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Physical Review A – December 1993
Volume 48, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

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Effect of rotations on stabilization in high-intensity photodissociation of H2+
E. E. Aubanel, A. Conjusteau, and A. D. Bandrauk
pp. R4011-R4014 [View Page Images or PDF (704 kB)]
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Vibrational dependence of negative-ion formation by dissociative attachment of low-energy electrons
M. Külz, A. Kortyna, M. Keil, B. Schellhaaβ, and K. Bergmann
pp. R4015-R4018 [View Page Images or PDF (748 kB)]
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Competition between atomic and molecular Auger decays: Study of the resonant Auger decay of HBr after the Br 3d→σ* transition
Z. F. Liu, G. M. Bancroft, K. H. Tan, and M. Schachter
pp. R4019-R4022 [View Page Images or PDF (676 kB)]

Atoms and Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields

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Reflection beam splitter for multilevel atoms
R. Deutschmann, W. Ertmer, and H. Wallis
pp. R4023-R4026 [View Page Images or PDF (687 kB)]
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Possibility of breakdown of atomic stabilization in an intense high-frequency field
Alejandro Bugacov, Marcel Pont, and Robin Shakeshaft
pp. R4027-R4030 [View Page Images or PDF (652 kB)]
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Nonlinear effects of radiation trapping in ground-state oriented sodium vapor
G. Ankerhold, M. Schiffer, D. Mutschall, T. Scholz, and W. Lange
pp. R4031-R4034 [View Page Images or PDF (610 kB)]
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Continuous polarization-gradient precooling-assisted velocity-selective coherent population trapping
M. S. Shahriar, P. R. Hemmer, M. G. Prentiss, P. Marte, J. Mervis, D. P. Katz, N. P. Bigelow, and T. Cai
pp. R4035-R4038 [View Page Images or PDF (782 kB)]

Quantum Optics

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Necessity of sine-cosine joint measurement
G. M. D’Ariano and M. G. A. Paris
pp. R4039-R4042 [View Page Images or PDF (620 kB)]
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Interplay of linear and nonlinear effects in the formation of optical vortices in a nonlinear resonator
G. L. Lippi, T. Ackemann, L. M. Hoffer, A. Gahl, and W. Lange
pp. R4043-R4046 [View Page Images or PDF (1,081 kB)]
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Radial squeezed states and Rydberg wave packets
Robert Bluhm and V. Alan Kostelecký
pp. R4047-R4050 [View Page Images or PDF (661 kB)]
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High-order harmonic emission from mixed fields
Michael D. Perry and John K. Crane
pp. R4051-R4054 [View Page Images or PDF (582 kB)]
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Lasing without inversion: Gain enhancement through spectrally colored population pumping
Girish S. Agarwal, Gautam Vemuri, and T. W. Mossberg
pp. R4055-R4058 [View Page Images or PDF (516 kB)]
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Multiphoton dissociation for coherent and incoherent fields
S. Miret-Artés and D. A. Micha
pp. R4059-R4061 [View Page Images or PDF (482 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental Concepts

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Quantum-statistical properties of a particle in a double-harmonic-oscillator potential: Generation of Schrödinger-cat states
G. V. Varada and G. S. Agarwal
pp. 4062-4067 [View Page Images or PDF (889 kB)]
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Canonical quantization of four- and five-dimensional U(1) gauge theories
N. Shnerb and L. P. Horwitz
pp. 4068-4074 [View Page Images or PDF (1,177 kB)]
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Path-integral Monte Carlo method in quantum statistics for a system of N identical fermions
A. P. Lyubartsev and P. N. Vorontsov-Velyaminov
pp. 4075-4083 [View Page Images or PDF (1,289 kB)]
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Measurements, errors, and negative kinetic energy
Yakir Aharonov, Sandu Popescu, Daniel Rohrlich, and Lev Vaidman
pp. 4084-4090 [View Page Images or PDF (1,243 kB)]
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Energy and β-function solutions to relativistic Hamiltonians with Coulombic and linear potentials
E. Papp
pp. 4091-4096 [View Page Images or PDF (860 kB)]
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Functional representations in non-Fourier basis with applications
R. K. Pathak, A. K. Chandra, and K. Bhattacharyya
pp. 4097-4101 [View Page Images or PDF (747 kB)]
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Quantized geometry associated with uncertainty and correlation
Sumiyoshi Abe
pp. 4102-4106 [View Page Images or PDF (771 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Structure

