Physical Review E – December 1998
Volume 58, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Analytic signals and the transition to chaos in deterministic flows
Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. R6911-R6914 [View PDF (120 kB)]
Level spacing distribution of critical random matrix ensembles
Shinsuke M. Nishigaki
pp. R6915-R6918 [View PDF (244 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Paired defects of nematic surfactant bilayers
J.-B. Fournier and L. Peliti
pp. R6919-R6922 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

Simulation of mercury porosimetry on correlated grids: Evidence for extended correlated heterogeneity at the pore scale in rocks
Mark A. Knackstedt, Adrian P. Sheppard, and W. V. Pinczewski
pp. R6923-R6926 [View PDF (597 kB)]
Level-set methods for the simulation of epitaxial phenomena
Mark F. Gyure, Christian Ratsch, Barry Merriman, Russel E. Caflisch, Stanley Osher, Jennifer J. Zinck, and Dimitri D. Vvedensky
pp. R6927-R6930 [View PDF (136 kB)]
Analogies between colloidal sedimentation and turbulent convection at high Prandtl numbers
P. Tong and B. J. Ackerson
pp. R6931-R6934 [View PDF (107 kB)]
Internal avalanches in a granular medium
S. S. Manna and D. V. Khakhar
pp. R6935-R6938 [View PDF (171 kB)]
Phase separation kinetics of nematic polymers: Coupling between compositional order and orientational order
Jun-ichi Fukuda
pp. R6939-R6942 [View PDF (377 kB)]

