Physical Review E – December 2006
Volume 74, Issue 6

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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Asymmetric heat conduction through a weak link
B. Hu, D. He, L. Yang, and Y. Zhang
Published 4 December 2006 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Scanning the critical fluctuations: Application to the phenomenology of the two-dimensional XY model
Ricardo Paredes V. and Robert Botet
Published 19 December 2006 (4 pages)
060102(R) [View PDF (239 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Thermal rectifying effect in macroscopic size
B. Hu, D. He, L. Yang, and Y. Zhang
Published 8 December 2006 (4 pages)
060201(R) [View PDF (245 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Small changes in particle-size distribution dramatically delay and enhance nucleation in hard sphere colloidal suspensions
Hans Joachim Schöpe, Gary Bryant, and William van Megen
Published 4 December 2006 (4 pages)
060401(R) [View PDF (307 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Partially asymmetric exclusion processes with sitewise disorder
Róbert Juhász, Ludger Santen, and Ferenc Iglói
Published 4 December 2006 (10 pages)
061101 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Monomer-dimer model in two-dimensional rectangular lattices with fixed dimer density
Yong Kong
Published 4 December 2006 (15 pages)
061102 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Generalized diffusion equation for anisotropic anomalous diffusion
S. Sellers and J. A. Barker
Published 6 December 2006 (4 pages)
061103 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Detrended fluctuation analysis for fractals and multifractals in higher dimensions
Gao-Feng Gu and Wei-Xing Zhou
Published 7 December 2006 (8 pages)
061104 [View PDF (804 kB)]
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Memory effects on the convergence properties of the Jarzynski equality
S. Pressé and R. J. Silbey
Published 8 December 2006 (7 pages)
061105 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Freezing of two-dimensional hard disks
Adrián Huerta, Douglas Henderson, and Andrij Trokhymchuk
Published 11 December 2006 (4 pages)
061106 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Betti number signatures of homogeneous Poisson point processes
Vanessa Robins
Published 11 December 2006 (11 pages)
061107 [View PDF (706 kB)]
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Equations-of-motion approach to the spin- 1/2 Ising model on the Bethe lattice
Ferdinando Mancini and Adele Naddeo
Published 11 December 2006 (19 pages)
061108 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Statics and dynamics of elastic manifolds in media with long-range correlated disorder
Andrei A. Fedorenko, Pierre Le Doussal, and Kay Jörg Wiese
Published 11 December 2006 (16 pages)
061109 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Application of the microcanonical multifractal formalism to monofractal systems
Oriol Pont, Antonio Turiel, and Conrad J. Pérez-Vicente
Published 12 December 2006 (13 pages)
061110 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Intermediate dynamics between Newton and Langevin
Jing-Dong Bao, Yi-Zhong Zhuo, Fernando A. Oliveira, and Peter Hänggi
Published 20 December 2006 (6 pages)
061111 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Statistics of the number of minima in a random energy landscape
Satya N. Majumdar and Olivier C. Martin
Published 21 December 2006 (13 pages)
061112 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Test of the fluctuation theorem for stochastic entropy production in a nonequilibrium steady state
A. Gomez-Marin and I. Pagonabarraga
Published 21 December 2006 (8 pages)
061113 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Role of global warming on the statistics of record-breaking temperatures
S. Redner and Mark R. Petersen
Published 22 December 2006 (14 pages)
061114 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Exactly solvable cellular automaton traffic jam model
Michael J. Kearney
Published 26 December 2006 (6 pages)
061115 [View PDF (107 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Role of an intermediate state in homogeneous nucleation
Takaaki Monnai, Ayumu Sugita, and Katsuhiro Nakamura
Published 27 December 2006 (7 pages)
061116 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Validation of the Jarzynski relation for a system with strong thermal coupling: An isothermal ideal gas model
A. Baule, R. M. L. Evans, and P. D. Olmsted
Published 27 December 2006 (10 pages)
061117 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Resonant symmetry lifting in a parametrically modulated oscillator
D. Ryvkine and M. I. Dykman
Published 28 December 2006 (10 pages)
