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Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

Zero-kinetic-energy electron spectroscopy of the predissociating A2Σ+ state of HBr+ A. Mank, T. Nguyen, J. D. Martin, and J. W. Hepburn pp. R1-R4 [View Page Images , PDF (689 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dimensional perturbation theory for weakly bound systems Deborah K. Watson and David Z. Goodson pp. R5-R8 [View Page Images , PDF (562 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

Effect of the Mo/ller interaction on electron-impact ionization of high-Z hydrogenlike ions D. L. Moores and K. J. Reed pp. R9-R11 [View Page Images , PDF (343 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Relativistic calculations of cross sections for ionization of U90+ and U91+ ions by electron impact Christopher J. Fontes, Douglas H. Sampson, and Hong Lin Zhang pp. R12-R13 [View Page Images , PDF (274 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

Near-field imaging of atom diffraction gratings: The atomic Talbot effect Michael S. Chapman, Christopher R. Ekstrom, Troy D. Hammond, Jörg Schmiedmayer, Bridget E. Tannian, Stefan Wehinger, and David E. Pritchard pp. R14-R17 [View Page Images , PDF (727 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

Ultracold photoassociative ionization collisions in an atomic beam: Optical field intensity and polarization dependence of the rate constant C.-C. Tsao, R. Napolitano, Y. Wang, and J. Weiner pp. R18-R21 [View Page Images , PDF (611 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Permanent magnet trap for cold atoms J. J. Tollett, C. C. Bradley, C. A. Sackett, and R. G. Hulet pp. R22-R25 [View Page Images , PDF (703 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Superdressed H2+ and H32+ molecular ions in intense, high-frequency laser fields T. Zuo and A. D. Bandrauk pp. R26-R29 [View Page Images , PDF (680 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Dynamic Kingdon trap R. Blümel pp. R30-R33 [View Page Images , PDF (618 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Field-induced dipole effects in laser-assisted elastic electron-atom scattering Sydney Geltman pp. R34-R37 [View Page Images , PDF (595 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

Bright spatiotemporal optical solitons in a planar optical waveguide Shan-liang Liu, Wen-zheng Wang, and Jing-zhi Xu pp. R38-R40 [View Page Images , PDF (533 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Twin-hole dark solitons Alexander V. Buryak and Yuri S. Kivshar pp. R41-R44 [View Page Images , PDF (699 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	‘‘Weak measurements’’ and the ‘‘quantum time-translation machine’’ in a classical system Dieter Suter pp. 45-49 [View Page Images , PDF (828 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nature of geometric (Berry) potentials Andrey Krakovsky and Joseph L. Birman pp. 50-53 [View Page Images , PDF (485 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two interferometric complementarities Gregg Jaeger, Abner Shimony, and Lev Vaidman pp. 54-67 [View Page Images , PDF (2160 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Singular Lagrangians as field systems N. I. Farahat and Y. Güler pp. 68-72 [View Page Images , PDF (424 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Solutions of the Schrödinger equations for lithium and excited helium (2 1S) atoms with a correlation-function hyperspherical harmonic and generalized Laguerre-function expansion method Yixuan Wang, Conghao Deng, and Dacheng Feng pp. 73-78 [View Page Images , PDF (908 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Changing the relative amplitudes of wave packets to induce nonlocal effects L. C. Ryff pp. 79-83 [View Page Images , PDF (899 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Canonical and measured phase distributions U. Leonhardt, J. A. Vaccaro, B. Böhmer, and H. Paul pp. 84-95 [View Page Images , PDF (1908 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Proper time derivatives in quantum mechanics Juan P. Aparicio, Fabián H. Gaioli, and Edgardo T. Garcia Alvarez pp. 96-103 [View Page Images , PDF (1370 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collapse and revival in the dynamics of a spin with the spin-orbit potential R. Arvieu and P. Rozmej pp. 104-119 [View Page Images , PDF (2363 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase of neutrons propagating through an accelerating interferometer: A test of the equivalence principle F. V. Kowalski pp. 120-127 [View Page Images , PDF (1481 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-numerical determination of the number of bound states in some screened Coulomb potentials