Physical Review E – August 1998
Volume 58, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Has chaos implied by macrovariable equations been justified?
Qianshu Li and Hongli Wang
pp. R1191-R1194 [View PDF (75 kB)]
Statistics of S-matrix poles for chaotic systems with broken time reversal invariance: A conjecture
Yan V. Fyodorov, Mikhail Titov, and Hans-Jürgen Sommers
pp. R1195-R1198 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Classical fluids

Systematic drift experienced by a point vortex in two-dimensional turbulence
Pierre-Henri Chavanis
pp. R1199-R1202 [View PDF (106 kB)]
Gradient clogging in depth filtration
Somalee Datta and S. Redner
pp. R1203-R1206 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Liquid crystals

High-resolution heat-capacity studies of the hexatic-B–smectic-F phase transition in liquid-crystal compounds
P. M. Johnson, C. C. Huang, E. Gorecka, and D. Pociecha
pp. R1207-R1210 [View PDF (78 kB)]
Liquid-crystal-anchoring transitions at surfaces created by polymerization-induced phase separation
Karl R. Amundson and Mohan Srinivasarao
pp. R1211-R1214 [View PDF (151 kB)]
Smectic-A Fréedericksz transition
Steve J. Elston
pp. R1215-R1217 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

Subharmonic motion of particles in a vibrating tube
Jysoo Lee
pp. R1218-R1221 [View PDF (115 kB)]
Topological effects on statics and dynamics of knotted polymers
Yu-Jane Sheng, Pik-Yin Lai, and Heng-Kwong Tsao
pp. R1222-R1225 [View PDF (90 kB)]
Relaxation dynamics in ultrathin polymer films
J. A. Forrest, C. Svanberg, K. Révész, M. Rodahl, L. M. Torell, and B. Kasemo
pp. R1226-R1229 [View PDF (84 kB)]
Real-time observation on deformation of bicontinuous phase under simple shear flow
Feng Qiu, Jiandong Ding, and Yuliang Yang
pp. R1230-R1233 [View PDF (328 kB)]
Enormous stress response of anisotropic solution of poly(γ-benzyl-L-glutamate) to sinusoidal electric fields with low frequencies unexplained by the electrohydrodynamic instability
Katsufumi Tanaka, Akio Takahashi, and Ryuichi Akiyama
pp. R1234-R1236 [View PDF (92 kB)]
Viscoelasticity of tightly entangled solutions of semiflexible polymers
David C. Morse
pp. R1237-R1240 [View PDF (139 kB)]
Dynamic shear modulus of a semiflexible polymer network
F. Gittes and F. C. MacKintosh
pp. R1241-R1244 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Plasma physics

