Physical Review E – April 1995
Volume 51, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Adaptive control and tracking of chaos in a magnetoelastic ribbon
Visarath In, William L. Ditto, and Mark L. Spano
pp. R2689-R2692 [View Page Images or PDF (617 kB)]
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Effects of the chaotic noise on the performance of a neural network model for optimization problems
Yoshinori Hayakawa, Atsushi Marumoto, and Yasuji Sawada
pp. R2693-R2696 [View Page Images or PDF (722 kB)]
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Controlling dynamical behavior of a semiconductor laser with external optical feedback
Yun Liu, Noriyuki Kikuchi, and Junji Ohtsubo
pp. R2697-R2700 [View Page Images or PDF (784 kB)]
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Targeting unstable periodic orbits
V. N. Chizhevsky and P. Glorieux
pp. R2701-R2704 [View Page Images or PDF (710 kB)]
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Breakdown of simple scaling in Abelian sandpile models in one dimension
Agha Afsar Ali and Deepak Dhar
pp. R2705-R2708 [View Page Images or PDF (739 kB)]
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Predicting low-dimensional spatiotemporal dynamics using discrete wavelet transforms
U. Parlitz and G. Mayer-Kress
pp. R2709-R2711 [View Page Images or PDF (605 kB)]
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Design of hyperchaotic flows
G. Baier and S. Sahle
pp. R2712-R2714 [View Page Images or PDF (546 kB)]
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Scaling violations with textures in two-dimensional phase ordering
A. D. Rutenberg
pp. R2715-R2718 [View Page Images or PDF (745 kB)]
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‘‘Level curvature’’ distribution for diffusive Aharonov-Bohm systems: Analytical results
Yan V. Fyodorov and Hans-Jürgen Sommers
pp. R2719-R2722 [View Page Images or PDF (788 kB)]
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Near-equilibrium dynamics of crystalline interfaces with long-range interactions in (1+1)-dimensional systems
Yan-Chr Tsai
pp. R2723-R2726 [View Page Images or PDF (725 kB)]
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Dissipative dynamic fracture of disordered systems
T.T. Rautiainen, M.J. Alava, and K. Kaski
pp. R2727-R2730 [View Page Images or PDF (752 kB)]
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General approach to diffusion of periodically kicked charges in a magnetic field
Itzhack Dana and Maty Amit
pp. R2731-R2734 [View Page Images or PDF (676 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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β relaxation in a highly supercooled state via molecular dynamics simulation
Tadashi Muranaka and Yasuaki Hiwatari
pp. R2735-R2738 [View Page Images or PDF (831 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Kolmogorov turbulence in a random-force-driven Burgers equation
Alexei Chekhlov and Victor Yakhot
pp. R2739-R2742 [View Page Images or PDF (721 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Numerical study of cylindrically confined nematic liquid crystals
Renata-Maria Marroum, Germano S. Iannacchione, Daniele Finotello, and Michael A. Lee
pp. R2743-R2746 [View Page Images or PDF (695 kB)]
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Critical broadening of the vibrational linewidth by concentration fluctuations
Marcel I. M. Scheerboom and Jan A. Schouten
pp. R2747-R2750 [View Page Images or PDF (728 kB)]
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Eutectic dynamics: A host of new states
K. Kassner, C. Misbah, and R. Baumann
pp. R2751-R2754 [View Page Images or PDF (1,041 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Stopping power of nonmonochromatic heavy-ion clusters with two-ion correlation effects
Maurizio Lontano and Fabio Raimondi
pp. R2755-R2758 [View Page Images or PDF (686 kB)]
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Physics of Beams

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Polarized angular distributions of parametric x radiation and vacuum-ultraviolet transition radiation from relativistic electrons
R. B. Fiorito, D. W. Rule, M. A. Piestrup, X. K. Maruyama, R. M. Silzer, D. M. Skopik, and A. V. Shchagin
pp. R2759-R2762 [View Page Images or PDF (823 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Analytical approach to localization of electromagnetic waves in two-dimensional random media
