Physical Review E – December 2003
Volume 68, 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

Granular materials

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Projectile-shape dependence of impact craters in loose granular media
K. A. Newhall and D. J. Durian
Published 24 December 2003 (3 pages)
060301(R) [View PDF (224 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Structure and melting of two-species charged clusters in a parabolic trap
J. A. Drocco, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt, and B. Jankó
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
060401(R) [View PDF (210 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Computationally efficient phase-field models with interface kinetics
Kalin Vetsigian and Nigel Goldenfeld
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
060601(R) [View PDF (62 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Optical studies on free-standing films of an achiral smectic liquid crystal
X. F. Han, S. T. Wang, A. Cady, Z. Q. Liu, S. Findeisen, W. Weissflog, and C. C. Huang
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
060701(R) [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Unusual behavior of the surface-induced tilted layers in free-standing films of a non-layer-shrinkage liquid crystal compound
S. T. Wang, X. F. Han, Z. Q. Liu, A. Cady, M. D. Radcliffe, and C. C. Huang
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
060702(R) [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Structure of twist-grain-boundary–C phases
Arindam Kundagrami and T. C. Lubensky
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
060703(R) [View PDF (347 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Stochastic resonance with spatiotemporal signal controlled by time delays
A. Krawiecki and T. Stemler
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
061101 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Dynamics of the depletion zone at a finite-sized imperfect trap in two dimensions: Photobleaching experiments and simulations
Hailin Peng, Sung Hyun Park, Panos Argyrakis, Haim Taitelbaum, and Raoul Kopelman
Published 17 December 2003 (10 pages)
061102 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Supersymmetric complexity in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
Alessia Annibale, Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, and Giorgio Parisi
Published 17 December 2003 (5 pages)
061103 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Subthreshold stochastic resonance: Rectangular signals can cause anomalous large gains
Jesús Casado-Pascual, José Gómez-Ordóñez, Manuel Morillo, and Peter Hänggi
Published 17 December 2003 (7 pages)
061104 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Efficiency optimization in a correlation ratchet with asymmetric unbiased fluctuations
Bao-Quan Ai, Xian-Ju Wang, Guo-Tao Liu, De-Hua Wen, Hui-Zhang Xie, Wei Chen, and Liang-Gang Liu
Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages)
061105 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Field theoretic derivation of the contact value theorem in planar geometries and its modification by the Casimir effect
D. S. Dean and R. R. Horgan
Published 24 December 2003 (7 pages)
061106 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Symbolic stochastic dynamical systems viewed as binary N-step Markov chains
O. V. Usatenko, V. A. Yampol’skii, K. E. Kechedzhy, and S. S. Mel’nyk
Published 24 December 2003 (14 pages)
061107 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Geometrical complexity of conformations of ring polymers under topological constraints
Miyuki K. Shimamura and Tetsuo Deguchi
Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages)
061108 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Network rigidity at finite temperature: Relationships between thermodynamic stability, the nonadditivity of entropy, and cooperativity in molecular systems
Donald J. Jacobs, S. Dallakyan, G. G. Wood, and A. Heckathorne
Published 31 December 2003 (22 pages)
061109 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Immiscible displacements in rough-walled fractures: Competition between roughening by random aperture variations and smoothing by in-plane curvature
Robert J. Glass, Harihar Rajaram, and Russell L. Detwiler
Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages)
061110 [View PDF (607 kB)]
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Thermally activated processes in polymer dynamics
Lorenzo Bongini, Roberto Livi, Antonio Politi, and Alessandro Torcini
Published 31 December 2003 (12 pages)
061111 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Frequency-dependent stochastic resonance in inhibitory coupled excitable systems
E. I. Volkov, E. Ullner, A. A. Zaikin, and J. Kurths
Published 31 December 2003 (8 pages)
061112 [View PDF (596 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Partitioned density functional approach for a Lennard-Jones fluid
Shiqi Zhou
Published 11 December 2003 (7 pages)
061201 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Shape fluctuations of a deformable body in a randomly stirred host fluid
Gad Frenkel and Moshe Schwartz
Published 18 December 2003 (9 pages)
061202 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Structural transformations in ferrofluids
A. Yu. Zubarev and L. Yu. Iskakova
Published 18 December 2003 (8 pages)
061203 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Metastable liquid lamellar structures in binary and ternary mixtures of Lennard-Jones fluids
Enrique Díaz-Herrera, Guillermo Ramírez-Santiago, and José A. Moreno-Razo
