Physical Review E – October 1999
Volume 60, Issue 4

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been covered by a Viewpoint in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, featured as a story in Phys. Rev. Focus, or are of special interest for other reasons.

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

Observability of stochastic resonance in neutron scattering
C. A. Condat and Pedro W. Lamberti
pp. R3467-R3470 [View PDF (55 kB)]
Flow-distributed oscillations: Stationary chemical waves in a reacting flow
Mads Kærn and Michael Menzinger
pp. R3471-R3474 [View PDF (520 kB)]
Exact interface model for wetting in the planar Ising model
P. J. Upton
pp. R3475-R3478 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Experimental investigation of universal parametric correlators using a vibrating plate
K. Schaadt and A. Kudrolli
pp. R3479-R3482 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Classical fluids

Anisotropic nonperturbative zero modes for passively advected magnetic fields
Alessandra Lanotte and Andrea Mazzino
pp. R3483-R3486 [View PDF (72 kB)]
Dynamical evolution of sand ripples under water
Alexandre Stegner and José Eduardo Wesfreid
pp. R3487-R3490 [View PDF (670 kB)]
Taylor dispersion and molecular displacements in Poiseuille flow
S. L. Codd, B. Manz, J. D. Seymour, and P. T. Callaghan
pp. R3491-R3494 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Multistable alignment in free suspended nematic liquid crystal films
V. Nazarenko and A. Nych
pp. R3495-R3497 [View PDF (317 kB)]

Complex fluids and polymers

Possibility of rarefaction shock wave under short pulse laser ablation of solids
Nadezhda M. Bulgakova
pp. R3498-R3500 [View PDF (46 kB)]
Long-range density fluctuations in a symmetric diblock copolymer
Tadanori Koga, Tsuyoshi Koga, Kohtaro Kimishima, and Takeji Hashimoto
pp. R3501-R3504 [View PDF (60 kB)]

