Physical Review E – May 2007
Volume 75, 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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Generalization of the Jarzynski and Crooks nonequilibrium work theorems in molecular dynamics simulations
Riccardo Chelli, Simone Marsili, Alessandro Barducci, and Piero Procacci
Published 7 May 2007 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Fluctuation theorems: Work is not an observable
Peter Talkner, Eric Lutz, and Peter Hänggi
Published 16 May 2007 (2 pages)
050102(R) [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Exact probability distribution for the Bernoulli-Malthus-Verhulst model driven by a multiplicative colored noise
H. Calisto and M. Bologna
Published 17 May 2007 (4 pages)
050103(R) [View PDF (194 kB)]

Granular materials

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Formation and evolution of density singularities in hydrodynamics of inelastic gases
Itzhak Fouxon, Baruch Meerson, Michael Assaf, and Eli Livne
Published 3 May 2007 (4 pages)
050301(R) [View PDF (145 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Phase behavior and far-from-equilibrium gelation in charged attractive colloids
P. Charbonneau and D. R. Reichman
Published 3 May 2007 (4 pages)
050401(R) [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Yielding in colloidal gels due to nonlinear microstructure bending mechanics
Eric M. Furst and John P. Pantina
Published 7 May 2007 (4 pages)
050402(R) [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Dynamic consequences of the fractal network of nanotube-poly(ethylene oxide) nanocomposites
Tirtha Chatterjee and Ramanan Krishnamoorti
Published 16 May 2007 (4 pages)
050403(R) [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of the glass transition as revealed by a Voronoi tesselation
H. G. E. Hentschel, Valery Ilyin, Nataliya Makedonska, Itamar Procaccia, and Nurith Schupper
Published 30 May 2007 (4 pages)
050404(R) [View PDF (778 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Electro-optic Kerr effect in the isotropic phase above the columnar phase of a urea derivative
Yoshinori Okada, Fumito Araoka, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Shoichiro Nakahara, Keiki Kishikawa, Hyunhee Choi, Jeong Weon Wu, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 10 May 2007 (4 pages)
050701(R) [View PDF (104 kB)]

Biological physics

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Towards neuro-memory-chip: Imprinting multiple memories in cultured neural networks
Itay Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob
Published 16 May 2007 (4 pages)
050901(R) [View PDF (635 kB)]
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Conformations of confined biopolymers
Frederik Wagner, Gianluca Lattanzi, and Erwin Frey
Published 31 May 2007 (4 pages)
050902(R) [View PDF (948 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Trapping mechanism in overdamped ratchets with quenched noise
D. G. Zarlenga, H. A. Larrondo, C. M. Arizmendi, and Fereydoon Family
Published 2 May 2007 (8 pages)
051101 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Random advection in a fractal medium with finite correlation length
Peter S. Kondratenko and Leonid V. Matveev
Published 2 May 2007 (5 pages)
051102 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Universal extremal statistics in a freely expanding Jepsen gas
Ioana Bena and Satya N. Majumdar
Published 3 May 2007 (13 pages)
051103 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Phase diagram of a generalized Winfree model
F. Giannuzzi, D. Marinazzo, G. Nardulli, M. Pellicoro, and S. Stramaglia
Published 3 May 2007 (6 pages)
051104 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Non-Markovian Lévy diffusion in nonhomogeneous media
T. Srokowski
Published 4 May 2007 (8 pages)
051105 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Speed of pulled fronts with a cutoff
R. D. Benguria and M. C. Depassier
Published 8 May 2007 (5 pages)
051106 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Nature of vapor-liquid asymmetry in fluid criticality
Jingtao Wang and Mikhail A. Anisimov
Published 8 May 2007 (19 pages)
051107 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Complexity of the predecessor problem in Kauffman networks
S. N. Coppersmith
Published 8 May 2007 (7 pages)
051108 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Equation of motion for coarse-grained simulation based on microscopic description
Tomoyuki Kinjo and Shi-aki Hyodo
Published 11 May 2007 (9 pages)
051109 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Pair annihilation reaction D+D→0 in disordered media and conformal invariance
F. C. Alcaraz and V. Rittenberg
Published 14 May 2007 (7 pages)
051110 [View PDF (1,196 kB)]
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Biased diffusion in confined media: Test of the Fick-Jacobs approximation and validity criteria
P. S. Burada, G. Schmid, D. Reguera, J. M. Rubí, and P. Hänggi
Published 15 May 2007 (8 pages)
051111 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Quantum annealing of the random-field Ising model by transverse ferromagnetic interactions
Sei Suzuki, Hidetoshi Nishimori, and Masuo Suzuki
Published 16 May 2007 (5 pages)
051112 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Eigenfunction statistics of complex systems: A common mathematical formulation
Pragya Shukla
Published 17 May 2007 (20 pages)
051113 [View PDF (834 kB)]
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Helical tubes in crowded environments
Yehuda Snir and Randall D. Kamien
Published 18 May 2007 (9 pages)
051114 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Phase structure of a surface model on dynamically triangulated spheres with elastic skeletons
Hiroshi Koibuchi
Published 21 May 2007 (9 pages)
