Accepted in December 2007, to be published in Physical Review E

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INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS

Dynamic failure in amorphous solids via a cavitation instability
Eran Bouchbinder, Ting-Shek Lo, and Itamar Procaccia
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CHAOS AND PATTERN FORMATION

Fractal Weyl law for quantum fractal eigenstates
D. L. Shepelyansky
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Reorientation of scroll rings in an advective field
Chaiya Luengviriya, Stefan C. M\"{u}ller, and Marcus J. B. Hauser
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CLASSICAL PHYSICS, INCLUDING NONLINEAR MEDIA AND PHOTONIC MATERIALS

Far-field image magnification for acoustic waves using anisotropic acoustic metamaterials
Xianyu Ao and C. T. Chan
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Highly nonlinear solitary waves in periodic dimer granular chains
Mason A. Porter, Chiara Daraio, Eric B. Herbold, Ivan Szelengowicz, and P. G. Kevrekidis
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STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Priority diffusion model in lattices and complex networks
Michalis Maragakis, Shai Carmi, Daniel ben-Avraham, Shlomo Havlin, and Panos Argyrakis
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COLLOIDAL DISPERSIONS, SUSPENSIONS, AND AGGREGATES

Multipole expansion of the electrostatic interaction between charged colloids at interfaces
A. Dom\'{\i}nguez, D. Frydel, and M. Oettel
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LIQUID CRYSTALS

Inhomogeneous bulk nematic order reconstruction
G. Lombardo, H. Ayeb, F. Ciuchi, M. P. De Santo, R. Barberi, R. Bartolino, E. G. Virga, and G. E. Durand
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Unexpected field-induced phase transitions between ferrielectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystal structures
S. Jaradat, P. Brimicombe, C. Southern, S. Siemianowski, E. DiMasi, M. Osipov, R. Pindak, and H. F. Gleeson

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Hexagonal phase induced by a reversible photo-cross-link reaction in a polymer mixture
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Masahiro Satoh, and Qui Tran-Cong-Miyata

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Statistically enhanced promiscuity of structurally correlated patterns
D. B. Lukatsky and E. I. Shakhnovich

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Universal robustness characteristic of weighted networks against cascading failure
Wen-Xu Wang and Guanrong Chen
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Naming games in two-dimensional and small-world-connected random geometric networks
Qiming Lu, G. Korniss, and B. K. Szymanski
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Local information transfer as a spatiotemporal filter for complex systems
Joseph T. Lizier, Mikhail Prokopenko, and Albert Y. Zomaya
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Indication of multiscaling in the volatility return intervals of stock markets
Fengzhong Wang, Kazuko Yamasaki, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
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CHAOS AND PATTERN FORMATION

Bifurcations and chaos in semiconductor superlattices with a tilted magnetic field
A. G. Balanov, D. Fowler, A. Patan\`{e}, L. Eaves, and T. M. Fromhold
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Control of a noise-induced transition in a nonlinear dynamical system
Yu. A. Astrov, A. L. Fradkov, and P. Yu. Guzenko
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Characterization of nonstationary chaotic systems
Ruth Serquina, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Qingfei Chen
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Estimation of parameters in nonlinear systems using balanced synchronization
Henry D. I. Abarbanel, Daniel R. Creveling, and James M. Jeanne
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Local wave grouping in a parameter-gradient system and its formation mechanism
Huimin Liao, Yangle Wu, Jianglei Yu, and Qi Ouyang
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Chaotic scattering by steep repelling potentials
A. Rapoport and V. Rom-Kedar
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Prevalence of marginally unstable periodic orbits in chaotic billiards
E. G. Altmann, T. Friedrich, A. E. Motter, H. Kantz, and A. Richter
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FLUID DYNAMICS

Tank-treading, swinging, and tumbling of liquid-filled elastic capsules in shear flow
Y. Sui, H. T. Low, Y. T. Chew, and P. Roy

