Physical Review E – June 1994
Volume 49, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Damage spreading during domain growth
I. Graham, E. Hernández-García, and Martin Grant
pp. R4763-R4766 [View Page Images or PDF (745 kB)]
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Traces of ghost orbits in the quantum standard map
Rainer Scharf and Bala Sundaram
pp. R4767-R4770 [View Page Images or PDF (548 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Molecular dynamics simulations of hot, dense hydrogen
I. Kwon, L. A. Collins, J. D. Kress, N. Troullier, and D. L. Lynch
pp. R4771-R4774 [View Page Images or PDF (698 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Probability distribution function of the temperature increment in isotropic turbulence
Iwao Hosokawa
pp. R4775-R4778 [View Page Images or PDF (624 kB)]
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Fast thermalization in supercritical fluids
M. Bonetti, F. Perrot, D. Beysens, and Y. Garrabos
pp. R4779-R4782 [View Page Images or PDF (651 kB)]
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Transition to spatiotemporal chaos via spatially subharmonic oscillations of a periodic front
D. P. Vallette, W. S. Edwards, and J. P. Gollub
pp. R4783-R4786 [View Page Images or PDF (815 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Domain growth laws for the phase ordering of chiral liquid crystals
E. Demikhov, H. Stegemeyer, and Th. Blümel
pp. R4787-R4790 [View Page Images or PDF (777 kB)]
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Nature of the layer-by-layer transition associated with the smectic-A–crystal-B transition in free-standing liquid-crystal films
A. J. Jin, T. Stoebe, and C. C. Huang
pp. R4791-R4794 [View Page Images or PDF (590 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Continuum approach to diffusion-limited-aggregation type of growth
Pawel Keblinski, Amos Maritan, Flavio Toigo, and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. R4795-R4798 [View Page Images or PDF (767 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Interaction of subpicosecond KrF laser pulses with a preformed carbon plasma
W. Theobald, C. Wülker, J. Jasny, S. Szatmári, F. P. Schäfer, and J. S. Bakos
pp. R4799-R4802 [View Page Images or PDF (796 kB)]
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Measurements of radiation heat transport in germanium: Validationinebreak of an opacity model
V. J. L. White, J. M. Foster, J. C. V. Hansom, P. A. Rosen, and S. J. Rose
pp. R4803-R4806 [View Page Images or PDF (683 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Space-charge effects on nonlinear amplification of inverse bremsstrahlung electron acceleration
R. M. O. Galvão, M. S. Hussein, M. P. Pato, and A. Serbeto
pp. R4807-R4810 [View Page Images or PDF (489 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Hysteresis in neural networks
Prabodh Shukla and Tapas Kumar Sinha
pp. R4811-R4814 [View Page Images or PDF (741 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Limitation on entropy increase imposed by Fisher information
B. Nikolov and B. Roy Frieden
pp. 4815-4820 [View Page Images or PDF (844 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Stochastic resonance: Nonperturbative calculation of power spectra and residence-time distributions
R. Löfstedt and S. N. Coppersmith
pp. 4821-4831 [View Page Images or PDF (1,716 kB)]
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Unidirectional adaptive dynamics
Sudeshna Sinha
pp. 4832-4842 [View Page Images or PDF (1,841 kB)]
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Synchronization of unstable orbits using adaptive control
Jolly K. John and R. E. Amritkar
pp. 4843-4848 [View Page Images or PDF (812 kB)]
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Clustering behavior of time-delayed nearest-neighbor coupled oscillators
Y. Nakamura, F. Tominaga, and T. Munakata
pp. 4849-4856 [View Page Images or PDF (1,169 kB)]
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Catalysis on a fractal lattice: A model for poisoning
Eric Clément, Patrick Leroux-Hugon, and Panos Argyrakis
pp. 4857-4864 [View Page Images or PDF (1,366 kB)]
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Minimum energy dissipation model for river basin geometry
Tao Sun, Paul Meakin, and Torstein Jøssang
pp. 4865-4872 [View Page Images or PDF (1,621 kB)]
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Lévy statistics in a Hamiltonian system
J. Klafter and G. Zumofen
pp. 4873-4877 [View Page Images or PDF (823 kB)]
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Multiplicative stochastic resonance
