Physical Review E – March 2004
Volume 69, Issue 3

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

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

•
Superlensing effect in liquid surface waves
Xinhua Hu, Yifeng Shen, Xiaohan Liu, Rongtang Fu, and Jian Zi
Published 16 March 2004 (4 pages)
030201(R) [View PDF (533 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

•
Structure formation in binary colloids
I. Varga, F. Kun, and K. F. Pál
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
030501(R) [View PDF (95 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

•
Diffusion-driven spreading phenomena: The structure of the hull of the visited territory
Eleni Arapaki, Panos Argyrakis, and Armin Bunde
Published 8 March 2004 (4 pages)
031101 [View PDF (81 kB)]
•
Molecular traffic control in single-file networks with fast catalysts
A. Brzank, G. M. Schütz, P. Bräuer, and J. Kärger
Published 9 March 2004 (5 pages)
031102 [View PDF (248 kB)]
•
Analysis on the origin of directed current from a class of microscopic chaotic fluctuations
L. Y. Chew and Christopher Ting
Published 16 March 2004 (13 pages)
031103 [View PDF (138 kB)]
•
Average shape of fluctuations for subdiffusive walks
S. B. Yuste and L. Acedo
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
031104 [View PDF (69 kB)]
•
Roughness of sandpile surfaces
J. G. Oliveira, J. F. F. Mendes, and G. Tripathy
Published 23 March 2004 (5 pages)
031105 [View PDF (143 kB)]
•
Minimal speed of fronts of reaction-convection-diffusion equations
R. D. Benguria, M. C. Depassier, and V. Méndez
Published 23 March 2004 (7 pages)
031106 [View PDF (67 kB)]
•
Diffusion and percolation in anisotropic random barrier models
Sebastian Bustingorry
Published 24 March 2004 (6 pages)
031107 [View PDF (79 kB)]
•
Extraction of backgrounds in fluctuating systems
Ning-Ning Pang and Wen-Jer Tzeng
Published 24 March 2004 (3 pages)
031108 [View PDF (37 kB)]
•
Internal stochastic resonance in two coupled liquid membrane oscillators
Qian Shu Li and Ya Ping Li
Published 30 March 2004 (7 pages)
031109 [View PDF (115 kB)]
•
Gravitational force in weakly correlated particle spatial distributions
Andrea Gabrielli, Adolfo Paolo Masucci, and Francesco Sylos Labini
Published 30 March 2004 (8 pages)
031110 [View PDF (92 kB)]
•
Pressure tensor and heat flux vector for inhomogeneous nonequilibrium fluids under the influence of three-body forces
Junfang Zhang and B. D. Todd
Published 31 March 2004 (11 pages)
031111 [View PDF (223 kB)]
•
Atomistic versus two-body central potential models of C60: A comparative molecular dynamics study
M. C. Abramo, C. Caccamo, D. Costa, G. Pellicane, and R. Ruberto
Published 31 March 2004 (6 pages)
031112 [View PDF (75 kB)]
•
Fluctuation-response relation in a rocking ratchet
Takahiro Harada and Kenichi Yoshikawa
Published 31 March 2004 (8 pages)
031113 [View PDF (192 kB)]
•
Inertial effects in anomalous dielectric relaxation of symmetrical top molecules
Sergey V. Titov, Yuri P. Kalmykov, and William T. Coffey
Published 31 March 2004 (11 pages)
031114 [View PDF (130 kB)]
•
Description of diffusive and propagative behavior on fractals
Daniel Campos, Vicenç Méndez, and Joaquim Fort
Published 31 March 2004 (5 pages)
031115 [View PDF (54 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

•
Structure of liquid GeO2 from a computer simulation model
Gonzalo Gutiérrez and José Rogan
Published 11 March 2004 (8 pages)
031201 [View PDF (170 kB)]
•
Shear-induced quench of long-range correlations in a liquid mixture
Hirofumi Wada
Published 23 March 2004 (7 pages)
031202 [View PDF (89 kB)]
See Also: Comment
•
Simultaneous free-volume modeling of the self-diffusion coefficient and dynamic viscosity at high pressure
C. Boned, A. Allal, A. Baylaucq, C. K. Zéberg-Mikkelsen, D. Bessieres, and S. E. Quiñones-Cisneros
Published 25 March 2004 (6 pages)
031203 [View PDF (65 kB)]
•
Theoretical estimates of the logarithmic phonon spectral moment for monatomic liquids
Eric D. Chisolm and Duane C. Wallace
Published 31 March 2004 (5 pages)
031204 [View PDF (102 kB)]
•
Microscopic dynamics in the liquid Li-Na alloy: An ab initio molecular dynamics study
D. J. González, L. E. González, J. M. López, and M. J. Stott
Published 31 March 2004 (14 pages)
031205 [View PDF (228 kB)]
•
Applying the chain formation model to magnetic properties of aggregated ferrofluids
Alexey O. Ivanov, Zuowei Wang, and Christian Holm
Published 31 March 2004 (6 pages)
031206 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Granular materials

