Physical Review E – April 2000
Volume 61, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Multifractal properties of the random resistor network
M. Barthélémy, S. V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin, and H. E. Stanley
pp. R3283-R3286 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Fault tolerance in noise-enhanced propagation
R. Perazzo, L. Romanelli, and R. Deza
pp. R3287-R3290 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in U(N) invariant ensembles with a soft confinement potential
M. P. Pato
pp. R3291-R3294 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Thermodynamic cross effects from dynamical systems
László Mátyás, Tamás Tél, and Jürgen Vollmer
pp. R3295-R3298 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Analytic Lyapunov exponents in a classical nonlinear field equation
Roberto Franzosi, Raoul Gatto, Giulio Pettini, and Marco Pettini
pp. R3299-R3302 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Complexity and Fisher information
P.-M. Binder
pp. R3303-R3305 [View PDF (44 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Numerical temperature measurement in far from equilibrium model systems
András Baranyai
pp. R3306-R3309 [View PDF (41 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Alignment of liquid crystals on a photosensitive substrate studied by surface optical second-harmonic generation
I. Drevenšek Olenik, M. W. Kim, A. Rastegar, and Th. Rasing
pp. R3310-R3313 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Computational physics

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Calculating response functions in time domain with nonorthonormal basis sets
Toshiaki Iitaka and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki
pp. R3314-R3317 [View PDF (53 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Friction and noise-induced coherent structures in boundary lubrication
I. Tovstopyat-Nelip and H. G. E. Hentschel
pp. 3318-3324 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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von Neumann equations with time-dependent Hamiltonians and supersymmetric quantum mechanics
Marek Czachor, Heinz-Dietrich Doebner, Monika Syty, and Krzysztof Wasylka
pp. 3325-3329 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Universal critical behavior of aperiodic ferromagnetic models
T. A. S. Haddad, S. T. R. Pinho, and S. R. Salinas
pp. 3330-3333 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Pulsating wave propagation in reactive flows: Flow-distributed oscillations
Mads Kærn and Michael Menzinger
pp. 3334-3338 [View PDF (461 kB)]
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Renormalization-group approach to the vulcanization transition
Weiqun Peng and Paul M. Goldbart
pp. 3339-3357 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Partition function of a spinor gas
L. F. Lemmens, F. Brosens, and J. T. Devreese
pp. 3358-3365 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Hard-spin mean-field theory: A systematic derivation and exact correlations in one dimension
Alkan Kabakçıoğlu
pp. 3366-3368 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Fluctuation dissipation ratio in the one-dimensional kinetic Ising model
E. Lippiello and M. Zannetti
pp. 3369-3374 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Discrete spin variables and critical temperature in deterministic models with glassy behavior
Cristian Giardinà
pp. 3375-3377 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Effect of anisotropy on the instability of crack propagation
Péter Szelestey, Pekka Heino, János Kertész, and Kimmo Kaski
pp. 3378-3383 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Finite-size scaling and conformal anomaly of the Ising model in curved space
J. González
pp. 3384-3387 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Kinetics of stochastically gated diffusion-limited reactions and geometry of random walk trajectories
O. Bénichou, M. Moreau, and G. Oshanin
pp. 3388-3406 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Self-healing pulse solution in a continuum model of fracture propagation
Hiizu Nakanishi
pp. 3407-3410 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Probability of dimer reassociation in two dimensions
F. Montalenti and R. Ferrando
pp. 3411-3416 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Statistical models for carbon-nitrogen film growth
F. D. A. Aarão Reis and D. F. Franceschini
pp. 3417-3425 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Single species diffusion-influenced reaction A+A⃗αA: Validity of the Smoluchowski approach
Hyojoon Kim and Kook Joe Shin
pp. 3426-3434 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Dependence of conductance on percolation backbone mass
