Physical Review E – July 2004
Volume 70, Issue 1

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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Random growth of interfaces as a subordinated process
R. Failla, P. Grigolini, M. Ignaccolo, and A. Schwettmann
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
010101(R) [View PDF (54 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Surface segregation in liquid mixtures with strong interspecies attraction
Mark J. Osborne and Daniel J. Lacks
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
010501(R) [View PDF (163 kB)]

Biological physics

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Sorting mesoscopic objects with periodic potential landscapes: Optical fractionation
K. Ladavac, K. Kasza, and D. G. Grier
Published 20 July 2004 (4 pages)
010901(R) [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Bubble relaxation dynamics in double-stranded DNA
D. J. Bicout and E. Kats
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
010902(R) [View PDF (153 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Resummed two-loop calculation of the disjoining pressure of a symmetric electrolyte soap film
D. S. Dean and R. R. Horgan
Published 15 July 2004 (8 pages)
011101 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Directed transport of Brownian particles in a double symmetric potential
Laurent Sanchez-Palencia
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
011102 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Perturbative calculation of one-point functions of one-dimensional single-species reaction-diffusion systems
Mohammad Khorrami and Amir Aghamohammadi
Published 26 July 2004 (6 pages)
011103 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of confined membranes
N. Gov, A. G. Zilman, and S. Safran
Published 27 July 2004 (10 pages)
011104 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Superroughening by linear growth equations with spatiotemporally correlated noise
Ning-Ning Pang and Wen-Jer Tzeng
Published 30 July 2004 (11 pages)
011105 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Entropy in the natural time domain
P. A. Varotsos, N. V. Sarlis, E. S. Skordas, and M. S. Lazaridou
Published 30 July 2004 (10 pages)
011106 [View PDF (508 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Modeling inhomogeneous van der Waals fluids using an analytical direct correlation function
Yiping Tang and Jianzhong Wu
Published 23 July 2004 (8 pages)
011201 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Granular materials

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Packing geometry and statistics of force networks in granular media
Jacco H. Snoeijer, Martin van Hecke, Ellák Somfai, and Wim van Saarloos
Published 8 July 2004 (15 pages)
011301 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Energy fluctuations in the homogeneous cooling state of granular gases
J. Javier Brey, M. I. García de Soria, P. Maynar, and M. J. Ruiz-Montero
Published 29 July 2004 (12 pages)
011302 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Swelling dynamics of constrained thin-plate gels under an external force
Tatsuya Yamaue and Masao Doi
Published 8 July 2004 (7 pages)
011401 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Bidirectional random motion driven by globally coupled noisy active elements in an electric field
A. Cēbers
Published 15 July 2004 (5 pages)
011402 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Nonlinear alternating current responses of dipolar fluids
J. P. Huang, K. W. Yu, and Mikko Karttunen
Published 23 July 2004 (7 pages)
011403 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Nonlinear screening of spherical and cylindrical colloids: The case of 1:2 and 2:1 electrolytes
Gabriel Téllez and Emmanuel Trizac
Published 26 July 2004 (9 pages)
011404 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Kinetics of phase transformations in depletion-driven colloids
Juan J. Cerdà, Tomás Sintes, C. M. Sorensen, and A. Chakrabarti
Published 26 July 2004 (9 pages)
011405 [View PDF (232 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Supercooled liquids under shear: Theory and simulation
Kunimasa Miyazaki, David R. Reichman, and Ryoichi Yamamoto
Published 1 July 2004 (14 pages)
011501 [View PDF (654 kB)]
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Brillouin scattering study of salol: Exploring the effects of rotation-translation coupling
H. P. Zhang, A. Brodin, H. C. Barshilia, G. Q. Shen, H. Z. Cummins, and R. M. Pick
Published 8 July 2004 (22 pages)
011502 [View PDF (1,147 kB)]
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Effects of water on the primary and secondary relaxation of xylitol and sorbitol: Implication on the origin of the Johari-Goldstein relaxation
T. Psurek, S. Maslanka, M. Paluch, R. Nozaki, and K. L. Ngai
Published 23 July 2004 (6 pages)
011503 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Slow dynamics of salol: A pressure- and temperature-dependent light scattering study
L. Comez, S. Corezzi, D. Fioretto, H. Kriegs, A. Best, and W. Steffen
Published 28 July 2004 (8 pages)
011504 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Oscillatory behavior of nanodroplets
S. Arcidiacono, D. Poulikakos, and Y. Ventikos
Published 29 July 2004 (7 pages)
