Physical Review E – August 2001
Volume 64, Issue 2

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Soft Matter and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Description of random Gaussian surfaces by a four-vertex model
Jaan Kalda
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Continuously variable survival exponent for random walks with movable partial reflectors
Ronald Dickman and Daniel ben-Avraham
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
020102(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Atomic slide puzzle: Self-diffusion of an impure atom
O. Bénichou and G. Oshanin
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
020103(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Age-dependent dynamics of water in hydrated cement paste
Emiliano Fratini, Sow-Hsin Chen, Piero Baglioni, and Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
020201(R) [View PDF (67 kB)]

Granular materials

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Continuum description of avalanches in granular media
Igor S. Aranson and Lev S. Tsimring
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
020301(R) [View PDF (139 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Atomic size effects in continuum modeling
C. Ratsch, M. Kang, and R. E. Caflisch
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
020601(R) [View PDF (73 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Numerical investigation of optically induced director oscillations in nematic liquid crystals
G. Demeter and L. Kramer
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
020701(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]
See Also: Comment

Polymers

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Gyration radius of a circular polymer under a topological constraint with excluded volume
Miyuki K. Shimamura and Tetsuo Deguchi
Published 11 July 2001 (4 pages)
020801(R) [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Viscoelasticity of dilute solutions of semiflexible polymers
Matteo Pasquali, V. Shankar, and David C. Morse
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
020802(R) [View PDF (122 kB)]

Biological physics

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All-optical measurements of the bending rigidity of lipid-vesicle membranes across structural phase transitions
Chau-Hwang Lee, Wan-Chen Lin, and Jyhpyng Wang
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
020901(R) [View PDF (115 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Adsorption phenomenon and external field effect on an isotropic liquid containing impurities
L. R. Evangelista and G. Barbero
Published 9 July 2001 (7 pages)
021101 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Multiple nonequilibrium steady states for one-dimensional heat flow
Fei Zhang, Dennis J. Isbister, and Denis J. Evans
Published 10 July 2001 (5 pages)
021102 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Aging and self-organized criticality in driven dissipative systems
Paolo Sibani and Christian Maar Andersen
Published 10 July 2001 (5 pages)
021103 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Convergence of Monte Carlo simulations to equilibrium
Onuttom Narayan and A. P. Young
Published 16 July 2001 (4 pages)
021104 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Effect of colored noise on networks of nonlinear oscillators
H. Busch, M.-Th. Hütt, and F. Kaiser
Published 16 July 2001 (5 pages)
021105 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Effective rate equations for the overdamped motion in fluctuating potentials
Andreas Mielke
Published 18 July 2001 (12 pages)
021106 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Do strange kinetics imply unusual thermodynamics?
I. M. Sokolov, J. Klafter, and A. Blumen
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
021107 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Fluctuations in the presence of fields: Phenomenological Gaussian approximation and a class of thermodynamic inequalities
S. Dumitru and A. Boer
Published 19 July 2001 (11 pages)
021108 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Rectification by hopping motion through nonsymmetric potentials: Local versus global bias
Markus Porto
Published 26 July 2001 (4 pages)
021109 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of canonical-dissipative systems and applications to swarm dynamics
Frank Schweitzer, Werner Ebeling, and Benno Tilch
Published 27 July 2001 (12 pages)
021110 [View PDF (203 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Energy and pressure of shearing fluids at different state points
Jialin Ge, Gianluca Marcelli, B. D. Todd, and Richard J. Sadus
Published 19 July 2001 (5 pages)
021201 [View PDF (72 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Molecular dynamics study of the longitudinal modes in disparate-mass binary liquid mixtures
N. Anento and J. A. Padró
Published 20 July 2001 (10 pages)
021202 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Quantum effects in the dynamics of He probed by inelastic x-ray scattering
R. Verbeni, A. Cunsolo, G. Pratesi, G. Monaco, F. Rosica, C. Masciovecchio, M. Nardone, G. Ruocco, F. Sette, and F. Albergamo
Published 24 July 2001 (6 pages)
021203 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Diffusion of hard disks and rodlike molecules on surfaces
J. M. Lahtinen, T. Hjelt, T. Ala-Nissila, and Z. Chvoj
Published 24 July 2001 (7 pages)
021204 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Theory of the generalized dynamic structure factor of polyatomic molecular fluids measured by inelastic x-ray scattering
Ciya Liao and Sow-Hsin Chen
Published 26 July 2001 (10 pages)
021205 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Adsorption of Lennard-Jones fluid mixture in a planar slit: A perturbative density functional approach
Niharendu Choudhury and Swapan K. Ghosh
Published 27 July 2001 (10 pages)
021206 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Granular materials