Marian Rusek and Arkadiusz Orłowski
pp. R2763-R2766 [View Page Images or PDF (813 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Fractal growth in uv-irradiated DNA: Evidence of nonuniversal diffusion limited aggregation
Amita Chandra, M. K. Shukla, P. C. Mishra, and S. Chandra
pp. R2767-R2768 [View Page Images or PDF (430 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Prediction of the lowest energy structure of clusters using a genetic algorithm
Yehuda Zeiri
pp. R2769-R2772 [View Page Images or PDF (756 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Periodic solutions and bifurcation behavior in the parametrically damped two-well Duffing equation
Fagen Xie and Gang Hu
pp. 2773-2778 [View Page Images or PDF (831 kB)]
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Random walks on a fluctuating lattice: A renormalization group approach applied in one dimension
C. D. Levermore, W. Nadler, and D. L. Stein
pp. 2779-2786 [View Page Images or PDF (1,314 kB)]
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Reaction rate kernel for dichotomous noise-induced transitions in bistable systems
Ivan L’Heureux
pp. 2787-2798 [View Page Images or PDF (1,591 kB)]
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Mechanism of time-delayed fractures
Leonardo Golubović and Anatoli Peredera
pp. 2799-2804 [View Page Images or PDF (1,002 kB)]
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Absorbing boundary in one-dimensional anomalous transport
G. Zumofen and J. Klafter
pp. 2805-2814 [View Page Images or PDF (1,466 kB)]
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Diffusion coefficient of piecewise linear maps
Chia-Chu Chen
pp. 2815-2822 [View Page Images or PDF (1,150 kB)]
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Thin Ising films with competing walls: A Monte Carlo study
K. Binder, D. P. Landau, and A. M. Ferrenberg
pp. 2823-2838 [View Page Images or PDF (2,362 kB)]
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Depletion region for diffusion-controlled reactions in a field
C. A. Condat, G. Sibona, and C. E. Budde
pp. 2839-2843 [View Page Images or PDF (697 kB)]
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Estimation of Lyapunov exponents of dynamical systems using a spatial average
Gary Froyland, Kevin Judd, and Alistair I. Mees
pp. 2844-2855 [View Page Images or PDF (2,062 kB)]
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Quantum fluctuations of flexible chain molecules and rods and molecular nanotechnology
Leonardo Golubović and Wenwei Xie
pp. 2856-2864 [View Page Images or PDF (1,554 kB)]
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Spectral dimension of fractal trees
Raffaella Burioni and Davide Cassi
pp. 2865-2869 [View Page Images or PDF (603 kB)]
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Homoclinic chaos in the discrete self-trapping trimer
D. Hennig, H. Gabriel, M. F. Jørgensen, P. L. Christiansen, and C. B. Clausen
pp. 2870-2876 [View Page Images or PDF (952 kB)]
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Energy transitions and time scales to equipartition in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam oscillator chain
J. DeLuca, A. J. Lichtenberg, and S. Ruffo
pp. 2877-2885 [View Page Images or PDF (1,453 kB)]
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Growth kinetics for a system with a conserved order parameter: Off-critical quenches
Gene F. Mazenko and Robert A. Wickham
pp. 2886-2897 [View Page Images or PDF (1,715 kB)]
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Scaling of thermal hysteresis with temperature scanning rate
Zhong Fan and Zhang Jinxiu
pp. 2898-2901 [View Page Images or PDF (613 kB)]
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Unpredictability of the asymptotic attractors in phase-coupled oscillators
Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. 2902-2908 [View Page Images or PDF (1,202 kB)]
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Emergent traffic jams
Kai Nagel and Maya Paczuski
pp. 2909-2918 [View Page Images or PDF (2,065 kB)]
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Long-range-interaction models and a deformed-loop symmetry
Mo-Lin Ge and Yiwen Wang
pp. 2919-2924 [View Page Images or PDF (662 kB)]
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Semiquantal corrections to stochastic resonance
Douglas O. Reale, Arjendu K. Pattanayak, and William C. Schieve
