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Physical Review A – November 1989
Volume 40, Issue 10

ARTICLES

General Physics, Atomic and Molecular Structure

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Precision measurement of the orthopositronium vacuum decay rate using the gas technique
C. I. Westbrook, D. W. Gidley, R. S. Conti, and A. Rich
pp. 5489-5499 [View Page Images or PDF (1,917 kB)]
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Iterative procedure for calculating Green’s functions for systems of finite extent
Y. Avishai and Y. B. Band
pp. 5500-5506 [View Page Images or PDF (1,053 kB)]
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Spectral distributions in a model N-electron Hamiltonian
M. Bancewicz, Geerd H. F. Diercksen, and J. Karwowski
pp. 5507-5515 [View Page Images or PDF (1,253 kB)]
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Subnatural linewidth averaging for coupled atomic and cavity-mode oscillators
H. J. Carmichael, R. J. Brecha, M. G. Raizen, H. J. Kimble, and P. R. Rice
pp. 5516-5519 [View Page Images or PDF (686 kB)]
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Theoretical hyperfine structure of the muonic 4He atom
Ming-Keh Chen and Chen-Shiung Hsue
pp. 5520-5525 [View Page Images or PDF (733 kB)]
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Perturbative analysis of simultaneous Stark and Zeeman effects on n=1⇆n=2 radiative transitions in positronium
C. D. Dermer and J. C. Weisheit
pp. 5526-5532 [View Page Images or PDF (1,150 kB)]
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Number of states of a quantum rigid dipole in a cosine-type potential well
Eugene S. Kryachko and Oleg E. Yanovitskii
pp. 5533-5541 [View Page Images or PDF (1,030 kB)]
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Extension of the relativistic Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-Weizsäcker model to arbitrary external fields
H. Müller, E. Engel, and R. M. Dreizler
pp. 5542-5547 [View Page Images or PDF (661 kB)]
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Relativistic all-order pair functions from a discretized single-particle Dirac Hamiltonian
Sten Salomonson and Per Öster
pp. 5548-5558 [View Page Images or PDF (1,490 kB)]
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Solution of the pair equation using a finite discrete spectrum
Sten Salomonson and Per Öster
pp. 5559-5567 [View Page Images or PDF (1,377 kB)]
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Configuration-space Faddeev calculations: Supercomputer accuracy on a personal computer
N. W. Schellingerhout, L. P. Kok, and G. D. Bosveld
pp. 5568-5576 [View Page Images or PDF (1,462 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collision Processes and Interactions

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Cross sections for rotational excitation of CH4 by 3–20-eV electrons
Luiz M. Brescansin, Marco A. P. Lima, and Vincent McKoy
pp. 5577-5582 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]
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Electric field effect on fast hydrogen atoms emerging from thin carbon foils
J. C. Dehaes, J. Carmeliet, and H. G. Berry
pp. 5583-5591 [View Page Images or PDF (1,190 kB)]
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Absolute low-energy e--Ar scattering cross sections
J. E. Furst, D. E. Golden, M. Mahgerefteh, Jiaxiang Zhou, and D. Mueller
pp. 5592-5600 [View Page Images or PDF (1,351 kB)]
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Charge distribution of Ar recoil ions produced in one- and two-electron capture collisions by 16-MeV Oq+ projectiles
O. Heber, G. Sampoll, B. B. Bandong, and R. L. Watson
pp. 5601-5604 [View Page Images or PDF (491 kB)]
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Optical potentials for electron-molecule scattering: A comparative study on the N2 2Πg resonance
Hans-Dieter Meyer
pp. 5605-5613 [View Page Images or PDF (1,575 kB)]
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Electron scattering assisted by an intense electromagnetic field: Exact solution of a simplified model
R. A. Sacks and A. Szöke
pp. 5614-5632 [View Page Images or PDF (2,413 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

