Physical Review E – July 2006
Volume 74, Issue 1

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics

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High-speed observation of the piston effect near the gas-liquid critical point
Yuichi Miura, Shoichi Yoshihara, Mitsuru Ohnishi, Katsuya Honda, Masaaki Matsumoto, Jun Kawai, Masamichi Ishikawa, Hiroto Kobayashi, and Akira Onuki
Published 10 July 2006 (4 pages)
010101(R) [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Coexistence diameter in two-dimensional colloid-polymer mixtures
R. L. C. Vink and H. H. Wensink
Published 13 July 2006 (4 pages)
010102(R) [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance due to internal noise in reaction kinetics
Carlos Escudero
Published 17 July 2006 (4 pages)
010103(R) [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Equilibration through local information exchange in networks
K. Y. Michael Wong and David Saad
Published 17 July 2006 (4 pages)
010104(R) [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Nonconcave entropies from generalized canonical ensembles
Marius Costeniuc, Richard S. Ellis, and Hugo Touchette
Published 31 July 2006 (4 pages)
010105(R) [View PDF (210 kB)]

Granular materials

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Interstitial gas and density segregation of vertically vibrated granular media
M. Klein, L. L. Tsai, M. S. Rosen, T. Pavlin, D. Candela, and R. L. Walsworth
Published 18 July 2006 (4 pages)
010301(R) [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Simulation study of air-induced segregation of equal-sized bronze and glass particles
C. Zeilstra, M. A. van der Hoef, and J. A. M. Kuipers
Published 24 July 2006 (4 pages)
010302(R) [View PDF (470 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Distribution of local fluxes in diluted porous media
Ascânio D. Araújo, Wagner B. Bastos, José S. Andrade, Jr., and Hans J. Herrmann
Published 17 July 2006 (4 pages)
010401(R) [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Screening in Yukawa fluid mixtures
A. J. Archer, P. Hopkins, and R. Evans
Published 18 July 2006 (4 pages)
010402(R) [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Columnar and lamellar phases in attractive colloidal systems
A. de Candia, E. Del Gado, A. Fierro, N. Sator, M. Tarzia, and A. Coniglio
Published 21 July 2006 (4 pages)
010403(R) [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Lack of long-range order in confined two-dimensional model colloidal crystals
A. Ricci, P. Nielaba, S. Sengupta, and K. Binder
Published 28 July 2006 (4 pages)
010404(R) [View PDF (180 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Possible explanation of the Λ -shape anomaly in polymer surface diffusion
Debashish Mukherji and Martin H. Müser
Published 18 July 2006 (4 pages)
010601(R) [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Observation of a low-viscosity interface between immiscible polymer layers
Xuesong Hu, Zhang Jiang, Suresh Narayanan, Xuesong Jiao, Alec R. Sandy, Sunil K. Sinha, Laurence B. Lurio, and Jyotsana Lal
Published 19 July 2006 (4 pages)
010602(R) [View PDF (192 kB)]

Polymers

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Density functional theory for flexible and semiflexible polymers of infinite length
Clifford E. Woodward and Jan Forsman
Published 18 July 2006 (4 pages)
010801(R) [View PDF (98 kB)]

Biological physics

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Dynamic buckling of morphoelastic filaments
Raymond E. Goldstein and Alain Goriely
Published 11 July 2006 (4 pages)
010901(R) [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Generalized Haldane equation and fluctuation theorem in the steady-state cycle kinetics of single enzymes
Hong Qian and X. Sunney Xie
Published 12 July 2006 (4 pages)
010902(R) [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Characteristic length scale of electric transport properties of genomes
C. T. Shih
Published 25 July 2006 (4 pages)
010903(R) [View PDF (261 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Freezing transition of the directed polymer in a 1+d random medium: Location of the critical temperature and unusual critical properties
Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel
Published 5 July 2006 (11 pages)
011101 [View PDF (169 kB)]

