Physical Review E – May 1998
(Volume 57, Issue 5)

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General methods of statistical physics

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Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Add to article collection Dynamical structure factors in models of turbulence
F. Hayot and C. Jayaprakash
pp. R4867-R4870 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Classical fluids

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Add to article collection Relative diffusion and memory effects in supercooled water
Alberto De Santis, Alessandro Ercoli, and Dario Rocca
pp. R4871-R4874 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Liquid crystals

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Add to article collection Tilt, polarity, and spontaneous symmetry breaking in liquid crystals
Alexandros G. Vanakaras, Demetri J. Photinos, and Edward T. Samulski
pp. R4875-R4878 [View PDF (229 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Complex fluids and polymers

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Add to article collection Three-dimensional mesoscale dynamics of block copolymers under shear:  The dynamic density-functional approach
A. V. Zvelindovsky, G. J. Sevink, B. A. van Vlimmeren, N. M. Maurits, and J. G. Fraaije
pp. R4879-R4882 [View PDF (606 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Incomplete phase separation in mixed monolayers
A. Weinstein and S. A. Safran
pp. R4883-R4886 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Long-term gelation of laponite aqueous dispersions
A. Mourchid and P. Levitz
pp. R4887-R4890 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Spatial correlations in compressible granular flows
T. P. van Noije, M. H. Ernst, and R. Brito
pp. R4891-R4894 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma physics

