Physical Review E – March 2002
Volume 65, Issue 3

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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Random walks with absolute negative mobility
B. Cleuren and C. Van den Broeck
Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages)
030101(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Granular materials

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Hydrodynamics of thermal granular convection
Xiaoyi He, Baruch Meerson, and Gary Doolen
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
030301(R) [View PDF (98 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Fluctuations in viscous fingering
Mitchell G. Moore, Anne Juel, John M. Burgess, W. D. McCormick, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages)
030601(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Dramatic effect of an additional CH2 group on the temperature variation of the Sm-Cα* short helical pitch
A. Cady, D. A. Olson, X. F. Han, H. T. Nguyen, and C. C. Huang
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
030701(R) [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Critical fluctuations near the smectic-hexatic phase transition with anticlinic structure
Seiji Shibahara, Jun Yamamoto, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Hiroshi Yokoyama, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
030702(R) [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Observation of an electrostatic force between charged surfaces in liquid crystals
K. Kočevar and I. Muševič
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
030703(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]

Polymers

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Glassy behavior of a homopolymer from molecular dynamics simulations
Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Estelle Pitard, Sergey V. Buldyrev, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages)
030801(R) [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Phase diagram of a mixed polymer brush
M. Müller
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
030802(R) [View PDF (147 kB)]

Biological physics

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Analytical solution of a model for complex food webs
Juan Camacho, Roger Guimerà, and Luís A. Nunes Amaral
Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages)
030901(R) [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Effects of torsional strain on thermal denaturation of DNA
Joseph Rudnick and Robijn Bruinsma
Published 13 February 2002 (3 pages)
030902(R) [View PDF (49 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Spatial behavior of anomalous transport
Gennady Margolin and Brian Berkowitz
Published 7 February 2002 (11 pages)
031101 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Velocity correlations, diffusion, and stochasticity in a one-dimensional system
V. Balakrishnan, I. Bena, and C. Van den Broeck
Published 8 February 2002 (9 pages)
031102 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Stabilization of metastable states
M. Gitterman
Published 11 February 2002 (3 pages)
031103 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Diffusion in tilted periodic potentials: Enhancement, universality, and scaling
P. Reimann, C. Van den Broeck, H. Linke, P. Hänggi, J. M. Rubi, and A. Pérez-Madrid
Published 12 February 2002 (16 pages)
031104 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Statistical properties of a class of nonlinear systems driven by colored multiplicative Gaussian noise
S. I. Denisov and Werner Horsthemke
Published 27 February 2002 (13 pages)
031105 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Dynamic critical behavior of an extended reptation dynamics for self-avoiding walks
Sergio Caracciolo, Mauro Papinutto, and Andrea Pelissetto
Published 28 February 2002 (15 pages)
031106 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Identification methods for nonlinear stochastic systems
Jose-Maria Fullana and Maurice Rossi
Published 28 February 2002 (10 pages)
031107 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Probability distribution of the sizes of the largest erased loops in loop-erased random walks
Himanshu Agrawal and Deepak Dhar
Published 1 March 2002 (8 pages)
031108 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Validity of the perturbation theory for hard particle systems with very-short-range attraction
Ph. Germain and S. Amokrane
Published 6 March 2002 (12 pages)
031109 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Rotation number, stochastic resonance, and synchronization of coupled systems without periodic driving
Min Qian and Xue-Juan Zhang
Published 7 March 2002 (6 pages)
031110 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Features of statistical dynamics in a finite system
Shiwei Yan, Fumihiko Sakata, and Yizhong Zhuo
Published 7 March 2002 (16 pages)
031111 [View PDF (305 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Precise measurement of liquid viscosity and surface tension with an improved oscillating drop method
T. Matsumoto, T. Nakano, H. Fujii, M. Kamai, and K. Nogi
Published 11 February 2002 (3 pages)
031201 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Nonlinear viscosity derived by means of Grad’s moment method
Byung Chan Eu
Published 12 February 2002 (8 pages)
031202 [View PDF (90 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Microscopic distribution functions, structure, and kinetic energy of liquid and solid neon: Quantum Monte Carlo simulations
Martin Neumann and Marco Zoppi
Published 5 March 2002 (15 pages)
031203 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Correlation functions in classical gases at high frequency
Max Teubner
Published 5 March 2002 (18 pages)
031204 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Inelastic x-ray scattering study of the collective dynamics in liquid sodium
T. Scopigno, U. Balucani, G. Ruocco, and F. Sette
Published 7 March 2002 (7 pages)
031205 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Fluid flow through nanometer-scale channels
J.-T. Cheng and N. Giordano
Published 7 March 2002 (5 pages)
031206 [View PDF (225 kB)]

