Physical Review E – September 1994
Volume 50, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Oscillatory instability of crack propagations in quasistatic fracture
Shin-ichi Sasa, Ken Sekimoto, and Hiizu Nakanishi
pp. R1733-R1736 [View Page Images or PDF (651 kB)]
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Molecular dynamics simulations of self-avoiding tethered membranes with attractive interactions: Search for a crumpled phase
Gary S. Grest and Irena B. Petsche
pp. R1737-R1740 [View Page Images or PDF (790 kB)]
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Simulations of deposition growth models in various dimensions: The possible importance of overhangs
David Y. K. Ko and Flavio Seno
pp. R1741-R1744 [View Page Images or PDF (672 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Extended self-similarity in the numerical simulation of three-dimensional homogeneous flows
M. Briscolini, P. Santangelo, S. Succi, and R. Benzi
pp. R1745-R1747 [View Page Images or PDF (516 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Pattern selection of multicrack propagation in quenched crystals
Yoshinori Hayakawa
pp. R1748-R1751 [View Page Images or PDF (678 kB)]
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Phase separation in a dilute polymer solution in a metastable region
H. Sato, N. Kuwahara, and K. Kubota
pp. R1752-R1754 [View Page Images or PDF (588 kB)]
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Flow-induced scattering peak in the structure factor of polymer solutions
Denis Wirtz
pp. R1755-R1758 [View Page Images or PDF (633 kB)]
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Lifetime of undercooled wetting layers
R. Bausch and R. Blossey
pp. R1759-R1761 [View Page Images or PDF (347 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Onset of convection in molecular dynamics simulations of grains
S. Luding, E. Clément, A. Blumen, J. Rajchenbach, and J. Duran
pp. R1762-R1765 [View Page Images or PDF (616 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Statistical mechanics of the maximum-likelihood density estimation
N. Barkai and H. Sompolinsky
pp. 1766-1769 [View Page Images or PDF (711 kB)]
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Failure of dimension analysis in a simple five-dimensional system
Andreas Jedynak, Michael Bach, and Jens Timmer
pp. 1770-1780 [View Page Images or PDF (1,703 kB)]
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Intrinsic irreversibility and the validity of the kinetic description of chaotic systems
Hiroshi H. Hasegawa and Dean J. Driebe
pp. 1781-1809 [View Page Images or PDF (3,256 kB)]
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Theory of Lévy matrices
P. Cizeau and J. P. Bouchaud
pp. 1810-1822 [View Page Images or PDF (2,155 kB)]
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Scaling exponents for turbulence and other random processes and their relationships with multifractal structure
Samuel I. Vainshtein, K. R. Sreenivasan, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Vinay Kashyap, and Anurag Juneja
pp. 1823-1835 [View Page Images or PDF (1,882 kB)]
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Importance of interfacial coupling on the formation and growth of metastable phases
F. Celestini and A. ten Bosch
pp. 1836-1842 [View Page Images or PDF (909 kB)]
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Propagation and extinction in branching annihilating random walks
D. ben-Avraham, F. Leyvraz, and S. Redner
pp. 1843-1850 [View Page Images or PDF (1,274 kB)]
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Estimation of the dimension of a noisy attractor
Jaap C. Schouten, Floris Takens, and Cor M. van den Bleek
pp. 1851-1861 [View Page Images or PDF (1,817 kB)]
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Application of the slaving principle to nonlinear non-Markovian systems
Jing-hui Li, Li Cao, Da-jin Wu, and Shu-shan Xu
pp. 1862-1873 [View Page Images or PDF (1,173 kB)]
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Synchronous chaos in coupled oscillator systems
J. F. Heagy, T. L. Carroll, and L. M. Pecora
pp. 1874-1885 [View Page Images or PDF (1,804 kB)]
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State scarring by ‘‘ghosts’’ of periodic orbits
Paolo Bellomo and T. Uzer
pp. 1886-1893 [View Page Images or PDF (1,514 kB)]
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Synchronization of spatiotemporal chaotic systems by feedback control
Ying-Cheng Lai and Celso Grebogi
pp. 1894-1899 [View Page Images or PDF (876 kB)]
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Phase-ordering kinetics of one-dimensional nonconserved scalar systems
A. D. Rutenberg and A. J. Bray
pp. 1900-1911 [View Page Images or PDF (1,874 kB)]
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Phase transition in a heteropolymer chain at a selective interface
A. Grosberg, S. Izrailev, and S. Nechaev
pp. 1912-1921 [View Page Images or PDF (1,274 kB)]
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Critical behavior of period doubling in coupled area-preserving maps
Sang-Yoon Kim
pp. 1922-1929 [View Page Images or PDF (1,323 kB)]
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Numerical transfer-matrix study of a model with competing metastable states
T. Fiig, B. M. Gorman, P. A. Rikvold, and M. A. Novotny
pp. 1930-1947 [View Page Images or PDF (3,388 kB)]
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Decay of quasibounded classical Hamiltonian systems and their internal dynamics
A. J. Fendrik, A. M. F. Rivas, and M. J. Sánchez
pp. 1948-1958 [View Page Images or PDF (1,529 kB)]
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Applying algorithmic complexity to define chaos in the motion of complex systems
Andrea Crisanti, Massimo Falcioni, Giorgio Mantica, and Angelo Vulpiani
pp. 1959-1967 [View Page Images or PDF (1,718 kB)]
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History-dependent control of unstable periodic orbits
P. M. Alsing, A. Gavrielides, and V. Kovanis
pp. 1968-1977 [View Page Images or PDF (1,740 kB)]
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Crossover in rescaled-range analysis and power spectra: Measurements and simulations
L. I. Berge, N. Rakotomalala, J. Feder, and T. Jøssang
pp. 1978-1984 [View Page Images or PDF (1,316 kB)]
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Mean exit times for free inertial stochastic processes
Josep M. Porrà, Jaume Masoliver, and Katja Lindenberg
pp. 1985-1993 [View Page Images or PDF (1,230 kB)]
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Chaotic scattering in the presence of an external magnetic field
Wolfgang Breymann, Zoltán Kovács, and Tamás Tél
pp. 1994-2006 [View Page Images or PDF (2,380 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

