Physical Review E – March 1996
Volume 53, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Reaction-diffusion front for A+B→∅ in one dimension

G. T. Barkema, M. J. Howard, and J. L. Cardy

pp. R2017-R2020 [View Page Images or PDF (720 kB)]

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Signal detection statistics of stochastic resonators

M. E. Inchiosa and A. R. Bulsara

pp. R2021-R2024 [View Page Images or PDF (681 kB)]

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Symbolic dynamics for strong chaos on stochastic webs: General quasisymmetry

Itzhack Dana and Tomer Kalisky

pp. R2025-R2028 [View Page Images or PDF (772 kB)]

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Optimal path and directed percolation

Paolo De Los Rios, Guido Caldarelli, Amos Maritan, and Flavio Seno

pp. R2029-R2032 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]

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Exact master equations for driven dissipative tight-binding models

Milena Grifoni, Maura Sassetti, and Ulrich Weiss

pp. R2033-R2036 [View Page Images or PDF (671 kB)]

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Hexagonal convection cells under conditions of vertical symmetry

R. M. Clever and F. H. Busse

pp. R2037-R2040 [View Page Images or PDF (644 kB)]

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Different convection dynamics in mixtures with the same separation ratio

Kristina Lerman, Guenter Ahlers, and David S. Cannell

pp. R2041-R2044 [View Page Images or PDF (1,052 kB)]

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Plasma influence on the dispersion properties of finite-length, corrugated waveguides

A. Shkvarunets, S. Kobayashi, J. Weaver, Y. Carmel, J. Rodgers, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., V. L. Granatstein, W. W. Destler, K. Ogura, and K. Minami

pp. R2045-R2048 [View Page Images or PDF (815 kB)]

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Structural analysis of a Coulomb lattice in a dusty plasma

R. A. Quinn, C. Cui, J. Goree, J. B. Pieper, H. Thomas, and G. E. Morfill

pp. R2049-R2052 [View Page Images or PDF (752 kB)]

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Effect of strongly favorable substrate interactions on the thermal properties of ultrathin polymer films

John H. van Zanten, William E. Wallace, and Wen-li Wu

pp. R2053-R2056 [View Page Images or PDF (809 kB)]

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Instability threshold in the Bénard-Marangoni problem

Leo M. Rabin

pp. R2057-R2059 [View Page Images or PDF (538 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Thermodynamic renormalization group

Hiroshi Matsuoka

pp. 2076-2080 [View Page Images or PDF (882 kB)]

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Scaling laws for spatiotemporal synchronization and array enhanced stochastic resonance

John F. Lindner, Brian K. Meadows, William L. Ditto, Mario E. Inchiosa, and Adi R. Bulsara

pp. 2081-2086 [View Page Images or PDF (2,226 kB)]

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Concept of complexity in random dynamical systems

Vittorio Loreto, Giovanni Paladin, and Angelo Vulpiani

pp. 2087-2098 [View Page Images or PDF (2,135 kB)]

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Layer features of the lattice gas model for self-organized criticality

N. C. Pesheva, J. G. Brankov, and E. Canessa

pp. 2099-2103 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]

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Finite-size scaling Casimir force function: Exact spherical-model results

Daniel Danchev

pp. 2104-2109 [View Page Images or PDF (866 kB)]

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General analysis of instabilities in erbium-doped fiber lasers

François Sanchez and Guy Stephan

pp. 2110-2122 [View Page Images or PDF (1,757 kB)]

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Time-reversible dissipative ergodic maps

William G. Hoover, Oyeon Kum, and Harald A. Posch

pp. 2123-2129 [View Page Images or PDF (1,544 kB)]

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Adsorption in models of ideal polymer chains on fractal spaces

Milan Knežević and Dragica Knežević

pp. 2130-2142 [View Page Images or PDF (2,140 kB)]

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Stationary nonequilibrium ensembles for thermostated systems

Lamberto Rondoni and Gary P. Morriss

pp. 2143-2153 [View Page Images or PDF (2,355 kB)]

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Billiard boundary perturbations and periodic orbits

T. Szeredi

pp. 2154-2159 [View Page Images or PDF (880 kB)]

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Estimation of asymmetry in physics

Simon P. Wilson and Kevin J. Coakley

pp. 2160-2168 [View Page Images or PDF (1,569 kB)]

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Detecting differences between delay vector distributions

C. Diks, W. R. van Zwet, F. Takens, and J. DeGoede

pp. 2169-2176 [View Page Images or PDF (1,296 kB)]

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Universal formulas for percolation thresholds

