Volume 65, Issue 4

L. S. Hirst, S. J. Watson, H. F. Gleeson, P. Cluzeau, P. Barois, R. Pindak, J. Pitney, A. Cady, P. M. Johnson, C. C. Huang, A-M. Levelut, G. Srajer, J. Pollmann, W. Caliebe, A. Seed, M. R. Herbert, J. W. Goodby, and M. Hird

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041705 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Phase behavior and free interfaces of a lattice-gas nematic-liquid-crystal model

Martin A. Bates

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041706 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Structure and elastic properties of smectic liquid crystalline elastomer films

R. Stannarius, R. Köhler, U. Dietrich, M. Lösche, C. Tolksdorf, and R. Zentel

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041707 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Coil-globule transition for regular, random, and specially designed copolymers: Monte Carlo simulation and self-consistent field theory

J. M. P. van den Oever, F. A. M. Leermakers, G. J. Fleer, V. A. Ivanov, N. P. Shusharina, A. R. Khokhlov, and P. G. Khalatur

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041708 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Defect structure of a nematic liquid crystal around a spherical particle: Adaptive mesh refinement approach

Jun-ichi Fukuda, Makoto Yoneya, and Hiroshi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041709 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Statistical theory of the compensating effect when anchoring with two orthogonal photoaligned polymers

Andrei Th. Ionescu, Emil S. Barna, Giovanni Barbero, and Anca-Luiza Alexe-Ionescu

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041710 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Annihilation of point defects on a line

Robert Holyst and Patrick Oswald

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041711 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Dynamic light scattering measurements of azimuthal and zenithal anchoring of nematic liquid crystals

Mojca Vilfan, Alenka Mertelj, and Martin Čopič

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041712 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Nature of the liquid crystalline phase transitions in the cesium pentadecafluorooctanoate–water system: The nematic–to–smectic- $A$ transition

K. W. Jolley, N. Boden, D. Parker, and J. R. Henderson

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041713 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Orientational distributions in smectic liquid crystals showing V-shaped switching investigated by polarized Raman scattering

Naoki Hayashi, Tatsuhisa Kato, Takayuki Aoki, Tomohiro Ando, Atsuo Fukuda, and S. S. Seomun

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041714 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Electronic transport in smectic liquid crystals

I. Shiyanovskaya, K. D. Singer, R. J. Twieg, L. Sukhomlinova, and V. Gettwert

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041715 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Deuterium NMR relaxation in the smectic- $A$ phase of a chiral smectogen

Ronald Y. Dong, L. Chiezzi, and C. A. Veracini

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041716 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Shear-induced structural changes of a smectic- $A$ phase: A computer simulation study

G. R. Luckhurst, G. Saielli, and T. J. Sluckin

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041717 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Disruption of surface-induced smectic order by periodic surface corrugations

Ghanshyam P. Sinha, Charles Rosenblatt, and Leonid V. Mirantsev

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041718 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Photomanipulation of the anchoring strength of a photochromic nematic liquid crystal

G. Barbero, L. R. Evangelista, and L. Komitov

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041719 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

uv manipulation of order and macroscopic shape in nematic elastomers

P. M. Hogan, A. R. Tajbakhsh, and E. M. Terentjev

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041720 (2002) - Published 12 April, 2002

Polymers

Unwinding globules under tension and polymer collapse

Thomas Frisch and Alberto Verga

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041801 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Determination of the structure of the organized phase of the block copolymer PEO-PPO-PEO in aqueous solutions under flow by small-angle neutron scattering

Christelle Perreur, Jean-Pierre Habas, Jeanne François, Jean Peyrelasse, and Alain Lapp

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041802 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Elastic critical behavior in a three-dimensional model for polymer gels

Emanuela Del Gado, Lucilla de Arcangelis, and Antonio Coniglio

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041803 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Self-motion and the α relaxation in a simulated glass-forming polymer: Crossover from Gaussian to non-Gaussian dynamic behavior

J. Colmenero, F. Alvarez, and A. Arbe

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041804 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Conformation of a polyelectrolyte complexed to a like-charged colloid

