Physical Review E – September 2007
Volume 76, Issue 3

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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Isolated nonequilibrium systems in contact
Yair Shokef, Gal Shulkind, and Dov Levine
Published 5 September 2007 (4 pages)
030101(R) [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Péclet-dependent memory kernels for transport in heterogeneous media
Andrea Cortis
Published 13 September 2007 (4 pages)
030102(R) [View PDF (310 kB)]

Granular materials

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Unjamming of granular packings due to local perturbations: Stability and decay of displacements
M. Reza Shaebani, Tamás Unger, and János Kertész
Published 17 September 2007 (4 pages)
030301(R) [View PDF (1,732 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Gel point determination of gelatin hydrogels by dynamic light scattering and rheological measurements
Takuro Matsunaga and Mitsuhiro Shibayama
Published 27 September 2007 (4 pages)
030401(R) [View PDF (229 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Binary fluids under steady shear in three dimensions
K. Stratford, J.-C. Desplat, P. Stansell, and M. E. Cates
Published 17 September 2007 (4 pages)
030501(R) [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Dielectric spectroscopy in benzophenone: The β relaxation and its relation to the mode-coupling Cole-Cole peak
L. C. Pardo, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl
Published 28 September 2007 (4 pages)
030502(R) [View PDF (269 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Thinning of superfluid films below the critical point
Roya Zandi, Aviva Shackell, Joseph Rudnick, Mehran Kardar, and Lincoln P. Chayes
Published 19 September 2007 (4 pages)
030601(R) [View PDF (141 kB)]

