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Physical Review Letters

Volume 67, Issue 19

4 November 1991

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LETTERS

General Physics

Quantum irreversibility and chaos

Luca Bonci, Roberto Roncaglia, Bruce J. West, and Paolo Grigolini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2593 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Possible variational principle for steady states far from equilibrium

Denis J. Evans and András Baranyai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2597 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Numerical method for the propagation of quantum-mechanical wave functions in phase space

Go. Torres-Vega and John H. Frederick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2601 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Multiple-scattering suppression of the bremsstrahlung emission of neutrinos and axions in supernovae

Georg Raffelt and David Seckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2605 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for W′→eν and W′→μν in p¯p Collisions at s=1.8 TeV

F. Abe et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2609 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Search for the rare decays $K_{L}^{0}$ →μe and $K_{L}^{0}$ →ee

T. Akagi, R. Fukuhisa, Y. Hemmi, T. Inagaki, K. Ishikawa, T. Kishida, M. Kobayashi, T. K. Komatsubara, M. Kuze, F. Sai, T. Sato, T. Shinkawa, F. Suekane, K. Takamatsu, J. Toyoura, S. S. Yamamoto, and Y. Yoshimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2614 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Measurement of the branching ratio of the decay $K_{L}^{0}$ →μμ

T. Akagi, R. Fukuhisa, Y. Hemmi, T. Inagaki, K. Ishikawa, T. Kishida, M. Kobayashi, T. K. Komatsubara, M. Kuze, F. Sai, T. Sato, T. Shinkawa, F. Suekane, K. Takamatsu, J. Toyoura, S. S. Yamamoto, and Y. Yoshimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2618 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Global analysis of πN→ππN data near threshold and chiral-symmetry breaking

H. Burkhardt and J. Lowe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2622 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Nuclear Physics

Bremsstrahlung technique for measuring the end point of tritium β decay

B. Budick, Jiansheng Chen, and Hong Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2626 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Half-Life of Molecular Tritium and the Axial-Vector Interaction in Tritium β Decay

B. Budick, Jiansheng Chen, and Hong Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2630 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Measurements of deuteron threshold electrodisintegration: A probe of short-range meson exchange

K. S. Lee, W. Schmitt, H. Baghaei, D. Beck, P. E. Bosted, S. Churchwell, B. Frois, R. S. Hicks, A. Hotta, J. Martino, R. A. Miskimen, G. A. Peterson, S. Platchkov, M. Spengos, W. Turchinetz, K. Wang, C. F. Williamson, T. Yates, and J. D. Zumbro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2634 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Competition between planar and nonplanar structure in alkali hexamers: The example of ${Li}_{6}$

Ph. Dugourd, J. Blanc, V. Bonacic-Koutecky, M. Broyer, J. Chevaleyre, J. Koutecky, J. Pittner, J. P. Wolf, and L. Wöste

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2638 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Anisotropy of frictional forces in muscovite mica

Motohisa Hirano, Kazumasa Shinjo, Reizo Kaneko, and Yoshitada Murata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2642 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Fano interference in type-II semiconductor quantum-well structures

K. Maschke, P. Thomas, and E. O. Göbel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2646 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Particle transport by angular momentum on three-dimensional standing surface waves

Makoto Umeki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2650 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Plasma and Beam Physics

Factors controlling the x-ray pulse emission from an intense femtosecond laser-heated solid

H. M. Milchberg, I. Lyubomirsky, and C. G. Durfee, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2654 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Helium ash exhaust studies with core fueling by a helium beam: L-mode divertor discharges with neutral-beam heating in the JT-60 tokamak

H. Nakamura, T. Hirayama, Y. Koide, K. Tobita, K. Tani, T. Fukuda, H. Kubo, M. Kuriyama, Y. Kusama, A. Sakasai, T. Sugie, and H. Yoshida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2658 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Stabilization of tokamak Ohmic discharges at the density limit by means of the ergodic divertor

J. C. Vallet, L. Poutchy, M. S. Mohamed-Benkadda, D. Edery, E. Joffrin, P. Lecoustey, A. L. Pecquet, A. Samain, and M. Talvard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2662 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Flow-alignment and inertial effects in picosecond laser-induced reorientation phenomena of nematic liquid crystals