Front propagation in a laminar cellular flow: Shapes, velocities, and least time criterion
A. Pocheau and F. Harambat
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Transitions in the wake of a flapping foil
Ramiro Godoy-Diana, Jean-Luc Aider, and Jos\ ' { e} Eduardo Wesfreid
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Sufficient condition for Gaussian departure in turbulence
Daniela Tordella, Michele Iovieno, and Peter Roger Bailey
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PLASMA PHYSICS

Pair-distribution functions of two-temperature two-mass systems: Comparison of molecular dynamics, classical-map hypernetted chain, quantum Monte Carlo, and Kohn-Sham calculations for dense hydrogen
M. W. C. Dharma-wardana and Michael S. Murillo
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Effect of target shape on fast electron emission in femtosecond laser-plasma interactions
Y. T. Li, M. H. Xu, X. H. Yuan, W. M. Wang, M. Chen, Z. Y. Zheng, Z. M. Sheng, Q. Z. Yu, Y. Zhang, F. Liu, Z. Jin, Z. H. Wang, Z. Y. Wei, W. Zhao, and J. Zhang

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Anomalous mobility of dislocation kink solitons in disordered solid solutions
B. V. Petukhov

Strongly interacting bubbles under an ultrasonic horn
Kyuichi Yasui, Yasuo Iida, Toru Tuziuti, Teruyuki Kozuka, and Atsuya Towata

Elasticity with arbitrarily shaped inhomogeneity
Joachim Mathiesen, Itamar Procaccia, and Ido Regev
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Generalized neighbor-interaction models induced by nonlinear lattices
F. Kh. Abdullaev, Yu. V. Bludov, S. V. Dmitriev, P. G. Kevrekidis, and V. V. Konotop
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Numerical investigation of the properties of nonlinear acoustical vortices through weakly heterogeneous media
R\ ' { e} gis Marchiano, Fran\ c{ c} ois Coulouvrat, Lili Ganjehi, and Jean-Louis Thomas
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COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Equation-free implementation of statistical moment closures
Francis J. Alexander, Gregory Johnson, Gregory L. Eyink, and Ioannis G. Kevrekidis
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STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Exact solution for stochastic degradation and fragmentation processes in arbitrary chain and ring aggregates with multiple bonds
Mark B. Flegg and Dmitri K. Gramotnev

Quantum chaos, delocalization, and entanglement in disordered Heisenberg models
Winton G. Brown, Lea F. Santos, David J. Starling, and Lorenza Viola
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Crystallization and melting of bacteria colonies and Brownian bugs
Francisco Ramos, Crist\ ' { o} bal L\'{o}pez, Emilio Hern\'{a}ndez-Garc\'{\i}a, and Miguel A. Mu\~{n}oz
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Persistence of instanton connections in chemical reactions with time-dependent rates
Carlos Escudero and Jos\ ' { e} \ ' { A} ngel Rodr{\'i}guez
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Nonequilibrium critical dynamics of the two-dimensional Ising model quenched from a correlated initial state
L\ ' { a} szl\ ' { o} K\"{o}rnyei, Michel Pleimling, and Ferenc Igl\'{o}i
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Monte Carlo simulation of uncoupled continuous-time random walks yielding a stochastic solution of the space-time fractional diffusion equation
Daniel Fulger, Enrico Scalas, and Guido Germano
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Macroscopic distinguishability between quantum states defining different phases of matter: Fidelity and the Uhlmann geometric phase
Nikola Paunkovi\'c and Vitor Rocha Vieira
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Exact mean first-passage time on the T-graph
E. Agliari
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First-order irreversible thermodynamic approach to a simple energy converter
L. A. Arias-Hernandez, F. Angulo--Brown, and R. T. Paez--Hernandez
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GRANULAR MATERIALS