Published 24 December 2003 (8 pages)
061204 [View PDF (1,324 kB)]
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Photophoresis of a fine particle in a selectively excited gas
V. G. Chernyak and O. V. Klitenik
Published 30 December 2003 (9 pages)
061205 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Drag force, diffusion coefficient, and electric mobility of small particles. I. Theory applicable to the free-molecule regime
Zhigang Li and Hai Wang
Published 31 December 2003 (9 pages)
061206 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Drag force, diffusion coefficient, and electric mobility of small particles. II. Application
Zhigang Li and Hai Wang
Published 31 December 2003 (13 pages)
061207 [View PDF (408 kB)]
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Cage diffusion in liquid mercury
Yaspal S. Badyal, Ubaldo Bafile, Kunimasa Miyazaki, Ignatz M. de Schepper, and Wouter Montfrooij
Published 31 December 2003 (7 pages)
061208 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Slow dynamics of a confined supercooled binary mixture. II. Q space analysis
P. Gallo, R. Pellarin, and M. Rovere
Published 31 December 2003 (7 pages)
061209 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Granular materials

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Role of friction in compaction and segregation of granular materials
Yair Srebro and Dov Levine
Published 3 December 2003 (9 pages)
061301 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Granular flow trapped on an incline: Dynamics of the sandpile
B. Bonnier, J.-F. Boudet, and H. Kellay
Published 15 December 2003 (5 pages)
061302 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Competition between chaos and order: Mixing and segregation in a spherical tumbler
J. F. Gilchrist and J. M. Ottino
Published 24 December 2003 (6 pages)
061303 [View PDF (812 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Density functional theory study of electric potential saturation: Planar geometry
Gabriel Téllez and Emmanuel Trizac
Published 11 December 2003 (9 pages)
061401 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Collective stochastic resonance in shear-induced melting of sliding bilayers
Moumita Das, G. Ananthakrishna, and Sriram Ramaswamy
Published 15 December 2003 (12 pages)
061402 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Clustering and viscosity in a shear flow of a particulate suspension
P. Raiskinmäki, J. A. Åström, M. Kataja, M. Latva-Kokko, A. Koponen, A. Jäsberg, A. Shakib-Manesh, and J. Timonen
Published 17 December 2003 (5 pages)
061403 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Capillary condensation and interface structure of a model colloid-polymer mixture in a porous medium
Paul P. F. Wessels, Matthias Schmidt, and Hartmut Löwen
Published 17 December 2003 (12 pages)
061404 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Phase diagram of a quasi-two-dimensional colloid assembly
Derek Frydel and Stuart A. Rice
Published 18 December 2003 (16 pages)
061405 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Crystal structures of two-dimensional magnetic colloids in tilted external magnetic fields
V. A. Froltsov, R. Blaak, C. N. Likos, and H. Löwen
Published 30 December 2003 (10 pages)
061406 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Dynamic density functional study of a driven colloidal particle in polymer solutions
F. Penna, J. Dzubiella, and P. Tarazona
Published 30 December 2003 (5 pages)
061407 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Average hydrodynamic correction for the Brownian dynamics calculation of flocculation rates in concentrated dispersions
German Urbina-Villalba, Máximo García-Sucre, and Jhoan Toro-Mendoza
Published 31 December 2003 (9 pages)
061408 [View PDF (205 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Effects of asymmetric salt and a cylindrical macroion on charge inversion: Electrophoresis by molecular dynamics simulations
Motohiko Tanaka
Published 11 December 2003 (8 pages)
061501 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Plastic flow in two-dimensional solids
Akira Onuki
Published 11 December 2003 (17 pages)
061502 [View PDF (850 kB)]
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Simple analytic equations of state for hard-core single and double Yukawa fluids and mixtures based on second-order Barker-Henderson perturbation theory
Sun Jiuxun
Published 17 December 2003 (10 pages)
061503 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Local mean-field study of capillary condensation in silica aerogels
F. Detcheverry, E. Kierlik, M. L. Rosinberg, and G. Tarjus
Published 17 December 2003 (12 pages)
061504 [View PDF (1,009 kB)]
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Statistical analysis of two-dimensional cluster structures composed of ferromagnetic particles based on a flexible chain model
Hisao Morimoto, Toru Maekawa, and Yoichiro Matsumoto
Published 18 December 2003 (5 pages)
061505 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Structure and phase behavior of a two-dimensional system with core-softened and long-range repulsive interactions
Philip J. Camp
Published 18 December 2003 (8 pages)
061506 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Dynamics of shear-transformation zones in amorphous plasticity: Energetic constraints in a minimal theory
J. S. Langer and L. Pechenik
Published 23 December 2003 (8 pages)
061507 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Freezing transition and correlated motion in a quasi-two-dimensional colloid suspension
Ronen Zangi and Stuart A. Rice
