Physical Review E – May 2005
Volume 71, Issue 5

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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Theory of enhanced performance emerging in a sparsely connected competitive population
T. S. Lo, K. P. Chan, P. M. Hui, and N. F. Johnson
Published 17 May 2005 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Phase diagram of the Gaussian-core model
Santi Prestipino, Franz Saija, and Paolo V. Giaquinta
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
050102(R) [View PDF (184 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Large equilibrium clusters in low-density aqueous suspensions of polyelectrolyte-liposome complexes: A phenomenological model
F. Bordi, C. Cametti, M. Diociaiuti, and S. Sennato
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
050401(R) [View PDF (161 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Identification of a wagging vibrational mode of water molecules at the water/vapor interface
Angela Perry, Christine Neipert, Christina Ridley, Brian Space, and Preston B. Moore
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
050601(R) [View PDF (321 kB)]

Polymers

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Molecular dynamics simulation study of the α - and β -relaxation processes in a realistic model polymer
Dmitry Bedrov and Grant D. Smith
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
050801(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]

Biological physics

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Pattern formation of microtubules and motors: Inelastic interaction of polar rods
Igor S. Aranson and Lev S. Tsimring
Published 10 May 2005 (4 pages)
050901(R) [View PDF (526 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Quantifying signals with power-law correlations: A comparative study of detrended fluctuation analysis and detrended moving average techniques
Limei Xu, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Kun Hu, Zhi Chen, Anna Carbone, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 6 May 2005 (14 pages)
051101 [View PDF (1,533 kB)]
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Statistical theory of noble-gas crystals and the phenomenon of sublimation
V. N. Bondarev
Published 10 May 2005 (12 pages)
051102 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Canonical quantization of nonlinear many-body systems
A. M. Scarfone
Published 12 May 2005 (15 pages)
051103 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Reaction-diffusion wave fronts on comblike structures
Daniel Campos and Vicenç Méndez
Published 23 May 2005 (6 pages)
051104 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Point process model of 1∕f noise vs a sum of Lorentzians
B. Kaulakys, V. Gontis, and M. Alaburda
Published 24 May 2005 (11 pages)
051105 [View PDF (197 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Anisotropy of the magnetoviscous effect in ferrofluids
Patrick Ilg, Martin Kröger, and Siegfried Hess
Published 26 May 2005 (6 pages)
051201 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Quantum drag forces on a sphere moving through a rarefied gas
D. Drosdoff, A. Widom, and Y. Srivastava
Published 27 May 2005 (5 pages)
051202 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Granular materials

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Combined size and density segregation and mixing in noncircular tumblers
Nitin Jain, Julio M. Ottino, and Richard M. Lueptow
Published 6 May 2005 (10 pages)
051301 [View PDF (682 kB)]
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Failure of a granular step
Saloome Siavoshi and Arshad Kudrolli
Published 11 May 2005 (6 pages)
051302 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Jamming during the discharge of granular matter from a silo
Iker Zuriguel, Angel Garcimartín, Diego Maza, Luis A. Pugnaloni, and J. M. Pastor
Published 12 May 2005 (9 pages)
051303 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Role of anisotropy in the elastoplastic response of a polygonal packing
F. Alonso-Marroquín, S. Luding, H. J. Herrmann, and I. Vardoulakis
Published 16 May 2005 (18 pages)
051304 [View PDF (1,930 kB)]
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Penetration depth for shallow impact cratering
M. A. Ambroso, C. R. Santore, A. R. Abate, and D. J. Durian
Published 17 May 2005 (7 pages)
051305 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Boltzmann equation for a granular capped rectangle in a thermalized bath of hard disks
H. Gomart, J. Talbot, and P. Viot
Published 27 May 2005 (10 pages)
051306 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Self-stresses and crack formation by particle swelling in cohesive granular media
M. S. El Youssoufi, J.-Y. Delenne, and F. Radjai
Published 27 May 2005 (5 pages)
051307 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Effective capillary interaction of spherical particles at fluid interfaces
M. Oettel, A. Domínguez, and S. Dietrich
Published 12 May 2005 (16 pages)
051401 [View PDF (262 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Morphological transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic aggregation growth patterns
S. C. Ferreira, Jr., S. G. Alves, A. Faissal Brito, and J. G. Moreira
Published 16 May 2005 (6 pages)
051402 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Wall-fluid and liquid-gas interfaces of model colloid-polymer mixtures by simulation and theory
Andrea Fortini, Marjolein Dijkstra, Matthias Schmidt, and Paul P. F. Wessels
Published 23 May 2005 (13 pages)
051403 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Triple-line decoration and line tension in simple three-dimensional foam clusters
M. A. Fortes and P. I. C. Teixeira
