Physical Review E – July 1995
Volume 52, Issue 1

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Dynamical properties of a growing surface on a random substrate
Dinko Cule
pp. R1-R4 [View Page Images or PDF (671 kB)]
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Universality in models for disorder-induced phase transitions
Eduard Vives, Jürgen Goicoechea, Jordi Ortín, and Antoni Planes
pp. R5-R8 [View Page Images or PDF (730 kB)]
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Existence of long-range order in the steady state of a two-dimensional, two-temperature XY model
Kevin E. Bassler and Zoltán Rácz
pp. R9-R12 [View Page Images or PDF (727 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Slow domain growth in a system with competing interactions
Madan Rao and Amitabha Chakrabarti
pp. R13-R16 [View Page Images or PDF (893 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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In-plane anchoring energy in ferroelectric liquid crystals: Evidence for its existence and measurement
Yu. P. Panarin, S. T. Mac Lughadha, and J. K. Vij
pp. R17-R20 [View Page Images or PDF (1,143 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Evidence for a discotic smectic-nematic phase induced in Langmuir-Blodgett films
Radoslav Ionov and Angelina Angelova
pp. R21-R24 [View Page Images or PDF (954 kB)]
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Structure of molecular liquids
Michael P. Allen, Carl P. Mason, Enrique de Miguel, and Joachim Stelzer
pp. R25-R28 [View Page Images or PDF (669 kB)]
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Bulk and surface correlations in a microemulsion
D. D. Lee, S. H. Chen, C. F. Majkrzak, and S. K. Satija
pp. R29-R32 [View Page Images or PDF (725 kB)]

Biological physics

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Dynamics of concentration-dependent ionic currents
Marc Leonetti
pp. R33-R35 [View Page Images or PDF (570 kB)]
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Modified Mackey-Glass model of respiration control
P.S. Landa and M.G. Rosenblum
pp. R36-R39 [View Page Images or PDF (642 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Nonunique stationary states in driven collisional systems with application to plasmas
E. Carlen, R. Esposito, J. L. Lebowitz, R. Marra, and A. Rokhlenko
pp. R40-R43 [View Page Images or PDF (703 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Potts model on the Bethe lattice with mixed interactions
J. W. Essam, Jian-Cheng Lin, and P. L. Taylor
pp. 44-52 [View Page Images or PDF (1,206 kB)]
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Localization in disordered structures: Breakdown of the self-averaging hypothesis
Armin Bunde and Julia Dräger
pp. 53-56 [View Page Images or PDF (690 kB)]
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Coherence-preserving chaos in a mixed quantum classical description
Jiang-bin Gong, Gong-ou Xu, and Rui-hua Xie
pp. 57-62 [View Page Images or PDF (975 kB)]
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Open surfaces and gauge-invariant Ising models
Giuseppe Gonnella and J. M. J. van Leeuwen
pp. 63-71 [View Page Images or PDF (1,541 kB)]
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Self-organized critical scaling at surfaces
A. L. Stella, C. Tebaldi, and G. Caldarelli
pp. 72-75 [View Page Images or PDF (757 kB)]
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Catalysis on microstructured surfaces: Pattern formation during CO oxidation in complex Pt domains
M. D. Graham, M. Bär, I. G. Kevrekidis, K. Asakura, J. Lauterbach, H.-H. Rotermund, and G. Ertl
pp. 76-93 [View Page Images or PDF (6,342 kB)]
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Experimental control of chaos in a laser
M. Ciofini, R. Meucci, and F. T. Arecchi
pp. 94-97 [View Page Images or PDF (683 kB)]
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Dynamics of spiral waves in excitable media subjected to external periodic forcing
A. Schrader, M. Braune, and H. Engel
pp. 98-108 [View Page Images or PDF (2,514 kB)]
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Systematic perturbation solution for Brownian motion in a biased periodic potential field
Zhigang Zheng and Gang Hu
pp. 109-114 [View Page Images or PDF (726 kB)]
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Coupled map lattices as models of deterministic and stochastic differential delay equations
Jérôme Losson and Michael C. Mackey
pp. 115-128 [View Page Images or PDF (2,132 kB)]
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Global stability of stationary patterns in bistable reaction-diffusion systems