061118 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Dynamics of a metastable state nonlinearly coupled to a heat bath driven by external noise
Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri, Debashis Barik, and Suman Kumar Banik
Published 28 December 2006 (12 pages)
061119 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Free-energy reconstruction from experiments performed under different biasing programs
David D. L. Minh
Published 28 December 2006 (4 pages)
061120 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Percolation of particles on recursive lattices using a nanoscale approach. I. Theoretical foundation at the atomic level
Andrea Corsi and P. D. Gujrati
Published 29 December 2006 (13 pages)
061121 [View PDF (335 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Percolation of particles on recursive lattices using a nanoscale approach. II. The effect of size and shape disparities
Andrea Corsi and P. D. Gujrati
Published 29 December 2006 (17 pages)
061122 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Percolation of particles on recursive lattices using a nanoscale approach. III. Percolation of polydisperse particles in the presence of a polymer matrix
Andrea Corsi and P. D. Gujrati
Published 29 December 2006 (15 pages)
061123 [View PDF (732 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Stationary temperature profiles in a liquid nanochannel: Comparisons between molecular-dynamics simulation and classical hydrostatics
Hisashi Okumura and David M. Heyes
Published 1 December 2006 (10 pages)
061201 [View PDF (168 kB)]

Granular materials

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Rapid granular flows on a rough incline: Phase diagram, gas transition, and effects of air drag
Tamás Börzsönyi and Robert E. Ecke
Published 4 December 2006 (9 pages)
061301 [View PDF (1,120 kB)]
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Simulation study of granular compaction dynamics under vertical tapping
D. Arsenović, S. B. Vrhovac, Z. M. Jakšić, Lj. Budinski-Petković, and A. Belić
Published 8 December 2006 (14 pages)
061302 [View PDF (1,017 kB)]
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Quasirigidity: Some uniqueness issues
Sean C. McNamara and Hans J. Herrmann
Published 11 December 2006 (14 pages)
061303 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Frequency distribution of mechanically stable disk packings
Guo-Jie Gao, Jerzy Bławzdziewicz, and Corey S. O’Hern
Published 13 December 2006 (20 pages)
061304 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Transport coefficients for dense hard-disk systems
Ramón García-Rojo, Stefan Luding, and J. Javier Brey
Published 13 December 2006 (11 pages)
061305 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Relationship between the flow rate and the packing fraction in the choke area of the two-dimensional granular flow
Decai Huang, Gang Sun, and Kunquan Lu
Published 15 December 2006 (6 pages)
061306 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Dynamics and structures of segregation in a dense, vibrating granular bed
Jin Sun, Francine Battaglia, and Shankar Subramaniam
Published 18 December 2006 (13 pages)
061307 [View PDF (1,552 kB)]
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Random sequential addition of hard spheres in high Euclidean dimensions
S. Torquato, O. U. Uche, and F. H. Stillinger
Published 20 December 2006 (16 pages)
061308 [View PDF (665 kB)]
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Stochastic dynamics of a rod bouncing upon a vibrating surface
H. S. Wright, Michael R. Swift, and P. J. King
Published 27 December 2006 (9 pages)
061309 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Granular elasticity: General considerations and the stress dip in sand piles
Dmitry O. Krimer, Michael Pfitzner, Kurt Bräuer, Yimin Jiang, and Mario Liu
Published 27 December 2006 (10 pages)
061310 [View PDF (202 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Granular elasticity: Stress distributions in silos and under point loads
Kurt Bräuer, Michael Pfitzner, Dmitry O. Krimer, Michael Mayer, Yimin Jiang, and Mario Liu
Published 27 December 2006 (10 pages)
061311 [View PDF (197 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Micrometer-sized particles in a two-dimensional self-assembly during drying of liquid film
F. Lallet and N. Olivi-Tran
Published 7 December 2006 (6 pages)
061401 [View PDF (517 kB)]
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Mechanism for clogging of microchannels
Hans M. Wyss, Daniel L. Blair, Jeffrey F. Morris, Howard A. Stone, and David A. Weitz
Published 11 December 2006 (4 pages)
061402 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Stratification of colloidal aggregation coupled with sedimentation
Agustín E. González
Published 19 December 2006 (14 pages)
