Physical Review E – September 2003
Volume 68, 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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Persistent global power fluctuations near a dynamic transition in electroconvection
Tibor Tóth-Katona, John R. Cressman, Walter I. Goldburg, and James T. Gleeson
Published 10 September 2003 (4 pages)
030101(R) [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Behavior of fractional diffusion at the origin
Ya. E. Ryabov
Published 22 September 2003 (4 pages)
030102(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]

Granular materials

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Jamming during the discharge of grains from a silo described as a percolating transition
Iker Zuriguel, Luis A. Pugnaloni, Angel Garcimartín, and Diego Maza
Published 9 September 2003 (4 pages)
030301(R) [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic modes for granular gases
James W. Dufty and J. Javier Brey
Published 24 September 2003 (4 pages)
030302(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]

Biological physics

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Prisoners’ dilemma in real-world acquaintance networks: Spikes and quasiequilibria induced by the interplay between structure and dynamics
Petter Holme, Ala Trusina, Beom Jun Kim, and Petter Minnhagen
Published 22 September 2003 (4 pages)
030901(R) [View PDF (484 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Geometry of escort distributions
Sumiyoshi Abe
Published 5 September 2003 (3 pages)
031101 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Persistent random walk in a honeycomb structure: Light transport in foams
MirFaez Miri and Holger Stark
Published 16 September 2003 (8 pages)
031102 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Quantum diffusion on a cyclic one-dimensional lattice
A. C. de la Torre, H. O. Mártin, and D. Goyeneche
Published 19 September 2003 (9 pages)
031103 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Exchange-driven growth
E. Ben-Naim and P. L. Krapivsky
Published 19 September 2003 (9 pages)
031104 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Sensitivity of explosion to departure from partial equilibrium
B. Nowakowski and A. Lemarchand
Published 22 September 2003 (9 pages)
031105 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Attempt to distinguish electric signals of a dichotomous nature
P. A. Varotsos, N. V. Sarlis, and E. S. Skordas
Published 23 September 2003 (7 pages)
031106 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Suprathreshold stochastic resonance and noise-enhanced Fisher information in arrays of threshold devices
David Rousseau, Fabing Duan, and François Chapeau-Blondeau
Published 23 September 2003 (10 pages)
031107 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Fractional dynamics and nonlinear harmonic responses in dielectric relaxation of disordered liquids
Jean-Louis Déjardin
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
031108 [View PDF (585 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Reexamination of string phase and shear thickening in simple fluids
Jerome Delhommelle, J. Petravic, and Denis J. Evans
Published 3 September 2003 (6 pages)
031201 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Transport properties of ferrofluids
M. Hernández-Contreras and H. Ruíz-Estrada
Published 10 September 2003 (8 pages)
031202 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Field-induced pseudocrystalline ordering in concentrated ferrofluids
A. Wiedenmann, A. Hoell, M. Kammel, and P. Boesecke
Published 17 September 2003 (10 pages)
031203 [View PDF (1,006 kB)]
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Transport properties of dense fluid argon
Sorin Bastea
Published 18 September 2003 (7 pages)
031204 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Relative pair dynamics in simple supercooled liquids: Longitudinal contributions
Alberto De Santis, Alessandro Ercoli, and Dario Rocca
Published 22 September 2003 (10 pages)
031205 [View PDF (289 kB)]

Granular materials

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Simulation study on kinetic temperatures of vibrated binary granular mixtures
Hong-qiang Wang, Guo-jun Jin, and Yu-qiang Ma
Published 3 September 2003 (6 pages)
031301 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Slow dynamics and aging of a confined granular flow
G. Ovarlez and E. Clément
Published 3 September 2003 (17 pages)
031302 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Granular spirals on erodible sand bed submitted to a circular fluid motion
H. Caps and N. Vandewalle
Published 11 September 2003 (7 pages)
031303 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of driven granular gases
Hisao Hayakawa
Published 12 September 2003 (6 pages)
031304 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Energy of a single bead bouncing on a vibrating plate: Experiments and numerical simulations
J.-C. Géminard and C. Laroche
Published 15 September 2003 (5 pages)
031305 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of granular gases in compartmentalized systems
U. Marini Bettolo Marconi and A. Puglisi
Published 22 September 2003 (9 pages)
031306 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Molecular arrangements of self-assembled surfactant films: Characterization from atomic force microscopy data
O. Teschke and E. F. de Souza
Published 3 September 2003 (9 pages)
031401 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Initial susceptibility, flow curves, and magneto-optics of inverse magnetic fluids
M. Raşa, A. P. Philipse, and D. Jamon
Published 4 September 2003 (16 pages)
031402 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Particle density stratification in transient sedimentation
S. L. Dance and M. R. Maxey
Published 10 September 2003 (11 pages)
031403 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Heterogeneity of colloidal particle networks analyzed by means of Minkowski functionals
