Physical Review E – June 2003
Volume 67, Issue 6

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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Diffusion-controlled annihilation A+B⃗0 with initially separated reactants: The death of an A particle island in the B particle sea
Boris M. Shipilevsky
Published 6 June 2003 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Formal solution of a class of reaction-diffusion models: Reduction to a single-particle problem
Alan J. Bray, Satya N. Majumdar, and Richard A. Blythe
Published 10 June 2003 (4 pages)
060102(R) [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Anomalous growth of the depletion zone in the photobleaching trapping reaction
Sung Hyun Park, Hailin Peng, Raoul Kopelman, Panos Argyrakis, and Haim Taitelbaum
Published 20 June 2003 (4 pages)
060103(R) [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Reaction-diffusion dynamics: Confrontation between theory and experiment in a microfluidic reactor
Charles N. Baroud, Fridolin Okkels, Laure Ménétrier, and Patrick Tabeling
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
060104(R) [View PDF (84 kB)]

Granular materials

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Impulse backscattering in granular beds: Introducing a toy model
T. R. Krishna Mohan and Surajit Sen
Published 24 June 2003 (4 pages)
060301(R) [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Overshoot effect in the Janssen granular column: A crucial test for granular mechanics
G. Ovarlez, C. Fond, and E. Clément
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
060302(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]

Biological physics

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Molecular simulations of mesoscopic bilayer phases
Marieke Kranenburg, Maddalena Venturoli, and Berend Smit
Published 18 June 2003 (3 pages)
060901(R) [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Kinetic pathway of the bilayered-micelle to perforated-lamellae transition
H. Wang, M. P. Nieh, E. K. Hobbie, C. J. Glinka, and J. Katsaras
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
060902(R) [View PDF (119 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Is the binary hard-sphere mixture a good reference system for sterically stabilized colloids?
Ph. Germain, C. Regnaut, and S. Amokrane
Published 5 June 2003 (12 pages)
061101 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Information gain in an optical bistable system by stochastic resonance
M. Misono, T. Kohmoto, M. Kunitomo, and Y. Fukuda
Published 6 June 2003 (4 pages)
061102 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Dynamics of Vicsek fractals, models for hyperbranched polymers
A. Blumen, A. Jurjiu, Th. Koslowski, and Ch. von Ferber
Published 6 June 2003 (4 pages)
061103 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Lattice model of the early stages of the electrification of a cloud
C. Nicolis, G. Nicolis, and John J. Kozak
Published 9 June 2003 (10 pages)
061104 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Power law diffusion coefficient and anomalous diffusion: Analysis of solutions and first passage time
Kwok Sau Fa and E. K. Lenzi
Published 10 June 2003 (7 pages)
061105 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Multifractal spectra of mean first-passage-time distributions in disordered chains
Pedro A. Pury and Manuel O. Cáceres
Published 12 June 2003 (7 pages)
061106 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Non-Markovian stochastic Liouville equation and its Markovian representation
A. I. Shushin
Published 12 June 2003 (11 pages)
061107 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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System with temporal-spatial noise
Jing-hui Li
Published 18 June 2003 (5 pages)
061108 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Analytical model for a cooperative ballistic deposition in one dimension
M. Kamrul Hassan, Niels Wessel, and Jürgen Kurths
Published 18 June 2003 (9 pages)
061109 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Superconducting junctions perturbed by environmental fluctuation
Jing-hui Li
Published 20 June 2003 (5 pages)
061110 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Asymptotic distributions of periodically driven stochastic systems
Sreedhar B. Dutta and Mustansir Barma
Published 23 June 2003 (8 pages)
061111 [View PDF (100 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Effective interactions between inclusions in complex fluids driven out of equilibrium
Denis Bartolo, Armand Ajdari, and Jean-Baptiste Fournier
Published 23 June 2003 (9 pages)
061112 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Coherent and incoherent trapping of a diffusion-assisted system in the presence of an external periodic field
Tusar Bandyopadhyay and Swapan K. Ghosh
Published 23 June 2003 (9 pages)
061113 [View PDF (983 kB)]
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Solving the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation for a jumping process
A. Kamińska and T. Srokowski
Published 23 June 2003 (8 pages)
061114 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion and dielectric relaxation in an N-fold cosine potential
W. T. Coffey, Yu. P. Kalmykov, and S. V. Titov
Published 25 June 2003 (11 pages)
061115 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Gaussian factorization of hydrodynamic correlation functions and mode-coupling memory kernels
Jianlan Wu and Jianshu Cao
Published 27 June 2003 (12 pages)
061116 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Multiscaling of noise-induced parametric instability
R. Zillmer and A. Pikovsky
Published 27 June 2003 (7 pages)
061117 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Kramers problem in evolutionary strategies
J. Dunkel, W. Ebeling, L. Schimansky-Geier, and P. Hänggi
Published 27 June 2003 (11 pages)
061118 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Controlling oscillator coherence by delayed feedback
D. Goldobin, M. Rosenblum, and A. Pikovsky
