Physical Review E – May 1995
Volume 51, Issue 5

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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How a solid can be turned into a gas without passing through a first-order phase transformation
Sheh-Yi Sheu, Chung-Yuan Mou, and Ronald Lovett
pp. R3795-R3798 [View Page Images or PDF (504 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Stochastic resonance in the strong-forcing limit
L. Gammaitoni, F. Marchesoni, E. Menichella-Saetta, and S. Santucci
pp. R3799-R3802 [View Page Images or PDF (615 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Theory of the size distribution in three-dimensional grain growth
P. A. Mulheran
pp. R3803-R3806 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]
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Geometric scaling of correlation decay in chaotic billiards
Roberto Artuso, Giulio Casati, and Italo Guarneri
pp. R3807-R3810 [View Page Images or PDF (626 kB)]
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Generating partition for the standard map
Freddy Christiansen and Antonio Politi
pp. R3811-R3814 [View Page Images or PDF (700 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Statistical theory of sedimentation of disordered suspensions
Hisao Hayakawa and Kengo Ichiki
pp. R3815-R3818 [View Page Images or PDF (687 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Viscous fingering: A singularity in Laplacian growth models
Martine Ben Amar
pp. R3819-R3822 [View Page Images or PDF (718 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Experimental indication of a devil’s staircase structure in a smectic liquid crystal
Ch. Bahr, D. Fliegner, C. J. Booth, and J. W. Goodby
pp. R3823-R3826 [View Page Images or PDF (787 kB)]
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Frequency selection of spiral waves in liquid crystals
Igor Aranson
pp. R3827-R3830 [View Page Images or PDF (680 kB)]
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Construction and investigation of a hard-sphere crystal-melt interface by a molecular dynamics simulation
Atsushi Mori, Ryoji Manabe, and Kazumi Nishioka
pp. R3831-R3833 [View Page Images or PDF (515 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Diffusion field around a dendrite growing under microgravity
Tsutomu Sawada, K. Takemura, Koji Shigematsu, Shin-ichi Yoda, and Kazunori Kawasaki
pp. R3834-R3837 [View Page Images or PDF (748 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Intermittent energy bursts and recurrent topological change of a twisting magnetic flux tube
Hiroyoshi Amo, Tetsuya Sato, and Akira Kageyama
pp. R3838-R3841 [View Page Images or PDF (782 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Selection of a desirable chaotic phase using small feedback control
Yoshihiko Nagai and Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. 3842-3848 [View Page Images or PDF (1,356 kB)]
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Escape from a fluctuating double well
Antonio J. R. Madureira, Peter Hänggi, Vincent Buonomano, and Waldyr A. Rodrigues, Jr.
pp. 3849-3861 [View Page Images or PDF (1,958 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Polymer-chain adsorption transition at a cylindrical boundary
S. Boettcher
pp. 3862-3870 [View Page Images or PDF (1,258 kB)]
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Symbol sequence statistics in noisy chaotic signal reconstruction
X. Z. Tang, E. R. Tracy, A. D. Boozer, A. deBrauw, and R. Brown
pp. 3871-3889 [View Page Images or PDF (2,972 kB)]
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Analysis of spatiotemporal signals of complex systems
C. Uhl, R. Friedrich, and H. Haken
pp. 3890-3900 [View Page Images or PDF (2,096 kB)]
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Scaling properties and anomalous transport of particles inside the stochastic layer
G. M. Zaslavsky and S. S. Abdullaev
pp. 3901-3910 [View Page Images or PDF (1,940 kB)]
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Estimating perturbative coefficients in quantum field theory and statistical physics
Mark A. Samuel, Guowen Li, and Eric Steinfelds
pp. 3911-3933 [View Page Images or PDF (2,635 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Avalanches and bursts in low-pressure helium gas below the breakdown voltage
Z. Donkó
pp. 3934-3938 [View Page Images or PDF (817 kB)]
