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THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 80, NUMBER 5 CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2009

PART 1: STATISTICAL, SOFT MATTER, AND BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

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Statistical physics Avalanche dynamics in ﬂuid imbibition near the depinning transition (4 pages) ...... 050101͑R͒ Marc Pradas, Juan M. López, and A. Hernández-Machado Loewner driving functions for off-critical percolation clusters (4 pages) ...... 050102͑R͒ Yoichiro Kondo, Namiko Mitarai, and Hiizu Nakanishi Nature of the order-disorder transition in the Vicsek model for the collective motion of self-propelled particles (4 pages) ...... 050103͑R͒ Gabriel Baglietto and Ezequiel V. Albano Experimental investigation of a Brownian ratchet effect in ferroﬂuids (4 pages) ...... 050104͑R͒ Thomas John and Ralf Stannarius

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Size-dependent nucleation kinetics at nonplanar nanowire growth interfaces (4 pages) ...... 050601͑R͒ T. Haxhimali, D. Buta, M. Asta, P. W. Voorhees, and J. J. Hoyt

Liquid crystals Micropatterning of light-sensitive liquid-crystal elastomers (4 pages) ...... 050701͑R͒ Miha Devetak, Blaž Zupančič, Andrija Lebar, Polona Umek, Boštjan Zalar, Valentina Domenici, Gabriela Ambrožič, Majda Žigon, Martin Čopič, and Irena Drevenšek-Olenik

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Statistical physics Finite-size analysis of a two-dimensional Ising model within a nonextensive approach (8 pages) ...... 051101 N. Crokidakis, D. O. Soares-Pinto, M. S. Reis, A. M. Souza, R. S. Sarthour, and I. S. Oliveira Phase-space networks of geometrically frustrated systems (5 pages) ...... 051102 Yilong Han (韩一龙͒

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Diffusion of finite-sized hard-core interacting particles in a one-dimensional box: Tagged particle dynamics (16 pages) ...... 051103 L. Lizana and T. Ambjörnsson Social tolerance allows cooperation to prevail in an adaptive environment (7 pages) ...... 051104 Xiaojie Chen, Feng Fu, and Long Wang Microcanonical finite-size scaling in second-order phase transitions with diverging specific heat (13 pages) . . 051105 L. A. Fernandez, A. Gordillo-Guerrero, V. Martin-Mayor, and J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo Semiclassical treatment of a Brownian ratchet using the quantum Smoluchowski equation (14 pages) ...... 051106 Liam Cleary, William T. Coffey, Yuri P. Kalmykov, and Serguey V. Titov Fluctuation relations for diffusion that is thermally driven by a nonstationary bath (9 pages) ...... 051107 Raphaël Chetrite Avalanche dynamics of fiber bundle models (8 pages) ...... 051108 R. C. Hidalgo, F. Kun, K. Kovács, and I. Pagonabarraga Escape dynamics of coupled particles in nonlinear, disordered lattices (12 pages) ...... 051109 K. Manski and D. Hennig Diffusion in the special theory of relativity (9 pages) ...... 051110 Joachim Herrmann Ab initio method for locating characteristic potential-energy minima of liquids (7 pages) ...... 051111 E. Holmström, N. Bock, Travis B. Peery, R. Lizárraga, G. De Lorenzi-Venneri, Eric D. Chisolm, and Duane C. Wallace Hard versus soft dynamics for adsorption-desorption kinetics: Exact results in one-dimension (15 pages) .... 051112 S. J. Manzi, V. J. Huespe, R. E. Belardinelli, and V. D. Pereyra Multiplicative Lévy processes: Itô versus Stratonovich interpretation (8 pages) ...... 051113 Tomasz Srokowski Coagulation reactions in low dimensions: Revisiting subdiffusive A+A reactions in one dimension (11 pages) ...... 051114 S. B. Yuste, J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo, and Katja Lindenberg Velocity and cluster distributions in a bottleneck system (9 pages) ...... 051115 Vidar Frette and Per C. Hemmer Experimental realization of directed percolation criticality in turbulent liquid crystals (12 pages) ...... 051116 Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Masafumi Kuroda, Hugues Chaté, and Masaki Sano Phase diagram and critical behavior of the square-lattice Ising model with competing nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor interactions (8 pages) ...... 051117 Junqi Yin and D. P. Landau Asymptotic shape of the region visited by an Eulerian walker (7 pages) ...... 051118 Rajeev Kapri and Deepak Dhar Queueing process with excluded-volume effect (10 pages) ...... 051119 Chikashi Arita Trapping in scale-free networks with hierarchical organization of modularity (8 pages) ...... 051120 Zhongzhi Zhang, Yuan Lin, Shuyang Gao, Shuigeng Zhou, Jihong Guan, and Mo Li

