Physical Review E – November 2007
Volume 76, Issue 5

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics

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Work and heat probability distribution of an optically driven Brownian particle: Theory and experiments
A. Imparato, L. Peliti, G. Pesce, G. Rusciano, and A. Sasso
Published 9 November 2007 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Occupation times of random walks in confined geometries: From random trap model to diffusion-limited reactions
S. Condamin, V. Tejedor, and O. Bénichou
Published 15 November 2007 (4 pages)
050102(R) [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Anisotropic model of kinetic roughening: The strong-coupling regime
Amit K Chattopadhyay
Published 27 November 2007 (4 pages)
050103(R) [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Temperature of a Hamiltonian system given as the effective temperature of a nonequilibrium steady-state Langevin thermostat
Kumiko Hayashi and Mitsunori Takano
Published 28 November 2007 (4 pages)
050104(R) [View PDF (213 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Layering transitions in confined colloidal crystals: The hcp-like phase
F. Ramiro-Manzano, E. Bonet, I. Rodriguez, and F. Meseguer
Published 6 November 2007 (4 pages)
050401(R) [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Construction and stability of a close-packed structure observed in thin colloidal crystals
Ana Barreira Fontecha, Thomas Palberg, and Hans Joachim Schöpe
Published 6 November 2007 (4 pages)
050402(R) [View PDF (673 kB)]
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State diagram for the electrostatic adsorption of charged colloids on confining walls: Simulation and theory
J. J. Liétor-Santos, M. Chávez-Páez, M. Márquez, A. Fernández-Nieves, and M. Medina-Noyola
Published 28 November 2007 (4 pages)
050403(R) [View PDF (181 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Effect of a cutoff on pushed and bistable fronts of the reaction-diffusion equation
R. D. Benguria, M. C. Depassier, and V. Haikala
Published 2 November 2007 (3 pages)
051101 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium phase transition in negotiation dynamics
Andrea Baronchelli, Luca Dall’Asta, Alain Barrat, and Vittorio Loreto
Published 5 November 2007 (4 pages)
051102 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Macroscopic equations for the adiabatic piston
Massimo Cencini, Luigi Palatella, Simone Pigolotti, and Angelo Vulpiani
Published 7 November 2007 (12 pages)
051103 [View PDF (1,154 kB)]
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Phase-space formulation of the nonlinear longitudinal relaxation of the magnetization in quantum spin systems
Yuri P. Kalmykov, William T. Coffey, and Serguey V. Titov
Published 8 November 2007 (11 pages)
051104 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Power-law eigenvalue density, scaling, and critical random-matrix ensembles
K. A. Muttalib and Mourad E. H. Ismail
Published 8 November 2007 (5 pages)
051105 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Exactly solvable model of reversible adsorption on a disordered substrate
J. Talbot, G. Tarjus, and P. Viot
Published 9 November 2007 (6 pages)
051106 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Network of inherent structures in spin glasses: Scaling and scale-free distributions
Z. Burda, A. Krzywicki, and O. C. Martin
Published 9 November 2007 (11 pages)
051107 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Condensation phenomena with distinguishable particles
Jun Ohkubo
Published 9 November 2007 (6 pages)
051108 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Off-diagonal long-range order, cycle probabilities, and condensate fraction in the ideal Bose gas
Maguelonne Chevallier and Werner Krauth
Published 9 November 2007 (6 pages)
051109 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Transient chaos induces anomalous transport properties of an underdamped Brownian particle
David Speer, Ralf Eichhorn, and Peter Reimann
Published 12 November 2007 (14 pages)
051110 [View PDF (1,104 kB)]
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Noise-induced phase transitions in field-dependent relaxational dynamics: The Gaussian ansatz
Francisco J. Cao, Kevin Wood, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 12 November 2007 (9 pages)
051111 [View PDF (1,298 kB)]
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Phase transitions in two-dimensional model colloids in a one-dimensional external potential
Florian Bürzle and Peter Nielaba
Published 13 November 2007 (4 pages)
051112 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous exclusion processes with extended objects: The effect of defect locations
J. J. Dong, B. Schmittmann, and R. K. P. Zia
Published 13 November 2007 (13 pages)
051113 [View PDF (680 kB)]
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Subdiffusive target problem: Survival probability
S. B. Yuste and Katja Lindenberg
Published 14 November 2007 (6 pages)
051114 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Asymmetry in the percolation thresholds of fully penetrable disks with two different radii
John A. Quintanilla and Robert M. Ziff
Published 14 November 2007 (6 pages)
051115 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of a binary monolayer of Ising dipolar particles
Masaru Suzuki, Ferenc Kun, Satoshi Yukawa, and Nobuyasu Ito
Published 15 November 2007 (8 pages)
051116 [View PDF (581 kB)]
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Symmetries of the ratchet current
Wojciech De Roeck and Christian Maes
Published 15 November 2007 (6 pages)
051117 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Heat conduction in simple networks: The effect of interchain coupling
Zonghua Liu and Baowen Li
Published 16 November 2007 (6 pages)
051118 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Phase transitions and topology in 2+k XY mean-field models
L. Angelani and G. Ruocco
Published 19 November 2007 (7 pages)
051119 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Extended Gibbs ensembles with flow
M. J. Ison, F. Gulminelli, and C. O. Dorso
Published 20 November 2007 (8 pages)
051120 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Pseudospectral versus finite-difference schemes in the numerical integration of stochastic models of surface growth
Rafael Gallego, Mario Castro, and Juan M. López
Published 20 November 2007 (9 pages)
051121 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Unitarization of the classical statistical s matrix for systems with localization
Richard L. Weaver
Published 21 November 2007 (10 pages)
051122 [View PDF (1,166 kB)]
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Nontrivial critical crossover between directed percolation models: Effect of infinitely many absorbing states
Su-Chan Park and Hyunggyu Park
Published 21 November 2007 (8 pages)
051123 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Complex systems with half-integer spins: Symplectic ensembles
Rina Dutta and Pragya Shukla
Published 28 November 2007 (11 pages)
051124 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Quantum transport on small-world networks: A continuous-time quantum walk approach
Oliver Mülken, Volker Pernice, and Alexander Blumen
Published 29 November 2007 (8 pages)
051125 [View PDF (2,463 kB)]
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Model studies on the quantum Jarzynski relation
Jens Teifel and Günter Mahler
Published 30 November 2007 (6 pages)
051126 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Structure of the first- and second-neighbor shells of simulated water: Quantitative relation to translational and orientational order
Zhenyu Yan, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Pradeep Kumar, Nicolas Giovambattista, Pablo G. Debenedetti, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 9 November 2007 (5 pages)
051201 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Structure of hard-hypersphere fluids in odd dimensions
René D. Rohrmann and Andrés Santos
Published 15 November 2007 (17 pages)
051202 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Viscosity of water measured to pressures of 6  GPa and temperatures of 300  °C
Evan H. Abramson
Published 21 November 2007 (6 pages)
051203 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Granular materials

