Physical Review E – April 2009
Volume 79, Issue 4

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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Crumpling transition and flat phase of polymerized phantom membranes
J.-P. Kownacki and D. Mouhanna
Published 7 April 2009 (4 pages)
040101(R) [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Extended fluctuation-dissipation theorem for soft matter in stationary flow
Thomas Speck and Udo Seifert
Published 22 April 2009 (4 pages)
040102(R) [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Analysis of self-organized criticality in Ehrenfest’s dog-flea model
Burhan Bakar and Ugur Tirnakli
Published 23 April 2009 (4 pages)
040103(R) [View PDF (2,411 kB)]
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Fractional Fokker-Planck equation for Lévy flights in nonhomogeneous environments
Tomasz Srokowski
Published 24 April 2009 (4 pages)
040104(R) [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Bulk-mediated surface diffusion along a cylinder: Propagators and crossovers
Aleksei V. Chechkin, Irwin M. Zaid, Michael A. Lomholt, Igor M. Sokolov, and Ralf Metzler
Published 27 April 2009 (4 pages)
040105(R) [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Detecting and quantifying stochastic and coherence resonances via information-theory complexity measurements
Osvaldo A. Rosso and Cristina Masoller
Published 29 April 2009 (4 pages)
040106(R) [View PDF (142 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Dynamic susceptibility of supercooled water and its relation to the dynamic crossover phenomenon
Yang Zhang, Marco Lagi, Emiliano Fratini, Piero Baglioni, Eugene Mamontov, and Sow-Hsin Chen
Published 7 April 2009 (4 pages)
040201(R) [View PDF (518 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Effect of network topology on phase separation in two-dimensional Lennard-Jones networks
Orit Peleg, Martin Kröger, and Yitzhak Rabin
Published 6 April 2009 (4 pages)
040401(R) [View PDF (9,970 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Chiral symmetry breaking in bent-core liquid crystals
Lech Longa, Grzegorz Pająk, and Thomas Wydro
Published 29 April 2009 (4 pages)
040701(R) [View PDF (167 kB)]

Polymers

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Magnetic deformation of ferrogel bodies: Procrustes effect
Konstantin Morozov, Mark Shliomis, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Published 24 April 2009 (4 pages)
040801(R) [View PDF (138 kB)]

