Physical Review E – March 2007
Volume 75, Issue 3

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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

Part 1 - Statistical, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics

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Majority model on a network with communities
R. Lambiotte, M. Ausloos, and J. A. Hołyst
Published 7 March 2007 (4 pages)
030101(R) [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Self-affinity in the gradient percolation problem
Alex Hansen, G. George Batrouni, Thomas Ramstad, and Jean Schmittbuhl
Published 16 March 2007 (4 pages)
030102(R) [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Two simple models of classical heat pumps
Rahul Marathe, A. M. Jayannavar, and Abhishek Dhar
Published 21 March 2007 (4 pages)
030103(R) [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Superaging in two-dimensional random ferromagnets
Raja Paul, Grégory Schehr, and Heiko Rieger
Published 30 March 2007 (4 pages)
030104(R) [View PDF (132 kB)]

Granular materials

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Universal anisotropy in force networks under shear
Srdjan Ostojic, Thijs J. H. Vlugt, and Bernard Nienhuis
Published 13 March 2007 (4 pages)
030301(R) [View PDF (494 kB)]

Biological physics

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Screwlike order, macroscopic chirality, and elastic distortions in high-density DNA mesophases
F. Manna, V. Lorman, R. Podgornik, and B. Žekš
Published 16 March 2007 (4 pages)
030901(R) [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Effects of temperature on the mechanical properties of single stranded DNA
C. Danilowicz, C. H. Lee, V. W. Coljee, and M. Prentiss
Published 21 March 2007 (4 pages)
030902(R) [View PDF (524 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Inertial effects in the fractional translational diffusion of a Brownian particle in a double-well potential
Yuri P. Kalmykov, William T. Coffey, and Sergey V. Titov
Published 1 March 2007 (8 pages)
031101 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Transient nucleation near the mean-field spinodal
A. O. Schweiger, K. Barros, and W. Klein
Published 2 March 2007 (6 pages)
031102 [View PDF (312 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Freezing transition of the random bond RNA model: Statistical properties of the pairing weights
Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel
Published 12 March 2007 (16 pages)
031103 [View PDF (1,436 kB)]
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Scaling approach to related disordered stochastic and free-fermion models
R. J. Harris and R. B. Stinchcombe
Published 12 March 2007 (10 pages)
031104 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Critical wetting of a class of nonequilibrium interfaces: A mean-field picture
Francisco de los Santos, Elvira Romera, Omar Al Hammal, and Miguel Ángel Muñoz
Published 13 March 2007 (6 pages)
031105 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Gaussian noise and time-reversal symmetry in nonequilibrium Langevin models
M. H. Vainstein and J. M. Rubí
Published 13 March 2007 (6 pages)
031106 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Dynamics of quantum dissipation systems interacting with bosonic canonical bath: Hierarchical equations of motion approach
Rui-Xue Xu and YiJing Yan
Published 15 March 2007 (11 pages)
031107 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Shot noise displaying simultaneously the Noah and Joseph effects
Iddo Eliazar and Joseph Klafter
Published 16 March 2007 (10 pages)
031108 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Irreducible memory function and slow dynamics in disordered systems
T. Carlsson, L. Sjögren, E. Mamontov, and K. Psiuk-Maksymowicz
Published 19 March 2007 (8 pages)
031109 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Finite-size scaling in anisotropic systems
N. S. Tonchev
Published 19 March 2007 (9 pages)
031110 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Kinetics of self-induced aggregation in Brownian particles
Fabio Cecconi, Giuseppe Gonnella, and Gustavo P. Saracco
Published 20 March 2007 (8 pages)
031111 [View PDF (596 kB)]
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Criticality of a contact process with coupled diffusive and nondiffusive fields
N. V. da Costa, U. L. Fulco, M. L. Lyra, and I. M. Gléria
Published 21 March 2007 (7 pages)
031112 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Statistical scattering of waves in disordered waveguides: From microscopic potentials to limiting macroscopic statistics
L. S. Froufe-Pérez, M. Yépez, P. A. Mello, and J. J. Sáenz
Published 21 March 2007 (28 pages)
031113 [View PDF (1,035 kB)]
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Structure of fluctuations near mean-field critical points and spinodals and its implication for physical processes
W. Klein, Harvey Gould, Natali Gulbahce, J. B. Rundle, and K. Tiampo
Published 22 March 2007 (22 pages)
031114 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Influence of external magnetic field on dynamics of open quantum systems
Sh. A. Kalandarov, Z. Kanokov, G. G. Adamian, and N. V. Antonenko
Published 23 March 2007 (16 pages)
031115 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Level dynamics approach to the large deviation statistical characteristic function
Hirokazu Fujisaka and Tomoji Yamada
Published 26 March 2007 (10 pages)
031116 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Directing Brownian motion by oscillating barriers
S. Bleil, P. Reimann, and C. Bechinger
Published 26 March 2007 (5 pages)
031117 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Role of interactions in ferrofluid thermal ratchets
Volker Becker and Andreas Engel
Published 27 March 2007 (11 pages)
031118 [View PDF (371 kB)]
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Smoothing a rock by chipping
P. L. Krapivsky and S. Redner
Published 28 March 2007 (7 pages)
031119 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Intensive thermodynamic parameters in nonequilibrium systems
Eric Bertin, Kirsten Martens, Olivier Dauchot, and Michel Droz
Published 29 March 2007 (16 pages)
031120 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Localization of coherent exciton transport in phase space
Oliver Mülken, Veronika Bierbaum, and Alexander Blumen
Published 29 March 2007 (9 pages)
031121 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Spectral theory of metastability and extinction in a branching-annihilation reaction
Michael Assaf and Baruch Meerson
Published 29 March 2007 (8 pages)
031122 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Mitigating the effects of measurement noise on Granger causality
Hariharan Nalatore, Mingzhou Ding, and Govindan Rangarajan
Published 29 March 2007 (10 pages)
031123 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Evaluation of the permutational structure of quantum gases at finite temperature
Ryan Springall, Manolo Per, and Ian Snook
Published 30 March 2007 (8 pages)
031124 [View PDF (481 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Transport in a highly asymmetric binary fluid mixture
Sorin Bastea
Published 13 March 2007 (7 pages)
031201 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Granular materials

