Physical Review E – January 2010 (Volume 81, Issue 1) 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 • Subdiffusion of mixed origins: When ergodicity and nonergodicity coexist Yasmine Meroz, Igor M. Sokolov, and Joseph Klafter Published 4 January 2010 (4 pages) 010101(R) • Longest excursion of fractional Brownian motion: Numerical evidence of non-Markovian effects Reinaldo García-García, Alberto Rosso, and Grégory Schehr Published 13 January 2010 (4 pages) 010102(R) • Thermal diode utilizing asymmetric contacts to heat baths Teruhisa S. Komatsu and Nobuyasu Ito Published 27 January 2010 (4 pages) 010103(R) Structured and complex fluids • Percolation of colloids with distinct interaction sites J. M. Tavares, P. I. C. Teixeira, and M. M. Telo da Gama Published 28 January 2010 (4 pages) 010501(R) Liquid crystals • Arrangement dependence of interparticle force in nematic colloids Takahiro Kishita, Kenji Takahashi, Masatoshi Ichikawa, Jun-ichi Fukuda, and Yasuyuki Kimura Published 7 January 2010 (4 pages) 010701(R) • Splay bend elasticity of a bent-core nematic liquid crystal P. Sathyanarayana, M. Mathew, Q. Li, V. S. S. Sastry, B. Kundu, K. V. Le, H. Takezoe, and Surajit Dhara Published 28 January 2010 (4 pages) 010702(R) Polymers • Nanodielectric mapping of a model polystyrene-poly(vinyl acetate) blend by electrostatic force microscopy C. Riedel, R. Arinero, Ph. Tordjeman, G. Lévêque, G. A. Schwartz, A. Alegria, and J. Colmenero Published 8 January 2010 (4 pages) 010801(R) Biological physics • Wave-train-induced termination of weakly anchored vortices in excitable media Alain Pumir, Sitabhra Sinha, S. Sridhar, Médéric Argentina, Marcel Hörning, Simonetta Filippi, Christian Cherubini, Stefan Luther, and Valentin Krinsky Published 11 January 2010 (4 pages) 010901(R) • Unfolding times for proteins in a force clamp Stefano Luccioli, Alberto Imparato, Simon Mitternacht, Anders Irbäck, and Alessandro Torcini Published 29 January 2010 (4 pages) 010902(R) ARTICLES Statistical physics • Biased percolation on scale-free networks Hans Hooyberghs, Bert Van Schaeybroeck, André A. Moreira, José S. Andrade, Jr., Hans J. Herrmann, and Joseph O. Indekeu Published 5 January 2010 (16 pages) 011102 • Functional density matrix formulation of quantum statistics A. Bessa, C. A. A. de Carvalho, and E. S. Fraga Published 5 January 2010 (9 pages) 011103 • Statistical measure of complexity and correlated behavior of Fermi systems Ch. C. Moustakidis, V. P. Psonis, K. Ch. Chatzisavvas, C. P. Panos, and S. E. Massen Published 5 January 2010 (11 pages) 011104 • Geometrical ambiguity of pair statistics: Point configurations Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger, and S. Torquato Published 5 January 2010 (11 pages) 011105 • Stochastic bifurcations and coherencelike resonance in a self-sustained bistable noisy oscillator A. Zakharova, T. Vadivasova, V. Anishchenko, A. Koseska, and J. Kurths Published 6 January 2010 (6 pages) 011106 • Origin of end-of-aging and subaging scaling behavior in glassy dynamics Paolo Sibani and Gregory G. Kenning Published 6 January 2010 (5 pages) 011108 • Approach to thermal equilibrium of macroscopic quantum systems Sheldon Goldstein, Joel L. Lebowitz, Christian Mastrodonato, Roderich Tumulka, and Nino Zanghi Published 7 January 2010 (9 pages) 011109 • Second-order dynamic transition in a p=2 spin-glass model Kristina van Duijvendijk, Robert L. Jack, and Frédéric van Wijland Published 8 January 2010 (11 pages) 011110 • Metastable states and space-time phase transitions in a spin-glass model Robert L. Jack and Juan P. Garrahan Published 8 January 2010 (6 pages) 011111 • Field theoretic treatment of an effective action for a model of catalyzed autoamplification