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THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 2 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2008

PART 1: STATISTICAL, SOFT MATTER, AND BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Statistical physics Effective transport in random shear flows (4 pages) ...... 020101͑R͒ Marco Dentz, Tanguy Le Borgne, and Jesus Carrera Active elastic dimers: Self-propulsion and current reversal on a featureless track (4 pages) ...... 020102͑R͒ K. Vijay Kumar, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Madan Rao Priority diffusion model in lattices and complex networks (4 pages) ...... 020103͑R͒ Michalis Maragakis, Shai Carmi, Daniel ben-Avraham, Shlomo Havlin, and Panos Argyrakis Stochastic resonance in a double quantum dot system (4 pages) ...... 020104͑R͒ Amitabh Joshi

Granular materials Interaction between intruders in vibrated granular beds (4 pages) ...... 020301͑R͒ L. T. Lui, Michael R. Swift, R. M. Bowley, and P. J. King

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Multipole expansion of the electrostatic interaction between charged colloids at interfaces (4 pages) ...... 020401͑R͒ A. Domínguez, D. Frydel, and M. Oettel Arrested state of clay-water suspensions: Gel or glass? (4 pages) ...... 020402͑R͒ B. Ruzicka, L. Zulian, R. Angelini, M. Sztucki, A. Moussaïd, and G. Ruocco

Structured and complex fluids Structural and dynamical heterogeneity in deeply supercooled liquid silicon (4 pages) ...... 020501͑R͒ Tetsuya Morishita

Liquid crystals Bent-core liquid-crystalline derivative of tetrathiafulvalene: Photoresponsivity and deracemization (4 pages) ...... 020701͑R͒ J. Martínez-Perdiguero, I. Alonso, J. Ortega, C. L. Folcia, J. Etxebarria, I. Pintre, M. B. Ros, and D. B. Amabilino

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Inhomogeneous bulk nematic order reconstruction (4 pages) ...... 020702͑R͒ G. Lombardo, H. Ayeb, F. Ciuchi, M. P. De Santo, R. Barberi, R. Bartolino, E. G. Virga, and G. E. Durand Force between colloidal particles in a nematic liquid crystal studied by optical tweezers (4 pages) ...... 020703͑R͒ Kenji Takahashi, Masatoshi Ichikawa, and Yasuyuki Kimura

Polymers Hexagonal phase induced by a reversible photo-cross-link reaction in a polymer mixture (4 pages) ...... 020801͑R͒ Hideyuki Nakanishi, Masahiro Satoh, and Qui Tran-Cong-Miyata Kinetically driven helix formation during the homopolymer collapse process (4 pages) ...... 020802͑R͒ Sid Ahmed Sabeur, Fatima Hamdache, and Friederike Schmid

Biological physics Statistically enhanced promiscuity of structurally correlated patterns (4 pages) ...... 020901͑R͒ D. B. Lukatsky and E. I. Shakhnovich

ARTICLES

Statistical physics Interacting stochastic oscillators (10 pages) ...... 021101 Jiajun Zhang, Zhanjiang Yuan, Junwei Wang, and Tianshou Zhou Crystallization and melting of bacteria colonies and Brownian bugs (12 pages) ...... 021102 Francisco Ramos, Cristóbal López, Emilio Hernández-García, and Miguel A. Muñoz Nonlinear thermal control in an N-terminal junction (6 pages) ...... 021103 Dvira Segal Possible effects of tilt order on phase transitions of a fixed connectivity surface model (8 pages) ...... 021104 Hiroshi Koibuchi Exact solution for stochastic degradation and fragmentation processes in arbitrary chain and ring aggregates with multiple bonds (9 pages) ...... 021105 Mark B. Flegg and Dmitri K. Gramotnev Quantum chaos, delocalization, and entanglement in disordered Heisenberg models (16 pages) ...... 021106 Winton G. Brown, Lea F. Santos, David J. Starling, and Lorenza Viola Effects of initial correlations on the dynamics of dissipative systems (9 pages) ...... 021107 Eli Pollak, Jiushu Shao, and Dong Hui Zhang Fluctuation-response relation of many Brownian particles under nonequilibrium conditions (5 pages) ...... 021108 Takenobu Nakamura and Shin-ichi Sasa Quantum-classical correspondence principles for locally nonequilibrium driven systems (24 pages) ...... 021109 Eric Smith Entanglement versus Stosszahlansatz: Disappearance of the thermodynamic arrow in a high-correlation environment (4 pages) ...... 021110 M. Hossein Partovi Anomalous subdiffusion with multispecies linear reaction dynamics (9 pages) ...... 021111 T. A. M. Langlands, B. I. Henry, and S. L. Wearne

