Physical Review E – April 2005
Volume 71, Issue 4

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Nonlinear rupture of thin liquid films on solid surfaces
A. M. Leshansky and B. Y. Rubinstein
Published 5 April 2005 (4 pages)
040601(R) [View PDF (85 kB)]

Polymers

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Density profiles of temperature-sensitive microgel particles
T. G. Mason and M. Y. Lin
Published 18 April 2005 (4 pages)
040801(R) [View PDF (362 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Phase transitions induced by noise cross-correlations
A. I. Olemskoi, D. O. Kharchenko, and I. A. Knyaz’
Published 7 April 2005 (12 pages)
041101 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Two approaches toward a high-efficiency flashing ratchet
V. M. Rozenbaum, T. Ye. Korochkova, D.-Y. Yang, S. H. Lin, and T. Y. Tsong
Published 7 April 2005 (8 pages)
041102 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Simulating mesoscopic reaction-diffusion systems using the Gillespie algorithm
David Bernstein
Published 8 April 2005 (13 pages)
041103 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Model system for classical fluids out of equilibrium
M. Ripoll and M. H. Ernst
Published 12 April 2005 (14 pages)
041104 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Measuring subdiffusion parameters
T. Kosztołowicz, K. Dworecki, and St. Mrówczyński
Published 18 April 2005 (11 pages)
041105 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Role of a finite exposure time on measuring an elastic modulus using microrheology
Thierry Savin and Patrick S. Doyle
Published 25 April 2005 (6 pages)
041106 [View PDF (528 kB)]
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Noise-induced quantum transport
Pulak Kumar Ghosh, Debashis Barik, and Deb Shankar Ray
Published 28 April 2005 (10 pages)
041107 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Temperature and density relaxation close to the liquid-gas critical point: An analytical solution for cylindrical cells
Pierre Carlès, Fang Zhong, Mark Weilert, and M. Barmatz
Published 4 April 2005 (12 pages)
041201 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Analytical form of the particle distribution based on the cumulant solution of the elastic Boltzmann transport equation
W. Cai, M. Xu, and R. R. Alfano
Published 5 April 2005 (10 pages)
041202 [View PDF (684 kB)]
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Two-dimensional nonlinear nonequilibrium kinetic theory under steady heat conduction
Kim Hyeon-Deuk
Published 8 April 2005 (19 pages)
041203 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Quantum simulation of the heat capacity of water
Wataru Shinoda and Motoyuki Shiga
Published 22 April 2005 (4 pages)
041204 [View PDF (313 kB)]

