• LETTERS
  • General Physics
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
  • Plasma and Beam Physics
  • Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.
  • Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Physics
• COMMENTS
• ERRATA

LETTERS

General Physics

•	Fractional statistics on a torus Torbjörn Einarsson pp. 1995-1998 [View Page Images , PDF (611 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

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Thermal and angular momentum effects in the giant-dipole-resonance decay of hot rare-earth nuclei H. P. Morsch, W. Spang, J. R. Beene, F. E. Bertrand, R. L. Auble, J. L. Charvet, M. L. Halbert, D. C. Hensley, I. Y. Lee, R. L. Varner, D. G. Sarantites, and D. W. Stracener pp. 1999-2002 [View Page Images , PDF (623 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Tunneling ionization of atomic hydrogen by an intense low-frequency field Martin Dörr, R. M. Potvliege, and Robin Shakeshaft pp. 2003-2006 [View Page Images , PDF (686 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of the collapse and revival of a Rydberg electronic wave packet John A. Yeazell, Mark Mallalieu, and C. R. Stroud pp. 2007-2010 [View Page Images , PDF (740 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Nonlinear theory of intense laser-plasma interactions P. Sprangle, E. Esarey, and A. Ting pp. 2011-2014 [View Page Images , PDF (707 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuations and transport due to ion-temperature-gradient–driven instabilities R. D. Sydora, T. S. Hahm, W. W. Lee, and J. M. Dawson pp. 2015-2018 [View Page Images , PDF (590 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

•	Long-wavelength excitations and structure factor of liquid 4He at T>0 Jürgen Bosse pp. 2019-2021 [View Page Images , PDF (418 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-avoiding crumpled manifolds: Perturbative analysis and renormalizability Bertrand Duplantier, Terence Hwa, and Mehran Kardar pp. 2022-2025 [View Page Images , PDF (605 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental evidence of dynamic scaling in colloidal aggregation Michael L. Broide and Richard J. Cohen pp. 2026-2029 [View Page Images , PDF (588 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffraction broadening and suppression of the inelastic channel in resonant neutron scattering J. B. Hastings, D. P. Siddons, and M. Lehmann pp. 2030-2033 [View Page Images , PDF (750 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Matching rules and growth rules for pentagonal quasicrystal tilings Kevin Ingersent and Paul J. Steinhardt pp. 2034-2037 [View Page Images , PDF (731 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface-stress-induced order in SiGe alloy films F. K. LeGoues, V. P. Kesan, S. S. Iyer, J. Tersoff, and R. Tromp pp. 2038-2041 [View Page Images , PDF (592 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New insight into silicide formation: The creation of silicon self-interstitials Maria Ronay and R. G. Schad pp. 2042-2045 [View Page Images , PDF (579 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

•	Biexcitonic autoionization in naphthalene trimer clusters John Wessel pp. 2046-2049 [View Page Images , PDF (675 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-dimensional hopping diffusion in a coherent phonon field Dror Lubin and Isaac Goldhirsch pp. 2050-2053 [View Page Images , PDF (552 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific-heat study of the anomalous quantum limit of (TMTSF)2ClO4 N. A. Fortune, J. S. Brooks, M. J. Graf, G. Montambaux, L. Y. Chiang, Jos A. Perenboom, and D. Althof pp. 2054-2057 [View Page Images , PDF (700 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of universal thermopower fluctuations B. L. Gallagher, T. Galloway, P. Beton, J. P. Oxley, S. P. Beaumont, S. Thoms, and C. D. Wilkinson pp. 2058-2061 [View Page Images , PDF (571 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New resistivity for high-mobility quantum Hall conductors P. L. McEuen, A. Szafer, C. A. Richter, B. W. Alphenaar, J. K. Jain, A. D. Stone, R. G. Wheeler, and R. N. Sacks pp. 2062-2065 [View Page Images , PDF (667 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Haldane gap in three dimensions: A rigorous example Hal Tasaki pp. 2066-2069 [View Page Images , PDF (719 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strong frustration and dilution-enhanced order in a quasi-2D spin glass A. P. Ramirez, G. P. Espinosa, and A. S. Cooper pp. 2070-2073 [View Page Images , PDF (719 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization of mesoscopic copper rings: Evidence for persistent currents L. P. Lévy, G. Dolan, J. Dunsmuir, and H. Bouchiat pp. 2074-2077 [View Page Images , PDF (689 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Peierls instability and chiral-symmetry breaking in solids with ‘‘relativistic’’ fermions A. V. Balatsky pp. 2078-2081 [View Page Images , PDF (626 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Search for anomalous internal magnetic fields in high-Tc superconductors as evidence for broken time-reversal symmetry R. F. Kiefl, J. H. Brewer, I. Affleck, J. F. Carolan, P. Dosanjh, W. N. Hardy, T. Hsu, R. Kadono, J. R. Kempton, S. R. Kreitzman, Q. Li, A. H. O’Reilly, T. M. Riseman, P. Schleger, P. C. Stamp, H. Zhou, L. P. Le, G. M. Luke, B. Sternlieb, Y. J. Uemura, H. R. Hart, and K. W. Lay pp. 2082-2085 [View Page Images , PDF (670 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

•	Molecular vibrational energy relaxation at a metal surface: Methyl thiolate on Ag(111) A. L. Harris, L. Rothberg, L. H. Dubois, N. J. Levinos, and L. Dhar pp. 2086-2089 [View Page Images , PDF (654 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ultrafast infrared response of adsorbates on metal surfaces: Vibrational lifetime of CO/Pt(111) J. D. Beckerle, M. P. Casassa, R. R. Cavanagh, E. J. Heilweil, and J. C. Stephenson pp. 2090-2093 [View Page Images , PDF (721 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entropy-driven tension and bending elasticity in condensed-fluid membranes E. Evans and W. Rawicz pp. 2094-2097 [View Page Images , PDF (970 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Single-ion cyclotron resonance measurement of M(CO+)/M(N2+)’’ G. Gabrielse pp. 2098 [View Page Images , PDF (213 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cornell et al. reply Eric A. Cornell, Robert M. Weisskoff, Kevin R. Boyce, Robert W. Flanagan, Gregory P. Lafyatis, and David E. Pritchard pp. 2099 [View Page Images , PDF (192 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on ‘‘Universal thermal stabilization of the magnetization in ultrathin ferromagnetic films’’ U. Gradmann, G. Liu, J. Korecki, K. Krop, and M. Przybylski pp. 2100 [View Page Images , PDF (168 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mauri et al. reply D. Mauri, D. Scholl, H. C. Siegmann, and E. Kay pp. 2101 [View Page Images , PDF (114 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on ‘‘Clean boundary between anisotropic superconductors as a weak link’’ A. F. Volkov pp. 2102 [View Page Images , PDF (135 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kogan replies V. G. Kogan pp. 2103 [View Page Images , PDF (32 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on ‘‘Multicomponent order parameter for surface melting’’ H. Löwen pp. 2104 [View Page Images , PDF (136 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lipowsky et al. reply Reinhard Lipowsky, U. Breuer, K. C. Prince, and H. P. Bonzel pp. 2105 [View Page Images , PDF (184 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Polarization effects in the ionization cross section for collisions of Ne**{(2p)5(3p);J=3} with Ar: A sensitive probe for ‘‘locking’’ phenomena [Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2369 (1989)] J. P. Driessen, F. J. van de Weijer, M. J. Zonneveld, L. M. Somers, M. F. Janssens, H. C. Beijerinck, and B. J. Verhaar pp. 2106 [View Page Images or PDF (94 kB) ]