Physical Review E – January 1997
Volume 55, Issue 1

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Fluctuating phase rigidity for a quantum chaotic system with partially broken time-reversal symmetry
S. A. van Langen, P. W. Brouwer, and C. W. J. Beenakker
pp. R1-R4 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Multidimensional inverse lattice problem and a uniformly sampled arithmetic Fourier transform
Chen Nan-xian, Chen Zhao-dou, and Wei Yu-chuan
pp. R5-R8 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Mixing, Lyapunov instability, and the approach to equilibrium in a hard-sphere gas
Ch. Dellago and H. A. Posch
pp. R9-R12 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Distribution of occupation numbers in finite Fermi systemsand role of interaction in chaos and thermalization
V. V. Flambaum and F. M. Izrailev
pp. R13-R16 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Critical behavior of the three-dimensional Ising model with nearest-neighbor, next-nearest-neighbor, and plaquette interactions
Emilio N. M. Cirillo, G. Gonnella, and A. Pelizzola
pp. R17-R20 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Physical symmetry and lattice symmetry in the lattice Boltzmann method
Nianzheng Cao, Shiyi Chen, Shi Jin, and Daniel Martínez
pp. R21-R24 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Empirical traffic data and their implications for traffic modeling
Dirk Helbing
pp. R25-R28 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Slow dynamics of nonequilibrium density fluctuations in hard-sphere suspensions
Michio Tokuyama, Yoshihisa Enomoto, and Irwin Oppenheim
pp. R29-R32 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Simple optical feedback loop: Excitation waves and their mirror image
Alberto P. Muñuzuri and Mario Markus
pp. R33-R35 [View PDF (227 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Resonant trapping: A failure mechanism in switch transitions
F. Apostolico, L. Gammaitoni, F. Marchesoni, and S. Santucci
pp. 36-39 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Critical relaxation in two-dimensional random-bond Potts models
S. Chen and D. P. Landau
pp. 40-44 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Dendritic growth in a mean-field lattice gas model
Mathis Plapp and Jean-Fraņcois Gouyet
pp. 45-57 [View PDF (1,534 kB)]
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Missing motor of on-off intermittency
J. Graf von Hardenberg, F. Paparella, N. Platt, A. Provenzale, E. A. Spiegel, and C. Tresser
pp. 58-64 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Boundary integral method for quantum billiards in a constant magnetic field
M. L. Tiago, T. O. de Carvalho, and M. A. M. de Aguiar
pp. 65-70 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Random walk on a linear chain with a quenched distribution of jump lengths
Ryszard Kutner and Philipp Maass
pp. 71-78 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal periodic and chaotic patterns in a two-dimensional coupled map lattice system
Fagen Xie and Gang Hu
pp. 79-86 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Reconstructing noisy dynamical systems by triangulations
Stuart Allie, Alistair Mees, Kevin Judd, and David Watson
pp. 87-93 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Construction and properties of fractal trees with tunable dimension: The interplay of geometry and physics
N. Vandewalle and M. Ausloos
pp. 94-98 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Fractional diffusion and Lévy stable processes
Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini, Ralf Metzler, and Theo F. Nonnenmacher
pp. 99-106 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Series-expansion studies of random sequential adsorption with diffusional relaxation
Chee Kwan Gan and Jian-Sheng Wang
pp. 107-123 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Approach to the chaotic synchronized state of some driving methods
J. Güémez, C. Martín, and M. A. Matías
pp. 124-134 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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Renormalization theory of stochastic growth
Matthew B. Hastings
pp. 135-152 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Exact time evolution and master equations for the damped harmonic oscillator
Robert Karrlein and Hermann Grabert
pp. 153-164 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Directed lines in sparse potentials
T. J. Newman and A. J. McKane
pp. 165-175 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Phenomenological framework for fluctuations around steady state
Marco Paniconi and Y. Oono
pp. 176-188 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Geometric and healing laws in simple stochastic models of fracture in a sputtering process
R. D'hulst, N. Vandewalle, and M. Ausloos
pp. 189-193 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Critical phase of a magnetic hard hexagon model on a triangular lattice
Yasushi Honda and Tsuyoshi Horiguchi
pp. 194-198 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Directing nonlinear dynamic systems to any desired orbit
Liu Zonghua and Chen Shigang
pp. 199-204 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Universal cubic eigenvalue repulsion for random normal matrices
Gary Oas
pp. 205-211 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Accelerator mode in a gravitational bouncer as an attracting mode in a globally chaotic Hamiltonian system
