Physical Review E – March 2003
Volume 67, 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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Frequency and phase locking of noise-sustained oscillations in coupled excitable systems: Array-enhanced resonances
Changsong Zhou, Jürgen Kurths, and Bambi Hu
Published 19 March 2003 (4 pages)
030101(R) [View PDF (83 kB)]

Granular materials

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Oslo rice pile model is a quenched Edwards-Wilkinson equation
Gunnar Pruessner
Published 19 March 2003 (4 pages)
030301(R) [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Force and weight distributions in granular media: Effects of contact geometry
Jacco H. Snoeijer, Martin van Hecke, Ellák Somfai, and Wim van Saarloos
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
030302(R) [View PDF (449 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Hopping in a supercooled Lennard-Jones liquid: Metabasins, waiting time distribution, and diffusion
B. Doliwa and A. Heuer
Published 12 March 2003 (4 pages)
030501(R) [View PDF (308 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Periodic structures in a biaxial nematic phase
A. J. Palangana, M. Simões, O. R. dos Santos, and F. S. Alves
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
030701(R) [View PDF (161 kB)]

Biological physics

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Effect of divalent counterions on asymmetrically charged lipid bilayers
Bae-Yeun Ha
Published 18 March 2003 (4 pages)
030901(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Poincaré cycle of a multibox Ehrenfest urn model with directed transport
Yee-Mou Kao and Pi-Gang Luan
Published 10 March 2003 (9 pages)
031101 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Random walks with non-Gaussian step-size distributions and the folding of random polymer chains
R. H. A. David Shaw and J. A. Tuszyński
Published 13 March 2003 (11 pages)
031102 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Kinetics of a migration-driven aggregation process with birth and death
Zhenquan Lin and Jianhong Ke
Published 14 March 2003 (6 pages)
031103 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Crossover in diffusion equation: Anomalous and normal behaviors
E. K. Lenzi, R. S. Mendes, and C. Tsallis
Published 19 March 2003 (8 pages)
031104 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Dynamics and nonequilibrium states in the Hamiltonian mean-field model: A closer look
Damián H. Zanette and Marcelo A. Montemurro
Published 28 March 2003 (7 pages)
031105 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Aging in an infinite-range Hamiltonian system of coupled rotators
Marcelo A. Montemurro, Francisco A. Tamarit, and Celia Anteneodo
Published 28 March 2003 (4 pages)
031106 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Lattice-based random jammed configurations for hard particles
F. H. Stillinger, H. Sakai, and S. Torquato
Published 31 March 2003 (10 pages)
031107 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Sound damping in ferrofluids: Magnetically enhanced compressional viscosity
Hanns Walter Müller, Yimin Jiang, and Mario Liu
Published 10 March 2003 (5 pages)
031201 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Phase behavior of lattice associating binary mixtures: A Monte Carlo study
A. Patrykiejew, L. Salamacha, S. Sokołowski, H. Dominguez, and O. Pizio
Published 14 March 2003 (6 pages)
031202 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Granular materials

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Universal scaling for ripple formation in granular media
F. Zoueshtiagh and P. J. Thomas
Published 25 March 2003 (5 pages)
031301 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Anisotropy in granular media: Classical elasticity and directed-force chain network
M. Otto, J.-P. Bouchaud, P. Claudin, and J. E. S. Socolar
Published 25 March 2003 (24 pages)
031302 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Vortices in vibrated granular rods
Daniel L. Blair, T. Neicu, and A. Kudrolli
Published 31 March 2003 (6 pages)
031303 [View PDF (1,398 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Coupled aggregation and sedimentation processes: The sticking probability effect
G. Odriozola, R. Leone, A. Schmitt, A. Moncho-Jordá, and R. Hidalgo-Álvarez
Published 18 March 2003 (5 pages)
031401 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Stability of charge inversion, Thomson problem, and application to electrophoresis
Michael Patra, Marco Patriarca, and Mikko Karttunen
Published 20 March 2003 (7 pages)
031402 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Structure of random monodisperse foam