Magnetically induced optical transparency of overdense plasmas due to ultrafast ionization
D. Teychenné, A. Giulietti, D. Giulietti, and L. A. Gizzi
pp. R1245-R1247 [View PDF (50 kB)]
Interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with ultrathin foils
A. Forsman, A. Ng, G. Chiu, and R. M. More
pp. R1248-R1251 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Instabilities of higher-order parametric solitons: Filamentation versus coalescence
Dmitry V. Skryabin and William J. Firth
pp. R1252-R1255 [View PDF (253 kB)]
Breathing self-similar dynamics and oscillatory tails of the chirped dispersion-managed soliton
Sergei K. Turitsyn
pp. R1256-R1259 [View PDF (124 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Simplified cellular automaton model for city traffic
P. M. Simon and K. Nagel
pp. 1286-1295 [View PDF (453 kB)]
Generalized Einstein relation: A stochastic modeling approach
E. Barkai and V. N. Fleurov
pp. 1296-1310 [View PDF (294 kB)]
Traffic jams and hysteresis in driven one-dimensional systems
O. M. Braun, B. Hu, A. Filippov, and A. Zeltser
pp. 1311-1324 [View PDF (1,991 kB)]
Noise-induced transport of Brownian particles with consideration for their mass
P. S. Landa
pp. 1325-1333 [View PDF (282 kB)]
Resonance trapping and saturation of decay widths
E. Persson, T. Gorin, and I. Rotter
pp. 1334-1345 [View PDF (377 kB)]
Connection between energy spectrum, self-similarity, and specific heat log-periodicity
Raúl O. Vallejos, Renio S. Mendes, Luciano R. da Silva, and Constantino Tsallis
pp. 1346-1351 [View PDF (137 kB)]
Generic emergence of power law distributions and Lévy-Stable intermittent fluctuations in discrete logistic systems
Ofer Biham, Ofer Malcai, Moshe Levy, and Sorin Solomon
pp. 1352-1358 [View PDF (131 kB)]
Self-similar exponential approximants
V. I. Yukalov and S. Gluzman
pp. 1359-1382 [View PDF (401 kB)]
Non-Hermitian localization and population biology
David R. Nelson and Nadav M. Shnerb
pp. 1383-1403 [View PDF (813 kB)]
Jamming transition in a homogeneous one-dimensional system: The bus route model
O. J. O’Loan, M. R. Evans, and M. E. Cates
pp. 1404-1418 [View PDF (452 kB)]
Dynamics of a nonlinear oscillator which is coupled to various model heat baths
Donald P. Visco, Jr. and Surajit Sen
pp. 1419-1424 [View PDF (120 kB)]
Two-lane traffic rules for cellular automata: A systematic approach
Kai Nagel, Dietrich E. Wolf, Peter Wagner, and Patrice Simon
pp. 1425-1437 [View PDF (572 kB)]
Evidence for self-organized criticality in the Bean critical state in superconductors
C. M. Aegerter
pp. 1438-1441 [View PDF (78 kB)]
Generalized entropy-based criterion for consistent testing
Constantino Tsallis
pp. 1442-1445 [View PDF (102 kB)]
Surface critical behavior of driven diffusive systems with open boundaries
K. Oerding and H. K. Janssen
pp. 1446-1454 [View PDF (220 kB)]
Exact three-dimensional Casimir force amplitude, C function, and Binder’s cumulant ratio: Spherical model results
Daniel M. Danchev
pp. 1455-1462 [View PDF (197 kB)]
Amplitude equations for extended discrete systems: A study of an antiferromagnetic spin chain
B. Rumpf and H. Sauermann
pp. 1463-1477 [View PDF (604 kB)]
Phase behavior of a system of particles with core collapse
E. A. Jagla
pp. 1478-1486 [View PDF (471 kB)]
Ionic reactions in two dimensions with disorder
Jeong-Man Park and Michael W. Deem
pp. 1487-1493 [View PDF (152 kB)]
Gutenberg-Richter and characteristic earthquake behavior in simple mean-field models of heterogeneous faults
Karin Dahmen, Deniz Ertaş, and Yehuda Ben-Zion
pp. 1494-1501 [View PDF (322 kB)]
Properties of the two-dimensional random-bond ±J Ising spin glass
J. A. Blackman, J. R. Gonçalves, and J. Poulter
pp. 1502-1507 [View PDF (120 kB)]
Defect relaxation and coarsening exponents
A. J. Bray
pp. 1508-1513 [View PDF (150 kB)]
Dynamics of driven interfaces near isotropic percolation transition
M.-P. Kuittu, M. Haataja, N. Provatas, and T. Ala-Nissila
pp. 1514-1520 [View PDF (172 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Universal finite-size scaling functions for percolation on three-dimensional lattices
Chai-Yu Lin and Chin-Kun Hu