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Numerical investigation of the angle of repose of monosized spheres
Y. C. Zhou, B. H. Xu, A. B. Yu, and P. Zulli
Published 18 July 2001 (8 pages)
021301 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Effect of vibration on the stability of a gas-fluidized bed of fine powder
J. M. Valverde, A. Castellanos, and M. A. S. Quintanilla
Published 18 July 2001 (8 pages)
021302 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Calcium rubidium nitrate: Mode-coupling β scaling without factorization
M. Goldammer, C. Losert, J. Wuttke, W. Petry, F. Terki, H. Schober, and P. Lunkenheimer
Published 19 July 2001 (8 pages)
021303 [View PDF (144 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Permeability and conductivity for reconstruction models of porous media
R. Hilfer and C. Manwart
Published 26 July 2001 (4 pages)
021304 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Interpretation of small-angle x-ray scattering data from dilute montmorillonite suspensions using a modified Guinier approximation
C. Shang and J. A. Rice
Published 18 July 2001 (6 pages)
021401 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Weak and strong dynamic scaling in a one-dimensional driven coupled-field model: Effects of kinematic waves
Dibyendu Das, Abhik Basu, Mustansir Barma, and Sriram Ramaswamy
Published 18 July 2001 (15 pages)
021402 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulations of the nucleation and growth process of colloidal particles
Chia-Yi Yang, Wan Y. Shih, and Wei-Heng Shih
Published 19 July 2001 (9 pages)
021403 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Stress relaxation of near-critical gels
Kurt Broderix, Timo Aspelmeier, Alexander K. Hartmann, and Annette Zippelius
Published 19 July 2001 (19 pages)
021404 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Strong electrostatic interactions in spherical colloidal systems
René Messina, Christian Holm, and Kurt Kremer
Published 20 July 2001 (14 pages)
021405 [View PDF (577 kB)]
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Pattern and wave number selection in magnetic fluids
René Friedrichs and Andreas Engel
Published 20 July 2001 (10 pages)
021406 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Direct observation of crystallization and aggregation in a phase-separating colloid-polymer suspension
E. H. A. de Hoog, W. K. Kegel, A. van Blaaderen, and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker
Published 26 July 2001 (9 pages)
021407 [View PDF (537 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Periodic surfaces of simple and complex topology: Comparison of scattering patterns
Piotr Garstecki and Robert Hołyst
Published 11 July 2001 (6 pages)
021501 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Conductivity of an inverse lyotropic lamellar phase under shear flow
P. Panizza, L. Soubiran, C. Coulon, and D. Roux
Published 16 July 2001 (7 pages)
021502 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Three-dimensional hydrodynamic lattice-gas simulations of domain growth and self-assembly in binary immiscible and ternary amphiphilic fluids
Peter J. Love, Peter V. Coveney, and Bruce M. Boghosian
Published 17 July 2001 (12 pages)
021503 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Temperature effects on the static and dynamic properties of liquid water inside nanotubes
J. Martí and M. C. Gordillo
Published 18 July 2001 (6 pages)
021504 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Crossover from fragile to strong glassy behavior in kinetically constrained systems
Arnaud Buhot and Juan P. Garrahan
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
021505 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics study of the stability of the hard sphere glass
S. R. Williams, I. K. Snook, and W. van Megen
Published 19 July 2001 (7 pages)
021506 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Cascades of popping bubbles along air/foam interfaces
N. Vandewalle and J. F. Lentz
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
021507 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Flow of a ferrofluid down a tube in an oscillating magnetic field
B. U. Felderhof
Published 19 July 2001 (7 pages)
021508 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Bubble propagation in a pipe filled with sand
Damien Gendron, Herve Troadec, Knut Jørgen Måløy, and Eirik G. Flekkøy
Published 23 July 2001 (6 pages)
021509 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Aging dynamics in a colloidal glass
Bérengère Abou, Daniel Bonn, and Jacques Meunier
Published 24 July 2001 (6 pages)
021510 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulation of the fragile glass former orthoterphenyl: A flexible molecule model. II. Collective dynamics
S. Mossa, G. Ruocco, and M. Sampoli
Published 24 July 2001 (10 pages)
021511 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Weighted density functional theory of the solvophobic effect
Sean X. Sun
Published 24 July 2001 (9 pages)
021512 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Kinetics of phase separation in polymer-solvent mixtures
Jitendra Sharma and Sanjay Puri
Published 26 July 2001 (10 pages)
021513 [View PDF (652 kB)]
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Macromolecular theory of solvation and structure in mixtures of colloids and polymers
M. Fuchs and K. S. Schweizer
Published 27 July 2001 (19 pages)
021514 [View PDF (256 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Motion of grains, droplets, and bubbles in fluid-filled nanopores
Nazar Sushko and Marek Cieplak
Published 16 July 2001 (8 pages)
021601 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Microstructure evolution and plasticity in Zr-based glass-forming alloys
M. Papoular
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
021602 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Nonlocal diffuse interface theory of thin films and the moving contact line
L. M. Pismen
Published 18 July 2001 (9 pages)
021603 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Sharp interface limits of phase-field models
K. R. Elder, Martin Grant, Nikolas Provatas, and J. M. Kosterlitz
Published 19 July 2001 (18 pages)
021604 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Surface nuclear magnetic relaxation and dynamics of water and oil in macroporous media
S. Godefroy, J.-P. Korb, M. Fleury, and R. G. Bryant
Published 24 July 2001 (13 pages)
021605 [View PDF (179 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Phase ordering in nematic liquid crystals
Colin Denniston, Enzo Orlandini, and J. M. Yeomans
Published 16 July 2001 (11 pages)
021701 [View PDF (400 kB)]
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Structure of freely suspended chiral smectic films as determined by x-ray reflectivity and optical ellipsometry
A. Fera, R. Opitz, W. H. de Jeu, B. I. Ostrovskii, D. Schlauf, and Ch. Bahr
Published 17 July 2001 (8 pages)
021702 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Temperature-induced surface transition in nematic liquid crystals oriented by evaporated SiOx
G. Barbero, P. Jägemalm, and A. K. Zvezdin
Published 17 July 2001 (5 pages)
021703 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Bloch wave approach to the optics of crystals
S. Ponti, C. Oldano, and M. Becchi
Published 18 July 2001 (9 pages)
021704 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Resonant x-ray scattering study of the antiferroelectric and ferrielectric phases in liquid crystal devices
L. S. Matkin, S. J. Watson, H. F. Gleeson, R. Pindak, J. Pitney, P. M. Johnson, C. C. Huang, P. Barois, A.-M. Levelut, G. Srajer, J. Pollmann, J. W. Goodby, and M. Hird
Published 18 July 2001 (6 pages)
021705 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Deformation of liquid crystal droplets under the action of an external ac electric field
B. I. Lev, V. G. Nazarenko, A. B. Nych, D. Schur, P. M. Tomchuk, J. Yamamoto, and H. Yokoyama
Published 23 July 2001 (5 pages)
021706 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Induction of orientational order in the isotropic phase of a nematic liquid crystal
M. Simões, P. R. Fernandes, A. J. Palangana, and S. M. Domiciano
Published 23 July 2001 (11 pages)
021707 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Optical determination of flexoelectric coefficients and surface polarization in a hybrid aligned nematic cell
A. Mazzulla, F. Ciuchi, and J. R. Sambles
Published 24 July 2001 (6 pages)
021708 [View PDF (226 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Holes and disclinations in hybrid nematic liquid crystal films
Michi Nakata, Darren R. Link, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 26 July 2001 (8 pages)
021709 [View PDF (1,055 kB)]
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Shape model for the molecular interpretation of the flexoelectric effect
Alberta Ferrarini
Published 26 July 2001 (11 pages)
021710 [View PDF (400 kB)]