L. Gammaitoni, F. Marchesoni, E. Menichella-Saetta, and S. Santucci
pp. 4878-4881 [View Page Images or PDF (592 kB)]
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Drive-response scenario of chaos synchronization in identical nonlinear systems
K. Murali and M. Lakshmanan
pp. 4882-4885 [View Page Images or PDF (565 kB)]
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Nonlinearly coupled generalized Fokker-Planck equation for rotational relaxation
Yuhong Zhang and T. E. Bull
pp. 4886-4902 [View Page Images or PDF (1,975 kB)]
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Dimension of branching processes and self-organized criticality
Ricardo García-Pelayo
pp. 4903-4906 [View Page Images or PDF (670 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Box-counting clustering analysis: Corrections for finite sample effects
Stefano Borgani and Giuseppe Murante
pp. 4907-4912 [View Page Images or PDF (1,001 kB)]
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Bivariate thermodynamic formalism and anomalous diffusion
R. Stoop
pp. 4913-4918 [View Page Images or PDF (1,039 kB)]
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Response of a stochastic bistable model driven by strong time-dependent fields
J. Gómez-Ordoñez and M. Morillo
pp. 4919-4924 [View Page Images or PDF (828 kB)]
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Phase-ordering dynamics of the O(n) model: Exact predictions and numerical results
R. E. Blundell and A. J. Bray
pp. 4925-4937 [View Page Images or PDF (1,654 kB)]
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Surmounting fluctuating barriers: A simple model in discrete time
Peter Reimann
pp. 4938-4945 [View Page Images or PDF (1,290 kB)]
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Random walk for interacting particles on a Sierpínski gasket
Aniket Bhattacharya
pp. 4946-4949 [View Page Images or PDF (528 kB)]
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Role of nonlinear dissipation in soft Duffing oscillators
B. Ravindra and A. K. Mallik
pp. 4950-4954 [View Page Images or PDF (720 kB)]
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Global vector-field reconstruction by using a multivariate polynomial L2 approximation on nets
G. Gouesbet and C. Letellier
pp. 4955-4972 [View Page Images or PDF (2,579 kB)]
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Creep, stick-slip, and dry-friction dynamics: Experiments and a heuristic model
F. Heslot, T. Baumberger, B. Perrin, B. Caroli, and C. Caroli
pp. 4973-4988 [View Page Images or PDF (2,891 kB)]
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Cooperative behavior in the periodically modulated Wiener process: Noise-induced complexity in a model neutron
A. R. Bulsara, S. B. Lowen, and C. D. Rees
pp. 4989-5000 [View Page Images or PDF (2,373 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Green’s function method for random fuse network problems
Ravi Bhagavatula, Kan Chen, C. Jayaprakash, and Huang-Jian Xu
pp. 5001-5006 [View Page Images or PDF (1,036 kB)]
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Stabilization of unstable steady states in an electrochemical system using derivative control
P. Parmananda, M. A. Rhode, G. A. Johnson, R. W. Rollins, H. D. Dewald, and A. J. Markworth
pp. 5007-5011 [View Page Images or PDF (851 kB)]
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Scaling and density of Lee-Yang zeros in the four-dimensional Ising model
R. Kenna and C. B. Lang
pp. 5012-5017 [View Page Images or PDF (975 kB)]
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Slow relaxation and phase space properties of a conservative system with many degrees of freedom
S. Flach and G. Mutschke
pp. 5018-5024 [View Page Images or PDF (1,246 kB)]
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Dynamics of strongly dissipative systems
H. P. Fang
pp. 5025-5031 [View Page Images or PDF (933 kB)]
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Markov chain analysis of random walks in disordered media
Sonali Mukherjee, Hisao Nakanishi, and Norman H. Fuchs
pp. 5032-5045 [View Page Images or PDF (2,283 kB)]
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Field-theory renormalization approach to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
Tao Sun and Michael Plischke
pp. 5046-5057 [View Page Images or PDF (1,546 kB)]
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Crossover from isotropic to directed percolation
Erwin Frey, Uwe Claus Täuber, and Franz Schwabl
pp. 5058-5072 [View Page Images or PDF (2,364 kB)]
