Converse of the Eilers-Horst theorem

Joseph Slawny

S. Balibar

With their 1963 article in Cryogenics Horst Meyer and his collaborators triggered intense research activity on the evaporation of superfluid helium. Discussing this subject with him in 1975 was enlightening. Fifty years later, the analogy between the photoelectric effect and the evaporation of superfluid helium in the low temperature limit is not yet clear, although remarkable progress has been made in its observation and its understanding. This special issue of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics is an opportunity to recall the history of quantum evaporation, and to express my gratitude to Horst Meyer. It describes quickly most of the experimental and theoretical works which have been published on quantum evaporation during the last 50 years, but it is not a comprehensive review of this fascinating subject.

Thomas Drisch

A. Recknagel

Josip Hendeković, Milica Pavlović, Franjo Sokolić

G. Barton

Erich W Schmid and Horst Ziegelmann Braunschweig: F Vieweg 1974 pp vi + 218 price DM 58 Up till now, neither textbooks nor monographs on quantum mechanics or scattering theory have, on the whole, given proper weight to the fact that in quantum mechanics the three body problem has been solved. Since its solution is a major achievement of mathematical physics, such omissions were regrettable and increasingly hard to defend.