Published 24 December 2003 (13 pages)
061508 [View PDF (1,646 kB)]
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Fractal patterns, cluster dynamics, and elastic properties of magnetorheological suspensions
J. L. Carrillo, F. Donado, and M. E. Mendoza
Published 24 December 2003 (8 pages)
061509 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Phase diagrams of classical spin fluids: The influence of an external magnetic field on the liquid-gas transition
W. Fenz, R. Folk, I. M. Mryglod, and I. P. Omelyan
Published 31 December 2003 (12 pages)
061510 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Lattice study of a Janus interface
Thomas A. McCormick
Published 3 December 2003 (5 pages)
061601 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Anisotropy of alkyl chains of azobenzene molecules at the air/water interface observed by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy
Masahito Oh-e, Yuka Tabe, and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Published 18 December 2003 (6 pages)
061602 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Spreading dynamics of polymer nanodroplets
David R. Heine, Gary S. Grest, and Edmund B. Webb, III
Published 30 December 2003 (10 pages)
061603 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Dislocation loop dynamics in freestanding smectic films: The role of the disjoining pressure and of the finite permeability of the meniscus
P. Oswald, F. Picano, and F. Caillier
Published 3 December 2003 (7 pages)
061701 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Anchoring properties of photoaligned azo-dye materials
Vladimir Chigrinov, Anatoli Muravski, Hoi Sing Kwok, Hirokazu Takada, Hidenari Akiyama, and Haruyoshi Takatsu
Published 15 December 2003 (5 pages)
061702 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Free planar isotropic-nematic interfaces in binary hard-rod fluids
Kostya Shundyak and René van Roij
Published 18 December 2003 (10 pages)
061703 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Shear-induced textural transitions in flow-aligning liquid crystal polymers
Dana Grecov and Alejandro D. Rey
Published 31 December 2003 (20 pages)
061704 [View PDF (761 kB)]
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Effect of spontaneous polarization and polar surface anchoring on the director and layer structure in surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells
Nataša Vaupotič and Martin Čopič
Published 31 December 2003 (8 pages)
061705 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Identification of nonmonotonic behaviors and stick-slip transition in liquid crystal polymers
Caroline Pujolle-Robic and Laurence Noirez
Published 31 December 2003 (5 pages)
061706 [View PDF (497 kB)]
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Waves at the nematic-isotropic interface: The role of surface tension anisotropy, curvature elasticity, and backflow effects
V. Popa-Nita and P. Oswald
Published 31 December 2003 (12 pages)
061707 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Polymers

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Pulling reptating polymers by one end: Magnetophoresis in the Rubinstein-Duke model
A. Drzewiński, E. Carlon, and J. M. J. van Leeuwen
Published 18 December 2003 (7 pages)
061801 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Theory of polyelectrolytes in solvents
Shirish M. Chitanvis
Published 31 December 2003 (12 pages)
061802 [View PDF (208 kB)]

Biological physics

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Modeling charge transfer in the photosynthetic reaction center
Michal Pudlak and Richard Pinčak
Published 11 December 2003 (7 pages)
061901 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Analytical solution of a neutral model of biodiversity
M. Vallade and B. Houchmandzadeh
Published 11 December 2003 (5 pages)
061902 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Adsorption of monovalent and multivalent cations and anions on DNA molecules
E. Allahyarov, H. Löwen, and G. Gompper
Published 15 December 2003 (13 pages)
061903 [View PDF (1,640 kB)]
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Hierarchical population model with a carrying capacity distribution for bacterial biofilms
J. O. Indekeu and K. Sznajd-Weron
Published 17 December 2003 (10 pages)
061904 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Budding of crystalline domains in fluid membranes
T. Kohyama, D. M. Kroll, and G. Gompper
Published 17 December 2003 (15 pages)
061905 [View PDF (1,638 kB)]
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Motion of a rotatory molecular motor and the chemical reaction rate
Hiroshi Miki, Masatoshi Sato, and Mahito Kohmoto
Published 18 December 2003 (10 pages)
061906 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Distinct regimes of elastic response and deformation modes of cross-linked cytoskeletal and semiflexible polymer networks
D. A. Head, A. J. Levine, and F. C. MacKintosh
Published 18 December 2003 (15 pages)
061907 [View PDF (790 kB)]
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Modeling the concentration-dependent permeation modes of the KcsA potassium ion channel
Peter Hugo Nelson
Published 18 December 2003 (8 pages)
061908 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Thermal denaturation of a helicoidal DNA model
Maria Barbi, Stefano Lepri, Michel Peyrard, and Nikos Theodorakopoulos
Published 23 December 2003 (14 pages)
061909 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Universality and Shannon entropy of codon usage
L. Frappat, C. Minichini, A. Sciarrino, and P. Sorba
Published 24 December 2003 (12 pages)
061910 [View PDF (1,086 kB)]