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Radial and axial segregation of granular matter in a rotating cylinder: A simulation study
D. C. Rapaport
Published 2 March 2007 (11 pages)
031301 [View PDF (1,195 kB)]
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Velocity distributions and aging in a cooling granular gas
Syed Rashid Ahmad and Sanjay Puri
Published 6 March 2007 (12 pages)
031302 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Uphill solitary waves in granular flows
E. Martínez, C. Pérez-Penichet, O. Sotolongo-Costa, O. Ramos, K. J. Måløy, S. Douady, and E. Altshuler
Published 6 March 2007 (4 pages)
031303 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Dry and wet granular shock waves
V. Yu. Zaburdaev and S. Herminghaus
Published 12 March 2007 (11 pages)
031304 [View PDF (723 kB)]
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Velocity correlations in dense granular shear flows: Effects on energy dissipation and normal stress
Namiko Mitarai and Hiizu Nakanishi
Published 26 March 2007 (9 pages)
031305 [View PDF (654 kB)]
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Types of gas fluidization of cohesive granular materials
Jose Manuel Valverde and Antonio Castellanos
Published 26 March 2007 (6 pages)
031306 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Role of interparticle forces and interparticle friction on the bulk friction in charged granular media subjected to shearing
S. J. Antony and M. A. Sultan
Published 27 March 2007 (5 pages)
031307 [View PDF (422 kB)]
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Influences of the interstitial liquid on segregation patterns of granular slurries in a rotating drum
Tilo Finger and Ralf Stannarius
Published 27 March 2007 (9 pages)
031308 [View PDF (791 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Aging in attraction-driven colloidal glasses
Antonio M. Puertas, Matthias Fuchs, and Michael E. Cates
Published 5 March 2007 (11 pages)
031401 [View PDF (1,328 kB)]
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Frank’s constant in the hexatic phase
P. Keim, G. Maret, and H. H. von Grünberg
Published 22 March 2007 (6 pages)
031402 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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Synthetic diamond and wurtzite structures self-assemble with isotropic pair interactions
Mikael C. Rechtsman, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato
Published 26 March 2007 (7 pages)
031403 [View PDF (845 kB)]
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Counterion release and interaction of oppositely charged surfaces
A. Flores-Amado and M. Hernández-Contreras
Published 30 March 2007 (5 pages)
031404 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Charging mechanism in colloidal particles leading to a linear relation between charge and size
Filip Strubbe, Filip Beunis, Matthias Marescaux, and Kristiaan Neyts
Published 30 March 2007 (8 pages)
031405 [View PDF (440 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Shear-induced crystallization in jammed systems
Nathan Duff and Daniel J. Lacks
Published 16 March 2007 (8 pages)
031501 [View PDF (733 kB)]
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Glass phenomenology from the connection to spin glasses
M. Tarzia and M. A. Moore
Published 23 March 2007 (5 pages)
031502 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Mode-coupling theory for the slow collective dynamics of fluids adsorbed in disordered porous media
V. Krakoviack
Published 26 March 2007 (17 pages)
031503 [View PDF (293 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Wetting and minimal surfaces
Constantin Bachas, Pierre Le Doussal, and Kay Jörg Wiese
Published 15 March 2007 (17 pages)
031601 [View PDF (702 kB)]
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Spontaneous corrugation of dipolar membranes
Xiuquan Sun and J. Daniel Gezelter
Published 26 March 2007 (7 pages)
031602 [View PDF (323 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Structure and stability of bent core liquid crystal fibers
C. Bailey, E. C. Gartland, Jr., and A. Jákli
Published 5 March 2007 (9 pages)
031701 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Air tube formation at the freezing transition in nematic liquid crystals
C. Völtz, Y. Maeda, Y. Tabe, and H. Yokoyama
Published 6 March 2007 (4 pages)
031702 [View PDF (551 kB)]
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Photoinduction of optical anisotropy in an azobenzene-containing ionic self-assembly liquid-crystalline material
Y. Zakrevskyy, J. Stumpe, B. Smarsly, and C. F. J. Faul
Published 7 March 2007 (12 pages)
031703 [View PDF (785 kB)]
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Quasi-two-dimensional Ising critical behavior of de Vries liquid crystals observed in the heat capacity and dielectric response
K. Takekoshi, Y. Sasaki, K. Ema, H. Yao, Y. Takanishi, and H. Takezoe
Published 7 March 2007 (6 pages)
031704 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Smectic liquid crystals in an anisotropic random environment
Dennis Liang and Robert L. Leheny
Published 14 March 2007 (11 pages)
031705 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Rearrangement of topological defects and anchoring on the inclusion boundary in ferroelectric smectic membranes
P. V. Dolganov, H. T. Nguyen, E. I. Kats, V. K. Dolganov, and P. Cluzeau
Published 15 March 2007 (8 pages)
031706 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance parameters of atomic xenon dissolved in Gay-Berne model liquid crystal
Juho Lintuvuori, Michal Straka, and Juha Vaara
Published 21 March 2007 (13 pages)
031707 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Defect-enhanced nematic surface order reconstruction
Milan Ambrožič, Samo Kralj, and Epifanio G. Virga
Published 22 March 2007 (9 pages)
031708 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Statistical theory of the flexoelectric polarization for the uniaxial nematic phase
A. Kapanowski
Published 26 March 2007 (6 pages)
031709 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Kinetics of the thermal back relaxation time of the photoinduced nematic-isotropic transition
V. Jayalakshmi, Geetha G. Nair, and S. Krishna Prasad
Published 30 March 2007 (6 pages)
031710 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Dynamics of smectic elastomers
Olaf Stenull and T. C. Lubensky
Published 30 March 2007 (18 pages)
031711 [View PDF (1,087 kB)]

