Physical Review E – April 2001
Volume 63, Issue 4

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Quantum-fluctuation-induced spatial stochastic resonance at zero temperature
Parongama Sen
Published 22 March 2001 (4 pages)
040101(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Steady state of microemulsions in shear flow
F. Corberi, G. Gonnella, and D. Suppa
Published 23 March 2001 (4 pages)
040501(R) [View PDF (250 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Single molecule tracking of heterogeneous diffusion
Jianshu Cao
Published 16 March 2001 (7 pages)
041101 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Nonlinear reactive systems on a lattice viewed as Boolean dynamical systems
E. Abad, P. Grosfils, and G. Nicolis
Published 19 March 2001 (13 pages)
041102 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Non-Hermitian delocalization from Hermitian Hamiltonians
Nimrod Moiseyev and Markus Glück
Published 19 March 2001 (3 pages)
041103 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Random spread on the family of small-world networks
Sagar A. Pandit and R. E. Amritkar
Published 20 March 2001 (7 pages)
041104 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Multifractal characterization of stochastic resonance
Alexander Silchenko and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 20 March 2001 (10 pages)
041105 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Magnetic fluctuations in the classical XY model: The origin of an exponential tail in a complex system
S. T. Bramwell, J.-Y. Fortin, P. C. W. Holdsworth, S. Peysson, J.-F. Pinton, B. Portelli, and M. Sellitto
Published 21 March 2001 (22 pages)
041106 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Noninvasive control of stochastic resonance
John F. Lindner, Jonathan Mason, Joseph Neff, Barbara J. Breen, William L. Ditto, and Adi R. Bulsara
Published 21 March 2001 (8 pages)
041107 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Target problem on small-world networks
F. Jasch and A. Blumen
Published 21 March 2001 (5 pages)
041108 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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One-dimensional contact process: Duality and renormalization
Jef Hooyberghs and Carlo Vanderzande
Published 22 March 2001 (8 pages)
041109 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Constructive role of temperature in ratchets driven by trichotomous noise
Romi Mankin, Ain Ainsaar, Astrid Haljas, and Eerik Reiter
Published 26 March 2001 (12 pages)
041110 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Thermodynamically self-consistent theory for the Blume-Capel model
S. Grollau, E. Kierlik, M. L. Rosinberg, and G. Tarjus
Published 27 March 2001 (13 pages)
041111 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in a suspension of magnetic dipoles under shear flow
Tomás Alarcón and Agustín Pérez-Madrid
Published 27 March 2001 (12 pages)
041112 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Discrete atomistic model to simulate etching of a crystalline solid
Bernardo A. Mello, Alaor S. Chaves, and Fernando A. Oliveira
Published 28 March 2001 (8 pages)
041113 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Information transmission in parallel threshold arrays: Suprathreshold stochastic resonance
N. G. Stocks
Published 28 March 2001 (9 pages)
041114 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Transition from anomalous to normal hysteresis in a system of coupled Brownian motors: A mean-field approach
S. E. Mangioni, R. R. Deza, and H. S. Wio
Published 29 March 2001 (10 pages)
041115 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Branching and annihilating Lévy flights
Daniel Vernon and Martin Howard
Published 29 March 2001 (8 pages)
041116 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Thermodynamic and structural aspects of the potential energy surface of simulated water
Francis W. Starr, Srikanth Sastry, Emilia La Nave, Antonio Scala, H. Eugene Stanley, and Francesco Sciortino
Published 28 March 2001 (10 pages)
041201 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Waterlike anomalies for core-softened models of fluids: Two-dimensional systems
A. Scala, M. Reza Sadr-Lahijany, N. Giovambattista, S. V. Buldyrev, and H. E. Stanley
Published 29 March 2001 (8 pages)
041202 [View PDF (536 kB)]
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Structure and effective interactions in three-component hard sphere liquids
Anja König and N. W. Ashcroft
Published 29 March 2001 (9 pages)
041203 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Granular materials

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Stress transmission through textured granular packings
Jean Rajchenbach
Published 20 March 2001 (5 pages)
041301 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Clustering and fluidization in a one-dimensional granular system: Molecular dynamics and direct-simulation Monte Carlo method
José Miguel Pasini and Patricio Cordero
Published 23 March 2001 (7 pages)
