Physical Review E – August 1996
Volume 54, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

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Word processors with line wrap: Cascading, self-organized criticality, random walks, diffusion, and predictability

Wolfgang Bauer and Scott Pratt

pp. R1009-R1012 [View PDF (160 kB)]

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Thermodynamic formalism in the thermodynamic limit: Diffusive systems with static disorder

C. Appert, H. van Beijeren, M. H. Ernst, and J. R. Dorfman

pp. R1013-R1016 [View PDF (92 kB)]

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Cyclic XY model and exotic statistics in one dimension

K. N. Ilinski and G. V. Kalinin

pp. R1017-R1020 [View PDF (119 kB)]

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Diffusion in disordered media as a process with memory

Michele Vendruscolo and Matteo Marsili

pp. R1021-R1024 [View PDF (93 kB)]

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Phase transitions near the "game of Life"

Jacob Nordfalk and Preben Alstrøm

pp. R1025-R1028 [View PDF (114 kB)]

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Multiple magnetization paths in Barkhausen noise

J. R. Petta, M. B. Weissman, and K. P. O'Brien

pp. R1029-R1031 [View PDF (70 kB)]

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Intensity fluctuations in closed and open systems

R. Pnini and B. Shapiro

pp. R1032-R1035 [View PDF (112 kB)]

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Suppressing large excursions to a chaotic attractor using occasional feedback control

P. Parmananda and M. Eiswirth

pp. R1036-R1039 [View PDF (101 kB)]

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Motion of the reaction front in the A+B→C reaction-diffusion system

Zbigniew Koza and Haim Taitelbaum

pp. R1040-R1043 [View PDF (94 kB)]

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Periodic orbits and spectral statistics of pseudointegrable billiards

Debabrata Biswas

pp. R1044-R1047 [View PDF (116 kB)]

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Boundary-induced wavelength selection in a one-dimensional pattern-forming system

Samuel S. Mao, John R. de Bruyn, Zahir A. Daya, and Stephen W. Morris

pp. R1048-R1051 [View PDF (82 kB)]

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Localized spatiotemporal chaos in surface waves

A. Kudrolli and J. P. Gollub

pp. R1052-R1055 [View PDF (410 kB)]

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Scaling model of annihilation-diffusion kinetics for charged particles with long-range interactions

Sergei F. Burlatsky, Valeriy V. Ginzburg, and Noel A. Clark

pp. R1056-R1057 [View PDF (61 kB)]

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Specific heat relaxation during macromolecule growth

C. Ferrari, G. Salvetti, E. Tombari, and G. P. Johari

pp. R1058-R1061 [View PDF (104 kB)]

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Nonequilibrium effects on slow dynamics in concentrated colloidal suspensions

Michio Tokuyama

pp. R1062-R1065 [View PDF (105 kB)]

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Influence of electron collisions on the resonance cone phenomenon in a cold magnetized plasma

E. Bésuelle

pp. R1066-R1069 [View PDF (131 kB)]

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Electron acceleration by a laser pulse in a plasma

C. J. McKinstrie and E. A. Startsev

pp. R1070-R1073 [View PDF (100 kB)]

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Instability of the current sheath implosion in an 18-kJ Mather-type plasma focus

Ming Fang Lu

pp. R1074-R1077 [View PDF (3,970 kB)]

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Ultrashort pulse propagation at the photonic band edge: Large tunable group delay with minimal distortion and loss

M. Scalora, R. J. Flynn, S. B. Reinhardt, R. L. Fork, M. J. Bloemer, M. D. Tocci, C. M. Bowden, H. S. Ledbetter, J. M. Bendickson, J. P. Dowling, and R. P. Leavitt

pp. R1078-R1081 [View PDF (82 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Ultrametricity and memory in a solvable model of self-organized criticality

Stefan Boettcher and Maya Paczuski

pp. 1082-1095 [View PDF (301 kB)]

