Physical Review E – September 1996
Volume 54, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Stress-free spatial anisotropy in phase ordering
A. D. Rutenberg
pp. R2181-R2184 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Threshold detection of wideband signals: A noise-induced maximum in the mutual information
Adi R. Bulsara and Anthony Zador
pp. R2185-R2188 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Lack of self-affinity and anomalous roughening in growth processes
Juan M. López and Miguel A. Rodríguez
pp. R2189-R2192 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Phase transitions in nonlinear oscillator chains
Jeffrey L. Rogers and Luc T. Wille
pp. R2193-R2196 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion in the presence of external forces: Exact time-dependent solutions and their thermostatistical basis
Constantino Tsallis and Dirk Jan Bukman
pp. R2197-R2200 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Roundoff-induced coalescence of chaotic trajectories
Lech Longa, Evaldo M. F. Curado, and Fernando A. Oliveira
pp. R2201-R2204 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Angular correlations in sonoluminescence: Diagnostic for the sphericity of a collapsing bubble
Keith Weninger, Seth J. Putterman, and Bradley P. Barber
pp. R2205-R2208 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Kramers equation as a model for semiflexible polymers
Semjon Stepanow
pp. R2209-R2211 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Phase segregation dynamics of a chemically reactive binary mixture
Jacob J. Christensen, Ken Elder, and Hans C. Fogedby
pp. R2212-R2215 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Preservation of droplet collision history in phase separation of a binary fluid mixture
Hajime Tanaka, Andrew J. Lovinger, and Don D. Davis
pp. R2216-R2219 [View PDF (716 kB)]
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Anomalous phase separation dynamics in the presence of surfactants
A. T. Bernardes, T. B. Liverpool, and D. Stauffer
pp. R2220-R2223 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Delay-induced transitions in visually guided movements
P. Tass, J. Kurths, M. G. Rosenblum, G. Guasti, and H. Hefter
pp. R2224-R2227 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Information measures quantifying aperiodic stochastic resonance
C. Heneghan, C. C. Chow, J. J. Collins, T. T. Imhoff, S. B. Lowen, and M. C. Teich
pp. R2228-R2231 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Low-frequency electrostatic waves in a hot magnetized dusty plasma
M. R. Amin
pp. R2232-R2235 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Particle ordered structures in a strongly coupled classical thermal plasma
Vladimir E. Fortov, Antoli P. Nefedov, Oleg F. Petrov, Alex A. Samarian, and Alex V. Chernyschev
pp. R2236-R2239 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Polarization of impurity emission lines from a tokamak plasma
Takashi Fujimoto, Hironori Sahara, Tetsuya Kawachi, Thomas Kallstenius, Motoshi Goto, Hiroshi Kawase, Takeo Furukubo, Takashi Maekawa, and Yasushi Terumichi
pp. R2240-R2243 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Multisoliton collisions in nearly integrable systems
Helge Frauenkron, Yuri S. Kivshar, and Boris A. Malomed
pp. R2244-R2247 [View PDF (108 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Single-particle survival in gated trapping
John L. Spouge, Atilla Szabo, and George H. Weiss
pp. 2248-2255 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Dynamic scaling of the width distribution in Edwards-Wilkinson type models of interface dynamics
Tibor Antal and Zoltán Rácz
pp. 2256-2260 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Kinetic grain model for sandpiles
A. Malthe-Sørenssen
pp. 2261-2265 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium structure factor for conserved spin dynamics: Abrupt temperature increase
James H. Luscombe and Marshall Luban
pp. 2266-2290 [View PDF (441 kB)]
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Numerical computation of finite size scaling functions: An alternative approach to finite size scaling
Jae-Kwon Kim, Adauto J. F. de Souza, and D. P. Landau
pp. 2291-2297 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Validity of the mean-field approximation for diffusion on a random comb
S. Revathi, V. Balakrishnan, S. Lakshmibala, and K. P. N. Murthy
pp. 2298-2302 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Chaotic dynamics in a three-dimensional superconducting microwave billiard
H. Alt, H.-D. Gräf, R. Hofferbert, C. Rangacharyulu, H. Rehfeld, A. Richter, P. Schardt, and A. Wirzba
