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THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 62, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2000 PARTS A AND B

The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts A and B. Part A consists of pages R3019–3678, and Part B pages 3679–4488.

PART A Note to Reader ...... i

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General methods of statistical physics Exact solution of the specific-heat–phonon spectrum inversion from the Mo¨bius inverse formula ...... R3019 DengMing Ming, Tao Wen, JiXin Dai, Xianxi Dai, and William E. Evenson Economic fluctuations and anomalous diffusion ...... R3023 Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Luı´s A. Nunes Amaral, Xavier Gabaix, and H. Eugene Stanley → → Critical behavior of the one-dimensional annihilation-fission process 2A O” ,2A 3A ...... R3027 Ge´za O´ dor Stochastic resonance enhanced by dichotomic noise in a bistable system ...... R3031 Robert Rozenfeld, Alexander Neiman, and Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems Resonance poles and width distribution for time-reversal transport through mesoscopic open billiards ...... R3035 H. Ishio Nonautonomous and nonlinear effects in generalized classical oscillators: A boundedness theorem ...... R3039 L. Ferrari and C. Degli Esposti Boschi Analytical study of spatiotemporal chaos control by applying local injections ...... R3043 Hu Gang, Xiao Jinghua, Gao Jihua, Li Xiangming, Yao Yugui, and Bambi Hu

Classical fluids Analytic solution for two bubbles in a Hele-Shaw cell ...... R3047 Giovani L. Vasconcelos Asymmetric squares as standing waves in Rayleigh-Be´nard convection ...... R3051 Alaka Das, Ujjal Ghosal, and Krishna Kumar

Liquid crystals Atomic force microscope evidence for the existence of smecticlike surface layers in the isotropic phase of a nematic liquid crystal ...... R3055 K. Kocˇevar, R. Blinc, and I. Musˇevicˇ

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Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials Viscous flow and coarsening of microdomains in diblock copolymer thin films ...... R3059 Iulia Podariu, Zhenyu Shou, and Amitabha Chakrabarti Shear-induced transitions in a ternary polymeric system ...... R3063 A. V. Zvelindovsky, G. J. A. Sevink, and J. G. E. M. Fraaije

Plasma physics Extrema in transition energies resulting not in satellites but in dips within spectral lines ...... R3067 E. Oks and E. Leboucher-Dalimier

Classical physics, including nonlinear media Soliton stability versus collapse ...... R3071 Luc Berge´ Rules for the distribution of point charges on a conducting disk ...... R3075 S¸. Erkoc¸ and H. Oymak

ARTICLES General methods of statistical physics Theory of stress fluctuations ...... 3077 Duane C. Wallace Log-periodic oscillations for a uniform spin model on a fractal ...... 3083 J. C. Lessa and R. F. S. Andrade Anderson localization as a parametric instability of the linear kicked oscillator ...... 3090 L. Tessieri and F. M. Izrailev Physical nature of higher-order mutual information: Intrinsic correlations and frustration ...... 3096 Hiroyuki Matsuda Surface hardening and self-organized fractality through etching of random solids ...... 3103 A. Gabrielli, A. Baldassarri, and B. Sapoval Simulation of the Wiener sausage ...... 3116 D.-Y. Yang, Yu. A. Makhnovskii, S.-Y. Sheu, and S. H. Lin River networks on the slope-correlated landscape ...... 3121 Hyun-Joo Kim, In-mook Kim, and Jin Min Kim Fractal geometry of critical systems ...... 3125 N. G. Antoniou, Y. F. Contoyiannis, and F. K. Diakonos Fractional quantum mechanics ...... 3135 Nick Laskin Analysis of time series from stochastic processes ...... 3146 Janez Gradisˇek, Silke Siegert, Rudolf Friedrich, and Igor Grabec Macroscopic effects of the perturbation of the particle velocity distribution in a trigger wave ...... 3156 A. Lemarchand and B. Nowakowski Propagating structures in globally coupled systems with time delays ...... 3167 Damia´n H. Zanette Random resistor-diode networks and the crossover from isotropic to directed percolation ...... 3173 Hans-Karl Janssen and Olaf Stenull Exact calculation of the spatiotemporal correlations in the Takayasu model and in the q model of force fluctuations in bead packs ...... 3186 R. Rajesh and Satya N. Majumdar

