Physical Review E – September 2008
Volume 78, Issue 3

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Editorial: Physics - spotlighting exceptional research
Gene D. Sprouse
Published 15 September 2008 (1 page)
030001 [View PDF (83 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics

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Instability of condensation in the zero-range process with random interaction
Stefan Grosskinsky, Paul Chleboun, and Gunter M. Schütz
Published 4 September 2008 (4 pages)
030101(R) [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Intermittent Brownian dynamics over a rigid strand: Heavily tailed relocation statistics in a simple geometry
P. Levitz, M. Zinsmeister, P. Davidson, D. Constantin, and O. Poncelet
Published 24 September 2008 (4 pages)
030102(R) [View PDF (296 kB)]

Granular materials

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Exciting hard spheres
T. Antal, P. L. Krapivsky, and S. Redner
Published 4 September 2008 (4 pages)
030301(R) [View PDF (471 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Elasticity-mediated nematiclike bacterial organization in model extracellular DNA matrix
Ivan I. Smalyukh, John Butler, Joshua D. Shrout, Matthew R. Parsek, and Gerard C. L. Wong
Published 23 September 2008 (4 pages)
030701(R) [View PDF (255 kB)]

Polymers

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Origin of change in molecular-weight dependence for polymer surface tension
R. B. Thompson, J. R. MacDonald, and P. Chen
Published 30 September 2008 (4 pages)
030801(R) [View PDF (153 kB)]

Biological physics

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No many-scallop theorem: Collective locomotion of reciprocal swimmers
Eric Lauga and Denis Bartolo
Published 29 September 2008 (4 pages)
030901(R) [View PDF (247 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Modular Schrödinger equation and dynamical duality
Piotr Garbaczewski
Published 2 September 2008 (11 pages)
031101 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Effective field theory for models defined over small-world networks: First- and second-order phase transitions
M. Ostilli and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 2 September 2008 (26 pages)
031102 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of the triangular lattice gas with first- and second-neighbor exclusions
Wei Zhang and Youjin Deng
Published 2 September 2008 (7 pages)
031103 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Blume-Emery-Griffiths spin glass and inverted tricritical points
V. Ongun Özçelik and A. Nihat Berker
Published 3 September 2008 (5 pages)
031104 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Spin-1 Ising model: Exact damage-spreading relations and numerical simulations
A. S. Anjos, A. M. Mariz, F. D. Nobre, and I. G. Araujo
Published 3 September 2008 (8 pages)
031105 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium processes: Driven lattice gases, interface dynamics, and quenched-disorder effects on density profiles and currents
S. L. A. de Queiroz and R. B. Stinchcombe
Published 4 September 2008 (11 pages)
031106 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Fluctuation-dissipation theorem for the microcanonical ensemble
Marcus V. S. Bonança
Published 5 September 2008 (7 pages)
031107 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Symmetry properties of heat conduction in inhomogeneous materials
Emmanuel Pereira and Humberto C. F. Lemos
Published 8 September 2008 (6 pages)
031108 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Thermal fluctuations and phase diagrams of the phase-field crystal model with pinning
J. A. P. Ramos, E. Granato, C. V. Achim, S. C. Ying, K. R. Elder, and T. Ala-Nissila
Published 8 September 2008 (7 pages)
031109 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Synchrony and variability induced by spatially correlated additive and multiplicative noise in the coupled Langevin model
Hideo Hasegawa
Published 8 September 2008 (8 pages)
031110 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Influence of memory in deterministic walks in random media: Analytical calculation within a mean-field approximation
César Augusto Sangaletti Terçariol and Alexandre Souto Martinez
Published 9 September 2008 (8 pages)
031111 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Fractional Langevin equation: Overdamped, underdamped, and critical behaviors
S. Burov and E. Barkai
Published 10 September 2008 (18 pages)
031112 [View PDF (601 kB)]
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Information flow within stochastic dynamical systems
X. San Liang
Published 10 September 2008 (5 pages)
031113 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Smoluchowski equation approach for quantum Brownian motion in a tilted periodic potential
William T. Coffey, Yuri P. Kalmykov, Serguey V. Titov, and Liam Cleary
Published 10 September 2008 (14 pages)
031114 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Criticality in the quantum kicked rotor with a smooth potential
Rina Dutta and Pragya Shukla
Published 10 September 2008 (8 pages)
031115 [View PDF (3,242 kB)]
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Cavity approach to the spectral density of sparse symmetric random matrices
Tim Rogers, Isaac Pérez Castillo, Reimer Kühn, and Koujin Takeda
Published 10 September 2008 (6 pages)
031116 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Ehrenfest model for condensation and evaporation processes in degrading aggregates with multiple bonds
M. B. Flegg, P. K. Pollett, and D. K. Gramotnev
Published 10 September 2008 (9 pages)
031117 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Diffusion and binding of finite-size particles in confined geometries
Mark L. Henle, Brian DiDonna, Christian D. Santangelo, and Ajay Gopinathan
Published 15 September 2008 (10 pages)
031118 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Phase transition in Heisenberg stacked triangular antiferromagnets: End of a controversy
V. Thanh Ngo and H. T. Diep
Published 16 September 2008 (5 pages)
031119 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Stochastic multiresonance and correlation-time-controlled stability for a harmonic oscillator with fluctuating frequency
Romi Mankin, Katrin Laas, Tõnu Laas, and Eerik Reiter
Published 17 September 2008 (11 pages)
031120 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Diffusive transport of light in a two-dimensional disordered packing of disks: Analytical approach to transport mean free path
Zeinab Sadjadi, MirFaez Miri, M. Reza Shaebani, and Sareh Nakhaee
Published 17 September 2008 (9 pages)
031121 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Superpositions of probability distributions
Petr Jizba and Hagen Kleinert
Published 17 September 2008 (10 pages)
031122 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Random diffusion model
Gene F. Mazenko
Published 18 September 2008 (24 pages)
031123 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Exact asymptotics for nonradiative migration-accelerated energy transfer in one-dimensional systems
G. Oshanin and M. Tachiya
Published 19 September 2008 (8 pages)
031124 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Transport control in low-dimensional spin- 1∕2 Heisenberg systems
Lea F. Santos
Published 19 September 2008 (8 pages)
031125 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Dissipation and transport dynamics in a ratchet coupled to a discrete bath
Jane Rosa and Marcus W. Beims
Published 19 September 2008 (12 pages)
031126 [View PDF (1,145 kB)]
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Fractional derivatives of random walks: Time series with long-time memory
H. Eduardo Roman and Markus Porto
Published 19 September 2008 (10 pages)
031127 [View PDF (1,023 kB)]
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Aperiodic Ising model on the Bethe lattice: Exact results
Ferenc Iglói and Loïc Turban
Published 19 September 2008 (7 pages)
031128 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Universality class of the pair contact process with diffusion
F. Smallenburg and G. T. Barkema
Published 23 September 2008 (8 pages)
031129 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Impact of quantum phase transitions on excited-level dynamics
Pavel Cejnar and Pavel Stránský
Published 25 September 2008 (5 pages)
031130 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Pseudo-random-number generators and the square site percolation threshold
Michael J. Lee
Published 25 September 2008 (11 pages)
031131 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Dynamic behavior of the interface of striplike structures in driven lattice gases
Gustavo P. Saracco and Ezequiel V. Albano
Published 25 September 2008 (11 pages)
031132 [View PDF (619 kB)]
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Contact process on a Voronoi triangulation
Marcelo M. de Oliveira, S. G. Alves, S. C. Ferreira, and Ronald Dickman
Published 29 September 2008 (5 pages)
031133 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Scaling analysis of the site-diluted Ising model in two dimensions
R. Kenna and J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo
Published 29 September 2008 (7 pages)
031134 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Lévy flights in nonhomogeneous media: Distributed-order fractional equation approach
Tomasz Srokowski
Published 29 September 2008 (7 pages)
031135 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Percolation transitions in two dimensions
Xiaomei Feng, Youjin Deng, and Henk W. J. Blöte
Published 30 September 2008 (6 pages)
031136 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Noise-induced transitions in state-dependent dichotomous processes
Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi, and Paolo D’Odorico
Published 30 September 2008 (7 pages)
031137 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Critical behavior at edge singularities in one-dimensional spin models
D. Dalmazi and F. L. Sá
Published 30 September 2008 (6 pages)
031138 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Granular materials

