Physical Review E – February 2005
Volume 71, Issue 2

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Generalized fluctuation relation and effective temperatures in a driven fluid
F. Zamponi, G. Ruocco, and L. Angelani
Published 8 February 2005 (4 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Decomposition of force fluctuations far from equilibrium
Kumiko Hayashi and Shin-ichi Sasa
Published 9 February 2005 (4 pages)
020102(R) [View PDF (51 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Interplay of instabilities in mounded surface growth
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti and Chandan Dasgupta
Published 9 February 2005 (4 pages)
020601(R) [View PDF (50 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Temperature variation of film tension above the bulk smectic- A –isotropic transition in freestanding liquid-crystal films
M. Veum, E. Kutschera, N. Voshell, S. T. Wang, S. L. Wang, H. T. Nguyen, and C. C. Huang
Published 7 February 2005 (4 pages)
020701(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Real-time microbe detection based on director distortions around growing immune complexes in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
S. V. Shiyanovskii, T. Schneider, I. I. Smalyukh, T. Ishikawa, G. D. Niehaus, K. J. Doane, C. J. Woolverton, and O. D. Lavrentovich
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
020702(R) [View PDF (271 kB)]

Biological physics

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Dynamics of the antibody-T.cruzi competition during Chagas infection: Prognostic relevance of intracellular replication
G. J. Sibona, C. A. Condat, and S. Cossy Isasi
Published 22 February 2005 (4 pages)
020901(R) [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Evidence of universality for the May-Wigner stability theorem for random networks with local dynamics
Sitabhra Sinha and Sudeshna Sinha
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
020902(R) [View PDF (196 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Symmetric Brownian motor
A. Gomez-Marin and J. M. Sancho
Published 8 February 2005 (7 pages)
021101 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Enhancement of coherent response by quenched disorder
H. Hong
Published 9 February 2005 (4 pages)
021102 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Window effect in a discretized model for diffusion of a chain in one dimension
G. Terranova, C. M. Aldao, and H. O. Mártin
Published 24 February 2005 (5 pages)
021103 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Inequivalence of statistical ensembles in single molecule measurements
Supurna Sinha and Joseph Samuel
Published 24 February 2005 (5 pages)
021104 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Virial coefficients of hard spheres and hard disks up to the ninth
Stanislav Labík, Jiří Kolafa, and Anatol Malijevský
Published 28 February 2005 (8 pages)
021105 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Critical viscosity exponent for classical fluids
Hong Hao, Richard A. Ferrell, and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee
Published 14 February 2005 (12 pages)
021201 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Granular materials

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Onset of patterns in an oscillated granular layer: Continuum and molecular dynamics simulations
J. Bougie, J. Kreft, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 8 February 2005 (9 pages)
021301 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Objective decomposition of the stress tensor in granular flows
D. Gao, S. Subramaniam, R. O. Fox, and D. K. Hoffman
Published 16 February 2005 (5 pages)
021302 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Separation of binary granular mixtures under vibration and differential magnetic levitation force
A. T. Catherall, P. López-Alcaraz, P. Sánchez, Michael R. Swift, and P. J. King
Published 23 February 2005 (8 pages)
021303 [View PDF (737 kB)]
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Ejection of dust by elastic waves in collisions between millimeter- and centimeter-sized dust aggregates at 16.5  to  37.5  m∕s impact velocities
Gerhard Wurm, Georgi Paraskov, and Oliver Krauss
Published 24 February 2005 (10 pages)
021304 [View PDF (606 kB)]
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Phase diagrams for cohesive particle mixing and segregation
Hongming Li and J. J. McCarthy
Published 28 February 2005 (8 pages)
021305 [View PDF (721 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Strain softening, yielding, and shear thinning in glassy colloidal suspensions
Vladimir Kobelev and Kenneth S. Schweizer
Published 2 February 2005 (16 pages)