041302 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of fluidized granular media: Short-range velocity correlations
R. Soto and M. Mareschal
Published 26 March 2001 (9 pages)
041303 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Force distributions in three-dimensional granular assemblies: Effects of packing order and interparticle friction
Daniel L. Blair, Nathan W. Mueggenburg, Adam H. Marshall, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel
Published 27 March 2001 (8 pages)
041304 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Spiral patterns in oscillated granular layers
John R. de Bruyn, B. C. Lewis, M. D. Shattuck, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 28 March 2001 (12 pages)
041305 [View PDF (1,278 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Charge inversion of colloidal particles in an aqueous solution: Screening by multivalent ions
Takamichi Terao and Tsuneyoshi Nakayama
Published 19 March 2001 (6 pages)
041401 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Dynamical fluctuation of the mesoscopic structure in ternary C12E5–water–n-octane amphiphilic system
Shigehiro Komura, Takayoshi Takeda, Youhei Kawabata, Swapan K. Ghosh, Hideki Seto, and Michihiro Nagao
Published 19 March 2001 (10 pages)
041402 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Influence of solvent granularity on the effective interaction between charged colloidal suspensions
E. Allahyarov and H. Löwen
Published 22 March 2001 (13 pages)
041403 [View PDF (1,354 kB)]
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Particle-counterion clustering in highly charge-asymmetric complex fluids
A. Fernández-Nieves, A. Fernández-Barbero, and F. J. de las Nieves
Published 26 March 2001 (5 pages)
041404 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous model colloid-polymer mixtures: Adsorption at a hard wall
J. M. Brader, M. Dijkstra, and R. Evans
Published 27 March 2001 (13 pages)
041405 [View PDF (333 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Mode-coupling theory for heteropolymers
E. Pitard and E. I. Shakhnovich
Published 20 March 2001 (14 pages)
041501 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Dynamic light scattering from lyotropic lamellar phases subjected to a flow field
A. Al Kahwaji, O. Greffier, A. Leon, J. Rouch, and H. Kellay
Published 26 March 2001 (9 pages)
041502 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Cell dynamics simulations of shear-induced alignment and defect annihilation in stripe patterns formed by block copolymers
S. R. Ren, I. W. Hamley, P. I. C. Teixeira, and P. D. Olmsted
Published 26 March 2001 (9 pages)
041503 [View PDF (798 kB)]
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Performances of holographic gratings monitored by laser-induced phase separation in liquid mixtures
Stéphanie Buil, Emmanuel Hugonnot, and Jean-Pierre Delville
Published 26 March 2001 (16 pages)
041504 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Two continuous models for the dynamics of sandpile surfaces
Leonid Prigozhin and Boris Zaltzman
Published 27 March 2001 (6 pages)
041505 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Dynamic phase transitions in confined lubricant fluids under shear
Carlos Drummond and Jacob Israelachvili
Published 27 March 2001 (11 pages)
041506 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Curvature effects in rapid alloy solidification
Massimo Conti
Published 27 March 2001 (8 pages)
041507 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Stability of modulated-gravity-induced thermal convection in magnetic fields
B. Q. Li
Published 27 March 2001 (9 pages)
041508 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Brillouin scattering study of molten zinc chloride
C. Dreyfus, M. J. Lebon, F. Vivicorsi, A. Aouadi, R. M. Pick, and H. Z. Cummins
Published 29 March 2001 (12 pages)
041509 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Response function of a sphere in a viscoelastic two-fluid medium
Alex J. Levine and T. C. Lubensky
Published 29 March 2001 (12 pages)
041510 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Realistic calculation of the low- and high-density liquid phase separation in a charged colloidal dispersion
S. K. Lai, W. P. Peng, and G. F. Wang
Published 29 March 2001 (12 pages)
041511 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-induced anisotropic curvature elasticity of a vesicle membrane containing magnetic polyions
A. Cēbers
Published 29 March 2001 (10 pages)
041512 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Surface-directed spinodal decomposition in binary fluid mixtures
Sorin Bastea, Sanjay Puri, and Joel L. Lebowitz
Published 29 March 2001 (7 pages)
041513 [View PDF (575 kB)]
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Flow through percolation clusters: NMR velocity mapping and numerical simulation study
Andreas Klemm, Rainer Kimmich, and Markus Weber
Published 29 March 2001 (8 pages)
041514 [View PDF (1,289 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Kinetic roughening model with opposite Kardar-Parisi-Zhang nonlinearities