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High-resolution Ar L-shell Auger spectroscopy in 80-MeV Ar5++He collisions
P. Focke, T. Schneider, D. Schneider, G. Schiwietz, I. Kádár, N. Stolterfoht, and J. E. Hansen
pp. 5633-5640 [View Page Images or PDF (1,300 kB)]
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Dielectronic recombination of O iv
Miodrag Janjuević and Yukap Hahn
pp. 5641-5650 [View Page Images or PDF (1,348 kB)]
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Generalization of the Keldysh theory of above-threshold ionization for the case of femtosecond pulses
Jonathan Parker and C. R. Stroud, Jr.
pp. 5651-5658 [View Page Images or PDF (1,320 kB)]
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Atomic distortion and ac-Stark shifts of H under extreme radiation conditions
M. Pont
pp. 5659-5672 [View Page Images or PDF (2,332 kB)]
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Experimental and theoretical investigation of the spectroscopy and dynamics of multiply charged CO cations
P. Lablanquie, J. Delwiche, M.-J. Hubin-Franskin, I. Nenner, P. Morin, K. Ito, J. H. D. Eland, J.-M. Robbe, G. Gandara, J. Fournier, and P. G. Fournier
pp. 5673-5689 [View Page Images or PDF (2,765 kB)]

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

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Theory of a two-level quantum-beat laser
Nadeem A. Ansari and M. Suhail Zubairy
pp. 5690-5694 [View Page Images or PDF (549 kB)]
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Bistability phenomena in electron paramagnetic resonance
M. Cacchiani, M. Giordano, M. Martinelli, L. Pardi, and S. Santucci
pp. 5695-5704 [View Page Images or PDF (1,658 kB)]
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Revised theory of resonant degenerate four-wave mixing with broad-bandwidth lasers
J. Cooper, A. Charlton, D. R. Meacher, P. Ewart, and G. Alber
pp. 5705-5715 [View Page Images or PDF (1,422 kB)]
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Complex effective Hamiltonian approach for ir multiphoton dissociation
Thomas M. Flosnik and Robert E. Wyatt
pp. 5716-5728 [View Page Images or PDF (1,933 kB)]
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Effective-medium theory of nonlinear ellipsoidal composites
Joseph W. Haus, Ramarao Inguva, and C. M. Bowden
pp. 5729-5734 [View Page Images or PDF (870 kB)]
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Quantum theory of two-photon correlated-spontaneous-emission lasers: Exact atom-field interaction Hamiltonian approach
Ning Lu and Shi-Yao Zhu
pp. 5735-5752 [View Page Images or PDF (2,409 kB)]
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Theory of the inverted-population cavity amplifier
G. L. Mander, R. Loudon, and T. J. Shepherd
pp. 5753-5773 [View Page Images or PDF (2,637 kB)]
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Lasers with sub-Poissonian pump
M. A. M. Marte and P. Zoller
pp. 5774-5782 [View Page Images or PDF (1,205 kB)]
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Nonlinear susceptibilities of molecular aggregates: Enhancement of χ(3) by size
Francis C. Spano and Shaul Mukamel
pp. 5783-5801 [View Page Images or PDF (2,743 kB)]

