Physical Review E – November 1998
Volume 58, Issue 5

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

Elementary derivation of Spitzer’s asymptotic law for Brownian windings and some of its physical applications
Arkady L. Kholodenko
pp. R5213-R5216 [View PDF (106 kB)]
Disorder, order, and domain wall roughening in the two-dimensional random field Ising model
E. T. Seppälä, V. Petäjä, and M. J. Alava
pp. R5217-R5220 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Adaptive control of spatially extended systems: Targeting spatiotemporal patterns and chaos
Sudeshna Sinha and Neelima Gupte
pp. R5221-R5224 [View PDF (1,426 kB)]
Localized structures embedded in the eigenfunctions of chaotic Hamiltonian systems
E. Vergini and D. A. Wisniacki
pp. R5225-R5228 [View PDF (683 kB)]

Classical fluids

Studying random differential equations as a tool for turbulent diffusion
E. Van den Eijnden
pp. R5229-R5232 [View PDF (143 kB)]
Biorthogonal decomposition analysis and reconstruction of spatiotemporal chaos generated by coupled wakes
J. F. Ravoux and P. Le Gal
pp. R5233-R5236 [View PDF (265 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

Shear-induced particle diffusion in inelastic hard sphere fluids
Piroz Zamankhan, William Polashenski, , Jr., Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi, Amir Shakib Manesh, and Pertti J. Sarkomaa
pp. R5237-R5240 [View PDF (198 kB)]
Bethe approximation for a semiflexible polymer chain
Stefano Lise, Amos Maritan, and Alessandro Pelizzola
pp. R5241-R5244 [View PDF (92 kB)]
Dynamics of wetting fronts in porous media
Igor Mitkov, Daniel M. Tartakovsky, and C. Larrabee Winter
pp. R5245-R5248 [View PDF (99 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply

Biological physics

Monte Carlo procedure for protein design
Anders Irbäck, Carsten Peterson, Frank Potthast, and Erik Sandelin
pp. R5249-R5252 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Plasma physics

Role of the plasma scale length in the harmonic generation from solid targets
M. Zepf, G. D. Tsakiris, G. Pretzler, I. Watts, D. M. Chambers, P. A. Norreys, U. Andiel, A. E. Dangor, K. Eidmann, C. Gahn, A. Machacek, J. S. Wark, and K. Witte
pp. R5253-R5256 [View PDF (1,278 kB)]
Particle injection into the wave acceleration phase due to nonlinear wake wave breaking
S. Bulanov, N. Naumova, F. Pegoraro, and J. Sakai
pp. R5257-R5260 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Electromagnetic standing wave resonances in a periodically corrugated waveguide
V. A. Pogrebnyak
pp. R5261-R5263 [View PDF (77 kB)]
Generalized momentum method to describe high-frequency solitary wave propagation in systems with varying dispersion
Sergei K. Turitsyn, Tobias Schaefer, and Vladimir K. Mezentsev
pp. R5264-R5267 [View PDF (94 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