Statistical physics

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Logarithmic corrections in the free energy of monomer-dimer model on plane lattices with free boundaries
Yong Kong
Published 6 July 2006 (8 pages)
011102 [View PDF (550 kB)]
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Sol-gel transition in a source-enhanced coagulating system
A. A. Lushnikov
Published 10 July 2006 (9 pages)
011103 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Global phase diagram and six-state clock universality behavior in the triangular antiferromagnetic Ising model with anisotropic next-nearest-neighbor coupling: Level-spectroscopy approach
Hiromi Otsuka, Yutaka Okabe, and Kiyohide Nomura
Published 11 July 2006 (7 pages)
011104 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Fractional translational diffusion of a Brownian particle in a double well potential
Yuri P. Kalmykov, William T. Coffey, and Serguey V. Titov
Published 11 July 2006 (7 pages)
011105 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Phase transitions in systems possessing shock solutions
Maryam Arabsalmani and Amir Aghamohammadi
Published 14 July 2006 (9 pages)
011107 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Continuous phase transitions with a convex dip in the microcanonical entropy
Hans Behringer and Michel Pleimling
Published 17 July 2006 (8 pages)
011108 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Velocity and diffusion coefficient of A+A↔A reaction fronts in one dimension
Niraj Kumar and Goutam Tripathy
Published 17 July 2006 (5 pages)
011109 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Dynamic phase transition in the kinetic spin- 3∕2 Blume-Capel model under a time-dependent oscillating external field
Mustafa Keskin, Osman Canko, and Bayram Deviren
Published 17 July 2006 (10 pages)
011110 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Generic multifractality in exponentials of long memory processes
A. Saichev and D. Sornette
Published 18 July 2006 (11 pages)
011111 [View PDF (637 kB)]
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Dynamics of the Bose-Einstein condensation: Analogy with the collapse dynamics of a classical self-gravitating Brownian gas
Julien Sopik, Clément Sire, and Pierre-Henri Chavanis
Published 18 July 2006 (15 pages)
011112 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of glasses
Hans Christian Öttinger
Published 21 July 2006 (25 pages)
011113 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Chaotic noisy transport of electron pairs in a superconducting junction device: Thermal-inertia ratchets
Jing-hui Li
Published 24 July 2006 (4 pages)
011114 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Exactly solvable interacting spin-ice vertex model
Anderson A. Ferreira and Francisco C. Alcaraz
Published 24 July 2006 (14 pages)
011115 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Bulk and surface transitions in asymmetric simple exclusion process: Impact on boundary layers
Sutapa Mukherji and Vivek Mishra
Published 24 July 2006 (11 pages)
011116 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Generic features of the wealth distribution in ideal-gas-like markets
P. K. Mohanty
Published 26 July 2006 (4 pages)
011117 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Transport coefficients of a quantum system interacting with a squeezed heat bath
Sh. A. Kalandarov, Z. Kanokov, G. G. Adamian, and N. V. Antonenko
Published 26 July 2006 (11 pages)
011118 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Density of Yang-Lee zeros for the Ising ferromagnet
Seung-Yeon Kim
Published 26 July 2006 (7 pages)
011119 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Nonanalytic microscopic phase transitions and temperature oscillations in the microcanonical ensemble: An exactly solvable one-dimensional model for evaporation
Stefan Hilbert and Jörn Dunkel
Published 26 July 2006 (7 pages)
011120 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Kardar-Parisi-Zhang interfaces bounded by long-ranged potentials
Omar Al Hammal, Francisco de los Santos, Miguel A. Muñoz, and Margarida M. Telo da Gama
Published 26 July 2006 (11 pages)
011121 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Ising model on two connected Barabasi-Albert networks
Krzysztof Suchecki and Janusz A. Hołyst
Published 26 July 2006 (5 pages)
011122 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Directed percolation with incubation times
Andrea Jiménez-Dalmaroni
Published 26 July 2006 (16 pages)
011123 [View PDF (313 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Moment ratios for the pair-contact process with diffusion
Marcelo M. de Oliveira and Ronald Dickman
Published 31 July 2006 (6 pages)
011124 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Phase transitions and superuniversality in the dynamics of a self-driven particle
R. Grima
Published 31 July 2006 (6 pages)
011125 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Upper and lower bounds of stochastic resonance and noise-induced synchronization in a bistable oscillator
Agnessa Kovaleva
Published 31 July 2006 (5 pages)
011126 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Monte Carlo results for continuum percolation in low and high dimensions
N. Wagner, I. Balberg, and D. Klein
Published 31 July 2006 (9 pages)
011127 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Bridge functions near the liquid-vapor coexistence curve in binary Lennard-Jones mixtures
Tapas R. Kunor and Srabani Taraphder
Published 25 July 2006 (8 pages)
011201 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Long-time behavior of the velocity autocorrelation function at low densities and near the critical point of simple fluids
R. F. A. Dib, F. Ould-Kaddour, and D. Levesque
Published 31 July 2006 (6 pages)
011202 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Granular materials

