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PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW E Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, American Institute of Physics please see inside front cover Suite 1NO1 „ISSN: 1063-651X… 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747-4502 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 66, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2002 PARTS 1, 2A, AND 2B

The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts 1, 2A, and 2B. Part 2A consists of pages 035101(R)±036229, and Part 2B pages 036301±039903(E).

PART 1

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Statistical physics of soft matter Growing correlation length on cooling below the onset of caging in a simulated glass-forming liquid (4 pages) ...... 030101͑R͒ N. Lacˇevic´, F. W. Starr, T. B. Schro”der, V. N. Novikov, and S. C. Glotzer Continuous-time random walks and traveling fronts (4 pages) ...... 030102͑R͒ Sergei Fedotov and Vicenc¸Me´ndez

Structured and complex ¯uids Pattern stability and trijunction motion in eutectic solidiﬁcation (4 pages) ...... 030501͑R͒ S. Akamatsu, M. Plapp, G. Faivre, and A. Karma

Liquid crystals Topological defects in schlieren textures of biaxial and uniaxial nematics (4 pages) ...... 030701͑R͒ C. Chiccoli, I. Feruli, O. D. Lavrentovich, P. Pasini, S. V. Shiyanovskii, and C. Zannoni

REGULAR ARTICLES Statistical physics of soft matter Ultraslow vacancy-mediated tracer diffusion in two dimensions: The Einstein relation verified (15 pages) . . . 031101 O. Beńichou and G. Oshanin Theoretical analysis and simulations of the generalized Lotka-Volterra model (6 pages) ...... 031102 Ofer Malcai, Ofer Biham, Peter Richmond, and Sorin Solomon Evolution of escape processes with a time-varying load (6 pages) ...... 031103 Mee H. Choi and Ronald F. Fox Effect of asymmetry on stochastic resonance and stochastic resonance induced by multiplicative noise and by mean-field coupling (7 pages) ...... 031104 Jing-hui Li Effects of biased diffusions on dynamical surface structures for the AϩB→0 reaction (5 pages) ...... 031105 Yup Kim and S. Y. Yoon Random walks with feedback on fractal lattices (6 pages) ...... 031106 Beatrix M. Schulz, Michael Schulz, and Steffen Trimper

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Charged particle layers in the Debye limit (10 pages) ...... 031107 Kenneth I. Golden, Gabor J. Kalman, and Stamatios Kyrkos

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of ¯uids Soret coefficient for liquid argon-krypton mixtures via equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics: A comparison with experiments (15 pages) ...... 031201 A. Perronace, G. Ciccotti, F. Leroy, A. H. Fuchs, and B. Rousseau Equation of state of additive hard-disk fluid mixtures: A critical analysis of two recent proposals (5 pages) ...... 031202 M. Lo´pez de Haro, S. B. Yuste, and A. Santos van der Waals–Tonks-type equations of state for hard-disk and hard-sphere fluids (4 pages) ...... 031203 Xian Zhi Wang Equilibrium temperature of a convex body in a free molecular shearing flow (4 pages) ...... 031204 Lars H. So¨derholm Evidence of short-time dynamical correlations in simple liquids (7 pages) ...... 031205 T. Scopigno, G. Ruocco, F. Sette, and G. Viliani Density functional theory of solvation in a polar solvent: Extracting the functional from homogeneous solvent simulations (8 pages) ...... 031206 Rosa Ramirez, Ralph Gebauer, Michel Mareschal, and Daniel Borgis

Granular materials Microscopic two-dimensional lattice model of dimer granular compaction with friction (9 pages) ...... 031301 C. Fusco, A. Fasolino, P. Gallo, A. Petri, and M. Rovere Minimal model for aeolian sand dunes (18 pages) ...... 031302 Klaus Kroy, Gerd Sauermann, and Hans J. Herrmann Dynamic rearrangements and packing regimes in randomly deposited two-dimensional granular beds (10 pages) ...... 031303 I. Bratberg, F. Radjai, and A. Hansen Stress transmission through three-dimensional ordered granular arrays (9 pages) ...... 031304 Nathan W. Mueggenburg, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel Anomalous transport in conical granular piles (5 pages) ...... 031305 Peter Ahlgren, Mikkel Avlund, Ib Klewe, Jonas Nyvold Pedersen, and A´ lvaro Corral

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Colloidal rod-sphere mixtures: Fluid-fluid interfaces and the Onsager limit (13 pages) ...... 031401 Joseph M. Brader, Ansgar Esztermann, and Matthias Schmidt Self-diffusion and collective diffusion in a model viscoelastic system (7 pages) ...... 031402 Eric Michel, Luca Cipelletti, Emmanuel d’Humieres, Yann Gambin, Wladimir Urbach, Gre´goire Porte, and Jacqueline Appell Stretched exponential relaxation for growing interfaces in quenched disordered media (4 pages) ...... 031403 A. Dıáz-Sańchez, A. Pe´rez-Garrido, A. Urbina, and J. D. Catala´