See Also: See Also
Quantum plasmas with or without a uniform magnetic field. III. Exact low-density algebraic tails of correlations
F. Cornu
pp. 5322-5346 [View PDF (536 kB)]
Optical excitable waves
P. Coullet, D. Daboussy, and J. R. Tredicce
pp. 5347-5350 [View PDF (98 kB)]
Dissipation of energy and of information in nonequilibrium reaction-diffusion systems
Bernard Gaveau, Michel Moreau, and Janos Toth
pp. 5351-5354 [View PDF (107 kB)]
Quantum annealing in the transverse Ising model
Tadashi Kadowaki and Hidetoshi Nishimori
pp. 5355-5363 [View PDF (191 kB)]
Pattern dynamics of Rayleigh-Bénard convective rolls and weakly segregated diblock copolymers
Jacob J. Christensen and Alan J. Bray
pp. 5364-5370 [View PDF (230 kB)]
Modified Borel summation of divergent series and critical-exponent estimates for an N-vector cubic model in three dimensions from five-loop ε expansions
A. I. Mudrov and K. B. Varnashev
pp. 5371-5375 [View PDF (115 kB)]
Comparative study of self-avoiding trails and self-avoiding walks on a family of compact fractals
Ivan Živić, Sava Milošević, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 5376-5381 [View PDF (127 kB)]
Lévy random walks in finite systems
P. M. Drysdale and P. A. Robinson
pp. 5382-5394 [View PDF (241 kB)]
Scaling exponents of sandpile-type models of self-organized criticality
S. D. Edney, P. A. Robinson, and D. Chisholm
pp. 5395-5402 [View PDF (113 kB)]
Correlation transitions in the Ising chain with competing short-range and long-range mirror interactions
István Daruka and Zsolt Gulácsi
pp. 5403-5409 [View PDF (396 kB)]
Overall time evolution in phase-ordering kinetics
Claudio Castellano and Marco Zannetti
pp. 5410-5423 [View PDF (755 kB)]
Solution of the static pair annihilation process in arbitrary dimension
B. Bonnier
pp. 5424-5428 [View PDF (107 kB)]
Analysis of optimal velocity model with explicit delay
Masako Bando, Katsuya Hasebe, Ken Nakanishi, and Akihiro Nakayama
pp. 5429-5435 [View PDF (169 kB)]
See Also: Comment
Semiclassical canonical rate theory
Eli Pollak and Bruno Eckhardt
pp. 5436-5448 [View PDF (2,983 kB)]
Dynamics of Eulerian walkers
A. M. Povolotsky, V. B. Priezzhev, and R. R. Shcherbakov
pp. 5449-5454 [View PDF (178 kB)]
Crossover behavior of a one-dimensional random energy model
Matteo Campellone, Silvio Franz, and Giorgio Parisi
pp. 5455-5460 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Role of the equilibrium size of Kadanoff blocks in the loop-expansion technique
C. Degli Esposti Boschi, A. Rioli, L. Ferrari, and F. Dolcini
pp. 5461-5466 [View PDF (147 kB)]
Effect of long-range interactions in the conserved Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
Youngkyun Jung, In-mook Kim, and Jin Min Kim
pp. 5467-5470 [View PDF (111 kB)]
Stochastic resonance via dynamical symmetry breaking in a modulated bistable potential
Subir K. Sarkar and Debashish Bose
pp. 5471-5476 [View PDF (140 kB)]
Thermal radiation from small particles
K. Hansen and E. E. B. Campbell
pp. 5477-5482 [View PDF (127 kB)]
Nonequilibrium stationary microstructures in surface chemical reactions
M. Hildebrand, A. S. Mikhailov, and G. Ertl
pp. 5483-5493 [View PDF (389 kB)]
Ballistic and diffusive corrections to front propagation in the presence of multiplicative noise
J. Armero, J. Casademunt, L. Ramírez-Piscina, and J. M. Sancho
pp. 5494-5500 [View PDF (162 kB)]
Universality and scaling for the structure factor in dynamic order-disorder transitions
Gregory Brown, Per Arne Rikvold, and Martin Grant
pp. 5501-5507 [View PDF (177 kB)]
Perturbative corrections to the Ohta-Jasnow-Kawasaki theory of phase-ordering dynamics
C. L. Emmott
pp. 5508-5528 [View PDF (395 kB)]
Spatiotemporal organization of coupled nonlinear pendula through impurities
A. Gavrielides, T. Kottos, V. Kovanis, and G. P. Tsironis
pp. 5529-5534 [View PDF (4,887 kB)]
Three ignored densities, frame-independent thermodynamics, and broken Galilean symmetry
Peter Kostädt and Mario Liu