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Reparametrizing the loop entropy weights: Effect on DNA melting curves
Ralf Blossey and Enrico Carlon
Published 24 December 2003 (8 pages)
061911 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Clustering in neutral ecology
B. Houchmandzadeh and M. Vallade
Published 24 December 2003 (7 pages)
061912 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Nonlinear analysis of correlations in Alu repeat sequences in DNA
Yi Xiao, Yanzhao Huang, Mingfeng Li, Ruizhen Xu, and Saifeng Xiao
Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages)
061913 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Robustness of retrieval properties against imbalance between long-term potentiation and depression of spike-timing-dependent plasticity
Narihisa Matsumoto and Masato Okada
Published 30 December 2003 (9 pages)
061914 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Lipid membranes with free edges
Z. C. Tu and Z. C. Ou-Yang
Published 31 December 2003 (7 pages)
061915 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Two-electron transfer reactions in proteins: Bridge-mediated and proton-assisted processes
E. G. Petrov, V. I. Teslenko, and V. May
Published 31 December 2003 (17 pages)
061916 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Phase switching in a system of two noisy Hodgkin-Huxley neurons coupled by a diffusive interaction
J. M. Casado and J. P. Baltanás
Published 31 December 2003 (10 pages)
061917 [View PDF (185 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Structured and complex fluids

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Density functional theory and demixing of binary hard-rod–polymer mixtures
P. Bryk
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
062501 [View PDF (58 kB)]

Biological physics

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Time evolution of the extremely diluted Blume-Emery-Griffiths neural network
D. Bollé, D. R. C. Dominguez, R. Erichsen, Jr., E. Korutcheva, and W. K. Theumann
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
062901 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Influence of nonexcitable cells on spiral breakup in two-dimensional and three-dimensional excitable media
K. H. W. J. ten Tusscher and A. V. Panfilov
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
062902 [View PDF (464 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Local scale invariance as dynamical space-time symmetry in phase-ordering kinetics
Malte Henkel and Michel Pleimling
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
065101(R) [View PDF (352 kB)]
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From multiplicative noise to directed percolation in wetting transitions
F. Ginelli, V. Ahlers, R. Livi, D. Mukamel, A. Pikovsky, A. Politi, and A. Torcini
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
065102(R) [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Self-similar community structure in a network of human interactions
R. Guimerà, L. Danon, A. Díaz-Guilera, F. Giralt, and A. Arenas
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
065103(R) [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Measuring the fluctuation-dissipation ratio in glassy systems with no perturbing field
F. Ricci-Tersenghi
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
065104(R) [View PDF (70 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Synchronization and symmetry-breaking bifurcations in constructive networks of coupled chaotic oscillators
Yu Jiang, M. Lozada-Cassou, and A. Vinet
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
065201(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Asymptotic scaling of the diffusion coefficient of fluctuating “pulled” fronts
Debabrata Panja
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
065202(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Resonant emergence of global and local spatiotemporal order in a nonlinear field model
Marcelo Gleiser and Rafael C. Howell
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
065203(R) [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Asymmetrical singularities in real-world signals
Kyoko Ohashi, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Benjamin H. Natelson, and Yoshiharu Yamamoto
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
065204(R) [View PDF (552 kB)]
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Low-rank perturbations and the spectral statistics of pseudointegrable billiards
Thomas Gorin and Jan Wiersig
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
065205(R) [View PDF (56 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Scaling evolution in shock-induced transition to turbulence
P. Vorobieff, N.-G. Mohamed, C. Tomkins, C. Goodenough, M. Marr-Lyon, and R. F. Benjamin
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
065301(R) [View PDF (519 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Reciprocity theorem and perturbation theory for photonic crystal waveguides
D. Michaelis, U. Peschel, C. Wächter, and A. Bräuer
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
065601(R) [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Resonant and antiresonant frequency dependence of the effective parameters of metamaterials
T. Koschny, P. Markoš, D. R. Smith, and C. M. Soukoulis
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
065602(R) [View PDF (572 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Spatial solitons in type II quasiphase-matched slab waveguides
N.-C. Panoiu, D. Mihalache, Hongling Rao, and R. M. Osgood, Jr.