Published 26 May 2005 (10 pages)
051404 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Structure formation in a binary monolayer of dipolar particles
I. Varga, H. Yamada, F. Kun, H.-G. Matuttis, and N. Ito
Published 31 May 2005 (7 pages)
051405 [View PDF (665 kB)]
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Simulation and theory of fluid demixing and interfacial tension of mixtures of colloids and nonideal polymers
R. L. C. Vink and Matthias Schmidt
Published 31 May 2005 (7 pages)
051406 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Anisotropic diffusion in nematic liquid crystals and in ferrofluids
Patrick Ilg
Published 31 May 2005 (9 pages)
051407 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Yang-Yang anomalies and coexistence diameters: Simulation of asymmetric fluids
Young C. Kim
Published 20 May 2005 (15 pages)
051501 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Hydration of an apolar solute in a two-dimensional waterlike lattice fluid
C. Buzano, E. De Stefanis, and M. Pretti
Published 25 May 2005 (8 pages)
051502 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Nonlinear microstructure and rheology of semidilute colloidal suspensions of structureless particles
V. Zmievski, M. Grmela, M. Bousmina, and S. Dagréou
Published 27 May 2005 (18 pages)
051503 [View PDF (259 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Side-branch growth in two-dimensional dendrites. II. Phase-field model
R. González-Cinca, Y. Couder, and A. Hernández-Machado
Published 2 May 2005 (7 pages)
051601 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Free fluid vesicles are not exactly spherical
Gunnar T. Linke, Reinhard Lipowsky, and Thomas Gruhn
Published 5 May 2005 (7 pages)
051602 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Instability and droplet formation in evaporating thin films of a binary solution
Leonid V. Govor, Jürgen Parisi, Gottfried H. Bauer, and Günter Reiter
Published 9 May 2005 (9 pages)
051603 [View PDF (758 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulation of paracetamol molecules ordering around glycogen
Wilber Lim, Yuan Ping Feng, and X. Y. Liu
Published 9 May 2005 (11 pages)
051604 [View PDF (2,623 kB)]
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Liquid-vapor interface, cavitation, and the phase diagram of water
Frédéric Caupin
Published 17 May 2005 (5 pages)
051605 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Continuum model for mesh crystallization
Alexander Tetervak, Stephen Hudson, Jizhong Zhang, and Jeffrey L. Hutter
Published 17 May 2005 (8 pages)
051606 [View PDF (246 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Telephone-cord instabilities in thin smectic capillaries
Paolo Biscari and Maria Carme Calderer
Published 4 May 2005 (10 pages)
051701 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Scattering of light in cholesteric liquid crystals with large pitch
E. V. Aksenova, V. P. Romanov, and A. Yu. Val’kov
Published 4 May 2005 (20 pages)
051702 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Demonstration of the antiferroelectric aspect of the helical superstructures in Sm- C* , Sm- Cα* , and Sm- Ca* liquid crystals
Jan P. F. Lagerwall
Published 4 May 2005 (10 pages)
051703 [View PDF (1,040 kB)]
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Atomic force microscope study of presmectic modulation in the nematic and isotropic phases of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl using piezoresistive force detection
G. Carbone, R. Barberi, I. Muševič, and U. Kržič
Published 5 May 2005 (5 pages)
051704 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Trans-cis isomerization and the blue phases
Andro Chanishvili, Guram Chilaya, Gia Petriashvili, and Peter J. Collings
Published 5 May 2005 (5 pages)
051705 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Viscosity peaks at the cholesteric-isotropic phase transitions
M. Simões, A. J. Palangana, A. R. Sampaio, A. de Campos, and K. E. Yamaguti
Published 5 May 2005 (5 pages)
051706 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Planar-fingerprint transition in a thermoreversible liquid crystalline gel
Alberto de Lózar, Wolfgang Schöpf, Ingo Rehberg, Oscar Lafuente, and Günter Lattermann
Published 5 May 2005 (9 pages)
051707 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Surface anchoring and dynamics of jump-wise director reorientations in planar cholesteric layers
V. A. Belyakov, I. W. Stewart, and M. A. Osipov
Published 9 May 2005 (12 pages)
051708 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Influence of nanosized confinements on 4- n -decyl- 4′ -cyanobiphenyl (10CB): A broadband dielectric study
J. Leys, G. Sinha, C. Glorieux, and J. Thoen
Published 11 May 2005 (13 pages)
051709 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Smectic phase in a system of hard ellipsoids with isotropic attractive interactions
Elvira Martín del Río and Enrique de Miguel
Published 11 May 2005 (11 pages)
051710 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Influence of the backflow effect on the orientational dynamics induced by light in nematics
D. O. Krimer, G. Demeter, and L. Kramer
Published 16 May 2005 (10 pages)
051711 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Correlation length and chirality of the fluctuations in the isotropic phase of nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals
Jacob J. Krich, Mark B. Romanowsky, and Peter J. Collings
Published 17 May 2005 (8 pages)
051712 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Electrically driven deformations of nematic gels
Kenji Urayama, Hidesato Kondo, Yuko O. Arai, and Toshikazu Takigawa
Published 19 May 2005 (8 pages)
051713 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Minimal coupling model of the biaxial nematic phase