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Negative mobility induced by colored thermal fluctuations (7 pages) ...... 051121 M. Kostur, J. Łuczka, and P. Hänggi Analytical expressions for the fourth virial coefficient of a hard-sphere mixture (8 pages) ...... 051122 Stanislav Labík and Jiří Kolafa Proposal and applications of a method for the study of irreversible phase transitions (5 pages) ...... 051123 Ernesto S. Loscar, Nara Guisoni, and Ezequiel V. Albano Dual structures of chaos and turbulence, and their dynamic scaling laws (7 pages) ...... 051124 Hazime Mori and Makoto Okamura Generalized Fisher information matrix in nonextensive systems with spatial correlation (8 pages) ...... 051125 Hideo Hasegawa Monte Carlo study of the phase transition in the critical behavior of the Ising model with shear (10 pages) . . 051126 G. P. Saracco and G. Gonnella Critical behavior of the Ising model in annealed scale-free networks (10 pages) ...... 051127 Sang Hoon Lee, Meesoon Ha, Hawoong Jeong, Jae Dong Noh, and Hyunggyu Park Estimating causal dependencies in networks of nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems (9 pages) ...... 051128 Linda Sommerlade, Michael Eichler, Michael Jachan, Kathrin Henschel, Jens Timmer, and Björn Schelter Condensate density of interacting bosons: A functional renormalization group approach (8 pages) ...... 051129 Christopher Eichler, Nils Hasselmann, and Peter Kopietz Typical state of an isolated quantum system with fixed energy and unrestricted participation of eigenstates (19 pages) ...... 051130 Boris V. Fine

Equilibrium and linear transport properties of ﬂuids Asymptotic current-voltage relations for currents exceeding the diffusion limit (7 pages) ...... 051201 Ehud Yariv Boltzmann equation and hydrodynamic ﬂuctuations (12 pages) ...... 051202 Matteo Colangeli, Martin Kröger, and Hans Christian Öttinger Improved implementation of Kirkwood-Buff solution theory in periodic molecular simulations (10 pages) . . . 051203 Joseph W. Nichols, Stan G. Moore, and Dean R. Wheeler

Granular materials Self-organized patterns in collections of chains (4 pages) ...... 051301 T. Sykes and T. Mullin Pulse propagation in decorated granular chains: An analytical approach (9 pages) ...... 051302 Upendra Harbola, Alexandre Rosas, Aldo H. Romero, Massimiliano Esposito, and Katja Lindenberg Boolean reconstructions of complex materials: Integral geometric approach (17 pages) ...... 051303 C. H. Arns, M. A. Knackstedt, and K. R. Mecke Dynamic effective mass of granular media and the attenuation of structure-borne sound (20 pages) ...... 051304 John Valenza, Chaur-Jian Hsu, Rohit Ingale, Nicolas Gland, Hernán A. Makse, and David Linton Johnson

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Random close packing of disks and spheres in conﬁned geometries (11 pages) ...... 051305 Kenneth W. Desmond and Eric R. Weeks

Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Dynamics of colloids in a narrow channel driven by a nonuniform force (10 pages) ...... 051401 D. V. Tkachenko, V. R. Misko, and F. M. Peeters Beyond diffusion-limited aggregation kinetics in microparticle suspensions (7 pages) ...... 051402 Randall M. Erb, Melissa D. Krebs, Eben Alsberg, Bappaditya Samanta, Vincent M. Rotello, and Benjamin B. Yellen

