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Physical Review E – April 1999
Volume 59, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Irrelevance of memory in the minority game
Andrea Cavagna
pp. R3783-R3786 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Fluctuation effects in steric reaction-diffusion systems
Zoran Konkoli, Henrik Johannesson, and Benjamin P. Lee
pp. R3787-R3790 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Experimental observation of coherence resonance in cascaded excitable systems
D. E. Postnov, Seung Kee Han, Tae Gyu Yim, and O. V. Sosnovtseva
pp. R3791-R3794 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Trace formula of quantum Liouville operator
Mitsusada M. Sano
pp. R3795-R3798 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Route to high-dimensional chaos
Mary Ann Harrison and Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. R3799-R3802 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Quantum chaos induced by scaled disorder
J. A. Vergés and E. Louis
pp. R3803-R3806 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Unstable dimension variability and complexity in chaotic systems
Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. R3807-R3810 [View PDF (283 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Turbulent decay of a passive scalar in the Batchelor limit: Exact results from a quantum-mechanical approach
D. T. Son
pp. R3811-R3814 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Molecular motion in a smectic liquid crystal showing V-shaped switching as studied by optical second-harmonic generation
Byoungchoo Park, Michi Nakata, San-seong Seomun, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, and Hideo Takezoe
pp. R3815-R3818 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials

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Effect of an external magnetic field on the gas-liquid transition in the Heisenberg spin fluid
T. G. Sokolovska and R. O. Sokolovskii
pp. R3819-R3822 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Switching transition of molecular nanotubes forming an inclusion complex with block copolymers in solutions
Yasushi Okumura, Kohzo Ito, and Reinosuke Hayakawa
pp. R3823-R3826 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Biological physics

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Simulation of embryonic cell self-organization: A study of aggregates with different concentrations of cell types
José C. M. Mombach
pp. R3827-R3830 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Two-photon fluorescence imaging of impurity distributions in protein crystals
C. L. Caylor, I. Dobrianov, C. Kimmer, R. E. Thorne, W. Zipfel, and W. W. Webb
pp. R3831-R3834 [View PDF (281 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Measuring the charge on single particles by laser-excited resonances in plasma crystals
A. Homann, A. Melzer, and A. Piel
pp. R3835-R3838 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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High efficiency coupling and guiding of intense femtosecond laser pulses in preformed plasma channels in an elongated gas jet
S. P. Nikitin, I. Alexeev, J. Fan, and H. M. Milchberg
pp. R3839-R3842 [View PDF (276 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Hamiltonian averaging in soliton-bearing systems with a periodically varying dispersion
Sergei K. Turitsyn, Alejandro B. Aceves, Christopher K. R. T. Jones, Vadim Zharnitsky, and Vladimir K. Mezentsev
pp. 3843-3846 [View PDF (101 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