061403 [View PDF (1,048 kB)]
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Observation of exchange of micropore water in cement pastes by two-dimensional T2-T2 nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry
L. Monteilhet, J.-P. Korb, J. Mitchell, and P. J. McDonald
Published 22 December 2006 (9 pages)
061404 [View PDF (318 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Non-Gaussian effects, space-time decoupling, and mobility bifurcation in glassy hard-sphere fluids and suspensions
Erica J. Saltzman and Kenneth S. Schweizer
Published 12 December 2006 (13 pages)
061501 [View PDF (285 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Interfacial states and far-from-equilibrium transitions in the epitaxial growth and erosion on (110) crystal surfaces
Artem Levandovsky, Leonardo Golubović, and Dorel Moldovan
Published 1 December 2006 (16 pages)
061601 [View PDF (1,527 kB)]
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Intrinsically anomalous roughness of randomly crumpled thin sheets
Alexander S. Balankin, Orlando Susarrey Huerta, Rolando Cortes Montes de Oca, Didier Samayoa Ochoa, José Martínez Trinidad, and Maribel A. Mendoza
Published 7 December 2006 (7 pages)
061602 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Self-assembled treelike patterns from an evaporating binary solution
Leonid V. Govor, Günter Reiter, Gottfried H. Bauer, and Jürgen Parisi
Published 8 December 2006 (8 pages)
061603 [View PDF (1,275 kB)]
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Symmetry-based determination of space-time functions in nonequilibrium growth processes
Andreas Röthlein, Florian Baumann, and Michel Pleimling
Published 26 December 2006 (14 pages)
061604 [View PDF (428 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Computer simulations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional ideal grain growth
Seong Gyoon Kim, Dong Ik Kim, Won Tae Kim, and Yong Bum Park
Published 27 December 2006 (14 pages)
061605 [View PDF (1,620 kB)]
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Electrostatic potential and double layer force in a semiconductor-electrolyte-semiconductor heterojunction
S. J. Miklavcic and E. Said
Published 28 December 2006 (12 pages)
061606 [View PDF (1,422 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Simulation and visualization of topological defects in nematic liquid crystals
A. C. Callan-Jones, Robert A. Pelcovits, V. A. Slavin, S. Zhang, D. H. Laidlaw, and G. B. Loriot
Published 12 December 2006 (9 pages)
061701 [View PDF (875 kB)]
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Influence of flexibility on the biaxial nematic phase of bent core liquid crystals: A Monte Carlo simulation study
Martin A. Bates
Published 19 December 2006 (11 pages)
061702 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Elastic actions exchanged by eccentric cylinders in liquid crystals
Riccardo Rosso, Epifanio G. Virga, and Samo Kralj
Published 21 December 2006 (14 pages)
061703 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Deuterium nuclear-magnetic-resonance study of a chiral smectic- C* phase
J. Zhang, A. Ferraz, A. C. Ribeiro, P. J. Sebastiǎo, and Ronald Y. Dong
Published 21 December 2006 (8 pages)
061704 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Enhanced photonic band edge laser emission in a cholesteric liquid crystal resonator
Ying Zhou, Yuhua Huang, Zhibing Ge, Liang-Pin Chen, Qi Hong, Thomas X. Wu, and Shin-Tson Wu
Published 26 December 2006 (7 pages)
061705 [View PDF (726 kB)]
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Stabilizing the blue phases
G. P. Alexander and J. M. Yeomans
Published 27 December 2006 (9 pages)
061706 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Electroclinic effect in a chiral smectic- A liquid crystal stabilized by an anisotropic polymer network
Mohamed Petit, Abdelylah Daoudi, Mimoun Ismaili, and Jean Marc Buisine
Published 27 December 2006 (8 pages)
061707 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann scheme for modeling liquid-crystal dynamics: Zenithal bistable device in the presence of defect motion
T. J. Spencer and C. M. Care
Published 28 December 2006 (14 pages)
061708 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Correlations between the performance characteristics of a liquid crystal laser and the macroscopic material properties
S. M. Morris, A. D. Ford, M. N. Pivnenko, O. Hadeler, and H. J. Coles
Published 29 December 2006 (5 pages)
061709 [View PDF (290 kB)]

Polymers

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Crossover from reptation to Rouse dynamics in the cage model
A. Drzewiński and J. M. J. van Leeuwen
Published 1 December 2006 (8 pages)
061801 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Nonlocal model for nematic liquid-crystal elastomers