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Shear zones in granular media: Three-dimensional contact dynamics simulation
Alexander Ries, Dietrich E. Wolf, and Tamás Unger
Published 7 November 2007 (9 pages)
051301 [View PDF (745 kB)]
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Collision dynamics of granular particles with adhesion
Nikolai V. Brilliantov, Nicole Albers, Frank Spahn, and Thorsten Pöschel
Published 7 November 2007 (12 pages)
051302 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Response to perturbations for granular flow in a hopper
John F. Wambaugh, Robert P. Behringer, John V. Matthews, and Pierre A. Gremaud
Published 14 November 2007 (8 pages)
051303 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Long-time tails in freely cooling granular gases
Hisao Hayakawa and Michio Otsuki
Published 14 November 2007 (14 pages)
051304 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Interplay of air and sand: Faraday heaping unravelled
Henk Jan van Gerner, Martin A. van der Hoef, Devaraj van der Meer, and Ko van der Weele
Published 26 November 2007 (7 pages)
051305 [View PDF (1,513 kB)]
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Experiments and simulations of a gravitational granular flow instability
Jan Ludvig Vinningland, Øistein Johnsen, Eirik G. Flekkøy, Renaud Toussaint, and Knut Jørgen Måløy
Published 27 November 2007 (13 pages)
051306 [View PDF (3,827 kB)]
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Depletion force in a bidisperse granular layer
Paul Melby, Alexis Prevost, David A. Egolf, and Jeffrey S. Urbach
Published 30 November 2007 (5 pages)
051307 [View PDF (307 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Electroneutrality and phase behavior of colloidal suspensions
A. R. Denton
Published 6 November 2007 (11 pages)
051401 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Geometrical percolation of hard-core ellipsoids of revolution in the continuum
Shiho Akagawa and Takashi Odagaki
Published 8 November 2007 (5 pages)
051402 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Scaling in the aggregation dynamics of a magnetorheological fluid
P. Domínguez-García, Sonia Melle, J. M. Pastor, and M. A. Rubio
Published 13 November 2007 (13 pages)
051403 [View PDF (698 kB)]
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Investigation of q -dependent dynamical heterogeneity in a colloidal gel by x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy
V. Trappe, E. Pitard, L. Ramos, A. Robert, H. Bissig, and L. Cipelletti
Published 15 November 2007 (7 pages)
051404 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Asymptotic analysis of tracer diffusivity in nonadsorbing polymer solutions
Tai-Hsi Fan, Bin Xie, and Remco Tuinier
Published 16 November 2007 (13 pages)
051405 [View PDF (506 kB)]
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Two-dimensional dipolar nematic colloidal crystals
M. Škarabot, M. Ravnik, S. Žumer, U. Tkalec, I. Poberaj, D. Babič, N. Osterman, and I. Muševič
Published 27 November 2007 (8 pages)
051406 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Field-induced columnar structures in a quasi-two-dimensional system of dipolar particles
Shin-Shing Yeh, Ching Hsueh, Peilong Chen, and Jorge Viñals
Published 29 November 2007 (7 pages)
051407 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Transition from a simple yield-stress fluid to a thixotropic material
A. Ragouilliaux, G. Ovarlez, N. Shahidzadeh-Bonn, Benjamin Herzhaft, T. Palermo, and P. Coussot
Published 29 November 2007 (5 pages)
051408 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Microscopic structure and collapse of depletion-induced gels in vesicle-polymer mixtures
Ji Yeon Huh, Matthew L. Lynch, and Eric M. Furst
Published 29 November 2007 (8 pages)
051409 [View PDF (504 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Evidence of the ambipolar diffusion in the impedance spectroscopy of an electrolytic cell
G. Barbero and I. Lelidis
Published 13 November 2007 (9 pages)
051501 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Roughness of moving elastic lines: Crack and wetting fronts
E. Katzav, M. Adda-Bedia, M. Ben Amar, and A. Boudaoud
Published 16 November 2007 (12 pages)
051601 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Effective exponents in the long-range critical wetting of alkanes on aqueous substrates
Volker C. Weiss, Emanuel Bertrand, Salima Rafaï, Joseph O. Indekeu, and Daniel Bonn
Published 19 November 2007 (9 pages)
051602 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Small-angle scattering model for multilamellar vesicles
Henrich Frielinghaus
Published 21 November 2007 (8 pages)
051603 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of crystalline order and defects on weakly curved surfaces
A. Hexemer, V. Vitelli, E. J. Kramer, and G. H. Fredrickson
Published 29 November 2007 (12 pages)
051604 [View PDF (1,423 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Effective free-energy method for nematic liquid crystals in contact with structured substrates
L. Harnau, S. Kondrat, and A. Poniewierski
Published 6 November 2007 (9 pages)
051701 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Effect of nonmesogenic impurities on the liquid crystalline phase transitions of octylcyanobiphenyl
Katleen Denolf, George Cordoyiannis, Christ Glorieux, and Jan Thoen
Published 7 November 2007 (9 pages)
051702 [View PDF (1,115 kB)]
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Emission characteristics of a homologous series of bimesogenic liquid-crystal lasers
A. D. Ford, S. M. Morris, M. N. Pivnenko, C. Gillespie, and H. J. Coles
Published 7 November 2007 (9 pages)
051703 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Investigation into liquid crystalline smectic- C* subphase stability using chiral and achiral dopants
J. Kirchhoff and L. S. Hirst
Published 9 November 2007 (6 pages)
051704 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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Emergence of periodic order in electric-field-driven planar nematic liquid crystals: An exclusive ac effect absent in static fields
K. S. Krishnamurthy and Pramoda Kumar
Published 15 November 2007 (8 pages)
051705 [View PDF (406 kB)]
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Order-disorder molecular model of the smectic- A –smectic- C phase transition in materials with conventional and anomalously weak layer contraction
M. V. Gorkunov, M. A. Osipov, J. P. F. Lagerwall, and F. Giesselmann
Published 19 November 2007 (16 pages)
051706 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Molecular orientational properties of a high-tilt chiral smectic liquid crystal determined from its infrared dichroism
A. A. Sigarev, J. K. Vij, A. W. Hall, S. J. Cowling, and J. W. Goodby
Published 29 November 2007 (13 pages)
051707 [View PDF (814 kB)]
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Liquid crystal 8CB in random porous glass: NMR relaxometry study of molecular diffusion and director fluctuations
M. Vilfan, T. Apih, P. J. Sebastião, G. Lahajnar, and S. Žumer
Published 30 November 2007 (15 pages)
051708 [View PDF (954 kB)]

