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PART 1: SOFT MATTER AND BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

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Statistical physics Universal amplitude ratio ⌫− /⌫+ for two-dimensional percolation (4 pages) ...... 020101͑R͒ Iwan Jensen and Robert M. Ziff Two-dimensional intermittent search processes: An alternative to Lévy flight strategies (4 pages) ...... 020102͑R͒ O. Bénichou, C. Loverdo, M. Moreau, and R. Voituriez Activation through a narrow opening (4 pages) ...... 020103͑R͒ A. Singer and Z. Schuss Pfaffian solution of a dimer-monomer problem: Single monomer on the boundary (4 pages) ...... 020104͑R͒ F. Y. Wu One-way coupling enables noise-mediated spatiotemporal patterns in media of otherwise quiescent multistable elements (4 pages) ...... 020105͑R͒ John F. Lindner and Adi R. Bulsara

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Solvophobic solvation at large and intermediate length scales: Size, shape, and solvent effects (4 pages) ..... 020401͑R͒ Yong Qin and Kristen A. Fichthorn

Liquid crystals Small-angle x-ray scattering study of flow alignment of a thermotropic liquid crystal in the nematic and smectic phases (4 pages) ...... 020701͑R͒ I. W. Hamley, V. Castelletto, and P. Parras

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Statistical physics Colored-noise-induced Hopf bifurcations in predator-prey communities (10 pages) ...... 021101 Romi Mankin, Tõnu Laas, Ako Sauga, Ain Ainsaar, and Eerik Reiter Optimal response function in networks of excitatory elements (5 pages) ...... 021102 Zbisław Tabor

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Diffusion equations for a Markovian jumping process (8 pages) ...... 021103 T. Srokowski and A. Kamińska Phase diagram and commensurate-incommensurate transitions in the phase field crystal model with an external pinning potential (8 pages) ...... 021104 C. V. Achim, M. Karttunen, K. R. Elder, E. Granato, T. Ala-Nissila, and S. C. Ying Off-diagonal correlations of the Calogero-Sutherland model (14 pages) ...... 021105 G. E. Astrakharchik, D. M. Gangardt, Yu. E. Lozovik, and I. A. Sorokin Phase transitions in highly asymmetric binary hard-sphere fluids: Fluid-fluid binodal from a two-component mixture theory (7 pages) ...... 021106 A. Ayadim and S. Amokrane Evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma game with dynamic preferential selection (7 pages) ...... 021107 Zhi-Xi Wu, Xin-Jian Xu, Zi-Gang Huang, Sheng-Jun Wang, and Ying-Hai Wang Dynamical origin of memory and renewal (6 pages) ...... 021108 R. Cakir, P. Grigolini, and A. A. Krokhin Continuously varying exponents in A+B→0 reaction with long-ranged attractive interaction (5 pages) ...... 021109 Sungchul Kwon, S. Y. Yoon, and Yup Kim Force distribution in a randomly perturbed lattice of identical particles with 1/r2 pair interaction (21 pages) ...... 021110 Andrea Gabrielli, Thierry Baertschiger, Michael Joyce, Bruno Marcos, and Francesco Sylos Labini Fluctuation symmetries for work and heat (9 pages) ...... 021111 Marco Baiesi, Tim Jacobs, Christian Maes, and Nikos S. Skantzos Flux reversal in a simple random-walk model on a fluctuating symmetric lattice (5 pages) ...... 021112 Jesús Casado-Pascual Mean crossover functions for uniaxial three-dimensional Ising-like systems (16 pages) ...... 021113 Yves Garrabos and Claude Bervillier Logarithmic corrections to correlation decay in two-dimensional random-bond Ising systems (7 pages) ...... 021114 Jean C. Lessa and S. L. A. de Queiroz Bulk fluorescence measurements cannot probe the survival-time distribution of single molecules (4 pages) ...... 021115 M. Prummer and M. Weiss Drift velocity for a chain of beads in one dimension (6 pages) ...... 021116 G. Terranova, H. O. Mártin, and C. M. Aldao Fluctuation theorem for the effusion of an ideal gas (10 pages) ...... 021117 B. Cleuren, C. Van den Broeck, and R. Kawai Diffusive anomalies in a long-range Hamiltonian system (5 pages) ...... 021118 Luis G. Moyano and Celia Anteneodo Diffusion of interacting Brownian particles: Jamming and anomalous diffusion (9 pages) ...... 021119 Sergey Savel’ev, Fabio Marchesoni, Alessandro Taloni, and Franco Nori Temporal extensivity of Tsallis’ entropy and the bound on entropy production rate (6 pages) ...... 021120 Sumiyoshi Abe and Yutaka Nakada