Plasma physics

Electronic broadening model for high-n Balmer line profiles
S. Ferri, A. Calisti, R. Stamm, B. Talin, R. W. Lee, and L. Klein
pp. R6943-R6946 [View PDF (109 kB)]
Observation of dust Coulomb clusters in a plasma trap
Wen-Tau Juan, Zen-Hong Huang, Ju-Wang Hsu, Yin-Ju Lai, and Lin I
pp. R6947-R6950 [View PDF (428 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Unified model based on U(1) duality symmetry of polarization and magnetization
José A. Heras
pp. R6951-R6954 [View PDF (116 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Nondecay probability of the “correct” state of a memory cell: Analytic approach versus numeric simulation
Svetlana P. Nikitenkova and Andrey L. Pankratov
pp. 6964-6967 [View PDF (100 kB)]
Eigenvector-eigenvalue rate calculations for the fluctuating barrier problem: Two examples
Joachim Ankerhold and Philip Pechukas
pp. 6968-6974 [View PDF (156 kB)]
Linear stochastic models of nonlinear dynamical systems
Gregory L. Eyink
pp. 6975-6991 [View PDF (308 kB)]
Generalization of the persistent random walk to dimensions greater than 1
Marián Boguñá, Josep M. Porrà, and Jaume Masoliver
pp. 6992-6998 [View PDF (150 kB)]
Anomalous roughening of wood fractured surfaces
Stéphane Morel, Jean Schmittbuhl, Juan M. López, and Gérard Valentin
pp. 6999-7005 [View PDF (161 kB)]
Fisher zeros of the Q-state Potts model in the complex temperature plane for nonzero external magnetic field
Seung-Yeon Kim and Richard J. Creswick
pp. 7006-7012 [View PDF (143 kB)]
Modeling 1/f noise
B. Kaulakys and T. Meškauskas
pp. 7013-7019 [View PDF (157 kB)]
Relaxation of initial conditions in systems with infinitely many absorbing states
Géza Ódor, J. F. Mendes, M. A. Santos, and M. C. Marques
pp. 7020-7026 [View PDF (704 kB)]
Thermodynamic and relativistic aspects of thermal inertia in fluids
Stanislaw Sieniutycz
pp. 7027-7039 [View PDF (261 kB)]
Volume changes in binary alloy ordering: A binary classical density functional theory approach
David L. Olmsted
pp. 7040-7046 [View PDF (148 kB)]
Numerical study of the out-of-equilibrium phase space of a mean-field spin glass model
Andrea Baldassarri
pp. 7047-7053 [View PDF (222 kB)]
Modeling urban growth patterns with correlated percolation
Hernán A. Makse, José S. Andrade, , Jr.,, Michael Batty, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 7054-7062 [View PDF (955 kB)]
Fluctuation-dissipation theorem and quantum tunneling with dissipation at finite temperature
Kazuo Fujikawa and Hiroaki Terashima
pp. 7063-7070 [View PDF (166 kB)]
Transition from continuous to discontinuous material failure in a simple model of an adhesive layer
M. Ferer and Duane H. Smith
pp. 7071-7078 [View PDF (341 kB)]
Color effects in a near-threshold Schmitt trigger
F. Marchesoni, F. Apostolico, L. Gammaitoni, and S. Santucci
pp. 7079-7084 [View PDF (170 kB)]
Array-induced collective transport in the Brownian motion of coupled nonlinear oscillator systems
Zhigang Zheng, Bambi Hu, and Gang Hu
pp. 7085-7090 [View PDF (158 kB)]
Darboux-integrable nonlinear Liouville–von Neumann equation
Sergei B. Leble and Marek Czachor
pp. 7091-7100 [View PDF (223 kB)]
Hierarchical noise in large systems of independent agents
Claus Wilke and Thomas Martinetz
pp. 7101-7108 [View PDF (161 kB)]
Hexagon structures in a two-dimensional dc-driven gas discharge system
E. Ammelt, Yu. A. Astrov, and H.-G. Purwins
pp. 7109-7117 [View PDF (3,740 kB)]
Stochastic resonance: Noise-enhanced phase coherence
Alexander Neiman, Alexander Silchenko, Vadim Anishchenko, and Lutz Schimansky-Geier
pp. 7118-7125 [View PDF (155 kB)]
Scaling for domain growth in the Ising model with competing dynamics
Zhi-Feng Huang, Bing-Lin Gu, and Yun Tang
pp. 7126-7129 [View PDF (101 kB)]
Submonolayer epitaxial growth with long-range (Lévy) diffusion
Jacques G. Amar, Fereydoon Family, and David C. Hughes
pp. 7130-7136 [View PDF (167 kB)]
Trapping thresholds in ordinary site percolation
Lincoln Paterson
pp. 7137-7140 [View PDF (88 kB)]
Critical exponents of the anisotropic Bak-Sneppen model
Sergei Maslov, Paolo De Los Rios, Matteo Marsili, and Yi-Cheng Zhang
pp. 7141-7145 [View PDF (137 kB)]
Crossover scaling from classical to nonclassical critical behavior
Andrea Pelissetto, Paolo Rossi, and Ettore Vicari
pp. 7146-7150 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Transformations of nonlinear dynamical systems to jerky motion and its application to minimal chaotic flows
Ralf Eichhorn, Stefan J. Linz, and Peter Hänggi
pp. 7151-7164 [View PDF (281 kB)]
Relaxation of classical many-body Hamiltonians in one dimension
Stefano Lepri
pp. 7165-7171 [View PDF (155 kB)]
Universal scaling law of the power spectrum in the on-off intermittency
Syuji Miyazaki and Hiroki Hata
pp. 7172-7175 [View PDF (147 kB)]
Level spacing of random matrices in an external source
E. Brézin and S. Hikami
pp. 7176-7185 [View PDF (199 kB)]
Blowout bifurcation in a system of coupled chaotic lasers
Peter Ashwin, John R. Terry, K. Scott Thornburg, Jr. and, and Rajarshi Roy
pp. 7186-7189 [View PDF (94 kB)]
Semiconductor laser with phase-conjugate feedback: Dynamics and bifurcations
Bernd Krauskopf, George R. Gray, and Daan Lenstra
pp. 7190-7197 [View PDF (300 kB)]
Synchronized clusters and multistability in arrays of oscillators with different natural frequencies
G. V. Osipov and M. M. Sushchik
pp. 7198-7207 [View PDF (393 kB)]
Hyperchaotic dynamics and synchronization of external-cavity semiconductor lasers
Volker Ahlers, Ulrich Parlitz, and Werner Lauterborn
pp. 7208-7213 [View PDF (168 kB)]
Heredity in one-dimensional quadratic maps
M. Romera, G. Pastor, G. Alvarez, and F. Montoya
pp. 7214-7218 [View PDF (211 kB)]
Coherent and incoherent chaotic tunneling near singlet-doublet crossings
Sigmund Kohler, Ralf Utermann, Peter Hänggi, and Thomas Dittrich
pp. 7219-7230 [View PDF (594 kB)]
Critical behavior of period doublings in coupled inverted pendulums
Sang-Yoon Kim and Bambi Hu
pp. 7231-7242 [View PDF (227 kB)]
Lyapunov instability of rigid diatomic molecules via diatomic potential molecular dynamics
Oyeon Kum, Young Han Shin, and Eok Kyun Lee
pp. 7243-7248 [View PDF (126 kB)]
Nonfeedback control of chaos in a microchip solid-state laser by internal frequency resonance
A. Uchida, T. Sato, T. Ogawa, and F. Kannari
pp. 7249-7255 [View PDF (201 kB)]
Memory difference control of unknown unstable fixed points: Drifting parameter conditions and delayed measurement
Jens Christian Claussen, Thorsten Mausbach, Alexander Piel, and Heinz Georg Schuster
pp. 7256-7260 [View PDF (246 kB)]

