Physical Review E – April 1994
Volume 49, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Cluster variation method, Padé approximants, and critical behavior

Alessandro Pelizzola

pp. R2503-R2506 [View Page Images or PDF (677 kB)]

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Self-organized criticality in the ‘‘game of Life’’

Preben Alstrøm and João Leão

pp. R2507-R2508 [View Page Images or PDF (294 kB)]

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Role of parametric noise in nonintegrable quantum dynamics

Rainer Scharf and Bala Sundaram

pp. R2509-R2512 [View Page Images or PDF (722 kB)]

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Eigenvector statistics in the crossover region between Gaussian orthogonal and unitary ensembles

Hans-Jürgen Sommers and Shinji Iida

pp. R2513-R2516 [View Page Images or PDF (642 kB)]

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Self-affinity of time series with finite domain power-law power spectrum

Oleg I. Yordanov and Nickolay I. Nickolaev

pp. R2517-R2520 [View Page Images or PDF (768 kB)]

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Sign-singular measure and its association with turbulent scalings

Samuel I. Vainshtein, Yunson Du, and K. R. Sreenivasan

pp. R2521-R2524 [View Page Images or PDF (590 kB)]

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Exactly solvable model of interface growth

T. J. Newman

pp. R2525-R2527 [View Page Images or PDF (464 kB)]

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Experimental control of chaos by means of weak parametric perturbations

R. Meucci, W. Gadomski, M. Ciofini, and F. T. Arecchi

pp. R2528-R2531 [View Page Images or PDF (634 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Critical dynamics of contact line depinning

Deniz Ertaş and Mehran Kardar

pp. R2532-R2535 [View Page Images or PDF (663 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Spatiotemporal pulse collapse on periodic potentials

Yuri S. Kivshar and Sergei K. Turitsyn

pp. R2536-R2539 [View Page Images or PDF (707 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Critical scaling behavior in the activated-barrier-crossing problem

Surjit Singh, R. Krishnan, and G. Wilse Robinson

pp. 2540-2548 [View Page Images or PDF (1,492 kB)]

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From dynamics to statistical mechanics in the Hénon-Heiles model: Dynamics

B. I. Henry and J. Grindlay

pp. 2549-2558 [View Page Images or PDF (1,603 kB)]

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Low-dimensional turnover theory of thermal activation

H. Dekker and A. Maassen van den Brink

pp. 2559-2566 [View Page Images or PDF (1,342 kB)]

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Kardar-Parisi-Zhang model and anomalous elasticity of two- and three-dimensional smectic-A liquid crystals

Leonardo Golubović and Zhen-Gang Wang

pp. 2567-2578 [View Page Images or PDF (2,228 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Application of the generalized Chapman-Enskog method to the transport-coefficient calculation in a reacting gas mixture

B. V. Alexeev, A. Chikhaoui, and I. T. Grushin

pp. 2809-2825 [View Page Images or PDF (2,124 kB)]

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Weighted-density-functional theory of solvation forces in liquids

Chandra N. Patra and Swapan K. Ghosh

pp. 2826-2834 [View Page Images or PDF (1,100 kB)]

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Potential effects on atomic motions in liquid alkali metals

S. Ranganathan, K. N. Pathak, and Y. P. Varshni

pp. 2835-2840 [View Page Images or PDF (792 kB)]

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Role of hydrogen-bond cooperativity and free-volume fluctuations in the non-Arrhenius behavior of water self-diffusion: A continuity-of-states model

R. Lamanna, M. Delmelle, and S. Cannistraro

pp. 2841-2850 [View Page Images or PDF (1,771 kB)]

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Phase diagram for excess electrons in simple fluids

Kevin Leung and David Chandler

pp. 2851-2865 [View Page Images or PDF (2,291 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Scaling laws of the dissipation rate of turbulent subgrid-scale kinetic energy

Charles Meneveau and John O’Neil

pp. 2866-2874 [View Page Images or PDF (1,249 kB)]

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Phase instabilities of oscillatory standing squares and alternating rolls

R. B. Hoyle

pp. 2875-2880 [View Page Images or PDF (1,206 kB)]

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Generation of swirl due to symmetry breaking

V. Shtern, M. Goldshtik, and F. Hussain

pp. 2881-2886 [View Page Images or PDF (843 kB)]

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Large-scale coherence and ‘‘anomalous scaling’’ of high-order moments of velocity differences in strong turbulence

Victor Yakhot

pp. 2887-2899 [View Page Images or PDF (2,215 kB)]

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Separatrix-map analysis of chaotic transport in planar periodic vortical flows

Taehoon Ahn and Seunghwan Kim

pp. 2900-2911 [View Page Images or PDF (1,788 kB)]

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Lagrangian path integrals and fluctuations in random flow

