Physical Review E – June 2007
Volume 75, 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

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Announcement: New Prices and Payment Policy for Color Figures in the Print Journal
Published 26 June 2007 (1 page)
060001 [View PDF (17 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics

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Characterizing potentials by a generalized Boltzmann factor
V. Blickle, T. Speck, U. Seifert, and C. Bechinger
Published 1 June 2007 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Markov analysis and Kramers-Moyal expansion of nonstationary stochastic processes with application to the fluctuations in the oil price
Fatemeh Ghasemi, Muhammad Sahimi, J. Peinke, R. Friedrich, G. Reza Jafari, and M. Reza Rahimi Tabar
Published 18 June 2007 (4 pages)
060102(R) [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Microscopic formula for transport coefficients of causal hydrodynamics
T. Koide
Published 21 June 2007 (4 pages)
060103(R) [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Strong correlations between fluctuations and response in aging transport
E. Barkai
Published 25 June 2007 (4 pages)
060104(R) [View PDF (91 kB)]

Granular materials

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Power-law friction in closely packed granular materials
Takahiro Hatano
Published 14 June 2007 (4 pages)
060301(R) [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Tail of the contact force distribution in static granular materials
Adrianne R. T. van Eerd, Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Martin van Hecke, Jacco H. Snoeijer, and Thijs J. H. Vlugt
Published 29 June 2007 (4 pages)
060302(R) [View PDF (352 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Induced dipoles and dielectrophoresis of nanocolloids in electrolytes
Sagnik Basuray and Hsueh-Chia Chang
Published 25 June 2007 (4 pages)
060501(R) [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Microstructure of neat alcohols
Aurélien Perera, Franjo Sokolić, and Larisa Zoranić
Published 27 June 2007 (4 pages)
060502(R) [View PDF (173 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Universality of the power-law approach to the jamming limit in random sequential adsorption dynamics
Pradip B. Shelke, M. D. Khandkar, A. G. Banpurkar, S. B. Ogale, and A. V. Limaye
Published 7 June 2007 (4 pages)
060601(R) [View PDF (289 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Molecular model for de Vries type smectic- A –smectic- C phase transition in liquid crystals
M. V. Gorkunov, F. Giesselmann, J. P. F. Lagerwall, T. J. Sluckin, and M. A. Osipov
Published 27 June 2007 (4 pages)
060701(R) [View PDF (134 kB)]

Polymers

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Unexpectedly normal phase behavior of single homopolymer chains
W. Paul, T. Strauch, F. Rampf, and K. Binder
Published 1 June 2007 (4 pages)
060801(R) [View PDF (156 kB)]

