Physical Review E – November 2000
Volume 62, Issue 5

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Field theory of absorbing phase transitions with a nondiffusive conserved field
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani
pp. R5875-R5878 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Scaling behavior in a nonlocal and nonlinear diffusion equation
Fabio Cecconi, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Amos Maritan
pp. R5879-R5882 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Nonregular languages in the kicked rotor
P.-M. Binder and Juan M. Pedraza
pp. R5883-R5886 [View PDF (264 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Interface dynamics in Hele-Shaw flows with centrifugal forces: Preventing cusp singularities with rotation
F. X. Magdaleno, A. Rocco, and J. Casademunt
pp. R5887-R5890 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Manifestation of anisotropy persistence in the hierarchies of magnetohydrodynamical scaling exponents
N. V. Antonov, J. Honkonen, A. Mazzino, and P. Muratore-Ginanneschi
pp. R5891-R5894 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Air-water interface-induced smectic bilayer
A. El Abed, E. Pouzet, M-C. Fauré, M. Sanière, and O. Abillon
pp. R5895-R5898 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Formation of string defects at thinning transitions in smectic-C* free-standing films
P. Cluzeau, G. Joly, H. T. Nguyen, C. Gors, and V. K. Dolganov
pp. R5899-R5902 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Observation of the soft mode in the Sm-Cα* phase
V. Bourny, A. Fajar, and H. Orihara
pp. R5903-R5906 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Nonlinear dielectric relaxation spectroscopy of ferroelectric liquid crystals
Yasuyuki Kimura, Shun Hara, and Reinosuke Hayakawa
pp. R5907-R5910 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Electric field-induced acoustic-optic mode coupling in an anticlinic liquid crystal
Shiyong Zhang, S. S. Keast, M. E. Neubert, Rolfe G. Petschek, and Charles Rosenblatt
pp. R5911-R5914 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

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Slow dynamics of equilibrium density fluctuations in suspensions of colloidal hard spheres near the glass transition
Michio Tokuyama
pp. R5915-R5918 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Convergent calculation of the asymptotic dimension of diffusion limited aggregates: Scaling and renormalization of small clusters
Benny Davidovitch, Anders Levermann, and Itamar Procaccia
pp. R5919-R5922 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Biological physics

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Approach to Monte Carlo calculation of the buckling of supercoiled DNA loops
Yang Zhang
pp. R5923-R5926 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Experimental evidence of electric inhibition in fast electron penetration and of electric-field-limited fast electron transport in dense matter
F. Pisani, A. Bernardinello, D. Batani, A. Antonicci, E. Martinolli, M. Koenig, L. Gremillet, F. Amiranoff, S. Baton, J. Davies, T. Hall, D. Scott, P. Norreys, A. Djaoui, C. Rousseaux, P. Fews, H. Bandulet, and H. Pepin
pp. R5927-R5930 [View PDF (48 kB)]

Physics of beams

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X-ray and extreme ultraviolet emission induced by variable pulse-width irradiation of Ar and Kr clusters and droplets
E. Parra, I. Alexeev, J. Fan, K. Y. Kim, S. J. McNaught, and H. M. Milchberg
pp. R5931-R5934 [View PDF (139 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Phase transition in a traffic model with passing
I. Ispolatov and P. L. Krapivsky
pp. 5935-5939 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Reaction-diffusion models describing a two-lane traffic flow
M. Ebrahim Fouladvand
pp. 5940-5947 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Percolation parameter and percolation-threshold estimates for three-dimensional random ellipses with widely scattered distributions of eccentricity and size
J.-R. de Dreuzy, P. Davy, and O. Bour
pp. 5948-5952 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Quantum kinetic equation in the closed-time-path formalism
Jun Koide
pp. 5953-5966 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Spinodal decomposition and the Tomita sum rule
Gene F. Mazenko
pp. 5967-5977 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Dynamics of the frustrated Ising lattice gas
Jeferson J. Arenzon, F. Ricci-Tersenghi, and Daniel A. Stariolo
pp. 5978-5985 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Feedback-controlled forcing of meandering spiral waves in an open gel reactor
M. Braune and H. Engel
pp. 5986-5988 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Temperature of nonequilibrium steady-state systems
András Baranyai
pp. 5989-5997 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Self-replicating pulses and Sierpinski gaskets in excitable media
Yumino Hayase and Takao Ohta
pp. 5998-6003 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Cluster diversity and entropy on the percolation model: The lattice animal identification algorithm
I. J. Tsang, I. R. Tsang, and D. Van Dyck
pp. 6004-6014 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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First-order phase transition in a nonequilibrium growth process
Lorenzo Giada and Matteo Marsili
