Physical Review E – December 1995
Volume 52, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Extremal properties of random systems
L. Frachebourg, I. Ispolatov, and P. L. Krapivsky
pp. R5727-R5730 [View Page Images or PDF (688 kB)]
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Parametric resonance of rotating spiral waves under broken rotational symmetry
N. Gottschalk, M. Hildebrand, M. Bär, and M. Eiswirth
pp. R5731-R5734 [View Page Images or PDF (687 kB)]
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Transfer matrix for the restricted canonical and microcanonical ensembles
R. J. Creswick
pp. R5735-R5738 [View Page Images or PDF (533 kB)]
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Pattern formation in composite excitable media
M. Bär, I. G. Kevrekidis, H.-H. Rotermund, and G. Ertl
pp. R5739-R5742 [View Page Images or PDF (1,313 kB)]
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Quantum localization of chaos in a ring
A. Iomin
pp. R5743-R5745 [View Page Images or PDF (430 kB)]
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Conjugate pairing in the three-dimensional periodic Lorentz gas
C. P. Dettmann, G. P. Morriss, and L. Rondoni
pp. R5746-R5748 [View Page Images or PDF (524 kB)]
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Criticality and transient chaos in a sandpile model
S. Berndt and W. Martienssen
pp. R5749-R5752 [View Page Images or PDF (741 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Anomalous diffusion of isolated flow singularities and of fractal or spiral structures
J. C. Vassilicos
pp. R5753-R5756 [View Page Images or PDF (640 kB)]
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Inertial range scaling in turbulence
Shiyi Chen and Nianzheng Cao
pp. R5757-R5759 [View Page Images or PDF (349 kB)]
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Continuous shock structure in extended thermodynamics
W. Weiss
pp. R5760-R5763 [View Page Images or PDF (590 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Dielectric relaxation study in a glassy low-molecular-weight ferroelectric liquid crystal
Yolanda González, Beatriz Palacios, Miguel A. Pérez Jubindo, M. Rosario de la Fuente, and José Luis Serrano
pp. R5764-R5767 [View Page Images or PDF (784 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Coupled fluctuations near critical wetting
A. O. Parry, C. J. Boulter, and P. S. Swain
pp. R5768-R5771 [View Page Images or PDF (677 kB)]
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Secondary instability in surface-tension-driven Bénard convection
K. Nitschke and A. Thess
pp. R5772-R5775 [View Page Images or PDF (1,052 kB)]
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Critical dynamics of contact-line motion
Suman Kumar, Daniel H. Reich, and Mark O. Robbins
pp. R5776-R5779 [View Page Images or PDF (688 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Collimation of an intense laser beam by a weakly relativistic plasma
P. Monot, T. Auguste, P. Gibbon, F. Jakober, and G. Mainfray
pp. R5780-R5783 [View Page Images or PDF (650 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Spatially localized, temporally quasiperiodic, discrete nonlinear excitations
David Cai, A. R. Bishop, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen
pp. R5784-R5787 [View Page Images or PDF (733 kB)]
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Soliton solutions in Rowland ghost gaps
N. G. Raphael Broderick, C. Martijn de Sterke, and Benjamin J. Eggleton
pp. R5788-R5791 [View Page Images or PDF (622 kB)]

Computational physics

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Molecular dynamics–continuum hybrid computations: A tool for studying complex fluid flows
Sean T. O’Connell and Peter A. Thompson
pp. R5792-R5795 [View Page Images or PDF (737 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Hysteresis in the Mott transition between plasma and insulating gas
D. W. Snoke and J. D. Crawford
pp. 5796-5799 [View Page Images or PDF (611 kB)]
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Smoluchowski approach for three-body reactions in one dimension
G. Oshanin, A. Stemmer, S. Luding, and A. Blumen
pp. 5800-5805 [View Page Images or PDF (789 kB)]
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Using noise and chaos control to control nonchaotic systems
David J. Christini and James J. Collins
pp. 5806-5809 [View Page Images or PDF (705 kB)]
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First-passage time for randomly flashing diffusion