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Statistical properties of bidimensional patterns generated from delayed and extended maps
Giovanni Giacomelli, Stefano Lepri, and Antonio Politi
pp. 3939-3944 [View Page Images or PDF (962 kB)]
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Percolation with a periodic boundary condition: The effect of system size for crystallization in molecular dynamics
Makoto S. Watanabe
pp. 3945-3951 [View Page Images or PDF (1,202 kB)]
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First return map of the periodic Lorentz gas
A. Hakmi, F. Bosco, and I. Antoniou
pp. 3952-3956 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]
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Density relaxation in a vibrated granular material
James B. Knight, Christopher G. Fandrich, Chun Ning Lau, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel
pp. 3957-3963 [View Page Images or PDF (1,249 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in bistable systems subject to signal and quasimonochromatic noise
R. Li, G. Hu, C. Y. Yang, X. D. Wen, G. R. Qing, and H. J. Zhu
pp. 3964-3967 [View Page Images or PDF (528 kB)]
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Avalanches in a cellular automaton
V. Romero-Rochín, J. Lomnitz-Adler, E. Morales-Gamboa, and R. Peralta-Fabi
pp. 3968-3976 [View Page Images or PDF (1,477 kB)]
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Ballistic annihilation kinetics: The case of discrete velocity distributions
P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner, and F. Leyvraz
pp. 3977-3987 [View Page Images or PDF (1,871 kB)]
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Stabilizing and characterizing unstable states in high-dimensional systems from time series
Valery Petrov, Eugene Mihaliuk, Stephen K. Scott, and Kenneth Showalter
pp. 3988-3996 [View Page Images or PDF (1,508 kB)]
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Accelerating fronts in an electrochemical system due to global coupling
G. Flätgen and K. Krischer
pp. 3997-4004 [View Page Images or PDF (1,475 kB)]
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Nonlinear analysis of the stick-slip bifurcation in the creep-controlled regime of dry friction
T. Baumberger, C. Caroli, B. Perrin, and O. Ronsin
pp. 4005-4010 [View Page Images or PDF (794 kB)]
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Correlation functions and spectra for fields with highly anticorrelated phase jumps
A. G. Kofman
pp. 4011-4020 [View Page Images or PDF (1,718 kB)]
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Coherent stochastic resonance
Jaume Masoliver, Armando Robinson, and George H. Weiss
pp. 4021-4026 [View Page Images or PDF (729 kB)]
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Entropy-driven transition in a one-dimensional system
Thierry Dauxois and Michel Peyrard
pp. 4027-4040 [View Page Images or PDF (2,107 kB)]
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Stochastic dynamics of open quantum systems: Derivation of the differential Chapman-Kolmogorov equation
Heinz-Peter Breuer and Francesco Petruccione
pp. 4041-4054 [View Page Images or PDF (2,336 kB)]
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Refined simulations of the reaction front for diffusion-limited two-species annihilation in one dimension
Stephen J. Cornell
pp. 4055-4064 [View Page Images or PDF (1,494 kB)]
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Parametric entrainment control of chaotic systems
Robert Mettin, Alfred Hübler, Alexander Scheeline, and Werner Lauterborn
pp. 4065-4075 [View Page Images or PDF (2,100 kB)]
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Fractal boundaries in open hydrodynamical flows: Signatures of chaotic saddles
Áron Péntek, Zoltán Toroczkai, Tamás Tél, Celso Grebogi, and James A. Yorke
pp. 4076-4088 [View Page Images or PDF (2,401 kB)]
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Fluctuations in discrete fragmentation processes studied by stochastic simulations
Matthias Thorn, Michael L. Broide, and Markus Seesselberg
pp. 4089-4094 [View Page Images or PDF (879 kB)]
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Field theory and second renormalization group for multifractals in percolation
B. Fourcade and A.-M. S. Tremblay
pp. 4095-4104 [View Page Images or PDF (1,508 kB)]
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Escape rates for noisy maps
Peter Reimann and Peter Talkner
pp. 4105-4113 [View Page Images or PDF (1,454 kB)]
