Physical Review E – August 1994
Volume 50, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Dynamic fuse model for electromigration failure of polycrystalline metal films
R. Mark Bradley and Kang Wu
pp. R631-R634 [View Page Images or PDF (728 kB)]
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Lacunarity, fractal, and magnetic transition behaviors in a generalized Eden growth process
N. Vandewalle and M. Ausloos
pp. R635-R638 [View Page Images or PDF (555 kB)]
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Width distribution for random-walk interfaces
G. Foltin, K. Oerding, Z. Rácz, R. L. Workman, and R. K. P. Zia
pp. R639-R642 [View Page Images or PDF (590 kB)]
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Scaling theory of depinning in the Sneppen model
Sergei Maslov and Maya Paczuski
pp. R643-R646 [View Page Images or PDF (651 kB)]
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Some simple chaotic flows
J. C. Sprott
pp. R647-R650 [View Page Images or PDF (650 kB)]
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Optimization by multicanonical annealing and the traveling salesman problem
Jooyoung Lee and M. Y. Choi
pp. R651-R654 [View Page Images or PDF (804 kB)]
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Rate concept and retarded master equations for dissipative tight-binding models
R. Egger, C. H. Mak, and U. Weiss
pp. R655-R658 [View Page Images or PDF (655 kB)]
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Parametric S-matrix fluctuations in the quantum theory of chaotic scattering
A. M. S. Macêdo
pp. R659-R662 [View Page Images or PDF (730 kB)]
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Time-dependent gradients of growing interfaces
G. Poupart and G. Zumofen
pp. R663-R666 [View Page Images or PDF (545 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Elastic excitable medium
A. P. Muñuzuri, C. Innocenti, J.-M. Flesselles, J.-M. Gilli, K. I. Agladze, and V. I. Krinsky
pp. R667-R670 [View Page Images or PDF (598 kB)]
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Scale similarity of the velocity structure functions in fully developed magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Vincenzo Carbone
pp. R671-R674 [View Page Images or PDF (692 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Small-angle neutron-scattering study of dense sheared silica gels
C. D. Muzny, G. C. Straty, and H. J. M. Hanley
pp. R675-R678 [View Page Images or PDF (625 kB)]
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Energy spectra of quasiperiodic systems via information entropy
Enrique Maciá, Francisco Domínguez-Adame, and Angel Sánchez
pp. R679-R682 [View Page Images or PDF (809 kB)]
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Free-energy profiles and scaling in polymer brushes
J. Scott Shaffer
pp. R683-R686 [View Page Images or PDF (643 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Relativistic self-focusing and channel formation in laser-plasma interactions
Burke Ritchie
pp. R687-R689 [View Page Images or PDF (495 kB)]
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X-ray reemission from CH foils heated by laser-generated intense thermal radiation
I. B. Földes, K. Eidmann, Th. Löwer, J. Massen, R. Sigel, G. D. Tsakiris, S. Witkowski, H. Nishimura, T. Endo, H. Shiraga, M. Takagi, Y. Kato, and S. Nakai
pp. R690-R693 [View Page Images or PDF (727 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Moving solitons in the damped Ablowitz-Ladik model driven by a standing wave
David Cai, A.R. Bishop, Niels Grønbech-Jensen, and Boris A. Malomed
pp. R694-R697 [View Page Images or PDF (799 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Structure in the electric potential emanating from DNA
Glenn Edwards, David Hochberg, and Thomas W. Kephart
pp. R698-R701 [View Page Images or PDF (593 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Parametrically driven microparticle in the presence of a stationary zero-mean stochastic source: Model for thermal equilibrium in the Paul trap
Alexander F. Izmailov, Stephen Arnold, and Allan S. Myerson
pp. 702-708 [View Page Images or PDF (1,083 kB)]
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Mean-field Monte Carlo approach to the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with asymmetric couplings
H. Eissfeller and M. Opper
pp. 709-720 [View Page Images or PDF (1,595 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics of molecular motions based on a functional method
A. K. Rajagopal and F. A. Buot
pp. 721-726 [View Page Images or PDF (899 kB)]
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Suppression of deterministic diffusion by noise
Peter Reimann
pp. 727-735 [View Page Images or PDF (1,575 kB)]
