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Physical Review A – August 1995
Volume 52, Issue 2

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Fundamental concepts

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Optimal control of strongly driven quantum systems: Fully variational formulation and nonlinear eigenfields
K. G. Kim and M. D. Girardeau
pp. R891-R894 [View Page Images or PDF (630 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Optogalvanic study of the atomic-oxygen laser lines at 844.5 nm
Namic Kwon, Young-Hwan Yun, and Wonho Jhe
pp. R895-R897 [View Page Images or PDF (540 kB)]
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Electron affinities of 1s22s2p 3Po and 1s22p2 3P of beryllium
Jung-Jiin Hsu and Kwong T. Chung
pp. R898-R901 [View Page Images or PDF (727 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Ionization-excitation of helium by fast charged particles
L. Nagy, J. Wang, Jack C. Straton, and J.H. McGuire
pp. R902-R904 [View Page Images or PDF (450 kB)]

Matter waves

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Decoherence from spontaneous emission
Ole Steuernagel and Harry Paul
pp. R905-R908 [View Page Images or PDF (794 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Measurement of the 2S1/2-2D5/2 411-nm interval in laser-cooled trapped 172Yb+ ions
P. Gill, H. A. Klein, A. P. Levick, M. Roberts, W. R. C. Rowley, and P. Taylor
pp. R909-R912 [View Page Images or PDF (647 kB)]
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Intensity dependence of optical suppression in photoassociative ionization collisions in a sodium magneto-optic trap
L. Marcassa, R. Horowicz, S. Zilio, V. Bagnato, and J. Weiner
pp. R913-R916 [View Page Images or PDF (572 kB)]
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Nonsequential triple ionization of argon atoms in a high-intensity laser field
S. Augst, A. Talebpour@f, S. L. Chin@f, Y. Beaudoin@f, and M. Chaker@f
pp. R917-R919 [View Page Images or PDF (605 kB)]
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Motion of laser-cooled atoms in an optical potential
Erling Riis
pp. R920-R923 [View Page Images or PDF (852 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Photon-number statistics from the phase-averaged quadrature-field distribution: Theory and ultrafast measurement
M. Munroe, D. Boggavarapu, M. E. Anderson, and M. G. Raymer
pp. R924-R927 [View Page Images or PDF (613 kB)]
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Preparation energy for electromagnetically induced transparency
S. E. Harris and Zhen-Fei Luo
pp. R928-R931 [View Page Images or PDF (624 kB)]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

