Volume 78, Issue 4

October 2008

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: APS now leaves copyright with authors for derivative works

Gene D. Sprouse

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040001 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

How Xenopus laevis embryos replicate reliably: Investigating the random-completion problem

Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang (楊正炘) and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041917 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Local nanofluidic light sources in silicon photonic crystal microcavities

Silvia Vignolini, Francesco Riboli, Francesca Intonti, Michele Belotti, Massimo Gurioli, Yong Chen, Marcello Colocci, Lucio Claudio Andreani, and Diederik S. Wiersma

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045603(R) (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

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Statistical physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Exhaustive enumeration unveils clustering and freezing in the random 3-satisfiability problem

John Ardelius and Lenka Zdeborová

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040101(R) (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

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Dynamical phase transitions in long-range Hamiltonian systems and Tsallis distributions with a time-dependent index

Alessandro Campa, Pierre-Henri Chavanis, Andrea Giansanti, and Gianluca Morelli

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040102(R) (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

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Validity of scaling relations in absorbing phase transitions with a conserved field

Sang B. Lee and Sang-Gui Lee

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040103(R) (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Universal scattering behavior of coassembled nanoparticle-polymer clusters

J. Fresnais, J.-F. Berret, L. Qi, J.-P. Chapel, J.-C. Castaing, O. Sandre, B. Frka-Petesic, R. Perzynski, J. Oberdisse, and F. Cousin

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040401(R) (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

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Competitive nucleation in reversible probabilistic cellular automata

Emilio N. M. Cirillo, Francesca R. Nardi, and Cristian Spitoni

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040601(R) (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Liquid crystals

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Relation between static short-range order and dynamic heterogeneities in a nanoconfined liquid crystal

Ronan Lefort, Denis Morineau, Régis Guégan, Mohammed Guendouz, Jean-Marc Zanotti, and Bernhard Frick

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040701(R) (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

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Polar and nonpolar orderings in the electrically induced isotropic-nematic phase transition

Mingxia Gu, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040702(R) (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Polymers

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Critical slowing down in polymer dynamics near the coil-stretch transition in elongation flow

Sergiy Gerashchenko and Victor Steinberg

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040801(R) (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

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Dynamics of polymer bridge formation and disruption

Joris Sprakel, Erik Bartscherer, Gerd Hoffmann, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, and Jasper van der Gucht

Phys. Rev. E 78, 040802(R) (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

ARTICLES

Statistical physics

Spatial three-player prisoners’ dilemma

Rui Jiang, Hui Deng, Mao-Bin Hu, Yong-Hong Wu, and Qing-Song Wu

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041101 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Confirming and extending the hypothesis of universality in sandpiles

Juan A. Bonachela and Miguel A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041102 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Quantum free-energy differences from nonequilibrium path integrals. I. Methods and numerical application

Ramses van Zon, Lisandro Hernández de la Peña, Gilles H. Peslherbe, and Jeremy Schofield

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041103 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Quantum free-energy differences from nonequilibrium path integrals. II. Convergence properties for the harmonic oscillator

Ramses van Zon, Lisandro Hernández de la Peña, Gilles H. Peslherbe, and Jeremy Schofield

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041104 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Validity of rate equation results for reaction rates in reaction networks with fluctuations

Adina Lederhendler and Ofer Biham

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041105 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Heterophasic oscillations in nanoscale systems

Alexander Patashinski and Mark Ratner

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041106 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Non-Markovian quantum jump with generalized Lindblad master equation

X. L. Huang (黄晓理), H. Y. Sun (孙慧颖), and X. X. Yi (衣学喜)

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041107 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

Connection between matrix-product states and superposition of Bernoulli shock measures

Farhad H. Jafarpour and Ali Aghamohammadi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041108 (2008) - Published 6 October, 2008

First-order phase transitions: A study through the parallel tempering method

Carlos E. Fiore

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041109 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Transport behavior of coupled continuous-time random walks

Marco Dentz, Harvey Scher, Devora Holder, and Brian Berkowitz

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041110 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Global first-passage times of fractal lattices

C. P. Haynes and A. P. Roberts

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041111 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Crossovers from parity conserving to directed percolation universality

