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Physical Review Letters

Volume 59, Issue 9

31 August 1987

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LETTERS

General Physics

Measurement of longitudinal coherence lengths in particle beams

Herbert J. Bernstein and Francis E. Low

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 951 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Self-consistent equations for variable velocity three-dimensional inverse scattering

James H. Rose and Margaret Cheney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 954 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Elementary Particles and Fields

B decays without final-state charm particles and CP noninvariance

Ling-Lie Chau and Hai-Yang Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 958 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Lattice-QCD calculation of spin-dependent potentials for heavy-quark systems

Yuji Koike

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 962 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Properties of the scalar σ meson at finite density

Véronique Bernard, Ulf-G. Meissner, and Ismail Zahed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 966 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Searches for muon-electron and muon-positron conversion in titanium

S. Ahmad, G. Azuelos, M. Blecher, D. Bryman, R. A. Burnham, E. T. H. Clifford, P. Depommier, M. S. Dixit, K. Gotow, C. K. Hargrove, M. Hasinoff, J. A. Macdonald, H. Mes, T. Numao, J.-M. Poutissou, R. Poutissou, J. Spuller, and J. Summhammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 970 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Nuclear Physics

Reaction ( $d_{pol}$ $,^{2}$ He) at intermediate energies

C. Ellegaard, C. Gaarde, T. S. Jorgensen, J. S. Larsen, C. Goodman, I. Bergqvist, A. Brockstedt, P. Ekström, M. Bedjidian, D. Contardo, J. Y. Grossiord, A. Guichard, D. Bachelier, J. L. Boyard, T. Hennino, J. C. Jourdain, M. Roy-Stephan, P. Radvanyi, and J. Tinsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 974 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Measurement of sub-barrier transfer reactions for ${}^{58}{Ni}$ +Sn using a recoil mass separator

R. R. Betts, P. M. Evans, C. N. Pass, N. Poffé, A. E. Smith, L. Stuttgé, J. S. Lilley, D. W. Banes, K. A. Connell, J. Simpson, J. R. H. Smith, A. N. James, and B. R. Fulton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 978 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Hydrodynamic model in isospin channels

E. Lipparini and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 982 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Empirical molecular hydrogen wave function modeled from theoretically derived x-ray diffraction data

R. F. Boehme and S. J. La Placa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 985 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

New term in atomic Zeeman energy

Norval Fortson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 988 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

New limits on time-reversal invariance from the hyperfine structure of thallium fluoride

D. Schropp, Jr., D. Cho, T. Vold, and E. A. Hinds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 991 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

NMR evidence for solid-fluid transition near 250 K of ${}^{3}{He}$ bubbles in palladium tritide

G. C. Abell and A. Attalla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 995 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Delocalization of small particles in a glassy matrix

J. Bosse and J. S. Thakur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 998 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Dynamics of thin tilted hexatic liquid crystal films

S. B. Dierker and R. Pindak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1002 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Vortex-free state of ${}^{3}$ He-B in a rotating cylinder

P. J. Hakonen and K. K. Nummila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1006 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Two-dimensional quasicrystal with eightfold rotational symmetry

N. Wang, H. Chen, and K. H. Kuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1010 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Field-induced optical nonlinearity due to virtual transitions in semiconductor quantum well structures

Masamichi Yamanishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1014 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Generation of ultrashort electrical pulses through screening by virtual populations in biased quantum wells

D. S. Chemla, D. A. B. Miller, and S. Schmitt-Rink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1018 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

New optical transitions in Si-Ge strained superlattices

L. Brey and C. Tejedor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1022 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Constrained quasiparticles and conduction in heavy-fermion systems

Piers Coleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1026 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Torque relaxation in a CuMn spin-glass

C. Giovannella, I. A. Campbell, and F. Hippert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1030 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Critical behavior of the order-parameter–conserving antiferromagnet CeAs

B. Hälg, A. Furrer, and J. K. Kjems

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1034 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Stretched-exponential relaxation arising from dispersive diffusion of hydrogen in amorphous silicon

J. Kakalios, R. A. Street, and W. B. Jackson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1037 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Two magnetically different, closely lying states of fcc iron grown on copper (100)

Pedro A. Montano, Gayanath W. Fernando, Bernard R. Cooper, E. R. Moog, H. M. Naik, S. D. Bader, Y. C. Lee, Y. N. Darici, H. Min, and J. Marcano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1041 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Antiferromagnetism of ${La}_{2}$ ${CuO}_{4 - y}$ studied by muon-spin rotation

Y. J. Uemura, W. J. Kossler, X. H. Yu, J. R. Kempton, H. E. Schone, D. Opie, C. E. Stronach, D. C. Johnston, M. S. Alvarez, and D. P. Goshorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1045 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Reference states for absolute half-cell potentials

Wilford N. Hansen and Galen J. Hansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1049 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

COMMENTS

Comment on ’’Can an isovector dipole mode of nuclear collective motion give a signature duplicating that of an isoscalar monopole mode?’’

K. Nakayama and G. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1053 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Excitation of the isovector giant dipole by α-particle scattering

S. Shlomo, D. H. Youngblood, T. Udagawa, and T. Tamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1054 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Peterson replies

R. J. Peterson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1055 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Fractal dimension of rough surfaces in the solid-on-solid model

Po-zen Wong and Alan J. Bray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1057 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Scaling of the excess area of interfaces

Theodore W. Burkhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1058 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Mon replies

K. K. Mon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1059 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Comment on ‘‘Order-disorder transitions in the melt morphology of laser-irradiated silicon’’

Douglas A. Kurtze and Chuanjing Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1060 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Comment on ‘‘Sensitivity of the conductance of a disordered metal to the motion of a single atom: Implications for 1/f noise’’

Jonathan Pelz and John Clarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1061 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987

Feng, Lee, and Stone respond

Shechao Feng, Patrick A. Lee, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1062 (1987) - Published 31 August, 1987