Physical Review E – October 2004
Volume 70, Issue 4

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

Granular materials

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Crucial role of sidewalls in velocity distributions in quasi-two-dimensional granular gases
J. S. van Zon, J. Kreft, Daniel I. Goldman, D. Miracle, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 19 October 2004 (4 pages)
040301(R) [View PDF (68 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Elasticity and clustering in concentrated depletion gels
S. Ramakrishnan, Y.-L. Chen, K. S. Schweizer, and C. F. Zukoski
Published 26 October 2004 (4 pages)
040401(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Crystal-like pattern formation in polymerization-induced phase separation
Yuichiro Matsushita, Hidemitsu Furukawa, and Mamoru Okada
Published 26 October 2004 (3 pages)
040501(R) [View PDF (199 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Fluctuations of topological disclination lines in nematic liquid crystals: Renormalization of the string model
D. Svenšek and S. Žumer
Published 27 October 2004 (4 pages)
040701(R) [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Liquid crystals in random porous media: Disorder is stronger in low-density aerosils
D. E. Feldman and Robert A. Pelcovits
Published 28 October 2004 (4 pages)
040702(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]

Biological physics

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Unfolding single RNA molecules by mechanical force: A stochastic kinetic method
Fei Liu and Zhong-can Ou-Yang
Published 14 October 2004 (4 pages)
040901(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Topological properties of the mean-field ϕ4 model
A. Andronico, L. Angelani, G. Ruocco, and F. Zamponi
Published 13 October 2004 (14 pages)
041101 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Field theory of propagating reaction-diffusion fronts
C. Escudero
Published 15 October 2004 (6 pages)
041102 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Microscopic models for dielectric relaxation in disordered systems
Yuri P. Kalmykov, William T. Coffey, Derrick S. F. Crothers, and Sergey V. Titov
Published 21 October 2004 (11 pages)
041103 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Diffusion and coherence in tilted piecewise linear double-periodic potentials
Els Heinsalu, Teet Örd, and Risto Tammelo
Published 21 October 2004 (8 pages)
041104 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Voronoi and void statistics for superhomogeneous point processes
Andrea Gabrielli and Salvatore Torquato
Published 27 October 2004 (12 pages)
041105 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Rare event statistics in reaction-diffusion systems
Vlad Elgart and Alex Kamenev
Published 28 October 2004 (12 pages)
041106 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Anomalous mobility of Brownian particles in a tilted symmetric sawtooth potential
Astrid Haljas, Romi Mankin, Ako Sauga, and Eerik Reiter
Published 28 October 2004 (12 pages)
041107 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Quantitative characterization of pore-scale disorder effects on transport in “homogeneous” granular media
Andrea Cortis, Youjian Chen, Harvey Scher, and Brian Berkowitz
Published 28 October 2004 (8 pages)
041108 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Viscoelastic model for the dynamic structure factors of binary systems
N. Anento, L. E. González, D. J. González, Y. Chushak, and A. Baumketner
Published 14 October 2004 (15 pages)
041201 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Distributions of inherent structure energies during aging
Ivan Saika-Voivod and Francesco Sciortino
Published 27 October 2004 (4 pages)
041202 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Granular materials

