Physical Review E – February 2009
Volume 79, Issue 2

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics

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Density-matrix renormalization-group study of current and activity fluctuations near nonequilibrium phase transitions
Mieke Gorissen, Jef Hooyberghs, and Carlo Vanderzande
Published 4 February 2009 (4 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Universal condition for critical percolation thresholds of kagomé-like lattices
Robert M. Ziff and Hang Gu
Published 18 February 2009 (4 pages)
020102(R) [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Ground-state entropy of the random vertex-cover problem
Jie Zhou and Haijun Zhou
Published 20 February 2009 (4 pages)
020103(R) [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Optimal percolation of disordered segregated composites
Niklaus Johner, Claudio Grimaldi, Thomas Maeder, and Peter Ryser
Published 24 February 2009 (4 pages)
020104(R) [View PDF (383 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Method for computing short-range forces between solid-liquid interfaces driving grain boundary premelting
J. J. Hoyt, David Olmsted, Saryu Jindal, Mark Asta, and Alain Karma
Published 13 February 2009 (4 pages)
020601(R) [View PDF (458 kB)]

Polymers

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Parameters influencing diffusion dynamics of an adsorbed polymer chain
Nazish Hoda and Satish Kumar
Published 3 February 2009 (4 pages)
020801(R) [View PDF (150 kB)]

Biological physics

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Residue network in protein native structure belongs to the universality class of a three-dimensional critical percolation cluster
Hidetoshi Morita and Mitsunori Takano
Published 24 February 2009 (4 pages)
020901(R) [View PDF (192 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Relaxation dynamics near nonequilibrium stationary states in Brownian ratchets
Hyung-June Woo
Published 2 February 2009 (14 pages)
021101 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Packing a multidisperse system of hard disks in a circular environment
André Müller, Johannes J. Schneider, and Elmar Schömer
Published 2 February 2009 (14 pages)
021102 [View PDF (664 kB)]
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Additional constraints in adsorption-desorption kinetics
S. J. Manzi, R. E. Belardinelli, G. Costanza, and V. D. Pereyra
Published 5 February 2009 (10 pages)
021103 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo method for the Bose-Hubbard model with harmonic confining potential
Yasuyuki Kato and Naoki Kawashima
Published 5 February 2009 (5 pages)
021104 [View PDF (733 kB)]
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Pressure-induced orientational glass phase in molecular para-hydrogen
T. I. Schelkacheva, E. E. Tareyeva, and N. M. Chtchelkatchev
Published 5 February 2009 (7 pages)
021105 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Illustrative example of the relationship between dissipation and relative entropy
Jordan Horowitz and Christopher Jarzynski
Published 5 February 2009 (7 pages)
021106 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Logarithmic correction to scaling in domain-wall dynamics at Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transitions
Y. Y. He, B. Zheng, and N. J. Zhou
Published 5 February 2009 (8 pages)
021107 [View PDF (1,118 kB)]
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Rotary motors sliding along surfaces
Alexander E. Filippov, Andrea Vanossi, and Michael Urbakh
Published 9 February 2009 (4 pages)
021108 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Statistical properties of the final state in one-dimensional ballistic aggregation
Satya N. Majumdar, Kirone Mallick, and Sanjib Sabhapandit
Published 9 February 2009 (14 pages)
021109 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Quenched-vacancy induced spin-glass order
Gül Gülpınar and A. Nihat Berker
Published 9 February 2009 (4 pages)
021110 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Equilibrium long-ranged charge correlations at the surface of a conductor coupled to electromagnetic radiation. II.
Bernard Jancovici and Ladislav Šamaj
Published 10 February 2009 (5 pages)
021111 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Currents in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
B. Gaveau and L. S. Schulman
Published 11 February 2009 (11 pages)
021112 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Delocalization transition of a small number of particles in a box with periodic boundary conditions
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
Published 12 February 2009 (7 pages)
021113 [View PDF (674 kB)]
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Unification of hierarchical reference theory and self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation: Analysis of the critical region for fluids and lattice gases
J. S. Høye
Published 13 February 2009 (12 pages)
021114 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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From Ornstein-Uhlenbeck dynamics to long-memory processes and fractional Brownian motion
Iddo Eliazar and Joseph Klafter
Published 13 February 2009 (15 pages)
021115 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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General two-order-parameter Ginzburg-Landau model with quadratic and quartic interactions
I. P. Ivanov
Published 17 February 2009 (19 pages)
021116 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Death of an A -particle island in the B -particle sea: Propagation and evolution of the reaction front A+B↔C
Boris M. Shipilevsky
Published 17 February 2009 (16 pages)
021117 [View PDF (3,448 kB)]
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Percolation in networks with voids and bottlenecks
Amir Haji-Akbari and Robert M. Ziff
Published 18 February 2009 (8 pages)
021118 [View PDF (685 kB)]
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Generalized fluctuation-dissipation and reciprocal relations for Brownian sieves and molecular machines
R. Dean Astumian
Published 18 February 2009 (5 pages)
021119 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Canonical active Brownian motion
Alexander Glück, Helmuth Hüffel, and Saša Ilijić
Published 18 February 2009 (7 pages)
021120 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Statistics of trajectories in two-state master equations
Andrew D. Jackson and Simone Pigolotti
Published 18 February 2009 (4 pages)
021121 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Path integral analysis of Jarzynski’s equality: Analytical results
David D. L. Minh and Artur B. Adib
Published 18 February 2009 (5 pages)
021122 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Work distributions in the T=0 random field Ising model
Xavier Illa, Josep Maria Huguet, and Eduard Vives
Published 19 February 2009 (5 pages)
021123 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Dynamic renormalization in the framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics
Hans Christian Öttinger
Published 19 February 2009 (9 pages)
021124 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Mapping of (2+1) -dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang growth onto a driven lattice gas model of dimers
Géza Ódor, Bartosz Liedke, and Karl-Heinz Heinig
Published 19 February 2009 (5 pages)
021125 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Hopping transport in hostile reaction-diffusion systems
Andrew R. Missel and Karin A. Dahmen
Published 23 February 2009 (14 pages)
021126 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Exact solution for mean first-passage time on a pseudofractal scale-free web
Zhongzhi Zhang, Yi Qi, Shuigeng Zhou, Wenlei Xie, and Jihong Guan
Published 25 February 2009 (6 pages)
021127 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Relativistic diffusion
Z. Haba
Published 25 February 2009 (9 pages)
021128 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Locations of multicritical points for spin glasses on regular lattices
Masayuki Ohzeki
Published 25 February 2009 (14 pages)
021129 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Low-temperature thermodynamics in the context of dissipative diamagnetism
Jishad Kumar, P. A. Sreeram, and Sushanta Dattagupta
Published 26 February 2009 (7 pages)
021130 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Shear viscosity of the Lennard-Jones chain fluid in its gaseous, supercritical, and liquid states
Guillaume Galliero and Christian Boned
Published 4 February 2009 (9 pages)
021201 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Effect of pore structure on capillary condensation in a porous medium
M. R. Deinert and J-Y. Parlange
Published 10 February 2009 (3 pages)
021202 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium mode-coupling theory for uniformly sheared systems
Song-Ho Chong and Bongsoo Kim
Published 20 February 2009 (24 pages)
021203 [View PDF (377 kB)]

