Physical Review E – February 2006
Volume 73, 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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Current and universal scaling in anomalous transport
I. Goychuk, E. Heinsalu, M. Patriarca, G. Schmid, and P. Hänggi
Published 6 February 2006 (4 pages)
020101(R) [View PDF (136 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Solvation forces between colloidal nanoparticles: Directed alignment
Yong Qin and Kristen A. Fichthorn
Published 13 February 2006 (4 pages)
020401(R) [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Complex viscosity behavior and cluster formation in attractive colloidal systems
F. Mallamace, S. H. Chen, A. Coniglio, L. de Arcangelis, E. Del Gado, and A. Fierro
Published 22 February 2006 (4 pages)
020402(R) [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Dynamic signature for the equilibrium percolation threshold of attractive colloidal fluids
Samartha G. Anekal, Pradipkumar Bahukudumbi, and Michael A. Bevan
Published 23 February 2006 (4 pages)
020403(R) [View PDF (198 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Critical behavior of the specific heat in glass formers
L. A. Fernández, V. Martín-Mayor, and P. Verrocchio
Published 14 February 2006 (4 pages)
020501(R) [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Predicting nonpolymeric materials structure with real-space self-consistent field theory
R. B. Thompson
Published 17 February 2006 (4 pages)
020502(R) [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Dynamical perspective of the freezing transition of a suspension of hard spheres from the velocity autocorrelation function
W. van Megen
Published 27 February 2006 (4 pages)
020503(R) [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Spatially resolved small-angle neutron scattering in the 1-2 plane: A study of shear-induced phase-separating wormlike micelles
Matthew W. Liberatore, Florian Nettesheim, Norman J. Wagner, and Lionel Porcar
Published 27 February 2006 (4 pages)
020504(R) [View PDF (328 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Colloidal interactions in nematic fluids
T. G. Sokolovska, R. O. Sokolovskii, and G. N. Patey
Published 10 February 2006 (4 pages)
020701(R) [View PDF (474 kB)]
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Orientational ordering of solutes in confined nematic solvents: A possible way to probe director distributions
Giorgio Celebre and Giorgio Cinacchi
Published 17 February 2006 (4 pages)
020702(R) [View PDF (97 kB)]

Biological physics

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Substrate specificity of peptide adsorption: A model study
Michael Bachmann and Wolfhard Janke
Published 17 February 2006 (4 pages)
020901(R) [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Stochastic models for tumoral growth
Carlos Escudero
Published 24 February 2006 (4 pages)
020902(R) [View PDF (70 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Long-range interactions and evolutionary stability in a predator-prey system
Erik M. Rauch and Yaneer Bar-Yam
Published 27 February 2006 (4 pages)
020903(R) [View PDF (384 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Ghost stochastic resonance with distributed inputs in pulse-coupled electronic neurons
Abel Lopera, Javier M. Buldú, M. C. Torrent, Dante R. Chialvo, and Jordi García-Ojalvo
Published 8 February 2006 (6 pages)
021101 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Achieving optimal rectification using underdamped rocked ratchets
Fabio Marchesoni, Sergey Savel’ev, and Franco Nori
Published 10 February 2006 (7 pages)
021102 [View PDF (532 kB)]
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Mathematical basis for a general theory of Laplacian transport towards irregular interfaces
D. S. Grebenkov, M. Filoche, and B. Sapoval
Published 17 February 2006 (9 pages)
021103 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Space-fractional advection-diffusion and reflective boundary condition
Natalia Krepysheva, Liliana Di Pietro, and Marie-Christine Néel
Published 22 February 2006 (9 pages)
021104 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Linear stability of the cylindrical Couette flow of a rarefied gas
Hiroaki Yoshida and Kazuo Aoki
Published 22 February 2006 (18 pages)
021201 [View PDF (324 kB)]
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Fluctuating magnetic moments in liquid metals
Mark Patty, Keary Schoen, and Wouter Montfrooij
Published 27 February 2006 (8 pages)
021202 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Granular materials

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Dynamics of a tracer granular particle as a nonequilibrium Markov process
Andrea Puglisi, Paolo Visco, Emmanuel Trizac, and Frédéric van Wijland
Published 2 February 2006 (13 pages)
021301 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Chapman-Enskog expansion about nonequilibrium states with application to the sheared granular fluid
James F. Lutsko
Published 22 February 2006 (19 pages)
021302 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Probability distribution of residence times of grains in models of rice piles
Punyabrata Pradhan and Deepak Dhar
Published 23 February 2006 (12 pages)
021303 [View PDF (1,076 kB)]