Boris I. Shraiman and Eric D. Siggia

pp. 2912-2927 [View Page Images or PDF (2,496 kB)]

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Estimation of productivity, efficiency, and entropy production for cyclic separation processes with a distributed working fluid

Vladimir A. Kazakov and R. Stephen Berry

pp. 2928-2934 [View Page Images or PDF (932 kB)]

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Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers equation for surface waves in nonideal conducting liquids

A. González and A. Castellanos

pp. 2935-2940 [View Page Images or PDF (859 kB)]

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Simulation of nonideal gases and liquid-gas phase transitions by the lattice Boltzmann equation

Xiaowen Shan and Hudong Chen

pp. 2941-2948 [View Page Images or PDF (1,326 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Influence of the surface profile on the roughness contribution to the ellipticity coefficient

V. L. Kuzmin and V. P. Romanov

pp. 2949-2956 [View Page Images or PDF (1,160 kB)]

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Molecular interpretation of the absorption-induced optical reorientation of nematic liquid crystals

I. Jánossy

pp. 2957-2963 [View Page Images or PDF (1,249 kB)]

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Critical behavior at nematic–smectic-A phase transitions

Carl W. Garland and George Nounesis

pp. 2964-2971 [View Page Images or PDF (1,440 kB)]

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Fractal and compact growth morphologies in phase transitions with diffusion transport

T. Ihle and H. Müller-Krumbhaar

pp. 2972-2991 [View Page Images or PDF (3,495 kB)]

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Depolarized-light-scattering study of orthoterphenyl and comparison with the mode-coupling model

W. Steffen, A. Patkowski, H. Gläser, G. Meier, and E. W. Fischer

pp. 2992-3002 [View Page Images or PDF (1,782 kB)]

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Dynamic fluctuation effects in dilute lyotropic systems

E. I. Kats and V. V. Lebedev

pp. 3003-3020 [View Page Images or PDF (3,005 kB)]

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Influence of backflow on the reorientation dynamics of ferroelectric liquid crystals

Zhong Zou, Noel A. Clark, and Tomas Carlsson

pp. 3021-3030 [View Page Images or PDF (1,814 kB)]

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Fluctuation-induced orientational correlations in polymer blends and diblock copolymer melts

T. A. Vilgis, A. Weyersberg, and M. G. Brereton

pp. 3031-3037 [View Page Images or PDF (874 kB)]

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Elasticity of weakly aggregating polystyrene latex dispersions

R. de Rooij, D. van den Ende, M. H. G. Duits, and J. Mellema

pp. 3038-3049 [View Page Images or PDF (2,039 kB)]

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Quantum transport in porous media: Inelastic scattering of ⁴He atoms and its temperature dependence

Zhao-Qing Zhang and Ping Sheng

pp. 3050-3060 [View Page Images or PDF (1,528 kB)]

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Director configurations of nematic-liquid-crystal droplets: Negative dielectric anisotropy and parallel surface anchoring

F. Xu, H.-S. Kitzerow, and P. P. Crooker

pp. 3061-3068 [View Page Images or PDF (1,510 kB)]

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Kinetics and thermodynamics of end-functionalized polymer adsorption and desorption processes

Richard Zajac and Amitabha Chakrabarti

pp. 3069-3078 [View Page Images or PDF (1,750 kB)]

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Hydrodynamic boundary conditions, correlation functions, and Kubo relations for confined fluids

Lydéric Bocquet and Jean-Louis Barrat

pp. 3079-3092 [View Page Images or PDF (2,362 kB)]

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Relaxation of electric birefringence near a critical consolute point

Sylwester J. Rzoska, Vittorio Degiorgio, Tommaso Bellini, and Roberto Piazza

pp. 3093-3096 [View Page Images or PDF (626 kB)]

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Microphase separation in topologically constrained ring copolymers

Andrea Weyersberg and Thomas A. Vilgis

pp. 3097-3101 [View Page Images or PDF (800 kB)]

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Quasi-two-dimensional domain structures of magnetic particles in a static field

Y. H. Hwang and X-l. Wu

pp. 3102-3108 [View Page Images or PDF (1,198 kB)]

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Phase transitions in heteropolymers with ‘‘secondary structure’’

G. Z. Archontis and E. I. Shakhnovich

pp. 3109-3123 [View Page Images or PDF (2,482 kB)]

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Dynamics of a bound membrane

Udo Seifert

pp. 3124-3127 [View Page Images or PDF (726 kB)]

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Critical dynamics in liquids with long-range forces

R. Folk and G. Moser

pp. 3128-3132 [View Page Images or PDF (763 kB)]

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Microscopic dynamics of liquid gallium

F. J. Bermejo, M. García-Hernández, J. L. Martinez, and B. Hennion

pp. 3133-3142 [View Page Images or PDF (1,736 kB)]

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Optically induced hydrodynamic reorientation of liquid crystals and its applications for infrared detection and information storage

