Physical Review E – September 1993
Volume 48, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Statistical properties of spatiotemporal dynamical systems
Mingzhou Ding and Luc T. Wille
pp. R1605-R1608 [View Page Images or PDF (591 kB)]
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Towards a systematic calculation of the scaling functions for the ordering kinetics of nonconserved fields
A. J. Bray and K. Humayun
pp. R1609-R1612 [View Page Images or PDF (751 kB)]
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Band-random-matrix model for quantum localization in conservative systems
G. Casati, B. V. Chirikov, I. Guarneri, and F. M. Izrailev
pp. R1613-R1616 [View Page Images or PDF (665 kB)]
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Disturbing the random-energy landscape
Timothy Halpin-Healy and Devorah Herbert
pp. R1617-R1619 [View Page Images or PDF (606 kB)]
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Synchronization of chaotic orbits: The influence of unstable periodic orbits
Neelima Gupte and R. E. Amritkar
pp. R1620-R1623 [View Page Images or PDF (742 kB)]
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Transmission of signals by synchronization in a chaotic Van der Pol–Duffing oscillator
K. Murali and M. Lakshmanan
pp. R1624-R1626 [View Page Images or PDF (445 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Accelerating chemical waves accompanied by traveling hydrodynamic motion and surface deformation
Hidetoshi Miike, Hideaki Yamamoto, Shoichi Kai, and Stefan C. Müller
pp. R1627-R1630 [View Page Images or PDF (921 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Gradient flexoelectric effect and thickness dependence of anchoring energy
A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, G. Barbero, and A. G. Petrov
pp. R1631-R1634 [View Page Images or PDF (664 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Turbulence due to spiral breakup in a continuous excitable medium
M. Bär and M. Eiswirth
pp. R1635-R1637 [View Page Images or PDF (784 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Experimental measurement of resonance islands induced by rf voltage modulation
D. Li, M. Ball, B. Brabson, J. Budnick, D. D. Caussyn, A. W. Chao, G. East, M. Ellison, D. Friesel, B. Hamilton, H. Huang, W. P. Jones, S. Y. Lee, M. G. Minty, S. Nagaitsev, K. Y. Ng, X. Pei, T. Sloan, M. Syphers, L. Teng, Y. Wang, Y. T. Yan, and P. L. Zhang
pp. R1638-R1641 [View Page Images or PDF (577 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Measurement of the persistence length of polymerized actin using fluorescence microscopy
A. Ott, M. Magnasco, A. Simon, and A. Libchaber
pp. R1642-R1645 [View Page Images or PDF (707 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Stationary probability distribution near stable limit cycles far from Hopf bifurcation points
Mark Dykman, Xiaolin Chu, and John Ross
pp. 1646-1654 [View Page Images or PDF (1,259 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Type-I intermittency for the Hénon-map family
Harvey Kaplan
pp. 1655-1669 [View Page Images or PDF (2,823 kB)]
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Quadratic map modulated by additive periodic forcing
Sanju and V. S. Varma
pp. 1670-1675 [View Page Images or PDF (1,171 kB)]
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Geometric mechanism for antimonotonicity in scalar maps with two critical points
Silvina Ponce Dawson, Celso Grebogi, and Hüseyin Koçak
pp. 1676-1682 [View Page Images or PDF (1,281 kB)]
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Self-similar transport in incomplete chaos
G. M. Zaslavsky, D. Stevens, and H. Weitzner
pp. 1683-1694 [View Page Images or PDF (1,999 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of nonlinear diffusion flux in a nonideal electrolyte solution
Zene Horii
pp. 1695-1699 [View Page Images or PDF (855 kB)]
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Stochastic model for complex surface-reaction systems with application to NH3 formation
J. Mai, V. N. Kuzovkov, and W. von Niessen
pp. 1700-1709 [View Page Images or PDF (1,487 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium phase transitions in systems with infinitely many absorbing states
