Physical Review E – January 1994
Volume 49, Issue 1

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Periodic orbit analysis of billiard level dynamics
M. Kollmann, J. Stein, U. Stoffregen, H.-J. Stöckmann, and B. Eckhardt
pp. R1-R4 [View Page Images or PDF (645 kB)]
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Phase representation and its application in the analytical treatment of the theoretical sandpile
Jiang-Ping Hu and Meng Ding
pp. R5-R7 [View Page Images or PDF (408 kB)]
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Probability distribution for a multifractal field
J. M. Deutsch and Robert A. Zacher
pp. R8-R10 [View Page Images or PDF (469 kB)]
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Signatures of chaos in quantum billiards: Microwave experiments
A. Kudrolli, S. Sridhar, Akhilesh Pandey, and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy
pp. R11-R14 [View Page Images or PDF (698 kB)]
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Static parametric fluctuations give nonstatistical behavior in uncoupled chaotic systems
Gabriel Pérez and Hilda A. Cerdeira
pp. R15-R18 [View Page Images or PDF (705 kB)]
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Lorentz transformations in bifurcating systems
H. Svensmark and H. C. Fogedby
pp. R19-R22 [View Page Images or PDF (554 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium density profiles of deposition-evaporation stochastic systems
M. D. Grynberg and R. B. Stinchcombe
pp. R23-R26 [View Page Images or PDF (656 kB)]
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Growth laws for phase ordering
A. J. Bray and A. D. Rutenberg
pp. R27-R30 [View Page Images or PDF (752 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Thermally sustained structure in convectively unstable systems
Robert J. Deissler
pp. R31-R34 [View Page Images or PDF (765 kB)]
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Dynamics of dislocations in hexagonal patterns
M. I. Rabinovich and L. S. Tsimring
pp. R35-R38 [View Page Images or PDF (680 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Surface-pattern evolution in a swelling gel under a geometrical constraint: Direct observation of fold structure and its coarsening dynamics
Hajime Tanaka and Tomoo Sigehuzi
pp. R39-R42 [View Page Images or PDF (768 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Conductance noise in electrodeposition
Stéphane Roux and Alex Hansen
pp. R43-R46 [View Page Images or PDF (659 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Free-electron-laser model without the slowly-varying-envelope approximation
E. H. Haselhoff
pp. R47-R50 [View Page Images or PDF (629 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Instability of a crack in a heated strip
M. Marder
pp. R51-R54 [View Page Images or PDF (509 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Bounded cascade models as nonstationary multifractals
A. Marshak, A. Davis, R. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe
pp. 55-69 [View Page Images or PDF (2,460 kB)]
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Quantum modifications of classical diffusion in coordinate space for chaotic systems
A. R. Kolovsky, S. Miyazaki, and R. Graham
pp. 70-78 [View Page Images or PDF (1,289 kB)]
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Two-dimensional quantum spin Hamiltonians: Spectral properties
P. van Ede van der Pals and P. Gaspard
pp. 79-98 [View Page Images or PDF (3,040 kB)]
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Critical dimensionalities of phase transitions on fractals
Yu Shi and Changde Gong
pp. 99-103 [View Page Images or PDF (858 kB)]
See Also: Comment Erratum
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Self-organized criticality in computer models of settling powders
R. E. Snyder and R. C. Ball
pp. 104-109 [View Page Images or PDF (863 kB)]
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Temperature as a bifurcation parameter in nonlinear electronic circuits
I. Balberg and H. Arbell
pp. 110-113 [View Page Images or PDF (744 kB)]
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Some properties of invariant random-matrix ensembles and their connection to ergodic and nonergodic Hamiltonian systems
David M. Leitner and L. S. Cederbaum
pp. 114-121 [View Page Images or PDF (1,415 kB)]
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Kinetic super-roughening and anomalous dynamic scaling in nonequilibrium growth models
S. Das Sarma, S. V. Ghaisas, and J. M. Kim
pp. 122-125 [View Page Images or PDF (732 kB)]
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Maximum-likelihood estimation of the entropy of an attractor
Jaap C. Schouten, Floris Takens, and Cor M. van den Bleek
pp. 126-129 [View Page Images or PDF (629 kB)]
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Statistical properties of chaotic scattering with one open channel
F. M. Izrailev, D. Saher, and V. V. Sokolov
pp. 130-138 [View Page Images or PDF (1,523 kB)]
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Two-temperature kinetic Ising model in one dimension: Steady-state correlations in terms of energy and energy flux