Classical fluids

Two-dimensional turbulence and dispersion in a freely decaying system
A. E. Hansen, D. Marteau, and P. Tabeling
pp. 7261-7271 [View PDF (792 kB)]
Test of the semischematic model for a liquid of linear molecules
Linda Fabbian, Rolf Schilling, Francesco Sciortino, Piero Tartaglia, and Christoph Theis
pp. 7272-7278 [View PDF (156 kB)]
Noise rectification in quasigeostrophic forced turbulence
Alberto Álvarez, Emilio Hernández-García, and Joaquín Tintoré
pp. 7279-7282 [View PDF (132 kB)]
Lattice-Boltzmann models for high speed flows
Chenghai Sun
pp. 7283-7287 [View PDF (147 kB)]
Algebraic decay of velocity fluctuations near a wall
I. Pagonabarraga, M. H. J. Hagen, C. P. Lowe, and D. Frenkel
pp. 7288-7295 [View PDF (187 kB)]
Time-correlation functions in molecular liquids studied by the mode-coupling theory based on the interaction-site model
Song-Ho Chong and Fumio Hirata
pp. 7296-7308 [View PDF (262 kB)]
Low and high Reynolds number flows inside Taylor cones
A. Barrero, A. M. Gañán-Calvo, J. Dávila, A. Palacio, and E. Gómez-González
pp. 7309-7314 [View PDF (445 kB)]
Zigzag and Eckhaus instabilities in a quintic-order nonvariational Ginzburg-Landau equation
R. B. Hoyle
pp. 7315-7318 [View PDF (240 kB)]
Strong shock waves in a dense gas: Burnett theory versus Monte Carlo simulation
J. M. Montanero, M. López de Haro, V. Garzó, and A. Santos
pp. 7319-7324 [View PDF (150 kB)]
Normal and anomalous scaling of turbulence
J. Qian
pp. 7325-7329 [View PDF (120 kB)]
Regular and chaotic advection in the flow field of a three-vortex system
Leonid Kuznetsov and George M. Zaslavsky
pp. 7330-7349 [View PDF (749 kB)]
Entropy production and Lyapunov instability at the onset of turbulent convection
V. M. Castillo and Wm. G. Hoover
pp. 7350-7354 [View PDF (169 kB)]
Observation and determination of abnormal rolls and abnormal zigzag rolls in electroconvection in homeotropic liquid crystals
Jong-Hoon Huh, Yoshiki Hidaka, and Shoichi Kai
pp. 7355-7358 [View PDF (396 kB)]
Diffusion with intrinsic trapping in two-dimensional incompressible stochastic velocity fields
M. Vlad, F. Spineanu, J. H. Misguich, and R. Balescu
pp. 7359-7368 [View PDF (211 kB)]
Density fluctuations in many-body systems
Thomas M. Truskett, Salvatore Torquato, and Pablo G. Debenedetti
pp. 7369-7380 [View PDF (708 kB)]
Renormalization group and anomalous scaling in a simple model of passive scalar advection in compressible flow
Loran Ts. Adzhemyan and Nikolaj V. Antonov
pp. 7381-7396 [View PDF (306 kB)]
Advection of a magnetic field by a turbulent swirling flow
P. Odier, J.-F. Pinton, and S. Fauve
pp. 7397-7401 [View PDF (531 kB)]
Variable property similarity transform: Application to axisymmetric fluid flow against a heated disk
David W. Weyburne
pp. 7402-7409 [View PDF (151 kB)]
Vortex model for the nonlinear evolution of the multimode Richtmyer-Meshkov instability at low Atwood numbers
A. Rikanati, U. Alon, and D. Shvarts
pp. 7410-7418 [View PDF (255 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Response of a homeotropic nematic liquid crystal to rectilinear oscillatory shear
T. Börzsönyi, Á. Buka, A. P. Krekhov, and L. Kramer
pp. 7419-7427 [View PDF (398 kB)]
Structural and elastic properties of the dipolar Gay-Berne model
A. V. Zakharov and S. Romano
pp. 7428-7434 [View PDF (151 kB)]
Extended mean-field molecular theory for the smectic-C to smectic-A orientational transitions
Liangbin Hu and Ruibao Tao
pp. 7435-7441 [View PDF (163 kB)]
First-order breaking transition of tilted nematic anchoring
I. Dozov and Ph. Martinot-Lagarde
pp. 7442-7446 [View PDF (117 kB)]
Molecular dynamics study of nematic structures confined to a cylindrical cavity
Z. Bradač, S. Kralj, and S. Žumer
pp. 7447-7454 [View PDF (198 kB)]
Dynamics of chevron structure formation
A. N. Shalaginov, L. D. Hazelwood, and T. J. Sluckin
pp. 7455-7464 [View PDF (193 kB)]
Elastic effects of long-range quadrupolar interactions in nematic liquid crystals
S. Faetti, L. R. Evangelista, and G. Barbero
pp. 7465-7474 [View PDF (198 kB)]
Generalized hydrodynamic equations for nematic liquid crystals
Tiezheng Qian and Ping Sheng
pp. 7475-7485 [View PDF (276 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