Polymers

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Theoretical coarse-graining approach to bridge length scales in diblock copolymer liquids
E. J. Sambriski and M. G. Guenza
Published 2 November 2007 (18 pages)
051801 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Polymer scaling and dynamics in steady-state sedimentation at infinite Péclet number
V. Lehtola, O. Punkkinen, and T. Ala-Nissila
Published 8 November 2007 (7 pages)
051802 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Barrier crossing by a star polymer
Ananya Debnath and K. L. Sebastian
Published 15 November 2007 (9 pages)
051803 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Knot localization in adsorbing polymer rings
B. Marcone, E. Orlandini, and A. L. Stella
Published 16 November 2007 (10 pages)
051804 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Random loop model for long polymers
Manfred Bohn, Dieter W. Heermann, and Roel van Driel
Published 27 November 2007 (8 pages)
051805 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Structural and conformational dynamics of supercooled polymer melts: Insights from first-principles theory and simulations
Song-Ho Chong, Martin Aichele, Hendrik Meyer, Matthias Fuchs, and Jörg Baschnagel
Published 30 November 2007 (22 pages)
051806 [View PDF (620 kB)]

Biological physics

Modeling electrocortical activity through improved local approximations of integral neural field equations
S. Coombes, N. A. Venkov, L. Shiau, I. Bojak, D. T. J. Liley, and C. R. Laing
Published 1 November 2007 (8 pages)
051901 [View PDF (599 kB)]
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Numerical study of the effect of the noseleaf on biosonar beamforming in a horseshoe bat
Qiao Zhuang and Rolf Müller
Published 5 November 2007 (11 pages)
051902 [View PDF (849 kB)]
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Mapping and assessment of epileptogenic foci using frequency-entropy templates
Eshel Ben-Jacob, Itai Doron, Tomer Gazit, Eden Rephaeli, Oren Sagher, and Vernon L. Towle
Published 5 November 2007 (8 pages)
051903 [View PDF (1,638 kB)]
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Lattice model for parallel and orthogonal β sheets using hydrogenlike bonding
J. Krawczyk, A. L. Owczarek, T. Prellberg, and A. Rechnitzer
Published 6 November 2007 (5 pages)
051904 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Interactions of semiflexible filaments and molecular motors
Dmitry Karpeev, Igor S. Aranson, Lev S. Tsimring, and Hans G. Kaper
Published 6 November 2007 (12 pages)
051905 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Fragility and mechanosensing in a thermalized cytoskeleton model with forced protein unfolding
Brenton D. Hoffman, Gladys Massiera, and John C. Crocker
Published 7 November 2007 (6 pages)
051906 [View PDF (860 kB)]
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Towards a thermodynamically consistent picture of the phase-field model of vesicles: Local membrane incompressibility
D. Jamet and C. Misbah
Published 7 November 2007 (7 pages)
051907 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Reverberating activity in a neural network with distributed signal transmission delays
Takahiro Omi and Shigeru Shinomoto
Published 8 November 2007 (7 pages)
051908 [View PDF (741 kB)]
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How a protein searches for its specific site on DNA: The role of intersegment transfer
Tao Hu and B. I. Shklovskii
Published 9 November 2007 (8 pages)
051909 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Fluctuations of coupled fluid and solid membranes with application to red blood cells
Thorsten Auth, S. A. Safran, and Nir S. Gov
Published 12 November 2007 (18 pages)
051910 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Amplitude equation approach to spatiotemporal dynamics of cardiac alternans
Blas Echebarria and Alain Karma
Published 12 November 2007 (23 pages)
051911 [View PDF (677 kB)]
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Temporal evolution of self-organization of gelatin molecules and clusters on quartz surface
Amar Nath Gupta and H. B. Bohidar
Published 14 November 2007 (6 pages)
051912 [View PDF (1,898 kB)]
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Modeling photon propagation in biological tissues using a generalized Delta-Eddington phase function
W. Cong, H. Shen, A. Cong, Y. Wang, and G. Wang
Published 14 November 2007 (5 pages)
051913 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Alternative hydrogen bond implementations produce opposite effects on collapse cooperativity of lattice homopolypeptide models
Gustavo M. N. Fleury, Marco A. A. Barbosa, and Antônio F. Pereira de Araújo
Published 20 November 2007 (11 pages)
051914 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Dynamics of a two-dimensional model of cell tissues with coupled stochastic gene networks
Andre S. Ribeiro
Published 20 November 2007 (14 pages)
051915 [View PDF (1,212 kB)]
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Stability domains of actin genes and genomic evolution
E. Carlon, A. Dkhissi, M. Lejard Malki, and R. Blossey
Published 21 November 2007 (9 pages)
051916 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Stochastic simulations of the repressilator circuit
Adiel Loinger and Ofer Biham
Published 21 November 2007 (9 pages)
051917 [View PDF (830 kB)]
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Dynamics of essential collective motions in proteins: Theory
Maria Stepanova
Published 26 November 2007 (16 pages)
051918 [View PDF (814 kB)]
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Versatile biologically inspired electronic neuron
Jacobo D. Sitt and J. Aliaga
Published 28 November 2007 (8 pages)
051919 [View PDF (535 kB)]
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Macroscopic consequences of calcium signaling in microdomains: A first-passage-time approach
Robert Rovetti, Kunal K. Das, Alan Garfinkel, and Yohannes Shiferaw
Published 29 November 2007 (5 pages)
051920 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Segregation process and phase transition in cyclic predator-prey models with an even number of species
György Szabó, Attila Szolnoki, and Gustavo Ariel Sznaider
Published 30 November 2007 (5 pages)
051921 [View PDF (700 kB)]
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Moment analysis of near-equilibrium binding interactions during electrophoresis
Yousef Daneshbod, James D. Sterling, and Ali Nadim
Published 30 November 2007 (13 pages)
051922 [View PDF (225 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Mechanical properties of glass forming systems
Valery Ilyin, Nataliya Makedonska, Itamar Procaccia, and Nurith Schupper
Published 19 November 2007 (4 pages)
052401 [View PDF (331 kB)]