Gerald Paul, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Shlomo Havlin, Peter R. King, Youngki Lee, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 3435-3440 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Proton model of ferroelectrics with tunneling in the static fluctuation approximation
R. R. Nigmatullin, A. A. Khamzin, and H. B. Ghassib
pp. 3441-3449 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Semiclassical time evolution of the density matrix and tunneling
Joachim Ankerhold and Hermann Grabert
pp. 3450-3465 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Self-organized evolution in a socioeconomic environment
A. Arenas, A. Díaz-Guilera, C. J. Pérez, and F. Vega-Redondo
pp. 3466-3469 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Variational density matrix method for warm, condensed matter: Application to dense hydrogen
Burkhard Militzer and E. L. Pollock
pp. 3470-3482 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Lattice-independent approach to thermal phase mixing
Carmen J. Gagne and Marcelo Gleiser
pp. 3483-3489 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Stochastic model of hysteresis
L. Pál
pp. 3490-3500 [View PDF (749 kB)]
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Recursive graphical construction of Feynman diagrams in φ4 theory: Asymmetric case and effective energy
Boris Kastening
pp. 3501-3528 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Similarities of multiple fracturing on a neutron star and on the Earth
Vladimir G. Kossobokov, Vladimir I. Keilis-Borok, and Baolian Cheng
pp. 3529-3533 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Traffic jams induced by fluctuation of a leading car
Takashi Nagatani
pp. 3534-3540 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of heat flow in one-dimensional lattices
Fei Zhang, Dennis J. Isbister, and Denis J. Evans
pp. 3541-3546 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Self-consistent effective-medium approximations with path integrals
Yves-Patrick Pellegrini and Marc Barthélémy
pp. 3547-3558 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Interfaces with superroughness
Ning-Ning Pang and Wen-Jer Tzeng
pp. 3559-3563 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Density waves in traffic flow
Takashi Nagatani
pp. 3564-3570 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Heisenberg, Langevin, and current equations via the recurrence relations approach
M. Howard Lee
pp. 3571-3578 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Dynamical temperature for spin systems
Wira Bahari Nurdin and Klaus-Dieter Schotte
pp. 3579-3582 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Concentration profiles and reaction fronts in A+B⃗C type processes: Effect of background ions
T. Unger and Z. Rácz
pp. 3583-3589 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Communication through chaotic modeling of languages
Murilo S. Baptista, Epaminondas Rosa, Jr., and Celso Grebogi
pp. 3590-3600 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Quality factor control in a lasing microcavity model
Ioana Triandaf and Ira B. Schwartz
pp. 3601-3609 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Probabilistic-based approach to optimal filtering
A. Hannachi
pp. 3610-3619 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Quantum transport through cantori
N. T. Maitra and E. J. Heller
pp. 3620-3631 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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Homoclinic chaos in vacuum Rabi oscillations of moving two-level atoms
S. V. Prants and L. E. Kon’kov
pp. 3632-3640 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Intermittency transitions to strange nonchaotic attractors in a quasiperiodically driven Duffing oscillator
A. Venkatesan, M. Lakshmanan, A. Prasad, and R. Ramaswamy
pp. 3641-3651 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Microwave study of quantum n-disk scattering
Wentao Lu, Lorenza Viola, Kristi Pance, Michael Rose, and S. Sridhar
pp. 3652-3663 [View PDF (280 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Relaxation oscillations and negative strain rate sensitivity in the Portevin–Le Chatelier effect
S. Rajesh and G. Ananthakrishna
pp. 3664-3674 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Relation between coupled map lattices and kinetic Ising models
Frank Schmüser, Wolfram Just, and Holger Kantz
pp. 3675-3684 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Chaos and experimental resolution
P.-M. Binder and Milena C. Cuéllar
pp. 3685-3688 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Diffractive corrections in the trace formula for polygonal billiards
E. Bogomolny, N. Pavloff, and C. Schmit
pp. 3689-3711 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Synchronization of chaotic structurally nonequivalent systems
