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Physical Review A – October 1994
Volume 50, Issue 4

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Fundamental concepts

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Preparation of macroscopic superpositions in many-atom systems
J. I. Cirac and P. Zoller
pp. R2799-R2802 [View Page Images or PDF (692 kB)]
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Reliability of Bell-inequality measurements using polarization correlations in parametric-down-conversion photon sources
Liberato De Caro and Augusto Garuccio
pp. R2803-R2805 [View Page Images or PDF (435 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Direct dissociative recombination of ground-state HeH+
G. Sundström, S. Datz, J. R. Mowat, S. Mannervik, L. Broström, M. Carlson, H. Danared, and M. Larsson
pp. R2806-R2809 [View Page Images or PDF (741 kB)]
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Excitation-ionization and double ionization of helium by Compton scattering
Lars Andersson and Joachim Burgdörfer
pp. R2810-R2813 [View Page Images or PDF (696 kB)]
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Density of states for complex molecules
Dimitri Kusnezov
pp. R2814-R2817 [View Page Images or PDF (674 kB)]
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Calculation of triple-differential cross sections in electron scattering on atomic hydrogen
Igor Bray, Dmitry A. Konovalov, Ian E. McCarthy, and Andris T. Stelbovics
pp. R2818-R2821 [View Page Images or PDF (739 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Settling a long-standing question on strong-field double ionization
D. Charalambidis@f, P. Lambropoulos, H. Schröder@f, O. Faucher@f, H. Xu@f, M. Wagner, and C. Fotakis@f
pp. R2822-R2825 [View Page Images or PDF (788 kB)]
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Loss from magneto-optical traps in strong laser fields
Y. B. Band, I. Tuvi, K.-A. Suominen, K. Burnett, and P. S. Julienne
pp. R2826-R2829 [View Page Images or PDF (705 kB)]
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Effects of resonant dipole interaction between atoms on laser cooling: The case of two identical atoms
J. Guo
pp. R2830-R2833 [View Page Images or PDF (650 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Generation of short-pulse tunable xuv radiation by high-order frequency mixing
H. Eichmann, S. Meyer, K. Riepl, C. Momma, and B. Wellegehausen
pp. R2834-R2836 [View Page Images or PDF (428 kB)]
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Nonlocal potential for class-B lasers with external optical feedback
G. H. M. van Tartwijk and D. Lenstra
pp. R2837-R2840 [View Page Images or PDF (626 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Secular perturbation theory of long-range interactions
M. J. Cavagnero
pp. 2841-2846 [View Page Images or PDF (847 kB)]
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Early-time properties of quantum evolution
K. Urbanowski
pp. 2847-2853 [View Page Images or PDF (932 kB)]
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Inadequacy of Ehrenfest’s theorem to characterize the classical regime
L. E. Ballentine, Yumin Yang, and J. P. Zibin
pp. 2854-2859 [View Page Images or PDF (927 kB)]
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Neutron acceleration in uniform electromagnetic fields
J. Anandan and C. R. Hagen
pp. 2860-2864 [View Page Images or PDF (760 kB)]
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Even and odd two-photon coherent states of the radiation field
Z. Z. Xin, D. B. Wang, M. Hirayama, and K. Matumoto
pp. 2865-2869 [View Page Images or PDF (515 kB)]
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Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox for continuous variables using radiation fields in the pair-coherent state
K. Tara and G. S. Agarwal
pp. 2870-2875 [View Page Images or PDF (909 kB)]
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Spectral inheritance of potentials with flat bottoms
Richard L. Hall
pp. 2876-2880 [View Page Images or PDF (716 kB)]
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Phase statistics and phase-space measurements
Paul Busch, Marian Grabowski, and Pekka J. Lahti
pp. 2881-2884 [View Page Images or PDF (695 kB)]
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Limiting analytic form for an Aharonov-Bohm diffraction pattern
V. C. Aguilera-Navarro and R. M. Quick
pp. 2885-2892 [View Page Images or PDF (987 kB)]
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Multichannel quantum mechanics as a Hamiltonian phase flow
John L. Bohn and U. Fano
pp. 2893-2898 [View Page Images or PDF (1,144 kB)]
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Nonrelativistic theory of the radiation reaction interaction
S. Danko Bosanac