051115 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Multicriticality of the (2+1) -dimensional gonihedric model: A realization of the (d,m)=(3,2) Lifshitz point
Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Published 22 May 2007 (8 pages)
051116 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Scaling properties of randomly folded plastic sheets
Alexander S. Balankin, Iván Campos Silva, Omar Antonio Martínez, and Orlando Susarrey Huerta
Published 24 May 2007 (3 pages)
051117 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Driven spin systems as quantum thermodynamic machines: Fundamental limits
Markus J. Henrich, Günter Mahler, and Mathias Michel
Published 24 May 2007 (8 pages)
051118 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Critical weight statistics of the random energy model and of the directed polymer on the Cayley tree
Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel
Published 25 May 2007 (15 pages)
051119 [View PDF (1,031 kB)]
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Gauge symmetry and non-Abelian topological sectors in a geometrically constrained model on the honeycomb lattice
Paul Fendley, Joel E. Moore, and Cenke Xu
Published 25 May 2007 (12 pages)
051120 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Synchronization in weighted uncorrelated complex networks in a noisy environment: Optimization and connections with transport efficiency
G. Korniss
Published 25 May 2007 (13 pages)
051121 [View PDF (771 kB)]
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Directed polymer in a random medium of dimension 1+3 : Multifractal properties at the localization-delocalization transition
Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel
Published 30 May 2007 (8 pages)
051122 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Asymptotics of the monomer-dimer model on two-dimensional semi-infinite lattices
Yong Kong
Published 30 May 2007 (13 pages)
051123 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Minimal-work principle and its limits for classical systems
A. E. Allahverdyan and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
Published 30 May 2007 (5 pages)
051124 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Mutual information as a tool for identifying phase transitions in dynamical complex systems with limited data
R. T. Wicks, S. C. Chapman, and R. O. Dendy
Published 30 May 2007 (8 pages)
051125 [View PDF (536 kB)]
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Free random Lévy and Wigner-Lévy matrices
Zdzisław Burda, Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Maciej A. Nowak, Gabor Papp, and Ismail Zahed
Published 30 May 2007 (11 pages)
051126 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Analytical and numerical verification of the Nernst theorem for metals
Johan S. Høye, Iver Brevik, Simen A. Ellingsen, and Jan B. Aarseth
Published 31 May 2007 (8 pages)
051127 [View PDF (648 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Surface diffusion and low vibrational motion with interacting adsorbates: A shot noise description
R. Martínez-Casado, J. L. Vega, A. S. Sanz, and S. Miret-Artés
Published 31 May 2007 (12 pages)
051128 [View PDF (367 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Asymmetric properties of ion transport in a charged conical nanopore
Qi Liu, Yugang Wang, Wei Guo, Hang Ji, Jianming Xue, and Qi Ouyang
Published 7 May 2007 (6 pages)
051201 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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High-frequency dynamics of liquid and supercritical water
F. Bencivenga, A. Cunsolo, M. Krisch, G. Monaco, G. Ruocco, and F. Sette
Published 15 May 2007 (11 pages)
051202 [View PDF (1,126 kB)]
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Velocity inversion in nanochannel flow
Youngkyun Jung
Published 18 May 2007 (5 pages)
051203 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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From hyperbolic regularization to exact hydrodynamics for linearized Grad’s equations
Matteo Colangeli, Iliya V. Karlin, and Martin Kröger
Published 25 May 2007 (10 pages)
051204 [View PDF (255 kB)]

Granular materials

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Swirling motion in a system of vibrated elongated particles
Igor S. Aranson, Dmitri Volfson, and Lev S. Tsimring
Published 1 May 2007 (9 pages)
051301 [View PDF (1,488 kB)]
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Dynamical collision network in granular gases
J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin and Andrea Puglisi
Published 2 May 2007 (11 pages)
051302 [View PDF (2,753 kB)]
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Intruder clustering in three-dimensional granular beds
L. T. Lui, Michael R. Swift, R. M. Bowley, and P. J. King
Published 4 May 2007 (7 pages)
051303 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Underconstrained jammed packings of nonspherical hard particles: Ellipses and ellipsoids
Aleksandar Donev, Robert Connelly, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato
Published 10 May 2007 (32 pages)
051304 [View PDF (1,280 kB)]
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Coefficient of restitution for viscoelastic disks
Thomas Schwager
Published 18 May 2007 (7 pages)
051305 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Velocity distribution and the effect of wall roughness in granular Poiseuille flow
K. C. Vijayakumar and Meheboob Alam
Published 22 May 2007 (5 pages)
051306 [View PDF (877 kB)]
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Angular velocity distribution of a granular planar rotator in a thermalized bath
J. Piasecki, J. Talbot, and P. Viot
Published 24 May 2007 (10 pages)
051307 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Force, relative-displacement, and work networks in granular materials subjected to quasistatic deformation
