Showing papers in "Physics Reports in 1991"

TL;DR: In this article, the formation processes of neutron stars in interacting binaries, and the subsequent evolution of such systems are discussed, as well as the effect of various types of accretion (from a stellar wind and by Roche-lobe overflow) on the spin evolution of accreting magnetized neutron stars.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed derivation of the quantum molecular dynamics equation, discussed the various approximations necessary to derive this equation and to make actual calculations feasible, is presented, and the calculations presented aim at the solution of two of the most interesting questions of contemporary heavy ion physics: What causes a nucleus to fragment into many heavy pieces, and can we determine the nuclear equation of state from heavy ion reactions?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the properties of quasifree states of a linear, scalar quantum field in globally hyperbolic spacetimes possessing a one-parameter group of isometries with a bifurcate Killing horizon.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present techniques and results that are useful in the calculation of cross sections for processes with many final state partons which have applications in the study of multi-jet phenomena in high-energy Colliders.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the potential-model approach is presented, together with a brief survey of the motivations for various potential models and the application of the developed theoretical framework.

TL;DR: A review of the basic physics underlying the r-process, the operation of the mechanisms for rprocess nucleosynthesis, the possible astrophysical sites, their time evolution in galactic evolution models, and the inferred ages of the Galaxy can be found in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the theory of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability of accelerated fluid layers is systematically developed from basic fluid equations, starting with the classical potential flow theory for moving contact surfaces, the discussion extends to various fluid systems describing inhomogeneous, viscous, compressible, and isobaric flows.

TL;DR: In this article, various theories describing the vibrational energy transfer in molecules are summarized with a special emphasis on nonlinear resonances, and a large bibliography supplements the text with references from a large number of references.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the Brownian motion in the washboard potential and calculate the lifetime of a zero-voltage state, running state, partial probabilities of phase jumps, and retrapping current distribution in both the classical and quantum regimes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new parametrization of the nucleon-nucleus optical-model potential based on data for A = 40 to 209, protons energies of 16 to 65 MeV and neutron energies of 10 to 26 MeV, including extensive polarized-beam data.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the development of the projection-operator formalism of Feshbach towards a comprehensive theory of resonance and threshold effects in electron-molecule collisions is given.

TL;DR: In this article, a model construction approach is applied to characteristic examples from different social sciences, such as sociology, demography, regional science and economics, to describe collective political opinion formation, to interregional migration of interactive populations, to settlement formation on the micro-, meso-and macroscale, and to nonlinear nonequilibrium economics, including market instabilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review a theory of freezing based on the density-functional approach and compare a variety of its versions, and discuss the application of the theory to the freezing of various simple and complex fluids.

TL;DR: In this article, the semiclassical close-coupling description of atomic collisions, in an energy range of roughly 0.1 up to a few hundred keV per nucleon of the projectile, is reviewed with emphasis on recent progress in its application to a wide range of collision phenomena.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that if these arguments are applied to the ongoing experiment to measure the gravitational acceleration of the antiproton, they do not rule out a large anomalous gravitational response for the antroton.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of symmetry breaking in 4-fermion models in 2 + 1 dimensions were quantitatively studied using the 1/N expansion and showed that these models are renormalizable in this framework, in spite of their non-renormalizability in weak coupling expansion.

TL;DR: The above threshold ionization (ATI) phenomenon was discovered in 1979 and is now expected to be a universal phenomenon observable in all atomic species as discussed by the authors, at intensities above 1 TW/cm 2.

TL;DR: The complete results of the experiments carried out with the neutral detector at the e + e − storage ring VEPP-2M in the energy range 2 E = 0.5 − 1.4 GeV are reviewed in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed description of quasiequilibrium systems in which phase transitions are accompanied by heterophase fluctuations is given, which lead to the appearance of the so-called pretransitional, or precursor, phenomena.

TL;DR: In this paper, a threshold anomaly in the dependence on energy of the optical model potential that describes their elastic scattering and a strong enhancement of their fusion cross sections in this energy region is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of data on the DC conductivity and on the frequency dependent (up to 1 MHz) dielectric properties of polynuclear metal cluster compounds is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review recent theoretical and experimental work on laser-induced excitation of atomic Rydberg wave packets and discuss generation and detection of wave packets by short and/or intense laser pulses.

TL;DR: Rainbow scattering from solid surfaces is discussed for beams of particles with energies from thermal to more than 1 MeV in this paper, and it is demonstrated to be a singularity in the classical scattering cross section.

TL;DR: In this article, a review describes a number of surprising phenomena that have emerged from detailed experimental and theoretical studies of this strongly perturbed quantum system throughout the entire range of the experimentally accessible parameters.

TL;DR: Emission channeling allows the lattice location of radioactive probe atoms in crystalline solids by measuring channeling effects of electrons, positrons or α particles emitted in the nuclear decay as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the scale and chiral anomalies in quantum chromodynamics and their implications for the theory of hadrons are discussed and the subtle question of the multiloop corrections is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the second-order double-scattering contribution to the ion-ion t ϱ 1 ϱ 2 interaction is calculated and found to contribute at most an effect of 10% on σ R.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the use of dual vector potentials rather than the standard magnetic vector potential potentials to describe QCD, particularly in the infrared regime, is presented.