Physical Review E – May 1993
Volume 47, Issue 5

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Transition to hyperchaos in chaotically forced coupled oscillators
T. Kapitaniak
pp. R2975-R2978 [View Page Images or PDF (579 kB)]
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Directed polymers in a random medium: Universal scaling behavior of the probability distribution
Yadin Y. Goldschmidt and Thomas Blum
pp. R2979-R2982 [View Page Images or PDF (746 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Hydrodynamic friction of arbitrarily shaped Brownian particles
Joseph B. Hubbard and Jack F. Douglas
pp. R2983-R2986 [View Page Images or PDF (725 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Spiral-pattern formation in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Hao-wen Xi, J. D. Gunton, and Jorge Viñals
pp. R2987-R2990 [View Page Images or PDF (964 kB)]
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Küppers-Lortz transition at high dimensionless rotation rates in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Li Ning and Robert E. Ecke
pp. R2991-R2994 [View Page Images or PDF (1,074 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Limited stochastic electron acceleration induced by an intense cyclotron wave in a plasma
Daniela Farina, Roberto Pozzoli, and Massimiliano Romé
pp. R2995-R2998 [View Page Images or PDF (695 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Scattering and wavelength transduction of diffuse photon density waves
D. A. Boas, M. A. O’Leary, B. Chance, and A. G. Yodh
pp. R2999-R3002 [View Page Images or PDF (835 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Control of chaos in an electrochemical cell
P. Parmananda, P. Sherard, R. W. Rollins, and H. D. Dewald
pp. R3003-R3006 [View Page Images or PDF (659 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Probability distributions for second-order processes driven by Gaussian noise
J. Heinrichs
pp. 3007-3012 [View Page Images or PDF (901 kB)]
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Vibrations of strongly irregular or fractal resonators
B. Sapoval and Th. Gobron
pp. 3013-3024 [View Page Images or PDF (2,223 kB)]
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Late-stage coarsening for off-critical quenches: Scaling functions and the growth law
Amitabha Chakrabarti, Raúl Toral, and James D. Gunton
pp. 3025-3038 [View Page Images or PDF (2,317 kB)]
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Critical behavior of three interacting strings
Roland R. Netz and Reinhard Lipowsky
pp. 3039-3042 [View Page Images or PDF (702 kB)]
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Stochastic transient of a noise-perturbed Haken-Zwanzig model
H. K. Leung and B. C. Lai
pp. 3043-3047 [View Page Images or PDF (682 kB)]
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Rupture propagation, dynamical front selection, and the role of small length scales in a model of an earthquake fault
Christopher R. Myers and J. S. Langer
pp. 3048-3056 [View Page Images or PDF (1,658 kB)]
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Local false nearest neighbors and dynamical dimensions from observed chaotic data
Henry D. I. Abarbanel and Matthew B. Kennel
pp. 3057-3068 [View Page Images or PDF (2,057 kB)]
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Dynamical lattice-model simulation
John R. Gunn, C. Michael McCallum, and K. A. Dawson
pp. 3069-3080 [View Page Images or PDF (3,128 kB)]
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Loop structure of percolation hulls
M. Kolb and M. Rosso
pp. 3081-3086 [View Page Images or PDF (997 kB)]
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Properties of a logistic map with a sectional discontinuity
B. L. Tan and T. T. Chia
pp. 3087-3098 [View Page Images or PDF (1,819 kB)]
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Sandpiles, avalanches, and the statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium stationary states
Ashvin B. Chhabra, Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Leo P. Kadanoff, Amy J. Kolan, and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 3099-3121 [View Page Images or PDF (3,358 kB)]
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Noise and slow-fast dynamics in a three-wave resonance problem