Martin Tchernookov, Aryeh Warmflash, and Aaron R. Dinner Published 8 January 2010 (10 pages) 011112 • Coarse-grained models of tethers for fast self-assembly simulations Aaron Santos, Chetana Singh, and Sharon C. Glotzer Published 8 January 2010 (11 pages) 011113 • Heat conduction and reversed thermal diode: The interface effect Jun Wang and Zhigang Zheng Published 12 January 2010 (6 pages) 011114 • Nonlinear sensors: An approach to the residence time detection strategy A. Dari, L. Bosi, and L. Gammaitoni Published 12 January 2010 (10 pages) 011115 • Non-Markovian diffusion and the adsorption-desorption process E. K. Lenzi, C. A. R. Yednak, and L. R. Evangelista Published 13 January 2010 (7 pages) 011116 • Semiclassical theory for spatial density oscillations in fermionic systems J. Roccia, M. Brack, and A. Koch Published 14 January 2010 (20 pages) 011118 • Mapping fermion and boson systems onto the Fock space of harmonic oscillators Vincenzo Branchina, Marco Di Liberto, and Ivano Lodato Published 15 January 2010 (6 pages) 011120 • Dynamical transitions and sliding friction of the phase-field-crystal model with pinning J. A. P. Ramos, E. Granato, S. C. Ying, C. V. Achim, K. R. Elder, and T. Ala-Nissila Published 15 January 2010 (7 pages) 011121 • Diversity of Poissonian populations Iddo I. Eliazar and Igor M. Sokolov Published 15 January 2010 (11 pages) 011122 • Fluctuation-dissipation relations and field-free algorithms for the computation of response functions Federico Corberi, Eugenio Lippiello, Alessandro Sarracino, and Marco Zannetti Published 19 January 2010 (13 pages) 011124 • Anomalous diffusion in non-Markovian walks having amnestically induced persistence A. S. Ferreira, J. C. Cressoni, G. M. Viswanathan, and Marco Antonio Alves da Silva Published 19 January 2010 (7 pages) 011125 • Integrodifferential diffusion equation for continuous-time random walk Kwok Sau Fa and K. G. Wang Published 21 January 2010 (5 pages) 011126 • Lévy-type diffusion on one-dimensional directed Cantor graphs Raffaella Burioni, Luca Caniparoli, Stefano Lepri, and Alessandro Vezzani Published 21 January 2010 (8 pages) 011127 • Anomalous transport in correlated velocity fields Brian Berkowitz and Harvey Scher Published 21 January 2010 (6 pages) 011128 • Short-time dynamics and critical behavior of the three-dimensional site-diluted Ising model Vladimir V. Prudnikov, Pavel V. Prudnikov, Aleksandr S. Krinitsyn, Andrei N. Vakilov, Evgenii A. Pospelov, and Mikhail V. Rychkov Published 26 January 2010 (11 pages) 011130 • Effect of damaged vehicle evacuation on traffic flow with open boundaries Abdelaziz Mhirech, Hamid Ez-Zahraouy, and Assia Alaoui Ismaili Published 26 January 2010 (5 pages) 011132 • Majority-vote model on hyperbolic lattices Zhi-Xi Wu (吴枝喜) and Petter Holme Published 26 January 2010 (7 pages) 011133 • Force-balance percolation M. Jeng and J. M. Schwarz Published 27 January 2010 (14 pages) 011134 • Markovian embedding of non-Markovian superdiffusion Peter Siegle, Igor Goychuk, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi Published 27 January 2010 (10 pages) 011136 • Allosteric model of an ion pump Eiro Muneyuki and Ken Sekimoto Published 28 January 2010 (9 pages) 011137 • Structural properties of the synchronized cluster on complex networks Yup Kim, Yongjin Ko, and Soon-Hyung Yook Published 29 January 2010 (4 pages) 011139 • Resonant behavior of a fractional oscillator with fluctuating frequency Erkki Soika, Romi Mankin, and Ain Ainsaar Published 29 January 2010 (11 pages) 011141 Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids • Simulation of hard-disk flow in microchannels Guofei Shen and Wei Ge Published 5 January 2010 (12 pages) 011201 • Dynamics of the solvent