pp. 2899-2907 [View Page Images or PDF (1,457 kB)]
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Large correlation effects of small perturbations by preselection and postselection of states
N. Zagury and A. F. R. de Toledo Piza
pp. 2908-2914 [View Page Images or PDF (1,280 kB)]
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so(2,1) Lie algebra and the Green’s functions for the conditionally exactly solvable potentials
A. de Souza Dutra and Henrique Boschi-Filho
pp. 2915-2920 [View Page Images or PDF (856 kB)]
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Symplectic transformations in the n-mode coherent-state representation using integration within an ordered product of operators
Fan Hong-yi and Xu Zhi-hua
pp. 2921-2925 [View Page Images or PDF (498 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Ground-state energies of hydrogenic atoms in a uniform magnetic field of arbitrary strength
O. Mustafa and S. C. Chhajlany
pp. 2926-2929 [View Page Images or PDF (598 kB)]
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Predissociation quantum yields of singlet nitrogen
C. W. Walter, P. C. Cosby, and H. Helm
pp. 2930-2936 [View Page Images or PDF (1,347 kB)]
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Spline-Galerkin methods applied to Rydberg series between the 4s 2S and 3d 2D limits of calcium
Tomas Brage and Charlotte Froese Fischer
pp. 2937-2947 [View Page Images or PDF (1,633 kB)]
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Static hyperpolarizability of atomic lithium
N. El-Bakali Kassimi and Ajit J. Thakkar
pp. 2948-2952 [View Page Images or PDF (942 kB)]
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Corrections to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation by means of perturbation theory
Francisco M. Fernández
pp. 2953-2959 [View Page Images or PDF (1,135 kB)]
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Improved experimental limit on the electric dipole moment of the electron
Eugene D. Commins, Stephen B. Ross, David DeMille, and B. C. Regan
pp. 2960-2977 [View Page Images or PDF (2,733 kB)]
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Measurement of the C 3Πu radiative lifetime of N2 by laser-induced fluorescence
M. D. Simon, R. F. Wuerker, and A. Y. Wong
pp. 2978-2980 [View Page Images or PDF (365 kB)]
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Electron-impact collision strengths for neutral fluorine
Kiran S. Baliyan and A. K. Bhatia
pp. 2981-2988 [View Page Images or PDF (1,266 kB)]
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Numerical Liouville approach: A calculation method for nonlinear optical susceptibilities of N-state systems
Masayoshi Nakano and Kizashi Yamaguchi
pp. 2989-3004 [View Page Images or PDF (2,599 kB)]
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Influence of relaxation phenomena in the unified description of resonant and nonresonant radiative transitions
V. L. Jacobs, J. Cooper, and S. L. Haan
pp. 3005-3038 [View Page Images or PDF (6,795 kB)]
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Calculation of the Bethe logarithm for the Rydberg states of helium
S. P. Goldman
pp. 3039-3050 [View Page Images or PDF (1,805 kB)]
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Quadratic Zeeman effect in hydrogen Rydberg states: Rigorous error estimates for energy eigenvalues, energy eigenfunctions, and oscillator strengths
P. Falsaperla and G. Fonte
pp. 3051-3057 [View Page Images or PDF (1,029 kB)]
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Forbidden 2s1/2-1s1/2 radiative atomic transition
G. Galley and J.-Cl. Dousse
pp. 3058-3064 [View Page Images or PDF (1,150 kB)]
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Position and momentum information entropies of the D-dimensional harmonic oscillator and hydrogen atom
R. J. Yáñez, W. Van Assche, and J. S. Dehesa
pp. 3065-3079 [View Page Images or PDF (1,905 kB)]
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Large-scale multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock and configuration-interaction calculations of isotope shifts and hyperfine structures in boron
Per Jönsson and Charlotte Froese Fischer
pp. 3080-3088 [View Page Images or PDF (1,508 kB)]
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Magnetic-field density-functional theory
Christopher J. Grayce and Robert A. Harris
pp. 3089-3095 [View Page Images or PDF (1,355 kB)]
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Long-range potentials, including retardation, for the interaction of two alkali-metal atoms
M. Marinescu, J. F. Babb, and A. Dalgarno
pp. 3096-3104 [View Page Images or PDF (1,315 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Electron-impact excitation along an isoelectronic sequence: B-like ions
