Physical Review E – August 2005
Volume 72, Issue 2

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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Exact solution of the Fokker-Planck equation for a broad class of diffusion coefficients
Kwok Sau Fa
Published 18 August 2005 (3 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (57 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Structural transition in bidispersed electrorheological fluids
Xianxiang Huang, Wing Yim Tam, and Ping Sheng
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
020501(R) [View PDF (210 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Renormalization group approach to multiscale simulation of polycrystalline materials using the phase field crystal model
Nigel Goldenfeld, Badrinarayan P. Athreya, and Jonathan A. Dantzig
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
020601(R) [View PDF (311 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Polarization switching in a columnar liquid crystalline urea as studied by optical second-harmonic generation interferometry
Yoshinori Okada, Shohei Matsumoto, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Shoichiro Nakahara , Keiki Kishikawa, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 1 August 2005 (4 pages)
020701(R) [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Plucking a liquid chord: Mechanical response of a liquid crystal filament
Ralf Stannarius, Alexandru Nemeş, and Alexey Eremin
Published 1 August 2005 (4 pages)
020702(R) [View PDF (234 kB)]

Biological physics

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Exact asymptotic results for the Bernoulli matching model of sequence alignment
Satya N. Majumdar and Sergei Nechaev
Published 2 August 2005 (4 pages)
020901(R) [View PDF (158 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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System size stochastic resonance: General nonequilibrium potential framework
B. von Haeften, G. Izús, and H. S. Wio
Published 1 August 2005 (10 pages)
021101 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Scaling in activated escape of underdamped systems
M. I. Dykman, I. B. Schwartz, and M. Shapiro
Published 8 August 2005 (8 pages)
021102 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Analytical results for the statistical distribution related to a memoryless deterministic walk: Dimensionality effect and mean-field models
César Augusto Sangaletti Terçariol and Alexandre Souto Martinez
Published 16 August 2005 (8 pages)
021103 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Random walks and anomalous diffusion in two-component random media
A. E. Arinstein and M. Gitterman
Published 18 August 2005 (9 pages)
021104 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Maxwell and very-hard-particle models for probabilistic ballistic annihilation: Hydrodynamic description
François Coppex, Michel Droz, and Emmanuel Trizac
Published 23 August 2005 (16 pages)
021105 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Instabilities in a free granular fluid described by the Enskog equation
Vicente Garzó
Published 25 August 2005 (9 pages)
021106 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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First-passage method for the study of the efficiency of a two-channel reaction on a lattice
E. Abad
Published 29 August 2005 (8 pages)
021107 [View PDF (161 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Anomalous diffusivity in supercooled liquid silicon under pressure
Tetsuya Morishita
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
021201 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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Asymptotic decay of the pair correlation function in molecular fluids: Application to hard rods
S. V. Savenko and Marjolein Dijkstra
Published 18 August 2005 (11 pages)
021202 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Enhanced septahedral ordering in cold Lennard-Jones fluids
Paul C. Whitford and George D. J. Phillies
Published 31 August 2005 (11 pages)
021203 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Granular materials

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Elastic wave propagation in confined granular systems
Ellák Somfai, Jean-Noël Roux, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Martin van Hecke, and Wim van Saarloos
Published 3 August 2005 (18 pages)
021301 [View PDF (1,201 kB)]
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Power-law velocity distributions in granular gases
E. Ben-Naim, B. Machta, and J. Machta
Published 16 August 2005 (10 pages)
021302 [View PDF (388 kB)]
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Mean-field description of jamming in noncohesive frictionless particulate systems
D. A. Head
Published 17 August 2005 (9 pages)
021303 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Indeterminacy and the onset of motion in a simple granular packing
Sean McNamara, Ramón García-Rojo, and Hans Herrmann
Published 19 August 2005 (11 pages)
021304 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Brazil nut effect and excluded volume attraction in vibrofluidized granular mixtures
M. Bose, U. U. Kumar, P. R. Nott, and V. Kumaran
Published 25 August 2005 (9 pages)
021305 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Transport properties of dense dissipative hard-sphere fluids for arbitrary energy loss models
James F. Lutsko
Published 26 August 2005 (23 pages)
021306 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Size segregation, convection, and arching effect
Alejandro Saez, Francisco Vivanco, and Francisco Melo
Published 31 August 2005 (7 pages)
021307 [View PDF (904 kB)]
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Breeding and solitary wave behavior of dunes
O. Durán, V. Schwämmle, and H. Herrmann
Published 31 August 2005 (5 pages)
021308 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Rheophysics of dense granular materials: Discrete simulation of plane shear flows
Frédéric da Cruz, Sacha Emam, Michaël Prochnow, Jean-Noël Roux, and François Chevoir
Published 31 August 2005 (17 pages)
021309 [View PDF (884 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Geometry of dynamically available empty space is the key to near-arrest dynamics
Aonghus Lawlor, Paolo De Gregorio, Phil Bradley, Mauro Sellitto, and Kenneth A. Dawson
Published 3 August 2005 (5 pages)
021401 [View PDF (411 kB)]
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Anomalous behavior of the depletion potential in quasi-two-dimensional binary mixtures
Bianxiao Cui, Binhua Lin, Derek Frydel, and Stuart A. Rice
Published 4 August 2005 (7 pages)
021402 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Relationship between particle deposit characteristics and the mechanism of particle arrival
Daniel Rodríguez-Pérez, Jose L. Castillo, and J. Carlos Antoranz
Published 5 August 2005 (9 pages)
021403 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Soft colloids driven and sheared by traveling wave fields
M. Rex, H. Löwen, and C. N. Likos
Published 12 August 2005 (9 pages)
021404 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Long-range polarization attraction between two different like-charged macroions
Rui Zhang and B. I. Shklovskii
Published 17 August 2005 (11 pages)
021405 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Structure, normal mode spectra, and mixing of a binary system of charged particles confined in a parabolic trap