Plasma physics

Formation of a conducting channel in air by self-guided femtosecond laser pulses
S. Tzortzakis, M. A. Franco, Y.-B. André, A. Chiron, B. Lamouroux, B. S. Prade, and A. Mysyrowicz
pp. R3505-R3507 [View PDF (240 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Instabilities of cavity solitons in optical parametric oscillators
Dmitry V. Skryabin
pp. R3508-R3511 [View PDF (128 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Pauli paramagnetic gas in the framework of Riemannian geometry
Kamran Kaviani and Ali Dalafi-Rezaie
pp. 3520-3525 [View PDF (94 kB)]
Improved high-temperature expansion and critical equation of state of three-dimensional Ising-like systems
Massimo Campostrini, Andrea Pelissetto, Paolo Rossi, and Ettore Vicari
pp. 3526-3563 [View PDF (365 kB)]
Coarsening kinetics from a variable-mobility Cahn-Hilliard equation: Application of a semi-implicit Fourier spectral method
Jingzhi Zhu, Long-Qing Chen, Jie Shen, and Veena Tikare
pp. 3564-3572 [View PDF (826 kB)]
Simplified replica treatment of various random-energy and random-field models with confinement potential
Gerhard Diener and Lutz Brusch
pp. 3573-3579 [View PDF (94 kB)]
Spectral statistics and dynamics of Lévy matrices
Mariela Araujo, Ernesto Medina, and Eduardo Aponte
pp. 3580-3588 [View PDF (296 kB)]
Constructing new periodic exact solutions of evolution equations
Jian-min Mao, Liu Zengrong, and Cao Yongluo
pp. 3589-3596 [View PDF (207 kB)]
Noise-induced phase separation: Mean-field results
M. Ibañes, J. García-Ojalvo, R. Toral, and J. M. Sancho
pp. 3597-3605 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Domain-wall free energy of spin-glass models: Numerical method and boundary conditions
Koji Hukushima
pp. 3606-3613 [View PDF (209 kB)]
Phase-field model of dendritic sidebranching with thermal noise
Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel
pp. 3614-3625 [View PDF (221 kB)]
Pattern selection in a lattice of pulse-coupled oscillators
X. Guardiola and A. Díaz-Guilera
pp. 3626-3632 [View PDF (130 kB)]
Statistical mechanics of self-driven Carnot cycles
Eric Smith
pp. 3633-3645 [View PDF (168 kB)]
Damage spreading transition in glasses: A probe for the ruggedness of the configurational landscape
M. Heerema and F. Ritort
pp. 3646-3665 [View PDF (247 kB)]
Universal behavior in an irreversible model with C3v symmetry
Adriana Brunstein and Tânia Tomé
pp. 3666-3669 [View PDF (62 kB)]
Geometry of fully coordinated, two-dimensional percolation
E. Cuansing, J. H. Kim, and H. Nakanishi
pp. 3670-3675 [View PDF (344 kB)]
Energy distribution of the quantum harmonic oscillator under random time-dependent perturbations
J. Garnier
pp. 3676-3687 [View PDF (193 kB)]
Renormalization group for renormalization-group equations toward the universality classification of infinite-order phase transitions
Chigak Itoi and Hisamitsu Mukaida
pp. 3688-3700 [View PDF (235 kB)]
Structural relaxation in atomic clusters: Master equation dynamics
Mark A. Miller, Jonathan P. K. Doye, and David J. Wales
pp. 3701-3718 [View PDF (395 kB)]
Renormalization-group study of one-dimensional systems with roughening transitions
G. Bianconi, M. A. Muñoz, A. Gabrielli, and L. Pietronero
pp. 3719-3726 [View PDF (131 kB)]
Steady-state currents in sharp stochastic ratchets
Małgorzata M. Kłosek and Robert W. Cox
pp. 3727-3735 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Electromigration-induced soliton propagation on metal surfaces
R. Mark Bradley
pp. 3736-3740 [View PDF (64 kB)]
Black-eye patterns: A representation of three-dimensional symmetries in thin domains
M. Gabriela M. Gomes
pp. 3741-3747 [View PDF (508 kB)]
Critical-point finite-size scaling in the microcanonical ensemble
A. D. Bruce and N. B. Wilding
pp. 3748-3760 [View PDF (167 kB)]
Ground-state degeneracies of Ising spin glasses on diamond hierarchical lattices
E. M. F. Curado, F. D. Nobre, and S. Coutinho
pp. 3761-3770 [View PDF (133 kB)]
Asymmetry and direction reversal in fluctuation-induced biased Brownian motion
Yi-der Chen, Bo Yan, and Robert Miura
pp. 3771-3775 [View PDF (70 kB)]
Vortex dynamics in a three-state model under cyclic dominance
György Szabó, M. A. Santos, and J. F. F. Mendes
pp. 3776-3780 [View PDF (153 kB)]
Finite times to equipartition in the thermodynamic limit
J. De Luca, A. J. Lichtenberg, and S. Ruffo