René Messina, Christian Holm, and Kurt Kremer

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041805 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Efficient computation of the structural phase behavior of block copolymers

G. Tzeremes, K. Ø. Rasmussen, T. Lookman, and A. Saxena

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041806 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Computer simulation study on the swelling of a model polymer network by a chainlike solvent

Z.-Y. Lu and R. Hentschke

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041807 (2002) - Published 12 April, 2002

Biological physics

Fluid-membrane tethers: Minimal surfaces and elastic boundary layers

Thomas R. Powers, Greg Huber, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041901 (2002) - Published 13 March, 2002

Dynamical properties of discrete breathers in curved chains with first and second neighbor interactions

M. Ibañes, J. M. Sancho, and G. P. Tsironis

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041902 (2002) - Published 15 March, 2002

Performance of different synchronization measures in real data: A case study on electroencephalographic signals

R. Quian Quiroga, A. Kraskov, T. Kreuz, and P. Grassberger

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041903 (2002) - Published 15 March, 2002

Statistical properties of contact vectors

A. Kabakçioǧlu, I. Kanter, M. Vendruscolo, and E. Domany

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041904 (2002) - Published 18 March, 2002

Analysis of symbolic sequences using the Jensen-Shannon divergence

Ivo Grosse, Pedro Bernaola-Galván, Pedro Carpena, Ramón Román-Roldán, Jose Oliver, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041905 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Plasticity and learning in a network of coupled phase oscillators

Philip Seliger, Stephen C. Young, and Lev S. Tsimring

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041906 (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002

Force and kinetic barriers to initiation of DNA unzipping

Simona Cocco, Rémi Monasson, and John F. Marko

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041907 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Dynamics of rumor propagation on small-world networks

Damián H. Zanette

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041908 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Identification of coupling direction: Application to cardiorespiratory interaction

Michael G. Rosenblum, Laura Cimponeriu, Anastasios Bezerianos, Andreas Patzak, and Ralf Mrowka

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041909 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Atomic force microscopy of height fluctuations of fibroblast cells

Bálint Szabó, Dávid Selmeczi, Zsuzsanna Környei, Emília Madarász, and Noémi Rozlosnik

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041910 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Grouping of residues based on their contact interactions

Jun Wang and Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041911 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Analytical characterization of adhering vesicles

C. Tordeux, J.-B. Fournier, and P. Galatola

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041912 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Precision and reliability of periodically and quasiperiodically driven integrate-and-fire neurons

P. H. E. Tiesinga

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041913 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Morphological ordering in biopolymers: Informational statistical thermodynamic approach

Sergio A. Hassan, Marcus V. Mesquita, Aurea R. Vasconcellos, and Roberto Luzzi

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041914 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Noise-induced resonances in the Hindmarsh-Rose neuronal model

J. P. Baltanás and J. M. Casado

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041915 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Coupling parameter in synchronization of diluted neural networks

Qi Li, Yong Chen, and Ying Hai Wang

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041916 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Measurements of brain activity complexity for varying mental loads

Mukeshwar Dhamala, Giuseppe Pagnoni, Kurt Wiesenfeld, and Gregory S. Berns

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041917 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Replica symmetric evaluation of the information transfer in a two-layer network in the presence of continuous and discrete stimuli

Valeria Del Prete and Alessandro Treves

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041918 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Zero-temperature properties of RNA secondary structures

Enzo Marinari, Andrea Pagnani, and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041919 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Improved energy model for membrane electroporation in biological cells subjected to electrical pulses

R. P. Joshi, Q. Hu, K. H. Schoenbach, and H. P. Hjalmarson

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041920 (2002) - Published 9 April, 2002

Dynamic light scattering from an optically trapped microsphere

N. B. Viana, R. T. S. Freire, and O. N. Mesquita

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041921 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Modeling of spiking-bursting neural behavior using two-dimensional map

Nikolai F. Rulkov

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041922 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Geometric and statistical properties of the mean-field hydrophobic-polar model, the large-small model, and real protein sequences