Granular materials

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Segregation mechanisms in a numerical model of a binary granular mixture
George C. M. A. Ehrhardt, Andrew Stephenson, and Pedro M. Reis
Published 1 April 2005 (11 pages)
041301 [View PDF (2,913 kB)]
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Small-number statistics near the clustering transition in a compartmentalized granular gas
René Mikkelsen, Ko van der Weele, Devaraj van der Meer, Martin van Hecke, and Detlef Lohse
Published 8 April 2005 (12 pages)
041302 [View PDF (1,616 kB)]
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Evolution of enduring contacts and stress relaxation in a dense granular medium
Duan Z. Zhang
Published 15 April 2005 (10 pages)
041303 [View PDF (332 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Short- and long-range topological correlations in two-dimensional aggregation of dense colloidal suspensions
J. C. Fernández-Toledano, A. Moncho-Jordá, F. Martínez-López, A. E. González, and R. Hidalgo-Álvarez
Published 7 April 2005 (12 pages)
041401 [View PDF (565 kB)]
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Depletion interaction in a quasi-two-dimensional colloid assembly
Derek Frydel and Stuart A. Rice
Published 12 April 2005 (10 pages)
041402 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Influence of polydispersity on the effective interaction in a quasi-two-dimensional pseudo-one-component colloid fluid
Derek Frydel and Stuart A. Rice
Published 13 April 2005 (10 pages)
041403 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Variational bounds for the relaxation times of swelling gels
Masao Doi and Tatsuya Yamaue
Published 19 April 2005 (5 pages)
041404 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Barrier hopping, viscous flow, and kinetic gelation in particle-polymer suspensions
Y.-L. Chen, V. Kobelev, and K. S. Schweizer
Published 27 April 2005 (11 pages)
041405 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Crystallization in settling mixtures of colloidal spheres and plates
S. M. Oversteegen, C. Vonk, J. E. G. J. Wijnhoven, and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker
Published 29 April 2005 (7 pages)
041406 [View PDF (988 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Electro-osmotic flow of a model electrolyte
Wei Zhu, Sherwin J. Singer, Zhi Zheng, and A. T. Conlisk
Published 8 April 2005 (12 pages)
041501 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Application of the Bethe-Peierls approximation to a lattice-gas model of adsorption on mesoporous materials
Rafael Salazar and Lev D. Gelb
Published 8 April 2005 (9 pages)
041502 [View PDF (812 kB)]
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Viscosity anomaly near the critical point in nitrobenzene + alkane binary systems
M. Souto-Caride, J. Troncoso, J. Peleteiro, E. Carballo, and L. Romaní
Published 11 April 2005 (6 pages)
041503 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Finite-size effects and intermittency in a simple aging system
Estelle Pitard
Published 11 April 2005 (13 pages)
041504 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Dynamical susceptibility of glass formers: Contrasting the predictions of theoretical scenarios
Cristina Toninelli, Matthieu Wyart, Ludovic Berthier, Giulio Biroli, and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
Published 14 April 2005 (20 pages)
041505 [View PDF (226 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Kinetic self-assembly of metals on copolymer templates
Ajay Gopinathan
Published 1 April 2005 (9 pages)
041601 [View PDF (750 kB)]
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Phase change of a confined subcooled simple liquid in a nanoscale cavity
P. A. E. Schoen, D. Poulikakos, and S. Arcidiacono
Published 1 April 2005 (9 pages)
041602 [View PDF (659 kB)]
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Irreversible aggregation of interacting particles in one dimension
Hachem Sidi Ammi, Anna Chame, M’hammed Touzani, Abdelilah Benyoussef, Olivier Pierre-Louis, and Chaouqi Misbah
Published 1 April 2005 (11 pages)
041603 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Dramatic enhancement of capillary wave fluctuations of a decorated water surface
A. Datta, S. Kundu, M. K. Sanyal, J. Daillant, D. Luzet, C. Blot, and B. Struth
Published 8 April 2005 (7 pages)
041604 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Kinetics of step bunching during growth: A minimal model
František Slanina, Joachim Krug, and Miroslav Kotrla
Published 11 April 2005 (8 pages)
041605 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Polynuclear growth model with external source and random matrix model with deterministic source
T. Imamura and T. Sasamoto
Published 15 April 2005 (12 pages)
041606 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Modeling phase transitions during the crystallization of a multicomponent fat under shear
Gianfranco Mazzanti, Alejandro G. Marangoni, and Stefan H. J. Idziak
Published 25 April 2005 (12 pages)
041607 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Slip behavior in liquid films on surfaces of patterned wettability: Comparison between continuum and molecular dynamics simulations
Nikolai V. Priezjev, Anton A. Darhuber, and Sandra M. Troian
Published 27 April 2005 (11 pages)
041608 [View PDF (817 kB)]
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Multicomponent alloy solidification: Phase-field modeling and simulations
Britta Nestler, Harald Garcke, and Björn Stinner
Published 27 April 2005 (6 pages)
041609 [View PDF (214 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Effect of optical purity on phase sequence in antiferroelectric liquid crystals
Nataša Vaupotič and Mojca Čepič
Published 4 April 2005 (7 pages)
041701 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Mechanical actions on nanocylinders in nematic liquid crystals
Geoff McKay and Epifanio G. Virga
Published 8 April 2005 (11 pages)
041702 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Forces in nematic liquid crystals constrained to the nanometer scale under hybrid anchoring conditions
B. Zappone, Ph. Richetti, R. Barberi, R. Bartolino, and H. T. Nguyen
Published 11 April 2005 (10 pages)
041703 [View PDF (667 kB)]
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Dielectric spectroscopy of de Vries-type smectic- A* –smectic- C* transitions
Michael Krueger and Frank Giesselmann
Published 25 April 2005 (8 pages)
041704 [View PDF (740 kB)]
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Evidence for de Vries structure in a smectic- A liquid crystal observed by polarized Raman scattering
Naoki Hayashi, Tatsuhisa Kato, Atsuo Fukuda, Jagdish K. Vij, Yuri P. Panarin, J. Naciri, R. Shashidhar, Sachiko Kawada, and Shinya Kondoh
Published 25 April 2005 (8 pages)
041705 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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Stokes parameter studies of spontaneous emission from chiral nematic liquid crystals as a one-dimensional photonic stopband crystal: Experiment and theory
Kai L. Woon, Mary O’Neill, Gary J. Richards, Matthew P. Aldred, and Stephen M. Kelly
Published 29 April 2005 (8 pages)
041706 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Polymers