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Pattern formation during air injection into granular materials confined in a circular Hele-Shaw cell
Ø. Johnsen, R. Toussaint, K. J. Måløy, and E. G. Flekkøy
Published 11 July 2006 (13 pages)
011301 [View PDF (2,842 kB)]
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Statistical description of sediment transport experiments
Christophe Ancey, Tobias Böhm, Magali Jodeau, and Philippe Frey
Published 18 July 2006 (14 pages)
011302 [View PDF (807 kB)]
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Front propagation sustained by additive noise
M. G. Clerc, C. Falcón, and E. Tirapegui
Published 21 July 2006 (15 pages)
011303 [View PDF (786 kB)]
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Fluidization of a vertically vibrated two-dimensional hard sphere packing: A granular meltdown
Andreas Götzendorfer, Chi-Hwang Tai, Christof A. Kruelle, Ingo Rehberg, and Shu-San Hsiau
Published 21 July 2006 (9 pages)
011304 [View PDF (855 kB)]
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Collapse of periodic orbits in a driven inelastic particle system
Jonathan J. Wylie and Qiang Zhang
Published 21 July 2006 (10 pages)
011305 [View PDF (614 kB)]
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Flux through a hole from a shaken granular medium
K. Chen, M. B. Stone, R. Barry, M. Lohr, W. McConville, K. Klein, B. L. Sheu, A. J. Morss, T. Scheidemantel, and P. Schiffer
Published 25 July 2006 (4 pages)
011306 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Mechanisms in the size segregation of a binary granular mixture
Matthias Schröter, Stephan Ulrich, Jennifer Kreft, Jack B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 26 July 2006 (14 pages)
011307 [View PDF (1,313 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Relaxation of jammed colloidal suspensions after shear cessation
Francesca Ianni, David Lasne, Régis Sarcia, and Pascal Hébraud
Published 20 July 2006 (6 pages)
011401 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Formalism for calculation of polymer-solvent-mediated potential
Shiqi Zhou
Published 20 July 2006 (11 pages)
011402 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Cooperative behavior and pattern formation in mixtures of driven and nondriven colloidal assemblies
C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt
Published 24 July 2006 (5 pages)
011403 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Dynamic scaling in entangled mean-field gelation polymers
Chinmay Das, Daniel J. Read, Mark A. Kelmanson, and Tom C. B. McLeish
Published 27 July 2006 (11 pages)
011404 [View PDF (806 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Nonlinear electrochemical relaxation around conductors
Kevin T. Chu and Martin Z. Bazant
Published 6 July 2006 (25 pages)
011501 [View PDF (660 kB)]
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Dynamics of ternary mixtures with photosensitive chemical reactions: Creating three-dimensionally ordered blends
Olga Kuksenok, Rui D. M. Travasso, and Anna C. Balazs
Published 11 July 2006 (13 pages)
011502 [View PDF (1,034 kB)]
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Cole-Cole law for critical dynamics in glass-forming liquids
Matthias Sperl
Published 13 July 2006 (15 pages)
011503 [View PDF (857 kB)]
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Observations of coarsening of air voids in a polymer–highly-soluble crystalline matrix during dissolution
Eleni Karakosta, Paul M. Jenneson, Richard P. Sear, and Peter J. McDonald
Published 17 July 2006 (7 pages)
011504 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Morphologies and flow patterns in quenching of lamellar systems with shear
Aiguo Xu, G. Gonnella, and A. Lamura
Published 24 July 2006 (11 pages)
011505 [View PDF (921 kB)]
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Transitions among crystal, glass, and liquid in a binary mixture with changing particle-size ratio and temperature
Toshiyuki Hamanaka and Akira Onuki
Published 25 July 2006 (7 pages)
011506 [View PDF (1,867 kB)]
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Effects of quenching rate and viscosity on spinodal decomposition
P. Poesio, G. Cominardi, A. M. Lezzi, R. Mauri, and G. P. Beretta
Published 25 July 2006 (13 pages)
011507 [View PDF (2,973 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Renormalization-group theory for the phase-field crystal equation
Badrinarayan P. Athreya, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Jonathan A. Dantzig
Published 17 July 2006 (13 pages)
011601 [View PDF (485 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Effects of island disaggregation in growth models
K. Mazzitello, C. M. Aldao, and H. O. Mártin
Published 18 July 2006 (7 pages)
011602 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Surface and interfacial dynamics of polymeric bilayer films
Zhang Jiang, Hyunjung Kim, Simon G. J. Mochrie, L. B. Lurio, and Sunil K. Sinha
Published 19 July 2006 (9 pages)
011603 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Universal and nonuniversal features in the crossover from linear to nonlinear interface growth
T. J. Oliveira, K. Dechoum, J. A. Redinz, and F. D. A. Aarão Reis
Published 31 July 2006 (6 pages)
011604 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Investigations of nanoscale helical pitch in smectic- Cα* and smectic- C* phases of a chiral smectic liquid crystal using differential optical reflectivity measurements
V. P. Panov, B. K. McCoy, Z. Q. Liu, J. K. Vij, J. W. Goodby, and C. C. Huang
Published 6 July 2006 (7 pages)
011701 [View PDF (576 kB)]
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Microscopic and macroscopic description of anchoring at the nematic-solid substrate interface
L. V. Mirantsev
Published 6 July 2006 (7 pages)
011702 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Role of molecular weight and phase sequence in the temperature variation of film tension above the bulk isotropic transition in freestanding liquid-crystal films
M. Veum, M. K. Blees, N. Voshell, H. T. Nguyen, and C. C. Huang
Published 11 July 2006 (5 pages)
011703 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Computer simulation study of a simple cubatic mesogenic lattice model
Silvano Romano
Published 11 July 2006 (6 pages)
011704 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Theory of the intermediate tilted smectic phases and their helical rotation
A. V. Emelyanenko, Atsuo Fukuda, and J. K. Vij
Published 13 July 2006 (17 pages)
011705 [View PDF (824 kB)]
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Memory effects in nematics with quenched disorder
M. Buscaglia, T. Bellini, C. Chiccoli, F. Mantegazza, P. Pasini, M. Rotunno, and C. Zannoni
Published 17 July 2006 (8 pages)
011706 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Optical and electro-optical derivation of the pretransitional behavior of orientational and shear viscosities in the isotropic phase of liquid crystals
M. L. Jiménez, F. Mantegazza, L. Gallazzi, G. Zanchetta, and T. Bellini
Published 19 July 2006 (10 pages)
011707 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Dispersion of the ordinary refractive indices of smectic liquid crystals in free standing films
R. Jaquet and F. Schneider
Published 19 July 2006 (16 pages)
011708 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Capillary effects in a confined smectic phase of hard spherocylinders: Influence of particle elongation
D. de las Heras, E. Velasco, and L. Mederos
Published 24 July 2006 (12 pages)
011709 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Liquid crystal model of membrane flexoelectricity
Alejandro D. Rey
Published 26 July 2006 (11 pages)
011710 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Anisotropic nanoparticles immersed in a nematic liquid crystal: Defect structures and potentials of mean force
Francisco R. Hung, Orlando Guzmán, Brian T. Gettelfinger, Nicholas L. Abbott, and Juan J. de Pablo
Published 27 July 2006 (12 pages)
011711 [View PDF (1,003 kB)]
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Undulations of lamellar liquid crystals in cells with finite surface anchoring near and well above the threshold
B. I. Senyuk, I. I. Smalyukh, and O. D. Lavrentovich
Published 31 July 2006 (13 pages)
011712 [View PDF (1,098 kB)]