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Finite-size fluctuations and stochastic resonance in globally coupled bistable systems (9 pages) ...... 021112 David Cubero Absorbing phase transition in a conserved lattice gas model in one dimension (6 pages) ...... 021113 Sang-Gui Lee and Sang B. Lee Directed molecular transport in an oscillating channel with randomness (5 pages) ...... 021114 V. L. Popov and A. E. Filippov Statistical mechanics of the two-dimensional hydrogen-bonding self-avoiding walk including solvent effects (9 pages) ...... 021115 D. P. Foster and C. Pinettes Master crossover functions for one-component fluids (26 pages) ...... 021116 Yves Garrabos, Carole Lecoutre, Fabien Palencia, Bernard Le Neindre, and Can Erkey Universal behavior of quantum walks with long-range steps (5 pages) ...... 021117 Oliver Mülken, Volker Pernice, and Alexander Blumen Random-walk approach to the d-dimensional disordered Lorentz gas (4 pages) ...... 021118 Artur B. Adib Critical fluctuations of time-dependent magnetization in a random-field Ising model (5 pages) ...... 021119 Hiroki Ohta and Shin-ichi Sasa Calculations of canonical averages from the grand canonical ensemble (6 pages) ...... 021120 D. S. Kosov, M. F. Gelin, and A. I. Vdovin Site percolation on planar ⌽3 random graphs (7 pages) ...... 021121 J.-P. Kownacki Monte Carlo simulation of uncoupled continuous-time random walks yielding a stochastic solution of the space-time fractional diffusion equation (7 pages) ...... 021122 Daniel Fulger, Enrico Scalas, and Guido Germano Exponential peak and scaling of work fluctuations in modulated systems (4 pages) ...... 021123 M. I. Dykman Optimal sequence for Parrondo games (6 pages) ...... 021124 Luis Dinis Dependence of ground-state energy of classical n-vector spins on n (8 pages) ...... 021125 Samarth Chandra Static and dynamic structure factors in three-dimensional randomly diluted Ising models (19 pages) ...... 021126 Pasquale Calabrese, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari Three types of outflow dynamics on square and triangular lattices and universal scaling (8 pages) ...... 021127 Grzegorz Kondrat and Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron Nonequilibrium work distribution of a quantum harmonic oscillator (6 pages) ...... 021128 Sebastian Deffner and Eric Lutz Dimer diffusion in a washboard potential (7 pages) ...... 021129 E. Heinsalu, M. Patriarca, and F. Marchesoni Power-law distribution as a result of asynchronous random switching between Malthus and Verhulst kinetics (4 pages) ...... 021130 Ryszard Zygadło

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Wavelet transforms in a critical interface model for Barkhausen noise (9 pages) ...... 021131 S. L. A. de Queiroz Critical points of quadratic renormalizations of random variables and phase transitions of disordered polymer models on diamond lattices (16 pages) ...... 021132 Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids Long-time tail of the velocity autocorrelation function in a two-dimensional moderately dense hard-disk fluid (4 pages) ...... 021201 Masaharu Isobe Cosine law at the atomic scale: Toward realistic simulations of Knudsen diffusion (4 pages) ...... 021202 Franck Celestini and Fabrice Mortessagne Capillary pressure in a porous medium with distinct pore surface and pore volume fractal dimensions (3 pages) ...... 021203 M. R. Deinert, A. Dathe, J-Y. Parlange, and K. B. Cady

Granular materials Granular labyrinth structures in confined geometries (10 pages) ...... 021301 Henning Arendt Knudsen, Bjørnar Sandnes, Eirik Grude Flekkøy, and Knut Jørgen Måløy Sound propagation in a constrained lattice of beads: High-frequency behavior and dispersion relation (13 pages) ...... 021302 Christophe Coste and Bruno Gilles Storage and discharge of a granular fluid (6 pages) ...... 021303 Hector Pacheco-Martinez, Henk Jan van Gerner, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez Obtaining the size distribution of fault gouges with polydisperse bearings (7 pages) ...... 021304 Pedro G. Lind, Reza M. Baram, and Hans J. Herrmann Attempted density blowup in a freely cooling dilute granular gas: Hydrodynamics versus molecular dynamics (10 pages) ...... 021305 Andrea Puglisi, Michael Assaf, Itzhak Fouxon, and Baruch Meerson Incremental stress-strain relation from granular elasticity: Comparison to experiments (9 pages) ...... 021306 Yimin Jiang and Mario Liu Nonlinear theory of nonstationary low Mach number channel flows of freely cooling nearly elastic granular gases (19 pages) ...... 021307 Baruch Meerson, Itzhak Fouxon, and Arkady Vilenkin Scaling and dynamics of sphere and disk impact into granular media (14 pages) ...... 021308 Daniel I. Goldman and Paul Umbanhowar Emergence of Gamma distributions in granular materials and packing models (8 pages) ...... 021309 T. Aste and T. Di Matteo