pp. 5535-5540 [View PDF (179 kB)]
Stability of planar reactive fronts in external fields
Arkady B. Rovinsky, Anatol M. Zhabotinsky, and Irving R. Epstein
pp. 5541-5547 [View PDF (241 kB)]
Simulation of extensional clay fractures
A. Malthe-Sørenssen, T. Walmann, J. Feder, T. Jøssang, P. Meakin, and H. H. Hardy
pp. 5548-5564 [View PDF (509 kB)]
Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of driven spin-boson systems
Arnim Lück, Manfred Winterstetter, Ulrich Weiss, and C. H. Mak
pp. 5565-5573 [View PDF (351 kB)]
Nonlinear canonical quantum system of collectively interacting particles via an exclusion-inclusion principle
G. Kaniadakis, P. Quarati, and A. M. Scarfone
pp. 5574-5585 [View PDF (228 kB)]
Fronts in a bistable medium with two global constraints: Oscillatory instability and large-amplitude limit-cycle motion
M. Meixner, P. Rodin, and E. Schöll
pp. 5586-5591 [View PDF (328 kB)]
Improved discretization of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
Chi-Hang Lam and F. G. Shin
pp. 5592-5595 [View PDF (103 kB)]
Cluster distribution in mean-field percolation: Scaling and universality
Joseph Rudnick, Paisan Nakmahachalasint, and George Gaspari
pp. 5596-5601 [View PDF (125 kB)]
Noise-enhanced transmission of information in a bistable system
M. Misono, T. Kohmoto, Y. Fukuda, and M. Kunitomo
pp. 5602-5607 [View PDF (251 kB)]
Avalanches, transport, and local equilibrium in self-organized criticality
Afshin Montakhab and J. M. Carlson
pp. 5608-5619 [View PDF (234 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Effect of parameter mismatch on the mechanism of chaos synchronization loss in coupled systems
V. Astakhov, M. Hasler, T. Kapitaniak, A. Shabunin, and V. Anishchenko
pp. 5620-5628 [View PDF (188 kB)]
Chaos thresholds in finite Fermi systems
P. G. Silvestrov
pp. 5629-5636 [View PDF (163 kB)]
Dynamics of dry friction: A numerical investigation
Y. F. Lim and Kan Chen
pp. 5637-5642 [View PDF (140 kB)]
Largest Lyapunov exponent in molecular systems: Linear molecules and application to nitrogen clusters
F. Calvo
pp. 5643-5649 [View PDF (142 kB)]
Is there memory in solar activity?
R. Oliver and J. L. Ballester
pp. 5650-5654 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Band Husimi distributions and the classical-quantum correspondence on the torus
Itzhack Dana, Yaakov Rutman, and Mario Feingold
pp. 5655-5667 [View PDF (1,004 kB)]
Time-reversed imaging as a diagnostic of wave and particle chaos
R. K. Snieder and J. A. Scales
pp. 5668-5675 [View PDF (193 kB)]
Delay time window and plateau onset of the correlation dimension for small data sets
H. S. Kim, R. Eykholt, and J. D. Salas
pp. 5676-5682 [View PDF (193 kB)]
Phase effect of two coupled periodically driven Duffing oscillators
Hua-Wei Yin, Jian-Hua Dai, and Hong-Jun Zhang
pp. 5683-5688 [View PDF (162 kB)]
Tunneling rate fluctuations induced by nonlinear resonances: A quantitative treatment based on semiclassical arguments
Luca Bonci, Andrea Farusi, Paolo Grigolini, and Roberto Roncaglia
pp. 5689-5692 [View PDF (136 kB)]
Semiclassical limit of universal parametric density correlations
Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida, Caio H. Lewenkopf, and Eduardo R. Mucciolo
pp. 5693-5703 [View PDF (224 kB)]
Critical slowing down in synchronizing nonlinear oscillators
H. K. Leung
pp. 5704-5709 [View PDF (132 kB)]
Role of invariant and minimal absorbing areas in chaos synchronization
Gian-Italo Bischi and Laura Gardini
pp. 5710-5719 [View PDF (524 kB)]
Integrability and level crossing manifolds in a quantum Hamiltonian system
Vyacheslav V. Stepanov and Gerhard Müller
pp. 5720-5726 [View PDF (199 kB)]
Electrodynamics of a two-electron atom with retardation and self-interaction
Jayme De Luca
pp. 5727-5741 [View PDF (262 kB)]
Clustering and phase resetting in a chain of bistable nonisochronous oscillators
V. I. Nekorkin, V. A. Makarov, and M. G. Velarde
pp. 5742-5747 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Classical fluids