Polymers

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Stiff knots
R. Gallotti and O. Pierre-Louis
Published 15 March 2007 (14 pages)
031801 [View PDF (649 kB)]
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Self-consistent field theory simulations of block copolymer assembly on a sphere
Tanya L. Chantawansri, August W. Bosse, Alexander Hexemer, Hector D. Ceniceros, Carlos J. García-Cervera, Edward J. Kramer, and Glenn H. Fredrickson
Published 23 March 2007 (17 pages)
031802 [View PDF (501 kB)]
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Calculation of local mechanical properties of filled polymers
George J. Papakonstantopoulos, Manolis Doxastakis, Paul F. Nealey, Jean-Louis Barrat, and Juan J. de Pablo
Published 23 March 2007 (13 pages)
031803 [View PDF (865 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics study of crystallization of polymer systems confined in small nanodomains
Toshiaki Miura and Masuhiro Mikami
Published 29 March 2007 (12 pages)
031804 [View PDF (602 kB)]

Biological physics

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Nonlinear finite-element analysis of nanoindentation of viral capsids
Melissa M. Gibbons and William S. Klug
Published 1 March 2007 (11 pages)
031901 [View PDF (847 kB)]
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Modeling fractal-like drug elimination kinetics using an interacting random-walk model
Rebeccah E. Marsh and Terence A. Riauka
Published 2 March 2007 (7 pages)
031902 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Wrapping conformations of a polymer on a curved surface
Cheng-Hsiao Lin, Yan-Chr Tsai, and Chin-Kun Hu
Published 6 March 2007 (11 pages)
031903 [View PDF (402 kB)]
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Necklace-cloverleaf transition in associating RNA-like diblock copolymers
M. V. Tamm and S. K. Nechaev
Published 7 March 2007 (13 pages)
031904 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Tension dynamics in semiflexible polymers. I. Coarse-grained equations of motion
Oskar Hallatschek, Erwin Frey, and Klaus Kroy
Published 7 March 2007 (14 pages)
031905 [View PDF (245 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Tension dynamics in semiflexible polymers. II. Scaling solutions and applications
Oskar Hallatschek, Erwin Frey, and Klaus Kroy
Published 7 March 2007 (20 pages)
031906 [View PDF (557 kB)]
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Compact dynamical model of brain activity
J. W. Kim and P. A. Robinson
Published 8 March 2007 (10 pages)
031907 [View PDF (539 kB)]
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Lateralization as a symmetry breaking process in birdsong
M. A. Trevisan, B. Cooper, F. Goller, and G. B. Mindlin
Published 12 March 2007 (5 pages)
031908 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Model of hyphal tip growth involving microtubule-based transport
K. E. P. Sugden, M. R. Evans, W. C. K. Poon, and N. D. Read
Published 13 March 2007 (5 pages)
031909 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Solutions of burnt-bridge models for molecular motor transport
Alexander Yu. Morozov, Ekaterina Pronina, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, and Maxim N. Artyomov
Published 21 March 2007 (8 pages)
031910 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Dynamic stability in random and scale-free B-lymphocyte networks
Leonardo C. Ribeiro, Ronald Dickman, Américo T. Bernardes, and Nelson M. Vaz
Published 22 March 2007 (8 pages)
031911 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Spike patterning of a stochastic phase model neuron given periodic inhibition
William H. Nesse, Gregory A. Clark, and Paul C. Bressloff
Published 26 March 2007 (10 pages)
031912 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Extended method of moments for deterministic analysis of stochastic multistable neurodynamical systems
Gustavo Deco and Daniel Martí
Published 28 March 2007 (7 pages)
031913 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Folding behavior of ribosomal protein S6 studied by modified Go̅ -like model
L. Wu, J. Zhang, J. Wang, W. F. Li, and W. Wang
