Physical Review E – February 2000
Volume 61, Issue 2

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.

Time correlated single photon Mie scattering from a sonoluminescing bubble
K. R. Weninger, P. G. Evans, and S. J. Putterman
pp. R1020-R1023 [View PDF (200 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Excess noise in intracavity laser frequency modulation
S. Longhi and P. Laporta
pp. R989-R992 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Scale invariance and lack of self-averaging in fragmentation
P. L. Krapivsky, I. Grosse, and E. Ben-Naim
pp. R993-R996 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Voronoi analysis of the breakdown of order in spontaneous optical spot patterns
G. Schliecker and R. Neubecker
pp. R997-R1000 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Phase synchronization in coupled nonidentical excitable systems and array-enhanced coherence resonance
Bambi Hu and Changsong Zhou
pp. R1001-R1004 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Swelling-collapse transition of self-attracting walks
A. Ordemann, G. Berkolaiko, S. Havlin, and A. Bunde
pp. R1005-R1007 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Chiral-glass transition and replica symmetry breaking of a three-dimensional Heisenberg spin glass
K. Hukushima and H. Kawamura
pp. R1008-R1011 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Stabilizing nonlinear dynamical systems by an adaptive adjustment mechanism
Weihong Huang
pp. R1012-R1015 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Relationships between a roller and a dynamic pressure distribution in circular hydraulic jumps
Kensuke Yokoi and Feng Xiao
pp. R1016-R1019 [View PDF (70 kB)]
Time correlated single photon Mie scattering from a sonoluminescing bubble
K. R. Weninger, P. G. Evans, and S. J. Putterman
pp. R1020-R1023 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Large deviation statistics of the energy-flux fluctuation in the shell model of turbulence
Takeshi Watanabe, Yasuya Nakayama, and Hirokazu Fujisaka
pp. R1024-R1027 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

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Crystallization and phase separation in nonadditive binary hard-sphere mixtures
A. A. Louis, R. Finken, and J. P. Hansen
pp. R1028-R1031 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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First-order phase transition in a (1+1)-dimensional nonequilibrium wetting process
H. Hinrichsen, R. Livi, D. Mukamel, and A. Politi
pp. R1032-R1035 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Evidence for dipole surface orientational order at critical interfaces
A. Mukhopadhyay, C. L. Caylor, and B. M. Law
pp. R1036-R1039 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Biological physics

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Glassy dynamics of protein folding
Erkan Tüzel and Ayşe Erzan
pp. R1040-R1043 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Solitons in anharmonic chains with ultra-long-range interatomic interactions
Serge F. Mingaleev, Yuri B. Gaididei, and Franz G. Mertens
pp. R1044-R1047 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Self-similarity and fractals in soliton-supporting systems
Marin Soljacic, Mordechai Segev, and Curtis R. Menyuk
pp. R1048-R1051 [View PDF (136 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Continuous probability distributions from finite data
David M. Schmidt
pp. 1052-1055 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Continuum approach to car-following models
Peter Berg, Anthony Mason, and Andrew Woods
pp. 1056-1066 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Self-organized criticality in a computer network model
Jian Yuan, Yong Ren, and Xiuming Shan
pp. 1067-1071 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Elastic constants from microscopic strain fluctuations
Surajit Sengupta, Peter Nielaba, Madan Rao, and K. Binder
pp. 1072-1080 [View PDF (142 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Invariant power law distribution of Langevin systems with colored multiplicative noise
Aki-Hiro Sato, Hideki Takayasu, and Yasuji Sawada
pp. 1081-1087 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Perturbation expansion in phase-ordering kinetics. II. n-vector model
Gene F. Mazenko
pp. 1088-1101 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Delocalization transition of a rough adsorption-reaction interface
Hüseyin Kaya, Alkan Kabakçıoğlu, and Ayşe Erzan
pp. 1102-1105 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Localized structures in nonlinear lattices with diffusive coupling and external driving
