Physical Review E – April 1997
Volume 55, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

Hierarchical level-clustering in two-dimensional harmonic oscillators
C. B. Whan
pp. R3813-R3816 [View PDF (126 kB)]
Quasispecies evolution of finite populations
Yi-Cheng Zhang
pp. R3817-R3819 [View PDF (66 kB)]

Classical fluids

Transition between two oscillation modes
R. López-Ruiz and Y. Pomeau
pp. R3820-R3823 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Stochastic Lorenz model for periodically driven Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Omar Osenda, Carlos B. Briozzo, and Manuel O. Cáceres
pp. R3824-R3827 [View PDF (116 kB)]
Absolute momentum transfer in gas-surface scattering
Steven R. Cook and Mark A. Hoffbauer
pp. R3828-R3831 [View PDF (126 kB)]
Scaling of the transition to parametrically driven surface waves in highly dissipative systems
O. Lioubashevski, J. Fineberg, and L. S. Tuckerman
pp. R3832-R3835 [View PDF (122 kB)]
Nonperturbative zero modes in the Kraichnan model for turbulent advection
Omri Gat, Victor S. L'vov, Evgenii Podivilov, and Itamar Procaccia
pp. R3836-R3839 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

Temperature dependence of the mutual diffusion coefficient of deuterated polystyrene and poly(methyl methacrylate)
T. E. Shearmur, A. S. Clough, D. W. Drew, M. G. D. van der Grinten, and R. A. L. Jones
pp. R3840-R3843 [View PDF (124 kB)]
Phase separation in incompressible systems
Weinan E and P. Palffy-Muhoray
pp. R3844-R3846 [View PDF (76 kB)]
Diffusive boundary layers in the free-surface excitable medium spiral
David A. Kessler and Herbert Levine
pp. R3847-R3850 [View PDF (132 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Chaos and coherence in coupled lasers
K. S. Thornburg, M. Möller, Rajarshi Roy, T. W. Carr, R.-D. Li, and T. Erneux
pp. 3865-3869 [View PDF (157 kB)]
Coherent-state path-integral simulation of many-particle systems
M. Beccaria, B. Allés, and F. Farchioni
pp. 3870-3877 [View PDF (204 kB)]
Exact solution of a one-dimensional continuum percolation model
Alon Drory
pp. 3878-3885 [View PDF (194 kB)]
Higher order correlations in quantum chaotic spectra
Pragya Shukla
pp. 3886-3897 [View PDF (256 kB)]
Energy flow, partial equilibration, and effective temperatures in systems with slow dynamics
Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Jorge Kurchan, and Luca Peliti
pp. 3898-3914 [View PDF (347 kB)]
Critical finite-size-scaling amplitudes of a fully anisotropic three-dimensional Ising model
M. A. Yurishchev
pp. 3915-3925 [View PDF (239 kB)]
Integrability of the square-triangle random tiling model
Jan de Gier and Bernard Nienhuis
pp. 3926-3933 [View PDF (234 kB)]
Short-range Ising spin glass: Multifractal properties
E. Nogueira Jr., S. Coutinho, F. D. Nobre, E. M. F. Curado, and J. R. L. de Almeida
pp. 3934-3941 [View PDF (237 kB)]
Analytic structure and chaotic dynamics of the damped driven Toda oscillator
S. Parthasarathy and J. M. Dixon
pp. 3942-3947 [View PDF (179 kB)]
Period doubling of a torus: Chaotic breathing of a localized wave
Jung-Im Kim, Hwa-Kyun Park, and Hie-Tae Moon
pp. 3948-3951 [View PDF (216 kB)]
Coarsening of surface structures in unstable epitaxial growth
Martin Rost and Joachim Krug
