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Physical Review A – December 1994
Volume 50, Issue 6

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Fundamental concepts

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Schemes for atomic-state teleportation
J.I. Cirac and A.S. Parkins
pp. R4441-R4444 [View Page Images or PDF (741 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Quantum defects and the long-term behavior of radial Rydberg wave packets
Robert Bluhm and V. Alan Kostelecký
pp. R4445-R4448 [View Page Images or PDF (755 kB)]
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Comparison of the cold-collision losses for laser-trapped sodium in different ground-state hyperfine sublevels
S-Q. Shang, Z-T. Lu, and S. J. Freedman
pp. R4449-R4452 [View Page Images or PDF (667 kB)]
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Prediction of an alignment transition region of two-ion crystals in a Paul trap
M. G. Moore and R. Blümel
pp. R4453-R4456 [View Page Images or PDF (594 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Dark and bright photovoltaic spatial solitons
George C. Valley, Mordechai Segev, Bruno Crosignani, Amnon Yariv, M. M. Fejer, and M. C. Bashaw
pp. R4457-R4460 [View Page Images or PDF (650 kB)]
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Optimal quasi-phase-matching for high-order harmonic generation in gases and plasma
P. L. Shkolnikov, A. Lago, and A. E. Kaplan
pp. R4461-R4464 [View Page Images or PDF (759 kB)]
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Realization of trapping in a two-level system with frequency-modulated fields
Girish S. Agarwal and W. Harshawardhan
pp. R4465-R4467 [View Page Images or PDF (349 kB)]
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Non- and nearly hexagonal patterns in sodium vapor generated by single-mirror feedback
T. Ackemann and W. Lange
pp. R4468-R4471 [View Page Images or PDF (698 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Formulations of certain Gel’fand-Levitan and Marchenko equations
D. L. Pursey and T. A. Weber
pp. 4472-4477 [View Page Images or PDF (751 kB)]
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Continuum bound states
T. A. Weber and D. L. Pursey
pp. 4478-4487 [View Page Images or PDF (1,552 kB)]
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Displaced and squeezed parity operator: Its role in classical mappings of quantum theories
R. F. Bishop and A. Vourdas
pp. 4488-4501 [View Page Images or PDF (2,167 kB)]
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Quantum nonlocality in a delayed-choice experiment with partial, controllable memory erasing
R. L. Ingraham
pp. 4502-4505 [View Page Images or PDF (662 kB)]
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Perturbed ladder-operator method: An algebraic recursive solution of the perturbed Morse-oscillator eigenequation
N. Bessis and G. Bessis
pp. 4506-4520 [View Page Images or PDF (1,817 kB)]
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Quantum electrodynamic theory of recombination of an electron with a highly charged ion
V. M. Shabaev
pp. 4521-4534 [View Page Images or PDF (1,712 kB)]
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Bound states of two-dimensional nonuniform waveguides
M. Andrews and C. M. Savage
pp. 4535-4537 [View Page Images or PDF (510 kB)]
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Canonical transformations and path-integral measures
Mark S. Swanson
pp. 4538-4557 [View Page Images or PDF (3,227 kB)]
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Size-consistent Brillouin-Wigner perturbation theory with an exponentially parametrized wave function: Brillouin-Wigner coupled-cluster theory
Ivan Hubač and Pavel Neogrády
pp. 4558-4564 [View Page Images or PDF (980 kB)]
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Simultaneous sharp measurability of position and momentum in infinite quantum systems
Thomas Breuer
pp. 4565-4571 [View Page Images or PDF (1,234 kB)]
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Topological quenching of the tunnel splitting for a particle in a double-well potential on a planar loop
Stefan Weigert
pp. 4572-4581 [View Page Images or PDF (1,579 kB)]
