Physical Review E – November 2006
Volume 74, Issue 5

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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Metastability, nucleation, and noise-enhanced stabilization out of equilibrium
Pablo I. Hurtado, J. Marro, and P. L. Garrido
Published 6 November 2006 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Sticky grains do not change the universality class of isotropic sandpiles
Juan A. Bonachela, José J. Ramasco, Hugues Chaté, Ivan Dornic, and Miguel A. Muñoz
Published 8 November 2006 (4 pages)
050102(R) [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Short-range stationary patterns and long-range disorder in an evolution equation for one-dimensional interfaces
Javier Muñoz-García, Rodolfo Cuerno, and Mario Castro
Published 30 November 2006 (4 pages)
050103(R) [View PDF (306 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Extended law of corresponding states in short-range square wells: A potential energy landscape study
Giuseppe Foffi and Francesco Sciortino
Published 29 November 2006 (4 pages)
050401(R) [View PDF (501 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Relation between local diffusivity and local inherent structures in the Kob-Andersen Lennard-Jones model
Emilia La Nave, Srikanth Sastry, and Francesco Sciortino
Published 14 November 2006 (4 pages)
050501(R) [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Structural and dynamical heterogeneity in a glass-forming liquid
Gurpreet S. Matharoo, M. S. Gulam Razul, and Peter H. Poole
Published 20 November 2006 (4 pages)
050502(R) [View PDF (499 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Anticonical anchoring and surface transitions in a nematic liquid crystal
L. Faget, S. Lamarque-Forget, Ph. Martinot-Lagarde, P. Auroy, and I. Dozov
Published 30 November 2006 (4 pages)
050701(R) [View PDF (401 kB)]

Biological physics

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Bubble statistics and dynamics in double-stranded DNA
B. S. Alexandrov, L. T. Wille, K. Ø. Rasmussen, A. R. Bishop, and K. B. Blagoev
Published 1 November 2006 (4 pages)
050901(R) [View PDF (668 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Triangular Ising antiferromagnet: Boundary conditions, ground state entropy, and vortices
R. P. Millane and R. M. Clare
Published 1 November 2006 (6 pages)
051101 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Violation of the des Cloizeaux relation for self-avoiding walks on Sierpinski square lattices
Francesco Marini, Anke Ordemann, Markus Porto, and H. Eduardo Roman
Published 2 November 2006 (5 pages)
051102 [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Thermodynamic instability of a confined gas
Harald A. Posch and Walter Thirring
Published 2 November 2006 (6 pages)
051103 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Totally asymmetric exclusion process with long-range hopping
J. Szavits-Nossan and K. Uzelac
Published 2 November 2006 (8 pages)
051104 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Random walkers with shrinking steps in d dimensions and their long term memory
Tonguç Rador
Published 2 November 2006 (11 pages)
051105 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Relativistic Brownian motion: From a microscopic binary collision model to the Langevin equation
Jörn Dunkel and Peter Hänggi
Published 3 November 2006 (10 pages)
051106 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Modeling Gaussian-to-self-avoiding-walk crossover for stiff chain polymers
Md. Fhokrul Islam and Hisao Nakanishi
Published 6 November 2006 (5 pages)
051107 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Shocks in the asymmetric exclusion process with internal degree of freedom
Fatemeh Tabatabaei and Gunter M. Schütz
Published 10 November 2006 (8 pages)
051108 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Probing the tails of the ground-state energy distribution for the directed polymer in a random medium of dimension d=1,2,3 via a Monte Carlo procedure in the disorder
Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel
Published 13 November 2006 (11 pages)
051109 [View PDF (672 kB)]
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Flows on graphs with random capacities
T. Antal and P. L. Krapivsky
Published 13 November 2006 (8 pages)
051110 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Energy distribution and effective temperatures in a driven dissipative model
Yair Shokef and Dov Levine
Published 14 November 2006 (11 pages)
051111 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Fractional diffusion interpretation of simulated single-file systems in microporous materials
Pierfranco Demontis and Giuseppe B. Suffritti
Published 15 November 2006 (13 pages)
051112 [View PDF (903 kB)]
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High-temperature series expansions for the q -state Potts model on a hypercubic lattice and critical properties of percolation
Meik Hellmund and Wolfhard Janke