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Glass transition in ultrathin polymer films: A thermal expansion study
M. Bhattacharya, M. K. Sanyal, Th. Geue, and U. Pietsch
Published 4 April 2005 (5 pages)
041801 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Influence of molecular weight on the phase behavior and structure formation of branched side-chain hairy-rod polyfluorene in bulk phase
M. Knaapila, R. Stepanyan, M. Torkkeli, B. P. Lyons, T. P. Ikonen, L. Almásy, J. P. Foreman, R. Serimaa, R. Güntner, U. Scherf, and A. P. Monkman
Published 15 April 2005 (13 pages)
041802 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Aging phenomena in poly(methyl methacrylate) thin films: Memory and rejuvenation effects
K. Fukao and A. Sakamoto
Published 21 April 2005 (12 pages)
041803 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Smectic ordering of homogeneous semiflexible polymers
Raul Cruz Hidalgo, D. E. Sullivan, and Jeff Z. Y. Chen
Published 22 April 2005 (9 pages)
041804 [View PDF (298 kB)]

Biological physics

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Electrical conduction in macroscopically oriented deoxyribonucleic and hyaluronic acid samples
Zdravko Kutnjak, Gojmir Lahajnar, Cene Filipič, Rudolf Podgornik, Lars Nordenskiöld, Nikolay Korolev, and Allan Rupprecht
Published 4 April 2005 (8 pages)
041901 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Modeling the effects of anesthesia on the electroencephalogram
I. Bojak and D. T. J. Liley
Published 4 April 2005 (22 pages)
041902 [View PDF (1,096 kB)]
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Using cell potential energy to model the dynamics of adhesive biological cells
Stephen Turner
Published 7 April 2005 (12 pages)
041903 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Anomalous swelling of lipid bilayer stacks is caused by softening of the bending modulus
Nanjun Chu, Norbert Kučerka, Yufeng Liu, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, and John F. Nagle
Published 7 April 2005 (8 pages)
041904 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Cluster formation by allelomimesis in real-world complex adaptive systems
Dranreb Earl Juanico, Christopher Monterola, and Caesar Saloma
Published 11 April 2005 (8 pages)
041905 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Dynamics of molecular motors with finite processivity on heterogeneous tracks
Yariv Kafri, David K. Lubensky, and David R. Nelson
Published 12 April 2005 (14 pages)
041906 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Thermal Casimir effect in lipid bilayer tubules
D. S. Dean and R. R. Horgan
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
041907 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Predicting shapes of polymer-chain-anchored fluid vesicles
Jiafang Wang, Kunkun Guo, Feng Qiu, Hongdong Zhang, and Yuliang Yang
Published 18 April 2005 (5 pages)
041908 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Local cooperativity mechanism in the DNA melting transition
Vassili Ivanov, Dmitri Piontkovski, and Giovanni Zocchi
Published 20 April 2005 (8 pages)
041909 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Universal 1∕f noise, crossovers of scaling exponents, and chromosome-specific patterns of guanine-cytosine content in DNA sequences of the human genome
Wentian Li and Dirk Holste
Published 20 April 2005 (9 pages)
041910 [View PDF (818 kB)]
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Spectral analysis of protein-protein interactions in Drosophila melanogaster
Christel Kamp and Kim Christensen
Published 21 April 2005 (8 pages)
041911 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Spatial distribution of protein molecules adsorbed at a polyelectrolyte multilayer
Guido Jackler, Claus Czeslik, Roland Steitz, and Catherine A. Royer
Published 27 April 2005 (7 pages)
041912 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Probing single DNA mobility with fluorescence correlation microscopy
Svetlana A. Tatarkova and David A. Berk
Published 27 April 2005 (5 pages)
041913 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Evolutionary dynamics of adult stem cells: Comparison of random and immortal-strand segregation mechanisms
Emmanuel Tannenbaum, James L. Sherley, and Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Published 27 April 2005 (9 pages)
041914 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Stochastic modeling of protein motions within cell membranes
Sharon Khan, Andy M. Reynolds, Ian E. G. Morrison, and Richard J. Cherry
Published 29 April 2005 (7 pages)
041915 [View PDF (447 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Electrophoresis of large polyelectrolyte-coated colloidal particles
J. J. Liétor-Santos, A. Fernández-Nieves, and M. Márquez
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
042401 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Transformation of phase transitions driven by an anisotropic random field
V. Popa-Nita and Samo Kralj
Published 1 April 2005 (4 pages)
042701 [View PDF (50 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Current flow in random resistor networks: The role of percolation in weak and strong disorder
Zhenhua Wu, Eduardo López, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Lidia A. Braunstein, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 7 April 2005 (4 pages)
045101(R) [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Supersymmetry and models for two kinds of interacting particles
Thomas Guhr and Heiner Kohler
Published 19 April 2005 (4 pages)
045102(R) [View PDF (89 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Synchronization and desynchronization of self-sustained oscillators by common noise
Denis S. Goldobin and Arkady Pikovsky
Published 4 April 2005 (4 pages)
045201(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Encryption with synchronized time-delayed systems
Won-Ho Kye, Muhan Choi, Chil-Min Kim, and Young-Jai Park
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
045202(R) [View PDF (566 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Two-fluid model based on the lattice Boltzmann equation
Tiefeng Wang and Jinfu Wang
Published 28 April 2005 (4 pages)
045301(R) [View PDF (47 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Ordering of dust particles in dusty plasmas under microgravity
Hiroo Totsuji, Chieko Totsuji, Takafumi Ogawa, and Kenji Tsuruta
Published 14 April 2005 (3 pages)
045401(R) [View PDF (83 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Spatial and temporal turbulent velocity and vorticity power spectra from sound scattering
Shahar Seifer and Victor Steinberg
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
045601(R) [View PDF (249 kB)]