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Quon gas with the boson, fermion, and near-classical limits
A. Inomata
pp. 932-935 [View Page Images or PDF (616 kB)]
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Ermakov systems, exact solution, and geometrical angles and phases
M. Maamache
pp. 936-940 [View Page Images or PDF (561 kB)]
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q-deformed Morse oscillator
Ian L. Cooper and Raj K. Gupta
pp. 941-948 [View Page Images or PDF (1,262 kB)]
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WKB wave functions without matching: A self-consistent procedure
M. Casas, A. Plastino, and A. Puente
pp. 949-953 [View Page Images or PDF (841 kB)]
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Corrections of order α2(Zα)5 to the hyperfine splitting and the Lamb shift
Michael I. Eides and Valery A. Shelyuto
pp. 954-961 [View Page Images or PDF (1,595 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Dirac-Fock calculations for the ground states of some small molecules
Farid A. Parpia and Ajaya K. Mohanty
pp. 962-968 [View Page Images or PDF (1,178 kB)]
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Some identities in density-functional theory
Robert G. Parr, Shubin Liu, Alfred A. Kugler, and Á. Nagy
pp. 969-976 [View Page Images or PDF (965 kB)]
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Coster-Kronig yields of the 54Xe L subshells measured through synchrotron photoionization
W. Jitschin, R. Stötzel, T. Papp, M. Sarkar, and G. D. Doolen
pp. 977-983 [View Page Images or PDF (1,102 kB)]
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Hierarchies of equations for the Legendre transforms of energy functionals
Á. Nagy
pp. 984-991 [View Page Images or PDF (999 kB)]
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Rydberg states of HD
Sander H. Kim and Eric Mazur
pp. 992-1004 [View Page Images or PDF (2,485 kB)]
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Excited electronic potential-energy surfaces and transition moments for the H3 system
Zhengwei Peng, Sandor Kristyan, Aron Kuppermann, and James S. Wright
pp. 1005-1023 [View Page Images or PDF (3,501 kB)]
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Electronic spectrum of S2-, the electron affinity of S2, and the binding energies of neutral and anionic S3 clusters
Christoph Heinemann, Wolfram Koch, Gottlieb-Georg Lindner, and Dirk Reinen
pp. 1024-1038 [View Page Images or PDF (3,025 kB)]
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Electron-correlation effects on the static longitudinal polarizability of polymeric chains. II. Bond-length-alternation effects
Benoît Champagne, David H. Mosley, Marjan Vračko, and Jean-Marie André
pp. 1039-1053 [View Page Images or PDF (2,955 kB)]
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Relativistic extension of the Bethe sum rule
Gustavo A. Aucar, Jens Oddershede, and John R. Sabin
pp. 1054-1059 [View Page Images or PDF (1,039 kB)]
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1/Z expansions for isoelectronic systems from He through Ar
Jiahu Wang and Vedene H. Smith, Jr.
pp. 1060-1066 [View Page Images or PDF (1,153 kB)]
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Statistical theory of vibronic spectra: Envelopes of the electronic bands
Dorota Bielińska-Wa̧ż and Jacek Karwowski
pp. 1067-1071 [View Page Images or PDF (680 kB)]
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Atomic background in x-ray absorption spectra of fifth-period elements: Evidence for double-electron excitation edges
Adriano Filipponi and Andrea Di Cicco
pp. 1072-1078 [View Page Images or PDF (1,251 kB)]
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Radiative recoil correction to the Lamb shift
Krzysztof Pachucki
pp. 1079-1085 [View Page Images or PDF (877 kB)]
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Perturbation expansion of variational principles at arbitrary order
Xavier Gonze
pp. 1086-1095 [View Page Images or PDF (1,369 kB)]
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Adiabatic density-functional perturbation theory
Xavier Gonze
pp. 1096-1114 [View Page Images or PDF (2,844 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Absolute partial and total cross sections for electron-impact ionization of argon from threshold to 1000 eV
H. C. Straub, P. Renault, B. G. Lindsay, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings
pp. 1115-1124 [View Page Images or PDF (1,755 kB)]
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L-subshell ionization of heavy elements by carbon and nitrogen ions of energy 0.4–1.8 MeV/amu
J. Semaniak, J. Braziewicz, M. Pajek, T. Czyżewski, L. Gl/owacka, M. Jaskól/a, M. Haller, R. Karschnick, W. Kretschmer, Z. Halabuka, and D. Trautmann
pp. 1125-1136 [View Page Images or PDF (2,205 kB)]
