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Physical Review Letters

Volume 77, Issue 20

11 November 1996

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LETTERS

General Physics

Asymptotic Conservation Laws in Classical Field Theory

Ian M. Anderson and Charles G. Torre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4109 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Multiple-Scale Analysis of the Quantum Anharmonic Oscillator

Carl M. Bender and Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4114 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Ground State Wave Function of a Schrödinger-Like Equation in a Time Periodic Potential

Stefano Galluccio and Yi-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4118 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Quantum Proximity Resonances

E. J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4122 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Global Minimum Principle for Schrödinger Equation Inverse Scattering

James H. Rose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4126 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Traversable Wormholes in Geometries of Charged Shells

F. Schein and P. C. Aichelburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4130 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Gravitational Waves and Pulsating Stars: What Can We Learn from Future Observations?

Nils Andersson and Kostas D. Kokkotas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4134 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

A Causal Source Which Mimics Inflation

Neil Turok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4138 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Elementary Particles and Fields

Signals for Double Parton Scattering at the Fermilab Tevatron

Manuel Drees and Tao Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4142 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Analysis of the $Z^{0}$ Resonant Amplitude in General $R_{ξ}$ Gauges

Massimo Passera and Alberto Sirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4146 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Two-Electron Dissociative Ionization of $H_{2}$ and $D_{2}$ in Infrared Laser Fields

P. Dietrich, M. Yu. Ivanov, F. A. Ilkov, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4150 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Calculated Electron Dynamics in a Strong Electric Field

F. Robicheaux and J. Shaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4154 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Parametric Variation of Chaotic Eigenstates and Phase Space Localization

Steven Tomsovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4158 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Synchronization of Spatiotemporal Chaos and Its Application to Multichannel Spread-Spectrum Communication

J. H. Xiao, G. Hu, and Zhilin Qu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4162 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Spontaneous Wave Pattern Formation in Vibrated Granular Materials

Keiko M. Aoki and Tetsuo Akiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4166 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Hydrodynamic Irreversibility in Creeping Flow

E. G. Flekkøy, T. Rage, U. Oxaal, and J. Feder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4170 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Mixing and Thermal Equilibrium in the Dynamical Relaxation of a Vortex Ring

Peilong Chen and M. C. Cross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4174 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Streamer Propagation as a Pattern Formation Problem: Planar Fronts

Ute Ebert, Wim van Saarloos, and Christiane Caroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4178 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Plasma and Beam Physics

X-Ray Based Subpicosecond Electron Bunch Characterization Using 90° Thomson Scattering

W. P. Leemans, R. W. Schoenlein, P. Volfbeyn, A. H. Chin, T. E. Glover, P. Balling, M. Zolotorev, K. J. Kim, S. Chattopadhyay, and C. V. Shank

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4182 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Guiding of High Intensity Laser Pulses in Straight and Curved Plasma Channel Experiments

Y. Ehrlich, C. Cohen, A. Zigler, J. Krall, P. Sprangle, and E. Esarey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4186 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Improved Particle Confinement Mode in the H-1 Heliac Plasma

M. G. Shats, D. L. Rudakov, B. D. Blackwell, G. G. Borg, R. L. Dewar, S. M. Hamberger, J. Howard, and L. E. Sharp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4190 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Localization in Two Dimensions, Gaussian Field Theories, and Multifractality

Claudio de C. Chamon, Christopher Mudry, and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4194 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Metastability and Crystallization in Hard-Sphere Systems

M. D. Rintoul and S. Torquato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4198 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Width of the Darwin Table for Forbidden Reflections

V. K. Ignatovich, D. Protopopescu, and Masahiko Utsuro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4202 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Epitaxial Growth of Si $O_{2}$ Produced in Silicon by Oxygen Ion Implantation

V. V. Afanas'ev, A. Stesmans, and M. E. Twigg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4206 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Medium-Range Order in Permanently Densified ${SiO}_{2}$ and ${GeO}_{2}$ Glass

S. Sugai and A. Onodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4210 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Identification of Grown-In Efficient Nonradiative Recombination Centers in Molecular Beam Epitaxial Silicon