Published 28 March 2007 (8 pages)
031914 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Dissociative electron attachment to hydrated single DNA strands
Sylwia Ptasińska and Léon Sanche
Published 29 March 2007 (5 pages)
031915 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Inherent multistability in arrays of autoinducer coupled genetic oscillators
A. Koseska, E. Volkov, A. Zaikin, and J. Kurths
Published 30 March 2007 (8 pages)
031916 [View PDF (1,836 kB)]
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Stochastic suppression of gene expression oscillators under intercell coupling
A. Koseska, A. Zaikin, J. García-Ojalvo, and J. Kurths
Published 30 March 2007 (9 pages)
031917 [View PDF (904 kB)]
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Solitary excitations in B-Z DNA transition: A theoretical and numerical study
Wilber Lim
Published 30 March 2007 (9 pages)
031918 [View PDF (895 kB)]
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Measuring peptide mass spectrum correlation using the quantum Grover algorithm
Keng Wah Choo
Published 30 March 2007 (6 pages)
031919 [View PDF (404 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Interference of stochastic resonances: Splitting of Kramers’ rate
Pulak Kumar Ghosh, Bidhan Chandra Bag, and Deb Shankar Ray
Published 16 March 2007 (4 pages)
032101 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Charged particle in a magnetic field: Jarzynski equality
A. M. Jayannavar and Mamata Sahoo
Published 26 March 2007 (4 pages)
032102 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Granular materials

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Behavior of flowing granular materials under variable g
Antje Brucks, Tim Arndt, Julio M. Ottino, and Richard M. Lueptow
Published 28 March 2007 (4 pages)
032301 [View PDF (393 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Birefringence determination in turbid media
Christophe Baravian, Jérôme Dillet, and Jean-Paul Decruppe
Published 16 March 2007 (4 pages)
032501 [View PDF (271 kB)]

Biological physics

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Excitable Greenberg-Hastings cellular automaton model on scale-free networks
An-Cai Wu, Xin-Jian Xu, and Ying-Hai Wang
Published 8 March 2007 (4 pages)
032901 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Bifractality of human DNA strand-asymmetry profiles results from transcription
S. Nicolay, E. B. Brodie of Brodie, M. Touchon, B. Audit, Y. d’Aubenton-Carafa, C. Thermes, and A. Arneodo
Published 12 March 2007 (4 pages)
032902 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Identifying characteristic scales in the human genome
P. Carpena, P. Bernaola-Galván, A. V. Coronado, M. Hackenberg, and J. L. Oliver
Published 16 March 2007 (4 pages)
032903 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Vortex formation in swarms of interacting particles
Colin R. McInnes
Published 28 March 2007 (3 pages)
032904 [View PDF (89 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Experimental observation of different types of chaotic synchronization in an electrochemical cell
J. M. Cruz, M. Rivera, and P. Parmananda
Published 20 March 2007 (4 pages)
035201(R) [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Subharmonic transitions in a bistable oscillator with bimodal periodic excitation
Agnessa Kovaleva
Published 26 March 2007 (4 pages)
035202(R) [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Spectral properties of Bunimovich mushroom billiards
B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer
Published 29 March 2007 (4 pages)
035203(R) [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Fractional behavior in nonergodic reaction processes of isomerization
Akira Shojiguchi, Chun-Biu Li, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, and Mikito Toda
Published 30 March 2007 (4 pages)
035204(R) [View PDF (208 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Route to non-Gaussian statistics in convective turbulence
Roberto Festa, Andrea Mazzino, and Marco Tizzi
Published 16 March 2007 (4 pages)
035301(R) [View PDF (88 kB)]