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Polymerization in a ferromagnetic spin model with threshold

Emilio N. M. Cirillo and Sebastiano Stramaglia

pp. 1096-1100 [View PDF (142 kB)]

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Kinetics of catalysis with surface disorder

D. A. Head and G. J. Rodgers

pp. 1101-1105 [View PDF (107 kB)]

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Interface fluctuations on a hierarchical lattice

Ferenc Iglói and Ferenc Szalma

pp. 1106-1110 [View PDF (113 kB)]

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Multifractality of the Lorenz system

Kjell Ottar Wiklund and John N. Elgin

pp. 1111-1119 [View PDF (211 kB)]

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Spatial Doppler anomaly in an excitable medium

M. Wellner, A. M. Pertsov, and J. Jalife

pp. 1120-1125 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Coarsening dynamics of falling-film solitary waves

H.-C. Chang, E. A. Demekhin, E. Kalaidin, and Y. Ye

pp. 1467-1477 [View PDF (230 kB)]

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Amplitude equations and pattern selection in viscoelastic convection

J. Martínez-Mardones, R. Tiemann, D. Walgraef, and W. Zeller

pp. 1478-1488 [View PDF (251 kB)]

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Spreading of a macroscopic lattice gas

S. F. Burlatsky, J. G. Berberian, J. Shore, and W. P. Reinhardt

pp. 1489-1496 [View PDF (164 kB)]

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Intermittency and anomalous scaling of passive scalars in any space dimension

Gregory L. Eyink

pp. 1497-1503 [View PDF (166 kB)]

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Increase in chaotic motions of atoms in a large-scale self-organized motion

Tadashi Watanabe and Hideo Kaburaki

pp. 1504-1509 [View PDF (167 kB)]

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Influence of through-flow on linear pattern formation properties in binary mixture convection

Ch. Jung, M. Lücke, and P. Büchel

pp. 1510-1529 [View PDF (713 kB)]

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Sufficient condition for a finite-time singularity in a high-symmetry Euler flow: Analysis and statistics

C. S. Ng and A. Bhattacharjee

pp. 1530-1534 [View PDF (107 kB)]

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Entropy of glassy polymer melts: Comparison between Gibbs-DiMarzio theory and simulation

M. Wolfgardt, J. Baschnagel, W. Paul, and K. Binder

pp. 1535-1543 [View PDF (173 kB)]

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Adiabatic versus conductive heat transfer in off-critical SF₆ in the absence of convection

T. Fröhlich, P. Guenoun, M. Bonetti, F. Perrot, D. Beysens, Y. Garrabos, B. Le Neindre, and P. Bravais

pp. 1544-1549 [View PDF (226 kB)]

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Three-dimensional perturbations in conformal turbulence

L. Moriconi

pp. 1550-1559 [View PDF (214 kB)]

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Fronts between hexagons and squares in a generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation

C. Kubstrup, H. Herrero, and C. Pérez-García

pp. 1560-1569 [View PDF (514 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Onset and evolution of the tilted smectic antiphase in a polar liquid-crystal binary mixture

Yushan Shi, George Nounesis, and Satyendra Kumar

pp. 1570-1573 [View PDF (117 kB)]

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Pattern formation during mesophase growth in a homologous series

T. Tóth-Katona, T. Börzsönyi, Z. Váradi, J. Szabon, Á. Buka, R. González-Cinca, L. Ramírez-Piscina, J. Casademunt, and A. Hernández-Machado

pp. 1574-1583 [View PDF (512 kB)]

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Nature of the smectic-A–smectic-C transition of a partially perfluorinated compound

T. Stoebe, L. Reed, M. Veum, and C. C. Huang

pp. 1584-1591 [View PDF (173 kB)]

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Nematic order director fluctuations in cylindrical capillaries

P. Ziherl and S. Žumer

pp. 1592-1598 [View PDF (232 kB)]

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Model of liquid crystal alignment by exposure to linearly polarized ultraviolet light