Markus Hütter
Published 12 September 2003 (10 pages)
031404 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Logarithmic relaxation in a colloidal system
M. Sperl
Published 19 September 2003 (13 pages)
031405 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Swelling-induced modulation of static and dynamic fluctuations in polyacrylamide gels observed by scanning microscopic light scattering
Hidemitsu Furukawa, Kazuyuki Horie, Ryunosuke Nozaki, and Mamoru Okada
Published 22 September 2003 (14 pages)
031406 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Photon correlation spectroscopy with high-energy coherent x rays
T. Thurn-Albrecht, F. Zontone, G. Grübel, W. Steffen, P. Müller-Buschbaum, and A. Patkowski
Published 22 September 2003 (5 pages)
031407 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Long-range forces extending from polymer-gel surfaces
Jian-ming Zheng and Gerald H. Pollack
Published 29 September 2003 (7 pages)
031408 [View PDF (666 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Difference and similarity of dielectric relaxation processes among polyols
Ayumi Minoguchi, Kei Kitai, and Ryusuke Nozaki
Published 5 September 2003 (7 pages)
031501 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Entropy crisis, ideal glass transition, and polymer melting: Exact solution on a Husimi cactus
Andrea Corsi and P. D. Gujrati
Published 5 September 2003 (19 pages)
031502 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Density functional theory of charged, hard-sphere fluids
Dirk Gillespie, Wolfgang Nonner, and Robert S. Eisenberg
Published 19 September 2003 (10 pages)
031503 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Glassy dynamics in the asymmetrically constrained kinetic Ising chain
P. Sollich and M. R. Evans
Published 26 September 2003 (16 pages)
031504 [View PDF (187 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Wedge filling and interface delocalization in finite Ising lattices with antisymmetric surface fields
Andrey Milchev, M. Müller, K. Binder, and D. P. Landau
Published 4 September 2003 (14 pages)
031601 [View PDF (931 kB)]
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Hard-sphere fluids in contact with curved substrates
P. Bryk, R. Roth, K. R. Mecke, and S. Dietrich
Published 16 September 2003 (8 pages)
031602 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Orientational relaxation phenomena in Langmuir-Blodgett films at the air-water interface
A. V. Zakharov, A. A. Vakulenko, and Mitsumasa Iwamoto
Published 17 September 2003 (8 pages)
031603 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Relation between macroscopic and microscopic activation energies in nonequilibrium surface processing
M. A. Gosálvez and R. M. Nieminen
Published 22 September 2003 (16 pages)
031604 [View PDF (1,014 kB)]
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Surface freezing in binary mixtures of chain molecules. I. Alkane mixtures
E. Sloutskin, X. Z. Wu, T. B. Peterson, O. Gang, B. M. Ocko, E. B. Sirota, and M. Deutsch
Published 23 September 2003 (13 pages)
031605 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Surface freezing in binary mixtures of chain molecules. II. Dry and hydrated alcohol mixtures
E. Sloutskin, O. Gang, H. Kraack, A. Doerr, E. B. Sirota, B. M. Ocko, and M. Deutsch
Published 23 September 2003 (17 pages)
031606 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Growing surfaces with anomalous diffusion: Results for the fractal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
Eytan Katzav
Published 24 September 2003 (5 pages)
031607 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Surface-induced molecular tilt above the smectic-A–smectic-C phase transition in a nonchiral liquid crystal
Ishtiaque M. Syed and Charles Rosenblatt
Published 4 September 2003 (6 pages)
031701 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Influence of flexoelectricity above the nematic Fréedericksz transition
C. V. Brown and N. J. Mottram
Published 5 September 2003 (5 pages)
031702 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Light scattering investigation above the nematic–smectic-A phase transition in binary mixtures of calamitic and bent-core mesogens
Mohammad Reza Dodge, Rolfe G. Petschek, Charles Rosenblatt, Mary E. Neubert, and Margaret E. Walsh
Published 11 September 2003 (6 pages)
031703 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Azimuthal and zenithal anchoring of nematic liquid crystals
Mojca Vilfan and Martin Čopič
Published 12 September 2003 (5 pages)
031704 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Complex dielectric relaxation in supercooling and superpressing liquid-crystalline chiral isopentylcyanobiphenyl
S. J. Rzoska, M. Paluch, S. Pawlus, A. Drozd-Rzoska, J. Ziolo, J. Jadzyn, K. Czuprynski, and R. Dabrowski
Published 18 September 2003 (9 pages)
031705 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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High-resolution x-ray study of the nematic–smectic-A and smectic-A–smectic-C transitions in liquid-crystal–aerosil gels
P. S. Clegg, R. J. Birgeneau, S. Park, C. W. Garland, G. S. Iannacchione, R. L. Leheny, and M. E. Neubert
Published 19 September 2003 (7 pages)
031706 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Molecular orientation and the infrared dichroism of a chiral smectic liquid crystal in a homogeneously aligned cell at different temperature and bias fields
A. A. Sigarev, J. K. Vij, R. A. Lewis, M. Hird, and J. W. Goodby
Published 26 September 2003 (13 pages)
031707 [View PDF (478 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Dynamics of cholesteric structures in an electric field
O. S. Tarasov, A. P. Krekhov, and L. Kramer
Published 26 September 2003 (4 pages)
031708 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Wetting properties of a hard-spherocylinder fluid on a substrate
