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Physical Review A – June 1990
Volume 41, Issue 12

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Comparing a nearest-neighbor estimator of local attractor dimensions for noisy data to the correlation dimension
Mary Eileen Farrell, A. Passamante, and T. Hediger
pp. 6591-6595 [View Page Images or PDF (672 kB)]
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Non-Markovian relaxation of a spin-1/2 particle in a fluctuating transverse field: Cumulant expansion and stochastic simulation results
M. Aihara, H. M. Sevian, and J. L. Skinner
pp. 6596-6601 [View Page Images or PDF (804 kB)]
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Grammatical complexity of strange sets
Ditza Auerbach and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 6602-6614 [View Page Images or PDF (2,449 kB)]
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Scaling properties of multifractal functions at an attractor-repeller transition
M. G. Cosenza and J. B. Swift
pp. 6615-6620 [View Page Images or PDF (745 kB)]
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One-dimensional kinetic Ising model with competing spin-flip and spin-exchange dynamics: Ordering in the case of long-range exchanges
M. Droz, Z. Rácz, and P. Tartaglia
pp. 6621-6624 [View Page Images or PDF (768 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical dissipation: From the weak- to the strong-coupling limit
Paolo Grigolini, Riccardo Mannella, Roberto Roncaglia, and David Vitali
pp. 6625-6634 [View Page Images or PDF (1,478 kB)]
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Dynamic system driven by a retarded force acting as colored noise
M. Le Berre, E. Ressayre, A. Tallet, and Y. Pomeau
pp. 6635-6646 [View Page Images or PDF (1,643 kB)]
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Nonperturbative density-functional theories of classical nonuniform systems
James F. Lutsko and Marc Baus
pp. 6647-6661 [View Page Images or PDF (2,355 kB)]
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Excited states of the deformable jellium
R. M. Méndez-Moreno and M. Moreno
pp. 6662-6667 [View Page Images or PDF (832 kB)]
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Heisenberg’s equations of motion for dissipative tunneling
M. Razavy
pp. 6668-6675 [View Page Images or PDF (1,048 kB)]
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Nonperturbative expansion method for a quantum system coupled to a harmonic-oscillator bath
Yoshitaka Tanimura
pp. 6676-6687 [View Page Images or PDF (1,277 kB)]
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Regularity in nonlinearly coupled quantum oscillators far from the semiclassical limit
E. Yurtsever and J. Brickmann
pp. 6688-6691 [View Page Images or PDF (815 kB)]
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Scaling of periodic orbits in two-dimensional chaotic systems
Ditza Auerbach
pp. 6692-6701 [View Page Images or PDF (1,825 kB)]
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Ruelle’s rotation frequency for a symplectic chain of dissipative oscillators
Ute Dressler and Werner Lauterborn
pp. 6702-6715 [View Page Images or PDF (2,400 kB)]
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Attractive and repulsive interactions in a two-dimensional billiardlike system: The Lennard-Jones stadium
G. Stolovitzky and J. A. Hernando
pp. 6716-6726 [View Page Images or PDF (1,669 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Kinetics of the Soret effect: Transient in the transport process
S. Van Vaerenbergh and J. C. Legros
pp. 6727-6731 [View Page Images or PDF (684 kB)]
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Structure of the liquid-vapor interface: A nonperturbative approach to the theory of interfacial fluctuations
U. Marini Bettolo Marconi and B. L. Gyorffy
pp. 6732-6740 [View Page Images or PDF (1,440 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Stability of an array of deep cells in directional solidification
Alain Karma and Pierre Pelcé
pp. 6741-6748 [View Page Images or PDF (1,313 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Experimental test of a fluctuation-induced first-order phase transition: The nematic–smectic-A transition
M. A. Anisimov, P. E. Cladis, E. E. Gorodetskii, David A. Huse, V. E. Podneks, V. G. Taratuta, Wim van Saarloos, and V. P. Voronov
pp. 6749-6762 [View Page Images or PDF (2,338 kB)]
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Cell dynamical system approach to block copolymers
M. Bahiana and Y. Oono
pp. 6763-6771 [View Page Images or PDF (1,720 kB)]
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Dilute polymer solution in steady shear flow: Non-Newtonian stress
P. R. Baldwin and Eugene Helfand
pp. 6772-6785 [View Page Images or PDF (1,770 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of induced bond orientational ordering in two-dimensional liquid-crystal models
M. J. P. Gingras, P. C. W. Holdsworth, and B. Bergersen
pp. 6786-6795 [View Page Images or PDF (1,945 kB)]
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Equation of state of hard D-dimensional hyperspheres
Marshall Luban and J. P. J. Michels
pp. 6796-6804 [View Page Images or PDF (1,497 kB)]
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Acousto-optical four-wave-mixing processes in compressible artificial dielectrics
D. Rogovin
pp. 6805-6812 [View Page Images or PDF (1,434 kB)]
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Stability and fluctuations in sheared colloidal crystals
David Ronis and Sheema Khan
pp. 6813-6829 [View Page Images or PDF (2,502 kB)]
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Shear flow near solids: Epitaxial order and flow boundary conditions
Peter A. Thompson and Mark O. Robbins
pp. 6830-6837 [View Page Images or PDF (1,488 kB)]
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Film growth and wetting of curved surfaces
L. Wilen and E. Polturak
pp. 6838-6844 [View Page Images or PDF (1,200 kB)]
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Collapse transition of self-avoiding walks and trails by real-space renormalization
Kang Wu and R. Mark Bradley
pp. 6845-6851 [View Page Images or PDF (1,049 kB)]
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Metastability and front propagation in the first-order optical Fréedericksz transition
M. O. Cáceres, F. Sagués, and M. San Miguel
pp. 6852-6858 [View Page Images or PDF (1,054 kB)]
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Heat capacity near the nematic–smectic-A transition of a weakly polar, very wide nematic range liquid crystal
R. Mahmood, H. G. Fellner, H. K. M. Vithana, J. Huang, and D. L. Johnson
pp. 6859-6865 [View Page Images or PDF (1,133 kB)]
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Wetting transitions at the argon–solid-CO2 interface: Molecular-dynamics studies
Stefan Sokol/owski and Johann Fischer
pp. 6866-6870 [View Page Images or PDF (936 kB)]
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Density-functional theory for systems of hard rods
A. Poniewierski and R. Hol/yst
pp. 6871-6880 [View Page Images or PDF (1,454 kB)]

