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Experiments on generation of 1, 2, 4, and 6 sonoluminescent bubbles in water with an external ultrasound source in an acoustic sphere resonator with glass walls have been carried out. Theoretical examination has shown that the observed excitation frequencies could be described with a good accuracy taking into account that the velocities and pressures of the contacting media on the external and internal resonator surfaces are equal. The necessity of accounting for oscillations with non--zero self--values of angular momentum operator has been shown when describing the features of localization of several bubbles. To explain a strangely small distance between the bubbles in the case of two--bubble sonoluminescence the following possible explanations have been proposed: a) mechanism of space splitting of a mode with a singular angular momentum and b) mechanism of secondary excitation when one of the bubbles is trapped into the acoustic trap created by high--frequency vibrations arising simultaneously when the other bubble sonoluminescence occurs., Comment: 13 pages

Experimental data on signal and noise characteristics of high--$T_c$ RF SQUIDs with large inductance of quantization loop are presented. The SQUIDs were produced by a thick--film HTS--technique of painting on the Y$_2$BaCuO$_5$ substrate. For the first time, a steady quantum interference was observed in RF SQUID with the inductance as large as $L_S=6.6$ nH, that is, 60 times higher than the fluctuation inductance $L_F\simeq10^{-10}H$ at the liquid nitrogen temperature T=77 K. A new method is offered to evaluate the sensitivity of RF SQUID with optimum inductance of the quantization loop., Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

In recent data on neutron induced acoustic cavitation in deuterium--containing liquids obtained by neutron measurements it was shown that very high temperatures could arise in some special cases. To study temperature of so--called bubble plasma it is desirable to have micro--detectors of X-rays, which can be prepared on the basis of room--temperature semiconductor detectors, in particular on mercuric iodide ($\alpha$--HgI$_2$) crystals. Having in view this aim, the properties of gel--grown ($\alpha$--HgI$_2$) crystals was studied by means of isothermal currents, and trap parameters was estimated. Results are promising for special aim of preparing X-ray detectors with moderate energy resolution needed in bubble--plasma diagnostic, though improving of crystal growing technology is necessary. {\it PACS:} 29.40.Wk; 52.70.La {\it Keywords:} X-ray and gamma--ray measurements; semiconductor detectors; mercuric iodide; plasma diagnostics; cavitation, Comment: 3 pages, 1 table

A possibility for molecular-nuclear transitions to occur was recently predicted for some few-atomic systems. Among others, the molecule of ordinary water was shown to be a candidate for this effect due to a presence of (1-, 4.522 MeV) resonance in 18Ne nucleus. A search for traces of nuclear reactions was carried out for condenced and vaporous phases of water, with the use of low-background annihilation spectrometry. The measurements were performed under conventional conditions and under conditions of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory., Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures

Experimental realizations of QT have so far been limited to teleportation of light. The present communication gives a new experimental scheme for QT of heavy matter. We show that the standard experimental technique used in nuclear physics may be successfully applied to teleportation of spin states of atomic nuclei. It was shown that there are no theoretical prohibitions upon a possibility of a complete Bell measurement, so that implementation of all four quantum communication channels is at least theoretically available. A general expression for scattering amplitude of two 1/2-spin particles was given in the Bell operator basis, and peculiarities of Bell states registration are briefly discussed., Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures

Experimental search for molecular-nuclear transitions H_2O\to^{18}Ne^*(4.522,1^-)\to^{18}F\to^{18}O in water molecules was carried out. The measurements were performed in a low-background laboratory at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory. Under the assumption that the above transitions take place, the estimate for the half-life time of water molecule was found to be about 10^{18} years., Comment: RevTeX, 3 eps-figures

At the Institute in Physical-Technical Problems experiments on sonoluminescence was started by our group at the beginning of 1998. The study was focused at properties of the SBSL, and the aim was to find more optimum conditions for a search for some recently predicted rare effects in SBSL- process., Comment: 1 page; submitted to 7th Symposium on Sonochemistry, Yonezava, Oct.1998, Japan

Until recently, only science-fiction authors ventured to use a term teleportation. However, in the last few years, on the eve of upcoming new millennium, the situation changed very much. The present report gives a synopsis of main concepts in this area. The readers will be able to make sure that paradoxical phenomena in the microcosm give a possibility to demonstrate the exchange of properties between microobjects, removed at a very large distance from each other, when no forces act between them. A new experimental scheme with hydrogen and helium nuclei is proposed. It is expected that the results of these experiments will be considered as teleportation of nuclear properties of atoms of the simplest chemical elements. A problem of teleportation of the more palpable cargo is left to the physics of the more distant future., Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, to be submitted to the Third Israeli Conference for Conveying and Handling of Particulate Solids, The Dead Sea, May 29 - June 1, 2000

Experiments aimed at testing some hypothesis about the nature of Single Bubble Sonoluminescence are discussed. A possibility to search for micro-traces of thermonuclear neutrons is analyzed, with the aid of original low-background neutron counter operating under conditions of the deep shielding from Cosmic and other sources of background. Besides, some signatures of QED-contribution to the light emission in SBSL are under the consideration, as well as new approaches to probe a temperature inside the bubble. An applied-physics portion of the program is presented also, in which an attention is being paid to single- and a few-pulse light sources on the basis of SBSL., Comment: 4 pages; to be published by AIP in the Proc. ISNA-15

Experimental determination of the paired interaction potential of atoms and molecules composing the atmospheres of the earth and the planets is described.