Physical Review E – December 2007
Volume 76, Issue 6

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

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Editorial: Which Wei Wang?
Gene D. Sprouse
Published 3 December 2007 (1 page)
060001 [View PDF (31 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics

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Finite-size effects on the dynamics of the zero-range process
Shamik Gupta, Mustansir Barma, and Satya N. Majumdar
Published 10 December 2007 (4 pages)
060101(R) [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Elastocapillary coalescence: Aggregation and fragmentation with a maximal size
Arezki Boudaoud, José Bico, and Benoît Roman
Published 12 December 2007 (4 pages)
060102(R) [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Microscopic heat from the energetics of stochastic phenomena
Ken Sekimoto
Published 14 December 2007 (4 pages)
060103(R) [View PDF (79 kB)]

Granular materials

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Spreading of a granular droplet
Iván Sánchez, Franck Raynaud, José Lanuza, Bruno Andreotti, Eric Clément, and Igor S. Aranson
Published 7 December 2007 (4 pages)
060301(R) [View PDF (220 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Lifetime of a two-dimensional air bubble
Ayako Eri and Ko Okumura
Published 6 December 2007 (4 pages)
060601(R) [View PDF (195 kB)]

Polymers

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Morphological differences in semicrystalline polymers: Implications for local dynamics and chain diffusion
Y-F. Yao, R. Graf, H. W. Spiess, D. R. Lippits, and S. Rastogi
Published 26 December 2007 (4 pages)
060801(R) [View PDF (123 kB)]