Granular materials

Dynamics of crater formations in immersed granular materials
Germán Varas, Valérie Vidal, and Jean-Christophe Géminard
Published 2 February 2009 (7 pages)
021301 [View PDF (339 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
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Chain formation of spheres in oscillatory fluid flows
D. Klotsa, Michael R. Swift, R. M. Bowley, and P. J. King
Published 9 February 2009 (9 pages)
021302 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Equivalence of the freely cooling granular gas to the sticky gas
Mahendra Shinde, Dibyendu Das, and R. Rajesh
Published 11 February 2009 (10 pages)
021303 [View PDF (374 kB)]
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Characterization of clusters in rapid granular flows
R. Brent Rice and Christine M. Hrenya
Published 11 February 2009 (9 pages)
021304 [View PDF (765 kB)]
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Three-dimensional analysis of the collision process of a bead on a granular packing
Madani Ammi, Luc Oger, Djaoued Beladjine, and Alexandre Valance
Published 18 February 2009 (9 pages)
021305 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Annular shear of cohesionless granular materials: From the inertial to quasistatic regime
Georg Koval, Jean-Noël Roux, Alain Corfdir, and François Chevoir
Published 20 February 2009 (16 pages)
021306 [View PDF (997 kB)]
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Clustering and phases of compartmentalized granular gases
K. C. Chen, C. C. Li, C. H. Lin, and G. H. Guo
Published 27 February 2009 (9 pages)
021307 [View PDF (946 kB)]
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Normal modes in model jammed systems in three dimensions
Leonardo E. Silbert, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Published 27 February 2009 (7 pages)
021308 [View PDF (753 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Shear thinning of nanoparticle suspensions
Pieter J. in ’t Veld, Matt K. Petersen, and Gary S. Grest
Published 2 February 2009 (4 pages)
021401 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Phase diagram of polydisperse Na-fluorohectorite–water suspensions: A synchrotron small-angle x-ray scattering study
D. M. Fonseca, Y. Méheust, J. O. Fossum, K. D. Knudsen, and K. P. S. Parmar
Published 6 February 2009 (11 pages)
021402 [View PDF (1,291 kB)]
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Phenomenological description of phase inversion
K. Piela, G. Ooms, and J. V. Sengers
Published 10 February 2009 (8 pages)
021403 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Critical heat flux around strongly heated nanoparticles
Samy Merabia, Pawel Keblinski, Laurent Joly, Laurent J. Lewis, and Jean-Louis Barrat
Published 10 February 2009 (4 pages)
021404 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Structure of ferrofluid nanofilms in homogeneous magnetic fields
Jelena Jordanovic and Sabine H. L. Klapp
Published 13 February 2009 (10 pages)
021405 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Emergence of fractal behavior in condensation-driven aggregation
M. K. Hassan and M. Z. Hassan
Published 19 February 2009 (7 pages)
021406 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Theoretical study of the magnetization dynamics of nondilute ferrofluids
D. V. Berkov, L. Yu. Iskakova, and A. Yu. Zubarev
Published 23 February 2009 (10 pages)
021407 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Complex dynamics in polymer nanocomposites
S. Srivastava, A. K. Kandar, J. K. Basu, M. K. Mukhopadhyay, L. B. Lurio, S. Narayanan, and S. K. Sinha
Published 25 February 2009 (7 pages)
021408 [View PDF (837 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Overdamped dynamics of paramagnetic ellipsoids in a precessing magnetic field
Pietro Tierno, Josep Claret, Francesc Sagués, and Andrejs Cēbers
Published 5 February 2009 (6 pages)
021501 [View PDF (460 kB)]
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Spatial correlations in sheared isothermal liquids: From elastic particles to granular particles
Michio Otsuki and Hisao Hayakawa
Published 10 February 2009 (16 pages)
021502 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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Three-point susceptibilities χn(k;t) and χns(k;t) : Mode-coupling approximation
Grzegorz Szamel and Elijah Flenner
Published 11 February 2009 (6 pages)
021503 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Fluctuating nonlinear hydrodynamics does not support an ergodic-nonergodic transition
Shankar P. Das and Gene F. Mazenko
Published 12 February 2009 (5 pages)
021504 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Structure and phase diagram of self-assembled rigid rods: Equilibrium polydispersity and nematic ordering in two dimensions
J. M. Tavares, B. Holder, and M. M. Telo da Gama
Published 20 February 2009 (10 pages)
021505 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Reexamination of electrodiffusion time scales
I. Rubinstein, B. Zaltzman, A. Futerman, V. Gitis, and V. Nikonenko
Published 25 February 2009 (6 pages)
021506 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Single-phase-field model of stepped surfaces
M. Castro, A. Hernández-Machado, and R. Cuerno
Published 5 February 2009 (8 pages)
021601 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Kinetics of phase separation in thin films: Lattice versus continuum models for solid binary mixtures
Subir K. Das, Jürgen Horbach, and Kurt Binder
Published 10 February 2009 (13 pages)
021602 [View PDF (7,910 kB)]
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Viscous fingering in volatile thin films
Oded Agam
Published 18 February 2009 (4 pages)
021603 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical solution to fundamental problems of classical theory of water vapor nucleation
Hua Du, Alexey B. Nadykto, and Fangqun Yu
Published 26 February 2009 (6 pages)
021604 [View PDF (182 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Nonphotochemical laser-induced nucleation of nematic phase and alignment of nematic director from a supercooled thermotropic liquid crystal
Xiaoying Sun, Bruce A. Garetz, Michele F. Moreira, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Published 2 February 2009 (6 pages)
021701 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Theory and computation of directional nematic phase ordering
Ezequiel R. Soulé, Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir, and Alejandro D. Rey
Published 12 February 2009 (12 pages)
021702 [View PDF (710 kB)]
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Surface anchoring structure of a liquid crystal monolayer studied via dual polarization interferometry
Osbert Tan and Graham H. Cross
Published 18 February 2009 (10 pages)
021703 [View PDF (407 kB)]
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Colloid-wall interaction in a nematic liquid crystal: The mirror-image method of colloidal nematostatics
V. M. Pergamenshchik and V. A. Uzunova
Published 23 February 2009 (10 pages)
021704 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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Quadrupolar particles in a nematic liquid crystal: Effects of particle size and shape
Francisco R. Hung
Published 23 February 2009 (11 pages)
021705 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Recovery of a reversed phase sequence in one ternary liquid-crystal-mixture system
Shun Wang, LiDong Pan, B. K. McCoy, S. T. Wang, R. Pindak, H. T. Nguyen, and C. C. Huang
Published 26 February 2009 (4 pages)
021706 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Topological transformations in bipolar shells of nematic liquid crystals
T. Lopez-Leon and A. Fernandez-Nieves
Published 26 February 2009 (5 pages)
021707 [View PDF (467 kB)]