H. J. Eichler and R. Macdonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2666 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Asymptotic structure factor and power-law tails for phase ordering in systems with continuous symmetry

A. J. Bray and Sanjay Puri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2670 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Demixing phase transition in a mixture of hard-sphere dipoles and neutral hard spheres

X. S. Chen, M. Kasch, and F. Forstmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2674 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Neutron reflectivity of an oil-water interface

L. T. Lee, D. Langevin, and B. Farnoux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2678 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

H tunneling and trapping in Y by anelastic relaxation measurements

G. Cannelli, R. Cantelli, F. Cordero, F. Trequattrini, I. S. Anderson, and J. J. Rush

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2682 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Light-enhanced hydrogen motion in a-Si:H

P. V. Santos, N. M. Johnson, and R. A. Street

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2686 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Collective plasmon excitations in $C_{60}$ clusters

George F. Bertsch, Aurel Bulgac, David Tománek, and Yang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2690 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Optical conductivity of the stable icosahedral quasicrystal ${Al}_{63.5}$ ${Cu}_{24.5}$ ${Fe}_{12}$

C. C. Homes, T. Timusk, X. Wu, Z. Altounian, A. Sahnoune, and J. O. Ström-Olsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2694 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Compensating surface defects induced by Si doping of GaAs

M. D. Pashley and K. W. Haberern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2697 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Femtosecond cascade-excitation spectroscopy for nonradiative deexcitation and lattice relaxation of the self-trapped exciton in NaCl

T. Tokizaki, T. Makimura, H. Akiyama, A. Nakamura, K. Tanimura, and N. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2701 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Double dimensional crossovers of nonclassical conductivity

J. X. Huang, J. Lange, G. Nimtz, H. Spieker, and L. Mester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2705 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Terahertz radiation induced by subband-gap femtosecond optical excitation of GaAs

B. B. Hu, X.-C. Zhang, and D. H. Auston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2709 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Crossover in low-temperature collective spin-density-wave transport

G. Mihály, Yong Kim, and G. Grüner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2713 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Excitonic insulator phase in ${TmSe}_{0.45}$ ${Te}_{0.55}$

B. Bucher, P. Steiner, and P. Wachter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2717 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Dipole interactions with random anisotropy in a frozen ferrofluid

Weili Luo, Sidney R. Nagel, T. F. Rosenbaum, and R. E. Rosensweig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2721 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Interaction between moving flux lines and a two-dimensional electron gas

G. H. Kruithof, P. C. van Son, and T. M. Klapwijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2725 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Critical fluctuations in strongly type-II quasi-two-dimensional superconductors

Zlatko Tešanović and Lei Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2729 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Collective excitations and spectral function in the Fermi-liquid state of the t-J model

Ziqiang Wang, Yunkyu Bang, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2733 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Mechanism of the Lorentz-force-independent dissipation in ${Bi}_{2}$ ${Sr}_{2}$ ${CaCu}_{2}$ $O_{y}$

Yoichi Ando, Naofumi Motohira, Koichi Kitazawa, Jun-ichi Takeya, and Shirabe Akita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2737 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Dependence of the infrared properties of single-domain ${YBa}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{7 - y}$ on oxygen content

L. D. Rotter, Z. Schlesinger, R. T. Collins, F. Holtzberg, C. Field, U. W. Welp, G. W. Crabtree, J. Z. Liu, Y. Fang, K. G. Vandervoort, and S. Fleshler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2741 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Electronic structure of ideal metal/GaAs contacts’’

J. L. Freeouf, J. M. Woodall, and C. B. Duke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2745 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

van Schilfgaarde and Newman reply

Mark van Schilfgaarde and N. Newman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2746 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

ERRATA

Surface Diffusion and Fluctuations of Growing Interfaces

Leonardo Golubović and Robijn Bruinsma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2747 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991

Local Magnetic Fields in the Pinned Vortex State: Effect on the $μ^{+}$ -Spin-Rotation Line Shape

D. R. Harshman, A. T. Fiory, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 2748 (1991) - Published 4 November, 1991