021401 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Kinetics of ergodic-to-nonergodic transitions in charged colloidal suspensions: Aging and gelation
Hajime Tanaka, Sara Jabbari-Farouji, Jacques Meunier, and Daniel Bonn
Published 9 February 2005 (10 pages)
021402 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Light-induced charge separation and storage in titanium oxide gels
A. I. Kuznetsov, O. Kameneva, A. Alexandrov, N. Bityurin, Ph. Marteau, K. Chhor, C. Sanchez, and A. Kanaev
Published 18 February 2005 (7 pages)
021403 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Crystallization kinetics of polydisperse colloidal hard spheres. II. Binary mixtures
S. Martin, G. Bryant, and W. van Megen
Published 24 February 2005 (7 pages)
021404 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Structural phase transitions and unusual melting behavior in a classical two-dimensional Coulomb bound cluster
W. P. Ferreira, B. Partoens, F. M. Peeters, and G. A. Farias
Published 9 February 2005 (4 pages)
021501 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Solvent-induced symmetry breaking: Varying solvent strength
F. S. Zhang and R. M. Lynden-Bell
Published 23 February 2005 (5 pages)
021502 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Griffiths-Wheeler geometrical picture of critical phenomena: Experimental testing for liquid-liquid critical points
Jacobo Troncoso, Diego González-Salgado, Claudio A. Cerdeiriña, Enrique Carballo, and Luis Romaní
Published 24 February 2005 (7 pages)
021503 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Microrheology of cross-linked polyacrylamide networks
Bivash R. Dasgupta and D. A. Weitz
Published 24 February 2005 (9 pages)
021504 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Igniting homogeneous nucleation
J. C. Neu, L. L. Bonilla, and A. Carpio
Published 8 February 2005 (14 pages)
021601 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Sampling-time effects for persistence and survival in step structural fluctuations
D. B. Dougherty, C. Tao, O. Bondarchuk, W. G. Cullen, E. D. Williams, M. Constantin, C. Dasgupta, and S. Das Sarma
Published 23 February 2005 (8 pages)
021602 [View PDF (982 kB)]
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Interface unbinding in structured wedges
Gilberto Giugliarelli
Published 23 February 2005 (5 pages)
021603 [View PDF (291 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Highly ordered monodomain ionic self-assembled liquid-crystalline materials
Y. Zakrevskyy, B. Smarsly, J. Stumpe, and C. F. J. Faul
Published 4 February 2005 (12 pages)
021701 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Effects of intramolecular dipolar coupling on the isotropic-nematic phase transition of a hard spherocylinder fluid
David C. Williamson, Neil A. Thacker, and Stephen R. Williams
Published 8 February 2005 (15 pages)
021702 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Shear flow in nematic liquid crystals: Fréedericksz transition as a bifurcation
Arup Mukherjee and Bagisa Mukherjee
Published 8 February 2005 (8 pages)
021703 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Effect of high spontaneous polarization on defect structures and orientational dynamics of tilted chiral smectic freely suspended films
Darren R. Link, Nattaporn Chattham, Joseph E. Maclennan, and Noel A. Clark
Published 10 February 2005 (9 pages)
021704 [View PDF (1,085 kB)]
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Using particle shape to induce tilted and bistable liquid crystal anchoring
F. Barmes and D. J. Cleaver
Published 11 February 2005 (11 pages)
021705 [View PDF (1,195 kB)]
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Induced and spontaneous deracemization in bent-core liquid crystal phases and in other phases doped with bent-core molecules
David J. Earl, Mikhail A. Osipov, Hideo Takezoe, Yoichi Takanishi, and Mark R. Wilson
Published 14 February 2005 (11 pages)
021706 [View PDF (731 kB)]
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Routes to spatiotemporal chaos in the rheology of nematogenic fluids
Moumita Das, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Chandan Dasgupta, Sriram Ramaswamy, and A. K. Sood
Published 18 February 2005 (11 pages)
021707 [View PDF (934 kB)]
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Elasticity of smectic- A elastomers
J. M. Adams and M. Warner
Published 23 February 2005 (15 pages)
021708 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Light-induced changes of optical and electrical properties in bent-core azo compounds
A. Jákli, V. Prasad, D. S. Shankar Rao, G. Liao, and I. Jánossy
Published 23 February 2005 (6 pages)