pp. 6015-6020 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Unattainability of Carnot efficiency in the Brownian heat engine
Tsuyoshi Hondou and Ken Sekimoto
pp. 6021-6025 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Nontrivial extension of the two-dimensional Ising model: The d-dimensional “molecular” model
Fabio Siringo
pp. 6026-6034 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Self-organized localization of macrostates by additive noise in a fast-slow dynamical system: Effect of the slow nonreactive mode on the barrier crossing rate of the fast, bistable mode
Vladimir Chinarov and Michael Menzinger
pp. 6035-6041 [View PDF (769 kB)]
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Local minimal energy landscapes in river networks
Achille Giacometti
pp. 6042-6051 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Strong-property-fluctuation theory for homogenization of bianisotropic composites: Formulation
Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, and Werner S. Weiglhofer
pp. 6052-6064 [View PDF (157 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Mean first passage time for anomalous diffusion
M. Gitterman
pp. 6065-6070 [View PDF (66 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Reaction-controlled diffusion
Steffen Trimper, Uwe C. Täuber, and Gunter M. Schütz
pp. 6071-6077 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Phase space geometry and stochasticity thresholds in Hamiltonian dynamics
Monica Cerruti-Sola, Marco Pettini, and E. G. D. Cohen
pp. 6078-6081 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Order-parameter model for unstable multilane traffic flow
Ihor A. Lubashevsky and Reinhard Mahnke
pp. 6082-6093 [View PDF (534 kB)]
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Elasticity of Gaussian and nearly Gaussian phantom networks
Oded Farago and Yacov Kantor
pp. 6094-6102 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Establishing the relation between detrended fluctuation analysis and power spectral density analysis for stochastic processes
C. Heneghan and G. McDarby
pp. 6103-6110 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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1/fα noise from self-organized critical models with uniform driving
Jörn Davidsen and Heinz Georg Schuster
pp. 6111-6115 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Kinetics of ordering in fluctuation-driven first-order transitions: Simulation and theory
N. A. Gross, M. Ignatiev, and Bulbul Chakraborty
pp. 6116-6125 [View PDF (539 kB)]
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Variety and volatility in financial markets
Fabrizio Lillo and Rosario N. Mantegna
pp. 6126-6134 [View PDF (900 kB)]
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Nonlinear relaxation field in charged systems under high electric fields
K. Morawetz
pp. 6135-6148 [View PDF (280 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Crossover phenomenon in self-organized critical sandpile models
S. Lübeck
pp. 6149-6154 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Nonlinear stochastic resonance: The saga of anomalous output-input gain
Peter Hänggi, Mario E. Inchiosa, Dave Fogliatti, and Adi R. Bulsara
pp. 6155-6163 [View PDF (992 kB)]
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Thermally activated breakdown in the fiber-bundle model
Stéphane Roux
pp. 6164-6169 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Random networks created by biological evolution
František Slanina and Miroslav Kotrla
pp. 6170-6177 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Stochastic dynamics of time correlation in complex systems with discrete time
Renat Yulmetyev, Peter Hänggi, and Fail Gafarov
pp. 6178-6194 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Critical behavior and conservation in directed sandpiles
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani
pp. 6195-6205 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Mesoscopic dynamics of microcracks
P. Ván, C. Papenfuss, and W. Muschik
pp. 6206-6215 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model with random distribution of inert sites
G. L. Hoenicke and W. Figueiredo
pp. 6216-6223 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Similarity solutions and collapse in the attractive Gross-Pitaevskii equation
A. V. Rybin, G. G. Varzugin, M. Lindberg, J. Timonen, and R. K. Bullough
pp. 6224-6228 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Asymptotic step profiles from a nonlinear growth equation for vicinal surfaces
Jouni Kallunki and Joachim Krug
pp. 6229-6232 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Generalized Chapman-Kolmogorov equation: A unifying approach to the description of anomalous transport in external fields
Ralf Metzler
pp. 6233-6245 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Extremal-point densities of interface fluctuations in a quenched random medium
Pui-Man Lam and Sovirith Tan
pp. 6246-6252 [View PDF (89 kB)]
See Also: Comment Erratum
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Short-time dynamics of an Ising system on fractal structures
Guang-Ping Zheng and Mo Li
pp. 6253-6259 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Scaling behaviors of branched polymers
Hajime Aoki, Satoshi Iso, Hikaru Kawai, and Yoshihisa Kitazawa
pp. 6260-6269 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Small-world networks: Links with long-tailed distributions
S. Jespersen and A. Blumen
