Physical Review E – August 1999
Volume 60, Issue 2

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

Scaling for the critical percolation backbone
M. Barthélémy, S. V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin, and H. E. Stanley
pp. R1123-R1125 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Alternative algorithm for the computation of Lyapunov spectra of dynamical systems
K. Ramasubramanian and M. S. Sriram
pp. R1126-R1129 [View PDF (50 kB)]
Origin of coherent structures in a discrete chaotic medium
Mikhail I. Rabinovich, Joaquín J. Torres, Pablo Varona, Ramón Huerta, and Patrick Weidman
pp. R1130-R1133 [View PDF (365 kB)]
Intrinsic localized modes and chaos in damped driven rotator lattices
D. Bonart and J. B. Page
pp. R1134-R1137 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Classical fluids

Passive scalar intermittency in compressible flow
A. Celani, A. Lanotte, and A. Mazzino
pp. R1138-R1141 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Statistical-mechanical study of the pair correlations for the dipolar Gay-Berne model
A. V. Zakharov, S. Romano, and A. Maliniak
pp. R1142-R1145 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Complex fluids and polymers

Fast relaxation of a hexagonal Poiseuille shear-induced near-surface phase in a threadlike micellar solution
W. A. Hamilton, P. D. Butler, L. J. Magid, Z. Han, and T. M. Slawecki
pp. R1146-R1149 [View PDF (272 kB)]
Phase separation with multiple length scales in polymer mixtures induced by autocatalytic reactions
Qui Tran-Cong, Junji Kawai, Yukihiro Nishikawa, and Hiroshi Jinnai
pp. R1150-R1153 [View PDF (451 kB)]
Coexistence of ordered and disordered phases in a nearly symmetric diblock copolymer near an order-disorder transition point
Tadanori Koga, Tsuyoshi Koga, and Takeji Hashimoto
pp. R1154-R1157 [View PDF (58 kB)]
Periodicity-dependent stiffness of periodic hydrophilic-hydrophobic heteropolymers
Debashish Chowdhury, Dietrich Stauffer, and Reinhard Strey
pp. R1158-R1161 [View PDF (167 kB)]
Numerical study of grid turbulence in two dimensions and comparison with experiments on turbulent soap films
C. H. Bruneau, O. Greffier, and H. Kellay
pp. R1162-R1165 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Biological physics

Direct measurement of the viscoelasticity of adsorbed protein layers using atomic force microscopy
Cs. Nemes, N. Rozlosnik, and J. J. Ramsden
pp. R1166-R1169 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Suppression of transverse instabilities for vector solitons
Ziad H. Musslimani, Mordechai Segev, Alexander Nepomnyashchy, and Yuri S. Kivshar
pp. R1170-R1173 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Computational physics

