http://pre.aps.org/ Recent articles in Physical Review E en-us Copyright (c) 2009 The American Physical Society 2009-11-06T22:15:16-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2009-11-06T22:15:16-05:00 rss@aps.org http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056403 Author(s): Yongsheng Huang, Yijin Shi, Yuanjie Bi, Xiaojiao Duan, Naiyan Wang, Xiuzhang Tang, and Zhe Gao<br/>An analytical expression is proposed to describe the front shape of a non-quasi-neutral plasma expansion with anisotropic electron pressures. It is of significance in the study of ultrashort plasma expansions generated from laser-foil interactions and anisotropic astroplasma expansions in space scie...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 056403] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Yongsheng Huang, Yijin Shi, Yuanjie Bi, Xiaojiao Duan, Naiyan Wang, Xiuzhang Tang, and Zhe Gao 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056403 Phys. Rev. E 80, 056403 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 056403 Plasma physics Plasma physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056302 Author(s): Sagar Chakraborty, Arnab Saha, and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee<br/>Large deviations play a significant role in many branches of nonequilibrium statistical physics. They are difficult to handle because their effects, though small, are not amenable to perturbation theory. Even the Gaussian model, which is the usual initial step for most perturbation theories, fails t...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 056302] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Sagar Chakraborty, Arnab Saha, and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056302 Phys. Rev. E 80, 056302 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 056302 Fluid dynamics Fluid dynamics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056102 Author(s): Tiago P. Peixoto and Barbara Drossel<br/>We investigated the properties of Boolean networks that follow a given reliable trajectory in state space. A reliable trajectory is defined as a sequence of states, which is independent of the order in which the nodes are updated. We explored numerically the topology, the update functions, and the s...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 056102] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Tiago P. Peixoto and Barbara Drossel 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056102 Phys. Rev. E 80, 056102 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 056102 Interdisciplinary physics Interdisciplinary physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051906 Author(s): Kuniharu Kishida<br/>A blind identification method of transfer functions in feedback systems is introduced for examination of dynamical activities of cortices by magnetoencephalography study. Somatosensory activities are examined in 5 Hz periodical median nerve stimulus. In the present paper, we will try two careful pre...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051906] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Kuniharu Kishida 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051906 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051906 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 051906 Biological physics Biological physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051905 Author(s): S. B. Rochal and V. L. Lorman<br/>A theory of a reconstructive structural transformation in icosahedral capsid shells is developed for a whole family of virulent human viruses. It is shown that the reversible rearrangement of proteins during the virus maturation transformation is driven by the variation in the wave number l associat...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051905] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 S. B. Rochal and V. L. Lorman 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051905 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051905 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 051905 Biological physics Biological physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051403 Author(s): J. Chevalier, O. Tillement, and F. Ayela<br/>High shear rate experiments have been performed with capillary microviscometers onto SiO_{2} nanoparticles dispersed in alcohol (so-called nanofluids). The aim of these experiments was to investigate the processes of aggregation and dislocation of the nanoparticles in a shear flow under perikinetic ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051403] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 J. Chevalier, O. Tillement, and F. Ayela 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051403 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051403 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 051403 Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051201 Author(s): Ehud Yariv<br/>We consider the one-dimensional transport of ions into a perm-selective solid. Direct attempts to evaluate the current-voltage characteristics for currents exceeding the diffusion limit are frustrated by the appearance of nonconverging integrals. We describe how to overcome this obstacle using a reg...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051201] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Ehud Yariv 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051201 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051201 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 051201 Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051105 Author(s): L. A. Fernandez, A. Gordillo-Guerrero, V. Martin-Mayor, and J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo<br/>A microcanonical finite-size ansatz in terms of quantities measurable in a finite lattice allows extending phenomenological renormalization (the so-called quotients method) to the microcanonical ensemble. The ansatz is tested numerically in two models where the canonical specific heat diverges at cr...