Physical Review E – November 2008
Volume 78, Issue 5

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Liquid crystals

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Kerr constant and third-order nonlinear optic susceptibility measurements in a liquid crystal composed of bent-shaped molecules
Surajit Dhara, Fumito Araoka, Mongryong Lee, Khoa Van Le, Lingfen Guo, B. K. Sadashiva, Kigook Song, Ken Ishikawa, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 19 November 2008 (4 pages)
050701(R) [View PDF (98 kB)]

Polymers

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Microvoid formation and strain hardening in highly cross-linked polymer networks
Debashish Mukherji and Cameron F. Abrams
Published 4 November 2008 (4 pages)
050801(R) [View PDF (248 kB)]

Biological physics

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Dynamical scaling exponents for polymer translocation through a nanopore
Kaifu Luo, Santtu T. T. Ollila, Ilkka Huopaniemi, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Pawel Pomorski, Mikko Karttunen, See-Chen Ying, and Aniket Bhattacharya
Published 3 November 2008 (4 pages)
050901(R) [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Spatially correlated fluctuations and coherence dynamics in photosynthesis
Z. G. Yu, M. A. Berding, and Haobin Wang
Published 5 November 2008 (4 pages)
050902(R) [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Oscillations and patterns in interacting populations of two species
Matti Peltomäki, Martin Rost, and Mikko Alava
Published 14 November 2008 (4 pages)
050903(R) [View PDF (432 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Superstatistical distributions from a maximum entropy principle
Erik Van der Straeten and Christian Beck
Published 3 November 2008 (7 pages)
051101 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Maximum distributions of bridges of noncolliding Brownian paths
Naoki Kobayashi, Minami Izumi, and Makoto Katori
Published 4 November 2008 (15 pages)
051102 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Kinetics of self-induced aggregation of Brownian particles: Non-Markovian and non-Gaussian features
Pulak Kumar Ghosh, Monoj Kumar Sen, and Bidhan Chandra Bag
Published 4 November 2008 (7 pages)
051103 [View PDF (520 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Joint probability distributions and multipoint correlations of the continuous-time random walk
Markus Niemann and Holger Kantz
Published 4 November 2008 (14 pages)
051104 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Percolation on correlated networks
A. V. Goltsev, S. N. Dorogovtsev, and J. F. F. Mendes
Published 10 November 2008 (13 pages)
051105 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Diffusion and relaxation controlled by tempered α -stable processes
Aleksander Stanislavsky, Karina Weron, and Aleksander Weron
Published 11 November 2008 (6 pages)
051106 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Transport coefficients of non-Newtonian fluid and causal dissipative hydrodynamics
T. Koide and T. Kodama
Published 11 November 2008 (11 pages)
051107 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Dynamic phase transition in the two-dimensional kinetic Ising model in an oscillating field: Universality with respect to the stochastic dynamics
G. M. Buendía and P. A. Rikvold
Published 13 November 2008 (7 pages)
051108 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Switching-path distribution in multidimensional systems
H. B. Chan, M. I. Dykman, and C. Stambaugh
Published 13 November 2008 (10 pages)
051109 [View PDF (548 kB)]
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Anisotropic rotational diffusion and dielectric relaxation of rigid dipolar particles in a strong external dc field
Yuri P. Kalmykov and Serguey V. Titov
Published 13 November 2008 (9 pages)
051110 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Narrow escape and leakage of Brownian particles
A. Singer, Z. Schuss, and D. Holcman
Published 14 November 2008 (8 pages)
051111 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Role of pinning potentials in heat transport through disordered harmonic chains
Dibyendu Roy and Abhishek Dhar
Published 14 November 2008 (5 pages)
051112 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Return interval distribution of extreme events and long-term memory
M. S. Santhanam and Holger Kantz
Published 14 November 2008 (9 pages)
051113 [View PDF (947 kB)]
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Injected power fluctuations in one-dimensional dissipative systems: Role of ballistic transport
Jean Farago and Estelle Pitard
Published 17 November 2008 (10 pages)
051114 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion in heterogeneous glass-forming liquids: Temperature-dependent behavior
J. S. Langer
Published 18 November 2008 (11 pages)
051115 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Langevin formulation for single-file diffusion
Alessandro Taloni and Michael A. Lomholt
Published 19 November 2008 (8 pages)
051116 [View PDF (574 kB)]
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Scaling properties of a rice-pile model: Inertia and friction effects
M. Khfifi and M. Loulidi
Published 19 November 2008 (8 pages)
051117 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Scaling exponents and transition behavior of the generalized conserved lattice gas model at zero temperature
Jae-Suk Yang, In-mook Kim, and Wooseop Kwak
Published 20 November 2008 (5 pages)
051118 [View PDF (1,075 kB)]
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Equilibrium long-ranged charge correlations at the surface of a conductor coupled to electromagnetic radiation
Ladislav Šamaj and Bernard Jancovici
Published 20 November 2008 (9 pages)
051119 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Interaction stochasticity supports cooperation in spatial Prisoner’s dilemma
Xiaojie Chen, Feng Fu, and Long Wang
Published 24 November 2008 (7 pages)
051120 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Effect of a time-dependent field on subdiffusing particles
A. I. Shushin
Published 24 November 2008 (6 pages)
051121 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Thermally activated switching in the presence of non-Gaussian noise
Lora Billings, Mark I. Dykman, and Ira B. Schwartz
Published 24 November 2008 (4 pages)
051122 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Increase of Boltzmann entropy in a quantum forced harmonic oscillator
Michele Campisi
Published 24 November 2008 (10 pages)
051123 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Effect of asymmetry in a binary state on the collective behavior of a system with spatially modulated interaction and quenched randomness
Kosuke Hamaguchi, Hiromitsu Urano, and Masato Okada
Published 24 November 2008 (12 pages)
051124 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Resonant transport in pulsated devices: Mobility oscillations and diffusion peaks
Marcello Borromeo and Fabio Marchesoni
Published 24 November 2008 (5 pages)
051125 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Reduced fidelity susceptibility and its finite-size scaling behaviors in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model
Jian Ma, Lei Xu, Heng-Na Xiong, and Xiaoguang Wang
Published 25 November 2008 (7 pages)
051126 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Modeling temporal fluctuations in avalanching systems
M. Rypdal and K. Rypdal
Published 26 November 2008 (11 pages)
051127 [View PDF (549 kB)]
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Optimizing the encounter rate in biological interactions: Ballistic versus Lévy versus Brownian strategies
A. James, M. J. Plank, and R. Brown
Published 26 November 2008 (5 pages)
051128 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Relation of water anomalies to the excess entropy
Zhenyu Yan, Sergey V. Buldyrev, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 19 November 2008 (5 pages)
051201 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Nonlocal viscous transport and the effect on fluid stress
B. D. Todd and J. S. Hansen
Published 21 November 2008 (6 pages)
051202 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Granular materials