Andrew M. Kraynik, Douglas A. Reinelt, and Frank van Swol
Published 21 March 2003 (11 pages)
031403 [View PDF (634 kB)]
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Interaction and flocculation of spherical colloids wetted by a surface-induced corona of paranematic order
Paolo Galatola, Jean-Baptiste Fournier, and Holger Stark
Published 21 March 2003 (15 pages)
031404 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Aging processes and scale dependence in soft glassy colloidal suspensions
M. Bellour, A. Knaebel, J. L. Harden, F. Lequeux, and J.-P. Munch
Published 25 March 2003 (8 pages)
031405 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Simulation study of nonergodicity transitions: Gelation in colloidal systems with short-range attractions
Antonio M. Puertas, Matthias Fuchs, and Michael E. Cates
Published 26 March 2003 (13 pages)
031406 [View PDF (719 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Dynamical transition induced by large bubbles in two-dimensional foam flows
I. Cantat and R. Delannay
Published 13 March 2003 (4 pages)
031501 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Hexatic undulations in curved geometries
Peter Lenz and David R. Nelson
Published 14 March 2003 (19 pages)
031502 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Molecular simulation of the vapor-liquid phase behavior of Lennard-Jones mixtures in porous solids
John K. Brennan and Wei Dong
Published 24 March 2003 (6 pages)
031503 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Effects of pressure on the fragile nature of fluorozirconates studied by molecular dynamics simulations
Yoshinori Tamai
Published 25 March 2003 (9 pages)
031504 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Influence of molecular structure on the dynamics of supercooled van der Waals liquids
Riccardo Casalini, Marian Paluch, and C. Michael Roland
Published 25 March 2003 (6 pages)
031505 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Energy barriers and activated dynamics in a supercooled Lennard-Jones liquid
B. Doliwa and A. Heuer
Published 26 March 2003 (16 pages)
031506 [View PDF (1,029 kB)]
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Universality of the dynamic crossover in glass-forming liquids: A “magic” relaxation time
V. N. Novikov and A. P. Sokolov
Published 28 March 2003 (6 pages)
031507 [View PDF (53 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Local elastic constants in thin films of an fcc crystal
Kevin Van Workum and Juan J. de Pablo
Published 11 March 2003 (7 pages)
031601 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Phonon modes and heat capacity of monolayer films adsorbed in spherical pores
R. A. Trasca, A. M. Vidales, and M. W. Cole
Published 11 March 2003 (4 pages)
031602 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Roughening transition in a moving contact line
Ramin Golestanian and Elie Raphaël
Published 17 March 2003 (14 pages)
031603 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Wetting on nanorough surfaces
S. M. M. Ramos, E. Charlaix, A. Benyagoub, and M. Toulemonde
Published 19 March 2003 (6 pages)
031604 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Surface orientational order at liquid-vapor interfaces induced by dipole–image-dipole interactions
Jae-Hie J. Cho and Bruce M. Law
Published 21 March 2003 (12 pages)
031605 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Dissipating step bunches during crystallization under transport control
Hong Lin, S.-T. Yau, and Peter G. Vekilov
Published 25 March 2003 (8 pages)
031606 [View PDF (648 kB)]
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Spontaneous surface roughening induced by surface interactions between two compressible elastic films
Jayati Sarkar, Vijay Shenoy, and Ashutosh Sharma
Published 25 March 2003 (11 pages)
031607 [View PDF (804 kB)]
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Charged colloids and proteins at an air-water interface: The effect of dielectric substrates on interaction and phase behavior
E. C. Mbamala and H. H. von Grünberg
Published 26 March 2003 (11 pages)
031608 [View PDF (181 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Modulated structures in electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals
S. Komineas, H. Zhao, and L. Kramer
Published 10 March 2003 (12 pages)
031701 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Bent-core liquid crystals forming two- and three-dimensional modulated structures
J. Szydlowska, J. Mieczkowski, J. Matraszek, D. W. Bruce, E. Gorecka, D. Pociecha, and D. Guillon
Published 12 March 2003 (5 pages)