Igor Mitkov, Konstantin Kladko, and A. R. Bishop
pp. 1106-1109 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Diffusion-mediated reactions with a time-dependent absorption rate
Miguel A. Ré and Carlos E. Budde
pp. 1110-1120 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Ultrametricity in three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson spin glasses
Silvio Franz and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi
pp. 1121-1124 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Diffusion over a saddle with a Langevin equation
Yasuhisa Abe, David Boilley, Bertrand G. Giraud, and Takahiro Wada
pp. 1125-1133 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Competitive reactions among three monomers over a catalytic surface
E. C. da Costa and W. Figueiredo
pp. 1134-1138 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Inequivalence of dynamical ensembles in a generalized driven diffusive lattice gas
Muktish Acharyya, Abhik Basu, Rahul Pandit, and Sriram Ramaswamy
pp. 1139-1143 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Equilibrium and stationary nonequilibrium states in a chain of colliding harmonic oscillators
Mitsusada M. Sano
pp. 1144-1151 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Background estimation in experimental spectra
R. Fischer, K. M. Hanson, V. Dose, and W. von der Linden
pp. 1152-1160 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Renormalized field theory of driven lattice gases under infinitely fast drive
F. de los Santos and Miguel A. Muñoz
pp. 1161-1163 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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One-dimensional stochastic Lévy-Lorentz gas
E. Barkai, V. Fleurov, and J. Klafter
pp. 1164-1169 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Resonances while surmounting a fluctuating barrier
J. Iwaniszewski, I. K. Kaufman, P. V. E. McClintock, and A. J. McKane
pp. 1170-1175 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Diversity in liquid supercooling and glass formation phenomena illustrated by a simple model
Daniela Kohen and Frank H. Stillinger
pp. 1176-1182 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Proof of breaking of self-organized criticality in a nonconservative Abelian sandpile model
Tomoko Tsuchiya and Makoto Katori
pp. 1183-1188 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Evolution of fractal particles in systems with conserved order parameter
S. V. Kalinin, D. L. Gorbachev, A. Yu. Borisevich, K. V. Tomashevitch, A. A. Vertegel, A. J. Markworth, and Yu. D. Tretyakov
pp. 1189-1194 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Temperature and density extrapolations in canonical ensemble Monte Carlo simulations
A. L. Ferreira and M. A. Barroso
pp. 1195-1198 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Long-range magnetic order and the Darwin Lagrangian
Vishal Mehra and Jayme De Luca
pp. 1199-1205 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Adiabatic approximation and parametric stochastic resonance in a bistable system with periodically driven barrier
Andrey L. Pankratov and Mario Salerno
pp. 1206-1210 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Nonlinear dielectric relaxation of polar molecules in a strong ac electric field: Steady state response
J. L. Déjardin and Yu. P. Kalmykov
pp. 1211-1217 [View PDF (830 kB)]
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Thermostatistics of a q-deformed boson gas
A. Lavagno and P. Narayana Swamy
pp. 1218-1226 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Damage-spreading dynamic scaling for the Ising model on the Sierpinski gasket fractal
C. Argolo, A. Mariz, M. Lyra, and S. Miyazima
pp. 1227-1231 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Reversible random sequential adsorption of dimers on a triangular lattice
R. S. Ghaskadvi and Michael Dennin
pp. 1232-1238 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Simulation of multilane freeway traffic with detailed rules deduced from microscopic driving behavior
M. Goldbach, A. Eidmann, and A. Kittel
pp. 1239-1246 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Delayed stochastic systems
Toru Ohira and Toshiyuki Yamane
pp. 1247-1257 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Analytical results for random walk persistence
Clément Sire, Satya N. Majumdar, and Andreas Rüdinger
pp. 1258-1269 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Static A+B⃗0 annihilation process in arbitrary dimension
B. Bonnier