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051105] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 L. A. Fernandez, A. Gordillo-Guerrero, V. Martin-Mayor, and J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051105 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051105 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 051105 Statistical physics Statistical physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051104 Author(s): Xiaojie Chen, Feng Fu, and Long Wang<br/>In real situations, individuals often have moderate tolerance toward ambient cooperative environment in which they tend to avoid unfavorable interactions and search for favorable ones. How such social tolerance affects the evolution of cooperation and the resulting cooperative networks remains to be...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051104] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Xiaojie Chen, Feng Fu, and Long Wang 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051104 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051104 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 051104 Statistical physics Statistical physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.050103 Author(s): Gabriel Baglietto and Ezequiel V. Albano<br/>One of the most popular approaches to the study of the collective behavior of self-driven individuals is the well-known Vicsek model (VM) [T. Vicsek, A. Czirók, E. Ben-Jacob, I. Cohen, and O. Shochet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1226 (1995)]. In the VM one has that each individual tends to adopt the direc...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 050103] Published Fri Nov 06, 2009 Gabriel Baglietto and Ezequiel V. Albano 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.050103 Phys. Rev. E 80, 050103 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 050103 Statistical physics Statistical physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.052601 Author(s): Jérôme Colin, Jean Grilhé, and Pierre Müller<br/>The morphological evolution of an initially straight stripe assimilated to a straight line of infinite length lying on a semi-infinite substrate has been investigated in the linear regime when the mass transport mechanism is the diffusion of adatoms along stripe edges and when the heteroepitaxy betw...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 052601] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Jérôme Colin, Jean Grilhé, and Pierre Müller 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.052601 Phys. Rev. E 80, 052601 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 052601 Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Films, interfaces, and crystal growth http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051904 Author(s): Surya K. Ghosh, Kulveer Singh, and Anirban Sain<br/>Recently many important biopolymers have been found to possess intrinsic curvature. Tubulin protofilaments in animal cells, FtsZ filaments in bacteria and double stranded DNA are examples. We examine how intrinsic curvature influences the conformational statistics of such polymers. We give exact res...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051904] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Surya K. Ghosh, Kulveer Singh, and Anirban Sain 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051904 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051904 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 051904 Biological physics Biological physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051903 Author(s): Géza I. Márk, Zofia Vértesy, Krisztián Kertész, Zsolt Bálint, and László P. Biró<br/>In order to study local and global order in butterfly wing scales possessing structural colors, we have developed a direct space algorithm, based on averaging the local environment of the repetitive units building up the structure. The method provides the statistical distribution of the local enviro...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051903] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Géza I. Márk, Zofia Vértesy, Krisztián Kertész, Zsolt Bálint, and László P. Biró 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051903 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051903 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 051903 Biological physics Biological physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051902 Author(s): Dezhe Z. Jin<br/>Songs of songbird species such as Bengalese finch consist of sequences of syllables. While syllables are temporally stereotypical, syllable sequences can vary and follow complex, probabilistic transition rules. Recent experiments and computational models suggest that a syllable is encoded in a chain...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051902] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Dezhe Z. Jin 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051902 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051902 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 051902 Biological physics Biological physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051502 Author(s): Ran Jia and Reinhard Hentschke<br/>Using molecular dynamics computer simulation we compute gas-liquid phase coexistence curves for the Stockmayer fluid in an external electric field. We observe a field-induced shift of the critical temperature ΔT_{c} . The sign of ΔT_{c} depends on whether the potential or the surface charge densit...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051502] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Ran Jia and Reinhard Hentschke 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051502 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051502 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 051502 Structured and complex fluids Structured and complex fluids http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051103 Author(s): L. Lizana and T. Ambjörnsson<br/>We solve a nonequilibrium statistical-mechanics problem exactly, namely, the single-file dynamics of N hard-core interacting particles (the particles cannot pass each other) of size Δ diffusing in a one-dimensional system of finite length L with reflecting boundaries at the ends. We obtain an exact...