Physical Review E – November 2002
Volume 66, Issue 5

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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1/fα noise from correlations between avalanches in self-organized criticality
Jörn Davidsen and Maya Paczuski
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Kinetics of migration-driven aggregation processes
Jianhong Ke and Zhenquan Lin
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
050102(R) [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Ratchet for energy transport between identical reservoirs
Souvik Das, Onuttom Narayan, and Sriram Ramaswamy
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
050103(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]

Granular materials

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Symmetry breaking and coarsening of clusters in a prototypical driven granular gas
Eli Livne, Baruch Meerson, and Pavel V. Sasorov
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
050301(R) [View PDF (66 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Molecular hydrodynamic theory of supercooled liquids and colloidal suspensions under shear
Kunimasa Miyazaki and David R. Reichman
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
050501(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Polymers

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Elasticity of semiflexible polymers
Joseph Samuel and Supurna Sinha
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
050801(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Biological physics

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Analytic description of stochastic calcium-signaling periodicity
Lars Meinhold and Lutz Schimansky-Geier
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
050901(R) [View PDF (82 kB)]
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NMR elastometry of fluid membranes in the mesoscopic regime
Gary V. Martinez, Emily M. Dykstra, Silvia Lope-Piedrafita, Constantin Job, and Michael F. Brown
Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages)
050902(R) [View PDF (434 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Three and four current reversals versus temperature in correlation ratchets with a simple sawtooth potential
Risto Tammelo, Romi Mankin, and Dmitri Martila
Published 7 November 2002 (5 pages)
051101 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Asymptotic analysis of a random walk with a history-dependent step length
Ronald Dickman, Francisco Fontenele Araujo, Jr., and Daniel ben-Avraham
Published 11 November 2002 (7 pages)
051102 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Hopping diffusion of two coupled particles in the random trap model
R. Descas and K. Mussawisade
Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages)
051103 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Crossover effects in a discrete deposition model with Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling
Anna Chame and F. D. A. Aarão Reis
Published 13 November 2002 (6 pages)
051104 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Quantum Kramers equation for energy diffusion and barrier crossing dynamics in the low-friction regime
Dhruba Banerjee, Suman Kumar Banik, Bidhan Chandra Bag, and Deb Shankar Ray
Published 19 November 2002 (20 pages)
051105 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Coupling-reentrant phase transition, complex hysteretic behavior, and efficiency optimization in coupled phase oscillators submitted to colored flashing potentials
S. E. Mangioni, R. R. Deza, and H. S. Wio
Published 21 November 2002 (12 pages)
051106 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Thermodynamics and structure of self-assembled networks
A. G. Zilman and S. A. Safran
Published 22 November 2002 (28 pages)
051107 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Cluster persistence in one-dimensional diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation
E. K. O. Hellén, P. E. Salmi, and M. J. Alava
Published 26 November 2002 (10 pages)
051108 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Atomic-scale structure of hard-core fluids under shear flow
James F. Lutsko
Published 26 November 2002 (16 pages)
051109 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Random energy model for dynamics in supercooled liquids: N dependence
T. Keyes, J. Chowdhary, and J. Kim
Published 26 November 2002 (11 pages)
051110 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Brownian motion in dynamically disordered media
James B. Witkoskie, Shilong Yang, and Jianshu Cao
Published 26 November 2002 (15 pages)
051111 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Stationary state in N-body system with power law interaction
Osamu Iguchi
Published 27 November 2002 (8 pages)
051112 [View PDF (179 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Simple model of capillary condensation in cylindrical pores
Leszek Szybisz and Ignacio Urrutia
Published 13 November 2002 (11 pages)
051201 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Stokes-Einstein-like relation for athermal systems and glasses under shear
Daniel J. Lacks
Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages)
051202 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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NMR visualization of displacement correlations for flow in porous media
A. A. Khrapitchev, S. Stapf, and P. T. Callaghan
Published 20 November 2002 (16 pages)
051203 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Wave drag due to generation of capillary-gravity surface waves
Teodor Burghelea and Victor Steinberg
Published 20 November 2002 (13 pages)
051204 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Mixing in fully chaotic flows
A. Wonhas and J. C. Vassilicos
Published 21 November 2002 (17 pages)
051205 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Metastable liquid-liquid phase transition in a single-component system with only one crystal phase and no density anomaly
G. Franzese, G. Malescio, A. Skibinsky, S. V. Buldyrev, and H. E. Stanley
Published 27 November 2002 (14 pages)
051206 [View PDF (1,081 kB)]