Biological physics

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Optimal evaluation of single-molecule force spectroscopy experiments
Sebastian Getfert and Peter Reimann
Published 21 November 2007 (4 pages)
052901 [View PDF (186 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Network structure formation in pulsating particle populations
Akinori Awazu
Published 30 November 2007 (4 pages)
055101(R) [View PDF (170 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Uncovering interaction of coupled oscillators from data
Björn Kralemann, Laura Cimponeriu, Michael Rosenblum, Arkady Pikovsky, and Ralf Mrowka
Published 9 November 2007 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Blebbing dynamics in an oil-water-surfactant system through the generation and destruction of a gel-like structure
Yutaka Sumino, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Hideki Seto, and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 30 November 2007 (4 pages)
055202(R) [View PDF (315 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Reorientation of a hexagonal pattern under broken symmetry: The hexagon flip
Christopher Groh, Reinhard Richter, Ingo Rehberg, and F. H. Busse
Published 1 November 2007 (4 pages)
055301(R) [View PDF (1,379 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Wave excitation in inhomogeneous dielectric media
John R. Cary and Nong Xiang
Published 9 November 2007 (4 pages)
055401(R) [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Bubble regime for ion acceleration in a laser-driven plasma
Baifei Shen, Yuelin Li, M. Y. Yu, and John Cary
Published 9 November 2007 (4 pages)
055402(R) [View PDF (467 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic behavior in magnetized plasmas
Gert Brodin and Mattias Marklund
Published 27 November 2007 (4 pages)
055403(R) [View PDF (83 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Effects of inhomogeneous activity of players and noise on cooperation in spatial public goods games
Jian-Yue Guan, Zhi-Xi Wu, and Ying-Hai Wang
Published 2 November 2007 (4 pages)
056101 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Improved estimation of Fokker-Planck equations through optimization
A. P. Nawroth, J. Peinke, D. Kleinhans, and R. Friedrich
Published 5 November 2007 (8 pages)
056102 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Complex network synchronizability: Analysis and control
Zhisheng Duan, Guanrong Chen, and Lin Huang
Published 6 November 2007 (6 pages)
056103 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Scaling property of flux fluctuations from random walks
Sooyeon Yoon, Soon-Hyung Yook, and Yup Kim
Published 7 November 2007 (5 pages)
056104 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Volatility: A hidden Markov process in financial time series
Zoltán Eisler, Josep Perelló, and Jaume Masoliver
Published 9 November 2007 (11 pages)
056105 [View PDF (506 kB)]
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Strain localization in a shear transformation zone model for amorphous solids
M. L. Manning, J. S. Langer, and J. M. Carlson
Published 13 November 2007 (16 pages)
056106 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Steady-state, effective-temperature dynamics in a glassy material
J. S. Langer and M. L. Manning
Published 13 November 2007 (9 pages)
056107 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Neighbor network in a polydisperse hard-disk fluid: Degree distribution and assortativity
Alexandros Chremos and Philip J. Camp
Published 13 November 2007 (8 pages)
056108 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Impacts of preference and geography on epidemic spreading
Xin-Jian Xu, Xun Zhang, and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 14 November 2007 (4 pages)
056109 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Stochastic dynamics of uncoupled neural oscillators: Fokker-Planck studies with the finite element method
Roberto F. Galán, G. Bard Ermentrout, and Nathaniel N. Urban
Published 15 November 2007 (6 pages)
056110 [View PDF (714 kB)]
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Effect of disorder and notches on crack roughness
Phani K. V. V. Nukala, Stefano Zapperi, Mikko J. Alava, and Srđan Šimunović
Published 15 November 2007 (6 pages)
056111 [View PDF (490 kB)]
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Response to a temperature modulation as a signature of chemical mechanisms
H. Berthoumieux, L. Jullien, and A. Lemarchand
Published 15 November 2007 (8 pages)
056112 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Optimization of synchronization in gradient clustered networks
Xingang Wang, Liang Huang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Choy Heng Lai
Published 16 November 2007 (5 pages)
056113 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Network synchronization of groups
Francesco Sorrentino and Edward Ott
Published 19 November 2007 (10 pages)
056114 [View PDF (1,824 kB)]
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Spatially embedded random networks
L. Barnett, E. Di Paolo, and S. Bullock
Published 20 November 2007 (18 pages)
056115 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Resonating models for the electric power market
Carlo Lucheroni
Published 21 November 2007 (13 pages)
056116 [View PDF (3,460 kB)]
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Information transfer at multiple scales
Max Lungarella, Alex Pitti, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Published 27 November 2007 (10 pages)
056117 [View PDF (1,867 kB)]
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Topology and evolution of technology innovation networks