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Localized structures and front propagation in the Lengyel-Epstein model
O. Jensen, V. O. Pannbacker, E. Mosekilde, G. Dewel, and P. Borckmans
pp. 736-749 [View Page Images or PDF (3,246 kB)]
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Inhibition of chaos in Hamiltonian systems by periodic pulses
Ricardo Chacón
pp. 750-753 [View Page Images or PDF (617 kB)]
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Fractal characterization of two-dimensional aluminum corrosion fronts
Terje Holten, Torstein Jøssang, Paul Meakin, and Jens Feder
pp. 754-759 [View Page Images or PDF (994 kB)]
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First-order kinetic phase transitions in simple reactions on solid surfaces: Nucleation and growth of the stable phase
V. P. Zhdanov
pp. 760-763 [View Page Images or PDF (587 kB)]
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Wave-packet initial motion, spreading, and energy in the periodically kicked pendulum
Boon Leong Lan
pp. 764-769 [View Page Images or PDF (967 kB)]
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Thermally activated escape over time-modulated fluctuating barriers
William Schneller, Leon Gunther, and David L. Weaver
pp. 770-773 [View Page Images or PDF (578 kB)]
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Selection of length distributions in living polymers
A. C. Maggs, D. Mukamel, and C. A. Pillet
pp. 774-779 [View Page Images or PDF (798 kB)]
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Road to fractals in a Yang-Mills system
Marcel Wellner
pp. 780-789 [View Page Images or PDF (1,465 kB)]
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Kac’s solution of the telegrapher’s equation for tunneling time analysis: An application of the wavelet formalism
D. Mugnai, A. Ranfagni, R. Ruggeri, and A. Agresti
pp. 790-797 [View Page Images or PDF (1,243 kB)]
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Generating functional approach to space- and time-dependent colored noise
Marcel O. Vlad, Michael C. Mackey, and John Ross
pp. 798-821 [View Page Images or PDF (3,194 kB)]
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Kinetics of clustering in traffic flows
E. Ben-Naim, P. L. Krapivsky, and S. Redner
pp. 822-829 [View Page Images or PDF (1,349 kB)]
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Long-range correlations in degenerate multicomponent systems of charged fermions
Fernando Vericat and Augusto A. Melgarejo
pp. 830-837 [View Page Images or PDF (1,022 kB)]
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Energy localization and delocalization in a nonlinear chain on a substrate
Y. Braiman, I. Goldhirsch, and J. Klafter
pp. 838-842 [View Page Images or PDF (638 kB)]
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Statistical cycling in coupled map lattices
Jérôme Losson and Michael C. Mackey
pp. 843-856 [View Page Images or PDF (2,476 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Influence of boundary reflection and refraction on diffusive photon transport
D. J. Durian
pp. 857-866 [View Page Images or PDF (1,898 kB)]
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Crumpled phases of self-avoiding randomly polymerized membranes
Shintaro Mori and Miki Wadati
pp. 867-875 [View Page Images or PDF (1,256 kB)]
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Symmetry in phase space for a system with a singular higher-order Lagrangian
Zi-ping Li
pp. 876-887 [View Page Images or PDF (1,918 kB)]
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Chaos and quantum thermalization
Mark Srednicki
pp. 888-901 [View Page Images or PDF (2,410 kB)]
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Floquet analysis of quantum resonance in a driven nonlinear system
Ju-Yong Shin and Hai-Woong Lee
pp. 902-909 [View Page Images or PDF (1,415 kB)]
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Quasienergy-band structure of a periodically driven system with translational symmetry
Syuji Miyazaki and Andrey R. Kolovsky
pp. 910-916 [View Page Images or PDF (1,154 kB)]
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Solid-on-solid models of molecular-beam epitaxy
Martin Siegert and Michael Plischke
pp. 917-931 [View Page Images or PDF (2,693 kB)]
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Controlling chaos experimentally in systems exhibiting large effective Lyapunov exponents
B. Hübinger, R. Doerner, W. Martienssen, M. Herdering, R. Pitka, and U. Dressler
pp. 932-948 [View Page Images or PDF (2,941 kB)]
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Exact long-time behavior of a network of phase oscillators under random fields