Géza Ódor and Nóra Menyhárd

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041112 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Thermodynamics of two lattice ice models in three dimensions

Chizuru Muguruma, Yuko Okamoto, and Bernd A. Berg

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041113 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

One-dimensional self-gravitating sheet model and Lynden-Bell statistics

Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041114 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Missing data in aftershock sequences: Explaining the deviations from scaling laws

Sabine Lennartz, Armin Bunde, and Donald L. Turcotte

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041115 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Multiple species of noninteracting molecules adsorbed on a Bethe lattice

Michael Cohen and A. B. Harris

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041116 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Contact process in disordered and periodic binary two-dimensional lattices

S. V. Fallert, Y. M. Kim, C. J. Neugebauer, and S. N. Taraskin

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041117 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Thermodynamics of a binary monolayer of Ising dipolar particles. II. Effect of relative moment

Masaru Suzuki, Ferenc Kun, and Nobuyasu Ito

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041118 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Zero-temperature dynamics in the two-dimensional axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising model

Soham Biswas, Anjan Kumar Chandra, and Parongama Sen

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041119 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Nonlinear response and fluctuation-dissipation relations

Eugenio Lippiello, Federico Corberi, Alessandro Sarracino, and Marco Zannetti

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041120 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Resonancelike phenomena in the mobility of a chain of nonlinear coupled oscillators in a two-dimensional periodic potential

S. Martens, D. Hennig, S. Fugmann, and L. Schimansky-Geier

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041121 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Derivation of effective field theories

Dimo I. Uzunov

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041122 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Population extinction in a time-modulated environment

Michael Assaf, Alex Kamenev, and Baruch Meerson

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041123 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Field theory of bicritical and tetracritical points. I. Statics

R. Folk, Yu. Holovatch, and G. Moser

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041124 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Field theory of bicritical and tetracritical points. II. Relaxational dynamics

R. Folk, Yu. Holovatch, and G. Moser

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041125 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Directed Abelian algebras and their application to stochastic models

F. C. Alcaraz and V. Rittenberg

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041126 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Ratchet transport of interacting particles

A. D. Chepelianskii, M. V. Entin, L. I. Magarill, and D. L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041127 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Three different routes from the directed Ising to the directed percolation class

Su-Chan Park and Hyunggyu Park

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041128 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Effect of memory on the prisoner’s dilemma game in a square lattice

Shao-Meng Qin, Yong Chen, Xiao-Ying Zhao, and Jian Shi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041129 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Role of molecular phonons and interfacial-temperature discontinuities in water evaporation

Fei Duan, C. A. Ward, V. K. Badam, and F. Durst

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041130 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Mapping functions and critical behavior of percolation on rectangular domains

Hiroshi Watanabe and Chin-Kun Hu

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041131 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Phase transition of a spin–lattice-gas model with two timescales and two temperatures

C. H. Nakajima and K. Hukushima

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041132 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Driven interfaces in random media at finite temperature: Existence of an anomalous zero-velocity phase at small external force

Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041133 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids

Structure and stability of isotropic states of hard platelet fluids

David L. Cheung, Lucian Anton, Michael P. Allen, Andrew J. Masters, Jonathan Phillips, and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041201 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Atomic bond fluctuations and crossover to potential-energy-landscape-influenced regime in supercooled liquid

V. A. Levashov, T. Egami, R. S. Aga, and J. R. Morris

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041202 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Nonisothermal gravitational segregation by molecular dynamics simulations

Guillaume Galliéro and François Montel

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041203 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Molecular dynamics calculation of thermophysical properties for a highly reactive liquid

H. P. Wang, B. C. Luo, and B. Wei

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041204 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Vibration-transit theory of self-dynamic response in a monatomic liquid

Giulia De Lorenzi-Venneri, Eric D. Chisolm, and Duane C. Wallace

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041205 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Electrostatic fluctuations in cavities within polar liquids and thermodynamics of polar solvation

Daniel R. Martin and Dmitry V. Matyushov

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041206 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Granular materials

Shear state of freely evolving granular gases

J. Javier Brey, M. J. Ruiz-Montero, and A. Domínguez

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041301 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Experimental measurements of the collapse of a two-dimensional granular gas under gravity

