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Physical Review A – January 1992
Volume 45, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Absence of sensitivity to initial conditions in quantum dynamics
M. Hossein Partovi
pp. R555-R558 [View Page Images or PDF (750 kB)]
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1/fα noise in dissipative transport
G. Grinstein, Terence Hwa, and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
pp. R559-R562 [View Page Images or PDF (753 kB)]
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Critical behavior of the three-dimensional contact process
Iwan Jensen
pp. R563-R566 [View Page Images or PDF (536 kB)]
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Dynamics of spiral waves in a spatially inhomogeneous Hopf bifurcation
L. Gil, K. Emilsson, and G.-L. Oppo
pp. R567-R570 [View Page Images or PDF (610 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Microscopic-growth morphologies in binary systems
Rong-Fu Xiao, J. Iwan D. Alexander, and Franz Rosenberger
pp. R571-R574 [View Page Images or PDF (683 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Nonlinear adiabatic reflection of electrons by an electromagnetic wave in a plasma
Daniela Farina and Roberto Pozzoli
pp. R575-R578 [View Page Images or PDF (557 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Statistical behavior of eigenvalues of real-symmetric and complex-Hermitian band matrices: Comparison with random-matrix theory
H. S. Camarda
pp. 579-582 [View Page Images or PDF (607 kB)]
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Staircase functions, spectral rigidity, and a rule for quantizing chaos
R. Aurich and F. Steiner
pp. 583-592 [View Page Images or PDF (1,478 kB)]
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Transient chaos in a parametrically damped pendulum
James A. Blackburn, H. J. T. Smith, and Darran E. Edmundson
pp. 593-599 [View Page Images or PDF (998 kB)]
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Stochastic Runge-Kutta algorithms. I. White noise
Rebecca L. Honeycutt
pp. 600-603 [View Page Images or PDF (428 kB)]
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Stochastic Runge-Kutta algorithms. II. Colored noise
Rebecca L. Honeycutt
pp. 604-610 [View Page Images or PDF (629 kB)]
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Mean-field approximation to the effective elastic moduli of a solid suspension of spheres
B. U. Felderhof and P. L. Iske
pp. 611-617 [View Page Images or PDF (936 kB)]
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Finite-size effects and shock fluctuations in the asymmetric simple-exclusion process
Steven A. Janowsky and Joel L. Lebowitz
pp. 618-625 [View Page Images or PDF (1,302 kB)]
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Theory for the experimental observation of chaos in a rotating waterwheel
Miroslav Kolá and Godfrey Gumbs
pp. 626-637 [View Page Images or PDF (2,119 kB)]
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Amplitude universality for driven interfaces and directed polymers in random media
Joachim Krug, Paul Meakin, and Timothy Halpin-Healy
pp. 638-653 [View Page Images or PDF (2,418 kB)]
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Generalized Mandelbrot rule for fractal sections
L. V. Meisel
pp. 654-656 [View Page Images or PDF (299 kB)]
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Scaling and vortex-string dynamics in a three-dimensional system with a continuous symmetry
M. Mondello and Nigel Goldenfeld
pp. 657-664 [View Page Images or PDF (1,438 kB)]
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Inertia and break of self-organized criticality in sandpile cellular-automata models
Carmen P. C. Prado and Zeev Olami
pp. 665-669 [View Page Images or PDF (724 kB)]
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Square-tiling model for the glass transition: Transfer-matrix approach for the competing energy
S. Suresh Rao and Somendra M. Bhattacharjee
pp. 670-674 [View Page Images or PDF (876 kB)]
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Coupled maps: An approach to spatiotemporal chaos
Dimitris Stassinopoulos and Preben Alstrro/m
pp. 675-691 [View Page Images or PDF (2,807 kB)]
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Mean-field approximations and coupled maps for kinetic lattice models
Zhen-Gang Wang
pp. 692-700 [View Page Images or PDF (1,548 kB)]
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Nonexponential decay of a stochastic one-channel system
F.-M. Dittes, H. L. Harney, and A. Müller
pp. 701-705 [View Page Images or PDF (768 kB)]