Granular materials

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Shocks in vertically oscillated granular layers
J. Bougie, Sung Joon Moon, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 5 November 2002 (9 pages)
051301 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Transport theory of granular swarms
S. B. Vrhovac, D. Arsenović, and A. Belić
Published 7 November 2002 (12 pages)
051302 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulations of vibrated granular gases
Alain Barrat and Emmanuel Trizac
Published 18 November 2002 (13 pages)
051303 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Driven low density granular mixtures
Riccardo Pagnani, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, and Andrea Puglisi
Published 19 November 2002 (8 pages)
051304 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Viscosity bifurcation in granular materials, foams, and emulsions
F. Da Cruz, F. Chevoir, Daniel Bonn, and P. Coussot
Published 19 November 2002 (7 pages)
051305 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Breakdown of self-organized criticality in sandpiles
Maria de Sousa Vieira
Published 20 November 2002 (5 pages)
051306 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Stability of monomer-dimer piles
Deniz Ertaş, Thomas C. Halsey, Alex J. Levine, and Thomas G. Mason
Published 27 November 2002 (10 pages)
051307 [View PDF (209 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Flory-Huggins theory for athermal mixtures of hard spheres and larger flexible polymers
Richard P. Sear
Published 20 November 2002 (9 pages)
051401 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Rearrangements in hard-sphere glasses under oscillatory shear strain
G. Petekidis, A. Moussaïd, and P. N. Pusey
Published 26 November 2002 (13 pages)
051402 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Simple model for heterogeneous flows of yield stress fluids
Guillemette Picard, Armand Ajdari, Lydéric Bocquet, and François Lequeux
Published 5 November 2002 (12 pages)
051501 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Contribution of physical clusters to phase behavior
Tetsuo Kaneko
Published 18 November 2002 (18 pages)
051502 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Nonlinear response of a dipolar system with rotational diffusion to a rotating field
B. U. Felderhof
Published 19 November 2002 (8 pages)
051503 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Rotation due to hydrodynamic interactions between two spheres in contact
M. L. Ekiel-Jeżewska, N. Lecoq, R. Anthore, F. Bostel, and F. Feuillebois
Published 26 November 2002 (14 pages)
051504 [View PDF (242 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Reconstruction and roughening of a catalytic Pt(110) surface coupled to kinetic oscillations
Michael Monine and Len Pismen
Published 5 November 2002 (9 pages)
051601 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Nucleation rates and induction times during colloidal crystallization: Links between models and experiments
Narendra M. Dixit and Charles F. Zukoski
Published 11 November 2002 (10 pages)
051602 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Interface scaling in a two-dimensional porous medium under combined viscous, gravity, and capillary effects
Yves Méheust, Grunde Løvoll, Knut Jørgen Måløy, and Jean Schmittbuhl
Published 11 November 2002 (12 pages)
051603 [View PDF (1,147 kB)]
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Dynamics of low anisotropy morphologies in directional solidification
B. Utter and E. Bodenschatz
Published 20 November 2002 (11 pages)
051604 [View PDF (1,584 kB)]
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Restricted curvature model with suppression of extremal height
Hyeong-Chai Jeong and Jin Min Kim
Published 26 November 2002 (5 pages)
051605 [View PDF (73 kB)]
See Also: Comment