Lech Longa, Piotr Grzybowski, Silvano Romano, and Epifanio Virga
Published 25 May 2005 (13 pages)
051714 [View PDF (318 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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High frequency hysteresis-free switching in thin layers of smectic- C* ferroelectric liquid crystals
L. M. Blinov, S. P. Palto, E. P. Pozhidaev, Yu. P. Bobylev, V. M. Shoshin, A. L. Andreev, F. V. Podgornov, and W. Haase
Published 27 May 2005 (10 pages)
051715 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Interfacial tension of the isotropic-nematic interface in suspensions of soft spherocylinders
R. L. C. Vink and T. Schilling
Published 31 May 2005 (7 pages)
051716 [View PDF (217 kB)]

Polymers

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Self-consistent field theory of multiply branched block copolymer melts
Gregory M. Grason and Randall D. Kamien
Published 18 May 2005 (11 pages)
051801 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Intermolecular adhesion in conducting polymers
Jeremy D. Schmit and Alex J. Levine
Published 19 May 2005 (13 pages)
051802 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Orientational order transition of the striped microphase structure of a copolymer-homopolymer mixture under oscillatory particles
Jin-jun Zhang, Guojun Jin, and Yuqiang Ma
Published 25 May 2005 (9 pages)
051803 [View PDF (831 kB)]
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Force-induced triple point for interacting polymers
Sanjay Kumar, Debaprasad Giri, and Somendra M. Bhattacharjee
Published 26 May 2005 (5 pages)
051804 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Biological physics

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Nonexponential relaxation and hierarchically constrained dynamics in a protein
Elihu Abrahams
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
051901 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Mesoscopic modeling for nucleic acid chain dynamics
M. Sales-Pardo, R. Guimerà, A. A. Moreira, J. Widom, and L. A. N. Amaral
Published 5 May 2005 (13 pages)
051902 [View PDF (846 kB)]
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Translocation of double-strand DNA through a silicon oxide nanopore
A. J. Storm, J. H. Chen, H. W. Zandbergen, and C. Dekker
Published 6 May 2005 (10 pages)
051903 [View PDF (638 kB)]
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Noise-induced transition from translational to rotational motion of swarms
Udo Erdmann, Werner Ebeling, and Alexander S. Mikhailov
Published 6 May 2005 (7 pages)
051904 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Effects of kinks on DNA elasticity
Yuri O. Popov and Alexei V. Tkachenko
Published 10 May 2005 (8 pages)
051905 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium patterns and shape fluctuations in reactive membranes
Ramon Reigada, Javier Buceta, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 18 May 2005 (11 pages)
051906 [View PDF (591 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Stochastic discrete event simulation of germinal center reactions
Marc Thilo Figge
Published 24 May 2005 (15 pages)
051907 [View PDF (590 kB)]
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Leading-edge vortex stability in insect wings
F. O. Minotti and E. Speranza
Published 25 May 2005 (6 pages)
051908 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Multiple weak hits confuse complex systems: A transcriptional regulatory network as an example
Vilmos Ágoston, Péter Csermely, and Sándor Pongor
Published 26 May 2005 (7 pages)
051909 [View PDF (561 kB)]
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Multicellular tumor spheroid in an off-lattice Voronoi-Delaunay cell model
Gernot Schaller and Michael Meyer-Hermann
Published 27 May 2005 (16 pages)
051910 [View PDF (925 kB)]
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Dynamics of conduction blocks in a model of paced cardiac tissue
Hervé Henry and Wouter-Jan Rappel
Published 31 May 2005 (7 pages)
051911 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic stability of helical growth at low Reynolds number
Ariel Balter and Jay X. Tang
Published 31 May 2005 (8 pages)
051912 [View PDF (1,223 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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N -dimensional fractional diffusion equation and Green function approach: Spatially dependent diffusion coefficient and external force
E. K. Lenzi, R. S. Mendes, J. S. Andrade, Jr., L. R. da Silva, and L. S. Lucena
Published 16 May 2005 (4 pages)
052101 [View PDF (66 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Dipolar interactions in liquids and linear dielectric relaxation spectroscopy
Jan Jadżyn, Grzegorz Czechowski, Danuta Bauman, Jean-Louis Déjardin, Horst Kresse, Redouane Douali, and Christian Legrand
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
052701 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Pretransitional critical-like behavior of dielectric permittivity in mixtures of mesomorphic and nonmesomorphic compounds
Jan Jadżyn, Grzegorz Czechowski, and Margarita Ginovska
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
052702 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Polymers

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Elasticity and stability of a helical filament
Zicong Zhou, Pik-Yin Lai, and Béla Joós
Published 20 May 2005 (4 pages)
052801 [View PDF (63 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Biological physics

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Elimination of spiral chaos by pulse entrainment in the Aliev-Panfilov model
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Yusuke Kido