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Local jamming via penetration of a granular medium
M. B. Stone, R. Barry, D. P. Bernstein, M. D. Pelc, Y. K. Tsui, and P. Schiffer
Published 29 October 2004 (10 pages)
041301 [View PDF (1,931 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Effect of bond lifetime on the dynamics of a short-range attractive colloidal system
I. Saika-Voivod, E. Zaccarelli, F. Sciortino, S. V. Buldyrev, and P. Tartaglia
Published 11 October 2004 (8 pages)
041401 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Equilibrium properties of highly asymmetric star-polymer mixtures
Christian Mayer, Christos N. Likos, and Hartmut Löwen
Published 15 October 2004 (13 pages)
041402 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Statistical-mechanical theory of the overall magnetic properties of mesocrystals
J. P. Huang
Published 25 October 2004 (5 pages)
041403 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Effective electrostatic interactions in suspensions of polyelectrolyte brush-coated colloids
H. Wang and A. R. Denton
Published 26 October 2004 (8 pages)
041404 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Heterodyne near-field scattering: A technique for complex fluids
F. Ferri, D. Magatti, D. Pescini, M. A. C. Potenza, and M. Giglio
Published 27 October 2004 (9 pages)
041405 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Statistics of bubble rearrangements in a slowly sheared two-dimensional foam
Michael Dennin
Published 28 October 2004 (11 pages)
041406 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Deformation free energy and elastic description of a self-assembled system
G. Barbero and L. R. Evangelista
Published 28 October 2004 (7 pages)
041407 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Characterization of polybutadiene-poly(ethyleneoxide) aggregates in aqueous solution: A light-scattering and small-angle neutron-scattering study
Tobias Fuetterer, Anette Nordskog, Thomas Hellweg, Gerhard H. Findenegg, Stephan Foerster, and Charles D. Dewhurst
Published 28 October 2004 (11 pages)
041408 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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When mixtures of hard-sphere-like colloids do not behave as mixtures of hard spheres
Ph. Germain, J. G. Malherbe, and S. Amokrane
Published 29 October 2004 (8 pages)
041409 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Fractionation effects in phase equilibria of polydisperse hard-sphere colloids
Moreno Fasolo and Peter Sollich
Published 29 October 2004 (18 pages)
041410 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Two-dimensional viscous froth model for foam dynamics
N. Kern, D Weaire, A. Martin, S. Hutzler, and S. J. Cox
Published 29 October 2004 (13 pages)
041411 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Rigidity transition in polymer melts with van der Waals interaction
Matthew L. Wallace, Béla Joós, and Michael Plischke
Published 28 October 2004 (10 pages)
041501 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Dynamics of shear-transformation zones in amorphous plasticity: Formulation in terms of an effective disorder temperature
J. S. Langer
Published 29 October 2004 (12 pages)
041502 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Cylindrically symmetric electrohydrodynamic patterning
Paru Deshpande, Leonard F. Pease, III, Lei Chen, Stephen Y. Chou, and William B. Russel
Published 21 October 2004 (12 pages)
041601 [View PDF (901 kB)]
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Mapping spatial persistent large deviations of nonequilibrium surface growth processes onto the temporal persistent large deviations of stochastic random walk processes
M. Constantin and S. Das Sarma
Published 29 October 2004 (5 pages)
041602 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Defect formation and kinetics of atomic terrace merging
Ajay Gopinathan and T. A. Witten
Published 29 October 2004 (13 pages)
041603 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Epitaxial frustration in deposited packings of rigid disks and spheres
Boris D. Lubachevsky and Frank H. Stillinger
Published 29 October 2004 (10 pages)
041604 [View PDF (3,200 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Liquid-crystalline Casimir effect in the presence of a patterned substrate
F. Karimi Pour Haddadan, F. Schlesener, and S. Dietrich
Published 4 October 2004 (10 pages)
041701 [View PDF (162 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Growth below and above the spinodal limit: The cholesteric-nematic front
P. Oswald, J. Baudry, and T. Rondepierre
Published 19 October 2004 (12 pages)
041702 [View PDF (992 kB)]
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Critical linear thermal expansion in the smectic- A phase near the nematic-smectic phase transition
E. Anesta, G. S. Iannacchione, and C. W. Garland
Published 21 October 2004 (8 pages)
041703 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Effect of azimuthal anchoring strength on stability in a bistable chiral splay nematic liquid crystal device
Seo Hern Lee, Gi-Dong Lee, Tae-Hoon Yoon, and Jae Chang Kim
Published 21 October 2004 (4 pages)
041704 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Infrared study of orientational order parameters of a ferroelectric liquid crystal
M. D. Ossowska-Chruściel, R. Korlacki, A. Kocot, R. Wrzalik, J. Chruściel, and S. Zalewski
Published 27 October 2004 (10 pages)
041705 [View PDF (652 kB)]
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Devil’s staircase and harmless staircase in the smectic- Cα* phase in an electric field
Barbara Rovšek, Mojca Čepič, and Boštjan Žekš
Published 28 October 2004 (4 pages)
041706 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Isotropic-nematic transition in liquid-crystalline elastomers: Lattice model with quenched disorder
Jonathan V. Selinger and B. R. Ratna
Published 29 October 2004 (8 pages)
041707 [View PDF (549 kB)]
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2π and π walls in antiferroelectric smectic- CA* and smectic- C free-standing films
P. V. Dolganov, B. M. Bolotin, and Atsuo Fukuda
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
041708 [View PDF (232 kB)]

Polymers

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Entanglements in quiescent and sheared polymer melts
Ryoichi Yamamoto and Akira Onuki
Published 8 October 2004 (12 pages)
041801 [View PDF (922 kB)]
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Increased thermal stability of a poled electro-optic polymer using high-molar-mass fractions
Ralph P. Bertram, Nils Benter, Dirk Apitz, Elisabeth Soergel, Karsten Buse, Rainer Hagen, and Serguei G. Kostromine
Published 28 October 2004 (5 pages)
041802 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Biological physics