Jerzy Łuczka, Mariusz Niemiec, and Peter Hänggi
pp. 5810-5816 [View Page Images or PDF (1,001 kB)]
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Controlling a chaotic array of pulse-coupled circuits
T. L. Carroll
pp. 5817-5824 [View Page Images or PDF (1,321 kB)]
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Critical edge between frozen extinction and chaotic life
Roberto A. Monetti and Ezequiel V. Albano
pp. 5825-5831 [View Page Images or PDF (964 kB)]
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Fourier transform method to determine the probability density function from a given set of random samples
K. Nanbu
pp. 5832-5838 [View Page Images or PDF (764 kB)]
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Steady states, invariant measures, and response theory
Denis J. Evans and Debra J. Searles
pp. 5839-5848 [View Page Images or PDF (2,003 kB)]
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Vicious walkers and directed polymer networks in general dimensions
J. W. Essam and A. J. Guttmann
pp. 5849-5862 [View Page Images or PDF (1,927 kB)]
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Control of dissipative tunneling dynamics by continuous wave electromagnetic fields: Localization and large-amplitude coherent motion
Dmitrii E. Makarov and Nancy Makri
pp. 5863-5872 [View Page Images or PDF (1,522 kB)]
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Segregation in the static pair annihilation process: Exact results
B. Bonnier and E. Pommiers
pp. 5873-5876 [View Page Images or PDF (550 kB)]
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Modeling of wind-blown sand using cellular automata
Noriyuki Bob Ouchi and Hiraku Nishimori
pp. 5877-5880 [View Page Images or PDF (607 kB)]
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Phenomenological approach to nonlinear Langevin equations
Josep Bonet Avalos and Ignacio Pagonabarraga
pp. 5881-5892 [View Page Images or PDF (1,913 kB)]
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Approach to ergodicity in quantum wave functions
Bruno Eckhardt, Shmuel Fishman, Jonathan Keating, Oded Agam, Jörg Main, and Kirsten Müller
pp. 5893-5903 [View Page Images or PDF (1,904 kB)]
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Trigger waves in a model for catalysis
Roy H. Goodman, David S. Graff, Leonard M. Sander, Patrick Leroux-Hugon, and Eric Clément
pp. 5904-5909 [View Page Images or PDF (971 kB)]
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Noise-induced transition from anomalous to ordinary diffusion: The crossover time as a function of noise intensity
Elena Floriani, Riccardo Mannella, and Paolo Grigolini
pp. 5910-5917 [View Page Images or PDF (1,272 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of closed fluid membranes
David C. Morse and Scott T. Milner
pp. 5918-5945 [View Page Images or PDF (5,344 kB)]
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Thermal and repulsive traffic flow
I. Campos, A. Tarancón, F. Clérot, and L. A. Fernández
pp. 5946-5954 [View Page Images or PDF (1,314 kB)]
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Reentrant phase diagram of branching annihilating random walks with one and two offspring
Sungchul Kwon and Hyunggyu Park
pp. 5955-5960 [View Page Images or PDF (888 kB)]
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Level repulsion in the complex plane
M. Müller, F.-M. Dittes, W. Iskra, and I. Rotter
pp. 5961-5973 [View Page Images or PDF (2,296 kB)]
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Interaction of spiral waves with external fields in excitable media
Igor Mitkov, Igor Aranson, and David A. Kessler
pp. 5974-5978 [View Page Images or PDF (726 kB)]
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Traffic flow and 1/f fluctuations
M. Y. Choi and H. Y. Lee
pp. 5979-5984 [View Page Images or PDF (880 kB)]
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Ordering and demixing transitions in multicomponent Widom-Rowlinson models
J. L. Lebowitz, A. Mazel, P. Nielaba, and L. Šamaj
pp. 5985-5996 [View Page Images or PDF (1,861 kB)]
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Generalized monomer-monomer model for catalysis
Eric Clément, Patrick Leroux-Hugon, and Leonard M. Sander
pp. 5997-6005 [View Page Images or PDF (1,198 kB)]
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Critical and scaling properties of cluster distributions in nonequilibrium Ising-like systems