Tensile water transport in a porous gel
Paulo Loureiro de Sousa, M. Engelsberg, and F. G. Brady Moreira
pp. R1174-R1177 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Efficient algorithm for calculating two-photon absorption spectra
Toshiaki Iitaka and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki
pp. R1178-R1180 [View PDF (54 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Breathers and multibreathers in a periodically driven damped discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Michael Kollmann, Hans W. Capel, and Tassos Bountis
pp. 1195-1211 [View PDF (460 kB)]
Reaction diffusion models in one dimension with disorder
Pierre Le Doussal and Cécile Monthus
pp. 1212-1238 [View PDF (341 kB)]
Dynamical real space renormalization group applied to sandpile models
Eugene V. Ivashkevich, Alexander M. Povolotsky, Alessandro Vespignani, and Stefano Zapperi
pp. 1239-1251 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Polymorphic phase transitions in systems evolving in a two-dimensional discrete space
A. Gadomski
pp. 1252-1261 [View PDF (119 kB)]
Growth kinetics and morphology of a ballistic deposition model that incorporates surface diffusion for two species
Hassan F. El-Nashar and Hilda A. Cerdeira
pp. 1262-1268 [View PDF (533 kB)]
Wandering of a contact line at thermal equilibrium
Anusha Hazareesing and Marc Mézard
pp. 1269-1278 [View PDF (141 kB)]
Atomic diffusion, step relaxation, and step fluctuations
B. Blagojević and P. M. Duxbury
pp. 1279-1291 [View PDF (208 kB)]
Propagator representation of anomalous diffusion: The orientational structure factor formalism in NMR
Tatiana Zavada, Norbert Südland, Rainer Kimmich, and T. F. Nonnenmacher
pp. 1292-1298 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Power-law distributions and Lévy-stable intermittent fluctuations in stochastic systems of many autocatalytic elements
Ofer Malcai, Ofer Biham, and Sorin Solomon
pp. 1299-1303 [View PDF (66 kB)]
Diffusion in discrete ratchets
Jan A. Freund and Lutz Schimansky-Geier
pp. 1304-1309 [View PDF (84 kB)]
Diffusion in lattice Lorentz gases with a percolation threshold
L. Acedo and A. Santos
pp. 1310-1323 [View PDF (196 kB)]
Resonant activations for a fluctuating barrier system driven by dichotomous noise and Gaussian white noise
J. H. Li, D. Y. Xing, J. M. Dong, and B. Hu
pp. 1324-1328 [View PDF (68 kB)]
Roughening transition of a restricted solid-on-solid model in the directed percolation universality class
J. Ricardo G. de Mendonça
pp. 1329-1336 [View PDF (111 kB)]
High resolution description of a crack front in a heterogeneous Plexiglas block
Arnaud Delaplace, Jean Schmittbuhl, and Knut Jørgen Måløy
pp. 1337-1343 [View PDF (146 kB)]
Universal critical coupling constants for the three-dimensional n-vector model from field theory
A. I. Sokolov, E. V. Orlov, V. A. Ul’kov, and S. S. Kashtanov
pp. 1344-1349 [View PDF (65 kB)]
Analysis of spatiotemporal signals: A method based on perturbation theory
A. Hutt, C. Uhl, and R. Friedrich
pp. 1350-1358 [View PDF (158 kB)]
Spinodals, scaling, and ergodicity in a threshold model with long-range stress transfer
C. D. Ferguson, W. Klein, and John B. Rundle
pp. 1359-1373 [View PDF (203 kB)]
Trichotomous noise-induced transitions
Romi Mankin, Ain Ainsaar, and Eerik Reiter
pp. 1374-1380 [View PDF (95 kB)]
Diffusion of particles moving with constant speed
S. Anantha Ramakrishna and N. Kumar
pp. 1381-1389 [View PDF (444 kB)]
Statistical properties of the volatility of price fluctuations
Yanhui Liu, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Cizeau, Meyer, Peng, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 1390-1400 [View PDF (188 kB)]
Thermostating by deterministic scattering: Heat and shear flow
C. Wagner, R. Klages, and G. Nicolis
pp. 1401-1411 [View PDF (152 kB)]
Highly optimized tolerance: A mechanism for power laws in designed systems
J. M. Carlson and John Doyle
pp. 1412-1427 [View PDF (327 kB)]
Functional integration approach to hysteresis
G. Bertotti, I. D. Mayergoyz, V. Basso, and A. Magni
pp. 1428-1440 [View PDF (177 kB)]
Microscopic analysis of currency and stock exchange markets
L. Kador
pp. 1441-1449 [View PDF (136 kB)]