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Base-sequence-dependent sliding of proteins on DNA
M. Barbi, C. Place, V. Popkov, and M. Salerno
Published 6 October 2004 (6 pages)
041901 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Stochastic models in population biology and their deterministic analogs
A. J. McKane and T. J. Newman
Published 13 October 2004 (19 pages)
041902 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Stimulation of unidirectional pulses in excitable systems
M. Friedman, I. E. Ovsyshcher, I. Fleidervish, E. Crystal, and A. Rabinovitch
Published 21 October 2004 (7 pages)
041903 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Delayed feedback control of collective synchrony: An approach to suppression of pathological brain rhythms
Michael Rosenblum and Arkady Pikovsky
Published 21 October 2004 (11 pages)
041904 [View PDF (609 kB)]
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Unified perspective on proteins: A physics approach
Jayanth R. Banavar, Trinh X. Hoang, Amos Maritan, Flavio Seno, and Antonio Trovato
Published 27 October 2004 (25 pages)
041905 [View PDF (1,253 kB)]
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Structure-function relationship of biological gels revealed by multiple-particle tracking and differential interference contrast microscopy: The case of human lamin networks
Porntula Panorchan, Denis Wirtz, and Yiider Tseng
Published 27 October 2004 (7 pages)
041906 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Fluctuations-induced switch in the gene transcriptional regulatory system
Quan Liu and Ya Jia
Published 28 October 2004 (8 pages)
041907 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Solvable biological evolution models with general fitness functions and multiple mutations in parallel mutation-selection scheme
David B. Saakian, Chin-Kun Hu, and H. Khachatryan
Published 28 October 2004 (12 pages)
041908 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Effects of noise in a cortical neural model
Maria Marinaro and Silvia Scarpetta
Published 29 October 2004 (11 pages)
041909 [View PDF (502 kB)]
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Stochastic analysis of the Lotka-Volterra model for ecosystems
G. Q. Cai and Y. K. Lin
Published 29 October 2004 (7 pages)
041910 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Developmental waves in myxobacteria: A distinctive pattern formation mechanism
Oleg A. Igoshin, John Neu, and George Oster
Published 29 October 2004 (11 pages)
041911 [View PDF (558 kB)]
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Interaction of a polar molecule with an ion channel
V. Levadny, V. M. Aguilella, M. Aguilella-Arzo, and M. Belaya
Published 29 October 2004 (9 pages)
041912 [View PDF (441 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Structured and complex fluids

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New nonlinear dielectric materials: Linear electrorheological fluids under the influence of electrostriction
J. P. Huang
Published 27 October 2004 (4 pages)
042501 [View PDF (45 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Nanomechanics of order reconstruction in nematic liquid crystals
Fulvio Bisi, Epifanio G. Virga, and Georges E. Durand
Published 29 October 2004 (4 pages)
042701 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Biological physics