C. T. Shih, Z. Y. Su, J. F. Gwan, B. L. Hao, C. H. Hsieh, J. L. Lo, and H. C. Lee

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041923 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Dynamics of large-scale brain activity in normal arousal states and epileptic seizures

P. A. Robinson, C. J. Rennie, and D. L. Rowe

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041924 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Kinetic transition in model proteins with a denatured native spinodal

Jun Wang, Ke Fan, and Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041925 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Memory beyond memory in heart beating, a sign of a healthy physiological condition

P. Allegrini, P. Grigolini, P. Hamilton, L. Palatella, and G. Raffaelli

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041926 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Separation quality of a geometric ratchet

C. Keller, Florian Marquardt, and C. Bruder

Phys. Rev. E 65, 041927 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

Finding transition paths and rate coefficients through accelerated Langevin dynamics

L. Y. Chen, S. C. Ying, and T. Ala-Nissila

Phys. Rev. E 65, 042101 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Granular materials

Adhesion between weakly rough beads

F. Restagno, J. Crassous, C. Cottin-Bizonne, and E. Charlaix

Phys. Rev. E 65, 042301 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Structured and complex fluids

Critical behavior in broad-band dielectric relaxation on approaching the critical consolute point in ethanol-dodecane mixture

S. J. Rzoska, K. Orzechowski, and A. Drozd-Rzoska

Phys. Rev. E 65, 042501 (2002) - Published 15 March, 2002

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

Cluster persistence of two-dimensional soap froth

Wing Yim Tam and Kwok Yip Szeto

Phys. Rev. E 65, 042601 (2002) - Published 20 March, 2002

Polymers

Two-dimensional copolymers and multifractality: Comparing perturbative expansions, Monte Carlo simulations, and exact results

C. von Ferber and Yu. Holovatch

Phys. Rev. E 65, 042801 (2002) - Published 15 March, 2002

Nonequilibrium pattern formation in the crystallization of polymer blend films

Vincent Ferreiro, Jack F. Douglas, James A. Warren, and Alamgir Karim

Phys. Rev. E 65, 042802 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Analysis of diffusion in a solid polymer electrolyte in the context of a phase-separated system

Ludvig Edman, Anders Ferry, and Greger Orädd

Phys. Rev. E 65, 042803 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Quasistatic fractures in brittle media and iterated conformal maps

Felipe Barra, H. George E. Hentschel, Anders Levermann, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045101(R) (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Functional form of the Parisi overlap distribution for the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass

Bernd A. Berg, Alain Billoire, and Wolfhard Janke

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045102(R) (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Jamming coverage in competitive random sequential adsorption of a binary mixture

M. Kamrul Hassan, Jürgen Schmidt, Bernd Blasius, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045103(R) (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multifractal current distribution in random-diode networks

Haye Hinrichsen, Olaf Stenull, and Hans-Karl Janssen

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045104(R) (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Chaos and pattern formation

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Coupled map networks as communication schemes

P. García, A. Parravano, M. G. Cosenza, J. Jiménez, and A. Marcano

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045201(R) (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Rhythmic bursting in a cluster of microbeads driven by a continuous-wave laser beam

Nobuyuki Magome, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Masatoshi Ichikawa, Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, and Kenichi Yoshikawa

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045202(R) (2002) - Published 1 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Bailout embeddings, targeting of invariant tori, and the control of Hamiltonian chaos

Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Marcelo O. Magnasco, and Oreste Piro

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045203(R) (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Information transfer and nontrivial collective behavior in chaotic coupled map networks

L. Cisneros, J. Jiménez, M. G. Cosenza, and A. Parravano

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045204(R) (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Non-Hermiticity in a kicked model: Decoherence and the semiclassical limit

Indubala I. Satija and Arjendu K. Pattanayak

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045205(R) (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Decoherence as decay of the Loschmidt echo in a Lorentz gas

F. M. Cucchietti, H. M. Pastawski, and D. A. Wisniacki

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045206(R) (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Global quantitative predictions of complex laser dynamics

Sebastian Wieczorek, Thomas B. Simpson, Bernd Krauskopf, and Daan Lenstra

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045207(R) (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Flow of thin films on patterned surfaces: Controlling the instability

