Physical Review E – March 1994
Volume 49, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Fractals without anomalous diffusion
Raffaella Burioni and Davide Cassi
pp. R1785-R1787 [View Page Images or PDF (350 kB)]
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Nonuniversal diffusion-limited aggregation and exact fractal dimensions
P. Ossadnik, Chi-Hang Lam, and Leonard M. Sander
pp. R1788-R1791 [View Page Images or PDF (687 kB)]
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Stochastic resonance in a tunnel diode
R. N. Mantegna and B. Spagnolo
pp. R1792-R1795 [View Page Images or PDF (633 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Density waves of granular flow in a pipe using lattice-gas automata
Gongwen Peng and Hans J. Herrmann
pp. R1796-R1799 [View Page Images or PDF (654 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Nonlocal vorticity cascade in two dimensions
Gregory Falkovich and Vladimir Lebedev
pp. R1800-R1803 [View Page Images or PDF (754 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Numerical study of oscillatory crack propagation through a two-dimensional crystal
Yoshinori Hayakawa
pp. R1804-R1807 [View Page Images or PDF (613 kB)]
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Self-affine fractal crystal from an NH4Cl solution
Haruo Honjo and Shonosuke Ohta
pp. R1808-R1810 [View Page Images or PDF (533 kB)]
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Cylindrical phases of isotropic diblock copolymers as giant wormlike nematic liquid crystals: Frank elasticity and Fréedericksz transitions
D. R. M. Williams
pp. R1811-R1814 [View Page Images or PDF (719 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Experimental observation of transmission- and self-emission-type radiation transport in x-ray-produced plasmas
T. Endo, H. Shiraga, H. Nishimura, A. Fujishima, K. Shigemori, Y. Kato, S. Nakai, and C. Yamanaka
pp. R1815-R1818 [View Page Images or PDF (701 kB)]
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Large amplitude plasma wave excitation by means of sequences of short laser pulses
S. Dalla and M. Lontano
pp. R1819-R1822 [View Page Images or PDF (683 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Response functions improving performance in analog attractor neural networks
Nicolas Brunel and Riccardo Zecchina
pp. R1823-R1826 [View Page Images or PDF (708 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Bond-updating mechanism in cluster Monte Carlo calculations
J. R. Heringa and H. W. J. Blöte
pp. R1827-R1830 [View Page Images or PDF (648 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Structures in classical phase space and quantum chaotic dynamics
B. S. Helmkamp and D. A. Browne
pp. 1831-1839 [View Page Images or PDF (1,716 kB)]
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Predicting physical variables in time-delay embedding
Henry D. I. Abarbanel, T. A. Carroll, L. M. Pecora, J. J. Sidorowich, and L. S. Tsimring
pp. 1840-1853 [View Page Images or PDF (2,129 kB)]
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Chaotic dynamics in the rf superconducting quantum-interference-device magnetometer: A coupled quantum-classical system
J. Diggins, J. F. Ralph, T. P. Spiller, T. D. Clark, H. Prance, and R. J. Prance
pp. 1854-1859 [View Page Images or PDF (1,057 kB)]
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Effective multifractal spectrum of a random walk
Cheryl L. Berthelsen, James A. Glazier, and S. Raghavachari
pp. 1860-1864 [View Page Images or PDF (799 kB)]
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Mutually destructive fluctuations in globally coupled arrays
Steve Nichols and Kurt Wiesenfeld
pp. 1865-1868 [View Page Images or PDF (623 kB)]
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Exact analytic formula for the correlation time of a single-domain ferromagnetic particle
W. T. Coffey, D. S. F. Crothers, Yu. P. Kalmykov, E. S. Massawe, and J. T. Waldron
pp. 1869-1882 [View Page Images or PDF (1,852 kB)]
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Blocking of metastable phase formation by an external field
Lydéric Bocquet and Hartmut Löwen
pp. 1883-1887 [View Page Images or PDF (849 kB)]
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Analysis of dynamics in a parametrically damped pendulum
Fa-Gen Xie and Wei-Mou Zheng
pp. 1888-1894 [View Page Images or PDF (887 kB)]
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Multiple phase coexistence in finite systems
Ralph E. Kunz and R. Stephen Berry
pp. 1895-1908 [View Page Images or PDF (2,322 kB)]
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Mapping between a self-attracting self-avoiding surface and a percolation hull in three dimensions
R. Mark Bradley
pp. 1909-1912 [View Page Images or PDF (801 kB)]
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Second-law irreversibility and phase-space dimensionality loss from time-reversible nonequilibrium steady-state Lyapunov spectra
