Journal of Physics A

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A major journal reporting work on the fundamental mathematical and computational methods underpinning physics. Each issue of the journal is split into six sections: statistical physics; chaotic and complex systems; mathematical physics; quantum mechanics and quantum information theory; classical and quantum field theory; and fluid and plasma theory.
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The exact solution of a three-dimensional lattice polymer confined in a slab with sticky walls

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): R Brak, G K Iliev, A L Owczarek and S G Whittington
Affiliation(s): Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 3H6, Canada
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Sato's Bäcklund transformations, additional symmetries and ASvM formula for the discrete KP hierarchy

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Liu Shaowei and Cheng Yi
Affiliation(s): Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026 Anhui, People's Republic of China
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The measure-theoretic identity underlying transient fluctuation theorems

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Benjamin Hertz Shargel
Affiliation(s): Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1766, USA
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The su(1, 1) dynamical algebra from the Schrödinger ladder operators for N-dimensional systems: hydrogen atom, Mie-type potential, harmonic oscillator and pseudo-harmonic oscillator

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): D Martinez, J C Flores-Urbina, R D Mota and V D Granados
Affiliation(s): Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico, Plantel Cuautepec, Av. La Corona 320, Col. Loma la Palma, Delegacion Gustavo A. Madero, 07160, Mexico DF, Mexico; Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingenieria y Tecnologias Avanzadas, IPN. Av. Instituto Politecnico Nacional 2580, Col. La Laguna Ticoman, Delegacion Gustavo A. Madero, 07340 Mexico DF, Mexico; Escuela Superior de Fisica y Matematicas, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Ed. 9, Unidad Profesional Adolfo Lopez Mateos, 07738 Mexico DF, Mexico
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Green's matrix for a second-order self-adjoint matrix differential operator

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Tahsin Cagri Sisman and Bayram Tekin
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey
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Spectral analysis of multi-dimensional self-similar Markov processes

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): N Modarresi and S Rezakhah
Affiliation(s): Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Avenue, Tehran 15914, Iran; School of Mathematics, Institute of Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), PO Box: 19395-5746, Tehran, Iran
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The Veldkamp space of multiple qubits

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Peter Vrana and Peter Levay
Affiliation(s): Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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Density distribution for a weakly non-ideal non-uniform plasma

Mon, 03/08/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Anirban Bose and M S Janaki
Affiliation(s): Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, I/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064, India
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An extended geometric criterion for chaos in the Dicke model

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Jiangdan Li and Suying Zhang
Affiliation(s): Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, People's Republic of China
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Multicriticality in the Blume–Capel model under a continuous-field probability distribution

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Octavio D Rodriguez Salmon and Justo Rojas Tapia
Affiliation(s): Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas and National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Av. Venezuela s/n, Apartado Postal 14-0149, Lima-1, Peru
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Spectral properties of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator for the exterior Helmholtz problem and its applications to scattering theory

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Lakshtanov E L
Affiliation(s): Department of Mathematics, Aveiro University, Aveiro 3810, Portugal
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Time-dependent focusing billiards and macroscopic realization of Maxwell's Demon

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): A B Ryabov and A Loskutov
Affiliation(s): ICBM, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany; Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia; Institute of Physics, Humboldt University, Newtonstrasse 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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On isochronous cases of the Cherkas system and Jacobi's last multiplier

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): A Ghose Choudhury and Partha Guha
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics, Surendranath College, 24/2 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Calcutta-700 009, India; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany; S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, JD Block, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700 098, India
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Lyapunov exponents and the natural invariant density determination of chaotic maps: an iterative maximum entropy ansatz

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Parthapratim Biswas, Hironori Shimoyama and Lawrence R Mead
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Southern Mississippi, MS 39406, USA
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Two Langevin equations in the Doi–Peliti formalism

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Kazunori Itakura, Jun Ohkubo and Shin-ichi Sasa
Affiliation(s): KEK Theory Center, IPNS, High Energy Accerelator Research Organization, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan; Department of Particle and Nuclear Studies, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan; Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan; Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Local scale invariance for wetting and confined interfaces

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): A O Parry and C Rascon
Affiliation(s): Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, UK; GISC, Departamento de Matematicas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28911 Leganes, Spain
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Magnetization reversal through flipping solitons under the localized inhomogeneity

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): L Kavitha, P Sathishkumar and D Gopi
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics, Periyar University, Salem-636 011, India; Department of Chemistry, Periyar University, Salem-636 011, India
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On the construction of a pseudo-Hermitian quantum system with a pre-determined metric in the Hilbert space

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Pijush K Ghosh
Affiliation(s): Department of Physics, Siksha-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, PIN 731 235, India
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On a class of reductions of the Manakov–Santini hierarchy connected with the interpolating system

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): L V Bogdanov
Affiliation(s): L D Landau ITP, Kosygin str. 2, Moscow 119334, Russia
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Asymptotic analysis of the Ponzano–Regge model for handlebodies

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 01:00
Author(s): Richard J Dowdall, Henrique Gomes and Frank Hellmann
Affiliation(s): School of Mathematical Sciences, Nottingham University, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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