J. J. Alonso, A. I. López-Lacomba, and J. Marro
pp. 6006-6012 [View Page Images or PDF (1,008 kB)]
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Dynamics of adsorption-desorption processes as a soluble problem of many fermions
Marcelo D. Grynberg and Robin B. Stinchcombe
pp. 6013-6024 [View Page Images or PDF (1,798 kB)]
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Breakdown of linear dynamics in phase-ordering kinetics
Chuck Yeung, Nicholas Gross, and Michael Costolo
pp. 6025-6030 [View Page Images or PDF (1,006 kB)]
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Correlations in Ising chains with nonintegrable interactions
Birger Bergersen, Zoltán Rácz, and Huang-Jian Xu
pp. 6031-6036 [View Page Images or PDF (849 kB)]
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Fragmentation-inactivation models with mass loss
Romuel F. Machado and J. Kamphorst Leal da Silva
pp. 6037-6043 [View Page Images or PDF (1,013 kB)]
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Theoretical and numerical studies of chemisorption on a line with precursor layer diffusion
J. A. N. Filipe and G. J. Rodgers
pp. 6044-6054 [View Page Images or PDF (1,659 kB)]
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Matrix-inversion method: Applications to Möbius inversion adn deconvolution
Qian Xie and Nan-xian Chen
pp. 6055-6065 [View Page Images or PDF (1,332 kB)]
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Kinetics of aggregation-annihilation processes
E. Ben-Naim and P. L. Krapivsky
pp. 6066-6070 [View Page Images or PDF (923 kB)]
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Resonant behavior of a Poisson process driven by a periodic signal
J. Javier Brey, J. Casado-Pascual, and B. Sánchez
pp. 6071-6081 [View Page Images or PDF (1,448 kB)]
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Phase-ordering kinetics with external fields and biased initial conditions
J. A. N. Filipe, A. J. Bray, and Sanjay Puri
pp. 6082-6100 [View Page Images or PDF (3,031 kB)]
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Multistability and chaos in a spring-block model
V. B. Ryabov and H. M. Ito
pp. 6101-6112 [View Page Images or PDF (2,094 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Role of inviscid invariants in shell models of turbulence
L. Biferale and R. M. Kerr
pp. 6113-6122 [View Page Images or PDF (1,924 kB)]
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Linear and nonlinear viscous flow in two-dimensional fluids
D. Gravina, G. Ciccotti, and B. L. Holian
pp. 6123-6128 [View Page Images or PDF (826 kB)]
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Contribution of particle inertial effects to resonance in ferrofluids
P. C. Fannin and W. T. Coffey
pp. 6129-6140 [View Page Images or PDF (1,756 kB)]
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Bifurcations at the Eckhaus points in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection
M. Nagata
pp. 6141-6145 [View Page Images or PDF (745 kB)]
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Formation of thermal plumes in an autocatalytic exothermic chemical reaction
Bice S. Martincigh, Marcus J. B. Hauser, and Reuben H. Simoyi
pp. 6146-6153 [View Page Images or PDF (1,611 kB)]
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Fingering instability in nonadiabatic low-Lewis-number flames
Michael L. Frankel and Gregory I. Sivashinsky
pp. 6154-6158 [View Page Images or PDF (774 kB)]
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Rayleigh-Bénard convection in binary mixtures with separation ratios near zero
Marco A. Dominguez-Lerma, Guenter Ahlers, and David S. Cannell
pp. 6159-6174 [View Page Images or PDF (3,779 kB)]
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Transitions between convective patterns in chemical fronts
Yunqing Wu, Desiderio A. Vasquez, Boyd F. Edwards, and Joseph W. Wilder
pp. 6175-6182 [View Page Images or PDF (1,351 kB)]
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Turbulence without pressure
A. M. Polyakov
pp. 6183-6188 [View Page Images or PDF (966 kB)]
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Wavelet analysis of the energy transfer caused by convective terms: Application to the Burgers shock
Makoto Iima and Sadayoshi Toh
pp. 6189-6201 [View Page Images or PDF (2,021 kB)]
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Quantum molecular dynamics simulations of hot, dense hydrogen
L. Collins, I. Kwon, J. Kress, N. Troullier, and D. Lynch
pp. 6202-6219 [View Page Images or PDF (3,189 kB)]
