Physical Review E – August 1995
Volume 52, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Desynchronization by periodic orbits
J. F. Heagy, T. L. Carroll, and L. M. Pecora
pp. R1253-R1256 [View Page Images or PDF (731 kB)]
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Surface deconstruction and roughening in the multiziggurat model of wetting
D.B. Abraham, L. Fontes, C.M. Newman, and M.S.T. Piza
pp. R1257-R1260 [View Page Images or PDF (755 kB)]
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Growth equation with a conservation law
Kent Bækgaard Lauritsen
pp. R1261-R1264 [View Page Images or PDF (589 kB)]
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On-off intermittency in a coupled-map lattice system
Fagen Xie, Gang Hu, and Zhilin Qu
pp. R1265-R1268 [View Page Images or PDF (715 kB)]
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Unusual universality of branching interfaces in random media
Mehran Kardar, Attilio L. Stella, Giovanni Sartoni, and Bernard Derrida
pp. R1269-R1272 [View Page Images or PDF (772 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Internal surface, orientational order, and distribution of a polymer network in a liquid crystal matrix
G. P. Crawford, A. Scharkowski, Y. K. Fung, J. W. Doane, and S. Zumer
pp. R1273-R1276 [View Page Images or PDF (1,057 kB)]
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Transverse interlayer order in lyotropic smectic liquid crystals
René van Roij, Peter Bolhuis, Bela Mulder, and Daan Frenkel
pp. R1277-R1280 [View Page Images or PDF (1,066 kB)]
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Flow topology associated with disjoint eddies in an asymmetric film-splitting problem
P.J. Wicks, M. Decré, Ph. Planquart, and J.M. Buchlin
pp. R1281-R1284 [View Page Images or PDF (1,032 kB)]
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Step-by-step thinning of free-standing films above the smectic-A–nematic phase transition
E. I. Demikhov, V. K. Dolganov, and K. P. Meletov
pp. R1285-R1287 [View Page Images or PDF (541 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Ginzburg criterion for the mean-field to three-dimensional Ising crossover in polymer blends
D. Schwahn, T. Schmackers, and K. Mortensen
pp. R1288-R1291 [View Page Images or PDF (716 kB)]
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Renormalization group analysis of the anisotropic Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with spatially correlated noise
H. Jeong, B. Kahng, and D. Kim
pp. R1292-R1295 [View Page Images or PDF (587 kB)]
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Anomalous roughness exponent of growing interfaces in a disordered medium
Juan M. López
pp. R1296-R1298 [View Page Images or PDF (625 kB)]

Biological physics

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Folding RNA with the minimal loss of entropy
Ariel Fernández, Hugo Arias, and Diego Guerín
pp. R1299-R1302 [View Page Images or PDF (757 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Self-focusing of ion channels in cell adhesion
Peter Fromherz
pp. R1303-R1305 [View Page Images or PDF (444 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Effects of laser spatial incoherence with finite correlation length on the space-time behavior of backscattering instabilities
Philippe Mounaix
pp. R1306-R1309 [View Page Images or PDF (700 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Spectral distribution of drums with fractal perimeters: The Weyl-Berry-Lapidus conjecture
Yutaka Hobiki, Kousuke Yakubo, and Tsuneyoshi Nakayama
pp. R1310-R1312 [View Page Images or PDF (514 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Expected number of sites visited by a constrained n-step random walk
Hernan Larralde and George H. Weiss
pp. 1313-1317 [View Page Images or PDF (765 kB)]
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Sporadic chaos in space-time dynamical processes
X.-J. Wang
pp. 1318-1324 [View Page Images or PDF (1,121 kB)]
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Microparticle driven by parametric and random forces: Theory and experiment
Alexander F. Izmailov, Stephen Arnold, Stephen Holler, and Allan S. Myerson
pp. 1325-1332 [View Page Images or PDF (1,248 kB)]
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Semiclassical features in the quantum description of a Dirac particle in a cavity
S. C. Phatak, Santanu Pal, and Debabrata Biswas
pp. 1333-1344 [View Page Images or PDF (1,950 kB)]
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Energy density profiles in critical films
M. Krech, E. Eisenriegler, and S. Dietrich
pp. 1345-1376 [View Page Images or PDF (3,784 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation of phase transitions in a two-dimensional random-bond Potts model
