Physical Review E – June 2008
Volume 77, Issue 6

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics

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Fourier’s law of heat conduction: Quantum mechanical master equation analysis
Lian-Ao Wu and Dvira Segal
Published 9 June 2008 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (93 kB)]

Granular materials

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Characterization of reflection intermittency in a composite granular chain
P. J. Wang, Y. D. Li, J. H. Xia, and C. S. Liu
Published 23 June 2008 (4 pages)
060301(R) [View PDF (163 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Dynamics of a paramagnetic colloidal particle driven on a magnetic-bubble lattice
Alejandro Soba, Pietro Tierno, Thomas M. Fischer, and Francesc Saguès
Published 9 June 2008 (4 pages)
060401(R) [View PDF (477 kB)]
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Shear thickening and scaling of the elastic modulus in a fractal colloidal system with attractive interactions
Chinedum O. Osuji, Chanjoong Kim, and David A. Weitz
Published 11 June 2008 (4 pages)
060402(R) [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Structure and dynamics of biphasic colloidal mixtures
Ali Mohraz, Eric R. Weeks, and Jennifer A. Lewis
Published 13 June 2008 (4 pages)
060403(R) [View PDF (466 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Dynamics and critical damping of capillary waves in an ionic liquid
E. Sloutskin, P. Huber, M. Wolff, B. M. Ocko, A. Madsen, M. Sprung, V. Schön, J. Baumert, and M. Deutsch
Published 3 June 2008 (4 pages)
060601(R) [View PDF (326 kB)]