Clusters

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Tracing a diffusion-limited aggregate: Self-affine versus self-similar scaling
Albert-László Barabási and Tamás Vicsek
pp. 6881-6883 [View Page Images or PDF (511 kB)]
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Evolution of foam structures in Langmuir monolayers of pentadecanoic acid
Keith J. Stine, Steven A. Rauseo, Brian G. Moore, Joseph A. Wise, and Charles M. Knobler
pp. 6884-6892 [View Page Images or PDF (1,669 kB)]
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Dynamics of gas bubbles in monolayers
Bruno Berge, Adam J. Simon, and Albert Libchaber
pp. 6893-6900 [View Page Images or PDF (1,390 kB)]
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Sol-gel condensation of rapidly hydrolyzed silicon alkoxides: A joint 29Si NMR and small-angle x-ray scattering study
F. Devreux, J. P. Boilot, F. Chaput, and A. Lecomte
pp. 6901-6909 [View Page Images or PDF (1,691 kB)]
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Dynamical scaling during interfacial growth in the one-sided model
David Jasnow and Jorge Vials
pp. 6910-6921 [View Page Images or PDF (1,916 kB)]
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Full-potential scattered-wave calculations for molecules and clusters: Fundamental tests of the method
D. L. Foulis, R. F. Pettifer, C. R. Natoli, and M. Benfatto
pp. 6922-6927 [View Page Images or PDF (1,016 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Electron collision shift of the Lyman-α line of ionized helium
M. Blaha and J. Davis
pp. 6928-6934 [View Page Images or PDF (1,089 kB)]
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Invariant criteria for bound states, degree of ionization, and plasma phase transition
M. D. Girardeau
pp. 6935-6939 [View Page Images or PDF (922 kB)]
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Response function and plasmon dispersion for strongly coupled Coulomb liquids: Two-dimensional electron liquid
Kenneth I. Golden, G. Kalman, and Philippe Wyns
pp. 6940-6948 [View Page Images or PDF (1,245 kB)]
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Algorithms for numerical simulation of radio-frequency glow discharges
Ajit P. Paranjpe, James P. McVittie, and Sidney A. Self
pp. 6949-6962 [View Page Images or PDF (2,686 kB)]
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Relativistic stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering in a laser-produced plasma
M. Salimullah and M. H. A. Hassan
pp. 6963-6967 [View Page Images or PDF (642 kB)]
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Observations of columnal recombination in the ionization tracks of energetic heavy nuclei in an argon-methane gas mixture
Mark E. Wiedenbeck
pp. 6968-6972 [View Page Images or PDF (902 kB)]
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Density-functional approach to the absorption bands in a dense, partially ionized plasma
Tomasz Bl/eński and Bogdan Cichocki
pp. 6973-6981 [View Page Images or PDF (1,295 kB)]