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Traveling wave solutions in the Burridge-Knopoff model
C. B. Muratov
pp. 3847-3857 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Logarithmic relaxations in a random-field lattice gas subject to gravity
Marina Piccioni, Mario Nicodemi, and Serge Galam
pp. 3858-3863 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Anomalous diffusion of charged particles in a lattice Lorentz gas in a transverse magnetic field
Czesław Oleksy
pp. 3864-3869 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Model of defect diffusion and development of the boson peak in an amorphous solid
Shankar P. Das
pp. 3870-3875 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Synchronous versus asynchronous updating in the “game of Life”
Hendrik J. Blok and Birger Bergersen
pp. 3876-3879 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Mean first-passage time of a bistable kinetic model driven by cross-correlated noises
Dongcheng Mei, Guangzhong Xie, Li Cao, and Dajin Wu
pp. 3880-3883 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Domain size effects in Barkhausen noise
M. Bahiana, Belita Koiller, S. L. A. de Queiroz, J. C. Denardin, and R. L. Sommer
pp. 3884-3887 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Dynamical phase diagram of a metamagnetic model subject to an oscillating magnetic field
M. Santos and W. Figueiredo
pp. 3888-3892 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Interfacial velocity corrections due to multiplicative noise
Leonid Pechenik and Herbert Levine
pp. 3893-3900 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Correlations and symmetry breaking in gapped matrix models
E. Brézin and N. Deo
pp. 3901-3910 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Confined harmonically interacting spin-polarized fermions in a magnetic field: Thermodynamics
S. Foulon, F. Brosens, J. T. Devreese, and L. F. Lemmens
pp. 3911-3919 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Velocity-curvature dependence for chemical waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction: Theoretical explanation of experimental observations
Pavel K. Brazhnik and John J. Tyson
pp. 3920-3925 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Dispersion of passive tracers in a velocity field with non-δ-correlated noise
P. Castiglione and A. Crisanti
pp. 3926-3934 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Critical droplets in metastable states of probabilistic cellular automata
Stephen Bigelis, Emilio N. M. Cirillo, Joel L. Lebowitz, and Eugene R. Speer
pp. 3935-3941 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Annealing schedule from population dynamics
Stefan Bornholdt
pp. 3942-3946 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Collective behavior of asperities in dry friction at small velocities
František Slanina
pp. 3947-3953 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Quenching of a Brownian oscillator
V. A. Shneidman and D. R. Uhlmann
pp. 3954-3957 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in an asymmetric Schmitt trigger
F. Marchesoni, F. Apostolico, and S. Santucci
pp. 3958-3963 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Equation of state of the hard-sphere solid: The modified weighted-density approximation with a static solid reference state
Dean C. Wang and Alice P. Gast
pp. 3964-3969 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Small delay approximation of stochastic delay differential equations
Steve Guillouzic, Ivan L’Heureux, and André Longtin
pp. 3970-3982 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Relaxation in graph coloring and satisfiability problems
Pontus Svenson and Mats G. Nordahl
pp. 3983-3999 [View PDF (294 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Entropy production and phase space volume contraction
D. Daems and G. Nicolis
pp. 4000-4006 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Simple driven maps as sensitive devices
Changsong Zhou and C.-H. Lai
pp. 4007-4012 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Robust method for periodicity detection and characterization of irregular cyclical series in terms of embedded periodic components
P. P. Kanjilal, J. Bhattacharya, and G. Saha
pp. 4013-4025 [View PDF (457 kB)]
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Effects of bifurcations on the energy level statistics for oval billiards
H. Makino, T. Harayama, and Y. Aizawa
pp. 4026-4035 [View PDF (1,044 kB)]
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Synchronization of chaos in an array of three lasers
John R. Terry, K. Scott Thornburg, Jr.,, David J. DeShazer, Gregory D. VanWiggeren, Shiqun Zhu, Peter Ashwin, and Rajarshi Roy
pp. 4036-4043 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Testing for nonlinearity in unevenly sampled time series
Andreas Schmitz and Thomas Schreiber
pp. 4044-4047 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Time delayed chaotic systems and their synchronization
Rong He and P. G. Vaidya
pp. 4048-4051 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Border collision bifurcations in two-dimensional piecewise smooth maps
Soumitro Banerjee and Celso Grebogi
pp. 4052-4061 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Driving trajectories in complex systems
Elbert E. N. Macau and Celso Grebogi
pp. 4062-4070 [View PDF (313 kB)]
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Level fluctuations in quantum systems with multifractal eigenstates
J. X. Zhong and T. Geisel
pp. 4071-4074 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Classical fluids

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Parametrically excited hydrodynamic solitons
Guoqing Miao and Rongjue Wei
pp. 4075-4078 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Segment diffusion in polymers confined in nanopores: A fringe-field NMR diffusometry study
Elmar Fischer, Rainer Kimmich, Uwe Beginn, Martin Möller, and Nail Fatkullin
pp. 4079-4084 [View PDF (321 kB)]
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Algebraic perturbation theory for polar fluids: A model for the dielectric constant
V. I. Kalikmanov
pp. 4085-4090 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Nonlinear traveling waves in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Stability boundaries and phase diffusion
Yuanming Liu and Robert E. Ecke
pp. 4091-4105 [View PDF (1,171 kB)]
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Control of Kirchhoff vortices by a resonant strain
L. Friedland
pp. 4106-4111 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Advection of a passive scalar near two dimensions
M. Hnatich, J. Honkonen, D. Horvath, and R. Semancik
pp. 4112-4121 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Phase behavior of a simple fluid confined between chemically corrugated substrates
Henry Bock and Martin Schoen
pp. 4122-4136 [View PDF (577 kB)]

