Physical Review E – August 2004
Volume 70, Issue 2

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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Stochastic nonlinear differential equation generating 1∕f noise
B. Kaulakys and J. Ruseckas
Published 13 August 2004 (3 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (49 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Grain boundary dynamics under mechanical annealing in two-dimensional colloids
Q. H. Wei and X. L. Wu
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
020401(R) [View PDF (627 kB)]

Biological physics

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Molecular discreteness in reaction-diffusion systems yields steady states not seen in the continuum limit
Yuichi Togashi and Kunihiko Kaneko
Published 23 August 2004 (4 pages)
020901(R) [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Effects of stacking on the configurations and elasticity of single-stranded nucleic acids
A. Buhot and A. Halperin
Published 24 August 2004 (4 pages)
020902(R) [View PDF (60 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Reentrant behavior of the spinodal curve in a nonequilibrium ferromagnet
P. I. Hurtado, J. Marro, and P. L. Garrido
Published 16 August 2004 (7 pages)
021101 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Brownian rectifiers in the presence of temporally asymmetric unbiased forces
Raishma Krishnan, Mangal C. Mahato, and A. M. Jayannavar
Published 17 August 2004 (6 pages)
021102 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Effects of noise near a homoclinic bifurcation in an electrochemical system
Gerardo J. Escalera Santos, M. Rivera, M. Eiswirth, and P. Parmananda
Published 26 August 2004 (6 pages)
021103 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Constructive approximations to the q=1∕2 maximum entropy distribution from redundant and noisy data
L. Rebollo-Neira and A. Plastino
Published 27 August 2004 (8 pages)
021104 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Kinetic models of ion transport through a nanopore
Jaroslaw Piasecki, Rosalind J. Allen, and Jean-Pierre Hansen
Published 31 August 2004 (15 pages)
021105 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Signal estimation and threshold optimization using an array of bithreshold elements
Aki-Hiro Sato, Michihito Ueda, and Toyonori Munakata
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
021106 [View PDF (64 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Thermoacoustic boundary layers near the liquid-vapor critical point
K. A. Gillis, I. I. Shinder, and M. R. Moldover
Published 4 August 2004 (20 pages)
021201 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Stripe patterns in two-dimensional systems with core-corona molecular architecture
Gianpietro Malescio and Giuseppe Pellicane
Published 11 August 2004 (6 pages)
021202 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Determination of effective pair interactions from the structure factor
N. G. Almarza, E. Lomba, and D. Molina
Published 13 August 2004 (5 pages)
021203 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Mode-coupling theory and molecular dynamics simulation for heat conduction in a chain with transverse motions
Jian-Sheng Wang and Baowen Li
Published 19 August 2004 (16 pages)
021204 [View PDF (535 kB)]
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Thermophoretic force and velocity of nanoparticles in the free molecule regime
Zhigang Li and Hai Wang
Published 31 August 2004 (11 pages)
021205 [View PDF (550 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Granular materials

