Physical Review E – February 1994
Volume 49, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Dynamics of rough surfaces with an arbitrary topology
Pawel Keblinski, Amos Maritan, Flavio Toigo, Joel Koplik, and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. R937-R940 [View Page Images or PDF (547 kB)]
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Suppression of chaos, quantum resonance, and statistics of a nonintegrable system
E. Eisenberg and N. Shnerb
pp. R941-R944 [View Page Images or PDF (607 kB)]
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Enhancing synchronism of chaotic systems
Mingzhou Ding and Edward Ott
pp. R945-R948 [View Page Images or PDF (505 kB)]
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Random-adding determination of percolation thresholds in interacting systems
A. Drory, I. Balberg, and B. Berkowitz
pp. R949-R952 [View Page Images or PDF (746 kB)]
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Products of random matrices for disordered systems
A. Crisanti, G. Paladin, M. Serva, and A. Vulpiani
pp. R953-R955 [View Page Images or PDF (444 kB)]
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Fractal random walks from a variational formalism for Tsallis entropies
P. A. Alemany and D. H. Zanette
pp. R956-R958 [View Page Images or PDF (441 kB)]
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Hidden symmetry, exact relations, and a small parameter in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang problem with strong coupling
Vladimir V. Lebedev and Victor S. L’vov
pp. R959-R962 [View Page Images or PDF (684 kB)]
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Long-time behavior of the semiclassical baker’s map
F.-M. Dittes, E. Doron, and U. Smilansky
pp. R963-R966 [View Page Images or PDF (754 kB)]
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First-passage time and the fluctuation of the quenched disorder in biased media
Pedro A. Pury, Manuel O. Cáceres, and Emilio Hernández-García
pp. R967-R970 [View Page Images or PDF (568 kB)]
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Controlling unstable periodic orbits by a delayed continuous feedback
Serge Bielawski, Dominique Derozier, and Pierre Glorieux
pp. R971-R974 [View Page Images or PDF (634 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Vortical scales for two- and three-dimensional turbulence
E. A. Novikov
pp. R975-R977 [View Page Images or PDF (318 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Optical determination of the saddle-splay elastic constant K24 in nematic liquid crystals
R. D. Polak, G. P. Crawford, B. C. Kostival, J. W. Doane, and S. Žumer
pp. R978-R981 [View Page Images or PDF (773 kB)]
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Application of the modified hypernetted-chain integral equation to supercooled and expanded liquid structures
H. C. Chen and S. K. Lai
pp. R982-R985 [View Page Images or PDF (584 kB)]
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Doubly anchored nematic polymer brushes: Shear, field effects, and quasipiezoelectricity
A. Halperin and D. R. M. Williams
pp. R986-R989 [View Page Images or PDF (797 kB)]
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Anchoring transition in a nematic liquid crystal composed of centrosymmetric molecules
V. G. Nazarenko and O. D. Lavrentovich
pp. R990-R993 [View Page Images or PDF (757 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Growth instabilities in mechanical breakdown
E. Louis and F. Guinea
pp. R994-R996 [View Page Images or PDF (475 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Amplification of electromagnetic waves in dusty nonstationary plasmas
Sergey V. Vladimirov
pp. R997-R999 [View Page Images or PDF (432 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Stabilizing a breather in the damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation driven by two frequencies
David Cai, A. R. Bishop, Niels Grønbech-Jensen, and Boris A. Malomed
pp. R1000-R1002 [View Page Images or PDF (393 kB)]
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Feynman path-integral representation for scalar-wave propagation
Luiz C. L. Botelho and Ricardo Vilhena
pp. R1003-R1004 [View Page Images or PDF (188 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Analyzing long-range correlations in finite sequences
N. Shnerb and E. Eisenberg
pp. R1005-R1008 [View Page Images or PDF (424 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Fractal-to-Euclidean crossover of the thermodynamic properties of the Ising model
Tatijana Stošić, Borko Stošić, Sava Milošević, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 1009-1018 [View Page Images or PDF (1,620 kB)]
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Safe, explosive, and dangerous bifurcations in dissipative dynamical systems
J. M. T. Thompson, H. B. Stewart, and Y. Ueda
pp. 1019-1027 [View Page Images or PDF (1,623 kB)]