Sergi Valverde, Ricard V. Solé, Mark A. Bedau, and Norman Packard
Published 28 November 2007 (7 pages)
056118 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Approximating the largest eigenvalue of network adjacency matrices
Juan G. Restrepo, Edward Ott, and Brian R. Hunt
Published 29 November 2007 (6 pages)
056119 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Dynamic scaling approach to study time series fluctuations
Alexander S. Balankin
Published 30 November 2007 (7 pages)
056120 [View PDF (662 kB)]
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Interfaces and the edge percolation map of random directed networks
M. Ángeles Serrano and Paolo De Los Rios
Published 30 November 2007 (7 pages)
056121 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Control of unstable steady states by extended time-delayed feedback
Thomas Dahms, Philipp Hövel, and Eckehard Schöll
Published 1 November 2007 (10 pages)
056201 [View PDF (3,118 kB)]
Pattern formation in the damped Nikolaevskiy equation
S. M. Cox and P. C. Matthews
Published 2 November 2007 (11 pages)
056202 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Origin of chaos in soft interactions and signatures of nonergodicity
M. W. Beims, C. Manchein, and J. M. Rost
Published 2 November 2007 (8 pages)
056203 [View PDF (3,066 kB)]
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Universal spectral correlations from the ballistic σ model
Jan Müller, Tobias Micklitz, and Alexander Altland
Published 8 November 2007 (9 pages)
056204 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Fractional behavior in multidimensional Hamiltonian systems describing reactions
Akira Shojiguchi, Chun-Biu Li, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, and Mikito Toda
Published 8 November 2007 (14 pages)
056205 [View PDF (1,331 kB)]
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Effects of axonal time delay on synchronization and wave formation in sparsely coupled neuronal oscillators
Tae-Wook Ko and G. Bard Ermentrout
Published 8 November 2007 (8 pages)
056206 [View PDF (1,253 kB)]
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Master stability analysis in transient spatiotemporal chaos
Renate Wackerbauer
Published 9 November 2007 (7 pages)
056207 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Correlation theory of delayed feedback in stochastic systems below Andronov-Hopf bifurcation
Andrey Pototsky and Natalia Janson
Published 12 November 2007 (8 pages)
056208 [View PDF (804 kB)]
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Global bifurcations at the onset of pulse self-replication
Baozeng Yue
Published 13 November 2007 (7 pages)
056209 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Influence of noise on the synchronization of the stochastic Kuramoto model
Bidhan Chandra Bag, K. G. Petrosyan, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 13 November 2007 (6 pages)
056210 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Targeting characteristic wave properties in reaction-diffusion systems by optimization of external forcing
Jochen Siehr, Mario S. Mommer, Oliver Slaby, and Dirk Lebiedz
Published 15 November 2007 (7 pages)
056211 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Recovery of ordered periodic orbits with increasing wavelength for sound propagation in a range-dependent waveguide
L. E. Kon’kov, D. V. Makarov, E. V. Sosedko, and M. Yu. Uleysky
Published 16 November 2007 (9 pages)
056212 [View PDF (2,640 kB)]
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Contraction stability and transverse stability of synchronization in complex networks
Kezan Li, Michael Small, and Xinchu Fu
Published 16 November 2007 (7 pages)
056213 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Stabilizing unstable periodic orbits in the Lorenz equations using time-delayed feedback control
Claire M. Postlethwaite and Mary Silber
Published 27 November 2007 (10 pages)
056214 [View PDF (709 kB)]
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Input-output relation of FitzHugh-Nagumo elements arranged in a trifurcated structure
T. Yanagita
Published 28 November 2007 (13 pages)
056215 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Intraburst versus interburst locking in networks of driven nonidentical oscillators
Jack Waddell and Michal Zochowski
Published 30 November 2007 (7 pages)
056216 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Chaotic saddles at the onset of intermittent spatiotemporal chaos
Erico L. Rempel, Abraham C.-L. Chian, and Rodrigo A. Miranda
Published 30 November 2007 (6 pages)
056217 [View PDF (1,092 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Falling films on flexible inclines
O. K. Matar, R. V. Craster, and S. Kumar
Published 8 November 2007 (17 pages)
056301 [View PDF (1,168 kB)]
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Sedimentation, Péclet number, and hydrodynamic screening
Kiley Benes, Penger Tong, and Bruce J. Ackerson
Published 8 November 2007 (7 pages)
056302 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Postprocesses in tubular electrospun nanofibers
A. Arinstein and E. Zussman
Published 9 November 2007 (7 pages)
056303 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Using wavelets to characterize the wettability of porous materials
V. Sygouni, C. D. Tsakiroglou, and A. C. Payatakes
Published 9 November 2007 (18 pages)
056304 [View PDF (2,531 kB)]
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Flow reversal at low voltage and low frequency in a microfabricated ac electrokinetic pump