031702 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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First-order character of the smectic-A to chiral nematic transition in chiral liquid-crystal mixtures
P. Jamée, G. Pitsi, and J. Thoen
Published 20 March 2003 (9 pages)
031703 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Analytical description for the chiral nematic state in terms of molecular parameters
A. V. Emelyanenko
Published 21 March 2003 (25 pages)
031704 [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Temperature and pressure dependence of the dynamics in a poly(methyl acrylate) side-chain liquid-crystalline polymer
G. Floudas, M. Mierzwa, and A. Schönhals
Published 24 March 2003 (8 pages)
031705 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Optically induced dynamics in nematic liquid crystals: The role of twist deformation and asymmetry
E. Brasselet, B. Doyon, T. V. Galstian, and L. J. Dubé
Published 26 March 2003 (13 pages)
031706 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Competition between electroconvection and Fréedericksz distortions in nematic liquid crystals with slightly positive dielectric anisotropy
B. Dressel and W. Pesch
Published 26 March 2003 (7 pages)
031707 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Measuring the nematic order of suspensions of colloidal fd virus by x-ray diffraction and optical birefringence
Kirstin R. Purdy, Zvonimir Dogic, Seth Fraden, Adrian Rühm, Lawrence Lurio, and Simon G. J. Mochrie
Published 28 March 2003 (12 pages)
031708 [View PDF (272 kB)]

Polymers

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Relationships between conductivity and local topology in heterocyclic polymer networks
V. Yu. Kramarenko, T. A. Ezquerra, and V. P. Privalko
Published 12 March 2003 (7 pages)
031801 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Simulating the morphology and mechanical properties of filled diblock copolymers
Gavin A. Buxton and Anna C. Balazs
Published 14 March 2003 (12 pages)
031802 [View PDF (1,016 kB)]
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Entropy of chains placed on the square lattice
Wellington G. Dantas and Jürgen F. Stilck
Published 14 March 2003 (6 pages)
031803 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Discretized model for diffusion of a chain in one dimension
S. E. Guidoni, H. O. Mártin, and C. M. Aldao
Published 21 March 2003 (10 pages)
031804 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Dielectric and ellipsometric studies of the dynamics in thin films of isotactic poly(methylmethacrylate) with one free surface
J. S. Sharp and J. A. Forrest
Published 24 March 2003 (9 pages)
031805 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Biological physics

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Steric constraints as folding coadjuvant
M. E. P. Tarragó, Luiz F. O. Rocha, R. A. daSilva, and A. Caliri
Published 10 March 2003 (7 pages)
031901 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Iterative signature algorithm for the analysis of large-scale gene expression data
Sven Bergmann, Jan Ihmels, and Naama Barkai
Published 11 March 2003 (18 pages)
031902 [View PDF (975 kB)]
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Detecting scaling in the period dynamics of multimodal signals: Application to Parkinsonian tremor
Nir Sapir, Roman Karasik, Shlomo Havlin, Ely Simon, and Jeffrey M. Hausdorff
Published 11 March 2003 (8 pages)
031903 [View PDF (1,054 kB)]
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Condition for alternans and stability of the 1:1 response pattern in a “memory” model of paced cardiac dynamics
E. G. Tolkacheva, D. G. Schaeffer, Daniel J. Gauthier, and W. Krassowska
Published 12 March 2003 (10 pages)
031904 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Selection of intracellular calcium patterns in a model with clustered Ca2+ release channels
J. W. Shuai and P. Jung
Published 13 March 2003 (8 pages)
031905 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of bacterial colonies: A model
J. Lega and T. Passot
Published 13 March 2003 (18 pages)
031906 [View PDF (654 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium phase transition in a self-activated biological network
Hugues Berry
Published 14 March 2003 (9 pages)
031907 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Tumbling of vesicles under shear flow within an advected-field approach
T. Biben and C. Misbah
Published 17 March 2003 (5 pages)
031908 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Anomalous fluctuations of active polar filaments
Tanniemola B. Liverpool
Published 18 March 2003 (5 pages)
031909 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Unfolding proteins in an external field: Can we always observe the intermediate states?