Granular materials

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Simulations of a binary-sized mixture of inelastic grains in rapid shear flow
R. Clelland and C. M. Hrenya
Published 8 February 2002 (9 pages)
031301 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Granular friction, Coulomb failure, and the fluid-solid transition for horizontally shaken granular materials
Guy Metcalfe, S. G. K. Tennakoon, L. Kondic, D. G. Schaeffer, and R. P. Behringer
Published 11 February 2002 (15 pages)
031302 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Convective motion in a vibrated granular layer
A. Garcimartín, D. Maza, J. L. Ilquimiche, and I. Zuriguel
Published 15 February 2002 (5 pages)
031303 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Geometry of frictionless and frictional sphere packings
Leonardo E. Silbert, Deniz Ertaş, Gary S. Grest, Thomas C. Halsey, and Dov Levine
Published 21 February 2002 (6 pages)
031304 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Glassy dynamics in granular compaction: Sand on random graphs
Johannes Berg and Anita Mehta
Published 22 February 2002 (9 pages)
031305 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Granular polymer solution
Jeffrey J. Prentis and Daniel R. Sisan
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
031306 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Urn model of separation of sand
Adam Lipowski and Michel Droz
Published 27 February 2002 (7 pages)
031307 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Ratchet-induced segregation and transport of nonspherical grains
J. F. Wambaugh, C. Reichhardt, and C. J. Olson
Published 5 March 2002 (7 pages)
031308 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Interface view of directed sandpile dynamics
Chun-Chung Chen and Marcel den Nijs
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
031309 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Basin of attraction of a bounded self-organized critical state
Fergal Dalton and David Corcoran
Published 5 March 2002 (5 pages)
031310 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Finite width of shear zones
Bertrand Francois, Frédéric Lacombe, and Hans J. Herrmann
Published 6 March 2002 (7 pages)
031311 [View PDF (274 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Orientational structure of dipolar hard-spherical colloids
O. Alarcón-Waess, E. Diaz-Herrera, and A. Gil-Villegas
Published 7 February 2002 (9 pages)
031401 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Ordering and short-time orientational diffusion in dipolar hard-spherical colloids
O. Alarcón-Waess and E. Diaz-Herrera
Published 11 February 2002 (13 pages)
031402 [View PDF (1,332 kB)]
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Anisotropy of the structure factor of magnetic fluids under a field probed by small-angle neutron scattering
F. Gazeau, E. Dubois, J.-C. Bacri, F. Boué, A. Cebers, and R. Perzynski
Published 15 February 2002 (15 pages)
031403 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Binding of biological effectors on magnetic nanoparticles measured by a magnetically induced transient birefringence experiment
C. Wilhelm, F. Gazeau, J. Roger, J. N. Pons, M. F. Salis, R. Perzynski, and J. C. Bacri
Published 19 February 2002 (9 pages)
031404 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Constant bond breakup probability model for reversible aggregation processes
G. Odriozola, A. Schmitt, A. Moncho-Jordá, J. Callejas-Fernández, R. Martínez-García, R. Leone, and R. Hidalgo-Álvarez
Published 21 February 2002 (8 pages)
031405 [View PDF (385 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Phase transition analogous to Bose-Einstein condensation in systems of noninteracting surfactant aggregates
José A. Cuesta and Richard P. Sear
Published 27 February 2002 (13 pages)
031406 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Phase equilibria and glass transition in colloidal systems with short-ranged attractive interactions: Application to protein crystallization
Giuseppe Foffi, Gavin D. McCullagh, Aonghus Lawlor, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Kenneth A. Dawson, Francesco Sciortino, Piero Tartaglia, Davide Pini, and George Stell
Published 1 March 2002 (17 pages)
031407 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Thermodiffusion in magnetic colloids evidenced and studied by forced Rayleigh scattering experiments
J. Lenglet, A. Bourdon, J. C. Bacri, and G. Demouchy
Published 5 March 2002 (14 pages)
031408 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Kinetics of macroion coagulation induced by multivalent counterions
T. T. Nguyen and B. I. Shklovskii
Published 5 March 2002 (7 pages)
031409 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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History-dependent rheology of a surfactant hexagonal phase
M. L. Sushko, J. M. Seddon, and R. H. Templer
Published 11 February 2002 (10 pages)
031501 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Using patterned substrates to promote mixing in microchannels
Olga Kuksenok, J. M. Yeomans, and Anna C. Balazs
Published 12 February 2002 (8 pages)
031502 [View PDF (771 kB)]
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Real-coded lattice gas model for ternary amphiphilic fluids
Tomonori Sakai, Yu Chen, and Hirotada Ohashi
Published 19 February 2002 (8 pages)
031503 [View PDF (1,132 kB)]
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Glasslike relaxation of labyrinthine domain patterns
Bert Reimann, Reinhard Richter, and Ingo Rehberg
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
031504 [View PDF (733 kB)]
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Inside the hysteresis loop: Multiplicity of internal states in confined fluids
Alexander V. Neimark, Peter I. Ravikovitch, and Aleksey Vishnyakov
Published 1 March 2002 (6 pages)
031505 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Kinetics of formation of a phase with an arbitrary stoichiometric composition in a multicomponent solid solution
V. V. Slezov and J. Schmelzer
Published 6 March 2002 (13 pages)
031506 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Electrorheological fluid under elongation, compression, and shearing
Y. Tian, Y. Meng, H. Mao, and S. Wen
Published 6 March 2002 (5 pages)
031507 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Anisotropic capillary interactions and jamming of colloidal particles trapped at a liquid-fluid interface
J.-B. Fournier and P. Galatola
Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages)
031601 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation of sinusoidally modulated superlattice growth
H. Jeong, B. Kahng, S. Lee, C. Y. Kwak, A.-L. Barabási, and J. K. Furdyna
Published 11 February 2002 (5 pages)
031602 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Scaling laws in adsorption on bivariate surfaces
F. Bulnes, A. J. Ramirez-Pastor, and G. Zgrablich
Published 13 February 2002 (7 pages)
031603 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Evidence for tip velocity oscillations in dendritic solidification
J. C. LaCombe, M. B. Koss, J. E. Frei, C. Giummarra, A. O. Lupulescu, and M. E. Glicksman
Published 15 February 2002 (6 pages)
031604 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Wetting transitions at soft, sliding interfaces
A. Martin, J. Clain, A. Buguin, and F. Brochard-Wyart
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
031605 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium self-assembly of metals on diblock copolymer templates
W. A. Lopes
Published 21 February 2002 (14 pages)
031606 [View PDF (1,486 kB)]
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Is a position-dependent stiffness relevant for the wetting phase diagram?
F. Clarysse and C. J. Boulter
Published 27 February 2002 (7 pages)
031607 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Domain wall roughening in dipolar films in the presence of disorder
Jaime E. Santos, Erwin Frey, and Franz Schwabl
Published 5 March 2002 (11 pages)
031608 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Ions and nematic surface energy: Beyond the exponential approximation for the electric field of ionic origin
G. Barbero and D. Olivero
Published 7 February 2002 (5 pages)
031701 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Structural transitions in thin free-standing films of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal exhibiting the smectic-Cα* phase in the bulk sample
P. V. Dolganov, Yoshiichi Suzuki, and Atsuo Fukuda
Published 8 February 2002 (7 pages)
031702 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Slow molecular dynamics of water in a lyotropic complex fluid studied by deuterium conventional and spin-lattice relaxometry NMR
C. R. Rodríguez, D. J. Pusiol, A. M. Figueiredo Neto, and R.-O. Seitter
Published 8 February 2002 (7 pages)
031703 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Photopyroelectric ac calorimetric study of the nematic–smectic-A phase-transition line in binary liquid crystal mixtures with injected smectic-A phases
J. Caerels, C. Glorieux, and J. Thoen
Published 8 February 2002 (7 pages)
031704 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Influence of electric fields on the smectic layer structure of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystal devices
S. J. Watson, L. S. Matkin, L. J. Baylis, N. Bowring, H. F. Gleeson, M. Hird, and J. Goodby
Published 11 February 2002 (9 pages)
031705 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Coupled-mode approach to the nonlinear dynamics induced by an elliptically polarized laser field in liquid crystals at normal incidence
A. Vella, B. Piccirillo, and E. Santamato
Published 12 February 2002 (7 pages)
031706 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Lamellar phases confined in quasicylindrical pores: Lattice model results
M. Tasinkevych, A. Ciach, and M. M. Telo da Gama
Published 12 February 2002 (8 pages)
031707 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Local self-consistent approach to the phase transition at the nematic liquid-crystal-wall interface
G. Barbero and L. R. Evangelista
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
031708 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Weak boundary anchoring, twisted nematic effect, and homeotropic to twisted-planar transition
Wei Zhao, Chen-Xu Wu, and Mitsumasa Iwamoto
Published 13 February 2002 (11 pages)
031709 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Interaction of foreign macroparticles in a cholesteric liquid crystal
Jun-ichi Fukuda, Bohdan I. Lev, and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
031710 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Structure and freezing of fluids interacting via the Gay-Berne (n-6) potentials
Ram C. Singh, Jokhan Ram, and Yashwant Singh
Published 19 February 2002 (11 pages)
031711 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Tilt order parameters, polarity, and inversion phenomena in smectic liquid crystals
P. K. Karahaliou, A. G. Vanakaras, and D. J. Photinos
Published 19 February 2002 (13 pages)
031712 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Texture formation in carbonaceous mesophase fibers
J. Yan and A. D. Rey
Published 21 February 2002 (14 pages)
031713 [View PDF (1,057 kB)]
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Pretransitional scaling close to a double critical point in a potassium laurate, 1-decanol, and heavy water lyotropic liquid crystal
P. Licinio and M. B. L. Santos
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
031714 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Dislocation loops in overheated free-standing smectic films
A. N. Shalaginov and D. E. Sullivan
Published 1 March 2002 (10 pages)
031715 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Phase equilibria in systems of hard disks with thickness polydispersity
H. H. Wensink and G. J. Vroege
Published 5 March 2002 (11 pages)
031716 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Effective index of refraction, optical rotation, and circular dichroism in isotropic chiral liquid crystals
D. Lacoste, P. J. Collings, and T. C. Lubensky
Published 5 March 2002 (11 pages)
031717 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Photoinduced effects in the vicinity of the smectic-Cα*–smectic-A transition
S. Krishna Prasad, K. L. Sandhya, and Y. S. Negi
Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages)
031718 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Degree of disorder in cubic mesophases in thermotropics: Thermodynamic study of a liquid crystal showing two cubic mesophases
Kazuya Saito, Takashi Shinhara, Tadahiro Nakamoto, Shoichi Kutsumizu, Yano, and Michio Sorai
Published 6 March 2002 (7 pages)
031719 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Electro-optic response and switchable Bragg diffraction for liquid crystals in colloid-templated materials
P. Mach, P. Wiltzius, M. Megens, D. A. Weitz, Keng-hui Lin, T. C. Lubensky, and A. G. Yodh
Published 6 March 2002 (3 pages)
031720 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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External electric-field effect on nematic anchoring energy
D. Olivero, L. R. Evangelista, and G. Barbero
Published 7 March 2002 (6 pages)
031721 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Polymers