D. de las Heras, L. Mederos, and E. Velasco
Published 26 September 2003 (10 pages)
031709 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Structure of the ripple phase of phospholipid multibilayers
Kheya Sengupta, V. A. Raghunathan, and John Katsaras
Published 29 September 2003 (12 pages)
031710 [View PDF (1,574 kB)]

Polymers

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Phase diagram of poly(methyl-p-tolyl-siloxane): A temperature- and pressure-dependent dielectric spectroscopy investigation
K. Mpoukouvalas and G. Floudas
Published 11 September 2003 (8 pages)
031801 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Effect of volume changes on segmental relaxation in siloxane polymers
M. Paluch, R. Casalini, A. Patkowski, T. Pakula, and C. M. Roland
Published 11 September 2003 (5 pages)
031802 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Bottle-brush polymers as an intermediate between star and cylindrical polymers
N. A. Denesyuk
Published 18 September 2003 (11 pages)
031803 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Polymer θ-point as a knot delocalization transition
E. Orlandini, A. L. Stella, and C. Vanderzande
Published 19 September 2003 (4 pages)
031804 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Out of equilibrium dynamics of poly(vinyl methyl ether) segments in miscible poly(styrene)-poly(vinyl methyl ether) blends
Cédric Lorthioir, Angel Alegría, and Juan Colmenero
Published 24 September 2003 (9 pages)
031805 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Biological physics

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Direct observation of the effective bending moduli of a fluid membrane: Free-energy cost due to the reference-plane deformations
Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Published 3 September 2003 (9 pages)
031901 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Competition between interchain and intrachain phase segregation
T. Iwaki and K. Yoshikawa
Published 8 September 2003 (7 pages)
031902 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Dynamics of DNA in vitro evolution with Mnt-repressor: Simulations and analysis
Yufeng Yang, Hongli Wang, and Qi Ouyang
Published 9 September 2003 (8 pages)
031903 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Increase in error threshold for quasispecies by heterogeneous replication accuracy
Kazuhiro Aoki and Mitsuru Furusawa
Published 10 September 2003 (6 pages)
031904 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Nuclear quantum effects on electron transfer reactions in DNA hairpins
Shigenori Tanaka and Yasuo Sengoku
Published 11 September 2003 (5 pages)
031905 [View PDF (565 kB)]
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Replica-free evaluation of the neuronal population information with mixed continuous and discrete stimuli: From the linear to the asymptotic regime
Valeria Del Prete
Published 11 September 2003 (17 pages)
031906 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Postinhibitory rebound delay and weak synchronization in Hodgkin-Huxley neuronal networks
David T. W. Chik and Z. D. Wang
Published 12 September 2003 (7 pages)
031907 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Anisotropic effects in highly scattering media
Jenni Heino, Simon Arridge, Jan Sikora, and Erkki Somersalo
Published 18 September 2003 (8 pages)
031908 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Recursiveness, switching, and fluctuations in a replicating catalytic network
Kunihiko Kaneko
Published 18 September 2003 (5 pages)
031909 [View PDF (733 kB)]
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Synapse efficiency diverges due to synaptic pruning following overgrowth
Kazushi Mimura, Tomoyuki Kimoto, and Masato Okada
Published 22 September 2003 (15 pages)
031910 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Superparamagnetic segmentation by excitable neural systems
Juan P. Neirotti, Samuel M. Kurcbart, and Nestor Caticha
Published 23 September 2003 (9 pages)
031911 [View PDF (1,043 kB)]
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Traveling waves with dispersive variability and time delay
S. Harris
Published 24 September 2003 (5 pages)
031912 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Punctuated equilibria and 1/f noise in a biological coevolution model with individual-based dynamics
Per Arne Rikvold and R. K. P. Zia
Published 26 September 2003 (16 pages)
031913 [View PDF (1,385 kB)]
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Wave nucleation rate in excitable systems in the low noise limit
Hervé Henry and Herbert Levine
Published 30 September 2003 (5 pages)
031914 [View PDF (169 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Coexistence of stationary and traveling waves in reaction-diffusion-advection systems
Razvan A. Satnoianu
Published 12 September 2003 (4 pages)
032101 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Non-Gaussian probability distribution functions from maximum-entropy-principle considerations
Fabio Sattin
Published 15 September 2003 (3 pages)
032102 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Test of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in glassy systems: The soft-sphere case
E. La Nave, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, M. S. Shell, and P. G. Debenedetti
Published 23 September 2003 (4 pages)
032103 [View PDF (36 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Partial rejuvenation of a colloidal glass
F. Ozon, T. Narita, A. Knaebel, G. Debrégeas, P. Hébraud, and J.-P. Munch
Published 15 September 2003 (4 pages)
032401 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Wave number selection in a nonequilibrium electro-osmotic instability
Isaak Rubinstein and Boris Zaltzman
Published 10 September 2003 (3 pages)
032501 [View PDF (43 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Towards deterministic equations for Lévy walks: The fractional material derivative”
