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Physical Review E – January 1993
Volume 47, Issue 1

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Critical behavior of branching annihilating random walks with an odd number of offsprings
Iwan Jensen
pp. R1-R4 [View Page Images or PDF (704 kB)]
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Singularity spectrum of self-organized criticality
Enrique Canessa
pp. R5-R8 [View Page Images or PDF (674 kB)]
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Universal amplitudes of power-law tails in the asymptotic structure factor of systems with topological defects
A. J. Bray and K. Humayun
pp. R9-R12 [View Page Images or PDF (790 kB)]
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Nonstable solitons and sharp criteria for wave collapse
S. K. Turitsyn
pp. R13-R16 [View Page Images or PDF (722 kB)]
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Scaling properties of the shadowing model for sputter deposition
Joachim Krug and Paul Meakin
pp. R17-R20 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]
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Numerical test of finite-barrier corrections for the hopping rate in a periodic potential
Peter Talkner and Eli Pollak
pp. R21-R23 [View Page Images or PDF (351 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Modeling shock waves in an ideal gas: Going beyond the Navier-Stokes level
B. L. Holian, C. W. Patterson, M. Mareschal, and E. Salomons
pp. R24-R27 [View Page Images or PDF (653 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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From small scales to large scales in three-dimensional turbulence: The effect of diluted polymers
D. Bonn, Y. Couder, P. H. J. van Dam, and S. Douady
pp. R28-R31 [View Page Images or PDF (1,029 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Adsorption of polymers on a random surface
K. L. Sebastian and K. Sumithra
pp. R32-R35 [View Page Images or PDF (452 kB)]
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Spinodal decomposition in a three-dimensional fluid model
Oriol T. Valls and James E. Farrell
pp. R36-R39 [View Page Images or PDF (626 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Properties of the reaction front in a reversible A+B⇌gkC reaction-diffusion process
Bastien Chopard, Michel Droz, Theo Karapiperis, and Zoltán Rácz
pp. R40-R43 [View Page Images or PDF (642 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Entropy-driven DNA denaturation
Thierry Dauxois, Michel Peyrard, and A. R. Bishop
pp. R44-R47 [View Page Images or PDF (753 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Morphology of amorphous layers ballistically deposited on a planar substrate
B. D. Lubachevsky, V. Privman, and S. C. Roy
pp. 48-53 [View Page Images or PDF (989 kB)]
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Extensive numerical study of spectral statistics for rational and irrational polygonal billiards
Akira Shudo and Yasushi Shimizu
pp. 54-62 [View Page Images or PDF (1,538 kB)]
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Multifractality of flow distribution in the river-network model of Scheidegger
Takashi Nagatani
pp. 63-66 [View Page Images or PDF (502 kB)]
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Stochastic models of exciton transport: The Haken-Strobl model
Ilya Rips
pp. 67-79 [View Page Images or PDF (1,738 kB)]
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Signature of classical chaos on quantum tunneling
Shanta Chaudhuri and Deb Shankar Ray
pp. 80-85 [View Page Images or PDF (915 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Controlling Hamiltonian chaos
Ying-Cheng Lai, Mingzhou Ding, and Celso Grebogi
pp. 86-92 [View Page Images or PDF (1,319 kB)]
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Self-organizing systems at finite driving rates
J. M. Carlson, E. R. Grannan, and G. H. Swindle
pp. 93-105 [View Page Images or PDF (2,326 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Verhulst-type kinetics driven by white shot noise: Exact solution by direct averaging
Ryszard Zygadło
pp. 106-117 [View Page Images or PDF (1,694 kB)]

General methods of statistical physics

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Real-time path-integral approach to quantum coherence and dephasing in nonadiabatic transitions and nonlinear optical response
Yoshitaka Tanimura and Shaul Mukamel
pp. 118-136 [View Page Images or PDF (2,165 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Langevin dynamics, scale invariance, and granular flows
M. Y. Choi, D. C. Hong, and Y. W. Kim
pp. 137-142 [View Page Images or PDF (994 kB)]
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Spatially periodic orbits in coupled-map lattices
P. M. Gade and R. E. Amritkar
pp. 143-154 [View Page Images or PDF (1,504 kB)]
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Sensitivity to initial conditions in stochastic systems
K. Seki, V. Balakrishnan, and G. Nicolis
pp. 155-163 [View Page Images or PDF (1,067 kB)]
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Dynamical behavior of a thermostated isotropic harmonic oscillator
