http://pre.aps.org/ Accepted Papers for Physical Review E en-us Copyright (c) 2009 The American Physical Society 2009-11-21T01:05:05-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2009-11-21T01:05:05-05:00 rss@aps.org http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/0707fR15U6813109853f46284c4be07b02b0f6885 Thermally induced variation in wetting ability in a confined nanoenvironment, indicated by the change in infiltration pressure as water molecules enter a model single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) submerged in aqueous environment, is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The temperatur... Jianbing Zhao, Ling Liu, Patricia J. Culligan and Xi Chen 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/1807eR53Wd31c305843c5a71121f44ef5af4fb1cf A theoretical description for the radial density profile of a finite number of identical charged particles confined in a harmonic trap is developed for application over a wide range of Coulomb coupling (or, equivalently, temperatures) and particle numbers. A simple mean field approximation neglectin... J. Wrighton, J. W. Dufty, H. Kahlert and M. Bonitz 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Plasma physics Plasma physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/56074Rf0W7c17d00d49a5af09f0e324bd34e2c4ce A driven Ising model with friction due to magnetic correlations has recently been proposed by Kadau et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 137205 (2008)]. The non-equilibrium phase transition present in this system is investigated in detail using analytical methods as well as Monte Carlo simulations. In the ... Alfred Hucht 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Statistical physics Statistical physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/40079R4bRe219505c66b8a00590e4261e368716e6 We study rotation of a spheroidal dielectric particle immersed into a viscous dielectric fluid and subjected to a constant external electric field. The electrorotation is caused by the mechanical torque due to a fluid shear flow and by the electric moment due to the difference between electric condu... Yu. Dolinsky and T. Elperin 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Classical Physics Classical Physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/ce075R87W501cb0784b85b474e72000d4e45241de We study the steady dynamics of an exothermic Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov chemical wave front traveling in a one-dimensional van der Waals fluid. The propagating wave is initiated by a nonuniformity in reactant concentration contrary to usual combustion ignition processes. The heat release ... G. Dumazer, C. Antoine, A. Lemarchand and B. Nowakowski 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Fluid dynamics Fluid dynamics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/f8071Ra3Ucb1170545ec0174cf916f303a0bc86f2 A dynamical approach to recurrent and extreme events is developed focussing on the role of correlations and memory in the structure of the probability distributions and their low-order moments. The procedure is illustrated on homogeneous first and second order Markov chains, non-Markovian and non-ho... C. Nicolis and G. Nicolis 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Statistical physics Statistical physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/9b075Ra7X2c1500d35d41f96eab378a4a022a8e83 In the past the study of reaction-diffusion systems has greatly contributed to our understanding of the behavior of many-body systems far from equilibrium. In this paper we aim at characterizing the properties of diffusion limited reactions both in their steady states and out of stationarity. Many r... Sven Dorosz and Michel Pleimling 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Statistical physics Statistical physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/8f071R9cUf2E821b00af38690ec464ce6832f7551 A simple model system is introduced for demonstrating how a single photon source might be used to transduce classical analog information. The theoretical scheme results in measurements of analog source samples that are (i) quantized in the sense of analog-to-digital conversion and (ii) corrupted by ... Mark D. McDonnell and Adrian P. Flitney 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Statistical physics Statistical physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/6e079RacNbe1b80fc43c72e373e40aafe0b4cb277 We investigate the model of "reversible ratchet" with interacting particles, introduced by us earlier [Europhys. Lett. 84, 50009 (2008)]. We further clarify the effect of efficiency enhancement due to interaction and show that it is of energetic origin, rather than a consequence of reduced fluctuati... Frantisek Slanina 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Statistical physics Statistical physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/3b075R19Uda1400ad6d54498f2a23d78fa2dd7d97 The nonlinear propagation of electromagnetic waves in pair plasmas, in which the electrostatic potential plays a very important but subdominant role of a "binding glue" is investigated. Several mechanisms for structure formation are investigated, in particular, the äsymmetry" in the initial tem... S. M. Mahajan, N. L. Shatashvili and V. I. Berezhiani 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Plasma physics Plasma physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/L/a7074Ya8Gb31531a67c19840b4ab20e8aa33d7e79 We report experimental observation of an instability in a Couette-Taylor flow of a polymer fluid in a thin gap between two coaxially rotating cylinders in a regime where their angular velocity decreases with the radius while the specific angular momentum increases with the radius. In the considered ... Stanislav Boldyrev, Don Huynh and Vladimir Pariev 2009-11-20T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Fluid dynamics Fluid dynamics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/L/1b075Y87R901d424877b0150cec37adf12edadaec A substrate coated with a polyimide alignment layer is scribed bidirectionally with the stylus of an atomic force microscope to create an easy axis for liquid crystal orientation.  