pp. 3781-3786 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Stationary states of Toom cellular automata in simulations
Danuta Makowiec
pp. 3787-3796 [View PDF (187 kB)]
Reaction-controlled cooperative desorption in a one-dimensional lattice: A dynamical approach
F. Baras, F. Vikas, and G. Nicolis
pp. 3797-3803 [View PDF (89 kB)]
Self-similar renormalization approach to barrier crossing processes
A. N. Drozdov and Shigeo Hayashi
pp. 3804-3813 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Density dependence of vibrational energy relaxation rates in supercritical solution: A hydrodynamic model
V. B. Nemtsov, I. I. Fedchenia, A. V. Kondratenko, and J. Schroeder
pp. 3814-3822 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Critical behavior of the two-dimensional spin-diluted Ising model via the equilibrium ensemble approach
Giorgio Mazzeo and Reimer Kühn
pp. 3823-3836 [View PDF (188 kB)]
Dynamical universality classes of vapor deposition models with evaporation
S. H. Yook and Yup Kim
pp. 3837-3841 [View PDF (83 kB)]
Critical behavior of roughening transitions in parity-conserving growth processes
Haye Hinrichsen and Géza Ódor
pp. 3842-3852 [View PDF (217 kB)]
Magnetic critical behavior of two-dimensional random-bond Potts ferromagnets in confined geometries
Christophe Chatelain and Bertrand Berche
pp. 3853-3865 [View PDF (326 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Chaotic dynamics in classical s-wave helium
Zai-Qiao Bai and Yan Gu
pp. 3866-3875 [View PDF (184 kB)]
Uncertain destination dynamics
Hongyan Sun, Stephen K. Scott, and Kenneth Showalter
pp. 3876-3880 [View PDF (153 kB)]
Dynamical localization of ultracold sodium atoms
C. F. Bharucha, J. C. Robinson, F. L. Moore, Bala Sundaram, Qian Niu, and M. G. Raizen
pp. 3881-3895 [View PDF (393 kB)]
Chaos and reconnection in relativistic cyclotron motion in an elliptically polarized electric field
Duck-Hee Kwon and Hai-Woong Lee
pp. 3896-3904 [View PDF (264 kB)]
Boundedness of dynamical systems and chaos synchronization
Elman Mohammed-Oglu Shahverdiev
pp. 3905-3909 [View PDF (191 kB)]
Bifurcation to worms in electroconvection
Urs Bisang and Guenter Ahlers
pp. 3910-3919 [View PDF (788 kB)]
Homoclinic crossing in open systems: Chaos in periodically perturbed monopole plus quadrupolelike potentials
P. S. Letelier and A. E. Motter
pp. 3920-3927 [View PDF (183 kB)]
Amplification of weak signals and stochastic resonance via on-off intermittency with symmetry breaking
Changsong Zhou and C.-H. Lai
pp. 3928-3935 [View PDF (119 kB)]
Spectrum of stochastic evolution operators: Local matrix representation approach
Predrag Cvitanović, Niels Søndergaard, Gergely Palla, Gábor Vattay, and C. P. Dettmann
pp. 3936-3941 [View PDF (89 kB)]
Anderson localization in a string of microwave cavities
C. Dembowski, H.-D. Gräf, R. Hofferbert, H. Rehfeld, A. Richter, and T. Weiland
pp. 3942-3948 [View PDF (203 kB)]
Ergodic properties of a generic nonintegrable quantum many-body system in the thermodynamic limit
Tomaž Prosen
pp. 3949-3968 [View PDF (376 kB)]
Universality in quantum parametric correlations
P. Lebœuf and M. Sieber
pp. 3969-3972 [View PDF (71 kB)]
Symbolic dynamics analysis of nonstationary data from a model of a magnetic system with solitons
T. Buchner and J. J. Żebrowski
pp. 3973-3981 [View PDF (174 kB)]
Semiclassical treatment of diffraction in billiard systems with a flux line
Martin Sieber
pp. 3982-3991 [View PDF (235 kB)]
Classical diffusion and quantum level velocities: Systematic deviations from random matrix theory
Arul Lakshminarayan, Nicholas R. Cerruti, and Steven Tomsovic
pp. 3992-3999 [View PDF (109 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Coupled map car-following model and its delayed-feedback control
Keiji Konishi, Hideki Kokame, and Kentaro Hirata
pp. 4000-4007 [View PDF (216 kB)]
Phase space reconstruction using input-output time series data
David M. Walker and Nicholas B. Tufillaro
pp. 4008-4013 [View PDF (89 kB)]
Synchronization and resonance in a driven system of coupled oscillators
H. Hong, M. Y. Choi, K. Park, B.-G. Yoon, and K.-S. Soh
pp. 4014-4020 [View PDF (90 kB)]
Nonhyperbolic behavior in the thermostated Lorentz gas
H. Odbadrakh and G. P. Morriss
pp. 4021-4026 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Classical fluids