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Properties of non-fcc hard-sphere solids predicted by density functional theory (7 pages) ...... 021121 James F. Lutsko Cooperative dynamics in coupled noisy dynamical systems near a critical point: The dc superconducting quantum interference device as a case study (14 pages) ...... 021122 Antonio Palacios, John Aven, Patrick Longhini, Visarath In, and Adi R. Bulsara Attempt to distinguish long-range temporal correlations from the statistics of the increments by natural time analysis (12 pages) ...... 021123 P. A. Varotsos, N. V. Sarlis, E. S. Skordas, H. K. Tanaka, and M. S. Lazaridou Strong clustering of noninteracting, sliding passive scalars driven by fluctuating surfaces (19 pages) ...... 021124 Apoorva Nagar, Satya N. Majumdar, and Mustansir Barma

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids Molecular dynamics study of the thermodynamics and transport coefficients of hard hyperspheres in six and seven dimensions (6 pages) ...... 021201 L. Lue and Marvin Bishop Influence of two-body and three-body interatomic forces on gas, liquid, and solid phases (8 pages) ...... 021202 Liping Wang and Richard J. Sadus

Granular materials Experimental study of the compaction dynamics for two-dimensional anisotropic granular materials (8 pages) ...... 021301 G. Lumay and N. Vandewalle High viscosity gas fluidization of fine particles: An extended window of quasihomogeneous flow (6 pages) ...... 021302 Jose Manuel Valverde and Antonio Castellanos Identification of arches in two-dimensional granular packings (8 pages) ...... 021303 Roberto Arévalo, Diego Maza, and Luis A. Pugnaloni Formation and transport of a sand heap in an inclined and vertically vibrated container (5 pages) ...... 021304 Guoqing Miao, Kai Huang, Yi Yun, Peng Zhang, Weizhong Chen, and Rongjue Wei Drag and lift on rotating vanes in granular beds (6 pages) ...... 021305 Raenell Soller and Stephan A. Koehler Analysis of granular flow in a pebble-bed nuclear reactor (16 pages) ...... 021306 Chris H. Rycroft, Gary S. Grest, James W. Landry, and Martin Z. Bazant

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Nonlinear effects in charge stabilized colloidal suspensions (9 pages) ...... 021401 T. Kreer, J. Horbach, and A. Chatterji Anisotropy of Brownian motion caused only by hydrodynamic interaction with a wall (5 pages) ...... 021402 Peter Holmqvist, Jan K. G. Dhont, and Peter R. Lang Shear viscosity of claylike colloids in computer simulations and experiments (12 pages) ...... 021403 Martin Hecht, Jens Harting, Markus Bier, Jörg Reinshagen, and Hans J. Herrmann Self-assembly of the simple cubic lattice with an isotropic potential (7 pages) ...... 021404 Mikael C. Rechtsman, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato

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Junction formation during desiccation cracking (7 pages) ...... 021405 K. B. Toga and B. Erdem Alaca Measured long-ranged attractive interaction between charged polystyrene latex spheres at a water-air interface (14 pages) ...... 021406 Wei Chen, Susheng Tan, Zhoushen Huang, Tai-Kai Ng, Warren T. Ford, and Penger Tong Coarsening of three-dimensional grains in crystals, or bubbles in dry foams, tends towards a universal, statistically scale-invariant regime (18 pages) ...... 021407 Gilberto L. Thomas, R. M. C. de Almeida, and F. Graner Evolution of the fractal-like aggregate system in colloids (9 pages) ...... 021408 Ekaterina Elfimova, Alexey O. Ivanov, and Andrej Yu. Zubarev Anomalous dynamic arrest in a mixture of large and small particles (14 pages) ...... 021409 Angel J. Moreno and Juan Colmenero Dynamical arrest and replica symmetry breaking in attractive colloids (7 pages) ...... 021410 A. Velenich, A. Parola, and L. Reatto Computer simulation of diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation with an Epstein drag force (8 pages) .... 021411 F. Pierce, C. M. Sorensen, and A. Chakrabarti Rayleigh instability of charged aggregates: Role of the dimensionality, ionic strength, and dielectric contrast (10 pages) ...... 021412 M. N. Tamashiro and H. Schiessel