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Rise of a Brazil nut: A transition line
Sergio Godoy, Dino Risso, Rodrigo Soto, and Patricio Cordero
Published 2 September 2008 (6 pages)
031301 [View PDF (553 kB)]
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Characterization of interparticle forces in the packing of cohesive fine particles
R. Y. Yang, R. P. Zou, A. B. Yu, and S. K. Choi
Published 5 September 2008 (8 pages)
031302 [View PDF (477 kB)]
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Nonlocal rheological properties of granular flows near a jamming limit
Igor S. Aranson, Lev S. Tsimring, Florent Malloggi, and Eric Clément
Published 8 September 2008 (14 pages)
031303 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Influence of magnetic cohesion on the stability of granular slopes
K. Taylor, P. J. King, and Michael R. Swift
Published 10 September 2008 (7 pages)
031304 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Computer simulation of model cohesive powders: Plastic consolidation, structural changes, and elasticity under isotropic loads
F. A. Gilabert, J.-N. Roux, and A. Castellanos
Published 15 September 2008 (21 pages)
031305 [View PDF (1,912 kB)]
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Axial band scaling for bidisperse mixtures in granular tumblers
G. Juarez, J. M. Ottino, and R. M. Lueptow
Published 17 September 2008 (8 pages)
031306 [View PDF (626 kB)]
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Energy dissipation and dispersion effects in granular media
Zhen Zhao, Caishan Liu, and Bernard Brogliato
Published 22 September 2008 (13 pages)
031307 [View PDF (1,982 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Enhancing mixing and diffusion with plastic flow
A. Libál, C. Reichhardt, and C. J. Olson Reichhardt
Published 2 September 2008 (5 pages)
031401 [View PDF (2,887 kB)]
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Two-dimensional fluid with competing interactions exhibiting microphase separation: Theory for bulk and interfacial properties
Andrew J. Archer
Published 8 September 2008 (10 pages)
031402 [View PDF (873 kB)]
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Shear effects on crystal nucleation in colloidal suspensions
Juan J. Cerdà, Tomás Sintes, C. Holm, C. M. Sorensen, and A. Chakrabarti
Published 8 September 2008 (16 pages)
031403 [View PDF (1,000 kB)]
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Light scattering in a magnetically polarizable nanoparticle suspension
Junaid M. Laskar, John Philip, and Baldev Raj
Published 10 September 2008 (9 pages)
031404 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Ground state and normal-mode spectra of a two-dimensional system of dipole particles confined in a parabolic trap
F. F. Munarin, W. P. Ferreira, G. A. Farias, and F. M. Peeters
Published 17 September 2008 (12 pages)
031405 [View PDF (5,909 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic interactions in two dimensions
R. Di Leonardo, S. Keen, F. Ianni, J. Leach, M. J. Padgett, and G. Ruocco
Published 17 September 2008 (4 pages)
031406 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Variation of spatial and temporal characteristics of reactive flow in a periodically driven cavity: Gelation of sodium acrylate
M. Harini, S. Sriram, Abhijit P. Deshpande, and S. Pushpavanam
Published 19 September 2008 (8 pages)
031407 [View PDF (1,458 kB)]
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Influence of anions on liquid infiltration and defiltration in a zeolite Y
Aijie Han, Weiyi Lu, Taewan Kim, Xi Chen, and Yu Qiao
Published 22 September 2008 (4 pages)
031408 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Aggregation of self-propelled colloidal rods near confining walls
H. H. Wensink and H. Löwen
Published 29 September 2008 (4 pages)
031409 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Dynamics and structure of an aging binary colloidal glass
Jennifer M. Lynch, Gianguido C. Cianci, and Eric R. Weeks
Published 30 September 2008 (7 pages)
031410 [View PDF (526 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Two-bead microrheology: Modeling protocols
Christel Hohenegger and M. Gregory Forest
Published 22 September 2008 (6 pages)
031501 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Kinetic Monte Carlo study on the decay of two-dimensional nanostructures: Influence of the activation energy of diffusion on kinetic and morphological properties
Marcos F. Castez and Ezequiel V. Albano
Published 5 September 2008 (8 pages)
031601 [View PDF (901 kB)]
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Ripples in a wetting film formed by a moving meniscus
Vladimir S. Ajaev, Roumen Tsekov, and Olga I. Vinogradova
Published 12 September 2008 (9 pages)
031602 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Influence of disorder strength on phase-field models of interfacial growth
T. Laurila, M. Pradas, A. Hernández-Machado, and T. Ala-Nissila
Published 12 September 2008 (7 pages)
031603 [View PDF (2,548 kB)]
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Resonant frequency and dissipation factor isotherms of adsorbed molecules on solid-liquid interfaces probed by quartz crystal microbalance
Jiajie Fang and Da-Ming Zhu
Published 15 September 2008 (8 pages)
031604 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Atomistic simulation study of the structure and dynamics of a faceted crystal-melt interface
Dorel Buta, Mark Asta, and Jeffrey J. Hoyt
Published 22 September 2008 (11 pages)
031605 [View PDF (1,183 kB)]
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Influence of roughness on capillary forces between hydrophilic surfaces
P. J. van Zwol, G. Palasantzas, and J. Th. M. De Hosson
Published 24 September 2008 (6 pages)
031606 [View PDF (453 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Fingered core structure of nematic boojums
Samo Kralj, Riccardo Rosso, and Epifanio G. Virga
Published 2 September 2008 (4 pages)
031701 [View PDF (3,577 kB)]
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Converse flexoelectric effect in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal
J. Harden, R. Teeling, J. T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, and A. Jákli
Published 2 September 2008 (5 pages)
031702 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Three-dimensional model for light-induced chaotic rotations in liquid crystals under spin and orbital angular momentum transfer processes
Etienne Brasselet, Bruno Piccirillo, and Enrico Santamato
Published 3 September 2008 (4 pages)
031703 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Anomalous elasticity in nematic and smectic elastomer tubule phases
Olaf Stenull
Published 3 September 2008 (4 pages)
031704 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Biaxial nematic and smectic phases of parallel particles with different cross sections
Yuri Martínez-Ratón, Szabolcs Varga, and Enrique Velasco
Published 9 September 2008 (12 pages)
031705 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Influence of the magnetic field on isotropic wetting behavior of a nematic liquid crystal
Erfan Kadivar
Published 10 September 2008 (6 pages)
031706 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Phase separation in nematic microemulsions probed by one-dimensional spectroscopic deuteron magnetic resonance microimaging
Andrija Lebar, Zdravko Kutnjak, Hajime Tanaka, Boštjan Zalar, and Slobodan Žumer
Published 23 September 2008 (8 pages)
031707 [View PDF (504 kB)]

