Physical Review E – December 2004
Volume 70, Issue 6

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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Enhancement by noise in parallel arrays of sensors with power-law characteristics
François Chapeau-Blondeau and David Rousseau
Published 22 December 2004 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (77 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Invariance of density correlations with charge density in polyelectrolyte solutions
James P. Donley, David R. Heine, and David T. Wu
Published 23 December 2004 (4 pages)
060201(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]

Granular materials

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Mach cone in a shallow granular fluid
Patrick Heil, E. C. Rericha, Daniel I. Goldman, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 23 December 2004 (4 pages)
060301(R) [View PDF (208 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Landau-like theory of glassy dynamics
Satya N. Majumdar, Dibyendu Das, Jané Kondev, and Bulbul Chakraborty
Published 20 December 2004 (4 pages)
060501(R) [View PDF (53 kB)]

Biological physics

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Conformation and dynamics of single DNA molecules in parallel-plate slit microchannels
Y.-L. Chen, M. D. Graham, J. J. de Pablo, G. C. Randall, M. Gupta, and P. S. Doyle
Published 13 December 2004 (4 pages)
060901(R) [View PDF (76 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Rheology of dense polydisperse granular fluids under shear
James F. Lutsko
Published 6 December 2004 (22 pages)
061101 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of probabilistic ballistic annihilation
François Coppex, Michel Droz, and Emmanuel Trizac
Published 7 December 2004 (14 pages)
061102 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Reaction ensemble molecular dynamics: Direct simulation of the dynamic equilibrium properties of chemically reacting mixtures
John K. Brennan, Martin Lísal, Keith E. Gubbins, and Betsy M. Rice
Published 15 December 2004 (4 pages)
061103 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Asymptotics of distorted-wave matrix elements for strongly singular potentials
Max Teubner
Published 20 December 2004 (10 pages)
061104 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Brownian motors: Current fluctuations and rectification efficiency
L. Machura, M. Kostur, P. Talkner, J. Łuczka, F. Marchesoni, and P. Hänggi
Published 20 December 2004 (8 pages)
061105 [View PDF (506 kB)]
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Memoryless control of boundary concentrations of diffusing particles
A. Singer, Z. Schuss, B. Nadler, and R. S. Eisenberg
Published 22 December 2004 (8 pages)
061106 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Stochastic transport of interacting particles in periodically driven ratchets
Sergey Savel’ev, Fabio Marchesoni, and Franco Nori
Published 23 December 2004 (13 pages)
061107 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Spatial fluctuations and anomalous reaction order in a reactive scheme involving a cooperative full desorption
P. Córdoba-Torres, R. P. Nogueira, and V. Fairén
Published 29 December 2004 (10 pages)
061108 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Is the tracer velocity of a fluid continuum equal to its mass velocity?
Howard Brenner
Published 6 December 2004 (10 pages)
061201 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Microscopic self-dynamics in liquid hydrogen and in its mixtures with deuterium
D. Colognesi, M. Celli, M. Neumann, and M. Zoppi
Published 6 December 2004 (14 pages)
061202 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics study of aging effects in supercooled Al2O3
Vo Van Hoang and Suhk Kun Oh
Published 16 December 2004 (8 pages)
061203 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Structure of a sheared soft-disk fluid from a nonequilibrium potential
C. Baig, Yu. V. Kalyuzhnyi, S. T. Cui, and H. D. Cochran
Published 29 December 2004 (8 pages)
061204 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Method for calculating the heat and momentum fluxes of inhomogeneous fluids
Minsub Han and Joon Sik Lee
Published 29 December 2004 (10 pages)
061205 [View PDF (1,203 kB)]
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Comparisons between molecular dynamics and hydrodynamics treatment of nonstationary thermal processes in a liquid
Hisashi Okumura and David M. Heyes
Published 29 December 2004 (11 pages)
061206 [View PDF (3,294 kB)]