Published 16 November 2006 (8 pages)
051113 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Current in a three-dimensional periodic tube with unbiased forces
Bao-quan Ai and Liang-gang Liu
Published 17 November 2006 (4 pages)
051114 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Phenomenon of stochastic resonance caused by multiplicative asymmetric dichotomous noise
Jing-hui Li and Yin-xia Han
Published 17 November 2006 (9 pages)
051115 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Nonperturbative renormalization group and momentum dependence of n -point functions. I
Jean-Paul Blaizot, Ramón Méndez-Galain, and Nicolás Wschebor
Published 21 November 2006 (21 pages)
051116 [View PDF (544 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Nonperturbative renormalization group and momentum dependence of n -point functions. II
Jean-Paul Blaizot, Ramón Méndez-Galain, and Nicolás Wschebor
Published 21 November 2006 (15 pages)
051117 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Stochastic parametric amplification due to higher order correlations: A perturbative approach to non-Abelian effects in time ordering
F. T. Hadjiioannou, T. A. Apostolatos, and N. V. Sarlis
Published 21 November 2006 (12 pages)
051118 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Collisional statistics of a stochastic single file
A. Taloni and F. Marchesoni
Published 21 November 2006 (8 pages)
051119 [View PDF (573 kB)]
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Real symmetric random matrices and replicas
Giovanni M. Cicuta and Henri Orland
Published 27 November 2006 (9 pages)
051120 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Master equation and two heat reservoirs
Steffen Trimper
Published 27 November 2006 (5 pages)
051121 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Extracting the scaling exponents of a self-affine, non-Gaussian process from a finite-length time series
K. Kiyani, S. C. Chapman, and B. Hnat
Published 28 November 2006 (9 pages)
051122 [View PDF (727 kB)]
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Short-time dynamics of percolation observables
Wanderson G. Wanzeller, Tereza Mendes, and Gastão Krein
Published 28 November 2006 (5 pages)
051123 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Power-law random walks
C. Vignat and A. Plastino
Published 29 November 2006 (5 pages)
051124 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Mass dependence of shear viscosity in a binary fluid mixture: Mode-coupling theory
Sk. Musharaf Ali, Alok Samanta, Niharendu Choudhury, and Swapan K. Ghosh
Published 3 November 2006 (6 pages)
051201 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Granular materials

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Power-law and exponential segregation in two-dimensional silos of granular mixtures
Rajesh K. Goyal and M. Silvina Tomassone
Published 1 November 2006 (10 pages)
051301 [View PDF (652 kB)]
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Velocity correlations in dense gravity-driven granular chute flow
Oleh Baran, Deniz Ertaş, Thomas C. Halsey, Gary S. Grest, and Jeremy B. Lechman
Published 2 November 2006 (10 pages)
051302 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Force heterogeneities in particle assemblies: From order to disorder
Leonardo E. Silbert
Published 3 November 2006 (7 pages)
051303 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Clustering instability in a freely falling granular jet
Matthias E. Möbius
Published 14 November 2006 (9 pages)
051304 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Radial granular segregation under chaotic flow in two-dimensional tumblers
Stephen E. Cisar, Paul B. Umbanhowar, and Julio M. Ottino
Published 15 November 2006 (12 pages)
051305 [View PDF (1,556 kB)]
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Phases of granular segregation in a binary mixture
P. M. Reis, T. Sykes, and T. Mullin
Published 15 November 2006 (13 pages)
051306 [View PDF (1,097 kB)]
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Failure and strengthening of granular slopes under horizontal vibration
Douglas Rubin, Naomi Goldenson, and Greg A. Voth
Published 28 November 2006 (8 pages)
051307 [View PDF (424 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Generalized hydrodynamics of a dilute suspension of finite-sized particles: Dynamic viscosity
S. I. Hernández, I. Santamaría-Holek, Carlos I. Mendoza, and L. F. del Castillo
Published 6 November 2006 (7 pages)
051401 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Equation of state of colloids coated by polyelectrolyte multilayers
Monique Dubois, Monika Schönhoff, Annette Meister, Luc Belloni, Thomas Zemb, and Helmuth Möhwald
Published 8 November 2006 (10 pages)
051402 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Viscous froth lens
T. E. Green, A. Bramley, L. Lue, and P. Grassia
Published 13 November 2006 (25 pages)
051403 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Particle migration induced by confinement of colloidal suspensions along the gravitational direction