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Solvable null model for the distribution of word frequencies
J. F. Fontanari and L. I. Perlovsky
Published 25 October 2004 (4 pages)
042901 [View PDF (54 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder”
Aleksandar Donev, Salvatore Torquato, Frank H. Stillinger, and Robert Connelly
Published 25 October 2004 (4 pages)
043301 [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder’ ”
Corey S. O’Hern, Leonardo E. Silbert, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Published 25 October 2004 (3 pages)
043302 [View PDF (28 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Elephants can always remember: Exact long-range memory effects in a non-Markovian random walk
Gunter M. Schütz and Steffen Trimper
Published 13 October 2004 (4 pages)
045101(R) [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Numerical schemes for continuum models of reaction-diffusion systems subject to internal noise
Esteban Moro
Published 29 October 2004 (4 pages)
045102(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Entanglement and chaos in a square billiard with a magnetic field
Marcel Novaes and Marcus A. M. de Aguiar
Published 26 October 2004 (4 pages)
045201(R) [View PDF (117 kB)]
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First-order synchronization transition in locally coupled maps
P. K. Mohanty
Published 27 October 2004 (4 pages)
045202(R) [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Chaos-induced escape over a potential barrier
L. Y. Chew, Christopher Ting, and C. H. Lai
Published 29 October 2004 (4 pages)
045203(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Collective phase synchronization in locally coupled limit-cycle oscillators
H. Hong, Hyunggyu Park, and M. Y. Choi
Published 29 October 2004 (4 pages)
045204(R) [View PDF (81 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Density dependence of a Zufiria-type model for Rayleigh–Taylor bubble fronts
Sung-Ik Sohn
Published 15 October 2004 (4 pages)
045301(R) [View PDF (46 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Generation of a double shock driven by laser
A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, M. Koenig, G. Huser, B. Faral, N. Grandjouan, D. Batani, E. Henry, M. Tomasini, T. A. Hall, and F. Guyot
Published 27 October 2004 (4 pages)
045401(R) [View PDF (131 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with Langmuir kinetics
A. Parmeggiani, T. Franosch, and E. Frey
Published 6 October 2004 (20 pages)
046101 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Drop spreading on heterogeneous substrates via Monte Carlo simulations
Nina Pesheva and Joël De Coninck
Published 6 October 2004 (7 pages)
046102 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Effect of charge-density fluctuations on the order-disorder transition in the lattice restricted primitive models of electrolytes
A. Ciach
Published 7 October 2004 (12 pages)
046103 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Functional characterization of linear delay Langevin equations
Adrián A. Budini and Manuel O. Cáceres
Published 8 October 2004 (12 pages)
046104 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of anharmonic crystals with self-consistent stochastic reservoirs
Emmanuel Pereira and Ricardo Falcao
Published 11 October 2004 (5 pages)
046105 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Magnetic and backbone exponents of the percolation and Ising models in three dimensions
Youjin Deng and Henk W. J. Blöte
Published 14 October 2004 (6 pages)
046106 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Crack-microcrack interactions in dynamical fracture
Eran Bouchbinder, David Kessler, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 19 October 2004 (7 pages)
046107 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Solution of a statistical mechanics model for pulse formation in lasers
Omri Gat, Ariel Gordon, and Baruch Fischer
Published 19 October 2004 (10 pages)
046108 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Bug propagation and debugging in asymmetric software structures
Damien Challet and Andrea Lombardoni
Published 19 October 2004 (5 pages)
046109 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Characteristics of the limit cycle of a reciprocating quantum heat engine
Tova Feldmann and Ronnie Kosloff
Published 20 October 2004 (13 pages)
046110 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Constrained tricritical Blume-Capel model in three dimensions
Youjin Deng and Henk W. J. Blöte
Published 21 October 2004 (11 pages)
046111 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Criterion for universality-class-independent critical fluctuations: Example of the two-dimensional Ising model
Maxime Clusel, Jean-Yves Fortin, and Peter C. W. Holdsworth
Published 25 October 2004 (9 pages)
046112 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Friction and second-order phase transitions
Mario Einax, Michael Schulz, and Steffen Trimper
Published 25 October 2004 (9 pages)
046113 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Critical adsorption and Casimir torque in wedges and at ridges
G. Palágyi and S. Dietrich
Published 25 October 2004 (15 pages)
046114 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Reverse engineering of linking preferences from network restructuring
Gergely Palla, Illés Farkas, Imre Derényi, Albert-László Barabási, and Tamás Vicsek
Published 25 October 2004 (7 pages)
046115 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Random walk and trapping processes on scale-free networks
Lazaros K. Gallos
Published 25 October 2004 (7 pages)
046116 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Dynamics of the two-dimensional gonihedric spin model
D. Espriu and A. Prats
Published 26 October 2004 (11 pages)
046117 [View PDF (833 kB)]
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Non-Poisson dichotomous noise: Higher-order correlation functions and aging
P. Allegrini, Paolo Grigolini, Luigi Palatella, and Bruce J. West
Published 26 October 2004 (9 pages)
046118 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Supremacy distribution in evolving networks
Janusz A. Hołyst, Agata Fronczak, and Piotr Fronczak
Published 27 October 2004 (4 pages)
046119 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Properties of foreshocks and aftershocks of the nonconservative self-organized critical Olami-Feder-Christensen model
Agnès Helmstetter, Stefan Hergarten, and Didier Sornette
Published 28 October 2004 (13 pages)
046120 [View PDF (1,338 kB)]