pp. 1270-1274 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Three-dimensional effects in directional solidification in Hele-Shaw cells: Nonlinear evolution and pattern selection
V. S. Ajaev and S. H. Davis
pp. 1275-1284 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Diagrammatic approach for open chaotic systems
Oded Agam
pp. 1285-1298 [View PDF (378 kB)]
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Numerical investigation of the effects of classical phase space structure on a quantum system with decoherence
G. Ball, K. Vant, and N. Christensen
pp. 1299-1311 [View PDF (656 kB)]
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Field-induced transitions and spatial chaos in the classical XY spin chain
Radha Balakrishnan and Mitaxi Mehta
pp. 1312-1319 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Strange attractor for the renormalization flow for invariant tori of Hamiltonian systems with two generic frequencies
C. Chandre and H. R. Jauslin
pp. 1320-1328 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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One-dimensional dynamics for traveling fronts in coupled map lattices
R. Carretero-González, D. K. Arrowsmith, and F. Vivaldi
pp. 1329-1336 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Lyapunov exponents and Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy for a high-dimensional convex billiard
Thomas Papenbrock
pp. 1337-1341 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Linear and nonlinear time series analysis of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1
Jens Timmer, Udo Schwarz, Henning U. Voss, Ingo Wardinski, Tomaso Belloni, Günther Hasinger, Michael van der Klis, and Jürgen Kurths
pp. 1342-1352 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Estimating generating partitions of chaotic systems by unstable periodic orbits
Ruslan L. Davidchack, Ying-Cheng Lai, Erik M. Bollt, and Mukeshwar Dhamala
pp. 1353-1356 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Control of transient chaos in tent maps near crisis. I. Fixed point targeting
C. M. Place and D. K. Arrowsmith
pp. 1357-1368 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Control of transient chaos in tent maps near crisis. II. Periodic orbit targeting
C. M. Place and D. K. Arrowsmith
pp. 1369-1381 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Karhunen-Loève local characterization of spatiotemporal chaos in a reaction-diffusion system
Matthias Meixner, Scott M. Zoldi, Sumit Bose, and Eckehard Schöll
pp. 1382-1385 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Intermittency and dynamical chaos in reversible spontaneous emission
S. V. Prants
pp. 1386-1389 [View PDF (217 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Extended local balance model of turbulence and Couette-Taylor flow
A. M. Balonishnikov
pp. 1390-1394 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Probability distribution functions of derivatives and increments for decaying Burgers turbulence
J. Bec and U. Frisch
pp. 1395-1402 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Logarithmically slow expansion of hot bubbles in gases
Baruch Meerson, Pavel V. Sasorov, and Ken Sekimoto
pp. 1403-1406 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Decaying magnetohydrodynamics: Effects of initial conditions
Abhik Basu
pp. 1407-1416 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion with absorption: Exact time-dependent solutions
German Drazer, Horacio S. Wio, and Constantino Tsallis
pp. 1417-1422 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Spinodal decomposition of two-dimensional fluid mixtures: A spectral analysis of droplet growth
H. Furukawa
pp. 1423-1431 [View PDF (721 kB)]
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Structure and dynamics of nanofluids: Theory and simulations to calculate viscosity
Liudmila A. Pozhar
pp. 1432-1446 [View PDF (1,366 kB)]
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Small scale intermittency and bursting in a turbulent channel flow
Miguel Onorato, Roberto Camussi, and Gaetano Iuso
pp. 1447-1454 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Shear-thinning-induced chaos in Taylor-Couette flow
Nariman Ashrafi and Roger E. Khayat
pp. 1455-1467 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Trapped Rossby waves
Detlev Müller
pp. 1468-1485 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Effect of slow compression on the linear stability of an accelerated shear layer
John D. Ramshaw
pp. 1486-1490 [View PDF (68 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Ultrasound scattering and the study of vortex correlations in disordered flows