Biological physics

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Scaling theory of DNA confined in nanochannels and nanoslits
Theo Odijk
Published 9 June 2008 (4 pages)
060901(R) [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Reliability of genetic networks is evolvable
Stefan Braunewell and Stefan Bornholdt
Published 20 June 2008 (4 pages)
060902(R) [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Activity-dependent stochastic resonance in recurrent neuronal networks
Vladislav Volman and Herbert Levine
Published 20 June 2008 (4 pages)
060903(R) [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Entangled dynamics of a stiff polymer
Felix Höfling, Tobias Munk, Erwin Frey, and Thomas Franosch
Published 20 June 2008 (4 pages)
060904(R) [View PDF (271 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Nonequilibrium properties of a two-dimensionally isotropic interface in a two-phase mixture as described by the square gradient model
K. S. Glavatskiy and D. Bedeaux
Published 2 June 2008 (15 pages)
061101 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Mechanical equivalent of quantum heat engines
Jacques Arnaud, Laurent Chusseau, and Fabrice Philippe
Published 3 June 2008 (6 pages)
061102 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Intrinsic fractality of classic shot noise
Iddo Eliazar
Published 4 June 2008 (5 pages)
061103 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Method for replica symmetry breaking at and near T=0 with application to the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
Manuel J. Schmidt and Reinhold Oppermann
Published 4 June 2008 (8 pages)
061104 [View PDF (673 kB)]
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Inferential framework for nonstationary dynamics. I. Theory
Dmitri G. Luchinsky, Vadim N. Smelyanskiy, Andrea Duggento, and Peter V. E. McClintock
Published 4 June 2008 (8 pages)
061105 [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Inferential framework for nonstationary dynamics. II. Application to a model of physiological signaling
Andrea Duggento, Dmitri G. Luchinsky, Vadim N. Smelyanskiy, Igor Khovanov, and Peter V. E. McClintock
Published 4 June 2008 (10 pages)
061106 [View PDF (445 kB)]
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Extinction of an infectious disease: A large fluctuation in a nonequilibrium system
Alex Kamenev and Baruch Meerson
Published 5 June 2008 (4 pages)
061107 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Geometric properties of the three-dimensional Ising and XY models
Frank Winter, Wolfhard Janke, and Adriaan M. J. Schakel
Published 9 June 2008 (9 pages)
061108 [View PDF (1,141 kB)]
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Localization-delocalization transition in a two-dimensional quantum percolation model
M Fhokrul Islam and Hisao Nakanishi
Published 9 June 2008 (9 pages)
061109 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Reentrant and forward phase diagrams of the anisotropic three-dimensional Ising spin glass
Can Güven, A. Nihat Berker, Michael Hinczewski, and Hidetoshi Nishimori
Published 9 June 2008 (7 pages)
061110 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Brownian dipole rotator in alternating electric field
V. M. Rozenbaum, O. Ye. Vovchenko, and T. Ye. Korochkova
Published 10 June 2008 (9 pages)
061111 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Steady-state Lévy flights in a confined domain
S. I. Denisov, Werner Horsthemke, and Peter Hänggi
Published 10 June 2008 (4 pages)
061112 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Random-walk access times on partially disordered complex networks: An effective medium theory
Paul E. Parris, Julián Candia, and V. M. Kenkre
Published 10 June 2008 (9 pages)
061113 [View PDF (573 kB)]
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Fermi resonance and its effect on the mean transition time and rate
M. L. Deng and W. Q. Zhu
Published 11 June 2008 (10 pages)
061114 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Order of phase transitions in barrier crossing
J. Bürki, C. A. Stafford, and D. L. Stein
Published 11 June 2008 (7 pages)
061115 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Multicritical points for spin-glass models on hierarchical lattices
Masayuki Ohzeki, Hidetoshi Nishimori, and A. Nihat Berker
Published 12 June 2008 (11 pages)
061116 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Limitations and strengths of uniformly charged double-layer theory: Physical significance of capacitance anomalies
Michael B. Partenskii and Peter C. Jordan
Published 12 June 2008 (9 pages)
061117 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Boundary-induced abrupt transition in the symmetric exclusion process
Apoorva Nagar, Meesoon Ha, and Hyunggyu Park
Published 13 June 2008 (7 pages)
061118 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Magnetic reversal time in open long-range systems
F. Borgonovi, G. L. Celardo, B. Goncalves, and L. Spadafora
Published 16 June 2008 (8 pages)
061119 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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One-dimensional extended Hubbard model in the atomic limit
F. Mancini and F. P. Mancini
Published 16 June 2008 (22 pages)
061120 [View PDF (1,638 kB)]
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Bethe approximation for the hydrogen-bonding self-avoiding walk in a solvent
D. P. Foster and M. Aniambossou
Published 16 June 2008 (6 pages)
061121 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Double power-law in aggregation-chipping processes
Hiroshi Yamamoto, Toshiya Ohtsuki, and Akihiro Fujihara
Published 17 June 2008 (4 pages)
061122 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Typical kernel size and number of sparse random matrices over Galois fields: A statistical physics approach
R. C. Alamino and D. Saad
Published 17 June 2008 (12 pages)
061123 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Shock probes in a one-dimensional Katz-Lebowitz-Spohn model
Sakuntala Chatterjee and Mustansir Barma
Published 17 June 2008 (8 pages)
061124 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Fractal probability laws
Iddo Eliazar and Joseph Klafter
Published 18 June 2008 (6 pages)
061125 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Boundary monomers in the dimer model
Vyatcheslav B. Priezzhev and Philippe Ruelle
Published 19 June 2008 (8 pages)
061126 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Continuous-time quantum walks on one-dimensional regular networks
Xin-Ping Xu
Published 19 June 2008 (9 pages)
061127 [View PDF (850 kB)]
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Diversity of critical behavior within a universality class
Volker Dohm
Published 19 June 2008 (38 pages)
061128 [View PDF (811 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Renormalization of stochastic lattice models: Epitaxial surfaces
Christoph A. Haselwandter and Dimitri D. Vvedensky
Published 20 June 2008 (21 pages)
061129 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Anomalous reaction-transport processes: The dynamics beyond the law of mass action
Daniel Campos, Sergei Fedotov, and Vicenç Méndez
Published 20 June 2008 (5 pages)
061130 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Polymer dynamics in time-dependent periodic potentials
Janne Kauttonen, Juha Merikoski, and Otto Pulkkinen
Published 23 June 2008 (9 pages)
061131 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Phase transition with nonthermodynamic states in reversible polymerization
E. Ben-Naim and P. L. Krapivsky
Published 24 June 2008 (9 pages)
061132 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Spectral properties of the Preisach hysteresis model with random input. I. General results
Günter Radons
Published 25 June 2008 (8 pages)
061133 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Spectral properties of the Preisach hysteresis model with random input. II. Universality classes for symmetric elementary loops
Günter Radons
Published 25 June 2008 (8 pages)
061134 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Deterministic escape dynamics of two-dimensional coupled nonlinear oscillator chains
S. Fugmann, D. Hennig, L. Schimansky-Geier, and P. Hänggi
Published 26 June 2008 (9 pages)
061135 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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Generalized Fokker-Planck equation, Brownian motion, and ergodicity
A. V. Plyukhin
Published 26 June 2008 (13 pages)
061136 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Complementarity of phase transition and stochastic resonance in spatially restricted systems
Artjom Vargunin, Teet Örd, and Risto Tammelo
Published 26 June 2008 (5 pages)
061137 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Intrinsic and extrinsic noise effects on phase transitions of network models with applications to swarming systems
Jaime A. Pimentel, Maximino Aldana, Cristián Huepe, and Hernán Larralde
Published 27 June 2008 (17 pages)
061138 [View PDF (693 kB)]
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Griffiths-McCoy singularities, Lee-Yang zeros, and the cavity method in a solvable diluted ferromagnet
C. Laumann, A. Scardicchio, and S. L. Sondhi
Published 27 June 2008 (9 pages)
061139 [View PDF (232 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Dynamics of 1,3-butadiene adsorbed in Na-Y zeolite: A molecular dynamics simulation study
Siddharth Gautam, S. Mitra, S. L. Chaplot, and R. Mukhopadhyay
Published 16 June 2008 (8 pages)
061201 [View PDF (568 kB)]