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Pressure measurement in two-dimensional horizontal granular gases
J.-C. Géminard and C. Laroche
Published 11 August 2004 (8 pages)
021301 [View PDF (610 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Chain aggregate structure and magnetic birefringence in polydisperse ferrofluids
Alexey O. Ivanov and Sofia S. Kantorovich
Published 9 August 2004 (10 pages)
021401 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Large structures in diblock copolymer micellar solution
Domenico Lombardo, Norberto Micali, Valentina Villari, and Mikhail A. Kiselev
Published 16 August 2004 (8 pages)
021402 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Theory of growth by differential sedimentation, with application to snowflake formation
C. D. Westbrook, R. C. Ball, P. R. Field, and A. J. Heymsfield
Published 25 August 2004 (7 pages)
021403 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Bending of flexible magnetic rods
A. Cēbers and I. Javaitis
Published 26 August 2004 (6 pages)
021404 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Brownian dynamics simulations of Laponite colloid suspensions
G. Odriozola, M. Romero-Bastida, and F. de J. Guevara-Rodríguez
Published 31 August 2004 (15 pages)
021405 [View PDF (531 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Unconventional density dependence of the stochastic dynamics in an organic liquid
A. Maira-Vidal, M. A. González, M. Jimenez-Ruiz, F. J. Bermejo, D. L. Price, E. Enciso, M. L. Saboungi, R. Fernández-Perea, and C. Cabrillo
Published 9 August 2004 (9 pages)
021501 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Cooperativity of the β -relaxations in aromatic polymers
Alejandro Sanz, Aurora Nogales, Tiberio A. Ezquerra, Nadia Lotti, and Lara Finelli
Published 10 August 2004 (6 pages)
021502 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Microrheology of solutions of semiflexible biopolymer filaments using laser tweezers interferometry
Karim M. Addas, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Jay X. Tang
Published 11 August 2004 (16 pages)
021503 [View PDF (1,890 kB)]
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Phase diagram of charged dumbbells: A random phase approximation approach
Alexander Kudlay, Alexander V. Ermoshkin, and Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Published 13 August 2004 (6 pages)
021504 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Colloidal hard-rod fluids near geometrically structured substrates
L. Harnau, F. Penna, and S. Dietrich
Published 13 August 2004 (8 pages)
021505 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Diffuse-charge dynamics in electrochemical systems
Martin Z. Bazant, Katsuyo Thornton, and Armand Ajdari
Published 19 August 2004 (24 pages)
021506 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Experimental investigation of the frequency dependence of the electrorheological effect
Yucheng Lan, Colin Ke Huang, Shouqiang Men, and Kunquan Lu
Published 30 August 2004 (6 pages)
021507 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Spinodal dewetting in a volatile liquid film
Len M. Pismen
Published 9 August 2004 (9 pages)
021601 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Initial-stage growth phenomena and distribution of local configurations of the restricted solid-on-solid model
Chih-Chun Chien, Ning-Ning Pang, and Wen-Jer Tzeng
Published 11 August 2004 (8 pages)
021602 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Convective instability in protein crystal growth
D. Lima and A. De Wit
Published 17 August 2004 (7 pages)
021603 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Interfacial mixing in heteroepitaxial growth
Boris Bierwald, Michael von den Driesch, Zéno Farkas, Sang Bub Lee, and Dietrich E. Wolf
Published 19 August 2004 (11 pages)
021604 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Statistical theory of nucleation in the presence of uncharacterized impurities
Richard P. Sear
Published 31 August 2004 (8 pages)
021605 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Dynamics and morphology of superfluid bubbles in 4He quantum crystals
K. Yoneyama, R. Nomura, and Y. Okuda
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
021606 [View PDF (251 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Liquid crystals

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Periodic buckling of smectic- A tubular filaments in an isotropic phase
Masayoshi Todorokihara, Yosuke Iwata, and Hiroyoshi Naito
Published 13 August 2004 (6 pages)
021701 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Rheological properties in discotic liquid crystalline phases of 2,3,7,8,12,13-hexa(n-tetradecanoyloxy)truxene
Keishi Negita, Chiharu Kawano, and Keiichi Moriya
Published 30 August 2004 (5 pages)
021702 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Growth laws for the phase ordering dynamics of the B1 phase of a bent-core liquid crystal
HoKei Chan and Ingo Dierking
Published 30 August 2004 (5 pages)
021703 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Origin of spontaneous polarization, tilt, and chiral structure of smectic liquid-crystal phases composed of bent-core molecules: A molecular model
A. V. Emelyanenko and M. A. Osipov
Published 31 August 2004 (8 pages)
021704 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Polymers

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Unwrapping of DNA-protein complexes under external stretching
Takahiro Sakaue and Hartmut Löwen
Published 19 August 2004 (8 pages)
021801 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Solvation versus freezing in a heteropolymer globule
Phillip L. Geissler, Eugene I. Shakhnovich, and Alexander Yu. Grosberg
Published 24 August 2004 (6 pages)
021802 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Biological physics

