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Physical Review A – October 1993
Volume 48, Issue 4

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atoms and Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields

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Laser-assisted elastic electron-atom collisions
B. Wallbank and J. K. Holmes
pp. R2515-R2518 [View Page Images or PDF (668 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

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Breakdown of the isolated-resonance approximation for the electron-impact excitation of positive ions
N. R. Badnell, D. C. Griffin, T. W. Gorczyca, and M. S. Pindzola
pp. R2519-R2522 [View Page Images or PDF (580 kB)]

Atoms and Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields

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Ultracold photoassociative ionization collisions in a magneto-optical trap: The optical-field-intensity dependence in a radiatively dissipative environment
V. Bagnato, L. Marcassa, Y. Wang, J. Weiner, P. S. Julienne, and Y. B. Band
pp. R2523-R2526 [View Page Images or PDF (880 kB)]
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Stabilization of Rydberg atoms in superintense laser fields
Armin Scrinzi, Nils Elander, and Bernard Piraux
pp. R2527-R2530 [View Page Images or PDF (764 kB)]

Quantum Optics

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Wavelength dependence of nonsequential double ionization in He
K. Kondo, A. Sagisaka, T. Tamida, Y. Nabekawa, and S. Watanabe
pp. R2531-R2533 [View Page Images or PDF (551 kB)]
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Scheme for generation of sub-Poissonian photons: Antibunching of emission events by population-dependent spontaneous-emission lifetime in semiconductor microcavities
Masamichi Yamanishi and Yong Lee
pp. R2534-R2537 [View Page Images or PDF (848 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental Concepts

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Landau-level ground-state degeneracy and its relevance for a general quantization procedure
Robert Alicki, John R. Klauder, and Jerzy Lewandowski
pp. 2538-2548 [View Page Images or PDF (1,753 kB)]
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Optimal control of classical systems with explicit quantum-classical-difference reduction
Charles D. Schwieters and Herschel Rabitz
pp. 2549-2557 [View Page Images or PDF (1,385 kB)]
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Random perturbation of systematic degeneracies and their Fourier transforms and periodic orbits
W. D. Heiss and M. Müller
pp. 2558-2566 [View Page Images or PDF (1,550 kB)]
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Exact Green’s function for the step and square-barrier potentials
M. A. M. de Aguiar
pp. 2567-2573 [View Page Images or PDF (845 kB)]
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Quantum-mechanical motion of Gaussian wave packets on elliptical and hyperbolic Kepler orbits in the Coulomb field
S. D. Boris, S. Brandt, H. D. Dahmen, T. Stroh, and M. L. Larsen
pp. 2574-2585 [View Page Images or PDF (2,174 kB)]
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Generalized Coleman-Hepp model and quantum coherence
Kaoru Hiyama and Shin Takagi
pp. 2586-2597 [View Page Images or PDF (1,526 kB)]
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Non-Abelian geometric effect in quantum adiabatic transitions
A. Joye and C.-E. Pfister
pp. 2598-2608 [View Page Images or PDF (1,467 kB)]
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Contributions to the binding, two-loop correction to the Lamb shift
Krzysztof Pachucki
pp. 2609-2614 [View Page Images or PDF (625 kB)]
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Evaluation of two-photon exchange graphs for highly charged heliumlike ions
Steven A. Blundell, Peter J. Mohr, W. R. Johnson, and J. Sapirstein
pp. 2615-2626 [View Page Images or PDF (1,454 kB)]
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Quantum behavior of general time-dependent quadratic systems linearly coupled to a bath
J. Twamley
pp. 2627-2633 [View Page Images or PDF (957 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Structure

