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Physical Review A – May 1992
Volume 45, Issue 10

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General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Scaling behavior of fluid membranes in three dimensions
David H. Boal and Madan Rao
pp. R6947-R6950 [View Page Images or PDF (633 kB)]
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Multifractality of growing surfaces
Albert-László Barabási, Roch Bourbonnais, Mogens Jensen, János Kertész, Tamás Vicsek, and Yi-Cheng Zhang
pp. R6951-R6954 [View Page Images or PDF (601 kB)]
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Non-Fickian steady flux in a one-dimensional Sinai-type disordered system
S. F. Burlatsky, G. S. Oshanin, A. V. Mogutov, and M. Moreau
pp. R6955-R6957 [View Page Images or PDF (411 kB)]
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Tunneling control in a two-level system
Jose M. Gomez Llorente and Jesús Plata
pp. R6958-R6961 [View Page Images or PDF (543 kB)]
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Directed polymers on fractal substrates
J. Klafter, G. Zumofen, and A. Blumen
pp. R6962-R6965 [View Page Images or PDF (545 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Entropy and the freezing of simple liquids
P. V. Giaquinta, G. Giunta, and S. Prestipino Giarritta
pp. R6966-R6968 [View Page Images or PDF (449 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Dielectric quenching of the electric polar surface instability in a nematic liquid crystal
O. D. Lavrentovich, V. G. Nazarenko, V. V. Sergan, and G. Durand
pp. R6969-R6972 [View Page Images or PDF (539 kB)]
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Crossover from fractal to compact growth from simulations of two-phase flow with finite viscosity ratio in two-dimensional porous media
M. Ferer, R. A. Geisbrecht, W. N. Sams, and D. H. Smith
pp. R6973-R6976 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]
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Temporally linear domain growth in the segregation of binary fluids
Sanjay Puri and Burkhard Dünweg
pp. R6977-R6980 [View Page Images or PDF (552 kB)]
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Orientational plasticity at a smectic-liquid-crystal–anisotropic-solid interface
Zhiming Zhuang, Noel A. Clark, and Michael R. Meadows
pp. R6981-R6984 [View Page Images or PDF (584 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Multifractality of growth probability distribution in diffusion-limited-corrosion pit
Takashi Nagatani
pp. R6985-R6988 [View Page Images or PDF (487 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Box-counting multifractal analysis
L. V. Meisel, Mark Johnson, and P. J. Cote
pp. 6989-6996 [View Page Images or PDF (1,184 kB)]
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Differential geometry of nonequilibrium processes
Tsunehiro Obata, Hiroaki Hara, and Kunio Endo
pp. 6997-7001 [View Page Images or PDF (662 kB)]
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Avalanches, hydrodynamics, and discharge events in models of sandpiles
Terence Hwa and Mehran Kardar
pp. 7002-7023 [View Page Images or PDF (3,807 kB)]
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Directed polymer inside a parabola: Exact solution
Ferenc Iglói
pp. 7024-7029 [View Page Images or PDF (832 kB)]
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Well-behaved dynamics in a parametrically damped pendulum
Binruo Wu and James A. Blackburn
pp. 7030-7035 [View Page Images or PDF (785 kB)]
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Characterization of unstable periodic orbits and classical phase-space structure of the Fermi resonant system
Alexander A. Zembekov
pp. 7036-7048 [View Page Images or PDF (2,311 kB)]
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Scaling law of order-q power spectra for infinite time correlations near band-splitting points
Hiroshi Shibata, Satoshi Ando, and Hirokazu Fujisaka
pp. 7049-7057 [View Page Images or PDF (1,145 kB)]
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Mutual information, strange attractors, and the optimal estimation of dimension
J. M. Martinerie, A. M. Albano, A. I. Mees, and P. E. Rapp
pp. 7058-7064 [View Page Images or PDF (1,021 kB)]
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Quantum approximation to regular and chaotic classical motion: An electron in two periodic potentials
J. C. Kimball, Vijay A. Singh, and Mark D’Souza
pp. 7065-7072 [View Page Images or PDF (1,358 kB)]
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Optimal delay time and embedding dimension for delay-time coordinates by analysis of the global static and local dynamical behavior of strange attractors