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

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Temperature-dependent structural behavior of self-avoiding walks on Sierpinski carpets
Miriam Fritsche, H. Eduardo Roman, and Markus Porto
Published 3 December 2007 (5 pages)
061101 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Continuous-time random walks: Simulation of continuous trajectories
D. Kleinhans and R. Friedrich
Published 4 December 2007 (6 pages)
061102 [View PDF (554 kB)]
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Equivalence of conditional and external field ensembles in absorbing-state phase transitions
Gunnar Pruessner
Published 4 December 2007 (4 pages)
061103 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Dynamic structures of the time correlation functions of chaotic nonequilibrium fluctuations
Hazime Mori and Makoto Okamura
Published 5 December 2007 (9 pages)
061104 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Shape transformations of a compartmentalized fluid surface
Hiroshi Koibuchi
Published 5 December 2007 (5 pages)
061105 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Thermodynamic forces, flows, and Onsager coefficients in complex networks
Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak, and Janusz A. Hołyst
Published 5 December 2007 (5 pages)
061106 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Phase behavior of a family of continuous two-dimensional n -vector models with n=2 , 3, and 4
E. Lomba, N. G. Almarza, and C. Martín
Published 6 December 2007 (7 pages)
061107 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Fidelity and quantum phase transition for the Heisenberg chain with next-nearest-neighbor interaction
Shu Chen, Li Wang, Shi-Jian Gu, and Yupeng Wang
Published 7 December 2007 (4 pages)
061108 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Master crossover behavior of parachor correlations for one-component fluids
Yves Garrabos, Fabien Palencia, Carole Lecoutre, Daniel Broseta, and Bernard Le Neindre
Published 10 December 2007 (22 pages)
061109 [View PDF (1,042 kB)]
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Type of dynamic phase transition in bistable equations
Gregory Berkolaiko and Michael Grinfeld
Published 10 December 2007 (4 pages)
061110 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Effects of conservation of total angular momentum on two-hard-particle systems
Masayuki Uranagase
Published 10 December 2007 (7 pages)
061111 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of a statistically interacting quantum gas in D dimensions
Geoffrey G. Potter, Gerhard Müller, and Michael Karbach
Published 11 December 2007 (12 pages)
061112 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Time-delayed feedback control of a flashing ratchet
M. Feito and F. J. Cao
Published 12 December 2007 (10 pages)
061113 [View PDF (349 kB)]
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Extracting features of Gaussian self-similar stochastic processes via the Bandt-Pompe approach
O. A. Rosso, L. Zunino, D. G. Pérez, A. Figliola, H. A. Larrondo, M. Garavaglia, M. T. Martín, and A. Plastino
Published 12 December 2007 (6 pages)
061114 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Nonindependent continuous-time random walks
Miquel Montero and Jaume Masoliver
Published 13 December 2007 (12 pages)
061115 [View PDF (1,082 kB)]
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Domain growth morphology in curvature-driven two-dimensional coarsening
Alberto Sicilia, Jeferson J. Arenzon, Alan J. Bray, and Leticia F. Cugliandolo
Published 17 December 2007 (25 pages)
061116 [View PDF (1,885 kB)]
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Mean-field theory for pedestrian outflow through an exit
Daichi Yanagisawa and Katsuhiro Nishinari
Published 19 December 2007 (9 pages)
061117 [View PDF (2,688 kB)]
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Brownian motion in a nonhomogeneous force field and photonic force microscope
Giorgio Volpe, Giovanni Volpe, and Dmitri Petrov
Published 19 December 2007 (10 pages)
061118 [View PDF (1,516 kB)]
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State transition of a non-Ohmic damping system in a corrugated plane
Kun Lü and Jing-Dong Bao
Published 20 December 2007 (6 pages)
061119 [View PDF (361 kB)]
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Finite-time thermodynamics and the gas-liquid phase transition
M. Santoro, J. C. Schön, and M. Jansen
Published 20 December 2007 (14 pages)
061120 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion with absorbing boundary
Yacov Kantor and Mehran Kardar
Published 20 December 2007 (7 pages)
061121 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Constructing quantum games from nonfactorizable joint probabilities
Azhar Iqbal and Taksu Cheon
Published 20 December 2007 (12 pages)
061122 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Statistical correlations in an ideal gas of particles obeying fractional exclusion statistics
F. M. D. Pellegrino, G. G. N. Angilella, N. H. March, and R. Pucci
Published 20 December 2007 (6 pages)
061123 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Typical behavior of relays in communication channels
R. C. Alamino and D. Saad
Published 21 December 2007 (8 pages)
061124 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Dynamic behavior of a social model for opinion formation
Clelia M. Bordogna and Ezequiel V. Albano
Published 21 December 2007 (6 pages)
061125 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Thermoacoustic effects in supercritical fluids near the critical point: Resonance, piston effect, and acoustic emission and reflection
Akira Onuki
Published 26 December 2007 (15 pages)
061126 [View PDF (521 kB)]
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Universal and nonuniversal level statistics in a chaotic quantum spin chain
Carlos Pineda and Tomaž Prosen
Published 26 December 2007 (7 pages)
061127 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Fluctuation properties of steady-state Langevin systems
Jeffrey B. Weiss
Published 27 December 2007 (7 pages)
061128 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Weakly breaking waves in the presence of surfactant micelles
Xinan Liu and James H. Duncan
Published 7 December 2007 (5 pages)
061201 [View PDF (474 kB)]
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Structural properties and liquid spinodal of water confined in a hydrophobic environment
P. Gallo and M. Rovere
Published 7 December 2007 (7 pages)
061202 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Thermal conductivity and particle agglomeration in alumina nanofluids: Experiment and theory
Elena V. Timofeeva, Alexei N. Gavrilov, James M. McCloskey, Yuriy V. Tolmachev, Samuel Sprunt, Lena M. Lopatina, and Jonathan V. Selinger
Published 28 December 2007 (16 pages)
061203 [View PDF (458 kB)]

Granular materials

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Avalanche statistics and time-resolved grain dynamics for a driven heap
A. R. Abate, H. Katsuragi, and D. J. Durian
Published 5 December 2007 (8 pages)
061301 [View PDF (780 kB)]
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Internal states of model isotropic granular packings. I. Assembling process, geometry, and contact networks
Ivana Agnolin and Jean-Noël Roux
Published 13 December 2007 (27 pages)
061302 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Internal states of model isotropic granular packings. II. Compression and pressure cycles
Ivana Agnolin and Jean-Noël Roux
Published 13 December 2007 (11 pages)
061303 [View PDF (410 kB)]
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Internal states of model isotropic granular packings. III. Elastic properties
Ivana Agnolin and Jean-Noël Roux
Published 13 December 2007 (22 pages)
061304 [View PDF (567 kB)]
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Applicability of constitutive relations from kinetic theory for dense granular flows
K. Anki Reddy and V. Kumaran
Published 27 December 2007 (9 pages)
061305 [View PDF (159 kB)]

