Physical Review E – October 1993
Volume 48, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Magnetization direction in the Heisenberg model exhibiting fractional Brownian motion

Zhengping Zhang, Ole G. Mouritsen, and Martin J. Zuckermann

pp. R2327-R2330 [View Page Images or PDF (581 kB)]

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Scaling properties of trough densities in sandpile models

Kwan-tai Leung

pp. R2331-R2334 [View Page Images or PDF (574 kB)]

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Cluster effect in initially homogeneous traffic flow

B. S. Kerner and P. Konhäuser

pp. R2335-R2338 [View Page Images or PDF (757 kB)]

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Staircase polygons and recurrent lattice walks

M. L. Glasser and E. Montaldi

pp. R2339-R2342 [View Page Images or PDF (299 kB)]

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Renormalization-group approach to simple reaction-diffusion phenomena

Michel Droz and László Sasvári

pp. R2343-R2346 [View Page Images or PDF (744 kB)]

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S-matrix fluctuations in a model with classical diffusion and quantum localization

Fausto Borgonovi and Italo Guarneri

pp. R2347-R2350 [View Page Images or PDF (762 kB)]

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Internal fluctuations in a model of chemical chaos

J. Güémez and M. A. Matías

pp. R2351-R2353 [View Page Images or PDF (536 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Observation of chain stretching in Langmuir diblock copolymer monolayers

Bradford J. Factor, Lay-Theng Lee, Michael S. Kent, and Francis Rondelez

pp. R2354-R2357 [View Page Images or PDF (838 kB)]

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Depolarized dynamic light scattering from optically anisotropic reaction-limited aggregates

A. Vailati, D. Asnaghi, M. Giglio, and R. Piazza

pp. R2358-R2361 [View Page Images or PDF (546 kB)]

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Composition waves in confined geometries

Wen-Jong Ma, Pawel Keblinski, Amos Maritan, Joel Koplik, and Jayanth R. Banavar

pp. R2362-R2365 [View Page Images or PDF (712 kB)]

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Nematic liquid crystal in a tube: The Fréedericksz transition

D. R. M. Williams and A. Halperin

pp. R2366-R2369 [View Page Images or PDF (639 kB)]

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Director-charge coupling in a ferroelectric liquid crystal: Experiment

Min-Hua Lu and Charles Rosenblatt

pp. R2370-R2373 [View Page Images or PDF (721 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Growth of three-dimensional silver fractal electrodeposits under damped free convection

P. Carro, S. L. Marchiano, A. Hernández Creus, S. González, R. C. Salvarezza, and A. J. Arvia

pp. R2374-R2377 [View Page Images or PDF (799 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Efficient generation of highly ionized calcium and titanium plasma columns for collisionally excited soft-x-ray lasers in a fast capillary discharge

J. J. Rocca, O. D. Cortázar, F. G. Tomasel, and B. T. Szapiro

pp. R2378-R2381 [View Page Images or PDF (819 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Driven diffusion of particles, first-passage front, and interface growth

R. Bidaux and R. B. Pandey

pp. 2382-2385 [View Page Images or PDF (796 kB)]

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Finite-length scaling of collapsing directed walks

T. Prellberg, A. L. Owczarek, R. Brak, and A. J. Guttmann

pp. 2386-2396 [View Page Images or PDF (1,655 kB)]

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First-passage times and survival probabilities for particles moving in a field of random correlated forces

J. Heinrichs

pp. 2397-2401 [View Page Images or PDF (828 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Time-series expansion for reaction processes

E. Ben-Naim and J. Zhuo

pp. 2603-2609 [View Page Images or PDF (1,206 kB)]

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Hard-particle-fluid equation of state and phase transition employing nearest-neighbor correlations

U. F. Edgal and D. L. Huber

pp. 2610-2621 [View Page Images or PDF (2,160 kB)]

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Spinodal decomposition in 3-space

Aritomo Shinozaki and Yoshitsugu Oono

pp. 2622-2654 [View Page Images or PDF (6,039 kB)]

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Statistical hydrodynamics of lattice-gas automata

Patrick Grosfils, Jean-Pierre Boon, Ricardo Brito, and Matthieu H. Ernst

pp. 2655-2668 [View Page Images or PDF (2,225 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Coupling between a coherent structure and fine-scale turbulence

Mogens V. Melander and Fazle Hussain

pp. 2669-2689 [View Page Images or PDF (11,845 kB)]

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Interaction of two liquid solitary waves in a trough resonator

Lu-Jun Chen, Chang-Hong Liang, and Hong-Shi Wu

pp. 2690-2694 [View Page Images or PDF (590 kB)]

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Thermal dependence of the characteristic time of a chemical reaction

L. Letamendia, M. Belkadi, G. Nouchi, C. Vaucamps, and M. Benseddik

pp. 2695-2698 [View Page Images or PDF (607 kB)]