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051103] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 L. Lizana and T. Ambjörnsson 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051103 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051103 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 051103 Statistical physics Statistical physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051102 Author(s): Yilong Han (韩一龙)<br/>We illustrate a network approach to the phase-space study by using two geometrical frustration models: antiferromagnet on triangular lattice and square ice. Their highly degenerated ground states are mapped as discrete networks such that the quantitative network analysis can be applied to phase-spac...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051102] Published Thu Nov 05, 2009 Yilong Han (韩一龙) 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051102 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051102 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 051102 Statistical physics Statistical physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.057101 Author(s): Jiann-wien Hsu and Ding-wei Huang<br/>We study the coauthorship distribution by analyzing the number of coauthors on each paper published in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review for the last decade. We propose that the structure of the distribution can be understood as the result of a two-parameter Poisson process. We develop a d...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 057101] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 Jiann-wien Hsu and Ding-wei Huang 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.057101 Phys. Rev. E 80, 057101 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 057101 Interdisciplinary physics Interdisciplinary physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056402 Author(s): R. Florido, R. Rodríguez, J. M. Gil, J. G. Rubiano, P. Martel, E. Mínguez, and R. C. Mancini<br/>We discuss the modeling of population kinetics of nonequilibrium steady-state plasmas using a collisional-radiative model and code based on analytical rates (ABAKO). ABAKO can be applied to low-to-high Z ions for a wide range of laboratory plasma conditions: coronal, local thermodynamic equilibrium ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 056402] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 R. Florido, R. Rodríguez, J. M. Gil, J. G. Rubiano, P. Martel, E. Mínguez, and R. C. Mancini 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056402 Phys. Rev. E 80, 056402 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 056402 Plasma physics Plasma physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056301 Author(s): Marie-Christine Néel, Andrea Zoia, and Maminirina Joelson<br/>We address the description of solutes flow with trapping processes in porous media. Starting from a small-scale model for tracer particle trajectories, we derive the corresponding governing equations for the concentration of the mobile and immobile phases within a fractal mobile-immobile model appro...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 056301] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 Marie-Christine Néel, Andrea Zoia, and Maminirina Joelson 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056301 Phys. Rev. E 80, 056301 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 056301 Fluid dynamics Fluid dynamics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056101 Author(s): Boris S. Kerner and Sergey L. Klenov<br/>Based on empirical and numerical analyses of vehicular traffic, the physics of spatiotemporal phase transitions in traffic flow on multilane roads is revealed. The complex dynamics of moving jams observed in single vehicle data measured by video cameras on American highways is explained by the nucle...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 056101] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 Boris S. Kerner and Sergey L. Klenov 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056101 Phys. Rev. E 80, 056101 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 056101 Interdisciplinary physics Interdisciplinary physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051901 Author(s): Wei Zhang, Rong Yang, and Sergio E. Ulloa<br/>Charge transport in DNA molecules has raised considerable interest because of its importance in biological processes and potential applications in nanoscale devices. A DNA molecule can be viewed as a quasi-one-dimensional system composed of stacked base pairs ( AT , CG ) together with backbones of s...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051901] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 Wei Zhang, Rong Yang, and Sergio E. Ulloa 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051901 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051901 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 051901 Biological physics Biological physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.050102 Author(s): Yoichiro Kondo, Namiko Mitarai, and Hiizu Nakanishi<br/>We numerically study the Loewner driving function U_{t} of a site percolation cluster boundary on the triangular lattice for p<p_{c} . It is found that U_{t} shows a drifted random walk with a finite crossover time. Within this crossover time, the averaged driving function ⟨U_{t} ⟩ shows a scaling behavior −(p_{c} −p)t^{(ν+1)/2ν} with a superdiffusive fluctuation whereas, beyond the crossover time, the driving function U_{t} undergoes a normal diffusion with Hurst exponent 1/2 but with the drift velocity proportional to (p_{c} −p)^{ν} , where ν=4/3 is the critical exponent for two-dimensional percolation correlation length. The crossover time diverges as (p_{c} −p)^{−2ν} as p→p_{c} .