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Single-transverse-photon contributions of order α6ln (α) to the energy levels of positronium
Richard Noel Fell
pp. 2634-2667 [View Page Images or PDF (3,634 kB)]
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Dimensional perturbation theory for excited states of two-electron atoms
D. Z. Goodson and D. K. Watson
pp. 2668-2678 [View Page Images or PDF (1,953 kB)]
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Electronic structure of the CoO molecule
J. Piechota and M. Suffczyński
pp. 2679-2685 [View Page Images or PDF (1,223 kB)]
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Dynamic polarizabilities and Rydberg states of the argon isoelectronic sequence
T. K. Ghosh, A. K. Das, Marcos Castro, Sylvio Canuto, and P. K. Mukherjee
pp. 2686-2695 [View Page Images or PDF (1,253 kB)]
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Density-functional calculations of electric-dipole polarizabilities for atoms
Manoj K. Harbola
pp. 2696-2699 [View Page Images or PDF (616 kB)]
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Fully numerical relativistic calculations for diatomic molecules using the finite-element method
L. Yang, D. Heinemann, and D. Kolb
pp. 2700-2707 [View Page Images or PDF (1,058 kB)]
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Hartree-Fock method posed as a density-functional theory: Application to the Be atom
A. Holas, N. H. March, Y. Takahashi, and C. Zhang
pp. 2708-2715 [View Page Images or PDF (1,069 kB)]
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Exact quantum theory of a time-dependent bound quadratic Hamiltonian system
Kyu Hwang Yeon, Kang Ku Lee, Chung In Um, Thomas F. George, and Lakshmi N. Pandey
pp. 2716-2720 [View Page Images or PDF (566 kB)]
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Lower bound on the ground-state energy and one-dimensional N-fermion problem
S. Kilić and K. Mikelić
pp. 2721-2728 [View Page Images or PDF (702 kB)]
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Forbidden transitions in one- and two-electron nickel
R. W. Dunford, H. G. Berry, D. A. Church, M. Hass, C. J. Liu, M. L. A. Raphaelian, B. J. Zabransky, L. J. Curtis, and A. E. Livingston
pp. 2729-2745 [View Page Images or PDF (2,876 kB)]
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Induced mapping in the n-electron space and a transformation of valence-bond structures to molecular-orbital functions
P. Cassam-Chenaï, Y. Ellinger, and G. Berthier
pp. 2746-2751 [View Page Images or PDF (916 kB)]
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Sternheimer free determination of the 59Co nuclear quadrupole moment from hyperfine-structure measurements
J. Dembczyński, G. H. Guthöhrlein, and E. Stachowska
pp. 2752-2761 [View Page Images or PDF (1,437 kB)]
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Lifetimes and Rydberg-valence state mixing of the c’ 1Σg+(v=4) and 1Πu(v=4) states of N2
Hanspeter Helm, Irene Hazell, and Nis Bjerre
pp. 2762-2771 [View Page Images or PDF (1,683 kB)]
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Accurate vacuum-polarization calculations
Hans Persson, Ingvar Lindgren, Sten Salomonson, and Per Sunnergren
pp. 2772-2778 [View Page Images or PDF (1,123 kB)]
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Semiclassical description of antiproton capture on atomic helium
W. A. Beck, L. Wilets, and M. A. Alberg
pp. 2779-2785 [View Page Images or PDF (1,174 kB)]
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New exactly solvable Hamiltonians: Shape invariance and self-similarity
D. T. Barclay, R. Dutt, A. Gangopadhyaya, Avinash Khare, A. Pagnamenta, and U. Sukhatme
pp. 2786-2797 [View Page Images or PDF (1,841 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