Defect-unbinding transitions and inherent structures in two dimensions
Frank L. Somer, Jr.,, G. S. Canright, and Theodore Kaplan
pp. 5748-5756 [View PDF (205 kB)]
Simple passive scalar advection-diffusion model
Scott Wunsch
pp. 5757-5764 [View PDF (183 kB)]
Nonlinear Marangoni waves in multilayer systems
Igor L. Kliakhandler, Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy, Ilya B. Simanovskii, and Michael A. Zaks
pp. 5765-5775 [View PDF (563 kB)]
Instanton for the Kraichnan passive scalar problem
E. Balkovsky and V. Lebedev
pp. 5776-5795 [View PDF (353 kB)]
Lattice fluid dynamics from perfect discretizations of continuum flows
E. Katz and U.-J. Wiese
pp. 5796-5807 [View PDF (254 kB)]
Percolation in Yukawa fluids and clusters with a fractal structure
Tetsuo Kaneko
pp. 5808-5815 [View PDF (182 kB)]
Spatial structure of the viscous boundary layer in turbulent convection
Xin-Liang Qiu and Ke-Qing Xia
pp. 5816-5820 [View PDF (131 kB)]
Convection under rotation for Prandtl numbers near 1: Küppers-Lortz instability
Yuchou Hu, Werner Pesch, Guenter Ahlers, and Robert E. Ecke
pp. 5821-5833 [View PDF (6,691 kB)]
Simple model for linear and nonlinear mixing at unstable fluid interfaces with variable acceleration
John D. Ramshaw
pp. 5834-5840 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Effect of finite computational domain on turbulence scaling law in both physical and spectral spaces
Thomas Y. Hou, Xiao-Hui Wu, Shiyi Chen, and Ye Zhou
pp. 5841-5844 [View PDF (109 kB)]
Self-diffusion coefficients and shear viscosity of model nanocolloidal dispersions by molecular dynamics simulation
María J. Nuevo, Juan J. Morales, and David M. Heyes
pp. 5845-5854 [View PDF (192 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Nonlinear Schrödinger equation in nematic liquid crystals
J. A. Reyes and P. Palffy-Muhoray
pp. 5855-5859 [View PDF (149 kB)]
Thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of the cyanobiphenyl (nCB) homologous series
M. Marinelli, F. Mercuri, U. Zammit, and F. Scudieri
pp. 5860-5866 [View PDF (587 kB)]
Phase diagrams of mixtures of flexible polymers and nematic liquid crystals in a field
Zhiqun Lin, Hongdong Zhang, and Yuliang Yang
pp. 5867-5872 [View PDF (129 kB)]
Phase diagram of Onsager crosses
Ronald Blaak and Bela M. Mulder
pp. 5873-5884 [View PDF (336 kB)]
Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystal
Leif Thomas, Werner Pesch, and Guenter Ahlers
pp. 5885-5897 [View PDF (1,668 kB)]
Thermal phase diagrams of columnar liquid crystals
G. Lamoureux, A. Caillé, and D. Sénéchal
pp. 5898-5908 [View PDF (399 kB)]
Theory on quench-induced pattern formation: Application to the isotropic to smectic-A phase transitions
Zhou Haijun and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
pp. 5909-5913 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Importance of rubbing-induced inclination of polyimide backbone structures for determination of the pretilt angle of liquid crystals
R. Arafune, K. Sakamoto, S. Ushioda, S. Tanioka, and S. Murata
pp. 5914-5918 [View PDF (101 kB)]
Fréedericksz transition in antiferroelectric liquid crystals and cooperative motion of smectic layers
X. Y. Wang, T. Kyu, A. M. Rudin, and P. L. Taylor
pp. 5919-5922 [View PDF (110 kB)]
Edge dislocation in a vertical smectic-A film: Line tension versus film thickness and Burgers vector
Jean-Christophe Géminard, Claude Laroche, and Patrick Oswald
pp. 5923-5925 [View PDF (309 kB)]
Layer undulations in finite samples of smectic-A liquid crystals subjected to uniform pressure and magnetic fields
I. W. Stewart
pp. 5926-5933 [View PDF (296 kB)]
Distribution functions for reversibly self-assembling spherocylinders
Eric M. Kramer and Judith Herzfeld
pp. 5934-5947 [View PDF (338 kB)]
Nonlinear elasticity of the sliding columnar phase
C. S. O’Hern and T. C. Lubensky
pp. 5948-5965 [View PDF (422 kB)]
Calorimetric and small angle x-ray scattering study of phase transitions in octylcyanobiphenyl-aerosil dispersions
G. S. Iannacchione, C. W. Garland, J. T. Mang, and T. P. Rieker
pp. 5966-5981 [View PDF (328 kB)]
Field-induced reorientation of nematic liquid crystals with twofold degenerate alignment on SiOx surfaces
P. Jägemalm, G. Barbero, L. Komitov, and A. K. Zvezdin
pp. 5982-5989 [View PDF (205 kB)]
Director orientation and optical stripe texture in electroclinic liquid crystals
F. J. Bartoli, J. R. Lindle, S. R. Flom, R. Shashidhar, G. Rubin, J. V. Selinger, and B. R. Ratna
pp. 5990-5996 [View PDF (320 kB)]
Effect of chain flexibility on the nematic-smectic transition
Alexei V. Tkachenko
pp. 5997-6002 [View PDF (144 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