Filling transition for a wedge
K. Rejmer, S. Dietrich, and M. Napiórkowski
pp. 4027-4042 [View PDF (242 kB)]
Influence of compressibility on scaling regimes of strongly anisotropic fully developed turbulence
N. V. Antonov, M. Hnatich, and M. Yu. Nalimov
pp. 4043-4051 [View PDF (124 kB)]
Nonlinear viscosity and Grad’s method
F. J. Uribe and L. S. García-Colín
pp. 4052-4062 [View PDF (141 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
Burnett description for plane Poiseuille flow
F. J. Uribe and Alejandro L. Garcia
pp. 4063-4078 [View PDF (311 kB)]
Frequency-dependent viscosity of xenon near the critical point
Robert F. Berg, Michael R. Moldover, and Gregory A. Zimmerli
pp. 4079-4098 [View PDF (297 kB)]
Alternative optical equation for dielectric liquids
Z. Niedrich
pp. 4099-4104 [View PDF (66 kB)]
Relation of shear viscosity and self-diffusion coefficient for simple liquids
Kyunil Rah and Byung Chan Eu
pp. 4105-4116 [View PDF (154 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Nonbound dislocations in hexagonal patterns: pentagon lines in surface-tension-driven Bénard convection
Kerstin Eckert and André Thess
pp. 4117-4124 [View PDF (1,165 kB)]
Relation between transport and thermodynamic properties in liquid sp-electron metals near freezing
J. A. Alonso and N. H. March
pp. 4125-4129 [View PDF (56 kB)]
Reciprocity and cross coupling of two-phase flow in porous media from Onsager theory
Eirik G. Flekkøy and Steven R. Pride
pp. 4130-4137 [View PDF (205 kB)]
Biasymptotic formula for the turbulent energy cascade
R. Badii and P. Talkner
pp. 4138-4142 [View PDF (82 kB)]
Wavy film flows down an inclined plane: Perturbation theory and general evolution equation for the film thickness
A. L. Frenkel and K. Indireshkumar
pp. 4143-4157 [View PDF (169 kB)]
Kinetic approach to the Gaussian thermostat in a dilute sheared gas in the thermodynamic limit
R. van Zon
pp. 4158-4163 [View PDF (105 kB)]
Universal long-time properties of Lagrangian statistics in the Batchelor regime and their application to the passive scalar problem
E. Balkovsky and A. Fouxon
pp. 4164-4174 [View PDF (144 kB)]
Temporal surrogates of spatial turbulent statistics: The Taylor hypothesis revisited
Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 4175-4184 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Structure function of passive scalars in two-dimensional turbulence
Bruno Eckhardt and Jörg Schumacher
pp. 4185-4192 [View PDF (263 kB)]
Patterns in small aspect ratio Bénard-Marangoni convection
M. L. Ramón, D. Maza, and H. L. Mancini
pp. 4193-4198 [View PDF (336 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Dynamics of chevron structure formation. II. Permeation-dominated phenomena
A. N. Shalaginov, L. D. Hazelwood, and T. J. Sluckin
pp. 4199-4209 [View PDF (138 kB)]
Interaction of spherical particles dispersed in a liquid crystal above the nematic-isotropic phase transition
A. Borštnik, H. Stark, and S. Žumer
pp. 4210-4218 [View PDF (139 kB)]
NMR spectra from Monte Carlo simulations of polymer dispersed liquid crystals
C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, G. Skačej, C. Zannoni, and S. Žumer
pp. 4219-4225 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Mesoscopic model for the viscosities of nematic liquid crystals
Agnieszka Chrzanowska, Martin Kröger, and Shaun Sellers
pp. 4226-4234 [View PDF (151 kB)]
Molecular theory of HexB-SmA-isotropic transitions in ultrathin liquid crystal films
Jue Shi, Long-pei Shi, and D. L. Lin
pp. 4235-4243 [View PDF (176 kB)]

