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  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Matter waves
  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields
  • Quantum optics
• BRIEF REPORTS
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Fundamental concepts
  • Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics
  • Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions
  • Clusters (including fullerenes)
  • Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields
  • Quantum optics
• ERRATA

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Ballistic expansion of trapped thermal atoms L. You and M. Holland pp. R1-R4 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Scaling and virial theorems in current-density-functional theory S. Erhard and E. K. Gross pp. R5-R8 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Circular dichroism in the polarization of the fluorescence resulting from the decay of photoionized Ca atoms J. B. West, K. Ueda, N. M. Kabachnik, K. J. Ross, H. J. Beyer, and H. Kleinpoppen pp. R9-R11 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Ionization steps and phase-space metamorphoses in the pulsed microwave ionization of highly excited hydrogen atoms J. E. Bayfield, S. Y. Luie, L. C. Perotti, and M. P. Skrzypkowski pp. R12-R15 [View PDF (81 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Orbital effect in elastic electron scattering by a polarized excited target Z. Shi, C. H. Ying, and L. Vus̆ković pp. R16-R18 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Collisional two- and three-body decay rates of dilute quantum gases at ultralow temperatures A. J. Moerdijk and B. J. Verhaar pp. R19-R22 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma fluctuations and x-ray laser transverse coherence Peter Amendt, Moshe Strauss, and Richard A. London pp. R23-R26 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Steep dispersion and group velocity below c / 3000 in coherent population trapping O. Schmidt, R. Wynands, Z. Hussein, and D. Meschede pp. R27-R30 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

High-order harmonics of 248.6-nm KrF laser from helium and neon ions S. G. Preston, A. Sanpera, M. Zepf, W. J. Blyth, C. G. Smith, J. S. Wark, M. H. Key, K. Burnett, M. Nakai, D. Neely, and A. A. Offenberger pp. R31-R34 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Resonant photon exchange by atom pairs in high-Q cavities G. Kurizki, A. G. Kofman, and V. Yudson pp. R35-R38 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Fundamental concepts