021709 [View PDF (637 kB)]
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Theory of the dielectric susceptibility of nonpolar biaxial liquid crystals
A. Kapanowski and T. Wietecha
Published 24 February 2005 (9 pages)
021710 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Two kinds of smectic- Cα* subphases in a liquid crystal and their relative stability dependent on the enantiomeric excess as elucidated by electric-field-induced birefringence experiment
N. M. Shtykov, A. D. L. Chandani, A. V. Emelyanenko, Atsuo Fukuda, and J. K. Vij
Published 28 February 2005 (12 pages)
021711 [View PDF (1,230 kB)]

Polymers

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Constrained dynamics of a polymer ring enclosing a constant area
Arti Dua and Thomas A. Vilgis
Published 11 February 2005 (6 pages)
021801 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Biological physics

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Topographical maps as complex networks
Luciano da Fontoura Costa and Luis Diambra
Published 1 February 2005 (7 pages)
021901 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Detection of pulses in a colored noise setting
Gregor Wenning, Thomas Hoch, and Klaus Obermayer
Published 8 February 2005 (9 pages)
021902 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Coupled dynamics of voltage and calcium in paced cardiac cells
Yohannes Shiferaw, Daisuke Sato, and Alain Karma
Published 8 February 2005 (5 pages)
021903 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Theoretical studies of the kinetics of mechanical unfolding of cross-linked polymer chains and their implications for single-molecule pulling experiments
Kilho Eom, Dmitrii E. Makarov, and Gregory J. Rodin
Published 11 February 2005 (10 pages)
021904 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Viscoelastic dynamics of spherical composite vesicles
S. B. Rochal, V. L. Lorman, and G. Mennessier
Published 11 February 2005 (13 pages)
021905 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Multiscale entropy analysis of biological signals
Madalena Costa, Ary L. Goldberger, and C.-K. Peng
Published 18 February 2005 (18 pages)
021906 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Three-dimensional bead position histograms reveal single-molecule nanomechanics
Nils B. Becker, Stephan M. Altmann, Tim Scholz, J. K. Heinrich Hörber, Ernst H. K. Stelzer, and Alexander Rohrbach
Published 22 February 2005 (7 pages)
021907 [View PDF (405 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Approximate solution to the bidomain equations for defibrillation problems
Salil G. Patel and Bradley J. Roth
Published 23 February 2005 (9 pages)
021908 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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Exact theory of kinkable elastic polymers
Paul A. Wiggins, Rob Phillips, and Philip C. Nelson
Published 23 February 2005 (19 pages)
021909 [View PDF (407 kB)]
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Nucleotide correlations and electronic transport of DNA sequences
E. L. Albuquerque, M. S. Vasconcelos, M. L. Lyra, and F. A. B. F. de Moura
Published 23 February 2005 (7 pages)
021910 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Formation of loops in DNA under tension
Sumithra Sankararaman and John F. Marko
Published 24 February 2005 (13 pages)
021911 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Non-Michaelis-Menten kinetics model for conductance of low-conductance potassium ion channels
Igor S. Tolokh, Illya I. Tolokh, Hee Cheol Cho, Nazzareno D’Avanzo, Peter H. Backx, Saul Goldman, and C. G. Gray
Published 24 February 2005 (9 pages)
021912 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Dependence of RNA secondary structure on the energy model
Bernd Burghardt and Alexander K. Hartmann
Published 25 February 2005 (9 pages)
021913 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Deformation of a helical filament by flow and electric or magnetic fields
MunJu Kim and Thomas R. Powers
Published 28 February 2005 (10 pages)
021914 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Interactions between water soluble porphyrin-based star polymer and amino acids: Spectroscopic evidence of molecular binding
Nicola Angelini, Norberto Micali, Valentina Villari, Placido Mineo, Daniele Vitalini, and Emilio Scamporrino
Published 28 February 2005 (7 pages)
021915 [View PDF (195 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Liquid crystals

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Modulated structures in nematic monolayers formed by symmetric molecules
I. Lelidis and G. Barbero
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
022701 [View PDF (48 kB)]

