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Physical Review A – April 1992
Volume 45, Issue 8

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Replica-scaling analysis of diffusion in quenched correlated random media
Anatoly B. Kolomeisky and Eugene B. Kolomeisky
pp. R5327-R5330 [View Page Images or PDF (530 kB)]
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Self-organization of domain growth in the Ising model with impurities
Jo/rgen Vitting Andersen and Ole G. Mouritsen
pp. R5331-R5334 [View Page Images or PDF (638 kB)]
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Critical behavior of self-avoiding walks on percolation clusters
Carlo Vanderzande and Andrzej Komoda
pp. R5335-R5338 [View Page Images or PDF (477 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Recovery of the Navier-Stokes equations using a lattice-gas Boltzmann method
Hudong Chen, Shiyi Chen, and William H. Matthaeus
pp. R5339-R5342 [View Page Images or PDF (536 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Dynamic scaling and spontaneous symmetry breaking at the gel point
Nigel Goldenfeld and Paul Goldbart
pp. R5343-R5346 [View Page Images or PDF (665 kB)]
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Dynamics of phase separation of binary fluids
Wen-Jong Ma, Amos Maritan, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Joel Koplik
pp. R5347-R5350 [View Page Images or PDF (530 kB)]
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Vortex morphology and Kelvin’s theorem
Alain Pumir, Boris I. Shraiman, and Eric D. Siggia
pp. R5351-R5354 [View Page Images or PDF (615 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion in the nematic phase of thin disks
A. Alavi and D. Frenkel
pp. R5355-R5357 [View Page Images or PDF (517 kB)]
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Electrical conductivity and percolation phenomena in water-in-oil microemulsions
C. Cametti, P. Codastefano, P. Tartaglia, S.-H. Chen, and J. Rouch
pp. R5358-R5361 [View Page Images or PDF (639 kB)]
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Soft-mode dielectric anomaly of a chiral smectic-B liquid crystal with sign reversal in the electroclinic response
F. Gouda, T. Carlsson, K. Flatichler, L. Komitov, S. T. Lagerwall, K. Skarp, and B. Stebler
pp. R5362-R5365 [View Page Images or PDF (464 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Nonlinear analysis of the acoustoelectric instability in piezoelectric semiconductors
Ivan L’Heureux and Francis Guillon
pp. R5366-R5368 [View Page Images or PDF (477 kB)]
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Sine-Gordon kink-antikink generation on spatially periodic potentials
Rainer Scharf, Yuri S. Kivshar, Angel Sánchez, and Alan R. Bishop
pp. R5369-R5372 [View Page Images or PDF (624 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Semiclassical chaos in quartic anharmonic oscillators
J. T. Anderson
pp. 5373-5377 [View Page Images or PDF (556 kB)]
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Universality in surface growth: Scaling functions and amplitude ratios
Jacques G. Amar and Fereydoon Family
pp. 5378-5393 [View Page Images or PDF (2,384 kB)]
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Observation of a strange nonchaotic attractor in a multistable potential
Ting Zhou, Frank Moss, and Adi Bulsara
pp. 5394-5400 [View Page Images or PDF (991 kB)]
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Singular behavior at avoided crossings in an iterative perturbation
Xu Gong-ou, Wang Wen-ge, and Yang Ya-tian
pp. 5401-5407 [View Page Images or PDF (918 kB)]
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Space-dependent friction in the theory of activated rate processes
R. Krishnan, Surjit Singh, and G. W. Robinson
pp. 5408-5414 [View Page Images or PDF (876 kB)]
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Effect of a site-dependent nonlinear electron-phonon coupling on the character of coherent and dissipative dynamics of a molecular dimer
V. Szöcs and P. Baňacký
pp. 5415-5421 [View Page Images or PDF (1,083 kB)]
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Removal of singularities from collective-variable theory by incorporating relativistic invariance
R. Boesch and C. R. Willis
pp. 5422-5425 [View Page Images or PDF (704 kB)]
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One-dimensional diffusion with stochastic random barriers