Liquid crystals

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Hydrodynamic model for surface nematic viscosity
Georges E. Durand and Epifanio G. Virga
pp. 4137-4142 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Polarization in free standing chiral and nonchiral smectic films
P. O. Andreeva, V. K. Dolganov, C. Gors, R. Fouret, and E. I. Kats
pp. 4143-4152 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Axially twisted chiral nematic structures in cylindrical cavities
M. Ambrožič and S. Žumer
pp. 4153-4160 [View PDF (536 kB)]
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Nematic-isotropic transition in a lattice model with quenched disordered impurities: A Monte Carlo study
Jaroslav Ilnytskyi, Stefan Sokołowski, and Orest Pizio
pp. 4161-4168 [View PDF (190 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials

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Tilted sandpiles, interface depinning, and earthquake models
A. Malthe-Sørenssen
pp. 4169-4174 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Theory of nucleation and growth during phase separation
Celeste Sagui and Martin Grant
pp. 4175-4187 [View PDF (1,323 kB)]
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Velocity distribution for a dilute vibrated granular material
V. Kumaran
pp. 4188-4202 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Static structure and colloidal interactions in partially quenched quasibidimensional colloidal mixtures
G. Cruz de León and J. L. Arauz-Lara
pp. 4203-4208 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Quantitative measure of folding in two-dimensional polymers
Gustavo A. Arteca and Shuangxi Zhang
pp. 4209-4215 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Fluids of rodlike particles near curved surfaces
B. Groh and S. Dietrich
pp. 4216-4228 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Numerical pore-scale modeling of three-phase fluid flow: Comparison between simulation and experiment
G. G. Pereira
pp. 4229-4242 [View PDF (563 kB)]
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Directed percolation depinning models: Evolution equations
L. A. Braunstein, R. C. Buceta, N. Giovambattista, and A. Díaz-Sánchez
pp. 4243-4247 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Short grafted chains: Monte Carlo simulations of a model for monolayers of amphiphiles
Christoph Stadler, Harald Lange, and Friederike Schmid
pp. 4248-4257 [View PDF (513 kB)]
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Numerical bifurcation diagram for the two-dimensional boundary-fed chlorine-dioxide–iodine–malonic-acid system
S. Setayeshgar and M. C. Cross
pp. 4258-4264 [View PDF (297 kB)]
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Percolation and conductivity of self-affine fractures
V. V. Mourzenko, J.-F. Thovert, and P. M. Adler
pp. 4265-4284 [View PDF (656 kB)]
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Adsorption kinetics in the presence of external fields
I. Pagonabarraga, Bafaluy, and J. M. Rubí
pp. 4285-4297 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Influence of uniaxial stress on the lamellar spacing of eutectics
Jens Kappey, Klaus Kassner, and Chaouqi Misbah
pp. 4298-4304 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Shapes and shape transformations of two-component membranes of complex topology
Wojciech T. Góźdź and Gerhard Gompper
pp. 4305-4316 [View PDF (505 kB)]
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Phase behavior, structural effects, and volumetric and transport properties in nonaqueous microemulsions
S. K. Mehta, Kawaljit, and Kiran Bala
pp. 4317-4325 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Randomly driven granular fluids: Large-scale structure
T. P. C. van Noije, M. H. Ernst, E. Trizac, and I. Pagonabarraga
pp. 4326-4341 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Morphology transitions in diffusion- and kinetics-limited solidification of a liquid crystal
Jeffrey L. Hutter and John Bechhoefer
pp. 4342-4352 [View PDF (1,547 kB)]
