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Physical Review Letters

Volume 69, Issue 12

21 September 1992

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LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Kinks and topology change

G. W. Gibbons and S. W. Hawking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1719 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Test of g universality with a Galileo type experiment

S. Carusotto, V. Cavasinni, A. Mordacci, F. Perrone, E. Polacco, E. Iacopini, and G. Stefanini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1722 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Elementary Particles and Fields

Limit on the d¯/u¯ asymmetry of the nucleon sea from Drell-Yan production

P. L. McGaughey, J. M. Moss, D. M. Alde, H. W. Baer, T. A. Carey, G. T. Garvey, A. Klein, C. Lee, M. J. Leitch, J. W. Lillberg, C. S. Mishra, J. C. Peng, C. N. Brown, W. E. Cooper, Y. B. Hsiung, M. R. Adams, R. Guo, D. M. Kaplan, R. L. McCarthy, G. Danner, M. J. Wang, M. L. Barlett, and G. W. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1726 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Search for low-mass states in elastic $e^{+}$ $e^{-}$ scattering

X. Y. Wu, P. Asoka-Kumar, J. S. Greenberg, S. D. Henderson, H. Huomo, K. G. Lynn, M. S. Lubell, R. Mayer, J. McDonough, B. F. Phlips, and A. Vehanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1729 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Search in s channel for production of 1–2 MeV/ $c^{2}$ long-lived $e^{+}$ $e^{-}$ resonances

S. D. Henderson, P. Asoka-Kumar, J. S. Greenberg, K. G. Lynn, S. McCorkle, J. McDonough, B. F. Phlips, and M. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1733 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Nuclear Physics

First lifetime measurement of dipole collective bands in neutron-deficient lead nuclei

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1737 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Laser cooling below a photon recoil with three-level atoms

Mark Kasevich and Steven Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1741 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Alignment spectra of two-photon, magnesium-rare-gas-atom fractional collisions

D. A. Olsgaard, M. D. Havey, A. Sieradzan, and R. A. Lasell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1745 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Autoresonant three-wave interactions

L. Friedland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1749 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Measurement of spin motions in a storage ring outside the stable polarization direction

N. Akchurin, L. Badano, A. Bravar, M. Conte, J. Hall, H. Kreiser, J. McPherson, F. Olchowski, Y. Onel, A. Penzo, A. Pisent, M. Pusterla, T. Rinckel, and R. Rossmanith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1753 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Quantum noise-correlated operation of electrically coupled semiconductor light emitters

P. J. Edwards and G. H. Pollard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1757 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Plasma and Beam Physics

First observation of Smith-Purcell radiation from relativistic electrons

G. Doucas, J. H. Mulvey, M. Omori, J. Walsh, and M. F. Kimmitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1761 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Damping of ion-acoustic waves in the presence of electron-ion collisions

E. M. Epperlein, R. W. Short, and A. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1765 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Charge-density-wave formation in ${Ta}_{2}$ ${NiSe}_{7}$ studied by scanning tunneling microscopy

Zhenxi Dai, C. G. Slough, W. W. McNairy, and R. V. Coleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1769 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Kinetic roughening in surfaces of crystals growing on disordered substrates

Yan-Chr Tsai and Yonathan Shapir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1773 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Friction and wear of Langmuir-Blodgett films observed by friction force microscopy

E. Meyer, R. Overney, D. Brodbeck, L. Howald, R. Lüthi, J. Frommer, and H.-J. Güntherodt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1777 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Nucleated wetting layers

Bruce M. Law

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1781 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Cooling of coupled solids by helium films

A. F. G. Wyatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1785 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Equilibrium properties of a diblock copolymer lamellar phase confined between flat plates

Matthew S. Turner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1788 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Bandlike character of 4f electrons in ${CeRh}_{3}$

E. Weschke, C. Laubschat, R. Ecker, A. Höhr, M. Domke, G. Kaindl, L. Severin, and B. Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1792 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Evolution of the spectral function in Mott-Hubbard systems with $d^{1}$ configuration

A. Fujimori, I. Hase, H. Namatame, Y. Fujishima, Y. Tokura, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, K. Takegahara, and F. M. F. de Groot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1796 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Low-temperature transport properties of ${Cd}_{0.91}$ ${Mn}_{0.09}$ Te:In and evidence for a magnetic hard gap in the density of states

I. Terry, T. Penney, S. von Molnár, and P. Becla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1800 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Low-Temperature Transport in the Hopping Regime: Evidence for Correlations Due to Exchange

Peihua Dai, Youzhu Zhang, and M. P. Sarachik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1804 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Effects of nonlinearity on Anderson localization

M. J. McKenna, R. L. Stanley, and J. D. Maynard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1807 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Neutral superfluid modes and ‘‘magnetic’’ monopoles in multilayered quantum Hall systems

Xiao-Gang Wen and A. Zee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1811 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Dynamics of sine-Gordon solitons in the annular Josephson junction

A. V. Ustinov, T. Doderer, R. P. Huebener, N. F. Pedersen, B. Mayer, and V. A. Oboznov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1815 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Voltage-current characteristics of the two-dimensional gauge glass model

Ying-Hong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1819 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Spectroscopy of neutral silicon clusters ${Si}_{18}$ – ${Si}_{41}$ : Spectra are remarkably size independent

K.-D. Rinnen and M. L. Mandich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1823 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Can a polymer brush trap a wetting layer?

A. Johner and C. M. Marques

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1827 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Classical and quantum superdiffusion in a time-dependent random potential’’

Marshall N. Rosenbluth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1831 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

ERRATA

Giant Shapiro Steps with Screening Currents

D. Domínguez and Jorge V. José

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1832 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992

Analytical Derivation of the Scaling Law for the Inverse Participation Ratio in Quasi-One-Dimensional Disordered Systems

Yan V. Fyodorov and Alexander D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1832 (1992) - Published 21 September, 1992