Biological physics

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Quantification of spatial intensity correlations and photodetector intensity fluctuations of coherent light reflected from turbid particle suspensions
Vinayakrishnan Rajan, Babu Varghese, Ton G van Leeuwen, and Wiendelt Steenbergen
Published 20 June 2007 (4 pages)
060901(R) [View PDF (110 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Nonequilibrium work fluctuations for oscillators in non-Markovian baths
Trieu Mai and Abhishek Dhar
Published 1 June 2007 (7 pages)
061101 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Percolation in hierarchical scale-free nets
Hernán D. Rozenfeld and Daniel ben-Avraham
Published 4 June 2007 (8 pages)
061102 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Self-overlap as a method of analysis in Ising models
A. Ferrera, B. Luque, L. Lacasa, and E. Valero
Published 5 June 2007 (8 pages)
061103 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Griffiths singularities and algebraic order in the exact solution of an Ising model on a fractal modular network
Michael Hinczewski
Published 5 June 2007 (6 pages)
061104 [View PDF (208 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Optimal stimulus and noise distributions for information transmission via suprathreshold stochastic resonance
Mark D. McDonnell, Nigel G. Stocks, and Derek Abbott
Published 6 June 2007 (13 pages)
061105 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Single molecule pulling with large time steps
Harald Oberhofer, Christoph Dellago, and Stefan Boresch
Published 6 June 2007 (7 pages)
061106 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Fluctuation-induced phase transition in a spatially extended model for catalytic CO oxidation
M. Pineda, L. Schimansky-Geier, and R Imbihl
Published 8 June 2007 (10 pages)
061107 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Critical endpoint behavior in an asymmetric Ising model: Application of Wang-Landau sampling to calculate the density of states
Shan-Ho Tsai, Fugao Wang, and D. P. Landau
Published 8 June 2007 (9 pages)
061108 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Emergence of order in selection-mutation dynamics
Christoph Marx, Harald A. Posch, and Walter Thirring
Published 8 June 2007 (7 pages)
061109 [View PDF (1,988 kB)]
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Critical behavior of the majority voter model is independent of transition rates
Wooseop Kwak, Jae-Suk Yang, Jang-il Sohn, and In-mook Kim
Published 11 June 2007 (5 pages)
061110 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Nonthermal equilibrium states of closed bipartite systems
Harry Schmidt and Günter Mahler
Published 12 June 2007 (7 pages)
061111 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Master singular behavior for the Sugden factor of one-component fluids near their gas-liquid critical point
Yves Garrabos, Fabien Palencia, Carole Lecoutre, Daniel Broseta, Bernard Le Neindre, and Can Erkey
Published 13 June 2007 (14 pages)
061112 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Longest increasing subsequence as expectation of a simple nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation with a low noise intensity
E. Katzav, S. Nechaev, and O. Vasilyev
Published 15 June 2007 (6 pages)
061113 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Origin of power-law distributions in deterministic walks: The influence of landscape geometry
M. C. Santos, D. Boyer, O. Miramontes, G. M. Viswanathan, E. P. Raposo, J. L. Mateos, and M. G. E. da Luz
Published 15 June 2007 (6 pages)
061114 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Conventional and generalized efficiencies of flashing and rocking ratchets: Analytical comparison of high-efficiency limits
V. M. Rozenbaum, T. Ye. Korochkova, and K. K. Liang
Published 18 June 2007 (5 pages)
061115 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Fluctuation theorem for entropy production during effusion of an ideal gas with momentum transfer
Kevin Wood, C. Van den Broeck, R. Kawai, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 19 June 2007 (8 pages)
061116 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Analytical calculation for the percolation crossover in deterministic partially self-avoiding walks in one-dimensional random media
César Augusto Sangaletti Terçariol, Rodrigo Silva González, and Alexandre Souto Martinez
Published 19 June 2007 (7 pages)
061117 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Numerical linked-cluster algorithms. I. Spin systems on square, triangular, and kagomé lattices
Marcos Rigol, Tyler Bryant, and Rajiv R. P. Singh
Published 21 June 2007 (13 pages)
061118 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Numerical linked-cluster algorithms. II. t-J models on the square lattice
Marcos Rigol, Tyler Bryant, and Rajiv R. P. Singh
Published 21 June 2007 (6 pages)
061119 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of ideal quantum gas with fractional statistics in D dimensions
Geoffrey G. Potter, Gerhard Müller, and Michael Karbach
Published 21 June 2007 (13 pages)
061120 [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Catalytic reduction of NO with NH3 on a Pt(100) surface: Monte Carlo simulations
Matías Rafti and José Luis Vicente
Published 21 June 2007 (7 pages)
061121 [View PDF (610 kB)]
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Persistence of a Rouse polymer chain under transverse shear flow
Somnath Bhattacharya, Dibyendu Das, and Satya N. Majumdar
Published 25 June 2007 (6 pages)
061122 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Analytically solvable model of a driven system with quenched dichotomous disorder
S. I. Denisov, M. Kostur, E. S. Denisova, and P. Hänggi
Published 27 June 2007 (7 pages)
061123 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Granular Brownian ratchet model
Giulio Costantini, Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi, and Andrea Puglisi
Published 27 June 2007 (5 pages)
061124 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Theoretical framework for microscopic osmotic phenomena
Paul J. Atzberger and Peter R. Kramer
Published 27 June 2007 (12 pages)
061125 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Thermal noise can facilitate energy transformation in the presence of entropic barriers
Bao-quan Ai, Hui-zhang Xie, and Liang-gang Liu
Published 28 June 2007 (7 pages)
061126 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Phase transition in liquid drop fragmentation
Cristian F. Moukarzel, Silvia F. Fernández-Sabido, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez
Published 28 June 2007 (9 pages)
061127 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Green’s function method for thermal transport in junctions
Jian-Sheng Wang, Nan Zeng, Jian Wang, and Chee Kwan Gan
Published 28 June 2007 (15 pages)
061128 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Generic two-phase coexistence, relaxation kinetics, and interface propagation in the quadratic contact process: Simulation studies
Xiaofang Guo, Da-Jiang Liu, and J. W. Evans
Published 29 June 2007 (14 pages)
061129 [View PDF (1,467 kB)]
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Critical behavior of the XY model on growing scale-free networks
Wooseop Kwak, Jae-Suk Yang, Jang-il Sohn, and In-mook Kim
Published 29 June 2007 (5 pages)
061130 [View PDF (410 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Dynamic instability transitions in one-dimensional driven diffusive flow with nonlocal hopping
Meesoon Ha, Hyunggyu Park, and Marcel den Nijs
Published 29 June 2007 (11 pages)
061131 [View PDF (531 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Multicomponent fluid of hard spheres near a wall
Alexandr Malijevský, Santos B. Yuste, Andrés Santos, and Mariano López de Haro
Published 5 June 2007 (9 pages)
061201 [View PDF (916 kB)]
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Charge inversion of divalent ionic solutions in silica channels
Christian D. Lorenz and Alex Travesset
Published 13 June 2007 (5 pages)
061202 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Scaling of the structural relaxation in simulated liquid silica
A. Le Grand, C. Dreyfus, C. Bousquet, and R. M. Pick
Published 19 June 2007 (4 pages)
061203 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Algebraic perturbation theory for dense liquids with discrete potentials
Artur B. Adib
Published 20 June 2007 (5 pages)
061204 [View PDF (146 kB)]

