Physical Review E – November 2003
Volume 68, Issue 5

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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Persistence of a particle in the Matheron–de Marsily velocity field
Satya N. Majumdar
Published 3 November 2003 (4 pages)
050101(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Dynamics and scaling of two-dimensional polymers in a dilute solution
E. Falck, O. Punkkinen, I. Vattulainen, and T. Ala-Nissila
Published 7 November 2003 (4 pages)
050102(R) [View PDF (106 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Self-similarity in random collision processes
Daniel ben-Avraham, Eli Ben-Naim, Katja Lindenberg, and Alexandre Rosas
Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages)
050103(R) [View PDF (65 kB)]

Granular materials

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Numerical simulations of air-driven granular separation
Parthapratim Biswas, P. Sánchez, Michael R. Swift, and P. J. King
Published 18 November 2003 (4 pages)
050301(R) [View PDF (523 kB)]

Biological physics

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Long-range interaction and heterogeneity yield a different kind of critical phenomenon
Mark Ya. Azbel’
Published 20 November 2003 (4 pages)
050901(R) [View PDF (49 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Stimulated diffusion of an adsorbed dimer
O. M. Braun, R. Ferrando, and G. E. Tommei
Published 3 November 2003 (8 pages)
051101 [View PDF (1,188 kB)]
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Effects of cross correlation on the relaxation time of a bistable system driven by cross-correlated noise
Dongcheng Mei, Chongwei Xie, and Li Zhang
Published 3 November 2003 (7 pages)
051102 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Effect of a columnar defect on the shape of slow-combustion fronts
M. Myllys, J. Maunuksela, J. Merikoski, J. Timonen, V. K. Horváth, M. Ha, and M. den Nijs
Published 7 November 2003 (7 pages)
051103 [View PDF (530 kB)]
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Weak nonlinear surface-charging effects in electrolytic films
D. S. Dean and R. R. Horgan
Published 20 November 2003 (12 pages)
051104 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Damped finite-time singularity driven by noise
Hans C. Fogedby
Published 24 November 2003 (8 pages)
051105 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Dynamics of randomly branched polymers: Configuration averages and solvable models
F. Jasch, Ch. von Ferber, and A. Blumen
Published 25 November 2003 (12 pages)
051106 [View PDF (316 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Diffusion time-scale invariance, randomization processes, and memory effects in Lennard-Jones liquids
Renat M. Yulmetyev, Anatolii V. Mokshin, and Peter Hänggi
Published 5 November 2003 (5 pages)
051201 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Structural transitions and nonmonotonic relaxation processes in liquid metals
M. G. Vasin and V. I. Lad’yanov
Published 21 November 2003 (6 pages)
051202 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Effect of external electric field on the bulk and interfacial properties of weakly dipolar fluid in slab-shaped and sphere-shaped systems
V. B. Warshavsky and X. C. Zeng
Published 24 November 2003 (13 pages)
051203 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Theory of the viscosity of supercooled liquids and the glass transition: Fragile liquids
Kyunil Rah and Byung Chan Eu
Published 24 November 2003 (8 pages)
051204 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Granular materials