pp. 2925-2932 [View Page Images or PDF (1,158 kB)]
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Non-Markovian process driven by quadratic noise: Kramers-Moyal expansion and Fokker-Planck modeling
Jerzy Łuczka, Peter Hänggi, and Adam Gadomski
pp. 2933-2938 [View Page Images or PDF (872 kB)]
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Discrete stochastic models for traffic flow
M. Schreckenberg, A. Schadschneider, K. Nagel, and N. Ito
pp. 2939-2949 [View Page Images or PDF (2,173 kB)]
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Method of false nearest neighbors: A cautionary note
Donald R. Fredkin and John A. Rice
pp. 2950-2954 [View Page Images or PDF (589 kB)]
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Controlling chaos using time delay coordinates via stabilization of periodic orbits
Paul So and Edward Ott
pp. 2955-2962 [View Page Images or PDF (1,292 kB)]
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Synchronization of chaotic resonators based on control theory
T. C. Newell, P. M. Alsing, A. Gavrielides, and V. Kovanis
pp. 2963-2973 [View Page Images or PDF (1,954 kB)]
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Use of Hamiltonian mechanics in systems driven by colored noise
S. J. B. Einchcomb and A. J. McKane
pp. 2974-2981 [View Page Images or PDF (1,245 kB)]
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Dissipative transfer of a quantum particle in a dimer with random fluctuating intersite matrix element
I. A. Goychuk, E. G. Petrov, and V. May
pp. 2982-2986 [View Page Images or PDF (716 kB)]
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Free inertial processes driven by Gaussian noise: Probability distributions, anomalous diffusion, and fractal behavior
Jaume Masoliver and Ke-Gang Wang
pp. 2987-2995 [View Page Images or PDF (1,151 kB)]
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Decay of the Sinai well in D dimensions
A. J. Fendrik and M. J. Sánchez
pp. 2996-3001 [View Page Images or PDF (963 kB)]
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From dynamics to thermodynamics: Linear response and statistical mechanics
Marco Bianucci, Riccardo Mannella, Bruce J. West, and Paolo Grigolini
pp. 3002-3022 [View Page Images or PDF (3,637 kB)]
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Chaos in a Coulombic muffin-tin potential
S. Brandis
pp. 3023-3031 [View Page Images or PDF (1,480 kB)]
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Role of initial conditions in the classification of the rule space of cellular automata dynamics
Avinash Dhar, Porus Lakdawala, Gautam Mandal, and Spenta R. Wadia
pp. 3032-3037 [View Page Images or PDF (1,056 kB)]
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Nonperturbative generalized master equation for the spin-boson problem
Gerhard Stock
pp. 3038-3044 [View Page Images or PDF (1,166 kB)]
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Cellular automaton model for diffusive and dissipative systems
T. C. Chan, H. F. Chau, and K. S. Cheng
pp. 3045-3051 [View Page Images or PDF (1,332 kB)]
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Dynamic front transitions and spiral-vortex nucleation
Christian Elphick, Aric Hagberg, and Ehud Meron
pp. 3052-3058 [View Page Images or PDF (1,222 kB)]
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Intrinsic-noise-induced transitions in chaotic systems
J. Güémez and M. A. Matías
pp. 3059-3068 [View Page Images or PDF (1,789 kB)]
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Crossover behaviors in a molecular-beam epitaxial-growth model
C. S. Ryu and In-mook Kim
pp. 3069-3073 [View Page Images or PDF (718 kB)]
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Critical behavior of the random-bond Ashkin-Teller model: A Monte Carlo study
Shai Wiseman and Eytan Domany
pp. 3074-3086 [View Page Images or PDF (2,187 kB)]
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Linear processes that produce 1/f or flicker noise
Edoardo Milotti
pp. 3087-3103 [View Page Images or PDF (2,093 kB)]
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Stochastic renormalization-group approach to space-dependent supercritical branched chain processes
Marcel Ovidiu Vlad and Michael C. Mackey
pp. 3104-3119 [View Page Images or PDF (2,209 kB)]
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Jump clustering, Shlesinger-Hughes stochastic renormalization, and interacting Lévy flights