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Anapole moments of atoms
Robert R. Lewis
pp. 4107-4112 [View Page Images or PDF (904 kB)]
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Large-scale multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock calculations of hyperfine-interaction constants for low-lying states in beryllium, boron, and carbon
Per Jönsson and Charlotte Froese Fischer
pp. 4113-4123 [View Page Images or PDF (1,741 kB)]
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Weak and nucleoweak decays of muonic molecules
L. Chatterjee, A. Chakraborty, and S. Mondal
pp. 4124-4129 [View Page Images or PDF (843 kB)]
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Muonic-molecule formation in a high-density D-T system: Application to a solid phase
Kenji Fukushima
pp. 4130-4141 [View Page Images or PDF (1,997 kB)]
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Radiative lifetimes of triply excited states of the Li isoelectronic sequence
Nicos A. Piangos and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides
pp. 4142-4148 [View Page Images or PDF (956 kB)]
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Upper and lower bounds on the radial electron density in atoms
J. Antolín, A. Zarzo, and J. C. Angulo
pp. 4149-4155 [View Page Images or PDF (1,025 kB)]
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Application of unitary-group methods to composite systems
R. D. Kent and M. Schlesinger
pp. 4156-4161 [View Page Images or PDF (809 kB)]
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Preconvolving theoretical photoabsorption cross sections using multichannel quantum-defect theory
F. Robicheaux
pp. 4162-4169 [View Page Images or PDF (1,288 kB)]
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Riccati-Padé quantization and oscillators V(r)=grα
Francisco M. Fernández, R. Guardiola, and M. Znojil
pp. 4170-4174 [View Page Images or PDF (712 kB)]
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Hydrogen atom in a high magnetic field
Der-San Chuu and Yu-Kuo Lee
pp. 4175-4181 [View Page Images or PDF (853 kB)]
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Classical mechanics of two-electron atoms
Klaus Richter, Gregor Tanner, and Dieter Wintgen
pp. 4182-4196 [View Page Images or PDF (2,668 kB)]
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Weighted-density exchange and local-density Coulomb correlation energy functionals for finite systems: Application to atoms
O. V. Gritsenko, N. A. Cordero, A. Rubio, L. C. Balbás, and J. A. Alonso
pp. 4197-4212 [View Page Images or PDF (2,410 kB)]
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Elementary approximate derivations of some retarded Casimir interactions involving one or two dielectric walls
Larry Spruch and Yoel Tikochinsky
pp. 4213-4222 [View Page Images or PDF (1,496 kB)]
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Retarded Casimir interaction in the asymptotic domain of an electron and a dielectric wall
Yoel Tikochinsky and Larry Spruch
pp. 4223-4235 [View Page Images or PDF (1,963 kB)]
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Retarded electric and magnetic Casimir interaction of a polarizable system and a dielectric permeable wall
Yoel Tikochinsky and Larry Spruch
pp. 4236-4244 [View Page Images or PDF (1,091 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