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Percolation of a simulated metallic film on a porous substrate: The copper-polyimide interface
B. D. Silverman and D. E. Platt
pp. 1028-1039 [View Page Images or PDF (1,937 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium temperature versus local-equilibrium temperature
J. Casas-Vázquez and D. Jou
pp. 1040-1048 [View Page Images or PDF (1,725 kB)]
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Reaction efficiency of diffusion-controlled processes on finite, planar arrays
Roberto A. Garza-López and John J. Kozak
pp. 1049-1060 [View Page Images or PDF (1,479 kB)]
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Kinetics of restricted solid-on-solid models of film growth
J. W. Evans and M. C. Bartelt
pp. 1061-1069 [View Page Images or PDF (1,040 kB)]
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Universality class for extinction-survival phase transition in one dimension
H. Takayasu, N. Inui, and A. Yu. Tretyakov
pp. 1070-1072 [View Page Images or PDF (454 kB)]
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Border-collision bifurcations: An explanation for observed bifurcation phenomena
Helena E. Nusse, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke
pp. 1073-1076 [View Page Images or PDF (743 kB)]
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Virial expansions for quantum plasmas: Diagrammatic resummations
Angel Alastuey, Francoise Cornu, and Asher Perez
pp. 1077-1093 [View Page Images or PDF (2,839 kB)]
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Converting transient chaos into sustained chaos by feedback control
Ying-Cheng Lai and Celso Grebogi
pp. 1094-1098 [View Page Images or PDF (931 kB)]
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Spatiotemporally periodic states, periodic windows, and intermittency in coupled-map lattices
Qu zhilin and Hu Gang
pp. 1099-1108 [View Page Images or PDF (1,310 kB)]
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Scale invariance in turbulent front propagation
A. Pocheau
pp. 1109-1122 [View Page Images or PDF (2,388 kB)]
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Helimagnetism in XY models: Domain walls, frustrations, fractional vortices, and phase transitions
Gennadi Uimin and Alberto Pimpinelli
pp. 1123-1135 [View Page Images or PDF (2,136 kB)]
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Distribution of escape times in a driven stochastic model
J. M. Casado and M. Morillo
pp. 1136-1139 [View Page Images or PDF (615 kB)]
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Characterization of on-off intermittency
J. F. Heagy, N. Platt, and S. M. Hammel
pp. 1140-1150 [View Page Images or PDF (1,657 kB)]
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Seismicity and self-organized criticality
B. Barriere and D. L. Turcotte
pp. 1151-1160 [View Page Images or PDF (1,617 kB)]
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Sandpiles and river networks: Extended systems with nonlocal interactions
L. Prigozhin
pp. 1161-1167 [View Page Images or PDF (1,111 kB)]
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Orbits in one-dimensional finite linear cellular automata
Shin-ichi Tadaki
pp. 1168-1173 [View Page Images or PDF (702 kB)]
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Scaling of fluctuations in one-dimensional interface and hopping models
P.-M. Binder, M. Paczuski, and Mustansir Barma
pp. 1174-1181 [View Page Images or PDF (1,434 kB)]
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Scaling properties of diffusion-limited aggregation, the percolation hull, and invasion percolation
Stefan Schwarzer, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 1182-1197 [View Page Images or PDF (2,729 kB)]
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Supernarrow spectral peaks and high-frequency stochastic resonance in systems with coexisting periodic attractors
M. I. Dykman, D. G. Luchinsky, R. Mannella, P. V. E. McClintock, N. D. Stein, and N. G. Stocks
pp. 1198-1215 [View Page Images or PDF (3,092 kB)]
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Optimized planar dividing surfaces for asymmetric activated-rate processes
Anatoli M. Frishman, Alexander M. Berezhkovskii, and Eli Pollak
pp. 1216-1224 [View Page Images or PDF (1,372 kB)]
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Using neural networks for controlling chaos
P. M. Alsing, A. Gavrielides, and V. Kovanis
pp. 1225-1231 [View Page Images or PDF (1,337 kB)]
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Theory of self-organized interface depinning
Zeev Olami, Itamar Procaccia, and Reuven Zeitak
pp. 1232-1237 [View Page Images or PDF (963 kB)]
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Avalanches and correlations in driven interface depinning
Heiko Leschhorn and Lei-Han Tang
pp. 1238-1245 [View Page Images or PDF (1,350 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Dynamics of the condensation of a saturated vapor into droplets
