Physical Review E – September 2000
Volume 62, Issue 3

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

Stochastic resonance enhanced by dichotomic noise in a bistable system
Robert Rozenfeld, Alexander Neiman, and Lutz Schimansky-Geier
pp. R3031-R3034 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Resonance poles and width distribution for time-reversal transport through mesoscopic open billiards
H. Ishio
pp. R3035-R3038 [View PDF (69 kB)]
Nonautonomous and nonlinear effects in generalized classical oscillators: A boundedness theorem
L. Ferrari and C. Degli Esposti Boschi
pp. R3039-R3042 [View PDF (57 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Analytical study of spatiotemporal chaos control by applying local injections
Hu Gang, Xiao Jinghua, Gao Jihua, Li Xiangming, Yao Yugui, and Bambi Hu
pp. R3043-R3046 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Classical fluids

Analytic solution for two bubbles in a Hele-Shaw cell
Giovani L. Vasconcelos
pp. R3047-R3050 [View PDF (51 kB)]
Asymmetric squares as standing waves in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Alaka Das, Ujjal Ghosal, and Krishna Kumar
pp. R3051-R3054 [View PDF (251 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Atomic force microscope evidence for the existence of smecticlike surface layers in the isotropic phase of a nematic liquid crystal
K. Kočevar, R. Blinc, and I. Muševič
pp. R3055-R3058 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials

Viscous flow and coarsening of microdomains in diblock copolymer thin films
Iulia Podariu, Zhenyu Shou, and Amitabha Chakrabarti
pp. R3059-R3062 [View PDF (283 kB)]
Shear-induced transitions in a ternary polymeric system
A. V. Zvelindovsky, G. J. A. Sevink, and J. G. E. M. Fraaije
pp. R3063-R3066 [View PDF (955 kB)]