Structured and complex ¯uids Distance between inherent structures and the inﬂuence of saddles on approaching the mode coupling transition in a simple glass former (5 pages) ...... 031501 Gabriel Fabricius and Daniel A. Stariolo Cluster diffusion at the gelation point (5 pages) ...... 031502 Sune NÖrhÖj Jespersen

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Merging of ␣ and slow ␤ relaxation in supercooled liquids (4 pages) ...... 031503 Takuya Fujima, Hiroshi Frusawa, and Kohzo Ito Fingering instability of a sheet of yield-stress fluid (5 pages) ...... 031504 John R. de Bruyn, Piotr Habdas, and Stella Kim Dynamical behavior of a complex fluid near an out-of-equilibrium transition: Approaching simple rheological chaos (13 pages) ...... 031505 Jean-Baptiste Salmon, Annie Colin, and Didier Roux Rheological behavior of microemulsions (9 pages) ...... 031506 G. Gonnella and M. Ruggieri Heat capacity and thermal expansion anomalies in the nitromethane–1-butanol mixture near its upper critical point (6 pages) ...... 031507 C. A. Cerdeirinã, J. Troncoso, E. Carballo, and L. Romanı´ Low-temperature phase separation of a binary liquid mixture in porous materials studied by cryoporometry and pulsed-field-gradient NMR (10 pages) ...... 031508 Rustem Valiullin and Istvań Furo´ Phase behavior and thermodynamic anomalies of core-softened fluids (14 pages) ...... 031509 Nigel B. Wilding and James E. Magee High-frequency dynamics of the glass former dibutylphthalate under pressure (8 pages) ...... 031510 A. Mermet, E. Duval, A. Polian, and M. Krisch

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Rupture of molecular thin films observed in atomic force microscopy. I. Theory (9 pages) ...... 031601 Hans-Ju¨rgen Butt and Volker Franz Rupture of molecular thin films observed in atomic force microscopy. II. Experiment (7 pages) ...... 031602 Simona Loi, Gexiao Sun, Volker Franz, and Hans-Ju¨rgen Butt Experiments of interfacial roughening in Hele-Shaw flows with weak quenched disorder (18 pages) ...... 031603 Jordi Soriano, Jordi Ortıń, and A. Hernańdez-Machado Measurement of ultralow interfacial tension with a laser interface manipulation technique (6 pages) ...... 031604 Shujiro Mitani and Keiji Sakai Process of irreversible nucleation in multilayer growth. I. Failure of the mean-field approach (14 pages) . . . . 031605 Paolo Politi and Claudio Castellano Process of irreversible nucleation in multilayer growth. II. Exact results in one and two dimensions (15 pages) ...... 031606 Paolo Politi and Claudio Castellano

Liquid crystals Theory of polar biaxial nematic phases (5 pages) ...... 031701 Bruno Mettout, Pierre Tole´dano, Hideo Takezoe, and Junji Watanabe Reorientational dynamics of the pseudonematic domains studied with nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy (5 pages) ...... 031702 Przemysław Ke¸dziora, Jan Jadz˙yn, and Louis Hellemans Optical and x-ray evidence of the ‘‘de Vries’’ Sm-A*–Sm-C* transition in a non-layer-shrinkage ferroelectric liquid crystal with very weak interlayer tilt correlation (11 pages) ...... 031703 Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, and Marc D. Radcliffe Theory of bent-core liquid-crystal phases and phase transitions (27 pages) ...... 031704 T. C. Lubensky and Leo Radzihovsky Prewavy instability of nematic liquid crystals in a high-frequency electric ﬁeld (6 pages) ...... 031705 Jong-Hoon Huh, Yusril Yusuf, Yoshiki Hidaka, and Shoichi Kai Isotropic-cholesteric transition in liquid-crystalline gels (6 pages) ...... 031706 Robert A. Pelcovits and Robert B. Meyer

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Pattern-forming instability induced by light in pure and dye-doped nematic liquid crystals (8 pages) ...... 031707 D. O. Krimer, G. Demeter, and L. Kramer Nanophase segregation of nonpolar solvents in smectic liquid crystals of bent-shape molecules (6 pages) . . . . 031708 M. Y. M. Huang, A. M. Pedreira, O. G. Martins, A. M. Figueiredo Neto, and A. Ja´kli Electro-optic study of antiferroelectric freely suspended films of bent-core mesogens in the B2 phase (8 pages) ...... 031709 Ralf Stannarius, Christian Langer, and Wolfgang Weissflog Comparative x-ray and dielectric measurements of smectic A–smectic-C transition in bulk and confined geometries (7 pages) ...... 031710 K. L. Sandhya, S. Krishna Prasad, D. S. Shankar Rao, and Ch. Bahr Rheology of defect networks in cholesteric liquid crystals (10 pages) ...... 031711 Laurence Ramos, Martin Zapotocky, T. C. Lubensky, and D. A. Weitz Symmetries of the Doi kinetic theory for nematic polymers of arbitrary aspect ratio: At rest and in linear flows (9 pages) ...... 031712 M. Gregory Forest, Ruhai Zhou, and Qi Wang