Polymers

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Measurement of long-ranged steric forces between polyelectrolyte layers physisorbed from 1  M NaCl
Stephan Block and Christiane A. Helm
Published 4 September 2007 (4 pages)
030801(R) [View PDF (219 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Arrival time distribution for a driven system containing quenched dichotomous disorder
S. I. Denisov, M. Kostur, E. S. Denisova, and P. Hänggi
Published 4 September 2007 (8 pages)
031101 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Superstatistics, thermodynamics, and fluctuations
Sumiyoshi Abe, Christian Beck, and Ezechiel G. D. Cohen
Published 5 September 2007 (5 pages)
031102 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Colloids in a periodic potential: Driven lattice gas in continuous space
Fabricio Q. Potiguar and Ronald Dickman
Published 7 September 2007 (7 pages)
031103 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Reversible random sequential adsorption of mixtures on a triangular lattice
I. Lončarević, Lj. Budinski-Petković, and S. B. Vrhovac
Published 7 September 2007 (9 pages)
031104 [View PDF (546 kB)]
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Quantum thermodynamic cycles and quantum heat engines
H. T. Quan, Yu-xi Liu, C. P. Sun, and Franco Nori
Published 7 September 2007 (18 pages)
031105 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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No-passing rule in the ground state evolution of the random-field Ising model
Yang Liu and Karin A. Dahmen
Published 7 September 2007 (6 pages)
031106 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Melting transitions in isotropically confined three-dimensional small Coulomb clusters
S. W. S. Apolinario and F. M. Peeters
Published 10 September 2007 (13 pages)
031107 [View PDF (1,046 kB)]
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Long-term ordering kinetics of the two-dimensional q -state Potts model
Ezequiel E. Ferrero and Sergio A. Cannas
Published 10 September 2007 (9 pages)
031108 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Transport process and local thermal reservoirs
Steffen Trimper and Michael Schulz
Published 10 September 2007 (6 pages)
031109 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Modeling heterogeneous materials via two-point correlation functions: Basic principles
Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger, and S. Torquato
Published 11 September 2007 (15 pages)
031110 [View PDF (3,594 kB)]
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Diffusion in the two-dimensional necklace model for reptation
G. Terranova, C. M. Aldao, and H. O. Mártin
Published 11 September 2007 (6 pages)
031111 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Statistical light-mode dynamics of multipulse passive mode locking
Rafi Weill, Boris Vodonos, Ariel Gordon, Omri Gat, and Baruch Fischer
Published 11 September 2007 (10 pages)
031112 [View PDF (488 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Smooth cutoff formulation of hierarchical reference theory for a scalar ϕ4 field theory
Cristian D. Ionescu, Alberto Parola, Davide Pini, and Luciano Reatto
Published 12 September 2007 (7 pages)
031113 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Constructing 1∕ωα noise from reversible Markov chains
Sveinung Erland and Priscilla E. Greenwood
Published 12 September 2007 (13 pages)
031114 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Modeling heat transport through completely positive maps
Hannu Wichterich, Markus J. Henrich, Heinz-Peter Breuer, Jochen Gemmer, and Mathias Michel
Published 12 September 2007 (7 pages)
031115 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Heat conduction in quantum harmonic chains with alternate masses and self-consistent thermal reservoirs
Antônio Francisco Neto, Humberto C. F. Lemos, and Emmanuel Pereira
Published 12 September 2007 (8 pages)
031116 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Global persistence exponent in critical dynamics: Finite-size-induced crossover
D. Chakraborty and J. K. Bhattacharjee
Published 12 September 2007 (4 pages)
031117 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Correlations, fluctuations, and stability of a finite-size network of coupled oscillators
Michael A. Buice and Carson C. Chow
Published 13 September 2007 (25 pages)
031118 [View PDF (829 kB)]
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Open system of interacting fermions: Statistical properties of cross sections and fluctuations
G. L. Celardo, F. M. Izrailev, V. G. Zelevinsky, and G. P. Berman
Published 13 September 2007 (12 pages)
031119 [View PDF (674 kB)]
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Appearance of spatiotemporal noise and its effect on transport of electron pairs in a superconducting junction device
Jing-hui Li
Published 14 September 2007 (5 pages)
031120 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Nonlinear dissipation effect in Brownian relaxation
A. V. Plyukhin and A. M. Froese
Published 14 September 2007 (6 pages)