Shuichi Nosé
pp. 164-177 [View Page Images or PDF (1,920 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium variational principle for the time evolution of an ionized gas
F. Vázquez and J. A. del Río
pp. 178-183 [View Page Images or PDF (1,012 kB)]
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Transient phenomena, self-diffusion, and orientational effects in vibrated powders
G. C. Barker and Anita Mehta
pp. 184-188 [View Page Images or PDF (983 kB)]
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Mean first-passage times for systems driven by gamma and McFadden dichotomous noise
R. F. Pawula, J. M. Porrà, and J. Masoliver
pp. 189-201 [View Page Images or PDF (1,559 kB)]
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Simple models of non-Gaussian statistics for a turbulently advected passive scalar
Mark Holzer and Alain Pumir
pp. 202-219 [View Page Images or PDF (2,958 kB)]
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Splay states in globally coupled Josephson arrays: Analytical prediction of Floquet multipliers
Steven H. Strogatz and Renato E. Mirollo
pp. 220-227 [View Page Images or PDF (1,151 kB)]
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Topological defects, correlation functions, and power-law tails in phase-ordering kinetics
A. J. Bray
pp. 228-235 [View Page Images or PDF (1,338 kB)]
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Chaotic proton dynamics in the hydrogen bond
R. Grauer, K. H. Spatschek, and A. V. Zolotaryuk
pp. 236-247 [View Page Images or PDF (1,794 kB)]
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Dynamic-light-scattering study of glasses of hard colloidal spheres
W. van Megen and S. M. Underwood
pp. 248-261 [View Page Images or PDF (2,683 kB)]
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Exact enumeration of self-avoiding walks on lattices with random site energies
I. Smailer, J. Machta, and S. Redner
pp. 262-266 [View Page Images or PDF (848 kB)]
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Control of NMR-laser chaos in high-dimensional embedding space
C. Reyl, L. Flepp, R. Badii, and E. Brun
pp. 267-272 [View Page Images or PDF (1,056 kB)]
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Dynamical correlations and the direct summation method of evaluating infinite continued fractions
Surajit Sen, Zhi-Xiong Cai, and S. D. Mahanti
pp. 273-281 [View Page Images or PDF (1,568 kB)]
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Long-time semiclassical dynamics of chaos: The stadium billiard
Steven Tomsovic and Eric J. Heller
pp. 282-299 [View Page Images or PDF (3,724 kB)]
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Master Langevin equations: Origin of asymptotic diffusion
C. O. Dorso, E. S. Hernández, and J. L. Vega
pp. 300-304 [View Page Images or PDF (903 kB)]
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Higher-dimensional targeting
Eric J. Kostelich, Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke
pp. 305-310 [View Page Images or PDF (1,254 kB)]
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Fluctuation-diffusion relationship in chaotic dynamics
Shanta Chaudhuri, Gautam Gangopadhyay, and Deb Shankar Ray
pp. 311-315 [View Page Images or PDF (708 kB)]
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Comparison of random configurations of equal disks
Keishi Gotoh
pp. 316-318 [View Page Images or PDF (351 kB)]
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Stochastic model for a wavelike exothermal reaction in condensed heterogeneous systems
A. S. Astapchik, E. P. Podvoisky, I. S. Chebotko, B. M. Khusid, A. G. Merzhanov, and B. B. Khina
pp. 319-326 [View Page Images or PDF (1,739 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Spherical-harmonics decomposition of the Boltzmann equation for charged-particle swarms in the presence of both electric and magnetic fields
K. F. Ness
pp. 327-342 [View Page Images or PDF (1,962 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics at constant temperature and pressure
S. Toxvaerd
pp. 343-350 [View Page Images or PDF (1,287 kB)]
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Weakly nonlocal hydrodynamics
Miroslav Grmela
pp. 351-365 [View Page Images or PDF (2,534 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Mechanism of energy transformations in shear magnetohydrodynamic flows
G. D. Chagelishvili, T. S. Hristov, R. G. Chanishvili, and J. G. Lominadze
pp. 366-374 [View Page Images or PDF (1,224 kB)]
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Effect of viscosity on Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities
Karnig O. Mikaelian
pp. 375-383 [View Page Images or PDF (1,423 kB)]
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Bimodality and transient trimodality for Brownian particles in shear flows: A path-integral approach
Horacio S. Wio and Damián H. Zanette
pp. 384-387 [View Page Images or PDF (622 kB)]
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Global thermodynamic behavior of fluid mixtures in the critical region
G. X. Jin, S. Tang, and J. V. Sengers
