Physical Review E – May 2006
Volume 73, 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

Granular materials

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S shape of a granular pile in a rotating drum
Nicolas Taberlet, Patrick Richard, and E. John Hinch
Published 16 May 2006 (4 pages)
050301(R) [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Transverse instability of avalanches in granular flows down an incline
Igor S. Aranson, Florent Malloggi, and Eric Clément
Published 23 May 2006 (4 pages)
050302(R) [View PDF (274 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Sensitivity of arrest in mode-coupling glasses to low- q structure
M. J. Greenall, Th. Voigtmann, P. Monthoux, and M. E. Cates
Published 19 May 2006 (4 pages)
050501(R) [View PDF (250 kB)]

Biological physics

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Dielectric dispersion for short double-strand DNA
Shinji Omori, Yoichi Katsumoto, Akio Yasuda, and Koji Asami
Published 15 May 2006 (4 pages)
050901(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Force-induced deformations and stability of biological bonds
Yuriy V. Pereverzev and Oleg V. Prezhdo
Published 30 May 2006 (4 pages)
050902(R) [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Effects of the eye phase in DNA unzipping
Debaprasad Giri and Sanjay Kumar
Published 30 May 2006 (4 pages)
050903(R) [View PDF (83 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Escape rate from a metastable state weakly interacting with a heat bath driven by external noise
Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri, Debashis Barik, and Suman Kumar Banik
Published 1 May 2006 (10 pages)
051101 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Statistical properties of functionals of the paths of a particle diffusing in a one-dimensional random potential
Sanjib Sabhapandit, Satya N. Majumdar, and Alain Comtet
Published 1 May 2006 (27 pages)
051102 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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Multiscaling of correlation functions in single species reaction-diffusion systems
Ranjiva M. Munasinghe, R. Rajesh, and Oleg V. Zaboronski
Published 2 May 2006 (10 pages)
051103 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Analytic solution of neural network with disordered lateral inhibition
Kosuke Hamaguchi, J. P. L. Hatchett, and Masato Okada
Published 4 May 2006 (7 pages)
051104 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Long-time behavior of spreading solutions of Schrödinger and diffusion equations
C. Anteneodo, J. C. Dias, and R. S. Mendes
Published 9 May 2006 (7 pages)
051105 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Mechanical coupling in flashing ratchets
Erin M. Craig, Martin J. Zuckermann, and Heiner Linke
Published 15 May 2006 (8 pages)
051106 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Brownian motor with time-delayed feedback
Dan Wu and Shiqun Zhu
Published 16 May 2006 (6 pages)
051107 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Diffusion enhancement in a periodic potential under high-frequency space-dependent forcing
Malay Bandyopadhyay, Sushanta Dattagupta, and Monamie Sanyal
Published 19 May 2006 (7 pages)
051108 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Reaction-diffusion front width anomalies in disordered media
Inbal Hecht, Yochi Moran, and Haim Taitelbaum
Published 24 May 2006 (6 pages)
051109 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Quantitative approach to small-scale nonequilibrium systems
Jakob Kisbye Dreyer, Kirstine Berg-Sørensen, and Lene Oddershede
Published 24 May 2006 (6 pages)
051110 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Oscillation of viscous drops with smoothed particle hydrodynamics
Hender López and Leonardo Di G. Sigalotti
Published 3 May 2006 (12 pages)
051201 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Electrical impedance for an electrolytic cell
F. C. M. Freire, G. Barbero, and M. Scalerandi
Published 8 May 2006 (9 pages)
051202 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulation of electro-osmotic flows in rough wall nanochannels
Daejoong Kim and Eric Darve
Published 9 May 2006 (12 pages)
051203 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Family of tunable spherically symmetric potentials that span the range from hard spheres to waterlike behavior
Zhenyu Yan, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Nicolas Giovambattista, Pablo G. Debenedetti, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 17 May 2006 (8 pages)
051204 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Ion exchange phase transitions in water-filled channels with charged walls
J. Zhang, A. Kamenev, and B. I. Shklovskii
Published 19 May 2006 (16 pages)
051205 [View PDF (364 kB)]

Granular materials

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Structure of plastically compacting granular packings
Lina Uri, Thomas Walmann, Luc Alberts, Dag Kristian Dysthe, and Jens Feder
Published 1 May 2006 (11 pages)
051301 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Arching in tapped deposits of hard disks
Luis A. Pugnaloni, Marcos G. Valluzzi, and Lucas G. Valluzzi
Published 4 May 2006 (6 pages)
051302 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Granular clustering: Self-consistent analysis for general coefficients of restitution
E. Thiesen and W. A. M. Morgado
Published 8 May 2006 (9 pages)
051303 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Shear strength properties of wet granular materials
Vincent Richefeu, Moulay Saïd El Youssoufi, and Farhang Radjaï
Published 10 May 2006 (11 pages)
051304 [View PDF (488 kB)]
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Voronoi neighbor statistics of homogeneously sheared inelastic hard disks and hard spheres
V. Senthil Kumar and V. Kumaran
Published 19 May 2006 (13 pages)
051305 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Dynamics of random packings in granular flow
Chris H. Rycroft, Martin Z. Bazant, Gary S. Grest, and James W. Landry
Published 24 May 2006 (7 pages)
051306 [View PDF (1,258 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Aggregation in a mixture of Brownian and ballistic wandering particles
