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Physical Review Letters

Volume 40, Issue 12

20 March 1978

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LETTERS

General Physics

Trapping of Atoms by Resonance Radiation Pressure

A. Ashkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 729 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Dynamics of the Roughening Transition

S. T. Chui and J. D. Weeks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 733 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Experimental Value for the Orthopositronium Decay Rate

D. W. Gidley, A. Rich, P. W. Zitzewitz, and D. A. L. Paul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 737 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Limits on the Production of Unpaired Electrons or Positrons in 18-GeV/c $π^{\pm} - p$ Interactions

J. Ballam, J. Bouchez, J. T. Carroll, G. B. Chadwick, V. Cahloupka, R. C. Field, D. R. Freytag, R. A. Lewis, K. C. Moffeit, R. A. Stevens, H. Band, L. R. Fourtney, T. Glanzman, J. S. Loos, W. J. Robertson, W. D. Walker, P. A. Baker, P. J. Dornan, D. J. Gibbs, G. Hall, A. P. White, and T. S. Virdee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 741 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Nuclei

Double Crossing of the Ground Rotational Band and Super Band

L. K. Peker and J. H. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 744 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Direct Measurement of the Spin-Dependent Capture and Scattering of Slow Neutrons by ${}^{6}{Li}$

H. Glättli, A. Abragam, G. L. Bacchella, M. Fourmond, P. Mériel, J. Piesvaux, and M. Pinot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 748 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Primary-Fragment Angular Momenta in Deep-Inelastic Reactions

J. B. Natowitz, M. N. Namboodiri, P. Kasiraj, R. Eggers, L. Adler, P. Gonthier, C. Cerruti, and T. Alleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 751 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Axial Currents in Nuclei

Kuniharu Kubodera, Jean Delorme, and Mannque Rho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 755 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Comparison of the Reactions ${}^{12}C (π^{+}, p) {}^{11}C$ and ${}^{12}C (p, d) {}^{11}C$ near the Same Momentum Transfer

J. F. Amann, P. D. Barnes, K. G. R. Doss, S. A. Dytman, R. A. Eisenstein, J. D. Sherman, and W. R. Wharton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 758 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Classical Phenomenology and Applications

Theory of a Free-Electron Laser

Ira B. Bernstein and J. L. Hirshfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 761 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Fluids, Plasmas, and Electric Discharges

Trapping of Cusp-Injected, Nonneutral, Electron Rings with Resistive Walls and Static Mirror Coils

D. W. Hudgings, R. A. Meger, C. D. Striffler, W. W. Destler, H. Kim, M. Reiser, and M. J. Rhee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 764 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Excitation and Control of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Plasma with a Curved Magnetic Field

A. Komori, N. Sato, and Y. Hatta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 768 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Suppression of $ω_{ci}$ Instability in a Mirror-Confined Plasma by Injection of an Electron Beam

R. E. Klinkowstein and L. D. Smullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 771 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Light-Scattering Study of Two-Dimensional Molecular-Orientation Fluctuations in a Freely Suspended Ferroelectric Liquid-Crystal Film

Charles Y. Young, Ronald Pindak, Noel A. Clark, and Robert B. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 773 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Rayleigh-Linewidth Measurements near the Critical Point of a Binary Fluid

C. M. Sorensen, R. C. Mockler, and W. J. O'Sullivan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 777 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Dissipation near the Critical Point of a Two-Dimensional Superfluid

B. A. Huberman, R. J. Myerson, and S. Doniach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 780 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Dissipation in Two-Dimensional Superfluids

Vinay Ambegaokar, B. I. Halperin, David R. Nelson, and Eric D. Siggia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 783 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Superconducting Al-PbBi Tunnel Junction as a Phonon Spectrometer

W. Dietsche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 786 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Critical Speeding-Up of Spin-Relaxation in Cd ${Cr}_{2}$ ${Se}_{4}$

J. Kötzler and H. von Philipsborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 790 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Temperature Dependence of the Plasma Frequency of Two-Component Ionic Fluids

Marc Baus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 793 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Nuclear-Acoustic-Resonance Determination of the Electronic Contribution to the Electric-Field-Gradient Tensor in Molybdenum

E. Fischer, V. Müller, D. Ploumbidis, and G. Schanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 796 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

"Triple- $\vec{q}$ " Modulated Magnetic Structure and Critical Behavior of Neodymium

Per Bak and Bente Lebech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 800 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Effect of Refraction of $p$ -Polarized Light on Angle-Resolved Photoemission from Surface States on Metals

A. Bagchi, N. Kar, and R. G. Barrera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 803 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Auger-Electron Spectroscopy as a Local Probe of Atomic Charge: Si $L_{2, 3} VV$

Dwight R. Jennison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 807 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Nonequilibrium Dynamics in a Superconducting Thin-Film Microbridge

Robert A. Peters, Frederic J. Rachford, and Stuart A. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 810 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Divalent Surface State on Metallic Samarium

G. K. Wertheim and G. Crecelius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 813 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Frequency Dependence of the Spin-Spin Relaxation Rate from Mössbauer Spectroscopy

A. M. Afanas'ev, E. V. Onishchenko, L. Asch, and G. M. Kalvius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 816 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Collapse of Gels and the Critical Endpoint

Toyoichi Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 820 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

ERRATA

Steady-State Model of a Flat Laser-Driven Target.

F. S. Felber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 824 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978

Nature of the Phase Transition in KCN AT 168 K.

J. M. Rowe, J. J. Rush, N. J. Chesser, K. H. Michel, and J. N. Naudts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 824 (1978) - Published 20 March, 1978