S. T. Dembin-acuteski and P. Pepłowski
pp. 212-218 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Stochastic lattice models with several absorbing states
Haye Hinrichsen
pp. 219-226 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of coupled identical oscillators within the path-integral formalism
F. Brosens, J. T. Devreese, and L. F. Lemmens
pp. 227-236 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Folding of the triangular lattice with quenched random bending rigidity
P. Di Francesco, E. Guitter, and S. Mori
pp. 237-251 [View PDF (345 kB)]
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Deterministic soluble model of coarsening
L. Frachebourg and P. L. Krapivsky
pp. 252-256 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Phase transitions in random networks: Simple analytic determination of critical points
Bartolo Luque and Ricard V. Solé
pp. 257-260 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Statistics of largest loops in a random walk
Deniz Erta̧s and Yacov Kantor
pp. 261-265 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Universal limit mapping in grazing bifurcations
Arne B. Nordmark
pp. 266-270 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Phase space geometry of chaotic reactive scattering: Gateways, windings, and halos
H. Wadi and L. Wiesenfeld
pp. 271-286 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Correlation dimension of attractors through interspike intervals
Rolando Castro and Tim Sauer
pp. 287-290 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Anyonic behavior of quantum group gases
Marcelo R. Ubriaco
pp. 291-296 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Synchronizing hyperchaos with a single variable
A. Tamasevicius and A. Cenys
pp. 297-299 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Floquet-Markovian description of the parametrically driven, dissipative harmonic quantum oscillator
Sigmund Kohler, Thomas Dittrich, and Peter Hänggi
pp. 300-313 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Quantum transport theory based on the equilibrium density projection technique
Joung Young Sug and Sang Don Choi
pp. 314-321 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Dynamics of melting argon clusters
Gayle M. Tanner, Aniket Bhattacharya, Saroj K. Nayak, and S. D. Mahanti
pp. 322-328 [View PDF (204 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Passive scalar advected by a rapidly changing random velocity field: Probability density of scalar differences
Victor Yakhot
pp. 329-336 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Inertial range and the finite Reynolds number effect of turbulence
J. Qian
pp. 337-342 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Local nonequilibrium effect on undercooling in rapid solidification of alloys
Peter Galenko and Sergei Sobolev
pp. 343-352 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Sensitivity of convective structures to mean flow boundary conditions: A correlation between symmetry and dynamics
A. Pocheau and F. Daviaud
pp. 353-373 [View PDF (1,335 kB)]
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Nonlinear instability of a fluid layer flowing down a vertical wallunder imposed time-periodic perturbations
L. A. Dávalos-Orozco, S. H. Davis, and S. G. Bankoff
pp. 374-380 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Stability of Kolmogorov scaling in anisotropically forced turbulence
J. Busa, M. Hnatich, J. Honkonen, and D. Horvath
pp. 381-394 [View PDF (348 kB)]
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Self-consistent model of an annihilation-diffusion reaction with long-range interactions
Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Leo Radzihovsky, and Noel A. Clark
pp. 395-402 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Dynamic equations and bulk viscosity near the gas-liquid critical point
Akira Onuki
pp. 403-420 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Single-particle survival in parallel gated trapping
John L. Spouge
pp. 421-425 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Orthogonal polynomial approach to fluids with internal degrees of freedom: The case of nonpolar, polarizable molecules
F. Lado
pp. 426-435 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Phase diagram of Heisenberg fluids: Computer simulation and density functional theory
J. J. Weis, M. J. P. Nijmeijer, J. M. Tavares, and M. M. Telo da Gama
pp. 436-446 [View PDF (239 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Liquid crystal phases of dipolar discotic particles
G. Ayton, D. Q. Wei, and G. N. Patey
pp. 447-454 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Role of interfacial entropy in the command-surface effect
Michael Büchel, Birgit Weichart, Carsten Minx, Henning Menzel, and Diethelm Johannsmann
pp. 455-463 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Influence of permanent molecular dipoles on surface anchoring of nematic liquid crystals
M. A. Osipov, T. J. Sluckin, and S. J. Cox
pp. 464-476 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulations of surface-induced ordering in a nematic liquid crystal
J. Stelzer, P. Galatola, G. Barbero, and L. Longa
pp. 477-480 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Structure of the nematic mesophase with cybotactic groupsin liquid-crystalline poly(urethane-ester)s
O. Francescangeli, M. Laus, and G. Galli
pp. 481-487 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Calorimetric study of phase transitions for butyloxybenzylidene octylaniline in silica aerogels: Static and dynamic behavior
