Volume 32, Issue 6

December 1985

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ARTICLES

General Physics, Atomic and Molecular Structure

Discrete basis-set approach for calculating Bethe logarithms

Susan E. Haywood and John D. Morgan, III

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3179 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Quantum electrodynamics based on self-energy: Lamb shift and spontaneous emission without field quantization

A. O. Barut and J. F. Van Huele

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3187 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Sum rules and other properties involving resonance projection operators

A. Berk and A. Temkin

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3196 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Cyclotron motion in a microwave cavity: Lifetime and frequency shifts

Lowell S. Brown, Gerald Gabrielse, Kristian Helmerson, and Joseph Tan

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3204 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Use of the Fock expansion for ${}^{1}{state}$ wave functions of two-electron atoms and ions

James M. Feagin, Joseph Macek, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3219 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Interfering resonances and bound states in the continuum

H. Friedrich and D. Wintgen

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3231 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Analytical wave functions for atomic quantum-defect theory

V. Alan Kostelecký and Michael Martin Nieto

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3243 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Partial widths and interchannel coupling in autoionizing states in terms of complex eigenvalues and complex coordinates

Cleanthes A. Nicolaides and Theodoros Mercouris

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3247 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Simplified solutions of the Dirac-Coulomb equation

Jeng-Yih Su

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3251 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Coupling of a high-sensitivity superconducting amplifier to a gravitational-wave antenna

P. Carelli, M. G. Castellano, C. Cosmelli, V. Foglietti, and I. Modena

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3258 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Reversible logic and quantum computers

Asher Peres

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3266 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Analytic properties of the relativistic Thomas-Fermi equation and the total energy of atomic ions

G. Senatore and N. H. March

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3277 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Finite-element solution of the Schrödinger equation for the helium ground state

F. S. Levin and J. Shertzer

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3285 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Atomic and Molecular Collision Processes and Interactions

Atomic collisions with relativistic heavy ions. III. Electron capture

W. E. Meyerhof, R. Anholt, J. Eichler, H. Gould, Ch. Munger, J. Alonso, P. Thieberger, and H. E. Wegner

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3291 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Atomic collisions with relativistic heavy ions. IV. Projectile K-shell ionization

R. Anholt, W. E. Meyerhof, H. Gould, Ch. Munger, J. Alonso, P. Thieberger, and H. E. Wegner

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3302 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Low-energy total-electron-capture cross sections for fully stripped and H-like projectiles incident on H and $H_{2}$

F. W. Meyer, A. M. Howald, C. C. Havener, and R. A. Phaneuf

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3310 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Charge transfer and ionization of lithium by protons and helium ions

R. D. DuBois

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3319 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Electric field enhancement of depolarization of excited states

Munir H. Nayfeh, G. B. Hillard, and W. L. Glab

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3324 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Ionization in Rydberg-atom– ${SF}_{6}$ collisions at high n

B. G. Zollars, C. Higgs, F. Lu, C. W. Walter, L. G. Gray, K. A. Smith, F. B. Dunning, and R. F. Stebbings

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3330 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Scattering of electrons from argon atoms

Arati Dasgupta and A. K. Bhatia

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3335 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Electron excitation of Na(3S) and Na(3P) atoms to the Na(3D) state

B. Stumpf and A. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3344 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Improved impact-parameter method for electronic excitation and dissociation of diatomic molecules by electron impact

Michael J. Redmon, Bruce C. Garrett, Lynn T. Redmon, and C. W. McCurdy

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3354 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Electronic excitation and dissociation of $O_{2}$ and $S_{2}$ by electron impact

Bruce C. Garrett, Lynn T. Redmon, C. W. McCurdy, and Michael J. Redmon

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3366 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

Nonperturbative dynamical-group approach to the quadratic Zeeman effect

Christopher C. Gerry and Jeffery Laub

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3376 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Effects of angular-momentum-changing electron collisions and radiative corrections on dielectronic satellite spectra

V. L. Jacobs, J. E. Rogerson, M. H. Chen, and R. D. Cowan

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3382 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Extension of the recursive-residue-generation method to the degenerate case

André Nauts and Xavier Chapuisat

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3403 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Multiphoton excitation and decay processes in xenon: Off-breakdown and breakdown emission at densities up to 1.4× $10^{21}$ atoms ${cm}^{- 3}$

N. Damany, P. Laporte, J.-L. Subtil, and H. Damany

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3418 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Asymptotic theory of the strongly asymmetric two-Coulomb-center problem

T. P. Grozdanov, R. K. Janev, and V. Yu. Lazur

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3425 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

Broadband and adiabatic inversion of a two-level system by phase-modulated pulses