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Nonequilibrium steady states in fluids of platelike colloidal particles (7 pages) ...... 021401 Markus Bier and René van Roij

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When a crack is oriented by a magnetic field (9 pages) ...... 021402 L. Pauchard, F. Elias, P. Boltenhagen, A. Cebers, and J. C. Bacri Magnetically tunable optical absorbance in a colloidal system (5 pages) ...... 021403 M. Adrian and L. E. Helseth

Structured and complex fluids Aging in a colloidal glass in creep flow: Time-stress superposition (4 pages) ...... 021501 Yogesh M. Joshi and G. Ranjith K. Reddy Shear-transformation-zone theory of plastic deformation near the glass transition (14 pages) ...... 021502 J. S. Langer Glassy dynamics in thin films of polystyrene (7 pages) ...... 021503 Koji Fukao and Hiroki Koizumi Role of inertia in nonequilibrium steady states of sheared binary fluids (17 pages) ...... 021504 Suzanne M. Fielding Shear-induced crystallization of an amorphous system (7 pages) ...... 021505 Anatolii V. Mokshin and Jean-Louis Barrat

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Dynamics of nanoscale ripple relaxation on alloy surfaces (8 pages) ...... 021601 Ashwin Ramasubramaniam and Vivek B. Shenoy Bubble-raft model for a paraboloidal crystal (5 pages) ...... 021602 Mark J. Bowick, Luca Giomi, Homin Shin, and Creighton K. Thomas Monolayer sorption of neon in mesoporous silica glass as monitored by wide-angle x-ray scattering (6 pages) ...... 021603 Duncan Kilburn and Paul E. Sokol

Liquid crystals Nematic cells with defect-patterned alignment layers (6 pages) ...... 021701 Adam S. Backer, A. C. Callan-Jones, and Robert A. Pelcovits Mechanical response of smectic-C elastomers (10 pages) ...... 021702 J. M. Adams and M. Warner Polarization splay as the origin of modulation in the B1 and B7 smectic phases of bent-core molecules (6 pages) ...... 021703 D. A. Coleman, C. D. Jones, M. Nakata, N. A. Clark, D. M. Walba, W. Weissflog, K. Fodor-Csorba, J. Watanabe, V. Novotna, and V. Hamplova Computer simulation study of a simple tetrahedratic mesogenic lattice model (8 pages) ...... 021704 Silvano Romano Nonstandard electroconvection and flexoelectricity in nematic liquid crystals (11 pages) ...... 021705 Alexei Krekhov, Werner Pesch, Nándor Éber, Tibor Tóth-Katona, and Ágnes Buka Road to disorder in smectic elastomers (12 pages) ...... 021706 Evgeny P. Obraztsov, Adrian S. Muresan, Boris I. Ostrovskii, and Wim H. de Jeu

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Simulated anchoring of a nematic liquid crystal at a polymer surface (7 pages) ...... 021707 M. B. Hamaneh and P. L. Taylor

Polymers

Dynamics of single-molecule force-ramp experiments: The role of fluctuations (6 pages) ...... 021801 Douglas B. Staple, Felix Hanke, and Hans Jürgen Kreuzer Path-integral approach to the dynamics of a random chain with rigid constraints (16 pages) ...... 021802 Franco Ferrari, Jarosław Paturej, and Thomas A. Vilgis