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Theoretical study of single and double charge transfer in He2+-He collisions at kilo-electron-volt energies in a diabatic molecular representation
C. Chaudhuri, S. Sanyal, and T. K. Rai Dastidar
pp. 1137-1142 [View Page Images or PDF (798 kB)]
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Effects of a pulse width on the quantum spectra
M. L. Du
pp. 1143-1146 [View Page Images or PDF (610 kB)]
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Vibrationally resolved Si 2p photoabsorption spectrum of SiCl4
M. Domke, R. Püttner, K. Schulz, and G. Kaindl
pp. 1147-1151 [View Page Images or PDF (968 kB)]
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Low-energy electron collisions with sodium: Scattering of spin-polarized electrons
Hsiao-Ling Zhou, Barbara L. Whitten, Wayne K. Trail, Michael A. Morrison, Keith B. MacAdam, Klaus Bartschat, and David W. Norcross
pp. 1152-1177 [View Page Images or PDF (5,257 kB)]
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Time dependence of the subexcitation electron distribution generated by high-energy electrons
Michael Dillon and Mineo Kimura
pp. 1178-1185 [View Page Images or PDF (1,114 kB)]
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Six-state algebraic close-coupling calculation of positron-hydrogen scattering at low energies
T. T. Gien
pp. 1186-1195 [View Page Images or PDF (1,921 kB)]
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Elastic and inelastic processes in H++CH4 collisions in the low-kilo-electron-volt regime
M. Kimura, Y. Li, G. Hirsch, and R. J. Buenker
pp. 1196-1205 [View Page Images or PDF (1,887 kB)]
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Single- and double-charge-exchange cross sections for Arq++H2 (q=6, 7, 8, 9, and 11) collisions from 6 eV to 11 keV
Scott Kravis, Hiroki Saitoh, Kazuhiko Okuno, Kouichi Soejima, Mineo Kimura, Isao Shimamura, Yohko Awaya, Yozaburo Kaneko, Masaki Oura, and Noriyuki Shimakura
pp. 1206-1212 [View Page Images or PDF (1,244 kB)]
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Search for saddle-point electrons using the continuum-distorted-wave eikonal initial-state model
Mark McCartney
pp. 1213-1217 [View Page Images or PDF (1,011 kB)]
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Stabilized double-electron capture in Ne10+-He collisions: Velocity dependence of Rydberg-electron n,l distributions
S. Martin, J. Bernard, Li Chen, A. Denis, and J. Désesquelles
pp. 1218-1223 [View Page Images or PDF (955 kB)]
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Conjugate shake-up-enhanced Auger transitions in N2
M. Neeb, A. Kivimäki, B. Kempgens, H. M. Köppe, A. M. Bradshaw, and J. Feldhaus
pp. 1224-1228 [View Page Images or PDF (979 kB)]
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Detailed theoretical and experimental analysis of low-energy electron-N2 scattering
Weiguo Sun, Michael A. Morrison, William A. Isaacs, Wayne K. Trail, Dean T. Alle, R. J. Gulley, Michael J. Brennan, and Stephen J. Buckman
pp. 1229-1256 [View Page Images or PDF (5,047 kB)]
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Elastic scattering of electrons by methane molecules
F. A. Gianturco, J. A. Rodriguez-Ruiz, and N. Sanna
pp. 1257-1265 [View Page Images or PDF (1,647 kB)]
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Rotational excitation in two-center Coulomb-scattering systems: Application to electron-molecule collisions
A. Ernesti, M. Gote, and H. J. Korsch
pp. 1266-1271 [View Page Images or PDF (1,021 kB)]
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Laser-assisted Auger decay as free-free transitions in a high-intensity laser field
J. M. Schins, P. Breger, P. Agostini, R. C. Constantinescu, H. G. Muller, G. Grillon, A. Antonetti, and A. Mysyrowicz
pp. 1272-1278 [View Page Images or PDF (1,307 kB)]
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Calculation of electron-helium scattering
Dmitry V. Fursa and Igor Bray
pp. 1279-1297 [View Page Images or PDF (3,115 kB)]
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Laser-induced molecular alignment in dissociation dynamics
R. Numico, A. Keller, and O. Atabek
pp. 1298-1309 [View Page Images or PDF (1,972 kB)]
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Electron scattering from H2+: Resonances in the Σ and Π symmetries
L. A. Collins, B. I. Schneider, D. L. Lynch, and C. J. Noble
pp. 1310-1318 [View Page Images or PDF (1,561 kB)]
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Inclusion of radiation damping in the close-coupling equations for electron-atom scattering
F. Robicheaux, T. W. Gorczyca, M. S. Pindzola, and N. R. Badnell
pp. 1319-1333 [View Page Images or PDF (2,785 kB)]
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Simplified model of electron scattering using R-matrix methods
Kurt W. Meyer, Chris H. Greene, and Igor Bray
pp. 1334-1343 [View Page Images or PDF (2,053 kB)]

Electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces

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Multistep cascade model for the deexcitation of highly charged ions impinging on a solid surface
R. Page, A. Saal, J. Thomaschewski, L. Aberle, J. Bleck-Neuhaus, R. Köhrbrück, M. Grether, and N. Stolterfoht
pp. 1344-1353 [View Page Images or PDF (1,960 kB)]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

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Fragmentation of C60: Experimental detection of C, C2, C3, and C4 by xuv postionization
Keith R. Lykke
pp. 1354-1357 [View Page Images or PDF (763 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Hydrogen atoms in circularly polarized microwave fields: Near-integrability and ionization
M. J. Raković and Shih-I Chu
pp. 1358-1370 [View Page Images or PDF (2,310 kB)]
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Coherent population transfer among Rydberg states by subpicosecond, half-cycle pulses
N. E. Tielking and R. R. Jones
pp. 1371-1381 [View Page Images or PDF (2,205 kB)]
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Strong-field effects in bichromatic laser-induced collisional energy transfer
Roberto Buffa, Stefano Cavalieri, Roberto Eramo, Lorenzo Fini, and Manlio Matera
pp. 1382-1387 [View Page Images or PDF (852 kB)]
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Longitudinal and transverse cooling of a cesium atomic beam using the D1 transition with Stark-effect frequency compensation
J. R. Yeh, B. Hoeling, and R. J. Knize
pp. 1388-1393 [View Page Images or PDF (1,013 kB)]
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Photonic band gaps in optical lattices
I. H. Deutsch, R. J. C. Spreeuw, S. L. Rolston, and W. D. Phillips
pp. 1394-1410 [View Page Images or PDF (3,040 kB)]
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Theory of the two-photon autoionization of Al
S. Kotochigova, P. Lambropoulos, and I. Zambetaki
pp. 1411-1418 [View Page Images or PDF (1,023 kB)]
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Quantum theory of the stability region of an ion in a Paul trap
Wang Kelin, Feng Mang, and Wu Juhao
pp. 1419-1422 [View Page Images or PDF (497 kB)]
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Phase-space density in the magneto-optical trap
C. G. Townsend, N. H. Edwards, C. J. Cooper, K. P. Zetie, C. J. Foot, A. M. Steane, P. Szriftgiser, H. Perrin, and J. Dalibard
pp. 1423-1440 [View Page Images or PDF (3,315 kB)]
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Multiphoton Raman resonances in three-level Λ atoms in two bichromatic fields
H. Wallis
pp. 1441-1449 [View Page Images or PDF (1,430 kB)]
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Asymptotic analysis in time-dependent calculations with divergent coupling
A. Keller
pp. 1450-1457 [View Page Images or PDF (1,335 kB)]
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Probe transmission in a two-dimensional optical lattice
J. Guo
pp. 1458-1467 [View Page Images or PDF (1,493 kB)]
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Appearance intensities for multiply charged ions in a strong laser field
Mirosl/aw Brewczyk, Kazimierz Rza̧żewski, and Charles W. Clark
pp. 1468-1473 [View Page Images or PDF (996 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Antiphased states in intracavity second-harmonic generation: Stability of the periodic solutions
Jing-Yi Wang and Paul Mandel
pp. 1474-1486 [View Page Images or PDF (1,618 kB)]
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Maxwell-Bloch system on a lattice
N. M. Bogoliubov, A. V. Rybin, R. K. Bullough, and J. Timonen
pp. 1487-1493 [View Page Images or PDF (1,052 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission from a trapped atom
Hubert Stoop and Kazimierz Rza̧żewski
pp. 1494-1499 [View Page Images or PDF (851 kB)]
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Entrainment of solid-state laser arrays
Y. Braiman, T. A. B. Kennedy, K. Wiesenfeld, and A. Khibnik
pp. 1500-1506 [View Page Images or PDF (1,050 kB)]
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Quantum nondemolition measurements using a crossed Kerr effect between atomic and light fields
J.-Y. Courtois, J.-M. Courty, and S. Reynaud
pp. 1507-1517 [View Page Images or PDF (1,948 kB)]
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Statistical properties of a charged oscillator in the presence of a time-dependent electromagnetic field
A. L. de Brito, A. N. Chaba, B. Baseia, and Reeta Vyas
pp. 1518-1524 [View Page Images or PDF (874 kB)]
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Photodetection and causality in quantum optics
P. W. Milonni, D. F. V. James, and H. Fearn
pp. 1525-1537 [View Page Images or PDF (2,037 kB)]