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Fast inelastic ion-ion, ion-electron, and ion-positron collisions
M. C. Chidichimo, D. W. Schranz, and B. Zygelman
pp. 4245-4258 [View Page Images or PDF (1,654 kB)]
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Intermediate-velocity atomic collisions. VI. Screening, antiscreening, and related processes in He++( H2, He)
E. C. Montenegro, W. S. Melo, W. E. Meyerhof, and A. G. de Pinho
pp. 4259-4266 [View Page Images or PDF (1,299 kB)]
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Results from the nonrelativistic dipole-approximation theory of two-photon electron bremsstrahlung in the Coulomb field
M. Dondera and Viorica Florescu
pp. 4267-4271 [View Page Images or PDF (673 kB)]
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Path-integral approach to resonant electron-molecule scattering. II. Second-order cumulant approximation and multimode applications
M. Winterstetter and W. Domcke
pp. 4272-4285 [View Page Images or PDF (2,242 kB)]
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Electron-impact ionization of In+ and Xe+
E. W. Bell, N. Djurić, and G. H. Dunn
pp. 4286-4291 [View Page Images or PDF (992 kB)]
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Electron-impact excitation of the n=3 and n=2 states of a hydrogen atom at intermediate (14–100-eV) energies
J. Callaway and K. Unnikrishnan
pp. 4292-4298 [View Page Images or PDF (1,006 kB)]
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Theoretical investigations of charge exchange with ion excitation in atomic collisions at thermal energies
Andrey K. Belyaev
pp. 4299-4306 [View Page Images or PDF (1,374 kB)]
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Laser-induced-resonance calculations for the photodissociation of H2+ in an adiabatic electronic-field representation using the radiation-field gauge
S. Manoli and T. T. Nguyen-Dang
pp. 4307-4320 [View Page Images or PDF (2,197 kB)]
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Test of local model potentials for positron scattering from rare gases
F. A. Gianturco, Ashok Jain, and J. A. Rodriguez-Ruiz
pp. 4321-4332 [View Page Images or PDF (1,807 kB)]
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Quantal and classical differential-scattering calculations for the electron-impact excitation of argon ions
M. S. Pindzola, D. R. Schultz, and D. C. Griffin
pp. 4333-4338 [View Page Images or PDF (972 kB)]
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Ne ionization induced by the impact of 106-keV/u H+ and 3He2+: Two-center effects on the soft-electron emission
S. Suárez, C. Garibotti, G. Bernardi, P. Focke, and W. Meckbach
pp. 4339-4349 [View Page Images or PDF (2,049 kB)]
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Temperature dependence of He(2 3PJ) reactions: Collision-induced mixing and conversion to He2( 3Πg) molecules
X. Zhao, P. A. Soletsky, W. H. Bryan, F. B. Dunning, and G. K. Walters
pp. 4350-4357 [View Page Images or PDF (1,122 kB)]
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Extreme-ultraviolet absorption spectrum of Ga+
P. Dunne, G. O’Sullivan, and V. K. Ivanov
pp. 4358-4364 [View Page Images or PDF (1,030 kB)]
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Energy approach to consistent QED theory for calculation of electron-collision strengths: Ne-like ions
L. N. Ivanov, E. P. Ivanova, and L. V. Knight
pp. 4365-4378 [View Page Images or PDF (2,056 kB)]
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Single-, double-, and triple-photoionization cross sections of carbon monoxide (CO) and ionic fragmentation of CO+, CO2+, and CO3+
Toshio Masuoka and Eiken Nakamura
pp. 4379-4389 [View Page Images or PDF (1,577 kB)]
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Satellite structure of the neon valence shell by electron-momentum spectroscopy
O. Samardzic, S. W. Braidwood, E. Weigold, and M. J. Brunger
pp. 4390-4399 [View Page Images or PDF (1,653 kB)]
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Population of high-L sulfur Rydberg levels by ion–Rydberg-atom charge exchange
F. J. Deck, E. A. Hessels, and S. R. Lundeen
pp. 4400-4404 [View Page Images or PDF (948 kB)]
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Solid-state effects on Rayleigh-scattering experiments: Limits for the free-atom approximation
O. D. Gonçalves, C. Cusatis, and I. Mazzaro
pp. 4405-4410 [View Page Images or PDF (896 kB)]
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Gaseous 3-3He magnetic dipolar spin relaxation
N. R. Newbury, A. S. Barton, G. D. Cates, W. Happer, and H. Middleton
pp. 4411-4420 [View Page Images or PDF (1,476 kB)]
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Charge-state dependence of binary-encounter-electron cross sections and peak energies
H. I. Hidmi, P. Richard, J. M. Sanders, H. Schöne, J. P. Giese, D. H. Lee, T. J. M. Zouros, and S. L. Varghese
pp. 4421-4428 [View Page Images or PDF (1,213 kB)]
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Photoionization of the scandium atom. I. General features
F. Robicheaux and Chris H. Greene
pp. 4429-4440 [View Page Images or PDF (2,355 kB)]
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Photoionization of the scandium atom. II. Classifications
F. Robicheaux and Chris H. Greene
pp. 4441-4449 [View Page Images or PDF (1,738 kB)]
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Photoionization of the scandium atom. III. Experimental and theoretical spectra from an excited state
D. J. Armstrong and F. Robicheaux
pp. 4450-4460 [View Page Images or PDF (2,125 kB)]

