Physical Review E – May 2008
Volume 77, Issue 5
Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Statistical physics
Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates
Polymers
Biological physics
ARTICLES
Statistical physics
Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids
Granular materials
Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates
Structured and complex fluids
Films, interfaces, and crystal growth
Liquid crystals
Polymers
Biological physics
BRIEF REPORTS
Statistical physics
Liquid crystals
Part 2 - Nonlinear and Plasma Physics, Fluid Dynamics, and Related Topics
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Interdisciplinary physics
Chaos and pattern formation
Fluid dynamics
ARTICLES
Interdisciplinary physics
Chaos and pattern formation
Fluid dynamics
Plasma physics
Classical physics
Computational physics
BRIEF REPORTS
Interdisciplinary physics
Chaos and pattern formation
Fluid dynamics
Classical physics
ERRATA
Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Statistical physics
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Equilibriumlike extension of the invaded cluster algorithm
I. Balog and K. Uzelac
Published 6 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Probing nonequilibrium fluctuations through linear response
Takahiro Sakaue and Takao Ohta
Published 8 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Ising-like criticality derived from the theory of fluids
V. N. Bondarev
Published 16 May 2008
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Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates
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Structural origins of dynamical heterogeneity in colloidal gels
Clare J. Dibble, Michael Kogan, and Michael J. Solomon
Published 13 May 2008
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Orientationally correlated colloidal polycrystals without long-range positional order
Cristina Arcos, Kitty Kumar, Wenceslao González-Viñas, Rafael Sirera, Kristin M. Poduska, and Anand Yethiraj
Published 22 May 2008
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Polymers
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Molecular physics of a polymer engineering instability: Experiments and computation
D. G. Hassell, M. R. Mackley, M. Sahin, H. J. Wilson, O. G. Harlen, and T. C. B. McLeish
Published 19 May 2008
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Biological physics
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Mesoscale modeling of molecular machines: Cyclic dynamics and hydrodynamical fluctuations
Andrew Cressman, Yuichi Togashi, Alexander S. Mikhailov, and Raymond Kapral
Published 7 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Traffic of single-headed motor proteins KIF1A: Effects of lane changing
Debashish Chowdhury, Ashok Garai, and Jian-Sheng Wang
Published 12 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Two-pathway four-state kinetic model of thioredoxin-catalyzed reduction of single forced disulfide bonds
Xiaochuan Xue, Linchen Gong, Fei Liu, and Zhong-can Ou-Yang
Published 20 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Discovery of a diamond-based photonic crystal structure in beetle scales
Jeremy W. Galusha, Lauren R. Richey, John S. Gardner, Jennifer N. Cha, and Michael H. Bartl
Published 29 May 2008
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Dynamic small-world behavior in functional brain networks unveiled by an event-related networks approach
M. Valencia, J. Martinerie, S. Dupont, and M. Chavez
Published 30 May 2008
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ARTICLES
Statistical physics
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Irreversible thermodynamics of multistep transitions
G. Nicolis and C. Nicolis
Published 5 May 2008
(8 pages)
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Entanglement and classical instabilities: Fingerprints of electron-hole-to-exciton phase transition in a simple model
Tathiana Moreira, Giancarlo Q. Pellegrino, J. G. Peixoto de Faria, M. C. Nemes, F. Camargo, and A. F. R. de Toledo Piza
Published 5 May 2008
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Generalized diffusion: A microscopic approach
James F. Lutsko and Jean Pierre Boon
Published 5 May 2008
(13 pages)
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Nonequilibrium critical dynamics with domain wall and surface
N. J. Zhou and B. Zheng
Published 8 May 2008
(11 pages)
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Brownian motion of a classical harmonic oscillator in a magnetic field
J. I. Jiménez-Aquino, R. M. Velasco, and F. J. Uribe
Published 8 May 2008
(13 pages)
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Theoretical studies of the correlations in moderately asymmetric binary hard-sphere solid mixtures
Vadim B. Warshavsky and Xueyu Song
Published 9 May 2008
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Stochastic resonant damping in a noisy monostable system: Theory and experiment
Giovanni Volpe, Sandro Perrone, J. Miguel Rubi, and Dmitri Petrov
Published 9 May 2008
(7 pages)
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Theoretical investigation of synchronous totally asymmetric exclusion processes on lattices with multiple-input–single-output junctions
Ruili Wang, Mingzhe Liu, and Rui Jiang
Published 9 May 2008
(8 pages)
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Diffusive transport of light in three-dimensional disordered Voronoi structures
Zeinab Sadjadi, MirFaez Miri, and Holger Stark