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Effect of inelasticity on the phase transitions of a thin vibrated granular layer
Francisco Vega Reyes and Jeffrey S. Urbach
Published 4 November 2008 (5 pages)
051301 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Decompaction and fluidization of a saturated and confined granular medium by injection of a viscous liquid or gas
Ø. Johnsen, C. Chevalier, A. Lindner, R. Toussaint, E. Clément, K. J. Måløy, E. G. Flekkøy, and J. Schmittbuhl
Published 6 November 2008 (12 pages)
051302 [View PDF (1,117 kB)]
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Short-pulse dynamics in strongly nonlinear dissipative granular chains
Alexandre Rosas, Aldo H. Romero, Vitali F. Nesterenko, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 12 November 2008 (10 pages)
051303 [View PDF (700 kB)]
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Coefficient of restitution for viscoelastic spheres: The effect of delayed recovery
Thomas Schwager and Thorsten Pöschel
Published 20 November 2008 (12 pages)
051304 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Nonmonotonic reversible branch in four model granular beds subjected to vertical vibration
Luis A. Pugnaloni, Martín Mizrahi, Carlos M. Carlevaro, and Fernando Vericat
Published 25 November 2008 (7 pages)
051305 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Elastic properties of hollow colloidal particles
C. I. Zoldesi, I. L. Ivanovska, C. Quilliet, G. J. L. Wuite, and A. Imhof
Published 5 November 2008 (8 pages)
051401 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Exhaustion of nucleation in a closed system
Yossi Farjoun and John C. Neu
Published 11 November 2008 (7 pages)
051402 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Mesoscopic model for colloidal particles, powders, and granular solids
Robert D. Groot and Simeon D. Stoyanov
Published 18 November 2008 (9 pages)
051403 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Cooperative activated dynamics in dense mixtures of hard and sticky spheres
Douglas C. Viehman and Kenneth S. Schweizer
Published 21 November 2008 (11 pages)
051404 [View PDF (598 kB)]
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Breakup of bubbles and drops in steadily sheared foams and concentrated emulsions
K. Golemanov, S. Tcholakova, N. D. Denkov, K. P. Ananthapadmanabhan, and A. Lips
Published 24 November 2008 (12 pages)
051405 [View PDF (1,323 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of vesicle growth and instability
Duccio Fanelli and Alan J. McKane
Published 26 November 2008 (9 pages)
051406 [View PDF (153 kB)]
See Also: Comment