011505 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Viscoelastic properties of dynamically asymmetric binary fluids under shear flow
Vinay Dwivedi, Rajeev Ahluwalia, Turab Lookman, and Avadh Saxena
Published 30 July 2004 (10 pages)
011506 [View PDF (3,511 kB)]
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Thermal effects in the shear-transformation-zone theory of amorphous plasticity:Comparisons to metallic glass data
M. L. Falk, J. S. Langer, and L. Pechenik
Published 30 July 2004 (11 pages)
011507 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Description beyond the mean-field approximation of an electrolyte confined between two planar metallic electrodes
Gabriel Téllez
Published 30 July 2004 (13 pages)
011508 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Electrophoretic microrheology of a dilute lamellar phase: Relaxation mechanisms in frequency-dependent mobility of nanometer-sized particles between soft membranes
Daisuke Mizuno, Yasuyuki Kimura, and Reinosuke Hayakawa
Published 30 July 2004 (17 pages)
011509 [View PDF (681 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with temporally correlated noise: A self-consistent approach
Eytan Katzav and Moshe Schwartz
Published 2 July 2004 (12 pages)
011601 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Scale decomposition of unstable growing fronts
Z. Moktadir
Published 7 July 2004 (6 pages)
011602 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Curvature corrections to surface tension
V. G. Baidakov, G. Sh. Boltachev, and G. G. Chernykh
Published 20 July 2004 (7 pages)
011603 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Dynamical scaling of sputter-roughened surfaces in 2+1 dimensions
E. S. Tok, S. W. Ong, and H. C. Kang
Published 26 July 2004 (6 pages)
011604 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Probing universality classes in solid-on-solid deposition
Marcos F. Castez, Roberto C. Salvarezza, and Hernán G. Solari
Published 26 July 2004 (10 pages)
011605 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Spreading dynamics of polymer nanodroplets in cylindrical geometries
David R. Heine, Gary S. Grest, and Edmund B. Webb, III
Published 27 July 2004 (10 pages)
011606 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Numerical study of the stability of double fingers with the phase-field model
Seiji Tokunaga and Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
Published 27 July 2004 (9 pages)
011607 [View PDF (942 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Assessing flow alignment of nematic liquid crystals through linear viscoelasticity
L. R. P. de Andrade Lima and A. D. Rey
Published 2 July 2004 (12 pages)
011701 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Shape of an isotropic droplet in a nematic liquid crystal: The role of surfactant
S. V. Lishchuk and C. M. Care
Published 2 July 2004 (6 pages)
011702 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Photonic gaps in cholesteric elastomers under deformation
P. Cicuta, A. R. Tajbakhsh, and E. M. Terentjev
Published 15 July 2004 (7 pages)
011703 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Computer simulations of bent-core liquid crystals
Alastair Dewar and Philip J. Camp
Published 15 July 2004 (9 pages)
011704 [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Accuracy of measuring the nematic order from intensity scatter: A simulation study
S. V. Savenko and Marjolein Dijkstra
Published 27 July 2004 (9 pages)
011705 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Thickness-dependent smectic- A –smectic- C* transition in chiral smectic free-standing liquid-crystal films
Tung-Cheng Pan, Wen-Jiunn Hsieh, and Chih-Yu Chao
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
011706 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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First-order Landau–de Gennes model for layer thinning in presmectic free-standing films
D. E. Sullivan and A. N. Shalaginov
Published 29 July 2004 (8 pages)
011707 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Structure and order of a homologous series of bent-core molecules: A 13C  NMR study
Ronald Y. Dong, J. Xu, G. Benyei, and K. Fodor-Csorba
Published 29 July 2004 (8 pages)
011708 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Optical gratings formed in thin smectic films frustrated on a single crystalline substrate
Jean-Philippe Michel, Emmanuelle Lacaze, Michel Alba, Marc de Boissieu, Marc Gailhanou, and Michel Goldmann
Published 30 July 2004 (12 pages)
011709 [View PDF (1,028 kB)]
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Local elastic stability for nematic liquid crystals
Riccardo Rosso, Epifanio G. Virga, and Samo Kralj
Published 30 July 2004 (11 pages)
011710 [View PDF (119 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Electroconvection with and without the Carr-Helfrich effect in a series of nematic liquid crystals
Elżbieta Kochowska, Szilárd Németh, Gerhard Pelzl, and Ágnes Buka
Published 30 July 2004 (9 pages)
011711 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Thresholdless, hysteresis-free, V-shaped, electro-optical switching for a ferroelectric liquid crystal cell
Shwu-Yun Tsay Tzeng, T. Y. Lin, R. H. Huang, Jin-Jei Wu, and Shune-Long Wu
