Volume 34, Issue 6

December 1986

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ARTICLES

General Physics, Atomic and Molecular Structure

Specific mass shift for the sup2S ground state of the lithium atom

Frederick W. King

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4543 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Effect of the configuration interaction on the (3snl) ${}^{1}L$ bound states of the magnesium atom

T. N. Chang

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4550 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Theoretical study of the ${}^{1}P$ doubly excited autoionization state of the magnesium atom

T. N. Chang

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4554 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Quantum decay into a continuum at weak bias

Peter Hanggi, Ulrich Weiss, and Peter S. Riseborough

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4558 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Modified perturbation theory for scattering in a laser field

Leonard Rosenberg

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4567 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Gradient correction in Thomas-Fermi theory

Weitao Yang

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4575 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Various functionals for the kinetic energy density of an atom or molecule

Weitao Yang, Robert G. Parr, and Chengteh Lee

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4586 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Projection-operator calculations of the lowest $e^{-}$ -He resonance

A. Berk, A. K. Bhatia, B. R. Junker, and A. Temkin

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4591 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Time-dependent harmonic oscillator with variable mass under the action of a driving force

M. Sebawe Abdalla

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4598 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Evaluation of first- and second-order nonadiabatic coupling elements from large multiconfigurational self-consistent-field wave functions

H. Ågren, A. Flores-Riveros, and H. J. Aa. Jensen

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4606 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Square-well potential by an algebraic approach

S. Kais and R. D. Levine

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4615 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Path-integral treatment of the Hulthén potential

J. M. Cai, P. Y. Cai, and A. Inomata

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4621 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Generalized exchange local-spin-density-functional theory: Introduction and theory

S. Manoli and M. A. Whitehead

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4629 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

First-order perturbed wave functions for the hydrogen atom in a harmonic uniform external electric field

Viorica Florescu and Tudor Marian

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4641 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Atomic and Molecular Collision Processes and Interactions

Collision kernels and transport coefficients

P. R. Berman, J. E. M. Haverkort, and J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4647 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Investigation of some features of the single-electron-loss process of $H^{-}$

M. M. Duncan, M. G. Menendez, C. B. Mauldin, and J. L. Hopkins

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4657 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Electron loss from Na Rydberg atoms by ion impact

K. B. MacAdam, N. L. S. Martin, D. B. Smith, R. G. Rolfes, and and D. Richards

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4661 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Alignment and orientation parameters for proton-impact ionization of the 2p and 3p shells of argon

D. H. Madison and K. Bartschat

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4669 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Single and double charge transfer in ${Be}^{4 +}$ +He collisions: A molecular (Feshbach) approach

F. Martín, A. Riera, and M. Yáez

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4675 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Use of general potentials in multiple-scattering theory

C. R. Natoli, M. Benfatto, and S. Doniach

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4682 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Compton profiles and other momentum-space properties of $N_{2}$

Ajit J. Thakkar, J. W. Liu, and Walter J. Stevens

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4695 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Electron-impact excitation of ions in the magnesium sequence. II. S v, Ar vii, Ca ix, Cr xiii, and Ni xvii

R. B. Christensen, D. W. Norcross, and A. K. Pradhan

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4704 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Semiclassical complex-energy quantization for coupled equations: Feshbach resonances and predissociation

R. Möhlenkamp and H. J. Korsch

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4716 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

Core-excited quartet and doublet states of B iii

Y. Baudinet-Robinet, H. P. Garnir, and P. D. Dumont

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4722 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Entropy production in stopping atoms with laser light

Martin E. Carrera-Patio and R. Stephen Berry

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4728 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Treatment of the hydrogen atom in an electric field by the path-integral formalism

L. Chetouani and T. F. Hammann

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4737 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Dielectronic satellite spectra of hydrogenlike chromium

K. R. Karim and C. P. Bhalla

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4743 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Excitation rate coefficient measurements of Cu xiii and Cu xvii ions

R. U. Datla, J. R. Roberts, W. L. Rowan, and J. B. Mann

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4751 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Extensive relativistic-random-phase-approximation study of photoionization from atomic ytterbium

P. C. Deshmukh and S. T. Manson

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4757 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Investigation of the dynamic Stark effect in a J=0→1→0 three-level system. III. The ‘‘strong-probe’’ case

P. T. H. Fisk, H.-A. Bachor, and R. J. Sandeman

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4762 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Relaxation processes of resonances in ${SiH}_{4}$ in the vicinity of the silicon 2p threshold