Z. Rácz and R. K. P. Zia
pp. 139-144 [View Page Images or PDF (975 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics as a stochastic process
Sarah John and John W. Wilson
pp. 145-156 [View Page Images or PDF (1,368 kB)]
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Loci of limit cycles
Douglas Poland
pp. 157-165 [View Page Images or PDF (1,140 kB)]
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Secondary instabilities in the stabilized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
Chaouqi Misbah and Alexandre Valance
pp. 166-183 [View Page Images or PDF (3,400 kB)]
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Pattern-formation characteristics of interacting kinematic waves
Michael Leibig
pp. 184-191 [View Page Images or PDF (1,462 kB)]
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Statistical closure and the logistic map
J. D. Bauer and Frank R. Graziani
pp. 192-198 [View Page Images or PDF (751 kB)]
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Multiscaling behavior in the crossover between surface and bulk critical exponents for percolation in two dimensions
R. A. Monetti and E. V. Albano
pp. 199-202 [View Page Images or PDF (593 kB)]
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Delay-induced instabilities in nonlinear feedback systems
W. Wischert, A. Wunderlin, A. Pelster, M. Olivier, and J. Groslambert
pp. 203-219 [View Page Images or PDF (2,590 kB)]
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Stabilization of quasiperiodic orbits for line-coupled diode resonator systems
Z. Yu, J. Steinshnider, C. L. Littler, J. M. Perez, and J. M. Kowalski
pp. 220-226 [View Page Images or PDF (895 kB)]
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Weak non-self-averaging behavior for diffusion in a trapping environment
Achille Giacometti and Amos Maritan
pp. 227-231 [View Page Images or PDF (727 kB)]
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Quasilattice of fixed points of the fivefold stochastic web map
J. H. Lowenstein
pp. 232-246 [View Page Images or PDF (2,080 kB)]
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Pinning in phase-separating systems
Sharon C. Glotzer, Mark F. Gyure, Francesco Sciortino, Antonio Coniglio, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 247-258 [View Page Images or PDF (1,892 kB)]
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Escape rates in bistable systems induced by quasimonochromatic noise
S. J. B. Einchcomb and A. J. McKane
pp. 259-266 [View Page Images or PDF (1,015 kB)]
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Long-range correlations in diffusive systems away from equilibrium
I. Pagonabarraga and J. M. Rubí
pp. 267-272 [View Page Images or PDF (935 kB)]
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Tunneling and the onset of chaos in a driven bistable system
R. Utermann, T. Dittrich, and P. Hänggi
pp. 273-280 [View Page Images or PDF (1,263 kB)]
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Density waves in the flows of granular media
Jysoo Lee
pp. 281-298 [View Page Images or PDF (2,821 kB)]
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Anisotropic polydomain structure in a driven lattice gas with repulsive interaction
György Szabó, Attila Szolnoki, and Tibor Antal
pp. 299-304 [View Page Images or PDF (1,166 kB)]
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Adsorption of line segments on a square lattice
B. Bonnier, M. Hontebeyrie, Y. Leroyer, C. Meyers, and E. Pommiers
pp. 305-312 [View Page Images or PDF (1,229 kB)]
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Synchronization of chaos using proportional feedback
T. C. Newell, P. M. Alsing, A. Gavrielides, and V. Kovanis
pp. 313-318 [View Page Images or PDF (1,123 kB)]
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Suppression of chaos by nonresonant parametric perturbations
Yuri S. Kivshar, Frank Rödelsperger, and Hartmut Benner
pp. 319-324 [View Page Images or PDF (964 kB)]
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Transition from Poissonian to Gaussian-orthogonal-ensemble level statistics in a modified Artin’s billiard
A. Csordás, R. Graham, P. Szépfalusy, and G. Vattay
pp. 325-332 [View Page Images or PDF (1,129 kB)]
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Fluctuations in radioactive decays. I. Nonequilibrium effects and noise
Roberto Boscaino, Giorgio Concas, Marcello Lissia, and Sergio Serci
pp. 333-340 [View Page Images or PDF (1,322 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Fluctuations in radioactive decays. II. Experimental results
Roberto Boscaino, Giorgio Concas, Marcello Lissia, and Sergio Serci
pp. 341-346 [View Page Images or PDF (981 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Relaxation dynamics of hot protons in a thermal bath of atomic hydrogen
Andrew S. Clarke and Bernie Shizgal
pp. 347-358 [View Page Images or PDF (1,851 kB)]
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Transverse-current autocorrelation-function calculations of the shear viscosity for molecular liquids
Bruce J. Palmer
