Physical Review E – May 1994
Volume 49, Issue 5

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Universality change in stochastic cellular automaton with applied site exchange
Géza Ódor and György Szabó
pp. R3555-R3557 [View Page Images or PDF (456 kB)]
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Order in two-dimensional oscillator lattices
M. Bahiana and M. S. O. Massunaga
pp. R3558-R3560 [View Page Images or PDF (440 kB)]
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Competing effects of point versus columnar defects on the roughening of directed polymers in random media
Igor Arsenin, Timothy Halpin-Healy, and Joachim Krug
pp. R3561-R3564 [View Page Images or PDF (788 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Fluctuating hydrodynamics of the classical electron gas
P.-M. Binder
pp. R3565-R3567 [View Page Images or PDF (610 kB)]
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Inversion problem for dense classical liquids: The binary case
Gerhard Kahl and Martin Kristufek
pp. R3568-R3571 [View Page Images or PDF (643 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Transition to large aspect ratio convection
Guy Metcalfe and R. P. Behringer
pp. R3572-R3575 [View Page Images or PDF (622 kB)]
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Phase dynamics near a parity-breaking instability
Laurent Fourtune, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Marc Rabaud
pp. R3576-R3579 [View Page Images or PDF (699 kB)]
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Average patterns in Faraday waves
Eric Bosch, Hans Lambermont, and Willem van de Water
pp. R3580-R3583 [View Page Images or PDF (850 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Conformation of a single polyelectrolyte chain in the Coulombic unscreened limit
José Luis Alessandrini and Jorge Vila
pp. R3584-R3586 [View Page Images or PDF (558 kB)]
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Surface tension of free-standing liquid-crystal films
T. Stoebe, P. Mach, and C. C. Huang
pp. R3587-R3590 [View Page Images or PDF (691 kB)]
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Global phase diagrams for dipolar fluids
H. Zhang and M. Widom
pp. R3591-R3593 [View Page Images or PDF (533 kB)]
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Possibility of twist-grain-boundary structure in nonchiral liquid crystals
J. S. Patel
pp. R3594-R3597 [View Page Images or PDF (689 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Convex to concave transition and invariant distribution of segment lengths in many-walker anisotropic diffusion-limited aggregation
Ofer Shochet
pp. R3598-R3601 [View Page Images or PDF (762 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Stimulated Brillouin scattering with a 1 ps laser pulse in a preformed underdense plasma
S. D. Baton, C. Rousseaux, Ph. Mounaix, C. Labaune, B. La Fontaine, D. Pesme, N. Renard, S. Gary, M. Louis-Jacquet, and H. A. Baldis
pp. R3602-R3605 [View Page Images or PDF (777 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Transition from quasiperiodicity to chaos of a soliton oscillator
M. Cirillo, A. R. Bishop, N. Grønbech-Jensen, and P. S. Lomdahl
pp. R3606-R3609 [View Page Images or PDF (760 kB)]
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Reversible axial segregation of binary mixtures of granular materials
K. M. Hill and J. Kakalios
pp. R3610-R3613 [View Page Images or PDF (1,106 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Renormalization-group study of a hybrid driven diffusive system
K. E. Bassler and B. Schmittmann
pp. 3614-3618 [View Page Images or PDF (928 kB)]
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Stochastic perturbation of the γ-ray angular correlation in the case of a quadrupole interaction
Asish K. Dhara
pp. 3619-3625 [View Page Images or PDF (991 kB)]
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Brownian parametric oscillators
Christine Zerbe, Peter Jung, and Peter Hänggi
pp. 3626-3635 [View Page Images or PDF (1,559 kB)]
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Exact results of a solvable general spin-1 model
Xiang Dong Mi and Z. R. Yang
pp. 3636-3640 [View Page Images or PDF (597 kB)]
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Chaotic cascade model for turbulent velocity distributions
Christian Beck
pp. 3641-3652 [View Page Images or PDF (1,850 kB)]
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Hamiltonian approach to the dissociation of a coupled nonlinear exciton-vibron system
D. Hennig, G. P. Tsironis, and H. Gabriel
pp. 3653-3664 [View Page Images or PDF (2,073 kB)]
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One-dimensional spherical model with a phase transition