Polymers

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Brownian dynamics simulation of tracer diffusion in a cross-linked network
Huai Zhou and Shing Bor Chen
Published 10 February 2009 (10 pages)
021801 [View PDF (822 kB)]
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Nondriven polymer translocation through a nanopore: Computational evidence that the escape and relaxation processes are coupled
Michel G. Gauthier and Gary W. Slater
Published 11 February 2009 (7 pages)
021802 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Scaling of the rupture dynamics of polymer chains pulled at one end at a constant rate
S. Fugmann and I. M. Sokolov
Published 13 February 2009 (5 pages)
021803 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Freely relaxing polymers remember how they were straightened
Benedikt Obermayer, Wolfram Möbius, Oskar Hallatschek, Erwin Frey, and Klaus Kroy
Published 26 February 2009 (13 pages)
021804 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Universal version of density-functional theory for polymers with complex architecture
Xiaofei Xu, Dapeng Cao, Xianren Zhang, and Wenchuan Wang
Published 26 February 2009 (8 pages)
021805 [View PDF (737 kB)]
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Universality in the diffusion of knots
Naoko Kanaeda and Tetsuo Deguchi
Published 27 February 2009 (5 pages)
021806 [View PDF (206 kB)]

Biological physics

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Entropic trap, surface-mediated combing, and assembly of DNA molecules within submicrometer interfacial confinement
Shu-Fu Hsieh and Hsien-Hung Wei
Published 2 February 2009 (8 pages)
021901 [View PDF (860 kB)]
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Noise-driven attractor switching device
Naoki Asakawa, Yasushi Hotta, Teruo Kanki, Tomoji Kawai, and Hitoshi Tabata
Published 2 February 2009 (8 pages)
021902 [View PDF (765 kB)]
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Three-dimensional quantification of structures in trabecular bone using measures of complexity
Norbert Marwan, Jürgen Kurths, Jesper Skovhus Thomsen, Dieter Felsenberg, and Peter Saparin
Published 3 February 2009 (11 pages)
021903 [View PDF (777 kB)]
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Dynamical phase transitions in periodically driven model neurons
Jan R. Engelbrecht and Renato Mirollo
Published 5 February 2009 (5 pages)
021904 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Serial correlation in neural spike trains: Experimental evidence, stochastic modeling, and single neuron variability
Farzad Farkhooi, Martin F. Strube-Bloss, and Martin P. Nawrot
Published 6 February 2009 (10 pages)
021905 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Resonant response to temperature modulation for enzymatic dynamics characterization
H. Berthoumieux, C. Antoine, L. Jullien, and A. Lemarchand
Published 9 February 2009 (9 pages)
021906 [View PDF (8,305 kB)]
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Spectral sideband produced by a hemispherical concave multilayer on the African shield-bug Calidea panaethiopica (Scutelleridae)
Jean Pol Vigneron, Moussa Ouedraogo, Jean-François Colomer, and Marie Rassart
Published 9 February 2009 (8 pages)
021907 [View PDF (579 kB)]
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Transitions in a self-propelled-particles model with coupling of accelerations
Péter Szabó, Máté Nagy, and Tamás Vicsek
Published 10 February 2009 (6 pages)
021908 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Structured information in small-world neural networks
David Dominguez, Mario González, Eduardo Serrano, and Francisco B. Rodríguez
Published 10 February 2009 (8 pages)
021909 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Deformation of biological cells in the acoustic field of an oscillating bubble
Pavel V. Zinin and John S. Allen, III
Published 11 February 2009 (12 pages)
021910 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Derivation and analysis of an ordinary differential equation mean-field model for studying clinically recorded epilepsy dynamics
Frank Marten, Serafim Rodrigues, Piotr Suffczynski, Mark P. Richardson, and John R. Terry
Published 11 February 2009 (7 pages)
021911 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Small-angle neutron scattering study of structure and kinetics of temperature-induced protein gelation
S. Chodankar, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher, R. Vavrin, and A. G. Wagh
Published 11 February 2009 (7 pages)
021912 [View PDF (549 kB)]
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Potential formulation of sleep dynamics
A. J. K. Phillips and P. A. Robinson
Published 24 February 2009 (9 pages)
021913 [View PDF (626 kB)]
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Massively parallel computation of absolute binding free energy with well-equilibrated states
Hideaki Fujitani, Yoshiaki Tanida, and Azuma Matsuura
Published 26 February 2009 (12 pages)
021914 [View PDF (668 kB)]
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Stability of a model food web
Janusz Szwabiński and Andrzej Pękalski
Published 26 February 2009 (8 pages)
021915 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Mechanics model for actin-based motility
Yuan Lin
Published 26 February 2009 (10 pages)
021916 [View PDF (235 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Quantum disordering versus melting in Lennard-Jones clusters
Jason Deckman and Vladimir A. Mandelshtam
Published 25 February 2009 (4 pages)
022101 [View PDF (230 kB)]

