Physical Review E – February 2007
Volume 75, Issue 2

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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Central limit theorem for anomalous scaling due to correlations
Fulvio Baldovin and Attilio L. Stella
Published 20 February 2007 (4 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (118 kB)]

Granular materials

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Critical and noncritical jamming of frictional grains
Ellák Somfai, Martin van Hecke, Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Kostya Shundyak, and Wim van Saarloos
Published 2 February 2007 (4 pages)
020301(R) [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Rapid two-dimensional imaging of bubbles and slugs in a three-dimensional, gas-solid, two-phase flow system using ultrafast magnetic resonance
C. R. Müller, D. J. Holland, J. F. Davidson, J. S. Dennis, L. F. Gladden, A. N. Hayhurst, M. D. Mantle, and A. J. Sederman
Published 9 February 2007 (4 pages)
020302(R) [View PDF (356 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Anomalous collective dynamics in optically driven colloidal rings
Yael Roichman, David G. Grier, and George Zaslavsky
Published 6 February 2007 (4 pages)
020401(R) [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Simple monoclinic crystal phase in suspensions of hard ellipsoids
P. Pfleiderer and T. Schilling
Published 9 February 2007 (4 pages)
020402(R) [View PDF (287 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Effect of stress on the diffusion-controlled dissolution of a spherical particle
Jérôme Colin
Published 13 February 2007 (4 pages)
020601(R) [View PDF (228 kB)]

Polymers

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Scaling behavior of linear polymers in disordered media
Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull
Published 28 February 2007 (4 pages)
020801(R) [View PDF (158 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Multiple time-scale approach for a system of Brownian particles in a nonuniform temperature field
Cristóbal López and Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi
Published 1 February 2007 (6 pages)
021101 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Power-law strength-degree correlation from resource-allocation dynamics on weighted networks
Qing Ou, Ying-Di Jin, Tao Zhou, Bing-Hong Wang, and Bao-Qun Yin
Published 2 February 2007 (5 pages)
021102 [View PDF (550 kB)]
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Foundations for cooperating with control noise in the manipulation of quantum dynamics
Feng Shuang, Herschel Rabitz, and Mark Dykman
Published 6 February 2007 (9 pages)
021103 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Relaxation dynamics of iron-group dihalides
Gul Gulpinar, Dogan Demirhan, and Fevzi Buyukkilic
Published 6 February 2007 (9 pages)
021104 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Floating phase in the one-dimensional transverse axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising model
Anjan Kumar Chandra and Subinay Dasgupta
Published 7 February 2007 (10 pages)
021105 [View PDF (474 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium relaxations within the ground-state manifold in the antiferromagnetic Ising model on a triangular lattice
Eunhye Kim, Sung Jong Lee, and Bongsoo Kim
Published 8 February 2007 (12 pages)
021106 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Thermal escape from a metastable state in periodically driven Josephson junctions
Guozhu Sun, Ning Dong, Guangfeng Mao, Jian Chen, Weiwei Xu, Zhengming Ji, Lin Kang, Peiheng Wu, Yang Yu, and Dingyu Xing
Published 9 February 2007 (4 pages)
021107 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Strategy based on information entropy for optimizing stochastic functions
Tobias Christian Schmidt, Harald Ries, and Wolfgang Spirkl
Published 9 February 2007 (9 pages)
021108 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Escape driven by α -stable white noises
B. Dybiec, E. Gudowska-Nowak, and P. Hänggi
Published 12 February 2007 (8 pages)
021109 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Modeling walker synchronization on the Millennium Bridge
Bruno Eckhardt, Edward Ott, Steven H. Strogatz, Daniel M. Abrams, and Allan McRobie
Published 12 February 2007 (10 pages)
021110 [View PDF (731 kB)]
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Random walks and Brownian motion: A method of computation for first-passage times and related quantities in confined geometries
S. Condamin, O. Bénichou, and M. Moreau
Published 13 February 2007 (20 pages)
021111 [View PDF (933 kB)]
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Diffusion trajectory of an asymmetric object: Information overlooked by the mean square displacement
Claire Ribrault, Antoine Triller, and Ken Sekimoto
Published 14 February 2007 (7 pages)