Polymers Binary hard sphere mixtures in block copolymer melts (7 pages) ...... 031801 Russell B. Thompson, Jae Youn Lee, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs Knots in charged polymers (8 pages) ...... 031802 Paul G. Dommersnes, Yacov Kantor, and Mehran Kardar Bethe approximation for a hydrophobic-polar random copolymer (11 pages) ...... 031803 M. Pretti Computer simulation of structure and microphase separation in model A-B-A triblock copolymers (7 pages) ...... 031804 M. Banaszak, S. Wołoszczuk, T. Pakula, and S. Jurga

Biological physics Complex patterns of abnormal heartbeats (12 pages) ...... 031901 Verena Schulte-Frohlinde, Yosef Ashkenazy, Ary L. Goldberger, Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Madalena Costa, Adrian Morley-Davies, H. Eugene Stanley, and Leon Glass Protein design depends on the size of the amino acid alphabet (7 pages) ...... 031902 Robin C. Ball and Thomas M. A. Fink Properties of a ‘‘phase transition’’ induced by antiangiogenetic therapeutical protocols (9 pages) ...... 031903 M. Scalerandi and F. Peggion Growth of ﬁngerlike protrusions driven by molecular motors (5 pages) ...... 031904 K. Kruse and K. Sekimoto Intracellular signal propagation in a two-dimensional autocatalytic reaction model (10 pages) ...... 031905 F. Castiglione, M. Bernaschi, S. Succi, R. Heinrich, and M. W. Kirschner Le´vy scaling: The diffusion entropy analysis applied to DNA sequences (15 pages) ...... 031906 Nicola Scafetta, Vito Latora, and Paolo Grigolini Statistical properties of spike trains: Universal and stimulus-dependent aspects (14 pages) ...... 031907 Naama Brenner, Oded Agam, William Bialek, and Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck Exploring the natural conformational changes of the C-terminal domain of calmodulin (8 pages) ...... 031908 J. Elezgaray, G. Marcou, and Y. H. Sanejouand Structural and folding properties of a lattice prion model (7 pages) ...... 031909 Andrew F. Wind, Josh P. Kemp, Aleksander V. Ermoshkin, and Jeff Z. Y. Chen Recognition of an organism from fragments of its complete genome (9 pages) ...... 031910 V. V. Anh, K. S. Lau, and Z. G. Yu

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Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein folding and aggregation studied by density functional theory: Statics (9 pages) ...... 031911 Akira R. Kinjo and Shoji Takada Unzipping double-stranded DNA with a force: Numerical results (7 pages) ...... 031912 Jeff Z. Y. Chen Simplifying the mosaic description of DNA sequences (6 pages) ...... 031913 Rajeev K. Azad, J. Subba Rao, Wentian Li, and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy Two-component fluid membranes near repulsive walls: Linearized hydrodynamics of equilibrium and nonequilibrium states (16 pages) ...... 031914 Sumithra Sankararaman, Gautam I. Menon, and P. B. Sunil Kumar Effect of ␣-stable sorptive waiting times on microbial transport in microflow cells (17 pages) ...... 031915 F. Alejandro Bonilla and John H. Cushman Maximizing spike train coherence or incoherence in the leaky integrate-and-fire model (6 pages) ...... 031916 Benjamin Lindner, Lutz Schimansky-Geier, and Andre´ Longtin

BRIEF REPORTS

Statistical physics of soft matter

Noise-aided nonlinear Bayesian estimation (3 pages) ...... 032101 François Chapeau-Blondeau Recursive approach for constructing the qϭ1/2 maximum entropy distribution from redundant data (4 pages) ...... 032102 L. Rebollo-Neira and A. Plastino Inconsistencies in moment methods (4 pages) ...... 032103 R. M. Velasco, F. J. Uribe, and L. S. Garcıá-Colıń

Structured and complex ¯uids

Temperature and pressure dependence of the ␣ relaxation and conﬁgurational entropy of a prototype glass former (4 pages) ...... 032501 Lucia Comez, Daniele Fioretto, Hartmut Kriegs, and Werner Steffen

Liquid crystals

Saturn-ring defects around microspheres suspended in nematic liquid crystals: An analogy between conﬁned geometries and magnetic ﬁelds (2 pages) ...... 032701 Holger Stark

Biological physics

Phase diagram for unzipping DNA with long-range interactions (4 pages) ...... 032901 Eran A. Mukamel and Eugene I. Shakhnovich Addendum to ‘‘Random population dispersal in a linear hostile environment’’ (3 pages) ...... 032902 S. Harris

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General methods of statistical physics Email networks and the spread of computer viruses (4 pages) ...... 035101͑R͒ M. E. J. Newman, Stephanie Forrest, and Justin Balthrop Branching of negative streamers in free ﬂight (4 pages) ...... 035102͑R͒ Andrea Rocco, Ute Ebert, and Willem Hundsdorfer Scale-free topology of e-mail networks (4 pages) ...... 035103͑R͒ Holger Ebel, Lutz-Ingo Mielsch, and Stefan Bornholdt