Hong Lin Zhang and Anil K. Pradhan
pp. 3105-3116 [View Page Images or PDF (1,819 kB)]
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Auger electron emission following double electron capture in 150-keV Ne10++He collisions
F Fremont, H. Merabet, J. Y. Chesnel, X. Husson, A. Lepoutre, D. Lecler, G. Rieger, and N. Stolterfoht
pp. 3117-3123 [View Page Images or PDF (1,297 kB)]
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Inelastic electron–dipole-molecule scattering at sub-milli-electron-volt energies: Possible role of dipole-supported states
M. T. Frey, S. B. Hill, X. Ling, K. A. Smith, F. B. Dunning, and I. I. Fabrikant
pp. 3124-3128 [View Page Images or PDF (1,068 kB)]
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Threshold effects in positron scattering on noble gases
J. Moxom, G. Laricchia, M. Charlton, A. Kovar, and W. E. Meyerhof
pp. 3129-3133 [View Page Images or PDF (898 kB)]
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Dielectronic recombination versus charge exchange: Electron capture by metastable ions
S. Bliman, M. Cornille, and K. Katsonis
pp. 3134-3141 [View Page Images or PDF (1,111 kB)]
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Isolation of the regions of potential significance in fine-structure transitions using adiabatic and functional sensitivity analyses: A comparative investigation with application to Na(2P1/2)+He→Na(2P3/2)+He and Na(2P1/2)+Ar→Na(2P3/2)+Ar
D. A. Padmavathi, Manoj K. Mishra, and Herschel Rabitz
pp. 3142-3150 [View Page Images or PDF (1,422 kB)]
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Quenching collisions of low-energy metastable multiply charged argon ions
D. A. Church, Lisheng Yang, and Shigu Tu
pp. 3151-3156 [View Page Images or PDF (1,063 kB)]
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Photoionization of the 2p subshell of sodium atoms in ground and excited states
H. P. Saha
pp. 3157-3163 [View Page Images or PDF (1,250 kB)]
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Dissociative ionization of H2, N2, and O2 by electron impact
B. Van Zyl and T. M. Stephen
pp. 3164-3173 [View Page Images or PDF (2,001 kB)]
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Photoexcitation and -ionization in helium: Zero-kinetic-energy spectroscopy
Zhuang Fan, H. R. Sadeghpour, and A. Dalgarno
pp. 3174-3176 [View Page Images or PDF (429 kB)]
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Computation of the scattering length and effective range in molecular physics
M. Marinescu
pp. 3177-3180 [View Page Images or PDF (605 kB)]
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Dissociative cross sections of H2 by electron impact
J. W. Liu and S. Hagstrom
pp. 3181-3185 [View Page Images or PDF (867 kB)]
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Relationship between the Born and impulse approximations for the antiscreening process
E. C. Montenegro and T. J. M. Zouros
pp. 3186-3191 [View Page Images or PDF (1,045 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Stopping power for hydrogen molecular ions in solids: Influence of the inner-shell electrons of target atoms
You-Nian Wang and Teng-Cai Ma
pp. 3192-3196 [View Page Images or PDF (641 kB)]
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Analysis of charge-dependent stopping of swift ions
Peter Sigmund
pp. 3197-3201 [View Page Images or PDF (800 kB)]
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Semiclassical formalism in ion-surface capture at high energies
M. S. Gravielle and J. E. Miraglia
pp. 3202-3207 [View Page Images or PDF (897 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Multiphoton detachment of H-. II. Intensity-dependent photodetachment rates and threshold behavior—complex-scaling generalized pseudospectral method
Jingyan Wang, Shih-I Chu, and Cecil Laughlin
pp. 3208-3215 [View Page Images or PDF (1,340 kB)]
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Steric effects in multiphoton excitation
Constantin Mainos
pp. 3216-3233 [View Page Images or PDF (3,334 kB)]
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Converged three-dimensional calculations of above-threshold ionization: Angular-momentum constraints and the kinetic-energy distribution
Ricardo A. Blank and Moshe Shapiro
pp. 3234-3244 [View Page Images or PDF (1,753 kB)]
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Ionization of He by ultrastrong single-cycle pulses
P. B. Lerner, K. LaGattuta, and James S. Cohen
pp. 3245-3248 [View Page Images or PDF (657 kB)]
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Threshold and Coulomb effects in multiphoton ionization
Marvin H. Mittleman
pp. 3249-3255 [View Page Images or PDF (857 kB)]
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Correlated Keldysh-Faisal-Reiss theory of above-threshold double ionization of He in intense laser fields