Polymers

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Many-body interactions and correlations in coarse-grained descriptions of polymer solutions
P. G. Bolhuis, A. A. Louis, and J. P. Hansen
Published 23 July 2001 (12 pages)
021801 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Effects of a nanoscopic filler on the structure and dynamics of a simulated polymer melt and the relationship to ultrathin films
Francis W. Starr, Thomas B. Schrøder, and Sharon C. Glotzer
Published 27 July 2001 (5 pages)
021802 [View PDF (227 kB)]

Biological physics

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Semiempirical prediction of protein folds
Ariel Fernández, Andrés Colubri, and Gustavo Appignanesi
Published 10 July 2001 (14 pages)
021901 [View PDF (2,064 kB)]
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Nonlinear focusing of DNA macromolecules
Leonid L. Frumin, Sergey E. Peltek, and Gleb V. Zilberstein
Published 17 July 2001 (5 pages)
021902 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Effects of anatomical constraints on tumor growth
B. Capogrosso Sansone, P. P. Delsanto, M. Magnano, and M. Scalerandi
Published 18 July 2001 (8 pages)
021903 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Curved tails in polymerization-based bacterial motility
Andrew D. Rutenberg and Martin Grant
Published 19 July 2001 (7 pages)
021904 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Neural-network analysis of the vibrational spectra of N-acetyl L-alanyl N′-methyl amide conformational states
H. G. Bohr, K. Frimand, K. J. Jalkanen, R. M. Nieminen, and S. Suhai
Published 20 July 2001 (13 pages)
021905 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Simulated ecology-driven sympatric speciation
J. S. Sá Martins, S. Moss de Oliveira, and G. A. de Medeiros
Published 20 July 2001 (6 pages)
021906 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Osmotic properties of DNA: Critical evaluation of counterion condensation theory
Per Lyngs Hansen, Rudi Podgornik, and V. Adrian Parsegian
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
021907 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Active membrane fluctuations studied by micropipet aspiration
J.-B. Manneville, P. Bassereau, S. Ramaswamy, and J. Prost
Published 24 July 2001 (10 pages)
021908 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Information transfer with rate-modulated Poisson processes: A simple model for nonstationary stochastic resonance
Igor Goychuk
Published 24 July 2001 (6 pages)
021909 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Effects of thermal fluctuation and the receptor-receptor interaction in bacterial chemotactic signaling and adaptation
Yu Shi
Published 24 July 2001 (8 pages)
021910 [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Wetting of biological lipids on aqueous substrates
Noushine Shahidzadeh, Daniel Bonn, Jacques Meunier, and Alain Mavon
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
021911 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Theoretical model of neuronal population coding of stimuli with both continuous and discrete dimensions
Valeria Del Prete and Alessandro Treves
Published 25 July 2001 (12 pages)
021912 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in a Hodgkin-Huxley neuron in the absence of external noise
D. T. W. Chik, Yuqing Wang, and Z. D. Wang
Published 26 July 2001 (6 pages)
021913 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Small world effects in evolution
Franco Bagnoli and Michele Bezzi
Published 26 July 2001 (9 pages)
021914 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Patchy environment as a factor of complex plankton dynamics
Alexander B. Medvinsky, Irene A. Tikhonova, Rubin R. Aliev, Bai-Lian Li, Zhen-Shan Lin, and Horst Malchow
Published 26 July 2001 (7 pages)
021915 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Non-Debye dielectric relaxation in biological structures arises from their fractal nature
Valerică Raicu, Takayuki Sato, and Georgeta Raicu
Published 27 July 2001 (10 pages)
021916 [View PDF (490 kB)]
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Stationary solutions of linear stochastic delay differential equations: Applications to biological systems
T. D. Frank and P. J. Beek
Published 27 July 2001 (12 pages)
021917 [View PDF (168 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Nonequilibrium steady-state circulation and heat dissipation functional
Hong Qian
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
022101 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Zero-frequency critical bulk viscosity: Is the amplitude ratio truly universal?
Palash Das and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
022201 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Rotational tracer diffusion in binary colloidal sphere mixtures
Gijsberta H. Koenderink, Haiyan Zhang, Minne P. Lettinga, Gerhard Nägele, and Albert P. Philipse
Published 24 July 2001 (4 pages)
022401 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Properties of surface wave trains excited by mass transfer through a liquid surface
A. Wierschem, H. Linde, and M. G. Velarde
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
022601 [View PDF (251 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Casimir torques between anisotropic boundaries in nematic liquid crystals
Ramin Golestanian, Armand Ajdari, and Jean-Baptiste Fournier
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
022701 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Biological physics