J. J. Liétor-Santos, A. Fernández-Nieves, and M. Márquez
Published 16 November 2006 (7 pages)
051404 [View PDF (658 kB)]
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Memory of fluctuating Brownian dipolar chains
Renaud Toussaint, Eirik G. Flekkøy, and Geir Helgesen
Published 20 November 2006 (13 pages)
051405 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Flow transitions in two-dimensional foams
Christopher Gilbreth, Scott Sullivan, and Michael Dennin
Published 21 November 2006 (9 pages)
051406 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Multicomponent adhesive hard sphere models and short-ranged attractive interactions in colloidal or micellar solutions
Domenico Gazzillo, Achille Giacometti, Riccardo Fantoni, and Peter Sollich
Published 22 November 2006 (14 pages)
051407 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Macroion correlation effects in electrostatic screening and thermodynamics of highly charged colloids
R. Castañeda-Priego, L. F. Rojas-Ochoa, V. Lobaskin, and J. C. Mixteco-Sánchez
Published 28 November 2006 (6 pages)
051408 [View PDF (372 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Lengthscale dependence of dynamic four-point susceptibilities in glass formers
David Chandler, Juan P. Garrahan, Robert L. Jack, Lutz Maibaum, and Albert C. Pan
Published 2 November 2006 (9 pages)
051501 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Origin of the decoupling of oxygen and silicon dynamics in liquid silica as expressed by its potential energy landscape
A. Saksaengwijit and A. Heuer
Published 2 November 2006 (8 pages)
051502 [View PDF (539 kB)]
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Influence of rigid inclusions on the bending elasticity of a lipid membrane
Miha Fošnarič, Aleš Iglič, and Sylvio May
Published 7 November 2006 (12 pages)
051503 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Kinetic arrest and glass-glass transition in short-ranged attractive colloids
M. Sztucki, T. Narayanan, G. Belina, A. Moussaïd, F. Pignon, and H. Hoekstra
Published 17 November 2006 (12 pages)
051504 [View PDF (1,219 kB)]
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Relaxation processes due to the electrode-electrolyte interface in ionic solutions
Hugo Sanabria and John H. Miller, Jr.
Published 20 November 2006 (9 pages)
051505 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Density anomaly and liquid-liquid transition from perturbation theories
Jose B. Caballero and Antonio M. Puertas
Published 22 November 2006 (6 pages)
051506 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Magnetostriction of field-structured magnetoelastomers
James E. Martin, Robert A. Anderson, Douglas Read, and Gerald Gulley
Published 22 November 2006 (17 pages)
051507 [View PDF (1,467 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Interplay between thermal percolation and jamming upon dimer adsorption on binary alloys
Ernesto S. Loscar, R. A. Borzi, and Ezequiel V. Albano
Published 7 November 2006 (9 pages)
051601 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Feasibility of large free-standing liquid films in space
Rui Zheng and Thomas A. Witten
Published 17 November 2006 (12 pages)
051602 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Corresponding states of order parameter in nematic liquid crystals
M. Simões and D. S. Simeão
Published 2 November 2006 (7 pages)
051701 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Proton NMR relaxation of the dipolar quasi-invariants of nematic methyl deuterated para-azoxyanisole within the high-temperature Redfield relaxation theory
H. H. Segnorile, L. Barberis, C. E. González, and R. C. Zamar
Published 3 November 2006 (12 pages)
051702 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Frustrated smectic layer structures in bent-shaped dimer liquid crystals studied by x-ray microbeam diffraction
Yoichi Takanishi, Megumi Toshimitsu, Michi Nakata, Naoki Takada, Tatsuya Izumi, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe, Junji Watanabe, Yumiko Takahashi, and Atsuo Iida
Published 6 November 2006 (10 pages)
051703 [View PDF (1,149 kB)]
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Cholesteric liquid crystals with a helical pitch gradient: Spatial distribution of the concentration of chiral groups by Raman mapping in relation with the optical response and the microstructure
M. Belalia, M. Mitov, C. Bourgerette, A. Krallafa, M. Belhakem, and D. Bormann
Published 8 November 2006 (6 pages)
051704 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Surface effects on the relaxation dynamics of hexatic- B liquid-crystal films
I. N. de Oliveira and M. L. Lyra
Published 15 November 2006 (7 pages)
051705 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Experimental demonstration, using polarized Raman and infrared spectroscopy, that both conventional and de Vries smectic- A phases may exist in smectic liquid crystals with a first-order A-C* transition