021112 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Gravitational dynamics of an infinite shuffled lattice of particles
T. Baertschiger, M. Joyce, A. Gabrielli, and F. Sylos Labini
Published 15 February 2007 (20 pages)
021113 [View PDF (495 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Wait-and-switch relaxation model: Relationship between nonexponential relaxation patterns and random local properties of a complex system
Bożena Szabat, Karina Weron, and Paulina Hetman
Published 16 February 2007 (9 pages)
021114 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Characterization of Gaussian self-similar stochastic processes using wavelet-based informational tools
L. Zunino, D. G. Pérez, M. T. Martín, A. Plastino, M. Garavaglia, and O. A. Rosso
Published 20 February 2007 (10 pages)
021115 [View PDF (561 kB)]
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Work distribution for the adiabatic compression of a dilute and interacting classical gas
Gavin E. Crooks and Christopher Jarzynski
Published 20 February 2007 (4 pages)
021116 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Two-site self-consistent method for front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems
Niraj Kumar and Goutam Tripathy
Published 23 February 2007 (4 pages)
021117 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Universality class of triad dynamics on a triangular lattice
Filippo Radicchi, Daniele Vilone, and Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns
Published 23 February 2007 (9 pages)
021118 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Universal features of information spreading efficiency on d -dimensional lattices
E. Agliari, R. Burioni, D. Cassi, and F. M. Neri
Published 23 February 2007 (8 pages)
021119 [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Coarsening of bicontinuous structures via nonconserved and conserved dynamics
Yongwoo Kwon, Katsuyo Thornton, and Peter W. Voorhees
Published 26 February 2007 (5 pages)
021120 [View PDF (575 kB)]
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Enhanced information transmission with signal-dependent noise in an array of nonlinear elements
A. Nikitin, N. G. Stocks, and R. P. Morse
Published 26 February 2007 (8 pages)
021121 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Kinetics of the bosonic A+B→0 reaction with on-site attractive interaction
Sungchul Kwon and Yup Kim
Published 27 February 2007 (6 pages)
021122 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Maximal height statistics for 1∕fα signals
G. Györgyi, N. R. Moloney, K. Ozogány, and Z. Rácz
Published 28 February 2007 (16 pages)
021123 [View PDF (658 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Radial distribution function of penetrable sphere fluids to the second order in density
Andrés Santos and Alexandr Malijevský
Published 6 February 2007 (9 pages)
021201 [View PDF (346 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Granular materials

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Shape and erosion of pebbles
D. J. Durian, H. Bideaud, P. Duringer, A. P. Schröder, and C. M. Marques
Published 5 February 2007 (9 pages)
021301 [View PDF (742 kB)]
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Rheology of a granular gas under a plane shear
Kuniyasu Saitoh and Hisao Hayakawa
Published 8 February 2007 (11 pages)
021302 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Granular packs under vertical tapping: Structure evolution, grain motion, and dynamical heterogeneities
Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Mario Nicodemi, and Antonio Coniglio
Published 23 February 2007 (10 pages)
021303 [View PDF (1,288 kB)]
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Shock wave structure in a strongly nonlinear lattice with viscous dissipation
E. B. Herbold and V. F. Nesterenko
Published 26 February 2007 (8 pages)
021304 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Effects of surface friction on a two-dimensional granular system: Numerical model of a granular collider experiment
Meenakshi Dutt and R. P. Behringer
Published 28 February 2007 (9 pages)
021305 [View PDF (557 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Origin of the reduced attracting force between a rotating dielectric particle and a stationary one
W. J. Tian, M. K. Liu, and J. P. Huang
Published 9 February 2007 (6 pages)
021401 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Spin models for orientational ordering of colloidal molecular crystals
Andreja Šarlah, Erwin Frey, and Thomas Franosch
Published 16 February 2007 (18 pages)
021402 [View PDF (1,236 kB)]
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Structure and rheology of organoclay suspensions
H. E. King, Jr., Scott T. Milner, Min Y. Lin, John P. Singh, and T. G. Mason
Published 21 February 2007 (20 pages)