A. Arenas and C. J. Pérez Vicente
pp. 949-956 [View Page Images or PDF (1,081 kB)]
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Exact solutions for stochastic adsorption-desorption models and catalytic surface processes
M. D. Grynberg, T. J. Newman, and R. B. Stinchcombe
pp. 957-971 [View Page Images or PDF (2,222 kB)]
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Hypersensitivity to perturbation in the quantum kicked top
Rüdiger Schack, Giacomo M. D’Ariano, and Carlton M. Caves
pp. 972-987 [View Page Images or PDF (2,629 kB)]
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Generalized Markov coarse graining and spectral decompositions of chaotic piecewise linear maps
D. MacKernan and G. Nicolis
pp. 988-999 [View Page Images or PDF (1,981 kB)]
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Stick-slip dynamics in the relaxation of stresses in a continuous elastic medium
Miguel A. Rubio and Javier Galeano
pp. 1000-1004 [View Page Images or PDF (890 kB)]
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Numerical study of a morphology diagram in the large undercooling limit using a phase-field model
Raz Kupferman, Ofer Shochet, and Eshel Ben-Jacob
pp. 1005-1008 [View Page Images or PDF (787 kB)]
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Scaling laws and simulation results for the self-organized critical forest-fire model
S. Clar, B. Drossel, and F. Schwabl
pp. 1009-1018 [View Page Images or PDF (1,636 kB)]
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Simple model for quantum chaos
Jaewan Kim and Wu-Pei Su
pp. 1019-1023 [View Page Images or PDF (782 kB)]
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Two-loop renormalization-group analysis of the Burgers–Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
Erwin Frey and Uwe Claus Täuber
pp. 1024-1045 [View Page Images or PDF (3,463 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Scaling and crossover in the large-N model for growth kinetics
A. Coniglio, P. Ruggiero, and M. Zannetti
pp. 1046-1061 [View Page Images or PDF (2,166 kB)]
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Estimation of a Lyapunov-exponent spectrum of plasma chaos
W. Huang, W. X. Ding, D. L. Feng, and C. X. Yu
pp. 1062-1069 [View Page Images or PDF (1,404 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of attractor enlargement
K. G. Szabó and T. Tél
pp. 1070-1082 [View Page Images or PDF (2,217 kB)]
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Absence of chaos in a self-organized critical coupled map lattice
Ákos Csilling, Imre M. Jánosi, Gabriella Pásztor, and István Scheuring
pp. 1083-1092 [View Page Images or PDF (1,539 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Eigenspectrum and localization for diffusion with traps
Achille Giacometti and Hisao Nakanishi
pp. 1093-1099 [View Page Images or PDF (1,054 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Passage rates of propagating interfaces in randomly advected media and heterogeneous media
Alan R. Kerstein and Wm. T. Ashurst
pp. 1100-1113 [View Page Images or PDF (2,857 kB)]
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Current-current correlation function in a driven diffusive system with nonconserving noise
V. Becker and H. K. Janssen
pp. 1114-1122 [View Page Images or PDF (1,039 kB)]
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Winding-angle distribution for Brownian and self-avoiding walks
Hubert Saleur
pp. 1123-1128 [View Page Images or PDF (859 kB)]
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Damage spreading in the Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model
Ezequiel V. Albano
pp. 1129-1134 [View Page Images or PDF (978 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Binary-collision contributions to atomic motions in fluids
K. N. Pathak, S. Ranganathan, and R. E. Johnson
pp. 1135-1143 [View Page Images or PDF (1,286 kB)]
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Transport in a random medium with spatial correlations
B. Gaveau, M. A. Gaveau, A. Mogutov, and M. Moreau
pp. 1144-1150 [View Page Images or PDF (846 kB)]
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Structure of confined adhesive fluids: A Monte Carlo study
A. Jamnik and D. Bratko
pp. 1151-1161 [View Page Images or PDF (1,881 kB)]
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Self- and cross-velocity correlation functions and diffusion coefficients in liquids: A molecular dynamics study of binary mixtures of soft spheres
J. Trullàs and J. A. Padró
pp. 1162-1170 [View Page Images or PDF (1,304 kB)]
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Interplay of reaction and transport in a perfect fluid
Damián H. Zanette