•
Role of friction in pattern formation in oscillated granular layers
Sung Joon Moon, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney
Published 4 March 2004 (6 pages)
031301 [View PDF (623 kB)]
•
Stick-slip dynamics of a granular layer under shear
Dmitri Volfson, Lev S. Tsimring, and Igor S. Aranson
Published 4 March 2004 (4 pages)
031302 [View PDF (400 kB)]
•
Granular packings with moving side walls
James W. Landry and Gary S. Grest
Published 16 March 2004 (9 pages)
031303 [View PDF (713 kB)]
•
Sensitivity of granular segregation of mixtures in quasi-two-dimensional fluidized layers
Suman K. Hajra and D. V. Khakhar
Published 23 March 2004 (4 pages)
031304 [View PDF (75 kB)]
•
Cluster growth in two- and three-dimensional granular gases
S. Miller and S. Luding
Published 30 March 2004 (8 pages)
031305 [View PDF (331 kB)]
•
Reorganization of a dense granular assembly: The unjamming response function
Évelyne Kolb, Jean Cviklinski, José Lanuza, Philippe Claudin, and Éric Clément
Published 30 March 2004 (5 pages)
031306 [View PDF (290 kB)]
•
Wavelength selection of rolling-grain ripples in the laboratory
Germain Rousseaux, Alexandre Stegner, and José Eduardo Wesfreid
Published 31 March 2004 (6 pages)
031307 [View PDF (958 kB)]
•
Self-diffusion in dense granular shear flows
Brian Utter and R. P. Behringer
Published 31 March 2004 (12 pages)
031308 [View PDF (1,669 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

•
Algorithm for parallel Laplacian growth by iterated conformal maps
Anders Levermann and Itamar Procaccia
Published 8 March 2004 (4 pages)
031401 [View PDF (168 kB)]
•
Three-body interactions in colloidal systems
Jure Dobnikar, Matthias Brunner, Hans-Hennig von Grünberg, and Clemens Bechinger
Published 10 March 2004 (7 pages)
031402 [View PDF (353 kB)]
•
Renormalized jellium model for charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions
Emmanuel Trizac and Yan Levin
Published 19 March 2004 (4 pages)
031403 [View PDF (52 kB)]
•
Nonergodic states of charged colloidal suspensions: Repulsive and attractive glasses and gels
Hajime Tanaka, Jacques Meunier, and Daniel Bonn
Published 19 March 2004 (6 pages)
031404 [View PDF (411 kB)]
•
Destruction of long-range order recorded with in situ small-angle x-ray diffraction in drying colloidal crystals
A. V. Petukhov, I. P. Dolbnya, D. G. A. L. Aarts, and G. J. Vroege
Published 23 March 2004 (10 pages)
031405 [View PDF (743 kB)]
•
Scaling anomalies in the coarsening dynamics of fractal viscous fingering patterns
Massimo Conti, Azi Lipshtat, and Baruch Meerson
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
031406 [View PDF (79 kB)]
•
Hydrodynamic coupling of two rotating spheres trapped in harmonic potentials
Michael Reichert and Holger Stark
Published 30 March 2004 (9 pages)
031407 [View PDF (245 kB)]
•
Molecular dynamics simulation of the transition from dispersed to solid phase
A. Chakrabarti, D. Fry, and C.M. Sorensen
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
031408 [View PDF (101 kB)]
•
Three-dimensional bubble clusters: Shape, packing, and growth rate
S. J. Cox and F. Graner
Published 31 March 2004 (6 pages)
031409 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

•
Relation between the activation energy of the Johari-Goldstein β relaxation and Tg of glass formers
K. L. Ngai and S. Capaccioli
Published 30 March 2004 (5 pages)
031501 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

•
Efficient phase field simulation of a binary dendritic growth in a forced flow
C. W. Lan and C. J. Shih
Published 11 March 2004 (10 pages)
031601 [View PDF (971 kB)]
•
Lattice Boltzmann simulations of contact line motion. I. Liquid-gas systems
A. J. Briant, A. J. Wagner, and J. M. Yeomans
Published 22 March 2004 (14 pages)
031602 [View PDF (716 kB)]
•
Lattice Boltzmann simulations of contact line motion. II. Binary fluids
A. J. Briant and J. M. Yeomans
Published 22 March 2004 (9 pages)
031603 [View PDF (679 kB)]
•
Synchronization of surface reactions via Turing-like structures
R. Salazar, A. P. J. Jansen, and V. N. Kuzovkov
Published 30 March 2004 (4 pages)
031604 [View PDF (516 kB)]
•
Surface tension increment due to solute addition
Wei Lun Hsin, Yu-Jane Sheng, Shi-Yow Lin, and Heng-Kwong Tsao
Published 30 March 2004 (8 pages)
031605 [View PDF (544 kB)]
•
Wetting of a selective solid surface by an asymmetric binary mixture
Jörg R. Silbermann, Dirk Woywod, and Martin Schoen
Published 31 March 2004 (14 pages)
031606 [View PDF (456 kB)]