Published 19 May 2005 (4 pages)
052901 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Periodicity of mass extinctions without an extraterrestrial cause
Adam Lipowski
Published 20 May 2005 (4 pages)
052902 [View PDF (71 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Fluctuations of elastic interfaces in fluids: Theory, lattice-Boltzmann model, and simulation”
S. V. Lishchuk and C. M. Care
Published 24 May 2005 (2 pages)
053201 [View PDF (28 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Family of solvable generalized random-matrix ensembles with unitary symmetry
K. A. Muttalib and J. R. Klauder
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
055101(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Branching mechanism of intergranular crack propagation in three dimensions
M. Itakura, H. Kaburaki, and C. Arakawa
Published 19 May 2005 (4 pages)
055102(R) [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Congestion and decongestion in a communication network
Brajendra K. Singh and Neelima Gupte
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
055103(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Missing physics in stick-slip dynamics of a model for peeling of an adhesive tape
Rumi De and G. Ananthakrishna
Published 4 May 2005 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Hexagons become the secondary pattern if symmetry is broken
Bert Reimann, Reinhard Richter, Holger Knieling, Rene Friedrichs, and Ingo Rehberg
Published 20 May 2005 (4 pages)
055202(R) [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Universal critical behavior of the synchronization transition in delayed chaotic systems
Ivan G. Szendro and Juan M. López
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
055203(R) [View PDF (150 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Effects of surface tension on immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence
M. Chertkov, I. Kolokolov, and V. Lebedev
Published 9 May 2005 (4 pages)
055301(R) [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor growth in converging geometry
Daniel S. Clark and Max Tabak
Published 11 May 2005 (4 pages)
055302(R) [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Quasiplanar steep water waves
V. P. Ruban
Published 24 May 2005 (4 pages)
055303(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Two-dimensional sonic crystals with Helmholtz resonators
Xinhua Hu, C. T. Chan, and Jian Zi
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
055601(R) [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Wave dynamics in optically modulated waveguide arrays
Mark J. Ablowitz, Keith Julien, Ziad H. Musslimani, and Michael I. Weinstein
Published 11 May 2005 (4 pages)
055602(R) [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Coherent backscattering of light by nonlinear scatterers
T. Wellens, B. Grémaud, D. Delande, and C. Miniatura
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
055603(R) [View PDF (80 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Temperature dependence of the Casimir effect
I. Brevik, J. B. Aarseth, J. S. Høye, and K. A. Milton
Published 3 May 2005 (8 pages)
056101 [View PDF (205 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Anomalous roughness with system-size-dependent local roughness exponent
Alexander S. Balankin and Daniel Morales Matamoros
Published 4 May 2005 (8 pages)
056102 [View PDF (943 kB)]
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Subgraph centrality in complex networks
Ernesto Estrada and Juan A. Rodríguez-Velázquez
Published 6 May 2005 (9 pages)
056103 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Diffusion-annihilation processes in complex networks
Michele Catanzaro, Marián Boguñá, and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
Published 10 May 2005 (9 pages)
056104 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Mean-field conductivity in a certain class of networks
M. V. Chubynsky and M. F. Thorpe
Published 11 May 2005 (6 pages)
056105 [View PDF (460 kB)]
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Recurrence time analysis, long-term correlations, and extreme events
Eduardo G. Altmann and Holger Kantz
Published 12 May 2005 (9 pages)
056106 [View PDF (490 kB)]
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Theory of lubrication due to collective pinning
J. B. Sokoloff
Published 13 May 2005 (11 pages)
056107 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Robustness of the avalanche dynamics in data-packet transport on scale-free networks
E. J. Lee, K.-I. Goh, B. Kahng, and D. Kim
Published 16 May 2005 (4 pages)
056108 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Dynamics of the Fisher information metric
Xavier Calmet and Jacques Calmet
Published 18 May 2005 (5 pages)
056109 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Corrections to the Kelvin equation for long-range boundary fields
Andrzej Drzewiński and Katarzyna Szota
Published 18 May 2005 (6 pages)
056110 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of the self-gravitating ring model
Takayuki Tatekawa, Freddy Bouchet, Thierry Dauxois, and Stefano Ruffo
Published 19 May 2005 (10 pages)
056111 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Structural transitions in two-dimensional hard-sphere systems
S. C. Wu, D. T. Wasan, and A. D. Nikolov
Published 20 May 2005 (8 pages)
056112 [View PDF (1,479 kB)]
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Influence of the link weight structure on the shortest path
Piet Van Mieghem and Stijn van Langen
Published 20 May 2005 (13 pages)
056113 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Importance of extremists for the structure of social networks
Philippe Blanchard, Santo Fortunato, and Tyll Krüger