S. G. Alves and S. C. Ferreira, Jr.
Published 1 May 2006 (6 pages)
051401 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Fluid-mechanical and electrical fluctuation forces in colloids
D. Drosdoff and A. Widom
Published 8 May 2006 (7 pages)
051402 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Phenomenological model for a melt-freeze phase of sliding bilayers
Trieu Mai
Published 19 May 2006 (6 pages)
051403 [View PDF (693 kB)]
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Entropic forces in dilute colloidal systems
R. Castañeda-Priego, A. Rodríguez-López, and J. M. Méndez-Alcaraz
Published 25 May 2006 (14 pages)
051404 [View PDF (257 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Static shear modulus of electrorheological fluids
Lihong Shi, Wing Yim Tam, Xianxiang Huang, and Ping Sheng
Published 9 May 2006 (5 pages)
051501 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Phase behavior and structure of model colloid-polymer mixtures confined between two parallel planar walls
Andrea Fortini, Matthias Schmidt, and Marjolein Dijkstra
Published 17 May 2006 (16 pages)
051502 [View PDF (775 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics of semiflexible magnetic filaments in an ac magnetic field
M. Belovs and A. Cēbers
Published 24 May 2006 (11 pages)
051503 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Noise-reduced electroless deposition of arrays of copper filaments
Yu-Yan Weng, Jian-Wen Si, Wen-Ting Gao, Zhe Wu, Mu Wang, Ru-Wen Peng, and Nai-Ben Ming
Published 1 May 2006 (6 pages)
051601 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Gap-size distribution functions of a random sequential adsorption model of segments on a line
N. A. M. Araújo and A. Cadilhe
Published 12 May 2006 (7 pages)
051602 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Strongly anisotropic roughness in surfaces driven by an oblique particle flux
B. Schmittmann, Gunnar Pruessner, and Hans-Karl Janssen
Published 15 May 2006 (10 pages)
051603 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Scaling properties in the average number of attempts until saturation in random sequential adsorption processes
A. E. Bea, I. M. Irurzun, and E. E. Mola
Published 15 May 2006 (5 pages)
051604 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Orientational ordering of linear n -alkanes in silicon nanotubes
Rustem Valiullin and Alexey Khokhlov
Published 16 May 2006 (4 pages)
051605 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Measurements of the three-dimensional shape of ice crystals in supercooled water
H. M. Singer
Published 24 May 2006 (4 pages)
051606 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Domain growth dynamics and local viscosity in stratifying foam films
Peter Heinig, César Márquez Beltrán, and Dominique Langevin
Published 24 May 2006 (8 pages)
051607 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Growth of a collapsing Langmuir monolayer
S. Kundu, A. Datta, and S. Hazra
Published 24 May 2006 (7 pages)
051608 [View PDF (711 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Ferroelectricity of a bent-core material with cholesteryl terminal chain
G. Liao, I. Shashikala, C. V. Yelamaggad, D. S. Shankar Rao, S. Krishna Prasad, and A. J. Jákli
Published 1 May 2006 (5 pages)
051701 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Orientational order and dynamics of the dendritic liquid crystal organo-siloxane tetrapodes determined using dielectric spectroscopy
K. Merkel, A. Kocot, J. K. Vij, G. H. Mehl, and T. Meyer
Published 3 May 2006 (10 pages)
051702 [View PDF (857 kB)]
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Molecular self-organization in cylindrical nanocavities
S. G. Cloutier, J. N. Eakin, R. S. Guico, M. E. Sousa, G. P. Crawford, and J. M. Xu
Published 10 May 2006 (7 pages)
051703 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Stochastic molecular motions in the nematic, smectic- A , and solid phases of p,p′ -di- n -heptyl-azoxybenzene as seen by quasielastic neutron scattering and 13C cross-polarization magic-angle-spinning NMR
Wojciech Zając, Stanisław Urban, Valentina Domenici, Marco Geppi, Carlo Alberto Veracini, Mark T. F. Telling, and Barbara J. Gabryś
Published 11 May 2006 (8 pages)
051704 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Textural transformations in islands on free standing smectic- C* liquid crystal films
Jong-Bong Lee, Dmitri Konovalov, and Robert B. Meyer
Published 15 May 2006 (7 pages)
051705 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Nematic membranes: Shape instabilities of closed achiral vesicles
Paolo Biscari and Eugene M. Terentjev
Published 16 May 2006 (6 pages)
051706 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Light-induced rotation of dye-doped liquid crystal droplets
C. Manzo, D. Paparo, L. Marrucci, and I. Jánossy
Published 17 May 2006 (14 pages)
051707 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Lateral and normal forces between patterned substrates induced by nematic fluctuations
F. Karimi Pour Haddadan and S. Dietrich
Published 17 May 2006 (8 pages)
