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Physical Review Letters

Volume 51, Issue 19

7 November 1983

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LETTERS

General Physics

New Variational Principle for Decaying States

C. F. Hart and M. D. Girardeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1725 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Asymptotic Solution of Interacting Walks in One Dimension

S. Redner and K. Kang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1729 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Elementary Particles and Fields

Impulse-Approximation Nucleon-Nucleus Optical-Model Potential for the Dirac Equation

L. D. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1733 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Determination of the Number of Generations of Quarks and Leptons from Flavor-Color Symmetry

O. W. Greenberg, R. N. Mohapatra, and M. Yasuè

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1737 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Nuclei

Inelastic Scattering of Polarized Protons and a Possible Hexadecapole-Shape Transition between the Light ${}^{74, 76, 78}{Se}$ and the Heavy ${}^{80, 82}{Se}$ Isotopes

S. Matsuki, T. Higo, T. Ohsawa, T. Shiba, T. Yanabu, K. Ogino, Y. Kadota, K. Haga, N. Sakamoto, K. Kume, and M. Matoba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1741 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Atoms and Molecules

Femtosecond Relaxation Dynamics of Molecular Rydberg States Using Time-Resolved Multiphoton Ionization

Jay M. Wiesenfeld and Benjamin I. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1745 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Collinear Laser-rf Double-Resonance Spectroscopy: ${}^{235}U$ II Hyperfine Structure

U. Nielsen, O. Poulsen, P. Thorsen, and H. Crosswhite

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1749 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Two-Photon Excitation of Autoionizing States through Zeros in the Continuum

T. F. Gallagher, R. Kachru, N. H. Tran, and H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1753 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Experimental Investigation of Muon-Catalyzed $d - t$ Fusion

S. E. Jones, A. N. Anderson, A. J. Caffrey, J. B. Walter, K. D. Watts, J. N. Bradbury, P. A. M. Gram, M. Leon, H. R. Maltrud, and M. A. Paciotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1757 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Pressure-Induced Extra Resonances in Four-Wave Mixing: Evidence for a Breakdown of the Impact Approximation

R. Scholz, J. Mlynek, and W. Lange

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1761 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Structure and Modes of a Superfluid Atmosphere

R. A. Guyer and W. M. Saslow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1765 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Gelation of Rodlike Macromolecules

M. Sinclair, K. C. Lim, and A. J. Heeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1768 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Wetting Transitions near Bulk Triple Points

Rahul Pandit and Michael E. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1772 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Nonequilibrium Molecular-Dynamics Simulation of Couette Flow in Two-Dimensional Fluids

Denis J. Evans and G. P. Morriss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1776 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Kinetic Depinning Transitions

T. Meister and H. Müller-Krumbhaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1780 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Fermi-Level Pinning by Misfit Dislocations at GaAs Interfaces

J. M. Woodall, G. D. Pettit, T. N. Jackson, C. Lanza, K. L. Kavanagh, and J. W. Mayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1783 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Current Oscillations of Charge-Density Waves Pinned by Impurities

Wolfgang Kinzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1787 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Spin-Freezing Process in Spin-Glasses

G. P. Singh, M. von Schickfus, and H. Maletta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1791 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Novel Mechanism for Tunneling and Breakdown of Thin Si $O_{2}$ Films

B. Ricco, M. Ya. Azbel, and M. H. Brodsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1795 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Selective Transition of Chemisorbed Hydrogen to Subsurface Sites on Pd(110)

K. H. Rieder, M. Baumberger, and W. Stocker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1799 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Detection by Metastable Quenching Spectroscopy of Enhanced Back-Donation from a Ni(111) Surface to the $2 π^{*}$ Orbital of Chemisorbed CO, Caused by Coadsorption of Potassium

Jiwha Lee, Ciaran P. Hanrahan, Jose Arias, Richard M. Martin, and Horia Metiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1803 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

COMMENTS

Comment on Nucleon-Nucleus Impulse-Approximation Optical-Model Potentials for the Dirac Equation

L. D. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1807 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Clark et al. and McNeil et al. Respond

B. C. Clark, S. Hama, J. A. McNeil, R. L. Mercer, L. Ray, G. W. Hoffmann, B. D. Serot, J. R. Shepard, and S. J. Wallace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1808 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Gravitational One-Solitons

Metin Gürses

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1810 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Nonclassical versus Classical Critical Dynamics in Ferroelectric Triglycine Sulfate

J. Kötzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1811 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

García and Gonzalo Respond

R. García and J. A. Gonzalo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1812 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

ERRATA

Structure of the Triplet Distribution Function Near the Critical Point.

Gerald L. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1813 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Electron-Positron Annihilation Cross Section in $SU {(2)}_{L} \otimes U (1)$ Supergravity

Duane A. Dicus, S. Nandi, W. W. Repko, and Xerxes Tata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1813 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Precision Measurement of the Magnetic Moment of the $Σ^{-}$ Hyperon

D. W. Hertzog, M. Eckhause, K. L. Giovanetti, J. R. Kane, W. C. Phillips, W. F. Vulcan, R. E. Welsh, R. J. Whyley, R. G. Winter, G. W. Dodson, J. P. Miller, F. O'Brien, B. L. Roberts, D. R. Tieger, R. J. Powers, N. J. Colella, R. B. Sutton, and A. R. Kunselman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1813 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Interference Between Allowed and Forbidden Raman Scattering by Longitudinal-Optical Phonons in GaAs;

José Menéndez and Manuel Cardona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1814 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Measurement of Spin Parameters for a Decisive Clarification of the Structure Observed in the $p - p$ System

I. P. Auer, E. Colton, W. R. Ditzler, D. Hill, R. Miller, H. Spinka, G. Theodosiou, J. -J. Tavernier, N. Tamura, K. Toshioka, D. Underwood, R. Wagner, A. Yokosawa, P. Kroll, and W. Jauch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1814 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983

Low-Dimensional Chaos in a Hydrodynamic System

A. Brandstäter, J. Swift, Harry L. Swinney, A. Wolf, J. Doyne Farmer, Erica Jen, and J. P. Crutchfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 1814 (1983) - Published 7 November, 1983