Granular materials

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Propagation of interacting force chains in the continuum limit
Yael Roichman, Dov Levine, and Irad Yavneh
Published 3 December 2004 (4 pages)
061301 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Granular packings: Nonlinear elasticity, sound propagation, and collective relaxation dynamics
Hernán A. Makse, Nicolas Gland, David L. Johnson, and Lawrence Schwartz
Published 7 December 2004 (19 pages)
061302 [View PDF (794 kB)]
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Measurement of indeterminacy in packings of perfectly rigid disks
Sean McNamara and Hans Herrmann
Published 9 December 2004 (12 pages)
061303 [View PDF (720 kB)]
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Effects of surface friction on a two-dimensional granular system: Cooling bound system
Meenakshi Dutt and R. P. Behringer
Published 13 December 2004 (15 pages)
061304 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Structures and chaotic fluctuations of granular clusters in a vibrated fluid layer
Charles C. Thomas and J. P. Gollub
Published 17 December 2004 (9 pages)
061305 [View PDF (1,181 kB)]
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Ensemble theory for force networks in hyperstatic granular matter
Jacco H. Snoeijer, Thijs J. H. Vlugt, Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Martin van Hecke, and J. M. J. van Leeuwen
Published 20 December 2004 (16 pages)
061306 [View PDF (498 kB)]
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Competitive clustering in a bidisperse granular gas: Experiment, molecular dynamics, and flux model
René Mikkelsen, Devaraj van der Meer, Ko van der Weele, and Detlef Lohse
Published 20 December 2004 (12 pages)
061307 [View PDF (894 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Interparticle force in electrorheological solids: Many-body dipole-induced dipole model
J. P. Huang and K. W. Yu
Published 3 December 2004 (5 pages)
061401 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Electrolyte diodes and hydrogels: Determination of concentration and pK value of fixed acidic groups in a weakly charged hydrogel
Kristóf Iván, Mária Wittmann, Péter L. Simon, Zoltán Noszticzius, and Jürgen Vollmer
Published 3 December 2004 (11 pages)
061402 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Interaction of proteins with spherical polyelectrolyte brushes in solution as studied by small-angle x-ray scattering
S. Rosenfeldt, A. Wittemann, M. Ballauff, E. Breininger, J. Bolze, and N. Dingenouts
Published 10 December 2004 (10 pages)
061403 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Magnetization of polydisperse colloidal ferrofluids: Effect of magnetostriction
J. P. Huang and C. Holm
Published 10 December 2004 (8 pages)
061404 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Microstructural response of a near-critical colloid-polymer mixture to shear flow
M. P. Lettinga, H. Wang, and J. K. G. Dhont
Published 13 December 2004 (14 pages)
061405 [View PDF (1,607 kB)]
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Reversible assembly of gold nanoparticles confined in an optical microcage
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Togo Matsui, and Hiroshi Masuhara
Published 13 December 2004 (6 pages)
061406 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Phase behavior of bidisperse ferrocolloids
Gabriel M. Range and Sabine H. L. Klapp
Published 15 December 2004 (9 pages)
061407 [View PDF (567 kB)]
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Structural analysis of a dipole system in two-dimensional channels
Ramin Haghgooie and Patrick S. Doyle
Published 17 December 2004 (10 pages)
061408 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Star polymers: A study of the structural arrest in the presence of attractive interactions
F. Lo Verso, L. Reatto, G. Foffi, P. Tartaglia, and K. A. Dawson
Published 22 December 2004 (13 pages)
061409 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Optical assembling dynamics of individual polymer nanospheres investigated by single-particle fluorescence detection
Chie Hosokawa, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Masuhara
Published 22 December 2004 (7 pages)
061410 [View PDF (422 kB)]
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Macroscopic dynamics of uniaxial magnetic gels
S. Bohlius, H. R. Brand, and H. Pleiner
Published 27 December 2004 (10 pages)
061411 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Shear-induced particle rotation and its effect on electrorheological and dielectric properties in cellulose suspension
Y. Misono and K. Negita
Published 28 December 2004 (6 pages)
061412 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Temperature and volume effects on the change of dynamics in propylene carbonate
S. Pawlus, R. Casalini, C. M. Roland, M. Paluch, S. J. Rzoska, and J. Ziolo
Published 1 December 2004 (4 pages)
061501 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Localization threshold of instantaneous normal modes from level-spacing statistics
Stefano Ciliberti and Tomás S. Grigera
Published 2 December 2004 (6 pages)
061502 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Nonzero ionic size and charge-correlation forces between fluid membranes
Yang Li and Bae-Yeun Ha
Published 3 December 2004 (9 pages)
061503 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of spatially heterogeneous dynamics in a model of viscous silica
Michael Vogel and Sharon C. Glotzer
Published 9 December 2004 (13 pages)
061504 [View PDF (1,487 kB)]
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Computer simulation of the phase diagram for a fluid confined in a fractal and disordered porous material
V. De Grandis, P. Gallo, and M. Rovere
Published 16 December 2004 (7 pages)
061505 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Tagged-particle dynamics in a hard-sphere system: Mode-coupling theory analysis
Th. Voigtmann, A. M. Puertas, and M. Fuchs
Published 23 December 2004 (19 pages)
061506 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Phase diagram of silica from computer simulation
Ivan Saika-Voivod, Francesco Sciortino, Tor Grande, and Peter H. Poole
Published 29 December 2004 (8 pages)
061507 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Density functional study of layering at liquid surfaces
R. Checa, E. Chacón, and P. Tarazona
Published 7 December 2004 (11 pages)
061601 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Persisting roughness when deposition stops
Moshe Schwartz and S. F. Edwards
Published 13 December 2004 (4 pages)
061602 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Three-phase threshold capillary pressures in noncircular capillary tubes with different wettabilities including contact angle hysteresis
Mohammad Piri and Martin J. Blunt
Published 14 December 2004 (17 pages)
061603 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Quantitative phase-field model of alloy solidification
Blas Echebarria, Roger Folch, Alain Karma, and Mathis Plapp
Published 17 December 2004 (22 pages)
061604 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Mean evaporation and condensation coefficients based on energy dependent condensation probability
Maurice Bond and Henning Struchtrup
Published 22 December 2004 (21 pages)
061605 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Abrupt grain boundary melting in ice
L. Benatov and J. S. Wettlaufer
Published 27 December 2004 (7 pages)
061606 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Equilibrium roughening transition in a one-dimensional modified sine-Gordon model
Saúl Ares and Angel Sánchez
Published 27 December 2004 (10 pages)
061607 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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What is the connection between ballistic deposition and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation?
Eytan Katzav and Moshe Schwartz
Published 30 December 2004 (8 pages)
061608 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Condensation and evaporation of mutually repelling particles: Steady states and limit cycles
Tapati Dutta, Nikolai Lebovka, and S. Tarafdar
Published 30 December 2004 (6 pages)
061609 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Spatial solitons in chiral media
Carlos G. Avendaño and J. Adrian Reyes
Published 2 December 2004 (12 pages)
061701 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Self-organization of isotropic droplets in smectic- C free-standing films
C. Völtz and R. Stannarius
Published 2 December 2004 (9 pages)
061702 [View PDF (1,024 kB)]
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Isotropic-cholesteric phase transition of filamentous virus suspensions as a function of rod length and charge
Kirstin R. Purdy and Seth Fraden
Published 14 December 2004 (8 pages)
061703 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Ferroelectric smectic- C* liquid-crystal phase: Reexamination of the electric-field influence
Zdravko Kutnjak
Published 16 December 2004 (11 pages)
061704 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Optical investigations on the biaxial smectic- A phase of a bent-core compound
S. T. Wang, X. F. Han, A. Cady, Z. Q. Liu, A. Kamenev, L. Glazman, B. K. Sadashiva, R. Amaranatha Reddy, and C. C. Huang
Published 21 December 2004 (6 pages)
061705 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Decay of spatially periodic patterns in a nematic liquid crystal
Nándor Éber, Stanislaw A. Rozanski, Szilárd Németh, Ágnes Buka, Werner Pesch, and Lorenz Kramer
Published 23 December 2004 (8 pages)
061706 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Instability modes of high-strength disclinations in nematics
D. Svenšek and S. Žumer
Published 23 December 2004 (9 pages)
061707 [View PDF (355 kB)]