Miloslav Znojil pp. 128-135 [View Page Images , PDF (1209 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schrödinger cat states and single runs for the damped harmonic oscillator Peter Goetsch, Robert Graham, and Fritz Haake pp. 136-142 [View Page Images , PDF (1090 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Experimental lifetimes for the 3p 2P levels in Na-like Nb (Nb30+) R. Hutton, S. Huldt, B. Nyström, I. Martinson, K. Ando, T. Kambara, Y. Kanai, Y. Nakai, Y. Awaya, and J. Sugar pp. 143-146 [View Page Images , PDF (636 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multielectron excitations in the L-subshell photoabsorption of xenon Iztok Arčon, Alojz Kodre, Matjaž Štuhec, Denis Glavič-Cindro, and Wolfgang Drube pp. 147-154 [View Page Images , PDF (1241 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hyperspherical-coordinate approach to one-dimensional models of two-electron quantum systems A. Artemyev, R. Grobe, and J. H. Eberly pp. 155-162 [View Page Images , PDF (1469 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	N-electron wave functions described with hyperspherical coordinates Lu Deng, Dazhong Li, Yixuan Wang, and Conghao Deng pp. 163-169 [View Page Images , PDF (652 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy expressions in density-functional theory using line integrals Robert van Leeuwen and Evert Jan Baerends pp. 170-178 [View Page Images , PDF (1424 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental lifetimes for Mg-like chlorine L. Engström, P. Bengtsson, C. Jupén, A. E. Livingston, and I. Martinson pp. 179-184 [View Page Images , PDF (996 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic Thomas-Fermi formulations with thermal effects for an atom within and without a very strong magnetic field Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi pp. 185-190 [View Page Images , PDF (640 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Barium spectrum in high magnetic fields G. Droungas, N. E. Karapanagioti, and J.-P. Connerade pp. 191-196 [View Page Images , PDF (995 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	6s and 4f ionized states of the lanthanides calculated by numerical and analytical Hartree-Fock methods Hiroshi Tatewaki, Masahiro Sekiya, Fukashi Sasaki, Osamu Matsuoka, and Toshikatsu Koga pp. 197-203 [View Page Images , PDF (1004 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energies and widths of triply excited n=2 intrashell autoionizing states of He- Mirosl/aw Bylicki and Cleanthes A. Nicolaides pp. 204-210 [View Page Images , PDF (951 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Xenon 147-nm resonance f value and trapped decay rates H. M. Anderson, S. D. Bergeson, D. A. Doughty, and J. E. Lawler pp. 211-217 [View Page Images , PDF (1202 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Line-shape analysis of speed-dependent collisional width inhomogeneities in CO broadened by Xe, N2, and He P. Duggan, P. M. Sinclair, A. D. May, and J. R. Drummond pp. 218-224 [View Page Images , PDF (1191 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic coupled-cluster method: Intrashell excitations in the f2 shells of Pr+3 and U+4 Ephraim Eliav, Uzi Kaldor, and Yasuyuki Ishikawa pp. 225-230 [View Page Images , PDF (929 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Isotope shift in the electron affinity of chlorine U. Berzinsh, M. Gustafsson, D. Hanstorp, A. Klinkmüller, U. Ljungblad, and A.-M. Mårtensson-Pendrill pp. 231-238 [View Page Images , PDF (1398 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonadditive intermolecular forces from the spectroscopy of van der Waals trimers: A theoretical study of Ar2-HF Andreas Ernesti and Jeremy M. Hutson pp. 239-250 [View Page Images , PDF (2082 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Data-based predictions of line strengths in alkali-metal-like isoelectronic sequences L. J. Curtis, D. G. Ellis, and I. Martinson pp. 251-256 [View Page Images , PDF (811 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decomposition of the two-electron-atom eigenvalue problem Marcel Pont and Robin Shakeshaft pp. 257-265 [View Page Images , PDF (1053 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiclassical effective Hamiltonian structure of atoms with Z=1 to 38 James S. Cohen pp. 266-277 [View Page Images , PDF (1529 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Relativistic and correlation effects in the ground state of atomic lawrencium W. P. Wijesundera, S. H. Vosko, and F. A. Parpia pp. 278-282 [View Page Images , PDF (828 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kα and Kβ x-ray emission spectra of copper M. Deutsch, G. Hölzer, J. Härtwig, J. Wolf, M. Fritsch, and E. Förster pp. 