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Second-order processes driven by dichotomous noise
Jaume Masoliver
pp. 706-713 [View Page Images or PDF (911 kB)]
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Rayleigh scattering in a liquid far from thermal equilibrium
P. N. Segrè, R. W. Gammon, J. V. Sengers, and B. M. Law
pp. 714-724 [View Page Images or PDF (1,727 kB)]
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Loss of memory in a chaotic dynamical system
P. M. Gade and R. E. Amritkar
pp. 725-733 [View Page Images or PDF (1,233 kB)]
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Tethered membranes with long-range interactions
Emmanuel Guitter and John Palmeri
pp. 734-744 [View Page Images or PDF (1,715 kB)]
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WKB study of fluctuations and activation in nonequilibrium dissipative steady states
R. Kupferman, M. Kaiser, Z. Schuss, and E. Ben-Jacob
pp. 745-756 [View Page Images or PDF (1,566 kB)]
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Inverted period-doubling sequences in four-dimensional reversible maps and solutions to the renormalization equations
Avijit Lahiri
pp. 757-762 [View Page Images or PDF (963 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of social impact
Maciej Lewenstein, Andrzej Nowak, and Bibb Latané
pp. 763-776 [View Page Images or PDF (2,457 kB)]
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Universal corrections to parameter scaling in period-doubling systems: Multiple scaling and crossover
C. Reick
pp. 777-792 [View Page Images or PDF (2,708 kB)]
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Galilean space-time symmetries in Liouville space and Wigner-Weyl representations
Antoine Royer
pp. 793-810 [View Page Images or PDF (2,659 kB)]
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Eigenvector statistics of random band matrices
K. Życzkowski, M. Lewenstein, M. Kuś, and F. Izrailev
pp. 811-815 [View Page Images or PDF (809 kB)]
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Liquid-state methods for random media: Random sequential adsorption
James A. Given
pp. 816-824 [View Page Images or PDF (1,596 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Long transmission times for transport through a weakly scattering slab
Charles R. Doering, Tane S. Ray, and M. Lawrence Glasser
pp. 825-828 [View Page Images or PDF (644 kB)]
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Evidence for Maxwell’s thermal pressure via light-induced velocity-selective heating or cooling
S. Hess and L. J. F. Hermans
pp. 829-832 [View Page Images or PDF (602 kB)]
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Long-time-correlation effects and biased anomalous diffusion
K. G. Wang
pp. 833-837 [View Page Images or PDF (709 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Surface perturbations of a shallow viscous fluid heated from below and the (2+1)-dimensional Burgers equation
R. A. Kraenkel, J. G. Pereira, and M. A. Manna
pp. 838-841 [View Page Images or PDF (507 kB)]
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Scaling relations in thermal turbulence: The aspect-ratio dependence
Xiao-Zhong Wu and Albert Libchaber
pp. 842-845 [View Page Images or PDF (575 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Parity breaking in directional solidification: Numerics versus amplitude equations
Wouter-Jan Rappel and Hermann Riecke
pp. 846-859 [View Page Images or PDF (1,934 kB)]
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High-frequency effective viscosity of hard-sphere suspensions
H. J. H. Clercx and P. P. J. M. Schram
pp. 860-872 [View Page Images or PDF (1,878 kB)]
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Saffman-Taylor fingers in the sector geometry
R. Combescot
pp. 873-884 [View Page Images or PDF (1,992 kB)]
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Light-scattering experiments on phase-separation dynamics in binary fluid mixtures
Andrew Cumming, Pierre Wiltzius, Frank S. Bates, and Jeffrey H. Rosedale
pp. 885-897 [View Page Images or PDF (2,433 kB)]
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Primary relaxation in a hard-sphere system
M. Fuchs, I. Hofacker, and A. Latz
pp. 898-912 [View Page Images or PDF (2,066 kB)]
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Two-body and three-body parquet theory
Alexander Lande and Roger Alan Smith
pp. 913-921 [View Page Images or PDF (1,525 kB)]
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Lineal-path function for random heterogeneous materials
Binglin Lu and S. Torquato
pp. 922-929 [View Page Images or PDF (1,166 kB)]
