corner
corner
PROLA » Phys. Rev. E » Volume 59 » Issue 6
< Previous Issue | Next Issue >

Physical Review E – June 1999
Volume 59, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

General methods of statistical physics

•
Efficiency of Brownian heat engines
Imre Derényi and R. Dean Astumian
pp. R6219-R6222 [View PDF (99 kB)]
•
Spatial multistability and nonvariational effects
M. Bachir, P. Borckmans, and G. Dewel
pp. R6223-R6226 [View PDF (121 kB)]
•
Universal asymptotic eigenvalue distribution of density matrices and corner transfer matrices in the thermodynamic limit
Kouichi Okunishi, Yasuhiro Hieida, and Yasuhiro Akutsu
pp. R6227-R6230 [View PDF (110 kB)]
•
Scale invariance and intermittency in a creep-slip model of earthquake faults
Peter Hähner and Yannis Drossinos
pp. R6231-R6234 [View PDF (112 kB)]
•
Effect of correlation between additive and multiplicative noises on the activation from a double well
Hai-xiang Fu, Li Cao, and Da-jin Wu
pp. R6235-R6238 [View PDF (109 kB)]
•
Resistance of Feynman diagrams and the percolation backbone dimension
H. K. Janssen, O. Stenull, and K. Oerding
pp. R6239-R6242 [View PDF (115 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

•
Robustness of supersensitivity to small signals in nonlinear dynamical systems
Changsong Zhou and C.-H. Lai
pp. R6243-R6246 [View PDF (108 kB)]
•
Observability of lag synchronization of coupled chaotic oscillators
Saeed Taherion1 and Ying-Cheng Lai
pp. R6247-R6250 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Classical fluids

•
Three-dimensional organization of electrical turbulence in the heart
A. V. Panfilov
pp. R6251-R6254 [View PDF (185 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

•
Spontaneous patterning of quantum dots at the air-water interface
Richard P. Sear, Sung-Wook Chung, Gil Markovich, William M. Gelbart, and James R. Heath
pp. R6255-R6258 [View PDF (370 kB)]
•
Stress in conic piles determined by a centrifuge experiment: Breakdown of scaling hypothesis
P. Evesque, S. Noblet, and G. Rault
pp. R6259-R6262 [View PDF (68 kB)]
•
Fast coarsening in unstable epitaxy with desorption
P. Šmilauer, M. Rost, and J. Krug
pp. R6263-R6266 [View PDF (263 kB)]