Polymers

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Phase separation in the presence of spatially periodic forcing
A. P. Krekhov and L. Kramer
Published 3 December 2004 (9 pages)
061801 [View PDF (677 kB)]
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Nanostructure in block copolymer solutions: Rheology and small-angle neutron scattering
Jean-Pierre Habas, Emmanuel Pavie, Christelle Perreur, Alain Lapp, and Jean Peyrelasse
Published 20 December 2004 (8 pages)
061802 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Bending of magnetic filaments under a magnetic field
Valera P. Shcherbakov and Michael Winklhofer
Published 27 December 2004 (9 pages)
061803 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Polyelectrolyte adsorption: Chemical and electrostatic interactions
Adi Shafir and David Andelman
Published 28 December 2004 (12 pages)
061804 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Adsorption transition of a polyelectrolyte on a high-dielectric charged substrate
Chi-Ho Cheng and Pik-Yin Lai
Published 30 December 2004 (4 pages)
061805 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Biological physics

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Anomalous behavior of water around sodium dodecyl sulphate micelles
Shubhra Ghosh Dastidar and Chaitali Mukhopadhyay
Published 1 December 2004 (9 pages)
061901 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Transport control within a microtube
A. Kwang-Hua Chu
Published 3 December 2004 (5 pages)
061902 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Preventing alternans-induced spiral wave breakup in cardiac tissue: An ion-channel-based approach
D. Allexandre and N. F. Otani
Published 3 December 2004 (16 pages)
061903 [View PDF (1,696 kB)]
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Dynamic plasticity in coupled avian midbrain maps
Gurinder Singh Atwal
Published 9 December 2004 (7 pages)
061904 [View PDF (633 kB)]
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Specular neutron reflectivity and the structure of artificial protein maquettes vectorially oriented at interfaces
Joseph Strzalka, Brian R. Gibney, Sushil Satija, and J. Kent Blasie
Published 9 December 2004 (10 pages)
061905 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Rate-dependent propagation of cardiac action potentials in a one-dimensional fiber
John W. Cain, Elena G. Tolkacheva, David G. Schaeffer, and Daniel J. Gauthier
Published 15 December 2004 (7 pages)
061906 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Effects of internal fluctuations on the spreading of Hantavirus
C. Escudero, J. Buceta, F. J. de la Rubia, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 16 December 2004 (7 pages)
061907 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Networking genetic regulation and neural computation: Directed network topology and its effect on the dynamics
Andreas Grönlund
Published 20 December 2004 (5 pages)
061908 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Detachment and diffusive-convective transport in an evolving heterogeneous two-dimensional biofilm hybrid model
E. Luna, G. Domínguez-Zacarias, C. Pio Ferreira, and J. X. Velasco-Hernandez
Published 20 December 2004 (8 pages)
061909 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Reliable biological communication with realistic constraints
Gonzalo G. de Polavieja
Published 21 December 2004 (7 pages)
061910 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Complexity, fractals, disease time, and cancer
W. B. Spillman, Jr., J. L. Robertson, W. R. Huckle, B. S. Govindan, and K. E. Meissner
Published 21 December 2004 (12 pages)
061911 [View PDF (1,784 kB)]
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Importance of DNA repair in tumor suppression
Yisroel Brumer and Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Published 22 December 2004 (7 pages)
061912 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Intramural wave propagation in cardiac tissue: Asymptotic solutions and cusp waves
O. Bernus, M. Wellner, and A. M. Pertsov
Published 27 December 2004 (7 pages)
061913 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Model ecosystems with random nonlinear interspecies interactions
Danielle O. C. Santos and José F. Fontanari
Published 29 December 2004 (10 pages)
061914 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Imperfect DNA lesion repair in the semiconservative quasispecies model: Derivation of the Hamming class equations and solution of the single-fitness peak landscape
Emmanuel Tannenbaum, James L. Sherley, and Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Published 30 December 2004 (15 pages)
061915 [View PDF (338 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Experimental and theoretical study of the noise-induced gain degradation in vibrational resonance
V. N. Chizhevsky and Giovanni Giacomelli
Published 22 December 2004 (4 pages)
062101 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Structure of colloidal crystals in sedimenting mixed dispersions of latex and silica particles
Tadatomi Shinohara, Toshiaki Kurokawa, Tsuyoshi Yoshiyama, Takamasa Itoh, Ikuo S. Sogami, and Norio Ise
Published 28 December 2004 (4 pages)
062401 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Multiscaling in semiconductor nanowire growth
Hideo Kohno and Hideto Yoshida
Published 13 December 2004 (3 pages)
062601 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Real-time observation of dendrite coarsening in Sn-13%Bi alloy by synchrotron microradiography
B. Li, H. D. Brody, and A. Kazimirov
Published 16 December 2004 (4 pages)
062602 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Nanoparticle generation: The concept of a stagnation size region for condensation growth
Igor S. Altman, Igor E. Agranovski, and Mansoo Choi
Published 23 December 2004 (3 pages)
062603 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Electrically controlled total internal reflection in nematic hybrid cells
Carlos I. Mendoza, J. A. Olivares, and J. A. Reyes
Published 16 December 2004 (4 pages)
062701 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Biological physics