Biological physics

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Tracking and control of neuronal Hodgkin-Huxley dynamics
Ghanim Ullah and Steven J. Schiff
Published 13 April 2009 (4 pages)
040901(R) [View PDF (2,578 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Two-dimensional XXZ -Ising model on a square-hexagon lattice
J. S. Valverde, Onofre Rojas, and S. M. de Souza
Published 1 April 2009 (6 pages)
041101 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Relations between entropies produced in nondeterministic thermodynamic processes
S. Turgut
Published 1 April 2009 (11 pages)
041102 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Casimir force in O(n) systems with a diffuse interface
Daniel Dantchev and Daniel Grüneberg
Published 3 April 2009 (16 pages)
041103 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Statistical mechanical description of liquid systems in an electric field
Semjon Stepanow and Thomas Thurn-Albrecht
Published 6 April 2009 (6 pages)
041104 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Localization-delocalization transition in Hessian matrices of topologically disordered systems
B. J. Huang and Ten-Ming Wu
Published 6 April 2009 (8 pages)
041105 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Constructive analysis of noise-induced transitions for coexisting periodic attractors of the Lorenz model
Irina Bashkirtseva and Lev Ryashko
Published 6 April 2009 (9 pages)
041106 [View PDF (13,290 kB)]
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Information capacity of stochastic pooling networks is achieved by discrete inputs
Mark D. McDonnell
Published 6 April 2009 (8 pages)
041107 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Statistical properties of determinantal point processes in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces
Antonello Scardicchio, Chase E. Zachary, and Salvatore Torquato
Published 6 April 2009 (19 pages)
041108 [View PDF (812 kB)]
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One-dimensional gas of hard needles
Yacov Kantor and Mehran Kardar
Published 6 April 2009 (6 pages)
041109 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Fluctuations of energy flux in a simple dissipative out-of-equilibrium system
Claudio Falcón and Eric Falcon
Published 7 April 2009 (10 pages)
041110 [View PDF (1,126 kB)]
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Dynamic wetting with two competing adsorbates
Christian Gogolin, Christian Meltzer, Marvin Willers, and Haye Hinrichsen
Published 8 April 2009 (10 pages)
041111 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Absorbing-state phase transitions on percolating lattices
Man Young Lee and Thomas Vojta
Published 8 April 2009 (10 pages)
041112 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Thermal entanglement in two-atom cavity QED and the entangled quantum Otto engine
Hao Wang, Sanqiu Liu, and Jizhou He
Published 8 April 2009 (10 pages)
041113 [View PDF (828 kB)]
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Current control in a tilted washboard potential via time-delayed feedback
D. Hennig
Published 8 April 2009 (4 pages)
041114 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Thermodynamic entropy and chaos in a discrete hydrodynamical system
Franco Bagnoli and Raúl Rechtman
Published 9 April 2009 (6 pages)
041115 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Generalized molecular chaos hypothesis and the H theorem: Problem of constraints and amendment of nonextensive statistical mechanics
Sumiyoshi Abe
Published 9 April 2009 (6 pages)
041116 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Directed transport of an inertial particle in a washboard potential induced by delayed feedback
D. Hennig, L. Schimansky-Geier, and P. Hänggi
Published 10 April 2009 (6 pages)
041117 [View PDF (1,605 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of feedback controlled systems
F. J. Cao and M. Feito
Published 10 April 2009 (6 pages)
041118 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Complex phase ordering of the one-dimensional Heisenberg model with conserved order parameter
R. Burioni, F. Corberi, and A. Vezzani
Published 13 April 2009 (9 pages)
041119 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Electrodynamic Casimir effect in a medium-filled wedge
Iver Brevik, Simen Å. Ellingsen, and Kimball A. Milton
Published 13 April 2009 (14 pages)
041120 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Early time kinetics of systems with spatial symmetry breaking
Rachele Dominguez, Kipton Barros, and W. Klein
Published 14 April 2009 (12 pages)
041121 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Negative fluctuation-dissipation ratios in the backgammon model
A. Garriga, I. Pagonabarraga, and F. Ritort
Published 14 April 2009 (12 pages)
041122 [View PDF (1,517 kB)]
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Two-point correlation function for the triangular Ising antiferromagnet
David H. Wojtas and R. P. Millane
Published 15 April 2009 (8 pages)
041123 [View PDF (510 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Kinetic equation of linear fractional stable motion and applications to modeling the scaling of intermittent bursts
N. W. Watkins, D. Credgington, R. Sanchez, S. J. Rosenberg, and S. C. Chapman
Published 16 April 2009 (9 pages)
041124 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Nonlinear random-walk approach to concentration-dependent contaminant transport in porous media
Andrea Zoia, Christelle Latrille, and Alain Cartalade
Published 16 April 2009 (8 pages)
041125 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Blume-Capel Ising ferromagnet with competing crystal-field interactions
Daniel P. Snowman
Published 17 April 2009 (7 pages)
041126 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of degenerate ground states and residual entropy in a frustrated honeycomb lattice Ising model
Shawn Andrews, Hans De Sterck, Stephen Inglis, and Roger G. Melko
Published 20 April 2009 (12 pages)
041127 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Anomalous transport regimes and asymptotic concentration distributions in the presence of advection and diffusion on a comb structure
Olga A. Dvoretskaya and Peter S. Kondratenko
Published 20 April 2009 (6 pages)
041128 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Quantum thermodynamic cycles and quantum heat engines. II.
H. T. Quan
Published 20 April 2009 (10 pages)
041129 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Simplest nonequilibrium phase transition into an absorbing state
A. C. Barato, Juan A. Bonachela, C. E. Fiore, H. Hinrichsen, and Miguel A. Muñoz
Published 21 April 2009 (9 pages)
041130 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Extreme value statistics and return intervals in long-range correlated uniform deviates
N. R. Moloney and J. Davidsen
Published 21 April 2009 (9 pages)
041131 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Reaction symmetry of irreversible reaction nA+mB→0
Sungchul Kwon and Yup Kim
Published 21 April 2009 (6 pages)
041132 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Invasion percolation on a tree and queueing models
A. Gabrielli and G. Caldarelli
Published 22 April 2009 (7 pages)
041133 [View PDF (945 kB)]
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Geometric percolation thresholds of interpenetrating plates in three-dimensional space
Y. B. Yi and E. Tawerghi
Published 22 April 2009 (6 pages)
041134 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Front propagation in a one-dimensional autocatalytic reaction-subdiffusion system
H. H. Schmidt-Martens, D. Froemberg, I. M. Sokolov, and F. Sagués
Published 22 April 2009 (4 pages)
041135 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Effect of random surface inhomogeneities on spectral properties of dielectric-disk microresonators: Theory and modeling at millimeter wave range
E. M. Ganapolskii, Z. E. Eremenko, and Yu. V. Tarasov
Published 22 April 2009 (14 pages)
041136 [View PDF (2,710 kB)]
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Fractional Fokker-Planck subdiffusion in alternating force fields
E. Heinsalu, M. Patriarca, I. Goychuk, and P. Hänggi
Published 22 April 2009 (7 pages)
041137 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Effects of discreteness on gauge glass models in two and three dimensions
Satoshi Yotsuyanagi, Yusuke Suemitsu, and Yukiyasu Ozeki
Published 23 April 2009 (9 pages)
041138 [View PDF (1,656 kB)]
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Distribution of averages in a correlated Gaussian medium as a tool for estimation of the cluster size distribution
S. V. Novikov and M. Van der Auweraer
Published 24 April 2009 (6 pages)
041139 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Fixed points and boundary layers in asymmetric simple exclusion processes
Sutapa Mukherji
Published 24 April 2009 (4 pages)
041140 [View PDF (230 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Percolation threshold parameters of fluids
Jiří Škvor and Ivo Nezbeda
Published 24 April 2009 (7 pages)
041141 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Universal scaling functions of critical Casimir forces obtained by Monte Carlo simulations
O. Vasilyev, A. Gambassi, A. Maciołek, and S. Dietrich
Published 27 April 2009 (21 pages)
041142 [View PDF (694 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Active–absorbing-state phase transition beyond directed percolation: A class of exactly solvable models
Urna Basu and P. K. Mohanty
Published 27 April 2009 (5 pages)
041143 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Critical wetting transitions in two-dimensional systems subject to long-ranged boundary fields
A. Drzewiński, A. Maciołek, A. Barasiński, and S. Dietrich
Published 28 April 2009 (6 pages)
041144 [View PDF (145 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Interplay of complete wetting, critical adsorption, and capillary condensation
A. Drzewiński, A. Maciołek, A. Barasiński, and S. Dietrich
Published 28 April 2009 (16 pages)
041145 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Deterministic dynamics of neural activity during absence seizures in rats
Gaoxiang Ouyang, Xiaoli Li, Chuangyin Dang, and Douglas A. Richards
Published 29 April 2009 (8 pages)
041146 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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Structure of completely positive quantum master equations with memory kernel
Heinz-Peter Breuer and Bassano Vacchini
Published 29 April 2009 (12 pages)
041147 [View PDF (1,029 kB)]
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Breaking-rate minimum predicts the collapse point of overloaded materials
Srutarshi Pradhan and Per C. Hemmer
Published 30 April 2009 (5 pages)
041148 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Switching rates of multistep reactions
Carlos Escudero and Alex Kamenev
Published 30 April 2009 (4 pages)
041149 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Area and edge effects in radiometric forces
N. Selden, C. Ngalande, S. Gimelshein, E. P. Muntz, A. Alexeenko, and A. Ketsdever
Published 6 April 2009 (6 pages)
041201 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Hydrogen-bond dynamics of water in a quasi-two-dimensional hydrophobic nanopore slit
Sungho Han, Pradeep Kumar, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 14 April 2009 (5 pages)
041202 [View PDF (219 kB)]