Published 20 May 2005 (5 pages)
056114 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Spin-glass phase transition on scale-free networks
D.-H. Kim, G. J. Rodgers, B. Kahng, and D. Kim
Published 20 May 2005 (13 pages)
056115 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Compositional properties of random Boolean networks
Elena Dubrova and Maxim Teslenko
Published 23 May 2005 (5 pages)
056116 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Optimal spacing and penetration of cracks in a shrinking slab
D. R. Jenkins
Published 23 May 2005 (8 pages)
056117 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Branching instabilities in rapid fracture: Dynamics and geometry
Eran Bouchbinder, Joachim Mathiesen, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 26 May 2005 (9 pages)
056118 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Rate description of the stick-slip motion in friction force microscopy experiments
Mykhaylo Evstigneev and Peter Reimann
Published 26 May 2005 (8 pages)
056119 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Application of the Gallavotti-Cohen fluctuation relation to thermostated steady states near equilibrium
Denis J. Evans, Debra J. Searles, and Lamberto Rondoni
Published 27 May 2005 (12 pages)
056120 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Multifractal properties of the harmonic measure on Koch boundaries in two and three dimensions
D. S. Grebenkov, A. A. Lebedev, M. Filoche, and B. Sapoval
Published 27 May 2005 (11 pages)
056121 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Directional crack propagation of granular water systems
Tsuyoshi Mizuguchi, Akihiro Nishimoto, So Kitsunezaki, Yoshihiro Yamazaki, and Ichio Aoki
Published 27 May 2005 (5 pages)
056122 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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One-dimensional Ising model built on small-world networks: Competing dynamics
Wei Liu, Wen-Yuan Xiong, and Jian-Yang Zhu
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
056123 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Continuous majority-vote model
L. S. A. Costa and Adauto J. F. de Souza
Published 27 May 2005 (5 pages)
056124 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Critical adsorption at chemically structured substrates
Monika Sprenger, Frank Schlesener, and S. Dietrich
Published 27 May 2005 (13 pages)
056125 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Empirical mode decomposition and correlation properties of long daily ozone records
Imre M. Jánosi and Rolf Müller
Published 27 May 2005 (5 pages)
056126 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Distribution of the largest aftershocks in branching models of triggered seismicity: Theory of the universal Båth law
A. Saichev and D. Sornette
Published 31 May 2005 (11 pages)
056127 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Entropy and density of states from isoenergetic nonequilibrium processes
Artur B. Adib
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
056128 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Exact dynamics of a reaction-diffusion model with spatially alternating rates
M. Mobilia, B. Schmittmann, and R. K. P. Zia
Published 31 May 2005 (12 pages)
056129 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Extreme times in financial markets
Jaume Masoliver, Miquel Montero, and Josep Perelló
Published 31 May 2005 (6 pages)
056130 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Magnetic models on Apollonian networks
Roberto F. S. Andrade and Hans J. Herrmann
Published 31 May 2005 (8 pages)
056131 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Monte Carlo rejection as a tool for measuring the energy landscape scaling of simple fluids
Gerardo G. Naumis
Published 31 May 2005 (7 pages)
056132 [View PDF (273 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Onset of chaotic symbolic synchronization between population inversions in an array of weakly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
C. L. Pando L. and E. J. Doedel
Published 3 May 2005 (10 pages)
056201 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Quantum chaos algorithms and dissipative decoherence with quantum trajectories
Jae Weon Lee and Dima L. Shepelyansky
Published 5 May 2005 (6 pages)
056202 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Interplay between noise and boundary conditions in pattern formation in adsorbed substances
Sergio E. Mangioni and Horacio S. Wio
Published 11 May 2005 (7 pages)
056203 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Synchronization of spectral components and its regularities in chaotic dynamical systems
Alexander E. Hramov, Alexey A. Koronovskii, Mariya K. Kurovskaya, and Olga I. Moskalenko
Published 11 May 2005 (9 pages)
056204 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Ising-Bloch transition for the parametric Ginzburg-Landau equation with rapidly varying perturbations
D. Michaelis, F. Kh. Abdullaev, S. A. Darmanyan, and F. Lederer
Published 12 May 2005 (7 pages)
056205 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Emulation of quantum mechanical billiards by electrical resonance circuits
Olof Bengtsson, Johan Larsson, and Karl-Fredrik Berggren
Published 13 May 2005 (11 pages)
056206 [View PDF (1,174 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal coding in an electrochemical oscillatory network
Yasuyuki Miyakita, Seiichiro Nakabayashi, and Antonis Karantonis
Published 20 May 2005 (9 pages)
056207 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Classical dynamics of two-electron atoms near the triple collision
Min-Ho Lee, Gregor Tanner, and Nark Nyul Choi
Published 24 May 2005 (15 pages)
056208 [View PDF (1,238 kB)]