L. Kondic and J. Diez

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045301(R) (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Plasma physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Perturbation transfer from the front to rear surface of laser-irradiated targets

K. Shigemori, H. Azechi, M. Nakai, T. Endo, T. Nagaya, and T. Yamanaka

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045401(R) (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Polarization effects and anisotropy in three-dimensional relativistic self-focusing

N. M. Naumova, S. V. Bulanov, K. Nishihara, T. Zh. Esirkepov, and F. Pegoraro

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045402(R) (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamic Mach cone as a diagnostic method in reactive dusty plasma experiments

O. Havnes, T. W. Hartquist, A. Brattli, G. M. W. Kroesen, and G. Morfill

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045403(R) (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Generalized emissivity inverse problem

DengMing Ming, Tao Wen, XianXi Dai, JiXin Dai, and William E. Evenson

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045601(R) (2002) - Published 15 March, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Experimental observation of superluminal pulse reflection in a double-Lorentzian photonic band gap

S. Longhi, M. Marano, P. Laporta, M. Belmonte, and P. Crespi

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045602(R) (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Fresnel laws at curved dielectric interfaces of microresonators

Martina Hentschel and Henning Schomerus

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045603(R) (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Amplitude coda of classical waves in disordered media

Mauro S. Ferreira and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. E 65, 045604(R) (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

Probabilistic approach to the Bak-Sneppen model

G. Caldarelli, M. Felici, A. Gabrielli, and L. Pietronero

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046101 (2002) - Published 18 March, 2002

Quantum decoherence, Zeno process, and time symmetry breaking

T. Petrosky and V. Barsegov

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046102 (2002) - Published 18 March, 2002

Highway on-ramp control

Ding-wei Huang

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046103 (2002) - Published 18 March, 2002

Simple absorbing-state transition

Olivier Deloubrière and Frédéric van Wijland

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046104 (2002) - Published 18 March, 2002

Trapped interacting Bose gas in nonextensive statistical mechanics

B. Tanatar

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046105 (2002) - Published 18 March, 2002

Ensemble-based control of evolutionary optimization algorithms

Axel Reimann and Werner Ebeling

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046106 (2002) - Published 20 March, 2002

Quantification of heart rate variability by discrete nonstationary non-Markov stochastic processes

Renat Yulmetyev, Peter Hänggi, and Fail Gafarov

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046107 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Monte Carlo simulation of the transmission of measles: Beyond the mass action principle

Nouredine Zekri and Jean Pierre Clerc

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046108 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Multifractal structure of the harmonic measure of diffusion-limited aggregates

Mogens H. Jensen, Anders Levermann, Joachim Mathiesen, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046109 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Critical behavior of nonequilibrium phase transitions to magnetically ordered states

Thomas Birner, Karen Lippert, Reinhard Müller, Adolf Kühnel, and Ulrich Behn

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046110 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Finite-size scaling in the steady state of the fully asymmetric exclusion process

Jordan Brankov

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046111 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Dynamical response of an excitatory-inhibitory neural network to external stimulation: An application to image segmentation

Sitabhra Sinha and Jayanta Basak

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046112 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Multiscale dynamics and robust critical scaling in a continuum current sheet model

V. M. Uritsky, A. J. Klimas, and D. Vassiliadis

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046113 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Off-equilibrium response function in the one-dimensional random-field Ising model

F. Corberi, A. de Candia, E. Lippiello, and M. Zannetti

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046114 (2002) - Published 1 April, 2002

Critical structure factors of bilinear fields in $O (N)$ vector models

Pasquale Calabrese, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046115 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Classical kinetical Bose gas

Michael Schulz, Steffen Trimper, and Simone Artz

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046116 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Phase ordering with a global conservation law: Ostwald ripening and coalescence

Massimo Conti, Baruch Meerson, Avner Peleg, and Pavel V. Sasorov

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046117 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Upper bound for the time derivative of entropy for nonequilibrium stochastic processes

Bidhan Chandra Bag

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046118 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Grain boundary pinning and glassy dynamics in stripe phases

