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THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 75, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS MARCH 2007

PART 1: STATISTICAL, SOFT MATTER, AND BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

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Statistical physics Majority model on a network with communities (4 pages) ...... 030101͑R͒ R. Lambiotte, M. Ausloos, and J. A. Hołyst Self-afﬁnity in the gradient percolation problem (4 pages) ...... 030102͑R͒ Alex Hansen, G. George Batrouni, Thomas Ramstad, and Jean Schmittbuhl Two simple models of classical heat pumps (4 pages) ...... 030103͑R͒ Rahul Marathe, A. M. Jayannavar, and Abhishek Dhar Superaging in two-dimensional random ferromagnets (4 pages) ...... 030104͑R͒ Raja Paul, Grégory Schehr, and Heiko Rieger

Granular materials Universal anisotropy in force networks under shear (4 pages) ...... 030301͑R͒ Srdjan Ostojic, Thijs J. H. Vlugt, and Bernard Nienhuis

Biological physics Screwlike order, macroscopic chirality, and elastic distortions in high-density DNA mesophases (4 pages) .... 030901͑R͒ F. Manna, V. Lorman, R. Podgornik, and B. Žekš Effects of temperature on the mechanical properties of single stranded DNA (4 pages) ...... 030902͑R͒ C. Danilowicz, C. H. Lee, V. W. Coljee, and M. Prentiss

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Statistical physics Inertial effects in the fractional translational diffusion of a Brownian particle in a double-well potential (8 pages) ...... 031101 Yuri P. Kalmykov, William T. Coffey, and Sergey V. Titov Transient nucleation near the mean-ﬁeld spinodal (6 pages) ...... 031102 A. O. Schweiger, K. Barros, and W. Klein

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Freezing transition of the random bond RNA model: Statistical properties of the pairing weights (16 pages) ...... 031103 Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel Scaling approach to related disordered stochastic and free-fermion models (10 pages) ...... 031104 R. J. Harris and R. B. Stinchcombe Critical wetting of a class of nonequilibrium interfaces: A mean-field picture (6 pages) ...... 031105 Francisco de los Santos, Elvira Romera, Omar Al Hammal, and Miguel Ángel Muñoz Gaussian noise and time-reversal symmetry in nonequilibrium Langevin models (6 pages) ...... 031106 M. H. Vainstein and J. M. Rubí Dynamics of quantum dissipation systems interacting with bosonic canonical bath: Hierarchical equations of motion approach (11 pages) ...... 031107 Rui-Xue Xu and YiJing Yan Shot noise displaying simultaneously the Noah and Joseph effects (10 pages) ...... 031108 Iddo Eliazar and Joseph Klafter Irreducible memory function and slow dynamics in disordered systems (8 pages) ...... 031109 T. Carlsson, L. Sjögren, E. Mamontov, and K. Psiuk-Maksymowicz Finite-size scaling in anisotropic systems (9 pages) ...... 031110 N. S. Tonchev Kinetics of self-induced aggregation in Brownian particles (8 pages) ...... 031111 Fabio Cecconi, Giuseppe Gonnella, and Gustavo P. Saracco Criticality of a contact process with coupled diffusive and nondiffusive fields (7 pages) ...... 031112 N. V. da Costa, U. L. Fulco, M. L. Lyra, and I. M. Gléria Statistical scattering of waves in disordered waveguides: From microscopic potentials to limiting macroscopic statistics (28 pages) ...... 031113 L. S. Froufe-Pérez, M. Yépez, P. A. Mello, and J. J. Sáenz Structure of fluctuations near mean-field critical points and spinodals and its implication for physical processes (22 pages) ...... 031114 W. Klein, Harvey Gould, Natali Gulbahce, J. B. Rundle, and K. Tiampo Influence of external magnetic field on dynamics of open quantum systems (16 pages) ...... 031115 Sh. A. Kalandarov, Z. Kanokov, G. G. Adamian, and N. V. Antonenko Level dynamics approach to the large deviation statistical characteristic function (10 pages) ...... 031116 Hirokazu Fujisaka and Tomoji Yamada Directing Brownian motion by oscillating barriers (5 pages) ...... 031117 S. Bleil, P. Reimann, and C. Bechinger Role of interactions in ferrofluid thermal ratchets (11 pages) ...... 031118 Volker Becker and Andreas Engel Smoothing a rock by chipping (7 pages) ...... 031119 P. L. Krapivsky and S. Redner Intensive thermodynamic parameters in nonequilibrium systems (16 pages) ...... 031120 Eric Bertin, Kirsten Martens, Olivier Dauchot, and Michel Droz