G. D. Lythe and M. R. E. Proctor
pp. 3122-3127 [View Page Images or PDF (712 kB)]
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Phase flow and statistical structure of Galton-board systems
Arthur Lue and Howard Brenner
pp. 3128-3144 [View Page Images or PDF (3,001 kB)]
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Constant-temperature molecular dynamics with momentum conservation
K. Cho, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Leonard Kleinman
pp. 3145-3151 [View Page Images or PDF (1,034 kB)]
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Asymptotic behavior of dynamical correlations via perturbative analysis of infinite continued fractions
Surajit Sen and James Christopher Phillips
pp. 3152-3157 [View Page Images or PDF (839 kB)]
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Probability distributions of local Lyapunov exponents for Hamiltonian systems
Concezione Amitrano and R. Stephen Berry
pp. 3158-3173 [View Page Images or PDF (2,104 kB)]
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Model-independent method for reconstruction of scattering-length-density profiles using neutron or x-ray reflectivity data
Xiao-Lin Zhou and Sow-Hsin Chen
pp. 3174-3190 [View Page Images or PDF (3,096 kB)]
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Domain-growth scaling in systems with long-range interactions
A. J. Bray
pp. 3191-3195 [View Page Images or PDF (953 kB)]
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Thermodynamics and multicorrelations of intermittent dynamics
Tatsuharu Kobayashi, Hirokazu Fujisaka, and Wolfram Just
pp. 3196-3205 [View Page Images or PDF (1,346 kB)]
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Cooperative few-level fluctuations in coupled quantum systems
H. Körner and G. Mahler
pp. 3206-3217 [View Page Images or PDF (1,715 kB)]
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Growth and form of two-dimensional rotating aggregates
N. Lemke, M. G. Malcum, R. M. C. de Almeida, P. M. Mors, and J. R. Iglesias
pp. 3218-3224 [View Page Images or PDF (1,080 kB)]
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Upper critical dimension for aggregation processes
H. Wright and D. Ramkrishna
pp. 3225-3230 [View Page Images or PDF (1,146 kB)]
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Theory of interaction and bound states of spiral waves in oscillatory media
Igor S. Aranson, Lorenz Kramer, and Andreas Weber
pp. 3231-3241 [View Page Images or PDF (3,288 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Groove instabilities in surface growth with diffusion
Jacques G. Amar, Pui-Man Lam, and Fereydoon Family
pp. 3242-3245 [View Page Images or PDF (675 kB)]
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Evidence of a nondiffusive transport in a monodisperse screened Coulomb system by a molecular-dynamics simulation
Michael Wild and Ras B. Pandey
pp. 3246-3250 [View Page Images or PDF (850 kB)]
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Transport properties of nonequilibrium gas mixtures
Sylviane Pascal and Raymond Brun
pp. 3251-3267 [View Page Images or PDF (2,328 kB)]
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Equipartition and ergodicity in closed one-dimensional systems of hard spheres with different masses
Graeme J. Ackland
pp. 3268-3275 [View Page Images or PDF (1,318 kB)]
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Virial expansion for ionic mixtures: Point-counterion model
A. B. Schmidt
pp. 3276-3280 [View Page Images or PDF (685 kB)]
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Relaxation dynamics in a lattice gas: A test of the mode-coupling theory of the ideal glass transition
Walter Kob and Hans C. Andersen
pp. 3281-3302 [View Page Images or PDF (4,452 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Nonlinear diffusion process in a Bénard system at the critical point for the onset of convection
R. A. Kraenkel, S. M. Kurcbart, J. G. Pereira, and M. A. Manna
pp. 3303-3306 [View Page Images or PDF (607 kB)]
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Scaling in fluid turbulence: A geometric theory
Peter Constantin and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 3307-3315 [View Page Images or PDF (1,462 kB)]