Biological physics

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Ion conduction in the KcsA potassium channel analyzed with a minimal kinetic model
Salvador Mafé and Julio Pellicer
Published 18 February 2005 (4 pages)
022901 [View PDF (87 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Non-Gaussian fluctuations arising from finite populations: Exact results for the evolutionary Moran process
Jens Christian Claussen and Arne Traulsen
Published 8 February 2005 (4 pages)
025101(R) [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Dynamical generalization of nonequilibrium work relation
V. Chernyak, M. Chertkov, and C. Jarzynski
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
025102(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous evolution of subgraphs and cycles in complex networks
Alexei Vázquez, J. G. Oliveira, and Albert-László Barabási
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
025103(R) [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Power-law correlated processes with asymmetric distributions
Boris Podobnik, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Vojko Jazbinsek, Zvonko Trontelj, H. Eugene Stanley, and Ivo Grosse
Published 28 February 2005 (4 pages)
025104(R) [View PDF (85 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Defect-enhanced anomaly in frequency synchronization of asymmetrically coupled spatially extended systems
J. Bragard, E. Montbrió, C. Mendoza, S. Boccaletti, and B. Blasius
Published 9 February 2005 (4 pages)
025201(R) [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Fluctuation formula in the Nosé-Hoover thermostated Lorentz gas
M. Dolowschiák and Z. Kovács
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
025202(R) [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Critical exponents of Nikolaevskii turbulence
Dan Tanaka
Published 17 February 2005 (4 pages)
025203(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Laser-driven hard-x-ray generation based on ultrafast selected energy x-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements of Ni compounds
Fang Shan, Josh D. Carter, Vicky Ng, and Ting Guo
Published 4 February 2005 (4 pages)
025401(R) [View PDF (92 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Phase twisted modes and current reversals in a lattice model of waveguide arrays with nonlinear coupling
Michael Öster and Magnus Johansson
Published 9 February 2005 (4 pages)
025601(R) [View PDF (72 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Joint probability distributions for a class of non-Markovian processes
A. Baule and R. Friedrich
Published 1 February 2005 (9 pages)
026101 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Statistical physics of grain-boundary engineering
E. S. McGarrity, P. M. Duxbury, and E. A. Holm
Published 4 February 2005 (15 pages)
026102 [View PDF (1,085 kB)]
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Weight-driven growing networks
T. Antal and P. L. Krapivsky
Published 8 February 2005 (6 pages)
026103 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Dynamic phases in the two-dimensional underdamped driven Frenkel-Kontorova model
Jasmina Tekić, O. M. Braun, and Bambi Hu
Published 8 February 2005 (11 pages)
026104 [View PDF (2,187 kB)]
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Hysteresis and magnetization jumps in the T=0 dynamics of spin glasses
Varsha Banerjee, Subir K. Das, and Sanjay Puri
Published 8 February 2005 (6 pages)
026105 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Crack roughness and avalanche precursors in the random fuse model
Stefano Zapperi, Phani Kumar V. V. Nukala, and Srdan Šimunović
Published 8 February 2005 (10 pages)
026106 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Evolution kinetics and phase transitions of complex adaptive systems
Bing-zhen Xu, Guojun Jin, and Yuqiang Ma
Published 8 February 2005 (5 pages)
026107 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Group-based Yule model for bipartite author-paper networks
Michel L. Goldstein, Steven A. Morris, and Gary G. Yen
Published 9 February 2005 (6 pages)
026108 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Edge phase transitions of the tricritical Potts model in two dimensions
Youjin Deng and Henk W. J. Blöte
Published 10 February 2005 (12 pages)
026109 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Nonuniversal coarsening and universal distributions in far-from-equilibrium systems
F. D. A. Aarão Reis and R. B. Stinchcombe
Published 10 February 2005 (9 pages)
026110 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Spectral moments of correlated Wishart matrices
Zdzisław Burda, Jerzy Jurkiewicz, and Bartłomiej Wacław