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Stochastic lattice gas model for a predator-prey system
Javier E. Satulovsky and Tânia Tomé
pp. 5073-5079 [View Page Images or PDF (1,090 kB)]
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Metastable lifetimes in a kinetic Ising model: Dependence on field and system size
Per Arne Rikvold, H. Tomita, S. Miyashita, and Scott W. Sides
pp. 5080-5090 [View Page Images or PDF (2,080 kB)]
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Quantifying the closeness of fractal measures
Holger Kantz
pp. 5091-5097 [View Page Images or PDF (1,152 kB)]
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Semiclassical theory of activated diffusion
Yuri Georgievskii and Eli Pollak
pp. 5098-5102 [View Page Images or PDF (814 kB)]
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Classical model of bosons and fermions
G. Kaniadakis and P. Quarati
pp. 5103-5110 [View Page Images or PDF (1,311 kB)]
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Classical model of intermediate statistics
G. Kaniadakis
pp. 5111-5116 [View Page Images or PDF (773 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Solution of the Percus-Yevick equation for pair-correlation functions of molecular fluids
Jokhan Ram, Ram Chandra Singh, and Yashwant Singh
pp. 5117-5126 [View Page Images or PDF (1,354 kB)]
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Size and time dependence of the elastic constants of a two-dimensional solid near melting
Juan J. Morales
pp. 5127-5130 [View Page Images or PDF (705 kB)]
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Orientational and structural order in strongly interacting dipolar hard spheres
D. Levesque and J. J. Weis
pp. 5131-5140 [View Page Images or PDF (1,630 kB)]
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Rayleigh peak in a molecular fluid in the presence of a temperature gradient
M. Mayorga and R. M. Velasco
pp. 5141-5148 [View Page Images or PDF (1,135 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous random sequential adsorption with equilibrium initial conditions
L. Šamaj and J. K. Percus
pp. 5149-5157 [View Page Images or PDF (1,240 kB)]
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Confined Brownian motion
Luc P. Faucheux and Albert J. Libchaber
pp. 5158-5163 [View Page Images or PDF (881 kB)]
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Phase transitions in simple fluids: An application of a one-phase entropic criterion to Lennard-Jones and point Yukawa fluids
E. Lomba, J. L. López-Martín, H. M. Cataldo, and C. F. Tejero
pp. 5164-5168 [View Page Images or PDF (789 kB)]
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Phase transitions in a continuum model of the classical Heisenberg magnet: The ferromagnetic system
Enrique Lomba, Jean-Jacques Weis, Noe G. Almarza, Fernando Bresme, and George Stell
pp. 5169-5178 [View Page Images or PDF (1,514 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Synthetic turbulence
A. Juneja, D. P. Lathrop, K. R. Sreenivasan, and G. Stolovitzky
pp. 5179-5194 [View Page Images or PDF (2,695 kB)]
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Development of a turbulence model based on recursion renormalization group theory
Ye Zhou, George Vahala, and S. Thangam
pp. 5195-5206 [View Page Images or PDF (2,014 kB)]
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Complex spatiotemporal patterns in an open-flow reactor
Massimo Sangalli and Hsueh-Chia Chang
pp. 5207-5217 [View Page Images or PDF (2,108 kB)]
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Spatially forced corotating Taylor-Couette flow
Eliko Ikeda and Tony Maxworthy
pp. 5218-5224 [View Page Images or PDF (1,337 kB)]
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Experimental evidence of self-excited relaxation oscillations leading to homoclinic behavior in spreading flames
P. L. García-Ybarra, J. C. Antoranz, V. Sankovitch, and J. L. Castillo
pp. 5225-5229 [View Page Images or PDF (877 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Macroscopic and local orientational orders in nematic glass
V. K. Dolganov, R. Fouret, C. Gors, and M. More
pp. 5230-5233 [View Page Images or PDF (699 kB)]
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Relationship between dielectric properties and critical behavior of the electric birefringence in binary liquid mixtures
Sylwester J. Rzoska, Vittorio Degiorgio, and Mario Giardini
pp. 5234-5237 [View Page Images or PDF (603 kB)]
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Nature of the smectic-A–hexatic-B–crystal-E transitions in extremely thin films determined by optical reflectivity measurements