J. Baum, R. Tycko, and A. Pines

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3435 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Off-axis electron orbits in realistic helical wigglers for free-electron-laser applications

J. Fajans, D. A. Kirkpatrick, and G. Bekefi

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3448 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Nonlinear susceptibility of $H_{2}$ and $D_{2}$ accurately measured over a wide range of wavelengths

Victor Mizrahi and D. P. Shelton

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3454 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Transient sum-frequency generation in resonant three-level media

John A. Benda, Daniel J. Gauthier, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3461 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Time-delayed four-wave mixing using intense incoherent light

R. Beach, D. DeBeer, and S. R. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3467 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Strong laser-atom interaction in the presence of jump-process-type noise: The Bourret approach

G. Hazak, M. Strauss, and J. Oreg

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3475 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Monte Carlo calculations of switching-time statistics in a two-mode laser

K. P. N. Murthy and S. Dattagupta

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3481 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Quantum coherence and interference of damped free particles

C. M. Savage and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3487 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Plasmas and Fluids

Thermal convection under external modulation of the driving force. I. The Lorenz model

Guenter Ahlers, P. C. Hohenberg, and M. Lücke

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3493 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Thermal convection under external modulation of the driving force. II. Experiments

Guenter Ahlers, P. C. Hohenberg, and M. Lücke

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3519 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Laser-driven shock-wave studies using optical shadowgraphy

F. Amiranoff, R. Fedosejevs, R. F. Schmalz, R. Sigel, and Yung-lu Teng

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3535 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Quantum oscillator with stable noise: Path integrals and fractal scaling

Subir K. Bose, K. Datta, and P. Feinsilver

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3547 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Phase dynamics for incommensurate nonequilibrium systems

Helmut R. Brand

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3551 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Kinetic stability properties of nonrelativistic non-neutral electron flow in a planar diode with applied magnetic field

Ronald C. Davidson and Han S. Uhm

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3554 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Ion motion and emission profiles in low-pressure cylindrical discharges

Christopher C. Davis

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3566 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Superhot-x-ray and -electron transport in high-intensity ${CO}_{2}$ -laser–plasma interactions

G. D. Enright and N. H. Burnett

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3578 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Analysis of the electronic properties of extremely condensed matter by the discrete-variational Xα method: Application to cold dense neon plasma

Kazumi Fujima, Tsutomu Watanabe, and Hirohiko Adachi

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3585 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Electrolyte friction and the Langevin equation for charged Brownian particles

Magdaleno Medina-Noyola and Alejandro Vizcarra-Rendón

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3596 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Large-cell Monte Carlo renormalization of irreversible growth processes

Hisao Nakanishi and Fereydoon Family

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3606 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Schrödinger wave holography in brain cortex

Renato Nobili

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3618 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Comparison between average-atom and detailed-configuration-type calculations of the photoionization cross section of hot and dense aluminum plasmas

David Salzmann, R. Y. Yin, and R. H. Pratt

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3627 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Relaxation times in a bistable system with parametric, white noise: Theory and experiment

J. M. Sancho, R. Mannella, P. V. E. McClintock, and Frank Moss

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3639 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

EPR probe study of the molecular dynamics of the supercooled liquid, the glass state, and the glass transition in liquid-crystalline MBBA [n-(p-methoxybenzlidene)-p-butylaniline]

Johanan Isaac Spielberg and Edward Gelerinter

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3647 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Equations of state of a single polymer chain

R. A. Guyer and J. A. Y. Johnson

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3661 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Coordinate transformation of the six-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation: Calculation of the Kramers rate constant

R. S. Larson and M. D. Kostin

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3665 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Electric field dependence of transient electron transport properties in rare-gas moderators

B. Shizgal and D. R. A. McMahon

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3669 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Information theory and the linear-response approach

E. Duering, D. Otero, A. Plastino, and A. Proto

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3681 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Interaction of a laser-produced plasma with a solid surface

M. A. Mazing, P. Ya. Pirogovskiy, A. P. Shevelko, and L. P. Presnyakov

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3695 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Scanning method as an unbiased simulation technique and its application to the study of self-attracting random walks

Hagai Meirovitch

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3699 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Computer simulation of the free energy of polymer chains with excluded volume and with finite interactions

Hagai Meirovitch

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3709 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Chaos and nonunitary evolution in nonintegrable Hamiltonian systems

Tomio Y. Petrosky

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3716 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Classical fluid in a periodic potential and the density-functional approach

E. Roman and W. Dieterich

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3726 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

New approximate renormalization method on fractals

Kumiko Hattori, Tetsuya Hattori, and Hiroshi Watanabe

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3730 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

BRIEF REPORTS

Absence of electric even-multipole transitions in bound systems of two equal-mass but oppositely charged particles