T. J. da Silva and J. G. Moreira
Published 20 March 2001 (4 pages)
041601 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Monte Carlo studies of model Langmuir monolayers
S. B. Opps, B. Yang, C. G. Gray, and D. E. Sullivan
Published 23 March 2001 (12 pages)
041602 [View PDF (619 kB)]
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Epitaxial growth with elastic interaction: Submonolayer island formation
F. Gutheim, H. Müller-Krumbhaar, and E. Brener
Published 26 March 2001 (5 pages)
041603 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Adsorbed layer structure of cationic surfactants on quartz
Jamie C. Schulz, Gregory G. Warr, Paul D. Butler, and W. A. Hamilton
Published 29 March 2001 (5 pages)
041604 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Casimir force in a critical film formed from an electrolytic solution
A. Mukhopadhyay and B. M. Law
Published 29 March 2001 (7 pages)
041605 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Computer simulation of topological defects around a colloidal particle or droplet dispersed in a nematic host
Denis Andrienko, Guido Germano, and Michael P. Allen
Published 20 March 2001 (8 pages)
041701 [View PDF (737 kB)]
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Optical studies of the liquid crystal B2 phase formed by banana-shaped molecules
D. A. Olson, M. Veum, A. Cady, M. V. D’Agostino, P. M. Johnson, H. T. Nguyen, L. C. Chien, and C. C. Huang
Published 22 March 2001 (5 pages)
041702 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Effect of a rigid nonpolar solute on the splay, bend elastic constants, and on rotational viscosity coefficient of 4,4′-n-octyl-cyanobiphenyl
Sudeshna DasGupta, Pinku Chattopadhyay, and Soumen Kumar Roy
Published 23 March 2001 (8 pages)
041703 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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X-ray reflectivity study of smectic wetting and prewetting at the free surface of isotropic liquid crystals
R. Lucht, P. Marczuk, Ch. Bahr, and G. H. Findenegg
Published 26 March 2001 (5 pages)
041704 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Optical generation of inversion walls in nematic liquid crystals
I. Jánossy and S. K. Prasad
Published 27 March 2001 (7 pages)
041705 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Molecular-dynamics study of the nematic-isotropic interface
Nobuhiko Akino, Friederike Schmid, and Michael P. Allen
Published 27 March 2001 (6 pages)
041706 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Arising of magnetic walls in the vicinities of the Frèedericksz transition
M. Simões, A. J. Palangana, A. A. Arroteia, and P. R. Vilarim
Published 28 March 2001 (7 pages)
041707 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Polymers

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Zipping and collapse of diblock copolymers
Marco Baiesi, Enrico Carlon, Enzo Orlandini, and Attilio L. Stella
Published 21 March 2001 (11 pages)
041801 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Theory for phase transitions in diblock copolymers: The lamellar case
A. Rebei and J. De Pablo
Published 23 March 2001 (9 pages)
041802 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Polymer depletion interaction between two parallel repulsive walls
F. Schlesener, A. Hanke, R. Klimpel, and S. Dietrich
Published 27 March 2001 (9 pages)
041803 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Biological physics

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Macroscopic dynamics in separable neural networks
Chen Yong, Wang Yinghai, and Yang Kongqing
Published 16 March 2001 (4 pages)
041901 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Statistical analysis of the fractal gating motions of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase
T. Y. Shen, Kaihsu Tai, and J. Andrew McCammon
Published 20 March 2001 (6 pages)
041902 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Dramatic rigidification of a peptide-decorated lamellar phase
N. Tsapis, W. Urbach, and R. Ober
Published 22 March 2001 (5 pages)
041903 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Influence of an external electric field on cAMP wave patterns in aggregating Dictyostelium discoideum
Jiří Lindner, Hana Ševčíková, and Miloš Marek
Published 23 March 2001 (8 pages)
041904 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Mutual information in a dilute, asymmetric neural network model
Elliot Greenfield and Harold Lecar
Published 23 March 2001 (10 pages)
041905 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Motion of phospholipidic vesicles along an inclined plane: Sliding and rolling
Manouk Abkarian, Colette Lartigue, and Annie Viallat
Published 27 March 2001 (7 pages)
041906 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Periodically forced leaky integrate-and-fire model
K. Pakdaman
Published 27 March 2001 (5 pages)
041907 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Evolution in a spatially structured population subject to rare epidemics
Joshua E. S. Socolar, Shane Richards, and William G. Wilson