Liquid crystals

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Electric-field-induced transition between the anticlinic and the synclinic smectic-C surfaces in free-standing films
Barbara Rovšek, Mojca Čepič, and Boštjan Žekš
Published 7 November 2002 (6 pages)
051701 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Wetting and capillary nematization of binary hard-platelet and hard-rod fluids
L. Harnau and S. Dietrich
Published 11 November 2002 (10 pages)
051702 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Three-dimensional director structures of defects in Grandjean-Cano wedges of cholesteric liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy
I. I. Smalyukh and O. D. Lavrentovich
Published 11 November 2002 (16 pages)
051703 [View PDF (1,873 kB)]
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Antiferroelectric liquid-crystal mixture without smectic layer shrinkage at the direct Sm-A*–Sm-Ca* transition
Frank Giesselmann, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Gunnar Andersson, and Marc D. Radcliffe
Published 13 November 2002 (5 pages)
051704 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Coarsening dynamics of biaxial nematic liquid crystals
N. V. Priezjev and Robert A. Pelcovits
Published 13 November 2002 (7 pages)
051705 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Intermediate periodic “saddle-splay” nematic phase in the vicinity of a nematic–smectic-A transition
G. Barbero and V. M. Pergamenshchik
Published 19 November 2002 (10 pages)
051706 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Effect of mosaicity in x-ray studies of critical behavior at the nematic to smectic-A transition
Andrew Primak, Michael Fisch, and Satyendra Kumar
Published 19 November 2002 (13 pages)
051707 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Acoustic realignment of nematic liquid crystals
J. V. Selinger, M. S. Spector, V. A. Greanya, B. T. Weslowski, D. K. Shenoy, and R. Shashidhar
Published 19 November 2002 (7 pages)
051708 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Surface effects in nucleation and growth of smectic-B crystals in thin samples
T. Börzsönyi and S. Akamatsu
Published 19 November 2002 (14 pages)
051709 [View PDF (1,289 kB)]
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Length and speed selection in dendritic growth of electrohydrodynamic convection in a nematic liquid crystal
N. Gheorghiu and J. T. Gleeson
Published 19 November 2002 (7 pages)
051710 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Interaction of particles in a deformed nematic liquid crystal
Jun-ichi Fukuda, Bohdan I. Lev, Keiko M. Aoki, and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Published 21 November 2002 (13 pages)
051711 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Full energy expression of a uniaxial nematic phase with spatially dependent density and order parameters: From microscopic to macroscopic theory
V. M. Pergamenshchik and S. B. Chernyshuk
Published 26 November 2002 (10 pages)
051712 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals with positive dielectric and negative conductivity anisotropy
Á. Buka, B. Dressel, W. Otowski, K. Camara, T. Toth-Katona, L. Kramer, J. Lindau, G. Pelzl, and W. Pesch
Published 26 November 2002 (8 pages)
051713 [View PDF (823 kB)]

Polymers

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First-order wetting transition at finite contact angle
F. A. M. Leermakers, J. H. Maas, and M. A. Cohen Stuart
Published 11 November 2002 (5 pages)
051801 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Conformational instability of rodlike polyelectrolytes due to counterion fluctuations
Ramin Golestanian and Tanniemola B. Liverpool
Published 11 November 2002 (7 pages)
051802 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Structural modifications in the swelling of inhomogeneous microgels by light and neutron scattering
A. Fernández-Barbero, A. Fernández-Nieves, I. Grillo, and E. López-Cabarcos
Published 11 November 2002 (10 pages)
051803 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Kinetic arrest of crowded soft spheres in solvents of varying quality
E. Stiakakis, D. Vlassopoulos, B. Loppinet, J. Roovers, and G. Meier
Published 13 November 2002 (9 pages)
051804 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Scattering from supramacromolecular structures
Carlos I. Mendoza and Carlos M. Marques
Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages)
051805 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Effects of nonuniform segment deformation on the constitutive relation of polymeric solids
Duan Z. Zhang, Cheng Liu, and Francis H. Harlow
Published 22 November 2002 (15 pages)
051806 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Dissolution of a polyelectrolyte-macroion complex by addition of salt
Marie Skepö and Per Linse
Published 27 November 2002 (7 pages)
051807 [View PDF (136 kB)]

Biological physics

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Growth patterns of microscopic brain tumors
Leonard M. Sander and Thomas S. Deisboeck
Published 6 November 2002 (7 pages)
051901 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein folding and aggregation studied by density functional theory: Dynamics
Akira R. Kinjo and Shoji Takada
Published 7 November 2002 (10 pages)
051902 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Binless strategies for estimation of information from neural data
Jonathan D. Victor
Published 11 November 2002 (15 pages)
051903 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Iron normal mode dynamics in a porphyrin-imidazole model for deoxyheme proteins
Brajesh K. Rai, Stephen M. Durbin, Earl W. Prohofsky, J. Timothy Sage, Mary K. Ellison, W. Robert Scheidt, Wolfgang Sturhahn, and E. Ercan Alp
Published 12 November 2002 (12 pages)
051904 [View PDF (544 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of formation of a supported phospholipid bilayer from vesicles on SiO2
E. Reimhult, F. Höök, and B. Kasemo
Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages)
051905 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Origin of the pattern of trabecular bone: An experiment and a model
Zbisław Tabor, Eugeniusz Rokita, and Tadeusz Cichocki
Published 13 November 2002 (5 pages)
051906 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Unsteady two-dimensional theory of a flapping wing
F. O. Minotti
Published 13 November 2002 (10 pages)
051907 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Stochastic neural network model for spontaneous bursting in hippocampal slices
B. Biswal and C. Dasgupta
Published 15 November 2002 (18 pages)
051908 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Regions of cardiorespiratory synchronization in humans under paced respiration
S. Rzeczinski, N. B. Janson, A. G. Balanov, and P. V. E. McClintock
Published 19 November 2002 (9 pages)
051909 [View PDF (1,047 kB)]
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Physical model for the gating mechanism of ionic channels
Cheol-Min Ghim and Jeong-Man Park
Published 20 November 2002 (5 pages)
051910 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Langevin dynamics of proteins at constant pH
Aleksandra M. Walczak and Jan M. Antosiewicz
Published 20 November 2002 (8 pages)
051911 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Adsorption of a random copolymer at a lipid bilayer membrane
Aleksander V. Ermoshkin, Jeff Z. Y. Chen, and Pik-Yin Lai
Published 21 November 2002 (6 pages)
051912 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Weakly nonlinear analysis of the electrohydrodynamic instability of a charged membrane
R. M. Thaokar and V. Kumaran
Published 21 November 2002 (10 pages)
051913 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Unzipping dynamics of long DNAs
Simona Cocco, Rémi Monasson, and John F. Marko
Published 22 November 2002 (11 pages)
051914 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Spatial heterogeneity and the stability of reaction states in autocatalysis
Glenn Marion, Xuerong Mao, Eric Renshaw, and Junli Liu
Published 22 November 2002 (9 pages)
051915 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Effect of environment partitioning on the survival and coexistence of autocatalytic replicators
İnanç Birol, Satish J. Parulekar, and Fouad Teymour
Published 26 November 2002 (19 pages)
051916 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Population dynamics of interacting spiking neurons
Maurizio Mattia and Paolo Del Giudice
Published 26 November 2002 (19 pages)
051917 [View PDF (528 kB)]
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Smectic phases of semiflexible manifolds: Constant-pressure ensemble
Lianghui Gao and Leonardo Golubović
Published 27 November 2002 (14 pages)
051918 [View PDF (204 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Granular materials