Plasmas and Fluids

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Nonequilibrium Ising models with competing, reaction-diffusion dynamics
P. L. Garrido, J. Marro, and J. M. González-Miranda
pp. 5802-5814 [View Page Images or PDF (1,797 kB)]
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Functional integral approach to kinetic theory
T. Jolicoeur and J. C. Le Guillou
pp. 5815-5821 [View Page Images or PDF (842 kB)]
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Collisional-radiative nonequilibrium in partially ionized atomic nitrogen
J. A. Kunc and W. H. Soon
pp. 5822-5843 [View Page Images or PDF (3,234 kB)]
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Role of charge diffusion in finite-amplitude electroconvection
A. T. Pérez and A. Castellanos
pp. 5844-5855 [View Page Images or PDF (1,741 kB)]
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Brownian motion in an isothermal-isobaric bath: Mass and size dependence
Luis F. Rull, Enrique de Miguel, Juan J. Morales, and Mariá J. Nuevo
pp. 5856-5859 [View Page Images or PDF (564 kB)]
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Anomalous heat flux due to magnetic electron-drift vortex waves in a magnetized plasma
M. Y. Yu, P. K. Shukla, L. Stenflo, and G. Murtaza
pp. 5860-5864 [View Page Images or PDF (835 kB)]
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Renormalized eddy viscosity and Kolmogorov’s constant in forced Navier-Stokes turbulence
Ye Zhou, George Vahala, and Murshed Hossain
pp. 5865-5874 [View Page Images or PDF (1,154 kB)]
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Universality in selection with local perturbations in the Saffman-Taylor problem
Bruce E. Shaw
pp. 5875-5895 [View Page Images or PDF (3,088 kB)]

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

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Chaos and quantum fluctuations in the Hénon-Heiles and four-leg potentials
Lee Carlson and W. C. Schieve
pp. 5896-5904 [View Page Images or PDF (974 kB)]
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Decay of unstable states in the presence of colored noise and random initial conditions. I. Theory of nonlinear relaxation times
J. Casademunt, J. I. Jiménez-Aquino, and J. M. Sancho
pp. 5905-5914 [View Page Images or PDF (1,476 kB)]
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Decay of unstable states in the presence of colored noise and random initial conditions. II. Analog experiments and digital simulations
J. Casademunt, J. I. Jiménez-Aquino, J. M. Sancho, C. J. Lambert, R. Mannella, P. Martano, P. V. E. McClintock, and N. G. Stocks
pp. 5915-5921 [View Page Images or PDF (951 kB)]
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Avalanche dynamics in a deposition model with ‘‘sliding’’
Z. Cheng, S. Redner, P. Meakin, and F. Family
pp. 5922-5934 [View Page Images or PDF (2,256 kB)]
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Limits on the transition to Gaussian orthogonal ensemble behavior: Saturated radiationless transitions between strongly coupled potential surfaces
Stephen L. Coy, Rigoberto Hernandez, and Kevin K. Lehmann
pp. 5935-5949 [View Page Images or PDF (2,361 kB)]
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Theory of polymer cyclization
Barry Friedman and Ben O’Shaughnessy
pp. 5950-5959 [View Page Images or PDF (1,607 kB)]
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Noise and the linear stability analysis of viscous fingering
M. J. P. Gingras and Z. Rácz
pp. 5960-5965 [View Page Images or PDF (1,092 kB)]
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Polynomial expansion of the potential of Fokker-Planck equations with a noninvertible diffusion matrix
Hu Gang and H. Haken
pp. 5966-5978 [View Page Images or PDF (1,772 kB)]
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Spinodal decomposition in the mean-spherical approximation: From adhesive hard spheres to the van der Waals fluid
J. Juanós i Timoneda and A. D. J. Haymet
pp. 5979-5987 [View Page Images or PDF (1,502 kB)]
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Lattice model for the tricritical point of the nematic–smectic-A phase transition
H. Kleinert and F. Langhammer
pp. 5988-5997 [View Page Images or PDF (1,453 kB)]
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Density matrix and entropies for electromagnetic fields
I. A. Levín, D. Otero, and A. N. Proto
pp. 5998-6006 [View Page Images or PDF (1,141 kB)]
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Molecular-dynamics study of binary soft-sphere glasses: Quench-rate effects and aging effects
H. Miyagawa and Y. Hiwatari
pp. 6007-6013 [View Page Images or PDF (1,035 kB)]
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Electromagnetic-wave propagation in anisotropic stratified media
C. Oldano
pp. 6014-6020 [View Page Images or PDF (1,098 kB)]
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Lattice model for thermotropic liquid crystals. I. Derivation of the partition function
Louis Petrone and Martha A. Cotter
pp. 6021-6044 [View Page Images or PDF (3,318 kB)]
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Lattice model for thermotropic liquid crystals. II. Results and conclusions
Louis Petrone and Martha A. Cotter
pp. 6045-6060 [View Page Images or PDF (2,487 kB)]
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Regular and irregular behavior of trajectories in the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation
K.-J. Schmitt, P.-G. Reinhard, and C. Toepffer
pp. 6061-6068 [View Page Images or PDF (1,283 kB)]
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Frank elastic constants of a nematic liquid crystal of hard molecules
A. M. Somoza and P. Tarazona
pp. 6069-6076 [View Page Images or PDF (1,211 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental Concepts