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

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Comparison of dynamic light scattering measurements and mode-coupling theory for the tagged particle dynamics of a hard-sphere suspension
W. van Megen
Published 5 December 2007 (10 pages)
061401 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Eigenmodes of a hydrodynamically coupled micron-size multiple-particle ring
R. Di Leonardo, S. Keen, J. Leach, C. D. Saunter, G. D. Love, G. Ruocco, and M. J. Padgett
Published 26 December 2007 (4 pages)
061402 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Strong repulsive interactions in polyelectrolyte-liposome clusters close to the isoelectric point: A sign of an arrested state
F. Bordi, C. Cametti, S. Sennato, and D. Truzzolillo
Published 26 December 2007 (12 pages)
061403 [View PDF (583 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic description of the long-time tails of the linear and rotational velocity autocorrelation functions of a particle in a confined geometry
Derek Frydel and Stuart A. Rice
Published 28 December 2007 (8 pages)
061404 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Internal structures in two-dimensional ferrofluids
A. Yu. Zubarev and L. Yu. Iskakova
Published 28 December 2007 (13 pages)
061405 [View PDF (203 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Fragility and elastic behavior of a supercooled liquid
Madhu Priya and Shankar P. Das
Published 3 December 2007 (8 pages)
061501 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Glassy aging with modified Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts form
Bhaskar Sen Gupta and Shankar P. Das
Published 3 December 2007 (5 pages)
061502 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Entropy versus energy: The phase behavior of a hard-disk mixture in a periodic external potential
Kerstin Franzrahe and Peter Nielaba
Published 4 December 2007 (4 pages)
061503 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Role of orientation disorder in the formation of fragility of glassy water and glycerol-like liquids
Sergey V. Lishchuk, Tatjana V. Lokotosh, Salvatore Magazù, Nikolay P. Malomuzh, and Federica Migliardo
Published 5 December 2007 (9 pages)
061504 [View PDF (341 kB)]
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Ions in water: From ion clustering to crystal nucleation
José Alejandre and Jean-Pierre Hansen
Published 14 December 2007 (5 pages)
061505 [View PDF (259 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Finite-size effects in roughness distribution scaling
T. J. Oliveira and F. D. A. Aarão Reis
Published 4 December 2007 (9 pages)
061601 [View PDF (216 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Fréedericksz transition in a thermoreversible nematic gel
Matthias Müller, Wolfgang Schöpf, Ingo Rehberg, Andreas Timme, and Günter Lattermann
Published 12 December 2007 (8 pages)
061701 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Effects of dielectric relaxation on the director dynamics of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals
Mingxia Gu, Ye Yin, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Published 12 December 2007 (12 pages)
061702 [View PDF (855 kB)]
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X-ray microscopy study of chromonic liquid crystal dry film texture
K. V. Kaznatcheev, P. Dudin, O. D. Lavrentovich, and A. P. Hitchcock
Published 26 December 2007 (14 pages)
061703 [View PDF (1,378 kB)]
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Field-induced texture transitions in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal
R. Stannarius, A. Eremin, M.-G. Tamba, G. Pelzl, and W. Weissflog
Published 26 December 2007 (7 pages)
061704 [View PDF (677 kB)]

