Physical Review E – February 1997
Volume 55, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Invalidity of the spatiotemporal white noise assumption for a stochastic diffusion-type equation
Katsuya Honda
pp. R1235-R1238 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Statistical complexity of simple one-dimensional spin systems
James P. Crutchfield and David P. Feldman
pp. R1239-R1242 [View PDF (98 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Role of divergence of classical trajectories in quantum chaos
I. L. Aleiner and A. I. Larkin
pp. R1243-R1246 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Dynamical crossover in deterministic diffusion
R. Klages and J. R. Dorfman
pp. R1247-R1250 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Characterization of blowout bifurcation by unstable periodic orbits
Yoshihiko Nagai and Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. R1251-R1254 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Oscillatory correlation of delayed random walks
Toru Ohira
pp. R1255-R1258 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Convection in rotating annuli: Ginzburg-Landau equations with tunable coefficients
Martin van Hecke and Wim van Saarloos
pp. R1259-R1262 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Perturbation theory for the δ-correlated model of passive scalar advection near the Batchelor limit
Alain Pumir, Boris I. Shraiman, and Eric D. Siggia
pp. R1263-R1266 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Evolution and formation of dispersive-dissipative patterns
Alexander Oron and Philip Rosenau
pp. R1267-R1270 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Field-induced optical biaxiality in chiral smectic-A liquid crystals
F. J. Bartoli, J. R. Lindle, S. R. Flom, J. V. Selinger, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar
pp. R1271-R1274 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Interactions between particulate inclusions in a smectic-A liquid crystal
M. S. Turner and P. Sens
pp. R1275-R1278 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Contribution of the smectic-nematic interface to the surface energy
L. R. Evangelista, S. Fontanini, L. C. Malacarne, and R. S. Mendes
pp. R1279-R1281 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Cellular multiplets in directional solidification
Przemek Kopczyn-acuteski, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Alain Karma
pp. R1282-R1285 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Morphology and thermal conductivity of model organic aerogels
Anthony P. Roberts
pp. R1286-R1289 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Kinetics of liquid-liquid phase separation of a binary mixture in cylindrical pores
Lev D. Gelb and K. E. Gubbins
pp. R1290-R1293 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Frequency and water content dependencies of electrorheological properties
Weijia Wen, Hongru Ma, Wing Yim Tam, and Ping Sheng
pp. R1294-R1297 [View PDF (92 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Analytical and numerical study of optimal channel networks
F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Maritan, and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. 1298-1310 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Domain growth on self-similar structures
Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi and Alberto Petri
pp. 1311-1314 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Period control of chaotic systems by optimization
Ali Fouladi and J. A. Valdivia
pp. 1315-1320 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Fluctuations and defect-defect correlations in the ordering kinetics of the O(2) model
Gene F. Mazenko and Robert A. Wickham
pp. 1321-1330 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Roughening-induced deconstruction in (100) facets of CsCl-type crystals
Douglas Davidson and Marcel den Nijs
pp. 1331-1341 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Power law dependence found on the lifetime of a photoconductor chaotic transientnumerically induced by a fixed-step algorithm
Alicia Serfaty de Markus
pp. 1342-1346 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Critical behavior of the square-well fluid with λ=2: A finite-size-scaling study
Enrique de Miguel
pp. 1347-1354 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Dissipative quantum systems with a potential barrier. III. Steady state nonequilibrium flux and reaction rate
Joachim Ankerhold and Hermann Grabert
pp. 1355-1374 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Solitons in a uniaxial anisotropic Heisenberg spin chain with Gilbert damping in an external magnetic field
Wu-Ming Liu, Xiao-Bing Wang, Fu-Cho Pu, and Nian-Ning Huang
pp. 1375-1394 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Territory covered by N Lévy flights on d-dimensional lattices
G. Berkolaiko and S. Havlin
pp. 1395-1400 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Burgers' flows as Markovian diffusion processes
Piotr Garbaczewski, Grzegorz Kondrat, and Robert Olkiewicz
pp. 1401-1412 [View PDF (253 kB)]
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Irregular and fractal resonators with Neumann boundary conditions: Density of states and localization
S. Russ, B. Sapoval, and O. Haeberlé
pp. 1413-1421 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Unified model for the study of diffusion localization and dissipation
Doron Cohen
pp. 1422-1441 [View PDF (397 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Solvable aggregation-annihilation processes with greater than two components
Ligen Zhang and Z. R. Yang
pp. 1442-1447 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Damage spreading in the q-state Potts model
Marta F. de A. Bibiano, F. G. Brady Moreira, and A. M. Mariz
pp. 1448-1450 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Quantum instability of the flux lines in the coherent state representation
Gonzalo García de Polavieja and Mark S. Child
pp. 1451-1456 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Brézin-Zee dynamical correlator: An S-matrix Brownian motion approach
A. M. S. Macêdo
pp. 1457-1462 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Synchronization, chaos, and the breakdown of collective domain oscillations in reaction-diffusion systems