Magnetic susceptibility of ferrocolloids with frozen texture
Andrej Yu. Zubarev and Larisa Yu. Iskakova
pp. 6003-6014 [View PDF (250 kB)]
Chiral patterns arising from electrostatic growth models
Ilya M. Sandler, Geoffrey S. Canright, Hongjun Gao, Shijin Pang, Zengquan Xue, and Zhenyu Zhang
pp. 6015-6026 [View PDF (353 kB)]
Directional solidification under stress
Isabelle Cantat, Klaus Kassner, Chaouqi Misbah, and Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar
pp. 6027-6040 [View PDF (257 kB)]
Influence of a modulated surface on the properties of liquid-liquid interfaces
O. Pecina and J. P. Badiali
pp. 6041-6050 [View PDF (662 kB)]
Insights in erosion instabilities in nonconsolidated porous media
P. Cerasi and P. Mills
pp. 6051-6060 [View PDF (380 kB)]
Granular dynamics in a swirled annulus
Michael A. Scherer, Thomas Mahr, Andreas Engel, and Ingo Rehberg
pp. 6061-6072 [View PDF (1,235 kB)]
Measurement of the self-intermediate scattering function of suspensions of hard spherical particles near the glass transition
W. van Megen, T. C. Mortensen, S. R. Williams, and J. Müller
pp. 6073-6085 [View PDF (359 kB)]
Surface freezing in chain molecules. II. Neat and hydrated alcohols
O. Gang, X. Z. Wu, B. M. Ocko, E. B. Sirota, and M. Deutsch
pp. 6086-6100 [View PDF (296 kB)]
Transition from dendritic to planar growth and banded structure formation in rapidly solidified alloys
Massimo Conti
pp. 6101-6108 [View PDF (305 kB)]
Brillouin light scattering studies of the mechanical properties of thin freely standing polystyrene films
J. A. Forrest, K. Dalnoki-Veress, and J. R. Dutcher
pp. 6109-6114 [View PDF (115 kB)]
Dynamics of granular segregation patterns in a long drum mixer
Kiam Choo, Michael W. Baker, T. C. A. Molteno, and Stephen W. Morris
pp. 6115-6123 [View PDF (1,884 kB)]
Ground state of a dipolar fluid film
Mark Gross
pp. 6124-6133 [View PDF (219 kB)]
Kinetics of anchoring of polymer chains on substrates with chemically active sites
G. Oshanin, S. Nechaev, A. M. Cazabat, and M. Moreau
pp. 6134-6144 [View PDF (215 kB)]
Swelling mechanism unique to charged gels: Primary formulation of the free energy
Hiroshi Frusawa and Reinosuke Hayakawa
pp. 6145-6154 [View PDF (206 kB)]
Concentration-induced growth of polymerlike micelles
Yannick Rouault
pp. 6155-6157 [View PDF (81 kB)]
Domain patterns in copolymer-homopolymer mixtures
Aya Ito
pp. 6158-6165 [View PDF (383 kB)]
Heat diffusion and banding in rapid solidification
Massimo Conti
pp. 6166-6172 [View PDF (167 kB)]
Poisson ratio in composites of auxetics
Gaoyuan Wei and S. F. Edwards
pp. 6173-6181 [View PDF (188 kB)]
Noncircular converging flows in viscous gravity currents
J. A. Diez, L. P. Thomas, S. Betelú, R. Gratton, B. Marino, J. Gratton, D. G. Aronson, and S. B. Angenent
pp. 6182-6187 [View PDF (135 kB)]
Mode-coupling theory for molecular liquids based on the interaction-site model
Song-Ho Chong and Fumio Hirata
pp. 6188-6198 [View PDF (226 kB)]
Parametrically driven surface waves on viscous ferrofluids
Hanns Walter Müller
pp. 6199-6205 [View PDF (241 kB)]
Spatial correlations and dispersion for fluid transport through packed glass beads studied by pulsed field-gradient NMR
S. Stapf, K. J. Packer, R. G. Graham, J.-F. Thovert, and P. M. Adler
pp. 6206-6221 [View PDF (500 kB)]
First-order phase transition in unfolding a collapsed polymer: A histogram Monte Carlo simulation
Pik-Yin Lai
pp. 6222-6228 [View PDF (141 kB)]
Structural properties of methanol-polyamidoamine dendrimer solutions
Norberto Micali, Luigi Monsu’ Scolaro, Andrea Romeo, Domenico Lombardo, Pierre Lesieur, and Francesco Mallamace
pp. 6229-6235 [View PDF (128 kB)]
Effect of the anisotropic surface tension, crystallization kinetics, and heat diffusion on nonequilibrium growth of liquid crystals
T. Börzsönyi, Á. Buka, and L. Kramer
pp. 6236-6245 [View PDF (899 kB)]
Critical dynamics in mixtures
R. Folk and G. Moser
pp. 6246-6274 [View PDF (575 kB)]
Measurement of anisotropic Brownian motion near an interface by evanescent light-scattering spectroscopy
M. Hosoda, K. Sakai, and K. Takagi
pp. 6275-6280 [View PDF (134 kB)]
Charge oscillations and many-body effects in bundles of like-charged rods
B.-Y. Ha and Andrea J. Liu
pp. 6281-6286 [View PDF (156 kB)]
Experiments on negative and positive magnetoviscosity in an alternating magnetic field
A. Zeuner, R. Richter, and I. Rehberg
pp. 6287-6293 [View PDF (263 kB)]
Rheological behavior of a solution of particles aggregating on the containing walls
Armand Ajdari
pp. 6294-6298 [View PDF (540 kB)]
Ordering phenomena of star polymer solutions approaching the Θ state
C. N. Likos, H. Löwen, A. Poppe, L. Willner, J. Roovers, B. Cubitt, and D. Richter
pp. 6299-6307 [View PDF (183 kB)]
Reactive flow of molten Pb(Sn) alloys in Si grooves coated with Cu film
C. Y. Liu and K. N. Tu
pp. 6308-6311 [View PDF (416 kB)]