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Dynamical quantum Zeno effect
Saverio Pascazio and Mikio Namiki
pp. 4582-4592 [View Page Images or PDF (1,811 kB)]
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Taylor-series expansion of density functionals
Matthias Ernzerhof
pp. 4593-4607 [View Page Images or PDF (2,123 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Floquet spectroscopy of hydrogenic states: Classical and quantal descriptions
Y. Zhang, M. Ciocca, L.-W. He, C. E. Burkhardt, and J. J. Leventhal
pp. 4608-4617 [View Page Images or PDF (2,027 kB)]
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Multichannel quantum-defect theory of n=2 and 3 gerade states in H2: Rovibronic energy levels
S. C. Ross and Ch. Jungen
pp. 4618-4628 [View Page Images or PDF (1,693 kB)]
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Distortion of atomic states by time-dependent electric fields. II. Coupling to the continuum
Predrag Krstić and Yukap Hahn
pp. 4629-4638 [View Page Images or PDF (1,436 kB)]
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Precision measurement of the hyperfine structure and nuclear moments of 180mTa by laser-rf double resonance
M. Wakasugi, W. G. Jin, T. T. Inamura, T. Murayama, T. Wakui, H. Katsuragawa, T. Ariga, T. Ishizuka, and I. Sugai
pp. 4639-4642 [View Page Images or PDF (588 kB)]
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Test of a bond-pair superposition model describing the interaction between atoms: Application to the hydrides of the first-row elements
P. G. Bolcatto, E. C. Goldberg, and M. C. G. Passeggi
pp. 4643-4649 [View Page Images or PDF (1,063 kB)]
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Forward scattering magneto-optical spectra of the Cs D2 line
Isao Hirano
pp. 4650-4656 [View Page Images or PDF (967 kB)]
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Measurement of the Stark-induced amplitudes of the 6P1/2→7P1/2 transition in atomic thallium
David DeMille, Dmitry Budker, and Eugene D. Commins
pp. 4657-4670 [View Page Images or PDF (2,501 kB)]
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Many-body calculation of the 2p1/2,3/2-2s1/2 transition energies in Li-like 238U
A. Ynnerman, J. James, I. Lindgren, H. Persson, and S. Salomonson
pp. 4671-4678 [View Page Images or PDF (1,138 kB)]
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Large-field behavior of the LoSurdo-Stark resonances in atomic hydrogen
Gabriel Alvarez and Harris J. Silverstone
pp. 4679-4699 [View Page Images or PDF (2,674 kB)]
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Theoretical triple differential cross section of the helium atom ionization with excitation to the n=2 ion state
A. S. Kheifets, Igor Bray, I. E. McCarthy, and Bo Shang
pp. 4700-4706 [View Page Images or PDF (1,024 kB)]
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Assessment of Kohn-Sham density-functional orbitals as approximate Dyson orbitals for the calculation of electron-momentum-spectroscopy scattering cross sections
Patrick Duffy, Delano P. Chong, Mark E. Casida, and Dennis R. Salahub
pp. 4707-4728 [View Page Images or PDF (4,030 kB)]
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Measurement of a linear Stark interference effect on the rubidium D1 absorption line
Xu Chen, F. R. Huang-Hellinger, B. R. Heckel, and E. N. Fortson
pp. 4729-4732 [View Page Images or PDF (665 kB)]
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Relativistic many-body perturbation theory based on the no-pair Dirac-Coulomb-Breit Hamiltonian: Relativistic correlation energies for the noble-gas sequence through Rn (Z=86), the group-IIB atoms through Hg, and the ions of Ne isoelectronic sequence
Yasuyuki Ishikawa and Konrad Koc
pp. 4733-4742 [View Page Images or PDF (1,659 kB)]
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Theory of muon-spin relaxation of simple gaseous free radicals
Ralph Eric Turner and R. F. Snider
pp. 4743-4754 [View Page Images or PDF (2,060 kB)]
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Maxwell fields and Poynting vector in the proximity of a chiral molecule
A. Salam and T. Thirunamachandran