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Area-constrained planar elastica
Guillermo Arreaga, Riccardo Capovilla, Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos, and Jemal Guven
Published 13 February 2002 (14 pages)
031801 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Coexistence curve near the tricritical point in ternary polymer solutions
Toshiaki Dobashi, Toshiki Ujiie, Hiroto Matsumoto, Takao Yamamoto, and Mitsuo Nakata
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
031802 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Orientations of the lamellar phase of block copolymer melts under oscillatory shear flow
A. N. Morozov and J. G. E. M. Fraaije
Published 21 February 2002 (3 pages)
031803 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Chain segment order in ultrathin polymer films: A deuterium NMR study
S. V. Primak, T. Jin, A. C. Dagger, D. Finotello, and E. K. Mann
Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages)
031804 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Salt effect on volume phase transition of a gel
Masahiko Annaka, Yuko Amo, Shigeo Sasaki, Yasunori Tominaga, Keiko Motokawa, and Takayuki Nakahira
Published 6 March 2002 (8 pages)
031805 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Viscosity of entangled polystyrene thin film melts: Film thickness dependence
Jean-Loup Masson and Peter F. Green
Published 7 March 2002 (5 pages)
031806 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Stretched polymers in a poor solvent
Peter Grassberger and Hsiao-Ping Hsu
Published 7 March 2002 (9 pages)
031807 [View PDF (295 kB)]

Biological physics

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Quasispecies evolution on a fitness landscape with a fluctuating peak
Martin Nilsson and Nigel Snoad
Published 7 February 2002 (6 pages)
031901 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Synchrony arising from a balanced synaptic plasticity in a network of heterogeneous neural oscillators
Jan Karbowski and G. Bard Ermentrout
Published 8 February 2002 (5 pages)
031902 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of secondary structures formed by random RNA sequences
R. Bundschuh and T. Hwa
Published 11 February 2002 (22 pages)
031903 [View PDF (694 kB)]
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Model for stochastic-resonance-type behavior in sensory perception
Yunfan Gong, Nestor Matthews, and Ning Qian
Published 11 February 2002 (5 pages)
031904 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Maximal force exerted by a molecular motor
Zbigniew Koza
Published 12 February 2002 (5 pages)
031905 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Measurement of particle size distribution in multilayered skin phantoms using polarized light spectroscopy
Matthew Bartlett and Huabei Jiang
Published 19 February 2002 (8 pages)
031906 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Correlation studies of open and closed state fluctuations in an ion channel: Analysis of ion current through a large-conductance locust potassium channel
Zuzanna Siwy, Marcel Ausloos, and Kristinka Ivanova
Published 27 February 2002 (6 pages)
031907 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Photon-density waves in macroscopic and microscopic plane-parallel scattering samples
P. J. Peverly, R. E. Wagner, G. H. Rutherford, M. Marsalli, Q. Su, and R. Grobe
Published 1 March 2002 (7 pages)
031908 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Stability and instability of polymorphic populations and the role of multiple breeding seasons in phase III of Wright’s shifting balance theory
M. A. M. de Aguiar, H. Sayama, E. Rauch, Y. Bar-Yam, and M. Baranger
Published 1 March 2002 (7 pages)
031909 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Convergence of sampling in protein simulations
Berk Hess
Published 1 March 2002 (10 pages)
031910 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Asymmetric exclusion process and extremal statistics of random sequences
R. Bundschuh
Published 5 March 2002 (19 pages)
031911 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Surface-induced conformational changes in lattice model proteins by Monte Carlo simulation
Victoria Castells, Shaoxiong Yang, and Paul R. Van Tassel
Published 5 March 2002 (8 pages)
031912 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Investigation of the electric potential near the DNA-solvent interface: Conclusions about the stability of B-DNA
D. Ouroushev
Published 6 March 2002 (8 pages)
031913 [View PDF (610 kB)]
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Initial state randomness improves sequence learning in a model hippocampal network
A. P. Shon, Wu, D. W. Sullivan, and W. B Levy
Published 6 March 2002 (15 pages)
031914 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Simple model of epidemics with pathogen mutation
Michelle Girvan, Duncan S. Callaway, M. E. J. Newman, and Steven H. Strogatz
Published 6 March 2002 (9 pages)
031915 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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General random matrix approach to account for the effect of static disorder on the spectral properties of light harvesting systems
Melih K. Şener and Klaus Schulten
Published 6 March 2002 (12 pages)
031916 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Single molecule statistics and the polynucleotide unzipping transition
David K. Lubensky and David R. Nelson
Published 6 March 2002 (25 pages)
031917 [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Dynamic analysis of a parasite population model
G. J. Sibona and C. A. Condat
Published 6 March 2002 (9 pages)
031918 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Excitons in a photosynthetic light-harvesting system: A combined molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and polaron model study
Ana Damjanović, Ioan Kosztin, Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, and Klaus Schulten
Published 6 March 2002 (24 pages)
031919 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Effects of ultraviolet radiation on the type-I collagen protein triple helical structure: A method for measuring structural changes through optical activity
Alexander J. Majewski, Martin Sanzari, Hong-Liang Cui, and Peter Torzilli
Published 6 March 2002 (11 pages)
031920 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Correlation-dimension and autocorrelation fluctuations in epileptic seizure dynamics
Ying-Cheng Lai, Ivan Osorio, Mary Ann F. Harrison, and Mark G. Frei
Published 7 March 2002 (5 pages)
031921 [View PDF (112 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Static phase and dynamic scaling in a deposition model with an inactive species
S. S. Botelho and F. D. A. Aarão Reis
Published 11 February 2002 (3 pages)
032101 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Inertial effects in anomalous dielectric relaxation
W. T. Coffey, Yu. P. Kalmykov, and S. V. Titov
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
032102 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Self-consistent expansion for the molecular beam epitaxy equation
Eytan Katzav
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
032103 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Anomalous slowing down in the metastable liquid of hard spheres
M. Dzugutov
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
032501 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Creep rupture of viscoelastic fiber bundles
Raul Cruz Hidalgo, Ferenc Kun, and Hans. J. Herrmann
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
032502 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Elastic coupling of silica gel dynamics in a liquid-crystal–aerosil dispersion
Cornelia C. Retsch, Ian McNulty, and Germano S. Iannacchione
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
032701 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Exact calculations of the paranematic interaction energy for colloidal dispersions in the isotropic phase of a nematogenic material
J.-B. Fournier and P. Galatola
Published 5 March 2002 (3 pages)
032702 [View PDF (42 kB)]