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Directed percolation in a two-dimensional stochastic fire-diffuse-fire model
Y. Timofeeva and S. Coombes
Published 2 December 2004 (3 pages)
062901 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Finite-size effects in biomimetic smectic films
T. A. Harroun, V. A. Raghunathan, J. Pencer, M.-P. Nieh, and J. Katsaras
Published 20 December 2004 (4 pages)
062902 [View PDF (347 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Origin of the excess wing and slow β relaxation of glass formers: A unified picture of local orientational fluctuations”
K. L. Ngai
Published 23 December 2004 (2 pages)
063501 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Origin of the excess wing and slow β relaxation of glass formers: A unified picture of local orientational fluctuations’ ”
Hajime Tanaka
Published 23 December 2004 (3 pages)
063502 [View PDF (31 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Fluctuation theorem for a deterministic one-particle system
Malte Schmick and Mario Markus
Published 3 December 2004 (4 pages)
065101(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Family of generalized random matrix ensembles
A. C. Bertuola, O. Bohigas, and M. P. Pato
Published 8 December 2004 (4 pages)
065102(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Crossover of weighted mean fragment mass scaling in two-dimensional brittle fragmentation
Hiroaki Katsuragi, Daisuke Sugino, and Haruo Honjo
Published 10 December 2004 (4 pages)
065103(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Pattern formation in a two-dimensional array of oscillators with phase-shifted coupling
Pan-Jun Kim, Tae-Wook Ko, Hawoong Jeong, and Hie-Tae Moon
Published 27 December 2004 (4 pages)
065201(R) [View PDF (816 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Negative index lens aberrations
D. Schurig and D. R. Smith
Published 17 December 2004 (4 pages)
065601(R) [View PDF (644 kB)]
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Stable soliton complexes and azimuthal switching in modulated Bessel optical lattices
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Alexey A. Egorov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
Published 20 December 2004 (4 pages)
065602(R) [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Noise-seeded spatiotemporal modulation instability in normal dispersion
D. Salerno, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, G. Valiulis, A. Picozzi, and P. Di Trapani
Published 22 December 2004 (4 pages)
065603(R) [View PDF (367 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Critical behavior of nonequilibrium continuous phase transition in A+BC catalytic reaction system
Da-yin Hua
Published 2 December 2004 (7 pages)
066101 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Reshuffling scale-free networks: From random to assortative
R. Xulvi-Brunet and I. M. Sokolov
Published 2 December 2004 (6 pages)
066102 [View PDF (797 kB)]
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Nucleation rate of critical droplets on an elastic string in a ϕ6 potential
W. C. Kerr and A. J. Graham
Published 2 December 2004 (16 pages)
066103 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Asymmetric simple exclusion processes with diffusive bottlenecks
Stefan Klumpp and Reinhard Lipowsky
Published 2 December 2004 (9 pages)
066104 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Comparison of theoretical models of crossover behavior near the 3He liquid-vapor critical point
Fang Zhong and M. Barmatz
Published 2 December 2004 (9 pages)
066105 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Critical Casimir forces for O(n) systems with long-range interaction in the spherical limit
H. Chamati and D. M. Dantchev
Published 2 December 2004 (13 pages)
066106 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Dynamical mean-field approximation to small-world networks of spiking neurons: From local to global and/or from regular to random couplings
Hideo Hasegawa
Published 3 December 2004 (11 pages)
066107 [View PDF (663 kB)]
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Accurately modeling the internet topology
Shi Zhou and Raúl J. Mondragón
Published 3 December 2004 (8 pages)
066108 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Transport via nonlinear signal mixing in ratchet devices
Sergey Savel’ev, Fabio Marchesoni, Peter Hänggi, and Franco Nori
Published 3 December 2004 (15 pages)
066109 [View PDF (1,700 kB)]
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Wealth inequality in the minority game
K. H. Ho, F. K. Chow, and H. F. Chau
Published 6 December 2004 (7 pages)
066110 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Finding community structure in very large networks
Aaron Clauset, M. E. J. Newman, and Cristopher Moore
Published 6 December 2004 (6 pages)
066111 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Distribution of work in isothermal nonequilibrium processes
Thomas Speck and Udo Seifert
Published 6 December 2004 (4 pages)
066112 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Independence of the transient fluctuation theorem to thermostatting details
Stephen R. Williams, Debra J. Searles, and Denis J. Evans
Published 6 December 2004 (6 pages)
066113 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Detailed fluctuation theorem for mesoscopic modeling
E. A. J. F. Peters
Published 7 December 2004 (12 pages)
066114 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Multiscale analysis of information correlations in an infinite-range, ferromagnetic Ising system
S. Gheorghiu-Svirschevski and Y. Bar-Yam
Published 7 December 2004 (11 pages)
066115 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Physics, stability, and dynamics of supply networks
Dirk Helbing, Stefan Lämmer, Thomas Seidel, Pétr Šeba, and Tadeusz Płatkowski
Published 7 December 2004 (6 pages)
066116 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of networks
Juyong Park and M. E. J. Newman
Published 7 December 2004 (13 pages)
066117 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Unbinding of mutually avoiding random walks and two-dimensional quantum gravity
Enrico Carlon and Marco Baiesi
Published 9 December 2004 (8 pages)
066118 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Cell size distribution in random tessellations of space
Eloi Pineda, Pere Bruna, and Daniel Crespo
Published 10 December 2004 (8 pages)
066119 [View PDF (339 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Clustering analysis of the ground-state structure of the vertex-cover problem