031121 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Synchronization of stochastic bistable systems by biperiodic signals
I. A. Khovanov and P. V. E. McClintock
Published 17 September 2007 (6 pages)
031122 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Kullback-Leibler distance as a measure of the information filtered from multivariate data
Michele Tumminello, Fabrizio Lillo, and Rosario N. Mantegna
Published 19 September 2007 (12 pages)
031123 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Critical Casimir effect in superfluid wetting films
A. Maciołek, A. Gambassi, and S. Dietrich
Published 19 September 2007 (17 pages)
031124 [View PDF (475 kB)]
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Improved quantum hard-sphere ground-state equations of state
M. A. Solís, M. de Llano, J. W. Clark, and George A. Baker, Jr.
Published 20 September 2007 (9 pages)
031125 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Catastrophe in diffusion-controlled annihilation dynamics: From formation to universal explosion
Boris M. Shipilevsky
Published 21 September 2007 (21 pages)
031126 [View PDF (2,226 kB)]
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Mean-field analysis of an inductive reasoning game: Application to influenza vaccination
Romulus Breban, Raffaele Vardavas, and Sally Blower
Published 24 September 2007 (11 pages)
031127 [View PDF (921 kB)]
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Kramers’ law for a bistable system with time-delayed noise
D. Goulding, S. Melnik, D. Curtin, T. Piwonski, J. Houlihan, J. P. Gleeson, and G. Huyet
Published 25 September 2007 (5 pages)
031128 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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First passage times of Lévy flights coexisting with subdiffusion
Tal Koren, Joseph Klafter, and Marcin Magdziarz
Published 26 September 2007 (5 pages)
031129 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Inelastic collapse of a ball bouncing on a randomly vibrating platform
Satya N. Majumdar and Michael J. Kearney
Published 26 September 2007 (8 pages)
031130 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Phase transitions in the coloring of random graphs
Lenka Zdeborová and Florent Krząkała
Published 26 September 2007 (29 pages)
031131 [View PDF (767 kB)]
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Entropy fluctuation theorems in driven open systems: Application to electron counting statistics
Massimiliano Esposito, Upendra Harbola, and Shaul Mukamel
Published 26 September 2007 (17 pages)
031132 [View PDF (1,287 kB)]
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Asymptotic behavior of the entropy of chains placed on cylinders
W. G. Dantas, M. J. de Oliveira, and J. F. Stilck
Published 27 September 2007 (6 pages)
031133 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Power-law-distributed level crossings define fractal behavior
K. I. Hopcraft, P. C. Ingrey, and E. Jakeman
Published 27 September 2007 (11 pages)
031134 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Dynamic boundaries in asymmetric exclusion processes
Sarah A. Nowak, Pak-Wing Fok, and Tom Chou
Published 27 September 2007 (11 pages)
031135 [View PDF (611 kB)]
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Accuracy of roughness exponent measurement methods
Jan Øystein Haavig Bakke and Alex Hansen
Published 27 September 2007 (12 pages)
031136 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Absorbing phase transition in conserved lattice gas model on fractal lattices
Sang B. Lee and Yun Nam Kim
Published 27 September 2007 (7 pages)
031137 [View PDF (734 kB)]
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Unimodal maps and order parameter fluctuations in the critical region
Y. F. Contoyiannis and F. K. Diakonos
Published 27 September 2007 (7 pages)
031138 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Discreteness effects in a reacting system of particles with finite interaction radius
S. Berti, C. López, D. Vergni, and A. Vulpiani
Published 28 September 2007 (9 pages)
031139 [View PDF (543 kB)]
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Kramers theory in the relaxation dynamics of a tilted asymmetric periodic potential
Takaaki Monnai, Ayumu Sugita, and Katsuhiro Nakamura
Published 28 September 2007 (8 pages)
031140 [View PDF (241 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Stokes-Einstein violation for liquids with bounded potentials
H.-O. May and P. Mausbach
Published 14 September 2007 (5 pages)
031201 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Fundamental measure density functional theory for nonadditive hard-core mixtures: The one-dimensional case
Matthias Schmidt
Published 17 September 2007 (6 pages)
031202 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Connection of translational and rotational dynamical heterogeneities with the breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein and Stokes-Einstein-Debye relations in water
Marco G. Mazza, Nicolas Giovambattista, H. Eugene Stanley, and Francis W. Starr
Published 26 September 2007 (12 pages)
031203 [View PDF (440 kB)]