Published 27 June 2003 (7 pages)
061119 [View PDF (264 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Scaling behavior for the pressure and energy of shearing fluids
Jialin Ge, B. D. Todd, Guangwen Wu, and Richard J. Sadus
Published 10 June 2003 (3 pages)
061201 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Fast heat transfer calculations in supercritical fluids versus hydrodynamic approach
V. S. Nikolayev, A. Dejoan, Y. Garrabos, and D. Beysens
Published 16 June 2003 (11 pages)
061202 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Direct excess entropy calculation for a Lennard-Jones fluid by the integral equation method
N. Jakse and I. Charpentier
Published 27 June 2003 (6 pages)
061203 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Granular materials

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Anomalous acoustic reflection on a sliding interface or a shear band
C. Caroli and B. Velický
Published 10 June 2003 (12 pages)
061301 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Granular clustering in a hydrodynamic simulation
Scott A. Hill and Gene F. Mazenko
Published 11 June 2003 (4 pages)
061302 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Model for dense granular flows down bumpy inclines
Michel Y. Louge
Published 13 June 2003 (11 pages)
061303 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics and transport coefficients for dilute granular gases
Nikolai Brilliantov and Thorsten Pöschel
Published 23 June 2003 (19 pages)
061304 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Wave propagation in a dynamic system of soft granular materials
Shusaku Harada, Shu Takagi, and Yoichiro Matsumoto
Published 30 June 2003 (10 pages)
061305 [View PDF (200 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Dynamics of colloidal suspensions of ferromagnetic particles in plane Couette flow: Comparison of approximate solutions with Brownian dynamics simulations
Patrick Ilg, Martin Kröger, Siegfried Hess, and Andrey Yu. Zubarev
Published 11 June 2003 (8 pages)
061401 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Dynamic and static properties of the concentrated micellar solution and gel phase of a triblock copolymer in water
Helmut Lindner, Günther Scherf, and Otto Glatter
Published 16 June 2003 (9 pages)
061402 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Aging and nonlinear rheology in suspensions of polyethylene oxide–protected silica particles
Caroline Derec, Guylaine Ducouret, Armand Ajdari, and François Lequeux
Published 23 June 2003 (9 pages)
061403 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Brownian dynamics simulations of aging colloidal gels
Rodolphe J. M. d’Arjuzon, William Frith, and John R. Melrose
Published 25 June 2003 (15 pages)
061404 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Crystallization kinetics of polydisperse colloidal hard spheres: Experimental evidence for local fractionation
S. Martin, G. Bryant, and W. van Megen
Published 27 June 2003 (11 pages)
061405 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Scaling behavior of diffusion and reaction processes in percolating porous media
M. H. A. S. Costa, A. D. Araújo, H. F. da Silva, and J. S. Andrade, Jr.
Published 27 June 2003 (5 pages)
061406 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Particle aggregation with simultaneous surface growth
Pablo Mitchell and Michael Frenklach
Published 27 June 2003 (11 pages)
061407 [View PDF (952 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Competition between crystallization and gelation: A local description
Narendra M. Dixit and Charles F. Zukoski
Published 2 June 2003 (13 pages)
061501 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Dynamics of bound and free water in an aqueous micellar solution: Analysis of the lifetime and vibrational frequencies of hydrogen bonds at a complex interface
Subrata Pal, Sundaram Balasubramanian, and Biman Bagchi
Published 10 June 2003 (10 pages)
061502 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Velocity fluctuations in a steadily sheared model foam
Ian K. Ono, Shubha Tewari, Stephen A. Langer, and Andrea J. Liu
Published 18 June 2003 (16 pages)
061503 [View PDF (710 kB)]
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Electronic changes due to thermal disorder of hydrogen bonds in liquids: Pyridine in an aqueous environment
Eudes E. Fileti, Kaline Coutinho, Thaciana Malaspina, and Sylvio Canuto
Published 18 June 2003 (7 pages)
061504 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Dielectric response in dilute lyotropic lamellar and sponge phases of a nonionic surfactant
Daisuke Mizuno, Takuji Nishino, Yasuyuki Kimura, and Reinosuke Hayakawa
Published 27 June 2003 (10 pages)
061505 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Asymmetric fluid criticality. I. Scaling with pressure mixing
Young C. Kim, Michael E. Fisher, and G. Orkoulas
Published 30 June 2003 (21 pages)
061506 [View PDF (266 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Formation of nanostructured copper filaments in electrochemical deposition
Sheng Zhong, Yuan Wang, Mu Wang, Min-Zhe Zhang, Xiao-Bo Yin, Ru-Wen Peng, and Nai-Ben Ming
Published 16 June 2003 (9 pages)
061601 [View PDF (1,213 kB)]
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Measurement of freezing point depression of water in glass capillaries and the associated ice front shape
Zhihong Liu, Ken Muldrew, Richard G. Wan, and Janet A. W. Elliott
Published 16 June 2003 (9 pages)
061602 [View PDF (906 kB)]
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Wetting behavior of associating binary mixtures at attractive walls: A lattice Monte Carlo study
A. Patrykiejew, L. Salamacha, S. Sokołowski, and O. Pizio
Published 20 June 2003 (11 pages)
061603 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Polar head group interactions in mixed Langmuir monolayers
P. Viswanath and K. A. Suresh
Published 25 June 2003 (8 pages)
061604 [View PDF (510 kB)]
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Dynamics of solid growth under a gravitational field: Influence of the formation of a diffusive layer