Dorje C. Brody
pp. 3665-3669 [View Page Images or PDF (526 kB)]
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Decay of metastable states with discrete dynamics
Peter Reimann, Reinhard Müller, and Peter Talkner
pp. 3670-3682 [View Page Images or PDF (2,113 kB)]
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Chaos and the quantum-classical correspondence in the kicked pendulum
Ronald F. Fox and T. C. Elston
pp. 3683-3696 [View Page Images or PDF (1,817 kB)]
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Brownian motion of two interacting particles under a square-well potential
Akio Morita
pp. 3697-3702 [View Page Images or PDF (663 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Turbulent dynamics of an intrinsically chaotic field
Farid F. Abraham
pp. 3703-3708 [View Page Images or PDF (703 kB)]
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Renormalization of the driven sine-Gordon equation in 2+1 dimensions
Martin Rost and Herbert Spohn
pp. 3709-3716 [View Page Images or PDF (1,041 kB)]
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Post-Gaussian approximations in phase ordering kinetics
Gene F. Mazenko
pp. 3717-3726 [View Page Images or PDF (1,224 kB)]
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Dynamical scaling functions in conserved vector order-parameter systems without topological defects
Madan Rao and Amitabha Chakrabarti
pp. 3727-3730 [View Page Images or PDF (634 kB)]
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Two-spin models with classical chaos and different quantum universality classes
R. R. Puri
pp. 3731-3734 [View Page Images or PDF (786 kB)]
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Relaxation and stochasticity in a truncated Toda lattice
Henry E. Kandrup and M. Elaine Mahon
pp. 3735-3747 [View Page Images or PDF (2,494 kB)]
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Statistical properties of spectra of pseudointegrable systems
Akira Shudo, Yasushi Shimizu, Petr Šeba, Jürgen Stein, Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann, and Karol Życzkowski
pp. 3748-3756 [View Page Images or PDF (1,540 kB)]
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Global stability of spherical polytropes
Henry E. Kandrup, M. Elaine Mahon, and Haywood Smith, Jr.
pp. 3757-3760 [View Page Images or PDF (673 kB)]
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Crisis and enhancement of chaotic scattering
Ying-Cheng Lai and Celso Grebogi
pp. 3761-3770 [View Page Images or PDF (1,620 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of a two-dimensional self-gravitating system
J. J. Aly
pp. 3771-3783 [View Page Images or PDF (1,923 kB)]
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Modeling and synchronizing chaotic systems from time-series data
Reggie Brown, Nikolai F. Rulkov, and Eugene R. Tracy
pp. 3784-3800 [View Page Images or PDF (3,057 kB)]
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Period-doubling bifurcations in the presence of colored noise
Alexander Neiman, Vadim Anishchenko, and Jürgen Kurths
pp. 3801-3806 [View Page Images or PDF (864 kB)]
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Direct dynamical test for deterministic chaos and optimal embedding of a chaotic time series
Jianbo Gao and Zhemin Zheng
pp. 3807-3814 [View Page Images or PDF (1,264 kB)]
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Natural boundaries for the Smoluchowski equation and affiliated diffusion processes
Philippe Blanchard and Piotr Garbaczewski
pp. 3815-3824 [View Page Images or PDF (1,793 kB)]
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Periodic synchronization in a driven system of coupled oscillators
M. Y. Choi, Y. W. Kim, and D. C. Hong
pp. 3825-3832 [View Page Images or PDF (1,381 kB)]
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Fluctuations in a decentralized agent-resource system
I. Adjali, M. Gell, and T. Lunn
pp. 3833-3842 [View Page Images or PDF (1,803 kB)]
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Mapping of crystal surfaces onto the five-vertex model
M. Gulácsi, A. C. Levi, and E. Tosatti
pp. 3843-3851 [View Page Images or PDF (1,470 kB)]
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Telegrapher’s equations with variable propagation speeds
Jaume Masoliver and George H. Weiss
pp. 3852-3854 [View Page Images or PDF (378 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulations with indefinite and complex-valued measures
T. D. Kieu and C. J. Griffin
pp. 3855-3859 [View Page Images or PDF (680 kB)]
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Late-stage phase separation: Dynamics, spatial correlations, and structure functions