Structured and complex fluids Glass transition in 1,4-polybutadiene: Mode-coupling theory analysis of molecular dynamics simulations using a chemically realistic model (10 pages) ...... 021501 W. Paul, D. Bedrov, and G. D. Smith Solidity of viscous liquids. IV. Density fluctuations (9 pages) ...... 021502 Jeppe C. Dyre Phase behavior of a hard sphere Maier-Saupe nematogenic system in three dimensions (10 pages) ...... 021503 E. Lomba, C. Martín, N. G. Almarza, and F. Lado Constitutive law describing the phenomenology of subyield mechanically stimulated glasses (13 pages) ..... 021504 Luigi Grassia and Alberto D’Amore Anisotropic instability of a dielectric liquid in a strong uniform electric field: Decay into a two-phase system of vapor filaments in a liquid (5 pages) ...... 021505 Alexander L. Kupershtokh and Dmitry A. Medvedev Relaxation in the glass former acetylsalicylic acid studied by deuteron magnetic resonance and dielectric spectroscopy (4 pages) ...... 021506 R. Nath, T. El Goresy, B. Geil, H. Zimmermann, and R. Böhmer Four-point susceptibility of a glass-forming binary mixture: Brownian dynamics (7 pages) ...... 021507 Grzegorz Szamel and Elijah Flenner Field-theoretic description of ionic crystallization in the restricted primitive model (13 pages) ...... 021508 A. Ciach and O. Patsahan Mesoscopic modeling of a two-phase flow in the presence of boundaries: The contact angle (14 pages) ...... 021509 R. Benzi, L. Biferale, M. Sbragaglia, S. Succi, and F. Toschi

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Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Modeling the elastic deformation of polymer crusts formed by sessile droplet evaporation (8 pages) ...... 021601 D. A. Head Surface freezing in binary alkane-alcohol mixtures (12 pages) ...... 021602 E. Ofer, E. Sloutskin, L. Tamam, B. M. Ocko, and M. Deutsch Ginzburg-Landau theory of the liquid-solid interface and nucleation for hard spheres (17 pages) ...... 021603 James F. Lutsko Inverse method for the determination of a mathematical expression for the anisotropy of the solid-liquid interfacial energy in Al-Zn-Si alloys (8 pages) ...... 021604 C. Niederberger, J. Michler, and A. Jacot Nucleation and growth of droplets at a liquid-gas interface (10 pages) ...... 021605 A. A. Nepomnyashchy, A. A. Golovin, A. E. Tikhomirova, and V. A. Volpert Upper critical dimension for irreversible cluster nucleation and growth in the point-island regime (7 pages) ...... 021606 Feng Shi, Yunsic Shim, and Jacques G. Amar

Liquid crystals Structure of a liquid crystalline fluid around a macroparticle: Density functional theory (8 pages) ...... 021701 David L. Cheung and Michael P. Allen Polar order and tilt in achiral smectic phases (6 pages) ...... 021702 Damian Pociecha, Ewa Gorecka, Mojca Čepič, Nataša Vaupotič, and Wolfgang Weissflog Mesomorphism in columnar phases studied by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (9 pages) ...... 021703 Sergey V. Dvinskikh, Johan Thaning, Baltzar Stevensson, Kjell Jansson, Sandeep Kumar, Herbert Zimmermann, and Arnold Maliniak Interpretation of the odd-even behavior for the emergence of ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity in bent-core mesogens (7 pages) ...... 021704 Koushi Nishida, Mojca Čepič, Won Jeon Kim, Seng Kue Lee, Sung Heo, Jong Gun Lee, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Kyung-Tae Kang, Junji Watanabe, and Hideo Takezoe Emergence of hexatic and threefold hidden order in two-dimensional smectic liquid crystals: A Monte Carlo study (11 pages) ...... 021705 Farhad Shahbazi and Rasool Ghanbari Elliptical soft colloids in smectic-C films (7 pages) ...... 021706 N. M. Silvestre, P. Patrício, and M. M. Telo da Gama Temperature dependence of optical anisotropy of holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystal transmission gratings (10 pages) ...... 021707 I. Drevenšek-Olenik, M. Fally, and M. A. Ellabban Mechanical strains and electric fields applied to topologically imprinted elastomers (9 pages) ...... 021708 D. J. Burridge, Y. Mao, and M. Warner ␩ Measurement of the viscosity coefficient 3 in free-standing smectic films (8 pages) ...... 021709 F. Schneider Theory of the isotropic-nematic transition in dispersions of compressible rods (7 pages) ...... 021710 Kostya Shundyak, René van Roij, and Paul van der Schoot

