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THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 75, NUMBER 6 CONTENTS JUNE 2007

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

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Chaos and pattern formation Giant acceleration in slow-fast space-periodic Hamiltonian systems (4 pages) ...... 065201͑R͒ D. V. Makarov and M. Yu. Uleysky Controlling spatiotemporal chaos using multiple delays (4 pages) ...... 065202͑R͒ Alexander Ahlborn and Ulrich Parlitz Signatures of fractal clustering of aerosols advected under gravity (4 pages) ...... 065203͑R͒ Rafael D. Vilela, Tamás Tél, Alessandro P. S. de Moura, and Celso Grebogi

Fluid dynamics Clustering of matter in waves and currents (4 pages) ...... 065301͑R͒ Marija Vucelja, Gregory Falkovich, and Itzhak Fouxon Experimental study of the bursting of inviscid bubbles (4 pages) ...... 065302͑R͒ Frank Müller, Ulrike Kornek, and Ralf Stannarius Surface thermal capacity and its effects on the boundary conditions at fluid-fluid interfaces (4 pages) ...... 065303͑R͒ Kausik S. Das and C. A. Ward

Plasma physics Direct evidence of strongly inhomogeneous energy deposition in target heating with laser-produced ion beams (4 pages) ...... 065401͑R͒ E. Brambrink, T. Schlegel, G. Malka, K. U. Amthor, M. M. Aléonard, G. Claverie, M. Gerbaux, F. Gobet, F. Hannachi, V. Méot, P. Morel, P. Nicolai, J. N. Scheurer, M. Tarisien, V. Tikhonchuk, and P. Audebert

ARTICLES

Interdisciplinary physics Phase separation in the crust of accreting neutron stars (7 pages) ...... 066101 C. J. Horowitz, D. K. Berry, and E. F. Brown Log-periodic oscillations due to discrete effects in complex networks (5 pages) ...... 066102 Julian Sienkiewicz, Piotr Fronczak, and Janusz A. Hołyst

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Dynamics of epidemics on random networks (5 pages) ...... 066103 M. Marder Reconstruction of potential from dynamic experiments (6 pages) ...... 066104 V. L. Popov, J. Starcevic, and A. E. Filippov Star patterns on lake ice (5 pages) ...... 066105 Victor C. Tsai and J. S. Wettlaufer Synchronizability determined by coupling strengths and topology on complex networks (11 pages) ...... 066106 JesúsGómez-Gardeñes, Yamir Moreno, and Alex Arenas Ergodicity in natural earthquake fault networks (16 pages) ...... 066107 K. F. Tiampo, J. B. Rundle, W. Klein, J. Holliday, J. S. Sá Martins, and C. D. Ferguson Different topologies for a herding model of opinion (6 pages) ...... 066108 V. Schwämmle, M. C. González, A. A. Moreira, J. S. Andrade, Jr., and H. J. Herrmann Simulation of the hydraulic fracture process in two dimensions using a discrete element method (9 pages) ...... 066109 Sergio Andres Galindo Torres and Jose Daniel Muñoz Castaño Numerical evaluation of the upper critical dimension of percolation in scale-free networks (6 pages) ...... 066110 Zhenhua Wu, Cecilia Lagorio, Lidia A. Braunstein, Reuven Cohen, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley Phase field modeling of fracture and stress-induced phase transitions (14 pages) ...... 066111 R. Spatschek, C. Müller-Gugenberger, E. Brener, and B. Nestler Optimal transportation network with concave cost functions: Loop analysis and algorithms (5 pages) ...... 066112 Zhen Shao and Haijun Zhou Condensation of elastic energy in two-dimensional packing of wires (4 pages) ...... 066113 C. C. Donato and M. A. F. Gomes Unifying evolutionary and network dynamics (10 pages) ...... 066114 Samarth Swarup and Les Gasser Routing strategy on a two-dimensional small-world network model (9 pages) ...... 066115 Ming Li, Feng Liu, and Feng-Yuan Ren

Chaos and pattern formation Spectral analysis and an area-preserving extension of a piecewise linear intermittent map (11 pages) ...... 066201 Tomoshige Miyaguchi and Yoji Aizawa Synchronization properties of bidirectionally coupled semiconductor lasers under asymmetric operating conditions (6 pages) ...... 066202 Jhon Fredy Martínez Ávila, Raúl Vicente, José R. Rios Leite, and Claudio R. Mirasso External forcing and feedback control of nonlinear dissipative waves (11 pages) ...... 066203 Hidekazu Tokuda, Vladimir S. Zykov, and Takao Ohta Universality in the flooding of regular islands by chaotic states (11 pages) ...... 066204 Arnd Bäcker, Roland Ketzmerick, and Alejandro G. Monastra Codimension-three bifurcations: Explanation of the complex one-, two-, and three-dimensional bifurcation structures in nonsmooth maps (7 pages) ...... 066205 Viktor Avrutin, Michael Schanz, and Soumitro Banerjee