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Prediction of stable walking for a toy that cannot stand
Michael J. Coleman, Mariano Garcia, Katja Mombaur, and Andy Ruina
Published 20 July 2001 (3 pages)
022901 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Nuclear-spin relaxation induced by shape fluctuations in membrane vesicles
M. Vilfan, G. Althoff, I. Vilfan, and G. Kothe
Published 26 July 2001 (4 pages)
022902 [View PDF (58 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Giant strongly connected component of directed networks
S. N. Dorogovtsev, J. F. F. Mendes, and A. N. Samukhin
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
025101(R) [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Clustering and preferential attachment in growing networks
M. E. J. Newman
Published 26 July 2001 (4 pages)
025102(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Tunneling mechanism due to chaos in a complex phase space
T. Onishi, A. Shudo, K. S. Ikeda, and K. Takahashi
Published 17 July 2001 (4 pages)
025201(R) [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Chaotic self-trapping of a weakly irreversible double Bose condensate
P. Coullet and N. Vandenberghe
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
025202(R) [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Robust chaos in smooth unimodal maps
M. Andrecut and M. K. Ali
Published 19 July 2001 (3 pages)
025203(R) [View PDF (79 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Effects of nonionizing prepulses in high-intensity laser-solid interactions
K. B. Wharton, C. D. Boley, A. M. Komashko, A. M. Rubenchik, J. Zweiback, J. Crane, G. Hays, T. E. Cowan, and T. Ditmire
Published 17 July 2001 (4 pages)
025401(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Self-excited vertical oscillations in an rf-discharge dusty plasma
A. A. Samarian, B. W. James, S. V. Vladimirov, and N. F. Cramer
Published 26 July 2001 (4 pages)
025402(R) [View PDF (225 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Long-time fluctuations in a dynamical model of stock market indices
Ofer Biham, Zhi-Feng Huang, Ofer Malcai, and Sorin Solomon
Published 9 July 2001 (5 pages)
026101 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Dynamics of a spin-1 Ising system in the neighborhood of equilibrium states
Rıza Erdem and Mustafa Keskin
Published 10 July 2001 (9 pages)
026102 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Multifractal random walk
E. Bacry, J. Delour, and J. F. Muzy
Published 17 July 2001 (4 pages)
026103 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Variations of the asset prices
Michael Schulz, Steffen Trimper, and Beatrix Schulz
Published 17 July 2001 (5 pages)
026104 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Ordering dynamics of the driven lattice-gas model
E. Levine, Y. Kafri, and D. Mukamel
Published 18 July 2001 (5 pages)
026105 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Quantum vortices in systems obeying a generalized exclusion principle
G. Kaniadakis and A. M. Scarfone
Published 18 July 2001 (5 pages)
026106 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Dynamics and critical behavior of the q model
Marta Lewandowska, H. Mathur, and Y.-K. Yu
Published 18 July 2001 (29 pages)
026107 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Diffusion-limited reaction in the presence of n traps
D. Bar
Published 18 July 2001 (10 pages)
026108 [View PDF (160 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Efficient transition path sampling for nonequilibrium stochastic dynamics
Gavin E. Crooks and David Chandler
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
026109 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Noise properties of stochastic processes and entropy production
Bidhan Chandra Bag, Suman Kumar Banik, and Deb Shankar Ray
Published 19 July 2001 (7 pages)
026110 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Microscopic self-organization in networks
Kai Sun and Qi Ouyang
Published 19 July 2001 (5 pages)
026111 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Constant pressure molecular dynamics on a hypercylinder
V. A. Ryabov
Published 19 July 2001 (6 pages)
026112 [View PDF (113 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Scaling theory and spreading dynamics in systems with one absorbing state derived from an equilibrium statistical model
Renate Albat
Published 19 July 2001 (10 pages)
026113 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Extremal optimization for graph partitioning
Stefan Boettcher and Allon G. Percus
Published 20 July 2001 (13 pages)
026114 [View PDF (1,010 kB)]
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Percolation threshold, Fisher exponent, and shortest path exponent for four and five dimensions
Gerald Paul, Robert M. Ziff, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 23 July 2001 (8 pages)
026115 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Unstable decay and state selection
Alan McKane and Martin Tarlie
Published 23 July 2001 (19 pages)
026116 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Effects of noise coherence on stochastic resonance enhancement in a bithreshold system
Marisciel Litong, Yoshinori Hayakawa, and Yasuji Sawada
Published 24 July 2001 (5 pages)
026117 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and their applications
M. E. J. Newman, S. H. Strogatz, and D. J. Watts