pp. 1521-1527 [View PDF (176 kB)]
Probabilistic approach to time-dependent load-transfer models of fracture
J. B. Gómez, Y. Moreno, and A. F. Pacheco
pp. 1528-1532 [View PDF (103 kB)]
Diffusion controlled initial recombination
T. Christen and M. Büttiker
pp. 1533-1542 [View PDF (215 kB)]
Perturbation expansion in phase-ordering kinetics: I. Scalar order parameter
Gene F. Mazenko
pp. 1543-1567 [View PDF (442 kB)]
Dynamic ductile to brittle transition in a one-dimensional model of viscoplasticity
Alexander E. Lobkovsky and J. S. Langer
pp. 1568-1576 [View PDF (184 kB)]
From individual to collective pinning: Effect of long-range elastic interactions
Anne Tanguy, Matthieu Gounelle, and Stéphane Roux
pp. 1577-1590 [View PDF (1,044 kB)]
Asymptotic power law of moments in a random multiplicative process with weak additive noise
Hiroya Nakao
pp. 1591-1600 [View PDF (258 kB)]
Driven Frenkel-Kontorova model. I. Uniform sliding states and dynamical domains of different particle densities
Torsten Strunz and Franz-Josef Elmer
pp. 1601-1611 [View PDF (242 kB)]
See Also: See Also
Driven Frenkel-Kontorova model. II. Chaotic sliding and nonequilibrium melting and freezing
Torsten Strunz and Franz-Josef Elmer
pp. 1612-1620 [View PDF (232 kB)]
Anomalous transport in external fields: Continuous time random walks and fractional diffusion equations extended
Ralf Metzler, Joseph Klafter, and Igor M. Sokolov
pp. 1621-1633 [View PDF (269 kB)]
Correlations in a confined gas of harmonically interacting spin-polarized fermions
F. Brosens, J. T. Devreese, and L. F. Lemmens
pp. 1634-1643 [View PDF (199 kB)]
Exact correlation functions of Bethe lattice spin models in external magnetic fields
Chin-Kun Hu and N. Sh. Izmailian
pp. 1644-1653 [View PDF (199 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Interaction between Hopf and static instabilities in a pattern-forming optical system
Yu. A. Logvin and T. Ackemann
pp. 1654-1661 [View PDF (474 kB)]
Synchronization of the mean velocity of a particle in stochastic ratchets with a running wave
D. E. Postnov, A. P. Nikitin, and V. S. Anishchenko
pp. 1662-1664 [View PDF (363 kB)]
Driven maps and the emergence of ordered collective behavior in globally coupled maps
A. Parravano and M. G. Cosenza
pp. 1665-1671 [View PDF (260 kB)]
Entropy balance in the presence of drift and diffusion currents: An elementary chaotic map approach
Jürgen Vollmer, Tamás Tél, and Wolfgang Breymann
pp. 1672-1684 [View PDF (434 kB)]
Experimental control of a chaotic point process using interspike intervals
G. Martin Hall, Sonya Bahar, and Daniel J. Gauthier
pp. 1685-1689 [View PDF (128 kB)]
Lévy flights in quenched random force fields
Hans C. Fogedby
pp. 1690-1712 [View PDF (430 kB)]
High harmonic generation in systems with bounded chaos
W. Chism, T. Timberlake, and L. E. Reichl
pp. 1713-1723 [View PDF (3,687 kB)]
Dynamics of coding in communicating with chaos
Erik Bollt and Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. 1724-1736 [View PDF (275 kB)]
Mode fluctuation distribution for spectra of superconducting microwave billiards
H. Alt, A. Bäcker, C. Dembowski, H.-D. Gräf, R. Hofferbert, H. Rehfeld, and A. Richter
pp. 1737-1742 [View PDF (139 kB)]
Squeezed state dynamics of kicked quantum systems
Bambi Hu, Baowen Li, Jie Liu, and Ji-Lin Zhou
pp. 1743-1756 [View PDF (343 kB)]
Half-period delayed feedback control for dynamical systems with symmetries
Hiroyuki Nakajima and Yoshisuke Ueda
pp. 1757-1763 [View PDF (170 kB)]
Pattern interaction and spiral waves in a two-layer system of excitable units
V. I. Nekorkin, V. B. Kazantsev, M. G. Velarde, and L. O. Chua
pp. 1764-1773 [View PDF (11,180 kB)]
Chaos in trapped particle orbits
R. B. White
pp. 1774-1779 [View PDF (263 kB)]
Free particle chaotic scattering off two oscillating disks
A. Antillón, Jorge V. José, and T. H. Seligman
pp. 1780-1788 [View PDF (231 kB)]
Dynamics of nonlinear oscillators with random interactions
J. C. Stiller and G. Radons
pp. 1789-1799 [View PDF (246 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
Testing stationarity in time series
A. Witt, J. Kurths, and A. Pikovsky
pp. 1800-1810 [View PDF (225 kB)]