Th. Buzug and G. Pfister
pp. 7073-7084 [View Page Images or PDF (1,846 kB)]
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Influence of the interaction between adsorbed particles in a surface-reaction model
J. J. Luque
pp. 7085-7088 [View Page Images or PDF (587 kB)]
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Ergodicity and dynamical properties of constant-temperature molecular dynamics
K. Cho and J. D. Joannopoulos
pp. 7089-7097 [View Page Images or PDF (1,253 kB)]
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Numerical test of Flory formulas for true self-avoiding walks on fractal lattices
Sang Bub Lee
pp. 7098-7103 [View Page Images or PDF (926 kB)]
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Maximum-entropy approach to critical phenomena in ground states of finite systems
L. Arrachea, N. Canosa, A. Plastino, M. Portesi, and R. Rossignoli
pp. 7104-7110 [View Page Images or PDF (1,116 kB)]
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Dense self-interacting lattice trees with specified topologies: From light to dense branching
A. M. Nemirovsky, Jacek Dudowicz, and Karl F. Freed
pp. 7111-7127 [View Page Images or PDF (1,974 kB)]
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Number of distinct sites visited by N random walkers
Hernan Larralde, Paul Trunfio, Shlomo Havlin, H. Eugene Stanley, and George H. Weiss
pp. 7128-7138 [View Page Images or PDF (1,632 kB)]
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Monte Carlo studies of tethered membranes with attractive interactions
Damin Liu and Michael Plischke
pp. 7139-7144 [View Page Images or PDF (808 kB)]
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Boundary conditions for the field theory of dynamic critical behavior in semi-infinite systems with conserved order parameter
H. W. Diehl and H. K. Janssen
pp. 7145-7155 [View Page Images or PDF (1,551 kB)]
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Kinetic surface roughening. I. The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in the weak-coupling regime
Thomas Nattermann and Lei-Han Tang
pp. 7156-7161 [View Page Images or PDF (811 kB)]
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Kinetic surface roughening. II. Hypercube-stacking models
Lei-Han Tang, Bruce M. Forrest, and Dietrich E. Wolf
pp. 7162-7179 [View Page Images or PDF (3,031 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Dynamic structure factor in a nonequilibrium fluid: A molecular-dynamics approach
M. Mareschal, M. Malek Mansour, G. Sonnino, and E. Kestemont
pp. 7180-7183 [View Page Images or PDF (726 kB)]
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Extended rotational diffusion and dielectric relaxation in a constant external electric field
Yuri P. Kalmykov
pp. 7184-7194 [View Page Images or PDF (1,236 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Growth from a hypercooled melt near absolute stability
A. Umantsev and S. H. Davis
pp. 7195-7201 [View Page Images or PDF (991 kB)]
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Analytical and numerical estimates of efficiency for an irreversible heat engine with distributed working fluid
Vladimir N. Orlov and R. Stephen Berry
pp. 7202-7206 [View Page Images or PDF (794 kB)]
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Bimodal diffusion in power-law shear flows
E. Ben-Naim, S. Redner, and D. ben-Avraham
pp. 7207-7213 [View Page Images or PDF (1,083 kB)]
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Shell model for turbulent advection of passive-scalar fields
M. H. Jensen, G. Paladin, and A. Vulpiani
pp. 7214-7221 [View Page Images or PDF (1,334 kB)]
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Measured scaling properties of inhomogeneous turbulent flows
P. Tong, W. I. Goldburg, and J. S. Huang
pp. 7222-7230 [View Page Images or PDF (1,487 kB)]
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Measured effects of polymer additives on turbulent-velocity fluctuations at various length scales
P. Tong, W. I. Goldburg, and J. S. Huang
pp. 7231-7241 [View Page Images or PDF (2,157 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Theory of Rayleigh-Bénard convection in planar nematic liquid crystals
Quanyuan Feng, Werner Pesch, and Lorenz Kramer
pp. 7242-7256 [View Page Images or PDF (2,431 kB)]
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Dynamic slowing down in dense percolating microemulsions
P. Tartaglia, J. Rouch, and S. H. Chen
pp. 7257-7262 [View Page Images or PDF (1,069 kB)]
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Propagation and stability of relaxation modes and transition regions in the Landau-Ginzburg model with dissipation