Liquid crystals

•
Ferroelectric ordering and electroclinic effect in chiral smectic liquid crystals
Yu. G. Fokin, T. V. Murzina, O. A. Aktsipetrov, S. Soria, and G. Marowsky
Published 4 March 2004 (6 pages)
031701 [View PDF (135 kB)]
•
Thermophysical, dielectric, and electro-optic properties of nematic liquid crystal droplets confined to a thermoplastic polymer matrix
Mourad Boussoualem, Frédérick Roussel, and Mimoun Ismaili
Published 4 March 2004 (10 pages)
031702 [View PDF (364 kB)]
•
Evolution of the isotropic-to-nematic phase transition in octyloxycyanobiphenyl+aerosil dispersions
A. Roshi, G. S. Iannacchione, P. S. Clegg, and R. J. Birgeneau
Published 15 March 2004 (11 pages)
031703 [View PDF (135 kB)]
•
Surface-assisted photoalignment in dye-doped liquid-crystal films
C.-R. Lee, T.-L. Fu, K.-T. Cheng, T.-S. Mo, and A. Y.-G. Fuh
Published 22 March 2004 (6 pages)
031704 [View PDF (593 kB)]
•
Scaling of thermal hysteresis at nematic-smectic-A phase transition in a binary mixture
Sevtap Yıldız, Önder Pekcan, A. Nihat Berker, and Haluk Özbek
Published 24 March 2004 (6 pages)
031705 [View PDF (112 kB)]
•
Linear splay elasticity in surface-induced films of tilted smectic liquid crystals
Yves Galerne and Rachid Najjar
Published 24 March 2004 (15 pages)
031706 [View PDF (463 kB)]
•
Broadband dielectric spectroscopy study of molecular dynamics in the glass-forming liquid crystal isopentylcyanobiphenyl dispersed with aerosils
G. Sinha, C. Glorieux, and J. Thoen
Published 31 March 2004 (11 pages)
031707 [View PDF (121 kB)]
•
Phase behavior of liquid crystals confined by smooth walls
Haiko Steuer, Siegfried Hess, and Martin Schoen
Published 31 March 2004 (9 pages)
031708 [View PDF (738 kB)]
•
Correlation between dielectric and optical measurements in the smectic-Cα* phase
R. Douali, C. Legrand, V. Laux, N. Isaert, G. Joly, and H. T. Nguyen
Published 31 March 2004 (10 pages)
031709 [View PDF (169 kB)]

Polymers

•
Ordering mechanisms in triblock copolymers
P. Maniadis, R. B. Thompson, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and T. Lookman
Published 17 March 2004 (6 pages)
031801 [View PDF (533 kB)]
•
Tuning of microcapsule adhesion by varying the capsule-wall thickness
Nils Elsner, Frédéric Dubreuil, and Andreas Fery
Published 24 March 2004 (6 pages)
031802 [View PDF (264 kB)]
•
Morphology and phase diagram of complex block copolymers: ABC linear triblock copolymers
Ping Tang, Feng Qiu, Hongdong Zhang, and Yuliang Yang
Published 30 March 2004 (8 pages)
031803 [View PDF (748 kB)]

Biological physics

•
Time-resolved contrast function and optical characterization of spatially varying absorptive inclusions at different depths in diffusing media
S. De Nicola, R. Esposito, M. Lepore, and P. L. Indovina
Published 4 March 2004 (7 pages)
031901 [View PDF (129 kB)]
•
Conformation of local denaturation in double-stranded DNA
Wokyung Sung and Jae-Hyung Jeon
Published 12 March 2004 (7 pages)
031902 [View PDF (178 kB)]
•
Elastic deformation of a fluid membrane upon colloid binding
Markus Deserno
Published 12 March 2004 (14 pages)
031903 [View PDF (308 kB)]
•
Condition for alternans and its control in a two-dimensional mapping model of paced cardiac dynamics
Elena G. Tolkacheva, Mónica M. Romeo, Marie Guerraty, and Daniel J. Gauthier
Published 15 March 2004 (8 pages)
031904 [View PDF (284 kB)]
•
Reentrant phase transitions of DNA-surfactant complexes
Rema Krishnaswamy, V. A. Raghunathan, and A. K. Sood
Published 17 March 2004 (4 pages)
031905 [View PDF (94 kB)]
•
Relationship between the unbinding and main transition temperatures of phospholipid bilayers under pressure
T. A. Harroun, M.-P. Nieh, M. J. Watson, V. A. Raghunathan, G. Pabst, M. R. Morrow, and J. Katsaras
Published 19 March 2004 (8 pages)
031906 [View PDF (102 kB)]
•
Cooperativity and contact order in protein folding
Marek Cieplak
Published 23 March 2004 (5 pages)
031907 [View PDF (69 kB)]
•
Large phenotype jumps in biomolecular evolution
F. Bardou and L. Jaeger
Published 24 March 2004 (7 pages)
031908 [View PDF (149 kB)]
•
Approximate solution to the speed of spreading viruses
Vicente Ortega-Cejas, Joaquim Fort, Vicenç Méndez, and Daniel Campos
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
031909 [View PDF (52 kB)]
•
Recurrent biological neural networks: The weak and noisy limit
Patrick D. Roberts
Published 25 March 2004 (11 pages)
031910 [View PDF (138 kB)]
•
Phase transition and selection in a four-species cyclic predator-prey model
György Szabó and Gustavo Arial Sznaider
Published 31 March 2004 (5 pages)
031911 [View PDF (348 kB)]
•
Chaos-induced modulation of reliability boosts output firing rate in downstream cortical areas
P. H. E. Tiesinga
Published 31 March 2004 (13 pages)
031912 [View PDF (174 kB)]
•
Plankton lattices and the role of chaos in plankton patchiness
R. M. Hillary and M. A. Bees
Published 31 March 2004 (11 pages)
031913 [View PDF (130 kB)]
•
Electromagnetic response of a dipole-coupled ellipsoidal bilayer
T. Ambjörnsson, S. P. Apell, and G. Mukhopadhyay
Published 31 March 2004 (8 pages)
031914 [View PDF (104 kB)]
•
Atomic force microscopy contact, tapping, and jumping modes for imaging biological samples in liquids
F. Moreno-Herrero, J. Colchero, J. Gómez-Herrero, and A. M. Baró
Published 31 March 2004 (9 pages)
031915 [View PDF (621 kB)]
•
Stochastic heart-rate model can reveal pathologic cardiac dynamics
Tom Kuusela
Published 31 March 2004 (7 pages)
031916 [View PDF (89 kB)]
•
Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome in dynamical small-world networks
Naoki Masuda, Norio Konno, and Kazuyuki Aihara
Published 31 March 2004 (6 pages)
031917 [View PDF (97 kB)]
•
Numerical path integration technique for the calculation of transport properties of proteins
Eun-Hee Kang, Marc L. Mansfield, and Jack F. Douglas
Published 31 March 2004 (11 pages)
031918 [View PDF (265 kB)]
•
Lattice Boltzmann simulation on particle suspensions in a two-dimensional symmetric stenotic artery
Huabing Li, Haiping Fang, Zhifang Lin, ShiXiong Xu, and Shiyi Chen
Published 31 March 2004 (9 pages)
031919 [View PDF (791 kB)]
•
Self-similar processes and flicker noise from a fluctuating nanopore in a lipid membrane
Malgorzata Kotulska, Stanislawa Koronkiewicz, and Slawomir Kalinowski
Published 31 March 2004 (10 pages)
031920 [View PDF (101 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Granular materials

