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General Methods of Statistical Physics

Dynamics of rough surfaces with an arbitrary topology Pawel Keblinski, Amos Maritan, Flavio Toigo, Joel Koplik, and Jayanth R. Banavar pp. R937-R940 [View Page Images , PDF (548 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Suppression of chaos, quantum resonance, and statistics of a nonintegrable system E. Eisenberg and N. Shnerb pp. R941-R944 [View Page Images , PDF (608 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Enhancing synchronism of chaotic systems Mingzhou Ding and Edward Ott pp. R945-R948 [View Page Images , PDF (506 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Random-adding determination of percolation thresholds in interacting systems A. Drory, I. Balberg, and B. Berkowitz pp. R949-R952 [View Page Images , PDF (746 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Products of random matrices for disordered systems A. Crisanti, G. Paladin, M. Serva, and A. Vulpiani pp. R953-R955 [View Page Images , PDF (445 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fractal random walks from a variational formalism for Tsallis entropies P. A. Alemany and D. H. Zanette pp. R956-R958 [View Page Images , PDF (441 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Hidden symmetry, exact relations, and a small parameter in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang problem with strong coupling Vladimir V. Lebedev and Victor S. L’vov pp. R959-R962 [View Page Images , PDF (684 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Long-time behavior of the semiclassical baker’s map F.-M. Dittes, E. Doron, and U. Smilansky pp. R963-R966 [View Page Images , PDF (754 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

First-passage time and the fluctuation of the quenched disorder in biased media Pedro A. Pury, Manuel O. Cáceres, and Emilio Hernández-García pp. R967-R970 [View Page Images , PDF (569 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Controlling unstable periodic orbits by a delayed continuous feedback Serge Bielawski, Dominique Derozier, and Pierre Glorieux pp. R971-R974 [View Page Images , PDF (635 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Vortical scales for two- and three-dimensional turbulence E. A. Novikov pp. R975-R977 [View Page Images , PDF (318 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Complex Fluids

Optical determination of the saddle-splay elastic constant K24 in nematic liquid crystals R. D. Polak, G. P. Crawford, B. C. Kostival, J. W. Doane, and S. Žumer pp. R978-R981 [View Page Images , PDF (774 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Application of the modified hypernetted-chain integral equation to supercooled and expanded liquid structures H. C. Chen and S. K. Lai pp. R982-R985 [View Page Images , PDF (585 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Doubly anchored nematic polymer brushes: Shear, field effects, and quasipiezoelectricity A. Halperin and D. R. Williams pp. R986-R989 [View Page Images , PDF (797 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Anchoring transition in a nematic liquid crystal composed of centrosymmetric molecules V. G. Nazarenko and O. D. Lavrentovich pp. R990-R993 [View Page Images , PDF (757 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Growth instabilities in mechanical breakdown E. Louis and F. Guinea pp. R994-R996 [View Page Images , PDF (475 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma Physics

Amplification of electromagnetic waves in dusty nonstationary plasmas Sergey V. Vladimirov pp. R997-R999 [View Page Images , PDF (433 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

Stabilizing a breather in the damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation driven by two frequencies David Cai, A. R. Bishop, Niels Grønbech-Jensen, and Boris A. Malomed pp. R1000-R1002 [View Page Images , PDF (393 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Feynman path-integral representation for scalar-wave propagation Luiz C. Botelho and Ricardo Vilhena pp. R1003-R1004 [View Page Images , PDF (188 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Computational Physics

Analyzing long-range correlations in finite sequences N. Shnerb and E. Eisenberg pp. R1005-R1008 [View Page Images , PDF (425 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