pp. 4755-4766 [View Page Images or PDF (1,237 kB)]
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Retarded dispersion interaction energies between chiral molecules
J. K. Jenkins, A. Salam, and T. Thirunamachandran
pp. 4767-4777 [View Page Images or PDF (1,533 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Dependence of electron-impact dissociative excitation cross sections on the initial vibrational quantum number in H2 and D2 molecules: X 1Σg+→B 1Σu+ and X 1Σg+→C 1Πu transitions
R. Celiberto, U. T. Lamanna, and M. Capitelli
pp. 4778-4785 [View Page Images or PDF (1,029 kB)]
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Excitation transfer among, and quenching of, the barium 6s5d 3DJ metastable levels due to collisions with argon, nitrogen, and barium perturbers
E. Ehrlacher and J. Huennekens
pp. 4786-4793 [View Page Images or PDF (1,383 kB)]
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Absolute differential cross sections for the excitation of molecular oxygen by electron impact: Decomposition of the Schumann-Runge continuum
Tong W. Shyn, Christopher J. Sweeney, Alan Grafe, and William E. Sharp
pp. 4794-4801 [View Page Images or PDF (1,306 kB)]
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29-state R-matrix investigation of resonances in e--He scattering at low energies: 1 1S–3 3,1S and 1 1S–4 3,1S excitation cross sections
W. C. Fon, K. P. Lim, K. Ratnavelu, and P. M. J. Sawey
pp. 4802-4811 [View Page Images or PDF (1,418 kB)]
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Subexcitation electron interactions in rare gases: Production of electronic excited states in helium or neon mixtures with argon, krypton, or xenon
Ronald Cooper and Myran C. Sauer, Jr.
pp. 4812-4818 [View Page Images or PDF (1,191 kB)]
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Positron scattering from krypton and xenon
F. A. Gianturco and D. De Fazio
pp. 4819-4826 [View Page Images or PDF (1,477 kB)]
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Elastic scattering of two Na atoms
R. Côté and A. Dalgarno
pp. 4827-4835 [View Page Images or PDF (977 kB)]
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Photoionization of palladium including relaxation effects
M. Kutzner and S. E. Vance
pp. 4836-4841 [View Page Images or PDF (890 kB)]
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Convergence of bound-electron–positron pair production calculations for relativistic heavy-ion collisions
A. J. Baltz, M. J. Rhoades-Brown, and J. Weneser
pp. 4842-4853 [View Page Images or PDF (1,765 kB)]
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Electron capture and excitation in collisions of O+(4S,2D,2P) ions with He atoms and He+ ions with O atoms at energies below 10 keV
M. Kimura, J. P. Gu, H. P. Liebermann, Y. Li, G. Hirsch, R. J. Buenker, and A. Dalgarno
pp. 4854-4858 [View Page Images or PDF (709 kB)]
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Low-energy differential scattering of electrons and positrons from noble gases
David D. Reid and J. M. Wadehra
pp. 4859-4867 [View Page Images or PDF (1,380 kB)]
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Direct double photoionization of atomic sodium
B. Rouvellou, L. Journel, J. M. Bizau, D. Cubaynes, F. J. Wuilleumier, M. Richter, K.-H. Selbmann, P. Sladeczek, and P. Zimmermann
pp. 4868-4876 [View Page Images or PDF (1,733 kB)]
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Doubly excited shape resonance states in H- above the hydrogen N=5 threshold
Y. K. Ho
pp. 4877-4885 [View Page Images or PDF (930 kB)]
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3Do shape-resonant state of H- lying above the hydrogen N=3 threshold
A. K. Bhatia and Y. K. Ho
pp. 4886-4890 [View Page Images or PDF (729 kB)]
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Vibrational and rotational population distributions of MgH(v’’=0 and 1) produced in the reaction of Mg(3s3p 1P1) with H2
Dean-Kuo Liu, Thou-Long Chin, and King-Chuen Lin
pp. 4891-4898 [View Page Images or PDF (1,282 kB)]
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Identification of inelastic processes in 4.0-keV H2+-He collisions using Lα-photon–particle coincidence techniques