Iwao Teraoka and Frank E. Karasz
pp. 5426-5446 [View Page Images or PDF (2,509 kB)]
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Bistable systems subject to a singular stochastic force
Hu Gang and He Kai-fen
pp. 5447-5454 [View Page Images or PDF (915 kB)]
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Nonanalytic Frenkel-Kontorova model
Jicong Shi and Bambi Hu
pp. 5455-5461 [View Page Images or PDF (895 kB)]
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Diffusion on the chaotic web of a Hamiltonian oscillator with incommensurate forcing
Gabor Schmera, Peter Jung, and Frank Moss
pp. 5462-5468 [View Page Images or PDF (1,020 kB)]
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Nonstatistical behavior of coupled optical systems
Gabriel Perez, Carlos Pando-Lambruschini, Sudeshna Sinha, and Hilda A. Cerdeira
pp. 5469-5473 [View Page Images or PDF (741 kB)]
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Enhancement of activated decay of metastable states by resonant pumping
V. I. Mel'nikov
pp. 5474-5479 [View Page Images or PDF (894 kB)]
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Transition to chaos in a dissipative standardlike map
Sang-Yoon Kim and Duck-Sung Lee
pp. 5480-5487 [View Page Images or PDF (1,110 kB)]
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Distribution of periodic-orbit lengths for a pseudointegrable system: Testing a conjecture
R. S. Modak, D. Biswas, M. Azam, and Q. V. Lawande
pp. 5488-5491 [View Page Images or PDF (582 kB)]
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Fluctuations and correlations in a diffusion-reaction system: Unified description of internal fluctuations and external noise
Werner Horsthemke, Charles R. Doering, Tane S. Ray, and Martin A. Burschka
pp. 5492-5503 [View Page Images or PDF (1,554 kB)]
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Self-organization in an excitable reaction-diffusion system. II. Reduction to a coupled oscillator
Takao Ohta and Hatsumi Nakazawa
pp. 5504-5511 [View Page Images or PDF (1,193 kB)]
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Controlling chaotic scattering: Impulsively driven Morse potential
Zi-Min Lu, Michel Vallières, Jian-Min Yuan, and James F. Heagy
pp. 5512-5523 [View Page Images or PDF (1,810 kB)]
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Fitting ordinary differential equations to chaotic data
E. Baake, M. Baake, H. G. Bock, and K. M. Briggs
pp. 5524-5529 [View Page Images or PDF (853 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Nearest-surface distribution functions for polydispersed particle systems
Binglin Lu and S. Torquato
pp. 5530-5544 [View Page Images or PDF (1,952 kB)]
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Angular-momentum budget of shallow waters on a rotating sphere
Detlev Müller
pp. 5545-5555 [View Page Images or PDF (1,626 kB)]
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Incoherent inelastic neutron scattering from liquid water: A theoretical investigation
S. Bratos, M. Diraison, G. Tarjus, and J-Cl. Leicknam
pp. 5556-5565 [View Page Images or PDF (1,329 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Three-mode truncation of a model equation for systems with a long-wavelength oscillatory instability
R. D. Benguria and M. C. Depassier
pp. 5566-5571 [View Page Images or PDF (769 kB)]
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Renormalization-group theory for the propagation of a turbulent burst
Lin-Yuan Chen and Nigel Goldenfeld
pp. 5572-5577 [View Page Images or PDF (835 kB)]
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Theory of fully developed hydrodynamic turbulent flow: Applications of renormalization-group methods
Jian-Yang Yuan and David Ronis
pp. 5578-5595 [View Page Images or PDF (2,426 kB)]
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Localized phase jumps in wave trains
J. Lega, B. Janiaud, S. Jucquois, and V. Croquette
pp. 5596-5604 [View Page Images or PDF (1,447 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Nematic to smectic-A transition in the asymptotic limit of very long hard spherocylinders
A. Poniewierski
pp. 5605-5613 [View Page Images or PDF (1,246 kB)]
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Scaling dynamics of aerosol coagulation
B. J. Olivier, C. M. Sorensen, and T. W. Taylor
pp. 5614-5623 [View Page Images or PDF (1,639 kB)]