Granular materials

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Segregation induced by inelasticity in a vibrofluidized granular mixture
R. Brito, H. Enríquez, S. Godoy, and R. Soto
Published 3 June 2008 (6 pages)
061301 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Relationship between interparticle contact lifetimes and rheology in gravity-driven granular flows
Robert Brewster, Leonardo E. Silbert, Gary S. Grest, and Alex J. Levine
Published 11 June 2008 (12 pages)
061302 [View PDF (603 kB)]
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Kinematics of densely flowing granular mixtures
K. M. Hill and J. Zhang
Published 12 June 2008 (7 pages)
061303 [View PDF (1,282 kB)]
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Spiral trajectory in the horizontal Brazil nut effect
Fei Fang Chung, Chia-Yi Ju, and Sy-Sang Liaw
Published 13 June 2008 (5 pages)
061304 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Driven fragmentation of granular gases
Raúl Cruz Hidalgo and Ignacio Pagonabarraga
Published 19 June 2008 (13 pages)
061305 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Coupled tomography and distinct-element-method approach to exploring the granular media microstructure in a jamming hourglass
M. Tsukahara, S. Mitrovic, V. Gajdosik, G. Margaritondo, L. Pournin, M. Ramaioli, D. Sage, Y. Hwu, M. Unser, and Th. M. Liebling
Published 25 June 2008 (11 pages)
061306 [View PDF (1,295 kB)]
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Stress dip under a two-dimensional semipile of grains
I. Zuriguel, T. Mullin, and R. Arévalo
Published 27 June 2008 (6 pages)
061307 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Temporal force fluctuations measured by tracking individual particles in granular materials under shear
Eric I. Corwin, Eric T. Hoke, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel
Published 27 June 2008 (6 pages)
061308 [View PDF (1,020 kB)]
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Particle dynamics and effective temperature of jammed granular matter in a slowly sheared three-dimensional Couette cell
Ping Wang, Chaoming Song, Christopher Briscoe, and Hernán A. Makse
Published 30 June 2008 (15 pages)
061309 [View PDF (1,658 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Exotic crystal superstructures of colloidal crystals in confinement
Ana Barreira Fontecha and Hans Joachim Schöpe
Published 4 June 2008 (3 pages)
061401 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Model for erosion-deposition patterns
D. O. Maionchi, A. F. Morais, R. N. Costa Filho, J. S. Andrade, Jr., and H. J. Herrmann
Published 10 June 2008 (6 pages)
061402 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Influence of shear stress applied during flow stoppage and rest period on the mechanical properties of thixotropic suspensions
Guillaume Ovarlez and Xavier Chateau
Published 10 June 2008 (14 pages)
061403 [View PDF (920 kB)]
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Condensation-driven aggregation in one dimension
M. K. Hassan and M. Z. Hassan
Published 13 June 2008 (6 pages)
061404 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Stability of orientationally disordered crystal structures of colloidal hard dumbbells
Matthieu Marechal and Marjolein Dijkstra
Published 13 June 2008 (10 pages)
061405 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Direct visualization of colloidal gelation under confinement
Prasad S. Sarangapani, Yanghai Yu, Jiang Zhao, and Yingxi Zhu
Published 30 June 2008 (7 pages)
061406 [View PDF (1,187 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Continuum theory of memory effect in crack patterns of drying pastes
Ooshida Takeshi (大信田丈志)
Published 3 June 2008 (17 pages)
061501 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Brownian particles in transient polymer networks
Joris Sprakel, Jasper van der Gucht, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, and Nicolaas A. M. Besseling
Published 3 June 2008 (10 pages)
061502 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Free-energy landscape for a tagged particle in a dense hard-sphere fluid
Takashi Yoshidome, Takashi Odagaki, and Akira Yoshimori
Published 3 June 2008 (6 pages)
061503 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Thermal relaxation and low-frequency vibrational anomalies in simple models of glasses: A study using nonlinear Hamiltonians
J. R. Romero-Arias and Gerardo G. Naumis
Published 5 June 2008 (7 pages)
061504 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion and stretched exponentials in heterogeneous glass-forming liquids: Low-temperature behavior