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Transport coefficients for an inelastic gas around uniform shear flow: Linear stability analysis
Vicente Garzó
Published 27 February 2006 (19 pages)
021304 [View PDF (232 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Diagram of the aging dynamics in laponite suspensions at low ionic strength
F. Schosseler, S. Kaloun, M. Skouri, and J. P. Munch
Published 9 February 2006 (9 pages)
021401 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Agglomeration of oppositely charged particles in nonpolar liquids
Jochen H. Werth, Henning Knudsen, and Haye Hinrichsen
Published 10 February 2006 (9 pages)
021402 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Volume terms for charged colloids: A grand-canonical treatment
Bas Zoetekouw and René van Roij
Published 22 February 2006 (15 pages)
021403 [View PDF (200 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Segregation in multicomponent ceramic colloids during drying of droplets
Jian Wang and Julian R. G. Evans
Published 1 February 2006 (8 pages)
021501 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Interaction between two inhomogeneously charged parallel surfaces in the strong coupling regime
Y. S. Jho, G. Park, C. S. Chang, P. Pincus, and M. W. Kim
Published 6 February 2006 (12 pages)
021502 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Shear-induced discontinuous and continuous topological transitions in a hyperswollen membrane system
Hajime Tanaka, Mamoru Isobe, and Hideyuki Miyazawa
Published 7 February 2006 (7 pages)
021503 [View PDF (869 kB)]
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Structure of an amphiphilic lattice gas, and its relationship to microclustering of methanol in water
Graeme J. Ackland and Jonathan A. Guerin
Published 7 February 2006 (5 pages)
021504 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Dynamics of an active magnetic particle in a rotating magnetic field
A. Cēbers and M. Ozols
Published 8 February 2006 (5 pages)
021505 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Ginzburg-Landau theory of solvation in polar fluids: Ion distribution around an interface
Akira Onuki
Published 21 February 2006 (16 pages)
021506 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Dynamic fluctuations of dipolar semiflexible filaments
M. Belovs and A. Cēbers
Published 24 February 2006 (7 pages)
021507 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Phase separation in an exactly solvable model binary solution with three-body interactions and intermolecular bonding
Radu P. Lungu, Dale A. Huckaby, and Florin D. Buzatu
Published 24 February 2006 (14 pages)
021508 [View PDF (181 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Interfacial properties of liquid-vapor interfaces with planar, spherical, and cylindrical geometries in mean field
José G. Segovia-López and Víctor Romero-Rochín
Published 3 February 2006 (9 pages)
021601 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Residual stability of sessile droplets with negative line tension
Luca Guzzardi, Riccardo Rosso, and Epifanio G. Virga
Published 6 February 2006 (14 pages)
021602 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Theoretical analysis of the vapor-liquid-solid mechanism of nanowire growth during molecular beam epitaxy
V. G. Dubrovskii, N. V. Sibirev, G. E. Cirlin, J. C. Harmand, and V. M. Ustinov
Published 14 February 2006 (10 pages)
021603 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Model of a liquid nanofilm on a solid substrate based on the van der Waals concept of capillarity
S. Gavrilyuk and I. Akhatov
Published 21 February 2006 (8 pages)
021604 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Scaling in the crossover from random to correlated growth
F. D. A. Aarão Reis
Published 22 February 2006 (7 pages)
021605 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Excess nonspecific Coulomb ion adsorption at the metal electrode/electrolyte solution interface: Role of the surface layer
A. M. Gabovich, Yu. A. Reznikov, and A. I. Voitenko
Published 27 February 2006 (12 pages)
021606 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Structure of nematic liquid crystalline elastomers under uniaxial deformation
Fan Zhang, Paul A. Heiney, Amritha Srinivasan, Jawad Naciri, and Banahalli Ratna
Published 7 February 2006 (8 pages)
021701 [View PDF (623 kB)]
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Photoinduced circular anisotropy in a photochromic W -shaped-molecule-doped polymeric liquid crystal film
Suk-Won Choi, N. Y. Ha, Kazuaki Shiromo, Nandiraju V. S. Rao, Manoj Kr. Paul, Takehiro Toyooka, Suzushi Nishimura, J. W. Wu, Byoungchoo Park, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 10 February 2006 (6 pages)
021702 [View PDF (468 kB)]
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Simulation of phase separation of polymer–liquid-crystal mixtures and the effect of confining external surfaces
Matej Bažec and Slobodan Žumer
Published 10 February 2006 (8 pages)
021703 [View PDF (749 kB)]
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Light-induced chaotic rotations in nematic liquid crystals
E. Brasselet and L. J. Dubé
Published 23 February 2006 (11 pages)
021704 [View PDF (636 kB)]
