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Physical Review Letters

Volume 66, Issue 4

28 January 1991

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LETTERS

General Physics

Weinberg’s nonlinear quantum mechanics and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox

Joseph Polchinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 397 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Gravitation and Astrophysics

The Cauchy problem for the scalar wave equation is well defined on a class of spacetimes with closed timelike curves

John L. Friedman and Michael S. Morris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 401 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Optical fluctuations from moving partially coherent sources

K. A. Nugent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 405 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Nuclear Physics

Study of the mechanism of the reaction ${}^{4}{He}$ (e,e’p $)^{3}$ H

J. F. J. van den Brand, H. P. Blok, H. J. Bulten, R. Ent, E. Jans, G. J. Kramer, J. M. Laget, J. B. J. M. Lanen, L. Lapikás, J. S. Roebers, R. Schiavilla, G. van der Steenhoven, and P. K. A. de Witt Huberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 409 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonclassical double-bridged structure in silicon-containing molecules: Experimental evidence in ${Si}_{2}$ $H_{2}$ from its submillimeter-wave spectrum

M. Bogey, H. Bolvin, C. Demuynck, and J. L. Destombes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 413 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Coulomb ‘‘path’’ interference in low-energy ion-atom collisions

J. K. Swenson, J. Burgdörfer, F. W. Meyer, C. C. Havener, D. C. Gregory, and N. Stolterfoht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 417 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of temperature-dependent transport in the TFTR tokamak

P. C. Efthimion, D. K. Mansfield, B. C. Stratton, E. Synakowski, A. Bhattacharjee, H. Biglari, P. H. Diamond, R. J. Goldston, C. C. Hegna, D. McCune, G. Rewoldt, S. Scott, W. M. Tang, G. Taylor, R. E. Waltz, R. M. Wieland, and M. C. Zarnstorff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 421 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Collisionless m=1 tearing mode

Francesco Porcelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 425 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Production and identification of the ion-temperature-gradient instability

A. K. Sen, J. Chen, and M. Mauel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 429 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Unified kinetic and thermodynamic treatment of a two-dimensional gas-liquid phase transition: ${CH}_{4}$ on Ag(110)

Gregory S. Elliott, Kuang-Jen Wu, and Stephen D. Kevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 433 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Are sponge phases of membranes experimental gauge-Higgs systems?

David A. Huse and Stanislas Leibler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 437 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Growth-induced roughening of crystalline facets

Terence Hwa, Mehran Kardar, and Maya Paczuski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 441 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Similarity laws in eutectic growth

K. Kassner and C. Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 445 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Anomalous electroclinic effect associated with molecular conformation distributions in chiral smectic-A liquid crystals

Sin-Doo Lee, J. S. Patel, and J. W. Goodby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 449 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Finite-size scaling of driven diffusive systems: Theory and Monte Carlo studies

Kwan-tai Leung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 453 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Computer reconstruction from electron holograms and observation of fluxon dynamics

T. Matsuda, A. Fukuhara, T. Yoshida, S. Hasegawa, A. Tonomura, and Q. Ru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 457 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Frustration in the Si(111) ‘‘pseudo 5×5’’ Cu structure directly observed by scanning tunneling microscopy

K. Mortensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 461 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Dynamical scaling of oxygen ordering in ${YBa}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{7 - δ}$

Henning Friis Poulsen, Niels Hessel Andersen, Jo?rgen Vitting Andersen, Henrik Bohr, and Ole G. Mouritsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 465 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Critical-thickness and growth-mode transitions in highly strained ${In}_{x}$ ${Ga}_{1 - x}$ As films

G. L. Price

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 469 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Multilayer growth and wetting behavior of nitrogen physisorbed on graphite

U. G. Volkmann and K. Knorr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 473 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Isotope structure in optical spectra of ${LiYF}_{4}$ : ${Ho}^{3 +}$

N. I. Agladze, M. N. Popova, G. N. Zhizhin, V. J. Egorov, and M. A. Petrova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 477 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Scale-independent fluctuations of spin stiffness in the Heisenberg model and its relationship to universal conductance fluctuations

Sudip Chakravarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 481 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Identification of odd-parity superconductivity in ${UPt}_{3}$ from paramagnetic effects on the upper critical field

C. H. Choi and J. A. Sauls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 484 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Realistic Electronic Structure Calculations for Magnetic Insulators Like ${La}_{2}$ Cu $O_{4}$

J. B. Grant and A. K. McMahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 488 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Temperature-dependent plasmon frequency and linewidth in a semimetal

E. T. Jensen, R. E. Palmer, W. Allison, and J. F. Annett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 492 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Influence of defect site transitions on discrete resistance fluctuations in normal-metal tunnel junctions

Xiuguang Jiang and J. C. Garland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 496 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Many-body calculation of the surface-state energies for Si(111)2×1

John E. Northrup, Mark S. Hybertsen, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 500 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Spin-dependent electron attenuation by transmission through thin ferromagnetic films

D. P. Pappas, K.-P. Kämper, B. P. Miller, H. Hopster, D. E. Fowler, C. R. Brundle, A. C. Luntz, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 504 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Liquid-drop model for crystalline metals: Vacancy-formation, cohesive, and face-dependent surface energies

John P. Perdew, Yue Wang, and Eberhard Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 508 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Exact solution of the Ginzburg-Landau equations for the upper critical field of multicomponent superconductors

S. K. Sundaram and Robert Joynt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 512 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Tunneling measurements of the zero-bias conductance peak and the Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O thin-film energy gap

Thomas Walsh, John Moreland, R. H. Ono, and T. S. Kalkur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 516 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘A solution of the solar-neutrino problem’’

A. J. Baltz and J. Weneser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 520 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Comment on ‘‘Quenching of Einstein’s A coefficients by photons’’

Hans R. Griem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 521 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

ERRATA

Parity Breaking in Eutectic Growth

K. Kassner and C. Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 522 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Euclidean Continuation of the Dirac Fermion

Mayank R. Mehta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 522 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991

Antiferromagnetic Fluctuations and Short-Range Order in a Kagomé Lattice

C. Broholm, G. Aeppli, G. P. Espinosa, and A. S. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 522 (1991) - Published 28 January, 1991