Marcos F. Castez, Bárbara Blum, Roberto C. Salvarezza, and Hernán G. Solari
Published 30 June 2003 (8 pages)
061605 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Dielectric shape dispersion and biaxial transitions in nematic liquid crystals
André M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga, and Georges E. Durand
Published 11 June 2003 (7 pages)
061701 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Isotropic-nematic phase equilibria in the Onsager theory of hard rods with length polydispersity
Alessandro Speranza and Peter Sollich
Published 13 June 2003 (19 pages)
061702 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Generalized lattice Boltzmann algorithm for the flow of a nematic liquid crystal with variable order parameter
C. M. Care, I. Halliday, K. Good, and S. V. Lishchuk
Published 13 June 2003 (10 pages)
061703 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Enhanced chirality by adding achiral molecules into the chiral system
E. Gorecka, M. Čepič, J. Mieczkowski, M. Nakata, H. Takezoe, and B. Žekš
Published 17 June 2003 (5 pages)
061704 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Correlations in the isotropic phases of chiral liquid crystals: The role of helicity modes
L. Longa, M. Cieśla, and H.-R. Trebin
Published 20 June 2003 (11 pages)
061705 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Raman investigation of stable and metastable states of 4-octyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl confined in porous silica matrices
C. Fehr, P. Dieudonné, J. L. Sauvajol, and E. Anglaret
Published 23 June 2003 (12 pages)
061706 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Orientational ordering and chiral symmetry breaking in organic monolayers composed of disklike mesogenic molecules: Molecular theory and computer simulations
Mikhail A. Osipov and Joachim Stelzer
Published 27 June 2003 (15 pages)
061707 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Modulated structures of flexoelectric origin in nematic liquid crystals
G. Barbero and I. Lelidis
Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages)
061708 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Poisson-bracket approach to the dynamics of nematic liquid crystals
H. Stark and T. C. Lubensky
Published 30 June 2003 (11 pages)
061709 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Splay-bend periodic deformation in nematic liquid crystal slabs
G. Barbero, I. Lelidis, and A. K. Zvezdin
Published 30 June 2003 (5 pages)
061710 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Polymers

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Early-stage compositional segregation in polymer-blend films
H. Wang, J. F. Douglas, S. K. Satija, R. J. Composto, and C. C. Han
Published 23 June 2003 (6 pages)
061801 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Scaling laws of creep rupture of fiber bundles
Ferenc Kun, Raul Cruz Hidalgo, Hans J. Herrmann, and Károly F. Pál
Published 23 June 2003 (8 pages)
061802 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulations of polyampholyte-polyelectrolyte complexes: Effect of charge sequence and strength of electrostatic interactions
Junhwan Jeon and Andrey V. Dobrynin
Published 26 June 2003 (15 pages)
061803 [View PDF (623 kB)]
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Soliton molecules in trapped vector nonlinear Schrödinger systems
Víctor M. Pérez-García and Vadym Vekslerchik
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
061804 [View PDF (542 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Anomalous bending of a polyelectrolyte
Roya Zandi, Joseph Rudnick, and Ramin Golestanian
Published 30 June 2003 (10 pages)
061805 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Diffusion in a generalized Rubinstein-Duke model of electrophoresis with kinematic disorder
Richard D. Willmann, Gunter M. Schütz, and Kavita Jain
Published 30 June 2003 (13 pages)
061806 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Computer simulation study on the swelling of a polyelectrolyte gel by a Stockmayer solvent
Z.-Y. Lu and R. Hentschke
Published 30 June 2003 (7 pages)
061807 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Biological physics

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Distance, dissimilarity index, and network community structure
Haijun Zhou
Published 10 June 2003 (8 pages)
061901 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Stability analysis of a delayed Hopfield neural network
Shangjiang Guo and Lihong Huang
Published 12 June 2003 (7 pages)
061902 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Quasiequilibrium unfolding thermodynamics of a small protein studied by molecular dynamics simulation with an explicit water model
Jihua Wang, Zhiyong Zhang, Haiyan Liu, and Yunyu Shi
Published 13 June 2003 (11 pages)
061903 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Stochastic model for heart-rate fluctuations
Tom Kuusela, Tony Shepherd, and Jarmo Hietarinta
Published 13 June 2003 (7 pages)
061904 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Folding behaviors of lattice model proteins with three kinds of contact potentials
Meng Qin, Jun Wang, Yi Tang, and Wei Wang
Published 18 June 2003 (8 pages)
061905 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Fluctuating reaction rates and their application to problems of gene expression
Tatsuo Shibata
Published 20 June 2003 (8 pages)
061906 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Protein crystals and charged surfaces: Interactions and heterogeneous nucleation
R. P. Sear
Published 20 June 2003 (7 pages)
061907 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Rotational magnetic endosome microrheology: Viscoelastic architecture inside living cells
C. Wilhelm, F. Gazeau, and J.-C. Bacri
Published 23 June 2003 (12 pages)
061908 [View PDF (1,365 kB)]
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Analytical solution of a generalized Penna model
J. B. Coe and Y. Mao