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Scaling theory of drying in porous media
I. N. Tsimpanogiannis, Y. C. Yortsos, S. Poulou, N. Kanellopoulos, and A. K. Stubos
pp. 4353-4365 [View PDF (802 kB)]
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Phase separation under shear in two-dimensional binary fluids
A. J. Wagner and J. M. Yeomans
pp. 4366-4373 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Mechanisms of exciton energy transfer in Scheibe aggregates
J. A. Tuszyński, M. F. Jørgensen, and D. Möbius
pp. 4374-4383 [View PDF (300 kB)]
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Suspension of spherical particles in nematic solutions of disks and rods
Philippe Poulin, Nathalie Francès, and Olivier Mondain-Monval
pp. 4384-4387 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Strongly dipolar fluids at low densities compared to living polymers
J. M. Tavares, J. J. Weis, and M. M. Telo da Gama
pp. 4388-4395 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Stacking entropy of hard-sphere crystals
Siun-Chuon Mau and David A. Huse
pp. 4396-4401 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Computer simulations of the wetting properties of neon on heterogeneous surfaces
Stefano Curtarolo, George Stan, Milton W. Cole, Mary J. Bojan, and William A. Steele
pp. 4402-4407 [View PDF (378 kB)]
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Mechanisms of granular spontaneous stratification and segregation in two-dimensional silos
Pierre Cizeau, Hernán A. Makse, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 4408-4421 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Dissipative properties of vibrated granular materials
Clara Salueña, Thorsten Pöschel, and Sergei E. Esipov
pp. 4422-4425 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Phase equilibria of asymmetric hard sphere mixtures
N. G. Almarza and E. Enciso
pp. 4426-4433 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Thermally driven collapse of a polymer brush in a polymer matrix
Michele Sferrazza, Richard A. L. Jones, and David G. Bucknall
pp. 4434-4440 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Nonuniversality of nucleation kinetics following a finite rate quench
Vitaly A. Shneidman
pp. 4441-4444 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Rheophysical classification of concentrated suspensions and granular pastes
P. Coussot and C. Ancey
pp. 4445-4457 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Short-time dynamics of colloidal suspensions in confined geometries
I. Pagonabarraga, M. H. J. Hagen, C. P. Lowe, and D. Frenkel
pp. 4458-4469 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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High-frequency dynamics of glass-forming polybutadiene
D. Fioretto, U. Buchenau, L. Comez, A. Sokolov, C. Masciovecchio, A. Mermet, G. Ruocco, F. Sette, L. Willner, B. Frick, D. Richter, and L. Verdini
pp. 4470-4475 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Continuum description of vibrated sand
Jens Eggers and Hermann Riecke
pp. 4476-4483 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Capillary condensation transitions in a slab geometry
Silvina M. Gatica, M. Mercedes Calbi, and Milton W. Cole
pp. 4484-4489 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Biological physics

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Nonadiabatic resonances in a noisy Fitzhugh-Nagumo neuron model
S. Ripoll Massanés and C. J. Pérez Vicente
pp. 4490-4497 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Hebbian learning and spiking neurons
Richard Kempter, Wulfram Gerstner, and J. Leo van Hemmen
pp. 4498-4514 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Image transfer in multilayered assemblies of lattices of bistable oscillators
V. I. Nekorkin, V. B. Kazantsev, and M. G. Velarde
pp. 4515-4522 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Analysis of natural gradient descent for multilayer neural networks
Magnus Rattray and David Saad
pp. 4523-4532 [View PDF (220 kB)]