Granular materials

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Dynamics of gas-fluidized granular rods
L. J. Daniels, Y. Park, T. C. Lubensky, and D. J. Durian
Published 1 April 2009 (8 pages)
041301 [View PDF (504 kB)]
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Vibrated granular bed on a bumpy surface
Eldin Wee Chuan Lim
Published 9 April 2009 (10 pages)
041302 [View PDF (3,399 kB)]
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Mass transport of impurities in a moderately dense granular gas
Vicente Garzó and Francisco Vega Reyes
Published 10 April 2009 (17 pages)
041303 [View PDF (490 kB)]
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Probing dense granular materials by space-time dependent perturbations
L. Kondic, O. M. Dybenko, and R. P. Behringer
Published 13 April 2009 (5 pages)
041304 [View PDF (2,815 kB)]
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Pull-off force of coated fine powders under small consolidation
Yuhua Chen, M. A. S. Quintanilla, Jun Yang, Jose M. Valverde, and Rajesh N. Dave
Published 14 April 2009 (14 pages)
041305 [View PDF (1,781 kB)]
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Dynamics of grain ejection by sphere impact on a granular bed
S. Deboeuf, P. Gondret, and M. Rabaud
Published 14 April 2009 (9 pages)
041306 [View PDF (598 kB)]
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Coupling the dynamics of boundary layers and evolutionary dunes
Pablo Ortiz and Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz
Published 20 April 2009 (11 pages)
041307 [View PDF (1,896 kB)]
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Collision statistics in sheared inelastic hard spheres
Marcus N. Bannerman, Thomas E. Green, Paul Grassia, and Leo Lue
Published 22 April 2009 (10 pages)
041308 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Optimal packings of superballs
Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger, and S. Torquato
Published 23 April 2009 (12 pages)
041309 [View PDF (979 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Effective shape and phase behavior of short charged rods
Eelco Eggen, Marjolein Dijkstra, and René van Roij
Published 2 April 2009 (16 pages)
041401 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion in ferrofluids
Alenka Mertelj, Luka Cmok, and Martin Čopič
Published 8 April 2009 (8 pages)
041402 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Attraction between weakly charged silica spheres at a water-air interface induced by surface-charge heterogeneity
Wei Chen, Susheng Tan, Yi Zhou, Tai-Kai Ng, Warren T. Ford, and Penger Tong
Published 14 April 2009 (13 pages)
041403 [View PDF (595 kB)]
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Symmetry breaking and electrostatic attraction between two identical surfaces
F. Plouraboué and H.-C. Chang
Published 16 April 2009 (9 pages)
041404 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Comparison of low-amplitude oscillatory shear in experimental and computational studies of model foams
Micah Lundberg, Kapilanjan Krishan, Ning Xu, Corey S. O’Hern, and Michael Dennin
Published 20 April 2009 (10 pages)
041405 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Structure of binary colloidal systems confined in a quasi-one-dimensional channel
Wen Yang, Kwinten Nelissen, Minghui Kong, Zhi Zeng, and F. M. Peeters
Published 23 April 2009 (6 pages)
041406 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Diffusion in two-dimensional colloidal systems on periodic substrates
Salvador Herrera-Velarde and Ramón Castañeda-Priego
Published 27 April 2009 (7 pages)
041407 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Oscillatory driven colloidal binary mixtures: Axial segregation versus laning
Adam Wysocki and Hartmut Löwen
Published 28 April 2009 (5 pages)
041408 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Percolation threshold and scattering power law of gelatin gels
Y. Piñeiro, M. A. López-Quintela, J. Rivas, and D. Leisner
Published 29 April 2009 (5 pages)
041409 [View PDF (346 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Structure and dynamics of cylindrical micelles at equilibrium and under shear flow
C.-C. Huang, J.-P. Ryckaert, and H. Xu
Published 9 April 2009 (13 pages)
041501 [View PDF (600 kB)]
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Interpenetration as a mechanism for liquid-liquid phase transitions
Chia Wei Hsu and Francis W. Starr
Published 13 April 2009 (13 pages)
041502 [View PDF (717 kB)]
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Influence of electrode surface roughness and steric effects on the nonlinear electromechanical behavior of ionic polymer metal composites
Maurizio Porfiri
Published 27 April 2009 (13 pages)
041503 [View PDF (441 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Scaling of anisotropic droplet shapes on chemically stripe-patterned surfaces
O. Bliznyuk, E. Vereshchagina, E. Stefan Kooij, and Bene Poelsema
Published 3 April 2009 (6 pages)
041601 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Random deposition of particles of different sizes
F. L. Forgerini and W. Figueiredo
Published 8 April 2009 (6 pages)
041602 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Buckling in polymer monolayers: Molecular-weight dependence
S. Srivastava and J. K. Basu
Published 17 April 2009 (7 pages)
041603 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Modeling of roughness evolution during the etching of inhomogeneous films: Material-induced anomalous scaling
V. Constantoudis, H. Christoyianni, E. Zakka, and E. Gogolides
Published 23 April 2009 (8 pages)
041604 [View PDF (881 kB)]
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Weak dispersive forces between glass and gold macroscopic surfaces in alcohols
P. J. van Zwol, G. Palasantzas, and J. Th. M. DeHosson
Published 30 April 2009 (7 pages)
041605 [View PDF (1,087 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Topographic-pattern-induced homeotropic alignment of liquid crystals
Youngwoo Yi, Giuseppe Lombardo, Neil Ashby, Riccardo Barberi, Joseph E. Maclennan, and Noel A. Clark
Published 9 April 2009 (9 pages)
041701 [View PDF (687 kB)]
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Conical soliton escape into a third dimension of a surface vortex
Leo Radzihovsky and Quan Zhang
Published 10 April 2009 (8 pages)
041702 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Confinement effect on the interaction between colloidal particles in a nematic liquid crystal: An analytical study
Jun-ichi Fukuda (福田順一) and Slobodan Žumer
Published 21 April 2009 (7 pages)
041703 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Multiscale dynamics of pretransitional fluctuations in the isotropic phase of a lyotropic liquid crystal
C. E. Bertrand, K. L. Linegar, A. F. Kostko, and M. A. Anisimov
Published 29 April 2009 (13 pages)
041704 [View PDF (701 kB)]

Polymers

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Gauche-trans transitions in amorphous polymers under annealing: Lattice model and polarized light scattering
Masaru Matsuo, Yanling Luo, and Andrzej Galeski
Published 10 April 2009 (15 pages)
041801 [View PDF (1,387 kB)]
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Crystallization in diblock copolymer thin films at different degrees of supercooling
C. Darko, I. Botiz, G. Reiter, D. W. Breiby, J. W. Andreasen, S. V. Roth, D.-M. Smilgies, E. Metwalli, and C. M. Papadakis
Published 21 April 2009 (5 pages)
041802 [View PDF (585 kB)]