G. Izús, R. Deza, O. Ramírez, Horacio S. Wio, D. H. Zanette, and C. Borzi
pp. 129-136 [View Page Images or PDF (1,155 kB)]
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Simulating a Brownian type of motion: The rescaling-velocity approach versus the Langevin approach
E. Barkai and V. Fleurov
pp. 137-147 [View Page Images or PDF (1,646 kB)]
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Statistical measures of chaos in quantum systems
Per Persson and Sven Åberg
pp. 148-153 [View Page Images or PDF (993 kB)]
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Influence of defects in a coupled map lattice modeling earthquakes
Horacio Ceva
pp. 154-158 [View Page Images or PDF (762 kB)]
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Colored-noise problem: A Markovian interpolation procedure
F. Castro, H. S. Wio, and G. Abramson
pp. 159-164 [View Page Images or PDF (800 kB)]
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Semiclassical model for quantum dissipation
A. M. Kowalski, A. Plastino, and A. N. Proto
pp. 165-177 [View Page Images or PDF (1,728 kB)]
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Quantum transition-state theory below the crossover temperature
Dmitrii E. Makarov and Maria Topaler
pp. 178-188 [View Page Images or PDF (1,970 kB)]
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Off-diagonal long-range order, pair distribution function, and structure factor of the ideal Fermi gas in D dimensions and Price’s inequality
M. Howard Lee and Ming Long
pp. 189-195 [View Page Images or PDF (1,063 kB)]
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Kolmogorov-Smirnov test distinguishes attractors with similar dimensions
A. M. Albano, P. E. Rapp, and A. Passamante
pp. 196-206 [View Page Images or PDF (2,013 kB)]
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Distribution of the first return time in fractional Brownian motion and its application to the study of on-off intermittency
Mingzhou Ding and Weiming Yang
pp. 207-213 [View Page Images or PDF (1,058 kB)]
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Blending chaotic attractors using the synchronization of chaos
Henry D. I. Abarbanel, Nikolai F. Rulkov, and Mikhail M. Sushchik
pp. 214-217 [View Page Images or PDF (681 kB)]
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Traffic jams, granular flow, and soliton selection
Douglas A. Kurtze and Daniel C. Hong
pp. 218-221 [View Page Images or PDF (634 kB)]
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Determination of limit cycles for two-dimensional dynamical systems
H. Giacomini and M. Viano
pp. 222-228 [View Page Images or PDF (1,026 kB)]
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Thermal Schrödinger equation
M. D. Kostin
pp. 229-233 [View Page Images or PDF (727 kB)]
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Lattice thermal conductivity via homogeneous nonequilibrium molecular dynamics
Atsuhiko Maeda and Toyonori Munakata
pp. 234-239 [View Page Images or PDF (819 kB)]
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Oscillatory instability in thermal cracking: A first-order phase-transition phenomenon
H.-A. Bahr, A. Gerbatsch, U. Bahr, and H.-J. Weiss
pp. 240-243 [View Page Images or PDF (609 kB)]
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Coarsening in the q-state Potts model and the Ising model with globally conserved magnetization
Clément Sire and Satya N. Majumdar
pp. 244-254 [View Page Images or PDF (2,143 kB)]
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Spatial properties of integrable and nonintegrable discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations
D. Hennig, N. G. Sun, H. Gabriel, and G. P. Tsironis
pp. 255-269 [View Page Images or PDF (2,959 kB)]
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Growth of long-range correlations after a quench in phase-ordering systems
Satya N. Majumdar and David A. Huse
pp. 270-284 [View Page Images or PDF (2,869 kB)]
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Singular continuous spectra in dissipative dynamics
Arkady S. Pikovsky, Michael A. Zaks, Ulrike Feudel, and Jürgen Kurths
pp. 285-296 [View Page Images or PDF (2,000 kB)]
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Searching periodic orbits with a modulation based on Shannon entropy
Hong-Jyh Li and Jyh-Long Chern
pp. 297-302 [View Page Images or PDF (1,035 kB)]
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Brownian motion in fluctuating media
M. Gitterman
pp. 303-306 [View Page Images or PDF (719 kB)]