Structured and complex fluids

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Suppression of the rate of growth of dynamic heterogeneities and its relation to the local structure in a supercooled polydisperse liquid
Sneha Elizabeth Abraham and Biman Bagchi
Published 3 November 2008 (8 pages)
051501 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Magnetic-field-induced optical anisotropy in ferrofluids: A time-dependent light-scattering investigation
Corneliu Rablau, Prem Vaishnava, Chandran Sudakar, Ronald Tackett, Gavin Lawes, and Ratna Naik
Published 6 November 2008 (9 pages)
051502 [View PDF (1,067 kB)]
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Structural difference between liquidlike and gaslike phases in supercritical fluid
Takashi Sato, Masaaki Sugiyama, Keiji Itoh, Kazuhiro Mori, Toshiharu Fukunaga, Masakatsu Misawa, Toshiya Otomo, and Shinichi Takata
Published 6 November 2008 (9 pages)
051503 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Viscous shear banding in foam
Kapilanjan Krishan and Michael Dennin
Published 18 November 2008 (5 pages)
051504 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of the free volume from positron lifetime experiments and its relation to structural dynamics: Phenylphthalein-dimethylether
Günter Dlubek, Muhammad Qasim Shaikh, Klaus Rätzke, Franz Faupel, and Marian Paluch
Published 24 November 2008 (10 pages)
051505 [View PDF (385 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Liquid surface model for carbon nanotube energetics
Ilia A. Solov’yov, Maneesh Mathew, Andrey V. Solov’yov, and Walter Greiner
Published 13 November 2008 (13 pages)
051601 [View PDF (1,121 kB)]
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Interplay between coarsening and nucleation in an Ising model with dipolar interactions
Sergio A. Cannas, Mateus F. Michelon, Daniel A. Stariolo, and Francisco A. Tamarit
Published 14 November 2008 (11 pages)
051602 [View PDF (1,009 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Phase behavior and molecular mobility of n -octylcyanobiphenyl confined to molecular sieves: Dependence on the pore size
Ligia Frunza, Stefan Frunza, Hendrik Kosslick, and Andreas Schönhals
Published 3 November 2008 (11 pages)
051701 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Biaxial nematic order and phase behavior studies in an organosiloxane tetrapode using complementary deuterium NMR experiments
C. Cruz, J. L. Figueirinhas, D. Filip, G. Feio, A. C. Ribeiro, Y. Frère, T. Meyer, and G. H. Mehl
Published 12 November 2008 (16 pages)
051702 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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Landau model for polymer-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals: Experiment and theory
Paul Archer, Ingo Dierking, and Mikhail Osipov
Published 18 November 2008 (10 pages)
051703 [View PDF (771 kB)]
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Shear-induced domain deformation in a tilted lipid monolayer: From circle to ellipse and kinked stripe
Mitsumasa Iwamoto, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Fei Liu, and Zhong-Can Ou-Yang
Published 18 November 2008 (7 pages)
051704 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Elastic constants of hard thin platelets by Monte Carlo simulation and virial expansion
Paul A. O’Brien, Michael P. Allen, David L. Cheung, Matthew Dennison, and Andrew Masters
Published 24 November 2008 (7 pages)
051705 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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No quasi-long-range order in a two-dimensional liquid crystal
Ricardo Paredes V., Ana Isabel Fariñas-Sánchez, and Robert Botet
Published 24 November 2008 (4 pages)
051706 [View PDF (178 kB)]

