Physical Review E – May 2010
Volume 81, Issue 5 (partial)

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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Kibble-Zurek mechanism and infinitely slow annealing through critical points
Giulio Biroli, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, and Alberto Sicilia
Published 6 May 2010 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (119 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Spontaneous versus explicit replica symmetry breaking in the theory of disordered systems
D. Mouhanna and G. Tarjus
Published 3 May 2010 (15 pages)
051101 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Fractional chemotaxis diffusion equations
T. A. M. Langlands and B. I. Henry
Published 4 May 2010 (12 pages)
051102 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Phase transitions in self-gravitating systems and bacterial populations with a screened attractive potential
P. H. Chavanis and L. Delfini
Published 6 May 2010 (32 pages)
051103 [View PDF (1,241 kB)]
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Phase diagram of the charged lattice-gas model with two types of particles
G. Lehaut, F. Gulminelli, and O. Lopez
Published 6 May 2010 (12 pages)
051104 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Critical phase of bond percolation on growing networks
Takehisa Hasegawa and Koji Nemoto
Published 7 May 2010 (5 pages)
051105 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Random diffusion model with structure corrections
David D. McCowan and Gene F. Mazenko
Published 7 May 2010 (12 pages)
051106 [View PDF (233 kB)]

Granular materials

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Shear-driven size segregation of granular materials: Modeling and experiment
Lindsay B. H. May, Laura A. Golick, Katherine C. Phillips, Michael Shearer, and Karen E. Daniels
Published 5 May 2010 (8 pages)
051301 [View PDF (1,101 kB)]
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Geometric aspects of particle segregation
R. Caulkin, X. Jia, M. Fairweather, and R. A. Williams
Published 6 May 2010 (9 pages)
051302 [View PDF (1,059 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Optical experiments on a crystallizing hard-sphere–polymer mixture at coexistence
Andreas Stipp, Hans-Joachim Schöpe, Thomas Palberg, Thomas Eckert, Ralf Biehl, and Eckhard Bartsch
Published 3 May 2010 (14 pages)
051401 [View PDF (1,161 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Plastic deformations in crystal, polycrystal, and glass in binary mixtures under shear: Collective yielding
Hayato Shiba and Akira Onuki
Published 3 May 2010 (15 pages)
051501 [View PDF (13,052 kB)]
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Ordering transition of non-Brownian suspensions in confined steady shear flow
Kyongmin Yeo and Martin R. Maxey
Published 4 May 2010 (8 pages)
051502 [View PDF (852 kB)]
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Transport process of ions in insulating media in the hyperbolic diffusion regime
G. Barbero and J. Ross Macdonald
Published 5 May 2010 (8 pages)
051503 [View PDF (373 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Stability and distortions of liquid crystal order in a cell with a heterogeneous substrate
Quan Zhang and Leo Radzihovsky
Published 4 May 2010 (25 pages)
051701 [View PDF (711 kB)]
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Director distortions and singularities in inhomogeneous fields
Nándor Éber, Jana Heuer, Ralf Stannarius, Gergely Tátrai, and Ágnes Buka
Published 5 May 2010 (11 pages)
051702 [View PDF (1,731 kB)]
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Towing, breathing, splitting, and overtaking in driven colloidal liquid crystals
A. Härtel, R. Blaak, and H. Löwen
Published 6 May 2010 (5 pages)
051703 [View PDF (537 kB)]

Polymers

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Crossover behavior in static and dynamic properties of a single DNA molecule from three to quasi-two dimensions
Hitoshi Uemura, Masatoshi Ichikawa, and Yasuyuki Kimura
Published 4 May 2010 (7 pages)
051801 [View PDF (419 kB)]

Biological physics

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Stochastic dynamics of cholera epidemics
Sandro Azaele, Amos Maritan, Enrico Bertuzzo, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, and Andrea Rinaldo
Published 3 May 2010 (6 pages)
051901 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Persistence of cluster synchronization under the influence of advection
Emma Guirey, Martin Bees, Adrian Martin, and Meric Srokosz
Published 3 May 2010 (16 pages)
051902 [View PDF (1,347 kB)]
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Hysteresis and bistability in periodically paced cardiac tissue
Xiaodong Huang, Yu Qian, Xiaoming Zhang, and Gang Hu
Published 4 May 2010 (9 pages)
051903 [View PDF (924 kB)]
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Role of the particle’s stepping cycle in an asymmetric exclusion process: A model of mRNA translation
L. Ciandrini, I. Stansfield, and M. C. Romano
Published 5 May 2010 (9 pages)
051904 [View PDF (484 kB)]
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Analytical investigation of the effects of lateral connections on the accuracy of population coding
Masafumi Oizumi, Keiji Miura, and Masato Okada
Published 5 May 2010 (15 pages)
051905 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Residue length and solvation model dependency of elastinlike polypeptides
Mustafa Bilsel and Handan Arkin
Published 6 May 2010 (8 pages)
051906 [View PDF (938 kB)]
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Protein folding on rugged energy landscapes: Conformational diffusion on fractal networks
Gregg Lois, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, and Corey S. O’Hern
Published 6 May 2010 (5 pages)
051907 [View PDF (591 kB)]
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Sheared active fluids: Thickening, thinning, and vanishing viscosity
Luca Giomi, Tanniemola B. Liverpool, and M. Cristina Marchetti
Published 6 May 2010 (9 pages)
051908 [View PDF (1,972 kB)]
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Undulation instability in a bilayer lipid membrane due to electric field interaction with lipid dipoles
Richard J. Bingham, Peter D. Olmsted, and Stephen W. Smye
Published 7 May 2010 (11 pages)
051909 [View PDF (620 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Granular materials