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Localization of coherent exciton transport in phase space (9 pages) ...... 031121 Oliver Mülken, Veronika Bierbaum, and Alexander Blumen Spectral theory of metastability and extinction in a branching-annihilation reaction (8 pages) ...... 031122 Michael Assaf and Baruch Meerson Mitigating the effects of measurement noise on Granger causality (10 pages) ...... 031123 Hariharan Nalatore, Mingzhou Ding, and Govindan Rangarajan Evaluation of the permutational structure of quantum gases at ﬁnite temperature (8 pages) ...... 031124 Ryan Springall, Manolo Per, and Ian Snook

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of ﬂuids Transport in a highly asymmetric binary ﬂuid mixture (7 pages) ...... 031201 Sorin Bastea

Granular materials Radial and axial segregation of granular matter in a rotating cylinder: A simulation study (11 pages) ...... 031301 D. C. Rapaport Velocity distributions and aging in a cooling granular gas (12 pages) ...... 031302 Syed Rashid Ahmad and Sanjay Puri Uphill solitary waves in granular flows (4 pages) ...... 031303 E. Martínez, C. Pérez-Penichet, O. Sotolongo-Costa, O. Ramos, K. J. Måløy, S. Douady, and E. Altshuler Dry and wet granular shock waves (11 pages) ...... 031304 V. Yu. Zaburdaev and S. Herminghaus Velocity correlations in dense granular shear flows: Effects on energy dissipation and normal stress (9 pages) ...... 031305 Namiko Mitarai and Hiizu Nakanishi Types of gas fluidization of cohesive granular materials (6 pages) ...... 031306 Jose Manuel Valverde and Antonio Castellanos Role of interparticle forces and interparticle friction on the bulk friction in charged granular media subjected to shearing (5 pages) ...... 031307 S. J. Antony and M. A. Sultan Influences of the interstitial liquid on segregation patterns of granular slurries in a rotating drum (9 pages) ...... 031308 Tilo Finger and Ralf Stannarius

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Aging in attraction-driven colloidal glasses (11 pages) ...... 031401 Antonio M. Puertas, Matthias Fuchs, and Michael E. Cates Frank’s constant in the hexatic phase (6 pages) ...... 031402 P. Keim, G. Maret, and H. H. von Grünberg Synthetic diamond and wurtzite structures self-assemble with isotropic pair interactions (7 pages) ...... 031403 Mikael C. Rechtsman, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato

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Counterion release and interaction of oppositely charged surfaces (5 pages) ...... 031404 A. Flores-Amado and M. Hernández-Contreras Charging mechanism in colloidal particles leading to a linear relation between charge and size (8 pages) .... 031405 Filip Strubbe, Filip Beunis, Matthias Marescaux, and Kristiaan Neyts

Structured and complex ﬂuids Shear-induced crystallization in jammed systems (8 pages) ...... 031501 Nathan Duff and Daniel J. Lacks Glass phenomenology from the connection to spin glasses (5 pages) ...... 031502 M. Tarzia and M. A. Moore Mode-coupling theory for the slow collective dynamics of ﬂuids adsorbed in disordered porous media (17 pages) ...... 031503 V. Krakoviack

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Wetting and minimal surfaces (17 pages) ...... 031601 Constantin Bachas, Pierre Le Doussal, and Kay Jörg Wiese Spontaneous corrugation of dipolar membranes (7 pages) ...... 031602 Xiuquan Sun and J. Daniel Gezelter