Atomic interactions with solids and surfaces

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DD nuclear-fusion reactions with small D2O and H2O clusters impacting heavy ice
Y. K. Bae, R. J. Beuhler, Y. Y. Chu, G. Friedlander, and L. Friedman
pp. 4461-4466 [View Page Images or PDF (1,015 kB)]
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Energy loss of hydrogen projectiles in gases
A. Schiefermüller, R. Golser, R. Stohl, and D. Semrad
pp. 4467-4475 [View Page Images or PDF (1,735 kB)]
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Above-surface neutralization of slow N6+ ions during interactions with a Cu(001) target
F. W. Meyer, C. C. Havener, and P. A. Zeijlmans van Emmichoven
pp. 4476-4478 [View Page Images or PDF (550 kB)]
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Work-function dependence of above-surface neutralization of multicharged ions
F. W. Meyer, L. Folkerts, I. G. Hughes, S. H. Overbury, D. M. Zehner, P. A. Zeijlmans van Emmichoven, and J. Burgdörfer
pp. 4479-4484 [View Page Images or PDF (1,028 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy

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Relationship between effective-Hamiltonian and effective-Liouvillian dynamics
W. A. Wassam, Jr.
pp. 4485-4491 [View Page Images or PDF (918 kB)]
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Stark mapping of H2 Rydberg states in the strong-field regime with dynamical resolution
W. L. Glab and K. Qin
pp. 4492-4499 [View Page Images or PDF (1,795 kB)]
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Experimental and theoretical study of the hyperfine structure in the 4f75d6s6p configuration of Gd i
H.-D. Kronfeldt, G. Klemz, S. Kröger, and J.-F. Wyart
pp. 4500-4514 [View Page Images or PDF (1,884 kB)]

Atoms and Molecules in Electromagnetic Fields

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Distortion of atomic states by time-dependent electric fields
Predrag Krstić and Yukap Hahn
pp. 4515-4527 [View Page Images or PDF (1,997 kB)]
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Three-dimensional hydrogen atom in crossed magnetic and electric fields
Vladimir S. Melezhik
pp. 4528-4538 [View Page Images or PDF (1,737 kB)]
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Semiclassical Floquet theory of the S matrix for electromagnetic interactions
K. Unnikrishnan
pp. 4539-4546 [View Page Images or PDF (1,194 kB)]
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Ponderomotive potential and dynamical Stark shift in multiphoton ionization
P. Mulser, S. Uryupin, R. Sauerbrey, and B. Wellegehausen
pp. 4547-4550 [View Page Images or PDF (554 kB)]