Denis Boyer and Fernando Lund
pp. 1491-1496 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Luminescence from acoustic-driven laser-induced cavitation bubbles
Claus-Dieter Ohl
pp. 1497-1500 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Cavity formation and the drying transition in the Lennard-Jones fluid
David M. Huang and David Chandler
pp. 1501-1506 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Thermal and inertial modes of convection in a rapidly rotating annulus
David Pino, Isabel Mercader, and Marta Net
pp. 1507-1517 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Analysis of inelastic x-ray scattering spectra of low-temperature water
C. Y. Liao, S. H. Chen, and F. Sette
pp. 1518-1526 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Self-organization in nonlinear wave turbulence
Richard Jordan and Christophe Josserand
pp. 1527-1539 [View PDF (180 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Viscoelastic theory for nematic interfaces
Alejandro D. Rey
pp. 1540-1549 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Local measurement of the zenithal anchoring strength
João G. Fonseca and Yves Galerne
pp. 1550-1558 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Conformational dynamics of a metallomesogen studied by 2H-NMR spectroscopy
Ronald Y. Dong, C. R. Morcombe, L. Calucci, M. Geppi, and C. A. Veracini
pp. 1559-1566 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Fréedericksz transition in polymer-stabilized nematic liquid crystals
Rui-Qing Ma and Deng-Ke Yang
pp. 1567-1573 [View PDF (855 kB)]
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Curvature energy of a focal conic domain with arbitrary eccentricity
Maurice Kleman and Oleg D. Lavrentovich
pp. 1574-1578 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Electroclinic liquid crystals with large induced tilt angle and small layer contraction
M. S. Spector, P. A. Heiney, J. Naciri, B. T. Weslowski, D. B. Holt, and R. Shashidhar
pp. 1579-1584 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Effect of optical purity on the critical heat capacity at the smectic-A–(chiral)-smectic-C transition in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal
Kenji Ema, Masashi Kanai, Haruhiko Yao, Yoichi Takanishi, and Hideo Takezoe
pp. 1585-1592 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Synchrotron x-ray study of the smectic layer directional instability
I. Dierking, B. Glüsen, S. T. Lagerwall, and C. K. Ober
pp. 1593-1598 [View PDF (752 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of vacancy and interstitial strings in hexagonal columnar crystals
Shilpa Jain and David R. Nelson
pp. 1599-1615 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Effects of fluctuations in the orientational order parameter in the cyanobiphenyl (nCB) homologous series
M. Marinelli and F. Mercuri
pp. 1616-1621 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Dynamic light scattering as a probe of orientational dynamics in confined liquid crystals
A. Mertelj and M. Čopič
pp. 1622-1628 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

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Diffusion-limited aggregation: A relationship between surface thermodynamics and crystal morphology
Vladislav A. Bogoyavlenskiy and Natasha A. Chernova
pp. 1629-1633 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann theory of a Wigner-Seitz model for swollen clays
R. J. F. Leote de Carvalho, E. Trizac, and J.-P. Hansen
pp. 1634-1647 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Strong phase separation in a model of sedimenting lattices
Rangan Lahiri, Mustansir Barma, and Sriram Ramaswamy
pp. 1648-1658 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic-flow-driven wetting in thin film polymer blends: Growth kinetics and morphology
Howard Wang and Russell J. Composto
pp. 1659-1663 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Phase diagram for morphological transitions of wetting films on chemically structured substrates
C. Bauer and S. Dietrich
pp. 1664-1669 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Threshold criterion for wetting at the triple point
S. Curtarolo, G. Stan, M. J. Bojan, M. W. Cole, and W. A. Steele
pp. 1670-1675 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Photon correlation spectroscopy: X rays versus visible light
Dirk O. Riese, Willem L. Vos, Gerard H. Wegdam, Frank J. Poelwijk, Douglas L. Abernathy, and Gerhard Grübel
pp. 1676-1680 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Potential energy landscape and long-time dynamics in a simple model glass
