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Physical Review E – July 1993
Volume 48, Issue 1

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Nearly-second-order nematic-isotropic phase transition in a cyclic thermotropic liquid crystal
Jian-Feng Li, Virgil Percec, and Charles Rosenblatt
pp. R1-R4 [View Page Images or PDF (632 kB)]
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Fluctuational distribution function of solitons in the nonlinear Schrödinger system
Boris A. Malomed and Nikos Flytzanis
pp. R5-R8 [View Page Images or PDF (725 kB)]
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Formation of asymmetric states of spiral waves in oscillatory media
Igor S. Aranson, Lorenz Kramer, and Andreas Weber
pp. R9-R12 [View Page Images or PDF (1,448 kB)]
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Determination of the noise level of chaotic time series
Thomas Schreiber
pp. R13-R16 [View Page Images or PDF (634 kB)]
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Interaction of a relaxing system with a dynamical environment
R. W. Rendell
pp. R17-R20 [View Page Images or PDF (814 kB)]
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Self-organized criticality in a stochastic spring-block model
Y. N. Lu and E. J. Ding
pp. R21-R24 [View Page Images or PDF (585 kB)]
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Conserved dynamics of a two-dimensional random-field model
Madan Rao and Amitabha Chakrabarti
pp. R25-R28 [View Page Images or PDF (700 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Extended self-similarity in turbulent flows
R. Benzi, S. Ciliberto, R. Tripiccione, C. Baudet, F. Massaioli, and S. Succi
pp. R29-R32 [View Page Images or PDF (520 kB)]
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Scaling of structure functions
G. Stolovitzky and K. R. Sreenivasan
pp. R33-R36 [View Page Images or PDF (668 kB)]
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One modification to the Yakhot-Orszag calculation in the renormalization-group theory of turbulence
Xiao-Hong Wang and Feng Wu
pp. R37-R38 [View Page Images or PDF (215 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Field-driven first-order structural transition in the restricted geometry of a smectic-A cell
O. D. Lavrentovich and M. Kléman
pp. R39-R42 [View Page Images or PDF (808 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Intrinsic localized modes as solitons with a compact support
Yuri S. Kivshar
pp. R43-R45 [View Page Images or PDF (516 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Application of the non-Markovian Fokker-Planck equation to the resonant activation of a Josephson junction
Ted Hesselroth
pp. 46-49 [View Page Images or PDF (509 kB)]
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Catalysis at single-crystal Pt(110) surfaces: Global coupling and standing waves
Herbert Levine and Xiaoqin Zou
pp. 50-64 [View Page Images or PDF (2,140 kB)]
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Equivalence of thermostatted nonlinear responses
Denis J. Evans and Sten Sarman
pp. 65-70 [View Page Images or PDF (877 kB)]
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Annihilation reactions in two-dimensional percolation clusters: Effects of short-range interactions
M. Hoyuelos and H. O. Mártin
pp. 71-76 [View Page Images or PDF (923 kB)]
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Effective-eigenvalue approach to the nonlinear Langevin equation for the Brownian motion in a tilted periodic potential: Application to the Josephson tunneling junction
W. T. Coffey, Yu. P. Kalmykov, and E. S. Massawe
pp. 77-87 [View Page Images or PDF (1,245 kB)]
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Multifunctional variational method for description of evolution and dynamics of dissipative structures in nonequilibrium systems
V. V. Osipov
pp. 88-100 [View Page Images or PDF (2,075 kB)]
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Chaos and order in a kicked anharmonic oscillator: Classical and quantum analysis
P. Szlachetka, K. Grygiel, and J. Bajer
pp. 101-108 [View Page Images or PDF (1,126 kB)]
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Systems near a critical point under multiplicative noise and the concept of effective potential
V. E. Shapiro
pp. 109-120 [View Page Images or PDF (2,036 kB)]
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Second-order dichotomous processes: Damped free motion, critical behavior, and anomalous superdiffusion