021403 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Dynamics and instabilities of defects in two-dimensional crystals on curved backgrounds
Mark Bowick, Homin Shin, and Alex Travesset
Published 22 February 2007 (8 pages)
021404 [View PDF (1,238 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Modeling breakup and relaxation of Newtonian droplets using the advected phase-field approach
J. Beaucourt, T. Biben, A. Leyrat, and C. Verdier
Published 23 February 2007 (8 pages)
021405 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Microstructure of equilibrium fluid clusters in colloid-polymer suspensions
V. Gopalakrishnan and C. F. Zukoski
Published 27 February 2007 (9 pages)
021406 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Confinement-induced liquid ordering investigated by x-ray phase retrieval
Oliver Bunk, Ana Diaz, Franz Pfeiffer, Christian David, Celestino Padeste, Heilke Keymeulen, Philip R. Willmott, Bruce D. Patterson, Bernd Schmitt, Dillip K. Satapathy, J. Friso van der Veen, Hua Guo, and Gerard H. Wegdam
Published 6 February 2007 (6 pages)
021501 [View PDF (540 kB)]
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Steric effects in the dynamics of electrolytes at large applied voltages. I. Double-layer charging
Mustafa Sabri Kilic, Martin Z. Bazant, and Armand Ajdari
Published 16 February 2007 (16 pages)
021502 [View PDF (917 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Steric effects in the dynamics of electrolytes at large applied voltages. II. Modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations
Mustafa Sabri Kilic, Martin Z. Bazant, and Armand Ajdari
Published 16 February 2007 (11 pages)
021503 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Slow relaxation mode in concentrated oil-in-water microemulsions consisting of repulsive droplets
Y. Hattori, H. Ushiki, L. Courbin, and P. Panizza
Published 22 February 2007 (7 pages)
021504 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Transition pathways between solid and liquid state in suspensions
Lutz Heymann and Nuri Aksel
Published 27 February 2007 (9 pages)
021505 [View PDF (979 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Boundary-reaction-diffusion model for oscillatory zoning in binary crystals grown from solution
Felix Kalischewski, Ihor Lubashevsky, and Andreas Heuer
Published 1 February 2007 (12 pages)
021601 [View PDF (925 kB)]
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Feedback control of unstable cellular solidification fronts
A. J. Pons, A. Karma, S. Akamatsu, M. Newey, A. Pomerance, H. Singer, and W. Losert
Published 8 February 2007 (5 pages)
021602 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Spatial first-passage statistics of Al∕Si(111)-(√3×√3) step fluctuations
B. R. Conrad, W. G. Cullen, D. B. Dougherty, I. Lyubinetsky, and E. D. Williams
Published 9 February 2007 (6 pages)
021603 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Capillary wave dynamics on supported viscoelastic films: Single and double layers
Mark L. Henle and Alex J. Levine
Published 16 February 2007 (14 pages)
021604 [View PDF (465 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Tailoring of crystal surface morphology by induced spatiotemporal oscillations of temperature
M. Khenner
Published 23 February 2007 (14 pages)
021605 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Simple model for competitive dynamics among dendritic sidebranches
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi, Kazuki Kishinawa, Kyohei Katsuki, and Haruo Honjo
Published 23 February 2007 (7 pages)
021606 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Preferred orientations and stability of medium length n -alkanes solidified in mesoporous silicon
A. Henschel, T. Hofmann, P. Huber, and K. Knorr
Published 26 February 2007 (9 pages)
021607 [View PDF (1,147 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Phenomenological model for the optically induced easy direction
A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, C. Uncheselu, L. Lucchetti, and G. Barbero
Published 1 February 2007 (10 pages)
021701 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Pretransitional effects near the smectic- A –smectic- C* phase transition of hydrophilic and hydrophobic aerosil networks dispersed in ferroelectric liquid crystals
George Cordoyiannis, Samo Kralj, George Nounesis, Zdravko Kutnjak, and Slobodan Žumer
Published 6 February 2007 (14 pages)
021702 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Photoinduced reorientation of nematic liquid crystals doped with an azo dye: A dynamic and steady-state study of reorientation and loss of liquid crystal order
David Statman, Eric Page, Vince Werner, and James C. Lombardi
Published 7 February 2007 (8 pages)
021703 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Orientational multiplicity and transitions in liquid crystalline droplets
Rajesh K. Goyal and Morton M. Denn
