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Physical Review A – February 1990
Volume 41, Issue 3

ARTICLES

Fundamental Concepts

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Phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics under phase-space transformations: Wigner functions of an oscillator system in crossed magnetic and electric fields
Lipo Wang
pp. 1193-1198 [View Page Images or PDF (822 kB)]
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Ordering problem in quantum mechanics: Prime quantization and a physical interpretation
S. Twareque Ali and H.-D. Doebner
pp. 1199-1210 [View Page Images or PDF (2,040 kB)]
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Equation-of-motion approach to the problem of damped motion in quantum mechanics
M. Razavy
pp. 1211-1217 [View Page Images or PDF (895 kB)]
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Perturbation theory for the triple-well anharmonic oscillator
R. J. Damburg, R. Kh. Propin, and Yu. I. Ryabykh
pp. 1218-1224 [View Page Images or PDF (1,030 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Structure

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Two-body fragmentation channels of three-body systems
Michael Cavagnero, Zheng Zhen, and Joseph Macek
pp. 1225-1237 [View Page Images or PDF (1,506 kB)]
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Electron affinities of alkaline-earth-metal atoms
P. Fuentealba, A. Savin, H. Stoll, and H. Preuss
pp. 1238-1242 [View Page Images or PDF (923 kB)]
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Bethe logarithms for hydrogen up to n=20, and approximations for two-electron atoms
G. W. F. Drake and Robin A. Swainson
pp. 1243-1246 [View Page Images or PDF (615 kB)]
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Radius of convergence and analytic behavior of the 1/Z expansion
Jonathan D. Baker, David E. Freund, Robert Nyden Hill, and John D. Morgan, III
pp. 1247-1273 [View Page Images or PDF (4,671 kB)]
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Point transformations applied to density-functional calculations
Toshikatsu Koga
pp. 1274-1280 [View Page Images or PDF (870 kB)]
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Muon reactivation in muon-catalyzed d-t fusion from accurate p-He+ stripping and excitation cross sections
C. D. Stodden, H. J. Monkhorst, K. Szalewicz, and T. G. Winter
pp. 1281-1292 [View Page Images or PDF (1,883 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

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State-selective dielectronic-recombination measurements for He- and Li-like carbon and oxygen ions
Lars H. Andersen, Jakob Bolko, and Poul Kvistgaard
pp. 1293-1302 [View Page Images or PDF (1,278 kB)]
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Positron–hydrogen-atom S-wave coupled-channel scattering at low energies
B. J. Archer, G. A. Parker, and R. T Pack
pp. 1303-1310 [View Page Images or PDF (1,288 kB)]
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Measurement of threshold temperature effects in dissociative electron attachment to HI and DI
A. Chutjian, S. H. Alajajian, and K-F. Man
pp. 1311-1314 [View Page Images or PDF (585 kB)]
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Recoil-ion–projectile-ion–cusp-electron triple-coincidence measurements for 1-MeV/u bare and one-electron O and C projectiles on Ne
J. Freyou, M. Breinig, C. C. Gaither, III, and T. A. Underwood
pp. 1315-1323 [View Page Images or PDF (1,711 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation of the x 1Σg-, y 1Πg, and o3 1Πu Rydberg electronic states of the nitrogen molecule
James S. Allen, Sunggi Chung, and Chun C. Lin
pp. 1324-1334 [View Page Images or PDF (2,115 kB)]
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Observation of 2p3 states in the electron-ionization efficiency curve of helium between 58 and 59 eV
R. N. Gosselin and P. Marmet
pp. 1335-1339 [View Page Images or PDF (758 kB)]
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Two-photon absorption and photoionization cross-section measurements in the 5p56p configuration of xenon
Stefan Kröll and William K. Bischel
pp. 1340-1349 [View Page Images or PDF (1,653 kB)]
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Low-order perturbation theory for shake-up cross sections in atomic photoionization in a local-potential model
T. M. Luke, J. D. Talman, H. Aksela, and M. Leväsalmi
pp. 1350-1360 [View Page Images or PDF (1,276 kB)]
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Propagator for the time-dependent harmonic oscillator
J. Macek
pp. 1361-1364 [View Page Images or PDF (449 kB)]
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Electron-loss calculations using the free-collision model
Mati Meron and Brant M. Johnson
pp. 1365-1374 [View Page Images or PDF (1,461 kB)]
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Correlation enhancement of the electron-impact ionization cross section for excited-state Ne-like ions
M. S. Pindzola, D. C. Griffin, and C. Bottcher
pp. 1375-1382 [View Page Images or PDF (1,095 kB)]
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Dynamics of neutral vacuum decay
Leonard Rosenberg
pp. 1383-1391 [View Page Images or PDF (1,682 kB)]
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Ionization and excitation of np4(n+1)p levels of noble gases by electron impact
J. A. Sánchez, J. A. Aguilera, B. Martnez, and J. Campos
pp. 1392-1398 [View Page Images or PDF (761 kB)]
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Lattice calculation of muon-pair production with capture in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
M. R. Strayer, C. Bottcher, V. E. Oberacker, and A. S. Umar
pp. 1399-1407 [View Page Images or PDF (1,434 kB)]
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Charge-transfer reactions of ground-state C+(2P) and metastable-state C+(4P) ions with H2 molecules
Yaodong Xu, T. F. Moran, and E. W. Thomas
pp. 1408-1412 [View Page Images or PDF (852 kB)]
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Differential cross sections for electron-impact excitation of the electronic states of N2
M. J. Brunger and P. J. O. Teubner
pp. 1413-1426 [View Page Images or PDF (2,278 kB)]
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Measurement and comparison with theory of the temperature dependence of satellite-to-resonance line ratios of heliumlike nickel from the JET tokamak
K.-D. Zastrow, E. Källne, and H. P. Summers
pp. 1427-1434 [View Page Images or PDF (1,512 kB)]