Liquid crystals Structure and stability of bent core liquid crystal ﬁbers (9 pages) ...... 031701 C. Bailey, E. C. Gartland, Jr., and A. Jákli Air tube formation at the freezing transition in nematic liquid crystals (4 pages) ...... 031702 C. Völtz, Y. Maeda, Y. Tabe, and H. Yokoyama Photoinduction of optical anisotropy in an azobenzene-containing ionic self-assembly liquid-crystalline material (12 pages) ...... 031703 Y. Zakrevskyy, J. Stumpe, B. Smarsly, and C. F. J. Faul Quasi-two-dimensional Ising critical behavior of de Vries liquid crystals observed in the heat capacity and dielectric response (6 pages) ...... 031704 K. Takekoshi, Y. Sasaki, K. Ema, H. Yao, Y. Takanishi, and H. Takezoe Smectic liquid crystals in an anisotropic random environment (11 pages) ...... 031705 Dennis Liang and Robert L. Leheny Rearrangement of topological defects and anchoring on the inclusion boundary in ferroelectric smectic membranes (8 pages) ...... 031706 P. V. Dolganov, H. T. Nguyen, E. I. Kats, V. K. Dolganov, and P. Cluzeau Nuclear magnetic resonance parameters of atomic xenon dissolved in Gay-Berne model liquid crystal (13 pages) ...... 031707 Juho Lintuvuori, Michal Straka, and Juha Vaara Defect-enhanced nematic surface order reconstruction (9 pages) ...... 031708 Milan Ambrožič, Samo Kralj, and Epifanio G. Virga Statistical theory of the ﬂexoelectric polarization for the uniaxial nematic phase (6 pages) ...... 031709 A. Kapanowski

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Kinetics of the thermal back relaxation time of the photoinduced nematic-isotropic transition (6 pages) ...... 031710 V. Jayalakshmi, Geetha G. Nair, and S. Krishna Prasad Dynamics of smectic elastomers (18 pages) ...... 031711 Olaf Stenull and T. C. Lubensky

Polymers Stiff knots (14 pages) ...... 031801 R. Gallotti and O. Pierre-Louis Self-consistent field theory simulations of block copolymer assembly on a sphere (17 pages) ...... 031802 Tanya L. Chantawansri, August W. Bosse, Alexander Hexemer, Hector D. Ceniceros, Carlos J. García-Cervera, Edward J. Kramer, and Glenn H. Fredrickson Calculation of local mechanical properties of filled polymers (13 pages) ...... 031803 George J. Papakonstantopoulos, Manolis Doxastakis, Paul F. Nealey, Jean-Louis Barrat, and Juan J. de Pablo Molecular dynamics study of crystallization of polymer systems confined in small nanodomains (12 pages) ...... 031804 Toshiaki Miura and Masuhiro Mikami

Biological physics Nonlinear finite-element analysis of nanoindentation of viral capsids (11 pages) ...... 031901 Melissa M. Gibbons and William S. Klug Modeling fractal-like drug elimination kinetics using an interacting random-walk model (7 pages) ...... 031902 Rebeccah E. Marsh and Terence A. Riauka Wrapping conformations of a polymer on a curved surface (11 pages) ...... 031903 Cheng-Hsiao Lin, Yan-Chr Tsai, and Chin-Kun Hu Necklace-cloverleaf transition in associating RNA-like diblock copolymers (13 pages) ...... 031904 M. V. Tamm and S. K. Nechaev Tension dynamics in semiflexible polymers. I. Coarse-grained equations of motion (14 pages) ...... 031905 Oskar Hallatschek, Erwin Frey, and Klaus Kroy Tension dynamics in semiflexible polymers. II. Scaling solutions and applications (20 pages) ...... 031906 Oskar Hallatschek, Erwin Frey, and Klaus Kroy Compact dynamical model of brain activity (10 pages) ...... 031907 J. W. Kim and P. A. Robinson Lateralization as a symmetry breaking process in birdsong (5 pages) ...... 031908 M. A. Trevisan, B. Cooper, F. Goller, and G. B. Mindlin Model of hyphal tip growth involving microtubule-based transport (5 pages) ...... 031909 K. E. P. Sugden, M. R. Evans, W. C. K. Poon, and N. D. Read Solutions of burnt-bridge models for molecular motor transport (8 pages) ...... 031910 Alexander Yu. Morozov, Ekaterina Pronina, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, and Maxim N. Artyomov Dynamic stability in random and scale-free B-lymphocyte networks (8 pages) ...... 031911 Leonardo C. Ribeiro, Ronald Dickman, Américo T. Bernardes, and Nelson M. Vaz