Published 12 May 2008
(8 pages)
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Two-time Green’s functions and spectral density method in nonextensive quantum statistical mechanics
A. Cavallo, F. Cosenza, and L. De Cesare
Published 12 May 2008
(20 pages)
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Effective temperature of active matter
Davide Loi, Stefano Mossa, and Leticia F. Cugliandolo
Published 12 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Bound-state energy of the three-dimensional Ising model in the broken-symmetry phase: Suppressed finite-size corrections
Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Published 13 May 2008
(5 pages)
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Thermally enhanced stability in fluctuating bistable potentials
Romi Mankin, Erkki Soika, Ako Sauga, and Ain Ainsaar
Published 13 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Gravitational dynamics of an infinite shuffled lattice: Early time evolution and universality of nonlinear correlations
T. Baertschiger, M. Joyce, F. Sylos Labini, and B. Marcos
Published 14 May 2008
(11 pages)
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Multicritical Nishimori point in the phase diagram of the
±
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Ising model on a square lattice
Martin Hasenbusch, Francesco Parisen Toldin, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari
Published 15 May 2008
(10 pages)
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Scaling properties of the asymmetric exclusion process with long-range hopping
J. Szavits-Nossan and K. Uzelac
Published 15 May 2008
(8 pages)
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Self-organized relaxation in a collisionless gravitating system
Yasuhide Sota, Osamu Iguchi, Tohru Tashiro, and Masahiro Morikawa
Published 19 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Universality in early-stage growth of phase-separating domains near the critical point
Ana Oprisan, Sorinel A. Oprisan, John J. Hegseth, Yves Garrabos, Carole Lecoutre-Chabot, and Daniel Beysens
Published 19 May 2008
(13 pages)
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Continuous-time random walk for open systems: Fluctuation theorems and counting statistics
Massimiliano Esposito and Katja Lindenberg
Published 19 May 2008
(12 pages)
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Work fluctuations in quantum spin chains
Sven Dorosz, Thierry Platini, and Dragi Karevski
Published 19 May 2008
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Testing percolation theory in the laboratory: Measuring the critical exponents and fractal dimension during gelation
Yasar Yilmaz, Ali Gelir, Esra Alveroglu, and Nihan Uysal
Published 20 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Existence of an upper critical dimension in the majority voter model
Jae-Suk Yang, In-mook Kim, and Wooseop Kwak
Published 20 May 2008
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Simulation study of earthquakes based on the two-dimensional Burridge-Knopoff model with long-range interactions
Takahiro Mori and Hikaru Kawamura
Published 22 May 2008
(16 pages)
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Entropic rigidity of a crumpling network in a randomly folded thin sheet
Alexander S. Balankin and Orlando Susarrey Huerta
Published 23 May 2008
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Simulating the contact process in heterogeneous environments
S. V. Fallert, J. J. Ludlam, and S. N. Taraskin
Published 23 May 2008
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Vibrational resonance and the detection of aperiodic binary signals
V. N. Chizhevsky and Giovanni Giacomelli
Published 23 May 2008
(7 pages)
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Dynamics of annihilation. I. Linearized Boltzmann equation and hydrodynamics
María Isabel García de Soria, Pablo Maynar, Grégory Schehr, Alain Barrat, and Emmanuel Trizac
Published 28 May 2008
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Dynamics of annihilation. II. Fluctuations of global quantities
Pablo Maynar, María Isabel García de Soria, Grégory Schehr, Alain Barrat, and Emmanuel Trizac
Published 28 May 2008
(14 pages)
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Generalized Cahn-Hilliard equation for biological applications
Evgeniy Khain and Leonard M. Sander
Published 28 May 2008
(7 pages)
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Kinetics of a mixed spin-1 and spin-3/2 Ising system under a time-dependent oscillating magnetic field
Mustafa Keskin, Ersin Kantar, and Osman Canko
Published 28 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Microcanonical quantum fluctuation theorems
Peter Talkner, Peter Hänggi, and Manuel Morillo
Published 29 May 2008
(6 pages)
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Inertial effects in Büttiker-Landauer motor and refrigerator at the overdamped limit
Ronald Benjamin and Ryoichi Kawai
Published 29 May 2008
(11 pages)
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Improved convergence for two-component activity expansions
H. E. DeWitt, F. J. Rogers, and V. Sonnad
Published 30 May 2008
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Aging processes in reversible reaction-diffusion systems
Vlad Elgart and Michel Pleimling
Published 30 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids
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Monte Carlo simulation in the isobaric-multithermal ensemble of a bulk Lennard-Jones fluid system: Thermodynamic quantities for pressure from