J. Chen, D. L. Johnson, P. J. Bos, X. Wang, and J. L. West

pp. 1599-1603 [View PDF (112 kB)]

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Anisotropic heat transport in the octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) liquid crystal

M. Marinelli, F. Mercuri, S. Foglietta, U. Zammit, and F. Scudieri

pp. 1604-1609 [View PDF (153 kB)]

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Smectic-A structures in submicrometer cylindrical cavities

S. Kralj and S. Žumer

pp. 1610-1617 [View PDF (178 kB)]

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Behavior of the director reorientation time in glass surfaces of lyotropic liquid crystals in the nematic to biaxial transition

R. de F. Turchiello and E. A. Oliveira

pp. 1618-1624 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

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Growth-direction dependence of steady-state Saffman-Taylor flow in an anisotropic Hele-Shaw cell

K. V. McCloud and J. V. Maher

pp. 1625-1629 [View PDF (94 kB)]

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Radial distribution of the end-to-end distance of linear stiff chains

Jangnyeol Moon and Sang Bub Lee

pp. 1630-1639 [View PDF (221 kB)]

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Natural convection in droplet evaporation

J. J. Hegseth, N. Rashidnia, and A. Chai

pp. 1640-1644 [View PDF (561 kB)]

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Monte Carlo simulation of polymerization-induced phase separation

Yang-Ming Zhu

pp. 1645-1651 [View PDF (156 kB)]

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Consequences of kinetic inhomogeneities in glasses

Donna N. Perera and Peter Harrowell

pp. 1652-1662 [View PDF (191 kB)]

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Surface tension of the polymer network of a gel

Takato Nakamura, Mineo Hattori, Hideya Kawasaki, Keiichi Miyamoto, Masayuki Tokita, and Takashi Komai

pp. 1663-1668 [View PDF (116 kB)]

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Connection of microstructure to rheology in a microemulsion model

Gerald Pätzold and Kenneth Dawson

pp. 1669-1682 [View PDF (365 kB)]

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Phase transitions in Langmuir films of fatty acids: L₂-L₂^′-L₂^″ triple point and order of the transitions

S. Rivière-Cantin, S. Hénon, and J. Meunier

pp. 1683-1686 [View PDF (449 kB)]

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Density-functional theory for the freezing of Stockmayer fluids

B. Groh and S. Dietrich

pp. 1687-1697 [View PDF (230 kB)]

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Relationship between the microstructure and rheology of micellar solutions formed by a triblock copolymer surfactant

Y. C. Liu, S. H. Chen, and J. S. Huang

pp. 1698-1708 [View PDF (206 kB)]

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Simple hydrodynamic model of fast-mode kinetics in surface-mediated fluid phase separation

Hajime Tanaka

pp. 1709-1714 [View PDF (113 kB)]

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Fluctuating hydrodynamic models for supercooled liquids and development of long relaxation times

Shankar P. Das

pp. 1715-1719 [View PDF (117 kB)]

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Dynamical properties of water-methanol solutions studied by depolarized Rayleigh scattering

Norberto Micali, Sebastiano Trusso, Cirino Vasi, Daniel Blaudez, and Francesco Mallamace

pp. 1720-1724 [View PDF (89 kB)]

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Raman studies of three-dimensional foam

N. Goutev and Zh. S. Nickolov

pp. 1725-1733 [View PDF (186 kB)]

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Multiscale geometrical reconstruction of porous structures

C. P. Fernandes, F. S. Magnani, P. C. Philippi, and J. F. Daïan

pp. 1734-1741 [View PDF (392 kB)]

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Branched polymers in the presence of impurities

Markus Porto, Arkady Shehter, Armin Bunde, and Shlomo Havlin

pp. 1742-1748 [View PDF (548 kB)]

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Measurement of the interactions between two ordering surfaces under symmetric and asymmetric boundary conditions