Binary data corruption due to a Brownian agent. II. Two dimensions, competing agents, and generalized couplings
Wannapong Triampo and T. J. Newman
pp. 1450-1463 [View PDF (195 kB)]
Analytical results for random walks in the presence of disorder and traps
Clément Sire
pp. 1464-1474 [View PDF (137 kB)]
Transient nonlinear dielectric relaxation and dynamic Kerr effect from sudden changes of a strong dc electric field: Polar and polarizable molecules
J. L. Déjardin, P. M. Déjardin, Yu. P. Kalmykov, and S. V. Titov
pp. 1475-1485 [View PDF (498 kB)]
Possible experimental measure theory for the XXX-Heisenberg chain
Jing-Ling Chen, Mo-Lin Ge, and Kang Xue
pp. 1486-1493 [View PDF (94 kB)]
Stochastic resonance in linear systems subject to multiplicative and additive noise
V. Berdichevsky and M. Gitterman
pp. 1494-1499 [View PDF (99 kB)]
Inverse Mermin-Wagner theorem for classical spin models on graphs
Raffaella Burioni, Davide Cassi, and Alessandro Vezzani
pp. 1500-1502 [View PDF (51 kB)]
Orientational relaxation in Brownian rotors with frustrated interactions on a square lattice
Sung Jong Lee and Bongsoo Kim
pp. 1503-1511 [View PDF (159 kB)]
Spontaneous spiral formation in two-dimensional oscillatory media
Petteri Kettunen, Takashi Amemiya, Takao Ohmori, and Tomohiko Yamaguchi
pp. 1512-1515 [View PDF (333 kB)]
Model of biological evolution with threshold dynamics and infinitely many absorbing states
Adam Lipowski and Małgorzata Łopata
pp. 1516-1519 [View PDF (51 kB)]
Thermodynamic framework for discrete optimal control in multiphase flow systems
Stanislaw Sieniutycz
pp. 1520-1534 [View PDF (180 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Chaotic jam and phase transition in traffic flow with passing
Takashi Nagatani
pp. 1535-1541 [View PDF (292 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Signatures of chaos in the entanglement of two coupled quantum kicked tops
Paul A. Miller and Sarben Sarkar
pp. 1542-1550 [View PDF (144 kB)]
Semiconductor laser with optical feedback: From excitable to deterministic low-frequency fluctuations
Manuel C. Eguia and G. B. Mindlin
pp. 1551-1557 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Transient fractal behavior in snapshot attractors of driven chaotic systems
Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. 1558-1562 [View PDF (138 kB)]
Estimating the Lyapunov spectrum of time delay feedback systems from scalar time series
Rainer Hegger
pp. 1563-1566 [View PDF (73 kB)]
Noise-induced phase space transport in two-dimensional Hamiltonian systems
Ilya V. Pogorelov and Henry E. Kandrup
pp. 1567-1578 [View PDF (163 kB)]
Mutual synchronization and clustering in randomly coupled chaotic dynamical networks
Susanna C. Manrubia and Alexander S. Mikhailov
pp. 1579-1589 [View PDF (171 kB)]
Pauli principle and chaos in a magnetized disk
R. Badrinarayanan, A. Góngora-T, and Jorge V. José
pp. 1590-1599 [View PDF (162 kB)]
Structure selection for global vector field reconstruction by using the identification of fixed points
L. Le Sceller, C. Letellier, and G. Gouesbet
pp. 1600-1606 [View PDF (99 kB)]
Classical and quantum chaos in a circular billiard with a straight cut
Suhan Ree and L. E. Reichl
pp. 1607-1615 [View PDF (878 kB)]
Multidimensional quasiperiodic antiphase dynamics
A. G. Vladimirov, E. A. Viktorov, and Paul Mandel
pp. 1616-1629 [View PDF (240 kB)]
Semiclassical non-trace-type formulas for matrix-element fluctuations and weighted densities of states
Jörg Main and Günter Wunner
pp. 1630-1638 [View PDF (141 kB)]
Semiclassical spectra and diagonal matrix elements by harmonic inversion of cross-correlated periodic orbit sums
Jörg Main, Kirsten Weibert, Vladimir A. Mandelshtam, and Günter Wunner
pp. 1639-1642 [View PDF (66 kB)]
Decoherence and correspondence in conservative chaotic dynamics
Jiangbin Gong and Paul Brumer
pp. 1643-1647 [View PDF (81 kB)]
Multichannel digital communications by the synchronization of globally coupled chaotic systems
K. Yoshimura
pp. 1648-1657 [View PDF (346 kB)]
Map from one-dimensional quantum field theory to quantum chaos on a two-dimensional torus
Tomaž Prosen
pp. 1658-1663 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Classical fluids