P
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=2.42
to 7.25
Chizuru Muguruma and Yuko Okamoto
Published 1 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Charge transport and mass transport in imidazolium-based ionic liquids
J. R. Sangoro, A. Serghei, S. Naumov, P. Galvosas, J. Kärger, C. Wespe, F. Bordusa, and F. Kremer
Published 2 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Pore characterization through propagator-resolved transverse relaxation exchange
K. E. Washburn, C. H. Arns, and P. T. Callaghan
Published 8 May 2008
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Frustration and anomalous behavior in the Bell-Lavis model of liquid water
Marco Aurélio Alves Barbosa and Vera Bohomoletz Henriques
Published 19 May 2008
(15 pages)
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Fundamental-measure density functional for mixtures of parallel hard cylinders
Yuri Martínez-Ratón, José A. Capitán, and José A. Cuesta
Published 19 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Penetrable square-well fluids: Exact results in one dimension
Andrés Santos, Riccardo Fantoni, and Achille Giacometti
Published 19 May 2008
(14 pages)
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Granular materials
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Frequency-dependent fluctuation-dissipation relations in granular gases
Guy Bunin, Yair Shokef, and Dov Levine
Published 9 May 2008
(6 pages)
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Fragmentation processes in impact of spheres
H. A. Carmona, F. K. Wittel, F. Kun, and H. J. Herrmann
Published 9 May 2008
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Stress, strain, and bulk microstructure in a cohesive powder
R. Andersson, W. G. Bouwman, S. Luding, and I. M. de Schepper
Published 9 May 2008
(8 pages)
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Correlated motion in the bulk of dense granular flows
Lydie Staron
Published 15 May 2008
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Pentagon deposits unpack under gentle tapping
Ana M. Vidales, Luis A. Pugnaloni, and Irene Ippolito
Published 19 May 2008
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Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates
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Autocalibrated colloidal interaction measurements with extended optical traps
Marco Polin, Yohai Roichman, and David G. Grier
Published 1 May 2008
(7 pages)
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Particle dynamics within a wetting layer in a colloid-polymer mixture
P. Voudouris, B. Loppinet, and G. Petekidis
Published 6 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Thermodynamics of nanocluster phases: A unifying theory
N. Destainville and L. Foret
Published 27 May 2008
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Structured and complex fluids
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Structure and thermodynamics of a ferrofluid bilayer
Carlos Alvarez, Martial Mazars, and Jean-Jacques Weis
Published 9 May 2008
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Charge fluctuations and correlation lengths in finite electrolytes
Young C. Kim and Michael E. Fisher
Published 23 May 2008
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Theory of dynamic arrest in colloidal mixtures
R. Juárez-Maldonado and M. Medina-Noyola
Published 23 May 2008
(14 pages)
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Large-amplitude jumps and non-Gaussian dynamics in highly concentrated hard sphere fluids
Erica J. Saltzman and Kenneth S. Schweizer
Published 23 May 2008
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Effective temperature dynamics in an athermal amorphous plasticity theory
Eran Bouchbinder
Published 29 May 2008
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Films, interfaces, and crystal growth
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Volume versus surface nucleation in freezing aerosols
Ómar F. Sigurbjörnsson and Ruth Signorell
Published 1 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Phase separation of an asymmetric binary-fluid mixture confined in a nanoscopic slit pore: Molecular-dynamics simulations
Katarzyna Bucior, Leonid Yelash, and Kurt Binder
Published 15 May 2008
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Adsorption of fluids in a pore with chemical heterogeneities: The cooperative effect
Zhikuan Feng, Xianren Zhang, and Wenchuan Wang
Published 15 May 2008
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Iterative reconstruction of a refractive-index profile from x-ray or neutron reflectivity measurements
Thorsten Hohage, Klaus Giewekemeyer, and Tim Salditt
Published 16 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Phase-field simulation of stripe arrays on metal bcc(110) surfaces
Yan-Mei Yu, Rainer Backofen, and Axel Voigt
Published 22 May 2008
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Dislocation dynamics and surface coarsening of rippled states in the epitaxial growth and erosion on (110) crystal surfaces
Leonardo Golubović and Artem Levandovsky
Published 23 May 2008
(12 pages)
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Conformal invariance of isoheight lines in a two-dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang surface
A. A. Saberi, M. D. Niry, S. M. Fazeli, M. R. Rahimi Tabar, and S. Rouhani
Published 23 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Sudden ridge collapse in the stress relaxation of thin crumpled polymer films