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Universality of a class of annihilation-coagulation models
Daniele Balboni, Pierre-Antoine Rey, and Michel Droz
pp. 6220-6226 [View Page Images or PDF (965 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Phase transition and defects in a thin nematic film
Y. Lansac, F. Fried, and P. Maïssa
pp. 6227-6239 [View Page Images or PDF (3,016 kB)]
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Covariant elasticity and dislocations in smectic-C liquid crystals
Yoshodhan Hatwalne and T. C. Lubensky
pp. 6240-6249 [View Page Images or PDF (1,489 kB)]
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Kink switching in ferroelectric free-standing films with high spontaneous polarization
E. I. Demikhov, S. A. Pikin, and E. S. Pikina
pp. 6250-6259 [View Page Images or PDF (1,361 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Temperature-induced orientational transitions in freely suspended nematic films
A. A. Sonin, A. Yethiraj, J. Bechhoefer, and B. J. Frisken
pp. 6260-6266 [View Page Images or PDF (1,251 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Nonlinear conserved current model with negative diffusion
Jin Min Kim
pp. 6267-6270 [View Page Images or PDF (626 kB)]
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Viscoelasticity of randomly branched polymers in the critical percolation class
Charles P. Lusignan, Thomas H. Mourey, John C. Wilson, and Ralph H. Colby
pp. 6271-6280 [View Page Images or PDF (1,634 kB)]
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Interaction in colloidal systems: Buckling and melting
M. Medina-Noyola and B. I. Ivlev
pp. 6281-6288 [View Page Images or PDF (1,100 kB)]
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Thermal fluctuations of the shapes of droplets in dense and compressed emulsions
Hu Gang, A. H. Krall, and D. A. Weitz
pp. 6289-6302 [View Page Images or PDF (2,681 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Distributions of polymers in disordered structures
H. Eduardo Roman, Julia Dräger, Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, and Dietrich Stauffer
pp. 6303-6307 [View Page Images or PDF (762 kB)]
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Surface growth of two kinds of particle deposition models
Wei Wang and Hilda A. Cerdeira
pp. 6308-6313 [View Page Images or PDF (1,043 kB)]
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Continuously varying crossover exponent for adsorption of linear polymers on fractals
Vladimir Miljković, Sava Milošević, and Ivan Živić
pp. 6314-6320 [View Page Images or PDF (1,081 kB)]
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Cavity size distribution in lattice liquids
C. Anteneodo and F. M. C. Vieira
pp. 6321-6324 [View Page Images or PDF (565 kB)]
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Time-scale dependence of the critical exponent for the nonlinear dielectric effect in a critical binary solution
S. J. Rzoska, A. Drozd-Rzoska, M. Górny, and J. Zioło
pp. 6325-6328 [View Page Images or PDF (577 kB)]
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Frequency dependence of electrorheological fluids in an ac electric field
Kunquan Lu, Weijia Wen, Chenxi Li, and Sishen Xie
pp. 6329-6332 [View Page Images or PDF (608 kB)]
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Forced Benjamin-Ono equation and its application to soliton dynamics
Y. Matsuno
pp. 6333-6343 [View Page Images or PDF (1,688 kB)]
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Long-time self-diffusion in binary colloidal hard-sphere dispersions
A. Imhof and J. K. G. Dhont
pp. 6344-6357 [View Page Images or PDF (2,471 kB)]
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Planform selection in Bénard-Marangoni convection: l hexagons versus g hexagons
A. Thess and M. Bestehorn
pp. 6358-6367 [View Page Images or PDF (2,087 kB)]
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Dynamics of binary liquids in pores
J. C. Lee
pp. 6368-6374 [View Page Images or PDF (1,385 kB)]
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Microscopic structure of a pure near-critical fluid confined to a mesoscopic slit-pore
Martin Schoen and Matthias Thommes
pp. 6375-6386 [View Page Images or PDF (1,962 kB)]
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Pore-level modeling of wetting
Martin J. Blunt and Harvey Scher
pp. 6387-6403 [View Page Images or PDF (3,291 kB)]