pp. 2303-2312 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Structure-property correlations in model composite materials
A. P. Roberts and M. A. Knackstedt
pp. 2313-2328 [View PDF (608 kB)]
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Universal evolution to equipartition in oscillator chains
J. De Luca, A. J. Lichtenberg, and S. Ruffo
pp. 2329-2333 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Synchronization of integrate and fire oscillators with global coupling
Samuele Bottani
pp. 2334-2350 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Mean-field behavior of cluster dynamics
N. Persky, R. Ben-Av, I. Kanter, and E. Domany
pp. 2351-2358 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Theory of quantum fluctuations in classically chaotic Hamiltonian systems
Shanta Chaudhuri, Gautam Gangopadhyay, and Deb Shankar Ray
pp. 2359-2365 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Resonant subharmonic absorption and second-harmonic generation by a fluctuating nonlinear oscillator
M. I. Dykman, D. G. Luchinsky, R. Mannella, P. V. E. McClintock, S. M. Soskin, and N. D. Stein
pp. 2366-2377 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Some dynamical aspects of the water drop formation in a leaky faucet
M. S. F. da Rocha, J. C. Sartorelli, W. M. Gonçalves, and R. D. Pinto
pp. 2378-2383 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Inverse problem with a dilated kernel containing different singularities
Hu Gang, C. Z. Ning, and H. Haken
pp. 2384-2391 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Complete phase locking in modulated relaxation oscillators described by a nonsmooth circle map: Positive fractal dimension of the complementary set of phase-locked regions
Kouichi Yagisawa, Takeshi Kambara, Nobuko Fuchikami, and Masayoshi Naito
pp. 2392-2403 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Thermal conduction in a quantum system
K. Saito, S. Takesue, and S. Miyashita
pp. 2404-2408 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Two-dimensional cellular automaton model of traffic flow with open boundaries
Shin-ichi Tadaki
pp. 2409-2413 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Discrete basis representation of Ursell operators
G. W. Wei and R. F. Snider
pp. 2414-2418 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Classical and quantum chaos in a quantum dot in time-periodic magnetic fields
R. Badrinarayanan and Jorge V. José
pp. 2419-2430 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Multifractal analysis of the atomic spectral line series
Andrés Sáiz and Vicent J. Martínez
pp. 2431-2437 [View PDF (155 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Statistical properties of random scattering matrices
Petr Šeba, Karol Życzkowski, and Jakub Zakrzewski
pp. 2438-2446 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Experimental study of a crossover from nonclassical to classical chemical kinetics: An elementary and reversible A+B⇆C reaction-diffusion process in a capillary
Andrew Yen, Yong-Eun Lee Koo, and Raoul Kopelman
pp. 2447-2450 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Coulombic phase transitions in symmetrical quantum systems
H. Lehmann and W. Ebeling
pp. 2451-2457 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Distribution of zeros of the Husimi function in a realistic Hamiltonian molecular system
F. J. Arranz, F. Borondo, and R. M. Benito
pp. 2458-2464 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Algebraic relaxation of classical particles in one-dimensional anharmonic potentials: Analytical proof
Subir K. Sarkar
pp. 2465-2467 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Synchronized spatiotemporal chaos and spatiotemporal on-off intermittency in a nonlinear ring cavity
M. Sauer and F. Kaiser
pp. 2468-2473 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Statistical approach to nonhyperbolic chaotic systems
D. Alonso, D. MacKernan, P. Gaspard, and G. Nicolis
pp. 2474-2478 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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One temperature step away from the critical point
Alexander Z. Patashinski
pp. 2479-2482 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Self-organized branching processes: Avalanche models with dissipation
Kent Bækgaard Lauritsen, Stefano Zapperi, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 2483-2488 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Observation of intermingled basins in coupled oscillators exhibiting synchronized chaos
Mingzhou Ding and Weiming Yang
pp. 2489-2494 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Hamiltonian formulation of the Gaussian isokinetic thermostat