Granular materials

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Flow rule of dense granular flows down a rough incline
Tamás Börzsönyi and Robert E. Ecke
Published 4 September 2007 (10 pages)
031301 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Lubrication effects on the flow of wet granular materials
Qing Xu, Ashish V. Orpe, and Arshad Kudrolli
Published 7 September 2007 (7 pages)
031302 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Enskog theory for polydisperse granular mixtures. I. Navier-Stokes order transport
Vicente Garzó, James W. Dufty, and Christine M. Hrenya
Published 10 September 2007 (27 pages)
031303 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Enskog theory for polydisperse granular mixtures. II. Sonine polynomial approximation
Vicente Garzó, Christine M. Hrenya, and James W. Dufty
Published 10 September 2007 (20 pages)
031304 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Boltzmann equation for dissipative gases in homogeneous states with nonlinear friction
E. Trizac, A. Barrat, and M. H. Ernst
Published 21 September 2007 (13 pages)
031305 [View PDF (801 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Equilibrium and glassy states of the Asakura-Oosawa and binary hard sphere mixtures: Effective fluid approach
Ph. Germain and S. Amokrane
Published 13 September 2007 (13 pages)
031401 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Phase transitions of pyrogenic silica suspensions: A comparison to model laponite
Uwe Kätzel, Thomas Richter, Michael Stintz, Herbert Barthel, and Torsten Gottschalk-Gaudig
Published 18 September 2007 (12 pages)
031402 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Forces between single pairs of charged colloids in aqueous salt solutions
C. Gutsche, U. F. Keyser, K. Kegler, F. Kremer, and P. Linse
Published 25 September 2007 (7 pages)
031403 [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Bond formation and slow heterogeneous dynamics in adhesive spheres with long-ranged repulsion: Quantitative test of mode coupling theory
O. Henrich, A. M. Puertas, M. Sperl, J. Baschnagel, and M. Fuchs
Published 27 September 2007 (10 pages)
031404 [View PDF (412 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Phase behavior of a fluid with competing attractive and repulsive interactions
Andrew J. Archer and Nigel B. Wilding
Published 4 September 2007 (14 pages)
031501 [View PDF (896 kB)]
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Connecting microscopic simulations with kinetically constrained models of glasses
Matthew T. Downton and Malcolm P. Kennett
Published 11 September 2007 (6 pages)
031502 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Positron-annihilation-lifetime response and broadband dielectric relaxation spectroscopy: Diethyl phthalate
J. Bartoš, A. Alegría, O. Šauša, M. Tyagi, D. Gómez, J. Krištiak, and J. Colmenero
Published 12 September 2007 (9 pages)
031503 [View PDF (623 kB)]
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Magnetic elastica
A. Cēbers and T. Cīrulis
Published 12 September 2007 (5 pages)
031504 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Nonlinear microrheology of wormlike micelle solutions using ferromagnetic nanowire probes
Nathan Cappallo, Clayton Lapointe, Daniel H. Reich, and Robert L. Leheny
Published 27 September 2007 (6 pages)
031505 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Lattice gas modeling of nanowhisker growth
W. Miller and S. Succi
Published 5 September 2007 (12 pages)
031601 [View PDF (1,558 kB)]
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Line tension and structure of smectic liquid-crystal multilayers at the air-water interface
Lu Zou, Ji Wang, Prem Basnet, and Elizabeth K. Mann
Published 7 September 2007 (6 pages)
031602 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Concise theory of chiral lipid membranes
Z. C. Tu and U. Seifert
Published 21 September 2007 (14 pages)
031603 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation of Lennard-Jones liquids
Hui Wang, Harvey Gould, and W. Klein
Published 25 September 2007 (9 pages)
031604 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Nonuniversal dynamics of dimer growing interfaces
M. D. Grynberg
Published 26 September 2007 (8 pages)
031605 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Solute trapping and diffusionless solidification in a binary system
Peter Galenko
Published 27 September 2007 (9 pages)
031606 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Parallel kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional island coarsening
Feng Shi, Yunsic Shim, and Jacques G. Amar
Published 28 September 2007 (8 pages)
031607 [View PDF (718 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Chiral photonic crystals with an anisotropic defect layer
A. H. Gevorgyan and M. Z. Harutyunyan
Published 4 September 2007 (9 pages)
031701 [View PDF (714 kB)]
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Polar structures in binary mixtures of bent-core liquid crystals showing ferroelectric and antiferroelectric B2 phases
Yuya Niigawa, Koushi Nishida, Won Jeon Kim, Seng Kue Lee, Sung Heo, Jong Gun Lee, Fumito Araoka, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Kyung-Tae Kang, Mojca Čepič, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 5 September 2007 (7 pages)
031702 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Formation of traveling waves in nematics due to material parameter ramps
Karen K. Vardanyan and Daniel R. Spiegel
Published 6 September 2007 (9 pages)
031703 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Demixing and orientational ordering in mixtures of rectangular particles
D. de las Heras, Yuri Martínez-Ratón, and Enrique Velasco
Published 7 September 2007 (11 pages)
031704 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Microscopic investigation of the memory effect found in micropatterned nematic liquid crystal cells
Thet Naing Oo, Yuuki Yasu, Munehiro Kimura, and Tadashi Akahane
Published 18 September 2007 (12 pages)
031705 [View PDF (1,536 kB)]
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Vibrational Fréedericksz transition in liquid crystals
V. A. Vladimirov and M. Yu. Zhukov
Published 27 September 2007 (7 pages)
031706 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Polymers