S. Boccaletti, D. L. Valladares, J. Kurths, D. Maza, and H. Mancini
pp. 3712-3715 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Robust synchronization of chaotic systems
Ljupco Kocarev, Ulrich Parlitz, and Reggie Brown
pp. 3716-3720 [View PDF (385 kB)]
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Stabilization of an unstable steady state in intracavity frequency-doubled lasers
K. Pyragas, F. Lange, T. Letz, J. Parisi, and A. Kittel
pp. 3721-3731 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Subharmonic autoresonance
L. Friedland
pp. 3732-3735 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Synchronization and control of coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations using local coupling
Lutz Junge and Ulrich Parlitz
pp. 3736-3742 [View PDF (585 kB)]
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Farey sequences of spatiotemporal patterns in video feedback
B. Essevaz-Roulet, P. Petitjeans, M. Rosen, and J. E. Wesfreid
pp. 3743-3749 [View PDF (635 kB)]
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Efficient implementation of the Gaussian kernel algorithm in estimating invariants and noise level from noisy time series data
Dejin Yu, Michael Small, Robert G. Harrison, and Cees Diks
pp. 3750-3756 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Traveling waves, two-phase fingers, and eutectic colonies in thin-sample directional solidification of a ternary eutectic alloy
Silvère Akamatsu and Gabriel Faivre
pp. 3757-3770 [View PDF (1,806 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Convective structures in a two-layer gel-liquid excitable medium
Vicente Pérez-Villar, Alberto P. Muñuzuri, and Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri
pp. 3771-3776 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Passive particle transport in three-vortex flow
Leonid Kuznetsov and George M. Zaslavsky
pp. 3777-3792 [View PDF (564 kB)]
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Influence of through flow on binary fluid convection
P. Büchel and M. Lücke
pp. 3793-3810 [View PDF (691 kB)]
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Hard-sphere solids near close packing: Testing theories for crystallization
Benito Groh and Bela Mulder
pp. 3811-3822 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Fluid Lagrangian approach to the classical-quantum transition
Tzihong Chiueh
pp. 3823-3827 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Heat conduction in one-dimensional nonintegrable systems
Bambi Hu, Baowen Li, and Hong Zhao
pp. 3828-3831 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Extensive experimental mapping of sonoluminescence parameter space
Jeffrey A. Ketterling and Robert E. Apfel
pp. 3832-3837 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Structure and thermodynamics of a ferrofluid monolayer
E. Lomba, F. Lado, and J. J. Weis
pp. 3838-3849 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Power law mass dependence of diffusion: A mode coupling theory analysis
Sarika Bhattacharyya and Biman Bagchi
pp. 3850-3856 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Multifractal structure of chaotically advected chemical fields
Zoltán Neufeld, Cristóbal López, Emilio Hernández-García, and Tamás Tél
pp. 3857-3866 [View PDF (373 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann method for compressible flows with high Mach numbers
Huidan Yu and Kaihua Zhao
pp. 3867-3870 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Cumulant solution of the elastic Boltzmann transport equation in an infinite uniform medium
W. Cai, M. Lax, and R. R. Alfano
pp. 3871-3876 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Desorption transition at charged interfaces: Theoretical approach and experimental evidence
J. Stafiej, D. di Caprio, and J. P. Badiali
pp. 3877-3883 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Molecular approach to the interpretation of the dielectric relaxation spectrum of a molecular glass former
M. A. González, E. Enciso, F. J. Bermejo, M. Jiménez-Ruiz, and M. Bée
pp. 3884-3895 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Density-functional theory for an electrolyte confined by thin charged walls
Douglas Henderson, Paweł Bryk, Stefan Sokołowski, and Darsh T. Wasan
pp. 3896-3903 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Velocity-fluctuation-induced anomalous kinetics of the A+A⃗∅ reaction
M. Hnatich and J. Honkonen
pp. 3904-3911 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Burgers’ turbulence with self-consistently evolved pressure
J. Fleischer and P. H. Diamond
pp. 3912-3925 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Intermolecular and intramolecular reorientations in nonchiral smectic liquid-crystalline phases studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy
J. Schacht, P. Zugenmaier, M. Buivydas, L. Komitov, B. Stebler, S. T. Lagerwall, F. Gouda, and F. Horii
pp. 3926-3935 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Spontaneous deformations of the uniform director ground state induced by the surfacelike elastic terms in a thin planar nematic layer
V. M. Pergamenshchik
pp. 3936-3941 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Channel flow of smectic films
T. Franosch, Shilpa Jain, and David R. Nelson
pp. 3942-3950 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Computer simulation evidence of the transient planar state during the homeotropic to focal conic transition in cholesteric liquid crystals
J. E. Anderson, P. Watson, T. Ernst, and P. J. Bos
pp. 3951-3960 [View PDF (1,890 kB)]
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Lifshitz point in the phase diagram of a ferroelectric liquid crystal in an external magnetic field
M. Škarabot, R. Blinc, I. Mus̆evic̆, A. Rastegar, and Th. Rasing
pp. 3961-3968 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Growth and melting of the nematic phase: Sample thickness dependence of the Mullins-Sekerka instability
Jordi Ignés-Mullol and Patrick Oswald
pp. 3969-3976 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Chiral twisting of a smectic-A liquid crystal
M. S. Spector, S. K. Prasad, B. T. Weslowski, R. D. Kamien, J. V. Selinger, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar
pp. 3977-3983 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials

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Geometry and dynamics of invasion percolation with correlated buoyancy
Jean Schmittbuhl, Alex Hansen, Harold Auradou, and Knut Jørgen Måløy
pp. 3985-3995 [View PDF (386 kB)]
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Three-dimensional dendrite-tip morphology at low undercooling
Alain Karma, Youngyih H. Lee, and Mathis Plapp
pp. 3996-4006 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Phase-separated composite films: Experiment and theory
Tiezheng Qian, Jae-Hoon Kim, Satyendra Kumar, and P. L. Taylor
pp. 4007-4010 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Fluid flow induced by nonuniform ac electric fields in electrolytes on microelectrodes. I. Experimental measurements
N. G. Green, A. Ramos, A. González, H. Morgan, and A. Castellanos
pp. 4011-4018 [View PDF (387 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Fluid flow induced by nonuniform ac electric fields in electrolytes on microelectrodes. II. A linear double-layer analysis
A. González, A. Ramos, N. G. Green, A. Castellanos, and H. Morgan
pp. 4019-4028 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Persistence exponents in a three-dimensional symmetric binary fluid mixture
V. M. Kendon, M. E. Cates, and J.-C. Desplat
pp. 4029-4035 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Melting transition in a quasi-two-dimensional colloid suspension: Influence of the colloid-colloid interaction
Pallop Karnchanaphanurach, Binhua Lin, and Stuart A. Rice
pp. 4036-4044 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Interpretation of static and dynamic neutron and light scattering from microemulsion droplets: Effects of shape fluctuations
V. Lisy and B. Brutovsky
pp. 4045-4053 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Grains and gas flow: Molecular dynamics with hydrodynamic interactions
Sean McNamara, Eirik G. Flekkøy, and Knut Jørgen Måløy
pp. 4054-4059 [View PDF (207 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Mechanisms for slow strengthening in granular materials
W. Losert, J.-C. Géminard, S. Nasuno, and J. P. Gollub
pp. 4060-4068 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Swirling granular solidlike clusters
Michael A. Scherer, Karsten Kötter, Mario Markus, Eric Goles, and Ingo Rehberg
pp. 4069-4077 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Topological effects in ring polymers. II. Influence of persistence length
M. Müller, J. P. Wittmer, and M. E. Cates
pp. 4078-4089 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Structural stability of simple classical fluids: Universal properties of the Lyapunov-exponent measure
G. Malescio, P. V. Giaquinta, and Y. Rosenfeld
pp. 4090-4094 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Depletion forces in colloidal mixtures
J. M. Méndez-Alcaraz and R. Klein
pp. 4095-4099 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Hierarchical model in multiphase flow
Tohru Okuzono, Hirohisa Shibuya, and Masao Doi
pp. 4100-4106 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Calculated properties of field-induced aggregates in ferrofluids
F. Marty Ytreberg and Susan R. McKay
pp. 4107-4110 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Structure and dynamics of magnetorheological fluids in rotating magnetic fields
Sonia Melle, Gerald G. Fuller, and Miguel A. Rubio