Complex fluids and polymers

Dynamics of water coning
Jonn-Erik Farmen, Geri Wagner, Unni Oxaal, Paul Meakin, Jens Feder, and Torstein Jøssang
pp. 4244-4251 [View PDF (671 kB)]
Growth of a single-domain smectic phase in a thin liquid-crystalline polymer film
M. W. J. van der Wielen, M. A. Cohen Stuart, G. J. Fleer, A. R. Schlatmann, and D. K. G. de Boer
pp. 4252-4256 [View PDF (205 kB)]
Statistical mechanics of charged polymers in electrolyte solutions: A lattice field theory approach
Stefan Tsonchev, Rob D. Coalson, and Anthony Duncan
pp. 4257-4267 [View PDF (163 kB)]
Metastable versus unstable transients at the onset of a shear-induced phase transition
J.-F. Berret and G. Porte
pp. 4268-4271 [View PDF (52 kB)]
Elongation of confined ferrofluid droplets under applied fields
S. Banerjee, M. Fasnacht, S. Garoff, and M. Widom
pp. 4272-4279 [View PDF (205 kB)]
Orientational order in model dipolar fluids
Philip J. Camp and G. N. Patey
pp. 4280-4284 [View PDF (78 kB)]
Two-phase flow through porous media in the fixed-contact-line regime
S. R. Pride and E. G. Flekkøy
pp. 4285-4299 [View PDF (318 kB)]
Thermodynamics of a nonionic sponge phase
T. D. Le, U. Olsson, H. Wennerström, and P. Schurtenberger
pp. 4300-4309 [View PDF (126 kB)]
Monte Carlo simulation of submonolayer vapor-deposition polymerization
Y.-P. Zhao, A. R. Hopper, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu
pp. 4310-4318 [View PDF (251 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Surface hydrodynamics on a freely standing layer of a polymer solution
M. Hernández-Contreras, M. W. Kim, and P. Pincus
pp. 4319-4329 [View PDF (165 kB)]
Doppler shift anisotropy in small angle neutron scattering
B. E. Wyslouzil, G. Wilemski, J. L. Cheung, R. Strey, and J. Barker
pp. 4330-4335 [View PDF (164 kB)]
Orientation of particles in an electrorheological fluid under an electric field
Yucheng Lan, Xiaoyu Xu, Shouqiang Men, and Kunquan Lu
pp. 4336-4339 [View PDF (52 kB)]
Transport coefficients for granular media from molecular dynamics simulations
C. Bizon, M. D. Shattuck, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney
pp. 4340-4351 [View PDF (189 kB)]
Kinetic model of phase separation in binary mixtures with hard mobile impurities
Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Gongwen Peng, Feng Qiu, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs
pp. 4352-4359 [View PDF (757 kB)]
Wetting of mesoscopic soft cylinders: Structure and layering transitions
Heiko Ahrens, Norbert Hugenberg, Manfred Schmidt, and Christiane A. Helm
pp. 4360-4370 [View PDF (414 kB)]
Lateral interactions of charges in thin liquid films and the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
Konstantin Kornev
pp. 4371-4376 [View PDF (75 kB)]
Tethered membranes far from equilibrium: Buckling dynamics
Dorel Moldovan and Leonardo Golubovic
pp. 4377-4384 [View PDF (290 kB)]
Statistics of shear-induced rearrangements in a two-dimensional model foam
Shubha Tewari, Dylan Schiemann, Douglas J. Durian, Charles M. Knobler, Stephen A. Langer, and Andrea J. Liu
pp. 4385-4396 [View PDF (878 kB)]
Phase separation of rigid-rod suspensions in shear flow
Peter D. Olmsted and C.-Y. David Lu
pp. 4397-4415 [View PDF (304 kB)]
Forces between like-charged plates in electrolyte solution: Ion-solvent packing versus electrostatic effects
Frank Otto and G. N. Patey
pp. 4416-4422 [View PDF (114 kB)]
Velocity-jump instabilities in Hele-Shaw flow of associating polymer solutions
D. H. Vlad, Jordi Ignes-Mullol, and J. V. Maher
pp. 4423-4430 [View PDF (108 kB)]
Electrostatics of a modulated membrane with specific adsorption
O. Pecina and J. P. Badiali
pp. 4431-4443 [View PDF (169 kB)]
Influence of temperature and pressure on dielectric relaxation in a supercooled epoxy resin
S. Corezzi, P. A. Rolla, M. Paluch, J. Zioło, and D. Fioretto
pp. 4444-4452 [View PDF (147 kB)]
Static light scattering measurements along a critical decomposition line of a ternary liquid mixture
O. Müller and J. Winkelmann
pp. 4453-4459 [View PDF (99 kB)]
Molecular weight effects on chain pull-out fracture of reinforced polymeric interfaces
Mohsen Sabouri-Ghomi, Slava Ispolatov, and Martin Grant
pp. 4460-4464 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Coefficient of restitution of colliding viscoelastic spheres
Rosa Ramírez, Thorsten Pöschel, Nikolai V. Brilliantov, and Thomas Schwager
pp. 4465-4472 [View PDF (107 kB)]
Small-angle x-ray scattering study of kinetics of spinodal decomposition in N-isopropylacrylamide gels
Guangdong Liao, Yonglin Xie, Karl F. Ludwig, Jr., Rama Bansil, and Patrick Gallagher
pp. 4473-4481 [View PDF (259 kB)]
Topological and spatial aspects of the hydration of solutes of extreme solvation entropy
Dan L. Bergman, Alexander P. Lyubartsev, and Aatto Laaksonen
pp. 4482-4495 [View PDF (331 kB)]
Attractive interactions between rodlike polyelectrolytes: Polarization, crystallization, and packing
Francisco J. Solis and Monica Olvera de la Cruz
pp. 4496-4499 [View PDF (86 kB)]
Simple model for granular friction
Hisao Hayakawa
pp. 4500-4504 [View PDF (88 kB)]
Phase transitions in electrorheological fluids using molecular dynamics simulations
Giovanni Lapenta, Giovanni Maizza, Antonio Palmieri, Gianmarco Boretto, and Massimo Debenedetti
pp. 4505-4510 [View PDF (294 kB)]
Similarity of relaxation in supercooled liquids and interacting arrays of oscillators
K. L. Ngai and Kwok Yeung Tsang
pp. 4511-4517 [View PDF (131 kB)]
Linear viscoelasticity of an inverse ferrofluid
B. J. de Gans, C. Blom, A. P. Philipse, and J. Mellema
pp. 4518-4527 [View PDF (276 kB)]
Molecular dynamics study of replica symmetry in the vulcanization transition
Sandra Barsky and Michael Plischke
pp. 4528-4533 [View PDF (80 kB)]
A constitutive relation describing the shear-banding transition
Jan K. G. Dhont
pp. 4534-4544 [View PDF (142 kB)]
Effect of added copolymer on the critical properties of polymer mixtures
M. D. Dadmun and Dean Waldow
pp. 4545-4550 [View PDF (80 kB)]
Geometrical characterization of hard-sphere systems
Patrick Richard, Luc Oger, Jean-Paul Troadec, and Annie Gervois
pp. 4551-4558 [View PDF (311 kB)]

