Physical Review E – October 1994
Volume 50, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Punctuated equilibrium and ‘‘history-dependent’’ percolation
Božidar Jovanović, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. R2403-R2406 [View Page Images or PDF (667 kB)]
Overlap, disorder, and directed polymers: A renormalization group approach
Sutapa Mukherji
pp. R2407-R2410 [View Page Images or PDF (733 kB)]
Transforming signs to phase distributions in quantum simulations
J. M. Deutsch
pp. R2411-R2414 [View Page Images or PDF (646 kB)]

Complex Fluids

Surface forces, undulating bilayers, and nuclear-spin relaxation
Bertil Halle
pp. R2415-R2418 [View Page Images or PDF (556 kB)]
Passages and droplets in lamellar fluid membrane phases
Leonardo Golubović
pp. R2419-R2422 [View Page Images or PDF (655 kB)]
Topological instabilities and phase behavior of fluid membranes
David C. Morse
pp. R2423-R2426 [View Page Images or PDF (802 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Multiparticle aggregation model for dendritic growth applied to experiments on amorphous Co-P alloys
Angel Sánchez, M. J. Bernal, and J. M. Riveiro
pp. R2427-R2430 [View Page Images or PDF (791 kB)]

Plasma Physics

Langmuir wave instability in a dusty plasma
Jin-Xiu Ma and M. Y. Yu
pp. R2431-R2434 [View Page Images or PDF (578 kB)]

Biological Physics

Describing RNA sequential folding by dynamic coarse graining of the extended conformation space
Ariel Fernández
pp. R2435-R2438 [View Page Images or PDF (584 kB)]