N. P. Kruyt and S. J. Antony
Published 24 May 2007 (8 pages)
051308 [View PDF (968 kB)]
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Coarse-grained computations of demixing in dense gas-fluidized beds
Sung Joon Moon, S. Sundaresan, and I. G. Kevrekidis
Published 29 May 2007 (6 pages)
051309 [View PDF (455 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of fluid-solid coexistence in dense shear granular flow
Evgeniy Khain
Published 31 May 2007 (5 pages)
051310 [View PDF (497 kB)]
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Forcing independent velocity distributions in an experimental granular fluid
P. M. Reis, R. A. Ingale, and M. D. Shattuck
Published 31 May 2007 (14 pages)
051311 [View PDF (1,111 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Segregation of fractal aggregates grown from two seeds
Deepak N. Bankar, P. M. Gade, A. V. Limaye, and A. G. Banpurkar
Published 1 May 2007 (5 pages)
051401 [View PDF (2,591 kB)]
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Lane formation in oppositely charged colloids driven by an electric field: Chaining and two-dimensional crystallization
M. Rex and H. Löwen
Published 4 May 2007 (10 pages)
051402 [View PDF (1,754 kB)]
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Effect of structural arrest on Poisson’s ratio in nanoreinforced elastomers
C. G. Robertson, R. Bogoslovov, and C. M. Roland
Published 9 May 2007 (7 pages)
051403 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Stability diagram for dense suspensions of model colloidal Al2O3 particles in shear flow
Martin Hecht, Jens Harting, and Hans J. Herrmann
Published 21 May 2007 (11 pages)
051404 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Nucleation kinetics in deionized charged colloidal model systems: A quantitative study by means of classical nucleation theory
Patrick Wette and Hans Joachim Schöpe
Published 21 May 2007 (12 pages)
051405 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Lattice dynamics of two-dimensional colloidal crystals subject to external light potentials
H. H. von Grünberg and J. Baumgartl
Published 22 May 2007 (11 pages)
051406 [View PDF (723 kB)]
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Defect fluctuations and lifetimes in disordered Yukawa systems
C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt
Published 23 May 2007 (5 pages)
051407 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Dipolar structures in magnetite ferrofluids studied with small-angle neutron scattering with and without applied magnetic field
M. Klokkenburg, B. H. Erné, A. Wiedenmann, A. V. Petukhov, and A. P. Philipse
Published 24 May 2007 (9 pages)
051408 [View PDF (825 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Frequency-dependent Stokes-Einstein relation in supercooled liquids
Ronen Zangi and Laura J. Kaufman
Published 4 May 2007 (4 pages)
051501 [View PDF (432 kB)]
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Electric double layer on fractal electrodes
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Reisei Baba
Published 9 May 2007 (8 pages)
051502 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Crossover behavior and multistep relaxation in a schematic model of the cut-off glass transition
M. J. Greenall and M. E. Cates
Published 15 May 2007 (12 pages)
051503 [View PDF (1,105 kB)]
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Simulation studies of a phenomenological model for elongated virus capsid formation
Ting Chen and Sharon C. Glotzer
Published 21 May 2007 (7 pages)
051504 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Field theory for size- and charge-asymmetric primitive model of ionic systems: Mean-field stability analysis and pretransitional effects
A. Ciach, W. T. Góźdź, and G. Stell
Published 31 May 2007 (19 pages)
051505 [View PDF (521 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Spreading of mercury droplets on thin silver films at room temperature
Avraham Be’er, Yossi Lereah, Aviad Frydman, and Haim Taitelbaum
Published 2 May 2007 (7 pages)
051601 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Molecular simulations of the n -alkane liquid-vapor interface: Interfacial properties and their long range corrections
C. Ibergay, A. Ghoufi, F. Goujon, P. Ungerer, A. Boutin, B. Rousseau, and P. Malfreyt
Published 3 May 2007 (18 pages)
051602 [View PDF (513 kB)]
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Dynamical behavior of three-dimensional confined Ising systems with short- and long-range competing surface fields
M. V. Manias, A. De Virgiliis, E. V. Albano, M. Müller, and K. Binder
Published 9 May 2007 (8 pages)
051603 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Effect of flow field and geometry on the dynamic contact angle
A. V. Lukyanov and Y. D. Shikhmurzaev
Published 22 May 2007 (8 pages)
051604 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Rate-dependent slip boundary conditions for simple fluids
Nikolai V. Priezjev
Published 24 May 2007 (7 pages)
051605 [View PDF (607 kB)]
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Long-range ordering effect in electrodeposition of zinc and zinc oxide
Tao Liu, Sheng Wang, Zi-liang Shi, Guo-Bin Ma, Mu Wang, Ru-Wen Peng, Xi-Ping Hao, and Nai-ben Ming
Published 31 May 2007 (6 pages)
051606 [View PDF (481 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Role of electrostatics in the texture of islands in free-standing ferroelectric liquid crystal films
Jong-Bong Lee, Robert A. Pelcovits, and Robert B. Meyer
Published 1 May 2007 (5 pages)
051701 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Smectic elastomer membranes
Olaf Stenull
Published 15 May 2007 (10 pages)
051702 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Topology and bistability in liquid crystal devices
A. Majumdar, C. J. P. Newton, J. M. Robbins, and M. Zyskin