Zdravko Kutnjak and Carl W. Garland
pp. 488-495 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Tritium nuclear magnetic resonance study of T2, HT, and DT dissolved in nematic solvents
E. E. Burnell, C. A. de Lange, A. L. Segre, D. Capitani, G. Angelini, G. Lilla, and J. B. S. Barnhoorn
pp. 496-503 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Evidence of dynamic long-range correlations in a nematic-liquid-crystal–aerogel system
Alenka Mertelj and Martin Copic
pp. 504-507 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Gaussian tricritical behavior of heat capacity at the smectic-A–smectic-C liquid crystal transition in a racemic mixture of 4-(1-methylheptyloxycarbonyl)phenyl 4|IH-octyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate
Kenji Ema, Atsushi Takagi, and Haruhiko Yao
pp. 508-513 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Multiple light scattering in anisotropic random media
Holger Stark and Tom C. Lubensky
pp. 514-533 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Piezoelectric effects in cholesteric elastomer gels
C.-C. Chang, L.-C. Chien, and R. B. Meyer
pp. 534-538 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Phase behavior of near-critical fluids confined in periodic gels
James P. Donley and Andrea J. Liu
pp. 539-543 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation of dielectrophoretic particle chain formation
M. Sancho, V. Giner, and G. Martínez
pp. 544-548 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Growth model for ramified electrochemical deposition in the presenceof diffusion, migration, and electroconvection
Guillermo Marshall and Pablo Mocskos
pp. 549-563 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Propagation of collective modes in liquid cesium
Rajneesh K. Sharma and K. Tankeshwar
pp. 564-571 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Measurement of the second virial coefficient for the interaction of dilute colloidal particles in a mixed solvent
M. L. Kurnaz and J. V. Maher
pp. 572-576 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Solution behavior of polyethylene oxide in water as a function of temperature and pressure
Stefan Bekiranov, Robijn Bruinsma, and Philip Pincus
pp. 577-585 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Statistical mechanical properties of dense emulsions and microemulsions
Dimiter N. Petsev and Per Linse
pp. 586-591 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Damping of longitudinal waves in colloidal crystals of finite size
E. A. Allahyarov, L. I. Podloubny, P. P. J. M. Schram, and S. A. Trigger
pp. 592-597 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Dynamics of foams with and without wall rupture
J. J. Chae and M. Tabor
pp. 598-610 [View PDF (429 kB)]
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Bifurcations in a sidebranch surface of a free-growing dendrite
P. K. Galenko, M. D. Krivilyov, and S. V. Buzilov
pp. 611-619 [View PDF (580 kB)]
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Numerical analysis of ellipsometric critical adsorption data
Dan S. P. Smith, Bruce M. Law, Martin Smock, and David P. Landau
pp. 620-636 [View PDF (343 kB)]
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Phase transitions in a confined quasi-two-dimensional colloid suspension
Andrew H. Marcus and Stuart A. Rice
pp. 637-656 [View PDF (2,326 kB)]
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Quantitative test of the mode-coupling theory of the ideal glass transition for a binary Lennard-Jones system
Markus Nauroth and Walter Kob
pp. 657-667 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Short-time scaling behavior of growing interfaces
Michael Krech
pp. 668-679 [View PDF (242 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Diffusion in a fluctuating random geometry
Bertil Halle and Stefan Gustafsson
pp. 680-686 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Roughness-induced wetting
Roland R. Netz and David Andelman
pp. 687-700 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Planar isothermal solidification from an undercooled melt: Unsteady solute segregation studied with the phase-field model
M. Conti
pp. 701-707 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Lattice-gas simulations of domain growth, saturation, and self-assembly in immiscible fluidsand microemulsions
Andrew N. Emerton, Peter V. Coveney, and Bruce M. Boghosian
pp. 708-720 [View PDF (322 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Model for water-in-oil microemulsions: Surfactant effects
J.-M. Jin, K. Parbhakar, and L. H. Dao
pp. 721-726 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Line of compressibility maxima in the phase diagram of supercooled water
Francesco Sciortino, Peter H. Poole, Ulrich Essmann, and H. E. Stanley
pp. 727-737 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Spectrum of self-avoiding walk exponents
Jack Douglas, Charles M. Guttman, Alex Mah, and Takao Ishinabe
pp. 738-749 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Melting of systems of hard disks by Monte Carlo simulations
Julio F. Fernández, Juan J. Alonso, and Jolanta Stankiewicz
pp. 750-764 [View PDF (7,042 kB)]
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Solidification of binary alloys: Thermal effects studied with the phase-field model
M. Conti
pp. 765-771 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Diffusion and reaction in percolating pore networks
