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Physical Review Letters

Volume 66, Issue 8

25 February 1991

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LETTERS

General Physics

Direct comparison of the quantized Hall resistance in gallium arsenide and silicon

A. Hartland, K. Jones, J. M. Williams, B. L. Gallagher, and T. Galloway

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 969 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Finite-size corrections and scaling dimensions of solvable lattice models: An analytic method

Paul A. Pearce and Andreas Klümper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 974 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Fractal dimension in nonhyperbolic chaotic scattering

Yun-Tung Lau, John M. Finn, and Edward Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 978 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Molecular-dynamics approach to the statistical properties of energy levels

Xiazhou Yang and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 982 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Spectral statistics in semiclassical random-matrix ensembles

Mario Feingold, David M. Leitner, and Michael Wilkinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 986 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Stability of nonlinear Hamiltonian motion for a finite but very long time

Robert L. Warnock and Ronald D. Ruth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 990 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Formation of naked singularities: The violation of cosmic censorship

Stuart L. Shapiro and Saul A. Teukolsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 994 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Elementary Particles and Fields

Interface tension in an SU(N) gauge theory at high temperature

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Andreas Gocksch, Chris Korthals Altes, and Robert D. Pisarski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 998 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Peccei-Quinn mechanism and dimension-six CP-violating operators

Myron Bander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1001 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Form factors of excited baryons at high $Q^{2}$ and the transition to perturbative QCD

Paul Stoler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1003 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Search for elastic nondiagonal lepton-pair production in $e^{+}$ $e^{-}$ annihilation at √s =29 GeV

J. J. Gomez-Cadenas et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1007 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Measurement of the hadronic structure of semileptonic $D^{0}$ and $D^{+}$ decays

Z. Bai et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1011 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Measurement of the electric polarizability of the neutron

Jörg Schmiedmayer, Peter Riehs, John A. Harvey, and Nat W. Hill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1015 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Nuclear Physics

Two-pion-exchange potential in a quasistatic two-Skyrmion system

Makoto Oka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1019 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Yrast-yrare interaction strength

C. S. Wu and J. Y. Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1022 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Neutron deformation in ${}^{165}{Ho}$

J. N. Knudson, J. D. Bowman, S. I. Penttilä, J. R. Comfort, B. G. Ritchie, J. Goergen, D. Mathis, J. Tinsley, S. S. Hanna, B. King, D. Počanić, R. A. Loveman, L. S. Fritz, and N. S. Dixon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1026 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Six ‘‘identical’’ superdeformed bands in ${}^{194}{Tl}$

F. Azaiez, W. H. Kelly, W. Korten, F. S. Stephens, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, A. O. Macchiavelli, J. E. Draper, E. C. Rubel, C. W. Beausang, J. Burde, J. A. Becker, E. A. Henry, S. W. Yates, M. J. Brinkman, A. Kuhnert, and T. F. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1030 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Resonant tunneling and the bimodal symmetric fission of ${}^{258}{Fm}$

B. S. Bhandari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1034 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Stabilization of atoms in superintense laser fields: Is it real?

J. Grochmalicki, M. Lewenstein, and K. Rza̧ewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1038 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Perturbed structure of molecular hydrogen near the second dissociation limit

E. F. McCormack and E. E. Eyler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1042 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Measurement-induced oscillations of a highly squeezed state between super- and sub-Poissonian photon statistics

Tetsuo Ogawa, Masahito Ueda, and Nobuyuki Imoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1046 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Identification of Thomas peaks in coupled-channel calculations for charge transfer

Nobuyuki Toshima and Jörg Eichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1050 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Turbulence models and probability distributions of dissipation and relevant quantities in isotropic turbulence

Iwao Hosokawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1054 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Critical phenomena in fluid invasion of porous media

Nicos Martys, Marek Cieplak, and Mark O. Robbins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1058 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Microcalorimetric study of nematic-to-neat-soap and nematic-to-isotropic phase transitions in a lyotropic liquid crystal

S. T. Shin and Satyendra Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1062 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Nonlinear optical studies of the pure liquid/vapor interface: Vibrational spectra and polar ordering

R. Superfine, J. Y. Huang, and Y. R. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1066 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Low-temperature specific heat and thermal conductivity of silica aerogels

T. Sleator, A. Bernasconi, D. Posselt, J. K. Kjems, and H. R. Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1070 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Localization properties of fractons in percolating structures

C. J. Lambert and G. D. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1074 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Numerical simulation of intrinsic bistability and high-frequency current oscillations in resonant tunneling structures

K. L. Jensen and F. A. Buot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1078 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Charging effects of a single quantum level in a box

A. Groshev, T. Ivanov, and V. Valtchinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1082 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Generic source of perpendicular anisotropy in amorphous rare-earth–transition-metal films

Hong Fu, Masud Mansuripur, and Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1086 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Phase transitions in coupled XY-Ising systems

Enzo Granato, J. M. Kosterlitz, Jooyoung Lee, and M. P. Nightingale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1090 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Reversibility and noise sensitivity of Josephson arrays

Kwok Yeung Tsang, Renato E. Mirollo, Steven H. Strogatz, and Kurt Wiesenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1094 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Thermoelectric power of ${YBa}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{7 - δ}$ : Phonon drag and multiband conduction

J. L. Cohn, S. A. Wolf, V. Selvamanickam, and K. Salama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1098 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Early stages of grain growth in ion-irradiated amorphous silicon

C. Spinella, S. Lombardo, and S. U. Campisano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1102 (1991) - Published 25 February, 1991