PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW E Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, American Institute of Physics please see inside front cover Suite 1NO1 „ISSN: 1063-651X… 2 Huntington Quadrangle Melville, NY 11747-4502 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 66, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2002 PARTS 1, 2A, AND 2B The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts 1, 2A, and 2B. Part 2A consists of pages 035101(R)±036229, and Part 2B pages 036301±039903(E). PART 1 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Statistical physics of soft matter Growing correlation length on cooling below the onset of caging in a simulated glass-forming liquid (4 pages) ................................................... 030101͑R͒ N. Lacˇevic´, F. W. Starr, T. B. Schro”der, V. N. Novikov, and S. C. Glotzer Continuous-time random walks and traveling fronts (4 pages) . 030102͑R͒ Sergei Fedotov and Vicenc¸Me´ndez Structured and complex ¯uids Pattern stability and trijunction motion in eutectic solidification (4 pages) . 030501͑R͒ S. Akamatsu, M. Plapp, G. Faivre, and A. Karma Liquid crystals Topological defects in schlieren textures of biaxial and uniaxial nematics (4 pages) . 030701͑R͒ C. Chiccoli, I. Feruli, O. D. Lavrentovich, P. Pasini, S. V. Shiyanovskii, and C. Zannoni REGULAR ARTICLES Statistical physics of soft matter Ultraslow vacancy-mediated tracer diffusion in two dimensions: The Einstein relation verified (15 pages) . 031101 O. Be´nichou and G. Oshanin Theoretical analysis and simulations of the generalized Lotka-Volterra model (6 pages) . 031102 Ofer Malcai, Ofer Biham, Peter Richmond, and Sorin Solomon Evolution of escape processes with a time-varying load (6 pages) . 031103 Mee H. Choi and Ronald F. Fox Effect of asymmetry on stochastic resonance and stochastic resonance induced by multiplicative noise and by mean-field coupling (7 pages) ................................................... 031104 Jing-hui Li Effects of biased diffusions on dynamical surface structures for the AϩB→0 reaction (5 pages) . 031105 Yup Kim and S. Y. Yoon Random walks with feedback on fractal lattices (6 pages) . 031106 Beatrix M. Schulz, Michael Schulz, and Steffen Trimper Copyright 2002 by The American Physical Society (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 66, NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2002 Charged particle layers in the Debye limit (10 pages) .............................................. 031107 Kenneth I. Golden, Gabor J. Kalman, and Stamatios Kyrkos Equilibrium and linear transport properties of ¯uids Soret coefficient for liquid argon-krypton mixtures via equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics: A comparison with experiments (15 pages) ................................................... 031201 A. Perronace, G. Ciccotti, F. Leroy, A. H. Fuchs, and B. Rousseau Equation of state of additive hard-disk fluid mixtures: A critical analysis of two recent proposals (5 pages) ................................................... 031202 M. Lo´pez de Haro, S. B. Yuste, and A. Santos van der Waals–Tonks-type equations of state for hard-disk and hard-sphere fluids (4 pages) . 031203 Xian Zhi Wang Equilibrium temperature of a convex body in a free molecular shearing flow (4 pages) . 031204 Lars H. So¨derholm Evidence of short-time dynamical correlations in simple liquids (7 pages) . 031205 T. Scopigno, G. Ruocco, F. Sette, and G. Viliani Density functional theory of solvation in a polar solvent: Extracting the functional from homogeneous solvent simulations (8 pages) ................................................... 031206 Rosa Ramirez, Ralph Gebauer, Michel Mareschal, and Daniel Borgis Granular materials Microscopic two-dimensional lattice model of dimer granular compaction with friction (9 pages) . 031301 C. Fusco, A. Fasolino, P. Gallo, A. Petri, and M. Rovere Minimal model for aeolian sand dunes (18 pages) . 031302 Klaus Kroy, Gerd Sauermann, and Hans J. Herrmann Dynamic rearrangements and packing regimes in randomly deposited two-dimensional granular beds (10 pages) ................................................... 031303 I. Bratberg, F. Radjai, and A. Hansen Stress transmission through three-dimensional ordered granular arrays (9 pages) . 031304 Nathan W. Mueggenburg, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel Anomalous transport in conical granular piles (5 pages) . 031305 Peter Ahlgren, Mikkel Avlund, Ib Klewe, Jonas Nyvold Pedersen, and A´ lvaro Corral Colloidal dispersions, suspensions, and aggregates Colloidal rod-sphere mixtures: Fluid-fluid interfaces and the Onsager limit (13 pages) . 031401 Joseph M. Brader, Ansgar Esztermann, and Matthias Schmidt Self-diffusion and collective diffusion in a model viscoelastic system (7 pages) . 