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Polymer immiscibility enhanced by thermal fluctuations toward crystalline order
Yu Ma, Wenbing Hu, and Howard Wang
Published 6 September 2007 (7 pages)
031801 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Simulations of aging and plastic deformation in polymer glasses
Mya Warren and Jörg Rottler
Published 11 September 2007 (9 pages)
031802 [View PDF (293 kB)]

Biological physics

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Time scale of entropic segregation of flexible polymers in confinement: Implications for chromosome segregation in filamentous bacteria
Axel Arnold and Suckjoon Jun
Published 5 September 2007 (5 pages)
031901 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Coherence properties of red blood cell membrane motions
Gabriel Popescu, YongKeun Park, Ramachandra R. Dasari, Kamran Badizadegan, and Michael S. Feld
Published 7 September 2007 (5 pages)
031902 [View PDF (580 kB)]
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Steady-state solution of probabilistic gene regulatory networks
Erol Gelenbe
Published 10 September 2007 (8 pages)
031903 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Interaction of cholesterol-like molecules in polyunsaturated phosphatidylcholine lipid bilayers as revealed by a self-consistent field theory
F. A. M. Leermakers and A. L. Rabinovich
Published 10 September 2007 (12 pages)
031904 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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What the training of a neuronal network optimizes
Zbisław Tabor
Published 11 September 2007 (5 pages)
031905 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Nonaffine rubber elasticity for stiff polymer networks
Claus Heussinger, Boris Schaefer, and Erwin Frey
Published 11 September 2007 (12 pages)
031906 [View PDF (486 kB)]
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Switchable reflector in the Panamanian tortoise beetle Charidotella egregia (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
Jean Pol Vigneron, Jacques M. Pasteels, Donald M. Windsor, Zofia Vértesy, Marie Rassart, Thomas Seldrum, Jacques Dumont, Olivier Deparis, Virginie Lousse, László P. Biró, Damien Ertz, and Victoria Welch
Published 11 September 2007 (10 pages)
031907 [View PDF (884 kB)]
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Vesicle shape, molecular tilt, and the suppression of necks
Hongyuan Jiang, Greg Huber, Robert A. Pelcovits, and Thomas R. Powers
Published 11 September 2007 (9 pages)
031908 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Microrheological studies reveal semiflexible networks in gels of a ubiquitous cell wall polysaccharide
R. R. Vincent, D. N. Pinder, Y. Hemar, and M. A. K. Williams
Published 11 September 2007 (8 pages)
031909 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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General investigation of elastic thin rods as subject to a terminal twist
Kai Hu
Published 12 September 2007 (5 pages)
031910 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Soft modes near the buckling transition of icosahedral shells
M. Widom, J. Lidmar, and David R. Nelson
Published 12 September 2007 (11 pages)
031911 [View PDF (960 kB)]
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Forced phase-locked states and information retrieval in a two-layer network of oscillatory neurons with directional connectivity
Victor Kazantsev and Alexey Pimashkin
Published 12 September 2007 (8 pages)
031912 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Fronts from integrodifference equations and persistence effects on the Neolithic transition
Joaquim Fort, Joaquim Pérez-Losada, and Neus Isern
Published 14 September 2007 (10 pages)
031913 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Coarse-grained lattice model for investigating the role of cooperativity in molecular recognition
Hans Behringer, Andreas Degenhard, and Friederike Schmid
Published 14 September 2007 (12 pages)
031914 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Local frequency density of states around field inhomogeneities in magnetic resonance imaging: Effects of diffusion
C. H. Ziener, T. Kampf, G. Melkus, V. Herold, T. Weber, G. Reents, P. M. Jakob, and W. R. Bauer
Published 14 September 2007 (16 pages)
031915 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Steady-state helices of the actin homolog MreB inside bacteria: Dynamics without motors
Jun F. Allard and Andrew D. Rutenberg
Published 14 September 2007 (13 pages)
031916 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Atomistic model of DNA: Phonons and base-pair opening
F. Merzel, F. Fontaine-Vive, M. R. Johnson, and G. J. Kearley
Published 14 September 2007 (5 pages)
031917 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Modeling of the thermoregulation system in the skunk cabbage: Symplocarpus foetidus
Ken Takahashi, Takanori Ito, Yoshihiko Onda, Takehiro Endo, Shigeki Chiba, Kikukatsu Ito, and Hiroshi Osada
Published 18 September 2007 (5 pages)
031918 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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How disease models in static networks can fail to approximate disease in dynamic networks
N. H. Fefferman and K. L. Ng
Published 19 September 2007 (11 pages)
031919 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Rapidly acting antitumoral antiangiogenic therapies
Alberto d’Onofrio
Published 20 September 2007 (7 pages)
031920 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Steady-state hydrodynamic instabilities of active liquid crystals: Hybrid lattice Boltzmann simulations
D. Marenduzzo, E. Orlandini, M. E. Cates, and J. M. Yeomans
Published 24 September 2007 (18 pages)
031921 [View PDF (787 kB)]
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Evolutionary dynamics of the most populated genotype on rugged fitness landscapes
Kavita Jain
Published 26 September 2007 (10 pages)
031922 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Fisher equation for anisotropic diffusion: Simulating South American human dispersals
Luis A. Martino, Ana Osella, Claudio Dorso, and José L. Lanata
Published 27 September 2007 (10 pages)
031923 [View PDF (705 kB)]
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Linking fast and slow positive feedback loops creates an optimal bistable switch in cell signaling
Xiao-Peng Zhang, Zhang Cheng, Feng Liu, and Wei Wang
Published 27 September 2007 (8 pages)
031924 [View PDF (667 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics of a double bilipid membrane
C. Sample and A. A. Golovin
Published 28 September 2007 (11 pages)
031925 [View PDF (606 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Intrinsically anomalous self-similarity of randomly folded matter
Alexander S. Balankin, Rolando Cortes Montes de Oca, and Didier Samayoa Ochoa
Published 10 September 2007 (4 pages)
032101 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Fractional diffusion equation in a confined region: Surface effects and exact solutions