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Evolution of induced patterns in surface-tension-driven Bénard convection
P. Cerisier, C. Perez-Garcia, and R. Occelli
pp. 3316-3325 [View Page Images or PDF (2,477 kB)]
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Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Aspect-ratio dependence of the initial bifurcations
Li Ning and Robert E. Ecke
pp. 3326-3333 [View Page Images or PDF (1,718 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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System-size effects at the isotropic-nematic transition from computer simulation
Enrique de Miguel
pp. 3334-3342 [View Page Images or PDF (1,498 kB)]
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Coarsening dynamics in uniaxial nematic liquid crystals
Issac Chuang, Bernard Yurke, Andrew N. Pargellis, and Neil Turok
pp. 3343-3356 [View Page Images or PDF (3,469 kB)]
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Kinetic growth of randomlike and ballisticlike deposition models
Wei Wang and Hilda A. Cerdeira
pp. 3357-3361 [View Page Images or PDF (812 kB)]
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Computer simulations of nonequilibrium structure formation in electrorheological fluids
K. C. Hass
pp. 3362-3373 [View Page Images or PDF (2,010 kB)]
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Curvature defects in a lamellar phase revealed by nuclear-spin-relaxation anisotropy
Per-Ola Quist and Bertil Halle
pp. 3374-3395 [View Page Images or PDF (4,150 kB)]
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Ordering of hard needles at a hard wall
A. Poniewierski
pp. 3396-3403 [View Page Images or PDF (1,152 kB)]
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Reentrant phase transition in charged colloidal suspensions: A Monte Carlo study
B. V. R. Tata, Akhilesh K. Arora, and M. C. Valsakumar
pp. 3404-3411 [View Page Images or PDF (1,201 kB)]
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Quantitative determination of the percolation threshold in waterless microemulsions
J. Peyrelasse, C. Boned, and Z. Saidi
pp. 3412-3417 [View Page Images or PDF (890 kB)]
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Diffuse optical probes of particle motion and structure formation in an electrorheological fluid
J. M. Ginder
pp. 3418-3429 [View Page Images or PDF (2,180 kB)]
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Anisotropic critical properties of the hexatic N+6 phase near the transition to the hexagonal discotic phase
C. Giannessi
pp. 3430-3440 [View Page Images or PDF (1,582 kB)]
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Dynamics of the lowest-order bend-twist director mode near nematic–smectic-A criticality
H. K. M. Vithana, G. Xu, and D. L. Johnson
pp. 3441-3455 [View Page Images or PDF (2,199 kB)]
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Effects of surface enhancement on fluctuation-induced interactions
Marcelo L. Lyra, Mehran Kardar, and Nami F. Svaiter
pp. 3456-3462 [View Page Images or PDF (1,128 kB)]
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Morphological instabilities of CBr4 crystals during growth from vapors
Rong-Fu Xiao
pp. 3463-3466 [View Page Images or PDF (1,550 kB)]
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Generalization of the Poiseuille law for one- and two-phase flow in a random capillary network
C. O’Carroll and K. S. Sorbie
pp. 3467-3476 [View Page Images or PDF (1,581 kB)]
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Dynamics of phospholipid tubules in a concentrated solution: Results from high-field magnetic birefringence and quasielastic light scattering
S. Sprunt, G. Nounesis, J. D. Litster, B. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar
pp. 3477-3484 [View Page Images or PDF (1,696 kB)]
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Light-scattering study of a surface-induced phase transition in alkane fluids
C. J. Hughes and J. C. Earnshaw
pp. 3485-3496 [View Page Images or PDF (2,077 kB)]
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Capillary-rise study of nonequilibrium wetting by a binary liquid caused by temperature ramps
Niraj S. Desai and Carl Franck
pp. 3497-3503 [View Page Images or PDF (1,501 kB)]