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Mean-field approaches to the totally asymmetric exclusion process with quenched disorder and large particles
Leah B. Shaw, James P. Sethna, and Kelvin H. Lee
Published 4 August 2004 (7 pages)
021901 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Lateral organization of cholesterol molecules in lipid-cholesterol assemblies
Pinaki Sengupta, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Daniel L. Cox, and Alex Slepoy
Published 9 August 2004 (6 pages)
021902 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Solution of the quasispecies model for an arbitrary gene network
Emmanuel Tannenbaum and Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Published 11 August 2004 (15 pages)
021903 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Coupled oscillator systems of cultured cardiac myocytes: Fluctuation and scaling properties
Mitsuru Yoneyama and Koichi Kawahara
Published 11 August 2004 (9 pages)
021904 [View PDF (136 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Exact solution of a linear molecular motor model driven by two-step fluctuations and subjectto protein friction
Hans C. Fogedby, Ralf Metzler, and Axel Svane
Published 16 August 2004 (10 pages)
021905 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Finite width model sequence comparison
Nicholas Chia and Ralf Bundschuh
Published 17 August 2004 (9 pages)
021906 [View PDF (474 kB)]
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Solvable senescence model with positive mutations
J. B. Coe, Y. Mao, and M. E. Cates
Published 17 August 2004 (4 pages)
021907 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Structure and fluctuations of phosphatidylcholines in the vicinity of the main phase transition
G. Pabst, H. Amenitsch, D. P. Kharakoz, P. Laggner, and M. Rappolt
Published 19 August 2004 (9 pages)
021908 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Control of cardiac function and noise from a decaying power spectrum
G. C. Kember, J. A. Armour, G. A. Fenton, and A. Malhotra
Published 23 August 2004 (9 pages)
021909 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Spontaneous rhythmic motion of a polymer chain in a continuous-wave laser field
Hiroyuki Kitahata, Hiroyuki Mayama, and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 24 August 2004 (4 pages)
021910 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Augmented moment method for stochastic ensembles with delayed couplings. I. Langevin model
Hideo Hasegawa
Published 27 August 2004 (11 pages)
021911 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Augmented moment method for stochastic ensembles with delayed couplings. II. FitzHugh-Nagumo model
Hideo Hasegawa
Published 27 August 2004 (9 pages)
021912 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Suppression of ecological competition by an apex predator
Taksu Cheon and Shigemi Ohta
Published 30 August 2004 (4 pages)
021913 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Pulse-coupled resonate-and-fire models
Keiji Miura and Masato Okada
Published 30 August 2004 (7 pages)
021914 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Dynamics of a contact process with ontogeny
Joshua S. Weitz and Daniel H. Rothman
Published 31 August 2004 (10 pages)
021915 [View PDF (931 kB)]
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Random walks for spike-timing-dependent plasticity
Alan Williams, Todd K. Leen, and Patrick D. Roberts
Published 31 August 2004 (16 pages)
021916 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Picometer-scale dynamical observations of individual membrane proteins: The case of bacteriorhodopsin
Yasuaki Okumura, Toshihiko Oka, Mikio Kataoka, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Yuji C. Sasaki
Published 31 August 2004 (7 pages)
021917 [View PDF (526 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Competition between short-ranged attraction and short-ranged repulsion in crowded configurational space: A lattice model description
Davide Cellai, Hector Cuevas, Aonghus Lawlor, Gavin D. McCullagh, and Kenneth A. Dawson
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
022401 [View PDF (114 kB)]

ARTICLES

Structured and complex fluids

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Density functional theory for sphere-needle mixtures: Toward finite rod thickness
Ansgar Esztermann and Matthias Schmidt
Published 4 August 2004 (4 pages)
022501 [View PDF (72 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Biological physics

