Physical Review E – June 1993
Volume 47, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

See Also: Comment
Level-spacing distribution of a singular billiard
T. Shigehara, N. Yoshinaga, Taksu Cheon, and T. Mizusaki
pp. R3822-R3825 [View Page Images or PDF (667 kB)]
Exact solution of an infinite class of stochastic models describing random sequential adsorption and other irreversible processes
Joel Yellin
pp. R3826-R3829 [View Page Images or PDF (608 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Head-on collision between two solitary waves in a Rayleigh-Bénard convecting fluid
Guoxiang Huang, Senyue Lou, and Zaixin Xu
pp. R3830-R3833 [View Page Images or PDF (558 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Complex Fluids

Concentration fluctuations of a binary liquid mixture in a macroporous glass
F. Aliev, W. I. Goldburg, and X-l. Wu
pp. R3834-R3837 [View Page Images or PDF (840 kB)]
Transitions and instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers
P. Bladon, E. M. Terentjev, and M. Warner
pp. R3838-R3840 [View Page Images or PDF (568 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

Counterpropagating periodic pulses in coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations
Boris A. Malomed
pp. R3841-R3843 [View Page Images or PDF (502 kB)]
Pulse propagation in optical fibers near the zero dispersion point
M. Klauder, E. W. Laedke, K. H. Spatschek, and S. K. Turitsyn
pp. R3844-R3847 [View Page Images or PDF (720 kB)]

Computational Physics

Hybrid Monte Carlo method for conserved-order-parameter systems
A. L. Ferreira and Raúl Toral
pp. R3848-R3851 [View Page Images or PDF (769 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Quantum irregular scattering in the presence of a classical stability island
Petr Šeba
pp. 3870-3878 [View Page Images or PDF (1,143 kB)]
Multifractal analysis of the galaxy distribution: Reliability of results from finite data sets
Stefano Borgani, Giuseppe Murante, Antonello Provenzale, and Riccardo Valdarnini
pp. 3879-3888 [View Page Images or PDF (1,957 kB)]
Synchronization of chaotic orbits: The effect of a finite time step
R. E. Amritkar and Neelima Gupte
pp. 3889-3895 [View Page Images or PDF (998 kB)]
Crossover scaling in Scheidegger’s river-network model
Takashi Nagatani
pp. 3896-3899 [View Page Images or PDF (551 kB)]
Characteristic-functional approach to the study of stochastic fluctuations in a model of ionization growth in a discharge gap
Javier E. Vitela and Lorena Zogaib
pp. 3900-3914 [View Page Images or PDF (2,171 kB)]
Nonlinear relaxation in the presence of an absorbing barrier
S. Ciuchi, F. de Pasquale, and B. Spagnolo
pp. 3915-3926 [View Page Images or PDF (1,735 kB)]
Dependence of phase transitions on small changes
R. Stoop
pp. 3927-3931 [View Page Images or PDF (731 kB)]
Small-angle Krein collisions in a family of four-dimensional reversible maps
A. Bhowal, T. K. Roy, and A. Lahiri
pp. 3932-3940 [View Page Images or PDF (1,134 kB)]
Stochastic resonance as a crisis in a period-doubled circuit
T. L. Carroll and L. M. Pecora
pp. 3941-3949 [View Page Images or PDF (1,432 kB)]
Ising model in an oscillating magnetic field: Mean-field theory
Michael F. Zimmer
pp. 3950-3955 [View Page Images or PDF (1,081 kB)]
Thermodynamics and transport properties of n-butane computed by molecular dynamics using a rigid interaction model
H. Luo and C. Hoheisel
pp. 3956-3961 [View Page Images or PDF (819 kB)]
Calculating Lyapunov exponents for short and/or noisy data sets
Reggie Brown
pp. 3962-3969 [View Page Images or PDF (1,247 kB)]
Mean first-passage time for systems driven by pre-Gaussian noise: Natural boundary conditions
Ulrich Behn, Reinhard Müller, and Peter Talkner
pp. 3970-3974 [View Page Images or PDF (660 kB)]
Structural changes accompanying densification of random hard-sphere packings
Andrew S. Clarke and Hannes Jónsson
pp. 3975-3984 [View Page Images or PDF (1,808 kB)]
Statistical mechanics of a Hopfield neural-network model in a transverse field
Yu-qiang Ma, Yue-ming Zhang, Yu-gang Ma, and Chang-de Gong
pp. 3985-3987 [View Page Images or PDF (443 kB)]
First-passage times and solutions of the telegrapher equation with boundaries
Hans J. Leydolt
pp. 3988-3995 [View Page Images or PDF (1,019 kB)]
Probability distributions and escape rates for systems driven by quasimonochromatic noise
M. I. Dykman, R. Mannella, P. V. E. McClintock, N. D. Stein, and N. G. Stocks
pp. 3996-4009 [View Page Images or PDF (2,097 kB)]
Information and entropy
Carlton M. Caves
pp. 4010-4017 [View Page Images or PDF (1,461 kB)]
Diffusive dynamics of deposition-evaporation systems, jamming, and broken symmetries in related quantum-spin models
R. B. Stinchcombe, M. D. Grynberg, and Mustansir Barma
pp. 4018-4036 [View Page Images or PDF (3,135 kB)]
Model for coarsening froths and foams
Henrik Flyvbjerg
pp. 4037-4054 [View Page Images or PDF (3,197 kB)]
Mean first-passage time in the presence of telegraph noise and the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
M. Kuś and K. Wódkiewicz
pp. 4055-4062 [View Page Images or PDF (1,023 kB)]
Modeling chaotic quantum systems by tridiagonal random matrices
Hua Wu, D. W. L. Sprung, Da Hsuan Feng, and Michel Vallières
pp. 4063-4066 [View Page Images or PDF (512 kB)]
Relaxation and stationary properties of a nonlinear system driven by white shot noise: An exactly solvable model
R. Zygadło
pp. 4067-4075 [View Page Images or PDF (1,534 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