Chaos and pattern formation Inﬁnities of stable periodic orbits in systems of coupled oscillators (4 pages) ...... 035201͑R͒ Peter Ashwin, Alastair M. Rucklidge, and Rob Sturman Inﬂuence of colored noise on chaotic systems (4 pages) ...... 035202͑R͒ Stefano Redaelli, Dariusz Plewczyn´ski, and Wiesław M. Macek Quantum chaos induced by nonadiabatic coupling in wave-packet dynamics (4 pages) ...... 035203͑R͒ Hisashi Higuchi and Kazuo Takatsuka

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence Lattice Boltzmann model for binary mixtures (4 pages) ...... 035301͑R͒ Li-Shi Luo and Sharath S. Girimaji

Physics of beams Spontaneous emission of bound photons from relativistic free electrons (3 pages) ...... 035501͑R͒ H. Nitta and T. Miyazaki

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials Propagation of incoherent ‘‘white’’ light and modulation instability in noninstantaneous nonlinear media (4 pages) ...... 035601͑R͒ Hrvoje Buljan, Antonio Sˇiber, Marin Soljacˇic´, and Mordechai Segev

REGULAR ARTICLES General methods of statistical physics Nonequilibrium kinetic phase transition of a monomer-dimer reaction model with sequential dimer adsorption in two dimensions (4 pages) ...... 036101 Da-yin Hua and Yu-qiang Ma Statistical thermodynamics of quantum Brownian motion: Construction of perpetuum mobile of the second kind (52 pages) ...... 036102 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen and A. E. Allahverdyan Linear response of the Lorenz system (11 pages) ...... 036103 Christian H. Reick Cellular automata model simulating trafﬁc interactions between on-ramp and main road (6 pages) ...... 036104 Rui Jiang, Qing-Song Wu, and Bing-Hong Wang Thermodynamics of self-gravitating systems (19 pages) ...... 036105 Pierre-Henri Chavanis, Carole Rosier, and Cle´ment Sire Generalized competing Glauber-type dynamics and Kawasaki-type dynamics (9 pages) ...... 036106 Han Zhu, Jian-yang Zhu, and Yang Zhou

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Ground-state entropies of the Potts antiferromagnet on diamond hierarchical lattices (8 pages) ...... 036107 Fernando D. Nobre and Evaldo M. F. Curado Universality of dynamic scaling for avalanches in disordered Ising systems (7 pages) ...... 036108 Guang-Ping Zheng and Mo Li Phase diagram of self-attracting systems (7 pages) ...... 036109 P. H. Chavanis and I. Ispolatov Quantum multibaker maps: Extreme quantum regime (16 pages) ...... 036110 Daniel K. Wo´jcik and J. R. Dorfman Anomalous pulse delay in microwave propagation: A stochastic process interpretation (5 pages) ...... 036111 A. Ranfagni, R. Ruggeri, A. Agresti, C. Ranfagni, and P. Sandri Statistical properties and attack tolerance of growing networks with algebraic preferential attachment (7 pages) ...... 036112 Zonghua Liu, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Nong Ye Percolation critical exponents in scale-free networks (4 pages) ...... 036113 Reuven Cohen, Daniel ben-Avraham, and Shlomo Havlin Exactly solvable model with stable and metastable states for a polymer chain near an adsorbing surface (16 pages) ...... 036114 L. I. Klushin, A. M. Skvortsov, and F. A. M. Leermakers Conserved contact process in one to five dimensions (5 pages) ...... 036115 Munir M. S. Sabag and Ma´rio J. de Oliveira Growing Cayley trees described by a Fermi distribution (5 pages) ...... 036116 Ginestra Bianconi Numerical study of the disorder-driven roughening transition in an elastic manifold in a periodic potential (6 pages) ...... 036117 Jae Dong Noh and Heiko Rieger Macroscopic car condensation in a parking garage (11 pages) ...... 036118 Meesoon Ha and Marcel den Nijs Edge overload breakdown in evolving networks (7 pages) ...... 036119 Petter Holme Rain: Relaxations in the sky (9 pages) ...... 036120 Ole Peters and Kim Christensen Diffusive thermal dynamics for the Ising ferromagnet (8 pages) ...... 036121 P. Buonsante, R. Burioni, D. Cassi, and A. Vezzani n-site approximations and coherent-anomaly-method analysis for a stochastic sandpile (6 pages) ...... 036122 Ronald Dickman Dynamic phase transitions in the anisotropic XY spin system in an oscillating magnetic field (18 pages) . . . . 036123 Tomoaki Yasui, Hiroki Tutu, Mariko Yamamoto, and Hirokazu Fujisaka Quiet-time statistics: A tool to probe the dynamics of self-organized-criticality systems from within the strong overlapping regime (10 pages) ...... 036124 R. Sańchez, D. E. Newman, W. Ferenbaugh, B. A. Carreras, V. E. Lynch, and B. Ph. van Milligen Statistical mechanics of typical set decoding (6 pages) ...... 036125 Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Kazutaka Nakamura, and Jort van Mourik Evolving networks with distance preferences (7 pages) ...... 036126 J. Jost and M. P. Joy Firing sequence storage using inhibitory synapses in networks of pulsatil nonhomogeneous integrate-and-fire neural oscillators (12 pages) ...... 036127 Ivan J. Matus Bloch and Claudio Romero Z. Simple models of small-world networks with directed links (6 pages) ...... 036128 A. Ramezanpour and V. Karimipour