M. Otwinowski, J. A. Tuszyński, and J. M. Dixon
pp. 7263-7273 [View Page Images or PDF (1,668 kB)]
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Sensitivity of velocity selection in dendritic growth to uncertainties in the anisotropic surface tension
Sergei E. Esipov
pp. 7274-7281 [View Page Images or PDF (1,113 kB)]
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Dielectric relaxation in a high-tilt-angle chiral-nematic–smectic-C* ferroelectric liquid crystal
A. M. Biradar, S. S. Bawa, and Subhas Chandra
pp. 7282-7287 [View Page Images or PDF (882 kB)]
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Dynamics of directed polymers with cutting interactions
Sergei E. Esipov and A. Alan Middleton
pp. 7288-7291 [View Page Images or PDF (627 kB)]
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Lineal-path function for random heterogeneous materials. II. Effect of polydispersivity
Binglin Lu and S. Torquato
pp. 7292-7301 [View Page Images or PDF (1,299 kB)]
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Oligomeric baroeffect and gas aggregation states
David A. Noever
pp. 7302-7308 [View Page Images or PDF (1,218 kB)]
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Renormalization of a Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson theory of microemulsion
Y. Levin, C. J. Mundy, and K. A. Dawson
pp. 7309-7319 [View Page Images or PDF (1,595 kB)]
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Tilt bifurcation and dynamical selection by tilt domains in thin-film lamellar eutectic growth: Experimental evidence of a tilt bifurcation
G. Faivre and J. Mergy
pp. 7320-7329 [View Page Images or PDF (2,329 kB)]
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Bulk and interfacial properties of polar and molecular fluids
Peter Frodl and S. Dietrich
pp. 7330-7354 [View Page Images or PDF (3,444 kB)]
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Light-scattering study of melting in smectic liquid-crystal films
S. Sprunt, M. S. Spector, and J. D. Litster
pp. 7355-7371 [View Page Images or PDF (2,657 kB)]
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Coupling between crystalline anistropy and spontaneous parity breaking in lamellar eutectic growth
K. Kassner and C. Misbah
pp. 7372-7384 [View Page Images or PDF (2,002 kB)]
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Spinodal decomposition in a polymer solution
Nobuhiro Kuwahara and Kenji Kubota
pp. 7385-7394 [View Page Images or PDF (1,866 kB)]
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Isotropic-nematic transition of D-dimensional hard convex bodies within the effective-liquid approach
José A. Cuesta, Carlos F. Tejero, and Marc Baus
pp. 7395-7412 [View Page Images or PDF (2,570 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of polymers with directed bond vectors: Collective behavior of melts and mixtures
T. A. Vilgis and M. G. Brereton
pp. 7413-7423 [View Page Images or PDF (1,191 kB)]
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Phase-field model for isothermal phase transitions in binary alloys
A. A. Wheeler, W. J. Boettinger, and G. B. McFadden
pp. 7424-7439 [View Page Images or PDF (2,940 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Scanning-tunneling-microscopy study on the growth mode of vapor-deposited gold films
P. Herrasti, P. Ocón, L. Vázquez, R. C. Salvarezza, J. M. Vara, and A. J. Arvia
pp. 7440-7447 [View Page Images or PDF (1,155 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Solitons and radiation described by the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Silvina Ponce Dawson
pp. 7448-7455 [View Page Images or PDF (1,277 kB)]
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Momentum source of the plasma maser
Mitsuhiro Nambu, S. N. Sarma, and K. K. Sarma
pp. 7456-7462 [View Page Images or PDF (817 kB)]
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Excitation of Balmer lines in low-current discharges of hydrogen and deuterium
Z. Stokic, M. M. F. R. Fraga, J. Bozin, V. Stojanović, Z. Lj. Petrović, and B. M. Jelenković
pp. 7463-7468 [View Page Images or PDF (1,058 kB)]
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Lower hybrid plasma heating in a magnetic-mirror field
C. da C. Rapozo, A. S. de Assis, A. Serbêto, and L. T. Carneiro
pp. 7469-7474 [View Page Images or PDF (497 kB)]
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Nonstationary electron distribution functions in a laser field
Boris N. Chichkov, Sergey A. Shumsky, and Sergey A. Uryupin
pp. 7475-7479 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]