Plasma physics

Extrema in transition energies resulting not in satellites but in dips within spectral lines
E. Oks and E. Leboucher-Dalimier
pp. R3067-R3070 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Soliton stability versus collapse
Luc Bergé
pp. R3071-R3074 [View PDF (78 kB)]
Rules for the distribution of point charges on a conducting disk
Ş. Erkoç and H. Oymak
pp. R3075-R3076 [View PDF (28 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Anderson localization as a parametric instability of the linear kicked oscillator
L. Tessieri and F. M. Izrailev
pp. 3090-3095 [View PDF (74 kB)]
Physical nature of higher-order mutual information: Intrinsic correlations and frustration
Hiroyuki Matsuda
pp. 3096-3102 [View PDF (102 kB)]
Surface hardening and self-organized fractality through etching of random solids
A. Gabrielli, A. Baldassarri, and B. Sapoval
pp. 3103-3115 [View PDF (403 kB)]
Simulation of the Wiener sausage
D.-Y. Yang, Yu. A. Makhnovskii, S.-Y. Sheu, and S. H. Lin
pp. 3116-3120 [View PDF (119 kB)]
River networks on the slope-correlated landscape
Hyun-Joo Kim, In-mook Kim, and Jin Min Kim
pp. 3121-3124 [View PDF (314 kB)]
Fractal geometry of critical systems
N. G. Antoniou, Y. F. Contoyiannis, and F. K. Diakonos
pp. 3125-3134 [View PDF (153 kB)]
Fractional quantum mechanics
Nick Laskin
pp. 3135-3145 [View PDF (132 kB)]
Analysis of time series from stochastic processes
Janez Gradišek, Silke Siegert, Rudolf Friedrich, and Igor Grabec
pp. 3146-3155 [View PDF (261 kB)]
Macroscopic effects of the perturbation of the particle velocity distribution in a trigger wave
A. Lemarchand and B. Nowakowski
pp. 3156-3166 [View PDF (138 kB)]
Propagating structures in globally coupled systems with time delays
Damián H. Zanette
pp. 3167-3172 [View PDF (86 kB)]
Random resistor-diode networks and the crossover from isotropic to directed percolation
Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull
pp. 3173-3185 [View PDF (170 kB)]
Exact calculation of the spatiotemporal correlations in the Takayasu model and in the q model of force fluctuations in bead packs
R. Rajesh and Satya N. Majumdar
pp. 3186-3196 [View PDF (137 kB)]
Dynamics and changing environments in highly optimized tolerance
Tong Zhou and J. M. Carlson
pp. 3197-3204 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Finite size scaling for percolation on elongated lattices in two and three dimensions
S. J. Marrink and Mark A. Knackstedt
pp. 3205-3214 [View PDF (175 kB)]
Forest-fire models as a bridge between different paradigms in self-organized criticality
Proshun Sinha-Ray and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
pp. 3215-3218 [View PDF (98 kB)]
Roughening and super-roughening in the ordered and random two-dimensional sine-Gordon models
Angel Sánchez, A. R. Bishop, and Esteban Moro
pp. 3219-3229 [View PDF (194 kB)]
Periodic elastic medium in which periodicity is relevant
E. T. Seppälä, M. J. Alava, and P. M. Duxbury
pp. 3230-3233 [View PDF (76 kB)]
Origin of banded patterns in natural sphalerite
Ivan L’Heureux
pp. 3234-3245 [View PDF (336 kB)]
Microscopic dynamics underlying anomalous diffusion
G. Kaniadakis and G. Lapenta
pp. 3246-3249 [View PDF (57 kB)]
Occupancy of a single site by many random walkers
M. Boguñá, A. M. Berezhkovskii, and G. H. Weiss
pp. 3250-3256 [View PDF (95 kB)]
Crossover behavior in 3He and Xe near their liquid-vapor critical point
Erik Luijten and Horst Meyer
pp. 3257-3261 [View PDF (67 kB)]
Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the finite lattice quantum sine-Gordon model
S. G. Chung
pp. 3262-3265 [View PDF (61 kB)]
Scaling of avalanche queues in directed dissipative sandpiles
Bosiljka Tadić and Vyatcheslav Priezzhev
pp. 3266-3275 [View PDF (670 kB)]
Two-species reaction-diffusion system with equal diffusion constants: Anomalous density decay at large times
Zoran Konkoli and Henrik Johannesson
pp. 3276-3280 [View PDF (188 kB)]
Generalization of Nosé and Nosé-Hoover isothermal dynamics
A. C. Brańka and K. W. Wojciechowski
pp. 3281-3292 [View PDF (173 kB)]
Multifractal phase transitions in the non-Debye relaxation processes
Alexander Leyderman and Shi-Xian Qu
pp. 3293-3298 [View PDF (201 kB)]
Growth with surface curvature on quenched potentials
