Volume 52, Issue 2

August 1995

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

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Desynchronization by periodic orbits

J. F. Heagy, T. L. Carroll, and L. M. Pecora

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1253(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Surface deconstruction and roughening in the multiziggurat model of wetting

D.B. Abraham, L. Fontes, C.M. Newman, and M.S.T. Piza

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1257(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Growth equation with a conservation law

Kent Bækgaard Lauritsen

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1261(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

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On-off intermittency in a coupled-map lattice system

Fagen Xie, Gang Hu, and Zhilin Qu

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1265(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

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Unusual universality of branching interfaces in random media

Mehran Kardar, Attilio L. Stella, Giovanni Sartoni, and Bernard Derrida

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1269(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Liquid crystals

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Internal surface, orientational order, and distribution of a polymer network in a liquid crystal matrix

G. P. Crawford, A. Scharkowski, Y. K. Fung, J. W. Doane, and S. Zumer

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1273(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

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Transverse interlayer order in lyotropic smectic liquid crystals

René van Roij, Peter Bolhuis, Bela Mulder, and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1277(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Flow topology associated with disjoint eddies in an asymmetric film-splitting problem

P.J. Wicks, M. Decré, Ph. Planquart, and J.M. Buchlin

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1281(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

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Step-by-step thinning of free-standing films above the smectic-A–nematic phase transition

E. I. Demikhov, V. K. Dolganov, and K. P. Meletov

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1285(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ginzburg criterion for the mean-field to three-dimensional Ising crossover in polymer blends

D. Schwahn, T. Schmackers, and K. Mortensen

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1288(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

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Renormalization group analysis of the anisotropic Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with spatially correlated noise

H. Jeong, B. Kahng, and D. Kim

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1292(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Anomalous roughness exponent of growing interfaces in a disordered medium

Juan M. López

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1296(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Biological physics

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Folding RNA with the minimal loss of entropy

Ariel Fernández, Hugo Arias, and Diego Guerín

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1299(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

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Self-focusing of ion channels in cell adhesion

Peter Fromherz

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1303(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Plasma physics

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Effects of laser spatial incoherence with finite correlation length on the space-time behavior of backscattering instabilities

Philippe Mounaix

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1306(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Spectral distribution of drums with fractal perimeters: The Weyl-Berry-Lapidus conjecture

Yutaka Hobiki, Kousuke Yakubo, and Tsuneyoshi Nakayama

Phys. Rev. E 52, R1310(R) (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Expected number of sites visited by a constrained n-step random walk

Hernan Larralde and George H. Weiss

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1313 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Sporadic chaos in space-time dynamical processes

X.-J. Wang

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1318 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Microparticle driven by parametric and random forces: Theory and experiment

Alexander F. Izmailov, Stephen Arnold, Stephen Holler, and Allan S. Myerson

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1325 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Semiclassical features in the quantum description of a Dirac particle in a cavity

S. C. Phatak, Santanu Pal, and Debabrata Biswas

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1333 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Energy density profiles in critical films

M. Krech, E. Eisenriegler, and S. Dietrich

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1345 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Monte Carlo simulation of phase transitions in a two-dimensional random-bond Potts model

S. Chen, Alan M. Ferrenberg, and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1377 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Multifractal analysis: Pitfalls of standard procedures and alternatives

Daniele Veneziano, Glenn E. Moglen, and Rafael L. Bras

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1387 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Scaling of hysteresis in the Ising model and cell-dynamical systems in a linearly varying external field

Zhong Fan, Zhang Jinxiu, and Liu Xiao

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1399 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Evolution of probability densities in stochastic coupled map lattices

Jérôme Losson and Michael C. Mackey

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1403 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Emergence of quasiperiodicity in symmetrically coupled, identical period-doubling systems

Christian Reick and Erik Mosekilde

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1418 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Hysteresis in a quantum spin model

Varsha Banerjee, Sushanta Dattagupta, and Parongama Sen

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1436 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Generalization of the Planck radiation law and application to the cosmic microwave background radiation

Constantino Tsallis, F. C. Sá Barreto, and Edwin D. Loh

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1447 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Thermodynamics in the presence of electromagnetic fields

Y. Zimmels

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1452 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Effects of mobile vacancies on the dynamics of ordering and phase separation in nonconserved multicomponent systems

Henriette Gilhøj, Claus Jeppesen, and Ole G. Mouritsen

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1465 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Dielectric-breakdown-type crack-growth models and the fractal distribution of earthquake faults

Xian-zhi Wang and Yun Huang

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1476 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Dynamics of two coupled van der Pol oscillators

Ignacio Pastor-Díaz and Antonio López-Fraguas

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1480 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Plane-wave quantization for polygonal billiards

J. L. Vega, T. Uzer, and J. Ford

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1490 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Topologically inequivalent embeddings

G. B. Mindlin and H. G. Solari

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1497 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Static and dynamic two-dimensional patterns in self-extinguishing discharge avalanches

W. Breazeal, K. M. Flynn, and E. G. Gwinn

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1503 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Periodic lattices of chaotic defects

Frederick H. Willeboordse and Kunihiko Kaneko

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1516 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Distribution of the number of distinct sites visited by random walks in disordered lattices

