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Physical Review A – March 1988
Volume 37, Issue 5

ARTICLES

General Physics, Atomic and Molecular Structure

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Correlation effects in the parity-nonconserving 6s→7s transition in cesium
W. R. Johnson, S. A. Blundell, Z. W. Liu, and J. Sapirstein
pp. 1395-1400 [View Page Images or PDF (1,287 kB)]
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Coulomb fragmentation of doubly ionized molecular clusters
Rafael Casero, Juan J. Sáenz, and José M. Soler
pp. 1401-1405 [View Page Images or PDF (1,182 kB)]
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Klauder’s continuous representations and fuzzy coordinate variables
J. P. Hsu and S. Y. Pei
pp. 1406-1410 [View Page Images or PDF (865 kB)]
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Modified zero-momentum energy expression: A general criterion for assessing the accuracy of approximate wave functions
Toshikatsu Koga, Katsuhisa Ohta, and Ajit J. Thakkar
pp. 1411-1414 [View Page Images or PDF (695 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collision Processes and Interactions

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Further study of a new dispersion relation for electron-atom scattering
A. K. Bhatia and A. Temkin
pp. 1415-1424 [View Page Images or PDF (1,729 kB)]
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Algebraic-eikonal approach to electron-molecule scattering. III. Triatomic molecules
R. Bijker and R. D. Amado
pp. 1425-1437 [View Page Images or PDF (2,166 kB)]
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Pressure shift and broadening of Sr i Rydberg states in noble gases
K. -D. Heber, P. J. West, and E. Matthias
pp. 1438-1448 [View Page Images or PDF (2,147 kB)]
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Positron production in crossed beams of bare uranium nuclei
U. Müller, T. de Reus, J. Reinhardt, B. Müller, W. Greiner, and G. Soff
pp. 1449-1455 [View Page Images or PDF (1,786 kB)]
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Calculations of laser-assisted electron–hydrogen-atom elastic scattering with consideration of higher-order terms of laser-modified wave functions
Sasabindu Sarkar and Mitali Chakraborty
pp. 1456-1468 [View Page Images or PDF (2,014 kB)]
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Inelastic cross sections and charge states for B, C, N, and O ions moving in metals
F. Sols and F. Flores
pp. 1469-1475 [View Page Images or PDF (1,256 kB)]
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Angular correlations in the electron-impact excitation of sodium
P. J. O. Teubner, J. L. Riley, M. J. Brunger, and J. E. Furst
pp. 1476-1478 [View Page Images or PDF (574 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

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Collision-broadened spectral line profiles in the limit of high perturber density
N. F. Allard, Y. G. Biraud, and A. Chevillot
pp. 1479-1487 [View Page Images or PDF (1,291 kB)]
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Collision-time simulation technique for pressure-broadened spectral lines with applications to Ly-α
Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt and Volker Kesting
pp. 1488-1496 [View Page Images or PDF (1,784 kB)]
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Lifetimes and energy levels for some core-excited quartet states in Na i
J. O. Gaardsted and T. Andersen
pp. 1497-1501 [View Page Images or PDF (1,088 kB)]
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Measurement of weak branching out of the (near-) two-level system Ba 6s6p 1P1⇆6s2 1S0
G. K. Gerke and B. A. Bushaw
pp. 1502-1506 [View Page Images or PDF (1,055 kB)]
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Z dependence of atomic parameters for selected autoionizing states of two-electron ions
K. R. Karim and C. P. Bhalla
pp. 1507-1511 [View Page Images or PDF (789 kB)]
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Double photoionization of molecular hydrogen: A theoretical study including the nuclear dissociation
H. Le Rouzo
pp. 1512-1523 [View Page Images or PDF (2,573 kB)]
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Monotonicity of Coulomb dipole matrix elements
Sung Dahm Oh and R. H. Pratt
pp. 1524-1526 [View Page Images or PDF (464 kB)]
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Microwave multiphoton transitions between Rydberg states of potassium
R. C. Stoneman, D. S. Thomson, and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 1527-1540 [View Page Images or PDF (2,990 kB)]
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Atomic response to strong laser pulses
D. A. Wasson and S. E. Koonin
pp. 1541-1551 [View Page Images or PDF (2,261 kB)]