Jae Hwan Lee, Soo Kyung Kim, and Jin Min Kim
pp. 3299-3302 [View PDF (56 kB)]
Master equation approach to synchronization in diffusion-coupled nonlinear oscillators
William Vance and John Ross
pp. 3303-3310 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Mean first-passage time for an overdamped particle in a disordered force field
S. I. Denisov and Werner Horsthemke
pp. 3311-3321 [View PDF (136 kB)]
Phase transitions in a simple growth model for a driven interface in random media
Kwangho Park and In-mook Kim
pp. 3322-3326 [View PDF (84 kB)]
Generalized model for dynamic percolation
O. Bénichou, J. Klafter, M. Moreau, and G. Oshanin
pp. 3327-3339 [View PDF (238 kB)]
Asymptotic properties of a reversible A+BC (static) reaction-diffusion process with initially separated reactants
Misha Sinder and Joshua Pelleg
pp. 3340-3348 [View PDF (138 kB)]
Multibunch solutions of the differential-difference equation for traffic flow
Ken Nakanishi
pp. 3349-3355 [View PDF (96 kB)]
Generic criticality in a model of evolution
Adam Lipowski
pp. 3356-3359 [View PDF (62 kB)]
Replica-symmetry-breaking transition in finite-size simulations
Koji Hukushima and Hikaru Kawamura
pp. 3360-3365 [View PDF (103 kB)]
Unusual dynamical scaling in the spatial distribution of persistent sites in one-dimensional Potts models
A. J. Bray and S. J. O’Donoghue
pp. 3366-3375 [View PDF (152 kB)]
Dynamical self-affinity of damage spreading in surface growth models
Yup Kim and C. K. Lee
pp. 3376-3381 [View PDF (92 kB)]
Overdamped van Hove function of colloidal suspensions
Laura Yeomans-Reyna and Magdaleno Medina-Noyola
pp. 3382-3394 [View PDF (152 kB)]
Vineyard-like approximations for colloid dynamics
Laura Yeomans-Reyna, Heriberto Acuña-Campa, and Magdaleno Medina-Noyola
pp. 3395-3403 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Slow dynamics of Ising models with energy barriers
A. Lipowski, D. Johnston, and D. Espriu
pp. 3404-3410 [View PDF (99 kB)]
Six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions and one-matrix model
P. Zinn-Justin
pp. 3411-3418 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Using topological statistics to detect determinism in time series
Guillermo J. Ortega and Enrique Louis
pp. 3419-3428 [View PDF (208 kB)]
Towards the thermodynamics of localization processes
Paolo Grigolini, Marco G. Pala, Luigi Palatella, and Roberto Roncaglia
pp. 3429-3436 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Synchronization in populations of globally coupled oscillators with inertial effects
J. A. Acebrón, L. L. Bonilla, and R. Spigler
pp. 3437-3454 [View PDF (346 kB)]
Stabilizing unstable discrete systems by a nonuniformly adaptive adjustment mechanism
Weihong Huang
pp. 3455-3460 [View PDF (285 kB)]
Quantitative study of amplitude noise effects on dynamical localization
Daniel A. Steck, Valery Milner, Windell H. Oskay, and Mark G. Raizen
pp. 3461-3475 [View PDF (233 kB)]
Periodic orbit effects on conductance peak heights in a chaotic quantum dot
L. Kaplan
pp. 3476-3488 [View PDF (299 kB)]
Periodicity manifestations in the turbulent regime of the globally coupled map lattice
Tokuzo Shimada and Kengo Kikuchi
pp. 3489-3503 [View PDF (1,031 kB)]
Quantum chaos border for quantum computing
B. Georgeot and D. L. Shepelyansky
pp. 3504-3507 [View PDF (112 kB)]
Structure of motion near saddle points and chaotic transport in Hamiltonian systems
S. S. Abdullaev
pp. 3508-3528 [View PDF (1,682 kB)]
Tracking sustained chaos: A segmentation method
Ioana Triandaf and Ira B. Schwartz
pp. 3529-3534 [View PDF (139 kB)]
Bayesian reconstruction of chaotic dynamical systems
Renate Meyer and Nelson Christensen
pp. 3535-3542 [View PDF (106 kB)]
Synchronization and chaotic masking scheme based on occasional coupling
Ömer Morgül
pp. 3543-3551 [View PDF (160 kB)]
Nonlocal chaotic phase synchronization
Meng Zhan, Zhi-gang Zheng, Gang Hu, and Xi-hong Peng
pp. 3552-3557 [View PDF (102 kB)]
Characteristic polynomials of random matrices at edge singularities
Edouard Brézin and Shinobu Hikami
pp. 3558-3567 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Theory for matrix elements of one-body transition operators in the quantum chaotic domain of interacting particle systems
V. K. B. Kota and R. Sahu
pp. 3568-3571 [View PDF (378 kB)]