283-296 [View Page Images , PDF (2240 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of 2s1/2-2p3/2 transitions in highly ionized uranium W. R. Johnson, J. Sapirstein, and K. T. Cheng pp. 297-302 [View Page Images , PDF (848 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray absorption structures of multielectron excitation in Br Yoshiaki Ito, Takeshi Mukoyama, Shuichi Emura, Masao Takahashi, Shinzo Yoshikado, and Kazuhiko Omote pp. 303-308 [View Page Images , PDF (892 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Elastic scattering of positrons off rare-gas atoms S. Bhattacharyya, B. Talukdar, and P. Mandal pp. 309-313 [View Page Images , PDF (879 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the K-shell photoionization cross section of C iv through the L-shell photoabsorption spectra E. Jannitti, P. Nicolosi, P. Villoresi, and F. Xianping pp. 314-323 [View Page Images , PDF (1531 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Projectile energy loss in multiply ionizing ion-atom collisions H. Schöne, R. Schuch, S. Datz, M. Schulz, P. F. Dittner, J. P. Giese, Q. C. Kessel, H. F. Krause, P. D. Miller, and C. R. Vane pp. 324-336 [View Page Images , PDF (1846 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetic-energy distributions of O- produced by dissociative electron attachment to physisorbed O2 M. A. Huels, L. Parenteau, M. Michaud, and L. Sanche pp. 337-349 [View Page Images , PDF (2493 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time-ordering effects in K-shell excitation of 170-MeV Ne7+ colliding with gas atoms: Double excitation N. Stolterfoht, A. Mattis, D. Schneider, G. Schiwietz, B. Skogvall, B. Sulik, and S. Ricz pp. 350-358 [View Page Images , PDF (1631 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb and screening corrections to Delbrück forward scattering R. Solberg, K. Mork, and I. O/verbo/ pp. 359-362 [View Page Images , PDF (560 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spectra of L x rays from fast highly charged Xe ions traveling in solids V. Horvat, R. L. Watson, and R. Parameswaran pp. 363-373 [View Page Images , PDF (1913 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoionization of the Be isoelectronic sequence from the ground and the 1S bound excited states T. N. Chang and Lizhi Zhu pp. 374-380 [View Page Images , PDF (1161 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical charge-exchange Galilean invariant cross sections for the B3++He collision Alejandro López-Castillo and Fernando R. Ornellas pp. 381-390 [View Page Images , PDF (1322 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetic-energy release in CO dissociation caused by fast F4+ impact I. Ben-Itzhak, S. G. Ginther, Vidhya Krishnamurthi, and K. D. Carnes pp. 391-399 [View Page Images , PDF (1567 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ratio of double to single ionization of helium: The relationship between ionization by photons and by bare charged particles Steven T. Manson and J. H. McGuire pp. 400-405 [View Page Images , PDF (892 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temporary negative-ion states of Na, K, Rb, and Cs A. R. Johnston and P. D. Burrow pp. 406-413 [View Page Images , PDF (1284 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute total-cross-section measurements for intermediate-energy electron scattering on C2H2 and CO S. L. Xing, Q. C. Shi, X. J. Chen, K. Z. Xu, B. X. Yang, S. L. Wu, and R. F. Feng pp. 414-417 [View Page Images , PDF (680 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	(e,3e) observation of the angular correlation between ejected and Auger electrons in the double ionization of magnesium M. J. Ford, J. P. Doering, M. A. Coplan, J. W. Cooper, and J. H. Moore pp. 418-423 [View Page Images , PDF (956 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photon-electron polarization correlations in highnpJ-subshell photoionizat Young Soon Kim, I. B. Goldberg, and R. H. Pratt pp. 424-438 [View Page Images , PDF (1702 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Multiconfiguration self-consistent-field ab initio and local-density-functional studies on the vibrational structure of core-level photoelectron spectra of SiH4 and GeH4 Z. F. Liu, G. M. Bancroft, J. S. Tse, and Hans Ågren pp. 439-446 [View Page Images , PDF (1460 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Attenuation of photons at 3–14-keV energies in helium Y. Azuma, H. G. Berry, D. S. Gemmell, J. Suleiman, M. Westerlind, I. A. Sellin, J. C. Woicik, and J. P. Kirkland pp. 447-453 [View Page Images , PDF (1082 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Many-body theory of electron scattering by excited atomic targets: Electron-impact-induced transitions 2 1,3S→n 