W. P. Ferreira, F. F. Munarin, K. Nelissen, R. N. Costa Filho, F. M. Peeters, and G. A. Farias
Published 18 August 2005 (13 pages)
021406 [View PDF (1,392 kB)]
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Banding of suspended particles in a rotating fluid-filled horizontal cylinder
G. Seiden, M. Ungarish, and S. G. Lipson
Published 29 August 2005 (9 pages)
021407 [View PDF (614 kB)]
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Cluster formation of nanoparticles in an optical trap studied by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Chie Hosokawa, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Masuhara
Published 29 August 2005 (7 pages)
021408 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Static and dynamic anomalies in a repulsive spherical ramp liquid: Theory and simulation
Pradeep Kumar, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Francesco Sciortino, Emanuela Zaccarelli, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 1 August 2005 (11 pages)
021501 [View PDF (389 kB)]
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Mean-field glass transition in a model liquid
V. S. Dotsenko and G. Blatter
Published 1 August 2005 (12 pages)
021502 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Potential-energy landscape of a supercooled liquid and its resemblance to a collection of traps
A. Heuer, B. Doliwa, and A. Saksaengwijit
Published 9 August 2005 (13 pages)
021503 [View PDF (496 kB)]
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Self-assembled patterns and strain-induced instabilities for modulated systems
Eliana Asciutto, Christopher Roland, and Celeste Sagui
Published 15 August 2005 (15 pages)
021504 [View PDF (1,467 kB)]
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Pattern formation arising from condensation of a homogeneous gas into a binary, phase-separating liquid
C. M. Pooley, Anna C. Balazs, and J. M. Yeomans
Published 16 August 2005 (8 pages)
021505 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Viscoelastic properties of composite materials with random structure
V. V. Novikov and Chr. Friedrich
Published 17 August 2005 (9 pages)
021506 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Dynamics of shear-transformation zones in amorphous plasticity: Nonlinear theory at low temperatures
Leonid Pechenik
Published 18 August 2005 (12 pages)
021507 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Charge renormalization and inversion of a highly charged lipid bilayer: Effects of dielectric discontinuities and charge correlations
Sattar Taheri-Araghi and Bae-Yeun Ha
Published 19 August 2005 (10 pages)
021508 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Brownian dynamics simulation of orientational behavior, flow-induced structure, and rheological properties of a suspension of oblate spheroid particles under simple shear
Takehiro Yamamoto, Takanori Suga, and Noriyasu Mori
Published 24 August 2005 (11 pages)
021509 [View PDF (1,025 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Shape effect of hot droplets on fragmentation
Nobuyoshi Komatsu and Takashi Abe
Published 3 August 2005 (9 pages)
021601 [View PDF (489 kB)]
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Effect of hydrodynamic flow on low-field spin-lattice relaxation in liquids in the nanoscopic vicinity of solid surfaces: Theory and Monte Carlo simulations of model pore spaces
Carlos Mattea, Hernan Tiraboschi, and Rainer Kimmich
Published 22 August 2005 (14 pages)
021602 [View PDF (1,193 kB)]
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Optimum vacancy concentration in a crystal
Sunil P. Singh, Charanbir Kaur, and Shankar P. Das
Published 31 August 2005 (5 pages)
021603 [View PDF (158 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Friction drag of a spherical particle in a liquid crystal above the isotropic-nematic transition
Jun-ichi Fukuda, Holger Stark, and Hiroshi Yokoyama
Published 5 August 2005 (10 pages)
021701 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Effect of flexible bimesogen dopant on the stability of the anticlinic liquid-crystal phase
Min Hua Zhu, Rolfe G. Petschek, Charles Rosenblatt, Lachezar Komitov, Nils Olsson, Bertil Helgee, Julie M. Kim, and Mary E. Neubert
Published 8 August 2005 (5 pages)
021702 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Dielectric spectroscopy of a binary mixture of liquid crystals showing wide temperature range twisted grain boundary phase with re-entrant cholesteric phase
Meenal Gupta, R. Dhar, V. K. Agrawal, R. Dabrowski, and M. Tykarska
Published 9 August 2005 (10 pages)
021703 [View PDF (690 kB)]
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Flow-induced molecular orientation of amphiphile monolayers: Incorporation of hexatic elasticity into Ericksen-Leslie theory
Mitsumasa Iwamoto and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
Published 10 August 2005 (7 pages)
021704 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Effect of pressure on the dynamics of the photostimulated orientational ordering transition in a liquid crystal
S. Krishna Prasad, Vivek Kumar Gupta, D. S. Shankar Rao, and Chethan V. Lobo
Published 15 August 2005 (6 pages)
021705 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Phase sequences and long-range interactions in ferroelectric liquid crystals
M. B. Hamaneh and P. L. Taylor
Published 17 August 2005 (9 pages)
021706 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Thermodynamical scaling of the low frequency relaxation time in liquid crystalline phases
Stanisław Urban and Albert Würflinger
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
021707 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Smectic tilt susceptibility: Anharmonic behavior in surface-induced smectic layers above the nematic–smectic- A transition temperature
Zhibin Huang, Giovanni Carbone, Chen Xia, Ghanshyam P. Sinha, and Charles Rosenblatt
Published 24 August 2005 (5 pages)
021708 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation of a strongly coupled XY model in three dimensions
Rasool Ghanbari and Farhad Shahbazi
Published 25 August 2005 (9 pages)
021709 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Optically isotropic liquid-crystal phase of bent-core molecules with polar nanostructure
G. Liao, S. Stojadinovic, G. Pelzl, W. Weissflog, S. Sprunt, and A. Jákli
Published 30 August 2005 (6 pages)
021710 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Liquid crystal pretilt control by inhomogeneous surfaces
Jones T. K. Wan, Ophelia K. C. Tsui, Hoi-Sing Kwok, and Ping Sheng
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
021711 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Intrinsic torsional reorientations in a twisted nematic liquid crystal cell
A. V. Zakharov and A. A. Vakulenko
Published 31 August 2005 (7 pages)
021712 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Polymers

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Solution of a field theory model of frontal photopolymerization
James A. Warren, João T. Cabral, and Jack F. Douglas
Published 3 August 2005 (12 pages)
021801 [View PDF (318 kB)]
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Evidence of convective constraint release during hole growth in freely standing polystyrene films at low temperatures
C. B. Roth, B. Deh, B. G. Nickel, and J. R. Dutcher
Published 10 August 2005 (12 pages)
021802 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Hole growth in freely standing polystyrene films probed using a differential pressure experiment