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Shape-mediated ordering in granular blends
Keirnan R. LaMarche, Matthew J. Metzger, Benjamin J. Glasser, and Troy Shinbrot
Published 3 May 2010 (4 pages)
052301 [View PDF (524 kB)]

ARTICLES

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Crystal structure of highly concentrated, ionic microgel suspensions studied by small-angle x-ray scattering
U. Gasser and A. Fernandez-Nieves
Published 3 May 2010 (6 pages)
052401 [View PDF (424 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Computational physics

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Metadynamics convergence law in a multidimensional system
Yanier Crespo, Fabrizio Marinelli, Fabio Pietrucci, and Alessandro Laio
Published 7 May 2010 (4 pages)
055701(R) [View PDF (217 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Power law signature of media exposure in human response waiting time distributions
Riley Crane, Frank Schweitzer, and Didier Sornette
Published 3 May 2010 (6 pages)
056101 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Model for rumor spreading over networks
Daniel Trpevski, Wallace K. S. Tang, and Ljupco Kocarev
Published 4 May 2010 (11 pages)
056102 [View PDF (619 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Spatially inhomogeneous transition probabilities as memory effects for diffusion in statistically homogeneous random velocity fields
Nicolae Suciu
Published 4 May 2010 (7 pages)
056301 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Investigation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with double perturbation interface in nonuniform flows
Jing-song Bai, Jin-hong Liu, Tao Wang, Li-yong Zou, Ping Li, and Duo-wang Tan
Published 5 May 2010 (5 pages)
056302 [View PDF (653 kB)]
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Canonical variables for steep planar water waves over nonuniform beds
V. P. Ruban
Published 6 May 2010 (5 pages)
056303 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Resonance of flexible flapping wings at low Reynolds number
Hassan Masoud and Alexander Alexeev
Published 6 May 2010 (5 pages)
056304 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Lubrication forces in air and accommodation coefficient measured by a thermal damping method using an atomic force microscope
Christopher D. F. Honig, John E. Sader, Paul Mulvaney, and William A. Ducker
Published 6 May 2010 (11 pages)
056305 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Lennard-Jones fluid-fluid interfaces under shear
Guillaume Galliero
Published 6 May 2010 (7 pages)
056306 [View PDF (179 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Sheath structure and formation of dust voids in cylindrical plasma discharges
Zuquan Hu (胡祖权), Yinhua Chen (陈银华), Feng Huang (黄凤), Gui-fen Shi (时桂芬), Jugao Zheng (郑聚高), and M. Y. Yu (郁明阳)
Published 4 May 2010 (5 pages)
056401 [View PDF (473 kB)]

Classical physics

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Size effects in Kirchhoff flexible rods
R. J. Zhang
Published 5 May 2010 (5 pages)
056601 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Complex group velocity and energy transport in absorbing media
Vladimir Gerasik and Marek Stastna
Published 5 May 2010 (12 pages)
056602 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Stability and dynamics of two-soliton molecules
U. Al Khawaja
Published 7 May 2010 (17 pages)
056603 [View PDF (1,144 kB)]

Computational physics

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Analytic continuation of quantum Monte Carlo data by stochastic analytical inference
Sebastian Fuchs, Thomas Pruschke, and Mark Jarrell
Published 4 May 2010 (8 pages)
056701 [View PDF (435 kB)]
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SHIFT: An implementation for lattice Boltzmann simulation in low-porosity porous media
Jingsheng Ma, Kejian Wu, Zeyun Jiang, and Gary D. Couples
Published 6 May 2010 (12 pages)
056702 [View PDF (201 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Impact of critical mass on the evolution of cooperation in spatial public goods games
Attila Szolnoki and Matjaž Perc
Published 4 May 2010 (4 pages)
057101 [View PDF (293 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Exact effective transport dynamics in a one-dimensional random environment [Phys. Rev. E 72, 031110 (2005)]
Marco Dentz and Brian Berkowitz
Published 5 May 2010 (3 pages)
059901(E) [View PDF (56 kB)]