Volume 30, Issue 5

R. Anholt, W. E. Meyerhof, Ch. Stoller, E. Morenzoni, S. A. Andriamonje, J. D. Molitoris, O. K. Baker, D. H. H. Hoffmann, H. Bowman, J. -S. Xu, Z. -Z. Xu, K. Frankel, D. Murphy, K. Crowe, and J. O. Rasmussen

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2234 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Relativistic charged-particle interactions in a chaotic laser field

W. Becker, M. O. Scully, K. Wódkiewicz, and M. S. Zubairy

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2245 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Absolute total electronically elastic differential $e^{-}$ - $H_{2}$ scattering cross-section measurements from 1 to 19 eV

J. Furst, M. Mahgerefteh, and D. E. Golden

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2256 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Electron capture in $H^{+}$ + $H_{2}$

V. Heckman, S. J. Martin, J. Jakacky, Jr., and E. Pollack

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2261 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Application of $R$ -matrix theory to resonant reactive electron-molecule scattering: Vibrational excitation and dissociative attachment of $N_{2}$ and $F_{2}$

C. F. Wong and J. C. Light

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2264 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Method of continued fractions with application to atomic physics. II

J. Horáček and T. Sasakawa

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2274 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Continuum x rays produced by light-ion—atom collisions

K. Ishii and S. Morita

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2278 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Populations of $np$ terms ( $n = 2 - 4$ ) for 10—500-keV/amu deuterium ions exiting from carbon foils

Y. Baudinet-Robinet and P. D. Dumont

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2287 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Comparison between the mechanical and radiative electron-capture processes at high energies

Alejandro D. González and Jorge E. Miraglia

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2292 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Be $K$ -shell Auger-electron emission in slow-ion—surface collisions

Oscar Grizzi and Raúl A. Baragiola

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2297 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Practical criterion for the determination of translation factors

A. Riera

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2304 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Electron-pair-production cross section in the tip region of the positron spectrum

K. K. Sud and D. K. Sharma

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2311 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

Line-shape function for the microwave-induced hyperfine-level transition in positronium

F. H. M. Faisal and P. S. Ray

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2316 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Photoelectron motion in the presence of a probe electromagnetic wave

Burke Ritchie

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2323 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

High-resolution studies of collision-induced population grating resonances in optical four-wave mixing in sodium vapor

L. J. Rothberg and N. Bloembergen

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2327 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

High-energy asymptotic behavior of the dipole-oscillator-strength density and a new "modified" dipole-oscillator-strength sum rule for nonrelativistic $N$ -electron atoms and molecules

Michael C. Struensee

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2339 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Test of the optical theory of Mössbauer quantum beats

E. H. du Marchie van Voorthuysen, G. L. Zhang, and H. de Waard

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2356 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Collisional redistribution of light: Far-wing line shapes and polarizations for the Ba-(Ar,Xe) systems

W. J. Alford, N. Andersen, K. Burnett, and J. Cooper

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2366 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Noise in strong laser-atom interactions: Phase telegraph noise

J. H. Eberly, K. Wódkiewicz, and B. W. Shore

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2381 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Noise in strong laser-atom interactions: Frequency fluctuations and nonexponential correlations

K. Wódkiewicz, B. W. Shore, and J. H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2390 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Ionization of highly excited helium atoms in an electric field

Willem van de Water, David R. Mariani, and Peter M. Koch

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2399 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Analytical study of quasidiscrete Stark levels in Rydberg atoms

David A. Harmin

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2413 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Natural radiative lifetimes in the $3 sns {}^{1}S_{0}$ and $3 snd {}^{1}D_{2}$ sequences of magnesium

G. Jönsson, S. Kröll, A. Persson, and S. Svanberg

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2429 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Stimulated electron-ion (-atom) recombination at a resonance

A. Lami, N. K. Rahman, and F. H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2433 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Two-photon emissionn in the $3 s \to 1 s$ and $3 d \to 1 s$ transitions of hydrogenlike atoms

Viorica Florescu

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2441 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Spontaneous radiative decay of a continum

D. Agassi

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2449 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Correlation effects in $4 s^{0} 4 p^{6}$ and $4 s^{1} 4 p^{5}$ configurations of krypton studied by the $M - N N$ Auger decay

H. Aksela, S. Aksela, and H. Pulkkinen

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2456 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Nonlinear coherence in three-level systems and SU(3) symmetries

A. Dulĉić

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2462 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Differential incoherent-scattering cross sections of 661.6-keV $γ$ rays in some gaseous, liquid, and solid elements

A. H. Shivananda, S. Gopal, and B. Sanjeevaiah

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2468 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