Computational physics

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Fast sampling algorithm for Lie-Trotter products
Cristian Predescu
Published 15 April 2005 (4 pages)
045701(R) [View PDF (52 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Identifying communities within energy landscapes
Claire P. Massen and Jonathan P. K. Doye
Published 1 April 2005 (12 pages)
046101 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Voting and catalytic processes with inhomogeneities
Mauro Mobilia and Ivan T. Georgiev
Published 1 April 2005 (17 pages)
046102 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Anomalous rotational relaxation: A fractional Fokker-Planck equation approach
Ekrem Aydıner
Published 1 April 2005 (4 pages)
046103 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Phase behavior of Ising mixtures
W. Fenz and R. Folk
Published 4 April 2005 (15 pages)
046104 [View PDF (872 kB)]
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Local symmetries and order-disorder transitions in small macroscopic Wigner islands
Gwennou Coupier, Claudine Guthmann, Yves Noat, and Michel Saint Jean
Published 5 April 2005 (12 pages)
046105 [View PDF (755 kB)]
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Work extraction in the spin-boson model
A. E. Allahverdyan, R. Serral Gracià, and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
Published 5 April 2005 (22 pages)
046106 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Minimal work principle: Proof and counterexamples
A. E. Allahverdyan and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
Published 5 April 2005 (12 pages)
046107 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Phase transitions of extended-range probabilistic cellular automata with two absorbing states
Franco Bagnoli, Fabio Franci, and Raúl Rechtman
Published 7 April 2005 (9 pages)
046108 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Blocking temperature in magnetic nanoclusters
Burhan Bakar and L. F. Lemmens
Published 8 April 2005 (7 pages)
046109 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Mean-field results for the two-component model
Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron
Published 8 April 2005 (7 pages)
046110 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Generalized mean-field theory for Ising spins in small world networks
E. Z. Meilikhov and R. M. Farzetdinova
Published 12 April 2005 (8 pages)
046111 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Finite-size-scaling analysis of the XY universality class between two and three dimensions: An application of Novotny’s transfer-matrix method
Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Published 12 April 2005 (6 pages)
046112 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Observable dependent quasiequilibrium in slow dynamics
Peter Mayer and Peter Sollich
Published 13 April 2005 (15 pages)
046113 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Multiscale complexity of correlated Gaussians
Richard Metzler and Yaneer Bar-Yam
Published 13 April 2005 (11 pages)
046114 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Randomly accelerated particle in a box: Mean absorption time for partially absorbing and inelastic boundaries
Stanislav N. Kotsev and Theodore W. Burkhardt
Published 13 April 2005 (7 pages)
046115 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Detection and characterization of changes of the correlation structure in multivariate time series
Markus Müller, Gerold Baier, Andreas Galka, Ulrich Stephani, and Hiltrud Muhle
Published 14 April 2005 (16 pages)
046116 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Information-theoretic approach to network modularity
Etay Ziv, Manuel Middendorf, and Chris H. Wiggins
Published 14 April 2005 (9 pages)
046117 [View PDF (695 kB)]
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Phase diagrams in the lattice restricted primitive model: From order-disorder to gas-liquid phase transition
Alexandre Diehl and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Published 15 April 2005 (7 pages)
046118 [View PDF (1,030 kB)]
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Network reachability of real-world contact sequences
Petter Holme
Published 15 April 2005 (8 pages)
046119 [View PDF (867 kB)]
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Soluble kagome Ising model in a magnetic field
W. T. Lu and F. Y. Wu
Published 18 April 2005 (8 pages)
046120 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Propagation in a two-dimensional weighted local small-world network
Nouredine Zekri, Bernard Porterie, Jean-Pierre Clerc, and Jean-Claude Loraud
Published 18 April 2005 (5 pages)
046121 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Absorbing phase transitions of unidirectionally coupled nonequilibrium systems
Sungchul Kwon and Gunter M. Schütz
Published 18 April 2005 (8 pages)
046122 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Heterogeneous beliefs, segregation, and extremism in the making of public opinions
Serge Galam
Published 18 April 2005 (5 pages)
046123 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Criticality in the Burridge-Knopoff model
Ian Clancy and David Corcoran
Published 18 April 2005 (6 pages)
046124 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Diffuse-interface model for rapid phase transformations in nonequilibrium systems
Peter Galenko and David Jou
Published 18 April 2005 (13 pages)
046125 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Monte Carlo renormalization: The triangular Ising model as a test case
Wenan Guo, Henk W. J. Blöte, and Zhiming Ren
Published 18 April 2005 (10 pages)
046126 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Interacting damage models mapped onto Ising and percolation models
Renaud Toussaint and Steven R. Pride
Published 21 April 2005 (15 pages)
046127 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Two-parameter deformations of logarithm, exponential, and entropy: A consistent framework for generalized statistical mechanics