Published 23 June 2003 (8 pages)
061909 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Neuromorphometric characterization with shape functionals
Marconi Soares Barbosa, Luciano da Fontoura Costa, and Esmerindo de Sousa Bernardes
Published 23 June 2003 (7 pages)
061910 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Effect of backleak in nephron dynamics
P. G. Kevrekidis and N. Whitaker
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
061911 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Conformational rigidity in a lattice model of proteins
Olivier Collet
Published 26 June 2003 (9 pages)
061912 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Repeats and correlations in human DNA sequences
Dirk Holste, Ivo Grosse, Stephan Beirer, Patrick Schieg, and Hanspeter Herzel
Published 26 June 2003 (7 pages)
061913 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Direct imaging of domains in the Lβ′ state of 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayers
C.-W. Lee, R. S. Decca, S. R. Wassall, and J. J. Breen
Published 27 June 2003 (5 pages)
061914 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Electronic neuron within a ganglion of a leech (Hirudo medicinalis)
J. Aliaga, N. Busca, V. Minces, G. B. Mindlin, B. Pando, A. Salles, and L. Sczcupak
Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages)
061915 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Classification of short human exons and introns based on statistical features
Yonghui Wu, Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Hong Yan, and Mengsu Yang
Published 27 June 2003 (7 pages)
061916 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Theoretical model for motility and processivity of two-headed molecular motors
Ryo Kanada and Kazuo Sasaki
Published 27 June 2003 (13 pages)
061917 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in pattern recognition by a holographic neuron model
R. Stoop, J. Buchli, G. Keller, and W.-H. Steeb
Published 30 June 2003 (6 pages)
061918 [View PDF (426 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Solvable aggregation model with monomer annihilation
Jianhong Ke and Zhenquan Lin
Published 6 June 2003 (4 pages)
062101 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Air parcel random walk and droplet spectra broadening in clouds
K. S. Turitsyn
Published 25 June 2003 (3 pages)
062102 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Calculation of the wetting parameter from a cluster model in the framework of nanothermodynamics
V. García-Morales, J. Cervera, and J. Pellicer
Published 27 June 2003 (3 pages)
062103 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Dispersive anomalous diffusive transport in ratchets with long-range correlated spatial disorder
Lei Gao, Xiaoqin Luo, Shiqun Zhu, and Bambi Hu
Published 30 June 2003 (4 pages)
062104 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Granular materials

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Critical phenomenon of granular flow on a conveyor belt
Bao De-Song, Zhang Xun-Sheng, Xu Guang-Lei, Pan Zheng-Quan, Tang Xiao-Wei, and Lu Kun-Quan
Published 17 June 2003 (3 pages)
062301 [View PDF (41 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Rapid settling of a colloidal gel
C. Derec, D. Senis, L. Talini, and C. Allain
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
062401 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Slow fluctuations in enhanced Raman scattering and surface roughness relaxation
D. B. Lukatsky, G. Haran, and S. A. Safran
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
062402 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Test of mean-field equations for two types of hard-sphere systems by a Brownian-dynamics simulation and a molecular-dynamics simulation
Michio Tokuyama, Hiroyuki Yamazaki, and Yayoi Terada
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
062403 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Biological physics

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Long- and short-time analysis of heartbeat sequences: Correlation with mortality risk in congestive heart failure patients
P. Allegrini, R. Balocchi, S. Chillemi, P. Grigolini, P. Hamilton, R. Maestri, L. Palatella, and G. Raffaelli
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
062901 [View PDF (50 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Classical density functional theory of freezing in simple fluids: Numerically induced false solutions”
Chandan Dasgupta and Oriol T. Valls
Published 23 June 2003 (3 pages)
063501 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Classical density functional theory of freezing in simple fluids: Numerically induced false solutions’ ”
M. Valera, F. J. Pinski, and D. D. Johnson
Published 23 June 2003 (3 pages)
063502 [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Comment on “Performance of different synchronization measures in real data: A case study on electroencephalographic signals”
R. B. Duckrow and A. M. Albano
Published 23 June 2003 (3 pages)
063901 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Performance of different synchronization measures in real data: A case study on electroencephalographic signals’ ”
R. Quian Quiroga, A. Kraskov, T. Kreuz, and P. Grassberger
Published 23 June 2003 (2 pages)
063902 [View PDF (22 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Third-neighbor correlators of a one-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet
Kazumitsu Sakai, Masahiro Shiroishi, Yoshihiro Nishiyama, and Minoru Takahashi
Published 20 June 2003 (4 pages)
065101(R) [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Reaction kinetics in confined geometries: Lonely adatoms in space
Joachim Krug
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
065102(R) [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Universal finite-size scaling functions with exact nonuniversal metric factors
Ming-Chya Wu, Chin-Kun Hu, and N. Sh. Izmailian
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
