PRL Celebrates 50 Years

Physical Review Letters – 12 March 1979
(Volume 42, Issue 11)

•	Proposed Test for Complex versus Quaternion Quantum Theory Asher Peres pp. 683-686 [View Page Images , PDF (529 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Influence of Extra Neutrons Added to the ¹²C + ¹⁶O System: Gross Structures in γ-Ray Yields Following the ¹³C + ¹⁶O and ¹²C + ¹⁸O Reactions
Y. -d. Chan, H. Bohn, R. Vandenbosch, R. Sielemann, J. G. Cramer, K. G. Bernhardt, H. C. Bhang, and D. T. Chiang
pp. 687-690 [View Page Images , PDF (725 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Second-Order Excitation in Nucleus-Nucleus Interaction Potential Bikash Sinha pp. 690-693 [View Page Images , PDF (695 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Calculations of Heavy-Element Fusion and Fission Phenomena R. Y. Cusson and H. W. Meldner pp. 694-696 [View Page Images , PDF (526 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Randomly Oriented Angular Momentum in Strongly Damped Collisions
R. A. Dayras, R. G. Stokstad, C. B. Fulmer, D. C. Hensley, M. L. Halbert, R. L. Robinson, A. H. Snell, D. G. Sarantites, L. Westerberg, and J. H. Barker
pp. 697-700 [View Page Images , PDF (729 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Radiative Capture of Intermediate-Energy Protons to High-Lying States in Light Nuclei M. A. Kovash, S. L. Blatt, R. N. Boyd, T. R. Donoghue, H. J. Hausman, and A. D. Bacher pp. 700-704 [View Page Images , PDF (853 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bender-Wu Formula and the Stark Effect in Hydrogen L. Benassi, V. Grecchi, E. Harrell, and B. Simon pp. 704-707 [View Page Images , PDF (567 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analytical Theory of Drift Waves and Drift-Alfvén Waves in Tokamaks Y. C. Lee and Liu Chen pp. 708-711 [View Page Images , PDF (589 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of Beam Scattering on Plasma Heating with Relativistic Electron Beams J. D. Sethian and C. A. Ekdahl pp. 711-714 [View Page Images , PDF (670 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Droplet Nucleation by Gas-Phase Positive Ions, Observed through Mobility T. Wada and G. R. Freeman pp. 715-718 [View Page Images , PDF (599 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Commensurability in One Dimension at T≠0 R. A. Guyer and M. D. Miller pp. 718-722 [View Page Images , PDF (760 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tricritical Exponents for the Isotropic-nematic Transition: An Experimental Verification P. H. Keyes and J. R. Shane pp. 722-725 [View Page Images , PDF (601 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superflow in Restricted Geometries R. J. Donnelly, R. N. Hills, and P. H. Roberts pp. 725-728 [View Page Images , PDF (577 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Simulation of Tunneling States in Random-Network Glasses D. A. Smith pp. 729-732 [View Page Images , PDF (635 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence of Two Kinds of Two-Dimensional Adsorbed Fluids by Mobility Measurements J. P. Coulomb, M. Bienfait, and P. Thorel pp. 733-735 [View Page Images , PDF (504 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boltzmann Theory Generalized to Include Band Mixing: A Possible Theory for "Resistivity Saturation" in Metals B. Chakraborty and P. B. Allen pp. 736-738 [View Page Images , PDF (571 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Logarithmic Corrections in the Magnetic Equation of State for LiTbF₄ R. Frowein, J. Kötzler, and W. Assmus pp. 739-742 [View Page Images , PDF (651 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Binding of D^- Ions in a Magnetic Field David M. Larsen pp. 742-745 [View Page Images , PDF (683 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unified Gauge Theories and the Baryon Number of the Universe. Motohiko Yoshimura pp. 746 [View Page Images or PDF (125 kB) ]

•	Anomalous Temperature Dependence of the Electric-Field Gradient at ¹⁸¹Ta Impurities in Holmium: Influence of Host 4f Crystalline-Field Levels. R. L. Rasera, B. D. Dunlap, and G. K. Shenoy pp. 746 [View Page Images or PDF (125 kB) ]

•	Inter-Valence-Band Absorption in Electron-Hole Droplets. R. N. Silver and C. H. Aldrich pp. 746 [View Page Images or PDF (125 kB) ]

•	Optically Detected Coherent Transients in Nuclear Hyperfine Levels. R. M. Shelby, C. S. Yannoni, and R. M. Macfarlane pp. 746 [View Page Images or PDF (125 kB) ]