Ingo Dierking and Paul Archer
Published 28 May 2008
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Liquid crystals
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Anchoring of nematic liquid crystals on a thin polymeric film
A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, G. Barbero, and L. Komitov
Published 15 May 2008
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Defect-mediated emulsification in two dimensions
K. S. Korolev and David R. Nelson
Published 15 May 2008
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Publisher's Note
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Generalization of Berreman’s model to the case of large amplitude of the grooves
G. Barbero, A. S. Gliozzi, M. Scalerandi, and L. R. Evangelista
Published 19 May 2008
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Topological transitions in two-dimensional lattice models of liquid crystals
H. Chamati and S. Romano
Published 22 May 2008
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Phase behavior of wormlike rods
Giorgio Cinacchi and Luca De Gaetani
Published 27 May 2008
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Thermomechanically driven spirals in a cholesteric liquid crystal
Patrick Oswald and Alain Dequidt
Published 28 May 2008
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Experimental study of high-temperature smectic-
C
F
I
2
∗
phase in chiral smectic liquid crystals that exhibit phase-sequence reversal
K. L. Sandhya, J. K. Song, Yu. P. Panarin, J. K. Vij, and S. Kumar
Published 29 May 2008
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Dynamical numerical model for nematic order reconstruction
G. Lombardo, H. Ayeb, and R. Barberi
Published 29 May 2008
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Energy landscape of a model discotic liquid crystal
Dwaipayan Chakrabarti and David J. Wales
Published 30 May 2008
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Bleaching and stimulated recovery of dyes and of photocantilevers
D. Corbett and M. Warner
Published 30 May 2008
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Polymers
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Effects of nanoscale dispersion in the dielectric properties of poly(vinyl alcohol)-bentonite nanocomposites
María C. Hernández, N. Suárez, Luis A. Martínez, José L. Feijoo, Salvador Lo Mónaco, and Norkys Salazar
Published 2 May 2008
(10 pages)
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Nematic elastomers: From a microscopic model to macroscopic elasticity theory
Xiangjun Xing, Stephan Pfahl, Swagatam Mukhopadhyay, Paul M. Goldbart, and Annette Zippelius
Published 8 May 2008
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Control over phase behavior and solution structure of hairy-rod polyfluorene by means of side-chain length and branching
M. Knaapila, R. Stepanyan, M. Torkkeli, V. M. Garamus, F. Galbrecht, B. S. Nehls, E. Preis, U. Scherf, and A. P. Monkman
Published 8 May 2008
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Exact solution to ideal chain with fixed angular momentum
J. M. Deutsch
Published 13 May 2008
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Characterization of the dynamics of block copolymer microdomains with local morphological measures
S. Rehse, K. Mecke, and R. Magerle
Published 23 May 2008
(8 pages)
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Biological physics
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Domain formation in membranes caused by lipid wetting of protein
Sergey A. Akimov, Vladimir A. J. Frolov, Peter I. Kuzmin, Joshua Zimmerberg, Yuri A. Chizmadzhev, and Fredric S. Cohen
Published 1 May 2008
(17 pages)
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Tilable nature of virus capsids and the role of topological constraints in natural capsid design
Ranjan V. Mannige and Charles L. Brooks, III
Published 1 May 2008
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Effect of external stress on the thermal melting of DNA
Joseph Rudnick and Tatiana Kuriabova
Published 5 May 2008
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Controlling viral capsid assembly with templating
Michael F. Hagan
Published 8 May 2008
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Simulation studies of self-organization of microtubules and molecular motors
Zhiyuan Jia, Dmitry Karpeev, Igor S. Aranson, and Peter W. Bates
Published 8 May 2008
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Attractive membrane domains control lateral diffusion
Martin B. Forstner, Douglas S. Martin, Florian Rückerl, Josef A. Käs, and Carsten Selle
Published 9 May 2008
(7 pages)
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Molecular motion in cell membranes: Analytic study of fence-hindered random walks
V. M. Kenkre, L. Giuggioli, and Z. Kalay
Published 13 May 2008
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Dryland ecosystems: The coupled stochastic dynamics of soil water and vegetation and the role of rainfall seasonality
R. Vezzoli, C. De Michele, H. Pavlopoulos, and R. J. Scholes
Published 13 May 2008
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Interplay between a phase response curve and spike-timing-dependent plasticity leading to wireless clustering
Hideyuki Câteau, Katsunori Kitano, and Tomoki Fukai
Published 13 May 2008
(6 pages)
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Properties of contact matrices induced by pairwise interactions in proteins