Polymers

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Monte Carlo study of multiply crosslinked semiflexible polymer networks
E. M. Huisman, C. Storm, and G. T. Barkema
Published 10 November 2008 (11 pages)
051801 [View PDF (1,214 kB)]
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Mechanical properties of an adsorbed elastic polymer in contact with a rigid membrane
Maryam Aliee and Ali Najafi
Published 12 November 2008 (6 pages)
051802 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Effect of excluded volume on segmental orientation correlations in polymer chains
Jens-Uwe Sommer, Walter Chassé, Juan López Valentín, and Kay Saalwächter
Published 12 November 2008 (6 pages)
051803 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Equilibrium characteristics of semiflexible polymer solutions near probe particles
Venkat Ganesan, Landry Khounlavong, and Victor Pryamitsyn
Published 13 November 2008 (10 pages)
051804 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Dynamics of a single polymer chain: Ergodicity and conformation of a rotating chain
Mark P. Taylor, Kerem Isik, and Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann
Published 19 November 2008 (13 pages)
051805 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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Polymer deformation in Brownian ratchets: Theory and molecular dynamics simulations
Martin Kenward and Gary W. Slater
Published 25 November 2008 (10 pages)
051806 [View PDF (428 kB)]

Biological physics

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Modeling distributed axonal delays in mean-field brain dynamics
J. A. Roberts and P. A. Robinson
Published 3 November 2008 (8 pages)
051901 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Nanomorphology of the blue iridescent wings of a giant tropical wasp Megascolia procer javanensis (Hymenoptera)
Michaël Sarrazin, Jean Pol Vigneron, Victoria Welch, and Marie Rassart
Published 5 November 2008 (5 pages)
051902 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Model of human immunodeficiency virus budding and self-assembly: Role of the cell membrane
Rui Zhang and Toan T. Nguyen
Published 5 November 2008 (12 pages)
051903 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Statistical mechanical model for helix-sheet-coil transitions in homopolypeptides
Liu Hong and Jinzhi Lei
Published 6 November 2008 (6 pages)
051904 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Polarizability of shelled particles of arbitrary shape in lossy media with an application to hematic cells
José Luis Sebastián, Sagrario Muñoz, Miguel Sancho, and Gabriel Álvarez
Published 6 November 2008 (11 pages)
051905 [View PDF (1,330 kB)]
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Adsorption-induced vesicle fission
Feng-Ching Tsai and Hsuan-Yi Chen
Published 7 November 2008 (8 pages)
051906 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Estimating the phase of synchronized oscillators
Shai Revzen and John M. Guckenheimer
Published 10 November 2008 (12 pages)
051907 [View PDF (903 kB)]
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Conformational transformations induced by the charge-curvature interaction at finite temperature
Yu. B. Gaididei, C. Gorria, P. L. Christiansen, and M. P. Sørensen
Published 11 November 2008 (10 pages)
051908 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Detection of subthreshold pulses in neurons with channel noise
Yong Chen, Lianchun Yu, and Shao-Meng Qin
Published 11 November 2008 (11 pages)
051909 [View PDF (709 kB)]
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Melting of persistent double-stranded polymers
Sahand Jamal Rahi, Mark Peter Hertzberg, and Mehran Kardar
Published 12 November 2008 (8 pages)
051910 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Quasicycles in a spatial predator-prey model
Carlos A. Lugo and Alan J. McKane
Published 12 November 2008 (15 pages)
051911 [View PDF (1,102 kB)]
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Active transport on disordered microtubule networks: The generalized random velocity model
Aviv Kahana, Gilad Kenan, Mario Feingold, Michael Elbaum, and Rony Granek
Published 13 November 2008 (15 pages)
051912 [View PDF (1,672 kB)]
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Calculating free-energy profiles in biomolecular systems from fast nonequilibrium processes
Michael W. Forney, Lorant Janosi, and Ioan Kosztin
Published 14 November 2008 (9 pages)
051913 [View PDF (750 kB)]
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Intrinsic inhomogeneities and the coexistence of spirals with different periods of rotation