pp. 3952-3957 [View PDF (153 kB)]
Microscopic nonuniversality versus macroscopic universality in algorithms for critical dynamics
U. Ritschel and P. Czerner
pp. 3958-3961 [View PDF (175 kB)]
Frustration and slow dynamics of granular packings
Mario Nicodemi, Antonio Coniglio, and Hans J. Herrmann
pp. 3962-3969 [View PDF (480 kB)]
Algorithmic mapping from criticality to self-organized criticality
F. Bagnoli, P. Palmerini, and R. Rechtman
pp. 3970-3976 [View PDF (942 kB)]
Surface morphology, hopping, and current in a conserved growth modelwith a restricted solid-on-solid condition
Yup Kim and Jin-Min Kim
pp. 3977-3982 [View PDF (168 kB)]
Algebraic self-similar renormalization in the theory of critical phenomena
S. Gluzman and V. I. Yukalov
pp. 3983-3999 [View PDF (304 kB)]
Renormalization group of the Domany-Kinzel cellular automaton
Tânia Toméand and Mário J. de Oliveira
pp. 4000-4004 [View PDF (142 kB)]
Effect of partially reflecting boundary conditions on the decay of metastable rest states in an activator-inhibitor system
G. Izús, R. Deza, H. S. Wio, and C. Borzi
pp. 4005-4011 [View PDF (177 kB)]
Universal versus drive-dependent exponents for sandpile models
Hiizu Nakanishi and Kim Sneppen
pp. 4012-4016 [View PDF (137 kB)]
Minimum energy state of the one-dimensional Coulomb chain
Daniel H. E. Dubin
pp. 4017-4028 [View PDF (280 kB)]
Differentiable generalized synchronization of chaos
Brian R. Hunt, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke
pp. 4029-4034 [View PDF (176 kB)]
Sporadic driving of dynamical systems
Toni Stojanovski, Ljupco Kocarev, Ulrich Parlitz, and Richard Harris
pp. 4035-4048 [View PDF (468 kB)]
Higher-order resonant behavior in asymmetric nonlinear stochastic systems
M. E. Inchiosa, A. R. Bulsara, and L. Gammaitoni
pp. 4049-4056 [View PDF (257 kB)]
Thermal ratchets driven by Poissonian white shot noise
T. Czernik, J. Kula, J. Łuczka, and P. Hänggi
pp. 4057-4066 [View PDF (224 kB)]
Spectral form factor in a random matrix theory
E. Brézin and S. Hikami
pp. 4067-4083 [View PDF (339 kB)]
Nonequilibrium phase transitions induced by multiplicative noise
C. Van den Broeck, J. M. R. Parrondo, R. Toral, and R. Kawai
pp. 4084-4094 [View PDF (519 kB)]
Numerical determination of the avalanche exponents of the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model
S. Lübeck and K. D. Usadel
pp. 4095-4099 [View PDF (156 kB)]
Non-Hermitian random matrix models: Free random variable approach
Romuald A. Janik, Maciej A. Nowak, Gábor Papp, Jochen Wambach, and Ismail Zahed
pp. 4100-4106 [View PDF (178 kB)]
Dynamical behavior of spots in a nonequilibrium distributive active medium
F.-J. Niedernostheide, M. Or-Guil, M. Kleinkes, and H.-G. Purwins
pp. 4107-4111 [View PDF (408 kB)]
Bursts in average lifetime of transients for chaotic logistic map with a hole
V. Paar and N. Pavin
pp. 4112-4115 [View PDF (140 kB)]
Parametric Ward-Takahashi identity in disordered systems and the integral identity associated with the Calogero-Sutherland model
Nobuhiko Taniguchi
pp. 4116-4119 [View PDF (109 kB)]
Critical behavior of O(n)-symmetric systems with reversible mode-coupling terms: Stability against detailed-balance violation
Uwe C. Täuber and Zoltán Rácz
pp. 4120-4136 [View PDF (333 kB)]