C. B. Roth and J. R. Dutcher
Published 10 August 2005 (9 pages)
021803 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Effect of low-molecular-weight salt on the nematic ordering in solutions of rodlike polyelectrolytes
Igor I. Potemkin, Nikolay N. Oskolkov, Alexei R. Khokhlov, and Peter Reineker
Published 12 August 2005 (7 pages)
021804 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Dynamics of inextensible semiflexible filaments
Tanniemola B. Liverpool
Published 15 August 2005 (15 pages)
021805 [View PDF (620 kB)]
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Elasticity of polymer vesicles by osmotic pressure: An intermediate theory between fluid membranes and solid shells
Z. C. Tu, L. Q. Ge, J. B. Li, and Z. C. Ou-Yang
Published 17 August 2005 (7 pages)
021806 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Surface forces in a confined polymer melt: Self-consistent field analysis of full and restricted equilibrium cases
F. A. M. Leermakers and H. J. Butt
Published 18 August 2005 (10 pages)
021807 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Biological physics

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Role of chemical synapses in coupled neurons with noise
Pablo Balenzuela and Jordi García-Ojalvo
Published 1 August 2005 (7 pages)
021901 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Signal-to-noise ratio gain of a noisy neuron that transmits subthreshold periodic spike trains
Yan Mei Kang, Jian Xue Xu, and Yong Xie
Published 2 August 2005 (7 pages)
021902 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Frequency domain photon migration in the δ-P1 approximation: Analysis of ballistic, transport, and diffuse regimes
J. S. You, C. K. Hayakawa, and V. Venugopalan
Published 12 August 2005 (13 pages)
021903 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Medium effects on the selection of sequences folding into stable proteins in a simple model
You-Quan Li, Yong-Yun Ji, Jun-Wen Mao, and Xiao-Wei Tang
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
021904 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Nonlinear statistical modeling and model discovery for cardiorespiratory data
D. G. Luchinsky, M. M. Millonas, V. N. Smelyanskiy, A. Pershakova, A. Stefanovska, and P. V. E. McClintock
Published 19 August 2005 (10 pages)
021905 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Effect of tubulin diffusion on polymerization of microtubules
P. A. Deymier, Y. Yang, and J. Hoying
Published 19 August 2005 (8 pages)
021906 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Fast method for estimating the energy distribution of globular states of proteins
Hai-Bo Cao, Cai-Zhuang Wang, and Kai-Ming Ho
Published 22 August 2005 (5 pages)
021907 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Pattern reconstruction and sequence processing in feed-forward layered neural networks near saturation
F. L. Metz and W. K. Theumann
Published 23 August 2005 (9 pages)
021908 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Randomly curved runs interrupted by tumbling: A model for bacterial motion
C. A. Condat, J. Jäckle, and S. A. Menchón
Published 24 August 2005 (7 pages)
021909 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Mode locking the cell cycle
Frederick R. Cross and Eric D. Siggia
Published 24 August 2005 (6 pages)
021910 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Integrate-and-fire neurons with threshold noise: A tractable model of how interspike interval correlations affect neuronal signal transmission
Benjamin Lindner, Maurice J. Chacron, and André Longtin
Published 26 August 2005 (21 pages)
021911 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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ac conductivity in a DNA charge transport model
P. Maniadis, G. Kalosakas, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and A. R. Bishop
Published 29 August 2005 (4 pages)
021912 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Direct stochastic simulation of Ca2+ motion in Xenopus eggs
Y.-B. Yi, H. Wang, A. M. Sastry, and C. M. Lastoskie
Published 29 August 2005 (12 pages)
021913 [View PDF (1,120 kB)]
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Probing mechanical properties of living cells by atomic force microscopy with blunted pyramidal cantilever tips
Félix Rico, Pere Roca-Cusachs, Núria Gavara, Ramon Farré, Mar Rotger, and Daniel Navajas
Published 29 August 2005 (10 pages)
021914 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Recurrence plot analysis of nonstationary data: The understanding of curved patterns
A. Facchini, H. Kantz, and E. Tiezzi
Published 31 August 2005 (6 pages)
021915 [View PDF (682 kB)]
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Layered synchronous propagation of noise-induced chaotic spikes in linear arrays
G. X. Qi, H. B. Huang, H. J. Wang, X. Xie, P. Yang, and Y. J. Zhang
Published 31 August 2005 (5 pages)
021916 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Mechanical properties of viral capsids
Roya Zandi and David Reguera
Published 31 August 2005 (12 pages)
021917 [View PDF (577 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Structured and complex fluids

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Hydrodynamic slip boundary condition at chemically patterned surfaces: A continuum deduction from molecular dynamics
Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
022501 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Kinetic model for step flow growth of [100] steps
Lev Balykov and Axel Voigt
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
022601 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Biological physics

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Geometric and physical considerations for realistic protein models
Isaac A. Hubner and Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
022901 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Scroll waves meandering in a model of an excitable medium
A. Rusakov, A. B. Medvinsky, and A. V. Panfilov
Published 25 August 2005 (4 pages)
022902 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Chemotactic collapse and mesenchymal morphogenesis
Carlos Escudero
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
022903 [View PDF (74 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Frequency dependence and equilibration of the specific heat of glass-forming liquids”
Elijah Flenner and Grzegorz Szamel
Published 19 August 2005 (3 pages)
023201 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Frequency dependence and equilibration of the specific heat of glass-forming liquids’ ”
Clare C. Yu and Hervé M. Carruzzo
Published 19 August 2005 (2 pages)
023202 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Comment on the use of the method of images for calculating electromagnetic responses of interacting spheres
Vadim A. Markel
Published 11 August 2005 (4 pages)
023401 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on the use of the method of images for calculating electromagnetic responses of interacting spheres”
J. P. Huang, K. W. Yu, G. Q. Gu, M. Karttunen, and L. Dong
Published 11 August 2005 (2 pages)
023402 [View PDF (54 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Single-molecule chemical reactions: Reexamination of the Kramers approach
G. Margolin and E. Barkai
Published 2 August 2005 (4 pages)