Biological physics

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Linearity and scaling of a statistical model for the species abundance distribution
Hector Garcia Martin and Nigel Goldenfeld
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
032901 [View PDF (70 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Monte Carlo simulations for a Lotka-type model with reactant diffusion and interactions”
Vladimir P. Zhdanov
Published 15 February 2002 (3 pages)
033101 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Monte Carlo simulations for a Lotka-type model with reactant surface diffusion and interactions’ ”
V.N. Kuzovkov and G. Zvejnieks
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
033102 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “nonlinear viscosity and Grad’s method”
Byang Chan Eu
Published 5 March 2002 (2 pages)
033201 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on Nonlinear viscosity and Grad’s method ”
F. J. Uribe and L. S. García-Colín
Published 5 March 2002 (3 pages)
033202 [View PDF (50 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Nonuniversality of invasion percolation in two-dimensional systems
Mark A. Knackstedt, Muhammad Sahimi, and Adrian P. Sheppard
Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages)
035101(R) [View PDF (43 kB)]
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First-order depinning transition of a driven interface in disordered media
Kwangho Park, Sungbok Kwak, and In-mook Kim
Published 8 February 2002 (4 pages)
035102(R) [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Equivalence of stationary state ensembles
H. J. Hilhorst and F. van Wijland
Published 13 February 2002 (3 pages)
035103(R) [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Statistics of multiple sign changes in a discrete non-Markovian sequence
Satya N. Majumdar
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
035104(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion, stable processes, and generalized functions
Barry D. Hughes
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
035105(R) [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Multiparameter generalization of nonextensive statistical mechanics
Fabio Sattin and Luca Salasnich
Published 5 March 2002 (4 pages)
035106(R) [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Crack propagation in thin glass plates caused by high velocity impact
Toshihiko Kadono and Masahiko Arakawa
Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages)
035107(R) [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Epidemic dynamics in finite size scale-free networks
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
035108(R) [View PDF (134 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Diffusion resonances in action space for an atom optics kicked rotor with decoherence
A. J. Daley, A. S. Parkins, R. Leonhardt, and S. M. Tan
Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages)
035201(R) [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Suppressing spatiotemporal disorder via local perturbations in an electrochemical cell
P. Parmananda, B. J. Green, and J. L. Hudson
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
035202(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]
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High-dimensional interior crisis in the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
A. C.-L. Chian, E. L. Rempel, E. E. Macau, R. R. Rosa, and F. Christiansen
Published 13 February 2002 (4 pages)
035203(R) [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Reconstructing embedding spaces of coupled dynamical systems from multivariate data
S. Boccaletti, D.L. Valladares, Louis M. Pecora, Hite P. Geffert, and T. Carroll
Published 21 February 2002 (4 pages)
035204(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Spatial forcing of spontaneous optical patterns
R. Neubecker and A. Zimmermann
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
035205(R) [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Rainbow transition in chaotic scattering
Alessandro P. S. de Moura and Celso Grebogi
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
035206(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Effects of disorder on the wave front depinning transition in spatially discrete systems
A. Carpio, L. L. Bonilla, and A. Luzón
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
035207(R) [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Ehrenfest times for classically chaotic systems
P. G. Silvestrov and C. W. J. Beenakker
Published 7 March 2002 (3 pages)
035208(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Scalar variance decay in chaotic advection and Batchelor-regime turbulence
D. R. Fereday, P. H. Haynes, A. Wonhas, and J. C. Vassilicos
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
035301(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Three-lobe-shaped equilibrium states in magnetic liquid bridges
A. G. Papathanasiou and A. G. Boudouvis
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
035302(R) [View PDF (287 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Explosive energy release in magnetic shocks
S. I. Vainshtein, R. Rosner, and R. Z. Sagdeev
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
035401(R) [View PDF (83 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Toroid moments in the momentum and angular momentum loss by a radiating arbitrary source
E. E. Radescu and G. Vaman
Published 19 February 2002 (3 pages)
035601(R) [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Statistical theory for incoherent light propagation in nonlinear media
B. Hall, M. Lisak, D. Anderson, R. Fedele, and V. E. Semenov
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
035602(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Nematic liquid crystals: A suitable medium for self-confinement of coherent and incoherent light
Marco Peccianti and Gaetano Assanto
Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages)
035603(R) [View PDF (363 kB)]

