Volume 74, Issue 5

Yoichi Takanishi, Megumi Toshimitsu, Michi Nakata, Naoki Takada, Tatsuya Izumi, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe, Junji Watanabe, Yumiko Takahashi, and Atsuo Iida

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051703 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Cholesteric liquid crystals with a helical pitch gradient: Spatial distribution of the concentration of chiral groups by Raman mapping in relation with the optical response and the microstructure

M. Belalia, M. Mitov, C. Bourgerette, A. Krallafa, M. Belhakem, and D. Bormann

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051704 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Surface effects on the relaxation dynamics of hexatic- $B$ liquid-crystal films

I. N. de Oliveira and M. L. Lyra

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051705 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Experimental demonstration, using polarized Raman and infrared spectroscopy, that both conventional and de Vries smectic- $A$ phases may exist in smectic liquid crystals with a first-order $A − C^{*}$ transition

Naoki Hayashi, A. Kocot, M. J. Linehan, Atsuo Fukuda, Jagdish K. Vij, G. Heppke, J. Naciri, Sachiko Kawada, and Shinya Kondoh

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051706 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Nematic-isotropic transition with quenched disorder

L. Petridis and E. M. Terentjev

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051707 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Dielectric study on the shear-induced structural changes in the nematic and the smectic- $A$ phases of 4-n-octyl- $4^{'}$ -cyanobiphenyl (8CB)

K. Negita, M. Inoue, and S. Kondo

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051708 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Soft elasticity in biaxial smectic and smectic- $C$ elastomers

Olaf Stenull and T. C. Lubensky

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051709 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Optical and confocal microscopy observations of screw dislocations in smectic- $A$ liquid crystals

I. Lelidis, C. Blanc, and M. Kléman

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051710 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Polymers

Secondary structures in long compact polymers

Richard Oberdorf, Allison Ferguson, Jesper L. Jacobsen, and Jané Kondev

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051801 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Effects of solvent immiscibility on the phase behavior and microstructural length scales of a diblock copolymer in the presence of two solvents

Ching-I Huang and Yu-Chieh Hsu

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051802 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

RNA-like polymer model: Exact calculation on the Bethe lattice

M. Pretti

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051803 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Biological physics

Thermodynamics of organisms in the context of dynamic energy budget theory

Tânia Sousa, Rui Mota, Tiago Domingos, and S. A. L. M Kooijman

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051901 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Complex movements of motor protein relay helices during the power stroke

Miljko V. Satarić, Leif Matsson, and Jack A. Tuszyński

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051902 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Subgraph ensembles and motif discovery using an alternative heuristic for graph isomorphism

Kim Baskerville and Maya Paczuski

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051903 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Force modulating dynamic disorder: A physical model of catch-slip bond transitions in receptor-ligand forced dissociation experiments

Fei Liu and Zhong-can Ou-Yang

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051904 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Stochastic order parameter equation of isometric force production revealed by drift-diffusion estimates

T. D. Frank, R. Friedrich, and P. J. Beek

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051905 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Noise-induced cooperative dynamics and its control in coupled neuron models

B. Hauschildt, N. B. Janson, A. Balanov, and E. Schöll

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051906 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Coexistence versus extinction in the stochastic cyclic Lotka-Volterra model

Tobias Reichenbach, Mauro Mobilia, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051907 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Electrophoresis of DNA on a disordered two-dimensional substrate

C. J. Olson Reichhardt and C. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051908 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Identifying phase synchronization clusters in spatially extended dynamical systems

Stephan Bialonski and Klaus Lehnertz

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051909 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Hybrid simulations of stochastic reaction-diffusion processes for modeling intracellular signaling pathways

K.-H. Chiam, Chee Meng Tan, Vipul Bhargava, and Gunaretnam Rajagopal

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051910 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Structure of two-component lipid membranes on solid support: An x-ray reflectivity study

Eva Nováková, Klaus Giewekemeyer, and Tim Salditt

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051911 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Contractile stress generation by actomyosin gels

A. E. Carlsson

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051912 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Effect of chain unsaturation on bilayer response to pressure

I. D. Skanes, J. Stewart, K. M. W. Keough, and M. R. Morrow

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051913 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Species abundance distribution and population dynamics in a two-community model of neutral ecology

M. Vallade and B. Houchmandzadeh

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051914 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Anomalies and the Eve effect in the asexual Penna model

T. Preece and Y. Mao

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051915 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Iridescence in the neck feathers of domestic pigeons

Haiwei Yin, Lei Shi, Jing Sha, Yizhou Li, Youhua Qin, Biqin Dong, Serge Meyer, Xiaohan Liu, Li Zhao, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051916 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Finite-size domains in membranes with active two-state inclusions

Chien-Hsun Chen and Hsuan-Yi Chen

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051917 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Designability and cooperative folding in a four-letter hydrophobic-polar model of proteins

Hai-guang Liu and Lei-Han Tang

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051918 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Controlling species richness in spin-glass model ecosystems

Fábio C. Poderoso and José F. Fontanari

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051919 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

White-noise susceptibility and critical slowing in neurons near spiking threshold