Classical fluids

Nature of self-diffusion and viscosity in supercooled liquid water
T. V. Lokotosh, S. Magazù, G. Maisano, and N. P. Malomuzh
pp. 3572-3580 [View PDF (102 kB)]
Upper bounds on convective heat transport in a rotating fluid layer of infinite Prandtl number: Case of intermediate Taylor numbers
Nikolay K. Vitanov
pp. 3581-3591 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Instanton calculus in shell models of turbulence
Isabelle Daumont, Thierry Dombre, and Jean-Louis Gilson
pp. 3592-3610 [View PDF (268 kB)]
High-resolution neutron scattering measurement of the dynamic structure factor of heavy water
C. Petrillo, F. Sacchetti, B. Dorner, and J.-B. Suck
pp. 3611-3618 [View PDF (220 kB)]
Convection in two-layer systems with an anomalous thermocapillary effect
L. M. Braverman, K. Eckert, A. A. Nepomnyashchy, I. B. Simanovskii, and A. Thess
pp. 3619-3631 [View PDF (271 kB)]
Flow and dispersion through a close-packed fixed bed of spheres
A. M. Reynolds, S. V. Reavell, and B. B. Harral
pp. 3632-3639 [View PDF (243 kB)]
Analytic example of a free energy functional
Christian Tutschka and Gerhard Kahl
pp. 3640-3647 [View PDF (100 kB)]
Phase diagram of a hard-sphere system in a quenched random potential: A numerical study
Chandan Dasgupta and Oriol T. Valls
pp. 3648-3658 [View PDF (141 kB)]
See Also: Reply
Possible universal transitional scenario in a flat plate boundary layer: Measurement and visualization
C. B. Lee
pp. 3659-3670 [View PDF (655 kB)]
Effects of dispersion forces on the structure and thermodynamics of fluid krypton
N. Jakse, J. M. Bomont, I. Charpentier, and J. L. Bretonnet
pp. 3671-3678 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Deuteron NMR study of molecular dynamics in a compound exhibiting a reentrant nematic phase
R. Y. Dong, A. Carvalho, P. J. Sebastião, and H. T. Nguyen
pp. 3679-3686 [View PDF (125 kB)]
Phase behavior and blue-phase-III–isotropic critical point in (R)-(S) mixtures of a chiral liquid crystal with a direct twist-grain-boundary to blue-phase transition
P. Jamée, G. Pitsi, M. -H. Li, H. -T. Nguyen, G. Sigaud, and J. Thoen
pp. 3687-3693 [View PDF (454 kB)]
Dilution of nematic surface potentials: Relaxation dynamics
André M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga, and Georges E. Durand
pp. 3694-3701 [View PDF (118 kB)]
See Also: Erratum
Dynamical studies of gratings formed in polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films doped with a guest-host dye
Andy Y.-G. Fuh, M.-S. Tsai, C.-R. Lee, and Y.-H. Fan
pp. 3702-3707 [View PDF (124 kB)]
Density-functional theory of inhomogeneous systems of hard spherocylinders
E. Velasco, L. Mederos, and D. E. Sullivan
pp. 3708-3718 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Twist-energy-driven Helfrich modulations in cholesteric liquid crystals illustrated in the transient-planar to planar transition
P. Watson, J. E. Anderson, and P. J. Bos
pp. 3719-3723 [View PDF (472 kB)]
Molecular model for the anticlinic smectic-CA phase
Mikhail A. Osipov and Atsuo Fukuda
pp. 3724-3735 [View PDF (353 kB)]
Buckling induced by dilative strain in two- and three-dimensional layered materials
Sherwin J. Singer
pp. 3736-3746 [View PDF (631 kB)]
Coupling between meniscus and smectic-A films: Circular and catenoid profiles, induced stress, and dislocation dynamics
Frédéric Picano, Robert Hołyst, and P. Oswald
pp. 3747-3757 [View PDF (275 kB)]
Uniplanar smectic phases in free-standing films
Barbara Rovšek, Mojca Čepič, and Boštjan Žekš
pp. 3758-3765 [View PDF (313 kB)]
Dynamical and field effects in polymer-dispersed liquid crystals: Monte Carlo simulations of NMR spectra
C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, G. Skačej, C. Zannoni, and S. Žumer
pp. 3766-3774 [View PDF (265 kB)]
Alignment and phase transition induced by surface action in lyotropic nematic liquid crystals
J. J. Bonvent, I. H. Bechtold, M. L. Vega, and E. A. Oliveira
pp. 3775-3779 [View PDF (357 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials

Four-dimensional polymer collapse: Pseudo-first-order transition in interacting self-avoiding walks
T. Prellberg and A. L. Owczarek
pp. 3780-3789 [View PDF (133 kB)]
Four-phase patterns in forced oscillatory systems
A. L. Lin, A. Hagberg, A. Ardelea, M. Bertram, H. L. Swinney, and E. Meron
pp. 3790-3798 [View PDF (592 kB)]
Density functional for additive mixtures
Matthias Schmidt
pp. 3799-3802 [View PDF (64 kB)]
Clumps of randomly charged polymers: Molecular dynamics simulation of condensation, crystallization, and swelling
Motohiko Tanaka and Toyoichi Tanaka
pp. 3803-3816 [View PDF (251 kB)]
Instability of symmetric Couette flow in a granular gas: Hydrodynamic field profiles and transport
M. Sasvári, J. Kertész, and D. E. Wolf
pp. 3817-3825 [View PDF (289 kB)]
Single-particle motion in three-dimensional vibrofluidized granular beds
R. D. Wildman, J. M. Huntley, J.-P. Hansen, D. J. Parker, and D. A. Allen
pp. 3826-3835 [View PDF (289 kB)]
Nonlinear analysis of the shearing instability in granular gases
R. Soto, M. Mareschal, and M. Malek Mansour
pp. 3836-3842 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Tracking of individual nanocrystals using diffracted x rays
Y. C. Sasaki, Y. Suzuki, N. Yagi, S. Adachi, M. Ishibashi, H. Suda, K. Toyota, and M. Yanagihara
pp. 3843-3847 [View PDF (506 kB)]
Magnetoviscosity and relaxation in ferrofluids
B. U. Felderhof
pp. 3848-3854 [View PDF (89 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
Effective interactions and volume energies in charged colloids: Linear response theory
A. R. Denton
pp. 3855-3864 [View PDF (123 kB)]
Shape transitions of giant liposomes induced by an anisotropic spontaneous curvature
O. Sandre, C. Ménager, J. Prost, V. Cabuil, J.-C. Bacri, and A. Cebers
pp. 3865-3870 [View PDF (211 kB)]
Shear-induced structural transitions in Newtonian non-Newtonian two-phase flow
G. Cristobal, J. Rouch, A. Colin, and P. Panizza
pp. 3871-3874 [View PDF (216 kB)]
Structure of charged colloids under a wedge confinement
B. V. R. Tata, Dezsö Boda, D. Henderson, A. Nikolov, and D. T. Wasan
pp. 3875-3881 [View PDF (232 kB)]
Numerical study of stress distribution in sheared granular material in two dimensions
S. G. Bardenhagen, J. U. Brackbill, and D. Sulsky
pp. 3882-3890 [View PDF (710 kB)]
Rolling of unsaturated porous materials: Evolution of a fully saturated zone
K. Velten and W. Best
pp. 3891-3899 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Computer simulation of the packing of fine particles
R. Y. Yang, R. P. Zou, and A. B. Yu
pp. 3900-3908 [View PDF (518 kB)]
Direct measurements of constrained Brownian motion of an isolated sphere between two walls
Binhua Lin, Jonathan Yu, and Stuart A. Rice
pp. 3909-3919 [View PDF (526 kB)]
Theoretical continuous equation derived from the microscopic dynamics for growing interfaces in quenched media
L. A. Braunstein, R. C. Buceta, C. D. Archubi, and G. Costanza
pp. 3920-3924 [View PDF (68 kB)]
Enhanced stability of layered phases in parallel hard spherocylinders due to addition of hard spheres
Zvonimir Dogic, Daan Frenkel, and Seth Fraden
pp. 3925-3933 [View PDF (264 kB)]
Photonic Hall effect in ferrofluids: Theory and experiments
D. Lacoste, F. Donatini, S. Neveu, J. A. Serughetti, and B. A. Van Tiggelen
pp. 3934-3943 [View PDF (204 kB)]
Estimation of critical points of branched polymers
Kazumi Suematsu and Minoru Kohno
pp. 3944-3953 [View PDF (149 kB)]
Adiabatic hypercooling of binary melts
Kirk Brattkus
pp. 3954-3957 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Biological physics