Diffusion in liquids from a first-passage-time point of view
T. Munakata and Y. Kaneko
pp. 4076-4082 [View Page Images or PDF (824 kB)]
Positron lifetime distributions in fluids
Bruce N. Miller, Terrence L. Reese, and Gregory Worrell
pp. 4083-4087 [View Page Images or PDF (948 kB)]
Weighted-density-functional theory of nonuniform ionic fluids: Application to electric double layers
Chandra N. Patra and Swapan K. Ghosh
pp. 4088-4097 [View Page Images or PDF (1,391 kB)]
Velocity correlations in a one-dimensional lattice gas: Theory and simulations
T. Naitoh, M. H. Ernst, M. A. van der Hoef, and D. Frenkel
pp. 4098-4103 [View Page Images or PDF (1,062 kB)]
Behavior of entropy in hyperbolic heat conduction
M. Criado-Sancho and J. E. Llebot
pp. 4104-4107 [View Page Images or PDF (591 kB)]
Anderson localization and solitonic energy transport in one-dimensional oscillatory systems
G. S. Zavt, M. Wagner, and A. Lütze
pp. 4108-4119 [View Page Images or PDF (1,929 kB)]
Liquid structure of the alkaline-earth metals
L. E. González, A. Meyer, M. P. Iñiguez, D. J. González, and M. Silbert
pp. 4120-4129 [View Page Images or PDF (1,622 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Experimental observation of the quasiperiodic modes in a rotating Couette system
Y. Takeda, W. E. Fischer, J. Sakakibara, and K. Ohmura
pp. 4130-4134 [View Page Images or PDF (812 kB)]
Breakdown of shock-wave-structure solutions
Tommaso Ruggeri
pp. 4135-4140 [View Page Images or PDF (884 kB)]
Evolution of patterns in the anisotropic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation: Modulational instability
R. Brown, A. L. Fabrikant, and M. I. Rabinovich
pp. 4141-4150 [View Page Images or PDF (1,374 kB)]
Ordering and finite-size effects in the dynamics of one-dimensional transient patterns
A. Amengual, E. Hernández-García, and M. San Miguel
pp. 4151-4160 [View Page Images or PDF (2,032 kB)]
Crossover of spectral scaling in thermal turbulence
Siegfried Grossmann and Victor S. L’vov
pp. 4161-4168 [View Page Images or PDF (1,416 kB)]
Droplet breakup in a model of the Hele-Shaw cell
Peter Constantin, Todd F. Dupont, Raymond E. Goldstein, Leo P. Kadanoff, Michael J. Shelley, and Su-Min Zhou
pp. 4169-4181 [View Page Images or PDF (1,805 kB)]
Finite-time singularity formation in Hele-Shaw systems
Todd F. Dupont, Raymond E. Goldstein, Leo P. Kadanoff, and Su-Min Zhou
pp. 4182-4196 [View Page Images or PDF (1,926 kB)]