R. Ennis, L. C. Malacarne, P. Palffy-Muhoray, and M. Shelley
Published 8 December 2006 (8 pages)
061802 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Glass transition of polymers: Atomistic simulation versus experiments
Armand Soldera and Noureddine Metatla
Published 28 December 2006 (6 pages)
061803 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Biological physics

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Equilibration of experimentally determined protein structures for molecular dynamics simulation
Emily B. Walton and Krystyn J. VanVliet
Published 5 December 2006 (8 pages)
061901 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Transition from long- to short-lived transient pores in giant vesicles in an aqueous medium
Nicolas Rodriguez, Sophie Cribier, and Frédéric Pincet
Published 8 December 2006 (10 pages)
061902 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Nonperturbative retrieval of the scattering strength in one-dimensional media
K. D. Lamb, S. Menon, Q. Su, and R. Grobe
Published 8 December 2006 (9 pages)
061903 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Dynamics of spiral pairs induced by unidirectional propagating pulses
A. Rabinovitch, M. Gutman, Y. Biton, I. Aviram, and D. S. Rosenbaum
Published 12 December 2006 (5 pages)
061904 [View PDF (588 kB)]
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Calcium dynamics on a stochastic reaction-diffusion lattice model
Nara Guisoni and Mário J. de Oliveira
Published 18 December 2006 (6 pages)
061905 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Periodicity and chaos in electrically coupled Hindmarsh-Rose neurons
R. Erichsen, Jr., M. S. Mainieri, and L. G. Brunnet
Published 19 December 2006 (3 pages)
061906 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Effect of supercoiling on formation of protein-mediated DNA loops
P. K. Purohit and P. C. Nelson
Published 21 December 2006 (14 pages)
061907 [View PDF (706 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Phase transition in the collective migration of tissue cells: Experiment and model
B. Szabó, G. J. Szöllösi, B. Gönci, Zs. Jurányi, D. Selmeczi, and Tamás Vicsek
Published 22 December 2006 (5 pages)
061908 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Light scattering regimes along the optical axis in turbid media
S. D. Campbell, A. K. O’Connell, S. Menon, Q. Su, and R. Grobe
Published 26 December 2006 (10 pages)
061909 [View PDF (638 kB)]
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Episodic synchronization in dynamically driven neurons
Pablo Balenzuela, Javier M. Buldú, Marcos Casanova, and Jordi García-Ojalvo
Published 26 December 2006 (8 pages)
061910 [View PDF (846 kB)]
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Protein fluctuations and breakdown of time-scale separation in rate theories
Jianhua Xing and K. S. Kim
Published 27 December 2006 (5 pages)
061911 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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Internal protein dynamics shifts the distance to the mechanical transition state
Daniel K. West, Emanuele Paci, and Peter D. Olmsted
Published 29 December 2006 (5 pages)
061912 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of isotropic and liquid crystalline active polymer solutions
Aphrodite Ahmadi, M. C. Marchetti, and T. B. Liverpool
Published 29 December 2006 (23 pages)
061913 [View PDF (729 kB)]
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How to determine local elastic properties of lipid bilayer membranes from atomic-force-microscope measurements: A theoretical analysis
Davood Norouzi, Martin Michael Müller, and Markus Deserno
Published 29 December 2006 (12 pages)
061914 [View PDF (299 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Dimensional crossover of heat conduction in low dimensions
L. Yang, P. Grassberger, and B. Hu
Published 8 December 2006 (3 pages)
062101 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Tight coupling in thermal Brownian motors
A. Gomez-Marin and J. M. Sancho
Published 15 December 2006 (3 pages)
062102 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Square-well fluids in confined space with discretely attractive wall-fluid potentials: Critical point shift
Xianren Zhang and Wenchuan Wang
Published 18 December 2006 (4 pages)
062601 [View PDF (278 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Nonlinear refractive index measurements of discotic and calamitic nematic lyotropic phases
N. M. Kimura, P. A. Santoro, P. R. G. Fernandes, R. C. Viscovini, S. L. Gómez, and A. J. Palangana
Published 21 December 2006 (4 pages)
062701 [View PDF (151 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Heat fluctuations in Brownian transducers”
F. van Wijland
Published 21 December 2006 (2 pages)