Simulations of fluid hydrogen: Comparison of a dissociation model with tight-binding molecular dynamics
Thomas J. Lenosky, Joel D. Kress, Lee A. Collins, Ronald Redmer, and Hauke Juranek
pp. 1665-1673 [View PDF (114 kB)]
Scaling properties of particle density fields formed in simulated turbulent flows
Robert C. Hogan, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, and Anthony R. Dobrovolskis
pp. 1674-1680 [View PDF (106 kB)]
Mechanism of low-threshold hypersonic cavitation stimulated by broadband laser pump
N. F. Bunkin, A. V. Lobeyev, G. A. Lyakhov, and B. W. Ninham
pp. 1681-1690 [View PDF (233 kB)]
Planar isotropy of passive sc17alar turbulent mixing with a mean perpendicular gradient
L. Danaila, J. Dusek, P. Le Gal, F. Anselmet, C. Brun, and A. Pumir
pp. 1691-1707 [View PDF (293 kB)]
Possibility of breakdown of overdamped and narrowing limits in low-frequency Raman spectra: Phenomenological band-shape analysis using the multiple-random-telegraph model
Yuko Amo and Yasunori Tominaga
pp. 1708-1715 [View PDF (354 kB)]
Distribution functions of a simple fluid under shear: Low shear rates
Yu. V. Kalyuzhnyi, S. T. Cui, P. T. Cummings, and H. D. Cochran
pp. 1716-1723 [View PDF (193 kB)]
Phase-field model for Hele-Shaw flows with arbitrary viscosity contrast. I. Theoretical approach
R. Folch, J. Casademunt, A. Hernández-Machado, and L. Ramírez-Piscina
pp. 1724-1733 [View PDF (123 kB)]
See Also: See Also
Phase-field model for Hele-Shaw flows with arbitrary viscosity contrast. II. Numerical study
R. Folch, J. Casademunt, A. Hernández-Machado, and L. Ramírez-Piscina
pp. 1734-1740 [View PDF (133 kB)]
Time-modulated convection with zero mean temperature gradient
A. C. Or and R. E. Kelly
pp. 1741-1747 [View PDF (132 kB)]
Stable elliptical vortices in a circular disk
Peilong Chen
pp. 1748-1753 [View PDF (81 kB)]
Mechanism of single-bubble sonoluminescence
Kyuichi Yasui
pp. 1754-1758 [View PDF (68 kB)]
Effect of a magnetic field on sonoluminescence
Kyuichi Yasui
pp. 1759-1761 [View PDF (42 kB)]
Turbulent Dufour effect and Onsager-type relations
Pedro Sancho
pp. 1762-1766 [View PDF (59 kB)]
Effect of lattice defects on Hele-Shaw flow over an etched lattice
E. L. Decker, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, A. Baratt, and J. V. Maher
pp. 1767-1774 [View PDF (570 kB)]
Simple model for linear and nonlinear mixing at unstable fluid interfaces in spherical geometry
John D. Ramshaw
pp. 1775-1780 [View PDF (90 kB)]