J. S. Langer and Swagatam Mukhopadhyay
Published 6 June 2008 (8 pages)
061505 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Simulation of an atomistic dynamic field theory for monatomic liquids: Freezing and glass formation
Joel Berry, K. R. Elder, and Martin Grant
Published 9 June 2008 (7 pages)
061506 [View PDF (539 kB)]
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Properties of ideal Gaussian glass-forming systems
Andreas Heuer and Aimorn Saksaengwijit
Published 16 June 2008 (9 pages)
061507 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Short-time inertial response of viscoelastic fluids measured with Brownian motion and with active probes
M. Atakhorrami, D. Mizuno, G. H. Koenderink, T. B. Liverpool, F. C. MacKintosh, and C. F. Schmidt
Published 18 June 2008 (13 pages)
061508 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Aging and relaxation in glass-forming systems
Valery Ilyin, Itamar Procaccia, Ido Regev, and Nurith Schupper
Published 19 June 2008 (11 pages)
061509 [View PDF (1,554 kB)]
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Self-organization of magnetic nanoparticles: A Monte Carlo study
J. Richardi, M. P. Pileni, and J.-J. Weis
Published 25 June 2008 (9 pages)
061510 [View PDF (1,418 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Morphology and phase behavior of ethanol nanodrops condensed on chemically patterned surfaces
Antonio Checco and Benjamin M. Ocko
Published 5 June 2008 (8 pages)
061601 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Nucleation of fluids confined between parallel walls: A lattice Monte Carlo study
W. Rżysko, A. Patrykiejew, and S. Sokołowski
Published 6 June 2008 (6 pages)
061602 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Adsorption kinetics of a single polymer on a solid plane
S. Bhattacharya, A. Milchev, V. G. Rostiashvili, A. Y. Grosberg, and T. A. Vilgis
Published 20 June 2008 (12 pages)
061603 [View PDF (1,637 kB)]
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Multifractal behavior of the surfaces evolved with surface relaxation
Pradipta Kumar Mandal and Debnarayan Jana
Published 24 June 2008 (6 pages)
061604 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Stability of liquid ridges on chemical micro- and nanostripes
S. Mechkov, M. Rauscher, and S. Dietrich
Published 26 June 2008 (10 pages)
061605 [View PDF (345 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Observation of a possible tetrahedratic phase in a bent-core liquid crystal
D. Wiant, K. Neupane, S. Sharma, J. T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, N. Pradhan, and G. Iannacchione
Published 2 June 2008 (7 pages)
061701 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Diverging elasticity and director uniformation in a nanopatterned cell near the nematic–smectic- A phase transition
Timothy J. Atherton, Ruiting Wang, and Charles Rosenblatt
Published 2 June 2008 (6 pages)
061702 [View PDF (1,172 kB)]
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Sliding planar anchoring and viscous surface torque in a cholesteric liquid crystal
Patrick Oswald, Alain Dequidt, and Andrzej Żywociński
Published 6 June 2008 (9 pages)
061703 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Effects of doping on an unusual smectic- Cα∗ –smectic- CFI2∗ –smectic- C∗ phase sequence
B. K. McCoy, Z. Q. Liu, S. T. Wang, Lidong Pan, Shun Wang, H. T. Nguyen, R. Pindak, and C. C. Huang
Published 6 June 2008 (10 pages)
061704 [View PDF (657 kB)]
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Light-induced gliding of the easy orientation axis of a dye-doped nematic liquid crystal
Denis Fedorenko, Kostyantyn Slyusarenko, Elena Ouskova, Victor Reshetnyak, KiRyong Ha, Ridvan Karapinar, and Yuriy Reznikov
Published 12 June 2008 (9 pages)
061705 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Hierarchical self-assembly of nematic colloidal superstructures
M. Škarabot, M. Ravnik, S. Žumer, U. Tkalec, I. Poberaj, D. Babič, and I. Muševič
Published 12 June 2008 (4 pages)
061706 [View PDF (663 kB)]
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Accelerated dielectric relaxation in the isotropic phase of associating liquid crystals dispersed with aerosils
Jan Leys, Christ Glorieux, and Jan Thoen
Published 17 June 2008 (6 pages)
061707 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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de Vries behavior in smectic liquid crystals near a biaxiality-induced smectic- A –smectic- C tricritical point
Karl Saunders
Published 26 June 2008 (13 pages)
061708 [View PDF (428 kB)]