Classical fluids

Integer lattice gases
Bruce M. Boghosian, Jeffrey Yepez, Francis J. Alexander, and Norman H. Margolus
pp. 4137-4147 [View PDF (282 kB)]
Influence of particle inertia and Basset force on tracer dynamics: Analytic results in the small-inertia limit
A. N. Yannacopoulos, G. Rowlands, and G. P. King
pp. 4148-4157 [View PDF (253 kB)]
Thermally perturbed barodiffusion in a binary liquid mixture
F. B. Hicks, Thomas C. Van Vechten, and Carl Franck
pp. 4158-4164 [View PDF (178 kB)]
Scaling properties of two-dimensional turbulence in wakes behind bluff bodies
B. Protas, S. Goujon-Durand, and J. E. Wesfreid
pp. 4165-4169 [View PDF (193 kB)]
Oscillatory temporal behavior in an autocatalytic surface reaction model
J.-P. Hovi, A. P. J. Jansen, and R. M. Nieminen
pp. 4170-4178 [View PDF (255 kB)]
Measuring spatial coupling in inhomogeneous dynamical systems
George Broze, Satish Narayanan, and Fazle Hussain
pp. 4179-4186 [View PDF (226 kB)]
Kinetic theory of fluidized granular matter
Byung Chan Eu and Hikmat Farhat
pp. 4187-4199 [View PDF (239 kB)]
Towards granular hydrodynamics in two dimensions
E. L. Grossman, Tong Zhou, and E. Ben-Naim
pp. 4200-4206 [View PDF (205 kB)]
Casimir energy for a spherical cavity in a dielectric: Applications to sonoluminescence
Kimball A. Milton and Y. Jack Ng
pp. 4207-4216 [View PDF (202 kB)]
Temperature and density dependence of the self-diffusion coefficient and Mori coefficients of Lennard-Jones fluids by molecular dynamics simulation
María J. Nuevo, Juan J. Morales, and David M. Heyes
pp. 4217-4224 [View PDF (214 kB)]
Restricted diffusion and the return to the origin probability at intermediate and long times
Lawrence M. Schwartz, Martin D. Hürlimann, Keh-Jim Dunn, Partha P. Mitra, and David J. Bergman
pp. 4225-4234 [View PDF (258 kB)]
Diffusion eigenstates of a porous medium with interface absorption
David J. Bergman
pp. 4235-4244 [View PDF (207 kB)]
Fundamental-measure free-energy density functional for hard spheres: Dimensional crossover and freezing
Y. Rosenfeld, M. Schmidt, H. Löwen, and P. Tarazona
pp. 4245-4263 [View PDF (436 kB)]
1/fα density fluctuation at the slugging transition point of granular flows through a pipe
Akio Nakahara and Takeshi Isoda
pp. 4264-4273 [View PDF (508 kB)]
Oscillations and spatiotemporal chaos of one-dimensional fluid fronts
D. P. Vallette, G. Jacobs, and J. P. Gollub
pp. 4274-4287 [View PDF (776 kB)]
Departure from Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics in confined liquids
Karl P. Travis, B. D. Todd, and Denis J. Evans
pp. 4288-4295 [View PDF (238 kB)]
Shape and size of the current head in creeping flows
B. M. Marino, L. P. Thomas, and R. Gratton
pp. 4296-4301 [View PDF (241 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Surface phase transitions in nematic liquid crystals with planar anchoring
R. Seidin, R. M. Hornreich, and D. W. Allender
pp. 4302-4313 [View PDF (306 kB)]
Thermal relaxation model of surface director gliding in lyotropic liquid crystals
P. Galatola, G. Barbero, and A. K. Zvezdin
pp. 4314-4320 [View PDF (175 kB)]
Monte Carlo simulations of solute ordering in nematic liquid crystals: Shape anisotropy and quadrupole-quadrupole interactions as orienting mechanisms
James M. Polson and E. Elliott Burnell
pp. 4321-4337 [View PDF (373 kB)]
Spatial dispersion and rotatory power of short-pitch periodic dielectric media
P. Galatola
pp. 4338-4344 [View PDF (167 kB)]
Observation and investigation of the ferrielectric subphase with high qT parameter
Yu. P. Panarin, O. Kalinovskaya, J. K. Vij, and J. W. Goodby
pp. 4345-4353 [View PDF (352 kB)]
Magnetic-field alignment of cholesteric liquid-crystalline DNA
D. H. Van Winkle, Arunava Chatterjee, Robert Link, and R. L. Rill
pp. 4354-4359 [View PDF (962 kB)]
Metastable structures of cholesteric liquid crystals with negative diamagnetic anisotropy in magnetic fields
Arunava Chatterjee and D. H. Van Winkle
pp. 4360-4366 [View PDF (391 kB)]
Generalized Landau–de Gennes theory of uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystals
M. C. J. M. Vissenberg, S. Stallinga, and G. Vertogen
pp. 4367-4377 [View PDF (238 kB)]
Normal modes of director fluctuations in a nematic droplet
J. R. Kelly and P. Palffy-Muhoray
pp. 4378-4381 [View PDF (168 kB)]
Bilayer smectic order in a mixture of polyphilic liquid crystals
Yushan Shi, Francois G. Tournilhac, and Satyendra Kumar
pp. 4382-4385 [View PDF (195 kB)]
Layer thinning transition above the bulk smectic-A–isotropic transitionin free-standing liquid-crystal films
P. M. Johnson, P. Mach, E. D. Wedell, F. Lintgen, M. Neubert, and C. C. Huang
pp. 4386-4389 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