Computational physics

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Improved Monte Carlo estimators for the one-body density
Roland Assaraf, Michel Caffarel, and Anthony Scemama
Published 26 March 2007 (4 pages)
035701(R) [View PDF (259 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Enhancing robustness and immunization in geographical networks
Liang Huang, Kongqing Yang, and Lei Yang
Published 1 March 2007 (6 pages)
036101 [View PDF (447 kB)]
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Phase transition and hysteresis in scale-free network traffic
Mao-Bin Hu, Wen-Xu Wang, Rui Jiang, Qing-Song Wu, and Yong-Hong Wu
Published 2 March 2007 (4 pages)
036102 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Unified Green’s function retrieval by cross-correlation; connection with energy principles
Roel Snieder, Kees Wapenaar, and Ulrich Wegler
Published 2 March 2007 (14 pages)
036103 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Low-cost search in scale-free networks
Jieun Jeong and Piotr Berman
Published 5 March 2007 (4 pages)
036104 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Structural bottlenecks for communication in networks
Sameet Sreenivasan, Reuven Cohen, Eduardo López, Zoltán Toroczkai, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 5 March 2007 (4 pages)
036105 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Geographical networks evolving with an optimal policy
Yan-Bo Xie, Tao Zhou, Wen-Jie Bai, Guanrong Chen, Wei-Ke Xiao, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 8 March 2007 (8 pages)
036106 [View PDF (404 kB)]
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Athermal shear-transformation-zone theory of amorphous plastic deformation. I. Basic principles
Eran Bouchbinder, J. S. Langer, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 12 March 2007 (7 pages)
036107 [View PDF (235 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Athermal shear-transformation-zone theory of amorphous plastic deformation. II. Analysis of simulated amorphous silicon
Eran Bouchbinder, J. S. Langer, and Itamar Procaccia
Published 12 March 2007 (9 pages)
036108 [View PDF (685 kB)]
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Cascading dynamics in modular networks
Aram Galstyan and Paul Cohen
Published 23 March 2007 (4 pages)
036109 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Weighted network analysis of high-frequency cross-correlation measures
Giulia Iori and Ovidiu V. Precup
Published 26 March 2007 (7 pages)
036110 [View PDF (680 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Role of unstable periodic orbits in phase transitions of coupled map lattices
Kazumasa Takeuchi and Masaki Sano
Published 1 March 2007 (12 pages)
036201 [View PDF (632 kB)]
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Wave trains in an excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo model: Bistable dispersion relation and formation of isolas
Georg Röder, Grigory Bordyugov, Harald Engel, and Martin Falcke
Published 2 March 2007 (6 pages)
036202 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Convection patterns in colloidal solutions
B. Huke, H. Pleiner, and M. Lücke
Published 6 March 2007 (10 pages)
036203 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Nodal domains in open microwave systems
U. Kuhl, R. Höhmann, H.-J. Stöckmann, and S. Gnutzmann
Published 9 March 2007 (7 pages)
036204 [View PDF (1,038 kB)]
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Two types of phase synchronization destruction
Alexander E. Hramov, Alexey A. Koronovskii, and Maria K. Kurovskaya
Published 12 March 2007 (9 pages)
036205 [View PDF (3,549 kB)]
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Triggering and enhancing chaos with a prescribed target Lyapunov exponent using optimized perturbations of minimum power
C. Y. Soong and W. T. Huang
Published 13 March 2007 (10 pages)
036206 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Multipeaked probability distributions of recurrence times
Patrick Grete and Mario Markus
Published 13 March 2007 (5 pages)
036207 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Mode locking of a driven Bose-Einstein condensate
Alexandru I. Nicolin, Mogens H. Jensen, and R. Carretero-González
Published 13 March 2007 (5 pages)
036208 [View PDF (474 kB)]
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Noise-induced turbulence in nonlocally coupled oscillators
Yoji Kawamura, Hiroya Nakao, and Yoshiki Kuramoto
Published 14 March 2007 (17 pages)
036209 [View PDF (2,389 kB)]
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Failure of maximum likelihood methods for chaotic dynamical systems
Kevin Judd
Published 15 March 2007 (7 pages)
036210 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Noise effects on gap wave propagation in a nonlinear discrete LC transmission line
Serge Bruno Yamgoué, Savério Morfu, and Patrick Marquié
Published 16 March 2007 (7 pages)
036211 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Resonant forcing of multidimensional chaotic map dynamics
Glenn Foster, Alfred W. Hübler, and Karin Dahmen
Published 19 March 2007 (9 pages)