Classical Physics

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Linear theory of uncompensated thermal blooming in turbulence
D. H. Chambers, T. J. Karr, J. R. Morris, P. Cramer, J. A. Viecelli, and A. K. Gautesen
pp. 6982-6991 [View Page Images or PDF (1,526 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Noise and critical behavior of the pupil light reflex at oscillation onset
André Longtin, John G. Milton, Jelte E. Bos, and Michael C. Mackey
pp. 6992-7005 [View Page Images or PDF (2,724 kB)]
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Dynamics of layered adenine molecules
P. Martel, V. Frank, and M. Hennion
pp. 7006-7012 [View Page Images or PDF (1,238 kB)]
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Neural network with state-dependent synapses
Ivan J. Matus and Patricio Perez
pp. 7013-7019 [View Page Images or PDF (868 kB)]
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Prediction of modes with dominant base roll and propeller twist in B-DNA poly(dA)-poly(dT)
L. Young, V. V. Prabhu, E. W. Prohofsky, and G. S. Edwards
pp. 7020-7023 [View Page Images or PDF (671 kB)]
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Lattice models of biological growth
David A. Young and Ellen M. Corey
pp. 7024-7032 [View Page Images or PDF (1,652 kB)]
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Self-consistent calculation of localized DNA vibrational properties at a double-helix–single-strand junction with anharmonic potential
W. Zhuang, Y. Feng, and E. W. Prohofsky
pp. 7033-7042 [View Page Images or PDF (1,544 kB)]
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Fractal study of tertiary structure of proteins
Cun Xin Wang, Yun Yu Shi, and Fu Hua Huang
pp. 7043-7048 [View Page Images or PDF (620 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Self-organized criticality and fractal growth
Preben Alstro/m
pp. 7049-7052 [View Page Images or PDF (602 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Measurements of the ratio between the bend elastic constant and the anisotropy of diamagnetic susceptibility of a lyotropic nematic liquid crystal as a function of the temperature
A. J. Palangana and A. M. Figueiredo Neto
pp. 7053-7055 [View Page Images or PDF (452 kB)]
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Critical angle for the Brochard-Leger wall in liquid crystals
X. Y. Wang and Z. M. Sun
pp. 7056-7058 [View Page Images or PDF (571 kB)]

Clusters

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Finite-size effects in dendritic crystal growth
B. Janiaud, Ph. Bouissou, B. Perrin, and P. Tabeling
pp. 7059-7061 [View Page Images or PDF (534 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Dynamic model of neural networks with asymmetric diluted couplings
M. Y. Choi and Meekyoung Choi
pp. 7062-7065 [View Page Images or PDF (686 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Information theory and nonlinear quantal Hamiltonians’’
Francisco M. Fernández
pp. 7066-7067 [View Page Images or PDF (224 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Information theory and nonlinear quantal Hamiltonians’ ’’
G. Crespo, A. N. Proto, A. Plastino, and D. Otero
pp. 7068-7069 [View Page Images or PDF (254 kB)]
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Exact solution of the Boltzmann equation for collision cascades produced by soft power-law potentials
D. L. Maslov
pp. 7070-7072 [View Page Images or PDF (368 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Exact solution of the Boltzmann equation for collision cascades produced by soft power-law potentials’’
N. R. Corngold
pp. 7073 [View Page Images or PDF (96 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Physical aspects of evolutionary optimization and adaptation
Walter Fontana, Wolfgang Schnabl, and Peter Schuster
pp. 7074 [View Page Images or PDF (61 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Relationship between a generalized restricted solid-on-solid growth model and a continuum equation for interface growth
David A. Huse, Jacques G. Amar, and Fereydoon Family
pp. 7075-7077 [View Page Images or PDF (403 kB)]
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Steepest-descent approximation of stationary probability distribution of systems driven by weak colored noise
Hu Gang and H. Haken
pp. 7078-7081 [View Page Images or PDF (581 kB)]
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Crossover scaling in the dynamics of driven systems
Hong Guo, Bruno Grossmann, and Martin Grant
pp. 7082-7085 [View Page Images or PDF (604 kB)]
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Cellular-automaton model of earthquakes with deterministic dynamics
Hiizu Nakanishi
pp. 7086-7089 [View Page Images or PDF (599 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Moving interface: The stability tongue and phenomena within
Adam J. Simon and Albert Libchaber
pp. 7090-7093 [View Page Images or PDF (710 kB)]
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Mapping of a solid onto an effective liquid
X. C. Zeng and David W. Oxtoby
pp. 7094-7096 [View Page Images or PDF (353 kB)]

Biological Physics

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First-order transition to perfect generalization in a neural network with binary synapses
Géza Györgyi
pp. 7097-7100 [View Page Images or PDF (654 kB)]
 
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