051708 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Universal mean-field phase diagram for biaxial nematics obtained from a minimax principle
Fulvio Bisi, Epifanio G. Virga, Eugene C. Gartland, Jr., Giovanni De Matteis, André M. Sonnet, and Georges E. Durand
Published 19 May 2006 (9 pages)
051709 [View PDF (204 kB)]

Polymers

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Exact solution for a one-dimensional model for reptation
Andrzej Drzewiński and J. M. J. van Leeuwen
Published 5 May 2006 (7 pages)
051801 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Corrections to scaling in multicomponent polymer solutions
Andrea Pelissetto and Ettore Vicari
Published 17 May 2006 (7 pages)
051802 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Surface transition in athermal polymer solutions
Jan Forsman and Clifford E. Woodward
Published 23 May 2006 (10 pages)
051803 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Stability of toroid and rodlike globular structures of a single stiff-chain macromolecule for different bending potentials
Mikhail R. Stukan, Eugeny A. An, Viktor A. Ivanov, and Olga I. Vinogradova
Published 30 May 2006 (10 pages)
051804 [View PDF (843 kB)]

Biological physics

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Multiscale dynamics of biological cells with chemotactic interactions: From a discrete stochastic model to a continuous description
Mark Alber, Nan Chen, Tilmann Glimm, and Pavel M. Lushnikov
Published 1 May 2006 (11 pages)
051901 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Healing length and bubble formation in DNA
Z. Rapti, A. Smerzi, K. Ø. Rasmussen, A. R. Bishop, C. H. Choi, and A. Usheva
Published 4 May 2006 (5 pages)
051902 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Reconstructing DNA replication kinetics from small DNA fragments
Haiyang Zhang and John Bechhoefer
Published 5 May 2006 (9 pages)
051903 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Vesicle-to-micelle transition in aqueous solutions of amphiphilic calixarene derivatives
Norberto Micali, Valentina Villari, Grazia M. L. Consoli, Francesca Cunsolo, and Corrada Geraci
Published 8 May 2006 (8 pages)
051904 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Hydration dependence of the mass fractal dimension and anomalous diffusion of vibrational energy in proteins
Matthew B. Enright, Xin Yu, and David M. Leitner
Published 8 May 2006 (9 pages)
051905 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Growth of cortical neuronal network in vitro: Modeling and analysis
Pik-Yin Lai, L. C. Jia, and C. K. Chan
Published 11 May 2006 (9 pages)
051906 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Persistent dynamic attractors in activity patterns of cultured neuronal networks
Daniel A. Wagenaar, Zoltan Nadasdy, and Steve M. Potter
Published 11 May 2006 (8 pages)
051907 [View PDF (1,349 kB)]
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From spiking neurons to rate models: A cascade model as an approximation to spiking neuron models with refractoriness
Yuval Aviel and Wulfram Gerstner
Published 16 May 2006 (10 pages)
051908 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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Brownian dynamics simulation of directional sliding of histone octamers caused by DNA bending
Wei Li, Shuo-Xing Dou, Ping Xie, and Peng-Ye Wang
Published 19 May 2006 (7 pages)
051909 [View PDF (650 kB)]
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Scaling laws at the phase transition of systems with divergent order parameter and/or internal length: The example of DNA denaturation
Sahin Buyukdagli and Marc Joyeux
Published 19 May 2006 (6 pages)
051910 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Model of low-pass filtering of local field potentials in brain tissue
C. Bédard, H. Kröger, and A. Destexhe
Published 19 May 2006 (15 pages)
051911 [View PDF (742 kB)]
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Application of a random network with a variable geometry of links to the kinetics of drug elimination in healthy and diseased livers
P. Chelminiak, J. M. Dixon, J. A. Tuszyński, and R. E. Marsh
Published 22 May 2006 (6 pages)
051912 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Identifying interactions in mixed and noisy complex systems
Guido Nolte, Frank C. Meinecke, Andreas Ziehe, and Klaus-Robert Müller
Published 23 May 2006 (6 pages)
051913 [View PDF (667 kB)]
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Harmonic generation by yeast cells in response to low-frequency electric fields
D. Nawarathna, J. R. Claycomb, G. Cardenas, J. Gardner, D. Warmflash, J. H. Miller, Jr., and W. R. Widger
Published 23 May 2006 (6 pages)
051914 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Effect of external fluctuations on the affinity-specificity negative correlation in DNA-probe interactions
R. Murugan
Published 23 May 2006 (9 pages)
051915 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics and self-organization of rotary molecular motor ensembles
Edeltraud Gehrig and Ortwin Hess
Published 23 May 2006 (8 pages)
051916 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Empirical mode decomposition and synchrogram approach to cardiorespiratory synchronization