•
Packing structure of cohesive spheres
J. Q. Xu, R. P. Zou, and A. B. Yu
Published 30 March 2004 (4 pages)
032301 [View PDF (216 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

•
Patterns formed by paramagnetic particles in a horizontal layer of a magnetorheological fluid subjected to a dc magnetic field
Tomofumi Ukai and Toru Maekawa
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
032501 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

•
Generalized length scales for three-dimensional dendritic growth
H. M. Singer and J. H. Bilgram
Published 23 March 2004 (4 pages)
032601 [View PDF (412 kB)]
•
Mean-field free-energy approach to the lattice Boltzmann method for liquid-vapor and solid-fluid interfaces
Junfeng Zhang, Baoming Li, and Daniel Y. Kwok
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
032602 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Biological physics

•
Structural stability study of protein monolayers in air
P. P. Pompa, A. Biasco, R. Cingolani, R. Rinaldi, M. Ph. Verbeet, and G. W. Canters
Published 30 March 2004 (4 pages)
032901 [View PDF (156 kB)]
•
Low-lying excited states of light-harvesting system II in purple bacteria
Yang Zhao, Man-Fai Ng, and GuanHua Chen
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
032902 [View PDF (145 kB)]

COMMENTS

•
Comment on “Mean first passage time for anomalous diffusion”
S. B. Yuste and Katja Lindenberg
Published 25 March 2004 (2 pages)
033101 [View PDF (29 kB)]
•
Reply to “Comment on ‘Mean first passage time for anomalous diffusion.’ ”
M. Gitterman
Published 25 March 2004 (2 pages)
033102 [View PDF (24 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

•
Widespread occurrence of the inverse square distribution in social sciences and taxonomy
Guido Caldarelli, Cécile Caretta Cartozo, Paolo De Los Rios, and Vito D. P. Servedio
Published 10 March 2004 (3 pages)
035101(R) [View PDF (31 kB)]
•
Fluctuations of an atomic ledge bordering a crystalline facet
Patrik L. Ferrari, Michael Prähofer, and Herbert Spohn
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
035102(R) [View PDF (196 kB)]
•
Width distribution of contact lines on a disordered substrate
Sébastien Moulinet, Alberto Rosso, Werner Krauth, and Etienne Rolley
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
035103(R) [View PDF (111 kB)]
•
Nonequilibrium stationary states and entropy
G. Gallavotti and E. G. D. Cohen
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
035104(R) [View PDF (48 kB)]
•
Thouless-Anderson-Palmer approach for lossy compression
Tatsuto Murayama
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
035105(R) [View PDF (126 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

•
Distribution of reflection eigenvalues in many-channel chaotic cavities with absorption
Dmitry V. Savin and Hans-Jürgen Sommers
Published 11 March 2004 (4 pages)
035201(R) [View PDF (133 kB)]

Plasma physics

•
Effect of self-injection on ultraintense laser wake-field acceleration
A. Zhidkov, J. Koga, K. Kinoshita, and M. Uesaka
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
035401(R) [View PDF (177 kB)]
•
Phase-amplitude solution of the Schrödinger equation with application to free-free absorption
Burke Ritchie and A. K. Bhatia
Published 31 March 2004 (3 pages)
035402(R) [View PDF (40 kB)]
•
Control of laser-beam propagation and absorption in a nanoplasma gas by programming of a transient complex refractive index with a prepulse
H.-H. Chu, H.-E. Tsai, Y.-F. Xiao, C.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
035403(R) [View PDF (202 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

•
Simple nanometric plasmon multiplexer
L. Dobrzynski, A. Akjouj, B. Djafari-Rouhani, J. O. Vasseur, M. Bouazaoui, J. P. Vilcot, H. Al Wahsh, P. Zielinski, and J. P. Vigneron
Published 31 March 2004 (3 pages)
035601(R) [View PDF (40 kB)]

Computational physics

•
Lattice Boltzmann model for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with flexible specific-heat ratio
Takeshi Kataoka and Michihisa Tsutahara
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
035701(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