L. Angelani, G. Parisi, G. Ruocco, and G. Viliani
pp. 1681-1691 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Phase diagram of highly asymmetric binary mixtures: A study of the role of attractive forces from the effective one-component approach
J. Clément-Cottuz, S. Amokrane, and C. Regnaut
pp. 1692-1702 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Flexible polymers and thin rods far from equilibrium: Buckling dynamics
Leonardo Golubovic, Dorel Moldovan, and Anatoli Peredera
pp. 1703-1715 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Self-diffusion in granular gases
Nikolai V. Brilliantov and Thorsten Pöschel
pp. 1716-1721 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Heterogeneous relaxation patterns in supercooled liquids studied by solvation dynamics
Hauke Wendt and Ranko Richert
pp. 1722-1728 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Replica field theory for a polymer in random media
Yadin Y. Goldschmidt
pp. 1729-1742 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Glass transitions and dynamics in thin polymer films: Dielectric relaxation of thin films of polystyrene
K. Fukao and Y. Miyamoto
pp. 1743-1754 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Capacitive scanning dilatometry and frequency-dependent thermal expansion of polymer films
C. Bauer, R. Böhmer, S. Moreno-Flores, R. Richert, H. Sillescu, and D. Neher
pp. 1755-1764 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Cahn-Hilliard theory for unstable granular fluids
T. P . C. van Noije and M. H. Ernst
pp. 1765-1782 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Dynamic scaling approach to glass formation
Ralph H. Colby
pp. 1783-1792 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Characteristics of driven polymer surfaces: Growth and roughness
Grace M. Foo and R. B. Pandey
pp. 1793-1799 [View PDF (378 kB)]
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Molecular mobility in polymer thin films
K. C. Tseng, N. J. Turro, and C. J. Durning
pp. 1800-1811 [View PDF (146 kB)]

Biological physics

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Nonlinear modeling technique for the analysis of DNA chains
J. Barral P., A. Hasmy, J. Jiménez, and A. Marcano
pp. 1812-1815 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Aperiodic stochastic resonance in a hysteretic population of cardiac neurons
G. C. Kember, G. A. Fenton, K. Collier, and J. A. Armour
pp. 1816-1824 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Periodic oscillatory solution of bidirectional associative memory networks with delays
Jinde Cao and Lin Wang
pp. 1825-1828 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Exhibition of intrinsic properties of certain systems in response to external disturbances
P. S. Landa and A. Rabinovitch
pp. 1829-1838 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equations for neural networks
Maoz Shamir and Haim Sompolinsky
pp. 1839-1844 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Predicting filament drift in twisted anisotropy
Marcel Wellner, Omer Berenfeld, and Arkady M. Pertsov
pp. 1845-1850 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Large-scale cellular automata simulations of the immune system response
M. Bernaschi, S. Succi, and F. Castiglione
pp. 1851-1854 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Unifying framework for neuronal assembly dynamics
J. Eggert and J. L. van Hemmen
pp. 1855-1874 [View PDF (238 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Electron Boltzmann kinetic equation averaged over fast electron bouncing and pitch-angle scattering for fast modeling of electron cyclotron resonance discharge
I. Kaganovich, M. Mišina, S. V. Berezhnoi, and R. Gijbels
pp. 1875-1889 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Rigid and differential plasma crystal rotation induced by magnetic fields
U. Konopka, D. Samsonov, A. V. Ivlev, J. Goree, V. Steinberg, and G. E. Morfill
pp. 1890-1898 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Measurement of the energy penetration depth into solid targets irradiated by ultrashort laser pulses
M. Fraenkel, A. Zigler, Z. Henis, S. Eliezer, and N. E. Andreev
pp. 1899-1903 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Nitrogen atom energy distributions in a hollow-cathode planar sputtering magnetron
Zhehui Wang, Samuel A. Cohen, David N. Ruzic, and M. J. Goeckner
pp. 1904-1911 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Coulomb crystals in the harmonic lattice approximation
D. A. Baiko, D. G. Yakovlev, H. E. De Witt, and W. L. Slattery