Polymers

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Breakup of spiral and concentric ringed spherulites in polymer crystallization
Haijun Xu, Hao-Wen Chiu, Yoshifumi Okabe, and Thein Kyu
Published 5 July 2006 (7 pages)
011801 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Phenomenological analysis of the light intensity dependence of the photoalignment process in azo-containing polymeric films
L. T. Thieghi, F. Batalioto, I. H. Bechtold, L. R. Evangelista, V. Zucolotto, D. T. Balogh, O. N. Oliveira, Jr, and E. A. Oliveira
Published 11 July 2006 (5 pages)
011802 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Landau theory of the orthorhombic Fddd phase
Amit Ranjan and David C. Morse
Published 14 July 2006 (6 pages)
011803 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Spinodal decomposition via surface diffusion in polymer mixtures
J. Klein Wolterink, G. T. Barkema, and Sanjay Puri
Published 20 July 2006 (5 pages)
011804 [View PDF (314 kB)]

Biological physics

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Coevolutionary dynamics in large, but finite populations
Arne Traulsen, Jens Christian Claussen, and Christoph Hauert
Published 5 July 2006 (8 pages)
011901 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Unified modeling of conductance kinetics for low- and high-conductance potassium ion channels
Igor S. Tolokh, Saul Goldman, and C. G. Gray
Published 5 July 2006 (12 pages)
011902 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Condition for intracellular adaptive dynamics for chemotaxis
Masayo Inoue and Kunihiko Kaneko
Published 6 July 2006 (6 pages)
011903 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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DNA charge neutralization by linear polymers: Irreversible binding
E. Maltsev, J. A. D. Wattis, and H. M. Byrne
Published 6 July 2006 (16 pages)
011904 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Energy aspects of the synchronization of model neurons
F. J. Torrealdea, A. d’Anjou, M. Graña, and C. Sarasola
Published 10 July 2006 (6 pages)
011905 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Fluctuation theorems and the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of molecular motors
David Andrieux and Pierre Gaspard
Published 11 July 2006 (15 pages)
011906 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Analytical theory of the nonequilibrium spatial distribution of RNA polymerase translocations
Hyung-June Woo
Published 14 July 2006 (7 pages)
011907 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Pacemaker activity resulting from the coupling with nonexcitable cells
Vincent Jacquemet
Published 14 July 2006 (7 pages)
011908 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Stochastic dynamics of invasion and fixation
Arne Traulsen, Martin A. Nowak, and Jorge M. Pacheco
Published 17 July 2006 (5 pages)
011909 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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T-cell motility in the early stages of the immune response modeled as a random walk amongst targets
S. P. Preston, S. L. Waters, O. E. Jensen, P. R. Heaton, and D. I. Pritchard
Published 17 July 2006 (12 pages)
011910 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Driven translocation of a polynucleotide chain through a nanopore: A continuous time Monte Carlo study
Pui-Man Lam, Fei Liu, and Zhong-can Ou-Yang
Published 17 July 2006 (7 pages)
011911 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Brownian molecular motors driven by rotation-translation coupling
Brian Geislinger and Ryoichi Kawai
Published 18 July 2006 (10 pages)
011912 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Analyses of simulations of three-dimensional lattice proteins in comparison with a simplified statistical mechanical model of protein folding
H. Abe and H. Wako
Published 18 July 2006 (12 pages)
011913 [View PDF (859 kB)]
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Two-stage Turing model for generating pigment patterns on the leopard and the jaguar
R. T. Liu, S. S. Liaw, and P. K. Maini
Published 21 July 2006 (8 pages)
011914 [View PDF (1,220 kB)]
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Cellular tolerance to pulsed hyperthermia
D. M. Simanovskii, M. A. Mackanos, A. R. Irani, C. E. O’Connell-Rodwell, C. H. Contag, H. A. Schwettman, and D. V. Palanker
Published 24 July 2006 (7 pages)
011915 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal fluctuation-induced transition in a tumor model with immune surveillance
Wei-Rong Zhong, Yuan-Zhi Shao, and Zhen-Hui He
Published 24 July 2006 (4 pages)
011916 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Simple data-driven models of intracellular calcium dynamics with predictive power
Alejandra C. Ventura, Luciana Bruno, and Silvina Ponce Dawson
Published 26 July 2006 (11 pages)
011917 [View PDF (1,678 kB)]
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Stable propagation of a burst through a one-dimensional homogeneous excitatory chain model of songbird nucleus HVC
MengRu Li and Henry Greenside
Published 26 July 2006 (12 pages)
011918 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Characterization of the tunneling conductance across DNA bases
Radomir Zikic, Predrag S. Krstić, X.-G. Zhang, Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, Jack Wells, and Xiongce Zhao
Published 28 July 2006 (9 pages)
011919 [View PDF (279 kB)]
See Also: Comment

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Perturbation analysis for competing reactions with initially separated components
Inbal Hecht and Haim Taitelbaum
Published 10 July 2006 (4 pages)
012101 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Macroscopic description of particle systems with nonlocal density-dependent diffusivity
Cristóbal López
Published 20 July 2006 (4 pages)
012102 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Biological physics

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Actin-based propulsion of a microswimmer
A. M. Leshansky
Published 21 July 2006 (4 pages)
012901 [View PDF (278 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Fjords in viscous fingering: Selection of width and opening angle
Leif Ristroph, Matthew Thrasher, Mark B. Mineev-Weinstein, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 11 July 2006 (4 pages)
015201(R) [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Self-organization of chaos synchronization and pattern formation in coupled chaotic oscillators
Xiaoming Zhang, Maolin Fu, Jinghua Xiao, and Gang Hu
Published 18 July 2006 (4 pages)
015202(R) [View PDF (273 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Integrating local static and dynamic information for routing traffic
Wen-Xu Wang, Chuan-Yang Yin, Gang Yan, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 5 July 2006 (5 pages)
016101 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Synchronization in dynamical networks: Evolution along commutative graphs
S. Boccaletti, D.-U. Hwang, M. Chavez, A. Amann, J. Kurths, and L. M. Pecora
Published 5 July 2006 (5 pages)
016102 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Interdisciplinary physics