Polymers

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Crystal nucleation enhanced at the diffuse interface of immiscible polymer blends
Yu Ma, Liyun Zha, Wenbing Hu, Günter Reiter, and Charles C. Han
Published 2 June 2008 (5 pages)
061801 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Mean square displacement evaluation by elastic neutron scattering self-distribution function
Salvatore Magazù, Giacomo Maisano, Federica Migliardo, and Antonio Benedetto
Published 6 June 2008 (6 pages)
061802 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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End-to-end distribution for a wormlike chain in arbitrary dimensions
Shafigh Mehraeen, Bariz Sudhanshu, Elena F. Koslover, and Andrew J. Spakowitz
Published 9 June 2008 (16 pages)
061803 [View PDF (571 kB)]
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Emergence of secondary motifs in tubelike polymers in a solvent
Chiara Poletto, Achille Giacometti, Antonio Trovato, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Amos Maritan
Published 18 June 2008 (5 pages)
061804 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Folding and unfolding kinetics of a single semiflexible polymer
Natsuhiko Yoshinaga
Published 18 June 2008 (11 pages)
061805 [View PDF (1,507 kB)]

Biological physics

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Evolutionary model with Turing machines
Giovanni Feverati and Fabio Musso
Published 3 June 2008 (13 pages)
061901 [View PDF (473 kB)]
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Shape of nonseptated Escherichia coli is asymmetric
E. Itan, G. Carmon, A. Rabinovitch, I. Fishov, and M. Feingold
Published 4 June 2008 (10 pages)
061902 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Free energy of twisted semiflexible polymers
Supurna Sinha
Published 4 June 2008 (4 pages)
061903 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Dynamic light scattering study on phase separation of a protein-water mixture: Application on cold cataract development in the ocular lens
V. Petta, N. Pharmakakis, G. N. Papatheodorou, and S. N. Yannopoulos
Published 4 June 2008 (13 pages)
061904 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Multiplicative-noise-induced coherence resonance via two different mechanisms in bistable neural models
Jun Tang, Ya Jia, Ming Yi, Jun Ma, and Jiarong Li
Published 6 June 2008 (7 pages)
061905 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Sequence-dependent effects on the properties of semiflexible biopolymers
Zicong Zhou and Béla Joós
Published 9 June 2008 (5 pages)
061906 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Diploid biological evolution models with general smooth fitness landscapes and recombination
David B. Saakian, Zara Kirakosyan, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 11 June 2008 (10 pages)
061907 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Characteristics of temporal fluctuations in the hyperpolarized state of the cortical slow oscillation
M. T. Wilson, M. Barry, J. N. J. Reynolds, E. J. W. Hutchison, and D. A. Steyn-Ross
Published 11 June 2008 (7 pages)
061908 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Time correlation function in systems with two coexisting biological species
E. Arashiro, A. L. Rodrigues, M. J. de Oliveira, and T. Tomé
Published 12 June 2008 (11 pages)
061909 [View PDF (908 kB)]
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Two-state model for helicase translocation and unwinding of nucleic acids
Ashok Garai, Debashish Chowdhury, and M. D. Betterton
Published 13 June 2008 (9 pages)
061910 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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From baseline to epileptiform activity: A path to synchronized rhythmicity in large-scale neural networks
Vladimir Shusterman and William C. Troy
Published 16 June 2008 (14 pages)
061911 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Interaction between motor domains can explain the complex dynamics of heterodimeric kinesins
Rahul Kumar Das and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky
Published 17 June 2008 (6 pages)
061912 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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The colocalization transition of homologous chromosomes at meiosis
Mario Nicodemi, Barbara Panning, and Antonella Prisco
Published 17 June 2008 (4 pages)
061913 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Nanoscale magnetic biotransport with application to magnetofection
E. P. Furlani and K. C. Ng
Published 17 June 2008 (8 pages)
061914 [View PDF (896 kB)]
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Modeling background intensity in DNA microarrays
K. M. Kroll, G. T. Barkema, and E. Carlon
Published 18 June 2008 (8 pages)
061915 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Micromechanical model for elasticity of the cell cytoskeleton
Sitikantha Roy and H. Jerry Qi
Published 18 June 2008 (9 pages)
061916 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Inflation of the edge of chaos in a simple model of gene interaction networks
Dejan Stokić, Rudolf Hanel, and Stefan Thurner
Published 18 June 2008 (8 pages)
061917 [View PDF (737 kB)]
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Nonlinear dilational mechanics of Langmuir lipid monolayers: A lateral diffusion mechanism
Laura R. Arriaga, Iván López-Montero, Ruddi Rodríguez-García, and Francisco Monroy
Published 20 June 2008 (10 pages)
061918 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Effect of hydrodynamic interaction on partially stretched polymers
Anirban Sain
Published 23 June 2008 (5 pages)
061919 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Evolving model of amino acid networks
Shan Chang, Xiong Jiao, Xin-qi Gong, Chun-hua Li, Wei-zu Chen, and Cun-xin Wang
Published 24 June 2008 (7 pages)
061920 [View PDF (489 kB)]
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Controlling the onset of Hopf bifurcation in the Hodgkin-Huxley model
Yong Xie, Luonan Chen, Yan Mei Kang, and Kazuyuki Aihara
Published 26 June 2008 (13 pages)
061921 [View PDF (3,129 kB)]
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Chaotic component obscured by strong periodicity in voice production system
Chao Tao and Jack J. Jiang
Published 27 June 2008 (8 pages)
061922 [View PDF (822 kB)]
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Spontaneous emergence of sequence-dependent rosettelike folding of chromatin fiber
Ph. St-Jean, C. Vaillant, B. Audit, and A. Arneodo
Published 27 June 2008 (5 pages)
061923 [View PDF (271 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Finite-size-scaling ansatz for the helicity modulus of the triangular-lattice three-spin interaction model
Hiromi Otsuka
Published 3 June 2008 (4 pages)
062101 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Crossover from ballistic to diffusive thermal transport in quantum Langevin dynamics study of a harmonic chain connected to self-consistent reservoirs
Dibyendu Roy
Published 4 June 2008 (3 pages)
062102 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Scaling of nonaffine deformation in random semiflexible fiber networks
H. Hatami-Marbini and R. C. Picu
Published 19 June 2008 (4 pages)
062103 [View PDF (224 kB)]

Granular materials

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Voronoï cell-size distribution and Edwards’ compactivity of the parking lot model
K. Hernández and L. I. Reyes
Published 20 June 2008 (3 pages)
062301 [View PDF (1,100 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Step wandering on Si(111) vicinal face near the 1×1↔7×7 transition temperature with drift of adatoms parallel to steps
Kenta Ikawa and Masahide Sato
Published 18 June 2008 (4 pages)
062601 [View PDF (168 kB)]

Biological physics

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Orientational ordering in the nematic phase of a polyethylene glycol–peptide conjugate in aqueous solution
Ian W. Hamley, Marta J. Krysmann, Gemma E. Newby, Valeria Castelletto, and Laurence Noirez
Published 18 June 2008 (4 pages)
062901 [View PDF (196 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Transitions from oscillatory to smooth fracture propagation in brittle metallic glasses
Y. Braiman and T. Egami
Published 11 June 2008 (4 pages)
065101(R) [View PDF (111 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Chaotic soliton walk in periodically modulated media
Dmitry Turaev, Mindaugas Radziunas, and Andrei G. Vladimirov
Published 9 June 2008 (4 pages)
065201(R) [View PDF (2,189 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Clustering and collision of inertial particles in random velocity fields
Piero Olla
Published 30 June 2008 (4 pages)
065301(R) [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Taylor's frozen-flow hypothesis in Burgers turbulence
A. Bahraminasab, M. D. Niry, J. Davoudi, M. Reza Rahimi Tabar, A. A. Masoudi, and K. R. Sreenivasan
Published 30 June 2008 (4 pages)
065302(R) [View PDF (131 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Wake behind dust grains in flowing plasmas with a directed photon flux
W. J. Miloch, S. V. Vladimirov, H. L. Pécseli, and J. Trulsen
Published 24 June 2008 (4 pages)
065401(R) [View PDF (989 kB)]

Classical physics

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Surface breathers in discrete magnetic metamaterials
Nikos Lazarides, George P. Tsironis, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 3 June 2008 (4 pages)
065601(R) [View PDF (130 kB)]