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Laser trapping of low refractive index colloids in a nematic liquid crystal
M. Škarabot, M. Ravnik, D. Babič, N. Osterman, I. Poberaj, S. Žumer, I. Muševič, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, and V. Nazarenko
Published 23 February 2006 (10 pages)
021705 [View PDF (365 kB)]

Polymers

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Spatial distribution of polyelectrolyte and counterions in nanocapsules: A computer simulation study
Mikhail R. Stukan, Vladimir Lobaskin, Christian Holm, and Olga I. Vinogradova
Published 27 February 2006 (7 pages)
021801 [View PDF (615 kB)]

Biological physics

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Theoretical analysis of destabilization resonances in time-delayed stochastic second-order dynamical systems and some implications for human motor control
K. Patanarapeelert, T. D. Frank, R. Friedrich, P. J. Beek, and I. M. Tang
Published 6 February 2006 (17 pages)
021901 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Voltage dependence of the carrier-mediated ion transport
Wei Chen
Published 7 February 2006 (7 pages)
021902 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Meshless membrane model based on the moving least-squares method
Hiroshi Noguchi and Gerhard Gompper
Published 10 February 2006 (12 pages)
021903 [View PDF (875 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Min-protein oscillations in Escherichia coli with spontaneous formation of two-stranded filaments in a three-dimensional stochastic reaction-diffusion model
Nenad Pavin, Hana Čipčić Paljetak, and Vladimir Krstić
Published 13 February 2006 (5 pages)
021904 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Single-molecule unzippering experiments on DNA and Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model
Slobodan Zdravković and Miljko V. Satarić
Published 14 February 2006 (11 pages)
021905 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Effects of distributed transmission speeds on propagating activity in neural populations
Axel Hutt and Fatihcan M. Atay
Published 14 February 2006 (5 pages)
021906 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Fronts with continuous waiting-time distributions: Theory and application to virus infections
J. Fort, J. Pérez, E. Ubeda, and F. J. García
Published 16 February 2006 (8 pages)
021907 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Standing waves in the FitzHugh-Nagumo model of cardiac electrical activity
P. C. Dauby, Th. Desaive, H. Croisier, and Ph. Kolh
Published 16 February 2006 (5 pages)
021908 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Energetics of rotational gating mechanisms of an ion channel induced by membrane deformation
Kong-Ju-Bock Lee
Published 17 February 2006 (9 pages)
021909 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Lag synchrony measures dynamical processes underlying progression of seizure states
Benjamin H. Singer, Miron Derchansky, Peter L. Carlen, and Michał Żochowski
Published 17 February 2006 (7 pages)
021910 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Orientation of optically trapped nonspherical birefringent particles
Wolfgang Singer, Timo A. Nieminen, Ursula J. Gibson, Norman R. Heckenberg, and Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Published 21 February 2006 (5 pages)
021911 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Hybrid grammar-based approach to nonlinear dynamical system identification from biological time series
B. A. McKinney, J. E. Crowe, Jr., H. U. Voss, P. S. Crooke, N. Barney, and J. H. Moore
Published 22 February 2006 (7 pages)
021912 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Self-organized packs selection in predator-prey ecosystems
Andrzej Pȩkalski and Michel Droz
Published 23 February 2006 (7 pages)
021913 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Structural origin of the colored reflections from the black-billed magpie feathers
Jean Pol Vigneron, Jean-François Colomer, Marie Rassart, Abigail L. Ingram, and Virginie Lousse
Published 27 February 2006 (7 pages)
021914 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Comparative all-atomic study of unfolding pathways for proteins chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 and barnase
Yuebiao Sheng and Wei Wang
Published 27 February 2006 (10 pages)
021915 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Ab initio study of alanine polypeptide chain twisting
Ilia A. Solov’yov, Alexander V. Yakubovich, Andrey V. Solov’yov, and Walter Greiner
Published 28 February 2006 (10 pages)
021916 [View PDF (1,089 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

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Comprehensive study of pattern formation in relaxational systems
Kevin Wood, Javier Buceta, and Katja Lindenberg
Published 8 February 2006 (4 pages)
022101 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Chain dynamics and power-law distance fluctuations of single-molecule systems
Jau Tang and R. A. Marcus
Published 23 February 2006 (4 pages)
022102 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Experimental and theoretical study of vibrational resonance in a bistable system with asymmetry