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Dynamics and changing environments in highly optimized tolerance ...... 3197 Tong Zhou and J. M. Carlson Finite size scaling for percolation on elongated lattices in two and three dimensions ...... 3205 S. J. Marrink and Mark A. Knackstedt Forest-fire models as a bridge between different paradigms in self-organized criticality ...... 3215 Proshun Sinha-Ray and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen Roughening and super-roughening in the ordered and random two-dimensional sine-Gordon models ...... 3219 Angel Sa´nchez, A. R. Bishop, and Esteban Moro Periodic elastic medium in which periodicity is relevant ...... 3230 E. T. Seppa¨la¨, M. J. Alava, and P. M. Duxbury Origin of banded patterns in natural sphalerite ...... 3234 Ivan L’Heureux Microscopic dynamics underlying anomalous diffusion ...... 3246 G. Kaniadakis and G. Lapenta Occupancy of a single site by many random walkers ...... 3250 M. Bogun˜a´, A. M. Berezhkovskii, and G. H. Weiss Crossover behavior in 3He and Xe near their liquid-vapor critical point ...... 3257 Erik Luijten and Horst Meyer Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the finite lattice quantum sine-Gordon model ...... 3262 S. G. Chung Scaling of avalanche queues in directed dissipative sandpiles ...... 3266 Bosiljka Tadic´ and Vyatcheslav Priezzhev Two-species reaction-diffusion system with equal diffusion constants: Anomalous density decay at large times . . . 3276 Zoran Konkoli and Henrik Johannesson Generalization of Nose´ and Nose´-Hoover isothermal dynamics ...... 3281 A. C. Bran´ka and K. W. Wojciechowski Multifractal phase transitions in the non-Debye relaxation processes ...... 3293 Alexander Leyderman and Shi-Xian Qu Growth with surface curvature on quenched potentials ...... 3299 Jae Hwan Lee, Soo Kyung Kim, and Jin Min Kim Master equation approach to synchronization in diffusion-coupled nonlinear oscillators ...... 3303 William Vance and John Ross Mean first-passage time for an overdamped particle in a disordered force field ...... 3311 S. I. Denisov and Werner Horsthemke Phase transitions in a simple growth model for a driven interface in random media ...... 3322 Kwangho Park and In-mook Kim Generalized model for dynamic percolation ...... 3327 O. Be´nichou, J. Klafter, M. Moreau, and G. Oshanin Asymptotic properties of a reversible AϩB↔C ͑static͒ reaction-diffusion process with initially separated reactants ...... 3340 Misha Sinder and Joshua Pelleg Multibunch solutions of the differential-difference equation for traffic flow ...... 3349 Ken Nakanishi Generic criticality in a model of evolution ...... 3356 Adam Lipowski Replica-symmetry-breaking transition in finite-size simulations ...... 3360 Koji Hukushima and Hikaru Kawamura Unusual dynamical scaling in the spatial distribution of persistent sites in one-dimensional Potts models ...... 3366 A. J. Bray and S. J. O’Donoghue

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Dynamical self-affinity of damage spreading in surface growth models ...... 3376 Yup Kim and C. K. Lee Overdamped van Hove function of colloidal suspensions ...... 3382 Laura Yeomans-Reyna and Magdaleno Medina-Noyola Vineyard-like approximations for colloid dynamics ...... 3395 Laura Yeomans-Reyna, Heriberto Acun˜a-Campa, and Magdaleno Medina-Noyola Slow dynamics of Ising models with energy barriers ...... 3404 A. Lipowski, D. Johnston, and D. Espriu Six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions and one-matrix model ...... 3411 P. Zinn-Justin