C. P. Dettmann and G. P. Morriss
pp. 2495-2500 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Irreversible processes and temperature
Byung Chan Eu and L. S. García-Colín
pp. 2501-2512 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Distribution of domain sizes in the zero temperature Glauber dynamics of the one-dimensional Potts model
Bernard Derrida and Reuven Zeitak
pp. 2513-2525 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Modification of linear response theory for mean-field approximations
Markus Hütter and Hans Christian Öttinger
pp. 2526-2530 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Barkhausen noise: Elementary signals, power laws, and scaling relations
Djordje Spasojević, Srdjan Bukvić, Sava Milošević, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 2531-2546 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Effective boundary extrapolation length to account for finite-size effects in the percolation crossing function
Robert M. Ziff
pp. 2547-2554 [View PDF (197 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Asymptotic states of decaying turbulence in two-dimensional incompressible flows
Pablo Dmitruk, Daniel Gómez, Andrea Costa, and Silvina Ponce Dawson
pp. 2555-2563 [View PDF (512 kB)]
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Anomalous scaling in the N-point functions of a passive scalar
D. Bernard, K. Gawȩdzki, and A. Kupiainen
pp. 2564-2572 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Induced burst of fluid drops in a two-component lattice Bhatnager-Gross-Krook fluid
I. Halliday, C. M. Care, S. Thompson, and D. White
pp. 2573-2576 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Dependence of the dynamical factor in nucleation rates on heat conduction and viscosity
Franco Ruggeri and William A. Friedman
pp. 2577-2588 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Symmetry-breaking bifurcations for the magnetohydrodynamic equations with helical forcing
F. Feudel, N. Seehafer, B. Galanti, and S. Rüdiger
pp. 2589-2596 [View PDF (278 kB)]
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Structure of strongly dipolar fluids at low densities
M. A. Osipov, P. I. C. Teixeira, and M. M. Telo da Gama
pp. 2597-2609 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Dissipation fluctuations of a passive scalar advected by a random velocity field
Victor Yakhot
pp. 2610-2615 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Turbulence cascades across equilibrium spectra
Alexandre J. Chorin
pp. 2616-2619 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Pattern formation and evolution near autocatalytic reaction fronts in a narrow vertical slab
Jie Huang and Boyd F. Edwards
pp. 2620-2627 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Waiting-time solutions of a nonlinear diffusion equation: Experimental study of a creeping flow near a waiting front
B. M. Marino, L. P. Thomas, R. Gratton, J. A. Diez, S. Betelú, and J. Gratton
pp. 2628-2636 [View PDF (203 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Stimulated Raman scattering produced by self-focusing in liquid crystals
P. Etchegoin and R. T. Phillips
pp. 2637-2646 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of liquid-crystal ordering in the independent-pore model of aerogels
T. Bellini, C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, and C. Zannoni
pp. 2647-2652 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Persistence length of the Debye-Hückel model of weakly charged flexible polyelectrolyte chains
Uwe Micka and Kurt Kremer
pp. 2653-2662 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Structure and transport properties of a porous magnetic gel via x-ray microtomography
M. D. Rintoul, S. Torquato, C. Yeong, D. T. Keane, S. Erramilli, Y. N. Jun, D. M. Dabbs, and I. A. Aksay
pp. 2663-2669 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Discrete solid-on-solid model of interface with bending rigidity: Roughening versus crumpling
Prabal K. Maiti, Debashish Chowdhury, and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee
pp. 2670-2676 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Swelling and growth of polymers, membranes, and sponges
Jack F. Douglas
pp. 2677-2689 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Stability of densely branched growth in dissipative diffusion-controlled systems
Juan K. Lin and David G. Grier
pp. 2690-2695 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Pressure-induced reentrant phase behavior in the poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone)–water system
Thomas Sun and H. E. King, Jr.