•	Fractal-to-Euclidean crossover of the thermodynamic properties of the Ising model Tatijana Stošić, Borko Stošić, Sava Milošević, and H. Eugene Stanley pp. 1009-1018 [View Page Images , PDF (1621 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Safe, explosive, and dangerous bifurcations in dissipative dynamical systems J. M. Thompson, H. B. Stewart, and Y. Ueda pp. 1019-1027 [View Page Images , PDF (1623 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Percolation of a simulated metallic film on a porous substrate: The copper-polyimide interface B. D. Silverman and D. E. Platt pp. 1028-1039 [View Page Images , PDF (1938 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonequilibrium temperature versus local-equilibrium temperature J. Casas-Vázquez and D. Jou pp. 1040-1048 [View Page Images , PDF (1726 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reaction efficiency of diffusion-controlled processes on finite, planar arrays Roberto A. Garza-López and John J. Kozak pp. 1049-1060 [View Page Images , PDF (1480 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetics of restricted solid-on-solid models of film growth J. W. Evans and M. C. Bartelt pp. 1061-1069 [View Page Images , PDF (1041 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universality class for extinction-survival phase transition in one dimension H. Takayasu, N. Inui, and A. Yu. Tretyakov pp. 1070-1072 [View Page Images , PDF (454 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Border-collision bifurcations: An explanation for observed bifurcation phenomena Helena E. Nusse, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke pp. 1073-1076 [View Page Images , PDF (743 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Virial expansions for quantum plasmas: Diagrammatic resummations Angel Alastuey, Francoise Cornu, and Asher Perez pp. 1077-1093 [View Page Images , PDF (2839 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Converting transient chaos into sustained chaos by feedback control Ying-Cheng Lai and Celso Grebogi pp. 1094-1098 [View Page Images , PDF (931 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spatiotemporally periodic states, periodic windows, and intermittency in coupled-map lattices Qu zhilin and Hu Gang pp. 1099-1108 [View Page Images , PDF (1310 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scale invariance in turbulent front propagation A. Pocheau pp. 1109-1122 [View Page Images , PDF (2389 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Helimagnetism in XY models: Domain walls, frustrations, fractional vortices, and phase transitions Gennadi Uimin and Alberto Pimpinelli pp. 1123-1135 [View Page Images , PDF (2137 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Distribution of escape times in a driven stochastic model J. M. Casado and M. Morillo pp. 1136-1139 [View Page Images , PDF (616 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Characterization of on-off intermittency J. F. Heagy, N. Platt, and S. M. Hammel pp. 1140-1150 [View Page Images , PDF (1657 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Seismicity and self-organized criticality B. Barriere and D. L. Turcotte pp. 1151-1160 [View Page Images , PDF (1618 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sandpiles and river networks: Extended systems with nonlocal interactions L. Prigozhin pp. 1161-1167 [View Page Images , PDF (1112 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orbits in one-dimensional finite linear cellular automata Shin-ichi Tadaki pp. 1168-1173 [View Page Images , PDF (703 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling of fluctuations in one-dimensional interface and hopping models P.-M. Binder, M. Paczuski, and Mustansir Barma pp. 1174-1181 [View Page Images , PDF (1434 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scaling properties of diffusion-limited aggregation, the percolation hull, and invasion percolation Stefan Schwarzer, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley pp. 1182-1197 [View Page Images , PDF (2730 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Supernarrow spectral peaks and high-frequency stochastic resonance in systems with coexisting periodic attractors M. I. Dykman, D. G. Luchinsky, R. Mannella, P. V. McClintock, N. D. Stein, and N. G. Stocks pp. 1198-1215 [View Page Images , PDF (3093 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optimized planar dividing surfaces for asymmetric activated-rate processes Anatoli M. Frishman, Alexander M. Berezhkovskii, and Eli Pollak pp. 1216-1224 [View Page Images , PDF (1373 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Using neural networks for controlling chaos P. M. Alsing, A. Gavrielides, and V. Kovanis pp. 1225-1231 [View Page Images , PDF (1337 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of self-organized interface depinning Zeev Olami, Itamar Procaccia, and Reuven Zeitak pp. 1232-1237 [View Page Images , PDF (964 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Avalanches and correlations in driven interface depinning Heiko Leschhorn and Lei-Han Tang pp. 1238-1245 [View Page Images , PDF (1350 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