Norio Akaiwa and P. W. Voorhees
pp. 3860-3880 [View Page Images or PDF (3,725 kB)]
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Random driving of a nonlinear oscillator
A. Gerasimov and S. Y. Lee
pp. 3881-3887 [View Page Images or PDF (980 kB)]
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Influence of noise on crisis-induced intermittency
Marek Franaszek and Leone Fronzoni
pp. 3888-3893 [View Page Images or PDF (1,034 kB)]
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Stochastically averaged master equation for a quantum-dynamic system interacting with a thermal bath
E. G. Petrov, V. I. Teslenko, and I. A. Goychuk
pp. 3894-3902 [View Page Images or PDF (1,381 kB)]
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Three-level quantum amplifier as a heat engine: A study in finite-time thermodynamics
Eitan Geva and Ronnie Kosloff
pp. 3903-3918 [View Page Images or PDF (2,783 kB)]
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Scaling properties of self-organized criticality
P. A. Robinson
pp. 3919-3926 [View Page Images or PDF (996 kB)]
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Periodically kicked Duffing oscillator and nonattracting chaotic sets
Marek Franaszek
pp. 3927-3929 [View Page Images or PDF (435 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in optical bistable systems
Roland Bartussek, Peter Hänggi, and Peter Jung
pp. 3930-3939 [View Page Images or PDF (1,440 kB)]
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Model of spatiotemporal dynamics of stick-slip motion
B. Lin and P. L. Taylor
pp. 3940-3947 [View Page Images or PDF (1,331 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Kinetics of heterogeneous condensation under dynamic conditions
V. Kurasov
pp. 3948-3955 [View Page Images or PDF (1,132 kB)]
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Low-temperature anharmonic lattice deformations near rotator impurities: A quantum Monte Carlo approach
M. H. Müser, W. Helbing, P. Nielaba, and K. Binder
pp. 3956-3962 [View Page Images or PDF (1,264 kB)]
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Crisis and intermittence in a leaky-faucet experiment
J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto
pp. 3963-3975 [View Page Images or PDF (1,171 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Rotational Brownian motion and dielectric relaxation of polar molecules subjected to a constant bias field: Exact solution
J. T. Waldron, Yu. P. Kalmykov, and W. T. Coffey
pp. 3976-3989 [View Page Images or PDF (1,725 kB)]
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Large-N limit of the ‘‘spherical model’’ of turbulence
Gregory L. Eyink
pp. 3990-4002 [View Page Images or PDF (2,106 kB)]
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Nonlinear analysis of high-Reynolds-number flows over a buoyant axisymmetric body
Henry D. I. Abarbanel, Richard A. Katz, Thomas Galib, Joan Cembrola, and Theodore W. Frison
pp. 4003-4018 [View Page Images or PDF (2,522 kB)]
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Axisymmetric time-dependent flow in the Taylor-Couette system
U. Gerdts, J. von Stamm, Th. Buzug, and G. Pfister
pp. 4019-4026 [View Page Images or PDF (1,359 kB)]
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Scaling in drop distributions: An application in combustion
Oscar Sotolongo-Costa, Enrique Lopez-Pages, Felix Barreras-Toledo, and Jose Marin-Antuña
pp. 4027-4030 [View Page Images or PDF (523 kB)]
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Bénard convection in a binary mixture with a nonlinear density-temperature relation
Christian Karcher and Ulrich Müller
pp. 4031-4043 [View Page Images or PDF (1,765 kB)]
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Extended universality in moderate-Reynolds-number flows
Victor S. L’vov and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 4044-4051 [View Page Images or PDF (1,268 kB)]
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Intermittency and scaling property of band-pass-filtered signals in moderate-Reynolds-number turbulent flows
Tomoo Katsuyama, Yoshinori Horiuchi, and Ken-ichi Nagata
pp. 4052-4059 [View Page Images or PDF (1,264 kB)]
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Simulation of a two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard system using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method
Tadashi Watanabe, Hideo Kaburaki, and Mitsuo Yokokawa
pp. 4060-4064 [View Page Images or PDF (783 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Nonequilibrium effect of the turbulent-energy-production process on the inertial-range energy spectrum
Akira Yoshizawa