Synchrotron-betatron resonances in free-electron lasers

W. M. Fawley, D. Prosnitz, and E. T. Scharlemann

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2472 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Stochastic pump effects in lasers

R. F. Fox, G. E. James, and R. Roy

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2482 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Saturated fluorescence in a standing-wave laser field

Helen K. Holt

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2495 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Ray-tracing formulation for propagation of a nearly resonant pulse of light in atomic vapor: The adiabatic following approximation

G. Hazak, M. Strauss, and G. Erez

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2499 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Radiation torque on a sphere caused by a circularly-polarized electromagnetic wave

Philip L. Marston and James H. Crichton

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2508 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Rate equation for locally time-averaged dynamics in weakly damped systems

James Stone

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2517 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Ultrahigh-time-resolution coherent transient spectroscopy with incoherent light

Norio Morita and Tatsuo Yajima

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2525 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Plasmas, Fluids, Statistical Physics, and Related Many-Body Topics

New systematic expansion of the electric field distribution in plasmas

Angel Alastuey, Carlos A. Iglesias, Joel L. Lebowitz, and Dominique Levesque

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2537 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Codimension-2 bifurcations for convection in binary fluid mixtures

Helmut R. Brand, Pierre C. Hohenberg, and Victor Steinberg

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2548 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Biaxial order in liquid crystals and their mixtures: A Potts-Ising model

Robert G. Caflisch, Zhong-Ying Chen, A. Nihat Berker, and John M. Deutch

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2562 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Interaction of 1.3-μm laser radiation with thin foil targets

K. Eidmann, F. Amiranoff, R. Fedosejevs, A. G. M. Maaswinkel, R. Petsch, R. Sigel, G. Spindler, Yung-lu Teng, G. Tsakiris, and S. Witkowski

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2568 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Theoretical analysis of long-time-tail observations by light scattering off of polystyrene spheres

Ronald F. Fox

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2590 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Ground-state-energy theorem and the virial theorem of a many-particle system in $d$ dimensions

Naoki Iwamoto

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2597 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Asymmetry patterns of plasma-broadened isolated lines (Cr)

Douglas W. Jones and W. L. Wiese

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2602 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Metastable states in a nonlinear stochastic model

H. K. Leung

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2609 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Manifestations of Bose and Fermi statistics on the quantum distribution function for systems of spin-0 and spin-½ particles

R. F. O'Connell and E. P. Wigner

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2613 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Exchange and correlation potentials for electron-ion systems at finite temperatures

François Perrot and M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2619 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Magnetic field effects on electron heat transport in laser-produced plasmas

M. Strauss, G. Hazak, D. Shvarts, and R. S. Craxton

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2627 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Alternative approach to maximum-entropy inference

Y. Tikochinsky, N. Z. Tishby, and R. D. Levine

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2638 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Magnetic birefringence near the lyotropic isotropic-nematic Landau point

Chester A. Vause

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2645 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Critical behavior in the Yvon-Born-Green integral equation

Moorad Alexanian

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2652 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Fluctuations in random walks with random traps

T. C. Lubensky

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2657 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Relationship between Fröhlich and Davydov models of biological order

J. A. Tuszyński, R. Paul, R. Chatterjee, and S. R. Sreenivasan

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2666 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Dielectric constant of biological systems

R. Paul, J. A. Tuszyński, and R. Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2676 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Experimental determinations of universal amplitude combination for binary fluids. II. Dynamics

D. Beysens, A. Bourgou, and G. Paladin

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2686 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Temperature structure functions in turbulent shear flows

R. A. Antonia, E. J. Hopfinger, Y. Gagne, and F. Anselmet

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2704 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Elimination of irrelevant variables in nonlinear systems

Avraham Ben-Mizrachi

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2708 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Observations on the statistical iteration of matrices

J. H. Hetherington

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2713 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Liquid-expanded—liquid-condensed phase transition in amphiphilic monolayers: A renormalization-group approach to chiral-symmetry breaking of hydrocarbon-chain defects

J. -P. Legré, G. Albinet, J. -L. Firpo, and A. -M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2720 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Activation rates for nonlinear stochastic flows driven by non-Gaussian noise

C. Van den Broeck and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2730 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

BRIEF REPORTS

Electron-atom spin asymmetry and two-electron photodetachment: Addenda to the Coulomb-dipole threshold law

A. Temkin

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2737 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Low-lying ${}^{1}D$ states of Be I

Charlotte Froese Fischer

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2741 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Exact differential equation for the density and ionization energy of a many-particle system

Mel Levy, John P. Perdew, and Viraht Sahni

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2745 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Solvable Hill equation

Lee W. Casperson

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2749 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Proton-hydrogen-atom scattering in a nearly resonant laser field

H. Bachau and Robin Shakeshaft

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2752 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