Alexander S. Lemak, James R. Lepock, and Jeff Z. Y. Chen
Published 19 March 2003 (6 pages)
031910 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Propagation and immunization of infection on general networks with both homogeneous and heterogeneous components
Zonghua Liu, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Nong Ye
Published 19 March 2003 (5 pages)
031911 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Fluid transport in branched structures with temporary closures: A model for quasistatic lung inflation
Arnab Majumdar, Adriano M. Alencar, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Zoltán Hantos, H. Eugene Stanley, and Béla Suki
Published 20 March 2003 (12 pages)
031912 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Dispersal of spores following a persistent random walk
D. J. Bicout and I. Sache
Published 20 March 2003 (7 pages)
031913 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Robustness and perturbation in the modeled cascade heart rate variability
D. C. Lin
Published 24 March 2003 (8 pages)
031914 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Survival-extinction phase transition in a bit-string population with mutation
Kathia M. Fehsenfeld, Ronald Dickman, and Américo T. Bernardes
Published 24 March 2003 (5 pages)
031915 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Analysis of globally connected active rotators with excitatory and inhibitory connections using the Fokker-Planck equation
Takashi Kanamaru and Masatoshi Sekine
Published 24 March 2003 (8 pages)
031916 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Ellipsoidal particles driven by intensity gradients through viscous fluids
T. Ambjörnsson and S. P. Apell
Published 25 March 2003 (7 pages)
031917 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Stochastic population dynamics: The Poisson approximation
Hernán G. Solari and Mario A. Natiello
Published 26 March 2003 (12 pages)
031918 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Adhesion-induced phase separation of multiple species of membrane junctions
Hsuan-Yi Chen
Published 26 March 2003 (10 pages)
031919 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Patterns in randomly evolving networks: Idiotypic networks
Markus Brede and Ulrich Behn
Published 31 March 2003 (18 pages)
031920 [View PDF (352 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Polymers

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Scaling near the θ point for isolated polymers in solution
A. L. Owczarek and T. Prellberg
Published 28 March 2003 (3 pages)
032801 [View PDF (35 kB)]

Biological physics

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Influence of the sequence on elastic properties of long DNA chains
C. Vaillant, B. Audit, C. Thermes, and A. Arnéodo
Published 11 March 2003 (4 pages)
032901 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Interpretation of scaling properties of electroencephalographic fluctuations via spectral analysis and underlying physiology
P. A. Robinson
Published 17 March 2003 (4 pages)
032902 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Evolutionary advantage of diploidal over polyploidal sexual reproduction
A. O. Sousa, S. Moss de Oliveira, and J. S. Sá Martins
Published 20 March 2003 (3 pages)
032903 [View PDF (79 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Defect formation in the Swift-Hohenberg equation
Tobias Galla and Esteban Moro
Published 12 March 2003 (4 pages)
035101(R) [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Interface motion and pinning in small-world networks
Denis Boyer and Octavio Miramontes
Published 20 March 2003 (4 pages)
035102(R) [View PDF (106 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Experiments on coherence resonance: Noisy precursors to Hopf bifurcations
István. Z. Kiss, John L. Hudson, Gerardo J. Escalera Santos, and P. Parmananda
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
035201(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Universal and nonuniversal features in shadowing dynamics of nonhyperbolic chaotic systems with unstable-dimension variability
Younghae Do, Ying-Cheng Lai, Zonghua Liu, and Eric J. Kostelich
Published 21 March 2003 (4 pages)
035202(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Phase transition in an ensemble of dissipative solitons of a Turing system
Yu. A. Astrov
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
035203(R) [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Anomalous phase synchronization in populations of nonidentical oscillators
Bernd Blasius, Ernest Montbrió, and Jürgen Kurths
Published 31 March 2003 (4 pages)
035204(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Simulation strategies and signatures of chaos in classical nonlinear response
Christoph Dellago and Shaul Mukamel
Published 31 March 2003 (4 pages)