065103(R) [View PDF (474 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Dynamics of crossover from a chaotic to a power-law state in jerky flow
M. S. Bharathi and G. Ananthakrishna
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
065104(R) [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Linear and nonlinear response in the aging regime of the one-dimensional trap model
E. M. Bertin and J.-P. Bouchaud
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
065105(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Erosion patterns in a sediment layer
Adrian Daerr, Peter Lee, José Lanuza, and Éric Clément
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
065201(R) [View PDF (508 kB)]
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Tunable Lyapunov exponent in inverse magnetic billiards
Zoltán Vörös, Tamás Tasnádi, József Cserti, and Péter Pollner
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
065202(R) [View PDF (251 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Oscillations of a solid sphere falling through a wormlike micellar fluid
Anandhan Jayaraman and Andrew Belmonte
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
065301(R) [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Anomalous pressure in fluctuating shear flow
Hirofumi Wada and Shin-ichi Sasa
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
065302(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Nonlinearity of a metamaterial arising from diode insertions into resonant conductive elements
M. Lapine, M. Gorkunov, and K. H. Ringhofer
Published 13 June 2003 (4 pages)
065601(R) [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Out-of-plane propagation of elastic waves in two-dimensional phononic band-gap materials
M. Wilm, A. Khelif, S. Ballandras, V. Laude, and B. Djafari-Rouhani
Published 26 June 2003 (4 pages)
065602(R) [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Influence of spatial correlations on the lasing threshold of random lasers
Michael Patra
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
065603(R) [View PDF (55 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Linear Glauber model
Mário J. de Oliveira
Published 6 June 2003 (8 pages)
066101 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Sandpile models and random walkers on finite lattices
Yehiel Shilo and Ofer Biham
Published 10 June 2003 (8 pages)
066102 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Relaxation and metastability in a local search procedure for the random satisfiability problem
Guilhem Semerjian and Rémi Monasson
Published 12 June 2003 (18 pages)
066103 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Solving satisfiability problems by fluctuations: The dynamics of stochastic local search algorithms
Wolfgang Barthel, Alexander K. Hartmann, and Martin Weigt
Published 12 June 2003 (15 pages)
066104 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Vortex description of the first-order phase transition in the two-dimensional Abelian-Higgs model
Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Greg J. Stephens
Published 12 June 2003 (5 pages)
066105 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Tree networks with causal structure
P. Bialas, Z. Burda, J. Jurkiewicz, and A. Krzywicki
Published 17 June 2003 (8 pages)
066106 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Simple model for directed networks
Luis G. Morelli
Published 17 June 2003 (7 pages)
066107 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Yang-Lee zeros of the two- and three-state Potts model defined on φ3 Feynman diagrams
Luiz C. de Albuquerque and D. Dalmazi
Published 18 June 2003 (7 pages)
066108 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Algorithm of the finite-lattice method for high-temperature expansion of the Ising model in three dimensions
Hiroaki Arisue and Toshiaki Fujiwara
Published 18 June 2003 (6 pages)
066109 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Friction between two weakly adhering boundary lubricated surfaces in water
C. Drummond, J. Israelachvili, and P. Richetti
Published 20 June 2003 (16 pages)
066110 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Avalanche exponents and corrections to scaling for a stochastic sandpile
R. Dickman and J. M. M. Campelo
Published 20 June 2003 (5 pages)
066111 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Generalized van der Waals theory for the thermodynamic properties of square-well fluids
J. Largo and J. R. Solana
Published 20 June 2003 (5 pages)
066112 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Microstructure and velocity of field-driven Ising interfaces moving under a soft stochastic dynamic
Per Arne Rikvold and M. Kolesik
Published 25 June 2003 (8 pages)
066113 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Exact finite-size corrections of the free energy for the square lattice dimer model under different boundary conditions
N. Sh. Izmailian, K. B. Oganesyan, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 26 June 2003 (14 pages)
066114 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Phase transition in the ABC model
M. Clincy, B. Derrida, and M. R. Evans
Published 26 June 2003 (8 pages)
066115 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Bulk and surface critical behavior of the three-dimensional Ising model and conformal invariance
Youjin Deng and Henk W. J. Blöte
Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages)
066116 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Localization of shocks in driven diffusive systems without particle number conservation
V. Popkov, A. Rákos, R. D. Willmann, A. B. Kolomeisky, and G. M. Schütz
Published 27 June 2003 (6 pages)
066117 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Self-organized critical neural networks
Stefan Bornholdt and Torsten Röhl
Published 27 June 2003 (5 pages)
066118 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Experimental evidence, numerics, and theory of vibrational resonance in bistable systems
J. P. Baltanás, L. López, I. I. Blechman, P. S. Landa, A. Zaikin, J. Kurths, and M. A. F. Sanjuán