Reuben Son, John A. Perez, and Greg A. Voth

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041302 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Knudsen temperature jump and the Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics of granular gases driven by thermal walls

Evgeniy Khain, Baruch Meerson, and Pavel V. Sasorov

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041303 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Velocity fluctuations in dense granular flows

John J. Drozd and Colin Denniston

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041304 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Velocity-correlation distributions in thermal and granular hard-core gases

Alexis Burdeau and Pascal Viot

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041305 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Experimental study of granular flows in a rough annular shear cell

Venkata Jasti and C. Fred Higgs, III

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041306 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Solidlike behavior and anisotropy in rigid frictionless bead assemblies

Pierre-Emmanuel Peyneau and Jean-Noël Roux

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041307 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Shock waves in rapid flows of dense granular materials: Theoretical predictions and experimental results

Shiva P. Pudasaini and Christian Kröner

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041308 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Visualization of collisional substructure in granular shock waves

John A. Perez, Samuel B. Kachuck, and Greg A. Voth

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041309 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates

Normal modes of a small bilayer system of binary classical charged particles trapped in a parabolic confinement potential

Xin Lu, Baowen Li, and Chang-Qin Wu

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041401 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Crystallization and gelation in colloidal systems with short-ranged attractive interactions

Andrea Fortini, Eduardo Sanz, and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041402 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Constant flux relation for diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation

Colm Connaughton, R. Rajesh, and Oleg Zaboronski

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041403 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Dynamical heterogeneity in a model for permanent gels: Different behavior of dynamical susceptibilities

T. Abete, A. de Candia, E. Del Gado, A. Fierro, and A. Coniglio

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041404 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Surface tension and elasticity of gel studied with laser-induced surface-deformation spectroscopy

Y. Yoshitake, S. Mitani, K. Sakai, and K. Takagi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041405 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Three-dimensional model for chemoresponsive polymer gels undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

Olga Kuksenok, Victor V. Yashin, and Anna C. Balazs

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041406 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Laser-controlled microscale fluid flows near the air-liquid interface of suspension droplets

Kenji Miyakawa and Hiroto Adachi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041407 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Assembly of microspheres with polymers by evaporating emulsion droplets

Keng-hui Lin, Liang-jie Lai, Chih-Chung Chang, and Hui Chen

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041408 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Structured and complex fluids

Connections of activated hopping processes with the breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation and with aspects of dynamical heterogeneities

Song-Ho Chong

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041501 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Mechanical rejuvenation and overaging in the soft glassy rheology model

Mya Warren and Jörg Rottler

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041502 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Low-frequency transient dynamic clusters in simulated amorphous ${Ni}_{0.5} {Zr}_{0.5}$ around the glass temperature

I. Ladadwa and H. Teichler

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041503 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Effect of the range of the potential on two-dimensional melting

Sang Il Lee and Sung Jong Lee

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041504 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

Front instabilities in evaporatively dewetting nanofluids

I. Vancea, U. Thiele, E. Pauliac-Vaujour, A. Stannard, C. P. Martin, M. O. Blunt, and P. J. Moriarty

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041601 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Hydrogen-terminated diamond electrodes. I. Charges, potentials, and energies

Jürgen Ristein, Wenying Zhang, and Lothar Ley

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041602 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Hydrogen-terminated diamond electrodes. II. Redox activity

Wenying Zhang, Jürgen Ristein, and Lothar Ley

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041603 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

From capillary condensation to interface localization transitions in colloid-polymer mixtures confined in thin-film geometry

Andres De Virgiliis, Richard L. C. Vink, Jürgen Horbach, and Kurt Binder

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041604 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Molecular transport across fluid interfaces: Coupling between solute dynamics and interface fluctuations

Ashish Gupta, Anuj Chauhan, and Dmitry I. Kopelevich

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041605 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Different routes towards oscillatory zoning in the growth of solid solutions

Ihor Lubashevsky, Tanja Mues, and Andreas Heuer

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041606 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Liquid crystals

Polar structures of bent-core liquid crystals with tetrathiafulvalene units

I. Alonso, J. Martínez-Perdiguero, C. L. Folcia, J. Etxebarria, J. Ortega, I. C. Pintre, and M. B. Ros

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041701 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Gradual phase transition between the smectic- $C^{}$ and smectic- $C_{A}^{}$ phases and the thresholdless antiferroelectricity