P. Richetti, L. Moreau, P. Barois, and P. Kékicheff

pp. 1749-1762 [View PDF (273 kB)]

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Shear-induced distortion of intramolecular and intermolecular correlations in liquids: Time-dependent density-functional theory

Shuhei Yoshida, Fumio Hirata, and Toyonori Munakata

pp. 1763-1769 [View PDF (168 kB)]

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Shear response of Langmuir monolayers of heneicosanoic (C₂₁) acid studied using a torsion pendulum

R. S. Ghaskadvi, T. M. Bohanon, P. Dutta, and J. B. Ketterson

pp. 1770-1773 [View PDF (111 kB)]

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Swelling behavior and local topology of an L₃ (sponge) phase

A. Maldonado, W. Urbach, R. Ober, and D. Langevin

pp. 1774-1778 [View PDF (132 kB)]

Biological physics

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Statistical properties of heartbeat intervals during atrial fibrillation

Wanzhen Zeng and Leon Glass

pp. 1779-1784 [View PDF (102 kB)]

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Diffusion measurements in oriented phospholipid bilayers by ¹NMR in a static fringe field gradient

Paul Karakatsanis and Thomas M. Bayerl

pp. 1785-1790 [View PDF (124 kB)]

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Formation of complex bacterial colonies via self-generated vortices

András Czirók, Eshel Ben-Jacob, Inon Cohen, and Tamás Vicsek

pp. 1791-1801 [View PDF (2,046 kB)]

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Temperature-induced sol-gel transition and microgel formation in α-actinin cross-linked actin networks: A rheological study

M. Tempel, G. Isenberg, and E. Sackmann

pp. 1802-1810 [View PDF (559 kB)]

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Generalization in a two-layer neural network with multiple outputs

Kukjin Kang, Jong-Hoon Oh, Chulan Kwon, and Youngah Park

pp. 1811-1815 [View PDF (129 kB)]

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Dynamics of cytoskeletal filaments

Yuri M. Sirenko, Michael A. Stroscio, and K. W. Kim

pp. 1816-1823 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Fast penetration of a magnetic field into a collisionless plasma

Jaan Kalda

pp. 1824-1828 [View PDF (2,224 kB)]

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Spatiotemporal patterning of a transverse ionization instability in annular rf discharges

Ji-Bin Du, Chi-Hui Chiang, and Lin I

pp. 1829-1832 [View PDF (146 kB)]

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Inverse Faraday effect and propagation of circularly polarized intense laser beams in plasmas

Z. M. Sheng and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn

pp. 1833-1842 [View PDF (222 kB)]

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Maxwell and non-Maxwell behavior of electron energy distribution function under expanding plasma jet conditions: The role of electron-electron, electron-ion, and superelastic electronic collisions under stationary and time-dependent conditions

M. Capitelli, G. Colonna, A. Gicquel, C. Gorse, K. Hassouni, and S. Longo

pp. 1843-1849 [View PDF (133 kB)]

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Photoelectric effect in the super transition array model

A. Bar-Shalom and J. Oreg

pp. 1850-1856 [View PDF (172 kB)]

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Low-frequency percolation scaling for particle diffusion in electrostatic turbulence

J.-D. Reuss and J. H. Misguich

pp. 1857-1869 [View PDF (373 kB)]

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Anomalous penetration mechanisms of very intense laser pulses into overdense plasmas

Hitoshi Sakagami and Kunioki Mima

pp. 1870-1875 [View PDF (282 kB)]

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Optical and mass spectrometric investigations of ions and neutral species in SF₆ radio-frequency discharges

R. Foest, J. K. Olthoff, R. J. Van Brunt, E. C. Benck, and J. R. Roberts

pp. 1876-1887 [View PDF (234 kB)]

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Three-body recombination rate of atomic nitrogen in low-pressure plasma flows

A. Bourdon and P. Vervisch

pp. 1888-1898 [View PDF (231 kB)]