Quantum Optics

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Observation of dynamic suppression of spontaneous emission in a strongly driven cavity
W. Lange and H. Walther
pp. 4551-4554 [View Page Images or PDF (673 kB)]
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Intense-field renormalization of cavity-induced spontaneous emission
G. S. Agarwal, W. Lange, and H. Walther
pp. 4555-4568 [View Page Images or PDF (1,912 kB)]
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Parametric oscillator pumped by a quantum current
E. G. Lima and F. A. M. de Oliveira
pp. 4569-4575 [View Page Images or PDF (1,094 kB)]
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High-order harmonic generation in laser-produced ions
Shoichi Kubodera, Yutaka Nagata, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Katsumi Midorikawa, Minoru Obara, Hideo Tashiro, and Koichi Toyoda
pp. 4576-4582 [View Page Images or PDF (1,226 kB)]
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Stabilization of transverse solitary waves by a nonlocal response of the nonlinear medium
Dieter Suter and Tilo Blasberg
pp. 4583-4587 [View Page Images or PDF (1,049 kB)]
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Effects of the laser parameters on the determination of the Sn isotope ratio
Shuichi Hasegawa and Atsuyuki Suzuki
pp. 4588-4593 [View Page Images or PDF (902 kB)]
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Analytical approach to the photon statistics in the thermal Jaynes-Cummings model with an initially unexcited atom
S. M. Chumakov, M. Kozierowski, and J. J. Sanchez-Mondragon
pp. 4594-4597 [View Page Images or PDF (556 kB)]
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Realistic optical homodyne measurements and quasiprobability distributions
U. Leonhardt and H. Paul
pp. 4598-4604 [View Page Images or PDF (1,050 kB)]
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Transverse patterns in nascent optical bistability
M. Tlidi, M. Georgiou, and Paul Mandel
pp. 4605-4609 [View Page Images or PDF (1,090 kB)]
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Nonlocal interferometry with high-intensity fields
J. D. Franson
pp. 4610-4616 [View Page Images or PDF (1,119 kB)]
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Many-port homodyne detection of an optical phase
M. G. Raymer, J. Cooper, and M. Beck
pp. 4617-4628 [View Page Images or PDF (2,081 kB)]
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Detection of quantum noise
I. R. Senitzky
pp. 4629-4638 [View Page Images or PDF (1,507 kB)]
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Gain in a three-level Λ system driven by a single pump
A. D. Wilson-Gordon
pp. 4639-4647 [View Page Images or PDF (1,227 kB)]
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Generation of pure states in a two-photon micromaser: Effects of finite detuning and cavity losses
M. Orszag, L. Roa, and R. Ramírez
pp. 4648-4653 [View Page Images or PDF (732 kB)]
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Multiphoton detachment of H-
Cecil Laughlin and Shih-I Chu
pp. 4654-4663 [View Page Images or PDF (1,428 kB)]
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One-dimensional model of a negative ion and its interaction with laser fields
R. Grobe and J. H. Eberly
pp. 4664-4681 [View Page Images or PDF (3,372 kB)]
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Prepulse technique for producing low-Z Ne-like x-ray lasers
Joseph Nilsen, Brian J. MacGowan, Luiz B. Da Silva, and Juan C. Moreno
pp. 4682-4685 [View Page Images or PDF (617 kB)]
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Effect of atomic coherence on the second- and higher-order squeezing in a two-photon three-level cascade atomic system
Nadeem A. Ansari
pp. 4686-4696 [View Page Images or PDF (1,312 kB)]
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Marginal distributions of quasiprobabilities in quantum optics
Arkadiusz Orl/owski and Alfred Wünsche
pp. 4697-4701 [View Page Images or PDF (866 kB)]
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Phase-difference operator
A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto
pp. 4702-4708 [View Page Images or PDF (1,051 kB)]
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High-order harmonic generation in rare gases with an intense short-pulse laser
C.-G. Wahlström, J. Larsson, A. Persson, T. Starczewski, S. Svanberg, P. Salières, Ph. Balcou, and Anne L’Huillier
pp. 4709-4720 [View Page Images or PDF (2,062 kB)]
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Femtosecond pulses in the focal region of lenses
M. Kempe and W. Rudolph
pp. 4721-4729 [View Page Images or PDF (1,353 kB)]
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Degree of visibility in experiments of induced coherence without induced emission: A heuristic approach
G. A. Barbosa
pp. 4730-4734 [View Page Images or PDF (614 kB)]
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Quantum-statistical properties of a Raman-type model
Alexander S. Shumovsky and B. Tanatar
pp. 4735-4741 [View Page Images or PDF (1,015 kB)]
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Microwave multiphoton Rabi oscillations
M. Gatzke, M. C. Baruch, R. B. Watkins, and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 4742-4749 [View Page Images or PDF (1,472 kB)]
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Light-beam propagation at planar thin-film nonlinear waveguides
Yuri S. Kivshar and Manuel L. Quiroga-Teixeiro
pp. 4750-4757 [View Page Images or PDF (1,159 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental Concepts