Granular materials

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Rolling friction on a granular medium
Fabio Vittorio De Blasio and May-Britt Saeter
Published 12 February 2009 (4 pages)
022301 [View PDF (417 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Nematic cells with quasicrystalline-patterned alignment layers
Michael H. Schwarz and Robert A. Pelcovits
Published 2 February 2009 (4 pages)
022701 [View PDF (661 kB)]

Biological physics

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In situ microextraction method to determine the viscosity of biofluid in threadlike structures on the surfaces of mammalian organs
Baeckkyoung Sung, Min Su Kim, Adam Corrigan, Athene M. Donald, and Kwang-Sup Soh
Published 26 February 2009 (3 pages)
022901 [View PDF (186 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation

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How complex is quantum motion?
Giuliano Benenti and Giulio Casati
Published 24 February 2009 (4 pages)
025201(R) [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Border collision bifurcations, snap-back repellers, and chaos
Paul Glendinning and Chi Hong Wong
Published 26 February 2009 (4 pages)
025202(R) [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Scaling laws in the quantum-to-classical transition in chaotic systems
Diego A. Wisniacki and Fabricio Toscano
Published 27 February 2009 (4 pages)
025203(R) [View PDF (162 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Spatiotemporal perspective on the decay of turbulence in wall-bounded flows
Paul Manneville
Published 20 February 2009 (4 pages)
025301(R) [View PDF (196 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Influence of gravitational forces and fluid flows on the shape of surfaces of a viscous fluid of capillary size
L. Yu. Barash
Published 23 February 2009 (4 pages)
025302(R) [View PDF (87 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note

Classical physics

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Extreme events in discrete nonlinear lattices
A. Maluckov, Lj. Hadžievski, N. Lazarides, and G. P. Tsironis
Published 10 February 2009 (4 pages)
025601(R) [View PDF (1,424 kB)]
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Solitons with cubic and quintic nonlinearities modulated in space and time
A. T. Avelar, D. Bazeia, and W. B. Cardoso
Published 24 February 2009 (4 pages)
025602(R) [View PDF (291 kB)]