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Shock waves and time scales to reach equipartition in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model
Pietro Poggi, Stefano Ruffo, and Holger Kantz
pp. 307-315 [View Page Images or PDF (1,479 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in a mean-field model of cooperative behavior
M. Morillo, J. Gómez-Ordoñez, and J. M. Casado
pp. 316-320 [View Page Images or PDF (845 kB)]
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Cell-dynamics modeling of oscillator systems
M. Bahiana and M. S. O. Massunaga
pp. 321-326 [View Page Images or PDF (892 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamic elements with noisy sinusoidal forcing: Enhancing response via nonlinear coupling
M. E. Inchiosa and A. R. Bulsara
pp. 327-339 [View Page Images or PDF (2,475 kB)]
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Measurement trajectories of chaotic quantum systems
M. Schlautmann and R. Graham
pp. 340-350 [View Page Images or PDF (1,897 kB)]
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Unified inversion technique for fermion and boson integral equations
Qian Xie and Nan-xian Chen
pp. 351-355 [View Page Images or PDF (494 kB)]
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Method to study relaxation of metastable phases: Macroscopic mean-field dynamics
Jooyoung Lee, M. A. Novotny, and Per Arne Rikvold
pp. 356-372 [View Page Images or PDF (3,311 kB)]
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Surface roughening with quenched disorder in high dimensions: Exact results for the Cayley tree
Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, Janos Kertész, Reza Sadr-Lahijany, Arkady Shehter, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 373-388 [View Page Images or PDF (2,324 kB)]
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Semiclassical quantization using Bogomolny’s quantum surface of section
M. R. Haggerty
pp. 389-408 [View Page Images or PDF (3,651 kB)]
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Mean first-passage times for systems driven by equilibrium persistent-periodic dichotomous noise
Josep M. Porrà and Katja Lindenberg
pp. 409-417 [View Page Images or PDF (1,355 kB)]
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Exact calculations of the relaxation for a model of electron transfer with strong electronic coupling
Masako Takasu
pp. 418-427 [View Page Images or PDF (1,316 kB)]
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Stochastic dynamics of quantum jumps
Heinz-Peter Breuer and Francesco Petruccione
pp. 428-441 [View Page Images or PDF (2,265 kB)]
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Lattice plasma in infinitely many dimensions
Michael Schulz and Harry L. Frisch
pp. 442-445 [View Page Images or PDF (497 kB)]
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Correlations in binary sequences and a generalized Zipf analysis
Andras Czirók, Rosario N. Mantegna, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 446-452 [View Page Images or PDF (1,111 kB)]
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Dynamic interaction between discontinuity and noninvertibility: An analytical study
Shan Guan, Bing-Hong Wang, Da-kai Wang, and Da-Ren He
pp. 453-465 [View Page Images or PDF (2,029 kB)]
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Extended and localized states of generalized kicked Harper models
Itzhack Dana
pp. 466-472 [View Page Images or PDF (1,376 kB)]
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Nonlinear resonance and chaos in the relativistic phase space for driven nonlinear systems
Jung-Hoon Kim and Hai-Woong Lee
pp. 473-480 [View Page Images or PDF (1,110 kB)]
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Iterated function system and diffusion in the presence of disorder and traps
Thomas Wichmann, Achille Giacometti, and K. P. N. Murthy
pp. 481-485 [View Page Images or PDF (663 kB)]
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Phase of the Riemann ζ function and the inverted harmonic oscillator
R. K. Bhaduri, Avinash Khare, and J. Law
pp. 486-491 [View Page Images or PDF (869 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Global flow waves in chemically induced convection
Kai Matthiessen and Stefan C. Müller
pp. 492-495 [View Page Images or PDF (945 kB)]
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Negative dimensions of the turbulent dissipation field
Jaap Molenaar, Janine Herweijer, and Willem van de Water
pp. 496-509 [View Page Images or PDF (2,015 kB)]
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Correlations and renormalization in lattice gases