Polymers

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Spinodal decomposition of polymer solutions: A parallelized molecular dynamics simulation
Leonid Yelash, Peter Virnau, Wolfgang Paul, Kurt Binder, and Marcus Müller
Published 5 September 2008 (9 pages)
031801 [View PDF (571 kB)]
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Theory of physical aging in polymer glasses
Kang Chen and Kenneth S. Schweizer
Published 18 September 2008 (15 pages)
031802 [View PDF (712 kB)]
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Density of states for a short overlapping-bead polymer: Clues to a mechanism for helix formation?
James E. Magee, Leo Lue, and Robin A. Curtis
Published 19 September 2008 (10 pages)
031803 [View PDF (307 kB)]

Biological physics

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Coherence, collective rhythm, and phase difference distribution in populations of stochastic genetic oscillators with cellular communication
Zhanjiang Yuan, Jiajun Zhang, and Tianshou Zhou
Published 2 September 2008 (13 pages)
031901 [View PDF (1,808 kB)]
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Toward a thermodynamically consistent picture of the phase-field model of vesicles: Curvature energy
D. Jamet and C. Misbah
Published 3 September 2008 (8 pages)
031902 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Influence of correlations on molecular recognition
Hans Behringer and Friederike Schmid
Published 3 September 2008 (11 pages)
031903 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Multistability of synthetic genetic networks with repressive cell-to-cell communication
Ekkehard Ullner, Aneta Koseska, Jürgen Kurths, Evgenii Volkov, Holger Kantz, and Jordi García-Ojalvo
Published 5 September 2008 (8 pages)
031904 [View PDF (981 kB)]
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Epistasis and the selective advantage of sex and recombination
Viviane M. de Oliveira, Juliana K. da Silva, and Paulo R. A. Campos
Published 5 September 2008 (6 pages)
031905 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Three- and four-state rock-paper-scissors games with diffusion
Matti Peltomäki and Mikko Alava
Published 8 September 2008 (7 pages)
031906 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Free-energy landscape of mechanically unfolded model proteins: Extended Jarzinsky versus inherent structure reconstruction
Stefano Luccioli, Alberto Imparato, and Alessandro Torcini
Published 8 September 2008 (15 pages)
031907 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses
François Englert, Kasper Peeters, and Anne Taormina
Published 10 September 2008 (5 pages)
031908 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Mean-field versus stochastic models for transcriptional regulation
R. Blossey and C. V. Giuraniuc
Published 10 September 2008 (9 pages)
031909 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Kinetic Monte Carlo method for rule-based modeling of biochemical networks
Jin Yang, Michael I. Monine, James R. Faeder, and William S. Hlavacek
Published 10 September 2008 (7 pages)
031910 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Stochastic off-lattice modeling of molecular self-assembly in crowded environments by Green’s function reaction dynamics
Byoungkoo Lee, Philip R. LeDuc, and Russell Schwartz
Published 12 September 2008 (9 pages)
031911 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Modeling proliferative tissue growth: A general approach and an avian case study
Benjamin J. Binder, Kerry A. Landman, Matthew J. Simpson, Michael Mariani, and Donald F. Newgreen
Published 16 September 2008 (13 pages)
031912 [View PDF (1,170 kB)]
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Structural study of coacervation in protein-polyelectrolyte complexes
S. Chodankar, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher, R. Vavrin, and A. G. Wagh
Published 17 September 2008 (8 pages)
031913 [View PDF (581 kB)]
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Elastic modulus of viral nanotubes
Yue Zhao, Zhibin Ge, and Jiyu Fang
Published 17 September 2008 (5 pages)
031914 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Dynamic regimes and bifurcations in a model of actin-based motility
Mihaela Enculescu, Azam Gholami, and Martin Falcke
Published 18 September 2008 (10 pages)
031915 [View PDF (4,112 kB)]
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Atomic force microscopy analysis of cell volume regulation
Chiara Spagnoli, Arthur Beyder, Stephen Besch, and Frederick Sachs
Published 22 September 2008 (6 pages)
031916 [View PDF (555 kB)]
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Predicting spiral wave patterns from cell properties in a model of biological self-organization
Daniel Geberth and Marc-Thorsten Hütt
Published 23 September 2008 (9 pages)
031917 [View PDF (1,295 kB)]
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Temporal spike pattern learning
Sachin S. Talathi, Henry D. I. Abarbanel, and William L. Ditto
Published 23 September 2008 (17 pages)
031918 [View PDF (1,129 kB)]
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Evolutionary games on minimally structured populations
Gergely J. Szöllősi and Imre Derényi
Published 23 September 2008 (10 pages)
031919 [View PDF (835 kB)]
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Nonlocal competition and the speciation transition on random networks
Yosef E. Maruvka, Tomer Kalisky, and Nadav M. Shnerb
Published 24 September 2008 (6 pages)
031920 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Proton transport and torque generation in rotary biomotors
A. Yu. Smirnov, S. Savel’ev, L. G. Mourokh, and Franco Nori
Published 24 September 2008 (9 pages)
031921 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Composite organic-inorganic butterfly scales: Production of photonic structures with atomic layer deposition
Davy P. Gaillot, Olivier Deparis, Victoria Welch, Brent K. Wagner, Jean Pol Vigneron, and Christopher J. Summers
Published 25 September 2008 (6 pages)
031922 [View PDF (749 kB)]
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Dynamical theory of active cellular response to external stress
Rumi De and Samuel A. Safran
Published 26 September 2008 (18 pages)
031923 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Rank abundance relations in evolutionary dynamics of random replicators
Yoshimi Yoshino, Tobias Galla, and Kei Tokita
Published 29 September 2008 (11 pages)
031924 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Boundary-induced reentry in homogeneous excitable tissue
Fernando Siso-Nadal, Niels F. Otani, Robert F. Gilmour, Jr., and Jeffrey J. Fox
Published 29 September 2008 (5 pages)
031925 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Light propagation at interfaces of biological media: Boundary conditions
Jorge Bouza-Domínguez
Published 30 September 2008 (5 pages)
031926 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Swarming in three dimensions
Jessica Strefler, Udo Erdmann, and Lutz Schimansky-Geier
Published 30 September 2008 (8 pages)
031927 [View PDF (431 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Weakly disordered absorbing-state phase transitions
José A. Hoyos
Published 2 September 2008 (4 pages)
032101 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Dragging of an electrically charged particle in a magnetic field
J. I. Jiménez-Aquino, R. M. Velasco, and F. J. Uribe
Published 15 September 2008 (4 pages)
032102 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Quantum criticality of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model in terms of fidelity susceptibility
Ho-Man Kwok (郭灝民), Wen-Qiang Ning (宁文强), Shi-Jian Gu (顾世建), and Hai-Qing Lin (林海青)
Published 18 September 2008 (4 pages)
032103 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Secular series and renormalization group for amplitude equations
Eleftherios Kirkinis
Published 29 September 2008 (4 pages)
032104 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Monolayer of amphiphilic functionalized gold nanoparticles at an air-water interface
Raj Kumar Gupta, K. A. Suresh, and Sandeep Kumar
Published 18 September 2008 (4 pages)
032601 [View PDF (387 kB)]