Computational physics

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Statistical kinetic treatment of relativistic binary collisions
F. Peano, M. Marti, L. O. Silva, and G. Coppa
Published 27 February 2009 (4 pages)
025701(R) [View PDF (104 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Time evolution of epidemic disease on finite and infinite networks
Pierre-André Noël, Bahman Davoudi, Robert C. Brunham, Louis J. Dubé, and Babak Pourbohloul
Published 2 February 2009 (14 pages)
026101 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Modularity clustering is force-directed layout
Andreas Noack
Published 2 February 2009 (8 pages)
026102 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Thermal conductivity and phase separation of the crust of accreting neutron stars
C. J. Horowitz, O. L. Caballero, and D. K. Berry
Published 3 February 2009 (8 pages)
026103 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Renormalization flows in complex networks
Filippo Radicchi, Alain Barrat, Santo Fortunato, and José J. Ramasco
Published 6 February 2009 (11 pages)
026104 [View PDF (960 kB)]
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Complex-anisotropy-induced pattern formation in bistable media
Zhi Zhu He and Jing Liu
Published 6 February 2009 (7 pages)
026105 [View PDF (681 kB)]
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Social network reciprocity as a phase transition in evolutionary cooperation
L. M. Floría, C. Gracia-Lázaro, J. Gómez-Gardeñes, and Y. Moreno
Published 10 February 2009 (11 pages)
026106 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Feedback mechanism in network dynamics with preferential flow
H. Fan, Z. Wang, L. Chen, and K. Aihara
Published 20 February 2009 (8 pages)
026107 [View PDF (563 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Approximations on the Peano river network: Application of the Horton-Strahler hierarchy to the case of low connections
Samuele De Bartolo, Francesco Dell’Accio, and Massimo Veltri
Published 20 February 2009 (6 pages)
026108 [View PDF (4,944 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems in a subdiffusive regime
D. Hernández, C. Varea, and R. A. Barrio
Published 20 February 2009 (10 pages)
026109 [View PDF (415 kB)]
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Self-organized pacemakers and bistability of pulses in an excitable medium
Michael Stich, Alexander S. Mikhailov, and Yoshiki Kuramoto
Published 23 February 2009 (8 pages)
026110 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Reinforced communication and social navigation generate groups in model networks
M. Rosvall and K. Sneppen
Published 25 February 2009 (7 pages)
026111 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Optimal weighting scheme for suppressing cascades and traffic congestion in complex networks
Rui Yang, Wen-Xu Wang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Guanrong Chen
Published 27 February 2009 (6 pages)
026112 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Consensus of self-driven agents with avoidance of collisions
Liqian Peng, Yang Zhao, Baomei Tian, Jue Zhang, Bing-Hong Wang, Hai-Tao Zhang, and Tao Zhou
Published 27 February 2009 (6 pages)
026113 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Implementation of glider guns in the light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium
Ben de Lacy Costello, Rita Toth, Christopher Stone, Andrew Adamatzky, and Larry Bull
Published 27 February 2009 (8 pages)
026114 [View PDF (1,082 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Complexity measures from interaction structures
T. Kahle, E. Olbrich, J. Jost, and N. Ay
Published 2 February 2009 (9 pages)
026201 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Threshold effect with stochastic fluctuation in bacteria-colony-like proliferation dynamics as analyzed through a comparative study of reaction-diffusion equations and cellular automata
Kenta Odagiri and Kazuo Takatsuka
Published 2 February 2009 (10 pages)
026202 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Pattern selection in parametrically driven arrays of nonlinear resonators
Eyal Kenig, Ron Lifshitz, and M. C. Cross
Published 5 February 2009 (10 pages)
026203 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Exact results for the Kuramoto model with a bimodal frequency distribution
E. A. Martens, E. Barreto, S. H. Strogatz, E. Ott, P. So, and T. M. Antonsen
Published 6 February 2009 (11 pages)
026204 [View PDF (716 kB)]
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Delocalization induced by nonlinearity in systems with disorder