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Synchronized chaotic intermittent and spiking behavior in coupled map chains
Grigory V. Osipov, Mikhail V. Ivanchenko, Jürgen Kurths, and Bambi Hu
Published 24 May 2005 (7 pages)
056209 [View PDF (503 kB)]
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Stiff stability of the hydrogen atom in dissipative Fokker electrodynamics
Jayme De Luca
Published 24 May 2005 (11 pages)
056210 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Irreversible evolution of quantum chaos
A. Ugulava, L. Chotorlishvili, and K. Nickoladze
Published 26 May 2005 (9 pages)
056211 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Correlation function bootstrapping in quantum chaotic systems
L. Kaplan
Published 26 May 2005 (12 pages)
056212 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Topological singularities and transport in kicked Harper model
Indubala I. Satija
Published 27 May 2005 (7 pages)
056213 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Mechanism of bistability: Tonic spiking and bursting in a neuron model
Andrey Shilnikov, Ronald L. Calabrese, and Gennady Cymbalyuk
Published 31 May 2005 (9 pages)
056214 [View PDF (1,758 kB)]
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Universal statistics of the scattering coefficient of chaotic microwave cavities
Sameer Hemmady, Xing Zheng, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr., Edward Ott, and Steven M. Anlage
Published 31 May 2005 (9 pages)
056215 [View PDF (674 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Shape and stability of a viscous thread
Sergey Senchenko and Tomas Bohr
Published 3 May 2005 (7 pages)
056301 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Marangoni-driven instabilities of an evaporating liquid-vapor interface
C. Buffone, K. Sefiane, and W. Easson
Published 5 May 2005 (8 pages)
056302 [View PDF (1,372 kB)]
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Thermal convection in colloidal suspensions with negative separation ratio
Andrey Ryskin and Harald Pleiner
Published 13 May 2005 (8 pages)
056303 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Numerical study of miscible fingering in a time-dependent gap Hele-Shaw cell
Ching-Yao Chen, Chen-Hau Chen, and José A. Miranda
Published 20 May 2005 (15 pages)
056304 [View PDF (1,233 kB)]
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Global picture of self-similar and non-self-similar decay in Burgers turbulence
Alain Noullez, Sergey N. Gurbatov, Erik Aurell, and Sergey I. Simdyankin
Published 20 May 2005 (14 pages)
056305 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Electrohydrodynamics of binary electrolytes driven by modulated surface potentials
Niels Asger Mortensen, Laurits Højgaard Olesen, Lionel Belmon, and Henrik Bruus
Published 24 May 2005 (8 pages)
056306 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Influence of excitation wave forms and frequencies on the fundamental time symmetry of the system dynamics, studied in nematic electroconvection
Thomas John, Jana Heuer, and Ralf Stannarius
Published 27 May 2005 (10 pages)
056307 [View PDF (1,061 kB)]
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Multiple translational temperature model and its shock structure solution
Kun Xu and Eswar Josyula
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
056308 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Proposed method to estimate the liquid-vapor accommodation coefficient based on experimental sonoluminescence data
Gabriela F. Puente and Fabián J. Bonetto
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
056309 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Intermittency of acceleration in isotropic turbulence
Sang Lee and Changhoon Lee
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
056310 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Two-loop calculation of the turbulent Prandtl number
L. Ts. Adzhemyan, J. Honkonen, T. L. Kim, and L. Sladkoff
Published 31 May 2005 (9 pages)
056311 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Force field inside the void in complex plasmas under microgravity conditions
M. Kretschmer, S. A. Khrapak, S. K. Zhdanov, H. M. Thomas, G. E. Morfill, V. E. Fortov, A. M. Lipaev, V. I. Molotkov, A. I. Ivanov, and M. V. Turin
Published 2 May 2005 (6 pages)
056401 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Electron-temperature and energy-flow history in an imploding plasma
L. Gregorian, E. Kroupp, G. Davara, A. Starobinets, V. I. Fisher, V. A. Bernshtam, Yu. V. Ralchenko, Y. Maron, A. Fisher, and D. H. H. Hoffmann
Published 5 May 2005 (11 pages)
056402 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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High-energy proton generation and suppression of transverse proton divergence by localized electrons in a laser-foil interaction
S. Miyazaki, S. Kawata, R. Sonobe, and T. Kikuchi
Published 9 May 2005 (8 pages)
056403 [View PDF (874 kB)]
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Ionization processes in fluorescent lamps: Evaluation of the Hg chemi-ionization rate coefficients
Valery A. Sheverev, Graeme G. Lister, and Vadim Stepaniuk
Published 13 May 2005 (8 pages)
056404 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Viscosity and mutual diffusion in strongly asymmetric binary ionic mixtures
Sorin Bastea
Published 26 May 2005 (6 pages)
056405 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Criticality in a Vlasov-Poisson system: A fermioniclike universality class
A. V. Ivanov, S. V. Vladimirov, and P. A. Robinson
Published 26 May 2005 (10 pages)
056406 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Charged state of a spherical plasma in vacuum
F. Cornolti, F. Ceccherini, S. Betti, and F. Pegoraro