C. B. Muratov
pp. 1463-1477 [View PDF (1,053 kB)]
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Theory of stochastic resonance in signal transmission by static nonlinear systems
Fraņcois Chapeau-Blondeau and Xavier Godivier
pp. 1478-1495 [View PDF (367 kB)]
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Time mapping in power series expansions for the time evolution operator
A. N. Drozdov
pp. 1496-1507 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Fractal dimension of collision cascades
F. Kun and G. Bardos
pp. 1508-1513 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Percolation thresholds and universal formulas
S. C. van der Marck
pp. 1514-1517 [View PDF (86 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Equivalence of ideal gases in two dimensions and Landen's relations
M. Howard Lee
pp. 1518-1520 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Brownian dynamics simulation of the prehistory problem
M. Morillo, J. M. Casado, and J. Gómez-Ordóñez
pp. 1521-1524 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Dynamical exponent of rough surface with quenched noise
Junzhong Yang and Gang Hu
pp. 1525-1529 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Propagation and structure of planar streamer fronts
Ute Ebert, Wim van Saarloos, and Christiane Caroli
pp. 1530-1549 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Binary collision contribution to the longitudinal current correlation function of dense fluids
Rajneesh K. Sharma, K. Tankeshwar, K. N. Pathak, S. Ranganathan, and R. E. Johnson
pp. 1550-1557 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Microstructure functions for a model of statistically inhomogeneous random media
J. Quintanilla and S. Torquato
pp. 1558-1565 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Molecular spin in a fluid undergoing Poiseuille flow
Karl P. Travis and D. J. Evans
pp. 1566-1572 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Invariance principle for extension of hydrodynamics: Nonlinear viscosity
Iliya V. Karlin, G. Dukek, and T. F. Nonnenmacher
pp. 1573-1576 [View PDF (94 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Properties of ridges in elastic membranes
Alexander E. Lobkovsky and T. A. Witten
pp. 1577-1589 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Hamiltonian formulation for the diffusion equation
Jacques Lewalle
pp. 1590-1599 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Experimental evaluation of acceleration correlations for locally isotropic turbulence
Reginald J. Hill and S. T. Thoroddsen
pp. 1600-1606 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Semiphenomenological effective-medium theory of multicomponent nucleation
V. I. Kalikmanov and M. E. H. van Dongen
pp. 1607-1616 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Locally self-similar, finite-time collapse in a high-symmetry vortex filament model
R. B. Pelz
pp. 1617-1626 [View PDF (563 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Orientation and surface anchoring of nematic liquid crystals on linearly polymerized photopolymers
H. G. Galabova, D. W. Allender, and J. Chen
pp. 1627-1631 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Relaxation time of molecular rotation about its long axis in the smectic-A phase of ferroelectricand antiferroelectric liquid crystals as observed by picosecond optical Kerr effect
Kouichi Miyachi, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe, and Atsuo Fukuda
pp. 1632-1636 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Pretransitional nematic ordering in liquid crystals with dispersed polymer networks
Y. K. Fung, A. Borstnik, S. Zumer, D.-K. Yang, and J. W. Doane
pp. 1637-1645 [View PDF (448 kB)]
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Morphology and electro-optic properties of polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal films
Karl Amundson, Alfons van Blaaderen, and Pierre Wiltzius
pp. 1646-1654 [View PDF (809 kB)]
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Pattern formation and instability of smectic-A filaments grown from an isotropic phase
Hiroyoshi Naito, Masahiro Okuda, and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
pp. 1655-1659 [View PDF (231 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Self-consistent-field theory of a brush of randomly branched polymers
Shi-Min Cui and Zheng Yu Chen
pp. 1660-1667 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Inhomogeneous shear flows of wormlike micelles:mA master dynamic phase diagram
Jean-Fraņcois Berret, Grégoire Porte, and Jean-Paul Decruppe
pp. 1668-1676 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Phase behavior of colloid plus polydisperse polymer mixtures
Richard P. Sear and Daan Frenkel
pp. 1677-1681 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Kinetics of phase transitions in weakly segregated block copolymers: Pseudostable and transient states
Shuyan Qi and Zhen-Gang Wang
pp. 1682-1697 [View PDF (1,359 kB)]
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Invasion percolation on self-affine topographies
G. Wagner, P. Meakin, J. Feder, and T. Jøssang
pp. 1698-1703 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Diffusion of a polymer chain in porous media
V. Yamakov and A. Milchev
pp. 1704-1712 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Capillary condensation between disks in two dimensions
Tamir Gil and John H. Ipsen
pp. 1713-1721 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Two-order-parameter model for an oil-water-surfactant system
Shigeyuki Komura and Hiroya Kodama
pp. 1722-1727 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Cooperative chiral order in copolymers of chiral and achiral units
J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger
pp. 1728-1731 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of moving Gibbs dividing surfaces
Liqiu Wang
pp. 1732-1738 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Bubble-scale model of foam mechanics:mMelting, nonlinear behavior, and avalanches
D. J. Durian
pp. 1739-1751 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Dynamics of vacancy-mediated phase separation
Sanjay Puri
pp. 1752-1757 [View PDF (201 kB)]

