Physical Review Letters – 6 July 1987
Volume 59, Issue 1

MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS
LETTERS
COMMENTS
ERRATA

MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS

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Modification of Table of Contents

pp. 1 [View Page Images or PDF (27 kB)]

LETTERS

General Physics

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Novel decomposition of the multichannel scattering matrix at resonances

Bela Gazdy and Joel M. Bowman

pp. 3-5 [View Page Images or PDF (369 kB)]

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Modulation-induced negative differential resistance in bistable systems

R. C. M. Dow, C. J. Lambert, R. Mannella, and P. V. E. McClintock

pp. 6-9 [View Page Images or PDF (506 kB)]

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Resolution of Loschmidt’s paradox: The origin of irreversible behavior in reversible atomistic dynamics

Brad Lee Holian, William G. Hoover, and Harald A. Posch

pp. 10-13 [View Page Images or PDF (680 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Chiral-symmetry-breaking phase transition in lattice gauge-Higgs theories with fermions

I-Hsiu Lee and Robert E. Shrock

pp. 14-17 [View Page Images or PDF (546 kB)]

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Measurement of the lifetime of K_S⁰ mesons in the momentum range 100 to 350 GeV/c

N. Grossman, K. Heller, C. James, M. Shupe, K. Thorne, P. Border, M. J. Longo, A. Beretvas, A. Caracappa, T. Devlin, H. T. Diehl, U. Joshi, K. Krueger, P. C. Petersen, S. Teige, and and G. B. Thomson

pp. 18-21 [View Page Images or PDF (486 kB)]

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Evidence for charmed baryons in B-meson decay

M. S. Alam et al.

pp. 22-25 [View Page Images or PDF (654 kB)]

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New high-precision comparison of electron and positron g factors

Robert S. Van Dyck, Jr., Paul B. Schwinberg, and Hans G. Dehmelt

pp. 26-29 [View Page Images or PDF (605 kB)]

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Role of the ω meson in topological chiral solitons

R. M. Quick and H. G. Miller

pp. 30-32 [View Page Images or PDF (415 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Observation of a bound T_z=-3 nucleus: ²²Si

M. G. Saint-Laurent, J. P. Dufour, R. Anne, D. Bazin, V. Borrel, H. Delagrange, C. Détraz, D. Guillemaud-Mueller, F. Hubert, J. C. Jacmart, A. C. Mueller, F. Pougheon, M. S. Pravikoff, and E. Roeckl

pp. 33-35 [View Page Images or PDF (440 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Saddle-point electrons in ionizing ion-atom collisions

R. E. Olson, T. J. Gay, H. G. Berry, E. B. Hale, and V. D. Irby

pp. 36-39 [View Page Images or PDF (580 kB)]

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Observation of continuous-wave self-oscillation due to pressure-induced two-wave mixing in sodium

D. Grandclément, G. Grynberg, and M. Pinard

pp. 40-43 [View Page Images or PDF (536 kB)]

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Parametric oscillation in sodium vapor

D. Grandclément, G. Grynberg, and M. Pinard

pp. 44-47 [View Page Images or PDF (534 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of a high-density ion mode in tokamak microturbulence

D. L. Brower, W. A. Peebles, S. K. Kim, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., W. M. Tang, and P. E. Phillips

pp. 48-51 [View Page Images or PDF (693 kB)]

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Not-so-resonant, resonant absorption

F. Brunel

pp. 52-55 [View Page Images or PDF (508 kB)]

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Dynamics of high-Z plasmas produced by a short-wavelength laser

P. D. Goldstone, S. R. Goldman, W. C. Mead, J. A. Cobble, G. Stradling, R. H. Day, A. Hauer, M. C. Richardson, R. S. Marjoribanks, P. A. Jaanimagi, R. L. Keck, F. J. Marshall, W. Seka, O. Barnouin, B. Yaakobi, and S. A. Letzring

pp. 56-59 [View Page Images or PDF (692 kB)]

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Nonlinear absorption of intense microwave pulses

W. M. Nevins, T. D. Rognlien, and B. I. Cohen

pp. 60-63 [View Page Images or PDF (619 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Phases of helium adsorbed on graphite: A Feynman path-integral Monte Carlo study

Farid F. Abraham and Jeremy Q. Broughton

pp. 64-67 [View Page Images or PDF (674 kB)]

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Theoretical nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of quasicrystalline ordering in cholesteric blue phase III

R. M. Hornreich and S. Shtrikman

pp. 68-70 [View Page Images or PDF (416 kB)]

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Beyond steady-state lamellar eutectic growth

Alain Karma

pp. 71-74 [View Page Images or PDF (664 kB)]

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Chemically bonded diamondlike carbon films from ion-beam deposition

Srinandan Kasi, Heon Kang, and J. Wayne Rabalais

pp. 75-78 [View Page Images or PDF (629 kB)]

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Incommensurate to high-order commensurate phase transition of Kr on Pt(111)

Klaus Kern, Peter Zeppenfeld, Rudolf David, and George Comsa

pp. 79-82 [View Page Images or PDF (573 kB)]

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Is blue phase II fcc?