S. Chen, Alan M. Ferrenberg, and D. P. Landau
pp. 1377-1386 [View Page Images or PDF (1,711 kB)]
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Multifractal analysis: Pitfalls of standard procedures and alternatives
Daniele Veneziano, Glenn E. Moglen, and Rafael L. Bras
pp. 1387-1398 [View Page Images or PDF (2,230 kB)]
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Scaling of hysteresis in the Ising model and cell-dynamical systems in a linearly varying external field
Zhong Fan, Zhang Jinxiu, and Liu Xiao
pp. 1399-1402 [View Page Images or PDF (742 kB)]
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Evolution of probability densities in stochastic coupled map lattices
Jérôme Losson and Michael C. Mackey
pp. 1403-1417 [View Page Images or PDF (2,741 kB)]
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Emergence of quasiperiodicity in symmetrically coupled, identical period-doubling systems
Christian Reick and Erik Mosekilde
pp. 1418-1435 [View Page Images or PDF (2,975 kB)]
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Hysteresis in a quantum spin model
Varsha Banerjee, Sushanta Dattagupta, and Parongama Sen
pp. 1436-1446 [View Page Images or PDF (1,423 kB)]
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Generalization of the Planck radiation law and application to the cosmic microwave background radiation
Constantino Tsallis, F. C. Sá Barreto, and Edwin D. Loh
pp. 1447-1451 [View Page Images or PDF (725 kB)]
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Thermodynamics in the presence of electromagnetic fields
Y. Zimmels
pp. 1452-1464 [View Page Images or PDF (2,191 kB)]
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Effects of mobile vacancies on the dynamics of ordering and phase separation in nonconserved multicomponent systems
Henriette Gilhøj, Claus Jeppesen, and Ole G. Mouritsen
pp. 1465-1475 [View Page Images or PDF (2,066 kB)]
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Dielectric-breakdown-type crack-growth models and the fractal distribution of earthquake faults
Xian-zhi Wang and Yun Huang
pp. 1476-1479 [View Page Images or PDF (549 kB)]
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Dynamics of two coupled van der Pol oscillators
Ignacio Pastor-Díaz and Antonio López-Fraguas
pp. 1480-1489 [View Page Images or PDF (1,814 kB)]
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Plane-wave quantization for polygonal billiards
J. L. Vega, T. Uzer, and J. Ford
pp. 1490-1496 [View Page Images or PDF (1,130 kB)]
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Topologically inequivalent embeddings
G. B. Mindlin and H. G. Solari
pp. 1497-1502 [View Page Images or PDF (961 kB)]
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Static and dynamic two-dimensional patterns in self-extinguishing discharge avalanches
W. Breazeal, K. M. Flynn, and E. G. Gwinn
pp. 1503-1515 [View Page Images or PDF (3,615 kB)]
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Periodic lattices of chaotic defects
Frederick H. Willeboordse and Kunihiko Kaneko
pp. 1516-1519 [View Page Images or PDF (740 kB)]
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Distribution of the number of distinct sites visited by random walks in disordered lattices
Lazaros K. Gallos, Panos Argyrakis, and Klaus W. Kehr
pp. 1520-1527 [View Page Images or PDF (1,263 kB)]
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Control of low-dimensional spatiotemporal chaos in Fourier space
Carlos Lourenço, Marc Hougardy, and Agnessa Babloyantz
pp. 1528-1532 [View Page Images or PDF (880 kB)]
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Brownian parametric quantum oscillator with dissipation
Christine Zerbe and Peter Hänggi
pp. 1533-1543 [View Page Images or PDF (1,608 kB)]
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Properties of border states of transient chaos
A. Németh and P. Szépfalusy
pp. 1544-1549 [View Page Images or PDF (781 kB)]
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Ordering kinetics of two-dimensional O(2) models: Scaling and temperature dependence
Jong-Rim Lee, Sung Jong Lee, and Bongsoo Kim
pp. 1550-1557 [View Page Images or PDF (1,072 kB)]
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Brownian type of motion of a randomly kicked particle far from and close to the diffusion limit
E. Barkai and V. Fleurov
pp. 1558-1570 [View Page Images or PDF (2,012 kB)]
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Injection-induced bifurcations of transverse spatiotemporal patterns in semiconductor laser arrays
D. Merbach, O. Hess, H. Herzel, and E. Schöll
pp. 1571-1578 [View Page Images or PDF (1,516 kB)]