pp. 388-402 [View Page Images or PDF (2,320 kB)]
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Shock fluctuations in one-dimensional lattice fluids
F. J. Alexander, S. A. Janowsky, J. L. Lebowitz, and H. van Beijeren
pp. 403-410 [View Page Images or PDF (1,567 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Scattering function for a model of interacting surfaces
Pietro Colangelo, Giuseppe Gonnella, and Amos Maritan
pp. 411-418 [View Page Images or PDF (1,124 kB)]
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Calculation of the ground-state energy V0 of quasifree positrons in rare-gas fluids
B. Plenkiewicz, Y. Frongillo, and J.-P. Jay-Gerin
pp. 419-422 [View Page Images or PDF (616 kB)]
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Electric-field-induced phase transition in electrorheological fluids
R. Tao
pp. 423-426 [View Page Images or PDF (656 kB)]
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Model for density-functional thermodynamic perturbation analysis of Lennard-Jones solids
Agathagelos Kyrlidis and Robert A. Brown
pp. 427-438 [View Page Images or PDF (1,970 kB)]
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Light-scattering technique for the study of dynamic thickness fluctuations in thin liquid films
Richard C. Haskell, Daniel C. Petersen, and Mark W. Johnson
pp. 439-451 [View Page Images or PDF (2,087 kB)]
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Quantitative lattice measurement of thin Langmuir-Blodgett films by atomic-force microscopy
D. K. Schwartz, J. Garnaes, R. Viswanathan, S. Chiruvolu, and J. A. N. Zasadzinski
pp. 452-460 [View Page Images or PDF (2,873 kB)]
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Shape equations of the axisymmetric vesicles
Hu Jian-Guo and Ou-Yang Zhong-Can
pp. 461-467 [View Page Images or PDF (782 kB)]
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Dynamic percolation of spheres in a continuum: The case of microemulsions
C. Boned, J. Peyrelasse, and Z. Saidi
pp. 468-478 [View Page Images or PDF (1,148 kB)]
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Activated dynamics, loss of ergodicity, and transport in supercooled liquids
D. Thirumalai and Raymond D. Mountain
pp. 479-489 [View Page Images or PDF (1,950 kB)]
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Hard-sphere and hard-disk freezing from the differential formulation of the generalized effective liquid approximation
C. F. Tejero and J. A. Cuesta
pp. 490-495 [View Page Images or PDF (959 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation study of mesophase formation in dipolar spherocylinders
D. Levesque, J. J. Weis, and G. J. Zarragoicoechea
pp. 496-505 [View Page Images or PDF (1,559 kB)]
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Orientational order in simple dipolar fluids: Density-functional theory and absolute-stability conditions
Dongqing Wei, G. N. Patey, and A. Perera
pp. 506-512 [View Page Images or PDF (1,125 kB)]
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Interface dynamics and banding in rapid solidification
Alain Karma and Armand Sarkissian
pp. 513-533 [View Page Images or PDF (4,173 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Testing singularities in the complex plane: Suggestions for dendritic-growth experiments
Martine Ben Amar and Efim Brener
pp. 534-544 [View Page Images or PDF (1,897 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Negative-energy waves in an inhomogeneous force-free Vlasov plasma with sheared magnetic field
Darío Correa-Restrepo and Dieter Pfirsch
pp. 545-563 [View Page Images or PDF (2,229 kB)]
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Experiments on grid-excited solitons in a positive-ion–negative-ion plasma
Jamie L. Cooney, David W. Aossey, James E. Williams, and Karl E. Lonngren
pp. 564-569 [View Page Images or PDF (975 kB)]
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Ion-ion interaction and equation of state of a dense plasma: Application to beryllium
F. Perrot
pp. 570-582 [View Page Images or PDF (1,842 kB)]
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Electron-temperature inhomogeneities along an x-ray laser plasma
B. La Fontaine, J. Dunn, H. A. Baldis, G. D. Enright, D. M. Villeneuve, J. C. Kieffer, M. Nantel, and H. Pépin
pp. 583-590 [View Page Images or PDF (1,580 kB)]
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Resistive model of the rf discharge including additional dc currents and electrodes
Michael Klick
pp. 591-603 [View Page Images or PDF (1,718 kB)]
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Collective modes in nonrelativistic electron-positron plasmas
Naoki Iwamoto
pp. 604-611 [View Page Images or PDF (1,248 kB)]
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Self-consistent model for the nonequilibrium cathode region
P. Bayle and A. Perrin
pp. 612-622 [View Page Images or PDF (1,911 kB)]
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State-specific mobility of excited cadmium and calcium ions in a discharge plasma measured by a tunable diode laser
Hirokazu Hori, Yoshihiro Ono, Akio Watanabe, Makoto Nakamura, Yukio Inoue, and Takeki Sakurai