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Compaction force in a confined granular column
D. Arroyo-Cetto, G. Pulos, R. Zenit, M. A. Jiménez-Zapata, and C. R. Wassgren
Published 7 November 2003 (4 pages)
051301 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Closed model for granular compaction under weak tapping
J. Javier Brey and A. Prados
Published 20 November 2003 (8 pages)
051302 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Two-dimensional inclined chute flows: Transverse motion and segregation
Gaelle Berton, Renaud Delannay, Patrick Richard, Nicolas Taberlet, and Alexandre Valance
Published 24 November 2003 (12 pages)
051303 [View PDF (210 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Dynamics of colloidal glass-forming mixtures
Th. Voigtmann
Published 7 November 2003 (5 pages)
051401 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Mesoscopic stability and sedimentation waves in settling periodic arrays
B. U. Felderhof
Published 11 November 2003 (8 pages)
051402 [View PDF (629 kB)]
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Crystallization and chain formation in liquid drops
L. E. Helseth and T. M. Fischer
Published 24 November 2003 (5 pages)
051403 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Periodic oscillation of a colloidal disk near a wall in an optical trap
Zhengdong Cheng, Thomas G. Mason, and P. M. Chaikin
Published 25 November 2003 (5 pages)
051404 [View PDF (316 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Noise of microstructural environments in late-stage phase coarsening
K. G. Wang and M. E. Glicksman
Published 3 November 2003 (4 pages)
051501 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Nonlinear voltage profiles and violation of local electroneutrality in ordinary surface reactions
Wayne M. Saslow
Published 7 November 2003 (5 pages)
051502 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Shear banding in a lyotropic lamellar phase. I. Time-averaged velocity profiles
Jean-Baptiste Salmon, Sébastien Manneville, and Annie Colin
Published 25 November 2003 (12 pages)
051503 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Shear banding in a lyotropic lamellar phase. II. Temporal fluctuations
Jean-Baptiste Salmon, Sébastien Manneville, and Annie Colin
Published 25 November 2003 (10 pages)
051504 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Diffusive intertwining of two fluid phases in chemically patterned microchannels
Olga Kuksenok, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs
Published 25 November 2003 (9 pages)
051505 [View PDF (792 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Symbiosis of different-sized drops
I. Leizerson, S. G. Lipson, and A. V. Lyushnin
Published 20 November 2003 (5 pages)
051601 [View PDF (243 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Growth of the transient planar state in cholesteric liquid crystals
Min-Hyong Lee, Young-Chol Yang, Jae-Eun Kim, and Hae Yong Park
Published 3 November 2003 (6 pages)
051701 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Forces between elongated particles in a nematic colloid
D. Andrienko, M. Tasinkevych, P. Patrício, M. P. Allen, and M. M. Telo da Gama
Published 3 November 2003 (5 pages)
051702 [View PDF (642 kB)]
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Theoretical model for the discrete flexoelectric effect and a description for the sequence of intermediate smectic phases with increasing periodicity
A. V. Emelyanenko and M. A. Osipov
Published 11 November 2003 (16 pages)
051703 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Theory of layer structure in ferroelectric liquid crystal devices in applied electric fields
M. B. Hamaneh, H. F. Gleeson, and P. L. Taylor
Published 20 November 2003 (8 pages)
051704 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Critical behavior of thermal parameters at the smectic-A–hexatic-B and smectic-A–smectic-C phase transitions in liquid crystals
F. Mercuri, M. Marinelli, U. Zammit, C. C. Huang, and D. Finotello
Published 21 November 2003 (10 pages)
051705 [View PDF (1,423 kB)]
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Proposal for the temperature–electric-field phase diagram of a ferroelectric smectic-C* liquid crystal
F. Ghoddoussi, M. A. Pantea, P. H. Keyes, R. Naik, and P. P. Vaishnava
Published 25 November 2003 (8 pages)
051706 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Polymers

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Self-avoiding linear and star polymers anchored to membranes
Thorsten Auth and Gerhard Gompper
Published 7 November 2003 (6 pages)
051801 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Quenched and annealed disorder in randomly grafted copolymer melts
Deena M. Patel and Glenn H. Fredrickson
Published 21 November 2003 (10 pages)
051802 [View PDF (571 kB)]
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Power laws in polymer solution dynamics
T. Uematsu, C. Svanberg, M. Nydén, and P. Jacobsson
Published 24 November 2003 (8 pages)
051803 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Biological physics