V. A. Kuz
pp. 1246-1250 [View Page Images or PDF (693 kB)]
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Molecular-dynamics study of dynamical properties of dense soft-sphere fluids: The role of short-range repulsion of the intermolecular potential
Shaw Kambayashi and Yasuaki Hiwatari
pp. 1251-1259 [View Page Images or PDF (1,496 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Difference-quotient turbulence model: A generalization of Prandtl’s mixing-length theory
Peter W. Egolf
pp. 1260-1268 [View Page Images or PDF (1,309 kB)]
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Constructing the Lagrangian in the Eulerian coordinate for relativistic hydrodynamics
Tzihong Chiueh
pp. 1269-1272 [View Page Images or PDF (668 kB)]
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Model equations for two-dimensional quasipatterns
Hanns Walter Müller
pp. 1273-1277 [View Page Images or PDF (739 kB)]
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Passive scalar fluctuations with and without a mean gradient: A numerical study
Emily S. C. Ching and Yuhai Tu
pp. 1278-1282 [View Page Images or PDF (740 kB)]
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Formation of singularities on the free surface of an ideal fluid
E. A. Kuznetsov, M. D. Spector, and V. E. Zakharov
pp. 1283-1290 [View Page Images or PDF (1,202 kB)]
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Absolute and convective instabilities and noise-sustained structures in the Couette-Taylor system with an axial flow
Avraham Tsameret and Victor Steinberg
pp. 1291-1308 [View Page Images or PDF (3,377 kB)]
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Experimental evaluation of the intrinsic noise in the Couette-Taylor system with an axial flow
Avraham Tsameret, Galia Goldner, and Victor Steinberg
pp. 1309-1319 [View Page Images or PDF (1,947 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Chaos in the model of repetitive phase transitions with hysteresis: Application to the self-sustained potential oscillations of lipid-bilayer membranes induced by gel–liquid-crystal phase transitions
Kouichi Yagisawa, Takeshi Kambara, and Masayoshi Naito
pp. 1320-1335 [View Page Images or PDF (2,967 kB)]
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Polymer model with annealed dilution on the square lattice: A transfer-matrix study
Pablo Serra and Jürgen F. Stilck
pp. 1336-1343 [View Page Images or PDF (1,157 kB)]
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Periodic stripe domains and hybrid-alignment regime in nematic liquid crystals: Threshold analysis
A. Sparavigna, O. D. Lavrentovich, and A. Strigazzi
pp. 1344-1352 [View Page Images or PDF (1,467 kB)]
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Path-integral variational methods for flow through porous media
Michael A. Tanksley and Joel Koplik
pp. 1353-1366 [View Page Images or PDF (1,460 kB)]
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Theory of reorientational transitions in ferrielectric liquid crystals
V. L. Lorman, A. A. Bulbitch, and P. Toledano
pp. 1367-1374 [View Page Images or PDF (1,309 kB)]
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Fluctuations of a defect line of molecular orientation in a monolayer
S. Rivière, S. Hénon, and J. Meunier
pp. 1375-1382 [View Page Images or PDF (1,748 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of polyampholytes
Yacov Kantor, Mehran Kardar, and Hao Li
pp. 1383-1392 [View Page Images or PDF (1,833 kB)]
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Anisotropic renormalization of thermodynamic quantities above the nematic–smectic-A phase transition
Barbara S. Andereck and Bruce R. Patton
pp. 1393-1403 [View Page Images or PDF (1,605 kB)]
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Experimental study of the approach to a double critical point in the poly(styrene) plus acetone system: Test of fluctuation-isomorphism theory
Arturo G. Casielles, Ramón G. Rubio, Francisco Monroy, and Francisco Ortega
pp. 1404-1410 [View Page Images or PDF (971 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic modes of viscoelastic polymer films
J. L. Harden and H. Pleiner
pp. 1411-1423 [View Page Images or PDF (2,195 kB)]
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Roughness effect on the frictional force in boundary lubrication
Leonid Daikhin and Michael Urbakh
pp. 1424-1429 [View Page Images or PDF (781 kB)]
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Dynamic critical phenomena in water-butoxyethanol mixtures studied by viscosity and light-scattering measurements
D. Lombardo, F. Mallamace, N. Micali, and G. D’Arrigo
pp. 1430-1438 [View Page Images or PDF (1,663 kB)]
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Calculating the surface potential of unionized monolayers
D. M. Taylor and G. F. Bayes
pp. 1439-1449 [View Page Images or PDF (1,718 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation of the unwinding of cholesteric twist