Atomic Interactions with Surfaces and Solids

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Transport of fast electrons through thin foils
S. Lencinas, J. Burgdörfer, J. Kemmler, O. Heil, K. Kroneberger, N. Keller, H. Rothard, and K. O. Groeneveld
pp. 1435-1443 [View Page Images or PDF (1,354 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy

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Analytical and algebraic solutions of the rotating Morse oscillators: Matrix elements of arbitrary powers of (r-re)lexp[-ma(r-re)]
A. López-Pieiro and B. Moreno
pp. 1444-1449 [View Page Images or PDF (651 kB)]
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Beam-foil spectroscopy of n=3 to n=2 transitions in highly stripped bismuth
D. D. Dietrich, A. Simionovici, M. H. Chen, G. Chandler, C. J. Hailey, P. O. Egan, P. H. Mokler, S. Reusch, and D. H. H. Hoffmann
pp. 1450-1456 [View Page Images or PDF (1,161 kB)]

Atoms and Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields

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Collisional relaxation of the 6s[3/2]10 and 6s’[1/2]10 mJ levels of xenon using resonantly enhanced multiphoton ionization
D. Charalambidis, A. Lyras, P. Lambropoulos, X. Tang, S. J. Bajic, and R. N. Compton
pp. 1457-1465 [View Page Images or PDF (1,640 kB)]
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Influence of pre-Gaussian noise on selective ionization
L. C. de Winter and T. L. Weeding
pp. 1466-1471 [View Page Images or PDF (1,059 kB)]
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Resonances that originate from shadow poles of the scattering matrix in multiphoton processes
Martin Dörr and R. M. Potvliege
pp. 1472-1476 [View Page Images or PDF (807 kB)]
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Perturbed angular distribution of electrons following photoionization of 6sns 1S0 barium Rydberg states
H. Hieronymus, M. Kohl, J. Neukammer, A. König, H. Rinneberg, and H. Spinger-Bolk
pp. 1477-1491 [View Page Images or PDF (2,703 kB)]
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Resonances in H- associated with the N=7 hydrogen threshold
Y. K. Ho
pp. 1492-1495 [View Page Images or PDF (633 kB)]
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Depolarization of optically pumped sodium atoms by wall surfaces
M. Tanaka, T. Ohshima, K. Katori, M. Fujiwara, T. Itahashi, H. Ogata, and M. Kondo
pp. 1496-1504 [View Page Images or PDF (1,318 kB)]
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Spin relaxation of hydrogen-atom isotopes via electron spin exchange with paramagnetic gases
Ralph Eric Turner, R. F. Snider, and D. G. Fleming
pp. 1505-1516 [View Page Images or PDF (2,056 kB)]