Published 10 February 2005 (11 pages)
026111 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Emergence of large-scale vorticity during diffusion in a random potential under an alternating bias
Maxim A. Makeev, Imre Derényi, and Albert-László Barabási
Published 11 February 2005 (4 pages)
026112 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Generating function, path integral representation, and equivalence for stochastic exclusive particle systems
Su-Chan Park and Jeong-Man Park
Published 14 February 2005 (7 pages)
026113 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Energy landscape and rigidity
Gerardo G. Naumis
Published 14 February 2005 (7 pages)
026114 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Brownian simulations and unidirectional flux in diffusion
A. Singer and Z. Schuss
Published 16 February 2005 (7 pages)
026115 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Effect of random internal structure on combustion of binary powder mixtures
P. S. Grinchuk and O. S. Rabinovich
Published 17 February 2005 (8 pages)
026116 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Subgraphs and network motifs in geometric networks
Shalev Itzkovitz and Uri Alon
Published 22 February 2005 (9 pages)
026117 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Critical dynamics of stochastic models with two conserved densities (model C′ )
R. Folk and G. Moser
Published 23 February 2005 (11 pages)
026118 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Dynamical scaling in two-dimensional quenched uniaxial nematic liquid crystals
Subhrajit Dutta and Soumen Kumar Roy
Published 23 February 2005 (5 pages)
026119 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Hysteresis multicycles in nanomagnet arrays
J. M. Deutsch, Trieu Mai, and Onuttom Narayan
Published 23 February 2005 (7 pages)
026120 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Directed percolation with long-range interactions: Modeling nonequilibrium wetting
F. Ginelli, H. Hinrichsen, R. Livi, D. Mukamel, and A. Politi
Published 24 February 2005 (11 pages)
026121 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Hard rod gas with long-range interactions: Exact predictions for hydrodynamic properties of continuum systems from discrete models
G. Schönherr
Published 24 February 2005 (10 pages)
026122 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Effects of changing orders in the update rules on traffic flow
Yu Xue, Li-yun Dong, Lei Li, and Shi-qiang Dai
Published 24 February 2005 (6 pages)
026123 [View PDF (641 kB)]
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Relaxation dynamics in congested traffic
Najem Moussa
Published 24 February 2005 (7 pages)
026124 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Onset of traffic congestion in complex networks
Liang Zhao, Ying-Cheng Lai, Kwangho Park, and Nong Ye
Published 24 February 2005 (8 pages)
026125 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Tsallis scaling and the long-range Ising chain: A transfer matrix approach
R. F. S. Andrade and S. T. R. Pinho
Published 25 February 2005 (8 pages)
026126 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Exact cluster size distribution in the one-dimensional Ising model
M. B. Yilmaz and Frank M. Zimmermann
Published 28 February 2005 (5 pages)
026127 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Renormalization group study of a kinetically constrained model for strong glasses
Stephen Whitelam, Ludovic Berthier, and Juan P. Garrahan
Published 28 February 2005 (14 pages)
026128 [View PDF (674 kB)]
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Kinetic theory of random graphs: From paths to cycles
E. Ben-Naim and P. L. Krapivsky
Published 28 February 2005 (11 pages)
026129 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Dynamical real-space renormalization group calculations with a highly connected clustering scheme on disordered networks
D. Balcan and A. Erzan
Published 28 February 2005 (9 pages)
026130 [View PDF (502 kB)]
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Self-similar variational perturbation theory for critical exponents
H. Kleinert and V. I. Yukalov
Published 28 February 2005 (11 pages)
026131 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Unidirectional drift of bistable front under asymmetrically oscillating zero-mean force
R. Bakanas
Published 4 February 2005 (12 pages)
026201 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Effects of constant electric fields on the buoyant stability of reaction fronts
A. Zadražil, I. Z. Kiss, J. D’Hernoncourt, H. Ševčíková, J. H. Merkin, and A. De Wit
Published 8 February 2005 (11 pages)