Misha Marie Gregersen, Laurits Højgaard Olesen, Anders Brask, Mikkel Fougt Hansen, and Henrik Bruus
Published 9 November 2007 (9 pages)
056305 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Stability and transient dynamics of thin liquid films flowing over locally heated surfaces
Naveen Tiwari, Zoltan Mester, and Jeffrey M. Davis
Published 9 November 2007 (14 pages)
056306 [View PDF (1,011 kB)]
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Magnetic fluctuations and formation of large-scale inhomogeneous magnetic structures in a turbulent convection
Igor Rogachevskii and Nathan Kleeorin
Published 12 November 2007 (15 pages)
056307 [View PDF (614 kB)]
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Convective chemical fronts in a Poiseuille flow
Desiderio A. Vasquez
Published 12 November 2007 (8 pages)
056308 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Theory of current-driven instability experiments in magnetic Taylor-Couette flows
Günther Rüdiger, Manfred Schultz, Dima Shalybkov, and Rainer Hollerbach
Published 14 November 2007 (9 pages)
056309 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Highly turbulent solutions of the Lagrangian-averaged Navier-Stokes α model and their large-eddy-simulation potential
Jonathan Pietarila Graham, Darryl D. Holm, Pablo D. Mininni, and Annick Pouquet
Published 14 November 2007 (15 pages)
056310 [View PDF (811 kB)]
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Lifetime of a bouncing droplet
D. Terwagne, N. Vandewalle, and S. Dorbolo
Published 15 November 2007 (6 pages)
056311 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Pressure-dependent scaling scenarios in experiments of spontaneous imbibition
R. Planet, M. Pradas, A. Hernández-Machado, and J. Ortín
Published 16 November 2007 (7 pages)
056312 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Anisotropic fluxes and nonlocal interactions in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
A. Alexakis, B. Bigot, H. Politano, and S. Galtier
Published 16 November 2007 (8 pages)
056313 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Interaction of spheres in oscillatory fluid flows
D. Klotsa, Michael R. Swift, R. M. Bowley, and P. J. King
Published 19 November 2007 (8 pages)
056314 [View PDF (639 kB)]
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Dynamic spreading of droplets containing nanoparticles
O. K. Matar, R. V. Craster, and K. Sefiane
Published 26 November 2007 (9 pages)
056315 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Local geometry of isoscalar surfaces
César Dopazo, Jesús Martín, and Juan Hierro
Published 27 November 2007 (11 pages)
056316 [View PDF (649 kB)]
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Positional stability as the light emission limit in sonoluminescence with sulfuric acid
Raúl Urteaga, Damián H. Dellavale, Gabriela F. Puente, and Fabián J. Bonetto
Published 29 November 2007 (5 pages)
056317 [View PDF (709 kB)]
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Morphodynamic modeling of erodible laminar channels
Olivier Devauchelle, Christophe Josserand, Pierre-Yves Lagrée, and Stéphane Zaleski
Published 29 November 2007 (9 pages)
056318 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Bouncing jet: A Newtonian liquid rebounding off a free surface
Matthew Thrasher, Sunghwan Jung, Yee Kwong Pang, Chih-Piao Chuu, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 29 November 2007 (8 pages)
056319 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Effect of quasiperiodic gravitational modulation on the stability of a heated fluid layer
Taoufik Boulal, Saïd Aniss, Mohamed Belhaq, and Richard Rand
Published 30 November 2007 (5 pages)
056320 [View PDF (397 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Spectroscopic modeling and characterization of a collisionally confined laser-ablated plasma plume
M. E. Sherrill, R. C. Mancini, J. Bailey, A. Filuk, B. Clark, P. Lake, and J. Abdallah, Jr.
Published 6 November 2007 (16 pages)
056401 [View PDF (1,854 kB)]
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Fast-electron-relaxation measurement for laser-solid interaction at relativistic laser intensities
H. Chen, R. Shepherd, H. K. Chung, A. Kemp, S. B. Hansen, S. C. Wilks, Y. Ping, K. Widmann, K. B. Fournier, G. Dyer, A. Faenov, T. Pikuz, and P. Beiersdorfer
Published 14 November 2007 (5 pages)
056402 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Spectroscopic determination of temperature and density spatial profiles and mix in indirect-drive implosion cores
L. Welser-Sherrill, R. C. Mancini, J. A. Koch, N. Izumi, R. Tommasini, S. W. Haan, D. A. Haynes, I. E. Golovkin, J. J. MacFarlane, J. A. Delettrez, F. J. Marshall, S. P. Regan, V. A. Smalyuk, and G. Kyrala
Published 16 November 2007 (9 pages)
056403 [View PDF (809 kB)]
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Population inversion in plasmas generated during recombination cascades
G. J. Pert
Published 29 November 2007 (10 pages)
056404 [View PDF (813 kB)]
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Numerical modeling of dust particle configurations in a cylindrical radio-frequency plasma reactor
M. Davoudabadi and F. Mashayek
Published 30 November 2007 (12 pages)
056405 [View PDF (652 kB)]
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Experimental and theoretical studies of a coaxial free-electron maser based on two-dimensional distributed feedback
I. V. Konoplev, A. W. Cross, A. D. R. Phelps, W. He, K. Ronald, C. G. Whyte, C. W. Robertson, P. MacInnes, N. S. Ginzburg, N. Yu. Peskov, A. S. Sergeev, V. Yu. Zaslavsky, and M. Thumm
Published 30 November 2007 (12 pages)
056406 [View PDF (1,097 kB)]