Quantum Optics

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Theory of lasers without inversion
Victor R. Blok and Gennady M. Krochik
pp. 1517-1525 [View Page Images or PDF (1,468 kB)]
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Squeezed states: Operators for two types of one- and two-mode squeezing transformations
Fan Hong-yi
pp. 1526-1532 [View Page Images or PDF (729 kB)]
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Time-dependent characteristics of a strongly driven Raman system undergoing quantum jumps
Arundhati S. Jayarao, Richard D’Souza, and S. V. Lawande
pp. 1533-1543 [View Page Images or PDF (1,372 kB)]
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Transient multiwave mixing in a nonlinear medium
I. C. Khoo and Ping Zhou
pp. 1544-1555 [View Page Images or PDF (1,496 kB)]
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Perturbative corrections to the rotating-wave approximation for two-level molecules and the effects of permanent dipoles on single-photon and multiphoton spectra
Mary Ann Kmetic and William J. Meath
pp. 1556-1568 [View Page Images or PDF (2,337 kB)]
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Many-photon antibunching in generalized pair coherent states
Ching Tsung Lee
pp. 1569-1575 [View Page Images or PDF (1,062 kB)]
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Radiative emission of driven two-level atoms into the modes of an enclosing optical cavity: The transition from fluorescence to lasing
A. Lezama, Yifu Zhu, Manoj Kanskar, and T. W. Mossberg
pp. 1576-1581 [View Page Images or PDF (1,062 kB)]
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Langevin equation for the squeezing of light by means of a parametric oscillator
T. W. Marshall and E. Santos
pp. 1582-1586 [View Page Images or PDF (708 kB)]
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Radiative properties of atoms near a conducting plane: An old problem in a new light
D. Meschede, W. Jhe, and E. A. Hinds
pp. 1587-1596 [View Page Images or PDF (1,253 kB)]
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Coherence in two-photon down-conversion induced by a laser
Z. Y. Ou, L. J. Wang, X. Y. Zou, and L. Mandel
pp. 1597-1601 [View Page Images or PDF (532 kB)]
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Population trapping in short-pulse laser ionization
Jonathan Parker and C. R. Stroud, Jr.
pp. 1602-1608 [View Page Images or PDF (1,064 kB)]
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Multiphoton processes in an intense laser field. II. Partial rates and angular distributions for ionization of atomic hydrogen at 532 nm
R. M. Potvliege and Robin Shakeshaft
pp. 1609-1619 [View Page Images or PDF (2,096 kB)]
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Raman-Nath theory of degenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductors
D. Richardson, E. M. Wright, and S. W. Koch
pp. 1620-1628 [View Page Images or PDF (1,249 kB)]
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Dispersive effects on the main-wave modulational instability in free-electron lasers
F. B. Rizzato
pp. 1629-1633 [View Page Images or PDF (753 kB)]
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Optically driven spin nutations in the ground state of atomic sodium
Dieter Suter, Martin Rosatzin, and Jürgen Mlynek
pp. 1634-1644 [View Page Images or PDF (1,967 kB)]
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Excitation of a multilevel system by a train of identical phase-coherent Gaussian-shaped laser pulses
Gerald F. Thomas
pp. 1645-1652 [View Page Images or PDF (1,290 kB)]
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SU(2) and SU(1,1) phase states
A. Vourdas
pp. 1653-1661 [View Page Images or PDF (1,147 kB)]
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Eigenmode analysis of optical guiding in free-electron lasers
Ming Xie, David A. G. Deacon, and John M. J. Madey
pp. 1662-1669 [View Page Images or PDF (1,335 kB)]
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Spatial and temporal evolution of the first-order phase transition in intrinsic optical bistability
Ramarao Inguva and Charles M. Bowden
pp. 1670-1676 [View Page Images or PDF (953 kB)]
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Radiative effects in the theory of beam propagation at nonlinear interfaces
Yu. S. Kivshar, A. M. Kosevich, and O. A. Chubykalo
pp. 1677-1688 [View Page Images or PDF (1,601 kB)]
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Effects of multiplicative white and colored noise in dye-laser theory
Shiqun Zhu
pp. 1689-1694 [View Page Images or PDF (772 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and Molecular Structure