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High-order variational perturbation theory for the free energy (11 pages) ...... 036129 Florian Weissbach, Axel Pelster, and Bodo Hamprecht Scaling detection in time series: Diffusion entropy analysis (10 pages) ...... 036130 Nicola Scafetta and Paolo Grigolini Nonequilibrium antiferromagnetic mixed-spin Ising model (6 pages) ...... 036131 Mauricio Godoy and Wagner Figueiredo Acoustic crystal thermodynamic integration method (7 pages) ...... 036132 Paul D. Beale Three-state model for cooperative desorption on a one-dimensional lattice (11 pages) ...... 036133 F. Vikas, F. Baras, and G. Nicolis Renormalization group and nonequilibrium action in stochastic ﬁeld theory (20 pages) ...... 036134 Juan Zanella and Esteban Calzetta Fracture of disordered solids in compression as a critical phenomenon. I. Statistical mechanics formalism (10 pages) ...... 036135 Renaud Toussaint and Steven R. Pride Fracture of disordered solids in compression as a critical phenomenon. II. Model Hamiltonian for a population of interacting cracks (9 pages) ...... 036136 Renaud Toussaint and Steven R. Pride Fracture of disordered solids in compression as a critical phenomenon. III. Analysis of the localization transition (11 pages) ...... 036137 Renaud Toussaint and Steven R. Pride Generalization and capacity of extensively large two-layered perceptrons (13 pages) ...... 036138 Michal Rosen-Zvi, Andreas Engel, and Ido Kanter Internal spatiotemporal stochastic resonance in the presence of weak noise (7 pages) ...... 036139 O. Kortlu¨ke, V.N. Kuzovkov, and W. von Niessen First- and second-order phase transitions in scale-free networks (4 pages) ...... 036140 Ferenc Iglo´i and Loïc Turban

Chaos and pattern formation Coherence resonance near the Hopf bifurcation in coupled chaotic oscillators (5 pages) ...... 036201 Meng Zhan, Guo Wei Wei, Choy-Heng Lai, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Zonghua Liu Chaotic dynamics and orbit stability in the parabolic oval billiard (5 pages) ...... 036202 V. Lopac, I. Mrkonjic´, and D. Radic´ Ergodic chaos-based communication schemes (8 pages) ...... 036203 H. Leung, H. Yu, and K. Murali Synchronizing the information content of a chaotic map and flow via symbolic dynamics (5 pages) ...... 036204 Ned J. Corron, Shawn D. Pethel, and Krishna Myneni Stability and optimal parameters for continuous feedback chaos control (7 pages) ...... 036205 Y. Chembo Kouomou and P. Woafo Fluctuating pulled fronts: The origin and the effects of a finite particle cutoff (24 pages) ...... 036206 Debabrata Panja and Wim van Saarloos Excitation fronts in a spatially modulated light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky system (5 pages) ...... 036207 N. Manz, V. A. Davydov, V. S. Zykov, and S. C. Mu¨ller Analysis of generalized synchronization in directionally coupled chaotic phase-coherent oscillators by local minimal fluctuations (5 pages) ...... 036208 Daihai He, Lewi Stone, and Zhigang Zheng Misleading signatures of quantum chaos (5 pages) ...... 036209 J. M. G. Go´mez, R. A. Molina, A. Relanõ, and J. Retamosa Spatiotemporal intermittency and scaling laws in inhomogeneous coupled map lattices (10 pages) ...... 036210 Ashutosh Sharma and Neelima Gupte