P. H. Keyes

pp. 83-85 [View Page Images or PDF (420 kB)]

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Scaling properties for the unscreened surfaces of fractal patterns

M. Matsushita, Y. Hayakawa, S. Sato, and K. Honda

pp. 86-89 [View Page Images or PDF (544 kB)]

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Interrelations between planes affecting adsorption kinetics on polycrystalline surfaces: Oxygen adsorption on copper

M. H. Mintz, U. Atzmony, and N. Shamir

pp. 90-93 [View Page Images or PDF (500 kB)]

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Magnetostatic modes in highly polarized solid helium-three

D. D. Osheroff and M. C. Cross

pp. 94-97 [View Page Images or PDF (566 kB)]

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Molecular-dynamics simulation of wetting and drying at solid-fluid interfaces

J. H. Sikkenk, J. O. Indekeu, J. M. J. van Leeuwen, and E. O. Vossnack

pp. 98-101 [View Page Images or PDF (538 kB)]

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Low-energy modes in quasicrystalline and glassy Pd_58.8Si_20.6U_20.6: A comparative study by neutron inelastic scattering

J.-B. Suck, H. Bretscher, H. Rudin, P. Grütter, and H.-J. Güntherodt

pp. 102-105 [View Page Images or PDF (559 kB)]

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Observation of spin diffusion in zero-field magnetic resonance

D. Suter, T. P. Jarvie, B. Sun, and A. Pines

pp. 106-108 [View Page Images or PDF (393 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Observation of single-electron charging effects in small tunnel junctions

T. A. Fulton and G. J. Dolan

pp. 109-112 [View Page Images or PDF (682 kB)]

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Electronic fluctuation and cohesion in metals

A. C. Maggs and N. W. Ashcroft

pp. 113-116 [View Page Images or PDF (589 kB)]

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Vortex signatures in dynamic structure factors for two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnets

F. G. Mertens, A. R. Bishop, G. M. Wysin, and C. Kawabata

pp. 117-120 [View Page Images or PDF (530 kB)]

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Ground-state properties of correlated fermions: Exact analytic results for the Gutzwiller wave function

Walter Metzner and Dieter Vollhardt

pp. 121-124 [View Page Images or PDF (542 kB)]

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Resonant tunneling through amorphous silicon–silicon nitride double-barrier structures

Seiichi Miyazaki, Yohji Ihara, and Masataka Hirose

pp. 125-127 [View Page Images or PDF (379 kB)]

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Evidence for a phase transition in the spin glass Eu_0.4Sr_0.6S from dynamic susceptibility measurements

Carley C. Paulsen, Samuel J. Williamson, and Hans Maletta

pp. 128-131 [View Page Images or PDF (577 kB)]

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Interfacial anisotropy in magnetic superlattices

Michael J. Pechan and Ivan K. Schuller

pp. 132-135 [View Page Images or PDF (603 kB)]

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Ion-molecule surface reactions induced by slow (5–20 eV) electrons

L. Sanche and L. Parenteau

pp. 136-139 [View Page Images or PDF (525 kB)]

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Are antiferromagnetic spin chains representations of the higher Wess-Zumino-Witten models?

Timothy Ziman and H. J. Schulz

pp. 140-143 [View Page Images or PDF (625 kB)]

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Role of d orbitals in valence-band offsets of common-anion semiconductors

Su-Huai Wei and Alex Zunger

pp. 144-147 [View Page Images or PDF (680 kB)]

Geophysics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics

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Monte Carlo modeling of ionospheric oxygen acceleration by cyclotron resonance with broad-band electromagnetic turbulence

John M. Retterer, Tom Chang, G. B. Crew, J. R. Jasperse, and J. D. Winningham

pp. 148-151 [View Page Images or PDF (753 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Supersymmetric treatment of random disorder in the continuum model of polyacetylene’’

K. Ziegler

pp. 152 [View Page Images or PDF (92 kB)]

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Xu and Trullinger reply

Bing-Chang Xu and S. E. Trullinger

pp. 153 [View Page Images or PDF (116 kB)]

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Wall-induced order of a liquid crystal

M. M. Telo da Gama

pp. 154 [View Page Images or PDF (148 kB)]