PERIODICALS PHYSICAL REVIEW E Postmaster send address changes to: For editorial and subscription correspondence, American Institute of Physics please see inside front cover 500 Sunnyside Boulevard (ISSN: 1063-651X) Woodbury, NY 11797-2999 THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 55, NUMBER 1 CONTENTS JANUARY 1997 PARTS A AND B The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts A and B. Part A consists of pages 1–538, and Part B pages 539–1234. PART A Guidelines for PRE Section Selection ............................................................... iii Editorial Policies and Procedures of Physical Review E ................................................ iv General Information for Contributors ............................................................... viii Guidelines for Estimating Length .................................................................. xii Note to Reader ................................................................................. xiii RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Fluctuating phase rigidity for a quantum chaotic system with partially broken time-reversal symmetry .......... R1 S. A. van Langen, P. W. Brouwer, and C. W. J. Beenakker Multidimensional inverse lattice problem and a uniformly sampled arithmetic Fourier transform ............... R5 Chen Nan-xian, Chen Zhao-dou, and Wei Yu-chuan Mixing, Lyapunov instability, and the approach to equilibrium in a hard-sphere gas ......................... R9 Ch. Dellago and H. A. Posch Distribution of occupation numbers in finite Fermi systems and role of interaction in chaos and thermalization . R13 V. V. Flambaum and F. M. Izrailev Critical behavior of the three-dimensional Ising model with nearest-neighbor, next-nearest-neighbor, and plaquette interactions .................................................................................... R17 Emilio N. M. Cirillo, G. Gonnella, and A. Pelizzola Physical symmetry and lattice symmetry in the lattice Boltzmann method ................................. R21 Nianzheng Cao, Shiyi Chen, Shi Jin, and Daniel Martı´nez Empirical traffic data and their implications for traffic modeling ......................................... R25 Dirk Helbing Slow dynamics of nonequilibrium density fluctuations in hard-sphere suspensions .......................... R29 Michio Tokuyama, Yoshihisa Enomoto, and Irwin Oppenheim Simple optical feedback loop: Excitation waves and their mirror image ................................... R33 Alberto P. Mun˜uzuri and Mario Markus ARTICLES General methods of statistical physics Resonant trapping: A failure mechanism in switch transitions ........................................... 36 F. Apostolico, L. Gammaitoni, F. Marchesoni, and S. Santucci Critical relaxation in two-dimensional random-bond Potts models ........................................ 40 S. Chen and D. P. Landau Dendritic growth in a mean-field lattice gas model .................................................... 45 Mathis Plapp and Jean-Franc¸ois Gouyet Missing motor of on-off intermittency .............................................................. 58 J. von Hardenberg, F. Paparella, N. Platt, A. Provenzale, E. A. Spiegel, and C. Tresser Boundary integral method for quantum billiards in a constant magnetic field ............................... 65 M. L. Tiago, T. O. de Carvalho, and M. A. M. de Aguiar (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 55, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1997 Random walk on a linear chain with a quenched distribution of jump lengths .............................. 71 Ryszard Kutner and Philipp Maass Spatiotemporal periodic and chaotic patterns in a two-dimensional coupled map lattice system ................ 79 Fagen Xie and Gang Hu Reconstructing noisy dynamical systems by triangulations .............................................. 87 Stuart Allie, Alistair Mees, Kevin Judd, and David Watson Construction and properties of fractal trees with tunable dimension: The interplay of geometry and physics ..... 94 N. Vandewalle and M. Ausloos Fractional diffusion and Le´vy stable processes ....................................................... 99 Bruce J. West, Paolo Grigolini, Ralf Metzler, and Theo F. Nonnenmacher Series-expansion studies of random sequential adsorption with diffusional relaxation ......................... 107 Chee Kwan Gan and Jian-Sheng Wang Approach to the chaotic synchronized state of some driving methods ..................................... 124 J. Gu¨e´mez, C. Martı´n, and M. A. Matı´as Renormalization theory of stochastic growth ......................................................... 135 Matthew B. Hastings Exact time evolution and master equations for the damped harmonic oscillator ............................. 