The European Physical Journal B

Vol. 66 No. 1 (November I 2008)

Solid State and Materials
• New phases of zinc under pressure from first principles     p. 1
  S.L. Qiu and P.M. Marcus
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• Application of Lanczos-based time-dependent density-functional theory approach to semiconductor nanoparticle quantum dots     p. 7
  B.G. Walker, S.C. Hendy, R. Gebauer and R.D. Tilley
  Abstract | PDF file (334.3 KB) | References



• Ternary alloying effect on the melting of metal clusters     p. 17
  D. Cheng and D. Cao
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• Temperature and magnetic field dependence of the voltage in GaAs films with superconducting Ga grains     p. 25
  B.L. Willems, D.M.J. Taylor, J. Fritzsche, M. Malfait, J. Vanacken, V.V. Moshchalkov, E. Montoya and G. Van Tendeloo
  Abstract | PDF file (387.8 KB) | References



• Effective permittivity of materials containing graded ellipsoidal inclusions     p. 29
  S. Giordano, P.L. Palla and L. Colombo
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Mesoscopic and Nanoscale Systems
• Angular dependence of the transverse and vortex modes in magnetic nanotubes     p. 37
  S. Allende, J. Escrig, D. Altbir, E. Salcedo and M. Bahiana
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• Semiclassical analysis of edge state energies in the integer quantum Hall effect     p. 41
  Y. Avishai and G. Montambaux
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• Polaronic effects in one-dimensional quantum antidot arrays     p. 51
  B.S. Kandemir
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• Recursive approach to study transport properties of atomic wire     p. 57
  S. Datta, T. Saha-Dasgupta and A. Mookerjee
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Computational Methods
• Influence of inter cell resonant tunneling on the out-of-plane electronic transport behavior in layered high T_c cuprates     p. 67
  B.S. Tewari, A. Dhyani and Ajay
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• Development of a ReaxFF description for gold     p. 75
  T.T. Järvi, A. Kuronen, M. Hakala, K. Nordlund, A.C.T. van Duin, W.A. Goddard III and T. Jacob
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Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
• The phase dynamics of spiral turbulence in the Couette-Taylor system     p. 81
  A. Goharzadeh and I. Mutabazi
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• Shape transformation transitions in a model of fixed-connectivity surfaces supported by skeletons     p. 85
  H. Koibuchi
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Interdisciplinary Physics
• Scale free effects in world currency exchange network     p. 91
  A.Z. Górski, S. Drożdż and J. Kwapień
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• Dissipative oscillations in spatially restricted ecosystems due to long range migration     p. 97
  N. Kouvaris and A. Provata
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• Properties of on-line social systems     p. 107
  A. Grabowski, N. Kruszewska and R.A. Kosiński
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• Effects of agents' mobility on opinion spreading in Sznajd model     p. 115
  A.O. Sousa, T. Yu-Song and M. Ausloos
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• Unsupervised and semi-supervised clustering by message passing: soft-constraint affinity propagation     p. 125
  M. Leone, Sumedha and M. Weigt
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• On discrete stochastic processes with long-lasting time dependence in the variance     p. 137
  S.M.D. Queirós
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• A model based on TTC to describe how drivers control their vehicles     p. 149
  L.J. Wang, H. Zhang, H.D. Meng and X.Q. Wang
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