ARTICLES

General methods of statistical physics

•
Control-parameter-dependent Swift-Hohenberg equation as a model for bioconvection patterns
J. Lega and N. H. Mendelson
pp. 6267-6274 [View PDF (826 kB)]
•
Effects of quenched disorder in the two-dimensional Potts model: A Monte Carlo study
Ricardo Paredes V. and Johnny Valbuena
pp. 6275-6280 [View PDF (118 kB)]
•
Some consequences of exchangeability in random-matrix theory
G. Le Caër and R. Delannay
pp. 6281-6285 [View PDF (153 kB)]
•
Spin of Dirac’s relativistic membrane
E. Stedile
pp. 6286-6291 [View PDF (136 kB)]
•
Surface restructuring, kinetic oscillations, and chaos in heterogeneous catalytic reactions
V. P. Zhdanov
pp. 6292-6305 [View PDF (742 kB)]
•
Nature of transitions in augmented discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations
R. E. Amritkar and V. M. Kenkre
pp. 6306-6311 [View PDF (134 kB)]
•
Equation of states for classical Coulomb systems: Use of the Hubbard-Schofield approach
J. Ortner
pp. 6312-6327 [View PDF (355 kB)]
•
Macroscopic dynamics of multilane traffic
Vladimir Shvetsov and Dirk Helbing
pp. 6328-6339 [View PDF (366 kB)]
•
Dynamical regimes in the dissipative particle dynamics model
Pep Español and Mar Serrano
pp. 6340-6347 [View PDF (177 kB)]
•
Solution of lattice gas models in the generalized ensemble on the Bethe lattice
Emilia La Nave, Srikanth Sastry, Francesco Sciortino, and Piero Tartaglia
pp. 6348-6355 [View PDF (162 kB)]
•
Exactly solvable sandpile with fractal avalanching
P. Helander, S. C. Chapman, R. O. Dendy, G. Rowlands, and N. W. Watkins
pp. 6356-6360 [View PDF (89 kB)]
•
Theory of the NO+CO surface-reaction model
Adriana G. Dickman, Bartira C. S. Grandi, Wagner Figueiredo, and Ronald Dickman
pp. 6361-6369 [View PDF (181 kB)]
•
Entropy of classical histories
Todd A. Brun and James B. Hartle
pp. 6370-6380 [View PDF (278 kB)]
•
Nonequilibrium critical behavior in unidirectionally coupled stochastic processes
Yadin Y. Goldschmidt, Haye Hinrichsen, Martin Howard, and Uwe C. Täuber
pp. 6381-6408 [View PDF (568 kB)]
•
Precursor phenomena in frustrated systems
Giancarlo Franzese and Antonio Coniglio
pp. 6409-6412 [View PDF (270 kB)]
•
Residence time distribution for a class of Gaussian Markov processes
Abhishek Dhar and Satya N. Majumdar
pp. 6413-6418 [View PDF (141 kB)]
•
Emergence of cooperation among interacting individuals
J. R. N. Chiappin and M. J. de Oliveira
pp. 6419-6421 [View PDF (66 kB)]
•
Intrawell relaxation of overdamped Brownian particles
Martin Bier, Imre Derényi, Marcin Kostur, and R. Dean Astumian
pp. 6422-6432 [View PDF (207 kB)]
•
Non-Hermitian localization and delocalization
Joshua Feinberg and A. Zee
pp. 6433-6443 [View PDF (219 kB)]
•
Semianalytic solution of the Kramers exit problem for a small ferromagnetic particle
I. Klik and Y. D. Yao
pp. 6444-6447 [View PDF (127 kB)]
•
Feynman’s ratchet and pawl: An exactly solvable model
C. Jarzynski and O. Mazonka
pp. 6448-6459 [View PDF (356 kB)]
•
Scale invariant dynamics of surface growth
C. Castellano, M. Marsili, M. A. Muñoz, and L. Pietronero
pp. 6460-6475 [View PDF (376 kB)]
•
Large deviation function of the partially asymmetric exclusion process
Deok-Sun Lee and Doochul Kim
pp. 6476-6482 [View PDF (168 kB)]
•
Nucleation theorems applied to the Ising model
Hanna Vehkamäki and Ian J. Ford
pp. 6483-6488 [View PDF (132 kB)]
•
Exact phase diagrams for an Ising model on a two-layer Bethe lattice
Chin-Kun Hu, N. Sh. Izmailian, and K. B. Oganesyan
pp. 6489-6496 [View PDF (183 kB)]
•
Slow algebraic relaxation in quartic potentials and related results
Robert S. Sinkovits, Surajit Sen, James Christopher Phillips, and Soumya Chakravarti
pp. 6497-6512 [View PDF (382 kB)]
•
Critical behavior of a random diode network
N. Inui, H. Kakuno, A. Yu. Tretyakov, G. Komatsu, and K. Kameoka
pp. 6513-6516 [View PDF (168 kB)]
•
Persistent random walk model for transport through thin slabs
Marián Boguñá, Josep M. Porrà, and Jaume Masoliver
pp. 6517-6526 [View PDF (192 kB)]
•
Signal and background separation
W. von der Linden, V. Dose, J. Padayachee, and V. Prozesky
pp. 6527-6534 [View PDF (177 kB)]
•
Nonlinear Langevin equations and the time dependent density functional method
Akira Yoshimori
pp. 6535-6540 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