Published 27 June 2003 (7 pages)
066119 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Universality of the thermodynamic Casimir effect
Daniel Dantchev, Michael Krech, and S. Dietrich
Published 27 June 2003 (11 pages)
066120 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Dielectric breakdown model for composite materials
F. Peruani, G. Solovey, I. M. Irurzun, E. E. Mola, A. Marzocca, and J. L. Vicente
Published 30 June 2003 (6 pages)
066121 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Memory effects and nonequilibrium transport in open many-particle quantum systems
Irena Knezevic and David K. Ferry
Published 30 June 2003 (10 pages)
066122 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Dynamical aspects of quantum entanglement for weakly coupled kicked tops
Hiroshi Fujisaki, Takayuki Miyadera, and Atushi Tanaka
Published 2 June 2003 (11 pages)
066201 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Coherence resonance and polymodality in inhibitory coupled excitable oscillators
E. I. Volkov, M. N. Stolyarov, A. A. Zaikin, and J. Kurths
Published 10 June 2003 (7 pages)
066202 [View PDF (653 kB)]
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Chaos and the quantum phase transition in the Dicke model
Clive Emary and Tobias Brandes
Published 12 June 2003 (22 pages)
066203 [View PDF (1,438 kB)]
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Local dimension and finite time prediction in spatiotemporal chaotic systems
Gerson Francisco and Paulsamy Muruganandam
Published 12 June 2003 (5 pages)
066204 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Level spacing statistics of classically integrable systems: Investigation along the lines of the Berry-Robnik approach
H. Makino and S. Tasaki
Published 13 June 2003 (8 pages)
066205 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Dynamics of a stochastic oscillator in an excitable chemical reaction system
Kenji Miyakawa, Takayuki Tanaka, and Hironobu Isikawa
Published 13 June 2003 (4 pages)
066206 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Patterns in a quasiconfocal optical parametric oscillator
M. Le Berre, E. Ressayre, and A. Tallet
Published 16 June 2003 (5 pages)
066207 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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R-matrix theory of driven electromagnetic cavities
F. Beck, C. Dembowski, A. Heine, and A. Richter
Published 17 June 2003 (10 pages)
066208 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Wavy and rough cracks in silicon
Robert D. Deegan, Shilpa Chheda, Lisa Patel, M. Marder, Harry L. Swinney, Jeehoon Kim, and Alex de Lozanne
Published 23 June 2003 (7 pages)
066209 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Comparative study of embedding methods
C. J. Cellucci, A. M. Albano, and P. E. Rapp
Published 23 June 2003 (13 pages)
066210 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Riemann zeros, prime numbers, and fractal potentials
Brandon P. van Zyl and David A. W. Hutchinson
Published 23 June 2003 (5 pages)
066211 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Different time scales in wave function intensity statistics
D. A. Wisniacki, F. Borondo, E. Vergini, and R. M. Benito
Published 23 June 2003 (4 pages)
066212 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Semiclassical trace formulas for noninteracting identical particles
Jamal Sakhr and Niall D. Whelan
Published 25 June 2003 (27 pages)
066213 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Delay dynamics of semiconductor lasers with short external cavities: Bifurcation scenarios and mechanisms
T. Heil, I. Fischer, W. Elsäßer, B. Krauskopf, K. Green, and A. Gavrielides
Published 26 June 2003 (11 pages)
066214 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Measure synchronization in coupled φ4 Hamiltonian systems
Xingang Wang, Meng Zhan, C.-H. Lai, and Hu Gang
Published 26 June 2003 (8 pages)
066215 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Oscillatory and rotatory synchronization of chaotic autonomous phase systems
Bambi Hu, Grigory V. Osipov, Hong-Liu Yang, and Jürgen Kurths
Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages)
066216 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Emergence of patterns in driven and in autonomous spatiotemporal systems
M. G. Cosenza, M. Pineda, and A. Parravano
Published 27 June 2003 (6 pages)
066217 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Detectability of nondifferentiable generalized synchrony
Nikolai F. Rulkov and Valentin S. Afraimovich
Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages)
066218 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Translational and nontranslational motion of perturbed Turing patterns
Vladimir K. Vanag and Irving R. Epstein
Published 27 June 2003 (8 pages)
066219 [View PDF (685 kB)]
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Constructive effects of noise in homoclinic chaotic systems
C. S. Zhou, J. Kurths, E. Allaria, S. Boccaletti, R. Meucci, and F. T. Arecchi
Published 27 June 2003 (9 pages)
066220 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Spatial synchronization of regular optical patterns
R. Neubecker and O. Jakoby
Published 30 June 2003 (13 pages)
066221 [View PDF (1,171 kB)]
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Dynamics of FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable systems with delayed coupling
Nikola Burić and Dragana Todorović
Published 30 June 2003 (15 pages)
066222 [View PDF (190 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Applicability of the hodograph method for the problem of long-scale nonlinear dynamics of a thin vortex filament near a flat boundary
V. P. Ruban
Published 9 June 2003 (9 pages)
066301 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Statistical anisotropy of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Wolf-Christian Müller, Dieter Biskamp, and Roland Grappin
Published 10 June 2003 (4 pages)