Sanzo Miyazawa and Akira R. Kinjo
Published 14 May 2008
(10 pages)
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Deterministic excitable media under Poisson drive: Power law responses, spiral waves, and dynamic range
Tiago L. Ribeiro and Mauro Copelli
Published 14 May 2008
(9 pages)
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During vertebrate development, arteries exert a morphological control over the venous pattern through physical factors
Alia Al-Kilani, Sylvie Lorthois, Thi-Hanh Nguyen, Ferdinand Le Noble, Annemiek Cornelissen, Mathieu Unbekandt, Olena Boryskina, Loïc Leroy, and Vincent Fleury
Published 15 May 2008
(16 pages)
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Strain hardening, avalanches, and strain softening in dense cross-linked actin networks
Jan A. Åström, P. B. Sunil Kumar, Ilpo Vattulainen, and Mikko Karttunen
Published 16 May 2008
(6 pages)
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Controlling limit-cycle behaviors of brain activity
J. W. Kim and P. A. Robinson
Published 19 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Instability-induced hierarchy in bipedal locomotion
Kunishige Ohgane and Kei-Ichi Ueda
Published 19 May 2008
(13 pages)
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Model for the unidirectional motion of a dynein molecule
Sutapa Mukherji
Published 19 May 2008
(8 pages)
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Geometry of the energy landscape and folding transition in a simple model of a protein
Lorenzo N. Mazzoni and Lapo Casetti
Published 29 May 2008
(11 pages)
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Bursting regimes in map-based neuron models coupled through fast threshold modulation
Borja Ibarz, Hongjun Cao, and Miguel A. F. Sanjuán
Published 30 May 2008
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BRIEF REPORTS
Statistical physics
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Role of saddles in topologically driven phase transitions: The case of the
d
-dimensional spherical model
L. Angelani and G. Ruocco
Published 13 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Quantum transitions in Lennard-Jones clusters
Jason Deckman, Pavel A. Frantsuzov, and Vladimir A. Mandelshtam
Published 21 May 2008
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Liquid crystals
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Nonmonotonic behavior of the nematic tilt angle in a temperature-induced surface transition
Giovanni Barbero, Ingolf Dahl, and Lachezar Komitov
Published 23 May 2008
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Flexoelectric polarization in the biaxial nematic phase
A. Kapanowski
Published 28 May 2008
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Part 2 - Nonlinear and Plasma Physics, Fluid Dynamics, and Related Topics
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Interdisciplinary physics
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Optically driven nonlinear microrheology of gelatin
James N. Wilking and Thomas G. Mason
Published 6 May 2008
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Chaos and pattern formation
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Partial control of chaotic systems
Samuel Zambrano, Miguel A. F. Sanjuán, and James A. Yorke
Published 6 May 2008
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Dynamics, correlation scaling, and synchronization behavior in rings of delay-coupled oscillators
Guy Van der Sande, Miguel C. Soriano, Ingo Fischer, and Claudio R. Mirasso
Published 13 May 2008
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Quantum transport and spin dynamics on shearless tori
K. Kudo and T. S. Monteiro
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Fluid dynamics
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Aggregation and fragmentation dynamics of inertial particles in chaotic flows
Jens C. Zahnow, Rafael D. Vilela, Ulrike Feudel, and Tamás Tél
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Dynamics of a sphere with inhomogeneous slip boundary conditions in Stokes flow
Geoff Willmott
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Design principle for improved three-dimensional ac electro-osmotic pumps
Damian Burch and Martin Z. Bazant
Published 9 May 2008
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Intermittency and rough-pipe turbulence
Mohammad Mehrafarin and Nima Pourtolami
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Efficiency of cargo towing by a microswimmer
O. Raz and A. M. Leshansky
Published 29 May 2008
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Two-dimensional elastic turbulence
S. Berti, A. Bistagnino, G. Boffetta, A. Celani, and S. Musacchio
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Highly nonlinear Bragg quasisolitons in the dynamics of water waves
V. P. Ruban
Published 29 May 2008
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Transition to a time-dependent state of fluid flow in the wake of a sphere
K. Gumowski, J. Miedzik, S. Goujon-Durand, P. Jenffer, and J. E. Wesfreid
Published 30 May 2008
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ARTICLES
Interdisciplinary physics
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Three-dimensional space partition based on the first Laplacian eigenvalues in cells
O. Cybulski and R. Hołyst
Published 8 May 2008
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Size-dependent standard deviation for growth rates: Empirical results and theoretical modeling