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Schrödinger problem, Lévy processes, and noise in relativistic quantum mechanics
Piotr Garbaczewski, John R. Klauder, and Robert Olkiewicz
pp. 4114-4131 [View Page Images or PDF (2,732 kB)]
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Systematic error of dimension estimates using fixed mass scaling methods
Machiel de Rover and Willem van de Water
pp. 4132-4140 [View Page Images or PDF (1,497 kB)]
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Transport properties of heterogeneous materials derived from Gaussian random fields: Bounds and simulation
A. P. Roberts and Max Teubner
pp. 4141-4154 [View Page Images or PDF (2,366 kB)]
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Generalized Kawasaki dynamics of the Heisenberg model
Zhengping Zhang
pp. 4155-4158 [View Page Images or PDF (720 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in a system of ferromagnetic particles
A. Pérez-Madrid and J. M. Rubí
pp. 4159-4164 [View Page Images or PDF (810 kB)]
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Topological model of homoclinic chaos in a glow discharge
Thomas Braun, Ricardo R. B. Correia, and Nara Altmann
pp. 4165-4168 [View Page Images or PDF (857 kB)]
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Efficient switching between controlled unstable periodic orbits in higher dimensional chaotic systems
Ernest Barreto, Eric J. Kostelich, Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke
pp. 4169-4172 [View Page Images or PDF (635 kB)]
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Subtleties of arithmetical quantum chaos
R. Aurich, F. Scheffler, and F. Steiner
pp. 4173-4189 [View Page Images or PDF (2,967 kB)]
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Extension of the variational formulation of the Onsager-Machlup theory of fluctuations
S. I. Serdyukov and V. K. Bel’nov
pp. 4190-4195 [View Page Images or PDF (779 kB)]
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Phase separation of crystal surfaces: A lattice gas approach
Joel D. Shore and Dirk Jan Bukman
pp. 4196-4211 [View Page Images or PDF (4,089 kB)]
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Exact results for a model of interface growth
T. J. Newman
pp. 4212-4221 [View Page Images or PDF (1,527 kB)]
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Inside-outside duality for planar billiards: A numerical study
Barbara Dietz, Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Claude-Alain Pillet, Uzy Smilansky, and Iddo Ussishkin
pp. 4222-4231 [View Page Images or PDF (1,826 kB)]
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Flame propagation in random media
N. Provatas, T. Ala-Nissila, Martin Grant, K. R. Elder, and Luc Piché
pp. 4232-4236 [View Page Images or PDF (915 kB)]
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Effective action method for the Langevin equation
Andrea Crisanti and Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi
pp. 4237-4245 [View Page Images or PDF (1,236 kB)]
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Memory effects and virial corrections in nonequilibrium dense systems
K. Morawetz and G. Roepke
pp. 4246-4261 [View Page Images or PDF (2,385 kB)]
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Global vector field reconstruction from a chaotic experimental signal in copper electrodissolution
C. Letellier, L. Le Sceller, E. Maréchal, P. Dutertre, B. Maheu, G. Gouesbet, Z. Fei, and J. L. Hudson
pp. 4262-4266 [View Page Images or PDF (739 kB)]
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Dissipative quantum systems with a potential barrier: General theory and the parabolic barrier
Joachim Ankerhold, Hermann Grabert, and Gert-Ludwig Ingold
pp. 4267-4281 [View Page Images or PDF (2,209 kB)]
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Social force model for pedestrian dynamics
Dirk Helbing and Péter Molnár
pp. 4282-4286 [View Page Images or PDF (973 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Non-Boltzmann behavior from the Boltzmann equation
M. H. J. Hagen, C. P. Lowe, and D. Frenkel
pp. 4287-4291 [View Page Images or PDF (785 kB)]
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Fluctuation of the number of particles adsorbed on surfaces under the influence of gravity
P. Schaaf, P. Wojtaszczyk, B. Senger, J.-C. Voegel, and H. Reiss
pp. 4292-4295 [View Page Images or PDF (727 kB)]