Marcel Ovidiu Vlad and Michael C. Mackey
pp. 3120-3125 [View Page Images or PDF (845 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Microscopic dynamics in liquid lithium
A. Torcini, U. Balucani, P. H. K. de Jong, and P. Verkerk
pp. 3126-3138 [View Page Images or PDF (1,962 kB)]
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Exact results in a lattice model of a binary reactant mixture
Peter B. Thomas
pp. 3139-3145 [View Page Images or PDF (1,016 kB)]
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Location of the Fisher-Widom line for systems interacting through short-ranged potentials
C. Vega, L. F. Rull, and S. Lago
pp. 3146-3155 [View Page Images or PDF (1,626 kB)]
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Heat transport in a dilute gas under uniform shear flow
V. Garzó
pp. 3156-3163 [View Page Images or PDF (1,237 kB)]
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Improved fluid-dynamic model for vehicular traffic
Dirk Helbing
pp. 3164-3169 [View Page Images or PDF (1,259 kB)]
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Nearest-neighbor statistics for packings of hard spheres and disks
S. Torquato
pp. 3170-3182 [View Page Images or PDF (2,014 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Numerical simulations of Kadomtsev-Petviashvili soliton interactions
E. Infeld, A. Senatorski, and A. A. Skorupski
pp. 3183-3191 [View Page Images or PDF (1,535 kB)]
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Variational bounds on energy dissipation in incompressible flows. II. Channel flow
Peter Constantin and Charles R. Doering
pp. 3192-3198 [View Page Images or PDF (947 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal response described by the resonantly forced modified Korteweg–de Vries equation
L. G. Redekopp and Z. You
pp. 3199-3206 [View Page Images or PDF (1,618 kB)]
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Creation and dynamics of vortex tubes in three-dimensional turbulence
Peter Constantin, Itamar Procaccia, and Daniel Segel
pp. 3207-3222 [View Page Images or PDF (2,846 kB)]
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Density equilibration near the liquid-vapor critical point of a pure fluid: Single phase T>Tc
Fang Zhong and Horst Meyer
pp. 3223-3241 [View Page Images or PDF (3,471 kB)]
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Effect of a time-periodic axial shear flow upon the onset of Taylor vortices
H.-C. Hu and R. E. Kelly
pp. 3242-3251 [View Page Images or PDF (1,592 kB)]
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NMR signal loss from turbulence: Models of time dependence compared with data
Dean O. Kuethe and Jia-Hong Gao
pp. 3252-3262 [View Page Images or PDF (1,678 kB)]
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Convection for Prandtl numbers near 1: Dynamics of textured patterns
Yuchou Hu, Robert Ecke, and Guenter Ahlers
pp. 3263-3279 [View Page Images or PDF (4,936 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Front propagation and selection in a two-space diblock copolymer melt
G. C. Paquette
pp. 3280-3285 [View Page Images or PDF (1,255 kB)]
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Scaling of single-bubble growth in a porous medium
C. Satik, X. Li, and Y. C. Yortsos
pp. 3286-3295 [View Page Images or PDF (1,967 kB)]
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‘‘Layering’’ effect in a sheared lyotropic lamellar phase
O. Diat, D. Roux, and F. Nallet
pp. 3296-3299 [View Page Images or PDF (769 kB)]
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Morphology and line tension of liquid films adsorbed on chemically structured substrates
W. Koch, S. Dietrich, and M. Napiórkowski
pp. 3300-3317 [View Page Images or PDF (3,135 kB)]
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Diffusion constants in polyacrylamide gels
L. Pavesi and A. Rigamonti
pp. 3318-3323 [View Page Images or PDF (1,112 kB)]
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Preferred configurations of linear polymers embedded in planar membranes under lateral tension
M. M. Kozlov and W. Helfrich
pp. 3324-3331 [View Page Images or PDF (1,309 kB)]
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Deuteron NMR study of liquid crystals confined in aerogel matrices
A. Zidanšek, S. Kralj, G. Lahajnar, and R. Blinc
pp. 3332-3340 [View Page Images or PDF (1,544 kB)]