Forced parallel drift of spiral waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Bernd Schmidt and Stefan C. Müller
pp. 4390-4393 [View PDF (116 kB)]
Particulate inclusions in a lamellar phase
P. Sens, M. S. Turner, and P. Pincus
pp. 4394-4405 [View PDF (241 kB)]
Local concentration profile of colloidal particles inside a charged cylindrical pore
M. Chávez-Páez, H. Acuña-Campa, L. Yeomans-Reyna, M. Valdez-Covarrubias, and M. Medina-Noyola
pp. 4406-4412 [View PDF (229 kB)]
NMR microscopy of pore-space backbones in rock, sponge, and sand in comparison with random percolation model objects
A. Klemm, H.-P. Müller, and R. Kimmich
pp. 4413-4422 [View PDF (896 kB)]
Interaction forces in charged colloids: Inversion of static structure factors
Raj Rajagopalan and K. Srinivasa Rao
pp. 4423-4432 [View PDF (210 kB)]
Conformation of interacting polymer chains: Effects of temperature, bias, polymer concentration, and porosity
Grace M. Foo and R. B. Pandey
pp. 4433-4441 [View PDF (273 kB)]
Equilibrium shape of an anisotropic crystal confined between two planar parallel walls
Jean-Christophe Géminard and Patrick Oswald
pp. 4442-4449 [View PDF (285 kB)]
Order parameter equations for front transitions: Planar and circular fronts
A. Hagberg, E. Meron, I. Rubinstein, and B. Zaltzman
pp. 4450-4457 [View PDF (205 kB)]
Mapping vesicle shapes into the phase diagram: A comparison of experiment and theory
H.-G. Döbereiner, E. Evans, M. Kraus, U. Seifert, and M. Wortis
pp. 4458-4474 [View PDF (713 kB)]
Pinned state in a two-dimensional soap froth
O. Herrera, A. Olguín, M. Ortíz, and C. H. Wörner
pp. 4475-4477 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Biological physics

Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension of neural networks with binary weights
Stephan Mertens and Andreas Engel
pp. 4478-4488 [View PDF (334 kB)]
Simulation and dynamics of entropy-driven, molecular self-assembly processes
Bernd Mayer, Gottfried Köhler, and Steen Rasmussen
pp. 4489-4499 [View PDF (255 kB)]
Criticality and unpredictability in macroevolution
Ricard V. Soléand and Susanna C. Manrubia
pp. 4500-4507 [View PDF (198 kB)]
Simulation of characteristics and artificial neural network modelingof electroencephalograph time series
D. R. Kulkarni, J. C. Parikh, and R. Pratap
pp. 4508-4511 [View PDF (147 kB)]
Lipid domains as obstacles for lateral diffusion in supported bilayers probed at different time and length scales by two-dimensional exchange and field gradient solid state NMR
C. Dolainsky, P. Karakatsanis, and T. M. Bayerl
pp. 4512-4521 [View PDF (247 kB)]
Colloidal stability of protein-polymer systems: A possible explanation by hydration forces
J. A. Molina-Bolívar, F. Galisteo-González, and R. Hidalgo-Álvarez
pp. 4522-4530 [View PDF (218 kB)]
Self-consistent phonon approaches for the hydrogen bond chain
Yong-li Zhang and Wei-Mou Zheng
pp. 4531-4535 [View PDF (132 kB)]
Noise, multistability, and delayed recurrent loops
Jennifer Foss, Frank Moss, and John Milton
pp. 4536-4543 [View PDF (269 kB)]
On-line AdaTron learning of unlearnable rules
Jun-ichi Inoue and Hidetoshi Nishimori
pp. 4544-4551 [View PDF (232 kB)]
Multifractality and percolation in the coupling space of perceptrons
M. Weigt and A. Engel
pp. 4552-4561 [View PDF (243 kB)]
Statics, metastable states, and barriers in protein folding: A replica variational approach
Shoji Takada and Peter G. Wolynes
pp. 4562-4577 [View PDF (329 kB)]
Statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions: Canonical momenta indicatorsof electroencephalography
Lester Ingber
pp. 4578-4593 [View PDF (448 kB)]

Plasma physics

M-shell x-ray spectra of laser-produced gold plasmas
K. Honda, K. Mima, and F. Koike
pp. 4594-4601 [View PDF (278 kB)]
Elliptically polarized wave induced local growth of instability at an obliquely developed inhomogeneity in a plasma
Rajarshi Bhattacharya, Soumen Mondal, Debjani Dutta, and B. Chakraborty
pp. 4602-4607 [View PDF (141 kB)]
Runaway electrons in a tokamak: A free-electron maser
B. Kurzan and K.-H. Steuer
pp. 4608-4616 [View PDF (232 kB)]
Generation mechanism of a dipole field by a magnetohydrodynamic dynamo
Akira Kageyama and Tetsuya Sato
pp. 4617-4626 [View PDF (2,701 kB)]
Fluid theory of the boundary of a dusty plasma
J. X. Ma, Jin-yuan Liu, and M. Y. Yu
pp. 4627-4633 [View PDF (169 kB)]
Electron-vibration energy exchange models in nitrogen plasma flows
A. Bourdon and P. Vervisch
pp. 4634-4641 [View PDF (246 kB)]
Theory of cumulative small-angle collisions in plasmas
K. Nanbu
pp. 4642-4652 [View PDF (315 kB)]
Nonlinear reflectivity of an inhomogeneous plasma in the strongly damped regime
Philippe Mounaix, Denis Pesme, and Michel Casanova
pp. 4653-4664 [View PDF (286 kB)]