Serge Galam and Alain Mauger

pp. 2177-2181 [View Page Images or PDF (715 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Calculation of the effective diffusivity of heterogeneous media using the lattice-Boltzmann method

José Alvarez-Ramírez, Salvador Nieves-Mendoza, and Jesús González-Trejo

pp. 2298-2303 [View Page Images or PDF (1,068 kB)]

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Fractal dimensions of sediments in nature

Z. W. Qian

pp. 2304-2306 [View Page Images or PDF (421 kB)]

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Gigahertz photon density waves in a turbid medium: Theory and experiments

Joshua B. Fishkin, Sergio Fantini, Martin J. vandeVen, and Enrico Gratton

pp. 2307-2319 [View Page Images or PDF (2,228 kB)]

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Invariance properties and correlation functions in liquid-state theory: Connection with the Ward-Takahashi identities

D. di Caprio, Q. Zhang, and J. P. Badiali

pp. 2320-2325 [View Page Images or PDF (859 kB)]

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Thermodynamics of fluids obtained by mapping the collision properties

Alejandro Gil-Villegas, Fernando del Río, and Carlos Vega

pp. 2326-2336 [View Page Images or PDF (1,767 kB)]

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Predictability in systems with many characteristic times: The case of turbulence

E. Aurell, G. Boffetta, A. Crisanti, G. Paladin, and A. Vulpiani

pp. 2337-2349 [View Page Images or PDF (1,523 kB)]

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Effective field theory for hard-sphere fluids

Nelson Studart, Hamilton V. da Silveira, and Umbelino de Freitas

pp. 2350-2354 [View Page Images or PDF (606 kB)]

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Conditionally averaged vorticity field and turbulence modeling

R. C. Y. Mui, D. G. Dommermuth, and E. A. Novikov

pp. 2355-2359 [View Page Images or PDF (647 kB)]

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Probability distribution of hard-disk and hard-sphere gases over finite subvolumes

F. L. Román, J. A. White, and S. Velasco

pp. 2360-2365 [View Page Images or PDF (775 kB)]

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Gas-kinetic derivation of Navier-Stokes-like traffic equations

Dirk Helbing

pp. 2366-2381 [View Page Images or PDF (2,504 kB)]

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Finite-size effects in molecular dynamics simulations: Static structure factor and compressibility. I. Theoretical method

J. J. Salacuse, A. R. Denton, and P. A. Egelstaff

pp. 2382-2389 [View Page Images or PDF (1,250 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Nematic ordering in highly restrictive Vycor glass

G. S. Iannacchione, G. P. Crawford, S. Qian, J. W. Doane, D. Finotello, and S. Zumer

pp. 2402-2411 [View Page Images or PDF (1,765 kB)]

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Electro-optic properties of a polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal film: Temperature dependence and phase behavior

Karl Amundson

pp. 2412-2422 [View Page Images or PDF (1,882 kB)]

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Morphological instabilities of a nonequilibrium nematic-isotropic interface

J. M. A. Figueiredo and O. N. Mesquita

pp. 2423-2435 [View Page Images or PDF (2,764 kB)]

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Anchoring of nematic liquid crystals at a solid substrate

A. Poniewierski and A. Samborski

pp. 2436-2443 [View Page Images or PDF (1,146 kB)]

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Mean-field nematic–smectic-A transition in a random polymer network

Peter D. Olmsted and Eugene M. Terentjev

pp. 2444-2453 [View Page Images or PDF (1,836 kB)]

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Determination of the effective splay-bend elastic constant of a lyotropic nematic liquid crystal

S. Fontanini, G. Barbero, and A. M. Figueiredo Neto

pp. 2454-2460 [View Page Images or PDF (1,009 kB)]

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Substrate-induced bulk alignment of liquid crystals

Zhengping Zhang, Amitabha Chakrabarti, Ole G. Mouritsen, and Martin J. Zuckermann

pp. 2461-2465 [View Page Images or PDF (934 kB)]

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Metastability of freely suspended liquid-crystal films

Y. Martinez, A. M. Somoza, L. Mederos, and D. E. Sullivan

pp. 2466-2472 [View Page Images or PDF (1,334 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Coverage fluctuation and the available line fraction for spheres deposited on a one-dimensional collector after diffusion under the influence of gravity

R. Ezzeddine, P. Schaaf, J.-C. Voegel, and B. Senger

pp. 2473-2479 [View Page Images or PDF (1,331 kB)]

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Structures of hard-core Yukawa clusters and the tail-range dependence of the existence of a liquidlike cluster phase: Relevance to the physics of C₆₀