Complex Fluids

Weakly to strongly structured mixtures
M. Kahlweit, R. Strey, and G. Busse
pp. 4197-4209 [View Page Images or PDF (1,990 kB)]
Connection between integrated intensities of depolarized-light-scattering spectra and mesoscopic order in liquids
Daniel Kivelson and Gilles Tarjus
pp. 4210-4214 [View Page Images or PDF (1,100 kB)]
Molecular clusters and correlations in water by x-ray and neutron diffraction
A. K. Karmakar and R. N. Joarder
pp. 4215-4222 [View Page Images or PDF (1,181 kB)]
Light-scattering spectroscopy of the liquid-glass transition in CaKNO3 and in the molecular glass Salol: Extended-mode-coupling-theory analysis
H. Z. Cummins, W. M. Du, M. Fuchs, W. Götze, S. Hildebrand, A. Latz, G. Li, and N. J. Tao
pp. 4223-4239 [View Page Images or PDF (2,844 kB)]
See Also: Comment
Monte Carlo study of polymer chains end-grafted onto a spherical interface
Raúl Toral and Amitabha Chakrabarti
pp. 4240-4246 [View Page Images or PDF (1,141 kB)]
Lattice Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook models for miscible fluids
E. G. Flekkøy
pp. 4247-4257 [View Page Images or PDF (1,900 kB)]
Phase behavior of dense three-component ionic microemulsions and electrical conductivity in the lamellar phase
A. Di Biasio, C. Cametti, P. Codastefano, P. Tartaglia, J. Rouch, and S. H. Chen
pp. 4258-4264 [View Page Images or PDF (1,365 kB)]
Time-dependent correlation functions in a one-dimensional asymmetric exclusion process
Gunter Schütz
pp. 4265-4277 [View Page Images or PDF (2,232 kB)]
Associating-polymer effects in a Hele-Shaw experiment
H. Zhao and J. V. Maher
pp. 4278-4283 [View Page Images or PDF (1,110 kB)]
Perturbation weighted-density approximation: The phase diagram of a Lennard-Jones system
L. Mederos, G. Navascués, P. Tarazona, and E. Chacón
pp. 4284-4288 [View Page Images or PDF (921 kB)]
Ginzburg-Landau theory of ternary amphiphilic systems. I. Gaussian interface fluctuations
G. Gompper and Martin Kraus
pp. 4289-4300 [View Page Images or PDF (1,915 kB)]
See Also: See Also
Ginzburg-Landau theory of ternary amphiphilic systems. II. Monte Carlo simulations
G. Gompper and Martin Kraus
pp. 4301-4312 [View Page Images or PDF (2,683 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Array of doublets: A branch of cellular solutions in directional solidification
H. Jamgotchian, R. Trivedi, and B. Billia
pp. 4313-4322 [View Page Images or PDF (3,673 kB)]

