Physical Review Style and Notation Guide

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Physical ReviewStyle and Notation GuideInstructions for correct Notation and stylein preparation of REVTEX compuscripts and conventional manuscriptsCompiled and edited byAnne Waldron, Peggy Judd, and Valerie MillerPublished byThe American Physical SocietyFirst Edition July 1983Revised February 1993Minor Revision June 2005Minor Revision June 2011Copyright 1993, by The American Physical SocietyPermissionis granted to quote from this journal with the customary acknowledgment of the source. To reprint a figure, tableor other excerpt requires, in addition, the consent of one of the original authors and notification of copying feeis required when copies of articles are made for educational or research purposes by individuals or libraries (including thoseat government and industrial institutions).Republicationor reproduction for sale of articles or abstracts in this journal ispermitted only under license from APS; in addition, APS may require that permission also be obtained from one of the inquiries to the APS Administrative Editor (Editorial Office, 1 Research Rd.)

merals as superscripts (Jones1) or on line [Jones (Ref. 1) or Jones, Ref. 1]. Superscript numbers are always placed after a comma, period, quotation marks, colon, and semicolon (Jones,1 Jones.1 Jones"1 Jones:1 Jones;1). For Physical Review A, C, D, E, and Letters, references use on-line numerals in square brackets (Jones [1]); these

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