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
065603(R) [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Vectorial Swift-Hohenberg equation for transverse laser patterns
Miguel Hoyuelos and Matías dell’Erba
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
065604(R) [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Stabilization of one-dimensional periodic waves by saturation of the nonlinear response
Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Alexey A. Egorov, Anna S. Zelenina, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
065605(R) [View PDF (426 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Nonequilibrium phase transition in a model for the propagation of innovations among economic agents
Mateu Llas, Pablo M. Gleiser, Juan M. López, and Albert Díaz-Guilera
Published 15 December 2003 (6 pages)
066101 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Scaling laws for the movement of people between locations in a large city
G. Chowell, J. M. Hyman, S. Eubank, and C. Castillo-Chavez
Published 15 December 2003 (7 pages)
066102 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Nanoscopic liquid bridges exposed to a torsional strain
Sophie Sacquin-Mora, Alain H. Fuchs, and Martin Schoen
Published 15 December 2003 (9 pages)
066103 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Properties of a random attachment growing network
László Zalányi, Gábor Csárdi, Tamás Kiss, Máté Lengyel, Rebecca Warner, Jan Tobochnik, and Péter Érdi
Published 17 December 2003 (9 pages)
066104 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Phase transitions of the anisotropic Ashkin-Teller model on a family of diamond-type hierarchical lattices
Jian-Xin Le and Z. R. Yang
Published 17 December 2003 (8 pages)
066105 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Where the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann cell model fails: The planar case as a prototype study
M. N. Tamashiro and H. Schiessel
Published 17 December 2003 (14 pages)
066106 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Scaling laws for critical manifolds in polycrystalline materials
J. H. Meinke, E. S. McGarrity, P. M. Duxbury, and E. A. Holm
Published 17 December 2003 (12 pages)
066107 [View PDF (1,365 kB)]
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Influence of external information in the minority game
M. A. R. de Cara and F. Guinea
Published 17 December 2003 (7 pages)
066108 [View PDF (707 kB)]
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Analysis of stochastic resonances
Petr Chvosta and Peter Reineker
Published 18 December 2003 (12 pages)
066109 [View PDF (555 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of electrolytes on anisotropic lattices
Vladimir Kobelev, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
Published 18 December 2003 (7 pages)
066110 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Monodisperse model suitable to study the glass transition
M. Pica Ciamarra, M. Tarzia, A. de Candia, and A. Coniglio
Published 23 December 2003 (9 pages)
066111 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Quantum master equation for a system influencing its environment
Massimiliano Esposito and Pierre Gaspard
Published 24 December 2003 (18 pages)
066112 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Spin relaxation in a complex environment
Massimiliano Esposito and Pierre Gaspard
Published 24 December 2003 (21 pages)
066113 [View PDF (612 kB)]
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Large-scale emergent properties of an autocatalytic reaction-diffusion model subject to noise
David Hochberg, Felipe Lesmes, Federico Morán, and Juan Pérez-Mercader
Published 24 December 2003 (10 pages)
066114 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Crossover between special and ordinary transitions in random semi-infinite Ising-like systems
Z. Usatenko and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 24 December 2003 (8 pages)
066115 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Alternative model of the Antonov problem
L. Velazquez and F. Guzmán
Published 24 December 2003 (10 pages)
066116 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Properties of chord length distributions across ordered and disordered packing of hard disks
David Guéron and Alain Mazzolo
Published 24 December 2003 (9 pages)
066117 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Friction in the zero sliding velocity limit
C. Daly, J. Zhang, and J. B. Sokoloff
Published 30 December 2003 (8 pages)
066118 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Some asymptotic properties of duplication graphs
Alpan Raval
Published 30 December 2003 (10 pages)
066119 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Density functional theory for nearest-neighbor exclusion lattice gases in two and three dimensions
Luis Lafuente and José A. Cuesta
Published 30 December 2003 (12 pages)
066120 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Crossover behavior in a communication network
Brajendra K. Singh and Neelima Gupte
Published 30 December 2003 (9 pages)
066121 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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General theory of nonlinear flow-distributed oscillations
Patrick N. McGraw and Michael Menzinger
Published 30 December 2003 (12 pages)
066122 [View PDF (963 kB)]
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Continuum traffic model with the consideration of two delay time scales
Yu Xue and Shi-Qiang Dai
Published 30 December 2003 (6 pages)
066123 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Stochastically evolving networks
Derek Y. C. Chan, Barry D. Hughes, Alex S. Leong, and William J. Reed
Published 31 December 2003 (24 pages)
066124 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Microcanonical Monte Carlo simulation of lattice gas models
Cláudio S. Shida, Vera B. Henriques, and Mário J. de Oliveira
Published 31 December 2003 (5 pages)
066125 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Structure of equations of macrophysics
V. L. Berdichevsky
Published 31 December 2003 (26 pages)
066126 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium critical dynamics of the triangular antiferromagnetic Ising model