G. Kaniadakis, M. Lissia, and A. M. Scarfone
Published 20 April 2005 (12 pages)
046128 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Exact kinetics of the sol-gel transition
A. A. Lushnikov
Published 21 April 2005 (10 pages)
046129 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Minimization of the Renyi entropy production in the space-partitioning process
O. Cybulski, V. Babin, and R. Hołyst
Published 21 April 2005 (10 pages)
046130 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Quantifying fluctuations in market liquidity: Analysis of the bid-ask spread
Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 22 April 2005 (8 pages)
046131 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Simulation study of the phase behavior of a planar Maier-Saupe nematogenic liquid
E. Lomba, C. Martín, N. G. Almarza, and F. Lado
Published 22 April 2005 (14 pages)
046132 [View PDF (1,290 kB)]
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Statistical mechanical load balancer for the web
Jesse S. A. Bridgewater, P. Oscar Boykin, and Vwani P. Roychowdhury
Published 22 April 2005 (10 pages)
046133 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Quantum description of Einstein’s Brownian motion
Francesco Petruccione and Bassano Vacchini
Published 22 April 2005 (10 pages)
046134 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Power law distribution of wealth in population based on a modified Equíluz-Zimmermann model
Yan-Bo Xie, Bing-Hong Wang, Bo Hu, and Tao Zhou
Published 22 April 2005 (8 pages)
046135 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Monte Carlo studies of the dynamic behavior of the reduction reaction of NO by CO over a surface of clusters supported on a fractal
Joaquín Cortés and Eliana Valencia
Published 22 April 2005 (10 pages)
046136 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Domain statistics in a finite Ising chain
S. I. Denisov and Peter Hänggi
Published 25 April 2005 (8 pages)
046137 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Renormalization-group and numerical analysis of a noisy Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation in 1+1 dimensions
K. Ueno, H. Sakaguchi, and M. Okamura
Published 27 April 2005 (10 pages)
046138 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Small world graphs by iterated local edge formation
Ph. Blanchard, T. Krueger, and A. Ruschhaupt
Published 27 April 2005 (6 pages)
046139 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium temperatures in steady-state systems with conserved energy
Eric Bertin, Olivier Dauchot, and Michel Droz
Published 27 April 2005 (15 pages)
046140 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Maximal planar networks with large clustering coefficient and power-law degree distribution
Tao Zhou, Gang Yan, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 28 April 2005 (12 pages)
046141 [View PDF (839 kB)]
See Also: Comment Erratum
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Experimental study of the fluctuation theorem in a nonequilibrium steady state
G. M. Wang, J. C. Reid, D. M. Carberry, D. R. M. Williams, E. M. Sevick, and Denis J. Evans
Published 28 April 2005 (11 pages)
046142 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Extended Einstein relations with a complex effective temperature in a one-dimensional driven lattice gas
Kumiko Hayashi and Shin-ichi Sasa
Published 28 April 2005 (7 pages)
046143 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Generalized entropy arising from a distribution of q indices
G. A. Tsekouras and Constantino Tsallis
Published 29 April 2005 (8 pages)
046144 [View PDF (486 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Experimental investigations of chaos-assisted tunneling in a microwave annular billiard
R. Hofferbert, H. Alt, C. Dembowski, H.-D. Gräf, H. L. Harney, A. Heine, H. Rehfeld, and A. Richter
Published 4 April 2005 (21 pages)
046201 [View PDF (1,774 kB)]
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Distribution of resonance strengths in microwave billiards of mixed and chaotic dynamics
C. Dembowski, B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H.-D. Gräf, H. L. Harney, A. Heine, M. Miski-Oglu, and A. Richter
Published 4 April 2005 (7 pages)
046202 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Fluctuational transitions across different kinds of fractal basin boundaries
A. N. Silchenko, S. Beri, D. G. Luchinsky, and P. V. E. McClintock
Published 4 April 2005 (10 pages)
046203 [View PDF (1,174 kB)]
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Zeros in single-channel transmission through double quantum dots
I. Rotter and A. F. Sadreev
Published 8 April 2005 (8 pages)
046204 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Electric circuit networks equivalent to chaotic quantum billiards
Evgeny N. Bulgakov, Dmitrii N. Maksimov, and Almas F. Sadreev
Published 11 April 2005 (7 pages)
046205 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Finite-element distributions as an apparatus for detection of the Einstein-Brillouin-Keller quantized energy levels
Piotr Sułkowski and Krzysztof Sokalski
Published 12 April 2005 (12 pages)
046206 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Macroscopic evidence of microscopic dynamics in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam oscillator chain from nonlinear time-series analysis
M. Romero-Bastida, D. Castañeda, and E. Braun
Published 13 April 2005 (6 pages)
046207 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Scaling laws for noise-induced superpersistent chaotic transients
Younghae Do and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 15 April 2005 (11 pages)
046208 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Multimode lasing in two-dimensional fully chaotic cavity lasers
Satoshi Sunada, Takahisa Harayama, and Kensuke S. Ikeda
Published 18 April 2005 (5 pages)
046209 [View PDF (830 kB)]