Physics of beams

Locally accurate dynamical Euclidean group
Étienne Forest
pp. 4665-4674 [View PDF (245 kB)]
Smith-Purcell radiation from electrons moving parallel to a gratingat oblique incidence to the rulings
O. Haeberlé, P. Rullhusen, J.-M. Salomé, and N. Maene
pp. 4675-4683 [View PDF (333 kB)]
Propagation of the equilibrium electron beam in a free-electron laser with an axial guide magnetic field
Shi-Chang Zhang and John Elgin
pp. 4684-4693 [View PDF (456 kB)]
Simulation study of halo formation in breathing round beams
Hiromi Okamoto and Masanori Ikegami
pp. 4694-4705 [View PDF (506 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Small-amplitude excitations in a deformable discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation
V. V. Konotop and M. Salerno
pp. 4706-4712 [View PDF (277 kB)]
Solitons in crystalline polyethylene: Isolated chains in the transconformation
L. I. Manevitch and A. V. Savin
pp. 4713-4719 [View PDF (232 kB)]
Stress distribution in static two-dimensional granular model media in the absence of friction
S. Luding
pp. 4720-4729 [View PDF (394 kB)]
Solitary waves in Bragg gratings with a quadratic nonlinearity
T. Peschel, U. Peschel, F. Lederer, and B. A. Malomed
pp. 4730-4739 [View PDF (435 kB)]
Local modes and localization in a multicomponent nonlinear lattice
Kyle Forinash, Thierry Cretegny, and Michel Peyrard
pp. 4740-4756 [View PDF (747 kB)]
Dynamic fragmentation of a two-dimensional brittle material with quenched disorder
Jan Åström, Markku Kellomäki, and Jussi Timonen
pp. 4757-4761 [View PDF (306 kB)]
Phase transitions and anisotropic responses of planar triangular nets under large deformation
Dennis E. Discher, David H. Boal, and S. K. Boey
pp. 4762-4772 [View PDF (355 kB)]
Polarized dark solitons in isotropic Kerr media
Adrian P. Sheppard and Yuri S. Kivshar
pp. 4773-4782 [View PDF (508 kB)]
Pulse solutions of the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in the case of normal dispersion
J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. N. Akhmediev, V. V. Afanasjev, and S. Wabnitz
pp. 4783-4796 [View PDF (491 kB)]

Computational physics

Modeling the optical constants of solids using acceptance-probability-controlled simulated annealing with an adaptive move generation procedure
Aleksandra B. Djurisic-acute, Aleksandar D. Rakic-acute, and Jovan M. Elazar
pp. 4797-4803 [View PDF (248 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Underdamped diffusion in the egg-carton potential
G. Caratti, R. Ferrando, R. Spadacini, and G. E. Tommei
pp. 4810-4811 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Effect of a uniform bias force on the Brownian movement in double-well potentials
W. T. Coffey, D. S. F. Crothers, and Yu. P. Kalmykov
pp. 4812-4815 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Influence of external field on layer-thinning transitions in free-standing smectic-A films
L. V. Mirantsev
pp. 4816-4819 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Plasma physics

Stark broadening observations for a cool, dense plasma
R. Kenneth Hutcherson and Alan W. DeSilva
pp. 4820-4821 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Computational physics

Weighted-ensemble simulated annealing: Faster optimization on hierarchical energy surfaces
Gary A. Huber and J. Andrew McCammon
pp. 4822-4825 [View PDF (77 kB)]

COMMENTS

Reply to ``Comment on `Chemically frozen phase separation in an adsorbed layer't''
J. Verdasca, G. Dewel, and P. Borckmans
pp. 4828-4829 [View PDF (52 kB)]

ERRATA

Erratum: General formula for stationary or statistically homogeneous probability density functions [Phys. Rev. E 53, 5899 (1996)] pp. 4830 [View PDF (64 kB)]
Erratum: Computer simulations of domain growth and phase separation in two-dimensional binary immiscible fluids using dissipative particle dynamics [Phys. Rev. E 54, 5134 (1996)]
P. V. Coveney and K. E. Novik
pp. 4831 [View PDF (64 kB)]