T. Stoebe and C. C. Huang
pp. 5238-5242 [View Page Images or PDF (793 kB)]
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Dynamics of incompressible fluid membranes
Georg Foltin
pp. 5243-5248 [View Page Images or PDF (723 kB)]
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Dependence of electrorheological response on conductivity and polarization time
M. Whittle, W. A. Bullough, D. J. Peel, and R. Firoozian
pp. 5249-5259 [View Page Images or PDF (1,862 kB)]
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Elastic equilibrium of curved thin films
D. J. Srolovitz, S. A. Safran, and R. Tenne
pp. 5260-5270 [View Page Images or PDF (2,008 kB)]
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Equilibrium shapes of a nematic–smectic-B liquid-crystal interface
Ágnes Buka, Tibor Tóth Katona, and Lorenz Kramer
pp. 5271-5275 [View Page Images or PDF (1,014 kB)]
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Scaling analysis of narrow necks in curvature models of fluid lipid-bilayer vesicles
Bertrand Fourcade, Ling Miao, Madan Rao, Michael Wortis, and R. K. P. Zia
pp. 5276-5286 [View Page Images or PDF (1,893 kB)]
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Multicomponent percolation: Probabilistic properties and application to nonisothermal reactions in granular materials
Massimiliano Giona and Alessandra Adrover
pp. 5287-5294 [View Page Images or PDF (1,299 kB)]
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Percolation phenomenon in ternary microemulsions: The effect of pressure
C. Boned, Z. Saidi, P. Xans, and J. Peyrelasse
pp. 5295-5302 [View Page Images or PDF (1,184 kB)]
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Electrophoresis of charged polymers: Simulation and scaling in a lattice model of reptation
G. T. Barkema, J. F. Marko, and B. Widom
pp. 5303-5309 [View Page Images or PDF (1,255 kB)]
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Critique of interatomic potentials obtained from neutron diffraction
R. A. Aziz, M. J. Slaman, and A. R. Janzen
pp. 5310-5315 [View Page Images or PDF (813 kB)]
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Surface-pressure-induced conformation changes of a polymer liquid crystal at the air-water interface
Yang-Ming Zhu, Zu-Hong Lu, and Yu Wei
pp. 5316-5318 [View Page Images or PDF (458 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic friction and the capacitance of arbitrarily shaped objects
Jack F. Douglas, Huan-Xiang Zhou, and Joseph B. Hubbard
pp. 5319-5331 [View Page Images or PDF (2,592 kB)]
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Resummation of higher-order terms in the free-energy density of nematic liquid crystals
S. Faetti
pp. 5332-5344 [View Page Images or PDF (2,419 kB)]
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Weighted-superposition approximation for x-ray and neutron reflectance
Xiao-Lin Zhou and Lei He
pp. 5345-5353 [View Page Images or PDF (1,247 kB)]
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Stochastic contribution to the anchoring energy: Deviation from the Rapini-Papoular expression
A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, G. Barbero, Z. Gabbasova, G. Sayko, and A. K. Zvezdin
pp. 5354-5358 [View Page Images or PDF (810 kB)]
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Surface effects on spinodal decomposition in binary mixtures and the interplay with wetting phenomena
Sanjay Puri and Kurt Binder
pp. 5359-5377 [View Page Images or PDF (3,217 kB)]
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Anchoring energy for nematic liquid crystals: Contribution from the spatial variation of the elastic constants
A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, R. Barberi, G. Barbero, and M. Giocondo
pp. 5378-5388 [View Page Images or PDF (1,349 kB)]
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Budding transitions of fluid-bilayer vesicles: The effect of area-difference elasticity
Ling Miao, Udo Seifert, Michael Wortis, and Hans-Günther Döbereiner
pp. 5389-5407 [View Page Images or PDF (3,552 kB)]
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Diffusing-wave spectroscopy of a flowing foam
J. C. Earnshaw and A. H. Jaafar
pp. 5408-5411 [View Page Images or PDF (629 kB)]
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Continuum model of mode-III crack propagation with surface friction
Hiizu Nakanishi
pp. 5412-5419 [View Page Images or PDF (1,027 kB)]
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Statics and dynamics of a polymer chain adsorbed on a surface: Monte Carlo simulation using the bond-fluctuation model
