PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW E Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, APS Subscription Services please see inside front cover Suite 1NO1 „ISSN: 1539-3755… 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747-4502 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 2 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2008 PART 1: STATISTICAL, SOFT MATTER, AND BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Statistical physics Effective transport in random shear flows (4 pages) ................................................ 020101͑R͒ Marco Dentz, Tanguy Le Borgne, and Jesus Carrera Active elastic dimers: Self-propulsion and current reversal on a featureless track (4 pages) ................ 020102͑R͒ K. Vijay Kumar, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Madan Rao Priority diffusion model in lattices and complex networks (4 pages) ................................... 020103͑R͒ Michalis Maragakis, Shai Carmi, Daniel ben-Avraham, Shlomo Havlin, and Panos Argyrakis Stochastic resonance in a double quantum dot system (4 pages) ...................................... 020104͑R͒ Amitabh Joshi Granular materials Interaction between intruders in vibrated granular beds (4 pages) ..................................... 020301͑R͒ L. T. Lui, Michael R. Swift, R. M. Bowley, and P. J. King Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Multipole expansion of the electrostatic interaction between charged colloids at interfaces (4 pages) ........ 020401͑R͒ A. Domínguez, D. Frydel, and M. Oettel Arrested state of clay-water suspensions: Gel or glass? (4 pages) ..................................... 020402͑R͒ B. Ruzicka, L. Zulian, R. Angelini, M. Sztucki, A. Moussaïd, and G. Ruocco Structured and complex fluids Structural and dynamical heterogeneity in deeply supercooled liquid silicon (4 pages) .................... 020501͑R͒ Tetsuya Morishita Liquid crystals Bent-core liquid-crystalline derivative of tetrathiafulvalene: Photoresponsivity and deracemization (4 pages) ................................................................................... 020701͑R͒ J. Martínez-Perdiguero, I. Alonso, J. Ortega, C. L. Folcia, J. Etxebarria, I. Pintre, M. B. Ros, and D. B. Amabilino Copyright 2008 by The American Physical Society (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2008 Inhomogeneous bulk nematic order reconstruction (4 pages) ......................................... 020702͑R͒ G. Lombardo, H. Ayeb, F. Ciuchi, M. P. De Santo, R. Barberi, R. Bartolino, E. G. Virga, and G. E. Durand Force between colloidal particles in a nematic liquid crystal studied by optical tweezers (4 pages) .......... 020703͑R͒ Kenji Takahashi, Masatoshi Ichikawa, and Yasuyuki Kimura Polymers Hexagonal phase induced by a reversible photo-cross-link reaction in a polymer mixture (4 pages) ......... 020801͑R͒ Hideyuki Nakanishi, Masahiro Satoh, and Qui Tran-Cong-Miyata Kinetically driven helix formation during the homopolymer collapse process (4 pages) ................... 020802͑R͒ Sid Ahmed Sabeur, Fatima Hamdache, and Friederike Schmid Biological physics Statistically enhanced promiscuity of structurally correlated patterns (4 pages) .......................... 020901͑R͒ D. B. Lukatsky and E. I. Shakhnovich ARTICLES Statistical physics Interacting stochastic oscillators (10 pages) ....................................................... 021101 Jiajun Zhang, Zhanjiang Yuan, Junwei Wang, and Tianshou Zhou Crystallization and melting of bacteria colonies and Brownian bugs (12 pages) .......................... 021102 Francisco Ramos, Cristóbal López, Emilio Hernández-García, and Miguel A. Muñoz Nonlinear thermal control in an N-terminal junction (6 pages) ....................................... 021103 Dvira Segal Possible effects of tilt order on phase transitions of a fixed connectivity surface model (8 pages) ........... 021104 Hiroshi Koibuchi Exact solution for stochastic degradation and fragmentation processes in arbitrary chain and ring aggregates with multiple bonds (9 pages) .................................................................. 021105 Mark B. Flegg and Dmitri K. Gramotnev Quantum chaos, delocalization, and entanglement in disordered Heisenberg models (16 pages) ............. 021106 Winton G. Brown, Lea F. Santos, David J. Starling, and Lorenza Viola Effects of initial correlations on the dynamics of dissipative systems (9 pages) .......................... 021107 Eli Pollak, Jiushu Shao, and Dong Hui Zhang Fluctuation-response relation of many Brownian particles under nonequilibrium conditions (5 pages) ........ 021108 Takenobu Nakamura and Shin-ichi Sasa Quantum-classical correspondence principles for locally nonequilibrium driven systems (24 pages) ......... 