V. N. Chizhevsky and Giovanni Giacomelli
Published 24 February 2006 (4 pages)
022103 [View PDF (352 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Heterogeneity-related dynamics in isotropic n -pentylcyanobiphenyl
Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska
Published 6 February 2006 (4 pages)
022501 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Stochastic model in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class with minimal finite size effects
S. V. Ghaisas
Published 24 February 2006 (4 pages)
022601 [View PDF (215 kB)]

Biological physics

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Superposition of many independent spike trains is generally not a Poisson process
Benjamin Lindner
Published 23 February 2006 (4 pages)
022901 [View PDF (194 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Statistics of cycles in large networks
Konstantin Klemm and Peter F. Stadler
Published 3 February 2006 (4 pages)
025101(R) [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Anomalous kinetics of attractive A+B→0 reactions
Sungchul Kwon, S. Y. Yoon, and Yup Kim
Published 6 February 2006 (4 pages)
025102(R) [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Scale-free networks emerging from weighted random graphs
Tomer Kalisky, Sameet Sreenivasan, Lidia A. Braunstein, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 10 February 2006 (4 pages)
025103(R) [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Analysis of the ordering transition of hard disks through the Mayer cluster expansion
E. Eisenberg and A. Baram
Published 14 February 2006 (4 pages)
025104(R) [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Crossover from the pair contact process with diffusion to directed percolation
Su-Chan Park and Hyunggyu Park
Published 16 February 2006 (4 pages)
025105(R) [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Self-organized criticality and absorbing states: Lessons from the Ising model
Gunnar Pruessner and Ole Peters
Published 22 February 2006 (4 pages)
025106(R) [View PDF (78 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Quantum lubrication: Suppression of friction in a first-principles four-stroke heat engine
Tova Feldmann and Ronnie Kosloff
Published 22 February 2006 (4 pages)
025107(R) [View PDF (279 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Experimental steady pattern formation in reaction-diffusion-advection systems
David G. Míguez, Razvan A. Satnoianu, and Alberto P. Muñuzuri
Published 3 February 2006 (4 pages)
025201(R) [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Wave-vector resonance in a nonlinear multiwavespeed chaotic billiard
Alexei Akolzin and Richard L. Weaver
Published 15 February 2006 (4 pages)
025202(R) [View PDF (113 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Hexagonal convection patterns in atomistically simulated fluids
D. C. Rapaport
Published 14 February 2006 (4 pages)
025301(R) [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Clustering of randomly advected low-inertia particles: A solvable model
Alan R. Kerstein and Steven K. Krueger
Published 27 February 2006 (4 pages)
025302(R) [View PDF (72 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Nonlinear development of stimulated Raman scattering from electrostatic modes excited by self-consistent non-Maxwellian velocity distributions
L. Yin, W. Daughton, B. J. Albright, B. Bezzerides, D. F. DuBois, J. M. Kindel, and H. X. Vu
Published 10 February 2006 (4 pages)
025401(R) [View PDF (529 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Three-dimensional spatiotemporal optical solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media
D. Mihalache, D. Mazilu, F. Lederer, B. A. Malomed, Y. V. Kartashov, L.-C. Crasovan, and L. Torner
Published 14 February 2006 (4 pages)
025601(R) [View PDF (125 kB)]

Computational physics

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Persistence and the random bond Ising model in two dimensions
S. Jain and H. Flynn
Published 3 February 2006 (4 pages)
025701(R) [View PDF (76 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Numerical method for solving stochastic differential equations with dichotomous noise
Changho Kim, Eok Kyun Lee, and Peter Talkner
Published 1 February 2006 (11 pages)
026101 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Nonextensive models for earthquakes
R. Silva, G. S. França, C. S. Vilar, and J. S. Alcaniz
Published 1 February 2006 (5 pages)
026102 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Ring structures and mean first passage time in networks
Andrea Baronchelli and Vittorio Loreto
Published 3 February 2006 (7 pages)
026103 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Critical line of an n -component cubic model
Wenan Guo, Xiaofeng Qian, Henk W. J. Blöte, and F. Y. Wu
Published 3 February 2006 (9 pages)
026104 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Generalized canonical ensembles and ensemble equivalence
M. Costeniuc, R. S. Ellis, H. Touchette, and B. Turkington
Published 6 February 2006 (8 pages)
026105 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Motion of a random walker in a quenched power law correlated velocity field
Soumen Roy and Dibyendu Das
Published 6 February 2006 (7 pages)