Bruce M. Boghosian and Washington Taylor
pp. 510-554 [View Page Images or PDF (6,928 kB)]
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Inhomogeneity of viscous aqueous solutions
G. Barshtein, A. Almagor, S. Yedgar, and B. Gavish
pp. 555-557 [View Page Images or PDF (626 kB)]
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Langmuir turbulence and three-wave nonlinear dynamics
S. E. Gibson, D. L. Newman, and M. V. Goldman
pp. 558-571 [View Page Images or PDF (2,526 kB)]
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Analytic solution of the mean spherical approximation for a dipolar hard-sphere fluid with intracore anisotropic sticky interactions
Orest Pizio and Lesser Blum
pp. 572-579 [View Page Images or PDF (1,216 kB)]
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Ellipsometric measurement of universal critical adsorption integrals
Dan S. P. Smith and Bruce M. Law
pp. 580-595 [View Page Images or PDF (2,412 kB)]
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Description of the geometrical and topological structure in amphiphilic systems
A. Ciach and A. Poniewierski
pp. 596-601 [View Page Images or PDF (970 kB)]
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Critical-point and coexistence-curve properties of the Lennard-Jones fluid: A finite-size scaling study
Nigel B. Wilding
pp. 602-611 [View Page Images or PDF (1,841 kB)]
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Density expansion for the mobility in a quantum Lorentz model
K. I. Wysokiński, Wansoo Park, D. Belitz, and T. R. Kirkpatrick
pp. 612-622 [View Page Images or PDF (1,715 kB)]
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Temperature and entropy production operator in Fourier heat conduction
Ferenc Márkus and Katalin Gambár
pp. 623-626 [View Page Images or PDF (455 kB)]
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Instability nature of the swirl appearance in liquid cones
Vladimir Shtern and Antonio Barrero
pp. 627-635 [View Page Images or PDF (1,618 kB)]
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Model of intermittency in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
H. Politano and A. Pouquet
pp. 636-641 [View Page Images or PDF (1,170 kB)]
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Influence of the Dufour effect on convection in binary gas mixtures
St. Hollinger and M. Lücke
pp. 642-657 [View Page Images or PDF (2,702 kB)]
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Dynamical simulation of fluidized beds: Hydrodynamically interacting granular particles
Kengo Ichiki and Hisao Hayakawa
pp. 658-670 [View Page Images or PDF (2,230 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Off-specular x-ray scattering in Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers of a liquid-crystalline polymer
R. E. Geer, S. B. Qadri, R. Shashidhar, A. F. Thibodeaux, and R. S. Duran
pp. 671-680 [View Page Images or PDF (1,738 kB)]
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Director deformation of a twisted chiral nematic liquid crystal cell with weak anchoring boundaries
Akihiko Sugimura, Geoffrey R. Luckhurst, and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
pp. 681-689 [View Page Images or PDF (1,155 kB)]
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Nematic order director fluctuations and nuclear magnetic relaxation of a confined liquid crystal
P. Ziherl, M. Vilfan, and S. Žumer
pp. 690-701 [View Page Images or PDF (2,070 kB)]
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Tetrahedral symmetry in nematic liquid crystals
L. G. Fel
pp. 702-717 [View Page Images or PDF (2,264 kB)]
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Alignment tensor versus director: Description of defects in nematic liquid crystals
A. Sonnet, A. Kilian, and S. Hess
pp. 718-722 [View Page Images or PDF (789 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Video microscope and elastic light scattering studies of fast-mode kinetics in surface-mediated spinodal decomposition
Christopher Harrison, William Rippard, and Andrew Cumming
pp. 723-729 [View Page Images or PDF (1,632 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic interaction of particles with grafted polymer brushes and applications to rheology of colloidal dispersions
A. A. Potanin and W. B. Russel
pp. 730-737 [View Page Images or PDF (1,208 kB)]
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Dynamics in viscous orthoterphenyl: Results from coherent neutron scattering
E. Bartsch, F. Fujara, J. F. Legrand, W. Petry, H. Sillescu, and J. Wuttke
pp. 738-745 [View Page Images or PDF (1,636 kB)]