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Coarsening dynamics of the one-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard model
M. Argentina, M. G. Clerc, R. Rojas, and E. Tirapegui
Published 18 April 2005 (15 pages)
046210 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy for dilute systems of hard particles in equilibrium
Astrid S. de Wijn
Published 19 April 2005 (10 pages)
046211 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Stripe-hexagon competition in forced pattern-forming systems with broken up-down symmetry
R. Peter, M. Hilt, F. Ziebert, J. Bammert, C. Erlenkämper, N. Lorscheid, C. Weitenberg, A. Winter, M. Hammele, and W. Zimmermann
Published 21 April 2005 (10 pages)
046212 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Statistically relaxing to generating partitions for observed time-series data
Michael Buhl and Matthew B. Kennel
Published 22 April 2005 (14 pages)
046213 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Hierarchical crack pattern as formed by successive domain divisions.
S. Bohn, L. Pauchard, and Y. Couder
Published 28 April 2005 (7 pages)
046214 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Hierarchical crack pattern as formed by successive domain divisions. II. From disordered to deterministic behavior
S. Bohn, J. Platkiewicz, B. Andreotti, M. Adda-Bedia, and Y. Couder
Published 28 April 2005 (7 pages)
046215 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Complete phase and amplitude synchronization of broadband chaotic optical fields generated by semiconductor lasers subject to optical injection
How-foo Chen and Jia-ming Liu
Published 29 April 2005 (7 pages)
046216 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Self-affine fractal distributions of the bulk density, elastic moduli, and seismic wave velocities of rock
Muhammad Sahimi and S. Ehsan Tajer
Published 4 April 2005 (8 pages)
046301 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Gain-scheduled controller for the suppression of convection at high Rayleigh number
A. C. Or and J. L. Speyer
Published 4 April 2005 (9 pages)
046302 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Effects of initial conditions on a wavelet-decomposed turbulent near-wake
Akira Rinoshika and Yu Zhou
Published 12 April 2005 (8 pages)
046303 [View PDF (663 kB)]
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Numerical solutions of the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic α model
Pablo D. Mininni, David C. Montgomery, and Annick Pouquet
Published 20 April 2005 (11 pages)
046304 [View PDF (1,077 kB)]
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Experiments and direct numerical simulations of two-dimensional turbulence
C. H. Bruneau and H. Kellay
Published 25 April 2005 (5 pages)
046305 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Effects of temporal density variation and convergent geometry on nonlinear bubble evolution in classical Rayleigh-Taylor instability
V. N. Goncharov and D. Li
Published 26 April 2005 (9 pages)
046306 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Investigation of the dispersion of heavy-particle pairs and Richardson’s law using kinematic simulation
A. ElMaihy and F. Nicolleau
Published 28 April 2005 (12 pages)
046307 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Upscaling and reversibility of Taylor dispersion in heterogeneous porous media
C. W. J. Berentsen, M. L. Verlaan, and C. P. J. W. van Kruijsdijk
Published 29 April 2005 (16 pages)
046308 [View PDF (316 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Anisotropic diffusion across an external magnetic field and large-scale fluctuations in magnetized plasmas
I. Holod, A. Zagorodny, and J. Weiland
Published 4 April 2005 (11 pages)
046401 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Solitary phase-space holes in pair plasmas
B. Eliasson and P. K. Shukla
Published 8 April 2005 (5 pages)
046402 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Structure of spherical three-dimensional Coulomb crystals
P. Ludwig, S. Kosse, and M. Bonitz
Published 15 April 2005 (5 pages)
046403 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Nanosecond electrical explosion of thin aluminum wires in a vacuum: Experimental and computational investigations
G. S. Sarkisov, S. E. Rosenthal, K. R. Cochrane, K. W. Struve, C. Deeney, and D. H. McDaniel
Published 19 April 2005 (21 pages)
046404 [View PDF (4,211 kB)]
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Coupled dust-lattice modes in complex plasmas
V. V. Yaroshenko, A. V. Ivlev, and G. E. Morfill
Published 20 April 2005 (4 pages)
046405 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Characteristics and scaling of tungsten-wire-array z -pinch implosion dynamics at 20 MA
M. E. Cuneo et al.
Published 22 April 2005 (43 pages)
046406 [View PDF (2,951 kB)]
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Thomson scattering measurements of heat flux from ion-acoustic waves in laser-produced aluminum plasmas
Q. Z. Yu, J. Zhang, Y. T. Li, X. Lu, J. Hawreliak, J. Wark, D. M. Chambers, Z. B. Wang, C. X. Yu, X. H. Jiang, W. H. Li, S. Y. Liu, and Z. J. Zheng
Published 25 April 2005 (6 pages)
046407 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Electron drift velocities in mixtures of helium and xenon and experimental verification of corrections to Blanc’s law
O. Šašić, J. Jovanović, Z. Lj. Petrović, J. de Urquijo, J. R. Castrejón-Pita, J. L. Hernández-Ávila, and E. Basurto
Published 28 April 2005 (8 pages)
046408 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Spectral condensation of turbulence in plasmas and fluids and its role in low-to-high phase transitions in toroidal plasma
M. G. Shats, H. Xia, and H. Punzmann
Published 28 April 2005 (9 pages)
046409 [View PDF (816 kB)]
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Phonons in a one-dimensional Yukawa chain: Dusty plasma experiment and model
Bin Liu and J. Goree
Published 29 April 2005 (12 pages)
046410 [View PDF (403 kB)]