Biological physics

Analysis of correlations between sites in models of protein sequences
B. G. Giraud, Alan Lapedes, and Lon Chang Liu
pp. 6312-6322 [View PDF (570 kB)]
Enhancement in the dynamic response of a viscoelastic fluid flowing in a tube
J. A. del Río, M. López de Haro, and S. Whitaker
pp. 6323-6327 [View PDF (129 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Destabilization of cell aggregation under nonstationary conditions
A. A. Polezhaev, V. S. Zykov, and S. C. Müller
pp. 6328-6332 [View PDF (495 kB)]
Mössbauer effect as a possible tool in detecting nonlinear excitations in microtubules
M. V. Satarić, S. Zeković, J. A. Tuszyński, and J. Pokorny
pp. 6333-6339 [View PDF (176 kB)]
Adhesion-induced reorganization of charged fluid membranes
J. Nardi, R. Bruinsma, and E. Sackmann
pp. 6340-6354 [View PDF (3,241 kB)]
Dynamics of reentry around a circular obstacle in cardiac tissue
Fagen Xie, Zhilin Qu, and Alan Garfinkel
pp. 6355-6358 [View PDF (158 kB)]
Cooperative dynamics in auditory brain response
J. Kwapień, S. Drożdż, L.C. Liu, and A.A. Ioannides
pp. 6359-6367 [View PDF (1,626 kB)]
Two-dimensional froths and the dynamics of biological tissues
B. Dubertret, T. Aste, H. M. Ohlenbusch, and N. Rivier
pp. 6368-6378 [View PDF (231 kB)]
Analysis of on-line training with optimal learning rates
Magnus Rattray and David Saad
pp. 6379-6391 [View PDF (251 kB)]
Phase space embedding of electrocardiograms
Marcus Richter and Thomas Schreiber
pp. 6392-6398 [View PDF (156 kB)]
Cooperative model of bacterial sensing
Yu Shi and Thomas Duke
pp. 6399-6406 [View PDF (144 kB)]
Davydov soliton and polarons in molecular chains: Partial Hamiltonian diagonalization
A. M. Clogston, H. K. McDowell, Peter Tsai, and Jay Hanssen
pp. 6407-6417 [View PDF (178 kB)]
Computer simulations of stimulus dependent state switching in basic circuits of bursting neurons
Mikhail Rabinovich, Ramón Huerta, Maxim Bazhenov, Alexander K. Kozlov, and Henry D. I. Abarbanel
pp. 6418-6430 [View PDF (327 kB)]
Statistics of the depth probed by cw measurements of photons in a turbid medium
George H. Weiss, Josep M. Porrà, and Jaume Masoliver
pp. 6431-6439 [View PDF (216 kB)]
Detection of anomalous diffusion using confidence intervals of the scaling exponent with application to preterm neonatal heart rate variability
David R. Bickel, M. Terese Verklan, and Jon Moon
pp. 6440-6448 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Quantification of cancellous bone structure using symbolic dynamics and measures of complexity
Peter I. Saparin, Wolfgang Gowin, Jürgen Kurths, and Dieter Felsenberg
pp. 6449-6459 [View PDF (320 kB)]