C. Rey and L. J. Gallego

pp. 2480-2487 [View Page Images or PDF (1,785 kB)]

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Optical hysteresis in laser-induced liquid-liquid phase separation

J. P. Delville, E. Freysz, and A. Ducasse

pp. 2488-2501 [View Page Images or PDF (2,979 kB)]

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Fractal nature of viscous fingering in three-dimensional pore-level models

M. Ferer, Jared C. Gump, and Duane H. Smith

pp. 2502-2508 [View Page Images or PDF (1,408 kB)]

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Structural and thermal properties of orientationally ordered dipolar fluids

B. Groh and S. Dietrich

pp. 2509-2530 [View Page Images or PDF (3,211 kB)]

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Wormlike micelles under shear flow: A microscopic model studied by nonequilibrium-molecular-dynamics computer simulations

M. Kröger and R. Makhloufi

pp. 2531-2536 [View Page Images or PDF (1,306 kB)]

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Growth dynamics and morphology of passive films

I. Nainville, A. Lemarchand, and J.-P. Badiali

pp. 2537-2546 [View Page Images or PDF (1,934 kB)]

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Energy dissipation of fluid membranes

Gundula Dörries and Georg Foltin

pp. 2547-2550 [View Page Images or PDF (526 kB)]

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Free energies of isolated five- and sevenfold disclinations in hexatic membranes

Michael W. Deem and David R. Nelson

pp. 2551-2559 [View Page Images or PDF (1,296 kB)]

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Dislocation-mediated melting near isostructural critical points

T. Chou and David R. Nelson

pp. 2560-2570 [View Page Images or PDF (1,688 kB)]

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Circle, sphere, and drop packings

Tomaso Aste

pp. 2571-2579 [View Page Images or PDF (1,894 kB)]

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Pattern formations in lipid monolayers under illumination

Mu Wang, Cheng Sun, Willem J. P. van Enckevort, Jan van Esch, Gerald Wildburg, Ru-Wen Peng, Nai-Ben Ming, Piet Bennema, Helmut Ringsdorf, and Roeland J. M. Nolte

pp. 2580-2587 [View Page Images or PDF (4,154 kB)]

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Nonequilibrium structural changes of a viscoelastic liquid under oscillatory shear: A molecular dynamics study

Hiroshi Komatsugawa and Shuichi Nosé

pp. 2588-2594 [View Page Images or PDF (1,235 kB)]

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Modulated structures in Langmuir monolayers and in smectic films

Tomonobu Ohyama, A. E. Jacobs, and David Mukamel

pp. 2595-2602 [View Page Images or PDF (1,483 kB)]

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Time scales for transitions between free-energy minima of a dense hard-sphere system

Chandan Dasgupta and Oriol T. Valls

pp. 2603-2612 [View Page Images or PDF (2,146 kB)]

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Spinodal decomposition in binary mixtures

Roberto Mauri, Reuel Shinnar, and George Triantafyllou

pp. 2613-2623 [View Page Images or PDF (1,441 kB)]

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Light-scattering spectrum of supercooled liquids

Arnulf Latz and Rudi Schmitz

pp. 2624-2628 [View Page Images or PDF (815 kB)]

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Reaction-diffusion model for the hydration and setting of cement

F. Tzschichholz, H. J. Herrmann, and H. Zanni

pp. 2629-2637 [View Page Images or PDF (1,544 kB)]

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Structures and phase transitions of amorphous ices

Ichiro Okabe, Hideki Tanaka, and Koichiro Nakanishi

pp. 2638-2647 [View Page Images or PDF (1,524 kB)]

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Topological defects on fluctuating surfaces: General properties and the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

Jeong-Man Park and T. C. Lubensky

pp. 2648-2664 [View Page Images or PDF (2,406 kB)]

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Sine-Gordon field theory for the Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions on fluctuating membranes

Jeong-Man Park and T. C. Lubensky

pp. 2665-2669 [View Page Images or PDF (669 kB)]

Biological physics

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Shape transformations of vesicles with intramembrane domains

Frank Jülicher and Reinhard Lipowsky

pp. 2670-2683 [View Page Images or PDF (2,314 kB)]

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Relevance of surrogate-data testing in electroencephalogram analysis

N. Pradhan and P. K. Sadasivan

pp. 2684-2692 [View Page Images or PDF (1,543 kB)]

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Gaussian random field description of fluctuating fluid vesicles