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Effects of quenched randomness induced by car accidents on traffic flow in a cellular automata model
Xian-qing Yang, Yu-qiang Ma, and Yue-min Zhao
Published 28 October 2004 (7 pages)
046121 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Constraints on collective density variables: Two dimensions
Obioma U. Uche, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato
Published 28 October 2004 (9 pages)
046122 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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Anomalous power law distribution of total lifetimes of branching processes: Application to earthquake aftershock sequences
A. Saichev and D. Sornette
Published 28 October 2004 (8 pages)
046123 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Spectral density analysis of nonlinear hysteretic systems
Mihai Dimian and Isaak D. Mayergoyz
Published 28 October 2004 (12 pages)
046124 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Optimizing transport in a homogeneous network
Marc Durand and Denis Weaire
Published 28 October 2004 (5 pages)
046125 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Scale-free trees: The skeletons of complex networks
Dong-Hee Kim, Jae Dong Noh, and Hawoong Jeong
Published 28 October 2004 (5 pages)
046126 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Maximum entropy and Bayesian data analysis: Entropic prior distributions
Ariel Caticha and Roland Preuss
Published 29 October 2004 (12 pages)
046127 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Similarity-based cooperation and spatial segregation
Arne Traulsen and Jens Christian Claussen
Published 29 October 2004 (8 pages)
046128 [View PDF (912 kB)]
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Facilitated spin models in one dimension: A real-space renormalization group study
Stephen Whitelam and Juan P. Garrahan
Published 29 October 2004 (12 pages)
046129 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Harmonic oscillators in the Nosé-Hoover environment
V. L. Golo, Vl. N. Salnikov, and K. V. Shaitan
Published 29 October 2004 (7 pages)
046130 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Phase transition in conservative diffusive contact processes
Carlos E. Fiore and Mário J. de Oliveira
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
046131 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Characteristics of vehicular traffic flow at a roundabout
M. Ebrahim Fouladvand, Zeinab Sadjadi, and M. Reza Shaebani
Published 29 October 2004 (8 pages)
046132 [View PDF (1,000 kB)]
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Effect of disorder strength on optimal paths in complex networks
Sameet Sreenivasan, Tomer Kalisky, Lidia A. Braunstein, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
046133 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Harmonic quantum heat devices: Optimum-performance regimes
N. Sánchez-Salas and A. Calvo Hernández
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
046134 [View PDF (544 kB)]
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Path integrals and fluctuations in irreversible thermodynamics
A. J. McKane and F. Vázquez
Published 29 October 2004 (9 pages)
046135 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Thermodynamics from three-dimensional many-body fragmentation simulations on a cellular automaton model
A. Lejeune and J. Perdang
Published 1 October 2004 (14 pages)
046201 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Canonical maps near separatrix in Hamiltonian systems
S. S. Abdullaev
Published 7 October 2004 (20 pages)
046202 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Fractalization route to strange nonchaotic dynamics
Sandip Datta, Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, and Awadhesh Prasad
Published 11 October 2004 (9 pages)
046203 [View PDF (750 kB)]
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Numerical simulations of two-dimensional magnetic domain patterns
E. A. Jagla
Published 11 October 2004 (7 pages)
046204 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Stability borders of feedback control of delayed measured systems
Jens Christian Claussen
Published 19 October 2004 (5 pages)
046205 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Explicit spectral formulas for scaling quantum graphs
Yu. Dabaghian and R. Blümel
Published 19 October 2004 (16 pages)
046206 [View PDF (690 kB)]
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Defects and spatiotemporal disorder in a pattern of falling liquid columns
Philippe Brunet and Laurent Limat
Published 20 October 2004 (15 pages)
046207 [View PDF (2,012 kB)]
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Dynamical characterization of chaotic itinerancy in a three-mode laser subjected to frequency-shifted optical feedback
Yoshihiko Miyasaka, Kenju Otsuka, Tsuyoshi Maniwa, and Jing-Yuan Ko
Published 22 October 2004 (8 pages)
046208 [View PDF (676 kB)]
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Chaos from Hopf bifurcation in a fluid flow experiment
J. Langenberg, G. Pfister, and J. Abshagen
Published 22 October 2004 (5 pages)
046209 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Bifurcation analysis in an associative memory model
Masaki Kawamura, Ryuji Tokunaga, and Masato Okada
Published 22 October 2004 (9 pages)
046210 [View PDF (2,323 kB)]
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Synchronization of chaotic oscillators due to common delay time modulation
Won-Ho Kye, Muhan Choi, M. S. Kurdoglyan, Chil-Min Kim, and Young-Jai Park
Published 22 October 2004 (4 pages)
046211 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Generalized Berry conjecture and mode correlations in chaotic plates
Alexei Akolzin and Richard L. Weaver
Published 25 October 2004 (4 pages)
046212 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Estimation of delay in coupling from time series
Laura Cimponeriu, Michael Rosenblum, and Arkady Pikovsky
Published 25 October 2004 (12 pages)
046213 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Modulation frequency response of a bistable system with noise
Bob Nagler, Guy Verschaffelt, Michael Peeters, Jan Albert, Irina Veretennicoff, Jan Danckaert, Giovanni Giacomelli, and Francesco Marin
Published 25 October 2004 (7 pages)
046214 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Diffraction and spectral statistics in systems with a multilevel scatterer
A. Matzkin and T. S. Monteiro
Published 25 October 2004 (14 pages)