Physics of beams

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High-gain harmonic generation free-electron laser with variable wavelength
Timur Shaftan and Li Hua Yu
Published 15 April 2005 (6 pages)
046501 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Bunching instability of rotating relativistic electron layers and coherent synchrotron radiation
Bjoern S. Schmekel, Richard V. E. Lovelace, and Ira M. Wasserman
Published 26 April 2005 (14 pages)
046502 [View PDF (248 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Internal modes in sine-Gordon chain
Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky and Alexander S. Kovalev
Published 1 April 2005 (5 pages)
046601 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Reversible soliton motion
A. J. Scroggie, J. Jeffers, G. McCartney, and G.-L. Oppo
Published 4 April 2005 (5 pages)
046602 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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TE and TM guided modes in an air waveguide with negative-index-material cladding
G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, M. Scalora, and M. J. Bloemer
Published 5 April 2005 (7 pages)
046603 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Postionization regimes of femtosecond laser pulses self-channeling in air
Stéphanie Champeaux and Luc Bergé
Published 7 April 2005 (10 pages)
046604 [View PDF (893 kB)]
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Photonic band gap templating using optical interference lithography
Timothy Y. M. Chan, Ovidiu Toader, and Sajeev John
Published 7 April 2005 (18 pages)
046605 [View PDF (2,989 kB)]
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Effect of eigenmodes on the optical transmission through one-dimensional random media
H. Matsuoka and R. Grobe
Published 8 April 2005 (8 pages)
046606 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Supersymmetric pairing of kinks for polynomial nonlinearities
H. C. Rosu and O. Cornejo-Pérez
Published 14 April 2005 (7 pages)
046607 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Vector solution of the diffraction task using the Hertz vector
A. V. Nesterov and V. G. Niziev
Published 14 April 2005 (11 pages)
046608 [View PDF (827 kB)]
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Theory of optical spontaneous emission rates in layered structures
H. J. W. M. Hoekstra and H. B. H. Elrofai
Published 14 April 2005 (10 pages)
046609 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Retrieval of the effective constitutive parameters of bianisotropic metamaterials
Xudong Chen, Bae-Ian Wu, Jin Au Kong, and Tomasz M. Grzegorczyk
Published 18 April 2005 (9 pages)
046610 [View PDF (539 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Low-loss left-handed materials using metallic magnetic cylinders
N. García and E. V. Ponizovskaia
Published 19 April 2005 (7 pages)
046611 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Propagating and evanescent modes in two-dimensional wire media
I. S. Nefedov, A. J. Viitanen, and S. A. Tretyakov
Published 29 April 2005 (10 pages)
046612 [View PDF (282 kB)]