Structure and rheology of SiO2 nanoparticle suspensions under very high shear rates (7 pages) ...... 051403 J. Chevalier, O. Tillement, and F. Ayela Theory of activated-rate processes under shear with application to shear-induced aggregation of colloids (8 pages) ...... 051404 Alessio Zaccone, Hua Wu, Daniele Gentili, and Massimo Morbidelli Triangular tessellation scheme for the adsorption free energy at the liquid-liquid interface: Towards nonconvex patterned colloids (19 pages) ...... 051405 Joost de Graaf, Marjolein Dijkstra, and René van Roij Self-consistent-ﬁeld calculations of proteinlike incorporations in polyelectrolyte complex micelles (15 pages) ...... 051406 Saskia Lindhoud, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, Willem Norde, and Frans A. M. Leermakers Morphological development of multilamellar phospholipid ﬁlm depending on drying kinetics (7 pages) ..... 051407 M. Hishida, N. L. Yamada, K. Yoshikawa, and H. Seto

Structured and complex fluids Density nonlinearities in field theories for a toy model of fluctuating nonlinear hydrodynamics of supercooled liquids (11 pages) ...... 051501 Joonhyun Yeo Dipolar particles in an external field: Molecular dynamics simulation and mean field theory (9 pages) ...... 051502 Ran Jia and Reinhard Hentschke Electrostatics and optimal arrangement of ionic triangular lattices confined to cylindrical fibers (11 pages) . . . 051503 Kevin L. Kohlstedt, Graziano Vernizzi, and Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Weakly faceted cellular patterns versus growth-induced plastic deformation in thin-sample directional solidiﬁcation of monoclinic biphenyl (11 pages) ...... 051601 Tamás Börzsönyi, Silvère Akamatsu, and Gabriel Faivre Growth and melting of droplets in cold vapors (14 pages) ...... 051602 Jean-Marc L’Hermite Kink-formation kinetics and submonolayer density of magic two-dimensional islands in molecular beam epitaxy (9 pages) ...... 051603 Sergey Filimonov and Yuri Hervieu

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Liquid crystals Quenched random disorder and x-ray scattering in smectic elastomers (8 pages) ...... 051701 L. T. Witkowski and E. M. Terentjev Dielectrophoretic and electrophoretic force analysis of colloidal fullerenes in a nematic liquid-crystal medium (6 pages) ...... 051702 Anoop Kumar Srivastava, Miyoung Kim, Sung Min Kim, Mi-Kyung Kim, Kyu Lee, Young Hee Lee, Myong-Hoon Lee, and Seung Hee Lee Extrinsic curvature, geometric optics, and lamellar order on curved substrates (12 pages) ...... 051703 Randall D. Kamien, David R. Nelson, Christian D. Santangelo, and Vincenzo Vitelli

Polymers Experimental observation of effects of seeds on polymer crystallization (9 pages) ...... 051801 Peng-Wei Zhu, Andy Phillips, Graham Edward, and Lance Nichols Aging dynamics in the polymer glass of poly͑2-chlorostyrene͒: Dielectric susceptibility and volume (11 pages) ...... 051802 Koji Fukao and Daisuke Tahara Ordering of a lamella-forming ﬂuid near an interface (5 pages) ...... 051803 Andrew B. Croll, An-Chang Shi, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress Nonideal behavior of the intramolecular structure factor of dilute polymers in a theta solvent (7 pages) ..... 051804 Kenji Shimomura, Hiizu Nakanishi, and Namiko Mitarai Polymers in crowded environment under stretching force: Globule-coil transitions (10 pages) ...... 051805 Viktoria Blavatska and Wolfhard Janke

Biological physics Charge transport in DNA molecules: Cooperative interplay between the disordered base-pair channel and the ordered backbone (7 pages) ...... 051901 Wei Zhang, Rong Yang, and Sergio E. Ulloa Generating variable birdsong syllable sequences with branching chain networks in avian premotor nucleus HVC (13 pages) ...... 051902 Dezhe Z. Jin Order-disorder effects in structure and color relation of photonic-crystal-type nanostructures in butterfly wing scales (11 pages) ...... 051903 Géza I. Márk, Zofia Vértesy, Krisztián Kertész, Zsolt Bálint, and László P. Biró Effect of intrinsic curvature on semiflexible polymers (4 pages) ...... 051904 Surya K. Ghosh, Kulveer Singh, and Anirban Sain Theory of a reconstructive structural transformation in capsids of icosahedral viruses (6 pages) ...... 051905 S. B. Rochal and V. L. Lorman Dynamical activities of primary somatosensory cortices studied by magnetoencephalography (13 pages) ..... 051906 Kuniharu Kishida Model for amorphous aggregation processes (13 pages) ...... 051907 Samuel D. Stranks, Heath Ecroyd, Steven Van Sluyter, Elizabeth J. Waters, John A. Carver, and Lorenz von Smekal