Polymers

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Elasticity of stiff biopolymers
Abhijit Ghosh, Joseph Samuel, and Supurna Sinha
Published 6 December 2007 (5 pages)
061801 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Renormalization of the one-loop theory of fluctuations in polymer blends and diblock copolymer melts
Piotr Grzywacz, Jian Qin, and David C. Morse
Published 14 December 2007 (33 pages)
061802 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Freezing and collapse of flexible polymers on regular lattices in three dimensions
Thomas Vogel, Michael Bachmann, and Wolfhard Janke
Published 20 December 2007 (11 pages)
061803 [View PDF (422 kB)]
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Dynamical properties of semidilute solutions of hydrogen-bonded supramolecular polymers
Eric Buhler, Sauveur-Jean Candau, Elena Kolomiets, and Jean-Marie Lehn
Published 21 December 2007 (8 pages)
061804 [View PDF (260 kB)]

Biological physics

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Sedimentation of pairs of hydrodynamically interacting semiflexible filaments
I. Llopis, I. Pagonabarraga, M. Cosentino Lagomarsino, and C. P. Lowe
Published 4 December 2007 (10 pages)
061901 [View PDF (2,379 kB)]
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Spontaneous emergence of spatial patterns in a predator-prey model
M. V. Carneiro and I. C. Charret
Published 4 December 2007 (8 pages)
061902 [View PDF (3,806 kB)]
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Scale invariance of human electroencephalogram signals in sleep
Shi-Min Cai, Zhao-Hui Jiang, Tao Zhou, Pei-Ling Zhou, Hui-Jie Yang, and Bing-Hong Wang
Published 5 December 2007 (5 pages)
061903 [View PDF (1,038 kB)]
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Risk perception in epidemic modeling
Franco Bagnoli, Pietro Liò, and Luca Sguanci
Published 5 December 2007 (7 pages)
061904 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Lifetime of ligand-receptor clusters under external force
Chih-Chao Tang, Yi-Ping Chu, and Hsuan-Yi Chen
Published 10 December 2007 (6 pages)
061905 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Role of electrostatic interactions in the assembly of empty spherical viral capsids
Antonio Šiber and Rudolf Podgornik
Published 12 December 2007 (10 pages)
061906 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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Buckling of stiff polymers: Influence of thermal fluctuations
Marc Emanuel, Hervé Mohrbach, Mehmet Sayar, Helmut Schiessel, and Igor M. Kulić
Published 12 December 2007 (13 pages)
061907 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Evaluation of higher-order time-domain perturbation theory of photon diffusion on breast-equivalent phantoms and optical mammograms
D. Grosenick, A. Kummrow, R. Macdonald, P. M. Schlag, and H. Rinneberg
Published 13 December 2007 (18 pages)
061908 [View PDF (604 kB)]
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Cooperative action in eukaryotic gene regulation: Physical properties of a viral example
Maria Werner, LiZhe Zhu, and Erik Aurell
Published 18 December 2007 (7 pages)
061909 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Soft elasticity of RNA gels and negative Poisson ratio
Amir Ahsan, Joseph Rudnick, and Robijn Bruinsma
Published 19 December 2007 (10 pages)
061910 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Theory of conformational transitions of viral shells
Thomas Guérin and Robijn Bruinsma
Published 19 December 2007 (12 pages)
061911 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Phase response curves in the characterization of epileptiform activity
J. L. Perez Velazquez, R. F. Galán, L. Garcia Dominguez, Y. Leshchenko, S. Lo, J. Belkas, and R. Guevara Erra
Published 19 December 2007 (8 pages)
061912 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Elasticity of two-dimensional filaments with constant spontaneous curvature
Zicong Zhou
Published 20 December 2007 (12 pages)
061913 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Stretching of buckled filaments by thermal fluctuations
Krzysztof Baczynski, Reinhard Lipowsky, and Jan Kierfeld
Published 21 December 2007 (9 pages)
061914 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Dynamics of DNA breathing: Weak noise analysis, finite time singularity, and mapping onto the quantum Coulomb problem
Hans C. Fogedby and Ralf Metzler
Published 21 December 2007 (12 pages)
061915 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Electrokinetic-flow-induced viscous drag on a tethered DNA inside a nanopore
Sandip Ghosal
Published 26 December 2007 (3 pages)
061916 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Axial optical trapping efficiency through a dielectric interface
Antonio Alvaro Ranha Neves, Adriana Fontes, Carlos Lenz Cesar, Andrea Camposeo, Roberto Cingolani, and Dario Pisignano
Published 28 December 2007 (8 pages)
061917 [View PDF (590 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