Jaume Masoliver
pp. 121-135 [View Page Images or PDF (1,872 kB)]
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Classification criterion for dynamical systems in intermittent chaos
Zoltán Toroczkai and Áron Péntek
pp. 136-146 [View Page Images or PDF (1,767 kB)]

General methods of statistical physics

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Universality of zero-dispersion peaks in the fluctuation spectra of underdamped nonlinear oscillators
P. V. E. McClintock, S. M. Soskin, N. D. Stein, and N. G. Stocks
pp. 147-156 [View Page Images or PDF (1,567 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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From self-organized criticality to first-order-like behavior: A new type of percolative transition
Horacio Ceva and Roberto P. J. Perazzo
pp. 157-160 [View Page Images or PDF (703 kB)]
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Manifolds in random media: Multifractal behavior
Yadin Y. Goldschmidt and Thomas Blum
pp. 161-170 [View Page Images or PDF (1,357 kB)]
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Ordered and chaotic behavior of two coupled van der Pol oscillators
I. Pastor, Víctor M. Pérez-García, F. Encinas, and J. M. Guerra
pp. 171-182 [View Page Images or PDF (1,816 kB)]
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Necessary condition of the Turing instability
L. Szili and J. Tóth
pp. 183-186 [View Page Images or PDF (685 kB)]
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Motions of spiral waves in oscillatory media and in the presence of obstacles
J. A. Sepulchre and A. Babloyantz
pp. 187-195 [View Page Images or PDF (1,674 kB)]
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Crises-induced intermittencies in a coherently driven system of two-level atoms
Carlos L. Pando L., Gabriel Perez, and Hilda A. Cerdeira
pp. 196-206 [View Page Images or PDF (1,906 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Stokes-Einstein violation in glass-forming liquids
Jennifer A. Hodgdon and Frank H. Stillinger
pp. 207-213 [View Page Images or PDF (1,008 kB)]
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Evidence of kinetic effects in liquid⇄glass transitions
S. K. Lai, M. H. Chou, and H. C. Chen
pp. 214-222 [View Page Images or PDF (1,130 kB)]
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Transport coefficients of hard-sphere mixtures. III. Diameter ratio 0.4 and mass ratio 0.03 at high fluid density
Jerome J. Erpenbeck
pp. 223-232 [View Page Images or PDF (1,732 kB)]
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Ornstein-Zernike equations and simulation results for hard-sphere fluids adsorbed in porous media
Enrique Lomba, James A. Given, George Stell, Jean Jacques Weis, and Dominique Levesque
pp. 233-244 [View Page Images or PDF (1,835 kB)]
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Generalized hydrodynamics and dispersion relations in lattice gases
S. P. Das, H. J. Bussemaker, and M. H. Ernst
pp. 245-255 [View Page Images or PDF (2,067 kB)]
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Heat and momentum transport in a gaseous dilute solution
V. Garzó and A. Santos
pp. 256-262 [View Page Images or PDF (1,047 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Rayleigh-Bénard problem with imposed weak through-flow: Two coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations
H. W. Müller, M. Tveitereid, and S. Trainoff
pp. 263-272 [View Page Images or PDF (1,698 kB)]
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Bridging between eddy-viscosity-type and second-order turbulence models through a two-scale turbulence theory
Akira Yoshizawa
pp. 273-281 [View Page Images or PDF (1,459 kB)]
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Local anisotropic effects on multifractality of turbulence
A. Bershadskii and A. Tsinober
pp. 282-287 [View Page Images or PDF (797 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal intermittency in lines of vortices
H. Willaime, O. Cardoso, and P. Tabeling
pp. 288-295 [View Page Images or PDF (1,353 kB)]
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Numerical construction of nonlinear wave-train solutions of the periodic Korteweg–de Vries equation
A. R. Osborne
pp. 296-309 [View Page Images or PDF (2,513 kB)]
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Purely global model for Taylor dispersion
J. Camacho
pp. 310-321 [View Page Images or PDF (2,088 kB)]
