We investigate the thermal radiation and thermal near-field energy density of a metal-coated semi-infinite body for different substrates. We show that the surface polariton coupling within the metal coating leads to an enhancement of the TM-mode part of the thermal near-field energy density when...

The probability P<Subscript>success</Subscript>(α, N) that stochastic greedy algorithms successfully solve the random SATisfiability problem is studied as a function of the ratio α of constraints per variable and the number N of variables. These algorithms assign variables according to the unit-propagation (UP)...</subscript>

This erratum corrects a mistake in reference [E. Scalas, U. Garibaldi, S. Donadio, Eur. Phys. J. B <Emphasis Type="Bold">53, 267 (2006)]. In that paper, we needed an aperiodic version of the BDY game, but, in formula (1), we incorrectly presented a periodic transition matrix of period 2 in the special case of g=2...</emphasis>