Plasma physics

Ultrashort pulse laser ionization of ions in a plasma
Burke Ritchie and Paul R. Bolton
pp. 6460-6464 [View PDF (140 kB)]
Thermal radiation of a semibounded medium with a transition layer
Alexander S. Usenko
pp. 6465-6479 [View PDF (286 kB)]
Nonlinear surface heating of a plane sample and modes of current transfer to hot arc cathodes
M. S. Benilov
pp. 6480-6494 [View PDF (271 kB)]
Diagnostics of microwave plasmas of C2H2: Mass spectrometric investigations of ionic and neutral species
Toshihiro Fujii
pp. 6495-6502 [View PDF (168 kB)]
Vlasov simulations of strongly nonlinear electrostatic oscillations in a one-dimensional electron-ion plasma
Francesco Califano and Maurizio Lontano
pp. 6503-6511 [View PDF (6,132 kB)]
Theory of magnetohydrodynamic and shock waves in neutron matter
A. I. Akhiezer, N. V. Laskin, and S. V. Peletminskii
pp. 6512-6516 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Modulational instability of dust-acoustic and dust-ion-acoustic waves
M. R. Amin, G. E. Morfill, and P. K. Shukla
pp. 6517-6523 [View PDF (149 kB)]
Experimental Stark widths of Kr III
I. Ahmad, S. Büscher, Th. Wrubel, and H.-J. Kunze
pp. 6524-6530 [View PDF (1,182 kB)]
Heavy-ion-beam-induced laser scheme in hydrogenlike He+
M. Salvermoser, A. Ulrich, and J. Wieser
pp. 6531-6538 [View PDF (170 kB)]
Energy balance of the bulk, Maxwellian electrons in spatially inhomogeneous negative-glow plasmas
Robert R. Arslanbekov and Anatoly A. Kudryavtsev
pp. 6539-6552 [View PDF (272 kB)]
Model for the boring of ultraintense lasers into overdense plasmas
Wei Yu, M. Y. Yu, J. Zhang, and Z. Xu
pp. 6553-6556 [View PDF (103 kB)]
Measurements of electrical conductivity and the mean ionization state of nonideal aluminum plasmas
I. Krisch and H.-J. Kunze
pp. 6557-6564 [View PDF (498 kB)]

Physics of beams

Analytical expressions for the coupling impedance of a long narrow slot in a coaxial beam pipe
S. De Santis, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo, and B. Spataro
pp. 6565-6569 [View PDF (105 kB)]
Storage-ring free-electron-laser dynamics and head-tail instability
G. Dattoli, L. Mezi, A. Renieri, M. Migliorati, M. E. Couprie, R. Roux, D. Nutarelli, and M. Billardon
pp. 6570-6574 [View PDF (118 kB)]
Electron capture and violent acceleration by an extra-intense laser beam
J. X. Wang, Y. K. Ho, Q. Kong, L. J. Zhu, L. Feng, S. Scheid, and H. Hora
pp. 6575-6577 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Diagnostic criterion for crystallized beams
Harel Primack and Reinhold Blümel
pp. 6578-6583 [View PDF (133 kB)]
High current operation of a storage-ring free-electron laser
R. Roux, M. E. Couprie, R. J. Bakker, D. Garzella, D. Nutarelli, L. Nahon, and M. Billardon
pp. 6584-6593 [View PDF (365 kB)]
Excitation of backward waves in forward wave amplifiers
G. S. Nusinovich, M. Walter, and J. Zhao
pp. 6594-6605 [View PDF (294 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Coalescence and instability of copropagating nonlinear waves
Luc Bergé
pp. 6606-6625 [View PDF (468 kB)]
Group velocity of acoustic waves in strongly scattering media: Dependence on the volume fraction of scatterers
M. L. Cowan, K. Beaty, J. H. Page, Zhengyou Liu, and Ping Sheng
pp. 6626-6636 [View PDF (273 kB)]
Validation of the variational approach for chirped pulses in fibers with periodic dispersion
F. Kh. Abdullaev and J. G. Caputo
pp. 6637-6648 [View PDF (273 kB)]
Stationary mixed-polarization spatial solitons and their stability in semiconductor waveguides
D. C. Hutchings, J. M. Arnold, and D. F. Parker
pp. 6649-6658 [View PDF (6,522 kB)]
Generation of focused, nonspherically decaying pulses of electromagnetic radiation
H. Ardavan
pp. 6659-6684 [View PDF (560 kB)]
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Electromagnetic force in dispersive and transparent media
Yimin Jiang and Mario Liu
pp. 6685-6694 [View PDF (217 kB)]
Soliton motion in a parametrically ac-driven damped Toda lattice
K. Ø. Rasmussen, Boris A. Malomed, A. R. Bishop, and Niels Grønbech-Jensen
pp. 6695-6699 [View PDF (197 kB)]
Solitary waves for two and three coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations
F. T. Hioe
pp. 6700-6707 [View PDF (178 kB)]
Three-wave gap solitons in waveguides with quadratic nonlinearity
William C. K. Mak, Boris A. Malomed, and P. L. Chu
pp. 6708-6722 [View PDF (299 kB)]
Moving fronts for complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with Raman term
Adrian Ankiewicz and Nail Akhmediev
pp. 6723-6727 [View PDF (118 kB)]
Hermite-Gaussian expansion for pulse propagation in strongly dispersion managed fibers
T. I. Lakoba and D. J. Kaup
pp. 6728-6741 [View PDF (264 kB)]
Possibility of superluminal behaviors for X-like and Zenneck waves
A. Ranfagni and D. Mugnai
pp. 6742-6745 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Conservation laws in higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger equations
Jongbae Kim, Q-Han Park, and H. J. Shin
pp. 6746-6751 [View PDF (141 kB)]
State transformations of colliding optical solitons and possible application to computation in bulk media
Mariusz H. Jakubowski, Ken Steiglitz, and Richard Squier
pp. 6752-6758 [View PDF (213 kB)]