•	Circular quantum billiard with a singular magnetic flux line S. M. Reimann, M. Brack, A. G. Magner, J. Blaschke, and M. V. Murthy pp. 39-48 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Entanglement of atomic beams: Tests of complementarity and other applications Pál Bogár and János A. Bergou pp. 49-52 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Projection postulate and atomic quantum Zeno effect Almut Beige and Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt pp. 53-65 [View PDF (236 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unitarity and the time evolution of quantum mechanical states P. K. Kabir and A. Pilaftsis pp. 66-69 [View PDF (110 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase states and phase operators for the quantum harmonic oscillator Antoine Royer pp. 70-108 [View PDF (926 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Hyperfine-structure measurements in Xe ii Lars Broström, Anders Kastberg, Johan Lidberg, and Sven Mannervik pp. 109-112 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microwave spectroscopy of high-L Rydberg states of neon R. F. Ward, W. G. Sturrus, and S. R. Lundeen pp. 113-121 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution ultraviolet spectra of sympathetically-laser-cooled Cd+ ions Hidetsuka Imajo, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Ryuzo Ohmukai, Utako Tanaka, Masayoshi Watanabe, and Shinji Urabe pp. 122-125 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of interference fringes in Autler-Townes line shapes Steven R. Wilkinson, Arlee V. Smith, Marlan O. Scully, and Ed Fry pp. 126-129 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Negative-pion capture process and its chemical effects in some hydrocarbons Atsushi Shinohara, Toshiharu Muroyama, Junichiro Shintai, Junji Kurachi, Michiaki Furukawa, Taichi Miura, Yoshio Yoshimura, Tadashi Saito, Toshiyuki Ohdaira, and Nobutsugu Imanishi pp. 130-138 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pseudoconfigurational approach in relativistic many-body perturbation-theory calculations Lijin Wu pp. 139-144 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Regular perturbation theory of relativistic corrections: Basic aspects A. Rutkowski pp. 145-151 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrogen molecules in a superstrong magnetic field: Excitation levels Dong Lai and Edwin E. Salpeter pp. 152-167 [View PDF (321 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Minimax variational approach to the relativistic two-electron problem A. Kolakowska, J. D. Talman, and K. Aashamar pp. 168-177 [View PDF (202 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Core-induced chaos in diamagnetic lithium Michael Courtney and Daniel Kleppner pp. 178-191 [View PDF (387 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Core-valence and core-core correlation effects on hyperfine-structure parameters and oscillator strengths in Tl ii and Tl iii Tomas Brage, David S. Leckrone, and Charlotte Froese Fischer pp. 192-200 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-frequency wings of rototranslational Raman spectra of gaseous nitrogen Yi Fu, Aleksandra Borysow, and Massimo Moraldi pp. 201-205 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	H0+N2 collisions at low-kilo-electron-volt energies E. J. Quintana and E. Pollack pp. 206-211 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Charge transfer of 0.5-, 1.5-, and 5-keV protons with atomic oxygen: Absolute differential and integral cross sections B. G. Lindsay, D. R. Sieglaff, D. A. Schafer, C. L. Hakes, K. A. Smith, and R. F. Stebbings pp. 212-218 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Approximate charge and transition energy cross-section scaling for excitation of atoms colliding with multicharged ions R. K. Janev pp. 219-224 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulomb three-body effects in low-energy impact ionization of H(1s) J. Röder, J. Rasch, K. Jung, Colm T. Whelan, H. Ehrhardt, R. J. Allan, and H. R. Walters pp. 225-233 [View PDF (263 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum suppression of cold atom collisions R. Côté, E. J. Heller, and A. Dalgarno pp. 234-241 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-resolution study of electron capture by 72- and 52-MeV 3He projectiles from targets of high atomic number I. Katayama, H. Ikegami, H. Ogawa, Y. Haruyama, M. Tozaki, A. Aoki, F. Fukuzawa, K. Yoshida, and I. Sugai pp. 242-249 [View PDF (196 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Total cross sections for electron scattering by CO2 molecules in the energy range 400–5000 eV G. Garcia and F. Manero pp. 250-254 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Faddeev calculations of muonic-atom collisions: Scattering and fusion in flight Andrei A. Kvitsinsky, Chi-Yu Hu, and James S. Cohen pp. 255-271 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Propagation effects in two-color coherent-control processes Ce Chen and D. S. Elliott pp. 272-279 [View PDF (207 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute measurement of dielectronic recombination for C3+ in a known external field D. W. Savin, L. D. Gardner, D. B. Reisenfeld, A. R. Young, and J. L. Kohl pp. 280-289 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron correlation in the decay of resonantly excited 3d3/2,5/2-15p states of krypton H. Aksela, J. Jauhiainen, E. Kukk, E. Nõmmiste, S. Aksela, and J. Tulkki pp. 290-296 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy and angular distributions of electrons from ion impact on atomic and molecular hydrogen. III. 28–114-keV He++H2 Y.-Y. Hsu, M. W. Gealy, G. W. Kerby, and M. E. Rudd pp. 297-302 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy and angular distributions of electrons from ion impact on atomic and molecular hydrogen. IV. 28–114-keV He+ + H collisions Y.-Y. Hsu, M. W. Gealy, G. W. Kerby, M. E. Rudd, D. R. Schultz, and C. O. Reinhold pp. 303-311 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Matter waves