Wolfgang Barthel and Alexander K. Hartmann
Published 10 December 2004 (11 pages)
066120 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Properties of evolving e-mail networks
Juan Wang and Philippe De Wilde
Published 10 December 2004 (8 pages)
066121 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Role of diffusion in branching and annihilation random walk models
Géza Ódor
Published 13 December 2004 (4 pages)
066122 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Least-dependent-component analysis based on mutual information
Harald Stögbauer, Alexander Kraskov, Sergey A. Astakhov, and Peter Grassberger
Published 13 December 2004 (17 pages)
066123 [View PDF (541 kB)]
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Disorder and nonconservation in a driven diffusive system
M. R. Evans, T. Hanney, and Y. Kafri
Published 15 December 2004 (6 pages)
066124 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Phase transitions in two planar lattice models and topological defects: A Monte Carlo study
Subhrajit Dutta and Soumen Kumar Roy
Published 17 December 2004 (9 pages)
066125 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Dynamic phase diagram of the number partitioning problem
Ivan Junier and Eric Bertin
Published 20 December 2004 (15 pages)
066126 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Weighted competition scale-free network
Shijun Wang and Changshui Zhang
Published 20 December 2004 (6 pages)
066127 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Estimation of critical behavior from the density of states in classical statistical models
A. Malakis, A. Peratzakis, and N. G. Fytas
Published 22 December 2004 (12 pages)
066128 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Analysis of fronts in reaction-dispersal processes
Vicenç Méndez, Daniel Campos, and Sergei Fedotov
Published 22 December 2004 (6 pages)
066129 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Phase transitions in scale-free neural networks: Departure from the standard mean-field universality class
Maximino Aldana and Hernán Larralde
Published 22 December 2004 (8 pages)
066130 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Point processes and stochastic displacement fields
Andrea Gabrielli
Published 23 December 2004 (16 pages)
066131 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Magnetic walls in the anisotropic XY -spin system in an oscillating magnetic field
Naoya Fujiwara, Hiroki Tutu, and Hirokazu Fujisaka
Published 23 December 2004 (13 pages)
066132 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Generalized boundary conditions for periodic lattice systems: Application to the two-dimensional Ising model on a square lattice
I. Etxebarria, L. Elcoro, and J. M. Perez-Mato
Published 23 December 2004 (7 pages)
066133 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Stabilization effect of traffic flow in an extended car-following model based on an intelligent transportation system application
H. X. Ge, S. Q. Dai, L. Y. Dong, and Y. Xue
Published 23 December 2004 (6 pages)
066134 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Prediction of permeability for porous media reconstructed using multiple-point statistics
Hiroshi Okabe and Martin J. Blunt
Published 23 December 2004 (10 pages)
066135 [View PDF (994 kB)]
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Semantic graphs and associative memories
Andrés Pomi and Eduardo Mizraji
Published 23 December 2004 (6 pages)
066136 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Designing asymmetric neural networks with associative memory
Hong Zhao
Published 27 December 2004 (4 pages)
066137 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Relaxation dynamics of a system with a grain boundary
D. B. Abraham, Ville Mustonen, and A. J. Wood
Published 27 December 2004 (11 pages)
066138 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Microscopic structure, dynamics, and wear at metal-metal interfaces in sliding contact
Igor Stankovic, Siegfried Hess, and Martin Kröger
Published 27 December 2004 (14 pages)
066139 [View PDF (929 kB)]
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Scale-free network with Boolean dynamics as a function of connectivity
A. Castro e Silva, J. Kamphorst Leal da Silva, and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 28 December 2004 (7 pages)
066140 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Dynamics of an ion chain in a harmonic potential
Giovanna Morigi and Shmuel Fishman
Published 28 December 2004 (13 pages)
066141 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Quantum interference effects in particle transport through square lattices
E. Cuansing and H. Nakanishi
Published 28 December 2004 (4 pages)
066142 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Correlation functions for estimating effects of the physical cluster formation
Tetsuo Kaneko
Published 28 December 2004 (13 pages)
066143 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Phase transitions of a tethered surface model with a deficit angle term
Hiroshi Koibuchi, Zion Sasaki, and Keisuke Shinohara
Published 28 December 2004 (5 pages)
066144 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Controlling disease spread on networks with incomplete knowledge
B. Dybiec, A. Kleczkowski, and C. A. Gilligan
Published 28 December 2004 (5 pages)
066145 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Solution of the two-star model of a network
Juyong Park and M. E. J. Newman
Published 29 December 2004 (5 pages)
066146 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Nonlinear σ model approach for level correlations in chiral disordered systems
Kazutaka Takahashi
Published 30 December 2004 (19 pages)
066147 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Local versus global thermal states: Correlations and the existence of local temperatures
Michael Hartmann, Günter Mahler, and Ortwin Hess
Published 30 December 2004 (12 pages)
066148 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Modeling the evolution of weighted networks
Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy, and Alessandro Vespignani
Published 30 December 2004 (12 pages)
066149 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Multiple invaded consolidating materials
A. D. Araújo, J. S. Andrade, Jr., and H. J. Herrmann
Published 30 December 2004 (7 pages)
066150 [View PDF (290 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note

