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                                revised 9/94

                   Information for Authors: SHORT PAPERS

     The  Physical  Review publishes Articles, Rapid  Communications,  Brief
Reports,  and  Comments.  Except for Articles, these are limited in  length.
Each  paper  must have an abstract.  Announcements of planned  research  and
progress reports are not suitable for publication.  A series of short papers
by  the same authors on a particular subject is discouraged; a comprehensive
single regular article is preferred.

     We  encourage  authors to follow a Rapid Communication or a  Letter  in
Physical  Review Letters with the subsequent submission of a longer  version
of  the  same  work, but significant additional material must  be  included.
Neither  Articles  nor  Brief Reports should be followed  by  such  expanded
articles.

                           Short Regular ARTICLES

     Articles  in  the  Physical Review may be short; there  is  no  minimum
length limit.

                            RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

     Rapid  Communications  are  intended for important  new  results  which
deserve  accelerated  publication,  and  are  therefore  given  priority  in
editorial processing and production to minimize the time between receipt and
publication.   Authors  submitting  papers as  Rapid  Communications  should
explain  in  a cover letter why the work justifies this priority  treatment.
Rapid  Communications  are similar to Letters; the principal  difference  is
that  Letters are accessible to a general audience of physicists and  allied
scientists,  while Rapid Communications are primarily for a more specialized
audience,  the usual readers of a particular Physical Review journal (A,  B,
C, D, or E).

                               BRIEF REPORTS

     Brief  Reports are accounts of completed research which do not  warrant
regular  Articles  or the priority handling given to  Rapid  Communications;
however,  the  same  standards of scientific quality  apply.   (Addenda  are
included in Brief Reports.)

                                  COMMENTS

     Comments  criticize  or  correct  specific   papers  of  other  authors
previously  published  in  the Physical Review.  Each Comment  should  state
clearly to which paper it refers and should not contain polemics.