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Einstein-Kubo-Helfand and McQuarrie relations for transport coefficients
Jerome J. Erpenbeck
pp. 4296-4308 [View Page Images or PDF (2,434 kB)]
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Pressure tensor of the hard-disk Lorentz gas
Janka Petravic and Dennis J. Isbister
pp. 4309-4318 [View Page Images or PDF (1,759 kB)]
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Field-theoretic approximations for normal diffusion in random velocity fields
Michael W. Deem
pp. 4319-4324 [View Page Images or PDF (919 kB)]
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State diagram of polydisperse elastic-disk systems
Wolfgang Vermöhlen and Nobuyasu Ito
pp. 4325-4334 [View Page Images or PDF (1,890 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Density profiles in a diphasic lattice-gas model
C. Appert and D. d’Humières
pp. 4335-4345 [View Page Images or PDF (1,438 kB)]
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Numerical evaluation of the permeability and the Kozeny constant for two types of porous media
Anton W. J. Heijs and Christopher P. Lowe
pp. 4346-4352 [View Page Images or PDF (1,281 kB)]
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Rupture and coalescence in two-dimensional cellular automata fluids
Marek Cieplak
pp. 4353-4361 [View Page Images or PDF (2,370 kB)]
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Heat flux vector in highly inhomogeneous nonequilibrium fluids
B. D. Todd, Peter J. Daivis, and Denis J. Evans
pp. 4362-4368 [View Page Images or PDF (1,027 kB)]
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Burgers turbulence with random forcing: Similarity functional solution of the Hopf equation
Sergei E. Esipov
pp. 4369-4379 [View Page Images or PDF (1,746 kB)]
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Mode resonance and wavelength-halving instability in the Taylor-Dean system
Innocent Mutabazi and C. David Andereck
pp. 4380-4390 [View Page Images or PDF (2,673 kB)]
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Quasi-one-component theory of homogeneous binary nucleation
V. I. Kalikmanov and M. E. H. van Dongen
pp. 4391-4399 [View Page Images or PDF (1,323 kB)]
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Sonoluminescing bubbles and mass diffusion
Ritva Löfstedt, Keith Weninger, Seth Putterman, and Bradley P. Barber
pp. 4400-4410 [View Page Images or PDF (1,958 kB)]
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Dynamics of defects in parametrically excited capillary ripples
A. B. Ezersky, D. A. Ermoshin, and S. V. Kiyashko
pp. 4411-4417 [View Page Images or PDF (1,795 kB)]
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Shallow water waves on the rotating sphere
D. Müller and J. J. O’Brien
pp. 4418-4431 [View Page Images or PDF (2,620 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of point vortices
Victor L. Berdichevsky
pp. 4432-4452 [View Page Images or PDF (2,927 kB)]
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Probability distribution function for the gradient of a passive scalar diffusing in isotropic turbulence: Mapping-closure model
Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi
pp. 4453-4456 [View Page Images or PDF (510 kB)]
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Langevin approach to a chemical wave front: Selection of the propagation velocity in the presence of internal noise
A. Lemarchand, A. Lesne, and M. Mareschal
pp. 4457-4465 [View Page Images or PDF (1,494 kB)]
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General relation for stationary probability density functions
J. Mi and R. A. Antonia
pp. 4466-4468 [View Page Images or PDF (319 kB)]
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Dynamics of viscous fingers and threshold instability
H. Guo, Daniel C. Hong, and Douglas A. Kurtze
pp. 4469-4478 [View Page Images or PDF (1,631 kB)]
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Instability of two-dimensional solitons and vortices in defocusing media
E. A. Kuznetsov and J. Juul Rasmussen
pp. 4479-4484 [View Page Images or PDF (959 kB)]
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Growth shapes and turbulent spots in unstable systems
Claudine V. Conrado and Tomas Bohr
pp. 4485-4502 [View Page Images or PDF (3,101 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Density functional theory of ordering in charge-stabilized colloidal dispersions
Niharendu Choudhury and Swapan K. Ghosh