•	State independence in atom interferometry and insensitivity to acceleration and rotation Karl-Peter Marzlin and Jürgen Audretsch pp. 312-318 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Matter waves at a vibrating surface: Transition from quantum-mechanical to classical behavior J. Felber, R. Gähler, C. Rausch, and R. Golub pp. 319-328 [View PDF (291 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum field theory of atoms interacting with photons. III. Scattering of weak cw light from cold samples of bosonic atoms L. You, Maciej Lewenstein, Roy J. Glauber, and J. Cooper pp. 329-352 [View PDF (1571 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	Ab initio investigations on Sb4 analogous Zintl clusters F. Hagelberg, Sudha Srinivas, N. Sahoo, T. P. Das, and K. G. Weil pp. 353-365 [View PDF (171 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Multiphoton absorption and anharmonicity M. Persico and P. Van Leuven pp. 366-372 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adiabatic transfer for atomic interferometry Paul D. Featonby, Gilford S. Summy, Jocelyn L. Martin, Huang Wu, Kendrick P. Zetie, Christopher J. Foot, and Keith Burnett pp. 373-380 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetic theory of the evaporative cooling of a trapped gas O. J. Luiten, M. W. Reynolds, and J. T. Walraven pp. 381-389 [View PDF (209 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atom-field interactions: Density-matrix equations including quantization of the center-of-mass motion B. Dubetsky and P. R. Berman pp. 390-399 [View PDF (213 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Transition to space-time chaos in a nonlinear optical system with two-dimensional feedback P. L. Ramazza, S. Residori, E. Pamapaloni, and A. V. Larichev pp. 400-407 [View PDF (1811 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electromagnetically-induced focusing Richard R. Moseley, Sara Shepherd, David J. Fulton, Bruce D. Sinclair, and Malcolm H. Dunn pp. 408-415 [View PDF (210 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mirrorless optical bistability of linear molecular aggregates Victor Malyshev and Pablo Moreno pp. 416-423 [View PDF (201 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonclassical effects in resonance fluorescence from optical molasses M. Artoni and J. Bergou pp. 424-433 [View PDF (3309 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical Larmor clock: Measurement of the photonic tunneling time M. Deutsch and J. E. Golub pp. 434-439 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear-time-series analysis of chaotic laser dynamics Henry D. Abarbanel, Z. Gills, C. Liu, and R. Roy pp. 440-453 [View PDF (408 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum noise of the fundamental soliton F. X. Kärtner and L. Boivin pp. 454-466 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ramsey spectroscopy with nonclassical light sources Girish S. Agarwal and Marlan O. Scully pp. 467-470 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular Raman effect in the optical microcavity: QED vacuum confinement of an inelastic quantum scattering process F. De Martini, M. Marrocco, C. Pastina, and F. Viti pp. 471-480 [View PDF (238 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Competition and bistability of longitudinal modes in a Raman laser R. Corbalán, J. Cortit, and F. Prati pp. 481-485 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum coherence generated by quantum interference Jean Claude Garreau pp. 486-494 [View PDF (191 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probability distributions for the phase difference A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto pp. 495-501 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiprobabilities and the nonclassicality of fields J. Janszky, Min Gyu Kim, and M. S. Kim pp. 502-506 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nondegenerate parametric interactions and nonclassical effects A. Bandilla, G. Drobný, and I. Jex pp. 507-516 [View PDF (208 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spatiotemporal dynamics of a thin-layer laser B. A. Samson pp. 517-524 [View PDF (204 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ideal and destructive state reductions of correlated light fields and the continuous measurement of photon number V. Peřinová, A. Lukš, and J. Křepelka pp. 525-542 [View PDF (975 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of electromagnetically induced transparency in resonant four-wave-mixing schemes J. C. Petch, C. H. Keitel, P. L. Knight, and J. P. Marangos pp. 543-561 [View PDF (705 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum phase properties of the field in a lossless micromaser cavity Tseresodnom Gantsog and Ryszard Tanaś pp. 562-572 [View PDF (317 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stimulated Raman scattering by a pointlike medium: Classical and quantum treatments D. J. Kaup, A. E. Kozhekin, and V. I. Rupasov pp. 573-585 [View PDF (255 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superluminal delays of coherent pulses in nondissipative media: A universal mechanism Y. Japha and G. Kurizki pp. 586-590 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiconical emission at light counterpropagation in a resonant medium A. A. Afanas’ev and B. A. Samson pp. 591-597 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

BRIEF REPORTS

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Electron density of closed atomic shells Sucharita Bhattacharyya pp. 598-599 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Fundamental concepts

•	Topological effects associated with fractional statistics in one-dimensional mesoscopic rings Jian-Xin Zhu and Z. D. Wang pp. 600-603 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics

•	Stark shift measurement of the (4s)2 1S0→(4s4p) 3P1 calcium transition J. Li and W. A. van Wijngaarden pp. 604-606 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular collisions and interactions

•	Suppression of laser-induced collisional autoionization through electromagnetically induced transparency Roberto Buffa pp. 607-610 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Time reversal and parity symmetry breakings of mean fields by propagation H. Jünemann, A. Weiguny, and B. G. Giraud pp. 611-614 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Clusters (including fullerenes)

•	New highly charged fullerene ions: Production and fragmentation by slow ion impact Jian Jin, H. Khemliche, M. H. Prior, and Z. Xie pp. 615-618 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic and molecular processes in electromagnetic fields

•	Off-shell and on-shell low-frequency approximations for potential scattering in a strong elliptically polarized laser field Dejan B. Milošević pp. 619-622 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct momentum-space calculations for the resonant multiphoton processes of a hydrogen atom under intense laser pulses Ue-Li Pen and Tsin-Fu Jiang pp. 623-626 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Quantum optics

•	Evolution of coherent hard-x-ray radiation generated in crystalline solids by high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses Péter Kálmán and Thomas Brabec pp. 627-629 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Erratum: Optimal control of strongly driven quantum systems: Fully variational formulation and nonlinear eigenfields K. G. Kim and M. D. Girardeau pp. 630 [View PDF (26 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Measurement of the Bell operator and quantum teleportation [Phys. Rev. A 51, R1727 (1995)] Samuel L. Braunstein and A. Mann pp. 630 [View PDF (26 kB) ]

•	Erratum: Optimal control of strongly driven quantum systems: Fully variational formulation and nonlinear eigenfields [Phys. Rev. A 52, R891 (1995)] K. G. Kim and M. D. Girardeau pp. 630 [View PDF (26 kB) ]