046215 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Dynamics of semiconductor lasers with bidirectional optoelectronic coupling: Stability, route to chaos, and entrainment
Raúl Vicente, Shuo Tang, Josep Mulet, Claudio R. Mirasso, and Jia-Ming Liu
Published 26 October 2004 (11 pages)
046216 [View PDF (650 kB)]
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Detecting dynamical changes in time series using the permutation entropy
Yinhe Cao, Wen-wen Tung, J. B. Gao, V. A. Protopopescu, and L. M. Hively
Published 27 October 2004 (7 pages)
046217 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Phenomenological model for symmetry breaking in a chaotic system
A. Y. Abul-Magd and M. H. Simbel
Published 27 October 2004 (6 pages)
046218 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Turing pattern formation in a two-layer system: Superposition and superlattice patterns
Igal Berenstein, Milos Dolnik, Lingfa Yang, Anatol M. Zhabotinsky, and Irving R. Epstein
Published 28 October 2004 (5 pages)
046219 [View PDF (898 kB)]
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Dynamical epidemic suppression using stochastic prediction and control
Ira B. Schwartz, Lora Billings, and Erik M. Bollt
Published 28 October 2004 (7 pages)
046220 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Spiral wave dynamics under feedback control derived from a variety of sensory domains
On-Uma Kheowan, Supichai Kantrasiri, Prapin Wilairat, Ulrich Storb, and Stefan C. Müller
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
046221 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal chaos stimulated by transverse Hopf instabilities in an optical bilayer system
P. V. Paulau, I. V. Babushkin, and N. A. Loiko
Published 29 October 2004 (7 pages)
046222 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Dynamics of stick-slip in peeling of an adhesive tape
Rumi De, Anil Maybhate, and G. Ananthakrishna
Published 29 October 2004 (12 pages)
046223 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Advection diffusion in nonchaotic closed flows: Non-Hermitian operators, universality, and localization
M. Giona, V. Vitacolonna, S. Cerbelli, and A. Adrover
Published 29 October 2004 (12 pages)
046224 [View PDF (232 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Forward and backward laser-guided motion of an oil droplet
Sergei Rybalko, Nobuyuki Magome, and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 5 October 2004 (4 pages)
046301 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Coarsening in the buoyancy-driven instability of a reaction-diffusion front
Martin Böckmann and Stefan C. Müller
Published 7 October 2004 (5 pages)
046302 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Spontaneous acoustic emission of a corrugated shock wave in the presence of a reflecting surface
J. G. Wouchuk and J. López Cavada
Published 11 October 2004 (21 pages)
046303 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Diffusion of passive scalar in a finite-scale random flow
Alexander A. Schekochihin, Peter H. Haynes, and Steven C. Cowley
Published 13 October 2004 (7 pages)
046304 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Relations between Lagrangian models and synthetic random velocity fields
Piero Olla and Paolo Paradisi
Published 14 October 2004 (21 pages)
046305 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Phenomenological model of weakly damped Faraday waves and the associated mean flow
José M. Vega, Sten Rüdiger, and Jorge Viñals
Published 15 October 2004 (18 pages)
046306 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Roughness and growth in a continuous fluid invasion model
Inbal Hecht and Haim Taitelbaum
Published 21 October 2004 (8 pages)
046307 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Magnetic Soret effect: Application of the ferrofluid dynamics theory
Adrian Lange
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
046308 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Influence of boundary slip on the optimal excitations in thermocapillary driven spreading
Jeffrey M. Davis and Sandra M. Troian
Published 29 October 2004 (11 pages)
046309 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Nonlinear theory of a “shear-current” effect and mean-field magnetic dynamos
Igor Rogachevskii and Nathan Kleeorin
Published 29 October 2004 (15 pages)
046310 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Shell model for rotating turbulence
Y. Hattori, R. Rubinstein, and A. Ishizawa
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
046311 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Collective electromagnetic modes for beam-plasma interaction in the whole k space
A. Bret, M.-C. Firpo, and C. Deutsch
Published 4 October 2004 (15 pages)
046401 [View PDF (1,042 kB)]
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Dispersion of helically corrugated waveguides: Analytical, numerical, and experimental study
G. Burt, S. V. Samsonov, K. Ronald, G. G. Denisov, A. R. Young, V. L. Bratman, A. D. R. Phelps, A. W. Cross, I. V. Konoplev, W. He, J. Thomson, and C. G. Whyte
Published 7 October 2004 (8 pages)
046402 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Spatially averaged model of complex-plasma discharge with self-consistent electron energy distribution
I. Denysenko, M. Y. Yu, K. Ostrikov, and A. Smolyakov
Published 7 October 2004 (12 pages)
046403 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Plasma electric microfield distribution with the triplet correlation contribution: High-frequency component at a neutral point
Askar Davletov and Marie-Madeleine Gombert
Published 8 October 2004 (8 pages)
046404 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Relativistic kinetic theory of pitch angle scattering, slowing down, and energy deposition in a plasma
J. Robiche and J. M. Rax
Published 8 October 2004 (11 pages)
046405 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Active and passive Brownian motion of charged particles in two-dimensional plasma models
Jörn Dunkel, Werner Ebeling, and Sergey A. Trigger
Published 13 October 2004 (14 pages)
046406 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Radiation reaction in fusion plasmas
R. D. Hazeltine and S. M. Mahajan
Published 13 October 2004 (6 pages)
046407 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Terahertz radiation from oscillating electrons in laser-induced wake fields
Li-Hua Cao, Wei Yu, Han Xu, Chun-Yang Zheng, Zhan-Jun Liu, Bin Li, and A. Bogaerts
Published 14 October 2004 (7 pages)
046408 [View PDF (843 kB)]
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Intrinsic trapping of stochastic sheared magnetic field lines