Classical fluids

Improved shell model of turbulence
Victor S. L’vov, Evgenii Podivilov, Anna Pomyalov, Itamar Procaccia, and Damien Vandembroucq
pp. 1811-1822 [View PDF (278 kB)]
Renormalization group, operator product expansion, and anomalous scaling in a model of advected passive scalar
Loran Ts. Adzhemyan, Nikolaj V. Antonov, and Alexander N. Vasil’ev
pp. 1823-1835 [View PDF (252 kB)]
Nonlinear Couette flow in a dilute gas: Comparison between theory and molecular-dynamics simulation
J. M. Montanero and V. Garzó
pp. 1836-1842 [View PDF (162 kB)]
Discretized integral hydrodynamics
Víctor Romero-Rochín and J. Miguel Rubí
pp. 1843-1850 [View PDF (159 kB)]
Refined similarity hypothesis and asymmetry of turbulence
S. I. Vainshtein
pp. 1851-1865 [View PDF (344 kB)]
Reference Soret coefficients of natural isotopes and diluted alloys of tin
S. Van Vaerenbergh, J. P. Garandet, J. P. Praizey, and J. C. Legros
pp. 1866-1873 [View PDF (114 kB)]
Impulsive model for the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability
Marc Van den boomgaerde, Claude Mügler, and Serge Gauthier
pp. 1874-1882 [View PDF (161 kB)]
Dynamical control for capturing vortices near bluff bodies
Áron Péntek, James B. Kadtke, and Gianni Pedrizzetti
pp. 1883-1898 [View PDF (2,151 kB)]
Electron-atom bremsstrahlung and the sonoluminescence of rare gas bubbles
Lothar Frommhold
pp. 1899-1905 [View PDF (159 kB)]
Robust reduced-order controller of laminar boundary layer transitions
L. Cortelezzi and J. L. Speyer
pp. 1906-1910 [View PDF (727 kB)]
Driven lattice gases with quenched disorder: Exact results and different macroscopic regimes
Goutam Tripathy and Mustansir Barma
pp. 1911-1926 [View PDF (339 kB)]
Route to chaos for a two-dimensional externally driven flow
R. Braun, F. Feudel, and P. Guzdar
pp. 1927-1932 [View PDF (249 kB)]
Direct correlation functions in two-dimensional anisotropic fluids
Antoine Chamoux and Aurelien Perera
pp. 1933-1947 [View PDF (314 kB)]
Effects of a large-scale mean circulating flow on passive scalar statistics in a model of random advection
Emily S. C. Ching, C. S. Pang, and Gustavo Stolovitzky
pp. 1948-1954 [View PDF (254 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Viscous properties of nematic liquid crystals composed of biaxial molecules
Marcin Fiałkowski
pp. 1955-1966 [View PDF (359 kB)]
Order distribution function of a linear polymerized photopolymer orienting a nematic liquid crystal
A. Th. Ionescu, R. Barberi, M. Giocondo, M. Iovane, and A. L. Alexe-Ionescu
pp. 1967-1972 [View PDF (203 kB)]
Coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equations for the weak electrolyte model of electroconvection
Martin Treiber and Lorenz Kramer
pp. 1973-1982 [View PDF (270 kB)]
Dynamics of disordered patterns in electroconvection of homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystals
P. Tóth, Á. Buka, J. Peinke, and L. Kramer
pp. 1983-1991 [View PDF (5,491 kB)]
Capillary filling of nematic liquid crystals
Xiang-Dong Mi and Deng-Ke Yang
pp. 1992-2000 [View PDF (286 kB)]
Dielectric spectroscopy of liquid crystals in smectic, nematic, and isotropic phases confined in random porous media
G. P. Sinha and F. M. Aliev
pp. 2001-2010 [View PDF (188 kB)]
Fate of magnetic walls in nematic liquid crystals
M. Simões, A. J. Palangana, and F. C. Cardoso
pp. 2011-2017 [View PDF (203 kB)]
Formation of chevrons in the dielectric regime of electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals
M. Scheuring, L. Kramer, and J. Peinke
pp. 2018-2026 [View PDF (821 kB)]
Dynamic correlation functions for finite and infinite smectic-A systems: Theory and experiment
A. Poniewierski, R. Hołyst, A. C. Price, L. B. Sorensen, S. D. Kevan, and J. Toner
pp. 2027-2040 [View PDF (270 kB)]
Orientational susceptibility and elastic constants near the nematic-isotropic phase transition for trimers with terminal-lateral-lateral-terminal connections
Daeseung Kang, Milind P. Mahajan, Rolfe G. Petschek, Charles Rosenblatt, Chaobin He, Puwei Liu, and A. C. Griffin
pp. 2041-2046 [View PDF (125 kB)]
Electrohydrodynamic convection in liquid crystals driven by multiplicative noise: Sample stability
Ulrich Behn, Adrian Lange, and Thomas John
pp. 2047-2060 [View PDF (305 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

