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Physical Review Letters – 9 November 1987
(Volume 59, Issue 19)




Ground state instability of a random system
Yi-Cheng Zhang
pp. 2125-2128 [View   PDF (547 kB) ]

Bistability driven by weakly colored Gaussian noise: The Fokker-Planck boundary layer and mean first-passage times
Charles R. Doering, Patrick S. Hagan, and C. David Levermore
pp. 2129-2132 [View   PDF (635 kB) ]

Optical analog of a kicked quantum oscillator
Joachim Krug
pp. 2133-2136 [View   PDF (525 kB) ]

Naked singularities in self-similar spherical gravitational collapse
Amos Ori and Tsvi Piran
pp. 2137-2140 [View   PDF (507 kB) ]


Intrinsic quadrupole moment of the superdeformed band in 152Dy
M. A. Bentley, G. C. Ball, H. W. Cranmer-Gordon, P. D. Forsyth, D. Howe, A. R. Mokhtar, J. D. Morrison, J. F. Sharpey-Schafer, P. J. Twin, B. Fant, C. A. Kalfas, A. H. Nelson, J. Simpson, and G. Sletten
pp. 2141-2144 [View   PDF (589 kB) ]


Transient spectra of strong-field resonance fluorescence
J. E. Golub and T. W. Mossberg
pp. 2149-2152 [View   PDF (617 kB) ]

Squeezed-lightenhanced polarization interferometer
P. Grangier, R. E. Slusher, B. Yurke, and A. LaPorta
pp. 2153-2156 [View   PDF (576 kB) ]

Demonstration of soft x-ray amplification in nickel-like ions
B. J. MacGowan, S. Maxon, P. L. Hagelstein, C. J. Keane, R. A. London, D. L. Matthews, M. D. Rosen, J. H. Scofield, and D. A. Whelan
pp. 2157-2160 [View   PDF (597 kB) ]


Laser amplification at 18.2 nm in recombining plasma from a laser-irradiated carbon fiber
C. Chenais-Popovics, R. Corbett, C. J. Hooker, M. H. Key, G. P. Kiehn, C. L. Lewis, G. J. Pert, C. Regan, S. J. Rose, S. Sadaat, R. Smith, T. Tomie, and and O. Willi
pp. 2161-2164 [View   PDF (571 kB) ]

Steady-state tokamak discharge via dc helicity injection
M. Ono, G. J. Greene, D. Darrow, C. Forest, H. Park, and T. H. Stix
pp. 2165-2168 [View   PDF (647 kB) ]


Tunneling images of biatomic steps on Si(001)
P. E. Wierenga, J. A. Kubby, and J. E. Griffith
pp. 2169-2172 [View   PDF (716 kB) ]

Reconstruction of steps on the Si(111)2×1 surface
R. M. Feenstra and Joseph A. Stroscio
pp. 2173-2176 [View   PDF (997 kB) ]

Direct imaging of surface reconstructions on CdTe by high-resolution electron microscopy
Ping Lu and David J. Smith
pp. 2177-2179 [View   PDF (712 kB) ]

Location of atoms in the first monolayer of GaAs on Si
J. R. Patel, P. E. Freeland, M. S. Hybertsen, D. C. Jacobson, and J. A. Golovchenko
pp. 2180-2183 [View   PDF (617 kB) ]

Finite-density Onsager-type theory for the isotropic-nematic transition of hard ellipsoids
Marc Baus, Jean-Louis Colot, Xiao-Guang Wu, and Hong Xu
pp. 2184-2187 [View   PDF (570 kB) ]

Commensurability effects and modulated structures in polyanilines
Han-Yong Choi and E. J. Mele
pp. 2188-2191 [View   PDF (672 kB) ]

Grazing incidence x-ray study of the structures and phase transitions of hydrogen on tungsten (100)
J. W. Chung, K. Evans-Lutterodt, E. D. Specht, R. J. Birgeneau, P. J. Estrup, and A. R. Kortan
pp. 2192-2195 [View   PDF (605 kB) ]

Recursive computation of many-phonon densities of states
Raffaele Guido Della Valle and Gianni Cardini
pp. 2196-2198 [View   PDF (385 kB) ]

Distribution of barrier heights in amorphous organic materials
W. Köhler and J. Friedrich
pp. 2199-2202 [View   PDF (540 kB) ]

Explosive crystallization starting from an amorphous-silicon surface region during long pulsed-laser irradiation
Kouichi Murakami, Osamu Eryu, Koki Takita, and Kohzoh Masuda
pp. 2203-2206 [View   PDF (643 kB) ]

Lattice theory of crystal surface melting
A. Trayanov and E. Tosatti
pp. 2207-2210 [View   PDF (554 kB) ]


Mechanism of ion desorption by electronic transitions: A density-functional study
Ph. Avouris, R. Kawai, N. D. Lang, and D. M. Newns
pp. 2215-2218 [View   PDF (670 kB) ]

Optical measurements on oriented thin YBa2Cu3O7-δ films: Lack of evidence for excitonic superconductivity
I. Bozovic, D. Kirillov, A. Kapitulnik, K. Char, M. R. Hahn, M. R. Beasley, T. H. Geballe, Y. H. Kim, and A. J. Heeger
pp. 2219-2221 [View   PDF (495 kB) ]

Determination of intervalley scattering rates in GaAs by subpicosecond luminescence spectroscopy
Jagdeep Shah, Benoit Deveaud, T. C. Damen, W. T. Tsang, A. C. Gossard, and P. Lugli
pp. 2222-2225 [View   PDF (663 kB) ]

New method to study the proximity effect at the normal-metalsuperconductor interface
P. C. van Son, H. van Kempen, and P. Wyder
pp. 2226-2228 [View   PDF (514 kB) ]


Generalization of back-propagation to recurrent neural networks
Fernando J. Pineda
pp. 2229-2232 [View   PDF (637 kB) ]


Zahed replies
I. Zahed
pp. 2234 [View   PDF (96 kB) ]

Lacombe et al. reply
M. Lacombe, B. Loiseau, R. Vinh Mau, and W. N. Cottingham
pp. 2235 [View   PDF (91 kB) ]

Comment on ‘‘Synchrotron x-ray study of a Fibonacci superlattice’’
J. G. Gay and B. M. Clemens
pp. 2236 [View   PDF (129 kB) ]

Clarke and Merlin reply
Roy Clarke and R. Merlin
pp. 2237 [View   PDF (134 kB) ]


X-Ray Diffraction Study of Phason Strain Field in Oriented Icosahedral Al-Mn
J. D. Budai, J. Z. Tischler, A. Habenschuss, G. E. Ice, and V. Elser
pp. 2239 [View   PDF (33 kB) ]