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Stability of the high-density ferromagnetic ground state of a chargeless, magnetic-dipolar, quantum Fermi liquid
S. D. Mahanti and Sudhanshu S. Jha
Published 5 December 2007 (4 pages)
062101 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

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Exact bulk correlation functions in one-dimensional nonadditive hard-core mixtures
Andrés Santos
Published 18 December 2007 (3 pages)
062201 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Structured and complex fluids

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Beyond the Maxwell limit: Thermal conduction in nanofluids with percolating fluid structures
Jacob Eapen, Ju Li, and Sidney Yip
Published 17 December 2007 (4 pages)
062501 [View PDF (376 kB)]
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Simplified self-consistent theory of colloid dynamics
R. Juárez-Maldonado, M. A. Chávez-Rojo, P. E. Ramírez-González, L. Yeomans-Reyna, and M. Medina-Noyola
Published 19 December 2007 (4 pages)
062502 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Conditions for insensitivity of the microscopic-scale dielectric response to structural details of dipolar liquids
Edward L. Mertz
Published 21 December 2007 (4 pages)
062503 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Dynamic correlations of macroscopic quantities
Olivier Pierre-Louis
Published 4 December 2007 (4 pages)
062601 [View PDF (82 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Minimal size of a barchan dune”
B. Andreotti and P. Claudin
Published 21 December 2007 (5 pages)
063301 [View PDF (550 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Minimal size of a barchan dune’ ”
E. J. R. Parteli, O. Durán, and H. J. Herrmann
Published 21 December 2007 (5 pages)
063302 [View PDF (290 kB)]

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Emergence of chaotic itinerancy in simple ecological systems
Pan-Jun Kim, Tae-Wook Ko, Hawoong Jeong, Kyoung J. Lee, and Seung Kee Han
Published 14 December 2007 (4 pages)
065201(R) [View PDF (785 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Active manipulation of the spatial energy distribution of laser-accelerated proton beams
D. C. Carroll, P. McKenna, O. Lundh, F. Lindau, C.-G. Wahlström, S. Bandyopadhyay, D. Pepler, D. Neely, S. Kar, P. T. Simpson, K. Markey, M. Zepf, C. Bellei, R. G. Evans, R. Redaelli, D. Batani, M. H. Xu, and Y. T. Li
Published 12 December 2007 (4 pages)
065401(R) [View PDF (198 kB)]

Classical physics

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Near-perfect absorption by a flat metamaterial plate
Vladimir N. Kisel and Andrey N. Lagarkov
Published 18 December 2007 (4 pages)
065601(R) [View PDF (618 kB)]

Computational physics

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Dynamics and optimal number of replicas in parallel tempering simulations
Walter Nadler and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann
Published 4 December 2007 (4 pages)
065701(R) [View PDF (95 kB)]

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

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Distance distribution in random graphs and application to network exploration
Vincent D. Blondel, Jean-Loup Guillaume, Julien M. Hendrickx, and Raphaël M. Jungers
Published 5 December 2007 (8 pages)
066101 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Modularity and community detection in bipartite networks
Michael J. Barber
Published 7 December 2007 (9 pages)
066102 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Buoyant force and sinking conditions of a hydrophobic thin rod floating on water
Jian-Lin Liu, Xi-Qiao Feng, and Gang-Feng Wang
Published 13 December 2007 (9 pages)
066103 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Finite-size scaling of synchronized oscillation on complex networks
Hyunsuk Hong, Hyunggyu Park, and Lei-Han Tang
Published 14 December 2007 (7 pages)
066104 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Dynamical affinity in opinion dynamics modeling
Franco Bagnoli, Timoteo Carletti, Duccio Fanelli, Alessio Guarino, and Andrea Guazzini
Published 14 December 2007 (4 pages)
066105 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Transport on weighted networks: When the correlations are independent of the degree
José J. Ramasco and Bruno Gonçalves
Published 21 December 2007 (8 pages)
066106 [View PDF (226 kB)]