025101(R) [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Scaling of optimal-path-lengths distribution in complex networks
Tomer Kalisky, Lidia A. Braunstein, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 10 August 2005 (4 pages)
025102(R) [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Random graph model with power-law distributed triangle subgraphs
Danilo Sergi
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
025103(R) [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Tolerance of scale-free networks against attack-induced cascades
Liang Zhao, Kwangho Park, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Nong Ye
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
025104(R) [View PDF (378 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Basins of attraction in piecewise smooth Hamiltonian systems
Ying-Cheng Lai, Da-Ren He, and Yu-Mei Jiang
Published 1 August 2005 (4 pages)
025201(R) [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Classical Loschmidt echo in chaotic many-body systems
Gregor Veble and Tomaž Prosen
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
025202(R) [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Effect of thermal annealing and compression on the stability of microwrinkle patterns
Takuya Ohzono and Masatsugu Shimomura
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
025203(R) [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Fractional kinetic model for chaotic transport in nonintegrable Hamiltonian systems
Mihailo Čubrović
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
025204(R) [View PDF (132 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Droplet motion driven by surface freezing or melting: A mesoscopic hydrodynamic approach
Arik Yochelis and Len M. Pismen
Published 30 August 2005 (4 pages)
025301(R) [View PDF (186 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Stationary rescaled pulse in alternately concatenated fibers with O(1) -accumulated nonlinear perturbations
Takashi Inoue, Hideaki Tobioka, and Shu Namiki
Published 2 August 2005 (4 pages)
025601(R) [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Non-Gaussian statistics of optical near-fields
A. Apostol and A. Dogariu
Published 18 August 2005 (4 pages)
025602(R) [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Convection-induced nonlinear symmetry breaking in wave mixing
Roberta Zambrini, Maxi San Miguel, Céline Durniak, and Majid Taki
Published 19 August 2005 (4 pages)
025603(R) [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau model for ring fiber lasers
A. Komarov, H. Leblond, and F. Sanchez
Published 26 August 2005 (4 pages)
025604(R) [View PDF (407 kB)]

Computational physics

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Understanding and improving the Wang-Landau algorithm
Chenggang Zhou and R. N. Bhatt
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
025701(R) [View PDF (166 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Turing pattern formation in fractional activator-inhibitor systems
B. I. Henry, T. A. M. Langlands, and S. L. Wearne
Published 1 August 2005 (14 pages)
026101 [View PDF (1,091 kB)]
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Static pairwise annihilation in complex networks
M. F. Laguna, M. Aldana, H. Larralde, P. E. Parris, and V. M. Kenkre
Published 3 August 2005 (9 pages)
026102 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Lennard-Jones and lattice models of driven fluids
M. Díez-Minguito, P. L. Garrido, and J. Marro
Published 3 August 2005 (4 pages)
026103 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Global and local relaxation of a spin chain under exact Schrödinger and master-equation dynamics
Markus J. Henrich, Mathias Michel, Michael Hartmann, Günter Mahler, and Jochen Gemmer
Published 3 August 2005 (8 pages)
026104 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Self-gravitating Brownian systems and bacterial populations with two or more types of particles
Julien Sopik, Clément Sire, and Pierre-Henri Chavanis
Published 3 August 2005 (22 pages)
026105 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Additive-multiplicative stochastic models of financial mean-reverting processes
C. Anteneodo and R. Riera
Published 3 August 2005 (7 pages)
026106 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Network motifs in computational graphs: A case study in software architecture
Sergi Valverde and Ricard V. Solé
Published 8 August 2005 (8 pages)
026107 [View PDF (624 kB)]
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Universal scaling of distances in complex networks
Janusz A. Hołyst, Julian Sienkiewicz, Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak, and Krzysztof Suchecki
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
026108 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Metastabilities in the degenerated phase of the two-component model
Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron
Published 8 August 2005 (6 pages)
026109 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Finite-size effects in the dynamics and thermodynamics of two-dimensional Coulomb clusters
E. Yurtsever, F. Calvo, and D. J. Wales
Published 11 August 2005 (10 pages)
026110 [View PDF (953 kB)]
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Failure properties of loaded fiber bundles having a lower cutoff in fiber threshold distribution
Srutarshi Pradhan and Alex Hansen
Published 11 August 2005 (7 pages)
026111 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Centrifugal force model for pedestrian dynamics
W. J. Yu, R. Chen, L. Y. Dong, and S. Q. Dai
Published 12 August 2005 (7 pages)
026112 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Limit theorem for continuous-time quantum walk on the line
Norio Konno
Published 12 August 2005 (7 pages)
026113 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Multiple power-law structures in heterogeneous complex networks
Nima Sarshar and Vwani Roychowdhury
Published 16 August 2005 (11 pages)
026114 [View PDF (528 kB)]
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Binaries and core-ring structures in self-gravitating systems
I. Ispolatov
Published 16 August 2005 (6 pages)
026115 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Scale-free user-network approach to telephone network traffic analysis
Yongxiang Xia, Chi K. Tse, Wai M. Tam, Francis C. M. Lau, and Michael Small
Published 16 August 2005 (7 pages)
026116 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Efficient training of multilayer perceptrons using principal component analysis
Christoph Bunzmann, Michael Biehl, and Robert Urbanczik
Published 16 August 2005 (11 pages)
026117 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Markov chain-based method for generating long-range dependence
Richard G. Clegg and Maurice Dodson
Published 16 August 2005 (8 pages)
026118 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Corrections to universal fluctuations in correlated systems: The two-dimensional XY model
G. Mack, G. Palma, and L. Vergara
Published 16 August 2005 (7 pages)
026119 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Finite-size scaling analysis of percolation in three-dimensional correlated binary Markov chain random fields
Thomas Harter
Published 18 August 2005 (8 pages)
026120 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Fractionally integrated process with power-law correlations in variables and magnitudes
Boris Podobnik, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Katica Biljakovic, Davor Horvatic, H. Eugene Stanley, and Ivo Grosse