Boris Podobnik, Davor Horvatic, Fabio Pammolli, Fengzhong Wang, H. Eugene Stanley, and I. Grosse
Published 8 May 2008
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Robustness of networks against fluctuation-induced cascading failures
Dominik Heide, Mirko Schäfer, and Martin Greiner
Published 8 May 2008
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Nonequilibrium critical relaxation of the order parameter and energy in the two-dimensional ferromagnetic Potts model
Keekwon Nam, Bongsoo Kim, and Sung Jong Lee
Published 13 May 2008
(13 pages)
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Evolution of weighted scale-free networks in empirical data
Y.-H. Eom, C. Jeon, H. Jeong, and B. Kahng
Published 16 May 2008
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Intermittency of principal stress directions within Arctic sea ice
Jérôme Weiss
Published 27 May 2008
(5 pages)
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Chaos and pattern formation
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Classical nonlinear response of a chaotic system. I. Collective resonances
Sergey V. Malinin and Vladimir Y. Chernyak
Published 7 May 2008
(21 pages)
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Classical nonlinear response of a chaotic system. II. Langevin dynamics and spectral decomposition
Sergey V. Malinin and Vladimir Y. Chernyak
Published 7 May 2008
(14 pages)
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High-order synchronization, transitions, and competition among Arnold tongues in a rotator under harmonic forcing
David García-Álvarez, Aneta Stefanovska, and Peter V. E. McClintock
Published 7 May 2008
(8 pages)
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Statistics of nodal points of in-plane random waves in elastic media
Dmitrii N. Maksimov and Almas F. Sadreev
Published 8 May 2008
(7 pages)
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Predicting the synchronization time in coupled-map networks
G. X. Qi, H. B. Huang, C. K. Shen, H. J. Wang, and L. Chen
Published 9 May 2008
(6 pages)
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Longitudinal and normal electroconvection rolls in a nematic liquid crystal with positive dielectric and negative conductivity anisotropy
Jana Heuer, Ralf Stannarius, Maria-Gabriela Tamba, and Wolfgang Weissflog
Published 12 May 2008
(11 pages)
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Sinklike spiral waves in oscillatory media with a disk-shaped inhomogeneity
Bing-Wei Li, Hong Zhang, He-Ping Ying, Wen-Qiang Chen, and Gang Hu
Published 15 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Multiple effects of gradient coupling on network synchronization
Xingang Wang, Cangtao Zhou, and Choy Heng Lai
Published 16 May 2008
(5 pages)
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Localized states beyond the asymptotic parametrically driven amplitude equation
M. G. Clerc, S. Coulibaly, and D. Laroze
Published 19 May 2008
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Experimental and numerical investigation of the reflection coefficient and the distributions of Wigner’s reaction matrix for irregular graphs with absorption
Michał Ławniczak, Oleh Hul, Szymon Bauch, Petr Seba, and Leszek Sirko
Published 20 May 2008
(6 pages)
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Anomalous shell effect in the transition from a circular to a triangular billiard
Ken-ichiro Arita and Matthias Brack
Published 20 May 2008
(13 pages)
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Stability of the steady state of delay-coupled chaotic maps on complex networks
Xiaofeng Gong, Shuguang Guan, Xingang Wang, and C.-H. Lai
Published 20 May 2008
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Synchronized patterns induced by distributed time delays
Jie Zhou and Zonghua Liu
Published 23 May 2008
(5 pages)
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Stability of scroll ring orientation in an advective field
Chaiya Luengviriya and Marcus J. B. Hauser
Published 23 May 2008
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Kernel-Granger causality and the analysis of dynamical networks
D. Marinazzo, M. Pellicoro, and S. Stramaglia
Published 27 May 2008
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Quantum jumps of saturation level rigidity and anomalous oscillations of level number variance in the semiclassical spectrum of a modified Kepler problem
J. M. A. S. P. Wickramasinghe, B. Goodman, and R. A. Serota
Published 29 May 2008
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Chaotic properties of isokinetic-isobaric atomic systems under planar shear and elongational flows
Federico Frascoli, Debra J. Searles, and B. D. Todd
Published 30 May 2008
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Stability of Fock states in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate with a regular classical counterpart
Wen-ge Wang, Jie Liu, and Baowen Li
Published 30 May 2008
(8 pages)
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Exact identity for nonlinear wave propagation
Duncan Ralph, Onuttom Narayan, and Richard Montgomery
Published 30 May 2008
(5 pages)
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Fluid dynamics
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Lagrangian particle statistics in turbulent flows from a simple vortex model
M. Wilczek, F. Jenko, and R. Friedrich
Published 1 May 2008
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Physics underlying controlled self-assembly of micro- and nanoparticles at a two-fluid interface using an electric field