pp. 6270-6274 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Finite-precision stationary states at and away from equilibrium
Christoph Dellago and Wm. G. Hoover
pp. 6275-6281 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Surmounting oscillating barriers: Path-integral approach for weak noise
Jörg Lehmann, Peter Reimann, and Peter Hänggi
pp. 6282-6303 [View PDF (267 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Characteristic relations of type-I intermittency in the presence of noise
Won-Ho Kye and Chil-Min Kim
pp. 6304-6307 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Quantum recurrences: Probe to study quantum chaos
Farhan Saif
pp. 6308-6311 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Symmetry breaking and dynamical independence in a multimode laser
E. A. Viktorov, A. G. Vladimirov, and Paul Mandel
pp. 6312-6317 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Characteristics of the wave function of coupled oscillators in semiquantum chaos
Y. W. Hui, Jinming Dong, and D. Y. Xing
pp. 6318-6324 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Modeling maps by using rational functions
O. Ménard, C. Letellier, J. Maquet, and G. Gouesbet
pp. 6325-6331 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Hierarchy and stability of partially synchronous oscillations of diffusively coupled dynamical systems
Vladimir N. Belykh, Igor V. Belykh, and Martin Hasler
pp. 6332-6345 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Integral behavior for localized synchronization in nonidentical extended systems
J. Bragard and S. Boccaletti
pp. 6346-6351 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Phase-space structure of a thermoreceptor
Wolfgang Braun, Bruno Eckhardt, Hans A. Braun, and Martin Huber
pp. 6352-6360 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Convergence to the critical attractor of dissipative maps: Log-periodic oscillations, fractality, and nonextensivity
F. A. B. F. de Moura, U. Tirnakli, and M. L. Lyra
pp. 6361-6365 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Emergence of quantum chaos in the quantum computer core and how to manage it
B. Georgeot and D. L. Shepelyansky
pp. 6366-6375 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Asymptotically stable phase synchronization revealed by autoregressive circle maps
F. R. Drepper
pp. 6376-6382 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal stability of one-way open coupled nonlinear systems
Keiji Konishi, Hideki Kokame, and Kentaro Hirata
pp. 6383-6387 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Atoms in parallel fields: Analysis with diffractive periodic orbits
S. M. Owen, T. S. Monteiro, and P. A. Dando
pp. 6388-6397 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Failure of chaos control
Willem van de Water and John de Weger
pp. 6398-6408 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Synchronous chaos in coupled map lattices with small-world interactions
Prashant M. Gade and Chin-Kun Hu
pp. 6409-6413 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Oscillatory clusters in a model of the photosensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction system with global feedback
Lingfa Yang, Milos Dolnik, Anatol M. Zhabotinsky, and Irving R. Epstein
pp. 6414-6420 [View PDF (611 kB)]
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Topology of high-dimensional chaotic scattering
Ying-Cheng Lai, Alessandro P. S. de Moura, and Celso Grebogi
pp. 6421-6428 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Quasidiagonal approach to the estimation of Lyapunov spectra for spatiotemporal systems from multivariate time series
R. Carretero-González, S. Ørstavik, and J. Stark
pp. 6429-6439 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Disorder can eliminate oscillator death
Leonid Rubchinsky and Mikhail Sushchik
pp. 6440-6446 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Parametric resonance energy exchange and induction phenomenon in a one-dimensional nonlinear oscillator chain
K. Yoshimura
pp. 6447-6461 [View PDF (633 kB)]
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Phase synchronization and noise-induced resonance in systems of coupled oscillators
H. Hong and M. Y. Choi
pp. 6462-6468 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance on a circle without excitation: Physical investigation and peak frequency formula
Min Qian, Guan-Xiang Wang, and Xue-Juan Zhang
pp. 6469-6474 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Classical statistical mechanics of a few-body interacting spin model
Fausto Borgonovi and F. M. Izrailev
pp. 6475-6486 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Comparison of the bifurcation scenarios predicted by the single-mode and multimode semiconductor laser rate equations
K. A. Corbett and M. W. Hamilton
pp. 6487-6495 [View PDF (524 kB)]
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Estimation of the entropy of the solar wind flow
Wiesław M. Macek and Stefano Redaelli
pp. 6496-6504 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Largest Lyapunov-exponent estimation and selective prediction by means of simplex forecast algorithms
Rudolf M. Dünki
pp. 6505-6515 [View PDF (132 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Correlation between the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy and the self-diffusion coefficient in simple liquids
Hyunsoo Pang, Young-han Shin, Dongchul Ihm, Eok Kyun Lee, and Oyeon Kum