Critical exponents and fractal dimension at the sol-gel phase transition via in situ fluorescence experiments
Y. Yılmaz, A. Erzan, and Ö. Pekcan
pp. 7487-7491 [View PDF (107 kB)]
Selection of doublet cellular patterns in directional solidification through spatially periodic perturbations
W. Losert, D. A. Stillman, H. Z. Cummins, P. Kopczyński, W.-J. Rappel, and A. Karma
pp. 7492-7506 [View PDF (1,032 kB)]
Dynamics of postnucleation and domain growth: Domain-spatial correlation function
Tao Huang, Tomohiro Tsuji, M. R. Kamal, and A. D. Rey
pp. 7507-7516 [View PDF (250 kB)]
Ostwald ripening kinetics in a magnetic fluid made metastable by a strengthening of an external magnetic field
Alexey O. Ivanov and Andrej Yu. Zubarev
pp. 7517-7522 [View PDF (134 kB)]
Phase behavior of nonadditive hard-sphere mixtures
Marjolein Dijkstra
pp. 7523-7528 [View PDF (107 kB)]
Phase transitions in a quasi-two-dimensional system
Ronen Zangi and Stuart A. Rice
pp. 7529-7544 [View PDF (476 kB)]
Divine proportion shape preservation and the fractal nature of cluster-cluster aggregates
C. M. Sorensen and C. Oh
pp. 7545-7548 [View PDF (101 kB)]
Polyelectrolyte-mediated undulation of surfactant bilayers
Hans v. Berlepsch, Christian Burger, and Herbert Dautzenberg
pp. 7549-7552 [View PDF (173 kB)]
Dynamical structure of water in aqueous solutions of LiCl, NaCl, and KCl by low-frequency Raman scattering: Comparison between the multiple random telegraph model and Cole-Cole relaxation
Yuko Amo and Yasunori Tominaga
pp. 7553-7560 [View PDF (261 kB)]
Fractal-polarization correction in time domain dielectric spectroscopy
Yuri Feldman, Raul Nigmatullin, Evgeny Polygalov, and John Texter
pp. 7561-7565 [View PDF (102 kB)]
Conformal invariance in two-dimensional cluster-cluster aggregation
J. C. Earnshaw and M. B. J. Harrison
pp. 7566-7570 [View PDF (197 kB)]
Domain growth and surface roughening in Monte Carlo simulations of A0.5B0.5 film growth
Y. Shim, D. P. Landau, and S. Pal
pp. 7571-7579 [View PDF (4,208 kB)]
Generalized kinetic potential in binary nucleation
Jin-Song Li, Kazumi Nishioka, and Igor L. Maksimov
pp. 7580-7586 [View PDF (149 kB)]
Velocity correlations in granular materials
Tong Zhou
pp. 7587-7597 [View PDF (236 kB)]
Vibrations of microemulsion droplets and vesicles with compressible surface layer
V. Lisy, B. Brutovsky, and A. V. Zatovsky
pp. 7598-7605 [View PDF (208 kB)]
Thermodynamic and hydrodynamic peculiarities of a foam lamella confined in a cylindrical pore
Konstantin Kornev and Galina Shugai
pp. 7606-7619 [View PDF (239 kB)]
Shear-induced orientation of the body-centered-cubic phase in a diblock copolymer gel
I. W. Hamley, J. A. Pople, C. Booth, L. Derici, M. Impéror-Clerc, and P. Davidson
pp. 7620-7628 [View PDF (369 kB)]
Dilatational rheology of insoluble polymer monolayers: Poly(vinylacetate)
Francisco Monroy, Francisco Ortega, and Ramón G. Rubio
pp. 7629-7641 [View PDF (258 kB)]
Optimal path in two and three dimensions
Nehemia Schwartz, Alexander L. Nazaryev, and Shlomo Havlin
pp. 7642-7644 [View PDF (129 kB)]
From thin to thick granular surface flows: The stop flow problem
Thomas Boutreux and Elie Raphaël
pp. 7645-7649 [View PDF (115 kB)]
Surface level migration in vibrating beds of cohesionless granular materials
Toshiya Ohtsuki, Daisuke Kinoshita, Yasushi Nakada, and Akihisa Hayashi
pp. 7650-7656 [View PDF (193 kB)]
Interparticle interactions in water-in-oil microemulsions: Dielectric and ir investigations
M. D’Angelo, D. Fioretto, G. Onori, and A. Santucci
pp. 7657-7663 [View PDF (133 kB)]
Path-length-resolved dynamic light scattering in highly scattering random media: The transition to diffusing wave spectroscopy
Kostadinka K. Bizheva, Andy M. Siegel, and David A. Boas
pp. 7664-7667 [View PDF (83 kB)]
Long-time translational self-diffusion in isotropic and nematic dispersions of colloidal rods
M. P. B. van Bruggen, H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, G. Maret, and J. K. G. Dhont
pp. 7668-7677 [View PDF (542 kB)]
Absence of surface mode in a viscoelastic material with surface tension
Hiizu Nakanishi and Satoshi Kubota
pp. 7678-7681 [View PDF (116 kB)]
Fractal-chain transition of field-induced colloid structure
Weijia Wen, D. W. Zheng, and K. N. Tu
pp. 7682-7685 [View PDF (532 kB)]
Backbone orientational order in fatty acid monolayers at the air-water interface
M. K. Durbin, A. G. Richter, C.-J. Yu, J. Kmetko, J. M. Bai, and P. Dutta
pp. 7686-7690 [View PDF (129 kB)]
Diffusion-driven phase separation of deeply quenched mixtures
Natalia Vladimirova, Andrea Malagoli, and Roberto Mauri
pp. 7691-7699 [View PDF (5,712 kB)]
Dynamical characterization of one-dimensional stationary growth regimes in diffusion-limited electrodeposition processes
C. Léger, J. Elezgaray, and F. Argoul
pp. 7700-7709 [View PDF (556 kB)]
Critical viscoelastic behavior of colloids
Jan K. G. Dhont and Gerhard Nägele
pp. 7710-7732 [View PDF (459 kB)]

