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Vol. No. 48, No. 1&2,
Pages
Special Issue on Nonlinearity and Chaos in the Physical Sciences

Editor's note
1
Preface
3-5
Mathematical aspects of dynamical systems

Random matrices and matrix models: The JNU lectures — Madan Lal Mehta
7-48
Holder exponents of irregular signals and local fractional derivatives — Kiran M. Kolwankar and Anil D. Gangal
49-68
Signature of chaos in power spectrum — M. C. Valsakumar, S. V. M. Satyanarayana and V. Sridhar
69-85
Dynamics of simple one-dimensional maps under perturbation — Somdatta Sinha and Parichay K. Das
87-98
Chaos in modulated logistic systems — V. M. Nandakumaran
99-108
Effect of boundary conditions on the invariant density of noisy maps at fully developed chaos — V. Balakrishnan, G. Nicolis and C. Nicolis
109-128
Symplectic integration of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems — Govindan Rangarajan
129-142
Integrable systems and Solitons

Painleve analysis and integrability aspects of some nonlinear partial differential equations — K. Porsezian
143-161
Localized coherent structures of (2+1) dimensional generalizations of soliton systems — M. Lakshmanan and R. Radha
163-188
Geometry and nonlinear evolution equations — Radha Balakrishnan
189-204
Nonlinear chiral models: Soliton solutions and spatio-temporal chaos — M. S. Sriram and J. Segar
205-229

Spatio-temporal chaos, synchroniztion and control

Control methods for problems of mixing and coherence in chaotic maps and flows — Ashutosh Sharma and Neelima Gupte
231-248
Characterization and control of chaotic dynamics in a nerve conduction model equation — S. Rajasekar
249-258
Control of chaos — Sangeeta D. Gadre and V. S. Varma
259-270
Effect of noise on coupled chaotic systems — Manojit Roy and R. E. Amritkar
271-285
Lattice dynamical models of adaptive spatio-temporal phenomena — Sudeshna Sinha
287-302
Control of spatio-temporal chaos: A study with an autocatalytic reaction diffusion system — Nita Parekh, V. Ravi Kumar and B. D. Kulkarni
303-323
Turbulence

Some recent advances in the theory of homogeneous isotropic trubulence — Sujan K. Dhar, Anirban Sain, Ashwin Pande and Rahul Pandit
325-364
The randomly stirred fluid Turbulence as a problem in statistical mechanics — J. K. Bhattacharjee
365-378
Quantum aspects of chaos

Chaos in the hydrogen atom interacting with external fields — K. Ganesan and R. Gebarowski
379-410
Resonances and chaos in the collinear collison system (He, H2) and its isotopic variants — Susanta Mahapatra, N. Sathyamurthy and Ramakrishana Ramaswamy
411-424
Chaos in intrinsic motion of nuclei and its role in dissipative collective dynamics — Santanu Pal
425-437
Chaos and localization in coupled quartic oscillators — M. S. Santhanam, V. B. Sheorey and A. Lakshminarayan
439-457
Experiments on quantum chaos using microwave cavities: Results for the pseudo-integrable L-billiard — A. Kudrolli and S. Sridhar
459-467
Quantum chaology: The photoeffect and beyond — Bala Sundaram
469-486
Periodic orbits in polygonal billiards — Debarata Biswas
487-501
Semiclassical theory for many-body fermionic systems — Pierre Gaspard and Sudhir R. Jain
503-516
Accuracy of trace formulas — Arul lakshminarayan
517-535
The phase of the Riemann zeta function — Avinash Khare
537-553
Exotic spectra, wavefunctions and transport in incommensurate lattices — A. Lahiri, T. K. Roy and A. Bhowal
555-588
Fractal characteristics of critical localized states in incommensurate quantum systems — Indubala I. Satija and Jukka A. Ketoja
589-601
Applications

Dynamical signautures of 'phase transitions' Chaos in finite clusters — Vishal Mehra, Saroj K. Nayak and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
603-615
Classical gauge theories as dynamical systems—Regularity and chaos — S. Lakshmibala, Bindu A. Bambah, M. S. Sriram and C. Mukku
617-635
Chaos in Josephson junctions — G. Ambika
637-654
Collective thermalization in quark gluon plasma — S. Sengupta, J. R. Bhatt, P. K. Kaw and J. C. Parikh
655-674
Nonlinear propagation of relativistically intense electromagnetic waves in a collisionless plasma — P. K. Kaw and A. Sen
675-692
The onset of chaos in the wake of an oscillating cylinder: Experiment and the dynamics of the circle map — D. J. Olinger, A. B. Chhabra and K. R. Sreenivasan
693
Chaos in jerky flow -Experimental verification of atheoretical prediction — S. J. Noronha, G. Ananthakrishna, L. Quaouire and C. Fressengeas
705-718
Some recent applications of cell dynamical modelling to phase ordering dynamics — Sanjay Puri
737-748
Noisy nonlinear coupled equations— Some new insights — J. K. Bhattacharjee, Anita Mehta and J. M. Luck
749-758
Nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics and sequence of time scales of relaxation in supercooled liquids — Shankar P. Das
759-773
Vol. 48, No. 3, March 1997