Chaos and pattern formation

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Amplitude death in oscillators coupled by a one-way ring time-delay connection
Keiji Konishi
Published 1 December 2004 (6 pages)
066201 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Morphological transitions and bistability in Turing systems
Teemu Leppänen, Mikko Karttunen, R. A. Barrio, and Kimmo Kaski
Published 3 December 2004 (9 pages)
066202 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Statistics of spectra for critical quantum chaos in one-dimensional quasiperiodic systems
Yoshihiro Takada, Kazusumi Ino, and Masanori Yamanaka
Published 3 December 2004 (6 pages)
066203 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Formation of a defect lattice in electroconvection of nematics
Noriko Oikawa, Yoshiki Hidaka, and Shoichi Kai
Published 3 December 2004 (6 pages)
066204 [View PDF (651 kB)]
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Clustering transition in a system of particles self-consistently driven by a shear flow
Cristóbal López
Published 6 December 2004 (5 pages)
066205 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Multifrequency control of Faraday wave patterns
Chad M. Topaz, Jeff Porter, and Mary Silber
Published 14 December 2004 (16 pages)
066206 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Pattern formation of underwater sand ripples with a skewed drive
F. Bundgaard, C. Ellegaard, K. Scheibye-Knudsen, T. Bohr, and T. Sams
Published 15 December 2004 (9 pages)
066207 [View PDF (1,945 kB)]
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Periodic orbit theory for the Hénon-Heiles system in the continuum region
J. Kaidel, P. Winkler, and M. Brack
Published 16 December 2004 (8 pages)
066208 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Semiclassical approximation for a nonlinear oscillator with dissipation
A. Iomin
Published 16 December 2004 (5 pages)
066209 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics of gravity and matter creation in a cosmology with an unbounded Hamiltonian
Gursoy B. Akguc, L. E. Reichl, E. V. Derishev, Vl. V. Kocharovsky, and V. V. Kocharovsky
Published 20 December 2004 (11 pages)
066210 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Synchronization in coupled chaotic oscillators with a no-flux boundary condition
Wenyuan Liu, Jinghua Xiao, and Junzhong Yang
Published 20 December 2004 (5 pages)
066211 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Globally coupled noisy oscillators with inhomogeneous periodic forcing
Michael Gabbay, Michael L. Larsen, and Lev S. Tsimring
Published 21 December 2004 (8 pages)
066212 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Dynamics of excitation pulses with attractive interaction: Kinematic analysis and chemical wave experiments
Niklas Manz and Oliver Steinbock
Published 22 December 2004 (7 pages)
066213 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Investigation of short-range cedar pollen forecasting
J.-J. Delaunay, C. Seymour, and V. Fouillet
Published 23 December 2004 (9 pages)
066214 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Bistability in bubble formation
Eduardo Colli, Viviane S. M. Piassi, Alberto Tufaile, and José Carlos Sartorelli
Published 23 December 2004 (8 pages)
066215 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Global entangling properties of the coupled kicked tops
Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański and Marek Kuś
Published 28 December 2004 (12 pages)
066216 [View PDF (124 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Controlled synchronization of chaotic systems with uncertainties via a sliding mode control design
Samuel Bowong, F. M. Moukam Kakmeni, and Clement Tchawoua
Published 30 December 2004 (10 pages)
066217 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Quantum double pendulum: Study of an autonomous classically chaotic quantum system
Luca Perotti
Published 30 December 2004 (12 pages)
066218 [View PDF (589 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Bubble dynamics near the onset of single-bubble sonoluminescence
Charles R. Thomas, Ronald A. Roy, and R. Glynn Holt
Published 1 December 2004 (9 pages)
066301 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Water waves over a strongly undulating bottom
V. P. Ruban
Published 2 December 2004 (11 pages)
066302 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Time-ordered fluctuation-dissipation relation for incompressible isotropic turbulence
K. Kiyani and W. D. McComb
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
066303 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Chemoconvection patterns in the methylene-blue–glucose system: Weakly nonlinear analysis
A. J. Pons, F. Sagués, and M. A. Bees
Published 7 December 2004 (9 pages)
066304 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Vortex tubes in turbulence velocity fields at Reynolds numbers Reλ≃300–1300
Hideaki Mouri, Akihiro Hori, and Yoshihide Kawashima
Published 7 December 2004 (8 pages)
066305 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Slamming of a breaking wave on a wall
Jian-Jun Shu
Published 16 December 2004 (4 pages)
066306 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Simplification of local energy transfer theory of incompressible, isotropic, nonstationary turbulence
R. V. R. Pandya
Published 16 December 2004 (4 pages)
066307 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Finger competition dynamics in rotating Hele-Shaw cells
Hermes Gadêlha and José A. Miranda
Published 17 December 2004 (8 pages)
066308 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Influence of local geometry and transition to dispersive regime by mechanical mixing in porous media
Renaud Duplay and Pabitra N. Sen
Published 23 December 2004 (6 pages)
066309 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Thermal lattice Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model for flows with viscous heat dissipation in the incompressible limit
Yong Shi, T. S. Zhao, and Z. L. Guo
Published 27 December 2004 (10 pages)
066310 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Absolute and convective instabilities of natural convection flow in boundary-layer regime
J. Tao, P. Le Quéré, and S. Xin
Published 28 December 2004 (7 pages)
066311 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Self-organization phenomena and decaying self-similar state in two-dimensional incompressible viscous fluids
Yoshiomi Kondoh, Shunsuke Serizawa, Akihiro Nakano, Toshiki Takahashi, and James W. Van Dam
Published 28 December 2004 (11 pages)
066312 [View PDF (208 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Kinetics of ensembles with variable charges
A. V. Ivlev, S. K. Zhdanov, B. A. Klumov, V. N. Tsytovich, U. de Angelis, and G. E. Morfill
Published 3 December 2004 (5 pages)
066401 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Stark broadening experiments on a vacuum arc discharge in tin vapor
E. R. Kieft, J. J. A. M. van der Mullen, G. M. W. Kroesen, V. Banine, and K. N. Koshelev
Published 10 December 2004 (8 pages)
066402 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Application of eclipse laser photodetachment technique to electron sheath thickness and collection region measurements
Shin Kajita, Shinichiro Kado, Atsushi Okamoto, and Satoru Tanaka
Published 15 December 2004 (8 pages)
066403 [View PDF (922 kB)]
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Melting and heating of two-dimensional Coulomb clusters in dusty plasmas
R. Ichiki, Y. Ivanov, M. Wolter, Y. Kawai, and A. Melzer
Published 17 December 2004 (4 pages)
066404 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Modeling of microwave-sustained plasmas at atmospheric pressure with application to discharge contraction
E. Castaños Martinez, Y. Kabouzi, K. Makasheva, and M. Moisan
Published 17 December 2004 (12 pages)
066405 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Optimization of power compression and stability of relativistic and ponderomotive self-channeling of 248  nm laser pulses in underdense plasmas
J. Davis, A. B. Borisov, and C. K. Rhodes
Published 20 December 2004 (8 pages)
066406 [View PDF (609 kB)]
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Influence of transverse diffusion within the proton beam fast-ignitor scenario
Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco, Gilles Maynard, and Yuri K. Kurilenkov
Published 22 December 2004 (9 pages)