Plasma Physics

Validity of the effective temperature scale for a dilute Li+ swarm in a Xe gas
P. P. Ong
pp. 4323-4329 [View Page Images or PDF (1,140 kB)]
Thermal energy of the crystalline one-component plasma from dynamical simulations
R. T. Farouki and S. Hamaguchi
pp. 4330-4336 [View Page Images or PDF (1,139 kB)]
Nonlinear radiative-condensation instability and pattern formation: One-dimensional dynamics
Igor Aranson, Baruch Meerson, and Pavel V. Sasorov
pp. 4337-4348 [View Page Images or PDF (2,163 kB)]
X-ray emission from a 650-fs laser-produced barium plasma
W. H. Goldstein, A. Zigler, P. G. Burkhalter, D. J. Nagel, A. Bar-Shalom, J. Oreg, T. S. Luk, A. McPherson, and C. K. Rhodes
pp. 4349-4353 [View Page Images or PDF (794 kB)]
Linear waves in relativistic anisotropic magnetohydrodynamics
M. Gedalin
pp. 4354-4357 [View Page Images or PDF (463 kB)]

Physics of Beams

Concise expression of a classical radiation spectrum
Chunxi Wang
pp. 4358-4363 [View Page Images or PDF (776 kB)]
Linear and nonlinear theory of gyroharmonic radiation into modes of a cylindrical waveguide from spatiotemporally modulated electron beams
A. K. Ganguly and J. L. Hirshfield
pp. 4364-4380 [View Page Images or PDF (2,561 kB)]
Transition to stochasticity in the relativistic and the nonrelativistic versions of a dynamical system
Chronis Polymilis and Kyriakos Hizanidis
pp. 4381-4398 [View Page Images or PDF (2,664 kB)]
Various characteristics of a waveguide-mode free-electron laser using a long-pulse relativistic electron beam
Y. Kawamura, B. C. Lee, M. Kawai, and K. Toyoda
pp. 4399-4404 [View Page Images or PDF (913 kB)]
Perturbation expansion for particle distributions in hadron storage rings
J. Shi and S. Ohnuma
pp. 4405-4411 [View Page Images or PDF (931 kB)]
Analysis of the saturation of a high-gain free-electron laser
Robert L. Gluckstern, Samuel Krinsky, and Hiromi Okamoto
pp. 4412-4429 [View Page Images or PDF (2,292 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

Continua of localized wave solutions via a complex similarity transformation
P. L. Overfelt
pp. 4430-4438 [View Page Images or PDF (1,189 kB)]
Spherical wave functions and dyadic Green’s functions for homogeneous elastic anisotropic media
Wei Ren
pp. 4439-4446 [View Page Images or PDF (1,024 kB)]
Asymptotic behavior of one-dimensional nonlinear discrete kink-bearing systems in the continuum limit: Problems of nonuniform convergence
S. Flach and C. R. Willis
pp. 4447-4456 [View Page Images or PDF (1,416 kB)]