Biological physics

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Theory of DNA translocation through narrow ion channels and nanopores with charged walls
Tao Hu and B. I. Shklovskii
Published 10 September 2008 (3 pages)
032901 [View PDF (61 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Flux distribution of metabolic networks close to optimal biomass production
Ginestra Bianconi
Published 4 September 2008 (4 pages)
035101(R) [View PDF (86 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Enhancement of spatiotemporal regularity in an optimal window of random coupling
Swarup Poria, Manish Dev Shrimali, and Sudeshna Sinha
Published 11 September 2008 (4 pages)
035201(R) [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Experimental characterization of hopping dynamics in a multistable fiber laser
Guillermo Huerta-Cuellar, Alexander N. Pisarchik, and Yuri O. Barmenkov
Published 12 September 2008 (4 pages)
035202(R) [View PDF (249 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Time-resolved spectra of single-bubble sonoluminescence in sulfuric acid with a streak camera
Weizhong Chen, Wei Huang, Yue Liang, Xianxian Gao, and Weicheng Cui
Published 3 September 2008 (4 pages)
035301(R) [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Capillary-driven instability of immiscible fluid interfaces flowing in parallel in porous media
Thomas Ramstad and Alex Hansen
Published 18 September 2008 (4 pages)
035302(R) [View PDF (601 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Multipole and relativistic effects in radiative recombination process in hot plasmas
M. B. Trzhaskovskaya, V. K. Nikulin, and R. E. H. Clark
Published 4 September 2008 (4 pages)
035401(R) [View PDF (172 kB)]