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Thermodiffusion-induced instabilities in reactive systems (9 pages) ...... 066206 Sumana Dutta and Deb Shankar Ray Multistability in the Kuramoto model with synaptic plasticity (8 pages) ...... 066207 Yuri L. Maistrenko, Borys Lysyansky, Christian Hauptmann, Oleksandr Burylko, and Peter A. Tass Power-law persistence characterizes traveling waves in coupled circle maps with repulsive coupling (5 pages) ...... 066208 Prashant M. Gade, D. V. Senthilkumar, Sukratu Barve, and Sudeshna Sinha Noise can delay and advance the collapse of spatiotemporal chaos (7 pages) ...... 066209 Renate Wackerbauer and Sumire Kobayashi Nonstandard electroconvection with Hopf bifurcation in a nematic liquid crystal with negative electric anisotropies (12 pages) ...... 066210 Tibor Tóth-Katona, Aude Cauquil-Vergnes, Nándor Éber, and Ágnes Buka Automatic control and tracking of periodic orbits in chaotic systems (5 pages) ...... 066211 Hiroyasu Ando, S. Boccaletti, and Kazuyuki Aihara Failure of parameter identification based on adaptive synchronization techniques (11 pages) ...... 066212 Wei Lin and Huan-Fei Ma Directed deterministic classical transport: Symmetry breaking and beyond (10 pages) ...... 066213 Lucia Cavallasca, Roberto Artuso, and Giulio Casati Embeddings of low-dimensional strange attractors: Topological invariants and degrees of freedom (9 pages) ...... 066214 Nicola Romanazzi, Marc Lefranc, and Robert Gilmore Escape time statistics for mushroom billiards (6 pages) ...... 066215 Tomoshige Miyaguchi Chaotic bubbling and nonstagnant foams (5 pages) ...... 066216 Alberto Tufaile, José Carlos Sartorelli, Philippe Jeandet, and Gerard Liger-Belair Microfluidic chaotic stirrer utilizing induced-charge electro-osmosis (8 pages) ...... 066217 Hui Zhao and Haim H. Bau

Fluid dynamics Transient deformation of elastic capsules in shear flow: Effect of membrane bending stiffness (10 pages) .... 066301 Y. Sui, Y. T. Chew, P. Roy, X. B. Chen, and H. T. Low Boundary conditions for fluids with internal orientational degrees of freedom: Apparent velocity slip associated with the molecular alignment (13 pages) ...... 066302 Sebastian Heidenreich, Patrick Ilg, and Siegfried Hess Structure of the thermal boundary layer for turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection of air in a long rectangular enclosure (11 pages) ...... 066303 Anna Maystrenko, Christian Resagk, and André Thess Bounding biomass in the Fisher equation (14 pages) ...... 066304 Daniel A. Birch, Yue-Kin Tsang, and William R. Young Luminescence from laser-created bubbles in cryogenic liquids (8 pages) ...... 066305 Ohan Baghdassarian, Bernd Tabbert, and Gary A. Williams

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Evidence of convective heat transfer enhancement induced by spinodal decomposition (9 pages) ...... 066306 P. Poesio, A. M. Lezzi, and G. P. Beretta Cessations and reversals of the large-scale circulation in turbulent thermal convection (5 pages) ...... 066307 Heng-Dong Xi and Ke-Qing Xia Effect of transient pinning on stability of drops sitting on an inclined plane (6 pages) ...... 066308 Viatcheslav Berejnov and Robert E. Thorne Interaction of two particles in a shear flow (5 pages) ...... 066309 Marina Popova, Peter Vorobieff, Marc S. Ingber, and Alan L. Graham Dynamics of a single cavitating and reacting bubble (14 pages) ...... 066310 Guillermo Hauke, Daniel Fuster, and Cesar Dopazo Method for modeling transport of particles in realistic porous networks: Application to the computation of NMR flow propagators (8 pages) ...... 066311 Guillemette Picard and Kurt Frey Bubble interaction model for hydrodynamic unstable mixing (12 pages) ...... 066312 Sung-Ik Sohn Statistical analysis of coherent structures in transitional pipe flow (10 pages) ...... 066313 Tobias M. Schneider, Bruno Eckhardt, and Jürgen Vollmer Strategy for active mixing in microdevices (4 pages) ...... 066314 Boris Stoeber, Dorian Liepmann, and Susan J. Muller Nonlinear turbulent magnetic diffusion and effective drift velocity of a large-scale magnetic field in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence (8 pages) ...... 066315 Nathan Kleeorin and Igor Rogachevskii

Plasma physics Properties of non-neutral electron plasmas confined with a magnetic mirror field (5 pages) ...... 066401 H. Higaki, K. Ito, W. Saiki, Y. Omori, and H. Okamoto Flow of nanosize cluster-containing plasma in a magnetron discharge (9 pages) ...... 066402 Boris M. Smirnov, Ibrahimkutty Shyjumon, and Rainer Hippler Ergodic model for the expansion of spherical nanoplasmas (10 pages) ...... 066403 F. Peano, G. Coppa, F. Peinetti, R. Mulas, and L. O. Silva Turbulent cascade in vortex dynamics of magnetized pure electron plasmas (6 pages) ...... 066404 Y. Kawai, Y. Kiwamoto, Y. Soga, and J. Aoki