•
Critical dynamics of stochastic models with energy conservation (model C)
R. Folk and G. Moser
Published 4 March 2004 (18 pages)
036101 [View PDF (215 kB)]
•
Traffic on complex networks: Towards understanding global statistical properties from microscopic density fluctuations
Bosiljka Tadić, Stefan Thurner, and G. J. Rodgers
Published 4 March 2004 (5 pages)
036102 [View PDF (695 kB)]
•
Spatial growth of real-world networks
Marcus Kaiser and Claus C. Hilgetag
Published 9 March 2004 (5 pages)
036103 [View PDF (97 kB)]
•
Universal finite-size scaling analysis of Ising models with long-range interactions at the upper critical dimensionality: Isotropic case
Daniel Grüneberg and Alfred Hucht
Published 9 March 2004 (10 pages)
036104 [View PDF (740 kB)]
•
Work of cavity formation inside a fluid using free-energy perturbation theory
Sudeep Punnathanam and David S. Corti
Published 10 March 2004 (8 pages)
036105 [View PDF (98 kB)]
•
Families and clustering in a natural numbers network
Gilberto Corso
Published 18 March 2004 (5 pages)
036106 [View PDF (128 kB)]
See Also: Comment
•
Cooperation for volunteering and partially random partnerships
György Szabó and Jeromos Vukov
Published 19 March 2004 (7 pages)
036107 [View PDF (279 kB)]
•
Self-affine crossover length in a layered silicate deposit
J. O. Fossum, H. H. Bergene, Alex Hansen, B. O’Rourke, and G. Manificat
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
036108 [View PDF (232 kB)]
•
Additional evidence of nuclear emissions during acoustic cavitation
R. P. Taleyarkhan, J. S. Cho, C. D. West, R. T. Lahey, Jr., R. I. Nigmatulin, and R. C. Block
Published 22 March 2004 (11 pages)
036109 [View PDF (1,625 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
•
Self-organization in a simple model of adaptive agents playing 2×2 games with arbitrary payoff matrices
H. Fort and S. Viola
Published 23 March 2004 (9 pages)
036110 [View PDF (99 kB)]
•
Constrained spin-dynamics description of random walks on hierarchical scale-free networks
Jae Dong Noh and Heiko Rieger
Published 23 March 2004 (8 pages)
036111 [View PDF (118 kB)]
•
Phase transitions of the binary production 2A⃗3A,4A⃗∅ model
Géza Ódor
Published 23 March 2004 (4 pages)
036112 [View PDF (276 kB)]
•
Nonequilibrium critical dynamics of the relaxational models C and D
Vamsi K. Akkineni and Uwe C. Täuber
Published 24 March 2004 (25 pages)
036113 [View PDF (269 kB)]
•
Shortest paths and load scaling in scale-free trees
Béla Bollobás and Oliver Riordan
Published 24 March 2004 (7 pages)
036114 [View PDF (85 kB)]
•
Catalytic reactions with bulk-mediated excursions: Mixing fails to restore chemical equilibrium
M. Coppey, O. Bénichou, J. Klafter, M. Moreau, and G. Oshanin
Published 24 March 2004 (10 pages)
036115 [View PDF (99 kB)]
•
Scaling function for the critical diffusion coefficient of a critical fluid in a finite geometry
Palash Das and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee
Published 25 March 2004 (4 pages)
036116 [View PDF (50 kB)]
•
Phase diagram of a model for 3He-4He mixtures in three dimensions
A. Maciołek, M. Krech, and S. Dietrich
Published 30 March 2004 (17 pages)
036117 [View PDF (293 kB)]
•
Long-range interactions in the quantum many-body problem in one dimension: Ground state
Saugata Ghosh
Published 30 March 2004 (4 pages)
036118 [View PDF (58 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
•
Zeros of the partition function and pseudospinodals in long-range Ising models
Natali Gulbahce, Harvey Gould, and W. Klein
Published 31 March 2004 (8 pages)
036119 [View PDF (86 kB)]
•
Crossover behavior in three-dimensional dilute spin systems
Pasquale Calabrese, Pietro Parruccini, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari
Published 31 March 2004 (16 pages)
036120 [View PDF (728 kB)]
•
Crossover from antipersistent to persistent behavior in time series possessing the generalyzed dynamic scaling law
Alexander S. Balankin, Oswaldo Morales Matamoros, Ernesto Gálvez M., and Alfonso Pérez A.
Published 31 March 2004 (7 pages)
036121 [View PDF (437 kB)]
•
Statistical methods of parameter estimation for deterministically chaotic time series
V. F. Pisarenko and D. Sornette
Published 31 March 2004 (12 pages)
036122 [View PDF (164 kB)]
•
Scale-free behavior and universality in random fragmentation and aggregation
Jayanth R. Banavar, Paolo De Los Rios, Alessandro Flammini, Neal S. Holter, and Amos Maritan
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
036123 [View PDF (196 kB)]
•
Statistical thermodynamics of adsorbates with nonsymmetrical lateral interactions
F. Romá and A. J. Ramirez-Pastor
Published 31 March 2004 (11 pages)
036124 [View PDF (190 kB)]
•
Searching for good strategies in adaptive minority games
Marko Sysi-Aho, Anirban Chakraborti, and Kimmo Kaski
Published 31 March 2004 (7 pages)
036125 [View PDF (113 kB)]
•
Reaction front in an A+B⃗C reaction-subdiffusion process
S. B. Yuste, L. Acedo, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 31 March 2004 (10 pages)
036126 [View PDF (200 kB)]
•
Critical frontier of the triangular Ising antiferromagnet in a field
Xiaofeng Qian, Maarten Wegewijs, and Henk W. J. Blöte
Published 31 March 2004 (13 pages)
036127 [View PDF (148 kB)]
•
Nonequilibrium phase transitions in models of adsorption and desorption
R. Rajesh
Published 31 March 2004 (10 pages)
036128 [View PDF (99 kB)]
•
Comparison of field theory models of interest rates with market data
Belal E. Baaquie and Marakani Srikant
Published 31 March 2004 (8 pages)
036129 [View PDF (148 kB)]
•
Finite hedging in field theory models of interest rates
Belal E. Baaquie and Marakani Srikant
Published 31 March 2004 (7 pages)
036130 [View PDF (81 kB)]
•
Structure of a large social network
Gábor Csányi and Balázs Szendrői
Published 31 March 2004 (5 pages)
036131 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