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Spatial anisotropy of velocity fluctuations on small length scales in a Taylor-Couette cell
Knut Jørgen Måløy and Walter Goldburg
pp. 322-327 [View Page Images or PDF (1,661 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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High-field magnetic birefringence study of the phase behavior of concentrated solutions of phospholipid tubules
S. Sprunt, G. Nounesis, J. D. Litster, B. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar
pp. 328-339 [View Page Images or PDF (2,173 kB)]
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Deuterium NMR of a pentylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystal confined in a silica aerogel matrix
S. Kralj, G. Lahajnar, A. Zidanšek, N. Vrbančič-Kopač, M. Vilfan, R. Blinc, and M. Kosec
pp. 340-349 [View Page Images or PDF (1,762 kB)]
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Viscoelastic interfacial modes in a wetting layer
D. Bonn and G. H. Wegdam
pp. 350-356 [View Page Images or PDF (1,246 kB)]
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Experimental studies of the rheology of a simple liquid mixture during phase separation
A. H. Krall, J. V. Sengers, and K. Hamano
pp. 357-376 [View Page Images or PDF (4,098 kB)]
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Phase transitions in diblock copolymers: Theory and Monte Carlo simulations
Andrea Weyersberg and Thomas A. Vilgis
pp. 377-390 [View Page Images or PDF (2,163 kB)]
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Ultrasonic measurements of an epoxy resin near its sol-gel transition
D. L. Sidebottom
pp. 391-399 [View Page Images or PDF (1,435 kB)]
Langevin models for shear-stress fluctuations in flows of viscoelastic liquids
Jeppe C. Dyre
pp. 400-407 [View Page Images or PDF (1,195 kB)]
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Effect of free surfaces on the smectic-A–hexatic-B–crystal-E transitions in thin free-standing films of the liquid-crystal compound n-heptyl-4’-n-pentyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate (75OBC)
R. Geer, T. Stoebe, and C. C. Huang
pp. 408-427 [View Page Images or PDF (3,732 kB)]
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Hexatic and fat-fractal structures for water droplets condensing on oil
A. Steyer, P. Guenoun, and D. Beysens
pp. 428-431 [View Page Images or PDF (1,051 kB)]
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Optical phase shift of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals
F. Basile, F. Bloisi, L. Vicari, and F. Simoni
pp. 432-438 [View Page Images or PDF (1,080 kB)]
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Models of crack propagation. II. Two-dimensional model with dissipation on the fracture surface
J. S. Langer and Hiizu Nakanishi
pp. 439-448 [View Page Images or PDF (1,506 kB)]
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Concentration dependence of long-time tails in colloidal suspensions
Scott T. Milner and Andrea J. Liu
pp. 449-454 [View Page Images or PDF (1,028 kB)]
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Theoretical investigation of the behavior of ferroelectric liquid crystals in a magnetic or in a high-frequency electric field
B. Kutnjak-Urbanc and B. Žekš
pp. 455-464 [View Page Images or PDF (1,890 kB)]
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Phase diagram of random copolymers
C. D. Sfatos, A. M. Gutin, and E. I. Shakhnovich
pp. 465-475 [View Page Images or PDF (1,774 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Effect of a critical field on screened dielectric-breakdown growth
Wei Wang
pp. 476-479 [View Page Images or PDF (541 kB)]
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Exact solution of a generalized ballistic-deposition model
P. Viot, G. Tarjus, and J. Talbot
pp. 480-488 [View Page Images or PDF (1,009 kB)]
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Dendritic sidebranching with periodic localized perturbations: Directional solidification of pivalic acid–coumarin 152 mixtures
L. M. Williams, M. Muschol, X. Qian, W. Losert, and H. Z. Cummins
pp. 489-499 [View Page Images or PDF (2,023 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Contributions of strong collisions in the theory of spectral lines
Sibylle Günter
pp. 500-505 [View Page Images or PDF (781 kB)]
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Nonlinear heat structures and arc-discharge electrode spots