Joseph Tranquillo and Meghan Howes
Published 17 November 2008 (6 pages)
051914 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Nonspecific interactions in spontaneous assembly of empty versus functional single-stranded RNA viruses
Antonio Šiber and Rudolf Podgornik
Published 18 November 2008 (9 pages)
051915 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Photodissociation pathways of gas-phase photoactive yellow protein chromophores
Lutz Lammich, Jyoti Rajput, and Lars H. Andersen
Published 18 November 2008 (6 pages)
051916 [View PDF (1,535 kB)]
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Active paradigms of seizure anticipation: Computer model evidence for necessity of stimulation
Piotr Suffczynski, Stiliyan Kalitzin, Fernando Lopes da Silva, Jaime Parra, Demetrios Velis, and Fabrice Wendling
Published 19 November 2008 (9 pages)
051917 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Strong short-range correlations and dichotomic codon classes in coding DNA sequences
Diego Luis Gonzalez, Simone Giannerini, and Rodolfo Rosa
Published 19 November 2008 (8 pages)
051918 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Membrane fluctuations near a plane rigid surface
Oded Farago
Published 20 November 2008 (9 pages)
051919 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Modeling the impact of impulsive stimuli on sleep-wake dynamics
B. D. Fulcher, A. J. K. Phillips, and P. A. Robinson
Published 20 November 2008 (14 pages)
051920 [View PDF (1,325 kB)]
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Three-state kinetic mechanism for scaffold-mediated signal transduction
Jason W. Locasale
Published 21 November 2008 (7 pages)
051921 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Spontaneous firing statistics and information transfer in electroreceptors of paddlefish
Ibiyinka Fuwape and Alexander B. Neiman
Published 24 November 2008 (8 pages)
051922 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Consensus of population systems with community structures
Jing Wang, Bin Wu, Long Wang, and Feng Fu
Published 24 November 2008 (11 pages)
051923 [View PDF (1,608 kB)]
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Elastic properties and mechanical stability of chiral and filled viral capsids
Mathias Buenemann and Peter Lenz
Published 25 November 2008 (21 pages)
051924 [View PDF (665 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Mean first-passage time for superdiffusion in a slit pore with sticky boundaries
Rishi Parashar, Daniel O’Malley, and John H. Cushman
Published 3 November 2008 (4 pages)
052101 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Langevin dynamics in crossed magnetic and electric fields: Hall and diamagnetic fluctuations
Dibyendu Roy and N. Kumar
Published 14 November 2008 (4 pages)
052102 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Coherent transport on Apollonian networks and continuous-time quantum walks
Xin-Ping Xu, Wei Li, and Feng Liu
Published 21 November 2008 (4 pages)
052103 [View PDF (522 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Missing levels in acoustic resonators
T. N. Nogueira, J. C. Sartorelli, M. P. Pato, and C. Ellegaard
Published 4 November 2008 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Scale-free patterns at a saddle-node bifurcation in a stochastic system
Mami Iwata and Shin-ichi Sasa
Published 14 November 2008 (4 pages)
055202(R) [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Mass transport of alkali metal with pulses in a surface reaction
Liu Hong, H. Uecker, M. Hinz, L. Qiao, I. G. Kevrekidis, S. Günther, T. O. Mentes, A. Locatelli, and R. Imbihl
Published 20 November 2008 (4 pages)
055203(R) [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Chaotic scattering in the regime of weakly overlapping resonances
B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H. L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and H. A. Weidenmüller
Published 24 November 2008 (4 pages)
055204(R) [View PDF (466 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Brownian demixing and wall effects in sedimenting suspensions of orientable particles
Brendan D. Hoffman and Eric S. G. Shaqfeh
Published 3 November 2008 (4 pages)
055301(R) [View PDF (288 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Spatiotemporal moving focus of long femtosecond-laser filaments in air
Ting-Ting Xi, Xin Lu, and Jie Zhang
Published 14 November 2008 (4 pages)
055401(R) [View PDF (467 kB)]

Classical physics

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Reverse rotations in the circularly driven motion of a rigid body
Fernando Parisio
Published 11 November 2008 (4 pages)
055601(R) [View PDF (172 kB)]