R. Rossato, M. K. Lenzi, L. R. Evangelista, and E. K. Lenzi
Published 10 September 2007 (4 pages)
032102 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Further stable methods for the calculation of partition functions in the superconfiguration approach
Brian G. Wilson, Franck Gilleron, and Jean-Christophe Pain
Published 26 September 2007 (3 pages)
032103 [View PDF (63 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Amplitude death in the absence of time delays in identical coupled oscillators
Rajat Karnatak, Ram Ramaswamy, and Awadhesh Prasad
Published 13 September 2007 (4 pages)
035201(R) [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Sublattice synchronization of chaotic networks with delayed couplings
Johannes Kestler, Wolfgang Kinzel, and Ido Kanter
Published 28 September 2007 (4 pages)
035202(R) [View PDF (675 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Front fingering and complex dynamics driven by the interaction of buoyancy and diffusive instabilities
J. D’Hernoncourt, J. H. Merkin, and A. De Wit
Published 10 September 2007 (4 pages)
035301(R) [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Controlling the partial coalescence of a droplet on a vertically vibrated bath
T. Gilet, N. Vandewalle, and S. Dorbolo
Published 12 September 2007 (4 pages)
035302(R) [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Dynamical effects and phase separation in cooled binary fluid films
Lennon Ó Náraigh and Jean-Luc Thiffeault
Published 21 September 2007 (4 pages)
035303(R) [View PDF (576 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Electron attachment to C7F14 and SF6 in a thermally ionized potassium plasma
Su-Hyun Kim and Robert L. Merlino
Published 14 September 2007 (4 pages)
035401(R) [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Acceleration dynamics of ions in shocks and solitary waves driven by intense laser pulses
Min-Qing He, Quan-Li Dong, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Su-Ming Weng, Min Chen, Hui-Chun Wu, and Jie Zhang
Published 19 September 2007 (4 pages)
035402(R) [View PDF (398 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Unveiling community structures in weighted networks
Nelson A. Alves
Published 4 September 2007 (6 pages)
036101 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Module identification in bipartite and directed networks
Roger Guimerà, Marta Sales-Pardo, and Luís A. Nunes Amaral
Published 6 September 2007 (8 pages)
036102 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Growing trees in internet news groups and forums
B. Kujawski, J. Hołyst, and G. J. Rodgers
Published 7 September 2007 (8 pages)
036103 [View PDF (832 kB)]
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Plastic response of a two-dimensional amorphous solid to quasistatic shear: Transverse particle diffusion and phenomenology of dissipative events
Anaël Lemaître and Christiane Caroli
Published 10 September 2007 (10 pages)
036104 [View PDF (1,386 kB)]
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Mean-field analysis of phase transitions in the emergence of hierarchical society
Tsuyoshi Okubo and Takashi Odagaki
Published 10 September 2007 (13 pages)
036105 [View PDF (1,023 kB)]
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Near linear time algorithm to detect community structures in large-scale networks
Usha Nandini Raghavan, Réka Albert, and Soundar Kumara
Published 11 September 2007 (11 pages)
036106 [View PDF (1,346 kB)]
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Graph animals, subgraph sampling, and motif search in large networks
Kim Baskerville, Peter Grassberger, and Maya Paczuski
Published 11 September 2007 (13 pages)
036107 [View PDF (1,341 kB)]
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Failure mechanisms and surface roughness statistics of fractured Fontainebleau sandstone
L. Ponson, H. Auradou, M. Pessel, V. Lazarus, and J. P. Hulin
Published 12 September 2007 (7 pages)
036108 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Connectivity graph: Multiple connectivity on potential energy surface does affect the dynamics
T. Okushima, T. Niiyama, K. S. Ikeda, and Y. Shimizu
Published 13 September 2007 (4 pages)
036109 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Towards a physics of evolution: Critical diversity dynamics at the edges of collapse and bursts of diversification
Rudolf Hanel, Stuart A. Kauffman, and Stefan Thurner
Published 14 September 2007 (6 pages)
036110 [View PDF (674 kB)]
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Unified model for network dynamics exhibiting nonextensive statistics
Stefan Thurner, Fragiskos Kyriakopoulos, and Constantino Tsallis
Published 17 September 2007 (8 pages)
036111 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Critical behavior of the contact process in a multiscale network
Silvio C. Ferreira and Marcelo L. Martins
Published 19 September 2007 (5 pages)
036112 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Second look at the spread of epidemics on networks
Eben Kenah and James M. Robins
Published 25 September 2007 (12 pages)
036113 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Storage capacity and retrieval time of small-world neural networks
Hiraku Oshima and Takashi Odagaki
Published 26 September 2007 (6 pages)
036114 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Entropy of complex relevant components of Boolean networks
Peter Krawitz and Ilya Shmulevich
Published 27 September 2007 (7 pages)
036115 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking and periodic structure in a multilane system
Rui Jiang, Mao-Bin Hu, Bin Jia, Ruili Wang, and Qing-Song Wu
Published 27 September 2007 (10 pages)
036116 [View PDF (1,287 kB)]
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Spreading gossip in social networks
Pedro G. Lind, Luciano R. da Silva, José S. Andrade, Jr., and Hans J. Herrmann
Published 27 September 2007 (10 pages)
036117 [View PDF (404 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Effects of an oscillating field on pattern formation in a ferromagnetic thin film: Analysis of patterns traveling at a low velocity
Kazue Kudo and Katsuhiro Nakamura
Published 4 September 2007 (7 pages)
036201 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Property change of unstable fixed point and phase synchronization in controlling spatiotemporal chaos by a periodic signal
Haibo Sang and Kaifen He
Published 4 September 2007 (6 pages)
036202 [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Chaos synchronization in coupled systems by applying pinning control
Meng Zhan, Jihua Gao, Ye Wu, and Jinghua Xiao
Published 10 September 2007 (6 pages)
036203 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Detecting determinism in short time series using a quantified averaged false nearest neighbors approach
Sofiane Ramdani, Frédéric Bouchara, and Jean-François Casties
Published 12 September 2007 (14 pages)
036204 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Evolution of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a rapidly expanding circular box