P. Pieruschka and H. Wennerström

pp. 2693-2700 [View Page Images or PDF (1,317 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Measurement of the Coulomb energy loss by fast protons in a plasma target

G. Belyaev, M. Basko, A. Cherkasov, A. Golubev, A. Fertman, I. Roudskoy, S. Savin, B. Sharkov, V. Turtikov, A. Arzumanov, A. Borisenko, I. Gorlachev, S. Lysukhin, D. H. H. Hoffmann, and A. Tauschwitz

pp. 2701-2707 [View Page Images or PDF (1,047 kB)]

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Implicit-moment, partially linearized particle simulation of kinetic plasma phenomena

Bruce I. Cohen, Andris M. Dimits, John J. Stimson, and D. C. Barnes

pp. 2708-2716 [View Page Images or PDF (1,588 kB)]

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Nonlinearities and instabilities of dissipative drift waves in dusty plasmas

S. Benkadda, P. Gabbai, V. N. Tsytovich, and A. Verga

pp. 2717-2725 [View Page Images or PDF (1,526 kB)]

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Experimental demonstration of a high-power slow-wave electron cyclotron maser based on a combined resonance of Cherenkov and anomalous Doppler interactions

K. Ogura, M. R. Amin, K. Minami, X. D. Zheng, Y. Suzuki, W. S. Kim, T. Watanabe, Y. Carmel, and V. L. Granatstein

pp. 2726-2729 [View Page Images or PDF (717 kB)]

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Negative differential conductivity of electrons in pure rare gases

N. L. Aleksandrov, N. A. Dyatko, I. V. Kochetov, A. P. Napartovich, and D. Lo

pp. 2730-2734 [View Page Images or PDF (824 kB)]

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Laser–Bernstein-mode coupling in a laser-produced plasma

Jetendra Parashar, H. D. Pandey, and V. K. Tripathi

pp. 2735-2739 [View Page Images or PDF (635 kB)]

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Decay instability of an electron plasma wave in a dusty plasma

M. R. Amin, T. Ferdous, and M. Salimullah

pp. 2740-2746 [View Page Images or PDF (900 kB)]

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Dependence of stimulated Brillouin scattering on laser intensity, laser f number, and ion species in hohlraum plasmas

Juan C. Fernández, J. A. Cobble, B. H. Failor, W. W. Hsing, H. A. Rose, B. H. Wilde, K. S. Bradley, P. L. Gobby, R. Kirkwood, H. N. Kornblum, D. S. Montgomery, and M. D. Wilke

pp. 2747-2750 [View Page Images or PDF (845 kB)]

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Atomic level population for nonideal plasmas in strong electric fields

M. Schlanges, Th. Bornath, V. Rietz, and D. Kremp

pp. 2751-2756 [View Page Images or PDF (978 kB)]

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Experimental investigation of the melting transition of the plasma crystal

A. Melzer, A. Homann, and A. Piel

pp. 2757-2766 [View Page Images or PDF (2,071 kB)]

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Negative-energy perturbations in circularly cylindrical equilibria within the framework of Maxwell-drift kinetic theory

G. N. Throumoulopoulos and D. Pfirsch

pp. 2767-2777 [View Page Images or PDF (1,422 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Formation of multiple subpulses in a free-electron laser operating in the limit-cycle mode

G. M. H. Knippels, A. F. G. van der Meer, R. F. X. A. M. Mols, D. Oepts, and P. W. van Amersfoort

pp. 2778-2786 [View Page Images or PDF (1,533 kB)]

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Strong coupling operation of a free-electron-laser amplifier with an axial magnetic field

J. L. Rullier, A. Devin, J. Gardelle, J. Labrouche, P. Le Taillandier, and J. T. Donohue

pp. 2787-2794 [View Page Images or PDF (1,112 kB)]

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Excitation of cyclotron resonances from random fluctuations of stellarator windings

E. Drakakis, D. Karabourniotis, and C. A. Kapetanakos

pp. 2795-2801 [View Page Images or PDF (1,176 kB)]

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Resistive wall impedance as derivative of the electric capacitance for a beam pipe of arbitrary cross section

Francesco Ruggiero

pp. 2802-2806 [View Page Images or PDF (776 kB)]

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Space-charge-dominated bunched beams in the frequency domain

I. Hofmann and G. Kalisch

pp. 2807-2811 [View Page Images or PDF (887 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Particle size segregation in a two-dimensional bed undergoing vertical vibration

W. Cooke, S. Warr, J. M. Huntley, and R. C. Ball

pp. 2812-2822 [View Page Images or PDF (2,093 kB)]