Computational physics

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Rational approximation with multidimensional scattered data
Xu-Guang Hu, Tak-San Ho, and Herschel Rabitz
Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages)
035701(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Generalized thermodynamics of q-deformed bosons and fermions
A. Lavagno and P. Narayana Swamy
Published 7 February 2002 (5 pages)
036101 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Criticality and oscillatory behavior in non-Markovian contact process
Rouzbeh Gerami
Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages)
036102 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Exact amplitude ratio and finite-size corrections for the M×N square lattice Ising model
N. Sh. Izmailian and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 7 February 2002 (10 pages)
036103 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Immunization of complex networks
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani
Published 8 February 2002 (8 pages)
036104 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Damage spreading in small world Ising models
Pontus Svenson and Desmond A. Johnston
Published 8 February 2002 (7 pages)
036105 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Towards a macroscopic modeling of the complexity in traffic flow
Stephan Rosswog and Peter Wagner
Published 8 February 2002 (9 pages)
036106 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Relation between structure and size in social networks
Luis López and Miguel A. F. Sanjuán
Published 8 February 2002 (7 pages)
036107 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Universality class of the restricted solid-on-solid model with hopping
Su-Chan Park, Jeong-Man Park, and Doochul Kim
Published 11 February 2002 (8 pages)
036108 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Random-cluster multihistogram sampling for the q-state Potts model
Martin Weigel, Wolfhard Janke, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 11 February 2002 (11 pages)
036109 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Numerical comparison of two approaches for the study of phase transitions in small systems
Nelson A. Alves, Jeaneti P. N. Ferrite, and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann
Published 11 February 2002 (9 pages)
036110 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Molecular hydrodynamic approach to dynamical correlations in quantum liquids
Eran Rabani and David R. Reichman
Published 11 February 2002 (4 pages)
036111 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Exact result on topology and phase transitions at any finite N
Lapo Casetti, E. G. D. Cohen, and Marco Pettini
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
036112 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium precursor model for the onset of percolation in a two-phase system
Marcelo Gleiser, Rafael C. Howell, and Rudnei O. Ramos
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
036113 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Noise-enhanced temporal association in neural networks
Y. Shim, H. Hong, and M. Y. Choi
Published 12 February 2002 (6 pages)
036114 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Three-state cyclic voter model extended with Potts energy
György Szabó and Attila Szolnoki
Published 12 February 2002 (7 pages)
036115 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Diffusion in disordered media with long-range correlations: Anomalous, Fickian, and superdiffusive transport and log-periodic oscillations
M. Saadatfar and Muhammad Sahimi
Published 13 February 2002 (8 pages)
036116 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Fracture in mode I using a conserved phase-field model
L. O. Eastgate, J. P. Sethna, M. Rauscher, T. Cretegny, C.-S. Chen, and C. R. Myers
Published 13 February 2002 (10 pages)
036117 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Experimental study of the dimensionality of black-eye patterns
Chaoxian Zhou, Hongyu Guo, and Qi Ouyang
Published 13 February 2002 (5 pages)
036118 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Slow dynamics and aging in a nonrandomly frustrated spin system
Hui Yin and Bulbul Chakraborty
Published 15 February 2002 (13 pages)
036119 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Capacity drop due to the traverse of pedestrians
Rui Jiang, Qingsong Wu, and Xiaobai Li
Published 15 February 2002 (5 pages)
036120 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Extended phase-space dynamics for the generalized nonextensive thermostatistics
J. S. Andrade, Jr., M. P. Almeida, A. A. Moreira, and G. A. Farias
Published 19 February 2002 (5 pages)
036121 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Correlation effects in a simple model of a small-world network
V. Karimipour and A. Ramzanpour
Published 21 February 2002 (5 pages)
036122 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Highly clustered scale-free networks
Konstantin Klemm and Víctor M. Eguíluz
Published 21 February 2002 (5 pages)
036123 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Multifractal properties of resistor diode percolation
Olaf Stenull and Hans-Karl Janssen
Published 27 February 2002 (19 pages)
036124 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Light-induced evaporation and condensation growth of aerosol particles
V. G. Chernyak and O. V. Klitenik
Published 27 February 2002 (8 pages)
036125 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Heterogeneous interfacial failure between two elastic blocks
G. George Batrouni, Alex Hansen, and Jean Schmittbuhl
Published 27 February 2002 (7 pages)
036126 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Extreme value statistics and traveling fronts: Application to computer science
Satya N. Majumdar and P. L. Krapivsky
Published 27 February 2002 (15 pages)
036127 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Duality in nonextensive statistical mechanics
Iliya V. Karlin, Miroslav Grmela, and Alexander N. Gorban
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
036128 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Influence of boundary conditions on statistical properties of ideal Bose-Einstein condensates
Martin Holthaus, Kishore T. Kapale, and Marlan O. Scully
Published 27 February 2002 (5 pages)
036129 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Effect of disorder on critical short-time dynamics
Guang-Ping Zheng and Mo Li
Published 27 February 2002 (7 pages)
036130 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Anomalous scaling and Lee-Yang zeros in self-organized criticality
B. Cessac and J. L. Meunier
Published 28 February 2002 (18 pages)
036131 [View PDF (400 kB)]
•
Dynamic model for the popularity of websites
Chang-Yong Lee and Seungwhan Kim
Published 1 March 2002 (6 pages)
036132 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Global exponential stability of continuous-time interval neural networks
Sanqing Hu and Jun Wang
Published 5 March 2002 (9 pages)
036133 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Pseudospectral method for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
Lorenzo Giada, Achille Giacometti, and Maurice Rossi
Published 5 March 2002 (11 pages)
036134 [View PDF (157 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Effect of the subsurface oxygen diffusion on the Ziff-Gulari-Barshad catalytic reaction model
B. C. S. Grandi and W. Figueiredo
Published 5 March 2002 (7 pages)
036135 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Kink production in the presence of impurities
T. Dobrowolski
Published 5 March 2002 (5 pages)
036136 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Numerical confirmation of late-time t1/2 growth in three-dimensional phase ordering
Gregory Brown and Per Arne Rikvold
Published 5 March 2002 (6 pages)
036137 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Model for glass transition in a binary fluid from a mode coupling approach
Upendra Harbola and Shankar P. Das
Published 6 March 2002 (12 pages)
036138 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Generalized Young’s equation for rough and heterogeneous substrates: A microscopic proof
Joël De Coninck, Jean Ruiz, and Salvador Miracle-Solé
Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages)
036139 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Towards a variational principle for motivated vehicle motion
Ihor Lubashevsky, Sergey Kalenkov, and Reinhard Mahnke
Published 6 March 2002 (5 pages)
036140 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Conformal map modeling of the pinning transition in Laplacian growth
H. G. E Hentschel, M. N. Popescu, and F. Family
Published 6 March 2002 (8 pages)
036141 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Log-periodic route to fractal functions
S. Gluzman and D. Sornette
Published 7 March 2002 (19 pages)
036142 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of ionic microgels
Yan Levin, Alexandre Diehl, A. Fernández-Nieves, and A. Fernández-Barbero
Published 7 March 2002 (6 pages)
036143 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Universality class of discrete solid-on-solid limited mobility nonequilibrium growth models for kinetic surface roughening
S. Das Sarma, P. Punyindu Chatraphorn, and Z. Toroczkai
Published 7 March 2002 (7 pages)
036144 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Quantum refrigeration cycles using spin-1/2 systems as the working substance
Jizhou He, Jincan Chen, and Ben Hua
Published 7 March 2002 (8 pages)
036145 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Entropy of electromagnetic polarization
Y. Zimmels
Published 7 March 2002 (5 pages)
036146 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Self-organized critical system with no stationary attractor state
Simon F. Nørrelykke and Per Bak
Published 7 March 2002 (5 pages)
036147 [View PDF (69 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note