Iwan Jensen and Ronald Dickman
pp. 1710-1725 [View Page Images or PDF (2,609 kB)]
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Applicability of Nosé isothermal reversible dynamics
Francesco D. Di Tolla and Marco Ronchetti
pp. 1726-1737 [View Page Images or PDF (1,816 kB)]
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Competing dynamics in the one-dimensional Blume-Emery-Griffiths model: Hydrodynamic equations
J. F. F. Mendes and E. J. S. Lage
pp. 1738-1743 [View Page Images or PDF (775 kB)]
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Ising model with isotropic competing interactions in the presence of a field: A tricritical-Lifshitz-point realization
Marcia C. Barbosa
pp. 1744-1751 [View Page Images or PDF (1,014 kB)]
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Noise reduction in chaotic time-series data: A survey of common methods
Eric J. Kostelich and Thomas Schreiber
pp. 1752-1763 [View Page Images or PDF (2,488 kB)]
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Symmetry breaking and localization in quantum chaotic systems
M. Thaha, R. Blümel, and U. Smilansky
pp. 1764-1781 [View Page Images or PDF (2,913 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Long-range polarization interaction in simple liquid metals
M. Blazej and N. H. March
pp. 1782-1786 [View Page Images or PDF (898 kB)]
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Nonlinear hydrodynamics of a hard-sphere fluid near the glass transition
Lisa M. Lust, Oriol T. Valls, and Chandan Dasgupta
pp. 1787-1798 [View Page Images or PDF (2,060 kB)]
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Thermal equilibration near the critical point: Effects due to three dimensions and gravity
Robert F. Berg
pp. 1799-1805 [View Page Images or PDF (1,065 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Experimental observation of thermoacoustic turbulence and universal properties at the quasiperiodic transition to chaos
T. Yazaki
pp. 1806-1818 [View Page Images or PDF (2,628 kB)]
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Generalized compressibility equation for inhomogeneous fluids at equilibrium
Liudmila A. Pozhar, Keith E. Gubbins, and Jerome K. Percus
pp. 1819-1822 [View Page Images or PDF (527 kB)]
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Renormalization group and operator product expansion in turbulence: Shell models
Gregory L. Eyink
pp. 1823-1838 [View Page Images or PDF (3,057 kB)]
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Specific heats of saturated water vapor and liquid
Albrecht Elsner
pp. 1839-1843 [View Page Images or PDF (691 kB)]
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Thermodynamic functions for Taylor dispersion
J. Camacho
pp. 1844-1849 [View Page Images or PDF (929 kB)]
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Hamiltonian formulation for the motion of vortices in the presence of a free surface for ideal flow
Ali Rouhi and Jon Wright
pp. 1850-1865 [View Page Images or PDF (2,473 kB)]
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Oblique collision of two vortex rings and its acoustic emission
T. Kambe, T. Minota, and M. Takaoka
pp. 1866-1881 [View Page Images or PDF (2,984 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Phase transitions of a confined complex fluid
F. Schmid and M. Schick
pp. 1882-1888 [View Page Images or PDF (969 kB)]
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Correlation between surface and bulk orientations of liquid crystals on rubbed polymer surfaces: Odd-even effects of polymer spacer units
Diethelm Johannsmann, Hitian Zhou, Peter Sonderkaer, Harald Wierenga, Bernt O. Myrvold, and Y. R. Shen
pp. 1889-1896 [View Page Images or PDF (1,291 kB)]
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Phase-field and sharp-interface alloy models
G. Caginalp and W. Xie
pp. 1897-1909 [View Page Images or PDF (1,751 kB)]
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Diffusion of a reptating polymer interacting with a random matrix
O. Lumpkin
pp. 1910-1915 [View Page Images or PDF (911 kB)]