•
Detecting local synchronization in coupled chaotic systems
L. Pastur, S. Boccaletti, and P. L. Ramazza
Published 4 March 2004 (4 pages)
036201 [View PDF (184 kB)]
•
Three-dimensional chaotic flows with discrete symmetries
G. M. Chechin and D. S. Ryabov
Published 11 March 2004 (9 pages)
036202 [View PDF (117 kB)]
•
Propagating waves in one-dimensional discrete networks of coupled units
Y. De Decker, G. A. Tsekouras, A. Provata, Th. Erneux, and G. Nicolis
Published 16 March 2004 (8 pages)
036203 [View PDF (135 kB)]
•
Estimating model parameters by chaos synchronization
Chao Tao, Yu Zhang, Gonghuan Du, and Jack J. Jiang
Published 24 March 2004 (5 pages)
036204 [View PDF (161 kB)]
•
Secondary bifurcations of hexagonal patterns in a nonlinear optical system: Alkali metal vapor in a single-mirror arrangement
Damià Gomila, Thorsten Ackemann, Edgar Grosse Westhoff, Pere Colet, and Wulfhard Lange
Published 24 March 2004 (12 pages)
036205 [View PDF (1,476 kB)]
•
Variance of transmitted power in multichannel dissipative ergodic structures invariant under time reversal
Igor Rozhkov, Yan V. Fyodorov, and Richard L. Weaver
Published 24 March 2004 (10 pages)
036206 [View PDF (113 kB)]
•
Gibbs attractor: A chaotic nearly Hamiltonian system, driven by external harmonic force
P. V. Elyutin
Published 25 March 2004 (7 pages)
036207 [View PDF (81 kB)]
•
Front bifurcation in a tristable reaction-diffusion system under periodic forcing
E. P. Zemskov
Published 30 March 2004 (8 pages)
036208 [View PDF (98 kB)]
•
Ray splitting in paraxial optical cavities
G. Puentes, A. Aiello, and J. P. Woerdman
Published 30 March 2004 (6 pages)
036209 [View PDF (298 kB)]
•
Subcritical Hopf bifurcation in dynamical systems described by a scalar nonlinear delay differential equation
Laurent Larger, Jean-Pierre Goedgebuer, and Thomas Erneux
Published 31 March 2004 (5 pages)
036210 [View PDF (178 kB)]
•
Role of surface charges in dc gas-discharge systems with high-ohmic electrodes
E. L. Gurevich, A. W. Liehr, Sh. Amiranashvili, and H.-G. Purwins
Published 31 March 2004 (7 pages)
036211 [View PDF (400 kB)]
•
Propagation of desynchronous disturbances in synchronized chaotic one-way coupled map lattices
Huaping Lü and Gang Hu
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
036212 [View PDF (103 kB)]
•
Rotating spiral waves with phase-randomized core in nonlocally coupled oscillators
Shin-ichiro Shima and Yoshiki Kuramoto
Published 31 March 2004 (9 pages)
036213 [View PDF (454 kB)]
•
Stability of negative ionization fronts: Regularization by electric screening?
Manuel Arrayás and Ute Ebert
Published 31 March 2004 (10 pages)
036214 [View PDF (115 kB)]
•
Autocorrelation function and spectral linewidth of spiral chaos in a physical experiment
Vadim S. Anishchenko, Tatjana E. Vadivasova, Jürgen Kurths, George A. Okrokvertskhov, and Galina I. Strelkova
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
036215 [View PDF (288 kB)]
•
Effect of noise on the dynamics of a complex map at the period-tripling accumulation point
Olga B. Isaeva, Sergey P. Kuznetsov, and Andrew H. Osbaldestin
Published 31 March 2004 (6 pages)
036216 [View PDF (508 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

•
Passive scalar evolution in peripheral regions
V. V. Lebedev and K. S. Turitsyn
Published 15 March 2004 (11 pages)
036301 [View PDF (122 kB)]
•
Anomalous hydrodynamical dispersion and the transport with multiple families of paths in porous media
Manuel O. Cáceres
Published 23 March 2004 (16 pages)
036302 [View PDF (292 kB)]
•
Robustness of the inverse cascade in two-dimensional turbulence
Chuong V. Tran and John C. Bowman
Published 23 March 2004 (7 pages)
036303 [View PDF (439 kB)]
•
Lifetimes of flame balls dragged by model turbulent flows: Role of velocity gradient fluctuations
Yves D’Angelo and Guy Joulin
Published 25 March 2004 (15 pages)
036304 [View PDF (223 kB)]
•
Dispersion in the enstrophy cascade of two-dimensional decaying grid turbulence
H. Kellay
Published 31 March 2004 (6 pages)
036305 [View PDF (317 kB)]
•
Instantaneous measurement of velocity fields in developed thermal turbulence in mercury
Takashi Mashiko, Yoshiyuki Tsuji, Takatoshi Mizuno, and Masaki Sano
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
036306 [View PDF (223 kB)]
•
Effect of fluids on the Q factor and resonance frequency of oscillating micrometer and nanometer scale beams
Rustom B. Bhiladvala and Z. Jane Wang
Published 31 March 2004 (5 pages)
036307 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Plasma physics