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Formation and growth of lipofuscin in the retinal pigment epithelium cells (7 pages) ...... 051908 K. I. Mazzitello, C. M. Arizmendi, F. Family, and H. E. Grossniklaus Detection of protein secondary structures via the discrete wavelet transform (10 pages) ...... 051909 Jesús Pando, Luke Sands, and Sean E. Shaheen Growing heterogeneous tumors in silico (12 pages) ...... 051910 Jana Gevertz and S. Torquato Enhanced low-Reynolds-number propulsion in heterogeneous viscous environments (13 pages) ...... 051911 A. M. Leshansky Statistical physics of cerebral embolization leading to stroke (9 pages) ...... 051912 J. P. Hague and E. M. L. Chung Arterial wall tethering as a distant boundary condition (7 pages) ...... 051913 S. Hodis and M. Zamir Response of a Hodgkin-Huxley neuron to a high-frequency input (6 pages) ...... 051914 L. S. Borkowski Cluster approximations for infection dynamics on random networks (12 pages) ...... 051915 G. Rozhnova and A. Nunes Scaling and self-organized criticality in proteins: Lysozyme c (8 pages) ...... 051916 J. C. Phillips Phase statistics approach to human ventricular fibrillation (9 pages) ...... 051917 Ming-Chya Wu, Eiichi Watanabe, Zbigniew R. Struzik, Chin-Kun Hu, and Yoshiharu Yamamoto Fronts from two-dimensional dispersal kernels: Beyond the nonoverlapping-generations model (9 pages) .... 051918 Daniel R. Amor and Joaquim Fort Statistical-mechanical study of evolution of robustness in noisy environments (12 pages) ...... 051919 Ayaka Sakata, Koji Hukushima, and Kunihiko Kaneko Theory of neutral clustering for growing populations (8 pages) ...... 051920 Bahram Houchmandzadeh Rhythmic pore dynamics in a shrinking lipid vesicle (7 pages) ...... 051921 Tsutomu Hamada, Yuichi Hirabayashi, Takao Ohta, and Masahiro Takagi Mode locking in a periodically forced resonate-and-fire neuron model (12 pages) ...... 051922 Azadeh Khajeh Alijani Intricate phase diagram of a prevalent visual circuit reveals universal dynamics, phase transitions, and resonances (5 pages) ...... 051923 Matthew S. Caudill, Sebastian F. Brandt, Zohar Nussinov, and Ralf Wessel Investigation of structural colors in Morpho butterflies using the nonstandard-finite-difference time-domain method: Effects of alternately stacked shelves and ridge density (12 pages) ...... 051924 Dong Zhu, Shuichi Kinoshita, Dongsheng Cai, and James B. Cole Model of gene transcription including the return of a RNA polymerase to the beginning of a transcriptional cycle (6 pages) ...... 051925 Vladimir P. Zhdanov

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Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Dynamical regimes of a paramagnetic particle circulating a magnetic bubble domain (4 pages) ...... 052401 Pietro Tierno, Tom H. Johansen, and Francesc Sagués

Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Nanostructure instability induced by anisotropic epitaxial stresses (4 pages) ...... 052601 Jérôme Colin, Jean Grilhé, and Pierre Müller Adsorption of Ar on planar surfaces studied with a density functional theory (4 pages) ...... 052602 Salvador A. Sartarelli and Leszek Szybisz Onset of initial planar instability with surface-tension anisotropy during directional solidiﬁcation (4 pages) ...... 052603 Zhijun Wang, Jincheng Wang, and Gencang Yang