Andreas Becker and Farhad H. M. Faisal
pp. 3256-3264 [View Page Images or PDF (1,212 kB)]
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Atomic motion in a magneto-optical field
U. Janicke and M. Wilkens
pp. 3265-3275 [View Page Images or PDF (1,899 kB)]
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Application of the scrL2 box-stabilization method to time-periodic systems
A. A. Makarov, H. S. Taylor, and Marcel Pont
pp. 3276-3284 [View Page Images or PDF (1,457 kB)]
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Multilevel light-induced continuum structure: Strong-probe and stabilization effects
R. Parzyński, A. Wójcik, and J. Schmidt
pp. 3285-3294 [View Page Images or PDF (1,750 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Gaussian noise and quantum-optical communication
Michael J. W. Hall
pp. 3295-3303 [View Page Images or PDF (1,461 kB)]
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Non-Markovian analysis of coherence in a driven two-level atom
J. R. Brinati, S. S. Mizrahi, and G. A. Prataviera
pp. 3304-3311 [View Page Images or PDF (952 kB)]
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Accumulated photon echoes generated by synchrotron radiation
H. Itoh, S. Nakanishi, M. Kawase, H. Fukuda, H. Nakatsuka, and M. Kamada
pp. 3312-3315 [View Page Images or PDF (737 kB)]
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Electron-beam-induced super-radiant emission from a grating
A. Halperin, A. Gover, and A. Yariv
pp. 3316-3321 [View Page Images or PDF (870 kB)]
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Complexity of dynamical bifurcations in detuned degenerate four-wave mixing
Wang Kaige, N. B. Abraham, L. A. Lugiato, and M. Vadacchino
pp. 3322-3330 [View Page Images or PDF (1,301 kB)]
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Thermal coherent states in the Bargmann representation
A. Vourdas and R. F. Bishop
pp. 3331-3339 [View Page Images or PDF (1,476 kB)]
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Single-atom interference method for generating Fock states
P. Domokos, J. Janszky, and P. Adam
pp. 3340-3344 [View Page Images or PDF (828 kB)]
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Enhancement of degenerate four-wave mixing by atom-wall collisions in atomic vapors
B. Ai, D. S. Glassner, and R. J. Knize
pp. 3345-3348 [View Page Images or PDF (756 kB)]
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Spatiotemporal coherence properties of entangled light beams generated by parametric down-conversion
Adel Joobeur, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
pp. 3349-3361 [View Page Images or PDF (1,765 kB)]
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Pump-induced transparency and enhanced third-harmonic generation near an autoionizing state
S. J. van Enk, Jian Zhang, and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 3362-3365 [View Page Images or PDF (714 kB)]
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Spatial distortions of laser pulses in coherent on-resonance propagation: Large-scale self-focusing
J. de Lamare, M. Comte, and Ph. Kupecek
pp. 3366-3378 [View Page Images or PDF (1,974 kB)]
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Forced indistinguishability in ‘‘induced coherence without stimulated emission’’
G. A. Barbosa
pp. 3379-3383 [View Page Images or PDF (717 kB)]
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Dense configuration of solitons in resonant four-wave mixing
Alexander A. Zabolotskii
pp. 3384-3393 [View Page Images or PDF (1,425 kB)]
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Inversionless gain in driven three-level ssV-type atoms: A comparison of broadband and monochromatic excitation
Geoffrey A. Wilson, Krishna K. Meduri, Peter B. Sellin, and T. W. Mossberg
pp. 3394-3400 [View Page Images or PDF (1,080 kB)]
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Dynamical ordering: Applications to Fokker-Planck equations
Arkadiusz Orl/owski and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz
pp. 3401-3408 [View Page Images or PDF (1,207 kB)]
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Quantum dynamics of a laser-cooled ideal gas
J. I. Cirac, M. Lewenstein, and P. Zoller
pp. 3409-3422 [View Page Images or PDF (2,359 kB)]
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Coherent states in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space
A. Miranowicz, K. Pia̧tek, and R. Tanaś
pp. 3423-3426 [View Page Images or PDF (401 kB)]
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Normal-form theory for a laser model with periodic signal and noise injection
M. S. Torre, H. F. Ranea-Sandoval, and R. C. Buceta
pp. 3427-3437 [View Page Images or PDF (1,668 kB)]