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Quantum Arnol’d diffusion in a simple nonlinear system (10 pages) ...... 036211 V. Ya. Demikhovskii, F. M. Izrailev, and A. I. Malyshev Decoherence and linear entropy increase in the quantum baker’s map (11 pages) ...... 036212 Andrei N. Soklakov and Ru¨diger Schack Magnetic field effect on the thresholds of a sequence of transitions in the electroconvection of a homeotropic nematic liquid crystal (8 pages) ...... 036213 Nańdor E´ ber, Szila´rd Ne´meth, Axel G. Rossberg, Lorenz Kramer, and A´ gnes Buka Large-excitability asymptotics for scroll waves in three-dimensional excitable media (13 pages) ...... 036214 Daniel Margerit and Dwight Barkley Spontaneous synchronization in a Josephson transmission line (9 pages) ...... 036215 D. Tsygankov and K. Wiesenfeld Pattern formation induced by nonequilibrium global alternation of dynamics (11 pages) ...... 036216 J. Buceta, Katja Lindenberg, and J. M. R. Parrondo Detectability of dynamical coupling from delay-coordinate embedding of scalar time series (5 pages) ...... 036217 Ying-Cheng Lai and Eric J. Kostelich Self-replication of a pulse in excitable reaction-diffusion systems (7 pages) ...... 036218 Yumino Hayase and Takao Ohta Oscillatory reactive dynamics on surfaces: A lattice limit cycle model (11 pages) ...... 036219 A. V. Shabunin, F. Baras, and A. Provata Multichannel intermittencies induced by symmetries (6 pages) ...... 036220 Christophe Letellier, Pierre Werny, Jean-Marc Malasoma, and Robert Gilmore Derivation of semiconductor laser mean-field and Swift-Hohenberg equations (19 pages) ...... 036221 J.-F. Mercier and J. V. Moloney Stabilizing coupled map lattice systems with adaptive adjustment (7 pages) ...... 036222 Weihong Huang Phase synchronization in bidirectionally coupled optothermal devices (10 pages) ...... 036223 R. Herrero, M. Figueras, F. Pi, and G. Orriols Phase multistability of self-modulated oscillations (9 pages) ...... 036224 O. V. Sosnovtseva, D. E. Postnov, A. M. Nekrasov, E. Mosekilde, and N.-H. Holstein-Rathlou Stability of the trapped nonconservative Gross-Pitaevskii equation with attractive two-body interaction (6 pages) ...... 036225 Victo S. Filho, T. Frederico, Arnaldo Gammal, and Lauro Tomio Effective desynchronization with bipolar double-pulse stimulation (9 pages) ...... 036226 Peter A. Tass Coupled optical excitable cells (11 pages) ...... 036227 Alejandro M. Yacomotti, Gabriel B. Mindlin, Massimo Giudici, Salvador Balle, Stephane Barland, and Jorge Tredicce Polarization coupling and pattern selection in a type-II optical parametric oscillator (12 pages) ...... 036228 Gonzalo Izu´s, Maxi San Miguel, and Daniel Walgraef When are synchronization errors small? (8 pages) ...... 036229 Lucas Illing, Jochen Bro¨cker, Ljupco Kocarev, Ulrich Parlitz, and Henry D. I. Abarbanel

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Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence Nonlinear evolution of unstable ﬂuid interface (8 pages) ...... 036301 S. I. Abarzhi Clustering instability of the spatial distribution of inertial particles in turbulent ﬂows (16 pages) ...... 036302 Tov Elperin, Nathan Kleeorin, Victor S. L’vov, Igor Rogachevskii, and Dmitry Sokoloff

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Temperature structure functions in the Bolgiano regime of thermal convection (6 pages) ...... 036303 L. Skrbek, J. J. Niemela, K. R. Sreenivasan, and R. J. Donnelly Lattice Boltzmann model for incompressible flows through porous media (9 pages) ...... 036304 Zhaoli Guo and T. S. Zhao Boundary effects on the nonequilibrium structure factor of fluids below the Rayleigh-Beńard instability (17 pages) ...... 036305 Jose´ M. Ortiz de Za´rate and Jan V. Sengers Saltating motion of a bead in a rapid water stream (16 pages) ...... 036306 Christophe Ancey, Françoise Bigillon, Philippe Frey, Jack Lanier, and Re´mi Ducret Numerical insight into flow structure in ultraturbulent thermal convection (5 pages) ...... 036307 S. Kenjeresˇ and K. Hanjalic´ Nonlinear growth of periodic patterns (9 pages) ...... 036308 Simon Villain-Guillot and Christophe Josserand Spiral wave meandering induced by fluid convection in an excitable medium (6 pages) ...... 036309 V. Pe´rez-Villar, A. P. Mun˜uzuri, M. N. Lorenzo, and V. Pe´rez-Mun˜uzuri Molecular dynamics simulation of the response of a gas to a spherical piston: Implications for sonoluminescence (14 pages) ...... 036310 Steven J. Ruuth, Seth Putterman, and Barry Merriman Self-rotation in electrocapillary flows (10 pages) ...... 036311 M. A. Herrada and A. Barrero Dynamical evolution of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov mixing fronts (7 pages) ...... 036312 Baolian Cheng, J. Glimm, and D. H. Sharp Anomalous scaling of a passive scalar advected by the turbulent velocity field with finite correlation time: Two-loop approximation (11 pages) ...... 036313 L. Ts. Adzhemyan, N. V. Antonov, and J. Honkonen Lattice Boltzmann model with nearly constant density (4 pages) ...... 036314 Hai-ping Fang, Rong-zheng Wan, and Zhi-fang Lin