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems Using topological statistics to detect determinism in time series ...... 3419 Guillermo J. Ortega and Enrique Louis Towards the thermodynamics of localization processes ...... 3429 Paolo Grigolini, Marco G. Pala, Luigi Palatella, and Roberto Roncaglia Synchronization in populations of globally coupled oscillators with inertial effects ...... 3437 J. A. Acebro´n, L. L. Bonilla, and R. Spigler Stabilizing unstable discrete systems by a nonuniformly adaptive adjustment mechanism ...... 3455 Weihong Huang Quantitative study of amplitude noise effects on dynamical localization ...... 3461 Daniel A. Steck, Valery Milner, Windell H. Oskay, and Mark G. Raizen Periodic orbit effects on conductance peak heights in a chaotic quantum dot ...... 3476 L. Kaplan Periodicity manifestations in the turbulent regime of the globally coupled map lattice ...... 3489 Tokuzo Shimada and Kengo Kikuchi Quantum chaos border for quantum computing ...... 3504 B. Georgeot and D. L. Shepelyansky Structure of motion near saddle points and chaotic transport in Hamiltonian systems ...... 3508 S. S. Abdullaev Tracking sustained chaos: A segmentation method ...... 3529 Ioana Triandaf and Ira B. Schwartz Bayesian reconstruction of chaotic dynamical systems ...... 3535 Renate Meyer and Nelson Christensen Synchronization and chaotic masking scheme based on occasional coupling ...... 3543 O¨ mer Morgu¨l Nonlocal chaotic phase synchronization ...... 3552 Meng Zhan, Zhi-gang Zheng, Gang Hu, and Xi-hong Peng Characteristic polynomials of random matrices at edge singularities ...... 3558 Edouard Bre´zin and Shinobu Hikami Theory for matrix elements of one-body transition operators in the quantum chaotic domain of interacting particle systems ...... 3568 V. K. B. Kota and R. Sahu

Classical fluids Nature of self-diffusion and viscosity in supercooled liquid water ...... 3572 T. V. Lokotosh, S. Magazu`, G. Maisano, and N. P. Malomuzh Upper bounds on convective heat transport in a rotating fluid layer of infinite Prandtl number: Case of intermediate Taylor numbers ...... 3581 Nikolay K. Vitanov

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Instanton calculus in shell models of turbulence ...... 3592 Isabelle Daumont, Thierry Dombre, and Jean-Louis Gilson High-resolution neutron scattering measurement of the dynamic structure factor of heavy water ...... 3611 C. Petrillo, F. Sacchetti, B. Dorner, and J.-B. Suck Convection in two-layer systems with an anomalous thermocapillary effect ...... 3619 L. M. Braverman, K. Eckert, A. A. Nepomnyashchy, I. B. Simanovskii, and A. Thess Flow and dispersion through a close-packed fixed bed of spheres ...... 3632 A. M. Reynolds, S. V. Reavell, and B. B. Harral Analytic example of a free energy functional ...... 3640 Christian Tutschka and Gerhard Kahl Phase diagram of a hard-sphere system in a quenched random potential: A numerical study ...... 3648 Chandan Dasgupta and Oriol T. Valls Possible universal transitional scenario in a flat plate boundary layer: Measurement and visualization ...... 3659 C. B. Lee Effects of dispersion forces on the structure and thermodynamics of fluid krypton ...... 3671 N. Jakse, J. M. Bomont, I. Charpentier, and J. L. Bretonnet