031402 Eric Michel, Luca Cipelletti, Emmanuel d’Humieres, Yann Gambin, Wladimir Urbach, Gre´goire Porte, and Jacqueline Appell Stretched exponential relaxation for growing interfaces in quenched disordered media (4 pages) . 031403 A. Dı´az-Sa´nchez, A. Pe´rez-Garrido, A. Urbina, and J. D. Catala´ Structured and complex ¯uids Distance between inherent structures and the influence of saddles on approaching the mode coupling transition in a simple glass former (5 pages) ................................................... 031501 Gabriel Fabricius and Daniel A. Stariolo Cluster diffusion at the gelation point (5 pages) . 031502 Sune NÖrhÖj Jespersen (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 66, NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2002 Merging of ␣ and slow ␤ relaxation in supercooled liquids (4 pages) . 031503 Takuya Fujima, Hiroshi Frusawa, and Kohzo Ito Fingering instability of a sheet of yield-stress fluid (5 pages) . 031504 John R. de Bruyn, Piotr Habdas, and Stella Kim Dynamical behavior of a complex fluid near an out-of-equilibrium transition: Approaching simple rheological chaos (13 pages) ................................................... 031505 Jean-Baptiste Salmon, Annie Colin, and Didier Roux Rheological behavior of microemulsions (9 pages) . 031506 G. Gonnella and M. Ruggieri Heat capacity and thermal expansion anomalies in the nitromethane–1-butanol mixture near its upper critical point (6 pages) ................................................... 031507 C. A. Cerdeirin˜a, J. Troncoso, E. Carballo, and L. Romanı´ Low-temperature phase separation of a binary liquid mixture in porous materials studied by cryoporometry and pulsed-field-gradient NMR (10 pages) ................................................... 031508 Rustem Valiullin and Istva´n Furo´ Phase behavior and thermodynamic anomalies of core-softened fluids (14 pages) . 031509 Nigel B. Wilding and James E. Magee High-frequency dynamics of the glass former dibutylphthalate under pressure (8 pages) . 031510 A. Mermet, E. Duval, A. Polian, and M. Krisch Films, interfaces, and crystal growth Rupture of molecular thin films observed in atomic force microscopy. I. Theory (9 pages) . 031601 Hans-Ju¨rgen Butt and Volker Franz Rupture of molecular thin films observed in atomic force microscopy. II. Experiment (7 pages) . 031602 Simona Loi, Gexiao Sun, Volker Franz, and Hans-Ju¨rgen Butt Experiments of interfacial roughening in Hele-Shaw flows with weak quenched disorder (18 pages) . 031603 Jordi Soriano, Jordi Ortı´n, and A. Herna´ndez-Machado Measurement of ultralow interfacial tension with a laser interface manipulation technique (6 pages) . 031604 Shujiro Mitani and Keiji Sakai Process of irreversible nucleation in multilayer growth. I. Failure of the mean-field approach (14 pages) . 031605 Paolo Politi and Claudio Castellano Process of irreversible nucleation in multilayer growth. II. Exact results in one and two dimensions (15 pages) ................................................... 031606 Paolo Politi and Claudio Castellano Liquid crystals Theory of polar biaxial nematic phases (5 pages) . 031701 Bruno Mettout, Pierre Tole´dano, Hideo Takezoe, and Junji Watanabe Reorientational dynamics of the pseudonematic domains studied with nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy (5 pages) ................................................... 031702 Przemysław Ke¸dziora, Jan Jadz˙yn, and Louis Hellemans Optical and x-ray evidence of the ‘‘de Vries’’ Sm-A*–Sm-C* transition in a non-layer-shrinkage ferroelectric liquid crystal with very weak interlayer tilt correlation (11 pages) . 031703 Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, and Marc D. Radcliffe Theory of bent-core liquid-crystal phases and phase transitions (27 pages) . 031704 T. C. Lubensky and Leo Radzihovsky Prewavy instability of nematic liquid crystals in a high-frequency electric field (6 pages) . 031705 Jong-Hoon Huh, Yusril Yusuf, Yoshiki Hidaka, and Shoichi Kai Isotropic-cholesteric transition in liquid-crystalline gels (6 pages) . 031706 Robert A. Pelcovits and Robert B. Meyer (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 66, NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 2002 Pattern-forming instability induced by light in pure and dye-doped nematic liquid crystals (8 pages) . 031707 D. O. Krimer, G. Demeter, and L. Kramer Nanophase segregation of nonpolar solvents in smectic liquid crystals of bent-shape molecules (6 pages) . 031708 M. Y. M. Huang, A. M. Pedreira, O. G. Martins, A. M. Figueiredo Neto, and A. Ja´kli Electro-optic study of antiferroelectric freely suspended films of bent-core mesogens in the B2 phase (8 pages) ................................................... 031709 Ralf Stannarius, Christian Langer, and Wolfgang Weissflog Comparative x-ray and dielectric measurements of smectic A–smectic-C transition in bulk and confined geometries (7 pages) ..................................................