026106 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Bump formation in a binary attractor neural network
Kostadin Koroutchev and Elka Korutcheva
Published 7 February 2006 (11 pages)
026107 [View PDF (1,097 kB)]
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Probabilistic dynamics of some jump-diffusion systems
Edoardo Daly and Amilcare Porporato
Published 7 February 2006 (7 pages)
026108 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Molecular heat pump
Dvira Segal and Abraham Nitzan
Published 8 February 2006 (9 pages)
026109 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Onsager-Casimir reciprocal relations based on the Boltzmann equation and gas-surface interaction: Single gas
Felix Sharipov
Published 9 February 2006 (8 pages)
026110 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Traffic dynamics based on local routing protocol on a scale-free network
Wen-Xu Wang, Bing-Hong Wang, Chuan-Yang Yin, Yan-Bo Xie, and Tao Zhou
Published 10 February 2006 (7 pages)
026111 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Periodical survival or decay of traveling impulse in a model of a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system
Andrzej L. Kawczyński and Bartłomiej Legawiec
Published 10 February 2006 (7 pages)
026112 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Nonlinear model dynamics for closed-system, constrained, maximal-entropy-generation relaxation by energy redistribution
Gian Paolo Beretta
Published 13 February 2006 (11 pages)
026113 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Physical realizability of small-world networks
Thomas Petermann and Paolo De Los Rios
Published 14 February 2006 (4 pages)
026114 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Power-law distributions from additive preferential redistributions
Suhan Ree
Published 15 February 2006 (5 pages)
026115 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Topological nonconnectivity threshold in long-range spin systems
F. Borgonovi, G. L. Celardo, A. Musesti, R. Trasarti-Battistoni, and P. Vachal
Published 16 February 2006 (10 pages)
026116 [View PDF (452 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Scaling and memory of intraday volatility return intervals in stock markets
Fengzhong Wang, Kazuko Yamasaki, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 16 February 2006 (8 pages)
026117 [View PDF (1,355 kB)]
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Properties of attractors of canalyzing random Boolean networks
U. Paul, V. Kaufman, and B. Drossel
Published 17 February 2006 (9 pages)
026118 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Averaged time evolution of rough surfaces
Shinichi Sato and Takayuki Kitamura
Published 17 February 2006 (6 pages)
026119 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Vertex similarity in networks
E. A. Leicht, Petter Holme, and M. E. J. Newman
Published 17 February 2006 (10 pages)
026120 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Fluctuation theorem for constrained equilibrium systems
Thomas Gilbert and J. Robert Dorfman
Published 17 February 2006 (5 pages)
026121 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Finite-connectivity spin-glass phase diagrams and low-density parity check codes
Gabriele Migliorini and David Saad
Published 21 February 2006 (16 pages)
026122 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Finite driving rate and anisotropy effects in landslide modeling
E. Piegari, V. Cataudella, R. Di Maio, L. Milano, and M. Nicodemi
Published 21 February 2006 (7 pages)
026123 [View PDF (475 kB)]
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Basic properties of a three-dimensional spring-block model with long-range stress transfer
Florian Jansen and Stefan Hergarten
Published 22 February 2006 (8 pages)
026124 [View PDF (740 kB)]
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Master singular behavior from correlation length measurements for seven one-component fluids near their gas-liquid critical point
Yves Garrabos, Fabien Palencia, Carole Lecoutre, Can Erkey, and Bernard Le Neindre
Published 23 February 2006 (9 pages)
026125 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Critical and tricritical singularities of the three-dimensional random-bond Potts model for large q
M. T. Mercaldo, J-Ch. Anglès d’Auriac, and F. Iglói
Published 23 February 2006 (11 pages)
026126 [View PDF (784 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of entropy-driven phase transformations
A. Radosz, K. Ostasiewicz, P. Magnuszewski, J. Damczyk, Ł. Radosiński, F. V. Kusmartsev, J. H. Samson, A. C. Mituś, and G. Pawlik
Published 24 February 2006 (15 pages)
026127 [View PDF (966 kB)]
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Dissipative process under a boundary perturbation
Tsuyoshi Okubo and Takashi Odagaki
Published 24 February 2006 (6 pages)
026128 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Periodicity and growth in a lattice gas with dynamical geometry
Karin Baur, Jeffrey M. Rabin, and David A. Meyer
Published 24 February 2006 (12 pages)
026129 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Scale invariance in road networks
Vamsi Kalapala, Vishal Sanwalani, Aaron Clauset, and Cristopher Moore