Long-time limit of rotational segregation of granular media
Boris Levitan
pp. 2061-2064 [View PDF (113 kB)]
Two-tier symmetry-breaking model of patterns on a catalytic surface
L. M. Pismen, R. Imbihl, B. Y. Rubinstein, and M. I. Monin
pp. 2065-2070 [View PDF (310 kB)]
Interface dynamics, instabilities, and solute bands in rapid directional solidification
M. Conti
pp. 2071-2078 [View PDF (187 kB)]
Exact calculation of force networks in granular piles
G. Oron and H. J. Herrmann
pp. 2079-2089 [View PDF (277 kB)]
Macroscopic equations of motion for two-phase flow in porous media
R. Hilfer
pp. 2090-2096 [View PDF (146 kB)]
Dynamics of foam drainage
S. A. Koehler, H. A. Stone, M. P. Brenner, and J. Eggers
pp. 2097-2106 [View PDF (324 kB)]
Cluster model for compaction of vibrated granular materials
Konstantin L. Gavrilov
pp. 2107-2114 [View PDF (176 kB)]
Bistability in non-Newtonian flow: Rheology of lyotropic liquid crystals
Daniel Bonn, Jacques Meunier, Olivier Greffier, Amer Al-Kahwaji, and Hamid Kellay
pp. 2115-2118 [View PDF (202 kB)]
Statistical simulations of diffusional coarsening in finite clusters
H. Mandyam, M. E. Glicksman, J. Helsing, and S. P. Marsh
pp. 2119-2130 [View PDF (327 kB)]
Test of mode coupling theory for a supercooled liquid of diatomic molecules. I. Translational degrees of freedom
Stefan Kämmerer, Walter Kob, and Rolf Schilling
pp. 2131-2140 [View PDF (243 kB)]
See Also: See Also
Test of mode coupling theory for a supercooled liquid of diatomic molecules. II. q-dependent orientational correlators
Stefan Kämmerer, Walter Kob, and Rolf Schilling
pp. 2141-2150 [View PDF (295 kB)]
Two-exponential correlation functions near the critical point of a micellar system
Ana Martín, Arturo G. Casielles, Mercedes G. Muñoz, Francisco Ortega, and Ramón G. Rubio
pp. 2151-2160 [View PDF (240 kB)]
Time-resolved studies of stick-slip friction in sheared granular layers
S. Nasuno, A. Kudrolli, A. Bak, and J. P. Gollub
pp. 2161-2171 [View PDF (342 kB)]
Effect of chiral interactions on the structure of Langmuir monolayers
E. Scalas, G. Brezesinski, V. M. Kaganer, and H. Möhwald
pp. 2172-2178 [View PDF (173 kB)]
Fluctuation mechanism of the dielectric polarization of water-in-oil microemulsions with ionic surfactant
Nick Kozlovich, Alexander Puzenko, Yuriy Alexandrov, and Yuri Feldman
pp. 2179-2187 [View PDF (241 kB)]
Crossover from Ising to mean-field critical behavior in an aqueous electrolyte solution
J. Jacob, A. Kumar, M. A. Anisimov, A. A. Povodyrev, and J. V. Sengers
pp. 2188-2200 [View PDF (220 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Liquid-vapor phase behavior of a symmetrical binary fluid mixture
N. B. Wilding, F. Schmid, and P. Nielaba
pp. 2201-2212 [View PDF (334 kB)]
Multifractal analysis of the spatial distribution of the film surfaces with different roughening mechanisms
J. G. Hou, Wang Yan, Xia Rui, Zhu Xiaoguang, Wang Haiqian, and Z. Q. Wu
pp. 2213-2216 [View PDF (289 kB)]
Simulating temporal evolution of pressure in two-phase flow in porous media
Eyvind Aker, Knut Jørgen Måløy, and Alex Hansen
pp. 2217-2226 [View PDF (300 kB)]
Nonlocal pseudopotential calculation for the electron-ion correlation in liquid metals
S. K. Lai, K. Horii, and M. Iwamatsu
pp. 2227-2236 [View PDF (219 kB)]
Monte Carlo study of structural ordering in charged colloids using a long-range attractive interaction
B. V. R. Tata and Norio Ise
pp. 2237-2246 [View PDF (182 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
Energy nonequipartition in systems of inelastic, rough spheres
Sean McNamara and Stefan Luding
pp. 2247-2250 [View PDF (146 kB)]
Equation of state for fluid mixtures of hard spheres and linear homonuclear fused hard spheres
J. Largo and J. R. Solana
pp. 2251-2258 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Biological physics