Classical physics

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Experimental observation of Rabi splitting in effective near-zero-index media in the microwave regime
Liwei Zhang, Yewen Zhang, Yaping Yang, Hongqiang Li, Hong Chen, and Shiyao Zhu
Published 4 September 2008 (4 pages)
035601(R) [View PDF (600 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Azobenzene photoswitches in bulk materials
Marcus Böckmann, Nikos L. Doltsinis, and Dominik Marx
Published 2 September 2008 (4 pages)
036101 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Longitudinal hopping in intervehicle communication: Theory and simulations on modeled and empirical trajectory data
Christian Thiemann, Martin Treiber, and Arne Kesting
Published 3 September 2008 (9 pages)
036102 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Long-range correlations of density fluctuations in the Kerner-Klenov-Wolf cellular automata three-phase traffic flow model
J. J. Wu, H. J. Sun, and Z. Y. Gao
Published 3 September 2008 (5 pages)
036103 [View PDF (413 kB)]
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Mobility and social network effects on extremist opinions
André C. R. Martins
Published 4 September 2008 (8 pages)
036104 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance on weakly paced scale-free networks
Matjaž Perc
Published 5 September 2008 (8 pages)
036105 [View PDF (621 kB)]
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Mean field and cavity analysis for coupled oscillator networks
Jonathan P. L. Hatchett and Tatsuya Uezu
Published 5 September 2008 (6 pages)
036106 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Spectral centrality measures in complex networks
Nicola Perra and Santo Fortunato
Published 5 September 2008 (10 pages)
036107 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Model for interevent times with long tails and multifractality in human communications: An application to financial trading
Josep Perelló, Jaume Masoliver, Andrzej Kasprzak, and Ryszard Kutner
Published 8 September 2008 (11 pages)
036108 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Chemical pattern formation induced by a shear flow in a two-layer model
Desiderio A. Vasquez, Jeff Meyer, and Hans Suedhoff
Published 8 September 2008 (7 pages)
036109 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Controlling microscopic friction through mechanical oscillations
R. Guerra, A. Vanossi, and M. Urbakh
Published 9 September 2008 (5 pages)
036110 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Static and dry friction due to multiscale surface roughness
J. B. Sokoloff
Published 10 September 2008 (9 pages)
036111 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Clustering signatures classify directed networks
S. E. Ahnert and T. M. A. Fink
Published 18 September 2008 (5 pages)
036112 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Conserved-mass aggregation model with mass-dependent fragmentation on complex networks
Sungchul Kwon, Dong-Jin Lee, and Yup Kim
Published 19 September 2008 (6 pages)
036113 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Memory effects in the statistics of interoccurrence times between large returns in financial records
Mikhail I. Bogachev and Armin Bunde
Published 22 September 2008 (8 pages)
036114 [View PDF (649 kB)]
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Agent-based spin model for financial markets on complex networks: Emergence of two-phase phenomena
Yup Kim, Hong-Joo Kim, and Soon-Hyung Yook
Published 25 September 2008 (6 pages)
036115 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Understanding and preventing cascading breakdown in complex clustered networks
Liang Huang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Guanrong Chen
Published 30 September 2008 (5 pages)
036116 [View PDF (208 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Beamlets from stochastic acceleration
Silvia Perri and Vincenzo Carbone
Published 3 September 2008 (5 pages)
036201 [View PDF (1,011 kB)]
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Dynamics of perturbations in disordered chaotic systems
Ivan G. Szendro, Juan M. López, and Miguel A. Rodríguez
Published 4 September 2008 (10 pages)
036202 [View PDF (1,773 kB)]
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Local conditional Lyapunov exponent characterization of consistency of dynamical response of the driven Lorenz system
Atsushi Uchida, Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Peter Davis, Shigeru Yoshimori, and Rajarshi Roy
Published 4 September 2008 (5 pages)
036203 [View PDF (844 kB)]
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Exotic orbits of two interacting wave sources
S. Protière, S. Bohn, and Y. Couder
Published 5 September 2008 (12 pages)
036204 [View PDF (976 kB)]
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Slow acceleration and deacceleration through a Hopf bifurcation: Power ramps, target nucleation, and elliptic bursting
Steven M. Baer and Erin M. Gaekel
Published 5 September 2008 (7 pages)
036205 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Local prediction of turning points of oscillating time series
D. Kugiumtzis
Published 5 September 2008 (6 pages)
036206 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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How random is dice tossing?
Jan Nagler and Peter Richter
Published 8 September 2008 (9 pages)
036207 [View PDF (1,767 kB)]
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Absorption strength in absorbing chaotic cavities
G. Báez, M. Martínez-Mares, and R. A. Méndez-Sánchez
Published 9 September 2008 (7 pages)
036208 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Applications of geometrical criteria for transition to Hamiltonian chaos
Yossi Ben Zion and Lawrence Horwitz
Published 9 September 2008 (4 pages)
036209 [View PDF (6,775 kB)]
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Controlled synchronization under information constraints