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Plasma and liquid-metal resistivity calculations using the Ziman theory

Eran Nardi

pp. 1899-1905 [View PDF (121 kB)]

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Langmuir probe measurements in an expanding magnetized plasma

G. J. H. Brussaard, M. van der Steen, M. Carrère, M. C. M. van de Sanden, and D. C. Schram

pp. 1906-1911 [View PDF (166 kB)]

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Bremsstrahlung in electron-ion Coulomb scattering in strongly coupled plasma using the hyperbolic-orbit trajectory method

Young-Dae Jung and Hwan-Don Jeong

pp. 1912-1917 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Microwave inverse Čerenkov accelerator

T. B. Zhang, T. C. Marshall, M. A. LaPointe, J. L. Hirshfield, and Amiram Ron

pp. 1918-1929 [View PDF (306 kB)]

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Frequency dependence of the penetration of electromagnetic fields through an elliptical hole in a thin metallic wall

Alexei V. Fedotov and Robert L. Gluckstern

pp. 1930-1939 [View PDF (222 kB)]

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Emittance optimization in three- and multiple-bend achromats

S. Y. Lee

pp. 1940-1944 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Transport properties of arrays of elliptical cylinders

N. A. Nicorovici and R. C. McPhedran

pp. 1945-1957 [View PDF (289 kB)]

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Propagation of waves through a line of discontinuity in two-dimensional excitable media: Refraction and reflection of autowaves

Pavel K. Brazhnik and John J. Tyson

pp. 1958-1968 [View PDF (208 kB)]

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Coupled-mode theory for light propagation through deep nonlinear gratings

C. Martijn de Sterke, David G. Salinas, and J. E. Sipe

pp. 1969-1989 [View PDF (393 kB)]

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Effect of size polydispersity on granular materials

Keiko M. Aoki and Nobuyasu Ito

pp. 1990-1996 [View PDF (181 kB)]

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Spectral characteristics in resonators with fractal boundaries

Yutaka Hobiki, Kousuke Yakubo, and Tsuneyoshi Nakayama

pp. 1997-2004 [View PDF (444 kB)]

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Anomalous density dependence of static friction in sand

Viktor K. Horváth, Imre M. Jánosi, and Péter J. Vella

pp. 2005-2009 [View PDF (237 kB)]

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Intrinsic localized modes as solitons of the discrete Hirota equation

V. V. Konotop and S. Takeno

pp. 2010-2014 [View PDF (129 kB)]

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Instability-induced dynamics of dark solitons

Dmitry E. Pelinovsky, Yuri S. Kivshar, and Vsevolod V. Afanasjev

pp. 2015-2032 [View PDF (426 kB)]

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Bifurcation of the periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems: An analysis using normal form theory

D. A. Sadovskií and J. B. Delos

pp. 2033-2070 [View PDF (888 kB)]

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Nonlinear effects in molecular chains with two types of intramolecular vibrations

Elie Simo and Timoléon C. Kofané

pp. 2071-2076 [View PDF (125 kB)]

Computational physics

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Classical kinetic theory simulations using smoothed particle hydrodynamics

James C. Simpson and Matt A. Wood

pp. 2077-2083 [View PDF (186 kB)]

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Exact numerical simulation of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and its integral

Daniel T. Gillespie

pp. 2084-2091 [View PDF (201 kB)]

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Two-dimensional effects in Josephson junctions: Static properties

Jean-Guy Caputo, Nikos Flytzanis, Yuri Gaididei, and Emmanuel Vavalis

pp. 2092-2101 [View PDF (245 kB)]

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Systematic generation of constituent models of particle families

Raúl E. Valdés-Pérez and Jan M. Żytkow

pp. 2102-2110 [View PDF (139 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Interface roughening with nonlinear surface tension

Barbara Drossel

pp. 2111-2114 [View PDF (108 kB)]

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Experimental observation of phase synchronization