<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 050102] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 Yoichiro Kondo, Namiko Mitarai, and Hiizu Nakanishi 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.050102 Phys. Rev. E 80, 050102 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 050102 Statistical physics Statistical physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.050101 Author(s): Marc Pradas, Juan M. López, and A. Hernández-Machado<br/>We study avalanche dynamics and local activity of forced-flow imbibition fronts in disordered media. We focus on the front dynamics as the mean velocity of the interface v [over ¯] is decreased and the pinning state is approached. Scaling arguments allow us to obtain the statistics of avalanche siz...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/rapid30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="Rapid Communication"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 050101] Published Wed Nov 04, 2009 Marc Pradas, Juan M. López, and A. Hernández-Machado 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.050101 Phys. Rev. E 80, 050101 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 050101 Statistical physics Statistical physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056401 Author(s): Feng Huang, Yinhua Chen, Hai-Ou Peng, Ju-Gao Zheng, Gui-Fen Shi, Zu-Quan Hu, and M. Y. Yu<br/>The electromagnetic lower-hybrid drift instability (LHDI) in the intermediate-wavelength regime k_{y} sqrt[ρ_{i} ρ_{e} ] ∼1 , where k_{y} and ρ_{e,i} are the wave vector and the electron and ion gyroradii, respectively, in a thin plasma sheet containing electrons and H^{+} and O^{+} ions is exa...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 056401] Published Tue Nov 03, 2009 Feng Huang, Yinhua Chen, Hai-Ou Peng, Ju-Gao Zheng, Gui-Fen Shi, Zu-Quan Hu, and M. Y. Yu 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056401 Phys. Rev. E 80, 056401 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 056401 Plasma physics Plasma physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056202 Author(s): A. Vagov, H. Schomerus, and V. V. Zalipaev<br/>We extend the asymptotic boundary layer (ABL) method, originally developed for stable resonator modes, to the description of individual wave functions localized around unstable periodic orbits. The formalism applies to the description of scar states in fully or partially chaotic quantum systems, and...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 056202] Published Tue Nov 03, 2009 A. Vagov, H. Schomerus, and V. V. Zalipaev 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056202 Phys. Rev. E 80, 056202 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 056202 Chaos and pattern formation Chaos and pattern formation http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051801 Author(s): Peng-Wei Zhu, Andy Phillips, Graham Edward, and Lance Nichols<br/>The effects of two seeds on the melt crystallization of isotactic polypropylene were experimentally investigated. The seed, which has the flat surface full of a nonuniform size distribution, has provided a right surface pattern to activate effectively the heterogeneous nucleation. In contrast, the s...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051801] Published Tue Nov 03, 2009 Peng-Wei Zhu, Andy Phillips, Graham Edward, and Lance Nichols 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051801 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051801 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 051801 Polymers Polymers http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051501 Author(s): Joonhyun Yeo<br/>We study a zero-dimensional version of the fluctuating nonlinear hydrodynamics (FNH) of supercooled liquids originally investigated by Das and Mazenko (DM) [Shankar P. Das and Gene F. Mazenko Phys. Rev. A 34, 2265 (1986)]. The time-dependent density-like and momentum-like variables are introduced wi...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051501] Published Tue Nov 03, 2009 Joonhyun Yeo 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051501 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051501 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 051501 Structured and complex fluids Structured and complex fluids http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051301 Author(s): T. Sykes and T. Mullin<br/>Results are presented of an experimental investigation into patterned segregation in thin layers of poppy seeds and short lengths of metal chains subjected to vibration. Critical phenomena are uncovered and both continuous and discontinuous transitions are observed. A phase diagram for the behavior ...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 051301] Published Tue Nov 03, 2009 T. Sykes and T. Mullin 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.051301 Phys. Rev. E 80, 051301 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-03T00:00:00-05:00 051301 Granular materials Granular materials http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056201 Author(s): Arik Yochelis and Moshe Sheintuch<br/>Pattern formation mechanisms of a reaction-diffusion-advection system, with one diffusivity, differential advection, and (Robin) boundary conditions of Danckwerts type, are being studied. Pattern selection requires mapping the domains of coexistence and stability of propagating or stationary nonunif...<br/>[Phys. Rev. E 80, 056201] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 Arik Yochelis and Moshe Sheintuch 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.056201 Phys. Rev. E 80, 056201 text/html article Physical Review E 80 5 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 056201 Chaos and pattern formation Chaos and pattern formation