Simple model for the DNA denaturation transition
Maria Serena Causo, Barbara Coluzzi, and Peter Grassberger
pp. 3958-3973 [View PDF (258 kB)]
Shape instability of a biomembrane driven by a local softening of the underlying actin cortex
A. Boulbitch, R. Simson, D. A. Simson, R. Merkel, W. Häckl, M. Bärmann, and E. Sackmann
pp. 3974-3985 [View PDF (697 kB)]
Influence of molecular flexibility on DNA radiosensitivity: A simulation study
D. Viduna, K. Hinsen, and G. Kneller
pp. 3986-3990 [View PDF (372 kB)]
Glasslike dynamical behavior of the plastocyanin hydration water
Anna Rita Bizzarri, Alessandro Paciaroni, and Salvatore Cannistraro
pp. 3991-3999 [View PDF (139 kB)]
Structural information from multilamellar liposomes at full hydration: Full q-range fitting with high quality x-ray data
Georg Pabst, Michael Rappolt, Heinz Amenitsch, and Peter Laggner
pp. 4000-4009 [View PDF (299 kB)]
Synchronization of laser oscillators, associative memory, and optical neurocomputing
Frank C. Hoppensteadt and Eugene M. Izhikevich
pp. 4010-4013 [View PDF (470 kB)]
DNA electrophoresis in a monodisperse porous medium
L. Meistermann and B. Tinland
pp. 4014-4017 [View PDF (417 kB)]
Scaling-violation phenomena and fractality in the human posture control systems
Stefan Thurner, Christian Mittermaier, Rudolf Hanel, and Klaus Ehrenberger
pp. 4018-4024 [View PDF (305 kB)]
Dynamical chaos and power spectra in toy models of heteropolymers and proteins
Mai Suan Li, Marek Cieplak, and Nazar Sushko
pp. 4025-4031 [View PDF (148 kB)]
Random population dispersal in a linear hostile environment
S. Harris
pp. 4032-4035 [View PDF (46 kB)]
See Also: Addendum
Many-body approach to the dynamics of batch learning
K. Y. Michael Wong, S. Li, and Y. W. Tong
pp. 4036-4042 [View PDF (102 kB)]
Alternans and the onset of ventricular fibrillation
Harold M. Hastings, Flavio H. Fenton, Steven J. Evans, Omer Hotomaroglu, Jagannathan Geetha, Ken Gittelson, John Nilson, and Alan Garfinkel
pp. 4043-4048 [View PDF (246 kB)]
Competing neural networks: Finding a strategy for the game of matching pennies
Inés Samengo and Damián H. Zanette
pp. 4049-4056 [View PDF (111 kB)]
Period-adding bifurcations and chaos in a periodically stimulated excitable neural relaxation oscillator
S. Coombes and A. H. Osbaldestin
pp. 4057-4066 [View PDF (180 kB)]
Quantitative analysis of concentration gradient and ionic currents associated with hyphal tip growth in fungi
L. Limozin and B. Denet
pp. 4067-4076 [View PDF (131 kB)]
Dynamics of temporal learning rules
Patrick D. Roberts
pp. 4077-4082 [View PDF (91 kB)]
See Also: Erratum

Plasma physics

Electron transport in argon in crossed electric and magnetic fields
Kevin Ness and Toshiaki Makabe
pp. 4083-4090 [View PDF (131 kB)]
Bremsstrahlung from thick targets and a diagnostic for electron energy distributions
M. Lamoureux, P. Waller, P. Charles, and N. B. Avdonina
pp. 4091-4095 [View PDF (73 kB)]
Dielectronic recombination in plasmas: The final state distribution
Gaber Omar and Yukap Hahn
pp. 4096-4103 [View PDF (87 kB)]
Influence of the tritium β- decay on low-temperature thermonuclear burn-up in deuterium-tritium mixtures
Alexei M. Frolov
pp. 4104-4108 [View PDF (72 kB)]
Asymptotic evolution of nonlinear Landau damping
M. Brunetti, F. Califano, and F. Pegoraro
pp. 4109-4114 [View PDF (175 kB)]
Viscosity estimates for strongly coupled Yukawa systems
M. S. Murillo
pp. 4115-4119 [View PDF (72 kB)]
Relativistic focusing and ponderomotive channeling of intense laser beams
B. Hafizi, A. Ting, P. Sprangle, and R. F. Hubbard
pp. 4120-4125 [View PDF (137 kB)]
Influence of a dense plasma on the fine-structure levels of a hydrogenic ion
Debasis Ray
pp. 4126-4130 [View PDF (82 kB)]
Second harmonic autoresonant control of the l=1 diocotron mode in pure-electron plasmas
J. Fajans, E. Gilson, and L. Friedland
pp. 4131-4136 [View PDF (203 kB)]
Stark broadening parameters of the Kr II and Kr III spectral lines
V. Milosavljević, S. Djeniže, M. S. Dimitrijević, and L. Č. Popović
pp. 4137-4145 [View PDF (124 kB)]
Relativistic solitons in magnetized plasmas
Daniela Farina, Maurizio Lontano, and Sergei Bulanov
pp. 4146-4151 [View PDF (191 kB)]
Modeling of gas dynamics for a laser-generated plasma: Propagation into low-pressure gases
H. C. Le, D. E. Zeitoun, J. D. Parisse, M. Sentis, and W. Marine
pp. 4152-4161 [View PDF (218 kB)]
Laser-excited Mach cones in a dusty plasma crystal
A. Melzer, S. Nunomura, D. Samsonov, Z. W. Ma, and J. Goree
pp. 4162-4176 [View PDF (1,403 kB)]
Circular polarization induced by scintillation in a magnetized medium
J.-P. Macquart and D. B. Melrose
pp. 4177-4188 [View PDF (163 kB)]