036212 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Fractal properties of anomalous diffusion in intermittent maps
Nickolay Korabel, Rainer Klages, Aleksei V. Chechkin, Igor M. Sokolov, and Vsevolod Yu. Gonchar
Published 19 March 2007 (14 pages)
036213 [View PDF (545 kB)]
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Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates under the influence of periodic and harmonic potentials
N. Hawk Berry and J. Nathan Kutz
Published 23 March 2007 (9 pages)
036214 [View PDF (1,220 kB)]
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Curved structures in recurrence plots: The role of the sampling time
A. Facchini and H. Kantz
Published 26 March 2007 (8 pages)
036215 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Signature of ray chaos in quasibound wave functions for a stadium-shaped dielectric cavity
Susumu Shinohara and Takahisa Harayama
Published 26 March 2007 (4 pages)
036216 [View PDF (759 kB)]
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Recovery of classical chaoticlike behavior in a conservative quantum three-body problem
M. J. Everitt
Published 26 March 2007 (6 pages)
036217 [View PDF (1,236 kB)]
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Singular unlocking transition in the Winfree model of coupled oscillators
D. Dane Quinn, Richard H. Rand, and Steven H. Strogatz
Published 26 March 2007 (10 pages)
036218 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Analytic approach for controlling quantum states in complex systems
Toshiya Takami and Hiroshi Fujisaki
Published 27 March 2007 (10 pages)
036219 [View PDF (491 kB)]
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Heterogeneity-induced defect bifurcation and pulse dynamics for a three-component reaction-diffusion system
Xiaohui Yuan, Takashi Teramoto, and Yasumasa Nishiura
Published 27 March 2007 (12 pages)
036220 [View PDF (16,740 kB)]
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Quantum entropy dynamics for chaotic systems beyond the classical limit
Arnaldo Gammal and Arjendu K. Pattanayak
Published 29 March 2007 (4 pages)
036221 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Recurrence analysis of strange nonchaotic dynamics
E. J. Ngamga, A. Nandi, R. Ramaswamy, M. C. Romano, M. Thiel, and J. Kurths
Published 29 March 2007 (8 pages)
036222 [View PDF (1,404 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Intrusion of nonwetting liquid in paper
J. Hyväluoma, T. Turpeinen, P. Raiskinmäki, A. Jäsberg, A. Koponen, M. Kataja, J. Timonen, and S. Ramaswamy
Published 1 March 2007 (4 pages)
036301 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Eigenfrequencies of vortex-pair equilibria near an elliptic cylinder or a flat plate in uniform flow
T. W. G. de Laat
Published 2 March 2007 (8 pages)
036302 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Critical parameters for the partial coalescence of a droplet
T. Gilet, K. Mulleners, J. P. Lecomte, N. Vandewalle, and S. Dorbolo
Published 7 March 2007 (14 pages)
036303 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Dynamic van der Waals theory
Akira Onuki
Published 9 March 2007 (15 pages)
036304 [View PDF (2,260 kB)]
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Forced imbibition in natural porous media: Comparison between experiments and continuum models
Amir Riaz, Guo-Qing Tang, Hamdi A. Tchelepi, and Anthony R. Kovscek
Published 13 March 2007 (9 pages)
036305 [View PDF (580 kB)]
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Role of base flows on surfactant-driven interfacial instabilities
Hsien-Hung Wei
Published 15 March 2007 (6 pages)
036306 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Role of pressure in nonlinear velocity gradient dynamics in turbulence
Ravi K. Bikkani and Sharath S. Girimaji
Published 16 March 2007 (8 pages)
036307 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Abnormal mixing of passive scalars in chaotic flows
O. V. Popovych, A. Pikovsky, and B. Eckhardt
Published 19 March 2007 (6 pages)
036308 [View PDF (1,403 kB)]
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Attractor crisis and bursting in a fluid flow with two no-slip directions
D. Molenaar, H. J. H. Clercx, G. J. F. van Heijst, and Z. Yin
Published 26 March 2007 (7 pages)
036309 [View PDF (832 kB)]
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Fingering patterns in the lifting flow of a confined miscible ferrofluid
Ching-Yao Chen, S.-Y. Wu, and José A. Miranda
Published 26 March 2007 (10 pages)
036310 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Fluid pinch-off in superfluid and normal 4He
J. C. Burton, J. E. Rutledge, and P. Taborek
Published 26 March 2007 (6 pages)
036311 [View PDF (773 kB)]
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Maximal oil recovery by simultaneous condensation of alkane and steam
J. Bruining and D. Marchesin
Published 26 March 2007 (16 pages)
036312 [View PDF (723 kB)]
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Nanosecond near-spinodal homogeneous boiling of water superheated by a pulsed CO2 laser
Sergey I. Kudryashov, Kevin Lyon, and Susan D. Allen
Published 27 March 2007 (5 pages)
036313 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Width of a ferrofluid finger: Hysteresis and a double energy minimum