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Effects of disorder in pattern formation

Walter Zimmermann, Markus Seesselberg, and Francesco Petruccione

pp. 2699-2703 [View Page Images or PDF (803 kB)]

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Localized states in a film-dragging experiment

F. Melo

pp. 2704-2712 [View Page Images or PDF (2,616 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Ordering effects in thin smectic-C^* films: An x-ray-reflectivity study

E. Olbrich, O. Marinov, and D. Davidov

pp. 2713-2720 [View Page Images or PDF (1,332 kB)]

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Many-body electrostatic interactions in electrorheological fluids

H. J. H. Clercx and G. Bossis

pp. 2721-2738 [View Page Images or PDF (3,033 kB)]

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Static and dynamic collective correlations of polymer brushes

J. F. Marko and Amitabha Chakrabarti

pp. 2739-2743 [View Page Images or PDF (1,003 kB)]

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Static shear stress of electrorheological fluids

G. L. Gulley and R. Tao

pp. 2744-2751 [View Page Images or PDF (1,050 kB)]

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Structure and properties of anisotropic gels and plasticized networks containing molecules with a smectic-A phase

R. A. M. Hikmet and R. Howard

pp. 2752-2759 [View Page Images or PDF (1,509 kB)]

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Metastable wetting layers

Bruce M. Law

pp. 2760-2765 [View Page Images or PDF (897 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Simple passivation and depassivation model for pitting corrosion

Paul Meakin, Torstein Jøssang, and Jens Feder

pp. 2906-2916 [View Page Images or PDF (2,845 kB)]

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Pulses and global bifurcations in a nonlocal reaction-diffusion system

Michael D. Graham, Usuf Middya, and Dan Luss

pp. 2917-2923 [View Page Images or PDF (1,388 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Instability of the overdense plasma boundary induced by the action of a powerful photon beam

E. G. Gamaly

pp. 2924-2928 [View Page Images or PDF (805 kB)]

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Laser-produced carbon plasma in an ambient gas

Abhilasha, P. S. R. Prasad, and R. K. Thareja

pp. 2929-2933 [View Page Images or PDF (791 kB)]

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Plasma effects on atomic reaction rates in hydrogen plasmas

Jun Li and Yukap Hahn

pp. 2934-2945 [View Page Images or PDF (1,695 kB)]

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Effects of negative ions on nonlinear wave propagation in a magnetized rotating plasma

P. K. Kashyapi, B. Chakraborty, and S. N. Paul

pp. 2946-2954 [View Page Images or PDF (1,025 kB)]

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Scalar model for plasma turbulence

J. L. Ottinger and D. Carati

pp. 2955-2965 [View Page Images or PDF (1,781 kB)]

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Multidimensional modulation of Alfvén waves

Thierry Passot and Pierre-Louis Sulem

pp. 2966-2974 [View Page Images or PDF (1,177 kB)]

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Eigenfunction for dissipative dynamic operators and the attractor of the dissipative structure

Yoshiomi Kondoh

pp. 2975-2979 [View Page Images or PDF (820 kB)]

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Nonlinear conductivity and composition of partially ionized plasmas in a strong electric field

K. Morawetz, M. Schlanges, and D. Kremp

pp. 2980-2988 [View Page Images or PDF (1,360 kB)]

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Straggling of an extended charge distribution in a partially degenerate plasma

A. Bret and C. Deutsch

pp. 2989-2993 [View Page Images or PDF (532 kB)]

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Dielectric response function and stopping power of a two-dimensional electron gas

A. Bret and C. Deutsch

pp. 2994-3002 [View Page Images or PDF (1,053 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Nonlinear Thomson scattering of intense laser pulses from beams and plasmas

Eric Esarey, Sally K. Ride, and Phillip Sprangle

pp. 3003-3021 [View Page Images or PDF (3,204 kB)]

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Luminosity enhancement by a self-ionized plasma in e⁺e^- collisions

P. Chen, C.-K. Ng, and S. Rajagopalan

pp. 3022-3029 [View Page Images or PDF (1,405 kB)]

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Spectral properties of two-harmonic undulator radiation

G. Dattoli and G. Voykov

pp. 3030-3039 [View Page Images or PDF (914 kB)]

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Minimizing dispersion in flexible-momentum-compaction lattices

S. Y. Lee, K. Y. Ng, and D. Trbojevic

pp. 3040-3048 [View Page Images or PDF (1,508 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Internal dynamics of a vector soliton in a nonlinear optical fiber

D. J. Kaup, Boris A. Malomed, and Richard S. Tasgal

pp. 3049-3053 [View Page Images or PDF (815 kB)]

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Exact N-soliton solution of the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Shan-liang Liu and Wen-zheng Wang

pp. 3054-3059 [View Page Images or PDF (397 kB)]

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Electromagnetism in a moving chiral medium