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Simulation studies of the faceting transition in a cubic Ising model
Loki Jörgenson and R. Harris
pp. 3504-3515 [View Page Images or PDF (2,403 kB)]
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Phonon dispersion in polycrystalline ice: Implications for the collective behavior of liquid water
A. Criado, F. J. Bermejo, M. García-Hernández, and J. L. Martínez
pp. 3516-3523 [View Page Images or PDF (1,438 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Kinetic roughening of a terrace ledge
Tim Salditt and Herbert Spohn
pp. 3524-3531 [View Page Images or PDF (1,376 kB)]
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Self-consistent cluster approach to the homogeneous kinetic nucleation theory
V. I. Kalikmanov and M. E. H. van Dongen
pp. 3532-3539 [View Page Images or PDF (1,101 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Ionization balance in the negative glow of a Hg-Ar hot-cathode discharge
R. C. Wamsley, K. Mitsuhashi, and J. E. Lawler
pp. 3540-3546 [View Page Images or PDF (1,270 kB)]
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Optical probing of hot expanded states produced by shock release
P. Celliers and A. Ng
pp. 3547-3565 [View Page Images or PDF (3,730 kB)]
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Electronic excitation of the 750- and 811-nm lines of argon
Z. M. Jelenak, Z. B. Velikić, J. V. Božin, Z. Lj. Petrović, and B. M. Jelenković
pp. 3566-3573 [View Page Images or PDF (1,478 kB)]
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Fast-ion interaction in dense plasmas with two-ion correlation effects
J. D’Avanzo, M. Lontano, and P. F. Bortignon
pp. 3574-3584 [View Page Images or PDF (1,464 kB)]
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Breaking of resonantly excited electron plasma waves
A. Bergmann and P. Mulser
pp. 3585-3589 [View Page Images or PDF (793 kB)]
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Plasma-density evolution in compact polyacetal capillary discharges
F. G. Tomasel, J. J. Rocca, O. D. Cortázar, B. T. Szapiro, and R. W. Lee
pp. 3590-3597 [View Page Images or PDF (1,391 kB)]
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Dielectric functions for the Vlasov-Landau equation
A. Bendib
pp. 3598-3606 [View Page Images or PDF (1,187 kB)]
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Helicity, topology, and force-free fields
Gerald E. Marsh
pp. 3607-3611 [View Page Images or PDF (877 kB)]
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Electrostatic oscillations in the presence of grain-charge perturbations in dusty plasmas
R. K. Varma, P. K. Shukla, and V. Krishan
pp. 3612-3616 [View Page Images or PDF (897 kB)]
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Modulational instability dynamics in a spatial focusing and temporal defocusing medium
D. Anderson, M. Karlsson, M. Lisak, and A. Sergeev
pp. 3617-3622 [View Page Images or PDF (840 kB)]
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Plasma broadening of Ne ii–Ne vi and F iv–F v spectral lines
N. I. Uzelac, S. Glenzer, N. Konjević, J. D. Hey, and H.-J. Kunze
pp. 3623-3630 [View Page Images or PDF (1,528 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Spin-depolarization mechanisms due to overlapping spin resonances in synchrotrons
S. Y. Lee
pp. 3631-3644 [View Page Images or PDF (2,451 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Uniform asymptotic description of ultrashort Gaussian-pulse propagation in a causal, dispersive dielectric
Constantinos M. Balictsis and Kurt Edmund Oughstun
pp. 3645-3669 [View Page Images or PDF (3,972 kB)]
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Study of fringing-field effects on the capacitance of a dielectric disk with a circular conducting hole
Jian-Zhong Bao and Christopher C. Davis
pp. 3670-3676 [View Page Images or PDF (1,222 kB)]
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‘‘Nonlinear’’ radiation of a sine-Gordon soliton generated by a constant external field
Eva Majerníková and Gabriel Drobný
pp. 3677-3681 [View Page Images or PDF (492 kB)]
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Generalized formula for the first derivative of the electric-field intensity
Ezzat G. Bakhoum and John A. Board, Jr.