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Diffusion-limited aggregation: Connection to a free-boundary problem and lattice anisotropy
Bayard K. Johnson and Robert F. Sekerka
pp. 6404-6414 [View Page Images or PDF (2,086 kB)]
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Growth kinetics of body centered cubic colloidal crystals
M. Würth, J. Schwarz, F. Culis, P. Leiderer, and T. Palberg
pp. 6415-6423 [View Page Images or PDF (1,734 kB)]
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Kinetics of crystallization in a shearing colloidal suspension
Scott Butler and Peter Harrowell
pp. 6424-6430 [View Page Images or PDF (1,344 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of semiflexible living polymers
Andrey Milchev and D. P. Landau
pp. 6431-6441 [View Page Images or PDF (1,173 kB)]
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Growth of interfaces with strong quenched disorder: Columnar media
J. M. López and M. A. Rodríguez
pp. 6442-6447 [View Page Images or PDF (1,006 kB)]
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Classical growth of hard-sphere colloidal crystals
Bruce J. Ackerson and Klaus Schätzel
pp. 6448-6460 [View Page Images or PDF (2,290 kB)]
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Sedimentation and flow through porous media: Simulating dynamically coupled discrete and continuum phases
Stefan Schwarzer
pp. 6461-6475 [View Page Images or PDF (2,825 kB)]
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Growth instabilities in mechanical breakdown under mechanical and thermal stresses
S.-Z. Zhang, E. Louis, O. Plá, and F. Guinea
pp. 6476-6483 [View Page Images or PDF (1,111 kB)]
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Crystal stability limits at positive and negative pressures, and crystal-to-glass transitions
Francesco Sciortino, Ulrich Essmann, H. Eugene Stanley, Mahin Hemmati, Jun Shao, George H. Wolf, and C. Austen Angell
pp. 6484-6491 [View Page Images or PDF (1,437 kB)]
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Shear-induced enhancement of self-diffusion in interacting colloidal suspensions
A. V. Indrani and Sriram Ramaswamy
pp. 6492-6496 [View Page Images or PDF (923 kB)]
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Quantitative molecular interpretation of mesoscopic correlations in bicontinuous microemulsions
Hyung-June Woo, Carlo Carraro, and David Chandler
pp. 6497-6507 [View Page Images or PDF (1,718 kB)]
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Kinetic model for a polymer in one dimension
José Arthur Martins and Jürgen F. Stilck
pp. 6508-6515 [View Page Images or PDF (1,090 kB)]
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NMR of diffusing atoms in a periodic porous medium in the presence of a nonuniform magnetic field
David J. Bergman and Keh-Jim Dunn
pp. 6516-6535 [View Page Images or PDF (2,702 kB)]
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Irreversible polymer adsorption from semidilute and moderately dense solutions
Richard Zajac and Amitabha Chakrabarti
pp. 6536-6549 [View Page Images or PDF (2,020 kB)]
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Temporal and spatial dependence of hydrodynamic correlations: Simulation and experiment
Anthony J. C. Ladd, Hu Gang, J. X. Zhu, and D. A. Weitz
pp. 6550-6572 [View Page Images or PDF (3,954 kB)]

Biological physics

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Actin filaments on myosin beds: The velocity distribution
L. Bourdieu, M. O. Magnasco, D. A. Winkelmann, and A. Libchaber
pp. 6573-6579 [View Page Images or PDF (1,544 kB)]
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Statistical-ensemble theory of redundancy reduction and the duality between unsupervised and supervised neural learning
Gustavo Deco and Bernd Schürmann
pp. 6580-6587 [View Page Images or PDF (1,226 kB)]
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Multifractals and decoded walks: Applications to protein sequence correlations
Bonnie J. Strait and T. Gregory Dewey
pp. 6588-6592 [View Page Images or PDF (775 kB)]
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Role of noises in neural networks
Sergio Albeverio, Jianfeng Feng, and Minping Qian
pp. 6593-6606 [View Page Images or PDF (1,484 kB)]
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Random-walk model of homologous recombination
Youhei Fujitani and Ichizo Kobayashi
pp. 6607-6622 [View Page Images or PDF (2,026 kB)]