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

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Chaos and incoherence in a classical rotation-vibration model of infrared multiple-photon excitation
Jay R. Ackerhalt and Peter W. Milonni
pp. 1552-1562 [View Page Images or PDF (1,428 kB)]
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Pendular Fabry-Pérot cavities as a paradigm for the dynamics of systems with delays
Ll. Bel, J-L. Boulanger, and N. Deruelle
pp. 1563-1570 [View Page Images or PDF (1,419 kB)]
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Algebraic view to the quantum anharmonic oscillator
G. Dattoli and A. Torre
pp. 1571-1575 [View Page Images or PDF (622 kB)]
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Time-dependent resonant-fluorescence spectrum of two-level atoms in strong short-pulsed fields: A nonperturbative treatment
Tak-San Ho and Herschel Rabitz
pp. 1576-1587 [View Page Images or PDF (2,095 kB)]
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Rotationally invariant theory of stimulated Raman scattering
R. Holmes and A. Flusberg
pp. 1588-1596 [View Page Images or PDF (1,685 kB)]
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Electromagnetic decay into a narrow resonance in an optical cavity
H. M. Lai, P. T. Leung, and K. Young
pp. 1597-1606 [View Page Images or PDF (1,958 kB)]
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Quantum theory of fourth-order interference
Z. Y. Ou
pp. 1607-1619 [View Page Images or PDF (2,260 kB)]
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Third-harmonic generation and resonant multiphoton ionization: Mean-field model and quasistatic approximation
Michel Poirier
pp. 1620-1627 [View Page Images or PDF (1,498 kB)]
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Atom-field interaction without the rotating-wave approximation: A path-integral approach
K. Zaheer and M. S. Zubairy
pp. 1628-1633 [View Page Images or PDF (793 kB)]
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Effect of cooperative atomic interactions on the natural linewidth of a single-mode laser
Sajid Mahmood, Khalid Zaheer, and M. Suhail Zubairy
pp. 1634-1641 [View Page Images or PDF (903 kB)]

Plasmas and Fluids

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Expansion into a vacuum: A one-dimensional model
M. Bernstein and J. K. Percus
pp. 1642-1653 [View Page Images or PDF (1,254 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium macroscopic descriptions of electrons in weakly ionized gases
E. E. Kunhardt, J. Wu, and B. Penetrante
pp. 1654-1662 [View Page Images or PDF (1,822 kB)]
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Stability of steady cross waves: Theory and experiment
Seth Lichter and Andrew J. Bernoff
pp. 1663-1667 [View Page Images or PDF (867 kB)]
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Transient effects in the plasma-wake-field acceleration scheme
Sekazi K. Mtingwa
pp. 1668-1671 [View Page Images or PDF (517 kB)]
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One-component plasma bridge function
P. D. Poll, N. W. Ashcroft, and H. E. DeWitt
pp. 1672-1678 [View Page Images or PDF (1,522 kB)]
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Bifurcation to chaos and dimensionality of attractors in an extended Rayleigh-Benard convection system
Shinichi Sato, Masaki Sano, and Yasuji Sawada
pp. 1679-1683 [View Page Images or PDF (1,100 kB)]
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Generation of ultrashort x-ray pulses
D. G. Stearns, O. L. Landen, E. M. Campbell, and J. H. Scofield
pp. 1684-1690 [View Page Images or PDF (1,341 kB)]

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

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Observations of cellular and dendritic growth of a smectic-B–smectic-A interface
John Bechhoefer, Patrick Oswald, Albert Libchaber, and Claude Germain
pp. 1691-1696 [View Page Images or PDF (1,471 kB)]
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Numerical simulation of a coarsening two-dimensional network
C. W. J. Beenakker
pp. 1697-1702 [View Page Images or PDF (1,146 kB)]
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Multifractal properties in the one-dimensional random-field Ising model
J. Bene and P. Szépfalusy
pp. 1703-1707 [View Page Images or PDF (686 kB)]
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Gibbs-type partition in chaotic dynamics
Leslie Bromberg and Alexander B. Rechester
pp. 1708-1710 [View Page Images or PDF (479 kB)]
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Unstable periodic orbits and the dimensions of multifractal chaotic attractors
Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke
pp. 1711-1724 [View Page Images or PDF (2,852 kB)]
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Calculation of the director configuration of nematic liquid crystals by the simulated-anneal method
I. Heynderickx and H. De Raedt
pp. 1725-1730 [View Page Images or PDF (1,199 kB)]
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Level crossings of filtered dichotomous noise
R. F. Pawula
pp. 1731-1735 [View Page Images or PDF (927 kB)]
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Density-functional theory of nematic and smectic-A order near surfaces
Jonathan V. Selinger and David R. Nelson
pp. 1736-1746 [View Page Images or PDF (1,963 kB)]
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Crossover from fractal lattice to Euclidean lattice for the residual entropy of an Ising antiferromagnet in maximum critical field Hc
T. Stoić, B. Stoić, S. Miloević, and H. E. Stanley
pp. 1747-1753 [View Page Images or PDF (1,418 kB)]
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Adiabatic scanning calorimetric results for the blue phases of cholesteryl nonanoate
J. Thoen
pp. 1754-1759 [View Page Images or PDF (1,245 kB)]
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Some consequences of generalized-moment inequalities: Mass- and charge-response and correlation functions in multicomponent systems
A. Manolescu and G. A. Mezincescu
pp. 1760-1772 [View Page Images or PDF (2,559 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