pp. 623-634 [View Page Images or PDF (2,273 kB)]
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Impact ionization in nonideal plasmas in a strong electric field
D. Kremp, K. Morawetz, M. Schlanges, and V. Rietz
pp. 635-639 [View Page Images or PDF (666 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Characteristics of synchrotron Čerenkov radiation
R. Pratap, K. Sasidharan, and Vinod Krishan
pp. 640-655 [View Page Images or PDF (1,818 kB)]
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Coupling impedance of beam pipes of general cross section
Robert L. Gluckstern, Johannes van Zeijts, and Bruno Zotter
pp. 656-663 [View Page Images or PDF (999 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Contributions to the electromagnetic wave theory of bounded homogeneous anisotropic media
Wei Ren
pp. 664-673 [View Page Images or PDF (1,387 kB)]
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Transverse stability of Kawahara solitons
V. I. Karpman
pp. 674-676 [View Page Images or PDF (357 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Brillouin-scattering study of hyaluronic acid: Dynamic coupling with the water of hydration and phase transitions
S. A. Lee, M. R. Flowers, W. F. Oliver, A. Rupprecht, and S. M. Lindsay
pp. 677-683 [View Page Images or PDF (1,108 kB)]
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Dynamics and thermodynamics of a nonlinear model for DNA denaturation
Thierry Dauxois, Michel Peyrard, and A. R. Bishop
pp. 684-695 [View Page Images or PDF (2,756 kB)]
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Application of finite-size scaling to the Pink model for lipid bilayers
Eugenia Corvera, Mohamed Laradji, and Martin J. Zuckermann
pp. 696-703 [View Page Images or PDF (1,472 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Detecting structure in two dimensions combining Voronoi tessellation and percolation
H. Ebeling and G. Wiedenmann
pp. 704-710 [View Page Images or PDF (1,083 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Universality classes of second-order dynamical phase transitions
Daniel ben-Avraham
pp. 711-713 [View Page Images or PDF (433 kB)]
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Method of controlling chaos in laser equations
Minh Duong-van
pp. 714-717 [View Page Images or PDF (587 kB)]
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Density-functional method for lattice-gas problems
Martina Nieswand, W. Dieterich, and A. Majhofer
pp. 718-720 [View Page Images or PDF (447 kB)]
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Large-scale chaos in the neutral-line Hamiltonian
R. F. Martin, Jr. and H. Matsuoka
pp. 721-723 [View Page Images or PDF (349 kB)]
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Himalayan sandpiles
David A. Noever
pp. 724-725 [View Page Images or PDF (339 kB)]
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Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon hierarchy for higher forms
E. Gozzi and M. Reuter
pp. 726-729 [View Page Images or PDF (641 kB)]
See Also: Reply
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Sandpiles and diffusion-limited reactions
Joachim Krug
pp. 730-732 [View Page Images or PDF (473 kB)]
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Scaling behavior of a directed sandpile automata with random defects
James Theiler
pp. 733-734 [View Page Images or PDF (257 kB)]
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Hausdorff dimension from the minimal spanning tree
Vicent J. Martínez, R. Domínguez-Tenreiro, and L. J. Roy
pp. 735-738 [View Page Images or PDF (708 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Quantum wave turbulence
M. B. Haeri, S. J. Putterman, A. Garcia, and P. H. Roberts
pp. 739-742 [View Page Images or PDF (626 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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A low-wave-vector expansion for reflectivity
B. L. Carvalho and S. H. Chen
pp. 743-746 [View Page Images or PDF (517 kB)]
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Selection of toroidal shape of partially polymerized membranes
Ou-Yang Zhong-can
pp. 747-749 [View Page Images or PDF (509 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Alfvén vortices in nonuniform dusty magnetoplasmas
P. K. Shukla, R. K. Varma, V. Krishan, and J. F. McKenzie
pp. 750-752 [View Page Images or PDF (449 kB)]
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Explosive instabilities of reaction-diffusion equations including pinch effects
H. Wilhelmsson
pp. 753-755 [View Page Images or PDF (420 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of Stark broadening for several Si ii lines
C. Pérez, I. de la Rosa, A. M. de Frutos, and S. Mar
pp. 756-759 [View Page Images or PDF (504 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Stress distribution of a hexagonally packed granular pile
D. C. Hong
pp. 760-762 [View Page Images or PDF (333 kB)]
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Gauge-invariance aspects of the canonical perturbation theory
C. Y. Chen
pp. 763-766 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]