063101 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Heat fluctuations in Brownian transducers’ ”
A. Gomez-Marin and J. M. Sancho
Published 21 December 2006 (1 page)
063102 [View PDF (30 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Collisions of pulses can lead to holes via front interaction in the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in an annular geometry
Orazio Descalzi, Jaime Cisternas, and Helmut R. Brand
Published 14 December 2006 (4 pages)
065201(R) [View PDF (481 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Shear driven solitary waves on a liquid film
A. M. Frank
Published 5 December 2006 (4 pages)
065301(R) [View PDF (78 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Relativistic plasma control for single attosecond x-ray burst generation
T. Baeva, S. Gordienko, and A. Pukhov
Published 5 December 2006 (4 pages)
065401(R) [View PDF (219 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Formation and light guiding properties of dark solitons in one-dimensional waveguide arrays
Eugene Smirnov, Christian E. Rüter, Milutin Stepić, Detlef Kip, and Vladimir Shandarov
Published 1 December 2006 (4 pages)
065601(R) [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Inelastic scattering and interactions of three-wave parametric solitons
Matteo Conforti, Fabio Baronio, Antonio Degasperis, and Stefan Wabnitz
Published 19 December 2006 (4 pages)
065602(R) [View PDF (428 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Statistical mechanics of two hard spheres in a box
Masayuki Uranagase and Toyonori Munakata
Published 1 December 2006 (10 pages)
066101 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Networks with dispersed degrees save stable coexistence of species in cyclic competition
Naoki Masuda and Norio Konno
Published 4 December 2006 (6 pages)
066102 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Successive splitting of autowaves in a nonlinear chemical reaction medium
Taiji Okano, Yuki Matsuda, and Kenji Miyakawa
Published 4 December 2006 (6 pages)
066103 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Oscillations of complex networks
Xingang Wang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Choy Heng Lai
Published 5 December 2006 (5 pages)
066104 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Network models of phage-bacteria coevolution
Martin Rosvall, Ian B. Dodd, Sandeep Krishna, and Kim Sneppen
Published 8 December 2006 (7 pages)
066105 [View PDF (766 kB)]
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1∕f noise and avalanche scaling in plastic deformation
L. Laurson and M. J. Alava
Published 13 December 2006 (5 pages)
066106 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Degree mixing and the enhancement of synchronization in complex weighted networks
M. Chavez, D.-U. Hwang, J. Martinerie, and S. Boccaletti
Published 14 December 2006 (5 pages)
066107 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Tomography of scale-free networks and shortest path trees
Tomer Kalisky, Reuven Cohen, Osnat Mokryn, Danny Dolev, Yuval Shavitt, and Shlomo Havlin
Published 15 December 2006 (10 pages)
066108 [View PDF (868 kB)]
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Transient and stationary behavior of the Olami-Feder-Christensen model
Felix Wissel and Barbara Drossel
Published 15 December 2006 (9 pages)
066109 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Dry friction avalanches: Experiment and theory
Sergey V. Buldyrev, John Ferrante, and Fredy R. Zypman
Published 19 December 2006 (12 pages)
066110 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Cascade and breakdown in scale-free networks with community structure
Jian-jun Wu, Zi-you Gao, and Hui-jun Sun
Published 19 December 2006 (5 pages)
066111 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Fitness model for the Italian interbank money market
G. De Masi, G. Iori, and G. Caldarelli
Published 21 December 2006 (5 pages)
066112 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Epidemic dynamics of two species of interacting particles on scale-free networks
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Hawoong Jeong, Naoki Masuda, and Jae Dong Noh
Published 21 December 2006 (5 pages)
066113 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Spreading dynamics on heterogeneous populations: Multitype network approach
Alexei Vazquez
Published 21 December 2006 (11 pages)
066114 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Strong effects of network architecture in the entrainment of coupled oscillator systems
Hiroshi Kori and Alexander S. Mikhailov
Published 26 December 2006 (14 pages)
066115 [View PDF (687 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of scale-free networks at a critical point: Complexity without irreversibility?