pp. 4065-4071 [View Page Images or PDF (1,266 kB)]
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Plume model for the boundary-layer dynamics in hard turbulence
J. Werne
pp. 4072-4076 [View Page Images or PDF (1,280 kB)]
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Competing states in a Couette-Taylor system with an axial flow
Avraham Tsameret and Victor Steinberg
pp. 4077-4086 [View Page Images or PDF (1,933 kB)]
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Variational bounds on energy dissipation in incompressible flows: Shear flow
Charles R. Doering and Peter Constantin
pp. 4087-4099 [View Page Images or PDF (2,103 kB)]
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Temporal forcing of small-amplitude waves in anisotropic systems
Hermann Riecke, Mary Silber, and Lorenz Kramer
pp. 4100-4113 [View Page Images or PDF (2,623 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Dynamics of growing interfaces from the simulation of unstable flow in random media
M. Ferer and Duane H. Smith
pp. 4114-4120 [View Page Images or PDF (1,169 kB)]
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Light scattering on director fluctuations in smectic-A liquid crystals
D. N. Moskvin, V. P. Romanov, and A. Yu. Val’kov
pp. 4121-4132 [View Page Images or PDF (1,814 kB)]
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Invasion percolation in a hydrostatic or permeability gradient: Experiments and simulations
M. Chaouche, N. Rakotomalala, D. Salin, B. Xu, and Y. C. Yortsos
pp. 4133-4139 [View Page Images or PDF (1,017 kB)]
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Osmotic interactions between neutral surfaces in an electrolyte solution
D. Bratko and D. Henderson
pp. 4140-4144 [View Page Images or PDF (792 kB)]
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Phase separation and droplet nucleation induced by an optical piston
J. P. Delville, C. Lalaude, E. Freysz, and A. Ducasse
pp. 4145-4148 [View Page Images or PDF (714 kB)]
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Influence of substrate heterogeneities on the spreading of a drop
A. M. Cazabat, J. De Coninck, S. Hoorelbeke, M. P. Valignat, and S. Villette
pp. 4149-4153 [View Page Images or PDF (807 kB)]
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Spreading diffusion and its relation to sliding friction in molecularly thin adsorbed films
A. Widom and J. Krim
pp. 4154-4156 [View Page Images or PDF (486 kB)]
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Replica model at low integer N for directed polymers in (1+1) dimensions
Richard Friedberg and Yi-Kuo Yu
pp. 4157-4166 [View Page Images or PDF (1,393 kB)]
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Percolation of two-dimensional attractive coagulated particles
Qi-huo Wei, Ming Han, Cai-hua Zhou, and Nai-ben Ming
pp. 4167-4171 [View Page Images or PDF (861 kB)]
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Saffman-Taylor fingers with adverse anisotropic surface tension
R. Combescot
pp. 4172-4178 [View Page Images or PDF (1,298 kB)]
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Adsorption isotherm study of the fractal scaling behavior of vapor-deposited silver films
V. Panella and J. Krim
pp. 4179-4184 [View Page Images or PDF (1,045 kB)]
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Rouse chain dynamics in layered random flows
G. Oshanin and A. Blumen
pp. 4185-4191 [View Page Images or PDF (1,172 kB)]
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Theory of surfacelike elastic contributions in nematic liquid crystals
Sandro Faetti
pp. 4192-4205 [View Page Images or PDF (2,854 kB)]
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Glass transition in colloidal hard spheres: Measurement and mode-coupling-theory analysis of the coherent intermediate scattering function
W. van Megen and S. M. Underwood
pp. 4206-4220 [View Page Images or PDF (2,784 kB)]
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Reentrant smectic-C and smectic-C* phases in liquid crystals under an electric field
L. Benguigui and A. E. Jacobs
pp. 4221-4227 [View Page Images or PDF (1,228 kB)]
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Spreading dynamics of polymer microdroplets: A molecular-dynamics study
J. A. Nieminen and T. Ala-Nissila
pp. 4228-4236 [View Page Images or PDF (1,383 kB)]
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Computer simulations of the breakup of colloid aggregates
A. H. L. West, J. R. Melrose, and R. C. Ball
pp. 4237-4249 [View Page Images or PDF (2,401 kB)]
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Planar XY-model dynamics in a nematic liquid crystal system
Andrew N. Pargellis, Susannah Green, and Bernard Yurke