Published 16 May 2007 (11 pages)
051703 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Very strong azimuthal anchoring of nematic liquid crystals on uv-aligned polyimide layers
S. Faetti, K. Sakamoto, and K. Usami
Published 21 May 2007 (12 pages)
051704 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Interlayer interactions and the dependence of biaxiality of the chiral smectic- C* phase on electric field in the helical unwinding process
Jang-Kun Song, J. K. Vij, and Ichiro Kobayashi
Published 22 May 2007 (13 pages)
051705 [View PDF (1,179 kB)]
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Smectic- Cα* phase with two coexistent helical pitch values and a first-order smectic- Cα* to smectic- C* transition
B. K. McCoy, Z. Q. Liu, S. T. Wang, R. Pindak, K. Takekoshi, K. Ema, A. Seed, and C. C. Huang
Published 24 May 2007 (6 pages)
051706 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Landau–de Gennes theory of isotropic-nematic-smectic liquid crystal transitions
Paolo Biscari, Maria Carme Calderer, and Eugene M. Terentjev
Published 29 May 2007 (11 pages)
051707 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Capillary ordering and layering transitions in two-dimensional hard-rod fluids
Yuri Martínez-Ratón
Published 31 May 2007 (12 pages)
051708 [View PDF (1,174 kB)]
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Effect of backflow on the orientational and dissipation processes in Langmuir films
Mitsumasa Iwamoto, A. A. Vakulenko, and A. V. Zakharov
Published 31 May 2007 (7 pages)
051709 [View PDF (544 kB)]

Polymers

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Phenylene ring dynamics in phenoxy and the effect of intramolecular linkages on the dynamics of some engineering thermoplastics below the glass transition temperature
Silvia Arrese-Igor, Arantxa Arbe, Angel Alegría, Juan Colmenero, and Bernhard Frick
Published 4 May 2007 (13 pages)
051801 [View PDF (617 kB)]
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Shapes of strongly absorbed polyelectrolytes in poor solvents
S. K. Pattanayek and G. G. Pereira
Published 15 May 2007 (8 pages)
051802 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Ring polymer simulations with global radius of curvature
T. Neuhaus, O. Zimmermann, and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann
Published 23 May 2007 (10 pages)
051803 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Photopolymerization-induced directional crystal growth in reactive mixtures
Soo Jeoung Park, Pankaj Rathi, and Thein Kyu
Published 30 May 2007 (5 pages)
051804 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Molecular configurations in the droplet detachment process of a complex liquid
R. Sattler, A. Kityk, and C. Wagner
Published 31 May 2007 (6 pages)
051805 [View PDF (309 kB)]

Biological physics

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Kinetics of viral self-assembly: Role of the single-stranded RNA antenna
Tao Hu and B. I. Shklovskii
Published 1 May 2007 (4 pages)
051901 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Functional modulation of power-law distribution in visual perception
Masanori Shimono, Takashi Owaki, Kaoru Amano, Keiichi Kitajo, and Tsunehiro Takeda
Published 4 May 2007 (5 pages)
051902 [View PDF (765 kB)]
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Construction and application of the weighted amino acid network based on energy
Xiong Jiao, Shan Chang, Chun-hua Li, Wei-zu Chen, and Cun-xin Wang
Published 4 May 2007 (6 pages)
051903 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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Generalized rate-code model for neuron ensembles with finite populations
Hideo Hasegawa
Published 8 May 2007 (11 pages)
051904 [View PDF (720 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulations of flexible polyelectrolytes inside viral capsids with dodecahedral charge distribution
Daniel George Angelescu and Per Linse
Published 9 May 2007 (13 pages)
051905 [View PDF (506 kB)]
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Modeling multicomponent reactive membranes
Olga Kuksenok and Anna C. Balazs
Published 9 May 2007 (13 pages)
051906 [View PDF (926 kB)]
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Function constrains network architecture and dynamics: A case study on the yeast cell cycle Boolean network
Kai-Yeung Lau, Surya Ganguli, and Chao Tang
Published 9 May 2007 (9 pages)
051907 [View PDF (1,257 kB)]
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Measurements of the hysteresis in unzipping and rezipping double-stranded DNA
K. Hatch, C. Danilowicz, V. Coljee, and M. Prentiss
Published 11 May 2007 (6 pages)
051908 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Preservation of information in a prebiotic package model
Daniel A. M. M. Silvestre and José F. Fontanari
Published 15 May 2007 (9 pages)
051909 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Clustering coefficients of protein-protein interaction networks
Gerald A. Miller, Yi Y. Shi, Hong Qian, and Karol Bomsztyk
Published 16 May 2007 (7 pages)
051910 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Stability analysis of a hybrid cellular automaton model of cell colony growth
P. Gerlee and A. R. A. Anderson
Published 17 May 2007 (8 pages)
051911 [View PDF (573 kB)]
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Two-center-multipole expansion method: Application to macromolecular systems
Ilia A. Solov’yov, Alexander V. Yakubovich, Andrey V. Solov’yov, and Walter Greiner
Published 17 May 2007 (9 pages)
051912 [View PDF (792 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal complexity of a ratio-dependent predator-prey system
Weiming Wang, Quan-Xing Liu, and Zhen Jin
Published 21 May 2007 (9 pages)
051913 [View PDF (687 kB)]
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Angular velocity variations and stability of spatially explicit prey-predator systems