pp. 6516-6521 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Internal waves excited by the Marangoni effect
A. Wierschem, H. Linde, and M. G. Velarde
pp. 6522-6530 [View PDF (541 kB)]
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Multiple-scattering effects on smooth neutron-scattering spectra
Joachim Wuttke
pp. 6531-6539 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Planform selection in two-layer Bénard-Marangoni convection
A. Engel and J. B. Swift
pp. 6540-6553 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Toy model for the mean-field theory of hard-sphere liquids
Giorgio Parisi and František Slanina
pp. 6554-6559 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic fluctuations in the Kolmogorov flow: Nonlinear regime
I. Bena, F. Baras, and M. Malek Mansour
pp. 6560-6570 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Density functional theory of long-range critical wetting
A. González and M. M. Telo da Gama
pp. 6571-6576 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Density fluctuations and entropy
J. A. Hernando and L. Blum
pp. 6577-6583 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Optical emissions in a sonoluminescing bubble
T. W. Chen, P. T. Leung, and M.-C. Chu
pp. 6584-6596 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Nonlinear viscosity and velocity distribution function in a simple longitudinal flow
Andrés Santos
pp. 6597-6607 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Molecular-dynamics simulation of two-dimensional thermophoresis
Ricardo Paredes V., Vladimir Idler, Anwar Hasmy, Victoria Castells, and Robert Botet
pp. 6608-6614 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Correlation of stress and structure in a simple fluid confined to a pore with furrowed walls
D. J. Diestler and M. Schoen
pp. 6615-6627 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Effect of natural convection in a horizontally oriented cylinder on NMR imaging of the distribution of diffusivity
Aleš Mohorič and Janez Stepišnik
pp. 6628-6635 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Anomalous burning rates of flamelets induced by self-similar multiple scale (fractal and spiral) initial fields
Nadeem A. Malik and J. C. H. Fung
pp. 6636-6647 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Shock wave profiles in the Burnett approximation
F. J. Uribe, R. M. Velasco, L. S. García-Colín, and E. Díaz-Herrera
pp. 6648-6666 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Fluctuations of elastic interfaces in fluids: Theory, lattice-Boltzmann model, and simulation
Davide Stelitano and Daniel H. Rothman
pp. 6667-6680 [View PDF (168 kB)]
See Also: Comment

Liquid crystals

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Time-resolved experiments on light diffusion in anisotropic random media
Diederik S. Wiersma, Alessandro Muzzi, Marcello Colocci, and Roberto Righini
pp. 6681-6687 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Liquid crystal director fluctuations and surface anchoring by molecular simulation
Denis Andrienko, Guido Germano, and Michael P. Allen
pp. 6688-6693 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Fine structure of defects in radial nematic droplets
S. Mkaddem and E. C. Gartland, Jr.
pp. 6694-6705 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Isotropic-nematic interface of soft spherocylinders
Muataz S. Al-Barwani and Michael P. Allen
pp. 6706-6710 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Thermal renormalization of the anchoring energy of nematic liquid crystals
G. Barbero and A. K. Zvezdin
pp. 6711-6721 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Stimulated orientational and thermal scatterings and self-starting optical phase conjugation with nematic liquid crystals
I. C. Khoo and Y. Liang
pp. 6722-6733 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Surface extrapolation length and director structures in confined nematics
N. Priezjev and Robert A. Pelcovits
pp. 6734-6738 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Tiling the plane with noncongruent toric focal conic domains
Christophe Blanc and Maurice Kleman
pp. 6739-6748 [View PDF (805 kB)]
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Evolution of interfaces and expansion in width
H. Arodź and R. Pełka
pp. 6749-6759 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Structural study of the smectic-I to smectic-F transition in freely suspended films
J. A. Collett, P. T. Kondratko, and M. E. Neubert
pp. 6760-6770 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Orientational ordering in fluids with partially constrained molecule orientations
T. G. Sokolovska, R. O. Sokolovskii, and M. F. Holovko
pp. 6771-6779 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Direct observation of a twist mode in electroconvection
Michael Dennin
pp. 6780-6786 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Theoretical investigation into the effects of polar anchoring in antiferroelectric liquid crystal cells
N. J. Mottram and S. J. Elston
pp. 6787-6794 [View PDF (179 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

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Determination of the interaction force between two adsorptive surfaces delimiting a critical binary polymer blend
A. Saout-Elhak, R. Cherrabi, M. Benhamou, and M. Daoud
pp. 6795-6798 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Effects of electric charges on hydrophobic forces. II.