Lazaros K. Gallos, Panos Argyrakis, and Klaus W. Kehr

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1520 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Control of low-dimensional spatiotemporal chaos in Fourier space

Carlos Lourenço, Marc Hougardy, and Agnessa Babloyantz

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1528 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Brownian parametric quantum oscillator with dissipation

Christine Zerbe and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1533 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Properties of border states of transient chaos

A. Németh and P. Szépfalusy

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1544 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Ordering kinetics of two-dimensional O(2) models: Scaling and temperature dependence

Jong-Rim Lee, Sung Jong Lee, and Bongsoo Kim

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1550 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Brownian type of motion of a randomly kicked particle far from and close to the diffusion limit

E. Barkai and V. Fleurov

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1558 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Injection-induced bifurcations of transverse spatiotemporal patterns in semiconductor laser arrays

D. Merbach, O. Hess, H. Herzel, and E. Schöll

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1571 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Thermally activated escape with potential fluctuations driven by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process

Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1579 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Classical fluids

Growth of long-range correlations in a transition between heat conduction and convection

Tadashi Watanabe, Hideo Kaburaki, Masahiko Machida, and Mitsuo Yokokawa

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1601 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Convective instabilities induced by an exothermic autocatalytic chemical reaction

Bice S. Martincigh and Reuben H. Simoyi

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1606 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Calculation of the dynamics of gravity-induced density profiles near a liquid-vapor critical point

Hacène Boukari, Robert L. Pego, and Robert W. Gammon

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1614 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Pressure tensor for inhomogeneous fluids

B. D. Todd, Denis J. Evans, and Peter J. Daivis

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1627 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Unsteady models for the nonlinear evolution of the mixing layer

Eckart Meiburg, Paul K. Newton, Narayanan Raju, and Greg Ruetsch

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1639 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Source-enhanced condensation in monocomponent disperse systems

A. A. Lushnikov and M. Kulmala

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1658 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Effects of conductivity in electric-field-induced aggregation in electrorheological fluids

Boris Khusid and Andreas Acrivos

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1669 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Kinetic structure of a two-dimensional liquid

M. M. Hurley and Peter Harrowell

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1694 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Stress tensor and viscosity of water: Molecular dynamics and generalized hydrodynamics results

Davide Bertolini and Alessandro Tani

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1699 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Steady-state shear flows via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics and smooth-particle applied mechanics

Harald A. Posch, William G. Hoover, and Oyeon Kum

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1711 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Self-organization of solitons for the dissipative Korteweg–de Vries equation

Y. Kondoh and J. W. Van Dam

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1721 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Nucleation structures in reaction-diffusion-convection systems

Damián H. Zanette

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1726 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Hydrodynamics from dissipative particle dynamics

Pep Español

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1734 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Liquid crystals

Renormalization-group analysis of the smectic- $A_{1}$ –smectic- $A_{d}$ phase transition in liquid crystals

Prabir K. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1743 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Multicritical point involving hexatic smectic phases

W. Pyżuk, E. Górecka, J. Szydłowska, A. Krówczyński, D. Pociecha, and J. Przedmojski

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1748 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Modeling molecular order and dynamics of a liquid crystal by deuteron NMR

Ronald Y. Dong, X. Shen, and G. M. Richards

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1753 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Mean-field coefficients and the electroclinic effect of a ferroelectric liquid crystal

F. Gieβelmann and P. Zugenmaier

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1762 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Front propagation into unstable and metastable states in smectic- $C^{*}$ liquid crystals: Linear and nonlinear marginal-stability analysis

Wim van Saarloos, Martin van Hecke, and Robert Hołyst

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1773 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Topology and nematic ordering. I. A gauge theory

Paul E. Lammert, Daniel S. Rokhsar, and John Toner

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1778 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Topology and nematic ordering. II. Observable critical behavior

John Toner, Paul E. Lammert, and Daniel S. Rokhsar

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1801 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

Effect of shear flow on the turbidity of a critical colloidal dispersion

Henk Verduin and Jan K. G. Dhont

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1811 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Ostwald ripening in a two-dimensional system: Correlation effects

Oleg Krichevsky and Joel Stavans

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1818 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Metastability in fluctuation-driven first-order transitions: Nucleation of lamellar phases

P. C. Hohenberg and J. B. Swift

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1828 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Optical investigations in the various phases of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal

John Philip, Jean René Lalanne, Jean Paul Marcerou, and Gilles Sigaud

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1846 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Extinction cross section of an arbitrary body in a viscous incompressible fluid

Scott A. Wymer, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, and Renata S. Engel

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1857 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Multiparticle reactions with spatial anisotropy

Vladimir Privman, Enrique Burgos, and Marcelo D. Grynberg

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1866 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Critical behavior of a cationic-surfactant–water–salt system near and far from the Krafft temperature

Ana Martín, Francisco Ortega, and Ramón G. Rubio

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1871 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Crossover from flocculation to gelation in two-dimensional aggregation induced by an alternating electrical field

Qi-huo Wei, Cai-hua Zhou, and Nai-ben Ming

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1877 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Computer simulation of the rheology of grafted chains under shear