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Vesicular instabilities: The prolate-to-oblate transition and other shape instabilities of fluid bilayer membranes
Marija Jarić, Udo Seifert, Wolfgang Wintz, and Michael Wortis
pp. 6623-6634 [View Page Images or PDF (2,225 kB)]
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Monte Carlo approach to tissue-cell populations
D. Drasdo, R. Kree, and J. S. McCaskill
pp. 6635-6657 [View Page Images or PDF (3,805 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Quantum-mechanical treatment of strong electron-atom collision contributions to the shift and width of hydrogen lines
Axel Könies and Sibylle Günter
pp. 6658-6663 [View Page Images or PDF (923 kB)]
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Test-particle drifts in traveling waves with cyclotron frequencies
Rikizo Hatakeyama, Naoyuki Sato, and Noriyoshi Sato
pp. 6664-6670 [View Page Images or PDF (1,189 kB)]
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Investigation of C v line ratio variations in a tokamak with an application to neutral hydrogen measurement
K. J. McCarthy, B. Zurro, C. Burgos, J. Vega, and A. Portas
pp. 6671-6678 [View Page Images or PDF (1,434 kB)]
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Self-consistent charged-particle motion in negative-ion plasmas
A. A. Ivanov, L. I. Elizarov, M. Bacal, and A. B. Sionov
pp. 6679-6685 [View Page Images or PDF (1,113 kB)]
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Interpretation of hot and dense absorption spectra of a near-local-thermodynamic-equilibrium plasma by the super-transition-array method
A. Bar-Shalom, J. Oreg, J. F. Seely, U. Feldman, C. M. Brown, B. A. Hammel, R. W. Lee, and C. A. Back
pp. 6686-6691 [View Page Images or PDF (931 kB)]
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Lateral energy transport in laser-produced plasmas
D. Vick, M. Kado, H. Yamamoto, K. A. Tanaka, A. A. Offenberger, C. E. Capjack, A. Nishiguchi, K. Mima, and S. Nakai
pp. 6692-6702 [View Page Images or PDF (2,090 kB)]
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Radiative heating of low-Z solid foils by laser-generated x rays
K. Eidmann, I. B. Földes, Th. Löwer, J. Massen, R. Sigel, G. D. Tsakiris, S. Witkowski, H. Nishimura, Y. Kato, T. Endo, H. Shiraga, M. Takagi, and S. Nakai
pp. 6703-6716 [View Page Images or PDF (2,615 kB)]
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Dynamics of coherent structures and turbulence of plasma drift waves
C. Ferro Fontán and A. Verga
pp. 6717-6735 [View Page Images or PDF (3,293 kB)]
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Simulation and analysis of an x-ray-heated boron nitride foil
J. D. Bauer, C. A. Back, J. I. Castor, P. G. Dykema, B. A. Hammel, R. W. Lee, J. K. Nash, J. F. Seely, U. Feldman, and C. M. Brown
pp. 6736-6752 [View Page Images or PDF (3,224 kB)]
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Transport and self-organization in dissipative drift-wave turbulence
T. Dudok de Wit, S. Benkadda, P. Gabbai, and A. D. Verga
pp. 6753-6758 [View Page Images or PDF (1,027 kB)]
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Kinetic theory of ion acoustic waves in a plasma with collisional electrons
V. Yu. Bychenkov, J. Myatt, W. Rozmus, and V. T. Tikhonchuk
pp. 6759-6776 [View Page Images or PDF (2,898 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Nonlinear theory of a folded waveguide gyrotron traveling-wave tube amplifier
A. K. Ganguly, J. J. Choi, and C. M. Armstrong
pp. 6777-6786 [View Page Images or PDF (1,401 kB)]
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Observation of coherent diffraction radiation from bunched electrons passing through a circular aperture in the millimeter- and submillimeter-wavelength regions
Yukio Shibata, Shigeru Hasebe, Kimihiro Ishi, Toshiharu Takahashi, Toshiaki Ohsaka, Mikihiko Ikezawa, Toshiharu Nakazato, Masayuki Oyamada, Shigekazu Urasawa, Tatsuya Yamakawa, and Yasuhiro Kondo
pp. 6787-6794 [View Page Images or PDF (1,262 kB)]
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X-ray narrow-line transition radiation source based on low-energy electron beams traversing a multilayer nanostructure
A. E. Kaplan, C. T. Law, and P. L. Shkolnikov
pp. 6795-6808 [View Page Images or PDF (2,506 kB)]
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Betatron motion and linear undulator brightness: Inhomogeneous broadening effects due to electron-beam emittance and Twiss parameters
G. Dattoli, G. K. Voykov, and M. Carpanese
pp. 6809-6817 [View Page Images or PDF (931 kB)]