Christoly Biely and Stefan Thurner
Published 26 December 2006 (5 pages)
066116 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Robust emergent activity in dynamical networks
Sitabhra Sinha and Sudeshna Sinha
Published 26 December 2006 (5 pages)
066117 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Kinetic equations for reaction-subdiffusion systems: Derivation and stability analysis
A. Yadav and Werner Horsthemke
Published 28 December 2006 (10 pages)
066118 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Breathing dissipative solitons in three-component reaction-diffusion system
S. V. Gurevich, Sh. Amiranashvili, and H.-G. Purwins
Published 1 December 2006 (7 pages)
066201 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Ordering dynamics in type-II superconductors
Nicholas Guttenberg and Nigel Goldenfeld
Published 6 December 2006 (8 pages)
066202 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Evaluation of dynamical models: Dissipative synchronization and other techniques
Luis Antonio Aguirre, Edgar Campos Furtado, and Leonardo A. B. Tôrres
Published 13 December 2006 (16 pages)
066203 [View PDF (740 kB)]
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Distinguishing chaos from noise by scale-dependent Lyapunov exponent
J. B. Gao, J. Hu, W. W. Tung, and Y. H. Cao
Published 13 December 2006 (9 pages)
066204 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Adaptation to the edge of chaos in one-dimensional chaotic maps
Hiroyasu Ando and Kazuyuki Aihara
Published 18 December 2006 (5 pages)
066205 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Chaotic dynamics and synchronization in microchip solid-state lasers with optoelectronic feedback
Atsushi Uchida, Keisuke Mizumura, and Shigeru Yoshimori
Published 22 December 2006 (6 pages)
066206 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Synchronization of spontaneous bursting in a CO2 laser
Riccardo Meucci, Francesco Salvadori, Mikhail V. Ivanchenko, Kais Al Naimee, Chansong Zhou, F. Tito Arecchi, S. Boccaletti, and J. Kurths
Published 27 December 2006 (6 pages)
066207 [View PDF (725 kB)]
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Spectral form factor near the Ehrenfest time
Piet W. Brouwer, Saar Rahav, and Chushun Tian
Published 28 December 2006 (5 pages)
066208 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Spiral wave dynamics under feedback via an equilateral triangular sensory domain
Somprasong Naknaimueang, Michael A. Allen, and Stefan C. Müller
Published 29 December 2006 (7 pages)
066209 [View PDF (884 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Lyapunov exponents for small aspect ratio Rayleigh-Bénard convection
J. D. Scheel and M. C. Cross
Published 4 December 2006 (10 pages)
066301 [View PDF (537 kB)]
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Cascade of circulations in fluid turbulence
Gregory L. Eyink
Published 4 December 2006 (11 pages)
066302 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Analytical and numerical study on a vortex sheet in incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in cylindrical geometry
Chihiro Matsuoka and Katsunobu Nishihara
Published 5 December 2006 (12 pages)
066303 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Spatial correlation of temperature in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
T. Haramina and A. Tilgner
Published 5 December 2006 (5 pages)
066304 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Physical distinction between rolling-grain ripples and vortex ripples: An experimental study
Germain Rousseaux
Published 7 December 2006 (7 pages)
066305 [View PDF (587 kB)]
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Dynamics of liquid rope coiling
Mehdi Habibi, Maniya Maleki, Ramin Golestanian, Neil M. Ribe, and Daniel Bonn
Published 11 December 2006 (10 pages)
066306 [View PDF (835 kB)]
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Optic cavitation in an ultrasonic field
Thomas Kurz, Dennis Kröninger, Reinhard Geisler, and Werner Lauterborn
Published 12 December 2006 (7 pages)
066307 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Limits of the potential flow approach to the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor problem
P. Ramaprabhu, Guy Dimonte, Yuan-Nan Young, A. C. Calder, and B. Fryxell
Published 20 December 2006 (10 pages)