W. M. Chen, I. A. Buyanova, W.-X. Ni, G. V. Hansson, and B. Monemar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4214 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Nematic-Smectic Transition of Semiflexible Chains

Alexei V. Tkachenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4218 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Spatially Extended Avalanches in a Hysteretic Capillary Condensation System: Superfluid $^{4} He$ in Nuclepore

M. P. Lilly, A. H. Wootters, and R. B. Hallock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4222 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Imaging the Dimers in $Si (111) - (7 \times 7)$

E. Bengu, R. Plass, L. D. Marks, T. Ichihashi, P. M. Ajayan, and S. Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4226 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Dynamics of the C-O Stretch Overtone Vibration of CO/Ru(001)

P. Jakob

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4229 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Interacting Arrays of Lines and Steps in Random Media

Jan Kierfeld and Terence Hwa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4233 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Novel Analytic Calculation of Electron Gas Properties

A. Kallio and J. Piilo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4237 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Coherence and Localization in 2D Luttinger Liquids

P. W. Anderson, T. V. Ramakrishnan, Steve Strong, and David G. Clarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4241 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Acoustic Edge Modes of the Degenerate Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Studied by Time-Resolved Magnetotransport Measurements

G. Ernst, R. J. Haug, J. Kuhl, K. von Klitzing, and K. Eberl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4245 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Nonlocal Photorefractive Screening from Hot Electron Velocity Saturation in Semiconductors

R. M. Brubaker, Q. N. Wang, D. D. Nolte, and M. R. Melloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4249 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Transport Properties of a YB $a_{2}$ C $u_{4}$ $O_{8}$ Crystal under High Pressure

J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, B. Dabrowski, and K. Rogacki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4253 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

One-Dimensional Localization of Quantum Vortices in Disordered Josephson Junction Arrays

Alexander van Oudenaarden, S. J. K. Várdy, and J. E. Mooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4257 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Magnetic Hyperfine Fields at Se Adatoms on Ni Surfaces

H. Granzer, H. H. Bertschat, H. Haas, W.-D. Zeitz, J. Lohmüller, and G. Schatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4261 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Electron Capture Processes on Oxidized Surfaces: $H^{-}$ Formation on Mg/ $O_{2}$ and Al/ $O_{2}$

M. Maazouz, L. Guillemot, S. Lacombe, and V. A. Esaulov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4265 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Low-Energy Electronic Structure of the Kondo Insulator ${YbB}_{12}$

T. Susaki, A. Sekiyama, K. Kobayashi, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, M. Tsunekawa, T. Muro, T. Matsushita, S. Suga, H. Ishii, T. Hanyu, A. Kimura, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, T. Miyahara, F. Iga, M. Kasaya, and H. Harima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4269 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

COMMENTS

Comment on “Simplest Possible Self-Organized Critical System”

Ralf Bundschuh and Michael Lässig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4273 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Flyvbjerg Replies:

Henrik Flyvbjerg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4274 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Collapse of Randomly Linked Polymers

Yacov Kantor and Mehran Kardar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4275 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Comment on “Internal Constraints Induce Localization in an Isolated Polymer Molecule”

Michael P. Solf and Thomas A. Vilgis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4276 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Bryngelson and Thirumalai Reply:

J. D. Bryngelson and D. Thirumalai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4277 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

ERRATA

Trapped-Ion Technique for Measuring the Nuclear Charge Radii of Highly Charged Radioactive Isotopes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1031 (1996)]

S. R. Elliott, P. Beiersdorfer, and M. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4278 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Fast and Slow Electrons in Liquid Neon

V. Storchak, J. H. Brewer, and G. D. Morris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4279 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Fingerlike Aggregates in Thin-Layer Electrodeposition

M. -Q. Lòpez-Salvans, P. P. Trigueros, S. Vallmitjana, J. Claret, and F. Sagués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4279 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Far-Infrared Radiation Generated by Current Carrying Nanowires

V. L. Gurevich, V. B. Pevzner, and G. Iafrate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4280 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996

Observation of Energy Gain at the BNL Inverse Free-Electron-Laser Accelerator

A. van Steenbergen, J. Gallardo, J. Sandweiss, and J. -M. Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4280 (1996) - Published 11 November, 1996