D. Calabrese, L. M. Wiese, O. Yenen, and D. H. Jaecks
pp. 4899-4904 [View Page Images or PDF (929 kB)]
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Backward ejected electrons produced by 1-MeV/u Oq+ (q=3–8) projectile ions colliding with argon gas
M. Breinig, J. W. Berryman, F. Segner, and D. D. Desai
pp. 4905-4910 [View Page Images or PDF (1,121 kB)]
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Excitation-autoionization through 3d-4l inner-shell excitations in Cu- to Kr-like ions and the effect on fractional-ion-abundance balance in coronal plasmas
D. Mitnik, P. Mandelbaum, J. L. Schwob, A. Bar-Shalom, J. Oreg, and W. H. Goldstein
pp. 4911-4929 [View Page Images or PDF (3,151 kB)]
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Generalized Hofstadter picture for lattices with more than one degree of freedom per site
R. Akis, C. Barnes, and G. Kirczenow
pp. 4930-4940 [View Page Images or PDF (1,783 kB)]
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Electric-field effects on the N=3 1Po(1) resonance of H-
Y. K. Ho and J. Callaway
pp. 4941-4944 [View Page Images or PDF (563 kB)]
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Ionization of excited hydrogen atoms by collisions with bare ions
Akinori Igarashi and Toshizo Shirai
pp. 4945-4950 [View Page Images or PDF (798 kB)]
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Muon transfer and elastic scattering in t+dμ collisions at low energies
Akinori Igarashi, Nobuyuki Toshima, and Toshizo Shirai
pp. 4951-4955 [View Page Images or PDF (743 kB)]
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Evolution of barium autoionizing Stark spectra with energy and field
D. J. Armstrong and Chris H. Greene
pp. 4956-4974 [View Page Images or PDF (3,206 kB)]
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Interference effects in the recombination process of hydrogenlike lead
A. V. Nefiodov, V. V. Karasiev, and V. A. Yerokhin
pp. 4975-4978 [View Page Images or PDF (551 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Impact-parameter dependence of energy loss for 625-keV H+ ions in Si single crystals
A. Dygo, M. A. Boshart, L. E. Seiberling, and N. M. Kabachnik
pp. 4979-4992 [View Page Images or PDF (2,260 kB)]
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Target effects in the interaction of highly charged Ne ions with an Al(110) surface
S. Hustedt, J. Freese, S. Mähl, W. Heiland, S. Schippers, J. Bleck-Neuhaus, M. Grether, R. Köhrbrück, and N. Stolterfoht
pp. 4993-4999 [View Page Images or PDF (1,123 kB)]

Matter waves

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Contrast enhancement by time selection in neutron interferometry
M. Zawisky, H. Rauch, and Y. Hasegawa
pp. 5000-5006 [View Page Images or PDF (969 kB)]
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Dispersive and nondispersive phase shifts in atomic Stern-Gerlach interferometry
O. Gorceix, J. Robert, S. Nic Chormaic, Ch. Miniatura, and J. Baudon
pp. 5007-5013 [View Page Images or PDF (1,203 kB)]
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Density-matrix description of neutron-interferometry experiments
Vito Luigi Lepore
pp. 5014-5017 [View Page Images or PDF (553 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Classical stabilization of periodically kicked hydrogen atoms
Giulio Casati, Italo Guarneri, and Giorgio Mantica
pp. 5018-5024 [View Page Images or PDF (1,087 kB)]
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Photoassociation of atoms in ultracold collisions probed by wave-packet dynamics
Mette Machholm, Annick Giusti-Suzor, and F. H. Mies
pp. 5025-5036 [View Page Images or PDF (1,988 kB)]
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Laser-induced trapping of chlorine molecules with pico- and femtosecond pulses
M. Schmidt, D. Normand, and C. Cornaggia
pp. 5037-5045 [View Page Images or PDF (1,436 kB)]
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Multiphoton absorption via chirped-pulse adiabatic passage: Dynamics within the excited-state manifolds
Y. B. Band
pp. 5046-5050 [View Page Images or PDF (621 kB)]
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Mechanical Faraday effect induced by binary collisions