Konstantin V. Chukbar and Vasily Yu. Zaburdaev
Published 11 September 2003 (2 pages)
033101 [View PDF (21 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Phase-separation transition in one-dimensional driven models
Y. Kafri, E. Levine, D. Mukamel, G. M. Schütz, and R. D. Willmann
Published 9 September 2003 (4 pages)
035101(R) [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Local distributions and rate fluctuations in a unified scaling law for earthquakes
Álvaro Corral
Published 9 September 2003 (4 pages)
035102(R) [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Epidemic incidence in correlated complex networks
Yamir Moreno, Javier B. Gómez, and Amalio F. Pacheco
Published 18 September 2003 (4 pages)
035103(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Thermodynamic relations in a driven lattice gas: Numerical experiments
Kumiko Hayashi and Shin-ichi Sasa
Published 22 September 2003 (4 pages)
035104(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Orientational preference and predictability in a symmetric arrangement of magnetic drops
David P. Jackson
Published 8 September 2003 (4 pages)
035301(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Discrete velocity and lattice Boltzmann models for binary mixtures of nonideal fluids
Zhaoli Guo and T. S. Zhao
Published 17 September 2003 (4 pages)
035302(R) [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Direct observation of period-doubled nonspherical states in single-bubble sonoluminescence
Mogens T. Levinsen, Nick Weppenaar, Jeppe Seidelin Dam, Gábor Simon, and Martin Skogstad
Published 22 September 2003 (4 pages)
035303(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Polarization of wave modes in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice using a complex (dusty) plasma
S. Zhdanov, S. Nunomura, D. Samsonov, and G. Morfill
Published 9 September 2003 (4 pages)
035401(R) [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Plasma channels produced by a laser-triggered high-voltage discharge
N. C. Lopes, G. Figueira, L. O. Silva, J. M. Dias, R. Fonseca, L. Cardoso, C. Russo, C. Carias, G. Mendes, J. Vieira, and J. T. Mendonça
Published 26 September 2003 (4 pages)
035402(R) [View PDF (330 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Onset of incommensurate interfacial instability in a minimal model of dry friction
Brad Lee Holian and James E. Hammerberg
Published 3 September 2003 (4 pages)
036101 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Exact soliton solution and inelastic two-soliton collision in a spin chain driven by a time-dependent magnetic field
Zai-Dong Li, Lu Li, W. M. Liu, Jiu-Qing Liang, and T. Ziman
Published 3 September 2003 (6 pages)
036102 [View PDF (652 kB)]
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Epidemic processes with immunization
Andrea Jiménez-Dalmaroni and Haye Hinrichsen
Published 9 September 2003 (11 pages)
036103 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of critical strange nonchaotic attractors
Sandip Datta, Ashutosh Sharma, and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
Published 10 September 2003 (6 pages)
036104 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Large-scale structural organization of social networks
Adilson E. Motter, Takashi Nishikawa, and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 11 September 2003 (5 pages)
036105 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Searching in small-world networks
Alessandro P. S. de Moura, Adilson E. Motter, and Celso Grebogi
Published 11 September 2003 (5 pages)
036106 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Fluctuation of riding passengers induced by chaotic motions of shuttle buses
Takashi Nagatani
Published 12 September 2003 (8 pages)
036107 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Generalized thermodynamics and Fokker-Planck equations: Applications to stellar dynamics and two-dimensional turbulence
Pierre-Henri Chavanis
Published 12 September 2003 (20 pages)
036108 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Investigation of the forest-fire model on a small-world network
I. Graham and C. C. Matthai
Published 12 September 2003 (7 pages)
036109 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Solid-liquid transition of ultrathin lubricant film
Alexei V. Khomenko and Olga V. Yushchenko
Published 12 September 2003 (6 pages)
036110 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Critical behavior and scaling functions of the three-dimensional O(6) model
S. Holtmann and T. Schulze
Published 12 September 2003 (11 pages)
036111 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Class of correlated random networks with hidden variables
Marián Boguñá and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
Published 15 September 2003 (13 pages)
036112 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Universality in the pair contact process with diffusion
G. T. Barkema and E. Carlon
Published 18 September 2003 (7 pages)
036113 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion, localization, aging, and subaging effects in trap models at very low temperature
Cécile Monthus
Published 19 September 2003 (24 pages)
036114 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Classical infinite-range-interaction Heisenberg ferromagnetic model: Metastability and sensitivity to initial conditions
Fernando D. Nobre and Constantino Tsallis
Published 19 September 2003 (7 pages)
036115 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Phase properties of a zigzag chain lattice gas with Coulomb interactions
T. C. King and Y. K. Kuo
Published 19 September 2003 (7 pages)
036116 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Collapses and explosions in self-gravitating systems
I. Ispolatov and M. Karttunen
Published 19 September 2003 (9 pages)
036117 [View PDF (936 kB)]
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Does the continuum theory of dynamic fracture work?