Alexander L. Fradkov, Boris Andrievsky, and Robin J. Evans
Published 9 September 2008 (6 pages)
036210 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Synchronization of bursting neurons with delayed chemical synapses
Nikola Burić, Kristina Todorović, and Nebojša Vasović
Published 10 September 2008 (6 pages)
036211 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Zero Lyapunov exponent in the vicinity of the saddle-node bifurcation point in the presence of noise
Alexander E. Hramov, Alexey A. Koronovskii, and Maria K. Kurovskaya
Published 10 September 2008 (11 pages)
036212 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Random cyclic matrices
Sudhir R. Jain and Shashi C. L. Srivastava
Published 11 September 2008 (4 pages)
036213 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Local theory of the slanted homoclinic snaking bifurcation diagram
U. Bortolozzo, M. G. Clerc, and S. Residori
Published 12 September 2008 (4 pages)
036214 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Controlling chaos of a Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a moving optical Fourier-synthesized lattice
R. Chacón, D. Bote, and R. Carretero-González
Published 12 September 2008 (6 pages)
036215 [View PDF (2,466 kB)]
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Dynamics of tidal synchronization and orbit circularization of celestial bodies
Bruno Escribano, Jozsef Vanyo, Idan Tuval, Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Diego L. González, Oreste Piro, and Tamás Tél
Published 18 September 2008 (4 pages)
036216 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Phase resetting, phase locking, and bistability in the periodically driven saline oscillator: Experiment and model
Hortensia González, Humberto Arce, and Michael R. Guevara
Published 18 September 2008 (13 pages)
036217 [View PDF (1,849 kB)]
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Time reversal of the excitation wave form in a dissipative pattern-forming system
Jana Heuer, Thomas John, and Ralf Stannarius
Published 19 September 2008 (9 pages)
036218 [View PDF (657 kB)]
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Quantum ratchet accelerator without a bichromatic lattice potential
Jiao Wang and Jiangbin Gong
Published 19 September 2008 (8 pages)
036219 [View PDF (624 kB)]
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Semiclassical corrections to the large- N limit of Dicke’s model
Mauricio Reis, M. C. Nemes, and J. G. Peixoto de Faria
Published 22 September 2008 (6 pages)
036220 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Periodic orbit basis for the quantum baker map
Leonardo Ermann and Marcos Saraceno
Published 23 September 2008 (8 pages)
036221 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Extreme events in bimodal systems
S. C. Nicolis and C. Nicolis
Published 29 September 2008 (6 pages)
036222 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Spontaneous angular momentum generation of two-dimensional fluid flow in an elliptic geometry
G. H. Keetels, H. J. H. Clercx, and G. J. F. van Heijst
Published 3 September 2008 (7 pages)
036301 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Instability of a leaky dielectric coaxial jet in both axial and radial electric fields
Fang Li, Xie-Yuan Yin, and Xie-Zhen Yin
Published 4 September 2008 (11 pages)
036302 [View PDF (647 kB)]
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Finite-sized gas bubble motion in a blood vessel: Non-Newtonian effects
Karthik Mukundakrishnan, Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, and David M. Eckmann
Published 5 September 2008 (15 pages)
036303 [View PDF (810 kB)]
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Variational principle in dynamics of a vortex filament
Victor L. Berdichevsky
Published 5 September 2008 (6 pages)
036304 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Front pinning in capillary filling of chemically coated channels
F. Diotallevi, L. Biferale, S. Chibbaro, A. Puglisi, and S. Succi
Published 8 September 2008 (7 pages)
036305 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Flexoelectricity and competition of time scales in electroconvection
Tibor Tóth-Katona, Nándor Éber, Ágnes Buka, and Alexei Krekhov
Published 8 September 2008 (12 pages)
036306 [View PDF (597 kB)]
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Wide-gap Couette flows of dense emulsions: Local concentration measurements, and comparison between macroscopic and local constitutive law measurements through magnetic resonance imaging
G. Ovarlez, S. Rodts, A. Ragouilliaux, P. Coussot, J. Goyon, and A. Colin
Published 10 September 2008 (13 pages)
036307 [View PDF (785 kB)]
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Particle segregation by Stokes number for small neutrally buoyant spheres in a fluid
Phanindra Tallapragada and Shane D. Ross
Published 10 September 2008 (9 pages)
036308 [View PDF (2,033 kB)]
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Ultimate-state scaling in a shell model for homogeneous turbulent convection
Emily S. C. Ching and T. C. Ko
Published 12 September 2008 (8 pages)
036309 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Local transfer and spectra of a diffusive field advected by large-scale incompressible flows
Chuong V. Tran
Published 15 September 2008 (6 pages)
036310 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Migration of an asymmetric dimer in oscillatory fluid flow
H. S. Wright, Michael R. Swift, and P. J. King
Published 15 September 2008 (6 pages)
036311 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Dynamics of a falling film with solutal Marangoni effect
Antonio Pereira and Serafim Kalliadasis
Published 15 September 2008 (19 pages)
036312 [View PDF (1,306 kB)]
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A priori study of subgrid-scale flux of a passive scalar in isotropic homogeneous turbulence