Naoki Hayashi, A. Kocot, M. J. Linehan, Atsuo Fukuda, Jagdish K. Vij, G. Heppke, J. Naciri, Sachiko Kawada, and Shinya Kondoh
Published 16 November 2006 (11 pages)
051706 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Nematic-isotropic transition with quenched disorder
L. Petridis and E. M. Terentjev
Published 17 November 2006 (11 pages)
051707 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Dielectric study on the shear-induced structural changes in the nematic and the smectic- A phases of 4-n-octyl- 4′ -cyanobiphenyl (8CB)
K. Negita, M. Inoue, and S. Kondo
Published 22 November 2006 (6 pages)
051708 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Soft elasticity in biaxial smectic and smectic- C elastomers
Olaf Stenull and T. C. Lubensky
Published 27 November 2006 (24 pages)
051709 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Optical and confocal microscopy observations of screw dislocations in smectic- A liquid crystals
I. Lelidis, C. Blanc, and M. Kléman
Published 27 November 2006 (5 pages)
051710 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Polymers

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Secondary structures in long compact polymers
Richard Oberdorf, Allison Ferguson, Jesper L. Jacobsen, and Jané Kondev
Published 1 November 2006 (9 pages)
051801 [View PDF (535 kB)]
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Effects of solvent immiscibility on the phase behavior and microstructural length scales of a diblock copolymer in the presence of two solvents
Ching-I Huang and Yu-Chieh Hsu
Published 13 November 2006 (11 pages)
051802 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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RNA-like polymer model: Exact calculation on the Bethe lattice
M. Pretti
Published 21 November 2006 (10 pages)
051803 [View PDF (217 kB)]

Biological physics

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Thermodynamics of organisms in the context of dynamic energy budget theory
Tânia Sousa, Rui Mota, Tiago Domingos, and S. A. L. M Kooijman
Published 3 November 2006 (15 pages)
051901 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Complex movements of motor protein relay helices during the power stroke
Miljko V. Satarić, Leif Matsson, and Jack A. Tuszyński
Published 3 November 2006 (7 pages)
051902 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Subgraph ensembles and motif discovery using an alternative heuristic for graph isomorphism
Kim Baskerville and Maya Paczuski
Published 3 November 2006 (11 pages)
051903 [View PDF (473 kB)]
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Force modulating dynamic disorder: A physical model of catch-slip bond transitions in receptor-ligand forced dissociation experiments
Fei Liu and Zhong-can Ou-Yang
Published 6 November 2006 (9 pages)
051904 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Stochastic order parameter equation of isometric force production revealed by drift-diffusion estimates
T. D. Frank, R. Friedrich, and P. J. Beek
Published 6 November 2006 (11 pages)
051905 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Noise-induced cooperative dynamics and its control in coupled neuron models
B. Hauschildt, N. B. Janson, A. Balanov, and E. Schöll
Published 8 November 2006 (11 pages)
051906 [View PDF (1,202 kB)]
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Coexistence versus extinction in the stochastic cyclic Lotka-Volterra model
Tobias Reichenbach, Mauro Mobilia, and Erwin Frey
Published 10 November 2006 (11 pages)
051907 [View PDF (641 kB)]
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Electrophoresis of DNA on a disordered two-dimensional substrate
C. J. Olson Reichhardt and C. Reichhardt
Published 13 November 2006 (6 pages)
051908 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Identifying phase synchronization clusters in spatially extended dynamical systems
Stephan Bialonski and Klaus Lehnertz
Published 14 November 2006 (11 pages)
051909 [View PDF (853 kB)]
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Hybrid simulations of stochastic reaction-diffusion processes for modeling intracellular signaling pathways
K.-H. Chiam, Chee Meng Tan, Vipul Bhargava, and Gunaretnam Rajagopal
Published 14 November 2006 (13 pages)
051910 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Structure of two-component lipid membranes on solid support: An x-ray reflectivity study
Eva Nováková, Klaus Giewekemeyer, and Tim Salditt
Published 15 November 2006 (9 pages)
051911 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Contractile stress generation by actomyosin gels
A. E. Carlsson
Published 17 November 2006 (6 pages)
051912 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Effect of chain unsaturation on bilayer response to pressure
I. D. Skanes, J. Stewart, K. M. W. Keough, and M. R. Morrow
Published 20 November 2006 (8 pages)
051913 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Species abundance distribution and population dynamics in a two-community model of neutral ecology