Published 30 July 2004 (5 pages)
011712 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Polymers

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Writhe distribution of stretched polymers
Supurna Sinha
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
011801 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Pseudoknots in a homopolymer
A. Kabakçioğlu and A. L. Stella
Published 20 July 2004 (7 pages)
011802 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Role of flexibility in entanglement
Gregory Buck and Eric J. Rawdon
Published 26 July 2004 (6 pages)
011803 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Anomalous pressure dependence of the structure factor in 1,4-polybutadiene melts: A molecular dynamics simulation study
Dmitry Bedrov, Grant D. Smith, and Wolfgang Paul
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
011804 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Biological physics

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Fast spike pattern detection using the correlation integral
M. Christen, A. Kern, A. Nikitchenko, W.-H. Steeb, and R. Stoop
Published 1 July 2004 (7 pages)
011901 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Markovian model of growth and histologic progression in prostate cancer
R. Peirolo and M. Scalerandi
Published 2 July 2004 (9 pages)
011902 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Mechanism for neuronal spike generation by small and large ion channel clusters
Shangyou Zeng and Peter Jung
Published 7 July 2004 (8 pages)
011903 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Refolding of lysozyme by quasistatic and direct dilution reaction paths: A first-order-like state transition
Chia-Ching Chang, Xu-Cheng Yeh, Hui-Ting Lee, Po-Yen Lin, and Lou-Sing Kan
Published 7 July 2004 (8 pages)
011904 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Near-field-magnetic-tweezer manipulation of single DNA molecules
Jie Yan, Dunja Skoko, and John F. Marko
Published 12 July 2004 (5 pages)
011905 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Pulse propagation in discrete excitatory networks of integrate-and-fire neurons
Laurent Badel and Arnaud Tonnelier
Published 12 July 2004 (7 pages)
011906 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Effect of the refractive index mismatch on light propagation through diffusive layered media
Fabrizio Martelli, Samuele Del Bianco, and Giovanni Zaccanti
Published 12 July 2004 (10 pages)
011907 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Clustering through postinhibitory rebound in synaptically coupled neurons
D. T. W. Chik, S. Coombes, and Z. D. Wang
Published 15 July 2004 (9 pages)
011908 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Dynamics of gene regulatory networks with cell division cycle
Luonan Chen, Ruiqi Wang, Tetsuya J. Kobayashi, and Kazuyuki Aihara
Published 15 July 2004 (13 pages)
011909 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Overstretching and force-driven strand separation of double-helix DNA
Simona Cocco, Jie Yan, Jean-Francois Léger, Didier Chatenay, and John F. Marko
Published 20 July 2004 (18 pages)
011910 [View PDF (691 kB)]
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Spatially uniform and nonuniform analyses of electroencephalographic dynamics,with application to the topography of the alpha rhythm
S. C. O’Connor and P. A. Robinson
Published 21 July 2004 (19 pages)
011911 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Density functional study on the structures and thermodynamic properties of small ions around polyanionic DNA
Ke Wang, Yang-Xin Yu, and Guang-Hua Gao
Published 28 July 2004 (10 pages)
011912 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Electronic structures of A - and B -type DNA crystals
Masateru Taniguchi and Tomoji Kawai
Published 29 July 2004 (8 pages)
011913 [View PDF (2,314 kB)]
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Synchronization measures of bursting data: Application to the electrocorticogram of an auditory event-related experiment
Mark A. Kramer, Erik Edwards, Maryam Soltani, Mitchel S. Berger, Robert T. Knight, and Andrew J. Szeri
Published 29 July 2004 (10 pages)
011914 [View PDF (527 kB)]
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Nucleosome interactions in chromatin: Fiber stiffening and hairpin formation
Boris Mergell, Ralf Everaers, and Helmut Schiessel
Published 29 July 2004 (9 pages)
011915 [View PDF (806 kB)]
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Stochastic model for the species abundance problem in an ecological community
Simone Pigolotti, Alessandro Flammini, and Amos Maritan
Published 30 July 2004 (5 pages)
011916 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Stretching of homopolymers and contact order
Marek Cieplak, Trinh Xuan Hoang, and Mark O. Robbins
Published 30 July 2004 (8 pages)
011917 [View PDF (234 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Reentrance effect in the lane formation of driven colloids
J. Chakrabarti, J. Dzubiella, and H. Löwen
Published 21 July 2004 (4 pages)
012401 [View PDF (294 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Glass transition in models with controlled frustration
Annalisa Fierro
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
