Physical Review E – February 1993
Volume 47, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Nonuniversal diffusion in a chain with deterministic local drifts
Amos Maritan and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. R769-R771 [View Page Images or PDF (558 kB)]
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Strange attractor of the modulated Stokes wave: A universal form
Hie Tae Moon
pp. R772-R775 [View Page Images or PDF (753 kB)]
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Law of proliferation of periodic orbits in pseudointegrable billiards
H. D. Parab and Sudhir R. Jain
pp. R776-R779 [View Page Images or PDF (784 kB)]
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Controlling chaos in highly dissipative systems: A simple recursive algorithm
R. W. Rollins, P. Parmananda, and P. Sherard
pp. R780-R783 [View Page Images or PDF (808 kB)]
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Discerning differences among anomalously wandering directed polymers
Ning-Ning Pang and Timothy Halpin-Healy
pp. R784-R787 [View Page Images or PDF (766 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Parametrically excited quasicrystalline surface waves
W. S. Edwards and S. Fauve
pp. R788-R791 [View Page Images or PDF (1,179 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Lamellar phase in a model for block copolymers
Amitabha Chakrabarti and James D. Gunton
pp. R792-R795 [View Page Images or PDF (683 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Blow-up in the Boussinesq equation
Sergei K. Turitsyn
pp. R796-R799 [View Page Images or PDF (764 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Interaction between a drifting spiral and defects
Xiaoqin Zou, Herbert Levine, and David A. Kessler
pp. R800-R803 [View Page Images or PDF (661 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Dispersion relation around the kink solution of the Cahn-Hilliard equation
A. Shinozaki and Y. Oono
pp. 804-811 [View Page Images or PDF (1,335 kB)]
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Selection mechanism and area distribution in two-dimensional cellular structures
Daniel Segel, David Mukamel, Oleg Krichevsky, and Joel Stavans
pp. 812-819 [View Page Images or PDF (1,400 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal dynamics due to stick-slip friction in an elastic-membrane system
D. P. Vallette and J. P. Gollub
pp. 820-827 [View Page Images or PDF (1,624 kB)]
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Geometrical hints for a nonperturbative approach to Hamiltonian dynamics
Marco Pettini
pp. 828-850 [View Page Images or PDF (3,985 kB)]
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Scale-invariant motion in intermittent chaotic systems
G. Zumofen and J. Klafter
pp. 851-863 [View Page Images or PDF (1,861 kB)]
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Coupling among three chemical oscillators: Synchronization, phase death, and frustration
Minoru Yoshimoto, Kenichi Yoshikawa, and Yoshihito Mori
pp. 864-874 [View Page Images or PDF (1,724 kB)]
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Multifractal formalism for fractal signals: The structure-function approach versus the wavelet-transform modulus-maxima method
J. F. Muzy, E. Bacry, and A. Arneodo
pp. 875-884 [View Page Images or PDF (2,036 kB)]
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Reaction-diffusion lattice gas: Theory and computer results
J. J. Alonso, J. Marro, and J. M. González-Miranda
pp. 885-898 [View Page Images or PDF (2,318 kB)]
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Water erosion as a fractal growth process
Hajime Inaoka and Hideki Takayasu
pp. 899-910 [View Page Images or PDF (2,481 kB)]
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Long-wavelength properties of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
F. Hayot, C. Jayaprakash, and Ch. Josserand
pp. 911-915 [View Page Images or PDF (724 kB)]
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Analytic calculation of the diffusion coefficient for random walks on strips of finite width: Dependence on size and nature of boundaries
S. Revathi and V. Balakrishnan
pp. 916-921 [View Page Images or PDF (909 kB)]
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Activated rate processes: Finite-barrier expansion for the rate in the spatial-diffusion limit
Eli Pollak and Peter Talkner
pp. 922-933 [View Page Images or PDF (2,023 kB)]
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Asymmetric free energy from Riemannian geometry
George Ruppeiner
pp. 934-938 [View Page Images or PDF (773 kB)]
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Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in a dilute Bose gas