Published 28 February 2007 (10 pages)
021704 [View PDF (843 kB)]

Polymers

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Density of polymers in a layered structure: An exactly solvable model
A. I. Chervanyov and G. Heinrich
Published 13 February 2007 (4 pages)
021801 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Free volume of an oligomeric epoxy resin and its relation to structural relaxation: Evidence from positron lifetime and pressure-volume-temperature experiments
Günter Dlubek, Jürgen Pointeck, Muhamad Qasim Shaikh, E. M. Hassan, and Reinhard Krause-Rehberg
Published 22 February 2007 (13 pages)
021802 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Semiflexible polymers: Dependence on ensemble and boundary orientations
Debasish Chaudhuri
Published 28 February 2007 (14 pages)
021803 [View PDF (1,052 kB)]

Biological physics

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DNA molecules on periodically microstructured lipid membranes: Localization and coil stretching
Marion B. Hochrein, Judith A. Leierseder, Leonardo Golubović, and Joachim O. Rädler
Published 1 February 2007 (13 pages)
021901 [View PDF (876 kB)]
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Traffic of interacting ribosomes: Effects of single-machine mechanochemistry on protein synthesis
Aakash Basu and Debashish Chowdhury
Published 1 February 2007 (11 pages)
021902 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Electrostriction of anisotropic tissue
Phillip Prior and Bradley J. Roth
Published 5 February 2007 (6 pages)
021903 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Stochastic simulations of genetic switch systems
Adiel Loinger, Azi Lipshtat, Nathalie Q. Balaban, and Ofer Biham
Published 9 February 2007 (14 pages)
021904 [View PDF (951 kB)]
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Dielectric relaxation of DNA aqueous solutions
S. Tomić, S. Dolanski Babić, T. Vuletić, S. Krča, D. Ivanković, L. Griparić, and R. Podgornik
Published 15 February 2007 (13 pages)
021905 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Effective charge and free energy of DNA inside an ion channel
Jingshan Zhang and B. I. Shklovskii
Published 15 February 2007 (10 pages)
021906 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Model for stretching elastic biopolymers which exhibit conformational transformations
R. G. Haverkamp, A. T. Marshall, and M. A. K. Williams
Published 15 February 2007 (7 pages)
021907 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Master equation approach to DNA breathing in heteropolymer DNA
Tobias Ambjörnsson, Suman K. Banik, Michael A. Lomholt, and Ralf Metzler
Published 16 February 2007 (13 pages)
021908 [View PDF (717 kB)]
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Back-stepping, hidden substeps, and conditional dwell times in molecular motors
Denis Tsygankov, Martin Lindén, and Michael E. Fisher
Published 20 February 2007 (16 pages)
021909 [View PDF (618 kB)]
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Theory of action potential wave block at-a-distance in the heart
Niels F. Otani
Published 20 February 2007 (17 pages)
021910 [View PDF (1,593 kB)]
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Scaling law for the transient behavior of type-II neuron models
M. A. D. Roa, M. Copelli, O. Kinouchi, and N. Caticha
Published 20 February 2007 (5 pages)
021911 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Aggregation of liposomes induced by calcium: A structural and kinetic study
Sándalo Roldán-Vargas, Alberto Martín-Molina, Manuel Quesada-Pérez, Ramon Barnadas-Rodríguez, Joan Estelrich, and José Callejas-Fernández
Published 21 February 2007 (10 pages)
021912 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Precrystallization clusters of holoferritin and apoferritin at low temperature
S. Boutet and I. K. Robinson
Published 21 February 2007 (12 pages)
021913 [View PDF (1,406 kB)]
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Towards absolute calibration of optical tweezers
N. B. Viana, M. S. Rocha, O. N. Mesquita, A. Mazolli, P. A. Maia Neto, and H. M. Nussenzveig
Published 23 February 2007 (14 pages)
021914 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Functional structure of cortical neuronal networks grown in vitro
Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Greg J. Stephens, Michael I. Ham, and Guenter W. Gross
Published 23 February 2007 (10 pages)
021915 [View PDF (634 kB)]
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Cubic equation governing the outer-region dielectric constant of globular proteins
Hwangseo Park and Young Ho Jeon
Published 26 February 2007 (4 pages)
021916 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Adaptive velocity strategy for swarm aggregation
Wei Li and Xiaofan Wang
Published 27 February 2007 (7 pages)
021917 [View PDF (786 kB)]