M. S. Benilov
pp. 506-515 [View Page Images or PDF (1,567 kB)]
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Surface-wave propagation along the boundary of a plasma with nonlocal anisotropic electric properties
E. G. Gamaly
pp. 516-522 [View Page Images or PDF (1,173 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Space-charge divergence of an intense, unneutralized rectangular ion beam
Douglas A. Brown and John F. O’Hanlon
pp. 523-531 [View Page Images or PDF (1,500 kB)]
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Minimal normal-form method for discrete maps
S. R. Mane and W. T. Weng
pp. 532-542 [View Page Images or PDF (1,650 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Discrete Čerenkov power spectrum
E. B. Manoukian
pp. 543-547 [View Page Images or PDF (548 kB)]
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Kink dynamics in the periodically modulated φ4 model
Zhang Fei, Vladimir V. Konotop, Michel Peyrard, and Luis Vázquez
pp. 548-554 [View Page Images or PDF (1,221 kB)]
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Elastic scattering and energy theorems for a doubly periodic planar array of elastic obstacles
Dieudonné D. Phanord
pp. 555-562 [View Page Images or PDF (1,051 kB)]
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Dynamics and interaction of solitons on an integrable inhomogeneous lattice
V. V. Konotop, O. A. Chubykalo, and L. Vázquez
pp. 563-568 [View Page Images or PDF (854 kB)]
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Skin layer of diffusive media
Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen and J. M. Luck
pp. 569-588 [View Page Images or PDF (3,449 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Kinklike excitations as an energy-transfer mechanism in microtubules
M. V. Satarić, J. A. Tuszyński, and R. B. Žakula
pp. 589-597 [View Page Images or PDF (1,471 kB)]
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Mitosis and growth in biological tissues
J. C. M. Mombach, Rita M. C. de Almeida, and J. R. Iglesias
pp. 598-602 [View Page Images or PDF (750 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Complex Fluids

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Poisson’s ratio in polymer gels near the phase-transition point
Chunfang Li, Zhibing Hu, and Yong Li
pp. 603-606 [View Page Images or PDF (537 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Stochastic fields on a lattice
Ivo Klik and Ching-Ray Chang
pp. 607-610 [View Page Images or PDF (706 kB)]
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Breaking of forward-backward symmetry in driven systems
Attila Szolnoki and György Szabó
pp. 611-613 [View Page Images or PDF (565 kB)]
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Dependence of percolation thresholds on lattice connectivity
Christian Kurrer and Klaus Schulten
pp. 614-617 [View Page Images or PDF (666 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Equivalence of two free-energy models for the inhomogeneous hard-sphere fluid
S. Phan, E. Kierlik, M. L. Rosinberg, B. Bildstein, and G. Kahl
pp. 618-620 [View Page Images or PDF (454 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Nucleation-limited aggregation in fractal growth
Nai-ben Ming, Mu Wang, and Ru-Wen Peng
pp. 621-624 [View Page Images or PDF (1,154 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of XY-like order parameters in thin free-standing smectic liquid-crystal films
S. T. Bramwell, M. J. P. Gingras, and P. C. W. Holdsworth
pp. 625-627 [View Page Images or PDF (565 kB)]
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Electric-field-dependent thermal fluctuations of giant vesicles
M. D. Mitov, P. Méléard, M. Winterhalter, M. I. Angelova, and P. Bothorel
pp. 628-631 [View Page Images or PDF (1,059 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Evanescent-mode propagation and quantum tunneling
A. Enders and G. Nimtz
pp. 632-634 [View Page Images or PDF (422 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Nonmonotonic behavior of a contact angle on approaching critical end points
J. Putz, Robert Hołyst, and M. Schick
pp. 635 [View Page Images or PDF (76 kB)]
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Erratum: Self-consistent approach to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
J. P. Bouchaud and M. E. Cates
pp. 635-636 [View Page Images or PDF (99 kB)]
 
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