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Electromagnetic-field quantization in inhomogeneous and dispersive one-dimensional systems
David J. Santos and Rodney Loudon
pp. 1538-1549 [View Page Images or PDF (1,707 kB)]
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Effect of a squeezed vacuum input on optical bistability
J. Bergou and D. Zhao
pp. 1550-1560 [View Page Images or PDF (1,387 kB)]
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Locking of a passive Q-switched chaotic laser system to a small external modulation
Takayuki Tsukamoto, Maki Tachikawa, Toshiki Sugawara, and Tadao Shimizu
pp. 1561-1569 [View Page Images or PDF (1,174 kB)]
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Self-tuning of dissipative solitons to the zero-dispersion point
D. Anderson, A. I. Korytin, M. Lisak, A. M. Sergeev, and E. V. Vanin
pp. 1570-1573 [View Page Images or PDF (681 kB)]
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Quantum coherence of optical solitons in fibers
Demin Yao
pp. 1574-1583 [View Page Images or PDF (1,444 kB)]
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Sum-frequency generation using strong-field coupling and induced transparency in atomic hydrogen
G. Z. Zhang, M. Katsuragawa, K. Hakuta, R. I. Thompson, and B. P. Stoicheff
pp. 1584-1593 [View Page Images or PDF (1,689 kB)]
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Nonclassical effects in the gray-body state
Ching Tsung Lee
pp. 1594-1600 [View Page Images or PDF (855 kB)]
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Photon echoes and Berry’s phase
R. Friedberg and S. R. Hartmann
pp. 1601-1608 [View Page Images or PDF (995 kB)]
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Two-mode quantum systems: Invariant classification of squeezing transformations and squeezed states
Arvind, B. Dutta, N. Mukunda, and R. Simon
pp. 1609-1620 [View Page Images or PDF (1,886 kB)]
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Dynamical properties of a classical-like entropy in the Jaynes-Cummings model
Arkadiusz Orl/owski, Harry Paul, and Georg Kastelewicz
pp. 1621-1628 [View Page Images or PDF (1,400 kB)]
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Soft-x-ray lasing to the ground states in low-charged oxygen ions
B. N. Chichkov, A. Egbert, H. Eichmann, C. Momma, S. Nolte, and B. Wellegehausen
pp. 1629-1639 [View Page Images or PDF (1,514 kB)]
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Spontaneous emission in the presence of a dielectric slab
Wl/adysl/aw Żakowicz and Aleksander Bl/ȩdowski
pp. 1640-1650 [View Page Images or PDF (1,539 kB)]
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Influence of spontaneous emission on trapping states and start-up times of degenerate two-photon micromasers
E. S. Guerra, S. M. Dutra, P. L. Knight, and N. Zagury
pp. 1651-1664 [View Page Images or PDF (2,136 kB)]
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Quantum noise limits for nonlinear, phase-invariant amplifiers
Dmitri Kouznetsov, Roberto Ortega-Martínez, and Daniel Rohrlich
pp. 1665-1669 [View Page Images or PDF (654 kB)]
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Self-trapping of light beams and parametric solitons in diffractive quadratic media
Alexander V. Buryak, Yuri S. Kivshar, and Victoria V. Steblina
pp. 1670-1674 [View Page Images or PDF (881 kB)]
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Quantum images and critical fluctuations in the optical parametric oscillator below threshold
A. Gatti and L. Lugiato
pp. 1675-1690 [View Page Images or PDF (2,239 kB)]
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Role of standing-wave mode structure in microlaser emission
Kyungwon An and Michael S. Feld
pp. 1691-1697 [View Page Images or PDF (1,103 kB)]
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Higher-order squeezing in a boson-coupled two-mode system
A. V. Chizhov, J. W. Haus, and K. C. Yeong
pp. 1698-1703 [View Page Images or PDF (889 kB)]
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Intrinsic phase operator of the Noh-Fougères-Mandel experiments
Berthold-Georg Englert, Krzysztof Wódkiewicz, and Peter Riegler
pp. 1704-1711 [View Page Images or PDF (1,018 kB)]
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Many-body theory for semiconductor microcavity lasers
Frank Jahnke and Stephan W. Koch
pp. 1712-1727 [View Page Images or PDF (2,438 kB)]
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Light-polarization dynamics in surface-emitting semiconductor lasers
M. San Miguel, Q. Feng, and J. V. Moloney
pp. 1728-1739 [View Page Images or PDF (2,060 kB)]
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Stimulated dynamic light scattering
H. Z. Wang, X. G. Zheng, W. D. Mao, Z. X. Yu, and Z. L. Gao
pp. 1740-1745 [View Page Images or PDF (916 kB)]