026224 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Lyapunov spreading of semiclassical wave packets for the Lorentz gas: Theory and applications
Arseni Goussev and J. R. Dorfman
Published 9 February 2005 (10 pages)
026225 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Random matrices with correlated elements: A model for disorder with interactions
Pragya Shukla
Published 10 February 2005 (13 pages)
026226 [View PDF (139 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Crash test for the restricted three-body problem
Jan Nagler
Published 14 February 2005 (11 pages)
026227 [View PDF (2,875 kB)]
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Directed chaotic transport in Hamiltonian ratchets
Holger Schanz, Thomas Dittrich, and Roland Ketzmerick
Published 16 February 2005 (20 pages)
026228 [View PDF (676 kB)]
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Amplification of information transfer in excitable systems that reside in a steady state near a bifurcation point to complex oscillatory behavior
Matjaž Perc and Marko Marhl
Published 16 February 2005 (8 pages)
026229 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Surrogate test to distinguish between chaotic and pseudoperiodic time series
Xiaodong Luo, Tomomichi Nakamura, and Michael Small
Published 24 February 2005 (8 pages)
026230 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Limits on the excitable behavior of a semiconductor laser with optical feedback
Jorge Manuel Méndez, J. Aliaga, and G. B. Mindlin
Published 25 February 2005 (8 pages)
026231 [View PDF (816 kB)]
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Asynchronous random Boolean network model based on elementary cellular automata rule 126
Mihaela T. Matache and Jack Heidel
Published 28 February 2005 (13 pages)
026232 [View PDF (228 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Three-dimensional mixed-wet random pore-scale network modeling of two- and three-phase flow in porous media. I. Model description
Mohammad Piri and Martin J. Blunt
Published 4 February 2005 (30 pages)
026301 [View PDF (1,059 kB)]
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Three-dimensional mixed-wet random pore-scale network modeling of two- and three-phase flow in porous media. II. Results
Mohammad Piri and Martin J. Blunt
Published 4 February 2005 (11 pages)
026302 [View PDF (1,077 kB)]
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Two-phase flow in porous media: Crossover from capillary fingering to compact invasion for drainage
M. Ferer, Grant S. Bromhal, and Duane H. Smith
Published 8 February 2005 (10 pages)
026303 [View PDF (718 kB)]
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Unstable diffusion and chemical dissociation of a single sonoluminescing bubble
Joachim Holzfuss
Published 9 February 2005 (5 pages)
026304 [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Three-dimensional modes in a periodically driven elongated cavity
Jonathan J. F. Leung, Amir H. Hirsa, Hugh M. Blackburn, Francisco Marques, and Juan M. Lopez
Published 11 February 2005 (7 pages)
026305 [View PDF (737 kB)]
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Stability of stratified flow with inhomogeneous shear
Vladimir S. Mikhailenko, Earl E. Scime, and Vladimir V. Mikhailenko
Published 11 February 2005 (8 pages)
026306 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics of short traveling capillary-gravity waves
C. H. Borzi, R. A. Kraenkel, M. A. Manna, and A. Pereira
Published 23 February 2005 (9 pages)
026307 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Signature of elasticity in the Faraday instability
Pierre Ballesta and Sébastien Manneville
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
026308 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Finite-size scaling of two-point statistics and the turbulent energy cascade generators
Jochen Cleve, Thomas Dziekan, Jürgen Schmiegel, Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Bruce R. Pearson, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, and Martin Greiner
Published 28 February 2005 (12 pages)
026309 [View PDF (467 kB)]
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Instability of sonoluminescing bubbles under a nonspherical symmetrical acoustic-pressure perturbation
Yu An, Tao Lu, and Bing Yang
Published 28 February 2005 (4 pages)
026310 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Quasineutral plasma models
R. F. Fernsler, S. P. Slinker, and G. Joyce
Published 4 February 2005 (10 pages)
026401 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Free-energy model for fluid helium at high density
Christophe Winisdoerffer and Gilles Chabrier
Published 7 February 2005 (12 pages)