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Variational expressions for first-order properties involving continuum wave functions
A. E. Orel and T. N. Rescigno
pp. 1695-1697 [View Page Images or PDF (483 kB)]
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Improved many-body perturbation theory calculations of the n=2 states of lithiumlike uranium
S. A. Blundell, W. R. Johnson, and J. Sapirstein
pp. 1698-1700 [View Page Images or PDF (563 kB)]
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Construction and application of gradient-expansion approximations for exchange energy with self-interaction correction
Yan Li and J. B. Krieger
pp. 1701-1704 [View Page Images or PDF (559 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

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Nuclear-charge screening in electron capture
Steven Alston
pp. 1705-1708 [View Page Images or PDF (540 kB)]
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Influence of shape resonances on minima in cross sections for photoionization of excited atoms
Zineb Felfli and Steven T. Manson
pp. 1709-1710 [View Page Images or PDF (306 kB)]
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Adiabatic limit for the semiclassical ionization cross section by heavy ions: A general result
E. C. Montenegro
pp. 1711-1714 [View Page Images or PDF (372 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy

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Autoionization rates for selected double-Rydberg states of barium
C. P. Bhalla, K. R. Karim, and M. Wilson
pp. 1715-1717 [View Page Images or PDF (340 kB)]

Quantum Optics

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Density operator with coherent, number, and squeezed states
Richard T. Hammond
pp. 1718-1720 [View Page Images or PDF (512 kB)]
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Higher-order criteria for nonclassical effects in photon statistics
Ching Tsung Lee
pp. 1721-1723 [View Page Images or PDF (382 kB)]
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Low-frequency approximation for simultaneous electron-photon excitation of atoms
A. Maquet and J. Cooper
pp. 1724-1727 [View Page Images or PDF (661 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Test of local causality with very short light pulses’’
Morton H. Rubin
pp. 1728 [View Page Images or PDF (155 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Test of local causality with very short light pulses’ ’’
Karl Svozil
pp. 1729 [View Page Images or PDF (153 kB)]
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Comment on ‘‘Fine structure and analytical quantum-defect wave functions’’
P. L. Goodfriend
pp. 1730-1731 [View Page Images or PDF (173 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Fine-structure and analytical quantum-defect wave functions’ ’’
V. Alan Kostelecký, Michael Martin Nieto, and D. Rodney Truax
pp. 1732-1734 [View Page Images or PDF (338 kB)]

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental Concepts

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Quantum-mechanical models of position measurements
Masanao Ozawa
pp. 1735-1737 [View Page Images or PDF (512 kB)]
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Evidence for a velocity threshold for the binding of the 3p state of fast He+ ions inside solids
M. Chevallier, A. Clouvas, N. V. de Castro Faria, B. Farizon Mazuy, M. J. Gaillard, J. C. Poizat, J. Remillieux, and J. Désesquelles
pp. 1738-1740 [View Page Images or PDF (414 kB)]

Atoms and Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields

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Observation of bound-free photodissociation of H3+
Y. K. Bae and P. C. Cosby
pp. 1741-1743 [View Page Images or PDF (427 kB)]

Quantum Optics

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Harmonic generation by a classical hydrogen atom in the presence of an intense radiation field
Gunadya Bandarage, Alfred Maquet, and J. Cooper
pp. 1744-1746 [View Page Images or PDF (522 kB)]
 
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