012501 [View PDF (58 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Self-consistent model of blue phase III to isotropic phase transition
Michał Cieśla and Lech Longa
Published 21 July 2004 (3 pages)
012701 [View PDF (44 kB)]

Polymers

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Stretching an adsorbed polymer globule
Franck Celestini, Thomas Frisch, and Xabier Oyharcabal
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
012801 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Biological physics

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Spreading of families in cyclic predator-prey models
Mária Ravasz, György Szabó, and Attila Szolnoki
Published 12 July 2004 (4 pages)
012901 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Simulations of a small protein in a specifically designed generalized ensemble
Ulrich H. E. Hansmann
Published 15 July 2004 (4 pages)
012902 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Changes in the Hurst exponent of heartbeat intervals during physical activity
M. Martinis, A. Knežević, G. Krstačić, and E. Vargović
Published 21 July 2004 (4 pages)
012903 [View PDF (62 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Collective dynamics in liquid lithium, sodium, and aluminum”
Tullio Scopigno and Giancarlo Ruocco
Published 21 July 2004 (3 pages)
013201 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Collective dynamics in liquid lithium, sodium, and aluminum’ ”
Shaminder Singh and K. Tankeshwar
Published 21 July 2004 (3 pages)
013202 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Comment on “Theory of high-force DNA stretching and overstretching”
Pui-Man Lam
Published 2 July 2004 (2 pages)
013901 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Theory of high-force DNA stretching and overstretching’ ”
Cornelis Storm and Philip Nelson
Published 2 July 2004 (2 pages)
013902 [View PDF (20 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Multifractality in a broad class of disordered systems
Olaf Stenull
Published 9 July 2004 (4 pages)
015101(R) [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Lattice scale-free networks with weighted linking
Kongqing Yang, Liang Huang, and Lei Yang
Published 12 July 2004 (4 pages)
015102(R) [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Building reliable lattice Monte Carlo models for real drift and diffusion problems
Michel G. Gauthier and Gary W. Slater
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
015103(R) [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Phase transition in random walks with long-range correlations
Shahar Hod and Uri Keshet
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
015104(R) [View PDF (97 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Semiclassical construction of random wave functions for confined systems
Juan Diego Urbina and Klaus Richter
Published 12 July 2004 (4 pages)
015201(R) [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Chemical turbulence equivalent to Nikolavskii turbulence
Dan Tanaka
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
015202(R) [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Dynamical properties of the delta-kicked harmonic oscillator
G. A. Kells, J. Twamley, and D. M. Heffernan
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
015203(R) [View PDF (138 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Slow modes in passive scalar turbulent advection
Thomas Gilbert
Published 8 July 2004 (4 pages)
015301(R) [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Different cascade speeds for longitudinal and transverse velocity incrementsof small-scale turbulence
M. Siefert and J. Peinke
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
015302(R) [View PDF (113 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Phase-matching segmented wigglers in free-electron lasers
H. P. Freund
Published 30 July 2004 (4 pages)
015501(R) [View PDF (75 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Extracting the Green function from diffuse, equipartitioned waves
Alison E. Malcolm, John A. Scales, and Bart A. van Tiggelen
Published 23 July 2004 (4 pages)
015601(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Strain-induced kinetics of intergrain defects as the mechanism of slow dynamics in the nonlinear resonant response of humid sandstone bars
Oleksiy O. Vakhnenko, Vyacheslav O. Vakhnenko, Thomas J. Shankland, and James A. Ten Cate
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
015602(R) [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Theory of incoherent optical solitons: Beyond the mean-field approximation
S. A. Ponomarenko, N. M. Litchinitser, and G. P. Agrawal
Published 27 July 2004 (4 pages)
015603(R) [View PDF (65 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Folding of the triangular lattice in a discrete three-dimensional space: Density-matrix renormalization-group study
Yoshihiro Nishiyama
Published 1 July 2004 (7 pages)
016101 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Test-charge theory for the electric double layer
Yoram Burak, David Andelman, and Henri Orland
Published 1 July 2004 (18 pages)
016102 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Geometry effects in confined space
Wu-Sheng Dai and Mi Xie
Published 1 July 2004 (12 pages)