M. Vallade and B. Houchmandzadeh
Published 21 November 2006 (9 pages)
051914 [View PDF (671 kB)]
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Anomalies and the Eve effect in the asexual Penna model
T. Preece and Y. Mao
Published 21 November 2006 (4 pages)
051915 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Iridescence in the neck feathers of domestic pigeons
Haiwei Yin, Lei Shi, Jing Sha, Yizhou Li, Youhua Qin, Biqin Dong, Serge Meyer, Xiaohan Liu, Li Zhao, and Jian Zi
Published 22 November 2006 (6 pages)
051916 [View PDF (578 kB)]
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Finite-size domains in membranes with active two-state inclusions
Chien-Hsun Chen and Hsuan-Yi Chen
Published 27 November 2006 (5 pages)
051917 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Designability and cooperative folding in a four-letter hydrophobic-polar model of proteins
Hai-guang Liu and Lei-Han Tang
Published 29 November 2006 (8 pages)
051918 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Controlling species richness in spin-glass model ecosystems
Fábio C. Poderoso and José F. Fontanari
Published 29 November 2006 (8 pages)
051919 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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White-noise susceptibility and critical slowing in neurons near spiking threshold
D. A. Steyn-Ross, Moira L. Steyn-Ross, M. T. Wilson, and J. W. Sleigh
Published 30 November 2006 (15 pages)
051920 [View PDF (1,224 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Knotting probability of a shaken ball-chain
J. Hickford, R. Jones, S. Courrech du Pont, and J. Eggers
Published 15 November 2006 (4 pages)
052101 [View PDF (95 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Changing the heat conductivity: An analytical study
Fernando Barros, Humberto C. F. Lemos, and Emmanuel Pereira
Published 20 November 2006 (4 pages)
052102 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Electric-field correlation in quantum charged fluids coupled to the radiation field
B. Jancovici
Published 22 November 2006 (4 pages)
052103 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Phase diagram of the hard-core Yukawa fluid within the integral equation method
E. B. El Mendoub, J.-F. Wax, and N. Jakse
Published 10 November 2006 (4 pages)
052501 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Relaxation time for the ionic current in a nematic cell under a large electric field
G. Barbero, A. M. Figueiredo Neto, F. C. M. Freire, and J. Le Digabel
Published 14 November 2006 (4 pages)
052701 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Biological physics

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Orthotropic elastic shell model for buckling of microtubules
C. Y. Wang, C. Q. Ru, and A. Mioduchowski
Published 14 November 2006 (4 pages)
052901 [View PDF (188 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Correlations in weighted networks
M. Ángeles Serrano, Marián Boguñá, and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras
Published 13 November 2006 (4 pages)
055101(R) [View PDF (259 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Frequency locking and complex dynamics near a periodically forced robust heteroclinic cycle
J. H. P. Dawes and T. L. Tsai
Published 6 November 2006 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (562 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Microwave generation of stable atmospheric-pressure fireballs in air
Karl D. Stephan
Published 14 November 2006 (4 pages)
055401(R) [View PDF (198 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Spreading dynamics on small-world networks with connectivity fluctuations and correlations
Alexei Vazquez
Published 1 November 2006 (7 pages)
056101 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Kinetics of migration-driven aggregation processes on scale-free networks
Jianhong Ke, Xiaoshuang Chen, Zhenquan Lin, Yizhuang Zheng, and Wei Lu
Published 2 November 2006 (10 pages)
056102 [View PDF (577 kB)]
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von Neumann entropy and localization-delocalization transition of electron states in quantum small-world networks
Longyan Gong and Peiqing Tong
Published 6 November 2006 (6 pages)
056103 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Optimal paths in complex networks with correlated weights: The worldwide airport network
Zhenhua Wu, Lidia A. Braunstein, Vittoria Colizza, Reuven Cohen, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 6 November 2006 (9 pages)
056104 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Dissemination strategy for immunizing scale-free networks
Alexandre O. Stauffer and Valmir C. Barbosa
Published 6 November 2006 (8 pages)
056105 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Collective oscillations, bicluster motion, and dynamical order in a system of globally coupled rotors with repulsive interactions
