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Physical Review Letters

Volume 59, Issue 14

5 October 1987

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LETTERS

General Physics

Realism and quantum flux tunneling

L. E. Ballentine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1493 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Additional properties of random matrices and their relation to Hamiltonian systems

Theo Zimmermann and L. S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1496 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Arnol’d diffusion in 1(1/2 dimensions

D. W. Longcope and R. N. Sudan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1500 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Domain walls of finite thickness in general relativity

A. K. Raychaudhuri and Gangabrata Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1504 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Elementary Particles and Fields

Frozen solitons in a two-dimensional ferromagnet

A. Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1506 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Possible nonconservation of electric charge

Rabindra N. Mohapatra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1510 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Estimating the chiral-symmetry–restoration temperature in two-flavor QCD

Steven Gottlieb, W. Liu, D. Toussaint, R. L. Renken, and R. L. Sugar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1513 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Probing a superlight gravitino in photon-photon collisions

Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Probir Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1517 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Charmless decays of bottom mesons and a fourth generation

Wei-Shu Hou, A. Soni, and Herbert Steger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1521 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Consequences of the large real-to-imaginary ratio at √s =546 GeV

Elliot Leader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1525 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Measurement of the decay τ→ρν

J. Adler et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1527 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Production of the charmed strange baryon $Ξ_{c}^{+}$ by neutrons

P. Coteus, M. Binkley, F. Bossi, J. Butler, J. P. Cumalat, M. DiCorato, M. Diesburg, J. Enagonio, J. Filaseta, P. L. Frabetti, I. Gaines, P. Garbincius, M. Gormley, J. Haggerty, D. J. Harding, T. Kroc, R. Ladbury, P. Lebrun, P. F. Manfredi, J. Peoples, A. Sala, C. Shipbaugh, J. Slaughter, and J. Wiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1530 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Measurement with a free neutron beam of absolute neutron-proton forward elastic-scattering differential cross section at intermediate energies

Y. Terrien, J. C. Lugol, J. Saudinos, B. H. Silverman, F. Wellers, G. A. Korolev, A. V. Dobrovolsky, A. V. Khanzadeev, G. E. Petrov, E. M. Spiridenkov, and A. A. Vorobyov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1534 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Nuclear Physics

Isoscalar and isovector form factors of ${}^{3}H$ and ${}^{3}{He}$ for Q below 2.9 ${fm}^{- 1}$ from electron-scattering measurements

D. Beck et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1537 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Equivalence between γ instability and rigid triaxiality in finite boson systems

Takaharu Otsuka and Michiaki Sugita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1541 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dynamical symmetries of the perturbed hydrogen atom: The van der Waals interaction

Y. Alhassid, E. A. Hinds, and D. Meschede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1545 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

New variational techniques for the 1snd states of helium

G. W. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1549 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Non-Franck-Condon distribution of final states in photoionization of $H_{2}$ ( $C^{1}$ $Π_{u}$ )

A. P. Hickman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1553 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Inelastic x-ray scattering from copper K-shell electrons at intermediate momentum transfers

Vincent Marchetti and Carl Franck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1557 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Formation of Rydberg states in fast ions penetrating thin carbon-foil and gas targets

G. Schiwietz, D. Schneider, and J. Tanis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1561 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Transfer ionization in $H^{+}$ + $H^{-}$ collisions

W. Schön, S. Krüdener, F. Melchert, K. Rinn, M. Wagner, E. Salzborn, M. Karemera, S. Szücs, M. Terao, D. Fussen, R. Janev, X. Urbain, and F. Brouillard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1565 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Ab initio approach for many-electron systems without invoking orbitals: An integral formulation of density-functional theory

Weitao Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1569 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Fast dynamo action in unsteady flows and maps in three dimensions

B. J. Bayly and S. Childress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1573 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Initial stages of pattern formation in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Christopher W. Meyer, Guenter Ahlers, and David S. Cannell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1577 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Plasma and Beam Physics

Self-organization of electrostatic turbulence in a cylindrical plasma

Akira Hasegawa and Masahiro Wakatani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1581 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Suppression of stimulated Raman scattering by the seeding of stimulated Brillouin scattering in a laser-produced plasma

D. M. Villeneuve, H. A. Baldis, and J. E. Bernard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1585 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Melting and misalignment of solid crystalline krypton inclusions in aluminum

H. H. Andersen, J. Bohr, A. Johansen, E. Johnson, L. Sarholt-Kristensen, and V. Surganov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1589 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Adatom vibrations on Si(111) reconstructed surfaces

W. Daum, H. Ibach, and J. E. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1593 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of a Langmuir film: Study of molecular orientation of a two-dimensional system

P. Guyot-Sionnest, J. H. Hunt, and Y. R. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1597 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

α relaxation of a simple molten salt near the glass transition

U. Krieger and J. Bosse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1601 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Intrinsic optical damage in KBr at 532 nm

X. A. Shen, Peter Braunlich, Scott C. Jones, and Paul Kelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1605 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Observation of the magnetic field dependence of the cyclotron mass in the Kondo lattice ${CeB}_{6}$

W. Joss, J. M. van Ruitenbeek, G. W. Crabtree, J. L. Tholence, A. P. J. van Deursen, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1609 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Two-dimensional antiferromagnetic quantum spin-fluid state in ${La}_{2}$ ${CuO}_{4}$

G. Shirane, Y. Endoh, R. J. Birgeneau, M. A. Kastner, Y. Hidaka, M. Oda, M. Suzuki, and T. Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1613 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Geophysics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics

Slow-motion scattering and coalescence of maximally charged black holes

Robert C. Ferrell and Douglas M. Eardley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1617 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Realism and quantum flux tunneling’’

A. J. Leggett and Anupam Garg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1621 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Comment on ‘‘Observation of intrinsic bistability in resonant-tunneling structures’’

T. C. L. G. Sollner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1622 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Goldman, Tsui, and Cunningham reply

V. J. Goldman, D. C. Tsui, and J. E. Cunningham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1623 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987

Comment on ‘‘Photon-drag effect in intersubband absorption in a two-dimensional electron gas’’

J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1624 (1987) - Published 5 October, 1987