•
Spectral correlations in systems undergoing a transition from periodicity to disorder
T. Dittrich, B. Mehlig, H. Schanz, Uzy Smilansky, Péter Pollner, and Gábor Vattay
pp. 6541-6551 [View PDF (245 kB)]
•
Relationships among coefficients in deterministic and stochastic transient diffusion
Z. Kaufmann
pp. 6552-6557 [View PDF (167 kB)]
•
Bifurcations and chaos in a parametrically damped two-well Duffing oscillator subjected to symmetric periodic pulses
R. Chacón and A. Martínez García-Hoz
pp. 6558-6568 [View PDF (300 kB)]
•
Wavelet-based fractal analysis of airborne pollen
M. E. Degaudenzi and C. M. Arizmendi
pp. 6569-6573 [View PDF (110 kB)]
•
Controlling and synchronizing space time chaos
S. Boccaletti, J. Bragard, and F. T. Arecchi
pp. 6574-6578 [View PDF (482 kB)]
•
Influence of phase-space localization on the energy diffusion in a quantum chaotic billiard
D. A. Wisniacki and E. Vergini
pp. 6579-6584 [View PDF (163 kB)]
•
Bicritical behavior of period doublings in unidirectionally coupled maps
Sang-Yoon Kim
pp. 6585-6592 [View PDF (159 kB)]
•
Recovering smooth dynamics from time series with the aid of recurrence plots
Fatihcan M. Atay and Yiğit Altıntaş
pp. 6593-6598 [View PDF (114 kB)]
•
Magnetic effect for electrochemically driven cellular convection
Seiichiro Nakabayashi, Kiyoshi Inokuma, and Antonis Karantonis
pp. 6599-6608 [View PDF (917 kB)]
•
Measuring scars of periodic orbits
L. Kaplan and E. J. Heller
pp. 6609-6628 [View PDF (432 kB)]
•
Decoding information by following parameter modulation with parameter adaptive control
Changsong Zhou and C.-H. Lai
pp. 6629-6636 [View PDF (198 kB)]
•
Theory of circle maps and the problem of one-dimensional optical resonator with a periodically moving wall
Rafael de la Llave and Nikola P. Petrov
pp. 6637-6651 [View PDF (321 kB)]
•
Streaminglike diffusion in the low-dimensional stochastic pump model
G. Corso and A. J. Lichtenberg
pp. 6652-6657 [View PDF (179 kB)]
•
Bi-instability as a precursor to global mixed-mode chaos
Ira B. Schwartz and Thomas W. Carr
pp. 6658-6661 [View PDF (150 kB)]

Classical fluids

•
Investigating one-dimensional diffusion by quasielastic neutron scattering: A theoretical approach
K. Hahn, H. Jobic, and J. Kärger
pp. 6662-6671 [View PDF (194 kB)]
•
Combined action of different mechanisms of convective instability in multilayer systems
Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy and Ilya B. Simanovskii
pp. 6672-6686 [View PDF (445 kB)]
•
Determination of the quench velocity and rewetting temperature of hot surfaces: Formulation of a nonisothermal microscale hydrodynamic model
M. Ben David, Y. Zvirin, and Y. Zimmels
pp. 6687-6698 [View PDF (198 kB)]
•
Spreading dynamics of terraced droplets
Santiago Betelú, Bruce M. Law, and C. C. Huang
pp. 6699-6707 [View PDF (339 kB)]
•
Model for single-particle dynamics in supercooled water
S. H. Chen, C. Liao, F. Sciortino, P. Gallo, and P. Tartaglia
pp. 6708-6714 [View PDF (183 kB)]
•
Analysis of energy cascade models of turbulence
R. Badii and P. Talkner
pp. 6715-6723 [View PDF (232 kB)]
•
Magnetic helicity tensor for an anisotropic turbulence
N. Kleeorin and I. Rogachevskii
pp. 6724-6729 [View PDF (174 kB)]
•
Onset of oscillatory binary fluid convection in finite containers
Oriol Batiste, Isabel Mercader, Marta Net, and Edgar Knobloch
pp. 6730-6741 [View PDF (535 kB)]
•
Droplet formation by rapid expansion of a liquid
Wm. T. Ashurst and Brad Lee Holian
pp. 6742-6752 [View PDF (676 kB)]
•
Correlation functions in isotropic and anisotropic turbulence: The role of the symmetry group
Itai Arad, Victor S. L’vov, and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 6753-6765 [View PDF (281 kB)]
•
Effective Hamiltonian for liquid-vapor interfaces
K. R. Mecke and S. Dietrich
pp. 6766-6784 [View PDF (390 kB)]