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Spike patterning of a stochastic phase model neuron given periodic inhibition (10 pages) ...... 031912 William H. Nesse, Gregory A. Clark, and Paul C. Bressloff

Extended method of moments for deterministic analysis of stochastic multistable neurodynamical systems (7 pages) ...... 031913 Gustavo Deco and Daniel Martí

Folding behavior of ribosomal protein S6 studied by modiﬁed Go¯-like model (8 pages) ...... 031914 L. Wu, J. Zhang, J. Wang, W. F. Li, and W. Wang

Dissociative electron attachment to hydrated single DNA strands (5 pages) ...... 031915 Sylwia Ptasińska and Léon Sanche

Inherent multistability in arrays of autoinducer coupled genetic oscillators (8 pages) ...... 031916 A. Koseska, E. Volkov, A. Zaikin, and J. Kurths

Stochastic suppression of gene expression oscillators under intercell coupling (9 pages) ...... 031917 A. Koseska, A. Zaikin, J. García-Ojalvo, and J. Kurths Solitary excitations in B-Z DNA transition: A theoretical and numerical study (9 pages) ...... 031918 Wilber Lim Measuring peptide mass spectrum correlation using the quantum Grover algorithm (6 pages) ...... 031919 Keng Wah Choo

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Statistical physics

Interference of stochastic resonances: Splitting of Kramers’ rate (4 pages) ...... 032101 Pulak Kumar Ghosh, Bidhan Chandra Bag, and Deb Shankar Ray Charged particle in a magnetic ﬁeld: Jarzynski equality (4 pages) ...... 032102 A. M. Jayannavar and Mamata Sahoo

Granular materials

Behavior of ﬂowing granular materials under variable g (4 pages) ...... 032301 Antje Brucks, Tim Arndt, Julio M. Ottino, and Richard M. Lueptow

Structured and complex ﬂuids

Birefringence determination in turbid media (4 pages) ...... 032501 Christophe Baravian, Jérôme Dillet, and Jean-Paul Decruppe

Biological physics

Excitable Greenberg-Hastings cellular automaton model on scale-free networks (4 pages) ...... 032901 An-Cai Wu, Xin-Jian Xu, and Ying-Hai Wang Bifractality of human DNA strand-asymmetry proﬁles results from transcription (4 pages) ...... 032902 S. Nicolay, E. B. Brodie of Brodie, M. Touchon, B. Audit, Y. d’Aubenton-Carafa, C. Thermes, and A. Arneodo

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Identifying characteristic scales in the human genome (4 pages) ...... 032903 P. Carpena, P. Bernaola-Galván, A. V. Coronado, M. Hackenberg, and J. L. Oliver

Vortex formation in swarms of interacting particles (3 pages) ...... 032904 Colin R. McInnes 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

THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 75, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS MARCH 2007

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

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Chaos and pattern formation

Experimental observation of different types of chaotic synchronization in an electrochemical cell (4 pages) ...... 035201͑R͒ J. M. Cruz, M. Rivera, and P. Parmananda Subharmonic transitions in a bistable oscillator with bimodal periodic excitation (4 pages) ...... 035202͑R͒ Agnessa Kovaleva Spectral properties of Bunimovich mushroom billiards (4 pages) ...... 035203͑R͒ B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer Fractional behavior in nonergodic reaction processes of isomerization (4 pages) ...... 035204͑R͒ Akira Shojiguchi, Chun-Biu Li, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, and Mikito Toda

Fluid dynamics

Route to non-Gaussian statistics in convective turbulence (4 pages) ...... 035301͑R͒ Roberto Festa, Andrea Mazzino, and Marco Tizzi