C. K. Au

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3734 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Construction of solvable Hill equations

Su-Miau Wu and Chun-Ching Shih

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3736 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

L-shell x-ray-production cross sections in lead by proton bombardment (240–440 keV)

H. Moheb, R. Bigaouette, and F. W. Inman

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3739 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Multiphoton ionization of Na and K in a modest electric field

Y. Teraoka, Y. Sato, and J. Murakami

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3742 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Photodetachment of the positronium negative ion

A. K. Bhatia and Richard J. Drachman

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3745 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Analytic solutions of the two-state problem for a class of chirped pulses

Jakub Zakrzewski

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3748 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Stability of a biaxial phase in a binary mixture of nematic liquid crystals

S. R. Sharma, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Bergersen, and D. A. Dunmur

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3752 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Parametrized equation of state for dense hydrogenic plasmas

Shigenori Tanaka and Setsuo Ichimaru

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3756 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Power spectrum of chaotic motion near a crisis of a one-dimensional map

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi and Hiroaki Minowa

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3758 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Pattern formation in viscous fingering: A diffusion-limited aggregation approach

Muhammad Sahimi and Yanis C. Yortsos

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3762 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Lennard-Jones triple-point conductivity via weak external fields: Additional calculations

W. G. Hoover, G. Ciccotti, G. Paolini, and C. Massobrio

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3765 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

Finite precision and transient behavior

B. A. Huberman and W. F. Wolff

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3768 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamical theory of classical surface plasmas

Kenneth I. Golden and De-xin Lu

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3771 (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Inelastic and adiabatic contributions to atomic polarizability

G. Grynberg and M. Pinard

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3772(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Fine structure of perturbed Rydberg states in berylliumlike $S^{12 +}$

A. J. Mazure, A. E. Livingston, E. J. Galvez, and S. J. Hinterlong

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3775(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Generalized oscillator strengths for the 3s $^{2}$ S→3p $^{2}$ P transition in Mg ii

Alfred Z. Msezane and Ronald J. W. Henry

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3778(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Recoil in electron-atom scattering

J. R. Manson and R. H. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3782(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Discrepancy between theory and experiment for nonplanar symmetric (e,2e) momentum profiles of $H_{2}$ $(^{1}$ $Σ_{g}^{+}$ )

J. W. Liu

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3784(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Angular distribution of photoelectrons from above-threshold ionization of Xe

H. J. Humpert, H. Schwier, R. Hippler, and H. O. Lutz

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3787(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

a.c. Stark shifts in resonant multiphoton ionization of nitric oxide

W. R. Garrett, W. R. Ferrell, J. C. Miller, and M. G. Payne

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3790(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Laser-spectroscopic investigation and detection of Rydberg atoms by off-resonant core excitation

W. Sandner, G. A. Ruff, V. Lange, and U. Eichmann

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3794(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Statistical analysis of spectra for polyatomic molecules: Methanol

A. Ferretti and N. K. Rahman

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3797(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Electron spectroscopy at thresholds in single and double multiphoton ionization of strontium

P. Agostini and G. Petite

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3800(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Observation of optical phase-sensitive noise on a light beam transmitted through sodium vapor

Mari W. Maeda, Prem Kumar, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3803(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Application of a rescaled mean spherical approximation to strongly interacting ionic micellar solutions

Eric Y. Sheu, Chuan-Fu Wu, Sow-Hsin Chen, and Lesser Blum

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3807(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nematic liquid crystals in a stochastic magnetic field: Spatial correlations

M. San Miguel

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3811(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Fractal structure and cluster statistics of zinc-metal trees de- posited on a line electrode

M. Matsushita, Y. Hayakawa, and Y. Sawada

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3814(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Capillary condensation versus prewetting

R. Evans and U. Marini Bettolo Marconi

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3817(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Theory of stepped pulses in negative corona discharges

R. Morrow

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3821(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Dynamic scaling and the surface structure of Eden clusters

Michael Plischke and Zoltán Rácz

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3825(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Cluster growth model for treelike structures

S. Havlin, R. Nossal, and B. Trus

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3829(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Derivation of the diffusion equation and radiation boundary condition from the Fokker-Planck equation

S. V. G. Menon and D. C. Sahni

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3832(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Experimental evidence of three-mode quasiperiodicity and chaos in a single longitudinal, multi-transverse-mode cw ${CO}_{2}$ laser

Dhruba J. Biswas and Robert G. Harrison

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3835(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Two-dimensional self-avoiding walks

Anders Rosengren

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3838(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Thermoundulations versus convection instability in cholesteric liquid crystals: A novel type of pattern competition

Harald Pleiner and Helmut R. Brand

Phys. Rev. A 32, 3842(R) (1985) - Published 1 December, 1985