Liquid crystals

•
Symmetries and induced effects in bilayer and multilayer antiferroelectric and ferrielectric liquid crystal phases
P. Tolédano, A. M. Figueiredo Neto, A. A. Boulbitch, and A. Roy
pp. 6785-6797 [View PDF (331 kB)]
•
Photon transmission technique for studying multiple phase transitions in a liquid crystal
Haluk Özbek, Sevtap Yıldız, and Önder Pekcan
pp. 6798-6801 [View PDF (74 kB)]
•
Rotational viscosity in a nematic liquid crystal: A theoretical treatment and molecular dynamics simulation
A. V. Zakharov, A. V. Komolkin, and A. Maliniak
pp. 6802-6807 [View PDF (133 kB)]
•
Organization of cyanobiphenyl liquid crystal molecules in prewetting films spreading on silicon wafers
S. Bardon, R. Ober, M. P. Valignat, F. Vandenbrouck, A. M. Cazabat, and J. Daillant
pp. 6808-6818 [View PDF (876 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

•
Trapping and mobilization of residual fluid during capillary desaturation in porous media
Lucian Anton and R. Hilfer
pp. 6819-6823 [View PDF (120 kB)]
•
Freezing and glass transition of hard spheres in cavities
Z. T. Németh and H. Löwen
pp. 6824-6829 [View PDF (183 kB)]
•
Density fluctuations in a model for vibrated granular media
Mario Nicodemi, Antonio Coniglio, and Hans J. Herrmann
pp. 6830-6837 [View PDF (689 kB)]
•
Low-temperature interface between the gas and solid phases of hard spheres with a short-ranged attraction
Richard P. Sear
pp. 6838-6841 [View PDF (83 kB)]
•
Viscoelastic model of phase separation in colloidal suspensions and emulsions
Hajime Tanaka
pp. 6842-6852 [View PDF (447 kB)]
•
Polymer depletion effects near mesoscopic particles
A. Hanke, E. Eisenriegler, and S. Dietrich
pp. 6853-6878 [View PDF (566 kB)]
•
Kinetic model for a step edge in epitaxial growth
Russel E. Caflisch, Weinan E, Mark F. Gyure, Barry Merriman, and Christian Ratsch
pp. 6879-6887 [View PDF (326 kB)]
•
Dielectric investigation of the temperature dependence of the nonexponentiality of the dynamics of polymer melts
A. Alegría, J. Colmenero, P. O. Mari, and I. A. Campbell
pp. 6888-6895 [View PDF (153 kB)]
•
Evolution of avalanche conducting states in electrorheological liquids
A. Bezryadin, R. M. Westervelt, and M. Tinkham
pp. 6896-6902 [View PDF (326 kB)]
•
Crystallization by settling in suspensions of hard spheres
Bruce J. Ackerson, S. E. Paulin, Benjamin Johnson, William van Megen, and Sylvia Underwood
pp. 6903-6913 [View PDF (180 kB)]
•
Multifractality of Brownian motion near absorbing polymers
C. von Ferber and Yu. Holovatch
pp. 6914-6923 [View PDF (217 kB)]
•
Broadband dielectric spectroscopy on glass-forming propylene carbonate
U. Schneider, P. Lunkenheimer, R. Brand, and A. Loidl
pp. 6924-6936 [View PDF (289 kB)]
•
Thermodynamic perturbation theory for polydisperse colloidal suspensions using orthogonal polynomial expansions
Sabine Leroch, Gerhard Kahl, and Fred Lado
pp. 6937-6945 [View PDF (207 kB)]
•
Impurity mediated nucleation in hexadecane-in-water emulsions
Amy B. Herhold, Deniz Ertaş, Alex J. Levine, and H. E. King, Jr.
pp. 6946-6955 [View PDF (234 kB)]
•
Bethe lattice representation for sandpiles
Oscar Sotolongo-Costa, Alexei Vazquez, and J. C. Antoranz
pp. 6956-6961 [View PDF (115 kB)]
•
Characteristics of slow and fast ion dynamics in a lithium metasilicate glass
Junko Habasaki and Yasuaki Hiwatari
pp. 6962-6966 [View PDF (310 kB)]
•
Hydrodynamics of resonance oscillations of columns of inelastic particles
A. Goldshtein, A. Alexeev, and M. Shapiro
pp. 6967-6976 [View PDF (309 kB)]