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Computer simulation study of the permeability of a porous sediment model
R. B. Pandey and Jeffrey L. Becklehimer
pp. 3341-3345 [View Page Images or PDF (944 kB)]
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ac-calorimetry studies at the hexatic-B–smectic-A and crystal-B–hexatic-B phase transitions in two compounds with hydrogen bonding
Germano Iannacchione, Ewa Gorecka, Wieslaw Pyzuk, Satyendra Kumar, and Daniele Finotello
pp. 3346-3349 [View Page Images or PDF (613 kB)]
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Accuracy of diffusing-wave spectroscopy theories
D. J. Durian
pp. 3350-3358 [View Page Images or PDF (1,708 kB)]
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Incommensurate phase on a disordered surface: Instability against the formation of overhangs and finite loops
K. Ziegler and A. M. M. Pruisken
pp. 3359-3362 [View Page Images or PDF (659 kB)]
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Dynamic heat capacity at the gel to liquid-crystalline phase transition in large unilamellar vesicles of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine in the ultralow frequency region
Hiromi Nagano, Haruhiko Yao, and Kenji Ema
pp. 3363-3367 [View Page Images or PDF (810 kB)]
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Surface polymer network model and effective membrane curvature elasticity
R. Podgornik
pp. 3368-3375 [View Page Images or PDF (1,155 kB)]
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Maximal Lyapunov exponent in small atomic clusters
Saroj K. Nayak, Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, and Charusita Chakravarty
pp. 3376-3380 [View Page Images or PDF (907 kB)]
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Freezing transition of random heteropolymers consisting of an arbitrary set of monomers
Vijay S. Pande, Alexander Yu. Grosberg, and Toyoichi Tanaka
pp. 3381-3392 [View Page Images or PDF (1,943 kB)]
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Self-diffusion in a periodic porous medium: A comparison of different approaches
David J. Bergman, Keh-Jim Dunn, Lawrence M. Schwartz, and Partha P. Mitra
pp. 3393-3400 [View Page Images or PDF (1,274 kB)]
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Self-diffusion in a periodic porous medium with interface absorption
David J. Bergman and Keh-Jim Dunn
pp. 3401-3416 [View Page Images or PDF (2,341 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Catalytic interface erosion
Hsin-Fei Meng and E. G. D. Cohen
pp. 3417-3426 [View Page Images or PDF (1,964 kB)]
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Spreading of giant vesicles on moderately adhesive substrates by fingering: A reflection interference contrast microscopy study
Toni J. Feder, Gilberto Weissmüller, Boštjan Žekš, and Erich Sackmann
pp. 3427-3433 [View Page Images or PDF (1,924 kB)]
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Two-dimensional Laplacian growth as a system of creating and annihilating particles
Raphael Blumenfeld and Robin C. Ball
pp. 3434-3443 [View Page Images or PDF (1,773 kB)]
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Role of convection in thin-layer electrodeposition
John M. Huth, Harry L. Swinney, William D. McCormick, Alexander Kuhn, and Françoise Argoul
pp. 3444-3458 [View Page Images or PDF (3,475 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Atoms in hydrogen plasma in strong electric fields
Hagen Haberland and Wolf Dietrich Kraeft
pp. 3459-3463 [View Page Images or PDF (607 kB)]
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Spectroscopic study of molecular-hydrogen processes in a mirror-confined plasma
Thomas G. Moran
pp. 3464-3474 [View Page Images or PDF (2,023 kB)]
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Multistability as an indication of chaos in a discharge plasma
Hongyan Sun, Lianxi Ma, and L. Wang
pp. 3475-3479 [View Page Images or PDF (838 kB)]
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Signatures of the Bohm and sheath velocities in minority-light-ion energy distributions
D. Vender, G. M. W. Kroesen, and F. J. de Hoog
pp. 3480-3483 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Resonantly laser-driven plasma waves for electron acceleration
D. Umstadter, J. Kim, E. Esarey, E. Dodd, and T. Neubert
pp. 3484-3497 [View Page Images or PDF (2,505 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Electron distribution function in an electron-beam plasma