G. H. Peters and D. J. Tildesley

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1882 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Linear viscoelasticity in lipid bilayers of vesicles

K. H. de Haas, G. J. Ruiter, and J. Mellema

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1891 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

From monolayers to bilayers: Effective rigidity and compressibility in asymmetric ternary amphiphilic systems

Roland R. Netz

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1897 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Regulation of ramified electrochemical growth by a diffusive wave

Martin Z. Bazant

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1903 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Phase diagram and critical behavior of the ferromagnetic Heisenberg fluid from density-functional theory

J. M. Tavares, M. M. Telo da Gama, P. I. C. Teixeira, J. J. Weis, and M. J. P. Nijmeijer

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1915 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Failure of the Harris criterion for directed polymers on hierarchical lattices

Sutapa Mukherji and Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1930 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Electrorheological resonance observed in a colloidal suspension

Keishi Negita and Yasuhiko Ohsawa

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1934 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Quantitative analysis of the nonlinear relationship between neutron or x-ray reflectance and the scattering-length-density profile

Xiao-Lin Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1938 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Biological physics

Statistical physics theory of query learning by an ensemble of higher-order neural networks

Gustavo Deco and Dragan Obradovic

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1953 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Gradient descent learning in perceptrons: A review of its possibilities

M. Bouten, J. Schietse, and C. Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1958 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Plasma physics

Large relativistic density pulses in electron-positron-ion plasmas

V. I. Berezhiani and S. M. Mahajan

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1968 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

High-resolution measurement, line identification, and spectral modeling of the Kβ spectrum of heliumlike ${Ar}^{16 +}$

P. Beiersdorfer, A. L. Osterheld, T. W. Phillips, M. Bitter, K. W. Hill, and S. von Goeler

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1980 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Radiation scattering in intense-field harmonic-generation experiments

C. de Lisio, C. Beneduce, R. Bruzzese, S. Solimeno, G. S. Sorrentino, F. Vigilante, and C. Altucci

Phys. Rev. E 52, 1993 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Spectroscopic study of laser-produced plasmas in hydrogen

John F. Kielkopf

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2013 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Length scale, quasiperiodicity, resonances, separatrix crossings, and chaos in the weakly relativistic Zakharov equations

G. I. de Oliveira, F. B. Rizzato, and A. C. -L. Chian

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2025 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Physics of beams

High-efficiency beam-wave interaction in quasiperiodic structures

Levi Schächter

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2037 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Computer simulation of dislocation dechanneling in bent crystals at tera-electron-volt energies

Valery Biryukov

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2045 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Third cumulant of the total transmission of diffuse waves

M. C. W. van Rossum, Johannes F. de Boer, and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2053 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Periodic trajectories in right-triangle billiards

Barry Cipra, Robert M. Hanson, and Amy Kolan

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2066 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Granular temperature: Experimental analysis

Irene Ippolito, Chrystèle Annic, Jacques Lemaître, Luc Oger, and Daniel Bideau

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2072 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Computational physics

Stochastic phase space dynamics with constraints for molecular systems

W. Paul and D. Y. Yoon

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2076 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

Transient and crisis-induced intermittencies in high-power ferromagnetic resonance

F. M. de Aguiar, F. C. S. da Silva, and S. M. Rezende

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2084 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Langevin description of the response of a stochastic mean-field model driven by a time-periodic field

J. M. Casado and M. Morillo

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2088 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Transition to nonchaotic behavior in a Brownian-type motion

B. Kaulakys and G. Vektaris

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2091 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Liquid crystals

Preferred equilibrium structures of a smectic-A phase grown from an isotropic phase: Origin of focal conic domains

Hiroyoshi Naito, Masahiro Okuda, and Ou-Yang Zhong-can

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2095 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

Particle-particle aggregation with 1/ $r^{2}$ forces in reduced gravity environments

C. Rioux, L. Potvin, and R. J. Slobodrian

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2099 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Plasma physics

Determination of minimum-dissipation states with self-consistent resistivity in magnetized plasmas

Ricardo Farengo and Jorge R. Soběhart

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2102 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Experimental control of chaos in a periodically driven glow discharge

K.-D. Weltmann, T. Klinger, and C. Wilke

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2106 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Forward scattering of light in inhomogeneous binary dielectric media

Young Hoon Rim

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2110 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Absence of chaos in a self-organized critical coupled map lattice’’

G. D. Ruxton

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2114 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Absence of chaos in a self-organized critical coupled map lattice’ ’’

Imre M. Jánosi and István Scheuring

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2116 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Comment on ‘‘Small-scale intermittency in randomly stirred fluids’’

E. V. Teodorovich

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2118 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

ERRATA

Erratum: Statistical cycling in coupled map lattices

Jérôme Losson and Michael C. Mackey

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2119 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995

Erratum: Orientation of alkyl chains and hindered rotation of carbonyl groups in the smectic- $C^{*}$ phase of antiferroelectric liquid crystals studied by polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Kyeong Hyeon Kim, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe, and Atsuo Fukuda

Phys. Rev. E 52, 2120 (1995) - Published 1 August, 1995