D. Bulone, V. Martorana, P. L. San Biagio, and M. B. Palma-Vittorelli
pp. 6799-6809 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Shear response of a frictional interface to a normal load modulation
L. Bureau, T. Baumberger, and C. Caroli
pp. 6810-6820 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Influence of the free-energy functional form on simulated morphology of spinodally decomposing blends
Aleksij Aksimentiev and Robert Hołyst
pp. 6821-6830 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Spatially patterned static roughness superimposed on thermal roughness in a condensed phospholipid monolayer
W. R. Schief, S. B. Hall, and V. Vogel
pp. 6831-6837 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Ordering process in quenched block copolymers at low temperatures
Y. Yokojima and Y. Shiwa
pp. 6838-6845 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Dynamic electrorheological effects and interparticle force between a pair of rotating spheres
Jones T. K. Wan, K. W. Yu, and G. Q. Gu
pp. 6846-6850 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Avalanches in fine, cohesive powders
Jose Manuel Valverde, Antonio Castellanos, Antonio Ramos, and P. Keith Watson
pp. 6851-6860 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Spreading dynamics of water droplets
F. Rieutord, O. Rayssac, and H. Moriceau
pp. 6861-6864 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Fluctuations of lamellar structure prior to a lamellar⃗gyroid transition in a nonionic surfactant system
Masayuki Imai, Ayako Kawaguchi, Akira Saeki, Kaori Nakaya, Tadashi Kato, Kazuki Ito, and Yoshiyuki Amemiya
pp. 6865-6874 [View PDF (965 kB)]
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Magnetization of ferrofluids with dipolar interactions: A Born-Mayer expansion
B. Huke and M. Lücke
pp. 6875-6890 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Interlayer interactions in enantiomeric anticlinic liquid crystalline mixtures
Mohammad Reza Dodge and Charles Rosenblatt
pp. 6891-6894 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Kinetic pathways of multiphase surfactant systems
M. Buchanan, L. Starrs, S. U. Egelhaaf, and M. E. Cates
pp. 6895-6905 [View PDF (1,459 kB)]
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Permeation properties of three-dimensional self-affine reconstructions of porous materials
E. S. Kikkinides and V. N. Burganos
pp. 6906-6915 [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Dynamics and lateral interactions of dipolar chains
Eric M. Furst and Alice P. Gast
pp. 6916-6925 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Binary hard-sphere fluids near a hard wall
R. Roth and S. Dietrich
pp. 6926-6936 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Simulating formation of voids in charged colloids by Brownian dynamics
K. G. Wang
pp. 6937-6941 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of transport and separation of gas mixtures in nanoporous materials
Lifang Xu, Muhammad Sahimi, and Theodore T. Tsotsis
pp. 6942-6948 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Polydisperse star polymer solutions
C. von Ferber, A. Jusufi, M. Watzlawek, C. N. Likos, and H. Löwen
pp. 6949-6956 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Phase behavior and material properties of hollow nanoparticles
U. S. Schwarz and S. A. Safran
pp. 6957-6967 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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General view of a liquid-liquid phase transition
Hajime Tanaka
pp. 6968-6976 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Hard-core Yukawa model for charge-stabilized colloids
B. Davoudi, M. Kohandel, M. Mohammadi, and B. Tanatar
pp. 6977-6981 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Surface stability of granular systems under horizontal and vertical vibration: The applicability of a coefficient of friction
P. J. King, Michael R. Swift, K. A. Benedict, and A. Routledge
pp. 6982-6988 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Biological physics

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Improvement of the Davydov theory of bioenergy transport in protein molecular systems
Pang Xiao-feng
pp. 6989-6998 [View PDF (109 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Variational studies and replica symmetry breaking in the generalization problem of the binary perceptron
Evaldo Botelho, Cristiano R. Mattos, and Nestor Caticha
pp. 6999-7007 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Renormalization group analysis of a quivering string model of posture control
Francisco Alonso-Sánchez and David Hochberg
pp. 7008-7023 [View PDF (1,088 kB)]
Cellular automata model for citrus variegated chlorosis
M. L. Martins, G. Ceotto, S. G. Alves, C. C. B. Bufon, J. M. Silva, and F. F. Laranjeira
pp. 7024-7030 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Molecular chirality and domain shapes in lipid monolayers on aqueous surfaces