W. G. Hoover and H. A. Posch
pp. 1913-1920 [View Page Images or PDF (1,655 kB)]
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Order-parameter flow in the fully connected Hopfield model near saturation
A. C. C. Coolen and D. Sherrington
pp. 1921-1934 [View Page Images or PDF (1,765 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
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Noise-enhanced heterodyning in bistable systems
M. I. Dykman, G. P. Golubev, D. G. Luchinsky, V. E. McClintock, N. D. Stein, and N. G. Stocks
pp. 1935-1942 [View Page Images or PDF (1,250 kB)]
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Interacting domain walls and the five-vertex model
Jae Dong Noh and Doochul Kim
pp. 1943-1961 [View Page Images or PDF (2,588 kB)]
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State-space reconstruction using averaged scalar products of the dynamical system flow vectors
R. Huerta, C. Santa Cruz, J. R. Dorronsoro, and Vicente Lopez
pp. 1962-1967 [View Page Images or PDF (817 kB)]
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Correspondence in quasiperiodic and chaotic maps: Quantization via the von Neumann equation
Joshua Wilkie and Paul Brumer
pp. 1968-1983 [View Page Images or PDF (2,016 kB)]
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Self-organized criticality involving vector fields and random driving
P. A. Robinson
pp. 1984-1989 [View Page Images or PDF (888 kB)]
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Modal feedback control on chaotic trajectories
William E. Wiesel
pp. 1990-1996 [View Page Images or PDF (1,064 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo study of tunneling diffusion in a dissipative multistate system
C. H. Mak and Reinhold Egger
pp. 1997-2008 [View Page Images or PDF (1,861 kB)]
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Dynamics of complex interfaces
Raymond Kapral, Roberto Livi, Gian-Luca Oppo, and Antonio Politi
pp. 2009-2022 [View Page Images or PDF (3,196 kB)]
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Parametric ordering of complex systems
P.-M. Binder
pp. 2023-2025 [View Page Images or PDF (496 kB)]
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Kac model from a dynamical system’s point of view
Á. Péntek, Z. Toroczkai, D. H. Mayer, and T. Tél
pp. 2026-2040 [View Page Images or PDF (2,470 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Monte Carlo study of a kinetic lattice model with random diffusion of disorder
J. M. González-Miranda, A. Labarta, M. Puma, Julio F. Fernández, P. L. Garrido, and J. Marro
pp. 2041-2048 [View Page Images or PDF (1,225 kB)]
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Calculation of thermal-diffusion coefficients from plane-wave fluctuations in the heat energy density
Bruce J. Palmer
pp. 2049-2057 [View Page Images or PDF (1,519 kB)]
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Exact results for phase separation in an asymmetric model of an interacting binary mixture
Jian-Cheng Lin and P. L. Taylor
pp. 2058-2061 [View Page Images or PDF (573 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Two-dimensional nonlinear dynamics of four driven vortices
P. N. Guzdar, J. M. Finn, A. V. Rogalsky, and J. F. Drake
pp. 2062-2069 [View Page Images or PDF (1,518 kB)]
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Energy decay in Burgers turbulence and interface growth: The problem of random initial conditions. II
Sergei E. Esipov
pp. 2070-2081 [View Page Images or PDF (1,641 kB)]
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Fluctuation-induced first-order transition and dynamic scaling in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Y. Shiwa, H. Matsunaga, M. Yoshikawa, and H. Yoshitomi
pp. 2082-2086 [View Page Images or PDF (974 kB)]
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Dispersion-induced patterns
P. Coullet, T. Frisch, and G. Sonnino
pp. 2087-2090 [View Page Images or PDF (679 kB)]
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Higher-order nonlinear evolution equation for interfacial waves in a two-layer fluid system
Y. Matsuno
pp. 2091-2095 [View Page Images or PDF (595 kB)]
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Pattern formation in laser-induced melting
Chuck Yeung and Rashmi C. Desai
pp. 2096-2114 [View Page Images or PDF (3,300 kB)]
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Dependence of drag on a Galilean invariance-breaking parameter in lattice Boltzmann flow simulations
Lukas Wagner
pp. 2115-2118 [View Page Images or PDF (640 kB)]
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Nonuniform broken-parity waves and the Eckhaus instability
Lihong Pan and John R. de Bruyn
pp. 2119-2129 [View Page Images or PDF (2,097 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Chaotic instabilities in smectic-C liquid crystals
I. W. Stewart, T. Carlsson, and F. M. Leslie
pp. 2130-2140 [View Page Images or PDF (1,517 kB)]