Eunhye Kim, Bongsoo Kim, and Sung Jong Lee
Published 31 December 2003 (11 pages)
066127 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Quasiequilibrium during aging of the two-dimensional Edwards-Anderson model
S. Franz, V. Lecomte, and R. Mulet
Published 31 December 2003 (7 pages)
066128 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Ballistic localization in quasi-one-dimensional waveguides with rough surfaces
F. M. Izrailev, J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez, and G. A. Luna-Acosta
Published 11 December 2003 (5 pages)
066201 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Bivariate surrogate techniques: Necessity, strengths, and caveats
Ralph G. Andrzejak, Alexander Kraskov, Harald Stögbauer, Florian Mormann, and Thomas Kreuz
Published 15 December 2003 (15 pages)
066202 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Dynamical origin for the occurrence of asynchronous hyperchaos and chaos via blowout bifurcations
Sang-Yoon Kim, Woochang Lim, Edward Ott, and Brian Hunt
Published 17 December 2003 (10 pages)
066203 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Pattern formation at the bicritical point of the Faraday instability
C. Wagner, H.-W. Müller, and K. Knorr
Published 17 December 2003 (12 pages)
066204 [View PDF (1,186 kB)]
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External cavity modes of semiconductor lasers with phase-conjugate feedback
Thomas Erneux, Athanasios Gavrielides, Kirk Green, and Bernd Krauskopf
Published 18 December 2003 (9 pages)
066205 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Noise-controlled oscillations and their bifurcations in coupled phase oscillators
M. A. Zaks, A. B. Neiman, S. Feistel, and L. Schimansky-Geier
Published 23 December 2003 (9 pages)
066206 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Vortex formation of coherent waves in nonseparable mesoscopic billiards
Y. F. Chen and K. F. Huang
Published 23 December 2003 (5 pages)
066207 [View PDF (1,743 kB)]
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Self-stabilization of high-frequency oscillations in semiconductor superlattices by time-delay autosynchronization
J. Schlesner, A. Amann, N. B. Janson, W. Just, and E. Schöll
Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages)
066208 [View PDF (258 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Competition of synchronization domains in arrays of chaotic homoclinic systems
I. Leyva, E. Allaria, S. Boccaletti, and F. T. Arecchi
Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages)
066209 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Relaxation and diffusion in a globally coupled Hamiltonian system
Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi
Published 30 December 2003 (9 pages)
066210 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Experimental demonstration of attractor annihilation in a multistable fiber laser
A. N. Pisarchik, Yu. O. Barmenkov, and A. V. Kir’yanov
Published 30 December 2003 (8 pages)
066211 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Controlling chaos in a Lorenz-like system using feedback
G. Kociuba and N. R. Heckenberg
Published 31 December 2003 (8 pages)
066212 [View PDF (1,894 kB)]
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Scaling properties of saddle-node bifurcations on fractal basin boundaries
Romulus Breban, Helena E. Nusse, and Edward Ott
Published 31 December 2003 (16 pages)
066213 [View PDF (1,350 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Multiphase control of a nonlinear lattice
M. Khasin and L. Friedland
Published 31 December 2003 (13 pages)
066214 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Signatures of classical diffusion in quantum fluctuations of two-dimensional chaotic systems
Tsampikos Kottos, Alexander Ossipov, and Theo Geisel
Published 31 December 2003 (15 pages)
066215 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Traveling waves in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Analysis of modes and mean flow
J. D. Scheel, M. R. Paul, M. C. Cross, and P. F. Fischer
Published 31 December 2003 (6 pages)
066216 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Well-behaved dynamics in a dissipative nonideal periodically kicked rotator
R. Chacón and A. Martínez García-Hoz
Published 31 December 2003 (11 pages)
066217 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Synchronization of hyperchaotic systems with delayed bidirectional coupling
Nikola Burić and Dragana Todorović
Published 31 December 2003 (9 pages)
066218 [View PDF (416 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Stationary core-annular flow through a horizontal pipe
G. Ooms and P. Poesio
Published 15 December 2003 (7 pages)
066301 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Response maxima in modulated turbulence. II. Numerical simulations
Anna von der Heydt, Siegfried Grossmann, and Detlef Lohse
Published 15 December 2003 (10 pages)
066302 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Particle image velocimetry measurement of the velocity field in turbulent thermal convection
Ke-Qing Xia, Chao Sun, and Sheng-Qi Zhou
Published 17 December 2003 (18 pages)
066303 [View PDF (3,063 kB)]
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Importance of the Darrieus-Landau instability for strongly corrugated turbulent flames
Vitaly Bychkov
Published 18 December 2003 (12 pages)
066304 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Self-similarity of two flows induced by instabilities
Timothy T. Clark and Ye Zhou
Published 18 December 2003 (16 pages)
066305 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Heat and mass transport in nonhomogeneous random velocity fields
Roberto Mauri
Published 18 December 2003 (9 pages)
066306 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Influence of electromagnetic boundary conditions onto the onset of dynamo action in laboratory experiments
Raul Avalos-Zuniga, Franck Plunian, and Agris Gailitis
Published 24 December 2003 (8 pages)
066307 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Complete band gaps for liquid surface waves propagating over a periodically drilled bottom