Ignacio García-Mata and Dima L. Shepelyansky
Published 6 February 2009 (8 pages)
026205 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Bouncing ball problem: Stability of the periodic modes
Joaquim J. Barroso, Marcus V. Carneiro, and Elbert E. N. Macau
Published 6 February 2009 (10 pages)
026206 [View PDF (1,510 kB)]
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Defect development in a three-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with gradient
Chunyan Wang, Xiaochuan Lu, Huimin Liao, Qi Ouyang, and Hongli Wang
Published 9 February 2009 (6 pages)
026207 [View PDF (640 kB)]
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Routes to chaos and multiple time scale dynamics in broadband bandpass nonlinear delay electro-optic oscillators
Michael Peil, Maxime Jacquot, Yanne Kouomou Chembo, Laurent Larger, and Thomas Erneux
Published 9 February 2009 (15 pages)
026208 [View PDF (1,074 kB)]
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Compactons and chaos in strongly nonlinear lattices
Karsten Ahnert and Arkady Pikovsky
Published 13 February 2009 (10 pages)
026209 [View PDF (770 kB)]
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Leader-laggard relationship of chaos synchronization in mutually coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with time delay
Mitsutoshi Ozaki, Hiroyuki Someya, Takaya Mihara, Atsushi Uchida, Shigeru Yoshimori, Krassimir Panajotov, and Marc Sciamanna
Published 13 February 2009 (7 pages)
026210 [View PDF (991 kB)]
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Universal spectral correlations in orthogonal-unitary and symplectic-unitary crossover ensembles of random matrices
Santosh Kumar and Akhilesh Pandey
Published 17 February 2009 (4 pages)
026211 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Thermal effects on chaotic directed transport
Gabriel G. Carlo and María E. Spina
Published 17 February 2009 (5 pages)
026212 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Directed transport in a spatially periodic harmonic potential under periodic nonbiased forcing
Xavier Leoncini, Anatoly Neishtadt, and Alexei Vasiliev
Published 18 February 2009 (6 pages)
026213 [View PDF (10,988 kB)]
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Dynamical and statistical properties of high-temperature self-propagating fronts: An experimental study
A. S. Rogachev and F. Baras
Published 19 February 2009 (10 pages)
026214 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Chaotic scattering in a molecular system
Alex M. Barr, Kyungsun Na, L. E. Reichl, and Christof Jung
Published 19 February 2009 (10 pages)
026215 [View PDF (3,367 kB)]
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Limit-cycle oscillation of an elastic filament and caterpillar motion
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
Published 20 February 2009 (5 pages)
026216 [View PDF (571 kB)]
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Exploring partial control of chaotic systems
Samuel Zambrano and Miguel A. F. Sanjuán
Published 23 February 2009 (8 pages)
026217 [View PDF (955 kB)]
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Liberation of a pinned spiral wave by a single stimulus in excitable media
Marcel Hörning, Akihiro Isomura, Konstantin Agladze, and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 23 February 2009 (11 pages)
026218 [View PDF (778 kB)]
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Networks on the edge of chaos: Global feedback control of turbulence in oscillator networks
Santiago Gil and Alexander S. Mikhailov
Published 25 February 2009 (11 pages)
026219 [View PDF (531 kB)]
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Coherent wave patterns sustained by a localized inhomogeneity in an excitable medium
Bing-Wei Li, Hong Zhang, He-Ping Ying, and Gang Hu
Published 26 February 2009 (7 pages)
026220 [View PDF (467 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Comparison of Faxén’s correction for a microsphere translating or rotating near a surface
J. Leach, H. Mushfique, S. Keen, R. Di Leonardo, G. Ruocco, J. M. Cooper, and M. J. Padgett
Published 2 February 2009 (4 pages)
026301 [View PDF (776 kB)]
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Nanoparticle assembly via the dewetting of patterned thin metal lines: Understanding the instability mechanisms
Lou Kondic, Javier A. Diez, Philip D. Rack, Yingfeng Guan, and Jason D. Fowlkes
Published 4 February 2009 (7 pages)
026302 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Intermittency and scale-dependent statistics in fully developed turbulence
