. P. Zhdanov
pp. 7554-7557 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Test of renormalization predictions for universal finite-size scaling functions
Erik Luijten
pp. 7558-7561 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Diffusion through piecewise washboard potential
V. Berdichevsky and M. Gitterman
pp. 7562-7564 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Modified renormalization strategy for sandpile models
Y. Moreno, J. B. Gómez, and A. F. Pacheco
pp. 7565-7568 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Arrested cracks in nonlinear lattice models of brittle fracture
David A. Kessler and Herbert Levine
pp. 7569-7571 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Broad-band colored noise: Digital simulation and dynamical effects
J. D. Bao and S. J. Liu
pp. 7572-7575 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Hamiltonian for a restricted isoenergetic thermostat
C. P. Dettmann
pp. 7576-7577 [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Absence of chaos in Bohmian dynamics
Sheldon Goldstein
pp. 7578-7579 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Immense delocalization from fractional kinetics
A. Iomin and G. M. Zaslavsky
pp. 7580-7583 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Coupled modified baker’s transformations for the Ising model
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
pp. 7584-7587 [View PDF (199 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Electro-aerodynamic instability of a thin dielectric liquid sheet sprayed with an air stream
M. F. El-Sayed
pp. 7588-7591 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Simple and accurate theory for strong shock waves in a dense hard-sphere fluid
J. M. Montanero, M. López de Haro, A. Santos, and V. Garzó
pp. 7592-7595 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Fluctuation modes in confined nematic liquid crystals in a regime of critical wetting
N. B. Ivanov
pp. 7596-7599 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Complex fluids and polymers

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Dynamics of pinned interfaces with inertia
Ö. Kayalar and A. Erzan
pp. 7600-7603 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Biological physics

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Proton glass freezing in hydrated lysozyme powders
Adrijan Levstik, Cene Filipič, Zdravko Kutnjak, Giorgio Careri, Giuseppe Consolini, and Fabio Bruni
pp. 7604-7607 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Stability of neural networks and solitons of field theory
Sang-Hee Han and In Gyu Koh
pp. 7608-7611 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Electromagnetic convective cells in a nonuniform dusty plasma
H. Saleem and Q. Haque
pp. 7612-7613 [View PDF (33 kB)]
See Also: Comment

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Calculation of electromagnetic properties of regular and random arrays of metallic and dielectric cylinders
R. C. McPhedran, L. C. Botten, A. A. Asatryan, N. A. Nicorovici, P. A. Robinson, and C. M. de Sterke
pp. 7614-7617 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Soliton-breather reaction pathways
P. Maniadis, G. P. Tsironis, A. R. Bishop, and A. V. Zolotaryuk
pp. 7618-7621 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of electromagnetic pulses in saturating nonlinear optical media with normal group velocity dispersion
V. Skarka, V. I. Berezhiani, and R. Miklaszewski
pp. 7622-7625 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Computational physics

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Efficient Monte Carlo simulations using a shuffled nested Weyl sequence random number generator
K. V. Tretiakov and K. W. Wojciechowski
pp. 7626-7628 [View PDF (44 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Crossover from XY critical to tricritical behavior of heat capacity at the smectic-A–chiral-smectic-C liquid crystal transition [Phys. Rev. E 57, 6677 (1998)]
Kenji Ema and Haruhiko Yao
pp. 7629 [View PDF (11 kB)]