around a solute: Generalized Langevin theory R. Ishizuka and F. Hirata Published 14 January 2010 (7 pages) 011202 • Computation of accommodation coefficients and the use of velocity correlation profiles in molecular dynamics simulations Peter Spijker, Albert J. Markvoort, Silvia V. Nedea, and Peter A. J. Hilbers Published 22 January 2010 (15 pages) 011203 • Rarefied-gas heat transfer in micro- and nanoscale Couette flows W. D. Zhou, B. Liu, S. K. Yu, and W. Hua Published 26 January 2010 (7 pages) 011204 Granular materials • Acoustic gaps in a chain of magnetic spheres F. J. Sierra-Valdez, F. Pacheco-Vázquez, O. Carvente, F. Malloggi, J. Cruz-Damas, R. Rechtman, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez Published 4 January 2010 (4 pages) 011301 • Force cycles and force chains Antoinette Tordesillas, David M. Walker, and Qun Lin Published 13 January 2010 (10 pages) 011302 • Comparison of hyperelastic models for granular materials Paul W. Humrickhouse, J. Phil Sharpe, and Michael L. Corradini Published 15 January 2010 (12 pages) 011303 • Traveling shock front in quasi-two-dimensional granular flows Guoqi Hu, Yinchang Li, Meiying Hou, and Kiwing To Published 29 January 2010 (5 pages) 011305 Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates • Controlled propulsion in viscous fluids of magnetically actuated colloidal doublets Pietro Tierno, Oriol Güell, Francesc Sagués, Ramin Golestanian, and Ignacio Pagonabarraga Published 8 January 2010 (9 pages) 011402 • Microscopic structural relaxation in a sheared supercooled colloidal liquid Dandan Chen, Denis Semwogerere, Jun Sato, Victor Breedveld, and Eric R. Weeks Published 12 January 2010 (13 pages) 011403 • Aging in dense suspensions of soft thermosensitive microgel particles studied with particle-tracking microrheology Dirk van den Ende, Eko H. Purnomo, Michel H. G. Duits, Walter Richtering, and Frieder Mugele Published 13 January 2010 (9 pages) 011404 • Influence of droplet deformability on the coalescence rate of emulsions Jhoan Toro-Mendoza, Aileen Lozsan, Maximo Garcia-Sucre, Aly J. Castellanos S., and German Urbina-Villalba Published 13 January 2010 (13 pages) 011405 • Effect of nanoparticle clustering on the effective thermal conductivity of concentrated silica colloids Chunwei Wu, Tae Joon Cho, Jiajun Xu, Donggeun Lee, Bao Yang, and Michael R. Zachariah Published 13 January 2010 (7 pages) 011406 Structured and complex fluids • Behavior of bulky ferrofluids in the diluted low-coupling regime: Theory and simulation Juan J. Cerdà, Ekaterina Elfimova, V. Ballenegger, Ekaterina Krutikova, Alexey Ivanov, and Christian Holm Published 13 January 2010 (11 pages) 011501 • Elasticity of dilatant particle suspensions during flow Ryan J. Larsen, Jin-Woong Kim, Charles F. Zukoski, and David A. Weitz Published 20 January 2010 (8 pages) 011502 • Shear alignment and realignment of sphere-forming and cylinder-forming block-copolymer thin films Andrew P. Marencic, Douglas H. Adamson, Paul M. Chaikin, and Richard A. Register Published 21 January 2010 (10 pages) 011503 Films, interfaces, and crystal growth • Analytic description of competitive grain growth Colin Ophus, Erik J. Luber, and David Mitlin Published 6 January 2010 (6 pages) 011601 • Amplitude expansion of the binary phase-field-crystal model K. R. Elder, Zhi-Feng Huang, and Nikolas Provatas Published 7 January 2010 (11 pages) 011602 • Phase-field study of three-dimensional steady-state growth shapes in directional solidification Sebastian Gurevich, Alain Karma, Mathis Plapp, and Rohit Trivedi Published 14 January 2010 (15 pages) 011603 • Shearing particle monolayers: Strain-rate frequency superposition Duyang Zang, Dominique Langevin, Bernard P. Binks, and Bingbo Wei Published 15 January 2010 (5 pages) 011604 • Dynamic scaling study of vapor deposition polymerization: A Monte Carlo approach Sairam Tangirala, D. P. Landau, and Y.