Published 29 March 2001 (8 pages)
041908 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Modal analysis of corticothalamic dynamics, electroencephalographic spectra, and evoked potentials
P. A. Robinson, P. N. Loxley, S. C. O’Connor, and C. J. Rennie
Published 29 March 2001 (13 pages)
041909 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Membrane curvature induced by polymer adsorption
Yong Woon Kim and Wokyung Sung
Published 29 March 2001 (5 pages)
041910 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Competition model for aperiodic stochastic resonance in a Fitzhugh-Nagumo model of cardiac sensory neurons
G. C. Kember, G. A. Fenton, J. A. Armour, and N. Kalyaniwalla
Published 29 March 2001 (6 pages)
041911 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Spiral waves in excitable media with negative restitution
C. W. Zemlin and A. V. Panfilov
Published 29 March 2001 (4 pages)
041912 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Using DNA to construct and power a nanoactuator
Friedrich C. Simmel and Bernard Yurke
Published 29 March 2001 (5 pages)
041913 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Histogram method to obtain heat capacities in lipid monolayers, curved bilayers, and membranes containing peptides
Vesselka P. Ivanova and Thomas Heimburg
Published 29 March 2001 (12 pages)
041914 [View PDF (1,550 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Critical dynamics of the Baxter-Wu model
M. Santos and W. Figueiredo
Published 19 March 2001 (4 pages)
042101 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Phase transition in an asymmetric generalization of the zero-temperature Glauber model
Mohammad Khorrami and Amir Aghamohammadi
Published 23 March 2001 (4 pages)
042102 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Relative entropy: Free energy associated with equilibrium fluctuations and nonequilibrium deviations
Hong Qian
Published 26 March 2001 (4 pages)
042103 [View PDF (50 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Global equation of state of two-dimensional hard sphere systems
Stefan Luding
Published 22 March 2001 (4 pages)
042201 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Granular materials

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Long-range effects in granular avalanching
Pablo M. Gleiser, Sergio A. Cannas, Francisco A. Tamarit, and B. Zheng
Published 28 March 2001 (4 pages)
042301 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Three-dimensional rotational Langevin dynamics and the Lebwohl-Lasher model
Christophe Goze Bac, Ricardo Paredes V., Carlos Vásquez R., Ernesto Medina D., and Anwar Hasmy
Published 21 March 2001 (3 pages)
042701 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Experimental evidence for a torus breakdown in a glow discharge plasma
C. Letellier, A. Dinklage, H. El-Naggar, C. Wilke, and G. Bonhomme
Published 29 March 2001 (4 pages)
042702 [View PDF (127 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Two-finger selection theory in the Saffman-Taylor problem”
Giovani L. Vasconcelos
Published 21 March 2001 (2 pages)
043101 [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Two-finger selection theory in the Saffman-Taylor problem’ ”
F. X. Magdaleno and J. Casademunt
Published 21 March 2001 (2 pages)
043102 [View PDF (22 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Dynamics of efficiency: A simple model
Satya N. Majumdar and P. L. Krapivsky
Published 20 March 2001 (4 pages)
045101(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Fast Monte Carlo algorithm for supercooled soft spheres
Tomás S. Grigera and Giorgio Parisi
Published 21 March 2001 (4 pages)
045102(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Finite size scaling of domain chaos
M. C. Cross, M. Louie, and D. Meiron
Published 16 March 2001 (4 pages)
045201(R) [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Attractor bifurcation and on-off intermittency
Won-Ho Kye and Dmitri Topaj
Published 19 March 2001 (4 pages)
045202(R) [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Spectral correlations: Understanding oscillatory contributions
B. Mehlig and M. Wilkinson
Published 28 March 2001 (4 pages)
045203(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Flow pattern dynamics in convecting liquid helium
R. G. Matley, W. Y. T. Wong, M. S. Thurlow, P. G. J. Lucas, M. J. Lees, O. J. Griffiths, and A. L. Woodcraft
Published 20 March 2001 (4 pages)
045301(R) [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Scaling laws in two-dimensional turbulent convection
D. Biskamp, K. Hallatschek, and E. Schwarz
Published 22 March 2001 (4 pages)
045302(R) [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Observation of the 1/2 power law in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
P.-E. Roche, B. Castaing, B. Chabaud, and B. Hébral
Published 28 March 2001 (4 pages)
045303(R) [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Critical wavelength for river meandering
Boyd F. Edwards and Duane H. Smith
Published 28 March 2001 (4 pages)