pp. 1912-1919 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Dependence on the scattering angle of the electron temperature and electron density in Thomson-scattering measurements on an atmospheric-pressure plasma jet
S. C. Snyder, D. M. Crawford, and J. R. Fincke
pp. 1920-1924 [View PDF (77 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Variational principle approach to short-pulse laser-plasma interactions in three dimensions
Brian J. Duda and W. B. Mori
pp. 1925-1939 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Anomalous, quasilinear, and percolative regimes for magnetic-field-line transport in axially symmetric turbulence
G. Zimbardo, P. Veltri, and P. Pommois
pp. 1940-1948 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Experimental evidence of the effect of heat flux on Thomson scattering off ion acoustic waves
F. Amiranoff, S. D. Baton, S. Hüller, V. Malka, A. Modena, Ph. Mounaix, N. Renard-Le Galloudec, C. Rousseaux, and M. Salvati
pp. 1949-1953 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Optical mode structure of the plasma waveguide
T. R. Clark and H. M. Milchberg
pp. 1954-1965 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Measurement of the radiative cooling rates for high-ionization species of krypton using an electron beam ion trap
R. Radtke, C. Biedermann, T. Fuchs, G. Fußmann, and P. Beiersdorfer
pp. 1966-1974 [View PDF (282 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Shock compression of condensed matter using intense beams of energetic heavy ions
N. A. Tahir, D. H. H. Hoffmann, A. Kozyreva, A. Shutov, J. A. Maruhn, U. Neuner, A. Tauschwitz, P. Spiller, and R. Bock
pp. 1975-1980 [View PDF (174 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Conditions for electron capture by an ultraintense stationary laser beam
Q. Kong, Y. K. Ho, J. X. Wang, P. X. Wang, L. Feng, and Z. S. Yuan
pp. 1981-1984 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Transition from amplified spontaneous emission to laser action in strongly scattering media
H. Cao, J. Y. Xu, S.-H. Chang, and S. T. Ho
pp. 1985-1989 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Exact description of photon migration in anisotropically scattering media
V. N. Fomenko, F. M. Shvarts, and M. A. Shvarts
pp. 1990-1995 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Stabilization of the Kerr effect by self-induced ionization: Formation of optical light spatially localized structures
Thierry Lehner and Nicole Auby
pp. 1996-2005 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Two-dimensional discrete breathers: Construction, stability, and bifurcations
P. G. Kevrekidis, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and A. R. Bishop
pp. 2006-2009 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Analytical solution for photorefractive screening solitons
Wieslaw Królikowski, Barry Luther-Davies, Glen McCarthy, and Aleksander Bledowski
pp. 2010-2014 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Coefficient of restitution for one-dimensional harmonic solids
Anthony G. Basile and Randall S. Dumont
pp. 2015-2023 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Parameters characterizing electromagnetic wave polarization
T. Carozzi, R. Karlsson, and J. Bergman
pp. 2024-2028 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Shaping of photorefractive two-wave coupling by fast phase modulation
K. H. Ringhofer, V. P. Kamenov, B. I. Sturman, and A. Chernykh
pp. 2029-2037 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Second-harmonic generation of the nth-order Bessel beam
Desheng Ding and Jian-yu Lu
pp. 2038-2041 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Optical vortex solitons in parametric wave mixing
Tristram J. Alexander, Yuri S. Kivshar, Alexander V. Buryak, and Rowland A. Sammut
pp. 2042-2049 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Computational physics

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Time step bias improvement in diffusion Monte Carlo simulations
Massimo Mella, Gabriele Morosi, and Dario Bressanini
pp. 2050-2057 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Optimized energy calculation in lattice systems with long-range interactions
Michael Krech and Erik Luijten
pp. 2058-2064 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Treatment of laser-induced thermal acoustics in the framework of discrete kinetic theory
F. Hanser, W. Koller, and F. Schürrer
pp. 2065-2073 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Solving the bound-state Schrödinger equation by reproducing kernel interpolation
Xu-Guang Hu, Tak-San Ho, and Herschel Rabitz