U. Parlitz, L. Junge, W. Lauterborn, and L. Kocarev

pp. 2115-2117 [View PDF (126 kB)]

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Goal-oriented scheme for taming chaos with a weak periodic perturbation: Experiment in a diode resonator

Hong-Jyh Li and Jyh-Long Chern

pp. 2118-2121 [View PDF (129 kB)]

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Lyapunov exponents of random time series

Toshiyuki Tanaka, Kazuyuki Aihara, and Masao Taki

pp. 2122-2124 [View PDF (74 kB)]

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Prehistory problem for systems driven by white noise

J. Gómez-Ordoñez, J. M. Casado, and M. Morillo

pp. 2125-2127 [View PDF (128 kB)]

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Driving and synchronizing by chaotic impulses

Toni Stojanovski, Ljupco Kocarev, and Ulrich Parlitz

pp. 2128-2131 [View PDF (124 kB)]

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Dynamical evolution of squeezing and antibunching effects in a quantum chaotic system: The three-level Lipkin model

Rui-hua Xie and Gong-ou Xu

pp. 2132-2135 [View PDF (99 kB)]

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Towards a statistical theory of finite Fermi systems and compound states: Random two-body interaction approach

V. V. Flambaum, F. M. Izrailev, and G. Casati

pp. 2136-2139 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Autocatalysis in a shear flow

Michael A. Allen, John Brindley, John H. Merkin, and Michael J. Pilling

pp. 2140-2142 [View PDF (107 kB)]

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Calculation of extended electronic states in simple liquids and plasmas

Pierre Dallot

pp. 2143-2146 [View PDF (116 kB)]

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Nonlinear heat conduction in gases

R. E. Nettleton

pp. 2147-2149 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Behavior of the Goldstone mode in smectic-C* phase and the soft mode in the smectic-C* and smectic-A* phases of a ferroelectric liquid-crystal mixture

T. Pal Majumder, S. Sinha Roy, and S. K. Roy

pp. 2150-2153 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Biological physics

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Multiscaled randomness: A possible source of 1/f noise in biology

Jeffrey M. Hausdorff and C.-K. Peng

pp. 2154-2157 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Anomalous transport reduction via feedback suppression

J. S. Chiu, M. D. Tinkle, and A. K. Sen

pp. 2158-2161 [View PDF (84 kB)]

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Indirect and direct laser driven shock waves and applications to copper equation of state measurements in the 10–40 Mbar pressure range

Alessandra Benuzzi, Thorsten Löwer, Michel Koenig, Bernard Faral, Dimitri Batani, Daniele Beretta, Colin Danson, and Dave Pepler

pp. 2162-2165 [View PDF (142 kB)]

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Ionization-induced blue shift of KrF laser pulses in an underdense plasma

Y. M. Li and R. Fedosejevs

pp. 2166-2169 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Computational physics

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Sign ambiguity in configuration mixing and coupled channel calculations

C. Hategan, R. A. Ionescu, G. Graw, and R. Hertenberger

pp. 2170-2173 [View PDF (75 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Quantum transition-state theory below the crossover temperature

Dmitrii E. Makarov and Maria Topaler

pp. 2174 [View PDF (54 kB)]

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Erratum: Non-Poisson statistics of reactive events and nonexponential kinetics

Dmitrii E. Makarov and Maria Topaler

pp. 2174 [View PDF (54 kB)]

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Erratum: Growth of breakdown susceptibility in random composites and the stick-slip model of earthquakes: Prediction of dielectric breakdown and other catastrophes

Muktish Acharyya and Bikas K. Chakrabarti

pp. 2174-2175 [View PDF (54 kB)]

Physical Review E – August 1996 Volume 54, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Classical fluids

Liquid crystals

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

Biological physics

Plasma physics

Physics of beams

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Computational physics

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Classical fluids

Liquid crystals

Biological physics

Plasma physics

Computational physics

ERRATA

Physical Review E – August 1996
Volume 54, Issue 2