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Krypton clusters adsorbed on graphite: A low-temperature commensurate-incommensurate transition
J. M. Houlrik, D. P. Landau, and S. J. Knak Jensen
pp. 2007-2013 [View Page Images or PDF (1,393 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of pair correlations and correlation entropy in a fluid
Carlos R. Sanchez-Castro, John B. Aidun, Galen K. Straub, John M. Wills, and Duane C. Wallace
pp. 2014-2018 [View Page Images or PDF (773 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Turbulent domain stabilization in annular flows
F. Hayot and Y. Pomeau
pp. 2019-2021 [View Page Images or PDF (543 kB)]
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Phase diagram for coherent vortex formation in the two-dimensional inviscid fluid in circular geometries
Peilong Chen and M. C. Cross
pp. 2022-2029 [View Page Images or PDF (1,356 kB)]
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Nonlinear hydrodynamic instability of expanding flames: Intrinsic dynamics
Guy Joulin
pp. 2030-2047 [View Page Images or PDF (3,217 kB)]
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Interface dynamics and domain growth in thermally bistable fluids
Nir J. Shaviv and Oded Regev
pp. 2048-2056 [View Page Images or PDF (1,720 kB)]
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Low-wave-number statistics of randomly advected passive scalars
Alan R. Kerstein and Patrick A. McMurtry
pp. 2057-2063 [View Page Images or PDF (1,256 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Translation-rotation paradox for diffusion in fragile glass-forming liquids
Frank H. Stillinger and Jennifer A. Hodgdon
pp. 2064-2068 [View Page Images or PDF (958 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
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Size-dependent scaling of capillary invasion including buoyancy and pore size distribution effects
Lee M. Hirsch and Arthur H. Thompson
pp. 2069-2086 [View Page Images or PDF (3,269 kB)]
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Single-chain statistics and the upper wave-vector cutoff in polymer blends
Robert Hołyst and Thomas A. Vilgis
pp. 2087-2092 [View Page Images or PDF (831 kB)]
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Experimental determination of the effective splay-bend elastic constant
R. Barberi, G. Barbero, M. Giocondo, and R. Moldovan
pp. 2093-2099 [View Page Images or PDF (963 kB)]
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Contaminant diffusion in a random array of fixed parallel cylinders at high Reynolds numbers
Piero Olla
pp. 2100-2108 [View Page Images or PDF (1,555 kB)]
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Dielectric study of the electroclinic effect in the smectic-A phase
Yu. P. Kalmykov, J. K. Vij, Huan Xu, A. Rappaport, and M. D. Wand
pp. 2109-2114 [View Page Images or PDF (803 kB)]
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‘‘Soliton’’ solutions in a field theory of microemulsion
Oleg V. Vasil’ev and Kenneth A. Dawson
pp. 2115-2119 [View Page Images or PDF (771 kB)]
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Walls of orientation induced in nematic-liquid-crystal samples by inhomogeneous surfaces
L. R. Evangelista and G. Barbero
pp. 2120-2133 [View Page Images or PDF (1,755 kB)]
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Direct evaluation of length scales and structural parameters associated with flow in porous media
M. A. Knackstedt and X. Zhang
pp. 2134-2138 [View Page Images or PDF (840 kB)]
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Equilibrium properties of a polymer chain in an Euler fluid
Michael Schulz and Klaus Handrich
pp. 2139-2147 [View Page Images or PDF (1,067 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