045304(R) [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Bridge from diffusion-limited aggregation to the Saffman-Taylor problem
Vladislav A. Bogoyavlenskiy
Published 29 March 2001 (4 pages)
045305(R) [View PDF (418 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Dynamics of the charging and motion of a macroparticle in a plasma flow
S. V. Vladimirov, S. A. Maiorov, and N. F. Cramer
Published 29 March 2001 (3 pages)
045401(R) [View PDF (225 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Type of inversion problem in physics: An inverse emissivity problem
Tao Wen, Denming Ming, Xianxi Dai, Jixin Dai, and William E. Evenson
Published 19 March 2001 (4 pages)
045601(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Renormalization-group theoretical reduction
K. Nozaki and Y. Oono
Published 19 March 2001 (18 pages)
046101 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Pseudospectral approach to inverse problems in interface dynamics
Achille Giacometti and Maurice Rossi
Published 21 March 2001 (12 pages)
046102 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Yang-Lee circle theorem for an ideal pseudospin-1/2 Bose gas in an external magnetic field
Xian Zhi Wang
Published 21 March 2001 (6 pages)
046103 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Modeling of locally self-similar processes using multifractional Brownian motion of Riemann-Liouville type
S. V. Muniandy and S. C. Lim
Published 22 March 2001 (7 pages)
046104 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Information theory based on nonadditive information content
Takuya Yamano
Published 23 March 2001 (7 pages)
046105 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Phase transitions of hard disks in external periodic potentials: A Monte Carlo study
W. Strepp, S. Sengupta, and P. Nielaba
Published 26 March 2001 (10 pages)
046106 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Anomalous behavior of the contact process with aging
S. N. Dorogovtsev and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 26 March 2001 (5 pages)
046107 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Kinetic roughening with anisotropic growth rules
Raffaele Cafiero
Published 27 March 2001 (10 pages)
046108 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Phase transition of a quasi-one-dimensional system
Su-Long Nyeo and I-Ching Yang
Published 28 March 2001 (5 pages)
046109 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Friction in a solid lubricant film
O. M. Braun and M. Peyrard
Published 28 March 2001 (19 pages)
046110 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Exact density profiles for the fully asymmetric exclusion process with discrete-time dynamics on semi-infinite chains
Jordan Brankov and Nina Pesheva
Published 28 March 2001 (6 pages)
046111 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Scaling in steady-state aggregation with injection
J. Camacho
Published 28 March 2001 (4 pages)
046112 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Rigidity transition in two-dimensional random fiber networks
M. Latva-Kokko, J. Mäkinen, and J. Timonen
Published 28 March 2001 (10 pages)
046113 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Application of the quantum spin glass theory to image restoration
Jun-ichi Inoue
Published 29 March 2001 (10 pages)
046114 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Kinetics of domain growth in systems with local barriers
Kumela Tafa, Sanjay Puri, and Deepak Kumar
Published 29 March 2001 (11 pages)
046115 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Nature of phase transitions in a probabilistic cellular automaton with two absorbing states
Franco Bagnoli, Nino Boccara, and Raúl Rechtman
Published 29 March 2001 (9 pages)
046116 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Diffusion-limited aggregation as a Markovian process: Site-sticking conditions
Boaz Kol and Amnon Aharony
Published 29 March 2001 (15 pages)
046117 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Fractional Fokker-Planck equation, solution, and application
E. Barkai
Published 29 March 2001 (17 pages)
046118 [View PDF (204 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Application of renormalization to the dynamics of a particle in an infinite square-well potential driven by an external field
C. Chandre
Published 19 March 2001 (6 pages)
046201 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Pattern selection in extended periodically forced systems: A continuum coupled map approach
Shankar C. Venkataramani and Edward Ott
Published 20 March 2001 (27 pages)
046202 [View PDF (749 kB)]
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Periodic orbits and topological entropy of delayed maps
E. Ferretti Manffra, H. Kantz, and W. Just
Published 20 March 2001 (6 pages)
046203 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Restricted feedback control of one-dimensional maps
Kevin Hall and David J. Christini
Published 22 March 2001 (9 pages)
046204 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Noise-induced Brownian motion of spiral waves