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Kinetics of the coil-to-helix transition on a rough energy landscape
A. Baumketner and J.-E. Shea
Published 3 November 2003 (10 pages)
051901 [View PDF (401 kB)]
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Cohesive energy, stability, and structural transitions in polyelectrolyte bundles
Joseph Rudnick and David Jasnow
Published 5 November 2003 (10 pages)
051902 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Stability and bifurcation in an integral-delay model of cardiac reentry including spatial coupling in repolarization
Philippe Comtois and Alain Vinet
Published 11 November 2003 (5 pages)
051903 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of RNA folding: A lattice approach
P. Leoni and C. Vanderzande
Published 11 November 2003 (8 pages)
051904 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Theoretical ellipsoidal model of gastric electrical control activity propagation
Andrei Irimia and L. Alan Bradshaw
Published 20 November 2003 (5 pages)
051905 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Drug-induced modification of the system properties associated with spontaneous human electroencephalographic activity
David T. J. Liley, Peter J. Cadusch, Marcus Gray, and Pradeep J. Nathan
Published 24 November 2003 (15 pages)
051906 [View PDF (856 kB)]
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Particle transport in asymmetric scanning-line optical tweezers
B. Liesfeld, R. Nambiar, and J. C. Meiners
Published 24 November 2003 (6 pages)
051907 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Electronic structures of Ascaris trypsin inhibitor in solution
Haoping Zheng
Published 25 November 2003 (8 pages)
051908 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Global stability of neural networks with distributed delays
Hongyong Zhao
Published 25 November 2003 (7 pages)
051909 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Virus shapes and buckling transitions in spherical shells
Jack Lidmar, Leonid Mirny, and David R. Nelson
Published 25 November 2003 (10 pages)
051910 [View PDF (1,066 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Structured and complex fluids

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Characterization of the order-disorder transition of a charged hard-sphere model
José L. F. Abascal, Carlos Vega, Carl McBride, and Fernando Bresme
Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages)
052501 [View PDF (287 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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How closely can a solid approach an air-water surface without becoming wet?
F. P. A. Cortat and S. J. Miklavcic
Published 20 November 2003 (4 pages)
052601 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Polymers

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Stable and unstable surface evolution during the drying of a polymer solution drop
L. Pauchard and C. Allain
Published 7 November 2003 (4 pages)
052801 [View PDF (234 kB)]

Biological physics

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Stability of a neural network model with small-world connections
Chunguang Li and Guanrong Chen
Published 21 November 2003 (4 pages)
052901 [View PDF (46 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Restricted curvature model with suppression of extremal height”
Hyunggyu Park
Published 21 November 2003 (3 pages)
053601 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Restricted curvature model with suppression of extremal height’ ”
Hyeong-Chai Jeong, Changhan Lee, and Jin Min Kim
Published 21 November 2003 (2 pages)
053602 [View PDF (23 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Elasticity of randomly diluted central force networks under tension
Zicong Zhou, Béla Joós, and Pik-Yin Lai
Published 20 November 2003 (4 pages)
055101(R) [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Effective dimensions and percolation in hierarchically structured scale-free networks
Víctor M. Eguíluz, Emilio Hernández-García, Oreste Piro, and Konstantin Klemm
Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages)
055102(R) [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Oscillator death on small-world networks
Zhonghuai Hou and Houwen Xin
Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages)
055103(R) [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Stable equilibrium based on Lévy statistics: Stochastic collision models approach
Eli Barkai
Published 25 November 2003 (4 pages)
055104(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Explicit analytical solution for scaling quantum graphs
Yu. Dabaghian and R. Blümel
Published 20 November 2003 (4 pages)
055201(R) [View PDF (112 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Density fingering of an exothermic autocatalytic reaction
T. Bánsági, Jr., D. Horváth, Á. Tóth, J. Yang, S. Kalliadasis, and A. De Wit
Published 18 November 2003 (4 pages)
055301(R) [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Improved ɛ expansion for three-dimensional turbulence: Summation of nearest dimensional singularities
L. Ts. Adzhemyan, J. Honkonen, M. V. Kompaniets, and A. N. Vasil’ev
Published 18 November 2003 (4 pages)
055302(R) [View PDF (47 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Solitonic lattices in photorefractive crystals
M. Petrović, D. Träger, A. Strinić, M. Belić, J. Schröder, and C. Denz
Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages)
055601(R) [View PDF (408 kB)]