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Nematic textures in spherical shells (18 pages) ...... 021711 V Vitelli and D. R. Nelson Quadrupolar projection of excluded-volume interactions in biaxial nematic liquid crystals (11 pages) ...... 021712 Riccardo Rosso and Epifanio G. Virga Macroscopic dynamics of polar nematic liquid crystals (7 pages) ...... 021713 Helmut R. Brand, Harald Pleiner, and Falko Ziebert Transitions in the orientational order of liquid crystals induced by periodic patterned substrates (6 pages) .... 021714 I. H. Bechtold, F. Batalioto, L. T. Thieghi, B. S. L. Honda, M. Pojar, J. Schoenmaker, A. D. Santos, V. Zucolotto, D. T. Balogh, O. N. Oliveira, Jr., and E. A. Oliveira

Polymers Low-energy excitations and the fast process of polystyrene thin supported films studied by inelastic and quasielastic neutron scattering (8 pages) ...... 021801 Rintaro Inoue, Toshiji Kanaya, Koji Nishida, Itaru Tsukushi, and Kaoru Shibata Dissipative particle dynamics study on the morphology changes of diblock copolymer lamellar microdomains due to steady shear (9 pages) ...... 021802 Wei Liu, Hu-Jun Qian, Zhong-Yuan Lu, Ze-Sheng Li, and Chia-Chung Sun Phase behavior of polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexes at planar surfaces (11 pages) ...... 021803 Adi Shafir and David Andelman Large-time dynamics and aging of a polymer chain in a random potential (15 pages) ...... 021804 Yadin Y. Goldschmidt Flexible ring polymers in an obstacle environment: Molecular theory of linear viscoelasticity (12 pages) ..... 021805 Balaji V. S. Iyer, Ashish K. Lele, and Vinay A. Juvekar Adsorption and desorption of reversible supramolecular polymers (10 pages) ...... 021806 Henk J. A. Zweistra and N. A. M. Besseling

Biological physics Geometrical approach to tumor growth (7 pages) ...... 021901 Carlos Escudero Continuous probabilistic approach to species dynamics in Hubbell’s zero-sum local community (13 pages) . . . 021902 Petro Babak How does a protein search for the specific site on DNA: The role of disorder (4 pages) ...... 021903 Tao Hu and B. I. Shklovskii Membrane electroporation: The absolute rate equation and nanosecond time scale pore creation (12 pages) . . . 021904 Zlatko Vasilkoski, Axel T. Esser, T. R. Gowrishankar, and James C. Weaver Stochasticity and evolutionary stability (6 pages) ...... 021905 Arne Traulsen, Jorge M. Pacheco, and Lorens A. Imhof Lattice-gas model of DNA charge inversion by a positively charged polyelectrolyte (8 pages) ...... 021906 Marilyn F. Bishop and Tom McMullen Numerical study of a microscopic artificial swimmer (10 pages) ...... 021907 Erik Gauger and Holger Stark

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Force generation in small ensembles of Brownian motors (8 pages) ...... 021908 Martin Lindén, Tomi Tuohimaa, Ann-Beth Jonsson, and Mats Wallin Traveling waves in coupled reaction-diffusion models with degenerate sources (13 pages) ...... 021909 Jonathan J. Wylie and Robert M. Miura Thermodynamic behavior of a phase transition in a model for sympatric speciation (5 pages) ...... 021910 K. Luz-Burgoa, S. Moss de Oliveira, Veit Schwämmle, and J. S. Sá Martins Power laws in microrheology experiments on living cells: Comparative analysis and modeling (17 pages) .... 021911 Martial Balland, Nicolas Desprat, Delphine Icard, Sophie Féréol, Atef Asnacios, Julien Browaeys, Sylvie Hénon, and François Gallet Large-scale oscillation of structure-related DNA sequence features in human chromosome 21 (7 pages) ...... 021912 Wentian Li and Pedro Miramontes Informational structure of two closely related eukaryotic genomes (9 pages) ...... 021913 Manuel Dehnert, Werner E. Helm, and Marc-Thorsten Hütt Conformational transformations induced by the charge-curvature interaction: Mean-field approach (13 pages) ...... 021914 Yu. B. Gaididei, P. L. Christiansen, and W. J. Zakrzewski Signaling between cells attached to a surface (6 pages) ...... 021915 Vladimir P. Zhdanov and Bengt Kasemo Fluctuation-induced interactions between domains in membranes (9 pages) ...... 021916 D. S. Dean and M. Manghi Bursting induced by excitatory synaptic coupling in nonidentical conditional relaxation oscillators or square-wave bursters (15 pages) ...... 021917 Jonathan E. Rubin Stress, birefringence, and conformational relaxation of an initially straight stiff bead-rod polymer (14 pages) ...... 021918 I. D. Dissanayake and P. Dimitrakopoulos Absorption and scattering perturbations in homogeneous and layered diffusive media probed by time-resolved reflectance at null source-detector separation (8 pages) ...... 021919 Lorenzo Spinelli, Fabrizio Martelli, Samuele Del Bianco, Antonio Pifferi, Alessandro Torricelli, Rinaldo Cubeddu, and Giovanni Zaccanti Dynamics of a nonconserving Davydov monomer (13 pages) ...... 021920 P. A. S. Silva and L. Cruzeiro Solitons in the Yakushevich model of DNA beyond the contact approximation (9 pages) ...... 021921 Giuseppe Gaeta Gleaming and dull surface textures from photonic-crystal-type nanostructures in the butterfly Cyanophrys remus (15 pages) ...... 021922 Krisztián Kertész, Zsolt Bálint, Zofia Vértesy, Géza I. Márk, Virginie Lousse, Jean Pol Vigneron, Marie Rassart, and László P. Biró