066302 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Quasi-two-dimensional turbulence in shallow fluid layers: The role of bottom friction and fluid layer depth
H. J. H. Clercx, G. J. F. van Heijst, and M. L. Zoeteweij
Published 13 June 2003 (9 pages)
066303 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Mixing of a continuous flow of two fluids due to unsteady flow
R. A. Truesdell, P. V. Vorobieff, L. A. Sklar, and A. A. Mammoli
Published 13 June 2003 (11 pages)
066304 [View PDF (1,408 kB)]
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Model flames in the Boussinesq limit: The effects of feedback
N. Vladimirova and R. Rosner
Published 16 June 2003 (10 pages)
066305 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Turbulent wakes of fractal objects
Adrian Staicu, Biagio Mazzi, J. C. Vassilicos, and Willem van de Water
Published 18 June 2003 (8 pages)
066306 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Phase-field model for Marangoni convection in liquid-gas systems with a deformable interface
Rodica Borcia and Michael Bestehorn
Published 26 June 2003 (10 pages)
066307 [View PDF (619 kB)]
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Thermocapillary-buoyancy convection in a shallow cavity heated from the side
V. M. Shevtsova, A. A. Nepomnyashchy, and J. C. Legros
Published 27 June 2003 (14 pages)
066308 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Analysis of the early stage of coalescence of helium drops
Humphrey J. Maris
Published 27 June 2003 (6 pages)
066309 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Strong universality in forced and decaying turbulence in a shell model
Victor S. L’vov, Rubén A. Pasmanter, Anna Pomyalov, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 27 June 2003 (9 pages)
066310 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Linear stability analysis in a liquid layer with a surface velocity gradient
Jarosław Białecki and Janusz A. Hołyst
Published 27 June 2003 (5 pages)
066311 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Radiation resonance emission from steep overcritical plasma profiles illuminated by femtosecond laser pulses
R. Ondarza
Published 2 June 2003 (6 pages)
066401 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Monte Carlo sampling of negative-temperature plasma states
John A. Krommes and Sharadini Rath
Published 9 June 2003 (28 pages)
066402 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Screening of dust grains in a weakly ionized gas: Effects of charging by plasma currents
O. Bystrenko and A. Zagorodny
Published 13 June 2003 (5 pages)
066403 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Charge of a macroscopic particle in a plasma sheath
A. A. Samarian and S. V. Vladimirov
Published 20 June 2003 (5 pages)
066404 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Collisional versus collisionless resonant and autoresonant heating in laser-cluster interaction
I. Kostyukov and J.-M. Rax
Published 20 June 2003 (6 pages)
066405 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Large-aspect-ratio limit of neoclassical transport theory
S. K. Wong and V. S. Chan
Published 23 June 2003 (16 pages)
066406 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Modeling the effect of dust on the plasma parameters in a dusty argon discharge under microgravity
M. R. Akdim and W. J. Goedheer
Published 27 June 2003 (10 pages)
066407 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Wave dispersion relations in two-dimensional Yukawa systems
Yanhong Liu, Bin Liu, Yanping Chen, Si-Ze Yang, Long Wang, and Xiaogang Wang
Published 27 June 2003 (6 pages)
066408 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Properties of the ultrashort gain length, self-amplified spontaneous emission free-electron laser in the linear regime and saturation
A. Murokh et al.
Published 4 June 2003 (5 pages)
066501 [View PDF (249 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Theoretical study of photonic band gaps in woodpile crystals
Boris Gralak, Michiel de Dood, Gérard Tayeb, Stefan Enoch, and Daniel Maystre
Published 4 June 2003 (18 pages)
066601 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Driven kinks in the anharmonic Frenkel-Kontorova model
O. M. Braun, Hong Zhang, Bambi Hu, and J. Tekic
Published 6 June 2003 (14 pages)
066602 [View PDF (914 kB)]
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Envelope solitons of acoustic plate modes and surface waves
Andreas P. Mayer and Alexander S. Kovalev
Published 9 June 2003 (14 pages)
066603 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Pulsed light beams in vacuum with superluminal and negative group velocities
Miguel A. Porras, Isabel Gonzalo, and Alessia Mondello
Published 17 June 2003 (9 pages)
066604 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Stability analysis of spatiotemporal cnoidal waves in cubic nonlinear media
Victor A. Aleshkevich, Alexey A. Egorov, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Anna S. Zelenina
Published 20 June 2003 (10 pages)
066605 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Phonon avalanches in paramagnetic impurities with spin S=1/2
Alexander A. Zabolotskii
Published 23 June 2003 (10 pages)
066606 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Multisoliton propagation in a linear granular chain
Jongjin Lee, Sangdo Park, and Insuk Yu
Published 25 June 2003 (4 pages)
066607 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Discrete gap breathers in a diatomic Klein-Gordon chain: Stability and mobility
Andrey V. Gorbach and Magnus Johansson
Published 26 June 2003 (14 pages)
066608 [View PDF (1,382 kB)]
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Acoustical propagation in a prefractal waveguide
Vincent Gibiat, Ana Barjau, Kaelig Castor, and Etienne Bertaud du Chazaud
Published 27 June 2003 (9 pages)
066609 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Dynamics of dielectric breakdown paths
Jeffrey Boksiner and P. L. Leath
Published 27 June 2003 (18 pages)
066610 [View PDF (708 kB)]
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Tunneling as a stochastic process: A path-integral model for microwave experiments