Computational physics

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Efficient mixed-force first-principles molecular dynamics
Eduardo Anglada, Javier Junquera, and José M. Soler
Published 18 November 2003 (4 pages)
055701(R) [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Strouhal-Reynolds number relationship for bluff-body flows numerically simulated by an artificial boundary method
J. F. Ravoux, M. Provansal, A. Nadim, and L. Schouveiler
Published 20 November 2003 (4 pages)
055702(R) [View PDF (263 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Winding angle variance of Fortuin-Kasteleyn contours
Benjamin Wieland and David B. Wilson
Published 3 November 2003 (4 pages)
056101 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Universal finite-size scaling behavior and universal dynamical scaling behavior of absorbing phase transitions with a conserved field
S. Lübeck and P. C. Heger
Published 3 November 2003 (11 pages)
056102 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Simple dynamical models for hierarchical bunching
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Norio Fujimoto
Published 3 November 2003 (6 pages)
056103 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Rigidity percolation in a field
Cristian F. Moukarzel
Published 5 November 2003 (16 pages)
056104 [View PDF (1,301 kB)]
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Scaling properties of random walks on small-world networks
E. Almaas, R. V. Kulkarni, and D. Stroud
Published 5 November 2003 (6 pages)
056105 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Multispecies annihilating random walk transition at zero branching rate: Cluster scaling behavior in a spin model
Nóra Menyhárd and Géza Ódor
Published 7 November 2003 (6 pages)
056106 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Network bipartivity
Petter Holme, Fredrik Liljeros, Christofer R. Edling, and Beom Jun Kim
Published 7 November 2003 (12 pages)
056107 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Nonuniversality and scaling breakdown in a nonconservative earthquake model
C. J. Boulter and G. Miller
Published 11 November 2003 (6 pages)
056108 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Rational-driver approximation in car-following theory
Ihor Lubashevsky, Peter Wagner, and Reinhard Mahnke
Published 11 November 2003 (15 pages)
056109 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Dynamics of market correlations: Taxonomy and portfolio analysis
J.-P. Onnela, A. Chakraborti, K. Kaski, J. Kertész, and A. Kanto
Published 13 November 2003 (12 pages)
056110 [View PDF (1,145 kB)]
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Critical adsorption in a well-defined geometry
R. Garcia, S. Scheidemantel, K. Knorr, and M. H. W. Chan
Published 20 November 2003 (9 pages)
056111 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Equation of state for a partially ionized gas. II
George A. Baker, Jr.
Published 20 November 2003 (23 pages)
056112 [View PDF (283 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Statistical mechanics in the extended Gaussian ensemble
Ramandeep S. Johal, Antoni Planes, and Eduard Vives
Published 20 November 2003 (8 pages)
056113 [View PDF (501 kB)]
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Structure and transport properties of liquid clusters in a drying porous medium
H. P. Huinink, L. Pel, and M. A. J. Michels
Published 20 November 2003 (7 pages)
056114 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Universal energy distribution for interfaces in a random-field environment
Andrei A. Fedorenko and Semjon Stepanow
Published 20 November 2003 (6 pages)
056115 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Statistics of extremal intensities for Gaussian interfaces
G. Györgyi, P. C. W. Holdsworth, B. Portelli, and Z. Rácz
Published 21 November 2003 (14 pages)
056116 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Optimal analysis on the performance of an irreversible harmonic quantum Brayton refrigeration cycle
Bihong Lin and Jincan Chen
Published 21 November 2003 (9 pages)
056117 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein condensation in random directed networks
O. Sotolongo-Costa and G. J. Rodgers
Published 21 November 2003 (5 pages)
056118 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Synchronization in coupled map lattices as an interface depinning
Adam Lipowski and Michel Droz
Published 24 November 2003 (4 pages)