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Destruction of a first-order smectic-A→smectic-C* phase transition by dimensional crossover in free-standing films
Isabelle Kraus, Pawel Pieranski, Evgenij Demikhov, Horst Stegemeyer, and John Goodby
pp. 1916-1923 [View Page Images or PDF (1,740 kB)]
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Analytic theory for parity breaking in lamellar eutectic growth
Alexandre Valance, Chaouqi Misbah, Dmitrii Temkin, and Klaus Kassner
pp. 1924-1941 [View Page Images or PDF (2,644 kB)]
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Splay-bend curvature and temperature-induced surface transitions in nematic liquid crystals
G. Barbero and G. Durand
pp. 1942-1947 [View Page Images or PDF (1,100 kB)]
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Half widths of neutron spectra in dense helium-neon gas mixtures
P. Westerhuijs, L. A. de Graaf, and I. M. de Schepper
pp. 1948-1959 [View Page Images or PDF (1,666 kB)]
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Surface critical exponents of self-avoiding walks on a square lattice with an adsorbing linear boundary: A computer simulation study
Hagai Meirovitch and Iksoo Chang
pp. 1960-1969 [View Page Images or PDF (1,629 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Character of the smectic-A–chiral-smectic-C phase transition near a chiral-nematic–smectic-A–chiral-smectic-C point
J. Zubia, M. Castro, J. A. Puértolas, J. Etxebarria, M. A. Pérez Jubindo, and M. R. de la Fuente
pp. 1970-1976 [View Page Images or PDF (1,161 kB)]
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Viscosities of concentrated dispersions
T. S. Chow
pp. 1977-1983 [View Page Images or PDF (1,024 kB)]
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Dispersion relation around a kink solution in binary fluids undergoing spinodal decomposition
Aritomo Shinozaki
pp. 1984-1988 [View Page Images or PDF (767 kB)]
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Reversible flocculation of silica colloids in liquid mixtures
T. Narayanan, A. Kumar, E. S. R. Gopal, D. Beysens, P. Guenoun, and G. Zalczer
pp. 1989-1994 [View Page Images or PDF (962 kB)]
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van der Waals forces in electrorheological fluids
J. T. Woestman and A. Widom
pp. 1995-1997 [View Page Images or PDF (406 kB)]
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Surface molecular anchoring in microconfined liquid crystals near the nematic–smectic-A transition
R. J. Ondris-Crawford, G. P. Crawford, J. W. Doane, S. Žumer, M. Vilfan, and I. Vilfan
pp. 1998-2005 [View Page Images or PDF (1,477 kB)]
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Self-consistent-field calculation of structures and static properties of the solid-fluid interface: Paraffinlike molecule systems
Xiang-Yang Liu and P. Bennema
pp. 2006-2015 [View Page Images or PDF (1,588 kB)]
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Phase-field models for anisotropic interfaces
G. B. McFadden, A. A. Wheeler, R. J. Braun, S. R. Coriell, and R. F. Sekerka
pp. 2016-2024 [View Page Images or PDF (1,273 kB)]
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Scaling properties of soft-core parallel spherocylinders near the crystal–smectic-phase transition
Keiko M. Aoki and Fumiko Yonezawa
pp. 2025-2027 [View Page Images or PDF (469 kB)]
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Anomalous crystal growth of a binary chain
Yukio Saito, Naoyuki Tanabe, and Dmitri Temkin
pp. 2028-2033 [View Page Images or PDF (718 kB)]
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Long-range interactions and the pair-correlation function in dipolar main-chain nematic polymers
Eugene M. Terentjev and Rolfe G. Petschek
pp. 2034-2042 [View Page Images or PDF (1,472 kB)]
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Stroboscopic microscopy of ferroelectric liquid crystals
Jiuzhi Xue and Noel A. Clark
pp. 2043-2054 [View Page Images or PDF (4,075 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Nonlinear-electron-response impact on the evolution of ion-acoustic wave packets in a magnetized plasma
A. M. Hamza
pp. 2055-2066 [View Page Images or PDF (1,941 kB)]