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Oscillatory phase transition and pulse propagation in noisy integrate-and-fire neurons
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
Published 13 August 2004 (4 pages)
022901 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Pattern formation driven by nematic ordering of assembling biopolymers
Falko Ziebert and Walter Zimmermann
Published 30 August 2004 (4 pages)
022902 [View PDF (92 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Modularity from fluctuations in random graphs and complex networks
Roger Guimerà, Marta Sales-Pardo, and Luís A. Nunes Amaral
Published 19 August 2004 (4 pages)
025101(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Universality in the level statistics of disordered systems
Heiko Bauke and Stephan Mertens
Published 23 August 2004 (4 pages)
025102(R) [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Dynamical mechanisms of adaptation in multiagent systems
K. Y. Michael Wong, S. W. Lim, and Zhuo Gao
Published 30 August 2004 (4 pages)
025103(R) [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Generalized minority games with adaptive trend-followers and contrarians
A. De Martino, I. Giardina, A. Tedeschi, and M. Marsili
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
025104(R) [View PDF (340 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Alternative pathways of dewetting for a thin liquid two-layer film
Andrey Pototsky, Michael Bestehorn, Domnic Merkt, and Uwe Thiele
Published 11 August 2004 (4 pages)
025201(R) [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Preparation of subharmonic patterns in nematic electroconvection
Thomas John and Ralf Stannarius
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
025202(R) [View PDF (269 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Dispersed phase of particles in rotating turbulent fluid flows
R. V. R. Pandya, P. Stansell, and J. Cosgrove
Published 23 August 2004 (4 pages)
025301(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Statistics of intense turbulent vorticity events
L. Moriconi
Published 24 August 2004 (4 pages)
025302(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Multipeaked polarons in soft potentials
M. A. Fuentes, P. Maniadis, G. Kalosakas, K. Ø. Rasmussen, A. R. Bishop, V. M. Kenkre, and Yu. B. Gaididei
Published 10 August 2004 (4 pages)
025601(R) [View PDF (51 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Stochastic dynamical model for stock-stock correlations
Wen-Jong Ma, Chin-Kun Hu, and Ravindra E. Amritkar
Published 4 August 2004 (9 pages)
026101 [View PDF (1,002 kB)]
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Anomalously slow phase transitions in self-gravitating systems
I. Ispolatov and M. Karttunen
Published 9 August 2004 (5 pages)
026102 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Large-scale numerical simulations of ultrametric long-range depinning
Damien Vandembroucq and Stéphane Roux
Published 10 August 2004 (9 pages)
026103 [View PDF (719 kB)]
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Exponential and power-law mass distributions in brittle fragmentation
J. A. Åström, R. P. Linna, J. Timonen, Peder Friis Møller, and Lene Oddershede
Published 11 August 2004 (7 pages)
026104 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Equilibrium of a confined, randomly accelerated, inelastic particle: Is there inelastic collapse?
Theodore W. Burkhardt and Stanislav N. Kotsev
Published 13 August 2004 (6 pages)
026105 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Perturbing general uncorrelated networks
Z. Burda, J. Jurkiewicz, and A. Krzywicki
Published 16 August 2004 (7 pages)
026106 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Ordinary chemical reaction process induced by a unidimensional map
Marco Bianucci
Published 16 August 2004 (6 pages)
026107 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Broadening of a nonequilibrium phase transition by extended structural defects
Thomas Vojta
Published 19 August 2004 (4 pages)
026108 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Characterization of weighted complex networks
Kwangho Park, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Nong Ye
Published 23 August 2004 (4 pages)
026109 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Random matrix theory analysis of cross correlations in financial markets
Akihiko Utsugi, Kazusumi Ino, and Masaki Oshikawa
Published 24 August 2004 (11 pages)
026110 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Dynamical approach to the spatiotemporal aspects of the Portevin–Le Chatelier effect: Chaos, turbulence, and band propagation
G. Ananthakrishna and M. S. Bharathi
Published 25 August 2004 (15 pages)
026111 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Exact solution of Ising model on a small-world network
J. Viana Lopes, Yu. G. Pogorelov, J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos, and R. Toral
Published 25 August 2004 (8 pages)
026112 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Combining geometrical and dynamical disorder to enhance transport
Hernan L. Martinez and Juan M. R. Parrondo
Published 25 August 2004 (5 pages)
026113 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Generalized epidemic process and tricritical dynamic percolation
Hans-Karl Janssen, Martin Müller, and Olaf Stenull
Published 30 August 2004 (20 pages)
026114 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Estimate of blow-up and relaxation time for self-gravitating Brownian particles and bacterial populations
P.-H. Chavanis and C. Sire
Published 30 August 2004 (8 pages)
026115 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Frequency synchronization in a random oscillator network
Takashi Ichinomiya
Published 30 August 2004 (5 pages)
026116 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Finite-element analysis of contact between elastic self-affine surfaces
S. Hyun, L. Pei, J.-F. Molinari, and M. O. Robbins
Published 31 August 2004 (12 pages)
026117 [View PDF (1,297 kB)]
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Criticality in aqueous solutions of 3-methylpyridine and sodium bromide
A. F. Kostko, M. A. Anisimov, and J. V. Sengers
Published 31 August 2004 (11 pages)
026118 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Critical behavior of the two-dimensional 2A→3A , 4A→∅ binary system
Géza Ódor
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
026119 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Multicriticality of the three-dimensional Ising model with plaquette interactions: An extension of Novotny’s transfer-matrix formalism
Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Published 31 August 2004 (7 pages)
026120 [View PDF (85 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Chaos and pattern formation