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Wavelet versus detrended fluctuation analysis of multifractal structures
Paweł Oświȩcimka, Jarosław Kwapień, and Stanisław Drożdż
Published 6 July 2006 (17 pages)
016103 [View PDF (2,191 kB)]
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Preseismic electromagnetic signals in terms of complexity
K. Karamanos, D. Dakopoulos, K. Aloupis, A. Peratzakis, L. Athanasopoulou, S. Nikolopoulos, P. Kapiris, and K. Eftaxias
Published 10 July 2006 (21 pages)
016104 [View PDF (1,084 kB)]
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Network community structure and loop coefficient method
I. Vragović and E. Louis
Published 11 July 2006 (6 pages)
016105 [View PDF (592 kB)]
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Some analytical results for the velocity of cracks propagating in nonlinear lattices
T. M. Guozden and E. A. Jagla
Published 14 July 2006 (8 pages)
016106 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Clustering algorithm for determining community structure in large networks
Josep M. Pujol, Javier Béjar, and Jordi Delgado
Published 17 July 2006 (9 pages)
016107 [View PDF (540 kB)]
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Modeling self-organization of communication and topology in social networks
M. Rosvall and K. Sneppen
Published 17 July 2006 (6 pages)
016108 [View PDF (863 kB)]
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Short-time dynamics of a family of XY noncollinear magnets
S. Bekhechi, B. W. Southern, A. Peles, and D. Mouhanna
Published 17 July 2006 (5 pages)
016109 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of community detection
Jörg Reichardt and Stefan Bornholdt
Published 18 July 2006 (14 pages)
016110 [View PDF (1,129 kB)]
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Direct determination of liquid phase coexistence by Monte Carlo simulations
Henk J. A. Zweistra and N. A. M. Besseling
Published 19 July 2006 (6 pages)
016111 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Topology regulates the distribution pattern of excitations in excitable dynamics on graphs
Mark Müller-Linow, Carsten Marr, and Marc-Thorsten Hütt
Published 19 July 2006 (7 pages)
016112 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Emergence of scale-free networks from local connectivity and communication trade-offs
Valmir C. Barbosa, Raul Donangelo, and Sergio R. Souza
Published 20 July 2006 (5 pages)
016113 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Heat conduction in a confined solid strip: Response to external strain
Debasish Chaudhuri and Abhishek Dhar
Published 20 July 2006 (9 pages)
016114 [View PDF (993 kB)]
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Wikipedias: Collaborative web-based encyclopedias as complex networks
V. Zlatić, M. Božičević, H. Štefančić, and M. Domazet
Published 24 July 2006 (9 pages)
016115 [View PDF (875 kB)]
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Self-organization with equilibration: A model for the intermediate phase in rigidity percolation
M. V. Chubynsky, M.-A. Brière, and Normand Mousseau
Published 24 July 2006 (9 pages)
016116 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Optimal design of spatial distribution networks
Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman
Published 24 July 2006 (6 pages)
016117 [View PDF (810 kB)]
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Amorphous systems in athermal, quasistatic shear
Craig E. Maloney and Anaël Lemaître
Published 25 July 2006 (22 pages)
016118 [View PDF (2,116 kB)]
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Fluctuation-induced instabilities in front propagation up a comoving reaction gradient in two dimensions
C. Scott Wylie, Herbert Levine, and David A. Kessler
Published 26 July 2006 (7 pages)
016119 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Eliminated corrections to scaling around a renormalization-group fixed point: Transfer-matrix simulation of an extended d=3 Ising model
Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Published 26 July 2006 (7 pages)
016120 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Network analysis of online bidding activity
I. Yang, E. Oh, and B. Kahng
Published 27 July 2006 (7 pages)
016121 [View PDF (784 kB)]
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Crossover behavior in failure avalanches
Srutarshi Pradhan, Alex Hansen, and Per C. Hemmer
Published 27 July 2006 (9 pages)
016122 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Understanding widely scattered traffic flows, the capacity drop, and platoons as effects of variance-driven time gaps
Martin Treiber, Arne Kesting, and Dirk Helbing
Published 31 July 2006 (10 pages)
016123 [View PDF (1,063 kB)]
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Understanding the evolution dynamics of internet topology
Shi Zhou
Published 31 July 2006 (11 pages)
016124 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Optimization of the robustness of multimodal networks
Toshihiro Tanizawa, Gerald Paul, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 31 July 2006 (8 pages)
016125 [View PDF (537 kB)]
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Network of epicenters of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model of earthquakes
Tiago P. Peixoto and Carmen P. C. Prado
Published 31 July 2006 (9 pages)
016126 [View PDF (1,571 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Bound states in elastic waveguides
Dmitrii N. Maksimov and Almas F. Sadreev
Published 6 July 2006 (6 pages)
016201 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Phase control of intermittency in dynamical systems
Samuel Zambrano, Inés P. Mariño, Francesco Salvadori, Riccardo Meucci, Miguel A. F. Sanjuán, and F. T. Arecchi
Published 10 July 2006 (8 pages)
016202 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Characterization of noise-induced strange nonchaotic attractors
Xingang Wang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Choy Heng Lai
Published 17 July 2006 (11 pages)
016203 [View PDF (618 kB)]
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Wave packet autocorrelation functions for quantum hard-disk and hard-sphere billiards in the high-energy, diffraction regime
Arseni Goussev and J. R. Dorfman
Published 17 July 2006 (22 pages)
016204 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Creating bound states in excitable media by means of nonlocal coupling
Grigory Bordyugov and Harald Engel
Published 17 July 2006 (9 pages)
016205 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Traveling ion channel density waves affected by a conservation law
Ronny Peter and Walter Zimmermann
Published 18 July 2006 (15 pages)
016206 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Dynamics of bound states of same-chirality spiral waves
Christian W. Zemlin, Karthik Mukund, Vadim N. Biktashev, and Arkady M. Pertsov
Published 18 July 2006 (10 pages)
016207 [View PDF (941 kB)]
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Stabilization from chaotic to periodical states in a model of cellular automaton for oxidation of CO
A. Córdoba, M. C. Lemos, and F. Jiménez-Morales
Published 18 July 2006 (8 pages)
016208 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Characterization of the domain chaos convection state by the largest Lyapunov exponent
A. Jayaraman, J. D. Scheel, H. S. Greenside, and P. F. Fischer
Published 26 July 2006 (12 pages)