J. S. Andrade Jr., D. A. Street, Y. Shibusa, S. Havlin, and H. E. Stanley
pp. 772-777 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Theory of surface freezing of alkanes
Alexei V. Tkachenko and Yitzhak Rabin
pp. 778-784 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Biological physics

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Ecological model of extinctions
Guillermo Abramson
pp. 785-788 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Formation of hairpins and band broadening in gel electrophoresis of DNA
A. N. Semenov and J.-F. Joanny
pp. 789-799 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Correlations in DNA sequences: The role of protein coding segments
Hanspeter Herzel and Ivo Große
pp. 800-810 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of ensemble learning
Anders Krogh and Peter Sollich
pp. 811-825 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Learning feature constraints in a chaotic neural memory
Shigetoshi Nara and Peter Davis
pp. 826-830 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Compositional-mechanical instability of interacting mixed lipid membranes
William M. Gelbart and Robijn Bruinsma
pp. 831-835 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Optimal learning in multilayer neural networks
O. Winther, B. Lautrup, and J.-B. Zhang
pp. 836-844 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Deviations from uniform power law scaling in nonstationary time series
Gandhimohan M. Viswanathan, C.-K. Peng, H. Eugene Stanley, and Ary L. Goldberger
pp. 845-849 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Microtubules and vesicles under controlled tension
D. Kuchnir Fygenson, M. Elbaum, B. Shraiman, and A. Libchaber
pp. 850-859 [View PDF (671 kB)]
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Identification of amino acid sequences with good folding properties in an off-lattice model
Anders Irbäck, Carsten Peterson, and Frank Potthast
pp. 860-867 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Autonomous stochastic resonance in bursting neurons
André Longtin
pp. 868-876 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Frequency dependent signal transfer in neuron transistors
Rolf Weis and Peter Fromherz
pp. 877-889 [View PDF (457 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Self-contained solution to the spatially inhomogeneous electron Boltzmann equation in a cylindrical plasma positive column
L. L. Alves, G. Gousset, and C. M. Ferreira
pp. 890-906 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Shifts and asymmetry parameters of hydrogen Balmer lines in dense plasmas
Sibylle Günter and Axel Könies
pp. 907-911 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Bremsstrahlung in hot plasmas with partially ionized atoms
M. Lamoureux and N. Avdonina
pp. 912-926 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Electron temperature and density measurements in laser-produced large-scale-length gas-bag plasmas by x-ray spectroscopy
S. H. Glenzer, C. A. Back, K. G. Estabrook, B. J. MacGowan, D. S. Montgomery, R. K. Kirkwood, J. D. Moody, D. H. Munro, and G. F. Stone
pp. 927-938 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Investigation of a short-wavelength laser plasma of a gas-liner pinch discharge
S. H. Glenzer, Th. Wrubel, H.-J. Kunze, and L. Godbert-Mouret
pp. 939-946 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Iterative filtering procedure for the Vlasov equation
K. Chriaa, V. Skarka, and D. Carati
pp. 947-955 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Recovery of a weakly magnetized negative-ion plasma after photodetachment
A. A. Ivanov, A. B. Sionov, F. El Balghiti-Sube, and M. Bacal
pp. 956-961 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Dynamics of solitary waves in the Zakharov model equations
B. Malomed, D. Anderson, M. Lisak, M. L. Quiroga-Teixeiro, and L. Stenflo
pp. 962-968 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Ion charge state distributions of vacuum arc plasmas: The origin of species
André Anders
pp. 969-981 [View PDF (277 kB)]
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Finite Larmor radius effects and velocity correlations in two-dimensionalelectrostatic plasma turbulence
B. Krane, H. L. Pécseli, and J. Trulsen
pp. 982-990 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Fokker-Planck description of particle charging in ionized gases
Themis Matsoukas and Marc Russell
pp. 991-994 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Theory of magnetic field generation by relativistically strong laser radiation
V. I. Berezhiani, S. M. Mahajan, and N. L. Shatashvili
pp. 995-1001 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Charged magnetosonic solitons propagating in gentle density gradients and wave breaking
Tzihong Chiueh and Feng-Ruey Juang
pp. 1002-1010 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Nonlinear electron heating in ultrahigh-intensity-laser–plasma interaction
Erik Lefebvre and Guy Bonnaud
pp. 1011-1014 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Ponderomotive forces and stimulated Compton scattering of free electrons in a laser field
M. V. Fedorov, S. P. Goreslavsky, and V. S. Letokhov
pp. 1015-1027 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Transition crossing in proton synchrotrons using a flattened rf wave
C. M. Bhat, J. Griffin, J. MacLachlan, M. Martens, K. Meisner, and K. Y. Ng
