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Physical Review Letters

Volume 64, Issue 19

7 May 1990

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LETTERS

General Physics

‘‘Quantum’’ chaos in billiards studied by microwave absorption

H.-J. Stöckmann and J. Stein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2215 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New class of inhomogeneous cosmological perfect-fluid solutions without big-bang singularity

José M. M. Senovilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2219 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Time-dependent solutions of 2+1 gravity

Henri Waelbroeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2222 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Elementary Particles and Fields

Observation of Υ(4S) decays into non-BB¯ final states containing ψ mesons

J. Alexander et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2226 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Multivortex solutions of the Abelian Chern-Simons-Higgs theory

Jooyoo Hong, Yoonbai Kim, and Pong Youl Pac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2230 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Self-dual Chern-Simons vortices

R. Jackiw and Erick J. Weinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2234 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Nonperturbative many-body physics in the open bosonic string

V. Alan Kostelecký and Stuart Samuel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2238 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Nuclear Physics

Production of soft dileptons in the quark-gluon plasma

Eric Braaten, Robert D. Pisarski, and Tzu Chiang Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2242 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Event-shape analysis: Sequential versus simultaneous multifragment emission

D. A. Cebra, S. Howden, J. Karn, A. Nadasen, C. A. Ogilvie, A. Vander Molen, G. D. Westfall, W. K. Wilson, J. S. Winfield, and E. Norbeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2246 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Two-Body Mechanisms in the ${Li}^{6}$ (e,e′p) Reaction

J. B. J. M. Lanen, H. P. Blok, E. Jans, L. Lapikás, G. van der Steenhoven, and P. K. A. de Witt Huberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2250 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Time-dependent thermal fluctuations and the giant dipole resonance in hot, rotating nuclei

W. E. Ormand, P. F. Bortignon, R. A. Broglia, T. Døssing, and B. Lauritzen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2254 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

New recombination mechanism: Tidal termolecular ionic recombination

D. R. Bates and W. Lowell Morgan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2258 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Coherence in freely precessing ${}^{21}{Ne}$ and a test of linearity of quantum mechanics

T. E. Chupp and R. J. Hoare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2261 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Effect of second-order exchange in electron-hydrogen scattering

D. H. Madison, I. Bray, and I. McCarthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2265 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Boundary condition for fluid flow: Curved or rough surfaces

Dietrich Einzel, Peter Panzer, and Mario Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2269 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Optical amplification and polarization switching in a birefringent nonlinear optical medium: An analysis

I. C. Khoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2273 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Tunable cyclotron-resonance laser in germanium

K. Unterrainer, C. Kremser, E. Gornik, C. R. Pidgeon, Yu. L. Ivanov, and E. E. Haller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2277 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ambipolar potential effect on a drift-wave mode in a tandem-mirror plasma

A. Mase, J. H. Jeong, A. Itakura, K. Ishii, M. Inutake, and S. Miyoshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2281 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Small-angle x-ray-scattering study of ordering kinetics in a block copolymer

C. R. Harkless, M. A. Singh, S. E. Nagler, G. B. Stephenson, and J. L. Jordan-Sweet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2285 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Evidence for a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in a simulation of ${CD}_{4}$ adsorbed on MgO

Ali Alavi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2289 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Dimensional crossover in the hopping regime induced by an electric field

Dan Shahar and Zvi Ovadyahu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2293 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Theory of size effects in depinning of charge-density waves

John Bardeen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2297 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Magnetoresistance of Kondo lattices

Fusayoshi J. Ohkawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2300 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Oscillations in exchange coupling and magnetoresistance in metallic superlattice structures: Co/Ru, Co/Cr, and Fe/Cr

S. S. P. Parkin, N. More, and K. P. Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2304 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Fermi surfaces of ${YBa}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{6.9}$ as seen by angle-resolved photoemission

J. C. Campuzano, G. Jennings, M. Faiz, L. Beaulaigue, B. W. Veal, J. Z. Liu, A. P. Paulikas, K. Vandervoort, H. Claus, R. S. List, A. J. Arko, and R. J. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2308 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Observation of a hexatic vortex glass in flux lattices of the high- $T_{c}$ superconductor ${Bi}_{2.1}$ ${Sr}_{1.9}$ ${Ca}_{0.9}$ ${Cu}_{2}$ $O_{8 + δ}$

C. A. Murray, P. L. Gammel, D. J. Bishop, D. B. Mitzi, and A. Kapitulnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2312 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Dynamics of weakly connected solids: Silica aerogels

D. W. Schaefer, C. J. Brinker, D. Richter, B. Farago, and B. Frick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2316 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Nonlinear beam loading and dynamical limiting currents in a high-power microwave gap

D. G. Colombant and Y. Y. Lau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2320 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Dynamics of DNA during pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Dilip Gersappe, and Edward O. Shaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2324 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Glassy kinetic barriers between conformational substates in RNA

Ariel Fernández

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2328 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

COMMENTS

Mechanism for rough-to-rough transitions in surface growth

Joachim Krug and Herbert Spohn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2332 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Comment on ‘‘Phase transition in a restricted solid-on-solid surface-growth model in 2+1 dimensions’’

J. M. Kim, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and J. M. Kosterlitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2333 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Amar and Family reply

Jacques G. Amar and Fereydoon Family

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2334 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

Comment on ‘‘Satellites to Δn=1 transitions between high-lying levels of multiply ionized atoms’’

A. E. Livingston, E. J. Galvez, and F. G. Serpa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2335 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

König, Koshelev, and Kunze reply

R. König, K. H. Koshelev, and H.-J. Kunze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2336 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990

ERRATA

High-Gradient Electron Accelerator Powered by a Relativistic Klystron

M. A. Allen, J. K. Boyd, R. S. Callin, H. Deruyter, K. R. Eppley, K. S. Fant, W. R. Fowkes, J. Haimson, H. A. Hoag, D. B. Hopkins, T. Houck, R. F. Koontz, T. L. Lavine, G. A. Loew, B. Mecklenburg, R. H. Miller, R. D. Ruth, R. D. Ryne, A. M. Sessler, A. E. Vlieks, J. W. Wang, G. A. Westenskow, and S. S. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2337 (1990) - Published 7 May, 1990