Showing papers in "Physics Reports in 1995"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the theoretical formulation of supersymmetric quantum mechanics and discuss many applications, including shape invariance and operator transformations, and show that a supersymmetry inspired WKB approximation is exact for a class of shape invariant potentials.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present explicit models for a symmetry breakdown in the cases of the Weyl (or homothetic) group, the SL(4, R), or the GL(4-R) covering subgroup.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review recent progress in 2D gravity coupled to d < 1 conformal matter, based on a representation of discrete gravity in terms of random matrices and discuss the saddle point approximation for these models, including a class of related O(n) matrix models.

TL;DR: Kinetic interfaces form the basis of a fascinating, interdisciplinary branch of statistical mechanics as mentioned in this paper, which can be unified via an intriguing nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation whose consequences and generalizations have mobilized a sizeable community of physicists concerned with a statistical description of kinetically roughened surfaces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the possibility that the superconducting state of these materials is characterized by d x 2 − y 2 pairing and showed that this type of pairing might be favored in a strongly correlated system with a short-range Coulomb interaction.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the quantum phase-space distribution functions with emphasis on both the fundamental characteristics and practical applications of the distribution functions is given, with particular attention to the Wigner distribution function and the Husimi distribution function.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of heavy ion dynamics and discuss the collision process within a three-step scenario, including fragmentation into many pieces of the interacting nuclei.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the quantitative science that can be and has been done with redshift and peculiar velocity surveys of galaxies in the nearby universe, and discuss in some detail the various quantitative cosmological tests that can also be carried out with the redshift data.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of perturbative many-body descriptions of several nuclear systems is presented, including symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter and finite nuclei with few valence particles.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the particle astrophysics of high energy neutrinos is presented, where high energy is defined as E v > 100 MeV and E v ≥ 1 MeV.

TL;DR: In this article, the antibracket formalism for gauge theories, at both the classical and quantum level, is reviewed, and the basic concepts involved in the ant-branch formalism are elucidated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the state-of-the-art in the field of high-temperature superconductivity in transition-metal oxides, focusing on the low energy excitations, the topology of the Fermi surface in the normal state, and the superconducting gap.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mechanisms which give rise to the Hawking radiation were revealed by analyzing in detail pair production in the presence of horizons, and special emphasis was put on how each produced particle contributes to the mean albeit arising from a particular vacuum fluctuation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of current experimental studies on optical properties of porous Si and related materials, and discuss the mechanism of strong visible luminescence from Si nanocrystallites that have unique optical properties.

TL;DR: In this article, the application of hyperspherical coordinates in a unified treatment of bound states and resonances of two-electron atomic systems and other general Coulomb three-body systems is reviewed.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review paper on the theory and phenomenology of polarized deep inelastic scattering is presented in this paper, where the authors present a set of experiments and experiments with polarized DIRs.

TL;DR: A wide variety of experiments have added perturbations to the S-T problem in order to learn more about the dynamics of driven interfaces and about the relation of material properties to dynamical pattern evolution as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, various analytical approximation methods for following the evolution of cosmological density perturbations into the strong (i.e., nonlinear) clustering regime are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the theoretical foundation underlying surface depth profiling at the molecular level using X-ray and neutron specular reflectometry is presented. But the authors do not discuss the use of specular reflection data in the analysis of surface-layer microemulsions.

TL;DR: In this article, the behavior of a low-dimensional quantal system whose classical, deterministic, Hamiltonian counterpart is non-integrable and undergoes a transition to chaos is investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general expression for the kinematic scattering cross-section of X-rays and neutrons impinging on an arbitrary interfacial structure is derived based on the distorted wave Born approximation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a simple C + O star that has lost both H and He envelopes after common envelope phase and showed that common envelope evolution in massive close binary stars leads to various degree of stripping of the envelope mass of massive star.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed overview of the experimental results on Schottky-barrier heights, scattering effects, and homogeneity of metal/semiconductor interfaces is given.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Parton Cascade Model is proposed to describe the early stage of heavy ion collisions at collider energies. But the model is not suitable for the case of particle collisions in complete phase space.

TL;DR: In this article, a generalized free field model for hot, dense matter is presented, where propagators and diagram rules for generalized free fields are discussed using the formalism of thermo field dynamics.

TL;DR: In this article, the trajectories of the blastwave shock in the ambient medium and for the reverse shock propagating back into the supernova ejecta for the case in which both the ambient and the ejecta have uniform density.

TL;DR: Weak turbulence theory presents a regular method for a statistical description of nonlinear wave interactions as discussed by the authors, and it is shown that the turbulence spectra are highly anisotropic and take the form of "jets" in k-space and the onset of a steady state is nontrivial and sometimes does not occur at all.

TL;DR: In this article, various versions of perturbation theory, classical and semiclassical methods, Fermi pseudopotential model, impulse approximation and quasimolecular approach are compared.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of elastic and piezoelectric nonlinearity on the propagation of surface acoustic waves are discussed and methods for their theoretical analysis are described, including wave form evolution of surface waves propagating over long distances and the possibilities of waves of permanent form and localization of shear waves at the surface.