Chaos and pattern formation

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Semiclassical spatial correlations in chaotic wave functions
Fabricio Toscano and Caio H. Lewenkopf
Published 8 February 2002 (13 pages)
036201 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Transition from intermittency to periodicity in lag synchronization in coupled Rössler oscillators
Meng Zhan, G. W. Wei, and C.-H. Lai
Published 8 February 2002 (5 pages)
036202 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal stability and control of one-way open coupled Lorenz systems
Keiji Konishi
Published 11 February 2002 (7 pages)
036203 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Lotka-Volterra system in a random environment
Mikhail F. Dimentberg
Published 11 February 2002 (6 pages)
036204 [View PDF (94 kB)]
•
Second moment of the Husimi distribution as a measure of complexity of quantum states
Ayumu Sugita and Hirokazu Aiba
Published 11 February 2002 (10 pages)
036205 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Peculiarities of the relaxation to an invariant probability measure of nonhyperbolic chaotic attractors in the presence of noise
Vadim S. Anishchenko, Tatjana E. Vadivasova, Andrey S. Kopeikin, Jürgen Kurths, and Galina I. Strelkova
Published 11 February 2002 (10 pages)
036206 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Asymmetric unimodal maps at the edge of chaos
Ugur Tirnakli, Constantino Tsallis, and Marcelo L. Lyra
Published 11 February 2002 (7 pages)
036207 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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General relation between quantum ergodicity and fidelity of quantum dynamics
Tomaž Prosen
Published 11 February 2002 (5 pages)
036208 [View PDF (94 kB)]
•
Lyapunov instability for a periodic Lorentz gas thermostated by deterministic scattering
K. Rateitschak and R. Klages
Published 12 February 2002 (11 pages)
036209 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Self-similar organization of Gavrilov-Silnikov-Newhouse sinks
Binoy Krishna Goswami and Sourish Basu
Published 13 February 2002 (9 pages)
036210 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Phase relationships between two or more interacting processes from one-dimensional time series. I. Basic theory
N. B. Janson, A. G. Balanov, V. S. Anishchenko, and P. V. E. McClintock
Published 15 February 2002 (12 pages)
036211 [View PDF (278 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Phase relationships between two or more interacting processes from one-dimensional time series. II. Application to heart-rate-variability data
N. B. Janson, A. G. Balanov, V. S. Anishchenko, and P. V. E. McClintock
Published 15 February 2002 (7 pages)
036212 [View PDF (740 kB)]
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Inhibition of chaotic escape from a potential well by incommensurate escape-suppressing excitations
R. Chacón and J. A. Martínez
Published 19 February 2002 (7 pages)
036213 [View PDF (637 kB)]
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Parallel computing with extended dynamical systems
Sudeshna Sinha, Toshinori Munakata, and William L. Ditto
Published 19 February 2002 (7 pages)
036214 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Quantum localization for a kicked rotor with accelerator mode islands
A. Iomin, S. Fishman, and G. M. Zaslavsky
Published 21 February 2002 (9 pages)
036215 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Flexible parallel implementation of logic gates using chaotic elements
Sudeshna Sinha, Toshinori Munakata, and William L. Ditto
Published 21 February 2002 (9 pages)
036216 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Coherent oscillations and incoherent tunneling in a one-dimensional asymmetric double-well potential
V. A. Benderskii and E. I. Kats
Published 21 February 2002 (7 pages)
036217 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Naturally invariant measure of chaotic attractors and the conditionally invariant measure of embedded chaotic repellers
Hrvoje Buljan and Vladimir Paar
Published 27 February 2002 (9 pages)
036218 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Nonperturbative and perturbative parts of energy eigenfunctions: A three-orbital schematic shell model
Wen-ge Wang
Published 27 February 2002 (9 pages)
036219 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Shadowing breakdown and large errors in dynamical simulations of physical systems
Timothy D. Sauer
Published 28 February 2002 (5 pages)
036220 [View PDF (71 kB)]
•
Pseudointegrable Andreev billiard
Jan Wiersig
Published 1 March 2002 (5 pages)
036221 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Experimental observation of the characteristic relations of type-I intermittency in the presence of noise
Jin-Hang Cho, Myung-Suk Ko, Young-Jai Park, and Chil-Min Kim
Published 1 March 2002 (7 pages)
036222 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Turbulence in small-world networks
M. G. Cosenza and K. Tucci
Published 1 March 2002 (6 pages)
036223 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Pattern formation in two-frequency forced parametric waves
H. Arbell and J. Fineberg
Published 5 March 2002 (29 pages)
036224 [View PDF (3,747 kB)]
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Synchronization: Stability and duration time
Paul Woafo and Roberto A. Kraenkel
Published 5 March 2002 (6 pages)
036225 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Synchronization of chaotic systems with different order
Ricardo Femat and Gualberto Solís-Perales
Published 5 March 2002 (7 pages)
036226 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Controlling dynamics in spatially extended systems
Nita Parekh and Somdatta Sinha
Published 5 March 2002 (9 pages)
036227 [View PDF (444 kB)]
•
Microscopic chaos from Brownian motion in a one-dimensional anharmonic oscillator chain
M. Romero-Bastida and E. Braun
Published 5 March 2002 (5 pages)
036228 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Achronal generalized synchronization in mutually coupled semiconductor lasers
J. K. White, M. Matus, and J. V. Moloney
Published 5 March 2002 (5 pages)
036229 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Bifurcations of synchronized responses in synaptically coupled Bonhöffer–van der Pol neurons
Kunichika Tsumoto, Tetsuya Yoshinaga, and Hiroshi Kawakami
Published 6 March 2002 (9 pages)
036230 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Arithmetical signatures of the dynamics of the Hénon map
Antônio Endler and Jason A. C. Gallas
Published 6 March 2002 (11 pages)
036231 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Amplitude envelope synchronization in coupled chaotic oscillators
J. M. Gonzalez-Miranda
Published 7 March 2002 (10 pages)
036232 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Scaling of structure functions in homogeneous shear-flow turbulence
J. Qian
Published 7 February 2002 (6 pages)
036301 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Circulation-strain sum rule in stochastic magnetohydrodynamics
L. Moriconi and F. A. S. Nobre
Published 8 February 2002 (8 pages)
036302 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Magnetic fluctuations with a zero mean field in a random fluid flow with a finite correlation time and a small magnetic diffusion
Nathan Kleeorin, Igor Rogachevskii, and Dmitry Sokoloff
Published 12 February 2002 (7 pages)
036303 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Continuum description of rarefied gas dynamics. III. The structures of shock waves
Xinzhong Chen, Edward A. Spiegel, and Hongling Rao
Published 12 February 2002 (7 pages)
036304 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Critical “dimension” in shell model turbulence
Paolo Giuliani, Mogens H. Jensen, and Victor Yakhot
Published 13 February 2002 (5 pages)
036305 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Flow pattern exchange in the Taylor-Couette system with a very small aspect ratio
Hiroyuki Furukawa, Takashi Watanabe, Yorinobu Toya, and Ikuo Nakamura
Published 13 February 2002 (7 pages)
036306 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Stability analysis of boundary layer flow due to the presence of a small hole on a surface
R. Fernandez-Feria
Published 13 February 2002 (7 pages)
036307 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Nonlinear wave dynamics in Faraday instabilities
Peilong Chen
Published 15 February 2002 (6 pages)
036308 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Nonhydrodynamic modes and a priori construction of shallow water lattice Boltzmann equations
Paul J. Dellar
Published 15 February 2002 (12 pages)
036309 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Nonlinear effects due to gravity in a conical Hele-Shaw cell
José A. Miranda
Published 19 February 2002 (8 pages)
036310 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Nonlinear states of the screw dynamo
Wolfgang Dobler, Anvar Shukurov, and Axel Brandenburg
Published 21 February 2002 (13 pages)
036311 [View PDF (804 kB)]
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Flow paths in wetting unsaturated flow: Experiments and simulations
Eirik G. Flekkøy, Jean Schmittbuhl, Finn Løvholt, Unni Oxaal, Knut Jørgen Måløy, and Per Aagaard
Published 21 February 2002 (9 pages)
036312 [View PDF (935 kB)]
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Memory effects in a turbulent dynamo: Generation and propagation of a large-scale magnetic field
Sergei Fedotov, Alexey Ivanov, and Andrey Zubarev
Published 5 March 2002 (5 pages)
036313 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Energy and structure of inertial range turbulence deduced from an evolution of fluid impulse
D. M. Summers
Published 5 March 2002 (9 pages)
036314 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Growth of binary fluid convection: Role of the concentration field
C. Fütterer and M. Lücke
Published 6 March 2002 (18 pages)
036315 [View PDF (1,065 kB)]
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Experiments on free decay of quasi-two-dimensional turbulent flows
S. Danilov, F. V. Dolzhanskii, V. A. Dovzhenko, and V. A. Krymov
Published 6 March 2002 (8 pages)
036316 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Vortex filament motion under the localized induction approximation in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions
H. J. Shin
Published 6 March 2002 (12 pages)
036317 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann simulation of chemical dissolution in porous media