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Dynamic and static correlations in model Coulomb systems
S. V. Adamjan, I. M. Tkachenko, J. L. Muñoz-Cobo González, and G. Verdú Martín
pp. 2067-2072 [View Page Images or PDF (786 kB)]
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Modeling of plasma dynamics in x-ray-confining cavities
J. Massen, G. D. Tsakiris, and R. Sigel
pp. 2073-2080 [View Page Images or PDF (1,681 kB)]
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Electron distribution functions in laser-embedded plasmas
P. Porshnev, G. Ferrante, and M. Zarcone
pp. 2081-2086 [View Page Images or PDF (942 kB)]
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Observation of plasma confinement in picosecond laser-plasma interactions
A. R. Bell, F. N. Beg, Z. Chang, A. E. Dangor, C. N. Danson, C. B. Edwards, A. P. Fews, M. H. R. Hutchinson, S. Luan, P. Lee, P. A. Norreys, R. A. Smith, P. F. Taday, and F. Zhou
pp. 2087-2093 [View Page Images or PDF (1,344 kB)]
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Melting phenomenon in laser-induced shock waves
Zohar Henis and Shalom Eliezer
pp. 2094-2097 [View Page Images or PDF (538 kB)]
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Anomalous fast recombination in hydrogen plasmas involving rovibrational excitation
M. J. de Graaf, R. Severens, R. P. Dahiya, M. C. M. van de Sanden, and D. C. Schram
pp. 2098-2102 [View Page Images or PDF (910 kB)]
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Experimental loss rates due to emission from Ne, Ar, and Xe ions at high plasma densities
T. J. Baig and H.-J. Kunze
pp. 2103-2110 [View Page Images or PDF (1,156 kB)]
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Transport coefficients of quantum plasmas
D. Bennaceur and A. H. Khalfaoui
pp. 2111-2121 [View Page Images or PDF (1,574 kB)]
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Isotope effect and electron-temperature dependence in volume H- and D- ion sources
D. A. Skinner, A. M. Bruneteau, P. Berlemont, C. Courteille, R. Leroy, and M. Bacal
pp. 2122-2132 [View Page Images or PDF (1,963 kB)]
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Bound for the pressure integral in a toroidal-plasma equilibrium
Zensho Yoshida and Yoshikazu Giga
pp. 2133-2135 [View Page Images or PDF (477 kB)]
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Nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in a collisional plasma
S. V. Vladimirov and M. Y. Yu
pp. 2136-2139 [View Page Images or PDF (519 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Moments and characteristic function of a nonstationary particle distribution after injection
H. Moshammer
pp. 2140-2148 [View Page Images or PDF (1,127 kB)]
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Quasi-isochronous storage rings
David Robin, Etienne Forest, Claudio Pellegrini, and Ali Amiry
pp. 2149-2156 [View Page Images or PDF (1,304 kB)]
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Enhanced acceleration in a self-modulated-laser wake-field accelerator
J. Krall, A. Ting, E. Esarey, and P. Sprangle
pp. 2157-2161 [View Page Images or PDF (933 kB)]
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Nonlinear short-pulse propagation in a free-electron laser
Sang June Hahn and Jae Koo Lee
pp. 2162-2171 [View Page Images or PDF (1,795 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Recursive solution of Maxwell’s equations
Roger Haydock
pp. 2172-2177 [View Page Images or PDF (906 kB)]
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Instability due to cross-phase modulation in the normal-dispersion regime
M. Yu, C. J. McKinstrie, and Govind P. Agrawal
pp. 2178-2186 [View Page Images or PDF (1,568 kB)]
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Harmonic plane waves in a chiral slab
Pierre Hillion
pp. 2187-2191 [View Page Images or PDF (493 kB)]
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Subharmonic steps and inertial effects in a system of two coupled overdamped oscillators
Jinming Dong
pp. 2192-2195 [View Page Images or PDF (698 kB)]
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Metaplectic formulation of linear mode conversion