Computational physics

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Differential equations as a tool for community identification
Małgorzata J. Krawczyk
Published 18 June 2008 (4 pages)
065701(R) [View PDF (119 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Fluctuating epidemics on adaptive networks
Leah B. Shaw and Ira B. Schwartz
Published 3 June 2008 (10 pages)
066101 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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T→0 mean-field population dynamics approach for the random 3 -satisfiability problem
Haijun Zhou
Published 5 June 2008 (8 pages)
066102 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Electronic processes in fast thermite chemical reactions: A first-principles molecular dynamics study
Fuyuki Shimojo, Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv K. Kalia, and Priya Vashishta
Published 5 June 2008 (7 pages)
066103 [View PDF (1,759 kB)]
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Networks of recurrent events, a theory of records, and an application to finding causal signatures in seismicity
Jörn Davidsen, Peter Grassberger, and Maya Paczuski
Published 6 June 2008 (17 pages)
066104 [View PDF (1,940 kB)]
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Condensation phenomena of a conserved-mass aggregation model on weighted complex networks
Sungchul Kwon, Sooyeon Yoon, and Yup Kim
Published 9 June 2008 (8 pages)
066105 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Population stratification using a statistical model on hypergraphs
Alexei Vazquez
Published 10 June 2008 (7 pages)
066106 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Network of recurrent events for the Olami-Feder-Christensen model
Tiago P. Peixoto and Jörn Davidsen
Published 10 June 2008 (11 pages)
066107 [View PDF (1,786 kB)]
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Emergence of symmetry in complex networks
Yanghua Xiao, Momiao Xiong, Wei Wang, and Hui Wang
Published 11 June 2008 (10 pages)
066108 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Solution of the nonlinear theory and tests of earthquake recurrence times
D. Sornette, S. Utkin, and A. Saichev
Published 11 June 2008 (10 pages)
066109 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Influence of the driving rate in a two-dimensional rice pile model
Kinga A. Lőrincz and Rinke J. Wijngaarden
Published 12 June 2008 (4 pages)
066110 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Peculiarities of the adsorption kinetics of mixed convex plus concave contour objects
Pradip B. Shelke, S. B. Ogale, M. D. Khandkar, and A. V. Limaye
Published 19 June 2008 (5 pages)
066111 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Scale-free networks which are highly assortative but not small world
Michael Small, Xiaoke Xu, Jin Zhou, Jie Zhang, Junfeng Sun, and Jun-an Lu
Published 20 June 2008 (7 pages)
066112 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Localizations on complex networks
Guimei Zhu, Huijie Yang, Chuanyang Yin, and Baowen Li
Published 23 June 2008 (9 pages)
066113 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Global bifurcation criterion for oscillatory crack path instability
Van-Bac Pham, Hans-Achim Bahr, Ute Bahr, Herbert Balke, and Hans-Jürgen Weiss
Published 27 June 2008 (10 pages)
066114 [View PDF (732 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Structural dissipative solitons in passive mode-locked fiber lasers
Andrey Komarov and François Sanchez
Published 3 June 2008 (8 pages)
066201 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Quantum integrability and nonintegrability in the spin-boson model
Vyacheslav V. Stepanov, Gerhard Müller, and Joachim Stolze
Published 4 June 2008 (9 pages)
066202 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Dimensions, maximal growth sites, and optimization in the dielectric breakdown model
Joachim Mathiesen, Mogens H. Jensen, and Jan Øystein Haavig Bakke
Published 5 June 2008 (5 pages)
066203 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Multiple testing strategy for the detection of temporal irreversibility in stationary time series
Karina R. Casali, Adenauer G. Casali, Nicola Montano, Maria Claudia Irigoyen, Fabricio Macagnan, Stefano Guzzetti, and Alberto Porta
Published 6 June 2008 (7 pages)
066204 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Phase dynamics of coupled oscillators reconstructed from data
Björn Kralemann, Laura Cimponeriu, Michael Rosenblum, Arkady Pikovsky, and Ralf Mrowka
Published 9 June 2008 (16 pages)
066205 [View PDF (2,115 kB)]
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Bundle dynamics of interacting polar rods
Sumanth Swaminathan, Dmitry Karpeev, and Igor S. Aranson
Published 9 June 2008 (9 pages)
066206 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Delay stabilization of rotating waves near fold bifurcation and application to all-optical control of a semiconductor laser
B. Fiedler, S. Yanchuk, V. Flunkert, P. Hövel, H.-J. Wünsche, and E. Schöll
Published 10 June 2008 (9 pages)
066207 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Partial synchronization of chaotic systems with uncertainty
Dongchuan Yu and Ulrich Parlitz
Published 11 June 2008 (9 pages)
066208 [View PDF (2,579 kB)]
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Quantum stress in chaotic billiards
Karl-Fredrik Berggren, Dmitrii N. Maksimov, Almas F. Sadreev, Ruven Höhmann, Ulrich Kuhl, and Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann
Published 12 June 2008 (11 pages)
066209 [View PDF (536 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Spatiotemporal pattern formation in fractional reaction-diffusion systems with indices of different order
V. V. Gafiychuk and B. Y. Datsko
Published 16 June 2008 (9 pages)
066210 [View PDF (1,260 kB)]
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Multifractal detrended cross-correlation analysis for two nonstationary signals
Wei-Xing Zhou (周炜星)
Published 18 June 2008 (4 pages)
066211 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Resonances and entrainment breakup in Kuramoto models with multimodal frequency densities
Filip De Smet and Dirk Aeyels
Published 19 June 2008 (8 pages)
066212 [View PDF (755 kB)]
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Transport control in a deterministic ratchet system
Woo-Sik Son, Jung-Wan Ryu, Dong-Uk Hwang, Soo-Young Lee, Young-Jai Park, and Chil-Min Kim