Granular materials

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Chaoticity of the wet granular gas
A. Fingerle, S. Herminghaus, and V. Yu. Zaburdaev
Published 7 June 2007 (12 pages)
061301 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Density-driven segregation in vertically vibrated binary granular mixtures
Q. Shi, G. Sun, M. Hou, and K. Lu
Published 8 June 2007 (4 pages)
061302 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Stochastic multiscale model for carbonate rocks
B. Biswal, P.-E. Øren, R. J. Held, S. Bakke, and R. Hilfer
Published 12 June 2007 (5 pages)
061303 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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van der Waals–like phase-separation instability of a driven granular gas in three dimensions
Rui Liu, Yinchang Li, Meiying Hou, and Baruch Meerson
Published 13 June 2007 (7 pages)
061304 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Collision process between an incident bead and a three-dimensional granular packing
Djaoued Beladjine, Madani Ammi, Luc Oger, and Alexandre Valance
Published 14 June 2007 (12 pages)
061305 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Granular mixtures modeled as elastic hard spheres subject to a drag force
Francisco Vega Reyes, Vicente Garzó, and Andrés Santos
Published 26 June 2007 (14 pages)
061306 [View PDF (477 kB)]
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Comparing flow thresholds and dynamics for oscillating and inclined granular layers
S. Aumaitre, C. Puls, J. N. McElwaine, and J. P. Gollub
Published 27 June 2007 (9 pages)
061307 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Acoustic response of cemented granular sedimentary rocks: Molecular dynamics modeling
Xavier García and Ernesto Medina
Published 29 June 2007 (12 pages)
061308 [View PDF (444 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Interaction between droplets in a ternary microemulsion evaluated by the relative form factor method
Michihiro Nagao, Hideki Seto, and Norifumi L. Yamada
Published 6 June 2007 (10 pages)
061401 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Interparticle potential barriers in soft matter systems
H. Fragner
Published 12 June 2007 (7 pages)
061402 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Phase separation of charge-stabilized colloids: A Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulation study
Ben Lu and Alan R. Denton
Published 15 June 2007 (10 pages)
061403 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Crystallization of colloidal hard spheres under gravity
Matthieu Marechal and Marjolein Dijkstra
Published 22 June 2007 (8 pages)
061404 [View PDF (813 kB)]
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Magnetic properties of polydisperse ferrofluids: A critical comparison between experiment, theory, and computer simulation
Alexey O. Ivanov, Sofia S. Kantorovich, Evgeniy N. Reznikov, Christian Holm, Alexander F. Pshenichnikov, Alexander V. Lebedev, Alexandros Chremos, and Philip J. Camp
Published 28 June 2007 (12 pages)
061405 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional behavior in the self-assembly of magnetorheological fluids confined in thin slits
Ramin Haghgooie and Patrick S. Doyle
Published 28 June 2007 (13 pages)
061406 [View PDF (1,868 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Liquid-to-glass transition in bulk glass-forming Cu60Ti20Zr20 alloy by molecular dynamics simulations
X. J. Han and H. Teichler
Published 11 June 2007 (15 pages)
061501 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Wall slip, shear banding, and instability in the flow of a triblock copolymer micellar solution
Sébastien Manneville, Annie Colin, Gilles Waton, and François Schosseler
Published 14 June 2007 (11 pages)
061502 [View PDF (645 kB)]
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Phase behavior of the Stockmayer fluid via molecular dynamics simulation
Jörg Bartke and Reinhard Hentschke
Published 21 June 2007 (11 pages)
061503 [View PDF (639 kB)]
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Possibility of Fisher renormalization of the critical exponents in an Ising fluid
W. Fenz, R. Folk, I. M. Mryglod, and I. P. Omelyan
Published 21 June 2007 (11 pages)
061504 [View PDF (318 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Optical reflectivity of thin rough films: Application to ellipsometric measurements on liquid films
J. Meunier
Published 5 June 2007 (8 pages)
061601 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Universal behavior of photochemical deposition in liquid solutions driven by a one-photon transition
Emmanuel Hugonnot, Marie-Hélène Delville, and Jean-Pierre Delville
Published 11 June 2007 (12 pages)
061602 [View PDF (1,578 kB)]
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Dendrite engineering on xenon crystals
Marco Fell and Jörg Bilgram
Published 20 June 2007 (24 pages)
061603 [View PDF (5,362 kB)]
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Transfer coefficients for evaporation of a system with a Lennard-Jones long-range spline potential
Jialin Ge, S. Kjelstrup, D. Bedeaux, J. M. Simon, and B. Rousseau
Published 21 June 2007 (10 pages)
061604 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Determination of interphase line tension in Langmuir films
Jacob R. Wintersmith, Lu Zou, Andrew J. Bernoff, James C. Alexander, J. Adin Mann, Jr., Edgar E. Kooijman, and Elizabeth K. Mann
Published 21 June 2007 (6 pages)
061605 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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X-ray and ellipsometric study of strong critical adsorption
M. D. Brown, B. M. Law, L. Marchand, L. B. Lurio, I. Kuzmenko, T. Gog, and W. A. Hamilton
Published 25 June 2007 (7 pages)
061606 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Sputter roughening of inhomogeneous surfaces: Impurity pinning and nanostructure shape selection
S. W. Ong, E. S. Tok, and H. Chuan Kang
Published 28 June 2007 (13 pages)
061607 [View PDF (1,235 kB)]
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Surface and bulk properties of deposits grown with a bidisperse ballistic deposition model
F. A. Silveira and F. D. A. Aarão Reis
Published 28 June 2007 (7 pages)
061608 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Direct calculation of interfacial tensions from computer simulation: Results for freely jointed tangent hard sphere chains
Luis G. MacDowell and Paweł Bryk
Published 29 June 2007 (13 pages)
061609 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Crystal-melt interface stresses: Atomistic simulation calculations for a Lennard-Jones binary alloy, Stillinger-Weber Si, and embedded atom method Ni
C. A. Becker, J. J. Hoyt, D. Buta, and M. Asta
Published 29 June 2007 (6 pages)
061610 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Use of Parsons-Lee and Onsager theories to predict nematic and demixing behavior in binary mixtures of hard rods and hard spheres
Alejandro Cuetos, Bruno Martínez-Haya, Santiago Lago, and Luis F. Rull
Published 4 June 2007 (12 pages)
061701 [View PDF (725 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulations of dipolar fluids in orientationally ordered phases
Dong-Qing Wei, Ying-Jie Wang, Lu Wang, Jin-He Hu, Zi-Zheng Gong, Yong-Xin Guo, and Yi-Sheng Zhu
Published 6 June 2007 (5 pages)
061702 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Orientational relaxation in a discotic liquid crystal
Dwaipayan Chakrabarti, Biman Jana, and Biman Bagchi
Published 7 June 2007 (7 pages)
061703 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Defect-antidefect correlations in a lyotropic liquid crystal from a cosmological point of view
H. Mukai, P. R. G. Fernandes, B. F. de Oliveira, and G. S. Dias
Published 7 June 2007 (6 pages)
061704 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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High-resolution x-ray scattering study of the effect of quenched random disorder on the nematic–smectic- A transition
M. Ramazanoglu, S. Larochelle, C. W. Garland, and R. J. Birgeneau
Published 14 June 2007 (14 pages)
061705 [View PDF (1,170 kB)]
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Switching dynamics of surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells: Effects of anchoring energy asymmetry
Alexei D. Kiselev, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, and Eugene P. Pozhidaev
Published 15 June 2007 (15 pages)
061706 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Flexoelectric instability and a spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking in a nematic liquid crystal cell with asymmetric boundary conditions
S. P. Palto, N. J. Mottram, and M. A. Osipov
Published 22 June 2007 (8 pages)
061707 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Origin of glassy dynamics in a liquid crystal studied by broadband dielectric and specific heat spectroscopy
A. R. Brás, M. Dionísio, H. Huth, Ch. Schick, and A. Schönhals
Published 22 June 2007 (8 pages)
061708 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Distance of closest approach of two arbitrary hard ellipses in two dimensions
Xiaoyu Zheng and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Published 26 June 2007 (6 pages)
061709 [View PDF (221 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Local affine-connection approach to the elastic constants of nematic liquid crystals
M. Simões, A. de Campos, and D. Barbato
Published 27 June 2007 (11 pages)
061710 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Crossover in the wetting behavior at surfactant-laden liquid-crystal–water interfaces: Experiment and theory
Erfan Kadivar, Christian Bahr, and Holger Stark
Published 28 June 2007 (9 pages)
061711 [View PDF (262 kB)]