Ming-Chya Wu and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 24 May 2006 (11 pages)
051917 [View PDF (2,090 kB)]
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Multielectrode electroencephalogram power spectra: Theory and application to approximate correction of volume conduction effects
J. A. Henderson, A. J. K. Phillips, and P. A. Robinson
Published 31 May 2006 (8 pages)
051918 [View PDF (108 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Biological physics

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Paradox of simple limiter control
Frank M. Hilker and Frank H. Westerhoff
Published 18 May 2006 (3 pages)
052901 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Dynamical complexity detection in short-term physiological series using base-scale entropy
Jin Li and Xinbao Ning
Published 24 May 2006 (4 pages)
052902 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Dielectric dispersion of erythrocyte ghosts
Koji Asami
Published 31 May 2006 (3 pages)
052903 [View PDF (126 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Partition functions and finite-size scalings of Ising model on helical tori
Tsong-Ming Liaw, Ming-Chang Huang, Yen-Liang Chou, Simon C. Lin, and Feng-Yin Li
Published 18 May 2006 (4 pages)
055101(R) [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Correlation and response in a driven dissipative model
Dana Levanony and Dov Levine
Published 30 May 2006 (4 pages)
055102(R) [View PDF (102 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Frequency versus relaxation oscillations in a semiconductor laser with coherent filtered optical feedback
H. Erzgräber, B. Krauskopf, D. Lenstra, A. P. A. Fischer, and G. Vemuri
Published 24 May 2006 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Universal behavior in populations composed of excitable and self-oscillatory elements
Diego Pazó and Ernest Montbrió
Published 31 May 2006 (4 pages)
055202(R) [View PDF (199 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Photoacoustic study of relaxation dynamics in multibubble systems in laser-superheated water
Sergey I. Kudryashov, Kevin Lyon, and Susan D. Allen
Published 4 May 2006 (4 pages)
055301(R) [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Grid states and nonlinear selection in parametrically excited surface waves
T. Epstein and J. Fineberg
Published 12 May 2006 (4 pages)
055302(R) [View PDF (427 kB)]
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Elliptic model for space-time correlations in turbulent shear flows
Guo-Wei He and Jin-Bai Zhang
Published 24 May 2006 (4 pages)
055303(R) [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Fully nonlinear evolution of a cylindrical vortex sheet in incompressible Richtmyer–Meshkov instability
Chihiro Matsuoka and Katsunobu Nishihara
Published 30 May 2006 (4 pages)
055304(R) [View PDF (244 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Stabilization of vector soliton complexes in nonlocal nonlinear media
Zhiyong Xu, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, and Lluis Torner
Published 19 May 2006 (4 pages)
055601(R) [View PDF (233 kB)]

Computational physics

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Simulation of a microfluidic flow-focusing device
Michael M. Dupin, Ian Halliday, and Chris M. Care
Published 17 May 2006 (4 pages)
055701(R) [View PDF (363 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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k -core (bootstrap) percolation on complex networks: Critical phenomena and nonlocal effects
A. V. Goltsev, S. N. Dorogovtsev, and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 1 May 2006 (10 pages)
056101 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Condensation phase transitions of symmetric conserved-mass aggregation model on complex networks
Sungchul Kwon, Sungmin Lee, and Yup Kim
Published 3 May 2006 (8 pages)
056102 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Universal asymptotic statistics of maximal relative height in one-dimensional solid-on-solid models
Grégory Schehr and Satya N. Majumdar
Published 3 May 2006 (10 pages)
056103 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Universal mean moment rate profiles of earthquake ruptures
Amit P. Mehta, Karin A. Dahmen, and Yehuda Ben-Zion
Published 5 May 2006 (8 pages)
056104 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Scaling and universality in the counterion-condensation transition at charged cylinders
Ali Naji and Roland R. Netz
Published 8 May 2006 (29 pages)
056105 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Statistics of low energy excitations for the directed polymer in a 1+d random medium (d=1,2,3)
Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel
Published 8 May 2006 (11 pages)
056106 [View PDF (857 kB)]
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Rotating states of self-propelling particles in two dimensions
Hsuan-Yi Chen and Kwan-tai Leung
Published 10 May 2006 (9 pages)
056107 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Hybrid graphs as a framework for the small-world effect