pp. 4111-4117 [View PDF (111 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Density mismatch in thin diblock copolymer films
S. Martins, W. A. M. Morgado, M. S. O. Massunaga, and M. Bahiana
pp. 4118-4124 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Orientational phase transitions in the hexagonal phase of a diblock copolymer melt under shear flow
A. N. Morozov, A. V. Zvelindovsky, and J. G. E. M. Fraaije
pp. 4125-4132 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Universal and nonuniversal features of glassy relaxation in propylene carbonate
W. Götze and Th. Voigtmann
pp. 4133-4147 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Clipped random wave analysis of isometric lamellar microemulsions
Dawen Choy and Sow-Hsin Chen
pp. 4148-4155 [View PDF (303 kB)]
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Branching morphogenesis in a reaction-diffusion model
Vincent Fleury
pp. 4156-4160 [View PDF (336 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal growth of faceted and curved single crystals
Thein Kyu, Rujul Mehta, and Hao-Wen Chiu
pp. 4161-4170 [View PDF (457 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic liquid thin films under applied field
S. Banerjee and M. Widom
pp. 4171-4176 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Nonlinear waves in reaction-diffusion systems: The effect of transport memory
K. K. Manne, A. J. Hurd, and V. M. Kenkre
pp. 4177-4184 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics study of the behavior of a single long chain polyethylene on a solid surface
H. X. Guo, X. Z. Yang, and T. Li
pp. 4185-4193 [View PDF (656 kB)]

Biological physics

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Importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes
Max Tegmark
pp. 4194-4206 [View PDF (558 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance tuned by correlations in neural models
Jianfeng Feng and Brunello Tirozzi
pp. 4207-4211 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Global exponential stability and periodic solutions of cellular neural networks with delay
Hui Fang and Jibin Li
pp. 4212-4217 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Method for efficient shape parametrization of fluid membranes and vesicles
Malcolm I. G. Bloor and Michael J. Wilson
pp. 4218-4229 [View PDF (459 kB)]
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Stable tubular microexovesicles of the erythrocyte membrane induced by dimeric amphiphiles
V. Kralj-Iglič, A. Iglič, H. Hägerstrand, and P. Peterlin
pp. 4230-4234 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Fisher information and temporal correlations for spiking neurons with stochastic dynamics
Jan Karbowski
pp. 4235-4252 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Adhesive switching of membranes: Experiment and theory
Robijn Bruinsma, Almuth Behrisch, and Erich Sackmann
pp. 4253-4267 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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Exact results and scaling properties of small-world networks
R. V. Kulkarni, E. Almaas, and D. Stroud
pp. 4268-4271 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in ion channels characterized by information theory
Igor Goychuk and Peter Hänggi
pp. 4272-4280 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Effect of protein shape on multibody interactions between membrane inclusions
K. S. Kim, John Neu, and George Oster
pp. 4281-4285 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in a statistical model of a time-integrating detector
Ursula U. Müller and Lawrence M. Ward
pp. 4286-4294 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Near-field diffraction tomography with diffuse photon density waves
Xingde Li, Deva N. Pattanayak, Turgut Durduran, Joseph P. Culver, Britton Chance, and Arjun G. Yodh
pp. 4295-4309 [View PDF (870 kB)]
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Microwave-enhanced folding and denaturation of globular proteins
Henrik Bohr and Jakob Bohr
pp. 4310-4314 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Dust-acoustic wave instabilities in collisional plasmas
K. N. Ostrikov, S. V. Vladimirov, M. Y. Yu, and G. E. Morfill
pp. 4315-4321 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Long range dicorrelated stopping of relativistic electrons in ultradense plasmas
C. Deutsch and P. Fromy
pp. 4322-4328 [View PDF (138 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Large scale instabilities in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics
G. Boffetta, A. Celani, and R. Prandi
pp. 4329-4335 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Induced plasma nonuniformities and wave vector cascade in the strong wave-plasma interaction
Maurizio Lontano and Francesco Califano
pp. 4336-4346 [View PDF (403 kB)]