BRIEF REPORTS

Fundamental concepts

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Wave-packet localization in nonlinear external potentials with dissipation
Wei-Min Zhang and Da Hsuan Feng
pp. 1746-1749 [View Page Images or PDF (779 kB)]
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Supersymmetric semiclassical approach to confined quantum problems
R. Dutt, A. Mukherjee, and Y. P. Varshni
pp. 1750-1753 [View Page Images or PDF (575 kB)]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

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Bound states of Ca-
Sy-Sang Liaw
pp. 1754-1756 [View Page Images or PDF (525 kB)]
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Corrections of order α6 to S levels of two-body systems
Michael I. Eides and Howard Grotch
pp. 1757-1760 [View Page Images or PDF (570 kB)]
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Measurement of 1s2s 3S1–1s2p 3P2,0 wavelengths in heliumlike phosphorus
D. J. H. Howie, J. D. Silver, and E. G. Myers
pp. 1761-1764 [View Page Images or PDF (606 kB)]
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Binding energies and nonradiative decay rates of Hedμ molecular ions
V. B. Belyaev, O. I. Kartavtsev, V. I. Kochkin, and E. A. Kolganova
pp. 1765-1768 [View Page Images or PDF (681 kB)]
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Some inequalities satisfied by density functionals
Daniel P. Joubert
pp. 1769-1771 [View Page Images or PDF (269 kB)]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

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Rotational excitation in e+-H2+ scattering
T. Mukherjee and A. S. Ghosh
pp. 1772-1774 [View Page Images or PDF (471 kB)]
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Electron correlation in double photoionization: Comparative study of secondary structure for Ne and Xe
A. K. Kazansky and V. N. Ostrovsky
pp. 1775-1778 [View Page Images or PDF (737 kB)]
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Wave-function overlap effects in low-energy collisional excitation of O2 by H2+, N2+, O2+, and CO2+ projectiles
M. Krishnamurthy and D. Mathur
pp. 1779-1782 [View Page Images or PDF (537 kB)]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

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Optical bistability and lasing without inversion in a system of driven two-level atoms with incoherent injection
Guo Qin Ge, Ying Wu, Xueli Luo, and Zaiguang Li
pp. 1783-1786 [View Page Images or PDF (625 kB)]

Quantum optics

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Gain saturation and pulse statistics in single-mode semiconductor lasers
J. Revuelta and L. Pesquera
pp. 1787-1790 [View Page Images or PDF (600 kB)]
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Origin of the lobe structure in photorefractive beam fanning
G. Montemezzani, A. A. Zozulya, L. Czaia, D. Z. Anderson, M. Zgonik, and P. Günter
pp. 1791-1794 [View Page Images or PDF (791 kB)]

ERRATA

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Radiative electron capture by bare and H-like Si and Cl ions using the channeling technique and the associated solid-state effect
L. C. Tribedi, V. Nanal, M. B. Kurup, K. G. Prasad, and P. N. Tandon
pp. 1795 [View Page Images or PDF (39 kB)]
 
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