Biological Physics

Cooling schedules for learning in neural networks
Tom M. Heskes, Eddy T. P. Slijpen, and Bert Kappen
pp. 4457-4464 [View Page Images or PDF (1,160 kB)]
Neural networks optimally trained with noisy data
K. Y. Michael Wong and David Sherrington
pp. 4465-4482 [View Page Images or PDF (3,305 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Dynamics of an A-DNA homopolymer crystal with sodium ions: A Green-function approach
L. Chern and E. W. Prohofsky
pp. 4483-4495 [View Page Images or PDF (1,860 kB)]
‘‘Cavity-approach’’ analysis of the neural-network learning problem
M. Griniasty
pp. 4496-4513 [View Page Images or PDF (2,380 kB)]
Generalized Lévy-walk model for DNA nucleotide sequences
Sergey V. Buldyrev, Ary L. Goldberger, Shlomo Havlin, Chung-Kang Peng, Michael Simons, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 4514-4523 [View Page Images or PDF (1,613 kB)]
Analog neural networks with local competition. I. Dynamics and stability
F. R. Waugh and R. M. Westervelt
pp. 4524-4536 [View Page Images or PDF (2,389 kB)]
See Also: See Also
Analog neural networks with local competition. II. Application to associative memory
F. R. Waugh and R. M. Westervelt
pp. 4537-4551 [View Page Images or PDF (2,228 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Cycles and circles in roundoff errors
George G. Szpiro
pp. 4560-4563 [View Page Images or PDF (470 kB)]
Brownian-particle trapping by clusters of traps
A. M. Berezhkovskii, Yu. A. Makhnovskii, L. V. Bogachev, and S. A. Molchanov
pp. 4564-4567 [View Page Images or PDF (709 kB)]
Exact evaluation of diffusion dynamics in a potential well with a general delocalized sink
Alok Samanta and Swapan K. Ghosh
pp. 4568-4571 [View Page Images or PDF (603 kB)]
Growth of interfaces with a conservation law and spatial-temporal correlations
Hanfei and Benkun Ma
pp. 4572-4574 [View Page Images or PDF (360 kB)]
Onset of spatiotemporal intermittency in a coupled-map lattice
John R. de Bruyn and Lihong Pan
pp. 4575-4578 [View Page Images or PDF (526 kB)]
Simple stochastic model for resonant activation
C. Van den Broeck
pp. 4579-4580 [View Page Images or PDF (318 kB)]
Self-organized criticality in 4He with a heat current
J. Machta, D. Candela, and R. B. Hallock
pp. 4581 [View Page Images or PDF (192 kB)]
Bethe lattices in hyperbolic space
B. Söderberg
pp. 4582-4584 [View Page Images or PDF (420 kB)]
Modifying the onset of homoclinic chaos: Application to a bistable potential
G. Cicogna and L. Fronzoni
pp. 4585-4588 [View Page Images or PDF (563 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

Wind-tree model in two dimensions with internal degrees of freedom: Exact solution
U. Schultze, K. A. Penson, A. Perera, and M. Moreau
pp. 4589-4592 [View Page Images or PDF (451 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Two-dimensional evolution of surface gravity waves on a fluid of arbitrary depth
Y. Matsuno
pp. 4593-4596 [View Page Images or PDF (613 kB)]
Instability mechanism at driven contact lines
Michael P. Brenner
pp. 4597-4599 [View Page Images or PDF (492 kB)]

Complex Fluids

Spin-lattice relaxation of polymers: The memory-function formalism
N. Fatkullin, R. Kimmich, and H. W. Weber
pp. 4600-4603 [View Page Images or PDF (565 kB)]
Rigidity and connectivity percolation in heterogeneous polymer-fluid networks
David H. Boal
pp. 4604-4606 [View Page Images or PDF (665 kB)]
Hyperscaling and nonclassical exponents for the line tension at wetting
J. O. Indekeu and A. Robledo
pp. 4607-4610 [View Page Images or PDF (633 kB)]
Calculating the helical twisting power of dopants in a liquid crystal by computer simulation
Michael P. Allen
pp. 4611-4614 [View Page Images or PDF (737 kB)]
Interference of phase separation and gelation: A zeroth-order kinetic model
Francesco Sciortino, Rama Bansil, H. Eugene Stanley, and Preben Alstrøm
pp. 4615-4618 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]

Plasma Physics

Perturbation theory in the exact linearized kinetic equation for a plasma
V. B. Bobrov, P. P. J. M. Schram, and S. A. Trigger
pp. 4619-4622 [View Page Images or PDF (603 kB)]
Total backward reflection of electromagnetic radiation due to resonant excitation of surface waves
Yu. M. Aliev, A. A. Frolov, G. Brodin, and L. Stenflo
pp. 4623-4624 [View Page Images or PDF (304 kB)]

Physics of Beams

Explosive free-electron-laser instability in a plasma-filled waveguide
Bao-liang Qian, Yong-gui Liu, and Tsin-chi Yang
pp. 4625-4627 [View Page Images or PDF (383 kB)]

COMMENTS

Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Suppression of chaos by resonant parametric perturbations’ ’’
Ricardo Lima and Marco Pettini
pp. 4630-4631 [View Page Images or PDF (237 kB)]

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