Volume 55, Issue 2

February 1997

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RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Invalidity of the spatiotemporal white noise assumption for a stochastic diffusion-type equation

Katsuya Honda

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1235(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Statistical complexity of simple one-dimensional spin systems

James P. Crutchfield and David P. Feldman

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1239(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Role of divergence of classical trajectories in quantum chaos

I. L. Aleiner and A. I. Larkin

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1243(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamical crossover in deterministic diffusion

R. Klages and J. R. Dorfman

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1247(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Characterization of blowout bifurcation by unstable periodic orbits

Yoshihiko Nagai and Ying-Cheng Lai

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1251(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Oscillatory correlation of delayed random walks

Toru Ohira

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1255(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Classical fluids

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Convection in rotating annuli: Ginzburg-Landau equations with tunable coefficients

Martin van Hecke and Wim van Saarloos

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1259(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Perturbation theory for the δ-correlated model of passive scalar advection near the Batchelor limit

Alain Pumir, Boris I. Shraiman, and Eric D. Siggia

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1263(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Evolution and formation of dispersive-dissipative patterns

Alexander Oron and Philip Rosenau

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1267(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Liquid crystals

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Field-induced optical biaxiality in chiral smectic-A liquid crystals

F. J. Bartoli, J. R. Lindle, S. R. Flom, J. V. Selinger, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1271(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Interactions between particulate inclusions in a smectic-A liquid crystal

M. S. Turner and P. Sens

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1275(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Contribution of the smectic-nematic interface to the surface energy

L. R. Evangelista, S. Fontanini, L. C. Malacarne, and R. S. Mendes

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1279(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Cellular multiplets in directional solidification

Przemek Kopczyn-acuteski, Wouter-Jan Rappel, and Alain Karma

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1282(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Morphology and thermal conductivity of model organic aerogels

Anthony P. Roberts

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1286(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Kinetics of liquid-liquid phase separation of a binary mixture in cylindrical pores

Lev D. Gelb and K. E. Gubbins

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1290(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Frequency and water content dependencies of electrorheological properties

Weijia Wen, Hongru Ma, Wing Yim Tam, and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. E 55, R1294(R) (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Analytical and numerical study of optimal channel networks

F. Colaiori, A. Flammini, A. Maritan, and Jayanth R. Banavar

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1298 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Domain growth on self-similar structures

Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi and Alberto Petri

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1311 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Period control of chaotic systems by optimization

Ali Fouladi and J. A. Valdivia

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1315 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Fluctuations and defect-defect correlations in the ordering kinetics of the O(2) model

Gene F. Mazenko and Robert A. Wickham

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1321 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Roughening-induced deconstruction in (100) facets of CsCl-type crystals

Douglas Davidson and Marcel den Nijs

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1331 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Power law dependence found on the lifetime of a photoconductor chaotic transientnumerically induced by a fixed-step algorithm

Alicia Serfaty de Markus

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1342 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Critical behavior of the square-well fluid with λ=2: A finite-size-scaling study

Enrique de Miguel

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1347 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Dissipative quantum systems with a potential barrier. III. Steady state nonequilibrium flux and reaction rate

Joachim Ankerhold and Hermann Grabert

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1355 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Solitons in a uniaxial anisotropic Heisenberg spin chain with Gilbert damping in an external magnetic field

Wu-Ming Liu, Xiao-Bing Wang, Fu-Cho Pu, and Nian-Ning Huang

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1375 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Territory covered by N Lévy flights on d-dimensional lattices

G. Berkolaiko and S. Havlin

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1395 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Burgers' flows as Markovian diffusion processes

Piotr Garbaczewski, Grzegorz Kondrat, and Robert Olkiewicz

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1401 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Irregular and fractal resonators with Neumann boundary conditions: Density of states and localization

S. Russ, B. Sapoval, and O. Haeberlé

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1413 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Unified model for the study of diffusion localization and dissipation

Doron Cohen

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1422 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Solvable aggregation-annihilation processes with greater than two components

Ligen Zhang and Z. R. Yang

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1442 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Damage spreading in the q-state Potts model