056119 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Incomplete relaxation in a two-mass one-dimensional self-gravitating system
Kenneth R. Yawn and Bruce N. Miller
Published 24 November 2003 (17 pages)
056120 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Effect of aging on network structure
Han Zhu, Xinran Wang, and Jian-Yang Zhu
Published 24 November 2003 (9 pages)
056121 [View PDF (985 kB)]
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Queuing transitions in the asymmetric simple exclusion process
Meesoon Ha, Jussi Timonen, and Marcel den Nijs
Published 24 November 2003 (10 pages)
056122 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Generalized master equation via aging continuous-time random walks
Paolo Allegrini, Gerardo Aquino, Paolo Grigolini, Luigi Palatella, and Angelo Rosa
Published 25 November 2003 (11 pages)
056123 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Fermi-Pasta-Ulam β lattice: Peierls equation and anomalous heat conductivity
Andrey Pereverzev
Published 25 November 2003 (6 pages)
056124 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Analysis of common attacks in public-key cryptosystems based on low-density parity-check codes
N. S. Skantzos, D. Saad, and Y. Kabashima
Published 25 November 2003 (11 pages)
056125 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Quantization of classical maps with tunable Ruelle-Pollicott resonances
Andrzej Ostruszka, Christopher Manderfeld, Karol Życzkowski, and Fritz Haake
Published 3 November 2003 (12 pages)
056201 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Control of dynamical localization
Jiangbin Gong, Hans Jakob Wörner, and Paul Brumer
Published 3 November 2003 (9 pages)
056202 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Self-organization of quantum dots in epitaxially strained solid films
A. A. Golovin, S. H. Davis, and P. W. Voorhees
Published 3 November 2003 (11 pages)
056203 [View PDF (920 kB)]
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Lyapunov exponents and the extensivity of dimensional loss for systems in thermal gradients
Kenichiro Aoki and Dimitri Kusnezov
Published 18 November 2003 (6 pages)
056204 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Exploring classical phase space structures of nearly integrable and mixed quantum systems via parametric variation
Nicholas R. Cerruti, Srihari Keshavamurthy, and Steven Tomsovic
Published 18 November 2003 (13 pages)
056205 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Transverse instabilities in chemical Turing patterns of stripes
B. Peña, C. Pérez-García, A. Sanz-Anchelergues, D. G. Míguez, and A. P. Muñuzuri
Published 18 November 2003 (7 pages)
056206 [View PDF (724 kB)]
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Dual synchronization of chaos in Colpitts electronic oscillators and its applications for communications
A. Uchida, M. Kawano, and S. Yoshimori
Published 20 November 2003 (11 pages)
056207 [View PDF (597 kB)]
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Semiclassical evaluation of quantum fidelity
Jiří Vaníček and Eric J. Heller
Published 21 November 2003 (5 pages)
056208 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Lyapunov exponent of ion motion in microplasmas
Pierre Gaspard
Published 21 November 2003 (7 pages)
056209 [View PDF (848 kB)]
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Constructing constrained invariant sets in multiscale continuum systems
David Morgan, Erik M. Bollt, and Ira B. Schwartz
Published 21 November 2003 (15 pages)
056210 [View PDF (1,169 kB)]
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Semiclassical study on tunneling processes via complex-domain chaos
T. Onishi, A. Shudo, K. S. Ikeda, and K. Takahashi
Published 24 November 2003 (22 pages)
056211 [View PDF (1,340 kB)]
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Perturbation of period-2 oscillations in catalytic reactions accompanied by surface restructuring
Vladimir P. Zhdanov
Published 25 November 2003 (6 pages)
056212 [View PDF (511 kB)]
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Floquet-Bloch operator for the Bose-Hubbard model with static field
Andrey R. Kolovsky and Andreas Buchleitner
Published 25 November 2003 (9 pages)
056213 [View PDF (13,924 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Toroidal bubbles with circulation in ideal hydrodynamics: A variational approach
V. P. Ruban and J. Juul Rasmussen
Published 5 November 2003 (11 pages)
056301 [View PDF (873 kB)]
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Lattice-Boltzmann model based on field mediators for immiscible fluids
