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Physical Review Letters

Volume 53, Issue 5

30 July 1984

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LETTERS

General Physics

Quantum Stress Tensor in Schwarzschild Space-Time

K. W. Howard and P. Candelas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 403 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Trapping of Random Walks in Two and Three Dimensions

Shlomo Havlin, Menachem Dishon, James E. Kiefer, and George H. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 407 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Path Decomposition for Multidimensional Tunneling

Assa Auerbach, S. Kivelson, and Denis Nicole

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 411 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Active Zone of Growing Clusters: Diffusion-Limited Aggregation and the Eden Model

Michael Plischke and Zoltán Rácz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 415 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Relativistic Extension of the Analogy between Quantum Mechanics and Brownian Motion

B. Gaveau, T. Jacobson, M. Kac, and L. S. Schulman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 419 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Bound States of Neutrons and Negative Pions

F. W. N. de Boer, R. van Dantzig, M. Daum, J. Jansen, P. J. S. Watson, L. Felawka, C. Grab, A. van der Schaaf, T. Kozlowski, J. Martino, and A. I. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 423 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Nuclei

Power-Spectrum Analysis of Fluctuations of Pseudorapidity Distributions in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at Very High Energies

Fujio Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 427 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Search for Anomalous Isotopes of Sodium

W. J. Dick, G. W. Greenlees, and S. L. Kaufman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 431 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Atoms and Molecules

Resonance-Enhanced Shakeup in Near-Threshold Core Excitation of CO and $N_{2}$

L. Ungier and T. D. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 435 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Two-Photon Absorption from a Phase-Diffusing Laser Field

D. S. Elliott, M. W. Hamilton, K. Arnett, and S. J. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 439 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Classical Phenomenology and Applications

Is Isotropic Turbulent Diffusion Symmetry Restoring?

Hans Effinger and Siegfried Grossmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 442 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Three-Dimensional, Nonlinear Evolution of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability of a Thin Layer

D. Colombant, W. Manheimer, and E. Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 446 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Fluids, Plasmas, and Electric Discharges

Observation of Lower-Hybrid Current Drive at High Densities in the Alcator $C$ Tokamak

M. Porkolab, J. J. Schuss, B. Lloyd, Y. Takase, S. Texter, P. Bonoli, C. Fiore, R. Gandy, D. Gwinn, B. Lipschultz, E. Marmar, D. Pappas, R. Parker, and P. Pribyl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 450 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Experimental Observation of Neoclassical Currents in a Plasma

M. C. Zarnstorff and S. C. Prager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 454 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Direct Spectroscopic Observation of Charge-Exchange Recombination of Medium- $Z$ Elements in the PLT Tokamak

C. H. Skinner, S. Suckewer, S. A. Cohen, G. Schilling, R. Wilson, and B. Stratton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 458 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Raman Backscatter from an Inhomogeneous Magnetized Plasma

H. C. Barr, T. J. M. Boyd, G. A. Gardner, and R. Rankin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 462 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Thresholds of Convective Raman Backscattering: Effects of $\nabla n$ , Thomson Scattering, Noise, Collisions, and Landau Damping

Kent Estabrook and W. L. Kruer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 465 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Electric Field Coupling to Slow Elastic Modes in Gels of Conjugated Polymers

A. Kapitulnik, S. Casalnuovo, K. C. Lim, and A. J. Heeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 469 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Dislocation Model for Restacking Phase Transitions in Crystalline- $B$ Liquid Crystals

J. P. Hirth, P. S. Pershan, J. Collett, E. Sirota, and L. B. Sorensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 473 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Smectics $A$ and $C$ Are Always Glasses

Sriraṁ Ramaswamy and John Toner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 477 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Low-Energy $K^{+}$ -Ion Scattering as a Probe of Adsorbate Ordering

Benjamin M. DeKoven, S. H. Overbury, and P. C. Stair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 481 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Temperature Dependence of the Work Function of Adsorbate-Covered Metal Surfaces: A New Method for the Study of Two-Dimensional Phase Transitions

J. Kołaczkiewicz and E. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 485 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Band-Overlap Metallization of BaTe

Thomas A. Grzybowski and Arthur L. Ruoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 489 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Lifting of the Spin Degeneracy of Hole Subbands in a Surface Electric Field on Silicon

A. D. Wieck, E. Batke, D. Heitmann, J. P. Kotthaus, and E. Bangert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 493 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Observation of Magnetic-Field-Induced Superconductivity

H. W. Meul, C. Rossel, M. Decroux, Ø Fischer, G. Remenyi, and A. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 497 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Direct Observation of Nonchaotic Multilevel Vibrational Energy Flow in Isolated Polyatomic Molecules

Peter M. Felker and Ahmed H. Zewail

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 501 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Geophysics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics

Relative Abundance of the Helium Isotopes ${}^{3}{He}$ and ${}^{4}{He}$ in the Cosmic Radiation

Steven P. Jordan and Peter Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 505 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

COMMENTS

Comment on "Self-Similarity in Irreversible Kinetic Gelation"

Daniel C. Hong, H. Eugene Stanley, and Naeem Jan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 509 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

ERRATA

Plasma Shifts of the Lyman Lines to Shorter Wavelenths in C vi

John C. Adcock, Jr. and Hans R. Griem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 510 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984

Electronic Shell Structure and Abundances of Sodium Clusters

W. D. Knight, Keith Clemenger, Walt A. de Heer, Winston A. Saunders, M. Y. Chou, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 510 (1984) - Published 30 July, 1984