David A. Kessler and Herbert Levine
Published 22 September 2003 (4 pages)
036118 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Correlations in scale-free networks: Tomography and percolation
R. Xulvi-Brunet, W. Pietsch, and I. M. Sokolov
Published 22 September 2003 (7 pages)
036119 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Lyapunov exponent of many-particle systems: Testing the stochastic approach
Celia Anteneodo, Raphael N. P. Maia, and Raúl O. Vallejos
Published 22 September 2003 (10 pages)
036120 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Surface growth models with a random-walk-like nonlocality
S. Y. Yoon and Yup Kim
Published 22 September 2003 (5 pages)
036121 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Why social networks are different from other types of networks
M. E. J. Newman and Juyong Park
Published 22 September 2003 (8 pages)
036122 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Observing stochastic resonance in an underdamped bistable Duffing oscillator by the method of moments
Yan-Mei Kang, Jian-Xue Xu, and Yong Xie
Published 23 September 2003 (8 pages)
036123 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Urban economy as a scale-free network
Claes Andersson, Alexander Hellervik, Kristian Lindgren, Anders Hagson, and Jonas Tornberg
Published 23 September 2003 (6 pages)
036124 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Simultaneous analysis of several models in the three-dimensional Ising universality class
Youjin Deng and Henk W. J. Blöte
Published 23 September 2003 (9 pages)
036125 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Multioverlap simulations for transitions between reference configurations
Bernd A. Berg, Hiroshi Noguchi, and Yuko Okamoto
Published 23 September 2003 (11 pages)
036126 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Car accidents in cellular automata models for one-lane traffic flow
Najem Moussa
Published 24 September 2003 (8 pages)
036127 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Universal interface width distributions at the depinning threshold
Alberto Rosso, Werner Krauth, Pierre Le Doussal, Jean Vannimenus, and Kay Jörg Wiese
Published 24 September 2003 (4 pages)
036128 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Logarithmic corrections to scaling in critical percolation and random resistor networks
Olaf Stenull and Hans-Karl Janssen
Published 24 September 2003 (14 pages)
036129 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Microscopic theory of spatial-temporal congested traffic patterns at highway bottlenecks
Boris S. Kerner and Sergey L. Klenov
Published 26 September 2003 (20 pages)
036130 [View PDF (2,194 kB)]
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Logarithmic corrections in dynamic isotropic percolation
Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull
Published 26 September 2003 (9 pages)
036131 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Criticality and market efficiency in a simple realistic model of the stock market
Damien Challet and Matteo Marsili
Published 26 September 2003 (4 pages)
036132 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Signal detection via residence times statistics: Noise-mediated minimization of the measurement error
A. Nikitin, N. G. Stocks, and A. R. Bulsara
Published 26 September 2003 (4 pages)
036133 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Order statistics of Rosenstock’s trapping problem in disordered media
S. B. Yuste and L. Acedo
Published 26 September 2003 (9 pages)
036134 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Extended self-similarity in the two-dimensional metal-insulator transition
L. Moriconi
Published 29 September 2003 (7 pages)
036135 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Three-dimensional randomly dilute Ising model: Monte Carlo results
Pasquale Calabrese, Victor Martín-Mayor, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari
Published 30 September 2003 (17 pages)
036136 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Synchronization of vectorial noise-sustained structures
Gonzalo Izús, Pere Colet, Maxi San Miguel, and Marco Santagiustina
Published 3 September 2003 (6 pages)
036201 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Transition from spiral waves to defect-mediated turbulence induced by gradient effects in a reaction-diffusion system
Chunxia Zhang, Hong Zhang, Qi Ouyang, Bambi Hu, and Gemunu H. Gunaratne
Published 3 September 2003 (7 pages)
036202 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Experimental observation of characteristic relations of type-III intermittency in the presence of noise in a simple electronic circuit
Won-Ho Kye, Sunghwan Rim, Chil-Min Kim, Jong-Han Lee, Jung-Wan Ryu, Bok-Sil Yeom, and Young-Jai Park
Published 3 September 2003 (5 pages)
036203 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Low-frequency fluctuations in the Lang-Kobayashi equations
D. Pieroux and Paul Mandel
Published 4 September 2003 (6 pages)
036204 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Experiments on elastomechanical wave functions in chaotic plates and their statistical features
K. Schaadt, T. Guhr, C. Ellegaard, and M. Oxborrow
Published 5 September 2003 (6 pages)
036205 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Stability domains for time-delay feedback control with latency
Philipp Hövel and Joshua E. S. Socolar
Published 11 September 2003 (7 pages)
036206 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Asymptotic solutions of stationary patterns in convection-reaction-diffusion systems
Olga Nekhamkina and Moshe Sheintuch
Published 18 September 2003 (10 pages)
036207 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Complete synchronization and generalized synchronization of one-way coupled time-delay systems