H. T. C. Stoof and M. Bijlsma
pp. 939-947 [View Page Images or PDF (1,395 kB)]
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Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model with CO desorption: An Ising-like nonequilibrium critical point
Tânia Tomé and Ronald Dickman
pp. 948-952 [View Page Images or PDF (840 kB)]
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Multifractality of probability measure on energy-spectrum supports
Z. R. Yang
pp. 953-956 [View Page Images or PDF (592 kB)]
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Gradients of potential fields on rough surfaces: Perturbative calculation of the singularity distribution function f(α) for small surface dimension
Kausik Sarkar and Charles Meneveau
pp. 957-966 [View Page Images or PDF (1,491 kB)]
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Dynamic autoresonance and global chaos in a slowly evolving system of two coupled oscillators
G. Cohen and B. Meerson
pp. 967-975 [View Page Images or PDF (1,272 kB)]
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Small-noise approximations to the solution of the Smoluchowski equation
Moshe Gitterman and George H. Weiss
pp. 976-980 [View Page Images or PDF (698 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic phase transition in random Potts spin chains
Jian-Cheng Lin, Philip L. Taylor, and Rafael Rangel
pp. 981-985 [View Page Images or PDF (795 kB)]
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Quantum Poincaré sections for two-dimensional billiards
Bruno Crespi, Gabriel Perez, and Shau-Jin Chang
pp. 986-991 [View Page Images or PDF (1,019 kB)]
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Fractal renewal processes generate 1/f noise
S. B. Lowen and M. C. Teich
pp. 992-1001 [View Page Images or PDF (1,647 kB)]
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Stability exchanges between periodic orbits in a Hamiltonian dynamical system
Anders B. Eriksson and Per Dahlqvist
pp. 1002-1006 [View Page Images or PDF (839 kB)]
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Shadowing instability in three dimensions
Jian Hua Yao and Hong Guo
pp. 1007-1011 [View Page Images or PDF (882 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Differential condition of thermodynamic consistency as a closure for the Ornstein-Zernike equation
G. A. Martynov and A. G. Vompe
pp. 1012-1017 [View Page Images or PDF (802 kB)]
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Kinetics of the monomer-monomer surface reaction model
J. W. Evans and T. R. Ray
pp. 1018-1025 [View Page Images or PDF (1,273 kB)]
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Light-scattering measurements of nonequilibrium fluctuations in a liquid mixture
P. N. Segrè, R. W. Gammon, and J. V. Sengers
pp. 1026-1034 [View Page Images or PDF (1,452 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Numerical inverse-scattering-transform analysis of laboratory-generated surface wave trains
A. R. Osborne and M. Petti
pp. 1035-1037 [View Page Images or PDF (578 kB)]
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Repeated transients of weakly nonlinear traveling-wave convection
Paul Kolodner
pp. 1038-1048 [View Page Images or PDF (2,165 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of Taylor dispersion: Constitutive equations
J. Camacho
pp. 1049-1053 [View Page Images or PDF (937 kB)]
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Characterization of period-doubling scenarios in Taylor-Couette flow
Th. Buzug, J. von Stamm, and G. Pfister
pp. 1054-1065 [View Page Images or PDF (1,840 kB)]
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Phonon-particle interactions and transport processes in liquids
F. S. Gaeta, F. Peluso, D. G. Mita, C. Albanese, and D. Castagnolo
pp. 1066-1077 [View Page Images or PDF (2,408 kB)]
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Long-wavelength analysis of the coupling between solidification and Soret-driven convection at positive separation ratio
Layachi Hadji
pp. 1078-1086 [View Page Images or PDF (1,520 kB)]
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Asymptotic behavior of viscous-fingering patterns in circular geometry
David Jasnow and Chuck Yeung
pp. 1087-1093 [View Page Images or PDF (1,234 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Magnetic-field-induced biaxiality in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal
I. Muševič, B. Žekš, R. Blinc, and Th. Rasing
pp. 1094-1100 [View Page Images or PDF (1,114 kB)]
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Novel dynamical mode in a tilted smectic liquid-crystal film
M. S. Spector, S. Sprunt, and J. D. Litster
pp. 1101-1107 [View Page Images or PDF (1,067 kB)]