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Analysis of microstresses in cement paste by fluorescence piezospectroscopy
Sven M. F. Asmus and Giuseppe Pezzotti
Published 11 November 2002 (4 pages)
052301 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Different time regimes of tracer exchange in single-file systems
Sergey Vasenkov and Jörg Kärger
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
052601 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Propagation of acoustic waves in nematic elastomers
E. M. Terentjev, I. V. Kamotski, D. D. Zakharov, and L. J. Fradkin
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
052701 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Polymers

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Fluorescence study on the phase transition of hydrogen-bonding gels
Yaşar Yılmaz
Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages)
052801 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Anisotropy of lamellar block copolymer grains
N. P. Balsara, C. M. Marques, B. A. Garetz, M. C. Newstein, and S. P. Gido
Published 25 November 2002 (4 pages)
052802 [View PDF (379 kB)]

Biological physics

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Mechanism for membrane electroporation irreversibility under high-intensity, ultrashort electrical pulse conditions
R. P. Joshi and K. H. Schoenbach
Published 11 November 2002 (4 pages)
052901 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Clustering of diffusing organisms
B. Houchmandzadeh
Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages)
052902 [View PDF (63 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Infinite-order percolation and giant fluctuations in a protein interaction network
J. Kim, P. L. Krapivsky, B. Kahng, and S. Redner
Published 11 November 2002 (4 pages)
055101(R) [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Monochromatic path crossing exponents and graph connectivity in two-dimensional percolation
Jesper Lykke Jacobsen and Paul Zinn-Justin
Published 19 November 2002 (3 pages)
055102(R) [View PDF (80 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Dominance of Milnor attractors in globally coupled dynamical systems with more than 7±2 degrees of freedom
Kunihiko Kaneko
Published 4 November 2002 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Phase synchronization and topological defects in inhomogeneous media
Jörn Davidsen and Raymond Kapral
Published 18 November 2002 (4 pages)
055202(R) [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Patterns in spherical Rayleigh-Bénard convection: A giant spiral roll and its dislocations
Pu Zhang, Xinhao Liao, and Keke Zhang
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
055203(R) [View PDF (137 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Soret driven convection in a colloidal solution heated from above at very large solutal Rayleigh number
Roberto Cerbino, Alberto Vailati, and Marzio Giglio
Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages)
055301(R) [View PDF (262 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Optimal bistable switching in nonlinear photonic crystals
Marin Soljačić, Mihai Ibanescu, Steven G. Johnson, Yoel Fink, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Published 11 November 2002 (4 pages)
055601(R) [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Stability of spiralling solitary waves in Hamiltonian systems
Dmitry V. Skryabin, John M. McSloy, and William J. Firth
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
055602(R) [View PDF (122 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Scaling analysis of a divergent prefactor in the metastable lifetime of a square-lattice Ising ferromagnet at low temperatures
Kyungwha Park, M. A. Novotny, and P. A. Rikvold
Published 5 November 2002 (7 pages)
056101 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Singularities of the canonical partition functions of fluid systems with continuous interaction potentials
Xian-Zhi Wang
Published 6 November 2002 (7 pages)
056102 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Exact results for hydrogen recombination on dust grain surfaces
Ofer Biham and Azi Lipshtat
Published 6 November 2002 (12 pages)
056103 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Aggregate formation in a system of coagulating and fragmenting particles with mass-dependent diffusion rates
R. Rajesh, Dibyendu Das, Bulbul Chakraborty, and Mustansir Barma
Published 7 November 2002 (9 pages)
056104 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Geography in a scale-free network model
C. P. Warren, L. M. Sander, and I. M. Sokolov
Published 13 November 2002 (5 pages)
056105 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Importance of multispin couplings in renormalized Hamiltonians
Dorit Ron and Robert H. Swendsen
Published 13 November 2002 (4 pages)
056106 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Largest and second largest cluster statistics at the percolation threshold of hypercubic lattices
C. R. da Silva, M. L. Lyra, and G. M. Viswanathan
Published 13 November 2002 (5 pages)
056107 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Fractional Schrödinger equation
Nick Laskin
Published 18 November 2002 (7 pages)
056108 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Phase transitions of soft disks in external periodic potentials: A Monte Carlo study