Published 24 July 2001 (17 pages)
026118 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Relevance of percolation theory to the vulcanization transition
Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull
Published 24 July 2001 (8 pages)
026119 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Adiabatic elimination and reduced probability distribution functions in spatially extended systems with a fluctuating control parameter
François Drolet and Jorge Viñals
Published 24 July 2001 (8 pages)
026120 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Fractional non-Brownian motion and trapping-time distributions of grains in rice piles
K. I. Hopcraft, R. M. J. Tanner, E. Jakeman, and J. P. Graves
Published 24 July 2001 (6 pages)
026121 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Construction of an effective Hamiltonian for a three-dimensional Ising universality class
A. Brognara, A. Parola, and L. Reatto
Published 25 July 2001 (12 pages)
026122 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Crossover between ordinary and normal transitions in the presence of a bulk field
A. Maciołek, A. Drzewiński, and A. Ciach
Published 25 July 2001 (7 pages)
026123 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Unconventional decay law for excited states in closed many-body systems
V. V. Flambaum and F. M. Izrailev
Published 26 July 2001 (4 pages)
026124 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Crossover parametric equation of state for Ising-like systems
V. A. Agayan, M. A. Anisimov, and J. V. Sengers
Published 26 July 2001 (19 pages)
026125 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Symmetry breaking and phase coexistence in a driven diffusive two-channel system
Vladislav Popkov and Ingo Peschel
Published 26 July 2001 (9 pages)
026126 [View PDF (358 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Origin of quantum chaos for two particles interacting by short-range potentials
M. Van Vessen, Jr., M. C. Santos, Bin Kang Cheng, and M. G. E. da Luz
Published 10 July 2001 (5 pages)
026201 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Characteristics of a piecewise smooth area-preserving map
Jian Wang, Xiao-Ling Ding, Bambi Hu, Bing-Hong Wang, Jian-Shan Mao, and Da-Ren He
Published 16 July 2001 (9 pages)
026202 [View PDF (828 kB)]
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Effects of geometrical ray chaos on the electromagnetic eigenmodes of a gradient index optical cavity
P. B. Wilkinson, T. M. Fromhold, R. P. Taylor, and A. P. Micolich
Published 16 July 2001 (7 pages)
026203 [View PDF (862 kB)]
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Clustering of noise-induced oscillations
O. V. Sosnovtseva, A. I. Fomin, D. E. Postnov, and V. S. Anishchenko
Published 17 July 2001 (4 pages)
026204 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Loss of coherence in a system of globally coupled maps
O. Popovych, Yu. Maistrenko, and E. Mosekilde
Published 17 July 2001 (11 pages)
026205 [View PDF (727 kB)]
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Phase synchronization of diffusively coupled Rössler oscillators with funnel attractors
H. L. Yang
Published 17 July 2001 (5 pages)
026206 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Domain coexistence in nonlinear optical pattern formation
Svetlana L. Lachinova and Weiping Lu
Published 17 July 2001 (5 pages)
026207 [View PDF (555 kB)]
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Pattern formation on trees
M. G. Cosenza and K. Tucci
Published 18 July 2001 (9 pages)
026208 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Explosion of limit cycles and chaotic waves in a simple nonlinear chemical system
Morten Brøns and Jeppe Sturis
Published 18 July 2001 (6 pages)
026209 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Sporadic randomness: The transition from the stationary to the nonstationary condition
Massimiliano Ignaccolo, Paolo Grigolini, and Angelo Rosa
Published 19 July 2001 (11 pages)
026210 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Diffusion by extrinsic noise in a two-dimensional anisotropic web mapping
Gunyoung Park and C. S. Chang
Published 19 July 2001 (10 pages)
026211 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Quantum-classical correspondence in polygonal billiards
Jan Wiersig
Published 19 July 2001 (8 pages)
026212 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Extracting dynamical structure from unstable periodic orbits
Kevin T. Dolan
Published 19 July 2001 (9 pages)
026213 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Detecting unstable periodic orbits in chaotic continuous-time dynamical systems
Detlef Pingel, Peter Schmelcher, and Fotis K. Diakonos
Published 19 July 2001 (10 pages)
026214 [View PDF (487 kB)]
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Replacement manifolds: A method to uniformize semiclassical wave functions
Jiří Vaníček and Eric J. Heller
Published 19 July 2001 (11 pages)
026215 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Chaos in a Jahn-Teller molecule
R. S. Markiewicz
Published 20 July 2001 (5 pages)
026216 [View PDF (432 kB)]
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Quantum-classical correspondence for the equilibrium distributions of two interacting spins
J. Emerson and L. E. Ballentine
Published 20 July 2001 (11 pages)