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Plasma rotation in a plasma generator
H. Meyer, S. Klose, E. Pasch, and G. Fussmann
pp. 4347-4356 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Nonrelativistic electromagnetic surface waves: Dispersion properties in a magnetized dusty electron-positron plasma
Sang-Hoon Cho, Hee J. Lee, and Yong-soo Kim
pp. 4357-4361 [View PDF (68 kB)]
See Also: Comment
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Parametric instabilities of intense lasers from interaction with relativistic hot plasmas
Z.-M. Sheng, K. Mima, Y. Sentoku, and K. Nishihara
pp. 4362-4369 [View PDF (378 kB)]
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Plasma formation in metallic wire Z pinches
J. P. Chittenden, S. V. Lebedev, J. Ruiz-Camacho, F. N. Beg, S. N. Bland, C. A. Jennings, A. R. Bell, M. G. Haines, S. A. Pikuz, T. A. Shelkovenko, and D. A. Hammer
pp. 4370-4380 [View PDF (659 kB)]
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Laser pulse modulation instabilities in plasma channels
P. Sprangle, B. Hafizi, and J. R. Peñano
pp. 4381-4393 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Dosimetric measurements of electron and photon yields from solid targets irradiated with 30 fs pulses from a 14 TW laser
M. Schnürer, R. Nolte, A. Rousse, G. Grillon, G. Cheriaux, M. P. Kalachnikov, P. V. Nickles, and W. Sandner
pp. 4394-4401 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Time-resolved experimental and computational study of two-photon laser-induced fluorescence in a hydrogen plasma
H. W. P. van der Heijden, M. G. H. Boogaarts, S. Mazouffre, J. A. M. van der Mullen, and D. C. Schram
pp. 4402-4409 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Magnetic field generation from self-consistent collective neutrino-plasma interactions
A. J. Brizard, H. Murayama, and J. S. Wurtele
pp. 4410-4421 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Rapid dissipation of magnetic fields due to the Hall current
S. I. Vainshtein, S. M. Chitre, and A. V. Olinto
pp. 4422-4430 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Effectiveness of rf phase modulation for increasing bunch length in electron storage rings
F. Orsini and A. Mosnier
pp. 4431-4440 [View PDF (710 kB)]
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Integral method to study transition radiation from surfaces with arbitrary profile
Y. Takakura and O. Haeberlé
pp. 4441-4444 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Coupling of symmetric and asymmetric modes in a high-power, high-efficiency traveling-wave amplifier
S. Banna, L. Schächter, J. A. Nation, and P. Wang
pp. 4445-4449 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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High efficiency and wideband gyro-traveling-wave-tube amplifier
Yunyuan Yang and Wu Ding
pp. 4450-4453 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Kinks in the discrete sine-Gordon model with Kac-Baker long-range interactions
Serge F. Mingaleev, Yuri B. Gaididei, Eva Majerníková, and Serge Shpyrko
pp. 4454-4461 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Plane-wave superpositions defined by orthonormal scalar functions on two- and three-dimensional manifolds
G. N. Borzdov
pp. 4462-4478 [View PDF (701 kB)]
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Resonant modes of a bottle-shaped cavity and their effects in the response of finite and infinite gratings
Ricardo A. Depine and Diana C. Skigin
pp. 4479-4490 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Corrections to coupled mode theory for deep gratings
Takeshi Iizuka and C. Martijn de Sterke
pp. 4491-4499 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Amplification of a magnetic field in systems with a finite electric conductivity
Yu. Dolinsky and T. Elperin
pp. 4500-4507 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Dynamics of helical strips
Alain Goriely and Patrick Shipman
pp. 4508-4517 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Multiple scattering efficiency and optical extinction
N. L. Swanson and D. B. Billard
pp. 4518-4522 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Evidence of scattering anisotropy effects on boundary conditions of the diffusion equation
G. Popescu, C. Mujat, and A. Dogariu
pp. 4523-4529 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Approximate solutions and scaling transformations for quadratic solitons
Andrey A. Sukhorukov
pp. 4530-4539 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Femtosecond pulse propagation in air: Variational analysis
N. Aközbek, C. M. Bowden, A. Talebpour, and S. L. Chin
pp. 4540-4549 [View PDF (274 kB)]
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Solitonic energy transfer in a coupled exciton-vibron system
Dirk Hennig