Biological physics

Mesostructure of polymer collapse and fractal smoothing
G. E. Crooks, B. Ostrovsky, and Y. Bar-Yam
pp. 4559-4563 [View PDF (65 kB)]
Rate coding in a chain of pulse-coupled oscillators
Takanobu Yamanobe, K. Pakdaman, and Shunsuke Sato
pp. 4564-4570 [View PDF (147 kB)]
Noise-induced breakdown of coherent collective motion in swarms
Alexander S. Mikhailov and Damián H. Zanette
pp. 4571-4575 [View PDF (68 kB)]
Information theoretical approach to the storage capacity of neural networks with binary weights
Hiroki Suyari and Ikuo Matsuba
pp. 4576-4579 [View PDF (62 kB)]
Categorization in the symmetrically dilute Hopfield network
P. R. Krebs and W. K. Theumann
pp. 4580-4587 [View PDF (111 kB)]
Turing patterns on a sphere
C. Varea, J. L. Aragón, and R. A. Barrio
pp. 4588-4592 [View PDF (621 kB)]
Universal low-frequency vibrations of proteins from a simple interaction potential
M. Nöllmann and P. Etchegoin
pp. 4593-4596 [View PDF (77 kB)]
Salt-induced liquid-liquid phase separation of protein-surfactant complexes
Janaky Narayanan and Vinod W. Deotare
pp. 4597-4603 [View PDF (86 kB)]
Avalanche of bifurcations and hysteresis in a model of cellular differentiation
Gábor Fáth and Zbigniew Domański
pp. 4604-4609 [View PDF (253 kB)]
Modulated phases in multicomponent fluid membranes
P. B. Sunil Kumar, G. Gompper, and R. Lipowsky
pp. 4610-4618 [View PDF (214 kB)]
Curvature effects on activation speed and repolarization in an ionic model of cardiac myocytes
P. Comtois and A. Vinet
pp. 4619-4628 [View PDF (152 kB)]
Protein ground state candidates in a simple model: An enumeration study
V. Shahrezaei, N. Hamedani, and M. R. Ejtehadi
pp. 4629-4636 [View PDF (1,033 kB)]
Mechanism of stochastic resonance enhancement in neuronal models driven by 1/f noise
Daichi Nozaki, James J. Collins, and Yoshiharu Yamamoto
pp. 4637-4644 [View PDF (261 kB)]
Nucleation theory for helix unfolding in peptide chains
Ariel Fernández and Andrés Colubri
pp. 4645-4651 [View PDF (186 kB)]
Statistical mechanics of protein sequences
T. Gregory Dewey
pp. 4652-4658 [View PDF (78 kB)]
Scaling behavior in crackle sound during lung inflation
Adriano M. Alencar, Zoltán Hantos, Ferenc Peták, József Tolnai, Tibor Asztalos, Stefano Zapperi, José S. Andrade, Jr., Sergey V. Buldyrev, H. Eugene Stanley, and Béla Suki
pp. 4659-4663 [View PDF (82 kB)]
Origin of the low-frequency modes of globular proteins
Simone Melchionna and Alessandro Desideri
pp. 4664-4670 [View PDF (86 kB)]
Equilibrium and dynamical properties of semiflexible chain molecules with confined transverse fluctuations
Ludger Harnau and Peter Reineker
pp. 4671-4676 [View PDF (100 kB)]
Dielectric dispersion of biological matter: Model combining Debye-type and “universal” responses
Valerică Raicu
pp. 4677-4680 [View PDF (51 kB)]
Effects of nonequilibrium fluctuations on ionic transport through biomembranes
Kwonmoo Lee and W. Sung
pp. 4681-4686 [View PDF (94 kB)]
Statistical analysis of stochastic resonance in a simple setting
Priscilla E. Greenwood, Lawrence M. Ward, and Wolfgang Wefelmeyer
pp. 4687-4695 [View PDF (164 kB)]
Origin of the designability of protein structures
Rie Tatsumi and George Chikenji
pp. 4696-4700 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Plasma physics