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Density diagnostic of a uranium laser-produced plasma from the line ratio of Δn=1 transitions in Ni-like uranium
P. Mandelbaum, J. F. Seely, U. Feldman, C. M. Brown, D. R. Kania, W. H. Goldstein, R. L. Kauffman, S. Langer, and A. Bar-Shalom
pp. 7480-7483 [View Page Images or PDF (558 kB)]
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3d-4p x-ray spectrum emitted by highly ionized uranium from a laser-produced plasma in the 3.8<λ<4.4-Å wavelength range
P. Mandelbaum, J. F. Seely, D. R. Kania, and R. L. Kauffman
pp. 7484-7487 [View Page Images or PDF (512 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Self-consistent analysis of wiggler-field errors in free-electron lasers
H. P. Freund and R. H. Jackson
pp. 7488-7491 [View Page Images or PDF (567 kB)]
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Theory of electromagnetic instability of an intense beam in a quadrupole focusing system
Cha-Mei Tang, Jonathan Krall, and Thomas Swyden
pp. 7492-7499 [View Page Images or PDF (977 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Excitation of solitons by an external resonant wave with a slowly varying phase velocity
Igor Aranson, Baruch Meerson, and Toshiki Tajima
pp. 7500-7510 [View Page Images or PDF (1,495 kB)]
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Photon migration in disordered media
S. Havlin, R. Nossal, B. Trus, and G. H. Weiss
pp. 7511-7519 [View Page Images or PDF (1,239 kB)]
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Axially symmetric solutions to the force-free magnetic-field equations in spherical and cylindrical coordinates
Gerald E. Marsh
pp. 7520-7525 [View Page Images or PDF (763 kB)]
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Transition operators in electromagnetic-wave diffraction theory: General theory
G. E. Hahne
pp. 7526-7548 [View Page Images or PDF (3,988 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Analysis of quantal synaptic noise in neural networks using iterated function systems
Paul C. Bressloff
pp. 7549-7559 [View Page Images or PDF (1,841 kB)]
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Phase behavior of pure lipid bilayers with mismatch interactions
Zhengping Zhang, Mohamed Laradji, Hong Guo, O. G. Mouritsen, and M. J. Zuckermann
pp. 7560-7567 [View Page Images or PDF (1,112 kB)]
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Statistical-mechanical analysis of self-organization and pattern formation during the development of visual maps
K. Obermayer, G. G. Blasdel, and K. Schulten
pp. 7568-7589 [View Page Images or PDF (3,806 kB)]
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Storage capacity and learning algorithms for two-layer neural networks
A. Engel, H. M. Köhler, F. Tschepke, H. Vollmayr, and A. Zippelius
pp. 7590-7609 [View Page Images or PDF (2,808 kB)]
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Effect of counterions on the spectrum of dissolved DNA polymers
V. K. Saxena and L. L. Van Zandt
pp. 7610-7620 [View Page Images or PDF (2,200 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Long-range attractions between solutes in near-critical fluids
Phil Attard, C. P. Ursenbach, and G. N. Patey
pp. 7621-7623 [View Page Images or PDF (486 kB)]
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Probability distributions of directed polymers in (1+1)-dimensional random media
G. Zumofen, J. Klafter, and A. Blumen
pp. 7624-7627 [View Page Images or PDF (450 kB)]
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Critical behavior of ionic-fluid models
George Stell
pp. 7628-7631 [View Page Images or PDF (784 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Application of lattice-gas automata to converging flow and non-Newtonian fluids
Henry F. Ahner, John Dooher, and Allan E. Moose
pp. 7632-7635 [View Page Images or PDF (550 kB)]
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Freezing of simple fluids in terms of the Ornstein-Zernike equation: Soft-sphere fluids and binary hard-sphere mixtures
A. B. Schmidt
pp. 7636-7639 [View Page Images or PDF (503 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Nonlinear excitation of ion-acoustic modes by rf waves
C. da C. Rapozo, A. S. de Assis, A. P. B. Serbêto, L. T. Carneiro, P. H. Sakanaka, and H. R. Torres Silva
pp. 7640-7642 [View Page Images or PDF (392 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Strong-coupling theory of hydrogen plasmas’’
Junzo Chihara
pp. 7643-7645 [View Page Images or PDF (364 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Stochastic Runge-Kutta algorithms. II. Colored noise
Rebecca L. Honeycutt
pp. 7646 [View Page Images or PDF (20 kB)]
 
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