-P. Zhao Published 19 January 2010 (10 pages) 011605 Liquid crystals • Microbeam resonant x-ray scattering from bromine-substituted bent-core liquid crystals Yoichi Takanishi, Youko Ohtsuka, Yumiko Takahashi, and Atsuo Iida Published 12 January 2010 (4 pages) 011701 • Phase structure and molecular dynamics of liquid-crystalline side-on organosiloxane tetrapodes D. Filip, C. Cruz, P. J. Sebastião, M. Cardoso, A. C. Ribeiro, M. Vilfan, T. Meyer, P. H. J. Kouwer, and G. H. Mehl Published 19 January 2010 (16 pages) 011702 • Polar switching in the smectic- AdPA phase composed of asymmetric bent-core molecules Lingfeng Guo, Surajit Dhara, B. K. Sadashiva, S. Radhika, R. Pratibha, Yoshio Shimbo, Fumito Araoka, Ken Ishikawa, and Hideo Takezoe Published 20 January 2010 (6 pages) 011703 • Nanophase segregation in binary mixtures of a bent-core and a rodlike liquid-crystal molecule Chenhui Zhu, Dong Chen, Yongqiang Shen, Christopher D. Jones, Matthew A. Glaser, Joseph E. Maclennan, and Noel A. Clark Published 22 January 2010 (5 pages) 011704 Polymers • From macroscopic yield criteria to atomic stresses in polymer glasses David MacNeill and Jörg Rottler Published 12 January 2010 (9 pages) 011804 Biological physics • Quasispecies theory for finite populations Jeong-Man Park, Enrique Muñoz, and Michael W. Deem Published 6 January 2010 (12 pages) 011902 • Nonlinear diffusion and exclusion processes with contact interactions Anthony E. Fernando, Kerry A. Landman, and Matthew J. Simpson Published 11 January 2010 (11 pages) 011903 • Adhesion of cylindrical colloids to the surface of a membrane Sergey Mkrtchyan, Christopher Ing, and Jeff Z. Y. Chen Published 12 January 2010 (9 pages) 011904 • Mean-field theory of a plastic network of integrate-and-fire neurons Chun-Chung Chen and David Jasnow Published 13 January 2010 (12 pages) 011907 Plasmid copy number noise in monoclonal populations of bacteria Jérôme Wong Ng, Didier Chatenay, Jérôme Robert, and Michael Guy Poirier Published 14 January 2010 (8 pages) 011909 • Coupling regularizes individual units in noisy populations Cheng Ly and G. Bard Ermentrout Published 21 January 2010 (13 pages) 011911 • Effects of the promoter open complex formation on gene expression dynamics Andre S. Ribeiro, Antti Häkkinen, Henrik Mannerström, Jason Lloyd-Price, and Olli Yli-Harja Published 22 January 2010 (5 pages) 011912 • Flexible traffic control of the synfire-mode transmission by inhibitory modulation: Nonlinear noise reduction Takashi Shinozaki, Masato Okada, Alex D. Reyes, and Hideyuki Câteau Published 22 January 2010 (7 pages) 011913 • Discrete, continuous, and stochastic models of protein sorting in the Golgi apparatus Haijun Gong, Yusong Guo, Adam Linstedt, and Russell Schwartz Published 25 January 2010 (16 pages) 011914 • Off-site control of repolarization alternans in cardiac fibers Trine Krogh-Madsen, Alain Karma, Mark L. Riccio, Peter N. Jordan, David J. Christini, and Robert F. Gilmour, Jr. Published 25 January 2010 (7 pages) 011915 • Time scales of spike-train correlation for neural oscillators with common drive Andrea K. Barreiro, Eric Shea-Brown, and Evan L. Thilo Published 27 January 2010 (13 pages) 011916 • Comparison of Langevin and Markov channel noise models for neuronal signal generation B. Sengupta, S. B. Laughlin, and J. E. Niven Published 29 January 2010 (12 pages) 011918 Part 2 - Nonlinear and Plasma Physics, Fluid Dynamics, and Related Topics RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Interdisciplinary physics • Ambiguities in recurrence-based complex network