Computational physics

Direct signal recovery from threshold crossings
May Lim and Caesar Saloma
pp. 6759-6765 [View PDF (172 kB)]
Efficient stress relaxation in molecular dynamics simulations of semiflexible n-alkanes
T. Mülders, S. Toxvaerd, and G. R. Kneller
pp. 6766-6780 [View PDF (3,301 kB)]
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Evaluation of some three-body variational integrals
José Caro
pp. 6781-6786 [View PDF (140 kB)]
Test for random number generators: Schwinger-Dyson equations for the Ising model
H. G. Ballesteros and V. Martín-Mayor
pp. 6787-6791 [View PDF (117 kB)]
Computations of spheroidal harmonics with complex arguments: A review with an algorithm
Le-Wei Li, Mook-Seng Leong, Tat-Soon Yeo, Pang-Shyan Kooi, and Kian-Yong Tan
pp. 6792-6806 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Measurement of critical exponents of diamond films by atomic force microscopy imaging
M. C. Salvadori, M. G. Silveira, and M. Cattani
pp. 6814-6816 [View PDF (66 kB)]
Estimation of connective constants for two-dimensional lattices from self-avoiding walks in the two-dimensional continuum
Gustavo A. Arteca and Shuangxi Zhang
pp. 6817-6820 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Nearest-neighbor distance at a single mobile trap
Zbigniew Koza, Tomer Yanir, and Haim Taitelbaum
pp. 6821-6823 [View PDF (81 kB)]
Self-organized states in cellular automata: Exact solution
M. V. Medvedev and P. H. Diamond
pp. 6824-6827 [View PDF (125 kB)]
Mesoscopic description of the annealed Ising model, and multiplicative noise
Walter Genovese, Miguel A. Muñoz, and P. L. Garrido
pp. 6828-6831 [View PDF (88 kB)]
Crossing of two mobile averages: A method for measuring the roughness exponent
N. Vandewalle and M. Ausloos
pp. 6832-6834 [View PDF (66 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Chaotic Wannier-Bloch resonance states
M. Glück, A. R. Kolovsky, and H. J. Korsch
pp. 6835-6838 [View PDF (108 kB)]
Probability distribution characteristics of chaos in a simple population model and the Bonhoeffer–van der Pol oscillator
S. Parthasarathy and S. Rajasekar
pp. 6839-6842 [View PDF (110 kB)]
Simple example of partial synchronization of chaotic systems
M. Hasler, Yu. Maistrenko, and O. Popovych
pp. 6843-6846 [View PDF (529 kB)]
Hopf bifurcation and quasiperiodicy in a simulation model of the leaky faucet
A. D’Innocenzo and L. Renna
pp. 6847-6850 [View PDF (122 kB)]
Quantum chaos in a double square well: An approach based on Bohm’s view of quantum mechanics
O. F. de Alcantara Bonfim, J. Florencio, and F. C. Sá Barreto
pp. 6851-6854 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Classical fluids

Evaluation of the external force term in the discrete Boltzmann equation
Nicos S. Martys, Xiaowen Shan, and Hudong Chen
pp. 6855-6857 [View PDF (80 kB)]
Exact solutions for N steady fingers in a Hele-Shaw cell
Giovani L. Vasconcelos
pp. 6858-6860 [View PDF (85 kB)]
Lattice Boltzmann simulation of the two-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Xiaobo Nie, Yue-Hong Qian, Gary D. Doolen, and Shiyi Chen
pp. 6861-6864 [View PDF (166 kB)]
Linear stability analysis of convective chemical fronts in a vertical slab
Desiderio A. Vasquez and Casey Lengacher
pp. 6865-6868 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Light scattering study of the smectic-Cα* phase of a chiral liquid crystal
D. Konovalov and S. Sprunt
pp. 6869-6872 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

Numerical computation of two-dimensional viscous fingering by a conformal mapping method
Huidan Yu and Zhen Han
pp. 6873-6876 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Biological physics

Mirroring of environmental colored noise in species extinction statistics
F. V. De Blasio
pp. 6877-6879 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Physics of beams

Time-frequency analysis of modulation of high-power microwaves by electron-beam voltage fluctuations
C. W. Peters, R. L. Jaynes, Y. Y. Lau, R. M. Gilgenbach, W. J. Williams, J. M. Hochman, W. E. Cohen, J. I. Rintamaki, D. E. Vollers, and T. A. Spencer
pp. 6880-6883 [View PDF (161 kB)]

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