pp. 359-366 [View Page Images or PDF (1,330 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation of the Boltzmann equation for steady Fourier flow
J. M. Montanero, M. Alaoui, A. Santos, and V. Garzó
pp. 367-375 [View Page Images or PDF (1,556 kB)]
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Self-consistent solution for the generalized hydrodynamics model of suspension dynamics: Comparison of theory with rheological and optical measurements
Norman J. Wagner
pp. 376-401 [View Page Images or PDF (4,109 kB)]
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Exploring the influence of three-body classical dispersion forces on phase equilibria of simple fluids: An integral-equation approach
J. A. Anta, E. Lomba, and M. Lombardero
pp. 402-409 [View Page Images or PDF (1,203 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Mathematical model for laser ablation to generate nanoscale and submicrometer-size particles
A. Kar and J. Mazumder
pp. 410-419 [View Page Images or PDF (1,586 kB)]
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Non-Newtonian effects on immiscible viscous fingering in a radial Hele-Shaw cell
John E. Sader, Derek Y. C. Chan, and Barry D. Hughes
pp. 420-432 [View Page Images or PDF (2,064 kB)]
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Phonons in liquids, Onsager’s reciprocal relations, and the heats of transport
F. S. Gaeta, C. Albanese, D. G. Mita, and F. Peluso
pp. 433-444 [View Page Images or PDF (2,280 kB)]
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Stability of a planar flame front in the slow-combustion regime
M. A. Liberman, V. V. Bychkov, S. M. Golberg, and D. L. Book
pp. 445-453 [View Page Images or PDF (1,384 kB)]
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Quantitative experimental study of the free decay of quasi-two-dimensional turbulence
O. Cardoso, D. Marteau, and P. Tabeling
pp. 454-461 [View Page Images or PDF (1,820 kB)]
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Measurement of a short-wavelength instability in Taylor vortex flow
Michael Dennin, David S. Cannell, and Guenter Ahlers
pp. 462-469 [View Page Images or PDF (1,768 kB)]
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Robustness of vortex streets
F. Hayot and L. Wagner
pp. 470-473 [View Page Images or PDF (670 kB)]
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Mean-field theories of random advection
Alan R. Kerstein and Patrick A. McMurtry
pp. 474-482 [View Page Images or PDF (1,711 kB)]
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Spatially uniform traveling cellular patterns at a driven interface
Lihong Pan and John R. de Bruyn
pp. 483-493 [View Page Images or PDF (1,955 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Monte Carlo study of interfacial properties in an amphiphilic system
F. Schmid and M. Schick
pp. 494-500 [View Page Images or PDF (1,161 kB)]
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Molecular theory of elastic constants of liquid crystals. II. Application to the biaxial nematic phase
Yashwant Singh, Kumar Rajesh, Vairelil J. Menon, and Shri Singh
pp. 501-512 [View Page Images or PDF (1,500 kB)]
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Pair-correlation function in two-dimensional lattice gases
E. Scalas and R. Ferrando
pp. 513-520 [View Page Images or PDF (1,160 kB)]
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Anisotropy in Langmuir monolayers supported by flowing water
Yang-Ming Zhu, Zu-Hong Lu, Feng Qian, Xiao-Min Yang, and Yu Wei
pp. 521-523 [View Page Images or PDF (447 kB)]
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Phase separation in binary mixtures confined in a strip geometry
Aniket Bhattacharya, Madan Rao, and Amitabha Chakrabarti
pp. 524-530 [View Page Images or PDF (1,308 kB)]
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Mass diffusion of diatomic fluids in random micropore spaces using equilibrium molecular dynamics
Mark Biggs and Pradeep Agarwal
pp. 531-537 [View Page Images or PDF (1,089 kB)]
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Director fluctuations and anisotropic reorientation of a liquid crystal: A deuterium NMR study
Ronald Y. Dong and X. Shen
pp. 538-544 [View Page Images or PDF (1,198 kB)]
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Thermal conductivity of the nematic liquid crystal 4-n-pentyl-4’-cyanobiphenyl
Guenter Ahlers, David S. Cannell, Lars Inge Berge, and Shinichi Sakurai
pp. 545-553 [View Page Images or PDF (1,482 kB)]
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Mesoscopic physics of swollen polymer networks: Statics and dynamics
R. Bruinsma and Y. Rabin
pp. 554-569 [View Page Images or PDF (2,978 kB)]
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Structure and shape of nematic liquid-crystal microdroplets
Wei Huang and G. F. Tuthill
pp. 570-574 [View Page Images or PDF (698 kB)]
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Screening effect and phase transitions in solutions of rodlike dipoles
K. Kornev
pp. 575-582 [View Page Images or PDF (976 kB)]
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Self-consistent-field calculation of the structure of the static properties of the solid-fluid interface: The monomer systems