Polymers Bending affects entropy of semiﬂexible polymers: Application to protein-DNA complexes (4 pages) ...... 052801 Shay M. Rappaport and Yitzhak Rabin

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

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Interdisciplinary physics

Measurement of the temperature proﬁle of an exothermic autocatalytic reaction front (4 pages) ...... 055101͑R͒ J. Martin, N. Rakotomalala, L. Talon, and D. Salin

Coarsening of precipitation patterns in a moving reaction-diffusion front (4 pages) ...... 055102͑R͒ A. Volford, I. Lagzi, F. Molnár, Jr., and Z. Rácz

Chaos and pattern formation

Fractal Weyl law behavior in an open Hamiltonian system (4 pages) ...... 055201͑R͒ Jordan A. Ramilowski, S. D. Prado, F. Borondo, and David Farrelly

Fluid dynamics

Reconnecting ﬂux-rope dynamo (4 pages) ...... 055301͑R͒ Andrew W. Baggaley, Carlo F. Barenghi, Anvar Shukurov, and Kandaswamy Subramanian

Effects of surface tension and viscosity on the growth rates of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities (4 pages) ...... 055302͑R͒ Sung-Ik Sohn

Plasma physics

Numerical simulation of harmonic generation by relativistic laser interaction with a grating (4 pages) ...... 055401͑R͒ X. Lavocat-Dubuis and J.-P. Matte

Characterization of two distinct, simultaneous hot electron beams in intense laser-solid interactions (4 pages) ...... 055402͑R͒ B. I. Cho, J. Osterholz, A. C. Bernstein, G. M. Dyer, A. Karmakar, A. Pukhov, and T. Ditmire

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Phase transitions in traffic flow on multilane roads (20 pages) ...... 056101 Boris S. Kerner and Sergey L. Klenov Boolean networks with reliable dynamics (10 pages) ...... 056102 Tiago P. Peixoto and Barbara Drossel Diffusion of scientific credits and the ranking of scientists (10 pages) ...... 056103 Filippo Radicchi, Santo Fortunato, Benjamin Markines, and Alessandro Vespignani Phase diagrams for three-strategy evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma games on regular graphs (7 pages) ...... 056104 Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc, and György Szabó Coevolution of Glauber-like Ising dynamics and topology (4 pages) ...... 056105 Salvatore Mandrà, Santo Fortunato, and Claudio Castellano Revising the simple measures of assortativity in complex networks (7 pages) ...... 056106 Xiao-Ke Xu, Jie Zhang, Junfeng Sun, and Michael Small Language structure in the n-object naming game (8 pages) ...... 056107 Adam Lipowski and Dorota Lipowska Resonance, criticality, and emergence in city traffic investigated in cellular automaton models (7 pages) ..... 056108 A. Varas, M. D. Cornejo, B. A. Toledo, V. Muñoz, J. Rogan, R. Zarama, and J. A. Valdivia Topology-independent impact of noise on cooperation in spatial public goods games (5 pages) ...... 056109 Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc, and György Szabó Random walker in temporally deforming higher-order potential forces observed in a financial crisis (14 pages) ...... 056110 Kota Watanabe, Hideki Takayasu, and Misako Takayasu Spontaneous traveling waves in oscillatory systems with cross diffusion (6 pages) ...... 056111 V. N. Biktashev and M. A. Tsyganov Selection of noise level in strategy adoption for spatial social dilemmas (10 pages) ...... 056112 Attila Szolnoki, Jeromos Vukov, and György Szabó Cavity approach to the Sourlas code system (9 pages) ...... 056113 Haiping Huang and Haijun Zhou Spectral properties of networks with community structure (10 pages) ...... 056114 Sanjeev Chauhan, Michelle Girvan, and Edward Ott Quantum Zeno effect explains magnetic-sensitive radical-ion-pair reactions (9 pages) ...... 056115 I. K. Kominis Synchronization performance of complex oscillator networks (5 pages) ...... 056116 Gang Yan, Guanrong Chen, Jinhu Lü, and Zhong-Qian Fu Community detection algorithms: A comparative analysis (11 pages) ...... 056117 Andrea Lancichinetti and Santo Fortunato

