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 75, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS MARCH 2007 PART 1: STATISTICAL, SOFT MATTER, AND BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Statistical physics Majority model on a network with communities (4 pages) ........................................... 030101͑R͒ R. Lambiotte, M. Ausloos, and J. A. Hołyst Self-affinity in the gradient percolation problem (4 pages) ........................................... 030102͑R͒ Alex Hansen, G. George Batrouni, Thomas Ramstad, and Jean Schmittbuhl Two simple models of classical heat pumps (4 pages) .............................................. 030103͑R͒ Rahul Marathe, A. M. Jayannavar, and Abhishek Dhar Superaging in two-dimensional random ferromagnets (4 pages) ...................................... 030104͑R͒ Raja Paul, Grégory Schehr, and Heiko Rieger Granular materials Universal anisotropy in force networks under shear (4 pages) ........................................ 030301͑R͒ Srdjan Ostojic, Thijs J. H. Vlugt, and Bernard Nienhuis Biological physics Screwlike order, macroscopic chirality, and elastic distortions in high-density DNA mesophases (4 pages) .... 030901͑R͒ F. Manna, V. Lorman, R. Podgornik, and B. Žekš Effects of temperature on the mechanical properties of single stranded DNA (4 pages) ................... 030902͑R͒ C. Danilowicz, C. H. Lee, V. W. Coljee, and M. Prentiss ARTICLES Statistical physics Inertial effects in the fractional translational diffusion of a Brownian particle in a double-well potential (8 pages) ................................................................................... 031101 Yuri P. Kalmykov, William T. Coffey, and Sergey V. Titov Transient nucleation near the mean-field spinodal (6 pages) .......................................... 031102 A. O. Schweiger, K. Barros, and W. Klein Copyright 2007 by The American Physical Society (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 75, NUMBER 3 MARCH 2007 Freezing transition of the random bond RNA model: Statistical properties of the pairing weights (16 pages) .................................................................................. 031103 Cécile Monthus and Thomas Garel Scaling approach to related disordered stochastic and free-fermion models (10 pages) .................... 031104 R. J. Harris and R. B. Stinchcombe Critical wetting of a class of nonequilibrium interfaces: A mean-field picture (6 pages) ................... 031105 Francisco de los Santos, Elvira Romera, Omar Al Hammal, and Miguel Ángel Muñoz Gaussian noise and time-reversal symmetry in nonequilibrium Langevin models (6 pages) ................ 031106 M. H. Vainstein and J. M. Rubí Dynamics of quantum dissipation systems interacting with bosonic canonical bath: Hierarchical equations of motion approach (11 pages) ................................................................... 031107 Rui-Xue Xu and YiJing Yan Shot noise displaying simultaneously the Noah and Joseph effects (10 pages) ........................... 031108 Iddo Eliazar and Joseph Klafter Irreducible memory function and slow dynamics in disordered systems (8 pages) ........................ 031109 T. Carlsson, L. Sjögren, E. Mamontov, and K. Psiuk-Maksymowicz Finite-size scaling in anisotropic systems (9 pages) ................................................ 031110 N. S. Tonchev Kinetics of self-induced aggregation in Brownian particles (8 pages) .................................. 031111 Fabio Cecconi, Giuseppe Gonnella, and Gustavo P. Saracco Criticality of a contact process with coupled diffusive and nondiffusive fields (7 pages) ................... 031112 N. V. da Costa, U. L. Fulco, M. L. Lyra, and I. M. Gléria Statistical scattering of waves in disordered waveguides: From microscopic potentials to limiting macroscopic statistics (28 pages) .......................................................................... 031113 L. S. Froufe-Pérez, M. Yépez, P. A. Mello, and J. J. Sáenz Structure of fluctuations near mean-field critical points and spinodals and its implication for physical processes (22 pages) .................................................................................. 031114 W. Klein, Harvey Gould, Natali Gulbahce, J. B. Rundle, and K. Tiampo Influence of external magnetic field on dynamics of open quantum systems (16 pages) ................... 031115 Sh. A. Kalandarov, Z. Kanokov, G. G. Adamian, and N. V. Antonenko Level dynamics approach to the large deviation statistical characteristic function (10 pages) ............... 031116 Hirokazu Fujisaka and Tomoji Yamada Directing Brownian motion by oscillating barriers (5 pages) ......................................... 