Biological physics

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Particle motion in unsteady two-dimensional peristaltic flow with application to the ureter
Joel Jiménez-Lozano, Mihir Sen, and Patrick F. Dunn
Published 1 April 2009 (15 pages)
041901 [View PDF (1,475 kB)]
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Theory of possible effects of the Allee phenomenon on the population of an epidemic reservoir
Niraj Kumar, M. N. Kuperman, and V. M. Kenkre
Published 2 April 2009 (6 pages)
041902 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Synchronization and clustering of synthetic genetic networks: A role for cis-regulatory modules
Jiajun Zhang, Zhanjiang Yuan, and Tianshou Zhou
Published 2 April 2009 (12 pages)
041903 [View PDF (1,371 kB)]
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Cable theory of protein receptor trafficking in a dendritic tree
Paul C. Bressloff
Published 3 April 2009 (16 pages)
041904 [View PDF (416 kB)]
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Phase diagram for the Eigen quasispecies theory with a truncated fitness landscape
David B. Saakian, Christof K. Biebricher, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 6 April 2009 (9 pages)
041905 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Thermodynamic origin of cooperativity in actomyosin interactions: The coupling of short-range interactions with actin bending stiffness in an Ising-like model
Adriano M. Alencar, James P. Butler, and Srboljub M. Mijailovich
Published 7 April 2009 (5 pages)
041906 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Rigorous treatment of electrostatics for spatially varying dielectrics based on energy minimization
O. I. Obolensky, T. P. Doerr, R. Ray, and Yi-Kuo Yu
Published 7 April 2009 (15 pages)
041907 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Dry and wet interfaces: Influence of solvent particles on molecular recognition
Johannes Taktikos and Hans Behringer
Published 8 April 2009 (11 pages)
041908 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Conformational change path between closed and open forms of C2 domain of coagulation factor V on a two-dimensional free-energy surface
Sangwook Wu, Chang Jun Lee, and Lee G. Pedersen
Published 8 April 2009 (6 pages)
041909 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Assessment of the antireflection property of moth wings by three-dimensional transfer-matrix optical simulations
Olivier Deparis, Nadia Khuzayim, Andrew Parker, and Jean Pol Vigneron
Published 8 April 2009 (7 pages)
041910 [View PDF (535 kB)]
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Single-molecule DNA dynamics in tapered contraction-expansion microchannels under electrophoresis
Xin Hu, Shengnian Wang, and L. James Lee
Published 9 April 2009 (12 pages)
041911 [View PDF (1,072 kB)]
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Velocity convergence of free energy surfaces from single-molecule measurements using Jarzynski’s equality
Nolan C. Harris and Ching-Hwa Kiang
Published 10 April 2009 (4 pages)
041912 [View PDF (1,219 kB)]
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Directional dependent dynamics of protein molecules on DNA
Rajamanickam Murugan
Published 14 April 2009 (7 pages)
041913 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Nonlinear denoising of functional magnetic resonance imaging time series with wavelets
Sven Stausberg and Klaus Lehnertz
Published 15 April 2009 (8 pages)
041914 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Biomolecular motion characterization by a self-distribution-function procedure in elastic incoherent neutron scattering
Salvatore Magazù, Giacomo Maisano, Federica Migliardo, and Antonio Benedetto
Published 16 April 2009 (9 pages)
041915 [View PDF (621 kB)]
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Numerical simulation of rheology of red blood cell rouleaux in microchannels
T. Wang, T.-W. Pan, Z. W. Xing, and R. Glowinski
Published 17 April 2009 (11 pages)
041916 [View PDF (3,263 kB)]
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Adhesion-induced lateral phase separation of multicomponent membranes: The effect of repellers and confinement
Mesfin Asfaw and Hsuan-Yi Chen
Published 20 April 2009 (7 pages)
041917 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Relations between Shannon entropy and genome order index in segmenting DNA sequences
Yi Zhang
Published 21 April 2009 (7 pages)
041918 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Braided bundles and compact coils: The structure and thermodynamics of hexagonally packed chiral filament assemblies
Gregory M. Grason
Published 21 April 2009 (15 pages)
041919 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Levels of complexity in scale-invariant neural signals
Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Qianli D. Y. Ma, Ronny P. Bartsch, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Verena Schulte-Frohlinde, H. Eugene Stanley, and Mitsuru Yoneyama
Published 21 April 2009 (12 pages)
041920 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Investigation of the elasticity of a cisplatin-DNA adduct via single-molecule measurements and bimodal modeling
Nam-Kyung Lee, Jin-Sung Park, Albert Johner, Sergei Obukhov, Ju-Yong Hyon, Kyoung J. Lee, and Seok-Cheol Hong
Published 22 April 2009 (8 pages)
041921 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Fluctuations and oscillations in a simple epidemic model
G. Rozhnova and A. Nunes
Published 23 April 2009 (5 pages)
041922 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Global noise and oscillations in clustered excitable media
X. L. Liao, P. Jung, and J. W. Shuai
Published 24 April 2009 (6 pages)
041923 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Violation of the single-parameter scaling hypothesis in human chromosome 22 with charge transfer models
Ai-Min Guo and Shi-Jie Xiong
Published 24 April 2009 (7 pages)
041924 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Past-future information bottleneck in dynamical systems
Felix Creutzig, Amir Globerson, and Naftali Tishby
Published 27 April 2009 (5 pages)
041925 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of circular DNA topological states
Hu Chen, Yanhui Liu, Zhen Zhou, Lin Hu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang, and Jie Yan
Published 29 April 2009 (6 pages)
041926 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Path integral method for DNA denaturation
Marco Zoli
Published 29 April 2009 (7 pages)
041927 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Nonlinear elasticity of stiff biopolymers connected by flexible linkers
K. E. Kasza, G. H. Koenderink, Y. C. Lin, C. P. Broedersz, W. Messner, F. Nakamura, T. P. Stossel, F. C. MacKintosh, and D. A. Weitz
Published 29 April 2009 (5 pages)
041928 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Low-dimensional dynamical model for the diversity of pressure patterns used in canary song
Leandro M. Alonso, Jorge A. Alliende, F. Goller, and Gabriel B. Mindlin
Published 30 April 2009 (8 pages)
041929 [View PDF (765 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Fourier’s law: Insight from a simple derivation
Y. Dubi and M. Di Ventra
Published 9 April 2009 (4 pages)
042101 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Two-component Abelian sandpile models
F. C. Alcaraz, P. Pyatov, and V. Rittenberg
Published 21 April 2009 (4 pages)
042102 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Random sequential adsorption of oriented superdisks
Oleksandr Gromenko and Vladimir Privman
Published 28 April 2009 (4 pages)
042103 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Beyond Cahn-Hilliard-Cook ordering theory: Early time behavior of spatial-symmetry-breaking phase transition kinetics
Kipton Barros, Rachele Dominguez, and W. Klein
Published 28 April 2009 (4 pages)
042104 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Scaling behavior of the disordered contact process
S. V. Fallert and S. N. Taraskin
Published 30 April 2009 (4 pages)
042105 [View PDF (505 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Co- and cross-flow extensions in an elliptical optical trap
E. Schonbrun, J. Wong, and K. B. Crozier
Published 28 April 2009 (4 pages)
042401 [View PDF (370 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Synchronization with on-off coupling: Role of time scales in network dynamics
L. Chen, C. Qiu, and H. B. Huang
Published 14 April 2009 (4 pages)
045101(R) [View PDF (371 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Persistent skewness of a strongly active scalar
Jie Zhang and X. L. Wu
Published 8 April 2009 (4 pages)
045301(R) [View PDF (798 kB)]
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Dynamics and stability of a class of low Reynolds number swimmers near a wall
Yizhar Or and Richard M. Murray
Published 13 April 2009 (4 pages)
045302(R) [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Effect of nonharmonic forcing on bluff-body vortex dynamics
E. Konstantinidis and D. Bouris
Published 15 April 2009 (4 pages)
045303(R) [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Velocity and energy profiles in two- versus three-dimensional channels: Effects of an inverse- versus a direct-energy cascade
Victor S. L’vov, Itamar Procaccia, and Oleksii Rudenko
Published 20 April 2009 (4 pages)
045304(R) [View PDF (610 kB)]
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Shear dynamo problem: Quasilinear kinematic theory
S. Sridhar and Kandaswamy Subramanian
Published 21 April 2009 (4 pages)
045305(R) [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Route to a chaotic state in fluid flow past an inclined flat plate
Jie Zhang, Nan-Sheng Liu, and Xi-Yun Lu
Published 27 April 2009 (4 pages)
045306(R) [View PDF (1,101 kB)]
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Impact of the inherent separation of scales in the Navier–Stokes- αβ equations
Tae-Yeon Kim, Massimo Cassiani, John D. Albertson, John E. Dolbow, Eliot Fried, and Morton E. Gurtin
Published 28 April 2009 (4 pages)
045307(R) [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Forced-dissipative two-dimensional turbulence: A scaling regime controlled by drag
Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young
Published 30 April 2009 (4 pages)
045308(R) [View PDF (372 kB)]