Xiang-Yang Liu
pp. 583-590 [View Page Images or PDF (1,283 kB)]
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Computation of the water density distribution at the ice-water interface using the potentials-of-mean-force expansion
Gerhard Hummer and Dikeos Mario Soumpasis
pp. 591-596 [View Page Images or PDF (997 kB)]
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Dynamic simulations of shear-flow-induced chirality and twisted-texture transitions of a liquid-crystalline polymer
W. H. Han and A. D. Rey
pp. 597-613 [View Page Images or PDF (2,613 kB)]
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Monte Carlo study of the effect of an applied field on the molecular organization of polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal droplets
E. Berggren, C. Zannoni, C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, and F. Semeria
pp. 614-622 [View Page Images or PDF (1,497 kB)]
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Critical-noise measurement near Fréedericksz transitions in nematic liquid crytals
P. Galatola and M. Rajteri
pp. 623-628 [View Page Images or PDF (888 kB)]
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Anchoring properties of lyotropic liquid crystals near the nematic-isotropic transition
E. A. Oliveira and A. M. Figueiredo Neto
pp. 629-635 [View Page Images or PDF (1,031 kB)]
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Test of the bounds on the crossover exponent for polymer adsorption on fractals
Ivan Živić, Sava Milošević, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 636-640 [View Page Images or PDF (776 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Nucleation and growth with periodic modulation: Asymptotic versus exact results
V. A. Shneidman and P. Hänggi
pp. 641-648 [View Page Images or PDF (1,461 kB)]
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Morphology of Ge:Al thin films: Experiments and model
Yossi Lereah, Irena Zarudi, Enrique Grünbaum, Guy Deutscher, Sergy V. Buldyrev, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 649-656 [View Page Images or PDF (1,567 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Production of large O-containing neutral hydrocarbon species by a CH4-O2 microwave discharge
Toshihiro Fujii and Ken-ichi Syouji
pp. 657-662 [View Page Images or PDF (774 kB)]
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Electron-ion relaxation in a plasma interacting with an intense laser field
A. Ya. Polishchuk and J. Meyer-Ter-Vehn
pp. 663-666 [View Page Images or PDF (596 kB)]
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Variational approach to approximate propagation of Gaussian pulses in a Langmuir plasma
J. C. Bhakta
pp. 667-670 [View Page Images or PDF (489 kB)]
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Short-pulse terahertz radiation from high-intensity-laser-produced plasmas
H. Hamster, A. Sullivan, S. Gordon, and R. W. Falcone
pp. 671-677 [View Page Images or PDF (1,318 kB)]
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Langevin approach to collisional bremsstrahlung in a magnetic field
M. Pieruccini, G. Ferrante, S. Nuzzo, and M. Zarcone
pp. 678-686 [View Page Images or PDF (1,347 kB)]
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Ion- and electron-temperature fluctuations excited by resistive instabilities in a self-consistently stationary inhomogeneous plasma
K. Katou
pp. 687-691 [View Page Images or PDF (615 kB)]
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Negative-energy perturbations in general and in arbitrary one-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell equilibria
Darío Correa-Restrepo and Dieter Pfirsch
pp. 692-708 [View Page Images or PDF (1,836 kB)]
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Collision operators for partially linearized particle simulation codes
Andris M. Dimits and Bruce I. Cohen
pp. 709-721 [View Page Images or PDF (2,313 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Construction of symplectic maps for nonlinear motion of particles in accelerators
J. S. Berg, R. L. Warnock, R. D. Ruth, and É. Forest
pp. 722-739 [View Page Images or PDF (3,169 kB)]
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Net electron acceleration by a strong laser field and a rf wave
Liang Feng and Yu-Kun Ho
pp. 740-744 [View Page Images or PDF (628 kB)]
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Three-dimensional theory of an ion-ripple laser
Zhi-Min Dai and Lei Xu
pp. 745-750 [View Page Images or PDF (958 kB)]
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From the beam-envelope matrix to synchrotron-radiation integrals
Kazuhito Ohmi, Kohji Hirata, and Katsunobu Oide
pp. 751-765 [View Page Images or PDF (2,184 kB)]
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Electron trajectories in a helical free-electron laser with an axial guide field
J. T. Donohue and J. L. Rullier
pp. 766-784 [View Page Images or PDF (3,030 kB)]
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Coherent transition radiation in the far-infrared region