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Static and dynamic light scattering in nonionic critical micellar solutions of water–pentaethylene glycol n-dodecylether
K. Hamano, K. Fukuhara, N. Kuwahara, E. Ducros, M. Benseddik, J. Rouch, and P. Tartaglia
pp. 746-757 [View Page Images or PDF (2,260 kB)]
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Adsorption in a spherical cavity
Douglas Henderson and Stefan Sokołowski
pp. 758-762 [View Page Images or PDF (816 kB)]
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Cluster formation, standing waves, and stripe patterns in oscillatory active media with local and global coupling
M. Falcke, H. Engel, and M. Neufeld
pp. 763-771 [View Page Images or PDF (1,491 kB)]
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Curvature controlled wetting in two dimensions
Tamir Gil and Lev V. Mikheev
pp. 772-780 [View Page Images or PDF (1,448 kB)]
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Neutron scattering study of the picosecond dynamics of polybutadiene and polyisoprene
R. Zorn, A. Arbe, J. Colmenero, B. Frick, D. Richter, and U. Buchenau
pp. 781-795 [View Page Images or PDF (2,840 kB)]
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Scaling of fractal aggregates
Bayard K. Johnson, Robert F. Sekerka, and Michael P. Foley
pp. 796-800 [View Page Images or PDF (836 kB)]
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Fluid diffusion through a porous solid: Nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulation
W. Dong and H. Luo
pp. 801-804 [View Page Images or PDF (759 kB)]
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Concentration dependence of solution shear viscosity and solute mass diffusivity in crystal growth from solutions
Alexander F. Izmailov and Allan S. Myerson
pp. 805-812 [View Page Images or PDF (1,162 kB)]
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Viscosity of a one-component polarizable fluid
J. M. Sun and R. Tao
pp. 813-818 [View Page Images or PDF (952 kB)]
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Geometrical percolation threshold of overlapping ellipsoids
E. J. Garboczi, K. A. Snyder, J. F. Douglas, and M. F. Thorpe
pp. 819-828 [View Page Images or PDF (1,745 kB)]
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Spinodal decomposition of a symmetric binary fluid mixture in quasi two dimensions: Local orientational ordering of fluid tubes
Hajime Tanaka and Tomoo Sigehuzi
pp. 829-834 [View Page Images or PDF (1,411 kB)]
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Randomly charged polymers: An exact enumeration study
Yacov Kantor and Mehran Kardar
pp. 835-846 [View Page Images or PDF (2,356 kB)]
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Experimental probes of bond orientational order models of blue phase III of chiral liquid crystals
Hua Zhong and Rolfe G. Petschek
pp. 847-852 [View Page Images or PDF (1,269 kB)]
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Metastable dynamics of the hard-sphere system
Joonhyun Yeo
pp. 853-861 [View Page Images or PDF (1,655 kB)]
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Making a (colloidal) liquid: A van der Waals approach
Tamara Coussaert and Marc Baus
pp. 862-869 [View Page Images or PDF (1,309 kB)]

Biological physics

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Hierarchically correlated patterns in Potts neural networks
D. Bollé and J. Huyghebaert
pp. 870-879 [View Page Images or PDF (1,509 kB)]
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Multifractal analysis of solvent accessibilities in proteins
James S. Balafas and T. Gregory Dewey
pp. 880-887 [View Page Images or PDF (1,477 kB)]
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Replica symmetry breaking in a diluted network with binary couplings
J. Iwanski, J. Schietse, and M. Bouten
pp. 888-894 [View Page Images or PDF (1,106 kB)]
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Chromosome mapping: Radiation hybrid data and stochastic spin models
C. T. Falk and H. Falk
pp. 895-900 [View Page Images or PDF (1,007 kB)]
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Helical coordinate system and electrostatic fields of double-helix charge distributions
P. J. Lin-Chung and A. K. Rajagopal
pp. 901-906 [View Page Images or PDF (915 kB)]
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Pinned polymer model of posture control
Carson C. Chow and J. J. Collins
pp. 907-912 [View Page Images or PDF (1,010 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Excitation of Ar lines in the cathode region of a dc discharge
K. Rózsa, A. Gallagher, and Z. Donkó