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Add to article collection Measurement of the stimulated Brillouin scattering reflectivity from a spatially smoothed laser beam in a homogeneous large scale plasma
S. D. Baton, F. Amiranoff, V. Malka, A. Modena, M. Salvati, C. Coulaud, C. Rousseaux, N. Renard, Ph. Mounaix, and C. Stenz
pp. R4895-R4898 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Guiding of a 10-TW picosecond laser pulse through hollow capillary tubes
M. Borghesi, A. J. Mackinnon, R. Gaillard, O. Willi, and A. A. Offenberger
pp. R4899-R4902 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Add to article collection Controlling friction
Franz-Josef Elmer
pp. R4903-R4906 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Traversal time of acoustic plate waves through a tunneling section
A. Alippi, M. Germano, A. Bettucci, F. Farrelly, and G. Muzio
pp. R4907-R4910 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Add to article collection Traveling-wave–standing-wave competition in a generalized complex Swift-Hohenberg equation
Víctor J. Sánchez-Morcillo, Germán J. de Valcárcel, Eugenio Roldán, and Kestutis Staliunas
pp. R4911-R4914 [View PDF (396 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Add to article collection Anomalous diffusion resulting from strongly asymmetric random walks
Eric R. Weeks and Harry L. Swinney
pp. 4915-4920 [View PDF (1362 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Aperiodic mean-field evolutions in coupled map lattices
Jérôme Losson, Stéphane Vannitsem, and Grégoire Nicolis
pp. 4921-4932 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Interaction-driven equilibrium and statistical laws in small systems: The cerium atom
V. V. Flambaum, A. A. Gribakina, G. F. Gribakin, and I. V. Ponomarev
pp. 4933-4942 [View PDF (566 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Geometric cluster Monte Carlo simulation
J. R. Heringa and H. W. Blöte
pp. 4976-4978 [View PDF (87 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Stochastic resonance in nonpotential systems
T. Alarcón, A. Pérez-Madrid, and J. M. Rubí
pp. 4979-4985 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Bifurcations from steady sliding to stick slip in boundary lubrication
A. A. Batista and J. M. Carlson
pp. 4986-4996 [View PDF (214 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Smooth phases, roughening transitions, and novel exponents in one-dimensional growth models
U. Alon, M. R. Evans, H. Hinrichsen, and D. Mukamel
pp. 4997-5012 [View PDF (366 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Self-organized criticality in dynamics without branching
Prashant M. Gade and M. P. Joy
pp. 5019-5022 [View PDF (112 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Glass synchronization in the network of oscillators with random phase shifts
Kibeom Park, Sung Wu Rhee, and M. Y. Choi
pp. 5030-5035 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Adiabatic reduction near a bifurcation in stochastically modulated systems
François Drolet and Jorge Viñals
pp. 5036-5043 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Sensitivity of ballistic deposition to pseudorandom number generators
Raissa M. D’Souza, Yaneer Bar-Yam, and Mehran Kardar
pp. 5044-5052 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Disordered one-dimensional contact process
Raffaele Cafiero, Andrea Gabrielli, and Miguel A. Muñoz
pp. 5060-5068 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Tricritical behavior in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass under a bimodal random field
E. Nogueira, F. D. Nobre, F. A. da Costa, and S. Coutinho
pp. 5079-5086 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Self-organized criticality as an absorbing-state phase transition
Ronald Dickman, Alessandro Vespignani, and Stefano Zapperi
pp. 5095-5105 [View PDF (309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Molecular-dynamics investigation of the desensitization of detonable material
Betsy M. Rice, William Mattson, and Samuel F. Trevino
pp. 5106-5111 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Localized vibrations in slider-block models
Gleb Morein and Donald L. Turcotte
pp. 5126-5134 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Characterizations of natural patterns
Gemunu H. Gunaratne, David K. Hoffman, and Donald J. Kouri
pp. 5146-5149 [View PDF (652 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Generalized-Lorentzian path integrals
Rudolf A. Treumann
pp. 5150-5153 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Short-time regime propagator in fractals
L. Acedo and S. Bravo Yuste
pp. 5160-5167 [View PDF (198 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Physical limits on the notion of very low temperatures
Juhao Wu and A. Widom
pp. 5178-5183 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Isotropic transverse XY chain with energy and magnetization currents
T. Antal, Z. Rácz, A. Rákos, and G. M. Schütz
pp. 5184-5189 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Finite-size scaling in space-time
Michael F. Zimmer
pp. 5190-5195 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Front interaction on a ring electrode
Oleksiy Orlychenko, Yi Ye, and Hsueh-Chia Chang
pp. 5196-5201 [View PDF (1289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Fluctuational phase-flip transitions in parametrically driven oscillators
M. I. Dykman, C. M. Maloney, V. N. Smelyanskiy, and M. Silverstein
pp. 5202-5212 [View PDF (731 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Add to article collection Hierarchical globally coupled systems
Sudeshna Sinha, Gabriel Pérez, and Hilda A. Cerdeira
pp. 5217-5229 [View PDF (392 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Controlling quasiperiodicity in a CO2 laser with delayed feedback
A. Labate, M. Ciofini, and R. Meucci
pp. 5230-5236 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Observation of generalized synchronization of chaos in a driven chaotic system
D. Y. Tang, R. Dykstra, M. W. Hamilton, and N. R. Heckenberg
pp. 5247-5251 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Failure of linear control in noisy coupled map lattices
David A. Egolf and Joshua E. Socolar
pp. 5271-5275 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Breaking the symmetry in bimodal frequency distributions of globally coupled oscillators
J. A. Acebrón, L. L. Bonilla, S. De Leo, and R. Spigler
pp. 5287-5290 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum-classical correspondence in energy space: Two interacting spin particles
F. Borgonovi, I. Guarneri, and F. M. Izrailev
pp. 5291-5302 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Second topological conjugate transformation in symbolic dynamics
Shou-Li Peng and Xu-Sheng Zhang
pp. 5311-5324 [View PDF (306 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Arnold diffusion in many weakly coupled mappings
Allan J. Lichtenberg and Anish M. Aswani
pp. 5325-5331 [View PDF (175 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Targeting in chaotic scattering
Elbert E. Macau
pp. 5337-5346 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Weak turbulence and structure evolution in N-body Hamiltonian systems with long-range force
Mickaël Antoni, Yves Elskens, and Caroline Sandoz
pp. 5347-5357 [View PDF (511 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Gluing bifurcations in optothermal nonlinear devices
R. Herrero, J. Farjas, R. Pons, F. Pi, and G. Orriols
pp. 5366-5377 [View PDF (268 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Symbolic dynamics analysis of the Lorenz equations
Bai-lin Hao, Jun-Xian Liu, and Wei-mou Zheng
pp. 5378-5396 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Numerical verification of Percival’s conjecture in a quantum billiard
Gabriel Carlo, Eduardo Vergini, and Alejandro J. Fendrik
pp. 5397-5403 [View PDF (1128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Semiclassical theory of flexural vibrations of plates
E. Bogomolny and E. Hugues
pp. 5404-5424 [View PDF (430 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Rate of quantum ergodicity in Euclidean billiards
A. Bäcker, R. Schubert, and P. Stifter
pp. 5425-5447 [View PDF (999 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Experimental measurement of the degree of chaotic synchronization using a distribution exponent
P. Khoury, M. A. Lieberman, and A. J. Lichtenberg
pp. 5448-5466 [View PDF (414 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Classical fluids