Biological physics

Spontaneous curvature-induced pearling instability
Sahraoui Chaïeb and Sergio Rica
pp. 7733-7737 [View PDF (168 kB)]
Attractor neural networks storing multiple space representations: A model for hippocampal place fields
F. P. Battaglia and A. Treves
pp. 7738-7753 [View PDF (301 kB)]
Observation of two-mode binding to DNA by bipyridyl-(ethylenediamine)platinum(II): Isothermal titrational calorimetry and midinfrared absorption studies
A. Szabó, R. A. Flowers, B. J. Carter, and S. A. Lee
pp. 7754-7760 [View PDF (117 kB)]
Temporal association in neural networks at finite temperatures
M. Y. Choi, Jihyun Choi, and Kibeom Park
pp. 7761-7768 [View PDF (236 kB)]
Multiple mechanisms for critical behavior in the biologically relevant phase of lecithin bilayers
John F. Nagle, Horia I. Petrache, Nikolai Gouliaev, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, Yufeng Liu, Robert M. Suter, and Klaus Gawrisch
pp. 7769-7776 [View PDF (157 kB)]
Zipf-like behavior in procaryotic protein expression
J. J. Ramsden and J. Vohradský
pp. 7777-7780 [View PDF (64 kB)]
ac separation of particles by biased Brownian motion in a two-dimensional sieve
Imre Derényi and R. Dean Astumian
pp. 7781-7784 [View PDF (312 kB)]