031117 S. Bleil, P. Reimann, and C. Bechinger Role of interactions in ferrofluid thermal ratchets (11 pages) ......................................... 031118 Volker Becker and Andreas Engel Smoothing a rock by chipping (7 pages) ......................................................... 031119 P. L. Krapivsky and S. Redner Intensive thermodynamic parameters in nonequilibrium systems (16 pages) ............................. 031120 Eric Bertin, Kirsten Martens, Olivier Dauchot, and Michel Droz (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 75, NUMBER 3 MARCH 2007 Localization of coherent exciton transport in phase space (9 pages) ................................... 031121 Oliver Mülken, Veronika Bierbaum, and Alexander Blumen Spectral theory of metastability and extinction in a branching-annihilation reaction (8 pages) .............. 031122 Michael Assaf and Baruch Meerson Mitigating the effects of measurement noise on Granger causality (10 pages) ........................... 031123 Hariharan Nalatore, Mingzhou Ding, and Govindan Rangarajan Evaluation of the permutational structure of quantum gases at finite temperature (8 pages) ................ 031124 Ryan Springall, Manolo Per, and Ian Snook Equilibrium and linear transport properties of fluids Transport in a highly asymmetric binary fluid mixture (7 pages) ...................................... 031201 Sorin Bastea Granular materials Radial and axial segregation of granular matter in a rotating cylinder: A simulation study (11 pages) ........ 031301 D. C. Rapaport Velocity distributions and aging in a cooling granular gas (12 pages) .................................. 031302 Syed Rashid Ahmad and Sanjay Puri Uphill solitary waves in granular flows (4 pages) .................................................. 031303 E. Martínez, C. Pérez-Penichet, O. Sotolongo-Costa, O. Ramos, K. J. Måløy, S. Douady, and E. Altshuler Dry and wet granular shock waves (11 pages) .................................................... 031304 V. Yu. Zaburdaev and S. Herminghaus Velocity correlations in dense granular shear flows: Effects on energy dissipation and normal stress (9 pages) ................................................................................... 031305 Namiko Mitarai and Hiizu Nakanishi Types of gas fluidization of cohesive granular materials (6 pages) .................................... 031306 Jose Manuel Valverde and Antonio Castellanos Role of interparticle forces and interparticle friction on the bulk friction in charged granular media subjected to shearing (5 pages) ......................................................................... 031307 S. J. Antony and M. A. Sultan Influences of the interstitial liquid on segregation patterns of granular slurries in a rotating drum (9 pages) ................................................................................... 031308 Tilo Finger and Ralf Stannarius Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Aging in attraction-driven colloidal glasses (11 pages) .............................................. 031401 Antonio M. Puertas, Matthias Fuchs, and Michael E. Cates Frank’s constant in the hexatic phase (6 pages) .................................................... 031402 P. Keim, G. Maret, and H. H. von Grünberg Synthetic diamond and wurtzite structures self-assemble with isotropic pair interactions (7 pages) .......... 031403 Mikael C. Rechtsman, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 75, NUMBER 3 MARCH 2007 Counterion release and interaction of oppositely charged surfaces (5 pages) ............................ 031404 A. Flores-Amado and M. Hernández-Contreras Charging mechanism in colloidal particles leading to a linear relation between charge and size (8 pages) .... 031405 Filip Strubbe, Filip Beunis, Matthias Marescaux, and Kristiaan Neyts Structured and complex fluids Shear-induced crystallization in jammed systems (8 pages) .......................................... 031501 Nathan Duff and Daniel J. Lacks Glass phenomenology from the connection to spin glasses (5 pages) .................................. 031502 M. Tarzia and M. A. Moore Mode-coupling theory for the slow collective dynamics of fluids adsorbed in disordered porous media (17 pages) .................................................................................. 031503 V. Krakoviack Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Wetting and minimal surfaces (17 pages) ........................................................ 031601 Constantin Bachas, Pierre Le Doussal, and Kay Jörg Wiese Spontaneous corrugation of dipolar membranes (7 pages) ..........................................