Qinjun Kang, Dongxiao Zhang, Shiyi Chen, and Xiaoyi He
Published 7 March 2002 (8 pages)
036318 [View PDF (173 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Steady ion momentum in nonlinear plasma waves
L. M. Gorbunov, P. Mora, and R. R. Ramazashvili
Published 8 February 2002 (8 pages)
036401 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Theory of Kα generation by femtosecond laser-produced hot electrons in thin foils
D. Salzmann, Ch. Reich, I. Uschmann, E. Förster, and P. Gibbon
Published 8 February 2002 (5 pages)
036402 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal characteristics of the collisionless rf sheath and the ion energy distributions arriving at rf-biased electrodes
Zhong-Ling Dai, You-Nian Wang, and Teng-Cai Ma
Published 13 February 2002 (7 pages)
036403 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Two-dimensional collision of probe photons with relativistic ionization fronts
J. M. Dias, N. C. Lopes, L. O. Silva, G. Figueira, and J. T. Mendonça
Published 13 February 2002 (6 pages)
036404 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Energetics of electromagnetic wave transformation in a time-varying magnetoplasma medium
M. I. Bakunov and I. S. Grachev
Published 13 February 2002 (10 pages)
036405 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Stopping power of nonideal, partially ionized plasmas
D. O. Gericke, M. Schlanges, and Th. Bornath
Published 15 February 2002 (14 pages)
036406 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Unified formulation for inhomogeneity-driven instabilities in the lower-hybrid range
O. J. G. Silveira, L. F. Ziebell, R. Gaelzer, and Peter H. Yoon
Published 19 February 2002 (11 pages)
036407 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Quasilinear diffusion as a result of modulational instability in the pulsar plasma
G. Z. Machabeli, Q. Luo, S. V. Vladimirov, and D. B. Melrose
Published 21 February 2002 (6 pages)
036408 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Injection of electron beam into a toroidal trap using chaotic orbits near magnetic null
C. Nakashima, Z. Yoshida, H. Himura, M. Fukao, J. Morikawa, and H. Saitoh
Published 21 February 2002 (6 pages)
036409 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Spatially resolved x-ray spectroscopy investigation of femtosecond laser irradiated Ar clusters
G. C. Junkel-Vives, J. Abdallah, Jr., T. Auguste, P. D’Oliveira, S. Hulin, P. Monot, S. Dobosz, A. Ya. Faenov, A. I. Magunov, T. A. Pikuz, I. Yu. Skobelev, A. S. Boldarev, and V. A. Gasilov
Published 27 February 2002 (9 pages)
036410 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Theory of wave propagation along a waveguide filled with moving magnetized plasma
Liu Shenggang, Yan Yang, Mao Jie, and Dennis M. Manos
Published 5 March 2002 (8 pages)
036411 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Electric microfield distributions in electron-ion plasmas
Alexander Y. Potekhin, Gilles Chabrier, and Dominique Gilles
Published 5 March 2002 (12 pages)
036412 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Observation of neutron spectrum produced by fast deuterons via ultraintense laser plasma interactions
N. Izumi, Y. Sentoku, H. Habara, K. Takahashi, F. Ohtani, T. Sonomoto, R. Kodama, T. Norimatsu, H. Fujita, Y. Kitagawa, K. Mima, K. A. Tanaka, and T. Yamanaka
Published 6 March 2002 (10 pages)
036413 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Harmonic generation of ultraintense laser pulses in underdense plasma
Hai Lin, Li-Ming Chen, and J. C. Kieffer
Published 6 March 2002 (6 pages)
036414 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Oblique electrostatic modes in self-gravitating dusty plasmas
Frank Verheest and Victoria V. Yaroshenko
Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages)
036415 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Axisymmetric relativistic self-channeling of laser light in plasmas
A. Kim, M. Tushentsov, F. Cattani, D. Anderson, and M. Lisak
Published 6 March 2002 (10 pages)
036416 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Shear Alfvén waves in turbulent plasmas
Manuel Núñez
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
036417 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Dense plasma temperature equilibration in the binary collision approximation
D. O. Gericke, M. S. Murillo, and M. Schlanges
Published 7 March 2002 (5 pages)
036418 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Parametric and resonant transition radiation in periodic stratified structures
B. Pardo and J.-M. André
Published 19 February 2002 (9 pages)
036501 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Approximate solutions of two-way diffusion equations
F. Andersson, P. Helander, D. Anderson, H. Smith, and M. Lisak
Published 27 February 2002 (6 pages)
036502 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Phase and gain measurements in a distributed-loss cyclotron-resonance maser amplifier
Amit Kesar and Eli Jerby
Published 28 February 2002 (6 pages)
036503 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Analytical description of stripping foil extraction from isochronous cyclotrons
Stanko S. Tomić and Eugene V. Samsonov
Published 28 February 2002 (6 pages)
036504 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Experimental observation of short-pulse upshifted frequency microwaves from a laser-created overdense plasma
Noboru Yugami, Toshihiko Niiyama, Takeshi Higashiguchi, Hong Gao, Shigeo Sasaki, Hiroaki Ito, and Yasushi Nishida
Published 5 March 2002 (5 pages)
036505 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Theory of acoustic scattering by supported ridges at a solid-liquid interface
A. Khelif, J. O. Vasseur, Ph. Lambin, B. Djafari-Rouhani, and P. A. Deymier
Published 7 February 2002 (7 pages)
036601 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Interferometric methods in diagnostics of polarization singularities
Oleg V. Angelsky, Igor I. Mokhun, Alexey I. Mokhun, and Marat S. Soskin
Published 7 February 2002 (5 pages)
036602 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Electromigration-induced propagation of nonlinear surface waves
R. Mark Bradley
Published 7 February 2002 (6 pages)
036603 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Time delay distribution in Bragg gratings
Fabio Ghiringhelli and Mikhail N. Zervas
Published 8 February 2002 (13 pages)
036604 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Multichannel pulse dynamics in a stabilized Ginzburg-Landau system
H. E. Nistazakis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, J. Atai, B. A. Malomed, N. Efremidis, and K. Hizanidis
Published 11 February 2002 (12 pages)
036605 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Suppression of Manakov soliton interference in optical fibers
Jianke Yang
Published 11 February 2002 (10 pages)
036606 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Purely imaginary eigenvalues of Zakharov-Shabat systems
M. Klaus and J. K. Shaw
Published 11 February 2002 (5 pages)
036607 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Anomalous dispersion and superluminal group velocity in a coaxial photonic crystal: Theory and experiment
A. Haché and L. Poirier
Published 12 February 2002 (6 pages)
036608 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Spatial optical solitons in nonlinear photonic crystals
Andrey A. Sukhorukov and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 13 February 2002 (14 pages)
036609 [View PDF (1,445 kB)]
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Polarization patterns and vectorial defects in type-II optical parametric oscillators
M. Santagiustina, E. Hernandez-Garcia, M. San-Miguel, A. J. Scroggie, and G.-L. Oppo
Published 13 February 2002 (14 pages)
036610 [View PDF (992 kB)]
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Collective behavior of parametric oscillators
I. Bena, C. Van den Broeck, R. Kawai, Mauro Copelli, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 13 February 2002 (18 pages)
036611 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Optical absorption for parallel cylinder arrays
P. Robles, R. Rojas, and F. Claro
Published 19 February 2002 (5 pages)
036612 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Trapping of vibrational energy in crumpled sheets
Ajay Gopinathan, T. A. Witten, and S. C. Venkataramani
Published 21 February 2002 (11 pages)
036613 [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Increased damping of irregular resonators
S. Russ and B. Sapoval
Published 28 February 2002 (10 pages)
036614 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Body versus surface forces in continuum mechanics: Is the Maxwell stress tensor a physically objective Cauchy stress?
Carlos Rinaldi and Howard Brenner
Published 28 February 2002 (14 pages)
036615 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Spatially resolved photonic transfer through mesoscopic heterowires
R. Quidant, J.-C. Weeber, A. Dereux, D. Peyrade, Ch. Girard, and Y. Chen
Published 28 February 2002 (4 pages)
036616 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Coherent interaction effects in pulses propagating through a doped nonlinear dispersive medium
D. P. Caetano, Solange B. Cavalcanti, and J. Miguel Hickmann
Published 5 March 2002 (6 pages)
036617 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Topological solitons in nondegenerate one-component chains
Leonid I. Manevitch, Grigori M. Sigalov, and Alexander V. Savin
Published 5 March 2002 (22 pages)
036618 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Slow light, induced dispersion, enhanced nonlinearity, and optical solitons in a resonator-array waveguide
John E. Heebner, Robert W. Boyd, and Q-Han Park
Published 6 March 2002 (4 pages)
036619 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Pattern formation via symmetry breaking in nonlinear weakly correlated systems
Suzanne M. Sears, Marin Soljačić, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Mordechai Segev
Published 7 March 2002 (9 pages)
036620 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Propagation of classical waves in nonperiodic media: Scaling properties of an optical Cantor filter
A. V. Lavrinenko, S. V. Zhukovsky, K. S. Sandomirski, and S. V. Gaponenko
Published 7 March 2002 (8 pages)
036621 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Numerical studies of left-handed materials and arrays of split ring resonators
P. Markoš and C. M. Soukoulis
Published 7 March 2002 (8 pages)
036622 [View PDF (691 kB)]