Plasma physics

Modeling of nonlocal electron kinetics in a low-pressure afterglow plasma
Robert R. Arslanbekov and Anatoly A. Kudryavtsev
pp. 7785-7798 [View PDF (298 kB)]
Ion motion and finite temperature effect on relativistic strong plasma waves
Arsen G. Khachatryan
pp. 7799-7804 [View PDF (136 kB)]
Analyses of attractive forces between particles in Coulomb crystal of dusty plasmas by optical manipulations
Kazuo Takahashi, Tomoko Oishi, Ken-ichi Shimomai, Yasuaki Hayashi, and Shigehiro Nishino
pp. 7805-7811 [View PDF (572 kB)]
Chaotic interaction of Langmuir solitons and long wavelength radiation
R. Erichsen, G. I. de Oliveira, and F. B. Rizzato
pp. 7812-7818 [View PDF (209 kB)]
Population inversion due to charge-exchange interaction of plasma jets from plasma focus with residual gas
A. Engel, K. N. Koshelev, Yu. V. Sidelnikov, S. S. Churilov, C. Gavrilescu, and R. Lebert
pp. 7819-7822 [View PDF (346 kB)]
Two-dimensional density distribution of metastable atoms in an inductively coupled plasma in Ar
Masahiro Tadokoro, Hajime Hirata, Nobuhiko Nakano, Zoran Lj. Petrović, and Toshiaki Makabe
pp. 7823-7830 [View PDF (686 kB)]
Structure of Yukawa dusty plasma mixtures
Hiroo Totsuji, Tokunari Kishimoto, Chieko Totsuji, and Takashi Sasabe
pp. 7831-7836 [View PDF (159 kB)]
Nonlinear filamentation instability driven by an inhomogeneous current in a collisionless plasma
F. Califano, R. Prandi, F. Pegoraro, and S. V. Bulanov
pp. 7837-7845 [View PDF (341 kB)]
Electromagnetic-wave propagation and amplification in overdense plasmas: Application to free electron lasers
Andrey B. Matsko and Yuri V. Rostovtsev
pp. 7846-7854 [View PDF (183 kB)]
Emission from weakly nonideal helium plasmas produced in flash lamps
Y. Vitel, M. El Bezzari, L. G. D’yachkov, and Yu. K. Kurilenkov
pp. 7855-7863 [View PDF (175 kB)]
Harmonic filtering in an optically thin laser-generated plasma
Enrique Conejero Jarque and Luis Plaja
pp. 7864-7867 [View PDF (718 kB)]