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Current statistics for wave transmission through an open Sinai billiard: Effects of net currents
Almas F. Sadreev and Karl-Fredrik Berggren
Published 9 August 2004 (7 pages)
026201 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal structures in a model with delay and diffusion
M. Bestehorn, E. V. Grigorieva, and S. A. Kaschenko
Published 9 August 2004 (12 pages)
026202 [View PDF (696 kB)]
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Encoding via conjugate symmetries of slow oscillations for globally coupled oscillators
Peter Ashwin and Jon Borresen
Published 10 August 2004 (8 pages)
026203 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Spiral wave drift in an electric field and scroll wave instabilities
Hervé Henry
Published 11 August 2004 (5 pages)
026204 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Information flow through a chaotic channel: Prediction and postdiction at finite resolution
Richard Metzler, Yaneer Bar-Yam, and Mehran Kardar
Published 13 August 2004 (10 pages)
026205 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Loschmidt echo for a chaotic oscillator
A. Iomin
Published 16 August 2004 (5 pages)
026206 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Global bifurcation investigation of an optimal velocity traffic model with driver reaction time
Gábor Orosz, R. Eddie Wilson, and Bernd Krauskopf
Published 16 August 2004 (10 pages)
026207 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Stringent numerical test of the Poisson distribution for finite quantum integrable Hamiltonians
A. Relaño, J. Dukelsky, J. M. G. Gómez, and J. Retamosa
Published 19 August 2004 (5 pages)
026208 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Dynamics and stability of vortex-antivortex fronts in type-II superconductors
Chiara Baggio, Martin Howard, and Wim van Saarloos
Published 19 August 2004 (12 pages)
026209 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Noise-aided synchronization of coupled chaotic electrochemical oscillators
István Z. Kiss, John L. Hudson, J. Escalona, and P. Parmananda
Published 19 August 2004 (8 pages)
026210 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Environmental effects in the quantum-classical transition for the delta-kicked harmonic oscillator
A. R. R. Carvalho, R. L. de Matos Filho, and L. Davidovich
Published 24 August 2004 (15 pages)
026211 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Turbulence near cyclic fold bifurcations in birhythmic media
Dorjsuren Battogtokh and John J. Tyson
Published 26 August 2004 (7 pages)
026212 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Energy localization in the Peyrard-Bishop DNA model
Jayme De Luca, Elso Drigo Filho, Antonio Ponno, and José Roberto Ruggiero
Published 27 August 2004 (9 pages)
026213 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Periodic precursors of nonlinear dynamical transitions
Yu Jiang, Shi-Hai Dong, and M. Lozada-Cassou
Published 30 August 2004 (4 pages)
026214 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Adaptive control of unknown unstable steady states of dynamical systems
K. Pyragas, V. Pyragas, I. Z. Kiss, and J. L. Hudson
Published 30 August 2004 (12 pages)
026215 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Homogenization induced by chaotic mixing and diffusion in an oscillatory chemical reaction
I. Z. Kiss, J. H. Merkin, and Z. Neufeld
Published 30 August 2004 (11 pages)
026216 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Simple estimation of synchronization threshold in ensembles of diffusively coupled chaotic systems
Andrzej Stefański, Jerzy Wojewoda, Tomasz Kapitaniak, and Serhiy Yanchuk
Published 30 August 2004 (11 pages)
026217 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Chemical and biological activity in three-dimensional flows
Alessandro P. S. de Moura and Celso Grebogi
Published 30 August 2004 (5 pages)
026218 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical research on nonlinear resonance and the problem of quantum chaos
A. Ugulava, L. Chotorlishvili, and K. Nickoladze
Published 30 August 2004 (15 pages)
026219 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Stochastic bifurcation in a driven laser system: Experiment and theory
Lora Billings, Ira B. Schwartz, David S. Morgan, Erik M. Bollt, Riccardo Meucci, and Enrico Allaria
Published 31 August 2004 (10 pages)
026220 [View PDF (922 kB)]