S. Alonso and F. Sagués
Published 22 March 2001 (12 pages)
046205 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Chaos in small-world networks
Xin-She Yang
Published 22 March 2001 (4 pages)
046206 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Parametric evolution for a deformed cavity
Doron Cohen, Alex Barnett, and Eric J. Heller
Published 27 March 2001 (12 pages)
046207 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Experimental investigation of a regime of Wigner ergodicity in microwave rough billiards
Y. Hlushchuk, L. Sirko, U. Kuhl, M. Barth, and H.-J. Stöckmann
Published 27 March 2001 (4 pages)
046208 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Multiple Perron-Frobenius operators
Yu. Dabaghian
Published 28 March 2001 (6 pages)
046209 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Complex periodic orbits, renormalization, and scaling for quasiperiodic golden-mean transition to chaos
Nikolai Yu. Ivankov and Sergey P. Kuznetsov
Published 28 March 2001 (10 pages)
046210 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Synchronization as adjustment of information rates: Detection from bivariate time series
Milan Paluš, Vladimír Komárek, Zbyněk Hrnčíř, and Katalin Štěrbová
Published 28 March 2001 (6 pages)
046211 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Controlling spatiotemporal chaos via phase space compression
Xu Zhang and Ke Shen
Published 28 March 2001 (6 pages)
046212 [View PDF (774 kB)]
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Parameter-adaptive identical synchronization disclosing Lorenz chaotic masking
A. d’Anjou, C. Sarasola, F. J. Torrealdea, R. Orduna, and M. Graña
Published 28 March 2001 (5 pages)
046213 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Slow switching in globally coupled oscillators: robustness and occurrence through delayed coupling
Hiroshi Kori and Yoshiki Kuramoto
Published 29 March 2001 (10 pages)
046214 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Chaotic neural control
A. Potapov and M. K. Ali
Published 29 March 2001 (15 pages)
046215 [View PDF (218 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Effects of lateral boundaries on traveling-wave dynamics in binary fluid convection
C. M. Aegerter and C. M. Surko
Published 21 March 2001 (12 pages)
046301 [View PDF (624 kB)]
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Measurement of liquid surface properties by laser-induced surface deformation spectroscopy
K. Sakai, D. Mizuno, and K. Takagi
Published 22 March 2001 (6 pages)
046302 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Temperature fluctuations in a convection cell with rough upper and lower surfaces
Y.-B. Du and P. Tong
Published 22 March 2001 (7 pages)
046303 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Enhancement in the dynamic response of a viscoelastic fluid flowing through a longitudinally vibrating tube
David Tsiklauri and Igor Beresnev
Published 23 March 2001 (4 pages)
046304 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Strange behavior of a passive scalar in a linear velocity field
Tov Elperin, Nathan Kleeorin, Igor Rogachevskii, and Dmitry Sokoloff
Published 26 March 2001 (7 pages)
046305 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Discreteness and quasiresonances in weak turbulence of capillary waves
Colm Connaughton, Sergey Nazarenko, and Andrei Pushkarev
Published 27 March 2001 (4 pages)
046306 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Evolution of turbulent spots in a parallel shear flow
Jörg Schumacher and Bruno Eckhardt
Published 27 March 2001 (9 pages)
046307 [View PDF (564 kB)]
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Spatially correlated temperature fluctuations in turbulent convection
Sheng-Qi Zhou and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 27 March 2001 (6 pages)
046308 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Coalescence of liquid drops by surface tension
A. Menchaca-Rocha, A. Martínez-Dávalos, R. Núñez, S. Popinet, and S. Zaleski
Published 27 March 2001 (5 pages)
046309 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Chaoslike behavior in nonchaotic systems at finite computation precision
Pengliang Shi, Daihai He, Wei Kang, Wujiu Fu, and Gang Hu
Published 29 March 2001 (8 pages)
046310 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Rarefaction shock wave: Formation under short pulse laser ablation of solids
Nadezhda M. Bulgakova, Igor M. Bourakov, and Natalia A. Bulgakova
Published 29 March 2001 (5 pages)
046311 [View PDF (65 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Plasma physics

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Energy loss of a charged particle in a magnetized quantum plasma
M. Steinberg and J. Ortner
Published 21 March 2001 (10 pages)
046401 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Effect of an internal rotating current on low-frequency inductively coupled plasmas
E. L. Tsakadze, K. N. Ostrikov, Xu, I. R. Jones, R. Storer, M. Y. Yu, and S. Lee
Published 22 March 2001 (9 pages)