Biological physics

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Supercoiled and braided DNA under tension
John F. Marko
pp. 1758-1772 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Reflection and transmission of nonlinear blood waves due to arterial branching
Wen-shan Duan, Ben-ren Wang, and Rong-jue Wei
pp. 1773-1778 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Two-way silicon-neuron interface by electrical induction
Alfred Stett, Bernt Müller, and Peter Fromherz
pp. 1779-1782 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Gel electrophoresis and diffusion of ring-shaped DNA
Uri Alon and David Mukamel
pp. 1783-1793 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of a DNA molecule in a flow field
R. G. Larson, T. T. Perkins, D. E. Smith, and S. Chu
pp. 1794-1797 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in models of neuronal ensembles
Dante R. Chialvo, André Longtin, and Johannes Müller-Gerking
pp. 1798-1808 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Large deviations of the average shapes of vesicles from equilibrium:Effects of thermal fluctuations in the presence of constraints
Volkmar Heinrich, France Sevsek, Sasa Svetina, and Bostjan Zeks
pp. 1809-1818 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Approximate analytical solutions to the bidomain equations with unequal anisotropy ratios
Bradley J. Roth
pp. 1819-1826 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Detailed comparison of experimental and theoretical heliumlike Ti and Ca satellite line spectra emitted from a laser-produced plasma
A. Demir, P. Zeitoun, G. J. Tallents, E. Fill, G. Jamelot, Y. L. Li, M. Nantel, G. J. Pert, B. Rus, and D. Schlögl
pp. 1827-1835 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Deexcitation and recombination of excited ions through doubly excited levels in a dense recombining plasma: Lithiumlike recombining plasma laser
Tetsuya Kawachi and Takashi Fujimoto
pp. 1836-1842 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Frequency downshifting and trapping of an electromagnetic wave by a rapidly created spatially periodic plasma
James Faith, S. P. Kuo, and Joe Huang
pp. 1843-1851 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Effects of ion temperature on electrostatic solitary structures in nonthermal plasmas
A. A. Mamun
pp. 1852-1857 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Boundary conditions including sheath effects at a plasma-facing surface
C. A. Ordonez
pp. 1858-1871 [View PDF (234 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Radiation by charged particles in nonuniform acceleration:The inapplicability of Larmor's formula
R. Lieu, W. I. Axford, and J. F. McKenzie
pp. 1872-1875 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Small signal theory of an E×B drifting electron laser
Spilios Riyopoulos
pp. 1876-1886 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Gain and saturation in free-electron laser oscillators
Vinit Kumar and Srinivas Krishnagopal
pp. 1887-1893 [View PDF (154 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Variational approach to solitons in systems with cascaded χ(2)snonlinearity
V. M. Agranovich, S. A. Darmanyan, A. M. Kamchatnov, T. A. Leskova, and A. D. Boardman
pp. 1894-1898 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Vector spatial solitons influenced by magneto-optic effects in cascadable nonlinear media
A. D. Boardman and K. Xie
pp. 1899-1909 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Generalized asymptotic description of the propagated field dynamics in Gaussian pulse propagation in a linear, causally dispersive medium
Constantinos M. Balictsis and Kurt E. Oughstun
pp. 1910-1921 [View PDF (263 kB)]
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Nonlinear rotating modes: Green's-function solution
Shozo Takeno and Michel Peyrard
pp. 1922-1928 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Autoresonant excitation and evolution of nonlinear waves:mThe variational approach
L. Friedland
pp. 1929-1939 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Energy dissipation for quasielastic granular particle collisions
W. A. M. Morgado and I. Oppenheim
pp. 1940-1945 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Wave field determination using tomography of the ambiguity function
Jinhong Tu and Shinichi Tamura
pp. 1946-1949 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Eigenfunction expansion of the dyadic Green's function in a gyroelectric chiral medium by cylindrical vector wave functions
Dajun Cheng
pp. 1950-1958 [View PDF (204 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Geometrical and transport properties of random packings of spheres and aspherical particles
D. Coelho, J.-F. Thovert, and P. M. Adler
pp. 1959-1978 [View PDF (596 kB)]