Chaos and pattern formation

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Stopping and initiation of a chemical pulse at the interface of excitable media with different diffusivity
Jun Miyazaki and Shuichi Kinoshita
Published 4 December 2007 (8 pages)
066201 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Suppressing noise-induced intensity pulsations in semiconductor lasers by means of time-delayed feedback
Valentin Flunkert and Eckehard Schöll
Published 6 December 2007 (9 pages)
066202 [View PDF (674 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance on excitable small-world networks via a pacemaker
Matjaž Perc
Published 11 December 2007 (7 pages)
066203 [View PDF (627 kB)]
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Peeling bifurcations of toroidal chaotic attractors
Christophe Letellier, Robert Gilmore, and Timothy Jones
Published 11 December 2007 (7 pages)
066204 [View PDF (1,728 kB)]
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Finding periodic orbits of higher-dimensional flows by including tangential components of trajectory motion
Yang Wei Koh and Kazuo Takatsuka
Published 17 December 2007 (13 pages)
066205 [View PDF (1,612 kB)]
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Control of rare intense events in spatiotemporally chaotic systems
Viktor Nagy and Edward Ott
Published 18 December 2007 (9 pages)
066206 [View PDF (556 kB)]
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Detecting synchronization clusters in multivariate time series via coarse-graining of Markov chains
Carsten Allefeld and Stephan Bialonski
Published 19 December 2007 (8 pages)
066207 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Detection of synchronization between chaotic signals: An adaptive similarity-based approach
Shyan-Shiou Chen, Li-Fen Chen, Yu-Te Wu, Yu-Zu Wu, Po-Lei Lee, Tzu-Chen Yeh, and Jen-Chuen Hsieh
Published 19 December 2007 (11 pages)
066208 [View PDF (12,990 kB)]
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Control of spatially patterned synchrony with multisite delayed feedback
C. Hauptmann, O. Omel‘chenko, O. V. Popovych, Y. Maistrenko, and P. A. Tass
Published 20 December 2007 (6 pages)
066209 [View PDF (438 kB)]
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Intermittency transition to generalized synchronization in coupled time-delay systems
D. V. Senthilkumar and M. Lakshmanan
Published 20 December 2007 (13 pages)
066210 [View PDF (1,882 kB)]
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Fast Hamiltonian chaos: Heat bath without thermodynamic limit
Anja Riegert, Wolfram Just, Nilüfer Baba, and Holger Kantz
Published 21 December 2007 (7 pages)
066211 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Symmetry-breaking study with deformed ensembles
J. X. de Carvalho, M. S. Hussein, M. P. Pato, and A. J. Sargeant
Published 27 December 2007 (5 pages)
066212 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Classical dynamics of the time-dependent elliptical billiard
Florian Lenz, Fotis K. Diakonos, and Peter Schmelcher
Published 28 December 2007 (14 pages)
066213 [View PDF (5,093 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Growth of surface undulations at the Rosensweig instability
Holger Knieling, Reinhard Richter, Ingo Rehberg, Gunar Matthies, and Adrian Lange
Published 4 December 2007 (11 pages)
066301 [View PDF (728 kB)]
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Turbulence with combined stratification and rotation: Limitations of Corrsin’s hypothesis
F. Nicolleau and G. Yu
Published 5 December 2007 (13 pages)
066302 [View PDF (897 kB)]
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Chaotic mixing induced by a magnetic chain in a rotating magnetic field
Tae Gon Kang, Martien A. Hulsen, Patrick D. Anderson, Jaap M. J. den Toonder, and Han E. H. Meijer
Published 6 December 2007 (11 pages)
066303 [View PDF (1,288 kB)]
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Effect of surrounding tissue on propagation of axisymmetric waves in arteries
K. Jagielska, D. Trzupek, M. Lepers, A. Pelc, and P. Zieliński