pp. 913-918 [View Page Images or PDF (1,026 kB)]
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Heavy-ion interaction in a nonisothermal plasma with two-ion correlation effects
J. D’Avanzo, M. Lontano, E. Tome’, and P. F. Bortignon
pp. 919-931 [View Page Images or PDF (1,954 kB)]
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Vortex filament dynamics in plasmas and superconductors
Lars Uby, Michael B. Isichenko, and Vladimir V. Yankov
pp. 932-939 [View Page Images or PDF (1,501 kB)]
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Effect of plasma single-particle excitations on the rate of nuclear reactions in the sun
I. S. Batkin and M. K. Sundaresan
pp. 940-947 [View Page Images or PDF (1,330 kB)]
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Front-curvature effects in the dynamics of confined radiatively bistable plasmas: Perfect patterns and Ostwald ripening
Igor Aranson, Baruch Meerson, and Pavel V. Sasorov
pp. 948-971 [View Page Images or PDF (5,112 kB)]
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Electron distribution function in a low-pressure inductively coupled plasma
V. I. Kolobov and W. N. G. Hitchon
pp. 972-980 [View Page Images or PDF (1,716 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Tunability of free-electron lasers
R. K. Wong and W. B. Colson
pp. 981-985 [View Page Images or PDF (994 kB)]
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Influence of multiple electron scattering on the gain in a gas-loaded free-electron laser
V. V. Goloviznin and P. W. van Amersfoort
pp. 986-997 [View Page Images or PDF (1,893 kB)]
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Theory of relativistic cyclotron masers
G. S. Nusinovich, P. E. Latham, and O. Dumbrajs
pp. 998-1012 [View Page Images or PDF (2,882 kB)]
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Two-dimensional charge densities in intense rectangular ion beams with space-charge neutralization
Douglas A. Brown and John F. O’Hanlon
pp. 1013-1025 [View Page Images or PDF (2,052 kB)]
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Transverse stability of bunch trains
Robert L. Gluckstern, Hiromi Okamoto, and Bruno Zotter
pp. 1026-1038 [View Page Images or PDF (2,155 kB)]
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Muon transverse ionization cooling: Stochastic approach
R. C. Fernow and J. C. Gallardo
pp. 1039-1042 [View Page Images or PDF (481 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Refractive indices for extraordinary waves in uniaxial crystals
Zhongxing Shao
pp. 1043-1048 [View Page Images or PDF (833 kB)]
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Nonlinear electromagnetics in chiral media: Self-action of waves
G. Ya. Slepyan, S. A. Maksimenko, F. G. Bass, and A. Lakhtakia
pp. 1049-1058 [View Page Images or PDF (1,750 kB)]
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Soliton interaction near the zero-dispersion wavelength
I. M. Uzunov, M. Gölles, and F. Lederer
pp. 1059-1071 [View Page Images or PDF (2,390 kB)]
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Modulational instabilities in dispersion-flattened fibers
M. Yu, C. J. McKinstrie, and Govind P. Agrawal
pp. 1072-1080 [View Page Images or PDF (1,452 kB)]
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Nonlinear anomalous ferromagnetic Faraday effect
H. Leblond
pp. 1081-1093 [View Page Images or PDF (1,922 kB)]
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Structural properties of kinks and domain walls in nonlinear oscillatory lattices
Bruce Denardo and William B. Wright
pp. 1094-1104 [View Page Images or PDF (2,252 kB)]
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Solitons in the periodic Korteweg–de Vries equation, the FTHETA-function representation, and the analysis of nonlinear, stochastic wave trains
A. R. Osborne
pp. 1105-1122 [View Page Images or PDF (3,320 kB)]
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Propagation in random media: Calculation of the effective dispersive permittivity by use of the replica method
M. Barthelemy, H. Orland, and G. Zerah
pp. 1123-1127 [View Page Images or PDF (724 kB)]
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Stochastic model for tunneling processes: The question of superluminal behavior
A. Ranfagni and D. Mugnai
pp. 1128-1134 [View Page Images or PDF (1,143 kB)]
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Photonic band gaps for arrays of perfectly conducting cylinders
N. A. Nicorovici, R. C. McPhedran, and L. C. Botten
pp. 1135-1145 [View Page Images or PDF (1,737 kB)]
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Statistical properties of the eigenfrequency distribution of three-dimensional microwave cavities