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Lower bound on the ground-state energies of atoms and molecules by variational quantum Monte Carlo methods
Lawrence R. Pratt
pp. 6077-6079 [View Page Images or PDF (491 kB)]
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Hill determinant method with a variational parameter
R. N. Chaudhuri and M. Mondal
pp. 6080-6083 [View Page Images or PDF (450 kB)]
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Ground-state energies and highest occupied eigenvalues of atoms in exchange-only density-functional theory
Yan Li, Manoj K. Harbola, J. B. Krieger, and Viraht Sahni
pp. 6084-6087 [View Page Images or PDF (567 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collision Processes and Interactions

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Calculated partial cross sections for the single-electron-capture process in the N5++He collision
Marie-Christine Bacchus-Montabonel
pp. 6088-6090 [View Page Images or PDF (247 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

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Photoionization of inner shells of the Mg and Ar isonuclear sequences
Ghousia Nasreen, Steven T. Manson, and Pranawa C. Deshmukh
pp. 6091-6094 [View Page Images or PDF (490 kB)]

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

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Photon-number distributions for fields with Gaussian Wigner functions
S. Chaturvedi and V. Srinivasan
pp. 6095-6098 [View Page Images or PDF (406 kB)]

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

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Freedericksz transitions in nematic liquid crystals: The effects of an in-plane electric field
B. J. Frisken and P. Palffy-Muhoray
pp. 6099-6102 [View Page Images or PDF (521 kB)]
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Density-functional theory of two-dimensional electron gas in a magnetic field
Swapan K. Ghosh and Asish K. Dhara
pp. 6103-6106 [View Page Images or PDF (495 kB)]
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Bistability and colored noise: Application to one-dimensional periodic model potentials
Th. Leiber, F. Marchesoni, and H. Risken
pp. 6107-6110 [View Page Images or PDF (502 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Low-energy elastic scattering of electrons from neon atoms
H. P. Saha
pp. 6111-6112 [View Page Images or PDF (69 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

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Vacuum-ultraviolet continuum emission from HeH
D. W. Tokaryk, R. L. Brooks, and J. L. Hunt
pp. 6113-6116 [View Page Images or PDF (594 kB)]
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Dielectronic recombination for metastable O vii and C v ions
Yukap Hahn and R. Bellantone
pp. 6117-6119 [View Page Images or PDF (412 kB)]

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

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Observation of stimulated hyper-Raman scattering in H2
U. Czarnetzki, U. Wojak, and H. F. Döbele
pp. 6120-6123 [View Page Images or PDF (531 kB)]

Plasmas and Fluids

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Unbinding transition of semiflexible membranes in (1+1) dimensions
G. Gompper and T. W. Burkhardt
pp. 6124-6127 [View Page Images or PDF (578 kB)]

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

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Cluster-beam deposition for high-quality thin films
G. Fuchs, M. Treilleux, F. Santos Aires, B. Cabaud, P. Melinon, and A. Hoareau
pp. 6128-6129 [View Page Images or PDF (445 kB)]
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Diffusion in Hamiltonian dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom
Kunihiko Kaneko and Tetsuro Konishi
pp. 6130-6133 [View Page Images or PDF (592 kB)]
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DNA solitons with realistic parameter values
L. L. Van Zandt
pp. 6134-6137 [View Page Images or PDF (592 kB)]
 
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