Subharmonic instabilities of Tollmien-Schlichting waves in two-dimensional Poiseuille flow
A. Drissi, M. Net, and I. Mercader
pp. 1781-1791 [View PDF (779 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Molecular reorientation of a nematic glass by laser-induced heat flow
R. Elschner, R. Macdonald, H. J. Eichler, S. Hess, and A. M. Sonnet
pp. 1792-1798 [View PDF (214 kB)]
Twist modulated phases in chiral smectic liquid crystals
Jonathan J. Stott and Rolfe G. Petschek
pp. 1799-1807 [View PDF (112 kB)]
Pseudonematic order fluctuations of the director in the smectic phase of thermotropic liquid crystals
R. H. Acosta and D. J. Pusiol
pp. 1808-1811 [View PDF (62 kB)]
Kinetics of phase ordering of nematic liquid crystals confined in porous media
Vlad Popa-Nita and Doru-Cosmin Constantin
pp. 1812-1814 [View PDF (52 kB)]
Time dependence of the magnetic grain concentration and secondary grain aggregation in ferronematic lyotropic liquid crystals subjected to magnetic field gradients
C. Y. Matuo and A. M. Figueiredo Neto
pp. 1815-1820 [View PDF (116 kB)]
Equilibrium structures and pretransitional fluctuations in a very thin hybrid nematic film
A. Šarlah and S. Žumer
pp. 1821-1830 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Magnetic field induced alignment of the directors of a smectic-A liquid crystal
J. W. Emsley, J. E. Long, G. R. Luckhurst, and P. Pedrielli
pp. 1831-1839 [View PDF (172 kB)]
Improper orientational ordering regime and tricritical behavior in a lyotropic liquid crystal
V. P. Dmitriev and G. R. Ouriques
pp. 1840-1846 [View PDF (169 kB)]
Polydomain-monodomain transition in nematic elastomers
S. V. Fridrikh and E. M. Terentjev
pp. 1847-1857 [View PDF (268 kB)]
Biaxial torus around nematic point defects
S. Kralj, E. G. Virga, and S. Žumer
pp. 1858-1866 [View PDF (427 kB)]
Anticlinic coupling between layers of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal
Munehiro Kimura, Daeseung Kang, and Charles Rosenblatt
pp. 1867-1871 [View PDF (72 kB)]
Electromechanical Fredericks effects in nematic gels
E. M. Terentjev, M. Warner, R. B. Meyer, and J. Yamamoto
pp. 1872-1879 [View PDF (283 kB)]
Expansion in width for domain walls in nematic liquid crystals in an external magnetic field
H. Arodź
pp. 1880-1887 [View PDF (100 kB)]
Layer undulations induced by a magnetic or electric field in concentric cylindrical layers of smectic-A liquid crystals
I. W. Stewart
pp. 1888-1896 [View PDF (148 kB)]