Katharina A. Lehmann, Hendrik D. Post, and Michael Kaufmann
Published 10 May 2006 (9 pages)
056108 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Generalized local-world models for weighted networks
Zaofeng Pan, Xiang Li, and Xiaofang Wang
Published 10 May 2006 (9 pages)
056109 [View PDF (1,130 kB)]
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Universality and quantum effects in one-component critical fluids
Yves Garrabos
Published 12 May 2006 (13 pages)
056110 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Two-dimensional small-world networks: Navigation with local information
Jian-Zhen Chen, Wei Liu, and Jian-Yang Zhu
Published 15 May 2006 (6 pages)
056111 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Maximum independent set on diluted triangular lattices
C. W. Fay, IV, J. W. Liu, and P. M. Duxbury
Published 16 May 2006 (14 pages)
056112 [View PDF (875 kB)]
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Hydrogen bond topology and the ice VII/VIII and Ih/XI proton ordering phase transitions
Chris Knight, Sherwin J. Singer, Jer-Lai Kuo, Tomas K. Hirsch, Lars Ojamäe, and Michael L. Klein
Published 16 May 2006 (14 pages)
056113 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Universal features and tail analysis of the order-parameter distribution of the two-dimensional Ising model: An entropic sampling Monte Carlo study
Anastasios Malakis and Nikolaos G. Fytas
Published 17 May 2006 (9 pages)
056114 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Effects of preference for attachment to low-degree nodes on the degree distributions of a growing directed network and a simple food-web model
Volkan Sevim and Per Arne Rikvold
Published 17 May 2006 (7 pages)
056115 [View PDF (616 kB)]
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Bulk and surface phase transitions in the three-dimensional O(4) spin model
Youjin Deng
Published 19 May 2006 (8 pages)
056116 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Fluctuation-dissipation theorem and the linear Glauber model
M. O. Hase, S. R. Salinas, T. Tomé, and M. J. de Oliveira
Published 19 May 2006 (6 pages)
056117 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Critical behavior of a colloid-polymer mixture confined between walls
R. L. C. Vink, K. Binder, and J. Horbach
Published 19 May 2006 (11 pages)
056118 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Superstatistical random-matrix-theory approach to transition intensities in mixed systems
A. Y. Abul-Magd
Published 19 May 2006 (6 pages)
056119 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Fracture spacing in layered materials and pattern transition from parallel to polygonal fractures
C. A. Tang, Y. B. Zhang, Z. Z. Liang, T. Xu, L. G. Tham, P.-A. Lindqvist, S. Q. Kou, and H. Y. Liu
Published 22 May 2006 (9 pages)
056120 [View PDF (596 kB)]
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Generation of long-range correlations in large systems as an optimization problem
Hossein Hamzehpour and Muhammad Sahimi
Published 22 May 2006 (9 pages)
056121 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Degree-dependent intervertex separation in complex networks
S. N. Dorogovtsev, J. F. F. Mendes, and J. G. Oliveira
Published 23 May 2006 (7 pages)
056122 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Noise-induced spatiotemporal patterns in a bistable reaction-diffusion system: Photoelectron emission microscopy experiments and modeling of the CO oxidation reaction on Ir(111)
Patrick Hoffmann, Stefan Wehner, Dieter Schmeisser, Helmut R. Brand, and Jürgen Küppers
Published 23 May 2006 (18 pages)
056123 [View PDF (1,765 kB)]
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From scale-free to Erdos-Rényi networks
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes and Yamir Moreno
Published 24 May 2006 (7 pages)
056124 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Dissipative sandpile models with universal exponents
Ofer Malcai, Yehiel Shilo, and Ofer Biham
Published 25 May 2006 (5 pages)
056125 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Phenomenological theory giving the full statistics of the position of fluctuating pulled fronts
E. Brunet, B. Derrida, A. H. Mueller, and S. Munier
Published 26 May 2006 (9 pages)
056126 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Sleep dynamics: A self-organized critical system
J. C. Comte, P. Ravassard, and P. A. Salin
Published 31 May 2006 (6 pages)
056127 [View PDF (844 kB)]
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Dynamics of opinion formation in a small-world network
Ping-Ping Li, Da-Fang Zheng, and P. M. Hui
Published 31 May 2006 (5 pages)
056128 [View PDF (281 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Nontwist non-Hamiltonian systems
E. G. Altmann, G. Cristadoro, and D. Pazó
Published 3 May 2006 (8 pages)
056201 [View PDF (1,107 kB)]
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Winding number locking on a two-dimensional torus: Synchronization of quasiperiodic motions
V. Anishchenko, S. Nikolaev, and J. Kurths
Published 5 May 2006 (8 pages)