ARTICLES

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Fokker-Planck equation for nonequilibrium competing dynamic models
M. A. Muñoz and P. L. Garrido
pp. 2458-2466 [View Page Images or PDF (1,369 kB)]
Front propagation in a random medium with a power-law distribution of transit times
Jean-Marc Debierre and R. Mark Bradley
pp. 2467-2473 [View Page Images or PDF (977 kB)]
Kinetics of heterogeneous single-species annihilation
P. L. Krapivsky, E. Ben-Naim, and S. Redner
pp. 2474-2481 [View Page Images or PDF (1,349 kB)]
Growth, self-randomization, and propagation in a Lorentz lattice gas
Hsin-Fei Meng and E. G. D. Cohen
pp. 2482-2487 [View Page Images or PDF (1,052 kB)]
Ward identities for surface-growth models with diffusion
Pui-Man Lam and Diola Bagayoko
pp. 2488-2490 [View Page Images or PDF (427 kB)]
1/f noise and one-dimensional Brownian motion in a singular potential
H. F. Ouyang, Z. Q. Huang, and E. J. Ding
pp. 2491-2495 [View Page Images or PDF (722 kB)]
Bistable kinetic model driven by correlated noises: Steady-state analysis
Wu Da-jin, Cao Li, and Ke Sheng-zhi
pp. 2496-2502 [View Page Images or PDF (756 kB)]
Hysteresis loss and stochastic resonance: A numerical study of a double-well potential
Mangal C. Mahato and Subodh R. Shenoy
pp. 2503-2512 [View Page Images or PDF (1,459 kB)]
Threshold devices: Fractal noise and neural talk
Peter Jung
pp. 2513-2522 [View Page Images or PDF (1,431 kB)]
Phase ordering dynamics of cosmological models
J. A. N. Filipe and A. J. Bray
pp. 2523-2537 [View Page Images or PDF (2,452 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Decoherence produces coherent states: An explicit proof for harmonic chains
Max Tegmark and Harold S. Shapiro
pp. 2538-2547 [View Page Images or PDF (1,855 kB)]
Controlling unstable states in reaction-diffusion systems modeled by time series
Ira B. Schwartz and Ioana Triandaf
pp. 2548-2552 [View Page Images or PDF (719 kB)]
Chaos and a quantum-classical correspondence in the kicked top
Ronald F. Fox and T. C. Elston
pp. 2553-2563 [View Page Images or PDF (1,305 kB)]
Dynamical approach to anomalous diffusion: Response of Lévy processes to a perturbation
György Trefán, Elena Floriani, Bruce J. West, and Paolo Grigolini
pp. 2564-2579 [View Page Images or PDF (2,460 kB)]
Synchronizing chaotic systems using filtered signals
T. L. Carroll
pp. 2580-2587 [View Page Images or PDF (1,318 kB)]
1/f noise in the β decay of 90-90Y
K. Gopala, M. Athiba Azhar, and Swamy
pp. 2588-2590 [View Page Images or PDF (374 kB)]
Chaotic scattering on C4v four-disk billiards: Semiclassical and exact quantum theories
P. Gaspard, D. Alonso, T. Okuda, and K. Nakamura
pp. 2591-2596 [View Page Images or PDF (924 kB)]
Steady-state density in annihilation of immobile reactants with input of particles
M. Hoyuelos
pp. 2597-2599 [View Page Images or PDF (433 kB)]
Dynamics of a nonlinear lattice with randomly distributed masses
V. V. Konotop
pp. 2600-2606 [View Page Images or PDF (1,088 kB)]
Quasiequilibria in one-dimensional self-gravitating many-body systems
Toshio Tsuchiya, Tetsuro Konishi, and Naoteru Gouda
pp. 2607-2615 [View Page Images or PDF (1,475 kB)]
Entropy of the symbolic sequence for critical circle maps
Tino Gramss
pp. 2616-2620 [View Page Images or PDF (642 kB)]
Nature of the Gaussian approximations in phase-ordering kinetics
S. De Siena and M. Zannetti
pp. 2621-2629 [View Page Images or PDF (1,264 kB)]
Chaos and linear response: Analysis of the short-, intermediate-, and long-time regime
Marco Bianucci, Riccardo Mannella, Bruce J. West, and Paolo Grigolini
pp. 2630-2638 [View Page Images or PDF (1,495 kB)]
Multifractality and multiscaling in collision cascades
F. Kun and G. Bardos
pp. 2639-2645 [View Page Images or PDF (1,134 kB)]
Relationship between variational transition state theory and the Rayleigh quotient method for activated rate processes
Peter Talkner and Eli Pollak
pp. 2646-2653 [View Page Images or PDF (1,339 kB)]
Synchronization effects in the dynamical behavior of elevators
Thorsten Pöschel and Jason A. C. Gallas
pp. 2654-2659 [View Page Images or PDF (978 kB)]
Partially asymmetric exclusion process with open boundaries
Sven Sandow
pp. 2660-2667 [View Page Images or PDF (1,011 kB)]
Non-Markovian noise
A. Fuliński
pp. 2668-2681 [View Page Images or PDF (1,993 kB)]
Rigorous verification of chaos in a molecular model
Thomas Rage, Arnold Neumaier, and Christoph Schlier
pp. 2682-2688 [View Page Images or PDF (1,082 kB)]

Kinetic and Transport Theory, Fluid Structure

Computer simulation study of inelastic neutron scattering from liquid water
M. Diraison, J-Cl. Leicknam, G. Tarjus, and S. Bratos
pp. 2689-2695 [View Page Images or PDF (1,088 kB)]
Brownian dynamics of rigid polymer chains with hydrodynamic interactions
Hans Christian Öttinger
pp. 2696-2701 [View Page Images or PDF (963 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Cascade models for magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
D. Biskamp
pp. 2702-2711 [View Page Images or PDF (1,499 kB)]
Roll-rectangle transition in the magnetic fluid Faraday instability
J.-C. Bacri, A. Cebers, J.-C. Dabadie, and R. Perzynski
pp. 2712-2715 [View Page Images or PDF (597 kB)]
Effective Ampère force in developed magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Nathan Kleeorin and Igor Rogachevskii
pp. 2716-2730 [View Page Images or PDF (2,269 kB)]
Stable, unstable, and defected confined states of traveling-wave convection
Paul Kolodner
pp. 2731-2755 [View Page Images or PDF (4,892 kB)]
Phase dynamics of patterns: The effect of boundary-induced amplitude variations
D. Roth, M. Lücke, M. Kamps, and R. Schmitz
pp. 2756-2775 [View Page Images or PDF (3,339 kB)]
Thermal lattice Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model without nonlinear deviations in macrodynamic equations
Y. Chen, H. Ohashi, and M. Akiyama
pp. 2776-2783 [View Page Images or PDF (1,056 kB)]
Universality in fully developed turbulence
Siegfried Grossmann and Detlef Lohse
pp. 2784-2789 [View Page Images or PDF (1,084 kB)]
Predicting time-dependent motion in the double-diffusive convection system
H. P. Fang and Z. H. Liu
pp. 2790-2794 [View Page Images or PDF (856 kB)]
Stochastic simulations of high-Reynolds-number turbulence in two dimensions
Heinz-Peter Breuer and Francesco Petruccione
pp. 2795-2801 [View Page Images or PDF (1,076 kB)]
Pattern formation in the presence of symmetries
Gemunu H. Gunaratne, Qi Ouyang, and Harry L. Swinney
pp. 2802-2820 [View Page Images or PDF (3,679 kB)]