representations of time series Reik V. Donner, Yong Zou, Jonathan F. Donges, Norbert Marwan, and Jürgen Kurths Published 15 January 2010 (4 pages) 015101(R) • Controlling self-organized criticality in sandpile models Daniel O. Cajueiro and R. F. S. Andrade Published 19 January 2010 (4 pages) 015102(R) Fluid dynamics • Transient turbulence in plane Couette flow Tobias M. Schneider, Filippo De Lillo, Juergen Buehrle, Bruno Eckhardt, Tim Dörnemann, Kay Dörnemann, and Bernd Freisleben Published 7 January 2010 (4 pages) 015301(R) • Universal velocity profile for coherent vortices in two-dimensional turbulence M. Chertkov, I. Kolokolov, and V. Lebedev Published 19 January 2010 (4 pages) 015302(R) • Electrothermally driven flows in ac electrowetting Pablo García-Sánchez, Antonio Ramos, and Frieder Mugele Published 27 January 2010 (4 pages) 015303(R) ARTICLES Interdisciplinary physics • Spectral perturbation and reconstructability of complex networks D. Liu, H. Wang, and P. Van Mieghem Published 6 January 2010 (9 pages) 016101 • Contact and friction of nanoasperities: Effects of adsorbed monolayers Shengfeng Cheng, Binquan Luan, and Mark O. Robbins Published 7 January 2010 (17 pages) 016102 • Finding communities in directed networks Youngdo Kim, Seung-Woo Son, and Hawoong Jeong Published 8 January 2010 (9 pages) 016103 • Nonlinear dynamics of a rack-pinion-rack device powered by the Casimir force MirFaez Miri, Vahid Nekouie, and Ramin Golestanian Published 11 January 2010 (6 pages) 016104 • Cellular automaton model of damage C. A. Serino, W. Klein, and J. B. Rundle Published 11 January 2010 (9 pages) 016105 • Effective potential and chiral symmetry breaking David Hochberg Published 20 January 2010 (13 pages) 016106 • Weighted trade network in a model of preferential bipartite transactions Abhijit Chakraborty and S. S. Manna Published 26 January 2010 (8 pages) 016111 • Global dynamic routing for scale-free networks Xiang Ling, Mao-Bin Hu, Rui Jiang, and Qing-Song Wu Published 28 January 2010 (5 pages) 016113 • Explicit determination of mean first-passage time for random walks on deterministic uniform recursive trees Zhongzhi Zhang, Yi Qi, Shuigeng Zhou, Shuyang Gao, and Jihong Guan Published 29 January 2010 (8 pages) 016114 Chaos and pattern formation • Singular tori as attractors of four-wave-interaction systems S. Lagrange, D. Sugny, A. Picozzi, and H. R. Jauslin Published 7 January 2010 (11 pages) 016202 • Directed chaotic transport in the tokamap with mixed phase space A. B. Schelin and K. H. Spatschek Published 12 January 2010 (8 pages) 016205 • Harmonic moment dynamics in Laplacian growth Alexander Leshchiner, Matthew Thrasher, Mark B. Mineev-Weinstein, and Harry L. Swinney Published 12 January 2010 (9 pages) 016206 • Parameter estimation of dynamical systems via a chaotic ant swarm Haipeng Peng, Lixiang Li, Yixian Yang, and Fei Liu Published 13 January 2010 (11 pages) 016207 • Transition to weak generalized synchrony in chaotically driven flows Thounaojam Umeshkanta Singh, Haider Hasan Jafri, and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy Published 14 January 2010 (7 pages) 016208 • Weak chaos and the "melting transition" in a confined microplasma system Chris Antonopoulos, Vasileios Basios, and Tassos Bountis Published 21 January 2010 (9 pages) 016211 • Catastrophic sliding bifurcations and onset of oscillations in a superconducting resonator M. R. Jeffrey, A. R. Champneys, M. di Bernardo, and S. W. Shaw Published 28 January 2010 (10 pages) 016213 • Semiclassical approach to survival probability at quantum phase transitions Wen-ge Wang, Pinquan Qin, Lewei He, and Ping Wang Published 29 January 2010 (5 pages) 016214 Fluid dynamics • Effective degrees of nonlinearity in a