Narelle J. Hillier and David P. Jackson
Published 27 March 2007 (7 pages)
036314 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Fast chemical reaction and multiple-scale concentration fields in singular vortices
D. Martinand and J. C. Vassilicos
Published 28 March 2007 (13 pages)
036315 [View PDF (2,830 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Correlation effects in partially ionized mass asymmetric electron-hole plasmas
V. S. Filinov, H. Fehske, M. Bonitz, V. E. Fortov, and P. Levashov
Published 2 March 2007 (14 pages)
036401 [View PDF (1,980 kB)]
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Production of a monoenergetic electron bunch in a self-injected laser-wakefield accelerator
C.-L. Chang, C.-T. Hsieh, Y.-C. Ho, Y.-S. Chen, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Published 7 March 2007 (10 pages)
036402 [View PDF (927 kB)]
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Degenerate four-wave mixing mediated by ponderomotive-force-driven plasma gratings
K.-H. Lee, C.-H. Pai, M.-W. Lin, L.-C. Ha, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen
Published 26 March 2007 (6 pages)
036403 [View PDF (240 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Modified Kubelka-Munk equations for localized waves inside a layered medium
Matthew M. Haney and Kasper van Wijk
Published 1 March 2007 (8 pages)
036601 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal bifurcations of a parametrically excited solitary wave
Likun Zhang, Xinlong Wang, and Zhiyong Tao
Published 6 March 2007 (6 pages)
036602 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Parallel-plate metamaterials for cloaking structures
Mário G. Silveirinha, Andrea Alù, and Nader Engheta
Published 7 March 2007 (16 pages)
036603 [View PDF (1,956 kB)]
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Moving and colliding pulses in the subcritical Ginzburg-Landau model with a standing-wave drive
Bakhtiyor B. Baizakov, Giovanni Filatrella, and Boris A. Malomed
Published 12 March 2007 (6 pages)
036604 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Universal fractal structures in the weak interaction of solitary waves in generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations
Yi Zhu and Jianke Yang
Published 12 March 2007 (20 pages)
036605 [View PDF (631 kB)]
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Dynamics of scattering on a classical two-dimensional artificial atom
H. Peelaers, B. Partoens, D. V. Tatyanenko, and F. M. Peeters
Published 13 March 2007 (8 pages)
036606 [View PDF (6,830 kB)]
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Short wavelength approximation of a boundary integral operator for homogeneous and isotropic elastic bodies
Gregor Tanner and Niels Søndergaard
Published 15 March 2007 (6 pages)
036607 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Critical ratio between the amplitudes of two overtaking solitary water waves
Benlong Wang, Jin E. Zhang, Jingxin Zhang, and Hua Liu
Published 16 March 2007 (8 pages)
036608 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Fibonacci-like photonic structure for femtosecond pulse compression
L. N. Makarava, M. M. Nazarov, I. A. Ozheredov, A. P. Shkurinov, A. G. Smirnov, and S. V. Zhukovsky
Published 16 March 2007 (7 pages)
036609 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Acoustic beam invariants
John Lekner
Published 21 March 2007 (6 pages)
036610 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Kink dynamics in spatially inhomogeneous media: The role of internal modes
Jorge A. González, Sara Cuenda, and Angel Sánchez
Published 23 March 2007 (7 pages)
036611 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Solution of the reduced anisotropic Maxwell-Bloch equations by using the Riemann-Hilbert problem
A. A. Zabolotskii
Published 23 March 2007 (7 pages)
036612 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Transverse-average field approach for the characterization of thin metamaterial slabs
Mário G. Silveirinha and Carlos A. Fernandes
Published 26 March 2007 (17 pages)
036613 [View PDF (1,025 kB)]
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Terahertz plasmonic composites
Syrus C. Nemat-Nasser, Alireza V. Amirkhizi, Willie J. Padilla, Dimitri N. Basov, Sia Nemat-Nasser, Derek Bruzewicz, and George Whitesides
Published 27 March 2007 (7 pages)
036614 [View PDF (322 kB)]
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Thermal diffusion of solitons on anharmonic chains with long-range coupling
C. Brunhuber, F. G. Mertens, and Y. Gaididei
Published 27 March 2007 (10 pages)
036615 [View PDF (1,368 kB)]
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Breakup of a multisoliton state of the linearly damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky and Stanislav A. Derevyanko
Published 28 March 2007 (9 pages)
036616 [View PDF (522 kB)]
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Phase fluctuations of linearly chirped solitons in a noisy optical fiber channel with varying dispersion, nonlinearity, and gain
Shihua Chen, Y. H. Yang, Lin Yi, Peixiang Lu, and Dong-Sheng Guo
Published 29 March 2007 (14 pages)
036617 [View PDF (347 kB)]