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Thermally activated escape with potential fluctuations driven by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
Peter Reimann
pp. 1579-1600 [View Page Images or PDF (4,049 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Growth of long-range correlations in a transition between heat conduction and convection
Tadashi Watanabe, Hideo Kaburaki, Masahiko Machida, and Mitsuo Yokokawa
pp. 1601-1605 [View Page Images or PDF (878 kB)]
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Convective instabilities induced by an exothermic autocatalytic chemical reaction
Bice S. Martincigh and Reuben H. Simoyi
pp. 1606-1613 [View Page Images or PDF (2,466 kB)]
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Calculation of the dynamics of gravity-induced density profiles near a liquid-vapor critical point
Hacène Boukari, Robert L. Pego, and Robert W. Gammon
pp. 1614-1626 [View Page Images or PDF (2,390 kB)]
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Pressure tensor for inhomogeneous fluids
B. D. Todd, Denis J. Evans, and Peter J. Daivis
pp. 1627-1638 [View Page Images or PDF (1,995 kB)]
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Unsteady models for the nonlinear evolution of the mixing layer
Eckart Meiburg, Paul K. Newton, Narayanan Raju, and Greg Ruetsch
pp. 1639-1657 [View Page Images or PDF (3,308 kB)]
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Source-enhanced condensation in monocomponent disperse systems
A. A. Lushnikov and M. Kulmala
pp. 1658-1668 [View Page Images or PDF (1,414 kB)]
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Effects of conductivity in electric-field-induced aggregation in electrorheological fluids
Boris Khusid and Andreas Acrivos
pp. 1669-1693 [View Page Images or PDF (4,067 kB)]
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Kinetic structure of a two-dimensional liquid
M. M. Hurley and Peter Harrowell
pp. 1694-1698 [View Page Images or PDF (940 kB)]
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Stress tensor and viscosity of water: Molecular dynamics and generalized hydrodynamics results
Davide Bertolini and Alessandro Tani
pp. 1699-1710 [View Page Images or PDF (1,983 kB)]
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Steady-state shear flows via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics and smooth-particle applied mechanics
Harald A. Posch, William G. Hoover, and Oyeon Kum
pp. 1711-1720 [View Page Images or PDF (2,088 kB)]
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Self-organization of solitons for the dissipative Korteweg–de Vries equation
Y. Kondoh and J. W. Van Dam
pp. 1721-1725 [View Page Images or PDF (688 kB)]
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Nucleation structures in reaction-diffusion-convection systems
Damián H. Zanette
pp. 1726-1733 [View Page Images or PDF (1,524 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics from dissipative particle dynamics
Pep Español
pp. 1734-1742 [View Page Images or PDF (1,306 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Renormalization-group analysis of the smectic-A1–smectic-Ad phase transition in liquid crystals
Prabir K. Mukherjee
pp. 1743-1747 [View Page Images or PDF (883 kB)]
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Multicritical point involving hexatic smectic phases
W. Pyżuk, E. Górecka, J. Szydłowska, A. Krówczyński, D. Pociecha, and J. Przedmojski
pp. 1748-1752 [View Page Images or PDF (725 kB)]
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Modeling molecular order and dynamics of a liquid crystal by deuteron NMR
Ronald Y. Dong, X. Shen, and G. M. Richards
pp. 1753-1761 [View Page Images or PDF (1,517 kB)]
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Mean-field coefficients and the electroclinic effect of a ferroelectric liquid crystal
F. Gieβelmann and P. Zugenmaier
pp. 1762-1772 [View Page Images or PDF (1,849 kB)]
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Front propagation into unstable and metastable states in smectic-C* liquid crystals: Linear and nonlinear marginal-stability analysis
Wim van Saarloos, Martin van Hecke, and Robert Hołyst
pp. 1773-1777 [View Page Images or PDF (1,009 kB)]
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Topology and nematic ordering. I. A gauge theory
Paul E. Lammert, Daniel S. Rokhsar, and John Toner
pp. 1778-1800 [View Page Images or PDF (4,213 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Topology and nematic ordering. II. Observable critical behavior
John Toner, Paul E. Lammert, and Daniel S. Rokhsar
pp. 1801-1810 [View Page Images or PDF (1,639 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Effect of shear flow on the turbidity of a critical colloidal dispersion
Henk Verduin and Jan K. G. Dhont