026402 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Effect of Coulomb scattering on low-pressure high-density electronegative discharges
E. Kawamura and C. K. Birdsall
Published 9 February 2005 (8 pages)
026403 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Quasimonoenergetic electrons from unphased injection into channel guided laser wakefield accelerators
D. F. Gordon, R. F. Hubbard, J. H. Cooley, B. Hafizi, A. Ting, and P. Sprangle
Published 11 February 2005 (9 pages)
026404 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Effect of ambipolar fluxes on nanoparticle charging in low-pressure glow discharges
K. Ostrikov
Published 14 February 2005 (9 pages)
026405 [View PDF (571 kB)]
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Structural phase transitions and out-of-plane dust lattice instabilities in vertically confined plasma crystals
K. Qiao and T. W. Hyde
Published 16 February 2005 (5 pages)
026406 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Stopping of relativistic electrons in a partially degenerate electron fluid
K. V. Starikov and C. Deutsch
Published 22 February 2005 (8 pages)
026407 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Collisional cross sections and momentum distributions in astrophysical plasmas: Dynamics and statistical mechanics link
F. Ferro and P. Quarati
Published 22 February 2005 (7 pages)
026408 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Characterization of a vacuum-arc discharge in tin vapor using time-resolved plasma imaging and extreme ultraviolet spectrometry
E. R. Kieft, J. J. A. M. van der Mullen, G. M. W. Kroesen, V. Banine, and K. N. Koshelev
Published 23 February 2005 (7 pages)
026409 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Vertical wave packets observed in a crystallized hexagonal monolayer complex plasma
D. Samsonov, S. Zhdanov, and G. Morfill
Published 24 February 2005 (7 pages)
026410 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Symmetric and asymmetric evaluation of the Tokamap in comparison with direct symplectic integration
Marc Eberhard
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
026411 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Longitudinal impedance and shielding effectiveness of a resistive beam pipe for arbitrary energy and frequency
Ahmed M. Al-khateeb, Oliver Boine-Frankenheim, Rainer W. Hasse, and Ingo Hofmann
Published 23 February 2005 (10 pages)
026501 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Spontaneous one- and two-dimensional optical spatial solitons supported by photoisomerization nonlinearity in a bulk polymer
Xiao-sheng Wang and Wei-long She
Published 8 February 2005 (6 pages)
026601 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Enhancement of microcavity lifetimes using highly dispersive materials
Marin Soljačić, Elefterios Lidorikis, Lene Vestergaard Hau, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Published 8 February 2005 (5 pages)
026602 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Acceleration of electrons from rest to GeV energies by ultrashort transverse magnetic laser pulses in free space
Charles Varin, Michel Piché, and Miguel A. Porras
Published 8 February 2005 (10 pages)
026603 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Hybrid superprism with low insertion losses and suppressed cross-talk
Jeremy Witzens, Thomas Baehr-Jones, and Axel Scherer
Published 11 February 2005 (9 pages)
026604 [View PDF (382 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Diffractionless flow of light in two- and three-dimensional photonic band gap heterostructures: Theory, design rules, and simulations
Alongkarn Chutinan and Sajeev John
Published 14 February 2005 (19 pages)
026605 [View PDF (2,881 kB)]
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Analytical tools for solitons and periodic waves corresponding to phonons on Lennard-Jones lattices in helical proteins
Francesco d’Ovidio, Henrik Georg Bohr, and Per-Anker Lindgård
Published 15 February 2005 (9 pages)
026606 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Nonlinear magnetoacoustic waves in rare-earth orthoferrites
Dmitry L. Dorofeev, Gennady V. Pakhomov, and Boris A. Zon
Published 18 February 2005 (8 pages)
026607 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Nonlinear compression of solitary waves in asymmetric twin-core fibers
T. Soloman Raju, Prasanta K. Panigrahi, and K. Porsezian
Published 22 February 2005 (4 pages)
026608 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Switching intense laser pulses guided by Kerr-effect-modified modes of a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber
D. A. Zheltikova, M. Scalora, A. M. Zheltikov, M. J. Bloemer, M. N. Shneider, G. D’Aguanno, and R. B. Miles