016209 [View PDF (641 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal intermittency and scaling laws in the coupled sine circle map lattice
Zahera Jabeen and Neelima Gupte
Published 27 July 2006 (12 pages)
016210 [View PDF (1,445 kB)]
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Synchronization of unidirectionally coupled Mackey-Glass analog circuits with frequency bandwidth limitations
Min-Young Kim, Christopher Sramek, Atsushi Uchida, and Rajarshi Roy
Published 27 July 2006 (4 pages)
016211 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Directed transport and Floquet analysis for a periodically kicked wave packet at a quantum resonance
Emil Lundh
Published 28 July 2006 (7 pages)
016212 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Optimized suppression of coherent noise from seismic data using the Karhunen-Loève transform
Raúl Montagne and Giovani L. Vasconcelos
Published 31 July 2006 (8 pages)
016213 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Delayed feedback control of noise-induced patterns in excitable media
A. G. Balanov, V. Beato, N. B. Janson, H. Engel, and E. Schöll
Published 31 July 2006 (4 pages)
016214 [View PDF (246 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Correlation between non-Gaussian statistics of a scalar and its dissipation rate in turbulent flows
Jianchun Mi
Published 11 July 2006 (5 pages)
016301 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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NMR velocity mapping of gas flow around solid objects
Song-I Han, Kimberly L. Pierce, and Alexander Pines
Published 13 July 2006 (6 pages)
016302 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Large-scale flow effects, energy transfer, and self-similarity on turbulence
P. D. Mininni, A. Alexakis, and A. Pouquet
Published 17 July 2006 (13 pages)
016303 [View PDF (601 kB)]
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Backwards and forwards relative dispersion in turbulent flow: An experimental investigation
Jacob Berg, Beat Lüthi, Jakob Mann, and Søren Ott
Published 27 July 2006 (7 pages)
016304 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Renormalization of tracer turbulence leading to fractional differential equations
R. Sánchez, B. A. Carreras, D. E. Newman, V. E. Lynch, and B. Ph. van Milligen
Published 28 July 2006 (11 pages)
016305 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Nonlocal modulation of the energy cascade in broadband-forced turbulence
Arkadiusz K. Kuczaj, Bernard J. Geurts, and W. David McComb
Published 31 July 2006 (13 pages)
016306 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Reaction enhancement of point sources due to vortex stirring
John P. Crimaldi, Jillian R. Hartford, and Jeffrey B. Weiss
Published 31 July 2006 (4 pages)
016307 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Dynamical behavior of the motions associated with the nonlinear periodic regime in a laboratory plasma subject to delayed feedback
T. Fukuyama, Y. Watanabe, K. Taniguchi, H. Shirahama, and Y. Kawai
Published 6 July 2006 (6 pages)
016401 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Transition of absolute instability from global to local modes in a gyrotron traveling-wave amplifier
T. H. Chang and N. C. Chen
Published 10 July 2006 (7 pages)
016402 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Angular distribution of neutrons from deuterated cluster explosions driven by femtosecond laser pulses
F. Buersgens, K. W. Madison, D. R. Symes, R. Hartke, J. Osterhoff, W. Grigsby, G. Dyer, and T. Ditmire
Published 13 July 2006 (7 pages)
016403 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Prediction and observation of tin and silver plasmas with index of refraction greater than one in the soft x-ray range
Jorge Filevich, Jonathan Grava, Mike Purvis, Mario C. Marconi, Jorge J. Rocca, Joseph Nilsen, James Dunn, and Walter R. Johnson
Published 24 July 2006 (7 pages)
016404 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Absorption and penetration of left-hand polarized waves related to polarization reversal causing electron cyclotron resonance
K. Takahashi, T. Kaneko, and R. Hatakeyama
Published 28 July 2006 (7 pages)
016405 [View PDF (349 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Generation of Cherenkov superradiance pulses with a peak power exceeding the power of the driving short electron beam
S. D. Korovin, A. A. Eltchaninov, V. V. Rostov, V. G. Shpak, M. I. Yalandin, N. S. Ginzburg, A. S. Sergeev, and I. V. Zotova
Published 6 July 2006 (8 pages)
016501 [View PDF (245 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Generation and control of optical vortices using left-handed materials
Kevin J. Webb and Ming-Chuan Yang
Published 6 July 2006 (4 pages)
016601 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Self-focusing arrest of femtosecond laser pulses in air at different pressures
E. Arévalo
Published 10 July 2006 (5 pages)
016602 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Alfvén soliton and emitted radiation in the presence of perturbations
V. M. Lashkin
Published 13 July 2006 (9 pages)
016603 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Finite-difference time-domain analysis of the tunneling and growing exponential in a pair of ε -negative and μ -negative slabs
Andrea Alù, Nader Engheta, and Richard W. Ziolkowski
Published 18 July 2006 (9 pages)
016604 [View PDF (1,486 kB)]
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Subdiffractive light pulses in photonic crystals
K. Staliunas, C. Serrat, R. Herrero, C. Cojocaru, and J. Trull
Published 18 July 2006 (6 pages)
016605 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Relaxation of a one-dimensional gravitational system
P. Valageas
Published 19 July 2006 (18 pages)
016606 [View PDF (1,215 kB)]
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Discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations with arbitrarily high-order nonlinearities
Avinash Khare, Kim Ø. Rasmussen, Mario Salerno, Mogens R. Samuelsen, and Avadh Saxena
Published 19 July 2006 (11 pages)
016607 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Two-dimensional Green’s function theory for the electrodynamics of a rotating medium
Ben Zion Steinberg, Adi Shamir, and Amir Boag
Published 20 July 2006 (9 pages)
016608 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Thermal emission and design in one-dimensional periodic metallic photonic crystal slabs
David L. C. Chan, Marin Soljačić, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Published 26 July 2006 (9 pages)
016609 [View PDF (1,460 kB)]
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Strong focusing properties and far-field focus in the two-dimensional photonic-crystal-based concave lens
Renlong Zhou, Xiaoshuang Chen, and Wei Lu
Published 27 July 2006 (5 pages)
016610 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Self-trapped spatiotemporal necklace-ring solitons in the Ginzburg-Landau equation
Y. J. He, H. H. Fan, J. W. Dong, and H. Z. Wang
Published 28 July 2006 (5 pages)
016611 [View PDF (549 kB)]
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Localized structures in a nonlinear wave equation stabilized by negative global feedback: One-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional kinks
Horacio G. Rotstein, Anatol A. Zhabotinsky, and Irving R. Epstein
Published 28 July 2006 (8 pages)
016612 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Computational physics