Pik-Yin Lai
pp. 5420-5430 [View Page Images or PDF (1,575 kB)]
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Scaling structure of tracer dispersion fronts in porous media
Aleksandar Birovljev, Knut Jørgen Måløy, Jens Feder, and Torstein Jøssang
pp. 5431-5437 [View Page Images or PDF (1,196 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of ionic colloids: Interparticle correlations and conformational equilibria in suspensions of polymer coated colloids
David Ronis
pp. 5438-5451 [View Page Images or PDF (2,164 kB)]
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Transient structures in the twist Fréedericksz transition of low-molecular-weight nematic liquid crystals
M. Grigutsch, N. Klöpper, H. Schmiedel, and R. Stannarius
pp. 5452-5461 [View Page Images or PDF (1,791 kB)]
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Random walk and directed movement: Comparison between inert particles and self-organized molecular machines
M. Schienbein, K. Franke, and H. Gruler
pp. 5462-5471 [View Page Images or PDF (1,785 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulations of a single polymer chain under an external force in two and three dimensions
M. Wittkop, J.-U. Sommer, S. Kreitmeier, and D. Göritz
pp. 5472-5476 [View Page Images or PDF (805 kB)]
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Directional solidification at high speed. I. Secondary instabilities
Klaus Kassner, Chaouqi Misbah, Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar, and Alexandre Valance
pp. 5477-5494 [View Page Images or PDF (3,276 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Directional solidification at high speed. II. Transition to chaos
Klaus Kassner, Chaouqi Misbah, Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar, and Alexandre Valance
pp. 5495-5516 [View Page Images or PDF (3,873 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Revised parametrization of the Dillmann-Meier theory of homogeneous nucleation
A. Laaksonen, I. J. Ford, and M. Kulmala
pp. 5517-5524 [View Page Images or PDF (1,285 kB)]
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Exactly solvable models of irreversible adsorption with particle spreading
D. Boyer, J. Talbot, G. Tarjus, P. Van Tassel, and P. Viot
pp. 5525-5534 [View Page Images or PDF (1,114 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Theory of plasmons in quasi-one-dimensional degenerate plasmas
M. Bonitz, R. Binder, D. C. Scott, S. W. Koch, and D. Kremp
pp. 5535-5545 [View Page Images or PDF (1,853 kB)]
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Attractors of dissipative structure in three dissipative fluids
Yoshiomi Kondoh
pp. 5546-5555 [View Page Images or PDF (1,618 kB)]
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Angularly resolved observations of sidescattered laser light from laser-produced plasmas
P. E. Young and K. G. Estabrook
pp. 5556-5564 [View Page Images or PDF (1,519 kB)]
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Temporal relaxation of excited-level populations of atoms and ions in a plasma: Validity range of the quasi-steady-state solution of coupled rate equations
Keiji Sawada and Takashi Fujimoto
pp. 5565-5573 [View Page Images or PDF (1,421 kB)]
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Simulation of negative-streamer dynamics in nitrogen
P. A. Vitello, B. M. Penetrante, and J. N. Bardsley
pp. 5574-5598 [View Page Images or PDF (4,220 kB)]
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Jeans instability of a dusty plasma
B. P. Pandey, K. Avinash, and C. B. Dwivedi
pp. 5599-5606 [View Page Images or PDF (1,231 kB)]
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Two-dimensional, hybrid model of low-pressure glow discharges
A. Fiala, L. C. Pitchford, and J. P. Boeuf
pp. 5607-5622 [View Page Images or PDF (2,994 kB)]
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Two-dimensional one-component plasma at coupling Γ=4: Numerical study of pair correlations
L. Šamaj, J. K. Percus, and M. Kolesík
pp. 5623-5627 [View Page Images or PDF (687 kB)]
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Characterization of laser plasmas for interaction studies
L. A. Gizzi, D. Giulietti, A. Giulietti, T. Afshar-Rad, V. Biancalana, P. Chessa, C. Danson, E. Schifano, S. M. Viana, and O. Willi
pp. 5628-5643 [View Page Images or PDF (3,192 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Plasma diagnostics with spectral profile calculations
L. Godbert, A. Calisti, R. Stamm, B. Talin, R. Lee, and L. Klein
pp. 5644-5651 [View Page Images or PDF (1,599 kB)]