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Statistical physics Boltzmann and hydrodynamic description for self-propelled particles (4 pages) ...... 022101 Eric Bertin, Michel Droz, and Guillaume Grégoire

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Stochastic resonance in a linear system: An exact solution (4 pages) ...... 022102 Héctor Calisto, Fernando Mora, and Enrique Tirapegui

Structured and complex fluids

Ionic contribution to the electric current in an electrolytic cell submitted to an external voltage (4 pages) .... 022501 G. Barbero, L. R. Evangelista, and I. Lelidis

Liquid crystals

Orientational transition in a nematic liquid crystal at a patterned surface (4 pages) ...... 022701 T. J. Atherton and J. R. Sambles

Biological physics

Quasiperiodic property in Alu repeats (4 pages) ...... 022901 Shihua Zhang and Yi Xiao

COMMENTS

Comment on “Precise domain specification in the developing Drosophila embryo” (4 pages) ...... 023901 Christof M. Aegerter and Tinri Aegerter-Wilmsen PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW E Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, APS Subscription Services please see inside front cover Suite 1NO1 „ISSN: 1539-3755… 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747-4502

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PART 2: STATISTICAL AND NONLINEAR PHYSICS, FLUID DYNAMICS, AND RELATED TOPICS

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Fluid dynamics Multiscale mixing efficiencies for steady sources (4 pages) ...... 025301͑R͒ Charles R. Doering and Jean-Luc Thiffeault Relevance of dynamic wetting in viscous fingering patterns (4 pages) ...... 025302͑R͒ E. Álvarez-Lacalle, J. Ortín, and J. Casademunt

Plasma physics Radiative opacity of gold plasmas studied by a detailed level-accounting method (4 pages) ...... 025401͑R͒ Jiaolong Zeng and Jianmin Yuan

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Interdisciplinary physics Fixed-mass multifractal analysis of river networks and braided channels (8 pages) ...... 026101 Samuele G. De Bartolo, Leonardo Primavera, Roberto Gaudio, Antonino D’Ippolito, and Massimo Veltri Network properties of written human language (8 pages) ...... 026102 A. P. Masucci and G. J. Rodgers Learning about knowledge: A complex network approach (11 pages) ...... 026103 Luciano da Fontoura Costa Models and average properties of scale-free directed networks (7 pages) ...... 026104 Sebastian Bernhardsson and Petter Minnhagen Crack surface roughness in three-dimensional random fuse networks (8 pages) ...... 026105 Phani Kumar V. V. Nukala, Stefano Zapperi, and Srđan Šimunović Fluctuation relations for a driven Brownian particle (6 pages) ...... 026106 A. Imparato and L. Peliti Inwardly rotating spiral wave breakup in oscillatory reaction-diffusion media (6 pages) ...... 026107 Fagen Xie, Dongzhu Xie, and James N. Weiss Statistical mechanics of lossy compression using multilayer perceptrons (11 pages) ...... 026108 Kazushi Mimura and Masato Okada