Refael Abta and Nadav M. Shnerb
Published 23 May 2007 (7 pages)
051914 [View PDF (1,953 kB)]
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Brownian dynamics simulation of the effect of histone modification on nucleosome structure
Wei Li, Shuo-Xing Dou, Ping Xie, and Peng-Ye Wang
Published 25 May 2007 (9 pages)
051915 [View PDF (879 kB)]
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Applying a potential across a biomembrane: Electrostatic contribution to the bending rigidity and membrane instability
Tobias Ambjörnsson, Michael A. Lomholt, and Per Lyngs Hansen
Published 25 May 2007 (15 pages)
051916 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal learning in analog neural networks using spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity
Masahiko Yoshioka, Silvia Scarpetta, and Maria Marinaro
Published 29 May 2007 (14 pages)
051917 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Statistical geometric affinity in human brain electric activity
A. Chornet-Lurbe, J. A. Oteo, and J. Ros
Published 29 May 2007 (10 pages)
051918 [View PDF (670 kB)]
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Field-theoretic approach to fluctuation effects in neural networks
Michael A. Buice and Jack D. Cowan
Published 29 May 2007 (14 pages)
051919 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Individual-based predator-prey model for biological coevolution: Fluctuations, stability, and community structure
Per Arne Rikvold and Volkan Sevim
Published 30 May 2007 (17 pages)
051920 [View PDF (1,172 kB)]
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Insights into thermophilic archaebacterial membrane stability from simplified models of lipid membranes
Charles H. Davis, Huifen Nie, and Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Published 30 May 2007 (6 pages)
051921 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Self-consistent field theory of two-component phospholipid membranes
Nan Zheng, J. Geehan, and M. D. Whitmore
Published 30 May 2007 (17 pages)
051922 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Patterns of phase-dependent spiral wave attenuation in excitable media
M. A. de la Casa, F. J. de la Rubia, and Plamen Ch. Ivanov
Published 30 May 2007 (5 pages)
051923 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Amplification in the auditory periphery: The effect of coupling tuning mechanisms
K. A. Montgomery, M. Silber, and S. A. Solla
Published 30 May 2007 (12 pages)
051924 [View PDF (660 kB)]
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Transitions between multistable states as a model of epileptic seizure dynamics
Daisuke Takeshita, Yasuomi D. Sato, and Sonya Bahar
Published 31 May 2007 (5 pages)
051925 [View PDF (1,515 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Equation of state for hard-square lattice gases
Heitor C. Marques Fernandes, Yan Levin, and Jeferson J. Arenzon
Published 18 May 2007 (3 pages)
052101 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Cyclical interactions with alliance-specific heterogeneous invasion rates
Matjaž Perc, Attila Szolnoki, and György Szabó
Published 30 May 2007 (4 pages)
052102 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Heat conduction and diffusion of hard disks in a narrow channel
Adam Lipowski and Dorota Lipowska
Published 31 May 2007 (4 pages)
052201 [View PDF (248 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Analysis of self-organized criticality in the Olami-Feder-Christensen model and in real earthquakes
F. Caruso, A. Pluchino, V. Latora, S. Vinciguerra, and A. Rapisarda
Published 14 May 2007 (4 pages)
055101(R) [View PDF (444 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Stability analysis and oscillatory structures in time-fractional reaction-diffusion systems
V. V. Gafiychuk and B. Y. Datsko
Published 1 May 2007 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Control, synchronization, and replicability of aperiodic spike trains
J. M. Cruz, A. Hernandez-Gomez, and P. Parmananda
Published 2 May 2007 (4 pages)
055202(R) [View PDF (782 kB)]
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Quasipatterns in parametrically forced systems
A. M. Rucklidge and M. Silber
Published 4 May 2007 (4 pages)
055203(R) [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Accumulation horizons and period adding in optically injected semiconductor lasers
Cristian Bonatto and Jason A. C. Gallas
Published 22 May 2007 (4 pages)
055204(R) [View PDF (557 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Dynamical states of a mobile heat blanket on a thermally convecting fluid
Jin-Qiang Zhong and Jun Zhang
Published 9 May 2007 (4 pages)
055301(R) [View PDF (488 kB)]
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Nonlinear convection in rotating systems: Slip-stick three-dimensional traveling waves
Keke Zhang, Xinhao Liao, Xiaoya Zhan, and Rixiang Zhu
Published 23 May 2007 (4 pages)
055302(R) [View PDF (447 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Exact solution for the time evolution of network rewiring models
T. S. Evans and A. D. K. Plato
Published 2 May 2007 (16 pages)
056101 [View PDF (537 kB)]
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Power law exponents characterizing human DNA
A. Provata and Th. Oikonomou
Published 3 May 2007 (6 pages)
056102 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Seed size strongly affects cascades on random networks
James P. Gleeson and Diarmuid J. Cahalane
Published 3 May 2007 (4 pages)
056103 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Dynamics of neural cryptography
Andreas Ruttor, Wolfgang Kinzel, and Ido Kanter
Published 9 May 2007 (9 pages)
056104 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Mechanisms for fragment formation in brittle solids
Artem Levandovsky and Anna C. Balazs