pp. 2696-2703 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Short-time dynamics of colloidal suspensions
C. P. Lowe and D. Frenkel
pp. 2704-2713 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Structure formation and the morphology diagram of possible structures in two-dimensional diffusional growth
E. Brener, H. Müller-Krumbhaar, and D. Temkin
pp. 2714-2722 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Effective χ in a lattice theory of mixtures
P. D. Gujrati
pp. 2723-2726 [View PDF (119 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Ellipsometric study of critical adsorption and measurement of universal surface integrals
Dan S. P. Smith and Bruce M. Law
pp. 2727-2745 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Fluid-solid equilibrium of a charged hard-sphere model
Carlos Vega, Fernando Bresme, and José L. F. Abascal
pp. 2746-2760 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Simple theory for volume phase transition of hydrated gels
Shigeo Sasaki and Hiroshi Maeda
pp. 2761-2765 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Topological simulations of dynamical features in coarsening soap froth
Boris Levitan and Eytan Domany
pp. 2766-2772 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Structure factor of compressed liquid deuterium close to the melting transition
M. Zoppi, A. K. Soper, R. Magli, F. Barocchi, U. Bafile, and N. W. Ashcroft
pp. 2773-2779 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Shape fluctuations of droplets in emulsions
Weicheng Cai
pp. 2780-2785 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Application of mode-coupling theory to solvation dynamics
Jangseok Ma, David Van den Bout, and Mark Berg
pp. 2786-2796 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Phase-field model of spiral dendritic growth
Royce Kam and Herbert Levine
pp. 2797-2801 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Biological physics

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Chaos and associative generation of information by networks of neuronal oscillators
V. V. Kapelko and A. D. Linkevich
pp. 2802-2806 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Phase diagrams of self-organizing maps
H.-U. Bauer, M. Riesenhuber, and T. Geisel
pp. 2807-2810 [View PDF (390 kB)]
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Entropically driven segregation in blends of branched and linear polymers
D. G. Walton and A. M. Mayes
pp. 2811-2815 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Polygonal shape transformation of a circular biconcave vesicle induced by osmotic pressure
Hiroyoshi Naito, Masahiro Okuda, and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
pp. 2816-2826 [View PDF (220 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Equation of state and correlation functions of strongly coupled plasma mixtures: Density functional theory and analytic models
Yaakov Rosenfeld
pp. 2827-2838 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Type-I-like intermittent chaos in multicomponent plasmas with negative ions
D. L. Feng, J. Zheng, W. Huang, C. X. Yu, and W. X. Ding
pp. 2839-2843 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Electrical conductivities for hot, dense hydrogen
I. Kwon, L. Collins, J. Kress, and N. Troullier
pp. 2844-2851 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Spectroscopic characterization of prepulsed x-ray laser plasmas
M. Nantel, A. Klisnick, G. Jamelot, P. B. Holden, B. Rus, A. Carillon, P. Jaeglé, Ph. Zeitoun, G. Tallents, A. G. MacPhee, C. L. S. Lewis, S. Jacquemot, and L. Bonnet
pp. 2852-2862 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Absence of magnetohydrodynamic activity in the voltage-driven sheet pinch
N. Seehafer, E. Zienicke, and F. Feudel
pp. 2863-2869 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Analytical theory of arbitrary-order achromats
Weishi Wan and Martin Berz
pp. 2870-2883 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Image effects of cylindrical pipes on continuous beams
Christopher K. Allen and Martin Reiser
pp. 2884-2888 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Microwave instability beyond threshold
S. A. Heifets
pp. 2889-2898 [View PDF (239 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Polarization conversion from diffraction gratings made of uniaxial crystals
Marina E. Inchaussandague and Ricardo A. Depine
pp. 2899-2911 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Perturbation analysis of weakly discrete kinks
S. Flach and K. Kladko
pp. 2912-2916 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Green dyadics in reciprocal uniaxial bianisotropic media by cylindrical vector wave functions
Dajun Cheng and Wei Ren
pp. 2917-2924 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Phenomenological modeling of the compaction dynamics of shaken granular systems