Denis Boyer and Jorge Viñals

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046119 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Correlated disordered interactions on Potts models

P. T. Muzy, A. P. Vieira, and S. R. Salinas

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046120 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Correlation functions near modulated and rough surfaces

Andreas Hanke and Mehran Kardar

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046121 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Targeted free energy perturbation

C. Jarzynski

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046122 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Nonequilibrium dynamics of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation: Numerical results in two and three dimensions

Subir K. Das and Sanjay Puri

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046123 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Estimating probabilities from experimental frequencies

Inés Samengo

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046124 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Geometrical properties of avalanches in self-organized critical models of solar flares

Scott W. McIntosh, Paul Charbonneau, Thomas J. Bogdan, Han-Li Liu, and James P. Norman

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046125 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Flow properties of driven-diffusive lattice gases: Theory and computer simulation

Debashish Chowdhury and Jian-Sheng Wang

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046126 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Exact multipoint and multitime correlation functions of a one-dimensional model of adsorption and evaporation of dimers

Mauro Mobilia

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046127 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Adaptation and survivors in a random Boolean network

Ikuo Nakamura

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046128 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Statistics of level spacing of geometric resonances in random binary composites

Y. Gu, K. W. Yu, and Z. R. Yang

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046129 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Finite-size effect in the Eguíluz and Zimmermann model of herd formation and information transmission

Yanbo Xie, Bing-Hong Wang, Hongjun Quan, Weisong Yang, and P. M. Hui

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046130 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Average entropy of a subsystem from its average Tsallis entropy

L. C. Malacarne, R. S. Mendes, and E. K. Lenzi

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046131 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Variational theory for thermodynamics of thermal waves

Stanislaw Sieniutycz and R. Stephen Berry

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046132 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Kink production in the presence of random distributed impurities

T. Dobrowolski

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046133 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Remarks about the Tsallis formalism

L. Velazquez and F. Guzmán

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046134 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Relaxation of nonspherical sessile drops towards equilibrium

Vadim S. Nikolayev and Daniel A. Beysens

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046135 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Slow relaxation in the large- $N$ model for phase ordering

Federico Corberi, Eugenio Lippiello, and Marco Zannetti

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046136 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Analysis of the $\infty$ -replica symmetry breaking solution of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model

A. Crisanti and T. Rizzo

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046137 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Empirical macroscopic features of spatial-temporal traffic patterns at highway bottlenecks

Boris S. Kerner

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046138 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Universal pulse shape scaling function and exponents: Critical test for avalanche models applied to Barkhausen noise

Amit P. Mehta, Andrea C. Mills, Karin A. Dahmen, and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046139 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Roughness distributions for ${1 / f}^{α}$ signals

T. Antal, M. Droz, G. Györgyi, and Z. Rácz

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046140 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Self-organized criticality: Robustness of scaling exponents

Jozef Černák

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046141 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Solvable Markov random field model in color image restoration

Kazuyuki Tanaka and Tsuyoshi Horiguchi

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046142 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Effect of angular momentum on equilibrium properties of a self-gravitating system

Olivier Fliegans and D. H. E. Gross

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046143 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Iterated conformal dynamics and Laplacian growth

Felipe Barra, Benny Davidovitch, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046144 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic relations in systems with aging and slow relaxation

Mitsuhiro Kawasaki

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046145 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Critical behavior of a strain percolation model for metals

Y. Shim, L. E. Levine, and R. Thomson

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046146 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Stable propagation of an ordered array of cracks during directional drying

E. A. Jagla

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046147 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Fracture model with variable range of interaction

Raul Cruz Hidalgo, Yamir Moreno, Ferenc Kun, and Hans J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046148 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Autoregressive processes with exponentially decaying probability distribution functions: Applications to daily variations of a stock market index

Markus Porto and H. Eduardo Roman

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046149 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Scaling behavior of the order parameter and its conjugated field in an absorbing phase transition around the upper critical dimension

S. Lübeck

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046150 (2002) - Published 12 April, 2002

Chaos and pattern formation

Collective motions in globally coupled tent maps with stochastic updating

Satoru Morita and Tsuyoshi Chawanya

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046201 (2002) - Published 15 March, 2002

