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Physical Review Letters

Volume 53, Issue 14

1 October 1984

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LETTERS

General Physics

Continuous-Time Random Walks on Fractals

A. Blumen, J. Klafter, B. S. White, and G. Zumofen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1301 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Quantal Ising Liquid

Richard M. Stratt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1305 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Elementary Particles and Fields

Upper Limit on Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decays of the $b$ Quark

P. Avery et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1309 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Mass and Lifetime Limits on Supersymmetric Particles from a Proton Beam-Dump Experiment

R. C. Ball, C. T. Coffin, H. R. Gustafson, I. D. Leedom, L. W. Jones, M. J. Longo, T. J. Roberts, B. P. Roe, E. Wang, C. Castoldi, G. Conforto, M. B. Crisler, J. S. Hoftun, T. Y. Ling, T. A. Romanowski, J. T. Volk, S. Childress, M. E. Duffy, G. K. Fanourakis, R. J. Loveless, D. D. Reeder, D. L. Schumann, and E. S. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1314 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Calculation of Weak Transitions in Lattice QCD

Richard C. Brower, Guillermo Maturana, M. Belén Gavela, and Rajan Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1318 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Nuclei

Anomalon Production by Impulsive Excitation in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

B. F. Bayman, P. J. Ellis, S. Fricke, and Y. C. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1322 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Tensor-Polarized-Deuteron Capture on Deuterium and the $D$ State of ${}^{4}{He}$

H. R. Weller, P. Colby, N. R. Roberson, and D. R. Tilley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1325 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Atoms and Molecules

Nuclear Reaction Times in the Deep-Inelastic U + U Collision Deduced from $K$ -Shell Ionization Probabilities

Ch. Stoller, M. Nessi, E. Morenzoni, W. Wölfli, W. E. Meyerhof, J. D. Molitoris, E. Grosse, and Ch. Michel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1329 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Laser Polarization Transients to Study Nonclassical Features of Magnetic Quantum-State Scattering in ${}^{174}{Yb}$

A. P. Ghosh, C. D. Nabors, M. A. Attili, J. E. Thomas, and M. S. Feld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1333 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Pressure Narrowing of ac Stark-Broadened Multiphoton Spectra

Leping Li, Richard N. Porter, and Philip M. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1336 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Classical Phenomenology and Applications

Frustrated Instabilities in Nonlinear Optical Resonators

K. Ikeda and M. Mizuno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1340 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Fluids, Plasmas, and Electric Discharges

Measurement of Growth Rates, Saturation, and Decay of Two-Plasmon Decay Waves in a C $O_{2}$ -Laser-Irradiated Plasma

J. Meyer and H. Houtman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1344 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Exact Vortex Solutions of Two-Dimensional Guiding-Center Plasmas

A. C. Ting, H. H. Chen, and Y. C. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1348 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Observation of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Ablatively Accelerated Foils

J. Grun, M. H. Emery, S. Kacenjar, C. B. Opal, E. A. McLean, S. P. Obenschain, B. H. Ripin, and A. Schmitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1352 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Random Walk on a Strange Attractor

Yves Termonia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1356 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Hydrogen-Bond Spectroscopy of Water by Neutron Scattering

Sow-Hsin Chen, Khaled Toukan, Chung-Keung Loong, David L. Price, and José Teixeira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1360 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Observation of Co-Dimer Formation during Thermal Annealing of Co-Implanted Si

G. Langouche, M. de Potter, and D. Schroyen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1364 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Resistivity Maxima in Lithium Fast-Ion Conductors at High Pressure

D. N. Bose, G. Parthasarathy, D. Mazumdar, and E. S. R. Gopal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1368 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Properties of Superfluid Turbulence in a Large Channel

D. D. Awschalom, F. P. Milliken, and K. W. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1372 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Complete Wetting in a System with Short-Range Forces

Frank van Swol and J. R. Henderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1376 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

General Relation between the Specific Heat above and below a Second-Order Phase Transition

V. Dohm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1379 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Fractal Geometry of Silica Condensation Polymers

D. W. Schaefer and K. D. Keefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1383 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Chaotic ac Conductivity in the Charge-Density-Wave State of ${(T a {Se}_{4})}_{2}$ I

M. Sherwin, R. Hall, and A. Zettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1387 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

What is the Mass of an Exciton?

D. C. Mattis and J. -P. Gallinar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1391 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Ion Orientation by Interaction with Adsorbed Gases on Surfaces

D. A. Church, C. S. Lee, and J. Lenoir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1394 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984

Geophysics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics

Planetary-Scale Variability of the Fair-Weather Vertical Electric Field in the Stratosphere

R. H. Holzworth, T. Onsager, P. Kintner, and S. Powell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1398 (1984) - Published 1 October, 1984