•
Finite-duration seeding effects in powerful backward Raman amplifiers
N. A. Yampolsky, V. M. Malkin, and N. J. Fisch
Published 11 March 2004 (6 pages)
036401 [View PDF (84 kB)]
•
Simplified model of underwater electrical discharge
V. Ts. Gurovich, A. Grinenko, Ya. E. Krasik, and J. Felsteiner
Published 11 March 2004 (6 pages)
036402 [View PDF (63 kB)]
•
Simulations of ion transport in a collisional radio-frequency plasma sheath
Zhong-Ling Dai and You-Nian Wang
Published 12 March 2004 (6 pages)
036403 [View PDF (288 kB)]
•
Hamiltonian of a homogeneous two-component plasma
Hanno Essén and A. Nordmark
Published 22 March 2004 (9 pages)
036404 [View PDF (97 kB)]
•
High-energy electrons produced in subpicosecond laser-plasma interactions from subrelativistic laser intensities to relativistic intensities
Y. T. Li, J. Zhang, Z. M. Sheng, J. Zheng, Z. L. Chen, R. Kodama, T. Matsuoka, M. Tampo, K. A. Tanaka, T. Tsutsumi, and T. Yabuuchi
Published 23 March 2004 (7 pages)
036405 [View PDF (1,173 kB)]
•
Shock pressures induced in condensed matter by laser ablation
Damian C. Swift, Thomas E. Tierney, IV, Roger A. Kopp, and J. Tinka Gammel
Published 24 March 2004 (9 pages)
036406 [View PDF (248 kB)]
•
Fast ion acceleration in ultraintense laser interactions with an overdense plasma
H. Habara, R. Kodama, Y. Sentoku, N. Izumi, Y. Kitagawa, K. A. Tanaka, K. Mima, and T. Yamanaka
Published 24 March 2004 (10 pages)
036407 [View PDF (752 kB)]
•
Pair production by a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave in a plasma
S. S. Bulanov
Published 30 March 2004 (7 pages)
036408 [View PDF (91 kB)]
•
Magnetic field diagnostics of plasmas based on coherent population trapping: Theory and experiment
Rinat Akhmedzhanov, Ilya Zelensky, Roman Kolesov, and Elena Kuznetsova
Published 30 March 2004 (8 pages)
036409 [View PDF (119 kB)]
•
Characterizing potentials using the structure of a one-dimensional chain demonstrated using a dusty plasma crystal
Bin Liu, K. Avinash, and J. Goree
Published 31 March 2004 (8 pages)
036410 [View PDF (126 kB)]
•
Electron-acoustic plasma waves: Oblique modulation and envelope solitons
I. Kourakis and P. K. Shukla
Published 31 March 2004 (7 pages)
036411 [View PDF (102 kB)]
•
Structure and spectrum of two-dimensional clusters confined in a hard wall potential
Minghui Kong, B. Partoens, A. Matulis, and F. M. Peeters
Published 31 March 2004 (10 pages)
036412 [View PDF (336 kB)]

Physics of beams

•
Saturation and electron-beam lifetime in a storage ring free-electron laser
R. Bartolini, G. Dattoli, L. Giannessi, L. Mezi, A. Renieri, M. Migliorati, C. Bruni, M. E. Couprie, D. Garzella, and G. Orlandi
Published 4 March 2004 (5 pages)
036501 [View PDF (70 kB)]
•
Multipole compensation of long-range beam-beam interactions with minimization of nonlinearities in Poincaré maps of a storage-ring collider
Jicong Shi, Lihui Jin, and Orithai Kheawpum
Published 16 March 2004 (7 pages)
036502 [View PDF (75 kB)]
•
Importance of beam-beam tune spread to collective beam-beam instability in hadron colliders
Lihui Jin and Jicong Shi
Published 31 March 2004 (11 pages)
036503 [View PDF (169 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

•
Excitation of gap solitons, soliton trains, and soliton sets in finite-sized two-dimensional photonic crystals
Ping Xie and Zhao-Qing Zhang
Published 8 March 2004 (7 pages)
036601 [View PDF (171 kB)]
•
Recurrent scattering of spontaneous radiation from a randomly occupied optical lattice
Wei Guo
Published 19 March 2004 (8 pages)
036602 [View PDF (96 kB)]
•
Defect-induced spatial coherence in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation
C. L. Pando L. and E. J. Doedel
Published 22 March 2004 (10 pages)
036603 [View PDF (189 kB)]
•
Asymmetric incoherent vector solitons
Sergey A. Ponomarenko and Govind P. Agrawal
Published 23 March 2004 (4 pages)
036604 [View PDF (376 kB)]
•
Nonlinear alternating current responses of graded materials
J. P. Huang, L. Gao, K. W. Yu, and G. Q. Gu
Published 23 March 2004 (6 pages)
036605 [View PDF (80 kB)]
•
Systematic construction of multisoliton complexes
Kyoung Ho Han and H. J. Shin
Published 24 March 2004 (11 pages)
036606 [View PDF (1,503 kB)]
•
Kilometer-range nonlinear propagation of femtosecond laser pulses
Miguel Rodriguez, Riad Bourayou, Guillaume Méjean, Jérôme Kasparian, Jin Yu, Estelle Salmon, Alexander Scholz, Bringfried Stecklum, Jochen Eislöffel, Uwe Laux, Artie P. Hatzes, Roland Sauerbrey, Ludger Wöste, and Jean-Pierre Wolf
Published 30 March 2004 (7 pages)
036607 [View PDF (884 kB)]
•
Vector electromagnetic X waves
Alessandro Ciattoni, Claudio Conti, and Paolo Di Porto
Published 30 March 2004 (10 pages)
036608 [View PDF (220 kB)]
•
Dispersion management and the direct scattering transform
Y. Xudous
Published 30 March 2004 (8 pages)
036609 [View PDF (128 kB)]
•
Speckle correlation measurement in a disordered medium observed through second-harmonics generation
Tetsu Ito and Makoto Tomita
Published 31 March 2004 (7 pages)
036610 [View PDF (209 kB)]
•
1D energy transport in a strongly scattering laboratory model
Kasper van Wijk, Matthew Haney, and John A. Scales
Published 31 March 2004 (5 pages)
036611 [View PDF (233 kB)]
•
Generation and classification of localized waves by Lorentz transformations in Fourier space
Peeter Saari and Kaido Reivelt
Published 31 March 2004 (12 pages)
036612 [View PDF (747 kB)]