Plasma physics Kinetic study of wall collisions in a coaxial Hall discharge (10 pages) ...... 036401 Nathan B. Meezan and Mark A. Cappelli Raman forward scattering and self-modulation of laser pulses in tapered plasma channels (13 pages) ...... 036402 J. R. Penãno, B. Hafizi, P. Sprangle, R. F. Hubbard, and A. Ting Simple model for laser-produced, mass-limited water-droplet plasmas (13 pages) ...... 036403 Kurt Garloff, Michiel van den Donker, Joost van der Mullen, Fred van Goor, Ralph Brummans, and Jeroen Jonkers Stimulated electron-acoustic-wave scattering in a laser plasma (4 pages) ...... 036404 Lj. Nikolic´, M. M. Sˇkoric´, S. Ishiguro, and T. Sato Scattered light diagnostics of overdense plasma cavity in solid targets irradiated by an ultraintense laser pulse (8 pages) ...... 036405 A. A. Andreev, A. G. Zhidkov, M. Uesaka, K. Kinoshita, and K. Yu. Platonov Electron acceleration and high-order harmonic generation by an intense short pulse laser in a magnetic field (5 pages) ...... 036406 Wei Yu, Z. Y. Chen, M. Y. Yu, L. J. Qian, P. X. Lu, R. X. Li, and K. Koyama Ion-acoustic envelope solitons in electron-positron-ion plasmas (4 pages) ...... 036407 M. Salahuddin, H. Saleem, and M. Saddiq Nonlinear structures in interchange mode turbulence (7 pages) ...... 036408 Sheikh Dastgeer, Raghvendra Singh, Hans Nordman, Jan Weiland, and Andre´ Rogister

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Measurements of relativistic self-phase-modulation in plasma (6 pages) ...... 036409 I. Watts, M. Zepf, E. L. Clark, M. Tatarakis, K. Krushelnick, A. E. Dangor, R. Allott, R. J. Clarke, D. Neely, and P. A. Norreys Radiative ablation to low-Z matter (6 pages) ...... 036410 Jiamin Yang, Jiatian Sheng, Yaonan Ding, Yunsheng Li, Shaoen Jiang, Tinggui Feng, Zhijian Zheng, Kexu Sun, Wenghai Zhang, Yanli Cui, and Jiushen Cheng

Physics of beams Three-dimensional crystalline ion beams (9 pages) ...... 036501 U. Schramm, T. Scha¨tz, and D. Habs Photoelectron trapping in quadrupole and sextupole magnetic ﬁelds (8 pages) ...... 036502 L. F. Wang, H. Fukuma, S. Kurokawa, and K. Oide Fundamental and harmonic microbunching in a high-gain self-ampliﬁed spontaneous-emission free-electron laser (4 pages) ...... 036503 A. Tremaine, X. J. Wang, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, M. Cornacchia, A. Murokh, H.-D. Nuhn, R. Malone, C. Pellegrini, S. Reiche, J. Rosenzweig, J. Skaritka, and V. Yakimenko

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials Quasi-two-dimensional transfer of elastic waves (16 pages) ...... 036601 Nicolas P. Tre´goure`s and Bart A. van Tiggelen Etched distributed Bragg reflectors as three-dimensional photonic crystals: Photonic bands and density of states (7 pages) ...... 036602 E. Pavarini and L. C. Andreani Solitary waves in liquid crystalline waveguides (9 pages) ...... 036603 Miroslaw A. Karpierz Modulational instability in optical-microwave interaction (5 pages) ...... 036604 K. Bubke, D. C. Hutchings, U. Peschel, and F. Lederer Solutions of a (2ϩ1)-dimensional dispersive long wave equation (9 pages) ...... 036605 Chun-Li Chen, Xiao-yan Tang, and Sen-Yue Lou Effects of the near-dipole–dipole interaction on gap solitons in resonantly absorbing gratings (5 pages) . . . . . 036606 Jing Cheng and Jianying Zhou Self-propelled cavity solitons in semiconductor microcavities (8 pages) ...... 036607 A. J. Scroggie, J. M. McSloy, and W. J. Firth Superposition of noncoaxial vortices in parametric wave mixing (10 pages) ...... 036608 Anatoly P. Sukhorukov, Alexey A. Kalinovich, Gabriel Molina-Terriza, and Lluis Torner Asymptotic soliton train solutions of the defocusing nonlinear Schro¨dinger equation (10 pages) ...... 036609 A. M. Kamchatnov, R. A. Kraenkel, and B. A. Umarov Two-dimensional electromagnetic crystals formed by reactively loaded wires (7 pages) ...... 036610 P. A. Belov, C. R. Simovski, and S. A. Tretyakov Photonic band gap structure containing metamaterial with negative permittivity and permeability (4 pages) ...... 036611 Igor S. Nefedov and Sergei A. Tretyakov Globally linked vortex clusters in trapped wave fields (4 pages) ...... 036612 Lucian-Cornel Crasovan, Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Juan P. Torres, Lluis Torner, Vıćtor M. Pe´rez-Garcıá, and Dumitru Mihalache Calculations and measurements of wire and/or split-ring negative index media (5 pages) ...... 036613 F. J. Rachford, D. L. Smith, P. F. Loschialpo, and D. W. Forester Paraxial propagation along the optical axis of a uniaxial medium (11 pages) ...... 036614 Alessandro Ciattoni, Gabriella Cincotti, Damiano Provenziani, and Claudio Palma