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Theory of nonlinear transient patterns in the splay Fréedericksz transition
Agnes Buka and Lorenz Kramer
pp. 5624-5631 [View Page Images or PDF (1,024 kB)]
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Phase behavior of disklike hard-core mesogens
J. A. C. Veerman and D. Frenkel
pp. 5632-5648 [View Page Images or PDF (2,778 kB)]
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Simulation results for a fluid with the Axilrod-Teller triple dipole potential
Phil Attard
pp. 5649-5653 [View Page Images or PDF (735 kB)]
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Local thermodynamic mapping for effective liquid density-functional theory
Agathagelos Kyrlidis and Robert A. Brown
pp. 5654-5659 [View Page Images or PDF (783 kB)]
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Hydrodynamics of colloidal crystals
Jos Derksen and Willem van de Water
pp. 5660-5673 [View Page Images or PDF (2,273 kB)]
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Spontaneous transition from chevron to striped texture of a planar smectic-C* liquid crystal
A. Jákli and A. Saupe
pp. 5674-5679 [View Page Images or PDF (964 kB)]
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Calculation of the entropy from multiparticle correlation functions
Brian B. Laird and A. D. J. Haymet
pp. 5680-5689 [View Page Images or PDF (1,360 kB)]
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Correlation between random dense parking and random dense packing for determining particle coordination number in binary systems
D. Bouvard and F. F. Lange
pp. 5690-5693 [View Page Images or PDF (573 kB)]
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Immiscible-fluid displacement: Contact-line dynamics and the velocity-dependent capillary pressure
Ping Sheng and Minyao Zhou
pp. 5694-5708 [View Page Images or PDF (2,227 kB)]
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Collective dynamics in liquid cesium near the melting point
T. Bodensteiner, Chr. Morkel, W. Gläser, and B. Dorner
pp. 5709-5720 [View Page Images or PDF (1,385 kB)]
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Exactly solvable reptation model with large tube-length fluctuations
O. Lumpkin
pp. 5721-5730 [View Page Images or PDF (1,509 kB)]
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Equilibrium and nonequilibrium contributions to x-ray scattering from supercooled water
J. Dings, J. C. F. Michielsen, and J. van der Elsken
pp. 5731-5733 [View Page Images or PDF (473 kB)]
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X-ray-diffraction study of the superliquid region of the phase diagram of a Langmuir monolayer
M. C. Shih, T. M. Bohanon, J. M. Mikrut, P. Zschack, and P. Dutta
pp. 5734-5737 [View Page Images or PDF (715 kB)]
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Viscoelastic properties of a liquid-crystalline monomer and its dimer
Gregory A. DiLisi, Charles Rosenblatt, Anselm C. Griffin, and Uma Hari
pp. 5738-5745 [View Page Images or PDF (1,453 kB)]
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Wetting in nematic liquid crystals: Study of the unstable regime
B. Jérôme and M. Boix
pp. 5746-5759 [View Page Images or PDF (1,906 kB)]
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Wedge wetting by van der Waals fluids
M. Napiórkowski, W. Koch, and S. Dietrich
pp. 5760-5770 [View Page Images or PDF (1,690 kB)]
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Diffusion and hydrodynamic dispersion with the lattice Boltzmann method
A. Calì, S. Succi, A. Cancelliere, R. Benzi, and M. Gramignani
pp. 5771-5774 [View Page Images or PDF (533 kB)]
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Anomalous dipolar flexoelectric effect in a nematic main-chain polymer
Rolfe G. Petschek and Eugene M. Terentjev
pp. 5775-5782 [View Page Images or PDF (1,335 kB)]
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Modulated structures in tilted chiral smectic films
A. E. Jacobs, Galya Goldner, and David Mukamel
pp. 5783-5788 [View Page Images or PDF (899 kB)]
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Freezing transition of two-dimensional Lennard-Jones fluids
S. Ranganathan and K. N. Pathak
pp. 5789-5792 [View Page Images or PDF (466 kB)]
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Molecular-dynamics study of two-dimensional Lennard-Jones fluids
S. Ranganathan, G. S. Dubey, and K. N. Pathak