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Phase conjugation in critical microemulsions
E. Freysz, E. Laffon, J. P. Delville, and A. Ducasse
pp. 2141-2149 [View Page Images or PDF (1,414 kB)]
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Surface-layer phase transitions in nematic liquid crystals
Natasha Kothekar, D. W. Allender, and R. M. Hornreich
pp. 2150-2154 [View Page Images or PDF (795 kB)]
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Critical temperature of Ising films with cubic lattices
D. L. Lin, Hao Che, Wei Lai, and Thomas F. George
pp. 2155-2160 [View Page Images or PDF (745 kB)]
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Perturbation theory applied to the freezing of classical systems
L. Mederos, G. Navascués, and P. Tarazona
pp. 2161-2166 [View Page Images or PDF (1,156 kB)]
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Dynamics of heterogeneous polymer networks
Thomas A. Vilgis and Gert Heinrich
pp. 2167-2174 [View Page Images or PDF (1,229 kB)]
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Phase equilibria of Lennard-Jones dipolar plus quadrupolar fluids by Gibbs-ensemble Monte Carlo simulation
Girija S. Dubey and Seamus F. O’Shea
pp. 2175-2183 [View Page Images or PDF (1,090 kB)]
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Density distribution of a fluid through a microporous solid: Monte Carlo simulation
W. Dong and B. Bigot
pp. 2184-2191 [View Page Images or PDF (1,433 kB)]
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Light-scattering study of the liquid-glass transition in propylene carbonate
W. M. Du, G. Li, H. Z. Cummins, M. Fuchs, J. Toulouse, and L. A. Knauss
pp. 2192-2205 [View Page Images or PDF (2,262 kB)]
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Influence of surface interaction and chain stiffness on polymer-induced entropic forces and the dimensions of confined polymers
Arkady L. Kholodenko, Daniel W. Bearden, and Jack F. Douglas
pp. 2206-2224 [View Page Images or PDF (2,702 kB)]
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Kinetics of phase separation in two-dimensional systems with competing interactions
Celeste Sagui and Rashmi C. Desai
pp. 2225-2244 [View Page Images or PDF (3,332 kB)]
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Phase-field model of eutectic growth
Alain Karma
pp. 2245-2250 [View Page Images or PDF (985 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Nonlinear coupling in the crossing-angle beam-beam interaction
T. Chen
pp. 2251-2256 [View Page Images or PDF (1,019 kB)]
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Kinetic theory of runaway air breakdown
R. A. Roussel-Dupré, A. V. Gurevich, T. Tunnell, and G. M. Milikh
pp. 2257-2271 [View Page Images or PDF (1,993 kB)]
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Four ways to determine the electron density in low-temperature plasmas
R. F. G. Meulenbroeks, M. F. M. Steenbakkers, Z. Qing, M. C. M. van de Sanden, and D. C. Schram
pp. 2272-2275 [View Page Images or PDF (640 kB)]
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Observation of temporal plasma-wave echoes in an ion-wave regime
N. Yugami, S. Kusaka, and Y. Nishida
pp. 2276-2281 [View Page Images or PDF (1,107 kB)]
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Spectroscopic measurements of electron density and temperature in polyacetal-capillary-discharge plasmas
C. A. Morgan, H. R. Griem, and R. C. Elton
pp. 2282-2290 [View Page Images or PDF (1,723 kB)]
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Chaos in reversed-field-pinch plasma simulation and experiment
Christopher Watts, D. E. Newman, and J. C. Sprott
pp. 2291-2301 [View Page Images or PDF (2,116 kB)]
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Coupling of space-dependent electron dynamics and vibrational kinetics in radio-frequency discharges in nitrogen
S. Longo and M. Capitelli
pp. 2302-2306 [View Page Images or PDF (871 kB)]
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Raman-ripple lasers
R. Pratap
pp. 2307-2315 [View Page Images or PDF (1,215 kB)]
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Laser thermonuclear fusion with force confinement of hot plasma
V. V. Korobkin and M. Yu. Romanovsky
pp. 2316-2322 [View Page Images or PDF (1,384 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Simulation of the beam halo from the beam-beam interaction
T. Chen, J. Irwin, and R. Siemann
pp. 2323-2330 [View Page Images or PDF (1,229 kB)]
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Longitudinal bunched-beam instabilites going nonlinear: Emittance growth, beam splitting, and turbulence
A. Gerasimov
pp. 2331-2346 [View Page Images or PDF (2,110 kB)]
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Determination of the linear coupling resonance strength using two-dimensional invariant tori
J. Y. Liu, M. Ball, B. Brabson, J. Budnick, D. D. Caussyn, V. Derenchuk, G. East, M. Ellison, D. Friesel, B. Hamilton, H. Huang, W. P. Jones, S. Y. Lee, D. Li, K. Y. Ng, A. Riabko, T. Sloan, and Y. Wang