Yukio Shibata, Kimihiro Ishi, Toshiharu Takahashi, Toshinobu Kanai, Fumitaka Arai, Shin-ichi Kimura, Toshiaki Ohsaka, Mikihiko Ikezawa, Yasuhiro Kondo, Ryukou Kato, Shigekazu Urasawa, Toshiharu Nakazato, Satoshi Niwano, Masahiro Yoshioka, and Masayuki Oyamada
pp. 785-793 [View Page Images or PDF (1,494 kB)]
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Trapped electromagnetic modes in a waveguide with a small discontinuity
G. V. Stupakov and S. S. Kurennoy
pp. 794-799 [View Page Images or PDF (1,008 kB)]
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Spectral behavior of high-power Compton free-electron lasers. I. Broadening and asymptotic equilibrium
D. Iracane, P. Chaix, and J. L. Ferrer
pp. 800-814 [View Page Images or PDF (2,545 kB)]
See Also: See Also
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Spectral behavior of high-power Compton free-electron lasers. II. Effect of filtering and tapering on sideband generation
D. Iracane, P. Chaix, and H. Delbarre
pp. 815-827 [View Page Images or PDF (2,218 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Generation of envelope and hole solitons in an experimental transmission line
P. Marquie, J. M. Bilbault, and M. Remoissenet
pp. 828-835 [View Page Images or PDF (1,232 kB)]
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Integrability and localized excitations in nonlinear discrete systems
S. Flach, C. R. Willis, and E. Olbrich
pp. 836-850 [View Page Images or PDF (2,819 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Structural information in the local electric field of dissolved B-DNA
David Hochberg, Thomas W. Kephart, and Glenn Edwards
pp. 851-867 [View Page Images or PDF (1,944 kB)]
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Knotting and supercoiling in circular DNA: A model incorporating the effect of added salt
M. C. Tesi, E. J. Janse van Rensburg, E. Orlandini, D. W. Sumners, and S. G. Whittington
pp. 868-872 [View Page Images or PDF (811 kB)]
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Near-neighbor effects in cooperative modified self-consistent phonon approximation melting in DNA
Y. Z. Chen and E. W. Prohofsky
pp. 873-881 [View Page Images or PDF (1,594 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Winding-number effect in path-integral simulations
Jianshu Cao
pp. 882-889 [View Page Images or PDF (1,001 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Noninterferometric reconstruction of optical-field correlations
Marek W. Kowarz
pp. 890-893 [View Page Images or PDF (525 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Continuous approximation of a random walk
V. A. Shneidman and P. Hänggi
pp. 894-897 [View Page Images or PDF (803 kB)]
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Roughening interfaces in the dynamics of perturbations of spatiotemporal chaos
Arkady S. Pikovsky and Jürgen Kurths
pp. 898-901 [View Page Images or PDF (597 kB)]
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Effects of the relative scales between particles added and toppled each time on the distribution of avalanche size in Abelian sandpiles
H. F. Chau and Ching Ho
pp. 902-905 [View Page Images or PDF (590 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Derivation of the modified diffusion equations in a gas mixture
A. D. Khonkin and A. V. Orlov
pp. 906-909 [View Page Images or PDF (458 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Computer-simulation study of the interface between graphite and hydrocarbon mixtures: Preferential adsorption and dynamics
M. J. Kotelyanskii and R. Hentschke
pp. 910-913 [View Page Images or PDF (625 kB)]
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Jumping droplets
J. I. Katz
pp. 914-915 [View Page Images or PDF (363 kB)]
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Nematic-cholesteric mixture in a magnetic field: A change in the critical behavior
Serguey V. Shiyanovskii and Julia G. Terentieva
pp. 916-918 [View Page Images or PDF (401 kB)]
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Multidiffusion in critical dynamics of strings and membranes
Kim Sneppen and Mogens H. Jensen
pp. 919-922 [View Page Images or PDF (625 kB)]
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Calculation of a surface-induced polar effect in nematic liquid crystals
Jinhyoung Lee, Seong-Woo Suh, Kyehun Lee, and Sin-Doo Lee
pp. 923-926 [View Page Images or PDF (661 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Effects of nonequilibrium plasmas on atomic reaction rates
Jun Li and Yukap Hahn
pp. 927-930 [View Page Images or PDF (696 kB)]
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Stationary convection in a plasma of inhomogeneous density
C. A. M. Santos
pp. 931-933 [View Page Images or PDF (297 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Manifolds in random media: Multifractal behavior
Yadin Y. Goldschmidt and Thomas Blum
pp. 934 [View Page Images or PDF (60 kB)]
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Erratum: Phenomenological approach to the problem of the K13 surfacelike elastic term in the free energy of a nematic liquid crystal
V. M. Pergamenshchik
pp. 934 [View Page Images or PDF (60 kB)]