Published 27 February 2006 (6 pages)
026130 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Energy dissipation and violation of the fluctuation-response relation in nonequilibrium Langevin systems
Takahiro Harada and Shin-ichi Sasa
Published 27 February 2006 (16 pages)
026131 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Time-dependent properties of a simplified Fermi-Ulam accelerator model
Denis Gouvêa Ladeira and Jafferson Kamphorst Leal da Silva
Published 2 February 2006 (6 pages)
026201 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Synchronization universality classes and stability of smooth coupled map lattices
Franco Bagnoli and Raúl Rechtman
Published 3 February 2006 (6 pages)
026202 [View PDF (1,741 kB)]
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Coarse-graining of cellular automata, emergence, and the predictability of complex systems
Navot Israeli and Nigel Goldenfeld
Published 6 February 2006 (17 pages)
026203 [View PDF (1,280 kB)]
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1∕f noise and very high spectral rigidity
A. Relaño, J. Retamosa, E. Faleiro, R. A. Molina, and A. P. Zuker
Published 7 February 2006 (6 pages)
026204 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Occurrence of normal and anomalous diffusion in polygonal billiard channels
David P. Sanders and Hernán Larralde
Published 10 February 2006 (9 pages)
026205 [View PDF (955 kB)]
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General quantum resonances of the kicked particle
Itzhack Dana and Dmitry L. Dorofeev
Published 10 February 2006 (6 pages)
026206 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Stickiness in Hamiltonian systems: From sharply divided to hierarchical phase space
Eduardo G. Altmann, Adilson E. Motter, and Holger Kantz
Published 10 February 2006 (10 pages)
026207 [View PDF (885 kB)]
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Detecting synchronization of self-sustained oscillators by external driving with varying frequency
Alexander E. Hramov, Alexey A. Koronovskii, Vladimir I. Ponomarenko, and Mikhail D. Prokhorov
Published 13 February 2006 (8 pages)
026208 [View PDF (703 kB)]
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X-wave solutions of complex Ginzburg-Landau equations
C. T. Zhou, M. Y. Yu, and X. T. He
Published 14 February 2006 (10 pages)
026209 [View PDF (1,404 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Electric field induced instabilities: Waves and stationary patterns
Sumana Dutta and Deb Shankar Ray
Published 15 February 2006 (9 pages)
026210 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Drift of particles in self-similar systems and its Liouvillian interpretation
Felipe Barra, Thomas Gilbert, and Mauricio Romo
Published 15 February 2006 (14 pages)
026211 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Robust synchronization in fiber laser arrays
Slaven Peleš, Jeffrey L. Rogers, and Kurt Wiesenfeld
Published 17 February 2006 (14 pages)
026212 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Power spectrum characterization of the Anderson transition
Antonio M. García-García
Published 17 February 2006 (7 pages)
026213 [View PDF (497 kB)]
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Detecting and characterizing phase synchronization in nonstationary dynamical systems
Ying-Cheng Lai, Mark G. Frei, and Ivan Osorio
Published 17 February 2006 (10 pages)
026214 [View PDF (870 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal consequences of relaxation time scales in threshold-coupled systems
Arghya Mondal and Sudeshna Sinha
Published 21 February 2006 (8 pages)
026215 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Noise-memory induced excitability and pattern formation in oscillatory neural models
Erik Glatt, Hauke Busch, Friedemann Kaiser, and Alexei Zaikin
Published 22 February 2006 (6 pages)
026216 [View PDF (398 kB)]
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Canard orbits in Fabry-Perot cavities induced by radiation pressure and photothermal effects
F. Marino, M. De Rosa, and F. Marin
Published 22 February 2006 (11 pages)
026217 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Nonlocal coupling can prevent the collapse of spatiotemporal chaos
Safia Yonker and Renate Wackerbauer
Published 23 February 2006 (8 pages)
026218 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Observation of chaotic itinerancy in the light and carrier dynamics of a semiconductor laser with optical feedback
Will Ray, Wing-Shun Lam, Parvez N. Guzdar, and Rajarshi Roy
Published 23 February 2006 (5 pages)
026219 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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Noise-stabilized random attractor
J. M. Finn, E. R. Tracy, W. E. Cooke, and A. S. Richardson
Published 23 February 2006 (12 pages)
026220 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Stiff three-frequency orbit of the hydrogen atom
Jayme De Luca
Published 23 February 2006 (17 pages)
026221 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Weak-link synchronization
Denis Tsygankov and Kurt Wiesenfeld
Published 23 February 2006 (6 pages)
026222 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Stability of wave-packet dynamics under perturbations