pp. 4550-4555 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Coherent backscattering of light in a magnetic field
D. Lacoste and B. A. van Tiggelen
pp. 4556-4565 [View PDF (202 kB)]

Computational physics

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Diffusion Monte Carlo methods with a fixed number of walkers
Roland Assaraf, Michel Caffarel, and Anatole Khelif
pp. 4566-4575 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Theory of collision algorithms for gases and plasmas based on the Boltzmann equation and the Landau-Fokker-Planck equation
A. V. Bobylev and K. Nanbu
pp. 4576-4586 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Shadow mass and the relationship between velocity and momentum in symplectic numerical integration
Jason Gans and David Shalloway
pp. 4587-4592 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulations of the periodically forced autocatalytic A+B⃗2B reaction
G. Zvejnieks and V. N. Kuzovkov
pp. 4593-4598 [View PDF (106 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Nonlinear noninertial response of a Brownian particle in a tilted periodic potential to a strong ac force
W. T. Coffey, J. L. Déjardin, and Yu. P. Kalmykov
pp. 4599-4602 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in the Brusselator model
V. V. Osipov and E. V. Ponizovskaya
pp. 4603-4605 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Self-organized growth model for the quenched Herring-Mullin equation
Kwangho Park and In-mook Kim
pp. 4606-4609 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Barkhausen avalanches in anisotropic ferromagnets with 180° domain walls
Bosiljka Tadić and Ulrich Nowak
pp. 4610-4613 [View PDF (316 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Numerical studies on the dynamics of the globally coupled maps with sequential updating
Y. Jiang, A. Antillón, and J. Escalona
pp. 4614-4617 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Desynchronization in coupled systems with quasiperiodic driving
T. E. Vadivasova, O. V. Sosnovtseva, A. G. Balanov, and V. V. Astakhov
pp. 4618-4621 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Stationary and drifting localized structures near a multiple bifurcation point
Yu. A. Logvin, B. Schäpers, and T. Ackemann
pp. 4622-4625 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Numerical study of a three-dimensional generalized stadium billiard
Thomas Papenbrock
pp. 4626-4628 [View PDF (50 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Pressure of fluids and solids composed of particles interacting with a short-range repulsive potential
Siegfried Hess and Martin Kröger
pp. 4629-4631 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Mechanical theory of structural disjoining pressure in liquid crystal films
Alejandro D. Rey
pp. 4632-4635 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Structural force in a presmectic liquid
P. Ziherl
pp. 4636-4639 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials

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Structure of diblock copolymers in supercritical carbon dioxide and critical micellization pressure
R. Triolo, A. Triolo, F. Triolo, D. C. Steytler, C. A. Lewis, R. K. Heenan, G. D. Wignall, and J. M. DeSimone
pp. 4640-4643 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Biological physics

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Elimination of spiral waves in cardiac tissue by multiple electrical shocks
A. V. Panfilov, Stefan C. Müller, Vladimir S. Zykov, and James P. Keener
pp. 4644-4647 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Spatial curvature effects on molecular transport by diffusion
J. Balakrishnan
pp. 4648-4651 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Localized excitations and their thresholds
P. G. Kevrekidis, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and A. R. Bishop
pp. 4652-4655 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Interference phenomena in radiation of a charged particle moving in a system with one-dimensional randomness
Zh. S. Gevorkian and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
pp. 4656-4658 [View PDF (55 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Walker diffusion method for calculation of transport properties of composite materials”
In Chan Kim, Dinko Cule, and Salvatore Torquato
pp. 4659-4660 [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Comment on “Dynamically maintained steady-state pressure gradients”
Todd L. Duncan
pp. 4661 [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Reply to “Comment on ‘Dynamically maintained steady-state pressure gradients’ ”
D. P. Sheehan
pp. 4662-4665 [View PDF (36 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Spin of Dirac’s relativistic membrane [Phys. Rev. E 59, 6286 (1999)]
E. Stedile
pp. 4666 [View PDF (24 kB)]