Daun Jeong, J. Choi, and M. Y. Choi
Published 7 November 2006 (6 pages)
056106 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Characteristics of reaction-diffusion on scale-free networks
Lazaros K. Gallos and Panos Argyrakis
Published 10 November 2006 (4 pages)
056107 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium phase transition in the coevolution of networks and opinions
Petter Holme and M. E. J. Newman
Published 10 November 2006 (5 pages)
056108 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Behaviors of susceptible-infected epidemics on scale-free networks with identical infectivity
Tao Zhou, Jian-Guo Liu, Wen-Jie Bai, Guanrong Chen, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 13 November 2006 (6 pages)
056109 [View PDF (513 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of error exponents for error-correcting codes
Thierry Mora and Olivier Rivoire
Published 15 November 2006 (25 pages)
056110 [View PDF (677 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of spin systems on small-world hypergraphs
D. Bollé, R. Heylen, and N. S. Skantzos
Published 15 November 2006 (11 pages)
056111 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Sparse repulsive coupling enhances synchronization in complex networks
I. Leyva, I. Sendiña-Nadal, J. A. Almendral, and M. A. F. Sanjuán
Published 20 November 2006 (7 pages)
056112 [View PDF (504 kB)]
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Memory-based snowdrift game on networks
Wen-Xu Wang, Jie Ren, Guanrong Chen, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 28 November 2006 (6 pages)
056113 [View PDF (478 kB)]
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Clustering in complex networks. I. General formalism
M. Ángeles Serrano and Marián Boguñá
Published 28 November 2006 (9 pages)
056114 [View PDF (793 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Clustering in complex networks. II. Percolation properties
M. Ángeles Serrano and Marián Boguñá
Published 28 November 2006 (8 pages)
056115 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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Designing threshold networks with given structural and dynamical properties
Aric Hagberg, Pieter J. Swart, and Daniel A. Schult
Published 29 November 2006 (10 pages)
056116 [View PDF (521 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Time delay in the Kuramoto model with bimodal frequency distribution
Ernest Montbrió, Diego Pazó, and Jürgen Schmidt
Published 2 November 2006 (5 pages)
056201 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Quasiregularity and rigorous diffusion of strong Hamiltonian chaos
O. Barash and I. Dana
Published 6 November 2006 (8 pages)
056202 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Calculation of cantori for Hamiltonian flows
S. R. Hudson
Published 8 November 2006 (6 pages)
056203 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Phase rigidity and avoided level crossings in the complex energy plane
Evgeny N. Bulgakov, Ingrid Rotter, and Almas F. Sadreev
Published 15 November 2006 (6 pages)
056204 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Synchronization and beam forming in an array of repulsively coupled oscillators
N. F. Rulkov, L. Tsimring, M. L. Larsen, and M. Gabbay
Published 15 November 2006 (10 pages)
056205 [View PDF (1,053 kB)]
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Persistent localized states for a chaotically mixed bistable reaction
Stephen M. Cox
Published 20 November 2006 (6 pages)
056206 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Nonperiodic echoes from mushroom billiard hats
B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, T. H. Seligman, and K. Zapfe
Published 22 November 2006 (8 pages)
056207 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Quantum-to-classical transition in a system with mixed classical dynamics
Fabricio Toscano and Diego A. Wisniacki
Published 27 November 2006 (9 pages)
056208 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Method for determining a coupling function in coupled oscillators with application to Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillators
J. Miyazaki and S. Kinoshita
Published 27 November 2006 (10 pages)
056209 [View PDF (469 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Vorticity generation in creeping flow past a magnetic obstacle
S. Cuevas, S. Smolentsev, and M. Abdou
Published 3 November 2006 (10 pages)
056301 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Helical magnetorotational instability in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow
Wei Liu, Jeremy Goodman, Isom Herron, and Hantao Ji
Published 7 November 2006 (8 pages)
056302 [View PDF (136 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Pore-network study of methane hydrate dissociation
Ioannis N. Tsimpanogiannis and Peter C. Lichtner
Published 8 November 2006 (13 pages)
056303 [View PDF (2,166 kB)]