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
056407 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Collisional absorption of dense plasmas in strong laser fields: Quantum statistical results and simulation
Paul Hilse, Manfred Schlanges, Thomas Bornath, and Dietrich Kremp
Published 31 May 2005 (6 pages)
056408 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Nonlinear deformations of liquid-liquid interfaces induced by electromagnetic radiation pressure
Aslak Hallanger, Iver Brevik, Skjalg Haaland, and Roger Sollie
Published 2 May 2005 (8 pages)
056601 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Point defect geometries in inverted opal photonic crystals
David L. C. Chan, E. Lidorikis, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Published 5 May 2005 (6 pages)
056602 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Investigation of nonlinear absorption processes with femtosecond light pulses in lithium niobate crystals
O. Beyer, D. Maxein, K. Buse, B. Sturman, H. T. Hsieh, and D. Psaltis
Published 10 May 2005 (8 pages)
056603 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Determination of the diffusion constant using phase-sensitive measurements
I. M. Vellekoop, P. Lodahl, and A. Lagendijk
Published 12 May 2005 (11 pages)
056604 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Vector-soliton collision dynamics in nonlinear optical fibers
Roy H. Goodman and Richard Haberman
Published 12 May 2005 (16 pages)
056605 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Modeling of defect modes in photonic crystals using the fictitious source superposition method
S. Wilcox, L. C. Botten, R. C. McPhedran, C. G. Poulton, and C. Martijn de Sterke
Published 12 May 2005 (11 pages)
056606 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Ghost imaging with incoherent and partially coherent light radiation
Yangjian Cai and Shi-Yao Zhu
Published 17 May 2005 (7 pages)
056607 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Analytic properties of photonic crystal superprism parameters
M. J. Steel, R. Zoli, C. Grillet, R. C. McPhedran, C. Martijn de Sterke, A. Norton, P. Bassi, and B. J. Eggleton
Published 19 May 2005 (9 pages)
056608 [View PDF (847 kB)]
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Analysis of longitudinal-field reflection in dielectric gratings
Shayan Mookherjea and Uriel Levy
Published 20 May 2005 (5 pages)
056609 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Generalized optical theorem for reflection, transmission, and extinction of power for electromagnetic fields
D. R. Lytle, II, P. Scott Carney, John C. Schotland, and Emil Wolf
Published 20 May 2005 (8 pages)
056610 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Equilibrium orientation of an ellipsoidal particle inside a dielectric medium with a finite electric conductivity in the external electric field
Yu. Dolinsky and T. Elperin
Published 23 May 2005 (10 pages)
056611 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Discrete quadratic cavity solitons
O. Egorov, U. Peschel, and F. Lederer
Published 23 May 2005 (12 pages)
056612 [View PDF (676 kB)]
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Polarization instability, steering, and switching of discrete vector solitons
Rodrigo A. Vicencio, Mario I. Molina, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 24 May 2005 (8 pages)
056613 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Squared-field amplitude modulus and radiation intensity nonequivalence within nonlinear slabs
Alberto Lencina and Pablo Vaveliuk
Published 25 May 2005 (5 pages)
056614 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Variational approach to spatial optical solitons in bulk cubic-quintic media stabilized by self-induced multiphoton ionization
C. P. Jisha, V. C. Kuriakose, and K. Porsezian
Published 25 May 2005 (6 pages)
056615 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Coupled-mode theory for spatial gap solitons in optically induced lattices
Boris A. Malomed, Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 26 May 2005 (9 pages)
056616 [View PDF (1,056 kB)]
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Dynamic ultrasound radiation force in fluids
Glauber T. Silva, Shigao Chen, James F. Greenleaf, and Mostafa Fatemi
Published 26 May 2005 (9 pages)
056617 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Measurement of dynamic and static radiation force on a sphere
Shigao Chen, Glauber T. Silva, Randall R. Kinnick, James F. Greenleaf, and Mostafa Fatemi
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
056618 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Exact solutions of the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients
V. I. Kruglov, A. C. Peacock, and J. D. Harvey
Published 27 May 2005 (11 pages)
056619 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Bistability in the sine-Gordon equation: The ideal switch
R. Khomeriki and J. Leon
Published 27 May 2005 (8 pages)
056620 [View PDF (503 kB)]
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Rotating photonic crystals: A medium for compact optical gyroscopes
Ben Zion Steinberg
Published 31 May 2005 (7 pages)
056621 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Reduced Maxwell-Duffing description of extremely short pulses in nonresonant media
Elena V. Kazantseva, Andrei I. Maimistov, and Jean-Guy Caputo
Published 31 May 2005 (12 pages)
056622 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Capture into resonance in dynamics of a classical hydrogen atom in an oscillating electric field
Anatoly Neishtadt and Alexei Vasiliev
Published 31 May 2005 (6 pages)
056623 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Computational physics