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Logarithmic mean excitation energies: II. Helium, lithium, beryllium, and the 2s state of hydrogen
S. Rosendorff and H. G. Schlaile
pp. 2798-2810 [View Page Images or PDF (1,805 kB)]
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Many-body theory of electron scattering by excited atomic targets: Fundamental formulas
G. Csanak, D. C. Cartwright, and Fernando J. da Paixão
pp. 2811-2827 [View Page Images or PDF (1,988 kB)]
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Near-threshold behavior of the 2p-electron excitation in Mg-Mg, Al-Al, and Si-Si symmetric collisions
N. Mandarino, P. Zoccali, A. Oliva, M. Camarca, A. Bonanno, and F. Xu
pp. 2828-2831 [View Page Images or PDF (737 kB)]
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Algebraic rotating-frame approach to electron-molecule scattering
Y. Alhassid, V. Liu, and B. Shao
pp. 2832-2843 [View Page Images or PDF (1,521 kB)]
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Angular distributions in autodetachment from doubly excited O- states
P. Dahl, T. Andersen, L. Jo/dal, N. J. Kylstra, J. E. Hansen, and N. Vaeck
pp. 2844-2849 [View Page Images or PDF (1,002 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of lithiumlike ions: Ti19+, V20+, Cr21+, Mn22+, and Fe23+
K. L. Wong, P. Beiersdorfer, M. H. Chen, R. E. Marrs, K. J. Reed, J. H. Scofield, D. A. Vogel, and R. Zasadzinski
pp. 2850-2859 [View Page Images or PDF (1,635 kB)]
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Single-particle potential for photoexcited electron orbitals of open-shell atoms
James J. Boyle
pp. 2860-2873 [View Page Images or PDF (1,545 kB)]
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Importance of bound-free correlation effects for vibrational excitation of molecules by electron impact: A sensitivity analysis
Michael A. Morrison and Wayne K. Trail
pp. 2874-2886 [View Page Images or PDF (2,469 kB)]
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Monte Carlo simulation of x-ray absorption and electron drift in gaseous xenon
T. H. V. T. Dias, F. P. Santos, A. D. Stauffer, and C. A. N. Conde
pp. 2887-2902 [View Page Images or PDF (2,737 kB)]
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J-mixing process of alkali-metal atoms treated as a three-body process within an eikonal approximation
Hong Liu and Baiwen Li
pp. 2903-2909 [View Page Images or PDF (1,176 kB)]
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Experimental determination of real elements of the density matrix and the dipole moment of H(n=3) atoms produced from 20–100-keV H+ on Ar
S. P. Renwick, E. C. Martell, W. D. Weaver, and J. S. Risley
pp. 2910-2925 [View Page Images or PDF (2,891 kB)]
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Projectile-Auger-electron spectra of C3+ following 12-MeV collisions with He targets
E. F. Deveney, Q. C. Kessel, R. J. Fuller, M. P. Reaves, R. A. Bellantone, S. M. Shafroth, and N. Jones
pp. 2926-2933 [View Page Images or PDF (1,480 kB)]
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Spin conservation in single-electron capture by N2+ in He, Ne, and Ar
A. R. Lee, A. C. R. Wilkins, C. S. Enos, and A. G. Brenton
pp. 2934-2939 [View Page Images or PDF (933 kB)]
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Use of time-dependent wave-packet theory in electron-molecule scattering
Brian K. Elza and Burke Ritchie
pp. 2940-2945 [View Page Images or PDF (1,062 kB)]
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Leading corrections to atomic impulse-approximation Compton profiles: A density-functional approach
Rajeev K. Pathak, Anjali Kshirsagar, Ruth Hoffmeyer, and Ajit J. Thakkar
pp. 2946-2951 [View Page Images or PDF (1,014 kB)]
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Elastic D- and higher-partial-wave phase shifts in positron–hydrogen-atom collisions using Schwinger’s principle
Utpal Roy and Puspajit Mandal
pp. 2952-2956 [View Page Images or PDF (716 kB)]
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Evolution of the anisotropy of the Auger decay of 2p3/2-1ns resonances into anisotropy of L3MM Auger decay in Ar
J. Tulkki, H. Aksela, and N. M. Kabachnik
pp. 2957-2961 [View Page Images or PDF (943 kB)]
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Spectrum of the Casimir effect and the Lifshitz theory
L. H. Ford
pp. 2962-2967 [View Page Images or PDF (866 kB)]
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Electric-field effects on H- photodetachment with excitation of H(n=2)
Ning-Yi Du, Ilya I. Fabrikant, and Anthony F. Starace
pp. 2968-2979 [View Page Images or PDF (1,900 kB)]
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Time ordering of two-step processes in energetic ion-atom collisions: Basic formalism
N. Stolterfoht
pp. 2980-2985 [View Page Images or PDF (1,014 kB)]
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Time-ordering effects in K-shell excitation of 170-MeV Ne7+ colliding with gas atoms: Single excitation
N. Stolterfoht, A. Mattis, D. Schneider, G. Schiwietz, B. Skogvall, B. Sulik, and S. Ricz
pp. 2986-2994 [View Page Images or PDF (1,745 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy

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Symmetry relations in phase-sensitive magnetic-resonance spectroscopy
Y. Takahashi, T. Hashi, and Y. Fukuda
pp. 2995-3001 [View Page Images or PDF (967 kB)]
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Observation of molecular emission bands in cw He-Cd+ hollow-cathode lasers
S. E. Acosta-Ortiz, H. H. Telle, and Karyono
pp. 3002-3007 [View Page Images or PDF (836 kB)]
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Molecular handedness and chiral strength determined by matter-wave circular dichroism
A. S. Garay, J. A. Ahlgren-Beckendorf, and Bela Gazdy
pp. 3008-3011 [View Page Images or PDF (723 kB)]
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Observation and analysis of core-penetrating Rydberg states of calcium monofluoride
John M. Berg, James E. Murphy, Nicole A. Harris, and Robert W. Field
pp. 3012-3029 [View Page Images or PDF (3,601 kB)]
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Line mixing and state-to-state rotational relaxation rates in D2 determined from the Raman Q branch
P. M. Sinclair, J. W. Forsman, J. R. Drummond, and A. D. May
pp. 3030-3035 [View Page Images or PDF (1,093 kB)]
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Effects of the intermolecular interaction on the depolarized rototranslational Raman spectra of hydrogen
Aleksandra Borysow and Massimo Moraldi
pp. 3036-3046 [View Page Images or PDF (1,672 kB)]
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Superfluorescence beats in 125Te2 emission
E. Boursey, J. Meziane, and A. Topouzkhanian
pp. 3047-3050 [View Page Images or PDF (570 kB)]
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Near-threshold double photoionization in Zn and Hg
S. Svensson, S. Stranges, and M. Y. Adam
pp. 3051-3055 [View Page Images or PDF (942 kB)]
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Soft-x-ray spectroscopy of Δn=0, n=3 transitions in highly stripped lead
A. Simionovici, D. D. Dietrich, R. Keville, T. Cowan, P. Beiersdorfer, M. H. Chen, and S. A. Blundell
pp. 3056-3061 [View Page Images or PDF (1,076 kB)]
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Deviation from the single-particle model in the angular distribution of thorium L3 x rays in proton-impact ionization
T. Papp, J. L. Campbell, and J. A. Maxwell
pp. 3062-3071 [View Page Images or PDF (1,846 kB)]