State changing in Rb ( $ns$ , $np$ , $nd$ )-Xe collisions

L. N. Goeller, G. B. McMillian, K. A. Smith, and F. B. Dunning

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2756 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Electron-hydrogen ionization in the presence of a laser field

Sunil K. Mandal and A. S. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2759 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Velocity-dependent total scattering cross sections for metastable helium on Kr and Xe

K. A. Hardy and J. W. Sheldon

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2761 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Coupled optical bistable systems

G. S. Agarwal and S. Dutta Gupta

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2764 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Photoionization of nonexcited electrons from excited atoms

D. Salzmann and R. H. Pratt

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2767 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Static and dynamic shifts of spectral lines

David B. Boercker and Carlos A. Iglesias

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2771 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Search for plasma shifts of C VI, N VII, and O VIII resonance lines

S. Goldsmith, H. R. Griem, and Leonard Cohen

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2775 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Classical particles with spin-possible formulation of many-particle dynamics

L. A. Turski

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2779 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Deviation of the radial distribution function in the Weeks-Chandler-Andersen approximation

Luis F. Rull, F. Cuadros, and J. J. Morales

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2781 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Critical behavior of fluid interfaces in two dimensions

M. Robert

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2785 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Disappearance of chaos and integrability in an externally modulated nonlinear oscillator

Diego L. Gonzalez and Oreste Piro

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2788 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

COMMENTS

Optical spectroscopy of the reaction of He ( $2^{3} S$ ) with $N_{2}$ in a molecular-beam experiment

Oskar Leisin and Harald Morgner

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2791 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

He ( $2^{3} S$ )- $N_{2}$ interactions in high-pressure, electron-beam discharge and low-pressure flowing afterglow experiments

L. W. Downes, S. D. Marcum, W. E. Wells, and R. A. Tilton

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2793 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Appearance of anomalies in the Takatsuka-McKoy variational method: An illustrative example

M. A. Abdel-Raouf

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2794 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Scattering formulation based on an amplitude-independent variational principle

Kazuo Takatsuka and Vincent McKoy

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2799 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Possibility of modification of the Rayleigh line in a nonequilibrium fluid with a constant shear velocity gradient

Debendranath Sahoo and A. K. Sood

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2802 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

ERRATA

Erratum: Two-photon excitation cross section in light and intermediate atoms in frozen-core $LS$ -coupling approximation

K. Omidvar

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2805 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Erratum: Exact solution of some discrete stochastic models with chaos

Robert Graham

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2805 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

Erratum: Second-order perturbative calculation of hydrogenic Zeeman levels

Augustine C. Chen

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2806 (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Product states of $H_{3}^{+}$ , $H_{2}^{+}$ , and $O_{2}^{+}$ electron capture in Cs

J. R. Peterson and Y. K. Bae

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2807(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Validity of the adiabatic nuclei theory for vibrational excitation of molecules by electron impact: The $e$ - $H_{2}$ system

Michael A. Morrison, Andrew N. Feldt, and Bidhan C. Saha

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2811(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multiphoton ionization in chaotic fields with a non-Lorentzian spectrum

G. S. Agarwal and C. V. Kunasz

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2814(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Hyperfine structure of $N_{2}$ ( $B {}^{3}Π_{g}$ and $A {}^{3}Σ_{u}^{+}$ ): Oscillatory $J$ dependence of the ${}^{3}Π_{0, 1}$ hyperfine structure

H. Geisen, D. Neuschäfer, Ch. Ottinger, and A. Sharma

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2817(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Numerical simulation of two-dimensional snowflake growth

David A. Kessler, Joel Koplik, and Herbert Levine

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2820(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Competition between Raman and line-center oscillations in optically pumped far-infrared lasers

M. A. Dupertuis, M. R. Siegrist, and R. R. E. Salomaa

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2824(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Laser-frequency division and stabilization

R. G. DeVoe and R. G. Brewer

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2827(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Integrable sine-Gordon model involving external arbitrary fields

Jérôme JP. Leon

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2830(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Fluctuation effects in Smoluchowski reaction kinetics

K. Kang and S. Redner

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2833(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Onset of convective time dependence in cylindrical containers

H. Gao and R. P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2837(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Singularities in nonlocal interface dynamics

B. Shraiman and D. Bensimon

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2840(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Relationship of thermoelectricity to electronic entropy

Alan L. Rockwood

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2843(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Unified treatment of radiative and dielectronic recombination

G. Alber, J. Cooper, and A. R. P. Rau

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2845(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Vanishing of first-passage times near the limit of metastability

Subodh R. Shenoy

Phys. Rev. A 30, 2849(R) (1984) - Published 1 November, 1984