Published 9 May 2007 (8 pages)
056105 [View PDF (670 kB)]
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Self-tuning of threshold for a two-state system
Boyoung Seo, Raishma Krishnan, and Toyonori Munakata
Published 9 May 2007 (6 pages)
056106 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Efficient response to cascading disaster spreading
Lubos Buzna, Karsten Peters, Hendrik Ammoser, Christian Kühnert, and Dirk Helbing
Published 10 May 2007 (7 pages)
056107 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Self-organized criticality in the intermediate phase of rigidity percolation
M.-A. Brière, M. V. Chubynsky, and Normand Mousseau
Published 11 May 2007 (16 pages)
056108 [View PDF (674 kB)]
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Random networks tossing biased coins
F. Bassetti, M. Cosentino Lagomarsino, B. Bassetti, and P. Jona
Published 14 May 2007 (8 pages)
056109 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Controllability analysis of networks
Anna Lombardi and Michael Hörnquist
Published 15 May 2007 (5 pages)
056110 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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What is the real size of a sampled network? The case of the Internet
Fabien Viger, Alain Barrat, Luca Dall’Asta, Cun-Hui Zhang, and Eric D. Kolaczyk
Published 17 May 2007 (10 pages)
056111 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Relaxation dynamics in strained fiber bundles
Srutarshi Pradhan and Per C. Hemmer
Published 21 May 2007 (7 pages)
056112 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Self-assembly of flat sheets into closed surfaces
Silas Alben and Michael P. Brenner
Published 23 May 2007 (8 pages)
056113 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Finite-size effects in Barabási-Albert growing networks
B. Waclaw and I. M. Sokolov
Published 25 May 2007 (10 pages)
056114 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Betweenness centrality of fractal and nonfractal scale-free model networks and tests on real networks
Maksim Kitsak, Shlomo Havlin, Gerald Paul, Massimo Riccaboni, Fabio Pammolli, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 31 May 2007 (8 pages)
056115 [View PDF (772 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Generalized synchronization in fractional order systems
Weihua Deng
Published 2 May 2007 (7 pages)
056201 [View PDF (774 kB)]
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Grain boundary dynamics in stripe phases of nonpotential systems
Zhi-Feng Huang and Jorge Viñals
Published 7 May 2007 (7 pages)
056202 [View PDF (652 kB)]
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Design of model-based controllers for a class of nonlinear chaotic systems using a single output feedback and state observers
Ashraf A. Zaher
Published 8 May 2007 (9 pages)
056203 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Chimera Ising walls in forced nonlocally coupled oscillators
Yoji Kawamura
Published 9 May 2007 (6 pages)
056204 [View PDF (378 kB)]
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Enhancing synchronization based on complex gradient networks
Xingang Wang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Choy Heng Lai
Published 9 May 2007 (5 pages)
056205 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Aging and clustering in globally coupled oscillators
Hiroaki Daido and Kenji Nakanishi
Published 10 May 2007 (16 pages)
056206 [View PDF (931 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Detection of synchronization from univariate data using wavelet transform
Alexander E. Hramov, Alexey A. Koronovskii, Vladimir I. Ponomarenko, and Mikhail D. Prokhorov
Published 15 May 2007 (10 pages)
056207 [View PDF (3,114 kB)]
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Localized traveling waves in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with frequency-selective optical feedback
P. V. Paulau, A. J. Scroggie, A. Naumenko, T. Ackemann, N. A. Loiko, and W. J. Firth
Published 17 May 2007 (7 pages)
056208 [View PDF (3,880 kB)]
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Rotating accelerator-mode islands
Oded Barash and Itzhack Dana
Published 17 May 2007 (9 pages)
056209 [View PDF (16,263 kB)]
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Boundary-induced patterns in excitable systems: The structure of oscillatory domain
Olga Nekhamkina and Moshe Sheintuch
Published 18 May 2007 (10 pages)
056210 [View PDF (693 kB)]
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Directionality of coupling from bivariate time series: How to avoid false causalities and missed connections
Milan Paluš and Martin Vejmelka
Published 18 May 2007 (14 pages)
056211 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Bootstrap nonlinear prediction
Daisuke Haraki, Tomoya Suzuki, Hiroki Hashiguchi, and Tohru Ikeguchi
Published 22 May 2007 (9 pages)
056212 [View PDF (548 kB)]
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Polarization synchronization in unidirectionally coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with orthogonal optical injection
M. Sciamanna, I. Gatare, A. Locquet, and K. Panajotov
Published 22 May 2007 (10 pages)
056213 [View PDF (3,941 kB)]
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Periodic orbit theory and the statistical analysis of scaling quantum graph spectra
Yu. Dabaghian
Published 23 May 2007 (11 pages)
056214 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Bifurcations and sudden current change in ensembles of classically chaotic ratchets
Anatole Kenfack, Sean M. Sweetnam, and Arjendu K. Pattanayak
Published 30 May 2007 (7 pages)
056215 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Experimental observation of synchronous competition in the Chua system
Zheng Le, Victor Castro, W. B. Pardo, J. A. Walkenstein, Marco Monti, and Epaminondas Rosa, Jr.
