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Physical Review Letters

Volume 70, Issue 25

21 June 1993

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

Rydberg atoms in curved space-time

Fabrizio Pinto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3839 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Elementary Particles and Fields

Fermion doubling and gauge invariance on random lattices

C. J. Griffin and T. D. Kieu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3844 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Chiral dynamics and fermion mass generation in three-dimensional gauge theory

M. C. Diamantini, P. Sodano, and G. W. Semenoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3848 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Spectral density of the QCD Dirac operator near zero virtuality

J. J. M. Verbaarschot and I. Zahed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3852 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Nuclear Physics

Coulomb sum and proton-proton correlations in few-body nuclei

R. Schiavilla, R. B. Wiringa, and J. Carlson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3856 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Lifetime measurements on long-lived levels of confined highly charged ions

Lisheng Yang and D. A. Church

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3860 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Effect of molecular orientation on indirect ionization by electron impact of ${CH}_{3}$ Cl in the ‖111〉 eigenstate

Toshio Kasai, Tadanori Matsunami, Tohoru Fukawa, Hiroshi Ohoyama, and Keiji Kuwata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3864 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Spatial structure of a squeezed vacuum

L. A. Lugiato and A. Gatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3868 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Plateau onset for correlation dimension: When does it occur?

Mingzhou Ding, Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, Tim Sauer, and J. A. Yorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3872 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Weak localization and integrability in ballistic cavities

Harold U. Baranger, Rodolfo A. Jalabert, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3876 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Localized hole solutions and spatiotemporal chaos in the 1D complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

Stefan Popp, Olaf Stiller, Igor Aranson, Andreas Weber, and Lorenz Kramer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3880 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Weak localization of acoustic waves in strongly scattering media

G. Bayer and T. Niederdränk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3884 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Rayleigh-Bénard convection near the gas-liquid critical point

Michel Assenheimer and Victor Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3888 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Dynamical patterns in Bénard-Marangoni convection in a square container

T. Ondarçuhu, G. B. Mindlin, H. L. Mancini, and C. Pérez García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3892 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Interaction of surface waves with vorticity in shallow water

Enrique Cerda and Fernando Lund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3896 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental breaking of an adiabatic invariant

J. Notte, J. Fajans, R. Chu, and J. S. Wurtele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3900 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Occurrence of two-dimensional smectic liquid crystal in n-propanol adsorbed on graphite

K. Morishige, N. Kawai, and M. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3904 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Jump to contact, neck formation, and surface melting in the scanning tunneling microscope

L. Kuipers and J. W. M. Frenken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3907 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Microscopic description of tunneling systems in a structural model glass

A. Heuer and R. J. Silbey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3911 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Evidence for unconventional electronic transport in quasicrystals

D. Mayou, C. Berger, F. Cyrot-Lackmann, T. Klein, and P. Lanco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3915 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Band-structure gap and electron transport in metallic quasicrystals and crystals

F. S. Pierce, S. J. Poon, and B. D. Biggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3919 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Self-organized criticality of the fracture processes associated with hydrogen precipitation in niobium by acoustic emission

G. Cannelli, R. Cantelli, and F. Cordero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3923 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

New high-pressure transformation in α-quartz

Kathleen J. Kingma, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao, and David R. Veblen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3927 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Shock temperatures and melting of iron at Earth core conditions

C. S. Yoo, N. C. Holmes, M. Ross, D. J. Webb, and C. Pike

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3931 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Energy localization in nonlinear lattices

Thierry Dauxois and Michel Peyrard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3935 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Persistence of screening and self-criticality in the scale invariant dynamics of diffusion limited aggregation

R. Cafiero, L. Pietronero, and A. Vespignani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3939 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Inversion of growth speed anisotropy in two dimensions

Thomas Michely, Michael Hohage, Michael Bott, and George Comsa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3943 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Ab initio molecular dynamics with variable cell shape: Application to ${MgSiO}_{3}$

Renata M. Wentzcovitch, José Luís Martins, and G. D. Price

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3947 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Exciton transport in ${Cu}_{2}$ O: Evidence for excitonic superfluidity?

E. Fortin, S. Fafard, and André Mysyrowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3951 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

First-principles evaluation of dynamical response and plasmon dispersion in metals

Andrew A. Quong and Adolfo G. Eguiluz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3955 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Local bonding trends in transition metal cohesion

G. S. Painter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3959 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

What is so strange about hydrogen interactions in germanium?

S. K. Estreicher and Dj. M. Maric

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3963 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Singular low energy properties of an impurity model with finite range interactions

T. Giamarchi, C. M. Varma, A. E. Ruckenstein, and P. Nozières

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3967 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Role of nonlocal exchange correlation in activated adsorption

B. Hammer, K. W. Jacobsen, and J. K. Nørskov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3971 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Magnetoresistance in 2D electrons on liquid helium: Many-electron versus single-electron kinetics

M. I. Dykman, M. J. Lea, P. Fozooni, and J. Frost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3975 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Antibonding state on the Ge(111):As surface: Spectroscopy and dynamics

R. Haight and D. R. Peale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3979 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Observation of collective excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect

A. Pinczuk, B. S. Dennis, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3983 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Coherence peak and superconducting energy gap in ${Rb}_{3}$ $C_{60}$ observed by muon spin relaxation

R. F. Kiefl, W. A. MacFarlane, K. H. Chow, S. Dunsiger, T. L. Duty, T. M. S. Johnston, J. W. Schneider, J. Sonier, L. Brard, R. M. Strongin, J. E. Fischer, and A. B. Smith, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3987 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Indirect Coulomb effect: A new coupling mechanism between vortex pancakes in neighboring superconducting layers

Ji-Min Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3991 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Systematic deviation from T-linear behavior in the in-plane resistivity of ${YBa}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{7 - y}$ : Evidence for dominant spin scattering

T. Ito, K. Takenaka, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3995 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Precision measurements of the temperature dependence of λ in ${YBa}_{2}$ ${Cu}_{3}$ $O_{6.95}$ : Strong evidence for nodes in the gap function

W. N. Hardy, D. A. Bonn, D. C. Morgan, Ruixing Liang, and Kuan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3999 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Unbound spinons in the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic chain ${KCuF}_{3}$

D. A. Tennant, T. G. Perring, R. A. Cowley, and S. E. Nagler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4003 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Renormalized perturbation expansions and Fermi liquid theory

A. C. Hewson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4007 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Solvable spin glass of quantum rotors

J. Ye, S. Sachdev, and N. Read

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4011 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Glassy dynamics of ${Rb}_{0.40}$ ( ${ND}_{4}$ $)_{0.60}$ $D_{2}$ ${PO}_{4}$

Z. Kutnjak, C. Filipič, A. Levstik, and R. Pirc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4015 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Formation of electronic localized states in solids bombarded by low energy particles

Z. Šroubek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4019 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Phase separation model with conserved order parameter on the Bethe lattice

Satya N. Majumdar and Clément Sire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4022 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

COMMENTS

Ionization of Rydberg atoms by short electromagnetic pulses

C. O. Reinhold, M. Melles, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4026 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Comment on ‘‘Medium-range ordering in glasses: Comparison of Raman and diffraction measurements’’

L. Börjesson, A. K. Hassan, J. Swensson, and L. M. Torell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4027 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993

Sokolov et al. reply

A. P. Sokolov, A. Kisliuk, M. Soltwisch, and D. Quitmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 4028 (1993) - Published 21 June, 1993