Resistivity-independent dissipation of magnetohydrodynamic waves in an inhomogeneous plasma
F. Califano and C. Chiuderi
pp. 4701-4707 [View PDF (265 kB)]
Shielding and charging of dust particles in the plasma sheath
S. Benkadda, V. N. Tsytovich, and S. V. Vladimirov
pp. 4708-4714 [View PDF (108 kB)]
Heavy-ion-beam–induced hydrodynamic effects in solid targets
N. A. Tahir, D. H. H. Hoffmann, J. A. Maruhn, P. Spiller, and R. Bock
pp. 4715-4724 [View PDF (293 kB)]
Quantum kinetic theory of plasmas in strong laser fields
D. Kremp, Th. Bornath, M. Bonitz, and M. Schlanges
pp. 4725-4732 [View PDF (100 kB)]
Plasma-wall boundary layers
V. Baritello, F. Porcelli, and F. Subba
pp. 4733-4742 [View PDF (164 kB)]
Packings and defects of strongly coupled two-dimensional Coulomb clusters: Numerical simulation
Ying-Ju Lai and Lin I
pp. 4743-4753 [View PDF (326 kB)]
Relativistic plasma viscosity of the Burnett kind
V. S. Tsypin, R. M. O. Galvão, I. C. Nascimento, N. L. Tsintsadze, L. N. Tsintsadze, M. Tendler, and J. P. Neto
pp. 4754-4759 [View PDF (83 kB)]
Experimental and simulated neon spectra in the 10-nm wavelength region from tokamak and reversed field pinch plasmas
M. Mattioli, K. B. Fournier, L. Carraro, C. DeMichelis, P. Monier-Garbet, M. E. Puiatti, F. Sattin, P. Scarin, and M. Valisa
pp. 4760-4769 [View PDF (155 kB)]
Anomalous diffusion in a running sandpile model
B. A. Carreras, V. E. Lynch, D. E. Newman, and G. M. Zaslavsky
pp. 4770-4778 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Physics of beams

Analysis of Gaussian beam and Bessel beam driven laser accelerators
B. Hafizi, A. K. Ganguly, A. Ting, C. I. Moore, and P. Sprangle
pp. 4779-4792 [View PDF (222 kB)]
Maps for distributions and their time evolution
Étienne Forest and David S. Robin
pp. 4793-4810 [View PDF (651 kB)]
Linear theory of multistage forward-wave amplifiers
G. S. Nusinovich and M. Walter
pp. 4811-4822 [View PDF (182 kB)]
Relaxation oscillations of the synchrotron motion caused by narrow-band impedances
C. Limborg and J. Sebek
pp. 4823-4835 [View PDF (994 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Coupled-field description of zero-average dispersion management
C. Paré, V. Roy, F. Lesage, P. Mathieu, and P.-A. Bélanger
pp. 4836-4842 [View PDF (113 kB)]
Wave transport in random media: The ballistic to diffusive transition
Z. Q. Zhang, I. P. Jones, H. P. Schriemer, J. H. Page, D. A. Weitz, and Ping Sheng
pp. 4843-4850 [View PDF (129 kB)]
Sound propagation in urban areas: A periodic disposition of buildings
J. Picaut, J. Hardy, and L. Simon
pp. 4851-4859 [View PDF (199 kB)]
Switching of electromagnetic waves by two-layered periodic dielectric structures
Gregory V. Morozov, Roman Gr. Maev, and G. W. F. Drake
pp. 4860-4867 [View PDF (118 kB)]
Soliton generation in optical fibers for a dual-frequency input
N.-C. Panoiu, I. V. Mel’nikov, D. Mihalache, C. Etrich, and F. Lederer
pp. 4868-4876 [View PDF (365 kB)]
Collapse arresting in an inhomogeneous quintic nonlinear Schrödinger model
Yu. B. Gaididei, J. Schjødt-Eriksen, and P. L. Christiansen
pp. 4877-4890 [View PDF (198 kB)]
Dispersive properties of finite, one-dimensional photonic band gap structures: Applications to nonlinear quadratic interactions
M. Centini, C. Sibilia, M. Scalora, G. D’Aguanno, M. Bertolotti, M. J. Bloemer, C. M. Bowden, and I. Nefedov
pp. 4891-4898 [View PDF (117 kB)]
Radiative transfer in chiral random media
Alexander A. Kokhanovsky
pp. 4899-4907 [View PDF (107 kB)]
Scattering of dislocated wave fronts by vertical vorticity and the Aharonov-Bohm effect. I. Shallow water
Christophe Coste, Fernando Lund, and Makoto Umeki
pp. 4908-4916 [View PDF (439 kB)]
See Also: See Also
Scattering of dislocated wave fronts by vertical vorticity and the Aharonov-Bohm effect. II. Dispersive waves
Christophe Coste and Fernando Lund
pp. 4917-4925 [View PDF (428 kB)]