Stabilization of stationary excitation pulses in an open flow without long-range inhibition

Mads Kærn and Michael Menzinger

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046202 (2002) - Published 15 March, 2002

Diffusion entropy and waiting time statistics of hard-x-ray solar flares

Paolo Grigolini, Deborah Leddon, and Nicola Scafetta

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046203 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Chaotic scattering in deformed optical microlasing cavities

Zonghua Liu and Ying-Cheng Lai

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046204 (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002

Lorenz-like systems and classical dynamical equations with memory forcing: An alternate point of view for singling out the origin of chaos

R. Festa, A. Mazzino, and D. Vincenzi

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046205 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Effect of colored noises on spatiotemporal chaos in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

Hongli Wang and Qi Ouyang

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046206 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Unusual spiral wave tip trajectories in a parametrically forced nonequilibrium system

Jysoo Lee, Jinha Kim, Goen-hee Yi, and Kyoung J. Lee

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046207 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Harmonic forcing of an extended oscillatory system: Homogeneous and periodic solutions

Jeenu Kim, Jysoo Lee, and Byungnam Kahng

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046208 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Measuring the Lyapunov exponent using quantum mechanics

F. M. Cucchietti, C. H. Lewenkopf, E. R. Mucciolo, H. M. Pastawski, and R. O. Vallejos

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046209 (2002) - Published 1 April, 2002

Synchronizing chaotic dynamics with uncertainties based on a sliding mode control design

Tao Yang and Hui He Shao

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046210 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Anderson localized state as a predissipative state: Irreversible emission of thermalized quanta from a dynamically delocalized state

Hiroaki Yamada and Kensuke S. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046211 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Neural networks for estimating intrinsic dimension

A. Potapov and M. K. Ali

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046212 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Synchronization of coupled assemblies of relaxation oscillatory electrode pairs

Antonis Karantonis, Yasuyuki Miyakita, and Seiichiro Nakabayashi

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046213 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Diffusion in a periodically driven damped and undamped pendulum

R. Harish, S. Rajasekar, and K. P. N. Murthy

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046214 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Lyapunov exponents, noise-induced synchronization, and Parrondo’s paradox

Ljupco Kocarev and Zarko Tasev

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046215 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Jets, stickiness, and anomalous transport

Xavier Leoncini and George M. Zaslavsky

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046216 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Spectral properties of quantized barrier billiards

Jan Wiersig

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046217 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Traveling concentric-roll patterns in Rayleigh-Bénard convection with modulated rotation

Kim L. Thompson, Kapil M. S. Bajaj, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046218 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Rotating convection in an anisotropic system

Alex Roxin and Hermann Riecke

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046219 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Dynamic separation of chaotic signals in the presence of noise

Yuri V. Andreyev, Alexander S. Dmitriev, and Elena V. Efremova

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046220 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Skew-orthogonal polynomials and random-matrix ensembles

Saugata Ghosh and Akhilesh Pandey

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046221 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Exact, convergent periodic-orbit expansions of individual energy eigenvalues of regular quantum graphs

R. Blümel, Y. Dabaghian, and R. V. Jensen

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046222 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Acceleration effect of coupled oscillator systems

Toru Aonishi, Koji Kurata, and Masato Okada

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046223 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Shock structures and bunching fronts in excitable reaction-diffusion systems

Chad T. Hamik and Oliver Steinbock

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046224 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Limits to the experimental detection of nonlinear synchrony

Paul So, Ernest Barreto, Krešimir Josić, Evelyn Sander, and Steven J. Schiff

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046225 (2002) - Published 9 April, 2002

Decoherence for classically chaotic quantum maps

Pablo Bianucci, Juan Pablo Paz, and Marcos Saraceno

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046226 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Mode locking of spatiotemporally periodic orbits in coupled sine circle map lattices

Gauri R. Pradhan, Nandini Chatterjee, and Neelima Gupte

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046227 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Bifurcations of a semiclassical atom in a periodic field