066407 [View PDF (786 kB)]
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Theory of dust and dust-void structures in the presence of the ion diffusion
V. N. Tsytovich, S. V. Vladimirov, and G. E. Morfill
Published 22 December 2004 (15 pages)
066408 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Statistical characterization of the interchange-instability spectrum of a separable ideal-magnetohydrodynamic model system
R. L. Dewar, T. Tatsuno, Z. Yoshida, C. Nührenberg, and B. F. McMillan
Published 27 December 2004 (11 pages)
066409 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Double-peak emission of hot electrons generated by femtosecond laser interaction with solid targets
D. F. Cai, Y. Q. Gu, Z. J. Zheng, W. M. Zhou, X. D. Yang, C. Y. Jiao, H. Chen, T. S. Wen, and S. T. Chunyu
Published 28 December 2004 (5 pages)
066410 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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Autoionizing 1Se resonance of H− in Debye plasma environments
Sabyasachi Kar and Y. K. Ho
Published 30 December 2004 (5 pages)
066411 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Diffraction radiation from an ultrarelativistic charge in the plasma frequency limit
A. A. Tishchenko, A. P. Potylitsyn, and M. N. Strikhanov
Published 20 December 2004 (6 pages)
066501 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Three-wave coupling of microwaves in metamaterial with nonlinear resonant conductive elements
M. Lapine and M. Gorkunov
Published 1 December 2004 (8 pages)
066601 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Superluminal pulse reflection and transmission in a slab system doped with dispersive materials
Li-Gang Wang, Hong Chen, and Shi-Yao Zhu
Published 2 December 2004 (6 pages)
066602 [View PDF (893 kB)]
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Exact multisoliton solutions of the higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation with variable coefficients
Ruiyu Hao, Lu Li, Zhonghao Li, and Guosheng Zhou
Published 3 December 2004 (6 pages)
066603 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Optical-parametric-oscillator solitons driven by the third harmonic
Vitaly Lutsky and Boris A. Malomed
Published 6 December 2004 (10 pages)
066604 [View PDF (926 kB)]
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Square vortex solitons with a large angular momentum
Humberto Michinel, José R. Salgueiro, and María J. Paz-Alonso
Published 6 December 2004 (5 pages)
066605 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Characteristics of waves guided by a grounded “left-handed” material slab of finite extent
J. Schelleng, C. Monzon, P. F. Loschialpo, D. W. Forester, and L. N. Medgyesi-Mitschang
Published 6 December 2004 (7 pages)
066606 [View PDF (808 kB)]
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Depolarization of light in a multiply scattering medium: Effect of the refractive index of a scatterer
Nirmalya Ghosh, Asima Pradhan, Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Sharad Gupta, V. Jaiswal, and R. P. Singh
Published 7 December 2004 (7 pages)
066607 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Three-dimensional Green’s tensor, local density of states, and spontaneous emission in finite two-dimensional photonic crystals composed of cylinders
D. P. Fussell, R. C. McPhedran, and C. Martijn de Sterke
Published 7 December 2004 (19 pages)
066608 [View PDF (817 kB)]
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Phase mapping of ultrashort pulses in bimodal photonic structures: A window on local group velocity dispersion
H. Gersen, E. M. H. P. van Dijk, J. P. Korterik, N. F. van Hulst, and L. Kuipers
Published 8 December 2004 (12 pages)
066609 [View PDF (2,240 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of general discrete nonlinear Schrödinger models: Localization transition and its relevance for Klein-Gordon lattices
Magnus Johansson and Kim Ø. Rasmussen
Published 10 December 2004 (15 pages)
066610 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Engineering the structure-induced enhanced absorption in three-dimensional metallic photonic crystals
Hong-Yi Sang, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Ben-Yuan Gu
Published 10 December 2004 (6 pages)
066611 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Bifurcations and multiple-period soliton pulsations in a passively mode-locked fiber laser
J. M. Soto-Crespo, Mélanie Grapinet, Philippe Grelu, and Nail Akhmediev
Published 13 December 2004 (11 pages)
066612 [View PDF (958 kB)]
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Resonant nonlinearity management for nonlinear Schrödinger solitons
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Boris A. Malomed
Published 13 December 2004 (7 pages)
066613 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Frequency generation within the forbidden band gap: All optical Rabi-like splitting in photonic crystals and microcavities
Claudio Conti, Andrea Di Falco, and Gaetano Assanto
Published 15 December 2004 (5 pages)
066614 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Vectorial two-beam coupling with arbitrary shifted photorefractive gratings: An analytical approach
A. V. Khomenko and I. Rocha-Mendoza
Published 16 December 2004 (7 pages)
066615 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Optical nonresonance and two-photon resonance breathers in anisotropic media
G. T. Adamashvili and D. J. Kaup
Published 16 December 2004 (7 pages)
066616 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Dielectrophoretic manipulation of finite sized species and the importance of the quadrupolar contribution
Enzhu Liang, Rosemary L. Smith, and David S. Clague
Published 17 December 2004 (8 pages)
066617 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal discrete multicolor solitons
Zhiyong Xu, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lucian-Cornel Crasovan, Dumitru Mihalache, and Lluis Torner
Published 20 December 2004 (6 pages)
066618 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Phase-matching solutions for high-order harmonic generation in hollow-core photonic-crystal fibers
E. E. Serebryannikov, D. von der Linde, and A. M. Zheltikov
Published 21 December 2004 (7 pages)
066619 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Perturbation theory for dark solitons: Inverse scattering transform approach and radiative effects
Volodymyr M. Lashkin
Published 21 December 2004 (12 pages)
066620 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Nonlinear optical interactions of wave packets in photonic crystals: Hamiltonian dynamics of effective fields
S. N. Volkov and J. E. Sipe
Published 23 December 2004 (14 pages)
066621 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Resonant scattering of nonlinear Schrödinger solitons from potential wells
K. T. Stoychev, M. T. Primatarowa, and R. S. Kamburova
Published 27 December 2004 (5 pages)
066622 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Stabilization of vector solitons in optical lattices
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Anna S. Zelenina, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
Published 27 December 2004 (5 pages)
066623 [View PDF (555 kB)]
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Negative Hartman effect in one-dimensional photonic crystals with negative refractive materials
Li-Gang Wang, Jing-Ping Xu, and Shi-Yao Zhu
Published 27 December 2004 (6 pages)
066624 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Phase-matched four-wave mixing of sub-100- TW∕cm2 femtosecond laser pulses in isolated air-guided modes of a hollow photonic-crystal fiber
S. O. Konorov, E. E. Serebryannikov, D. A. Akimov, A. A. Ivanov, M. V. Alfimov, and A. M. Zheltikov
Published 28 December 2004 (5 pages)
066625 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Nonlinear supratransmission and bistability in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model
Ramaz Khomeriki, Stefano Lepri, and Stefano Ruffo
Published 28 December 2004 (7 pages)
066626 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Rich example of geometrically induced nonlinearity: From rotobreathers and kinks to moving localized modes and resonant energy transfer
P. G. Kevrekidis, S. V. Dmitriev, S. Takeno, A. R. Bishop, and E. C. Aifantis
Published 30 December 2004 (6 pages)
066627 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Computational physics