pp. 1171-1183 [View Page Images or PDF (2,278 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Sound propagation in magnetic fluids
Katja Henjes
pp. 1184-1188 [View Page Images or PDF (901 kB)]
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Periodic states in intermittent pipe flows: Experiment and model
Dimitris Stassinopoulos, Jun Zhang, Preben Alstrøm, and Mogens T. Levinsen
pp. 1189-1193 [View Page Images or PDF (725 kB)]
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Wave number selection in convection and related problems
Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy, Michael I. Tribelsky, and Manuel G. Velarde
pp. 1194-1197 [View Page Images or PDF (579 kB)]
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Marangoni convection in binary liquids
Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee
pp. 1198-1205 [View Page Images or PDF (832 kB)]
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Vortex filament stability and boundary layer dynamics
Henry D. I. Abarbanel, A. Garrett Lisi, A. Rouhi, and J. A. Wright
pp. 1206-1218 [View Page Images or PDF (1,825 kB)]
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Pattern selection at the onset of Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a horizontal shear flow
Morten Tveitereid and Hanns Walter Müller
pp. 1219-1226 [View Page Images or PDF (1,405 kB)]
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Hamilton-Lagrange formalism of nonequilibrium thermodynamics
Katalin Gambár and Ferenc Márkus
pp. 1227-1231 [View Page Images or PDF (679 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Brownian dynamics of hard spherocylinders
Hartmut Löwen
pp. 1232-1242 [View Page Images or PDF (1,907 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulations of phase separation in the presence of surfactants
Mohamed Laradji, Ole G. Mouritsen, Søren Toxvaerd, and Martin J. Zuckermann
pp. 1243-1252 [View Page Images or PDF (1,837 kB)]
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Alternative method of investigating surface torsional anchoring energy for pure nematic liquid crystals
Sun Ruipeng, Huang Ximin, Ma Kai, Wang Zongkai, and Jiang Min
pp. 1253-1256 [View Page Images or PDF (440 kB)]
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Elastic response of the Dirac chain
A. Kholodenko and T. Vilgis
pp. 1257-1264 [View Page Images or PDF (1,084 kB)]
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Fluctuating hydrodynamics and diffusion in amorphous solids
Shankar P. Das and Rolf Schilling
pp. 1265-1273 [View Page Images or PDF (1,565 kB)]
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Viscoelasticity of concentrated dispersions
T. S. Chow
pp. 1274-1279 [View Page Images or PDF (787 kB)]
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Vapor-liquid phase equilibrium in random microporous matrices
David M. Ford and Eduardo D. Glandt
pp. 1280-1286 [View Page Images or PDF (1,132 kB)]
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Order parameter in the vicinity of the double critical point of stratification
I. I. Shinder, P. K. Khabibullaev, T. Kh. Akhmedov, and S. V. Tregulov
pp. 1287-1290 [View Page Images or PDF (591 kB)]
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Application of the dynamical droplet model to critical nonionic amphiphile-water micellar solutions
E. Ducros, S. Haouache, J. Rouch, K. Hamano, K. Fukuhara, and P. Tartaglia
pp. 1291-1298 [View Page Images or PDF (1,507 kB)]
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Dimple and nose coalescences in phase-separation processes
D. Beysens, P. Guenoun, P. Sibille, and Anil Kumar
pp. 1299-1302 [View Page Images or PDF (576 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of proteins with ‘‘evolutionary selected’’ sequences
Sharad Ramanathan and Eugene Shakhnovich
pp. 1303-1312 [View Page Images or PDF (1,537 kB)]
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Percolation phenomenon on fluorinated perfluoropolyether water in oil microemulsions: The effect of temperature
M. Grazia Giri, Marcello Carlà, Cecilia M. C. Gambi, Donatella Senatra, A. Chittofrati, and A. Sanguineti
pp. 1313-1316 [View Page Images or PDF (782 kB)]
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Extraction of the bridge function for simple liquids from a molecular dynamics simulation and its application for correcting the pair distribution function
Shaw Kambayashi and Junzo Chihara
pp. 1317-1324 [View Page Images or PDF (1,348 kB)]
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Fluctuating interfaces in microemulsion and sponge phases
G. Gompper and J. Goos