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Molecular-statistical theory for curvature elasticity of thermotropic main-chain-polymer liquid crystals
Rolfe G. Petschek and Eugene M. Terentjev
pp. 930-938 [View Page Images or PDF (1,483 kB)]
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Fluids confined to narrow pores: A low-dimensional approach
Albert J. Post and David A. Kofke
pp. 939-952 [View Page Images or PDF (2,328 kB)]
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Multicritical behavior of Abrikosov vortex lattices near the cholesteric–smectic-A–smectic-C* point
S. R. Renn
pp. 953-973 [View Page Images or PDF (3,372 kB)]
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Molecular theory of elastic constants of liquid crystals: Application to uniaxial phases
Yashwant Singh, Shri Singh, and Kumar Rajesh
pp. 974-988 [View Page Images or PDF (1,635 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic interactions in hard-sphere suspensions
J.-Z. Xue, X.-L. Wu, D. J. Pine, and P. M. Chaikin
pp. 989-993 [View Page Images or PDF (795 kB)]
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Shear-flow enhancement and suppression of fluctuations in smectic liquid crystals
R. Bruinsma and Y. Rabin
pp. 994-1008 [View Page Images or PDF (2,131 kB)]
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Patterns produced by a short-wave instability in the presence of a zero mode
Boris A. Malomed
pp. 1009-1017 [View Page Images or PDF (1,515 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Coagulation kinetics and aggregate morphology in the intermediate regimes between diffusion-limited and reaction-limited cluster aggregation
D. Asnaghi, M. Carpineti, M. Giglio, and M. Sozzi
pp. 1018-1023 [View Page Images or PDF (876 kB)]
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Monte Carlo lattice-gas simulations of stable and unstable interfaces
R. Harris, Loki Jörgenson, and Martin Grant
pp. 1024-1034 [View Page Images or PDF (1,842 kB)]
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Analytic solution of the growth-site probability distribution for structural models of diffusion-limited aggregation
Jysoo Lee, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 1035-1043 [View Page Images or PDF (1,209 kB)]
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Mean-field diffusion-limited aggregation and the Saffman-Taylor problem in three dimensions
Herbert Levine and Yuhai Tu
pp. 1044-1052 [View Page Images or PDF (1,231 kB)]
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Mean-field diffusion-limited aggregation in radial geometries
Herbert Levine and Yuhai Tu
pp. 1053-1057 [View Page Images or PDF (889 kB)]
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Branch order and ramification analysis of large diffusion-limited-aggregation clusters
Peter Ossadnik
pp. 1058-1066 [View Page Images or PDF (1,011 kB)]
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Kinetics of monomer-monomer surface catalytic reactions
P. L. Krapivsky
pp. 1067-1072 [View Page Images or PDF (822 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Magnetohydrodynamic surface-wave echoes
Yu. M. Aliev, V. M. Čdež, and S. M. Revenchuk
pp. 1073-1083 [View Page Images or PDF (1,179 kB)]
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Third-frequency-moment sum rule and long-wavelength plasmon dispersion in layered electron liquids
Kenneth I. Golden and De-xin Lu
pp. 1084-1088 [View Page Images or PDF (721 kB)]
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Safety factor measurements on the magnetic axis of the Texas experimental tokamak plasma in Ohmic and electron-cyclotron-resonance heated discharges
L. K. Huang, M. Finkenthal, D. Wróblewski, H. W. Moos, W. P. West, P. E. Phillips, and D. C. Sing
pp. 1089-1097 [View Page Images or PDF (1,357 kB)]
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Calculation of the ionization rate and electron transport coefficients in an argon rf discharge
P. M. Meijer, W. J. Goedheer, and J. D. P. Passchier
pp. 1098-1102 [View Page Images or PDF (722 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics of the relativistic standard map
Y. Nomura, Y. H. Ichikawa, and W. Horton
pp. 1103-1115 [View Page Images or PDF (1,994 kB)]
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Localization of modes in media with a simple quasiperiodic modulation
A. Salat
pp. 1116-1121 [View Page Images or PDF (973 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation study of crystallization in rapidly supercooled one-component plasmas
Shuji Ogata
pp. 1122-1134 [View Page Images or PDF (2,018 kB)]
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Modeling the Hg-Ar low-pressure-discharge positive column: A comparative study