Published 23 February 2005 (7 pages)
026609 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Large enhancement of third-harmonic generation induced by coupled gap solitons in χ(3) nonlinear photonic crystals
Ping Xie and Zhao-Qing Zhang
Published 23 February 2005 (5 pages)
026610 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Resonant transmission near nonrobust periodic slab modes
Stephen P. Shipman and Stephanos Venakides
Published 23 February 2005 (10 pages)
026611 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Localized modes in random arrays of cylinders
C. Vanneste and P. Sebbah
Published 23 February 2005 (8 pages)
026612 [View PDF (1,153 kB)]
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Complexes of stationary domain walls in the resonantly forced Ginsburg-Landau equation
I. V. Barashenkov and S. R. Woodford
Published 24 February 2005 (10 pages)
026613 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Excitation of vortices using linear and nonlinear magnetostatic waves
A. D. Boardman, Yu. G. Rapoport, V. V. Grimalsky, B. A. Ivanov, S. V. Koshevaya, L. Velasco, and C. E. Zaspel
Published 24 February 2005 (11 pages)
026614 [View PDF (1,874 kB)]
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Two-dimensional solitons with hidden and explicit vorticity in bimodal cubic-quintic media
A. S. Desyatnikov, D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, B. A. Malomed, C. Denz, and F. Lederer
Published 28 February 2005 (9 pages)
026615 [View PDF (859 kB)]

Computational physics

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Finite-difference-based lattice Boltzmann model for dense binary mixtures
Zhaoli Guo and T. S. Zhao
Published 2 February 2005 (12 pages)
026701 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Spatially adaptive grand canonical ensemble Monte Carlo simulations
A. Chatterjee, M. A. Katsoulakis, and D. G. Vlachos
Published 9 February 2005 (6 pages)
026702 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Test of a numerical approach to the quantization of billiards
B. Dietz, A. Heine, V. Heuveline, and A. Richter
Published 24 February 2005 (6 pages)
026703 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Parallel dynamics and computational complexity of network growth models
Benjamin Machta and Jonathan Machta
Published 28 February 2005 (9 pages)
026704 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Lagrange mesh, relativistic flux tube, and rotating string
Fabien Buisseret and Claude Semay
Published 28 February 2005 (8 pages)
026705 [View PDF (93 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Langevin equations from time series
E. Racca and A. Porporato
Published 9 February 2005 (3 pages)
027101 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Three-state Potts model in combination with the rock-scissors-paper game
Attila Szolnoki, György Szabó, and Mária Ravasz
Published 14 February 2005 (4 pages)
027102 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Generation of uncorrelated random scale-free networks
Michele Catanzaro, Marián Boguñá, and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
Published 24 February 2005 (4 pages)
027103 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Deviations from early-time quasilinear behavior for the atom-optics kicked rotor near the classical limit
Mark Sadgrove, Terry Mullins, Scott Parkins, and Rainer Leonhardt
Published 8 February 2005 (4 pages)
027201 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Simple analytical model of capillary flow in an evaporating sessile drop
Yuri Yu. Tarasevich
Published 28 February 2005 (3 pages)
027301 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Asymptotic decay of pair correlations in a Yukawa fluid
P. Hopkins, A. J. Archer, and R. Evans
Published 23 February 2005 (4 pages)
027401 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Band-gap engineering in two-dimensional semiconductor-dielectric photonic crystals
M. S. Kushwaha and G. Martinez
Published 28 February 2005 (4 pages)
027601 [View PDF (842 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Rapid self-organized criticality: Fractal evolution in extreme environments [Phys. Rev. E 70, 036118 (2004)]
Julianne D. Halley, Andrew C. Warden, Suzanne Sadedin, and Wentian Li
Published 9 February 2005 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (4 kB)]
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Erratum: Coupled oscillator systems of cultured cardiac myocytes: Fluctuation and scaling properties [Phys. Rev. E 70, 021904 (2004)]
Mitsuru Yoneyama and Koichi Kawahara
Published 24 February 2005 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]