Published 18 August 2005 (7 pages)
026121 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Real symmetric random matrices and path counting
Giovanni M. Cicuta
Published 19 August 2005 (10 pages)
026122 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Thermodynamic equilibrium and its stability for microcanonical systems described by the Sharma-Taneja-Mittal entropy
A. M. Scarfone and T. Wada
Published 19 August 2005 (13 pages)
026123 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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First-order phase transition in the tethered surface model on a sphere
Hiroshi Koibuchi and Toshiya Kuwahata
Published 19 August 2005 (6 pages)
026124 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of combinatorial optimization problems with site disorder
David S. Dean, David Lancaster, and Satya N. Majumdar
Published 22 August 2005 (14 pages)
026125 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Master equation for a kinetic model of a trading market and its analytic solution
Arnab Chatterjee, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, and Robin B. Stinchcombe
Published 22 August 2005 (4 pages)
026126 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Calculation of the shift exponent for the two-layer three-state Potts model using the transfer matrix method
Tahmasb Mardani, Behrouz Mirza, and Mehrdad Ghaemi
Published 24 August 2005 (5 pages)
026127 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Exact scaling in competitive growth models
L. A. Braunstein and Chi-Hang Lam
Published 24 August 2005 (5 pages)
026128 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Phase diagrams and crossover in spatially anisotropic d=3 Ising, XY magnetic, and percolation systems: Exact renormalization-group solutions of hierarchical models
Aykut Erbaş, Aslı Tuncer, Burcu Yücesoy, and A. Nihat Berker
Published 24 August 2005 (6 pages)
026129 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Stationary distribution of finite-size systems with absorbing states
Tânia Tomé and Mário J. de Oliveira
Published 26 August 2005 (5 pages)
026130 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Self-organized scale-free networks
Kwangho Park, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Nong Ye
Published 26 August 2005 (5 pages)
026131 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Finding local community structure in networks
Aaron Clauset
Published 29 August 2005 (6 pages)
026132 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Efficient target strategies for contagion in scale-free networks
Wenqi Duan, Zhong Chen, Zengrong Liu, and Wei Jin
Published 29 August 2005 (5 pages)
026133 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Effects of contrarians in the minority game
Li-Xin Zhong, Da-Fang Zheng, Bo Zheng, and P. M. Hui
Published 29 August 2005 (6 pages)
026134 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Microscopic derivation of causal diffusion equation using the projection operator method
T. Koide
Published 29 August 2005 (10 pages)
026135 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Solution for the properties of a clustered network
Juyong Park and M. E. J. Newman
Published 29 August 2005 (5 pages)
026136 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Tracking perturbations in Boolean networks with spectral methods
Juha Kesseli, Pauli Rämö, and Olli Yli-Harja
Published 30 August 2005 (8 pages)
026137 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Scale-free networks from self-organization
T. S. Evans and J. P. Saramäki
Published 31 August 2005 (14 pages)
026138 [View PDF (1,243 kB)]
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Monte Carlo results for the Ising model with shear
E. N. M. Cirillo, G. Gonnella, and G. P. Saracco
Published 31 August 2005 (7 pages)
026139 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Competition between two kinds of correlations in literary texts
S. S. Melnyk, O. V. Usatenko, V. A. Yampol’skii, and V. A. Golick
Published 31 August 2005 (7 pages)
026140 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Criterion to identify Hopf bifurcations in maps of arbitrary dimension
Guilin Wen
Published 2 August 2005 (4 pages)
026201 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Reconstruction of stochastic nonlinear dynamical models from trajectory measurements
V. N. Smelyanskiy, D. G. Luchinsky, D. A. Timuçin, and A. Bandrivskyy
Published 2 August 2005 (12 pages)
026202 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Delayed feedback control of forced self-sustained oscillations
T. Pyragienė and K. Pyragas
Published 3 August 2005 (9 pages)
026203 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Chaotic itinerancy and power-law residence time distribution in stochastic dynamical systems
Jun Namikawa
Published 3 August 2005 (5 pages)
026204 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Effect of noise on the dynamics at the torus-doubling terminal point in a quadratic map under quasiperiodic driving
Sergey P. Kuznetsov
Published 10 August 2005 (7 pages)
026205 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Chaos-induced intensification of wave scattering
I. P. Smirnov, A. L. Virovlyansky, M. Edelman, and G. M. Zaslavsky
Published 15 August 2005 (17 pages)
026206 [View PDF (1,947 kB)]
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Externally controlled attractor selection in a high-dimensional system
Frederick H. Willeboordse and Kunihiko Kaneko
Published 15 August 2005 (7 pages)
026207 [View PDF (743 kB)]
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Synchronization transition in scale-free networks: Clusters of synchrony
Deok-Sun Lee
Published 16 August 2005 (6 pages)
026208 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Tsallis’ q index and Mori’s q phase transitions at the edge of chaos
E. Mayoral and A. Robledo
Published 17 August 2005 (7 pages)
026209 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Pattern formation by boundary forcing in convectively unstable, oscillatory media with and without differential transport
Patrick N. McGraw and Michael Menzinger
Published 17 August 2005 (10 pages)
026210 [View PDF (1,105 kB)]
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Multifrequency synthesis using two coupled nonlinear oscillator arrays
Antonio Palacios, Ricardo Carretero-González, Patrick Longhini, Norbert Renz, Visarath In, Andy Kho, Joseph D. Neff, Brian K. Meadows, and Adi R. Bulsara
Published 18 August 2005 (9 pages)
026211 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Large-scale structural reorganization of strange attractors
Christophe Letellier, Tsvetelin D. Tsankov, Greg Byrne, and Robert Gilmore
Published 18 August 2005 (12 pages)
026212 [View PDF (1,693 kB)]
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Mixing properties of the Rössler system and consequences for coherence and synchronization analysis
M. Peifer, B. Schelter, M. Winterhalder, and J. Timmer
Published 18 August 2005 (7 pages)
026213 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Role of saddle tori in the mutual synchronization of periodic oscillations
A. G. Balanov, N. B. Janson, V. V. Astakhov, and P. V. E. McClintock
Published 19 August 2005 (6 pages)
026214 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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Can the shape of attractor forbid chaotic phase synchronization?