Classical physics

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Waveguiding inside the complete band gap of a phononic crystal slab
Fu-Li Hsiao, Abdelkrim Khelif, Hanane Moubchir, Abdelkrim Choujaa, Chii-Chang Chen, and Vincent Laude
Published 8 November 2007 (6 pages)
056601 [View PDF (1,009 kB)]
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Experimental evidence of deviation from mirror reflection for acoustical shock waves
Régis Marchiano, François Coulouvrat, Sambandam Baskar, and Jean-Louis Thomas
Published 9 November 2007 (5 pages)
056602 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Achieving transparency and maximizing scattering with metamaterial-coated conducting cylinders
Erdinc Irci and Vakur B. Ertürk
Published 9 November 2007 (15 pages)
056603 [View PDF (552 kB)]
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Enlargement of zero averaged refractive index gaps in the photonic heterostructures containing negative-index materials
Yuanjiang Xiang, Xiaoyu Dai, Shuangchun Wen, and Dianyuan Fan
Published 9 November 2007 (6 pages)
056604 [View PDF (784 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Acoustic Bloch oscillations in a two-dimensional phononic crystal
Zhaojian He, Shasha Peng, Feiyan Cai, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu
Published 12 November 2007 (4 pages)
056605 [View PDF (506 kB)]
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Beam wandering in the atmosphere: The effect of partial coherence
G. P. Berman, A. A. Chumak, and V. N. Gorshkov
Published 28 November 2007 (7 pages)
056606 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Localization length of stationary states in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Alexander Iomin and Shmuel Fishman
Published 29 November 2007 (4 pages)
056607 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Fractal design for an efficient shell strut under gentle compressive loading
Robert S. Farr
Published 30 November 2007 (7 pages)
056608 [View PDF (218 kB)]