016103 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Statistical model with a standard Γ distribution
Marco Patriarca, Anirban Chakraborti, and Kimmo Kaski
Published 2 July 2004 (5 pages)
016104 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Damage spreading on two-dimensional trivalent structures with Glauber dynamics: Hierarchical and random lattices
Z. Z. Guo, K. Y. Szeto, and Xiujun Fu
Published 2 July 2004 (5 pages)
016105 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Exactly soluble noisy traveling-wave equation appearing in the problem of directedpolymers in a random medium
Éric Brunet and Bernard Derrida
Published 2 July 2004 (5 pages)
016106 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Modeling traffic through a sequence of traffic lights
B. A. Toledo, V. Muñoz, J. Rogan, C. Tenreiro, and J. A. Valdivia
Published 2 July 2004 (6 pages)
016107 [View PDF (89 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Disordered asymmetric simple exclusion process: Mean-field treatment
R. J. Harris and R. B. Stinchcombe
Published 2 July 2004 (15 pages)
016108 [View PDF (394 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Quantum dynamics with non-Markovian fluctuating parameters
Igor Goychuk
Published 7 July 2004 (8 pages)
016109 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Density of the Fisher zeros for the three-state and four-state Potts models
Seung-Yeon Kim
Published 8 July 2004 (5 pages)
016110 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Reversibility in nonequilibrium trajectories of an optically trapped particle
J. C. Reid, D. M. Carberry, G. M. Wang, E. M. Sevick, Denis J. Evans, and Debra J. Searles
Published 8 July 2004 (9 pages)
016111 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Dynamical scaling behavior of percolation clusters in scale-free networks
F. Jasch, Ch. von Ferber, and A. Blumen
Published 9 July 2004 (9 pages)
016112 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Topological hypothesis on phase transitions: The simplest case
Ana C. Ribeiro Teixeira and Daniel A. Stariolo
Published 15 July 2004 (7 pages)
016113 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Criticality, tricriticality, and crystallization in discretized models of electrolytes
A. Ciach and G. Stell
Published 15 July 2004 (11 pages)
016114 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Empirical test for cellular automaton models of traffic flow
Wolfgang Knospe, Ludger Santen, Andreas Schadschneider, and Michael Schreckenberg
Published 21 July 2004 (25 pages)
016115 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Survival probabilities in time-dependent random walks
Ehud Nakar and Shahar Hod
Published 21 July 2004 (4 pages)
016116 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Comparison of social and physical free energies on a toy model
Josip Kasac, Hrvoje Stefancic, and Josip Stepanic
Published 23 July 2004 (8 pages)
016117 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Directed-loop Monte Carlo simulations of vertex models
Olav F. Syljuåsen and M. B. Zvonarev
Published 23 July 2004 (8 pages)
016118 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Evolutionary minority game wtih multiple options
Hong-Jun Quan, P. M. Hui, C. Xu, and K. F. Yip
Published 26 July 2004 (5 pages)
016119 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Frequency entrainment in long chains of oscillators with random natural frequencies in the weak coupling limit
Per Östborn
Published 28 July 2004 (8 pages)
016120 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Change of the nature of a test when surrogate data are applied
Enno Mammen and Swagata Nandi
Published 30 July 2004 (11 pages)
016121 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Fractal–small-world dichotomy in real-world networks
Gábor Csányi and Balázs Szendrői
Published 30 July 2004 (5 pages)
016122 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equation for simple dissipative processes
Ferenc Márkus and Katalin Gambár
Published 30 July 2004 (6 pages)
016123 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Dynamics of spiral waves under global feedback in excitable domains of different shapes
Vladimir Zykov and Harald Engel
Published 8 July 2004 (9 pages)
016201 [View PDF (970 kB)]
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Directed anomalous diffusion without a biased field: A ratchet accelerator
Jiangbin Gong and Paul Brumer
Published 8 July 2004 (6 pages)
016202 [View PDF (621 kB)]
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Self-erasing perturbations of Abelian sandpiles
Jeffrey R. Moffitt, Patrick Macdonald, and John F. Lindner
Published 12 July 2004 (6 pages)
016203 [View PDF (600 kB)]
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Detecting and controlling unstable periodic orbits that are not part of a chaotic attractor
Matjaž Perc and Marko Marhl
Published 12 July 2004 (10 pages)
016204 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Control of integrable Hamiltonian systems and degenerate bifurcations
C. W. Kulp and E. R. Tracy
Published 12 July 2004 (15 pages)
016205 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Semiclassical trace formulas for pitchfork bifurcation sequences
J. Kaidel and M. Brack
Published 15 July 2004 (21 pages)