Add to article collection Cylindrical solitary waves and their interaction in Bénard-Marangoni layers
Guoxiang Huang, Manuel G. Velarde, and Vadim N. Kurdyumov
pp. 5473-5482 [View PDF (297 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Transport of turbulent vorticity increments
R. A. Antonia, M. Ould-Rouis, Y. Zhu, and F. Anselmet
pp. 5483-5488 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Oscillations in confined gases
O. L. de Lange and J. Pierrus
pp. 5520-5532 [View PDF (271 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dynamo bifurcations in an array of driven convectionlike rolls
S. Rüdiger, F. Feudel, and N. Seehafer
pp. 5533-5538 [View PDF (176 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Structure of a hard-sphere fluid near a rough surface: A density-functional approach
D. Henderson, S. Sokołowski, and D. Wasan
pp. 5539-5543 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetotransport in the two-dimensional Lorentz gas
A. Kuzmany and H. Spohn
pp. 5544-5553 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Thermoconvective instability of paramagnetic fluids in a nonuniform magnetic field
Jie Huang, Donald D. Gray, and Boyd F. Edwards
pp. 5564-5571 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Proton-proton pair distribution in dense fluid hydrogen
Stefan Nagel, Ronald Redmer, Gerd Röpke, Michael Knaup, and Christian Toepffer
pp. 5572-5577 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Effect of spatial and temporal variations of the boundary temperature on the thermal stability of horizontal flows
Olaf Stiller, Wolfgang Schöpf, John C. Patterson, and Andrew Schultz
pp. 5578-5584 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Liquid crystals

Add to article collection Molecular-dynamics simulation of the smectic-A* twist grain-boundary phase
Michael P. Allen, Mark A. Warren, and Mark R. Wilson
pp. 5585-5596 [View PDF (8618 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Type-II phase-matched second-harmonic generation in ferroelectric liquid crystals
J. Etxebarria, Naia Pereda, C. L. Folcia, and J. Ortega
pp. 5634-5638 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Surface dynamics of a freely standing smectic-A film
Hsuan-Yi Chen and David Jasnow
pp. 5639-5643 [View PDF (778 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Alignment of liquid crystals on polyimide films exposed to ultraviolet light
Jae-Hoon Kim, Satyendra Kumar, and Sin-Doo Lee
pp. 5644-5650 [View PDF (529 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Complex fluids and polymers

Add to article collection Relaxation of a supercritical fluid after a heat pulse in the absence of gravity effects: Theory and experiments
Y. Garrabos, M. Bonetti, D. Beysens, F. Perrot, T. Fröhlich, P. Carlès, and B. Zappoli
pp. 5665-5681 [View PDF (1265 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Orientational effects in the channel flow of flexible and rigid molecules
Y. Radzyner and D. C. Rapaport
pp. 5687-5693 [View