Polymers

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Bimodal distribution function of a three-dimensional wormlike chain with a fixed orientation of one end
F. F. Semeriyanov and S. Stepanow
Published 1 June 2007 (5 pages)
061801 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Butterfly patterns in crystalline polymers under uniaxial stretch
Mikihito Takenaka, Hirofumi Shimizu, and Shotaro Nishitsuji
Published 6 June 2007 (4 pages)
061802 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Effect of polydispersity on the depletion interaction in nonadsorbing polymer solutions
Shuang Yang, Hongge Tan, Dadong Yan, E. Nies, and An-Chang Shi
Published 7 June 2007 (7 pages)
061803 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Direct observation of single molecule mobility in semidilute polymer solutions
Heiko Zettl, Ute Zettl, Georg Krausch, Jörg Enderlein, and Matthias Ballauff
Published 7 June 2007 (6 pages)
061804 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Broadband dielectric study of oligomer of poly(vinyl acetate): A detailed comparison of dynamics with its polymer analog
Madhusudan Tyagi, Angel Alegría, and Juan Colmenero
Published 18 June 2007 (9 pages)
061805 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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Glass transition and α -relaxation dynamics of thin films of labeled polystyrene
Rodney D. Priestley, Linda J. Broadbelt, John M. Torkelson, and Koji Fukao
Published 29 June 2007 (10 pages)
061806 [View PDF (462 kB)]