Xinhua Hu, Yifeng Shen, Xiaohan Liu, Rongtang Fu, and Jian Zi
Published 24 December 2003 (5 pages)
066308 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Maximum entropy theory and the rapid relaxation of three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic turbulence
David A. Schecter
Published 31 December 2003 (8 pages)
066309 [View PDF (971 kB)]
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Influence of a nonlinear reference temperature profile on oscillatory Bénard-Marangoni convection
M. Dondlinger, P. Colinet, and P. C. Dauby
Published 31 December 2003 (8 pages)
066310 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Multistability of oscillatory thermocapillary convection in a liquid bridge
V. M. Shevtsova, D. E. Melnikov, and J. C. Legros
Published 31 December 2003 (13 pages)
066311 [View PDF (499 kB)]
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Destruction of stable spiral waves in oscillatory media
Junzhong Yang and Alan Garfinkel
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
066312 [View PDF (310 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Radiative opacities and configuration interaction effects of hot iron plasma using a detailed term accounting model
Fengtao Jin, Jiaolong Zeng, and Jianmin Yuan
Published 11 December 2003 (8 pages)
066401 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Coupled dust-lattice solitons in monolayer plasma crystals
A. V. Ivlev, S. K. Zhdanov, and G. E. Morfill
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
066402 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Paraxial theory of slow self-focusing
D. Subbarao, Karuna Batra, and R. Uma
Published 18 December 2003 (14 pages)
066403 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Longitudinal oscillations and linear Landau damping in quark-gluon plasma
G. Murtaza, N. A. D. Khattak, and H. A. Shah
Published 18 December 2003 (9 pages)
066404 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Normal mode spectra of two-dimensional classical atoms confined by a Coulomb potential
W. P. Ferreira, F. M. Peeters, and G. A. Farias
Published 18 December 2003 (10 pages)
066405 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Propagation of a short proton beam through a thin plasma slab
F. Califano, F. Pegoraro, and S. V. Bulanov
Published 23 December 2003 (12 pages)
066406 [View PDF (769 kB)]
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Plasma state transition originating from local production of massive negative ions
Wataru Oohara, Rikizo Hatakeyama, and Seiji Ishiguro
Published 31 December 2003 (8 pages)
066407 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Microscopic and macroscopic simulations for femtosecond-laser–matter interaction by cubic interpolated propagation method
Yoshiaki Kondoh, Takashi Yabe, Jun Maehara, Takashi Nakamura, and Youichi Ogata
Published 31 December 2003 (9 pages)
066408 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Fine structure of the Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation
G. N. Afanasiev, V. G. Kartavenko, and V. P. Zrelov
Published 17 December 2003 (12 pages)
066501 [View PDF (316 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Optical bistability and tristability in nonlinear metal/dielectric composite media of nonspherical particles
Lei Gao, Liping Gu, and Zhenya Li
Published 3 December 2003 (8 pages)
066601 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Wave-function reconstruction of complex fields obeying nonlinear parabolic equations
Yaw-Ren E. Tan, David M. Paganin, Rotha P. Yu, and Michael J. Morgan
Published 11 December 2003 (9 pages)
066602 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Femtosecond pulse compression in pressure-gas cells filled with argon
Stéphanie Champeaux and Luc Bergé
Published 11 December 2003 (12 pages)
066603 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Pulse delay and propagation through subwavelength metallic slits
Paul N. Stavrinou and Laszlo Solymar
Published 11 December 2003 (7 pages)
066604 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Stable two-dimensional dispersion-managed soliton
Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev, Bakhtiyor B. Baizakov, and Mario Salerno
Published 15 December 2003 (4 pages)
066605 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Superluminal propagation of light pulses: A result of interference
Li-Gang Wang, Nian-Hua Liu, Qiang Lin, and Shi-Yao Zhu
Published 15 December 2003 (10 pages)
066606 [View PDF (936 kB)]
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Alternative coupled integrable optical soliton system with higher-order effects
K. Porsezian
Published 18 December 2003 (5 pages)
066607 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Energy exchange in collisions of intrinsic localized modes
Yusuke Doi
Published 18 December 2003 (13 pages)
066608 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Simulation study of localization of electromagnetic waves in two-dimensional random dipolar systems
Ken Kang-Hsin Wang and Zhen Ye
Published 24 December 2003 (6 pages)
066609 [View PDF (684 kB)]
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Perturbation-induced radiation by the Ablowitz-Ladik soliton
E. V. Doktorov, N. P. Matsuka, and V. M. Rothos
Published 24 December 2003 (14 pages)
066610 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Dynamic counterpropagating vector solitons in saturable self-focusing media
K. Motzek, Ph. Jander, A. Desyatnikov, M. Belić, C. Denz, and F. Kaiser
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
066611 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Spatial-temporal Gauss-Laguerre waves in dispersive media
Stefano Longhi
Published 30 December 2003 (6 pages)
066612 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Experimental studies of the influence of distributed power losses on the transparency of two-dimensional surface photonic band-gap structures
I. V. Konoplev, A. D. R. Phelps, A. W. Cross, and K. Ronald
Published 30 December 2003 (8 pages)
066613 [View PDF (755 kB)]
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Multireflection boundary conditions for lattice Boltzmann models