R. S. Akopyan, N. V. Tabiryan, and T. Tschudi

pp. 3143-3149 [View Page Images or PDF (1,177 kB)]

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Slow dynamics in supercooled liquids

T. Odagaki, J. Matsui, and Y. Hiwatari

pp. 3150-3158 [View Page Images or PDF (1,420 kB)]

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Model for eutectic organization: The purely kinetic regime

C. Misbah and D. E. Temkin

pp. 3159-3165 [View Page Images or PDF (1,082 kB)]

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Low-frequency elastic response of a spherical particle

S. I. Bastrukov

pp. 3166-3170 [View Page Images or PDF (752 kB)]

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Structure factor of Cantor sets

C. P. Dettmann, N. E. Frankel, and T. Taucher

pp. 3171-3178 [View Page Images or PDF (840 kB)]

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Monte Carlo and integral-equation studies of hard-oblate-spherocylinder fluids

J. Šedlbauer, S. Labík, and A. Malijevský

pp. 3179-3183 [View Page Images or PDF (673 kB)]

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Stochastic envelope equations for nonequilibrium transitions and application to thermal fluctuations in electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals

Martin Treiber and Lorenz Kramer

pp. 3184-3198 [View Page Images or PDF (2,472 kB)]

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Off-lattice Monte Carlo simulation of polymer brushes in good solvents

Mohamed Laradji, Hong Guo, and Martin J. Zuckermann

pp. 3199-3206 [View Page Images or PDF (1,290 kB)]

Articles

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Textures in hexatic films of nonchiral liquid crystals: Symmetry breaking and modulated phases

Joseph E. Maclenna, Ulrich Sohling, Noel A. Clark, and Michael Seul

pp. 3207-3224 [View Page Images or PDF (3,891 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Pretransitional fluctuations of the Lebwohl-Lasher model of a nematic liquid crystal

C. W. Greeff and Michael A. Lee

pp. 3225-3232 [View Page Images or PDF (1,215 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Diffusion-limited-aggregation processes with three-particle elementary reactions

P. L. Krapivsky

pp. 3233-3238 [View Page Images or PDF (851 kB)]

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Restructuring effects in irreversible deposition of spheres on a plane

G. Tarjus, P. Viot, H. S. Choi, and J. Talbot

pp. 3239-3252 [View Page Images or PDF (1,902 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Oscillatory relativistic motion of a particle in a power-law or sinusoidal-shaped potential well

Denis Teychenné, Guy Bonnaud, and Jean-Louis Bobin

pp. 3253-3263 [View Page Images or PDF (1,655 kB)]

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Monte Carlo simulation of electron swarms at low reduced electric fields

M. Yousfi, A. Hennad, and A. Alkaa

pp. 3264-3273 [View Page Images or PDF (1,636 kB)]

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Theory of Raman scattering for a short ultrastrong laser pulse in a rarefied plasma

A. S. Sakharov and V. I. Kirsanov

pp. 3274-3282 [View Page Images or PDF (1,566 kB)]

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Modeling and measurements on an obstructed glow discharge in helium

Z. Donkó, K. Rózsa, R. C. Tobin, and K. A. Peard

pp. 3283-3289 [View Page Images or PDF (1,128 kB)]

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Negative-energy modes in a magnetically confined plasma in the framework of Maxwell-drift kinetic theory

G. N. Throumoulopoulos and D. Pfirsch

pp. 3290-3309 [View Page Images or PDF (2,368 kB)]

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Frequency downshift in rapidly ionizing media

S. P. Kuo, A. Ren, and G. Schmidt

pp. 3310-3315 [View Page Images or PDF (829 kB)]

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Kinetic description of plasmas produced in multiphoton-ionization processes

C. Altucci, R. Bruzzese, C. de Lisio, and S. Solimeno

pp. 3316-3334 [View Page Images or PDF (2,772 kB)]

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Shear Alfvén vortices in a current-carrying low-temperature plasma

Chen Yinhua and M. Y. Yu

pp. 3335-3339 [View Page Images or PDF (656 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Calculations of Smith-Purcell radiation generated by electrons of 1–100 MeV

O. Haeberlé, P. Rullhusen, J.-M. Salomé, and N. Maene

pp. 3340-3352 [View Page Images or PDF (1,807 kB)]

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Identifying chaotic electron trajectories in a helical-wiggler free-electron laser

A. Bourdier and L. Michel-Lours

pp. 3353-3359 [View Page Images or PDF (802 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Oscillation mode and ‘‘nonlinear’’ radiation of the double sine-Gordon 2π kink

Eva Majerníková

pp. 3360-3367 [View Page Images or PDF (812 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Analysis of a multistable dynamical system describing a competitive interaction between synapses on a neuron