Biological physics

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Oscillations in intracellular signaling cascades
K.-H. Chiam and Gunaretnam Rajagopal
Published 1 June 2007 (7 pages)
061901 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Growth of tactoidal droplets during the first-order isotropic to nematic phase transition of F-actin
Patrick W. Oakes, Jorge Viamontes, and Jay X. Tang
Published 1 June 2007 (11 pages)
061902 [View PDF (869 kB)]
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Effects of coupling strength and space on the dynamics of coupled toggle switches in stochastic gene networks with multiple-delayed reactions
Andre S. Ribeiro
Published 4 June 2007 (12 pages)
061903 [View PDF (792 kB)]
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Reduction of higher-order photobleaching in two-photon excitation microscopy
Partha Pratim Mondal and Alberto Diaspro
Published 4 June 2007 (4 pages)
061904 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Quantifying noise levels of intercellular signals
Kai Wang, Wouter-Jan Rappel, Rex Kerr, and Herbert Levine
Published 5 June 2007 (5 pages)
061905 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Self-consistent analyses for potential conduction block in nerves by an ultrashort high-intensity electric pulse
R. P. Joshi, A. Mishra, Q. Hu, K. H. Schoenbach, and A. Pakhomov
Published 7 June 2007 (11 pages)
061906 [View PDF (1,122 kB)]
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RNA folding in the presence of counterions
Yevgeni Sh. Mamasakhlisov, Shura Hayryan, V. F. Morozov, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 11 June 2007 (10 pages)
061907 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Pattern formation, outbreaks, and synchronization in food chains with two and three species
Sabrina B. L. Araújo and M. A. M. de Aguiar
Published 14 June 2007 (14 pages)
061908 [View PDF (2,817 kB)]
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Evolution equation of phenotype distribution: General formulation and application to error catastrophe
Katsuhiko Sato and Kunihiko Kaneko
Published 19 June 2007 (10 pages)
061909 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Two-site realization of the Davydov model in a finite size lattice: A time-convolutionless master equation approach
Vincent Pouthier
Published 21 June 2007 (14 pages)
061910 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Brain, music, and non-Poisson renewal processes
Simone Bianco, Massimiliano Ignaccolo, Mark S. Rider, Mary J. Ross, Phil Winsor, and Paolo Grigolini
Published 21 June 2007 (10 pages)
061911 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Polymer translocation through a nanopore under a pulling force
Ilkka Huopaniemi, Kaifu Luo, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and See-Chen Ying
Published 26 June 2007 (6 pages)
061912 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Multiscale mode dynamics of a tethered membrane
R. B. Pandey, Kelly L. Anderson, and B. L. Farmer
Published 28 June 2007 (5 pages)
061913 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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1∕f fluctuations of DNA temperature at thermal denaturation
Marc Joyeux, Sahin Buyukdagli, and Michaël Sanrey
Published 28 June 2007 (9 pages)
061914 [View PDF (2,592 kB)]
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Long-range correlation and charge transfer efficiency in substitutional sequences of DNA molecules
Ai-Min Guo
Published 29 June 2007 (8 pages)
061915 [View PDF (683 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Drift and diffusion in a periodic two-dimensional velocity field without attractors
F. Müller, L. Schimansky-Geier, V. S. Zykov, and H. Engel
Published 1 June 2007 (4 pages)
062101 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Very large stochastic resonance gains in finite sets of interacting identical subsystems driven by subthreshold rectangular pulses
David Cubero, Jesús Casado-Pascual, José Gómez-Ordóñez, José Manuel Casado, and Manuel Morillo
Published 7 June 2007 (4 pages)
062102 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Granular materials