Computational physics

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Improving Wang-Landau sampling with adaptive windows
A. G. Cunha-Netto, A. A. Caparica, Shan-Ho Tsai, Ronald Dickman, and D. P. Landau
Published 3 November 2008 (4 pages)
055701(R) [View PDF (137 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Microcanonical analyses of homopolymer aggregation processes
Tao Chen, Xiangsong Lin, Yuan Liu, Teng Lu, and Haojun Liang
Published 5 November 2008 (5 pages)
056101 [View PDF (779 kB)]
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Dynamics of condensation in growing complex networks
Luca Ferretti and Ginestra Bianconi
Published 6 November 2008 (5 pages)
056102 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Kinetic equations modelling wealth redistribution: A comparison of approaches
Bertram Düring, Daniel Matthes, and Giuseppe Toscani
Published 7 November 2008 (12 pages)
056103 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Escape problem under stochastic volatility: The Heston model
Jaume Masoliver and Josep Perelló
Published 7 November 2008 (14 pages)
056104 [View PDF (1,758 kB)]
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Elastic nonlinearities in a one-dimensional model of fracture
Eran Bouchbinder and Ting-Shek Lo
Published 10 November 2008 (9 pages)
056105 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Organization of modular networks
S. N. Dorogovtsev, J. F. F. Mendes, A. N. Samukhin, and A. Y. Zyuzin
Published 14 November 2008 (9 pages)
056106 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Pattern recognition with weighted complex networks
Jigger Cheh and Hong Zhao
Published 20 November 2008 (6 pages)
056107 [View PDF (567 kB)]
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Quantifying local structure effects in network dynamics
Andre S. Ribeiro, Jason Lloyd-Price, Juha Kesseli, Antti Häkkinen, and Olli Yli-Harja
Published 24 November 2008 (10 pages)
056108 [View PDF (561 kB)]
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Aging in the shear-transformation-zone theory of plastic deformation
Jörg Rottler and Philipp Maass
Published 24 November 2008 (11 pages)
056109 [View PDF (601 kB)]
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Multifractality of random walks in the theory of vehicular traffic
G. M. Buendía, G. M. Viswanathan, and V. M. Kenkre
Published 25 November 2008 (10 pages)
056110 [View PDF (581 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Synchronization of stochastic oscillations due to long-range diffusion
A. Efimov, A. Shabunin, and A. Provata
Published 5 November 2008 (7 pages)
056201 [View PDF (648 kB)]
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Trace formula for dielectric cavities: General properties
E. Bogomolny, R. Dubertrand, and C. Schmit
Published 5 November 2008 (14 pages)
056202 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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When Lyapunov exponents fail to exist
William Ott and James A. Yorke
Published 7 November 2008 (6 pages)
056203 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Dynamical trapping and chaotic scattering of the harmonically driven barrier
Florian R. N. Koch, Florian Lenz, Christoph Petri, Fotios K. Diakonos, and Peter Schmelcher
Published 10 November 2008 (13 pages)
056204 [View PDF (5,701 kB)]
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Scaling investigation of Fermi acceleration on a dissipative bouncer model
André Luis Prando Livorati, Denis Gouvêa Ladeira, and Edson D. Leonel
Published 11 November 2008 (12 pages)
056205 [View PDF (1,873 kB)]
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Finite-size particles, advection, and chaos: A collective phenomenon of intermittent bursting
Rene O. Medrano-T., Alessandro Moura, Tamás Tél, Iberê L. Caldas, and Celso Grebogi
Published 12 November 2008 (6 pages)
056206 [View PDF (12,437 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Scattering off an oscillating target: Basic mechanisms and their impact on cross sections
I. Brouzos, A. K. Karlis, C. A. Chrysanthakopoulos, F. K. Diakonos, V. Constantoudis, P. Schmelcher, and L. Benet
Published 12 November 2008 (13 pages)
056207 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Bifurcation analysis of solitary and synchronized pulses and formation of reentrant waves in laterally coupled excitable fibers
Tatsuo Yanagita, Hiromichi Suetani, and Kazuyuki Aihara
Published 13 November 2008 (11 pages)
056208 [View PDF (571 kB)]
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Fractional dynamics in the Lévy quantum kicked rotor
A. Romanelli
Published 19 November 2008 (5 pages)
056209 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Method to control the coupling function using multilinear feedback
T. Kano and S. Kinoshita
Published 19 November 2008 (9 pages)
056210 [View PDF (781 kB)]
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Adaptive scheme for synchronization-based multiparameter estimation from a single chaotic time series and its applications
Dibakar Ghosh and Santo Banerjee
Published 20 November 2008 (5 pages)
056211 [View PDF (1,023 kB)]