Irina Ginzburg and Dominique d’Humières
Published 31 December 2003 (30 pages)
066614 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Soliton propagation in an erbium-doped fiber with and without a continuous wave background
R. Ganapathy, V. C. Kuriakose, and K. Porsezian
Published 31 December 2003 (7 pages)
066615 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Compact all-pass filters in photonic crystals as the building block for high-capacity optical delay lines
Zheng Wang and Shanhui Fan
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
066616 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Second-harmonic generation in one-dimensional photonic edge waveguides
Y. Dumeige, F. Raineri, A. Levenson, and X. Letartre
Published 31 December 2003 (7 pages)
066617 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Imaging in turbid media using modulation frequency scanning
G. H. Rutherford, M. Marsalli, Q. Su, and R. Grobe
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
066618 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Probability of anomalously large bit-error rate in long haul optical transmission
V. Chernyak, M. Chertkov, I. Kolokolov, and V. Lebedev
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
066619 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Computational physics

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Towards idempotent reduced density matrices via particle-hole duality: McWeeny’s purification and beyond
David A. Mazziotti
Published 3 December 2003 (10 pages)
066701 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Vapor-liquid coexistence in many-body dissipative particle dynamics
P. B. Warren
Published 18 December 2003 (8 pages)
066702 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Fast and accurate coarsening simulation with an unconditionally stable time step
Benjamin P. Vollmayr-Lee and Andrew D. Rutenberg
Published 23 December 2003 (13 pages)
066703 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Neuberger’s double-pass algorithm
Ting-Wai Chiu and Tung-Han Hsieh
Published 31 December 2003 (9 pages)
066704 [View PDF (92 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Interpreting the wide scattering of synchronized traffic data by time gap statistics
Katsuhiro Nishinari, Martin Treiber, and Dirk Helbing
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
067101 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Universality of anomalous one-dimensional heat conductivity
Stefano Lepri, Roberto Livi, and Antonio Politi
Published 18 December 2003 (4 pages)
067102 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Low-temperature phase transition in the three-state Potts glass
N. V. Gribova, V. N. Ryzhov, and E. E. Tareyeva
Published 24 December 2003 (4 pages)
067103 [View PDF (50 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Current reversal with type-I intermittency in deterministic inertia ratchets
Woo-Sik Son, Inbo Kim, Young-Jai Park, and Chil-Min Kim
Published 11 December 2003 (4 pages)
067201 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Amplitude death induced by dynamic coupling
Keiji Konishi
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
067202 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Synchronization of fractional order chaotic systems
Chunguang Li, Xiaofeng Liao, and Juebang Yu
Published 24 December 2003 (3 pages)
067203 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Validity of numerical trajectories in the synchronization transition of complex systems
R. L. Viana, C. Grebogi, S. E. de S. Pinto, S. R. Lopes, A. M. Batista, and J. Kurths
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
067204 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

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Non-normal and stochastic amplification of magnetic energy in the turbulent dynamo: Subcritical case
Sergei Fedotov
Published 17 December 2003 (4 pages)
067301 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Nonlinearly coupled upper-hybrid and magnetoacoustic waves in collisional magnetoplasmas
P. K. Shukla, B. Eliasson, and L. Stenflo
Published 23 December 2003 (4 pages)
067401 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Dust size distribution for dust acoustic waves in a magnetized dusty plasma
Wen-shan Duan and John Parkes
Published 30 December 2003 (4 pages)
067402 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Ablation pressure scaling at short laser wavelength
D. Batani, H. Stabile, A. Ravasio, G. Lucchini, F. Strati, T. Desai, J. Ullschmied, E. Krousky, J. Skala, L. Juha, B. Kralikova, M. Pfeifer, Ch. Kadlec, T. Mocek, A. Präg, H. Nishimura, and Y. Ochi
Published 31 December 2003 (4 pages)
067403 [View PDF (261 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Subwavelength imaging by a left-handed material superlens
X. S. Rao and C. K. Ong
Published 15 December 2003 (3 pages)
067601 [View PDF (39 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Hysteresis phenomena in CO catalytic oxidation system in the presence of inhomogeneities of the catalyst surface”
V. P. Zhdanov
Published 24 December 2003 (2 pages)
068101 [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Hysteresis phenomena in CO catalytic oxidation system in the presence of inhomogeneities of the catalyst surface’ ”
Da-yin Hua and Yu-qiang Ma
Published 24 December 2003 (2 pages)
068102 [View PDF (14 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Local density fluctuations, hyperuniformity, and order metrics [Phys. Rev. E 68, 041113 (2003)]
Salvatore Torquato and Frank H. Stillinger
Published 15 December 2003 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Erratum: Mechanical analog of temperature for the description of force distribution in static granular packings [Phys. Rev. E 68, 011301 (2003)]
A. H. W. Ngan
Published 18 December 2003 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Erratum: Constant bond breakup probability model for reversible aggregation processes [Phys. Rev. E 65, 031405 (2002)]
G. Odriozola, A. Schmitt, A. Moncho-Jordá, J. Callejas-Fernández, R. Martínez-García, R. Leone, and R. Hidalgo-Álvarez
Published 18 December 2003 (1 page)
069903(E) [View PDF (14 kB)]