Meng Zhan, Xingang Wang, Xiaofeng Gong, G. W. Wei, and C.-H. Lai
Published 18 September 2003 (5 pages)
036208 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Experimental evidence of van der Pol–Fitzhugh–Nagumo dynamics in semiconductor optical amplifiers
Stéphane Barland, Oreste Piro, Massimo Giudici, Jorge R. Tredicce, and Salvador Balle
Published 19 September 2003 (6 pages)
036209 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Isothermal flame balls: Effect of autocatalyst decay
Éva Jakab, Dezső Horváth, John H. Merkin, Stephen K. Scott, Péter L. Simon, and Ágota Tóth
Published 19 September 2003 (9 pages)
036210 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Delay times and reflection in chaotic cavities with absorption
Dmitry V. Savin and Hans-Jürgen Sommers
Published 22 September 2003 (5 pages)
036211 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Decay of the classical Loschmidt echo in integrable systems
Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, and Gregor Veble
Published 22 September 2003 (7 pages)
036212 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Stabilizing Turing patterns with subdiffusion in systems with low particle numbers
Matthias Weiss
Published 22 September 2003 (5 pages)
036213 [View PDF (378 kB)]
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Quantum time scales and the classical limit: Analytic results for some simple systems
Adélcio C. Oliveira, M. C. Nemes, and K. M. Fonseca Romero
Published 23 September 2003 (10 pages)
036214 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Assessment of damage in an eight-oscillator circuit using dynamical forcing
Linda Moniz, Thomas Carroll, Louis Pecora, and Michael Todd
Published 23 September 2003 (7 pages)
036215 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Recurrence of fidelity in nearly integrable systems
R. Sankaranarayanan and Arul Lakshminarayan
Published 23 September 2003 (6 pages)
036216 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Universality of parametric spectral correlations: Local versus extended perturbing potentials
F. M. Marchetti, I. E. Smolyarenko, and B. D. Simons
Published 26 September 2003 (15 pages)
036217 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Master equation simulations of a model of a thermochemical system
Andrzej L. Kawczyński and Bogdan Nowakowski
Published 26 September 2003 (9 pages)
036218 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Detection of mutual phase synchronization in multivariate signals and application to phase ensembles and chaotic data
A. Hutt, A. Daffertshofer, and U. Steinmetz
Published 30 September 2003 (10 pages)
036219 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Oscillatory decay at the Rosensweig instability: Experiment and theory
Bert Reimann, Reinhard Richter, Ingo Rehberg, and Adrian Lange
Published 30 September 2003 (8 pages)
036220 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Effects of a nonlinear perturbation on dynamical tunneling in cold atoms
Roberto Artuso and Laura Rebuzzini
Published 30 September 2003 (10 pages)
036221 [View PDF (808 kB)]
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Overlapping of two truncated crisis scenarios: Generator of peaks in mean lifetimes of chaotic transients
V. Paar and N. Pavin
Published 30 September 2003 (6 pages)
036222 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Electromotive force and large-scale magnetic dynamo in a turbulent flow with a mean shear
Igor Rogachevskii and Nathan Kleeorin
Published 3 September 2003 (12 pages)
036301 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Small aspect ratio Taylor-Couette flow: Onset of a very-low-frequency three-torus state
Juan M. Lopez and Francisco Marques
Published 3 September 2003 (9 pages)
036302 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Eulerian statistically preserved structures in passive scalar advection
Yoram Cohen, Anna Pomyalov, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 4 September 2003 (9 pages)
036303 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Energy budgets in Charney-Hasegawa-Mima and surface quasigeostrophic turbulence
Chuong V. Tran and John C. Bowman
Published 5 September 2003 (4 pages)
036304 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Periodic folding of viscous sheets
Neil M. Ribe
Published 9 September 2003 (6 pages)
036305 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Characteristic angles in the wetting of an angular region: Deposit growth
Yuri O. Popov and Thomas A. Witten
Published 11 September 2003 (19 pages)
036306 [View PDF (513 kB)]
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Smooth and rough boundaries in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow
Thomas H. van den Berg, Charles R. Doering, Detlef Lohse, and Daniel P. Lathrop
Published 12 September 2003 (5 pages)
036307 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Forced stratified turbulence: Successive transitions with Reynolds number
J.-P. Laval, J. C. McWilliams, and B. Dubrulle
Published 18 September 2003 (8 pages)
036308 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Modulation on coherent vortex structures by dispersed solid particles in a three-dimensional mixing layer
Jianren Fan, Kun Luo, Youqu Zheng, Hanhui Jin, and Kefa Cen
Published 19 September 2003 (10 pages)
036309 [View PDF (173 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Effective dispersion in temporally fluctuating flow through a heterogeneous medium
Marco Dentz and Jesus Carrera
Published 19 September 2003 (18 pages)
036310 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Probability density function of turbulent velocity fluctuations in a rough-wall boundary layer
Hideaki Mouri, Masanori Takaoka, Akihiro Hori, and Yoshihide Kawashima
Published 22 September 2003 (6 pages)