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Glass transition and dynamic-mobility spectrum of an isotropic system of rodlike molecules
Iwao Teraoka and Frank E. Karasz
pp. 1108-1118 [View Page Images or PDF (1,833 kB)]
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Absence of the nematic phase in symmetric diblock copolymers
David C. Morse and Scott T. Milner
pp. 1119-1125 [View Page Images or PDF (1,168 kB)]
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Hydrothermal waves in Marangoni convection in a cylindrical container
A. B. Ezersky, A. Garcimartín, J. Burguete, H. L. Mancini, and C. Pérez-García
pp. 1126-1131 [View Page Images or PDF (1,628 kB)]
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Kinetics of spinodal decomposition in a polymer mixture
N. Kuwahara, H. Sato, and K. Kubota
pp. 1132-1138 [View Page Images or PDF (1,197 kB)]
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Ion-director coupling in a ferroelectric liquid crystal
Min-Hua Lu, Charles Rosenblatt, and Rolfe G. Petschek
pp. 1139-1143 [View Page Images or PDF (690 kB)]
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Growth instability and pricking-fracture mechanism in smectic-A focal-conic nucleation
J. B. Fournier, M. Warenghem, and G. Durand
pp. 1144-1150 [View Page Images or PDF (2,618 kB)]
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Crystal growth in a channel: Numerical study of the one-sided model
E. Brener, H. Müller-Krumbhaar, Y. Saito, and D. Temkin
pp. 1151-1155 [View Page Images or PDF (755 kB)]
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Theory of phase-separation dynamics in quenched binary mixtures
Michio Tokuyama and Yoshihisa Enomoto
pp. 1156-1179 [View Page Images or PDF (3,007 kB)]
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Phase separation and curvature of bilayer membranes
F. C. MacKintosh and S. A. Safran
pp. 1180-1183 [View Page Images or PDF (762 kB)]
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Critical points in layered systems
A. D. Défontaines and J. Prost
pp. 1184-1198 [View Page Images or PDF (2,117 kB)]
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Growth of a single drop formed by diffusion and adsorption of monomers on a two-dimensional substrate
P. L. Krapivsky
pp. 1199-1202 [View Page Images or PDF (585 kB)]
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High-resolution calorimetric study of the antiferroelectric liquid crystals methylheptyloxycarbonylphenyl octyloxybiphenyl carboxylate and its octylcarbonylbiphenyl analog
K. Ema, H. Yao, I. Kawamura, T. Chan, and C. W. Garland
pp. 1203-1211 [View Page Images or PDF (1,397 kB)]
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Planar density-functional approach to the solid-fluid interface of simple liquids
D. W. Marr and A. P. Gast
pp. 1212-1221 [View Page Images or PDF (1,603 kB)]
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Interplay of orientational order and viscoelasticity in supercooled liquids near the glass transition
Sushanta Dattagupta and Łukasz A. Turski
pp. 1222-1229 [View Page Images or PDF (1,566 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Planar solidification from an undercooled melt: Asymptotic solutions to a continuum model with interfacial kinetics
Ch. Charach and B. Zaltzman
pp. 1230-1234 [View Page Images or PDF (781 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation studies of dendritic instabilities in three dimensions
Loki Jörgenson, R. Harris, Martin Grant, and Hong Guo
pp. 1235-1242 [View Page Images or PDF (2,107 kB)]
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Biharmonic pattern selection
Wei Wang and E. Canessa
pp. 1243-1248 [View Page Images or PDF (1,032 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Interaction of a weakly nonlinear laser pulse with a plasma
H. H. Kuehl, C. Y. Zhang, and T. Katsouleas
pp. 1249-1261 [View Page Images or PDF (2,074 kB)]
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Time-dependent electron kinetics in N2 and H2 for a wide range of the field frequency including electron-vibration superelastic collisions
J. Loureiro
pp. 1262-1275 [View Page Images or PDF (1,990 kB)]
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Stopping power of extended cluster and ion charge distributions in an arbitrarily degenerate electron fluid
A. Bret and C. Deutsch
pp. 1276-1284 [View Page Images or PDF (1,210 kB)]
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Partition functions of rare-earth halide plasmas
R. Holbrook, L. A. Kaledin, and J. A. Kunc
pp. 1285-1298 [View Page Images or PDF (2,080 kB)]
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Fast-discharge excitation of hot capillary plasmas for soft-x-ray amplifiers