Computational physics

Extension of the mapped Fourier method to time-dependent problems
Ulrich Kleinekathöfer and David J. Tannor
pp. 4926-4933 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Evolving three-dimensional cellular automata to perform a quasiperiod-3 collective behavior task
Francisco Jiménez-Morales
pp. 4934-4940 [View PDF (268 kB)]
Active clusters in disordered systems
S. Bastea and P. M. Duxbury
pp. 4941-4945 [View PDF (127 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Thermal noise can facilitate energy conversion by a ratchet system
Fumiko Takagi and Tsuyoshi Hondou
pp. 4954-4957 [View PDF (64 kB)]
Nonuniform reaction rate distribution for the generalized Fisher equation: Ignition ahead of the reaction front
Sergei Fedotov
pp. 4958-4961 [View PDF (48 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Effects of time-delayed interactions on dynamic patterns in a coupled phase oscillator system
Seon Hee Park, Seunghwan Kim, Hyeon-Bong Pyo, and Sooyeul Lee
pp. 4962-4965 [View PDF (60 kB)]
Synchronization and coherence in thermodynamic coupled map lattices with intermediate-range coupling
Prashant M. Gade and Chin-Kun Hu
pp. 4966-4969 [View PDF (59 kB)]
Improved false nearest neighbor method to detect determinism in time series data
Rainer Hegger and Holger Kantz
pp. 4970-4973 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Classical fluids

Flow of a vortex-pair street and the evolution of salt fingers
Hie-Tae Moon
pp. 4974-4977 [View PDF (79 kB)]
Diameters of vortex spirals in three-dimensional turbulence
H. O. Rasmussen
pp. 4978-4979 [View PDF (26 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Pretransitional behavior above the nematic-isotropic phase transition of an auxetic trimer liquid crystal
Daeseung Kang, Milind P. Mahajan, Shiyong Zhang, Rolfe G. Petschek, Charles Rosenblatt, Chaobin He, Puwei Liu, and A. C. Griffin
pp. 4980-4982 [View PDF (53 kB)]

Complex fluids and polymers

Classical-nonclassical crossover behavior of critical and noncritical liquid binary solutions in a strong electric field
Jerzy Zioło and Sylwester J. Rzoska
pp. 4983-4985 [View PDF (51 kB)]
Stochastic hierarchical model for cluster-cluster aggregation
R. E. Amritkar
pp. 4986-4989 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Plasma physics

Ionization, electron attachment, and drift in CHF3
J. de Urquijo, I. Alvarez, and C. Cisneros
pp. 4990-4992 [View PDF (48 kB)]

ERRATA

Erratum: Hydrodynamic interactions between two spheres at contact [Phys. Rev. E 59, 3182 (1999)]
M. L. Ekiel-Jeżewska, F. Feuillebois, N. Lecoq, K. Masmoudi, R. Anthore, F. Bostel, and E. Wajnryb
pp. 4994 [View PDF (11 kB)]
Erratum: Directed percolation depinning models: Evolution equations [Phys. Rev. E 59, 4243 (1999)]
Lidia A. Braunstein, R. C. Buceta, N. Giovambattista, and A. Diaz-Sánchez
pp. 4994 [View PDF (11 kB)]
Erratum: Analytical approach to time lag in binary nucleation [Phys. Rev. E 59, 5124 (1999)]
P. Demo, Z. Kožíšek, and R. Šášik
pp. 4995 [View PDF (23 kB)]