Stavros Theodorakis and Yiannis Constantinou
Published 12 September 2007 (8 pages)
036205 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal patterns in a dc semiconductor-gas-discharge system: Stability analysis and full numerical solutions
Ismail R. Rafatov, Danijela D. Šijačić, and Ute Ebert
Published 12 September 2007 (18 pages)
036206 [View PDF (1,887 kB)]
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Fluctuations of finite-time stability exponents in the standard map and the detection of small islands
Steven Tomsovic and Arul Lakshminarayan
Published 17 September 2007 (13 pages)
036207 [View PDF (1,332 kB)]
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Applicability of time-average moiré techniques for chaotic oscillations
Minvydas Ragulskis, Miguel A. F. Sanjuan, and Loreta Saunoriene
Published 18 September 2007 (6 pages)
036208 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Control of turbulence in oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems through a combination of global and local feedback
Michael Stich, Alfonso C. Casal, and Jesús Ildefonso Díaz
Published 19 September 2007 (9 pages)
036209 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Global feedback control for pattern-forming systems
L. G. Stanton and A. A. Golovin
Published 20 September 2007 (9 pages)
036210 [View PDF (664 kB)]
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Estimation of the direction of the coupling by conditional probabilities of recurrence
M. Carmen Romano, Marco Thiel, Jürgen Kurths, and Celso Grebogi
Published 21 September 2007 (9 pages)
036211 [View PDF (644 kB)]
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Synchronization of time-delayed systems
Maoyin Chen and Jürgen Kurths
Published 21 September 2007 (5 pages)
036212 [View PDF (170 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Conditions for the quantum-to-classical transition: Trajectories versus phase-space distributions
Benjamin D. Greenbaum, Kurt Jacobs, and Bala Sundaram
Published 24 September 2007 (8 pages)
036213 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Double precision errors in the logistic map: Statistical study and dynamical interpretation
J. A. Oteo and J. Ros
Published 26 September 2007 (8 pages)
036214 [View PDF (763 kB)]
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Pattern with kinks and pulses in coupled periodic map lattices
Weiqing Liu, Ye Wu, Wei Zou, Jinghua Xiao, and Meng Zhan
Published 27 September 2007 (7 pages)
036215 [View PDF (3,103 kB)]
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Limit cycles in the presence of convection: A traveling wave analysis
E. H. Flach, S. Schnell, and J. Norbury
Published 27 September 2007 (8 pages)
036216 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Quantum diffusion dynamics in nonlinear systems: A modified kicked-rotor model
Jiangbin Gong and Jiao Wang
Published 27 September 2007 (5 pages)
036217 [View PDF (1,390 kB)]
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Strange nonchaotic repellers
Alessandro P. S. de Moura
Published 28 September 2007 (4 pages)
036218 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Measured oscillations of the velocity and temperature fields in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a rectangular cell
Sheng-Qi Zhou, Chao Sun, and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 10 September 2007 (6 pages)
036301 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Analysis of onset of Soret-driven convection by the energy method
Min Chan Kim and Chang Kyun Choi
Published 10 September 2007 (6 pages)
036302 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulation of nanochannel flows with effects of wall lattice-fluid interactions
C. Y. Soong, T. H. Yen, and P. Y. Tzeng
Published 11 September 2007 (14 pages)
036303 [View PDF (614 kB)]
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Third-order structure function for rotating three-dimensional homogeneous turbulent flow
Sagar Chakraborty and J. K. Bhattacharjee
Published 12 September 2007 (6 pages)
036304 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Low-frequency 1∕f fluctuations in hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Pablo Dmitruk and W. H. Matthaeus
Published 12 September 2007 (8 pages)
036305 [View PDF (1,424 kB)]
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Knotted streamtubes in incompressible hydrodynamical flow and a restricted conserved quantity
Sagar Chakraborty
Published 18 September 2007 (4 pages)
036306 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Landau-Levich problem for non-Newtonian liquids
Konstantin Afanasiev, Andreas Münch, and Barbara Wagner
Published 18 September 2007 (12 pages)
036307 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Numerical study of wall effects on buoyant gas-bubble rise in a liquid-filled finite cylinder
Karthik Mukundakrishnan, Shaoping Quan, David M. Eckmann, and Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy
Published 19 September 2007 (15 pages)
036308 [View PDF (1,740 kB)]
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Effective permeability of fractured porous media with power-law distribution of fracture sizes
I. I. Bogdanov, V. V. Mourzenko, J.-F. Thovert, and P. M. Adler
Published 21 September 2007 (15 pages)
036309 [View PDF (2,097 kB)]
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Nonlinear saturation of the magnetorotational instability near threshold in a thin-gap Taylor-Couette setup
O. M. Umurhan, O. Regev, and K. Menou
Published 24 September 2007 (10 pages)
036310 [View PDF (345 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Small amplitude ion-acoustic double layers in multicomponent plasma with positrons
M. K. Mishra, R. S. Tiwari, and S. K. Jain
Published 5 September 2007 (7 pages)
036401 [View PDF (412 kB)]
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Nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation in spherical symmetry
V. I. Vishnyakov, G. S. Dragan, and V. M. Evtuhov
Published 10 September 2007 (5 pages)
036402 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Generation of strong quasistatic magnetic fields in interactions of ultraintense and short laser pulses with overdense plasma targets
Hong-bo Cai, Wei Yu, Shao-ping Zhu, and Cang-tao Zhou
Published 13 September 2007 (7 pages)
036403 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Ground state of a confined Yukawa plasma including correlation effects
C. Henning, P. Ludwig, A. Filinov, A. Piel, and M. Bonitz
Published 14 September 2007 (7 pages)
036404 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Electrical conductivity of noble gases at high pressures
J. R. Adams, H. Reinholz, R. Redmer, V. B. Mintsev, N. S. Shilkin, and V. K. Gryaznov
Published 21 September 2007 (9 pages)
036405 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Wave packet simulation of dense hydrogen
B. Jakob, P.-G. Reinhard, C. Toepffer, and G. Zwicknagel
Published 26 September 2007 (12 pages)
036406 [View PDF (378 kB)]