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Simulation of an experiment on crystal extraction of 900-GeV protons
Valery Biryukov
pp. 6818-6825 [View Page Images or PDF (1,453 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Impulse response of a nonlinear dispersive wave
M. Yu and C. J. McKinstrie
pp. 6826-6832 [View Page Images or PDF (1,059 kB)]
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Diffraction of partially coherent beams on three-dimensional periodic structures and the angular shifts of the diffraction maxima
Miloslav Dušek
pp. 6833-6840 [View Page Images or PDF (1,156 kB)]

Computational physics

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Estimating functions of probability distributions from a finite set of samples
David H. Wolpert and David R. Wolf
pp. 6841-6854 [View Page Images or PDF (1,974 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Noise-induced instability in self-consistent Monte Carlo calculations
D. S. Lemons, J. Lackman, M. E. Jones, and D. Winske
pp. 6855-6861 [View Page Images or PDF (1,202 kB)]
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Acceptance-probability-controlled simulated annealing: A method for modeling the optical constants of solids
Aleksandar D. Rakić, Jovan M. Elazar, and Aleksandra B. Djurišić
pp. 6862-6867 [View Page Images or PDF (1,052 kB)]
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Influence of constraints on the dynamics of polypeptide chains
K. Hinsen and G. R. Kneller
pp. 6868-6874 [View Page Images or PDF (1,177 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Density of states of a damped quantum oscillator
A. Hanke and W. Zwerger
pp. 6875-6878 [View Page Images or PDF (504 kB)]
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Exponential decay of relative entropies to the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy for the standard map
Karol Życzkowski and Wojciech Słomczyński
pp. 6879-6880 [View Page Images or PDF (165 kB)]
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Chaos and thermal conductivity
Silvia Corezzi, Marco Bianucci, and Paolo Grigolini
pp. 6881-6884 [View Page Images or PDF (672 kB)]
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Unusual period doublings in the linear-logistic map
B. L. Tan and T. T. Chia
pp. 6885-6888 [View Page Images or PDF (670 kB)]
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Two-species annihilation with drift: A model with continuous concentration-decay exponents
Daniel ben-Avraham, Vladimir Privman, and Dexin Zhong
pp. 6889-6891 [View Page Images or PDF (545 kB)]
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Non-Markovian thermal relaxation at elevated temperatures
I. Klik, Y. D. Yao, and C. R. Chang
pp. 6892-6895 [View Page Images or PDF (620 kB)]
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Hopf bifurcation in a leaky faucet experiment
R. D. Pinto, W. M. Gonçalves, J. C. Sartorelli, and M. J. de Oliveira
pp. 6896-6899 [View Page Images or PDF (430 kB)]
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Trapping rate dependence on the trap size in one dimension
L. V. Bogachev, Yu. A. Makhnovskii, and A. M. Berezhkovskii
pp. 6900-6903 [View Page Images or PDF (655 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Reptation of a polymer chain by conformal transitions in the entangled regime
Murat Canpolat, Ayşe Erzan, and Önder Pekcan
pp. 6904-6907 [View Page Images or PDF (568 kB)]
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Numerical simulation of phase separation in the presence of surfactants and hydrodynamics
Gerald Pätzold and Kenneth Dawson
pp. 6908-6911 [View Page Images or PDF (721 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Electron cyclotron subharmonic resonance absorption
M. S. Janaki and B. Dasgupta
pp. 6912-6915 [View Page Images or PDF (522 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Stationary probability distribution near stable limit cycles far from Hopf bifurcation points
Mark Dykman, Xiaolin Chu, and John Ross
pp. 6916 [View Page Images or PDF (86 kB)]
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Erratum: Phase ordering dynamics of cosmological models
J. A. N. Filipe and A. J. Bray
pp. 6916-6917 [View Page Images or PDF (159 kB)]
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Erratum: Lagrangians of physics and the game of Fisher-information transfer
B. Roy Frieden and Bernard H. Soffer
pp. 6917 [View Page Images or PDF (73 kB)]