Arunava Chatterjee and David H. Van Winkle
pp. 1450-1457 [View Page Images or PDF (1,652 kB)]
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Thermal-fluctuation approach to Fréedericksz transitions in nematic liquid crystals
P. Galatola, C. Oldano, and M. Rajteri
pp. 1458-1467 [View Page Images or PDF (1,539 kB)]
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Phase diagram of a model anticlustering binary mixture in two dimensions: A semi-grand-canonical Monte Carlo study
S. Sengupta, D. Marx, P. Nielaba, and K. Binder
pp. 1468-1477 [View Page Images or PDF (1,648 kB)]
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Scattering from internal interfaces in microemulsion and sponge phases
G. Gompper and M. Schick
pp. 1478-1482 [View Page Images or PDF (672 kB)]
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Theory of orientational elasticity
S. Stallinga and G. Vertogen
pp. 1483-1494 [View Page Images or PDF (1,404 kB)]
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Crossover exponent for polymer adsorption in two dimensions
Ihnsouk Guim and Theodore W. Burkhardt
pp. 1495-1499 [View Page Images or PDF (578 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Growth shape of 3He needle crystals
Etienne Rolley, Sébastien Balibar, and François Graner
pp. 1500-1506 [View Page Images or PDF (1,469 kB)]
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Self-affine fractal electrodeposited gold surfaces: Characterization by scanning tunneling microscopy
L. Vázquez, R. C. Salvarezza, P. Ocón, P. Herrasti, J. M. Vara, and A. J. Arvia
pp. 1507-1511 [View Page Images or PDF (1,104 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Spectroscopic diagnostics in a colliding-blast-wave experiment
R. C. Elton, D.-M. Billings, C. K. Manka, H. R. Griem, J. Grun, B. H. Ripin, and J. Resnick
pp. 1512-1519 [View Page Images or PDF (1,331 kB)]
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Implosion of D2 temperature-controlled cryogenic foam targets with plastic ablators
A. Richard, K. A. Tanaka, K. Nishihara, M. Nakai, M. Katayama, Y. O. Fukuda, T. Kanabe, Y. Kitagawa, T. Norimatsu, M. Nakatsuka, T. Yamanaka, M. Kado, T. Kawashima, C. Chen, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nakai
pp. 1520-1526 [View Page Images or PDF (1,234 kB)]
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Ballooning-mode stability of shaped high-β tokamaks
A. K. Agarwal, S. N. Bhattacharyya, and A. Sen
pp. 1527-1533 [View Page Images or PDF (977 kB)]
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Stationary population inversion of hydrogen in an arc-heated magnetically trapped expanding hydrogen-helium plasma jet
Hiroshi Akatsuka and Masaaki Suzuki
pp. 1534-1544 [View Page Images or PDF (1,868 kB)]
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Ionization and stopping of heavy ions in dense laser-ablated plasmas
C. Couillaud, R. Deicas, Ph. Nardin, M. A. Beuve, J. M. Guihaumé, M. Renaud, M. Cukier, C. Deutsch, and G. Maynard
pp. 1545-1562 [View Page Images or PDF (2,450 kB)]
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Bremsstrahlung and nonlinear currents in a dense plasma exposed to an intense laser field
A. Ya. Polishchuk and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn
pp. 1563-1568 [View Page Images or PDF (854 kB)]
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Coupled Langmuir and nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in collisional plasmas
S. V. Vladimirov and M. Y. Yu
pp. 1569-1574 [View Page Images or PDF (840 kB)]
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Experimental Stark widths and shifts and transition probabilities of several Xe ii lines
M. A. Gigosos, S. Mar, C. Pérez, and I. de la Rosa
pp. 1575-1585 [View Page Images or PDF (1,779 kB)]
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Amplification of extreme-ultraviolet radiation in a gas-liner pinch plasma
S. Glenzer and H.-J. Kunze
pp. 1586-1593 [View Page Images or PDF (1,472 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Effects of frequency mismatch and wave dispersion on a self-consistent Hamiltonian model for an arbitrary-amplitude cyclotron-resonance laser accelerator
R. Pakter, R. S. Schneider, and F. B. Rizzato
pp. 1594-1598 [View Page Images or PDF (749 kB)]
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Transverse particle motion in radio-frequency linear accelerators
J. Rosenzweig and L. Serafini
pp. 1599-1602 [View Page Images or PDF (592 kB)]
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Hamiltonian analysis of the transition to the high-gain regime in a Compton free-electron-laser amplifier
D. Farina, F. Casagrande, U. Colombo, and R. Pozzoli
pp. 1603-1609 [View Page Images or PDF (978 kB)]
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Effects of the synchro-betatron coupling induced by dipole-field modulation