Complex fluids and polymers

Spatiotemporal irregularity in an excitable medium with shear flow
V. N. Biktashev, I. V. Biktasheva, A. V. Holden, M. A. Tsyganov, J. Brindley, and N. A. Hill
pp. 1897-1900 [View PDF (362 kB)]
Intrinsic instability of the concentration field in diffusion-limited growth and its effect on crystallization
Mu Wang, Xiao-Bo Yin, Peter G. Vekilov, Ru-Wen Peng, and Nai-Ben Ming
pp. 1901-1905 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Microscopic basis of free-volume concept as studied by quasielastic neutron scattering and positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy
T. Kanaya, T. Tsukushi, K. Kaji, J. Bartos, and J. Kristiak
pp. 1906-1912 [View PDF (102 kB)]
Phase and solute fields across the solid-liquid interface of a binary alloy
Massimo Conti
pp. 1913-1920 [View PDF (114 kB)]
Intermolecular structure factors of macromolecules in solution: Integral equation results
M. Fuchs and M. Müller
pp. 1921-1929 [View PDF (128 kB)]
Polymerization-induced phase separation
J. C. Lee
pp. 1930-1935 [View PDF (896 kB)]
Enhanced structural correlations accelerate diffusion in charge-stabilized colloidal suspensions
Ekkehard Overbeck, Christian Sinn, and Martin Watzlawek
pp. 1936-1939 [View PDF (53 kB)]
Cracking piles of brittle grains
František Slanina
pp. 1940-1945 [View PDF (102 kB)]
Mechanism of the onset of axial segregation in a rotating cylindrical drum filled with binary granular mixtures
T. Elperin and A. Vikhansky
pp. 1946-1950 [View PDF (106 kB)]
Temperature scaling in a dense vibrofluidized granular material
P. Sunthar and V. Kumaran
pp. 1951-1955 [View PDF (65 kB)]
Buckling, fluctuations, and collapse in semiflexible polyelectrolytes
Per Lyngs Hansen, Daniel Svenšek, V. Adrian Parsegian, and Rudi Podgornik
pp. 1956-1966 [View PDF (180 kB)]
Cylindrically symmetric Green’s function approach for modeling the crystal growth morphology of ice
Kenneth G. Libbrecht
pp. 1967-1974 [View PDF (185 kB)]
Continuum theory of axial segregation in a long rotating drum
I. S. Aranson, L. S. Tsimring, and V. M. Vinokur
pp. 1975-1987 [View PDF (464 kB)]
Linear viscoelasticity of hard sphere colloidal crystals from resonance detected with dynamic light scattering
See-Eng Phan, Min Li, William B. Russel, Jixiang Zhu, Paul M. Chaikin, and Chris T. Lant
pp. 1988-1998 [View PDF (183 kB)]
Force distribution in a scalar model for noncohesive granular material
Matthew G. Sexton, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and David G. Schaeffer
pp. 1999-2008 [View PDF (160 kB)]
Thick surface flows of granular materials: Effect of the velocity profile on the avalanche amplitude
Achod Aradian, Elie Raphaël, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
pp. 2009-2019 [View PDF (343 kB)]
Convection and thermodiffusion of colloidal gold tracers by laser light scattering
Wolfgang Schaertl and Christopher Roos
pp. 2020-2028 [View PDF (541 kB)]
Auto-oscillation of surface tension
V. I. Kovalchuk, H. Kamusewitz, D. Vollhardt, and N. M. Kovalchuk
pp. 2029-2036 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Diffusiophoresis of two-dimensional liquid droplets in a phase-separating system
Natalia Vladimirova, Andrea Malagoli, and Roberto Mauri
pp. 2037-2044 [View PDF (342 kB)]
Vertical free-standing films of amphiphilic associating polyelectrolytes
F. Millet, J. J. Benattar, and P. Perrin
pp. 2045-2050 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Simulations of aerosol aggregation including long-range interactions
V. Arunachalam, R. R. Lucchese, and W. H. Marlow
pp. 2051-2064 [View PDF (193 kB)]
Configurational entropy and collective modes in normal and supercooled liquids
U. Zürcher and T. Keyes
pp. 2065-2070 [View PDF (76 kB)]
Θ-point behavior of diluted polymer solutions: Can one observe the universal logarithmic corrections predicted by field theory?
Johannes Hager and Lothar Schäfer
pp. 2071-2085 [View PDF (212 kB)]