pp. 1028-1034 [View PDF (235 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Light diffraction at mixed phase and absorption gratings in anisotropic media for arbitrary geometries
G. Montemezzani and M. Zgonik
pp. 1035-1047 [View PDF (288 kB)]
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Discoid solitons and solitary wave trains in an expanding collisionless local universe
Tzihong Chiueh and Tak-Pong Woo
pp. 1048-1059 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Perturbation of parametrically excited solitary waves
S. Longhi
pp. 1060-1070 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Propagation of electromagnetic energy and momentum through an absorbing dielectric
R. Loudon, L. Allen, and D. F. Nelson
pp. 1071-1085 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Dissipative three-wave structures in stimulated backscattering. I. A subluminous solitary attractor
Carlos Montes, Alexander Mikhailov, Antonio Picozzi, and Frédéric Ginovart
pp. 1086-1091 [View PDF (120 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Dissipative three-wave structures in stimulated backscattering. II. Superluminous and subluminous solitons
Carlos Montes, Antonio Picozzi, and Derradji Bahloul
pp. 1092-1105 [View PDF (282 kB)]

Computational physics

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Monte Carlo simulation of the shapes of domains in phospholipid monolayers
M. A. Mayer and T. K. Vanderlick
pp. 1106-1119 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Universality and critical phenomena in string defect statistics
Karl Strobl and Mark Hindmarsh
pp. 1120-1149 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Dynamics of phase separation of a simple fluid mixture: Comparison between molecular dynamics and numerical integration of the phenomenological equation
H. Furukawa
pp. 1150-1161 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Pivot method for global optimization
Pablo Serra, Aaron F. Stanton, and Sabre Kais
pp. 1162-1165 [View PDF (88 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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sLangmuir waves in a dusty plasma with variable grain charge
Jitesh R. Bhatt
pp. 1166-1169 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Monte Carlo fixed scale transformation for nonlocal fractal growth models
Marina Piccioni, Raffaele Cafiero, and Alessandro Vespignani
pp. 1170-1173 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Mutually penetrating motion of self-organized two-dimensional patterns of solitonlike structures
K. Indireshkumar and A. L. Frenkel
pp. 1174-1177 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Surface growth with spatially correlated noise
Mai Suan Li
pp. 1178-1180 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Wave fronts in bistable reactions with anomalous Lévy-flight diffusion
Damián H. Zanette
pp. 1181-1184 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Coupling of sound and internal waves in shear flows
Andria D. Rogava and Swadesh M. Mahajan
pp. 1185-1188 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Heat flux and shear rate in turbulent convection
Emily S. C. Ching
pp. 1189-1192 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Common mechanism links spiral wave meandering and wave-front–obstacle separation
J. M. Starobin and C. F. Starmer
pp. 1193-1196 [View PDF (929 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Structure function of polymer nematic liquid crystals:mA Monte Carlo simulation
Randall D. Kamien and Gary S. Grest
pp. 1197-1200 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Percolation in a lattice model of a microemulsion
C. M. McCallum and J. R. Gunn
pp. 1201-1204 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Randomness and determinism in soap froth dynamics
Boris Levitan
pp. 1205-1208 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Biological physics

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Discreteness effects on kinklike excitations in microtubules
P. Woafo, G. H. Guénoue, and A. S. Bokosah
pp. 1209-1212 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Effect of two-temperature electron distribution on the Bohm sheath criterion
S. B. Song, C. S. Chang, and Duk-In Choi
pp. 1213-1216 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Covariant formulation of wave-particle interaction in a transverse magnetic field
J. T. Mendoņca and L. Oliveira e Silva
pp. 1217-1220 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Dark solitons in weakly saturable nonlinear media
Yijiang Chen
pp. 1221-1224 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Experimental observations of structural relaxation in granular matter
M. Massalska-Arodz-acute, J. Mayer, J. Bran-acutekowski, A. Ostrowicz, and E. Lisiecki
pp. 1225-1227 [View PDF (54 kB)]

COMMENTS

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sComment on ``Universal formulas for percolation thresholds''
S. C. van der Marck
pp. 1228-1229 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Reply to ``Comment on `Universal formulas for percolation thresholds't''
Serge Galam and Alain Mauger
pp. 1230-1231 [View PDF (38 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Origin of depolarized light scattering in supercooled liquids: Orientational fluctuation versus induced scattering mechanisms [Phys. Rev. E 53, 896 (1996)]
H. Z. Cummins, Gen Li, Weimin Du, Robert M. Pick, and Catherine Dreyfus
pp. 1232 [View PDF (32 kB)]