pp. 4250-4257 [View Page Images or PDF (1,524 kB)]
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Dynamic approach to phase separation of a mixture of monomers and polymers
Jian-Cheng Lin and P. L. Taylor
pp. 4258-4262 [View Page Images or PDF (805 kB)]
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Large deviations from the Clausius-Mossotti equation in a model microemulsion
M. E. Edwards, Y. H. Hwang, and X-l. Wu
pp. 4263-4267 [View Page Images or PDF (875 kB)]
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Charge-frustrated model of bicontinuous phases
Michael W. Deem and David Chandler
pp. 4268-4275 [View Page Images or PDF (1,427 kB)]
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Formation of interfaces in bicontinuous phases
Michael W. Deem and David Chandler
pp. 4276-4286 [View Page Images or PDF (1,703 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Distribution of density fluctuations in a molecular theory of vapor-phase nucleation
H. Michael Ellerby
pp. 4287-4297 [View Page Images or PDF (1,920 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal morphological transitions in thin-layer electrodeposition: The Hecker effect
A. Kuhn and F. Argoul
pp. 4298-4305 [View Page Images or PDF (1,919 kB)]
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Supercooling of surface-modified phases
R. Bar-Ziv and S. A. Safran
pp. 4306-4321 [View Page Images or PDF (2,767 kB)]
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Analytic model for planar growth of a solid germ from an undercooled melt
Ch. Charach and B. Zaltzman
pp. 4322-4327 [View Page Images or PDF (878 kB)]
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Influence of an inert electrolyte on the morphology of quasi-two-dimensional electrodeposits
Pedro Pablo Trigueros, Francesc Sagués, and Josep Claret
pp. 4328-4335 [View Page Images or PDF (2,067 kB)]
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Morphological instability in phase-field models of solidification
R. J. Braun, G. B. McFadden, and S. R. Coriell
pp. 4336-4352 [View Page Images or PDF (2,982 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Dynamic plasma response in laser-photodetachment experiments in hydrogen plasmas
L. Friedland, C. I. Ciubotariu, and M. Bacal
pp. 4353-4361 [View Page Images or PDF (1,354 kB)]
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Long-term coherence of the cyclotron mode in a trapped ion cloud
A. J. Peurrung and R. T. Kouzes
pp. 4362-4368 [View Page Images or PDF (1,372 kB)]
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Experimental evidence on the nonlocality of the electron distribution function
U. Kortshagen
pp. 4369-4380 [View Page Images or PDF (2,176 kB)]
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Diagnosis of laser-target implosions by space-resolved continuum absorption x-ray spectroscopy
F. J. Marshall, J. A. Delettrez, R. Epstein, and B. Yaakobi
pp. 4381-4390 [View Page Images or PDF (2,309 kB)]
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Measurement of the electrical resistivity of a dense strongly coupled plasma
J. F. Benage, Jr., W. R. Shanahan, E. G. Sherwood, L. A. Jones, and R. J. Trainor
pp. 4391-4396 [View Page Images or PDF (1,316 kB)]
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Argon-hydrogen plasma jet investigated by active and passive spectroscopic means
R. F. G. Meulenbroeks, A. J. van Beek, A. J. G. van Helvoort, M. C. M. van de Sanden, and D. C. Schram
pp. 4397-4406 [View Page Images or PDF (1,338 kB)]
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Propagation of short electron pulses in underdense plasmas
N. Barov and J. B. Rosenzweig
pp. 4407-4416 [View Page Images or PDF (1,917 kB)]
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Spatial chaos and patterns in laser-produced plasmas
Cangtao Zhou and X. T. He
pp. 4417-4424 [View Page Images or PDF (1,132 kB)]
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Adiabatic pair potential for charged particulates in plasmas and electrolytes
Yaakov Rosenfeld
pp. 4425-4429 [View Page Images or PDF (628 kB)]
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Polarization force on a charged particulate in a nonuniform plasma
S. Hamaguchi and R. T. Farouki
pp. 4430-4441 [View Page Images or PDF (2,044 kB)]
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Large-amplitude pulse response at the plasma boundary in an ion-beam system
T. Nagasawa and Y. Nishida
pp. 4442-4447 [View Page Images or PDF (969 kB)]
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Experimental study of the electrical conductivity of strongly coupled copper plasmas
Alan W. DeSilva and H.-J. Kunze