G. G. B. de Souza, P. Morin, and I. Nenner

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4770 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Electron-impact excitation of the resonance transition in ${Be}^{+}$ : An ab initio treatment of core-correlation and -polarization effects

F. A. Parpia, D. W. Norcross, and F. J. da Paixao

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4777 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Theory of laser-induced transitions between autoionizing states of He

H. Bachau, P. Lambropoulos, and Robin Shakeshaft

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4785 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Change in total angular momentum within the z ${}^{3}°$ titanium excited state induced by collisions with ground-state argon, neon, and helium atoms

D. Dezert, V. Quichaud, D. Degout, and A. Catherinot

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4793 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Observation of two-zone Ramsey fringes using laser Stark spectroscopy of a molecular beam

A. G. Adam, T. E. Gough, N. R. Isenor, G. Scoles, and J. Shelley

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4803 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Related Topics

Three-dimensional theory of the free-electron laser. I. Gain and evolution of optical modes

Avner Amir and Yuval Greenzweig

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4809 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Transient and asymptotic small-signal gain in laser amplifiers

F. A. Hopf, J. Bergou, and S. Varró

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4821 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Anharmonic forced Rayleigh scattering

Daniel J. McGraw and Joel M. Harris

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4829 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Even-harmonic generation in free-electron lasers

M. J. Schmitt and C. J. Elliott

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4843 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Propagation of a Gaussian wave packet in an absorbing medium

Masayoshi Tanaka, Masami Fujiwara, and Hideo Ikegami

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4851 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Spontaneous generation of coherent optical beats

Wolfgang Wöger, Harald King, Roy J. Glauber, and Joseph W. Haus

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4859 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Multiphoton transition in the Tavis-Cummings model

M. Sebawe Abdalla, S. S. Hassan, and A. -S. F. Obada

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4869 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Free-electron-laser gain degradation and electron-beam quality

W. B. Colson, J. C. Gallardo, and P. M. Bosco

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4875 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Atomic-level shifts in a squeezed vacuum

G. J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4882 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Brightness and duration of x-ray line sources irradiated with intense 0.53-μm laser light at 60 and 120 ps pulse width

D. W. Phillion and C. J. Hailey

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4886 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Fixed bound atom interacting with a coherent pulse of quantized radiation: Excitation and short-time behavior

J. Jeener and F. Henin

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4897 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Quantum theory of nondegenerate four-wave mixing

M. D. Reid and D. F. Walls

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4929 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Plasmas and Fluids

Eckhaus boundary and wave-number selection in rotating Couette-Taylor flow

M. A. Dominguez-Lerma, David S. Cannell, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4956 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Liapunov exponents from time series

J. -P. Eckmann, S. Oliffson Kamphorst, D. Ruelle, and S. Ciliberto

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4971 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Dendritic growth in a channel

David A. Kessler, Joel Koplik, and Herbert Levine

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4980 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Scattering below the sol-gel transition

James E. Martin and Keith D. Keefer

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4988 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Low-temperature relaxation in glassy systems

Udayan Mohanty

Phys. Rev. A 34, 4993 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Onset of the first instability in hydrodynamic flows: Effect of parametric modulation

Krishna Kumar, Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee, and Kalyan Banerjee

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5000 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

Diffusion-limited aggregation without branching in the continuum approximation

M. E. Cates

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5007 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Tilt-angle, polarization, and heat-capacity measurements near the smectic-A–chiral-smectic-C phase transition of p-(n-decyloxybenzylidene)-p-amino-(2-methylbutyl)cinnamate (DOBAMBC)

S. Dumrongrattana, C. C. Huang, G. Nounesis, S. C. Lien, and J. M. Viner

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5010 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Generalized mean-field model for the smectic-A–chiral-smectic-C phase transition

C. C. Huang and S. Dumrongrattana

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5020 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Evidence for scaling in an interfacial growth instability: The solid case

Hong Guo and David Jasnow

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5027 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Textures in a chiral smectic liquid-crystal film

Stephen A. Langer and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5035 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Kinetic model for steady heat flow

A. Santos, J. J. Brey, and V. Garzó

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5047 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Third-harmonic-generation study of orientational order in nematic liquid crystals

K. Y. Wong and A. F. Garito

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5051 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Dynamics of a Lennard-Jones system close to the glass transition

U. Bengtzelius

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5059 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Exchange and correlation potential for a two-dimensional electron gas at finite temperatures

S. Phatisena, R. E. Amritkar, and P. V. Panat

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5070 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Effective classical partition functions

R. P. Feynman and H. Kleinert

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5080 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Theory of growth of ballistic aggregates