pp. 5793-5797 [View Page Images or PDF (595 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Variability of the form and of the harmonic measure for small off-off-lattice diffusion-limited aggregates
Carl J. G. Evertsz, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and Lionel Woog
pp. 5798-5804 [View Page Images or PDF (1,126 kB)]
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Aggregates with biased random walks on a square lattice
Yup Kim, K. R. Choi, and Haeyong Pak
pp. 5805-5813 [View Page Images or PDF (1,366 kB)]
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Diffusion-controlled binary reactions in low dimensions: Refined simulations
Panos Argyrakis and Raoul Kopelman
pp. 5814-5819 [View Page Images or PDF (876 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Pair-creation collective modes in an electron gas
P. Pulsifer and G. Kalman
pp. 5820-5829 [View Page Images or PDF (1,693 kB)]
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Relativistic and charge-displacement self-channeling of intense ultrashort laser pulses in plasmas
A. B. Borisov, A. V. Borovskiy, O. B. Shiryaev, V. V. Korobkin, A. M. Prokhorov, J. C. Solem, T. S. Luk, K. Boyer, and C. K. Rhodes
pp. 5830-5845 [View Page Images or PDF (2,832 kB)]
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O-shell emission of heavy atoms in an optically thin tokamak plasma
M. Finkenthal, S. Lippmann, L. K. Huang, A. Zwicker, H. W. Moos, W. H. Goldstein, and A. L. Osterheld
pp. 5846-5853 [View Page Images or PDF (959 kB)]
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Low-pressure relativistic electron flow
C. W. Mendel, Jr., S. E. Rosenthal, and D. B. Seidel
pp. 5854-5865 [View Page Images or PDF (1,692 kB)]
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Cherenkov-cyclotron resonance interaction in a high-power plasma-filled backward-wave oscillator
K. P. Maheshwari, R. Sawhney, and G. Mishra
pp. 5866-5871 [View Page Images or PDF (584 kB)]
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Generation of stimulated backscattered harmonic radiation from intense-laser interactions with beams and plasmas
Eric Esarey and Phillip Sprangle
pp. 5872-5882 [View Page Images or PDF (1,612 kB)]
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Level shifts, continuum lowering, and the mobility edge in dense plasmas
M. W. C. Dharma-wardana and François Perrot
pp. 5883-5896 [View Page Images or PDF (2,527 kB)]
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Cylindrical and spherical solitons in a positive-ion–negative-ion plasma
James E. Williams, Jamie L. Cooney, David W. Aossey, and Karl E. Lonngren
pp. 5897-5900 [View Page Images or PDF (593 kB)]
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Theory of structures in near-electrode plasma regions
M. S. Benilov
pp. 5901-5912 [View Page Images or PDF (1,956 kB)]
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Analysis of a kinematic model for ion transport in rf plasma sheaths
Rida T. Farouki, Satoshi Hamaguchi, and Manoj Dalvie
pp. 5913-5928 [View Page Images or PDF (2,701 kB)]
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Low-frequency electrostatic modes in a magnetized dusty plasma
M. Salimullah, M. H. A. Hassan, and A. Sen
pp. 5929-5934 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]
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Response functions for multicomponent plasmas. I. Perturbation calculation for weak coupling
Hong Zhang and G. Kalman
pp. 5935-5945 [View Page Images or PDF (1,355 kB)]
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Response functions for multicomponent plasmas. II. Velocity-average approximation and dynamical mean-field theory for strong coupling
Hong Zhang and G. Kalman
pp. 5946-5956 [View Page Images or PDF (1,571 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Plasma as a high-charge-state projectile stripping medium
G. D. Alton, R. A. Sparrow, and R. E. Olson
pp. 5957-5963 [View Page Images or PDF (1,109 kB)]
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Cumulative beam breakup in linear accelerators with periodic beam current
C. L. Bohn and J. R. Delayen
pp. 5964-5993 [View Page Images or PDF (3,990 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Two-scale method in the theory of scattering by fractal structures: One-dimensional regular problems
V. V. Konotop and S. A. Bulgakov
pp. 5994-6007 [View Page Images or PDF (1,929 kB)]