Jens Bolte and Tobias Schwaibold
Published 23 February 2006 (9 pages)
026223 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Destruction of spiral waves in chaotic media
Meng Zhan and Raymond Kapral
Published 24 February 2006 (5 pages)
026224 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Self-organized propagation patterns from dynamic self-assembly in monolayers
Josep Claret, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Ramon Reigada, Francesc Sagués, and Joaquim Crusats
Published 27 February 2006 (4 pages)
026225 [View PDF (321 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Lattice-Boltzmann method for simulating spherical bubbles with no tangential stress boundary conditions
Xiaolong Yin, Donald L. Koch, and Rolf Verberg
Published 1 February 2006 (13 pages)
026301 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Finite-size effects on open chaotic advection
Rafael D. Vilela, Alessandro P. S. de Moura, and Celso Grebogi
Published 3 February 2006 (6 pages)
026302 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Asymptotic freedom, non-Gaussian perturbation theory, and the application of renormalization group theory to isotropic turbulence
W. D. McComb
Published 6 February 2006 (7 pages)
026303 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Vortex core dynamics and singularity formations in incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
Chihiro Matsuoka and Katsunobu Nishihara
Published 6 February 2006 (16 pages)
026304 [View PDF (235 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Effective permeability of porous media containing branching channel networks
Michael J. Ronayne and Steven M. Gorelick
Published 10 February 2006 (10 pages)
026305 [View PDF (980 kB)]
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Cluster evolution in steady-state two-phase flow in porous media
Thomas Ramstad and Alex Hansen
Published 13 February 2006 (11 pages)
026306 [View PDF (1,446 kB)]
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Instability of creeping flow past a deformable wall: The role of depth-dependent modulus
Vasileios Gkanis and Satish Kumar
Published 15 February 2006 (8 pages)
026307 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Energy flux fluctuations in a finite volume of turbulent flow
M. M. Bandi, W. I. Goldburg, J. R. Cressman, Jr., and A. Pumir
Published 17 February 2006 (5 pages)
026308 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Similarity-based constitutive relations for local mass fluxes in incompressible mixing layers
John D. Ramshaw
Published 21 February 2006 (9 pages)
026309 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Static configurations and nonlinear waves in rotating nonuniform self-gravitating fluids
A. K. Nekrasov
Published 21 February 2006 (7 pages)
026310 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Convective nature of the planimetric instability in meandering river dynamics
Carlo Camporeale and Luca Ridolfi
Published 28 February 2006 (8 pages)
026311 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Effects of target plasma electron-electron collisions on correlated motion of fragmented H2+ protons
Manuel D. Barriga-Carrasco
Published 2 February 2006 (6 pages)
026401 [View PDF (549 kB)]
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Improvement of electron beam quality in optical injection schemes using negative plasma density gradients
G. Fubiani, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, and W. P. Leemans
Published 6 February 2006 (8 pages)
026402 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Ordered spatial structures of dust grains in the thermal plasma
V. I. Vishnyakov and G. S. Dragan
Published 8 February 2006 (7 pages)
026403 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Diffusion of test particles in stochastic magnetic fields for small Kubo numbers
Marcus Neuer and Karl H. Spatschek
Published 8 February 2006 (11 pages)
026404 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Detailed modeling of hydrocarbon nanoparticle nucleation in acetylene discharges
Kathleen De Bleecker, Annemie Bogaerts, and Wim Goedheer
Published 22 February 2006 (16 pages)
026405 [View PDF (314 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Analysis of Smith-Purcell free-electron lasers
Vinit Kumar and Kwang-Je Kim
Published 2 February 2006 (15 pages)
026501 [View PDF (186 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Two-dimensional solitons in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with spatially modulated nonlinearity
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Boris A. Malomed
Published 2 February 2006 (9 pages)
026601 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Spectral density of polychromatic electromagnetic waves
L. E. Helseth
Published 3 February 2006 (5 pages)
026602 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Exact solutions of the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a nonlinear transmission line
E. Kengne and W. M. Liu
Published 6 February 2006 (8 pages)
026603 [View PDF (467 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Soliton collisions with shape change by intensity redistribution in mixed coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations
T. Kanna, M. Lakshmanan, P. Tchofo Dinda, and Nail Akhmediev
Published 7 February 2006 (15 pages)
026604 [View PDF (1,354 kB)]
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Fresnel equations and the refractive index of active media
Johannes Skaar
Published 8 February 2006 (7 pages)
026605 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Energy and momentum of light in dielectric media
Sjoerd Stallinga
Published 9 February 2006 (12 pages)
026606 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Adiabatic passage of light in coupled optical waveguides
Stefano Longhi
Published 13 February 2006 (5 pages)
026607 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Localized modes and phonon scattering of a lattice κ kink
Hadi Susanto
Published 14 February 2006 (7 pages)
026608 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Defect solitons in photonic lattices
Jianke Yang and Zhigang Chen
Published 14 February 2006 (14 pages)
026609 [View PDF (1,487 kB)]
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Tunability of solitary wave properties in one-dimensional strongly nonlinear phononic crystals
C. Daraio, V. F. Nesterenko, E. B. Herbold, and S. Jin
Published 16 February 2006 (10 pages)
026610 [View PDF (775 kB)]
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Propagation of mechanical waves in a one-dimensional nonlinear disordered lattice
O. Richoux, C. Depollier, and J. Hardy
Published 17 February 2006 (11 pages)
026611 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Strongly nonlinear wave dynamics in a chain of polymer coated beads
C. Daraio and V. F. Nesterenko
Published 21 February 2006 (7 pages)
026612 [View PDF (536 kB)]

Computational physics

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Statistical mechanics of histories: A cluster Monte Carlo algorithm
Natali Gulbahce, Francis J. Alexander, and Gregory Johnson
Published 6 February 2006 (5 pages)
026701 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Deconstructing the energy landscape: Constraint-based algorithms for folding heteropolymers
Veit Elser and Ivan Rankenburg
Published 6 February 2006 (8 pages)
026702 [View PDF (587 kB)]
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Construction of an extended invariant for an arbitrary ordinary differential equation with its development in a numerical integration algorithm
Ikuo Fukuda and Haruki Nakamura
Published 13 February 2006 (14 pages)
026703 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible flows with large pressure gradients
Yong Shi, T. S. Zhao, and Z. L. Guo
Published 15 February 2006 (11 pages)
026704 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Complete characterization of fourth-order symplectic integrators with extended-linear coefficients
Siu A. Chin
Published 17 February 2006 (7 pages)
026705 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Remedy for the fermion sign problem in the diffusion Monte Carlo method for few fermions with antisymmetric diffusion process
Yuriy Mishchenko
Published 22 February 2006 (10 pages)
026706 [View PDF (192 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Hysteretic nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition
Victor B. Taranenko, Adolfo Esteban-Martín, Germán J. de Valcárcel, and Eugenio Roldán
Published 13 February 2006 (4 pages)
027201 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Astonishing life of a coalescing drop on a free surface
E. M. Honey and H. P. Kavehpour
Published 27 February 2006 (4 pages)
027301 [View PDF (388 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Existence of solitons in infinite lattice
Boris V. Gisin
Published 13 February 2006 (4 pages)
027601 [View PDF (63 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Temperature dependence of the Casimir effect”
V. B. Bezerra, R. S. Decca, E. Fischbach, B. Geyer, G. L. Klimchitskaya, D. E. Krause, D. López, V. M. Mostepanenko, and C. Romero
Published 23 February 2006 (5 pages)
028101 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Comment on “Effect of a polarized hydrogen target on the polarization of a stored proton beam”
W. W. MacKay and C. Montag
Published 2 February 2006 (2 pages)
028501 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Comment on “Stable and unstable vector dark solitons of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Application to two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Ju-Kui Xue
Published 8 February 2006 (2 pages)
028601 [View PDF (37 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Non-Newtonian effects in the peristaltic flow of a Maxwell fluid [Phys. Rev. E 64, 036303 (2001)]
David Tsiklauri and Igor Beresnev
Published 7 February 2006 (2 pages)
029901(E) [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Meshless membrane model based on the moving least-squares method [Phys. Rev. E 73, 021903 (2006)]
Hiroshi Noguchi and Gerhard Gompper
Published 22 February 2006 (1 page)
029902(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: X-wave solutions of complex Ginzburg-Landau equations [Phys. Rev. E 73, 026209 (2006)]
C. T. Zhou, M. Y. Yu, and X. T. He
Published 28 February 2006 (1 page)
029903(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]