W. Strepp, S. Sengupta, and P. Nielaba
Published 19 November 2002 (13 pages)
056109 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Large scale cross-correlations in Internet traffic
Marc Barthélemy, Bernard Gondran, and Eric Guichard
Published 19 November 2002 (7 pages)
056110 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Continuum analysis of an avalanche model for solar flares
Han-Li Liu, Paul Charbonneau, Annick Pouquet, Thomas Bogdan, and Scott McIntosh
Published 19 November 2002 (10 pages)
056111 [View PDF (254 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Slow dynamics in the three-dimensional gonihedric model
P. Dimopoulos, D. Espriu, E. Jané, and A. Prats
Published 19 November 2002 (9 pages)
056112 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Percolation in a random environment
Róbert Juhász and Ferenc Iglói
Published 19 November 2002 (7 pages)
056113 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Slow relaxation in a constrained Ising spin chain: Toy model for granular compaction
Satya N. Majumdar and David S. Dean
Published 19 November 2002 (9 pages)
056114 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Contact tracing and epidemics control in social networks
Ramon Huerta and Lev S. Tsimring
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
056115 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Pure stationary states of open quantum systems
Vasily E. Tarasov
Published 19 November 2002 (7 pages)
056116 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Edge wetting of an Ising three-dimensional system
L. Bahmad, A. Benyoussef, and H. Ez-Zahraouy
Published 19 November 2002 (6 pages)
056117 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Coevolutionary games on networks
Holger Ebel and Stefan Bornholdt
Published 20 November 2002 (8 pages)
056118 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Information geometry of the ising model on planar random graphs
W. Janke, D. A. Johnston, and Ranasinghe P. K. C. Malmini
Published 20 November 2002 (5 pages)
056119 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Random graph coloring: Statistical physics approach
J. van Mourik and D. Saad
Published 21 November 2002 (15 pages)
056120 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Multifractal stationary random measures and multifractal random walks with log infinitely divisible scaling laws
Jean-François Muzy and Emmanuel Bacry
Published 21 November 2002 (16 pages)
056121 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Trapping thresholds in invasion percolation
Lincoln Paterson, Adrian P. Sheppard, and Mark A. Knackstedt
Published 21 November 2002 (6 pages)
056122 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Quantum statistics in complex networks
Ginestra Bianconi
Published 21 November 2002 (5 pages)
056123 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Effects of pore walls and randomness on phase transitions in porous media
Marek Cieplak, Amos Maritan, Michael R. Swift, Flavio Toigo, and Jayanth R. Banavar
Published 22 November 2002 (9 pages)
056124 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics in the context of special relativity
G. Kaniadakis
Published 25 November 2002 (17 pages)
056125 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Random K-satisfiability problem: From an analytic solution to an efficient algorithm
Marc Mézard and Riccardo Zecchina
Published 26 November 2002 (27 pages)
056126 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Absence of first-order transition and tricritical point in the dynamic phase diagram of a spatially extended bistable system in an oscillating field
G. Korniss, P. A. Rikvold, and M. A. Novotny
Published 26 November 2002 (12 pages)
056127 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Ramanujan sums for signal processing of low-frequency noise
Michel Planat, Haret Rosu, and Serge Perrine
Published 26 November 2002 (7 pages)
056128 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Stochastic synchronization in globally coupled phase oscillators
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
Published 27 November 2002 (5 pages)
056129 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Defect-induced perturbations of atomic monolayers on solid surfaces
H. Schiessel, G. Oshanin, A. M. Cazabat, and M. Moreau
Published 27 November 2002 (4 pages)
056130 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Entropy and bifurcations in a chaotic laser
Pieter Collins and Bernd Krauskopf
Published 7 November 2002 (8 pages)
056201 [View PDF (794 kB)]
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Quantization conditions in Bogomolny’s transfer operator method
Cheng-Hung Chang
Published 20 November 2002 (6 pages)
056202 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Phase synchronization in coupled chaotic oscillators with time delay
J. Y. Chen, K. W. Wong, and J. W. Shuai
Published 21 November 2002 (7 pages)
056203 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Bubble and spherical air shell formation dynamics
A. Tufaile and J. C. Sartorelli
Published 21 November 2002 (7 pages)
056204 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Dynamical effects induced by long range activation in a nonequilibrium reaction-diffusion system
M. Fuentes, M. N. Kuperman, J. Boissonade, E. Dulos, F. Gauffre, and P. De Kepper
Published 22 November 2002 (10 pages)