M. A. Zaks and E.-H. Park
Published 23 August 2005 (7 pages)
026215 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Lyapunov spectra of billiards with cylindrical scatterers: Comparison with many-particle systems
Astrid S. de Wijn
Published 23 August 2005 (10 pages)
026216 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Synchronizing chaotic maps using an arbitrary scalar signal
Mitrajit Dutta
Published 24 August 2005 (5 pages)
026217 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Anomalous transport in Charney-Hasegawa-Mima flows
Xavier Leoncini, Olivier Agullo, Sadruddin Benkadda, and George M. Zaslavsky
Published 24 August 2005 (12 pages)
026218 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Dispersion curves in the diffusional instability of autocatalytic reaction fronts
J. H. Merkin and I. Z. Kiss
Published 24 August 2005 (6 pages)
026219 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Synchrony of limit-cycle oscillators induced by random external impulses
Hiroya Nakao, Ken-suke Arai, Ken Nagai, Yasuhiro Tsubo, and Yoshiki Kuramoto
Published 24 August 2005 (13 pages)
026220 [View PDF (744 kB)]
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Energy eigenvalue surfaces close to a degeneracy of unbound states: Crossings and anticrossings of energies and widths
E. Hernández, A. Jáuregui, and A. Mondragón
Published 25 August 2005 (11 pages)
026221 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Assessing causality from multivariate time series
P. F. Verdes
Published 25 August 2005 (9 pages)
026222 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Minimization of the energy flow in the synchronization of nonidentical chaotic systems
C. Sarasola, A. d’Anjou, F. J. Torrealdea, and M. Graña
Published 30 August 2005 (6 pages)
026223 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Statistical wave scattering through classically chaotic cavities in the presence of surface absorption
M. Martínez-Mares and P. A. Mello
Published 31 August 2005 (6 pages)
026224 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Decoherence by a chaotic many-spin bath
J. Lages, V. V. Dobrovitski, M. I. Katsnelson, H. A. De Raedt, and B. N. Harmon
Published 31 August 2005 (10 pages)
026225 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Using data-driven discrete-time models and the unscented Kalman filter to estimate unobserved variables of nonlinear systems
Luis Antonio Aguirre, Bruno Otávio S. Teixeira, and Leonardo Antônio B. Tôrres
Published 31 August 2005 (12 pages)
026226 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Topological instability along invariant surfaces and pseudochaotic transport
G. M. Zaslavsky, B. A. Carreras, V. E. Lynch, L. Garcia, and M. Edelman
Published 31 August 2005 (11 pages)
026227 [View PDF (973 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Modeling of surface tension and contact angles with smoothed particle hydrodynamics
Alexandre Tartakovsky and Paul Meakin
Published 9 August 2005 (9 pages)
026301 [View PDF (615 kB)]
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Three-dimensional flow structures and dynamics of turbulent thermal convection in a cylindrical cell
Chao Sun, Ke-Qing Xia, and P. Tong
Published 12 August 2005 (13 pages)
026302 [View PDF (1,467 kB)]
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Measuring noninertial physics of turbulence: Quasiscaling analysis
Jian-Zhou Zhu
Published 18 August 2005 (7 pages)
026303 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Velocity difference statistics in turbulence
Sunghwan Jung and Harry L. Swinney
Published 24 August 2005 (7 pages)
026304 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Diffusive transport in networks built of containers and tubes
L. Lizana and Z. Konkoli
Published 25 August 2005 (19 pages)
026305 [View PDF (587 kB)]
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Viscosity contrast effects on fingering formation in rotating Hele-Shaw flows
José A. Miranda and Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle
Published 26 August 2005 (5 pages)
026306 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Traveling wave fronts and localized traveling wave convection in binary fluid mixtures
D. Jung and M. Lücke
Published 30 August 2005 (18 pages)
026307 [View PDF (668 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Excitation of quasielectrostatic waves in a laboratory magnetoplasma with weak spatial dispersion
Mikhail V. Starodubtsev, Alexander V. Kostrov, Vladimir V. Nazarov, and German V. Permitin
Published 1 August 2005 (8 pages)
026401 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Interplay of collisions with quasilinear growth rates of relativistic electron-beam-driven instabilities in a superdense plasma
C. Deutsch, A. Bret, M.-C. Firpo, and P. Fromy
Published 3 August 2005 (12 pages)
026402 [View PDF (655 kB)]
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Statistical analysis of correlations and intermittency of a turbulent rotating column in a magnetoplasma device
S. Magni, H. E. Roman, R. Barni, C. Riccardi, Th. Pierre, and D. Guyomarc’h
Published 5 August 2005 (7 pages)
026403 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Theoretical z -pinch scaling relations for thermonuclear-fusion experiments
W. A. Stygar, M. E. Cuneo, R. A. Vesey, H. C. Ives, M. G. Mazarakis, G. A. Chandler, D. L. Fehl, R. J. Leeper, M. K. Matzen, D. H. McDaniel, J. S. McGurn, J. L. McKenney, D. J. Muron, C. L. Olson, J. L. Porter, J. J. Ramirez, J. F. Seamen, C. S. Speas, R. B. Spielman, K. W. Struve, J. A. Torres, E. M. Waisman, T. C. Wagoner, and T. L. Gilliland
Published 8 August 2005 (21 pages)
026404 [View PDF (630 kB)]
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Center-of-mass and breathing oscillations in small complex plasma disks
T. E. Sheridan
Published 10 August 2005 (7 pages)
026405 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Observation of neutronless fusion reactions in picosecond laser plasmas
V. S. Belyaev, A. P. Matafonov, V. I. Vinogradov, V. P. Krainov, V. S. Lisitsa, A. S. Roussetski, G. N. Ignatyev, and V. P. Andrianov
Published 10 August 2005 (5 pages)
026406 [View PDF (277 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Characterization and control of plasma density distribution for the development of solid-target x-ray lasers