Stefan J. Linz
pp. 2925-2930 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Wave-function method used to study the Bethe coupler
N. Marinescu
pp. 2931-2935 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Optical solitons with power-law asymptotics
Robert W. Micallef, Vsevolod V. Afanasjev, Yuri S. Kivshar, and John D. Love
pp. 2936-2942 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Solitons in a class of systems of two coupled real scalar fields
D. Bazeia, R. F. Ribeiro, and M. M. Santos
pp. 2943-2948 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Exact soliton solutions to coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations with higher-order effects
R. Radhakrishnan and M. Lakshmanan
pp. 2949-2955 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Spectral analysis of the nonlinear relativistic Doppler shift in ultrahigh intensity Compton scattering
F. V. Hartemann, A. L. Troha, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., and Z. Toffano
pp. 2956-2962 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Resonance mode expansions and exact solutions for nonuniform gratings
L. Poladian
pp. 2963-2975 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Multiple-time higher-order perturbation analysis of the regularized long-wavelength equation
R. A. Kraenkel, M. A. Manna, V. Merle, J. C. Montero, and J. G. Pereira
pp. 2976-2981 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Analytic calculation of the aftereffect solution and correlation time of the induced dipole Kerr effect
J.-L. Déjardin
pp. 2982-2993 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Inductive instability in conductors with a moving front of electric conductivity jump
Yu. Dolinsky and T. Elperin
pp. 2994-2998 [View PDF (116 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Long-term vortex interaction in active media
M. Ruiz-Villarreal, M. Gómez-Gesteira, C. Souto, A. P. Muñuzuri, and V. Pérez-Villar
pp. 2999-3002 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Cutoff frequency of experimentally generated noise: A Melnikov approach
Marek Franaszek
pp. 3003-3005 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Two-component spreading phenomena: Why the geometry makes the criticality
N. Vandewalle and M. Ausloos
pp. 3006-3008 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Chemical wave refraction phenomena
Sin-Chun Hwang and Timothy Halpin-Healy
pp. 3009-3012 [View PDF (605 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Strong nonlinear dynamic rupture theory of thin liquid films
Chi-Chuan Hwang, Jun-Liang Chen, and Li-Fu Shen
pp. 3013-3016 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Self-organization of two-dimensional incompressible viscous flow in a friction-free box
Y. Kondoh, M. Yoshizawa, A. Nakano, and T. Yabe
pp. 3017-3020 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Effects of a changing temperature on the nucleation rate
Franco Ruggeri and William A. Friedman
pp. 3021-3024 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Modulations in the diffracted intensity in chiral smectic-C liquid crystals
Yuvaraj Sah, P. B. Sunil Kumar, and K. A. Suresh
pp. 3025-3027 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Temperature-dependent phase transitions in water-oil-surfactant mixtures: Experiment and theory
D. Vollmer, J. Vollmer, and R. Strey
pp. 3028-3031 [View PDF (93 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Glass phase of randomly polymerized membranes
Youngah Park and Chulan Kwon
pp. 3032-3035 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Fractal dynamics in orthokinetic acoustic agglomeration processes
Charles B. Chiu and James A. Edwards
pp. 3036-3039 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Effect of van der Waals surface interactions on wetting transitions in polymer blends
Gerald G. Pereira and Jian-Sheng Wang
pp. 3040-3043 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Biological physics

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Different molecular size scaling regimes for inner and outer regions of proteins
Gustavo A. Arteca
pp. 3044-3047 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Head-on collisions of dark solitons near the zero-dispersion point in optical fibers
Guoxiang Huang and Manuel G. Velarde
pp. 3048-3051 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Nondiffractive fields
J. Bajer and R. Horák
pp. 3052-3054 [View PDF (135 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: State diagram of polydisperse elastic-disk systems
Wolfgang Vermöhlen and Nobuyasu Ito
pp. 3055 [View PDF (325 kB)]
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Erratum: Phase equilibria in solutions of disklike particles
Maciej Wnek and Jozef K. Moscicki
pp. 3055 [View PDF (325 kB)]