D. A. Steyn-Ross, Moira L. Steyn-Ross, M. T. Wilson, and J. W. Sleigh

Phys. Rev. E 74, 051920 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics

Knotting probability of a shaken ball-chain

J. Hickford, R. Jones, S. Courrech du Pont, and J. Eggers

Phys. Rev. E 74, 052101 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Changing the heat conductivity: An analytical study

Fernando Barros, Humberto C. F. Lemos, and Emmanuel Pereira

Phys. Rev. E 74, 052102 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Electric-field correlation in quantum charged fluids coupled to the radiation field

B. Jancovici

Phys. Rev. E 74, 052103 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Structured and complex fluids

Phase diagram of the hard-core Yukawa fluid within the integral equation method

E. B. El Mendoub, J.-F. Wax, and N. Jakse

Phys. Rev. E 74, 052501 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Liquid crystals

Relaxation time for the ionic current in a nematic cell under a large electric field

G. Barbero, A. M. Figueiredo Neto, F. C. M. Freire, and J. Le Digabel

Phys. Rev. E 74, 052701 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Biological physics

Orthotropic elastic shell model for buckling of microtubules

C. Y. Wang, C. Q. Ru, and A. Mioduchowski

Phys. Rev. E 74, 052901 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Interdisciplinary physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Correlations in weighted networks

M. Ángeles Serrano, Marián Boguñá, and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

Phys. Rev. E 74, 055101(R) (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Chaos and pattern formation

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Frequency locking and complex dynamics near a periodically forced robust heteroclinic cycle

J. H. P. Dawes and T. L. Tsai

Phys. Rev. E 74, 055201(R) (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Plasma physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Microwave generation of stable atmospheric-pressure fireballs in air

Karl D. Stephan

Phys. Rev. E 74, 055401(R) (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

Spreading dynamics on small-world networks with connectivity fluctuations and correlations

Alexei Vazquez

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056101 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Kinetics of migration-driven aggregation processes on scale-free networks

Jianhong Ke, Xiaoshuang Chen, Zhenquan Lin, Yizhuang Zheng, and Wei Lu

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056102 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

von Neumann entropy and localization-delocalization transition of electron states in quantum small-world networks

Longyan Gong and Peiqing Tong

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056103 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Optimal paths in complex networks with correlated weights: The worldwide airport network

Zhenhua Wu, Lidia A. Braunstein, Vittoria Colizza, Reuven Cohen, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056104 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Dissemination strategy for immunizing scale-free networks

Alexandre O. Stauffer and Valmir C. Barbosa

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056105 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Collective oscillations, bicluster motion, and dynamical order in a system of globally coupled rotors with repulsive interactions

Daun Jeong, J. Choi, and M. Y. Choi

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056106 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Characteristics of reaction-diffusion on scale-free networks

Lazaros K. Gallos and Panos Argyrakis

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056107 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Nonequilibrium phase transition in the coevolution of networks and opinions

Petter Holme and M. E. J. Newman

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056108 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Behaviors of susceptible-infected epidemics on scale-free networks with identical infectivity

Tao Zhou, Jian-Guo Liu, Wen-Jie Bai, Guanrong Chen, and Bing-Hong Wang

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056109 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Statistical mechanics of error exponents for error-correcting codes

Thierry Mora and Olivier Rivoire

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056110 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Thermodynamics of spin systems on small-world hypergraphs

D. Bollé, R. Heylen, and N. S. Skantzos

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056111 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Sparse repulsive coupling enhances synchronization in complex networks

I. Leyva, I. Sendiña-Nadal, J. A. Almendral, and M. A. F. Sanjuán

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056112 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Memory-based snowdrift game on networks

Wen-Xu Wang, Jie Ren, Guanrong Chen, and Bing-Hong Wang

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056113 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Clustering in complex networks. I. General formalism

M. Ángeles Serrano and Marián Boguñá

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056114 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Clustering in complex networks. II. Percolation properties

M. Ángeles Serrano and Marián Boguñá

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056115 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Designing threshold networks with given structural and dynamical properties

Aric Hagberg, Pieter J. Swart, and Daniel A. Schult

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056116 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Chaos and pattern formation

Time delay in the Kuramoto model with bimodal frequency distribution

Ernest Montbrió, Diego Pazó, and Jürgen Schmidt

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056201 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Quasiregularity and rigorous diffusion of strong Hamiltonian chaos

O. Barash and I. Dana

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056202 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Calculation of cantori for Hamiltonian flows

S. R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056203 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Phase rigidity and avoided level crossings in the complex energy plane

Evgeny N. Bulgakov, Ingrid Rotter, and Almas F. Sadreev

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056204 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Synchronization and beam forming in an array of repulsively coupled oscillators

N. F. Rulkov, L. Tsimring, M. L. Larsen, and M. Gabbay

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056205 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Persistent localized states for a chaotically mixed bistable reaction

Stephen M. Cox

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056206 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Nonperiodic echoes from mushroom billiard hats

B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, T. H. Seligman, and K. Zapfe

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056207 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Quantum-to-classical transition in a system with mixed classical dynamics