Peter Krüger and Mathias Lösche
pp. 7031-7043 [View PDF (1,249 kB)]
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NaDNA–bipyridyl-(ethylenediamine)platinum (II) complex: Structure in oriented wet-spun films and fibers
S. A. Lee, H. Grimm, W. Pohle, W. Scheiding, L. van Dam, Z. Song, M. H. Levitt, N. Korolev, A. Szabó, and A. Rupprecht
pp. 7044-7058 [View PDF (689 kB)]
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Exact solution of site and bond percolation on small-world networks
Cristopher Moore and M. E. J. Newman
pp. 7059-7064 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Symmetry breaking and coarsening in spatially distributed evolutionary processes including sexual reproduction and disruptive selection
Hiroki Sayama, Les Kaufman, and Yaneer Bar-Yam
pp. 7065-7069 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Phase transitions and steady-state microstructures in a two-temperature lattice-gas model with mobile active impurities
Jonas R. Henriksen, Mads C. Sabra, and Ole G. Mouritsen
pp. 7070-7076 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Calculating the local solvent chemical potential in crystal hydrates
Haluk Resat and Mihaly Mezei
pp. 7077-7081 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Force-velocity relation for growing biopolymers
A. E. Carlsson
pp. 7082-7091 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Generalization properties of finite-size polynomial support vector machines
Sebastian Risau-Gusman and Mirta B. Gordon
pp. 7092-7099 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Proteins with selected sequences: A heteropolymeric study
J. Wilder and E. I. Shakhnovich
pp. 7100-7110 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Information transmission and recovery in neural communications channels
M. C. Eguia, M. I. Rabinovich, and H. D. I. Abarbanel
pp. 7111-7122 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Single and multiple topologically driven structural transitions in DNA
Igor Kulić
pp. 7123-7134 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Fluctuating filaments: Statistical mechanics of helices
S. Panyukov and Y. Rabin
pp. 7135-7146 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Aggregation models at high packing fraction
Pedro Tarazona, Daniel Duque, and Enrique Chacón
pp. 7147-7154 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Nonlocal electron kinetics in a planar inductive helium discharge
Sang-Hun Seo, Chin-Wook Chung, Jung-In Hong, and Hong-Young Chang
pp. 7155-7167 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Basic physics of laser propagation in hollow waveguides
J. R. Davies and J. T. Mendonça
pp. 7168-7180 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Ball lightning as a force-free magnetic knot
Antonio F. Rañada, Mario Soler, and José L. Trueba
pp. 7181-7190 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Transport coefficients for dense metal plasmas
Sandra Kuhlbrodt and Ronald Redmer
pp. 7191-7200 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Measurement method for electric fields based on Stark spectroscopy of argon atoms
V. P. Gavrilenko, H. J. Kim, T. Ikutake, J. B. Kim, Y. W. Choi, M. D. Bowden, and K. Muraoka
pp. 7201-7208 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Dynamics of a microcapillary discharge plasma using a soft x-ray laser backlighter
M. C. Marconi, C. H. Moreno, J. J. Rocca, V. N. Shlyaptsev, and A. L. Osterheld
pp. 7209-7218 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Internally driven spatiotemporal irregularity in a dc glow discharge
A. Dinklage, C. Wilke, G. Bonhomme, and A. Atipo
pp. 7219-7226 [View PDF (710 kB)]
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Potential formalism for an axial energy cumulation process
Shalom Eliezer and José M. Martínez-Val
pp. 7227-7231 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Prepulse effects on the interaction of intense femtosecond laser pulses with high-Z solids
Alexei Zhidkov, Akira Sasaki, Takayuki Utsumi, Ichirou Fukumoto, Toshiki Tajima, Fumikazu Saito, Yoichiro Hironaka, Kazutaka G. Nakamura, Ken-ichi Kondo, and Masatake Yoshida
pp. 7232-7240 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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On-off intermittency at the onset of the ion-acoustic instability in a laboratory plasma
Th. Pierre, H. Klostermann, E. Floriani, and R. Lima
pp. 7241-7246 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Observation of spatial asymmetry of THz oscillating electron plasma wave in a laser wakefield
Eiji Takahashi, Hiroshi Honda, Eisuke Miura, Noboru Yugami, Yasushi Nishida, Keisuke Katsura, and Kiminori Kondo
pp. 7247-7250 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Detailed-term-accounting-approximation simulation of x-ray transmission through laser-produced Al plasmas
Jiaolong Zeng, Fengtao Jin, Jianmin Yuan, Qisheng Lu, and Yongsheng Sun