035205(R) [View PDF (69 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Critical percolation in high dimensions
Peter Grassberger
Published 10 March 2003 (4 pages)
036101 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Defect structures in the growth kinetics of the Swift-Hohenberg model
Hai Qian and Gene F. Mazenko
Published 10 March 2003 (12 pages)
036102 [View PDF (1,863 kB)]
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Critical viscosity exponent for fluids: Effect of the higher loops
Palash Das and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee
Published 10 March 2003 (5 pages)
036103 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Analytical results for the reactivity of a single-file system
A. P. J. Jansen, S. V. Nedea, and J. J. Lukkien
Published 10 March 2003 (4 pages)
036104 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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McKean caricature of the FitzHugh-Nagumo model: Traveling pulses in a discrete diffusive medium
Arnaud Tonnelier
Published 13 March 2003 (9 pages)
036105 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Small-world properties of the Indian railway network
Parongama Sen, Subinay Dasgupta, Arnab Chatterjee, P. A. Sreeram, G. Mukherjee, and S. S. Manna
Published 14 March 2003 (5 pages)
036106 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Conformal invariance and the Ising model on a spheroid
Youjin Deng and Henk W. J. Blöte
Published 14 March 2003 (10 pages)
036107 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Magnetic field chaos in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
Alain Billoire and Barbara Coluzzi
Published 17 March 2003 (8 pages)
036108 [View PDF (1,349 kB)]
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Gain in stochastic resonance: Precise numerics versus linear response theory beyond the two-mode approximation
Jesús Casado-Pascual, Claus Denk, José Gómez-Ordóñez, Manuel Morillo, and Peter Hänggi
Published 18 March 2003 (10 pages)
036109 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Giant clusters in random ad hoc networks
G. Németh and G. Vattay
Published 18 March 2003 (6 pages)
036110 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Aging at criticality in model-C dynamics
P. Calabrese and A. Gambassi
Published 20 March 2003 (7 pages)
036111 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Ordering dynamics of one-dimensional Bloch wall system and domain size distribution function
Hiroki Tutu
Published 21 March 2003 (19 pages)
036112 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Optimal capacity of the Blume-Emery-Griffiths perceptron
D. Bollé, I. Pérez Castillo, and G. M. Shim
Published 21 March 2003 (10 pages)
036113 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Critique of q-entropy for thermal statistics
Michael Nauenberg
Published 24 March 2003 (6 pages)
036114 [View PDF (53 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Phase transitions and quantum effects in pore condensates: A path integral Monte Carlo study
J. Hoffmann and P. Nielaba
Published 24 March 2003 (12 pages)
036115 [View PDF (2,372 kB)]
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High precision canonical Monte Carlo determination of the growth constant of square lattice trees
E. J. Janse van Rensburg and A. Rechnitzer
Published 24 March 2003 (9 pages)
036116 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Reply networks on a bulletin board system
Kou Zhongbao and Zhang Changshui
Published 24 March 2003 (6 pages)
036117 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Dynamic critical behavior of the XY model in small-world networks
Kateryna Medvedyeva, Petter Holme, Petter Minnhagen, and Beom Jun Kim
Published 24 March 2003 (4 pages)
036118 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Hidden gauge structure and derivation of microcanonical ensemble theory of bosons from quantum principles
Sumiyoshi Abe and Tsunehiro Kobayashi
Published 25 March 2003 (3 pages)
036119 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Cluster formation and anomalous fundamental diagram in an ant-trail model
Katsuhiro Nishinari, Debashish Chowdhury, and Andreas Schadschneider
Published 28 March 2003 (11 pages)
036120 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Elastic properties of dense solid phases of hard cyclic pentamers and heptamers in two dimensions
K. W. Wojciechowski, K. V. Tretiakov, and M. Kowalik
Published 31 March 2003 (14 pages)
036121 [View PDF (231 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Dynamical properties of lasers coupled face to face
J. Javaloyes, Paul Mandel, and D. Pieroux
Published 10 March 2003 (11 pages)
036201 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Free-boundary problems describing two-dimensional pulse recycling and motion in semiconductors
L. L. Bonilla, R. Escobedo, and F. J. Higuera