Published 31 May 2007 (7 pages)
056216 [View PDF (328 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Fractal-like tree networks increasing the permeability
Jun Chen, Boming Yu, Peng Xu, and Yonghua Li
Published 1 May 2007 (8 pages)
056301 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Scaling laws in the central region of confined turbulent thermal convection
Emily S. C. Ching
Published 1 May 2007 (6 pages)
056302 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-driven instability in stratified ferrofluids
Andrey Ryskin and Harald Pleiner
Published 2 May 2007 (6 pages)
056303 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Forbidden interval of propagation speed for exothermic chemical fronts
M. Leda, A. Lemarchand, and B. Nowakowski
Published 8 May 2007 (4 pages)
056304 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Cascade model for particle concentration and enstrophy in fully developed turbulence with mass-loading feedback
R. C. Hogan and J. N. Cuzzi
Published 10 May 2007 (9 pages)
056305 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Turbulent kinetic energy and a possible hierarchy of length scales in a generalization of the Navier-Stokes α theory
Eliot Fried and Morton E. Gurtin
Published 15 May 2007 (10 pages)
056306 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Instabilities in the oscillatory flow of a complex fluid
M. Torralba, A. A. Castrejón-Pita, G. Hernández, G. Huelsz, J. A. del Río, and J. Ortín
Published 17 May 2007 (9 pages)
056307 [View PDF (3,015 kB)]
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Self-organization of bouncing oil drops: Two-dimensional lattices and spinning clusters
Suzanne I. Lieber, Melissa C. Hendershott, Apichart Pattanaporkratana, and Joseph E. Maclennan
Published 18 May 2007 (5 pages)
056308 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Phase-field simulations for drops and bubbles
Rodica Borcia and Michael Bestehorn
Published 21 May 2007 (5 pages)
056309 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Hydraulic jumps with corners due to obliquely inclined circular liquid jets
R. P. Kate, P. K. Das, and Suman Chakraborty
Published 22 May 2007 (6 pages)
056310 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Development of optimal models of porous media by combining static and dynamic data: The permeability and porosity distributions
Hossein Hamzehpour, M. Reza Rasaei, and Muhammad Sahimi
Published 22 May 2007 (17 pages)
056311 [View PDF (3,289 kB)]
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Resonant Kelvin-Helmholtz modes in sheared relativistic flows
Manuel Perucho, Michal Hanasz, José-María Martí, and Juan-Antonio Miralles
Published 25 May 2007 (10 pages)
056312 [View PDF (1,891 kB)]
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Effect of a vertically flowing water jet underneath a granular bed
F. Zoueshtiagh and A. Merlen
Published 29 May 2007 (12 pages)
056313 [View PDF (746 kB)]
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Interfacial dynamics in pressure-driven two-layer laminar channel flow with high viscosity ratios
O. K. Matar, C. J. Lawrence, and G. M. Sisoev
Published 30 May 2007 (12 pages)
056314 [View PDF (601 kB)]
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Morphology and dynamics of droplet coalescence on a surface
Nikil Kapur and Philip H. Gaskell
Published 31 May 2007 (4 pages)
056315 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Liquid drop splashing on smooth, rough, and textured surfaces
Lei Xu
Published 31 May 2007 (8 pages)
056316 [View PDF (502 kB)]
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Thermoconvectional phenomena induced by vibrations in supercritical SF6 under weightlessness
Y. Garrabos, D. Beysens, C. Lecoutre, A. Dejoan, V. Polezhaev, and V. Emelianov
Published 31 May 2007 (11 pages)
056317 [View PDF (983 kB)]
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Vortices, circumfluence, symmetry groups, and Darboux transformations of the (2+1) -dimensional Euler equation
S. Y. Lou, M. Jia, X. Y. Tang, and F. Huang
Published 31 May 2007 (11 pages)
056318 [View PDF (1,064 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Emittance growth mechanisms for laser-accelerated proton beams
Andreas J. Kemp, J. Fuchs, Y. Sentoku, V. Sotnikov, M. Bakeman, P. Antici, and T. E. Cowan
Published 3 May 2007 (12 pages)
056401 [View PDF (627 kB)]
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Variational theory of average-atom and superconfigurations in quantum plasmas
T. Blenski and B. Cichocki
Published 8 May 2007 (22 pages)
056402 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Collective mode properties in a paired fullerene-ion plasma
W. Oohara, Y. Kuwabara, and R. Hatakeyama
Published 9 May 2007 (9 pages)
056403 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of dense boron plasmas up to the semiclassical Thomas-Fermi regime
S. Mazevet, F. Lambert, F. Bottin, G. Zérah, and J. Clérouin
Published 31 May 2007 (6 pages)
056404 [View PDF (208 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Singularity of the dyadic Green’s function for heterogeneous dielectrics
Charles-Antoine Guérin, Boris Gralak, and Adriaan Tip
Published 2 May 2007 (5 pages)
056601 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Solitary waves bifurcated from Bloch-band edges in two-dimensional periodic media
Zuoqiang Shi and Jianke Yang
Published 3 May 2007 (16 pages)
056602 [View PDF (828 kB)]
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Quasisymmetric and asymmetric gap solitons in linearly coupled Bragg gratings with a phase shift
Yossi J. Tsofe and Boris A. Malomed
Published 4 May 2007 (10 pages)
056603 [View PDF (2,210 kB)]
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Time evolution of electromagnetic wave packets through superlattices: Evidence for superluminal velocities
Pedro Pereyra and Herbert P. Simanjuntak
Published 7 May 2007 (7 pages)
056604 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Discrete surface solitons in two dimensions
H. Susanto, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, R. Carretero-González, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 9 May 2007 (8 pages)