V. S. Malinovsky, A. E. Belikov, O. V. Kuznetsov, and R. G. Sharafutdinov
pp. 3498-3503 [View Page Images or PDF (823 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Stripping properties of a plasma medium for MeV/u chlorine ions
M. Chabot, D. Gardès, P. Box, J. Kiener, C. Deutsch, G. Maynard, V. André, C. Fleurier, D. Hong, and K. Wohrer
pp. 3504-3510 [View Page Images or PDF (1,175 kB)]
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Unified nonlinear orbit dynamics of an equilibrium electron in a helical wiggler with a positive or reversed axial-guide magnetic field at magnetoresonance
Junsheng Yu
pp. 3511-3514 [View Page Images or PDF (553 kB)]
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Coupling impedance of a long slot and an array of slots in a circular vacuum chamber
G. V. Stupakov
pp. 3515-3521 [View Page Images or PDF (1,069 kB)]
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Computer simulation of beam steering by crystal channeling
Valery Biryukov
pp. 3522-3528 [View Page Images or PDF (1,245 kB)]
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Hamiltonian formalism for space charge dominated beams in a uniform focusing channel
A. Riabko, M. Ellison, X. Kang, S. Y. Lee, D. Li, J. Y. Liu, X. Pei, and L. Wang
pp. 3529-3546 [View Page Images or PDF (2,926 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Stationary solitonlike pulses in birefringent optical fibers
J. M. Soto-Crespo, Nail Akhmediev, and Adrian Ankiewicz
pp. 3547-3555 [View Page Images or PDF (1,525 kB)]
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Optical phenomena on the interface between a conventional dielectric and a uniaxial medium with mixed metal-dielectric properties
E. G. Gamaly
pp. 3556-3560 [View Page Images or PDF (904 kB)]
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Dynamics of damped coupled oscillators near resonance
Lance E. Arsenault and Alfred W. Hübler
pp. 3561-3571 [View Page Images or PDF (1,472 kB)]
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Stability criterion for stationary bound states of solitons with radiationless oscillating tails
Alexander V. Buryak and Nail N. Akhmediev
pp. 3572-3578 [View Page Images or PDF (1,062 kB)]
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Obtaining breathers in nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices
S. Flach
pp. 3579-3587 [View Page Images or PDF (1,501 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Solitons in cell membranes
Pradip Das and W. H. Schwarz
pp. 3588-3612 [View Page Images or PDF (3,580 kB)]
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Statistical physics estimates for the complexity of feedforward neural networks
Manfred Opper
pp. 3613-3618 [View Page Images or PDF (1,005 kB)]
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Neural-network design applied to protein-secondary-structure predictions
Richard C. Yu and Teresa Head-Gordon
pp. 3619-3627 [View Page Images or PDF (1,658 kB)]
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Finite-dimensional neural networks storing structured patterns
Hidetoshi Nishimori, W. Whyte, and D. Sherrington
pp. 3628-3642 [View Page Images or PDF (2,188 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Matrix spectroscopy: Computation of interior eigenstates of large matrices using layered iteration
Robert E. Wyatt
pp. 3643-3658 [View Page Images or PDF (2,746 kB)]
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Flow in the driven cavity calculated by the lattice Boltzmann method
W. Miller
pp. 3659-3669 [View Page Images or PDF (2,463 kB)]
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Logistic map: A possible random-number generator
S. C. Phatak and S. Suresh Rao
pp. 3670-3678 [View Page Images or PDF (1,319 kB)]
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Finite population-size effects in projection Monte Carlo methods
Nicolas Cerf and Olivier C. Martin
pp. 3679-3693 [View Page Images or PDF (2,763 kB)]
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Transport of sputtered neutral particles
G. J. Parker, W. N. G. Hitchon, and D. J. Koch
pp. 3694-3703 [View Page Images or PDF (1,694 kB)]
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Adaptive multigrid techniques for large-scale eigenvalue problems: Solutions of the Schrödinger problem in two and three dimensions
Sorin Costiner and Shlomo Ta’asan