Nadine Aubry and Pushpendra Singh
Published 7 May 2008
(11 pages)
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Weakly nonlinear analysis of viscous instability in flow past a neo-Hookean surface
Paresh Chokshi and V. Kumaran
Published 8 May 2008
(15 pages)
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Steady two-layer gravity-driven thin-film flow
Kamran Alba, Roger E. Khayat, and Ramanjit S. Pandher
Published 8 May 2008
(16 pages)
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Dynamical scaling of imbibition in columnar geometries
M. Pradas, A. Hernández-Machado, and M. A. Rodríguez
Published 9 May 2008
(10 pages)
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Hybrid ferrohydrodynamic instability: Coexisting peak and labyrinthine patterns
Ching-Yao Chen, W.-K. Tsai, and José A. Miranda
Published 12 May 2008
(7 pages)
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Permeability and percolation of anisotropic three-dimensional fracture networks
M. Khamforoush, K. Shams, J.-F. Thovert, and P. M. Adler
Published 12 May 2008
(10 pages)
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Effect of the Lorentz force on on-off dynamo intermittency
Alexandros Alexakis and Yannick Ponty
Published 14 May 2008
(7 pages)
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Characteristic lengths affecting evaporative drying of porous media
Peter Lehmann, Shmuel Assouline, and Dani Or
Published 16 May 2008
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Acoustic emission associated with the bursting of a gas bubble at the free surface of a non-Newtonian fluid
T. Divoux, V. Vidal, F. Melo, and J.-C. Géminard
Published 20 May 2008
(7 pages)
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Chaotic mixing in a microchannel utilizing periodically switching electro-osmotic recirculating rolls
Chih-Chang Chang and Ruey-Jen Yang
Published 22 May 2008
(10 pages)
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Comparative experimental study of local mixing of active and passive scalars in turbulent thermal convection
Quan Zhou (周全) and Ke-Qing Xia (夏克青)
Published 23 May 2008
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Multicomponent and multiphase modeling and simulation of reactive wetting
Walter Villanueva, Klara Grönhagen, Gustav Amberg, and John Ågren
Published 28 May 2008
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Magnetized Ekman layer and Stewartson layer in a magnetized Taylor-Couette flow
Wei Liu
Published 30 May 2008
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Stretching fields and mixing near the transition to nonperiodic two-dimensional flow
M. J. Twardos, P. E. Arratia, M. K. Rivera, G. A. Voth, J. P. Gollub, and R. E. Ecke
Published 30 May 2008
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Plasma physics
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Probability distributions of turbulent energy
Mahdi Momeni and Wolf-Christian Müller
Published 7 May 2008
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Betatron oscillations of electrons accelerated in laser wakefields characterized by spectral x-ray analysis
Félicie Albert, Rahul Shah, Kim Ta Phuoc, Romuald Fitour, Fréderic Burgy, Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Amar Tafzi, Denis Douillet, Thierry Lefrou, and Antoine Rousse
Published 7 May 2008
(6 pages)
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Experimental characterization of picosecond laser interaction with solid targets
D. Jung, L. A. Gizzi, L. Labate, D. Neely, M. M. Notley, P. P. Rajeev, M. Roth, and G. Gregori
Published 8 May 2008
(6 pages)
056403 [
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Structure of strongly coupled multicomponent plasmas
K. Wünsch, P. Hilse, M. Schlanges, and D. O. Gericke
Published 12 May 2008
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Classical nucleation theory of the one-component plasma
Randall L. Cooper and Lars Bildsten
Published 12 May 2008
(5 pages)
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Transformation of a tungsten wire to the plasma state by nanosecond electrical explosion in vacuum
G. S. Sarkisov, S. E. Rosenthal, and K. W. Struve
Published 14 May 2008
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Wave-particle interaction at double resonance
A. Zaslavsky, C. Krafft, L. Gorbunov, and A. Volokitin
Published 22 May 2008
(19 pages)
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Numerical studies of ion focusing behind macroscopic obstacles in a supersonic plasma flow
W. J. Miloch, J. Trulsen, and H. L. Pécseli
Published 29 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Renormalized cluster expansion of the microfield distribution in strongly coupled two-component plasmas
H. B. Nersisyan, D. A. Osipyan, and G. Zwicknagel
Published 30 May 2008
(13 pages)
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Weak turbulence theory and simulation of the gyro-water-bag model
Nicolas Besse, Pierre Bertrand, Pierre Morel, and Etienne Gravier
Published 30 May 2008
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Classical physics
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Integrable dynamics of Toda type on square and triangular lattices
P. M. Santini, A. Doliwa, and M. Nieszporski
Published 1 May 2008
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Numerical investigation of isolated crescent singularity
Tao Liang
Published 1 May 2008
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High-speed kinks in a generalized discrete