Computational physics

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Control algorithm for multiscale flow simulations of water
Evangelos M. Kotsalis, Jens H. Walther, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Petros Koumoutsakos
Published 13 April 2009 (4 pages)
045701(R) [View PDF (204 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Transient disorder in dynamically growing networks
Rui Yang, Liang Huang, and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 2 April 2009 (7 pages)
046101 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Earthquake size-frequency statistics in a forest-fire model of individual faults
Alejandro Tejedor, Javier B. Gómez, and Amalio F. Pacheco
Published 3 April 2009 (10 pages)
046102 [View PDF (717 kB)]
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Optimal navigation in complex networks
Daniel O. Cajueiro
Published 6 April 2009 (7 pages)
046103 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Opinion dynamics on an adaptive random network
I. J. Benczik, S. Z. Benczik, B. Schmittmann, and R. K. P. Zia
Published 6 April 2009 (10 pages)
046104 [View PDF (2,411 kB)]
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Entraining the topology and the dynamics of a network of phase oscillators
I. Sendiña-Nadal, I. Leyva, J. M. Buldú, J. A. Almendral, and S. Boccaletti
Published 8 April 2009 (8 pages)
046105 [View PDF (3,688 kB)]
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Country neighborhood network on territory and its geometrical model
Qi Xuan and Tie-Jun Wu
Published 17 April 2009 (10 pages)
046106 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Dynamics of latent voters
Renaud Lambiotte, Jari Saramäki, and Vincent D. Blondel
Published 21 April 2009 (6 pages)
046107 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Effects of noise and confidence thresholds in nominal and metric Axelrod dynamics of social influence
Luca De Sanctis and Tobias Galla
Published 21 April 2009 (9 pages)
046108 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Drying patterns: Sensitivity to residual stresses
Yossi Cohen, Joachim Mathiesen, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 27 April 2009 (4 pages)
046109 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Universal scaling of optimal current distribution in transportation networks
Filippo Simini, Andrea Rinaldo, and Amos Maritan
Published 29 April 2009 (5 pages)
046110 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Drip paintings and fractal analysis
Katherine Jones-Smith, Harsh Mathur, and Lawrence M. Krauss
Published 30 April 2009 (12 pages)
046111 [View PDF (1,002 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Experimentally observed route to spatiotemporal chaos in an extended one-dimensional array of convective oscillators
M. A. Miranda and J. Burguete
Published 2 April 2009 (11 pages)
046201 [View PDF (1,251 kB)]
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Quantum chaos in the nuclear collective model: Classical-quantum correspondence
Pavel Stránský, Petr Hruška, and Pavel Cejnar
Published 2 April 2009 (10 pages)
046202 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Predict-prevent control method for perturbed excitable systems
Marzena Ciszak, Claudio R. Mirasso, Raúl Toral, and Oscar Calvo
Published 3 April 2009 (5 pages)
046203 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Detection of couplings in ensembles of stochastic oscillators
Dmitry A. Smirnov and Boris P. Bezruchko
Published 6 April 2009 (10 pages)
046204 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Onset of unidirectional pulse propagation in an excitable medium with asymmetric heterogeneity
Takashi Teramoto, Xiaohui Yuan, Markus Bär, and Yasumasa Nishiura
Published 6 April 2009 (16 pages)
046205 [View PDF (2,538 kB)]
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Ordered and chaotic dynamics of collective variables in a butane molecule
Anna Battisti, Rocco G. Lalopa, Alexander Tenenbaum, and Maira D’Alessandro
Published 6 April 2009 (13 pages)
046206 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Characterizing synchronization in time series using information measures extracted from symbolic representations
Roberto Monetti, Wolfram Bunk, Thomas Aschenbrenner, and Ferdinand Jamitzky
Published 6 April 2009 (9 pages)
046207 [View PDF (653 kB)]
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Entropy estimation of very short symbolic sequences
Annick Lesne, Jean-Luc Blanc, and Laurent Pezard
Published 7 April 2009 (10 pages)
046208 [View PDF (1,315 kB)]
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Synchronous regimes in ensembles of coupled Bonhoeffer–van der Pol oscillators
Alexey K. Kryukov, Grigory V. Osipov, Andrey V. Polovinkin, and Jürgen Kurths
Published 7 April 2009 (8 pages)
046209 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Asymmetry-induced effects in coupled phase-oscillator ensembles: Routes to synchronization
Jane H. Sheeba, V. K. Chandrasekar, Aneta Stefanovska, and Peter V. E. McClintock
Published 7 April 2009 (9 pages)
046210 [View PDF (852 kB)]
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Long-time saturation of the Loschmidt echo in quantum chaotic billiards
Martha Gutiérrez and Arseni Goussev
Published 8 April 2009 (5 pages)
046211 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Semiclassical theory for decay and fragmentation processes in chaotic quantum systems
Martha Gutiérrez, Daniel Waltner, Jack Kuipers, and Klaus Richter
Published 9 April 2009 (16 pages)
046212 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Reverse horseshoe and spiral templates in an erbium-doped fiber laser
Javier Used and Juan Carlos Martín
Published 13 April 2009 (6 pages)
046213 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Controlling chemical oscillations in heterogeneous Belousov-Zhabotinsky gels via mechanical strain
Victor V. Yashin, Krystyn J. Van Vliet, and Anna C. Balazs
Published 22 April 2009 (12 pages)
046214 [View PDF (584 kB)]
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Diagnosis of spatiotemporal chaos in wave envelopes of a nematic electroconvection pattern
G. Dangelmayr, G. Acharya, J. T. Gleeson, I. Oprea, and J. Ladd
Published 22 April 2009 (20 pages)
046215 [View PDF (10,056 kB)]
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Synchronization and spatiotemporal patterns in coupled phase oscillators on a weighted planar network
Yuki Kagawa and Atsuko Takamatsu
Published 22 April 2009 (9 pages)
046216 [View PDF (509 kB)]
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Self-sustained collective oscillation generated in an array of nonoscillatory cells
Yue Ma and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 22 April 2009 (11 pages)
046217 [View PDF (1,116 kB)]
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Feedback control of subcritical Turing instability with zero mode
A. A. Golovin, Y. Kanevsky, and A. A. Nepomnyashchy
Published 24 April 2009 (11 pages)
046218 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Influence of passive elements on the dynamics of oscillatory ensembles of cardiac cells
V. S. Petrov, G. V. Osipov, and J. A. K. Suykens
Published 29 April 2009 (13 pages)
046219 [View PDF (564 kB)]
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Spin squeezing as an indicator of quantum chaos in the Dicke model
Lijun Song, Dong Yan, Jian Ma, and Xiaoguang Wang
Published 29 April 2009 (7 pages)
046220 [View PDF (5,667 kB)]
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Delay and periodicity
S. Yanchuk and P. Perlikowski
Published 29 April 2009 (9 pages)
046221 [View PDF (663 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Evaporation and fluid dynamics of a sessile drop of capillary size
L. Yu. Barash, T. P. Bigioni, V. M. Vinokur, and L. N. Shchur
Published 1 April 2009 (16 pages)
046301 [View PDF (1,122 kB)]
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Mean-field dynamos in random Arnold-Beltrami-Childress and Roberts flows
Nathan Kleeorin, Igor Rogachevskii, Dmitry Sokoloff, and Dmitry Tomin