pp. 1325-1335 [View Page Images or PDF (1,560 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Molecular-dynamics simulation on simple fluids: Departure from linearized hydrodynamic behavior of the dynamical structure factor
E. Enciso, N. G. Almarza, V. del Prado, F. J. Bermejo, E. López Zapata, and M. Ujaldón
pp. 1336-1340 [View Page Images or PDF (816 kB)]
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Low-frequency ac electrical resistivity of liquid gallium and its relationship with the dynamic structure factor
F. J. Bermejo, L. Férnandez-Barquín, J. García Soldevilla, D. Gómez Plaza, and J. C. Gómez-Sal
pp. 1341-1348 [View Page Images or PDF (1,621 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Mean shape of three-dimensional dendrites: A comparison of pivalic acid and ammonium chloride
Andrew Dougherty and Asela Gunawardana
pp. 1349-1352 [View Page Images or PDF (680 kB)]
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Influence of global coupling through the gas phase on the dynamics of CO oxidation on Pt(110)
M. Falcke and H. Engel
pp. 1353-1359 [View Page Images or PDF (1,007 kB)]
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Studies of aggregation kinetics of polystyrene latices sterically stabilized by poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)
Peng Wei Zhu and Donald H. Napper
pp. 1360-1366 [View Page Images or PDF (1,243 kB)]
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Fractal to nonfractal behavior of vapor-deposited gold surfaces and the relationship to the substrate temperature
J. L. Zubimendi, M. E. Vela, R. C. Salvarezza, L. Vázquez, J. M. Vara, and A. J. Arvia
pp. 1367-1371 [View Page Images or PDF (729 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Nucleation of long-range order in quenched Yukawa plasmas
J. E. Hammerberg, B. L. Holian, and R. Ravelo
pp. 1372-1375 [View Page Images or PDF (780 kB)]
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Soft-x-ray amplification in a capillary discharge
Hyun-Joon Shin, Dong-Eon Kim, and Tong-Nyong Lee
pp. 1376-1382 [View Page Images or PDF (1,240 kB)]
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Absorption spectroscopy on the argon first excited state in an expanding thermal arc plasma
A. J. M. Buuron, D. K. Otorbaev, M. C. M. van de Sanden, and D. C. Schram
pp. 1383-1393 [View Page Images or PDF (2,028 kB)]
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Dependence of turbulent mixing on the initial roughness in the evaporation front with continuous density profile at the interface
V. E. Neuvazhayev
pp. 1394-1398 [View Page Images or PDF (688 kB)]
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Electric field strengths, ion energy distributions, and ion density decay for low-pressure, moderate-current nitrogen discharges
Jacek Borysow and A. V. Phelps
pp. 1399-1412 [View Page Images or PDF (2,739 kB)]
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Fokker-Planck simulations of short-pulse-laser–solid experiments
R. P. J. Town, A. R. Bell, and S. J. Rose
pp. 1413-1421 [View Page Images or PDF (1,266 kB)]
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Scattering of electromagnetic waves in dusty plasmas with variable charges on dust particles
Sergey V. Vladimirov
pp. 1422-1426 [View Page Images or PDF (640 kB)]
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Effect of longitudinal modulation of Alfvén wave filamentation
Thierry Passot, Catherine Sulem, and Pierre-Louis Sulem
pp. 1427-1436 [View Page Images or PDF (1,336 kB)]
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Numerical analysis of quasiperiodic perturbations for the Alfvén wave
Y. Yamakoshi, K. Muto, and Z. Yoshida
pp. 1437-1443 [View Page Images or PDF (939 kB)]
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Renormalization-group theory of plasma microturbulence
D. Carati, K. Chriaa, and R. Balescu
pp. 1444-1457 [View Page Images or PDF (2,539 kB)]
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Exponentially temporally growing magnetic moment field of stimulated Brillouin scattering in plasma
Susmita Sarkar, B. Chakraborty, and Manoranjan Khan
pp. 1458-1464 [View Page Images or PDF (973 kB)]
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Near-equilibrium multiple-wave plasma states
Mark Buchanan and J. Dorning
pp. 1465-1478 [View Page Images or PDF (2,604 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Diagnostics of an electron beam of a linear accelerator using coherent transition radiation
Yukio Shibata, Toshiharu Takahashi, Toshinobu Kanai, Kimihiro Ishi, Mikihiko Ikezawa, Juzo Ohkuma, Shuichi Okuda, and Toichi Okada
pp. 1479-1484 [View Page Images or PDF (1,002 kB)]
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Effect of a polarized hydrogen target on the polarization of a stored proton beam