S. Deus, P. M. Koch, and L. Sirko
pp. 1146-1155 [View Page Images or PDF (1,754 kB)]
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Stationary soliton bound states existing in resonance with linear waves
Alexander V. Buryak
pp. 1156-1163 [View Page Images or PDF (1,278 kB)]

Computational physics

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Solid-fluid boundaries in particle suspension simulations via the lattice Boltzmann method
O. Behrend
pp. 1164-1175 [View Page Images or PDF (2,305 kB)]
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Fast Monte Carlo algorithms for knotted polymers
Stephen R. Quake
pp. 1176-1180 [View Page Images or PDF (931 kB)]
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Simultaneous multigrid techniques for nonlinear eigenvalue problems: Solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson eigenvalue problem in two and three dimensions
Sorin Costiner and Shlomo Ta’asan
pp. 1181-1192 [View Page Images or PDF (1,889 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Construction of invariant tori in chaotic regions
Mikko Kaasalainen
pp. 1193-1196 [View Page Images or PDF (659 kB)]
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Analytic approach to the problem of convergence of truncated Lévy flights towards the Gaussian stochastic process
Ismo Koponen
pp. 1197-1199 [View Page Images or PDF (332 kB)]
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Mechanism of noise-induced resonance
Tomasz Kapitaniak
pp. 1200-1201 [View Page Images or PDF (307 kB)]
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Transition density of diffusion on the Sierpinski gasket and extension of Flory’s formula
Tetsuya Hattori and Hideo Nakajima
pp. 1202-1205 [View Page Images or PDF (679 kB)]
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Universal scaling in coupled maps
Sang-Yoon Kim
pp. 1206-1209 [View Page Images or PDF (617 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Geometric properties of isovorticity surfaces in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Vincenzo Carbone
pp. 1210-1212 [View Page Images or PDF (589 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium structures in reacting fluids subject to external forces
Damián H. Zanette
pp. 1213-1215 [View Page Images or PDF (479 kB)]
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Critical behavior of heat capacity at the smectic-Cα*–smectic-A transition of the antiferroelectric liquid crystal methylheptyloxycarbonylphenyl octyloxybiphenyl carboxylate (MHPOBC)
Kenji Ema, Jun Watanabe, Atsushi Takagi, and Haruhiko Yao
pp. 1216-1219 [View Page Images or PDF (770 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Influence of spatial inhomogeneities on the Fréedericksz threshold
A. L. Alexe-Ionescu, G. Barbero, and L. R. Evangelista
pp. 1220-1222 [View Page Images or PDF (468 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Diverging length scales at first-order wetting transitions
R. Blossey and J. O. Indekeu
pp. 1223-1226 [View Page Images or PDF (625 kB)]
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Analytic treatment of cooperativity effects in supercooled liquids within the framework of the random-walk model
V. I. Arkhipov and H. Bässler
pp. 1227-1230 [View Page Images or PDF (784 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Partially polarized beams in nonlinear Thomson scattering
Eduardo Ugaz
pp. 1231-1234 [View Page Images or PDF (770 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Line integral formula for scattering of waves from a thin plate
Ahmad Abawi, Roger Dashen, and Steve Wandzura
pp. 1235-1237 [View Page Images or PDF (379 kB)]
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Modulational instability of an axisymmetric state in a two-dimensional Kerr medium
Boris A. Malomed and Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy
pp. 1238-1240 [View Page Images or PDF (449 kB)]
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Nonlinear transient dynamics of the driven Klein-Gordon solitons
Eva Majerniková, Y. B. Gaididei, and O. M. Braun
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COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Fluctuating interfaces in microemulsion and sponge phases’’
P. Pieruschka, S. A. Safran, and S. T. Marc̆elja
pp. 1245-1247 [View Page Images or PDF (411 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Fluctuating interfaces in microemulsion and sponge phases’ ’’
G. Gompper and J. Goos
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