M.-C. Chou, P.-H. Lin, H.-E. Tsai, D.-L. Chen, C.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Published 15 August 2005 (7 pages)
026407 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Constants of motion in a minimum- B mirror magnetic field
O. Ågren, V. Moiseenko, and N. Savenko
Published 19 August 2005 (5 pages)
026408 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Equilibrium properties and phase diagram of two-dimensional Yukawa systems
P. Hartmann, G. J. Kalman, Z. Donkó, and K. Kutasi
Published 22 August 2005 (9 pages)
026409 [View PDF (368 kB)]
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Simulation of coherent synchrotron radiation emission from rotating relativistic electron layers
Bjoern S. Schmekel
Published 23 August 2005 (4 pages)
026410 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Resistively enhanced proton acceleration via high-intensity laser interactions with cold foil targets
Paul Gibbon
Published 25 August 2005 (8 pages)
026411 [View PDF (770 kB)]
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Time-resolved investigation of low-density plasma channels produced by a kilohertz femtosecond laser in air
Jiansheng Liu, Zuoliang Duan, Zhinan Zeng, Xinhua Xie, Yunpei Deng, Ruxin Li, Zhizhan Xu, and See Leang Chin
Published 26 August 2005 (7 pages)
026412 [View PDF (660 kB)]
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Capillary discharge-driven metal vapor plasma waveguides
Y. Wang, B. M. Luther, M. Berrill, M. Marconi, F. Brizuela, J. J. Rocca, and V. N. Shlyaptsev
Published 26 August 2005 (6 pages)
026413 [View PDF (539 kB)]
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Kinetic resonances and stratification of the positive column of a discharge
Yu. B. Golubovskii, A. Yu. Skoblo, C. Wilke, R. V. Kozakov, J. Behnke, and V. O. Nekutchaev
Published 29 August 2005 (10 pages)
026414 [View PDF (1,006 kB)]
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Subnanosecond Thomson scattering on a vacuum arc discharge in tin vapor
E. R. Kieft, J. J. A. M. van der Mullen, and V. Banine
Published 31 August 2005 (7 pages)
026415 [View PDF (582 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Thomson scattering and ponderomotive intermodulation within standing laser beat waves in plasma
Scott Sepke, Y. Y. Lau, James Paul Holloway, and Donald Umstadter
Published 12 August 2005 (8 pages)
026501 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Classical theory of Compton scattering: Assessing the validity of the Dirac-Lorentz equation
F. V. Hartemann, D. J. Gibson, and A. K. Kerman
Published 29 August 2005 (9 pages)
026502 [View PDF (739 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Measurement of the Q value of an acoustic resonator
Tetsushi Biwa, Yuki Ueda, Hiroshi Nomura, Uichiro Mizutani, and Taichi Yazaki
Published 1 August 2005 (6 pages)
026601 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Optical theorem for electromagnetic field scattering by dielectric structures and energy emission from the evanescent wave
Yu. V. Gulyaev, Yu. N. Barabanenkov, M. Yu. Barabanenkov, and S. A. Nikitov
Published 1 August 2005 (12 pages)
026602 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Relativistic acceleration of charged particles in uniform and mutually perpendicular electric and magnetic fields as viewed in the laboratory frame
Yaakov Friedman and Mark D. Semon
Published 4 August 2005 (10 pages)
026603 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Nonlocal incoherent white-light solitons in logarithmically nonlinear media
Ming Shen, Qi Wang, Jielong Shi, Yuanyuan Chen, and Xinglin Wang
Published 10 August 2005 (10 pages)
026604 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Variational analysis of self-focusing of intense ultrashort pulses in gases
E. Arévalo and A. Becker
Published 11 August 2005 (8 pages)
026605 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Anderson localization of solitons in optical lattices with random frequency modulation
Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Victor A. Vysloukh
Published 15 August 2005 (4 pages)
026606 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Modulated optical structures over a modulationally stable medium
Céline Durniak, Majid Taki, Mustapha Tlidi, Pier Luigi Ramazza, Umberto Bortolozzo, and Gregory Kozyreff
Published 17 August 2005 (8 pages)
026607 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Extreme anisotropy of wave propagation in two-dimensional photonic crystals
Yaroslav A. Urzhumov and Gennady Shvets
Published 17 August 2005 (5 pages)
026608 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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Beam dynamics and wave packet splitting in a periodically curved optical waveguide: Multimode effects
M. Marangoni, D. Janner, R. Ramponi, P. Laporta, S. Longhi, E. Cianci, and V. Foglietti
Published 17 August 2005 (6 pages)
026609 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Causality, Stokes’ wave equation, and acoustic pulse propagation in a viscous fluid
Michael J. Buckingham
Published 18 August 2005 (9 pages)
026610 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Multifilamentation transmission through fog
G. Méjean, J. Kasparian, J. Yu, E. Salmon, S. Frey, J.-P. Wolf, S. Skupin, A. Vinçotte, R. Nuter, S. Champeaux, and L. Bergé
Published 19 August 2005 (7 pages)
026611 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Microscopic theory of linear light scattering from mesoscopic media and in near-field optics
Ole Keller
Published 24 August 2005 (9 pages)
026612 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Theory of slow-light solitons
A. V. Rybin, I. P. Vadeiko, and A. R. Bishop
Published 30 August 2005 (13 pages)
026613 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Green’s function for photonic crystal slabs
Li-Ming Zhao, Xue-Hua Wang, Ben-Yuan Gu, and Guo-Zhen Yang
Published 31 August 2005 (6 pages)
026614 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Homogenization of electromagnetic crystals formed by uniaxial resonant scatterers
Pavel A. Belov and Constantin R. Simovski
Published 31 August 2005 (15 pages)
026615 [View PDF (1,079 kB)]
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Stable and unstable vector dark solitons of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations: Application to two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
V. A. Brazhnyi and V. V. Konotop
Published 31 August 2005 (9 pages)