Computational physics

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Random-walk statistics in moment-based O(N) tight binding and applications in carbon nanotubes
Adam D. Schuyler, G. S. Chirikjian, Jun-Qiang Lu, and H. T. Johnson
Published 1 April 2005 (12 pages)
046701 [View PDF (503 kB)]
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Improved local lattice approach for Coulombic simulations
A. Duncan, R. D. Sedgewick, and R. D. Coalson
Published 1 April 2005 (8 pages)
046702 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann method for homogeneous and heterogeneous cavitation
Michael C. Sukop and Dani Or
Published 5 April 2005 (5 pages)
046703 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann methods for binary mixtures with different molecular weights
Michael E. McCracken and John Abraham
Published 7 April 2005 (8 pages)
046704 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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First-order interface localization-delocalization transition in thin Ising films using Wang-Landau sampling
B. J. Schulz, K. Binder, and M. Müller
Published 15 April 2005 (14 pages)
046705 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Rarefaction and compressibility effects of the lattice-Boltzmann-equation method in a gas microchannel
Taehun Lee and Ching-Long Lin
Published 20 April 2005 (10 pages)
046706 [View PDF (489 kB)]
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Lévy-Ciesielski random series as a useful platform for Monte Carlo path integral sampling
Cristian Predescu
Published 22 April 2005 (13 pages)
046707 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics sampling scheme realizing multiple distributions
Ikuo Fukuda and Haruki Nakamura
Published 25 April 2005 (13 pages)
046708 [View PDF (516 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Optimization of network robustness to waves of targeted and random attacks
T. Tanizawa, G. Paul, R. Cohen, S. Havlin, and H. E. Stanley
Published 13 April 2005 (4 pages)
047101 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Reciprocity relations between ordinary temperature and the Frieden-Soffer Fisher temperature
F. Pennini and A. Plastino
Published 21 April 2005 (3 pages)
047102 [View PDF (31 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Chaos supported stochastic resonance in a metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor heterostructure
B. Mereu, C. P. Cristescu, and M. Alexe
Published 4 April 2005 (4 pages)
047201 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Colored noise in quantum chaos
Luca Salasnich
Published 14 April 2005 (3 pages)
047202 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Using geometric control and chaotic synchronization to estimate an unknown model parameter
Ubiratan S. Freitas, Elbert E. N. Macau, and Celso Grebogi
Published 27 April 2005 (4 pages)
047203 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Dynamic behavior of a liquid metal interface under the influence of a high-frequency magnetic field
Jens-Uwe Mohring, Christian Karcher, and Dietmar Schulze
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
047301 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Shock-wave formation in Rosenau’s extended hydrodynamics
Carlos Escudero
Published 20 April 2005 (3 pages)
047302 [View PDF (36 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Simple acoustic multiplexer
L. Dobrzynski, P. Zieliński, A. Akjouj, and B. Sylla
Published 21 April 2005 (3 pages)
047601 [View PDF (38 kB)]

Computational physics

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Imaginary-chemical-potential quantum Monte Carlo method for Hubbard molecules
Fei Lin, Jurij Šmakov, Erik S. Sørensen, Catherine Kallin, and A. John Berlinsky
Published 4 April 2005 (4 pages)
047701 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann simulation of rarefied gas flows in microchannels
Yonghao Zhang, Rongshan Qin, and David R. Emerson
Published 5 April 2005 (4 pages)
047702 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Global minimum for Thomson’s problem of charges on a sphere
Eric Lewin Altschuler and Antonio Pérez-Garrido
Published 14 April 2005 (4 pages)
047703 [View PDF (341 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Shear-induced instabilities in layered liquids [Phys. Rev. E 66, 061707 (2002)]
Günter K. Auernhammer, Helmut R. Brand, and Harald Pleiner
Published 4 April 2005 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Erratum: Kinetic theory for flows of nonhomogeneous rodlike liquid crystalline polymers with a nonlocal intermolecular potential [Phys. Rev. E 65, 051504 (2002)]
Wang Qi, E Weinan, Liu Chun, and Zhang Pingwen
Published 4 April 2005 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (16 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Coupled nonlinear Schrödinger field equations for electromagnetic wave propagation in nonlinear left-handed materials [Phys. Rev. E 71, 036614 (2005)]
N. Lazarides and G. P. Tsironis
Published 7 April 2005 (1 page)
049903(E) [View PDF (4 kB)]
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Erratum: Dielectrophoretic manipulation of macromolecules: The electric field [Phys. Rev. E 64, 026605 (2001)]
D. S. Clague and E. K. Wheeler
Published 25 April 2005 (2 pages)
049904(E) [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Random matrices with correlated elements: A model for disorder with interactions [Phys. Rev. E 71, 026226 (2005)]
Pragya Shukla
Published 28 April 2005 (1 page)
049905(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]