Computational physics

Improved Monte Carlo estimators for the one-body density (4 pages) ...... 035701͑R͒ Roland Assaraf, Michel Caffarel, and Anthony Scemama

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Interdisciplinary physics

Enhancing robustness and immunization in geographical networks (6 pages) ...... 036101 Liang Huang, Kongqing Yang, and Lei Yang Phase transition and hysteresis in scale-free network trafﬁc (4 pages) ...... 036102 Mao-Bin Hu, Wen-Xu Wang, Rui Jiang, Qing-Song Wu, and Yong-Hong Wu Uniﬁed Green’s function retrieval by cross-correlation; connection with energy principles (14 pages) ...... 036103 Roel Snieder, Kees Wapenaar, and Ulrich Wegler

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Low-cost search in scale-free networks (4 pages) ...... 036104 Jieun Jeong and Piotr Berman Structural bottlenecks for communication in networks (4 pages) ...... 036105 Sameet Sreenivasan, Reuven Cohen, Eduardo López, Zoltán Toroczkai, and H. Eugene Stanley Geographical networks evolving with an optimal policy (8 pages) ...... 036106 Yan-Bo Xie, Tao Zhou, Wen-Jie Bai, Guanrong Chen, Wei-Ke Xiao, and Bing-Hong Wang Athermal shear-transformation-zone theory of amorphous plastic deformation. I. Basic principles (7 pages) ...... 036107 Eran Bouchbinder, J. S. Langer, and Itamar Procaccia Athermal shear-transformation-zone theory of amorphous plastic deformation. II. Analysis of simulated amorphous silicon (9 pages) ...... 036108 Eran Bouchbinder, J. S. Langer, and Itamar Procaccia Cascading dynamics in modular networks (4 pages) ...... 036109 Aram Galstyan and Paul Cohen Weighted network analysis of high-frequency cross-correlation measures (7 pages) ...... 036110 Giulia Iori and Ovidiu V. Precup

Chaos and pattern formation Role of unstable periodic orbits in phase transitions of coupled map lattices (12 pages) ...... 036201 Kazumasa Takeuchi and Masaki Sano Wave trains in an excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo model: Bistable dispersion relation and formation of isolas (6 pages) ...... 036202 Georg Röder, Grigory Bordyugov, Harald Engel, and Martin Falcke Convection patterns in colloidal solutions (10 pages) ...... 036203 B. Huke, H. Pleiner, and M. Lücke Nodal domains in open microwave systems (7 pages) ...... 036204 U. Kuhl, R. Höhmann, H.-J. Stöckmann, and S. Gnutzmann Two types of phase synchronization destruction (9 pages) ...... 036205 Alexander E. Hramov, Alexey A. Koronovskii, and Maria K. Kurovskaya Triggering and enhancing chaos with a prescribed target Lyapunov exponent using optimized perturbations of minimum power (10 pages) ...... 036206 C. Y. Soong and W. T. Huang Multipeaked probability distributions of recurrence times (5 pages) ...... 036207 Patrick Grete and Mario Markus Mode locking of a driven Bose-Einstein condensate (5 pages) ...... 036208 Alexandru I. Nicolin, Mogens H. Jensen, and R. Carretero-González Noise-induced turbulence in nonlocally coupled oscillators (17 pages) ...... 036209 Yoji Kawamura, Hiroya Nakao, and Yoshiki Kuramoto Failure of maximum likelihood methods for chaotic dynamical systems (7 pages) ...... 036210 Kevin Judd Noise effects on gap wave propagation in a nonlinear discrete LC transmission line (7 pages) ...... 036211 Serge Bruno Yamgoué, Savério Morfu, and Patrick Marquié

