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Physical Review Letters

Volume 63, Issue 19

6 November 1989

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LETTERS

General Physics

Crossover scaling from multifractal theory: Dielectric breakdown with cutoffs

Eyal Arian, Preben Alstrøm, Amnon Aharony, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2005 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Quantum effects in the Frenkel-Kontorova model

F. Borgonovi, I. Guarneri, and D. L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2010 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Stochastic manifestation of chaos in a Fokker-Planck equation

L. E. Reichl, Zhong-Ying Chen, and M. Millonas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2013 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational lenses as long-baseline gravitational-wave detectors

B. Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2017 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Global strings and superfluid vortices

R. L. Davis and E. P. S. Shellard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2021 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Elementary Particles and Fields

Explanation of the apparent charge dependence of the pion-nucleon coupling

Anthony W. Thomas and Karl Holinde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2025 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Nuclear Physics

Disappearance of flow in heavy-ion collisions

D. Krofcheck, W. Bauer, G. M. Crawley, C. Djalali, S. Howden, C. A. Ogilvie, A. Vander Molen, G. D. Westfall, W. K. Wilson, R. S. Tickle, and C. Gale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2028 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Energy dependence of dispersive effects in ${}^{12}C$

N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, C. W. de Jager, E. A. J. M. Offermann, H. de Vries, L. S. Cardman, H. J. Emrich, F. W. Hersman, H. Miska, and D. Rychel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2032 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Four-body calculation of dd→dd and dd→ $p^{3}$ H tensor analyzing powers

A. C. Fonseca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2036 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Unexpected behaviour of double photoionization in $H_{2}$

H. Kossmann, O. Schwarzkopf, B. Kämmerling, and V. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2040 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Breaking of ground-state symmetry in core-excited ethylene and benzene

Y. Ma, F. Sette, G. Meigs, S. Modesti, and C. T. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2044 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Bifurcation structure and the Eckhaus instability

K. Tsiveriotis and R. A. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2048 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Plasma and Beam Physics

Direct measurement of ion phase-space orbits in an electrostatic field

A. Fasoli, T. N. Good, F. Anderegg, F. Skiff, P. J. Paris, M. Q. Tran, and M. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2052 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Suppression of the tearing mode by energetic ions

Chris C. Hegna and A. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2056 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Magnetic field pitch-angle measurments in the PBX-M tokamak using the motional Stark effect

F. M. Levinton, R. J. Fonck, G. M. Gammel, R. Kaita, H. W. Kugel, E. T. Powell, and D. W. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2060 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Observation of critical phenomena in a protein-water solution

Peter Schurtenberger, Richard A. Chamberlin, George M. Thurston, John A. Thomson, and George B. Benedek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2064 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Isotropic-nematic phase transition and angular correlations in isotropic suspensions of tobacco mosaic virus

Seth Fraden, Georg Maret, D. L. D. Caspar, and Robert B. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2068 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Spinodal decomposition in polymer mixtures

Amitabha Chakrabarti, Raúl Toral, James D. Gunton, and M. Muthukumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2072 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Real-space, multiple-scattering-theory method for the calculation of x-ray bremsstrahlung isochromat spectra

A. Šimůnek, O. Šipr, and J. Vackář

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2076 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Evidence for a structural phase transition in solid hydrogen at megabar pressures

Hector E. Lorenzana, Isaac F. Silvera, and Kenneth A. Goettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2080 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Isotope dependence of hydrogen tunneling in niobium

W. Morr, A. Müller, G. Weiss, H. Wipf, and B. Golding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2084 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Orientation dependence of laser amorphization of crystal Si

J. A. Yater and Michael O. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2088 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Fermi-level pinning and surface-state band structure of the Si(111)-(√3×√3)R30°-Ag surface

L. S. O. Johansson, E. Landemark, C. J. Karlsson, and R. I. G. Uhrberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2092 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Highly mobile oxygen holes in magnesium oxide

Minoru M. Freund, Friedemann Freund, and François Batllo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2096 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Photon–single-phonon coupling at polar crystal surfaces

W. Luis Mochán and José Récamier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2100 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Structure and optical properties of strained Ge-Si superlattices grown on (001) Ge

T. P. Pearsall, J. M. Vandenberg, R. Hull, and J. M. Bonar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2104 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Polarized band-edge photoluminescence and ordering in ${Ga}_{0.52}$ ${In}_{0.48}$ P

A. Mascarenhas, Sarah Kurtz, A. Kibbler, and J. M. Olson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2108 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Quasiparticle intepretation of photoemission spectra and optical properties of GaAs(110)

Xuejun Zhu, S. B. Zhang, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2112 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Momentum conservation in tunneling processes between barrier-separated 2D-electron-gas systems

J. Smoliner, W. Demmerle, G. Berthold, E. Gornik, G. Weimann, and W. Schlapp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2116 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Quantum magnetotransport of a periodically modulated two-dimensional electron gas

P. Vasilopoulos and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2120 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

One-dimensional magneto-excitons in GaAs/ ${Al}_{x}$ ${Ga}_{1 - x}$ As quantum wires

M. Kohl, D. Heitmann, P. Grambow, and K. Ploog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2124 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Boundary scattering in quantum wires

T. J. Thornton, M. L. Roukes, A. Scherer, and B. P. Van de Gaag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2128 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Anomalous behavior of the electron density of states in strongly disordered amorphous composite indium plus indium-oxide films

Deuk Soo Pyun and Thomas R. Lemberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2132 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Muon-spin-rotation study of magnetism in ${La}_{1.85}$ ${Sr}_{0.15}$ ${CuO}_{4}$ and ${YBa}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{x}$ below 90 mK

R. F. Kiefl, J. H. Brewer, J. Carolan, P. Dosanjh, W. N. Hardy, R. Kadono, J. R. Kempton, R. Krahn, P. Schleger, B. X. Yang, Hu Zhou, G. M. Luke, B. Sternlieb, Y. J. Uemura, W. J. Kossler, X. H. Yu, E. J. Ansaldo, H. Takagi, S. Uchida, and C. L. Seaman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2136 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Staggered spin and statistics in the supersymmetric t-J model

Dietrich Förster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2140 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

η pairing and off-diagonal long-range order in a Hubbard model

Chen Ning Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2144 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Phase diagram of the frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet in 2 dimensions

Elbio Dagotto and Adriana Moreo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2148 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Motion detection in noisy environments: Phase transition in a model system

H. A. Ceccatto and M. Schreckenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2152 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Effect of impurity bonding on grain-boundary embrittlement’’

C. L. Briant and K. Sieradzki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2156 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Goodwin, Needs, and Heine reply.

L. Goodwin, R. J. Needs, and Volker Heine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2157 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Collapse of a ‘‘global monopole’’

Alfred S. Goldhaber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2158 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

Comment on ‘‘Quantum limitations on measurement of magnetic flux’’

A. J. Leggett and Anupam Garg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2159 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989

ERRATA

Observation of the Transition State H $D_{2}^{* *}$ in Collisions, H+ $D_{2}$

B. A. Collings, J. C. Polanyi, M. A. Smith, A. Stolow, and A. W. Tarr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2160 (1989) - Published 6 November, 1989