026217 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Local and global control of high-period unstable orbits in reversible maps
Yu. L. Bolotin, V. Yu. Gonchar, A. A. Krokhin, P. H. Hernández-Tejeda, A. Tur, and V. V. Yanovsky
Published 20 July 2001 (10 pages)
026218 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal dynamics near a supercritical Turing-Hopf bifurcation in a two-dimensional reaction-diffusion system
W. Just, M. Bose, S. Bose, H. Engel, and E. Schöll
Published 23 July 2001 (12 pages)
026219 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Positive Lyapunov exponents calculated from time series of strange nonchaotic attractors
Jian-Wei Shuai, Jun Lian, Philip J. Hahn, and Dominique M. Durand
Published 23 July 2001 (5 pages)
026220 [View PDF (144 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Detecting functional relationships between simultaneous time series
C. L. Goodridge, L. M. Pecora, T. L. Carroll, and F. J. Rachford
Published 23 July 2001 (10 pages)
026221 [View PDF (899 kB)]
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Stochastic aspects of one-dimensional discrete dynamical systems: Benford’s law
Mark A. Snyder, James H. Curry, and Anne M. Dougherty
Published 26 July 2001 (5 pages)
026222 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Translational motion of two interacting bubbles in a strong acoustic field
Alexander A. Doinikov
Published 16 July 2001 (6 pages)
026301 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Effect of large-scale intermittency and mean shear on scaling-range exponents in a turbulent jet
J. Mi and R. A. Antonia
Published 17 July 2001 (8 pages)
026302 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of fluid turbulence: A unified approach to the maximum transport properties
Hisashi Ozawa, Shinya Shimokawa, and Hirofumi Sakuma
Published 18 July 2001 (8 pages)
026303 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Mean-field theory for a passive scalar advected by a turbulent velocity field with a random renewal time
Tov Elperin, Nathan Kleeorin, Igor Rogachevskii, and Dmitry Sokoloff
Published 19 July 2001 (9 pages)
026304 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Field theoretic calculation of renormalized viscosity, renormalized resistivity, and energy fluxes of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Mahendra K. Verma
Published 20 July 2001 (4 pages)
026305 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Large negative velocity gradients in Burgers turbulence
A. I. Chernykh and M. G. Stepanov
Published 20 July 2001 (9 pages)
026306 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Inertial effects on reactive particles advected by turbulence
R. Reigada, F. Sagués, and J. M. Sancho
Published 23 July 2001 (9 pages)
026307 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Gap size effects for the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a Hele-Shaw cell
L. Meignin, P. Ern, P. Gondret, and M. Rabaud
Published 24 July 2001 (6 pages)
026308 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Kinetic theory of point vortices: Diffusion coefficient and systematic drift
P. H. Chavanis
Published 24 July 2001 (28 pages)
026309 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Near-infrared emissions in single-bubble and multibubble sonoluminescence
Thomas J. Matula, Jingfeng Guan, Lawrence A. Crum, Alex L. Robinson, and Lloyd W. Burgess
Published 24 July 2001 (3 pages)
026310 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Quantum mechanical representation of acoustic streaming and acoustic radiation pressure
Masanori Sato and Toshitaka Fujii
Published 24 July 2001 (5 pages)
026311 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Asymptotic analysis and renormalized perturbation theory of the non-Hermitian dynamics of an inviscid vortex
Francesco Volponi, Swadesh M. Mahajan, and Zensho Yoshida
Published 26 July 2001 (6 pages)
026312 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Apparent secondary-electron emission coefficient and the voltage-current characteristics of argon glow discharges
Z. Donkó
Published 16 July 2001 (9 pages)
026401 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Time-resolved imaging of spatiotemporal patterns in a one-dimensional dielectric-barrier discharge system
M. Klein, N. Miller, and M. Walhout
Published 18 July 2001 (5 pages)
026402 [View PDF (718 kB)]
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Interaction of a rodlike charged macroparticle with a flowing plasma
S. V. Vladimirov and M. Nambu
Published 18 July 2001 (7 pages)
026403 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Propagation of a randomized 600-ps laser beam in a helium gas jet over long scale lengths
J. Faure, V. Malka, and F. Amiranoff
Published 18 July 2001 (7 pages)
026404 [View PDF (536 kB)]
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Harmonics generation in electron-ion collisions in a short laser pulse
H. Haberland, M. Bonitz, and D. Kremp
Published 18 July 2001 (5 pages)
026405 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Lorentz force effects on the electron energy distribution in inductively coupled plasmas
V. A. Godyak, B. M. Alexandrovich, and V. I. Kolobov
Published 20 July 2001 (10 pages)
026406 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Long-time discrete particle effects versus kinetic theory in the self-consistent single-wave model