pp. 3704-3717 [View Page Images or PDF (2,522 kB)]
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Two-color nonlinear Boltzmann cellular automata: Surface tension and wetting
U. D’Ortona, D. Salin, Marek Cieplak, Renata B. Rybka, and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. 3718-3728 [View Page Images or PDF (1,758 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Boson-fermion transmutation and the statistics of anyons
Wung-Hong Huang
pp. 3729-3730 [View Page Images or PDF (190 kB)]
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Kinetics of depolymerization
P. Singh and G. J. Rodgers
pp. 3731-3734 [View Page Images or PDF (613 kB)]
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Symbolic dynamics of NMR-laser chaos
Wei-Mou Zheng and Jun-xian Liu
pp. 3735-3737 [View Page Images or PDF (448 kB)]
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Anomalous convergence of Lyapunov exponent estimates
James Theiler and Leonard A. Smith
pp. 3738-3741 [View Page Images or PDF (630 kB)]
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Mass multifractality in fragmentation
Marcelo A. F. Gomes and Tasso R. M. Sales
pp. 3742-3744 [View Page Images or PDF (454 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Classical closure theory and Lam’s interpretation of ε–renormalization group theory
Ye Zhou
pp. 3745-3747 [View Page Images or PDF (407 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Film orientational correlations from random planar sections
Oleg V. Vasil’ev, Alexander V. Gorelov, and Kenneth A. Dawson
pp. 3748-3751 [View Page Images or PDF (536 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Two-dimensional stimulated Raman scattering of short laser pulses
C. J. McKinstrie, R. Betti, R. E. Giacone, T. Kolber, and E. J. Turano
pp. 3752-3755 [View Page Images or PDF (709 kB)]
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Two-body contribution to the density fluctuations in a dilute gas from molecular-dynamics simulations
Ubaldo Bafile, Fabrizio Barocchi, and Martin Neumann
pp. 3756-3759 [View Page Images or PDF (708 kB)]
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Dynamics of collisional pulsed planar sheaths
M. J. Goeckner, R. P. Fetherston, W. N. G. Hitchon, N. C. Horswill, E. R. Keiter, M. M. Shamim, R. A. Breun, J. R. Conrad, and T. E. Sheridan
pp. 3760-3763 [View Page Images or PDF (719 kB)]
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Calibration of the Stark-broadening parameters of the 728.1-nm He i line
C. Pérez, J. A. Aparicio, I. de la Rosa, S. Mar, and M. A. Gigosos
pp. 3764-3766 [View Page Images or PDF (424 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Generation conditions for an acoustic laser
S. T. Zavtrak
pp. 3767-3769 [View Page Images or PDF (357 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Structural correlations in Gaussian random wave fields
Isaac Freund and Natalya Shvartsman
pp. 3770-3773 [View Page Images or PDF (678 kB)]
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Kinks and conformational defects in nonlinear chains
Fei Zhang, Michael A. Collins, and Yuri S. Kivshar
pp. 3774-3777 [View Page Images or PDF (750 kB)]
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Geometric and diffractive orbits in the scattering from confocal hyperbolas
N. D. Whelan
pp. 3778-3781 [View Page Images or PDF (672 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Critical dimensionalities of phase transitions on fractals’’
Raffaella Burioni and Davide Cassi
pp. 3782-3783 [View Page Images or PDF (173 kB)]
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Comment on ‘‘Simulation of a two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard system using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method’’
Alejandro L. Garcia, Florence Baras, and M. Malek Mansour
pp. 3784-3785 [View Page Images or PDF (387 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Simulation of a two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard system using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method’ ’’
Tadashi Watanabe, Hideo Kaburaki, and Mitsuo Yokokawa
pp. 3786-3787 [View Page Images or PDF (376 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Short-range screening potentials for classical Coulomb fluids: Monte Carlo sampling and cluster model studies
Setsuo Ichimaru, Shuji Ogata, and Kenji Tsuruta
pp. 3788 [View Page Images or PDF (48 kB)]