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Remark on the propagator of the radial oscillator
Costas John Efthimiou
pp. 4758-4760 [View Page Images or PDF (256 kB)]
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Casimir-Polder potential as an interaction between induced dipoles
E. A. Power and T. Thirunamachandran
pp. 4761-4763 [View Page Images or PDF (343 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Structure

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Recurrence relations for N-dimensional radial wave functions
P. K. Bera, S. Bhattacharyya, U. Das, and B. Talukdar
pp. 4764-4767 [View Page Images or PDF (436 kB)]
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Momentum unimodality effects in atomic systems
J. C. Angulo
pp. 4768-4770 [View Page Images or PDF (408 kB)]
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Perturbation effects on lifetimes of d 3Πu states in H2 and D2
Tatsuro Kiyoshima and Hisashi Sato
pp. 4771-4774 [View Page Images or PDF (625 kB)]
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Roothaan-Hartree-Fock wave functions for atoms from Cs through U
Toshikatsu Koga and Ajit J. Thakkar
pp. 4775-4777 [View Page Images or PDF (322 kB)]
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Completely local relativistic density-functional theory: The role of the virial
N. H. March
pp. 4778-4779 [View Page Images or PDF (310 kB)]
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Variational calculation of ground-state energy of positronium negative ions
Y. K. Ho
pp. 4780-4783 [View Page Images or PDF (606 kB)]

Atomic and Molecular Collisions and Interactions

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Model calculations of multielectron ionization of O2 molecules by fast-heavy-ion impact
K. Wohrer and R. L. Watson
pp. 4784-4786 [View Page Images or PDF (418 kB)]
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Convergent close-coupling calculations of low-energy positron–atomic-hydrogen scattering
Igor Bray and Andris T. Stelbovics
pp. 4787-4789 [View Page Images or PDF (378 kB)]

Quantum Optics

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Assessing the entropy changes of Bloch-vector trajectories using experimental data
R. P. Frueholz and J. C. Camparo
pp. 4790-4792 [View Page Images or PDF (427 kB)]
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Interference and indistinguishability governed by time delays in a low-Q cavity
T. P. Grayson, X. Y. Zou, D. Branning, J. R. Torgerson, and L. Mandel
pp. 4793-4796 [View Page Images or PDF (582 kB)]
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Quantum interferences in the collisional excitation of a structured continuum
Roberto Buffa
pp. 4797-4800 [View Page Images or PDF (574 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Elastic scattering of hydrogen atoms at low temperatures’’
E. Tiesinga
pp. 4801-4802 [View Page Images or PDF (365 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Scattering of positrons by hydrogen in a modified Glauber method
T. T. Gien
pp. 4803 [View Page Images or PDF (96 kB)]
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Erratum: Variational calculation for the ground state of lithium and QED corrections for Li-like ions [Phys. Rev. A 44, R6973 (1991)]
D. K. McKenzie and G. W. F. Drake
pp. 4803 [View Page Images or PDF (96 kB)]
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Erratum: Energy corrections of order mc2α6 In α in helium
G. W. F. Drake, I. B. Khriplovich, A. I. Milstein, and A. S. Yelkhovsky
pp. 4804 [View Page Images or PDF (22 kB)]
 
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