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Liquid crystals Deuteron NMR study of molecular dynamics in a compound exhibiting a reentrant nematic phase ...... 3679 R. Y. Dong, A. Carvalho, P. J. Sebastia˜o, and H. T. Nguyen Phase behavior and blue-phase-III–isotropic critical point in ͑R͒-͑S͒ mixtures of a chiral liquid crystal with a direct twist-grain-boundary to blue-phase transition ...... 3687 P. Jame´e, G. Pitsi, M. -H. Li, H. -T. Nguyen, G. Sigaud, and J. Thoen Dilution of nematic surface potentials: Relaxation dynamics ...... 3694 Andre´ M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga, and Georges E. Durand Dynamical studies of gratings formed in polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films doped with a guest-host dye ..... 3702 Andy Y.-G. Fuh, M.-S. Tsai, C.-R. Lee, and Y.-H. Fan Density-functional theory of inhomogeneous systems of hard spherocylinders ...... 3708 E. Velasco, L. Mederos, and D. E. Sullivan Twist-energy-driven Helfrich modulations in cholesteric liquid crystals illustrated in the transient planar to planar transition ...... 3719 P. Watson, J. E. Anderson, and P. J. Bos Molecular model for the anticlinic smectic-CA phase ...... 3724 Mikhail A. Osipov and Atsuo Fukuda Buckling induced by dilative strain in two- and three-dimensional layered materials ...... 3736 Sherwin J. Singer Coupling between meniscus and smectic-A films: Circular and catenoid profiles, induced stress, and dislocation dynamics ...... 3747 Fre´de´ric Picano, Robert Hołyst, and P. Oswald Uniplanar smectic phases in free-standing films ...... 3758 Barbara Rovsˇek, Mojca Cˇ epicˇ, and Bosˇtjan Zˇ eksˇ Dynamical and field effects in polymer-dispersed liquid crystals: Monte Carlo simulations of NMR spectra . . . . . 3766 C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, G. Skacˇej, C. Zannoni, and S. Zˇ umer Alignment and phase transition induced by surface action in lyotropic nematic liquid crystals ...... 3775 J. J. Bonvent, I. H. Bechtold, M. L. Vega, and E. A. Oliveira

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Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials Four-dimensional polymer collapse: Pseudo-first-order transition in interacting self-avoiding walks ...... 3780 T. Prellberg and A. L. Owczarek Four-phase patterns in forced oscillatory systems ...... 3790 A. L. Lin, A. Hagberg, A. Ardelea, M. Bertram, H. L. Swinney, and E. Meron Density functional for additive mixtures ...... 3799 Matthias Schmidt Clumps of randomly charged polymers: Molecular dynamics simulation of condensation, crystallization, and swelling ...... 3803 Motohiko Tanaka and Toyoichi Tanaka Instability of symmetric Couette flow in a granular gas: Hydrodynamic field profiles and transport ...... 3817 M. Sasva´ri, J. Kerte´sz, and D. E. Wolf Single-particle motion in three-dimensional vibrofluidized granular beds ...... 3826 R. D. Wildman, J. M. Huntley, J.-P. Hansen, D. J. Parker, and D. A. Allen Nonlinear analysis of the shearing instability in granular gases ...... 3836 R. Soto, M. Mareschal, and M. Malek Mansour Tracking of individual nanocrystals using diffracted x rays ...... 3843 Y. C. Sasaki, Y. Suzuki, N. Yagi, S. Adachi, M. Ishibashi, H. Suda, K. Toyota, and M. Yanagihara Magnetoviscosity and relaxation in ferrofluids ...... 3848 B. U. Felderhof Effective interactions and volume energies in charged colloids: Linear response theory ...... 3855 A. R. Denton Shape transitions of giant liposomes induced by an anisotropic spontaneous curvature ...... 3865 O. Sandre, C. Me´nager, J. Prost, V. Cabuil, J.-C. Bacri, and A. Cebers Shear-induced structural transitions in Newtonian non-Newtonian two-phase flow ...... 3871 G. Cristobal, J. Rouch, A. Colin, and P. Panizza Structure of charged colloids under a wedge confinement ...... 3875 B. V. R. Tata, Dezso¨ Boda, D. Henderson, A. Nikolov, and D. T. Wasan Numerical study of stress distribution in sheared granular material in two dimensions ...... 3882 S. G. Bardenhagen, J. U. Brackbill, and D. Sulsky Rolling of unsaturated porous materials: Evolution of a fully saturated zone ...... 3891 K. Velten and W. Best Computer simulation of the packing of fine particles ...... 3900 R. Y. Yang, R. P. Zou, and A. B. Yu Direct measurements of constrained Brownian motion of an isolated sphere between two walls ...... 3909 Binhua Lin, Jonathan Yu, and Stuart A. Rice Theoretical continuous equation derived from the microscopic dynamics for growing interfaces in quenched media ...... 3920 L. A. Braunstein, R. C. Buceta, C. D. Archubi, and G. Costanza Enhanced stability of layered phases in parallel hard spherocylinders due to addition of hard spheres ...... 3925 Zvonimir Dogic, Daan Frenkel, and Seth Fraden Photonic Hall effect in ferrofluids: Theory and experiments ...... 3934 D. Lacoste, F. Donatini, S. Neveu, J. A. Serughetti, and B. A. Van Tiggelen Estimation of critical points of branched polymers ...... 3944 Kazumi Suematsu and Minoru Kohno Adiabatic hypercooling of binary melts ...... 3954 Kirk Brattkus