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Essence of conservation forms in the traveling wave solutions of higher-order traffic flow models (10 pages) ...... 026109 Peng Zhang and S. C. Wong Logarithmic relaxation due to minimization of interactions in the Burridge-Knopoff model (7 pages) ...... 026110 B. A. H. Huisman and A. Fasolino Contact of single asperities with varying adhesion: Comparing continuum mechanics to atomistic simulations (17 pages) ...... 026111 Binquan Luan and Mark O. Robbins Energy dissipation and fluctuation response for particles in fluids (4 pages) ...... 026112 J. M. Deutsch and Onuttom Narayan Complex earthquake networks: Hierarchical organization and assortative mixing (5 pages) ...... 026113 Sumiyoshi Abe and Norikazu Suzuki Dynamic behaviors in directed networks (5 pages) ...... 026114 Sung Min Park and Beom Jun Kim Packet traffic analysis of scale-free networks for large-scale network-on-chip design (8 pages) ...... 026115 Nobuhiko Oshida and Sigeo Ihara Interplay between function and structure in complex networks (8 pages) ...... 026116 Timothy C. Jarrett, Douglas J. Ashton, Mark Fricker, and Neil F. Johnson Diffusion accelerates and enhances chirality selection (7 pages) ...... 026117 Ryo Shibata, Yukio Saito, and Hiroyuki Hyuga Effects of substrate network topologies on competition dynamics (7 pages) ...... 026118 Sang Hoon Lee and Hawoong Jeong Ergodic-nonergodic transition in a threshold system with feedback (6 pages) ...... 026119 Boyoung Seo and Toyonori Munakata Dynamics of helping behavior and networks in a small world (7 pages) ...... 026120 Hang-Hyun Jo, Woo-Sung Jung, and Hie-Tae Moon Networks with given two-point correlations: Hidden correlations from degree correlations (10 pages) ...... 026121 Agata Fronczak and Piotr Fronczak Mixing properties of growing networks and Simpson’s paradox (4 pages) ...... 026122 Andrea Capocci and Francesca Colaiori

Chaos and pattern formation Control of unstable steady states by long delay feedback (7 pages) ...... 026201 Serhiy Yanchuk, Matthias Wolfrum, Philipp Hövel, and Eckehard Schöll Reconstructing state spaces from multivariate data using variable delays (6 pages) ...... 026202 Yoshito Hirata, Hideyuki Suzuki, and Kazuyuki Aihara Reentrant synchronization and pattern formation in pacemaker-entrained Kuramoto oscillators (9 pages) ..... 026203 Filippo Radicchi and Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns Irregular parameter dependence of generalized diffusion coefficients based on large deviation statistical analysis (11 pages) ...... 026204 Masaomi Yoshida, Syuji Miyazaki, and Hirokazu Fujisaka

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Testing for nonlinearity in irregular fluctuations with long-term trends (8 pages) ...... 026205 Tomomichi Nakamura, Michael Small, and Yoshito Hirata Desensitization effects in the ruthenium-catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction (9 pages) ...... 026206 Iris Cassidy and Stefan C. Müller Decay of the Loschmidt echo in a time-dependent environment (6 pages) ...... 026207 F. M. Cucchietti, C. H. Lewenkopf, and H. M. Pastawski Suppression of quantum chaos in a quantum computer hardware (7 pages) ...... 026208 J. Lages and D. L. Shepelyansky Energy–second-moment map analysis as an approach to quantify the irregularity of Hamiltonian systems (12 pages) ...... 026209 Jürgen Struckmeier and Andreas Redelbach Classical momentum diffusion in double-␦-kicked particles (12 pages) ...... 026210 M. M. A. Stocklin and T. S. Monteiro Influence of classical resonances on chaotic tunneling (11 pages) ...... 026211 Amaury Mouchet, Christopher Eltschka, and Peter Schlagheck Separation and synchronization of piecewise linear chaotic systems (11 pages) ...... 026212 Paolo Arena, Arturo Buscarino, Luigi Fortuna, and Mattia Frasca Universal finite-sample effect on the perturbation growth in chaotic dynamical systems (10 pages) ...... 026213 Hiroya Nakao, Shuya Kitada, and Alexander S. Mikhailov Dynamics of wrinkle growth and coarsening in stressed thin films (12 pages) ...... 026214 Rui Huang and Se Hyuk Im