pp. 1811-1817 [View Page Images or PDF (1,162 kB)]
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Ostwald ripening in a two-dimensional system: Correlation effects
Oleg Krichevsky and Joel Stavans
pp. 1818-1827 [View Page Images or PDF (4,135 kB)]
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Metastability in fluctuation-driven first-order transitions: Nucleation of lamellar phases
P. C. Hohenberg and J. B. Swift
pp. 1828-1845 [View Page Images or PDF (2,848 kB)]
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Optical investigations in the various phases of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal
John Philip, Jean René Lalanne, Jean Paul Marcerou, and Gilles Sigaud
pp. 1846-1856 [View Page Images or PDF (1,765 kB)]
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Extinction cross section of an arbitrary body in a viscous incompressible fluid
Scott A. Wymer, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, and Renata S. Engel
pp. 1857-1865 [View Page Images or PDF (1,189 kB)]
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Multiparticle reactions with spatial anisotropy
Vladimir Privman, Enrique Burgos, and Marcelo D. Grynberg
pp. 1866-1870 [View Page Images or PDF (828 kB)]
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Critical behavior of a cationic-surfactant–water–salt system near and far from the Krafft temperature
Ana Martín, Francisco Ortega, and Ramón G. Rubio
pp. 1871-1876 [View Page Images or PDF (959 kB)]
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Crossover from flocculation to gelation in two-dimensional aggregation induced by an alternating electrical field
Qi-huo Wei, Cai-hua Zhou, and Nai-ben Ming
pp. 1877-1881 [View Page Images or PDF (1,153 kB)]
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Computer simulation of the rheology of grafted chains under shear
G. H. Peters and D. J. Tildesley
pp. 1882-1890 [View Page Images or PDF (1,480 kB)]
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Linear viscoelasticity in lipid bilayers of vesicles
K. H. de Haas, G. J. Ruiter, and J. Mellema
pp. 1891-1896 [View Page Images or PDF (886 kB)]
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From monolayers to bilayers: Effective rigidity and compressibility in asymmetric ternary amphiphilic systems
Roland R. Netz
pp. 1897-1902 [View Page Images or PDF (1,082 kB)]
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Regulation of ramified electrochemical growth by a diffusive wave
Martin Z. Bazant
pp. 1903-1914 [View Page Images or PDF (2,067 kB)]
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Phase diagram and critical behavior of the ferromagnetic Heisenberg fluid from density-functional theory
J. M. Tavares, M. M. Telo da Gama, P. I. C. Teixeira, J. J. Weis, and M. J. P. Nijmeijer
pp. 1915-1929 [View Page Images or PDF (2,407 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Failure of the Harris criterion for directed polymers on hierarchical lattices
Sutapa Mukherji and Somendra M. Bhattacharjee
pp. 1930-1933 [View Page Images or PDF (600 kB)]
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Electrorheological resonance observed in a colloidal suspension
Keishi Negita and Yasuhiko Ohsawa
pp. 1934-1937 [View Page Images or PDF (634 kB)]
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Quantitative analysis of the nonlinear relationship between neutron or x-ray reflectance and the scattering-length-density profile
Xiao-Lin Zhou
pp. 1938-1952 [View Page Images or PDF (2,389 kB)]

Biological physics

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Statistical physics theory of query learning by an ensemble of higher-order neural networks
Gustavo Deco and Dragan Obradovic
pp. 1953-1957 [View Page Images or PDF (706 kB)]
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Gradient descent learning in perceptrons: A review of its possibilities
M. Bouten, J. Schietse, and C. Van den Broeck
pp. 1958-1967 [View Page Images or PDF (1,560 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Large relativistic density pulses in electron-positron-ion plasmas
V. I. Berezhiani and S. M. Mahajan
pp. 1968-1979 [View Page Images or PDF (1,901 kB)]
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High-resolution measurement, line identification, and spectral modeling of the Kβ spectrum of heliumlike Ar16+
P. Beiersdorfer, A. L. Osterheld, T. W. Phillips, M. Bitter, K. W. Hill, and S. von Goeler
pp. 1980-1992 [View Page Images or PDF (2,225 kB)]
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Radiation scattering in intense-field harmonic-generation experiments
C. de Lisio, C. Beneduce, R. Bruzzese, S. Solimeno, G. S. Sorrentino, F. Vigilante, and C. Altucci