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials Multicoaxial cylindrical inclusions in locally resonant phononic crystals (8 pages) ...... 066601 H. Larabi, Y. Pennec, B. Djafari-Rouhani, and J. O. Vasseur Two-dimensional complete photonic gaps from layered periodic structures containing anisotropic left-handed metamaterials (7 pages) ...... 066602 Shulin Sun, Xueqin Huang, and Lei Zhou Optical carrier wave shocking: Detection and dispersion (9 pages) ...... 066603 P. Kinsler, S. B. P. Radnor, J. C. A. Tyrrell, and G. H. C. New

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Cutoff solitons and bistability of the discrete inductance-capacitance electrical line: Theory and experiments (8 pages) ...... 066604 K. Tse Ve Koon, J. Leon, P. Marquié, and P. Tchofo-Dinda Spatial vector soliton and its collisions in isotropic self-defocusing Kerr media (8 pages) ...... 066605 R. Radhakrishnan and K. Aravinthan Gap solitons in a nonlinear quadratic negative-index cavity (6 pages) ...... 066606 Michael Scalora, Domenico de Ceglia, Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Neset Akozbek, Marco Centini, and Mark J. Bloemer Exact solitonic solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a linear potential (5 pages) ...... 066607 Usama Al Khawaja Dark solitons in discrete lattices: Saturable versus cubic nonlinearities (12 pages) ...... 066608 E. P. Fitrakis, P. G. Kevrekidis, H. Susanto, and D. J. Frantzeskakis Polarization, transverse shifts, and angular momentum conservation laws in partial reflection and refraction of an electromagnetic wave packet (10 pages) ...... 066609 K. Yu. Bliokh and Yu. P. Bliokh Trapping gap solitons in a resonant photonic crystal of finite length (6 pages) ...... 066610 Wanneng Xiao Asymptotic description of wave propagation in an active Lorentzian medium (8 pages) ...... 066611 Reza Safian, Mohammad Mojahedi, and Costas D. Sarris Path-integral treatment of optical and microwave tunneling (4 pages) ...... 066612 Paolo Moretti, Anedio Ranfagni, and Paolo Sandri Phase vortices from a Young’s three-pinhole interferometer (11 pages) ...... 066613 Gary Ruben and David M. Paganin

Computational physics Random numbers for large-scale distributed Monte Carlo simulations (14 pages) ...... 066701 Heiko Bauke and Stephan Mertens Boundary condition independence of molecular dynamics simulations of planar elongational flow (9 pages) ...... 066702 Federico Frascoli, B. D. Todd, and Debra J. Searles Modification of directed-loop algorithm for continuous space simulation of bosonic systems (8 pages) ...... 066703 Yasuyuki Kato, Takafumi Suzuki, and Naoki Kawashima Numerical validation of the quantum lattice Boltzmann scheme in two and three dimensions (13 pages) ..... 066704 S. Palpacelli and S. Succi Interpolated boundary condition for lattice Boltzmann simulations of flows in narrow gaps (12 pages) ...... 066705 B. Chun and A. J. C. Ladd Wang-Landau molecular dynamics technique to search for low-energy conformational space of proteins (8 pages) ...... 066706 Takehiro Nagasima, Akira R. Kinjo, Takashi Mitsui, and Ken Nishikawa Modeling the flow of dense suspensions of deformable particles in three dimensions (17 pages) ...... 066707 Michael M. Dupin, Ian Halliday, Chris M. Care, Lyuba Alboul, and Lance L. Munn

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Finding long cycles in graphs (10 pages) ...... 066708 Enzo Marinari, Guilhem Semerjian, and Valery Van Kerrebroeck

BRIEF REPORTS

Chaos and pattern formation

Parameter identification of dynamical systems from time series (4 pages) ...... 067201 Wenwu Yu, Guanrong Chen, Jinde Cao, Jinhu Lü, and Ulrich Parlitz

Onset of spatiotemporal chaos in a nonlinear system (4 pages) ...... 067202 J. D. Szezech, Jr., S. R. Lopes, and R. L. Viana

Effects of optimal control over thermoconvective patterns (4 pages) ...... 067203 M. C. Navarro and H. Herrero

Influence of noise on dynamics of coupled bursters (4 pages) ...... 067204 Nikola Burić, Kristina Todorović, and Nebojša Vasović

Classical physics, including nonlinear media and photonic materials

Self-focusing and envelope pulse generation in nonlinear magnetic metamaterials (4 pages) ...... 067601 I. Kourakis, N. Lazarides, and G. P. Tsironis

ERRATA

Erratum: Flexible ring polymers in an obstacle environment: Molecular theory of linear viscoelasticity ͓Phys. Rev. E 74, 021805 ͑2006͔͒ (1 page) ...... 069901͑E͒ Balaji V. S. Iyer, Ashish K. Lele, and Vinay A. Juvekar Erratum: Transition records of stationary Markov chains ͓Phys. Rev. E 74, 040103͑R͒͑2006͔͒ (1 page) ...... 069902͑E͒ Jan Naudts and Erik Van der Straeten