pp. 7251-7257 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Generation of one-cycle laser pulses by use of high-amplitude plasma waves
Zheng-Ming Sheng, Yasuhiko Sentoku, Kunioki Mima, and Katsunobu Nishihara
pp. 7258-7265 [View PDF (772 kB)]
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Diffusive alignment of the magnetic field in active regions of plasmas
Manuel Núñez
pp. 7266-7270 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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High density collimated beams of relativistic ions produced by petawatt laser pulses in plasmas
Y. Sentoku, T. V. Liseikina, T. Zh. Esirkepov, F. Califano, N. M. Naumova, Y. Ueshima, V. A. Vshivkov, Y. Kato, K. Mima, K. Nishihara, F. Pegoraro, and S. V. Bulanov
pp. 7271-7281 [View PDF (1,109 kB)]
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Cyclotron resonance maser experiments in a bifilar helical waveguide
Alon Aharony, Rami Drori, and Eli Jerby
pp. 7282-7286 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Simulation of beam-beam effects in a circular e+e- collider
Kazuhito Ohmi
pp. 7287-7294 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Three-dimensional analysis of harmonic generation in high-gain free-electron lasers
Zhirong Huang and Kwang-Je Kim
pp. 7295-7308 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Lorentz torque on a charged sphere rotating in a dielectric fluid in the presence of a uniform magnetic field
H. J. Kroh and B. U. Felderhof
pp. 7309-7314 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Supersonic and multiple topological excitations in the driven Frenkel-Kontorova model with exponential interaction
O. M. Braun
pp. 7315-7319 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Ansatz-independent solution of a soliton in a strong dispersion-management system
A. Ferrando, M. Zacarés, and P. Fernández de Córdoba
pp. 7320-7329 [View PDF (656 kB)]
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Energy-flux pattern in the Goos-Hänchen effect
H. M. Lai, C. W. Kwok, Y. W. Loo, and B. Y. Xu
pp. 7330-7339 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Three-dimensional walking spatiotemporal solitons in quadratic media
Dumitru Mihalache, Dumitru Mazilu, Lucian-Cornel Crasovan, Lluis Torner, Boris A. Malomed, and Falk Lederer
pp. 7340-7347 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Field and intensity correlation in random media
P. Sebbah, R. Pnini, and A. Z. Genack
pp. 7348-7352 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Spontaneous pattern formation in driven nonlinear lattices
Andrea Vanossi, K. Ø. Rasmussen, A. R. Bishop, Boris A. Malomed, and V. Bortolani
pp. 7353-7357 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Ground states of dispersion-managed nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Vadim Zharnitsky, Emmanuel Grenier, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Christopher K. R. T. Jones, and Jan S. Hesthaven
pp. 7358-7364 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Diffusion of waves in a layer with a rough interface
David H. Berman
pp. 7365-7380 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Optical addressing at the subwavelength scale
J. C. Weeber, A. Dereux, Ch. Girard, G. Colas des Francs, J. R. Krenn, and J. P. Goudonnet
pp. 7381-7388 [View PDF (669 kB)]
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Scattering-theory analysis of waveguide-resonator coupling
Yong Xu, Yi Li, Reginald K. Lee, and Amnon Yariv
pp. 7389-7404 [View PDF (647 kB)]
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General electromagnetic density of modes for a one-dimensional photonic crystal
C. H. Raymond Ooi, T. C. Au Yeung, T. K. Lim, and C. H. Kam
pp. 7405-7409 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Stabilization of dark solitons in the cubic Ginzburg-Landau equation
N. Efremidis, K. Hizanidis, H. E. Nistazakis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and B. A. Malomed
pp. 7410-7414 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Superluminal tunneling of an electromagnetic X wave through a planar slab
Amr M. Shaarawi and Ioannis M. Besieris
pp. 7415-7421 [View PDF (397 kB)]

Computational physics

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Broad histogram method: Extension and efficiency test
M. Kastner, M. Promberger, and J. D. Muñoz
pp. 7422-7429 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Second-order stochastic leapfrog algorithm for multiplicative noise Brownian motion
Ji Qiang and Salman Habib
pp. 7430-7437 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Ground state of trapped interacting Bose-Einstein condensates by an explicit imaginary-time algorithm
M. L. Chiofalo, S. Succi, and M. P. Tosi
pp. 7438-7444 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Approach to ergodicity in Monte Carlo simulations
J. P. Neirotti, David L. Freeman, and J. D. Doll