066308 [View PDF (945 kB)]
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Sub- and superdiffusive molecular displacement laws in disordered porous media probed by nuclear magnetic resonance
Yujie Li, German Farrher, and Rainer Kimmich
Published 21 December 2006 (7 pages)
066309 [View PDF (601 kB)]
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Large- and small-scale interactions and quenching in an α2 -dynamo
Peter Frick, Rodion Stepanov, and Dmitry Sokoloff
Published 22 December 2006 (12 pages)
066310 [View PDF (1,210 kB)]
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Liquid flow in surface-nanostructured channels studied by molecular dynamics simulation
Bing-Yang Cao, Min Chen, and Zeng-Yuan Guo
Published 29 December 2006 (7 pages)
066311 [View PDF (550 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Role of excited atoms in decaying low-pressure argon plasma
Sergey Gorchakov, Detlef Loffhagen, and Dirk Uhrlandt
Published 5 December 2006 (10 pages)
066401 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Characteristics of multiple filaments generated by femtosecond laser pulses in air: Prefocused versus free propagation
Zuoqiang Hao, Jie Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Xiaohui Yuan, Zhiyuan Zheng, Xin Lu, Zhan Jin, Zhaohua Wang, Jiayong Zhong, and Yunquan Liu
Published 15 December 2006 (5 pages)
066402 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Rotational motion of dusty structures in glow discharge in longitudinal magnetic field
V. Yu Karasev, E. S. Dzlieva, A. Yu. Ivanov, and A. I. Eikhvald
Published 29 December 2006 (12 pages)
066403 [View PDF (866 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Stability diagram of unilateral buckling patterns of strip-delaminated films
G. Parry, A. Cimetière, C. Coupeau, J. Colin, and J. Grilhé
Published 5 December 2006 (7 pages)
066601 [View PDF (457 kB)]
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Optimization of soliton ratchets in inhomogeneous sine-Gordon systems
F. G. Mertens, L. Morales-Molina, A. R. Bishop, A. Sánchez, and P. Müller
Published 6 December 2006 (8 pages)
066602 [View PDF (390 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Near-field characterization of effective optical interfaces
A. Apostol, D. Haefner, and A. Dogariu
Published 7 December 2006 (6 pages)
066603 [View PDF (853 kB)]
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Localized states in a triangular set of linearly coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equations
Ariel Sigler, Boris A. Malomed, and Dmitry V. Skryabin
Published 12 December 2006 (6 pages)
066604 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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Superconducting pipes and levitating magnets
Yan Levin and Felipe B. Rizzato
Published 12 December 2006 (7 pages)
066605 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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High-order-mode soliton structures in two-dimensional lattices with defocusing nonlinearity
P. G. Kevrekidis, H. Susanto, and Z. Chen
Published 13 December 2006 (9 pages)
066606 [View PDF (1,051 kB)]
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Bragg transmittance of s -polarized waves through finite-thickness photonic crystals with a periodically corrugated interface
A. E. Serebryannikov, T. Magath, and K. Schuenemann
Published 14 December 2006 (13 pages)
066607 [View PDF (639 kB)]
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Hole-vortex solitons
Aleksandr N. Bugay and Sergey V. Sazonov
Published 20 December 2006 (8 pages)
066608 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Broadband diffraction management and self-collimation of white light in photonic lattices
Ivan L. Garanovich, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 21 December 2006 (4 pages)
066609 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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Geometrical aspects in optical wave-packet dynamics
Masaru Onoda, Shuichi Murakami, and Naoto Nagaosa
Published 22 December 2006 (29 pages)
066610 [View PDF (2,835 kB)]
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Bragg-soliton formation and pulse compression in a one-dimensional periodic structure
Amir Rosenthal and Moshe Horowitz
Published 26 December 2006 (5 pages)