Marta F. de A. Bibiano, F. G. Brady Moreira, and A. M. Mariz

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1448 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Quantum instability of the flux lines in the coherent state representation

Gonzalo García de Polavieja and Mark S. Child

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1451 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Brézin-Zee dynamical correlator: An S-matrix Brownian motion approach

A. M. S. Macêdo

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1457 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Synchronization, chaos, and the breakdown of collective domain oscillations in reaction-diffusion systems

C. B. Muratov

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1463 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Theory of stochastic resonance in signal transmission by static nonlinear systems

Fraņcois Chapeau-Blondeau and Xavier Godivier

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1478 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Time mapping in power series expansions for the time evolution operator

A. N. Drozdov

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1496 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Fractal dimension of collision cascades

F. Kun and G. Bardos

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1508 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Percolation thresholds and universal formulas

S. C. van der Marck

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1514 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Equivalence of ideal gases in two dimensions and Landen's relations

M. Howard Lee

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1518 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Brownian dynamics simulation of the prehistory problem

M. Morillo, J. M. Casado, and J. Gómez-Ordóñez

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1521 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Dynamical exponent of rough surface with quenched noise

Junzhong Yang and Gang Hu

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1525 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Classical fluids

Propagation and structure of planar streamer fronts

Ute Ebert, Wim van Saarloos, and Christiane Caroli

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1530 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Binary collision contribution to the longitudinal current correlation function of dense fluids

Rajneesh K. Sharma, K. Tankeshwar, K. N. Pathak, S. Ranganathan, and R. E. Johnson

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1550 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Microstructure functions for a model of statistically inhomogeneous random media

J. Quintanilla and S. Torquato

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1558 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Molecular spin in a fluid undergoing Poiseuille flow

Karl P. Travis and D. J. Evans

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1566 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Invariance principle for extension of hydrodynamics: Nonlinear viscosity

Iliya V. Karlin, G. Dukek, and T. F. Nonnenmacher

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1573 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Properties of ridges in elastic membranes

Alexander E. Lobkovsky and T. A. Witten

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1577 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Hamiltonian formulation for the diffusion equation

Jacques Lewalle

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1590 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Experimental evaluation of acceleration correlations for locally isotropic turbulence

Reginald J. Hill and S. T. Thoroddsen

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1600 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Semiphenomenological effective-medium theory of multicomponent nucleation

V. I. Kalikmanov and M. E. H. van Dongen

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1607 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Locally self-similar, finite-time collapse in a high-symmetry vortex filament model

R. B. Pelz

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1617 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Liquid crystals

Orientation and surface anchoring of nematic liquid crystals on linearly polymerized photopolymers

H. G. Galabova, D. W. Allender, and J. Chen

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1627 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Relaxation time of molecular rotation about its long axis in the smectic-A phase of ferroelectricand antiferroelectric liquid crystals as observed by picosecond optical Kerr effect

Kouichi Miyachi, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe, and Atsuo Fukuda

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1632 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Pretransitional nematic ordering in liquid crystals with dispersed polymer networks

Y. K. Fung, A. Borstnik, S. Zumer, D.-K. Yang, and J. W. Doane

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1637 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Morphology and electro-optic properties of polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal films

Karl Amundson, Alfons van Blaaderen, and Pierre Wiltzius

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1646 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Pattern formation and instability of smectic-A filaments grown from an isotropic phase

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

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1655 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

Self-consistent-field theory of a brush of randomly branched polymers

Shi-Min Cui and Zheng Yu Chen

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1660 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Inhomogeneous shear flows of wormlike micelles:mA master dynamic phase diagram

Jean-Fraņcois Berret, Grégoire Porte, and Jean-Paul Decruppe

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1668 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Phase behavior of colloid plus polydisperse polymer mixtures

Richard P. Sear and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1677 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Kinetics of phase transitions in weakly segregated block copolymers: Pseudostable and transient states

Shuyan Qi and Zhen-Gang Wang

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1682 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Invasion percolation on self-affine topographies