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Space-resolved density diagnostic of a highly ionized holmium (Z=67) laser-produced plasma from 3d104l-3d104l’ Cu i–like lines
P. Mandelbaum, E. Behar, J. F. Seely, U. Feldman, C. M. Brown, B. A. Hammel, C. A. Back, R. W. Lee, D. R. Kania, and A. Bar-Shalom
pp. 5652-5655 [View Page Images or PDF (581 kB)]
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Generation of ultrafast electrons by simultaneous stimulated Raman backward and forward scattering
P. Bertrand, A. Ghizzo, S. J. Karttunen, T. J. H. Pättikangas, R. R. E. Salomaa, and M. Shoucri
pp. 5656-5659 [View Page Images or PDF (718 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Compensation of time-dependent persistent current effects in superconducting synchrotrons
D. A. Herrup, W. Kinney, M. J. Lamm, and A. Mokhtarani
pp. 5660-5667 [View Page Images or PDF (1,408 kB)]
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Dynamical behavior of a free-electron laser operating with a prebunched electron beam
G. Dattoli, L. Giannessi, P. L. Ottaviani, and A. Torre
pp. 5668-5678 [View Page Images or PDF (1,232 kB)]
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Nonlinear properties of the Kapchinskij-Vladimirskij equilibrium and envelope equation for an intense charged-particle beam in a periodic focusing field
Chiping Chen and Ronald C. Davidson
pp. 5679-5687 [View Page Images or PDF (1,392 kB)]
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Model for negative-ion extraction, acceleration, and beam transport
C. Michaut
pp. 5688-5696 [View Page Images or PDF (1,528 kB)]
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Effects of tune modulation on particles trapped in one-dimensional resonance islands
Y. Wang et al.
pp. 5697-5705 [View Page Images or PDF (1,519 kB)]
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Single particle dynamics at synchro-betatron coupling resonances
S. Y. Lee
pp. 5706-5716 [View Page Images or PDF (1,704 kB)]
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Parametric resonances in synchrotrons with two rf systems
S. Y. Lee, D. D. Caussyn, M. Ellison, K. Hedblom, H. Huang, D. Li, J. Y. Liu, K. Y. Ng, A. Riabko, and Y. T. Yan
pp. 5717-5721 [View Page Images or PDF (818 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Time-dependent Beltrami fields in free space: Dyadic Green functions and radiation potentials
W. S. Weiglhofer and A. Lakhtakia
pp. 5722-5725 [View Page Images or PDF (591 kB)]
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Exact N-soliton solutions of the extended nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Shan-liang Liu and Wen-zheng Wang
pp. 5726-5730 [View Page Images or PDF (576 kB)]
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Approximate interacting solitary wave solutions for a pair of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations
J. C. Bhakta
pp. 5731-5741 [View Page Images or PDF (882 kB)]
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Dynamics of solitonlike pulse propagation in birefringent optical fibers
Nail Akhmediev and J. M. Soto-Crespo
pp. 5742-5754 [View Page Images or PDF (2,182 kB)]
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Directed waves in random media: An analytical calculation
Richard Friedberg and Yi-Kuo Yu
pp. 5755-5762 [View Page Images or PDF (755 kB)]
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Soliton dynamics in periodically modulated directional couplers
P. L. Chu, B. A. Malomed, G. D. Peng, and I. M. Skinner
pp. 5763-5767 [View Page Images or PDF (834 kB)]
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Structure of domain walls in an oscillator array
Joseph Rudnick
pp. 5768-5777 [View Page Images or PDF (1,478 kB)]
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Polarization properties of Maxwell-Gaussian laser beams
W. L. Erikson and Surendra Singh
pp. 5778-5786 [View Page Images or PDF (1,537 kB)]
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Vibration modes of a gap soliton in a nonlinear optical medium
Boris A. Malomed and Richard S. Tasgal
pp. 5787-5796 [View Page Images or PDF (1,287 kB)]
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Analytical theory of zone plate efficiency
V. E. Levashov and A. V. Vinogradov
pp. 5797-5803 [View Page Images or PDF (836 kB)]
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Topological solitons in polyethylene crystals
Fei Zhang and Michael A. Collins
pp. 5804-5811 [View Page Images or PDF (1,152 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Capacity of the multilayer perceptron with discrete synaptic couplings