Thomas Pohl, Ulrike Feudel, and Werner Ebeling

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046228 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Fundamental scaling laws of on-off intermittency in a stochastically driven dissipative pattern-forming system

Thomas John, Ulrich Behn, and Ralf Stannarius

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046229 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Spatial control of a classical electron state in a Rydberg atom by adiabatic synchronization

E. Grosfeld and L. Friedland

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046230 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Generic two-variable model of excitability

A. C. Ventura, G. B. Mindlin, and S. Ponce Dawson

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046231 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Multirhythmicity generated by slow variable diffusion in a ring of relaxation oscillators and noise-induced abnormal interspike variability

E. I. Volkov and D. V. Volkov

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046232 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Slow time evolution of two-time-scale reaction-diffusion systems: The physical origin of nondiffusive transport

Damián E. Strier, Ariel Chernomoretz, and Silvina Ponce Dawson

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046233 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Deriving exact energy solutions to the symmetrized q-difference Harper equation

E. Papp and C. Micu

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046234 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Scroll waves in isotropic excitable media: Linear instabilities, bifurcations, and restabilized states

Hervé Henry and Vincent Hakim

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046235 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Dynamical localization in quasiperiodic driven systems

G. Abal, R. Donangelo, A. Romanelli, A. C. Sicardi Schifino, and R. Siri

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046236 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Delayed self-synchronization in homoclinic chaos

F. T. Arecchi, R. Meucci, E. Allaria, A. Di Garbo, and L. S. Tsimring

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046237 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

Probabilistic formalism and hierarchy of models for polydispersed turbulent two-phase flows

Eric Peirano and Jean-Pierre Minier

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046301 (2002) - Published 13 March, 2002

Oscillation mode conversion and energy confinement of acoustically agitated bubbles

Masanori Sato, Nobunaga Shibuya, Nagaya Okada, Tonshaku Tou, and Toshitaka Fujii

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046302 (2002) - Published 20 March, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

River meandering dynamics

Boyd F. Edwards and Duane H. Smith

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046303 (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002

Numerical study of comparison of vorticity and passive vectors in turbulence and inviscid flows

Koji Ohkitani

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046304 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Lattice-gas model based on field mediators for immiscible fluids

L. O. E. dos Santos and P. C. Philippi

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046305 (2002) - Published 1 April, 2002

Energy-conserving low-order models for three-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Christopher Tong and Alexander Gluhovsky

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046306 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Scaling hypothesis leading to generalized extended self-similarity in turbulence

Hirokazu Fujisaka, Yasuya Nakayama, Takeshi Watanabe, and Siegfried Grossmann

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046307 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Discrete lattice effects on the forcing term in the lattice Boltzmann method

Zhaoli Guo, Chuguang Zheng, and Baochang Shi

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046308 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

Light emission of sonoluminescent bubbles containing a rare gas and water vapor

Dominik Hammer and Lothar Frommhold

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046309 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Effect of surfactants, polymers, and alcohol on single bubble dynamics and sonoluminescence

Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Jingfeng Guan, Rohan Tronson, Thomas J. Matula, John W. Nuske, and Franz Grieser

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046310 (2002) - Published 11 April, 2002

Plasma physics

Nonlocal electron kinetics and excited state densities in a magnetron discharge in argon

I. A. Porokhova, Yu. B. Golubovskii, C. Csambal, V. Helbig, C. Wilke, and J. F. Behnke

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046401 (2002) - Published 13 March, 2002

Non-neutral plasma column in an asymmetric trapping field

Sh. Amiranashvili, M. Y. Yu, and L. Stenflo

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046402 (2002) - Published 14 March, 2002

Magnetic field generation through angular momentum exchange between circularly polarized radiation and charged particles

G. Shvets, N. J. Fisch, and J.-M. Rax

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046403 (2002) - Published 15 March, 2002

Self-consistent kinetic theory of a plasma sheath

Aleksey V. Vasenkov and Bernie D. Shizgal

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046404 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Spheromak as a relaxed state with minimum dissipation

B. Dasgupta, M. S. Janaki, R. Bhattacharyya, P. Dasgupta, T. Watanabe, and T. Sato

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046405 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Influence of ${Ar}_{2}^{+}$ in an argon collisional-radiative model