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Moving boundary approximation for curved streamer ionization fronts: Solvability analysis
Fabian Brau, Benny Davidovitch, and Ute Ebert
Published 21 November 2008 (21 pages)
056212 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Stabilizing continuous-wave output in semiconductor lasers by time-delayed feedback
Thomas Dahms, Philipp Hövel, and Eckehard Schöll
Published 21 November 2008 (11 pages)
056213 [View PDF (1,083 kB)]
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Periodic-orbit analysis and scaling laws of intermingled basins of attraction in an ecological dynamical system
R. F. Pereira, S. Camargo, S. E. de S. Pinto, S. R. Lopes, and R. L. Viana
Published 24 November 2008 (10 pages)
056214 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Quantum mechanical potentials related to the prime numbers and Riemann zeros
Dániel Schumayer, Brandon P. van Zyl, and David A. W. Hutchinson
Published 25 November 2008 (7 pages)
056215 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Amplitude death in time-delay nonlinear oscillators coupled by diffusive connections
Keiji Konishi, Katsuhisa Senda, and Hideki Kokame
Published 25 November 2008 (9 pages)
056216 [View PDF (1,959 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Noise influence on pole solutions of the Sivashinsky equation for planar and outward propagating flames
R. V. Fursenko, K. L. Pan, and S. S. Minaev
Published 10 November 2008 (7 pages)
056301 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Flow properties of immiscible blends: Doi-Ohta model with active advection
Jian Feng Gu and Miroslav Grmela
Published 11 November 2008 (17 pages)
056302 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Linear and nonlinear instabilities in rotating cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Ligang Li, Xinhao Liao, Kit H. Chan, and Keke Zhang
Published 11 November 2008 (12 pages)
056303 [View PDF (2,546 kB)]
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Solvability condition for the moving contact line
L. M. Pismen and Jens Eggers
Published 13 November 2008 (6 pages)
056304 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Non-Newtonian flow of dilute ferrofluids in a uniform magnetic field
Huei Chu Weng, Chieh-Li Chen, and Cha’o-Kuang Chen
Published 14 November 2008 (8 pages)
056305 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Impact of conditions at start-up on thermovibrational convective flow
D. E. Melnikov, V. M. Shevtsova, and J. C. Legros
Published 20 November 2008 (10 pages)
056306 [View PDF (1,448 kB)]
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Fronts in randomly advected and heterogeneous media and nonuniversality of Burgers turbulence: Theory and numerics
Jackson R. Mayo and Alan R. Kerstein
Published 20 November 2008 (18 pages)
056307 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Formation of miscible fluid microstructures by hydrodynamic focusing in plane geometries
Thomas Cubaud and Thomas G. Mason
Published 25 November 2008 (8 pages)
056308 [View PDF (835 kB)]
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Discreteness and resolution effects in rapidly rotating turbulence
Lydia Bourouiba
Published 25 November 2008 (12 pages)
056309 [View PDF (1,250 kB)]
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Three-dimensional elastohydrodynamics of a thin plate oscillating above a wall
R. J. Clarke, O. E. Jensen, and J. Billingham
Published 26 November 2008 (17 pages)
056310 [View PDF (550 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in elastic-plastic media
A. R. Piriz, J. J. López Cela, N. A. Tahir, and D. H. H. Hoffmann
Published 5 November 2008 (10 pages)
056401 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Interaction of electromagnetic waves with caustics in plasma flows
A. V. Panchenko, T. Zh. Esirkepov, A. S. Pirozhkov, M. Kando, F. F. Kamenets, and S. V. Bulanov
Published 6 November 2008 (13 pages)
056402 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Generation of intense proton beams from plastic targets irradiated by an ultraintense laser pulse
K. Lee, S. H. Park, Y.-H. Cha, J. Y. Lee, Y. W. Lee, K.-H. Yea, and Y. U. Jeong
Published 10 November 2008 (4 pages)
056403 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Feasibility of a nitrogen-recombination soft-x-ray laser using capillary discharge Z pinch
N. S. Kampel, A. Rikanati, I. Be’ery, A. Ben-Kish, A. Fisher, and A. Ron
Published 17 November 2008 (8 pages)
056404 [View PDF (635 kB)]
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Low ion-velocity slowing down in a strongly magnetized plasma target
Claude Deutsch and Romain Popoff
Published 19 November 2008 (7 pages)
056405 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Homogeneous nucleation in thermal dust-electron plasmas
V. I. Vishnyakov
Published 19 November 2008 (5 pages)
056406 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Phase-space structures in quantum-plasma wave turbulence
F. Haas, B. Eliasson, P. K. Shukla, and G. Manfredi
Published 19 November 2008 (7 pages)
056407 [View PDF (486 kB)]