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Velocity statistics in dissipative, dense granular media
David J. Bray, Michael R. Swift, and P. J. King
Published 25 June 2007 (4 pages)
062301 [View PDF (138 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Giant acceleration in slow-fast space-periodic Hamiltonian systems
D. V. Makarov and M. Yu. Uleysky
Published 19 June 2007 (4 pages)
065201(R) [View PDF (3,057 kB)]
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Controlling spatiotemporal chaos using multiple delays
Alexander Ahlborn and Ulrich Parlitz
Published 21 June 2007 (4 pages)
065202(R) [View PDF (1,509 kB)]
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Signatures of fractal clustering of aerosols advected under gravity
Rafael D. Vilela, Tamás Tél, Alessandro P. S. de Moura, and Celso Grebogi
Published 27 June 2007 (4 pages)
065203(R) [View PDF (281 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Clustering of matter in waves and currents
Marija Vucelja, Gregory Falkovich, and Itzhak Fouxon
Published 1 June 2007 (4 pages)
065301(R) [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Experimental study of the bursting of inviscid bubbles
Frank Müller, Ulrike Kornek, and Ralf Stannarius
Published 14 June 2007 (4 pages)
065302(R) [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Surface thermal capacity and its effects on the boundary conditions at fluid-fluid interfaces
Kausik S. Das and C. A. Ward
Published 15 June 2007 (4 pages)
065303(R) [View PDF (109 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Direct evidence of strongly inhomogeneous energy deposition in target heating with laser-produced ion beams
E. Brambrink, T. Schlegel, G. Malka, K. U. Amthor, M. M. Aléonard, G. Claverie, M. Gerbaux, F. Gobet, F. Hannachi, V. Méot, P. Morel, P. Nicolai, J. N. Scheurer, M. Tarisien, V. Tikhonchuk, and P. Audebert
Published 6 June 2007 (4 pages)
065401(R) [View PDF (116 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Phase separation in the crust of accreting neutron stars
C. J. Horowitz, D. K. Berry, and E. F. Brown
Published 4 June 2007 (7 pages)
066101 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Log-periodic oscillations due to discrete effects in complex networks
Julian Sienkiewicz, Piotr Fronczak, and Janusz A. Hołyst
Published 13 June 2007 (5 pages)
066102 [View PDF (407 kB)]
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Dynamics of epidemics on random networks
M. Marder
Published 13 June 2007 (5 pages)
066103 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Reconstruction of potential from dynamic experiments
V. L. Popov, J. Starcevic, and A. E. Filippov
Published 14 June 2007 (6 pages)
066104 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Star patterns on lake ice
Victor C. Tsai and J. S. Wettlaufer
Published 18 June 2007 (5 pages)
066105 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Synchronizability determined by coupling strengths and topology on complex networks
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Yamir Moreno, and Alex Arenas
Published 22 June 2007 (11 pages)
066106 [View PDF (477 kB)]
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Ergodicity in natural earthquake fault networks
K. F. Tiampo, J. B. Rundle, W. Klein, J. Holliday, J. S. Sá Martins, and C. D. Ferguson
Published 22 June 2007 (16 pages)
066107 [View PDF (15,197 kB)]
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Different topologies for a herding model of opinion
V. Schwämmle, M. C. González, A. A. Moreira, J. S. Andrade, Jr., and H. J. Herrmann
Published 25 June 2007 (6 pages)
066108 [View PDF (1,369 kB)]
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Simulation of the hydraulic fracture process in two dimensions using a discrete element method
Sergio Andres Galindo Torres and Jose Daniel Muñoz Castaño
Published 26 June 2007 (9 pages)
066109 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Numerical evaluation of the upper critical dimension of percolation in scale-free networks
Zhenhua Wu, Cecilia Lagorio, Lidia A. Braunstein, Reuven Cohen, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 27 June 2007 (6 pages)
066110 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Phase field modeling of fracture and stress-induced phase transitions
R. Spatschek, C. Müller-Gugenberger, E. Brener, and B. Nestler
Published 27 June 2007 (14 pages)
066111 [View PDF (1,348 kB)]
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Optimal transportation network with concave cost functions: Loop analysis and algorithms
Zhen Shao and Haijun Zhou
Published 27 June 2007 (5 pages)
066112 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Condensation of elastic energy in two-dimensional packing of wires
C. C. Donato and M. A. F. Gomes
Published 28 June 2007 (4 pages)
066113 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Unifying evolutionary and network dynamics
Samarth Swarup and Les Gasser
Published 28 June 2007 (10 pages)
066114 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Routing strategy on a two-dimensional small-world network model
Ming Li, Feng Liu, and Feng-Yuan Ren
Published 28 June 2007 (9 pages)
066115 [View PDF (414 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Spectral analysis and an area-preserving extension of a piecewise linear intermittent map
Tomoshige Miyaguchi and Yoji Aizawa
Published 4 June 2007 (11 pages)
066201 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Synchronization properties of bidirectionally coupled semiconductor lasers under asymmetric operating conditions
Jhon Fredy Martínez Ávila, Raúl Vicente, José R. Rios Leite, and Claudio R. Mirasso
Published 6 June 2007 (6 pages)
066202 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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External forcing and feedback control of nonlinear dissipative waves
Hidekazu Tokuda, Vladimir S. Zykov, and Takao Ohta
Published 7 June 2007 (11 pages)
066203 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Universality in the flooding of regular islands by chaotic states
Arnd Bäcker, Roland Ketzmerick, and Alejandro G. Monastra
Published 7 June 2007 (11 pages)
066204 [View PDF (611 kB)]
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Codimension-three bifurcations: Explanation of the complex one-, two-, and three-dimensional bifurcation structures in nonsmooth maps
Viktor Avrutin, Michael Schanz, and Soumitro Banerjee
Published 8 June 2007 (7 pages)
066205 [View PDF (8,316 kB)]
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Thermodiffusion-induced instabilities in reactive systems
Sumana Dutta and Deb Shankar Ray
Published 18 June 2007 (9 pages)
066206 [View PDF (2,334 kB)]
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Multistability in the Kuramoto model with synaptic plasticity
Yuri L. Maistrenko, Borys Lysyansky, Christian Hauptmann, Oleksandr Burylko, and Peter A. Tass
Published 18 June 2007 (8 pages)
066207 [View PDF (621 kB)]
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Power-law persistence characterizes traveling waves in coupled circle maps with repulsive coupling
Prashant M. Gade, D. V. Senthilkumar, Sukratu Barve, and Sudeshna Sinha
Published 19 June 2007 (5 pages)
066208 [View PDF (2,136 kB)]
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Noise can delay and advance the collapse of spatiotemporal chaos
Renate Wackerbauer and Sumire Kobayashi
Published 20 June 2007 (7 pages)
066209 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Nonstandard electroconvection with Hopf bifurcation in a nematic liquid crystal with negative electric anisotropies
Tibor Tóth-Katona, Aude Cauquil-Vergnes, Nándor Éber, and Ágnes Buka
Published 20 June 2007 (12 pages)
066210 [View PDF (961 kB)]
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Automatic control and tracking of periodic orbits in chaotic systems
Hiroyasu Ando, S. Boccaletti, and Kazuyuki Aihara
Published 20 June 2007 (5 pages)
066211 [View PDF (727 kB)]
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Failure of parameter identification based on adaptive synchronization techniques
Wei Lin and Huan-Fei Ma
Published 21 June 2007 (11 pages)
066212 [View PDF (634 kB)]
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Directed deterministic classical transport: Symmetry breaking and beyond
Lucia Cavallasca, Roberto Artuso, and Giulio Casati
Published 22 June 2007 (10 pages)