Hiroshi Okamoto and Kazuhisa Ichikawa

pp. 3412-3420 [View Page Images or PDF (1,456 kB)]

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Emergent collective behavior in large numbers of globally coupled independently stochastic ion channels

Ronald F. Fox and Yan-nan Lu

pp. 3421-3431 [View Page Images or PDF (1,575 kB)]

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Monovariable representation of blood flow in a large elastic artery

J. F. Paquerot and S. G. Lambrakos

pp. 3432-3439 [View Page Images or PDF (1,063 kB)]

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Properties and origins of protein secondary structure

Nicholas D. Socci, William S. Bialek, and José Nelson Onuchic

pp. 3440-3443 [View Page Images or PDF (813 kB)]

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Nonlinear effects and thermal expansion as expressed in self-consistent phonon calculations on the temperature dependence of a phase change: Application to the B to Z conformation change in DNA

Y. Z. Chen and E. W. Prohofsky

pp. 3444-3451 [View Page Images or PDF (1,376 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Fault-tolerant sensor integration using multiresolution decomposition

L. Prasad, S. S. Iyengar, R. L. Rao, and R. L. Kashyap

pp. 3452-3461 [View Page Images or PDF (1,496 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Singular perturbation analysis for unstable systems with convective nonlinearity

Oliver Schönborn, Sanjay Puri, and Rashmi C. Desai

pp. 3480-3483 [View Page Images or PDF (719 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Synchronizationlike phenomena in coupled stochastic bistable systems

Alexander Neiman

pp. 3484-3487 [View Page Images or PDF (681 kB)]

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Longitudinal relaxation induced by colored noise

L. Andreozzi, C. Donati, M. Giordano, and D. Leporini

pp. 3488-3491 [View Page Images or PDF (593 kB)]

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Characterization of the Lorenz system, taking into account the equivariance of the vector field

C. Letellier, P. Dutertre, and G. Gouesbet

pp. 3492-3495 [View Page Images or PDF (525 kB)]

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Nonequilibrium critical behavior from the master equation

B. Yu and D. A. Browne

pp. 3496-3499 [View Page Images or PDF (740 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Monte Carlo calculation of effective diffusivities in two- and three-dimensional heterogeneous materials of variable structure

Mark R. Riley, Fernando J. Muzzio, Helen M. Buettner, and Sebastian C. Reyes

pp. 3500-3503 [View Page Images or PDF (764 kB)]

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Dynamic structure factors of a dense mixture

Supurna Sinha

pp. 3504-3507 [View Page Images or PDF (576 kB)]

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Instabilities and pattern formation in driven diffusive systems

György Szabó

pp. 3508-3511 [View Page Images or PDF (674 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Microscopic simulation of dilute gases with adjustable transport coefficients

F. Baras, M. Malek Mansour, and Alejandro L. Garcia

pp. 3512-3515 [View Page Images or PDF (762 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Kinetic real-space renormalization-group approach to the shortest-path aggregation

Xiang Rong Wang

pp. 3516-3519 [View Page Images or PDF (581 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Regular and stochastic acceleration of photons

J. T. Mendonça and L. Oliveira e Silva

pp. 3520-3523 [View Page Images or PDF (634 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Polarization stability of TE and TM waves in nonlinear planar waveguides

H. T. Tran, R. A. Sammut, and C. Pask

pp. 3524-3527 [View Page Images or PDF (522 kB)]

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Alternative wave-function theory in homogeneous anisotropic media: Spline approximation

Wei Ren and Xin Bao Wu

pp. 3528-3530 [View Page Images or PDF (315 kB)]

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Experimental photon statistics of multiscattered light

G. F. Lorusso, V. Capozzi, and A. Minafra

pp. 3531-3534 [View Page Images or PDF (602 kB)]

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Instability in a classical periodically driven string

J. Dittrich, P. Duclos, and P. Šeba

pp. 3535-3538 [View Page Images or PDF (678 kB)]

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Logarithmic decay of φ⁴ breathers of energy E≲1

J. Geicke

pp. 3539-3542 [View Page Images or PDF (685 kB)]

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Modulational instabilities in the discrete deformable nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Yuri S. Kivshar and Mario Salerno

pp. 3543-3546 [View Page Images or PDF (690 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Tunneling control in a two-level system

Jose M. Gomez Llorente and Jesús Plata

pp. 3547 [View Page Images or PDF (103 kB)]

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Erratum: Fluctuations in solidification

Alain Karma

pp. 3547 [View Page Images or PDF (103 kB)]

Physical Review E – April 1994 Volume 49, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Complex Fluids

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Complex Fluids

Articles

Complex Fluids

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Plasma Physics

Physics of Beams

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

Biological Physics

Computational Physics

BRIEF REPORTS

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Plasma Physics

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

ERRATA

Physical Review E – April 1994
Volume 49, Issue 4