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Linking drainage front morphology with gaseous diffusion in unsaturated porous media: A lattice Boltzmann study
Jessica Furrer Chau and Dani Or
Published 13 November 2006 (11 pages)
056304 [View PDF (975 kB)]
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Experiments on the rapid mechanical expansion of liquid 4He through its superfluid transition
V. B. Efimov, O. J. Griffiths, P. C. Hendry, G. V. Kolmakov, P. V. E. McClintock, and L. Skrbek
Published 16 November 2006 (8 pages)
056305 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Heat flux intensification by vortical flow localization in rotating convection
R. P. J. Kunnen, H. J. H. Clercx, and B. J. Geurts
Published 21 November 2006 (4 pages)
056306 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Negative wake behind a sphere rising in viscoelastic fluids: A lattice Boltzmann investigation
Xavier Frank and Huai Z. Li
Published 28 November 2006 (9 pages)
056307 [View PDF (572 kB)]
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Comparisons between different approximations to energy dissipation rate in a self-preserving far wake
T. Zhou, Z. Hao, L. P. Chua, and Y. Zhou
Published 29 November 2006 (11 pages)
056308 [View PDF (290 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Multiple void formation in plasmas containing multispecies charged grains
Y. H. Liu, Z. Y. Chen, M. Y. Yu, and A. Bogaerts
Published 13 November 2006 (6 pages)
056401 [View PDF (474 kB)]
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Nonintrusive characterization of the azimuthal drift current in a coaxial E×B discharge plasma
Cliff A. Thomas, Nicolas Gascon, and Mark A. Cappelli
Published 15 November 2006 (6 pages)
056402 [View PDF (737 kB)]
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Ground state of a confined Yukawa plasma
C. Henning, H. Baumgartner, A. Piel, P. Ludwig, V. Golubnichiy, M. Bonitz, and D. Block
Published 17 November 2006 (6 pages)
056403 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic tunneling in ponderomotive barriers
I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch
Published 28 November 2006 (8 pages)
056404 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Transverse dielectric matrix and shear mode dispersion in strongly coupled electronic bilayer liquids
Kenneth I Golden, Hania Mahassen, Gaetano Senatore, and Francesco Rapisarda
Published 29 November 2006 (15 pages)
056405 [View PDF (663 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Exotic radiation from a photonic crystal excited by an ultrarelativistic electron beam
N. Horiuchi, T. Ochiai, J. Inoue, Y. Segawa, Y. Shibata, K. Ishi, Y. Kondo, M. Kanbe, H. Miyazaki, F. Hinode, S. Yamaguti, and K. Ohtaka
Published 1 November 2006 (4 pages)
056601 [View PDF (776 kB)]
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Zener tunneling in two-dimensional photonic lattices
Valery S. Shchesnovich, Solange B. Cavalcanti, Jandir M. Hickmann, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 2 November 2006 (6 pages)
056602 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Propagation of femtosecond light pulses in a dye solution: Nonadherence to the conventional group velocity
T. Kohmoto, Y. Fukui, S. Furue, K. Nakayama, and Y. Fukuda
Published 3 November 2006 (5 pages)
056603 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Self-compression by femtosecond pulse filamentation: Experiments versus numerical simulations
Stefan Skupin, Gero Stibenz, Luc Bergé, Falk Lederer, Thomas Sokollik, Matthias Schnürer, Nickolai Zhavoronkov, and Günter Steinmeyer
Published 6 November 2006 (9 pages)
056604 [View PDF (501 kB)]
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Analytical cumulant solution of the vector radiative transfer equation investigates backscattering of circularly polarized light from turbid media
Wei Cai, Xiaohui Ni, S. K. Gayen, and R. R. Alfano
Published 8 November 2006 (11 pages)
056605 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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Straight-edge diffraction of Planck radiation
Peter J. Mohr and Eric L. Shirley
Published 9 November 2006 (8 pages)
056606 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Generalized matrix equivalence theorem for polarization theory
S. N. Savenkov, V. V. Marienko, E. A. Oberemok, and O. Sydoruk
Published 15 November 2006 (8 pages)
056607 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Symmetry breaking in symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials
G. Theocharis, P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and P. Schmelcher
Published 20 November 2006 (9 pages)
056608 [View PDF (784 kB)]
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Effect of amplification on conductance distribution of a disordered waveguide
Alexey Yamilov and Hui Cao
Published 20 November 2006 (4 pages)
056609 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Spatial correlation functions of random electromagnetic fields in the presence of a semi-infinite isotropic medium