Plasma physics

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Elliptic representation of the Boltzmann equation with validity for all degrees of anisotropy
Edward A. Richley
pp. 4533-4541 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Thermal screening of Darwin interactions in a weakly relativistic plasma
Walter Appel and Angel Alastuey
pp. 4542-4551 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Nonlinear dynamics of an ordinary electromagnetic mode in a pair plasma
G. Z. Machabeli, S. V. Vladimirov, and D. B. Melrose
pp. 4552-4558 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Resonant coupling between surface and interface plasma waves in high-density sharp-edged plasmas produced by ultrafast laser pulses
J. Kupersztych and M. Raynaud
pp. 4559-4564 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Kinetic-energy distributions of positive and negative ions in Townsend discharges in oxygen
M. V. V. S. Rao, R. J. Van Brunt, and J. K. Olthoff
pp. 4565-4572 [View PDF (180 kB)]

Physics of beams

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Transition free-electron laser (amplifier) driven by an electron bunch
S. G. Oganesyan
pp. 4573-4576 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Dynamic moment invariants for nonlinear Hamiltonian systems
T. M. Janaki and Govindan Rangarajan
pp. 4577-4583 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Measurement of colliding beam parameters with wide angle beamstrahlung
G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro, and E. Luckwald
pp. 4584-4593 [View PDF (190 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Energy conservation law for randomly fluctuating electromagnetic fields
Greg Gbur, Daniel James, and Emil Wolf
pp. 4594-4599 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Fusion, collapse, and stationary bound states of incoherently coupled waves in bulk cubic media
O. Bang, L. Bergé, and J. Juul Rasmussen
pp. 4600-4613 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Quasielliptical motion of an electron in an electric dipole field
Patrick L. Nash and Rafael Lopez-Mobilia
pp. 4614-4617 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Stability of stationary gap solitary waves at periodically modulated surfaces
J. Schöllmann, R. Scheibenzuber, A. S. Kovalev, A. P. Mayer, and A. A. Maradudin
pp. 4618-4629 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal evolution of focused single-cycle electromagnetic pulses
Simin Feng, Herbert G. Winful, and Robert W. Hellwarth
pp. 4630-4649 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Impact fracture of a three-dimensional cube with quenched disorder
Jan Åström and Jussi Timonen
pp. 4650-4653 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Collision-induced shape transformations of partially coherent solitons
Wiesław Królikowski, Nail Akhmediev, and Barry Luther-Davies
pp. 4654-4658 [View PDF (252 kB)]

Computational physics

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Accuracy-control techniques applied to stable transfer-matrix computations
A. Mayer and J.-P. Vigneron
pp. 4659-4666 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Combinatorial optimization by iterative partial transcription
A. Möbius, B. Freisleben, P. Merz, and M. Schreiber
pp. 4667-4674 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Finite volume scheme for the lattice Boltzmann method on unstructured meshes
Gongwen Peng, Haowen Xi, Comer Duncan, and So-Hsiang Chou
pp. 4675-4682 [View PDF (239 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

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Interacting monomer-dimer model with infinitely many absorbing states
WonMuk Hwang and Hyunggyu Park
pp. 4683-4686 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

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Master-slave scheme and controlling chaos in the Braiman-Goldhirsch method
Han-Tzong Su, Yaw-Hwang Chen, and Rue-Ron Hsu
pp. 4687-4690 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Control perspective on synchronization and the Takens-Aeyels-Sauer reconstruction theorem
Henri Huijberts, Torsten Lilge, and Henk Nijmeijer
pp. 4691-4694 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

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Essential parameter in the formation of photonic band gaps
Chul-Sik Kee, Jae-Eun Kim, Hae Yong Park, S. J. Kim, H. C. Song, Y. S. Kwon, N. H. Myung, S. Y. Shin, and H. Lim
pp. 4695-4698 [View PDF (220 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Partially polarized light-induced Fréedericksz transition in nematic liquid crystals [Phys. Rev. E 58, 4605 (1998)]
T. V. Galstyan, A. A. Yesayan, and V. Drnoyan
pp. 4699 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Erratum: Circular and helicoïdal standing-wave-induced Fréedericksz transition in nematic liquid crystals [Phys. Rev. E 58, 4614 (1998)]
E. Brasselet, T. V. Galstyan, and A. A. Yesayan
pp. 4699 [View PDF (55 kB)]
 
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