M-C. Firpo, F. Doveil, Y. Elskens, P. Bertrand, M. Poleni, and D. Guyomarc’h
Published 20 July 2001 (10 pages)
026407 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Transition from the C3-dominated discharge to the sooting plasma
Shoaib Ahmad, Bashir Ahmad, and Tasneem Riffat
Published 23 July 2001 (5 pages)
026408 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Transport properties in a two-temperature plasma: Theory and application
V. Rat, P. André, J. Aubreton, M. F. Elchinger, P. Fauchais, and A. Lefort
Published 23 July 2001 (20 pages)
026409 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Analytic models of high-temperature hohlraums
W. A. Stygar, R. E. Olson, R. B. Spielman, and R. J. Leeper
Published 24 July 2001 (11 pages)
026410 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Absorption of femtosecond laser pulses in interaction with solid targets
Q. L. Dong, J. Zhang, and H. Teng
Published 24 July 2001 (6 pages)
026411 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Motion of SFx+ (x=1–3,5) and ion conversion in SF6-N2 mixtures
E. Basurto and J. de Urquijo
Published 24 July 2001 (5 pages)
026412 [View PDF (547 kB)]
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Nyquist method for Wigner-Poisson quantum plasmas
F. Haas, G. Manfredi, and J. Goedert
Published 25 July 2001 (8 pages)
026413 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Nonlinear collisional absorption in dense laser plasmas
Th. Bornath, M. Schlanges, P. Hilse, and D. Kremp
Published 27 July 2001 (12 pages)
026414 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Broadband optical gain via interference in the free electron laser: Principles and proposed realizations
Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Gershon Kurizki, and Marlan O. Scully
Published 11 July 2001 (5 pages)
026501 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Local energy exchange in a storage-ring free-electron laser
G. De Ninno, M. E. Couprie, D. Nutarelli, D. Garzella, E. Renault, and M. Billardon
Published 17 July 2001 (8 pages)
026502 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Invariants for time-dependent Hamiltonian systems
Jürgen Struckmeier and Claus Riedel
Published 17 July 2001 (9 pages)
026503 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Apparent superluminal propagation of a laser pulse in a dispersive medium
P. Sprangle, J. R. Peñano, and B. Hafizi
Published 19 July 2001 (5 pages)
026504 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Microwave-induced control of free-electron-laser radiation
A. J. Blasco, L. Plaja, L. Roso, and F. H. M. Faisal
Published 25 July 2001 (5 pages)
026505 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Discrete vortex solitons
B. A. Malomed and P. G. Kevrekidis
Published 10 July 2001 (6 pages)
026601 [View PDF (725 kB)]
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Iwasawa effects in multilayer optics
Elena Georgieva and Y. S. Kim
Published 10 July 2001 (6 pages)
026602 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Fields of optical waveguides as waves in free space
S. V. Kukhlevsky, G. Nyitray, and V. L. Kantsyrev
Published 16 July 2001 (6 pages)
026603 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Collisions between spatiotemporal solitons of different dimensionality in a planar waveguide
Hector E. Nistazakis, Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis, and Boris A. Malomed
Published 17 July 2001 (8 pages)
026604 [View PDF (212 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Dielectrophoretic manipulation of macromolecules: The electric field
D. S. Clague and E. K. Wheeler
Published 18 July 2001 (8 pages)
026605 [View PDF (475 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Transmission delay times of localized waves
H. Schomerus
Published 18 July 2001 (9 pages)
026606 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Interactions of vector solitons
Jianke Yang
Published 18 July 2001 (16 pages)
026607 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Compacton solutions in a class of generalized fifth-order Korteweg–de Vries equations
Fred Cooper, James M. Hyman, and Avinash Khare
Published 20 July 2001 (13 pages)
026608 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Universal photonic tunneling time
Salvatore Esposito
Published 20 July 2001 (8 pages)
026609 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Investigation of transition radiation from a regular-roughness interface
R. A. Baghiyan
Published 23 July 2001 (10 pages)
026610 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Multipulses in discrete Hamiltonian nonlinear systems
P. G. Kevrekidis
Published 24 July 2001 (5 pages)
026611 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Influence of the relative refractive index on the depolarization of multiply scattered waves
A. D. Kim and M. Moscoso
Published 24 July 2001 (5 pages)
026612 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Interaction between sine-Gordon breathers
P. G. Kevrekidis, A. Saxena, and A. R. Bishop
Published 25 July 2001 (5 pages)
026613 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Dynamics of solitons and quasisolitons of the cubic third-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation
V. I. Karpman, J. J. Rasmussen, and A. G. Shagalov
Published 27 July 2001 (13 pages)
026614 [View PDF (173 kB)]