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Chaos and pattern formation Principal bifurcations and symmetries in the emergence of reaction-diffusion-advection patterns on ﬁnite domains (7 pages) ...... 056201 Arik Yochelis and Moshe Sheintuch Asymptotic-boundary-layer method for unstable trajectories: Semiclassical expansions for individual scar wave functions (8 pages) ...... 056202 A. Vagov, H. Schomerus, and V. V. Zalipaev Deformation of a self-propelled domain in an excitable reaction-diffusion system (12 pages) ...... 056203 Takao Ohta, Takahiro Ohkuma, and Kyohei Shitara Nanopattern formation in self-assembled monolayers of thiol-capped Au nanocrystals (9 pages) ...... 056204 R. Banerjee, S. Hazra, S. Banerjee, and M. K. Sanyal Adaptive synchronization of coupled chaotic oscillators (4 pages) ...... 056205 Bhargava Ravoori, Adam B. Cohen, Anurag V. Setty, Francesco Sorrentino, Thomas E. Murphy, Edward Ott, and Rajarshi Roy Adaptive coupling for achieving stable synchronization of chaos (6 pages) ...... 056206 Francesco Sorrentino Representation theory for strange attractors (6 pages) ...... 056207 Daniel J. Cross and R. Gilmore Spatial conﬁnement controls self-oscillations in polymer gels undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction (5 pages) ...... 056208 Olga Kuksenok, Victor V. Yashin, and Anna C. Balazs Semiclassical transport in nearly symmetric quantum dots. I. Symmetry breaking in the dot (16 pages) ...... 056209 Robert S. Whitney, Henning Schomerus, and Marten Kopp Semiclassical transport in nearly symmetric quantum dots. II. Symmetry breaking due to asymmetric leads (15 pages) ...... 056210 Robert S. Whitney, Henning Schomerus, and Marten Kopp Transient spatiotemporal chaos is extensive in three reaction-diffusion networks (10 pages) ...... 056211 Dan Stahlke and Renate Wackerbauer Dynamical thermalization of disordered nonlinear lattices (5 pages) ...... 056212 Mario Mulansky, Karsten Ahnert, Arkady Pikovsky, and Dima L. Shepelyansky Wave-vortex interaction (7 pages) ...... 056213 Claudio Falcón and Stéphan Fauve

Fluid dynamics Mass transport subject to time-dependent ﬂow with nonuniform sorption in porous media (13 pages) ...... 056301 Marie-Christine Néel, Andrea Zoia, and Maminirina Joelson Large deviation theory for coin tossing and turbulence (5 pages) ...... 056302 Sagar Chakraborty, Arnab Saha, and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee Inconsistency of a dissipative contribution to the mass ﬂux in hydrodynamics (8 pages) ...... 056303 Hans Christian Öttinger, Henning Struchtrup, and Mario Liu Wave-driven dynamo action in spherical magnetohydrodynamic systems (10 pages) ...... 056304 K. Reuter, F. Jenko, A. Tilgner, and C. B. Forest

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Pattern formation and interface pinch-off in rotating Hele-Shaw flows: A phase-field approach (10 pages) .... 056305 R. Folch, E. Alvarez-Lacalle, J. Ortín, and J. Casademunt Pinch-off singularities in rotating Hele-Shaw flows at high viscosity contrast (10 pages) ...... 056306 E. Alvarez-Lacalle, J. Casademunt, and J. Eggers Lagrangian transport induced by peristaltic pumping in a closed channel (14 pages) ...... 056307 Chiu-On Ng and Ye Ma Absence of Marangoni convection at Marangoni numbers above 27,000 during water evaporation (10 pages) ...... 056308 Ian Thompson, Fei Duan, and C. A. Ward Capillary filling in microchannels patterned by posts (8 pages) ...... 056309 B. M. Mognetti and J. M. Yeomans Dynamic labyrinthine pattern in an active liquid film (8 pages) ...... 056310 Yong-Jun Chen, Yuko Nagamine, and Kenichi Yoshikawa