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Resonant forcing of multidimensional chaotic map dynamics (9 pages) ...... 036212 Glenn Foster, Alfred W. Hübler, and Karin Dahmen Fractal properties of anomalous diffusion in intermittent maps (14 pages) ...... 036213 Nickolay Korabel, Rainer Klages, Aleksei V. Chechkin, Igor M. Sokolov, and Vsevolod Yu. Gonchar Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates under the inﬂuence of periodic and harmonic potentials (9 pages) ...... 036214 N. Hawk Berry and J. Nathan Kutz Curved structures in recurrence plots: The role of the sampling time (8 pages) ...... 036215 A. Facchini and H. Kantz Signature of ray chaos in quasibound wave functions for a stadium-shaped dielectric cavity (4 pages) ...... 036216 Susumu Shinohara and Takahisa Harayama Recovery of classical chaoticlike behavior in a conservative quantum three-body problem (6 pages) ...... 036217 M. J. Everitt Singular unlocking transition in the Winfree model of coupled oscillators (10 pages) ...... 036218 D. Dane Quinn, Richard H. Rand, and Steven H. Strogatz Analytic approach for controlling quantum states in complex systems (10 pages) ...... 036219 Toshiya Takami and Hiroshi Fujisaki Heterogeneity-induced defect bifurcation and pulse dynamics for a three-component reaction-diffusion system (12 pages) ...... 036220 Xiaohui Yuan, Takashi Teramoto, and Yasumasa Nishiura Quantum entropy dynamics for chaotic systems beyond the classical limit (4 pages) ...... 036221 Arnaldo Gammal and Arjendu K. Pattanayak Recurrence analysis of strange nonchaotic dynamics (8 pages) ...... 036222 E. J. Ngamga, A. Nandi, R. Ramaswamy, M. C. Romano, M. Thiel, and J. Kurths

Fluid dynamics Intrusion of nonwetting liquid in paper (4 pages) ...... 036301 J. Hyväluoma, T. Turpeinen, P. Raiskinmäki, A. Jäsberg, A. Koponen, M. Kataja, J. Timonen, and S. Ramaswamy Eigenfrequencies of vortex-pair equilibria near an elliptic cylinder or a flat plate in uniform flow (8 pages) ...... 036302 T. W. G. de Laat Critical parameters for the partial coalescence of a droplet (14 pages) ...... 036303 T. Gilet, K. Mulleners, J. P. Lecomte, N. Vandewalle, and S. Dorbolo Dynamic van der Waals theory (15 pages) ...... 036304 Akira Onuki Forced imbibition in natural porous media: Comparison between experiments and continuum models (9 pages) ...... 036305 Amir Riaz, Guo-Qing Tang, Hamdi A. Tchelepi, and Anthony R. Kovscek Role of base flows on surfactant-driven interfacial instabilities (6 pages) ...... 036306 Hsien-Hung Wei

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Role of pressure in nonlinear velocity gradient dynamics in turbulence (8 pages) ...... 036307 Ravi K. Bikkani and Sharath S. Girimaji Abnormal mixing of passive scalars in chaotic flows (6 pages) ...... 036308 O. V. Popovych, A. Pikovsky, and B. Eckhardt Attractor crisis and bursting in a fluid flow with two no-slip directions (7 pages) ...... 036309 D. Molenaar, H. J. H. Clercx, G. J. F. van Heijst, and Z. Yin Fingering patterns in the lifting flow of a confined miscible ferrofluid (10 pages) ...... 036310 Ching-Yao Chen, S.-Y. Wu, and José A. Miranda Fluid pinch-off in superfluid and normal 4He (6 pages) ...... 036311 J. C. Burton, J. E. Rutledge, and P. Taborek Maximal oil recovery by simultaneous condensation of alkane and steam (16 pages) ...... 036312 J. Bruining and D. Marchesin

Nanosecond near-spinodal homogeneous boiling of water superheated by a pulsed CO2 laser (5 pages) ...... 036313 Sergey I. Kudryashov, Kevin Lyon, and Susan D. Allen Width of a ferrofluid finger: Hysteresis and a double energy minimum (7 pages) ...... 036314 Narelle J. Hillier and David P. Jackson Fast chemical reaction and multiple-scale concentration fields in singular vortices (13 pages) ...... 036315 D. Martinand and J. C. Vassilicos