Lipid bilayer dynamics from simultaneous analysis of orientation and frequency dependence of deuterium spin-lattice and quadrupolar order relaxation
Alexander A. Nevzorov, Theodore P. Trouard, and Michael F. Brown
pp. 2259-2281 [View PDF (442 kB)]
Stochastic dynamics of the diffusive Haken model with subthreshold periodic forcing
Paul C. Bressloff and Peter Roper
pp. 2282-2287 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Photon-density wave correlation spectroscopy detects large-scale fluctuations in turbid media
V. Toronov, M. Filiaci, S. Fantini, and E. Gratton
pp. 2288-2297 [View PDF (633 kB)]
Multilayer perceptrons may learn simple rules quickly
R. Urbanczik
pp. 2298-2301 [View PDF (139 kB)]
Mean-field theory of Boltzmann machine learning
Toshiyuki Tanaka
pp. 2302-2310 [View PDF (174 kB)]
Fluid lipid bilayers: Intermonolayer coupling and its thermodynamic manifestations
Per Lyngs Hansen, Ling Miao, and John Hjort Ipsen
pp. 2311-2324 [View PDF (252 kB)]
Temporal segmentation of the stochastic oscillator neural network
Seung Kee Han, Won Sup Kim, and Hyungtae Kook
pp. 2325-2334 [View PDF (380 kB)]
On-line Gibbs learning. I. General theory
H. Sompolinsky and J. W. Kim
pp. 2335-2347 [View PDF (273 kB)]
See Also: See Also
On-line Gibbs learning. II. Application to perceptron and multilayer networks
J. W. Kim and H. Sompolinsky
pp. 2348-2362 [View PDF (281 kB)]
Electric field induced in cells in the human body when this is exposed to low-frequency electric fields
Ronold W. P. King and Tai Tsun Wu
pp. 2363-2369 [View PDF (135 kB)]
Binding of the water of primary hydration to the sodium and cesium salts of deoxyribonucleic acid and potassium hyaluronate
K. B. Whitson, A. M. Lukan, R. L. Marlowe, S. A. Lee, L. Anthony, and A. Rupprecht
pp. 2370-2377 [View PDF (129 kB)]
Learning in the hypercube: A stepping stone to the binary perceptron
M. Bouten, L. Reimers, and B. Van Rompaey
pp. 2378-2385 [View PDF (200 kB)]
DNA strand separation studied by single molecule force measurements
U. Bockelmann, B. Essevaz-Roulet, and F. Heslot
pp. 2386-2394 [View PDF (171 kB)]
Radiative transport in the diffusion approximation: An extension for highly absorbing media and small source-detector separations
V. Venugopalan, J. S. You, and B. J. Tromberg
pp. 2395-2407 [View PDF (704 kB)]