H. O. Meyer
pp. 1485-1490 [View Page Images or PDF (1,038 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Microwave inverse free-electron-laser accelerator using a small ‘‘phase window’’
T. B. Zhang and T. C. Marshall
pp. 1491-1495 [View Page Images or PDF (721 kB)]
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Radial focusing of a relativistic electron beam in a bipotential electrostatic lens
T. C. Genoni
pp. 1496-1500 [View Page Images or PDF (561 kB)]
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Longitudinal and transverse impedance of an iris in a beam pipe
Hiromi Okamoto, Shicheng Jiang, and Robert L. Gluckstern
pp. 1501-1515 [View Page Images or PDF (1,697 kB)]
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Fokker-Planck approach to the dynamics of mismatched charged-particle beams
C. L. Bohn and J. R. Delayen
pp. 1516-1534 [View Page Images or PDF (2,593 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Resonant splitting of a vector soliton in a periodically inhomogeneous birefringent optical fiber
Boris A. Malomed and Noel F. Smyth
pp. 1535-1542 [View Page Images or PDF (1,428 kB)]
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Coupled higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equations in nonlinear optics: Painlevé analysis and integrability
K. Porsezian, P. Shanmugha Sundaram, and A. Mahalingam
pp. 1543-1547 [View Page Images or PDF (562 kB)]
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Analytical one-dimensional model to study the ultrasonic precursor generated by a laser
Marc Dubois, Franck Enguehard, and Lionel Bertrand
pp. 1548-1551 [View Page Images or PDF (612 kB)]
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Envelope soliton propagation in media with temporally modulated dispersion
F. Kh. Abdullaev, J. G. Caputo, and Nikos Flytzanis
pp. 1552-1558 [View Page Images or PDF (868 kB)]
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Generalized Euler equations for linked rigid bodies
Gerald R. Kneller and Konrad Hinsen
pp. 1559-1564 [View Page Images or PDF (771 kB)]
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Optical domain walls
Boris A. Malomed
pp. 1565-1571 [View Page Images or PDF (1,294 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Forced Bonhoeffer–van der Pol oscillator in its excited mode
A. Rabinovitch, R. Thieberger, and M. Friedman
pp. 1572-1578 [View Page Images or PDF (1,080 kB)]
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Phase diagram of microtubules
Deborah Kuchnir Fygenson, Erez Braun, and Albert Libchaber
pp. 1579-1588 [View Page Images or PDF (1,851 kB)]
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Dynamical and critical behavior of a simple discrete model of the cellular immune system
A. Brass, A. J. Bancroft, M. E. Clamp, R. K. Grencis, and K. J. Else
pp. 1589-1593 [View Page Images or PDF (907 kB)]
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Oscillations, complex spatiotemporal behavior, and information transport in networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons
Alain Destexhe
pp. 1594-1606 [View Page Images or PDF (2,308 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Pseudorandom number generator for massively parallel molecular-dynamics simulations
Brad Lee Holian, Ora E. Percus, Tony T. Warnock, and Paula A. Whitlock
pp. 1607-1615 [View Page Images or PDF (1,083 kB)]
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Boundary conditions for the Schrödinger equation in the numerical simulation of quantum systems
Marco Patriarca
pp. 1616-1622 [View Page Images or PDF (1,037 kB)]
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Parallel simulation of the Ising model
G. T. Barkema and T. MacFarland
pp. 1623-1628 [View Page Images or PDF (1,072 kB)]
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Simulation of phase ordering kinetics in conserved scalar systems with long-range interactions
Takamitsu Ishihara and Hisao Hayakawa
pp. 1629-1634 [View Page Images or PDF (941 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Effect of a chirp on soliton production
D. J. Kaup, J. El-Reedy, and Boris A. Malomed
pp. 1635-1637 [View Page Images or PDF (413 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Intermittency in a stochastic birth-death model
Damián Zanette and Alexander Mikhailov
pp. 1638-1641 [View Page Images or PDF (611 kB)]
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Synchronization of chaos using continuous control
T. Kapitaniak
pp. 1642-1644 [View Page Images or PDF (397 kB)]
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Equilibrium microstates which generate second law violating steady states
Denis J. Evans and Debra J. Searles