046402 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Vortex solitons: Mass, energy, and angular momentum bunching in relativistic electron-positron plasmas
T. Tatsuno, V. I. Berezhiani, and S. M. Mahajan
Published 22 March 2001 (7 pages)
046403 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Relaxation of the electron energy distribution function in the afterglow of a N2 microwave discharge including space-charge field effects
V. Guerra, P. A. Sá, and J. Loureiro
Published 23 March 2001 (13 pages)
046404 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic phenomena during magnetic trap confinement and their influence on maximum x-ray energy from electron-cyclotron-resonance-heated plasmas
K. S. Serebrennikov, C. Gaudin, J.-M. Buzzi, J. Bruneteau, and C. Rouille
Published 26 March 2001 (7 pages)
046405 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Effect of nonadiabaticity of dust charge variation on dust acoustic waves: Generation of dust acoustic shock waves
M. R. Gupta, Susmita Sarkar, Samiran Ghosh, M. Debnath, and Manoranjan Khan
Published 27 March 2001 (9 pages)
046406 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Dielectronic recombination in plasmas. II. Initial excited states
Gaber Omar and Yukap Hahn
Published 27 March 2001 (8 pages)
046407 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Magnetic field energy dissipation due to particle trapping in a force-free configuration of collisionless pair plasmas
J. I. Sakai, D. Sugiyama, T. Haruki, N. Bobrova, and S. Bulanov
Published 27 March 2001 (9 pages)
046408 [View PDF (748 kB)]
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Analysis of broadband x-ray spectra of highly charged krypton from a microcalorimeter detector of an electron-beam ion trap
I. Kink, J. M. Laming, E. Takács, J. V. Porto, J. D. Gillaspy, E. Silver, H. Schnopper, S. R. Bandler, M. Barbera, N. Brickhouse, S. Murray, N. Madden, D. Landis, J. Beeman, and E. E. Haller
Published 28 March 2001 (10 pages)
046409 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Use of low-density foams as pressure amplifiers in equation-of-state experiments with laser-driven shock waves
Dimitri Batani, Antonio Balducci, Wigen Nazarov, Thorsten Löwer, Tom Hall, Michel Koenig, Bernard Faral, Alessandra Benuzzi, and Mauro Temporal
Published 29 March 2001 (11 pages)
046410 [View PDF (893 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Alternative approach to the numerical synthesis of the dense-ion-beam focusing systems
V. B. Yurchenko and L. V. Yurchenko
Published 28 March 2001 (6 pages)
046501 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Simulation of laser wakefield acceleration of an ultrashort electron bunch
A. J. W. Reitsma, V. V. Goloviznin, L. P. J. Kamp, and T. J. Schep
Published 29 March 2001 (8 pages)
046502 [View PDF (237 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Self-oscillations in ring Toda chains with negative friction
W. Ebeling, P. S. Landa, and V. G. Ushakov
Published 19 March 2001 (8 pages)
046601 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Higher-order transverse modes of ultrashort isodiffracting pulses
Simin Feng and Herbert G. Winful
Published 20 March 2001 (9 pages)
046602 [View PDF (854 kB)]
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Reflection-induced spectral changes of the pulsed radiation emitted by a point source
S. H. Wiersma, T. D. Visser, and A. T. de Hoop
Published 21 March 2001 (14 pages)
046603 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Superluminal transmission of information through an electromagnetic metamaterial
Richard W. Ziolkowski
Published 23 March 2001 (13 pages)
046604 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Nonlinear Schrödinger equations with mean terms in nonresonant multidimensional quadratic materials
Mark J. Ablowitz, Gino Biondini, and Steve Blair
Published 23 March 2001 (15 pages)
046605 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Solitonic structures in a nonlinear model with interparticle anharmonic interaction
Maximo A. Agüero and Mauricio J. Paulin
Published 23 March 2001 (10 pages)
046606 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Multistable collision cycles of Manakov spatial solitons
Ken Steiglitz
Published 26 March 2001 (4 pages)
046607 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Surface shape resonances and surface plasmon polariton excitations in bottle-shaped metallic gratings
Diana C. Skigin and Ricardo A. Depine
Published 27 March 2001 (10 pages)
046608 [View PDF (723 kB)]
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Enhancement of sum frequency generation near the photonic band gap edge under the quasiphase matching conditions
A. V. Balakin, V. A. Bushuev, B. I. Mantsyzov, I. A. Ozheredov, E. V. Petrov, A. P. Shkurinov, P. Masselin, and G. Mouret
Published 27 March 2001 (11 pages)
046609 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Selective reflection spectroscopy of a resonant vapor at the interface with a metallic layer
M. Chevrollier, M. Oriá, J. G. de Souza, D. Bloch, M. Fichet, and M. Ducloy