Microscopic origin of granular ratcheting
S. McNamara, R. Garc\'{\i}a-Rojo, and H. J. Herrmann
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Sound propagation in a constrained lattice of beads: High-frequency behavior and dispersion relation
Christophe Coste and Bruno Gilles
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Granular labyrinth structures in confined geometries
Henning Arendt Knudsen, Bj{ \ o} rnar Sandnes, Eirik Grude Flekk{\o}y, and Knut J{ \ o} rgen M\r{a}l{\o}y
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$H$ theorem for contact forces in granular materials
Philip T. Metzger
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COLLOIDAL DISPERSIONS, SUSPENSIONS, AND AGGREGATES

Electric-field-induced displacement of a charged spherical colloid embedded in an elastic Brinkman medium
Reghan J. Hill and M. Ostoja-Starzewski
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STRUCTURED AND COMPLEX FLUIDS

Profile blunting and flow blockage in a yield-stress fluid: A molecular dynamics study
F. Varnik and D. Raabe
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Need for inertia in nonequilibrium steady states of sheared binary fluids
Suzanne M. Fielding
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Domain formation and growth in spinodal decomposition of a binary fluid by molecular dynamics simulations
Amol K. Thakre, W. K. den Otter, and W. J. Briels
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Polarization splay as the origin of modulation in the $B$1 and $B$7 smectic phases of bent-core molecules
D. A. Coleman, C. D. Jones, M. Nakata, N. A. Clark, D. M. Walba, W. Weissflog, K. Fodor-Csorba, J. Watanabe, V. Novotna, and V. Hamplova

Electrorheological effect and directional non-Newtonian behavior in a nematic capillary subjected to a pressure gradient
Carlos I. Mendoza, A. Corella-Madue\~{n}o, and J. Adri\ ' { a} n Reyes
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Interfacial anisotropy in the transport of liquid crystals confined between flat, structureless walls: A molecular dynamics simulation approach
Toshiki Mima and Kenji Yasuoka
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BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

Nucleation of membrane adhesions
Cheng-Zhong Zhang and Zhen-Gang Wang
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Resetting and termination of reentry in a loop-and-tail cardiac model
Trine Krogh-Madsen and David J. Christini
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Interacting RNA polymerase motors on a DNA track: Effects of traffic congestion and intrinsic noise on RNA synthesis
Tripti Tripathi and Debashish Chowdhury
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Elastic origin of chiral selection in DNA wrapping
Tomohiro Yanao and Kenichi Yoshikawa
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Lateral migration of a two-dimensional vesicle in unbounded Poiseuille flow
B. Kaoui, G. H. Ristow, I. Cantat, C. Misbah, and W. Zimmermann
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Dynamic range of hypercubic stochastic excitable media
Vladimir R. V. Assis and Mauro Copelli
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Atomic force microscopy study of thick lamellar stacks of phospholipid bilayers
Arne Sch\"{a}fer, Tim Salditt, and Maikel C. Rheinst\"{a}dter
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Hydrodynamics of self-propelled hard rods
Aparna Baskaran and M. Cristina Marchetti
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Computational analysis of adhesion force in the indentation of cells using atomic force microscopy
C. Y. Zhang and Y. W. Zhang

Temporal differentiation and the optimization of system output
Emmanuel Tannenbaum
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Comparison of three replication strategies in complex multicellular organisms: Asexual replication, sexual replication with identical gametes, and sexual replication with distinct sperm and egg gametes
Emmanuel Tannenbaum
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F\"{o}rster mechanism of electron-driven proton pumps
Anatoly Yu. Smirnov, Lev G. Mourokh, and Franco Nori
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Nonlinear analysis of human physical activity patterns in health and disease
A. Paraschiv-Ionescu, E. Buchser, B. Rutschmann, and K. Aminian

Detecting directional coupling in the human epileptic brain: Limitations and potential pitfalls
Hannes Osterhage, Florian Mormann, Tobias Wagner, and Klaus Lehnertz
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STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Variational-method study of the spin-1 Ising model with biaxial crystal-field anisotropy
J. Ricardo de Sousa and N. S. Branco
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Self-interaction and slow dynamics
Toyonori Munakata and Masayuki Uranagase
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