066213 [View PDF (11,112 kB)]
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Embeddings of low-dimensional strange attractors: Topological invariants and degrees of freedom
Nicola Romanazzi, Marc Lefranc, and Robert Gilmore
Published 25 June 2007 (9 pages)
066214 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Escape time statistics for mushroom billiards
Tomoshige Miyaguchi
Published 27 June 2007 (6 pages)
066215 [View PDF (1,729 kB)]
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Chaotic bubbling and nonstagnant foams
Alberto Tufaile, José Carlos Sartorelli, Philippe Jeandet, and Gerard Liger-Belair
Published 27 June 2007 (5 pages)
066216 [View PDF (428 kB)]
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Microfluidic chaotic stirrer utilizing induced-charge electro-osmosis
Hui Zhao and Haim H. Bau
Published 28 June 2007 (8 pages)
066217 [View PDF (1,550 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Transient deformation of elastic capsules in shear flow: Effect of membrane bending stiffness
Y. Sui, Y. T. Chew, P. Roy, X. B. Chen, and H. T. Low
Published 5 June 2007 (10 pages)
066301 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Boundary conditions for fluids with internal orientational degrees of freedom: Apparent velocity slip associated with the molecular alignment
Sebastian Heidenreich, Patrick Ilg, and Siegfried Hess
Published 5 June 2007 (13 pages)
066302 [View PDF (917 kB)]
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Structure of the thermal boundary layer for turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection of air in a long rectangular enclosure
Anna Maystrenko, Christian Resagk, and André Thess
Published 6 June 2007 (11 pages)
066303 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Bounding biomass in the Fisher equation
Daniel A. Birch, Yue-Kin Tsang, and William R. Young
Published 6 June 2007 (14 pages)
066304 [View PDF (877 kB)]
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Luminescence from laser-created bubbles in cryogenic liquids
Ohan Baghdassarian, Bernd Tabbert, and Gary A. Williams
Published 6 June 2007 (8 pages)
066305 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Evidence of convective heat transfer enhancement induced by spinodal decomposition
P. Poesio, A. M. Lezzi, and G. P. Beretta
Published 7 June 2007 (9 pages)
066306 [View PDF (487 kB)]
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Cessations and reversals of the large-scale circulation in turbulent thermal convection
Heng-Dong Xi and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 8 June 2007 (5 pages)
066307 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Effect of transient pinning on stability of drops sitting on an inclined plane
Viatcheslav Berejnov and Robert E. Thorne
Published 11 June 2007 (6 pages)
066308 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Interaction of two particles in a shear flow
Marina Popova, Peter Vorobieff, Marc S. Ingber, and Alan L. Graham
Published 12 June 2007 (5 pages)
066309 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Dynamics of a single cavitating and reacting bubble
Guillermo Hauke, Daniel Fuster, and Cesar Dopazo
Published 19 June 2007 (14 pages)
066310 [View PDF (4,512 kB)]
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Method for modeling transport of particles in realistic porous networks: Application to the computation of NMR flow propagators
Guillemette Picard and Kurt Frey
Published 22 June 2007 (8 pages)
066311 [View PDF (567 kB)]
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Bubble interaction model for hydrodynamic unstable mixing
Sung-Ik Sohn
Published 25 June 2007 (12 pages)
066312 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Statistical analysis of coherent structures in transitional pipe flow
Tobias M. Schneider, Bruno Eckhardt, and Jürgen Vollmer
Published 26 June 2007 (10 pages)
066313 [View PDF (885 kB)]
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Strategy for active mixing in microdevices
Boris Stoeber, Dorian Liepmann, and Susan J. Muller
Published 28 June 2007 (4 pages)
066314 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Nonlinear turbulent magnetic diffusion and effective drift velocity of a large-scale magnetic field in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Nathan Kleeorin and Igor Rogachevskii
Published 29 June 2007 (8 pages)
066315 [View PDF (152 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Properties of non-neutral electron plasmas confined with a magnetic mirror field
H. Higaki, K. Ito, W. Saiki, Y. Omori, and H. Okamoto
Published 4 June 2007 (5 pages)
066401 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Flow of nanosize cluster-containing plasma in a magnetron discharge
Boris M. Smirnov, Ibrahimkutty Shyjumon, and Rainer Hippler
Published 22 June 2007 (9 pages)
066402 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Ergodic model for the expansion of spherical nanoplasmas
F. Peano, G. Coppa, F. Peinetti, R. Mulas, and L. O. Silva
Published 27 June 2007 (10 pages)
066403 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Turbulent cascade in vortex dynamics of magnetized pure electron plasmas
Y. Kawai, Y. Kiwamoto, Y. Soga, and J. Aoki
Published 29 June 2007 (6 pages)
066404 [View PDF (468 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Multicoaxial cylindrical inclusions in locally resonant phononic crystals
H. Larabi, Y. Pennec, B. Djafari-Rouhani, and J. O. Vasseur
Published 5 June 2007 (8 pages)
066601 [View PDF (1,485 kB)]
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Two-dimensional complete photonic gaps from layered periodic structures containing anisotropic left-handed metamaterials
Shulin Sun, Xueqin Huang, and Lei Zhou
Published 6 June 2007 (7 pages)
066602 [View PDF (2,511 kB)]
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Optical carrier wave shocking: Detection and dispersion
P. Kinsler, S. B. P. Radnor, J. C. A. Tyrrell, and G. H. C. New
Published 7 June 2007 (9 pages)
066603 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Cutoff solitons and bistability of the discrete inductance-capacitance electrical line: Theory and experiments
K. Tse Ve Koon, J. Leon, P. Marquié, and P. Tchofo-Dinda
Published 8 June 2007 (8 pages)
066604 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Spatial vector soliton and its collisions in isotropic self-defocusing Kerr media
R. Radhakrishnan and K. Aravinthan
Published 14 June 2007 (8 pages)
066605 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Gap solitons in a nonlinear quadratic negative-index cavity
Michael Scalora, Domenico de Ceglia, Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Neset Akozbek, Marco Centini, and Mark J. Bloemer
Published 19 June 2007 (6 pages)
066606 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Exact solitonic solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a linear potential
Usama Al Khawaja
Published 19 June 2007 (5 pages)
066607 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Dark solitons in discrete lattices: Saturable versus cubic nonlinearities
E. P. Fitrakis, P. G. Kevrekidis, H. Susanto, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 21 June 2007 (12 pages)
066608 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Polarization, transverse shifts, and angular momentum conservation laws in partial reflection and refraction of an electromagnetic wave packet
K. Yu. Bliokh and Yu. P. Bliokh
Published 21 June 2007 (10 pages)
066609 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Trapping gap solitons in a resonant photonic crystal of finite length
Wanneng Xiao
Published 26 June 2007 (6 pages)
066610 [View PDF (407 kB)]
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Asymptotic description of wave propagation in an active Lorentzian medium
Reza Safian, Mohammad Mojahedi, and Costas D. Sarris
Published 26 June 2007 (8 pages)
066611 [View PDF (1,119 kB)]
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Path-integral treatment of optical and microwave tunneling
Paolo Moretti, Anedio Ranfagni, and Paolo Sandri
Published 27 June 2007 (4 pages)
066612 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Phase vortices from a Young’s three-pinhole interferometer
Gary Ruben and David M. Paganin
Published 27 June 2007 (11 pages)
066613 [View PDF (801 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Computational physics