Computational physics

•
Universal stochastic series expansion algorithm for Heisenberg model and Bose-Hubbard model with interaction
M. V. Zyubin and V. A. Kashurnikov
Published 18 March 2004 (6 pages)
036701 [View PDF (73 kB)]
•
Numerical stability analysis of a large-scale delay system modeling a lateral semiconductor laser subject to optical feedback
Koen Verheyden, Kirk Green, and Dirk Roose
Published 23 March 2004 (5 pages)
036702 [View PDF (72 kB)]
•
Vortex model and simulations for Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities
Sung-Ik Sohn
Published 30 March 2004 (11 pages)
036703 [View PDF (154 kB)]
•
Stochastic boundary conditions to the convection-diffusion equation including chemical reactions at solid surfaces
P. Szymczak and A. J. C. Ladd
Published 30 March 2004 (9 pages)
036704 [View PDF (107 kB)]
•
Eigenvalue problem of the Schrödinger equation via the finite-difference time-domain method
G. B. Ren and J. M. Rorison
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
036705 [View PDF (498 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

•
Scale-free multicomponent growing networks
Jianhong Ke
Published 16 March 2004 (4 pages)
037101 [View PDF (45 kB)]
•
Recursive approach to random sequential adsorption
D. J. Burridge and Y. Mao
Published 24 March 2004 (4 pages)
037102 [View PDF (47 kB)]
•
Local versus global knowledge in the Barabási-Albert scale-free network model
Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes and Yamir Moreno
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
037103 [View PDF (272 kB)]
•
Recursive graphs with small-world scale-free properties
Francesc Comellas, Guillaume Fertin, and André Raspaud
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
037104 [View PDF (108 kB)]
•
Red-green-blue model
David B. Wilson
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
037105 [View PDF (574 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

•
Quantum-“classical” correspondence in a nonadiabatic transition system
Hiroshi Fujisaki
Published 31 March 2004 (4 pages)
037201 [View PDF (222 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

•
Influence of Eulerian and Lagrangian scales on the relative dispersion properties in Lagrangian stochastic models of turbulence
A. Maurizi, G. Pagnini, and F. Tampieri
Published 30 March 2004 (4 pages)
037301 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Plasma physics

•
Plasma two-temperature equilibration rate
Yongbin Chang and C. A. Ordonez
Published 9 March 2004 (3 pages)
037401 [View PDF (39 kB)]
•
Relativistic electron drift in overdense plasma produced by a superintense femtosecond laser pulse
V. S. Rastunkov and V. P. Krainov
Published 22 March 2004 (4 pages)
037402 [View PDF (347 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

•
Pulse velocity in a granular chain
Alexandre Rosas and Katja Lindenberg
Published 31 March 2004 (3 pages)
037601 [View PDF (40 kB)]

COMMENTS

•
Comment on “Critique of q-entropy for thermal statistics”
C. Tsallis
Published 25 March 2004 (6 pages)
038101 [View PDF (336 kB)]
•
Reply to “Comment on ‘Critique of q-entropy for thermal statistics’ ”
Michael Nauenberg
Published 25 March 2004 (1 page)
038102 [View PDF (11 kB)]
•
Comment on “Mobility spectrum computational analysis using a maximum entropy approach”
J. Antoszewski, D. Redfern, L. Faraone, J. R. Meyer, I. Vurgaftman, and J. Lindemuth
Published 11 March 2004 (2 pages)
038701 [View PDF (16 kB)]
•
Reply to “Comment on ‘Mobility spectrum computational analysis using a maximum entropy approach’ ”
O. A. Mironov, M. Myronov, S. Kiatgamolchai, and V. G. Kantser
Published 11 March 2004 (2 pages)
038702 [View PDF (14 kB)]

ERRATA

•
Publisher’s Note: Scaling properties of saddle-node bifurcations on fractal basin boundaries [Phys. Rev. E 68, 066213 (2003)]
Romulus Breban, Helena E. Nusse, and Edward Ott
Published 4 March 2004 (1 page)
039901(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]
•
Erratum: Dielectric properties of interacting storage ring plasmas [Phys. Rev. E 59, 1015 (1999)]
A. Selchow and K. Morawetz
Published 4 March 2004 (1 page)
039902(E) [View PDF (11 kB)]
•
Publisher’s Note: Features of modulational instability of partially coherent light: Importance of the incoherence spectrum [Phys. Rev. E 69, 025601 (2004)]
D. Anderson, L. Helczynski-Wolf, M. Lisak, and V. Semenov
Published 31 March 2004 (1 page)
039903(E) [View PDF (7 kB)]