036311 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Ring formation in nanoliter cups: Quantitative measurements of flow in micromachined wells
B. Rieger, L. R. van den Doel, and L. J. van Vliet
Published 26 September 2003 (9 pages)
036312 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Kinetics of the shear banding instability in startup flows
S. M. Fielding and P. D. Olmsted
Published 30 September 2003 (20 pages)
036313 [View PDF (514 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Statistical analysis of multimode weakly nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the presence of surface tension
J. Garnier, C. Cherfils-Clérouin, and P.-A. Holstein
Published 12 September 2003 (12 pages)
036401 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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X-ray spectral measurements and collisional radiative modeling of Ni- to Kr-like Au ions in electron beam ion trap plasmas
M. J. May, K. B. Fournier, P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, and K. L. Wong
Published 19 September 2003 (11 pages)
036402 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Frequency-dependent reflectivity of shock-compressed xenon plasmas
H. Reinholz, Yu. Zaporoghets, V. Mintsev, V. Fortov, I. Morozov, and G. Röpke
Published 26 September 2003 (10 pages)
036403 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Excitation of ion-wave wakefield by the resonant absorption of a short pulsed microwave with plasma
Md. Kamal-Al-Hassan, Mikhail Starodubtsev, Hiroaki Ito, Noboru Yugami, and Yasushi Nishida
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
036404 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Coulomb explosions and energy loss of molecular ions in plasmas
Gui-Qiu Wang, You-Nian Wang, and Z. L. Mišković
Published 29 September 2003 (7 pages)
036405 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Method of measuring the coupled lattice functions at the interaction point in e+e- storage rings
Yunhai Cai
Published 3 September 2003 (9 pages)
036501 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Wake field in dielectric acceleration structures
L. Schächter, R. L. Byer, and R. H. Siemann
Published 5 September 2003 (10 pages)
036502 [View PDF (187 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Halo formation at early stage of injection in high-intensity hadron rings
Yoshito Shimosaki and Ken Takayama
Published 22 September 2003 (11 pages)
036503 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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X rays from relativistic electrons in a multilayer structure
N. N. Nasonov, V. V. Kaplin, S. R. Uglov, M. A. Piestrup, and C. K. Gary
Published 26 September 2003 (7 pages)
036504 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Dynamical instabilities of quasistatic crack propagation under thermal stress
Eran Bouchbinder, H. George E. Hentschel, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 3 September 2003 (13 pages)
036601 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in the presence of spatially localized structures
Ivan Rabbiosi, Andrew J. Scroggie, and Gian-Luca Oppo
Published 8 September 2003 (10 pages)
036602 [View PDF (481 kB)]
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Linear dynamics of double-porosity dual-permeability materials. I. Governing equations and acoustic attenuation
Steven R. Pride and James G. Berryman
Published 9 September 2003 (10 pages)
036603 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Linear dynamics of double-porosity dual-permeability materials. II. Fluid transport equations
Steven R. Pride and James G. Berryman
Published 9 September 2003 (10 pages)
036604 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Dynamics of multimode diode lasers with strong, frequency-selective optical feedback
R. Badii, N. Matuschek, T. Pliška, J. Troger, and B. Schmidt
Published 9 September 2003 (12 pages)
036605 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Standard and embedded solitons in nematic optical fibers
R. F. Rodríguez, J. A. Reyes, A. Espinosa-Cerón, J. Fujioka, and B. A. Malomed
Published 11 September 2003 (14 pages)
036606 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Incoherent white light solitons in logarithmically saturable noninstantaneous nonlinear media
H. Buljan, A. Šiber, M. Soljačić, T. Schwartz, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides
Published 11 September 2003 (6 pages)
036607 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Radiation from a dipole embedded in a multilayer slab
S. R. J. Brueck, V. A. Smagley, and P. G. Eliseev
Published 12 September 2003 (13 pages)
036608 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Oblique frozen modes in periodic layered media
A. Figotin and I. Vitebskiy
Published 17 September 2003 (16 pages)
036609 [View PDF (821 kB)]
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Conservative form of the density of states of a photonic crystal with a pseudogap
Xiao-Dong Liu, Yi-Quan Wang, Bing-Ying Cheng, and Dao-Zhong Zhang
Published 18 September 2003 (5 pages)
036610 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Variational analysis for photonic molecules: Application to photonic benzene waveguides
Bin Shei Lin
Published 23 September 2003 (8 pages)
036611 [View PDF (1,911 kB)]
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Using the finite domain remnant of the continuous spectrum to examine integrability: Effect of boundary conditions
Panayotis G. Kevrekidis and Niurka R. Quintero
Published 23 September 2003 (7 pages)
036612 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Solutions for vectorial beam coupling under ac field in cubic photorefractive crystals
B. I. Sturman and O. S. Filippov
Published 26 September 2003 (10 pages)
036613 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Quadratic solitons as nonlocal solitons