•	Dynamics of the condensation of a saturated vapor into droplets V. A. Kuz pp. 1246-1250 [View Page Images , PDF (694 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular-dynamics study of dynamical properties of dense soft-sphere fluids: The role of short-range repulsion of the intermolecular potential Shaw Kambayashi and Yasuaki Hiwatari pp. 1251-1259 [View Page Images , PDF (1497 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

•	Difference-quotient turbulence model: A generalization of Prandtl’s mixing-length theory Peter W. Egolf pp. 1260-1268 [View Page Images , PDF (1310 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Constructing the Lagrangian in the Eulerian coordinate for relativistic hydrodynamics Tzihong Chiueh pp. 1269-1272 [View Page Images , PDF (668 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model equations for two-dimensional quasipatterns Hanns Walter Müller pp. 1273-1277 [View Page Images , PDF (739 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Passive scalar fluctuations with and without a mean gradient: A numerical study Emily S. Ching and Yuhai Tu pp. 1278-1282 [View Page Images , PDF (740 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formation of singularities on the free surface of an ideal fluid E. A. Kuznetsov, M. D. Spector, and V. E. Zakharov pp. 1283-1290 [View Page Images , PDF (1202 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute and convective instabilities and noise-sustained structures in the Couette-Taylor system with an axial flow Avraham Tsameret and Victor Steinberg pp. 1291-1308 [View Page Images , PDF (3377 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental evaluation of the intrinsic noise in the Couette-Taylor system with an axial flow Avraham Tsameret, Galia Goldner, and Victor Steinberg pp. 1309-1319 [View Page Images , PDF (1948 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Complex Fluids

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Chaos in the model of repetitive phase transitions with hysteresis: Application to the self-sustained potential oscillations of lipid-bilayer membranes induced by gel–liquid-crystal phase transitions Kouichi Yagisawa, Takeshi Kambara, and Masayoshi Naito pp. 1320-1335 [View Page Images , PDF (2967 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polymer model with annealed dilution on the square lattice: A transfer-matrix study Pablo Serra and Jürgen F. Stilck pp. 1336-1343 [View Page Images , PDF (1158 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Periodic stripe domains and hybrid-alignment regime in nematic liquid crystals: Threshold analysis A. Sparavigna, O. D. Lavrentovich, and A. Strigazzi pp. 1344-1352 [View Page Images , PDF (1468 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Path-integral variational methods for flow through porous media Michael A. Tanksley and Joel Koplik pp. 1353-1366 [View Page Images , PDF (1460 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of reorientational transitions in ferrielectric liquid crystals V. L. Lorman, A. A. Bulbitch, and P. Toledano pp. 1367-1374 [View Page Images , PDF (1310 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuations of a defect line of molecular orientation in a monolayer S. Rivière, S. Hénon, and J. Meunier pp. 1375-1382 [View Page Images , PDF (1749 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical mechanics of polyampholytes Yacov Kantor, Mehran Kardar, and Hao Li pp. 1383-1392 [View Page Images , PDF (1833 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anisotropic renormalization of thermodynamic quantities above the nematic–smectic-A phase transition Barbara S. Andereck and Bruce R. Patton pp. 1393-1403 [View Page Images , PDF (1605 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Experimental study of the approach to a double critical point in the poly(styrene) plus acetone system: Test of fluctuation-isomorphism theory Arturo G. Casielles, Ramón G. Rubio, Francisco Monroy, and Francisco Ortega pp. 1404-1410 [View Page Images , PDF (971 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrodynamic modes of viscoelastic polymer films J. L. Harden and H. Pleiner pp. 1411-1423 [View Page Images , PDF (2195 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Roughness effect on the frictional force in boundary lubrication Leonid Daikhin and Michael Urbakh pp. 1424-1429 [View Page Images , PDF (781 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic critical phenomena in water-butoxyethanol mixtures studied by viscosity and light-scattering measurements D. Lombardo, F. Mallamace, N. Micali, and G. D’Arrigo pp. 1430-1438 [View Page Images , PDF (1663 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculating the surface potential of unionized monolayers D. M. Taylor and G. F. Bayes pp. 1439-1449 [View Page Images , PDF (1718 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo simulation of the unwinding of cholesteric twist Arunava Chatterjee and David H. Van Winkle pp. 1450-1457 [View Page Images , PDF (1653 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermal-fluctuation approach to Fréedericksz transitions in nematic liquid crystals P. Galatola, C. Oldano, and M. Rajteri pp. 1458-1467 [View Page Images , PDF (1539 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase diagram of a model anticlustering binary mixture in two dimensions: A semi-grand-canonical Monte Carlo study S. Sengupta, D. Marx, P. Nielaba, and K. Binder pp. 1468-1477 [View Page Images , PDF (1648 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering from internal interfaces in microemulsion and sponge phases G. Gompper and M. Schick pp. 1478-1482 [View Page Images , PDF (672 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of orientational elasticity S. Stallinga and G. Vertogen pp. 1483-1494 [View Page Images , PDF (1405 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crossover exponent for polymer adsorption in two dimensions Ihnsouk Guim and Theodore W. Burkhardt pp. 1495-1499 [View Page Images , PDF (578 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