Arnaud Bultel, Bruno van Ootegem, Anne Bourdon, and Pierre Vervisch

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046406 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Electrical conductivity of nonideal carbon and zinc plasmas: Experimental and theoretical results

J. Haun, H.-J. Kunze, S. Kosse, M. Schlanges, and R. Redmer

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046407 (2002) - Published 26 March, 2002

Three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of energetic electron generation and transport with relativistic laser pulses in overdense plasmas

Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, Z. M. Sheng, P. Kaw, K. Nishihara, and K. Nishikawa

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046408 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Plasma instability of a vacuum arc centrifuge

M. J. Hole, R. S. Dallaqua, S. W. Simpson, and E. Del Bosco

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046409 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

Electron cooling of high-energy protons in a multiring trap with a tank circuit monitoring the electron-plasma oscillations

H. Higaki, N. Kuroda, T. Ichioka, K. Yoshiki Franzen, Z. Wang, K. Komaki, Y. Yamazaki, M. Hori, N. Oshima, and A. Mohri

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046410 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Possibility of an unequivocal test of different models of the equation of state of aluminum in the coupling regime Γ∼1–50

François Perrot, M. W. C. Dharma-wardana, and John Benage

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046414 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

Exact calculation of the angular momentum loss, recoil force, and radiation intensity for an arbitrary source in terms of electric, magnetic, and toroid multipoles

E. E. Radescu and G. Vaman

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046609 (2002) - Published 1 April, 2002

Measurement of superluminal optical tunneling times in double-barrier photonic band gaps

S. Longhi, P. Laporta, M. Belmonte, and E. Recami

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046610 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Diffraction by a small aperture in conical geometry: Application to metal-coated tips used in near-field scanning optical microscopy

A. Drezet, J. C. Woehl, and S. Huant

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046611 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Computational physics

Implementation of the hierarchical reference theory for simple one-component fluids

Albert Reiner and Gerhard Kahl

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046701 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Latent heat calculation of the three-dimensional $q = 3,$ 4, and 5 Potts models by the tensor product variational approach

A. Gendiar and T. Nishino

Phys. Rev. E 65, 046702 (2002) - Published 10 April, 2002

BRIEF REPORTS

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence

Time behavior of the secondary flow between time-periodically corotating cylinders: A two-frequency forcing case

P. Ern and J.-E. Wesfreid

Phys. Rev. E 65, 047301 (2002) - Published 15 March, 2002

Wavy stripes and squares in zero-Prandtl-number convection

Pinaki Pal and Krishna Kumar

Phys. Rev. E 65, 047302 (2002) - Published 25 March, 2002

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

$β$ factor in a random laser

Gijs van Soest and Ad Lagendijk

Phys. Rev. E 65, 047601 (2002) - Published 18 March, 2002

Newton’s laws of motion in the form of a Riccati equation

Marek Nowakowski and Haret C. Rosu

Phys. Rev. E 65, 047602 (2002) - Published 18 March, 2002

Computational physics

Numerical analysis of the master equation

Ronald Dickman

Phys. Rev. E 65, 047701 (2002) - Published 28 March, 2002

COMMENTS

Comment on “Scaling behavior in explosive fragmentation”

J. A. Åström, R. P Linna, and J. Timonen

Phys. Rev. E 65, 048101 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Reply to “Comment on ‘Scaling behavior in explosive fragmentation’ ”

A. Diehl, J. S. Andrade, Jr., and G. A. Farias

Phys. Rev. E 65, 048102 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Generalization of super-transition-array methods to hot dense plasmas by using optimum independent particle reference systems [Phys. Rev. E. 65, 016403 (2002)]

G. Faussurier, Brian G. Wilson, and Mau Hsiung Chen

Phys. Rev. E 65, 049901 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Erratum: Population coding in neuronal systems with correlated noise [Phys. Rev. E 64, 051904 (2001)]

Haim Sompolinsky, Hyoungsoo Yoon, Kukjin Kang, and Maoz Shamir

Phys. Rev. E 65, 049902 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002