1,3L (L=0,1,2; n=2,3,4) in helium David C. Cartwright and G. Csanak pp. 454-472 [View Page Images , PDF (2520 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurements of positron-annihilation rates on molecules K. Iwata, R. G. Greaves, T. J. Murphy, M. D. Tinkle, and C. M. Surko pp. 473-487 [View Page Images , PDF (2273 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonance structure in the 4s2(1S0)→4s4p(3P0,1,2) electron-impact excitation of Kr6+ T. W. Gorczyca, M. S. Pindzola, N. R. Badnell, and D. C. Griffin pp. 488-493 [View Page Images , PDF (981 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of double photoionization of a two-electron atom: Circumventing the boundary conditions Marcel Pont and Robin Shakeshaft pp. 494-499 [View Page Images , PDF (873 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Calculation of electron-helium scattering at 40 eV Igor Bray, Dmitry V. Fursa, and Ian E. McCarthy pp. 500-503 [View Page Images , PDF (568 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Impact-parameter dependence for collisions of atoms with projectiles carrying electrons J. Wang, J. H. McGuire, and E. C. Montenegro pp. 504-512 [View Page Images , PDF (1480 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-orbit effects in aluminum photoionization Gregory Miecznik, Chris H. Greene, and F. Robicheaux pp. 513-527 [View Page Images , PDF (2508 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

•	Dissociative scattering of fast HeH+ ions at glancing-angle incidence on a crystal surface Y. Susuki, T. Ito, K. Kimura, and M. Mannami pp. 528-534 [View Page Images , PDF (1204 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inelastic energy loss of H2+ and H3+ ions correlated with molecular orientation Toshiaki Kaneko pp. 535-547 [View Page Images , PDF (2075 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Statistical theory of energy loss and charge exchange of penetrating particles: Energy-loss spectra and applications Andreas Närmann pp. 548-553 [View Page Images , PDF (744 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiple-charged secondary-ion emission from silicon and silicon oxide bombarded by heavy ions at energies of 0.4–10 MeV S. Kyoh, K. Takakuwa, M. Sakura, M. Umezawa, A. Itoh, and N. Imanishi pp. 554-560 [View Page Images , PDF (968 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Laser-assisted inelastic rescattering during above-threshold ionization K. C. Kulander, J. Cooper, and K. J. Schafer pp. 561-568 [View Page Images , PDF (1394 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excited-state nonlinear absorption in multi-energy-level molecular systems Chunfei Li, Jinhai Si, Miao Yang, Ruibo Wang, and Lei Zhang pp. 569-575 [View Page Images , PDF (854 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetically induced transparency in ladder-type inhomogeneously broadened media: Theory and experiment Julio Gea-Banacloche, Yong-qing Li, Shao-zheng Jin, and Min Xiao pp. 576-584 [View Page Images , PDF (1475 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-order harmonic generation in laser-produced ions using a near-infrared laser C.-G. Wahlström, S. Borgström, J. Larsson, and S.-G. Pettersson pp. 585-591 [View Page Images , PDF (1355 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collisional transfer of electronic state coherence P. R. Berman pp. 592-606 [View Page Images , PDF (2167 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photodetachment of an electron bound by a zero-range potential in magnetic fields of arbitrary strength Tasko P. Grozdanov pp. 607-610 [View Page Images , PDF (511 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rydberg-electron wave-packet dynamics in parallel electric and magnetic fields and evidence for stabilization H. H. Fielding, J. Wals, W. J. van der Zande, and H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell pp. 611-619 [View Page Images , PDF (1773 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cooling-induced melting of ion crystals in a Paul trap R. Blümel pp. 620-624 [View Page Images , PDF (851 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dipole coupling of atoms and light in gravitational fields Karl-Peter Marzlin pp. 625-631 [View Page Images , PDF (1044 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoionization by a bichromatic field: Adiabatic theory V. A. Pazdzersky and V. A. Yurovsky pp. 632-640 [View Page Images , PDF (1257 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mode dynamics in optical cavities C. A. Schrama, D. Bouwmeester, G. Nienhuis, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 641-645 [View Page Images , PDF (651 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Landau-Zener