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Near-threshold structure in the photoionization of krypton 3p
N. Shanthi, P. C. Deshmukh, and Steven T. Manson
pp. 1773-1774 [View Page Images or PDF (433 kB)]
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Limitation of the semirelativistic approach in sum rules and related calculations in atomic physics
M. L. Rustgi, P. T. Leung, and S. A. T. Long
pp. 1775-1778 [View Page Images or PDF (573 kB)]

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

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Squeezing of the squared field amplitude by an anharmonic oscillator
Christopher C. Gerry and Edward R. Vrscay
pp. 1779-1781 [View Page Images or PDF (489 kB)]

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

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Direct evidence for the suppression of period doubling in the bouncing-ball model
Piotr Pierański
pp. 1782-1785 [View Page Images or PDF (806 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: ac Stark splitting in multiphoton excitation of atomic hydrogen in flames: Abnormal peak asymmetry due to pressure broadening [Phys. Rev. A 33, 3602 (1986)]
Albert M. F. Lau
pp. 1786 [View Page Images or PDF (143 kB)]
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Erratum: Exact solution of the linear-stability problem for the onset of convection in binary fluid mixtures
Barbara J. A. Zielinska and Helmut R. Brand
pp. 1786 [View Page Images or PDF (143 kB)]
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Erratum: Excitation of the 1s5 and 1s4 levels of neon by low-energy electrons
K. Tachibana and A. V. Phelps
pp. 1786 [View Page Images or PDF (143 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and Molecular Collision Processes and Interactions

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Electron-impact excitation of Na
Alfred Z. Msezane
pp. 1787-1790 [View Page Images or PDF (795 kB)]
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Relativistic distorted-wave collision strengths for Ba46+
Kennedy J. Reed
pp. 1791-1794 [View Page Images or PDF (786 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

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Photoionization of the N 2p23p 2S1/2 state
Constantine E. Theodosiou
pp. 1795-1797 [View Page Images or PDF (491 kB)]
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Anomalously strong shake-up processes in Auger decay of the resonantly excited 2p53s23p6nl states of Ar
H. Aksela, S. Aksela, H. Pulkkinen, G. M. Bancroft, and K. H. Tan
pp. 1798-1801 [View Page Images or PDF (755 kB)]

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

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Precision optical-frequency-difference measurements
R. G. DeVoe, C. Fabre, K. Jungmann, J. Hoffnagle, and R. G. Brewer
pp. 1802-1805 [View Page Images or PDF (942 kB)]
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Laser bandwidth effects on squeezing in intracavity parametric oscillation
P. D. Drummond and M. D. Reid
pp. 1806-1808 [View Page Images or PDF (633 kB)]
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Phase conjugation via multiple gratings in photorefractive crystals
M. R. Belić
pp. 1809-1812 [View Page Images or PDF (764 kB)]

Plasmas and Fluids

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Calculation of liquid-crystal Frank constants by computer simulation
Michael P. Allen and Daan Frenkel
pp. 1813-1816 [View Page Images or PDF (974 kB)]
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Traveling waves in large-aspect-ratio thermosolutal convection
A. E. Deane, E. Knobloch, and J. Toomre
pp. 1817-1820 [View Page Images or PDF (1,324 kB)]

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

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Diffusion in the presence of random fields and transition rates: Effect of the hard-core interaction
Eva Koscielny-Bunde, Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 1821-1823 [View Page Images or PDF (613 kB)]
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Evidence of a first-order smectic-A–smectic-C/emph> transition and its approach to tricritical behavior
B. R. Ratna, R. Shashidhar, Geetha G. Nair, S. Krishna Prasad, Ch. Bahr, and G. Heppke
pp. 1824-1826 [View Page Images or PDF (526 kB)]
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Wave numbers for unimodal maps
E. J. Ding
pp. 1827-1830 [View Page Images or PDF (698 kB)]
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Anisotropic mechanical properties of a polymer nematic liquid crystal
Victor G. Taratuta, Franklin Lonberg, and Robert B. Meyer
pp. 1831-1834 [View Page Images or PDF (846 kB)]
 
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