Jang-Kun Song, Atsuo Fukuda, and J. K. Vij

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041702 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Spatiotemporal patterns in a Langmuir monolayer due to driven molecular precession

R. K. Gupta, K. A. Suresh, S. Kumar, L. M. Lopatina, R. L. B. Selinger, and J. V. Selinger

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041703 (2008) - Published 7 October, 2008

Semisoft elastic response of nematic elastomers to complex deformations

J. S. Biggins, E. M. Terentjev, and M. Warner

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041704 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Electric-field-dependent dielectric response in the de Vries–type smectic- $A^{*}$ phase possessing local orientational order with nanoscale correlation length

U. Manna, Jang-Kun Song, J. K. Vij, and J. Naciri

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041705 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Standard and nonstandard nematic electrohydrodynamic convection in the presence of asymmetric ac electric fields

Jonathan Low and S. John Hogan

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041706 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Anisotropic light absorption, refractive indices, and orientational order parameter of unidirectionally aligned columnar liquid crystal films

Emilie Charlet and Eric Grelet

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041707 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Polymers

Energetic and conformational aspects of dendrimer overcharging by linear polyelectrolytes

Sergey V. Lyulin, Anatolij A. Darinskii, and Alexey V. Lyulin

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041801 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Comparison of the kinetics of chain aggregation and chain collapse in dilute polymer solutions

Yasuyuki Maki, Toshiaki Dobashi, and Mitsuo Nakata

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041802 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Escape transition of a polymer chain from a nanotube: How to avoid spurious results by use of the force-biased pruned-enriched Rosenbluth algorithm

Hsiao-Ping Hsu, Kurt Binder, Leonid I. Klushin, and Alexander M. Skvortsov

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041803 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Biological physics

Membrane mechanics as a probe of ion-channel gating mechanisms

Daniel Reeves, Tristan Ursell, Pierre Sens, Jane Kondev, and Rob Phillips

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041901 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Conditions for correspondence between Hartree scattering and biological growth

B. Roy Frieden and Robert A. Gatenby

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041902 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Thermodynamically consistent picture of the phase-field model of vesicles: Elimination of the surface tension

D. Jamet and C. Misbah

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041903 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Approximate solutions for certain bidomain problems in electrocardiography

Peter R. Johnston

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041904 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

From network heterogeneities to familiarity detection and hippocampal memory management

Jane X. Wang, Gina Poe, and Michal Zochowski

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041905 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Possibility of single biomolecule imaging with coherent amplification of weak scattering x-ray photons

Tsumoru Shintake

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041906 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Interplay of subthreshold activity, time-delayed feedback, and noise on neuronal firing patterns

Cristina Masoller, M. C. Torrent, and Jordi García-Ojalvo

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041907 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Dynamics of the Eigen and the Crow-Kimura models for molecular evolution

David B. Saakian, Olga Rozanova, and Andrei Akmetzhanov

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041908 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Effects of the chemomechanical stepping cycle on the traffic of molecular motors

Stefan Klumpp, Yan Chai, and Reinhard Lipowsky

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041909 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Effects of osmotic force and torque on microtubule bundling and pattern formation

Yongxing Guo, Yifeng Liu, Rudolf Oldenbourg, Jay X. Tang, and James M. Valles, Jr.

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041910 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Exciting cytoskeleton-membrane waves

R. Shlomovitz and N. S. Gov

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041911 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Writhe formulas and antipodal points in plectonemic DNA configurations

Sébastien Neukirch and Eugene L. Starostin

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041912 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Beating patterns of filaments in viscoelastic fluids

Henry C. Fu, Charles W. Wolgemuth, and Thomas R. Powers

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041913 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Determination of the structure of the energy landscape for coarse-grained off-lattice models of folding heteropolymers

Handan Arkin

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041914 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Simplified model of cytosolic ${Ca}^{2 +}$ dynamics in the presence of one or several clusters of ${Ca}^{2 +}$ -release channels

G. Solovey, D. Fraiman, B. Pando, and S. Ponce Dawson

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041915 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau equation for cortical pattern formation

Paul C. Bressloff and Zachary P. Kilpatrick

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041916 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