026616 [View PDF (138 kB)]
See Also: Comment

Computational physics

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Quantum annealing in a kinetically constrained system
Arnab Das, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, and Robin B. Stinchcombe
Published 1 August 2005 (4 pages)
026701 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Stochastic series expansion algorithm for the S=1∕2 XY model with four-site ring exchange
Roger G. Melko and Anders W. Sandvik
Published 10 August 2005 (22 pages)
026702 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Flux boundary conditions in particle simulations
Eirik G. Flekkøy, Rafael Delgado-Buscalioni, and Peter V. Coveney
Published 16 August 2005 (9 pages)
026703 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Reliability of the density functional approximation to describe the charge transfer and electrostatic complexes involved in the modeling of organic conducting polymers
Carlos Alemán, David Curcó, and Jordi Casanovas
Published 17 August 2005 (6 pages)
026704 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Pore-scale investigation of viscous coupling effects for two-phase flow in porous media
Huina Li, Chongxun Pan, and Cass T. Miller
Published 29 August 2005 (14 pages)
026705 [View PDF (1,354 kB)]
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Femtosecond pulse propagation in nitrogen: Numerical study of (3+1) -dimensional extended nonlinear Schrödinger equation with shock-term correction
Taro Ando and Masatoshi Fujimoto
Published 31 August 2005 (14 pages)
026706 [View PDF (870 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Optimum information in crackling noise
Chunsheng Lu, Yiu-Wing Mai, and Yao-Gen Shen
Published 8 August 2005 (4 pages)
027101 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Unified treatment of the quantum fluctuation theorem and the Jarzynski equality in terms of microscopic reversibility
T. Monnai
Published 9 August 2005 (4 pages)
027102 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Restoring site percolation on damaged square lattices
Serge Galam and Krzysztof Malarz
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
027103 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Community detection in complex networks using extremal optimization
Jordi Duch and Alex Arenas
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
027104 [View PDF (315 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Parametric evolution of eigenstates: Beyond perturbation theory and semiclassics
J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez, Tsampikos Kottos, and Doron Cohen
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
027201 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Flow-distributed oscillation, flow-velocity modulation, and resonance
Patrick N. McGraw and Michael Menzinger
Published 16 August 2005 (4 pages)
027202 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Effects of dissipative disorder on front formation in pattern forming systems
Avner Peleg, Tomáš Dohnal, and Yeojin Chung
Published 17 August 2005 (4 pages)
027203 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Postprocessing methods for finding the embedding dimension of chaotic time series
Teck Por Lim and Sadasivan Puthusserypady
Published 24 August 2005 (4 pages)
027204 [View PDF (90 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Multivariate phase space reconstruction by nearest neighbor embedding with different time delays
Sara P. Garcia and Jonas S. Almeida
Published 31 August 2005 (4 pages)
027205 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Cross-phase-modulation-induced instability in photonic-crystal fibers
E. E. Serebryannikov, S. O. Konorov, A. A. Ivanov, M. V. Alfimov, M. Scalora, and A. M. Zheltikov
Published 31 August 2005 (3 pages)
027601 [View PDF (92 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Stability of Tsallis entropy and instabilities of Rényi and normalized Tsallis entropies: A basis for q -exponential distributions”
A. G. Bashkirov
Published 11 August 2005 (2 pages)
028101 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Stability of Tsallis entropy and instabilities of Rényi and normalized Tsallis entropies: A basis for q -exponential distributions’ ”
Sumiyoshi Abe
Published 11 August 2005 (2 pages)
028102 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Comment on “Scaling of the linear response in simple aging systems without disorder”
Federico Corberi, Eugenio Lippiello, and Marco Zannetti
Published 29 August 2005 (3 pages)
028103 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Scaling of the linear response in simple aging systems without disorder’ ”
Malte Henkel and Michel Pleimling
Published 29 August 2005 (3 pages)
028104 [View PDF (125 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Synchronized clusters in coupled map networks. I. Numerical studies [Phys. Rev. E 72, 016211 (2005)]
Sarika Jalan, R. E. Amritkar, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 3 August 2005 (1 page)
029901(E) [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Erratum: Intermittency, scaling, and the Fokker-Planck approach to fluctuations of the solar wind bulk plasma parameters as seen by the WIND spacecraft [Phys. Rev. E 67, 056404 (2003)]
Bogdan Hnat, Sandra C. Chapman, and George Rowlands
Published 18 August 2005 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Quantitative phase-field modeling of two-phase growth [Phys. Rev. E 72, 011602 (2005)]
R. Folch and M. Plapp
Published 22 August 2005 (1 page)
029903(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Thermodynamic instabilities of a binary mixture of sticky hard spheres [Phys. Rev. E 72, 011503 (2005)]
Riccardo Fantoni, Domenico Gazzillo, and Achille Giacometti
Published 26 August 2005 (1 page)
029904(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Erratum: Maximal planar networks with large clustering coefficient and power-law degree distribution [Phys. Rev. E 71, 046141 (2005)]
Tao Zhou, Gang Yan, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 29 August 2005 (1 page)
029905(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Erratum: Opening of nucleic-acid double strands by helicases: Active versus passive opening [Phys. Rev. E 71, 011904 (2005)]
M. D. Betterton and Frank Jülicher
Published 31 August 2005 (1 page)
029906(E) [View PDF (33 kB)]