pp. 4448-4454 [View Page Images or PDF (1,371 kB)]
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Simulations of rf glow discharges in SF6 by the relaxation continuum model: Physical structure and function of the narrow-gap reactive-ion etcher
Nobuhiko Nakano, Naohiko Shimura, Zoran Lj. Petrović, and Toshiaki Makabe
pp. 4455-4465 [View Page Images or PDF (2,122 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Equalization of longitudinal and transverse beam cooling rates due to strong synchro-betatron interactions
Kenji Miyata
pp. 4466-4473 [View Page Images or PDF (1,385 kB)]
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Anomalous equilibrium emittance due to chromaticity in electron storage rings
Katsunobu Oide and Haruyo Koiso
pp. 4474-4479 [View Page Images or PDF (967 kB)]
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Femtosecond free-electron laser by chirped pulse amplification
L. H. Yu, E. Johnson, D. Li, and D. Umstadter
pp. 4480-4486 [View Page Images or PDF (1,278 kB)]
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Linear analysis of periodic-waveguide cyclotron maser interaction
Eli Jerby
pp. 4487-4496 [View Page Images or PDF (1,467 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Nonlinear Schrödinger soliton in a time-dependent quadratic potential
Y. Nogami and F. M. Toyama
pp. 4497-4501 [View Page Images or PDF (876 kB)]
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Renormalization group theory and variational calculations for propagating fronts
Lin-Yuan Chen, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Y. Oono
pp. 4502-4511 [View Page Images or PDF (1,841 kB)]
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Bifurcations of the dark soliton and polarization domain walls in nonlinear dispersive media
M. Haelterman and A. P. Sheppard
pp. 4512-4518 [View Page Images or PDF (1,237 kB)]
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Propagation dynamics of ultrashort pulses in nonlinear fiber couplers
Nail Akhmediev and J. M. Soto-Crespo
pp. 4519-4529 [View Page Images or PDF (2,015 kB)]
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Correlation in laser speckle
J. H. Li and A. Z. Genack
pp. 4530-4533 [View Page Images or PDF (614 kB)]
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Self-similarity of friction laws
Maria de Sousa Vieira and Hans J. Herrmann
pp. 4534-4541 [View Page Images or PDF (1,446 kB)]
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Kinks in the presence of rapidly varying perturbations
Yuri S. Kivshar, Niels Grønbech-Jensen, and Robert D. Parmentier
pp. 4542-4551 [View Page Images or PDF (1,667 kB)]
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Light scattering in anisotropic stratified media
P. Galatola
pp. 4552-4562 [View Page Images or PDF (1,694 kB)]
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Efficient calculation of the Green’s function for electromagnetic scattering by gratings
N. A. Nicorovici, R. C. McPhedran, and R. Petit
pp. 4563-4577 [View Page Images or PDF (1,534 kB)]
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Influence of reflecting boundaries and finite interfacial thickness on the coherent backscattering cone
M. Ospeck and S. Fraden
pp. 4578-4589 [View Page Images or PDF (2,323 kB)]
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Green’s function and lattice sums for electromagnetic scattering by a square array of cylinders
S. K. Chin, N. A. Nicorovici, and R. C. McPhedran
pp. 4590-4602 [View Page Images or PDF (1,684 kB)]
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Kink stability, propagation, and length-scale competition in the periodically modulated sine-Gordon equation
Angel Sánchez, A. R. Bishop, and Francisco Domínguez-Adame
pp. 4603-4615 [View Page Images or PDF (2,592 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Multiple-valued energy function in neural networks with asymmetric connections
Kenichiro Mogi
pp. 4616-4626 [View Page Images or PDF (1,252 kB)]
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Temperature effects in a nonlinear model of monolayer Scheibe aggregates
O. Bang, P. L. Christiansen, F. If, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and Y. B. Gaididei
pp. 4627-4636 [View Page Images or PDF (1,508 kB)]
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Query construction, entropy, and generalization in neural-network models
Peter Sollich
pp. 4637-4651 [View Page Images or PDF (2,836 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions: Path-integral evolution of short-term memory
Lester Ingber
pp. 4652-4664 [View Page Images or PDF (2,498 kB)]