Gerard Nienhuis and Stanisl/aw Kryszewski
pp. 5051-5057 [View Page Images or PDF (1,062 kB)]
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Mg 3pnk autoionizing states in electric fields
M. D. Lindsay, C. J. Dai, B. J. Lyons, C. R. Mahon, and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 5058-5063 [View Page Images or PDF (929 kB)]
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Resonant two-photon transition to the continuum from an initial J=0 state using elliptically polarized light
Banani Datta and S. S. Bhattacharyya
pp. 5064-5076 [View Page Images or PDF (1,920 kB)]
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Approximate dynamical symmetry of hydrogen atoms in circularly polarized microwave fields
M. J. Raković and Shih-I Chu
pp. 5077-5080 [View Page Images or PDF (691 kB)]
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Theory of strong-field light-induced collisional energy transfer in Eu and Sr
A. Bambini and S. Geltman
pp. 5081-5091 [View Page Images or PDF (1,833 kB)]
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Two-dimensional Sisyphus cooling
Yvan Castin, Kirstine Berg-So/rensen, Jean Dalibard, and Klaus Mo/lmer
pp. 5092-5115 [View Page Images or PDF (4,184 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Cavity field spectra of the nondegenerate two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model
M. M. Ashraf
pp. 5116-5121 [View Page Images or PDF (725 kB)]
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Theory of two-photon entanglement in type-II optical parametric down-conversion
Morton H. Rubin, David N. Klyshko, Y. H. Shih, and A. V. Sergienko
pp. 5122-5133 [View Page Images or PDF (1,753 kB)]
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Theoretical description of steady-state sum-frequency generation in molecular adsorbates
S. H. Lin and A. A. Villaeys
pp. 5134-5144 [View Page Images or PDF (1,242 kB)]
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Soliton states in wave mixing and third-harmonic generation
Yijiang Chen
pp. 5145-5152 [View Page Images or PDF (1,304 kB)]
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Bistability and symmetry breaking in distributed coupling of counterpropagating beams into nonlinear waveguides
T. Peschel, U. Peschel, and F. Lederer
pp. 5153-5163 [View Page Images or PDF (1,596 kB)]
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Wave-field phase singularities: The sign principle
Isaac Freund and Natalya Shvartsman
pp. 5164-5172 [View Page Images or PDF (1,934 kB)]
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Crystallography of optical lattices
K. I. Petsas, A. B. Coates, and G. Grynberg
pp. 5173-5189 [View Page Images or PDF (4,149 kB)]
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Effects of pulses with simple phase and frequency modulations
Debabrata Goswami and Warren S. Warren
pp. 5190-5196 [View Page Images or PDF (1,223 kB)]
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Dynamics of light transmission in two-dimensional nonlinear optical superlattices
Bin Xu and Nai-Ben Ming
pp. 5197-5204 [View Page Images or PDF (1,048 kB)]
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Stability of vector solitary waves
Yijiang Chen
pp. 5205-5208 [View Page Images or PDF (708 kB)]
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Photon generation and squeezing in a generalized two-dimensional oscillator
O. Castaños, R. López-Peña, and V. I. Man’ko
pp. 5209-5218 [View Page Images or PDF (1,314 kB)]
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Nonlinear optical transmission in multiple quantum wells with ridged waveguides: Experiment and theory
V. Pellegrini, F. Fuso, E. Arimondo, F. Castelli, L. A. Lugiato, G. P. Bava, and P. Debernardi
pp. 5219-5232 [View Page Images or PDF (2,248 kB)]
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Statistical and phase properties of the binomial states of the electromagnetic field
A. Vidiella-Barranco and J. A. Roversi
pp. 5233-5241 [View Page Images or PDF (1,283 kB)]
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Linear stochastic wave equations for continuously measured quantum systems
Peter Goetsch and Robert Graham