Katsunori Yoshimatsu, Naoya Okamoto, Kai Schneider, Yukio Kaneda, and Marie Farge
Published 5 February 2009 (5 pages)
026303 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Helicity cascades in rotating turbulence
P. D. Mininni and A. Pouquet
Published 5 February 2009 (7 pages)
026304 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Effects of wall roughness on flow in nanochannels
Filippos D. Sofos, Theodoros E. Karakasidis, and Antonios Liakopoulos
Published 5 February 2009 (7 pages)
026305 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Measurements of the thermal dissipation field in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Xiaozhou He and Penger Tong
Published 6 February 2009 (14 pages)
026306 [View PDF (715 kB)]
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Coalescence of low-viscosity fluids in air
Sarah C. Case
Published 9 February 2009 (10 pages)
026307 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Convective stability of multicomponent fluids in the thermogravitational column
Ilya I. Ryzhkov and Valentina M. Shevtsova
Published 10 February 2009 (15 pages)
026308 [View PDF (1,070 kB)]
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ac-field-induced fluid pumping in microsystems with asymmetric temperature gradients
Moritz Holtappels, Marco Stubbe, and Jan Gimsa
Published 12 February 2009 (10 pages)
026309 [View PDF (637 kB)]
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Resurgence flows in porous media
P. M. Adler and V. M. Mityushev
Published 18 February 2009 (15 pages)
026310 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Mixing at the external boundary of a submerged turbulent jet
A. Eidelman, T. Elperin, N. Kleeorin, G. Hazak, I. Rogachevskii, O. Sadot, and I. Sapir-Katiraie
Published 23 February 2009 (12 pages)
026311 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Surface effects on friction-induced fluid heating in nanochannel flows
Zhigang Li
Published 25 February 2009 (6 pages)
026312 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Influence of contact angle on slow evaporation in two-dimensional porous media
H. Chraïbi, M. Prat, and O. Chapuis
Published 25 February 2009 (10 pages)
026313 [View PDF (565 kB)]
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Viscous effects on Bragg scattering of water waves by an array of piles
Ali Tabaei and Chiang C. Mei
Published 25 February 2009 (14 pages)
026314 [View PDF (730 kB)]
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Convection in binary fluid mixtures with modulated heating
B. L. Smorodin and M. Lücke
Published 25 February 2009 (11 pages)
026315 [View PDF (1,976 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Time-correlation functions and transport coefficients of two-dimensional Yukawa liquids
Z. Donkó, J. Goree, P. Hartmann, and Bin Liu
Published 3 February 2009 (12 pages)
026401 [View PDF (488 kB)]
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Intensity and polarization of laser-induced fluorescence due to forbidden excitation of He atoms immersed in an electric field in plasmas
K. Takiyama, S. Furukawa, S. Namba, T. Oda, and K. Kawasaki
Published 4 February 2009 (12 pages)
026402 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Application of Doppler spectroscopy in H2 to the prediction of experimental D(d,n)3He reaction rates in an inertial electrostatic confinement device
J. Kipritidis and J. Khachan
Published 4 February 2009 (8 pages)
026403 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Phase mixing of relativistically intense waves in a cold homogeneous plasma
Sudip Sengupta, Vikrant Saxena, Predhiman K. Kaw, Abhijit Sen, and Amita Das
Published 20 February 2009 (7 pages)
026404 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Selective nanoparticle heating: Another form of nonequilibrium in dusty plasmas
Lorenzo Mangolini and Uwe Kortshagen
Published 25 February 2009 (8 pages)
026405 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Single dust-particle rotation in glow-discharge plasma
V. Yu. Karasev, E. S. Dzlieva, A. I. Eikhval’d, M. A. Ermolenko, M. S. Golubev, and A. Yu. Ivanov
Published 25 February 2009 (6 pages)
026406 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Dressed-particle approach in the nonrelativistic classical limit
I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch
Published 26 February 2009 (7 pages)
026407 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Coagulation of nanoparticles in a plasma
Lavanya Ravi and Steven L. Girshick
Published 27 February 2009 (9 pages)
026408 [View PDF (378 kB)]

