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Editorial p. V

J.-G. Caputo and M. P. Sørensen

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00199-2

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Modulational instability in isolated and driven Fermi–Pasta–Ulam lattices p. 3

T. Dauxois, R. Khomeriki and S. Ruffo

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00200-2

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The modulation instability revisited p. 25

H. Segur and D. M. Henderson

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00201-1

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Coupled Klein–Gordon equations and energy exchange in two-component systems p. 45

K. R. Khusnutdinova

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00202-0

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Energy localization and transport in two-dimensional Fermi–Pasta–Ulam lattices p. 73

R. Sarkar and B. Dey

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00203-y

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A system with distributed nonlinearities: The array of Josephson junctions p. 95

J.-G. Caputo and L. Loukitch

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00204-x

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Nonlinear waves over highly variable topography p. 113

A. Nachbin and W. Choi

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00205-9

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Vortex rings and solitary waves in trapped Bose–Einstein condensates p. 133

S. Komineas

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00206-8

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Localization of nonlinear excitations in curved waveguides and chains of nonlinear oscillators p. 153

Yu. B. Gaididei

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00207-7

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Fluctuations in the DNA double helix p. 173

M. Peyrard, S. C. López and D. Angelov

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00208-6

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The sine-Gordon equation in toroidal magnetic-fusion experiments p. 191

J. L. Shohet

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00209-5

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Nonlinear surface waves and solitons p. 209

G. A. Maugin

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00210-0

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Effects of nonlinear wave coupling: Accelerated solitons - Boomerons: From curiosity to nonlinear optics p. 233

A. Degasperis, M. Conforti, F. Baronio and S. Wabnitz

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00211-y

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The Maxwell-Lorentz model for optical pulses p. 253

M. P. Sørensen and M. Brio

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00212-x

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Nonlinear optical effects in artificial materials p. 265

A. I. Maimistov and I. R. Gabitov

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00213-9

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Cortical spreading depression: An enigma p. 287

R. M. Miura, H. Huang and J. J. Wylie

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00214-8

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Semiclassical and quantum polarons in crystalline acetanilide p. 303

P. Hamm and G. P. Tsironis

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00215-7

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Classical analogs for Rabi-oscillations, Ramsey-fringes, and spin-echo in Josephson junctions p. 333

J. E. Marchese, M. Cirillo and N. Grønbech-Jensen

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00216-6

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On a class of nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equations and wave collapse p. 343

M. Ablowitz, I. Bakirtas and B. Ilan

Published online: 29 August 2007

DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2007-00217-5

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