E. R. Tracy and Allan N. Kaufman
pp. 2196-2211 [View Page Images or PDF (2,001 kB)]
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Effects due to geometry and boundary conditions in multiple light scattering
C. P. Gonatas, M. Miwa, M. Ishii, J. Schotland, B. Chance, and J. S. Leigh
pp. 2212-2216 [View Page Images or PDF (836 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Soliton growth-signal transduction in topologically quantized T cells
Leif Matsson
pp. 2217-2231 [View Page Images or PDF (2,744 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Breaking of replica symmetry in a mean-field model of disordered membranes
R. Attal, S. Chaïeb, and D. Bensimon
pp. 2232-2239 [View Page Images or PDF (1,069 kB)]
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Vibrational dynamics of wet-spun films of the NaDNA-netropsin complex: A Raman and infrared study
S. A. Lee, B. Sclavi, J. W. Powell, W. Williamson, III, and A. Rupprecht
pp. 2240-2245 [View Page Images or PDF (1,052 kB)]
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Vanishing thermal damping of Davydov’s solitons
Aurea R. Vasconcellos and Roberto Luzzi
pp. 2246-2249 [View Page Images or PDF (554 kB)]
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Mixture states and storage of biased patterns in Potts-glass neural networks
D. Bollé and J. Huyghebaert
pp. 2250-2258 [View Page Images or PDF (1,202 kB)]
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Master-equation approach to stochastic neurodynamics
Toru Ohira and Jack D. Cowan
pp. 2259-2266 [View Page Images or PDF (848 kB)]
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Sequence-structure relationships in proteins and copolymers
Kaizhi Yue and Ken A. Dill
pp. 2267-2278 [View Page Images or PDF (2,210 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Stochastic generation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence with well-defined spectra
A. Careta, F. Sagués, and J. M. Sancho
pp. 2279-2287 [View Page Images or PDF (1,359 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Numerical study of a high-order quasiconserved quantity in the Hénon-Heiles problem
Paul Finkler, C. Edward Jones, and Glenn A. Sowell
pp. 2288-2291 [View Page Images or PDF (498 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Failure of microemulsion models to exhibit a triple line in two dimensions
M. W. Matsen
pp. 2292-2295 [View Page Images or PDF (772 kB)]
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Liquid-crystalline blue phase III and structures of broken icosahedral symmetry
Lech Longa, Werner Fink, and Hans-Rainer Trebin
pp. 2296-2299 [View Page Images or PDF (791 kB)]
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Neutron scattering from polycrystalline ice (Ih): Some keys to understanding the collective behavior of liquid water
F. J. Bermejo, E. Frikkee, M. García-Hernández, J. L. Martínez, and A. Criado
pp. 2300-2303 [View Page Images or PDF (722 kB)]
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Counterexample to some shape equations for axisymmetric vesicles
Hiroyoshi Naito, Masahiro Okuda, and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
pp. 2304-2307 [View Page Images or PDF (484 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Hydrodynamics of collisional structures in laser-produced plasmas
D. Vick, M. Kado, H. Yamamoto, A. Nishiguchi, K. A. Tanaka, K. Mima, A. A. Offenberger, C. E. Capjack, and S. Nakai
pp. 2308-2311 [View Page Images or PDF (726 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Bright-dark solitary-wave solutions of a multidimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation
K. Hayata and M. Koshiba
pp. 2312-2315 [View Page Images or PDF (623 kB)]
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Effect of two-photon absorption on the amplification of ultrashort optical pulses
Govind P. Agrawal
pp. 2316-2318 [View Page Images or PDF (464 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Surface-tension-anisotropy measurements of succinonitrile and pivalic acid: Comparison with microscopic solvability theory’’
R. Ananth, K. K. Koo, and W. N. Gill
pp. 2319-2320 [View Page Images or PDF (723 kB)]