056202 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Quantum resonance and antiresonance for a periodically kicked Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional box
Dario Poletti, Libin Fu, Jie Liu, and Baowen Li
Published 8 May 2006 (6 pages)
056203 [View PDF (490 kB)]
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Analyzing memory effects of complex systems from time series
Daniel T. Schmitt and Michael Schulz
Published 18 May 2006 (8 pages)
056204 [View PDF (1,080 kB)]
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Stochastic phase dynamics: Multiscale behavior and coherence measures
Na Yu, R. Kuske, and Y. X. Li
Published 23 May 2006 (8 pages)
056205 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Stability of simple periodic orbits and chaos in a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice
Chris Antonopoulos and Tassos Bountis
Published 23 May 2006 (8 pages)
056206 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Spatial recurrence plots
D. B. Vasconcelos, S. R. Lopes, R. L. Viana, and J. Kurths
Published 23 May 2006 (10 pages)
056207 [View PDF (553 kB)]
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Periodic spatiotemporal patterns in a two-dimensional two-variable reaction-diffusion model
Andrzej L. Kawczyński and Marcin Leda
Published 24 May 2006 (6 pages)
056208 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Regular patterns in dichotomically driven activator-inhibitor dynamics
X. Sailer, D. Hennig, V. Beato, H. Engel, and L. Schimansky-Geier
Published 25 May 2006 (13 pages)
056209 [View PDF (872 kB)]
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Conserved quantities and adaptation to the edge of chaos
Michael Baym and Alfred W. Hübler
Published 26 May 2006 (7 pages)
056210 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Localized states in the generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation
John Burke and Edgar Knobloch
Published 31 May 2006 (15 pages)
056211 [View PDF (1,113 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Turbulent mixing with physical mass diffusion
Xinfeng Liu, Erwin George, Wurigen Bo, and J. Glimm
Published 1 May 2006 (8 pages)
056301 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Theory of light emission in sonoluminescence as thermal radiation
Wang-Kong Tse and P. T. Leung
Published 3 May 2006 (16 pages)
056302 [View PDF (572 kB)]
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Controlling drift-wave turbulence using time-delay and space-shift autosynchronization feedback
Guoning Tang, Kaifen He, and Gang Hu
Published 5 May 2006 (8 pages)
056303 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Oscillating large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Jos Verdoold, Mark J. Tummers, and Kemo Hanjalić
Published 10 May 2006 (4 pages)
056304 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Electro-osmotic flow and mixing in heterogeneous microchannels
Jin-bai Zhang, Guo-wei He, and Feng Liu
Published 12 May 2006 (8 pages)
056305 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Thin double layer approximation to describe streaming current fields in complex geometries: Analytical framework and applications to microfluidics
Edouard Brunet and Armand Ajdari
Published 16 May 2006 (15 pages)
056306 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Sporadic feedback control of flow turbulence
Guoning Tang and Gang Hu
Published 19 May 2006 (6 pages)
056307 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Inversion formula of multifractal energy dissipation in three-dimensional fully developed turbulence
Jian-Liang Xu, Wei-Xing Zhou, Hai-Feng Liu, Xin Gong, Fu-Cheng Wang, and Zun-Hong Yu
Published 22 May 2006 (3 pages)
056308 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Dense bubble flow in a silo: An unusual flow of a dispersed medium
Yann Bertho, Christophe Becco, and Nicolas Vandewalle
Published 23 May 2006 (5 pages)
056309 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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Effect of compaction history on the fluidization behavior of fine cohesive powders
Jose Manuel Valverde and Antonio Castellanos
Published 24 May 2006 (5 pages)
056310 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Mean electromotive force due to turbulence of a conducting fluid in the presence of mean flow
Karl-Heinz Rädler and Rodion Stepanov
Published 24 May 2006 (15 pages)
056311 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Azimuthal motion of the mean wind in turbulent thermal convection
Heng-Dong Xi, Quan Zhou, and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 26 May 2006 (13 pages)
056312 [View PDF (635 kB)]
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ac electrokinetic micropumps: The effect of geometrical confinement, Faradaic current injection, and nonlinear surface capacitance
Laurits Højgaard Olesen, Henrik Bruus, and Armand Ajdari
Published 31 May 2006 (16 pages)
056313 [View PDF (412 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Wave interaction in relativistic harmonic gyro-traveling-wave devices