056605 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Second harmonic generation in one-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystals solved by the transfer matrix method
Jing-Juan Li, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Dao-Zhong Zhang
Published 9 May 2007 (7 pages)
056606 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Effective material properties for shear-horizontal acoustic waves in fiber composites
Christophe Aristégui and Yves C. Angel
Published 14 May 2007 (8 pages)
056607 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Amplitude and frequency dependence of the Shapiro steps in the dc- and ac-driven overdamped Frenkel-Kontorova model
Bambi Hu and Jasmina Tekić
Published 15 May 2007 (8 pages)
056608 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Scattering matrix theory for stochastic scalar fields
Olga Korotkova and Emil Wolf
Published 16 May 2007 (7 pages)
056609 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Polarization-induced spectral changes on propagation of stochastic electromagnetic beams
Jixiong Pu, Olga Korotkova, and Emil Wolf
Published 16 May 2007 (6 pages)
056610 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Maxwell equation simulations of coherent optical photon emission from shock waves in crystals
Evan J. Reed, Marin Soljačić, and J. D. Joannopoulos
Published 18 May 2007 (7 pages)
056611 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Dielectric polarization evolution equations and relaxation times
James Baker-Jarvis, Bill Riddle, and Michael D. Janezic
Published 25 May 2007 (5 pages)
056612 [View PDF (163 kB)]

Computational physics

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Symplectic algorithms for simulations of rigid-body systems using the exact solution of free motion
Ramses van Zon and Jeremy Schofield
Published 3 May 2007 (5 pages)
056701 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Competition between subdiffusion and Lévy flights: A Monte Carlo approach
Marcin Magdziarz and Aleksander Weron
Published 7 May 2007 (6 pages)
056702 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Modified lattice Boltzmann model for axisymmetric flows
T. Reis and T. N. Phillips
Published 9 May 2007 (5 pages)
056703 [View PDF (84 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Physics-conforming constraints-oriented numerical method
E. Ahusborde, R. Gruber, M. Azaiez, and M. L. Sawley
Published 17 May 2007 (9 pages)
056704 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Sequential Monte Carlo scheme for Bayesian estimation in the presence of data outliers
Liang Huang and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 21 May 2007 (6 pages)
056705 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Generalized approach to Ewald sums
R. E. Johnson and S. Ranganathan
Published 22 May 2007 (8 pages)
056706 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Accurate sampling using Langevin dynamics
Giovanni Bussi and Michele Parrinello
Published 25 May 2007 (7 pages)
056707 [View PDF (299 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Experimental evidence for mixed reality states in an interreality system
Vadas Gintautas and Alfred W. Hübler
Published 25 May 2007 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Radiation emission by extreme relativistic electrons and pair production by hard photons in a strong plasma wakefield
E. Nerush and I. Kostyukov
Published 14 May 2007 (4 pages)
057401 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Computational physics

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Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics methods for computing the thermal conductivity: Application to amorphous polymers
Takamichi Terao, Enrico Lussetti, and Florian Müller-Plathe
Published 25 May 2007 (4 pages)
057701 [View PDF (91 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Structural transitions and arrest of domain growth in sheared binary immiscible fluids and microemulsions [Phys. Rev. E 75, 041504 (2007)]
J. Harting, G. Giupponi, and P. V. Coveney
Published 3 May 2007 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Erratum: Equation of state for a partially ionized gas. II [Phys. Rev. E 68, 056112 (2003)]
George A. Baker, Jr.
Published 4 May 2007 (5 pages)
059902(E) [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Erratum: Universal back-projection algorithm for photoacoustic computed tomography [Phys. Rev. E 71, 016706 (2005)]
Minghua Xu and Lihong V. Wang
Published 7 May 2007 (2 pages)
059903(E) [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Maxwell’s demon and Smoluchowski’s trap door [Phys. Rev. E 75, 041109 (2007)]
Jianzhou Zheng, Xiao Zheng, Yang Zhao, Yang Xie, ChiYung Yam, GuanHua Chen, Qing Jiang, and Allen T. Chwang
Published 9 May 2007 (1 page)
059904(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Gravitational dynamics of an infinite shuffled lattice of particles [Phys. Rev. E 75, 021113 (2007)]
T. Baertschiger, M. Joyce, A. Gabrielli, and F. Sylos Labini
Published 16 May 2007 (1 page)
059905(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Erratum: Optical properties and diffraction effects in opal photonic crystals [Phys. Rev. E 74, 036603 (2006)]
Alessandra Balestreri, Lucio Claudio Andreani, and Mario Agio
Published 21 May 2007 (1 page)
059906(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Lattice-based Monte Carlo method for telechelic chain molecules [Phys. Rev. E 75, 036708 (2007)]
Behnaz Bozorgui and Daan Frenkel
Published 22 May 2007 (1 page)
059907(E) [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Photonic band mixing in linear chains of optically coupled microspheres [Phys. Rev. E 73, 036606 (2006)]
L. I. Deych and O. Roslyak
Published 31 May 2007 (1 page)
059908(E) [View PDF (17 kB)]
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Erratum: Capillary wave dynamics on supported viscoelastic films: Single and double layers [Phys. Rev. E. 75, 021604 (2007)]
Mark L. Henle and Alex J. Levine
Published 31 May 2007 (1 page)
059909(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]