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Technique for backward particle tracking in a flow field
A. Nahum and A. Seifert
Published 7 July 2006 (10 pages)
016701 [View PDF (720 kB)]
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Equation-free dynamic renormalization in a glassy compaction model
L. Chen, I. G. Kevrekidis, and P. G. Kevrekidis
Published 13 July 2006 (5 pages)
016702 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Damage-spreading simulations through exact relations for the two-dimensional Potts ferromagnet
A. S. Anjos, D. A. Moreira, A. M. Mariz, and F. D. Nobre
Published 20 July 2006 (5 pages)
016703 [View PDF (223 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Kleinberg navigation in fractal small-world networks
Mickey R. Roberson and Daniel ben-Avraham
Published 17 July 2006 (3 pages)
017101 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Periodic neural activity induced by network complexity
D. R. Paula, A. D. Araújo, J. S. Andrade, Jr., H. J. Herrmann, and J. A. C. Gallas
Published 20 July 2006 (4 pages)
017102 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equation and self-consistent signal-to-noise analysis for the Hopfield model with three-body interaction
Akihisa Ichiki and Masatoshi Shiino
Published 25 July 2006 (4 pages)
017103 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Universal dynamics in the onset of a Hagen-Poiseuille flow
Niels Asger Mortensen and Henrik Bruus
Published 13 July 2006 (4 pages)
017301 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Computational physics