Physics of beams

Dynamics of a charged particle in a circularly polarized traveling electromagnetic wave
A. Bourdier and S. Gond
pp. 4189-4206 [View PDF (332 kB)]
Effective coupling of cyclotron autoresonance maser and “gyrotron” modes on a phase-synchronized electron beam
A. V. Savilov, V. L. Bratman, A. D. R. Phelps, and S. V. Samsonov
pp. 4207-4215 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Formation of low time-bandwidth product, single-sided exponential optical pulses in free-electron laser oscillators
A. M. MacLeod, X. Yan, W. A. Gillespie, G. M. H. Knippels, D. Oepts, A. F. G. van der Meer, C. W. Rella, T. I. Smith, and H. A. Schwettman
pp. 4216-4220 [View PDF (268 kB)]
Correlation functions and spin
Tomáš Tyc
pp. 4221-4224 [View PDF (47 kB)]
Parametric x-ray radiation and coherent bremsstrahlung from nonrelativistic electrons in crystals
I. D. Feranchuk, A. Ulyanenkov, J. Harada, and J. C. H. Spence
pp. 4225-4234 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Driven kink in the Frenkel-Kontorova model
O. M. Braun, Bambi Hu, and A. Zeltser
pp. 4235-4245 [View PDF (269 kB)]
Gap solitons in quadratically nonlinear gratings: Beyond the cascading limit
Takeshi Iizuka and C. Martijn de Sterke
pp. 4246-4250 [View PDF (77 kB)]
Radiating dipoles in photonic crystals
Kurt Busch, Nipun Vats, Sajeev John, and Barry C. Sanders
pp. 4251-4260 [View PDF (127 kB)]
Unified description of nondiffracting X and Y waves
J. Salo, J. Fagerholm, A. T. Friberg, and M. M. Salomaa
pp. 4261-4275 [View PDF (262 kB)]
Analog of the Wigner-Moyal equation for the electromagnetic field
J. T. Mendonça and N. L. Tsintsadze
pp. 4276-4282 [View PDF (95 kB)]
Instabilities of dispersion-managed solitons in the normal dispersion regime
Dmitry E. Pelinovsky
pp. 4283-4293 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Collective topological dynamics in the Frenkel-Kontorova chains
Zhigang Zheng and Bambi Hu
pp. 4294-4299 [View PDF (223 kB)]
Dynamics of quasicollapse in nonlinear Schrödinger systems with nonlocal interactions
Víctor M. Pérez-García, Vladimir V. Konotop, and Juan J. García-Ripoll
pp. 4300-4308 [View PDF (112 kB)]
Higher-order nonlinear modes and bifurcation phenomena due to degenerate parametric four-wave mixing
Kazimir Y. Kolossovski, Alexander V. Buryak, Victoria V. Steblina, Alan R. Champneys, and Rowland A. Sammut
pp. 4309-4317 [View PDF (174 kB)]
Electromagnetic contributions to single-molecule sensitivity in surface-enhanced Raman scattering
Hongxing Xu, Javier Aizpurua, Mikael Käll, and Peter Apell
pp. 4318-4324 [View PDF (235 kB)]
Polarization dynamics of solitons in birefringent fibers
S. M. Baker, J. N. Elgin, and J. Gibbons
pp. 4325-4332 [View PDF (282 kB)]

Computational physics

Simulated annealing for topological solitons
Mark Hale, Oliver Schwindt, and Tom Weidig
pp. 4333-4346 [View PDF (955 kB)]
Calculation of the first excited 1Se state of the He atom using supersymmetric quantum mechanics and extension to the nth excitation
Tapan Kumar Das and Barnali Chakrabarti
pp. 4347-4350 [View PDF (59 kB)]
Spectral filters in quantum mechanics: A measurement theory perspective
Amrendra Vijay and Robert E. Wyatt
pp. 4351-4364 [View PDF (151 kB)]
See Also: Comment Reply
Fast algorithm for finding the eigenvalue distribution of very large matrices
Anthony Hams and Hans De Raedt
pp. 4365-4377 [View PDF (191 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Equilibrium distribution of gas molecules adsorbed on an active surface
Stephen L. Adler and Indrajit Mitra
pp. 4386-4388 [View PDF (41 kB)]
Quantifying nonstationary radioactivity concentration fluctuations near Chernobyl: A complete statistical description
G. M. Viswanathan, S. V. Buldyrev, E. K. Garger, V. A. Kashpur, L. S. Lucena, A. Shlyakhter, H. E. Stanley, and J. Tschiersch
pp. 4389-4392 [View PDF (200 kB)]
Theory of the evolutionary minority game
T. S. Lo, P. M. Hui, and N. F. Johnson
pp. 4393-4396 [View PDF (105 kB)]
Cumulant ratios and their scaling functions for Ising systems in a strip geometry
Andrzej Drzewiński and Jacek Wojtkiewicz
pp. 4397-4400 [View PDF (55 kB)]
First-order transition with power-law singularity in models with absorbing states
Adam Lipowski
pp. 4401-4404 [View PDF (55 kB)]
Relaxation properties of small-world networks
S. Jespersen, I. M. Sokolov, and A. Blumen
pp. 4405-4408 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