066611 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Helmholtz-Manakov solitons
J. M. Christian, G. S. McDonald, and P. Chamorro-Posada
Published 28 December 2006 (5 pages)
066612 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Frozen light in photonic crystals with degenerate band edge
Alex Figotin and Ilya Vitebskiy
Published 28 December 2006 (17 pages)
066613 [View PDF (947 kB)]
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Stable solitons of even and odd parities supported by competing nonlocal nonlinearities
D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, F. Lederer, L.-C. Crasovan, Y. V. Kartashov, L. Torner, and B. A. Malomed
Published 29 December 2006 (6 pages)
066614 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Matter-wave solitons in radially periodic potentials
Bakhtiyor B. Baizakov, Boris A. Malomed, and Mario Salerno
Published 29 December 2006 (18 pages)
066615 [View PDF (1,175 kB)]

Computational physics

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Inhomogeneous backflow transformations in quantum Monte Carlo calculations
P. López Ríos, A. Ma, N. D. Drummond, M. D. Towler, and R. J. Needs
Published 19 December 2006 (15 pages)
066701 [View PDF (2,248 kB)]
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Computational method for the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation: One-dimensional scattering problems
Chia-Chun Chou and Robert E. Wyatt
Published 19 December 2006 (9 pages)
066702 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Bayesian update method for adaptive weighted sampling
Sanghyun Park, Daniel L. Ensign, and Vijay S. Pande
Published 27 December 2006 (12 pages)
066703 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Parallel self-consistent-field calculations via Chebyshev-filtered subspace acceleration
Yunkai Zhou, Yousef Saad, Murilo L. Tiago, and James R. Chelikowsky
Published 28 December 2006 (8 pages)
066704 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Vibrations of adsorbates on metal surfaces from geometry optimizations
A. P. J. Jansen, C. Popa, and W. K. Offermans
Published 29 December 2006 (8 pages)
066705 [View PDF (236 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Stability of discrete solitons in the presence of parametric driving
H. Susanto, Q. E. Hoq, and P. G. Kevrekidis
Published 4 December 2006 (4 pages)
067601 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Analytical calculation of the self-force on a part of a current loop using standard electrodynamics
Geetha Ajoy
Published 8 December 2006 (4 pages)
067602 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Modulational instability of spatially broadband nonlinear optical pulses in four-state atomic systems
M. Marklund, P. K. Shukla, B. Bingham, and J. T. Mendonça
Published 18 December 2006 (4 pages)
067603 [View PDF (76 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Electron acceleration by an intense short pulse laser in a static magnetic field in vacuum”
Shihua Huang and Fengmin Wu
Published 14 December 2006 (2 pages)
068401 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Comment on “Numerical methods for stochastic differential equations”
Kevin Burrage, Pamela Burrage, Desmond J. Higham, Peter E. Kloeden, and Eckhard Platen
Published 22 December 2006 (2 pages)
068701 [View PDF (41 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Particle-size distribution and packing fraction of geometric random packings [Phys. Rev. E 74, 031309 (2006)]
H. J. H. Brouwers
Published 12 December 2006 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Erratum: Relativistic Brownian motion: From a microscopic binary collision model to the Langevin equation [Phys. Rev. E 74, 051106 (2006)]
Jörn Dunkel and Peter Hänggi
Published 15 December 2006 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Erratum: Phase diagram and structure of colloid-polymer mixtures confined between walls [Phys. Rev. E 74, 031601 (2006)]
R. L. C. Vink, A. De Virgiliis, J. Horbach, and K. Binder
Published 15 December 2006 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Optimization of soliton ratchets in inhomogeneous sine-Gordon systems [Phys. Rev. E 74, 066602 (2006)]
F. G. Mertens, L. Morales-Molina, A. R. Bishop, A. Sánchez, and P. Müller
Published 18 December 2006 (1 page)
069904(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]