Physics of beams

Single-particle dynamics in particle storage rings with integrable polynomial factorization maps
Jicong Shi and Piriya Suwannakoon
pp. 7868-7873 [View PDF (243 kB)]
Proposal for electron acceleration by two collinear, overlapping laser beams
Satoshi Takeuchi and Ryo Sugihara
pp. 7874-7877 [View PDF (174 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Dynamics of quasistatic directional crack growth
O. Ronsin and B. Perrin
pp. 7878-7886 [View PDF (472 kB)]
Second-harmonic resonant excitation in optical periodic structures with nonlinear anisotropic layers
A. A. Bulgakov, S. A. Bulgakov, and L. Vázquez
pp. 7887-7898 [View PDF (280 kB)]
Nature of the parametrically excited bound soliton state
Xinlong Wang
pp. 7899-7902 [View PDF (1,510 kB)]
Observation of topological charge pair nucleation in parametric wave mixing
Dmitri V. Petrov and Lluis Torner
pp. 7903-7907 [View PDF (741 kB)]
Defect modes in a two-dimensional square lattice of square rods
Chul-Sik Kee, Jae-Eun Kim, Hae Yong Park, and K. J. Chang
pp. 7908-7912 [View PDF (452 kB)]
Solitons in highly excited matter: Dissipative-thermodynamic and supersonic effects
Marcus V. Mesquita, Áurea R. Vasconcellos, and Roberto Luzzi
pp. 7913-7923 [View PDF (862 kB)]
Universal Gaussian falloff in soliton tails
David A. Kessler and Jeremy Schiff
pp. 7924-7927 [View PDF (114 kB)]
Potential of interaction between two- and three-dimensional solitons
Boris A. Malomed
pp. 7928-7933 [View PDF (146 kB)]
Nonlinear modulation of periodic waves in the small dispersion limit of the Benjamin-Ono equation
Y. Matsuno
pp. 7934-7940 [View PDF (134 kB)]
Approximate method for gap soliton propagation in nonuniform Bragg gratings
Neil G. R. Broderick and C. Martijn de Sterke
pp. 7941-7950 [View PDF (212 kB)]
Coupled-mode equations for quadratically nonlinear deep gratings
Awdah Arraf and C. Martijn de Sterke
pp. 7951-7958 [View PDF (186 kB)]
Quasistatically controlled bianisotropic media: Dual composite materials
E. O. Kamenetskii
pp. 7959-7964 [View PDF (128 kB)]
Quasistatic principles in the macroscopic electrodynamics of bianisotropic media
E. O. Kamenetskii
pp. 7965-7973 [View PDF (166 kB)]
Induced gap solitons of a Korteweg–de Vries system
Luqun Zhou, Kaifen He, and Z. Q. Huang
pp. 7974-7977 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Computational physics

Degeneracy algorithm for random magnets
S. Bastea
pp. 7978-7986 [View PDF (453 kB)]
Invertibility of dynamical systems in granular phase space
P.-M. Binder and Juan C. Idrobo
pp. 7987-7989 [View PDF (70 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Differences between regular and random order of updates in damage-spreading simulations
Thomas Vojta and Michael Schreiber
pp. 7998-8000 [View PDF (79 kB)]
Interfering resonances in a quantum billiard
E. Persson, K. Pichugin, I. Rotter, and P. Šeba
pp. 8001-8004 [View PDF (899 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Synchronization-based noise reduction method for communication with chaotic systems
Naresh Sharma and Edward Ott
pp. 8005-8008 [View PDF (92 kB)]
Deterministic stochastic resonance in a piecewise linear chaotic map
Sitabhra Sinha and Bikas K. Chakrabarti
pp. 8009-8012 [View PDF (457 kB)]
Manifold reconnection in chaotic regimes
G. Corso and F. B. Rizzato
pp. 8013-8016 [View PDF (118 kB)]
Mode fluctuation distribution of coupled quartic oscillators
Mitsuyoshi Tomiya and Naotaka Yoshinaga
pp. 8017-8020 [View PDF (2,849 kB)]

Classical fluids

Herringbone pattern for an anisotropic complex Swift-Hohenberg equation
Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
pp. 8021-8023 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Surface-induced nematic ordering and the localization of a twisted distortion in a nematic cell
G. Barbero, C. Ferrero, T. Günzel, G. Skačej, and S. Žumer
pp. 8024-8027 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

Surface induced ordering of micelles at the solid-liquid interface
Michael C. Gerstenberg, Jan Skov Pedersen, and Gregory S. Smith
pp. 8028-8031 [View PDF (470 kB)]
Evolution of a single defect in an ideal two-dimensional hexagonal soap froth
W. Y. Tam
pp. 8032-8035 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Biological physics

Desynchronization and synchronization processes in a randomly coupled ensemble of neurons
Vladimir E. Bondarenko and Teresa Ree Chay
pp. 8036-8039 [View PDF (161 kB)]
Kink instability in circular DNA studied as Helfrich chiral chains
Zhao Wei, Zhou Haijun, and Ou-Yang Zhong-can
pp. 8040-8043 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Plasma physics

Electron oscillations in a plasma slab
L. Stenflo and O. M. Gradov
pp. 8044-8045 [View PDF (67 kB)]
Evolution of Langmuir waves in a plasma contaminated by variable-charge impurities
S. V. Vladimirov, K. N. Ostrikov, M. Y. Yu, and L. Stenflo
pp. 8046-8048 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Computational physics

Solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation: Suppression of reflection from the grid boundary with a filtered split-operator approach
P. Tran
pp. 8049-8051 [View PDF (72 kB)]

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