J. J. Rocca, O. D. Cortázar, B. Szapiro, K. Floyd, and F. G. Tomasel
pp. 1299-1304 [View Page Images or PDF (1,011 kB)]
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Characterization of a capillary-discharge plasma
N. Edison, P. E. Young, N. Holmes, R. W. Lee, N. C. Woolsey, J. S. Wark, and W. J. Blyth
pp. 1305-1312 [View Page Images or PDF (1,541 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Generation of coherent undulator radiation using a relativistic photoelectron beam with picosecond micropulses
Young Uk Jeong, Chang Hee Nam, Sang Soo Lee, Yoshiyuki Kawamura, and Koichi Toyoda
pp. 1313-1320 [View Page Images or PDF (1,423 kB)]
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Microsphere-based short-wavelength recombination x-ray laser
E. J. Valeo and S. C. Cowley
pp. 1321-1336 [View Page Images or PDF (2,674 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Transition operators in electromagnetic-wave diffraction theory. II. Applications to optics
G. E. Hahne
pp. 1337-1364 [View Page Images or PDF (5,020 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Manifestly covariant formalism for electromagnetism in chiral media
Pierre Hillion
pp. 1365-1374 [View Page Images or PDF (965 kB)]
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Length-scale competition for the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with spatially periodic potentials
Rainer Scharf and A. R. Bishop
pp. 1375-1383 [View Page Images or PDF (2,075 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Generalization ability of perceptrons with continuous outputs
S. Bös, W. Kinzel, and M. Opper
pp. 1384-1391 [View Page Images or PDF (1,216 kB)]
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Class of Hamiltonian neural networks
Philippe De Wilde
pp. 1392-1396 [View Page Images or PDF (693 kB)]
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Basin of attraction in networks of multistate neurons
M. Bouten and A. Engel
pp. 1397-1400 [View Page Images or PDF (631 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Persistent self-organization of sandpiles
J. Rosendahl, M. Vekić, and J. Kelley
pp. 1401-1404 [View Page Images or PDF (511 kB)]
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Experimental observation of type-II intermittency in a hydrodynamic system
E. Ringuet, C. Rozé, and G. Gouesbet
pp. 1405-1407 [View Page Images or PDF (521 kB)]
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Generating strange nonchaotic trajectories
T. Kapitaniak
pp. 1408-1410 [View Page Images or PDF (448 kB)]
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Canonically modified Nosé-Hoover equation with explicit inclusion of the virial
Ivan L’Heureux and Ian Hamilton
pp. 1411-1414 [View Page Images or PDF (545 kB)]
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Velocity selection in coupled-map lattices
Nita Parekh and Sanjay Puri
pp. 1415-1418 [View Page Images or PDF (730 kB)]
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Pattern selection at high nonlinearity in a diffusively coupled logistic lattice
Frederick H. Willeboordse
pp. 1419-1422 [View Page Images or PDF (714 kB)]
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Soliton on a disordered lattice
V. V. Konotop
pp. 1423-1426 [View Page Images or PDF (772 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Long-time limit of the self-correlation-function of one-dimensional diffusion
Jörg Kärger
pp. 1427-1428 [View Page Images or PDF (331 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Late-stage phase separation and sedimentation in a binary liquid mixture
Franco Cau and Serge Lacelle
pp. 1429-1432 [View Page Images or PDF (981 kB)]
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Rotating-liquid-drop model limit tested on macroscopic drops
A. Menchaca-Rocha, A. Cuevas, M. Chapa, and M. Silva
pp. 1433-1436 [View Page Images or PDF (825 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Effect of long-range forces on surface enrichment in polymer blends
R. A. L. Jones
pp. 1437-1440 [View Page Images or PDF (590 kB)]
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Critical exponents for a self-interacting, directed polymer with adsorption
Damien P. Foster
pp. 1441-1444 [View Page Images or PDF (562 kB)]
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Experimental studies on the temperature behavior of the nonlinear dielectric effect in a critical binary solution
S. J. Rzoska and J. Zioło
pp. 1445-1447 [View Page Images or PDF (446 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Size dependence of the minimum-growth probabilities of typical diffusion-limited-aggregation clusters
Marek Wolf
pp. 1448-1451 [View Page Images or PDF (615 kB)]