Classical physics

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Imaging beyond the Born approximation: An experimental investigation with an ultrasonic ring array
F. Simonetti, L. Huang, N. Duric, and O. Rama
Published 4 September 2007 (10 pages)
036601 [View PDF (825 kB)]
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Realization of a super waveguide for high-power-density generation and transmission using right- and left-handed transmission-line circuits
Yu Hua Yao, Tie Jun Cui, Qiang Cheng, Ruopeng Liu, Da Huang, and David R. Smith
Published 7 September 2007 (6 pages)
036602 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Moving solitons in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation
O. F. Oxtoby and I. V. Barashenkov
Published 13 September 2007 (18 pages)
036603 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Photoacoustic effect for multiply scattered light
Andrew R. Fisher, Andrew J. Schissler, and John C. Schotland
Published 25 September 2007 (9 pages)
036604 [View PDF (286 kB)]

Computational physics

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Symmetric free-energy-based multicomponent lattice Boltzmann method
Qun Li and A. J. Wagner
Published 4 September 2007 (7 pages)
036701 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Efficient computation of topological entropy, pressure, conformal measures, and equilibrium states in one dimension
Gary Froyland, Rua Murray, and Dalia Terhesiu
Published 6 September 2007 (5 pages)
036702 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann simulation of thermal nonideal fluids
G. Gonnella, A. Lamura, and V. Sofonea
Published 7 September 2007 (5 pages)
036703 [View PDF (4,219 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of the fluctuating lattice Boltzmann equation
Burkhard Dünweg, Ulf D. Schiller, and Anthony J. C. Ladd
Published 12 September 2007 (10 pages)
036704 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Fractal geometry in an expanding, one-dimensional, Newtonian universe
Bruce N. Miller, Jean-Louis Rouet, and Emmanuel Le Guirriec
Published 14 September 2007 (14 pages)
036705 [View PDF (6,127 kB)]
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Three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation
Heinz-Peter Breuer and Bassano Vacchini
Published 17 September 2007 (10 pages)
036706 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Accurate forces in quantum Monte Carlo calculations with nonlocal pseudopotentials
A. Badinski and R. J. Needs
Published 18 September 2007 (10 pages)
036707 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Simulation via direct computation of partition functions
Cheng Zhang and Jianpeng Ma
Published 20 September 2007 (5 pages)
036708 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Embedding molecular dynamics within fluctuating hydrodynamics in multiscale simulations of liquids
R. Delgado-Buscalioni and G. De Fabritiis
Published 25 September 2007 (13 pages)
036709 [View PDF (723 kB)]
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Mapping of three-dimensional contact problems into one dimension
Thomas Geike and Valentin L. Popov
Published 27 September 2007 (5 pages)
036710 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Kinetic lattice Boltzmann method for microscale gas flows: Issues on boundary condition, relaxation time, and regularization
Xiao-Dong Niu, Shi-Aki Hyodo, Toshihisa Munekata, and Kazuhiko Suga
Published 27 September 2007 (8 pages)
036711 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Ground-state computation of Bose-Einstein condensates by an imaginary-time quantum lattice Boltzmann scheme
S. Palpacelli, S. Succi, and R. Spigler
Published 28 September 2007 (17 pages)
036712 [View PDF (909 kB)]
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Acoustic lattice Boltzmann model for immiscible binary fluids with a species-dependent impedance
J. M. Buick, J. A. Cosgrove, and R. Higham
Published 28 September 2007 (5 pages)
036713 [View PDF (588 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Method to enhance traffic capacity for scale-free networks
Zhe Liu, Mao-Bin Hu, Rui Jiang, Wen-Xu Wang, and Qing-Song Wu
Published 17 September 2007 (4 pages)
037101 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Empirical study on clique-degree distribution of networks
Wei-Ke Xiao, Jie Ren, Feng Qi, Zhi-Wei Song, Meng-Xiao Zhu, Hong-Feng Yang, Hui-Yu Jin, Bing-Hong Wang, and Tao Zhou
Published 27 September 2007 (4 pages)
037102 [View PDF (439 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Proximity to periodic windows in bifurcation diagrams as a gateway to coherence resonance in chaotic systems
Marko Gosak and Matjaž Perc
Published 24 September 2007 (4 pages)
037201 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Sub-ballistic behavior in quantum systems with Lévy noise
A. Romanelli, R. Siri, and V. Micenmacher
Published 24 September 2007 (4 pages)
037202 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Controlling transitions in a Duffing oscillator by sweeping parameters in time
Oleg Kogan
Published 26 September 2007 (4 pages)
037203 [View PDF (239 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Nonlinear statistics of daily temperature fluctuations reproduced in a laboratory experiment
Balázs Gyüre, Imre Bartos, and Imre M. Jánosi
Published 27 September 2007 (4 pages)
037301 [View PDF (2,783 kB)]

Computational physics

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Linear scaling calculation of an n -type GaAs quantum dot
Shintaro Nomura and Toshiaki Iitaka
Published 11 September 2007 (4 pages)
037701 [View PDF (819 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Free surface Hele-Shaw flows around an obstacle: A random walk simulation”
Giovani L. Vasconcelos
Published 5 September 2007 (3 pages)
038301 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Free surface Hele-Shaw flows around an obstacle: A random walk simulation’ ”
Vladislav A. Bogoyavlenskiy and Eric J. Cotts
Published 5 September 2007 (1 page)
038302 [View PDF (29 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Postprocessing methods for finding the embedding dimension of chaotic time series [Phys. Rev. E 72, 027204 (2005)]
Teck Por Lim and Sadasivan Puthusserypady
Published 13 September 2007 (1 page)
039901(E) [View PDF (17 kB)]
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Erratum: Self-consistent generalized Langevin equation for colloidal mixtures [Phys. Rev. E 72, 031107 (2005)]
Marco Antonio Chávez-Rojo and Magdaleno Medina-Noyola
Published 17 September 2007 (2 pages)
039902(E) [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Erratum: Scattering by rotationally symmetric anisotropic spheres: Potential formulation and parametric studies [Phys. Rev. E, 75, 026609 (2007)]
Cheng-Wei Qiu, Le-Wei Li, Tat-Soon Yeo, and Saïd Zouhdi
Published 18 September 2007 (1 page)
039903(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Impact of fraud on the mean-field dynamics of cooperative social systems [Phys. Rev. E 76, 026114 (2007)]
Torsten Röhl, Claudia Röhl, Heinz Georg Schuster, and Arne Traulsen
Published 20 September 2007 (1 page)
039904(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Vertical chaos and horizontal diffusion in the bouncing-ball billiard [Phys. Rev. E 75, 046214 (2007)]
Astrid S. de Wijn and Holger Kantz
Published 28 September 2007 (1 page)
039905(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]