G. Zissis, P. Bénétruy, and I. Bernat
pp. 1135-1148 [View Page Images or PDF (2,419 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Plasma-wave resonator for particle-beam acceleration
K. Nakajima
pp. 1149-1156 [View Page Images or PDF (1,116 kB)]
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Beam-breakup suppression in a multistage klystronlike free-electron laser: Linear detuning
Ken Takayama
pp. 1157-1162 [View Page Images or PDF (808 kB)]
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Effect of wiggler errors on free-electron-laser gain
L. H. Yu, S. Krinsky, R. L. Gluckstern, and J. B. J. van Zeijts
pp. 1163-1176 [View Page Images or PDF (1,696 kB)]
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General formula of the energy-transfer rate in gyrotron, cyclotron-autoresonance-maser, and nonwiggler-free-electron-laser oscillators
Shi-Chang Zhang
pp. 1177-1182 [View Page Images or PDF (638 kB)]
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Observation of soft-x-ray spatial coherence from resonance transition radiation
M. A. Piestrup, D. G. Boyers, C. I. Pincus, Qiang Li, G. D. Hallewell, M. J. Moran, D. M. Skopik, R. M. Silzer, X. K. Maruyama, D. D. Snyder, and G. B. Rothbart
pp. 1183-1196 [View Page Images or PDF (2,425 kB)]
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Use of Lie transforms to generalize Madey’s theorem for computing the gain in microwave devices
P. E. Latham, S. M. Miller, and C. D. Striffler
pp. 1197-1206 [View Page Images or PDF (1,467 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Kink decay in a parametrically driven φ4 chain
Yuri S. Kivshar, Angel Sánchez, and Luis Vázquez
pp. 1207-1212 [View Page Images or PDF (875 kB)]
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Optical ring cavities as tailored four-level systems: An application of the group U(2,2)
R. J. C. Spreeuw, M. W. Beijersbergen, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 1213-1229 [View Page Images or PDF (3,196 kB)]
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Kink dynamics and kink-pair nucleation in the discrete Frenkel-Kontorova model
T. Munakata
pp. 1230-1237 [View Page Images or PDF (1,136 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Potts-glass model of layered feedforward neural networks
G. M. Shim, D. Kim, and M. Y. Choi
pp. 1238-1248 [View Page Images or PDF (1,242 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Deterministic Brownian motion
György Trefán, Paolo Grigolini, and Bruce J. West
pp. 1249-1252 [View Page Images or PDF (604 kB)]
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Hidden conservation law for sandpile models
S.-C. Lee and W.-J. Tzeng
pp. 1253-1254 [View Page Images or PDF (240 kB)]
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Oscillatory phenomena in kinetic antipercolation
Kang Wu and R. Mark Bradley
pp. 1255-1258 [View Page Images or PDF (599 kB)]
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Intermittently chaotic oscillations for a differential-delay equation with Gaussian nonlinearity
Ian Hamilton
pp. 1259-1261 [View Page Images or PDF (488 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Onset of Dufour-driven convection in binary fluid mixtures: No-slip boundary conditions
Stefan J. Linz
pp. 1262-1265 [View Page Images or PDF (558 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Light scattering near a double critical point: Evidence for crossover behavior
B. V. Prafulla, T. Narayanan, and A. Kumar
pp. 1266-1269 [View Page Images or PDF (593 kB)]
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Long- and ultimate-time tails in two-dimensional fluids
Jan A. Leegwater and Grzegorz Szamel
pp. 1270-1273 [View Page Images or PDF (490 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Universal behavior of the shortest-path aggregation
Xiang Rong Wang and Xiao Fang Wang
pp. 1274-1277 [View Page Images or PDF (585 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Theory of ions emitted from a plasma by relativistic self-focusing of laser beams
Thomas Häuser, Werner Scheid, and Heinrich Hora
pp. 1278-1281 [View Page Images or PDF (672 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Application of Baxter’s model to the theory of cloud points of nonionic surfactant solutions’’
M. H. G. M. Penders and A. Vrij
pp. 1282 [View Page Images or PDF (161 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Thermal boundary layers and heat flux in turbulent convection: The role of recirculating flows
T. H. Solomon and J. P. Gollub
pp. 1283 [View Page Images or PDF (34 kB)]
 
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