056205 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Dynamical fidelity of a solid-state quantum computation
G. P. Berman, F. Borgonovi, G. Celardo, F. M. Izrailev, and D. I. Kamenev
Published 25 November 2002 (9 pages)
056206 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Quantum chaos in optical systems: The annular billiard
Martina Hentschel and Klaus Richter
Published 25 November 2002 (13 pages)
056207 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Crossover of quantum Loschmidt echo from golden-rule decay to perturbation-independent decay
Wen-ge Wang and Baowen Li
Published 26 November 2002 (9 pages)
056208 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Context-tree modeling of observed symbolic dynamics
Matthew B. Kennel and Alistair I. Mees
Published 26 November 2002 (11 pages)
056209 [View PDF (138 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Early time diffusion for the quantum kicked rotor with narrow initial momentum distributions
A. J. Daley and A. S. Parkins
Published 26 November 2002 (8 pages)
056210 [View PDF (199 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Rayleigh-Bénard percolation transition of thermal convection in porous media: Computational fluid dynamics, NMR velocity mapping, NMR temperature mapping
Markus Weber and Rainer Kimmich
Published 6 November 2002 (13 pages)
056301 [View PDF (1,056 kB)]
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Decay of passive scalars under the action of single scale smooth velocity fields in bounded two-dimensional domains: From non-self-similar probability distribution functions to self-similar eigenmodes
Jai Sukhatme and Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Published 6 November 2002 (11 pages)
056302 [View PDF (209 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Electron-ion bremsstrahlung spectra calculations for sonoluminescence
Dominik Hammer and Lothar Frommhold
Published 13 November 2002 (6 pages)
056303 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Particle transport in a random velocity field with Lagrangian statistics
Piero Olla
Published 15 November 2002 (19 pages)
056304 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Anticonvection with an inclined temperature gradient
I. B. Simanovskii, P. Colinet, A. A. Nepomnyashchy, and J.-C. Legros
Published 19 November 2002 (10 pages)
056305 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Anomalous and dimensional scaling in anisotropic turbulence
L. Biferale, I. Daumont, A. Lanotte, and F. Toschi
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
056306 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Unified lattice Boltzmann method for flow in multiscale porous media
Qinjun Kang, Dongxiao Zhang, and Shiyi Chen
Published 21 November 2002 (11 pages)
056307 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Rotating convection-driven dynamos at low Ekman number
Jon Rotvig and Chris A. Jones
Published 22 November 2002 (15 pages)
056308 [View PDF (1,569 kB)]
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Viscous dissipation for Euler’s disk
Lars Bildsten
Published 25 November 2002 (2 pages)
056309 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Onset of convection in a very compressible fluid: The transient toward steady state
Horst Meyer and Andrei B. Kogan
Published 26 November 2002 (8 pages)
056310 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Stable two-dimensional solitary pulses in linearly coupled dissipative Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations
Bao-Feng Feng, Boris A. Malomed, and Takuji Kawahara
Published 26 November 2002 (10 pages)
056311 [View PDF (373 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Calculated sheath dynamics under the influence of an asymmetrically pulsed dc bias
E. V. Barnat and T.-M. Lu
Published 5 November 2002 (9 pages)
056401 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Charge-exchange-induced two-electron satellite transitions from autoionizing levels in dense plasmas
F. B. Rosmej, H. R. Griem, R. C. Elton, V. L. Jacobs, J. A. Cobble, A. Ya. Faenov, T. A. Pikuz, M. Geißel, D. H. H. Hoffmann, W. Süß, D. B. Uskov, V. P. Shevelko, and R. C. Mancini
Published 11 November 2002 (16 pages)
056402 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Implosion of multilayered cylindrical targets driven by intense heavy ion beams
A. R. Piriz, R. F. Portugues, N. A. Tahir, and D. H. H. Hoffmann
Published 11 November 2002 (9 pages)
056403 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Static configurations of gravitating dusty plasmas
Frank Verheest and V. M. Čadež
Published 11 November 2002 (7 pages)
056404 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Effect of the electron gas polarizability on the specific heat of phonons in Coulomb crystals
D. A. Baiko
Published 15 November 2002 (10 pages)
056405 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Photon acceleration of ultrashort laser pulses by relativistic ionization fronts
J. M. Dias, N. C. Lopes, L. O. Silva, G. Figueira, J. T. Mendonça, C. Stenz, F. Blasco, A. Dos Santos, and A. Mysyrowicz
Published 15 November 2002 (7 pages)
056406 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Diffusion in two-temperature thermal plasmas
V. Rat, J. Aubreton, M. F. Elchinger, P. Fauchais, and A. B. Murphy
Published 18 November 2002 (9 pages)