Kazuo Nokura
pp. 5812-5822 [View Page Images or PDF (1,465 kB)]
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Information processing of a complex system: Response behaviors specified by the Weierstrass function
Hiroaki Hara, Tunehiro Obata, and Junji Koyama
pp. 5823-5829 [View Page Images or PDF (881 kB)]
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Computation by symmetry operations in a structured model of the brain: Recognition of rotational invariance and time reversal
John V. McGrann, Gordon L. Shaw, Krishna V. Shenoy, Xiaodan Leng, and Robert B. Mathews
pp. 5830-5839 [View Page Images or PDF (1,758 kB)]
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Critical phenomena in self-organizing feature maps: Ginzburg-Landau approach
R. Der and M. Herrmann
pp. 5840-5848 [View Page Images or PDF (1,283 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Dynamical growth rate of a diffuse interface in first-order phase transitions
Raju Venugopalan and Axel P. Vischer
pp. 5849-5852 [View Page Images or PDF (589 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Analysis of anomalous diffusion in the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
Xiao-Hong Wang and Ke-Lin Wang
pp. 5853-5854 [View Page Images or PDF (224 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance as crisis
T. Kapitaniak
pp. 5855-5858 [View Page Images or PDF (496 kB)]
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Persistent correlations in the motion of a Brownian particle interacting with a finite-size random environment
A. Yu. Smirnov and A. A. Dubkov
pp. 5859-5862 [View Page Images or PDF (577 kB)]
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Characterization of the attractor governing the neon bulb RC relaxation oscillator
M. L. Petrani, Ch. Karakotsou, I. M. Kyprianidis, and A. N. Anagnostopoulos
pp. 5863-5866 [View Page Images or PDF (448 kB)]
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Survival probability with random-force-dominated dynamics in the presence of traps
D. Arora, D. P. Bhatia, and M. A. Prasad
pp. 5867-5870 [View Page Images or PDF (442 kB)]
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Phase transitions in a nonequilibrium Potts model: A Monte Carlo study of critical behavior
Kevin E. Bassler and R. K. P. Zia
pp. 5871-5874 [View Page Images or PDF (693 kB)]
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Formation of shocks and breakup of wave patterns in anisotropic excitable media
Alexander Mikhailov
pp. 5875-5877 [View Page Images or PDF (490 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Solvent Stokes-Einstein violation in aqueous protein solutions
R. Lamanna, M. Delmelle, and S. Cannistraro
pp. 5878-5880 [View Page Images or PDF (588 kB)]
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Separation ratio, Dufour number, and advection-diffusion equations of Lorentz gas mixtures
Stefan J. Linz
pp. 5881-5884 [View Page Images or PDF (589 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Simple model of trapping electrophoresis with complicated transient dynamics
Claude Desruisseaux and Gary W. Slater
pp. 5885-5888 [View Page Images or PDF (698 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Plasma spectroscopy of n=4 to 3 C iv and N v lines in hot and dense plasmas
L. Godbert, A. Calisti, R. Stamm, B. Talin, S. Glenzer, H.-J. Kunze, J. Nash, R. Lee, and L. Klein
pp. 5889-5892 [View Page Images or PDF (650 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Gap solitons in damped and parametrically driven nonlinear diatomic lattices
Guoxiang Huang
pp. 5893-5896 [View Page Images or PDF (591 kB)]
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Canonical transformation between integrable Hénon-Heiles systems
M. Salerno, V. Z. Enol’skii, and D. V. Leykin
pp. 5897-5899 [View Page Images or PDF (343 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Evolution and extinction of families in cellular automata
György Szabó and István Borsos
pp. 5900-5902 [View Page Images or PDF (508 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Fractal study of tertiary structure of proteins’’
Yi Xiao
pp. 5903-5905 [View Page Images or PDF (432 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Strongly localized gap solitons in diatomic lattices
Oksana A. Chubykalo and Yuri S. Kivshar
pp. 5906 [View Page Images or PDF (80 kB)]
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Erratum: Order-parameter flow in the fully connected Hopfield model near saturation
A. C. C. Coolen and D. Sherrington
pp. 5906 [View Page Images or PDF (80 kB)]