Nikola I. Nikolov, Dragomir Neshev, Ole Bang, and Wiesław Z. Królikowski
Published 29 September 2003 (5 pages)
036614 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Computational physics

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Transport coefficients for stochastic rotation dynamics in three dimensions
E. Tüzel, M. Strauss, T. Ihle, and D. M. Kroll
Published 3 September 2003 (15 pages)
036701 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Polynomial iterative algorithms for coloring and analyzing random graphs
A. Braunstein, R. Mulet, A. Pagnani, M. Weigt, and R. Zecchina
Published 3 September 2003 (15 pages)
036702 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Characterization of the probabilistic traveling salesman problem
Neill E. Bowler, Thomas M. A. Fink, and Robin C. Ball
Published 9 September 2003 (7 pages)
036703 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Boundary conditions for stochastic solutions of the convection-diffusion equation
P. Szymczak and A. J. C. Ladd
Published 11 September 2003 (12 pages)
036704 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Can a numerically stable subgrid-scale model for turbulent flow computation be ideally accurate?: A preliminary theoretical study for the Gaussian filtered Navier-Stokes equations
Masato Ida and Nobuyuki Taniguchi
Published 16 September 2003 (6 pages)
036705 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Theory of the lattice Boltzmann method: Acoustic and thermal properties in two and three dimensions
Pierre Lallemand and Li-Shi Luo
Published 23 September 2003 (25 pages)
036706 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Errorless reproduction of given pattern dynamics by means of cellular automata
Teruhiko Tamura, Jousuke Kuroiwa, and Shigetoshi Nara
Published 29 September 2003 (8 pages)
036707 [View PDF (505 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Strange nonchaotic attractors in driven excitable systems
Awadhesh Prasad, Bibudhananda Biswal, and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
Published 18 September 2003 (4 pages)
037201 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Unexpected correspondence between noise-induced and master-slave complete synchronizations
Jian Gao, Huaping Lü, Daihai He, Lewi Stone, and Zhigang Zheng
Published 23 September 2003 (4 pages)
037202 [View PDF (40 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Band structures and band gaps of liquid surface waves propagating through an infinite array of cylinders
Xinhua Hu, Yifeng Shen, Xiaohan Liu, Rongtang Fu, Jian Zi, Xunya Jiang, and Songlin Feng
Published 23 September 2003 (4 pages)
037301 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Surface instabilities on liquid oxygen in an inhomogeneous magnetic field
A. T. Catherall, Keith A. Benedict, P. J. King, and L. Eaves
Published 24 September 2003 (3 pages)
037302 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Effect of liquid films on the isothermal drying of porous media
A. G. Yiotis, A. G. Boudouvis, A. K. Stubos, I. N. Tsimpanogiannis, and Y. C. Yortsos
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
037303 [View PDF (331 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Magnetic-field-limited currents
J. R. Davies
Published 29 September 2003 (4 pages)
037501 [View PDF (50 kB)]

Computational physics

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Higher-order neural networks, Polyà polynomials, and Fermi cluster diagrams
K. E. Kürten and J. W. Clark
Published 18 September 2003 (4 pages)
037701 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Computational approach for modeling intra- and extracellular dynamics
Julien Kockelkoren, Herbert Levine, and Wouter-Jan Rappel
Published 26 September 2003 (4 pages)
037702 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Structure optimization in an off-lattice protein model
Hsiao-Ping Hsu, Vishal Mehra, and Peter Grassberger
Published 30 September 2003 (4 pages)
037703 [View PDF (42 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Ehrenfest times for classically chaotic systems”
Steven Tomsovic and Eric J. Heller
Published 15 September 2003 (2 pages)
038201 [View PDF (15 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Ehrenfest times for classically chaotic systems’ ”
P. G. Silvestrov and C. W. J. Beenakker
Published 15 September 2003 (1 page)
038202 [View PDF (9 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Effects of DNA-distorting proteins on DNA elastic response [Phys. Rev. E 68, 011905 (2003)]
Jie Yan and John F. Marko
Published 5 September 2003 (1 page)
039901(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Dependence of film tension on the thickness of smectic films [Phys. Rev. E 67, 021707 (2003)]
R. Jaquet and F. Schneider
Published 5 September 2003 (1 page)
039902(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Erratum: Diffusion-limited reaction for the one-dimensional trap system [Phys. Rev. E 67, 056123 (2003)]
D. Bar
Published 10 September 2003 (1 page)
039903(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Erratum: Fractal radar scattering from soil [Phys. Rev. E 67, 041403 (2003)]
Klaudia Oleschko, Gabor Korvin, Benjamin Figueroa, Marco Antonio Vuelvas, Alexander S. Balankin, Lourdes Flores, and Dora Carreón
Published 19 September 2003 (1 page)
039904(E) [View PDF (15 kB)]
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Erratum: Lattice model for the kinetics of rupture of fluid bilayer membranes [Physical Review E 67, 051908 (2003)]
Luc Fournier and Béla Joós
Published 23 September 2003 (1 page)
039905(E) [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Erratum: Dynamics of temporal learning rules [Phys. Rev. E 62, 4077 (2000)]
Patrick D. Roberts
Published 26 September 2003 (1 page)
039906(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]