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Volume 44, Issue 12

December 1991
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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Implications of a conservation law for the distribution of earthquake sizes

Giovani L. Vasconcelos, Maria de Sousa Vieira, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7869(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Exact scaling function of interface growth dynamics

Terence Hwa and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7873(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Selberg’s ζ function and the quantization of chaos

C. Matthies and F. Steiner

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7877(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Transients, cycles, and complexity in cellular automata

Howard A. Gutowitz

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7881(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Measuring the intensity of director fluctuations below the onset of electroconvection

I. Rehberg, F. Hörner, L. Chiran, H. Richter, and B. L. Winkler

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7885(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Complex Fluids

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Universality in hydrogen-bond networks

Walter Nadler and Thomas Krausche

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7888(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Orientational epitaxy of a crystal-E overlayer on a hexatic-B substrate

M. Cheng, J. T. Ho, S. W. Hui, J. W. Goodby, R. Pindak, R. Geer, and C. C. Huang

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7891(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Wetting in a confined geometry: A Monte Carlo study

Andrea J. Liu and Gary S. Grest

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7894(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

In situ observation of surface-tension-induced oscillation of aqueous solution film in needlelike crystal growth

Mu Wang and Nai-ben Ming

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7898(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Scaling behavior in shaving cream

D. J. Durian, D. A. Weitz, and D. J. Pine

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7902(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Stability of spiral waves in the large-hole-radius limit

Pierre Pelce and Jiong Sun

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7906(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Biological Physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Excluded-volume effects on the stacking of RNA base pairs

Ariel Fernández

Phys. Rev. A 44, R7910(R) (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Single effective neuron: Macroscopic potential and noise-induced bifurcations

A. R. Bulsara and W. C. Schieve

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7913 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Quantum Brownian particle and memory effects

J. R. Brinati, S. S. Mizrahi, and B. M. Pimentel

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7923 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Unifying stochastic Markov process and its transition probability density function

A. Debosscher

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7929 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Dynamics of a height-conserved surface-growth model with spatially correlated noise

Pui-Man Lam and Fereydoon Family

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7939 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Systematic perturbative corrections to the variational approximation to the thermal properties of a quantum system

S. K. Lee, K. L. Liu, and K. Young

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7951 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Unusual manifold structure and anomalous diffusion in a Hamiltonian model for chaotic guiding-center motion

G. Petschel and T. Geisel

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7959 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Cooperative adsorption kinetics: Upper bound using activity series

Douglas Poland

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7968 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Motion of interacting defects in the Ginzburg-Landau model

J. D. Rodriguez, L. M. Pismen, and L. Sirovich

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7980 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Percolation as a fractal-growth model: The fixed-scale transformation

R. R. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7985 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Real-space renormalization scheme for reaction-limited cluster aggregation

Patrick B. Warren

Phys. Rev. A 44, 7991 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Numerical study of phase transitions in Potts models

Gerard Barkema and Jan de Boer

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8000 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Determination of free energies of an oscillator with mixed quartic and sextic anharmonicities

Sunita Srivastava and Vishwamittar

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8006 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Energy eigenvalues of double-well oscillator with mixed quartic and sextic anharmonicities

Meena Bansal, Sunita Srivastava, and Vishwamittar

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8012 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Aspects of q-oscillator quantum mechanics

S. Chaturvedi and V. Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8020 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Para-Bose oscillator as a deformed Bose oscillator

S. Chaturvedi and V. Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8024 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Potential of systems subjected to weak noise with large correlation time

Hu Gang and Lu Zhi-heng

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8027 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Amplification of small signals via stochastic resonance

Peter Jung and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8032 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Scaling laws of the additive random-matrix model

Georg Lenz, Karol Życzkowski, and Dirk Saher

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8043 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

Kinetic theory for lattice-gas cellular automata

T. R. Kirkpatrick and M. H. Ernst

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8051 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Rayleigh-Brillouin light-scattering study of both fast and slow sound in binary gas mixtures

R. P. C. Schram, G. H. Wegdam, and Arjen Bot

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8062 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Equations for the correlation functions using a generalized Keldysh technique