016206 [View PDF (429 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Goldstone modes in Lyapunov spectra of hard sphere systems
Astrid S. de Wijn and Henk van Beijeren
Published 15 July 2004 (11 pages)
016207 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Current statistics for transport through rectangular and circular billiards
Almas F. Sadreev
Published 15 July 2004 (7 pages)
016208 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Strength functions, entropies, and duality in weakly to strongly interacting fermionic systems
D. Angom, S. Ghosh, and V. K. B. Kota
Published 23 July 2004 (11 pages)
016209 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Spatial bistability and excitability in the chlorite-tetrathionate reaction in cylindrical and conical geometries
D. E. Strier and J. Boissonade
Published 23 July 2004 (7 pages)
016210 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Controlling chaos with weak periodic signals optimized by a genetic algorithm
C. Y. Soong, W. T. Huang, F. P. Lin, and P. Y. Tzeng
Published 23 July 2004 (13 pages)
016211 [View PDF (988 kB)]
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Spiral breakup due to mechanical deformation in excitable media
Hong Zhang, Xiao-sheng Ruan, Bambi Hu, and Qi Ouyang
Published 26 July 2004 (5 pages)
016212 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Depinning transition of a pattern forming system in a washboard potential
Jeenu Kim and Jysoo Lee
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
016213 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Chaotic properties of a time-modulated barrier
E. D. Leonel and P. V. E. McClintock
Published 26 July 2004 (11 pages)
016214 [View PDF (624 kB)]
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Estimating a generating partition from observed time series: Symbolic shadowing
Yoshito Hirata, Kevin Judd, and Devin Kilminster
Published 30 July 2004 (11 pages)
016215 [View PDF (1,208 kB)]
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Clustering, advection, and patterns in a model of population dynamics with neighborhood-dependent rates
Emilio Hernández-García and Cristóbal López
Published 30 July 2004 (11 pages)
016216 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Entanglement as a signature of quantum chaos
Xiaoguang Wang, Shohini Ghose, Barry C. Sanders, and Bambi Hu
Published 30 July 2004 (8 pages)
016217 [View PDF (173 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Generalized hydrodynamics and microflows
Mazen Al-Ghoul and Byung Chan Eu
Published 1 July 2004 (16 pages)
016301 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Evolution of solitons over a randomly rough seabed
Chiang C. Mei and Yile Li
Published 1 July 2004 (11 pages)
016302 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Crossover from capillary fingering to viscous fingering for immiscible unstable flow:Experiment and modeling
M. Ferer, Chuang Ji, Grant S. Bromhal, Joshua Cook, Goodarz Ahmadi, and Duane H. Smith
Published 8 July 2004 (7 pages)
016303 [View PDF (577 kB)]
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Role of liquid compressional viscosity in the dynamics of a sonoluminescing bubble
A. Moshaii and R. Sadighi-Bonabi
Published 8 July 2004 (6 pages)
016304 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous pressure field inside a collapsing bubble accelerated by an acoustic pulse
Jean-Louis Thomas
Published 9 July 2004 (5 pages)
016305 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion exponents in continuous two-dimensional multifractal media
Jean-Raynald de Dreuzy, Philippe Davy, Jocelyne Erhel, and Jean de Brémond d’Ars
Published 12 July 2004 (6 pages)
016306 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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The tripole vortex: Experimental evidence and explicit solutions
Ziv Kizner and Ruvim Khvoles
Published 12 July 2004 (4 pages)
016307 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Simulations of nonhelical hydromagnetic turbulence
Nils Erland L. Haugen, Axel Brandenburg, and Wolfgang Dobler
Published 26 July 2004 (14 pages)
016308 [View PDF (504 kB)]
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Defect turbulence in a spiral wave pattern in the torsional Couette flow
A. Cros and P. Le Gal
Published 28 July 2004 (7 pages)
016309 [View PDF (1,084 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Two-dimensional theory of Cherenkov radiation from short laser pulses in a magnetized plasma
M. I. Bakunov, S. B. Bodrov, A. V. Maslov, and A. M. Sergeev
Published 7 July 2004 (7 pages)
016401 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Beat wave injection of electrons into plasma waves using two interfering laser pulses
G. Fubiani, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, and W. P. Leemans
Published 20 July 2004 (12 pages)
016402 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Third-harmonic generation in the skin layer of a hot dense plasma
G. Ferrante, M. Zarcone, and S. A. Uryupin
Published 21 July 2004 (9 pages)
016403 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Wave dispersion near cyclotron resonance in pulsar plasmas
D. B. Melrose and Q. Luo
Published 23 July 2004 (9 pages)