How Xenopus laevis embryos replicate reliably: Investigating the random-completion problem

Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang (楊正炘) and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041917 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Inferring coupling strength from event-related dynamics

Szymon Łęski and Daniel K. Wójcik

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041918 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Calculation of switching times in the genetic toggle switch and other bistable systems

Baruch Barzel and Ofer Biham

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041919 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Non-Markovian noise mediated through anomalous diffusion within ion channels

Sisir Roy, Indranil Mitra, and Rodolfo Llinas

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041920 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Experiments and simulation models of a basic computation element of an autonomous molecular computing system

Masahiro Takinoue, Daisuke Kiga, Koh-ichiroh Shohda, and Akira Suyama

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041921 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Power-law creep behavior of a semiflexible chain

Arnab Majumdar, Béla Suki, Noah Rosenblatt, Adriano M. Alencar, and Dimitrije Stamenović

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041922 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Influence of finite thickness and stiffness on cellular adhesion-induced deformation of compliant substrata

John M. Maloney, Emily B. Walton, Christopher M. Bruce, and Krystyn J. Van Vliet

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041923 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Dynamical complexity in small-world networks of spiking neurons

Murray Shanahan

Phys. Rev. E 78, 041924 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

BRIEF REPORTS

Granular materials

Thermostatistics of a single particle on a granular dimer lattice: Influence of defects

K. Combs, J. S. Olafsen, A. Burdeau, and P. Viot

Phys. Rev. E 78, 042301 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth

Phase-field investigation of effects of surface-tension anisotropy on deterministic sidebranching in solutal dendritic growth

Zhijun Wang, Jincheng Wang, and Gencang Yang

Phys. Rev. E 78, 042601 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Macroscopic view of crystal-step transparency

John Quah, Jerrod Young, and Dionisios Margetis

Phys. Rev. E 78, 042602 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Liquid crystals

Simultaneous characterization of optical and thermal parameters of liquid-crystal nanocolloids with high-temperature resolution

S. Paoloni, F. Mercuri, M. Marinelli, U. Zammit, C. Neamtu, and D. Dadarlat

Phys. Rev. E 78, 042701 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Interdisciplinary physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Network growth with feedback

Raissa M. D’Souza and Soumen Roy

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045101(R) (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamics-based scalability of complex networks

Liang Huang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Robert A. Gatenby

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045102(R) (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Chaos and pattern formation

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Properties of nodal domains in a pseudointegrable barrier billiard

B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045201(R) (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Resonance distribution in open quantum chaotic systems

S. Nonnenmacher and E. Schenck

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045202(R) (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Fluid dynamics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Scaling of atomistic fluid dynamics simulations

Kai Kadau, John L. Barber, Timothy C. Germann, and Berni J. Alder

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045301(R) (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Scattering of low-Reynolds-number swimmers

G. P. Alexander, C. M. Pooley, and J. M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045302(R) (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Theory for particle settling and shear-induced migration in thin-film liquid flow

Benjamin P. Cook

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045303(R) (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Classical physics

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Temporal changes in the lunar soil from correlation of diffuse vibrations

Christoph Sens-Schönfelder and Eric Larose

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045601(R) (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Effects of size and frequency dispersion in plasmonic cloaking

Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045602(R) (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Local nanofluidic light sources in silicon photonic crystal microcavities

Silvia Vignolini, Francesco Riboli, Francesca Intonti, Michele Belotti, Massimo Gurioli, Yong Chen, Marcello Colocci, Lucio Claudio Andreani, and Diederik S. Wiersma

Phys. Rev. E 78, 045603(R) (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics

Effects of velocity relaxation on the anomalous kinetics of a one-dimensional $A + A \to \emptyset$ reaction

Wen-Shyan Sheu and Shiuan-Chuan Wang

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046101 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Network quotients: Structural skeletons of complex systems

Yanghua Xiao, Ben D. MacArthur, Hui Wang, Momiao Xiong, and Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046102 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Phenomenological approach to mechanical damage growth analysis

Nicola Pugno, Federico Bosia, Antonio S. Gliozzi, Pier Paolo Delsanto, and Alberto Carpinteri

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046103 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Diffusive wave spectroscopy applied to the spatially resolved deformation of a solid