Biological physics

•
Theory of ocular dominance pattern formation
O. Scherf, K. Pawelzik, F. Wolf, and T. Geisel
pp. 6977-6993 [View PDF (818 kB)]
•
Simple central pattern generator model using phasic analog neurons
David R. McMillen, Gabriele M. T. D’Eleuterio, and Janet R. P. Halperin
pp. 6994-6999 [View PDF (135 kB)]
•
Genetic correlations in mutation processes
E. Ben-Naim and A. S. Lapedes
pp. 7000-7007 [View PDF (164 kB)]
•
Markov analysis of stochastic resonance in a periodically driven integrate-and-fire neuron
Hans E. Plesser and Theo Geisel
pp. 7008-7017 [View PDF (368 kB)]
•
Absence of a vestigial vapor pressure paradox
John F. Nagle and John Katsaras
pp. 7018-7024 [View PDF (152 kB)]
•
Lubricating bacteria model for branching growth of bacterial colonies
Yonathan Kozlovsky, Inon Cohen, Ido Golding, and Eshel Ben-Jacob
pp. 7025-7035 [View PDF (1,303 kB)]
•
Modeling of spatiotemporal patterns in bacterial colonies
A. M. Lacasta, I. R. Cantalapiedra, C. E. Auguet, A. Peñaranda, and L. Ramírez-Piscina
pp. 7036-7041 [View PDF (329 kB)]

Plasma physics

•
Self-focusing, channel formation, and high-energy ion generation in interaction of an intense short laser pulse with a He jet
G. S. Sarkisov, V. Yu. Bychenkov, V. N. Novikov, V. T. Tikhonchuk, A. Maksimchuk, S.-Y. Chen, R. Wagner, G. Mourou, and D. Umstadter
pp. 7042-7054 [View PDF (1,162 kB)]
•
Theory of dust voids in plasmas
J. Goree, G. E. Morfill, V. N. Tsytovich, and S. V. Vladimirov
pp. 7055-7067 [View PDF (254 kB)]
•
Time correlation of momentum in a collisionless plasma due to large fluctuations
Chushun Tian and Quankang Lu
pp. 7068-7073 [View PDF (140 kB)]
•
Discharge impedance of solenoidal inductively coupled plasma discharge
K.-I. You and N. S. Yoon
pp. 7074-7084 [View PDF (358 kB)]
•
Subpicosecond pulse laser absorption by an overdense plasma with variable ionization
Alexei Zhidkov and Akira Sasaki
pp. 7085-7095 [View PDF (221 kB)]
•
Superconfiguration accounting approach versus average-atom model in local-thermodynamic-equilibrium highly ionized plasmas
G. Faussurier
pp. 7096-7109 [View PDF (290 kB)]
•
Formation of plasma channels in the interaction of a nanosecond laser pulse at moderate intensities with helium gas jets
E. De Wispelaere, V. Malka, S. Hüller, F. Amiranoff, S. Baton, R. Bonadio, M. Casanova, F. Dorchies, R. Haroutunian, and A. Modena
pp. 7110-7120 [View PDF (1,121 kB)]
•
Confinement physics for thermal, neutral, high-charge-state plasmas in nested-well solenoidal traps
D. D. Dolliver and C. A. Ordonez
pp. 7121-7127 [View PDF (245 kB)]