Plasma physics

Electronic transmission properties in a mesoscopic necklace with nonlinear impurities
Zhiwen Pan, Shijie Xiong, and Changde Gong
pp. 2408-2414 [View PDF (156 kB)]
Dissipative drift waves in partially ionized plasmas containing high-Z impurities or dust
S. V. Vladimirov and V. N. Tsytovich
pp. 2415-2423 [View PDF (176 kB)]
Skin effect in strongly inhomogeneous laser plasmas with weakly anisotropic temperature distribution
A. A. Andreev, K. Yu. Platonov, and J.-C. Gauthier
pp. 2424-2430 [View PDF (180 kB)]
Surface waves at the interface of a dusty plasma and a metallic wall
K. N. Ostrikov, M. Y. Yu, and N. A. Azarenkov
pp. 2431-2435 [View PDF (141 kB)]
Generation of ultrashort light pulses by a rapidly ionizing thin foil
D. Bauer, R. R. E. Salomaa, and P. Mulser
pp. 2436-2440 [View PDF (706 kB)]
Breakdown of the line-space concept in Stark broadening of spectral lines by plasmas
Richard W. Lee and Eugene Oks
pp. 2441-2445 [View PDF (134 kB)]
Debye-Onsager relaxation effect in fully ionized plasmas
A. Esser and G. Röpke
pp. 2446-2455 [View PDF (183 kB)]
Model for fast electrons in ultrashort-pulse laser interaction with solid targets
Wei Yu, M. Y. Yu, Z. M. Sheng, and J. Zhang
pp. 2456-2460 [View PDF (131 kB)]
Analytical calculation of the amplification and angular divergence of the stimulated backscattered light from a Gaussian hot spot
Laurent Divol and Philippe Mounaix
pp. 2461-2470 [View PDF (234 kB)]
Magnetic field in short-pulse high-intensity laser-solid experiments
A. R. Bell, J. R. Davies, and S. M. Guerin
pp. 2471-2473 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Transverse quasilinear relaxation in an inhomogeneous magnetic field
Maxim Lyutikov
pp. 2474-2480 [View PDF (1,492 kB)]