Published 10 March 2003 (8 pages)
036202 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Control of chaos by occasional bang-bang
John Starrett
Published 11 March 2003 (4 pages)
036203 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Synchronization in oscillator networks with delayed coupling: A stability criterion
Matthew G. Earl and Steven H. Strogatz
Published 17 March 2003 (4 pages)
036204 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Dressed symbolic dynamics
Robert Gilmore and Christophe Letellier
Published 24 March 2003 (10 pages)
036205 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Pattern formation on a sphere
P. C. Matthews
Published 24 March 2003 (6 pages)
036206 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Pattern formation on the edge of chaos: Mathematical modeling of CO oxidation on a Pt(110) surface under global delayed feedback
Matthias Bertram and Alexander S. Mikhailov
Published 25 March 2003 (11 pages)
036207 [View PDF (1,503 kB)]
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Pattern formation on the edge of chaos: Experiments with CO oxidation on a Pt(110) surface under global delayed feedback
Matthias Bertram, Carsten Beta, Michael Pollmann, Alexander S. Mikhailov, Harm H. Rotermund, and Gerhard Ertl
Published 25 March 2003 (9 pages)
036208 [View PDF (1,817 kB)]
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Critical exponents of directed percolation measured in spatiotemporal intermittency
Peter Rupp, Reinhard Richter, and Ingo Rehberg
Published 25 March 2003 (7 pages)
036209 [View PDF (824 kB)]
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Noise-induced fluctuations of period lengths of stable periodic orbits
Guillermo Hernández-Cruz, Holger Kantz, Tobias Letz, Mario Ragwitz, Eduardo Ramos, and Raúl Rechtman
Published 25 March 2003 (5 pages)
036210 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Fractal properties of robust strange nonchaotic attractors in maps of two or more dimensions
Jong-Won Kim, Sang-Yoon Kim, Brian Hunt, and Edward Ott
Published 26 March 2003 (8 pages)
036211 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Reaction-diffusion dynamics in an oscillatory medium of finite size: Pseudoreflection of waves
A. Rabinovitch, M. Gutman, and I. Aviram
Published 26 March 2003 (7 pages)
036212 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Nonlinear evolution of an interface in the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
Chihiro Matsuoka, Katsunobu Nishihara, and Yuko Fukuda
Published 11 March 2003 (14 pages)
036301 [View PDF (441 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Theory of the lattice Boltzmann method: Two-fluid model for binary mixtures
Li-Shi Luo and Sharath S. Girimaji
Published 21 March 2003 (11 pages)
036302 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Advection of finite-size particles in open flows
Izabella Julia Benczik, Zoltán Toroczkai, and Tamás Tél
Published 21 March 2003 (11 pages)
036303 [View PDF (1,257 kB)]
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Turbulent wake solutions of the Prandtl α equations
Vakhtang Putkaradze and Patrick Weidman
Published 25 March 2003 (7 pages)
036304 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Sources and holes in a one-dimensional traveling-wave convection experiment
Luc Pastur, Mark-Tiele Westra, Daniel Snouck, Willem van de Water, Martin van Hecke, Cornelis Storm, and Wim van Saarloos
Published 25 March 2003 (5 pages)
036305 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Two-dimensional thermal model of the finite-difference lattice Boltzmann method with high spatial isotropy
Minoru Watari and Michihisa Tsutahara
Published 26 March 2003 (7 pages)
036306 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Radiation-condensation instability in a self-gravitating dusty astrophysical plasma
P. K. Shukla and I. Sandberg
Published 7 March 2003 (6 pages)
036401 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Parametric processes of a strong laser in partially ionized plasmas
Hu YeMin and Hu XiWei
Published 14 March 2003 (9 pages)
036402 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Bernstein modes in a weakly relativistic electron-positron plasma
D. A. Keston, E. W. Laing, and D. A. Diver
Published 14 March 2003 (10 pages)
036403 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Kinetic measurements of shock wave propagation in a three-dimensional complex (dusty) plasma
D. Samsonov, G. Morfill, H. Thomas, T. Hagl, H. Rothermel, V. Fortov, A. Lipaev, V. Molotkov, A. Nefedov, O. Petrov, A. Ivanov, and S. Krikalev
Published 14 March 2003 (5 pages)
036404 [View PDF (524 kB)]
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Geometric considerations of the evolution of magnetic flux ropes
D. B. Berdichevsky, R. P. Lepping, and C. J. Farrugia
