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Physical Review A – September 1990
Volume 42, Issue 6

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Escape-time distributions of a periodically modulated bistable system with noise
Ting Zhou, Frank Moss, and Peter Jung
pp. 3161-3169 [View Page Images or PDF (1,281 kB)]
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Quantum description of a pseudointegrable system: The π/3-rhombus billiard
Debabrata Biswas and Sudhir R. Jain
pp. 3170-3185 [View Page Images or PDF (2,242 kB)]
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Simulation technique for hard-disk models in two dimensions
Diane P. Fraser, Martin J. Zuckermann, and Ole G. Mouritsen
pp. 3186-3195 [View Page Images or PDF (1,877 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium free energy, coarse-graining, and the Liouville equation
Brad Lee Holian, Harald A. Posch, and William G. Hoover
pp. 3196-3206 [View Page Images or PDF (1,801 kB)]
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Geometry and dynamics of deterministic sand piles
S. H. Liu, Theodore Kaplan, and L. J. Gray
pp. 3207-3212 [View Page Images or PDF (1,227 kB)]
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Singular continuous quasienergy spectrum in the kicked rotator with separable perturbation: Possibility of the onset of quantum chaos
B. Milek and P. Seba
pp. 3213-3220 [View Page Images or PDF (1,183 kB)]
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Self-avoiding Lévy walk: A model for very stiff polymers
Jangnyeol Moon and Hisao Nakanishi
pp. 3221-3224 [View Page Images or PDF (556 kB)]
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Self-organization in an excitable reaction-diffusion system: Synchronization of oscillatory domains in one dimension
Takao Ohta, Aya Ito, and Ayako Tetsuka
pp. 3225-3232 [View Page Images or PDF (1,128 kB)]
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Statistical physics of intermittency: Phase transitions and fluctuations of scaling indices
Shinichi Sato and Katsuya Honda
pp. 3233-3241 [View Page Images or PDF (1,176 kB)]
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Effective-potential expansion method for the many-body problem at finite temperatures. I. Basic formalism
Yasutami Takada and Takafumi Kita
pp. 3242-3250 [View Page Images or PDF (1,233 kB)]
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Effective-potential expansion method for the many-body problem at finite temperatures. II. Application to a one-dimensional electron system with a repulsive δ-function interaction
Takafumi Kita and Yasutami Takada
pp. 3251-3258 [View Page Images or PDF (985 kB)]
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Low-temperature expansions of fractal Ising models
Nanzhi Zou, Dafang Zheng, and Youyan Liu
pp. 3259-3266 [View Page Images or PDF (979 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical harmonic chain attached to heat baths. I. Equilibrium properties
U. Zürcher and P. Talkner
pp. 3267-3277 [View Page Images or PDF (1,574 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical harmonic chain attached to heat baths. II. Nonequilibrium properties
U. Zürcher and P. Talkner
pp. 3278-3290 [View Page Images or PDF (1,660 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of the escape of a minor species
A. R. Barakat and J. Lemaire
pp. 3291-3302 [View Page Images or PDF (1,969 kB)]
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Variational method for the quantum statistics of many-particle systems
M. D. Girardeau
pp. 3303-3318 [View Page Images or PDF (2,693 kB)]
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Bistability in a surface-reaction model
J. J. Luque
pp. 3319-3323 [View Page Images or PDF (605 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of strongly nonideal systems
V. I. Yukalov
pp. 3324-3334 [View Page Images or PDF (1,840 kB)]
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Two kinds of singularities in planar differential systems and the response to external forces
Hu Gang and Bai-lin Hao
pp. 3335-3347 [View Page Images or PDF (2,500 kB)]
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Generic nonergodic behavior in locally interacting continuous systems
Yu He, C. Jayaprakash, and G. Grinstein
pp. 3348-3355 [View Page Images or PDF (1,513 kB)]
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Influence of random fluctuations on delayed bifurcations. II. The cases of white and colored additive and multiplicative noise
N. G. Stocks, R. Mannella, and P. V. E. McClintock
pp. 3356-3362 [View Page Images or PDF (938 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Computer-simulation study of conductivity in a two-dimensional binary fluid mixture
R. B. Pandey
pp. 3363-3367 [View Page Images or PDF (765 kB)]
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Dynamic cross correlation in isotopic two-component liquids: Molecular-dynamics calculation results compared with predictions of kinetic theory
H. P. van den Berg and C. Hoheisel
pp. 3368-3373 [View Page Images or PDF (798 kB)]
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Velocity distributions in nonlinear systems
S.-B. Zhu
pp. 3374-3381 [View Page Images or PDF (1,341 kB)]
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Free-energy density functional for the inhomogeneous hard-sphere fluid: Application to interfacial adsorption
E. Kierlik and M. L. Rosinberg
pp. 3382-3387 [View Page Images or PDF (867 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Transition to turbulence via spatiotemporal intermittency in one-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection
F. Daviaud, M. Bonetti, and M. Dubois
pp. 3388-3399 [View Page Images or PDF (2,196 kB)]
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Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities and mixing in stratified spherical shells
Karnig O. Mikaelian
pp. 3400-3420 [View Page Images or PDF (3,144 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Viscoelastic behavior of dense microemulsions
C. Cametti, P. Codastefano, G. D’Arrigo, P. Tartaglia, J. Rouch, and S. H. Chen
pp. 3421-3426 [View Page Images or PDF (1,001 kB)]
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Mechanical instability of colloidal crystals under shear flow
Peter Harrowell
pp. 3427-3431 [View Page Images or PDF (866 kB)]
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Diffusion-limited-aggregation-like displacement structures in a three-dimensional porous medium
V. Frette, K. J. Målo/y, F. Boger, J. Feder, T. Jo/ssang, and Paul Meakin
pp. 3432-3437 [View Page Images or PDF (1,062 kB)]
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Nematic–smectic-Ad phase transition at zero packing fraction
Robert Hol/yst
pp. 3438-3441 [View Page Images or PDF (566 kB)]
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Dynamics of blue-phase selective reflections in an electric field
H.-S. Kitzerow, P. P. Crooker, S. L. Kwok, J. Xu, and G. Heppke
pp. 3442-3448 [View Page Images or PDF (1,053 kB)]
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Light scattering and magnetic birefringence measurements at the isotropic-nematic and nematic–reentrant-isotropic transitions in a lyotropic nematic liquid crystal
J. P. McClymer, C. A. Oxborrow, and P. H. Keyes
pp. 3449-3452 [View Page Images or PDF (642 kB)]
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Spontaneous polarization in chiral biaxial liquid crystals
Lech Longa and Hans-Rainer Trebin
pp. 3453-3469 [View Page Images or PDF (2,636 kB)]
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Charged polymer in an electric field
Bernard Gaveau and L. S. Schulman
pp. 3470-3475 [View Page Images or PDF (821 kB)]
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Decay of multiparticle correlations in real liquids and gases
G. I. Salistra and I. M. Tkachenko
pp. 3476-3482 [View Page Images or PDF (1,014 kB)]
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Linear viscoelastic study of lipid vesicle dispersions: Hard-sphere behavior and bilayer surface dynamics
J. B. A. F. Smeulders, C. Blom, and J. Mellema
pp. 3483-3498 [View Page Images or PDF (2,758 kB)]