A. Ranfagni, R. Ruggeri, D. Mugnai, A. Agresti, C. Ranfagni, and P. Sandri
Published 27 June 2003 (5 pages)
066611 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Cnoidal wave patterns in quadratic nonlinear media
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
Published 27 June 2003 (6 pages)
066612 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Computational physics

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Piecewise linear emulator of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the resulting analytic solutions for Bose-Einstein condensates
Stavros Theodorakis
Published 9 June 2003 (7 pages)
066701 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Monte Carlo studies of three-dimensional O(1) and O(4) φ4 theory related to Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition temperatures
Xuepeng Sun
Published 9 June 2003 (10 pages)
066702 [View PDF (1,197 kB)]
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Improved bounce-back methods for no-slip walls in lattice-Boltzmann schemes: Theory and simulations
M. Rohde, D. Kandhai, J. J. Derksen, and H. E. A. Van den Akker
Published 10 June 2003 (10 pages)
066703 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Guided simulated annealing method for optimization problems
C. I. Chou, R. S. Han, S. P. Li, and Ting-Kuo Lee
Published 10 June 2003 (6 pages)
066704 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Stochastic rotation dynamics. I. Formalism, Galilean invariance, and Green-Kubo relations
T. Ihle and D. M. Kroll
Published 12 June 2003 (11 pages)
066705 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Stochastic rotation dynamics. II. Transport coefficients, numerics, and long-time tails
T. Ihle and D. M. Kroll
Published 12 June 2003 (17 pages)
066706 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Theory and applications of an alternative lattice Boltzmann grid refinement algorithm
Alexandre Dupuis and Bastien Chopard
Published 20 June 2003 (7 pages)
066707 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Cellular automaton model for the simulation of laser dynamics
J. L. Guisado, F. Jiménez-Morales, and J. M. Guerra
Published 20 June 2003 (8 pages)
066708 [View PDF (607 kB)]
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Explicit finite-difference lattice Boltzmann method for curvilinear coordinates
Zhaoli Guo and T. S. Zhao
Published 26 June 2003 (12 pages)
066709 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Bead-Fourier path integral molecular dynamics
Sergei D. Ivanov, Alexander P. Lyubartsev, and Aatto Laaksonen
Published 27 June 2003 (11 pages)
066710 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann method for simulations of liquid-vapor thermal flows
Raoyang Zhang and Hudong Chen
Published 27 June 2003 (6 pages)
066711 [View PDF (408 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Lattice gas simulation of experimentally studied evacuation dynamics
Dirk Helbing, Motonari Isobe, Takashi Nagatani, and Kouhei Takimoto
Published 6 June 2003 (4 pages)
067101 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Avoiding boundary effects in Wang-Landau sampling
B. J. Schulz, K. Binder, M. Müller, and D. P. Landau
Published 16 June 2003 (2 pages)
067102 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Autoregressive processes with anomalous scaling behavior: Applications to high-frequency variations of a stock market index
Christian Dose, Markus Porto, and H. Eduardo Roman
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
067103 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Additive generalization of the Boltzmann entropy
Alexander N. Gorban, Iliya V. Karlin, and Hans Christian Öttinger
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
067104 [View PDF (46 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Breaking time reversal in a simple smooth chaotic system
Steven Tomsovic, Denis Ullmo, and Tatsuro Nagano
Published 23 June 2003 (3 pages)
067201 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Elimination of spiral chaos by periodic force for the Aliev-Panfilov model
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Takefumi Fujimoto
Published 27 June 2003 (3 pages)
067202 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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T-shaped coincidence detector as a band filter of chemical signal frequency
J. Gorecka and J. Gorecki
Published 27 June 2003 (4 pages)
067203 [View PDF (46 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Extension of the pole decomposition for the multidimensional Burgers equation
U. Frisch and M. Mineev-Weinstein
Published 6 June 2003 (3 pages)
067301 [View PDF (33 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Transmission measurements in wedge-shaped absorbing samples: An experiment for observing negative refraction
M. Sanz, A. C. Papageorgopoulos, W. F. Egelhoff, Jr., M. Nieto-Vesperinas, and N. García
Published 10 June 2003 (4 pages)
067601 [View PDF (398 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Cellular automata model simulating traffic interactions between on-ramp and main road”
Ding-wei Huang and Wei-neng Huang
Published 20 June 2003 (2 pages)
068101 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Cellular automata model simulating traffic interactions between on-ramp and main road’ ”
Rui Jiang, Qing-Song Wu, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 27 June 2003 (2 pages)
068102 [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Power-law correlations in the southern-oscillation-index fluctuations characterizing El Niño’ ”
M. Ausloos and K. Ivanova
Published 18 June 2003 (3 pages)
068201 [View PDF (34 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Exponential stability and periodic solutions of neural networks with continuously distributed delays [Phys. Rev. E 67, 011902 (2003)]
Shangjiang Guo and Lihong Huang
Published 4 June 2003 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (15 kB)]