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Envelope gating and noise shaping in populations of noisy neurons
J. W. Middleton, E. Harvey-Girard, L. Maler, and A. Longtin
Published 28 February 2007 (5 pages)
021918 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Composite model for DNA torsion dynamics
Mariano Cadoni, Roberto De Leo, and Giuseppe Gaeta
Published 28 February 2007 (21 pages)
021919 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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RNA secondary structure design
Bernd Burghardt and Alexander K. Hartmann
Published 28 February 2007 (10 pages)
021920 [View PDF (231 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Transition from Gaussian to Levy distributions of stochastic payoff variations in the spatial prisoner’s dilemma game
Matjaž Perc
Published 2 February 2007 (4 pages)
022101 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Fluctuation theorems for a molecular refrigerator
Kyung Hyuk Kim and Hong Qian
Published 12 February 2007 (4 pages)
022102 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Biological physics

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Partially mixed household epidemiological model with clustered resistant individuals
David E. Hiebeler and Amanda Keck Criner
Published 21 February 2007 (4 pages)
022901 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Temperature-compensated chemical reactions
Kanaka Rajan and L. F. Abbott
Published 23 February 2007 (3 pages)
022902 [View PDF (63 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Using synchronization to obtain dynamic logic gates
K. Murali and Sudeshna Sinha
Published 7 February 2007 (4 pages)
025201(R) [View PDF (351 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Clustering of heavy particles in random self-similar flow
J. Bec, M. Cencini, and R. Hillerbrand
Published 9 February 2007 (4 pages)
025301(R) [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Transition from laminar to turbulent drag in flow due to a vibrating quartz fork
M. Blažková, D. Schmoranzer, and L. Skrbek
Published 9 February 2007 (4 pages)
025302(R) [View PDF (477 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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On-off intermittency in earthquake occurrence
M. Bottiglieri and C. Godano
Published 5 February 2007 (5 pages)
026101 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Modeling human activity in the spirit of Barabasi’s queueing systems
Ph. Blanchard and M.-O. Hongler
Published 9 February 2007 (8 pages)
026102 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Analysis of scientific productivity using maximum entropy principle and fluctuation-dissipation theorem
Piotr Fronczak, Agata Fronczak, and Janusz A. Hołyst
Published 16 February 2007 (9 pages)
026103 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Random walks along the streets and canals in compact cities: Spectral analysis, dynamical modularity, information, and statistical mechanics
D. Volchenkov and Ph. Blanchard
Published 20 February 2007 (14 pages)
026104 [View PDF (788 kB)]
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Ising model on the scale-free network with a Cayley-tree-like structure
Takehisa Hasegawa and Koji Nemoto
Published 21 February 2007 (6 pages)
026105 [View PDF (101 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Social balance as a satisfiability problem of computer science
Filippo Radicchi, Daniele Vilone, Sooeyon Yoon, and Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns
Published 23 February 2007 (17 pages)
026106 [View PDF (753 kB)]
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Dynamical localization-delocalization transition of the reaction-diffusion front at a semipermeable cellulose membrane
Sung Hyun Park, Hailin Peng, Raoul Kopelman, and Haim Taitelbaum
Published 26 February 2007 (7 pages)
026107 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Universal and nonuniversal features in a model of city traffic
B. A. Toledo, E. Cerda, J. Rogan, V. Muñoz, C. Tenreiro, R. Zarama, and J. A. Valdivia
Published 26 February 2007 (10 pages)
026108 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Generalized ensemble and tempering simulations: A unified view
Walter Nadler and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann
Published 27 February 2007 (10 pages)
026109 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Irreversible opinion spreading on scale-free networks
Julián Candia
Published 28 February 2007 (8 pages)
026110 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Modeling the coevolution of topology and traffic on weighted technological networks
Yan-Bo Xie, Wen-Xu Wang, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 28 February 2007 (9 pages)
026111 [View PDF (739 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Complete chaotic synchronization in mutually coupled time-delay systems