pp. 2347-2352 [View Page Images or PDF (909 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Wave propagation in granular assemblies
Stephan Melin
pp. 2353-2361 [View Page Images or PDF (3,577 kB)]
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Multiple-scattering formalism for general discrete random composites
Wei Ren
pp. 2362-2367 [View Page Images or PDF (896 kB)]
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Structural stability and selection of propagating fronts in semilinear parabolic partial differential equations
G. C. Paquette and Y. Oono
pp. 2368-2388 [View Page Images or PDF (4,326 kB)]
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Birefringence by a smoothly inhomogeneous locally isotropic medium
V. S. Liberman and B. Ya. Zel’dovich
pp. 2389-2396 [View Page Images or PDF (1,146 kB)]
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Direct perturbation theory for dark solitons
Vladimir V. Konotop and Vadim E. Vekslerchik
pp. 2397-2407 [View Page Images or PDF (1,362 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Theory of DNA electrophoresis in physical gels and entangled polymer solutions
Thomas Duke and Jean Louis Viovy
pp. 2408-2416 [View Page Images or PDF (1,580 kB)]
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Scaling behavior of some molecular shape descriptors of polymer chains and protein backbones
Gustavo A. Arteca
pp. 2417-2428 [View Page Images or PDF (2,113 kB)]
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Supercoiling transitions of closed DNA
Frank Jülicher
pp. 2429-2435 [View Page Images or PDF (1,186 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Efficient large-scale simulations of a uniformly driven system
Peter Grassberger
pp. 2436-2444 [View Page Images or PDF (1,285 kB)]
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Series expansions without diagrams
Gyan Bhanot, Michael Creutz, Ivan Horvath, Jan Lacki, and John Weckel
pp. 2445-2453 [View Page Images or PDF (1,518 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Complex Fluids

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Field-induced phase transitions of simple dipolar fluids
Dongqing Wei
pp. 2454-2456 [View Page Images or PDF (441 kB)]

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Solvable Ising model on Sierpínski carpets: The partition function
Z. R. Yang
pp. 2457-2460 [View Page Images or PDF (467 kB)]
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Berry’s phase in a one-dimensional quantum many-body system
Gunter Schütz
pp. 2461-2464 [View Page Images or PDF (486 kB)]
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Randomly driven Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers equation
Arkadiusz Orłowski
pp. 2465-2467 [View Page Images or PDF (345 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Turbulence with an infinite number of conservation laws
Gregory Falkovich
pp. 2468-2471 [View Page Images or PDF (745 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Influence of the liquid-crystal splay-bend surface elastic constant on director fluctuations and light scattering
A. N. Shalaginov
pp. 2472-2475 [View Page Images or PDF (630 kB)]
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Kinetic phase transition in polymerization
Jian-Cheng Lin and P. L. Taylor
pp. 2476-2479 [View Page Images or PDF (561 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Transport and sound waves in plasmas with light and heavy ions
E. M. Epperlein, R. W. Short, and A. Simon
pp. 2480-2483 [View Page Images or PDF (508 kB)]

Physics of Beams

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Theoretical study of longitudinal beam splitting and related phenomena
J. A. Ellison, H.-J. Shih, and M. Kummer
pp. 2484-2487 [View Page Images or PDF (677 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Use of the McQuarrie equation for the computation of shear viscosity via equilibrium molecular dynamics’’
Michael P. Allen, David Brown, and Andrew J. Masters
pp. 2488-2492 [View Page Images or PDF (896 kB)]
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Comment on ‘‘Low-frequency Raman-scattering study of the liquid-glass transition in aqueous lithium chloride solutions’’
G. E. Walrafen, Y. C. Chu, W.-H. Yang, and M. S. Hokmabadi
pp. 2493-2494 [View Page Images or PDF (216 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Low-frequency Raman-scattering study of the liquid-glass transition in aqueous lithium chloride solutions’ ’’
N. J. Tao, G. Li, X. Chen, W. M. Du, and H. Z. Cummins
pp. 2495 [View Page Images or PDF (145 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Stochastic averaging of the time-evolution operator for quantum systems driven by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck colored noise: A nonperturbative cluster cumulant method
S. Guha, G. Sanyal, S. H. Mandal, and D. Mukherjee
pp. 2496 [View Page Images or PDF (35 kB)]