Plasma physics Correlation effects in partially ionized mass asymmetric electron-hole plasmas (14 pages) ...... 036401 V. S. Filinov, H. Fehske, M. Bonitz, V. E. Fortov, and P. Levashov Production of a monoenergetic electron bunch in a self-injected laser-wakeﬁeld accelerator (10 pages) ...... 036402 C.-L. Chang, C.-T. Hsieh, Y.-C. Ho, Y.-S. Chen, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen Degenerate four-wave mixing mediated by ponderomotive-force-driven plasma gratings (6 pages) ...... 036403 K.-H. Lee, C.-H. Pai, M.-W. Lin, L.-C. Ha, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials Modiﬁed Kubelka-Munk equations for localized waves inside a layered medium (8 pages) ...... 036601 Matthew M. Haney and Kasper van Wijk Spatiotemporal bifurcations of a parametrically excited solitary wave (6 pages) ...... 036602 Likun Zhang, Xinlong Wang, and Zhiyong Tao Parallel-plate metamaterials for cloaking structures (16 pages) ...... 036603 Mário G. Silveirinha, Andrea Alù, and Nader Engheta Moving and colliding pulses in the subcritical Ginzburg-Landau model with a standing-wave drive (6 pages) ...... 036604 Bakhtiyor B. Baizakov, Giovanni Filatrella, and Boris A. Malomed Universal fractal structures in the weak interaction of solitary waves in generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations (20 pages) ...... 036605 Yi Zhu and Jianke Yang Dynamics of scattering on a classical two-dimensional artiﬁcial atom (8 pages) ...... 036606 H. Peelaers, B. Partoens, D. V. Tatyanenko, and F. M. Peeters

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Short wavelength approximation of a boundary integral operator for homogeneous and isotropic elastic bodies (6 pages) ...... 036607 Gregor Tanner and Niels Søndergaard Critical ratio between the amplitudes of two overtaking solitary water waves (8 pages) ...... 036608 Benlong Wang, Jin E. Zhang, Jingxin Zhang, and Hua Liu Fibonacci-like photonic structure for femtosecond pulse compression (7 pages) ...... 036609 L. N. Makarava, M. M. Nazarov, I. A. Ozheredov, A. P. Shkurinov, A. G. Smirnov, and S. V. Zhukovsky Acoustic beam invariants (6 pages) ...... 036610 John Lekner Kink dynamics in spatially inhomogeneous media: The role of internal modes (7 pages) ...... 036611 Jorge A. González, Sara Cuenda, and Angel Sánchez Solution of the reduced anisotropic Maxwell-Bloch equations by using the Riemann-Hilbert problem (7 pages) ...... 036612 A. A. Zabolotskii Transverse-average field approach for the characterization of thin metamaterial slabs (17 pages) ...... 036613 Mário G. Silveirinha and Carlos A. Fernandes Terahertz plasmonic composites (7 pages) ...... 036614 Syrus C. Nemat-Nasser, Alireza V. Amirkhizi, Willie J. Padilla, Dimitri N. Basov, Sia Nemat-Nasser, Derek Bruzewicz, and George Whitesides Thermal diffusion of solitons on anharmonic chains with long-range coupling (10 pages) ...... 036615 C. Brunhuber, F. G. Mertens, and Y. Gaididei Breakup of a multisoliton state of the linearly damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation (9 pages) ...... 036616 Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky and Stanislav A. Derevyanko Phase fluctuations of linearly chirped solitons in a noisy optical fiber channel with varying dispersion, nonlinearity, and gain (14 pages) ...... 036617 Shihua Chen, Y. H. Yang, Lin Yi, Peixiang Lu, and Dong-Sheng Guo

Computational physics Physics of symplectic integrators: Perihelion advances and symplectic corrector algorithms (10 pages) ...... 036701 Siu A. Chin Mesoscopic predictions of the effective thermal conductivity for microscale random porous media (10 pages) ...... 036702 Moran Wang, Jinku Wang, Ning Pan, and Shiyi Chen Quantum annealing of an Ising spin-glass by Green’s function Monte Carlo (6 pages) ...... 036703 Lorenzo Stella and Giuseppe E. Santoro Thermal lattice Boltzmann equation for low Mach number ﬂows: Decoupling model (15 pages) ...... 036704 Zhaoli Guo, Chuguang Zheng, Baochang Shi, and T. S. Zhao Automatic algorithm for monotone trend removal (16 pages) ...... 036705 Călin Vamoş Alternative method to construct equilibrium distribution functions in lattice-Boltzmann method simulation of inviscid compressible ﬂows at high Mach number (13 pages) ...... 036706 K. Qu, C. Shu, and Y. T. Chew