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Biological physics Simple model for the DNA denaturation transition ...... 3958 Maria Serena Causo, Barbara Coluzzi, and Peter Grassberger Shape instability of a biomembrane driven by a local softening of the underlying actin cortex ...... 3974 A. Boulbitch, R. Simson, D. A. Simson, R. Merkel, W. Ha¨ckl, M. Ba¨rmann, and E. Sackmann Influence of molecular flexibility on DNA radiosensitivity: A simulation study ...... 3986 D. Viduna, K. Hinsen, and G. Kneller Glasslike dynamical behavior of the plastocyanin hydration water ...... 3991 Anna Rita Bizzarri, Alessandro Paciaroni, and Salvatore Cannistraro Structural information from multilamellar liposomes at full hydration: Full q-range fitting with high quality x-ray data ...... 4000 Georg Pabst, Michael Rappolt, Heinz Amenitsch, and Peter Laggner Synchronization of laser oscillators, associative memory, and optical neurocomputing ...... 4010 Frank C. Hoppensteadt and Eugene M. Izhikevich DNA electrophoresis in a monodisperse porous medium ...... 4014 L. Meistermann and B. Tinland Scaling-violation phenomena and fractality in the human posture control systems ...... 4018 Stefan Thurner, Christian Mittermaier, Rudolf Hanel, and Klaus Ehrenberger Dynamical chaos and power spectra in toy models of heteropolymers and proteins ...... 4025 Mai Suan Li, Marek Cieplak, and Nazar Sushko Random population dispersal in a linear hostile environment ...... 4032 S. Harris Many-body approach to the dynamics of batch learning ...... 4036 K. Y. Michael Wong, S. Li, and Y. W. Tong Alternans and the onset of ventricular fibrillation ...... 4043 Harold M. Hastings, Flavio H. Fenton, Steven J. Evans, Omer Hotomaroglu, Jagannathan Geetha, Ken Gittelson, John Nilson, and Alan Garfinkel Competing neural networks: Finding a strategy for the game of matching pennies ...... 4049 Ine´s Samengo and Damia´n H. Zanette Period-adding bifurcations and chaos in a periodically stimulated excitable neural relaxation oscillator ...... 4057 S. Coombes and A. H. Osbaldestin Quantitative analysis of concentration gradient and ionic currents associated with hyphal tip growth in fungi .... 4067 L. Limozin and B. Denet Dynamics of temporal learning rules ...... 4077 Patrick D. Roberts

Plasma physics Electron transport in argon in crossed electric and magnetic fields ...... 4083 Kevin Ness and Toshiaki Makabe Bremsstrahlung from thick targets and a diagnostic for electron energy distributions ...... 4091 M. Lamoureux, P. Waller, P. Charles, and N. B. Avdonina Dielectronic recombination in plasmas: The final state distribution ...... 4096 Gaber Omar and Yukap Hahn Influence of the tritium ␤Ϫ decay on low-temperature thermonuclear burn-up in deuterium-tritium mixtures . .... 4104 Alexei M. Frolov Asymptotic evolution of nonlinear Landau damping ...... 4109 M. Brunetti, F. Califano, and F. Pegoraro Viscosity estimates for strongly coupled Yukawa systems ...... 4115 M. S. Murillo

