Open Access
Editorial
Modern Problems in Complexity p. 1
Published online: 12 April 2006
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00147-4
The European Physical Journal B
Volume 50 / No 1-2 (March I-II 2006)
Topical Issue : Modern Problems in Complexity
Foreword
High Energy Physics
Two generalizations of the Boltzmann equation p. 3
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00112-3
Extended Gaussian ensemble or q-statistics in hadronic production processes? p. 7
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00105-2
Fusion reactions in plasmas as probe of the high-momentum tail of particle distributions p. 11
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00143-8
Potential symmetry and invariant solutions of Fokker-Planck equation in cylindrical coordinates related to magnetic field diffusion in magnetohydrodynamics including the Hall current p. 17
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00138-5
Nonextensive interpretation of radiative recombination in electron cooling p. 23
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00101-6
Hamiltonian Systems
The topological non-connectivity threshold in quantum long-range interacting spin systems p. 27
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00035-y
Critical exponents for the long-range Ising chain using a transfer matrix approach p. 33
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00114-1
A new comprehensive study of the 3D random-field Ising model via sampling the density of states in dominant energy subspaces p. 39
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00033-1
Effect of weak disorder on the ground state of uniaxial dipolar spin systems in the upper critical dimension p. 45
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00123-0
Applications of correlation inequalities to low density graphical codes p. 51
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00129-6
A definition of metastability for Markov processes with detailed balance p. 57
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00097-9
Monte Carlo studies of the square Ising model with next-nearest-neighbor interactions p. 63
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00032-2
The Topological Nonconnectivity Threshold and magnetic phase transitions in classical anisotropic long-range interacting spin systems p. 69
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00061-9
Spectral density method in quantum nonextensive thermostatistics and magnetic systems with long-range interactions p. 73
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00132-y
Condensed Matter
f-γ current fluctuations in organic semiconductors: evidence for percolation p. 77
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00146-5
A discrete nonlinear mass transfer equation with applications in solid-state sintering of ceramic materials p. 83
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00034-0
A kinetic approach to the calculation of surface tension of a spherical drop p. 89
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00133-x
Distribution of return intervals of extreme events p. 95
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00140-y
Physical meaning and measurement of the entropic parameter q in an inhomogeneous magnetic systems p. 99
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00065-5
Long-range order and dynamic structure factor of a nematic under a thermal gradient p. 105
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00104-3
Polydispersity effects in the dynamics and stability of bubbling flows p. 111
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00128-7
Avalanches and Self-Organized Criticality in superconductors p. 117
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00063-7
Econophysics
A precursor of market crashes: Empirical laws of Japan's internet bubble p. 123
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00142-9
Analysis of binarized high frequency financial data p. 129
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00139-4
Persistence in financial markets p. 133
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00134-9
Characteristic time scales of tick quotes on foreign currency markets: an empirical study and agent-based model p. 137
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00125-x
Leptokurtic portfolio theory p. 141
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00062-8
Small scale behavior of financial data p. 147
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00120-3
Micro-economic analysis of the physical constrained markets: game theory application to competitive electricity markets p. 153
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00122-1
An econophysics approach to analyse uncertainty in financial markets: an application to the Portuguese stock market p. 161
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00113-2
On statistical properties of traded volume in financial markets p. 165
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00130-1
Demophysics
Compromise and synchronization in opinion dynamics p. 169
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00131-0
Pair approximation models for disease spread p. 177
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00096-x
On the genre-fication of music: a percolation approach p. 183
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00115-0
Asymptotic regime in N random interacting species p. 189
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00058-4
Bonabeau model on a fully connected graph p. 195
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00059-3
Moment equations for a spatially extended system of two competing species p. 199
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00102-5
Epidemics in small world networks p. 205
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00099-7
Effects of population mixing on the spread of SIR epidemics p. 209
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00136-7
A selfsimilar behavior of the urban structure in the spatially inhomogeneous model p. 215
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00145-6
Networks
Role of connectivity in congestion and decongestion in a communication network p. 227
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00119-8
Network traffic behaviour near phase transition point p. 231
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A generalized approach to complex networks p. 237
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00107-0
Olami-Feder-Christensen model on different networks p. 243
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00110-5
Statistical indicators of collective behavior and functional clusters in gene networks of yeast p. 255
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00103-4
Biophysics
Non-extensive trends in the size distribution of coding and non-coding DNA sequences in the human genome p. 259
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00121-2
Unfolding designable structures p. 265
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00036-x
Avalanche dynamics of idealized neuron function in the brain on an uncorrelated random scale-free network p. 271
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00144-7
Evolving Stochastic Learning Algorithm based on Tsallis entropic index p. 277
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00137-6
Models
Gravitational structure formation, the cosmological problem and statistical physics p. 285
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00056-6
Dissociative attachment of an electron to a molecule: kinetic theory p. 295
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00111-4
Diffusion in flashing periodic potentials p. 299
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00108-y
Lyapunov modes and time-correlation functions for two-dimensional systems p. 305
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00098-8
Application of large deviation theory to the mean-field 
-model
p. 311
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00100-7
Symplectic integration approach for metastable systems p. 315
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Modulational instability in asymmetric coupled wave functions p. 321
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00106-1
Monte Carlo simulations of bosonic reaction-diffusion systems and comparison to Langevin equation description p. 327
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00126-9
Statistical theory of spectra: statistical moments as descriptors in the theory of molecular similarity p. 333
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00124-y
Marked signal improvement by stochastic resonance for aperiodic signals in the double-well system p. 339
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00135-8
Statistical-mechanical description of classical test-particle dynamics in the presence of an external force field: modelling noise and damping from first principles p. 345
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Classical q-deformed dynamics p. 351
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00109-x
Numerical study of the oscillatory convergence to the attractor at the edge of chaos p. 355
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00064-6
Maxwell-Jüttner distributions in relativistic molecular dynamics p. 361
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00117-x
Thermoeconomic analysis of an irreversible Stirling heat pump cycle p. 367
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DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00060-x