family of generalized models of two-dimensional turbulence Chuong V. Tran, David G. Dritschel, and Richard K. Scott Published 5 January 2010 (6 pages) 016301 • Lifetime of micrometer-sized drops of oil pressed by buoyancy against a planar interface Clara Rojas, Germán Urbina-Villalba, and Máximo García-Sucre Published 6 January 2010 (15 pages) 016302 • Pulsating laminar fully developed channel and pipe flows Kais Haddad, Özgür Ertunç, Manoranjan Mishra, and Antonio Delgado Published 8 January 2010 (13 pages) 016303 • Investigation of heat transfer in turbulent nanofluids using direct numerical simulations Sasidhar Kondaraju, E. K. Jin, and J. S. Lee Published 11 January 2010 (10 pages) 016304 • Self-consistent theory of capillary-gravity-wave generation by small moving objects A. D. Chepelianskii, M. Schindler, F. Chevy, and E. Raphaël Published 12 January 2010 (7 pages) 016306 • Thickness of the diffusive sublayer in turbulent convection Ronald du Puits, Christian Resagk, and André Thess Published 13 January 2010 (5 pages) 016307 Nonspherical laser-induced cavitation bubbles Kang Yuan Lim, Pedro A. Quinto-Su, Evert Klaseboer, Boo Cheong Khoo, Vasan Venugopalan, and Claus-Dieter Ohl Published 14 January 2010 (9 pages) 016308 • Roll and square convection in binary liquids: A few-mode Galerkin model S. Weggler, B. Huke, and M. Lücke Published 14 January 2010 (8 pages) 016309 • Three ways to lattice Boltzmann: A unified time-marching picture S. Ubertini, P. Asinari, and S. Succi Published 15 January 2010 (11 pages) 016311 • Control of radial fingering patterns: A weakly nonlinear approach Eduardo O. Dias and José A. Miranda Published 15 January 2010 (7 pages) 016312 • Inverse energy cascade in a turbulent round jet M. Yu. Hrebtov, B. B. Ilyushin, and D. V. Krasinsky Published 25 January 2010 (6 pages) 016315 • Effects of an oscillating magnetic field on homogeneous ferrofluid turbulence Kristopher R. Schumacher, James J. Riley, and Bruce A. Finlayson Published 26 January 2010 (12 pages) 016317 • Lack of universality in decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence E. Lee, M. E. Brachet, A. Pouquet, P. D. Mininni, and D. Rosenberg Published 26 January 2010 (9 pages) 016318 • Unsteady electrohydrodynamic flow of immiscible liquids in channels Alexander N. Tyatyushkin Published 27 January 2010 (6 pages) 016319 • Effect of the combined action of Faradaic currents and mobility differences in ac electro-osmosis A. González, A. Ramos, P. García-Sánchez, and A. Castellanos Published 28 January 2010 (16 pages) 016320 • Formation and evolution of bubbly screens in confined oscillating bubbly liquids Sergey Shklyaev and Arthur V. Straube Published 28 January 2010 (10 pages) 016321 • Smooth and filamental structures in chaotically advected chemical fields Alexandra Tzella and Peter H. Haynes Published 28 January 2010 (15 pages) 016322 • Patterning nanoscale flow vortices in nanochannels with patterned substrates Siddharth Karakare, Abhimanyu Kar, Avinash Kumar, and Suman Chakraborty Published 29 January 2010 (6 pages) 016324 Plasma physics • Density and potential profiles of non-neutral electron plasmas in a magnetic mirror field H. Higaki, K. Fukata, K. Ito, H. Okamoto, and K. Gomberoff Published 7 January 2010 (8 pages) 016401 • Influence of dust-particle concentration on gas-discharge plasma G. I. Sukhinin and A. V. Fedoseev Published 14 January 2010 (6 pages) 016402 • Photodetachment of H− in dense quantum plasmas Arijit Ghoshal and Y. K. Ho Published 20 January 2010 (7 pages) 016403 • Dimensional phase transition in small Yukawa clusters T. E. Sheridan and K. D. Wells Published 22 January 2010 (8 pages) 016404 • Simulation of dust particles in dual-frequency capacitively