Published 19 June 2008 (9 pages)
066213 [View PDF (1,305 kB)]
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Markov chain Monte Carlo method in Bayesian reconstruction of dynamical systems from noisy chaotic time series
E. M. Loskutov, Ya. I. Molkov, D. N. Mukhin, and A. M. Feigin
Published 23 June 2008 (7 pages)
066214 [View PDF (677 kB)]
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Easily adaptable complexity measure for finite time series
Da-Guan Ke (柯大观) and Qin-Ye Tong (童勤业)
Published 23 June 2008 (8 pages)
066215 [View PDF (2,143 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Duffing oscillators: Control and memory effects
Adriano A. Batista, F. A. Oliveira, and H. N. Nazareno
Published 23 June 2008 (10 pages)
066216 [View PDF (641 kB)]
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Coexisting attractors in periodically modulated logistic maps
Thounaojam Umeshkanta Singh, Amitabha Nandi, and Ram Ramaswamy
Published 23 June 2008 (8 pages)
066217 [View PDF (6,617 kB)]
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Meandering instability of a viscous thread
Stephen W. Morris, Jonathan H. P. Dawes, Neil M. Ribe, and John R. Lister
Published 26 June 2008 (11 pages)
066218 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Analytic approach to bifurcation cascades in a class of generalized Hénon-Heiles potentials
Sergey N. Fedotkin, Alexander G. Magner, and Matthias Brack
Published 27 June 2008 (16 pages)
066219 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Delay-sustained pattern formation in subexcitable media
Martin Gassel, Erik Glatt, and Friedemann Kaiser
Published 27 June 2008 (7 pages)
066220 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Estimating parameters by autosynchronization with dynamics restrictions
Dongchuan Yu and Ulrich Parlitz
Published 30 June 2008 (7 pages)
066221 [View PDF (475 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Species interactions in binary particulate systems
J. Liu, S. Y. Chen, and D. Z. Zhang
Published 2 June 2008 (10 pages)
066301 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Wave propagation through saturated porous media
I. Malinouskaya, V. V. Mourzenko, J.-F. Thovert, and P. M. Adler
Published 5 June 2008 (14 pages)
066302 [View PDF (716 kB)]
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Numerical studies of bubble necking in viscous liquids
Shaoping Quan and Jinsong Hua
Published 6 June 2008 (11 pages)
066303 [View PDF (1,040 kB)]
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Intermittent particle distribution in synthetic free-surface turbulent flows
Lauris Ducasse and Alain Pumir
Published 10 June 2008 (6 pages)
066304 [View PDF (1,205 kB)]
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Dynamical evolution of volume fractions in multipressure multiphase flow models
C. H. Chang and J. D. Ramshaw
Published 10 June 2008 (7 pages)
066305 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Geometrical and transport properties of random packings of polydisperse spheres
V. Mourzenko, J.-F. Thovert, O. Vizika, and P. M. Adler
Published 11 June 2008 (14 pages)
066306 [View PDF (959 kB)]
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Self-consistent four-point closure for transport in steady random flows
Marco Dentz and Daniel M. Tartakovsky
Published 17 June 2008 (12 pages)
066307 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Flow induced by acoustic streaming on surface-acoustic-wave devices and its application in biofouling removal: A computational study and comparisons to experiment
Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, Stefan Cular, Venkat R. Bhethanabotla, and Babu Joseph
Published 17 June 2008 (19 pages)
066308 [View PDF (920 kB)]
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Surface-wave instabilities, period doubling, and an approximate universal boundary of bubble stability at the upper threshold of sonoluminescence
Joachim Holzfuss
Published 17 June 2008 (10 pages)
066309 [View PDF (873 kB)]
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Pattern dynamics in a perturbed printer’s instability experiment
R. L. Santos, U. Agero, and J. M. A. Figueiredo
Published 19 June 2008 (8 pages)
066310 [View PDF (707 kB)]
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Pore-scale studies of spontaneous imbibition into oil-saturated porous media
Can Ulas Hatiboglu and Tayfun Babadagli
Published 27 June 2008 (11 pages)
066311 [View PDF (3,813 kB)]
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Shear-induced self-diffusion in a wall-bounded dilute suspension
Evgeny S. Asmolov
Published 30 June 2008 (6 pages)
066312 [View PDF (311 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Symplectic and energy-conserving algorithms for solving magnetic field trajectories
Siu A. Chin
Published 3 June 2008 (12 pages)
066401 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Properties of plastic ablators in laser-driven material dynamics experiments
Damian C. Swift and Richard G. Kraus
Published 5 June 2008 (12 pages)
066402 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Evolution of the mass-transfer processes in nonideal dissipative systems. I. Numerical simulation
O. S. Vaulina, X. G. Adamovich, O. F. Petrov, and V. E. Fortov
Published 10 June 2008 (7 pages)
066403 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Evolution of the mass-transfer processes in nonideal dissipative systems II: Experiments in dusty plasma
O. S. Vaulina, X. G. Adamovich, O. F. Petrov, and V. E. Fortov
Published 10 June 2008 (8 pages)
066404 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Absolute densities of energetic hydrogen ion species in an abnormal hollow cathode discharge
J. Kipritidis, J. Khachan, M. Fitzgerald, and O. Shrier
Published 12 June 2008 (9 pages)
066405 [View PDF (781 kB)]
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Investigation of the 2p3∕2-3d5∕2 line emission of Au53+–Au69+ for diagnosing high energy density plasmas
G. V. Brown, S. B. Hansen, E. Träbert, P. Beiersdorfer, K. Widmann, H. Chen, H. K. Chung, J. H. T. Clementson, M. F. Gu, and D. B. Thorn
Published 23 June 2008 (9 pages)
066406 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Electron kinetic effects in plasma expansion and ion acceleration
T. Grismayer, P. Mora, J. C. Adam, and A. Héron
Published 30 June 2008 (11 pages)
066407 [View PDF (2,015 kB)]