Clusters

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Statistical properties of fractal dendrites and anisotropic diffusion-limited aggregates
Y. Couder, F. Argoul, A. Arnéodo, J. Maurer, and M. Rabaud
pp. 3499-3503 [View Page Images or PDF (1,267 kB)]
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Microscopic theory for the diffusive evolution of an isoconcentration surface
S. Harris
pp. 3504-3506 [View Page Images or PDF (498 kB)]
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Sine-Gordon renormalization of the orientational roughening transition
Y. Levin and K. A. Dawson
pp. 3507-3511 [View Page Images or PDF (595 kB)]
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Phase transition and crossover in diffusion-limited aggregation with reaction times
Takashi Nagatani and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 3512-3517 [View Page Images or PDF (1,039 kB)]
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Stability of dendritic arrays
James A. Warren and J. S. Langer
pp. 3518-3525 [View Page Images or PDF (1,136 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Frequency shifts induced in laser pulses by plasma waves
E. Esarey, A. Ting, and P. Sprangle
pp. 3526-3531 [View Page Images or PDF (1,088 kB)]
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Reduction in bremsstrahlung emission from hot, dense binary-ionic-mixture plasmas
H. Furukawa and K. Nishihara
pp. 3532-3543 [View Page Images or PDF (1,744 kB)]
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Nonlinear theory of the slow-wave cyclotron amplifier
A. K. Ganguly and S. Ahn
pp. 3544-3554 [View Page Images or PDF (1,593 kB)]
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Satellite spectra for high-lying resonance states of heliumlike chromium and nickel
K. R. Karim and C. P. Bhalla
pp. 3555-3560 [View Page Images or PDF (974 kB)]
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Langmuir soliton stability and collapse in a weak magnetic field
Lj. R. Hadžievski, M. M. Škorić, A. M. Rubenchik, E. G. Shapiro, and S. K. Turitsin
pp. 3561-3570 [View Page Images or PDF (1,556 kB)]
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Plasma modeling in an electron-cyclotron-resonance ion source
S. Peić and M. Vuković
pp. 3571-3578 [View Page Images or PDF (1,496 kB)]
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Laser ablation studies of palladium electrolytically loaded with hydrogen and deuterium
M. J. Shea, R. N. Compton, and R. L. Hettich
pp. 3579-3586 [View Page Images or PDF (1,515 kB)]
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Nonlinear interaction of photons and phonons in electron-positron plasmas
T. Tajima and T. Taniuti
pp. 3587-3602 [View Page Images or PDF (2,222 kB)]