Classical physics

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Collisions between counter-rotating solitary vortices in the three-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equation
D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, F. Lederer, H. Leblond, and B. A. Malomed
Published 7 November 2008 (6 pages)
056601 [View PDF (782 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal dissipative solitons in two-dimensional photonic lattices
Dumitru Mihalache, Dumitru Mazilu, Falk Lederer, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Published 10 November 2008 (9 pages)
056602 [View PDF (746 kB)]
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Bistability of a two-dimensional Klein-Gordon system as a reliable means to transmit monochromatic waves: A numerical approach
Jorge Eduardo Macías-Díaz
Published 12 November 2008 (9 pages)
056603 [View PDF (2,017 kB)]
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Physical consequences of action conservation laws and their applications
B. D. Vujanović, B. S. Bačlić, and A. M. Strauss
Published 18 November 2008 (11 pages)
056604 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Computational physics

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Acceleration of steady-state lattice Boltzmann simulations for exterior flows
Bo Liu and Arzhang Khalili
Published 5 November 2008 (9 pages)
056701 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Accuracy of the lattice-Boltzmann method using the Cell processor
M. J. Harvey, G. De Fabritiis, and G. Giupponi
Published 6 November 2008 (6 pages)
056702 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Separation of variables in molecular-dynamics simulations: A criterion to estimate the quality of the approximation
Adolfo B. Poma and Luigi Delle Site
Published 7 November 2008 (11 pages)
056703 [View PDF (4,789 kB)]
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Computer simulations of isolated conductors in electrostatic equilibrium
Herng-Hua Chang
Published 11 November 2008 (15 pages)
056704 [View PDF (7,579 kB)]
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Exact ground states of large two-dimensional planar Ising spin glasses
G. Pardella and F. Liers
Published 14 November 2008 (10 pages)
056705 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Revised moment propagation method for scalar transport
D. Yu, S. S. Girimaji, and A. J. C. Ladd
Published 18 November 2008 (7 pages)
056706 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Directed update for the stochastic Green function algorithm
V. G. Rousseau
Published 24 November 2008 (10 pages)
056707 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation and linear stability analysis of Turing pattern formation in reaction-subdiffusion systems
J. W. Chiu and K.-H. Chiam
Published 24 November 2008 (9 pages)
056708 [View PDF (392 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Contact line dynamics in binary lattice Boltzmann simulations
C. M. Pooley, H. Kusumaatmaja, and J. M. Yeomans
Published 25 November 2008 (9 pages)
056709 [View PDF (443 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Normal-form approach to spatiotemporal pattern formation in globally coupled electrochemical systems
Vladimir García-Morales and Katharina Krischer
Published 11 November 2008 (4 pages)
057201 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Tristability in the pendula chain
Ramaz Khomeriki and Jérôme Leon
Published 12 November 2008 (4 pages)
057202 [View PDF (318 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Suppression of reverse flows in pumping by induced-charge electro-osmosis using asymmetrically stacked elliptical metal posts
Hideyuki Sugioka
Published 25 November 2008 (4 pages)
057301 [View PDF (236 kB)]

Plasma physics

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All-optical suppression of relativistic self-focusing of laser beams in plasmas
S. Yu. Kalmykov, S. Austin Yi, and G. Shvets
Published 21 November 2008 (4 pages)
057401 [View PDF (234 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Long-range correlations in the electric signals that precede rupture: Further investigations [Phys. Rev. E 67, 021109 (2003)]
P. A. Varotsos, N. V. Sarlis, and E. S. Skordas
Published 7 November 2008 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Long-range correlations in the electric signals that precede rupture [Phys. Rev. E 66, 011902 (2002)]
P. A. Varotsos, N. V. Sarlis, and E. S. Skordas
Published 7 November 2008 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Entropy production in irreversible processes with friction [Phys. Rev. E 78, 021137 (2008)]
João P. S. Bizarro
Published 11 November 2008 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Kinetics of self-induced aggregation of Brownian particles: Non-Markovian and non-Gaussian features [Phys. Rev. E 78, 051103 (2008)]
Pulak Kumar Ghosh, Monoj Kumar Sen, and Bidhan Chandra Bag
Published 26 November 2008 (1 page)
059904(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]