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Order and disorder in fully hydrated unoriented bilayers of gel-phase dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine
W.-J. Sun, R. M. Suter, M. A. Knewtson, C. R. Worthington, S. Tristram-Nagle, R. Zhang, and J. F. Nagle
pp. 4665-4676 [View Page Images or PDF (2,509 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Fast, accurate algorithm for numerical simulation of Lévy stable stochastic processes
Rosario Nunzio Mantegna
pp. 4677-4683 [View Page Images or PDF (1,025 kB)]
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Solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation numerically
Toshiaki Iitaka
pp. 4684-4690 [View Page Images or PDF (728 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Biological Physics

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Scaling behavior of the punctuated-equilibrium model of evolution
H. F. Chau
pp. 4691-4692 [View Page Images or PDF (285 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Algebraic evaluation of linking numbers of unstable periodic orbits in chaotic attractors
L. Le Sceller, C. Letellier, and G. Gouesbet
pp. 4693-4695 [View Page Images or PDF (408 kB)]
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Yang’s model of charged particle scattering with energy loss
G. Sandison, L. Papież, and V. Tulovsky
pp. 4696-4699 [View Page Images or PDF (608 kB)]
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Self-avoiding random walks on a family of diamond-type hierarchical lattices
S. Wu and Z. R. Yang
pp. 4700-4703 [View Page Images or PDF (525 kB)]
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Mean first-passage time and multiexponential relaxation of the activationless nonadiabatic electron transfer reaction
Sheh-Yi Sheu and Dah-Yen Yang
pp. 4704-4707 [View Page Images or PDF (545 kB)]
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Chaos in double-barrier heterostructures
I. Khalfin, R. Berkovits, and M. Gitterman
pp. 4708-4711 [View Page Images or PDF (661 kB)]
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Onset of avalanches in granular media
Surajit Sen, Normand Mousseau, and Gregor Overney
pp. 4712-4715 [View Page Images or PDF (921 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Cancellation exponents and fractal scaling
Andrea L. Bertozzi and Ashvin B. Chhabra
pp. 4716-4719 [View Page Images or PDF (534 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Surface roughening and surface diffusion in kinetic thin-film deposition
Rong-Fu Xiao and Nai-Ben Ming
pp. 4720-4723 [View Page Images or PDF (825 kB)]
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Phase separation dynamics of model thin films
Michael A. Vaksman and William E. McMullen
pp. 4724-4727 [View Page Images or PDF (622 kB)]
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Shape equations for axisymmetric vesicles: A clarification
Frank Jülicher and Udo Seifert
pp. 4728-4731 [View Page Images or PDF (592 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Influence of many-particle effects on spectral line shapes in nonthermal plasmas
S. Günter and A. Könies
pp. 4732-4734 [View Page Images or PDF (527 kB)]
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Stochastic substitute for coupled rate equations in the modeling of highly ionized transient plasmas
S. Eliezer, R. Falquina, and E. Mínguez
pp. 4735-4738 [View Page Images or PDF (580 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Stimulated Raman scattering of an EH waveguide mode near cyclotron resonance
Joseph E. Willett, Yildirim Aktas, Behrouz Maraghechi, and Hassan Mehdian
pp. 4739-4742 [View Page Images or PDF (531 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Interactions between monolayers and the stability of mixed surfactant vesicles
Hu Jian-Guo
pp. 4743-4746 [View Page Images or PDF (569 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Thermodynamic properties of α-helix protein: A soliton approach’’
Pang Xiao-feng
pp. 4747-4752 [View Page Images or PDF (770 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Thermodynamic properties of α-helix protein: A soliton approach’ ’’
Jia-xin Xiao and Jia-tih Lin
pp. 4753-4754 [View Page Images or PDF (263 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Measurement of the persistence length of polymerized actin using fluorescence microscopy
A. Ott, M. Magnasco, A. Simon, and A. Libchaber
pp. 4755 [View Page Images or PDF (59 kB)]
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Erratum: Thermal and structural properties of the liquid-vapor interface in dipolar fluids [Phys. Rev. E 48, 3741 (1993)]
Peter Frodl and S. Dietrich
pp. 4755 [View Page Images or PDF (59 kB)]