Computational physics

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Physics of symplectic integrators: Perihelion advances and symplectic corrector algorithms
Siu A. Chin
Published 5 March 2007 (10 pages)
036701 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Mesoscopic predictions of the effective thermal conductivity for microscale random porous media
Moran Wang, Jinku Wang, Ning Pan, and Shiyi Chen
Published 7 March 2007 (10 pages)
036702 [View PDF (951 kB)]
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Quantum annealing of an Ising spin-glass by Green’s function Monte Carlo
Lorenzo Stella and Giuseppe E. Santoro
Published 13 March 2007 (6 pages)
036703 [View PDF (307 kB)]
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Thermal lattice Boltzmann equation for low Mach number flows: Decoupling model
Zhaoli Guo, Chuguang Zheng, Baochang Shi, and T. S. Zhao
Published 14 March 2007 (15 pages)
036704 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Automatic algorithm for monotone trend removal
Călin Vamoş
Published 16 March 2007 (16 pages)
036705 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Alternative method to construct equilibrium distribution functions in lattice-Boltzmann method simulation of inviscid compressible flows at high Mach number
K. Qu, C. Shu, and Y. T. Chew
Published 23 March 2007 (13 pages)
036706 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Accurate numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation
W. van Dijk and F. M. Toyama
Published 23 March 2007 (10 pages)
036707 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Lattice-based Monte Carlo method for telechelic chain molecules
Behnaz Bozorgui and Daan Frenkel
Published 26 March 2007 (6 pages)
036708 [View PDF (327 kB)]
See Also: Publisher's Note
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Simulating time harmonic flows with the lattice Boltzmann method
Lilit Axner, Alfons G. Hoekstra, and Peter M. A. Sloot
Published 27 March 2007 (7 pages)
036709 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Multigrid contact detection method
Kejing He, Shoubin Dong, and Zhaoyao Zhou
Published 28 March 2007 (7 pages)
036710 [View PDF (409 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Stability and stabilization of the lattice Boltzmann method
R. A. Brownlee, A. N. Gorban, and J. Levesley
Published 29 March 2007 (17 pages)
036711 [View PDF (1,267 kB)]
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Entropic lattice Boltzmann representations required to recover Navier-Stokes flows
Brian Keating, George Vahala, Jeffrey Yepez, Min Soe, and Linda Vahala
Published 29 March 2007 (11 pages)
036712 [View PDF (2,407 kB)]
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Reptational dynamics in dissipative particle dynamics simulations of polymer melts
Petri Nikunen, Ilpo Vattulainen, and Mikko Karttunen
Published 30 March 2007 (7 pages)
036713 [View PDF (195 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

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Power-law distributions for the areas of the basins of attraction on a potential energy landscape
Claire P. Massen and Jonathan P. K. Doye
Published 19 March 2007 (4 pages)
037101 [View PDF (354 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Accelerator dynamics of a fractional kicked rotor
Alexander Iomin
Published 6 March 2007 (4 pages)
037201 [View PDF (453 kB)]
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Experimental investigation of electric field distributions in a chaotic three-dimensional microwave rough billiard
Oleg Tymoshchuk, Nazar Savytskyy, Oleh Hul, Szymon Bauch, and Leszek Sirko
Published 26 March 2007 (4 pages)
037202 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Synchronization threshold of a coupled time-delay system
Shangbo Zhou, Hua Li, and Zhongfu Wu
Published 30 March 2007 (2 pages)
037203 [View PDF (55 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

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Anomalous oscillations in the spectra of light backscattered by inhomogeneous microparticles
Xu Li, Allen Taflove, and Vadim Backman
Published 8 March 2007 (4 pages)
037601 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Accurate modeling of the optical properties of left-handed media using a finite-difference time-domain method
Yan Zhao, Pavel Belov, and Yang Hao
Published 26 March 2007 (4 pages)
037602 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Perturbative analytical treatment of adiabatically moderated soliton self-frequency shift
A. M. Zheltikov
Published 28 March 2007 (4 pages)
037603 [View PDF (199 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Calculation of electromagnetic field components for a fundamental Gaussian beam”
Hong Luo and Shiyang Liu
Published 13 March 2007 (2 pages)
038501 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Calculation of electromagnetic field components for a fundamental Gaussian beam’ ”
Guozhong Wang and J. F. Webb
Published 13 March 2007 (2 pages)
038502 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Comment on “Exact solutions of the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a nonlinear transmission line”
J. Nickel and H. W. Schürmann
Published 2 March 2007 (3 pages)
038601 [View PDF (156 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Dynamics and instabilities of defects in two-dimensional crystals on curved backgrounds [Phys. Rev. E 75, 021404 (2007)]
Mark Bowick, Homin Shin, and Alex Travesset
Published 6 March 2007 (1 page)
039901(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Publisher's Note: Transient nucleation near the mean-field spinodal [Phys. Rev. E 75, 031102 (2007)]
A. O. Schweiger, K. Barros, and W. Klein
Published 16 March 2007 (1 page)
039902(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Effect of supercoiling on formation of protein-mediated DNA loops [Phys. Rev. E 74, 061907 (2006)]
P. K. Purohit and P. C. Nelson
Published 23 March 2007 (1 page)
039903(E) [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Erratum: Metropolis simulations of Met-Enkephalin with solvent-accessible area parametrizations [Phys. Rev. E 69, 026703 (2004)]
Bernd A. Berg and Hsiao-Ping Hsu
Published 28 March 2007 (1 page)
039904(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]