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Kinetic properties of ballistic aggregation
Yu Jiang and F. Leyvraz
pp. 2148-2155 [View Page Images or PDF (1,071 kB)]
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NO-CO surface reaction on a square lattice
M. A. Khan, K. Yaldram, G. K. Khalil, and K. M. Khan
pp. 2156-2160 [View Page Images or PDF (744 kB)]
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Continuum description of noiseless diffusion-limited aggregation
Klaus Kassner and Efim Brener
pp. 2161-2165 [View Page Images or PDF (725 kB)]

Plasma Physics

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Optimization of K-shell emission in aluminum z-pinch implosions: Theory versus experiment
K. G. Whitney, J. W. Thornhill, J. L. Giuliani, Jr., J. Davis, L. A. Miles, E. E. Nolting, V. L. Kenyon, W. A. Speicer, J. A. Draper, C. R. Parsons, P. Dang, R. B. Spielman, T. J. Nash, J. S. McGurn, L. E. Ruggles, C. Deeney, R. R. Prasad, and L. Warren
pp. 2166-2174 [View Page Images or PDF (1,626 kB)]
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Temporal characteristics of backscattered light from a KrF laser-produced plasma
M. Fujita, A. A. Offenberger, and C. E. Capjack
pp. 2175-2181 [View Page Images or PDF (1,197 kB)]
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Two-dimensional stimulated Brillouin scattering
C. J. McKinstrie, R. Betti, R. E. Giacone, T. Kolber, and J. S. Li
pp. 2182-2185 [View Page Images or PDF (643 kB)]
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Time-resolved x-ray fluorescence of He-like ions in an aluminum-laser-produced plasma
P. Renaudin, C. Chenais-Popovics, J. C. Gauthier, O. Peyrusse, and C. A. Back
pp. 2186-2192 [View Page Images or PDF (1,350 kB)]
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Induced electrostatic fields in dense plasmas with an intense ultrashort pulse laser
S. Kato, A. Nishiguchi, and K. Mima
pp. 2193-2199 [View Page Images or PDF (1,048 kB)]
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Efficient Kα x-ray source from femtosecond laser-produced plasmas
A. Rousse, P. Audebert, J. P. Geindre, F. Falliès, J. C. Gauthier, A. Mysyrowicz, G. Grillon, and A. Antonetti
pp. 2200-2207 [View Page Images or PDF (1,452 kB)]
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Effect of a large-amplitude wave on the one-dimensional velocity distribution of particles in a linearized Fokker-Planck collisional plasma
Jukka A. Heikkinen and Timo J. H. Pättikangas
pp. 2208-2216 [View Page Images or PDF (1,481 kB)]
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Propagation velocity of Alfvén wave packets in a dissipative plasma
Yoshimitsu Amagishi, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, and Masayoshi Tanaka
pp. 2217-2221 [View Page Images or PDF (699 kB)]
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Theory of electron retardation by Langmuir probes in anisotropic plasmas
R. Claude Woods and Isaac D. Sudit
pp. 2222-2238 [View Page Images or PDF (2,464 kB)]
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Space and time dependence of the electric field and plasma induced emission in transient and steady-state hollow cathode discharges
M. P. Alberta, J. Derouard, L. C. Pitchford, N. Ouadoudi, and J. P. Boeuf
pp. 2239-2252 [View Page Images or PDF (2,597 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Variational approach to the Zakharov-Shabat scattering problem
M. Desaix, D. Anderson, and M. Lisak
pp. 2253-2256 [View Page Images or PDF (507 kB)]
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Gap solitons in anharmonic one-dimensional asymmetrical physical systems with Kac-Baker long-range interactions
C. Tatuam Kamga and T. C. Kofane
pp. 2257-2270 [View Page Images or PDF (2,112 kB)]
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Hamiltonians for discrete dynamics
Søren Toxvaerd
pp. 2271-2274 [View Page Images or PDF (539 kB)]
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Benjamin-Feir-type instability in a saturated ferrite: Transition between focusing and defocusing regimes for polarized electromagnetic waves
H. Leblond and M. Manna
pp. 2275-2286 [View Page Images or PDF (1,765 kB)]
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Birefringence by a smoothly inhomogeneous locally isotropic medium: Three-dimensional case
A. Yu. Savchenko and B. Ya. Zel’dovich
pp. 2287-2292 [View Page Images or PDF (901 kB)]
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Localized excitations in two-dimensional Hamiltonian lattices
S. Flach, K. Kladko, and C. R. Willis
pp. 2293-2303 [View Page Images or PDF (2,124 kB)]