A. V. Limaye and R. E. Amritkar

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5085 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Ballistic deposition on surfaces

Paul Meakin, P. Ramanlal, L. M. Sander, and R. C. Ball

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5091 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental Concepts

Relativistic correction to equilibrium bond lengths for heavy, almost spherical molecules

N. H. March

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5104 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Dimensionality dependence of energy of heavy positive ions and the 1/Z expansion

N. H. March

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5106 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Shifted 1/N expansion for energy eigenvalues of the exponential cosine screened Coulomb potential

Barnana Roy

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5108 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Atomic and Molecular Collision Processes and Interactions

Analysis of secondary-electron emission in beam-foil experiments with molecular ions

N. R. Arista, M. M. Jakas, G. H. Lantschner, and J. C. Eckardt

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5112 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Interaction with Radiation

Relaxation of optically pumped Cs in wall-coated cells

V. Liberman and R. J. Knize

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5115 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Application of the Sturmian expansion to multiphoton absorption by hydrogen above the ionization threshold

Robin Shakeshaft

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5119 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Argon K suprathreshold structure

K. G. Dyall and R. E. LaVilla

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5123 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Thick-target bremsstrahlung spectra generated by the β particles of ${}^{90}-^{90}$ Y and ${}^{99}{Tc}$

K. Gopala, B. Rudraswamy, P. Venkataramaiah, and H. Sanjeeviah

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5126 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Plasmas and Fluids

Solution of Percus’s equation for the density of hard rods in an external field

T. K. Vanderlick, L. E. Scriven, and H. T. Davis

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5130 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Statistical Physics, Biological Physics, and Many-Body Topics

Search for 1/f fluctuations in α decay

W. V. Prestwich, T. J. Kennett, and G. T. Pepper

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5132 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

COMMENTS

Comment on ‘‘Renormalization-group analysis of the global structure of the period-doubling attractor’’

Erik Aurell

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5135 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

ERRATA

Erratum: Complete integrability of coupled quartic anharmonic oscillators

R. Sahadevan and M. Lakshmanan

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5137 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

Erratum: Chaos and incoherence in a model of multiple-photon excitation of molecular vibrations [Phys. Rev. A 34, 1211 (1986)]

Jay R. Ackerhalt and P. W. Milonni

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5137 (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Remeasurement of the Rydberg constant

Ping Zhao, W. Lichten, H. P. Layer, and J. C. Bergquist

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5138(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Physical origins of high-order nonadiabatic molecular electric polarizabilities: Application to a twentieth-order perturbation study of $H_{2}^{+}$

Jeremiah N. Silverman and David M. Bishop

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5142(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Ionization of low Rydberg He atoms by rotational deexcitation of N $H_{3}$

A. Pesnelle, C. Ronge, M. Perdrix, and G. Watel

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5146(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multipole-specific, model-independent, velocity-change spectra of collisionally perturbed ${}^{3}P_{1}$ -state ${}^{174}{Yb}$ atoms

A. G. Yodh, T. W. Mossberg, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5150(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Electron-impact ionization of laser-excited ${}^{138}{Ba} (\dots 5 p^{6} 6 s 6 p)$ and ${}^{138}{Ba} (\dots 5 p^{6} 6 s 5 d)$ atoms

S. Trajmar, J. C. Nickel, and T. Antoni

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5154(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Angular distributions of $N_{2} {(2 σ_{u})}^{- 1}$ photoelectrons including the effects of coupling to the $N_{2} {(3 σ_{g})}^{- 1}$ channel

Bryan Basden and Robert R. Lucchese

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5158(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multiple minima in ground-state photoionization: Interchannel coupling at high $Z$

Pranawa C. Deshmukh, Vojislav Radojevic, and Steven T. Manson

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5162(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multielectron photoionization to the $3 p^{4} 4 p$ configuration of ${Ar}^{+}$ : Experiment and theory

W. T. Silfvast, D. Y. Al-Salameh, and O. R. Wood II

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5164(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

X-ray absorption studies of two-electron-one-photon excitations in krypton

Moshe Deutsch and Michael Hart

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5168(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Laser-induced third-harmonic generation in forbidden regions

P. R. Blazewicz, M. G. Payne, W. R. Garrett, and John C. Miller

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5171(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Narrow fingers in the Saffman-Taylor instability

Y. Couder, N. Gérard, and M. Rabaud

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5175(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Brochard-Leger wall in liquid crystals

Wang Xin-Yi

Phys. Rev. A 34, 5179(R) (1986) - Published 1 December, 1986