Alexandra S. Landsman and Ira B. Schwartz
Published 2 February 2007 (8 pages)
026201 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Dynamic phase transition in a rotating external field
Naoya Fujiwara, Takeo Kobayashi, and Hirokazu Fujisaka
Published 2 February 2007 (11 pages)
026202 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Dynamics starting from zero velocities in the classical Coulomb three-body problem
Mitsusada M. Sano
Published 2 February 2007 (9 pages)
026203 [View PDF (645 kB)]
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Stability analysis of dynamic ratcheting in elastoplastic systems
Noël Challamel, Christophe Lanos, Abdelaziz Hammouda, and Bachir Redjel
Published 6 February 2007 (16 pages)
026204 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Isochronal synchrony and bidirectional communication with delay-coupled nonlinear oscillators
Brian B. Zhou and Rajarshi Roy
Published 7 February 2007 (5 pages)
026205 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Variability-sustained pattern formation in subexcitable media
Erik Glatt, Martin Gassel, and Friedemann Kaiser
Published 9 February 2007 (6 pages)
026206 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Chaotic scattering through coupled cavities
Kazutaka Takahashi and Tomosuke Aono
Published 9 February 2007 (12 pages)
026207 [View PDF (759 kB)]
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Synchronization induced by common colored noise in limit cycle and chaotic systems
Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Ingrida Valiusaityte, and Peter Davis
Published 16 February 2007 (7 pages)
026208 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Synchronization of noisy delayed feedback systems with delayed coupling
Nikola Burić, Kristina Todorović, and Nebojša Vasović
Published 16 February 2007 (10 pages)
026209 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Hexagons and spiral defect chaos in non-Boussinesq convection at low Prandtl numbers
Santiago Madruga and Hermann Riecke
Published 20 February 2007 (14 pages)
026210 [View PDF (1,772 kB)]
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Desynchronization waves in small-world networks
Kwangho Park, Liang Huang, and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 21 February 2007 (5 pages)
026211 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Influence of random bulk inhomogeneities on quasioptical cavity resonator spectrum
E. M. Ganapolskii, Z. E. Eremenko, and Yu. V. Tarasov
Published 21 February 2007 (13 pages)
026212 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Quantum dephasing and decay of classical correlation functions in chaotic systems
Valentin V. Sokolov, Giuliano Benenti, and Giulio Casati
Published 23 February 2007 (7 pages)
026213 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Generalization of the reaction-diffusion, Swift-Hohenberg, and Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equations and effects of finite propagation speeds
Axel Hutt
Published 23 February 2007 (8 pages)
026214 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Synchronization in a network of model neurons
Maruthi Pradeep Kanth Jampa, Abhijeet R. Sonawane, Prashant M. Gade, and Sudeshna Sinha
Published 27 February 2007 (10 pages)
026215 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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General framework for phase synchronization through localized sets
T. Pereira, M. S. Baptista, and J. Kurths
Published 28 February 2007 (12 pages)
026216 [View PDF (660 kB)]
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Phase-space structure of two-dimensional excitable localized structures
Damià Gomila, Adrian Jacobo, Manuel A. Matías, and Pere Colet
Published 28 February 2007 (10 pages)
026217 [View PDF (285 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Baroclinic waves in an air-filled thermally driven rotating annulus
A. A. Castrejón-Pita and P. L. Read
Published 5 February 2007 (10 pages)
026301 [View PDF (921 kB)]
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Modified shallow water equations for inviscid gravity currents
An-Cheng Ruo and Falin Chen
Published 5 February 2007 (15 pages)
026302 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Numerical simulations of current generation and dynamo excitation in a mechanically forced turbulent flow
R. A. Bayliss, C. B. Forest, M. D. Nornberg, E. J. Spence, and P. W. Terry
Published 5 February 2007 (13 pages)
026303 [View PDF (1,156 kB)]
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Evolution of localized blobs of swirling or buoyant fluid with and without an ambient magnetic field
P. A. Davidson, Binod Sreenivasan, and A. J. Aspden
Published 6 February 2007 (18 pages)
026304 [View PDF (1,035 kB)]