pp. 4503-4508 [View Page Images or PDF (1,141 kB)]
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Macroscopic theory for the flow behavior of smectic-C and smectic-C* liquid crystals
T. Carlsson, F. M. Leslie, and N. A. Clark
pp. 4509-4525 [View Page Images or PDF (2,781 kB)]
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Fluctuation analysis of tension-controlled undulation forces between giant vesicles and solid substrates
Joachim O. Rädler, Toni J. Feder, Helmut H. Strey, and Erich Sackmann
pp. 4526-4536 [View Page Images or PDF (2,057 kB)]
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Depolarized light-scattering study of molten zinc chloride
M. J. Lebon, C. Dreyfus, G. Li, A. Aouadi, H. Z. Cummins, and R. M. Pick
pp. 4537-4547 [View Page Images or PDF (1,905 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Isotropic-nematic interface of liquid-crystalline polymers
Shi-Min Cui, Osman Akcakir, and Zheng Yu Chen
pp. 4548-4557 [View Page Images or PDF (1,453 kB)]
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Single-particle dynamics of water molecules in confined space
M.-C. Bellissent-Funel, S. H. Chen, and J.-M. Zanotti
pp. 4558-4569 [View Page Images or PDF (1,953 kB)]
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Inclusion of density variation in the Landau–de Gennes theory of the nematic-isotropic phase transition
P. K. Mukherjee, T. R. Bose, D. Ghose, and M. Saha
pp. 4570-4573 [View Page Images or PDF (658 kB)]
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Smectic-A surface order in a nematic-substrate system
A. Poniewierski and A. Samborski
pp. 4574-4579 [View Page Images or PDF (990 kB)]
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Desorption-induced fragmentation of silica aggregates
T. Narayanan, J.-M. Petit, M. L. Broide, and D. Beysens
pp. 4580-4584 [View Page Images or PDF (831 kB)]
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Smectic-C–smectic-I critical point in a liquid crystal mixture: Static and dynamic thermal behavior
Haruhiko Yao, Tom Chan, and Carl W. Garland
pp. 4585-4597 [View Page Images or PDF (2,342 kB)]
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Ion correlations in a micellar solution studied by small-angle neutron and x-ray scattering
Y. C. Liu, C. Y. Ku, P. LoNostro, and S. H. Chen
pp. 4598-4607 [View Page Images or PDF (1,786 kB)]
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Weakly nonlinear morphological instability of a spherical crystal growing from a pure undercooled melt
Partha P. Debroy and Robert F. Sekerka
pp. 4608-4620 [View Page Images or PDF (1,538 kB)]
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Axisymmetrical rotation of a sand heap
A. Medina, E. Luna, R. Alvarado, and C. Treviño
pp. 4621-4625 [View Page Images or PDF (813 kB)]
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Testing mode-coupling theory for a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones mixture I: The van Hove correlation function
Walter Kob and Hans C. Andersen
pp. 4626-4641 [View Page Images or PDF (3,050 kB)]
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Nucleation of wetting layers
Edgar M. Blokhuis
pp. 4642-4654 [View Page Images or PDF (1,976 kB)]
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Avalanches and the directed percolation depinning model: Experiments, simulations, and theory
L. A. N. Amaral, A.-L. Barabási, S. V. Buldyrev, S. T. Harrington, S. Havlin, R. Sadr-Lahijany, and H. E. Stanley
pp. 4655-4673 [View Page Images or PDF (3,852 kB)]
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Crystalline fluidized beds
M. A. Rutgers, J.-Z. Xue, E. Herbolzheimer, W. B. Russel, and P. M. Chaikin
pp. 4674-4678 [View Page Images or PDF (1,085 kB)]
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Dynamics of premelted films: Frost heave in a capillary
J. S. Wettlaufer and M. G. Worster
pp. 4679-4689 [View Page Images or PDF (2,003 kB)]
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Microemulsion model with oil-water anisotropy
Marcia C. Barbosa and Marcos Frichembruder
pp. 4690-4697 [View Page Images or PDF (1,165 kB)]
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Light-scattering study of phase transitions in hexatic liquid-crystal films
M. S. Spector and J. D. Litster
pp. 4698-4703 [View Page Images or PDF (942 kB)]
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How shear flow of a semidilute suspension modifies its self-mobility