056407 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Nonlinear features of two-plasmon decay in a long-scale-length plasma
D. R. Dimitrijević and M. S. Jovanović
Published 19 November 2002 (6 pages)
056408 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Stochastic diffusion of ions due to a finite set of lower hybrid waves
Lucio M. Tozawa and Luiz F. Ziebell
Published 21 November 2002 (13 pages)
056409 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Symmetry transforms for ideal magnetohydrodynamics equilibria
Oleg I. Bogoyavlenskij
Published 22 November 2002 (11 pages)
056410 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Complex-plasma boundaries
B. M. Annaratone, S. A. Khrapak, P. Bryant, G. E. Morfill, H. Rothermel, H. M. Thomas, M. Zuzic, V. E. Fortov, V. I. Molotkov, A. P. Nefedov, S. Krikalev, and Yu. P. Semenov
Published 26 November 2002 (4 pages)
056411 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Electrical conductivity of hot expanded aluminum: Experimental measurements and ab initio calculations
Vanina Recoules, Patrick Renaudin, Jean Clérouin, Pierre Noiret, and Gilles Zérah
Published 26 November 2002 (8 pages)
056412 [View PDF (223 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Resistive wall impedance and tune shift for a chamber with a finite thickness
Yoshihiro Shobuda and Kaoru Yokoya
Published 6 November 2002 (6 pages)
056501 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Free-electron-laser oscillator with a linear taper
A. Christodoulou, D. Lampiris, K. Polykandriotis, W. B. Colson, P. P. Crooker, S. Benson, J. Gubeli, and G. R. Neil
Published 11 November 2002 (7 pages)
056502 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Self-consistent nonstationary processes in phase-mixed electron beams focused by mobile ions
Yu. P. Bliokh, G. S. Nusinovich, J. Felsteiner, and V. L. Granatstein
Published 20 November 2002 (10 pages)
056503 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Generation and growth rates of nonlinear distortions in a traveling wave tube
John G. Wöhlbier, Ian Dobson, and and John H. Booske
Published 22 November 2002 (5 pages)
056504 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Superluminal effects and negative group delays in electronics, and their applications
Daniel Solli, R. Y. Chiao, and J. M. Hickmann
Published 12 November 2002 (4 pages)
056601 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Defining the Fresnel zone for broadband radiation
Jeremy Pearce and Daniel Mittleman
Published 15 November 2002 (4 pages)
056602 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Breathers in a discrete nonlinear Schrödinger-type model: Exact stability results
Avijit Lahiri, Subhendu Panda, and Tarun K. Roy
Published 18 November 2002 (9 pages)
056603 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Cylinder gratings in conical incidence with applications to modes of air-cored photonic crystal fibers
G. H. Smith, L. C. Botten, R. C. McPhedran, and N. A. Nicorovici
Published 19 November 2002 (16 pages)
056604 [View PDF (954 kB)]
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Coherence properties of the parametric three-wave interaction driven from an incoherent pump
Antonio Picozzi, Carlos Montes, and Marc Haelterman
Published 20 November 2002 (14 pages)
056605 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Coexistence of a self-induced transparency soliton and a Bragg soliton
Hong-Yih Tseng and Sien Chi
Published 20 November 2002 (10 pages)
056606 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Pulse dynamics in actively mode-locked lasers with frequency shifting
S. Longhi
Published 21 November 2002 (10 pages)
056607 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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High-power regime of femtosecond-laser pulse propagation in silica: Multiple-cone formation
Kenichi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Kumagai, and Katsumi Midorikawa
Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages)
056608 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Omnidirectional elastic band gap in finite lamellar structures
D. Bria and B. Djafari-Rouhani
Published 21 November 2002 (8 pages)
056609 [View PDF (661 kB)]
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Measurement of the magneto-optical correlation length in turbid media
Ralf Lenke, Christoph Eisenmann, Daniel Reinke, and Georg Maret
Published 22 November 2002 (4 pages)
056610 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Experimental demonstration of realizability of optical focus wave modes
Kaido Reivelt and Peeter Saari
Published 26 November 2002 (9 pages)
056611 [View PDF (694 kB)]
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Temperature-controlled random laser action in liquid crystal infiltrated systems
Diederik S. Wiersma and Stefano Cavalieri
Published 26 November 2002 (5 pages)
056612 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Dipolar effects on soliton dynamics on a discrete ferromagnetic chain
Jean-Pierre Nguenang, Aurelien Jiotsa Kenfack, and Timoléon Créprin Kofané
Published 26 November 2002 (17 pages)
056613 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Hydrogen atom in the presence of uniform magnetic and quadrupolar electric fields: Integrability, bifurcations, and chaotic behavior
M. Iñarrea, J. P. Salas, and V. Lanchares
Published 26 November 2002 (12 pages)
056614 [View PDF (305 kB)]