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Solution of atomic orbitals in an interpolating wavelet basis
Tommi Höynälänmaa, Tapio T. Rantala, and Keijo Ruotsalainen
Published 2 December 2004 (13 pages)
066701 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Asymmetric bias in free-energy perturbation measurements using two Hamiltonian-based models
Di Wu and David A. Kofke
Published 2 December 2004 (11 pages)
066702 [View PDF (490 kB)]
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Effective way to sum over long-range Coulomb potentials in two and three dimensions
Sandeep Tyagi
Published 3 December 2004 (9 pages)
066703 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Applicability of the Hunjan-Ramaswamy global optimization method
Zacharias G. Fthenakis
Published 8 December 2004 (8 pages)
066704 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Reconstruction of thermally symmetrized quantum autocorrelation functions from imaginary-time data
Cristian Predescu
Published 17 December 2004 (14 pages)
066705 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Preconditioned lattice-Boltzmann method for steady flows
Zhaoli Guo, T. S. Zhao, and Yong Shi
Published 21 December 2004 (8 pages)
066706 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Efficient algorithm for the forest fire model
Gunnar Pruessner and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Published 22 December 2004 (25 pages)
066707 [View PDF (648 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Avalanche behavior in an absorbing state Oslo model
Kim Christensen, Nicholas R. Moloney, Ole Peters, and Gunnar Pruessner
Published 9 December 2004 (4 pages)
067101 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Phase-ordering simulation of one-dimensional conserved kink system
Hiroyasu Toyoki and Tomoyuki Nagaya
Published 20 December 2004 (4 pages)
067102 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Punctuated equilibrium in software evolution
A. A. Gorshenev and Yu. M. Pis’mak
Published 23 December 2004 (4 pages)
067103 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Optimizing strategies in the primary Parrondo paradox
B. Cleuren and C. Van den Broeck
Published 28 December 2004 (4 pages)
067104 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Suppression of scroll wave turbulence by noise
S. Alonso, J. M. Sancho, and F. Sagués
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
067201 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Synchronization in systems with multiple time delays
E. M. Shahverdiev
Published 13 December 2004 (4 pages)
067202 [View PDF (64 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Kinetic derivation of the hydrodynamic equations for capillary fluids
S. De Martino, M. Falanga, G. Lauro, and S. I. Tzenov
Published 13 December 2004 (4 pages)
067301 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Observation of strongly non-Gaussian statistics for random sea surface gravity waves in wave flume experiments
M. Onorato, A. R. Osborne, M. Serio, L. Cavaleri, C. Brandini, and C. T. Stansberg
Published 30 December 2004 (4 pages)
067302 [View PDF (54 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Stopping of directed energetic electrons in high-temperature hydrogenic plasmas
C. K. Li and R. D. Petrasso
Published 10 December 2004 (4 pages)
067401 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Experimental evidence of coupling between sheared-flow development and an increase in the level of turbulence in the TJ-II stellarator
C. Hidalgo, M. A. Pedrosa, L. García, and A. Ware
Published 20 December 2004 (4 pages)
067402 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Interaction of free charged particles with a chirped electromagnetic pulse
A. G. Khachatryan, F. A. van Goor, and K.-J. Boller
Published 2 December 2004 (4 pages)
067601 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Bound twin-pulse solitons in a fiber ring laser
B. Zhao, D. Y. Tang, P. Shum, X. Guo, C. Lu, and H. Y. Tam
Published 20 December 2004 (4 pages)
067602 [View PDF (363 kB)]

Computational physics

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Critical behavior of nonequilibrium models in short-time Monte Carlo simulations
Roberto da Silva, Ronald Dickman, and J. R. Drugowich de Felício
Published 3 December 2004 (4 pages)
067701 [View PDF (58 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Existence and design of trans-vacuum-speed metamaterials”
S. A. Tretyakov
Published 6 December 2004 (2 pages)
068601 [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Existence and design of trans-vacuum-speed metamaterials’ ”
Richard W. Ziolkowski
Published 6 December 2004 (2 pages)
068602 [View PDF (26 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Thermophoretic force and velocity of nanoparticles in the free molecule regime [Phys. Rev. E 70, 021205 (2004)]
Zhigang Li and Hai Wang
Published 21 December 2004 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Erratum: Minimal renormalization without ε -expansion: Four-loop free energy in three dimensions for general n above and below Tc [Phys. Rev. E 67, 056115 (2003)]
M. Strösser and V. Dohm
Published 23 December 2004 (2 pages)
069902(E) [View PDF (36 kB)]