Plasma physics Lower hybrid drift instability in a neutral sheet with O+ ions (5 pages) ...... 056401 Feng Huang, Yinhua Chen, Hai-Ou Peng, Ju-Gao Zheng, Gui-Fen Shi, Zu-Quan Hu, and M. Y. Yu Modeling of population kinetics of plasmas that are not in local thermodynamic equilibrium, using a versatile collisional-radiative model based on analytical rates (18 pages) ...... 056402 R. Florido, R. Rodríguez, J. M. Gil, J. G. Rubiano, P. Martel, E. Mínguez, and R. C. Mancini Analytical expressions of the front shape of non-quasi-neutral plasma expansions with anisotropic electron pressures (5 pages) ...... 056403 Yongsheng Huang, Yijin Shi, Yuanjie Bi, Xiaojiao Duan, Naiyan Wang, Xiuzhang Tang, and Zhe Gao Brownian dynamic of laser cooling and crystallization of electron-ion plasma (6 pages) ...... 056404 A. P. Gavriliuk, I. L. Isaev, S. V. Karpov, I. V. Krasnov, and N. Ya. Shaparev Arrest of Langmuir wave collapse by quantum effects (9 pages) ...... 056405 G. Simpson, C. Sulem, and P. L. Sulem Inverse bremsstrahlung absorption with nonlinear effects of high laser intensity and non-Maxwellian distribution (5 pages) ...... 056406 Su-Ming Weng, Zheng-Ming Sheng, and Jie Zhang Direct density measurement of shock-compressed iron using hard x rays generated by a short laser pulse (5 pages) ...... 056407 E. Brambrink, H. G. Wei, B. Barbrel, P. Audebert, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, T. Boehly, T. Endo, C. D. Gregory, T. Kimura, R. Kodama, N. Ozaki, H.-S. Park, and M. Koenig Effect of external drive on strongly coupled Yukawa systems: A nonequilibrium molecular dynamics study (8 pages) ...... 056408 Ashwin J. and R. Ganesh

Classical physics Cavity equations for a positive- or negative-refraction-index material with electric and magnetic nonlinearities (8 pages) ...... 056601 Daniel A. Mártin and Miguel Hoyuelos

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Stationary shocks in periodic highly nonlinear granular chains (15 pages) ...... 056602 Alain Molinari and Chiara Daraio Calculation of coupled secular oscillation frequencies and axial secular frequency in a nonlinear ion trap by a homotopy method (7 pages) ...... 056603 Alireza Doroudi Statistics of the performance of time reversal in a lossy reverberating medium (11 pages) ...... 056604 Andrea Cozza General framework for multiple scattering of polarized waves including anisotropies and Berry phase (15 pages) ...... 056605 V. Rossetto

Computational physics

Lattice Boltzmann scheme for mixture modeling: Analysis of the continuum diffusion regimes recovering Maxwell-Stefan model and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (15 pages) ...... 056701 Pietro Asinari Spectral element method for band structures of three-dimensional anisotropic photonic crystals (7 pages) .... 056702 Ma Luo and Qing Huo Liu Microcanonical replica exchange molecular dynamics simulation of proteins (8 pages) ...... 056703 Parimal Kar, Walter Nadler, and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann Event-chain Monte Carlo algorithms for hard-sphere systems (5 pages) ...... 056704 Etienne P. Bernard, Werner Krauth, and David B. Wilson Efﬁcient uncertainty minimization for fuzzy spectral clustering (16 pages) ...... 056705 Brian S. White and David Shalloway Strengths and weaknesses of parallel tempering (7 pages) ...... 056706 J. Machta

BRIEF REPORTS

Interdisciplinary physics

Distribution for the number of coauthors (4 pages) ...... 057101 Jiann-wien Hsu and Ding-wei Huang Temporal structure and gain-loss asymmetry for real and artiﬁcial stock indices (4 pages) ...... 057102 Johannes Vitalis Siven and Jeffrey Todd Lins Time-delayed reaction-diffusion fronts (4 pages) ...... 057103 Neus Isern and Joaquim Fort

Chaos and pattern formation

Wavelet phase synchronization and chaoticity (4 pages) ...... 057201 E. B. Postnikov Dependence of intermittency scaling on threshold in chaotic systems (4 pages) ...... 057202 Yuzhu Xiao, Yan Wang, and Ying-Cheng Lai