R. Ngogang, G. S. Nusinovich, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., and V. L. Granatstein
Published 3 May 2006 (11 pages)
056401 [View PDF (621 kB)]
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Nonlocal kinetics of the electrons in a low-pressure afterglow plasma
Sergey Gorchakov, Dirk Uhrlandt, Michael J. Hebert, and Uwe Kortshagen
Published 11 May 2006 (9 pages)
056402 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Electronic structure and equation of state data of warm dense gold
P. Renaudin, V. Recoules, P. Noiret, and J. Clérouin
Published 16 May 2006 (6 pages)
056403 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Zigzag transition of finite dust clusters
André Melzer
Published 23 May 2006 (7 pages)
056404 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Neutral helium spectral lines in dense plasmas
Banaz Omar, Sibylle Günter, August Wierling, and Gerd Röpke
Published 24 May 2006 (13 pages)
056405 [View PDF (1,141 kB)]
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Highly charged ions in a dilute plasma: An exact asymptotic solution involving strong coupling
Lowell S. Brown, David C. Dooling, and Dean L. Preston
Published 30 May 2006 (10 pages)
056406 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Crystal nucleation in the one-component plasma
Jérôme Daligault
Published 30 May 2006 (7 pages)
056407 [View PDF (839 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Coupled dipole method for radiation dynamics in finite photonic crystal structures
Frédéric Bordas, Nicolas Louvion, Ségolène Callard, Patrick C. Chaumet, and Adel Rahmani
Published 2 May 2006 (7 pages)
056601 [View PDF (582 kB)]
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Partially coherent accessible solitons in strongly nonlocal media
Ming Shen, Qi Wang, Jielong Shi, Peng Hou, and Qian Kong
Published 2 May 2006 (6 pages)
056602 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Domain wall dynamics in expanding spaces
Francisco J. Cao, Elías Zamora-Sillero, and Niurka R. Quintero
Published 12 May 2006 (8 pages)
056603 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Radiation pressure of light pulses and conservation of linear momentum in dispersive media
Michael Scalora, Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Mark J. Bloemer, Marco Centini, Concita Sibilia, and Joseph W. Haus
Published 16 May 2006 (12 pages)
056604 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Effect of microscopic disorder on magnetic properties of metamaterials
Maxim V. Gorkunov, Sergey A. Gredeskul, Ilya V. Shadrivov, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 16 May 2006 (8 pages)
056605 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Formation and propagation of coupled ultraslow optical soliton pairs in a cold three-state double- Λ system
Guoxiang Huang, Kaijun Jiang, M. G. Payne, and L. Deng
Published 17 May 2006 (9 pages)
056606 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Resolution of subwavelength transmission devices formed by a wire medium
Pavel A. Belov and Mario G. Silveirinha
Published 18 May 2006 (9 pages)
056607 [View PDF (1,049 kB)]
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Incoherent white-light solitons in nonlinear periodic lattices
R. Pezer, H. Buljan, G. Bartal, M. Segev, and J. W. Fleischer
Published 18 May 2006 (9 pages)
056608 [View PDF (859 kB)]
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Energy localization in the Φ4 oscillator chain
A. Ponno, J. Ruggiero, E. Drigo, and J. De Luca
Published 18 May 2006 (7 pages)
056609 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Persistent breathers in long-ranged discrete nonlinear Schrödinger models
C. Brunhuber, F. G. Mertens, and Y. Gaididei
Published 18 May 2006 (11 pages)
056610 [View PDF (587 kB)]
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Class of solitary wave solutions of the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation
Rajneesh Atre, Prasanta K. Panigrahi, and G. S. Agarwal
Published 19 May 2006 (5 pages)
056611 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Near-field dynamics of ultrashort pulsed Bessel beams in media with Kerr nonlinearity
P. Polesana, A. Dubietis, M. A. Porras, E. Kučinskas, D. Faccio, A. Couairon, and P. Di Trapani
Published 22 May 2006 (4 pages)
056612 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Electromagnetic energy flux vector for a dispersive linear medium
Michael E. Crenshaw and Neset Akozbek
Published 24 May 2006 (3 pages)
056613 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Modes of nonlinear acoustic transparency in the strained paramagnetic crystal
S. V. Sazonov and N. V. Ustinov
Published 25 May 2006 (10 pages)
056614 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Disorder effect on the focus image of sonic crystals in air
Sheng Li, Thomas F. George, Liang-Shan Chen, Xin Sun, and Chao-Hsien Kuo
Published 26 May 2006 (4 pages)
056615 [View PDF (545 kB)]
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Statistics of the eigenmodes and optical properties of one-dimensional disordered photonic crystals
M. A. Kaliteevski, D. M. Beggs, S. Brand, R. A. Abram, and V. V. Nikolaev