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Relativistic focusing and ponderomotive channeling of intense laser beams ...... 4120 B. Hafizi, A. Ting, P. Sprangle, and R. F. Hubbard Influence of a dense plasma on the fine-structure levels of a hydrogenic ion ...... 4126 Debasis Ray Second harmonic autoresonant control of the lϭ1 diocotron mode in pure-electron plasmas ...... 4131 J. Fajans, E. Gilson, and L. Friedland Stark broadening parameters of the Kr II and Kr III spectral lines ...... 4137 V. Milosavljevic´, S. Djenizˇe, M. S. Dimitrijevic´, and L. Cˇ . Popovic´ Relativistic solitons in magnetized plasmas ...... 4146 Daniela Farina, Maurizio Lontano, and Sergei Bulanov Modeling of gas dynamics for a laser-generated plasma: Propagation into low-pressure gases ...... 4152 H. C. Le, D. E. Zeitoun, J. D. Parisse, M. Sentis, and W. Marine Laser-excited Mach cones in a dusty plasma crystal ...... 4162 A. Melzer, S. Nunomura, D. Samsonov, Z. W. Ma, and J. Goree Circular polarization induced by scintillation in a magnetized medium ...... 4177 J.-P. Macquart and D. B. Melrose

Physics of beams Dynamics of a charged particle in a circularly polarized traveling electromagnetic wave ...... 4189 A. Bourdier and S. Gond Effective coupling of cyclotron autoresonance maser and ‘‘gyrotron’’ modes on a phase-synchronized electron beam ...... 4207 A. V. Savilov, V. L. Bratman, A. D. R. Phelps, and S. V. Samsonov Formation of low time-bandwidth product, single-sided exponential optical pulses in free-electron laser oscillators ...... 4216 A. M. MacLeod, X. Yan, W. A. Gillespie, G. M. H. Knippels, D. Oepts, A. F. G. van der Meer, C. W. Rella, T. I. Smith, and H. A. Schwettman Correlation functions and spin ...... 4221 Toma´sˇ Tyc Parametric x-ray radiation and coherent bremsstrahlung from nonrelativistic electrons in crystals ...... 4225 I. D. Feranchuk, A. Ulyanenkov, J. Harada, and J. C. H. Spence

Classical physics, including nonlinear media Driven kink in the Frenkel-Kontorova model ...... 4235 O. M. Braun, Bambi Hu, and A. Zeltser Gap solitons in quadratically nonlinear gratings: Beyond the cascading limit ...... 4246 Takeshi Iizuka and C. Martijn de Sterke Radiating dipoles in photonic crystals ...... 4251 Kurt Busch, Nipun Vats, Sajeev John, and Barry C. Sanders Unified description of nondiffracting X and Y waves ...... 4261 J. Salo, J. Fagerholm, A. T. Friberg, and M. M. Salomaa Analog of the Wigner-Moyal equation for the electromagnetic field ...... 4276 J. T. Mendonc¸a and N. L. Tsintsadze Instabilities of dispersion-managed solitons in the normal dispersion regime ...... 4283 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky Collective topological dynamics in the Frenkel-Kontorova chains ...... 4294 Zhigang Zheng and Bambi Hu Dynamics of quasicollapse in nonlinear Schro¨dinger systems with nonlocal interactions ...... 4300 Vı´ctor M. Pe´rez-Garcı´a, Vladimir V. Konotop, and Juan J. Garcı´a-Ripoll

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Higher-order nonlinear modes and bifurcation phenomena due to degenerate parametric four-wave mixing ...... 4309 Kazimir Y. Kolossovski, Alexander V. Buryak, Victoria V. Steblina, Alan R. Champneys, and Rowland A. Sammut Electromagnetic contributions to single-molecule sensitivity in surface-enhanced Raman scattering ...... 4318 Hongxing Xu, Javier Aizpurua, Mikael Ka¨ll, and Peter Apell Polarization dynamics of solitons in birefringent fibers ...... 4325 S. M. Baker, J. N. Elgin, and J. Gibbons

Computational physics Simulated annealing for topological solitons ...... 4333 Mark Hale, Oliver Schwindt, and Tom Weidig Calculation of the first excited 1Se state of the He atom using supersymmetric quantum mechanics and extension to the nth excitation ...... 4347 Tapan Kumar Das and Barnali Chakrabarti Spectral filters in quantum mechanics: A measurement theory perspective ...... 4351 Amrendra Vijay and Robert E. Wyatt Fast algorithm for finding the eigenvalue distribution of very large matrices ...... 4365 Anthony Hams and Hans De Raedt