Computational physics

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Efficient Brownian dynamics simulation of particles near walls. I. Reflecting and absorbing walls
E. A. J. F. Peters and Th. M. A. O. M. Barenbrug
Published 6 November 2002 (7 pages)
056701 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Efficient Brownian dynamics simulation of particles near walls. II. Sticky walls
E. A. J. F. Peters and Th. M. A. O. M. Barenbrug
Published 6 November 2002 (11 pages)
056702 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Generalization of the Wang-Landau method for off-lattice simulations
M. Scott Shell, Pablo G. Debenedetti, and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Published 22 November 2002 (9 pages)
056703 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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First- and last-passage Monte Carlo algorithms for the charge density distribution on a conducting surface
James A. Given, Chi-Ok Hwang, and Michael Mascagni
Published 22 November 2002 (8 pages)
056704 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Coarse-grained loop algorithms for Monte Carlo simulation of quantum spin systems
Kenji Harada and Naoki Kawashima
Published 26 November 2002 (12 pages)
056705 [View PDF (181 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Sweeny and Gliozzi dynamics for simulations of Potts models in the Fortuin-Kasteleyn representation
Jian-Sheng Wang, Oner Kozan, and Robert H. Swendsen
Published 6 November 2002 (4 pages)
057101 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Dynamical mean-field approximation for a pair contact process with a particle source
Attila Szolnoki
Published 11 November 2002 (4 pages)
057102 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Simplified transfer matrix approach in the two-dimensional Ising model with various boundary conditions
Boris Kastening
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
057103 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Wealth distribution in an ancient Egyptian society
A. Y. Abul-Magd
Published 21 November 2002 (3 pages)
057104 [View PDF (30 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Chaotic dynamics of an air-damped bouncing ball
M. A. Naylor, P. Sánchez, and Michael R. Swift
Published 19 November 2002 (3 pages)
057201 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Detection and classification of nonlinear dynamic switching events
Christian Storm and Walter J. Freeman
Published 21 November 2002 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (202 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Bifurcation diversity of dynamic thermocapillary liquid layers
S. Hoyas, H. Herrero, and A. M. Mancho
Published 20 November 2002 (4 pages)
057301 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Propagation of linear waves in relativistic anisotropic magnetohydrodynamics
W. B. Gebretsadkan and G. L. Kalra
Published 7 November 2002 (4 pages)
057401 [View PDF (47 kB)]

Computational physics

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Parallel-in-time molecular-dynamics simulations
L. Baffico, S. Bernard, Y. Maday, G. Turinici, and G. Zérah
Published 19 November 2002 (4 pages)
057701 [View PDF (57 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Nonuniversal size dependence of the free energy of confined systems near criticality [Phys. Rev. E 66, 016102 (2002)]
X. S. Chen and V. Dohm
Published 13 November 2002 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Erratum: Self-amplified coherent spontaneous emission in the planar wiggler free-electron laser [Phys. Rev. E 65, 046503 (2002)]
B. W. J. McNeil and G. R. M. Robb
Published 22 November 2002 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (13 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: False neighbors and false strands: A reliable minimum embedding dimension algorithm [Phys. Rev. E 66, 026209 (2002)]
Matthew B. Kennel and Henry D. I. Abarbanel
Published 27 November 2002 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]