G. Wagner, P. Meakin, J. Feder, and T. Jøssang

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1698 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Diffusion of a polymer chain in porous media

V. Yamakov and A. Milchev

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1704 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Capillary condensation between disks in two dimensions

Tamir Gil and John H. Ipsen

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1713 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Two-order-parameter model for an oil-water-surfactant system

Shigeyuki Komura and Hiroya Kodama

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1722 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Cooperative chiral order in copolymers of chiral and achiral units

J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1728 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Thermodynamics of moving Gibbs dividing surfaces

Liqiu Wang

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1732 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Bubble-scale model of foam mechanics:mMelting, nonlinear behavior, and avalanches

D. J. Durian

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1739 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Dynamics of vacancy-mediated phase separation

Sanjay Puri

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1752 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Biological physics

Supercoiled and braided DNA under tension

John F. Marko

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1758 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Reflection and transmission of nonlinear blood waves due to arterial branching

Wen-shan Duan, Ben-ren Wang, and Rong-jue Wei

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1773 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Two-way silicon-neuron interface by electrical induction

Alfred Stett, Bernt Müller, and Peter Fromherz

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1779 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Gel electrophoresis and diffusion of ring-shaped DNA

Uri Alon and David Mukamel

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1783 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Hydrodynamics of a DNA molecule in a flow field

R. G. Larson, T. T. Perkins, D. E. Smith, and S. Chu

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1794 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Stochastic resonance in models of neuronal ensembles

Dante R. Chialvo, André Longtin, and Johannes Müller-Gerking

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1798 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Large deviations of the average shapes of vesicles from equilibrium:Effects of thermal fluctuations in the presence of constraints

Volkmar Heinrich, France Sevsek, Sasa Svetina, and Bostjan Zeks

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1809 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Approximate analytical solutions to the bidomain equations with unequal anisotropy ratios

Bradley J. Roth

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1819 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Plasma physics

Detailed comparison of experimental and theoretical heliumlike Ti and Ca satellite line spectra emitted from a laser-produced plasma

A. Demir, P. Zeitoun, G. J. Tallents, E. Fill, G. Jamelot, Y. L. Li, M. Nantel, G. J. Pert, B. Rus, and D. Schlögl

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1827 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Deexcitation and recombination of excited ions through doubly excited levels in a dense recombining plasma: Lithiumlike recombining plasma laser

Tetsuya Kawachi and Takashi Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1836 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Frequency downshifting and trapping of an electromagnetic wave by a rapidly created spatially periodic plasma

James Faith, S. P. Kuo, and Joe Huang

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1843 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Effects of ion temperature on electrostatic solitary structures in nonthermal plasmas

A. A. Mamun

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1852 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Boundary conditions including sheath effects at a plasma-facing surface

C. A. Ordonez

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1858 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Physics of beams

Radiation by charged particles in nonuniform acceleration:The inapplicability of Larmor's formula

R. Lieu, W. I. Axford, and J. F. McKenzie

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1872 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Small signal theory of an E×B drifting electron laser

Spilios Riyopoulos

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1876 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Gain and saturation in free-electron laser oscillators

Vinit Kumar and Srinivas Krishnagopal

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1887 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

Variational approach to solitons in systems with cascaded $χ^{(2)}$ snonlinearity

V. M. Agranovich, S. A. Darmanyan, A. M. Kamchatnov, T. A. Leskova, and A. D. Boardman

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1894 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Vector spatial solitons influenced by magneto-optic effects in cascadable nonlinear media

A. D. Boardman and K. Xie

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1899 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Generalized asymptotic description of the propagated field dynamics in Gaussian pulse propagation in a linear, causally dispersive medium

Constantinos M. Balictsis and Kurt E. Oughstun

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1910 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Nonlinear rotating modes: Green's-function solution

Shozo Takeno and Michel Peyrard

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1922 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Autoresonant excitation and evolution of nonlinear waves:mThe variational approach

L. Friedland

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1929 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Energy dissipation for quasielastic granular particle collisions