Classical physics

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Patterns of traveling intrinsic localized modes in a driven electrical lattice
L. Q. English, R. Basu Thakur, and Ryan Stearrett
Published 2 June 2008 (5 pages)
066601 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Nonlinear constructive interference in electrical lattices
H. S. Bhat and E. Afshari
Published 6 June 2008 (13 pages)
066602 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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Fission of a longitudinal strain solitary wave in a delaminated bar
Karima R. Khusnutdinova and Alexander M. Samsonov
Published 10 June 2008 (11 pages)
066603 [View PDF (674 kB)]
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Interaction of solitons with bond defects in discrete nonlinear Schrödinger chains
M. T. Primatarowa, K. T. Stoychev, and R. S. Kamburova
Published 11 June 2008 (4 pages)
066604 [View PDF (1,840 kB)]
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Soliton interaction in the higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation investigated with Hirota's bilinear method
Wen-Jun Liu, Bo Tian, Hai-Qiang Zhang, Li-Li Li, and Yu-Shan Xue
Published 20 June 2008 (7 pages)
066605 [View PDF (978 kB)]
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Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation in passive and active media with complex resonant dispersion
Andrey V. Tyukhtin and Sergey N. Galyamin
Published 23 June 2008 (8 pages)
066606 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Analytical design of conformally invisible cloaks for arbitrarily shaped objects
Wei Xiang Jiang, Jessie Yao Chin, Zhuo Li, Qiang Cheng, Ruopeng Liu, and Tie Jun Cui
Published 25 June 2008 (6 pages)
066607 [View PDF (438 kB)]

Computational physics

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Attosecond-resolution quantum dynamics calculations for atoms and molecules in strong laser fields
Rui-Feng Lu, Pei-Yu Zhang, and Ke-Li Han
Published 2 June 2008 (6 pages)
066701 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Pressure tensor calculation in a class of nonideal gas lattice Boltzmann models
Xiaowen Shan
Published 5 June 2008 (6 pages)
066702 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Smoothed dissipative particle dynamics model for polymer molecules in suspension
Sergey Litvinov, Marco Ellero, Xiangyu Hu, and Nikolaus A. Adams
Published 5 June 2008 (12 pages)
066703 [View PDF (731 kB)]
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Consistent lattice Boltzmann schemes for the Brinkman model of porous flow and infinite Chapman-Enskog expansion
Irina Ginzburg
Published 6 June 2008 (12 pages)
066704 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Accelerated kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm for diffusion-limited kinetics
V. I. Tokar and H. Dreyssé
Published 10 June 2008 (4 pages)
066705 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Stretching and squeezing of sessile dielectric drops by the optical radiation pressure
Hamza Chraïbi, Didier Lasseux, Eric Arquis, Régis Wunenburger, and Jean-Pierre Delville
Published 17 June 2008 (12 pages)
066706 [View PDF (344 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Dynamical properties of a confined diatomic fluid undergoing zero mean oscillatory flow: Effect of molecular rotation
J. S. Hansen, B. D. Todd, and Peter J. Daivis
Published 19 June 2008 (10 pages)
066707 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Quantum lattice Boltzmann simulation of expanding Bose-Einstein condensates in random potentials
S. Palpacelli and S. Succi
Published 20 June 2008 (8 pages)
066708 [View PDF (1,077 kB)]
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Coupled dipole method for modeling optical properties of large-scale random media
S. Sukhov, D. Haefner, and A. Dogariu
Published 23 June 2008 (7 pages)
066709 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Lattice-Boltzmann modeling of phonon hydrodynamics
Wen-Shu Jiaung and Jeng-Rong Ho
Published 23 June 2008 (13 pages)
066710 [View PDF (486 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Olami-Feder-Christensen model with quenched disorder
Manuel Bach, Felix Wissel, and Barbara Drossel
Published 26 June 2008 (4 pages)
067101 [View PDF (277 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Capillary filling in patterned channels
H. Kusumaatmaja, C. M. Pooley, S. Girardo, D. Pisignano, and J. M. Yeomans
Published 17 June 2008 (4 pages)
067301 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Miscible viscous fingering with a chemical reaction involving precipitation
Yuichiro Nagatsu, Si-Kyun Bae, Yoshihito Kato, and Yutaka Tada
Published 18 June 2008 (4 pages)
067302 [View PDF (335 kB)]

Classical physics

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Two-dimensional map for a curved Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chain
Ranja Sarkar
Published 30 June 2008 (4 pages)
067601 [View PDF (458 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Defect-mediated emulsification in two dimensions [Phys. Rev. E 77, 051702 (2008)]
K. S. Korolev and David R. Nelson
Published 3 June 2008 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Transformation of a tungsten wire to the plasma state by nanosecond electrical explosion in vacuum [Phys. Rev. E 77, 056406 (2008)]
G. S. Sarkisov, S. E. Rosenthal, and K. W. Struve
Published 3 June 2008 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Stretching and squeezing of sessile dielectric drops by the optical radiation pressure [Phys. Rev. E 77, 066706 (2008)]
Hamza Chraïbi, Didier Lasseux, Eric Arquis, Régis Wunenburger, and Jean-Pierre Delville
Published 27 June 2008 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]