Luk R. Arnaut
Published 22 November 2006 (9 pages)
056610 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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One-way diffraction grating
Matthew J. Lockyear, Alastair P. Hibbins, Kevin R. White, and J. Roy Sambles
Published 27 November 2006 (4 pages)
056611 [View PDF (547 kB)]
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Bloch vector dependence of the plasma frequency in metallic photonic crystals
Frédéric Zolla, Didier Felbacq, and Guy Bouchitté
Published 27 November 2006 (6 pages)
056612 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Polarization versus spatial characteristics of optical beams at a planar isotropic interface
Wojciech Nasalski
Published 29 November 2006 (16 pages)
056613 [View PDF (993 kB)]
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Wave propagation and optical properties in slabs with light-induced free charge carriers
Alberto Lencina, Pablo Vaveliuk, Beatriz Ruiz, Myrian Tebaldi, and Néstor Bolognini
Published 30 November 2006 (9 pages)
056614 [View PDF (685 kB)]
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Experimental study of photonic crystals consisting of ϵ -negative and μ -negative materials
Liwei Zhang, Yewen Zhang, Li He, Hongqing Li, and Hong Chen
Published 30 November 2006 (6 pages)
056615 [View PDF (286 kB)]

Computational physics

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Dissipative-particle-dynamics model for two-phase flows
Anupam Tiwari and John Abraham
Published 1 November 2006 (13 pages)
056701 [View PDF (1,148 kB)]
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Dynamic correlations in stochastic rotation dynamics
E. Tüzel, T. Ihle, and D. M. Kroll
Published 9 November 2006 (17 pages)
056702 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Thermodynamic consistency of liquid-gas lattice Boltzmann simulations
A. J. Wagner
Published 15 November 2006 (12 pages)
056703 [View PDF (704 kB)]
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Order- N first-principles calculation method for self-consistent ground-state electronic structures of semi-infinite systems
Takashi Sasaki, Tomoya Ono, and Kikuji Hirose
Published 15 November 2006 (7 pages)
056704 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann approach to thermal transpiration
Victor Sofonea
Published 16 November 2006 (5 pages)
056705 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Analysis of simulation technique for steady shock waves in materials with analytical equations of state
Evan J. Reed, Laurence E. Fried, William D. Henshaw, and Craig M. Tarver
Published 20 November 2006 (9 pages)
056706 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Simulation of binary mixtures with the lattice Boltzman method
S. Arcidiacono, J. Mantzaras, S. Ansumali, I. V. Karlin, C. Frouzakis, and K. B. Boulouchos
Published 22 November 2006 (10 pages)
056707 [View PDF (251 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Coloring random graphs and maximizing local diversity
S. Bounkong, J. van Mourik, and D. Saad
Published 2 November 2006 (4 pages)
057101 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Consequences of imperfect mixing the Gray-Scott model
M.-P. Zorzano, D. Hochberg, and F. Morán
Published 16 November 2006 (4 pages)
057102 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Persistent chaos in high dimensions
D. J. Albers, J. C. Sprott, and J. P. Crutchfield
Published 2 November 2006 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Hexagonal superlattice state in dielectric barrier discharge
Lifang Dong, Ruiling Gao, Yafeng He, Weili Fan, and Weili Liu
Published 8 November 2006 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Chaotic synchronization in large map networks
S. H. He, H. B. Huang, X. Zhang, Z. X. Liu, D. S. Xu, and C. K. Shen
Published 13 November 2006 (4 pages)
057203 [View PDF (327 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Structure analysis of two-dimensional nonlinear self-trapped photonic lattices in anisotropic photorefractive media
Bernd Terhalle, Denis Träger, Liqin Tang, Jörg Imbrock, and Cornelia Denz
Published 28 November 2006 (3 pages)
057601 [View PDF (297 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Molecular-field theory method for evaluating critical points of the Ising model [Phys. Rev. E 72, 056104 (2005)]
K. K. Zhuravlev
Published 1 November 2006 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Collective acoustic modes as renormalized damped oscillators: Unified description of neutron and x-ray scattering data from classical fluids [Phys. Rev. E 73, 061203 (2006)]
Ubaldo Bafile, Eleonora Guarini, and Fabrizio Barocchi
Published 10 November 2006 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Knotting probability of a shaken ball-chain [Phys. Rev. E74, 052101 (2006)]
J. Hickford, R. Jones, S. Courrech du Pont, and J. Eggers
Published 30 November 2006 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]