Sergei G. Chumakov
Published 15 September 2008 (11 pages)
036313 [View PDF (685 kB)]
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Elastic secondary flows of semidilute DNA solutions in abrupt 90° microbends
Shelly Gulati, Dorian Liepmann, and Susan J. Muller
Published 16 September 2008 (5 pages)
036314 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Characterizing the edge of chaos for a shear flow model
Lina Kim and Jeff Moehlis
Published 16 September 2008 (9 pages)
036315 [View PDF (937 kB)]
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Stability of cylindrical Couette flow in the presence of an oscillating axial magnetic field
V. R. K. Raju and S. N. Bhattacharyya
Published 16 September 2008 (7 pages)
036316 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Experimental observations of the squeezing-to-dripping transition in T-shaped microfluidic junctions
Gordon F. Christopher, N. Nadia Noharuddin, Joshua A. Taylor, and Shelley L. Anna
Published 18 September 2008 (12 pages)
036317 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Waves on the surface of a vapor film under conditions of intensive heat fluxes
Oleg A. Sinkevich
Published 19 September 2008 (9 pages)
036318 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Analytical theory of forced rotating sheared turbulence: The parallel case
Nicolas Leprovost and Eun-jin Kim
Published 22 September 2008 (12 pages)
036319 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Alternative drag coefficient in the wake of an isolated bluff body
Md. Mahbub Alam and Y. Zhou
Published 22 September 2008 (9 pages)
036320 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Lagrangian statistics in forced two-dimensional turbulence
O. Kamps and R. Friedrich
Published 23 September 2008 (5 pages)
036321 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Analytical expressions for primary Bjerknes force on inertial cavitation bubbles
Olivier Louisnard
Published 24 September 2008 (9 pages)
036322 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Liquid flow focused by a gas: Jetting, dripping, and recirculation
Miguel A. Herrada, Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo, Antonio Ojeda-Monge, Benjamin Bluth, and Pascual Riesco-Chueca
Published 25 September 2008 (16 pages)
036323 [View PDF (1,354 kB)]
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Stokes flow inside an evaporating liquid line for any contact angle
A. J. Petsi and V. N. Burganos
Published 26 September 2008 (9 pages)
036324 [View PDF (786 kB)]
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Thermovibrational instability in supercritical fluids under weightlessness
S. Amiroudine and D. Beysens
Published 29 September 2008 (7 pages)
036325 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Azimuthal motion, reorientation, cessation, and reversal of the large-scale circulation in turbulent thermal convection: A comparative study in aspect ratio one and one-half geometries
Heng-Dong Xi and Ke-Qing Xia
Published 30 September 2008 (11 pages)
036326 [View PDF (1,027 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Wavelet analysis of turbulent structures in a magnetized pure electron plasma
Y. Kawai and Y. Kiwamoto
Published 4 September 2008 (8 pages)
036401 [View PDF (1,058 kB)]
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Dynamics of two particles in a plasma sheath
J. D. E. Stokes, A. A. Samarian, and S. V. Vladimirov
Published 8 September 2008 (6 pages)
036402 [View PDF (765 kB)]
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Energy relaxation rates in dense hydrogen plasmas
B. Jeon, M. Foster, J. Colgan, G. Csanak, J. D. Kress, L. A. Collins, and N. Grønbech-Jensen
Published 12 September 2008 (7 pages)
036403 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Microscale nanosecond laser-induced optical breakdown in water
Sergey I. Kudryashov and Vladimir D. Zvorykin
Published 17 September 2008 (10 pages)
036404 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Nonlinear laser focusing using a conical guide and generation of energetic ions
Lihua Cao, Wei Yu, M. Y. Yu, Han Xu, X. T. He, Yuqiu Gu, Zhanjun Liu, Jinghong Li, and Chunyang Zheng
Published 17 September 2008 (6 pages)
036405 [View PDF (572 kB)]
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Electron self-injection during interaction of tightly focused few-cycle laser pulses with underdense plasma
Alexei Zhidkov, Takashi Fujii, and Koshichi Nemoto
Published 19 September 2008 (11 pages)
036406 [View PDF (1,519 kB)]
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Hamiltonian description of a self-consistent interaction between charged particles and electromagnetic waves
R. Bachelard, C. Chandre, and M. Vittot
Published 19 September 2008 (8 pages)
036407 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Probability of metastable configurations in spherical three-dimensional Yukawa crystals
H. Kählert, P. Ludwig, H. Baumgartner, M. Bonitz, D. Block, S. Käding, A. Melzer, and A. Piel
Published 19 September 2008 (13 pages)
036408 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Dynamo transition in low-dimensional models
Mahendra K. Verma, Thomas Lessinnes, Daniele Carati, Ioannis Sarris, Krishna Kumar, and Meenakshi Singh
Published 22 September 2008 (6 pages)
036409 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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High-electron-temperature diagnostics of transient ionizing plasma using near-uv transitions
Ramy Doron, Ron Arad, Vladimir Bernshtam, Yitzhak Maron, and Yuri Ralchenko
Published 22 September 2008 (7 pages)
036410 [View PDF (311 kB)]
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Numerical simulations of potential distribution for elongated insulating dust being charged by drifting plasmas
W. J. Miloch, S. V. Vladimirov, H. L. Pécseli, and J. Trulsen
Published 26 September 2008 (7 pages)
036411 [View PDF (997 kB)]