Complex Fluids

Dynamical test of interaction potentials for colloidal suspensions
F. Bitzer, T. Palberg, H. Löwen, R. Simon, and P. Leiderer
pp. 2821-2826 [View Page Images or PDF (1,171 kB)]
Nucleated wetting films: The late-time behavior
Bruce M. Law
pp. 2827-2833 [View Page Images or PDF (1,102 kB)]
Optical confirmation of the extended mean-field theory for a smectic-C*–smectic-A transition
Fuzi Yang, G. W. Bradberry, and J. R. Sambles
pp. 2834-2838 [View Page Images or PDF (651 kB)]
Model disordered media provided by ternary microemulsions
Mark A. Knackstedt and Barry W. Ninham
pp. 2839-2843 [View Page Images or PDF (785 kB)]
How the choice of shape and ensemble affect simulations of two-dimensional melting
Juan J. Morales, Enrique Velasco, and Søren Toxvaerd
pp. 2844-2848 [View Page Images or PDF (709 kB)]
Effect of polydispersity on the isotropic-nematic phase transition of rigid rods
Zheng Yu Chen
pp. 2849-2855 [View Page Images or PDF (1,032 kB)]
Computer simulation of self-assembling processes of a binary mixture containing a block copolymer
Toshihiro Kawakatsu
pp. 2856-2862 [View Page Images or PDF (1,210 kB)]
X-ray studies of the hexatic phase in liquid crystals with a crystal-B–hexatic-B–smectic-A phase sequence
Ewa Górecka, Li Chen, Wiesław Pyżuk, Adam Krówczyński, and Satyendra Kumar
pp. 2863-2867 [View Page Images or PDF (718 kB)]
Dilation sheath of smectic-A focal-conic singular lines
J. B. Fournier
pp. 2868-2871 [View Page Images or PDF (583 kB)]
Strain-induced instabilities in hexagonal columnar phases
I. W. Hamley
pp. 2872-2880 [View Page Images or PDF (1,413 kB)]
Fast, immiscible fluid-fluid displacement in three-dimensional porous media at finite viscosity contrast
Vidar Frette, Jens Feder, Torstein Jøssang, Paul Meakin, and Knut Jørgen Måløy
pp. 2881-2890 [View Page Images or PDF (1,783 kB)]
Mixed fluid bilayers: Effects of confinement
F. C. MacKintosh
pp. 2891-2897 [View Page Images or PDF (1,140 kB)]
Phase transitions in a ‘‘many-letter’’ random heteropolymer
C. D. Sfatos, A. M. Gutin, and E. I. Shakhnovich
pp. 2898-2905 [View Page Images or PDF (1,370 kB)]
Nematic ordering and microphase segregation in a diblock polymer–liquid-crystal-polymer
R. A. Sones and R. G. Petschek
pp. 2906-2912 [View Page Images or PDF (887 kB)]
van der Waals theory for solids
A. Daanoun, C. F. Tejero, and M. Baus
pp. 2913-2924 [View Page Images or PDF (1,361 kB)]
Maxwell equations in nematic liquid crystals
Mario Liu
pp. 2925-2928 [View Page Images or PDF (673 kB)]
Computer simulations of nematic droplets with bipolar boundary conditions
E. Berggren, C. Zannoni, C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, and F. Semeria
pp. 2929-2939 [View Page Images or PDF (1,747 kB)]
Landau–de Gennes theory of the chevron structure in a smectic-A liquid crystal
S. Kralj and T. J. Sluckin
pp. 2940-2951 [View Page Images or PDF (1,975 kB)]

Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, Dendritic Growth

Formulating a first-principles statistical theory of growing surfaces in two-dimensional Laplacian fields
Raphael Blumenfeld
pp. 2952-2962 [View Page Images or PDF (1,973 kB)]
Self-assembly of rodlike particles in two dimensions: A simple model for collagen fibrillogenesis
John Parkinson, Karl E. Kadler, and Andy Brass
pp. 2963-2966 [View Page Images or PDF (793 kB)]
Reversible aggregation in self-associating polymer systems
Tomàs Sintes, Raúl Toral, and Amitabha Chakrabarti
pp. 2967-2976 [View Page Images or PDF (1,494 kB)]

Plasma Physics

Short-range screening potentials for classical Coulomb fluids: Monte Carlo sampling and cluster model studies
Setsuo Ichimaru, Shuji Ogata, and Kenji Tsuruta
pp. 2977-2985 [View Page Images or PDF (1,262 kB)]
See Also: Comment Erratum Reply
Stark broadening of triply ionized oxygen lines: The temperature dependence
B. Blagojević, M. V. Popović, N. Konjević, and M. S. Dimitrijević
pp. 2986-2990 [View Page Images or PDF (805 kB)]
Langmuir-probe characteristic in the presence of drifting electrons
T. E. Sheridan and J. Goree
pp. 2991-2996 [View Page Images or PDF (900 kB)]
Different class of two-dimensional shocks in magnetized plasmas
A. Fruchtman and L. I. Rudakov
pp. 2997-3005 [View Page Images or PDF (1,081 kB)]
Monte Carlo treatment of the transport of electrons in a gas including electron-electron interactions
A. Alkaa, P. Ségur, A. Zahraoui, and M. Kadri-H
pp. 3006-3017 [View Page Images or PDF (1,542 kB)]
Transition from a Townsend discharge to a normal discharge via two-dimensional modeling
V. I. Kolobov and A. Fiala
pp. 3018-3032 [View Page Images or PDF (2,792 kB)]
Two-dimensional nonuniformly heated magnetized plasma transport in a conducting vessel
L. L. Beilinson, V. A. Rozhansky, and L. D. Tsendin
pp. 3033-3040 [View Page Images or PDF (919 kB)]
CO2 laser absorption measurements of temperature and density in the shock-induced Richtmyer-Meshkov mixing zone
J. Fortes, A. Ramdani, and L. Houas
pp. 3041-3049 [View Page Images or PDF (1,173 kB)]
Linear hydromagnetic waves in an ultrarelativistic, collisionless plasma with a pressure anisotropy
E. G. Tsikarishvili and A. D. Rogava
pp. 3050-3054 [View Page Images or PDF (674 kB)]
Numerical study of the detailed structure of the ion resonance cone
G. Bonhomme, Th. Pierre, and G. Leclert
pp. 3055-3059 [View Page Images or PDF (739 kB)]
Modulational interaction of short-wavelength ion-acoustic oscillations in impurity-containing plasmas
S. I. Popel and M. Y. Yu
pp. 3060-3067 [View Page Images or PDF (966 kB)]

Physics of Beams

Generation of a subpicosecond relativistic electron single bunch at the S-band linear accelerator
Mitsuru Uesaka, Kenichiro Tauchi, Takahiro Kozawa, Toshiaki Kobayashi, Toru Ueda, and Kenzo Miya
pp. 3068-3076 [View Page Images or PDF (1,429 kB)]
Electron beam quality in a cyclotron autoresonance accelerator
B. Hafizi, P. Sprangle, and J. L. Hirshfield
pp. 3077-3086 [View Page Images or PDF (1,418 kB)]
Transit-time method of optical stochastic cooling
M. S. Zolotorev and A. A. Zholents
pp. 3087-3091 [View Page Images or PDF (862 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