Published 27 March 2001 (7 pages)
046610 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Driven kinks in discrete chains: Phonon damping
C. Cattuto, G. Costantini, T. Guidi, and F. Marchesoni
Published 27 March 2001 (5 pages)
046611 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Two-dimensional Green’s function and local density of states in photonic crystals consisting of a finite number of cylinders of infinite length
A. A. Asatryan, K. Busch, R. C. McPhedran, L. C. Botten, C. Martijn de Sterke, and N. A. Nicorovici
Published 29 March 2001 (4 pages)
046612 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Static and dynamic transport of light close to the Anderson localization transition
J. Gómez Rivas, R. Sprik, A. Lagendijk, L. D. Noordam, and C. W. Rella
Published 29 March 2001 (12 pages)
046613 [View PDF (512 kB)]

Computational physics

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Negative phase time for scattering at quantum wells: A microwave analogy experiment
R.-M. Vetter, A. Haibel, and G. Nimtz
Published 21 March 2001 (5 pages)
046701 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Quantum lattice-gas model for computational fluid dynamics
Jeffrey Yepez
Published 29 March 2001 (18 pages)
046702 [View PDF (293 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Gap function in the finite Bak-Sneppen model
K. Tabelow
Published 20 March 2001 (3 pages)
047101 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Universality of S-matrix correlations for deterministic plus random Hamiltonians
N. Mae and S. Iida
Published 21 March 2001 (4 pages)
047102 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Critical transition in the constrained traveling salesman problem
M. Andrecut and M. K. Ali
Published 27 March 2001 (3 pages)
047103 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Power-law correlations in the southern-oscillation-index fluctuations characterizing El Niño
M. Ausloos and K. Ivanova
Published 28 March 2001 (4 pages)
047201 [View PDF (97 kB)]
See Also: Reply
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Chaotic versus random ionization
A. López-Castillo and César R. de Oliveira
Published 29 March 2001 (3 pages)
047202 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Quantum breaking time scaling in superdiffusive dynamics
A. Iomin and George M. Zaslavsky
Published 29 March 2001 (4 pages)
047203 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Stochastic dynamics from the fractional Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation: Large-scale behavior of the turbulent transport coefficient
Alexander V. Milovanov
Published 21 March 2001 (4 pages)
047301 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Regular and anomalous scaling of a randomly advected passive scalar
Xiao-Hong Wang
Published 27 March 2001 (4 pages)
047302 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Conditional statistics of temperature fluctuations in turbulent convection
Emily S. C. Ching and K. L. Chau
Published 28 March 2001 (4 pages)
047303 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Method to measure the electric field vector in an argon glow discharge using laser polarization spectroscopy
V. P. Gavrilenko, H. J. Kim, T. Ikutake, J. B. Kim, M. D. Bowden, and K. Muraoka
Published 23 March 2001 (4 pages)
047401 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Population densities of hydrogenlike ions in a non-Maxwellian plasma
J. M. A. Ashbourn
Published 29 March 2001 (4 pages)
047402 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Frustrated total reflection: The double-prism revisited
A. Haibel, G. Nimtz, and A. A. Stahlhofen
Published 19 March 2001 (3 pages)
047601 [View PDF (380 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Electromagnetic convective cells in a nonuniform dusty plasma”
P. K. Shukla, L. Stenflo, O. A. Pokhotelov, and O. G. Onishchenko
Published 21 March 2001 (3 pages)
048401 [View PDF (51 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Strong-property-fluctuation theory for homogenization of bianisotropic composites: Formulation [Phys. Rev. E 62, 6052 (2000)]
Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, and Werner S. Weiglhofer
Published 19 March 2001 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Cavity solitons in semiconductor microresonators: Existence, stability, and dynamical properties [Phys. Rev. E 62, 8726 (2000)]
T. Maggipinto, M. Brambilla, G. K. Harkness, and W. J. Firth
Published 20 March 2001 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Erratum: Radiation by weakly nonlinear shallow-water solitons due to higher-order dispersion [Phys. Rev. E 58, 5070 (1998)]
V. I. Karpman
Published 22 March 2001 (1 page)
049903(E) [View PDF (13 kB)]
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Erratum: Implicit, partially linearized, electromagnetic particle simulation of plasma drift-wave turbulence [Phys. Rev. E 56, 2151 (1997)]
Bruce I. Cohen and Andris M. Dimits
Published 22 March 2001 (1 page)
049904(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]