Biological physics

Mode locking and Arnold tongues in integrate-and-fire neural oscillators
S. Coombes and P. C. Bressloff
pp. 2086-2096 [View PDF (160 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Correlations between hidden units in multilayer neural networks and replica symmetry breaking
D. Malzahn and A. Engel
pp. 2097-2104 [View PDF (105 kB)]
Discretized torsional dynamics and the folding of an RNA chain
Ariel Fernández, Rodolfo Salthú, and Hernán Cendra
pp. 2105-2119 [View PDF (165 kB)]
Dynamic feedback in an aggregation-disaggregation model
B. Urbanc, L. Cruz, S. V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin, B. T. Hyman, and H. E. Stanley
pp. 2120-2126 [View PDF (113 kB)]
Energy transduction of isothermal ratchets: Generic aspects and specific examples close to and far from equilibrium
Andrea Parmeggiani, Frank Jülicher, Armand Ajdari, and Jacques Prost
pp. 2127-2140 [View PDF (331 kB)]
Information theoretical performance measure for associative memories and its application to neural networks
Mathias Schlüter, Oliver Kerschhaggl, and Friedrich Wagner
pp. 2141-2147 [View PDF (94 kB)]
Polyion character of globular proteins detected by translational and rotational diffusion
Giuseppe Chirico and Sabrina Beretta
pp. 2148-2153 [View PDF (72 kB)]
Adaptive walks on time-dependent fitness landscapes
Claus O. Wilke and Thomas Martinetz
pp. 2154-2159 [View PDF (95 kB)]
Mean-field theory of globally coupled integrate-and-fire neural oscillators with dynamic synapses
P. C. Bressloff
pp. 2160-2170 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Electrical recordings from rat cardiac muscle cells using field-effect transistors
Christoph Sprössler, Morgan Denyer, Steve Britland, Wolfgang Knoll, and Andreas Offenhäusser
pp. 2171-2176 [View PDF (175 kB)]
Multistability analysis of phase locking patterns in an excitatory coupled neural system
Seon Hee Park, Seunghwan Kim, Hyeon-Bong Pyo, and Sooyeul Lee
pp. 2177-2181 [View PDF (101 kB)]
Response of coupled noisy excitable systems to weak stimulation
Seiji Tanabe, Tetsuya Shimokawa, Shunsuke Sato, and K. Pakdaman
pp. 2182-2185 [View PDF (62 kB)]
Chaos in neural networks with a nonmonotonic transfer function
D. Caroppo, M. Mannarelli, G. Nardulli, and S. Stramaglia
pp. 2186-2192 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Plasma physics

Partially ionized hydrogen plasma in strong magnetic fields
Alexander Y. Potekhin, Gilles Chabrier, and Yuri A. Shibanov
pp. 2193-2208 [View PDF (374 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Comparison of measured and calculated x-ray and hot-electron production in short-pulse laser-solid interactions at moderate intensities
Th. Schlegel, S. Bastiani, L. Grémillet, J.-P. Geindre, P. Audebert, J.-C. Gauthier, E. Lefebvre, G. Bonnaud, and J. Delettrez
pp. 2209-2217 [View PDF (292 kB)]
Generation of periodic accelerating structures in plasma by colliding laser pulses
G. Shvets, N. J. Fisch, A. Pukhov, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn
pp. 2218-2223 [View PDF (111 kB)]
Effect of excited states on the ionization balance in plasmas via the enhancement of ionization and recombination rate coefficients
Kitae Lee and Dong-Eon Kim
pp. 2224-2230 [View PDF (130 kB)]
Charged-particle transport in gases in electric and magnetic fields crossed at arbitrary angles: Multiterm solution of Boltzmann’s equation
R. D. White, K. F. Ness, R. E. Robson, and B. Li
pp. 2231-2249 [View PDF (217 kB)]
Formation mechanisms of radial electron fluxes in a positive column
G. Mümken, H. Schlüter, and L. D. Tsendin
pp. 2250-2259 [View PDF (207 kB)]
Coulomb logarithm in femtosecond-laser–matter interaction
E. Bésuelle, R. R. E. Salomaa, and D. Teychenné
pp. 2260-2263 [View PDF (330 kB)]