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics Coexistence of excited states in confined Ising systems ...... 4378 Andrzej Drzewin´ski Momentum conservation and local field corrections for the response of interacting Fermi gases ...... 4382 Klaus Morawetz and Uwe Fuhrmann Equilibrium distribution of gas molecules adsorbed on an active surface ...... 4386 Stephen L. Adler and Indrajit Mitra Quantifying nonstationary radioactivity concentration fluctuations near Chernobyl: A complete statistical description ...... 4389 G. M. Viswanathan, S. V. Buldyrev, E. K. Garger, V. A. Kashpur, L. S. Lucena, A. Shlyakhter, H. E. Stanley, and J. Tschiersch Theory of the evolutionary minority game ...... 4393 T. S. Lo, P. M. Hui, and N. F. Johnson Cumulant ratios and their scaling functions for Ising systems in a strip geometry ...... 4397 Andrzej Drzewin´ski and Jacek Wojtkiewicz First-order transition with power-law singularity in models with absorbing states ...... 4401 Adam Lipowski Relaxation properties of small-world networks ...... 4405 S. Jespersen, I. M. Sokolov, and A. Blumen

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems Environment-induced dynamical chaos ...... 4409 Bidhan Chandra Bag and Deb Shankar Ray Analyzing Lyapunov spectra of chaotic dynamical systems ...... 4413 F. K. Diakonos, D. Pingel, and P. Schmelcher

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Suppressing complexity via the slaving principle ...... 4417 Shunguang Wu, Kaifen He, and Zuqia Huang

Classical fluids Laser wipers ...... 4421 A. N. Karpetis, C. M. White, and K. R. Sreenivasan Visualization of the space-time impulse response of the subcritical wake of a cylinder ...... 4424 P. Le Gal and V. Croquette Equivalence of two approaches for the inhomogeneous density in the canonical ensemble ...... 4427 J. A. White and S. Velasco

Liquid crystals Director rotation via photoinduced differential depletion in nematic dyes ...... 4431 M. Warner and S. V. Fridrikh

Complex fluids, polymers, and granular materials

␤ relaxation of nonpolymeric liquids close to the glass transition ...... 4435 Niels Boye Olsen, Tage Christensen, and Jeppe C. Dyre Structural stability of simple fluids and accuracy of integral-equation theories ...... 4439 G. Malescio and P. V. Giaquinta Hysteresis and packing in gas-fluidized beds ...... 4442 R. Ojha, N. Menon, and D. J. Durian Granular flow in a three-dimensional rotating container ...... 4446 T. Elperin and A. Vikhansky

Biological physics Symmetries of independent statistical observables for ultrametric populations ...... 4450 B. G. Giraud Dielectric 1/f noise of proton glass on a hydrated protein surface ...... 4454 Giorgio Careri and Giuseppe Consolini

Plasma physics Hemispherical dynamos generated by convection in rotating spherical shells ...... 4457 E. Grote and F. H. Busse Soft-x-ray emission from small-sized Ne clusters heated by intense, femtosecond laser pulses ...... 4461 T. Mocek, C. M. Kim, H. J. Shin, D. G. Lee, Y. H. Cha, K. H. Hong, and C. H. Nam

Classical physics, including nonlinear media Description of random radiating and nonradiating sources ...... 4465 Edwin A. Marengo and Richard W. Ziolkowski

Computational physics Solution of a separable Smoluchowski equation in one spatial dimension ...... 4469 I. Klik and Y. D. Yao Efficiency of generalized simulated annealing ...... 4473 Y. Xiang and X. G. Gong

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ERRATA Erratum: Time-dependent one-dimensional spin-1 Ising system with weak coupling ͓Phys. Rev. E 55, 5343 ͑1997͔͒ ...... 4477 Mustafa Keskin and Paul H. E. Meijer Erratum: Microwave study of quantum n-disk scattering ͓Phys. Rev. E 61, 3652 ͑2000͔͒ ...... 4478 Wentao Lu, Lorenza Viola, Kristi Pance, Michael Rose, and S. Sridhar Erratum: Local field effects and the field-dependent dielectric response of polymer dispersed liquid crystals ͓Phys. Rev. E 61, 5385 ͑2000͔͒ ...... 4479 Ohad Levy

Selected Abstracts From Other Physical Review Journals ...... 4480

Cumulative Author Index ...... 4481