Published 2 April 2009 (7 pages)
046302 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Adhesion properties of chain-forming ferrofluids
Sérgio A. Lira and José A. Miranda
Published 2 April 2009 (8 pages)
046303 [View PDF (723 kB)]
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Nature-inspired microfluidic propulsion using magnetic actuation
S. N. Khaderi, M. G. H. M. Baltussen, P. D. Anderson, D. Ioan, J. M. J. den Toonder, and P. R. Onck
Published 2 April 2009 (4 pages)
046304 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Nonlinear current-voltage characteristics of nanochannels
Gilad Yossifon, Peter Mushenheim, Yu-Chen Chang, and Hsueh-Chia Chang
Published 3 April 2009 (9 pages)
046305 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Minimalist turbulent boundary layer model
L. Moriconi
Published 6 April 2009 (5 pages)
046306 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics of a water jet from a carbon nanotube
Itsuo Hanasaki, Toru Yonebayashi, and Satoyuki Kawano
Published 6 April 2009 (7 pages)
046307 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium velocity fluctuations and energy amplification in planar Couette flow
José M. Ortiz de Zárate and Jan V. Sengers
Published 7 April 2009 (14 pages)
046308 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Numerical prediction of ac electro-osmotic flows around polarized electrodes
Y. K. Suh and S. Kang
Published 7 April 2009 (18 pages)
046309 [View PDF (832 kB)]
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Absolute versus convective helical magnetorotational instability in a Taylor-Couette flow
Jānis Priede and Gunter Gerbeth
Published 13 April 2009 (15 pages)
046310 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Bubble and droplet motion in binary mixtures: Evaporation-condensation mechanism and Marangoni effect
Akira Onuki
Published 14 April 2009 (11 pages)
046311 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Energy transfer in anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
B. Teaca, M. K. Verma, B. Knaepen, and D. Carati
Published 14 April 2009 (10 pages)
046312 [View PDF (887 kB)]
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Flow around fishlike shapes studied using multiparticle collision dynamics
Daniel A. P. Reid, H. Hildenbrandt, J. T. Padding, and C. K. Hemelrijk
Published 14 April 2009 (7 pages)
046313 [View PDF (670 kB)]
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Point-vortex model for Lagrangian intermittency in turbulence
Mark Peter Rast and Jean-Francois Pinton
Published 14 April 2009 (12 pages)
046314 [View PDF (8,776 kB)]
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Second sound in bursting freely suspended smectic- A films
Frank Müller, Christian Bohley, and Ralf Stannarius
Published 15 April 2009 (10 pages)
046315 [View PDF (606 kB)]
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Space-time correlations of fluctuating velocities in turbulent shear flows
Xin Zhao and Guo-Wei He
Published 16 April 2009 (12 pages)
046316 [View PDF (2,054 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic interactions between two semiflexible inextensible filaments in Stokes flow
Y.-N. Young
Published 20 April 2009 (14 pages)
046317 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Three-dimensional computational modeling of multiple deformable cells flowing in microvessels
Sai K. Doddi and Prosenjit Bagchi
Published 21 April 2009 (14 pages)
046318 [View PDF (2,218 kB)]
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Influence of helicity on the Kolmogorov regime in fully developed turbulence
E. Jurčišinová, M. Jurčišin, and R. Remecký
Published 23 April 2009 (10 pages)
046319 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Statistical dynamo theory: Mode excitation
P. Hoyng
Published 23 April 2009 (13 pages)
046320 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Attachment and detachment rate distributions in deep-bed filtration
Hsiang-Ku Lin, Leonid P. Pryadko, Sharon Walker, and Roya Zandi
Published 23 April 2009 (12 pages)
046321 [View PDF (524 kB)]
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Reynolds number effects on wavelet components of self-preserving turbulent structures
Akira Rinoshika and Yu Zhou
Published 23 April 2009 (11 pages)
046322 [View PDF (3,748 kB)]
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Numerical simulation of drop retraction after a strain jump
Yuriko Renardy, Michael Renardy, Souad Assighaou, and Lazhar Benyahia
Published 24 April 2009 (4 pages)
046323 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Instanton theory of Burgers shocks and intermittency
L. Moriconi
Published 29 April 2009 (7 pages)
046324 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Scaling of the two-point velocity difference along scalar gradient trajectories in fluid turbulence
Lipo Wang
Published 29 April 2009 (5 pages)
046325 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Steady two-layer flow in narrow channels of variable width
Roger E. Khayat and Guowen Tian
Published 30 April 2009 (8 pages)
046326 [View PDF (484 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Low-frequency model of breathing oscillations in Hall discharges
Serge Barral and Eduardo Ahedo
Published 1 April 2009 (11 pages)
046401 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Measurements of Hβ Stark central asymmetry and its analysis through standard theory and computer simulations
S. Djurović, M. Ćirišan, A. V. Demura, G. V. Demchenko, D. Nikolić, M. A. Gigosos, and M. Á. González
Published 9 April 2009 (14 pages)
046402 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Pseudochaos and low-frequency percolation scaling for turbulent diffusion in magnetized plasma
Alexander V. Milovanov
Published 10 April 2009 (10 pages)
046403 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Hamiltonian stochastic processes induced by successive wave-particle interactions in stimulated Raman scattering
A. Ghizzo, D. Del Sarto, and T. Reveille
Published 14 April 2009 (13 pages)
046404 [View PDF (1,051 kB)]
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Modified Thomson problem
Jerzy Cioslowski
Published 15 April 2009 (7 pages)
046405 [View PDF (852 kB)]
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Simulation of diffuse, constricted-stratified, and constricted modes of a dc discharge in argon: Hysteresis transition between diffuse and constricted-stratified modes
I. A. Shkurenkov, Yu. A. Mankelevich, and T. V. Rakhimova
Published 27 April 2009 (10 pages)
046406 [View PDF (738 kB)]
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Photogeneration of electrons in dust clouds in near space
Mahendra Singh Sodha, Amrit Dixit, and Sweta Srivastava
Published 27 April 2009 (7 pages)
046407 [View PDF (277 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Stark broadening of hydrogen lines in low-density magnetized plasmas
J. Rosato, Y. Marandet, H. Capes, S. Ferri, C. Mossé, L. Godbert-Mouret, M. Koubiti, and R. Stamm
Published 27 April 2009 (7 pages)
046408 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Relativistic collisional current-filamentation instability and two-stream instability in dense plasma
Biao Hao, Z.-M. Sheng, C. Ren, and J. Zhang
Published 27 April 2009 (6 pages)
046409 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Large Hadron Collider at CERN: Beams generating high-energy-density matter
N. A. Tahir, R. Schmidt, A. Shutov, I. V. Lomonosov, A. R. Piriz, D. H. H. Hoffmann, C. Deutsch, and V. E. Fortov
Published 27 April 2009 (8 pages)
046410 [View PDF (1,629 kB)]
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Single-cycle strong terahertz pulse generation from a vacuum-plasma interface driven by intense laser pulses
X. G. Dong, Z. M. Sheng, H. C. Wu, W. M. Wang, and J. Zhang
Published 30 April 2009 (6 pages)
046411 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Wave spectra of two-dimensional dusty plasma solids and liquids
Lu-Jing Hou, Z. L. Mišković, Alexander Piel, and Michael S. Murillo
Published 30 April 2009 (11 pages)
046412 [View PDF (3,091 kB)]