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Shear viscosity of bulk suspensions at low Reynolds number with the three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann method
S. V. Lishchuk, I. Halliday, and C. M. Care
Published 10 July 2006 (4 pages)
017701 [View PDF (81 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Linking population-level models with growing networks: A class of epidemic models”
Martin C. J. Bootsma and Odo Diekmann
Published 25 July 2006 (1 page)
018101 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Linking population-level models with growing networks: A class of epidemic models’ ”
Romulus Breban, Raffaele Vardavas, and Sally Blower
Published 25 July 2006 (1 page)
018102 [View PDF (33 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Origin of bursting pH oscillations in an enzyme model reaction system [Phys. Rev. E 72, 066205 (2005)]
Ronny Straube, Dietrich Flockerzi, Stefan C. Müller, and Marcus J. B. Hauser
Published 12 July 2006 (1 page)
019901(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Analytical solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Kronig-Penney model in photonic structures [Phys. Rev. E 73, 066619 (2006)]
Y. Kominis
Published 14 July 2006 (1 page)
019902(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Metastable liquid-liquid coexistence and density anomalies in a core-softened fluid [Phys. Rev. E 73, 061507 (2006)]
H. M. Gibson and N. B. Wilding
Published 14 July 2006 (1 page)
019903(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Fermi acceleration on the annular billiard [Phys. Rev. E 73, 066229 (2006)]
R. Egydio de Carvalho, F. Caetano Souza, and Edson D. Leonel
Published 14 July 2006 (1 page)
019904(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]