pp. 5242-5255 [View Page Images or PDF (2,214 kB)]
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Quantum-limited measurements with the atomic force microscope
G. J. Milburn, K. Jacobs, and D. F. Walls
pp. 5256-5263 [View Page Images or PDF (1,181 kB)]
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Quantum-classical correspondences for atomic operators: A doubled atomic-space approach
L. You and J. Cooper
pp. 5264-5273 [View Page Images or PDF (1,528 kB)]
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Infinite set of relevant operators for an exact solution of the time-dependent Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian
J. L. Gruver, J. Aliaga, Hilda A. Cerdeira, and A. N. Proto
pp. 5274-5288 [View Page Images or PDF (2,050 kB)]
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Bright squeezing from self-induced transparencies in dressed three-level atoms
M. K. Olsen, K. M. Gheri, and D. F. Walls
pp. 5289-5300 [View Page Images or PDF (1,896 kB)]
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Enhanced squeezing by periodic frequency modulation under parametric instability conditions
I. Averbukh, B. Sherman, and G. Kurizki
pp. 5301-5308 [View Page Images or PDF (1,222 kB)]
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SU(m,n) coherent states in the bosonic representation and their generation in optical parametric processes
R. R. Puri
pp. 5309-5316 [View Page Images or PDF (1,024 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Structure of the solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation, universal existence of the cyclic quantum evolution, and geometric phases
Lian-Ao Wu
pp. 5317-5319 [View Page Images or PDF (413 kB)]
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Equivalence between Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects, and motive forces
Sangchul Oh, Chang-Mo Ryu, and Sung-Ho Suck Salk
pp. 5320-5323 [View Page Images or PDF (647 kB)]
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Continuum limit of the fluctuation factor in coherent-state functional integrals for transition amplitudes
K. Yonemitsu
pp. 5324-5327 [View Page Images or PDF (460 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Obtaining a gradient-corrected kinetic-energy functional from the Perdew-Wang exchange functional
A. Lembarki and H. Chermette
pp. 5328-5331 [View Page Images or PDF (459 kB)]
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Reinterpretation of pion-transfer probabilities in mixtures of H2O and D2O
M. R. Harston
pp. 5332-5334 [View Page Images or PDF (474 kB)]
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Two electrons in an external oscillator potential: The hidden algebraic structure
Alexander Turbiner
pp. 5335-5337 [View Page Images or PDF (471 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Low-energy electron emission in proton-helium collisions
G. Bernardi, P. Focke, S. Suárez, and W. Meckbach
pp. 5338-5341 [View Page Images or PDF (697 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Squeezing in Zak’s kq representation
Fan Hong-yi
pp. 5342-5345 [View Page Images or PDF (395 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Analysis of the lifetimes and fractions of antiprotons trapped in metastable states of antiprotonic helium
Isao Shimamura and Mineo Kimura
pp. 5346-5349 [View Page Images or PDF (823 kB)]
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Reply to ‘‘Analysis of the lifetimes and fractions of antiprotons trapped in metastable states of antiprotonic helium’’
Toshimitsu Yamazaki and Kazumasa Ohtsuki
pp. 5350-5354 [View Page Images or PDF (861 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Dynamical ordering: Applications to Fokker-Planck equations [Phys. Rev. A 50, 3401 (1994)]
Arkadiusz Orl/owski and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz
pp. 5355-5362 [View Page Images or PDF (1,179 kB)]
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Erratum: Quantum dynamics of a laser-cooled ideal gas [Phys. Rev. A 50, 3409 (1994)]
J. I. Cirac, M. Lewenstein, and P. Zoller
pp. 5363-5376 [View Page Images or PDF (2,262 kB)]
 
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