•	Growth shape of 3He needle crystals Etienne Rolley, Sébastien Balibar, and François Graner pp. 1500-1506 [View Page Images , PDF (1469 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-affine fractal electrodeposited gold surfaces: Characterization by scanning tunneling microscopy L. Vázquez, R. C. Salvarezza, P. Ocón, P. Herrasti, J. M. Vara, and A. J. Arvia pp. 1507-1511 [View Page Images , PDF (1104 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma Physics

•	Spectroscopic diagnostics in a colliding-blast-wave experiment R. C. Elton, D.-M. Billings, C. K. Manka, H. R. Griem, J. Grun, B. H. Ripin, and J. Resnick pp. 1512-1519 [View Page Images , PDF (1331 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Implosion of D2 temperature-controlled cryogenic foam targets with plastic ablators A. Richard, K. A. Tanaka, K. Nishihara, M. Nakai, M. Katayama, Y. O. Fukuda, T. Kanabe, Y. Kitagawa, T. Norimatsu, M. Nakatsuka, T. Yamanaka, M. Kado, T. Kawashima, C. Chen, M. Tsukamoto, and S. Nakai pp. 1520-1526 [View Page Images , PDF (1234 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ballooning-mode stability of shaped high-β tokamaks A. K. Agarwal, S. N. Bhattacharyya, and A. Sen pp. 1527-1533 [View Page Images , PDF (977 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stationary population inversion of hydrogen in an arc-heated magnetically trapped expanding hydrogen-helium plasma jet Hiroshi Akatsuka and Masaaki Suzuki pp. 1534-1544 [View Page Images , PDF (1869 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ionization and stopping of heavy ions in dense laser-ablated plasmas C. Couillaud, R. Deicas, Ph. Nardin, M. A. Beuve, J. M. Guihaumé, M. Renaud, M. Cukier, C. Deutsch, and G. Maynard pp. 1545-1562 [View Page Images , PDF (2450 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bremsstrahlung and nonlinear currents in a dense plasma exposed to an intense laser field A. Ya. Polishchuk and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn pp. 1563-1568 [View Page Images , PDF (854 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupled Langmuir and nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in collisional plasmas S. V. Vladimirov and M. Y. Yu pp. 1569-1574 [View Page Images , PDF (840 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Stark widths and shifts and transition probabilities of several Xe ii lines M. A. Gigosos, S. Mar, C. Pérez, and I. de la Rosa pp. 1575-1585 [View Page Images , PDF (1780 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Amplification of extreme-ultraviolet radiation in a gas-liner pinch plasma S. Glenzer and H.-J. Kunze pp. 1586-1593 [View Page Images ,