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Light-scattering resonances in small spheres
Gorden Videen and William S. Bickel
pp. 6008-6012 [View Page Images or PDF (630 kB)]
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Polarization microstatistics of laser speckle
İ. İnanç Tarhan and George H. Watson
pp. 6013-6018 [View Page Images or PDF (780 kB)]
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Resonant kink-impurity interactions in the sine-Gordon model
Zhang Fei, Yuri S. Kivshar, and Luis Vázquez
pp. 6019-6030 [View Page Images or PDF (1,938 kB)]
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Sine-Gordon breathers on spatially periodic potentials
Angel Sánchez, Rainer Scharf, Alan R. Bishop, and Luis Vázquez
pp. 6031-6037 [View Page Images or PDF (1,216 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Error thresholds for molecular quasispecies as phase transitions: From simple landscapes to spin-glass models
P. Tarazona
pp. 6038-6050 [View Page Images or PDF (2,183 kB)]
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Hidden information in Hamiltonian systems with discrete weights
Ido Kanter
pp. 6051-6055 [View Page Images or PDF (667 kB)]
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Statistical mechanics of learning from examples
H. S. Seung, H. Sompolinsky, and N. Tishby
pp. 6056-6091 [View Page Images or PDF (5,371 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Bistability driven by dichotomous noise: A comment
Josep M. Porrà, Jaume Masoliver, Katja Lindenberg, Ivan L’Heureux, and Raymond Kapral
pp. 6092-6094 [View Page Images or PDF (314 kB)]
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Critical indices for singular diffusion
Leo P. Kadanoff, Ashvin B. Chhabra, Amy J. Kolan, Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 6095-6098 [View Page Images or PDF (565 kB)]
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Multilayer adsorption with increasing layer coverage
Peter Nielaba and Vladimir Privman
pp. 6099-6102 [View Page Images or PDF (484 kB)]
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Flory approximants and self-avoiding walks on critical percolation clusters
Yup Kim
pp. 6103-6106 [View Page Images or PDF (616 kB)]
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Bond covering in the lattice-covering problem
Davide Cassi and Licia Soncini
pp. 6107-6108 [View Page Images or PDF (238 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Pattern form and homoclinic structure in Zakharov equations
Y. Tan, X. T. He, S. G. Chen, and Y. Yang
pp. 6109-6112 [View Page Images or PDF (432 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Free surface of the Bose Lennard-Jones fluid at 0 K: A density-functional perturbation approach
X. C. Zeng and David W. Oxtoby
pp. 6113-6115 [View Page Images or PDF (476 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Causality bound and growth of size fluctuations in cluster-particle aggregates
Y. S. Mayya
pp. 6116-6118 [View Page Images or PDF (494 kB)]
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Trap correlation influence on diffusion-limited process rate
A. M. Berezhkovskii, Yu. A. Makhnovskii, R. A. Suris, L. V. Bogachev, and S. A. Molchanov
pp. 6119-6122 [View Page Images or PDF (459 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Suppression of stochastic pulsation in laser-plasma interaction by smoothing methods
Heinrich Hora and Meral Aydin
pp. 6123-6125 [View Page Images or PDF (528 kB)]
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Fast-ion energy deposition in dense plasmas with two-ion correlation effects
J. D’Avanzo, M. Lontano, and P. F. Bortignon
pp. 6126-6129 [View Page Images or PDF (560 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Derivation of the critical angle for Mach reflection for strong shock waves
M. De Rosa, F. Famà, V. Palleschi, D. P. Singh, and M. Vaselli
pp. 6130-6132 [View Page Images or PDF (411 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Surface correlations in multiple-scattering media
Isaac Freund and Danny Eliyahu
pp. 6133-6134 [View Page Images or PDF (275 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Phase transitions in dilute, locally connected neural networks
Katherine J. Strandburg, Michael A. Peshkin, Daniel F. Boyd, Christopher Chambers, and Brennan O’Keefe
pp. 6135-6138 [View Page Images or PDF (617 kB)]
 
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