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Unexpected behavior of nonlinear Schrödinger solitons in an external potential

Helge Frauenkron and Peter Grassberger

pp. 2823-2827 [View Page Images or PDF (750 kB)]

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Mechanical equilibrium of conformal crystals

François Rothen and Piotr Pierański

pp. 2828-2842 [View Page Images or PDF (2,529 kB)]

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Small-amplitude envelope solitons in nonlinear lattices

V. V. Konotop

pp. 2843-2858 [View Page Images or PDF (2,265 kB)]

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Resonances of a coated sphere

T. M. Bambino and L. G. Guimarães

pp. 2859-2863 [View Page Images or PDF (730 kB)]

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Linear stability analysis for propagating fracture

Emily S. C. Ching, J. S. Langer, and Hiizu Nakanishi

pp. 2864-2880 [View Page Images or PDF (2,534 kB)]

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Theory for multiple light scattering from Rayleigh scatterers in magnetic fields

Bart A. van Tiggelen, Roger Maynard, and Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

pp. 2881-2908 [View Page Images or PDF (4,185 kB)]

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Systematic behavior of the Mie scattering coefficients of spheres as a function of order

I. K. Ludlow and J. Everitt

pp. 2909-2924 [View Page Images or PDF (1,755 kB)]

Computational physics

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Effective characteristic polynomials and two-point Padé approximants as summation techniques for the strongly divergent perturbation expansions of the ground state energies of anharmonic oscillators

Jiří Čížek, Ernst Joachim Weniger, Paul Bracken, and Vladimír Špirko

pp. 2925-2939 [View Page Images or PDF (2,779 kB)]

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Finite-size scaling and critical exponents in critical relaxation

Zhibing Li, Lothar Schülke, and Bo Zheng

pp. 2940-2948 [View Page Images or PDF (1,425 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Synchronization of chaotic systems by continuous control

G. Malescio

pp. 2949-2952 [View Page Images or PDF (604 kB)]

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Dynamical properties and predictability of a class of self-organized critical models

E. Caglioti and V. Loreto

pp. 2953-2956 [View Page Images or PDF (635 kB)]

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Simple model for Maxwell’s-demon-type information engine

A. M. Jayannavar

pp. 2957-2959 [View Page Images or PDF (519 kB)]

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Generalized Lyapunov exponents for products of correlated random matrices

M. J. de Oliveira and A. Petri

pp. 2960-2963 [View Page Images or PDF (634 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Solution of the Fokker-Planck equation for reactive Rayleigh gas

Bogdan Nowakowski

pp. 2964-2967 [View Page Images or PDF (612 kB)]

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Thermodynamic self-consistency criterion in the mixed integral equation theory of liquid structure

J. Bergenholtz, N. J. Wagner, and B. D’Aguanno

pp. 2968-2971 [View Page Images or PDF (502 kB)]

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Pattern formation in a vibrated two-dimensional granular layer

Eric Clément, Loic Vanel, Jean Rajchenbach, and Jacques Duran

pp. 2972-2975 [View Page Images or PDF (841 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Surface-anisotropy-induced linear electro-optic effect in a nematic liquid crystal

Daeseung Kang and Charles Rosenblatt

pp. 2976-2979 [View Page Images or PDF (649 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Dynamic light scattering from power-law polydisperse fractals: Application of dynamic scaling to humic acid

S. Z. Ren, E. Tombácz, and James A. Rice

pp. 2980-2983 [View Page Images or PDF (632 kB)]

Biological physics

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Theoretical analysis of the helix-coil transition in positively superhelical DNA at high temperatures

Craig J. Benham

pp. 2984-2987 [View Page Images or PDF (687 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Head-on collision of two concentric cylindrical ion acoustic solitary waves

Guoxiang Huang and Manuel G. Velarde

pp. 2988-2991 [View Page Images or PDF (522 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Translation-rotation paradox for diffusion in fragile glass-forming liquids’’

Hans Sillescu

pp. 2992-2994 [View Page Images or PDF (403 kB)]

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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Translation-rotation paradox for diffusion in fragile glass-forming liquids’ ’’

Frank H. Stillinger and Jennifer A. Hodgdon

pp. 2995-2997 [View Page Images or PDF (446 kB)]

Physical Review E – March 1996 Volume 53, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Classical fluids

Liquid crystals

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

Biological physics

Plasma physics

Physics of beams

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Computational physics

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Classical fluids

Liquid crystals

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

Biological physics

Plasma physics

COMMENTS

Physical Review E – March 1996
Volume 53, Issue 3