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Sergey V. Dmitriev, Avinash Khare, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Avadh Saxena, and Ljupćo Hadžievski
Published 2 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Superwide-band negative refraction of a symmetrical E-shaped metamaterial with two electromagnetic resonances
Changchun Yan, Yiping Cui, Qiong Wang, and Shichuang Zhuo
Published 6 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Excitation by a transient signal of the real-valued electromagnetic fields in a cavity
Fatih Erden and Oleg A. Tretyakov
Published 14 May 2008
(10 pages)
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Gap solitons in Ginzburg-Landau media
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Boris A. Malomed
Published 19 May 2008
(9 pages)
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Space charge influence on the angle of conical spikes developing on a liquid-metal anode
G. Sh. Boltachev, N. M. Zubarev, and O. V. Zubareva
Published 22 May 2008
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Construction of curved domain walls
T. Dobrowolski
Published 28 May 2008
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Negative index of refraction in metallic metamaterial comprising split-ring resonators
Zheng-Gao Dong, Shuang-Ying Lei, Ming-Xiang Xu, Hui Liu, Tao Li, Fu-Ming Wang, and Shi-Ning Zhu
Published 29 May 2008
(4 pages)
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Computational physics
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Three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain algorithm for oblique incidence with adaptation of perfectly matched layers and nonuniform meshing: Application to the study of a radar dome
A. Belkhir and F. I. Baida
Published 2 May 2008
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Atomistic mesh generation for the simulation of nanoscale metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors
M. Aldegunde, Natalia Seoane, A. J. García-Loureiro, P. V. Sushko, A. L. Shluger, J. L. Gavartin, K. Kalna, and A. Asenov
Published 8 May 2008
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Straight velocity boundaries in the lattice Boltzmann method
Jonas Latt, Bastien Chopard, Orestis Malaspinas, Michel Deville, and Andreas Michler
Published 13 May 2008
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Topological validation of morphology modeling by extended reverse Monte Carlo analysis
Katsumi Hagita and Takashi Teramoto
Published 15 May 2008
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Stochastic Green function algorithm
V. G. Rousseau
Published 20 May 2008
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Multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann scheme for homogeneous mixture flows with external force
Pietro Asinari
Published 22 May 2008
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Bell-Evans-Polanyi principle for molecular dynamics trajectories and its implications for global optimization
Shantanu Roy, Stefan Goedecker, and Vladimir Hellmann
Published 30 May 2008
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BRIEF REPORTS
Interdisciplinary physics
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Mean size of avalanches on directed random networks with arbitrary degree distributions
James P. Gleeson
Published 19 May 2008
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Chaos and pattern formation
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Chaos synchronization regimes in multiple-time-delay semiconductor lasers
E. M. Shahverdiev and K. A. Shore
Published 7 May 2008
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Fluid dynamics
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Full perturbation solution for the flow in a rotating torus
A. Chupin and R. Stepanov
Published 27 May 2008
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Transitional flow of a yield-stress fluid in a pipe: Evidence of a robust coherent structure
A. Esmael and C. Nouar
Published 30 May 2008
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Classical physics
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Reexamination of Josephson junctions coupled to transmission lines
Anedio Ranfagni, Paolo Moretti, Ilaria Cacciari, and Maria Angela Vitali
Published 13 May 2008
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ERRATA
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Publisher's Note: Influence of acoustic streaming on the stability of a laterally heated three-dimensional cavity [Phys. Rev. E
77
, 046311 (2008)]
W. Dridi, D. Henry, and H. Ben Hadid
Published 2 May 2008
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Publisher's Note: Energy dissipation of a Brownian particle in a viscoelastic fluid [Phys. Rev. E
77
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Shoichi Toyabe and Masaki Sano
Published 5 May 2008
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Erratum: Multicriticality of the three-dimensional Ising model with plaquette interactions: An extension of Novotny’s transfer-matrix formalism [Phys. Rev. E
70
, 026120 (2004)]
Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Published 14 May 2008
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Publisher's Note: Partial control of chaotic systems [Phys. Rev. E
77
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Samuel Zambrano, Miguel A. F. Sanjuán, and James A. Yorke
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