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Stability of vortex flow in a modulated channel
Ehab Abu-Ramadan and Roger E. Khayat
Published 7 February 2007 (11 pages)
026305 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Free-surface thin-film flows over uniformly heated topography
Sergey Saprykin, Philip M. J. Trevelyan, Rudy J. Koopmans, and Serafim Kalliadasis
Published 8 February 2007 (17 pages)
026306 [View PDF (1,834 kB)]
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Fluctuating hydrodynamic modeling of fluids at the nanoscale
G. De Fabritiis, M. Serrano, R. Delgado-Buscalioni, and P. V. Coveney
Published 8 February 2007 (11 pages)
026307 [View PDF (940 kB)]
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Gas kinetic forces on thin plates in the presence of thermal gradients
Marco Scandurra, Fabrizio Iacopetti, and Paolo Colona
Published 16 February 2007 (5 pages)
026308 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Flow-field development during finger splitting at an exothermic chemical reaction front
L. Šebestíková, J. D’Hernoncourt, M. J. B. Hauser, S. C. Müller, and A. De Wit
Published 22 February 2007 (8 pages)
026309 [View PDF (732 kB)]
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Complex dynamical states in binary mixture convection with weak negative Soret coupling
Arantxa Alonso, Oriol Batiste, Alvaro Meseguer, and Isabel Mercader
Published 27 February 2007 (15 pages)
026310 [View PDF (10,554 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Analysis of x-ray polarization to determine the three-dimensionally anisotropic velocity distributions of hot electrons in plasma produced by ultrahigh intensity lasers
Y. Inubushi, T. Kai, T. Nakamura, S. Fujioka, H. Nishimura, and K. Mima
Published 1 February 2007 (5 pages)
026401 [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Ion dynamics and energy relaxation rate in nonequilibrium electron-ion systems
Jérôme Daligault and Dmitry Mozyrsky
Published 2 February 2007 (9 pages)
026402 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Experimental study of the heat transport processes in dusty plasma fluid
V. E. Fortov, O. S. Vaulina, O. F. Petrov, M. N. Vasiliev, A. V. Gavrikov, I. A. Shakova, N. A. Vorona, Yu. V. Khrustalyov, A. A. Manohin, and A. V. Chernyshev
Published 16 February 2007 (8 pages)
026403 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Compression of powerful x-ray pulses to attosecond durations by stimulated Raman backscattering in plasmas
V. M. Malkin, N. J. Fisch, and J. S. Wurtele
Published 20 February 2007 (5 pages)
026404 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Construction of a polarization insensitive lens from a quasi-isotropic metamaterial slab
Hailu Luo, Zhongzhou Ren, Weixing Shu, and Fei Li
Published 5 February 2007 (12 pages)
026601 [View PDF (971 kB)]
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Ultrasonic imaging of highly scattering media from local measurements of the diffusion constant: Separation of coherent and incoherent intensities
Alexandre Aubry and Arnaud Derode
Published 6 February 2007 (9 pages)
026602 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Skyrmion-like states in two- and three-dimensional dynamical lattices
P. G. Kevrekidis, R. Carretero-González, D. J. Frantzeskakis, B. A. Malomed, and F. K. Diakonos
Published 8 February 2007 (6 pages)
026603 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Interactions of parametrically driven dark solitons. I. Néel-Néel and Bloch-Bloch interactions
I. V. Barashenkov, S. R. Woodford, and E. V. Zemlyanaya
Published 9 February 2007 (18 pages)
026604 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Interactions of parametrically driven dark solitons. II. Néel-Bloch interactions
I. V. Barashenkov and S. R. Woodford
Published 9 February 2007 (14 pages)
026605 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Stopping and time reversal of light in dynamic photonic structures via Bloch oscillations
Stefano Longhi
Published 9 February 2007 (5 pages)
026606 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Photonic band structure and symmetry properties of electromagnetic modes in photonic crystals
S. B. Cavalcanti, M. de Dios-Leyva, E. Reyes-Gómez, and L. E. Oliveira
Published 12 February 2007 (7 pages)
026607 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Sonic crystal with open resonant cavities
Zhilin Hou, Jingtao Liu, Weimin Kuang, Youyan Liu, and Shuizhu Wu
Published 12 February 2007 (7 pages)
026608 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Scattering by rotationally symmetric anisotropic spheres: Potential formulation and parametric studies
Cheng-Wei Qiu, Le-Wei Li, Tat-Soon Yeo, and Saïd Zouhdi
Published 13 February 2007 (8 pages)
026609 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Arbitrarily short coherence length in wave fields within finite lossless source regions