Computational physics

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Estimating thermal conductivity of amorphous silica nanoparticles and nanowires using molecular dynamics simulations
Sanket S. Mahajan, Ganesh Subbarayan, and Bahgat G. Sammakia
Published 1 November 2007 (14 pages)
056701 [View PDF (542 kB)]
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Bounding box algorithm for three-dimensional phase-field simulations of microstructural evolution in polycrystalline materials
Liesbeth Vanherpe, Nele Moelans, Bart Blanpain, and Stefan Vandewalle
Published 7 November 2007 (11 pages)
056702 [View PDF (569 kB)]
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Algorithm to estimate the Hurst exponent of high-dimensional fractals
Anna Carbone
Published 13 November 2007 (7 pages)
056703 [View PDF (935 kB)]
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Discrete effects on boundary conditions for the lattice Boltzmann equation in simulating microscale gas flows
Zhaoli Guo, Baochang Shi, T. S. Zhao, and Chuguang Zheng
Published 15 November 2007 (5 pages)
056704 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Coupled double-distribution-function lattice Boltzmann method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Q. Li, Y. L. He, Y. Wang, and W. Q. Tao
Published 16 November 2007 (19 pages)
056705 [View PDF (844 kB)]
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Adaptive mesh computation of polycrystalline pattern formation using a renormalization-group reduction of the phase-field crystal model
Badrinarayan P. Athreya, Nigel Goldenfeld, Jonathan A. Dantzig, Michael Greenwood, and Nikolas Provatas
Published 16 November 2007 (14 pages)
056706 [View PDF (1,471 kB)]
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Density-matrix renormalization for model reduction in nonlinear dynamics
Thorsten Bogner
Published 26 November 2007 (11 pages)
056707 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Higher-order splitting algorithms for solving the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and their instabilities
Siu A. Chin
Published 29 November 2007 (8 pages)
056708 [View PDF (534 kB)]
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Fast algorithm for successive computation of group betweenness centrality
Rami Puzis, Yuval Elovici, and Shlomi Dolev
Published 29 November 2007 (9 pages)
056709 [View PDF (622 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Modeling highway-traffic headway distributions using superstatistics
A. Y. Abul-Magd
Published 14 November 2007 (4 pages)
057101 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Optimizing replica exchange moves for molecular dynamics
Walter Nadler and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann
Published 15 November 2007 (4 pages)
057102 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Enhanced synchronizability via age-based coupling
Yu-Feng Lu, Ming Zhao, Tao Zhou, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 30 November 2007 (3 pages)
057103 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Phase transitions in the Kuramoto model
Lasko Basnarkov and Viktor Urumov
Published 5 November 2007 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Multiresonant forcing of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation: Pattern selection
Jessica M. Conway and Hermann Riecke
Published 9 November 2007 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Monte Carlo method for multiparameter estimation in coupled chaotic systems
Inés P. Mariño and Joaquín Míguez
Published 16 November 2007 (4 pages)
057203 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Quantum chaos and regularity in ultracold Fermi gases
M. Puig von Friesen, M. Ögren, and S. Åberg
Published 30 November 2007 (4 pages)
057204 [View PDF (307 kB)]

Computational physics

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Calculation of electronic surface states in superlattices via graph formulations
W. J. Hsueh and H. C. Chen
Published 8 November 2007 (4 pages)
057701 [View PDF (135 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Continuous and discontinuous phase transitions and partial synchronization in stochastic three-state oscillators [Phys. Rev. E 76, 041132 (2007)]
Kevin Wood, C. Van den Broeck, R. Kawai, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 1 November 2007 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Erratum: Modified lattice Boltzmann model for axisymmetric flows [Phys. Rev. E 75, 056703 (2007)]
T. Reis and T. N. Phillips
Published 2 November 2007 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Statistical light-mode dynamics of multipulse passive mode locking [Phys. Rev. E 76, 031112 (2007)]
Rafi Weill, Boris Vodonos, Ariel Gordon, Omri Gat, and Baruch Fischer
Published 2 November 2007 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Cell size distribution in random tessellations of space [Phys. Rev. E 70, 066119 (2004)]
Eloi Pineda, Pere Bruna, and Daniel Crespo
Published 16 November 2007 (1 page)
059904(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Erratum: Synchronization of time-delayed systems [Phys. Rev. E 76, 036212 (2007)]
Maoyin Chen and Jürgen Kurths
Published 27 November 2007 (1 page)
059905(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]