coupled silane discharges Xiang-Mei Liu, Yuan-Hong Song, Xiang Xu, and You-Nian Wang Published 22 January 2010 (8 pages) 016405 • Dynamic Stark broadening as the Dicke narrowing effect A. Calisti, C. Mossé, S. Ferri, B. Talin, F. Rosmej, L. A. Bureyeva, and V. S. Lisitsa Published 26 January 2010 (6 pages) 016406 Classical physics • Generalization of helicoidal beams for short pulses Jean-Louis Thomas, Thomas Brunet, and François Coulouvrat Published 5 January 2010 (14 pages) 016601 • Single-scattering optical tomography: Simultaneous reconstruction of scattering and absorption Lucia Florescu, Vadim A. Markel, and John C. Schotland Published 5 January 2010 (6 pages) 016602 • Soliton excitations in a one-dimensional nonlinear diatomic chain of split-ring resonators Weina Cui, Yongyuan Zhu, Hongxia Li, and Sumei Liu Published 8 January 2010 (9 pages) 016604 • Traveling and solitary wave solutions to the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation Wei-Ping Zhong, Milivoj R. Belić, Yiqin Lu, and Tingwen Huang Published 11 January 2010 (5 pages) 016605 • Cloaking of the momentum in acoustic waves Sophia Sklan Published 14 January 2010 (4 pages) 016606 • Anomalous sound propagation and slow kinetics in dynamically compressed amorphous carbon Evan J. Reed, Amitesh Maiti, and Laurence E. Fried Published 19 January 2010 (9 pages) 016607 • Nonlinear Schrödinger equation with spatiotemporal perturbations Franz G. Mertens, Niurka R. Quintero, and A. R. Bishop Published 20 January 2010 (11 pages) 016608 • Scale-dependent anisotropic polarizability in mesoscopic structures David Haefner, Sergey Sukhov, and Aristide Dogariu Published 20 January 2010 (5 pages) 016609 • Dispersive cylindrical cloaks under nonmonochromatic illumination Christos Argyropoulos, Efthymios Kallos, and Yang Hao Published 27 January 2010 (9 pages) 016611 Computational physics • Billiards in magnetic fields: A molecular dynamics approach M. Aichinger, S. Janecek, and E. Räsänen Published 14 January 2010 (6 pages) 016703 • Improving the accuracy of the discrete gradient method in the one-dimensional case Jan L. Cieśliński and Bogusław Ratkiewicz Published 14 January 2010 (6 pages) 016704 • Convergence and coupling for spin glasses and hard spheres Cédric Chanal and Werner Krauth Published 19 January 2010 (12 pages) 016705 • Finite-difference-based multiple-relaxation-times lattice Boltzmann model for binary mixtures Lin Zheng, Zhaoli Guo, Baochang Shi, and Chuguang Zheng Published 20 January 2010 (9 pages) 016706 • High-order time expansion path integral ground state R. Rota, J. Casulleras, F. Mazzanti, and J. Boronat Published 22 January 2010 (4 pages) 016707 BRIEF REPORTS Interdisciplinary physics • Spatial periodicity induced by a chemical wave train Shrabani Sen, Pushpita Ghosh, Syed Shahed Riaz, and Deb Shankar Ray Published 14 January 2010 (4 pages) 017101 Chaos and pattern formation • Double-humped states in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a random potential H. Veksler, Y. Krivolapov, and S. Fishman Published 4 January 2010 (4 pages) 017201 • Mechanism of destruction of transport barriers in geophysical jets with Rossby waves M. Yu. Uleysky, M. V. Budyansky, and S. V. Prants Published 13 January 2010 (4 pages) 017202 • Quantum chaos and operator fidelity metric Paolo Giorda and Paolo Zanardi Published 26 January 2010 (4 pages) 017203 Fluid dynamics • Three-dimensional turbulent relative dispersion by the Gledzer-Ohkitani-Yamada shell model Sagar Chakraborty, Mogens H. Jensen, and Bo S. Madsen Published 13 January 2010 (4 pages) 017301 • Rayleigh-Taylor instability under a flat beam M. Lenschen, A. Calvo, and M. Cachile Published 20 January 2010 (4 pages) 017302 Classical physics | |