M. Negrea, I. Petrisor, and R. Balescu
Published 14 October 2004 (9 pages)
046409 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Propagation of intense short laser pulses in a gas of atomic clusters
Ayush Gupta, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., and H. M. Milchberg
Published 25 October 2004 (12 pages)
046410 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Temperature-dependent quantum pair potentials and their application to dense partially ionized hydrogen plasmas
A. V. Filinov, V. O. Golubnychiy, M. Bonitz, W. Ebeling, and J. W. Dufty
Published 28 October 2004 (17 pages)
046411 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Transport properties of partially ionized and unmagnetized plasmas
Thierry E. Magin and Gérard Degrez
Published 28 October 2004 (19 pages)
046412 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Flux-matching theory of particle charging
A. A. Lushnikov and M. Kulmala
Published 29 October 2004 (9 pages)
046413 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Ion acceleration from the shock front induced by hole boring in ultraintense laser-plasma interactions
H. Habara, K. L. Lancaster, S. Karsch, C. D. Murphy, P. A. Norreys, R. G. Evans, M. Borghesi, L. Romagnani, M. Zepf, T. Norimatsu, Y. Toyama, R. Kodama, J. A. King, R. Snavely, K. Akli, B. Zhang, R. Freeman, S. Hatchett, A. J. MacKinnon, P. Patel, M. H. Key, C. Stoeckl, R. B. Stephens, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva
Published 29 October 2004 (4 pages)
046414 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Micron-sized particle-charge measurements in an inductive rf gas-discharge plasma using gravity-driven probe grains
V. E. Fortov, O. F. Petrov, A. D. Usachev, and A. V. Zobnin
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
046415 [View PDF (185 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Self-excitation of microwave oscillations in plasma-assisted slow-wave oscillators by an electron beam with a movable focus
Yu. P. Bliokh, G. S. Nusinovich, A. G. Shkvarunets, and Y. Carmel
Published 7 October 2004 (9 pages)
046501 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Integration of the Lorentz-Dirac equation: Interaction of an intense laser pulse with high-energy electrons
James Koga
Published 29 October 2004 (5 pages)
046502 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Relation between time reversal focusing and coherent backscattering in multiple scattering media: A diagrammatic approach
Julien de Rosny, Arnaud Tourin, Arnaud Derode, Bart van Tiggelen, and Mathias Fink
Published 5 October 2004 (12 pages)
046601 [View PDF (693 kB)]
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Filamentation of femtosecond light pulses in the air: Turbulent cells versus long-range clusters
S. Skupin, L. Bergé, U. Peschel, F. Lederer, G. Méjean, J. Yu, J. Kasparian, E. Salmon, J. P. Wolf, M. Rodriguez, L. Wöste, R. Bourayou, and R. Sauerbrey
Published 5 October 2004 (15 pages)
046602 [View PDF (1,495 kB)]
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Negative group velocity and group delay in left-handed media
J. F. Woodley and M. Mojahedi
Published 6 October 2004 (6 pages)
046603 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Solitary surface acoustic waves
C. Eckl, A. S. Kovalev, A. P. Mayer, A. M. Lomonosov, and P. Hess
Published 11 October 2004 (15 pages)
046604 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Photonic band gap enhancement in frequency-dependent dielectrics
Ovidiu Toader and Sajeev John
Published 11 October 2004 (15 pages)
046605 [View PDF (2,277 kB)]
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Time development of a persistent hole burning in multiple-scattering media
Makoto Tomita, Kentarou Ono, and Shuho Tatsuno
Published 20 October 2004 (10 pages)
046606 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Role of wave interaction of wires and split-ring resonators for the losses in a left-handed composite
C. R. Simovski and B. Sauviac
Published 20 October 2004 (6 pages)
046607 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Propagation in and scattering from a matched metamaterial having a zero index of refraction
Richard W. Ziolkowski
Published 21 October 2004 (12 pages)
046608 [View PDF (849 kB)]
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Modeling the impact of imperfections in high-index-contrast photonic waveguides
M. Skorobogatiy
Published 26 October 2004 (9 pages)
046609 [View PDF (626 kB)]
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Criteria for the experimental observation of multidimensional optical solitons in saturable media
Yi-Fan Chen, Kale Beckwitt, Frank W. Wise, and Boris A. Malomed
Published 28 October 2004 (7 pages)
046610 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Dynamics of acoustically levitated disk samples
W. J. Xie and B. Wei
Published 28 October 2004 (11 pages)
046611 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Localization of classical waves in weakly scattering two-dimensional media with anisotropic disorder
Gregory Samelsohn and Valentin Freilikher
Published 28 October 2004 (5 pages)
046612 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Generation and nonlinear dynamics of X waves of the Schrödinger equation
Claudio Conti
Published 28 October 2004 (12 pages)
046613 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Beam stabilization in the two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an attractive potential by beam splitting and radiation
Brenton John leMesurier, Peter Leth Christiansen, Yuri B. Gaididei, and Jens Juul Rasmussen
Published 28 October 2004 (7 pages)
046614 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Defect modes and transmission properties of left-handed bandgap structures
Ilya V. Shadrivov, Nina A. Zharova, Alexander A. Zharov, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 29 October 2004 (6 pages)
046615 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Low-frequency spatial dispersion in wire media
C. R. Simovski and P. A. Belov
Published 29 October 2004 (8 pages)
046616 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Electromagnetic energy and energy flows in photonic crystals made of arrays of parallel dielectric cylinders
Chao-Hsien Kuo and Zhen Ye
Published 29 October 2004 (7 pages)
046617 [View PDF (700 kB)]
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Spatial speckle characterization by Brownian motion analysis
Steve Guyot, Marie-Cécile Péron, and Eric Deléchelle
Published 29 October 2004 (8 pages)
046618 [View PDF (709 kB)]