L. O. E. Santos, P. C. Facin, and P. C. Philippi
Published 7 November 2003 (10 pages)
056302 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Interaction of trailing vortices in the wake of a wall-mounted rectangular cylinder
Amalendu Sau, Robert R. Hwang, Tony W. H. Sheu, and W. C. Yang
Published 18 November 2003 (15 pages)
056303 [View PDF (1,676 kB)]
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Stretching, alignment, and shear in slowly varying velocity fields
G. Haller and R. Iacono
Published 18 November 2003 (6 pages)
056304 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Inertially driven buckling and overturning of jets in a Hele-Shaw cell
Adriana I. Pesci, Martin A. Porter, and Raymond E. Goldstein
Published 18 November 2003 (4 pages)
056305 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium kinetics of a radiative CO flow behind a shock wave
A. Aliat, A. Chikhaoui, and E. V. Kustova
Published 20 November 2003 (11 pages)
056306 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Reactive dynamics of inertial particles in nonhyperbolic chaotic flows
Adilson E. Motter, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Celso Grebogi
Published 20 November 2003 (5 pages)
056307 [View PDF (1,756 kB)]
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Standing waves in flow between finite counterrotating cylinders
J. Langenberg, G. Pfister, and J. Abshagen
Published 21 November 2003 (5 pages)
056308 [View PDF (914 kB)]
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Convection in a very compressible fluid: Comparison of simulations with experiments
A. Furukawa, H. Meyer, A. Onuki, and A. B. Kogan
Published 24 November 2003 (7 pages)
056309 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Anisotropy in homogeneous rotating turbulence
José Gaite
Published 25 November 2003 (12 pages)
056310 [View PDF (192 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Molecular-dynamic calculation of the relaxation of the electron energy distribution function in a plasma
N. David and S. M. Hooker
Published 3 November 2003 (8 pages)
056401 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Relativistic electron acceleration in focused laser fields after above-threshold ionization
I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch
Published 18 November 2003 (8 pages)
056402 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Time-resolved pinhole camera imaging and extreme ultraviolet spectrometry on a hollow cathode discharge in xenon
E. R. Kieft, J. J. A. M. van der Mullen, G. M. W. Kroesen, and V. Banine
Published 20 November 2003 (10 pages)
056403 [View PDF (1,299 kB)]
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Electric and magnetic field generation and target heating by laser-generated fast electrons
J. R. Davies
Published 20 November 2003 (7 pages)
056404 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Observation of ion acoustic waves associated with plasma-induced incoherence of laser beams using Thomson scattering
H. C. Bandulet, C. Labaune, J. Fuchs, P. Michel, J. Myatt, S. Depierreux, and H. A. Baldis
Published 20 November 2003 (7 pages)
056405 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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Dynamic confinement of targets heated quasi-isochorically with heavy ion beams
A. Kozyreva, M. Basko, F. B. Rosmej, T. Schlegel, A. Tauschwitz, and D. H. H. Hoffmann
Published 20 November 2003 (5 pages)
056406 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Bifurcation points in the theory of axially symmetric arc cathodes
M. S. Benilov and M. D. Cunha
Published 20 November 2003 (11 pages)
056407 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Spatial characteristics of Kα x-ray emission from relativistic femtosecond laser plasmas
Ch. Reich, I. Uschmann, F. Ewald, S. Düsterer, A. Lübcke, H. Schwoerer, R. Sauerbrey, E. Förster, and P. Gibbon
Published 21 November 2003 (8 pages)
056408 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Compressional and shear wakes in a two-dimensional dusty plasma crystal
V. Nosenko, J. Goree, Z. W. Ma, D. H. E. Dubin, and A. Piel
Published 24 November 2003 (15 pages)
056409 [View PDF (1,464 kB)]
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Calculation of ionization balance and electrical conductivity in nonideal aluminum plasma
Deok-Kyu Kim and Inho Kim
Published 25 November 2003 (6 pages)
056410 [View PDF (352 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply

Physics of beams

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Phase dependence of relativistic electron dynamics and emission spectra in the superposition of an ultraintense laser field and a strong uniform magnetic field
Xinkui He, B. Shuai, X. C. Ge, R. X. Li, and Z. Z. Xu
Published 21 November 2003 (8 pages)
056501 [View PDF (352 kB)]
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Stimulated Raman scattering of intense laser pulses in air
J. R. Peñano, P. Sprangle, P. Serafim, B. Hafizi, and A. Ting
Published 24 November 2003 (16 pages)
056502 [View PDF (856 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Correlation decay and partial coherence in nonlinear wave interactions
F. B. Rizzato, R. Pakter, and S. R. Lopes
Published 7 November 2003 (6 pages)
056601 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Diffractive properties of volume phase gratings in photorefractive sillenite crystals of arbitrary cut under the influence of an external electric field
N. C. Deliolanis, I. M. Kourmoulis, A. G. Apostolidis, E. D. Vanidhis, and D. G. Papazoglou
Published 20 November 2003 (17 pages)
056602 [View PDF (1,450 kB)]
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Two-soliton collisions in a near-integrable lattice system
S. V. Dmitriev, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 20 November 2003 (7 pages)
056603 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Polarization switching in a planar optical waveguide
V. Boucher, H. Leblond, and X. Nguyen-Phu
Published 24 November 2003 (8 pages)
056604 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Multistable pulselike solutions in a parametrically driven Ginzburg-Landau equation
I. V. Barashenkov, S. Cross, and Boris A. Malomed
Published 24 November 2003 (10 pages)
056605 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Computational physics

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Stochastic series expansion method for quantum Ising models with arbitrary interactions
Anders W. Sandvik
Published 11 November 2003 (9 pages)
056701 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Microcanonical optimization algorithm for the Euclidean Steiner problem in Rn with application to phylogenetic inference
Flávio Montenegro, José R. A. Torreão, and Nelson Maculan
Published 13 November 2003 (5 pages)
056702 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Direct simulation Monte Carlo method for the Uehling-Uhlenbeck-Boltzmann equation
Alejandro L. Garcia and Wolfgang Wagner
Published 13 November 2003 (11 pages)
056703 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Characterizing width uniformity by wave propagation
Luciano da F. Costa, Giancarlo Mutinari, and David Schubert
Published 13 November 2003 (7 pages)
056704 [View PDF (537 kB)]
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Determination of effective conductivities of imperfect contact composites with first-passage simulation
Shih-Yuan Lu and Chih-Ying Lin
Published 13 November 2003 (7 pages)
056705 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Modified conjugate gradient method for diagonalizing large matrices
Quanlin Jie and Dunhuan Liu
Published 24 November 2003 (5 pages)
056706 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Potential landscapes and induced charges near metallic islands in three dimensions
A. Weichselbaum and S. E. Ulloa
Published 25 November 2003 (5 pages)
056707 [View PDF (751 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Temporal solitons in quadratic nonlinear media with opposite group-velocity dispersions at the fundamental and second harmonics
K. Beckwitt, Y.-F. Chen, F. W. Wise, and B. A. Malomed
Published 20 November 2003 (4 pages)
057601 [View PDF (265 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Control of hyperchaos”
Vilma A. Oliveira and José R. Rosolen
Published 24 November 2003 (3 pages)
058201 [View PDF (34 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Estimation of interaction strength and direction from short and noisy time series [Phys. Rev. E 68, 046209 (2003)]
Dmitry A. Smirnov and Boris P. Bezruchko
Published 24 November 2003 (1 page)
059901(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Molecular orientation and the infrared dichroism of a chiral smectic liquid crystal in a homogeneously aligned cell at different temperature and bias fields [Phys. Rev. E 68, 031707 (2003)]
A. A. Sigarev, J. K. Vij, R. A. Lewis, M. Hird, and J. W. Goodby
Published 25 November 2003 (1 page)
059902(E) [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Dynamics and scaling of two-dimensional polymers in a dilute solution [Phys. Rev. E 68, 050102 (2003)]
E. Falck, O. Punkkinen, I. Vattulainen, and T. Ala-Nissila
Published 25 November 2003 (1 page)
059903(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]