021109 Eric Smith Entanglement versus Stosszahlansatz: Disappearance of the thermodynamic arrow in a high-correlation environment (4 pages) ........................................................................ 021110 M. Hossein Partovi Anomalous subdiffusion with multispecies linear reaction dynamics (9 pages) .......................... 021111 T. A. M. Langlands, B. I. Henry, and S. L. Wearne (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2008 Finite-size fluctuations and stochastic resonance in globally coupled bistable systems (9 pages) ............ 021112 David Cubero Absorbing phase transition in a conserved lattice gas model in one dimension (6 pages) .................. 021113 Sang-Gui Lee and Sang B. Lee Directed molecular transport in an oscillating channel with randomness (5 pages) ....................... 021114 V. L. Popov and A. E. Filippov Statistical mechanics of the two-dimensional hydrogen-bonding self-avoiding walk including solvent effects (9 pages) ................................................................................... 021115 D. P. Foster and C. Pinettes Master crossover functions for one-component fluids (26 pages) ...................................... 021116 Yves Garrabos, Carole Lecoutre, Fabien Palencia, Bernard Le Neindre, and Can Erkey Universal behavior of quantum walks with long-range steps (5 pages) ................................. 021117 Oliver Mülken, Volker Pernice, and Alexander Blumen Random-walk approach to the d-dimensional disordered Lorentz gas (4 pages) .......................... 021118 Artur B. Adib Critical fluctuations of time-dependent magnetization in a random-field Ising model (5 pages) ............. 021119 Hiroki Ohta and Shin-ichi Sasa Calculations of canonical averages from the grand canonical ensemble (6 pages) ........................ 021120 D. S. Kosov, M. F. Gelin, and A. I. Vdovin Site percolation on planar ⌽3 random graphs (7 pages) ............................................. 021121 J.-P. Kownacki Monte Carlo simulation of uncoupled continuous-time random walks yielding a stochastic solution of the space-time fractional diffusion equation (7 pages) ................................................. 021122 Daniel Fulger, Enrico Scalas, and Guido Germano Exponential peak and scaling of work fluctuations in modulated systems (4 pages) ...................... 021123 M. I. Dykman Optimal sequence for Parrondo games (6 pages) ................................................... 021124 Luis Dinis Dependence of ground-state energy of classical n-vector spins on n (8 pages) ........................... 021125 Samarth Chandra Static and dynamic structure factors in three-dimensional randomly diluted Ising models (19 pages) ........ 021126 Pasquale Calabrese, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari Three types of outflow dynamics on square and triangular lattices and universal scaling (8 pages) .......... 021127 Grzegorz Kondrat and Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron Nonequilibrium work distribution of a quantum harmonic oscillator (6 pages) ........................... 021128 Sebastian Deffner and Eric Lutz Dimer diffusion in a washboard potential (7 pages) ................................................ 021129 E. Heinsalu, M. Patriarca, and F. Marchesoni Power-law distribution as a result of asynchronous random switching between Malthus and Verhulst kinetics (4 pages) ................................................................................... 021130 Ryszard Zygadło (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 77, NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2008 Wavelet transforms in a critical interface model for Barkhausen noise (9 pages) ......................... 021131 S. L. A. de Queiroz Critical points of quadratic renormalizations of random variables and phase transitions of disordered polymer models on diamond lattices (16 pages) .......................................................... 021132 Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids Long-time tail of the velocity autocorrelation function in a two-dimensional moderately dense hard-disk fluid (4 pages) ................................................................................... 021201 Masaharu Isobe Cosine law at the atomic scale: Toward realistic simulations of Knudsen diffusion (4 pages) ............... 021202 Franck Celestini and Fabrice Mortessagne Capillary pressure in a porous medium with distinct pore surface and pore volume fractal dimensions (3 pages) ................................................................................... 021203 M. R. Deinert, A. Dathe, J-Y. Parlange, and K. B. Cady Granular materials Granular labyrinth structures in confined geometries (10 pages) ...................................... 021301 Henning Arendt Knudsen, Bjørnar Sandnes, Eirik Grude Flekkøy, and Knut