pp. 1645-1648 [View Page Images or PDF (744 kB)]
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Crossover region in the aggregation of colloids
A. Di Biasio, G. Bolle, C. Cametti, P. Codastefano, F. Sciortino, and P. Tartaglia
pp. 1649-1652 [View Page Images or PDF (696 kB)]
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Bifurcations of homoclinic orbits in bimodal maps
Kai T. Hansen
pp. 1653-1656 [View Page Images or PDF (588 kB)]
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Langevin equations for continuous time Lévy flights
Hans C. Fogedby
pp. 1657-1660 [View Page Images or PDF (680 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Dynamics of curved domain boundaries in convection patterns
A. Hari and A. A. Nepomnyashchy
pp. 1661-1664 [View Page Images or PDF (503 kB)]
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Küppers-Lortz instability in a rapidly rotating inviscid magnetoconvection
P. Murali, S. G. Tagare, and P. V. Hanumantha Ravi
pp. 1665-1667 [View Page Images or PDF (381 kB)]
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Lower bound for transport for passive advection
Chang-Bae Kim and Taek-Jin Yang
pp. 1668-1671 [View Page Images or PDF (632 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Water content in micelles and the Laplace formula
Victor A. Kuz and Fernando Vericat
pp. 1672-1673 [View Page Images or PDF (278 kB)]
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Surface-induced nucleation
Gregory Brown, Amitabha Chakrabarti, and J. F. Marko
pp. 1674-1677 [View Page Images or PDF (1,103 kB)]
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Micellar growth in hexagonal phases of lipid systems
Paolo Mariani and Lia Q. Amaral
pp. 1678-1681 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]
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Frequency shift of a quartz crystal oscillator bounded by a self-affine fractal rough surface in contact with a liquid
George Palasantzas
pp. 1682-1685 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]
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Nematic liquid crystals between antagonistic cylinders: Spirals with bend-splay director undulations
D. R. M. Williams
pp. 1686-1687 [View Page Images or PDF (312 kB)]
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Orientation symmetry breakings in shearing liquid crystals
W. H. Han and A. D. Rey
pp. 1688-1691 [View Page Images or PDF (752 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Stationary convection in a cylindrical plasma
L. Gomberoff
pp. 1692-1694 [View Page Images or PDF (387 kB)]
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Solitary electrostatic waves in a thin plasma slab
O. M. Gradov and L. Stenflo
pp. 1695-1696 [View Page Images or PDF (235 kB)]
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Nonlocal electron transport in the presence of high-intensity laser irradiation
E. M. Epperlein and R. W. Short
pp. 1697-1699 [View Page Images or PDF (505 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Weak chaos in one-dimensional quantum transport: The 1/f2 law and the breakdown of the law of large numbers
K. Nakamura, T. Haga, and Y. Takane
pp. 1700-1703 [View Page Images or PDF (530 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Model for an enzymatic reaction-diffusion system realizing storage of graded information
Hiroshi Okamoto and Kazuhisa Ichikawa
pp. 1704-1707 [View Page Images or PDF (659 kB)]
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Period-doubling bifurcations and chaos in the decremental propagation of a spike train in excitable media
Yo Horikawa
pp. 1708-1710 [View Page Images or PDF (391 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Reexamination of the depolarized-light-scattering spectra of glass-forming liquids
Xiao Cheng Zeng, Daniel Kivelson, and Gilles Tarjus
pp. 1711-1716 [View Page Images or PDF (1,085 kB)]
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Comment on ‘‘Light-scattering investigation of α and β relaxation near the liquid-glass transition of the molecular glass Salol’’
Paul K. Dixon, Narayanan Menon, and Sidney R. Nagel
pp. 1717-1719 [View Page Images or PDF (443 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Light-scattering investigation of α and β relaxation near the liquid-glass transition of the molecular glass Salol’ ’’ and ‘‘Reexamination of the depolarized-light-scattering spectra of glass-forming liquids’’
H. Z. Cummins and G. Li
pp. 1720-1726 [View Page Images or PDF (1,467 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Neural networks optimally trained with noisy data
K. Y. Michael Wong and David Sherrington
pp. 1727 [View Page Images or PDF (46 kB)]