016404 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of a two-dimensional Yukawa fluid
Hiroo Totsuji, M. Sanusi Liman, Chieko Totsuji, and Kenji Tsuruta
Published 29 July 2004 (7 pages)
016405 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Analysis of high- n dielectronic Rydberg satellites in the spectra of Na -like Zn XX and Mg -like Zn XIX
K. B. Fournier, A. Ya. Faenov, T. A. Pikuz, A. I. Magunov, I. Yu. Skobelev, F. Flora, S. Bollanti, P. Di Lazzaro, D. Murra, V. S. Belyaev, V. I. Vinogradov, A. S. Kyrilov, A. P. Matafonov, M. Francucci, S. Martellucci, and G. Petrocelli
Published 30 July 2004 (15 pages)
016406 [View PDF (1,486 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Perturbative formulation for nonlinear chromaticity of circular accelerators
Masaru Takao, Hitoshi Tanaka, Kouichi Soutome, and Jun Schimizu
Published 2 July 2004 (12 pages)
016501 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Eulerian method for computing multivalued solutions of the Euler-Poisson equations and applications to wave breaking in klystrons
Xiantao Li, John G. Wöhlbier, Shi Jin, and John H. Booske
Published 7 July 2004 (12 pages)
016502 [View PDF (594 kB)]
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Analytical theory and control of the longitudinal dynamics of a storage-ring free-electron laser
Giovanni De Ninno and Duccio Fanelli
Published 9 July 2004 (14 pages)
016503 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Energy recovery in an optical linear collider
Levi Schächter
Published 12 July 2004 (13 pages)
016504 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Optical Bragg accelerators
Amit Mizrahi and Levi Schächter
Published 23 July 2004 (21 pages)
016505 [View PDF (1,598 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Propagation of coherent and partially coherent pulses through one-dimensional photonic crystals
Wang Li-gang, Liu Nian-hua, Lin Qiang, and Zhu Shi-yao
Published 2 July 2004 (12 pages)
016601 [View PDF (779 kB)]
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Midband solitons in nonlinear photonic crystal resonators
Kęstutis Staliūnas
Published 2 July 2004 (7 pages)
016602 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Two-dimensional dispersion-managed light bullets in Kerr media
M. Matuszewski, M. Trippenbach, B. A. Malomed, E. Infeld, and A. A. Skorupski
Published 7 July 2004 (6 pages)
016603 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Instability of solitary wave solutions to long-wavelength transverse perturbationsin the generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation with negative dispersion
Takeshi Kataoka and Michihisa Tsutahara
Published 15 July 2004 (9 pages)
016604 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Nonlinear Krönig-Penney model
WeiDong Li and A. Smerzi
Published 20 July 2004 (4 pages)
016605 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Semiclassical coupled wave theory for TM waves in one-dimensional photonic crystals
G. V. Morozov, D. W. L. Sprung, and J. Martorell
Published 21 July 2004 (7 pages)
016606 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Phase transition in the bounded one-dimensional multitrap system
D. Bar
Published 23 July 2004 (12 pages)
016607 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Robust method to retrieve the constitutive effective parameters of metamaterials
Xudong Chen, Tomasz M. Grzegorczyk, Bae-Ian Wu, Joe Pacheco, Jr., and Jin Au Kong
Published 26 July 2004 (7 pages)
016608 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Intermittent movement of localized excitations of a nonlinear lattice
Benno Rumpf
Published 26 July 2004 (9 pages)
016609 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Role of breathers in anomalous decay
E. Mihóková, L. S. Schulman, K. Polák, and W. Williams
Published 26 July 2004 (10 pages)
016610 [View PDF (1,175 kB)]
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Modulational instability of zone boundary mode in nonlinear lattices: Rigorous results
Kazuyuki Yoshimura
Published 27 July 2004 (6 pages)
016611 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Density of modes and tunneling times in finite one-dimensional photonic crystals: A comprehensive analysis
G. D’Aguanno, N. Mattiucci, M. Scalora, M. J. Bloemer, and A. M. Zheltikov
Published 29 July 2004 (12 pages)
016612 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Dynamic control by sinusoidal perturbation and by Gaussian noise of a system of two nonlinear oscillators: Computation and experimental results
C. P. Cristescu, Cristina Stan, and D. Alexandroaei
Published 29 July 2004 (7 pages)
016613 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Stability of weakly nonlinear localized states in attractive potentials
S. Skupin, U. Peschel, L. Bergé, and F. Lederer
Published 29 July 2004 (8 pages)
016614 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Theory of the soliton self-frequency shift compensation by the resonant radiationin photonic crystal fibers
F. Biancalana, D. V. Skryabin, and A. V. Yulin
Published 30 July 2004 (9 pages)
016615 [View PDF (459 kB)]

Computational physics

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Generalized chromosome genetic algorithm for generalized traveling salesman problems and its applications for machining