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Stabilizing the absolutely or convectively unstable homogeneous solutions of reaction-convection-diffusion systems
Moshe Sheintuch and Yelena Smagina
Published 31 August 2004 (11 pages)
026221 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Border-collision period-doubling scenario
Viktor Avrutin and Michael Schanz
Published 31 August 2004 (11 pages)
026222 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Semiclassical accuracy in phase space for regular and chaotic dynamics
L. Kaplan
Published 31 August 2004 (8 pages)
026223 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Growth activity during fingering in a porous Hele-Shaw cell
Grunde Løvoll, Yves Méheust, Renaud Toussaint, Jean Schmittbuhl, and Knut Jørgen Måløy
Published 9 August 2004 (12 pages)
026301 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Scaling and transition structure dependence on the fluid viscosity ratio in the selective withdrawal transition
Itai Cohen
Published 10 August 2004 (11 pages)
026302 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Direct numerical simulation of a near-field particle-laden plane turbulent jet
Jianren Fan, Kun Luo, Man Yeong Ha, and Kefa Cen
Published 11 August 2004 (14 pages)
026303 [View PDF (1,561 kB)]
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Drag reduction in homogeneous turbulence by scale-dependent effective viscosity
Roberto Benzi, Emily S. C. Ching, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 13 August 2004 (7 pages)
026304 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Normal velocity freeze-out of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability when a shock is reflected
J. G. Wouchuk and K. Nishihara
Published 13 August 2004 (18 pages)
026305 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Imploding shock wave in a fluid of hard-core particles
P. Gaspard and J. Lutsko
Published 13 August 2004 (16 pages)
026306 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Reaction front propagation in a turbulent flow
Christophe R. Koudella and Zoltán Neufeld
Published 26 August 2004 (8 pages)
026307 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Measurements of the local convective heat flux in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
X.-D. Shang, X.-L. Qiu, P. Tong, and K.-Q. Xia
Published 30 August 2004 (13 pages)
026308 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Spreading of a thin two-dimensional strip of fluid on a vertical plane: Experiments and modeling
A. G. González, J. Diez, J. Gomba, R. Gratton, and L. Kondic
Published 30 August 2004 (18 pages)
026309 [View PDF (2,120 kB)]
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Synthetic turbulence, fractal interpolation, and large-eddy simulation
Sukanta Basu, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, and Fernando Porté-Agel
Published 31 August 2004 (11 pages)
026310 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Dynamic mechanisms for apparent slip on hydrophobic surfaces
Eric Lauga and Michael P. Brenner
Published 31 August 2004 (7 pages)
026311 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Simultaneous measurement of rock permeability and effective porosity using laser-polarized noble gas NMR
R. Wang, R. W. Mair, M. S. Rosen, D. G. Cory, and R. L. Walsworth
Published 31 August 2004 (7 pages)
026312 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Convective instability of magnetic fluids
P. N. Kaloni and J. X. Lou
Published 31 August 2004 (12 pages)
026313 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Laboratory measurements of 0.7  GG magnetic fields generated during high-intensity laser interactions with dense plasmas
U. Wagner, M. Tatarakis, A. Gopal, F. N. Beg, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, M. G. Haines, S. P. D. Mangles, P. A. Norreys, M.-S. Wei, M. Zepf, and K. Krushelnick
Published 4 August 2004 (5 pages)
026401 [View PDF (583 kB)]
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Analysis of L -shell line spectra with 50-ps time resolution from Mo X -pinch plasmas
S. B. Hansen, A. S. Shlyaptseva, S. A. Pikuz, T. A. Shelkovenko, D. B. Sinars, K. M. Chandler, and D. A. Hammer
Published 10 August 2004 (8 pages)
026402 [View PDF (737 kB)]
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Microcanonical calculations of excess thermodynamic properties of dense binary systems
Christophe Winisdoerffer, Gilles Chabrier, and Gilles Zérah
Published 11 August 2004 (9 pages)
026403 [View PDF (102 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Plasma physics