Environment-induced dynamical chaos
Bidhan Chandra Bag and Deb Shankar Ray
pp. 4409-4412 [View PDF (68 kB)]
Analyzing Lyapunov spectra of chaotic dynamical systems
F. K. Diakonos, D. Pingel, and P. Schmelcher
pp. 4413-4416 [View PDF (60 kB)]
Suppressing complexity via the slaving principle
Shunguang Wu, Kaifen He, and Zuqia Huang
pp. 4417-4420 [View PDF (376 kB)]

Classical fluids

Laser wipers
A. N. Karpetis, C. M. White, and K. R. Sreenivasan
pp. 4421-4423 [View PDF (200 kB)]
Visualization of the space-time impulse response of the subcritical wake of a cylinder
P. Le Gal and V. Croquette
pp. 4424-4426 [View PDF (316 kB)]
Equivalence of two approaches for the inhomogeneous density in the canonical ensemble
J. A. White and S. Velasco
pp. 4427-4430 [View PDF (58 kB)]

Liquid crystals

Director rotation via photoinduced differential depletion in nematic dyes
M. Warner and S. V. Fridrikh
pp. 4431-4434 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials

β relaxation of nonpolymeric liquids close to the glass transition
Niels Boye Olsen, Tage Christensen, and Jeppe C. Dyre
pp. 4435-4438 [View PDF (64 kB)]
Structural stability of simple fluids and accuracy of integral-equation theories
G. Malescio and P. V. Giaquinta
pp. 4439-4441 [View PDF (41 kB)]
Hysteresis and packing in gas-fluidized beds
R. Ojha, N. Menon, and D. J. Durian
pp. 4442-4445 [View PDF (179 kB)]
Granular flow in a three-dimensional rotating container
T. Elperin and A. Vikhansky
pp. 4446-4449 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Biological physics

Symmetries of independent statistical observables for ultrametric populations
B. G. Giraud
pp. 4450-4453 [View PDF (69 kB)]
Dielectric 1/f noise of proton glass on a hydrated protein surface
Giorgio Careri and Giuseppe Consolini
pp. 4454-4456 [View PDF (51 kB)]

Plasma physics

Hemispherical dynamos generated by convection in rotating spherical shells
E. Grote and F. H. Busse
pp. 4457-4460 [View PDF (148 kB)]
Soft-x-ray emission from small-sized Ne clusters heated by intense, femtosecond laser pulses
T. Mocek, C. M. Kim, H. J. Shin, D. G. Lee, Y. H. Cha, K. H. Hong, and C. H. Nam
pp. 4461-4464 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Description of random radiating and nonradiating sources
Edwin A. Marengo and Richard W. Ziolkowski
pp. 4465-4468 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Computational physics

Solution of a separable Smoluchowski equation in one spatial dimension
I. Klik and Y. D. Yao
pp. 4469-4472 [View PDF (88 kB)]
Efficiency of generalized simulated annealing
Y. Xiang and X. G. Gong
pp. 4473-4476 [View PDF (73 kB)]

ERRATA

Erratum: Microwave study of quantum n-disk scattering [Phys. Rev. E 61, 3652 (2000)]
Wentao Lu, Lorenza Viola, Kristi Pance, Michael Rose, and S. Sridhar
pp. 4478 [View PDF (13 kB)]
Erratum: Local field-effects and the field-dependent dielectric response of polymer dispersed liquid crystals [Phys. Rev. E 61, 5385 (2000)]
Ohad Levy
pp. 4479 [View PDF (18 kB)]