J. Bławzdziewicz and M. L. Ekiel-Jeżewska
pp. 4704-4708 [View Page Images or PDF (751 kB)]
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X-ray reflectivity measurements and Landau theory of smectic wetting in liquid crystal–benzyl alcohol mixtures
G. J. Kellogg, P. S. Pershan, E. H. Kawamoto, W. Foster, Moshe Deutsch, and B. M. Ocko
pp. 4709-4726 [View Page Images or PDF (3,584 kB)]
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Critical compositions in the microphase separation transition of random copolymers
C. D. Sfatos, A. M. Gutin, and E. I. Shakhnovich
pp. 4727-4734 [View Page Images or PDF (1,279 kB)]
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Membrane curvature studied using two-dimensional NMR in fluid lipid bilayers
François Macquaire and Myer Bloom
pp. 4735-4742 [View Page Images or PDF (1,625 kB)]
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Two-dimensional exchange 2H NMR experiments of phospholipid bilayers on a spherical solid support
C. Dolainsky, M. Unger, M. Bloom, and T. M. Bayerl
pp. 4743-4750 [View Page Images or PDF (1,740 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Symmetry-broken double fingers and seaweed patterns in thin-film directional solidification of a nonfaceted cubic crystal
Silvère Akamatsu, Gabriel Faivre, and Thomas Ihle
pp. 4751-4773 [View Page Images or PDF (7,241 kB)]
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Diffusion-limited annihilation with initially separated reactants
P. L. Krapivsky
pp. 4774-4777 [View Page Images or PDF (649 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Inverse bremsstrahlung in strong radiation fields at low temperatures
G. J. Pert
pp. 4778-4789 [View Page Images or PDF (1,696 kB)]
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Nonlinear oblique modulation of ion-acoustic waves in a multicomponent plasma with negative ions
M. K. Mishra, R. S. Chhabra, and S. R. Sharma
pp. 4790-4795 [View Page Images or PDF (919 kB)]
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Higher-order contributions to ion-acoustic solitary waves in a multicomponent plasma consisting of warm ions and two-component nonisothermal electrons
K. P. Das, S. R. Majumdar, and S. N. Paul
pp. 4796-4803 [View Page Images or PDF (1,144 kB)]
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Structure of O2- in dense helium gas
A. G. Khrapak, W. F. Schmidt, and K. F. Volykhin
pp. 4804-4806 [View Page Images or PDF (419 kB)]
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Anomalous transport in turbulent plasmas and continuous time random walks
R. Balescu
pp. 4807-4822 [View Page Images or PDF (2,715 kB)]
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Increased kilo-electron-volt x-ray yields from Z-pinch plasmas by mixing elements of similar atomic numbers
C. Deeney, P. D. LePell, B. H. Failor, S. L. Wong, J. P. Apruzese, K. G. Whitney, J. W. Thornhill, J. Davis, E. Yadlowsky, R. C. Hazelton, J. J. Moschella, T. Nash, and N. Loter
pp. 4823-4832 [View Page Images or PDF (1,648 kB)]
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Nonlinear ponderomotive scattering of relativistic electrons by an intense laser field at focus
F. V. Hartemann, S. N. Fochs, G. P. Le Sage, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., J. G. Woodworth, M. D. Perry, Y. J. Chen, and A. K. Kerman
pp. 4833-4843 [View Page Images or PDF (1,523 kB)]
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Diffusive processes in a stochastic magnetic field
Hai-Da Wang, M. Vlad, E. Van den Eijnden, F. Spineanu, J. H. Misguich, and R. Balescu
pp. 4844-4859 [View Page Images or PDF (2,882 kB)]
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Envelope evolution of a laser pulse in an active medium
D. L. Fisher, T. Tajima, M. C. Downer, and C. W. Siders
pp. 4860-4868 [View Page Images or PDF (1,479 kB)]
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Pressure ionization in the spherical ion-cell model of dense plasmas and a pressure formula in the relativistic Pauli approximation
Thomas Blenski and Kenichi Ishikawa
pp. 4869-4881 [View Page Images or PDF (1,873 kB)]
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Effect of configuration widths on the spectra of local thermodynamic equilibrium plasmas
A. Bar-Shalom, J. Oreg, and W. H. Goldstein
pp. 4882-4890 [View Page Images or PDF (1,134 kB)]
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Influence of ion dynamics on the width and shift of isolated He i lines in plasmas. II