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Dust-lower-hybrid drift instabilities with dust charge fluctuations in an inhomogeneous dusty magnetoplasma
M. Salimullah, A. M. Rizwan, M. Nambu, H. Nitta, and P. K. Shukla
Published 16 August 2004 (5 pages)
026404 [View PDF (66 kB)]

ARTICLES

Plasma physics

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Inertial range scaling in numerical turbulence with hyperviscosity
Nils Erland L. Haugen and Axel Brandenburg
Published 26 August 2004 (7 pages)
026405 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Dielectric response function and plasmon dispersion in a strongly coupled two-dimensional Coulomb liquid
Kenneth I. Golden, Hania Mahassen, and Gabor J. Kalman
Published 30 August 2004 (8 pages)
026406 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Interactive dynamics of two copropagating laser beams in underdense plasmas
Hui-Chun Wu, Zheng-Ming Sheng, and Jie Zhang
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
026407 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Numerical solutions to a kinetic model for the plasma-sheath problem with charge exchange collisions of ions
Z. Sternovsky, K. Downum, and S. Robertson
Published 31 August 2004 (8 pages)
026408 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Radial compression of protons and H3+ ions in a multiring trap for the productionof ultralow energy antiproton beams
H. Higaki, N. Kuroda, K. Yoshiki Franzen, Z. Wang, M. Hori, A. Mohri, K. Komaki, and Y. Yamazaki
Published 24 August 2004 (5 pages)
026501 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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TE-TM mode coupling in two-dimensional photonic crystals composed of liquid-crystal rods
Hiroyuki Takeda and Katsumi Yoshino
Published 13 August 2004 (7 pages)
026601 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Switching of discrete optical solitons in engineered waveguide arrays
Rodrigo A. Vicencio, Mario I. Molina, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 13 August 2004 (8 pages)
026602 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Transverse modulational instability of partially incoherent soliton stripes
D. Anderson, L. Helczynski-Wolf, M. Lisak, and V. Semenov
Published 16 August 2004 (5 pages)
026603 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Analysis of the dynamics of a blue-violet InxGa1−xN laser with a saturable absorber
V. Z. Tronciu, Minoru Yamada, and R. A. Abram
Published 17 August 2004 (6 pages)
026604 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Modified geometrical optics of a smoothly inhomogeneous isotropic medium: The anisotropy, Berry phase, and the optical Magnus effect
K. Yu. Bliokh and Yu. P. Bliokh
Published 23 August 2004 (9 pages)
026605 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Resonant phenomena in nonlinearly managed lattice solitons
Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Victor A. Vysloukh
Published 24 August 2004 (4 pages)
026606 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Dynamics of developable cones under shear
Eugenio Hamm, Benoît Roman, and Francisco Melo
Published 26 August 2004 (9 pages)
026607 [View PDF (713 kB)]
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Negative-refraction-like behavior revealed by arrays of dielectric cylinders
Chao-Hsien Kuo and Zhen Ye
Published 31 August 2004 (5 pages)
026608 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Multiple scattering of acoustic waves and porous absorbing media
V. Tournat, V. Pagneux, D. Lafarge, and L. Jaouen
Published 31 August 2004 (10 pages)
026609 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Band theory of light localization in one-dimensional disordered systems
A. P. Vinogradov and A. M. Merzlikin
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
026610 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Computational physics