pp. 7445-7461 [View PDF (240 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Naudts-like duality and the extreme Fisher information principle
L. P. Chimento, F. Pennini, and A. Plastino
pp. 7462-7465 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Phase transitions in the kinetic Ising model with competing dynamics
Attila Szolnoki
pp. 7466-7469 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Studying avalanches in the ground state of the two-dimensional random-field Ising model driven by an external field
Carlos Frontera and Eduard Vives
pp. 7470-7473 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Branching annihilating random walk on random regular graphs
György Szabó
pp. 7474-7477 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Fluctuation-induced transport in a spatially symmetric periodic potential
Li Cao and Da-jin Wu
pp. 7478-7481 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Dynamic approach to weak first-order phase transitions
L. Schülke and B. Zheng
pp. 7482-7485 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Analytical density functional theory of homogeneous vapor condensation
L. Gránásy, Z. Jurek, and D. W. Oxtoby
pp. 7486-7489 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Rigorous solution for the elasticity of diluted Gaussian spring networks
Z. Zhou, Pik-Yin Lai, and B. Joós
pp. 7490-7493 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Tsallis maximum entropy principle and the law of large numbers
Brian R. La Cour and William C. Schieve
pp. 7494-7496 [View PDF (43 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Characterization of intermittent lag synchronization
S. Boccaletti and D. L. Valladares
pp. 7497-7500 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Enhancement of phase synchronization through asymmetric couplings
Zhigang Zheng, Gang Hu, and Bambi Hu
pp. 7501-7504 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Experimental verification of the synchronization condition for chaotic external cavity diode lasers
S. Sivaprakasam, E. M. Shahverdiev, and K. A. Shore
pp. 7505-7507 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Measuring statistical dependence and coupling of subsystems
Andreas Schmitz
pp. 7508-7511 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Intermittent chaos in electron scattering
George Schmidt, Erich E. Kunhardt, and Joseph L. Godino
pp. 7512-7515 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Influence of neighboring bubbles on the primary Bjerknes force acting on a small cavitation bubble in a strong acoustic field
Alexander A. Doinikov
pp. 7516-7519 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Equilibrium and nonequilibrium states in thermostated Gledzer-Ohkitani-Yamada shell models
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
pp. 7520-7523 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Excess-entropy and freezing-temperature scalings for transport coefficients: Self-diffusion in Yukawa systems
Yaakov Rosenfeld
pp. 7524-7527 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Switching behavior and electro-optical properties of liquid crystals in nematic gels
P. Gautier, M. Brunet, J. Grupp, J. L. Sauvajol, and E. Anglaret
pp. 7528-7531 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Biological physics

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Fast quantum search algorithms in protein sequence comparisons: Quantum bioinformatics
Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
pp. 7532-7535 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Adsorption-assisted translocation of a chain molecule through a pore
K. Kiran Kumar and K. L. Sebastian
pp. 7536-7539 [View PDF (54 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Compactlike breathers: Bridging the continuous with the anticontinuous limit
M. Eleftheriou, B. Dey, and G. P. Tsironis
pp. 7540-7543 [View PDF (121 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Experimental proof of standard electrodynamics by measuring the self-force on a part of a current loop”
A. K. T. Assis
pp. 7544 [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Experimental proof of standard electrodynamics by measuring the self-force on a part of a current loop’ ”
G. Cavalleri and E. Tonni
pp. 7545 [View PDF (11 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Shock compression of condensed matter using intense beams of energetic heavy ions [Phys. Rev. E 61, 1975 (2000)]
N. A. Tahir, D. H. H. Hoffmann, A. Kozyreva, A. Shutov, J. A. Maruhn, U. Neuner, A. Tauschwitz, P. Spiller, and R. Bock
pp. 7546 [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Erratum: Molecular wall effects: Are conditions at a boundary “boundary conditions?” [Phys. Rev. E 61, 6879 (2000)]
Howard Brenner and Venkat Ganesan
pp. 7547 [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Erratum: Critical packing fraction of rectangular particles on the square lattice [Phys. Rev. E 62, 100 (2000)]
Markus Porto and H. Eduardo Roman
pp. 7548 [View PDF (8 kB)]