Fluid dynamics Turbulent drag reduction by flexible and rodlike polymers: Crossover effects at small concentrations (6 pages) ...... 026301 Emily S. C. Ching, T. S. Lo, and Itamar Procaccia Nearly incompressible fluids: Hydrodynamics and large scale inhomogeneity (14 pages) ...... 026302 P. Hunana, G. P. Zank, and D. Shaikh Stability of liquid metal drops affected by a high-frequency magnetic field (7 pages) ...... 026303 V. Kocourek, Ch. Karcher, M. Conrath, and D. Schulze Mechanism of single-bubble sonoluminescence (14 pages) ...... 026304 Yu An Propagating wave pattern on a falling liquid curtain (8 pages) ...... 026305 N. Le Grand-Piteira, P. Brunet, L. Lebon, and L. Limat Model for intermittency of energy dissipation in turbulent flows (9 pages) ...... 026306 Fabio Lepreti, Vincenzo Carbone, and Pierluigi Veltri Vorticity banding in rodlike virus suspensions (12 pages) ...... 026307 Kyongok Kang, M. P. Lettinga, Z. Dogic, and Jan K. G. Dhont Development of optimal models of porous media by combining static and dynamic data: The porosity distribution (12 pages) ...... 026308 Hossein Hamzehpour and Muhammad Sahimi

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Depolarization of decaying counterflow turbulence in He II (7 pages) ...... 026309 C. F. Barenghi, A. V. Gordeev, and L. Skrbek Subgrid-scale modeling of helicity and energy dissipation in helical turbulence (13 pages) ...... 026310 Yi Li, Charles Meneveau, Shiyi Chen, and Gregory L. Eyink Monte Carlo simulation of liquid bridge rupture: Application to lung physiology (13 pages) ...... 026311 Adriano M. Alencar, Elie Wolfe, and Sergey V. Buldyrev

Plasma physics Energetic proton acceleration and bunch generation by ultraintense laser pulses on the surface of thin plasma targets (5 pages) ...... 026401 T. Okada, A. A. Andreev, Y. Mikado, and K. Okubo Generalized x-ray scattering cross section from nonequilibrium plasmas (8 pages) ...... 026402 G. Gregori, S. H. Glenzer, and O. L. Landen Residual dust charges in discharge afterglow (9 pages) ...... 026403 L. Couëdel, M. Mikikian, L. Boufendi, and A. A. Samarian Experimental investigations of plasma perturbation in Thomson scattering applied to thermal plasma diagnostics (9 pages) ...... 026404 Krzysztof Dzierże¸ga, Witold Zawadzki, Bartłomiej Pokrzywka, and Stephane Pellerin Magnetic field effects on spatial relaxation of swarm particles in the idealized steady-state Townsend experiment (13 pages) ...... 026405 B. Li, R. E. Robson, and R. D. White Secondary electron emission of carbonaceous dust particles (11 pages) ...... 026406 I. Stefanović, J. Berndt, D. Marić, V. Šamara, M. Radmilović-Radjenović, Z. Lj. Petrović, E. Kovačević, and J. Winter

Physics of beams Radiative damping and electron beam dynamics in plasma-based accelerators (14 pages) ...... 026501 P. Michel, C. B. Schroeder, B. A. Shadwick, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials Gap solitons in quasiperiodic optical lattices (7 pages) ...... 026601 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Boris A. Malomed Tunneling escape in optical waveguide arrays with a boundary defect (9 pages) ...... 026602 Stefano Longhi Wide-angle coupling into rod-type photonic crystals with ultralow reflectance (10 pages) ...... 026603 L. C. Botten, T. P. White, C. Martijn de Sterke, and R. C. McPhedran Microscale multiple scattering of coherent surface acoustic wave packets probed with gigahertz time-reversal acoustics (5 pages) ...... 026604 V. Tournat, D. M. Profunser, E. Muramoto, O. Matsuda, T. Takezaki, S. Sueoka, and O. B. Wright Discrete vector solitons in one-dimensional lattices in photorefractive media (7 pages) ...... 026605 E. P. Fitrakis, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, and D. J. Frantzeskakis Soliton dynamics in deformable nonlinear lattices (4 pages) ...... 026606 Andrey A. Sukhorukov

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Design for electromagnetic wave transparency with metamaterials (8 pages) ...... 026607 Xiaoming Zhou and Gengkai Hu Second-harmonic generation at angular incidence in a negative-positive index photonic band-gap structure (7 pages) ...... 026608 Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Michael Scalora, and Mark J. Bloemer Dynamic radiation force of acoustic waves on solid elastic spheres (6 pages) ...... 026609 Glauber T. Silva Statics and dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in double square well potentials (8 pages) ...... 026610 E. Infeld, P. Ziń, J. Gocałek, and M. Trippenbach