pp. 1993-2012 [View Page Images or PDF (2,541 kB)]
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Spectroscopic study of laser-produced plasmas in hydrogen
John F. Kielkopf
pp. 2013-2024 [View Page Images or PDF (2,050 kB)]
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Length scale, quasiperiodicity, resonances, separatrix crossings, and chaos in the weakly relativistic Zakharov equations
G. I. de Oliveira, F. B. Rizzato, and A. C. -L. Chian
pp. 2025-2036 [View Page Images or PDF (1,832 kB)]

Physics of beams

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High-efficiency beam-wave interaction in quasiperiodic structures
Levi Schächter
pp. 2037-2044 [View Page Images or PDF (1,227 kB)]
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Computer simulation of dislocation dechanneling in bent crystals at tera-electron-volt energies
Valery Biryukov
pp. 2045-2052 [View Page Images or PDF (1,373 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Third cumulant of the total transmission of diffuse waves
M. C. W. van Rossum, Johannes F. de Boer, and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
pp. 2053-2065 [View Page Images or PDF (2,225 kB)]
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Periodic trajectories in right-triangle billiards
Barry Cipra, Robert M. Hanson, and Amy Kolan
pp. 2066-2071 [View Page Images or PDF (999 kB)]
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Granular temperature: Experimental analysis
Irene Ippolito, Chrystèle Annic, Jacques Lemaître, Luc Oger, and Daniel Bideau
pp. 2072-2075 [View Page Images or PDF (712 kB)]

Computational physics

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Stochastic phase space dynamics with constraints for molecular systems
W. Paul and D. Y. Yoon
pp. 2076-2083 [View Page Images or PDF (1,431 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Transient and crisis-induced intermittencies in high-power ferromagnetic resonance
F. M. de Aguiar, F. C. S. da Silva, and S. M. Rezende
pp. 2084-2087 [View Page Images or PDF (748 kB)]
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Langevin description of the response of a stochastic mean-field model driven by a time-periodic field
J. M. Casado and M. Morillo
pp. 2088-2090 [View Page Images or PDF (455 kB)]
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Transition to nonchaotic behavior in a Brownian-type motion
B. Kaulakys and G. Vektaris
pp. 2091-2094 [View Page Images or PDF (654 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Preferred equilibrium structures of a smectic-A phase grown from an isotropic phase: Origin of focal conic domains
Hiroyoshi Naito, Masahiro Okuda, and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
pp. 2095-2098 [View Page Images or PDF (793 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Particle-particle aggregation with 1/r2 forces in reduced gravity environments
C. Rioux, L. Potvin, and R. J. Slobodrian
pp. 2099-2101 [View Page Images or PDF (366 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Determination of minimum-dissipation states with self-consistent resistivity in magnetized plasmas
Ricardo Farengo and Jorge R. Soběhart
pp. 2102-2105 [View Page Images or PDF (537 kB)]
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Experimental control of chaos in a periodically driven glow discharge
K.-D. Weltmann, T. Klinger, and C. Wilke
pp. 2106-2109 [View Page Images or PDF (700 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Forward scattering of light in inhomogeneous binary dielectric media
Young Hoon Rim
pp. 2110-2113 [View Page Images or PDF (586 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Absence of chaos in a self-organized critical coupled map lattice’’
G. D. Ruxton
pp. 2114-2115 [View Page Images or PDF (362 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Absence of chaos in a self-organized critical coupled map lattice’ ’’
Imre M. Jánosi and István Scheuring
pp. 2116-2117 [View Page Images or PDF (339 kB)]
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Comment on ‘‘Small-scale intermittency in randomly stirred fluids’’
E. V. Teodorovich
pp. 2118 [View Page Images or PDF (168 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Statistical cycling in coupled map lattices
Jérôme Losson and Michael C. Mackey
pp. 2119 [View Page Images or PDF (130 kB)]
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Erratum: Orientation of alkyl chains and hindered rotation of carbonyl groups in the smectic-C* phase of antiferroelectric liquid crystals studied by polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Kyeong Hyeon Kim, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe, and Atsuo Fukuda
pp. 2120 [View Page Images or PDF (77 kB)]