Classical physics

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Kink motion in a curved Josephson junction
T. Dobrowolski
Published 2 April 2009 (7 pages)
046601 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Analytic theory of parabolic pulses in dissipative systems with rapidly varying mean-zero dispersion
Brandon G. Bale and J. Nathan Kutz
Published 6 April 2009 (5 pages)
046602 [View PDF (990 kB)]
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Scattering of sine-Gordon breathers on a potential well
B. Piette and W. J. Zakrzewski
Published 6 April 2009 (11 pages)
046603 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Multipactor radiation analysis within a waveguide region based on a frequency-domain representation of the dynamics of charged particles
B. Gimeno, E. Sorolla, S. Anza, C. Vicente, J. Gil, A. M. Pérez, V. E. Boria, F. J. Pérez-Soler, F. Quesada, A. Álvarez, and D. Raboso
Published 8 April 2009 (9 pages)
046604 [View PDF (851 kB)]
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Modulational instability in two-component discrete media with cubic-quintic nonlinearity
B. B. Baizakov, A. Bouketir, A. Messikh, and B. A. Umarov
Published 9 April 2009 (10 pages)
046605 [View PDF (2,394 kB)]
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Geometry and stability of dynamical systems
Raffaele Punzi and Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth
Published 14 April 2009 (11 pages)
046606 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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How solitary waves collide in discrete granular alignments
Edgar Ávalos and Surajit Sen
Published 20 April 2009 (7 pages)
046607 [View PDF (3,077 kB)]
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Two approaches to study essentially nonlinear and dispersive properties of the internal structure of materials
A. V. Porubov, E. L. Aero, and G. A. Maugin
Published 24 April 2009 (12 pages)
046608 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Group delay of evanescent signals in a waveguide with barrier
Luigi Ragni
Published 29 April 2009 (5 pages)
046609 [View PDF (347 kB)]