Computational physics Variational treatment of the Shastry-Sutherland antiferromagnet using projected entangled pair states (9 pages) ...... 026701 A. Isacsson and Olav F. Syljuåsen Improving the global fitting method on nonlinear time series analysis (10 pages) ...... 026702 L. M. C. R. Barbosa, L. G. S. Duarte, C. A. Linhares, and L. A. C. P. da Mota Deterministic walks as an algorithm of pattern recognition (5 pages) ...... 026703 Mônica G. Campiteli, Pablo D. Batista, Osame Kinouchi, and Alexandre S. Martinez Transport on adaptive random lattices (17 pages) ...... 026704 Jelle Ritzerveld and Vincent Icke Galilean invariant lattice Boltzmann scheme for natural convection on square and rectangular lattices (17 pages) ...... 026705 R. G. M. van der Sman Random walk approximation of fractional-order multiscaling anomalous diffusion (10 pages) ...... 026706 Yong Zhang, David A. Benson, Mark M. Meerschaert, Eric M. LaBolle, and Hans-Peter Scheffler Efficiency of rejection-free dynamic Monte Carlo methods for homogeneous spin models, hard disk systems, and hard sphere systems (11 pages) ...... 026707 Hiroshi Watanabe, Satoshi Yukawa, M. A. Novotny, and Nobuyasu Ito

BRIEF REPORTS

Chaos and pattern formation Impact of noise on domain growth in electroconvection (4 pages) ...... 027201 Mary Griffith and Michael Dennin

Plasma physics Comparison of experimental and simulated K␣ yield for 400 nm ultrashort pulse laser irradiation (4 pages) ...... 027401 F. Y. Khattak, O. A. M. B. Percie du Sert, D. Riley, P. S. Foster, E. J. Divall, C. J. Hooker, A. J. Langley, J. Smith, and P. Gibbon

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials Incoherent accessible white-light solitons in strongly nonlocal Kerr media (4 pages) ...... 027601 Ming Shen, Jielong Shi, and Qi Wang

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Painlevé classification of a generalized coupled Hirota system (4 pages) ...... 027602 Gui-qiong Xu

Computational physics

Last-passage Monte Carlo algorithm for mutual capacitance (3 pages) ...... 027701 Chi-Ok Hwang and James A. Given

Optimization of nonlinear parameters in trial wave functions with a very large number of terms (4 pages) ...... 027702 Alexei M. Frolov

COMMENTS

Comment on “Connection between the Burgers equation with an elastic forcing term and a stochastic process” (1 page) ...... 028101 Piotr Garbaczewski

Reply to “Comment on ‘Connection between the Burgers equation with an elastic forcing term and a stochastic process’ ” (1 page) ...... 028102 E. Moreau and O. Vallée

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Simulation study of air-induced segregation of equal-sized bronze and glass particles ͓Phys. Rev. E 74, 010302 ͑2006͔͒ (1 page) ...... 029901͑E͒ C. Zeilstra, M. A. van der Hoef, and J. A. M. Kuipers

Erratum: Femtosecond pulse propagation in nitrogen: Numerical study of ͑3+1͒-dimensional extended nonlinear Schrödinger equation with shock-term correction ͓Phys. Rev. E 72, 026706 ͑2005͔͒ (1 page) ...... 029902͑E͒ Taro Ando and Masatoshi Fujimoto

Erratum: Monin-Lundgren hierarchy versus the Hopf equation in the statistical theory of turbulence ͓Phys. Rev. E 73, 067301 ͑2006͔͒ (1 page) ...... 029903͑E͒ Iwao Hosokawa Erratum: Relativistic kicked rotor ͓Phys. Rev. E 72, 016213 ͑2005͔͒ (1 page) ...... 029904͑E͒ D. U. Matrasulov, G. M. Milibaeva, U. R. Salomov, and Bala Sundaram Publisher’s Note: Directed percolation with incubation times ͓Phys. Rev. E74, 011123 ͑2006͔͒ (1 page) ..... 029905͑E͒ Andrea Jiménez-Dalmaroni Erratum: Grains and gas flow: Molecular dynamics with hydrodynamic interactions ͓Phys. Rev. E 61, 4054 ͑2000͔͒ (1 page) ...... 029906͑E͒ Dragos-Victor Anghel, Martin Strauss, Sean McNamara, Eirik G. Flekkøy, and Knut Jørgen Måløy

Publisher’s Note: Membrane electroporation: The absolute rate equation and nanosecond time scale pore creation ͓Phys. Rev. E 74, 021904 ͑2006͒ (1 page) ...... 029907͑E͒ Zlatko Vasilkoski, Axel T. Esser, T. R. Gowrishankar, and James C. Weaver