Physics of beams

•
Spatial coherence of bending magnet radiation and application limit of the van Cittert–Zernike theorem
Y. Takayama and S. Kamada
pp. 7128-7140 [View PDF (250 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

•
Conservation law for multimoded nonlinear optical waveguide interactions and its physical interpretation
David R. Rowland
pp. 7141-7147 [View PDF (139 kB)]
•
Optical gap solitons in nonresonant quadratic media
Takeshi Iizuka and Yuri S. Kivshar
pp. 7148-7151 [View PDF (117 kB)]
•
Geometrical and wave optics of paraxial beams
M. Meron, P. J. Viccaro, and B. Lin
pp. 7152-7165 [View PDF (264 kB)]
•
Delay-time statistics for diffuse waves
B. A. van Tiggelen, P. Sebbah, M. Stoytchev, and A. Z. Genack
pp. 7166-7172 [View PDF (209 kB)]
•
Exact solitary-wave solutions of χ(2) Ginzburg-Landau equations
Lucian-Cornel Crasovan, Boris Malomed, Dumitru Mihalache, and Falk Lederer
pp. 7173-7177 [View PDF (138 kB)]
•
Time-dependent equation for the intensity in the diffusion limit using a higher-order angular expansion
Meir Gershenson
pp. 7178-7184 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Computational physics

•
Structural and flow properties of binary media generated by fractional Brownian motion models
E. S. Kikkinides and V. N. Burganos
pp. 7185-7194 [View PDF (511 kB)]
•
Lagrange meshes from nonclassical orthogonal polynomials
D. Baye and M. Vincke
pp. 7195-7199 [View PDF (94 kB)]
•
Framework for testing random numbers in parallel calculations
I. Vattulainen
pp. 7200-7204 [View PDF (96 kB)]
•
Voronoi-Delaunay analysis of voids in systems of nonspherical particles
V. A. Luchnikov, N. N. Medvedev, L. Oger, and J.-P. Troadec
pp. 7205-7212 [View PDF (462 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

General methods of statistical physics

•
Simple equation for earthquake distribution
L. Anton
pp. 7213-7215 [View PDF (88 kB)]
•
Some properties of multifractality at solid-on-solid growth processes
A. Bershadskii
pp. 7216-7219 [View PDF (80 kB)]
•
Unified algebraic Bethe ansatz for two-dimensional lattice models
M. J. Martins
pp. 7220-7223 [View PDF (116 kB)]
•
Effect of symmetry on volume conserving surface models
Youngkyun Jung and In-mook Kim
pp. 7224-7227 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems

•
Test of semiclassical amplitudes for quantum ray-splitting systems
A. Kohler and R. Blümel
pp. 7228-7230 [View PDF (97 kB)]
•
Anomalous transport and quantum-classical correspondence
Bala Sundaram and G. M. Zaslavsky
pp. 7231-7234 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Classical fluids

•
Peak position of dissipation spectrum in turbulent boundary layers
Yoshiyuki Tsuji
pp. 7235-7238 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Complex fluids, polymers and granular materials

•
Percolation-enhanced nonlinear scattering from metal-dielectric composites
Andrey K. Sarychev, V. A. Shubin, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
pp. 7239-7242 [View PDF (305 kB)]
Solidity of viscous liquids. II. Anisotropic flow events
Jeppe C. Dyre
pp. 7243-7245 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Biological physics

•
Output of a neuronal population code
Jianfeng Feng and Rita Cassia-Moura
pp. 7246-7249 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Classical physics, including nonlinear media

•
Generation of soliton oscillations in nonlinear quadratic materials
D. E. Pelinovsky, J. E. Sipe, and J. Yang
pp. 7250-7253 [View PDF (106 kB)]

ERRATA

•
Erratum: Nature of crossover from classical to Ising-like critical behavior [Phys. Rev. E58, R4060 (1998)]
Erik Luijten and Kurt Binder
pp. 7254 [View PDF (26 kB)]
 
< Previous Issue | Next Issue >