The resulting non-centrosymmetric topography breaks 2D inversion symmetry and results in a spatial amplitude modul... Yoonseuk Choi, Timothy Atherton, Sameh Ferjani, Rolfe G. Petschek and Charles Rosenblatt 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Liquid crystals Liquid crystals http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/de077Rd4Wfe1a304f4e26ce08fc7dd9b3aa1c9382 Stable domain walls which are realized by a defect between oppositely traveling spiral waves in a pattern-forming hydrodynamic system, Taylor-Couette flow, are studied numerically as well as experimentally. A nonlinear mode coupling resulting from the nonlinearities in the underlying momentum balanc... Ch. Hoffmann, M. Heise, S. Altmeyer, J. Abshagen, A. Pinter, G. Pfister and M. Lucke 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Fluid dynamics Fluid dynamics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/6f07eRa4S1aE011220284a55d093e94474ee8c130 Stock prices are known to exhibit non-Gaussian dynamics, and there is much interest in understanding the origin of this behavior. Here, we present a simple model that explains the shape and scaling of the distribution of intraday stock price fluctuations (called intraday returns) and verify the mode... Austin Gerig, Javier Vicente and Miguel A. Fuentes 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Interdisciplinary physics Interdisciplinary physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/cc07bRc5Sb51b20585cf585364e201422c6573616 Flow around two circular cylinders in a side-by-side arrangement normal to the free stream with heat release from one of the cylinders is studied experimentally. This flow, with no heat release, is known to exhibit a range of flow regimes at different cylinder spacings. In particular, the wake exhib... S. Kumar, G. Laughlin and C. Cantu 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Fluid dynamics Fluid dynamics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/04076R81T251670f577a0211a0e6bf33ed33caba2 The validity of the Stokes-Einstein (SE) relation for particle diffusion in the nano and molecular scales has attracted much interest, but the results in the literature are controversial. In this work, it is shown that there exists a critical particle size where the SE relation breaks down by compar... Zhi Ligang 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/d1071R47W5317005b48c8a40a37598eeb6e76b1d3 We study the impact of strain localization on the stability of frictional slipping in dense amorphous materials. We model the material using Shear Transformation Zone (STZ) Theory, a continuum approximation for plastic deformation in amorphous solids. In the STZ model, the internal state is quantifi... Eric G. Daub and Jean M. Carlson 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Interdisciplinary physics Interdisciplinary physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/46079Rf2W9c12f07e55451840bb30a28f16a838a1 The Kronecker channel model of wireless communication is analyzed using statistical mechanics methods. In the model, spatial proximities among transmission/reception antennas are taken into account as certain correlation matrices, which generally yield non-trivial dependence among symbols to be esti... Atsushi Hatabu, Koujin Takeda and Yoshiyuki Kabashima 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Statistical physics Statistical physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/8807fR1dR1713a05246d9d22667ba44f21098e826 The non-Newtonian behavior of a monodisperse concentrated dispersion of spherical particles was investigated using a direct numerical simulation method, that takes into account hydrodynamic interactions and thermal fluctuations accurately. Simulations were performed under steady shear flow with peri... Takuya Iwashita and Ryoichi Yamamoto 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/8d07aR37T361b000a55d4a75db93c36ec772e3b01 The nonequilibrium effective potential is calculated for the Frank model of spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking (SMSB) in chemistry in which external noise is introduced to account for random environmental effects. The well mixed limit, corresponding to negligible diffusion, and the case of diffusi... David Hochberg 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Interdisciplinary physics Interdisciplinary physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/1207dR3fP7c16f0a85948fb73256422c64e90faac Fractional Gaussian noise (fGn) is an important and widely used self-similar process which is mainly parameterized by its Hurst exponent (H). Many researchers have proposed methods for estimating the Hurst exponent of fGn. In this paper we put forward a novel modified periodogram method for estimati... Yingjun Liu, Yong Liu, Kun Wang, Tianzi Jiang and Lihua Yang 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Chaos and pattern formation Chaos and pattern formation http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/f507bRdeS0819e01272061844e32153ffb684215e We provide a simple interpretation of non-Gaussian nature of the light scattering intensity fluctuations using the multiplicative cascade model, Markovian method and volatility correlations. The cascade model and Markovian method enable us to reproduce most of recent empirical findings: long-range v... F. Shayeganfar, S. Jabbari Farouji, M.Sadegh Movahed, G. R. Jafari and M.Reza Rahimi Tabar 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Statistical physics Statistical physics http://pre.aps.org/accepted/E/e307dRc1Y98Rcc12906a13d2d0682a22b42547635 Vis Inarath, Adi R. Bulsara, Antonio Palacios, Patrick Longhini, Andy Kho and Joseph D. Neff 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Errata Errata http://pre.aps.org/accepted/L/1b077Y5fPc71852c01c537e90eeef496eca1cacd3 Colloidal probe Atomic Force Microscopy is used to study the slip behavior of eighteen Newtonian liquids from two homologous series, the n-alkanes and n-alcohols, at molecularly smooth hydrophobic n-hexadecyltrichlorosilane coated surfaces. We find that the slip behavior is governed by the bulk visc... Sean P. McBride and Bruce M. Law 2009-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Films, interfaces, and crystal growth http://pre.aps.org/accepted/L/e6072Y41Q791412377ae5b26e4ec09b15e5b0f74d We propose an efficient and fast bit-multiplexed encryption scheme exploiting hyperchaotic regimes of a single nonlinear oscillator with multiple time-delay feedback loops. Each data stream is encrypted by digitally modulating the values of the various time delays and decrypted using chaos synchroni... D. Rontani, M. Sciamanna, A. Locquet and D. S. Citrin 2009-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review E Chaos and pattern formation Chaos and pattern formation