Classical physics

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Electromagnetic tunneling in a sandwich structure containing single negative media
Tuanhui Feng, Yunhui Li, Haitao Jiang, Yong Sun, Li He, Hongqiang Li, Yewen Zhang, Yunlong Shi, and Hong Chen
Published 2 February 2009 (4 pages)
026601 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Stability of particle rotation in a rotating electric field
Yu. Dolinsky and T. Elperin
Published 3 February 2009 (8 pages)
026602 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Modulational instability of zone boundary mode and band edge modes in nonlinear diatomic lattices
Yusuke Doi, Akihiro Nakatani, and Kazuyuki Yoshimura
Published 4 February 2009 (12 pages)
026603 [View PDF (988 kB)]
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Electromagnetic boundary and its realization with anisotropic metamaterial
I. V. Lindell and A. H. Sihvola
Published 9 February 2009 (7 pages)
026604 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Multicomponent cnoidal waves in cascade quasisynchronous frequency conversion
V. M. Petnikova and V. V. Shuvalov
Published 9 February 2009 (11 pages)
026605 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Directional, nonpropagating, and polychromatic excitations in one-dimensional wave systems
Dylan Moses, Choon How Gan, and Greg Gbur
Published 11 February 2009 (7 pages)
026606 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Optical nanotrapping using cloaking metamaterial
Edward P. Furlani and Alexander Baev
Published 19 February 2009 (6 pages)
026607 [View PDF (856 kB)]
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Maxwell’s macroscopic equations, the energy-momentum postulates, and the Lorentz law of force
Masud Mansuripur and Armis R. Zakharian
Published 20 February 2009 (10 pages)
026608 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Stationary and pulsating dissipative light bullets from a collective variable approach
A. Kamagate, Ph. Grelu, P. Tchofo-Dinda, J. M. Soto-Crespo, and N. Akhmediev
Published 23 February 2009 (11 pages)
026609 [View PDF (1,464 kB)]
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Determination of the effective constitutive parameters of bianisotropic metamaterials from reflection and transmission coefficients
Zhaofeng Li, Koray Aydin, and Ekmel Ozbay
Published 25 February 2009 (7 pages)
026610 [View PDF (813 kB)]
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Nonlinear Fano-Feshbach resonances
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko
Published 27 February 2009 (5 pages)
026611 [View PDF (1,109 kB)]

Computational physics

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Boundary slip from the immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann models
Guigao Le and Junfeng Zhang
Published 5 February 2009 (8 pages)
026701 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann equation for microscale gas flows of binary mixtures
Zhaoli Guo, Pietro Asinari, and Chuguang Zheng
Published 9 February 2009 (9 pages)
026702 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Generalized lattice Boltzmann equation with forcing term for computation of wall-bounded turbulent flows
Kannan N. Premnath, Martin J. Pattison, and Sanjoy Banerjee
Published 10 February 2009 (19 pages)
026703 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Computation of turbulent flow and secondary motions in a square duct using a forced generalized lattice Boltzmann equation
Martin J. Pattison, Kannan N. Premnath, and Sanjoy Banerjee
Published 10 February 2009 (13 pages)
026704 [View PDF (611 kB)]
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Spectral element method for band structures of two-dimensional anisotropic photonic crystals
Ma Luo, Qing Huo Liu, and Zhibing Li
Published 12 February 2009 (8 pages)
026705 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Efficiency of rejection-free methods for dynamic Monte Carlo studies of off-lattice interacting particles
Marta L. Guerra, M. A. Novotny, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Nobuyasu Ito
Published 23 February 2009 (6 pages)
026706 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Recursive algorithm for arrays of generalized Bessel functions: Numerical access to Dirac-Volkov solutions
Erik Lötstedt and Ulrich D. Jentschura
Published 27 February 2009 (13 pages)
026707 [View PDF (634 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Plasma physics

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Dynamical local field corrections on energy loss in plasmas of all degeneracies
Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco
Published 24 February 2009 (4 pages)
027401 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Computational physics

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Lattice Boltzmann model for thermal transpiration
G. H. Tang, Y. H. Zhang, X. J. Gu, R. W. Barber, and D. R. Emerson
Published 12 February 2009 (4 pages)
027701 [View PDF (237 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Control of wave packet spreading in nonlinear finite disordered lattices [Phys. Rev. E 79, 016217 (2009)]
Rodrigo A. Vicencio and Sergej Flach
Published 4 February 2009 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Spatiotemporal characterization of interfacial Faraday waves by means of a light absorption technique [Phys. Rev. E 72, 036209 (2005)]
A. V. Kityk, J. Embs, V. V. Mekhonoshin, and C. Wagner
Published 17 February 2009 (2 pages)
029902(E) [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Feedback mechanism in network dynamics with preferential flow [Phys. Rev. E 79, 026107 (2009)]
H. Fan, Z. Wang, L. Chen, and K. Aihara
Published 27 February 2009 (1 page)
029903(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Influence of gravitational forces and fluid flows on the shape of surfaces of a viscous fluid of capillary size [Phys. Rev. E 79, 025302 (2009)]
L. Yu. Barash
Published 27 February 2009 (1 page)
029904(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]