Physics of beams

Dispersive lattice functions in a six-dimensional pseudo-harmonic-oscillator
Étienne Forest
pp. 2481-2488 [View PDF (174 kB)]
Growth rate of nonthermodynamic emittance of intense electron beams
Bruce E. Carlsten
pp. 2489-2500 [View PDF (191 kB)]
Intensity effects on inverse-bremsstrahlung electron acceleration
R. Pakter
pp. 2501-2504 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Experimental proof of standard electrodynamics by measuring the self-force on a part of a current loop
G. Cavalleri, G. Bettoni, E. Tonni, and G. Spavieri
pp. 2505-2517 [View PDF (347 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
Solutions to the optical cascading equations
S. Lafortune, P. Winternitz, and C. R. Menyuk
pp. 2518-2525 [View PDF (177 kB)]
Linearizability of the perturbed Burgers equation
R. A. Kraenkel, J. G. Pereira, and E. C. de Rey Neto
pp. 2526-2530 [View PDF (132 kB)]
Highly directive current distributions: General theory
Dionisios Margetis, George Fikioris, John M. Myers, and Tai Tsun Wu
pp. 2531-2547 [View PDF (321 kB)]
Fast solitary waves against slow inertial instability in stimulated Raman scattering
Antonio Picozzi, Carlos Montes, and Eric Picholle
pp. 2548-2557 [View PDF (268 kB)]
Breather scattering by impurities in the sine-Gordon model
Fei Zhang
pp. 2558-2563 [View PDF (178 kB)]
Internal vibrations of a vector soliton in the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations
Boris A. Malomed and Richard S. Tasgal
pp. 2564-2575 [View PDF (202 kB)]
Reconnection of vortex filaments in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
Michael Gabbay, Edward Ott, and Parvez N. Guzdar
pp. 2576-2579 [View PDF (230 kB)]
Stability of spiral wave vortex filaments with phase twists
Keeyeol Nam, Edward Ott, Parvez N. Guzdar, and Michael Gabbay
pp. 2580-2585 [View PDF (198 kB)]

Computational physics

Hurst’s rescaled range statistical analysis for pseudorandom number generators used in physical simulations
B. M. Gammel
pp. 2586-2597 [View PDF (263 kB)]
Efficient Monte Carlo methods for the simulation of catalytic surface reactions
J. J. Lukkien, J. P. L. Segers, P. A. J. Hilbers, R. J. Gelten, and A. P. J. Jansen
pp. 2598-2610 [View PDF (218 kB)]
Algorithms for Brownian dynamics simulation
A. C. Brańka and D. M. Heyes
pp. 2611-2615 [View PDF (101 kB)]
Monte Carlo studies of adsorbed monolayers: Lattice-gas models with translational degrees of freedom
M. Presber, B. Dünweg, and D. P. Landau
pp. 2616-2623 [View PDF (174 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Dissipative quantum tunneling of two-level systems driven by dc-ac fields
Hao Wang, Valder N. Freire, and Xian-Geng Zhao
pp. 2632-2635 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Low-frequency fluctuations in semiconductor lasers with optical feedback are induced with noise
Manuel C. Eguia, G. B. Mindlin, and M. Giudici
pp. 2636-2639 [View PDF (102 kB)]
State-space prediction model for chaotic time series
A. K. Alparslan, M. Sayar, and A. R. Atilgan
pp. 2640-2643 [View PDF (78 kB)]
Superposition of chaotic processes with convergence to Lévy’s stable law
Ken Umeno
pp. 2644-2647 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Classical fluids

Long-range interactions in xenon
F. Formisano, F. Barocchi, and R. Magli
pp. 2648-2651 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

Born-Green-Yvon approach to the local densities of a simple fluid in a slitlike pore filled with a quenched disordered matrix
Stefan Sokołowski and Orest Pizio
pp. 2652-2655 [View PDF (90 kB)]
Topological correlations in soap froths
K. Y. Szeto, T. Aste, and W. Y. Tam
pp. 2656-2659 [View PDF (76 kB)]
Multifractal expansions and kinetic surface roughening processes
A. Bershadskii
pp. 2660-2663 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Biological physics

Finite-size scaling of the quasispecies model
P. R. A. Campos and J. F. Fontanari
pp. 2664-2667 [View PDF (102 kB)]