Decompaction modes of a two-dimensional ‘‘sandpile’’ under vibration: Model and experiments
Jacques Duran, Touria Mazozi, Eric Clement, and Jean Rajchenbach
pp. 3092-3099 [View Page Images or PDF (1,589 kB)]
Simulations of two-dimensional arrays of beads under external vibrations: Scaling behavior
S. Luding, H. J. Herrmann, and A. Blumen
pp. 3100-3108 [View Page Images or PDF (1,463 kB)]
Depolarized light scattering from fractal soot aggregates
N. Lu and C. M. Sorensen
pp. 3109-3115 [View Page Images or PDF (1,175 kB)]
Exact solution of the wave dynamics of a particle bouncing chaotically on a periodically oscillating wall
Jorge F. Willemsen
pp. 3116-3125 [View Page Images or PDF (1,841 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
Internal friction between solitons in near-integrable systems
A. V. Buryak and N. N. Akhmediev
pp. 3126-3133 [View Page Images or PDF (1,219 kB)]
Conditions on the existence of localized excitations in nonlinear discrete systems
S. Flach
pp. 3134-3142 [View Page Images or PDF (1,598 kB)]
Lattice sums for off-axis electromagnetic scattering by gratings
N. A. Nicorovici and R. C. McPhedran
pp. 3143-3160 [View Page Images or PDF (1,909 kB)]
Standing localized modes in nonlinear lattices
Yuri S. Kivshar, Marc Haelterman, and Adrian P. Sheppard
pp. 3161-3170 [View Page Images or PDF (1,835 kB)]

Biological Physics

Theory of correlations in stochastic neural networks
Iris Ginzburg and Haim Sompolinsky
pp. 3171-3191 [View Page Images or PDF (3,292 kB)]
Generalization in the programed teaching of a perceptron
Imre Derényi, Tamás Geszti, and Géza Györgyi
pp. 3192-3200 [View Page Images or PDF (1,498 kB)]
Learning to classify in large committee machines
Dominic O’Kane and Ole Winther
pp. 3201-3209 [View Page Images or PDF (1,286 kB)]

Computational Physics

Numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation in cylindrical geometry
G. J. Parker, W. N. G. Hitchon, and J. E. Lawler
pp. 3210-3219 [View Page Images or PDF (1,727 kB)]
Model fermion Monte Carlo method with antithetical pairs
Zhiping Liu, Shiwei Zhang, and M. H. Kalos
pp. 3220-3229 [View Page Images or PDF (1,643 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General Methods of Statistical Physics

Ising critical behavior of a non-Hamiltonian lattice system
J. Marro, Julio F. Fernández, J. M. González-Miranda, and M. Puma
pp. 3237-3240 [View Page Images or PDF (543 kB)]
Symbolic analysis of attractor geometry for the Lozi map
Wei-Mou Zheng and Jun-xian Liu
pp. 3241-3244 [View Page Images or PDF (632 kB)]
Stabilizing unstable periodic orbits in fast dynamical systems
Joshua E. S. Socolar, David W. Sukow, and Daniel J. Gauthier
pp. 3245-3248 [View Page Images or PDF (754 kB)]
Stochastic resonance in an autonomous system with a nonuniform limit cycle
Wouter-Jan Rappel and Steven H. Strogatz
pp. 3249-3250 [View Page Images or PDF (341 kB)]
Properties of wide-peak autosolitons in electron-hole and gas plasmas
V. V. Osipov and C. B. Muratov
pp. 3251-3254 [View Page Images or PDF (666 kB)]

Thermal Physics and Fluid Dynamics

Space-time nonlocal model for heat conduction
S. L. Sobolev
pp. 3255-3258 [View Page Images or PDF (590 kB)]

Complex Fluids

Vesicle model of linear- and branched-polymer θ collapses
A. L. Stella
pp. 3259-3262 [View Page Images or PDF (755 kB)]
Structure of an electrorheological fluid in steady shear
James E. Martin, Judy Odinek, and Thomas C. Halsey
pp. 3263-3266 [View Page Images or PDF (849 kB)]

Classical Physics, Including Nonlinear Media

Kink solitons in quadratic-cubic nonlinear dispersive media
K. Hayata and M. Koshiba
pp. 3267-3270 [View Page Images or PDF (614 kB)]
Condition for kink immobility in trigger systems with limited elimination of an inhibitor
A. A. Akhmetov
pp. 3271-3273 [View Page Images or PDF (364 kB)]
Stability of light beams in nonlinear antiwaveguides
Boris V. Gisin, Amos A. Hardy, and Boris A. Malomed
pp. 3274-3276 [View Page Images or PDF (541 kB)]

COMMENTS