Marion Erpelding, Axelle Amon, and Jérôme Crassous

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046104 (2008) - Published 8 October, 2008

Crack roughness in the two-dimensional random threshold beam model

Phani K. V. V. Nukala, Stefano Zapperi, Mikko J. Alava, and Srdan Šimunović

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046105 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Adaptive networks of trading agents

Z. Burda, A. Krzywicki, and O. C. Martin

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046106 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Thermal effects in static friction: Thermolubricity

A. Franchini, V. Bortolani, G. Santoro, and M. Brigazzi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046107 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Consequence of reputation in an open-ended naming game

Edgardo Brigatti

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046108 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Accuracy of the ball-covering approach for fractal dimensions of complex networks and a rank-driven algorithm

Liang Gao, Yanqing Hu, and Zengru Di

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046109 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Benchmark graphs for testing community detection algorithms

Andrea Lancichinetti, Santo Fortunato, and Filippo Radicchi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046110 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Scale-free topology-induced double resonance in networked two-state systems

Zonghua Liu and Toyonori Munakata

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046111 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Hausdorff clustering

Nicolas Basalto, Roberto Bellotti, Francesco De Carlo, Paolo Facchi, Ester Pantaleo, and Saverio Pascazio

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046112 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Two classes of bipartite networks: Nested biological and social systems

Enrique Burgos, Horacio Ceva, Laura Hernández, R. P. J. Perazzo, Mariano Devoto, and Diego Medan

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046113 (2008) - Published 28 October, 2008

Scale-free networks as entropy competition

Antonio Sanchirico and Mauro Fiorentino

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046114 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Adaptive clustering algorithm for community detection in complex networks

Zhenqing Ye, Songnian Hu, and Jun Yu

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046115 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Chaos and pattern formation

Eckhaus instability and homoclinic snaking

A. Bergeon, J. Burke, E. Knobloch, and I. Mercader

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046201 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Rectified oscillatory motion of the self-ordered front under zero-mean ac force: Role of symmetry of the rate function

R. Bakanas

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046202 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Refined fiber laser model

Will Ray, Kurt Wiesenfeld, and Jeffrey L. Rogers

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046203 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Transition to chaotic scattering: Signatures in the differential cross section

Adriane B. Schelin, Alessandro P. S. de Moura, and Celso Grebogi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046204 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Riemannian geometry of Hamiltonian chaos: Hints for a general theory

Monica Cerruti-Sola, Guido Ciraolo, Roberto Franzosi, and Marco Pettini

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046205 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Onset of wavy vortices in Taylor-Couette flow with imperfect reflection symmetry

J. Abshagen and G. Pfister

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046206 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Control of scroll-wave turbulence using resonant perturbations

S. W. Morgan, I. V. Biktasheva, and V. N. Biktashev

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046207 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Soft wall effects on interacting particles in billiards

H. A. Oliveira, C. Manchein, and M. W. Beims

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046208 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Control-based method to identify underlying delays of a nonlinear dynamical system

Dongchuan Yu, Mattia Frasca, and Fang Liu

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046209 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Optimal weighted networks of phase oscillators for synchronization

Takuma Tanaka and Toshio Aoyagi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046210 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Entanglement and the generation of random states in the quantum chaotic dynamics of kicked coupled tops

Collin M. Trail, Vaibhav Madhok, and Ivan H. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046211 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Complexity of quantum states and reversibility of quantum motion

Valentin V. Sokolov, Oleg V. Zhirov, Giuliano Benenti, and Giulio Casati

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046212 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Rare events and their impact on velocity diffusion in a stochastic Fermi-Ulam model

A. K. Karlis, F. K. Diakonos, V. Constantoudis, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046213 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Rhythmic oscillation and dynamic instability of micrometer-size phase separation under continuous photon flux by a focused laser

Koichiro Sadakane, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Hideki Seto, and Kenichi Yoshikawa

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046214 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Transition from longitudinal to transversal patterns in an anisotropic system

Martin May, Wolfgang Schöpf, Ingo Rehberg, Alexei Krekhov, and Agnes Buka

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046215 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Generalized synchronization of chaos in autonomous systems