Classical Physics

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Quantum tunneling through Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser curves
Shau-Jin Chang and Kang-Jie Shi
pp. 3603-3607 [View Page Images or PDF (666 kB)]
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Information-theory approach to the variable-mass harmonic oscillator
G. Crespo, A. N. Proto, A. Plastino, and D. Otero
pp. 3608-3617 [View Page Images or PDF (1,560 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Low-temperature analysis of three-phase coexistence
Arjun Berera and Kenneth A. Dawson
pp. 3618-3621 [View Page Images or PDF (531 kB)]
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From chaotic advection to chaotic Schrödinger-type equations
Rubén A. Pasmanter
pp. 3622-3625 [View Page Images or PDF (540 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Transition to turbulence in a discrete Ginzburg-Landau model
Tomas Bohr, Anders W. Pedersen, and Mogens H. Jensen
pp. 3626-3629 [View Page Images or PDF (639 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Dynamical behavior of thin ferroelectric liquid-crystal films in ac electric fields
W. S. Lo, Robert A. Pelcovits, R. Pindak, and G. Srajer
pp. 3630-3633 [View Page Images or PDF (815 kB)]
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Onset of light scattering by a solid-liquid interface during growth
J-M. Laherrère, R. Mellet, H. Savary, C. Licoppe, J. F. Scott, and J-C. Tolédano
pp. 3634-3636 [View Page Images or PDF (563 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Solutions to the mean-field equations of branchless diffusion-limited aggregation
K. Kassner
pp. 3637-3640 [View Page Images or PDF (647 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Calculation of liquid-crystal Frank constants by computer simulation [Phys. Rev. A 37, 1813 (1988)]
Michael P. Allen and Daan Frenkel
pp. 3641 [View Page Images or PDF (128 kB)]
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Erratum: Spatial and temporal behavior of pattern formations and defect motions in the electrohydrodynamic instability of nematic liquid crystals
Shoichi Kai, Nobuyuki Chizumi, and Mitsuhiro Kohno
pp. 3641 [View Page Images or PDF (128 kB)]
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Erratum: Velocity autocorrelation function of a two-dimensional classical electron fluid
B. Singla, K. Tankeshwar, and K. N. Pathak
pp. 3642 [View Page Images or PDF (41 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Chen’s inversion formula
B. D. Hughes, N. E. Frankel, and B. W. Ninham
pp. 3643-3645 [View Page Images or PDF (414 kB)]
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Quantum fluctuations in classical chaos
Wei-Min Zhang, Jian-Min Yuan, Da Hsuan Feng, Qi Pan, and John Tjon
pp. 3646-3649 [View Page Images or PDF (784 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Heat transport in high-Rayleigh-number convection
Boris I. Shraiman and Eric D. Siggia
pp. 3650-3653 [View Page Images or PDF (665 kB)]
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Power spectra in two-dimensional turbulence
R. Benzi, G. Paladin, and A. Vulpiani
pp. 3654-3656 [View Page Images or PDF (428 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Activation-energy landscape for metastable RNA folding
Ariel Fernández and Eugene I. Shakhnovich
pp. 3657-3659 [View Page Images or PDF (528 kB)]
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Nonlinear spectroscopic study of coadsorbed liquid-crystal and surfactant monolayers: Conformation and interaction
J. Y. Huang, R. Superfine, and Y. R. Shen
pp. 3660-3663 [View Page Images or PDF (656 kB)]
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Dynamics and rheology of diblock copolymers quenched into microphase-separated states
Kyozi Kawasaki and Akira Onuki
pp. 3664-3666 [View Page Images or PDF (542 kB)]
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Constant molecular rotation at the smectic-A to smectic-C* transition in ferroelectric liquid crystals
F. Kremer, S. U. Vallerien, H. Kapitza, R. Zentel, and E. W. Fischer
pp. 3667-3669 [View Page Images or PDF (471 kB)]

Clusters

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Crossover between different growth regimes in crack formation
O. Pla, F. Guinea, E. Louis, G. Li, L. M. Sander, H. Yan, and P. Meakin
pp. 3670-3673 [View Page Images or PDF (545 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Influence of negative ions in rf glow discharges in SiH4 at 13.56 MHz
Toshiaki Makabe, Fumiyoshi Tochikubo, and Motoho Nishimura
pp. 3674-3677 [View Page Images or PDF (767 kB)]
 
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