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 56, NUMBER 3 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 1997 PARTS A AND B The Table of Contents is a total listing of Parts A and B. Part A consists of pages 2339–3020, and Part B pages 3021–3740. PART A Note to Reader ................................................................................. i RAPID COMMUNICATIONS General methods of statistical physics Exact solution of a two-dimensional random Ising model .............................................. R2339 Maurizio Serva Analysis of a dissipative model of self-organized criticality with random neighbors ......................... R2343 Marie-Line Chabanol and Vincent Hakim Universal macroscopic background formation in surface super-roughening ................................ R2347 H.-W. Lee and Doochul Kim Rectification by hopping motion through nonsymmetric potentials with strong bias ......................... R2351 K. W. Kehr, K. Mussawisade, T. Wichmann, and W. Dieterich Noise, order, and spatiotemporal intermittency ....................................................... R2355 H. L. Yang, Z. Q. Huang, and E. J. Ding Classical fluids Chaotic nucleation of metastable domains ........................................................... R2359 M. Argentina and P. Coullet Pressure statistics for locally isotropic turbulence ..................................................... R2363 Reginald J. Hill and Olus¸ N. Boratav Propagation of surface deformation coupled with convection waves under the excitation of a chemical wave train ......................................................................................... R2367 Tatsunari Sakurai, Etsuro Yokoyama, and Hidetoshi Miike Towards a simple model of compressible Alfve´nic turbulence ........................................... R2371 M. V. Medvedev and P. H. Diamond Liquid crystals Weakly nonlinear analysis of the secondary bimodal instability in planar nematic convection ................. R2375 Emmanuel Plaut and Roland Ribotta Complex fluids, diffusion-limited aggregation, and dendritic growth Self-organized percolation ........................................................................ R2379 A. M. Alencar, J. S. Andrade, Jr., and L. S. Lucena Crossover of a block copolymer brush in a polymer melt from a stretched to collapsed conformation ........... R2383 Robert Oslanec, Petr Vlcek, William A. Hamilton, and Russell J. Composto Biological physics Scale-similar activity in the brain .................................................................. R2387 E. Novikov, A. Novikov, D. Shannahoff-Khalsa, B. Schwartz, and J. Wright Dynamics of a polyampholyte hooked around an obstacle .............................................. R2390 H. Schiessel, I. M. Sokolov, and A. Blumen (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 56, NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 1997 Plasma physics Channeling of intense laser beams in underdense plasmas .............................................. R2394 M. D. Feit, J. C. Garrison, and A. M. Rubenchik ARTICLES General methods of statistical physics Data-based control trajectory planning for nonlinear systems ............................................ 2398 Carl Rhodes, Manfred Morari, Lev S. Tsimring, and Nikolai F. Rulkov Nonequilibrium phase transition in the kinetic Ising model: Critical slowing down and the specific-heat singularity ..................................................................................... 2407 Muktish Acharyya Target patterns arising from the short-wave instability in near-critical regimes of reaction-diffusion systems ..... 2412 Arkady B. Rovinsky, Anatol M. Zhabotinsky, and Irving R. Epstein Finite-size scaling of the density of zeros of the partition function in first- and second-order phase transitions .... 2418 Richard J. Creswick and Seung-Yeon Kim Time series investigations on an experimental system driven by phase transitions ........................... 2423 M. Frank and M. Schmidt Ergodic properties and equilibrium of one-dimensional self-gravitating systems ............................ 2429 Kenneth R. Yawn and Bruce N. Miller Topological proof for the Alexander-Orbach conjecture . ............................................... 2437 Alexander V. Milovanov Coadsorption of two monomer species on a square lattice with first- and second-neighbor interactions .......... 2447 Alain J. Phares, Francis J. Wunderlich, Joseph P. Martin, Patrick M. Burns, and Gintaras K. Duda Reversal effects in stochastic kink dynamics ......................................................... 2457 A. V. Savin, G. P. Tsironis, and A. V. Zolotaryuk Phase transitions in a nonequilibrium percolation model ............................................... 