Biological physics

Strong coupling between adenine nucleobases in DNA single strands revealed by circular dichroism using synchrotron radiation (4 pages) ...... 021901 Umesh Kadhane, Anne I. S. Holm, Søren Vrønning Hoffmann, and Steen Brøndsted Nielsen Hidden structure in protein energy landscapes (6 pages) ...... 021902 Dengming Ming, Marian Anghel, and Michael E. Wall Lateral migration of a two-dimensional vesicle in unbounded Poiseuille flow (9 pages) ...... 021903 B. Kaoui, G. H. Ristow, I. Cantat, C. Misbah, and W. Zimmermann Elastic origin of chiral selection in DNA wrapping (11 pages) ...... 021904 Tomohiro Yanao and Kenichi Yoshikawa Atomic force microscopy study of thick lamellar stacks of phospholipid bilayers (8 pages) ...... 021905 Arne Schäfer, Tim Salditt, and Maikel C. Rheinstädter Nucleation of membrane adhesions (10 pages) ...... 021906 Cheng-Zhong Zhang and Zhen-Gang Wang Actively maintained lipid nanodomains in biomembranes (5 pages) ...... 021907 Jordi Gómez, Francesc Sagués, and Ramon Reigada Effects of protein maturation on the noise in gene expression (11 pages) ...... 021908 Guang Qiang Dong and David R. McMillen Role of finite populations in determining evolutionary dynamics (10 pages) ...... 021909 Tane S. Ray, Karl A. Payne, and L. Leo Moseley Dynamic light scattering and atomic force microscopy imaging on fragments of ␤-connectin from human cardiac muscle (11 pages) ...... 021910 S. Marchetti, F. Sbrana, R. Raccis, L. Lanzi, C. M. C. Gambi, M. Vassalli, B. Tiribilli, A. Pacini, and A. Toscano Cyclic coevolution of cooperative behaviors and network structures (7 pages) ...... 021911 Reiji Suzuki, Masanori Kato, and Takaya Arita Computational analysis of adhesion force in the indentation of cells using atomic force microscopy (8 pages) ...... 021912 C. Y. Zhang and Y. W. Zhang Nonlinear analysis of human physical activity patterns in health and disease (10 pages) ...... 021913 A. Paraschiv-Ionescu, E. Buchser, B. Rutschmann, and K. Aminian

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Individual-based model with global competition interaction: Fluctuation effects in pattern formation (8 pages) ...... 021914 E. Brigatti, V. Schwämmle, and Minos A. Neto Multiple mutant clones in blood rarely coexist (7 pages) ...... 021915 David Dingli, Jorge M. Pacheco, and Arne Traulsen Excitation of coherent oscillations in a noisy medium (6 pages) ...... 021916 Jan Köhler, Jörg Mayer, and Heinz Georg Schuster Change in types of neuronal excitability via bifurcation control (8 pages) ...... 021917 Yong Xie, Kazuyuki Aihara, and Yan Mei Kang Stochastic dynamics and denaturation of thermalized DNA (7 pages) ...... 021918 Mao Lin Deng and Wei Qiu Zhu Plasmid-borne prokaryotic gene expression: Sources of variability and quantitative system characterization (12 pages) ...... 021919 Sangram Bagh, Mostafizur Mazumder, Tharsan Velauthapillai, Vandit Sardana, Guang Qiang Dong, Ashok B. Movva, Len H. Lim, and David R. McMillen Singularities and symmetry breaking in swarms (10 pages) ...... 021920 Wei Li, Hai-Tao Zhang, Michael ZhiQiang Chen, and Tao Zhou

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics Brownian motion of a charged particle driven internally by correlated noise (4 pages) ...... 022101 Francis N. C. Paraan, Mikhail P. Solon, and J. P. Esguerra Nonequilibrium nanothermodynamics (4 pages) ...... 022102 J. Carrete, L. M. Varela, and L. J. Gallego Fluctuation theorem for entropy production during effusion of a relativistic ideal gas (4 pages) ...... 022103 B. Cleuren, K. Willaert, A. Engel, and C. Van den Broeck Diffusion on a heptagonal lattice (4 pages) ...... 022104 Seung Ki Baek, Su Do Yi, and Beom Jun Kim Nonequilibrium work distributions for a trapped Brownian particle in a time-dependent magnetic field (4 pages) ...... 022105 Arnab Saha and A. M. Jayannavar Simulated dark-matter halos as a test of nonextensive statistical mechanics (4 pages) ...... 022106 Chloé Féron and Jens Hjorth

Biological physics Population extinction and survival in a hostile environment (4 pages) ...... 022901 Vicenç Méndez and Daniel Campos Critical condition for the occurrence of a noise-reduction effect (4 pages) ...... 022902 Ming Yi, Ya Jia, Jun Ma, Jun Tang, Guang Yu, and Jiarong Li Synchronization and stability in noisy population dynamics (4 pages) ...... 022903 Sabrina B. L. Araujo and M. A. M. de Aguiar

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Analytical and numerical verification of the Nernst theorem for metals” (3 pages) ...... 023101 G. L. Klimchitskaya and V. M. Mostepanenko

Reply to “Comment on ‘Analytical and numerical verification of the Nernst theorem for metals’ ” (2 pages) ...... 023102 Johan S. Høye, Iver Brevik, Simen A. Ellingsen, and Jan B. Aarseth

Comment on “Regularizing capacity of metabolic networks” (3 pages) ...... 023901 Petter Holme and Mikael Huss

Reply to “Comment on ‘Regularizing capacity of metabolic networks’ ” (2 pages) ...... 023902 Carsten Marr, Marc-Thorsten Hütt, and Mark Müller-Linow