O. Alvarez-Llamoza and M. G. Cosenza

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046216 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Coupling design for a long-term anticipating synchronization of chaos

Kestutis Pyragas and Tatjana Pyragienė

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046217 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Synchronization properties of coupled semiconductor lasers subject to filtered optical feedback

Miguel C. Soriano, Flavio Ruiz-Oliveras, Pere Colet, and Claudio R. Mirasso

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046218 (2008) - Published 30 October, 2008

Fluid dynamics

Higher-order effects in rarefied channel flows

Henning Struchtrup and Manuel Torrilhon

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046301 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Ergodicity of ideal Galerkin three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics and Hall magnetohydrodynamics models

S. Servidio, W. H. Matthaeus, and V. Carbone

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046302 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Localization and spectral phase transition in an open advecting-diffusing three-dimensional Stokes flow

M. Giona and S. Cerbelli

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046303 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Multidirectional sorting modes in deterministic lateral displacement devices

Brian R. Long, Martin Heller, Jason P. Beech, Heiner Linke, Henrik Bruus, and Jonas O. Tegenfeldt

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046304 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Subcritical instabilities in a convective fluid layer under a quasi-one-dimensional heating

M. A. Miranda and J. Burguete

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046305 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Depletion of horizontal pair diffusion in strongly stratified turbulence: Comparison with plane two-dimensional flows

F. Nicolleau, K.-S. Sung, and J. C. Vassilicos

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046306 (2008) - Published 9 October, 2008

Effect of particle-particle collision in decaying homogeneous and isotropic turbulence

Nan Gui, JianRen Fan, and Kefa Cen

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046307 (2008) - Published 10 October, 2008

Lattice Boltzmann study of convective drop motion driven by nonlinear chemical kinetics

K. Furtado, C. M. Pooley, and J. M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046308 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Dynamics of capillary absorption of droplets by carbon nanotubes

D. Schebarchov and S. C. Hendy

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046309 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Lifetime statistics in transitional pipe flow

Tobias M. Schneider and Bruno Eckhardt

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046310 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Polymer flexibility and turbulent drag reduction

J. J. J. Gillissen

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046311 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Spatiotemporal instability of a confined capillary jet

M. A. Herrada, A. M. Gañán-Calvo, and P. Guillot

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046312 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Spectral lines of OH radicals and Na atoms in sonoluminescence

Yu An and Chaohui Li

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046313 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of two-dimensional flow over two vibrating side-by-side circular cylinders

Yousheng Xu, Yang Liu, Yong Xia, and Fengmin Wu

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046314 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Thermal convection in mixtures with an inversion of the separation ratio

B. Huke, H. Pleiner, and M. Lücke

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046315 (2008) - Published 29 October, 2008

Instability of electro-osmotic channel flow with streamwise conductivity gradients

J. Jobim Santos and Brian D. Storey

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046316 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Influence of the dispersive and dissipative scales $α$ and $β$ on the energy spectrum of the Navier-Stokes $α β$ equations

Xuemei Chen and Eliot Fried

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046317 (2008) - Published 31 October, 2008

Plasma physics

Improvement of energy-conversion efficiency from laser to proton beam in a laser-foil interaction

Y. Nodera, S. Kawata, N. Onuma, J. Limpouch, O. Klimo, and T. Kikuchi

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046401 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Analytical model of particle charging in plasmas over a wide range of collisionality

Marco Gatti and Uwe Kortshagen

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046402 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Non-Gaussian statistics and superdiffusion in a driven-dissipative dusty plasma

Bin Liu, J. Goree, and Yan Feng

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046403 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Coronal hydrodynamics of laser-produced plasmas

A. Aliverdiev, D. Batani, R. Dezulian, T. Vinci, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, M. Koenig, and V. Malka

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046404 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008

Rotation of a strongly magnetized hydrogen plasma column determined from an asymmetric Balmer- $β$ spectral line with two radiating distributions

A. E. Shumack, V. P. Veremiyenko, D. C. Schram, H. J. de Blank, W. J. Goedheer, H. J. van der Meiden, W. A. J. Vijvers, J. Westerhout, N. J. Lopes Cardozo, and G. J. van Rooij

Phys. Rev. E 78, 046405 (2008) - Published 27 October, 2008