Kasimir Blomstedt, Tero Setälä, and Ari T. Friberg
Published 16 February 2007 (5 pages)
026610 [View PDF (738 kB)]
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Rotation of the leaky dielectric particle in a rotating electric field
Yu. Dolinsky and T. Elperin
Published 22 February 2007 (7 pages)
026611 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Mismatch management for optical and matter-wave quadratic solitons
R. Driben, Y. Oz, B. A. Malomed, A. Gubeskys, and V. A. Yurovsky
Published 23 February 2007 (9 pages)
026612 [View PDF (851 kB)]
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Theoretical prediction of radiation pressure force exerted on a spheroid by an arbitrarily shaped beam
Feng Xu, Kuanfang Ren, Gérard Gouesbet, Xiaoshu Cai, and Gérard Gréhan
Published 23 February 2007 (14 pages)
026613 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Generation of polarization-entangled optical coherent waves and manifestation of vector singularity patterns
T. H. Lu, Y. F. Chen, and K. F. Huang
Published 27 February 2007 (8 pages)
026614 [View PDF (1,478 kB)]
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Acoustic wave dispersion in a one-dimensional lattice of nonlinear resonant scatterers
O. Richoux, V. Tournat, and T. Le Van Suu
Published 28 February 2007 (7 pages)
026615 [View PDF (200 kB)]

Computational physics

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Lattice Boltzmann simulations of two-phase flow with high density ratio in axially symmetric geometry
Shiladitya Mukherjee and John Abraham
Published 5 February 2007 (13 pages)
026701 [View PDF (616 kB)]
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Generalized lattice Boltzmann method with multirange pseudopotential
M. Sbragaglia, R. Benzi, L. Biferale, S. Succi, K. Sugiyama, and F. Toschi
Published 8 February 2007 (13 pages)
026702 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Analysis of two-dimensional photonic crystals using a multidomain pseudospectral method
Po-jui Chiang, Chin-ping Yu, and Hung-chun Chang
Published 20 February 2007 (14 pages)
026703 [View PDF (1,369 kB)]
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Learning rate and attractor size of the single-layer perceptron
Martin S. Singleton and Alfred W. Hübler
Published 26 February 2007 (13 pages)
026704 [View PDF (1,313 kB)]
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Bound-state equivalent potentials with the Lagrange mesh method
Fabien Buisseret and Claude Semay
Published 26 February 2007 (7 pages)
026705 [View PDF (200 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Role of connectivity-induced weighted words in language games
Chuan-Long Tang, Bo-Yu Lin, Wen-Xu Wang, Mao-Bin Hu, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 8 February 2007 (4 pages)
027101 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Continuum formalism for modeling growing networks with deletion of nodes
Joan Saldaña
Published 8 February 2007 (4 pages)
027102 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Fractal Tomlinson model for mesoscopic friction: From microscopic velocity-dependent damping to macroscopic Coulomb friction
A. E. Filippov and V. L. Popov
Published 15 February 2007 (4 pages)
027103 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Analysis of nonlinear synchronization dynamics of oscillator networks by Laplacian spectral methods
Patrick N. McGraw and Michael Menzinger
Published 20 February 2007 (4 pages)
027104 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Generalizations of the clustering coefficient to weighted complex networks
Jari Saramäki, Mikko Kivelä, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Kimmo Kaski, and János Kertész
Published 23 February 2007 (4 pages)
027105 [View PDF (253 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Rabi oscillations at exceptional points in microwave billiards
B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, J. Metz, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and C. A. Stafford
Published 2 February 2007 (4 pages)
027201 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Modified Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation: Stability of stationary solutions and the consequent dynamics
Paolo Politi and Chaouqi Misbah
Published 7 February 2007 (4 pages)
027202 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Absolute instability of a viscous hollow jet
Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo
Published 6 February 2007 (4 pages)
027301 [View PDF (133 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Packing hyperspheres in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces [Phys. Rev. E 74, 041127 (2006)]
Monica Skoge, Aleksandar Donev, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato
Published 26 February 2007 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (52 kB)]