Computational physics

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Polarization state of the optical near field
Gaëtan Lévêque, Gérard Colas des Francs, Christian Girard, Jean Claude Weeber, Christophe Meier, Cécile Robilliard, Renaud Mathevet, and John Weiner
Published 7 February 2002 (8 pages)
036701 [View PDF (696 kB)]
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Lyapunov spectrum from time series using moving boxes
N. N. Oiwa and N. Fiedler-Ferrara
Published 11 February 2002 (10 pages)
036702 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Real-space renormalization-group approach to field evolution equations
Andreas Degenhard and Javier Rodríguez-Laguna
Published 12 February 2002 (8 pages)
036703 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations with minimal searching
T. P. Schulze
Published 13 February 2002 (3 pages)
036704 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Efficient method for simulating quantum electron dynamics under the time-dependent Kohn-Sham equation
Naoki Watanabe and Masaru Tsukada
Published 13 February 2002 (6 pages)
036705 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Computer simulations of a two-dimensional system with competing interactions
Antitsa D. Stoycheva and Sherwin J. Singer
Published 19 February 2002 (15 pages)
036706 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Improvements on the application of convergence accelerators for the evaluation of some three-electron atomic integrals
Paul J. Pelzl, Gregory J. Smethells, and Frederick W. King
Published 27 February 2002 (11 pages)
036707 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Taylor-series expansion and least-squares-based lattice Boltzmann method: Two-dimensional formulation and its applications
C. Shu, X. D. Niu, and Y. T. Chew
Published 6 March 2002 (13 pages)
036708 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Self-referential method for calculation of the free energy of crystals by Monte Carlo simulation
C. Daniel Barnes and David A. Kofke
Published 6 March 2002 (9 pages)
036709 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Lattice-switch Monte Carlo method: Application to soft potentials
A. N. Jackson, A. D. Bruce, and G. J. Ackland
Published 7 March 2002 (12 pages)
036710 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Thermal treatment of the minority game
E. Burgos, Horacio Ceva, and R. P. J. Perazzo
Published 7 March 2002 (8 pages)
036711 [View PDF (116 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Computer simulation study of irreversible adsorption: Coverage fluctuations
Jordi Faraudo and Javier Bafaluy
Published 7 February 2002 (4 pages)
037101 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Interband spectrum of weakly coupled stochastic lattice Ginzburg-Landau models
Paulo A. Faria da Veiga, Michael O’Carroll, and Ricardo Schor
Published 11 February 2002 (3 pages)
037102 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Exact solution for single-scale Gaussian random transport
James P. Gleeson
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
037103 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Theory for competing reactions with initially separated components
Misha Sinder
Published 15 February 2002 (4 pages)
037104 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Energetics of rocked inhomogeneous ratchets
Debasis Dan and A. M. Jayannavar
Published 21 February 2002 (4 pages)
037105 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Fractional Langevin model of memory in financial time series
Bruce J. West and Sergio Picozzi
Published 6 March 2002 (3 pages)
037106 [View PDF (49 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Pernicious effect of physical cutoffs in fractal analysis
M. Ciccotti and F. Mulargia
Published 12 February 2002 (4 pages)
037201 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Targeting unknown and unstable periodic orbits
B. Doyon and L. J. Dubé
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
037202 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Low-dimensional chaos in zero-Prandtl-number Bénard–Marangoni convection
Thomas Boeck and Nikolay K. Vitanov
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
037203 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Density relaxation of a near-critical fluid in response to local heating and low frequency vibration in microgravity
Arnaud Jounet
Published 19 February 2002 (4 pages)
037301 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Spiral-defect chaos: Swift-Hohenberg model versus Boussinesq equations
Rainer Schmitz, Werner Pesch, and Walter Zimmermann
Published 7 March 2002 (3 pages)
037302 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Fluid motions in the Earth’s core inferred from time spectral features of the geomagnetic field
Giuseppe Consolini, Paola De Michelis, and Antonio Meloni
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
037303 [View PDF (47 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Collisionless damping of nonlinear dust ion acoustic wave due to dust charge fluctuation
Samiran Ghosh, Tushar K. Chaudhuri, Susmita Sarkar, Manoranjan Khan, and M. R. Gupta
Published 21 March 2002 (4 pages)
037401 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Electron anisotropic scattering in gases: A formula for Monte Carlo simulations
A. Okhrimovskyy, A. Bogaerts, and R. Gijbels
Published 27 February 2002 (4 pages)
037402 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Simple stochastic model for optical tunneling
A. Ranfagni, R. Ruggeri, P. Sandri, and A. Agresti
Published 7 March 2002 (3 pages)
037601 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Computational physics

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Fast algorithm for generating long self-affine profiles
Ingve Simonsen and Alex Hansen
Published 1 March 2002 (4 pages)
037701 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Calculation of the Coulomb energy in quasi-two-dimensional systems
Oleksiy V. Bystrenko
Published 7 March 2002 (4 pages)
037702 [View PDF (50 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Symmetric path integrals for stochastic equations with multiplicative noise”
H. Calisto and E. Tirapegui
Published 6 March 2002 (3 pages)
038101 [View PDF (41 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Dipole radiation in a one-dimensional photonic crystal: TE polarization [Phys. Rev. E 63, 056613 (2001)]
I. Alvarado-Rodriguez, P. Halevi, and Adán S. Sánchez
Published 7 February 2002 (2 pages)
039901(E) [View PDF (38 kB)]