153 Robert Karrlein and Hermann Grabert Directed lines in sparse potentials ................................................................. 165 T. J. Newman and A. J. McKane Phenomenological framework for fluctuations around steady state ....................................... 176 Marco Paniconi and Y. Oono Geometric and healing laws in simple stochastic models of fracture in a sputtering process ................... 189 R. D’hulst, N. Vandewalle, and M. Ausloos Critical phase of a magnetic hard hexagon model on a triangular lattice .................................. 194 Yasushi Honda and Tsuyoshi Horiguchi Directing nonlinear dynamic systems to any desired orbit .............................................. 199 Liu Zonghua and Chen Shigang Universal cubic eigenvalue repulsion for random normal matrices ....................................... 205 Gary Oas Accelerator mode in a gravitational bouncer as an attracting mode in a globally chaotic Hamiltonian system ..... 212 S. T. Dembin´ski and P. Pepłowski Stochastic lattice models with several absorbing states ................................................. 219 Haye Hinrichsen Thermodynamics of coupled identical oscillators within the path-integral formalism ......................... 227 F. Brosens, J. T. Devreese, and L. F. Lemmens Folding of the triangular lattice with quenched random bending rigidity .................................. 237 P. Di Francesco, E. Guitter, and S. Mori Deterministic soluble model of coarsening .......................................................... 252 L. Frachebourg and P. L. Krapivsky Phase transitions in random networks: Simple analytic determination of critical points ....................... 257 Bartolo Luque and Ricard V. Sole´ Statistics of largest loops in a random walk ......................................................... 261 Deniz Ertas¸ and Yacov Kantor Universal limit mapping in grazing bifurcations ...................................................... 266 Arne B. Nordmark Phase space geometry of chaotic reactive scattering: Gateways, windings, and halos ........................ 271 H. Wadi and L. Wiesenfeld Correlation dimension of attractors through interspike intervals .......................................... 287 Rolando Castro and Tim Sauer (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 55, NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1997 Anyonic behavior of quantum group gases .......................................................... 291 Marcelo R. Ubriaco Synchronizing hyperchaos with a single variable ..................................................... 297 A. Tamasˇevicˇius and A. Cˇ enys Floquet-Markovian description of the parametrically driven, dissipative harmonic quantum oscillator ........... 300 Sigmund Kohler, Thomas Dittrich, and Peter Ha¨nggi Quantum transport theory based on the equilibrium density projection technique ........................... 314 Joung Young Sug and Sang Don Choi Dynamics of melting argon clusters ................................................................ 322 Gayle M. Tanner, Aniket Bhattacharya, Saroj K. Nayak, and S. D. Mahanti Classical fluids Passive scalar advected by a rapidly changing random velocity field: Probability density of scalar differences . 329 Victor Yakhot Inertial range and the finite Reynolds number effect of turbulence ....................................... 337 J. Qian Local nonequilibrium effect on undercooling in rapid solidification of alloys ............................... 343 Peter Galenko and Sergei Sobolev Sensitivity of convective structures to mean flow boundary conditions: A correlation between symmetry and dynamics ..................................................................................... 353 A. Pocheau and F. Daviaud Nonlinear instability of a fluid layer flowing down a vertical wall under imposed time-periodic perturbations .... 374 L. A. Da´valos-Orozco, S. H. Davis, and S. G. Bankoff Stability of Kolmogorov scaling in anisotropically forced turbulence ..................................... 381 J. Busˇa, M. Hnatich, J. Honkonen, and D. Horvath Self-consistent model of an annihilation-diffusion reaction with long-range interactions ...................... 395 Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Leo Radzihovsky, and Noel A. Clark Dynamic equations and bulk viscosity near the gas-liquid critical point ................................... 403 Akira Onuki Single-particle survival in parallel gated trapping ..................................................... 421 John L. Spouge Orthogonal polynomial approach to fluids with internal degrees of freedom: The case of nonpolar, polarizable molecules ..................................................................................... 426 F. Lado Phase diagram of Heisenberg fluids: Computer simulation and density functional theory ..................... 436 J. J. Weis, M. J. P. Nijmeijer,