Computational physics

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Optimizing the ensemble for equilibration in broad-histogram Monte Carlo simulations
Simon Trebst, David A. Huse, and Matthias Troyer
Published 4 October 2004 (5 pages)
046701 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Finite-difference lattice Boltzmann model with flux limiters for liquid-vapor systems
V. Sofonea, A. Lamura, G. Gonnella, and A. Cristea
Published 6 October 2004 (9 pages)
046702 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Iterative eigenvalue method using the Bloch wave operator formalism with Padé approximants and absorbing boundaries
Georges Jolicard, David Viennot, John P. Killingbeck, and Jean-Marc Zucconi
Published 8 October 2004 (8 pages)
046703 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Fitness threshold accepting over extremal optimization ranks
Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Frank Heilmann, and Peter Salamon
Published 26 October 2004 (6 pages)
046704 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Threshold values, stability analysis, and high- q asymptotics for the coloring problem on random graphs
Florent Krząkała, Andrea Pagnani, and Martin Weigt
Published 29 October 2004 (17 pages)
046705 [View PDF (365 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Stochastic dynamics and the dynamic phase transition in thin ferromagnetic films
Hyunbum Jang, Malcolm J. Grimson, and Thomas B. Woolf
Published 5 October 2004 (4 pages)
047101 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Low-frequency character of the Casimir force between metallic films
J. R. Torgerson and S. K. Lamoreaux
Published 28 October 2004 (4 pages)
047102 [View PDF (49 kB)]
See Also: Comment

Fluid dynamics

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Ultrabright cavitation luminescence generation and its time-resolved spectroscopic characterization
Qi-Dai Chen, Li-Min Fu, Xi-Cheng Ai, Jian-Ping Zhang, and Long Wang
Published 25 October 2004 (4 pages)
047301 [View PDF (281 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Modified spontaneous emission from a two-dimensional photonic crystal
Yong Zeng, Xiaoshuang Chen, and Wei Lu
Published 5 October 2004 (3 pages)
047601 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Nonlinearity from geometric interactions: A case example
P. G. Kevrekidis, V. V. Konotop, B. A. Malomed, and A. R. Bishop
Published 8 October 2004 (4 pages)
047602 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Photon tunneling in composite layers of negative- and positive-index media
Kyoung-Youm Kim
Published 25 October 2004 (4 pages)
047603 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Hamiltonian averaging for solitons with nonlinearity management
D. E. Pelinovsky, P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and V. Zharnitsky
Published 28 October 2004 (3 pages)
047604 [View PDF (45 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Calculation of ionization balance and electrical conductivity in nonideal aluminum plasma”
Mofreh R. Zaghloul
Published 29 October 2004 (1 page)
048401 [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Calculation of ionization balance and electrical conductivity in nonideal aluminum plasma’ ”
Deok-Kyu Kim and Inho Kim
Published 29 October 2004 (2 pages)
048402 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Comment I on “Resonant and antiresonant frequency dependence of the effective parameters of metamaterials”
Ricardo A. Depine and Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Published 29 October 2004 (1 page)
048601 [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Comment II on “Resonant and antiresonant frequency dependence of the effective parameters of metamaterials”
A. L. Efros
Published 29 October 2004 (2 pages)
048602 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Reply to Comments on “Resonant and antiresonant frequency dependence of the effective parameters of metamaterials”
T. Koschny, P. Markoš, D. R. Smith, and C. M. Soukoulis
Published 29 October 2004 (1 page)
048603 [View PDF (14 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Diffusion in correlated random potentials, with applications to DNA [Phys. Rev. E 69, 061903 (2004)]
Michael Slutsky, Mehran Kardar, and Leonid A. Mirny
Published 13 October 2004 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Erratum: Bulk inhomogeneous phases of anisotropic particles: A fundamental measure functional study of the restricted orientations model [Phys. Rev. E 69, 061712 (2004)]
Yuri Martínez-Ratón
Published 19 October 2004 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Ising fluids in an external magnetic field: An integral equation approach [Phys. Rev. E 69, 061506 (2004)]
I. P. Omelyan, I. M. Mryglod, R. Folk, and W. Fenz
Published 29 October 2004 (1 page)
049903(E) [View PDF (13 kB)]