Computational physics

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Rigorous classical-mechanical derivation of a multiple-copy algorithm for sampling statistical mechanical ensembles
Christopher Adam Hixson and Ralph A. Wheeler
Published 10 July 2001 (6 pages)
026701 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Parity problem with a cellular automaton solution
K. M. Lee, Hao Xu, and H. F. Chau
Published 11 July 2001 (4 pages)
026702 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Atomic charges in molecular mechanical force fields: A theoretical insight
Yaoquan Tu and Aatto Laaksonen
Published 17 July 2001 (7 pages)
026703 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Spectra of “real-world” graphs: Beyond the semicircle law
Illés J. Farkas, Imre Derényi, Albert-László Barabási, and Tamás Vicsek
Published 20 July 2001 (12 pages)
026704 [View PDF (163 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Damage-spreading phase and damage-frozen phase in a solid-on-solid model
Yup Kim
Published 9 July 2001 (4 pages)
027101 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Propagation failure in discrete bistable reaction-diffusion systems: Theory and experiments
J. C. Comte, S. Morfu, and P. Marquié
Published 17 July 2001 (4 pages)
027102 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Area-slope relation in a simple erosion model
Hajime Inaoka
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
027103 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Probabilistic properties of wavelets in kinetic surface roughening
A. Bershadskii
Published 23 July 2001 (4 pages)
027104 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Dilute Bose gas in two dimensions: Density expansions and the Gross-Pitaevskii equation
A. Yu. Cherny and A. A. Shanenko
Published 27 July 2001 (4 pages)
027105 [View PDF (66 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Level spacings and periodic orbits
Stefan Keppeler
Published 17 July 2001 (4 pages)
027201 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Vortex pairs in viscoelastic Couette-Taylor flow
Matthias Lange and Bruno Eckhardt
Published 10 July 2001 (4 pages)
027301 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Phase transitions and critical phenomena in the liquid bridge under lateral acceleration
Minseok Park, Chahn Lee, and Jongbae Hong
Published 16 July 2001 (4 pages)
027302 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Power-law scaling in Bénard-Marangoni convection at large Prandtl numbers
Thomas Boeck and André Thess
Published 18 July 2001 (4 pages)
027303 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Waves in strongly magnetized relativistic plasmas: Generally covariant approach
M. Gedalin and D. B. Melrose
Published 19 July 2001 (4 pages)
027401 [View PDF (62 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Nonautonomous and nonlinear effects in generalized classical oscillators: A boundedness theorem [Phys. Rev. E 62 R3039 (2000)]
L. Ferrari and C. Degli Esposti Boschi
Published 9 July 2001 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (17 kB)]
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Erratum: Theory of collision-dominated dust voids in plasmas [Phys. Rev. E 63, 056609 (2001)]
V. N. Tsytovich, S. V. Vladimirov, G. E. Morfill, and J. Goree
Published 17 July 2001 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (10 kB)]
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Erratum: Long range dicorrelated stopping of relativistic electrons in ultradense plasmas [Phys. Rev. E. 61, 4322 (2000)]
C. Deutsch and P. Fromy
Published 18 July 2001 (1 page)
029903(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]