pp. 2074-2085 [View PDF (156 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Coupled nonequilibrium growth equations: Self-consistent mode coupling using vertex renormalization
Amit Kr. Chattopadhyay, Abhik Basu, and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee
pp. 2086-2088 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Ratio of canonical and microcanonical temperatures of a vibratory antiferromagnetic Ising chain
Zhong-Zhu Liu, Jun Luo, and Cheng-Gang Shao
pp. 2089-2091 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Large deviation function for the Eden model and universality within the one-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang class
C. Appert
pp. 2092-2094 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Coherent structure analysis of spatiotemporal chaos
Peter Jung, Jichang Wang, Renate Wackerbauer, and Kenneth Showalter
pp. 2095-2098 [View PDF (389 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Ground state of a dipolar crystal
Mark Gross and Cindy Wei
pp. 2099-2102 [View PDF (213 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Higher-order dynamics in lattice-based models using the Chapman-Enskog method
Yue-Hong Qian and Ye Zhou
pp. 2103-2106 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Structure of vortices in a Karman street behind a heated cylinder
A. B. Ezersky, J. C. Lecordier, P. Paranthoën, and P. L. Soustov
pp. 2107-2110 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Turbulent crossed fluxes in incompressible flows
Pedro Sancho
pp. 2111-2113 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Parallel flow in Hele-Shaw cells with ferrofluids
José A. Miranda and Michael Widom
pp. 2114-2117 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Time evolution of the eddy viscosity in two-dimensional Navier-Stokes flow
Marta Chaves and Sílvio Gama
pp. 2118-2120 [View PDF (49 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

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Estimation of the intrinsic heterogeneity of ionic glass-forming melts
V. Sh. Machavariani and A. Voronel
pp. 2121-2124 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Ultra-small-angle neutron scattering studies on phase separation of poly(vinyl alcohol) gels
H. Takeshita, T. Kanaya, K. Nishida, K. Kaji, T. Takahashi, and M. Hashimoto
pp. 2125-2128 [View PDF (66 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Empirical bridge function for strongly coupled Yukawa systems
William Daughton, Michael S. Murillo, and Lester Thode
pp. 2129-2132 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Order parameter description of walk-off effect on pattern selection in degenerate optical parametric oscillators
Majid Taki, Maxi San Miguel, and Marco Santagiustina
pp. 2133-2136 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Computational physics

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Cascading parity-check error-correcting codes
Ido Kanter and David Saad
pp. 2137-2140 [View PDF (49 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Critical behavior of the chain-generating function of self-avoiding walks on the Sierpinski gasket family: The Euclidean limit”
Sava Milošević, Ivan Živić, and Sunčica Elezović-Hadžić
pp. 2141-2144 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Algebraic relaxation of an order parameter in randomly coupled limit-cycle oscillators
Hiroaki Daido
pp. 2145-2147 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Self-averaging of an order parameter in randomly coupled limit-cycle oscillators
J. C. Stiller and G. Radons
pp. 2148-2149 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Comment on “Dynamics of wetting fronts in porous media”
William G. Gray and Cass T. Miller
pp. 2150-2151 [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Dynamics of wetting fronts in porous media’ ”
Igor Mitkov, Daniel M. Tartakovsky, and C. Larrabee Winter
pp. 2152-2153 [View PDF (19 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Nonlinear dynamics of a solid-state laser with injection [Phys. Rev. E 58, 4421 (1998)]
M. K. Stephen Yeung and Steven H. Strogatz
pp. 2154 [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Erratum: Thermodynamic framework for discrete optimal control in multiphase flow systems [Phys. Rev. E 60, 1520 (1999)]
Stanislaw Sieniutycz
pp. 2155 [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Erratum: Monte Carlo simulation of the submonolayer vapor-deposition polymerization [Phys. Rev. E 60, 4310 (1999)]
Y.-P. Zhao, A. R. Hopper, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu
pp. 2156 [View PDF (23 kB)]