Published 7 December 2007 (8 pages)
066304 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Stability and nonlinear dynamics of solitary waves generated by subcritical oscillatory instability under the action of feedback control
Y. Kanevsky and A. A. Nepomnyashchy
Published 10 December 2007 (10 pages)
066305 [View PDF (2,081 kB)]
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Measurement of Newtonian fluid slip using a torsional ultrasonic oscillator
G. R. Willmott and J. L. Tallon
Published 10 December 2007 (12 pages)
066306 [View PDF (462 kB)]
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Comparison between numerical and experimental results on thermoconvective instabilities of a high-Prandtl-number liquid
Emilien Sauvage, Laetitia Jacoutot, Yves Fautrelle, Annie Gagnoud, Laure Blumenfeld, Eric Favre, and François Daviaud
Published 10 December 2007 (10 pages)
066307 [View PDF (959 kB)]
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Ekman-Hartmann layer in a magnetohydrodynamic Taylor-Couette flow
Jacek Szklarski and Günther Rüdiger
Published 12 December 2007 (8 pages)
066308 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of solvent diffusion into oil-saturated porous media
Can Ulas Hatiboglu and Tayfun Babadagli
Published 13 December 2007 (12 pages)
066309 [View PDF (1,241 kB)]
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Large-scale instability in a sheared nonhelical turbulence: Formation of vortical structures
Tov Elperin, Ilia Golubev, Nathan Kleeorin, and Igor Rogachevskii
Published 14 December 2007 (11 pages)
066310 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Splashing of liquids: Interplay of surface roughness with surrounding gas
Lei Xu, Loreto Barcos, and Sidney R. Nagel
Published 14 December 2007 (5 pages)
066311 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Isotropy and the Kármán-Howarth-Kolmogorov relation in experimental and numerical turbulence
Masanori Takaoka, Hideaki Mouri, Akihiro Hori, and Yoshihide Kawashima
Published 19 December 2007 (11 pages)
066312 [View PDF (520 kB)]
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Effective slip boundary conditions for flows over nanoscale chemical heterogeneities
S. C. Hendy and N. J. Lund
Published 20 December 2007 (5 pages)
066313 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Model of compactons on jet streams and their collapse
V. Goncharov and V. Pavlov
Published 20 December 2007 (15 pages)
066314 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Concentration fluctuations of large Stokes number particles in a one-dimensional random velocity field
Piero Olla and Raffaella M. Vuolo
Published 26 December 2007 (7 pages)
066315 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Long- and short-lived electrons with anomalously high collision rates in laser-ionized gases
Tobias Kampfrath, Dirk O. Gericke, Luca Perfetti, Petra Tegeder, Martin Wolf, and Christian Frischkorn
Published 6 December 2007 (11 pages)
066401 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Plasma fluctuations as Markovian noise
B. Li, R. D. Hazeltine, and K. W. Gentle
Published 12 December 2007 (9 pages)
066402 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Relativistic laser channeling in plasmas for fast ignition
A. L. Lei, A. Pukhov, R. Kodama, T. Yabuuchi, K. Adumi, K. Endo, R. R. Freeman, H. Habara, Y. Kitagawa, K. Kondo, G. R. Kumar, T. Matsuoka, K. Mima, H. Nagatomo, T. Norimatsu, O. Shorokhov, R. Snavely, X. Q. Yang, J. Zheng, and K. A. Tanaka
Published 18 December 2007 (5 pages)
066403 [View PDF (581 kB)]
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Temperature equilibration rate with Fermi-Dirac statistics
Lowell S. Brown and Robert L. Singleton, Jr.
Published 19 December 2007 (21 pages)
066404 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Numerical modeling of the electrical breakdown and discharge properties of laser-generated plasma channels
Tz. B. Petrova, H. D. Ladouceur, and A. P. Baronavski
Published 21 December 2007 (11 pages)
066405 [View PDF (439 kB)]