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Generation and propagation of high-order harmonics in a rapidly ionizing medium
S. C. Rae, K. Burnett, and J. Cooper
pp. 3438-3446 [View Page Images or PDF (1,585 kB)]
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Approximate model for optical pulse compression by cross-phase modulation in Bragg gratings
M. J. Steel, David G. A. Jackson, and C. Martijn de Sterke
pp. 3447-3452 [View Page Images or PDF (1,007 kB)]
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Nonperturbative studies of a quantum higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger model using the Bethe ansatz
Alexander G. Shnirman, Boris A. Malomed, and Eshel Ben-Jacob
pp. 3453-3463 [View Page Images or PDF (1,694 kB)]
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Chaotic and periodic passive Q switching in coupled CO2 lasers with a saturable absorber
Yudong Liu, P. C. de Oliveira, M. B. Danailov, and J. R. Rios Leite
pp. 3464-3470 [View Page Images or PDF (1,191 kB)]
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Hexagons and squares in a passive nonlinear optical system
J. B. Geddes, R. A. Indik, J. V. Moloney, and W. J. Firth
pp. 3471-3485 [View Page Images or PDF (2,418 kB)]
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Spin-correlated interferometry for polarized and unpolarized photons on a beam splitter
Mladen Pavičić
pp. 3486-3491 [View Page Images or PDF (1,017 kB)]
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Fundamental limit on energy transfer in k-photon down-conversion
G. Drobný and V. Bužek
pp. 3492-3499 [View Page Images or PDF (1,529 kB)]
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Complete atomic population inversion using correlated sidebands
Ping Koy Lam and C. M. Savage
pp. 3500-3504 [View Page Images or PDF (833 kB)]
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Phase-state representation in quantum optics
C. Brif and Y. Ben-Aryeh
pp. 3505-3516 [View Page Images or PDF (1,616 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Universal function and its application to the 2p-3s transition in sodium
Zhifan Chen and A. Z. Msezane
pp. 3517-3520 [View Page Images or PDF (620 kB)]

Fundamental concepts

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Convergence of the hyperspherical-harmonic expansion for two-electron atoms
Tapan Kumar Das, Rakhi Chattopadhyay, and Prasanta Kumar Mukherjee
pp. 3521-3524 [View Page Images or PDF (717 kB)]
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Spurious solutions arising in matrix approximations to the Dirac-Coulomb problem
James D. Talman
pp. 3525-3526 [View Page Images or PDF (225 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Equations satisfied by the kinetic-energy functional and its derivatives
Daniel P. Joubert
pp. 3527-3528 [View Page Images or PDF (213 kB)]
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Collective response and molecular effects in cluster photoionization: A one-center time-dependent calculation for BaO2
Zeljko Crljen, Jarek Luberek, Göran Wendin, and Zachary H. Levine
pp. 3529-3532 [View Page Images or PDF (814 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Stopping power of carbon for 9.6-MeV/amu H2+ ions
Y. Susuki, M. Fritz, K. Kimura, M. Mannami, N. Sakamoto, H. Ogawa, I. Katayama, T. Noro, and H. Ikegami
pp. 3533-3536 [View Page Images or PDF (672 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Deviation from the Fano profile in resonance-enhanced multiphoton autoionization
Lipika Adhya and Krishna Rai Dastidar
pp. 3537-3540 [View Page Images or PDF (394 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Electro-optic measurement of the electric-field distributions in coplanar-electrode poled polymers
J. W. Wu, T. Wada, and H. Sasabe
pp. 3541-3544 [View Page Images or PDF (793 kB)]
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Jaynes-Cummings model with a para-Bose oscillator
J. Črnugelj, M. Martinis, and V. Mikuta-Martinis
pp. 3545-3547 [View Page Images or PDF (337 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on ‘‘Squeezing and antisqueezing for a harmonic oscillator having a sudden change of mass’’
P. Adam and J. Janszky
pp. 3548-3550 [View Page Images or PDF (337 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Correlation-potential method for negative ions and electron scattering [Phys. Rev. A 49, 2483 (1994)]
V. A. Dzuba and G. F. Gribakin
pp. 3551 [View Page Images or PDF (188 kB)]
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Erratum: Z scaling of the 3P-3S Li isoelectronic series transition: Quadrupole Stark broadening and resonances [Phys. Rev. A 49, 3086 (1994)]
S. Alexiou and Yu. Ralchenko
pp. 3552-3553 [View Page Images or PDF (121 kB)]
 
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