Published 19 March 2003 (8 pages)
036405 [View PDF (1,079 kB)]
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Ion-acoustic waves in a complex plasma with negative ions
S. V. Vladimirov, K. Ostrikov, M. Y. Yu, and G. E. Morfill
Published 24 March 2003 (10 pages)
036406 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Effect of a laser prepulse on a narrow-cone ejection of MeV electrons from a gas jet irradiated by an ultrashort laser pulse
Tomonao Hosokai, Kenichi Kinoshita, Alexei Zhidkov, Kei Nakamura, Takahiro Watanabe, Toru Ueda, Hideyuki Kotaki, Masaki Kando, Kazuhisa Nakajima, and Mitsuru Uesaka
Published 25 March 2003 (8 pages)
036407 [View PDF (613 kB)]
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Steady copropagation mode of laser pulse and plasma wave
Hai Lin, Zhizhan Xu, Kewu Wang, Li-Ming Chen, and J. C. Kieffer
Published 28 March 2003 (6 pages)
036408 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Quantum-mechanical analogy of beam propagation in waveguides with a bent axis: Dynamic-mode stabilization and radiation-loss suppression
S. Longhi, D. Janner, M. Marano, and P. Laporta
Published 10 March 2003 (9 pages)
036601 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Bursting dynamics of a fiber laser with an injected signal
David J. DeShazer, J. García-Ojalvo, and Rajarshi Roy
Published 11 March 2003 (8 pages)
036602 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Theoretical analysis of the focusing of acoustic waves by two-dimensional sonic crystals
Bikash C. Gupta and Zhen Ye
Published 13 March 2003 (6 pages)
036603 [View PDF (481 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Using a partial-wave method for sound–mean-flow scattering problems
R. Berthet and C. Coste
Published 14 March 2003 (17 pages)
036604 [View PDF (1,256 kB)]
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Diffusion and anomalous diffusion of light in two-dimensional photonic crystals
A. A. Asatryan, P. A. Robinson, R. C. McPhedran, L. C. Botten, C. Martijn de Sterke, T. L. Langtry, and N. A. Nicorovici
Published 14 March 2003 (8 pages)
036605 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Localization of classical waves in two-dimensional random media: A comparison between the analytic theory and exact numerical simulation
Bikash C. Gupta and Zhen Ye
Published 14 March 2003 (7 pages)
036606 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Observation of breatherlike states in a single Josephson cell
F. Pignatelli and A. V. Ustinov
Published 14 March 2003 (7 pages)
036607 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Light transmission through a subwavelength slit: Waveguiding and optical vortices
Hugo F. Schouten, Taco D. Visser, Daan Lenstra, and Hans Blok
Published 14 March 2003 (4 pages)
036608 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Collision of one-dimensional nonlinear chains
Shin-ichiro Nagahiro and Yoshinori Hayakawa
Published 17 March 2003 (6 pages)
036609 [View PDF (612 kB)]
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Growth by rectified diffusion of strongly acoustically forced gas bubbles in nearly saturated liquids
Olivier Louisnard and Francisco Gomez
Published 19 March 2003 (12 pages)
036610 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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High-order Čerenkov laser gain
I. J. Owens and J. H. Brownell
Published 20 March 2003 (4 pages)
036611 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Tunable resonant transmission of electromagnetic waves through a magnetized plasma
Chul-Sik Kee, Shou-Zhe Li, Kihong Kim, and H. Lim
Published 21 March 2003 (6 pages)
036612 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Stability analysis of (1+1)-dimensional cnoidal waves in media with cubic nonlinearity
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Aleshkevich, Victor A. Vysloukh, Alexey A. Egorov, and Anna S. Zelenina
Published 21 March 2003 (11 pages)
036613 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Domain walls in two-component dynamical lattices
P. G. Kevrekidis, Boris A. Malomed, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and A. R. Bishop
Published 21 March 2003 (9 pages)
036614 [View PDF (547 kB)]
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Shedding and interaction of solitons in weakly disordered optical fibers
M. Chertkov, Y. Chung, A. Dyachenko, I. Gabitov, I. Kolokolov, and V. Lebedev
Published 24 March 2003 (21 pages)
036615 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Open problems in the optics of crystals: The role of multiple scattering
S. Ponti and C. Oldano
Published 24 March 2003 (5 pages)
036616 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Dynamics of counterpropagating pulses in photonic crystals: Enhancement and suppression of stimulated emission processes