Atoms and Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields

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Steady-state regime for the rotational dynamics of a molecule at the condition of quantum chaos
A. R. Kolovsky
pp. 3072-3081 [View Page Images or PDF (1,602 kB)]
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Quantum manifestations of order and chaos in the Paul trap
M. Moore and R. Blümel
pp. 3082-3091 [View Page Images or PDF (1,705 kB)]
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Resonance-fluorescence and absorption spectra of a two-level atom driven by a strong bichromatic field
Z. Ficek and H. S. Freedhoff
pp. 3092-3104 [View Page Images or PDF (1,879 kB)]
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Parametrically pumped electron oscillators
J. Tan and G. Gabrielse
pp. 3105-3122 [View Page Images or PDF (2,887 kB)]
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Bifurcations of electronic trajectories and dynamics of electronic Rydberg wave packets
M. W. Beims and G. Alber
pp. 3123-3129 [View Page Images or PDF (1,253 kB)]

Quantum Optics

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Double-resonance spectroscopy by a transversely nonuniform pump beam in a three-level molecular system
G. P. Djotyan and J. S. Bakos
pp. 3130-3136 [View Page Images or PDF (1,147 kB)]
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Theory of second-harmonic generation of molecular systems: The steady-state case
S. H. Lin, R. G. Alden, A. A. Villaeys, and V. Pflumio
pp. 3137-3151 [View Page Images or PDF (1,440 kB)]
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Suppression of classical intensity fluctuations via competing nonlinear processes in an optical fiber
John R. Thompson
pp. 3152-3158 [View Page Images or PDF (1,146 kB)]
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Measurement of number-phase uncertainty relations of optical fields
D. T. Smithey, M. Beck, J. Cooper, and M. G. Raymer
pp. 3159-3167 [View Page Images or PDF (1,659 kB)]
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Discriminating field mixtures from macroscopic superpositions
S. M. Dutra, P. L. Knight, and H. Moya-Cessa
pp. 3168-3173 [View Page Images or PDF (1,093 kB)]
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Variation from number- to chaotic-state fields: A generalized geometric state
A.-S. F. Obada, S. S. Hassan, R. R. Puri, and M. Sebawe Abdalla
pp. 3174-3185 [View Page Images or PDF (1,538 kB)]
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Quantum-noise limits to matter-wave interferometry
Marlan O. Scully and Jonathan P. Dowling
pp. 3186-3190 [View Page Images or PDF (814 kB)]
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Micromaser with Kerr nonlinearity
Bimalendu Deb and Deb Shankar Ray
pp. 3191-3195 [View Page Images or PDF (751 kB)]
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Two mechanisms for inversionless amplification in four-level atoms with Raman pumping
C. H. Keitel, O. A. Kocharovskaya, L. M. Narducci, M. O. Scully, S.-Y. Zhu, and H. M. Doss
pp. 3196-3202 [View Page Images or PDF (973 kB)]
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Time-delayed Raman-enhanced nondegenerate four-wave mixing with a broadband laser source
Xin Mi, Zuhe Yu, Qian Jiang, and Panming Fu
pp. 3203-3208 [View Page Images or PDF (1,091 kB)]
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Transverse instability of counterpropagating waves in photorefractive media
M. Saffman, D. Montgomery, A. A. Zozulya, K. Kuroda, and D. Z. Anderson
pp. 3209-3215 [View Page Images or PDF (1,263 kB)]
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Index of refraction of a system of strongly driven two-level atoms
Tran Quang and Helen Freedhoff
pp. 3216-3218 [View Page Images or PDF (437 kB)]
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Phase and squeezing properties of two copropagating fields in a Kerr medium
H. X. Meng, C. L. Chai, and Z. M. Zhang
pp. 3219-3224 [View Page Images or PDF (775 kB)]
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One-dimensional laser cooling with linearly polarized fields
Jun Guo and Paul R. Berman
pp. 3225-3232 [View Page Images or PDF (1,212 kB)]
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Characteristic oscillations of phase properties for pair coherent states in the two-mode Jaynes-Cummings-model dynamics
S.-C. Gou
pp. 3233-3241 [View Page Images or PDF (1,032 kB)]