Classical physics

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Dynamics of wave packets in two-dimensional random systems with anisotropic disorder
Gregory Samelsohn and Eugene Gruzdev
Published 3 September 2008 (7 pages)
036601 [View PDF (489 kB)]
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How acoustic waves are guided in buried subsurface channels in unconsolidated granular media
Vitalyi Gusev and Vincent Tournat
Published 3 September 2008 (11 pages)
036602 [View PDF (598 kB)]
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Causality and electromagnetic properties of active media
Bertil Nistad and Johannes Skaar
Published 11 September 2008 (10 pages)
036603 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Modulation analysis of large-scale discrete vortices
Luis A. Cisneros, Antonmaria A. Minzoni, Panayotis Panayotaros, and Noel F. Smyth
Published 17 September 2008 (9 pages)
036604 [View PDF (1,265 kB)]
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Surface solitons in three dimensions
Q. E. Hoq, R. Carretero-González, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, D. J. Frantzeskakis, Yu. V. Bludov, and V. V. Konotop
Published 17 September 2008 (10 pages)
036605 [View PDF (1,576 kB)]
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Cancellation of spurious arrivals in Green’s function extraction and the generalized optical theorem
Roel Snieder, Kasper van Wijk, Matt Haney, and Rodney Calvert
Published 18 September 2008 (8 pages)
036606 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Quasiperiodic waves and asymptotic behavior for Bogoyavlenskii’s breaking soliton equation in (2+1) dimensions
Engui Fan and Y. C. Hon
Published 19 September 2008 (13 pages)
036607 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Numerical method for designing approximate cloaks with arbitrary shapes
Hua Ma, Shaobo Qu, Zhuo Xu, and Jiafu Wang
Published 24 September 2008 (4 pages)
036608 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Plate-mode waves in phononic crystal thin slabs: Mode conversion
Jiu-Jiu Chen, Bernard Bonello, and Zhi-Lin Hou
Published 25 September 2008 (5 pages)
036609 [View PDF (273 kB)]

Computational physics

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Axisymmetric lattice Boltzmann method
Jian Guo Zhou
Published 4 September 2008 (7 pages)
036701 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Thermodynamic consistency of liquid-gas lattice Boltzmann methods: Interfacial property issues
E. S. Kikkinides, A. G. Yiotis, M. E. Kainourgiakis, and A. K. Stubos
Published 8 September 2008 (16 pages)
036702 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Flat histogram Monte Carlo sampling for mechanical variables and conjugate thermodynamic fields with example applications to strongly correlated electronic systems
Georg Ganzenmüller and Grzegorz Pawłowski
Published 15 September 2008 (11 pages)
036703 [View PDF (622 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic correlations in the translocation of a biopolymer through a nanopore: Theory and multiscale simulations
Maria Fyta, Simone Melchionna, Sauro Succi, and Efthimios Kaxiras
Published 17 September 2008 (7 pages)
036704 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Particle tracking for time-fractional diffusion
Yong Zhang, Mark M. Meerschaert, and Boris Baeumer
Published 19 September 2008 (7 pages)
036705 [View PDF (1,538 kB)]
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Divide and concur: A general approach to constraint satisfaction
Simon Gravel and Veit Elser
Published 22 September 2008 (5 pages)
036706 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Serial correlation of detrended time series
Călin Vamoş and Maria Crăciun
Published 23 September 2008 (11 pages)
036707 [View PDF (663 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Functions of neuronal network motifs
Chunguang Li
Published 3 September 2008 (4 pages)
037101 [View PDF (1,473 kB)]
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Short-time memories in a network with randomly distributed connections
R. C. Bonetti, C. A. S. Batista, A. M. Batista, S. E. de S. Pinto, S. R. Lopes, and R. L. Viana
Published 8 September 2008 (4 pages)
037102 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Quantum localization in open chaotic systems
Jung-Wan Ryu, G. Hur, and Sang Wook Kim
Published 3 September 2008 (4 pages)
037201 [View PDF (429 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Laminar-turbulent boundary in plane Couette flow
Tobias M. Schneider, John F. Gibson, Maher Lagha, Filippo De Lillo, and Bruno Eckhardt
Published 8 September 2008 (4 pages)
037301 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic instabilities of viscous coalescing droplets
H. Aryafar and H. P. Kavehpour
Published 10 September 2008 (4 pages)
037302 [View PDF (170 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Observation of supercontinuum generation in the direct simulation of an intense laser pulse propagating in a neutral gas [Phys. Rev. E 70, 056404 (2004)]
James Koga
Published 3 September 2008 (1 page)
039901(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Erratum: Nonlinear theory of nonstationary low Mach number channel flows of freely cooling nearly elastic granular gases [Phys. Rev. E 77, 021307 (2008)]
Baruch Meerson, Itzhak Fouxon, and Arkady Vilenkin
Published 11 September 2008 (1 page)
039902(E) [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Erratum: Two-dimensional colloidal aggregation mediated by the range of repulsive interactions [Phys. Rev. E 75, 041408 (2007)]
J. C. Fernández-Toledano, A. Moncho-Jordá, F. Martínez-López, A. E. González, and R. Hidalgo-Álvarez
Published 23 September 2008 (2 pages)
039903(E) [View PDF (79 kB)]