Chunguo Wu, Yanchun Liang, Heow Pueh Lee, and Chun Lu
Published 1 July 2004 (13 pages)
016701 [View PDF (691 kB)]
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Dual geometric worm algorithm for two-dimensional discrete classical lattice models
Peter Hitchcock, Erik S. Sørensen, and Fabien Alet
Published 2 July 2004 (11 pages)
016702 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Possibility of constructing a multispeed Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook thermal model of the lattice Boltzmann method
Minoru Watari and Michihisa Tsutahara
Published 15 July 2004 (9 pages)
016703 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Efficient algorithms for the laboratory discovery of optimal quantum controls
Gabriel Turinici, Claude Le Bris, and Herschel Rabitz
Published 20 July 2004 (9 pages)
016704 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Computational method for multidimensional quantal dynamicsof polynomially interacting oscillator systems
T. Okushima
Published 21 July 2004 (9 pages)
016705 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Applying a modified plane-wave expansion method to the calculations of transmittivity and reflectivity of a semi-infinite photonic crystal
Young-Chung Hsue and Tzong-Jer Yang
Published 26 July 2004 (6 pages)
016706 [View PDF (574 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Deformation of a renormalization-group equation applied to infinite-order phase transitions
Hisamitsu Mukaida
Published 7 July 2004 (4 pages)
017101 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Rényi entropies and observables
Bernhard Lesche
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
017102 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Generic features of the fluctuation dissipation relation in coarsening systems
Federico Corberi, Claudio Castellano, Eugenio Lippiello, and Marco Zannetti
Published 29 July 2004 (4 pages)
017103 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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1∕f noise in the two-body random ensemble
A. Relaño, R. A. Molina, and J. Retamosa
Published 15 July 2004 (4 pages)
017201 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Gas permeability of porous silicon nanostructures
V. Lysenko, J. Vitiello, B. Remaki, and D. Barbier
Published 1 July 2004 (4 pages)
017301 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Anisotropy of acceleration in turbulent flows
A. M. Reynolds, K. Yeo, and C. Lee
Published 9 July 2004 (4 pages)
017302 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Velocity boundary condition at solid walls in rarefied gas calculations
Duncan A. Lockerby, Jason M. Reese, David R. Emerson, and Robert W. Barber
Published 26 July 2004 (4 pages)
017303 [View PDF (235 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Dependence of the transition from Townsend to glow discharge on secondary emission
Yu. P. Raizer, Ute Ebert, and D. D. Šijačić
Published 21 July 2004 (3 pages)
017401 [View PDF (38 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Effects of random and systematic perturbations in a one-dimensional photonic crystal wavelength converter
F. Bragheri, D. Faccio, M. Romagnoli, T. Krauss, and J. Roberts
Published 28 July 2004 (4 pages)
017601 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Computational physics

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Numerical methods for stochastic differential equations
Joshua Wilkie
Published 21 July 2004 (4 pages)
017701 [View PDF (74 kB)]
See Also: Comment

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Fluctuation-dissipation relations in the nonequilibrium critical dynamicsof Ising models”
Michel Pleimling
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
018101 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Fluctuation-dissipation relations in the nonequilibrium critical dynamics of Ising models’ ”
Peter Mayer, Ludovic Berthier, Juan P. Garrahan, and Peter Sollich
Published 2 July 2004 (4 pages)
018102 [View PDF (57 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Streamer branching rationalized by conformal mapping techniques [Phys. Rev. E 69, 067402 (2004)]
Bernard Meulenbroek, Andrea Rocco, and Ute Ebert
Published 7 July 2004 (1 page)
019901(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Three-dimensional simulation of square jets in cross-flow [Phys. Rev. E 69, 066302 (2004)]
Amalendu Sau, Tony W. H. Sheu, Robert R. Hwang, and W. C. Yang
Published 15 July 2004 (1 page)
019902(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Resonant activation in discrete systems[ Phys. Rev. E 69, 051109 (2004) ]
O. Flomenbom and J. Klafter
Published 20 July 2004 (1 page)
019903(E) [View PDF (5 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Onset and manipulation of self-assembled morphology in freely standing polymer trilayer films[ Phys. Rev. E 69, 061612 (2004) ]
Chris A. Murray, Stephen W. Kamp, Jason M. Thomas, and John R. Dutcher
Published 20 July 2004 (1 page)
019904(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Role of liquid compressional viscosity in the dynamics of a sonoluminescing bubble[ Phys. Rev. E 70, 016304 (2004) ]
A. Moshaii and R. Sadighi-Bonabi
Published 23 July 2004 (1 page)
019905(E) [View PDF (6 kB)]