Biological Physics

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Characteristics of spatiotemporal fluctuations of temperature in living tissue
I. A. Lubashevskii and A. G. Cadjan
pp. 2304-2307 [View Page Images or PDF (665 kB)]
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Dynamics of compartmental model recurrent neural networks
Paul C. Bressloff
pp. 2308-2319 [View Page Images or PDF (1,959 kB)]

Computational Physics

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Extensions to the distributed approximating functional: The harmonic propagator
T. L. Marchioro, II, Mark Arnold, David K. Hoffman, Wei Zhu, Youhong Huang, and Donald J. Kouri
pp. 2320-2330 [View Page Images or PDF (1,805 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

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Continuous feedback approach for controlling chaos
Y. H. Chen and M. Y. Chou
pp. 2331-2334 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]
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Kinetics in coagulation-annihilation processes
I. M. Sokolov and A. Blumen
pp. 2335-2338 [View Page Images or PDF (537 kB)]
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Nonlinear feedback for controlling the Lorenz equation
José Alvarez-Ramírez
pp. 2339-2342 [View Page Images or PDF (597 kB)]
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Stabilizing unstable periodic orbits in a fast diode resonator using continuous time-delay autosynchronization
Daniel J. Gauthier, David W. Sukow, Hope M. Concannon, and Joshua E. S. Socolar
pp. 2343-2346 [View Page Images or PDF (800 kB)]
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Time-dependent density-functional theory with H theorems
Toyonori Munakata
pp. 2347-2350 [View Page Images or PDF (446 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium statistical-mechanical approach to discrete-time dynamics
T. Munakata
pp. 2351-2354 [View Page Images or PDF (559 kB)]
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Proliferation law of periodic orbits of an integrable billiard as obtained from the eigenvalue spectrum
Sudhir R. Jain
pp. 2355-2356 [View Page Images or PDF (251 kB)]
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Anomalous segregation at a single trap in disordered chains
Haim Taitelbaum and George H. Weiss
pp. 2357-2360 [View Page Images or PDF (696 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

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Interfacial finger cells in a system coupling steady Soret-driven convection and solidification
X. Jin and L. Hadji
pp. 2361-2364 [View Page Images or PDF (576 kB)]

Complex Fluids

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Generalized nonlinear impurity in a linear chain
G. P. Tsironis, M. I. Molina, and D. Hennig
pp. 2365-2368 [View Page Images or PDF (469 kB)]
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X-ray or neutron reflectivity: Limitations in the determination of interfacial profiles
P. S. Pershan
pp. 2369-2372 [View Page Images or PDF (760 kB)]
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Self-consistent mean-field calculation of surface segregation in a binary polymer blend
J. Genzer, A. Faldi, and R. J. Composto
pp. 2373-2376 [View Page Images or PDF (674 kB)]
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Brownian dynamics simulations of self-diffusion and shear viscosity of near-hard-sphere colloids
D. M. Heyes and A. C. Brańka
pp. 2377-2380 [View Page Images or PDF (576 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

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Statistics of Stokes variables for correlated Gaussian fields
Danny Eliyahu
pp. 2381-2384 [View Page Images or PDF (578 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Phase transitions in solutions of variably ionizable particles
Nikolay Brilliantov
pp. 2385 [View Page Images or PDF (61 kB)]
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Erratum: Critical dimensionalities of phase transitions on fractals
Yu Shi and Changde Gong
pp. 2385 [View Page Images or PDF (61 kB)]