Z. Mijatović, N. Konjević, M. Ivković, and R. Kobilarov
pp. 4891-4896 [View Page Images or PDF (1,080 kB)]
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Time-resolved density measurements of x-ray-heated Teflon foils using absorption spectroscopy
J. C. Moreno, C. A. Back, R. C. Cauble, J. A. Koch, and R. W. Lee
pp. 4897-4900 [View Page Images or PDF (652 kB)]
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Generally covariant relativistic anisotropic magnetohydrodynamics
M. Gedalin and I. Oiberman
pp. 4901-4907 [View Page Images or PDF (1,054 kB)]
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Quasilinear evolution of cyclotron maser instability
Peter H. Yoon and L. F. Ziebell
pp. 4908-4916 [View Page Images or PDF (1,441 kB)]
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Nonlinear response of electric fields at a neutral point
Mikhail Berkovsky, James W. Dufty, Annette Calisti, Roland Stamm, and Bernard Talin
pp. 4917-4929 [View Page Images or PDF (1,811 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Stimulated microwave emission from E×B drifting electrons in slow-wave cavities: A quantum approach
Spilios Riyopoulos
pp. 4930-4946 [View Page Images or PDF (2,404 kB)]
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Effects of a nonlinear damping force in synchrotrons with electron cooling
D. D. Caussyn, M. Ball, J. Budnick, G. East, M. Ellison, B. Hamilton, K. Hedblom, X. Kang, S. Y. Lee, D. Li, J. Y. Liu, K. Y. Ng, A. Riabko, L. Wang, and Y. Wang
pp. 4947-4957 [View Page Images or PDF (1,892 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Discreteness effects on the double sine-Gordon kink
P. Tchofo Dinda and C. R. Willis
pp. 4958-4977 [View Page Images or PDF (3,126 kB)]
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Gap-soliton propagation in nonuniform gratings
Neil G. R. Broderick and C. Martijn de Sterke
pp. 4978-4985 [View Page Images or PDF (1,308 kB)]
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Numerical analyses of the collision of localized structures in the Davey-Stewartson equations
Katsuhiro Nishinari and Tetsu Yajima
pp. 4986-4993 [View Page Images or PDF (1,410 kB)]
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Periodical waves, domain walls, and modulational instability in dispersive quadratic nonlinear media
P. Ferro and S. Trillo
pp. 4994-4998 [View Page Images or PDF (801 kB)]
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Ground state of the Frenkel-Kontorova model with a transverse degree of freedom
O. M. Braun and M. Peyrard
pp. 4999-5015 [View Page Images or PDF (2,749 kB)]
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Self-focusing of plane dark solitons in nonlinear defocusing media
Dmitry E. Pelinovsky, Yuri A. Stepanyants, and Yuri S. Kivshar
pp. 5016-5026 [View Page Images or PDF (1,884 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Versatility and adaptive performance
Preben Alstrøm and Dimitris Stassinopoulos
pp. 5027-5032 [View Page Images or PDF (915 kB)]
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Democratic reinforcement: A principle for brain function
Dimitris Stassinopoulos and Per Bak
pp. 5033-5039 [View Page Images or PDF (1,438 kB)]
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Finite signal transmission times and synaptic memory in neural networks
U. Krüger, W. Martienssen, and D. H. Rischke
pp. 5040-5047 [View Page Images or PDF (1,186 kB)]
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Calculation of the dynamics of drug binding in a netropsin-DNA complex
Y. Z. Chen and E. W. Prohofsky
pp. 5048-5057 [View Page Images or PDF (1,964 kB)]
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Spontaneous nucleation of microtubules
D. Kuchnir Fygenson, H. Flyvbjerg, K. Sneppen, A. Libchaber, and S. Leibler
pp. 5058-5063 [View Page Images or PDF (1,110 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal processing in neural networks with random synaptic background activity
Paul C. Bressloff
pp. 5064-5073 [View Page Images or PDF (1,537 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions: High-resolution path-integral calculation of short-term memory
Lester Ingber and Paul L. Nunez
pp. 5074-5083 [View Page Images or PDF (2,206 kB)]
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Long-range correlation properties of coding and noncoding DNA sequences: GenBank analysis