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Solitary Rayleigh waves in the presence of surface nonlinearities (15 pages) ...... 036615 A. S. Kovalev, A. P. Mayer, C. Eckl, and G. A. Maugin Angle-resolved reﬂectivity of single-domain photonic crystals: Effects of disorder (5 pages) ...... 036616 Juan F. Galisteo Lo`pez and Willem L. Vos Interaction of a discrete breather with a lattice junction (13 pages) ...... 036617 Ioana Bena, Avadh Saxena, and J. M. Sancho Modeling of discontinuities in photonic crystal waveguides with the multiple multipole method (12 pages) ...... 036618 Esteban Moreno, Daniel Erni, and Christian Hafner

Computational physics Numerical simulation of blow-up solutions of the vector nonlinear Schro¨dinger equation (14 pages) ...... 036701 James Coleman and Catherine Sulem Mesoscopic solvent simulations: Multiparticle-collision dynamics of three-dimensional ﬂows (9 pages) . . . . . 036702 E. Allahyarov and G. Gompper Spin polarization of the low-density three-dimensional electron gas (7 pages) ...... 036703 F. H. Zong, C. Lin, and D. M. Ceperley Broad histogram relation for the bond number and its applications (7 pages) ...... 036704 Chiaki Yamaguchi, Naoki Kawashima, and Yutaka Okabe Mobility spectrum computational analysis using a maximum entropy approach (9 pages) ...... 036705 S. Kiatgamolchai, M. Myronov, O. A. Mironov, V. G. Kantser, E. H. C. Parker, and T. E. Whall

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics Exponentially hard problems are sometimes polynomial, a large deviation analysis of search algorithms for the random satisﬁability problem, and its application to stop-and-restart resolutions (4 pages) ...... 037101 Simona Cocco and Re´mi Monasson Phase transitions in a network with a range-dependent connection probability (4 pages) ...... 037102 Parongama Sen, Kinjal Banerjee, and Turbasu Biswas Single-particle entropy in (1ϩ2)-body random matrix ensembles (4 pages) ...... 037103 V. K. B. Kota and R. Sahu Short-time dynamics of a random Ising model with long-range interaction (4 pages) ...... 037104 Yuan Chen

Chaos and pattern formation Harmonic modulation instability and spatiotemporal chaos (4 pages) ...... 037201 X. T. He, C. Y. Zheng, and S. P. Zhu Lag times and parameter mismatches in synchronization of unidirectionally coupled chaotic external cavity semiconductor lasers (4 pages) ...... 037202 E. M. Shahverdiev, S. Sivaprakasam, and K. A. Shore

Plasma physics Electrostatic interaction in dusty plasma (4 pages) ...... 037401 J. Vranjesˇ, M. Y. Tanaka, B. P. Pandey, and M. Kono Relativistic EϫB acceleration (4 pages) ...... 037402 Satoshi Takeuchi

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Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials Statistical properties of a photon gas in random media (4 pages) ...... 037601 Alexander A. Kokhanovsky Pulse reﬂection by photonic barriers (4 pages) ...... 037602 G. Nimtz, A. Haibel, and R.-M. Vetter

Computational physics Stochastic unraveling of time-local quantum master equations beyond the Lindblad class (4 pages) ...... 037701 Ulrich Kleinekatho¨fer, Ivan Kondov, and Michael Schreiber Numerical construction of ‘‘optimal’’ nonoscillating amplitude and phase functions (4 pages) ...... 037702 A. Matzkin and M. Lombardi

COMMENTS

General methods of statistical physics Comment on ‘‘Analysis of optimal velocity model with explicit delay’’ (2 pages) ...... 038101 L. C. Davis

Nonlinear hydrodynamics and turbulence Comment on ‘‘Diffusion in biased turbulence’’ (3 pages) ...... 038301 James P. Gleeson Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Diffusion in biased turbulence’ ’’ (4 pages) ...... 038302 M. Vlad, F. Spineanu, J. H. Misguich, and R. Balescu

ERRATA Erratum: NMR study of translational and rotational dynamics in monoolein-water mesophases: Obstruction and hydration effects ͓Phys. Rev. E 62, 8182 ͑2000͔͒ (1 page) ...... 039901͑E͒ Thorsten Feiweier, Burkhard Geil, Eva-Maria Pospiech, Franz Fujara, and Roland Winter Erratum: Dynamics of quantum systems ͓Phys. Rev. E 64, 036213 ͑2001͔͒ (1 page) ...... 039902͑E͒ I. Rotter Erratum: Positive Lyapunov exponents calculated from time series of strange nonchaotic attractors ͓Phys. Rev. E 64, 026220 ͑2001͔͒ (1 page) ...... 039903͑E͒ Jian-Wei Shuai, Jun Lian, Phillip J. Hahn, and Dominique M. Durand

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