The larmor nutation — K. N. Srinivasa Rao and A. V. Gopala Rao
775-786
Coherent and squeezed states on physical basis — R. R. Puri
787-797
Classical limit of scattering in quantum mechanics-A general approach — D. Sen, A. N. Basu and S. Sengupta
799-809
Creation or destruction of sourceless abelian gauge strings in a Robertson-Walker universe — D. Bhattacharyya and S. Banerji
811-817
Higher dimensional Vaidya metric in Einstein and de Sitter backgroud — L. K. Patel and Lakshmi S. Desai
819-824
Algebraic expressions for effective potential characteristic parameters in heavy ion scattering — J. Jamir, E. F. P. Lyngdoh and C. S. Shastry
825-835
Non-leptonic weak charmed baryon decays in SU(4) semidynamical scheme — S. M. Sheikholeslami
837-848
Rapid communication

Helium atom in intense and superintense laser fields: A new theoretical approach — Bijoy Kr, Dey and B. M. Deb
849-858
Vol. 48, No. 4, April  1997

Surface harmonics for pentagonal point groups — K. Rama Mohana Rao, P. Hemagiri Rao and V. Satyavathi
859-870
Characterization of chaos in a serrated plastic flow model — S. V. Satyanarayana, V. Sridhar and S. Koka
871-882
Structural phase transition in substitued LaCuO4 and Pr2CuO4-y — Meena Chaudhri, Kunal B. Modi, K. M. Jadhav and G. K. Bichile
883-890
A stochastic model for solidification II. Application to binary metallic melts — Shobha Dass, Gautam Johri and Lakshman Pandey
891-922
Superconducting state parameters of metallic galss Mg10Zn30 using linearized screened pseudopotential — Manish gupta, K. S. Sharma and L. Dass

923-928
Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of phtorefractive crystals II: Fe3+ doped Bi12SiO20 with copper vapour laser illumination in 10-100k range — N. K. Powal, R. M. Kadam, Y. Babu, M. D. Sastry, M. D. Aggarwal and Putcha Venkateswarlu
929-935
Resonance de-enhancement in the 2 Ag state of trans-azobenzene — Nandita Biswas and Siva Umapathy
937-950
Brief Report

Kramers-Kronig analysis of the reflectance spectra of Pb-doped Bi-4334 type glass and the corresponding glass-ceramic super-conductor — Souri Banerjee, S. Chatterjee and B. K. Chaudhuri
951-958
Vol. 48, No. 5, May 1997


The geometric phase and ray space isometries — Joseph Samuel
959-967
Thomas rotation and polarized light: A non-abelian geometric phase in optics — Joseph Samuel and Supurna Sinha
969-975
On periodically kicked quantum systems — N. D. Sen Gupta
977-984
Weak decay constants of light and heavy pseudoscalar mesons — N. Barik, S. Kar and P. C. Dash
985-995
Meson spectroscopy with confined on gluon exchange potential — K. B. Vijaya Kumar, A. K. Rath and S. B. Khadkikar
997-1004
Two body non-leptonic decays B-Dz with heavy quark and chiral symmetry — A. K. Giri, L. Maharana and R. Mohanta
1005-1013
Solution of approximate gluon evolution equation for small-x at fixed — A. Saikia
1015-1019
Heavy-ion scattering at low energies: First order correction to the eikonal phase shift — S. K. Charagi
1021-1026
Semi-empirical formulae for A-binding energy in hypernuclei using mass distribution — M. Z. Rahman Khan, Nasra Neelofer and M. A. Suhail
1027-1034
Group theoretical aspects of Ub(6) Uf(20) symmetry limits of IBFM related to the Ub and Ob(6) limits of IBM — V. K. B. Kota
1035-1075
Photon interaction cross-sections and anomalous scattering factors of Cu and Ag — Sandiago, T. K. Umesh and Ramakrishna Gowda
1077-1090
Vol. 48, No. 6, June 1997

Probability distribution of normalized structure factor magnitudes for a centrosymmetric crystal with planar molecules in the unit cell — Sabita Das and G. B. Mitra
1091-1094
Activation energy of hydrogen in Lu — N. Singh and B. Kumar
1095-1103
Electron momentum density distribution in iridium by Compton scattering technique — K. B. Joshi, R. K. Pandya, B. L. Ahuja and B. K. Sharma
1105-1133
Magnetic behaviour of TbMnFe — Keka Chakraborty, S. K. Paranjpe, V. Siruguri, O. D. Jayakumar and S. K. Kulshreshtha
1115-1122
Spin state and exchange in the quasi-one-dimensional anti-ferromagnet KFeS2 — Satish Kumar Tiwary and Sukumaran Vasudevan
1123-1134
Field emission theory of dislocation-sensitized photo-stimulated exo-electron emission from coloured alkali halide crystals — B. P. Chandra, R. S. Chandok and P. K. Khare
1135-1143
Thermal quenching of luminescence in erbium doped semiconductors — B. Chanda and D. N. Bose
1145-1149
Spectroscopic properties of Er3+    ions in cadmium and alkali cadmium borosulphate glasses — C. K. Jayasankar and V. V. Ravi Kanth Kumar
1151-1160
Collisional excitation among the seven lowest states of TiXII — M. Mohan and A. Hibbert
1161-1168
Brief Report

Compton  profiles of electron momentum distribution in Ga — B. K. Acharya and N. C. Mohapatra
1169-1177