S. V. Buldyrev, A. L. Goldberger, S. Havlin, R. N. Mantegna, M. E. Matsa, C.-K. Peng, M. Simons, and H. E. Stanley
pp. 5084-5091 [View Page Images or PDF (1,249 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Statistical errors in histogram reweighting
Alan M. Ferrenberg, D. P. Landau, and Robert H. Swendsen
pp. 5092-5100 [View Page Images or PDF (1,389 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Asymptotic diffusion coefficient of particles in a random medium
Hailemariam Ambaye and Klaus W. Kehr
pp. 5101-5102 [View Page Images or PDF (258 kB)]
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Coherent structures in coupled map lattices
Jolly K. John and R. E. Amritkar
pp. 5103-5105 [View Page Images or PDF (539 kB)]
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Instability of weakly nonlinear chaotic structures
V. V. Vecheslavov
pp. 5106-5108 [View Page Images or PDF (546 kB)]
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Controlling the unstable steady state in a multimode laser
Thomas W. Carr and Ira B. Schwartz
pp. 5109-5111 [View Page Images or PDF (550 kB)]
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Supersymmetric time-continuous discrete random walks
Haret C. Rosu and Marco Reyes
pp. 5112-5115 [View Page Images or PDF (628 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Gibbs-ensemble molecular dynamics: Liquid-gas equilibrium in a Lennard-Jones system
M. J. Kotelyanskii and R. Hentschke
pp. 5116-5119 [View Page Images or PDF (707 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Lyapunov exponents and the merger of point-vortex clusters
M. Jentschel, A. Thess, and U. Bahr
pp. 5120-5123 [View Page Images or PDF (810 kB)]
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Equilibrium states of two-dimensional turbulence: An experimental study
D. Marteau, O. Cardoso, and P. Tabeling
pp. 5124-5127 [View Page Images or PDF (1,518 kB)]
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Three-dimensional negative eddy viscosity effect on the onset of instability in some planar flows
Youichi Murakami, Masayuki Murakami, and Kanefusa Gotoh
pp. 5128-5131 [View Page Images or PDF (748 kB)]
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Universal spatiotemporal scaling in the dynamics of one-dimensional pattern selection
Michael I. Tribelsky, Shoichi Kai, Hideki Yamazaki, and Manuel G. Velarde
pp. 5132-5135 [View Page Images or PDF (799 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Generalized Kelvin equation and the water content of a cloud
V. A. Kuz
pp. 5136-5138 [View Page Images or PDF (474 kB)]
See Also: Comment

Plasma Physics

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Observation of O v visible transitions in a tokamak divertor plasma
S. I. Lippmann, K. B. Fournier, A. L. Osterheld, and W. H. Goldstein
pp. 5139-5142 [View Page Images or PDF (755 kB)]
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Relative intensities of Δn=0 transitions within the n=2 and n=3 levels in nitrogenlike Ar xii from a θ-pinch plasma
E. Schmieder and H.-J. Kunze
pp. 5143-5146 [View Page Images or PDF (692 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Transient regime and superradiance in a short-pulse free-electron-laser oscillator
Nicola Piovella
pp. 5147-5150 [View Page Images or PDF (673 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Relation between relativistic quantum mechanics and classical electromagnetic field theory
Johannes F. Geurdes
pp. 5151-5154 [View Page Images or PDF (525 kB)]
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Algebraic solitary-wave polaritons in far-infrared transients
K. Hayata and M. Koshiba
pp. 5155-5157 [View Page Images or PDF (495 kB)]
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Scattering in a two-dimensional photonic crystal: An analytical model
T. J. Shepherd and P. J. Roberts
pp. 5158-5161 [View Page Images or PDF (599 kB)]
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Gibbs-ensemble path-integral Monte Carlo simulations of a mixed quantum-classical fluid
F. Schneider, D. Marx, and P. Nielaba
pp. 5162-5165 [View Page Images or PDF (768 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Energy balance for a dissipative system’’
I. R. Senitzky
pp. 5166-5168 [View Page Images or PDF (348 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Energy balance for a dissipative system’ ’’
X. L. Li, G. W. Ford, and R. F. O’Connell
pp. 5169-5171 [View Page Images or PDF (443 kB)]