Pierre Hillion

pp. 3060-3065 [View Page Images or PDF (721 kB)]

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Symmetry analysis of the Infeld-Rowlands equation

M. Faucher and P. Winternitz

pp. 3066-3071 [View Page Images or PDF (802 kB)]

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Autoresonant interaction of three nonlinear adiabatic oscillators

Shalom Yariv and Lazar Friedland

pp. 3072-3076 [View Page Images or PDF (756 kB)]

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Peierls-Nabarro potential barrier for highly localized nonlinear modes

Yuri S. Kivshar and David K. Campbell

pp. 3077-3081 [View Page Images or PDF (931 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Grain-boundary buckling and spin-glass models of disorder in membranes

Carlo Carraro and David R. Nelson

pp. 3082-3090 [View Page Images or PDF (1,545 kB)]

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Self-consistent-field treatment of the dissociation of bound molecules in solution

Carlos E. Galindo and J. B. Sokoloff

pp. 3091-3098 [View Page Images or PDF (1,443 kB)]

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Theoretical study of the effect of salt and the role of strained hydrogen bonds on the thermal stability of DNA polymers

Y. Z. Chen and E. W. Prohofsky

pp. 3099-3106 [View Page Images or PDF (1,482 kB)]

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Simulating an exploration of RNA conformation space with an appropriate parallel-updating strategy

Ariel Fernández

pp. 3107-3111 [View Page Images or PDF (891 kB)]

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Nonaxisymmetric vesicle shapes in a generalized bilayer-couple model and the transition between oblate and prolate axisymmetric shapes

Volkmar Heinrich, Saša Svetina, and Boštjan Žekš

pp. 3112-3123 [View Page Images or PDF (2,332 kB)]

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Theory of dendritic morphology

Yoshihide Tamori

pp. 3124-3129 [View Page Images or PDF (1,014 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Paraxial wave-optics simulation of x-ray lasers

James W. Greene

pp. 3130-3160 [View Page Images or PDF (4,638 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Plasma Physics

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Wake-field accelerator in a ferromagnetic waveguide

Han S. Uhm

pp. 3161-3164 [View Page Images or PDF (663 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Using nonlinear saturated feedback to control chaos: The Hénon map

José Alvarez-Ramírez

pp. 3165-3167 [View Page Images or PDF (487 kB)]

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Phase-transition study of a one-dimensional probabilistic site-exchange cellular automaton

Géza Ódor, Nino Boccara, and György Szabó

pp. 3168-3171 [View Page Images or PDF (585 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Refractive index of waterlike fluids

S.-H. Kim, B. DeFacio, and G. Vignale

pp. 3172-3175 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Concentration fluctuation in a polymer mixture

N. Kuwahara, H. Sato, and K. Kubota

pp. 3176-3179 [View Page Images or PDF (543 kB)]

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Relation of growth and equilibrium crystal shapes

M. Elbaum and J. S. Wettlaufer

pp. 3180-3183 [View Page Images or PDF (1,031 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Depolarization of light by an imperfect polarizer

J. Krása, J. Jiřička, and M. Lokajíček

pp. 3184-3186 [View Page Images or PDF (307 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Unified expression for Fermi and Bose distributions’’

Xian-Geng Zhao and Jixing Liu

pp. 3187-3189 [View Page Images or PDF (276 kB)]

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Melnikov function and homoclinic chaos induced by weak perturbations

E. Simiu and M. Frey

pp. 3190-3192 [View Page Images or PDF (511 kB)]

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Reply to ‘‘Melnikov function and homoclinic chaos induced by weak perturbations’’

A. R. Bulsara, W. C. Schieve, and E. W. Jacobs

pp. 3193-3195 [View Page Images or PDF (455 kB)]

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Comment I on ‘‘Possible experiment to check the reality of a nonequilibrium temperature’’

W. G. Hoover, Brad Lee Holian, and Harald A. Posch

pp. 3196-3198 [View Page Images or PDF (482 kB)]

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Comment II on ‘‘Possible experiment to check the reality of a nonequilibrium temperature’’

Katja Henjes

pp. 3199-3200 [View Page Images or PDF (214 kB)]

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Reply to ‘‘Comments on ‘Possible experiment to check the reality of a nonequilibrium temperature’ ’’

D. Jou and J. Casas-Vázquez

pp. 3201-3202 [View Page Images or PDF (248 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Bulk and interfacial properties of polar and molecular fluids

Peter Frodl and S. Dietrich

pp. 3203 [View Page Images or PDF (47 kB)]

Physical Review E – October 1993 Volume 48, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Complex Fluids

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Plasma Physics

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Complex Fluids

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Plasma Physics

Physics of Beams

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

Biological Physics

Computational Physics

BRIEF REPORTS

Plasma Physics

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

Complex Fluids

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

COMMENTS

ERRATA

Physical Review E – October 1993
Volume 48, Issue 4