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Random numbers for large-scale distributed Monte Carlo simulations
Heiko Bauke and Stephan Mertens
Published 6 June 2007 (14 pages)
066701 [View PDF (496 kB)]
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Boundary condition independence of molecular dynamics simulations of planar elongational flow
Federico Frascoli, B. D. Todd, and Debra J. Searles
Published 7 June 2007 (9 pages)
066702 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Modification of directed-loop algorithm for continuous space simulation of bosonic systems
Yasuyuki Kato, Takafumi Suzuki, and Naoki Kawashima
Published 14 June 2007 (8 pages)
066703 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Numerical validation of the quantum lattice Boltzmann scheme in two and three dimensions
S. Palpacelli and S. Succi
Published 15 June 2007 (13 pages)
066704 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Interpolated boundary condition for lattice Boltzmann simulations of flows in narrow gaps
B. Chun and A. J. C. Ladd
Published 26 June 2007 (12 pages)
066705 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Wang-Landau molecular dynamics technique to search for low-energy conformational space of proteins
Takehiro Nagasima, Akira R. Kinjo, Takashi Mitsui, and Ken Nishikawa
Published 27 June 2007 (8 pages)
066706 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Modeling the flow of dense suspensions of deformable particles in three dimensions
Michael M. Dupin, Ian Halliday, Chris M. Care, Lyuba Alboul, and Lance L. Munn
Published 27 June 2007 (17 pages)
066707 [View PDF (2,866 kB)]
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Finding long cycles in graphs
Enzo Marinari, Guilhem Semerjian, and Valery Van Kerrebroeck
Published 29 June 2007 (10 pages)
066708 [View PDF (204 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Parameter identification of dynamical systems from time series
Wenwu Yu, Guanrong Chen, Jinde Cao, Jinhu Lü, and Ulrich Parlitz
Published 6 June 2007 (4 pages)
067201 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Onset of spatiotemporal chaos in a nonlinear system
J. D. Szezech, Jr., S. R. Lopes, and R. L. Viana
Published 21 June 2007 (4 pages)
067202 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Effects of optimal control over thermoconvective patterns
M. C. Navarro and H. Herrero
Published 22 June 2007 (4 pages)
067203 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Influence of noise on dynamics of coupled bursters
Nikola Burić, Kristina Todorović, and Nebojša Vasović
Published 28 June 2007 (4 pages)
067204 [View PDF (477 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Self-focusing and envelope pulse generation in nonlinear magnetic metamaterials
I. Kourakis, N. Lazarides, and G. P. Tsironis
Published 7 June 2007 (4 pages)
067601 [View PDF (153 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Flexible ring polymers in an obstacle environment: Molecular theory of linear viscoelasticity [Phys. Rev. E 74, 021805 (2006)]
Balaji V. S. Iyer, Ashish K. Lele, and Vinay A. Juvekar
Published 22 June 2007 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Erratum: Transition records of stationary Markov chains [Phys. Rev. E 74, 040103(R) (2006)]
Jan Naudts and Erik Van der Straeten
Published 29 June 2007 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]