Fabricio Toscano and Diego A. Wisniacki

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056208 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Method for determining a coupling function in coupled oscillators with application to Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillators

J. Miyazaki and S. Kinoshita

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056209 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Fluid dynamics

Vorticity generation in creeping flow past a magnetic obstacle

S. Cuevas, S. Smolentsev, and M. Abdou

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056301 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Helical magnetorotational instability in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow

Wei Liu, Jeremy Goodman, Isom Herron, and Hantao Ji

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056302 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Pore-network study of methane hydrate dissociation

Ioannis N. Tsimpanogiannis and Peter C. Lichtner

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056303 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Linking drainage front morphology with gaseous diffusion in unsaturated porous media: A lattice Boltzmann study

Jessica Furrer Chau and Dani Or

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056304 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Experiments on the rapid mechanical expansion of liquid ${}^{4}{He}$ through its superfluid transition

V. B. Efimov, O. J. Griffiths, P. C. Hendry, G. V. Kolmakov, P. V. E. McClintock, and L. Skrbek

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056305 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Heat flux intensification by vortical flow localization in rotating convection

R. P. J. Kunnen, H. J. H. Clercx, and B. J. Geurts

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056306 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Negative wake behind a sphere rising in viscoelastic fluids: A lattice Boltzmann investigation

Xavier Frank and Huai Z. Li

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056307 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Comparisons between different approximations to energy dissipation rate in a self-preserving far wake

T. Zhou, Z. Hao, L. P. Chua, and Y. Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056308 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Plasma physics

Multiple void formation in plasmas containing multispecies charged grains

Y. H. Liu, Z. Y. Chen, M. Y. Yu, and A. Bogaerts

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056401 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Nonintrusive characterization of the azimuthal drift current in a coaxial $E \times B$ discharge plasma

Cliff A. Thomas, Nicolas Gascon, and Mark A. Cappelli

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056402 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Ground state of a confined Yukawa plasma

C. Henning, H. Baumgartner, A. Piel, P. Ludwig, V. Golubnichiy, M. Bonitz, and D. Block

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056403 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Nonadiabatic tunneling in ponderomotive barriers

I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056404 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Transverse dielectric matrix and shear mode dispersion in strongly coupled electronic bilayer liquids

Kenneth I Golden, Hania Mahassen, Gaetano Senatore, and Francesco Rapisarda

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056405 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

Exotic radiation from a photonic crystal excited by an ultrarelativistic electron beam

N. Horiuchi, T. Ochiai, J. Inoue, Y. Segawa, Y. Shibata, K. Ishi, Y. Kondo, M. Kanbe, H. Miyazaki, F. Hinode, S. Yamaguti, and K. Ohtaka

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056601 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Zener tunneling in two-dimensional photonic lattices

Valery S. Shchesnovich, Solange B. Cavalcanti, Jandir M. Hickmann, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056602 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Propagation of femtosecond light pulses in a dye solution: Nonadherence to the conventional group velocity

T. Kohmoto, Y. Fukui, S. Furue, K. Nakayama, and Y. Fukuda

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056603 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Self-compression by femtosecond pulse filamentation: Experiments versus numerical simulations

Stefan Skupin, Gero Stibenz, Luc Bergé, Falk Lederer, Thomas Sokollik, Matthias Schnürer, Nickolai Zhavoronkov, and Günter Steinmeyer

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056604 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Analytical cumulant solution of the vector radiative transfer equation investigates backscattering of circularly polarized light from turbid media

Wei Cai, Xiaohui Ni, S. K. Gayen, and R. R. Alfano

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056605 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Order- $N$ first-principles calculation method for self-consistent ground-state electronic structures of semi-infinite systems

Takashi Sasaki, Tomoya Ono, and Kikuji Hirose

Phys. Rev. E 74, 056704 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

Coloring random graphs and maximizing local diversity

S. Bounkong, J. van Mourik, and D. Saad

Phys. Rev. E 74, 057101 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Consequences of imperfect mixing the Gray-Scott model

M.-P. Zorzano, D. Hochberg, and F. Morán

Phys. Rev. E 74, 057102 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

Structure analysis of two-dimensional nonlinear self-trapped photonic lattices in anisotropic photorefractive media

Bernd Terhalle, Denis Träger, Liqin Tang, Jörg Imbrock, and Cornelia Denz

Phys. Rev. E 74, 057601 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Molecular-field theory method for evaluating critical points of the Ising model [Phys. Rev. E 72, 056104 (2005)]

K. K. Zhuravlev

Phys. Rev. E 74, 059901 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Erratum: Collective acoustic modes as renormalized damped oscillators: Unified description of neutron and x-ray scattering data from classical fluids [Phys. Rev. E 73, 061203 (2006)]

Ubaldo Bafile, Eleonora Guarini, and Fabrizio Barocchi

Phys. Rev. E 74, 059902 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Publisher's Note: Knotting probability of a shaken ball-chain [Phys. Rev. E74, 052101 (2006)]

J. Hickford, R. Jones, S. Courrech du Pont, and J. Eggers

Phys. Rev. E 74, 059903 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006