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Scaling of non-Markovian Monte Carlo wave-function methods
J. Piilo, S. Maniscalco, A. Messina, and F. Petruccione
Published 10 May 2005 (9 pages)
056701 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Diffusion properties of gradient-based lattice Boltzmann models of immiscible fluids
M. Latva-Kokko and Daniel H. Rothman
Published 12 May 2005 (8 pages)
056702 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Forward symplectic integrators and the long-time phase error in periodic motions
Sante R. Scuro and Siu A. Chin
Published 19 May 2005 (12 pages)
056703 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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High-resolution numerical approximation of traffic flow problems with variable lanes and free-flow velocities
Peng Zhang, Ru-Xun Liu, and S. C. Wong
Published 20 May 2005 (13 pages)
056704 [View PDF (1,212 kB)]
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Density of states of classical spin systems with continuous degrees of freedom
Andreas Richter, Michel Pleimling, and Alfred Hüller
Published 25 May 2005 (7 pages)
056705 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann model for axisymmetric multiphase flows
Kannan N. Premnath and John Abraham
Published 25 May 2005 (14 pages)
056706 [View PDF (1,051 kB)]
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Newtonian fluid meets an elastic solid: Coupling lattice Boltzmann and lattice-spring models
Gavin A. Buxton, Rolf Verberg, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs
Published 26 May 2005 (16 pages)
056707 [View PDF (867 kB)]
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Effects of data windows on the methods of surrogate data
Tomoya Suzuki, Tohru Ikeguchi, and Masuo Suzuki
Published 27 May 2005 (5 pages)
056708 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Simultaneous computation of free energies and kinetics of rare events
Daniele Moroni, Titus S. van Erp, and Peter G. Bolhuis
Published 31 May 2005 (5 pages)
056709 [View PDF (210 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Network clustering coefficient without degree-correlation biases
Sara Nadiv Soffer and Alexei Vázquez
Published 13 May 2005 (4 pages)
057101 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Coevolutionary dynamics on scale-free networks
Sungmin Lee and Yup Kim
Published 19 May 2005 (4 pages)
057102 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Multiple dynamical resonances in a discrete neuronal model
Yu Jiang
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
057103 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Random walks on complex networks with inhomogeneous impact
Zoltán Eisler and János Kertész
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
057104 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Front propagation in hyperbolic fractional reaction-diffusion equations
Vicenç Méndez and Vicente Ortega-Cejas
Published 31 May 2005 (4 pages)
057105 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Synchronization in driven versus autonomous coupled chaotic maps
M. Pineda and M. G. Cosenza
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Dangerous bifurcation at border collision: When does it occur?
Anindita Ganguli and Soumitro Banerjee
Published 26 May 2005 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (211 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Reexamination of Hagen-Poiseuille flow: Shape dependence of the hydraulic resistance in microchannels
Niels Asger Mortensen, Fridolin Okkels, and Henrik Bruus
Published 5 May 2005 (4 pages)
057301 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Topology of plasma equilibria and the current closure condition
S. Kocić, S. M. Mahajan, and R. D. Hazeltine
Published 18 May 2005 (4 pages)
057401 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Stability of double-peaked solitons in Bragg gratings with the quadratic nonlinearity
Yaniv Leitner and Boris A. Malomed
Published 20 May 2005 (4 pages)
057601 [View PDF (682 kB)]
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Localization of light and second-order nonlinearity enhancement in weakly disordered one-dimensional photonic crystals
Daniele Faccio and Francesca Bragheri
Published 25 May 2005 (4 pages)
057602 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Phase-matched waveguide four-wave mixing scaled to higher peak powers with large-core-area hollow photonic-crystal fibers
S. O. Konorov, E. E. Serebryannikov, A. B. Fedotov, R. B. Miles, and A. M. Zheltikov
Published 27 May 2005 (4 pages)
057603 [View PDF (226 kB)]

Computational physics

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Maximum entropy and the problem of moments: A stable algorithm
K. Bandyopadhyay, A. K. Bhattacharya, Parthapratim Biswas, and D. A. Drabold
Published 12 May 2005 (4 pages)
057701 [View PDF (62 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Soliton ratchets induced by excitation of internal modes”
Niurka R. Quintero, Bernardo Sánchez-Rey, and Jesús Casado-Pascual
Published 27 May 2005 (2 pages)
058601 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Soliton ratchets induced by excitation of internal modes’ ”
C. R. Willis and M. Farzaneh
Published 27 May 2005 (1 page)
058602 [View PDF (16 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Nonuniversal finite-size scaling in anisotropic systems [Phys. Rev. E 70, 056136 (2004)]
X. S. Chen and V. Dohm
Published 12 May 2005 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Erratum: Free expansion of elastic filaments [Phys. Rev. E 64, 061802 (2001)]
A. J. Spakowitz and Z.-G. Wang
Published 13 May 2005 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (9 kB)]