Published 31 May 2006 (10 pages)
056616 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Large positive and negative lateral optical beam shift in prism-waveguide coupling system
Xuanbin Liu, Zhuangqi Cao, Pengfei Zhu, Qishun Shen, and Xiangmin Liu
Published 31 May 2006 (5 pages)
056617 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Computational physics

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Simulation of the density of states in isothermal and adiabatic ensembles
Fernando A. Escobedo
Published 8 May 2006 (15 pages)
056701 [View PDF (422 kB)]
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From the continuous to the lattice Boltzmann equation: The discretization problem and thermal models
Paulo C. Philippi, Luiz A. Hegele, Jr., Luís O. E. dos Santos, and Rodrigo Surmas
Published 9 May 2006 (12 pages)
056702 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo simulation in the canonical ensemble at finite temperature
K. Van Houcke, S. M. A. Rombouts, and L. Pollet
Published 16 May 2006 (11 pages)
056703 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Performances of Wang-Landau algorithms for continuous systems
P. Poulain, F. Calvo, R. Antoine, M. Broyer, and Ph. Dugourd
Published 17 May 2006 (11 pages)
056704 [View PDF (613 kB)]
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Semi-implicit-linearized multiple-relaxation-time formulation of lattice Boltzmann schemes for mixture modeling
Pietro Asinari
Published 22 May 2006 (24 pages)
056705 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Population size bias in descendant-weighted diffusion quantum Monte Carlo simulations
G. Lee Warren and Robert J. Hinde
Published 22 May 2006 (5 pages)
056706 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Coarse-grained simulation of chaotic mixing in laminar flows
A. Vikhansky
Published 23 May 2006 (5 pages)
056707 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Improved simulation of drop dynamics in a shear flow at low Reynolds and capillary number
I. Halliday, R. Law, C. M. Care, and A. Hollis
Published 26 May 2006 (11 pages)
056708 [View PDF (237 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Global persistence exponent of the double-exchange model
H. A. Fernandes and J. R. Drugowich de Felício
Published 8 May 2006 (4 pages)
057101 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Mean number of visits to sites in Levy flights
M. Ferraro and L. Zaninetti
Published 19 May 2006 (4 pages)
057102 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Linear irreversible thermodynamics and coefficient of performance
B. Jiménez de Cisneros, L. A. Arias-Hernández, and A. Calvo Hernández
Published 26 May 2006 (4 pages)
057103 [View PDF (224 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Early time evolution of Freédericksz patterns generated from states of electroconvection
Denis Funfschilling and Michael Dennin
Published 11 May 2006 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Quantum chaotic patterns in the E⊗(b1+b2) Jahn-Teller model
Eva Majerníková and S. Shpyrko
Published 24 May 2006 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (496 kB)]
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Antiphase synchronization in coupled chaotic oscillators
Weiqing Liu, Jinghua Xiao, Xiaolan Qian, and Junzhong Yang
Published 24 May 2006 (4 pages)
057203 [View PDF (370 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Generation of sub-Mbar pressure by converging shock waves produced by the underwater electrical explosion of a wire array
Ya. E. Krasik, A. Grinenko, A. Sayapin, V. Tz. Gurovich, and I. Schnitzer
Published 26 May 2006 (4 pages)
057301 [View PDF (460 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Modulational instability of partially coherent signals in electrical transmission lines
M. Marklund and P. K. Shukla
Published 3 May 2006 (2 pages)
057601 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Undular bore solution of the Camassa-Holm equation
T. R. Marchant and N. F. Smyth
Published 4 May 2006 (4 pages)
057602 [View PDF (68 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Maximal planar networks with large clustering coefficient and power-law degree distribution”
Zhi-Xi Wu, Xin-Jian Xu, and Ying-Hai Wang
Published 10 May 2006 (2 pages)
058101 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Maximal planar networks with large clustering coefficient and power-law degree distribution’ ”
Tao Zhou, Gang Yan, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 10 May 2006 (1 page)
058102 [View PDF (32 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Voltage-dependent capacitance of human embryonic kidney cells [Phys. Rev. E 73, 041930 (2006)]
Brenda Farrell, Cythnia Do Shope, and William E. Brownell
Published 19 May 2006 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Erratum: Velocity autocorrelation function for simple liquids and its application to liquid metals and alloys [Phys. Rev. E 70, 051201 (2004)]
Kirit N. Lad and Arun Pratap
Published 30 May 2006 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]