Misha Stepanov, publications

• M. Chertkov, F. Pan, M.G. Stepanov, Predicting failures in power grids: the case of static overloads, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2 (1) 162–172 (2011).
• W. Becker, I. Gabitov, M. Stepanov, J. Kois, A. Smidt, B.E. Becker, Minimally invasive treatment for papillae deficiencies in the esthetic zone: a pilot study, Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research 12 (1) 1–8 (2010).
• S. Chilappagari, M. Chertkov, M. Stepanov, B. Vasic, Instanton-based techniques for analysis and reduction of error floors of LDPC codes, IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications 27 (6) 855–865 (2009).
• M. Shkarayev, M.G. Stepanov, New bisoliton solutions in dispersion managed systems, Physica D 238 (9–10) 840–845 (2009) [PDF (1.370 MiB), arxiv:0711.4049].
• M. Chertkov, M.G. Stepanov, An efficient pseudocodeword search algorithm for linear programming decoding of LDPC codes, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 54 (4) 1514–1520 (2008) [PDF (197 KiB), cs.IT/0601113].
• I. Gabitov, R. Indik, L. Mollenauer, M. Shkarayev, M. Stepanov, P.M. Lushnikov, Twin families of bisolitons in dispersion-managed systems, Opt. Lett. 32 (6) 605–607 (2007) [PDF (130 KiB)].
• G. Falkovich, M.G. Stepanov, M. Vucelja, Rain initiation time in turbulent warm clouds, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. 45 (4) 591–599 (2006) [PDF (302 kB), physics/0411201].
• M.G. Stepanov, V. Chernyak, M. Chertkov, B. Vasic, Diagnosis of weaknesses in modern error correction codes: a physics approach, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (22) 228701 (2005) [PDF (170 kB), cond-mat/0506037].
• A. Piryatinski, M. Stepanov, S. Tretiak, V. Chernyak, Semiclassical scattering on conical intersections, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (22) 223001 (2005) [PDF (312 kB)].
• V. Chernyak, M. Chertkov, M.G. Stepanov, B. Vasic, Error correction on a tree: an instanton approach, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (19) 198702 (2004) [PDF (147 kB)].
• A.M. Balk, G. Falkovich, M.G. Stepanov, Growth of density inhomogeneities in a flow of wave turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (24) 244504 (2004) [PDF (108 kB), nlin.CD/0401012].
• S.A. Babin, M.G. Stepanov, D.V. Churkin, D.A. Shapiro, Kulonovskoe ushirenie pika elektromagnitno-indutsirovannoj prozrachnosti v plazme, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 125 (5) 1092-1099 (2004) [Coulomb broadening of the peak of electromagnetically induced transparency in plasma, JETP 98 (5) 953–959 (2004)] [PDF (94 kB)].
• G. Falkovich, A. Fouxon, M.G. Stepanov, Acceleration of rain initiation by cloud turbulence, Nature 419, 151–154 (2002) [PDF (196 kB)].
  • P. Ball, Turbulence whips up rainstorms, Nature Science Update (12 Sep 2002).
  • D. Blumenthal, Weather: Rain math, Newsweek (18 Nov 2002).
  • S. Graham, Turbulence within Clouds Triggers Rain, Sci. Am. (12 Sep 2002).
• G. Falkovich, M.G. Stepanov, Role of interaction in causing errors of optical soliton transmission, Opt. Lett. 27 (1) 13–15 (2002) [PDF (87 kB)].
• G.E. Falkovich, M.G. Stepanov, S.K. Turitsyn, Statistics of interacting optical solitons, Phys. Rev. E 64 (6) 067602 (2001) [PDF (62 kB)].
• A.I. Chernykh, M.G. Stepanov, Large negative velocity gradients in Burgers turbulence, Phys. Rev. E 64 (2) 026306 (2001) [PDF (149 kB), nlin.CD/0001023].
• M.G. Stepanov, L.S. Levitov, Laplacian growth with separately controlled noise and anisotropy, Phys. Rev. E 63 (6) 061102 (2001) [PDF (366 kB), cond-mat/0005456].
• S.A. Babin, S.I. Kablukov, S.V. Khorev, E.V. Podivilov, V.V. Potapov, D.A. Shapiro, M.G. Stepanov, Resonant peak in the output spectral profile of an ionic anti-Stokes Raman laser, Phys. Rev. A 63 (6) 063804 (2001) [PDF (111 kB)].
• Yu.I. Belousov, E.V. Podivilov, M.G. Stepanov, D.A. Shapiro, Nelinejnye rezonansy, svobodnye ot polevogo i doplerovskogo ushirenij, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 118 (2) 328-339 (2000) [Nonlinear resonances free of field and Doppler broadening, JETP 91 (2) 287–297 (2000)] [PDF (149 kB)].
• I. Kolokolov, V. Lebedev, M. Stepanov, Passive scalar in a large-scale velocity field, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Phys. 115 (3) 920–939 (1999) [JETP 88 (3) 506–516 (1999)] [PDF (240 kB), chao-dyn/9810019].
• M.G. Stepanov, Autler-Townes doublet probed by strong field, J. Phys. B 32 (3) 649–661 (1999) [PDF (356 kB), physics/9810038].
• D.A. Shapiro, M.G. Stepanov, Diffusion-broadened line shape near a turning point, Pis'ma v Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 68 (1) 27–32 (1998) [JETP Lett. 68 (1) 29–35 (1998)] [PDF (117 kB), aps1997aug16_002].
• D.A. Shapiro, M.G. Stepanov, Polevoe ushirenie diffuzionnogo resonansa, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 113 (5) 1632-1648 (1998) [Power broadening of a diffusion resonance, JETP 86 (5) 888–896 (1998)] [PDF (212 kB)].
• D.A. Shapiro, M.G. Stepanov, Diffusion-broadened lineshape under strong field, J. Phys. B 30 (11) L377–L381 (1997) [PDF (107 kB)].
• E.V. Podivilov, M.G. Stepanov, D.A. Shapiro, Suzhenie nelinejnyh rezonansov v stolknovitel'noj plazme, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 107 (2) 418-428 (1996) [Narrowing of nonlinear resonances in a collisional plasma, JETP 82 (2) 221–227 (1996)] [PDF (196 kB)].
• E.V. Podivilov, D.A. Shapiro, M.G. Stepanov, Narrowing of the Bennett hole in collisional plasma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (20) 3979–3982 (1995) [PDF (170 KiB), plasm-ph/9503002].

• M.G. Stepanov, M. Chertkov, Instanton analysis of low-density parity-check codes in the error-floor regime, cs.IT/0601070.
• M.G. Stepanov, M. Chertkov, The error-floor of LDPC codes in the Laplacian channel, cs.IT/0507031.
• D. Volk, M.G. Stepanov, Resampling methods for document clustering, cond-mat/0109006.