2467 Siegfried Clar, Barbara Drossel, Klaus Schenk, and Franz Schwabl Correlations between resonances in a statistical scattering model ........................................ 2481 T. Gorin, F.-M. Dittes, M. Mu¨ller, I. Rotter, and T. H. Seligman Transport properties in disordered ratchet potentials ................................................... 2492 F. Marchesoni Quantum scattering from arbitrary boundaries ........................................................ 2496 M. G. E. da Luz, A. S. Lupu-Sax, and E. J. Heller Curvature fluctuations and the Lyapunov exponent at melting ........................................... 2508 Vishal Mehra and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy Stochastic resonance in maps and coupled map lattices ................................................ 2518 Prashant M. Gade, Renuka Rai, and Harjinder Singh Active walker model for the formation of human and animal trail systems ................................ 2527 Dirk Helbing, Frank Schweitzer, Joachim Keltsch, and Pe´ter Molna´r Relaxation fluctuations about an equilibrium in quantum chaos .......................................... 2540 Arul Lakshminarayan Cluster, backbone, and elastic backbone structures of the multiple invasion percolation ...................... 2548 Roberto N. Onody and Reginaldo A. Zara Analytic calculation of arbitrary matrix elements for the boson exponential quadratic operator ................ 2553 Jian-wei Pan, Qin-xi Dong, Yong-de Zhang, Guang Hou, and Xiang-bin Wang Short time expansion for first passage distributions ................................................... 2560 Reuven Zeitak (Continued) CONTENTS - Continued PHYSICAL REVIEW E THIRD SERIES, VOLUME 56, NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 1997 Selection and stabilization of spatiotemporal patterns in two-dimensional coupled map lattices ................ 2568 Yu Jiang, A. Antillo´n, P. Parmananda, and J. Escalona Experimental evidence of characteristic relations of type-I intermittency in an electronic circuit ............... 2573 Chil-Mim Kim, Geo-Su Yim, Yeon Soo Kim, Jeong-Moog Kim, and H. W. Lee Stretched relaxation after switching off the strong electric field in a near-critical solution under high pressure .... 2578 Sylwester J. Rzoska, Jerzy Ziol”o, and Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska Dichotomously switched phase flows ............................................................... 2582 Simon J. Fraser and Raymond Kapral Symmetry between laminar and burst phases for on-off intermittency .................................... 2592 A. Cˇ enys, A. N. Anagnostopoulos, and G. L. Bleris Shift in the velocity of a front due to a cutoff ........................................................ 2597 Eric Brunet and Bernard Derrida Correlations in sea-level elevations ................................................................ 2605 P. Dimon, J. D. Pietrzak, and H. Svensmark Burst avalanches in solvable models of fibrous materials ............................................... 2615 M. Kloster, A. Hansen, and P. C. Hemmer Adhesion of solids .............................................................................. 2626 Maxim Vergeles, Amos Maritan, Joel Koplik, and Jayanth R. Banavar Nonlinear dynamics of coupled charged rotators ...................................................... 2635 Shinji Chiba and Yasuji Sawada Onset of oscillatory instabilities under stochastic modulation ............................................ 2649 Franc¸ois Drolet and Jorge Vin˜als First-order nonequilibrium phase transition in a spatially extended system ................................. 2658 R. Mu¨ller, K. Lippert, A. Ku¨hnel, and U. Behn Generalized functional-integral approach to time evolution of a coupled photon system ...................... 2663 Feng Peng Stochastic master-equation approach to aggregation in freeway traffic .................................... 2666 R. Mahnke and N. Pieret Phase transitions in two-variable coupled map lattices ................................................. 2672 Yu Jiang Universality class for a one-dimensional evolution model .............................................. 2676 L. Anton Distribution of the wave function inside chaotic partially open systems ................................... 2680 P. Sˇeba, F. Haake, M. Kus´, M. Barth, U. Kuhl, and H.-J. Sto¨ckmann Nonequilibrium time evolution in quantum field theory ................................................ 2687 Christof Wetterich Ray splitting in a class of chaotic triangular step billiards .............................................. 2691 A. Kohler, G. H. M. Killesreiter, and R. Blu¨mel Persistence exponents for fluctuating interfaces ......................................................