Sh. M. Kogan

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8072 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Square pattern convection in binary fluids with experimental boundary conditions

Thomas Clune and Edgar Knobloch

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8084 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Transitions in convective turbulence: The role of thermal plumes

Itamar Procaccia, Emily S. C. Ching, Peter Constantin, Leo P. Kadanoff, Albert Libchaber, and Xiao-Zhong Wu

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8091 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Universality in quasiperiodic Rayleigh-Bénard convection

R. E. Ecke, Ronnie Mainieri, and T. S. Sullivan

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8103 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Stability of an imploding spherical shell

S. J. Han

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8119 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Complex Fluids

Disclination interaction in an applied field: Stabilization of the Lehmann cluster

Steven D. Hudson and Edwin L. Thomas

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8128 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Ability of nonperturbative density-functional theories to stabilize arbitrary solids

Agathagelos Kyrlidis and Robert A. Brown

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8141 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Velocity and current measurements in electroconvecting smectic films

Stephen W. Morris, John R. de Bruyn, and A. D. May

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8146 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

X-ray scattering in smectic liquid crystals: From ideal- to real-structure effects

Vladimir M. Kaganer, Boris I. Ostrovskii, and Wim H. de Jeu

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8158 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Dynamics of ionic defects and lattice solitons in a thermalized hydrogen-bonded chain

A. V. Savin and A. V. Zolotaryuk

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8167 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Phase diagram of a lattice model for ternary mixtures of water, oil, and surfactants

Mohamed Laradji, Hong Guo, Martin Grant, and Martin J. Zuckermann

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8184 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Phenomenological theory of smectic-A liquid crystals

A. Linhananta and D. E. Sullivan

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8189 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Electric-field-induced phase transitions in frustrated cholesteric liquid crystals of negative dielectric anisotropy

P. Ribière, S. Pirkl, and P. Oswald

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8198 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Theoretical results for the density dependence of the electron affinity of nonpolar liquids Ar, Kr, and Xe

P. Stampfli and K. H. Bennemann

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8210 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition in colloidal systems

Grzegorz Szamel and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8215 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Spatial patterns mediated by subcritical and supercritical thermal fluctuations in the splay Fréedericksz transition

F. Arias and F. Sagués

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8220 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Interaction free energy between planar walls in dense fluids: An Ornstein-Zernike approach with results for hard-sphere, Lennard-Jones, and dipolar systems

Phil Attard, D. R. Bérard, C. P. Ursenbach, and G. N. Patey

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8224 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Limiting law for ion adsorption in narrow planar pores

D. Bratko, D. J. Henderson, and L. Blum

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8235 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Weighted-density-functional theory of nonuniform fluid mixtures: Application to the structure of binary hard-sphere mixtures near a hard wall

A. R. Denton and N. W. Ashcroft

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8242 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Sound propagation in sodium di-2-ethyl-hexylsulfosuccinate micelles and microemulsions

L. Ye, D. A. Weitz, Ping Sheng, and J. S. Huang

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8249 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Orientational order determination in liquid crystals by x-ray diffraction

Moshe Deutsch

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8264 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Growth of droplets on a substrate by diffusion and coalescence

A. Steyer, P. Guenoun, D. Beysens, and C. M. Knobler

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8271 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Molecular-dynamics study of the glass transition in a binary soft-sphere model

H. Miyagawa and Y. Hiwatari

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8278 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Nonequilibrium study of the forces responsible for adsorption in a binary liquid mixture

Dean Ripple and Carl Franck

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8289 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Morphology and segregation in two-component diffusion-limited aggregation

Takashi Nagatani and Francesc Sagués

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8303 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Ballistic accretion on seeds of different sizes

F. Porcú and F. Prodi

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8313 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Formation of dense branching morphology in the crystallization of Al-Ge amorphous thin films

Y. Lereah, G. Deutscher, and E. Grünbaum

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8316 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Plasma Physics