M. Centini, G. D’Aguanno, M. Scalora, M. J. Bloemer, C. M. Bowden, C. Sibilia, N. Mattiucci, and M. Bertolotti
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
036617 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Angular momentum dynamics of a paraxial beam in a uniaxial crystal
Alessandro Ciattoni, Gabriella Cincotti, and Claudio Palma
Published 25 March 2003 (10 pages)
036618 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Generation of nondiffracting beams by spiral fields
José A. Ferrari, Eugenio Garbusi, and Erna M. Frins
Published 26 March 2003 (6 pages)
036619 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Superluminal localized solutions to Maxwell equations propagating along a waveguide: The finite-energy case
Michel Zamboni-Rached, Flavio Fontana, and Erasmo Recami
Published 26 March 2003 (7 pages)
036620 [View PDF (622 kB)]
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Information transfer through disordered media by diffuse waves
S. E. Skipetrov
Published 26 March 2003 (11 pages)
036621 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Self-focusing of circularly polarized beams
Gadi Fibich and Boaz Ilan
Published 28 March 2003 (16 pages)
036622 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Water wave propagation and scattering over topographical bottoms
Zhen Ye
Published 28 March 2003 (7 pages)
036623 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Computational physics

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Lattice Boltzmann algorithm for surface tension with greatly reduced microcurrents
S. V. Lishchuk, C. M. Care, and I. Halliday
Published 11 March 2003 (5 pages)
036701 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Models for correlated multifractal hypersurfaces
D. M. Tavares and L. S. Lucena
Published 24 March 2003 (8 pages)
036702 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of broadcast channels using low-density parity-check codes
Kazutaka Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Robert Morelos-Zaragoza, and David Saad
Published 28 March 2003 (9 pages)
036703 [View PDF (108 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Magnetization enumerator of real-valued symmetric channels in Gallager error-correcting codes
N. S. Skantzos, J. van Mourik, and D. Saad
Published 21 March 2003 (4 pages)
037101 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Random diffusion and leverage effect in financial markets
Josep Perelló and Jaume Masoliver
Published 25 March 2003 (4 pages)
037102 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Mesoscopics and fluctuations in networks
S. N. Dorogovtsev and A. N. Samukhin
Published 26 March 2003 (3 pages)
037103 [View PDF (43 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Approximating stable and unstable manifolds in experiments
Ioana Triandaf, Erik M. Bollt, and Ira B. Schwartz
Published 12 March 2003 (4 pages)
037201 [View PDF (715 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Energy deposition of heavy ions in the regime of strong beam-plasma correlations
D. O. Gericke and M. Schlanges
Published 31 March 2003 (4 pages)
037401 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Confinement of discrete breathers in inhomogeneously profiled nonlinear chains
I. Bena, A. Saxena, G. P. Tsironis, M. Ibañes, and J. M. Sancho
Published 31 March 2003 (4 pages)
037601 [View PDF (349 kB)]

Computational physics

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Asynchronously parallelized percolation on distributed machines
Nicholas R. Moloney and Gunnar Pruessner
Published 20 March 2003 (4 pages)
037701 [View PDF (163 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Evolutionary reconstruction of networks [Phys. Rev. E 66, 046109 (2002)]
Mads Ipsen and Alexander S. Mikhailov
Published 10 March 2003 (1 page)
039901(E) [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Erratum: Stiffening of fluid membranes due to thermal undulations: Density-matrix renormalization-group study [Phys. Rev. E 66, 061907 (2002)]
Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Published 12 March 2003 (1 page)
039902(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Coarse-grained loop algorithms for Monte Carlo simulation of quantum spin systems [Phys. Rev. E 66, 056705 (2002)]
Kenji Harada and Naoki Kawashima
Published 20 March 2003 (1 page)
039903(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Phase behavior and crystallization kinetics of poly-12-hydroxystearic-coated polymethylmethacrylate colloids [Phys. Rev. E 67, 020401(R) (2003)]
S. Auer, W. C. K. Poon, and D. Frenkel
Published 20 March 2003 (1 page)
039904(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Erratum: Constant pressure molecular dynamics on a hypercylinder [Phys. Rev. E 64, 026112 (2001)]
V. A. Ryabov
Published 28 March 2003 (1 page)
039905(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]