Computational physics

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Bead-Fourier path-integral Monte Carlo method applied to systems of identical particles
P. N. Vorontsov-Velyaminov, M. O. Nesvit, and R. I. Gorbunov
pp. 1979-1997 [View PDF (369 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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sMean-field theory of sandpiles
Maxim Vergeles, Amos Maritan, and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. 1998-2000 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Anisotropic triangular Ising model in the extended mean-field renormalization-group approach
C. N. Likos
pp. 2001-2004 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Irregular behaviors of two chemical oscillators with a diffusion coupling
Kenji Miyakawa, Tadao Okabe, and Fumitaka Sakamoto
pp. 2005-2008 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Analysis of minimal pinning density for controlling spatiotemporal chaosof a coupled map lattice
Y. S. Kwon, S. W. Ham, and K. K. Lee
pp. 2009-2012 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Attractor for the mean-field equations of the hysteretic dynamics of a quantum spin model:Analytical solution
Subir K. Sarkar and Debashish Bose
pp. 2013-2015 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Noise-enhanced capacity via stochastic resonance in an asymmetric binary channel
Fraņcois Chapeau-Blondeau
pp. 2016-2019 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of the molecular-weight distribution of living polymers
Yannick Rouault and Andrey Milchev
pp. 2020-2022 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Three-dimensional traveling-wave solutions in plane Couette flow
M. Nagata
pp. 2023-2025 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Role of orientation in the structure and dynamics of a supercooled molecular liquid
W. J. Ma and S. K. Lai
pp. 2026-2029 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Surface-enhanced ordering and layer-thinning transitions in freely suspended smectic-A films
Y. Martínez-Ratón, A. M. Somoza, L. Mederos, and D. E. Sullivan
pp. 2030-2033 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Dynamic correlations in porous media
J. C. Lee
pp. 2034-2037 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Biological physics

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Microtubules: Montroll's kink and Morse vibrations
Haret Codratian Rosu
pp. 2038-2039 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Sources of periodical force in noisy integrate-and-fire models of neuronal dynamics
Petr Lánský
pp. 2040-2043 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Power exchange between crossed laser beams and the associated frequency cascade
C. J. McKinstrie, V. A. Smalyuk, R. E. Giacone, and H. X. Vu
pp. 2044-2047 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Variational calculation for maximal heat transport due to the ion-temperature gradient
Chang-Bae Kim
pp. 2048-2051 [View PDF (113 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Impedance of a coaxial cavity coupled to the beam pipe through a small hole
S. De Santis and L. Palumbo
pp. 2052-2055 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Storage-ring free-electron-laser amplifiers and the microwave instability
G. Dattoli, A. Renieri, and G. Voykov
pp. 2056-2058 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Effect of linear coupling on nonlinear resonances in betatron motion
G. De Ninno and E. Todesco
pp. 2059-2062 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics of an electric charge in an oscillating pulsed magnetic field
I. S. Oliveira, A. P. Guimarães, and X. A. da Silva
pp. 2063-2066 [View PDF (102 kB)]

COMMENTS

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sReply to 'Absorbing boundary conditions for inertial random processes'
J. Heinrichs
pp. 2067-2068 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Comment on ``Fast dynamics of glass-forming glycerol''
K. L. Ngai and C. M. Roland
pp. 2069-2070 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Reply to ``Comment on `Fast dynamics of glass-forming glycerol' ''
J. Wuttke, W. Petry, and F. Fujara
pp. 2071 [View PDF (22 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Estimating perturbative coefficients in quantum field theory and statistical physics [Phys. Rev. E 51, 3911 (1995)] pp. 2072 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Erratum: Effective χ in a lattice theory of mixtures [Phys. Rev. E 54, 2723 (1996)]
P. D. Gujrati
pp. 2072 [View PDF (57 kB)]