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Force evaluations in lattice Boltzmann simulations with moving boundaries in two dimensions
Huabing Li, Xiaoyan Lu, Haiping Fang, and Yuehong Qian
Published 9 August 2004 (9 pages)
026701 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulations in generalized isobaric-isothermal ensembles
Hisashi Okumura and Yuko Okamoto
Published 13 August 2004 (14 pages)
026702 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Evolution of time horizons in parallel and grid simulations
L. N. Shchur and M. A. Novotny
Published 25 August 2004 (9 pages)
026703 [View PDF (247 kB)]

General methods of statistical physics

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Vertex dynamics during domain growth in three-state models
Attila Szolnoki and György Szabó
Published 13 August 2004 (4 pages)
027101 [View PDF (74 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Preferential exchange: Strengthening connections in complex networks
G. Caldarelli, F. Coccetti, and P. De Los Rios
Published 17 August 2004 (4 pages)
027102 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Exponents and bounds for uniform spanning trees in d dimensions
N. Read
Published 24 August 2004 (4 pages)
027103 [View PDF (57 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Transient behavior of particle transport in a Brownian motor
G. Q. Cai and Y. K. Lin
Published 31 August 2004 (4 pages)
027104 [View PDF (62 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Plasma physics

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Influence of detailed line treatment on the opacity of iron plasmas in the 2p-3d energy region
Jiaolong Zeng, Gang Zhao, and Jianmin Yuan
Published 13 August 2004 (4 pages)
027401 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Computational physics

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Systematic errors due to linear congruential random-number generators with the Swendsen-Wang algorithm: A warning
Giovanni Ossola and Alan D. Sokal
Published 30 August 2004 (4 pages)
027701 [View PDF (36 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Universality in sandpiles”
Mario De Menech
Published 13 August 2004 (3 pages)
028101 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Comment on “Observation of matter wave beat phenomena in the macrodomain for electrons moving along a magnetic field”
C. S. Unnikrishnan
Published 30 August 2004 (6 pages)
028501 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Observation of matter wave beat phenomena in the macrodomain for electrons moving along a magnetic field’ ”
Ram K. Varma, A. M. Punithavelu, and S. B. Banerjee
Published 30 August 2004 (7 pages)
028502 [View PDF (230 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Shear-induced formation of vesicles in membrane phases: Kinetics and size selection mechanisms, elasticity versus surface tension [Phys. Rev. E 69, 021504 (2004)]
L. Courbin and P. Panizza
Published 17 August 2004 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]