Physics of beams

Wiggler-field effects on the space-charge waves of a Raman free-electron laser
B. Maraghechi, B. Farrokhi, J. E. Willett, B. Bolon, and H. Mehdian
pp. 2264-2271 [View PDF (124 kB)]
Thomson scattering of coherent diffraction radiation by an electron bunch
A. P. Potylitsyn
pp. 2272-2279 [View PDF (110 kB)]
Thermalization of an intense, space-charge-dominated electron beam in a long focusing channel
Bruce E. Carlsten
pp. 2280-2289 [View PDF (140 kB)]
Cyclotron-resonance maser in a periodically loaded quadrupole transmission line
Y. Leibovitch and E. Jerby
pp. 2290-2296 [View PDF (348 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Growing-and-decaying mode solution to the Davey-Stewartson equation
Masayoshi Tajiri and Takahito Arai
pp. 2297-2305 [View PDF (567 kB)]
Existence of optical solitons on wavelength division multiplexed beams in a nonlinear fiber
C. Yeh and L. A. Bergman
pp. 2306-2308 [View PDF (37 kB)]
Bifurcation picture for gap solitons in nonlinear modulated systems
A. S. Kovalev, O. V. Usatenko, and A. V. Gorbatch
pp. 2309-2316 [View PDF (136 kB)]
Suppression and enhancement of soliton switching during interaction in periodically twisted birefringent fibers
R. Radhakrishnan and M. Lakshmanan
pp. 2317-2321 [View PDF (147 kB)]
Nonlinearity of Pancharatnam’s geometric phase in polarizing interferometers
Bernhard Hils, Wolfgang Dultz, and Werner Martienssen
pp. 2322-2329 [View PDF (219 kB)]
Soliton evolution and radiation loss for the sine-Gordon equation
Noel F. Smyth and Annette L. Worthy
pp. 2330-2336 [View PDF (108 kB)]
Reshaping of femtosecond pulses by the Gouy phase shift
Z. L. Horváth and Zs. Bor
pp. 2337-2346 [View PDF (175 kB)]
Calculation of the heat-source function in photophoresis of aggregated spheres
Yu-lin Xu, B. Å. S. Gustafson, F. Giovane, J. Blum, and S. Tehranian
pp. 2347-2365 [View PDF (3,776 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Generalized Griffith criterion for dynamic fracture and the stability of crack motion at high velocities
M. Adda-Bedia, R. Arias, M. Ben Amar, and F. Lund
pp. 2366-2376 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Asymmetric partially coherent solitons in saturable nonlinear media
Natalia M. Litchinitser, Wiesław Królikowski, Nail N. Akhmediev, and Govind P. Agrawal
pp. 2377-2380 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Computational physics

Algorithms for Brownian dynamics computer simulations: Multivariable case
A. C. Brańka and D. M. Heyes
pp. 2381-2387 [View PDF (112 kB)]
Monte Carlo dynamics in global optimization
C. N. Chen, C. I. Chou, C. R. Hwang, J. Kang, T. K. Lee, and S. P. Li
pp. 2388-2393 [View PDF (105 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Classical fluids

Generalized Stokes-Einstein relation for liquid metals near freezing
N. H. March and M. P. Tosi
pp. 2402-2403 [View PDF (30 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Coarse-graining analysis of the Berreman anchoring
J.-B. Fournier and P. Galatola
pp. 2404-2407 [View PDF (67 kB)]

Complex fluids and polymers

Dense suspensions and supercooled liquids: Dynamic similarities
M. Papoular
pp. 2408-2410 [View PDF (41 kB)]

Physics of beams

Cyclotron-resonance maser in a magnetic mirror
Ronen Caspi and Eli Jerby
pp. 2411-2413 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Longitudinal instability for a purely inductive wake function
Yoshihiro Shobuda and Kohji Hirata
pp. 2414-2417 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Long-wave and short-wave asymptotics in nonlinear dispersive systems
R. A. Kraenkel, M. A. Manna, and V. Merle
pp. 2418-2420 [View PDF (45 kB)]

Computational physics

Improved numerical approach for the time-independent Gross-Pitaevskii nonlinear Schrödinger equation
A. Gammal, T. Frederico, and Lauro Tomio
pp. 2421-2424 [View PDF (53 kB)]
Stationary state in a two-temperature model with competing dynamics
Attila Szolnoki
pp. 2425-2428 [View PDF (146 kB)]

ERRATA

Erratum: Integral equation and simulation studies of the Heisenberg spin fluid in an external magnetic field [Phys. Rev. E 58, 3478 (1998)]
F. Lado, E. Lomba, and J. J. Weis
pp. 2429 [View PDF (15 kB)]
Erratum: Ideal glass-glass transitions and logarithmic decay of correlations in a simple system [Phys. Rev. E 59, R1347 (1999)]
L. Fabbian, W. Götze, F. Sciortino, P. Tartaglia, and F. Thiery
pp. 2430 [View PDF (16 kB)]