W. A. M. Morgado and I. Oppenheim

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1940 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Wave field determination using tomography of the ambiguity function

Jinhong Tu and Shinichi Tamura

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1946 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Eigenfunction expansion of the dyadic Green's function in a gyroelectric chiral medium by cylindrical vector wave functions

Dajun Cheng

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1950 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Geometrical and transport properties of random packings of spheres and aspherical particles

D. Coelho, J.-F. Thovert, and P. M. Adler

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1959 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Computational physics

Bead-Fourier path-integral Monte Carlo method applied to systems of identical particles

P. N. Vorontsov-Velyaminov, M. O. Nesvit, and R. I. Gorbunov

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1979 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

sMean-field theory of sandpiles

Maxim Vergeles, Amos Maritan, and Jayanth R. Banavar

Phys. Rev. E 55, 1998 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Anisotropic triangular Ising model in the extended mean-field renormalization-group approach

C. N. Likos

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2001 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Irregular behaviors of two chemical oscillators with a diffusion coupling

Kenji Miyakawa, Tadao Okabe, and Fumitaka Sakamoto

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2005 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Analysis of minimal pinning density for controlling spatiotemporal chaosof a coupled map lattice

Y. S. Kwon, S. W. Ham, and K. K. Lee

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2009 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Attractor for the mean-field equations of the hysteretic dynamics of a quantum spin model:Analytical solution

Subir K. Sarkar and Debashish Bose

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2013 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Noise-enhanced capacity via stochastic resonance in an asymmetric binary channel

Fraņcois Chapeau-Blondeau

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2016 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Monte Carlo study of the molecular-weight distribution of living polymers

Yannick Rouault and Andrey Milchev

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2020 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Classical fluids

Three-dimensional traveling-wave solutions in plane Couette flow

M. Nagata

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2023 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Role of orientation in the structure and dynamics of a supercooled molecular liquid

W. J. Ma and S. K. Lai

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2026 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Liquid crystals

Surface-enhanced ordering and layer-thinning transitions in freely suspended smectic-A films

Y. Martínez-Ratón, A. M. Somoza, L. Mederos, and D. E. Sullivan

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2030 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, dendritic growth

Dynamic correlations in porous media

J. C. Lee

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2034 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Biological physics

Microtubules: Montroll's kink and Morse vibrations

Haret Codratian Rosu

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2038 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Sources of periodical force in noisy integrate-and-fire models of neuronal dynamics

Petr Lánský

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2040 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Plasma physics

Power exchange between crossed laser beams and the associated frequency cascade

C. J. McKinstrie, V. A. Smalyuk, R. E. Giacone, and H. X. Vu

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2044 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Variational calculation for maximal heat transport due to the ion-temperature gradient

Chang-Bae Kim

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2048 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Physics of beams

Impedance of a coaxial cavity coupled to the beam pipe through a small hole

S. De Santis and L. Palumbo

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2052 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Storage-ring free-electron-laser amplifiers and the microwave instability

G. Dattoli, A. Renieri, and G. Voykov

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2056 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Effect of linear coupling on nonlinear resonances in betatron motion

G. De Ninno and E. Todesco

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2059 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Quantum dynamics of an electric charge in an oscillating pulsed magnetic field

I. S. Oliveira, A. P. Guimarães, and X. A. da Silva

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2063 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

COMMENTS

sReply to 'Absorbing boundary conditions for inertial random processes'

J. Heinrichs

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2067 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Comment on ``Fast dynamics of glass-forming glycerol''

K. L. Ngai and C. M. Roland

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2069 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Reply to ``Comment on `Fast dynamics of glass-forming glycerol' ''

J. Wuttke, W. Petry, and F. Fujara

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2071 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

ERRATA

Erratum: Estimating perturbative coefficients in quantum field theory and statistical physics [Phys. Rev. E 51, 3911 (1995)]

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2072 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997

Erratum: Effective χ in a lattice theory of mixtures [Phys. Rev. E 54, 2723 (1996)]

P. D. Gujrati

Phys. Rev. E 55, 2072 (1997) - Published 1 February, 1997