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Internuclear-axis angular distribution in multiphoton excitation
Constantin Maïnos
pp. 3242-3255 [View Page Images or PDF (2,298 kB)]
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Four-wave mixing with time-delayed, correlated, phase-diffusing optical fields
Gautam Vemuri
pp. 3256-3264 [View Page Images or PDF (1,631 kB)]
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Quantum statistics of a lossless beam splitter: SU(2) symmetry in phase space
Ulf Leonhardt
pp. 3265-3277 [View Page Images or PDF (1,899 kB)]
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Helicity dependence of optically encoded second-harmonic generation in glasses
T. J. Driscoll, R. L. MacDonald, and N. M. Lawandy
pp. 3278-3285 [View Page Images or PDF (1,480 kB)]
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Quantum-nondemolition measurement of atomic momentum
Tycho Sleator and Martin Wilkens
pp. 3286-3290 [View Page Images or PDF (735 kB)]
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Superstructures, fractional revivals, and optical Schrödinger-cat states in the Jaynes-Cummings model
P. F. Góra and C. Jedrzejek
pp. 3291-3300 [View Page Images or PDF (1,601 kB)]
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Stimulated Brillouin scattering in fibers with and without external feedback
M. Dämmig, G. Zinner, F. Mitschke, and H. Welling
pp. 3301-3309 [View Page Images or PDF (1,761 kB)]
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Limits to squeezing and phase information in the parametric amplifier
P. Kinsler, M. Fernée, and P. D. Drummond
pp. 3310-3320 [View Page Images or PDF (1,858 kB)]
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Effect of redistributed radiation on degenerate four-wave mixing
N. J. Mulgan and R. J. Ballagh
pp. 3321-3335 [View Page Images or PDF (2,303 kB)]
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Hopf bifurcation at the phase-locking point of an externally driven, homogeneously broadened laser
R. C. Buceta, M. S. Torre, and H. F. Ranea-Sandoval
pp. 3336-3343 [View Page Images or PDF (1,172 kB)]
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Intracavity second-harmonic generation using an electromagnetically induced transparency
K. M. Gheri, C. Saavedra, and D. F. Walls
pp. 3344-3361 [View Page Images or PDF (3,188 kB)]
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Multimode bosonic realization of the su(1,1) Lie algebra
C. F. Lo and K. L. Liu
pp. 3362-3364 [View Page Images or PDF (443 kB)]
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Resonance fluorescence from two identical atoms in a standing-wave field
Georg Lenz and Pierre Meystre
pp. 3365-3374 [View Page Images or PDF (1,537 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental Concepts

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Interaction times in quantum scattering: The sojourn-time-operator approach versus the Feynman path-integral approach
Wojciech Jaworski and David M. Wardlaw
pp. 3375-3378 [View Page Images or PDF (567 kB)]
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Quantum violation of stochastic noncontextual hidden-variable theories
S. M. Roy and Virendra Singh
pp. 3379-3381 [View Page Images or PDF (516 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Structure

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Lower bounds on equilibrium configurations of diatomic molecular systems
H. Hogreve
pp. 3382-3385 [View Page Images or PDF (682 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

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Variational close-coupling calculation for D-wave positron-hydrogen scattering
T. T. Gien and Guo Guang Liu
pp. 3386-3389 [View Page Images or PDF (592 kB)]
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Localization of shadow poles by complex scaling
Attila Csótó
pp. 3390-3393 [View Page Images or PDF (674 kB)]

Quantum Optics

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Quantum phase distributions of amplified Schrödinger-cat states of light
V. Bužek, M. S. Kim, and Ts. Gantsog
pp. 3394-3397 [View Page Images or PDF (867 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Iterative Bogoliubov transformations and anharmonic oscillators’’
Francisco M. Fernández and Eduardo A. Castro
pp. 3398-3399 [View Page Images or PDF (329 kB)]
 
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