pp. 3682-3685 [View Page Images or PDF (423 kB)]
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Continuous time algorithm for Lyapunov exponents. I
William E. Wiesel
pp. 3686-3691 [View Page Images or PDF (866 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Continuous time algorithm for Lyapunov exponents. II
William E. Wiesel
pp. 3692-3697 [View Page Images or PDF (861 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Generalized Förster-Dexter theory of photoinduced intramolecular energy transfer
S. H. Lin, W. Z. Xiao, and W. Dietz
pp. 3698-3706 [View Page Images or PDF (1,234 kB)]
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Stability of the replica-symmetric solution for a perceptron learning from examples
C. Kwon, Youngah Park, and J.-H. Oh
pp. 3707-3711 [View Page Images or PDF (721 kB)]
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Two-cell correlations in biological tissues
J. C. M. Mombach, R. M. C. de Almeida, and J. R. Iglesias
pp. 3712-3716 [View Page Images or PDF (1,070 kB)]
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Scaling and critical-like behavior in multidimensional diffusive dynamics
Savely Rabinovich and Noam Agmon
pp. 3717-3720 [View Page Images or PDF (787 kB)]
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Lattice model for hydrogen bonding and hydration in pure lipid bilayers
Zhengping Zhang, Jan Tobochnik, Martin J. Zuckermann, and John Silvius
pp. 3721-3729 [View Page Images or PDF (1,598 kB)]
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Finite-size effects on long-range correlations: Implications for analyzing DNA sequences
C.-K. Peng, S. V. Buldyrev, A. L. Goldberger, S. Havlin, M. Simons, and H. E. Stanley
pp. 3730-3733 [View Page Images or PDF (653 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Biological Physics

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Stochastic resonance in globally coupled nonlinear oscillators
A. R. Bulsara and G. Schmera
pp. 3734-3737 [View Page Images or PDF (743 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Scaling analysis of Langevin-type equations
Hanfei and Benkun Ma
pp. 3738-3740 [View Page Images or PDF (513 kB)]
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Optically induced chaotic behavior in nematic liquid-crystal films
G. Cipparrone, V. Carbone, C. Versace, C. Umeton, R. Bartolino, and F. Simoni
pp. 3741-3744 [View Page Images or PDF (656 kB)]
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Path-integral formalism for classical Brownian motion in a general environment
Yuhong Zhang
pp. 3745-3748 [View Page Images or PDF (614 kB)]
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Probability distribution function in the gas of paramagnetic particles
E. V. Goldstein, Yu. Sadaui, and V. M. Tsukernik
pp. 3749-3752 [View Page Images or PDF (581 kB)]
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Stochastic to deterministic crossover of fractal dimensions for a Langevin equation
David A. Egolf and Henry S. Greenside
pp. 3753-3756 [View Page Images or PDF (662 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Nonclassical A+B→0 batch reactions: Effect of mobility on rate, order, aggregation and segregation
Panos Argyrakis and Raoul Kopelman
pp. 3757-3760 [View Page Images or PDF (678 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Modification of the eikonal relation for chemical waves to include fluid flow
J. W. Wilder, D. A. Vasquez, and B. F. Edwards
pp. 3761-3764 [View Page Images or PDF (662 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Biaxial effect at an isotropic-nematic interface
Zheng Yu Chen
pp. 3765-3767 [View Page Images or PDF (405 kB)]
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Nonfractal colloidal aggregation
Michael L. Broide, Yves Garrabos, and Daniel Beysens
pp. 3768-3771 [View Page Images or PDF (665 kB)]
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Magnitude of the prewetting boundary tension near wetting for short-range forces
C. Varea and A. Robledo
pp. 3772-3775 [View Page Images or PDF (689 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Simple model of excitable media with dispersion and curvature
Hiroyuki Ito
pp. 3776-3779 [View Page Images or PDF (760 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Relativistic self-focusing of ultraintense laser pulses in inhomogeneous underdense plasmas
H. S. Brandi, C. Manus, G. Mainfray, and T. Lehner
pp. 3780-3783 [View Page Images or PDF (643 kB)]
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Two-dimensional system of charges in cylindrical traps
Hiroo Totsuji
pp. 3784-3786 [View Page Images or PDF (473 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Influence of wave dispersion on the self-consistent dynamics of cyclotron-laser-type systems
R. Pakter, R. S. Schneider, and F. B. Rizzato
pp. 3787-3790 [View Page Images or PDF (651 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Projection-operator approach to overlap dynamics in a Hopfield network
Toyonori Munakata and Yasuyuki Nakamura
pp. 3791-3794 [View Page Images or PDF (532 kB)]
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Deflated regime for pressurized ring polymers with long-range interactions
U. Marini Bettolo Marconi and A. Maritan
pp. 3795-3798 [View Page Images or PDF (530 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Finite-difference scheme to solve Schrödinger equations
Rongqing Chen, Zhizhan Xu, and Lan Sun
pp. 3799-3802 [View Page Images or PDF (581 kB)]

MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

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Editorial Note pp. 3803 [View Page Images or PDF (42 kB)]