Y. Wang et al.
pp. 1610-1623 [View Page Images or PDF (2,352 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Conserved energy approximation to wave scattering by a nonlinear interface
Yu. M. Aliev, A. D. Boardman, K. Xie, and A. A. Zharov
pp. 1624-1633 [View Page Images or PDF (1,373 kB)]
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Studies of columns of beads under external vibrations
S. Luding, E. Clément, A. Blumen, J. Rajchenbach, and J. Duran
pp. 1634-1646 [View Page Images or PDF (2,221 kB)]
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Model for the propagation of sound in granular materials
Michael Leibig
pp. 1647-1656 [View Page Images or PDF (1,703 kB)]
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Perturbation-induced dynamics of dark solitons
Yuri S. Kivshar and Xiaoping Yang
pp. 1657-1670 [View Page Images or PDF (2,454 kB)]
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Spectral properties of stochastic electromagnetic fields with spherical symmetry
Miloslav Dušek
pp. 1671-1676 [View Page Images or PDF (808 kB)]
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Bound solitons in the ac-driven, damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation
David Cai, A. R. Bishop, Niels Grønbech-Jensen, and Boris A. Malomed
pp. 1677-1679 [View Page Images or PDF (494 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Continuum model for the spatiotemporal growth of bacterial colonies
Malcolm J. Grimson and Gary C. Barker
pp. 1680-1684 [View Page Images or PDF (720 kB)]
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Mosaic organization of DNA nucleotides
C.-K. Peng, S. V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin, M. Simons, H. E. Stanley, and A. L. Goldberger
pp. 1685-1689 [View Page Images or PDF (733 kB)]
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Storage capacity of neural networks storing spatially correlated patterns
Mathias Schlüter and Friedrich Wagner
pp. 1690-1698 [View Page Images or PDF (1,367 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Recursive definition of global cellular-automata mappings
Rasmus Feldberg, Carsten Knudsen, and Steen Rasmussen
pp. 1699-1711 [View Page Images or PDF (2,414 kB)]
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Efficient Green’s-function approach to finding the currents in a random resistor network
Kang Wu and R. Mark Bradley
pp. 1712-1725 [View Page Images or PDF (2,188 kB)]
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Comparison of flux-correcting and spline algorithms for solving (3+1)-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamics
D. J. Dean, C. Bottcher, M. R. Strayer, J. C. Wells, A. von Keitz, Y. Pürsün, D.-H. Rischke, and J. A. Maruhn
pp. 1726-1733 [View Page Images or PDF (1,296 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Stochastic resonance in a chemical reaction
David S. Leonard and L. E. Reichl
pp. 1734-1737 [View Page Images or PDF (626 kB)]
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Determination of the order-parameter critical exponent of an irreversible dimer-monomer surface-reaction model
Ezequiel V. Albano
pp. 1738-1739 [View Page Images or PDF (291 kB)]
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Self-affine fractals and the limit H→0
George Palasantzas
pp. 1740-1742 [View Page Images or PDF (465 kB)]
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Partition function of the rigid rotator at high temperatures using the Hubbard-Statanovich transformation
Nazakat Ullah
pp. 1743-1744 [View Page Images or PDF (214 kB)]
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Universality of period doubling in coupled maps
Sang-Yoon Kim
pp. 1745-1748 [View Page Images or PDF (586 kB)]
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Class of cellular automata for reaction-diffusion systems
Jörg R. Weimar and Jean-Pierre Boon
pp. 1749-1752 [View Page Images or PDF (881 kB)]
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Improved calculation of the third virial coefficient of a free anyon gas
J. Law, Avinash Khare, R. K. Bhaduri, and Akira Suzuki
pp. 1753-1755 [View Page Images or PDF (508 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Suppression of Hamiltonian chaos by Coulomb repulsion in finite-amplitude electroconvection
R. Chacón, A. T. Pérez, and A. Castellanos
pp. 1756-1758 [View Page Images or PDF (390 kB)]
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Dissipative Boussinesq system of equations in the Bénard-Marangoni phenomenon
R. A. Kraenkel, S. M. Kurcbart, J. G. Pereira, and M. A. Manna
pp. 1759-1762 [View Page Images or PDF (538 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Anisotropies in diffusion-limited aggregates on square-lattice diffusion-limited aggregates
Yup Kim and S. H. Park
pp. 1763-1766 [View Page Images or PDF (629 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Depolarization of multiply scattered waves by spherical diffusers: Influence of the size parameter
D. Bicout, C. Brosseau, A. S. Martinez, and J. M. Schmitt
pp. 1767-1770 [View Page Images or PDF (655 kB)]
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Semiclassical analysis of traversal time through Kac’s solution of the telegrapher’s equation
D. Mugnai, A. Ranfagni, R. Ruggeri, and A. Agresti
pp. 1771-1774 [View Page Images or PDF (517 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Correlated-data-driven dynamics in a neural network
Y. Nakamura and T. Munakata
pp. 1775-1778 [View Page Images or PDF (582 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Abelian sandpile model’’
M. A. Prasad, D. P. Bhatia, and D. Arora
pp. 1779-1780 [View Page Images or PDF (169 kB)]