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Accurate numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (10 pages) ...... 036707 W. van Dijk and F. M. Toyama Lattice-based Monte Carlo method for telechelic chain molecules (6 pages) ...... 036708 Behnaz Bozorgui and Daan Frenkel Simulating time harmonic ﬂows with the lattice Boltzmann method (7 pages) ...... 036709 Lilit Axner, Alfons G. Hoekstra, and Peter M. A. Sloot Multigrid contact detection method (7 pages) ...... 036710 Kejing He, Shoubin Dong, and Zhaoyao Zhou Stability and stabilization of the lattice Boltzmann method (17 pages) ...... 036711 R. A. Brownlee, A. N. Gorban, and J. Levesley Entropic lattice Boltzmann representations required to recover Navier-Stokes ﬂows (11 pages) ...... 036712 Brian Keating, George Vahala, Jeffrey Yepez, Min Soe, and Linda Vahala Reptational dynamics in dissipative particle dynamics simulations of polymer melts (7 pages) ...... 036713 Petri Nikunen, Ilpo Vattulainen, and Mikko Karttunen

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics Power-law distributions for the areas of the basins of attraction on a potential energy landscape (4 pages) .... 037101 Claire P. Massen and Jonathan P. K. Doye

Chaos and pattern formation Accelerator dynamics of a fractional kicked rotor (4 pages) ...... 037201 Alexander Iomin Experimental investigation of electric ﬁeld distributions in a chaotic three-dimensional microwave rough billiard (4 pages) ...... 037202 Oleg Tymoshchuk, Nazar Savytskyy, Oleh Hul, Szymon Bauch, and Leszek Sirko Synchronization threshold of a coupled time-delay system (2 pages) ...... 037203 Shangbo Zhou, Hua Li, and Zhongfu Wu

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials Anomalous oscillations in the spectra of light backscattered by inhomogeneous microparticles (4 pages) ..... 037601 Xu Li, Allen Taﬂove, and Vadim Backman Accurate modeling of the optical properties of left-handed media using a ﬁnite-difference time-domain method (4 pages) ...... 037602 Yan Zhao, Pavel Belov, and Yang Hao Perturbative analytical treatment of adiabatically moderated soliton self-frequency shift (4 pages) ...... 037603 A. M. Zheltikov

COMMENTS

Comment on “Calculation of electromagnetic ﬁeld components for a fundamental Gaussian beam” (2 pages) ...... 038501 Hong Luo and Shiyang Liu

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Reply to “Comment on ‘Calculation of electromagnetic ﬁeld components for a fundamental Gaussian beam’ ” (2 pages) ...... 038502 Guozhong Wang and J. F. Webb

Comment on “Exact solutions of the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a nonlinear transmission line” (3 pages) ...... 038601 J. Nickel and H. W. Schürmann

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Dynamics and instabilities of defects in two-dimensional crystals on curved backgrounds ͓Phys. Rev. E 75, 021404 ͑2007͔͒ (1 page) ...... 039901͑E͒ Mark Bowick, Homin Shin, and Alex Travesset Publisher’s Note: Transient nucleation near the mean-ﬁeld spinodal ͓Phys. Rev. E 75, 031102 ͑2007͔͒ (1 page) ...... 039902͑E͒ A. O. Schweiger, K. Barros, and W. Klein Erratum: Effect of supercoiling on formation of protein-mediated DNA loops ͓Phys. Rev. E 74, 061907 ͑2006͔͒ (1 page) ...... 039903͑E͒ P. K. Purohit and P. C. Nelson

Erratum: Metropolis simulations of Met-Enkephalin with solvent-accessible area parametrizations ͓Phys. Rev. E 69, 026703 ͑2004͔͒ (1 page) ...... 039904͑E͒ Bernd A. Berg and Hsiao-Ping Hsu