X-ray confinement in a gold cavity heated by 351-nm laser light

H. Nishimura, Y. Kato, H. Takabe, T. Endo, K. Kondo, H. Shiraga, S. Sakabe, T. Jitsuno, M. Takagi, C. Yamanaka, S. Nakai, R. Sigel, G. D. Tsakiris, J. Massen, M. Murakami, F. Lavarenne, R. Fedosejevs, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, K. Eidmann, and S. Witkowski

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8323 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Free energy and internal energy of electron-screened plasmas in a modified hypernetted-chain approximation

F. Perrot

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8334 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen in dense plasmas in the presence of dynamic fields: Intra-Stark spectroscopy

E. A. Oks, St. Böddeker, and H.-J. Kunze

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8338 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

Effective-phonon theory for DNA melting

Felicia Pitici and Sperantza Svirschevski

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8348 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Biological Physics

Deformation of giant lipid vesicles by electric fields

M. Kummrow and W. Helfrich

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8356 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Cluster distributions in physics and genetic diversity

A. Z. Mekjian

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8361 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Thermodynamic properties of α-helix protein: A soliton approach

Jia-xin Xiao and Lin Yang

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8375 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Fluctuation of the local expansion rate in the Taconis oscillation system

K. Fukushima, T. Yamada, and T. Yazaki

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8380 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Lattice gases in slab geometries

R. Brito and M. H. Ernst

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8384 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Simulations of a monomer-dimer catalysis model on a Sierpinski gasket

A. Yu. Tretyakov and H. Takayasu

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8388 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Stochastic and deterministic analysis of reactions: The fractal case

G. Zumofen, J. Klafter, and A. Blumen

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8390 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Interdomain gaps in transient A+B→0 reactions on fractals

G. Zumofen, J. Klafter, and A. Blumen

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8394 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Infinite statistics and the relation to a phase operator in quantum optics

G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8398 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

Fluid equation of state for inverse-power potentials: Comparison of one-component-plasma theory and hard-sphere perturbation theory

Yuhua Song and E. A. Mason

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8400 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Stochastic effects in Rayleigh-Bénard pattern formation

T. C. Elston and Ronald F. Fox

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8403 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Convective instability with time-varying rotation

Joseph J. Niemela, Michael R. Smith, and Russell J. Donnelly

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8406 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Complex Fluids

Temperature dependence of the optical Fréedericksz transition in dyed nematic liquid crystals

I. Jánossy, L. Csillag, and A. D. Lloyd

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8410 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Volterra integro-differential equation and the aging effect at a liquid interface

V. A. Kuz

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8414 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Microscopic expressions for interfacial bending constants and spontaneous curvature

V. Romero-Rochn, C. Varea, and A. Robledo

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8417 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Transition from a nonionic to an ionic micelle

V. K. Kelkar, B. K. Mishra, K. Srinivasa Rao, P. S. Goyal, and C. Manohar

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8421 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Homogeneous and self-similar diffusion-limited aggregation including surface-diffusion processes

Shonosuke Ohta and Haruo Honjo

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8425 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Plasma Physics

Diagnosis of laser-compressed shells based on absorption of core radiation

B. Yaakobi, R. Epstein, and F. J. Marshall

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8429 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Physics of Beams

Simple model of gain saturation in free-electron lasers

G. Dattoli, S. Cabrini, and L. Giannessi

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8433 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Biological Physics

Parameters describing the H bond in DNA

Elso Drigo-Filho and J. R. Ruggiero

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8435 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Negative temperature of vortex motion’’

David Montgomery

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8437 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Negative temperature of vortex motion’ ’’

V. Berdichevsky, I. Kunin, and F. Hussain

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8439 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Comment on ‘‘Transient kinetics of nucleation’’

Vitaly A. Shneidman

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8441 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Transient kinetics of nucleation’ ’’

G. Shi, J. H. Seinfeld, and K. Okuyama

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8443 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Comment on ‘‘Equation of state and conductivities of dense hydrogen plasmas near the metal-insulator transition’’

Junzo Chihara

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8446 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Equation of state and conductivities of dense hydrogen plasmas near the metal-insulator transition’ ’’

Setsuo Ichimaru

Phys. Rev. A 44, 8448 (1991) - Published 1 December, 1991

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