Computational physics

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Lattices for the lattice Boltzmann method
Shyam S. Chikatamarla and Iliya V. Karlin
Published 1 April 2009 (18 pages)
046701 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Threshold-selecting strategy for best possible ground state detection with genetic algorithms
Jörg Lässig and Karl Heinz Hoffmann
Published 2 April 2009 (8 pages)
046702 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Parallel algorithm for spin and spin-lattice dynamics simulations
Pui-Wai Ma and C. H. Woo
Published 6 April 2009 (8 pages)
046703 [View PDF (704 kB)]
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Shear stress in lattice Boltzmann simulations
Timm Krüger, Fathollah Varnik, and Dierk Raabe
Published 7 April 2009 (14 pages)
046704 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Nonlinear stresses and temperatures in transient adiabatic and shear flows via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics: Three definitions of temperature
Wm. G. Hoover and C. G. Hoover
Published 13 April 2009 (7 pages)
046705 [View PDF (1,268 kB)]
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Inexact Picard iterative scheme for steady-state nonlinear diffusion in random heterogeneous media
P. Surya Mohan, Prasanth B. Nair, and Andy J. Keane
Published 13 April 2009 (9 pages)
046706 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Evolutionary dynamics on graphs: Efficient method for weak selection
Feng Fu, Long Wang, Martin A. Nowak, and Christoph Hauert
Published 13 April 2009 (10 pages)
046707 [View PDF (2,346 kB)]
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Theory of the lattice Boltzmann equation: Lattice Boltzmann model for axisymmetric flows
Zhaoli Guo, Haifeng Han, Baochang Shi, and Chuguang Zheng
Published 20 April 2009 (12 pages)
046708 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Applications of computational geometry to the molecular simulation of interfaces
Florencio Balboa Usabiaga and Daniel Duque
Published 21 April 2009 (9 pages)
046709 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Numerical modeling of the behavior of an elastic capsule in a microchannel flow: The initial motion
Gang Ma, Jinsong Hua, and Hua Li
Published 21 April 2009 (17 pages)
046710 [View PDF (722 kB)]
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Unified approach to split absorbing boundary conditions for nonlinear Schrödinger equations: Two-dimensional case
Jiwei Zhang, Zhenli Xu, and Xiaonan Wu
Published 21 April 2009 (8 pages)
046711 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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ENCORE: An extended contractor renormalization algorithm
A. Fabricio Albuquerque, Helmut G. Katzgraber, and Matthias Troyer
Published 23 April 2009 (5 pages)
046712 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann model for simulating temperature-sensitive ferrofluids
Xiao-Dong Niu, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, and Keisuke Yoshikawa
Published 28 April 2009 (6 pages)
046713 [View PDF (382 kB)]
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Prediction of binary hard-sphere crystal structures
Laura Filion and Marjolein Dijkstra
Published 30 April 2009 (9 pages)
046714 [View PDF (621 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Dynamical hysteresis phenomena in complex network traffic
Mao-Bin Hu, Xiang Ling, Rui Jiang, Yong-Hong Wu, and Qing-Song Wu
Published 8 April 2009 (4 pages)
047101 [View PDF (756 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Dynamics of modulated waves in electrical lines with dissipative elements
Fabien II Ndzana, Alidou Mohamadou, and Timoleon Crepin Kofané
Published 22 April 2009 (4 pages)
047201 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Effect of noise on chaotic scattering
Jesús M. Seoane, Liang Huang, Miguel A. F. Sanjuán, and Ying-Cheng Lai
Published 29 April 2009 (4 pages)
047202 [View PDF (1,877 kB)]

Classical physics

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Formula for the phase velocity of electromagnetic waves
Shihua Huang, Fengmin Wu, and Bo Hu
Published 9 April 2009 (4 pages)
047601 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Spherical cloaking with homogeneous isotropic multilayered structures
Cheng-Wei Qiu, Li Hu, Xiaofei Xu, and Yijun Feng
Published 23 April 2009 (4 pages)
047602 [View PDF (444 kB)]

Computational physics

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From multidimensional replica-exchange method to multidimensional multicanonical algorithm and simulated tempering
Ayori Mitsutake and Yuko Okamoto
Published 8 April 2009 (4 pages)
047701 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Simulational nanoengineering: Molecular dynamics implementation of an atomistic Stirling engine
D. C. Rapaport
Published 30 April 2009 (4 pages)
047702 [View PDF (543 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Ising model on the scale-free network with a Cayley-tree-like structure”
Borko D. Stošić and Tatijana Stošić
Published 24 April 2009 (2 pages)
048101 [View PDF (57 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Dynamics of impacting a bubble by another pulsed-laser-induced bubble: Jetting, fragmentation, and entanglement [Phys. Rev. E 77, 026304 (2008)]
Yen-Hung Chen and Lin I
Published 13 April 2009 (1 page)
049901(E) [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Diversity of critical behavior within a universality class [Phys. Rev. E 77, 061128 (2008)]
Volker Dohm
Published 27 April 2009 (1 page)
049902(E) [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Erratum: Rippling of polymer nanofibers [Phys. Rev. E 78, 061804 (2008)]
Xiang-Fa Wu, Yulia Y. Kostogorova-Beller, Alexander V. Goponenko, Haoqing Hou, and Yuris A. Dzenis
Published 30 April 2009 (1 page)
049903(E) [View PDF (27 kB)]