Classical physics

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Sine-Gordon ratchets with general periodic, additive, and parametric driving forces
Elías Zamora-Sillero, Niurka R. Quintero, and Franz G. Mertens
Published 6 December 2007 (9 pages)
066601 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Solitons in anharmonic chains with negative group velocity
Edward Arévalo
Published 6 December 2007 (5 pages)
066602 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Formation, control, and dynamics of N localized structures in the Peyrard-Bishop model
Elías Zamora-Sillero, A. V. Shapovalov, and Francisco J. Esteban
Published 6 December 2007 (13 pages)
066603 [View PDF (904 kB)]
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Cubic-quintic solitons in the checkerboard potential
Rodislav Driben, Boris A. Malomed, Arthur Gubeskys, and Joseph Zyss
Published 7 December 2007 (10 pages)
066604 [View PDF (801 kB)]
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Feigel effect: Extraction of momentum from vacuum?
Ole Jakob Birkeland and Iver Brevik
Published 11 December 2007 (10 pages)
066605 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Symmetry breaking in linearly coupled dynamical lattices
G. Herring, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, R. Carretero-González, and D. J. Frantzeskakis
Published 27 December 2007 (9 pages)
066606 [View PDF (455 kB)]

Computational physics

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Proposed approximation for contact angles in Shan-and-Chen-type multicomponent multiphase lattice Boltzmann models
Haibo Huang, Daniel T. Thorne, Jr., Marcel G. Schaap, and Michael C. Sukop
Published 3 December 2007 (6 pages)
066701 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Generator estimation of Markov jump processes based on incomplete observations nonequidistant in time
Philipp Metzner, Illia Horenko, and Christof Schütte
Published 6 December 2007 (8 pages)
066702 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Lattice-switch Monte Carlo simulation for binary hard-sphere crystals
A. N. Jackson and G. J. Ackland
Published 7 December 2007 (10 pages)
066703 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Kinetically reduced local Navier-Stokes equations for simulation of incompressible viscous flows
S. Borok, S. Ansumali, and I. V. Karlin
Published 10 December 2007 (9 pages)
066704 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Least-squares dynamic approximation method for evolution of uncertainty in initial conditions of dynamical systems
Carlos Pantano and Babak Shotorban
Published 20 December 2007 (13 pages)
066705 [View PDF (613 kB)]
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Genetic embedded matching approach to ground states in continuous-spin systems
Martin Weigel
Published 20 December 2007 (16 pages)
066706 [View PDF (835 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann method for weakly ionized isothermal plasmas
Huayu Li and Hyungson Ki
Published 21 December 2007 (8 pages)
066707 [View PDF (703 kB)]
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Numerical approach to the fractional Klein-Kramers equation
Marcin Magdziarz and Aleksander Weron
Published 26 December 2007 (5 pages)
066708 [View PDF (1,016 kB)]
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Full-scale solutions to particle-laden flows: Multidirect forcing and immersed boundary method
Kun Luo, Zeli Wang, Jianren Fan, and Kefa Cen
Published 27 December 2007 (9 pages)
066709 [View PDF (794 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Chaos and pattern formation

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Partial synchronization on a network with different classes of oscillators
Emmanuel Gräve de Oliveira and Thomas Braun
Published 5 December 2007 (4 pages)
067201 [View PDF (797 kB)]

Fluid dynamics

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Time-dependent lift force acting on a particle moving arbitrarily in a pure shear flow, at small Reynolds number
F. Candelier and M. Souhar
Published 5 December 2007 (4 pages)
067301 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Magnetosonic solitons in a fermionic quantum plasma
M. Marklund, B. Eliasson, and P. K. Shukla
Published 19 December 2007 (4 pages)
067401 [View PDF (263 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Helical magnetorotational instability in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow”
G. Rüdiger and R. Hollerbach
Published 3 December 2007 (2 pages)
068301 [View PDF (63 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Enlargement of zero averaged refractive index gaps in the photonic heterostructures containing negative-index materials [Phys. Rev. E 76, 056604 (2007)]
Yuanjiang Xiang, Xiaoyu Dai, Shuangchun Wen, and Dianyuan Fan
Published 6 December 2007 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Erratum: Coupled double-distribution-function lattice Boltzmann method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations [Phys. Rev. E 76, 056705 (2007)]
Q. Li, Y. L. He, Y. Wang, and W. Q. Tao
Published 18 December 2007 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (29 kB)]